Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 7 - 13 June 2018 Issue 1718

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ISSUE NO. 1718

7 - 13 June 2018

COSTA BLANCA NORTH

Expat arrest

by Matt Ford A BRITISH expatriate wanted for drug-dealing in the UK has been held in Benidorm.

It comes after the unnamed Englishman was stopped for a routine police check while riding a powerful motorcycle.

And when officers ran his details through their computer system they discovered an existing UK search and arrest warrant issued in his name.

He has reportedly been remanded in custody ahead of a court appearance, and UK investigators have been informed.

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NEWS EXTRA This will bug you SPAIN’S environmental health board has warned of the ‘very high’ risk of a cockroach plague after an unusually wet spring set up perfect conditions to trigger an insect breeding explosion in the summer heat.

In a fizz US soft drinks giant Coca Cola has moved to quash claims that its most iconic fizzy pop brand was invented in a rural Valencian village, insisting in a statement ‘this Spanish story comes up every few years.’

Gig picture A LANDMARK Spanish unfair dismissal case has ruled that a driver for online food delivery company Deliveroo should not have been treated as a self-employed contractor, with a Valencia judge concluding ‘there exists an employment relationship between the two parties.’

By Matt Ford A BRITISH gangster who went on the run through Spain has taunted investigators by shooting a video guide showing how to flee the country.

Convicted drug dealer Sam Walker, 35, who has racked up more than 100 crimes, is wanted after skipping a court appearance for driving without a licence.

His rap list includes jail terms for offences ranging from possession of counterfeit cash to threatening police officers, while he once hit the headlines over alleged threats to Chelsea footballer Ross Barkley.

He was previously a member of a mob selling heroin and crack cocaine in his native Liverpool.

And he has now reached Sierra Leone in West Africa after clocking up more than 7,000 kilometres on his epic escape from justice.

He posted a clip shortly after arriving to capital Freetown, where he claims to have met the country’s Vice President Mohammed Juldeh Jalloh, in which he said: “Better luck trying to catch me when I

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‘Step one, hire a plane’ Gangster posts guide on how to flee UK

CON THE RUN: Sam Walker fled more than 7,000 kilometres to Sierra Leone. go out of the country next time, Merseyside Police.”

A police official later pointed out that he is in fact wanted by detectives in Cheshire.

The footage is titled ‘How to get out of UK when your [sic] wanted by police. Can’t use an airport coz they will nick you.’

It shows Walker flying to Belgium in a private plane before taking a ‘little 14-hour boat trip’ to Morocco, between which he is believed to have flown to Portugal and

hitch-hiked through southern Spain.

He then embarks on a three-day drive across the Sahara Desert, Mauritania and Senegal before taking another boat to Freetown from Guinea.

Walker claims to be in Sierra Leone, where his grandfather was born, to help distribute charity donations sent from the UK. He insisted: “I was in a Catch-22. I had to fulfil my promise to the people in the

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slums, knowing full well that when am caught I will get the maximum sentence of four months in jail plus two months for missing my court date.

“But to me the people were more important. The court date could wait. Sometimes in life you have to do the wrong thing in the eyes of the law in order to do the right thing.”

He also claims to have spent thousands on installing fresh water pipes in the city’s slums after seeing “men, women and children dying.”

He added: “I have not just woke up and changed overnight. I am still the same person and still do what I do.

“I know when I come back to the UK I will be arrested at the airport and put straight in jail.

“I can deal with that knowing that I have fulfilled my promise to the people in the slums by giving them a container full of toys, clothes and food and given them fresh, clean water so no man, woman or child ever has to risk their lives by drinking dirty sewage water again.”

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Reporter to the rescue

THE BIG PICTURE Nº 17

A TELEVISION journalist reporting on heavy rainfall in the Valencia Region has helped to free three people trapped in a car during a live broadcast. Footage from Antena 3 showed Rafa Cano speaking to the camera before grabbing a rope to help emergency services pull the vehicle out of floodwater.

Taxi talk BENIDORM’S council has changed its taxi licensing system to require drivers to speak Spanish, Valencian and English. Authorities have said drivers will have to complete a 20-question multiple choice test in order to get their taxi permits, with the exam featuring sections on linguistic skills.

OUSTED: Former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy in Spanish parliament.

Drugs busts THREE people from Benidorm have been arrested in connection with a series of police drug raids in the Murcia region last week.

Officers claimed they seized around two kilos of cocaine and 150 marihuana plants in searches on Calle Duque, Calle Pisos Rojos and the Arsenal area of the town.

Four held POLICE have arrested four people in connection with the sale of clocked vehicles in Villena following an eight-month-long investigation. Guardia Civil officers seized 11 vehicles as part of the probe with the detainees suspected of altering distance figures to sell the cars for a higher price to at least 12 people.

Adios, PM! SOCIALIST leader Pedro Sanchez is Spain’s new Prime Minister after Mariano Rajoy was kicked out of office.

It comes in the wake of a landmark no-confidence vote after Rajoy’s conservative People’s Party was found guilty of accepting kickbacks in exchange for lucrative public contracts.

Madrid’s highest criminal court convicted 29 officials over their involvement in the scandal, with former treasurer Luis Barcenas jailed for 33 years and fined €44 million.

And the fallout - which saw the credibility of Rajoy’s own testimony in the enquiry disputed - proved one scandal too far for the leader once dubbed the great survivor of Spanish politics.

He had been in office since 2011 and weathered a string of corruption probes, but was unable to withstand political anger after opposition parties united to seal his fate.

After the vote, Rajoy, 63, approached 46-year-old Sanchez in the parliamentary chamber and shook the incoming leader’s hand.

“It has been an honour to be the prime minister of Spain,” he earlier told MPs. “It has been an honour to leave a better Spain than the one I found. I hope that my successor will be able to say the same when his time comes.”

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Death probe A 31-YEAR-OLD woman has been remanded in custody by a court in Elda in connection with an investigation into the death of the eight-year-old son of her partner. The suspect, named as Alejandra GP, was arrested and questioned following a police raid on her home on Calle Juan Carlos I.

Car drills SECONDARY school students in La Nucia have taken part in a council-backed training day which included learning what to do if a car overturns. Theoretical and practical classes also featured on the day which aimed to teach those involved about the consequences of driving accidents and how to cope with them.

Sex abuse appeal fails A MAN sentenced to 12 years in prison for sexually abusing his elderly disabled mother-in-law has failed in his appeal against the penalty.

The defendant was handed the sentenced by an Alicante Court but lodged an appeal with the Valencia region’s Superior Court of Justice. He claimed evidence used against him in the trial was obtained by violating his human rights. The Valencia Court ruled that due to the man having confessed to the

crime during the trial in Alicante.

The Alicante Court heard during the original trial that the man had sexually abused the 83-year-old woman while he was caring for her in their home.

The woman suffered from restricted movement and depended on help from others.

The man filmed the abuse and stored it on his computer. The footage was later discovered by his wife which led to his arrest.

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Teacher suspended A RELGIOUS EDUCATION teacher who allegedly provided students with homophobic study material has been removed from his post following student complaints.

The Valencia Region’s Ministry of Education suspended the staff member from Marcos Zaragoza secondary school in La Villajoyosa after pictures of the documents were posted by pupils online. The school told Spanish media the probe was ongoing.

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The document posted by students appears to begin by claiming that homosexuality ‘contradicts’ God’s plan for men and women.

‘The condition may in some cases be blameworthy, but homosexual acts must always be avoided since they involve a serious moral disorder,’ it goes on to state.

Judith Viudes, a psychologist connected with the case, said the teacher may have broken Article 510 of the Spanish Penal code so could be a criminal offence.

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7 - 13 June 2018 STONE IMMACULATE: Rob Macdonald at work in Barcelona and (inset) an impression of the final sculpture.

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Carved in stone A BRITISH expatriate artist has been commissioned to create a memorial to remember heroes of Spain’s civil war.

At least 45 men from across the world were killed when their ship, the Ciudad de Barcelona, was torpedoed by a submarine off the Catalan coast.

They were among 300 International Brigadistas on their way to join the Republican fight against General Franco’s fascist Nationalist army.

More than 120 of the soldiers were pulled from the sea by fishermen from the nearby town of Malgra de Mar, but many sank with the vessel.

Witnesses said that they sang left-wing anthem The Internationale as they went down, while at least 23 others were later killed in the war.

“It was late afternoon,” Welsh survivor Alun Menai Williams, who wrote the book ‘From the Rhondda to the Ebro,’ told UK media. “I was leaning on the ship’s rail taking in my first view of Spain and its shoreline, some one and a half miles in the distance, when there came one hell of an almighty bang. “The ship shook, tried to get airborne, before settling down at a crazy angle.”

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TOP dirty business… some fellows were killed while they were asleep, some were trapped below decks.”

General Franco banned talk of the attack in its aftermath, but Robert Macdonald, originally from Rugby, Warwickshire, has decided to sculpt a monument in their honour.

The Barcelona-based stonemason is carving Solidarity Park from locally-sourced limestone, which when complete will include 60 half-metre tall figures representing the brigadistas set atop an abstract ship and stone map of the world.

Macdonald says the figures symbolise “the unity of the struggle of the Brigadiers, but each will have individual carved features thus expressing the diversity of us all.”

He hopes the project - a collaboration with students, historians, local people and the families and friends of the fallen - will encourage people to consider the treatment of foreigners, immigrants and refugees.

More than €13,500 of the €20,000 estimated cost has already been raised by crowdfunding, with the final work to be displayed in a Malgret de Mar park.

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‘Worst storm in 16 years’

TRAPPED: Three people had to be rescued from their car.

MORE than 1,020 litres of water fell in just a few hours in Valencia causing floods across the region.

According to reports three people had to be rescued by firefighters after getting trapped in their car in Alginet. Elsewhere the Segura river burst its banks in Elche de la Sierra flooding the area.

State weather agency Aemet said the last time it rained so heavily in June was in 2002.

Emergency services are working to clear roads that have been affected by the downpour.

Footage uploaded onto social media showed hailstones falling in Onda.

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What a cock-up SHE’S among the most beautiful actresses in the world.

But Spanish star Penelope Cruz, 44, set jaws dropping for a different reason after her smutty slip-up on Italian TV went viral on social media.

Chatting about her cooking skills and culinary speciality at a charity event, the actress mispronounced ‘cacio,’ the Italian for cheese as ‘cazzo,’ a slang word for penis.

HARD VIEWING: Penelope Cruz.

Oaten about SHE’S the ex-Emmerdale star who recently found herself at the centre of a love triangle.

But Gemma Oaten, 34, appeared carefree as she put on a racy display with her new squeeze, actor Stuart Earp, 30, on a beach in Salou, near Barcelona.

The pair met while starring together in a pantomime version of the Wizard of Oz, and got together while he was allegedly engaged to another woman.

Kerryann Clive, 23, said at the time that she only dumped him after pictures emerged of her boyfriend together with the soap star.

But after fiercely denying the claims, the

Hull-born beauty sizzled after slipping into a colourful bikini as she frolicked in the shallows.

She later donned a coral red coverup dress as the lovebirds wrapped their arms around each other.

Gemma was previously living with film producer Scott Walker but they split after a year together.

PANTO-MINE: Gemma Oaten.

Ron the money HE’S been enjoying a luxurious break in Benahavis, near Marbella, after bagging his fourth Champions League.

And Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo, 33, seemed relaxed as he boarded a private jet in Malaga with 23year-old girlfriend Georgina Rodriguez ahead of his World Cup campaign with Portugal.

The pair had earlier been snapped aboard an €8.5 million Ascary yacht as they enjoyed some down-time together.

Strict tease THEIR whirlwind romance was confirmed just four months ago.

But actress Gemma Atkinson, 33, has admitted that Spanish boyfriend Gorka Marquez, 27, is ‘The One.’ The pair met on BBC show Strictly Come Dancing, and Gemma told UK media: “I hope he’s the one, otherwise I wouldn’t be with him.”

FLYING WINGER: Ronaldo and Georgina prepare to board their jet.

Jen set for baby break HOLLYOAKS actress Jennifer Metcalfe has revealed that the return of her character Mercedes McQueen will be filmed in Spain.

The 35-year-old has been on maternity leave for a year, but said at the British Soap Awards: “We’re going to Spain, so my first scenes back are in Spain and I’m so excited.”

And the star added she’s planning to get some sleep during her sunshine filming jaunt.

“Well, you say holiday but I’m

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just going to be catching up on my sleep because I have an 11month [old] baby and he doesn’t sleep too good,” she said.

The stunner shares baby Daye with boyfriend and former Geordie Shore cast member Greg Lake.

But when asked if her son will be joining her, she smiled: “No, three nights off!”

YUMMY MUMMY: Jennifer Metcalfe.

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Andy Maddocks, 54, from Bournemouth “Civilised people shouldn’t kill things for fun. It’s just cruel, the animal suffers. It should be banned.”

Shaun Cahill, 84, lives in Spain, returns to Dublin every six weeks to ‘cut the lawn’ “Yes, it needs to be banned. It is a blood-thirsty sport, the Spanish people have moved on.

Let’s not forget the Spanish have the best football in the world to get their hit. In bullfighting people take their anger out on nature, instead of on other humans in a competitive setting.

“People need aggression.

That is why we have Gaelic football in Ireland. On the whole, the Spanish are huge animal lovers. Everyone’s got a dog here!”

Domingo Ramirez Mora, 62, from Malaga “It should not be banned!

Bull-fighting is an art and a national celebration. To those who think it is cruel, I would say there is a lot of cruelty in the world which goes unspoken. So why focus it all on bull-fighting? And for me, it isn’t cruel anyway.”

Eric and Jenny Ankers, both 67, on holiday from

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Taking no bull THOUSANDS protested against celebrations involving bulls in Madrid last week after shocking footage of a suffering animal emerged online. But what do holidaymakers MATA-GLORY: Domingo. and residents think about Spain’s controversial tradition?

Cornwall with grandchildren “It is not something I can support. What gets me is that the bull-fighters play with the animal. It’s not nice. At least in the famous Pamplona bull-running festival the creatures get their own back! It is a rich man’s hobby anyway, it is not cheap to keep the bulls. They are brought up on big farms with dedicated cowboy-type trainers.” Wife Jenny said: “It is their heritage - it is up to them!

But I do think the Spanish are coming around to the modern way of thinking.”

Jean Simpson, 74, on holiday from Edinburgh It should be banned, 100 per cent! I went to a bull-fight in Torremolinos once, because of the tradition. The animal is kept in the dark before being released into the ring

where it is blinded by the sunlight and stabbed to death by men who then call themselves brave! The bull has no chance.

But how to stop it? Change takes so long to happen in this world! And don’t get me started on the Pamplona bull runs. You wouldn’t jump in the sea and play with the sharks, would you? So why do it with bulls?

Just ridiculous.”

John, 84, Jean’s husband “The women only go because they fancy the brave and handsome ‘toreros.’ They are quite brave though! Those bulls like killing humans, otherwise there would be no spectacle and it would be a total disaster! I prefer the way it’s done in Portugal really. The bull’s horns are wrapped up, a group of men jump on it, count to 10, jump off and run for their lives, much fairer!”

SEEING RED: Jean and John.

GORE BLIMEY: Shaun.

BIT OF BULLY: Eric and Jenny.

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OUR VIEW Political crisis might not yet be over for Sanchez SPAIN has a new Prime Minister, but for Pedro Sanchez the real battle might only just be underway.

The socialist is tasked with forming a government that represents the country he now leads rather than just the party he stands for. And with 84 seats in a 350-strong parliament, the task does not appear enviable.

He cannot possibly hope to satisfy all 180 lawmakers who lent him their support during last week’s no-confidence motion in outgoing rival Mariano Rajoy, since many have openly admitted they sided with him only to see the Popular Party ousted.

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Not simply black and white THE standoff between business owners and street prostitutes in Magaluf has no easy fix. The women are being blamed for robbing holidaymakers and somehow tainting the image of a resort that hardly has a positive reputation when it comes to Brits behaving badly. But reports suggest that many of the women are the victims of sex trafficking, kidnapped from their home countries amid promises of riches after being brainwashed with voodoo rituals.

And when they arrive, they are told to pay off debts they were previously unaware of and forced to prostitute themselves.

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Tourism meeting MORE than 200 people from the tourism sector are set to meet in Benidorm today to discuss boosting the industry in the Valencia region and in Spain.

The fifth Tourism Conference of Benidorm is set to see businesspeople from across the country visit the city. This year’s theme is: ‘Welcome and care for tourists - a shared responsibility.’

Jose Luis Zoreda, the vicepresident of Exceltur and Antonio Bernabe, the director of Valencia tourism, are set to open the event discussing industry trends.

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Jaw blimey Giant shark spotted A HUGE shark left sun-seekers stunned after washing up on a popular Ibiza beach.

The three-metre long animal has been identified as a female bluntnose six-gill shark, or cow shark, a harmless species normally inhabiting deep water.

It can reach almost eight metres in length and was already dead when it appeared on the sandy strip at Cala Sant Vicent near Sant Joan de Labritja.

Many bathers took selfies

ELDA’S Councillor for Heritage, Amado Navalon, has paid a visit to the city’s castle to check the effects of recent heavy rains.

The public are currently not permitted to enter the grounds due to ongoing works, but from a distance there does not seem to have been extraordinary damage wrought.

Around 18 months ago, the arch that was rebuilt in the 1990s fell to the ground

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HUGE: The shark was reportedly dumped at a local tip. with the predator before it was removed and dumped at

Castle in a perfect storm due to a storm, and remains in the place where it broke off.

Moreover, for more than two years the

a local tip, according to reports.

renovation work to the front wall of the castle has stalled due to a dispute between the contracted company and Valencia’s Department of Culture.

Only 10 per cent of the planned work has been carried out, and much more archaeological excavation is needed.

Councillor Navalon insists that he is doing everything in his power to find a resolution to the situation.

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NEWS EXTRA Shock results IN the 12 months since Muchamiel’s Local Police began carrying out drugs’ checks, only one of the 32 people who were stopped tested negative. The remainder gave positive results for cannabis, cocaine, heroin and amphetamine.

Fish seized THE Guardia Civil impounded 520 kilos of undersized hake and squid at Calpe’s fishing port. As usual in these cases all were donated, following a health check, to social dining rooms run by charities.

Car scam ELEVEN cars were impounded, four people were arrested and three more are under investigation for altering the odometers on secondhand vehicles in Villena.

All twerk no play Revellers face fine over traffic stunt

by Matt Ford A DRIVER faces losing six points off his licence and a heavy fine after two blondes in the back seat of his car shocked holidaymakers by putting on an x-rated twerking display in Mallorca.

The revellers held up traffic as they bopped to loud music blaring from the convertible Opel in front of a packed public bus.

In video footage of the shocking scene shot in capital Palma’s port area where millionaires moor their luxury yachts - one of the scantily-clad women repeatedly slaps the other on the bottom before stripping off her jacket as she writhes suggestively.

Her pal then opens her legs and shakes her backside at waiting motorists who beep their horns impatiently as the pair and a male friend in the front seat take selfies and record videos on their phones.

And she continues her lewd performance as the car performs an illegal Uturn and speeds off.

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TOTAL BUMMER: The revellers held up traffic. shouting: “There are wh***s and then these girls!”

Local Police said in a tweet: ‘We have initiated proceedings for reckless driving, punishable by a €500 fine and six points off the driver’s licence.

‘Fooling around like this carries its consequences.’

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were last month filmed dancing suggestively on the roof of a BMW in Javea on the Costa Blanca.

And British Playboy millionaire Jody Sanders recently wrecked his €300,000 convertible Rolls Royce by reversing it through the window of a Calvia tobacconist while two women dressed in thong bikinis danced on the back seat.

MEMBERS of the Socialist Youth in Elda have launched a campaign to give condoms to young people in the town in order to prevent unwanted pregnancies and sexually transmitted diseases.

The campaign, dubbed Safe Dust, is set to see the activists hand out some 2,000 condoms to people today (Thursday). It was created to coincide with the local Moors and Christians festival also taking place this week.

The group said on their Facebook page they were launching the hand out for the second time in as many years.

Secretary General Victor Jose Collados Perales said: “The objective of this campaign is to raise awareness and make sure the population guards itself against the spread of diseases.”

Two cases of chlamydia, 13 cases of hepatitis A and three cases of hepatitis B were recorded in Elda during last year according to local authority data.

There were 11 cases of syphilis, 14 cases of gonorrhoea and 21 cases of HIV-AIDS also registered in the same period.

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Share of the dog A SMALL dog must spend six months per year with each of her two owners after a groundbreaking Costa del Sol legal battle.

The joint custody case is the first of its kind in Malaga Province and just the fourth ever in Spain.

And the ruling will see Tara, a Pomeranian cross, split her time between Madrid and Antequera - an hour inland from Malaga - after the couple that had owned her for a decade went their separate ways.

It comes after the plaintiff left his former partner four years ago, leaving her to care for Tara alone after he returned to his hometown from the Spanish capital.

But he was unable to live without his beloved pet and submitted a claim that he was her sole owner, triggering a court case.

And after a judge rejected the demand he filed for joint

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BONE OF CONTENTION: The court ruling will see Tara (inset) spend six months with each owner. custody of the pooch, which has now been formalised by Malaga’s provincial authorities.

The judge said in a statement that the defendant ‘has maintained a passionate emotional relationship with her pet for more than seven years, and this merits judicial protection.’

Alejandra Leon, the plaintiff’s legal representative and an expert in animal law, called the sentence “transcendental.”

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She added: “It only confirms the ongoing reform of animals’ legal status in Spain, with them no longer considered objects but living creatures with feelings.

“Their welfare should always be the priority in such cases.”

Tara will be brought to Malaga for the first six months in the wake of the case, since the plaintiff has ‘been deprived of contact’ since 2015.

BENIDORM’S tourist board has hosted four British bloggers in the city in a bid to boost the destination’s profile online.

The blogge rs , w ho repor t edl y have around one million followers between them, arrived in Benidorm last Thursday and stayed for three days.

The online figures rode aboard jet skis, posed for photographs, had a jeep ride and visited a waterfall in order to see the ‘other’ Benidorm, the trip sponsors said.

The trip was sponsored by the British holiday price comparison website Ice Lolly.

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Saved app a mountain Brit pensioner rescued after horror plunge

By Matt Ford A BRITISH climber has been rescued after plummeting more than 10 metres down a Spanish mountain in pitch darkness.

