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Barber clipped over ‘sexist’ ad By Matthew Elliott A Dutch barber who placed a poster outside his Palma establishment welcoming men and dogs but no women will be prosecuted by city authorities for unlawful advertising. Bob van den Hoek has lived in Spain for more than a decade and run the Syndicate Barbers in Mallorca since 2013, catering exclusively to men. His poster made headlines in September, prompting outrage from different sectors, including the Balearic Women’s Institute, who demanded he take it down. Van den Hoek relented, for a few days before audaciously sticking the poster back up, posing proudly for photos beside it and

telling press it would remain standing until someone found a law that explicitly forbade it. He has been adamant that it is ‘his house, his rules’ and that he refuses to let woman and children ‘spoil the ambiance’ for his customers, who are treated to an old-school vibe with jazz music and drinks while they have their hair cut. But now it appears someone has found a law, specifically the General Law on Advertising, which prohibits advertising that vio-

lates the dignity, values or rights enshrined in the constitution, a broad scope that will surely invite vigorous legal debate. The government also argues Barber Bob is in breach of protection measures against Gender Violence by promoting stereotypes. For his part van den Hoek claims that his customers haven’t complained and that most people see the funny side. He argues that there are areas exclusively reserved for women, such as saunas, and he just wants to create an environment that suits him and his clientele.

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THE 1639 (December 1-7) issue of the Mallorca Euro Weekly News contained no less than 36 local news items, demonstrating once again our dedication and commitment to delivering the news that matters most to you, our readers, in each of our six editions. Nobody does it better!

Cocaine pizzas THE owner of an Italian fast food restaurant in Magaluf has been jailed for going full Mrs Doyle and serving his pizzas with a topping of cocaine. He was arrested in 2015 after selling a British tourist the drug, with Guardia Civil agents then finding 12 bags stashed among the mozzarella.

Great goat revolt MALLORCA has given the green light to a substantial culling of goats in Porto Pollensa after herds of the ruminants began rampaging across urban areas, pillaging plants and other food.

They have been forced down from the hills and mountains due to the severe lack of rainfall, but the exodus is considered a serious safety issue by local authorities.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: A magical ceremony saw the city festooned with Christmas spirit. By Matthew Elliott SQUABBLES, quarrels and controversy over the curious timing of Palmaâ€™s Christmas lights were put to one side when the city finally embraced the Christmas season over the weekend. Mayor Jose Hila braved the seasonal wrath of local retailers to per-

sonally flick the switch and a magical ceremony saw the city festooned with Christmas spirit amid dozens of stalls, live music, parades and good tidings. The lights will stay on until Three Kings Day on January 6, with the Kings themselves appearing at the Casal Solleric rather than the Placa Cort due to construction

works, as is tradition in Spain. Local business owners had been furious with the mayor over the decision to postpone the Christmas lights for one week in a dastardly attempt to separate the event from last weekendâ€™s Black Friday shopping frenzy and lure more people into the city, despite most people doing their shopping online.

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Finance 23 - 28

Stocks 24 ROMANIAN WOMAN: Was held in horrific conditions and forced to work in brothels.

Leapy Lee 29

Daily TV 30

Time Out 32 - 33

Letters 34

Legally Speaking 36

Health & Beauty 38 - 39

Social Scene 40 - 42

Property 43 - 45

Homes & Gardens 46

Pets 48

Classifieds 49 - 50

Motoring 51

Boats 52

Sport 54 + 56

By Matthew Elliott A ROMANIAN man has been arrested and charged with holding a woman in horrific conditions akin to sexual slavery, pimping her out for more than eight years while maintaining a twisted psychological strangle-

hold over her. This week the woman, also Romanian, finally worked up the courage to contact National Police and tell them that the 41year-old suspect had forced her to work in brothels in Ibiza and Girona by threatening her and the daughter they shared.

A LOCAL businessman has been arrested and charged with seriously exploiting and abusing his workforce. The owner of the construction business in Marratxi, allegedly refused to pay overtime, made employees work 64 hours a week and used extortion tactics to force them to comply. He also stands accused of defrauding the social security office of up to €500,000 by concealing the business’ true income and even pretending a Romanian man was the real boss in order to throw

She had fallen for his pretence that he loved her and cared for the child they had shortly after they met in 2008, but he quickly jettisoned the charade, revealing himself to be a malevolent force determined to live the high life at the expense of her body.

Police found the man with €20,000 in cash and a luxury vehicle despite having no job and are investigating claims that he held another woman in similar circumstances. The 30year-old victim and her daughter are in care and receiving counselling.

Workforce exploitation investigators off his scent. The exploitation was discovered when immigration and counterfeiting agents inspected the company and seized a large number of documents. They interviewed staff and took action when their stories corroborated with the evidence at hand. Workers unanimously claimed to have been forced to work while injured and

sick, with no compensation for extra shifts put in. They accused the owner of threatening to fire them if they complained to the law, taking advantage of their poverty and need to feed their families. He has been released on bail while investigators go through evidence and compose a prosecution case that will almost certainly result in jail.

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Sexual predator A TWISTED old man has been arrested and charged with plying youngsters with drugs and money in return for sexual favours. The 72-year-old is accused of scouring parks and playgrounds looking for vulnerable minors, aged under 18, whom he would offer â‚Ź50 notes and marihuana in exchange for sex. Prosecutors claim that he used a sports car while cruising different Palma neighbourhoods in order to attract the children. He also set up different social media profiles where he would interact with youngsters online, corrupting them before arranging to meet. Detectives raided his home and seized his computer where they found 600 images of illegal porn, usually centred on young Asians.

Dolphins alarm fishermen DOLPHINS: Are very intelligent.

By Matthew Elliott HIGHER numbers of bottlenose dolphins around the Balearics might delight animal lovers and tourists, but it is causing serious alarm among fishermen who find themselves battling the startling intelligence of the mammals at sea. The Balearic Confederation of Fishermen claim the dolphins are breaking through their nets to release, steal and eat their catch, causing more than â‚Ź20,000 in losses. They are demanding aid to offset these losses and point to an EU

directive supporting their claim. The fisheries ministry say they will respond when a legal case is put forward. Bottlenose dolphins are renowned for their intelligence and have the second largest brain to mass ratio of any mammal on earth, behind only humans. They are, however, considered a vulnerable species, frequently being killed in tunahunting drives and suffering from exposure to heavy metal contamination.

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Blessing and curse THERE is no question that Spain needed rain, but the last week has seen terrible devastation from the torrential rains which have hit most of the country and particularly in Malaga Province which witnessed scenes of flooding and devastation not seen since the 1980s. Our hearts go out to those who were evacuated from their homes due to the floods and indeed one of the saddest stories is of the young Romanian hostess who had come to Spain to make a better life but was drowned in the basement of the club she worked in. It’s easy to ignore the cost of insurance when finance is tight especially in the run up to Christmas and New Year but there’s no doubt when events like this occur, the cost of clearing up and re-

placing ruined furniture, let alone structural damage is potentially enormous. As usual, emergency services did all they could to assist those in distress with people being rescued by helicopter from the top of buildings and from stranded cars, with councils opening temporary accommodation for those who were forced out of their properties. The previous week saw water spouts and even tornados around Spain and the wet weather was in the process of heading north. along the coast of Valencia towards Catalonia. Hopefully the weather gods are going to settle down in order that those who have been hit by the terrible weather can recover and clean up. We hope all our readers and advertisers are safe.

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Palma’s a m SOME statistics manage to be simultaneously surprising and unsurprising. That almost one in five residents of Palma is a foreign national fits right in this category of the predictably remarkable. The city’s population is roughly 400,000 and 19.6 per cent come from one of the 150 other officially recognised nationalities present, excepting Spanish. Some 85,542 foreign residents are registered, of whom roughly half at 40,018 are from countries outside of the EU. Chinese, Moroccans and Argentinians make up the vast bulk of the non-EU contingent, with South Americans accounting for 40 per cent and Africans for 26.3. Within the EU the biggest minority are Italians at 18.2 per cent, slightly outnumbering Germans who are 18.1 per cent of foreign EU residents. Bulgarian and Romanians make up the third and fourth spots followed by expat Brits who make up 8.5 per cent, and French at 6.5 per cent. While almost 20 per cent of Palma residents are foreign born, the number is slightly lower across the Balearics at 17 per cent. But the region itself remains far higher than the Spanish national average which is 9.9 per cent.

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Crazy crime of passion A MAN who threatened to jump from a sixth floor window with his ex-girlfriend in tow has been sentenced to three and a half years in prison by a Mallorca court. The couple had been together for just two months when, in the summer of 2013, she tried to break it off. The defendant was having none of it and began stalking her, even stealing her bike at one point to limit her escape options.

She had already filed numerous complaints with Local Police over his harassment, but no serious measures were taken to defend her. Later that summer, in a fit of jealousy, the defendant broke into her apartment building, forced her roommate outside and launched a frenzied attack on the victim. He held her by the neck and forced her head out of the window, threatening to

jump and take her with him. Fortunately the alarm had been raised and officers were quick to the scene, eventually managing to force the man away from the window without further incident. At the trial he claimed to have been sick with his obsession and consumed with drink and drugs at the time of the assault, but the judge had little sympathy for his defence.

Memories of the disappeared A QUIET yet powerful ceremony was held to commemorate the third anniversary of the disappearance of Calvia teenager Malen Zoe Ortiz. Last seen in Sa Porrassa she vanished on December 2, 2013 after leaving school to go and have dinner with her boyfriend. Friends and family gathered at the Pirates roundabout in Magaluf to hold a small vigil on Saturday. Malen’s mother Natalia said that such moments inspired in her the strength to keep on fighting to find out

what happened to her daughter. The Guardia Civil have an official policy of not commenting on disappearance cases, though they are all kept open until resolved. There are 70 open investigations into missing persons underway in Mallorca today. In the vast majority of historical incidents the disappeared has gone voluntarily but this is rarely the case when someone so young as Malen has gone missing for so long with no obvious reasons why.

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More Brexit drama By John Smith

IT was bound to happen. The political shenanigans of the campaign, the resulting internecine bloodletting and now the feeling that events are moving at a pace of their own. That must mean someone is writing a TV drama and it’s all about Brexit. Playwright James Graham told the BBC he felt moved to write about “the new mood we’re living in which is very different, a bit scary, very divisive, very angry, very confused.” He may have hit the nail on the head there. I n t h e r e a l w o r l d , i f t h a t ’s t h e r i g h t phrase here, Brexit czar David Davis said access to the single market might necessitate the UK having to pay for the privilege. That sparked a predictable outburst from one pro-Leave MP who said the British people would be “absolutely outraged” at

tance of the EU’s so-called ‘four freedoms’:services and goods, capital and of course, people. It was also a week in which former PMs, To n y B l a i r a n d S i r John Major, appeared to push for a second referendum. This would give the public a vote on the deal that is eventually secured by the PM in power at the time but will that still be Theresa May?

