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16 - 22 February 2017 / Costa Blanca North
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Try to find the lighter side to life Photographs for possible publication should be sent by email with a full caption to: photonews@euroweeklynews.com COPYRIGHT Ekaphon Maneechot
I DON’T usually write to papers but I’d just like to say how much I enjoyed the amusing articles by Nora Johnson (especially on Blair and weight problems) in recent copies of the paper. The first thing I turn to - followed by the local news pages that regularly provide useful information. Great to read topical, controversial subjects handled with humour. These days, there’s nothing wrong in trying to find the lighter side to life. Much needed I might add in these trying times. Keep up the good work! M D, Fuengirola
READING about the battles of little Leo Bermejo with such a devastating cancer makes you put a lot into perspective. This youngster is fighting for his life and the fact is, we can all help. I was so pleased for the family when I read they had hit their target. He deserves the chance of a life after such a rocky start. I only hope he can regain his speech. It sounds like Oklahoma know what they’re doing. I, for one, will be praying the day that brave little boy gets his treatment. To think I might have done just the tiniest bit to help him is frankly a lovely feeling!! Ann, Benidorm
Lost jacket A FEW weeks ago I went walking in the mountains around Nerja. I got back to the car after a wonderful 15 mile hike only to find that my jacket had fallen out of my rucksack. This was a disaster for me as I suffer from a medical condition where my body is not able to regulate temperature properly. The following weekend I went back and covered the whole 15 miles again. I found it caught in a prickly bush! I was overjoyed. Unfortunately, two
Leo the lion hits target MY heart bursts with love towards this anonymous donor. Even though we can't thank you in person I hope you feel the love and gratitude of us all from our hearts to yours. Debbie Dorman
Hunting dogs protests RELIABLE ENERGY: Coal, oil and gas produce electricity regardless of weather conditions.
Little Leo
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Hydrocarbon fuels WE are told that man’s use of hydrocarbon fuels will cause climate catastrophes, with more droughts, heatwaves, bush fires, floods, blizzards, snow storms, typhoons, etc. Why then would governments compound these claimed risks by pushing weather-dependent energy like wind, solar, hydro or tidal power? During heatwaves on sultry summer afternoons, wind power fails when our cold rooms, fridges and air-conditioners need it most. Overheating turbines start bushfires. On cold still winter nights, wind and solar will produce zero power when all the trains, heaters, TV sets and coffee machines are sucking energy.
weeks later I had the same jacket under my arm as I attempted to leave Ikea in Malaga. Nearing the exit, I realised the jacket was no longer under my arm. Has anyone found it? It is black and 100 per cent cotton, no internal lining, with four pockets on the front and another four inside. The chest pockets close with poppers and one is sideways, the other opens at the top. I can’t remember the brand but it did have a small brown stain on the left cuff. It is small, for a 36in/38in chest. So if you see a skinny chap in the Malaga area suddenly sporting a slightly scruffy black
In a gale, turbines switch off to avoid damage; in still air they sit idle; in a snow storm they consume power to prevent icing up; and in a tsunami, offshore wind turbines and tidal generators are destroyed. Solar panels shut down every night; their output varies even when the sun shines; they are blotted out by snow, clouds or dust; and are smashed by hail stones. So if the alarmists are right, and if we are faced with wild weather for any reason, we can’t trust weather-dependent energy. Stick to reliable hydrocarbons coal, oil and gas, and for dire emergencies diesel. They will produce electricity, weather-or-not. V Forbes, Australia
jacket with four external pockets that they were not wearing before, it could be mine! If anyone has it or can get it back, I would be eternally grateful if it could be returned to Ikea. It will restore my faith in human nature. Thank you so much. A Silvie, Torre del Mar
Delicious fruits REGARDING Graeme Tyrrell’s article in the EWN Feb 9 edition, in 2008 my girlfriend soaked a nispero stone
and grew it on blotting paper. It sprouted and we put it in a pot. In 2011, I planted it in the garden. I now have a three metre high tree and last year I had 150 delicious fruits. Roger Page, Mojacar
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PROTESTS on hunting rabbits with greyhounds and this from people who applaud the ritual murder of bulls with spears and swords? When the bull is driven into the arena its grisly end is certain and there is no escape. Harry Paine
EU citizens “WE send the EU £350m. Let’s fund our NHS instead.” Remember that slogan on the Vote Leave bus? Well Boris Johnson, Liam Fox, Iain Duncan Smith, Michael Gove and all the others who campaigned vociferously on that slogan have just voted AGAINST an amendment to do that too - to give the money to the NHS. They ALL went on the telly to talk about £350 million going to the NHS if we just fell in behind them and voted Leave. How do their voters feel, now they have dropped that key Brexit pledge at the first opportunity? Brian Eagleson
Reply from Mike in ESP: I REALLY do despair with many of the people who wanted the UK to remain in the EU. Do we really have to go over what was said before the referendum for some people? Because if we do it will take a lot of words to go over the rubbish and what the remain side put forward... and on the £350m for NHS, if this is what the remainers have to continually bring up as something the NHS was going to get from people who were not the government... is it any wonder those who supported remain appear so confused!
Pensions anger THE concern re pensions expressed by the Anglican clergymen should include the fact that it is possible that UK State pensions in Europe will not only suffer as they are now from the decline in the value of the GB pound, but also these pensions may become frozen never to increase annually with inflation. In particular the UK pensions are frozen in Australia and Canada where hundreds of thousands of UK expats are denied annual increases. Many expats who have retired to these countries are forced to return to the UK leaving their younger families alone back in Canada, etc. It is so un-British and so unfair but it’s government policy which they stick to in order to save a few ‘quid’!! James Tilley
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