The unnamed 69-year-old was found clinging to a tiny ledge with rib and foot injuries after using a mobile phone app to contact his family in the UK. They immediately contacted the British Consulate who raised the alarm.

A Guardia Civil mountain rescue team located him in the Las Minas del Rabico area of the Picos de Europa mountain range in Castilla y Leon using the coordinates he provided.

Rescuers said he suffered the fall after getting lost during a solo trek when thick fog descended.

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AIR RESCUE: The 69-year-old hurt his ribs and foot. ladder to pull him to safety before setting up a small rescue tent where he was able to recover strength and warmth with food and water.

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AN Irish tourist has died after reportedly falling from an apartment courtyard wall in Magaluf.

Thomas Owen Hughes,20, was just one day into his Mallorca holiday when he was found by a local resident.

Police believe he fell whilst trying to gain access to the complex from the equivalent height of a seventh-floor apartment.

At first light he was winched to a helicopter in a risky manoeuvre before being flown to the Panderrueda pass where an air ambulance was waiting to

The Eden Roc resident raised the alarm after spotting his body at around 11am but paramedics were unable to revive him. Investigators believe he fell at night, but due to the secluded area he was in no-one noticed

until hours later.

It is not yet clear why Thomas was at the apartment complex, as he was staying at a nearby hotel.

transfer him to hospital.

A Guardia Civil official said: “He was found at 2am, lying on a shelf in a very precarious position and with the real possibility of falling into the void below.”

“The mountaineer, who was doing the route alone, became disoriented by the fog and took another route that goes up to the Torre del Llaz.

“He slipped and fell about 10 metres down the sheer slopes and landed on the ledge.”

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Plane ridiculous A BRITISH couple were unable to fly to their Spanish holiday home using a €115 Ryanair voucher because it was in the name of ‘Mum Dad.’ Kathryn and Richard Bolton, from Banbury, Oxfordshire, were told they could not use the voucher, bought for them by son Nick, 34, because the ‘names did not match’ those on their passports.

But when insurance worker Karen, 60, called the budget airline to resolve the problem, she was told that the correct names should be ‘Dear Mum Dad.’ She told UK media: “The whole thing has been a ludicrous farce. It would be laughable if it wasn’t so annoying.”

The voucher was bought as a Christmas present from Nick, wife Amy and their two dogs Brian and Ernie.

He wrote ‘Dear Mum Dad’ in the space for the recipients’ names, and Kathryn and Richard, 59, tried to redeem it in April for a planned trip to their Costa Brava holiday flat near Girona.

Karen continued: “When I

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FLYIN’ SHAME: The carrier has said it will reissue the voucher. tried to buy them with the voucher it said ‘passenger name doesn’t match’. My husband thought I was being silly, so he tried it and it still wasn’t working.

“So we rang Ryanair, at 13p per minute, and finally a man said, ‘The name doesn’t match.’ I asked what the ‘correct’ name was, and he said, ‘Dear Mum Dad.’ I said that’s a salutation, not a name.”

The low-cost carrier eventually relented and said they will

reissue the voucher.

Karen added: “To say it’s taken the shine off things is an understatement. They had our voucher information online and would have known straight away we were genuine customers, but they put us through all this rigmarole.”

A Ryanair official said: “The name on the voucher must match the name on the passport as per our terms and conditions.

“As a gesture of goodwill we

have contacted the customer directly to resolve the issue.”

It comes as the Irish operator sparked outrage at London’s Stansted Airport this weekend, with hundreds of passengers up in arms over lengthy check-in queues.

Some feared missing their flights after branding the situation ‘an utter shambles,’ while the airport said cancellations due to bad weather earlier in the week had triggered a bottleneck.

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Man held over rape of Brit tourist A ROMANIAN expatriate has been held in Mallorca on suspicion of sexually assaulting a British holidaymaker.

It comes after the unnamed man, who works in a Magaluf bar, was identified following DNA tests performed on the victim’s clothing.

The woman, believed to be in her late 20s, filed a complaint with UK police after returning from a trip to the party resort last year.

She claimed she was partying with a friend on the Punta Ballena strip when the pair became

SEX ATTACK CLAIM: The unnamed suspect has been remanded in custody. separated, before she was approached by the accused, who invited her for a drink.

Later in the evening, he took her to a hotel room and alleged-

ly raped her. The case was reported to Interpol, who informed local investigators in Calvia.

The suspect has been remanded in custody pending trial.

Tree disease pledge EU officials have said they are committed to stopping the spread of a virus which has infected trees in the Costa Blanca.

A delegation from the European Commission visited areas that have been struck by Xylella last week. The EU representatives went to the Marina Baixa, Marina Alta and El Comtat areas of the region. They were joined by Spanish officials from the Agriculture department of the Valencia Generalitat including Roger Llanes, director of Agriculture and Livestock for the region.

Llanes said the EU’s delegates wanted to prevent the spread of the disease to areas not already hit by it.

“They warned the only way is to eradicate it and that we must do this quickly,” he said.

Xylella Fastidiosa is known to leave trees without water which dries out their leaves, stunts their growth and lowers their fruit yield.

There are concerns if Xylella is able to spread it could impact harvests and local economies as a result.

Horror accident kills soldiers MILITARY investigators are probing the deaths of two Spanish soldiers in the Canary Islands.

At least two other servicemen are believed to have been hurt after a BMR armoured personnel carrier

overturned during an exercise at a firing range near the town of Pajara, Fuerteventura.

General Venancio Aguado of the Canarias XVI Brigade named the victims as corporal Jose Luis Leon Socorro and private Eynar Esau Mina Lozano in a statement issued by the Spanish Ministry of Defence.

The injured men were reportedly transferred to the island’s Puerto de Rosario Hospital in the wake of the accident, which happened during a two-week field training exercise involving 600 troops and a hundred vehicles.

It comes after the brigade, which has extensive combat experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, returned from a six-month tour of Lebanon supporting United Nations forces.

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Joint swoop SEVEN men have been held after a €4.6 million cannabis haul was unearthed in a container shipped to the UK from Spain.

Border Force officers discovered the 400kg stash in the wake of a joint probe with the National Crime Agency (NCA).

The drugs were hidden in crates of lettuces aboard the Wec Vermeer vessel, which had docked at the Port of Liverpool five days ahead of the raid.

A covert surveillance operation was launched, with investigators tracking the container after it was loaded onto an articulated lorry and driven to an industrial unit in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire.

Officers swooped to arrest the driver and two others who were unloading the vehicle, before three suspects

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€4.6m cannabis stash seized

UNBE-LEAF-ABLE: The giant drugs haul was tracked after arriving to Liverpool among salad. were held in nearby Kirkham and a fourth individual was detained in the Trafford Park area of Greater Manchester.

Greg McKenna, Head of NCA Investigations for the north of England, said in a statement: “This is a significant disruption of an organised crime network that has stopped the proceeds of crime funding further criminality that would damage

communities and exploit the vulnerable.

“We take importations such as this very seriously, and these arrests show that we will detect criminal activity and arrest those responsible.”

All seven suspects have been released on bail after being quizzed by detectives on suspicion of conspiring to import class B drugs.

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SHOTS HEARD: Gunfire was heard in Granada three times.

GUNSHOTS have been heard in Granada City up to three times and in three separate places over the weekend, according to media reports of local witnesses.

The first shot was reportedly fired in the Caseria del Cerro area of the city late on Friday and in the early hours of Saturday.

A gun was fired in the air in the Almanjayar area while police were deployed to Calle Juan de Salcedo after further reports of gunfire on Sunday.

The first of the three inci-

dents is believed to have begun late on Friday evening in what was reportedly a shootout between rival gangs.

Police seized a total of five weapons after arriving in the Caseria del Cerro area on Saturday, with two of those reportedly replicas. Five people were arrested in connection with the gunfire.

The second shot was heard in the Almanjayar area of the city at around 5.15pm on Sunday.

Emergency services said police went to Calle Molino Nuevo where someone had fired a shot

at a gate but found no damage or injuries had been caused.

At least seven police vehicles were despatched to Calle Juan de Salcedo at around 6.00pm, with the street cordoned off according to witnesses.

Bullet holes were reportedly found in a house in the area, with the number of arrested made not specified by emergency services.

It is unclear if the three events are connected. and the authorities are reportedly not ruling out that they may be.

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NEWS EXTRA Family outing THE Cap Prim Segon, a professional fishing boat that accepts tourists as passengers whilst working, was recently accompanied for several minutes by a family of six dolphins which included two young.

Go carefully LA NUCIA will complete road safety instruction with awareness courses for older pupils with theory classes and an overturn simulator to impress the importance of using a seat belt but not using drugs or drink.

Holiday time FINESTRAT pensioners can put their names down for the Valencian Community’s subsidised social holidays inside the region until July 13. Further information is available at the town hall and the La Cala municipal office.

Expats held Brits charged over prostitution protests FIVE British expatriates have been held on suspicion of hate crimes in the wake of vigilante protests against African prostitutes in Magaluf.

It comes after a group of around 20 Nigerian women filed official complaints with Local Police in Magaluf, claiming they had been physically assaulted and verbally abused while being filmed without their consent.

Those arrested, who have not been named but include a bar manager from Darlington, have reportedly been told they face a court hearing after being fingerprinted at a Guardia Civil station.

They are believed to be members of a social media group set up to curb the ‘threat’ of the sex workers, who they believe are responsible for muggings and violent attacks on drunk

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PROTESTS: The arrests come amid rising tensions. revellers in the party resort.

One pal said: “The outcome with the police wasn’t good. Our friends are being charged with hate crimes and are awaiting court. We have to rethink this again and change our tactics.”

The prostitutes are thought to be brought to Spain from Africa by a sex trafficking

ring, and local businesses, including many owned by Britons, blame them for a drop in trade.

The latest drama follows a string of incidents which have seen holidaymakers join protests against the women and clashes with Spanish taxi drivers chanting ‘No prostitutes on the streets.’

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Fluke angling mishap A YOUNG woman fishing off the Albir cliffs was airlifted to hospital with a fishhook embedded in her mouth.

The 20-year-old and a friend were fishing for squid, using a special potera sinker.

This is surrounded by sharp multiple hooks and as she lifted the line from the water the hook flew up and hit her in the mouth.

Owing to the inaccessible

cliffs where the two young women were fishing, the Emergency Services mobilised a Fire Brigade helicopter which had to lower a paramedic and a rescuer to the injured girl.

Once stabilised she was winched up to the helicopter which returned to Benidorm fire station’s helipad where an ambulance was waiting to take her to Villajoyosa hospital.

Hit by train A CAR driver has been left unharmed after a train crashed into his vehicle on a level crossing in Villena.

Emergency services said no other injuries were caused as a result of the accident which took place on the Alicante to Albecete stretch of line on Sunday.

The driver of the black Honda reportedly said he did not see the train coming before it hit the front of his car on the crossing.

The train, which was carrying some 65 passengers at the time of the accident, was kept in Villena station after the crash.

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Hero wolfdogs raise the alarm LUA and Llop, two Czechoslavakian wolf dogs saved their owner’s life after fire broke out in her Lliber warehouse.

Known for their faithful character and loyalty to their owner the dogs woke Dominique at 5am when fire spread from a wooden shed adjoining her antiques and second-hand furniture business located in the warehouse, Dominique sleeps in an apartment above the premises and once the blaze entered the warehouse through an open window Lua started to bark.

“I thought she had been disturbed by noise outside and I told her to be quiet and tried to get back to sleep,” Dominique said later.

“Llop seized my arm in his mouth and started to tug so I got up, thinking he wanted to go outside,” she continued. “Then I saw the flames that were already

LUA AND LLOP: Saved their owner’s life. inside the store. He saved my life, I’m certain of it.”

Dominique ran to get a fire extinguisher and the window where she had been standing exploded, narrowly escaping injury.

Meanwhile, neighbours who saw the blaze advised the Emergency Services and firefighters from the Denia fire station prevented the fire from en-

tering the shop, although her home was badly damaged.

Dominique still does not know how the fire started as she turns off the downstairs mains every night before she goes to bed and there is no electricity in the shed where the fire started.

“But if it weren’t for Lua and Llop, I don’t know what would have happened.”

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Biter jailed A 33-YEAR-OLD will go to prison for one year for assaulting his ex-partner by biting her in the face after she refused to kiss him.

Refusing his appeal, Alicante’s Provincial Court upheld the sentence given by a Benidorm criminal court who convicted the man of causing aggravated injuries.

The court heard the man had approached the woman in a square in Benidorm in November 2015. He was at that time subject to a legal order preventing him from contacting her.

The defendant is to pay some €400 in compensation to the victim.

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Older buildings’ earthquake risk AN Alicante University (UA) research team warned that dozens of high-rise Costa Blanca buildings might not withstand an earthquake.

Reinforced concrete tower blocks of 15 or more storeys constructed in the 60’s and early 70’s were built prior to earthquake regulations, explained Professor Salvador Ivorra.

The professor, who heads the university’s department of Simulation, Modelling and Structure Testing (GRESMES) explained that many early buildings were constructed with bad materials and have been subjected to wind and the sea air for the last 40 or 50 years.

“These buildings are not going to collapse, but they need technical inspections,” Professor Chorro said.

The GRESMES team recently published the results of their findings in the Engineering

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WARNING: Oldest seafront buildings susceptible to seismic activity.

Failure Analysis magazine, concluding that the deterioration of older high-rise buildings is generalised on the Mediterranean coast but particularly in Alicante Province.

The earliest buildings made less provision for wind erosion, the GRESMES investigators found, and without taking possible seismic activity into account.

This changed in the 70’s when by law all Alicante

Province buildings had to be earthquake-proof.

In line with current regulations, reinforced concrete buildings are designed to have a useful life of 50 years, after which problems are likely to occur, Ivorra said.

They would not collapse, he added, but how long they lasted would depend on the aggressive elements to which they were exposed and all should be inspected, he added.

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CAUSING A STINK: The ‘unwashed’ traveller is escorted to a bus.

Plane disgusting Smelly passenger sparks diversion

by Staff Reporter A FLIGHT packed with holidaymakers on their way to Spain was forced to make an emergency landing due to the ‘unbearable’ stench of an ‘unwashed’ man.

The passenger’s body odour was so vile that the Transavia service from Amsterdam’s Schipol Airport to Gran Canaria was diverted to Faro on Portugal’s Algarve.

Cabin crew reportedly tried to make the traveller sit in the

toilet before the captain decided to cut the journey short so that he could be taken off the Boeing 737 aircraft.

The foul smell caused some sun-seekers to vomit while others fainted, with Belgian traveller Piet van Haut describing the reek as “unbearable.”

He added: “It was like he hadn’t washed himself for several weeks.

“Several passengers got sick and had to puke.”

A picture snapped by one of those aboard the plane shows

ground staff escorting the stinking individual onto a waiting bus.

A Transavia official said: “The aeroplane diverted because of medical reasons, but it is indeed right that he smelled quite a bit.”

It remains unclear why he stank, or what medical condition he was suffering from.

In February, a Transavia jet from Dubai to Amsterdam was re-routed because a passenger repeatedly broke wind, sparking a mid-air brawl.

By Gregory Kirby RYANAIR has announced an increase in the fee for carrying two cabin bags on some flights just months after the airline introduced the charge.

The company’s baggage policy allows everybody to travel with ‘two-free carry-on bags.’

But the heaviest of the two bags has to be checked into the hold, unless passengers pay a priority boarding fee.

A €5.70 charge for priority boarding was introduced in January, but it has now increased to €6.85 for selected trips, according to Which? consumers’ association.

And it rises again to €7.99 if passengers reserve the priority booking during online check-in instead of when booking.

A Ryanair spokesperson said: “Like all businesses, our optional fees can change unlike our fares, which keep coming down.”

He did not say which transfers would be affected by increased luggage fees.

Airline CEO Michael O’Leary said checking in cab-

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Baggage fee price hike

SURPRISE: Ryanair chief Michael O’Leary in Ukraine earlier this year. in bags at the gate is causing ‘handling issues’ on charters.

The problem is worst during bank holiday weekends and summer peak periods with up to 120 free-of-charge bags being handled at gates, he added.

Ryainair’s new bag policy could reportedly be costing €50 million each year. And

O’Leary said he may have to rethink it if the number of bags being checked-in at gates continues to rise.

The airline makes €5.7 million per day from additional charges and €2 billion each year from ‘ancillary revenues’ coming from additional extras like priority boarding and seat reservations.

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NEWS EXTRA Storm damage AFTER inland cherry growers predicted a 3.5 million kilo harvest, the best in 10 years, storms and hail in El Comtat damaged 100 tons of ripening cherries with €300,000 losses.

Worst-affected were Planes and Margarida.

Crop eaters AGRICULTURAL growers in the Montnegre area adjoining Jijona called on the Generalitat to ease the stringent conditions it imposes for hunting and killing Barbary sheep, which they say are ruining their crops.

New premises THE national government has agreed to build a new Guardia Civil headquarters in Campello on land provided by the municipality and cede the old building that adjoins an important archaeological site, to the town hall.

Tribute to London Bridge ‘Skateboard Hero’

By Gregory Kirby THE father of Ignacio Echeverria, the ‘skateboard hero’ stabbed to death by terrorists during the London bridge attacks last year, has paid tribute to his son a year on.

“He did what he had to do. I wouldn’t expect less from him,” Joaquin Echeverria, Ignacio’s father, said.

“I want it to be known that he always wanted to be good,” he added.

The terrorists were stabbing a woman when Echeverria, from Madrid, intervened armed with just his skateboard.

“And the next thing Ignacio was then being struck by the three terrorists,” Echeverria’s father said.”

The Spaniard - who was an anti-money laundering expert at HSBC bank - had said he would intervene in the event of a terrorist attack during a family conversation just a few months prior to the June 3 attacks, his father told.

The Spanish government posthumously awarded him the Great Cross of the order of Civil Merit for ‘extraordinary services.’

Spain’s king Felipe VI also honoured his

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LOSS: Ignacio Echeverria’s father, Joaquín, after an Easter speech in Toledo. bravery in a speech given in UK parliament during a state visit last year.

A commemoration to those who died during the attacks was held at Southward Needle on London Bridge last Sunday marking one year since the attack.

Prime Minister Teresa May attended alongside Labour party leader, Jeremy Corbyn, London Metropolitan police chief, Cressida Dick and mayor of London, Sadiq Khan. “The many stories of courage demonstrated that night will always stay with me, such as Ignacio Echeverria, who died after

confronting the terrorists with the only thing he had, his skateboard,” the Prime Minister said. Islamic State-inspired terrorists ploughed down pedestrians on London bridge in a van before crashing it on the south bank of the River Thames.

They ran to nearby Borough market storming pubs and restaurants and stabbing whoever they could find before Metropolitan police shot them dead.

A total of 48 people were injured in the attacks and eight people were killed which in addition to Echeverria include, Canadian

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Room at the top in 2014 PEDRO SANCHEZ, Spain’s president since June 1, scaled the Peñon de Ifach in December 2014.

He climbed the 332-metre limestone outcrop with the television presenter and mountaineer Jesus Calleja and the feat appeared in the first programme of Planeta Calleja’s second series.

In the preceding months Sanchez had appeared on political programmes but was also seen on more frivolous daytime chat shows.

Once Sanchez reached the top of the Peñon in 2014, he sent a message to the rival Podemos party, telling them to “change the bad vibes and anger for proposals and something positive.”

That was in 2014 but support from Podemos was decisive in helping Sanchez to oust Mariano Rajoy.

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NEWS EXTRA Exhibition proposal CIUDADANOS members on El Campello’s council have called on authorities to put on an exhibit about the history and archaeology of the town, with councillor Jesus Garrido saying it would give the town a chance to showcase its heritage.

Post strike UNIONS representing postal workers have said they will strike for two hours today (Thursday) throughout Valencia Province over spending cuts of around €180 million to the service’s budget.

New hirings AUTHORITIES in Ontinyent have taken on 42 jobless people as part of a €650,000 plan to get them into work, with those hired set to work for 37.5 hours a week.

Piranha seeks forever home TORREVIEJA’S municipal animal shelter has been crowded out by the sudden arrival of 26 animals.

Animal Protection councillor Carmen Morate explained that Torrevieja’s Guardia Civil seized the animals while dismantling a 30-strong drugs ring.

They encountered 19 dogs, a ferret, a piranha fish and three horses, together with an o th er s ix d o g s b elo n ging to the s a me owners found wandering near an El Limonar property.

Despite the unexpected arrival of so many animals, Morate thanked the Guardia Civil, the judge in charge of the investigation and the public prosecutor for trusting her department to rehome the animals.

They are now seeking homes for 13 greyhounds, 10 greyhound puppies - currently being fostered as they are only a month old - a Rottweiler, a Podenco hunting dog, as well as other animals including a piranha named Federico who was present while Morate spoke to the Press.

The municipal shelter, which usually houses an average of 35 animals must now take charge of another 26.

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HOME REQUIRED: Carmen Morate and Federico.

“We need to stress the need for volunteers prepared to foster or adopt one of these animals,” the councillor said, explaining that the only requirement was an authorisation from the judge in charge of the case.

Anyone wishing to adopt one of these animals should contact www.proteccionanimal@torrevie ja.eu or visit the Concejalia de Proteccion Animal de Torrevieja or enquire at the municipal shelter, the Albergue Municipal in Calle Nenufares.

THE partner of an Elda man whose eight-year-old foster son died during an apparent break-in was charged with his murder.

Last August the 31-yearold woman named Alejandra, then four months pregnant, claimed that two men dressed in black and wearing motorcycle helmets pounced on her and her partner’s foster son, Dominique as she left her home in central Elda.

They forced her back inside the apartment where she was tied up and hooded before being beaten and sexually assaulted. Before fainting she had been aware of flashes as though her assailants were taking photographs, she told police afterwards.

Although Alejandra is deaf she can lip-read and on regaining consciousness, unseen by her captors, she made two video calls to her mother.

Meanwhile, after the at-

tackers had gone, leaving the apartment door open, an alarmed neighbour called the 112 emergency services.

A half-naked Dominique was sprawled on the floor but despite traces of vomit and blood there were no signs of violence. Pathologists later established that the boy, who was epileptic and mildly autistic, died of asphyxiation.

He visited his father frequently but normally lived with his permanent foster mother who was holidaying at the time.

Neither of the attackers were seen on CCTV footage of the area and no witnesses recalled seeing them.