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the idea of paying up to £20bn a year to a club we’d just left. Boris Johnson’s personal views whether uttered in public or private while holding one of the four most important offices of state, continue to puzzle most observers. While appearing to say he backed the free movement of people, he clarified it by saying it had got out of control and “we needed to take back control.” His utterances have been described by the Dutch finance minister as “intellectually impossible and politically unavailable”. Some fear that across the Channel Europe’s stance on the impending Brexit talks could be hardening. Imposing curbs on immigration to the UK will not result in access to the single market, according to the incoming EU President, the Maltese PM, Joseph Muscat. Meanwhile an Italian minister said what was coming out of the UK “needs to be something that makes sense.” It has also been a week in which a photographer’s lens alighted on something the civil service may wish he hadn’t seen. Carried by one Tory aide the handwritten notes appeared to say: “What’s the model? Have cake and eat it.” And as already mentioned in this paper, the government faces a fresh legal challenge based on Article 127 of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. This does mean though an accep-

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Fatal car crash ONE man was killed and a woman injured in a serious traffic accident on the road between Felantix and Manacor last Friday. Emergency services raced to the scene but the 62-yearold was confirmed dead on their arrival, and the 34-yearold woman taken to hospital.

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Lucky escape COMMON SCAM: To distract tourists and then pick their pockets.

Claveleras sisters are sneak thieves By Matthew Elliott ONE of a trio of women who ply their trade on the streets of Palma alleviating unsuspecting tourists of large sums of money was arrested. The woman is suspected of distracting a Swiss tourist meandering through the old town by offering him carnations, while two others lifted more than €1,000 from his pockets. It is a common scam run by a group of lawless women known as Claveleras who approach

tourists with gifts and flowers while rifling through their pockets and purses. Police are at something of a loss as to what to do with the women who consider arrest a minor part of the job description. They are often let back on to the streets with a trial date pending and get straight back to work. Different groups are run with precisely the same modus operandi, and coordinate their efforts to extract as much as possible from unwitting travellers around the city.

A YOUNG woman had a lucky escape when she escaped wth only minor injuries having crashed her car against a guardrail on the highway between Portals Nous and Son Caliu. The fence prevented her car plummeting almost six metres into a ditch.

Helmet trouble A LOCAL woman has received more than €18,000 compensation from the government after her motorcycle struck a large rock negligently left on the road by maintenance crews. She spent three days in hospital but didn’t get the full €36,000 she claimed as she had no helmet on.

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The wounds of history slowly being healed By Matthew Elliott AFTER some progress was made in healing the wounds of history with the exhumation of the Porreres mass grave, Montuiri has requested that five of its own victims be laid to rest in the municipal cemetery alongside other victims of Franco. Death squads allied to the dictator murdered countless people across the island, with the true extent of the brutality eluding official recognition until recently. Montuiri Town Hall has asked the government to recognise that Bartomeu Roig Ballester Catoi, Miquel Mascaró Ballester Estel, Jaume Puig Puigserver Retat, and Joan Vidal Sanso Apa-

gafocs were victims of the brutality and to be honoured accordingly. The opening of the Porreres site in central Mallorca last month represented the largest mass grave ever discovered in the Balearics. At least 18 bodies have been found so far, with dozens more possibly remaining buried underground. After Franco died in 1975, the Pact of Forgetting was enshrined in law to help a peaceful transition to democracy that focused on future unity rather than past atrocities. In recent years, however, the silence has become deafening and there are movements all across the country to uncover mass graves and find out just what happened to the countless thousands of disappeared in Mallorca and across the country.

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Beware of the missed call scam THE Guardia Civil have issued an announcement warning citizens not to call back if a c a ll from a numbe r wi t h any of the following prefixes is received: 355 Albania, 225 Ivory Coast, 233 Ghana or 234 Nigeria. “ The mis s e d c a ll scam is ba c k a nd us ua lly uses the s e pre fixe s ,” re a d t he official line. “If you find a c a ll on your phone whi ch starts with one of these numbers be careful and don’t call back!” The scam is relatively simple . W he n a phone o wner spots a missed call from an unknown number and returns it, he or she is connected to a ‘special tariff ’ number, the proceeds from which are shared between the national and international operators plus the scammer(s).

BE CAREFUL: Don’t call the numbers back.

A fight against the system ELOISA TOBARJAS has suffered an incredibly brutal few years since her partner launched a near-fatal attack on her in February 2013. The Llucmajor resident was struck on the head with an axe by her boyfriend of 20 years, with whom she shared two children. He also stabbed her and tried to finish the job with a bullet to the temple.

She survived and 15 days later her abusive partner killed himself. Since then she has been fighting a new struggle with the courts who have denied her benefits for being unable to work. To add to her pain she has also been denied a widow’s pension because, although they were together for decades with a family, she was not married.

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EUR weekly currency update IT was a better-than-average week for the euro, which strengthened by a cent against the US dollar and added half a Swiss cent. Economic data from Euroland was few and far between and those which did appear were unremarkable. The EU’s confidence measures fell short of expectations but investors ignored them as usual. Inflation was on target at a provisional 0.6% while unemployment ticked down to 9.8%. Sterling had an eventful week, more than once lurching higher or lower for no apparent reason and eventually gaining a third of a euro cent. The coming weekend brings a constitutional referendum in Italy and a presidential election in Austria. Italians are expected to reject Prime Minister Renzi’s proposals for constitutional reform and Austria could quite well send the far-right Freedom Party candidate to the Hofburg Palace. Should they occur, both of those results would be likely to undermine appetite for the euro. USD weekly currency update The initial effect of Donald Trump’s election to the White House seems to have run its course. While investors still expect his poli-

cies for tax cuts and infrastructure spending to be positive for the dollar in the longer run they were not sufficiently enthusiastic to continue buying the dollar a month after the vote. Despite the looming uncertainty of this weekend’s referendum in Italy and presidential vote in Austria they still preferred the euro to the dollar: it strengthened by one US cent on the week. Sterling did better than either of them, strengthening by one and three quarter US cents and touching a four-week high. Although the spectre of Brexit still stalks the pound investors are no longer so frightened of Britain falling off an economic cliff edge when the spilt finally happens. The Bank of England governor and the minister of Brexit both floated ideas to avoid that risk. CAD weekly currency update Speaking on Tuesday Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz declined to offer an opinion as to how a Trump presidency in the United States could affect Canada. Nor would he provide any guidance about the likely course of Canadian interest rates when monetary policy is updated next week. However, the Loonie is affected by the economy of its much

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902 887 243 mallorca@moneycorp.com bigger neighbour, as demonstrated by the way it was held back last week even though the prospect of OPEC production cuts added 10% to oil prices. In the end the Canadian dollar added one US cent, a small fraction of the gain achieved by Norway, another oil producer. The Loonie lost a fifth of a cent to sterling, which was helped along by political issues in Euroland. Votes in Austria and Italy this weekend could both deliver results unhelpful to the euro and they provided a useful distrac-

tion from the lurking spectre of Brexit. AUD weekly currency update The Australian dollar had the dubious privilege of being the week’s weakest performer among the major currencies. It lost a quarter of a cent to the US dollar, which did almost as badly, and fell by three cents against sterling. The Aussie’s main problem was with the price of oil. On Wednesday OPEC let it be known that, in concert with Russia, it would be reducing output from the beginning of next year. The price of oil rose by 10% in 24 hours and as it did so the price of the Australian dollar fell by 2% against the US dollar. Sterling had another winning week, strengthening by an average of 0.8% against the other dozen most actively-traded currencies. The UK economic data was no great shakes but political issues in Euroland provided a useful distraction from Brexit. The Bank of England governor and the minister of Brexit also helped when they floated their ideas about Britain’s transition out of the EU.

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Christmas safety in year of outrage HUNDREDS of drunken drivers have been arrested this year in the capital alone after failing breathalyser tests. Loc a l Polic e pa ra de d their success in detecting intoxic a tion be hind the wheel ahead of a major offensive against drink driving throughout the festive season. From January until October 190 people were arrested after clocking scores of more than 0.6 milligrams of booze per litre of exhaled air, considered a criminal offence worthy of prosecution. A nothe r 163 pe ople registered above 0.3 milligrams and were liable for fines. The data was made public by Citizen Security councillor Angelica Pastor as she unveiled the government’s new sober driving information c a mpa ign, a ptly launched in collaboration

with the Brewers Association of Spain. The aim is not only to reduce drunken driving but to promote a s ta te of mind where people only consider ge tting be hind the w he e l w he n c omple te ly s obe r. While drink driving incidents have been declining across Mallorca in recent ye a rs , roa d de a ths ha ve be e n a la rmingly high in 2016. In September an intoxicated French woman on holiday on the island was arrested after ploughing her car into a much-loved Local Police officer who was cycling off-duty with his son. Three people were killed in an accident caused by 21ye a r-old B ulga ria n Iva Emilova in April. She was on drink and drugs a nd ha dn’t e ve n passed her driving test at the time, despite owning a new sports car.

RYANAIR: The airline has denied claims it is boycotting the Balea

Budget ‘boyco By Matthew Elliott RYANAIR has responded to last week’s revelations that travel agencies across Mallorca had been banned from booking flights on the airline’s website. The Irish budget airline has strenuously denied claims that it is boycotting the Balearics, but the

association of travel agencies, Aviba, said the evidence suggests otherwise. Last week EWN reported how local agencies were blocked from even booking reservations or seeing departure times as Ryanair voiced suspicions that certain businesses were booking tickets en m asse and t hen sel l i ng

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arics, but the local travel agencies suggest otherwise.

ott’ headache them on to unsuspecting punters at higher rates. It is believed that the firm is now adapting its website to enable it to block certain IP addresses which make mass bookings on multiple occasions. Ryanair has said that certain agencies might experience trouble as it makes the changes, but that pill isn’t

being swallowed by Balearic agencies. They point out that Ryanair bookings are an essential part of their business operations an d a ls o cla im th ey h a v e been blocked from applying the resident’s flight discount, meaning local customers are going elsewhere or simply booking flights themselves.

A MALLORCAN family has been awarded financial compensation for the economic and moral damage a Spanish airline inflicted on their much-anticipated trip to Orlando, Florida in September. Palma’s Court No 2 granted the family more than €3,000 compensation after their flight from Mallorca to Madrid to connect with Miami was delayed by four hours, making them miss their transatlantic journey. It was particularly agitating as the Mallorcans had prepared for a delay by choosing a Madrid-Miami flight nearly five hours after they were due to arrive in Madrid from Palma, giving them plenty time to overcome minor hurdles. But, with the four hour delay, they ended up missing the flight, losing their hire car and one night’s accommodation at their hotel, as well as a day of their holidays. The family won €3,052 and the airline was also forced to pay their legal fees.

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Slack season at shroom sanctuary for pilgrims By Matthew Elliott MUSHROOM connoisseurs gathered at the foot of the Tramuntanas for the annual harvest in Lloseta, but were disappointed to miss out on some of the prize species indigenous to the region. Despite the heavy rains of late there were very little Chanter e l l e s v i si b l e fo r picking and the 50-odd pilgrims wh o m a d e t h e trip had to make do with a much

MUSHROOMS: Connoisseurs had to make do.

w ide r va rie ty, not a ll of them edible. Still there was enough success to hold a small exhibition and prepare a modest mushroom feast at the end of the day, which is celebrated each year in Lloseta. Chanterelles are famed for their bright orange or ye llow c olour, ric h, fruity fla vour, a nd huge ra nge of pote ntia l in the kitchen.

