Euro Weekly News - Costa del Sol 22 - 28 February 2018 Issue 1703

ISSUE NO. 1703

22 - 28 February 2018

COSTA DEL SOL

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Brit drug lord held Hash stash ‘worth tens of millions’ seized

by Matt Ford A 61-year-old British expatriate has been held on suspicion o f h e a d i n g a d ru g smuggling plot on the Costa del Sol. It comes after investigators revealed that he was planning to use a bogus export firm to send almost 10 tonnes of hashish stashed in domestic freezers from Spain to North Africa.

The drugs - worth tens of millions of Euros - were reportedly set to be distributed around the Middle East after arriving in Libyan capital Tripoli.

PALMONES RAID: The drugs were being packed into chest freezers (inset left), with almost 10 tonnes seized (inset right).

Five other men, including two Moroccans and three

Spaniards, are also being quizzed by detectives.

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All white for some THE Costa del Sol is gearing up for a public holiday.

Most shops and other businesses will be closed as the region celebrates Andalucia Day next Wednesday, while Spanish schools will be shut for the annual White Week (Semana Blanca), which runs from Monday to Friday.

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NEWS EXTRA Living the high life THOUSANDS of hoteliers from across Spain will flock to the Costa del Sol after Malaga was chosen to host the biannual National Hotels Congress the most important event of its type in the country - from May 31 to June 1.

Car smash SEVEN people were hurt when a car careered into a bus in Malaga City centre, with an 84-year-old man hospitalised, after the vehicles collided at a roundabout on Calle Armengual de la Mota.

Oil gone INVESTIGATORS have recovered 500 kilos of olives stolen from farms in the vicinity of Antequera, with a man and a child held in the village of Mollina on suspicion of selling the loot on to third parties.

A BRITISH expatriate woman who was raped, robbed and beaten after a night out on the Costa del Sol helped police track down her attacker after she found selfies he took on her stolen mobile phone.

After buying a new handset in the wake of her ordeal, images of a 22-year-old man posing with his friends appeared when she synchronised the device with Google Drive.

It comes after the victim, 23, was attacked while walking alone in the La Nogalera neighbourhood of central Torremolinos, having earlier enjoyed after work drinks with two friends.

She was approached by a ‘young man’ who punched her hard in the face, knocking her out, according to a police statement.

And when she came around she was naked from the waist down.

Her assailant was in the process of violating her and hit her repeatedly as she screamed at him to stop, but he gripped her hair tightly and threatened to kill her.

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Sex attacker caged Culprit took selfies on expat victim’s phone clothes intact and asked a pedestrian for help.

But he mistook her for a drunk reveller, while no-one answered when she knocked on a friend’s door.

Disorientated, she ran through the town centre, even crossing paths with the suspect again, before stumbling into a nearby health clinic.

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RAPED, ROBBED AND BEATEN: The sickening attack took place in the La Nogalera neighbourhood in central Torremolinos.

Detectives found ‘biological remains,’ one of the victim’s earrings and a few coins at the scene of the attack, but the clothes had been cleared away by dustbin men and could not be recovered.

Two witnesses said they had heard her calling for help, and one described seeing a man

punching a woman in a doorway.

The alleged culprit is a 22year-old squatter with six previous arrests to his name, including two for sexual assault.

He has been charged with rape and violent robbery and remanded in custody as investigators continue to probe the case.

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New facility for migrants THE Spanish government has revealed that it is to fund the installation of prefabricated ‘modules’ near the fish market in Malaga Port, to allow Red Cross workers better facilities to deal with the relentless stream of asylum seekers trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea from Africa to Spain.

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THREE tobacco smugglers carrying 6,757 packets of black market cigarettes have been held at Malaga Airport. The Egyptian and Syrian trio reportedly bought the contraband in Egypt and flew to the Costa del Sol via Athens and Rome after hiding it in nine suitcases.

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Something fishy THE Spanish senate has urged the national government to approve an application for the ‘espeto,’ the classic sardine skewer that has become an emblem of the Costa del Sol, to be listed as an item of Intangible Cultural Heritage by UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation.

Pusher men TWO men have been arrested in the Los Bo l i c h e s n e i g h bo u rh o o d o f Fuengirola after being caught in the act of selling drugs to a child. The pair were carrying €700 in cash and has his h , c a n n a b i s b u d s , mag ic mushrooms and a precision scale were seized during a raid on one of their homes.

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MARBELLA City Hall has sparked fresh outrage after announcing it is to privatise more services, adding the clearing of public spaces to a raft of contracts worth €50 million agreed by the conservative Popular Party came back into power at the end of last summer.

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IN THE PINK: Snow blankets the Sierra Nevada mountains in Granada as almond trees burst into flower on the lower slopes.

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Pets A MAGICAL display is taking place in the hills and mountains of Mediterranean Spain.

For a few weeks in January and February hundreds of thousands of almond trees erupt into blossom, with the countryside briefly transformed into a spectacular fairytale landscape of delicate pink and white hues.

Grown mostly in Andalucia, Aragon, Cataluña, Valencia, Murcia,

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and the Balearic Islands, almonds form an important part of the local diet, being used to prepare everything from soups and sauces to cakes, pastries, marzipan and nougat.

Almonds form part of the Prunus ‘stone fruit’ genus along with plums, cherries, peaches, nectarines and apricots.

Native to the Middle East and Northern Africa, the trees were domes-

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ticated around 3,000 BC and brought to Spain by the Moors.

And the country is now the world’s second-largest producer of almonds after the United States.

More than 100 varieties are currently grown, but only five are produced on a commercial scale, with the marcona form - known as the queen of almonds - widely considered to be the best quality in the world.

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TOP A Harramacho looks on and (inset) revellers gather in the village square.

IT is an ancient festival of unknown origin.

Taking place in the hamlet of Navalacruz in the foothills of the Sierra de Gredos mountains, Avila, the Los Harramachos ritual is thought to be a preRoman call to protect livestock and children and boost fertility at the onset of spring.

During the event revellers dress in fearsomelooking costumes made from sacking, animal skins and natural materials, concealing their faces with animalistic masks.

And a number of different characters are involved in the annual celebration, which took place last Saturday.

The Harramachos themselves are brash, masked individuals with a frightening appearance, although they do not participate in the ritual itself.

The Heifer is the incarnation of evil and wears a set of cow antlers and a bell at the waist, with three black crosses painted on his face.

He chases women and lifts their skirts with his horns, before fighting and ‘dying’ in the village square.

El Vaquero carries chorizo, wine and bread, and traditionally rewarded children who rang small bells.

The mayor is the highest-ranking of the Fifths boys who turned 18 during the previous year and can be recognised by his black cloak and long stick that is used to leap the Chico River several times at a point of his choosing during a key part of the ceremony.

He temporarily becomes mayor of the village during the festival.

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Strictly on beach duty

IN THE PINK: The stunner recently made the CBB final.

SHE recently finished fourth on Celebrity Big Brother after splitting from rugby player fiancé Denny Solomona.

And former Ex On The Beach star Jess Impiazzi, 28, certainly appeared to be living life to the full after hitting the beach at an unknown location in Spain.

The London-born beauty left little to the imagination after slipping into a barely-there swimsuit for a racy frolic in the shallows.

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AFTER months of speculation they finally confirmed their romance on Valentine’s Day. And Spanish dancer Gorka Marquez, 27, and actress Gemma Atkinson, 33, are clearly head a Marquez/Instagram Gork over heels after the pair posted a series of snaps after jetting to Tenerife for a blast of winter sun.

The loved-up couple were pictured enjoying a tanning session on the beach, with Gemma sporting a skimpy bikini and Gorka showcasing his :G rippling torso, after earlier em ma uploading a video of themselves and Gorka. arm wrestling.

Although they had previously denied any romantic link, Gemma let the cat out of the bag on Valentine’s Day as she posted a picture of them sat on a rock together with her head resting on his shoulder.

She captioned the shot: ‘Here’s to many more kid. Happy Valentine’s Day @gorka_marquez.’

Their idyllic getaway came afCIRCLED: From L-R, culprits ter the pair wrapped up the Strictly Livermore, Barry, Evans and Come Dancing live tour.

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Bad Baggies off hook over taxi raid THE West Bromwich Albion players who allegedly stole a taxi from a Barcelona McDonald’s have been let off

by Spanish police.

Jonny Evans, 30, Gareth Barry, 36, Jake Livermore, 28 and Boaz Myhill, 35, were expected to face community service or a fine, but a court in the Catalan capital shelved the case due to ‘a lack of proof.’

The quartet reportedly broke a midnight curfew and returned drunk at 6am, leaving a set of taxi keys at reception before heading to bed. They were quizzed at a Local Police station and later released an apologetic statement via the club.

They had been staying in Cataluña for three days warm weather training ahead of an FA Cup fifth round game at home to Southampton, which they lost 2-1.

Celeb focus Life’s a peach!

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Y BUM TIME: SHE’S never Cha nte lle shows off been shy of her new cur ves. flaunting her surgically-enhanced assets on social media. And exGeordie Shore star Chantelle Connelly had even more to display after slipping into an orange thong to display the result of her new bum implants.

The 27-year-old jetted to Marbella on the Costa del Sol for the surgery, and captioned the saucy snap with a series of peach emojis.

Dancing on ice HE’S the Oscar-winning Spanish actor who married fellow star Penelope Cruz.

And dad-of-two Javier Bardem, 48, has revealed that his next film project will be to provide a voice-over commentary for upcoming environmental flick Sanctuary.

The project aims to draw attention to the plight of the Antarctic and create the world’s largest nature reserve.

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British drugs kingpin caged

NATIONAL POLICE have dismantled an operation which involved the trading of drugs for stolen items in Marbella and seized heroin, cocaine, more than €250 in cash and nine knives, as well as arresting two people.

The unnamed British man was arrested in Estepona and is believed to be the mastermind behind the ploy.

Detectives in Fuengirola received an initial tip-off that a drugs gang was operating in the area, and a probe led them to the alleged leader, who recently travelled from the UK to Spain to set up an export company which he intended to use as a front.

They also discovered that he had bought an industrial packing machine from China, which he had shipped to Algeciras in Cadiz before transferring it to a rented industrial unit in Palmones, Los Barrios.

He and an accomplice then drove to Campillos, an hour and a half inland from Malaga, where they bought 150 ‘domestic appliances.’

These were sent from Algeciras to Tripoli inside a container in what investigators believe to have been a trial run to test security ahead of the huge drugs shipment.

Officers were able to identify several Moroccan gang members responsible for buying the drugs during this phase of the enquiry.

The gang then purchased a shipment of chest freezers which were delivered to the same Palmones address.

And as pol i ce swooped on t he premises they caught two of the alleged smugglers packing hashish into the appliances before seizing 9,588 kilos of the cannabis resin.

The British suspect has reportedly been remanded in custody ahead of a court appearance.

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Bottle job A 48-YEAR-OLD who allegedly threatened a salesperson with a broken bottle and robbed her while she was closing a shop in Malaga City has been arrested by Local Police.

Water idea WATER company Acosol has confirmed it will provide a boat service to clean the coastal waters of the Costa del Sol for the second year running, with a total of 13 vessels to be used.

About time MARBELLA Council has demanded that the Junta de Andalucia regional government keeps its word and completes the expansion of the Costa del Sol Hospital, with the project hanging in the air for the last seven years.

FLY BY NIGHTS: The gang were using ex-Serbian military aircraft to fly drugs into Spain.

Chopper gang and drug clan held

Hel of a haul The second helicopter was intercepted after it was spotted flying very low and without lights before landing on a private property in Cabezas de San Juan, Sevilla.

Three people were held but no drugs were found, with evidence suggesting that the trio ditched their cargo after realising that they were being trailed.

A search of a nearby building revealed a lorry used to transport the helicopter plus instruments used to carry out night flights, and the bust lead to further raids on four homes plus an industrial unit in Osuna, Sevilla.

Elsewhere in Ronda, four family members The amount paid by a hospital in aged between 20 and 37 were held for growMadrid to the family of a woman who ing and selling cannabis plus illegally tapdied of ovarian cancer that they failed ping into the municipal electric supply. to spot despite several operations.

A MAJOR police sting has toppled a gang who transported drugs from Morocco to Spain in two ex-Serbian military helicopters.

Investigators swooped to arrest 18 people in Malaga and Sevilla provinces, with the leader of the crime ring held alongside two pilots.

A probe was launched after one of the aircraft was found hidden on a farm in the Ronda mountains.

But after detectives seized the vehicle, the gang imported a replacement without submitting the relevant documentation.

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NEWS EXTRA Silver service MAR B E L L A C o u n cil has revealed that advertising f o r t h e r e c e n t Davis Cup tennis tie between Sp a i n a n d Gr e a t Britain raked in around €12 million for the city, with h o t e l o c c u p a n cy higher than average for the time of year.

Lidl bit more GERMAN discount supermarket chain Lidl is to plough €12 million into a huge new, two-storey supermarket in the Las Lagunas neighbourhood, Mijas, creating an estimated 50 jobs.

Cell shock A MEXICAN prisoner, 25, facing an 18-year prison sentence for kidnapping and raping a women in Malaga City committed suicide in Alhaurin de la Torre prison, shortly after being told the date of his trial.

Fire drama FIREFIGHTERS saved six people after a fire broke out in their third floor shared flat in San Luis de Sabinillas, Manilva, with the property so badly damaged that they will be unable to return to live there.

Braking bad FOUR men have been handed three-year prison sentences after badly beating a pedestrian who told them that the brakes on a car they were driving through Estepona ‘sounded bad.’

€230m boost THE Junta de Andalucia regional government has thrown its weight behind construction of a giant new hospital in Malaga City, with the €230 million project set to be complete by 2024.

A REVELLER who hurt himself while at a swingers’ party with his wife is to be paid more than €12,500 in damages.

The victim had only been at the saucy event for half-an-hour when he ‘stumbled or slipped’ and plummeted down a flight of stairs, breaking his right leg.

He blamed the fall on ‘poor lighting’ at the venue, a ‘voyeur’s paradise’ adults-only hotel in Malaga City centre, after spending a week in hospital in the wake of the accident.

In full swing The couple had reportedly been skinny dipping in the pool before the man tripped as they headed towards a group sex playroom during the partner-swapping soiree.

In court the hotel’s insurance company argued that the swimming pool, bar

and staircase in the area where he fell were ‘in perfect condition,’ with floor lighting indicating the location and height of the four steps.

According to the defending lawyer the plaintiff “was in the pool and after consuming several mixed drinks slipped on

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one of the steps by mistake, or perhaps he did not dry his feet.”

Party organisers claimed the couple had been at the bash ‘for a couple of hours,’ and the lighting was low ‘because of the type of party it was, creating an intimate atmosphere and because some people walk around naked.’

But a witness said that the floor lighting was not switched on and that ‘the only light was provided by candles,’ leading the judge to award the victim €12,565.

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From Russia with love A RUSSIAN Costa del Sol football club owner has been freed after his family paid €750,000.

Marbella FC chief and multibillionaire Alexander Grinberg was jailed in September over suspected ties with the Russian mafia as more than 100 police officers swooped to arrest 11 people.

The club was among three local businesses - including Aguas Sierra de Mijas and Dame de Noche golf club - implicated in a €30 million money laundering plot involving two rival gangs who are also accused of drug smuggling and human trafficking.

During a pre-arranged press conference, Grinberg said: “I have many feelings and words of thanks for our wonderful fans and citizens, the club employees, the players and coaching staff.

“I’m very grateful to the whole team… I have always valued working people and people have shown their love for the club and me during this difficult period.”

He went on to add that he has “never, ever in my life, neither in

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Freed club owner thanks supporters

JAIL TO BAIL: The stadium in the wake of police raids and (inset) Alexander Grinberg speaks to the press after his release.

Russia nor here in Spain, broken the law,” and reiterated that he has

no plans to sell the club.

“We have not beaten

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Barcelona yet, so I will continue to work and manage here.”

His release follows that of businessman Arnold Arnoldovich Spivalovsky, also known as Arnold Tamm, who recently paid his own bail fee.

Tamm is allegedly among the top brass of the Solntsevskaya mafia clan and has close links to kingpin Semion Mogilevich, one of the world’s most wanted men.

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OUR VIEW Wildlife trade pledge smacks of tokenism SPAIN has announced it is to tackle the illegal wildlife trade.

It is the country’s first crack at confronting the issue, and comes after a gang of monkey traffickers were recently caged by Guardia Civil investigators.

Animal rights campaigners will be overjoyed at the news the country long-known as the gateway to Europe for poachers operating in Africa and the Americas is finally acting to address the problem. But will the government’s measures make a difference?

The official plan speaks of increases in funds for awareness campaigns and the provision of alternative livelihoods for communities involved in poaching, but crucially, it does not have a specific budget.

Wildlife trafficking is among the most profitable criminal activities in the world, worth hundreds of millions of Euros per year.

Demand is unlikely to be stemmed by an educational crusade, while it will surely be difficult if not impossible to convince local people profiting from the trade that they should seek new employment. Conservation biologists say that in reality, Spain will need to spend millions to make even a small change.

And based on previous pledges by a Spanish government which has a long history off flouting or simply ignoring environmental laws, the level of investment is likely to be lacking.

While this week’s announcement has been widely cheered by animal lovers, including many readers of the Euro Weekly News website, time will tell whether it is simply a token gesture.

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FUN IN THE SUN: Players cycled to training at the Marbella Football Centre.

Winter warmer Reds relish sun-soaked break HIGH-FLYING Premier League side Liverpool have enjoyed a short break in Marbella.

The Merseysiders found themselves with a 10-day break following the return of the FA Cup after they were knocked out 3-2 by the Pre mie r Le a gue ’s bot t om si de West Brom in the last round.

As a result, Jurgen Klopp jetted his side to the Costa del Sol for some warm weather training.

The side, who flew in straight after their Champions League fixture against Porto, undertook a number of activities during their stay in Marbella, which included trav-

elling to and from training at the Marbella Football Centre on bikes.

During their stay, they were also treated to a first class buffet at their resort and seemed relaxed as they enjoyed their break in the sun, while Jurgen Klopp was also spotted visiting popular restaurant/bar La Sala in Puerto Banus.

Liverpool have hit a rich vein of form in recent weeks, thrashing Porto 5-0 in the Champions League and sit just two points behind second-placed Manchester United in the Premier League.

They return to Premier League action on Saturday as they host West Ham at Anfield.

Drought doubt A DROUGHT decree drawn up by the Junta de Andalucia regional government to ensure that effects on the region’s water supply are as small as possible will include some ‘mini transfers.’

The plans, which are awaiting approval, include measures to take existing water in the interior of Andalucia and redirect it towards farms in areas likely to be the worst affected.

Jose Fiscal, the Junta’s Environment minister, said drought management strategies had improved in the region which no longer needs water restrictions in its major cities.

These were reportedly common around 20 years ago.

Rail link for new centre A COMMERICAL and leisure park planned for Torremolinos could have rail links similar to those created by a British firm at a centre in Zaragoza.

Intu, the company behind the proposed park, have floated the idea of using electric trains to transport visitors to and from it.

The firm believe Torremolinos’ existing road network will not be able to cater for the rise in road traffic after it is finished.

The rail link, if it is built, will be like that at the British-built Puerto Venecia shopping centre in Zaragoza.

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Joy for rural homeowners

Rental shakedown

JUST THE TICKET: Properties in rural locations such as Ojen can now apply for holiday rental licences.

by Nicole Erlich BLINK, and you may have missed a change in the Andalucia holiday rental licence law that could have a big impact.

It is little more than two years since the introduction of the landmark holiday rental licence in Andalucia.

In that time, more than 26,000 properties have successfully been granted a holiday rental licence, according to the Department of Tourism.

But last week a small change to the law came into effect.

Tacked on the end of a government-issued decree regarding camping and campsites (Decreto 28/2018), under Article 40 - the very last section of the decree the government issued a modification to the requirements relating to holiday rental properties, and specifically those inland.

The amendment to the law

applies to properties located in the municipal area of a town or village with less than 20,000 inhabitants, allowing them to register for a holiday rental licence.

Previously, such properties would have had to comply with the regulations regarding rural holiday rental properties (Decreto 20/2002).

Homeowners, in rural locations, who previously did not meet the legal requirements to obtain either a rural holiday rental licence or a holiday rental licence can now apply for the holiday rental licence.

They can then immediately begin to promote their properties to potential guests and accept booking reservations for rentals.

Website Spain-Holiday.com forecast up to 40 per cent increase in their property portfolio in the region following the change in the law.

The website currently has more than 3,800 fully li-

censed rental properties on offer in Andalucia, including rural properties, that have passed stringent quality and security checks.

Commenting on the change in the law, Francisco Serrano, holiday rental industry analyst at SpainH o l i d a y. c o m s a i d : “ T h i s seemingly minor amendment in the law regarding holiday rental properties in Andalucia is big news.

It allows homeowners everywhere in Andalucia to be able to apply for a holiday rental licence and legally rent out their properties even in rural locations, where properties previously didn’t fall under the remit of the rural holiday rental law or the holiday rental licence law in Andalucia.

“Our previous homeowners who stopped renting out their properties for holiday lets when they could not obtain a licence are delighted with the news.”

Madness on the motorway A CONFUSED elderly driver has gone viral on social media.

It came after a hair-raising video of him driving at speed in the wrong direction on a busy dual carriageway was posted online.

Miraculously traffic, including heavy goods vehicles, travelling head-on towards him managed to dodge him and prevent a major accident.

Police received a number of calls from

alarmed motorists who spotted the lightcoloured van seemingly oblivious to the fact it was on the wrong side of the road.

He was eventually intercepted on the A-381 in Los Barrios, Cadiz, where the puzzled pensioner tested negative for alcohol and drugs.

The terrifying video was shot from a car travelling in the same direction - but on the correct carriageway.

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MALAGA City’s municipal cemetery has revealed plans to construct an €800,000 pet graveyard including the option for owners to have their dogs or cats cremated and a building with space for up to 30 people to attend animal funerals.

About time THE court that prosecuted the Malaya corruption case in Marbella has authorised the sale of 10 watches - worth €57,000 in total value which belonged to the Juan Antonio Roca, the mastermind behind the scheme.

Stall set out FUENGIROLA COUNCIL has agreed to a multimillion Euro revamp of the Mercacentro market provided stall holders agree to accept changes in their conditions, including size and location of their stands.

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Jailed coke kingpin’s smuggle fail

Strapped for cash

By Benjamin Park NOTORIOUS druglord Jose Ramon Prado Bugallo has been caught attempting to smuggle €6,000 into prison.

Better known as ‘Sito Miñanco,’ the 62-year-old was arrested in Algeciras, Cadiz, earlier this month during a series of raids in Linares (Cadiz), Marbella, Sevilla, Madrid, Barcelona and Galicia that saw 36 others also held.

According to reports, the money was found by guards hidden in-between his clothes and personal belongings, including hygiene items, at the Alcala Prison where he is currently being held.

A similar situation occurred in 2001, when Miñanco was also caught attempting to enter prison with money hidden in some of his belongings.

At the time, he allegedly stated that it is ‘fundamental’ to have money during the first part of a

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SNARED: Sito Miñanco was found attempting to smuggle €6,000 into prison in the wake of his latest arrest. prison sentence in order to impose himself and make his status clear to other inmates.

One of Spain’s most infamous drug kingpins, Miñanco has spent most of the last 27 years behind bars for various drug trafficking crimes.

He was granted day release in April 2015 and had been working as a car park security guard, returning to Algeciras prison at night but investigators believed

he continued to head a drugs cartel.

His arrest came after a ship, containing approximately 3.8 tonnes of cocaine worth an estimated €240 million, was intercepted en route to the Canary Islands from Colombia.

Miñanco is now set to face trial which begins on Tuesday, charged with laundering €10 million along with his wife and daughter.

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Child drugs case probed TWO men have been held on suspicion of offering drugs to young girls in exchange for sex.

Police launched a probe following a complaint by the mother of a teenager, who informed detectives that two girls had been admitted to hospital following drug overdoses.

According to reports, the girls, aged 13 and 18, were taken to the Costa del Sol hospital in a serious condition, with one on the verge of a cardiac arrest.

Both tested positive for cocaine, cannabis, benzodiazepines and methadone but were discharged two days later.

After interviewing the youngest girl and her mother, police found that the pair would allegedly buy and use

drugs at a house in Estepona from a man they had met a month before.

Police were able to receive a search warrant for the property, where they found and seized almost a kilo of hashish, plus doses of methadone, trankimazin and a cannabis plant.

As a result, a 41-year-old man was arrested and charged with drug trafficking as well as corruption of people under the age of consent following claims that he would allegedly offer narcotics in exchange for sex.

A second man, aged 32, was also arrested on suspicion of having sexual relations with a girl below the age of consent after he reportedly slept with the youngest girl.

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It’s centric position allows you to overlook the hottest and happening square ‘La Plaza’ on the coast, which attracts outgoing guests throughout the year.

Nobu Marbella menu includes all the mouthwatering signature dishes as Black Cod Miso, Yellowtail Sashimi with Jalapeño and Tiradito, aside plates inspired by Marbella itself.

In addition, Executive Chef Eleni Manouosu has created a special winter Omakase Menu; in translation from Japanese “I’ll leave it up to you” and refers to chef’s selection.

“I have chosen dishes that go well with these slight temperature changes we experience here by the Mediterranean. Salmon Karashi served next to oysters New Style are simple, but delicious with a citrusy dressing, Beef Tenderloin is superb for those cosy Nobu evenings, mixing citrus - based ponzu with spicy wasabi salsa. In addition Black Cod Miso, signature flavour that works for me every time,” comments Eleni.

Nobu Restaurant, the first Nobu opened in Spain, includes also a trendy lounge from where to enjoy Nobu’s signature cocktails, crafted by master Mixologists and sample its extensive sake menu.

Nobu Marbella serves dinner every day from 7.30pm - 1am. Nobu Lounge is open from 7.30pm and during weekends stays open till the late hours…

For reservations please call 952 778 686

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WILDLIFE TRADE: The primates are now safe.

ELEVEN people have been held for the unlawful trade of monkeys in the wake of a year-long Costa del Sol probe.

Five common marmosets and one red-handed tamarin, all from South America, worth an estimated €12,500 were recovered by agents from SEPRONA, the Guardia Civil’s nature protection arm, with help from the Bioparc Fuengirola zoo and a Malaga vet.

Investigators unearthed a series of web sites offering the animals - which are ille-

gal to own - run by individuals using false identities in Sevilla, Granada, Jaen and Alicante.

One of the suspects could also be charged for fraud after offering for sale a pair of non-existent marmosets for €3,000.

Another is a woman who has previous charges for wildlife trafficking and advertises herself as a spiritual medium online.

The animals have been transferred to an exotic animal rescue centre in Alicante.

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NEWS EXTRA €2.2 billion sales boom MALAGA Province registered a new record of almost €2.2 billion in exports during 2017, more than double the total for 2007, as products including olive oil, avocados and mangos continue to attract international demand.

Clean break FAMILY MAN: Fury with Wladimir Klitschko and (inset) his wife and family in Spain.

Fists of fury Tyson hits Costa after comeback claim HE’S the former undisputed world heavyweight boxing champion who has been away from the ring for more than two years.

But Tyson Fury, 29, appeared without a care in the world as he treated his wife and four children to a sunsoaked winter break in Mar-

bella.

The family - including Fury’s wife of nine years Paris plus children Venezuela, seven, Prince John James, five, Prince Tyson Fury II, one, and newborn Valencia - were snapped strolling along the beachfront in the holiday hotspot.

It comes as the self-styled Gypsy King continues his warm weather training on the Costa del Sol ahead of a potential comeback later this year.

The towering Mancunian, who famously relinquished the WBA (Unified), WBO, and IBO world titles he claimed after beating Wladimir Klitschko in Germany, is now free to fight

again after recently accepting a two-year backdated doping ban.

He tested positive for a banned substance in February 2015 but was not charged until June 2016, after he had defeated the now-retired Ukrainian fighter.

And he appears set to target the undefeated IBF and WBA champion Anthony Joshua after recently tweeting: ‘As a sporting challenge I lay down the challenge for @anthonyfjoshua to fight me in my first fight back in over 2.5 years.

‘I’m the best heavyweight on the planet come prove I’m not? The ball is in your court don’t let your fans down CHAMP.’

MORE than 100 municipal cleaners in Marbella have demanded to be given fulltime contracts, with some reportedly forced to work into their 70’s in order to guarantee an income due to their lack of rights.

Safe hands TWO Local Police officers have been hailed after they stopped a suicidal woman from throwing herself out of a third floor flat in Malaga City, arriving to find her sitting in the kitchen window with her legs dangling outside.

Pine tuning A HUNDRED saplings of the endangered Spanish fir tree or pinsapo - found only in southern Spain and northern Morocco - are being planted on a farm in Parauta, near Ronda, in an attempt to establish a new population of the species.

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Footie sex rap A 63-YEAR-OLD youth team football coach has been jailed for nine years for abusing three players on the Costa del Sol. The man earned their trust by promising them a great future as a professional footballer.

The prosecution said he selected the weakest and most vulnerable and promised them a successful future in football, something they would only achieve if they did everything he told them.

He offered the players ‘personalised training’ to turn them into great players. He made the players sign a ‘contract’ where they hired him as a personal trainer and they had to ‘obey, behave with loyalty and honesty’ and keep it secret.

The contract said that if they did not they would have to give the coach €100 million compensation.

The court heard he gave the boys sports clothes and forced them to put them on without underwear.

He also sexually abused the players by touching them with the excuse of doing massages or stretches.

The offences began in 2008 with a 15-year-old boy until 2010.

His second victim was a 14year-old-boy in 2011.

And the last one was a 15-yearold boy in 2013.

The man was convicted of three crimes of sexual abuse.

In addition to the nine years prison sentence he must pay €35,000 to two of the boys.

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by Matt Ford TWO British men charged with the disappearance of a woman from a Costa del Sol nightclub are to stand trial ‘within the next few weeks.’

It comes as lawyer Fernando Scornik Gerstein, prosecuting, reiterated earlier claims that the body of Latvian waitress Agnese Klavina ‘was thrown into the sea, most likely off the coast of Murcia.’

The then-30-year-old vanished on September 6 2014 after leaving a trendy Marbella nightspot with expatriates Westley Capper, 39, and Craig Porter, 35, who could each face 12 years in prison if found guilty of abduction.