Police doubted Alejandra’s story from the outset after a gynaecological examination that night ruled out the alleged sexual assault. Investigators have not yet found a specific motive for the killing, but suspect it was driven by jealousy.

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Path to power THE PSOE’s no confidence motion came in the wake of the Gurtel kickback-for-contracts scandal.

Spanish lawmakers debated the motion last Thursday and Friday, with the vote taken at 11am on the latter day.

Rajoy said Sanchez’s motion was an attempt to get into power without having to contest an election.

“Mr Sanchez is concerned because he is not doing any better in the polls, and he has realised that he will never reach government through elections,” he said.

Sanchez came next and called on Rajoy to leave office voluntarily rather than face the no confidence vote.

“The time has come, there is no middle-of-the-road way to raise the quality of our democracy, which is now being questioned,” he said The speeches were followed by efforts from the PSOE to

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On the agenda

Spain’s Parliament. The party has 84 seats in the 350-seat lower house and 62 senators in the 266-strong upper chamber.

Sanchez said last week he would go to the polls to get a mandate from Spanish voters.

He will have to rely on support from the far left Podemos party and small regionalist parties in the meantime to get legislation passed.

Cataluña’s push for greater powers looks set to continue which could pose further issues for the prime minister.

Sanchez was a vocal opponent of Cataluña’s push for independence and recently branded Torra the ‘Le Pen of Spanish politics’ in a reference to the nationalist French politician.

He will now have to sit across the table from Torra who may well take advantage of the PSOE’s fragile position in parliament to extract pledges for greater Catalan self-rule.

THE head of Spain’s government faces a number of challenges as he gets his feet under the table in the prime minister’s residence of La Moncloa.

The first is the PSOE’s position in the Cortes Generales,

Next week Euro Weekly News will feature a beginner’s guide to Spanish politics which will tell you all you need to know about the state of play following Sanchez’s appointment.

PEDRO SANCHEZ, the leader of the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), succeeded in unseating Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to take the top job in Spanish politics for himself last week. The 46-year-old former economics professor faced a number of issues from day one, including his party not having a parliamentary majority and the ongoing situation in Cataluña. win over smaller, regionalist parties to support the motion, accomplished by Thursday evening.

The motion passed on Friday morning with 180 votes in favour, 169 against and one abstention. That left Rajoy ousted and Sanchez installed as Prime Minister.

following year.

He was ousted from the leadership in October 2016 after Spanish voters returned a hung parliament in 2015 before returning to the post just over a year ago.

He does not currently have a seat in the Congress of Deputies but that will not prevent him from becoming Prime Minister. Candidates for the job need only be Spanish and over 18.

Pedro’s progress SPAIN’S new prime minister was born in Madrid in 1972. He played in an under-21’s basketball team before going on to get several degrees covering business and economics.

Sanchez speaks fluent English and French as well as Spanish. He served as the chief of staff to the UN high representative in Bosnia during the

CREDIT: Congreso de los Diputados, via Twitter

IN POWER: Pedro Sanchez is now the prime minister of Spain. war in the former Yugoslavia.

His political career began on Madrid City Council before being elected to Parliament in

2009.

He lost his seat in 2011 but returned in 2013 and was elected the leader of the PSOE the

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Sports awards ALFAZ’S 24 municipal sports schools met for an end-of-term meeting that began with an informal parade by 1,057 pupils and 69 instructors and was followed by the presentation of medals.

Mayor Vicente Arques urged the pupils to continue practising sport, pledging to continue to provide a wide range of sports opportunities.

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the marine surveillance boat assigned to the Sierra Helada national park which covers 5,630 hectares between Albir and Benidorm but includes the Bay of Altea.

Gilabert described the work he carries out to protect the marine reserve, ensuring that the park’s good practices were respected regarding rubbish disposal, wildlife and speed limits. The boat also collaborates with sighting and following whales, dolphins and other marine creatures.

The next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday July 25 and Nomdedeu stressed that the Environment Committee was open to all those interested in attending.

A DELEGATION from Macedonia has visited Alfaz, interested in observing its role as a tourist destination. The business people from the tourism sector as well as representatives from former Yugoslav towns, who included the mayors of Strumica, Kadavarci and Gostivar, explained that they were drawn to Alfaz by its pro-European and cosmopolitan character.

The main object of their visit was to analyse future contacts while learning about Alfaz’s projects following an allocation of €5 million from the EU. The delegation was headed by the mayor of Strumica, which is one of Macedonia’s most important tourism

DELEGATION: Macedonian mayors and business people. centres, as well as the mayor of Kavadarci, the largest vine-growing area in south-east Europe, who was

Long walk for love of Doble Amor ALFAZ resident Wout Buijs has set out on the Santiago Way pilgrimage.

He hopes to help the Doble Amor occupational centre by raising funds from sponsors via the www.colegiohistoriadelarte. com web page.

No donation is too small, said Buijs who has the backing of the Lions Club: “All help is important, and each step will be recorded on the web page.”

His aim is to finish the Way

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MEMBERS of Altea Town Hall’s Environment Committee met recently for the third time this year.

Under discussion were the subsidies that the department has received and the requests made so far, the majority earmarked for sustainable forestry or protecting Altea’s marine zones.

“To date, Altea has received approximately €50,000 of environmental material,” announced councillor Beatriu Nomdedeu. “Ninety per cent has been allocated to forestry with the object of maintaining well-conserved woodland as well as rich and diverse wildlife and plant life.”

Also present was Daniel Gilabert, who captains

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Keeping an eye on Cosmopolitan cha the marine reserve wows visitors

WOUT BUIJS: Hopes to complete the Santiago Way in 30 days. within 30 days, following the Aragon and French routes which pass through the historic towns and cities including San Juan de la Peña, Santo Domingo de Silos as well as the cathedral cities of Leon, Burgos and Orense.

Having set out high in the Pyrenees on June 2, Wout Buijs’ pilgrimage can be followed on the www.colegiohistoriadelarte.com website, while more information is available from Centro Doble Amor.

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Gap bridged THE Line 9 trenet between Altea’s La Olla station and Calpe was temporarily suspended and replaced with a bus service so that work could be carried out on the Mascarat viaduct.

Although completely overhauled in 2016 it was necessary to carry out routine maintenance, rail operator, FGV explained.

interested in knowing more about the local bodegas.

Both expressed their interest in studying formulas for opening and maintaining collaboration schemes with Alfaz.

Martine Mertens, Alfaz’s other nationalities councillor met the Macedonian delegation at the Albir social centre where they discussed the municipality’s priorities which centre on growth that is intelligent, sustainable and integrating.

ALFAZ Town Hall can continue rehabilitating the Manec watermill with a €217,000 grant from the European Regional Development Fund (Feder).

The Moli de Manec belongs to the Reg Major, the 17th century irrigation network that distributed Polop water in La Nucia, Alfaz and Benidorm.

It is the only one of the town’s six mills that belongs to the municipality and it was listed as a protected Asset of Local Relevance in 2015.

This is the third grant that the town hall has received from Brussels, following the €5 million EDUSI windfall, a further €443,000 from the EU, and now €217,000 for the mill and other Reg Major infrastructure.

Vicente Soler, who heads the local governments’ Finance department, congratulated Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques on the way the town hall was run, with so many upcoming projects co-financed by the EU in support of Alfaz’s commitment to the environment and

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CONGRATULATIONS: Vicente Soler praised Alfaz’s commitment to sustainable development. sustainable development.

These include a €1.091 million investment in LED streetlights, bringing a 78 per cent saving on energy bills and a direct €887,279 connection between the centre of Alfaz and Albir beach, with work due to start early next year.

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Safety first CARLOS GRANADOS, who heads Moraira’s Guardia Civil headquarters, gave a recent series of talks on safety for senior citizens. Plan Mayor Seguridad is a Ministry of the Interior initiative and the sergeant informed the audience about the technical assistance and support regarding personal safety that are available to local residents.

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PARTIDO POPULAR councillor Raul Dalmau complained that he has been harassed for months by several Local Police officers.

Memes, some offensive, had appeared on WhatsApp but he was spurred into action by a photograph of his home. He is being intimidated and blackmailed, Dalmau maintained.

Dalmau is responsible for Human Resources, Urban Development and Organisation at Teulada-Moraira Town Hall and he confirmed to the Spanish media that he had passed on details of all the ‘rumours and montages,’ to the Guardia Civil.

He preferred not to make declarations and was prepared to say only that he was tired of being continually followed and for this reason had drawn attention to the persecution in the social media.

He was not afraid of the ‘detectives, minions or whatever they wanted to call themelves,’ he said.

The ‘montage’ to which he referred accused him of using a municipal vehicle to go to his home located on a road that connects the centre of Teulada with the urbanisations. Obviously, when on official business, he could legitimately stop off to pick up something up from his home, Dalmau pointed out.

Tenth birthday party ALMOST 250 members of the Moraira-Teulada U3A recently celebrated their 10th anniversary with a dinner/dance.

The event, which was held at Salon Canor banqueting suite, commenced with a cava reception in the Canor gardens where members were entertained by the Poco Loco steel band.

This was followed by a multi-course dinner after which there was dancing to the Abba Elite band until midnight.

Diners were welcomed by the president David Haxon, who thanked the organising committee on behalf of all those attending.

Carlos Linares Bañon, his

Photo credit: Moraira-Teulada U3A

Big brother treatment for councillor

MORAIRA-TEULADA U3A: Dinner/dance on 10th anniversary. wife Dora and councillor Laura Hillstea, were guests of honour.

In the 10 years since its inau-

guration, the Moraira-Teulada U3A has attracted more than 2,000 members who regularly

take advantage of the many activities and groups that are available.

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On parade AS always, Teulada-Moraira’s Corpus Christi celebrations included the traditional procession of local dignitaries and citizens that was first held in Valencia in 1516. In TeuladaMoraira the parade includes the dance of the Cavallets (Horses) that heralds of arrival of the Three Magi followed by Herod’s troops and the slaughter of the innocents.

THE Teulada-Moraira Auditorium recently gave a preview of its programme for the coming season.

Carlos Linares, president of the Fundacion Auditori Teulada-Moraira as well as the local mayor, explained that he and the auditorium’s director, Maite Serrat wanted the public to know what was prepared for the coming months.

The 2018 Opera Cycle begins on October 14 with Mozart’s Magic Flute and November 3 sees Taiko Hayato, which combines Japanese percussion, dance and music and also coincides with the 150th anniversary of SpanishJapanese diplomatic relations.

“An energetic and sophisticated spectacle, this has already captivated the public in more than 25 countries,

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Something to look forward to

AUDITORIUM: Carlos Linares and Maite Serrat. and is an imaginary voyage to Japan during the spring, summer, autumn and winter,” Linares said.

Cinco y… Accion is scheduled for the following day, November 4, a 90minute production written to help the

audience to escape the daily routine,” he continued. “These are a few of the cultural proposals which we hope the public is going to enjoy later this year.”

As the current season is about to conclude, the auditorium wanted the town’s youth to be the protagonists of the last productions.

Pupils from the Municipal Theatre School recently performed Sin Piedad which was followed by La gran final with young actors, some of them refugees.

Musicians and teachers from the Music Conservatoire and the Municipal Theatre school appeared yesterday and the season ends today with a dance festival by pupils from the Academia de Ballet Mari Paz.

Already in the swim MORAIRA’S beaches are now ready for the summer season, announced Teulada-Moraira’s Environment councillor Nieves Rodriguez.

As June begins, the lifesaving service will now be in place until September 30, from 10am until 7pm this month and in September and from 10am until 8pm in July and August.

For the first time a qualified ATS nurse will be stationed on the l’Ampolla beach but on-call for all Moraira beaches.

The public conveniences on the town’s beaches are also open and will be cleaned each day, the town hall announced.

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More funding JAVEA Town Hall’s Equality and Inclusive Policies department received a €500,870 subsidy from the regional government. This will cover this year ’s salaries for the staff of six social workers, a psychologist, two social educators, a woman lawyer and two administrators who carry out the municipality’s social services programmes.

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THE Original Charity Shop and Library presented the Equality department with a €1,230 cheque for gender violence victims.

The Original Charity Shop also donated an equal amount to the Raquel Paya school in Denia.

Volunteers raised the money through sponsorship for the Mirador Challenge, a 29kilometre endurance walk that links 15 of Javea’s coastal lookout points.

Equality councillor Montse Villaverde thanked the Original Charity Shop group for their latest collaboration with her department and above all for their help

Photo credit: Javea town hall

Charity that doesn’t start at home

DONATION: Montse Villaverde and the Original Charity Shop walkers. towards the victims of gender violence.

Earlier this year, the Origi-

nal Charity Shop gave her department €650, raised from sales at the shop, coin-

ciding with International Women’s Day on March 8, a grateful Villaverde recalled.

Plans for the future JAVEA Town Hall outlined its Xabia en Marcha (Javea in motion) plans for this year and early 2019.

The action plan will require a €2 million investment and this route map includes projects scheduled to start this year. It is also the basis for drafting an important number of future undertakings and putting them on track for the future when the town hall budget allows or subsidies are available.

In all, these ambitious medium-term plans will cost approximately €20 million, said Javea’s mayor, Jose Chulvi.

“Each of these projects will directly affect the wellbeing of residents, Javea’s quality of life or the smooth running of the local economy thanks to improved infrastructure and a more attractive and competitive image,” the mayor said.

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Library head MARIANA LOPEZ HURTADO has been appointed Javea’s municipal librarian, the town hall announced. She will be running the town’s two municipal libraries and will also be in charge of activities aimed at encouraging the local population, not only children but also adults, to take an interest in reading.

Water company makes a profit AMJASA, Javea’s municipal wa t e r c o m p a n y fin ished 2017 with profits of €956,000.

As in previous years, this will be reinvested in improvements to the supply network, which provided 6.957 million cubic metres of water for 27,156 households in 2017.

Although the publiclyow ned c o m p a n y h a s 1 5 pump i n g i n st a l l a t io n s , three wells and administrative offices, Amjasa also succeeded in reducing its

carbon dioxide emissions.

These were the same as a family home, said Amjasa’s manager Jose Luis Henarejos who explained th at th e co mp a n y w a s committed to sustainable energy policies and buying electricity from renewable sources.

Amjasa already has two electric vehicles but the next step is replacing its existing fleet with electric or hybrid models, completin g th e ch an g e o v e r th a t began two years ago.

Competing for beach bars A JAVEA business-owner paid €85,000 to run the beach bar on Javea’s Primer Muntanyar beach for the next four years.

Bidding for each of the chiringuitos started at €15,000 apart from the Benissero bar which had a starting price of €18,000 as this included the concession for sunbeds and beach umbrellas. This went for €70,000.

The Primer Muntanyar concession was the most coveted as this is beside the Parador and closest to the Arenal beach.

The three remaining chiringuitos went for between €28,000 and €52,000. All the contracts must first be approved by the town hall.

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FOOD BANK: Gary handed over the cheque to the branch director.

Giving generously GIVING4GIVING recently made a further donation to the Red Cross in Altea. The money will go towards the food bank for vulnerable local people.

The branch director and a volunteer were very grateful to receive the money from Gary.

This donation of €1,000 brings Giving4Giving’s total to €99, 000 donated to local charities.

The organisation is always in need of donations and volunteers for their shops.

For more information, please call Gary on 603 137 697.

THE Aircrew Association Costa Blanca (ACACB) recently celebrated its 30th anniversary with a Red Sea Rig lunch held at La Cumbre Restaurant, Benitachell.

During his welcome address, the Chairman, Max Maxwell, gave a special welcome to Wing Commander Brian Nicolle and his wife Carole who had travelled from Cyprus.

Sadly, the founder of the ACACB, Peter Beechey, died this month, however the lunch

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Wild at heart THE members of the Jaguar Enthusiasts Club (JEC) toured with their cars around the wonderful blue lake (Embalsa de la Pedrera).

The big cats ran in a pride of sheer collective splendour leaving a huge cloud of dust in the air behind them which resembled the open wilds of the savannah.

The next meeting will be held on June 17 to celebrate the opening of Classicos Legendarios SL, the registered offices of JEC Club.

For more information, please call Mike on 640 866 711 or mikebikejec@gmail.com.

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PURR-FECT DAY: Everyone enjoyed a wonderful meal at La Herradura restaurant.

Flying high

Exhibiting your wares

acknowledged Peter’s vision in founding the Association in 1988!

At the end of the lunch, there was a talk on the 30 years existence of the Association by the President, Henry Horth MBE DFC. If you want to know more about the Association, contact the Secretary on 966 404 123.

THE Arts Society of Marina Alta would like to invite all local artists to exhibit their work at the Arts Fair which will be held on September 26 at Salones Canor. They welcome artists of all types of art, such as painting, sculptor, jewellery, photography, textiles, etc.

The inaugural event of this Art Fair took place last year and was a huge success. Last year, many

nationalities were represented both by artists and visitors and the organisers hope to achieve this again this year.

The only thing you need to do is reserve your stand (for €30) and bring your art work to sell.

For more information or if you would like to reserve a stall at the fair, please send an email to artsfair@marinaaltaarts.com.

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Carlos Baos We can help you.

UNFORTUNATELY, there are many people affected by the mortgage floor or ‘suelo’ clauses who were contacted by their banks and asked to attend their offices to sign agreements without advice from an expert lawyer. According to the banks, these agreements aim to improve the conditions of clients’ mortgage loans.

Unfortunately, what most of these agreements did was to reduce the floor or minimum interest clause, or even agree a fixed interest rate, resulting in a waiver of legal actions for the client and consumers in relation to the floor clauses and typically meaning the bank saves thousands of Euros.

Until recently it was understood by most courts that these agreements were a novation, ie, the replacement of an obligation by mutual agreement, or modification of the floor clauses and were null, since the mortgage floor clauses have been declared null and void when they affect

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Floor clauses: the danger and validity of agreements signed with banks waiving legal actions consumers. But they are not transparent, so it was understood, explained in a very basic way, that the modification of an absolute null clause is also null and void.

Based on these criteria, the courts had been declaring these private agreements signed with the banks for the modification of the floor clauses null, allowing those affected to claim for the interest overcharged to them.

But, the Supreme Court has in April 2018 surprised us with sentence 205/2018. In the ruling, it pointed out that in a case study, despite the parties of Novation or Modification being named, the agreement was in fact a transaction or agreement between the parties, bank and consumer affected by the floor clause in which both freely made concessions (the bank lowered the minimum interest or floor clause, and the consumer agreed not to pursue legal actions) in order to avoid a court proceeding.

The Supreme Court therefore decreed these transactional agreements are perfectly valid legally, and the consumer cannot now claim for the floor clause having previously waived legal action.

But we cannot agree with this decision of the Supreme Court, because anyone who knows how the banks have behaved in relation to these agreements knows they are not the outcome of an open negotiation and the banks did not inform the clients about the implications of their consent not to pursue legal action. We understand that these agreements are null and void, and we are sure that many Spanish courts and possibly the ECJ will declare it because: - The agreements offered by banks to their customers affected by the floor clauses were not negotiated, but drafted and imposed by the banks.

- The agreements ask clients to waive legal actions relating to the floor clause, but did not explain or

quantify the financial amount they were giving up. How can the Supreme Court rule a consumer understands the economic implication of a waiver when the bank did not advise the precise amount overcharged for the floor clause?

We conclude the agreements imposed by the banks should be considered null, because they are in reality a modification of a floor clause that is null and void. In addition, must also be considered null because they are not transparent. The banks did not explain the economic value of the waiver, and they were not negotiated.

If you have or had a loan with a floor clause, do not sign anything with your bank without the agreement offered by the bank being reviewed by an expert.

Contact us, we are experts, and we will help you.

The information provided in this article is not intended as legal advice, but conveys general information related to legal issues.

Carlos Baos (Lawyer) - White & Baos - Tel: +34 966 426 185 - Email: info@white-baos.com - White & Baos 2018 - All Rights Reserved.

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Moors and Christians festival AFTER a very successful spring concert, members of the English Choir of Teulada-Moraira are eagerly looking forward to playing their part in Moraira’s upcoming Moors and Christians fiesta.

This Monday at 8pm the choir will be singing in Moraira’s Parish Church, La Iglesia de Nuestra Senora de los Desamparados.

The concert will feature popular music both old and new and will include leg-

endary music from films, stage shows and wellknown Spanish favourites.

It will be a lovely evening out in a beautiful setting.

Entrance is free. Just go along and enjoy getting this popular festival off to a good start.

During the festival, the choir will be on the ramparts of Moraira Castle on Saturday June 16, providing the vocal backing to the very exciting re-enactment scenes on the beach.

In November the choir will be staging a special concert at Espai la Senieta Theatre in celebration of it being 100 years since the end of the First World War. If you would like more information about the choir or to join, please contact Susan on 0044 (0) 7949 540501, Judith on 634 348 915, email ronandju@gmail.com or check out their Facebook page (@englishchoirteulada).

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Missing pets ARC has recently found two pets and are trying to find their owners.

Yaqui is a little dog who was found in Jalon.

He is about eight years old and wearing a collar with his name on it.

Also, a grey and white cat has been found in the post office in Jalon. She is approximately one year old, well looked after and very friendly.

Both pets are presently in the care of ARC and are certainly waiting to go home.

ARC also has many other dogs, cats and kittens needing homes.

They are also always looking for food donations. For further information, please call Sally on 625 985 689 or Jayne on 649 310 285, or email jalonvalleyarc14@yahoo.co.uk.

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40th anniversary celebrations MOFTAG (mighty oaks from tiny acorns grow) recently celebrated its 40th anniversary.

A total of 45 people attended the celebratory lunch, including past and present members with their partners. Founded by Kathy Whiteside, MOFTAG is the longest running club in Calpe.

It was originally a group for single and widowed ladies and now welcomes all women regardless of their marital status.

It was lovely to have Maureen Cudby present

who was one of the founding members and president of the club during the 80’s.

The existing president, Jenny Godfrey, has held the position for 25 years and has been a member since the beginning.

MOFTAG regularly donate to local charities including Calpe food bank, Maite Boronat, the Red Cross and Gargasindi School.

If you would like more information, please call Jenny Godfrey on 639 139 518.

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Lions serving the community

Mirador Challenge

THE Teulada Moraira Lions recently made two donations to local hospitals.

Together with Help of DAMA they purchased two new specialist defibrillators for use in La Pedrera Hospital, Denia, along with separate children’s defibrillators.