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An extreme inconvenience A ROMANIAN family with a young child who missed their flight from Mallorca to Bucharest have spent a week living in the airport terminal because they are completely broke and can’t afford new tickets. Airport staff have generously been taking care of the family, providing food and water while they try to figure out a viable solution. Social services have been contacted and local authorities were pondering just what to do with the family. They haven’t been at all disruptive, or broken any laws, but the situation clearly isn’t tenable. The family still has some way to go to match the plight of Iranian national Mehran Nasseri who spent almost 18 years stranded in Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport after being expelled from his homeland for protesting. His bizarre story was later made into The Terminal, a 2004 film starring Tom Hanks.

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ROAD RADAR: Clocked the bikers at only going 36kph.

The (not so) wild ones by Matthew Elliott BIKER gangs are famous for either racing across the open highway at breakneck speeds, or purring through small villages at attentionseeking noise levels. Four members of a local Mallorca biker club, however, were shocked to receive traffic fines for going too

slowly on the Puig Major road. Each of them was hit with a €200 penalty for riding at an unrebellious 36kph on th e s tre tc h , a t a s e c tion where the speed limit is 90. The speeds were clocked by a road radar in September but the members deny they would ever travel so slowly, and aren’t just saving face.

Authorities are investigating after another rider, not pa rt of the ga ng, a ls o re ceived a €200 fine for also zipping along at precisely 36kph just half an hour previously, though on a 125cc scooter. The bikers reckon that can’t be a coincidence and argue the machine must be faulty, after all they have a reputation to uphold.

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Raking Event report: The it in Last Straw Rally HOTELS are facing a hefty inc re a s e in offic ia l fine s ne xt ye a r a s the re giona l government plots to raise more than €7 million for its coffers. The tourism ministry is launching a crack down on establishments which offer more rooms and all-inclusive deals than is mandated by the government, which is trying to ge t a ha ndle on tourist numbers. By increasing minimum penalties from €4,000 to €6,000 a nd pe rforming more on the s pot ins pe c tions than ever before, the ministry hopes to rake in almost 10 times as it managed this fiscal year. The government is under pre s s ure to limit touris t numbers, while the business of hotels is to bring them, creating more than a little tension as the island strains under their weight.

RALLY ORGANISERS: Ray and Sue Dodd. OVER 40 members took part in the Last Straw Rally organised by Ray and Sue Dodd. Weather wise, the sun shone and the rally got off to a great start where coffee and croissants were served in the large car park in Llucmajor. The six locations where the straws could be found were indicated on a map as part of the road book issued to the entrants. Along with pictures giving further clues as to where the bags had been placed, very discretely! The locations were to the

north and south of the starting point, and the members were allowed to plan their own route, recognising the fact that the first ones to the locations will have the chance of obtaining the longest straws! Approximately two hours were allowed for the contest, although one location proved difficult and only six drivers found the ‘pink’ straws! Naturally there were cries that sabotage had been deployed, but in view of the fact that drivers well down the starting list had found

them, we can only blame the possible involvement of the ‘Pink Panther.’ With the sun shining, the members enjoyed their prelunch drinks on the terrace at the Es Reco De Randa, where much banter and laughter could be heard. A great three-course lunch was served and enjoyed by all. The winners, who found all the straws, were as follows: 1st Paco Jimenez 2nd Pedro Alomar 3rd Eric Woolger Prior to this result the ratings for the Driver’s Championship were extremely close, and the announcement will be made on Sunday December 4 at The Christmas Tapas Car Show! Peo Stenberg the wellknown photographer came along to the event. You can see some great photos of the the lunch and all the day’s events by visiting the Classic Car Club Mallorca website www.ccc-mallorca.com. So the last competition of 2016 has been completed. It has been a great year with some wonderful events and no doubt the club can relive some of those great stories next weekend. A big thank you to all who took part.

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Shopping spree

Cancer study

NORWEGIANS embraced the ‘Black Friday’ shopping event with a total of 8.1 million purchases made on the day with credit cards. It was reported to be the highest number of card transactions in a single day.

AROUND four million people in Germany have had cancer at some point in their lives. The figures come as a report for the government showed that the number of cancer cases has almost doubled compared to three or four decades ago but the survival rate is increasing.

BLACK FRIDAY: 8.1 million purchases made.

Rare shooting

Mole discovered

POLICE shot and killed a 35-yearold man in what has been described as a rare incident in the country. Norwegian police have been involved in just four fatal shootings in 14 years.

Abuse charges A FORMER politician has been charged with human trafficking amidst allegations he ordered the sexual abuse of minors in the Philippines which

were live-streamed to the man’s computer in Norway.

Lucky to live AN elderly Norwegian couple were attacked in Värmland after they

stopped to help a car which was overtaking them, but crashed into a lamp post. The driver got out and attacked the couple as the woman fled the vehicle as an axe was thrown at her, with police saying she was lucky to survive.

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Genocide probe A FORMAL investigation has been

Ethical arms GERMANY’S Heckler & Koch gun manufacturers have reportedly pledged to stop selling guns to nonNATO members. It had previously armed everyone from NATO armies to Middle East dictatorships promising to sell guns ethically, but will now be more ethical in its selling.

Tram complaint A SYRIAN teenager has reported a Berlin tram driver to police claiming he told her to get off as she was wearing a headscarf. The 14-yearold said the driver announced on the loudspeaker she would have to get off.

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FRANCE TENSIONS remain high in the Paris suburb where a 24-year-old male died whilst in police custody. There has been an enquiry into his death, but his family dispute the version of events and claim he was the victim of police foul play.

GERMANY’S intelligence agency (BfV) has found an Islamist mole working within the ranks. An arrest warrant has been issued for the 51-year-old who is alleged to have planned an attack against the BfV headquarters in Cologne.

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launched into the 20 French officials who are suspected of involvement in the Rwanda genocide in 1994 which left around 800,000 people dead.

Best restaurant GUY SAVOY’S Paris restaurant has been named the best in the world, according to ‘La Liste.’ France had over 100 restaurants in the list but

Japan came top with 116 ratings in the world’s best 1,000.

Insurance costs INSURANCE for homes and cars is expected to rise in France next year. The average cost of car insurance is expected to rise 2.5 per cent for 2017 and four per cent for home insurance.

BELGIUM is not yet state-funding an anti-AIDS prevention treatment. A pill taken after unprotected sex has been shown to help fight against contamination with the virus, but the price of the pill is expensive at around €17 per tablet which the government will not yet cover.

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THE Belgian Chamber of Translations and Interpreters (BCTI) has welcomed the launch of an official National Register identifying certified translators and interpreters.

A GUN bought in Brussels in 1873 that was used to try and kill poet Arthur Rimbaud by his lover and fellow poet Paul Verlaine, has sold for €435,000 at auction in Paris.

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HOMELESSNESS in Sweden is rising and a Stockholm charity claimed is it a result of the country’s housing crisis eaving many on low incomes unable to afford to rent.

LEADERS of the Danish People’s Party (DF) have met with former UKIP leader Nigel Farage in Copenhagen and hinted at the party wanting to back a referendum to have Denmark leave the EU.

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SWEDISH pupils, aged 10-14, have improved in the international rankings for their maths and science results based on test results from 2011 to 2015.

Job cuts SWEDISH giant Ericsson has confirmed that around 3,000 workers will lose their jobs in the country as part of a major cost-cutting programme.

Car-pooling CAR-POOLING services that make a profit in Sweden, should count as taxi services and therefore follow the same rules regulating the taxi industry. That’s according to a government inquiry.

Illegal begging A SLOVAKIAN woman has been sentenced to 40 days in prison for begging. The court in Copenhagen also ordered her to be deported. Begging is illegal in the country.

Housing costs DENMARK’S housing costs are the highest in the EU. Danish households use 29.3 per cent of their income on housing and utilities. The EU average is 24.4 per cent.

Christmas charity CHARITY Danish People's Aid, said the number of families asking for help over the Christmas period has increased 85 per cent. Nearly 14,000 families have already applied for

A CASE of animal abuse relating to animal testing has been uncovered by an animal rights organisation at the Flemish Free University of Brussels. Claims say guidelines were not followed.

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TWO Dutch MPs have been in London for Brexit talks. Their visit hit the headlines as they were photographed outside Downing Street with notes apparently taken in the meeting in full view which said ‘have cake and eat it.’

Costly plans PLANS have been announced to develop a new stadium and entertainment complex for Feyenoord football club in Rotterdam. The project will include hotels, housing and shops and has an expected cost of between €1-1.5 billion.

Airport delays THE Lelystad airport expansion has been delayed and will now not open for commercial flights until at least 2019, a year later than planned. The airport is expected to take holiday charter flights, easing up traffic at Amsterdam’s Schiphol.

Firework fun FROM 264 Dutch councils questioned in a survey, three quarters said they do not plan to restrict the use of fireworks on New Year’s Eve with 55 creating a fireworks free zone around nursing homes and hospitals.

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OPEC is to cut oil production THE members of the cartel of oil producing countries, OPEC has announced that it will be cutting oil production (or in reality sales) with effect from January 2017 in an effort to help ease the price up above its current levels which are at an almost historic low. The reduction is quite signifi-

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1.2 million barrels is the number of barrels per day that will be cut by the OPEC oil producing countries in order to force up prices.

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RBS: Fared the worst amongst British banks. By Matthew Elliott STRESS tests conducted by the Bank of England have found that the Royal Bank of Scotland would fare the worst among Britain’s banks if a major economic catastrophe occurs. RBS failed the annual check-up and is now forced to embark on a £2 billion programme of cuts to ensure it can handle another crisis. Lloyds, HSBC, Santander UK, Barclays and Nationwide

cant as it represents 3 per cent on daily production of 32.5 million barrels, but it is clear that countries can increase their income whilst holding stocks and thus assisting their economies which have suffered over the past 12 months. Effectively this is good news for countries like Saudi Arabia whose finances are in something of a mess, but is so good for most of

There may be some circumstances where that is defensible, but it should be for the boards of companies and executives to justify that,” Business Secretary Greg Clark on enormous salaries paid to some company bosses.

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were also tested amid a financial climate the Bank of England has described as boasting an ‘elevated risk’ of crisis, as lending rates begin approaching 2008 levels in the aftermath of the Great Recession. The test analysed the readiness of the banks in the event of £44 billion being wiped off the value of the capital markets in two years. The BoE found that the British banking system would be able to withstand such a calamity, even if only by the skin of its teeth.

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Pension pot AS the Spanish government refuses to agree to an increase in pension of 1.2 per cent requested by the opposition parties, it is estimated that it will need to find a further €7 billion to pay the current pension in 2017.