CCTV footage shows Ms Klavina being bundled into a car by the pair around 6am, and she has not been seen since.

A doorman from the club will also stand trial after the video revealed that he held the car door closed as she tried to escape.

The men have admitted leaving with her, but Porter claims to have fallen asleep as soon as he got into the car, while Capper said he had left her near her flat in San Pedro de Alcantara before contradicting himself during a reconstruction, leading a judge to describe his statement as ‘improbable.’

But a lack of evidence saw Essex-born Capper, the privately-educated son of a multi-millionaire, and Liverpudlian Porter released from custody. After leaving the Marbella courtroom the men parked their car in a space reserved for disabled drivers as they enjoyed a celebratory drink.

Increasingly convinced that Ms Klavina was dead, investigators swooped on a yacht

MYSTERY: Agnese Klavina was last seen being bundled into a car by Westley Capper (inset left), and a snap taken on the night she vanished (inset right). owned by Capper and moored at the Tomas Maestre marina in La Manga, Mar Menor.

They found that just a few hours after the victim’s disappearance, Capper and ‘several other people’ drove to Murcia to collect the boat before setting sail for Fuengirola, arriving on September 8.

A day later they moored up at La Duquesa in Manilva, and early on September 10, Capper, Porter and two unidentified individuals were captured on video as they dragged a heavy suitcase aboard.

On September 13 Capper and Porter set sail for Ibiza but ended up docking at La Manga after claiming that the vessel’s engine had failed. Then on September 15 they returned to Marbella by car.

In May 2016 - just a month after being charged in the wake of an 18-month probe into Ms Klavina’s disappearance - Capper was involved in a drunken hit-and-run in San Pedro de Alcantara.

Bolivian mother-of-three Fatima Dorada, 40, was killed after the UK-registered Bentley he was driving careered into her.

Capper and Porter - who was also in the vehicle - fled the scene and were held at an Indian restaurant where they had been drinking vodka and tonic. Both men tested positive for alcohol and cocaine, and Capper could receive an additional manslaughter sentence when a trial is scheduled.

He was remanded in custody before being released on bail three months later.

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NEWS EXTRA Multi-million park backing THE Spanish government has announced it is to invest an annual €7-8 million in the Sierra de la Nieves once the 23,000 hectare reserve receives the distinction of National Park later this year.

Shifting sand MARBELLA Council’s environmental department has again demanded that the Junta de Andalucia regional government should expand the Marbella Dunes nature reserve to include the El Pinillo sand dunes due to their ‘ecological value.’

Good sports ALMOST 6,000 Mijas residents who are registered on the town’s civil register may be able to use municipal sports facilities for half price after the council unanimously approved the move.

Centre stage ALHAURIN EL GRANDE is planning to ‘revitalise’ its historic centre via a series of measures, including modern road signs, pedestrianising certain areas and a variety of other improvements.

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MARBELLA’S council has approved a permit for €64.5 million rebuilding of the Don Miguel Hotel which closed in 2004, part of which will be torn down before it reopens as an all-inclusive family resort.

Sound bite PARENTS of pupils at the Palma de Mallorca school in Torremolinos have complained about works taking place on the playground during school hours, with workers cutting down trees after one fell down last year.

Bridge fuss AROUND 3,000 demonstrators took to the streets of Ronda in protest over the partial closure of traffic along the Puente Nuevo for six hours a day between 10am to 1.30pm and 5pm to 8pm.

FRIENDS REUNITED: India was found by police in a cage with two other dogs.

by Joe Gerrard INDIA the dog has been reunited with its owner after National Police investigators arrested a man who allegedly stole it from his neighbour’s farm in Fuengirola.

Officers began their investigation after the owner of the pedigree Weimar, worth €2,000, reported it missing.

The victim said the dog was

very docile and had a lot of sentimental value for his family.

The accused reportedly climbed over the fence of the farm and took the hunting dog from inside before fleeing.

National Police investigating the theft located India 17 days after the alleged theft in January. The dog was found in a cage with two others at another farm in the neighbour-

hood. The other dogs were reportedly podencos (Spanish hunting dogs).

The accused reportedly told police the dog was his property throughout the investigation. He walked it and also took it to the business that he ran while he worked.

India underwent a veterinary examination which showed the dog was suffering from mild ear inflammation.

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Mum held on abuse claim A 17-YEAR-OLD and her 37-year-old mother who allegedly caused injuries to the girl’s two-year-old child have been arrested by National Police.

The 17-year-old’s daughter reportedly suffered four fractures in two weeks when she was admitted to Malaga’s Maternal and Child Hospital.

Medical staff activated the protocol for possible mistreatment and negligence and the two-year-old was taken into her 22-year-old father’s care.

Her mother had claimed her injuries were due to an accident in their home but after she was admitted to hospital several times police decided to arrest the accused.

Pension plot A MAN and a woman who allegedly broke into the home of an elderly man and assaulted him so they could steal his pension money have been remanded in custody.

The couple, aged 49 and 42, knocked on the man’s door and the woman forced her way inside the home in

Estepona after he opened it.

The woman reportedly then began suffocating the man while her accomplice demanded he give them his money.

They fled without the money before the victim was found with his face bruised by a neighbour.

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A COSTA DEL SOL politician has sparked outrage after being accused of using public money to pay for luxury meals and a €2,000 degree.

Margarita El Cid, vicepresident of the conservative Popular Party in Malaga and leader of the Association of Western Costa del Sol Municipalities, allegedly misused funds from 20112014, when she served as party general secretary and was a Torremolinos councillor.

She is blamed for siphoning cash from bank accounts of both her party and the association, some of which was used to pay for a Master’s degree in Public Leadership, Entrepreneurship and

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Corruption storm Innovation from the Deusto private business school in Spanish capital Madrid.

An anonymous letter detailing the infractions was sent to current party general

secretary Maria Dolores de Cospedal last October.

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MISUSED MONEY: The Deusto Business School, Madrid, and (inset) Margarita del Cid.

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vironmental and infrastructure projects, beach safety, and the promotion of tourism.

El Cid is also president of public water company Acosol, which is owned by the association.

But the letter claims that she made personal use of public money by using ‘blank cheques’ to pay for more than €6,000 worth of expensive meals on her days off plus another €7,000 of ‘dubious expenses.’

She is also accused of failing to bank €29,000 intended for ‘sociological services,’ transferring €40,000 from the association to her Popular Party’s provincial account, and signing off invoices worth almost €30,000 for non-approved public opinion surveys.

A party official said in response to the claims: “This party has no evidence to suggest the existence of any unjustified payments, all information related to economic management is available to municipal investigators and the association successfully passed a recent audit of its accounts.”

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AIR SCARE: The flight landed safely at Birmingham airport.

Plane drama A TUI flight from Spain to the UK was diverted after the crew reported a ‘technical issue’ and ‘adverse weather ’ affected its scheduled destination.

Flight TOM6711 from Malaga’s Costa del Sol airport to Bristol eventually landed safely at Birmingham.

It is reported the Boeing 757-200 had an issue with the flaps on the approach to Bristol, which combined with ‘adverse weather’ resulted in the diversion to the Midlands airport where it was met by emergency crews.

If the flaps can’t be deployed correctly the aircraft will land at a much higher

speed than normal.

A spokesperson for TUI UK said: “We would like to apologise for the inconvenience to our customers on flight TOM6711 from Malaga to Bristol, which diverted to Birmingham as a result of a technical issue and adverse weather conditions in Bristol.”

Child porn horror A BELGIAN expatriate has been held at Malaga Airport on suspicion of distributing child pornography.

The 36-year-old was arrested as he returned from a trip to Thailand.

He is accused of distributing lewd images via an instant messaging application, and investigators found a folder containing photographs ‘of a paedophilic nature’ on his smartphone, according to a police statement.

Detectives were alerted after a Malaga resi-

dent last summer complained that he had received graphic material anonymously via the WhatsApp service, followed by a second report from Cadiz.

The source of the images was found to be a handset owned by a man from Brussels living in Marbella. And officers were waiting for the culprit as he returned from South East Asia.

Two laptop computers, a memory card and 18 discs containing image files were seized during a later raid on his home.

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Speed trap warning

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Taxi meter fare fiddle probed

POLICE in Spain have revealed the exact speeds that will activate roadside radar cameras that will snap you if you’re a Speedy Gonzales.

It’s a question that has perplexed drivers for a long time but now the traffic police have posted the information on Twitter to clear up any misunderstanding.

The Guardia Civil has confirmed, on Twitter, that up to

100 km/h, it is allowable to exceed the limit by seven km/h but from 101 km/h, you must add 7 per cent to the actual speed recorded.

Therefore, if the speed limit is 50 km/h, 80 km/h or 100 km/h the radar will trigger at 57 km/h, 87 km/h and 107 km/h.

However, from 101 km/h upwards the leeway is 7 per cent of the actual speed

you’re doing, so if the speed limit is 110 km/h, the devices will be triggered at 117.7 km/h.

And, in the same way, you’ll be fined if you’re caught doing more than 128.4 km/h in a 120 km/h limit.

The Guardia Civil has also used the occasion to remind drivers ‘the road is not a racetrack.’

For the ale of it ON THE TAKE: Meters may have been tampered with.

POLICE in Spain are investigating several taxi drivers who, it is alleged, have fiddled their meters to overcharge their customers.

Local Police officers in Sevilla in Andalucia, southern Spain, have also raided a workshop where it is claimed the electronic system was installed. Pressing a button, the electronic device allowed the taxi driver to manipulate the final price of the passengers’ journeys on the official meter.

The button was located below the gear lever out of sight of the customer. When drivers changed gear they could easily press the button that bumped up the price on the meter.

The city council in Sevilla that licenses the taxis issued a statement saying it believed the fraud only affected a ‘small group.’

A taxi drivers’ spokesman said, “It is not a massive fraud, but confined to a small group.”

IF you’ve been keeping things bottled up and need to escape for a barrel of laughs a new beer spa in Spain might just be what you need.

Spain’s first-ever spa for beer-lovers has opened in Granada and you could find yourself in over your head if you immerse yourself in the frothy liquid.

According to Beer Spa, the benefits are many and claim the beer bath relaxes muscle tension, prevents ageing of skin, reduces stress and helps eliminate toxins

from the body.

The baths of beer contain hot water to which yeast, hops, malt and cinnamon are added and it only takes 20 minutes submerged in the barrel for the ingredients to act on the skin.

As well as the beer baths, you will find body treatments including massages and a barley bed where you can relax on a bed of fresh barley which the skin absorbs.

There are already plans in the pipeline to open other beer spas in Spain.

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L of a plan Revamped driving test to be unveiled NEW drivers taking their test in Spain will have to attend compulsory classes.

It comes as the Spanish government puts the final touches to a raft of traffic law amendments expected to be approved ‘within days,’ according to reports.

Director of the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT), Gregorio Serrano, confirmed that an official announcement is expected shortly.

“It is clear that we must change the way we examine and introduce new material, such as videos, which include real life traffic situations and not just answering a, b or c,” he said while addressing Spanish Congress.

Under the new rules, learner drivers will not be able to sit the theory test

TESTING TIMES: The new rules come into force in May, according to Gregorio Serrano of the DGT (inset). without attending a series of mandatory lessons.

According to the DGT, ‘many’ students show up to take the exam without any preparation, causing test

centres to ‘collapse.’

And some of the new questions will involve writing down solutions to potential traffic issues, rather than picking a traditional multiple

choice answer.

New subjects introduced via the classes will include driving at night and the safe use of satellite navigation, plus risk assessment while at the wheel.

The DGT also plans to unveil a new system of sanctions for drug and alcohol offenders, making it more difficult for them to recover their licences.

More than 193,000 driving tests were cancelled last year in the wake of a slew of strikes by driving instructors locked in an ongoing pay dispute with the DGT. The new rules - including previously announced changes to the ITV technical inspection - are set to be applied from May 20.

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Job market boom Unemployment falls to 2009 levels THE number of people seeking work in Spain stood at almost 3.5 million at the end of January, according to government data.

Spending on unemployment reached more than €17 billion in 2017, the lowest amount since 2007.

The amount of those enrolled with the Public Employment Service was at its lowest level since 2009, around the time the last economic crisis began. The Spanish government spent 44 per cent less on unemployment benefits than it did almost 10 years ago, according to the Ministry of Employment.

Differences in spending were reportedly down in part to the number of people eligible to claim unemployment benefits falling.

Around 58.6 per cent of those out of work received

state subsidies last year compared to 80 per cent in 2009.

The number of those claiming benefits that have had to request additional state help was more than half (56 per cent) in 2017, compared to 30 per cent in 2009. This was reportedly due to those who have been long-term unemployed exhausting their contributory benefits which means they had to request a government subsidy.

People claiming unemployment benefits spend less time receiving payments on average than they have done in previous years, which is another factor in spending being lower.

Claimants spent an average of 15.1 months receiving state help, compared to 15.8 in 2009 and 17.9 in 2013.

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Best Benefit-cheating of the gran avoids jail beaches RIGHT ON: Members from the UN Working Group will visit Spanish cities.

Official business UN visit to probe human rights OFFICIALS from a United Nations body are set to visit Spain to examine the human rights situation of people with African heritage.

The delegation of the Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent plan to visit Madrid, Barcelona, Almeria and Ceuta.

They are set to meet with communities, government representatives, civil society groups and people working on race relations issues during the visit.

Sabelo Gumedze, the head of the Working Group, said he and his colleagues would be assessing the human rights situation of Spain’s Africandescended population.

“We will collect information on any form of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia, afrophobia and related intolerance,” he said.

Gumedze, along with Marie-Evelyne Patrus-Barry and Ricardo Sunga are set to study measures to prevent racism and help protect the victims of it.

They also plan to examine protection, integration and inclusion measures for migrants and refugees.

The group will present its findings to the UN’s Human Rights Council next September. They are also set to promote the International Decade for People of African Descent (2015-2024), a UN initiative to promote African culture and descendants.

A BEACH in Spain has been named as the best in Europe and sixth best in the world beating off stiff competition from Mexico, the Dominican Republic, Portugal and Greece.

The prestigious Travellers’ Choice Beach Awards by TripAdvisor reveal the top 25 beaches in the world, top 10 in Europe and top 10 in the UK. The stunning La Concha beach in San Sebastian, northern Spain takes the top spot for Europe.

While the best in the world is named as Grace Bay in Providenciales in Turks and Caicos in the Caribbean.

The top beach in the UK is in Bournemouth in Dorset which features in 14th place in the Top 25 in the world list.

SWINDLING great-grandmother, Sally Folan, who claimed almost £40,000 in job seeker’s allowance while secretly owning a €120,000 Spanish holiday property has narrowly avoided a jail sentence.

The 63-year-old, from Worthing, rented out her home in Spain while claiming benefits in the UK. Judge Jeremy Gold QC sentenced her to eight months in prison, suspended for two years, at Hove Crown Court and ordered Folan to carry out 100 hours of unpaid community work.

Folan will face another court appearance to make arrangements to pay the money back. She has already started paying £50 a month.

The court heard that, in 2002, Folan and her husband sold their home in the UK and bought the house of their dreams in El Puerto De Mazarron in Murcia, Spain for €120,000.

However, following the 2007 credit crunch, the value of their house plummeted, work dried up for builder Noel and the couple were forced to make ends meet by selling goods at car boot sales.

Eventually, things became so bad that they were forced to return to the UK where Folan put in a claim for job seeker’s allowance benefits - but she kept quiet about the property they owned and rented out in Spain.

Martha Walsh, prosecuting, said that for more than three years from February 2013 Folan fraudulently claimed £39,462.60 before she was found out.

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Justice at last AFTER a decade of agony Helen and Len Prior have finally received a payout for their illegally demolished home.

“Now this is over, we just want to try and recover our lives, we have lost 10 years that no amount of money can ever replace,” Helen said.

It comes as the couple, both in their early 70’s, were paid a settlement of almost €236,000 by Vera Council.

Helen thanked lawyers Victor Martinez and Jose Contreras for their “hard work over the last 10 years,” but pointed out that the payout is “very poor” since it does not even cover the original €350,000 cost of their home.

“The house was legal and demolished for political reasons, we were scapegoats,” she said. “I was awarded €1,500 for ‘moral damages’ and my husband €7,500 for 10 years of suffering, ridiculous.

“In any other EU country the amount would have been much higher,” she added.

The Priors’ story made international headlines after their home was bulldozed over ‘planning irregularities,’ although the couple insist the build was legal after the town hall granted them a municipal construction licence in 2002.

But their two-storey dream villa was pulled down in 2008 and they were forced to live in a garage for four-and-ahalf years, with the demolition order later annulled by the Constitutional Court.

In 2016 they won a court battle entitling them to €425,185 in compensation, but the Andalucian High Court of Justice later ruled that they should re-

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TEN YEAR BATTLE: Helen Prior speaks at a 2016 rally while husband Len (right) looks on and (inset) bulldozers demolish the couple’s villa in 2008. ceive just over half that amount.

They had initially requested €800,000 which included a €200,000 emotional damages claim, but the latter was reduced to less than €10,000.

Gerardo Vazquez, lawyer and spokesperson for the Abusos Urbanisticos Almanzora No (AUAN) campaign group, which has been helping the Priors through their ordeal, said: “As a

spokesperson for AUAN, I am very happy for the Priors.

“I hope that you can at least continue with your lives more peacefully.

“With the good humour that has characterised them during the last 10 years that their struggle has lasted, they have shown great tenacity and resistance and are an example to all of us.

“I give all my love and admiration

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to the Priors.”

And Helen added that at least “our case has helped others.

“We have supported AUAN and fought to change the laws to protect the innocent and those that bought property in good faith.”

Politicians from the local Popular Party have called for a public apology to the Priors via social media.

A BRI TI SH wom an, aged about 60 year s ol d, has di ed af t er a m ul t i - vehi cl e sm ash on the holiday island of Tenerife in Spain’s Canar y I sl ands, according to the regional government.

Three other people wer e i nj ur ed i n t he three-vehicle pileup on the TF-46 in Guia de Isora.

Af t er t he acci dent one vehi cl e caught fire.

Fi r em en r el eased four people who were trapped in two of the cars.

And one wom an died at the scene.

An ai r am bul ance airlifted another with a serious head injury to hospital. A man with ‘moderate head trauma,’ was transferred in a l i f e suppor t am bulance to Hospiten Sur. Anot her per son, with a hip injury, was transferred to the Costa Adeje Hospital by ambulance.

Guard Civil traffic officers are investigati ng t he sequence of event s t hat l ed up t o the fatal crash.

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Diabetes aware THE Diabetic Support Group invites all to its next meeting.

Their Nurse will be there with the usual group, so hopefully you will be able to attend. Remember these meetings are for your benefit.

They also have Angels Nursing Group, who will be organising blood pressure checks. The guest speaker will be Dr King of Oasis Dental Clinic, who will give a talk on dentistry and its importance for diabetics.

They are now in the process of producing a new edition of the ‘Diabetes Aware’ Booklet, and they are looking for sponsorship. Any help you can give for possible sponsors would be greatly appreciated.

The meeting takes place tomorrow (Friday) at Hogar in Calle Paloma, Fuengirola, with coffee at 10.30am for an 11am start.

T H I RT Y m e m b e r s o f t h e Costa Press Club and invited guests attended the a s s o c i a t i o n ’s F e b r u a r y meeting held in Restaurante El Gusto in La Cala de Mijas.

The speaker was Juan Antonio O’Donnell Gallego, honorary chief inspector of the National Police force and former chief of the Press Office in Malaga, who gave an interesting talk about the daily work of Media Relations Officers and the procedure for keeping the media informed about cases considered to be of public interest.

The guest speaker, who has now retired, shared some of his personal experiences and impressions, based on over 40 years of service.

He put the part played

by Communications into context, and explained in detail the sort of work undertaken by press officers, saying that in addition to reporting on current cases, they actively participate in the preventive work done

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POLICE TALK: Juan Antonio O’Donnell Gallego talks to the Costa Press Club.

Private eye Police chief quizzed by Press Club by the police.

The journalists present at the meeting showed par-

ticular interest in the role of social media in present day policing, and in re-

strictions to the publication of images of police officers on active service.

THIS month St Andrew’s Chaplaincy will be celebrating 50 years on the Costa del Sol. They started meeting in people’s houses and the congregation gradually increased until a church was purchased and a part-time priest employed.

They now have worship centres in Calahonda, Benalmadena, Los Boliches and Alhaurin.

They have various activities planned including a special tea party in Reserva el Higueron and a visit from Bishop David on Sunday.

A special concert is to be held in Benalmadena on March 9. In remembrance of Roy Alan who was an exceptional musician and character.

A group of artists will be performing and the proceeds will go to Cudeca and Lux Mundi.

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Hound heroics

PUPPY LOVE: Carlos and pupils loading the food into the ADANA van.

ADANA, the Estepona dog rescue and rehoming charity, is always keen to take its message of responsible care for pets to young people, so the ADANA team was delighted to be able to visit the pupils of the Victor de la Serna School in Estepona to coll e c t a n e n o r mo u s quantity of dog food, blan-

k e ts an d o ld c lo th in g to keep the puppies and young dogs warm on cold nights.

All of this had been collected by the pupils themselves.

ADANA Board member Reg Winkworth and Adminis trato r Ca rlo s D e lg ado went to the school to pick up the van load of donated

ite ms a nd tha nke d the pupils for their kindness to animals in need.

Carlos invited the pupils to visit the ADANA shelter a nd it is hope d tha t the pupils will be able to come a nd s e e how the ir e fforts have helped the charity’s work of caring for dogs in need.

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Triple A Age Concern roundup dog of the week TICKETS are still available for the charity concert in aid of Age Concern, Estepona and Manilva, being arranged by Clarice Williams with her choir The Good Vibrations Singing Sessions on Tuesday March 6.

Clarice is an opera singer with over 20 years of experience. This year Clarice will be part of a 3 Divas tour of south east England, headlining at the OK Pride opening week, singing

in the opera Zanetto by Mascagni in Estepona and singing in a Classical Christmas Tour in early December.

The venue is the Huber Plataforma de Arte which is in Calle San Antonio, Estepona. The concert starts at 7.30pm and will last about one hour with a varied programme.

Tickets are €10 a head. Refreshments will be available, and a raffle will be run.

The group is a mixed ability, multi-

Time for lunch PEPE: Social butterfly.

PEPE was found in Nagueles in 2016. He is a lovely, gentle little dog, who is only 40 cm tall.

Pepe is super sociable with all other dogs and he loves to be with people too. He is very calm when cuddled or caressed and this is why he is part of a

special Triple A therapy programme visiting people in nursing homes.

He brings them great pleasure. He deserves a good home for all his good work. Could you give him one? For more information contact: 952 771 586.

THERE is still time to give us a call and tell us that you are coming to the menu del dia lunch arranged for this Monday at Bar Hermanos Infantes (which is in Avenida Analucia, Estepona next to the new CENYT Dental Centre).

The lunch is to bring volunteers, friends and supporters of Age Concern together over a relaxed meal. The meal starts at 1.30pm prompt. The cost is €9 for friends and volunteers, €11 for all other guests.

Menu choices are to be made on the day from the menu and one drink is included. To let us know that you are coming call the office on 951 318 234 or Tony on 608 458 555.

cultural, multi-genre singing group, which meets in Estepona. The emphasis is on learning to sing in a variety of styles and harmonies in a fun environment, expressing oneself through song and connecting to a lyric.

You can reserve seats in advance by contacting Tony on 654 179 279 or 608 458 555 or by leaving your details on 951 318 234, but it is a small venue so early booking is advised.

Open for business THE Age Concern shop is in Calle Zaragoza, Estepona and is open Monday to Friday from 10am to 1.30pm plus the first Saturday in the month.

The road works in Estepona have now started in Calle Zaragoza, but access to the shop has been maintained.

If you want donations collected, please call 951 318 234 and speak to the Duty Manager.

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Skating success GERMAN figure skaters Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot won the gold for pairs figure skating at the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics - Germany’s first pairs gold since 1952 - and set a new world record in the process.

Green scheme GERMAN cities will allegedly trial free public transport to cut pollution in an effort to meet EU air pollution targets according to a letter written to EU environment commissioner Karmenu Vella by three German ministers.

GOING FOR GOLD: Germany’s Aljona Savchenko and Bruno Massot.

Smoke free FOLLOWING a lawsuit put forw a rd by Cl ean Ai r Neder l and (CAN), the Dutch Court of Appe a l has pl aced a ban on al l smoking rooms in restaurants and bars.

Ducking blame GERMAN rail company Deutsche Bahn allegedly ‘exploited climate change’ by blaming it for cancellations of rail services during recent storms, when they had allowed trees to grow next to the rail tracks, causing the issue.

Tractor trauma A 24-YEAR-OLD woman was killed after being run over by tractor at a carnival parade in the village of Waidhofen, Bavaria, but police say there is no indication that anyone pushed her under its wheel.

Life saving DUTCH law makers have passed a bill which introduces opt-out organ donation, which automatically makes all adults over 18 in the Netherlands organ donors after death, unless they opt out before.

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Record rates

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SWEDEN’S central bank announced the country’s record-low interest rate of 0.50 per cent has been extended again to boost inflation so the price of everyday goods and services, which has remained stagnant in recent years, will go up.

Guilty verdict THE boyfriend of 19-year-old Tova Moberg, whose body was found hidden

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in a lake in Hudiksvall in May last year, has been found guilty of murder and sentenced to life in prison.

while searching trucks crossing the border.

Employer aid

Weeded out CUSTOMS officers in Sweden reportedly seized a record amount of drugs last year, with 400 kilos of marihuana and 2,000 kilos of hash seized, and the biggest finds were reportedly made

SWEDEN is reportedly injecting a further €17million into a programme by the Swedish Agency for Economic and Regional Growth that focuses on matching recently-arrived migrants with jobs that match their specific skill set.

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AMAZON plans to create 2,000 jobs in France this year by adding more workers to its distribution centres and sorting centres, bringing its total number of employees in the country to more than 7,500.

Street appeal A HOMELESS pizza maker in Paris has written an open letter printed in left-wing newspaper Liberation appealing to President Emmanuel Macron to help those living on the streets in France.

Snow tragedy THREE French skiers were found dead in the Cauterets ski resort in south-western France after they were buried by an avalanche while skiing off-piste.

EIGHT per cent of Belgian citizens are allegedly exposed to health risks because of the poor quality of drinking water in certain areas, according to a recent study by the European Commission.

Flower power A TITAN ARUM - the world’s largest plant - is expected to bloom at the Botanic Garden in Meise next week, a phenomenon that last occurred in 2016 and only lasts for around three days.

Tax high REVENUES from Belgian stock exchange tax are believed to be at their highest level since 2000 based on figures from FPS Finance, with investors paying more than €289 million into the Belgian Treasury last year in stock exchange tax.

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POLICE on French motorways are reportedly hunting for ‘good’ drivers to award them with €50 petrol vouchers, by following potential candidates for 15 minutes in unmarked cars.

THE Belgian royal family hit the slopes for their annual ski trip in Verbier, Switzerland as Queen Mathilde, King Philippe and their four children took a break from royal duties.

Asylum seeker THE Ukrainian opposition leader Mikheil Saakashvili has fled to the Netherlands, the home country of his wife, after he was ejected from Ukraine into Poland, allegedly for leading anti-government protests.

Speedy service EUROSTAR will reportedly start the new high-speed train service between London’s St Pancras station and Amsterdam on April 4, which will take three hours and 41 minutes.

LOW-COST airline Norwegian A ir reveal ed t hat r i si ng f uel prices and the cost of opening up new routes and replacing aircraft caused the company to suffer a los s of near l y €31 m i l l i on i n 2017.

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OSLO Council reportedly sets a s ide €5.45 m i l l i on t o cl ear away snow each year and has already found that the winter budget limits for 2018 have been surpassed, having seen twice as much snow as expected.

OVER 100 cases of sexual harassment have been registered at Norwegian colleges and universities, with universities in Tromsø, Bergen and Oslo receiving the highest number of cases.

A 43- YEAR- OLD m an i s believed to have killed his 70-yearold mother with an axe after she was found dead at her home in Bergen.

D ENMARK

Prince passes PRINCE HENRIK OF DENMARK, the husband of Queen Margrethe, has passed away at the age of 83, after being diagnosed with dementia last year and admitted to hospital with a lung infection in January.

Good stuff SUPERMARKETS in Denmark reportedly stock the highest percentage of organic food produce in the world, with more than 10 per cent of the total products fitting the label.

New tradition MORE Danes than ever are now tying the knot at city halls, according to data from Statistics Denmark, with less than a third of marriages now conducted by priests.

Bus bother BUS services could be temporarily cancelled in the Danish town of Næstved after several buses were vandalised by having their windows smashed in, allegedly with a red emergency hammer.

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A SENIOR British naval officer who cost the UK €2.4 million after crashing a nuclear submarine near Spain has pleaded guilty in court.

Commander Justin Codd, 45, was in charge of the €1.2 billion HMS Ambush when it collided with the tanker MV Andreas off Gibraltar.

The submarine was taken out of service for three months after suffering damage to its conning tower.

Commander Codd was leading a training course when the incident occurred, as the group practised observing shipping

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€19m shirt deal for Turkish firm Having been a relatively small sponsor since 2014, Beko now becomes one of the historic club’s most important backers.

A new deal with American sportswear behemoth Nike FC Barcelona’s most important patron - is reportedly set to land the club €100 million per year for shirt sponsorship plus a further €60 million for managing its dedicated stores.

The future is bright SPAIN is set to be the second country to receive French telecommunication giant Orange’s mobile banking service, with a full rollout planned for 2019 after the product dubbed Orange Bank launched in France last November.

Pension pain SPANISH pensioners will lose an average of €350 of purchasing power per month over the course of their retirement as a result of the latest government reforms, according to consultancy form Analysts Financieros Internacionales [International Financial Analysts].

Tasty profit FOOD group Campofrio - headquartered in Madrid but owned

by Mexican multinationals since 2013 - has revealed net sales shot through the €2 billion barrier in 2017, as the firm’s Spanish sales soared by 22 per cent to €68.3 million.

Spanish misery goes on SPAIN has retained its position as the world’s eighth most miserable economy. The country scored 17.3 on US technology firm Bloomberg’s annual Misery Index, which ranks economies according to their rates of inflation and unemployment.