They also donated two orthopedic beds to the MABS unit at the IMED hospital. As part of their fundraising campaigns, the TM Lions recently held their final spring concerts at the Espai La Senieta. The Blues Brothers Experience and Sister Act The Lions will be holding further summer concerts in Moraira. For more information about their shows, please call 966 499 954 or email peter_john1@hot mail.com. For information about the TM Lions go to www.tmlions.com or visit their Facebook page (Teulada Moraira Lions Club).

FIVE brave ‘OCSL Warriors’ recently took part in the Mirador Challenge, a strenuous 29km walk which takes in all 15 of Javea’s beautiful Miradors.

The team managed to raise a brilliant €2,460. This week, the chosen beneficiaries were delighted to collect their cheques of €1,230 each. Councillor Montse Villaverde from Javea’s Department of Equality gratefully accepted the money which will be used for the psychological support and the recovery programme for victims of gender violence.

He thanked the team for their support and mentioned the donation of €650 which was previously received from the shop on the occasion of International Women’s Day. Miguel Ivars Espi, Headmaster of the Raquel Paya School for children with special needs, also expressed his heartfelt thanks on behalf of all the children attending the

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BRAVE WARRIORS: Miguel Ivars Espi accepting the cheque from the OCSL Warriors. school. He extended a warm invitation to the team and all the shop and library volunteers to take part in a special visit to the school, which he hopes to organise in September.

The OCSL Warriors team wishes to thank everyone who supported their fundraising effort. In particular, the Original Charity Shop which donated €1,000, all the shop and library staff

and all family members and friends who gave so generously.

Please note that the Original Charity Shop recently moved to Carrer de Nancy 1, on Javea’s Arenal. The Charity Library is situated in Javea Park. They are open from 10am to 1pm on Monday to Saturday. For more information about us please visit www.charityshoplibrary.com.

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Anglo Spanish Association THE Anglo-Spanish Association’s guest speaker in May gave a memorable presentation on the Parador Hotels.

Barbara Garcia travelled to Javea to talk to members of the association. Afterwards a group of members had a very pleasant dinner in a local restaurant at Javea Port.

There are still places remaining for the association’s trip to Anna, near Xativa on Thursday June 14.

Please contact Elizabeth Marriott on elizmarr8@gmail.com.

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B ELGIUM

D ENMARK

Shoe square

Ghetto life

PROTESTORS were slammed for placing 4,500 pairs of shoes in Brussel’s Jean Rey Square to remember Palestinians killed in Israeli conflicts since 2008, because it evoked holocaust memories, according to critics.

PARENTS will reportedly lose benefits if they refuse to agree to a new scheme which forces migrant children living in so-called ‘ghettos’ to receive lessons on equality, democracy and Christmas.

Attack horror

Migrant shock

A MAN allegedly motivated by terrorism stabbed two police officers to death after stealing their weapons and shooting a 22year-old onlooker before police gunned him down, media reports.

GOT SOLE: Empty shoes represent dead Palestinians.

Bad eggs THE country’s food safety agency has been raided as part of an ongoing scandal after eggs contaminated with banned fipronil insecticide were found in the Netherlands last week, sources said.

Royal chocs

royal family took over Galler chocolate makers, sparking concerns over the erosion of a national cultural emblem which generates €2.8bn a year.

ANOTHER Belgian chocolaterie has been snapped up after the Qatari

THE Euro and German dominance

BOTH sides of a referendum debate to ban online gambling are looking to Denmark and its ‘open casino market’ to inform their arguments ahead of the June 10 vote, Swiss media report.

Social revolt INCREASINGLY populist policies are placing Denmark’s main opposition party - the Social Democrats - at risk of losing support they have traditionally enjoyed from leftist allies, according to a recent parliamentary statement.

Spidey sense

Temporary truce

Italexit fear

A good bet

F RANCE

G ERMANY DIPLOMATIC tensions were put to one side when German chancellor Angela Merkel and Turkey’s foreign minister met last week to remember Turkish-German residents killed in a 1993 neo-Nazi attack.

THE latest statistics from the Danish labour market agency s how t hat t he num ber s of m i grant workers from southern Europe an count r i es i ncl udi ng Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece have rocketed to 24,784 in recent years.

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of the EU will become major campaign issues in upcoming Italian elections after populists blamed the country for thwarting its efforts to form a government.

Diesel doomed STRETCHES of a Hamburg road and motorway will reportedly become the country’s first to ban old

diesel cars as public support for the once loved fuel goes up in smoke.

Wits end A 35-YEAR-OLD Iranian asylum s e e ke r is s uffe ring from s e ve re burns after setting himself on fire in the southwest city of Ulm when his plea to remain in the country was rejected, according to reports.

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S WEDEN

Rum fly with me

Stock rocks

A PILOT from Dutch airline KLM has reportedly been arrested at Oslo airport after testing positive for alcohol, but the company has refused to comment on the man’s identity.

STOKHOLM is due to stage the famous Lollapalooza music festival which was created in the United States by a member of hit rock band Jane’s Addiction in 1991, according to Swedish news.

Speak up FOREIGN AFFAIRS minister, Stef Blok, said in a press conference no state has the right to ‘remain silent’ over the 2014 shooting down of a Malaysian airlines aircraft which killed all 298 passengers.

€1bn strike SWEDEN is reportedly modernising its armed forces in light of growing intimidation from Russia and will soon buy €1bn of Patriot missiles from US arms maker Raytheon Co.

Warning sign

Death crash

MENINGITIS is on the up after 11 people died from the disease so far this year, marking an alarming increase on 2017, the national public health institute said.

A SCHOOL bus driver who crashed last year on the way back from a ski trip killing three people and injuring dozens more is being charged on suspicion of careless driving, media reports.

Gender pass

Getting pi***d

JUDGES ruled a Limburg resident who does not identify as male or female be granted a gender-neutral passport to keep up with changing ‘social and legal developments,’ a court ruling said.

BEERMAKERS Nya Carnegiebryggeriet, Carlsberg, and the Swedish Environmental (IVL) have announced the release of a new lager called PU:REST, reportedly brewed with recycled wastewater to raise awareness for sustainable drinking water.

A MIGRANT nicknamed ‘The Paris spider-man’ has been awarded citizenship, met the president and was handed a fire brigade internship after saving a four-yearold boy dangling from a building last week, media reports.

Total washout A TOTAL of 39 French departme nts i n t he sout h west of France were on reportedly storm alert last week as extreme weather including hail, high winds, and downpours lashed the country.

Fem films THE culture minister is reportedly setting up a new fund called Venus Victrix to back films directed by women from countries around the globe, which could finance between 10 and 20 movies.

Moved on THE eviction of around a thousand migrants and closure of the Millenaire’s riverside camp in Paris marked the 35th such move in the last three years, according to national media.

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Blubber hell AUTHORITIES are backing a marketing campaign to promote w ha le m eat as a m oder n and trendy delicacy and 800 tweets have presented multiple dining options featuring the salty flesh, media reports.

Golden boot OLYMPIC champion sprinter a nd 100- m et r e wor l d- r ecor d holder Usain Bolt is reportedly trying his feet at football after training recently with Stromsgodset club players ahead of a June charity match.

Fire drama FIREFIGHTERS have controlled forest blazes in Rogaland, Akershus and Sogn og Fjordane counties which were sparked this week during a rare and ongoing spring dry spell, firefighting chief Mathias Drange said.

Norse code A PRESIDENTIAL advisor from the Philippines said Norway is a peace facilitator for acting as an ‘umbilical cord’ between Islamic MILF rebels and the government, cooling off tensions, according to media.

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SUMMIT: Lavrov (right) was in Pyongyang for meetings with Kim Jong Un (left).

Lavrov meets Kim in North Korea RUSSIA’S Foreign Minister has travelled to the North Korean capital Pyongyang to meet with the country’s leader Kim Jong Un. Sergei Lavrov told senior officials Russia supported its earlier joint declaration with the South on denuclearising the peninsula and invited the country’s dictator to a future meeting in Moscow.

Crash closes airline AN airline’s fleet has been grounded in an ongoing probe into a plane crash which killed everyone on board. Saratov Airlines Flight 703 fell from the sky minutes after taking off from Domodedovo Airport near Moscow in February, with Russia’s Transport Ministry revoking the company’s operating licence last week.

Zuckerberg visit call LAWMAKERS in Russia’s Parliament have called for Facebook’s Chief Executive to testify on privacy as the company continues to reel

from a data scandal. Senators in the State Duma issued the call for Mark Zuckerberg to visit, with the company also yet to comply with rules requiring tech firms to store Russian citizens’ data.

Art vandal hearing A 37-YEAR-OLD man has appeared before a Moscow court on charges of attacking a painting of Ivan the Terrible and his son at a museum in the Russian capital. Ilya Podorin, who could go to prison for up to six years if found guilty, told the court he struck the canvas with a pole because it ‘distorts’ historical fact.

World Cup forecast AN international credit ratings agency has said it expects there to be ‘little’ long term effects from the World Cup which starts this month. Moody’s said any boost from increased visitors to Russia was likely to be short lived, with authorities having spent billions on preparations.

Birthday bash ELEPHANTS, tightrope walkers, biker gangs, marching bands and fireworks have all featured in St Petersburg as the city marked its 315th anniversary last week. Russia’s second city, which was founded by Tsar Peter the Great in 1703, held parades down the Nevsky Prospekt thoroughfare in which a variety of marchers took part. Rasul Abakarov also tightrope walked 40 metres across the Neva River.

CELEBRATIONS: Elephants paraded down the city’s streets.

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STAT OF WEEK UK firm’s €1.9bn package deal set BRITAIN’S biggest cardboard box maker has swooped on a Spanish rival.

It comes after DS Smith revealed it plans to fork out €1.9 billion to snap up fast-growing Europac.

The takeover will see the London-based firm - which each year produces millions of tonnes of packaging for clients including Amazon, Asos and Next - expand into Spain, Portugal and France.

Its business has boomed with the rise in online shopping and it was promoted to the FTSE 100 last December.

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PP threatens budget chaos

Usual suspects not so budget

by Matt Ford Basque PNV party.

The PP has an absolute majority in the Senate and although it cannot nullify the budget, it can send revisions back to the lower house for revoting.

And the move threatens to destabilise the new Socialist PSOE-led government, which currently has just 84 politicians in the 350-seat parliament.

Socialist lawmaker Jose Luis Abalos said any move to renegotiate the budget would be an “unedifying [act of] vengeance” by the PP following last week’s no-confidence vote which saw

THERE is no British or Irish representative in this year’s top 10 cheapest budget airlines.

The most cost-effective operator was Malaysia’s Air Asia, with a rate of €0.06 per kilometre travelled, with the top five completed by, in order, Air India Express, Indonesia AirAsia, Iceland’s Primera Air and India’s Indigo.

Irish low-cost specialist Ryanair placed seventh most affordable on the list, which was compiled from economy-class flight prices returned in search results from transport search engine Rome2rio.

SPAIN’S ousted People’s Party (PP) has threatened to use its Senate majority to disrupt the new government’s budget.

PP parliamentary spokesperson Rafael Hernando said his party now wishes to “improve” its own long-delayed budget that was only passed a few weeks ago following months of negotiations.

He suggested this could include reigning in some of the promised €500 million infrastructure investment for the Basque region that enabled his party to pass the budget with support from the

former Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy kicked out of office.

But Hernando said his party’s relationship with one-time ally the Basque PNV has changed after its MPs voted with the Socialists to remove the PP from power.

“At this moment, we do not have a link with the PNV because it has broken the trust,” he confirmed.

PNV official Aitor Esteban added that the move could offer the PP “satisfaction for five minutes,” but would “be very bad political business that would mean punishing the Basque society.”

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Summer is just the job MORE than 1.5 million people in Spain are expected to find work on temporary contracts this summer, according to the world’s largest staffing agency Adecco, with seven out of 10 employed in Anadalucia, the Valencian Community, Murcia, Cataluña and Madrid.

Brakes off SPAINFUL: A Primark store and (inset) the shirt in question.

WALLET-FRIENDLY Irish clothing chain Primark is again selling t-shirts emblazoned with the Spanish flag in Cataluña.

It comes after a recorded telephone call between an irate customer and an employee went viral on social media.

The shopper rang to complain that the firm was selling themed World Cup shirts for all competing nations except Spain in the troubled northern region.

And in the audio clip, the shop worker is heard to respond

that no Spanish version would be sold locally “to avoid a fracas,” sparking outrage online with calls to boycott the brand.

Hours later, an official said in a statement that the decision, made due to “the political situation” had been reversed, and that Spain shirts would be available “as soon as our logistic services permit.”

He added: “We recognise that the idea was wrong and has been interpreted as a lack of respect for the Spanish national team, for which we apologise.”

SPAIN’S automotive industry generated 5,300 new jobs and raked in more than €28.1 million for the Spanish tax agency last year - a year-onyear increase of 5.7 per cent according to the latest government statistics.

Blast compo ENERGY firm Gas Natural must pay €2.1 million compensation to victims of a gas explosion which killed five people in Tarragona, Cataluña, a court ruling said, with more than half paid to a man who lost his wife and three children.

€21.3m tourist bonanza MORE than 20.5 million tourists visited Spain during the first four months of 2018, as the country raked in more than €21.3 million.

The figures represent year-on-year increases of 2.3 and 4.6 per cent, respectively, according to data from the National Statistics Institute.

And while British holidaymakers retained top spot in the ranking, with 4.3 million sun-seekers

flocking to tourist hot spots from January to April, the total dropped by 1.6 per cent compared with 2017.

The most popular destination for foreigners was the Canary Islands, with 4.8 million visitors, followed by Cataluña with 4.7 million and Andalucia with 2.9 million, while the average break lasted 6.8 days.

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Euro and pound flounder, US dollar rises Ask the expert Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

Euro EUR/GBP: Fluctuating, but unmoved at £0.87 EUR/USD: Down from $1.20 to $1.15 The euro (EUR) posted a mixed performance in May, encumbered by ongoing political uncertainty in Italy and Spain, and enduring concerns that the European Central Bank (ECB) will extend their bond-buying programme beyond September this year.

As May draws to a close, however, there has been some good news in the form of a Q2 recovery in German data.

This includes the unemployment rate falling from 5.3% to 5.2% in May and retail sales rising from the -0.4% contraction in March, to grow by 2.3% in April (month-on-month).

Looking ahead, investors will be keeping a close eye on Eurozone data - particularly the looming inflation print - but given the current dovish outlook of the ECB it seems unlikely that the euro will find much purchase.

LOOKING AHEAD: Investors will be keeping a close eye on Eurozone data.

Pound GBP/EUR: Up from €1.13 to €1.14 GBP/USD: Down from $1.37 to $1.32 The pound struggled to make much headway in May, limited in the early weeks by easing consumer price inflation and the ongoing burden of Brexit negotiation stagnation.

On a brighter note, the UK’s labour market

continued to jump from strength to strength, with unemployment sliding to a surprising 4.2% low in the three months to March, whilst retail sales also recovered from 1.3% to 1.5%.

Whether this will be enough to push the Bank of England (BoE) towards acting in a more hawkish fashion with regards to policy remains to be seen, but many analysts are hopeful that the

Monetary Policy Committee (MPC) will raise interest rates by 25bp in August.

As we move through June investors will be desperately looking for any signs of progress in Brexit negotiations, particularly with the EU summit scheduled for the end of the month.

If progress is made then we could see the pound make a comeback.

US Dollar USD/GBP: Up from £0.72 to £0.75 USD/EUR: Up from €0.82 to €0.86 The US dollar stormed ahead in May, driven by ongoing expectations for monetary tightening by the US Federal Reserve, as well as the robust performance of the US labour market and improving trade relations with China.

A marked rise in US inflation towards the start of the month was good news for USD bulls, with the Fed expected to continue on their gradual path of monetary tightening this year and next.

Beyond this, China has agreed to compromise on various aspects of trade, including agreeing to buy more US goods and services and even plans to address the questionable usage of foreign intellectual property rights.

The outlook remains positive, though any signs of cooling relations between China and the US could send investors to safer shores.

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Media blackout is what’s most worrying LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT I DON’T think the position of British politicians could have been demonstrated more clearly than their actions concerning two situations that arose in London recently.

On one side of the city a man was being arrested outside the law courts (under some weak excuse of a past contempt charge), for talking on his telephone about a paedophile grooming case being heard inside; while in another part of the city, hooded Islamists, marching with megaphones and spouting anti British propaganda, were being given a police escort!

The one glaringly obvious fact that emerges from these two occurrences is that something is clearly not right. The arrest of Tommy Robinson was a disgraceful act of politically motivated injustice. A decision that should send shivers up the spines of all decent people who believe in the free speech and the democratic society our forefathers fought and died for.

TOMMY ROBINSON JAILING: ‘A disgraceful act of politically motivated injustice.’

When this man Tommy Robinson first appeared on the scene, I didn’t particularly like him, or the farright policies he appeared to stand for. In those days it was relatively easy for the government and law enforcers to write him off as a fascist yobbo.

But over the years things have changed. The man has now earned a far more acceptable cloak of respectability. He has appeared

on a number of serious political discussions in the media. His views on rape gangs, sharia courts, no go areas and Islamic appeasement, that were at one time dismissed as ‘racist propaganda,’ are now coming to pass and a large and rapidly growing section of the British public are finally beginning to sit up and listen.

In their usual ‘out of touch’ manner the authorities thought that it would all blow over if they simply locked him up and put him out of sight and out of mind. Well this time they have made what could turn out to be an extremely serious mis-

take. They reckoned without the social media.

The gagging orders they arrogantly put on all events that could ‘cause embarrassment,’ (or worse), simply don’t work any more, and this latest was no exception.

Despite their efforts to suppress information thousands of people turned out, not only in London, but in many major cities across the world; they actually stormed Downing Street!

All of them calling for the release of this man and the injustice of his arrest. At the time of writing half a million people have signed a petition with the same message. It would take a brave or extremely stupid politician to label all these people knuckle dragging right wing bigots. The most worrying, and indeed insulting aspect of all, is the media blackout.

This is a blatant dictatorial attempt to suppress our most precious freedom of all. Our right to free speech. Millions of decent people are, at the moment, either worried or utterly peed off with it all.

Heaven help our leaders if this worry turns to serious anger. Let us hope no harm comes to Tommy Robinson in prison, particularly from an Islamic extremist. In this event, he could turn into the catalyst which triggers off the scenario this ol’ boy has also been warning of for the last 25 years.

Keep the faith. Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com

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

MARIANO RAJOY and the Partido Popular were on the skids, but Spain’s president was in denial and unblushingly proclaimed that Eduardo Zaplana’s €10 millions’ worth of kickbacks on government contracts was an ‘isolated case.’

That was a few hours before the Gurtel sentences were announced: 51 years and 11 months for businessman Francisco Correa, the German version of whose name gave the case its name.

Thirty-three years and four months for Luis Barcenas, the former Partido Popular treasurer who oversaw the illegal funding of the party and hived off millions for himself.

And so on down the list of PP politicians who were on the make and on the take.

Then came the triple whammy when the National High Court said that the PP’s Caja B - a black money cashbox - and its parallel bookkeeping had existed since 1989 at least.

The party, aware that it was holed not only beneath the waterline but above it too, maintained that this

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They do things differently happened in the past and has nothing to do with the present-day party.

“The past is a foreign country, they do things differently there,” it’s said, and that’s what Rajoy and his government tried to tell us. But Spain is still the same country and nothing is done differently.

Return of the boomerang MARIANO RAJOY’S disastrous inaction over the Catalan problem and his insistence on dealing with it as a judicial, not a political, issue inevitably ricocheted.

Carles Puigdement, the self-exiled former president of Cataluña is safe and sound in Berlin because the German courts take a different view of what constitutes rebellion and sedition. Spain might eventually get him for misappropriation of public funds - money is a judicial common denominator everywhere - but even that’s not certain.

And all along, once the PP’s illegal funding and the dirty Gurtel

washing were displayed for all to see, Rajoy insisted that the courts would see that justice was done. And they have.

Unfortunately for the Partido Popular, the party was not exonerated but accused of institutional corruption and some big political names are in jail or on the point of going there.

Rajoy’s go-to solution did him no favours and his insistence on leaving the judiciary to do his dirty work meant his boomerang came back with calamitous results.

Diversionary tactics WHEN everyone in Spain was appalled after the Gurtel corruption case broke and the then-king’s sonin-law was found siphoning off the taxpayer’s money, they were less aware of what was simmering in Cataluña.

Once Cataluña grabbed everybody’s attention they stopped looking at corruption.

PROBLEMS AHOY: Mariano Rajoy’s past might come back to haunt him.

More recently the public lifted its hands in righteous horror on learning that Pablo Iglesias and Irene Montero have bought a €670,000 villa on a €540,000 mortgage.

Meanwhile they temporarily forgot about Cataluña, corruption and the Galapagar house and concentrated on Pedro Sanchez’s censure motion against Mariano Rajoy and its bombshell result.

In politics there’s no hiding place for long and soon it’s time to come under public scrutiny once more like a merry-go-round but less fun than La Ronde. Instead it’s a case of what goes around, comes around.

Namesakes IT’S hard to keep up with the names involved in the Catalan situation. There’s a High Court judge called Lamela and a Supreme Court judge named Llarena. The Speaker of the Catalan parliament answers to Torrent and the regional president’s surname is Torra while secessionist MPs Turull and Rull are currently remanded. What’s in a name? Potential confusion. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

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A Bishop, a curry and a huge amount of talent TV COUCH CRITIC

by Adam Whalley-Lewis BRITAIN’S GOT TALENT finally reached its conclusion for season 12 over the weekend (ITV) with Lee ‘Lost Voice Guy’ crowned the winner.

Now it probably says a lot about me, but be honest, like me, were you initially unsure how to react to someone so confident, whose act is so different and who is so brilliantly funny?

And Bishop Curry doing the intro as though God Himself would be watching, that was a Marmite moment.

Lee is a star.

I’m a Geordie, so Lee gets an automatic tick in the votes box and my brother is called Lee, so another tick, but the guy is also terrific and that’s surely what everyone saw and why he won. I love that Lee wants to develop a Geordie accent for his voice, although the pronunciation of ‘Newcassel’ he currently has is probably good enough for most stottie eaters I

know. Finally on BGT, I really wanted to like Robert White, but couldn’t.

He had some funny one liners - ‘I have Asperger’s, what does that say about me, compared to you, I’m more intelligent’ - brilliantly intelligent humour, but the digs at Amanda and to some degree David, just didn’t do it for me.