New trains DEVELOPMENT minister Íñigo de la Serna, has announced that rail operator RENFE will purchase 15 new trains from manufacturer Talgo at a cost of €786 million and will then have the ability within the contract to purchase 15 more.

Donald Trump PRESIDENT-ELECT Donald Trump announced he is to divorce himself from his business interests to let him focus on the presidency and avoid conflicts of interest but he has given few details of who will take over.

Mark Carney sends warning IN a statement which is bound to find favour with some and attract opprobrium from others, Mark Carney, the governor of the Bank of England, has warned that European economies could be hit if their access to the City of London is impeded after

£40 billion (€46 billion) is the annual amount estimated to be lost by British business caused by workers’ sleep deprivation.

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Britain leaves the EU. He has made this statement as certain European politicians have suggested Britain should no longer be a major player in the euro market but suggests that more than half the equity and debt raised is raised by firms in the UK.

the airlines which have benefited in particular from the very low prices. It appears that in a deal which is proudly acceptable to non-OPEC oil producers as well, Iran will be allowed to continue to produce at pre-sanction levels in order to assist the rebuilding of its economy and the market has welcomed the news with prices immediately moving upwards.

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Samsung split SAMSUNG Electronics, the South Korean industrial giant which is already increasing dividends has said that following investor pressure, it is considering dividing the company into two separate firms in order to help the value of its shares. The intention would be for it to devolve into a holding company and an operating company with the pressure having increased following the fiasco over the battery problems with its new Galaxy 700 model.

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NET VOL 51.66 13.77 319.67 87.11 67.92 22.60 108.61 324.41 59.44 163.24 2,655.01 128.48 494.15 941.17 153.31 76.19 1,122.77 7.90 155.08 144.35 5.97 406.56 15.84 112.23 88.83 14.58 6.80 148.66 63.19 96.11 41.42 96.13 56.10 102.54 257.58 1,852.54 75.74 18.40 14.26 1,609.29 105.79 98.60 9.91 393.19 14.00 71.39 328.43 14.35 297.19 54.09

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UK, US and Eurozone in the spotlight Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

SINCE the announcement of Donald Trump’s surprise victory in the US, euro performance has been affected; GBPEUR moved back above 1.1750 and EURUSD down nearly seven cents to 1.06. With Mr Trump seemingly keener to tie down a more powerful relationship with the UK rather than the EU, it has sent a message out to the European Union that the Brexit situation has not exactly enhanced the single bloc’s position in the global market. With regards to Brexit, all the implications and legal battles are due to take place in the coming weeks, as migration and access to the Single Market are the key political issues. There are now rumours surfacing that triggering Article 50 will not necessarily mean the UK has to leave the EEA Membership, which in itself is Article 127. The confusion, rumours and constant meetings between political heads would suggest that Brexit is not going to be as smooth as some

EURO PERFORMANCE: Has been affected by Donald Trump’s surprise victory. would like, and let’s not forget that Parliament may seek to vote in guaranteeing that Article 50 is triggered before Theresa May’s expectant time frame of March 2017. Mario Draghi, Head of the European Central Bank, has also weighed in with his thoughts on the matter, stating that the EU shall not weaken

its position to cater for the UK’s decision to leave. Limiting the migration flow into the UK was seen as the main driver of the Brexit victory, but the EU has been stern in its concern that limiting the flow of people will not be tolerated if the UK wishes to carry on its free trade with the current members.

Theresa May herself has been hard at work meeting with her seniors, and the latest was the Polish Prime Minister, who visited Downing Street on the last week of November. The meeting was put in place to support entrepreneurs in both the UK and Poland. The Polish UK trade was worth approximately £15bn in 2015, a figure which has risen dramatically since 2006. Another point on the agenda was to make sure that up to 900,000 Polish workers guarantee their rights in the UK, which would have been pleasing for Beata Szydlo (Poland PM). The Eurozone itself comes into the spotlight this December, and not only because the US will almost certainly raise its current interest rates, which will have an effect on euro-paired currencies. The ECB will also need to make a decision on its current Quantitative Easing programme, which purchases Government bonds in the hope of raising inflation. Current inflation levels are miles off of the expected 2 per cent marker, and a continuing trend could see bonds completely dried up to buy in the future. The UK, US and Eurozone are all in the spotlight over the coming few months, and it appears the Trump win has been more positive than investors had predicted.

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Pound of flesh causes uproar JUST when the Bank of England had thought that it was doing so well with the launch of the new polymer five pound notes which have a much longer life and are much more robust than paper notes, someone has come along and burst their bubble! It started with a tweeted enquiry as to whether the new note (and its successors in higher denominations which are already planned) contained any animal fat and low and behold it does. There is apparently a small amount of tallow in the make-up of the polymer note and this has put a number of potential users in a spin. Tallow was used for centuries as a ‘poor man’s’ candle when wax was too expensive and was also a principal component of some soaps. Unfortunately, it is generally obtained f r o m a n i m a l - f at, main ly b ee f o r sheep but also from pigs and this has upset a number of people. Firstly some vegetarians and the majority of vegans are opposed to the use of any part of any animal in any product and in a very short period of time, 40,000 people signed a petition calling for the notes to be changed and there has been a great deal of negative comment on social media.

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BANK OF ENGLAND: Are keeping fairly quiet on the matter. One irate tweeter even commented on the irony that she donated her very first five pound note to a vegan charity! Following these complaints, Hindu reli-

gious leaders have also entered the debate as many devout Hindus will have nothing to do with any item derived from cows, shunning leather goods and they are now consid-

ering whether temples should refuse to handle the new notes. Jewish leaders have taken a more phlegmatic position as although their religion proscribes the eating of pork, they see no problem in handling the new five pound note as tallow is not a substance that they are prohibited from touching, although it would be unacceptable for anyone to try to eat the note. There have been no comments recorded from the Muslim community as yet as they have similar dietary restrictions to the Jewish faith, but there is some suggestion that the wearing of shoes made with pig skin soles is prohibited and one scholar says that Muslims should not buy any goods made from pig skin which certainly makes the note questionable. At the moment the Bank of England is keeping fairly quiet on the matter although it appears that the polymer pellets which ar e pur chased t o al l ow t he not es t o be made and contain tallow are from an outside sour ce t hat suppl i es t hem t o 24 ot her count r i es whi ch use t hem i n t hei r bank notes. Whilst there are many complaints about the notes, jokers are offering to relieve any of the aggrieved owners of their notes as a favour.

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JOSE MOURINHO: Has allegedly transferred funds out of the UK and Spain. By John Smith AN international consortium of newspapers which includes The Sunday Times and El Mundo have reportedly joined together to obtain access to reports being held on the website ‘Football Leaks’ which were apparently obtained by hackers who targeted various sports agents around the world. It is alleged that Jose Mourinho arranged for large volumes of funds to be syphoned out of the UK and Spain whilst he was manager of Chelsea between 2004 and 2007 and Real Madrid between 2010 and 2013 and their eventual destination was the British Virgin Islands (BVI). The chairperson of the UK public accounts committee, labour MP Margaret (Meg) Hillier reportedly responded to a Sunday Times approach by confirming that the claims should be investigated and she will be speaking to the head of HM Customs and Revenue in committee shortly

Mourinho and Ronaldo are both compliant with all tax rules in both Spain and the UK.” when she will raise the matter for comment. In addition to Mourinho, it is claimed that Real Madrid star Cristiano Ronaldo, who played for the current Manchester United manager has also used his position to send funds from Spain to a British Virgin Islands established company thus allegedly cheating the Spanish tax agency of funds. Both Portuguese born individuals are represented by agent Jorge Mendes and in a statement he has rejected all allegations of wrongdoing on their behalf and has stated that they are both compliant with all tax rules in both Spain and the UK. The sums involved in moving money via Ireland, New Zealand, Switzerland and the

BVI are quite significant and may amount to as much as €75 million, with the lion’s share supposedly coming from Ronaldo. Considering that the Spanish authorities have been so determined recently to prosecute a string of Barcelona players including Messi and Neymar, it will be interesting to see whether this latest information will make them include Real Madrid in their review. In the meantime, as the BVI is a UK Overseas Territory with a British appointed governor and with an obligation to act in accordance with instructions received from Whitehall, then it should not be that difficult for the Foreign Office and Treasury to get to the bottom of its involvement (if any) in these alleged activities. Whatever the result of these accusations, it would appear that there are plenty of additional revelations to come about other sporting stars over the next few weeks.

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Battling bureaucracy wears you out LEAPY LEE SAYS IT

TO save on space I have omitted the number of time wasting office visits that had to be endured regarding the subject of this week’s column. Those of you who have had to deal with Spanish ‘red tape’ will know exactly what I mean! All who are anticipating a retirement on Spanish state pension, can now read on and weep! According to Spanish law it is a requirement that, irrespective of how many years of contributions you have under your belt, it is obligatory to work the previous final two years up to claiming your pension. With this in mind, just under three years ago I decided to check how many further years I would need to qualify. I was duly investigated and informed that, if I became autonomous again, I needed to work and contribute up

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JUMPING THROUGH HOOPS: Trying to claim for a Spanish state pension. to March of this year. (2016) I decided to regain my autonomy and subsequently, worked, paid my dues and duly turned up last

March to stake my claim The first hiccup was my residencia. This ridiculous tiny piece of paper had become so worn,

they couldn’t make out the NIF number. Couldn’t they just look me up on the computer? Don’t be silly! Appointment at residency

offices for duplicate? Six months! I subsequently supplied an old readable residencia containing all relevant information – rejected, out of date. I then supplied an even older undated form – rejected, no expiry date! On gestors advice I then obtained a list of my residency records stamped and verified by the Guardia Civil. Rejected, no reason given. After some four long months I managed, through a colleague, to get a slightly earlier appointment at the residencia offices and duly obtained a duplicate, which I then submitted to the authorities. To cut a very long story short, I have now been informed they have made an error and I am still 14 months short of qualification. I now owe them eight months autonomos since March. And have to go back to work! They have embargoed my bank account and left 55 cents. Be careful out there. They’ll shaft you if they can! Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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this is a lovely week when old friendships are strengthened and new acquaintances prove to be relaxing. It is another mellow week but one in which you seriously consider making a major change.