The company said in a statement: “The Bloomberg Misery Index relies on the age-old concept that low inflation and unemployment generally

illustrate how good an economy’s residents should feel.”

The league table was topped by Venezuela with a massive score of 1872, followed by South Africa (33.1), Argentina (27.1), Egypt (26.4), Greece and Turkey (20.6) and Ukraine (17.8) ahead of Spain, with Brazil (15.8) and Saudi Arabia (14.7) completing the top 10.

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movement while controlling the craft at periscope death.

Captain John Atwill, prosecuting, said that the commander did not carry out observations himself, relying on those of the trainees, who focused on a nearby yacht and failed to spot the tanker. He added: “Commander Codd’s decision to focus on teaching, not safety, compounded the error carried out by the students.”

Captain Sean Moore, defending, said: “This is a failure that will live with him for the rest of his life.

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The amount of money that Madrid-based multinational banking group BBVA lost in Spain last year prior to deduction of taxes, according to its own official report.

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The EU does not abandon those who face a tragedy.” EU Policy Commissioner Corina Cretu announces Spain is to receive €3.2m in EU aid to help repair the damage caused by last year’s devastating wildfires in the Galicia region.

GREAT BARCA BEKO-OFF: The firm has sponsored the club since 2014.

FC BARCELONA has extended a sponsorship deal with a budget washing machine brand.

Turkish domestic appliance maker Beko has revealed it is to pay €19 million per season for the next three years after sealing a new deal with the Catalan club.

In return, the company’s logo will continue to appear on the first team training strip plus the left sleeve of the official club shirt.

€856 million

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THE Spanish government is eager to attract companies using blockchain technology.

Conservative lawmaker Teodoro Garcia Egea has been tasked with preparing legislation to smooth potential deals, including possible tax breaks. “The level of digitalisation for companies is key,” he said.

“We hope to get the legislation ready this year.”

According to Mr Garcia, it is in the country’s interest to attract such firms as a driver for industries including finance, health and education.

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“No officer becomes teacher of the Submarine Command Course because they are good enough, they must be the best the submarine service has to offer.

“Perisher is widely acknowledged as the toughest command course in the world.”

Judge Advocate Robert Hill said while sentencing: “You have, save for this incident, an exemplary record. It was more in the nature of a momentary aberration than a careless attitude.”

The case will reportedly affect Commander Codd’s ‘career progress’ and €88,000 annual salary.

A licence to print money SPAIN wants to print money at a new location. And the government is pushing ahead with plans to build a new ‘money factory,’ after printing firm IMBISA - 80 per cent owned by the Bank of Spain - agreed contracts worth around €2 million.

More than half the cash will be handed to Spanish consultancy firm Everis for ‘strategic design of information systems, with the remainder awarded to El Corte Ingles, best known for its chain of department stores, for ‘development of new computer applications.’

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Land Securities Group 967.50 Legal & General Group 230.55 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 67.09 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,074.50 Micro Focus International 2,235.50 Mediclinic International 591.50 Marks & Spencer Group 292.50 Mondi 1,901.50 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 223.90 National Grid 742.50 NMC Health 3,426.00 Next 5,211.00 Old Mutual Group 225.20 Paddy Power Betfair 7,615.00 Prudential 1,855.00 Persimmon 2,686.50 Pearson 691.50 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,502.50 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 274.80 Royal Dutch Shell 2,325.00 Royal Dutch Shell 2,283.25 RELX 1,520.50 Rio Tinto 4,080.00 Rolls-Royce Group 834.50 Randgold Resources 6,770.00 RSA Insurance Group 640.10 Rentokil Initial 295.00 Sainsbury (J) 247.00 Schroders 3,562.50 Sage Group (The) 751.10 Segro 600.60 Shire 3,250.00 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,633.00 Sky 1,105.00 Standard Life Aberdeen 367.10 Smith (DS) 489.35 Smiths Group 1,536.00 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 445.50 Smith & Nephew 1,225.00 SSE 1,315.00 Standard Chartered 820.00 St James's Place 1,149.25 Severn Trent 1,815.50 Tesco 205.50 TUI AG 1,645.75 Taylor Wimpey 189.50 Unilever 3,800.00 United Utilities Group 662.00 Vodafone Group 206.55 WPP Group 1,423.00 Whitbread 3,850.00

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Hunt for Med October SPAIN appears set to build new warships for the United States (US).

The news comes after the US government confirmed that it has chosen Spanish state-owned shipbuilding company Navantia to head the conceptual design of its massive multi-billion Euro frigate programme.

And the decision places the shipbuilder - the fifth biggest in Europe at the head of the queue to construct the boats on behalf of the US Navy.

The programme, dubbed FFG(X), will see the first of the frigates completed by 2020, with a second due in 2021, after which the Navy will buy two per year until reaching a total of 20 at a cost of ‘no more than $950 million (€767 million) each,’ according to a US Department of Defence report.

This timeframe does not allow for development of a completely new design, therefore the Navy has requested that the FFG(X) be based on an existing ‘parent’ ship, with the Australian Hobart-class destroyer, itself based on Navantia’s F100/Alvaro de Bazan-class frigate, having been selected.

Having beaten off competition from four other firms, Navantia will now work alongside partner General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, a shipyard located on the Kennebec River in Bath, Maine, to design the frigates.

The US has ordered a warship that can keep pace with aircraft carriers, and the FFG(X) programme will equip the Navy with “sufficient capacity to achieve the objective of maritime security control and operations, as well as provide support to naval combat groups,” Navantia said in a statement.

The frigates will be equipped with guided missiles and will have

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STATE-OWNED FIRM TO DESIGN WARSHIPS

ART OF WAR: The new frigates will be based on Navantia’s existing F100 blueprint.

the capacity to destroy enemy ships over the horizon, detect submarines, defend convoys, employ electronic warfare systems, and defend against swarming small boat attacks.

The F100-class design has seen Navantia contracted to the world’s largest warship programmes, including the Australian and Canadian fleets.

It last year agreed to work with Bath Iron Works on US military projects in a reverse of a relationship which began more than 40 years ago, when the American company helped provide technology to build ships for the Spanish Navy’s Santa Maria-class fleet.

FAST FOOD AND BREAKFASTS ON RISE SPANISH diners are visiting more bars and restaurants than ever.

Sales in the catering sector increased by 2.5 per cent in 2017, with overall revenue topping €36 million, according to American market research company the NPD Group.

It is the third consecutive year that the industry has demonstrated positive growth, with the number of visits climbing by 1.3 per cent, or 98 million.

Each customer also spent an additional 1 per cent, an average of €4.88.

NPD Group Executive Director Vicente Montesinos said: “The improvement in an economic context has favoured recovery in terms of traffic, while the increase in visits and a growing average expenditure allowed the market to exceed €36 million in sales for the first time since 2011.”

But the market has not yet recovered to pre-financial crisis levels, with the number of visits and expenditure both below the totals for 2005-2007.

The annual average number of visits per individual during that period was

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Grub’s up for restaurants

FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Spaniards are eating out more but increasingly prefer burgers and pizza, says NPD’s Vicente Montesinos (inset).

180, while the average for 2017 was 158.

And the latest statistics show that eateries serving products quickly are the main driver behind the growth, with fast food restaurants, tapas bars and coffee

shops representing 86 per cent of the increase.

There is also a trend away from traditional Spanish fare, with American-style hamburger and Italian restaurants outstripping their rivals.

Chains also eclipsed independentlyowned businesses in terms of both the number of visits and the amount of money spent, accounting for 23 per cent of the overall catering market.

Breakfast and lunchtime demonstrated the greatest increases in diners during the week, while the number of people eating out at weekends also shot up.

Mr Montesinos added: “At the beginning of the [financial] crisis the first thing that was hit were breakfasts eaten outside the home, because unemployment increased and labour mobility decreased.

“Then, around two million people lost their jobs in 2009 and the lunch industry was hit.

“But with the economic recovery we are seeing more jobs and an increase in the number of people eating out, including breakfast, lunch and dinner.”

Spanish oil company inks €1.2bn ‘mega deal’ SPANISH oil and gas firm Cepsa has announced a €1.2 million mega deal with the United Arab Emirates.

The 40-year agreement will see the multinational bag a 20 per cent stake in the Umm Lulu and Satah al-Razboot (also known as SARB) offshore oilfields from the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company.

It is the biggest contract inked by the company since its €1.76 billion acquisition of South East Asian exploration and production company Coastal Energy in 2013.

Cepsa was bought by Abu Dhabi’s International Petroleum Investment Company (IPIC) in a €267 million 2011 takeover.

IPIC was in 2016 merged with Mubadala Development Company PJSC, an investment vehicle owned by the Abu Dhabi government and classed as a National Wealth Fund.

Minister to tour London SPAIN has moved to quash Brexit fears.

Speaking to the national congress, Development Minister Iñigo de la Serna revealed that Spain continues to view the UK as one of 11 key construction and infrastructure markets despite voting to leave the EU. The official went on to confirm that he has a trip to London lined up later this month, during which he will offer support to Spanish companies competing for major UK infrastructure contracts, including construction of the HS2 high speed train and expansion of Heathrow Airport.

The whistle-stop tour will see the official hold a series of key business meetings plus bilateral talks with his UK government peers, before he visits some existing Spanish-led projects.

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Long-haul savings sky high BALI: Cheaper than Menorca (inset) this summer despite being more than 11,000 kilometres further away from the UK.

family of four flying from London Gatwick on the last weekend in May - is priced at €350, while Florida costs €420.

In summer, Pattaya in Thailand and the Indonesian paradise of Bali are up to 20 per cent cheaper than Ibiza or Menorca, according to TravelSupermarket’s Emma Coulthurst.

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Rising room prices, plus a weak United States dollar and competition from the Middle East mean it can now be cheaper to spend two weeks in far flung locations including Thailand, Dubai and Florida.

It comes after several years of record-breaking tourist figures, with 82 million holidaymakers choosing Spain in 2017.

But research by price comparison website TravelSupermarket has revealed that in 2018 various long-haul destinations are considerably more cost-effective than the Costa del Sol, Balearic and Canary Islands.

For example, over the upcoming May half-term, a week in a four-star Abu Dhabi hotel costs around €350 per person, compared with €620 in Menorca and €475 in Tenerife.

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value this summer… it is really worth doing your research and comparing both to see what else you can get for your money.

“But, be realistic on weather.

Florida, for example, is also coming up cheaper this July and August and offering some incredible deals - but the weather at that time of year is incredibly hot and humid.”

US holiday firms have slashed prices by up to 35 per

cent due to the so-called ‘Trump slump,’ with travellers less-inclined to visit the country in the wake of his appointment.

Ms Coulthurst added: “Brits have always been one of the US’s biggest markets and Florida, particularly Orlando, can’t afford for us not to go there.”

Abu Dhabi and Dubai have also made cuts of around 10 per cent, while Spanish hotel prices have increased by around 8 per cent since 2016.

It is however cheaper to eat and hire a car in Spain.

More than 20 million British holidaymakers visited Spain last year, the most of any country, but 2018 forecasts predict a fall in numbers.

The 2016 Spanish boom came in the wake of terrorist attacks in Turkey, Egypt, and Tunisia, although travel agent Thomas Cook recently announced that it will fly to the latter this year.

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De Guindos fears raised in Brussels HE appears set to be named vice-president of the European Central Bank.

But the European Parliament has raised concerns over the appointment of Spain’s Finance Minister, Luis de Guindos, to the coveted role.

In government office since 2011, the conservative politician announced he will step down ‘in the coming days’ after Ireland’s Philip Lane - his sole rival pulled out of the race.

He has been slated to replace Portugal’s Vitor Constancio for months, although it was Lane who most impressed senior members of the parliament’s monetary and finance committee during a non-binding, closed-door hearing with the two candidates in Brussels.

He had little support from ministers, however, while De Guindos has been backed by influential countries including France and Germany. A final decision is expected in March.

Losing mental capacity whilst living abroad

by Stone King Charlotte Macdonald Contact me at international@stoneking.co.uk

MANY UK expatriates living in Spain own properties in the UK and have pensions and investments in the UK. They rely on their UK assets to maintain their lifestyles (and those of their families) in Spain. If they can no longer manage their affairs in the UK due to a loss of mental capacity, it can cause many difficulties.

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You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able.

The best way to avoid the legal and practical difficulties that can occur with the loss of mental capacity is to plan for it in advance by drawing up a document called a ‘Lasting Power of Attorney’ (‘LPA’).

An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity.

What is an LPA? An LPA is a legal document that enables you to appoint one or more attor-

neys to act for you when you are no longer able to act for yourself.

Your attorney can be a professional,

such as a solicitor or a family member or friend.

There are two types of LPA: ‘Health and Welfare’ or ‘Property and Financial Affairs’ An LPA must be made while you have full mental capacity. It is therefore important to make one while you are in good health.

Why should you get an LPA? You can choose a person or people, who you trust, to act for you when you are no longer able.

If you lose your mental capacity and do not have an LPA, then your family (or the authorities) will have no choice but to make an application to the Court of Protection to appoint a ‘deputy’ to look after your affairs, which can be time consuming and costly.

Will my LPA be recognised in Spain?

Unfortunately there is no international type of LPA which is guaranteed to work in both the UK and Spain.

The advice we give to our clients at Stone King, is that if you have assets in both Spain and the UK, your only safe option is to appoint attorneys in both jurisdictions.

If you would like to discuss LPAs contact Charlotte Macdonald or Dan Harris at Stone King LLP by email international@stoneking.co.uk or by telephone on +44 (0)1225 337599.

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Something must be done quickly LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT THESE latest revelations of paedophilia and ‘sex for aid’ in OXFAM didn’t surprise me one bit.

Frankly I also consider it merely the tip of the iceberg. I believe that just about all organisations that deal with children are positively riddled with these low life predators. After all, if I were a junkie I would go where the drugs are. If my habit was gambling I would seek out gambling joints.

It stands to reason that those who feel the need to prey on youngsters, go where they can find children. OXFAM. UNICEF. Football scouting. Church and teaching organisations.

Dr Barnardo’s homes. Children’s hospitals and so on, all are vulnerable to the infiltration of these evil beings who destroy young lives before they have barely begun.

A recent report by an ex-UN official stated that UN aid workers, may not only have raped up to 60,000 people over the last 10 years, but are estimated to employ some 3,300 paedophiles in their worldwide operation.

One terribly sad result of these alarming, seemingly never-ending revelations, is that decent men and women, who sincerely want to

OXFAM SCANDAL: The tip of the iceberg? help and care for the young, are shying away and entering other professions, simply because they don’t want to be regarded with suspicion by their peers. Even stating publicly that you love children can attract a ‘funny’ look in some circumstances. If this unacceptable situation is allowed to continue unchecked, sooner or later the majority of children’s charity workers will all be sex abusers and paedophiles.

So where do you start? Well first of all there needs to be a worldwide easily accessible data centre, which holds a record of every worker who has been sacked for abuse of any kind.

This would ensure that these people at least could never get into any other organisation that involved children. Secondly, those at the very top need to be thoroughly vetted. After all it stands to reason, if they are rife with such

large numbers of offenders, some could quite easily be in board and management positions.

This would also explain the fact that there have been numbers of occasions where whistleblowers have been sacked, with their accusations stifled and pushed under the carpet.

Far from being vilified, these caring people need to be given every encouragement and complete anonymity while a thorough investigation of their accusations is conducted by an independent body set up by respective governments. I also believe the finances of these big charity companies should be more carefully looked into. It seems to me many of those ‘at the top’ seem to be living far too comfortably for comfort - if you get my drift.

Well that’s my three penneth, for what it’s worth. All I know is something must be done and as quickly as possible. After all it is the children who are suffering at the hands of these monsters, and above all they must retain priority.

Thanks for all your wonderful mails after last week’s piece. Fair warmed the ol’ boy’s cockles.

Keep ‘em coming, and whatever ya do.

Always.

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PROPERTY G U I D E Lap of luxury Costa is class act for high end sales

LOCATION, LOCATION, LOCATION: The Costa del Sol is leading the luxury property drive.

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HE purchase of Spanish homes by foreign buyers is skyrocketing.

And the real estate market has recovered faster since the financial crisis than most of the country’s other industries.

The Spanish Mediterranean coast remains among the top destinations for those on the hunt for luxury homes, complete with pristine golf courses and, above all, sea views.

According to the latest data published

by Spanish notaries, there were more than 50,000 purchases by foreign investors in the first half of 2017, marking a 13.4 per cent year-on-year increase.

Almost 20 per cent of these sales were focused on the Costa del Sol. And while Spanish housing market figures have shown a consistent improvement since 2014, they have boomed in recent months.

The Costa del Sol remains one of the preferred destinations year after year for

foreign buyers looking for a luxury home on the Spanish coast.

Sea views are reportedly among the top priority for these buyers, closely followed by distance to the nearest golf course and their own swimming pool, according to a new report by a leading estate agent.

The agency claims that these buyers are looking for properties built using the latest materials and technology, but are also energy efficient. Smart homes are the latest trend among foreign upmarket buyers, which combine state-of-the-art technology with energy saving features.

However, foreign buyers reportedly prefer a house further away from the coast, so long as they have a good pool, are closer to the golf course and still have great views of the sea, while homes sought by Spanish buyers tend to be closer to the beachfront.

The typical “foreigner looking for a house on the Costa del Sol is usually Nordic or British, who buys the property as a holiday home first and often ends up spending his retirement there,” explained the agency.

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HE trend is yet to hit Spain, but the popularity of the Tiny House movement is sweeping across the US, and other countries are taking notice.

People are embracing a vision about mobile homes that takes in a lifestyle immersed in nature, but that can be near urban areas or even in a green area in the middle of a city.

For many it has been a daydream to escape the stress and frantic pace of urban life, with an energy saving home that you can take where you want, with less expenses and less chores.

But the Tiny House social movement was born out of this vision, and to promote the reduction of built-up urban sprawls.

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BRANCHING OUT: The Tiny House movement is spreading internationally. third of their income over many years on the mortgage.

The Tiny Houses do not usually exceed 20 or 30 square metres, and have all the comforts of a normal home, with a bathroom,

heating, appliances, but combined with a stylish minimalism.

Those who are curious about the concept can even start with a rental arrangement, or a weekend getaway.

Real estate sales go through the roof MALAGA is the fourth most popular province in the country to buy a home, according to the National Institute of BUILDING CONFIDENCE: Malaga Statistics.

It is sur- Province is enjoying a real estate passed only boom. by the two flagship cities, Madrid and Barcelona, and by Alicante.

Between January and November 2017 a total of 27,941 homes were sold in Malaga, representing a growth of 13.1 per cent over the previous year.

The data confirms the view that the real estate sector is enjoying its strongest period in recent years, with November alone posting the best figures since 2007.

Malaga alone counts for a third of all sales in the Andalucian region, owing to its popularity with foreign buyers.

The scale of Malaga’s real estate performance can be seen in the fact that the January-November period saw it sell twice as many homes than both Galicia and the Basque Country.

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Casa Zeta Jones: the new self-styled interior designer ITH five luxury homes to choose from, including a €40 million, 11bedroom villa in Mallorca, it’s little surprise that Catherine Zeta Jones has developed an interest in home decor.

The Welsh-born mother of two, 48, Hollywood actress and wife of screen legend Michael Douglas, 73, is not shy about showing off her efforts either.

Although her new film, Cocaine Godmother, in which she plays Coombian drug baron Griselda Blanco, recently aired, her acting career has been on the quiet side of late.

But after launching her Casa Zeta Jones homeware range with QVC in August last year, and regularly sharing her renovation projects on social media, it looks as though the Oscar-winning star is taking a new career direction.

The couple’s largest home is an €11.29 million property in Bedford, upstate New York, complete with stables, as well as eight bedrooms and 13 bathrooms.

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FINE DINING: Catherine’s feminine flourishes offset the dark wooden pieces.

It boasts shiny black granite floors that require daily polishing by the staff, and there is an array of antiques including an art deco butterfly wing piano worth more than €34,000.

Catherine adds a touch of

softness and colour to imposing, dark wood dining tables by decorating them with arrangements of fresh roses, telling fans: “Wish you could smell these fragrant blooms.”

Even at mealtimes, the or-

nately carved breakfast bar in the tiled kitchen, which boasts two cookers and a quirky arrangement of framed spoons, is laid with matching China with fresh flowers on the napkin rings.

Visitors who are lucky enough to be invited over can relax in the luxury guest house, which has been remodelled by Catherine, who is clearly relishing her new direction.

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Record-breaking year for hotel investment OTEL investment in Spain reached record levels in 2017.

According to a report by the Insights on the Hotel Investment Market in Spain 2017, a record €3.9 billion was spent in 2017, beating the previous record of €2.6 billion set in 2015.

A total of 182 hotels changed hands last year, in comparison to 147 sold the previous year, while the average price per room also rose to an estimated €119,000.

Most of the recorded investment came in the resort sector, which saw a 69 per cent increase and out-

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performed the urban sector, which still rose by 31 per cent.

Investment was also more widely distributed in Spain last year.

Malaga accounted for 15 per cent of the country’s total with 18 hotel sales, totalling €516 million, while the Canary Islands were the country’s top investor destination seeing €939 million invested, contributing 27 per cent of Spain’s total.

International investment continued to play a major role in the country’s market growth, with overseas investment reportedly accounting for more than 60

per cent of investments at €2.3 billion.

Looking ahead to this year, real estate consultancy Irea’s hotel division expects hotel investments to remain high in 2018, but the uncertainty caused due to the unrest in Cataluña may prevent the investment in Spain from reaching last year’s totals.

Miguel Vazquez, partner of Irea’s hotel unit, told Property Magazine International: “As in 2017, this year has started with a considerable number of deals in the latter stages of negotiation, which, if completed, could produce €600 million of investment in the first quarter of 2018.”

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Log into a unique floating hotel A Swedish log-shipping traditions which Harstrom recalled from his childhood.

“It was a symbol for that era and so I chose to build this idea around the connection to the forests,” he said.

The resulting circular structure is a striking combination of man-made and natural influences.

ArcticBath is home to six rooms alongside saunas, a cold plunge pool, spa treatment rooms, a restaurant and a bar.

During winter, the resort will be frozen into the ice, and obviously floating in the river in the warmer months.

After the success of Treehotel, locals in the nearby village of Harads have been very encouraging about the project.

ArcticBath is due to open in late 2018.

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Located in the Scandinavian north, the area is a glacial haven of snowtipped forests, world-class fishing, amazing wildlife and the Northern Lights.

The resort is from the team behind the region’s acclaimed Treehotel - the quirky brainchild of owners Britta and Kent Lindvall.

ArcticBath will offer a similar mix of luxury and nature,

inspired by the stunning Swedish surroundings.

“You don’t have to copy things made elsewhere, it’s not interesting,” says architect Bertil Harstrom. “I think the interesting things come from your own history and your background.”

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PRICE RISE: An increase in demand and a shortage of supply has pushed up prices for property in Marbella and elsewhere in Malaga Province.

Shortage of land in Malaga leading to rising prices ALAGA PROVINCE is among Madrid and the Balearic Islands in experiencing a lack of suitable land for building new homes, according to a report.

The shortage of directly buildable land has begun to impact on an already scarce supply of houses which, along with increasing demand, is causing prices to rise.

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House market activity has also increased in Sevilla, Malaga and Granada. Markets in Cordoba, Jaen and Almeria are reportedly more stable in contrast.

Nationally, land prices in the Basque Country have reportedly remained stable, although residential values have risen.

There was vacant land available for development in Aragon, but building is

expected to remain concentrated around its main urban centres. Much of the free land there is more suited to industrial use.

The picture in Cataluña was more varied, with activity in the land market focused around Barcelona, but not growing in areas such as Lerida and Tarragona. This is reportedly down to ongoing political uncertainty with the region’s independence crisis still ongoing.

The markets of Madrid and Valencia

are reportedly experiencing strong levels of growth. In Alicante and Murcia prices have remained stable in part due to the availability of land.

In the Balearic Islands prices have continued to rise, fuelled by an increase in demand particularly in coastal areas.

The markets of Castilla-La Mancha and Castilla Leon have not seen much recent development despite the availability of land, although prices have risen.

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ENERGY SAVING: Fuencarral Police Station in Madrid.

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FUTURISTIC: The E8 building in Vitoria.

Similarly, inside the Comisaria Fuencarral Police Station in Madrid, there are very few opaque surfaces except for interview rooms and private offices.

The building’s second

skin reflects ambient light during the day which protects the structure from excess heat.

And a similar model is being used on a planned future project, the Ferrer Re-

THIS brand new house in Spain took just five hours to assemble.

The minimalist modern home in Valdes, a small town in Asturias, northwest of Madrid, reportedly took less than four months to build in a factory but was assembled in five hours in total on site.

Designed by Studio Baragaño, the ‘Montaña house’ is described as a stylish mix between a traditional home and more modern houses found throughout the area.

The house, built in wood and raised on pillars typical of many homes in the Iberian

search and Development Centre in Barcelona.

The centre is reportedly specifically designed to create biodiversity, with one wood wall that plays host to trees and shade.

While one wall has trees and shade, another collects solar energy, but also has vertical shading in the colours and patterns of butterflies while its fourth wall is covered in greenery.

Five-hour home Peninsula, was constructed in a factory in Madrid and was later transported to Valde, where it was embellished by a local artisan with a traditional slate roof.

It has two levels, with common living spaces occupying most of the bottom level while bedrooms accommodate the second floor.

The designers reportedly drew inspiration

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EVERAL contemporary buildings in Spain are using a new technique in order to save energy.

According to Andrew Michler, author of ‘The Hyperlocalisation of Architecture,’ who calls the technique ‘the architecture of wrapping,’ by adding an outer layer beyond the glass to control solar exposure, certain Spanish buildings use minimal energy to keep residents at ease.

In turn, this then allows architects to ensure that an adequate amount of natural light is available in order to reduce the need for energyintensive artificial lighting.

There are several examples of this technique being used on unique buildings all across Spain.

Inside the E8 office building in Vitoria Gasteiz, large facets of glass draw the reflection of the sky down to earth, which gives an effect as if the building is almost disappearing.

Its ‘second skin’ provides solar control and wind protection which reduces the building’s overall energy use.

The house took just five hours to assemble on site. from the architectural style of the traditional residential structure found in the region.

The central element to the house, which is now a residence for a British landscaper and his family, includes a metal staircase and has

a fireplace suspended from the living room.

Polycarbonate panels separate the rooms upstairs, which allow natural light to penetrate all of the upstairs spaces which adds warmth to the minimalistic feel.

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HE number of new home plans processed in Malaga Province stood at 4,895 last year, an increase of 61 per cent compared to 2016, according to figures.

House building levels in 2017 were at their biggest since 2008-9 and the rate of the increase has tripled from 24 per cent in 2016, according to the College of Architects.

Francisco Sarabia, of the College, said the data suggested that the construction industry had recovered from the economic crisis which began around 10 years ago.

He added that despite the positive trends triumphalism should be avoided as the rate at which new homes were be-

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ing built is yet to return to pre-crash levels.

“In 2007, 45,000 homes in Malaga were approved for construction,” he said.

The rate of home building should return to normal levels, around 20,000 to 25,000 new houses being approved per year, in about four to five years, he added.

The number of completed new homes doubled to 2,583 in 2017, the most finished since 2012 when 2,755 were built.

More than 800 projects consisting of a total 4,895 homes and budgets adding up to €825 million were processed in the province, according to data from the College.

Almost 1,150 of these were single family homes, 3,625 were multi-family and

HERE is a great deal to be said for purchasing new property from a company that has a huge amount of experience and speaks your language - Taylor Wimpey Spain fits that bill. It is now one of the largest house builders in the UK, founded in 2007 from the merger of George Wimpey and Taylor Woodrow and is a major player in the FTSE 100 with annual turnover in excess of €4 billion.

Now celebrating its Diamond Anniversary, the forerunner to Taylor Wimpey started building in Spain in 1958 and the fact that it has been able to continue to trade for 60 years despite the various problems with the economy speaks volumes for the strength and character of the company.

Although the head office is based in Palma de Mallorca, the company has branch offices in both Alicante and Marbella.

Horizon Golf, is Taylor Wimpey Spain’s second development at La Cala Resort, in the valley of Mijas and is located within the complex’s famous Campo Asia golf course.

The new Horizon Golf complex has panoramic views over the golf course and La Cala de Mijas.

It consists of 55 ample terraced homes, with three bedrooms, two bathrooms and a cloakroom in a private gated development with gardens and communal swimming pools.

All homes have a basement, a spacious main floor, large terraces and solarium of

NEW BUILDS: The number of new home projects submitted was the highest it has been since 2008-9.

125 were houses under official protection.

Mijas led in the building of new single-family homes at 175 units, followed by Mar-

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Spectacular new properties from one of Britain’s most respected builders

Views of Horizon Golf in La Cala de Mijas. over 50m² with panoramic views.

The development and the golf are perfectly integrated within a natural environment with spectacular scenery. Horizon Golf features luxury finishes, fully equipped furnished kitchens and installed air conditioning, designer bathrooms, bedrooms with motorised blinds,

and secure, fully lined wardrobes.

This is a development which offers the most modern living accommodation with solar panels, thermal and acoustic insulation, natural ventilation and access to all of the facilities at La Cala Golf Resort.

Everything you would expect is included in the price of purchase, but money can’t

bella with 133. Malaga led in multi-family projects at 1,036, coming ahead of Estepona at 690, Mijas at 240 and Fuengirola at 250.

buy the beautiful weather and spectacular views of the golf course, the coast and the mountains.

This is a quality build as would be expected from Taylor Wimpey which meets all European construction standards and will boast an energy certificate type B. The whole area is delightful and if even if you are not a golfer, you have easy access to Malaga City and the airport, great beaches, the growing town of Fuengirola on the coast, some exceptional restaurants in the town La Cala itself and an expatriate friendly council which even has a special foreigners department to look after its numerous foreign residents.

The legendary city of Marbella is a relatively short drive away and it only takes just over an hour to get to the trendy port of Sotogrande and from there Gibraltar is just a short hop away.

This is an area of Spain that has been developed but still maintains much of its charm, especially up in the mountains where the charming Mijas Pueblo waits to welcome visitors.

For more details of the great opportunities that await buyers of these new properties and others in the area including La Cala, Benahavis, Elviria, Malaga and Marbella, or even in other parts of Spain visit the website at https://taylorwimpeyspain.com.