A Very English Scandal (BBC1) concluded on Sunday evening. You know I’m a fan of the show and the final episode didn’t disappoint.

As this all too short series has moved along, I’ve become an even bigger fan of Monica Dolan who plays Thorpe’s devoted wife, Marion.

She has had some cracking one liners and the boil in the bag, cod in parsley sauce scene, is the stuff of TV legend. If you missed the series, you can catch up on BBC iPlayer.

One of Channel 5’s better Sunday offerings was The Unstoppable Flying Scotsman, which must have had

ALL TOO SHORT: A Very English Scandal.

STAR: Lee bagged the Britain’s Got Talent crown. stream and train addicts (I’m told they are not necessarily one and the same) on the edge of their seats. Of course there were lots of shots of the magnificent locomotive and Rob Bell (he’s an engineer and obvious Scotsman fan) did a smashing job guiding us

through the sometimes turbulent story of perhaps the most famous train in the world. There are only two 60minute episodes, so my advice is set a reminder and watch them both together, with a massive glass of your favourite tipple and an even bigger

dose of nostalgia.

We are still with Sunday TV, but this will be brief. Where is the story going on The Handmaid’s Tale, Channel 4? We know that season two doesn’t follow the book, because there is no season two storyline in the book, but I’m going off the dark rooms (someone just switch on a light, please) and the seemingly never-ending attempt to get to the Promised Land, in this case that would be Canada and I don’t mean the lovely shopping centre just off the A-7 on the Costa del Sol. I have previously said I find this hard to watch, but it’s getting harder for all the wrong reasons.

Looking forward, BBC1 has the annual coverage of Trooping the Colour on Saturday morning if you need a top up of pageantry following the Royal Wedding; Channel 4 is in Spain looking for A Place in the Sun on Saturday afternoon and Versailles continues on BBC2 on Monday night - I will let you know what I make of the new series next week.

Happy viewing.

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Smartphone stupidity

TECH FOR THE TIMID CAN it be true that the jostling passenger who stole my phone on the packed 916 bus in Rome last month really was a Catholic priest?

Of course I ignored all the warnings about pick-pocketing in Rome. Couldn’t happen to me.

Though it’s unlikely to have been my priestly neighbour, I would have felt less humiliated if my phone had indeed transitioned that smoothly from my zipped pocket into the folds of a cassock as we both headed for the Vatican and redemption.

Almost half of all thefts reported now are smartphones, routed virtually anywhere in the world within days by well-oiled syndicates.

If you’re insured you’re in for a challenging round of musical chairs at a Local Police station to file the required report. Harbour no illusions: they almost certainly won’t look for it.

But replacing the actual device is not the main issue.

Indeed it’s an opportunity to buy a shiny new gadget even if it does mean living on bread and

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PHONE FILCHING: Fifty per cent of all thefts. water for the next month.

Nor is it mainly about one thing many people forget: that if you don’t block a lost phone immediately, the bad guys have a nasty little wheeze of using it to call premium numbers back in Desolatistan at €20+ a minute on your account, ka-ching.

Nope, it’s all the confidential stuff we keep on our phones these days which hurts. Banking apps, online shopping apps, vulnerable information of every hue and cry and all those access codes.

Tackle the damage limitation and you quickly learn just how many websites simply aren’t

I tell them what I think Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I BELONG to a few loyalty programmes for hotels I stay at, airlines I use, car hire I also use - eBay and Pay Pal. You get the idea . No w I ’ v e t o ld th e m all th a t although I live in Spain I do not read Spanish, so could they please send all information to me in English. Not one of them is able to do it.

You would think, in this day and age, it would be the simplest thing to do. Vodafone is one of the biggest communication companies in the world yet they are not capable of sending me anything in English. I wonder how many English customers they have in Spain?

It’s ok if I call them as I always manage to get an English-speaking operator but once you need to maybe speak to someone past them you hit a brick wall.

You then have to have an operator translating for you.

W h a t ’s wr o n g w ith p eo p le ? O ld , young, all ages but I have to admit mostly 30-40ish. It’s called ‘door etiquette.’

Here are the rules - when a door opens

you let the people out first before you go in.

It can be particularly difficult if you are in a crowded lift and you are not by the doors. The doors open - you utter a couple of excuse me’s and off you go but no, someone always tries to get in.

And another thing, when the lift is full, it’s full. Wait for the next one. Don’t try and squash yourself in. This also applies to trains. I had the misfortune to use one in the UK for the first time in probably 30 years. It’s a joke. The doors open and it’s bedlam and people just keep getting on and I was trying to get off.

I try not to take my wheelchair with me on these outings because technically I get to sit in one of the allotted seats for disabled but it is just all too difficult so next time I’ll take it but, to be honest, that can be a nightmare on its own.

I take my wheelchair to the UK when I go and I have the same problem getting the courtesy bus to the car hire centre.

Every time I’m struggling to get off with my wheelchair and case and people are pushing past me to get on and they do not bat an eyelid except of course until I tell them what I think of them!

So now you know! mikesenker@gmail.com

geared up for your scenario. ‘Register a new phone to your account?

No problem, for security reasons first send us confirmation from your old one.’ Ummm….

And of course there are lessons to be learned. If only I had set up the wonderful ‘find my phone’ facility which both Apple and Android devices offer - before it got stolen. If only I had kept a separate note of all my online banking and other confidential information so that I would know who to call and what to say in the event of.

If only…

But look on the bright side. A third of the users in a recent US study said they would pay a thousand dollars to get their phone back. I’m not one of those people.

I would have loved to see the look of disgust when my thief realised he’d stolen a six-year old dinosaur of a phone. Heck, given time to first extract my information, I’d actually have paid him to take it.

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Steal away AS the FBI keeps discovering, current phone security erects a daunting fortress wall around your device. If you enable it.

Short of the rather uncomfortable option of cutting off your finger, thieves find a fingerprint-protected phone a nightmare to crack. Ditto a good password, and that doesn’t mean 123456.

At the very least, when you get a new phone install a security app or suite which lets you wipe your phone remotely in a worst-case scenario.

Phone-tracking apps can certainly work. But if your phone is stolen, not just lost, consider very carefully what you would do if a tracker does indeed find it - in the middle of a mafia stronghold or a neighbourhood where even the shadows won’t go.

Good luck finding a SWAT team.

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Border disorder: The Irish border Nora Johnson

LEGALLY SPEAKING Do they pay wealth tax?

My wife and I reside in the UK and have had a holiday home in Spain for 14 years.

Our income is taxed in the UK. We pay the Suma Property Tax, the supposed Property Rental Tax, and the Waste Collection Tax. Our friends say we should also pay Wealth Tax on the property, as they all do. We have never received a request to pay the tax. Should we pay Wealth Tax or not?

TJC (Costa Blanca)

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

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THE Bank of England’s chief economist says it’s possible to detect the mood of a country from the music it’s listening to on Spotify. What should we be listening to at the moment, then? Billie Holiday singing Gloomy Sunday, aka the Hungarian Suicide song?

The ongoing Irish border problem, that I wrote about here recently, doesn’t help. Long story short, the UK doesn’t want a trade deal that aligns the UK and the EU both for customs and single market rules, but neither does it want any infrastructure along the Irish border. This is a contradictory position which the UK still hasn’t been able to resolve. Basically, there are only three possible solutions. 1) The UK remains in the single market and enters into a customs union with the EU. 2) The transition period is extended indefinitely. 3) There’s no withdrawal agreement, no transition period and no trade deal.

The City seems to be betting on BINO (Brexit In Name Only).

Only problem is, there’s no ‘half-in, half-out’ option. As long as the UK doesn’t fully accept free movement we’re no longer eligible for membership of the single market.

The same goes for the customs union: there’s no half-way house. We’re fully in or fully out. Since the government wants the freedom not to apply the common external tariff, we’d be fully out.

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WHAT BORDER?: There is presently no infrastructure between the two jurisdictions on the island.

At the moment I’d put my money on a fudge around option 2.

However, things still remain uncertain - many feel the EU’s acting like a playground bully and it’s time we stood up to it. And the trouble with fudge is that it’s only sweet on first tasting. What lasts is the stickiness on the fingers and the cloying heaviness in the digestion. Incidentally, I have a recurrent childlike nightmare about missing my bus home from school. In psychobabble terms, I know what this relates to: fear of missing my imminent crime novel publishing deadline. I wonder if Theresa May also suffers from nightmares about missing a deadline (or two)?

Oh, and what are you listening to on Spotify?

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.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity. columnists@euroweeklynews.com

You are l i abl e David Searl f or Spani sh You and the Law Wealth Tax on any capiin Spain t al asset s, such as a home, which you own in Spain. If you pay your Spanish taxes through Suma, you live in the Valencian Autonomous Region. Suma is their tax collection agency. In Valencia, the first €600,000 of value is exempt from Wealth Tax. Until 2015 this exemption did not apply to non-residents and that is why your friends had to pay it from the first euro of valuation.

Now the exemption applies to non-residents.

If you and your wife are co-owners of a house valued at less than 1.2 million euros, you have no tax to pay.

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

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3:00am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30am Trooping the Colour 2:05pm BBC News 2:15pm Weather 2:20pm Triathlon: Nottingham Mixed Relay Highlights 3:50pm Athletics 4:50pm Money for Nothing 5:50pm Escape to the Continent 6:50pm BBC News 7:00pm Regional News 7:03pm Weather 7:05pm Maleficent 8:35pm Pointless 9:25pm Casualty 10:15pm All Round to Mrs Brown's 11:15pm BBC News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Thor: The Dark World 1:20am The Button 1:50am Weather for the Week Ahead 1:55am BBC News

8:05am Lego Star Wars: The Freemaker Adventures 8:30am Teen Titans Go! 8:40am Adventure Time 8:55am Drop Dead Weird 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Zoe Ball on Saturday 10:25am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:20pm Who's Doing the Dishes?

1:15pm The Best of the Voice Worldwide 2:15pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:30pm French Open: Roland-Garros Live 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV Evening News 7:15pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm Ninja Warrior UK 8:30pm Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule 9:00pm Take Me Out: Over 50s Special 10:00pm The Hangover 11:55pm ITV News 12:15am Play to the Whistle 1:15am Jackpot247

3:00am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30am Trooping the Colour 2:05pm BBC News 2:15pm Weather The latest weather information.

2:20pm Triathlon: Nottingham Mixed Relay Highlights 3:50pm Athletics 4:50pm Money for Nothing 5:50pm Escape to the Continent 6:50pm BBC News 7:00pm Regional News 7:03pm Weather 7:05pm Maleficent 8:35pm Pointless 9:25pm Casualty 10:15pm All Round to Mrs Brown's 11:15pm BBC News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Thor: The Dark World 1:20am The Button 1:50am Weather for the Week Ahead 1:55am BBC News

4:30am This is BBC Four 8:00pm The Burrowers: Animals Underground 9:00pm Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise 10:00pm Hidden Sian ReeseWilliams, Sion Alun Davies, Lowri Izard, Garmon Rhys, Victoria Pugh, Sarah Tempest.

11:00pm The League of Gentlemen 11:30pm The League of Gentlemen 12:00am Top of the Pops 12:30am Top of the Pops 1:00am Big in America Compilation of British rock 'n' roll acts in performance with tracks that crossed over to the US charts.

2:00am Patagonia: Earth's Secret Paradise 3:00am I Was There 4:00am How to Get Ahead at Versailles

7:45am Motorsport 8:10am Marathon 8:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Frasier 10:10am Frasier 10:40am The Big Bang Theory 11:05am The Big Bang Theory 11:35am The Simpsons 12:05pm The Simpsons 12:40pm Come Dine with Me 1:40pm Four in a Bed 2:15pm Four in a Bed 2:45pm Four in a Bed 3:20pm Four in a Bed 3:50pm Four in a Bed 4:20pm A Place in the Sun 4:50pm A Place in the Sun 5:50pm Kirstie and Phil's Love it or List it 6:50pm Channel 4 News 7:15pm Grand Designs 8:10pm The World's Wildest Weather 9:10pm Rugby Union 11:55pm Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix Qualifing Highlights 1:25am The Watch

5:45am 6:10am 6:35am 7:00am 11:10am

12:05am

House Doctor Divine Designs Wildlife SOS Milkshake!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles The Gadget Show Police Interceptors Police Interceptors Police Interceptors Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords Rich House, Poor House Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

Building the London Underground 5 News Secrets of the Valley of the Kings Secrets of Tutankhamun's Treasures Alexander the Great's Lost Tomb Ancient Mysteries

7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:10am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:35am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:15am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:05pm Celebrity Catchphrase 2:05pm You've Been Framed! Gold 3:10pm Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 4:10pm FYI Daily 4:15pm Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 5:20pm The Smurfs 6:20pm FYI Daily 6:25pm The Smurfs 7:25pm Battleship 8:25pm FYI Daily 8:30pm Battleship 10:00pm Love Island 11:05pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Family Guy 12:20am Family Guy

5:50am 6:40am 7:00am 7:50am 8:50am 9:45am

4:00am Teleshopping 7:00am The Protectors 7:25am Bond Girls are Forever 8:25am Motorsport UK 9:25am Isle of Man TT 10:30am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:30am Cycling: Tour Series Review Show 12:30pm Football's Foreign Legion 1:30pm Storage Wars Texas 2:00pm Storage Wars Texas 2:30pm ITV Racing: Live from Haydock 5:20pm Storage Wars 5:50pm French Open: Roland-Garros Live 8:00pm Isle of Man TT 9:00pm Isle of Man TT 10:00pm Isle of Man TT 11:00pm Cycling: Criterium Du Dauphine Highlights 12:00am The Departed 1:05am FYI Daily 1:10am The Departed 3:00am Minder 4:00am Teleshopping

7:00am 9:00am 11:00am 1:00pm 3:00pm 5:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 1:15am 4:00am 5:30am

Batman Tarzan Highlander Atomic Blonde Kong: Skull Island Tarzan Highlander Atomic Blonde Kong: Skull Island Watchmen Cyborg 009 Batman

11:30am 2:05pm 4:00pm 6:00pm

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12:00am 2:05am

2:40am 3:05am 3:30am

Love Your Garden ITV3 Nightscreen Love Your Garden Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Man About the House The Sting A Touch of Frost Columbo Agatha Christie's Poirot The impeccable Belgian detective tackles another case.

Lewis Endeavour Crime drama series about the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse A Touch of Frost On the Buses Enduring British sitcom about a bus driver and his conductor pal On the Buses ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

11:45am 12:30pm 1:25pm 2:25pm 3:25pm 4:20pm 5:15pm 6:15pm 7:10pm 8:00pm 8:55pm 9:00pm 10:00pm

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9:00am 10:50am 12:35pm 2:20pm 4:05pm 5:35pm 7:20pm 9:00pm 10:45pm 12:15am 1:50am 3:25am

Chokeslam Clue Police Academy Going in Style The Dictator Bowfinger Zoolander Going in Style The Dictator Where's the Money Airplane!

Airplane II: The Sequel 4:55am Turner and Hooch

7:55am 8:25am 8:50am 9:20am 10:25am 11:30am 12:30pm 12:45pm 1:15pm 1:45pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 3:40pm 4:10pm 4:40pm 5:10pm 5:40pm 6:10pm 6:40pm 7:15pm 7:45pm 8:15pm 11:00pm 12:50am 1:55am 3:00am 4:00am

4:50am 6:30am 7:00am 8:55am 11:00am 1:00pm 3:20pm 4:55pm

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3:15am 3:45am

SATURDAY TV

The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Couples Come Dine with Me Couples Come Dine with Me Don't Tell the Bride Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Young Sheldon The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Hunger Games I, Frankenstein Gogglebox Gogglebox Tattoo Fixers Rude Tube

6:00am 7:00am 8:00am

Bad Match Anon: Special Grey Lady Pirates of Somalia American Made It My Blind Brother Pirates of Somalia A rookie journalist finds himself in way over his head as he searches for a career-defining story in Somalia.

American Made It My Blind Brother Mother!

Psychological horror about a married couple whose isolated home is invaded by mysterious strangers.

The Hurricane Heist: The Eye of the Storm Brothers in Arms

12:00pm One2eleven 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm England's Road to Russia 2:00pm Stars of Russia 2:30pm Destination Russia 2018 3:30pm England's Road to Russia 4:00pm Stars of Russia 4:30pm Destination Russia 2018 5:00pm England's Road to Russia 6:00pm Stars of Russia 6:30pm Football 8:35pm Destination Russia 2018 9:00pm England's Road to Russia 9:30pm England's Road to Russia 10:00pm Stars of Russia 10:30pm Destination Russia 2018 11:00pm Football 1:00am MLS Greatest Games 1:05am Football 3:10am One2eleven

Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans 9:00am Rugby Union New Zealand meet France in the first Test at Eden Park in Auckland.

11:45am Rugby Union 2:30pm Cricket 4:00pm Rugby Union 7:30pm Gaelic Football Galway take on Dublin at Pearse Stadium in the Leinster Senior Hurling Championship.

10:15pm Live PGA Tour Golf Day three of the FedEx St Jude Classic at TPC Southwind near Memphis, Tennessee.

12:00am Live Curtis Cup Golf 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News 4:00am Sky Sports News 5:00am Sky Sports News

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Discover how to make the most of the month ahead with your June Astrology, Numerology and Tarot forecast...

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

ASTROLOGY: reach for the stars!

Sun in Gemini: The airy influence of this sign may bring a plethora of ideas this month. Gemini, symbolised as the twins, can indicate perhaps some indecision or a choice between two options this month.

When making decisions try to balance your inner wisdom with practical action to make the best choice for you. On June 21 the sun moves into the sign of Cancer. This nurturing and maternal sign brings the focus to your home life, and family.

Do something every day which is kind, for yourself and for someone close to you. Offering this act of kindness to yourself and others will help to improve your self-esteem and general feeling of well-being.

Get in tune with the moon: The

new moon in Gemini on June 13 brings the opportunity to make new connections and communicate in an authentic way with others. If you have a strong message to get across to the world, through the written or spoken word, now is the time to take action!

On June 28, the full moon in the sign of earthy Capricorn will help you to ground your ideas, to let go of your wilder, more mercurial plans, replacing these with a longer lasting vision. Take time to connect with nature around the time of the summer solstice too, appreciating the bounty of the earth by spending time outdoors either gardening, walking or simply meditating in a beautiful spot in the sunshine.

Numerology: practise loving kindness

GEMINI: Symbolised as the twins.

Number 6: This is the number of Gaia, the earth, the ultimate nurturer, the giver of unconditional love and deep compassion. The influence of this number helps you to create balance and harmony within yourself and your world at large.

This creative number is encouraging you to take time to write, sing, paint or spend time on whatever creative pursuit you chose. When you

are involved in a creative act, you are fully present. By allowing yourself to be fully immersed in this moment you are connected to the divine, grateful and at peace. Develop a creative practice to help you remain more present and open to your inner guidance.

The Hierophant: the lovers The sixth card in the Major Arcana Tarot deck is the Lovers. This card represents relationships and choices.

You may be presented with conflicting options this month, particularly in relationships, whether romantically, or in a professional sense. This card deals with the themes of attachment, union, and partnership.

A new partner in some form may present themselves to you this month.

Use your intuition to guide you as to whether this is a union that will benefit you both or whether perhaps there is a hidden agenda. When in doubt wait until you have all the facts before you commit to a decision or course of action.

Repeat this affirmation throughout the month to help you: I am creating an abundant world through my positive thoughts and actions.

Your personalised forecast Astrology, Numerology and the Tarot are ancient tools of divination which aid self-awareness. By looking at the unique numbers, planets and corresponding Tarot Cards linked to your date of birth, I will intuitively guide you to become clearer, calmer and more confident about your direction. I offer consultations by Skype, Facetime, WhatsApp video and email. Thirty minute consultations cost ÂŁ25 throughout June. Contact me at sally.trotman@btinternet.com to book in or visit my website for more information: www.sallytrotman.com.

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10:00am The Andrew Marr Show 11:00am The Big Questions 12:00pm Sunday Politics 1:15pm BBC News 1:25pm Weather for the Week Ahead 1:30pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm Points of View 2:15pm Lifeline 2:25pm Songs of Praise 3:00pm Britain Celebrates Live: 100 Years of Women's Votes 5:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 6:00pm Britain's Best Home Cook 7:00pm Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave 7:30pm BBC News 7:45pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile Royal Special 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Poldark 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Our Friend Victoria

7:40am Gardeners' World 8:40am Countryfile Royal Special: Balmoral 9:35am The Beechgrove Garden 10:05am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:35am Spring Kitchen with Tom Kerridge 12:20pm The Hairy Bikers' Best of British 1:20pm The World Cup: Hopes of a Nation 2:00pm Triathlon World Series 7:00pm Dragons' Den 8:00pm Million Pound Menu 9:00pm Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq 10:00pm Frankie Goes to Russia 11:00pm Atlanta 11:20pm Atlanta 11:50pm Girl's Guide to TV 12:35am Athletics 1:35am Question Time 2:35am Holby City 3:35am This is BBC Two

8:30am The Haunted Hathaways 8:55am Drop Dead Weird 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Zoe Ball on Sunday 10:25am The Queen's Coronation in Colour 11:20am How to Spend it Well: House and Garden with Phillip Schofield 12:20pm The Best of the Voice Worldwide 1:20pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:30pm Ninja Warrior UK 2:30pm French Open: Roland-Garros Live 6:30pm Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule 7:00pm ITV Evening News 7:15pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm Soccer Aid 11:00pm ITV News 11:20pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 11:50pm Football's Foreign Legion 12:50am Great Art 1:45am Jackpot247

3:45am Teleshopping 6:45am ITV2 Nightscreen 7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am You've Been Framed!

Gold 7:50am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:25am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:20pm Take Me Out 2:35pm The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 3:40pm FYI Daily 3:45pm The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 4:20pm Hotel Transylvania 5:25pm FYI Daily 5:30pm Hotel Transylvania 6:10pm Despicable Me 2 7:10pm FYI Daily 7:15pm Despicable Me 2 8:05pm Legally Blonde 9:05pm FYI Daily 9:10pm Legally Blonde 10:00pm Love Island 11:00pm Love Island 12:05am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy 1:05am Family Guy

8:00pm Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways Documentary series tracing the development of Britain's railways.

9:00pm The Modern Age of Coach Travel 10:00pm Swallowed by the Sea: Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City 11:00pm The Sky at Night A look at the world of astronomy.

11:30pm Horizon Horizon reveals the real moment of creation - the cosmic dawn, the moment of first light.