SAGITTARIUS ( November 23 - December 21) There is still a strong accent on family matters and getting things sorted out. The way ahead is clear. If you are able to persuade someone that an idea was theirs and not yours, so much the better. Being in a practical mood serves you well because it is possible to get a lot done in the next few days. The weekend, however, is another matter. It seems you are much in demand and jobs you thought would be done and dusted just aren't.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Your mind is still sharp this week and there are many questions that you would like answered. Doing a bit of research proves fruitful and also quite amusing. A recent contact may not come up with the proposition hoped for, but realise that it is still early days. Sometimes, you feel that being far from perfect spoils your chances. We can all do with improvement. Ask your long-term friends what they like most about you and strengthen that area.

this cannot be rushed. However, there is a need to look after your health and get out in the fresh air. Any thought of joining a walking club or health group should be pursued. It will also serve as light relief and take your mind from less happy notions

into it to get the best results. GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Make a point of putting on a happy face and your mood will stay high. There is still some more to be done to improve your social life and a recent offer of charity work may be just the thing. Avoid restricting the sort of folk who you are willing to mix with. Cultural differences apart, it is quite an eyeopener to find out how others live and think. Never assume that you know everything, there is so much out there to explore.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A pleasant surprise makes you a little more optimistic midweek. It is possible for you to take on negativity too quickly. The next time something does not go according to plan, hold fire. It is amazing what a little time and distance will solve. Because you are in a practical frame of mind, use this to make a check on everyday routines. More could be achieved with forward planning.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A meeting midweek could mean a change to your finances for the better. In the short term, it may be necessary for you to rearrange money and appointments but try not to be too put out. Change is perhaps something that we become less tolerant of after a situation has gone on for a time. In this case, however, the basic problem is still there. Instead of worrying, do your best and then get on with something else

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) It is clear that you really love your hearth and home but, every now and again, there is a small voice calling. The good things in life appeal and, to have these, an effort is involved. Do not underestimate the amount of pleasure that you will enjoy when putting in that extra effort. It does, after all, involve other people. Some of those people prove to be quite fascinating.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Being considerably more relaxed about those things which cannot be changed has taken a weight from your shoulders. It is also easier to understand why others have taken this approach in the past. There is, however, a balance to be found. Don't be put off by people who have become sloppy in their approach because this is not going to affect you.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Although last week was not run at the pace anticipated, now the pace certainly picks up. Finances are still firmly on the agenda, but this time you will be able to deal on a more relaxed basis. A contact made recently gives you the opportunity not only to make some money but also to enlarge your circle of friends. When taking up an educational course, throw yourself wholeheartedly

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) There is so much that has come to light in the past few weeks. It is no wonder that your mind is reeling. All will become clear in the weeks ahead and

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Be your charming self this week without pushing too much. A natural approach when you are seeking a response is the best course of action. Simply being in the right place and under someone’s gaze is all that is required. Are you getting itchy because an offer is not forthcoming? Well, if you absolutely must, then get a little bird to whisper in their ear.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Having put in extra effort to bring a zing to this year it is important that you keep the impetus going. This is not only good for your health and wealth, but also your mind. Although trying something new brings a few odd remarks your way, try not to be sidetracked. Bringing together various friends and family proves fun and really bolsters your mood.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Are you still patting yourself on the back for that recent achievement? Socially,

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Quick Across 1 Enforce (6) 4 Object used in throwing events (6) 9 Absence of sound (7) 10 Looks at with amorous intentions (5) 11 No longer fresh (5) 12 Lacking in energy or will (7) 13 Needless (11) 18 Jumped over (7) 20 Walk leisurely (5) 22 Approximately, especially of a date (5) 23 Chemical-free (7) 24 More elevated (6) 25 Facially attractive (6) Down 7 Female sibling (6) 1 Be demanding (6) 8 Having great beauty and 2 Bohemian dance (5) splendour (11) 3 Open and genuine (7) 14 Impartial (7) 5 False gods (5) 15 First course (7) 6 Coal miner (7) 16 Shore bird (6)

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 2 represents X and 11 represents M, so fill in X every time the figure 2 appears and M every time the figure 11 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS CRYPTIC Across: 1 Assisted, 5 Wall, 9 Leech, 10 Starred, 11 Rancour, 12 Plate, 13 Desist, 15 Appeal, 19 Scour, 21 A la mode, 23 Errands, 24 India, 25 None, 26 Brigands. Down: 1 Allured, 2 Sheen, 3 Schools, 4 Ensure, 6 Airfare, 7 Ladle, 8 Wasp, 14 Sporran, 16 Praying, 17 Leeways, 18 Hawser, 19 Stern, 20 Rent, 22 Olden.

QUICK Across: 1 Cargo, 4 Surpass, 8 Deprive, 9 Spoon, 10 Evenings, 11 Mere, 13 Mislay, 14 Gamble, 17 Sped, 19 Barbaric, 22 Alter, 23 Pending, 24 Amateur, 25 Stray.

17 Reproduce a recording on a recorder (6) 19 Barely detectable amount (5) 21 Basque headgear (5)

Down: 1 Cadge, 2 Repress, 3 Original, 4 Sledge, 5 Rose, 6 Alone, 7 Sincere, 12 Sawbones, 13 Mascara, 15 Barrier, 16 Tamper, 18 Extra, 20 Cagey, 21 Urge.

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

Across 1 Loro (6) 3 Ácido (4) 7 Plumilla (de pluma) (3) 9 To chat (7) 10 Too much (9) 13 Drill (tool) (7) 14 To give (3) 15 Último (final) (4) 16 Panaderos (6)

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Across: 1 Cobardes, 8 Traer, 9 Nunca, 10 End, 11 Eagle, 12 Entre, 13 Mal, 14 Clave, 15 Irons, 16 Entonces. Down: 2 Orangeade, 3 Agreement, 4 Dandelion, 5 Sunstroke, 6 Stretch, 7 Gaseosa.

Down 1 Rosa (4) 2 Huertos (8) 4 Quality (7) 5 Oscuro (sin luz) (4) 6 Butterfly (8) 8 Escarabajos (insectos) (7) 11 Useful (information, advice, tool) (4) 12 Grey (in colour) (4)

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ALLEGE BORATE DARKLE DELETE DEPEND ERRATA GYRATE KETTLE (10) LATENT MARBLE

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Resume 2 Redial 3 Bureau 4 Madcap 5 Maraud 6 Regent 7 Podium 8 Retain 9 Corpse 10 Mangle 11 German 12 Carpet 13 Regime 14 Parley 15 Tattle 16 Pliers 17 Arctic 18 Strict 19 Fiasco.

Across 7 Claret is drunk in lobby (6) 8 Pushes steamship around East Sussex resort (6) 9 North is French retreat (4) 10 Is a huge fan of dual seat contraption (8) 11 Followed cart back to the middle of Dukedom (7) 13 Knock the beer back like a king (5) 15 Hypnotise a church member (5) 17 Money that is right for the till operator (7) 20 Worker gets part of liberal (8) 21 Included in the Royal Society (4) 23 Get away from test centre with carbon copy (6) 24 Some nudism album photos are depressing (6) Down 1 Running Bear display (4) 2 Still hiding in attics? (6) 3 A hundred and one departing by chopper (7) 4 Question children (5) 5 Present Spanish gentleman with

brewed tea (6) 6 Burmese leader always has time for a brew (8) 12 Go over soldiers' vehicle (8) 14 The first of the state borders (7)

16 Warder is back to sketch again (6) 18 Sounds like an equine or husky (6) 19 Springfield's Greek poet? (5) 22 Employee's wage packet contains stolen goods (4)

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ANY dissenting opinions are quickly put down as the ramblings of ignorant racist ill-informed morons. All the time we are assailed by opinions of how much the UK will lose because of leaving black holes, billions lost etc, but no one has ever mentioned how much Britain leaving would cost the EU. How much the eastern bloc countries actually buy from the UK!? Why do we only hear the mutterings of Frau Merkel (has the cat got the tongues of the leaders of the other 20 odd countries)? Finally I feel that our own lilylivered spineless occupants of Parliament have relinquished their responsibility to the BRITISH people by hiding behind EU regulations instead of serving the electorate. R Casali

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Deep trouble REGARDLESS of Brexit the EU is in deep trouble and may not survive, with elections coming in Germany, France, Netherlands and Austria and the rise of the popular vote in all of these countries, who knows what the EU will look like in two years’ time? Couple this with the sluggish economies of all of the EU block and its inability to tackle ever rising unemployment and its descent into de f l a t i o n , t h e r e is s erio u s doubt that the EU will be able to survive in its present form, while trying to stick to its founding principle of free movement, we can see borders are going up all over the EU. With all the negativity that is happening in the EU, I find it puzzling that your writers can concentrate on something so trivial as the Leave campaign lying; both sides stretched the truth, after all, David Cameron stated that if the UK voted leave, World War Three would break out in Europe In a democratic vote the people of the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union, that is the will of the people. Anon

Utter folly HIGH Intensity Training is a discredited training regime from the

night out. Now it is left for volunteers to clean this area which they do two to three times a week as they are so ashamed of visitors having to see this unsightly mess. What is our money being spent on? I woul d so m uch l i ke a TV crew from Spain or the UK to see what has becom e of t he once beautiful Cabo Roig. Maria, Orihuela

Nigel Farage: The saviour of GB? WE spend approximately five months of the year in Spain and the rest of our time in Prestbury Cheshire. I was born in 1940 and am terribly sad at the decline in GB since I was born. I spent 40 years of my life selling GB products to many parts of the world, very successfully in Europe in the days of EFTA.

1970s that is, quite frankly, dangerous. The BBC’s Andrew Marr nearly died from a serious stroke after rather foolishly pursuing the ‘fitness in 30 seconds’ that is described as achievable. Your article describes pushing yourself to the limit for 30 seconds! Utter folly! For the technically minded this is an anaerobic exercise being the kind of fast reaction training required by footballers and squash players. It develops what is known as Fast Twitch muscle as opposed to beneficial Slow Twitch developed by aerobic sports like jogging, rowing and such. Numerous Post Mortems car-

We welcome the election of Mr Trump and believe that we will be first in the queue for trade deals. We believe that Nigel Farage has saved GB and should be given a knighthood and an important position in our Brexit negotiations, also a statue of him should be erected in Trafalgar Square!

ried out on sports people who suffered premature death have shown an alarming presence of fast twitch muscle. I rest my case. Please stand well clear of HIT. Ken Bethell, Puerto de Mazarron

Not so nice R E is s ue 1635. H e a dline a nd ‘London Bound.’ I would be very interested to know if Councillor Sofia Alvarez promoted the Costa Grime (Cabo Roig) on her trip to London: the lovely esplanade on a Friday after market day.