Alternatively call Freephone Spain: 900 130 044 or Freephone UK: 08000 12 10 20 to find out more and to arrange a possible viewing.

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Our offices are located in the heart of Nueva Andalucía, Marbella, in the modern Centro Plaza, within walking distance of the international Puerto Banus and its famous marina.

A spacious, comfortable and visible office to improve the service and attention to our customers, as well as to offer a wide range of real estate coverage in this highly demanded area.

Our mission is to help all our clients to make the most appropriate decision in their real estate operations: facilitating the purchase or sale, in the shortest time possible, at the best market price, legally protecting the assets of all parties, with transparency and professionalism.

To accomplish this, we have a large team of 15 professionals with extensive experience in the real estate sector both on the Costa del Sol and international, covering all departments of the company: administration, telemarketing, marketing and sales, thus covering all of our customers’ needs.

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Respect: Correct and considerate attitude towards all persons, a client, collaborator or supplier.

Integrity and Honesty: Act in accordance with our principles, making the good prevail before all of us and our customers and collaborators.

Professionalism and Responsibility: Satisfying the needs of our clients by offering quality work, promoting at the same time the development of our company and of the people.

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We constantly renew and expand our services in line with the latest news and market demands, always adapted to the needs of our customers, with constant training and with the necessary tools for its sole objective management: to contribute to the satisfaction of our customers.

Discount Property Center Marbella has developed with great success on the Costa del Sol one of our favourite tasks: the intermediation and sale of exclusive real estate developments.

In this particular case our clients have been the Investment Funds, who have placed their trust in our company for external advice and sale of these exclusives: it was to give professional advice and guarantee of optimal result and without negative consequences.

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Home is where the island is HE rich and faTWITTER @LACYGCOOKE mous looking to expand their property portfolio can now buy their own island by surfing the web.

More than 2,650 islands have been sold on the Vladi Private Islands website, and Pumpkin Key, near Miami, Florida, is available to buy for an eye watering £70 million (€79 million).

The exclusive private island in the Florida Keys has one main home, built in 1985, which has three bedrooms and bathrooms, and has the highest price tag on the site.

It also has its own private club, an airstrip for private jets and is just a 10-minute journey to Miami’s South Beach.

Meanwhile, a 64 acre isLINGA FRANCA: land off the coast of Shetland, The Scottish island Scotland is also available to buy is on the market and comes with planning permisfor just €282,000 sion for a pier and a two-acre loch.

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Other spectacular islands up for sale include a similarly sized island in Fiji, known as the Remote Resort, which has been listed for €2.9 million (€3.27 million).

Last year the average London home sold for £481,000 (€542,000), making the Scottish island of Linga, on the market for £250,000 (€282,000) almost half the price.

A huge, 35,000 acre island, 16 miles long and off the coast of Mexico, is on the market for £15 million (€16.9 million).

Cerralvo Island has a breathtaking landscape which includes a 2,100ft mountainous ridgeline.

The Isla Centinela in Spain comes with a 1920’s castle which is surrounded by water and is available to purchase for £3.5 million (€3.95 million).

Farhad Vladi, CEO of Vladi Private Islands, said the website was set up in 1999 and more than 2,650 islands have been sold since.

“Islands are pharmacies for the soul and you can control what you see. They are the best combination of lifestyle and investment,” he said.

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POPULAR new smartphone app that lets you control the smart devices in your home is looking to expand to Spain.

Yeti, by a company called Netbeast, connects all your smart devices to simplify the control of your home and lets homeowners control, automate and monitor all their smart devices from anywhere, anytime.

It supports a wide range of smart home devices from lights and wireless speakers to heating and security solutions, offering homeowners comfort, security and convenience.

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SMART: The Yeti app transforms the home into a smart home.

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cal and cloud control Last year, the app’s owner company Netbeast were selected by

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Netbeast launched in January last year and has continued to grow

30 per cent monthly while an estimated 15,000 homes now use the brand.

The company has now linked up with Crowdcube Spain and is looking to raise €190,000 in funding.

They have already received more than two thirds of that target, already securing more than €120,000 from 21 separate investors.

Speaking to website Crowdfund Insider, CEO Jon Senra Deark said: “Our two target goals for 2018 are to expand support to up to 25+ smart home brands which will allow us to target more smart home users and will set up the perfect ground to launch a premium version of Yeti.

“The second goal is to secure a partnership with a top real estate promoter within Spain which will allow us to push smart home technology within this market.”

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Golf gurus Marbella property company target UK market PANISH luxury accommodation rental company Vacation Marbella has continued to build its growing portfolio with the purchase of 12 new Andalucian properties and is targeting the UK golf market.

First established in 2015, Vacation Marbella offer apartments that cater to families and groups of all sizes and ages as well as golfers with a large array of specially tailored packages in areas all across the Costa del Sol. Following the purchase of

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the 12 further places, Vacation Marbella’s portfolio now stands at 60 different properties and 320 bedrooms, with three of the new apartments reported to be €1 million penthouses.

According to reports, the company is now planning to focus more on the UK golf market and has devised a range of golf stay-and-play packages that include discounted green fees at local courses.

Vacation Marbella reportedly hosted more than 10,00 people last year, with the

majority coming from the UK, and joint owner Borja Rodriguez said the company has acquired the properties to keep up with the demand.

He told the media: “We have enjoyed a very successful 2017 with increasing numbers of visitors, particularly from the UK, so naturally we have added to our rental options in order to keep pace with that growing demand.

“We have 60 properties now, but the plan is to expand that further with the

GROWING: Vacation Marbella have extended their portfolio with a further 12 Andalucian properties. aim of taking it up to 90 by the end of the year.

“Three of these additions are stunning top-end penthouses, giving visitors the chance to enjoy the ultimate in quality accommodation, but we have an array of apartments that, although are still of exceptional high

quality, are more affordable, and these are ideal for visitors who want to enjoy the excellent golf courses in the area, the golden beaches of the Costa del Sol, the famous Puerto Banus nightlife or the huge choice of incredible bars and restaurants.”

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It’s no joke to jump to conclusions

Don’t jump to conclusions.

Marbella Moments

by Nicole King WHEN the news broke that the UK had voted in favour of leaving the European Union, now fondly referred to as ‘Brexit,’ the majority of the Spanish along the Costa were truly offended. They didn’t understand how we could be living in their country and yet want no part of it.

Those of us living here were also shocked at the result, but we knew many of us had no say in the matter. The Spanish on the other hand didn’t know that and felt / feel resentful.

As it turns out the Spanish never lose their right to vote so how could they even begin to think that it would be different for us Brits?

For many ‘Brexpats’ it was an uncomfortable time. How can you explain to everyone that made a hurtful comment that we didn’t even have the right to vote and that we weren’t happy either?

M o r e r e c e n t l y T h e Ti m e s r a n a s n i d e piece based on the writer ’s interpretation of ‘typical’ Spanish traits and customs.

This article was written with humorous intention and possibly went by quite unnoticed in the UK until it became headline news throughout Spain.

They didn’t get the wit at all, but how could they? English humour is based on making fun of people, belittling them to make one feel superior and the article certainly wasn’t flattering.

I too felt offended when I read ‘How to be Spanish’ and so was not surprised to

see the uproar or the retaliation piece in one of the most important national newspapers, the ABC. According to this publication we’re lacking in hygiene as proven by a survey that showed the average is just four showers a week, plus our wall-to-ceiling carpets are tremendous dirt traps. It had become a slagging match. They wanted to be mean back which truly highlighted just how insulted the whole nation felt.

When interviewing our British Consul, Charmaine Arbouin on my radio show #MiMarbella last week this subject came up as did the ramifications of all these misunderstandings. She confirmed they aren’t going by without consequences. In fact Charmaine feels they can actually be causing additional problems for UK Nationals in the EU way before our official European cut-off date.

It would seem that many people are now complaining that they can’t renew their inscription on the ‘padron’ and when they ask about residency and work permits they are being given different and often conflictive information with far more hoops to jump.

Obviously each town hall and even some Local Police are reacting differently to the decision for the UK to leave the European community and when you add this to our apparent disdain of them, this is not helping our cause. In fact it looks like the joke’s on us!

Recording of the full interview on Mi Marbella 107.6 fm with Charmaine Arbouin, British Consul to Andalucia, Canary Islands, Ceuta and Melilla, dated 14.02.18, is available from my web: www.marbellanowtv.com.

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10:30am Judge Judy 10:55am Judge Judy 11:25am Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 11:55am Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 12:25pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm The Royal 2:35pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:45pm On the Buses 5:20pm On the Buses 5:50pm You're Only Young Twice 6:20pm George and Mildred 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 10:00pm Rosemary and Thyme 11:00pm The Good Karma Hospital 12:00am The Murder of Becky Watts: Police Tapes

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4:20am The Midwife 6:30am The Great Wall: Special 7:00am Dive Olly Dive and the Octopus Rescue 8:35am Killing Hasselhoff A debt-ridden nightclub owner decides to rig his celebrity death pool, which means killing his pick - David Hasselhoff.

10:10am Freehold 11:45am Dive Olly Dive and the Octopus Rescue 1:20pm Birth of the Dragon 3:10pm Fast and Furious 8 The crew must ride to the rescue when Dominic Toretto is blackmailed by a hitech terrorist.

5:40pm Roxxy 7:30pm Killing Hasselhoff 9:00pm Birth of the Dragon 10:50pm Fast and Furious 8 1:10am Freehold 2:40am Jarhead 3: The Siege 4:20am The Midwife

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9:00pm David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities 9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm Judi Dench : All the World's Her Stage 11:00pm Philomena 12:30am Strawberry Fields 1:55am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:00am BBC News

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7:50am Couples Come Dine with Me 8:50am Couples Come Dine with Me 9:55am Don't Tell the Bride Ireland 11:00am The Goldbergs 11:35am The Goldbergs 12:05pm The Goldbergs 12:35pm The Goldbergs 1:05pm The Goldbergs 1:35pm The Big Bang Theory 2:05pm The Big Bang Theory 2:35pm The Big Bang Theory 3:10pm The Big Bang Theory 3:40pm The Big Bang Theory 4:10pm The Big Bang Theory 4:40pm The Big Bang Theory 5:10pm The Big Bang Theory 5:40pm The Big Bang Theory 6:10pm The Big Bang Theory 6:40pm The Big Bang Theory 7:10pm The Big Bang Theory 7:40pm The Big Bang Theory 8:15pm Men in Black II 10:00pm The Heat 12:20am Gogglebox 1:25am Naked Attraction 2:30am Celebs Go Dating 3:35am Celebs Go Dating 4:25am Celebs Go Dating

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TV COUCH CRITIC THERE seems to be a concerted effort by the BBC to bring American football to the British sporting masses?

I applaud the coverage shown on Sunday at some ungodly hour for the Super Bowl, and I realise it’s a big deal in America, but to headline it on the sports news the following day. Why? Not too many people are interested except the odd fan.

There is only one football and it doesn’t have American before it! We also have rugby in two codes - union and league - both of which are much more entertaining and British.

I prefer The Voice (ITV Saturdays) to the X Factor. Although the judges are far more famous on The Voice they are also more humble and don’t love themselves as much as the X Factor pretenders.

Will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, Olly Murs and the great Sir Tom Jones come across as genuinely seeking singing talent that they personally like and can improve. The banter between the acts, with themselves and the audience really appeals.

I also love the ad-lib jamming that they all do and last week we had an impromptu rendering of ‘It’s Not Unusual’ live by Tom which was fantastic. His own voice has lost none of its strength and he is held in awe by the three other judges as well as myself.

Yes indeed Tom, a true legend!

What can you say about Casualty (BBC1 Saturdays)? Firstly, it’s not my usual fare on Saturdays but

Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England SEARCHING for a discreet yet fabulous holiday? One that is a destination and a conveyance at one and the same time? Need to take the whole family, several friends and their families too? Looking for the height of luxury, the epitome of service, huge interior spaces as well as a close and intimate connection to the ocean? May I suggest the yacht NIRVANA. Completed by Oceanco and delivered to her owner in the spring of 2012, then presented to the world at the Monaco Yacht Show (the premier superyacht show of the world) that September.

NIRVANA at 88.50 metres is a striking, elegant and exclusive mega yacht with modern lines and contemporary style. NIRVANA features six enormous decks and offers an impressive 150 square metre owner’s suite comprising study, lounge, lobby and private exterior deck area with whirlpool. A further five guest cabins, a 3-D cinema, a fully equipped gym, a 7.5-metre long oval pool and whirlpools with panoramic views are just a few of the massive superlatives of this superyacht.

NIRVANA’s six decks are connected by the main stairwell and an extraordinary six-person glass lift, which is entwined in a striking Balinese stainless-steel woven art piece resembling a bubbling whirlpool. This sculptural feature is a focal point from all levels of the yacht.

Two vivariums act as room dividers - be-

HUMBLE: The Voice judges Olly Murs, Jennifer Hudson, Tom Jones and will.i.am.

FABULOUS: Mary Berry.

The Voice has the X Factor and Berry is a gem I occasionally watch it. It’s been going so long the early operations were performed using ether as the anaesthetic, and they even had a contract with Burke and Hare for supplying specimens to practise on.

Good old Charley, (Derek Thompson) the only surviving original cast member on the show, was a sprightly young man at the series onset and him and Duffy (Kathy Shipton) seemed to always have a thing for each other so marriage was inevitable. Still, the hospital staff always go the extra mile, much further than a normal hospital in the UK would, but it seems there’s a good following or the Beeb would have pulled the plug ages ago.

Who wouldn't want to stay at Mary Berry’s house for a week or two? Her Saturday lunchtime cookery show on BBC1 has me drooling at the screen. Apart from her fantastic food recipes she comes across as a

nice person. The rack of lamb she produced last week had me scrambling to open a tin of beans as soon as the show finished. Still judging by the size of the house and gardens either her cooking or character has paid dividends, or her husband’s not short of a few bob. Good luck to her whichever, she deserves it and is fabulous.

It’s obvious Morse was as miserable in his early police career as he was in later life, judging by ITV’s Sunday evening prequel, Endeavour. I have to admit his fledgling police career is more gritty and the nostalgia of early policing methods and the 60’s feel swings it for me, even though there was only one John Thaw.

Shawn Evans plays the young Endeavour Morse well, and in this episode he had just been promoted to a DS before going about his business hunting

down murder suspects which are connected to a horror film set at the local flix. There’s also an influx of racist attacks which seem to escalate.

Morse and Inspector Thursday hunt down their prey in a relaxed manner, ably assisted by the usual forensic scientist describing the victim’s injuries in colourful detail after examining the bodies.

Not seen much of the Winter Olympics this time round (BBC1 and BBC2, various times), although I don’t think many people have. The usual problem is that it’s not cold enough and there’s not enough snow, but Korea seems to be the opposite! Oh well, at least we have had a lessening of hostilities between the two warring factors north and south, both actually presenting a passable united front and sitting down to talk. Progress I hope.

Crtitique: PM, San Fulgencio, Costa Blanca.

This is what a €900,000 a week holiday looks like EATING IN STYLE: The al fresco dining area.

TRULY OPULENT: NIRVANA at sea.

WATER SPORTS: The garage houses jet skis and a speedboat.

SIX DECKS: A view from above.

tween the salon, dining room and a cosy separate sitting room - and are home to live and active reptiles, a chameleon, water dragons, bearded lizards, turtles and exotic frogs.

The timeless Sorgiovanni-designed interior mixes various distinctive and exceptional materials, including bamboos and textured leathers, in imaginative and inspiring ways.

NIRVANA accommodates an experienced crew of 24 in an exceptionally friendly layout, enabling the efficient and discreet fulfilment of any and all her guests’ requirements.

Guests are close to the sea and the excitement and involvement is enhanced through the garage, which can hold a large array of tenders and water sports equipment.

A watersports room holds diving equipment and a drying cabinet for wetsuits, with immediate access to the sea through the lower lobby access.

Charlie Birkett and Gary Wright together with their professional team at Y.CO (www.ycoyacht.com) are the brokers for numerous mega yachts as well as NIRVANA. This winter NIRVANA is cruising in the Indian Ocean, and can be yours for a charter of €900,000 per week.

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5:45am House Doctor 6:10am Divine Designs Paul Binski examines some of Britain's most fascinating religious artworks and artefacts.

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10:30am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:00am Football on 5 The Championship.

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12:20pm The Bridge at Remagen 2:50pm A Bridge Too Far 6:05pm Where Eagles Dare 9:00pm Football on 5 The Carabao Cup Final.

9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm Trainwreck 12:30am Sex Tape 2:15am Super Casino

7:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 9:20am Coach Trip The group land in Lanzarote. Brendan takes them sea trekking and for a spin on some quadricycles. But on this trip, all roads lead to the vote.

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7:00am Cricket New Zealand take on England at Seddon Park in Hamilton in the opening ODI in their series.

10:00am Total Goals 11:00am The Sunday Supplement From Wembley Neil Ashton hosts a discussion on the week's major football stories, joined by leading football journalists to give their opinion on all the latest news.

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7:00am Murder, She Wrote Drama series about a sleuthing writer who solves murder mysteries.

8:55am Heartbeat Drama, set in the North Yorkshire moors in the 1960's.

11:00am Columbo 12:35pm Lewis 2:35pm A Touch of Frost 4:50pm The Durrells Comedy-drama in which a family relocates to the Greek paradise of Corfu in 1935.

7:00pm Midsomer Murders 9:00pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 9:30pm Paul O'Grady: For The Love of Dogs 10:00pm Tonight at the London Palladium 11:00pm Captain Corelli's Mandolin 1:35am Life of Crime 2:30am Blue Murder

7:00am Football Rivalries Short sports film about this compelling sporting rivalry.

7:15am Ironside 8:20am Quincy, M.E. 9:20am The Professionals Action-packed drama series about two criminal-intelligence agents.

10:25am The Sweeney 11:30am The Sweeney 12:35pm Minder Modern-day reimagineering on the classic comedydrama.

1:45pm Snooker Coverage and reaction from the latest Snooker event taking place.

6:15pm Storage Wars 6:45pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 7:45pm Snooker 12:15am A Dangerous Man 1:15am FYI Daily

9:45am Independence Day: Resurgence 12:00pm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 2:20pm 300 4:20pm Independence Day 6:55pm Independence Day: Resurgence 9:00pm Guardians of the Galaxy Vol.2 11:30pm 300

7:00am Dive Olly Dive and the Octopus Rescue 8:30am Fast and Furious 8 10:50am Birth of the Dragon 12:40pm Christine Powerful true-life drama about Christine Chubbuck, a Florida-based local news reporter who, in 1974, committed suicide live on air.

2:45pm The Mummy After he inadvertently awakens an ancient Egyptian sorceress, renegade US soldier Nick Morton must race to save the world from her army of the undead.

Fantasy action.

4:40pm The Mummy: Special 5:00pm Fast and Furious 8 7:20pm Birth of the Dragon 9:00pm The Mummy 11:00pm Christine 1:05am Freehold

7:00am League Cup Final 2017 8:00am Caraboa Cup Highlights 10:00am EFL Goals: Championship 10:30am EFL Goals: League 11:00am The Sunday 12:30pm EFL Goals: Championship 1:00pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 1:30pm La Liga Highlights: Barcelona 1:45pm La Liga Highlights: Real Madrid 2:00pm Football 4:30pm Live Carabao Cup Final 8:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 8:40pm Football 10:45pm Carabao Cup Final Highlights 11:15pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 11:45pm EFL Goals: Championship 12:15am Carabao Cup Final Highlights

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CITV ITV News Love Your Garden Peston on Sunday The Martin Lewis Money Show The Voice UK ITV News and Weather Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway What Would Your Kid Do? Tipping Point ITV News and Weather Local News and Weather The Chase Dancing on Ice Endeavour ITV News and Weather Peston on Sunday Rugby Six Nations Highlights.

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7:30am Get Away for Winter 8:15am Escape to the Country 9:00am Info not available.

10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 12:30pm The Week in Parliament 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Women's Six Nations Highlights 2:30pm Perfection 3:15pm Yes Chef 4:00pm A Place to Call Home 4:55pm More Creatures Great and Small 5:25pm Simon Reeve Caribbean 6:25pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Only Connect 9:30pm University Challenge 10:00pm Collateral 11:00pm Two Doors Down 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Handmade on the Silk Road 9:00pm India: Nature's Wonderland Travel programme revealing the wonder of India's natural world.

10:00pm The Art of Japanese Life 11:00pm Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit Documentary asking new and unexpected questions about the Roman Empire.

12:00am How the Celts Saved Britain 1:00am Singer Songwriters at the BBC 2:00am Top of the Pops 2:35am Top of the Pops 3:10am The Art of Japanese Life 4:10am Handmade on the Silk Road

7:45am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawnbrokers 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm A New Life in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Dispatches 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm 24 Hours in Police Custody 11:00pm Electric Dreams 12:05am Married at First Sight 1:10am The £1 Houses: Britain's Cheapest Street

7:00am Milkshake!

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

1:10pm 5 News The latest news coverage.

1:15pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors Documentary taking a look at what goes on in the consultation room.

2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Killer Obsession 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 9:00pm Extreme Winter Road Rescue 10:00pm The Flying Scotsman 11:00pm The X Files 12:00am Elysium 2:00am Super Casino

7:00am Hollyoaks 8:00am Coach Trip 8:30am How I Met Your Mother 9:00am Baby Daddy 10:00am Melissa and Joey 11:00am How I Met Your Mother 12:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6:00pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip On Gran Canaria, Brendan takes the group sofa boating and for an afternoon at clown school.

9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Young Sheldon 10:00pm Celebs Go Dating 11:00pm Celebrity First Dates Ep1 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory

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7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am Dress to Impress 8:55am Emmerdale 9:20am Coronation Street 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:15am Who's Doing the Dishes?

12:10pm Dress to Impress 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:50pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm Survival of the Fittest 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 11:55pm Family Guy 12:30am American Dad! 12:55am American Dad! 1:25am Plebs 1:55am Two and a Half Men

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am The Royal 10:05am Judge Judy 11:25am The Cruise Documentary exploring life on board one of the world's largest luxury cruise ships.

12:25pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm The Royal 2:35pm Heartbeat Drama, set in the North Yorkshire moors in the 1960's.

3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:45pm On the Buses 5:50pm You're Only Young Twice 6:25pm George and Mildred 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Lewis 11:00pm DCI Banks 12:00am DCI Banks 1:05am Scott and Bailey

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7:00am Killing Hasselhoff 8:25am Monster Family: Special 8:55am Birth of the Dragon 10:45am Christine 12:55pm The Mummy After he inadvertently awakens an ancient Egyptian sorceress, renegade US soldier Nick Morton must race to save the world from her army of the undead.

2:55pm The Mummy: Special 3:15pm Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant 5:00pm Birth of the Dragon 6:50pm Christine 9:00pm The Mummy 11:00pm Larry Gaye: Renegade Male Flight Attendant 12:50am Roxxy

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Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Avengers Storage Wars Storage Wars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars River Monsters River Monsters On Deadly Ground FYI Daily On Deadly Ground Action-packed thriller Car Crash Global

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12:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.

9:00am Football's Greatest 9:30am Football's Greatest Teams 10:00am La Liga Highlights: Barcelona 10:15am La Liga Highlights: Real Madrid 10:30am La Liga Greatest Games 11:00am Football 5:15pm La Liga Icons: Falcao 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm La Liga Highlights: Barcelona 6:15pm La Liga Highlights: Real Madrid 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm 20 Years of El Clasico 7:45pm La Liga Icons 8:00pm Soccer A.M. 8:30pm La Liga Icons 8:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 8:55pm Football 11:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 11:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 11:30pm MLS Preview Show 12:00am La Liga Icons

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8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Handmade on the Silk Road 9:00pm Pedalling Dreams: The Raleigh Story 10:00pm The Mafia's Secret Bunkers Author and mafia historian John Dickie uncovers the truth about Italy's most powerful organised crime group.

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2:35am Top of the Pops 3:15am Pedalling Dreams: The Raleigh Story 4:15am Handmade on the Silk Road

8:10am 3rd Rock from the Sun 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:00pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawnbrokers 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm A New Life in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm How to Get Fit Fast 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm The FGM Detectives 12:00am Before We Die 1:15am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 2:00am It's a Weird World 2:55am The Supervet

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Dress to Impress Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Who's Doing the Dishes?

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Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Survival of the Fittest Celebrity Juice Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! The Cleveland Show Two and a Half Men

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am The Royal 10:05am Judge Judy 10:30am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:25am The Cruise 11:55am The Cruise 12:25pm Love Your Garden 1:30pm The Royal 2:35pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:50pm On the Buses 5:20pm On the Buses 5:55pm You're Only Young Twice 6:25pm George and Mildred 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm Scott and Bailey 12:00am Scott and Bailey 1:05am A Touch of Frost 3:00am ITV3 Nightscreen 3:30am Teleshopping

7:00am The Protectors 7:35am Pawn Stars The sharp-eyed Harrisons head to Utah to cut deals on historic firearms 8:00am Pawn Stars 8:30am Ironside 9:30am Quincy, M.E. 10:30am Minder 11:35am The Sweeney 12:40pm The Avengers 1:50pm Ironside 2:50pm Quincy, M.E. 3:55pm Minder 5:00pm The Sweeney 6:05pm The Avengers 7:05pm Storage Wars 7:35pm Storage Wars 8:05pm Pawn Stars 8:35pm Pawn Stars 9:00pm World Superbike Highlights 10:00pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 11:00pm The Game of Death 12:00am FYI Daily 12:05am The Game of Death 1:05am On Deadly Ground 2:05am FYI Daily 2:10am On Deadly Ground 3:10am The Americans 4:00am Teleshopping

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6:30am Tennis Archive 6:45am Tennis Archive 7:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Live ATP 500: Dubai 3:00pm Sky Sports News 4:00pm Live ATP 500: Dubai 7:30pm Sky Sports News at 6 8:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 8:30pm Live Checkatrade Trophy A semi-final from the Checkatrade Trophy.

11:00pm The Debate - Live 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sporting Greats A look at the career of one of sport's alltime greats.

1:30am Cricket New Zealand take on England at the Bay Oval in Mount Maunganui in the second ODI in their series.

5:35am Dive Olly Dive and the Octopus Rescue 7:00am Birth of the Dragon A young Bruce Lee looks to make a name for himself in 1960s San Francisco, soon challenging Shaolin master Wong Jack Man to an epic showdown.

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12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 1:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:30pm Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 2:00pm La Liga Icons 3:00pm SPFL Round Up 2017/18 3:15pm SPFL Greatest Games 3:30pm Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 4:30pm Football's Greatest Teams 5:00pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:15pm Scottish Cup Greatest Games 5:30pm La Liga Greatest Games 5:45pm La Liga Greatest Games 6:00pm MLS Preview Show 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm Revista de la Liga 7:30pm Eredivisie 8:30pm Football 11:00pm The Debate - Live 12:00am La Liga World 12:30am MLS Preview Show

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If ‘Send to All’ really existed…

If you really want to play the Michael McIntyre game, practise safe sending

TECH FOR THE TIMID LAST year a friend sent my email address a joke.

Now I’m deluged with offers to augment the male anatomy, retrieve my winnings from a lottery I didn’t enter, or enjoy the charms of ladies called Anushka or Anastasya.

And all because my friend took a leaf from the Michael McIntyre show by using his equivalent of that ‘Send to All’ game to pass on his innocuous joke.

What email etiquette did he contravene? His emailed joke was openly addressed to everyone in his address book. I could see all his dozens of friends’ addresses, and they could all see mine. In this age of easy digital pilferage that put all our addresses out there in the wild, it’s easy pickings for the spammers.

So here’s this week’s tiny but vital email etiquette tip: when you want to forward the funniest thing since seg-

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

WHAT’S going on in the UK? We read that the NHS was forced to pay £1,500 for a £2 pot of moisturiser, people have been extortionately fined for putting cardboard boxes in the wrong recycling bins, plus there’s been a torrent of false rape allegations.

First up, the owner of the high street chemist, Boots, charged the NHS £1,500 for a £2 moisturiser.

The case is among thousands where it looks as if the NHS has been overcharged for drugs called specials: custom-made for patients who need non-standard medicines, mixtures of skin creams for eczema etc and drugs in liquid form for those unable to swallow pills.

This speaks volumes about poor management at the NHS. Are they totally blind to the blatant abuse of the

EMAIL OVERLOAD: To BCC or not to BCC. mented whole wheat, hide the addresses of your inflictees.

Here’s how: 1) Compose your email.

2) Address it to your own email address.

3) Then add your recipients one by one with the BCC button.

BCC officially means ‘Blind Carbon Copy’. It’s the subversive variant of the CC ‘copy’ function, responsible single-handedly for swamping workplaces with

avalanches of digital sludge.

BCC is a really sneaky way to copy someone into correspondence without the original addressee being aware of it. All BCC addresses are hidden from all other recipients, so no one can harvest valuable contact details from your address book.

By addressing an email to yourself and then BCC-ing your recipients, their details remain sacrosanct and they’ll only hate you for the inanity of your joke, not for revealing their

email addresses to all.

While we’re at it, here’s another obvious but surprisingly common email fault: keeping everything in your Inbox.

My immortal beloved eventually had several thousand emails in her groaning, treacle-slow Inbox until she finally saw the light and was saved.

All it takes is to make folders/directories in your email program’s lefthand navigation column, and every day drag your dealt-with emails from the Inbox into their respective folders: Business, Friends, Lovers, Potential lovers, Final demands, Absolutely final demands, whatever folders suit your particular needs. It makes finding the email you want a whole lot easier too.

One more tip: delete those huge attachments from your emails once you’re done with them. In some programs you just right-click the attachment symbol and choose delete.

Your email program will become much more responsive without the burden of all those forwarded cat videos. So do it right miaow.

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Scorched earth RATH ER t han cl ean m y lodgings as a student, it was of t en easi er j ust t o keep moving somewhere else.

Sadly it’s not that simple with email, though some of us do indeed just give up when spam m ers overrun our accounts, and endure the ‘scorched earth’ hassle of starting a new address.

Hitting an ‘Unsubscribe’ l i nk at t he bot t om of an em ai l of t en works. But sometimes it has the opposite and unintended effect of confirming to the spammer that he has reached an actual live recipient, and the invasion ramps up.

For ext rem e cases you can actually train your program t o recogni se j unk mail and move it to a junk f ol der aut om at i cal l y. O r you can use a proper spam blocker. I had 30 emails advertising one in my Inbox last week…

What a state Britain’s in how did it get to this? system by unscrupulous suppliers, who must have knowledge of pricing and policies, but choose to exploit them for their own gain?