12:30am Civilisation Stories 1:00am Ego: The Strange and Wonderful World of Self Portraits 2:30am Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways 3:30am Swallowed by the Sea: Ancient Egypt's Greatest Lost City

6:15am Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 6:20am Fifteen to One 7:15am King of Queens 7:40am King of Queens 8:05am King of Queens 8:30am Eat the Week with Iceland 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Bake Off: The Professionals 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Volcano 5:35pm Location, Location, Location 6:35pm Bang on Budget 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Escape to the Chateau 9:00pm Bake Off: The Professionals 10:00pm The Handmaid's Tale 11:10pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 11:40pm Formula 1 1:40am The Man with the Iron Fists 3:15am Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

3:30am 7:00am 7:50am 8:50am 9:50am 10:50am 11:55am 1:55pm

4:00am Teleshopping 7:00am Everything or Nothing 8:40am Ironside 9:45am Storage Wars 10:10am Cycling: Tour Series Review Show 11:15am Isle of Man TT 12:15pm MSA British Touring Car Championship 7:00pm Snooker v Darts 7:10pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 8:15pm River Monsters 8:45pm River Monsters 9:15pm Jackie Chan's First Strike 10:15pm FYI Daily 10:20pm Jackie Chan's First Strike 11:00pm Cycling: Criterium Du Dauphine Highlights 12:00am Death Wish 2 1:00am FYI Daily 1:05am Death Wish 2 1:50am Fifth Gear 2:50am Minder 3:50am ITV4 Nightscreen 4:00am Teleshopping

4:00pm 6:00pm 8:00pm 10:00pm

11:00pm 12:00am 2:00am 3:20am 4:20am 5:10am

Teleshopping Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Murder, She Wrote Heartbeat Heartbeat Columbo A Touch of Frost A vital witness to a gangland killing goes missing before she can give evidence in court Agatha Christie's Poirot Vera Vera Unforgotten Third instalment of a six-part crime drama about an unsolved murder case.

Unforgotten Wire in the Blood Blue Murder Liverpool 1 Road to Avonlea Road to Avonlea

6:10am 6:35am 7:00am 11:10am 11:45am 12:10pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:05pm 5:30pm 7:15pm 8:00pm 8:55pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 1:05am 2:55am 4:10am

5:00am

Divine Designs Wildlife SOS Milkshake!

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Make You Laugh Out Loud Police Interceptors Police Interceptors Police Interceptors Holes FIA Formula E Live Zurich.

World's Scariest Animal Attacks Cricket on 5 5 News The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard Top of the Box 1978 with Matthew Kelly The Best of Bad TV: The 70s Super Casino Mid-Air Mayhem: Flights Out of Control Cruising with Jane McDonald

9:30am Spider-Man: Homecoming 11:45am Top Ten Show, the 2018 12:00pm Spider-Man 2:15pm Spider-Man 2 4:30pm Spider-Man 3 7:00pm Goal!

9:00pm Spider-Man: Homecoming 11:20pm Universal Soldier 1:20am Central Intelligence

8:15am 10:10am 11:55am 1:45pm 3:40pm 5:30pm 7:10pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 1:00am 2:50am 4:30am

Dumb and Dumber Groundhog Day Role Models This is the End Evolution Blue Streak Role Models This is the End Pineapple Express Evolution Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Any Which Way You Can

SUNDAY TV

6:10am How I Met Your Mother 7:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 9:25am Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 9:50am Black-Ish 10:20am Black-Ish 10:50am Black-Ish 11:20am The Goldbergs 11:50am The Goldbergs 12:20pm The Goldbergs 12:50pm The Goldbergs 1:20pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:50pm Young Sheldon 2:20pm The Big Bang Theory 2:50pm The Big Bang Theory 3:20pm The Big Bang Theory 3:50pm The Big Bang Theory 4:20pm The Big Bang Theory 4:50pm The Big Bang Theory 5:20pm The Big Bang Theory 5:50pm The Big Bang Theory 6:20pm The Big Bang Theory 6:50pm The Big Bang Theory 7:20pm Hulk 10:00pm Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 11:00pm Gogglebox 12:00am Gogglebox Australia 1:05am The Big Bang Theory 1:35am The Big Bang Theory

6:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.

7:00am Sky Sports News 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 9:00am Live Rugby 7s: Paris 11:30am Cricket 5:30pm Live Canadian F1 GP: Pit Lane Live 6:30pm Live Canadian F1 GP: On the Grid 7:05pm Live Canadian F1 Grand Prix 9:30pm Live Canadian F1 GP: Paddock Live Hear the latest news from the Formula 1 paddock following the 2018 Canadian Grand Prix.

10:10pm Live PGA Tour Golf Final Round 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News 4:00am Football Years 4:30am Football

6:30am Anon: Special 7:00am Grey Lady 8:55am Pirates of Somalia A rookie journalist finds himself in way over his head as he searches for a career-defining story in Somalia.

11:00am Marjorie Prime 12:50pm It 3:15pm American Made 5:15pm Top Ten Show, the 2018 5:30pm My Blind Brother Slacker Nick Kroll and brother Adam Scott, a blind, marathon-running local celebrity, find themselves falling for the same girl.

7:15pm Marjorie Prime 9:00pm It 11:20pm American Made 1:20am My Blind Brother 2:55am Most Beautiful Island 4:30am Grey Lady

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

One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games Stars of Russia Destination Russia 2018 England's Road to Russia Stars of Russia Destination Russia 2018 England's Road to Russia Stars of Russia Destination Russia 2018 England's Road to Russia Stars of Russia Destination Russia 2018 England's Road to Russia Stars of Russia Destination Russia 2018 England's Road to Russia England's Road to Russia Major League Soccer

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Rip Off Britain 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Crimewatch Roadshow Live 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Boss 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fight Like a Girl 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Grenfell 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got Old News for You 12:15am The Graham Norton Show 1:00am Weather for the Week Ahead

7:30am Britain's Secret Charity Cheats 8:15am Garden Rescue 9:00am Antiques Roadshow Coronation Special 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 12:30pm The Week in Parliament 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Perfection 2:45pm For What It's Worth 3:30pm Getting the Builders in 4:15pm Ray Mears: Bushcraft 5:15pm Edwardian Farm 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Richard Osman's House of Games 7:30pm Curious Creatures 8:00pm Great American Railroad Journeys 9:00pm Springwatch 10:00pm Versailles 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Journey in the Danger Zone: Iraq 1:15am Countryfile Royal Special: Balmoral

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

8:30pm Canals: The Making of a Nation 9:00pm Colombia with Simon Reeve Simon Reeve explores Colombia at a pivotal point in its history.

10:00pm Egypt's Lost Cities Documentary exploring the secrets of ancient Egypt.

11:30pm Storyville 12:55am Ice Age Giants 1:55am What a Performance!

Pioneers of Popular Entertainment Series in which Frank Skinner and Suzy Klein celebrate the history of popular entertainment.

2:55am The Lost Libraries of Timbuktu

8:10am King of Queens 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Car S.O.S 12:05pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Find it, Fix it, Flog it 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm The £100k Drop 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm The Posh Frock Shop 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Jamie's Quick and Easy Food 9:30pm Food Unwrapped 10:00pm 24 Hours in Police Custody 11:00pm Flowers 12:00am The Crystal Maze 1:00am Ramsay's Hotel Hell

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm Regional News and Weather 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Give it a Year 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Long Lost Family: What Happened Next 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm Regional News and Weather 11:45pm Out of Control

8:10am Who's Doing the Dishes?

9:00am Emmerdale 9:30am Coronation Street 9:55am Coronation Street 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am The Bachelorette 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed!

Gold 8:30pm You've Been Framed!

Gold 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pm Love Island 11:05pm Family Guy 11:35pm Family Guy 12:05am Family Guy

5:10am 6:05am 6:30am 7:00am

4:00am 7:00am 7:55am 8:30am 9:30am 10:35am 11:40am 12:45pm 1:50pm 2:50pm 3:55pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:05pm 8:05pm 8:35pm 9:00pm 10:10pm 10:15pm 11:00pm 12:00am 12:05am 1:05am 2:10am 3:05am 4:00am

7:25am 7:55am 8:55am 10:00am 10:25am 10:55am 11:20am 1:30pm 2:35pm 3:40pm 4:15pm 4:45pm 6:55pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 11:00pm 1:00am 3:00am 3:30am

Road to Avonlea George and Mildred ITV3 Nightscreen Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Heartbeat The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy A Touch of Frost The Royal Heartbeat Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Agatha Christie's Poirot Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Lewis Lewis A Touch of Frost ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

Teleshopping The Chase The Protectors Cash Cowboys Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Cash Cowboys Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Cristiano Ronaldo FYI Daily Cristiano Ronaldo Death Race FYI Daily Death Race River Monsters Motorsport UK Minder Teleshopping

5:45am 6:10am 6:35am 7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:10pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:15pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm

9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am 1:05am 2:00am

House Doctor Divine Designs Wildlife SOS Milkshake!

The Wright Stuff Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

5 News The Gadget Show Access Home and Away Neighbours Jo Brand's Cats and Kittens For Justice 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News World Rally Championship Highlights Police Interceptors The Space Shuttle: Triumph and Tragedy Lost Tapes Criminals Caught on Camera Fights, Camera, Action Super Casino

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Anaconda Viking Keanu Transformers: The Last Knight 3:20pm Viking 5:40pm Anaconda 7:15pm Keanu 9:00pm Transformers: The Last Knight 11:45pm Desperado 1:45am Armageddon 4:30am Collateral Damage

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Pirates of Somalia Marjorie Prime Grey Lady It Pirates of Somalia My Blind Brother Marjorie Prime Using futuristic holographic technology, an elderly woman comes face to face with a younger version of her deceased husband.

9:00pm It Hit adaptation of the Stephen King novel about a ragtag bunch of bulled outsiders battling evil, sewerdwelling clown Pennywise.

11:20pm American Satan 1:20am My Blind Brother

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TOP PICK: The Occidental Jandia Mar, Fuerteventura.

According to a report last year on Trivago, the Occidental Jandia Mar Hotel on the island of Fuerteventura came up tops in their picks for fami-

Fun for all the family

The Hotel del Juguete in Ibi is aptly named as it is a child’s dream with the hotel focusing on children.

Rooms come in a range of themes including Playmobil, Lego, Pinypon and Invizimals and if these mean little to you, just ask the little ones! Naturally there are games rooms in the hotel and everything is centred around

TREE HOUSE: Mari Cruz Agroturismo, Navarra.

WATER PARK: Hotel Los Patos Park, Benalmadena.

FAMILY FAVOURITE: The Pirates’ Village.

CHILD’S DREAM: The Hotel del Juguete.

the hotel for prices, minimum night stays are required.

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The Pirates Village in Santa Ponsa is a firm family favourite for pirate lovers young and old. The hotel even has a pirate-themed facade of shops and cafes and takes you into a world of fortresses, caverns and pirate ships with a weekly pirate show and pirate themed entertainment and events.

There are children’s clubs for those aged from three to 12 and offers squash-buckling fun for all. Contact

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children. It is also the perfect base to explore the neighbouring toy museums as the area is known for its history of producing toys. Trivago.es currently has room rates during the last week of August from €150 per night.

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ly-friendly resorts. They noted its wealth of children’s entertainers and different children’s clubs to keep young guests happy for hours. There is even a children’s buffet. Trivago.es currently state room rates during the last week of August are available from €136 a night.

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rates on the web for the end of August for €259 a night for a family of two adults and two children. A minimum three night break is required.

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KEEP the children entertained with last minute child-friendly breaks.

Still looking for a last minute break away this summer with the family?

Sometimes keeping the little ones entertained makes for a much more relaxing holiday for the adults, so why not try these hotels which are renown for being family-friendly and child orientated. From children’s clubs and themed rooms, they are sure to please the youngest members of the family and the best thing? All are in Spain so whether you want to drive just a few hours up or down the coast, or take a short flight to either the Canary Islands or Baleares, here are some of the best to look out for: Fuerteventura

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With the opening of its very own water park offering 3,000 square metres of outdoor water fun complete with water games, slides, tubes and pirate ship, the Hotel Los Patos Park in Benalmadena has now upped its game in catering for families wanting a great location to entertain both younger and older children.

With all-inclusive options available, they can eat and drink as much as they like and the pirate-themed mini club will allow parents to be able to relax for a few hours. The Hotel Los Patos Park is currently advertising

For those looking for something different to just a hotel break by the coast, why not truly delight the children with a stay in a tree house. The Mari Cruz Agroturismo, in the municipality of Villanueva de Arce, is a true adventure for those who are looking for a trip away and to introduce the little ones to nature. There are rural houses and even a tree house to stay in and you can spend the days feeding the farm animals and attending workshops such as making pizzas and jams from the produce grown on the farm. There is also a playroom and library with books and games for children. Prices for a stay in the tree house start from €80 per couple and €15 per child.

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Rip Off Britain Garden Rescue Top of the Shop with Tom Kerridge Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Super League Show For What It's Worth Getting the Builders in Ray Mears: Bushcraft Edwardian Farm Antiques Road Trip Richard Osman's House of Games Curious Creatures Great American Railroad Journeys Springwatch Grammar Schools: Who Will Get In? Later Live... with Jools Holland Newsnight Weather Love in the Countryside Britain's Best Home Cook Burma with Simon Reeve

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days The latest national and international news, exploring the day's events from a global perspective.

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Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Who's Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Bachelorette Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Take Me Out You've Been Framed!

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Cheap Cheap Cheap Countdown King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News Come Dine with Me Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown A Place in the Sun The £100k Drop Come Dine with Me The Posh Frock Shop The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Ackley Bridge Bride and Prejudice: The Bollywood Musical Flowers 24 Hours in a and e The Millionaire Party Planner

Teleshopping The Chase Pawn Stars Ironside Detective drama series featuring wheelchair-using cop Robert Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Quincy, M.E. LA County's sleuthing Chief Coroner stakes his reputation on another case.

Minder The Sweeney River Monsters World Rugby U20 Championship 2018 World Rugby U20 Championship 2018 The Departed FYI Daily The Departed Minder Tommy Cooper ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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House Doctor Divine Designs Wildlife SOS Milkshake!

The Wright Stuff Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

5 News GPs: Behind Closed Doors Access Home and Away Neighbours Jo Brand's Cats and Kittens My Evil Daughter: Love Me or Else 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News The Secret Life of Owls The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies The Hotel Inspector When Television Goes Terribly Wrong Super Casino GPs: Behind Closed Doors My Mum's Hotter Than Me!

11:20am Superman IV - The Quest for Peace 1:05pm Superman Returns 3:45pm Superman 2 6:00pm Superman III 8:15pm Superman IV - The Quest for Peace 10:00pm Superman Returns 12:45am Superman 2 3:00am Superman III 5:15am Superman IV - The Quest for Peace

4:10am Click 6:05am Bedtime Stories 7:50am Top Ten Show, the 2018 8:10am Spanglish 10:25am The Waterboy 12:00pm You Don't Mess with the Zohan 2:00pm The Longest Yard 4:00pm Bedtime Stories 5:45pm Airheads 7:20pm Big Daddy 9:00pm Spanglish 11:15pm The Waterboy 12:50am The Longest Yard 2:50am Bedtime Stories 4:35am Airheads

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6:00am Sky Sports News 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 Sky Sports News 12:00pm Sky Sports News 1:00pm Sky Sports News 1:30pm Cricket England Women face South Africa Women in their second ODI at the 1st Central County Ground, Hove.

10:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 11:00pm Sky Sports News at Ten 12:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond 1:00am Sky Sports News 2:00am Live WWE Late Night Smackdown 4:00am Sky Sports News 5:00am Sky Sports News

4:35am Grey Lady 6:30am The Hurricane Heist: The Eye of the Storm 7:00am Pirates of Somalia 9:15am Marjorie Prime 11:10am My Blind Brother Slacker Nick Kroll and brother Adam Scott, a blind, marathon-running local celebrity, find themselves falling for the same girl 12:50pm It 3:15pm Blood Money A trio of college-age campers must outrun a criminal after stumbling across his stash of stolen money.

5:00pm Anon: Special 5:30pm Marjorie Prime 7:20pm My Blind Brother 9:00pm It 11:20pm Blood Money 12:55am American Satan 2:55am Most Beautiful Island 4:30am Grey Lady

12:00pm England's Road to Russia 12:30pm One2eleven 1:00pm Stars of Russia 1:30pm Destination Russia 2018 2:00pm MLS Round Up Show 2:30pm One2eleven 3:00pm Stars of Russia 3:30pm Destination Russia 2018 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm England's Road to Russia 6:30pm England's Road to Russia 7:00pm Stars of Russia 8:00pm England's Road to Russia 9:00pm England's Road to Russia 10:00pm Destination Russia 2018 10:30pm Destination Russia 2018 11:00pm EFL Greatest Games 11:15pm EFL Greatest Games 11:30pm EFL Greatest Games 11:45pm EFL Greatest Games 12:00am Stars of Russia 12:30am Destination Russia 2018

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Rip Off Britain Garden Rescue Britain in Bloom Britain in Bloom Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics Lifeline Coast For What It's Worth Getting the Builders in Ray Mears: Bushcraft Edwardian Farm Antiques Road Trip Richard Osman's House of Games Curious Creatures Great American Railroad Journeys Springwatch Before Grenfell: A Hidden History Live at the Apollo Newsnight Weather Frankie Goes to Russia

8:00pm 8:30pm

Beyond 100 Days Canals: The Making of a Nation 9:00pm The Fantastical World of Hormones with Professor John Wass 10:00pm Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts 11:30pm Black and British: A Forgotten History 12:30am Indian Hill Railways Series looking at the little trains that have climbed t hrough the Indian clouds for a hundred years.

1:30am How to Build a Cathedral 2:30am The Fantastical World of Hormones with Professor John Wass 3:30am Can Science Make Me Perfect? With Alice Roberts

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Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Bet refuses to move out of the Rovers.

Alec insists she doesn't work behind the bar.

Heartbeat The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy Agatha Christie's Poirot The Royal Heartbeat Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Agatha Christie's Poirot Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Agatha Christie's Poirot In Plain Sight The Guilty Vera ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Countdown King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA Channel 4 News Come Dine with Me Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown A Place in the Sun The £100k Drop Come Dine with Me The Posh Frock Shop The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Great Rail Restorations with Peter Snow 24 Hours in a and e Flowers How to Start an Airline First Dates Friday Night Dinner

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World Cup Rivalries: England v Argentina The Chase Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder Terry and Arthur look after a gambling school which is being threatened by a casino.

The Sweeney The Professionals Ironside Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Cash Cowboys Isle of Man TT World Superbike Highlights Cycling: Women's Tour Highlights Source Code FYI Daily Source Code Lethal Weapon Cristiano Ronaldo FYI Daily Cristiano Ronaldo ITV4 Nightscreen

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Big Daddy 50 First Dates Top Ten Show, the 2018 Billy Madison Spanglish You Don't Mess with the Zohan The Waterboy Billy Madison 50 First Dates The Wedding Singer You Don't Mess with the Zohan Spanglish Big Daddy The Waterboy

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Couples Come Dine with Me Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Black-Ish How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Black-Ish Black-Ish The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Kevin Can Wait The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The 100 Naked Attraction The Big Bang Theory

Grey Lady Anon: Special Marjorie Prime Top Ten Show, the 2018 9:15am My Blind Brother Slacker Nick Kroll and brother Adam Scott, a blind, marathon-running local celebrity, find themselves falling for the same girl.

11:00am Blood Money 12:40pm It 3:10pm Marjorie Prime 5:05pm Anon: Special 5:35pm My Blind Brother 7:20pm Blood Money A trio of collegeage campers must outrun a criminal after stumbling across his stash of stolen money.

9:00pm It 11:20pm The Housemaid 1:15am Inside...

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Impressed by the kindness of Mojacar I WOULD like to say how impressed I was with the kindness of two Spanish people and the Local Police who helped an elderly Scottish couple.

They had left the lady’s bag containing their documents, passports, money etc on a bus from Las Roquetas, which they got off in Mojacar The bus had continued its journey stopping at Vera en route to its final destination in Murcia. The two Spanish people, a lady and gentleman who were not connected to each other helped to reassure and calm the elderly lady who was quite distraught. They tried to contact the bus company and when this was not successful they then contacted the Local Police, who came and spoke to the elderly couple taking details of the bus and where they were seated.

Officers then arranged with their colleagues in Vera to collect the bag off the bus when it stopped there.

The happy ending was the very relieved Scottish couple were united with their bag and its contents at the Local Police Station in Vera. They then returned to Mojacar to enjoy the rest of their day.

Very well done all concerned.

Barry Tynan, Mojacar

HAVE YOUR SAY

Pussy plea

Phone company neglect seems to be constant I THOUGHT that you might like to see a picture of a phone junction box that has been open to the elements for at l e a s t t h e l a s t t h re e y e a r s w e have been going to the Jalon Valley.

I t a p p e a r s f ro m o l d e r p h o tographs that it was 2015 when it had a cover fitted.

I t ’s a w o n d e r t h a t t h e phones work in Spain as this is typical of telecommunication company standards.

We have a junction box on a pole by us that has been open for the 18 years we have lived here.

Tony, Jalon Valley

JUNCTION BOX: Open to the elements for three years.

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Brit expats charged with hate crimes Shame on the Mallorca officials for even giving these thieves the time of day. This is in no way a race crime, just concerned residents wanting to keep us all safe as the police seem unable to do this.

Mary Willoughby

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Yup the race card again, but police should fingerprint them, are they legally in the country paying taxes etc? Spain needs to be like America or Australia only in to work via a visa if they have money to support themselves and medical insurance.

Marie Ross Main

Most appalling service from this mob, I agree some will moan but continue to use, I just don’t use them. They specialise in taking more off you when you can’t do much about it.

Robert Jake Wilson

So it’s not OK to protest against those who rob and attack people? I wonder how many of the sex workers have been arrested or is prostitution legal in Spain?

Annie

“The whole thing has been a ludicrous farce."

Yep, that sums up Ryanair precisely. Also O’Leary in particular.

Malc F_H

Ryanair refuses gift voucher

I had a similar problem, flown out with the name showing Bill on ticket, back from Spain said it showed William, they wanted €200 to change it had Mexican stand off before common sense prevailed.

Bill Newall

Love all the people that say will never use Ryanair.. But all do as don’t want to pay two or three times the price with another airline Jamie Thomas Davidson

Health board warns of cockroach plague I use bay leafs in my cupboards and around my

home. They hate bay leaf!