Andrew and Lucie Murray

With all the rubbish that is left behind, especially the dozens of plastic bags which are left to blow into the sea which is a catastrophe in itself. The overflowing bins surrounde d by m or e r ubbi sh and overrun with rats feeding from the rubbish. The pavements on both sides of ‘The Strip’ in front of the bars restaurants and cafes is filthy and littered with more rubbish and broken bottles. We used t o have l adi es t hat c a me a r ound ever y m or ni ng t o clean the streets especially at the entrance to Cabo Roig where a lot of broken bottles and glasses are left by people going home after a

I HAVE just seen the news on the internet that a couple have died in their home because of the poisonous fumes emitted by a faulty boiler. This is an absolute tragedy. Peopl e have t o be awar e t hat carbon monoxide is a killer. You can’t see it or taste it. If your boiler is faulty then get it fixed by someone with the right skills to do the job. If not, you’re taking a risk with your lives. It’s a needless loss of life but a CO detector doesn’t cost that much and will at least make you aware if there is any gas in your property. Chris, Fuengirola

Football grieves I AM old enough to remember the deaths of the Busby Babes on the tarmac at Munich. That was a terrible day for British football and my city in part i cul ar. Those m em or i es cam e flooding back when I heard about the poor young Brazilians who perished when their plane crashed. A football club is always at the heart of a community and this is terrible news. I am told that FIFA want a m i nut e’s si l ence at al l matches in memory of this disaster. I think black armbands should be worn too. Alec Marbella

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HE must be joking. Justice minister Rafael Catala Polo said that political responsibility for corruption would be settled by the ballot box. Polls routinely show that corruption is a major worry for the Spanish although they happily vote for politicians whose copybooks are indelibly blotted. Former president of the Valencian Community Francisco Camps sidled his way out of countless accusations of corruption and was regularly re-elected. Once inextricably embroiled in the Suits for Contracts case he resigned but was finally exonerated in a Valencia court where he was

Not so very different WHEN Franco died in 1975, Fidel Castro ordered a week’s mourning. Castro allegedly never forgot that during the guerrilla war, Franco knew exactly where the Fidelistas were holed up in the Sierra Maestra but never passed on that information to the Batista regime. It also helped that Franco always maintained diplomatic relations with Cuba and Spanish ships regularly flouted the US blockade. It helped even more that Castro and Franco respected each other as soldiers and recognised each other as shrewd and wily Galicians. found not guilty by a Valencian jury. Something similar happens with politicians of all colours and all parties. It’s not only the political parties that have to purge corruption - voters should stop expecting and condoning it.

Other way round THE Partido Popular blamed everyone but itself for Rita Barbera’s heart attack and death,

conveniently forgetting Mariano Rajoy’s insistence that she resign from the party when investigated for corruption. Why did no-one suggest that she resign as a senator and stay inside the party? Because Rajoy & Co wanted visible a scapegoat, that’s why.

On the back burner JAVIER URKULLU and the PNV nationalists won the Basque regional elections by the skin of their teeth but lost a seat after a recount. He and the PSOE - PSE in the region – have managed to do what the socialists failed to do after the 2015 general elections and thrashed out an alliance. Pro-independence Basques have never been tempted to take the route chosen by secessionist Catalans who would not flinch from a Unilateral Declaration of Independence. Instead Urkullu and the PSOE have stressed any steps taken will be countenanced by Spanish law which is shorthand for announcing that meanwhile and in the foreseeable future everything will remain just as it is.

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Don’t exaggerate! Mike Senker

In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I’VE told you a million times not to exaggerate! I like to watch sport on TV and I’m very good at it. I’ve never lost a frame of snooker or a race and never missed a penalty at a football match. But what I don’t understand are some of the things people say. My favourite, and not just to do with sport, but on shows where people are being tested they’re asked how they’re going to approach the task they say they’ll give it 110 per cent. Well you can’t, can you? You can only give 100 per cent. ‘Per cent’ means ‘parts of a hundred.’ Exaggeration like that is just annoying. There are loads of things people say but mean something completely different. For instance: Swift half? ... seven pints! Your parcel will be delivered between 7am and 9pm… your parcel will never be delivered! Pop round later if you like. Yeah might do... you have more chance of seeing Henry VIII and his six wives than me! How about indicating you want the last roast potato by offering it to everyone else first? Also, why is it as soon as the waiter

says ‘do not touch the plate it’s extremely hot’ you touch it? Why? Don’t we believe him? Do you think he just made it up? How about as you get older and you get introduced to someone for first time. ‘This is Adam’. Two things can happen. First, you are not paying attention because over his shoulder you can see someone you really want to talk to so you instantly forget his name. Or, you heard ‘This is Alan’ and you proceed to call him that for the rest of the evening. This happens to Mrs S all the time. Her name is Patti but she gets called Patsy, Hetty, Cathy, Hattie and what cracks me up is she never corrects anybody. She is so polite. On a slightly different note there is something that’s been giving me the hump for years. In our kitchen we have several electrical appliances that have an LED clock incorporated in them - the oven and microwave in particular - and I can never get them to be the same time on both. What is even worse is that they are directly next to each other. How can that be? I set them to identical times and when I look the next day they have changed! One is always a couple of minutes different to the other. It drives me nuts! Has anyone got any ideas how to fix that? I’ll be on Talk Radio Europe on Thurs 15th for my last grump before Christmas. Call in or email me at mikesenker@gmail.com.

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Preparing for the cold white stuff 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.

SNOW SEASON: Snow chains are recommended for driving on some roads. WE are quickly coming into snow season and whilst the thought of snow may be far from your thoughts, particularly for those living in the warmer coastal regions, the reality is that you are rarely more than an hour away from the mountainous areas. If you are headed skiing this winter or there is a risk you will be driving in snow you should purchase snow chains for your vehicles. These are not a mandatory requirement, but in some areas where snow packs the road, it does become compulsory to use them so it is advisable to have them ready. The Guardia Civil or other authorities, can impose a restriction without warning, placing signs on roads informing drivers that

they must use snow chains so if you do not have them with you, the only option is to wait until the road has been cleared by a snowplough or until the restriction has been lifted. If you see the ‘cadenas obligatorias’ signs you must stop driving if you do not have snow chains on and failure to adhere can result in a fine, as well as the potential danger you put yourself and other road users in. When headed to the snowy areas, it is also always recommended to take additional equipment with you such as warm blankets and emergency food and drink, in the case of a breakdown and ensure your mobile phone is fully charged.

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Can they install security gate? Our Community is considering the installation of security gates. The estate has 212 apartments in three-storey blocks. Each apartment now has its own doorbell with an intercom system. My questions are: • What is the legal requirement prior to installation of the security gates? • Must we reposition each doorbell and intercom for access outside the security gates? • Do we require plans and procedures to mitigate any risks? • Article 12 of the Law of Horizontal Property states that any change in a common element that affects the charter of construction must be submitted with the relevant procedures, such as emergency response. Is this still the case? D M (Costa Blanca) Your only legal requirement here will probably be a building licence for minor works. However, you need to sit down with your Administrator. Your copy of the Law of Horizontal Property is out of

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date. The revisions of 2013 have superseded Article 12.

Most of its rules have been absorbed into other articles. And most of them do not apply to you. If you ask two or three security companies to give you a bid on the job, they will surely answer all of your questions.

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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The future of the EU after Brexit: will it be boosted or broken? 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

FOLLOWING Trump-a-thon and Brexit, the EU is facing a series of make-or-break elections in the coming months. With Trump in the White House, Italy lurching from crisis to crisis, France’s Le Pen waiting in the wings, Austria and the Netherlands becoming increasingly Eurosceptic (plus Erdogan’s threats), life will become even more problematic for the EU. (And Mrs Merkel may well end up concluding three terms as Chancellor were more than enough.) The EU was always going to be bedevilled by the simple fact that a huge amount of central control and cohesion would be needed to maintain anything more than a free trade bloc. The EU countries are so dis-

MAKE OR BREAK: How many more countries? parate, politically and ideologically, that a one-size-fits-all approach was never likely to succeed. The more it developed, the more central control this project would need to maintain itself and inevitably the more unstable it’d become. The EU urgently needs to reform if it wants to survive or risk drowning under an over-

whelming wave of populist/anti-establishment resentment. The EU is like a marriage - a contractual agreement voluntarily entered into by two parties for cohabiting with obligations of mutual support with a degree of affection. What often makes marriages collapse is when one partner takes the

relationship for granted reasoning that, as the other partner is contractually bound, zero effort to listen is required. Grievances build up and rankle. This doesn’t bother the politicians, but it does the people. For many, it’s as if the EU views its behaviour post-marriage (EU member-

ship) as a matter for itself - it can, figuratively, zap through TV programs or slurp its soup etc at will and far from being consulted, some member states don’t feel they’re being listened to at all. Great institutions might think their sheer size ensures permanence. The reality is that they can disappear in a decade if public opinion sufficiently turns against them. Institutions which fundamentally exist because of public support should never take that support for granted. Oh, and one last thing, could Blair, Major and Clegg stop sticking their collective oars in the Brexit debate... Nora Johnson’s psychological/suspense crime thrillers ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.com) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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Plans to get student nurses training on job STAFF shortages are well docum e n t e d wi t h i n th e UK’s National Health Service but would you trust a teenager to care for you? In a policy shift, the UK government is announcing plans for a new nursing ap-

p ren tice s h ip s ch eme th a t will see an expected 1,000 young people a year combine on the job training with studying for a degree. Officials expect many 18-yearolds to apply for the scheme straight out of school.

The trainee nurses will be offe re d a s e rie s of pla c e ments in hospitals and sees a move ba c k to the e ra w he n nurs e s prima rily trained on the wards and a move away from the current system that requires a de-

gree qualification before being able to practise nursing. Tra ine e s how e ve r w ill still need to complete and earn their degree to fully qualify. Thos e for the s c he me hope it will help those put off by the high costs of going to university as they can study and earn money at the same time and become more

compassionate in the profession, something cannot be taught in the classroom. However, cr i t i cs war n that students must have a certain level of knowledge before entering wards.

The first students are expected to start on the five year course in September 2017. STUDENT NURSES: Can now train on the ward.

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SPECIALIST: Doctor Luis Perez Belmonte. THIS week, the Dr answers our questions on Raynaud’s Phenomenon. • What is Raynaud’s Phenomenon? Raynaud’s Phenomenon is a condition whereby cold temperatures or strong emotional reactions lead to vascular spasms which block blood flow temporarily. If when you are out in the cold or at emotional times find that your fingers, toes, ears or nose turn white, then blue, then red over a period of a few minutes or up to a few hours, you may have Raynaud’s. • When does it happen and what is the cause? This phenomenon is usually caused by low temperatures and stress. There are two types: primary Raynaud’s, where the cause is unknown and most patients have few symptoms, and secondary Raynaud’s, which is associated with autoimmune diseases, artery problems, certain medications, infections and heavy smoking among others. • Can I beat it without having to take drugs? These steps can help keep Raynaud’s under control: keep your body warm, avoid exposure to the cold in any form, use gloves

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when outside or touching ice or frozen food, avoid catching cold after active sports, stop smoking as this causes blood vessels to narrow, avoid caffeine and medicines which cause blood vessels to spasm. If these measures are not enough to control the problem, you should see a Specialist in Internal Medicine for evaluation who may prescribe medication if necessary. It is important to treat the cause of the phenomenon. • Who does it usually affect and why? When does it appear? Primary Raynaud’s usually appears in women under the age of 30. Secondary Raynaud’s is association with other conditions and generally appears in the over 30s. • Can it cause other health problems? Primary Raynaud’s Phenomenon is usually related to other illnesses and only appears due to cold or stress. Secondary Raynaud’s however is associated to other conditions. In any case, patients suffering symptoms of Raynaud’s should see a specialist in Internal Medicine for evaluation.

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New app to help track seizures A NEW app has been developed to help track and record seizures suffered by epileptic children. ‘Track it!’ has been released by Apple to be used on the Apple Watch. It allows a seizure to be recorded and logged giving patients and parents the ability to understand the extent of seizures. The app allows you to time and record seizures as they happen, add additional information to seizure entries and store the information. The information will be

confidential but will also be stored on a database on SeizureTracker.com which is expected to have logged more than 1.5 million by the end of the year. As well as parents being able to help their own children and manage their epilepsy, they are also helping others by participating in the shared database with the details then able to be accessed by researchers studying the condition as the number of seizures suffered by patients are often underestimated.