Next, a woman was fined £600 for putting one cardboard box into the wrong recycling bin. When she complained, she was warned she’d face an even larger fine, possibly a prison sentence unless she paid up. The fine was imposed by a company, employed by the council, that provides enforcement to councils free of charge and makes money from all these fines. Really?

Then, the false rape allegations. A teenage schoolboy, Liam Allan, was cleared of rape after his lawyers uncovered key evidence proving his innocence but missed by

ple. The UK, as elsewhere, is confronted by threats of a world order; Putin’s Russia on the prowl, terrorists galore, Trump’s America not completely dependable anymore. Meanwhile, what sort of questions were the British media hurling at the defence secretary in response recently? Why, all about his past sex life, of course. ’Nuff said.

EXTORTIONATE: Boots ripped the NHS off £1,500 for a £2 moisturiser. police and prosecutors.

Expelled from school after his arrest, on bail for two years, he’s the youngest vic-

tim of the disclosure scandal engulfing the CPS. But are other innocent men behind bars less ‘lucky’ than

young Liam? Has the pendulum against men swung a bit too far?

Let’s take another exam-

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Red Dress’, ‘No Way Back’, ‘Landscape of Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.no ra-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore.

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LEGALLY SPEAKING Permission to use your vehicle WE answer some common driving questions, kindly provided by members of the Guardia Civil based in Torrevieja, Costa Blanca, who set up the N332 website and Facebook page to help break down barriers.

I am ‘Relentless’ Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man

ASSUMING your insurance covers multiple drivers, you may allow any qualified driver to use your vehicle. However, in order to avoid problems if the driver is stopped, it is recommended that the vehicle driver is given a document proving that they have the owner’s permission to drive the vehicle.

This may seem like an inconvenience, but it is for your protection. If the vehicle is stopped, the officers who come across a vehicle driven by somebody other than the registered keeper will question the legalities of the driver, which is in your best interest, as if it is stolen they will find out very soon.

Otherwise, if a vehicle is stolen but not yet reported as such, there could be no reason for the

Guardia Civil or police to doubt the person driving the vehicle has the owner’s permission, and so it could otherwise go unchecked. But of course there could be a genuine reason for somebody other than the registered keeper to drive the car, which is what this document would help to prove.

Simply download the document and complete it, or complete the online version and print it, and attach a copy of both the owner’s driving licence, and a copy of the licence of the person given permission to drive. It should be completed in full, including a term of validity, and then dated and signed.

Download, print and complete the following document: http://n332.es/wp-content/up loads/2018/01/authdriver.pdf.

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What is rental registration?

To a recent enquiry about noisy renters you replied that the landlord must include a registration number on his advert. Does this apply to companies that manage properties for rental for the Good question. The regulation of shortterm tourist lettings is handled by each one of Spain’s 17 autonomous regions, so the rules are different from Andalucia to Valencia to the Balearic Islands. Furthermore, most of the regulations are quite new and the land-

landlord? I ask because I never knew this and I have not seen it on any adverts.

Where would the registration be placed and how many digits should it have?

M F (by email)

David Searl You and the Law in Spain

lords may have up to a year to comply in some areas. My own quick search showed that practically no one is in compliance yet. There have been

many bureaucratic delays in obtaining the registration but it has been made easier in some areas so you should find the numbers used before too long. And, yes, the letting agencies will be required to include the registration number for each property they advertise on the internet.

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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THERE is nothing that makes me grumpier than dealing with ignorant, stupid people.

Ryanair has recently introduced a ‘live chat’ facility which, after never being able to actually speak to a human being, is a good alternative. But this is the conversation I had with one of their agents today: ‘Hello Michael - how may I help you?’

‘I have booked a flight and paid to carry hand luggage. I am disabled and travel with my own wheelchair and I have just read in your FAQs that disabled passengers can take their hand luggage free of charge so I’d like to arrange a refund please.’

After going through the usual security questions she comes back with, ‘There is no refund with priority boarding. Is there anything else I can help you with today?

Well a) she hadn’t actually helped me with anything and b) now she’s offering to not help me with something else.

I explained again that I don’t need priority boarding as I always have Special Assistance due to my disability but, because of their new

luggage policy, I felt I had no choice other than to pay for priority boarding. Nowhere on their luggage details do they state that passengers using Special Assistance are able to keep their hand luggage with them free of charge.

I only discovered that little gem buried in their FAQs. Is it so hard to make it easy for people to know that or is it, as I suspect, an easy way to nick more money?

She confirms again there is no refund as they are ‘a non-refundable airline’! What the hell does that mean??? I asked to be transferred to a supervisor at which point she says, ‘I can’t transfer you to a supervisor, if you’re not happy fill out a form, goodbye’. And then she disconnects our chat!! And that was the end of my chat. How rude. This is not ‘customer service’ - this is ‘customer alienation.’

Ryanair boast about how they are ‘making things better’ for their passengers. Really??? I then get a box come up asking me to fill in a survey regarding my experience. I asked them to send me copy of the chat so if anyone thinks I’m exaggerating I have the proof. I’m sure that nowhere on the booking page or the priority boarding does it say Special Assistance passengers do not need to pay. My nickname is ‘Relentless’ so I won’t let this go and it’s not even about the money, it’s the principle. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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It seems crazy that the Spanish government makes some things so difficult I LIVE in Spain, needing to fit a muchneeded body-part to my car that would help my wife to enter and exit - especially as she has advancing mobility problems.

But so help me, the very expensive and robust stainless-steel side-steps I bought from Poland cannot be fitted as it doesn’t include a Homologated Certificate. Where the heck does it all end?

Spain is a great country, with a population that is welcoming, friendly and warm; so why the Spanish government is so short-sighted, blinkered and blatantly stupid when it comes to allowing individuals to fit replacement or new parts to their cars is unbelievable?

Towing arms, bull-bars, air-horns, etc are all included. And lots more too! Whoever made this stupid rule a law needs to reconsider it, I reckon. Maybe Gibraltar should close its borders to the Spanish!

That would cause a storm-and-a half!

The fact that anything fitted to a car that is seen as modifying it (?) has to be checked by an experienced Trained Tester at an ITV Centre before it is added to the relevant vehicle’s paperwork for legality.

So why-oh-why is there such a palaver when it comes to fitting something? Either it’s done properly or not at all. If not at all,

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it will fail. It doesn’t need a flimsy certificate. It doesn’t necessarily need a so-called professional mechanic to fit it. It’s only a few nuts and bolts, in most cases! It fails or it passes. What could be simpler?

Scotty Mackay, Alcaucin

A honeymoon and now their forever home

Sangria explained

W E o r i g i n a l l y c a m e h e re i n 1985 on honeymoon (age 23 and 22 years old), we have been back a few times since then but back again this year, 2018 (some 33 years later!).

It was always a dream of ours to come back to our beloved Benalmadena and for two months now we have been doing the groundwork, planning out the next chapter of our lives. On the right is us in 1985 on the prom. This is us in the same place, today: 33 years later!

SANGRIA was originally produced and consumed only during Easter and its name refers to the blood of Christ.

It was produced on Easter Saturday from red wine, lemonade, lemon slices, cloves, cinnamon and a shot of brandy, no more, no less.

It was left in a bowl to simmer overnight and was consumed on Easter Sunday.

Oscar Gonzalez, Marbella

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Anne Currie, Benalmadena

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Motor homes plague Costa Blanca beaches Live and let live.The vast majority are tidy people, some of the motorhomes cost more than a bungalow in Torrevieja. Plus,most of the ‘beauty spots’ around Costa Blanca look like wasteland anyway.

Marcus Tipa

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If the town hall got their heads together, found them some wasteland, charged them a nominal fee and supplied electricity, water, toilets etc.

They could then ban them from the beaches.

Maureen Rush

But I would hope that the money spent in the local economies is worth way more than minor inconveniences caused by a few.

Edda Stentiford

How is it that they don’t use all the campsites on the Costas? Or are they too tight?

George R Carman

Exact speeds that trigger radar cameras

Some of us ‘motorhomers’ do not enjoy getting stacked like sardines into campsites. We pour the grey water into drains and the WC waste i n t o d i s p o s a l s p o t s. M o s t l y w e s t a y t w o o r three nights and spend money in shops and restaurants, a lot of them owned by the very people moaning about our existence.

We do appreciate that in winter it is a different ball game than in summer and would expect to use official sites then, if only because all those areas will be full of Spaniards coming down to the coast and there is no room.

Wish there were more signs posting the correct speed, too many ups and downs as it is!

Justice Christopher

Political party members face jail over protest They might change their minds if the Brits did go home and their money stream dried up.

Richard Gus Warren Would be replaced by a better Quality of tourist Richard! Ones that spend real money!

Like the Russians and the Scandinavians that don’t want to come and see drunk Brits vomiting all over the place falling off balconies!

John William Roberts

What about when they hide in a full car park in an unmarked car, that’s entrapment surely!

Amanda Allen Wheatley

I have several (seven) friends who live there m o s t o f t h e y e a r J o h n . Th e y s p e n d ‘ m u c h o dinero’ there. They have all lived there for 15 to 20 years each. That’s a lot of spending power. This mob of terrorists ‘Arran’ (check the definition of terrorist) need to be locked away for a few years till they grow up. They are the NF of Mallorca.

Richard Gus Warren

What about people who drive far too slow?

Surely that is just as bad, and dangerous?

Tricia Harrington

A r ra n i s C U P. Th i s i s n o t a b o u t t o u r i s m , i t ’s Catalan nationalist ‘kale borroka.’

Peter Harvey

RE Issue 1701, cyclists are governed by the same traffic laws that apply to any vehicle using the roads in Spain. The traffic law also states cyclists must now use headphones when using a mobile phone or when listening to music. They also should dismount before using a crossing.

Hope this helps.

John Dale, Los Dolses

Poll position I THINK we should keep grid girls provided they are not forced to be there.

As grid children will be all boys that will start another argument as grid girls will come under the ban.

Anyway, the grid girls provide a touch of glamour to a male dominated sport. I am an F1 fan and vote for the status quo.

Derek, La Marina

Suits the Spanish IT always amazes me how very popular crowded, noisy events are with the Spanish people.

This is not a criticism, but maybe a cause for grudging admiration from a ‘stiff upper lip Brit’ who wouldn’t dream of dressing up as a pirate and wandering around town during carnival.

Having said that however when you see hens and stags in fancy dress, they do actually look like idiots, but the Spanish seem to have a naïve charm which makes their bizarre costumes seem common place.

Perhaps the fact that they join in as groups of family and neighbours rather than a pack of drunken foreigners helps!

Brian Cox, Sabinillas

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Treat yourself, but don’t overindulge your temptations.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) The full moon in your own sign is a powerful ally against this week’s planetary fracas. Speak from the heart and reject any ambiguous emotional games.

It's the only way to clear the air and truly know where you're heading.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) There’s a financial theme to many of your plans and ideas.

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Down 1 Changes Pat's ad about (6) 2 More uncommon rubles are registered (5) 3 Agile secret agent creeping round the ringleader (4) 5 Modify, for example, ring for a confidant (5,3) 6 One's position is not changed at the inside (7) 7 Metal pin crook finally found in waste pipe (6) 8 Keep out of French watering

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Across 1 Come or go back (6) 4 Prison (4) 8 Variety of peach with a smooth skin (9) 9 Gemstone (4) 10 Rely on (6) 13 Stable units (6) 15 Capital of Norway (4) 18 Sweets on sticks (9) 19 Nesting insect (4) 20 Have an ambitious plan or a lofty goal (6)

English - Spanish

Across 1 Desafortunado (7) 5 Toads (5) 8 Gaviota (7) 9 Parrots (5) 10 Thirteen (5) 11 To obtain (7) 12 Cubo (balde) (6) 14 Geese (domestic) (6) 17 Reign (7) 19 Arches (5) 22 January (5) 23 Pendiente (joya) (7) 24 Sheep (5) 25 Cantantes (7)

Down 1 Unpleasantly loud and harsh (7) 2 Friendly Islands (5) 3 Wealthy (4) 5 Nimble or active (5) 6/18 Hide out (3,3) 7 Ship of the desert (5) 11 Bishop's jurisdiction (7) 12 Ordinary (5) 14 Collection of maps in book form (5) 16 Japanese food (5) 17 Chief or leader (4) 18 See 6

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

Down 1 Alterado (5) 2 Key (door) (5) 3 Dummy (for baby) (7) 4 Amarillo (6) 5 Hendidura (corte) (5) 6 Padres (7) 7 Tailors (7) 12 Barber (7) 13 Chino (7) 15 Scorpion (7) 16 Toallas (6) 18 Now (at this time, immediately) (5) 20 Delito (5) 21 Señales (indicaciones) (5)

Hexagram

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

CARBOY CENSUS CLOSER COWBOY CURATE DETOUR DROOPY DUPLEX FAULTY FIASCO GOLDEN MEADOW OPAQUE SCENIC SEXTET (10) SLUDGE STODGY UTMOST VESTAL

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Artery 2 Coyote 3 Undoes 4 Aerate 5 Corona 6 Pigeon 7 Cravat 8 Domain 9 Revved 10 Raisin 11 Cowmen 12 Vandal 13 Jigsaw 14 Vellum 15 Indigo 16 Jovial 17 Inland 18 Toilet 19 Pundit

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

• The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’.

They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

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

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

• No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

Kakuro

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

Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

TARGET: • Average: 21 • Good: 29

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

TARGET: • Average: 6 • Good: 8 • Very good: 12 • Excellent: 15

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION cads cart card cards carob carobs cars crag crags crore ados adore adobe adsorb ardor ardors arks tact tads taro taros tars tags tract trad trod dart dark darks dags drat drag drags dragster dork dorks dost dory dobs rads rags rods roster robs robe gads gars grad grads grog gods goby gobi gory gore gobs orca ogre orbs soda sort sorb sorbet sore sober stem bods bora bort bore bobs bros bribe byre bibs bier biers rort ribs berg bets ergo erst

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION aloe dale deal dole flea fled floe foal fold fool lade lead leaf load loaf lode oleo addle aloof doled flood laded loofa offal doodle foaled folded fooled loaded loafed flooded offload OFFLOADED

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1 Cryogenic, 7 Terms, 8 Rayon, 9/5 War cry, 10 Salmon, 14 Almond, 18 Andes, 20 Aware, 21 Gangsters.

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Across:

Across:

1 Spots, 4 Starlet, 8 Russell, 9 Limbo, 10 Polecats, 11 Wage, 13 Scroll, 15 Raptor, 18 Path, 19 Carousel, 22 Oiled, 23 Sterile, 24 Sprites, 25 Notes.

1 Stars, 4 Caracol, 8 Against, 9 Ice, 10 Seaweed, 11 Abajo, 12 Brooms, 14 Porfin, 17 Temer, 19 Barrels, 22 Hot, 23 Ejemplo, 24 Respeto, 25 Shave.

Down:

Down:

1 Stripes, 2 Ousel, 3 Stencils, 4 Salute, 5 Ally, 6 Lambast, 7 Trove, 12 Napoleon, 14 Rattler, 16 Rollers, 17 Causes, 18 Plots, 20 Saint, 21 Edit.

1 Shops, 2 Aparato, 3 Suave, 4 Cuñada, 5 Retraso, 6 Caida, 7 Lie down, 12 Butcher, 13 Marbete, 15 Fregona, 16 Obrero, 18 Motos, 20 Ropes, 21 Sauce.

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QUIZ: HAVING YOUR CAKE AND EATING IT TOO 1. According to its advertising slogan, who ‘makes exceedingly good cakes’?

2. Baby Cakes was a UK number one hit single in 2004 for which British garage trio?

3. First published in 1930, Cakes and Ale is a novel by which British novelist, short-story writer and playwright?

4. Pannetone, a light cake, usually made with sultanas and candied peel, is traditionally eaten at Christmas in which European country?

5. The name of which small, fancy cake comes from the French for ‘small oven’?

6. What is the name of the oblong sponge cake covered with marzipan, with a square cross section quartered with two colours of sponge?

7. What is the name of the rich loaf cake containing 16 ounces, or equal weights, of each

chief ingredient, typically flour, butter and sugar?

8. Which 1974 Top 10 Queen hit contains the lyric 'Let them eat cake she says, just like Marie Antoinette’?

9. Which Scottish city gives its name to a rich fruit cake, typically decorated on top with almonds?

10. Which small yeast cake is saturated in syrup made with hard liquor, usually rum, and sometimes filled with whipped cream or pastry cream?

Not a lot of people know that... the first cupcakes were so called, in the late 19th century, because they were baked in cups and made from ingredients measured by the cupful.

Answers: 1. MR KIPLING (owned by Premier Foods), 2. 3 OF A KIND, 3. WILLIAM SOMERSET MAUGHAM, 4. ITALY, 5. PETIT FOUR, 6. BATTENBERG, 7. POUND CAKE, 8. KILLER QUEEN, 9. DUNDEE, 10. RUM BABA or BABA AU RHUM

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BIRTHDAYS

FOLLOWING her service in a brutal war, the selfaware spaceship Trouble D og becomes dis illu sioned with the fighting for which s he was d e signed. She goes to join the House of Reclamation, a n o rganis ation whic h helps distressed ships, but finds it hard to adapt to her new peaceful role.

Tr ouble Dog finds a new lease of life however when a ship goes missing in a disputed star system.

C rewed by a group o f misfits and captained by Sal Konstaz, Trouble Dog goes out in search of the ship which is also being hunted by intelligence officer Ashton Childe.

The ship and crew then stumble into new conflicts in Gareth L Powell’s Embers of War.

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Sudoku LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

• Drew Barrymore, Actor; where he competed in national February 22, 43 forensics competitions. He has The Charlie’s Angels star since voiced characters in Frozen featured in an advert for dog and the Ice Age series.

• Floyd Mayweather, Boxer; food when she was less than one-year-old before going on to Floyd Mayweather.

February 24, 41 land roles in ET and Mad Love.

The five-division world champion She directed her first film Whip It! in has won 15 titles and defeated rival Manny 2009.

Pacquiao in what has been called the fight of the century. He retired in 2017 with a • Josh Gad, Actor; February 23, 37 Gad has starred in the Broadway record 50 wins to zero losses. production of the Book of Mormon and in • James and Oliver Phelps, Actors; the films The Rocker and Pixels. He February 25, 32 The Phelps twins played Ron Weasley’s studied at Nova Southeastern University

(Rupert Grint) older brothers in the Harry Potter series. Born 13 minutes apart in Sutton Coldfield in Britain, they were cast in the series aged 14. James has had a role in The Da Vince Code and Oliver in Own Worst Enemy.

• Peter Andre, Pop Singer; February 27, 45 Andre landed a record deal after competing on Hey Hey Its’s Saturday aged 16. He is well-known for Mysterious Girl and appeared on I’m a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here where he met Katie Price. They married in 2005 and divorced in 2009.

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

Sierra Nevada SNOW REPORT Partly cloudy skies and daytime temperatures above freezing are expected until Sunday, where it will snow through until next Thursday.

Temperatures will drop to lows of -6 degrees but no strong winds are expected.

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532 - Hagia Sophia built Byzantine Emperor Justinian I orders the construction of a new Orthodox church in Constantinople, which would become the Hagia Sophia. It has since been a mosque and is now a museum.

1246 - Siege of Jaen Spanish forces take over the city of Jaen from the Taifa during the Reconquista, a series of wars on the Iberian Peninsula which ended in the 15th century.

1371 - Stuart dynasty begins Robert II becomes Scotland’s King, beginning the Stuart dynasty. One of his descendants, James I, would become the first Stuart King of England in 1603.

1607 - First opera Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo premieres, one of the first works which is recognisably an opera.

1815 - Napoleon escapes Deposed French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte flees exile in Elba to retake his throne and resume the Napoleonic wars. He would go on to be defeated at the Battle of Waterloo.

1933 - Reichstag fire Germany’s Parliament building is set on fire in an apparent arson attack. The fire sets in motion events that lead to the Nazis tightening their grip on power in the country.

1954 - President Nasser Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser is made President of Egypt. His nationalisation of the Suez Canal will spark a crisis that leads to the invasion of his country and the fall of Anthony Eden’s government in Britain.

2011 - Christchurch quake New Zealand’s second-deadliest earthquake in its history hits the city of Christchurch, killing 185 people.

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LIZ (Dakota Fanning) lives with her husband Eli (William Houston) and their children in a town on the US’s Western frontier.

She is mute and communicates through sign language but when a new preacher (Guy Pearce) comes to town Liz is terrified and believes he is dangerous.

The story then follows different characters in four chapters detailing their personal trials. Brimstone is a gritty series of tales about retribution and survival which intertwine through the unforgiving Old West.

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LAVENDER oil is extracted from the flowers of the lavender plant, usually using steam, and is often used in beauty and health products such as aromatherapy oil, lotions and soaps.

The essential oil also works well when blended with other essential oils such as pine, cedar wood, geranium and nutmeg.

The health benefits of lavender oil have been raved about for centuries. It has the ability to relieve pain, enhance blood circulation, get rid of nervous tension, disinfect the skin, enhance blood circulation, and treat respiratory problems among others.

It also works as an effective bug repellent and has anti-inflammatory qualities that help to reduce the irritation if you do get bitten.

Lavender oil has been used for centuries to induce sleep and can be used to treat insomnia. Studies on elderly people have revealed their sleep regularity increases when they place some lavender essential oil on their pillows due to its relaxing impact.

For this reason it also helps to calm the nerves and ease anxiety.

The stimulating aroma has been proven to get rid of nervous exhaustion and restlessness while increasing mental activity at the same time. This, therefore, makes it effective in treating depression, headaches, emotional stress and nervous tension.

One study revealed that people taking exams suffered from less anxiety if they inhaled lavender and rosemary oil before taking the test.

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PURPLE GAIN: Lavender has been proven to reduce emotional stress and nervous tension.

IF you’re bored of jogging or Zumba and are looking for a new workout to keep you motivated, you should consider adding kickboxing to your routine. Kickboxing combines heart-pumping cardio with martial arts, giving an effective, wellrounded workout.

The exercise could help to reduce stress as an hour of punching and kicking your way to a

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Get kicked into shape healthier life can help to resolve many of life’s small problems. It also releases endorphins which will help boost your mood and confidence.

The key kickboxing moves work out several core muscle groups so will help you get toned and fit in no time. It could also improve your posture and coordination as it helps to improve your reflexes and strengthen your core.

WARMING: Steep herbal tea in a covered vessel to preserve the essential oils.

Herbal tea: a holistic health boost IF you’re suffering from bloating, nausea or even just feeling a bit under the weather, instead of rifling through the medicine cabinet, perhaps reach for a herbal tea bag instead.

Besides being a stimulating, caffeine-free pick-me-up, herbal tea has been proven to have many health benefits and some also contain many of the vitamins and minerals needed on a daily basis.

Herbal tea isn’t actually

made from the tea plant of course; it’s an infusion of plant leaves, roots, seeds or bark, which provides all the benefits of the plant in an easy-to-digest form.

If you drink herbal tea every day, it can make a significant difference to your skin, your mood, and your energy levels.

Peppermint tea is effective at relieving muscle spasms, as well as the symptoms of nausea and bloating. However, you should avoid it altogether

if you suffer from indigestion or heartburn.

Fresh ginger tea is also great at solving digestion problems and is a powerful cold-fighting remedy when you add lemon and honey.

Known for its anti-oxidant properties, rooibos tea can help to ward off disease and can help reduce the signs of ageing, while chamomile tea can help treat insomnia or anxiety due to its calming and sedative qualities.

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QUIN OA h i t t h e f o o d ie headlines several years ago as being the super grain you should add to your diet.

It’s p o ssi b l e t o fin d quinoa p r o d u c t s i n m o s t health stores but its recent popularity means many supermarkets now stock them too.

It is believed humans first started consuming the grain three to four thousand years ago when the Incas discovered th e q u i n o a se e d w a s suitable for consumption. It seems they were onto something as this super food is packed wi t h l o t s o f g o o d stuff that make it good for you.

Q uin o a i s p a c k e d w ith protein, which is essential for repairing muscle tissue and ke e p i n g t h e b o d y in ship shape.

It als o c o n t a i n s a r o u n d twice as much fibre as other grains, which is essential in aiding digestion and could also help to prevent heart dis ease a s i t k e e p s b lo o d

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SUPER FOOD: Quinoa ‘was the gold of the Incas.’ pressure at healthy levels and prevents the risk of developing diabetes.

The super grain also has a good level of iron which is n e e d ed to k ee p o u r r e d blood cells healthy.

It a ls o in c re a s e s b rain function because the brain absorbs around 20 per cent

of the oxyge n from our blood.

It is also rich in magnesium and manganese, essential nutrients needed to relax blood vessels, therefore preventing migraines, promote healthy blood sugar c ontrol a nd prote c t c e lls from free radicals.

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It’s easy to love your back IT is the season of love and to celebrate Bodyworks are having LOVE YOUR BACK month from February 14 to March 14!

In my opinion one of the best and easiest ways to love your back is a few regular sessions on our amazing Mobiliser. I often use it with my patients either before or after a session with me.

The Mobiliser aligns all the little facet joints up your spine, as well as releasing the big muscles. Starting at your ankles and working it’s two rollers (56 thumbs!!) all the way up to your neck and then down your body in a prescribed routine it is an amazing tool.

For sports people and athletes of all sorts that flexibility is phenomenal (we have a few testimonials from names you might recognise!). We’ve measured a 10 per cent improvement after just one session!

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For anyone tied to their desk it relieves that neck and shoulder ache while for those with long term back, neck or sciatica issues (to name a few!) it gives you control to have your treatment when and how you like it. Effective treatment with no hassle.

So let’s make it easy to love your back!

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We’ll give you a smart little voucher and that means who-

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Free delivery for rented Mobilisers That’s right, you can take one home for the month and use it as many times as you like and it’s FREE to get it home.

Twenty per cent off the purchase price of a Mobiliser If you’ve been toying with the idea of a Mobiliser of your very own now is the time to take one home with a staggering 20 per cent off the purchase price! And that includes free shipping anywhere in Spain.

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New hotspot in Marbella ON Thursday March 1 the all new restaurant Cascada Cocina & Bar will open its doors.

Conveniently situated in the Marbella hills, while only a minute from the La Cañada Shopping Mall, it’s the perfect location to escape the bustle of the city and to relax and share some exquisite tapas with friends.

The menu is a contemporary mix of Andalucian and Spanish classics and is designed to appeal to both Spanish foodies and international guests alike.

The dishes have the perfect sharing size, w hic h a l l o ws y o u to s amp le th e ma n y flavours on offer and they are prepared by a chef ’s team with experience in several Spanish Michelin star restaurants.

The venue is very well suited for a meal for two but also groups are welcome as there is a large patio set in a lush, green surrounding with numerous citrus trees and b o r d e r i n g t h e riv er A rro y o d e la s Represas.

Because of the many trees, this secluded and romantic area is nice and cool during the hot days of summer and is ideal for

COMING SOON: The Cascada Cocina & Bar.

ENTRANCE WAY: The Castillo de Monda. private events.

Cascada Cocina & Bar has an all-day kitchen and will be open seven days a week during the high season from 1pm to midnight and Wednesday to Sunday from 1pm to 11pm during the low season which

finishes at the end of March.

Dutch Origin SL is the company behind this new hotspot and is better known as the company responsible for the success of Hotel-Restaurante Castillo de Monda which reopened just over two years ago

after having been closed for almost three years.

The castle has welcomed many guests ever since and is especially valued for the quality food it serves.

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Diamonds for the ladies JUST because Valentine’s Day has passed, there is no reason to forget that every girl (and lady) just loves jewellery, especially diamonds.

So if you have a special birthday, anniversary or just want to pamper your partner, take a look at the exceptional bargains at Anthony’s Diamonds in Fuengirola where the owner and his daughter Lucy know that you don’t have to pay the earth to get quality stones.

Diamonds are a specialist area and Lucy in particular has the qualifications to prove that she knows how to judge the famous four Cs, Cut, Carat weight, Colour and Clarity which basically dictates the quality of the stone.

Although pricing is important, as Anthony says, at the end of the day why should you pay an exorbitant price for something that has been dug

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The entire family believe that they need to offer a great service and exceptional prices and are proud of the fact that many of the jewellery items that they have for sale are up to three times cheaper than the average high street price.

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CONSIDERING how popular the Olivia’s restaurant parties can be, it’s never too early to make your reservation.

The White Ice party is now confirmed to take place on Thursday April 26 with special guests James ‘Arg’ Argent from TOWIE and sometime Loose Woman and X Factor contestant Stacey Solomon.

The very popular Masquerade Duo, regulars at Olivia’s, will also be on hand to provide additional music and there are

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White Ice party ushers in the season

FLASHBACK: Elliott and Sadie all in white in 2017.

bound to be plenty of surprises.

Entry costs just €20 and includes a glass of Moet & Chandon on arrival and there is a strict dress code which requires all guests to be dressed smartly in white with no trainers or sports-wear and for this evening no youngsters under the age of 12 will be admitted.

To book this great evening and to see other events and offers at Olivia’s, home of Elliott and Sadie Wright in La Cala de Mijas visit oliviaslacala.com.

A special charity performance THERE will be a special musical performance on Friday March 9 in celebration of the life of Roy Alan.

A glittering cast from both A Touch of Class and the Costa Soul Singers will perform together at this unique event with proceeds from the night being shared equally

between Lux Mundi and Cudeca Hospice.

Tickets are just €10 for the performance which will start at 8pm at the Auditorium of the Club Nautico in Benalmadena and may be obtained from Debbie Geater by calling her on 637 986 516 or by e-mailing deb biegeater@gmail.com.

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Get in the Swing ALTHOUGH no one knows what really happened to band leader Glenn Miller whose aircraft went down over the English Channel in 1944, his music continues and is still popular with people of all ages.

There will be a concert of American Swing at the Cervantes Theatre Malaga on Wednesday March 7 which will feature the Pasadena Roof Orchestra, the Irresistible Andrews Sisters and jive ballet from the Lindy Hoppers.

This concert recreates the music of an entire era with such classics as In the Mood, American Patrol, Chattanooga Choo Choo and Moonlight Serenade as well as songs such as the Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy.

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BIG BAND MUSIC: The Orchestra is ready to swing.