Also last year in the corners of my garden I placed tall jars lined with olive oil quarter filled with red wine and brown sugar... They love it...

They crawl in and because of the oil can’t get out!!! Not usually so cruel but I can’t deal with cockroaches.

Kim Foster Yuk, my pet hate. I had them in a rental in Mojacar in winter!!! Had to buy all sorts of stuff to get rid of them, they came up the old drains and lived in the downstairs loo.

Sian Foster

Jet2 passengers win payout Quite right! I would have got off as well. Good on him to pursue them - they are idiots as paying up would have put them in a really positive light and now they have managed to damage their reputation. Not sure who does their PR but they want retraining!

Jeni Potter The more this happens the better us normal travellers get treated.

Richard Taylor

IT has been both frustrating and heartbreaking dealing with nasty people.

We have cried so many tears and felt so much anger.

I would like to know what so many people in Salou have against defenceless cats. We have never witnessed such hostility and cruelty in one place.

My husband and I feed stray homeless cats every day. These cats are innocent and beautiful. They ask for so little. A bit of food, a little affection.

What does it cost to be kind?

There have been kittens that were poisoned and left to suffer and die and there have been teenagers who go and terrify cats just for fun.

What has become of a society that brings up children with no conscience?

Thank God there are people out there that care. SOS Gatos is one such organisation. We strongly encourage you to support them.

It takes so little to make such a big difference in these little angels’ lives.

When we lose our ability for compassion we lose our humanity.

Paul & Lorna DeCouto, Salou

Brexit Bible I READ with interest Colin MacGregor’s letter where he states that his reason for moving from the UK to Spain was because the former follows EU rules whereas the latter ignores them.

It reminded me of a conversation with an elderly English visitor to the Costa del Sol who was amazed to see orange trees full of fruit growing in the streets.

He wondered how the Spanish got away with it, because in England the EU had made a village cut down all its apple trees as they deemed falling fruit to be a danger to life.

He knew this was true because he had read it in his Brexit Bible... the Daily Mail. This one is so ridiculous it doesn’t even make the Euromyths Debunked list (mostly quotes by the Sun, Mail and Boris Johnson).

The aforementioned tabloids are virtually the only ones on sale here and so are the daily diet of ‘expats,’ a large proportion of whom soak up their propaganda agenda and would have voted ‘Leave.’

However, in contrast to Colin, I would prefer to believe the Euro Weekly News statistics that the majority voted ‘Remain,’ as surely they would have been aware of the staggering irony/ hypocrisy of voting for the UK to leave the EU when they themselves are reaping the benefit of freedom of movement.

Elaine, Torremolinos

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Across 1 Interwove bits of wasp, lice, dragonflies (7) 5 Quiet! Then ear gets clip (5) 8 Still be apologetic going round for money (7) 9 Monsters appearing in Pilgrim’s Progress (5) 10 Friend taking mother to a resort in Mallorca (5) 11 Joy of new Peru art (7) 12 Breaks out in purest mess (6) 14 Skill needed to make old money (6) 17 Command detectives returning to gallery (7) 19 South American birds fancy hares (5) 22 Cereal, what with energy in it?

(5) 23 Studying in a Berkshire town (7) 24 In Colorado, rich men give the order (5) 25 Lead lost by ruthless crooked detectives (7)

perhaps, and Peterhead (5) 6 One true turning on the way (2,5) 7 Most glowing stories may turn out to be false (7) 12 Gave gifts but in the end was in debt (7) 13 Concealed nuclear explosion (7)

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15 A fairer form of travel expense (7) 16 Red cards for Scottish team (6) 18 Language of first and last detective (5) 20 To be set out around the team (5) 21 The same flipping old stories! (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 10 represents R and 23 represents V, so fill in R every time the figure 10 appears and V every time the figure 23 appears.

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

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Cryptic

Down 1 Refuse to fight (5) 2 To be honest, left first woman money (5) 3 Get in touch with jailbird diplomacy (7) 4 Finding a rabbit’s head in squirrel’s nest is sad (6) 5 Sailing vessel from Oslo,

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Across 1 Minister of religion (6) 4 Disperse widely (6) 9 Refrain from voting (7) 10 Large body of water (5) 11 Playthings (4) 12 Exquisitely fine and subtle and pleasing (8) 14 Easy to reach (5) 16 Alcoholic drink made from apples (5) 20 Troubled emotionally and usually deeply (8) 21 Coop (4) 24 Avoid by deceit (5) 25 Check closely (7) 26 Afternoon nap (6) 27 Refuse to accept (6)

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Across 1 Street lamps (7) 5 Calcetines (5) 8 Petirrojo (5) 9 Manager (person in charge) (7) 10 Enemy (7) 11 Cuál (5) 12 Thick (wall, line, slice, neck) (6) 14 Modo (6) 17 To freeze (5) 19 Cardenales (7) 21 Lettuce (7) 22 Cuchara (para comer) (5) 24 Estilo (manera) (5) 25 El más cercano (7)

Down 1 Morally pure (6) 2 Dangerous, liable to accident or mishap (5) 3 Become or cause to become soft or liquid (4) 5 Forbid (8) 6 Raise to a higher position (7) 7 Main meal of the day (6) 8 Beneath (5) 13 Lying near or next to (8) 15 Try to stir up public opinion (7) 17 Bread makers (6) 18 Rise against (5) 19 Say, state or perform again (6) 22 Same in appearance or character (5) 23 Fraudulent (4)

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

Down 1 Piel (animal) (3) 2 Oak (tree) (5) 3 Lentejas (7) 4 Centuries (6) 5 Tornillo (5) 6 Song (7) 7 Pastores (9) 10 Cascarones (9) 13 Desafortunado (7) 15 Bet (wager) (7) 16 Obtener (6) 18 Ruta (de viaje) (5) 20 Piedra (material) (5) 23 Red (informática) (3)

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‘ HOLLYWOOD SAYS TARZAN HAS HAD MORE JANES THAN ITALY HAS HAD GOVERNMENTS - HE’S A WORRIED MAN! ‘ 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 R) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

Nonagram

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.

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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.

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1 Ropes, 4 Gorra, 8 Ventaja, 9 Sharp, 10 Susto, 11 Anybody, 12 Arrest, 14 Navaja, 18 Quiosco, 20 Climb, 22 Elige, 23 Saucers, 24 Selva, 25 Apoyo.

Down: 1 Revista, 2 Piñas, 3 Seasons, 4 Grabar, 5 Rusty, 6 Amapola, 7 Nappy, 13 Raisins, 15 Anchura, 16 Arbusto, 17 Poesía, 18 Queen, 19 Steal, 21 Ileso.

1 Varlets, 5 Cuppa, 8 Okapi, 9 Cheroot, 10 Elms, 11 Peerless, 13 Tarzan, 15 Superb, 18 Castaway, 19 Stud, 22 Oregano, 23 Arise, 24 Nitre, 25 Sonnets.

Down: 1 Violent, 2 Realm, 3 Edit, 4 Soccer, 5 Clear out, 6 Protege, 7 Altos, 12 Carapace, 14 Respect, 16 Badgers, 17 Famous, 18 Crown, 20 Trite, 21 Warn.

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Being at odds with someone close has given you pause for thought.

This would be a good time to change the situation for the better.

Offering the olive branch is your best approach, but be sure that you are sincere. Sometimes, you are a book easily read.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Such a time of expansion comes rarely, but now you are being handed opportunities. Be sure to make the most of them by being organised enough to take full advantage. With your energy high, you are in a position to steam ahead with plans. Should others feel left out you can find a place for them.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A strong romantic flow to your week could be interrupted. This is because there are some business matters that really do need your attention.

Although it is not a particularly good time to make firm financial commitments, there are areas to work on.

These are mainly associated with saving money and reorganising.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Having had such a busy time recently you may be craving a quiet period. I am afraid this will have to wait at the moment. Small snatches at tranquillity are possible but the pressure is still on.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This really is a week to get to grips with any healthy eating or exercise regimes. Owing to the influence of Mars, you are in a vigorous and determined mood. You find that your added confidence and healthy glow are attractive to the opposite sex.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Have you been too busy to spend time on yourself? Get your looks and health back on track by using this week to good effect. Revamp your diet and exercise as required. Spend time with people who are supportive and share the same interests.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)

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A recent journey has revealed possibilities. It is in this week that you will realise their potential. Nowhere is this truer than your romantic life, which is on the up. Someone who would not normally attract you comes into your sphere or may have done so last week.

LEO (July 24 - August 23)

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A meeting involving business with a senior person brings great benefits.

You are wrong to be afraid of asking for what you want because it is necessary. Do not bottle things up.

Consider that you have little to lose.

When dealing with legal matters, you are well advised to read the small print and look at the timescales

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This is a spiritual week and you will be likely to want comfort. Give yourself time alone to look at the world around you and enjoy what it has to offer. As the weekend approaches, you will be able to get more into the mainstream and enjoy the company of others.

Across: 1 Sober, 4 Spurn, 7 Dignified, 8 Etch, 10 Bored, 13 Eager, 14 Oslo, 17 Identical, 19 Sweet, 20 Petty.

Down: 1 Sodden, 2/18 Big cat, 3 Ruin, 4 Sailor, 5 Undress, 6 Near, 9 Chalice, 11 Defeat, 12 Volley, 15 Cuss, 16 Stop.

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Some difficulty in your love life will need to be handled carefully.

Unforeseen develop-ments could take you by surprise (especially if you haven't read this in time). Your need is to avoid telling white lies to get out of a situation. Given time, most situations in this category will ease.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) All may not be what it seems this week and you need to be a little more realistic. This is particularly true when it comes to romance and close ties.

Having the wool pulled over your eyes is not desirable and could even see you trip up. A different kind of trip, possibly over a long distance, may bring you face to face with an old friend or relative.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Meetings and travel dominate this week. Being with those who stimulate and inform will be even more worthwhile than usual. A trip that you are not looking forward to can bring added bonuses.

Looking to further education at this time, could see you starting a course.

QUIZ: GRAND NATIONAL WINNERS All the answers are the names of horses that have won the Grand National (year won) 1. Betula pendula is the botanical name of which hardy forest-tree? (2007) 2. In which 1973 historical period drama prison film did Steve McQueen play the part of convicted murderer Henri Charrière?

(2000) 3. Rising to 1,345 metres (4,411 feet), which mountain in western Scotland is the highest mountain in the British Isles? (1980) 4. What was the title of the British television sitcom, originally broadcast between 1961 to 1963, which featured the characters Harold Fenner (Peter Jones), Reg Turner (Reg Varney) and the militant shop steward Paddy Fleming (Miriam Karlin)? (1976) 5. Which brand of stock cubes was advertised in the 1980s by a family consisting of father (Michael Redfern), mother (Lynda Bellingham) and children (Blair MacKichan, Colin McCoy and Alison Reynolds)? (1959) 6. According to the children’s nursery rhyme, which character ‘sat in the corner, eating his Christmas pie’? (1926)

7. What name is usually given to a warship smaller than a destroyer, typically equipped with some form of missile or used for anti-submarine activities? (1889) 8. What is the surname of the former Arsenal goalkeeper who is England’s second-most capped goalkeeper, after Peter Shilton? (1882) 9. What was the (English) nickname of the Venezuelan patriot and statesman Simon Bolívar? He succeeded in driving the Spanish from Venezuela, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador. Upper Peru was named Bolivia in his honour. (1879) 10. In the NBC sitcom Friends, what was the first name of the fictional character played by actor Matthew Perry? (1848) Not a lot of people know that... the most famous (triple) Grand National winner, Red Rum, got his name from his parents: Mared (dam) and Quorum (sire). It is also the word ‘murder’ spelled backwards

Answers: 1. SILVER BIRCH, 2. PAPILLION, 3. BEN NEVIS, 4. (The) RAG TRADE, 5. OXO, 6. JACK HORNER, 7. FRIGATE, 8. (David) SEAMAN, 9. THE LIBERATOR (El Libertador in Spanish), 10. CHANDLER (Bing).

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Staying safe in the sun WITH temperatures really beginning to rise now is the time to take some advice about how to protect yourself from unwanted sunburn and decrease your chances of developing skin cancer in the future.

When you’re out and about wear protective clothing. It may be hot, but there’s no reason not to don a pair of linen pants, a long sleeved silk shirt or a straw hat. The great thing about hats, apart from being a fabulous fashion accessory, is that their wide brims will cover your face as well as your ears and scalp.

And don’t leave home without your sunglasses.

These will protect your eyes from the UV rays which can cause eye problems. Always buy sunglasses that blocks as close to 100 per cent as possible of UVB and UVA rays. If you can, restrict your time outside in the sun, particular around the hours of midday.

If you are out during these hours make use of any shade offered. Don’t forget to put sunscreen on before your leave the house and reapply it as necessary during the day. Cover every part of your body which will be exposed to the sun. Taking these few steps can help to reduce your chances of developing skin cancer and lessen premature signs of ageing.

HOT IN THE SUN: Wearing a hat and shades will offer you extra protection.

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London Fashion Week IF you have your finger on the pulse of men’s fashion then you won’t need to be reminded that London Fashion Week Men’s will step out onto the catwalk this weekend (Friday to Monday).

This is the mid-year fashion show which has become one of the highest profile fashion events in the world and one of the big four international catwalk influencers.

The event will showcase the best of British menswear design and visitors will be able to enjoy catwalk shows, presentations, multibrand and individual showrooms and other supporting activities.

In addition to the official and off-schedule events, LFW has become a focus for a broader base of fashion linked activities with international designers, media and other high profile brands choosing to host their own events.

One of the up and coming names to look out for this

year is Astrid Andersen. This Londonbased brand creates premium casualwear with a sports inspired aesthetic that intends to create a new generation in menswear.

If you don’t want to miss it, the event takes place in the BFC Showspace, 180 The Strand, London and tickets can be purchased at www.london fashionweekfestival.com If you can’t make it, book your tickets now for the London fashion festival to be held from September 20 to 23.

CATWALK COOL: The Astrid Andersen collection will certainly draw your attention.

Credit: Astrid Andersen

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Something for the imagination?

Feelers are out!

PERHAPS a great surprise and disappointment to many, but tight swimming trunks have just been voted as the UK’s ‘most hated clothing.’

Often simply referred to as Speedos or budgie smugglers, these wardrobe must-haves are essentially a pair of tightly-fitted swimming trunks.

They were originally designed in the 1960s to reduce drag and give extra support and comfort to competitive swimmers.

And they have continued to be proudly worn by strapping athletes around the world for decades.

However, it seems the average Brit is not quite so ready to fit the mould and would rather prefer to leave a little something to the imagination.

In the recent YouGov survey, almost seven out of 10 Brits said they disliked the trunks, with more women than men against them, at 74 per cent.

Yet, these opinions aren’t held across the whole of Europe. In Spain, Speedos continue to be hugely popular and in France it’s even obligatory for men to wear the tight trunks in most public pools.

SUCH news might not even bat an eyelid in Asia, but news has emerged that you might actually have been eating insects your whole life.

It appears that one of the most widely used food colourings used to create pink, orange, purple and red is actually made from squashed bugs.

The insects are called cochineal, are native to Latin America, and they live on cacti.

They are mostly farmed in Peru where millions are processed every year to produce the colouring. According to the Peruvian Embassy to the UK, the country has a 95 per cent share of the international market.

These days, carmine is added to an endless number of food items including juices, ice creams, yoghurts and sweets. In fact, many UK products such as Mr Kipling cakes and Bachelor soups use carmine.

However, given the increasing number of people who are choosing to go vegan or be ethical consumers, companies are having to respond and adapt to evolving consumer habits. One such company is Starbucks which has stopped using carmine.

Yet, if you want to make the choice to avoid these insects in your diet, it might prove more difficult than you imagine. The word ‘carmine’ isn’t listed on

GRUB’S UP: The tiny bugs live on prickly pear cacti in Latin America. food products, instead you’ll have to search for ‘natural red four,’ ‘crimson lake’ or just E120.

And if you really want to save this little critters, you’ll also have to be more selective on what eye shadow and lipstick you chose, as many cosmetic products also use these squashed bugs for colouring.

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Keeping healthy locals eat. You can rest assured that a business that constantly attracts the locals has food which is worth returning for.

And before you eat, always wash your hands with hot water and soap.

This is another effective way of preventing sickness on holiday.

If you eat fruit, avoid eating the skin of the fruit. It’s best to eat fruit which has a peelable skin, such as bananas.

If you do get food poisoning, you will know. The main symptoms of food poisoning are diarrhoea and vomiting, which may be accompanied by fevers and shivers. In addition to this, food poisoning can cause you to have stomach ache, fatigue, headaches and muscle aches.

If you experience any of these, drink as much (non-alcoholic!) fluid as possible.

IF you’re in Spain on holiday, or perhaps heading away, then you might be wondering what precautions you can take to avoid an upset stomach.

The nasties that can cause such trouble are hiding in contaminated food such as raw or undercooked meat, eggs, fresh produce, dairy products, and water.

Because of this, it’s generally advised not to drink tap water. Remember too that the sauces available with your food in certain restaurants may have been watered down using tap water.

Ensure everything you eat is hot and has been cooked at the right temperature. This will ensure that there is no bacteria present.

Try to avoid salads or food that has been sitting outside and also try to avoid uncooked seafood as this is a common culprit in many developed countries, including Spain.

Look around and take note of where the

DODGY STOMACH: Take a few precautions to stay healthy.

FILL UP: A full English breakfast is just what the doctor ordered after all.

YOUR body clock may have synchronised with the eating habits in Spain, but scientists are now questioning if late evening meals are actually stopping us from shedding those extra pounds.

Instead, recommendations might be made that we should be shifting our mealtimes to earlier in the day.

Scientists researching this connection between eating and our body clocks are trying to establish the eating times which are

Out of sync more beneficial for us and our health. The connection be tw e e n the tw o ha s be come known as ‘chrono-nutrition.’ This research will also look at how our internal rhythms are affected by our eating habits.

It is understood that in each 24-hour cycle our body has optimum times when we should be doing things, in-

cluding eating. And so far the research suggests that the late meal enjoyed by virtually everyone in Spain is, metabolically speaking, not the right thing to do.

Although it isn’t entirely understood why, results indicate that our bodies don’t process food in the evening as wel l as t hey do i n t he morning. Fully understand-

ing this link could have big implications in allowing us to tackle the obesity probl em i n bot h t he UK and Spain, among many other countries. In fact, perhaps the full English breakfast first thing in the morning is actually much better for you than a platter of Spanish tapas followed by paella last thing at night!

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Update on food, drink, entertainments, what’s on and weekly happenings

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CONTRABAND will be playing in aid of the TeuladaMoraira branch of Lions international on June 24 at 8pm on the seafront in Moraira. For info visit www.tmlions.com or call 966 466 954. Free entrance.

Cultural art THE Casa de Cultura in Dénia will be hosting an exhibition by artist Noelia Vaquero from today (Thursday) until June 23. The exhibition is in the Sala Pintor Llorens on the ground floor. Free entrance.

Comedy play THE Javea Players will be performing Poor Yorick from July 2 to 7 in the Casa de Cultura and Bar Imperial, Plaza Baix, Xabia Old Town. More info at www.javeaplayers.com.

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Galician Seafood Fair THE Galician Seafood Fair began this week in Alicante and will run until Sunday in the Volvo area of Alicante Port.

Galician seafood is among the best in the world and this offers visitors and seafood lovers the opportunity to sample some of the finest produce at this popular feria.

As well as the special Galician seafood platter, you’ll be able to savour Galician bread

to take away, as well as meat or chicken empanadas. You can also stop to rest in a bar to try grilled calamari, clams, cooked crabs and even razor clams from the Cies Islands.

Typical Galician products such as liquors, wines, preserves, cheeses with quinces, and cakes such as the Santiago cake, will also be on offer for you to try Galician gastronomy in Alicante. Entrance is free.

Summer Solstice ANTI-ESTABLISHMENT: The group are known for their lyrics and on-stage outfits.

B E R S U I T V E R G A R A B AT w i l l b e p e r forming this Saturday at Las Cigarreras Cultural Centre, Alicante.

B e r s u i t Ve rg a r a b a t i s a n A rg e n t i n i a n rock group from Buenos Aires, formed in 1988.

They combine Latin American rhythms, such as tango and reggae, and couple these with anti-establishment lyrics.

Because of the nature of their lyrics, their work has been censored in the past.

Despite of, or because of, this censorship, their popularity grew and they became one of the most important groups of Argentine rock and one of the most important in Latin America.

The band is known for the very unique way it dresses in its concerts, wearing such things as pyjamas to represent inmates in a psychiatric hospital.

For tickets, please visit the website www.ticketea.com.

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to Live Well

THE Hogueras of San Juan in Alicante is the city’s most important celebration. Official events run from June 20 until 29. The festival is dedicated to fire, including events such as the proclamation, the setting up of the bonfires themselves, the procession of the effigies, and the parades and processions in different districts of the city. The main event will be held on June 24, the feast day of Saint John the Baptist, when large satirical statues made of cardboard and wood are set alight.

This festival is an opportunity to enjoy the summer solstice with bonfires on the beach, beautiful satirical statues and noisy firecrackers across the city of Alicante.

Ideal for a dinner party

by Andrew Harding THIS week my recipe is Chicken Milanese. It is a little fiddly to make but well worth the effort and is ideal for a dinner party as all the preparation can be carried out beforehand, leaving time to entertain your guests. Personally, I like this dish served with broccoli steamed in the microwave and pasta spirals, but roasted gnocchi will also work well.

Chicken Milanese Serves 6 6 whole chicken breasts, no skin, no bone flattened 3 tablespoons plain white flour, 3 whole eggs, beaten 3 teaspoons garlic puree 300g bread crumbs 6 tablespoons olive oil For the sauce 3 cans tomatoes, coarsely chopped 2 tablespoons olive oil

FIDDLY BUT WORTH IT: Chicken Milanese.

6 whole garlic cloves, skinned & chopped 1 large red pepper seeded and chopped I bunch of fresh basil 1 teaspoon of celery salt 2 chicken stock cubes crumbled To finish Juice from two whole lemons 200g buffalo mozzarella cheese Salt and pepper, to taste 1) Cut the gristly bits off the chicken and flatten. Pre-heat fan oven to 200°C, or in a conventional oven at 220°C. 2) Take three shallow bowls, put the flour

Tip: Use kitchen scissors for trimming chicken, it is a lot easier than using a knife and less hazardous.