Top choice for those planning to go home MOST of us are aware of the health benefits of living in Spain; the warmer weather and Mediterranean diet, but what if you want to go back to the UK? Where’s best to go for a long, healthy life? According to new figures produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), Rutland in East Midlands could be a good choice. Boys in particular born in Rutland can expect to be healthier for longer than anywhere else in the country. It also ranked fifth in the league for a healthy life expectancy for girls, with the Orkney Islands topping the list for females with Antrim and Newtownabbey in the bottom spot for girls, with them able to expect a healthy life of around 74.6 years in Orkney, but just 51.4 years of good health in Antrim and Newtownabbey. For baby boys, Rutland had the highest estimates for healthy life expectancy at 71.1 years, with Tower Hamlets having the lowest estimates at 54 years. Rutland has around 40,000 inhabitants and last year was named ‘best countryside location’ to live in by the Halifax Rural Areas Quality of Life Survey after 96 per cent of residents reported ‘good’ or ‘fairly good’ health. It also benefits from low crime rates, relatively decent wages and below average rainfall.

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Easy access for the New Year By Matthew Elliott NEW sightseeing routes through the historic Palma Old Town will be aimed at local residents and tourists with reduced mobility. Wheelchair users and others with disabilities will also be able to use a newly developed bus pass to view attractions outside the centre, including the Bellver Castle. The tours will be available in English, German, Catalan and Castilian and have been specially designed in concert with the Handisport Foundation to offer maximum benefits to the less mobile. City mayor Jose Hila has pledged to ensure equal opportunities for all and help transform Palma into an easily accessible city which people from all walks of life can enjoy. A new brochure will also be published with key information on adapted taxis, disabled parking spaces, and beaches and entertainment venues with handicapped access.

Subterranean art attack ANYONE with a passing interest in underground art would do well to head along to the L21 Gallery in Palma which is holding an exhibition of young up and coming punk artist Ian Waelder which is named Suede. The talented youngster has been an artist in residence at the Hangar in Lisbon but lives in Mallorca. His works have been exhibited across mainland Spain and throughout South America. His L21 Gallery exhibit runs until December 10 and the gallery itself is open to the public from 9am till 5pm Monday to Friday, though there are surely some wild after-parties for those in the know. L21 opened in Palma in 2012 having been a huge hit in Madrid. It promotes solo exhibitions of contemporary works and has many subterranean rooms where guests can explore different concepts of perception in art. It can be found in the Son Castello industrial park just a short drive from the city centre.

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Circus time FANS and admirers of the circus would do well to head along to the Circ Bover as it celebrates its 11th year of acrobatic sorcery. Its award-winning street show was received with critical acclaim last year and the deathdefying team are back again this Christmas season. Circ Bover effectively brought professional circus to Mallorca and the islands when it

debuted in the Balearics in 2005, and has gotten better and better with each passing year. The dynamic and modern show combines breathtaking acrobatics on bamboo poles, theatre, dance and magic. The company even have their very own resident artists and circus school to train top-quality performers for their national and international tours.

Acapella carols in Porreres ORIGINALLY formed by 12 people, Mallorcan acapella group Cap Pela now consists of seven who offer a very unique blend of different music including pop, rock and even film soundtracks. After playing together for more than two decades, the members of the group have a very clear understanding of each other and their close harmonies are con-

sidered some of the best in Europe. This year, the four girls and three men are presenting a number of Christmas songs and carols in support of their most recent CD, Happy Christmas and their next performance will be at the Municipal Auditorium in Porreres starting at 6pm on Sunday December 11 with tickets costing just â‚Ź5.

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Taking the trial and error out of a labour of love WHEN you come up with an idea for a new restaurant or even a new concept for an eatery, there’s always a chance you’ll have had a spark of divine inspiration. But how do you translate that idea into reality and how do you get the all-important paying customers through the door, and keep them coming back? What’s more, how do you do that in one of the most competitive business spheres in the world? You could dive headlong into it hoping your labour of love will just work out, picking it up as you go along and learning by trial and error. But that could mean a lot of trial and a lot of error. Or there’s another approach: using the services of a hospitality consultant. One man who has been in that industry for more than 25 years is Garry Waite. He aims to inject sound management skills and that all-important creativity into any individual or company contemplating a hospitality-based operation, whether that’s a new restaurant, a hotel or even a franchise that may be running out of ideas. “I love projects that I can take from start to opening. There is a tremendous

I like the challenges that come with trying to help clients get out of a sticky situation, which normally just takes a fresh pair of eyes.” satisfaction in seeing a plan come together from conception to launch: the design and furnishing of the operation to the style of food and presentation, right up to choosing the right team to run it.” Garry has been responsible for opening and running some of the Coast’s best known operations from The Golf Club Marbella in the 90’s, to the Oceano Hotel and Beach Club, Tikitano, Lonestar Brasserie and El Rincon de Guadalpin. As a hospitality consultant Garry is sometimes brought in to help even successful operations revitalise themselves. “I like the challenges that come with trying to help clients get out of a sticky position. That normally just takes a fresh pair of professional eyes that can see the wood from the trees!”

Having just finished a contract with one of the Coast’s most successful companies, the La Sala Group, Garry is available to help others achieve their full potential. Now his wealth of experience, wisdom and involvement in the hospitality sphere is going to come to the aid of readers of Euro Weekly. Garry is to write a weekly column outlining his do’s and don’ts when it comes to a love of food, food service and hospitality. Don’t miss it…

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By Graeme Tyrrell FINDING the right plant to suit the needs for your garden design, balcony space or terrace pots is always an interesting

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garden to fill with an attractive flowering super hardy groundcover plant that suppresses weeds and needs minimal care once established, then Periwinkle, Vinca major and minor, may be your answer. The botanical name Vinca means winding or binding in Latin. The stems were used for binding work such as wreaths and garlands. In Middle English the plant was referred to as per wynke that has developed into the modern English name Periwinkle. It has also been known as myrtle and sorcerers violet and has been used romantically as a symbol of life, long friendship and marriage. The prostrate and arching shoots with a choice of yellow rimmed variegated or bright dark green leaves and very distinct bluish or white trumpet flowers make a great floral display when well presented in the garden. The plants grow better in the shade but flower better in the sun.

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ATTRACTIVE FLOWERS: Pink periwinkles may be your answer. They don’t need highly enriched soil, just loose enough for them to put their roots deep into the soil to get established. Once established they will dominate the garden taking every ray of sunlight, every centimetre of soil surface and every dew drop they can. Periwinkles climb up and over every plant within their reach so they are great for weed suppression but a pest for your favourite vulnerable plants. As they are invasive in a garden with most other smaller

shrubs coming off second best, they are best given their own area of garden where they can come into their own as a surrounding flowering accent for a larger tree, fill low maintenance areas or cover a difficult to garden slope. Periwinkle don’t climb the trunks of trees like ivy does and is easier to manage by maintaining a border or line of demarcation. Once established they can be very difficult to remove from the garden. They are very hardy as potted plants. They will cascade

over the sides of their container making them excellent for hanging gardens and window boxes. Generally they need little care other than watering and often recover well from some neglect if the containers don’t dry out completely. It is so easy to propagate by cuttings, division and layering. I have stored pots with old potting mix near my patch of periwinkles to find that they are later brimming with overflowing periwinkles with little effort on my part.

Be kitchen ready for Christmas CHRISTMAS is coming which for many means kitchen chaos! Follow these tips to get everything in order before the madness begins at turkey time this year. First of all, start making space by going through your crockery. Get rid of anything you don’t use and take pride in

using the good stuff regularly rather than saving it for special occasions. Next on the list for the ruthless de-clutter are kitchen gadgets. Look at your worktop and if you don’t use it, donate or recycle it and if you only use it rarely, store it away in a cupboard.

Learn to plan meals and shop for what you will need once or twice a week. For an organised kitchen, store similar items together. Keep ingredients you use regularly close together. With logical thinking, you can turn your kitchen into a clutter-free, efficient work station.

Cheerful houseplants THERE are more than 100 different types of trees and bushes classed as Polyscia which can be used to bring some green into our lives. These evergreens of the Araliaceae family come in all shapes and sizes and are great as decorations. As houseplants they need very little in the way of special care. Light surroundings (not in direct sunlight to avoid burning the leaves) and moderate regular watering are all that is needed to keep them happy and healthy. Avoid watering until all previous water has been absorbed, prune lightly to keep their shape and avoid drastic temperature changes.

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Wild horses in Europe By Matt Ford FORD unveiled two special edition Mustangs aimed at the European market at their recent ‘Go Further’ event in Cologne. The Mustang Black Shadow will be available to order from January 2017 with either a sixspeed manual or sixspeed automatic transmission, plus a 5.0 litre V8 engine beneath the bonnet. Key differences from the standard model include black body detailing, 19-inch alloy wheels and a redesigned pony emblem. The car will be available in Platinum White, Triple Yellow, Race Red and Grabber Blue.

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A GRAND APP: That allows motoring enthusiasts to follow certain tribes or motoring communities.

Drive Tribe finally launched AS Clarkson and company blow millions on fantastical stunts in new motoring show The Grand Tour, infuriating the BBC while they’re at it, they’ve also launched a new app. Drive Tribe is a new self-described ‘digital hub’ for motoring enthusiasts which went online in November. Now you can access the website and its offers and content by downloading the app from Google Play.

The app is a deceptively simply ideas that makes you wonder why hasn’t anyone thought of it before. Based on the notion that every motoring lover identifies with a certain tribe, or at least gets a kick out of watching others, it incorporates more than 7,000 different tribes, or motoring communities. With millions of investors with money to play with, Drive Tribe will feature articles, news,

videos and adventures from the world’s top racers, writers, photographers and film-makers. You can join or follow a particular tribe, giving you access to info and news about African street racers, female petrol heads, Volvo connoisseurs or whatever tickles your fancy. Right now content is still being created and the app is at the wonderful nascent stage where things are still free and offers

are being made. But it is filling a huge hole in the market and investors expects hundreds of millions of downloads as it gets properly underway. The project is not run in partnership with Amazon who are backing The Grand Tour and, with an empire now spanning across TV, the internet and the app world, Clarkson, May and Hammond look set to conquer the entire motoring world.

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L’AMAGE: Redefining superyachts.

New generation, new superlatives measure 94 feet wide.

By Matthew Elliott WORDSMITHS will have to come up with superlatives better than ‘super’ to adequately describe the new generation of superyachts destined for picturesque shores across the world in the near future. Superyacht simply doesn’t do justice to L’Amage for example, the proposed new Leviathan from HBD Studios which will span an incredible 623 feet in length and

L’Amage will be able to storm across the seven seas at a speed of 32 knots.” Those are absurd measurements. L’Amage will command a crew of 70 members and ac-

commodate 28 guests. But it’s not the size of L’Amage that makes it stand out from the crowd. The futuristic vessel will be propelled by the kind of technology typically reserved for state-of-the-art naval warships. This means that, despite its immense size, L’Amage will be able to storm across the seven seas at a speed of 32 knots courtesy of a monstrous 95,000hp generated by diesel engines and gas turbines.