The orchestra which is made up of some exceptional musicians has crossed the world and

has paid tribute to the great trombonist and band leader for a number of years plays just

one night in Malaga with tickets costing from €25 to €56 per person.

Come celebrate St David’s Day THE very popular Ricky Lavazza remembers the Land of His Fathers on Thursday March 1, St David’s Day. He will be appearing alongside Mario Ross, Lenny D e e a nd La ura Elle n a s the y c e le bra te a ll tha t is

Welsh in music.

The musical tribute takes place at the Salon Varietes in Fuengirola, starting at 7.30pm and tickets cost €15 from the theatre website or box office.

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Upcoming wine region PRIORAT, as one of the upcoming Spanish wine regions, has recorded an extraordinary leap in quality and

by Lorenzo reputation over the Barbareschi last decade.

This small area which qualifies as Denominacio d’Origen Qualificada (DOQ) is in Tarragona Province in Cataluña and is one of only two regions - alongside Rioja - to qualify as DOCa, the highest qualification.

It produces mainly red and powerful wines.

Characterised by a terroir of volcanic origins with black slate and quartz soil known as llicorella, with vineyards on terraces at 100m - 700m, the area has low yields due to the rocky soil which does not allow water accumulation.

Wine production in the area dates from the 12th century, when monks from the Monastery of Scala Dei introduced viticulture and the prior ruled as a feudal lord, giving rise to the name Priorat.

At the end of the 19th century, the phylloxera pest devastated the vineyards and replanting was undertaken only in the 1950’s. In the 1980’s bulk wine production was phased out

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PRIORAT: On the march. and bottling of quality wine was introduced.

The traditional grape variety in El Priorat is the red Garnacha tinta, which is found in all the older vineyards. Other red varieties are Garnacha Peluda, Cariñena, Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot and Syrah.

White varieties are Garnacha blanca, Macabeo, Pedro Ximenez and Chenin.

The traditional reds are a single grape bottling of Grenache and Carignan, or a blend of these with French grape varieties including Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, or Syrah. Usually aged in oak barrels for 18 months followed by six months in the bottle, Priorat wines have a consumption optimal two years later.

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Echoes of the 60’s FOUNDED in 2014 by three top rate artists living and performing in the Costa del Sol, Echoes of the 60’s is attracting a great deal of attention as their lavish show with superb vocals and amazing costumes recreates the 1960’s.

The group c ons is ts of Mark Connor, Ron Howells and Michelle Daniels who between them bring years of experience and knowledge of the music world to their group as well as also performing in their own rights in other projects as well.

Mark and guitarist Ron appear together in the duo Mark ’n’ Ron, as well as t h e b a n d T R I X X X & Vi s i o n s o f Ve g a s , w h i l s t Michelle who is a wellknown solo artiste in her own right is also one half of Voulez Vous a very popular Abba tribute.

Their show has state of the art lighting and sound, and a massive video screen

TOP RATE: Echoes of the 60’s. showing original footage of the artistes lip-synced to the show although all of the vocals are live and the incredible virtuosity of Ron Howells on guitar is second to none.

Throughout the show there are costume changes, and the music will either take you right back to the era that you remember or will introduce you to an

amazing array of sounds which changed and shaped a generation Keep your eyes out for Echoes of the 60’s who will be performing at La Sala Banus next Monday and check out the website w w w. l a s a l a b a n u s . c o m t o see other great shows and to learn about special offers including Mother’s Day on Sunday March 11.

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Thursday February 22 Age Concern meet every Thursday from 11.00-13.00 at the Pensionista building in Los Boliches. They are located above the indoor market and just around the corner from Los Boliches station. They offer advice, support, help and friendship. Pop in and meet old friends and make new ones. Full social calendar throughout the year. We look forward to seeing you. Lifeline 652 537 615.

Language exchange workshop: free, every week from 9.30-11.30am in the Pensioners Centre in Las Lagunas.

For more information contact 952 890 010 or frd@mijas.es.

Los Jueves al Casco: Every week from 8am-12 noon enjoy special discounts, live music, free tastings and more in Marbella Old Town.

Rio Verde Villa Romana Ruins: free guided tour from 11am to 1pm. Calle del Mar, Marbella.

Rotary Club: meets every week at 2pm during lunch at Cortijo de Ramiro, Calle 11, Urb Guadalmina Baja, San Pedro de Alcantara at. Please contact lizzie@marriagewed dingservices.com to book a place.

San Pedro street market: Every week from 9am-2pm, Calle Jorge Guillen.

American Club of Estepona (ACE [all nationalities welcome]): Open Mon-Sat, 14pm. Calle San Roque 65 (three blocks west of old bus station). For more information contact 952 793 059 (club times) or www.acestepona. org.

Walking Football: every week from 10.30am at the Estadio Santa Maria in Elviria.

Walking Football is for men and women over 50 to play football without running or tackling and is a great way to meet new friends. Visit www.walkingfootballspain.com for details.

1st Fuengirola scout group meets at St Anthony’s College Fuengirola on Thursday 5pm to 7pm for all young people between six and 18 years Contact Robert Troost: 610 755 995 or Robert.troost@ britishscoutingoverseas.org.uk

Serrania de Ronda Culinary Fair, Benarraba, February 23 - 25 Feb THIS renowned culinary fair first started more than 15 years ago back in 2002 in order to promote local produce, create an exciting event for tourists and draw more visitors to the town.

It takes place in Benarraba Plaza de la Veracruz, where various food companies set up their stalls inside a marquee. There are also musical acts, presenta-

Friday February 23 Age Concern meet every Friday from 11.30-13.00 at Bar Conrisa in the centre of La Cala de Mijas. They are located behind Supersol and there is plenty of free parking.

They offer advice, support, help and friendship. Pop in and meet old friends and make new ones. Full social calendar throughout the year.

Just follow the sound of laughter. They look forward to seeing you. Lifeline 652 537 615.

Age Care Association: Weekly coffee morning from 11am to 12.30pm at the Hogar del Jubilado in Los Boliches, Fuengirola. Drop in for a chat and to share experiences. For more information contact 635 407 255.

1st Fuengirola scout group meets at St Anthony’s College Fuengirola on Fridays 7pm to 9pm for all young people between six and 18 years. Contact Robert Troost: 610 755 995 or Robert.troost@british scoutingoverseas.org.uk.

Christian Basilica of San Pedro de Alcantara: From 11am-1pm, free guided tour of one of the oldest Christian churches on the Iberian Peninsula. Calle Vega del Mar, San Pedro de Alcantara.

Royal British Legion: Benejarafe branch meets every Friday from 12.30-2.30pm at Restaurante Puerta Niza, Carretera Nacional 340A Km 263.7 offering emotional and financial help to those who have served in the Armed Forces.

American Club of Estepona (ACE [all nationalities welcome]): Open Mon-Sat, 1-

t i o n s a n d c h i l d r e n ’s e n t e r t a i n ment, so plenty to keep the whole family entertained.

The special activities are all culinary themed.

There will be live cooking demonstrations, children’s cooking workshops and tastings on offer. The local bars and restaurants also have their own stands in the marquee.

4pm. Calle San Roque 65 (three blocks west of old bus station). For more information contact 952 793 059 (club times) or www.acestepona. org.

University of the Third Age Costa del Sol: play Mah Jong every week from 10am-1pm at the PYR Hotel in Fuengirola. For more information contact +34 633 552 238 or visit www.u3afuengirolacostadel sol.com.

Saturday February 24 Flamenco show: free every Wednesday and Saturday from 12-1pm in Plaza Virgen de la Peña, Mijas Pueblo.

Organic market: Every week from 10am-1pm at Guadalhorce - Las Chapas.

Puerto Banus street market: Every week from 9am2pm near the bull ring in Nueva Andalucia.

Triple A: Every week volunteer dog walkers required between 10am and 3pm at Calle Carril de la Mina 33 in Marbella. For more information contact 952 771 586.

American Club of Estepona (ACE [all nationalities welcome]): Open Mon-Sat, 14pm. Calle San Roque 65 (three blocks west of old bus station). For more information contact 952 793 059 (club times) or www.acestepona. org.

Sunday February 25 Benahavis second-hand market: Every week from 9am to 2pm, located 1km before the village on the right hand side of the road.

University of the Third Age: Every week coffee morning

MARQUEE Magic: The Serrania de Ronda Culinary Fair.

There will also be a guided tour to find ‘wild medicinal and edible plants’ and a national ham cutting competition on Saturday and a costume contest on Tuesday.

from 11.30am to 1pm at the Primavera Bar, Paseo Maritimo, Los Boliches. For more information contact: 679 516 654 or visit www.u3afuengiro lacostadelsol.com.

Sunday market La Trocha Coin. Every week. Over 200 stalls. All welcome. For more info call 618 826 852.

Monday February 26 Royal Air Forces Association Costa del Sol Branch afternoon social on the third Monday of the month at Bar El Jardin, Avenida Bonanza, Arroyo de la Miel, Benalmadena.

Everyone is welcome, members or otherwise. Quiz with prize and raffle with all proceeds going to the Association to help with welfare work. For more information: www.rafa costadelsol.co.uk.

Age Care Association: Weekly coffee morning from 11am to 12.30pm at La Iglesia Bar in Benalmadena. Drop in for a chat and to share experiences. For more information contact 635 407 255.

RAF Association Costa del Sol: social meeting, first Monday of the month, at 12pm in Restaurante Los Morenos, Alhaurin el Grande. For more information contact secretary@ rafacostadelsol.co.uk.

American Club of Estepona (ACE [all nationalities welcome]): Open Mon-Sat, 14pm. Calle San Roque 65 (three blocks west of old bus station). For more information contact 952 793 059 (club times) or www.acestepona. org.

Walking Football: every week from 7.30pm at the El Retamar pitch by the Butterfly Park in Benalmadena. Walk-

ing Football is for men and women over 50 to play football without running or tackling and is a great way to meet new friends. Visit www.walkingfoot ballspain.com for details.

‘Are you affected by someone’s drinking?’ Al-anon Family Groups hold a meeting at 8.30pm in the Divina Pastora church rooms (Calle Juan Breva 2), Marbella. Confidential helpline: 602 553 470.

Tuesday February 27 Royal Air Forces Association Costa del Sol Branch Coffee Morning social at Restaurante Venta los Morenos, Alhaurin el Grande on every first Tuesday in the month starting at 12pm.

Everyone is welcome, members or otherwise. Quiz with prize and raffle with all proceeds going to the Association to help with welfare work.

For more information: www.rafacostadelsol.co.uk.

Age Care Association: Weekly coffee morning from 11am to 1pm at the International Baptist Church in Calahonda. Drop in for a chat and to share experiences. For more information contact 635 407 255.

Arroyo Social and Welfare Club meets every Tuesday at Agata Apartments, Arroyo de la Miel 11.30am for 12 noon start.

There is a raffle, quiz, and a game such as Play Your Cards Right, plus extras!

For more information call Anthia on 634 157 042.

Costa Women Business Group: meets every second Tuesday at 9.30am until 11.30am for business networking in La Cala. For more

information contact Ali 677 251 058.

Fuengirola Ukulele Singalong Group: meets every Tuesday 8pm at Cabaret Club in Fuengirola (next to Bioparc Zoo).

Language exchange workshop: free, every week from 9.30-11.30am in the Pensioners Centre in Mijas village.

For more information contact 952 890 010 or frd@mijas.es.

The Good Companions Club meets every Tuesday in Manila Bar, Paseo Maritimo, Los Boliches 12-1.30pm. For more information contact Tony White on 952 494 730.

American Club of Estepona (ACE [all nationalities welcome]): Open Mon-Sat, 14pm. Calle San Roque 65 (three blocks west of old bus station). For more information contact 952 793 059 (club times) or www.acestepona. org.

Walking Football: every week from 8pm on the five-aside pitches at the Estadio de San Pedro in San Pedro de Alcantara. Walking Football is for men and women over 50 to play football without running or tackling and is a great way to meet new friends. Visit www.walkingfootballspain.co m for details.

The Good Vibrations Singing Sessions runs Tuesday nights at 7.30pm at Huber Plataforme De Arte, Calle San Antonio, Estepona. €100 prepaid concession, €15 casually. Go to ‘Find Your Voice Vocal Studio’ on Facebook for details.

Wednesday February 28 The Royal British Legion: Torremolinos Branch meets every Wednesday in the Vanilla Bar in Plaza la Nogalera, Torremolinos (opp the railway station) from 12.30pm.

Age Care Association: Weekly coffee morning from 11am to 12.30pm at the Salon Varietes Theatre in Fuengirola. Drop in for a chat and to share experiences. For more information contact 635 407 255.

Flamenco show: free every Wednesday and Saturday from 12-1pm in Plaza Virgen de la Peña, Mijas Pueblo.

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Bird lovers paradise, a garden for the birds GRAEME TYRRELL ATTRACTING birds to your garden is easy if you have the right plants that will provide water, food, shelter and protection from predators.

Birds do best in gardens with multiple storeys of plants from ground covers, shrubs as under storeys, to taller tree canopies as an upper storey.

Providing water in the dry months in safe places for birds to drink, is the sure way to have birds attracted to your garden. A steady, reliable source of water is a primary need, even more than food, if other sources of water are not nearby.

If you provide water, birds will visit regularly, if you provide food plants, they will stay longer and if you provide safe shelter as well, native birds may start to nest in your garden. Migratory birds will

only visit but are more likely to visit if you have a food source as well as water.

There are many plants that can provide food for the birds.

As different bird species have different requirements of seed, nectar or insects, a variety of different plants are needed to attract the bird species you wish to support in your garden.

The best way to provide food is to use a lot of native plants and have a wild zone for allowing naturally occurring non-invasive native plants - even the plants considered weeds in the ornamental and vegetable garden - to go through their full life cycle.

Many plants considered weeds are useful plants for birds to feed on for the flowers, nectar and seeds.

Birds usually prefer to arrive onto the upper storey to survey a garden for food and dangers before entering, and

different species build their nests in the upper storey for safety from ground based predators.

Each bird species has different needs however, so many smaller birds will look for nesting places in the under storey that has dense thickets to prevent larger predators from entering. So to attract a wide range of birds, having a wide range of plants that give good protection is important for diversity.

Plants that provide nectar include Sages (Salvia species), Grevillea species, Torch lilies (Kniphofia species), Lobelia species, Penstemon species, Verbena species, Sunflowers (Helianthus), Thyme (Thymus species), Lavender (Lavendula species), Honeysuckle (Lonicera species), Ice Plant (Sedum species), Firethorn (Pyracantha species) and Barberry (Berberis species).

Seed plants include Sun-

flower (Helianthus species), Coneflower (Echinacea species), Aster species, Zinnea species, Cumin (Cuminum species), Calendula species and many others.

Attracting birds can just be a matter of widening the range of plants that you normally grow, which may provide even more interest to your garden as many bird food plants are very attractive.

Hedges and thickets of plants will provide safe nesting places for smaller birds, and tall trees can have nesting boxes installed to make trees a ready-made nesting place.

Applying natural mulches around your garden will help birds find materials to build the nests.

There is a wide variety of birds that live in Mediterranean zone and if you make your garden more attractive for them, you can enjoy their presence in your garden.

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Alth o u g h t e m p e r a t u res are on the up, there is still a risk of so m e c h i l l y d a y s ahead, so m a k e su r e y o u protect any plants that are extremely averse to the cold

by wrapping them in insulation, such as garden fleece.

This is also a good time to clear your garden of any falle n le a v es o r d e b ris in time for spring, as well as clearing out your shed or greenhouse.

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If it is fairly warm where you live , you c ould s ta rt sowing seeds in parts of your garden that receive a lot of sunlight.

K e e p the s e e ds a nd seedlings covered at night to protect them from pests

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Also make sure to keep up with your pruning, but leave cherry, plum and apricots trees until summer, as pruning the s e tre e s now could make them vulnerable to Silver Leaf disease.

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OVER the past 60 years I have seen many changes, some excellent but many not suitable. I frown upon the harness as I do not know anyone that can train a dog in a harness which was designed for tracking, rescue and for the blind and disabled.

Those that use the flexi cord should be aware they were designed for people who live in apartments to enable dogs to be taken down to the garden to relieve themselves.

Those that use them in the streets are not aware of the danger these can cause since there is no control when they are extended and again this is not a suitable tool for training. I have known many people to trip and indeed get hurt.

The standards of training have certainly diminished. Most ‘trainers’ have been to a training school themselves for four to six months, then give themselves a title ‘ I am a dog trainer’.

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Dogs must be respected by children who in turn need educating and taught that this is not a furry baby or toy, it is a canine live creature.

Young married couples must think hard before taking on a dog as one must think of their lifestyle including a future family, since everything changes once the lady gets pregnant. Dogs do get jealous and a good trainer will explain about dangers etc. Many of you reading this article may not realise that I never trained a dog! (I educated people.)

Never forget children need to be taught to respect animals. It is always a good idea to allow them to feed the dog and explain we never touch the dog or bowl when the dog is eating.

Before training a dog one must do research and understand how much work, cost and time is needed, plus the most important fact that dogs should never be allowed to be on their own for more than two hours.

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WILD: Golden Retriever eats a raw chicken.

Dangers of a ‘butcher’s dog’ diet IN the vein of the clean eating health food trend that involves going back to basics and consuming raw, unprocessed food,

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This food is still often bought pre-prepared so it can be easily served and frozen for convenience.

However, a recent study has suggested these raw meat products could contain bacterial and parasitic diseases, which are not necessarily a problem for dogs although they can suffer from food poisoning - but they can become carriers of the bacteria.

This can then be spread through their faeces, which could then make their owners seriously ill.

Storing the meat at -20°C could help to kill the bacteria and handling the food sensibly should help minimise the risks.

Always make sure to wash your hands with hot water and soap after handling the dog food and picking up your pet’s faeces.

You should also keep your cutlery and bowls separate from your dogs and try to keep him out of the kitchen if possible.

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CAR HIRE LONG TERM CAR HIRE from €280p/m inc. insurance. Fixed year-long prices. Call Don: 677 079 805 enquiries@autoinclusive.com (247949)

CARAVANS PARKING, STORAGE & SALES. Caravans - Motorhomes - Boats - Cars and Vans etc. Short / long term - Safe & secure, drop off & collections. Excellent rates, discount for long term, 5 mins from Fuengirola. Established 25 years. www.eurodog.es / info@eurodog.es 679 786 669 / 606 101 807 (242538)

CARPENTERS CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Available for all types of property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens and bathrooms renovated etc, 30 years experience, very reliable. Tel: 952 441 955 / 677 087 575 (233419) CARPENTER. Doors, wardrobes, rotten wood repaired, own workshop, 13 years. Marbella 666 269 751 (258798)

CARS WANTED CAMPER VANS, CARAVANS, MOBILE HOMES, BOATS AND ALL PLANT, DIGGERS, DUMPERS, MOTORBIKES, CARS AND COMMERCIALS WANTED. BEST PRICE PAID, CASH TODAY, ANY REGISTRATION WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 (253107)

CHIMNEY SERVICES CHIMNEY SWEEP. Clean reliable professional. All types, special price for more than one. Chris 608 337 497 (246793) T1 APEX CHIMNEY SERVICES, professional chimney sweeping and smoke testing. NACS Qualified. Clean and efficient Tel: Bob 696 320 202 (256040)

ELECTRICIAN

CHURCH SERVICES BENALMADENA Elim Family Fellowship. Sundays 11am.

Elimfamilyfellowship.com or call 951 912 525 or 952 446 627

CLASSES CALAHONDA LANGUAGE CENTRE. Established 1987.

Beginner’s Spanish course starts 5th March. Mornings.

60 hours in 6 weeks. Maximum 5 students for guaranteed results. Also new, 2 days per week, beginners Spanish course starts next Tuesday, February 20th. calahondalanguage@gmail. com 952 931 176 (257145)

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COMPUTER PROBLEMS SOLVED. Error messages fixed, viruses removed. Repairs and upgrades available.

Laptops in English. Kindle, iPad & Android help. One-toone training. Experienced, reliable service. Paul 630 652 338 952 493 859 (260531)

RAINBOW PINTURAS. English professional, reliable painting & decorating company. Furniture spraying. Building service available. Free quotations. Daniel 628 066 308 www.rainbowpinturas. com (257640)

DENTAL LABORATORY

UPHOLSTERY and steam cleaning sofas, carpets etc… JA Cleaning Services 626 357 955 (249674)

RUGS fitted carpets, upholstery including leather cleaned on site 685 524 921 (253107) OVEN CLEANING, domestic, commercial, complete fittings, let professional do hard dirty work. From 40€.

632 569 282 ovencleaning costadelsol.com (252392) CLEANING SERVICES No Job too small or big. Adrian 640 350 479 (251097) STARLIGHT CLEANING SERVICES. All types of cleaning. Any size of property. All Areas. Residential & Holiday Lets.

682 636 451 www.starlight-spain.com (260560)

COMPUTERS PC DOCTOR Computer Sales & Repairs in any Language. 24HR IT Support.

20 Years on the Coast. We come to wherever YOU are – Home or Business. 952 591 071 (257900)

FOR SALE/WANTED

CSW ELECTRICAL & MAINTENANCE for all your Electrical & Maintenance needs. No Job too Small. Call Craig for a FREE QUOTE on 604 106 414 (260501) MARBELLA BASED ELECTRICIAN Call Richard on 687 352 358 or email richi@europe. com All installations & maintenance. Surge Protection, Garden Lights, Upgrades, Boletins. (256205) ELECTRICIAN 16th Edition BS7671 qualified, 30 years experience. Rewires, extra sockets, lights, fault finding etc.

Contact electrician.in.spain@ gmail.com. Call Ian 650 151 569 (258464)

DOG TRAINING METS dog training club, Fuengirola. Glyn 605 121 831.

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DOMESTIC APP REP DOMESTIC Appliance repairs - washing machines, fridges, cookers, ovens, water heaters, gas / electric, professionally repaired. Christian 608 337 497 (252585) REPAIRS to Washing Machines-Dish Washers-OvensFridges. Call Garry Goodman +34 673 344 212. English Service Technician. 35 years experience. (258732)

DRAINAGE BLOCKED DRAINS? Leak detection, CCTV survey, root removal, Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (256694) CLEARFLOW – Unblocking, CCTV inspection, repair and installation. Tel: 630 200 600 / 952 885 661.

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IRRIGATION F&P-IRRIGATION: professional new sprinkler systems and repairs, 30 years’ experience.

14 days free trial, fixed price.

Six Solid Rock Guarantees.

Free quotation. 952 931 558 (258951)

DECORATORS

CLEANING SERVICES

ADVANCED Cleaning Services. Professional carpet, upholstery cleaning, 27 years experience, wet/dry clean.

HONEST, reliable service 678 808 837 / 952 669 701 or email acservs@outlook.com (253107)

ELECTRICIAN

CLASSIFIEDS

FURNITURE ALHAURIN FURNITURE Emporium. Buyers and sellers of quality furniture. We buy from a small item to full clearances.

Top prices paid. 697 511 071 (253107) FURNITURE wanted, same day collection, also house clearance and removals. 675 357 575 (258004) THE WAREHOUSE – We buy a Single item to a Full House Clearance – 602 610 103 (253107)

FUNERAL

FINANCIAL SERVICES MORTGAGES short term.

Bridging finance. No proof of income. 48 hours. 617 333 777 (259244)

MARBLE FLOORS polished.

Fast service. Reliable, family run. TERRACOTTA CLEANED and sealed. Wooden floors treated. No job too small.

Family run. Cleansol 10am 10pm 7 days all areas. 952 930 861 / 607 610 578 Discount Code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206437) MARBLE polishing, crystallizing, lasting, high shine.

Regrinding, restoration of salty, dead floors. Cyril, 634 455 064 (247880)

GATES ELECTRIC Gates/Garage Doors. Intercoms/access control systems and replacement remotes. New installs and repairs. For all your electric gate and garage door requirements call us on 605 356 469/952 786 178. The Garage Door Co & 2 Way Gates. tgdc@hot mail.co.uk www.thegarage doorcompany.es (257079)

GATE REPAIRS ELECTRIC GATE/GARAGE DOOR automation repaired.

Free, no obligation quotation.

Call Colin - 636 394 641 (257178)

GLASS CURTAINS GLASS CURTAIN repairs, specialist in replacement of discoloured plastic strips that act as a seal between the glass panels. Call Julian 655 825 931 (253220)

FLOOR POLISHING MARBLE FLOOR (2.50€/m2) WHY PAY MORE .WE CLEAN, CRYSTALLISE, SEAL THEN POLISH YOUR MARBLE TO HIGH GLOSS, NON SLIP. PROFESSIONAL GUARANTEED, FAST SERVICE. 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE. ALSO REPAIRS DAMAGES TO MARBLE, CLEAN AND SEAL TERRACOTTA TERRACES, COVERS ALL COSTA DEL SOL. TEL: 671 244 683 (251230)

F&P PUMPS: pressure, wells and pool pumps, service, sales and repairs Six Solid Rock Guarantees. 952 931 558 (258951)

GARDENING PROFESSIONAL garden services from Fuengirola to Estepona. All aspects of gardening and full maintenance and landscaping, free quotes, competitive prices. Contact Andrew 600 259 981 Andrew@gar den-professionals.com (259525) GARDEN & POOL MAINTENANCE – from €120 per month products included, from Benalmadena to Marbella. www.ricardogar dens.es RICARDO 637 160 129. (257682)

GOLF LAS BRISAS Golf share. For Sale or Swap for anything valuable. Offers. Buy now, pay later. George 617 333 777.

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

ADDICTION THERAPY ADDICTION THERAPIST: Alcohol-Drugs. British Qualified with Personal Experience. Charlie. 634 989 480. (249603)

www.jardin-garden.es All types of garden & pool maintenance. Free estimates. 10 years professional service on the coast. T: 666 953 892. E: benalandrew@yahoo.es (257153) IRIS-IRRIGATION and landscapes. New Installations and problem-solving. Turf (supply and laying). Garden constructions. Tree surgeon. Clearing and maintenance. 676 747 521 (251403)

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CLASSIFIEDS BEAUTY TREATMENTS

DENTISTS

BOTOX AND FILLERS From €95. Covers the Costa del Sol and inland. www.beautifulmarbella.es 609 347 086. (257685)

ENGLISH SPEAKING DENTIST in Fuengirola. Specialising in Zircon crowns, bridges etc.

Free check up! drvisky@hotmail.com - 689 887 019 (260517)

BLISS BEAUTY: Pedicure from 25€ & Manicure from 15€.

Now open in Fuengirola by Horse Roundabout. Calle Maestra Angeles Aspiazu 1. Tel 952 006 722 blissfuengiro la@gmail.com (257836)

CHIROPRACTOR FUENGIROLA, Myofascial Release. J. Schaegen, Specialized in treating neck, back & extremity disorders, 30 years in Practice. 652 291 224 www.bodywork.es (246524)

EXPAT SERVICES

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MASSAGE SAYAN MASSAGE. Your best traditional & tantric massage for ladies and gentlemen. 952 586 339 - 608 977 260 www.masajessayan.es (259547) BRASILIAN certified masseuse.

Experienced. Several massage techniques. Premises/Callouts 635 116 154 (259118)

HOLIDAY RENTAL COSTA DEL SOL 20 mins from Gibraltar & Puerto Banus. 60ft Motor Yacht for holiday rental.

HOLIDAY RENTAL minimum stay 3 months between May & October 2018. 3 En-Suite cabins.

Full equipped galley Kitchen.

Salon with TV. Back Deck for El Fresco dining. Fly Bridge with seating area. Very Spacious. Part Air-Con. £700pm Contact Garry 0044 7966 378235 (258018)

HOT TUBS / SPAS HOT TUBS, new, used, bought, sold, hired. Also move & repairs. 691 973 131 952 793 398 (258759)

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HOUSE CLEARANCES THE WAREHOUSE – We buy a Single item to a Full House Clearance – 602 610 103 (253107) FURNITURE wanted, same day collection, also house clearance and removals. 675 357 575 (258004)

INSURANCE

WE CLEAR HOUSES, GARAGES, STORAGE UNITS, BARS. brian.d.hughes@hot mail.com 656 187 140 (259115) CASH PAID for your unwanted house or garage items. Please call 600 041 434 (260047)

INSURANCE MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 153, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 153 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! (200726) LSM INSURANCE. No fat singing blokes or trumpeting telephones, just professional service at the best prices for all your insurance needs including car, household, commercial, life, health and travel.

Tel 952 578 008 or www.lsminsurance.biz for a quotation (257690)

INTERNET GET YOUR business noticed online! Make sure that expats in Spain can find your product, service, restaurant, bar or shop. Contact Spain’s newest and brightest online directory TODAY. Call 951 386 161 or email mark.w@euroweek lynews.com for more details

LAWYERS

LEGAL SERVICES LEGAL & TAX ADVICE RESIDENTS & NON RESIDENTS +34 633 898 172 gloria@gaialegalservices. com (256298)

LOANS LOANS AVAILABLE on all types of paintings, jeweler, watches, silver etc. Any condition. Immediate cash settlement. For more information call into Anthony’s Antiques & Jewelers shops extensive premises at C/Ramon y Cajal 40, Fuengirola. Mobile 609 529 633. Tel: 952 588 795 (SE) (201522) LOANS: personal, business, start-up, debts, embargos, bad credit, taxes, divorce.

Fast, secure, simple, safe 617 333 777 (251417)

24/7 LOCKSMITH LOCKSMITH emergency / appointment. Doors opened without damage, locks changed, patio doors and windows secured, 24 hour honest, fast and reliable service.

Call Paul 657 466 803 (248853) ENGLISH 24/7 LOCKSMITH/SAFE ENGINEERS. 30 YEARS EXPERIENCE, CALL DAREN OR BOB 952 660 233 / 667 668 673 WWW.SECURITYOFS PAIN.COM (252570)

MISCELLANEOUS WOODY´S LOS BOLICHES. Greeting Cards, mail to and from the UK. Worldwide courier and Passport renewals. All adverts taken for the Euro Weekly News- display or classified. Open 9.00-2.00PM (Monday to Friday). Special hours apply August and Xmas.

One street behind the Confortel, just off Plaza San Rafael, Los Boliches, on C/Poeta Salvador Rueda 93. Tel: 952 471 877 (95705)

MOBILITY MOBILITY scooters, electric wheelchairs, wheelchairs, walking frames, etc, for sale and rent. Large selection of quality used scooters at competitive prices.

Rascal vantage X, Rascal Veo X, Shoprider Sovereign, Pride Go Go, Neo 4 and 8, Mercury Prism, Pride XL8, Rascal 388, Rascal 329, Rascal 125 Wheelchair, Shoprider electric wheelchair breaks up for boot, Rascal 330 electric wheelchair as new condition at considerable saving, Rascal turnabout electric wheelchair, plus many more all with guarantee. New and used wheelchairs for sale at competitive prices. Brand New Pride Go Go Mobility Scooters All models just arrived huge savings on retails prices. Rentals from 55 euros weekly. New mobility scooter batteries supplied and fitted. Mobility scooters bought for cash. www.mo bilityscootersdirectspain. com email info@mobili tyscootersdirectspain.com Tel 609 581 139 (257845) SENIORWORLD - MOBILITY scooters, wheelchairs, stairlifts, nursing beds, rise ´n´ recline chairs and a large range of daily living aids for sale or hire. Visit our showroom in Los Boliches - or call on 952 663 131 or 670 964 181 for advice & best prices. (257631) www.Mobility-Spain.com The Mobility Wizards S.L. For all your mobility needs: Repairs, Rentals, Sales and Insurance. Call: 633 127 901/ 622 832 954. (259038) PREMIER MOBILITY SPAIN – Sale or Hire of Mobility Scooters, Wheelchairs & Walking Aids. Batteries & Tyres supplied & fitted. All types of repairs carried out i.e Stair-lifts, Electric Bikes, Pool Pumps & TV’s. Call 603 263 157/663 956 018 / 951 542 184 (256218)

MORTGAGES FLUENT FINANCE Abroad.

Are you looking to release equity in your home here in Spain? Need to pay IBI, Community Fees, Taxes, but don’t have the cash available now to do this.

Do you want to sell your property for what it is worth but don’t have the ability/time frame due to cash constraints? Do you want an alternative to the Banks who are costly and slow? Call us now on +34 691 179 445 +34 952 961 952 or email ronald@flu entfinanceabroad.com Come and visit us in our San Pedro office (257516)

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MOSQUITO SCREENS MOSQUITO NICK NO1 SPECIALIST FOR MOSQUITO SCREENS for all types of windows and doors. PRICE PROMISE/NEVER BEATEN ON PRICE!!! All types of screens: sliding, pull-down, pleated, fixed and ARCHED available in all colours including wood grain. Call Nick at 647 072 861, www.mosquitonick.ws (257078) (T1) ACE OF SHADES - Don’t let the bugs get you! Available in enrollable, slider and pleated. Large choice of colours including wood effect. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design (101730) MOSQUITO Screens for windows, doors and a high quality sliding patio door screen. All finishes available. Quick service. All areas covered. Call Julian 655 825 931 (253200)

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CAR SERVICES AUTOMATIC gearbox specialist. Transmatic. All models including classic cars, serviced, repaired and reconditioned. Also 4x4 transfer boxes and power steering Call/fax 952 796 166 / 952 805 804 email: transmat ic2005@yahoo.com. www.transmatic.es (258783)

FOR SALE SELLING YOUR SPANISH CAR? PHONE Bill Brady for the best cash price. Stay safe and phone Bill on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (257838) MASSIVE SAVINGS AT BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com (257838) SALE PRICE HONDA CIVIC (DIESEL) 1.6 I-DTEC. 2015 (Face lift model) One private owner 34’000 Klm (21’000 Mls) Full service history from Honda Marbella and 5 year warranty. Leaving Spain hence this fabulous car at new low price of only 13’995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (257838)

SALE PRICE CITROEN Berlingo Combi XTR. Plus 1.6 HDI.190 2012 New ITV (MOT) and service roof rack, privy glass, cruise control, climate control and lots more a very scarce MPV. WAS 10’995€ NOW 8’995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com (257838) SALE PRICE AUTOMATIC 4X4 NISSAN JUKE DIG-T 190 CV 2015 (Special order) 36’000 klm (22’000 mls) bought and serviced by Nissan. Cost 28’000 €, new to many extras to list see web page massive saving only WAS 17´995€ NOW16’995€.

952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbradycars.com (257838) SALE PRICE AUTOMATIC / DIESEL ESTATE MERCEDES C-220 two private owners and always well serviced, low kilometres, parking sensors, alloy wheels, metallic silver, a must see for only WAS 8´995€ NOW 8’500€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221, billbrady cars.com (257838) SALE PRICE KIA SPORTAGE (Diesel) 4X2 1.7 CRDI 2013 One private owner 58’000 Klm (36’000 Mls) Not a rental or lease Jeep Metallic gold, parking sensors, alloy wheels and much more great value for money WAS 14’995€ NOW ONLY 13’995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (257838) SALE PRICE 4X4 (DIESEL 1.9) SUZUKI GRAND VITARA SWB. 3 Door 2012 Mdl. 62’000 Klm (39’000 Mis) from private owner bought from Suzuki Malaga, parking sensors, used only as town Jeep Look at this low price WAS 10´995€ NOW 10’500€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221, billbradycars.com (257838) AUTOMATIC BMW TOURER 320-D (DIESEL) 2013/14 from private owner and service history from BMW Marbella 50’000 Klm. (31’000 Mls ) Top of the range with all the extras. Cost new over 40’000 €, yes the price is correct at only 20’995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (257838)

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SALE PRICE CONVERTIBLE AUDI A-3 2011 1.6 TDI. One private owner only 36’000 Klm (22’000 Mls) service history, new ITV. (MOT) immaculate condition polar white, black soft top 5 speed, wind breaker, alloy wheels and lots more and its only WAS 14´995€ NOW13’995€.

952 838 842 / 608 950 221, billbrady cars.com (257838) SALE PRICE AUTOMATIC CONVERTIBLE PEUGEOT 207 CC. 2011 from private owner, only 28’000 Klm. (17’000 Mls.) Looks and drives like new, has to be seen. WAS 9´995€ NOW 9’500€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221, billbrady cars.com (257838) CHEAP (DIESEL) 4X4 SSANGYONG with only 88’000 Klm (55’000 Mls) One private owner 2001 Mdl. side bars and bull bars, looks and drives great for only 2’995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (257838) DIESEL RENAULT SCENIC 1.9 DCI 2006 from private owner 133’000 Klm (83’000 Mls) With full service history great MPV. For family or working and its only 3’995€ 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com (257838) NEARLY NEW TOYOTA AYGO 2016 5 door one private owner 12’000 Klm ( 7’000 Mls) full service history and warranty from Toyota save a fortune its only 8’995€. 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbrady cars.com (257838) 2004 CITROEN C5 2.0 DIESEL automatic new ITV in very good condition throughout, lots of extras including alloys climate control €2,995. Tel: 695559939.

2005 NISSAN PRIMERA new model, 2.2 diesel 6 speed, in excellent condition throughout alloy air con, Sat Nav Spanish car €2,995. Tel: 695559939. (252347) CLASSIC CITROEN 2cd 1981 LHD Spanish Car, only 50,000 KLM, Runs and drives, but has been stood for a while and needs a little TLC. Would make a really nice car €2,250 Tel: 695559939. (252347) RENAULT Master Van, 2.4D, 2006, 170,000km, Spanish plates, MWB, SHR, VGC, 5250€. Tlf 603 464 582

MOTORS FOR SALE

CITROEN XSARA Picasso, 1.6 Hdi, diesel, excellent condition, 100,000km. Right hand drive on Spanish plates, air con, alloy sets, new ITV, great car. €3,450. Tel: 695559939.

(252347) CLASSIC BMW 520 ISE 1982, RHD on Spanish plates, in good condition throughout, drives perfect, been here 22 years, only €995 Tel: 695559939. (252347)

2004 RENAULT KANGO MULTISPACE 1.5 DCI, new ITV and tyres twin side doors, in excellent condition throughout, air con €2,495. Tel: 695559939. (252347) MINI COOPER SKY BLUE WHITE ROOF,MIRRORS AND STRIPES 2005, still got it always will have , WAS 5,500 NOW ..4,995 euros see photo web page. www.robertson cars-spain.com SAMANTHA. 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (258767) 2003 BMW 328.SE 4 door right hand drive, on Spanish plates. 1 owner from new, Full service History, silver with black leather, Alipina Alloys 3 sets of keys. Must be seen. €2,995 Tel: 695559939.

(252347) ONLY...24,000 KILOMETERS, DIESEL SKODA FABIA 2012 1.6 Elegance, 5 door, Black and white, FABULOUS FABIA WAS 8,995 NOW 8,500 euros see photo www.robertsoncarsspain.com SAMANTHA. 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (258767) CLASSIC MERCEDES 190 E 2.0 Petrol, rare 4 speed manual 1991, Spanish car, in very good condition throughout. These cars are increasing in Value, only €2,995 Tel: 695559939. (252347) DIESEL RENAULT MEGANE SCENIC 2007 model 1.9 dci, one pilot owner, 5 door, champagne, ITV valid till oct.2018 WAS 4,995 NOW 3,995 euros www.robertson cars-spain.com SAMANTHA 952 832 173/ 608 658 785 (258767) CLASSIC MERCEDES Convertible 1993 SL 300, 5 speed Auto, 24V LHD on English Plates, one previous owner, good condition throughout.

Excellent Runner. 90,000 KLM. Hard Top €5,995 Tel: 695559939. (252347) ONLY 23,000 KILOMETERS FORD KA, 2013, tomato red, cd. Lady owner. Immaculate like new, WAS 5,995 NOW 5,750 euros. See photo www.robertson-spain.com SAMANTHA 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (258767) 2007 DIESEL AUTOMATIC Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI Ghia, with all extras including climate control. 1 owner from new. 120,000kms, with Ford service history. Metalic light blue. €4,750. Tel: 695559939 (252347) ONLY 34,000 KILOMETERS DIESEL SEAT ALTEA 1.8TSI. 2009, 5 door, one owner, always garaged, immaculate must be seen.

WAS 7,995…NOW…7,500 euros. www.robertsoncars-spain.com SAMANATHA 952 832 173 / 608 658 785 (258767)

LANDROVER DISCOVERY 1998, 2.5 diesel Auto 5 door 7 seater , Air conditioning , Spanish car LHD, in very good condition for its year , new ITV. Excellent Runner €3,750 Tel: 695559939. (252347)

CLASSIFIEDS WANTED

TOYOTA HIACE 2007. Panel Van 2.4. English plates RHD, In very good condition throughout. Tax and MOT. Ideal for Return Trip €1,995 Tel: 695559939. (252347) RENAULT CLIO – Lazuli Blue, 2 Door, RHD, Spanish Plated & ITV Until June 2018.

Lady Owner from New, 63,000 miles on clock & all relevant service invoices available. €900 ONO. Tel: 635 176 738 / 952 668 447 (258034) HONDA CRV i-DTEC Diesel, Automatic, 2001, UK Reg, RHD. Full Leather, Climate control. Glass Electric Sunroof, Sat-Nav, Heated Seats. FSH, Parking Sensor. 121,000miles.

Lovely condition, drives perfectly. MOT/Tax. €7,950 ONO. 666 912 202 (258439) ALFA ROMERO 147, JTD, 2005, 1.9L, Low mileage, New ITV/Tyres, FSH. €2,250 – 655 095 147 (258447)

INSURANCE WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance. Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English, call Linea Directa on 902 123 309. (200726)

CARS, VANS, ANY REGISTRATION, INSTANT CASH, FINANCE/EMBARGO UK OR SPANISH 685 524 921 (253107) CARS, VANS UK OR SPANISH BOUGHT FOR CASH. FREE COLLECTION IN SPAIN/UK. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 OR 952 669 701 (253107) WANTED CARS AND VANS, FREE COLLECTION, SAME DAY 685 524 921. (253107) CAR, VANS BOUGHT WITH/WITHOUT PAPERS. CASH WAITING 678 808 837.

(253107) WANTED all cars, vans and anything interesting also classic cars, bikes, etc, with or without paperwork considered, same day decision, cash waiting, 653 777 073.

(252347) WANTED, wanted, wanted!!

All cars, all years, all models…from exotic to classic.

Spanish, English, Dutch plated. Call us on 951 977 329.

(257684) WE BUY any car or motorhome, any condition. Cash waiting. 651 187 549 (258449)

MECHANICS MUSIC MOBILE MECHANIC will come to your home or work.

Servicing, repairs, ITVs & diagnostics. Call Mick on 617 553 072 (259020) BRITISH MECHANIC WORKSHOP family run business since 2000 in Mijas Costa Fuengirola. Servicing Repairs, ITVS, Full Engine Rebuilds, Body Work Repairs, Recovery Service. Checks on all cars & 4x4. CALL TODAY 605 407 369 / 951 104 805 Open 9am-6pm Mon-Fri (256467)

REPAIRS ENGLISH bodyshop, fully equipped, Mijas Costa. No Job too Small. 952 667 074 (258743)

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KARAOKE “Everything you need” for Bars, Hotels or Home. Songs in ALL languages. Software, hardware & latest song updates. Karaoke on your laptop or ipad. 664 540 154 (252605) LIVE MUSIC with DAVID CHRISTIAN-CLARK from solo Spanish Guitar to Dance band, performing for exclusive private events from Gibraltar to Nerja. Call 00 350 540 367 29 or e-mail davechristianclark@ gmail.com for details. Over 30 years’ professional experience.

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NAUTICAL COURSES INTERNATIONAL SKIPPER LICENCE: Courses held in English and starts soon. RYA VHF and Radar Courses. 636 444 929 (258019) www.euroweeklynews.com

CLASSIFIEDS OFFICE TO LET OFFICE CALAHONDA BEACH 20SqM, 1st Floor. Quiet & Secure. €390pm including Electricity. Call 636 413 187 (258444)

PEST CONTROL

the Town Hall or the Andalucian government. We desperately need foster homes and adoptants for our many dogs, especially the small ones and puppies who do not do well in a big shelter. We are grateful for any help offered, including donations of food and blankets. Visiting times are from 13.00 to 15.00 and you can always turn up or make an appointment by calling Denise on 669 018 736. Our website is www.ace-charity.org where you can view all the dogs in our care. (93320) ADANA THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN ESTEPONA. We always need volunteers to walk and socialise with our dogs and help with cleaning. We also need good homes for our animals that you can see on www.adana.es. Kennels open every day 10-1.30, Camino de Casares, near Parque de los Pedregales, Estepona. (5 minutes from the Poligono) For more information call 952 113 467, available from 10.00am until 14.00pm. (93319)

COCKROACHES, ANTS, insects, fleas, mice, rats, wasps, termite specialists. Fumigations, bars, restaurants, houses, etc. Sanitary department officially registered certificates. Guarantee. Serving the coast since 1985. Only legal English owned pest control company on the coast. If you want the best then phone N.P.S. Nigel 606 008 940 (247175)

PETS

YOUNG DOMESTICATED cats rescued from the killing station need kind homes. Fully vaccinated and neutered. We will also deliver to England for a donation to the charity.

Please give one of these beautiful cats a home so we can save more from death. Can be seen without obligation at Cat and Dog World Kennels. Tel. 630 197 435 (246764) CHIHUAHUAS, pedigree, white, 6 weeks old, vaccinated, Tlf 634325940 (258420)

CHARITIES ACE CHARITY “El Refugio” in La Cala de Mijas is a registered charity. We have on average 275 dogs in our care and we receive no help from

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SEPE the horse and donkey charity is open to the public week-ends from 10.00 to 5.00. Volunteers are much needed in all departments and are welcome at anytime. For our riding for the disabled classes, we are also in need of extra helpers. We are nationally registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (164640) but only with your support can we give the equine a voice. If you can just commit to 2 or 3 euros a month it will really help make a difference. You can find us at Lauro Golf Equestrian Centre, Alqueria, Alhaurin de la Torre. Tel. 608 258 950 info@sepeonline.net www.sepe online.net (93321) AT SOS ANIMAL REFUGE we have dogs, young and old looking for homes. Some of our dogs have been with us for some time and would love to find a cosy spot to curl up in and a knee on which to rest their heads. If you have room in your heart and home we would love to hear from you.

We do not put our dogs to sleep - no matter how old, they are safe with us. For day to day needs and to pay for veterinary care, we much appreciate the support we receive. We desperately need items to sell on our market stall to help raise funds and are happy to come and collect. So if you are having a clear-out, please contact us on 605 227 155. If you would like to know more about re-hom-

ing, please call 653 257 875.

Visit our website www.sos-animals.org or please phone Sandy on 952 385 923 or 666 814 056 if you would like to make a donation or help in any way. (93317) ARCH- Andalusian Rescue Centre for Horses welcomes visitors and volunteers to our stables every day from 911am. Come along and help out, or sponsor or adopt one of our horses, donkeys or ponies. We always need help with fund raising to look after the abandoned and abused animals. Our aim is to rescue, rehabilitate and re-home. We are a small friendly team why not join us. Find us in Alhaurin el Grande, behind the Venta Miralmonte on the road from Alhaurin to Coin, (A404), Urb. Viña Borrego, follow the yellow signs. Charity registered with the Junta de Andalusia No 8448. www.horserescuespain.org or info@horserescuespain.org or archrescue@yahoo.co.uk Tel 656 935 613 or 659 408 664 Our Charity shop is located in Calle Melendez Pelayo, just off Calle Gerald Brenan, Alhaurin el Grande. Tel:Liz 600 651 007. We always need volunteers and stock for the shop.

We can also arrange collection. (93322)

PETCARE PET HOTEL. Alhaurin el Grande. Holiday accommodation for dogs and cats. Heated/Air conditioned kennels available. Tel: 952 112 284 / 685 400 216 www.petcarespain.com. Find us on Facebook at Petcare Spain. (248877)

EURODOG Boarding Kennels & Cattery. Under new ownership by animal loving family. Large kennels and exercise yards, fully licensed and sanitary approved. Safe, secure and caring environment. Inspections welcome anyt ime. 5 minutes from Fuengirola 679 786 669 / 952 464 947 / www.eu rodog.es (242538) CAT AND DOG WORLD KENNELS AND CATTERY, superb licensed facilities, viewing welcome. Tel: 952 112 978 / 630 197 435. www.cat-and-dogworld.com (246764)

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WWW.INMOANDALUZ. COM is always looking for realistically priced inland properties to sell to our interested buyers. Tel 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (251085) WWW.INMOANDALUZ. COM. Bargain inland properties for all budgets, fincas, village homes, apartments and villas. Legal building plots. 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (251085)

PET TRANSPORT

THE IRISH PLUMBER ALL areas covered 7 days. Water Heaters/Pumps etc. Complete Bathroom reforms. Reliable.

Competitive Rates. 605 206 394 (258077)

PRINTERS BUSINESS cards, flyers, posters, magazines, design, canvas, exhibition equipment, signage, vehicle branding Eyeprint: 951 310 395 www.eyeprint.es with offices all along the coast (259024)

ACCOMPANY your pets to their new home. Fully licensed pet transport service. Denise www.petchauffeur.eu 952 197 187 / 696 233 848 info@petchauffeur.eu (258752) PET TRANSPORTATION by road. Fully DEFRA / OCA / TRACES compliant. Complete service by professional licensed kennels. 630 197 435 www.cat-and-dog-world.com (241623)

PLUMBING PLUMBER for all your plumbing. Water heaters, bathrooms, tiling. Benalmadena based, travel no problem.

Construction work. Glen 669 073 773 (257506) PLUMBING. Leak detection & blocked drains.

Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (256694)

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LAGUNA KENNELS AND CATTERY. Your pets lovingly cared for by English mother and daughter. Near Coin. lagunakennels@hotmail.com Tel 952 112 021 / 606 838 983. (257625)

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CREATIVE MARBELLA Your friendly local printers. Luxury Printing, Copying, Binding, Branded Merchandise and Clothing, Menus, Bespoke Gifts, Wedding Accessories. Located in Poligono Industrial Nueva Campana 27 - 952 810 831 - www.cre ativemarbella.es or follow us on Facebook (260570)

PROFESSIONAL SERVICES PRO VENT. Kitchens, Bedrooms, Bathrooms, Windows, Glass Curtains creatively designed and expertly fitted. Visit our showroom in La Cala or call 639 727 188 for a free quotation. From inspiration to installation www.joebayley. com (256692) MALAGA EXPAT CONSULTING - Paperwork Assistance, (NIE, Residencia, Driving Licence Renewal, Car Transfer, Doctor Registrations, Translation etc), Relocation Advice. English, German, Russian. Competitive rates. Call Irina Saltmarsh 687 733 743 www.malagaexpat.com (256220)

ATTRACTIVE GROUND FLOOR APARTMENT in the sought after urbanisation of PUEBLO DON ALBERTO. Close to Pool. Just minutes to the beach & all amenities. 2 Bed, 2 Bath, AirConditioning. Fully Furnished to a High standard.

Maintained & established community. Well located for transport links to Malaga.

BARGAIN ONLY €165,000. Contact good son.builders@icloud.com or +44 7850 746171 (259039) CAMPO MIJAS House – 5 Bed, 4 Bath, Separate studio.

Land 1,343m2/House 365m2.

Pool, Gym, Sea views. Excellent location, in cul-de-sac.

Reduced to €690,000 – 600 063 918. (258453) NEAR RONDA 5 Bed two floor house, 2 bathrooms with disabled friendly 2 bed ground-floor flat, 2 bathrooms. Fully furnished. BARGAIN €180,000 – 951 120 270 (258468) ESTEPONA KINGDOM FOR SALE (Estepona) 2 Houses, 4 Garages, 4 Out Houses. Water deposit. River. Over half million SqM. Competitively priced 0044 7960 933 566 (258440)

PROP MAINTENANCE STARLIGHT PROPERTY. All Areas. Residential & Holiday Lets.

689 819 592 www.starlight-spain.com (260560)

PROPERTY TO LET LONG TERM RENTALS. Super prices, no commission.

Apartments, townhouses, villas, fincas, shops, offices, bars, restaurants. Coast & inland. Tlf 679 111 522 (256453)

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PROPERTY TO LET WINTER LET. Los Boliches.

Three bedroomed apartment to rent for November, December, January and February 2018/2019. English TV. All in very good condition. 699 026 009 (259116) MARBELLA APARTMENTS & Villa Rentals. Telephone 622 571040 kingscastlemarbel la@gmail.com (259133)

PROPERTY WANTED

NATIONAL / INTERNATIONAL 15 CUBIC metre van returning to the UK 2nd March . Space available each way. Tel. 639 928 090 (256723) EUROPE SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (257093) USA SPECIALIST Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (257093)

SELLING UP?? Why not give us a call and let us give you an honest and realistic valuation of your property. List with us and let us take the stress out of selling your home. No sale no fee!! English agent on the ball with clients waiting.

Please call 685 524 921.

(253107) LONG TERM PROPERTY RENTALS REQUIRED!!!!

WITH OR WITHOUT MANAGEMENT - CALL CARIBASOL 952 933 399/600 813 497 (256216)

REMOVALS/STORAGE

STORAGE SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (257093) LOCAL and INTERNATIONAL SPECIALIST. Combitrans Movers. 952 775 300 www.combitrans.es (257093) www.moveit-storeit.com Tel david 696 810 618 (252306) PROFESSIONAL LOCAL REMOVALS AT AFFORDABLE RATES. 1/2 DAY FROM €90. FULL DAY FROM €175. WE ALSO PROVIDE A FORTNIGHTLY DOOR TO DOOR SERVICE TO UK AND EUROPE (INCL SCOTLAND).

WORLDWIDE SHIPPING TO USA, AUSTRALIA, ETC AND FULL STORAGE FACILITIES. TEL (0034) 952 578 507 OR (0034) 637 892 278 / EMAIL garymoveit@ya hoo.co.uk (253088) MOVING BACK TO UK? Removal vehicle departing weekly throughout the year. Excellent, professional service & great rates. Ring (0034) 665 089 244 or (0044) 01922 682 667 & see www.elite-euro pean.com (93139)

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MOVING MATTERS SL – removals and storage. Local or to and from the UK/Ireland/Portugal and across Europe. Over 16 years experience. For free quotation Tel 951 311 118. www.mov ingmatters.eu (257084)

MAN AND VAN

LOCAL & International Removals Regular Schedules 952 816 582 move@freinternation al.com (257824)

BIG VAN (removals) always on time. 100% reliable. 25€ PH – 633 277 270 (260539)

moveit-storeit.com Tel David 696 810 618 (259517) MOVE IT MASTERS UK-SPAINUK. Over 30 years experience.

Guaranteed lowest prices.

Storage & kenneling available.

Tel or Whatsapp: 660 030 107 (258751) HIGH TOP VAN going from Spain to UK and return. Reliable Service. Call Graham 620 353 594 for details. E-Mail vg casacolor@gmail.com (260556) LARGE VAN returning to UK end of February. Loads Required. Contact 0044 7867 525 300 or gill2712@msn.com (258017) www.euroweeklynews.com

SITUATIONS VACANT

MAN & LARGE VAN, 100% reliable, Removals, Clearances.

Ikea collection & assembly.

20€ per hour. Tel: 622 020 856 (246758)

2 MEN, Van €30 p hour. Also House Clearances. 651 081 610 (257683) moveit-storeit.com Tel David 696 810 618 (248401) REMOVALS MAN AND VAN / house clearances. Ikea & Leroy Merlin Runs 20€ per hour 609 321 958. (256423) HANDYMAN & VAN – Small removals, clearances. Ikea collection & assembly. Experienced & reliable. €20 hourly – 603 257 612 (256478)

STORAGE REMOVAL BOXES Large, med, wardrobe, bubble wrap, tape, collect or delivered. Local and international removals also undertaken. 952 239 110 632 702 306 (244093)

STORAGE Marbella Dry Secure 952 816 582 move@ freinternational.com (257824) STORAGE lowest price guaranteed. Packaging materials Self-Storage Marbella 952 811 311 (242608) moveit-storeit.com Tel David 696 810 618 (259517)

ROLLER SHUTTERS ACE OF SHADES - PERSIANA (security shutter) electric and manual, various colours available including wood effect, we also offer a repair service.

Make your home more secure! Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design (101730) ROLLER shutter repairs, 7 days a week, conversion from manual to motorised, new installations. All areas covered.

Coast and inland. 655 825 931 (251408)

CLASSIFIEDS SERVICES

CARPENTRY CARPENTER cabinet maker, Irish. Property maintenance, plumbing, painting, electrical, kitchens. Bathrooms renovated etc. 30 years experience.

Very reliable. 677 087 575 (233419)

DRAINAGE CLEARFLOW – Unblocking, CCTV inspection, repair and installation. Tel: 630 300 600 / 952 88 5661.

Facebook: DesatorosCle arflow (260057)

FURNITURE FRENCH POLISHING REPAIRS, restoration etc. restore your valuable furniture to its former glory. Tel 647 579 519 / 952 499 944 (241249)

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CLASSIFIEDS SIGNS & DESIGNS EYEPRINT – 951 310 395 (259024) SHOP signs, vehicle signs, banners, window signs, 603 464 582, www.signdsign1.com (249672)

SITUATIONS VACANT NEW JOB? At Jobfinder Spain we meet with you, identify your key strengths, build your profile, then guide you through the selection and interview process for that perfect job! Call 951 400 234 or visit www.jobfinderspain.com (259074)

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QUALITY STAFF? With over 5000 candidates & 400 new registrations monthly. We can help you hire & keep the best staff quickly and cost effectively.

Find out how at www.jobfinder spain.com or call 951 400 234 INTERIOR ARCHITECT/DESIGNER: Marbella Design Academy is looking for a highly motivated and talented Interior Architect/Architect to join our team. Requirements: Degree in Architecture, Interior Architecture or Interior Design.

Strong design skills and design process. Proven management skills, experience directing small student groups and delivering quality design. Sound knowledge of Auto-cad, 3D Max and Adobe. Fluent written and spoken English. Teaching qualifications is an advantage. CV and covering letter to be sent to coursedirector@marbella-de sign-academy.com (258421)

Take Care of your Career as a live in Carer in the UK. If you have good written/spoken English with a British or EU passport you can earn from £952 - £1456 for 2 weeks. Contact Sandra Field on 658 965 204 or email s.field@consultuscare.com (258473) Part time Sales/Admin required. Come and join our happy team! Bubby friendly Insurance Adviser needed for busy office in Elviria for 10-15 hours week. Good telephone manner and personality required. Spanish required. Insurance experience would be a benefit but full training given. Contract for right person. CVs please to euinsurancedirect8@gmail. com. www.euroweeklynews.com

300-2,000+ PER MONTH PART TIME. Home based, flexible hours, plenty of support. Successful Leadership Managers with Forever Living, Phil & Rosytha Cony are looking for individuals or couples to be part of a new dynamic team (all areas of Spain). Call Phil on 615257573 for details (257126)

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WESTARPOOLS. Pool construction, renovation, repairs and heating. 619 246 372 / www.westarpools.com (260516) POOL HEATERS, covers and rollers. EnviroCare.

952 663 141. www.enviro carespain.com (257522)

SOFT FURNISHINGS CURTAINS, blinds, cushions and much more. Free estimates and home visits. Tel 657 369 343 or rosan nacarmella@hotmail.com (257839)

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POOL MAINTENANCE, repairs, friendly, reliable service.

Estepona, Malaga, inland regrouts, heaters. 678 791 495 / 951 295 699 www.sparklenrip ple.net (250331) T3

Justpools.es 8x4m pool 90€ inc. 10x5m pool 100€ inc. Re-grout 8x4 500€ inc Full liability insurance. 952 472 476 / 619 636 586 (258615)

www.perfectpools.es Maintenance, Repairs & Renovation. Professional & Reliable Service. All Areas. info@per fectpools.es. 650 348 785 (251169)

SITUATIONS VACANT TAROT

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TAROT TAROT READING African Spiritualist. Experience Voodoo.

Black and White Magic. LOVE ISSUES? Bring Back Your Love?

Business and Economy Problems? Family Matters? Sales?

Sport? Protect From Evil? Feel Like You Cannot Go On? etc.

Mr Ibrahim has a rapid solution within 3 to 7 days – Tel. 600 290 072 (259933)

TV & SATELLITE

TEACHING

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TRANSLATOR OFFICIAL TRANSLATIONS. All languages. 952 789 204.

Mobile 654 613 094. sanpe drotranslations@gmail.com (260973)

TUITION MARBELLA DESIGN ACADEMY – Validated programs.