Fuel capacity is 1,500 tons allowing L’Amage to travel 6,000 nautical miles before refueling, a pricey affair that will cost its future owner more than £500,000 a session. Despite this unparallelled excellence, L’Amage still pales in comparison to what is believed to be the world’s largest superyacht. Superyacht A, owned by Russian billionaire Andrey Melnichenko is twice the size at 468 feet and boasts masts nearly 300 feet high.

Revolutionising the sailing world FORGET autonomous cars, the real advances in artificial intelligence are being pioneered aboard the new generation of superyachts. After all there’s a reason they called AI’s predecessor cruise control. Today’s autonomous sailing is seeing remarkable breakthroughs on an almost weekly basis. With new sensor technology, weather forecasting systems, wave radar and propulsion systems the era of captains and crew could well be coming to an end. One design unveiled at the Monaco Yacht Show earlier this year even includes a drone which can fit two people inside while they zip along beside the superyacht.

Another design includes a tetrahedron-shaped water plane that can levitate above the deck and fly unpiloted for miles, scanning the horizons for threats and opportunities. In this brave new world of auto-sailing the question is who is responsible for the yacht? There are different visions of what future captaincy might entail. One possibility is that a captain might be on land controlling the vessel via remote control. Alternatively the boating world might go full automaton with an onboard computer captain calling the shots. Whatever the future holds, it seems certain that hardcore sailors will resist the trend. After all, where’s the adventure?

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BOAT WORKS: Has meditative qualities if you do it right.

Meditative process of boat restoration ONE of the best things about boats is the me dita tive proc e s s of fixing the m up properly. Giving your car a good wash is a fine experience to be sure but, out by the ope n s e a w ith nothing but na ture a nd some heavy duty gloves it’s a different ball game altogether. That said it’s still important to get the job done properly. If you’ve got a bit of time on your hands and feel like embarking on a restoration project follow these common sense tips. Once the boat is clean and stripped to the bare bones, check for rotting wood.

You might find rot on the deck floor, and under seats. Replace with proper plywood if you can. Make sure there’s no cracks in fibreglass and ensure that hull fittings are properly sealed. Needless to say you should get rid of all organic waste. That’s water, leaves, insects or whatever else you c ome a c r oss. Cover t he boat pr oper l y when you’re not working. Look online for new tutorials and information. Remember it’s a sentimental project, not a race to the finish line. Take your time and enjoy the moment.

IF you know someone who loves their boats, or are looking to rewarding yourself with a seafaring gift this Christmas there’s a spectacular range of possibilities to consider. Those feeling flush can’t go wrong with a chronometer watch, a precision timepiece normally manufactured in Switzerland. With the advent of atomic clocks, chronometer watches aren’t the gold standard for precision time-keeping anymore but they still command respect. For the more budget conscious (and less flashy) a good pair of boat shoes are the perfect gift. Providing comfort and a firm grip on deck they are sophisticated enough to wear to evening do’s at the marina. Nautical clothing, including strong storm-proof rain jackets will always come in handy, and there’s no shortage of styles and colours to choose from. Look out for hoods, reflective patches and interior lining. Last but not least, you can’t go wrong with a quality bottle of whisky for the colder nights, or rum for that Havana summer vibe.

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Rosberg retires, Chelsea on a high and Aussies crushed 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. Costa de Almeria

ONCE again we have seen some terrific sporting action involving the round ball, the oval ball and several small hard b a l l s… a n d t h e re is plenty more to come. FOOTBALL Chelsea still lead the PL after last weekend’s excellent 3-1 away win at Manchester City (their eighth on the trot). City finished with nine men! Alexis Sanchez scored a hat-trick in Arsenal 5-1 win over West Ham; Crystal Palace won at las t , b e a t i n g Southampton 3-0; Liverpool lost 4-3 in a th r i l l e r a t Bournemouth; Tottenham whipped hapless Swansea 5-0 (the Welsh club never had a shot on goal, Spurs had 26); Stoke beat Burnley 2-0; Sunderland defeated champions and now relegation-threatened L e i c e st e r 2 - 1 ; Manchester United drew 1-1 at E v e r t o n a n d WBA knocked over 10-man Watford 31.

M id d le s b ro u g h p laye d Hull on Monday. In last Friday’s Championship game, Nottingham Forest missed two penalties and Newcastle had two players sent-off as the East Midland club won 2-1. Twenty-four hours later there were wins for Barnsley (3-0 at Birmingham), Bristol City (2-0 v Ipswich), Burton Albion (2-1 v bottom club Rotherham), Derby (1-0 at Wigan), Fulham (5-0 over Reading), Leeds (2-0 v Aston Villa), Norwich (5-0 v Brentford) and Sheffield Wednesday (2-1 v Preston). In the second round of the FA C u p , n o n -L e a g u e s i d e s

Barrow and Sutton United k’od Bristol Rovers and Cheltenham respectively; Luton came back from 2-0 dow n to be a t Solihull Moors 6-2 and Macclesfield held Oxford; La s t night a nd tonight there has been Champions League action involving Ars e na l, B a rc e lona , C e ltic , Leicester, Manchester City and Real Madrid (and others) while this evening M a nc he s te r U nite d a nd Southa mpton pla y in the Europa League. It was Barcelona 1 Real Madrid 1 in last Saturday’s El Clasico. Real are now six points clear of Barca (3428) a t the top of La Liga w ith Se villa (be a te n by Granada) third. Top PL games c oming up: ArsenalStoke a nd LeicesterManchester City (Saturda y) follow e d by ChelseaWBA, LiverpoolWe s t Ha m a nd M a nchester United-

Spurs (Sunday). The FA has said that ‘No club will be immune from punis hme nt in the c hild a bus e s c a nda l.’ So fa r a round 400 pla ye rs ha ve come forward stating they were ‘abused’ as youngsters, and now 18 UK police forces are carrying out their investigations. Gareth Southgate is officially England’s new head c oa c h… a ppointe d on a four-year contract worth £6 million. Robbie Neilson is MK Dons’ new manager while Martin Allen has quit Barne t to ta ke ove r a t Ea s tleigh. Crystal Palace defender Pape Souare (26) fears his career may be over after fracturing his jaw and thigh bone in a c a r crash. CRICKET The fourth Test be tw e e n India a nd Engla nd is unde rw a y in M umba i. K e a ton J e nnings , who recently scored 101 not out for England Lions in Dubai, is ma king his Te s t de -

but . The host s cur r ent l y lead the five-match series 20 with one game drawn. RUGBY UNION Last Sat ur day, Eddi e Jones’s in-form England t eam ( wi t h Ben Youngs ‘Man of the Match’) whipped Australia 37-21 to stretch their winning run to 14 matches… thus equalling t he r ecor d set when t hey won t he Wor l d Cup wi t h Martin Johnson and Jonny Wilkinson etc in 2003. Saracens are still top of the Aviva Premiership, with Bath, Wasps, Leicester and Exeter chasing them hard. ROUND-UP 2016 World F1 cham-

pion Nico Rosberg (31) has surprisingly retired from motor racing. So who will be Lewis Hamilton’s Mercedes partner next year? Usain Bolt has been voted the IAFF World athlete of the year for a record sixth time. Cristiano Ronaldo has donated €3m into the fund for the Brazilian footballers and other passengers involved i n t he f at al ai r cr ash i n Colombia. World number tennis star Andy Murray is 1-7 favourite to win this year’s ‘BBC Sports Personality of the Year ’ award. Gymnast Max Whitlock is 66-1. Sir Bradley Wiggins could ride again next year after being named in GB’s Cycle Track Team for 2017. World number one Mark Selby defeated Ronnie O’Sullivan 10-7 in last Sunday’s UK Snooker Championshi p f i nal at Yor k’s Barbican. Tiger Woods (40) is back on t r ack af t er t hr ee good rounds in golf ’s Heroes World Challenge in the Bahamas. Hideki Matsuyama, ranked 898th in the world, won the competition. And some sad news Seve Ballesteros’ former caddie, Pedro Ramseyer (60), a frequent visitor to Turre and Moj acar, has di ed whi l e engaged i n the Alfred Dunhill Championshi p i n S o u t h Africa.

NICO ROSBERG: Has retired from motor racing.

DID YOU KNOW? Of the original 12 members of the Football League, only four are still playing on the same ground they were using back in 1888… they are Blackburn Rovers (Ewood Park), Burnley (Turf Moor), Notts County (Meadow Lane) and Preston North End (Deepdale).

CHELSEA: Still lead the Premier League.

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A round up of all the rugby news The Biggest Scrum in Spain Around 800 players, youngsters and supporters turned out in Germans Escala to join the biggest scrum in Spain in support of the petition to construct a dedicated rugby pitch in Palma. Many players from clubs on the island joined in and organisers were very pleased with the turnout which exceeded expectations. Before the scrum took place, players enjoyed various training sessions and touch rugby games for the younger teams. Senior League The final score of 44 points to 0 in the match between El Toro RC and Bahia RC was certainly not indicative of the tough game that took place in autumnal, late afternoon sunshine in Son Caliu on Saturday. The hosts came out blazing from the beginning and within a few minutes had earned themselves a penalty kick, taken by Agustin Di Santo who found the centre of the posts from a distance. Bahia RC retaliated and the play moved from one end of the pitch to the other until Alex Pages took advantage of a gap in Bahia RC defence and dashed through to score the first try. There was some hard tackling from both teams and it wasn’t easy to reach the tryline thanks to good defensive action. By half time El Toro RC were 17 points up thanks to two tries and two conversions from Ro Doiztua added to the penalty kick. El Toro RC continued in the same vein

The extra large ball used in the scrum. for the second half although Bahia RC worked hard to prevent the opposition from scoring with some aggressive play and tough tackling. A total of seven tries for El Toro RC gives them a bonus point for scoring more than four tries and goes some way to restoring their confidence after the last minute defeat in their last match. In other Senior League matches RC Ponent beat Shamrock RFC in Son Roca by 46 points to 5 after another improved effort by the hosts.

A TOUGH GAME: El Toro RC double action against Bahia RC. Girls League The girls congregated in S’Arraco on Sunday for their next league match. El Toro RC were on good form and, reinforced with Bahia RC players, came out on top after beating Shamsaris, the combined Shamrock RC and Corsaris team. Selected for a Spanish U18 Training session Luca Nelles joins the list of Balearic players who have been selected to join a Spanish training

session with the possibility of representing Spain at U18 international level. He is currently in his third year with the CTEIB, the Sports academy based in Principes de España. Coming Up Next Weekend Senior League matches next weekend; Shamrock RC host Ibiza RFC in Son Ximelis, Son Roca, kick off at 11.00. The U14 players are headed for a training session in Son Caliu.