UK Bachelor of Arts Degrees in Interior architecture, Graphic design & Fashion design. www.de signschool.com (253836)

TV & SATELLITE REPAIRS – TV’s, Plasmas, LCD’s, Digi – Boxes, Video, HiFi and microwaves. Free estimates, can collect. 35 Years experience. John 952 491 723 or 600 706 201 (258008)

UPHOLSTERY ADVANCED Cleaning Services. Professional carpet and upholstery cleaning, 28 years experience, wet/dry clean.

Honest, reliable. 678 808 837 952 669 701 acservs@out look.com (253107) UPHOLSTERY including leather cleaned also carpets.

685 524 921 (253107) CARPETS AND SOFAS cleaned. Reliable, fast service.

Family run. Cleansol 952 930 861 / 607 610 578. 10am 10pm 7 days, all areas Discount Code: EWN 1 CLEAN (206437)

WINDOW CLEANER WINDOW CLEANER – for FREE quote call Craig 604 106 414 (258027)

WINDOW TINTING MOBILE SERVICE. ITV Legal. Solar Reflective tint for glass curtains, balconies, yachts. Stop fading, heat & glare. 958 496 571 – 644 546 176 ian@solarshadetinting. com (248458)

XXX RELAXATION READERS OF A SENSITIVE DISPOSITION MAY FIND SOME OF THE ADVERTISEMENTS IN THIS SECTION OFFENSIVE.

FEMALE MARBELLA CENTRE - the ideal place for your enjoyment in the city centre, eight young ladies for unforgettable moments. Open 24h and prices from €50. For reservations and information call 620 366 817. (253109) T1

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CLASSIFIEDS BUTTERFLY GIRLS : spectacular girls who will give you the maximum and please you in everything. Visit our Luxury Villa. An elegant ambience full of glamour. Free drink. Adult fils, erotic toys, natural French, kisses, greek, lesbic, couples, threesome. Economic prices and high standard Service. www.butterflygirls.es 24hrs. VISA – 951 274 723, 616 368 985. (258984) CALAHONDA, sweet and passionate Russian, fantastic body. Vicious lover, pleasant. I will drive you crazy in pleasure, my lover!!! I wait you impatiently !!! from 50€. 650 237 102 (258984 RIVIERA. Hello my love. I am Patricia, a Brazilian brunette and vicious doll, looking for a party and unlimited sex. Sweet, elegant and very vicious. 24h. Outcalls 608 949 543 (258984) CALAHONDA from 50 €. Big tits. Colombian pleasant lady.

Pure wildness vice. Kisses, natural French, deep throat.

616 368 985 (258984) CALA DE MIJAS luxurious Brazilian, blond, expert in giving love and maximum pleassurer. I give myself to the maximum. Discreet, sweet and loving. Incalls and outcalls. 24 hrs. I speak English.

VISA. 608 949 543 (258984)

CLASSIFIEDS NEAR ELVIRIA, Colombian, super sexy with a perfect body, long dark hair.

Nymphomaniac and with no limits. I will make you feel like a king. Natural French, golden rain, lesbic, couples. Incall and outcalls. 24hrs 650 237 145 (258984) ELEGANT LADY from the East. Good-looking, elegant and discreet, I will be your perfect lover or girlfriend for an event or meal. Call me and you will have an incredible date with a spectacular lady. I speak English. 616 368 985 (258984) FUENGIROLA. Oriental young beautiful Japaneses.

Complete services. Outcalls.

24hrs 693 988 340 (257172) BENALMADENA - LAURA 28, slim brunette. Sexy model. Warm and friendly.

Fluent English. Incalls & outcalls. 633 744 422 (258645) MATURE elegant lady. Voluptuous bust. All services. Only hotel and home visits. 687 387 680 (243921) NUEVA ANDALUCIA: Very sexy, slim, horny and submissive girl offers you a special experience with maximum pleasure. All services, including sensual massages (qualified independent masseuse) with natural French and happy ending. Private apartment.

656 350 401 (256451) ASIAN, ARGENTINIAN, hot, horny, multiorgasmic, no rush, discreet. Marbella 679 126 231. (258366) THAI, RUSSIAN, erotic, exotic, complete luxury.

San Pedro/Marbella, 618 448 131.

(258366) BENALMADENA Sexy European blond, beautiful boobs, good English. Incalls/ Outcalls 633 010 663 (259026) COMPLIANT GENUINE COUPLE (willing wife and knowing husband) offer an extremely sexual and unique experience to ladies, couples, and gentlemen. Indulge your fantasy, be a voyeur, or simply enjoy very special pleasures with us. Private apartment in Nueva Andalucia or out calls 685 189 518 (256451) DISCRETION Privacy.

Fuengirola – Los Boliches.

Beautiful Lady Perfect Body 35yrs. Big Breast. Call 10am till 8pm – 617 818 615.

(256772) VANESSA 35 years, blonde, all services for Gentlemen. Private apartment, discreet. Benalmadena 632 002 487 (256427)

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FUENGIROLA PORT UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT. Always the best selection of 5 star ladies providing a 5 star service. For appointments call or whatsapp 661 064 376/602 651 778 (257678) ENGLISH ROSE Privately educated, well spoken, attractive, elegant and slim, looking to accompany businessmen.

Lunch/dinner optional. Discretion assured. 699 859 054 (258037) FUENGIROLA: Carolina erotic & sensual, great body, big breast, 38yrs, private apartment, Call 9am/9pm 634 703 111 (256422) CALAHONDA BEACH Anny busty mature all services, massage and more, in & out 645 617 779 (258445) SPECIAL anal. Marbella explosive blonde, 120 breast. Couples. French without. Squirting.

Photos available.

Visa/Amex. Visits 24hrs. 680 554 614 (257592) PUERTO Banus: Lesbic show.

Gina and Lorena 18 years, French without, Greek. Photos available. 672 420 027 (257592) MARBELLA Ama Cleo, Sado bondage, many toys, latex, leather. I send photos and Information. 24h. 617 791 644 (257592) MARBELLA: Delux villa, 8 high standing señoritas. Complete massage. Pool, Jacuzzi and Spa. Bar. 5pm-12pm free drink/ iberico assorted. 24hrs. www.casamasamarbella.com 680 554 614 (257592) PUERTO Banus: Monica.

Brazilian Porno actress, explosive blonde, 140 breast, full Service, bondage, toys, couples. 24hrs. Send photos. 672 420 027 (257592) MARBELLA Chanel voluptuous blonde, 130 breast, 24 years.

All services. 24hrs. Hotel/ Visits. I send photos. 672 420 027 (257592) MARBELLA Stunning Brazilian mulata, 21. French without.

Anal. Couples. Threesomes.

Toys. Hotel/ Visits. I send photos. 680 554 614 (257592) MULTIORGASMIC Danish sexpot, enables you to fulfill all your fantasies. Benajarafe. Xena. 637 168 101 (256271)

ENGLISH blonde, elegant and sensual Michelle, ex Fuengirola Porn Star recommended by Tony. I’m back and horny as ever, offering unforgettable moments of extreme pleasure and mutual satisfaction. I guarantee you will become a regular client. Very flexible hours in my apartment.

Outcalls and overnight stays available too.

603 279 769 (256229) RIVIERA (Calahonda). Katherine, 35, sophisticated, very affectionate with fine lingerie.

Qualified masseuse. Only for demanding Gents. 683 623 589 (256227) BOLICHES: From 30E: Celina nice kind lady for discreet gentlemen!

Erotic/relaxing massages, full sex, French without till end, anal, kisses. 11am9pm. Check Sundays. Private apartment! Appointments! 622 210 797 (256228) ENGLISH Stephanie 34: Fuengirola (next to bus station).

Size 8, 32GG very busty, long dark hair. No hidden extras, no upper age limit. Oral w/o, cim, passionate sex, massage.

I love wearing heels and suspenders. Toys, shower.

30mins 40E, 45mins 50E, 1hr 70E. Avail every day 10.00am6pm. Call, text, Whatsapp 602 626 606 www.escortinmarbel la.com (258376) NVA. ANDALUCIA: Beautiful blonde, natural tits, super body, lingerie, sexual toys, 69, French watersports, massage.

Discreet apartment. Visits. 645 898 573 Juliana (258339) FUENGIROLA. Camila. Brazilian, kisses, caress, massages, sex. 30 Euros. 602 419 749 (256233) LETICIA. Fuengirola. 30.

Beautiful young, sexy Brazilian, kisses, erotic, prostatic massages. Hot sex! French without. Perla 6. 697 883 690 (256236) SOPHIA Sensual, pretty Latina, I’m sweet, adorable, offering you affectionate, tender moments of ultimate pleasure.

I await your call. 655693707. I send photos (256239)

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www.actiweb.es/sexylady Calahonda. Beautiful Spanish model, 28.Discretion. 685 624 234 (256257)

NEW MALAGA. Maria 29, brunette, pleasing, affectionate. Private. Discreet 643 038 002 (258393)

FUENGIROLA. Beautiful seductive mature, brunette lady, voluptuous, elegant. Ludi. 632 381 963 (256492)

BUSTY mature Brazilian.

Deep anal, prostatic, sensitive massages. Appointments only by Whatsapp 671 110 039.

Nueva Andalucia (258365)

JAPANESE Stunning goddess.

Tantric and sexual body/to/body massage. Very good sexual services. Hotel and home visiting. Luxury private discreet apartment.

Fuengirola. 673 253 870 (256269) THAI beautiful sexy lady to provide you with the latest erotic services. Enjoy comfort Body/to/body massage, Tantric massage, chest massage, happy end. Private apartment. Opposite Hotel Las Palmeras, Fuengirola.

Visits.

602 382 363 (256270) NIKITA 1,65sm / 45kg, 84/60/84 speak English, Fuengirola 634 042 376 (258437) LIA. I love sex, do you? Couples, 634 168 441 English spoken (258437) CASSIE. Mature English lady.

Discreet and clean. Fuengirola. 667 914 732 - 951 219 946 (256274) ESTEPONA. Laura, beautiful blonde, naughty lovely body, Outcalls. 24h. 602 891 749 (256275)

ESTEPONA 2 girls, luscious. No limits. Outcalls.

24h. Visa. 680 966 710 (256495) BENALMADENA COSTA. Nice couple available for guys, ladies and couples. Private apartment. Outcalls. 631 146 803 (257190) NEW RUSSIAN! Rosa 24, Thin & Sexy! Great sex, Full attention, Professional massage. Marbella Tel 634 351 930 (258448) BENALMADENA: Young lady 35, attractive, sexy, educated.

For gentlemen. €30. 634 209 427 (258443) ZARAH, sexy English blonde, GFE Natural French CIM. My business is your pleasure.

Overnight stays. Discreet Villa.

Coin. 681 614 955 (257194) DIRTY fun with Miss Lucy.

Erotic domination, footfetish, dirty talk, smokefetish, spanking. 604 104 187 (258390)

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VICKY. Blonde, big nipples, full service, no rush, private.

50 euros. 632 346 092 Speak English. Fuengirola Church Square (258394) TORROX. New. Beautiful Ana 30ish, Spanish, massages. Opposite supermarket Dia. Appointments. 687 118 739 (258373) NVA ANDALUCIA/Casino: Hi guys! I´m Yasmin, 25 year old Latina blonde, fit body. Super tany!! Full services, special Tantra, Lingam massage. Unforgettable moments with my body and magical hands. Independent. Private apartment.

Real photos by Whatsapp 698 645 512 (258375) LORA horny girl 24, large breast, French, 69. Massages.

All services. Locrimar Nva. Andalucia. 673 251 634 (258391) LAURA 24, busty, slim, juicy French. All services. NVA. Andalucia. 697 219 468 (258433) GORGEOUS Paola. Models body, tantra, relaxing, B2B massage. Excellent company, good vibes. 602 448 534 (258390) HOT SUE for horny men for 100€. Tlf 644 856 776 (256313)

SHEMALE:

EROTIC voltage, hot passion.

Extreme sexual arousal. Massages. Marbella. 655 473 640 (258381)

MARBELLA Shemale Karina 27, beautiful Brazilian blonde, feminine, endowed. Whatsapp 667 846 464 (258382)

NEW BRUNA gorgeous Brazilian girl, Barbie face. Appointments only by Whatsapp 604 218 994. Nueva Andalucia (258365)

SHEMALE Marbella VIP services. Private apartment. Relaxing massage table, toys. 667 032 010.

Whatsapp (256272)

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Limited edition Aston up for sale A LIMITED edition Aston Martin, owned by James Bond actor Daniel Craig, is expected to sell for more than €450,000 when it is put up for sale.

C r a i g ’s v e r y o w n c u s tomised Vanquish is being put under the hammer to raise money for his youth project.

The 2014 model, aptly numbered 007, can reach speeds of up to 320 kmph and has a spec chosen specifically by the Hollywood A-lister.

It features left-hand drive with a denim and dark i n t e r i o r, a n d d e e p b l u e , l e a t h e r, h a n d - s t i t c h e d seats based on Craig’s personal choice.

On his decision to let the car go, Craig told British media: “This Aston Martin Vanquish is a tour de force of automobile engineering and a distinct pleasure to drive.

“While I will miss it, I am keen to further the very important work of The Opportunity Network with its sale.”

The car was personally designed by Marek Reichman, Aston Martin’s Chief Creative Officer, who was also responsible for the DB10 in Spectre.

It is capable of doing 0 100 kmph in roughly four seconds and reach 320 kmph thanks to its 5.9 litre V12 engine.

The famous Aston will officially head to auction on April 20 in Christie’s, The Exceptional Sale.

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Auctioneers have estimated that the car will fetch between €320,000 and €480,000, with all proceeds going to The Opportunity Network.

The Opportunity Network, which Craig is an avid supporter of, is a non-profit organisation that aims to help young people into higher education and support career development.

BEAUTIFUL: The limited edition Aston, owned by Daniel Craig (inset).

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The CCCA - another busy month!

Motoring correspondent Ian Giles reports on the latest news from the Andalucia Classic Car Club, the most successful such society in the area and probably in Spain with over 600 members.

EBRUARY comes and we seem to be more worried about the weather than we do anything else. However, The CCCA have been more concerned with putting on even more events and making sure all the mem-

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bers have plenty to occupy themselves and enjoy.

The CCCA month started, as always, with the February club dinner and club-night at Treetops restaurant in El Chaparral, Mijas Costa The night was very well supported, Treetops pro-

duced some superb food and a great night was had by all.

At this dinner, organisers Mike Glithero and Sue Gerrard announced the format for the February ‘Ginger & Pink’ run which was to start from Los Olivos commercial centre in Calahonda.

On the Saturday morning an enthusiastic crowd and an entry of around 40 cars arrived to enjoy coffees, bacon sandwiches and more at the excellent cafe and restaurant facilities there.

‘Signing on’ and registration formalities were

FEELING BLUE: An oldie but a goodie.

Tour Sherry Triangle 2018 AS if all the above was not enough, the Club ran a very successful four-day ‘Tour Sherry Triangle’ at the beginning of the busy month of February.

The event started just above San Pedro at the Venta Los Almendros. From here crews enjoyed the blast up the Ronda road before taking the Sevilla road and then turning off to take the cross country route through Grazalema and on to El Bosque. Perfect timing then allowed all crews to enjoy a BBQ lunch, sat looking at the lake in Arcos de la Frontera.

From here the event went in to Jerez to stay at the marvellous Hotel Jerez Spa where many just lounged around the pool, wondering where the next day would take them!

Some used the time to go in and explore the marvellous city of Jerez.

An amazing cocktail party and canapés was enjoyed by all before settling down to a super dinner in a private dining room at the hotel. Superb food and great wines made for a very enjoyable evening!

Next stop would be El Puerto de Santa Maria, something of a contrast to everything that had been seen previously!

The route to El Puerto was very enjoyable and took in Vejer de la Frontera where there was a cof-

fee and tapas halt, a run through the famous Tuna areas near Barbate and another coffee stop at the historically important Trafalgar, the scene of Nelson’s great victory in the early 19th century.

Crews arrived in Puerto de Santa Maria to find a most beautiful, restored Palace hotel with stunning gardens, rooms and dining area. Arriving in plenty of time for lunch, a tour of fish tapas bars was enjoyed by most. That night a cocktail party was organised followed by a marvellous dinner put on by the hotel itself. Revellers were still going well after 3am but, amazingly, all of them were ‘on parade’ the following morning to enjoy either a boat trip or the train to Cadiz where some fantastic tapas bars awaited everyone!

Marvellous weather had been enjoyed for most of the trip but the last day, a Sunday, produced torrential rain which meant the Cava stop on the beach at Tarifa had to be cancelled. Fortunately, the rain didn’t impair people’s enjoyment of the huge lunch arranged for the finish near Gibraltar!

That’s it from me, I head off to the UK, France and Monaco now to organise a special London-Monte Carlo classic car run and will report back in the next issue.

SPORTY: Perfect for a sunny day.

completed by 10.45am and organiser Mike Glithero gave his wide-eyed entrants a briefing, explaining all at 11am.

All the beautiful, classic and modern classic cars, were in a reserved parking area at Los Olivos as they prepared to depart. Navigating only on their Tulip roadbooks, which allowed them to travel at their own pace, and maybe stop for a coffee or a beer en route.

A coffee stop had in fact already been planned at ‘The Ginger Pig,’ near Coin, in the sunshine, something that was enjoyed by all.

From here the route headed along the back road over the Rio Grande towards Alozaina and then towards Casarabonela and Pizarra. A great opportunity for drivers to ‘stretch the legs’ of some of these superb machines.

Having enjoyed the rest of the well planned trip, crews headed back again to The Ginger Pig to enjoy a beer and then a well-produced lunch. Around 80 people sat down to enjoy it all and prizes were presented by Mike and Sue for the best dressed Ginger person, the best dressed person in Pink and the best dressed ensemble.

Lunch was a long and enjoyable affair and it was then that Club Presidente, Ian Giles, announced plans for an amazing six-day Tour D’Algarve in April. Running over six days the event will stop in Jerez for a black-tie cocktail party and dinner.

Then, the route will take crews cross-country to eventually arrive in The Algarve where a five-star hotel on the beach awaits them. There will be dinner at one of the best restaurants on the Algarve one evening and, on one of the two rest days, there will be a trip in to the countryside to enjoy a typical Portuguese country-style lunch.

After a few days rest (!) crews will set off cross-country for the border and then a night stop in Sevilla with time to explore some of the amazing tapas bars there.

The last day will see a beautiful run over quiet roads to finish in Benaojan with a celebratory lunch and end of event party before crews wend their weary, but usually happy, way home.

On top of that, and the February Run, the club will be supporting the Museo de Fashion & Automobiles in Malaga when it opens its doors to everyone as part of the Andalucia Day celebrations on February 28. Always a great day out, with some super exhibits and, also, plenty for the ladies to enjoy in the fashion department.

CLASSIC JAG: Oozes style.

Further information on Classic Car Club of Andalucia events can be found on the Club’s website www.cccandalucia.com.

Membership of this vibrant club is open to anyone owning a genuine classic car here in Spain. Saca tu coche clásico del garaje y diviértete con el.

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La Liga Preview

Malaga on the brink

by Ben Park MALAGA’S relegation to the Segunda division could be all but confirmed by next week as they face a tough La Liga double header in the space of three days.

Los Boquerones were much the better side in their last match against Valencia, and led for a large period of the game thanks to Brown Ideye’s first goal since joining on loan in January.

But a late collapse saw them concede two goals in the final 10 minutes and lose Ignasi Miquel to suspension after picking up a red card, as they fell to yet another loss.

They first face a Bilbao side on Saturday that is desperate for a win themselves, having picked up just three points from a possible 15 in their last five La Liga games.

Following the trip to Bilbao, they host Sevilla at home in what will be considered as a must win game if the side have any hope of surviving the drop to Segunda B. Elsewhere, Atletico Madrid will look to cement their position in second but face a difficult match as they travel to Sevilla on Sunday.

Madrid closed the gap on Barcelona

last weekend as they swept aside Athletic Bilbao 2-0 thanks to goals from Kevin Gameiro and Diego Costa.

Following the Sevilla match, Greizmann and co host Leganes at the Wanda Metropolitano and will be confident of a win.

Barcelona will continue their push towards the title and look to keep up their unbeaten record as they host Leganes at the Camp Nou. The Catalan giants sit seven points clear of Atletico at the top of La Liga following their 2-0 win over Eibar last weekend and are still yet to lose in the league this season (W19 D5).

Valencia remain locked in a battle with Real Madrid for third place and will be confident of grabbing all six points from their La Liga double header as they first host Real Sociedad on Sunday before heading to Athletic Bilbao next Wednesday.

Madrid will also be hopeful of getting all six points but may suffer from fatigue as their schedule begins to hot up.

After travelling to Leganes yesterday (Wednesday) Real Madrid host Alaves on Saturday before playing their third game in six days against Espanyol on Tuesday.

Villarreal remain in the driving seat for Europa League qualification and will hope to get back to winning ways after last week’s 1-1 draw with Espanyol as they first host Getafe before travelling to Eibar, who are also in the hunt for a Europa League spot, on Wednesday.

Full week’s fixture list Tomorrow (Friday) Deportivo La Coruña vs Espanyol Saturday Celta Vigo vs Eibar Real Madrid vs Alaves Leganes vs Las Palmas Barcelona vs Girona Sunday Villarreal vs Getafe Athletic Bilbao vs Malaga Valencia vs Real Sociedad Sevilla vs Atletico Madrid Monday, February 26 Levante vs Real Betis Tuesday, February 27 Espanyol vs Real Madrid Girona vs Celta Vigo Wednesday, February 28 Athletic Bilbao vs Valencia Getafe vs Deportivo La Coruña Malaga vs Sevilla Atletico Madrid vs Leganes Eibar vs Villarreal

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SPANISH LA LIGA 2017/18 TABLE TEAM

PJ

PG

PE

PP

GF

GC

PT

1 • Barcelona

24

19

5

0

62

11

62

2 • Atlético

24

16

7

1

36

9

55

3 • Valencia

24

14

4

6

47

28

46

4 • Real Madrid

23

13

6

4

55

26

45

5 • Sevilla

24

12

3

9

31

35

39

6 • Villarreal

24

11

5

8

35

29

38

7 • Eibar

24

10

5

9

32

36

35

8 • Girona

24

9

7

8

34

30

34

9 • Getafe

24

8

9

7

29

21

33

10 • Betis

24

10

3

11

41

50

33

11 • Celta

24

9

5

10

41

37

32

12 • R. Sociedad

24

8

5

11

46

45

29

13 • Leganés

23

8

5

10

20

25

29

14 • Athletic

24

6

10

8

24

27

28

15 • Alavés

24

9

1

14

22

33

28

16 • Espanyol

24

6

9

9

22

32

27

17 • Levante

24

3

11

10

21

38

20

18 • Las Palmas

24

5

3

16

18

52

18

19 • Deportivo

24

4

5

15

24

53

17

20 • Málaga

24

3

4

17

15

38

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Relegation

United host Chelsea in top four clash MANCHESTER UNITED welcome Chelsea to Old Trafford as the Premier League returns this weekend in what could be a huge game in the quest for automatic Champions League places.

The Red Devils were all at sea during their last fixture against Newcastle, as Matt Richie’s goal was enough to secure a memorable win over Mourinho’s men.

They host a Chelsea side on Sunday, who returned to winning ways with a 3-0 win against West Brom, following a string of bad results to ease the pressure on boss Antonio Conte and could climb up the table with a win.

If Manchester United were to lose by several goals, they could drop down as low as fourth in the Premier League table by the end of the day.

That is provided that Liverpool, who thrashed Porto 5-0 in their Champions League match last Tuesday, beat West Ham at Anfield.

The Hammers have found a bit of form in recent times, registering a 2-0 win against Watford in their last game, but it is hard to see anyone stopping in-form front three Mohammed Salah, Sadio Mane and Roberto Firmino at the moment.

At the other end of the table, West

RESULT: Alvaro Morata scored the only goal of the game the last time the two sides met.

Bromwich Albion host Huddersfield Town in a tie that could be vital for both team’s seasons Premier League new boys Huddersfield currently sit just a point above the relegation zone and a win could give them some breathing space between them and the bottom three, while a loss for West Brom may all but seal their drop to the Championship.

Fellow strugglers Swansea seemed to have turned a corner since bringing former Sheffield Wednesday boss Carlos Carvahal into the frame, with big wins against Arsenal and Liverpool followed up by a 1-0 victory against Burnley They travel to Brighton and Hove Albion on Saturday, who themselves will be buoyed by the result in their last Premier League fixture, a big 4-1 win over Bournemouth.

In the weekend’s other fixtures Leicester host Stoke, Newcastle travel to Bournemouth, Burnley are at home to Southampton, Watford take on Everton and Tottenham travel to Crystal Palace on Monday.

Full weekend fixtures Saturday Leicester vs Stoke City Bournemouth vs Newcastle United Brighton and Hove Albion vs Swansea Burnley vs Southampton Liverpool vs West Ham United West Bromwich Albion vs Huddersfield Town Watford vs Everton Sunday Crystal Palace vs Tottenham Hotspur Manchester United vs Chelsea

PREMIER LEAGUE 2017/18 TABLE TEAM

Pl

W

D

L

F

A

Pts

1 • M. City

27

23

3

1

79

20

72

2 • M. United

27

17

5

5

51

19

56

3 • Liverpool

27

15

9

3

61

31

54

4 • Chelsea

27

16

5

6

49

23

53

5 • Tottenham H.

27

15

7

5

52

24

52

6 • Arsenal

27

13

6

8

51

36

45

7 • Burnley

27

9

9

9

21

24

36

8 • Leicester City

27

9

8

10

39

40

35

9 • Everton

27

9

7

11

32

46

34

10 • Bournemouth

27

8

7

12

31

41

31

11 • Watford

27

8

6

13

37

47

30

12 • West Ham Utd.

27

7

9

11

34

46

30

13 • Newcastle United

27

7

7

13

25

36

28

14 • Brighton

27

6

10

11

22

36

28

15 • Crystal Palace

27

6

9

12

25

42

27

16 • Swansea City

27

7

6

14

20

37

27

17 • Huddersfield Town

27

7

6

14

23

47

27

18 • Southampton

27

5

11

11

28

40

26

19 • Stoke City

27

6

7

14

27

53

25

20 • West Bromwich

27

3

11

13

21

40

20

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AFTER going 160 games without a goal for Arsenal, January signing Francis Coquelin opened his goal-scoring account for Valencia at the weekend. Coquelin scored the equaliser in Valencia’s 2-1 victory over Malaga.

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One step closer Credit: Federacion Española de Rugby

Spain edge nearer to Rugby World Cup SPAIN took a huge leap towards qualifying for the 2019 Rugby World Cup after beating top-of-the-table rivals Romania 22-10 in Madrid.

Los Leones haven’t qualified for a World Cup tournament since 1999, but moved top of the table after overpowering the Oaks at a packed Estadio Nacional Complutense in Madrid.

Early tries from Benat Auzqui and Sebastien Ascarat eased the pressure on the hosts, as Brad Linklater also kicked four successful penalties in front of almost 16,000 fans.

Spain now sit one point clear of Romania on 21 points at the top of the group following the victory and two wins from their remaining fixtures against Germany and Belgium in March will guarantee Spain’s place at the World Cup. The winner of the group will

BATTLE: Spain fought hard for their victor y against Romania. qualify outright for the Tokyo World Cup next year and will go into Group A alongside Ireland, Scotland and Japan as well as the winner of a playoff.

THE Open de España, one of the oldest and most celebrated tournaments in Continental Europe, will return to the European Tour in April.

After its absence from last year’s, the 91st edition of the Open de España will be held at the Centro Nacional de Golf in Madrid, the home of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, from April 12 to 15.

The €1.5 million tournament will fulfil a pledge created by European Tour Chief Executive Keith Pelley made during a visit to Spain’s capital last year when he promised the event would return to the European Tour in 2018.

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Los Leones host Germany in their next group game on March 11, before heading to Brussels to face Belgium in their final group game on March 18.

Wellens wins Ruta del Sol as Froome flounders LOTTO-SOUDAL’S Tim Wellens did just enough on the final day to win the 2018 Ruta del Sol despite Spaniard David De La Cruz dominating Sunday’s final stage.

The Belgian began the final stage in Barbate as the overall leader having secured the win in Saturday’s fourth stage with a nail-biting finish in Alcala de los Gazules.

But the 26-year-old could manage eighth place on the final day, finishing 14 seconds behind De La Cruz in Sunday’s finale, even so, he had done just enough to beat the overall chasing pack.

Team Sky’s Wout Poel was Wellens’ closest overall competitor, finishing just eight seconds behind the Belgian in second place, while Spaniard Marc Soler finished 27 seconds behind Wellens in third.

Despite the Belgian’s victory, all eyes remained on Team Sky’s Chris Froome, whose inclusion in the race had been criticised due to an ongoing investigation into an ‘adverse analytical finding’ during his win at last year’s Vuelta de España.

The Brit struggled with the conditions throughout the race and was far off his best as he dropped out of contention before the final stage on Saturday.

Open de España returns to European Tour Pelley said: “I am delighted to announce the return of the Open de España to our schedule.

The roll call of champions reads like a Who’s Who of the game itself and we look forward very much to seeing who will add their name to that illustrious list in a couple of months’ time.

“Our game thrives on prestigious national

championships such as the Open de España and we thank everyone at the Royal Spanish Golf Federation and the Madrid Golf Federation for helping us to make this happen.”

The Open de España was officially the first tournament played in the European Tour’s inaugural season in 1972, with home favourite Antonio Garrido crowned as champion.

WINNER: Wellens followed up his fourth stage win with overall victory.

In spite of being out of overall contention, Froome had promised to ‘empty the tank’ on the final day, but the four-time Tour de France champion again failed to flourish as he finished outside the top-10 on the final stage and 10th overall.

Several Spanish greats followed onto the Roll of Honour including Seve Ballesteros with three victories, Sergio Garcia, Alvaro Quirós and Miguel Ángel Jiménez.

Other prestigiouus winners include Major Champions Bernhard Langer, Sir Nick Faldo, Padraig Harrington, Charl Schwartzel and the late Arnold Palmer among many others.

Gonzaga Escauriaza, President of the Royal Spanish Golf Federation, said: “The Open de España is back on the European Tour International Schedule, which is great news for Spanish golf and we are doubly delighted to be welcoming it back to our home at the Centro Nacional de Golf.”