Tip: Flatten the chicken breasts with an empty or unopened bottle of wine to avoid the risk of contaminating a wooden rolling pin with salmonella bacteria. Likewise use polythene chopping boards.

in the first, the beaten egg in the second add the garlic puree and stir until completely mixed, add the breadcrumbs to the third bowl.

3) Dredge the chicken breasts in the flour until they are fully coated, then likewise in the egg and finally in the breadcrumbs.

4) Put the olive oil into a baking tin or dish and make sure the chicken breasts are completely coated in the olive oil.

5) Bake for 20-30 minutes until they are completely cooked.

6) Make the sauce, by frying the garlic in olive oil until it is transparent on a medium heat.

7) Add the chopped tomatoes, red pepper, basil, celery salt, and chicken stock.

8) Blend and heat through in a saucepan, add the lemon juice and put to one side.

9) Slice the buffalo mozzarella and place on top of the cooked chicken breasts, put back in the oven and allow the cheese to melt.

10) Place the chicken breasts on plates with the sauce to one side and serve.

Tip: To make sure chicken (or pork) is properly cooked, tap it with the back of a metal spoon, if the resulting sound is soft, the meat will be, if it sounds like tapping wood it is cooked through.

Hint: Place as many of the breasts as possible in each bowl to coat them rather than multi- coating each breast one at a time.

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An acoustic performance ROSA LÓPEZ will be performing her first acoustic concert in the Recinto Mercadillo de Villajoyosa on Saturday at 11.30pm.

R o s a L ó p e z , a ff e c t i o n ately known as ‘Rosa de España,’ is a singer from Granada who became famous through a reality TV music show.

After winning the show she went on to represent Spain in the Eurovision song contest.

She released her first album in 2002 and has gone from strength to strength since then, releasing a further seven albums.

Rosa López has continued to participate in TV shows, and has even had her own reality show ‘Soy Rosa,’ which was based a r o u n d t h e s i n g e r ’s d a y to-day life and her record-

ing of her most recent work, Kairos.

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Investors turn to student digs REAL ESTATE investors are turning to Spain’s burgeoning student accommodation sector in these demand-heavy times.

Spain has seen a dramatic increase in the number of people going to university, and given a marked rise in the population of the demographic, the development of purpose-built accommodation is booming.

So far however, the number of developments has not been enough to cover the shortfall, with students (as many as 380,000) unable to secure a place at a student residence.

Although some accommodation is owned directly by universities or operated by religious orders, the vast majority is in the hands of private companies.

Nick Wride, Head of Living and Alternatives at Jones Lang La Salle, said:

“In mature student housing markets like the UK and Germany, returns are being squeezed, whereas Spain offers very good student-to-bed ratios and attractive yields.”

According to Wride, investing in student accommodation requires more work than traditional property sectors, “but with returns being squeezed elsewhere, it is well worth developing an understanding of the maintenance and service provisions that are included in student housing leases.”

Up until 18 months ago the focus was on Madrid and Barcelona, but investors are now looking towards undersupplied regional cities such as Valencia, Granada, Malaga, Pamplona and Salamanca.

Rents in these cities tend to be lower than in Madrid and Barcelona, but it is easier for investors to find development space at a reasonable price.

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A WINEMAKER husband and his actress wife have turned a centuries-old water mill into a luxury five-bedroom mansion.

Max Hernandez, a former entrepreneur, and his wife, retired screen star Silvia Hernandez, were motivated by a desire to be near Madrid but not part of the bustle.

The couple have turned the mill, which used to grind grain, into a 6,200 square foot mansion with nearly seven lush acres, with a pool, custom greenhouse, garden and a private forest.

An additional guesthouse, fashioned out of a wood shed, has a bedroom, bathroom and even a gym.

Now that Max and Silvia’s son, Oliver is 18 and going to university in the UK, the estate is now on the market for a cool €4.5 million.

Clearly such high-end suburban living is hard to come by in Madrid, and affluent homeowners generally choose between old-fashioned apartment living in the heart of the city, and new villas on the outskirts in gated communities.

When the couple bought the former mill in 1999 for €400,000, the previous owner had already converted it into a single family home, but it looked nothing like its current grandiose splendour.

They purchased more land surround-

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RURAL IDYLL: The property has been transformed from its humble origins. ing the property and spent a further €1.3 million on gutting the house, adding new heating, windows, floors and an outdoor pool.

“We only kept the walls and the roof,” said Max, who completed the home in the spring of 2001.

They also have an eclectic taste in

vintage furniture, ranging from Belgian art deco to South African art deco to Spanish mid-century modern.

In keeping with their successful exploits so far, the couple plan to construct a 12,000 square foot mansion in the foothills of Valencia, out of a derelict multi-family farmhouse.

Three tips to sell your house in Spain Real Estate Expert

by Adrian Barbudo IF you follow the right advice, selling your property should be straightforward.

1. Perhaps you may believe that price is the most important element governing a decision to purchase, but in most cases it is not the only important thing that buyers consider.

Clearly if the buyer is looking for an investment, then the price is extremely important as the investor wants to ensure that he will be able to make the expected profit at some time in the future.

In the case where a prospective buyer is searching for his ideal home the price is still important, but sometimes the buyer will pay above the true market price because he is buying with his heart.

Also don’t forget, that nowadays the potential buyer has a lot of information about the prices in the area and he knows the market, so everybody will know if your

asking price is too high.

2. Make sure that you put your house sale in the best hands. You have to find the best agent or agency that wants to work for you and as I said previously in this column, the best agent will look for exclusivity.

3. Consider whether your house is ready for sale. Perhaps your house needs home staging (the act of preparing a private residence for sale in the real estate market) and you may need to improve your property’s appeal by transforming it into a welcoming, attractive product that anyone might want.

If you are interested in finding out more tips and advice about the situation of the Real Estate Market in Spain please take a look at my book: ‘2018 to 2023 the best moment to buy or invest in a property in Spain’ which you will find full of useful information.

I will be here every Thursday to advise you on the real estate market in Spain and if you have any question please send them to me at hola@adrianbarbudo.com and I will reply to you direct.

Questions and answers may be published in future columns.

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INNER STEEL: The unique, Rural House, is an award-winning property.

Meet three unique Spanish hideouts THE BBC’s The World’s Most Extraordinary Homes recently took viewers to Spain to visit three stunning properties.

Rural House was built for a Michelin-starred chef and is a collection of 11 specially crafted steel boxes made to look like agricultural containers and cleverly hidden by a man-made ridge.

The unusual structure of the property, nestled in the foothills of the Pyrenees in Olot, Spain, recently won architect, Rafael Aranda the prestigious Pritzker Architect Prize.

The kitchen and dining room are in one section,

with a very minimalist open plan living room in the next. Inside, steelwork runs throughout as part of the interior decor, with belongings and utility rooms hidden behind steel doors that are flush with the walls.

Chef, Fina Puigdevall wanted somewhere to retreat to that was literally hidden away from the busy hub of the city centre of Olot.

Hemeroscopium House is on the outskirts of Madrid, surrounded by traditional suburban properties which make its striking concrete girders stand out even more.

Owner and architect, Anton Garcia Abril spent an entire year calculating the positioning of each element, creating an upward spiral of concrete and steel beams that support each other, and are held in place by a 20-ton piece of granite as a counterweight.

The eye is immediately drawn to the structure, but other striking elements are woven in too, like a swimming pool on the ground floor and a courtyard perfect for barbecues.

Solo House 2 is a holiday home built in north-west Spain, an area that has barely

been touched by tourism.

The concept of the circular structure was realised via an arts project, which gave architects a plot of land and free reign over what was built on the site.

Assigned a plot on a hilltop plateau, the architects built a 45m diameter circular design to make the most of the panoramic views.

The walls of glass help the building dissolve into the landscape, and they all slide, to encourage the huge expanse of surrounding nature to become part of the house itself.

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MIMICKING nature’s valuable lessons to protect the garden ecology.

If you look at the way nature grows her gardens, you will see that all good soil zones have a complete coverage of the soil with plants. Any area of good soil that has sunlight and some moisture will have plants growing with a complete ground cover. It is natural that the soil is completely covered with plants, plant debris or stones.

In ornamental and vegetable gardens we often design the garden to have big gaps between the plants we are trying to grow that has just bare soil in between. This is quite contrary to nature’s way.

Bare spaces give a satisfaction of us being in control of the garden to do just what we want but it also means that we have a lot of weeding or cultivating to do to keep the soil bare as nature struggles to protect the soil with new plant cover or weeds, which is what we usually call unwanted plants.

With the long, hot Mediterranean summer, the consequence of the unnaturally bare soil exposed directly to the sun is overheating of

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NATURE’S WAY: Ground cover plants and mulch will protect your soil. the soil that destroys, at the surface, the living organisms that maintain a living soil.

This overheating in summer and extreme cold exposure in winter on bare soil results in depletion of nutrients. Nitrogen evaporates in high temperatures and the lack of microbial activity to decompose any organic material in the soil will mean little nutrient renewal

through natural processes.

The short term result can be improved nutrient release as the orga nic mic roorga nis ms die , but long term the soil will become just a mineral soil with little organic content. The soil will become less fertile and unable to grow most plants that need high organic content. Mediterranean soils are normally low in organic content be-

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This can be overcome with the addition of organic fertiliser, but if you want to reduce your workload in the garden you can adopt ground covers to make gardening easier.

Ground cover can be a mulch of organic materials such as compost, straw, leaves, chipped wood or even inorganic stones laid on the surface of the soil to protect it.

An even better way however is to design the garden to incorporate ground cover plants that will grow and spread out over the soil to protect it and naturally supply additional plant debris to the soil.

A well chosen ground cover will spread out over the soil to insulate, suppress many weeds, preserve moisture and add more life and colour to a garden. In small gardens that will fill up every inch or centimetre of the garden around their taller companions.

A tree can be highlighted by being surrounded by a flowering or lush green ground cover. Shrub bed bushes can be tied in wonderfully with a well selected ground cover planting.

There are so many different plants that can be used as ground cover. Any trailing or spreading plant that does not grow upright but tends to grow horizontally can be used. Creeping or spreading succulents make excellent ground covers where watering is kept to a minimum.

It is best to use ground covers with similar watering and soil needs to their companions in the garden. This is how nature makes her gardens.

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PICTURESQUE: You too can visit and take inspiration from the royal gardens.

Buckingham Palace gardens TODAY, war pensioners and service personnel will have the privileged opportunity to enjoy the gardens at Buckingham Palace as they celebrate their ‘Not Forgotten Association Garden Party.’

This annual event brings together more than 2,000 beneficiaries who will be able to take some inspiration, and perhaps even a naughty cutting, from the flowers and plants that fill the royal gardens.

The royal garden itself is a 40-acre walled oasis and the largest private garden in the city of London. The central feature is a three-acre lake, but attendees will also be able to marvel at the 156-metre long herbaceous border, the wisteria-clad summerhouse, the rose garden, and a 4.5-metre high waterloo vase carved from a single piece of marble weighing an estimated 20 tons.

Although the queen has admitted that she’s not an expert gardener, she has said

that plants, trees and flowers have been a source of pleasure for her throughout her life. Some of her favourite flowers can be found throughout the gardens.

In particular, the queen has revealed that her favourite flower is the primrose, and she is also partially fond of wildflowers.

If you’d like to enjoy the royal gardens then you can do so. Access to the gardens is included in the Buckingham Palace tours.

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Avoiding spores indoors AS the interior of your home begins to warm up, you may think it harmless to simply dry your clothes indoors.

However, leaving them to dry indoors might contribute to breathing problems, particularly in asthma sufferers.

In fact, research has shown that wet clothes draped over drying frames can raise the moisture level inside your home by up to 30 per cent.

And this moisture can encourage the release of mould and fungal spores, which are often invisible to the naked eye.

If you’re not sensitive to mould, your body might not show any reaction. However, you might cough or sneeze if you have asthma, and your symptoms can become worse.

People most likely to react to these pores include those with existing skin problems or with weakened immune systems, such as the elderly. In worse case scenarios, these spores can actually cause lung infections.

The best way to avoid any of these issues is to take your clothes out onto the terrace or garden to dry. If you must dry your clothes indoors but don’t have a balcony, or your balcony is enclosed, then always make sure to leave the windows open.

If you use a tumble dryer, be sure the ventilator tube directs the air outside of your home. Also, get in to the habit of regularly checking your air conditioning filters to make sure they are clean and dry.

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PETS PAGE www.euroweeklynews.com YOUR relationship with your dog is special. You are responsible for its care and welfare.

Eventually there comes a most difficult life or death decision for the welfare of the animal and for you and your family.

The decision is a personal one but it need not be a solitary one. Your vet and your family and friends can assist and support you. Consider not only what is best for your dog, but also what is best for you and your family. Quality of life is important for pets and people alike.

If your dog can no longer enjoy the things which once gave it pleasure, or if there is more pain than quality in its life, if your dog is terminally ill or critically injured, or if the financial or emotional cost of treatment is beyond your means, euthanasia may be the only option. It also might be necessary if a dog has become vicious, dangerous, or unmanageable, but remember some undesirable and abnormal behaviour can be changed with a qualified behaviourist.

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problems together with changes in lifestyle may also force an owner to consider euthanasia of a dog. Obviously it is better to find another solution or an alternative home for these pets.

Your vet understands attachment to pets and can examine and evaluate your dog’s condition, estimate your dog’s chances for recovery, discuss potential disabilities and longterm problems, explain the medical options and possible outcomes. But he cannot make the euthanasia decision for you.

It is very important that you fully understand your dog’s condition. If there is any part of the diagnosis or the implications for your dog’s future that you don’t understand, ask to have it explained again. Rarely will the situation require an immediate decision. Usually, there will be time to review the facts.

Eventually you may wish to discuss the disposal of your dog’s body with your family

Saying goodbye and vet. You have several options and your vet can provide information about burial, cremation or other alternatives.

Discuss with the family what the vet has said. Long-term medical care could be a burden, either emotionally or financially. Encourage family members to express their thoughts and feelings. Even if you have reached a decision, family members, especially children, should have their feelings considered.

Children have special relationships with their pets. Excluding or protecting children from this decision-making process, because they are thought to be too young to understand, may only complicate their grieving. Children respect straightforward, truthful, and simple answers. If they are prepared adequately, they are usually able to accept a dog’s death.

Euthanasia is almost always

accomplished by injection of a death-inducing drug. Your vet may administer a tranquilliser first to relax your dog. Following the death-inducing injection, your dog will immediately go into a quiet and irreversible deep unconsciousness. Death will come quickly and painlessly. The act of saying goodbye is an important step in managing the natural and healthy feelings of grief, sorrow, and sense of loss. Your dog is an important part of your life and it is natural to feel you are losing a friend.

Once the decision for euthanasia has been made, you and other family members may want to say goodbye to your dog. A last evening with your dog at home or a visit to the dog at the hospital may be appropriate. Family members who want to be alone with the animal should be allowed to do so. Farewells are always difficult.

After your dog has died, it is

natural and normal to feel grief and sorrow. The grieving process includes accepting the reality of your loss, accepting

that the loss and accompanying feelings are painful, and adjusting to your new life that no longer includes your dog.

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MOTORING FACT A 1965 JAGUAR E-type raced by Sir Stirling Moss is shortly to be auctioned, and is expected to sell for between €125,000 and €150,000.

Although Moss started his career as a Jaguar works driv e r, w i t h s u c c e s s e s i n XK120s and C-types, he never competed in an E-type during its heyday.

The car being auctioned started life as a standard E-type Roadster and was converted to a road-legal racer by marque specialist Jeremy Broad in the 1980’s.

It was loaned to Sir Stirling Moss in 1991 to compete in the Manx Mountain Challenge, in the process becoming the first E-type that Moss drove competitively.

Auction House H&H Classics, which is selling the

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STIRLING WORK: Sir Stirling Moss drove the car in the Manx Mountain Challenge.

A FORMER highways agency chief who served under Barack Obama has said it is inevitable that driverless cars will kill people as they appear on the road.

Dr Mark Rosekind, the former US highway traffic safety administrator warned that ‘there will be some lives lost’ as tech companies and car manufacturers experiment with autonomous vehicles.

However, he insisted that their introduction will eventually lead to much safer streets in the future.

Discussing the future of transport on BBC Radio 4, he said: “Unfortunately there will be crashes. People are going to get hurt and there will be some lives lost.”

Despite this, he added that businesses and regulators, “should really be focused on the potential for zero deaths on our roadways.”

The technology industry is locked in a debate surrounding the ethics of releasing autonomous systems ‘into the wild’ after investments from Google, Uber, Tesla and car-

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PROGRESS: The debate about driverless cars will roll on.

makers signicantly accelerated its development.

Dr Rosekind now serves as head of safety innovation at driverless car start-up Zoox, and his comments mark a rare admission from an official acknowledging the price to pay for safer roads in future.

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car at RAC Woodcote Park near Epsom, Surrey, says the car features many original components, including an aluminium bonnet fabricated

by Abbey Panels.

It also has a 4.2 litre version of the classic Jaguar XK straight-six engine, which powered the Coventry cars from 1949 to 1992, driving through a five-speed Getrag gearbox.

The car was later raced by Le Mans and touring car legend Win Percy, who qualified third in the special 40th anniversary race for Etypes at Donington Park in 2001.

Among the 54 other lots in the H&H sale is a modern recreation of the famed 1973 BMW CSL touring car racer, nicknamed the Batmobile due to its outrageous wings and bulbous bodywork.

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Mazda MX-5 RF the 0-100 kph time a crisp 7.4 seconds. Fuel consumption is 14.4 kpl (40.9 mpg) and emissions 161 g/km.

SE L Nav models come with climate and cruise control, power windows, remote central locking, alloys wheels, LED headlamps, an 18cm (seven-inch) screen and connected infotainment system and sat-nav.

The wrap-around cabin is a

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THE Mazda MX-5 RF is a head-turning version of its soft-top stable-mate, offering a powered hardtop instead of the usual fabric roof and providing better security and more refinement.

The RF certainly attracts attention with its supercar-style buttress rear fins and most people who asked me about it thought it cost far more than it actually does!

Mazda designers deserve much praise for such arresting styling - and ununusally, the folding roof doesn’t reduce the available boot space which at 130 litres was small anyway.

Other than the hardtop feature, the RF is essentially the same as the standard MX-5, which in almost 30 years of production has become the two-seater sports car icon.

The RF is priced from €25,643 (£22,496) in 131 hp 1.5 litre form though the version I tested had the 2.0 litre 158 hp engine and in entrylevel SEL Nav trim is priced at €27,126 (£23,795). Top speed is 215 kph (134 mph),

Model: Mazda MX-5 RF Engine: 2.0 litre petrol Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 7.4 seconds, top speed 215 kph (134 mph) Economy: 14.4 kpl (40.9 mpg) Emissions: 161 g/km

Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

cosy fit, with minimal stowage space - no door pockets, no glove-box, just a small lockable compartment behind the seats. But none of this matters much as the car attracts carefree buyers who will fling a small hold-all into the boot and zoom off for a fun weekend in the countryside or on the coast.

Mazda has upgraded the cabin materials and together

HEAD-TURNING: The new Mazda offers a powered hardtop to provide security and refinement. with the new styling, the RF has more kudos and a more up-market appearance.

Underway, it is quick and nimble and with the roof closed, more quiet and refined. Handling is assured, ride quality decent by sports car standards. Overall the RF provides fun driving with an engaging panache which some of its more expensive rivals may find hard to match.

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Hyundai says buy buy buy DRIVERS could soon be able to buy a coffee or order their dinner while on the road.

Korean manufacturer Hyundai, is working on new connected car technology that will allow motorists to pay for a range of services straight from their vehicle.

Developed in partnership with software company Xevo, the technology is being designed to simplify daily purchases for drivers to make.

Current connected software in some luxury motors already allows the driver to track down contact details of restaurants or hotels, but H y u n d a i ’s n e w d e v e l o p ments promise to add some-

thing extra.

The technology will all e g e d l y s t o r e t h e d r i v e r ’s card details within the onb o a r d c o m p u t e r, a l l o w i n g purchases to be made online.

However, it is still in its early stages and the software will need to take into account security risks and driving laws.

The system would need to be voice activated to avoid potential distracted driving charges if users were to operate it on the road.

It will also need to develop data protection methods t o k e e p t h e o w n e r ’s p a y ment details secure.

Hyundai’s north American arm is currently in

charge of the project, but it could well be replicated in the UK, if successful.

Manish Mehrotra, Director of Connected Operations at Hyundai Motor America, said: “Once our owners experience placing a to-go order using their vehicle’s touchscreen and seamlessly routing to the location, we know they’re going to love it.

“Offering easy-to-use payment options as part of navigation will simplify the driving experience and maximise time spent with eyes on the road.”

KOREAN CLASS: Hyundai combines substance will style.

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Hamilton could quit F1 in 2020 LEWIS HAMILTON could sensationally quit Formula 1 in 2020, according to commentator and former F1 driver, David Coulthard.

Hamilton’s current contract expires at the end of the year but soon he is expected to pen a lucrative two-year extension.

That would take him to the end of the 2020 season, which will align with when Liberty Media are planning to make vast changes to the sport in a bid to make it more competitive.

Coulthard thinks Hamilton, who would be 35 years old then, could call time on his racing career to focus on releasing his first music album.

“I think it’s got to be on his mind,” Coulthard said on BBC Radio 2’s Graham Norton Show on Saturday.

“I think he’ll go to 2020

which is the end of the current Concorde agreement, but beyond that there is every likelihood he will be releasing his first album.”

Hamilton is currently leading the Driver’s Championship this season as he searches for his fifth world title.

Asked who he felt may be in line to take Hamilton’s place at Mercedes, Coulthard suggested reigning GP3 champion George Russell.

“He’s with Mercedes as a reserve driver, so he wouldn’t be known internationally,” Coulthard said.

“But he’s certainly someone that has got skills, talent and potential.”

MUSICAL MOTORIST: Hamilton is said to be working on an album.

Lorenzo rides high in Italy SPAIN’S Jorge Lorenzo claimed his first win for Ducati at the Italian Grand Prix as championship leader Marc Marquez crashed out at the Mugello circuit.

Three-time champion Lorenzo has struggled since leaving Yamaha in 2016 but beat teammate Andrea Dovoziozo into second.

Seven-time world champion Valentino Rossi became the first rider to reach 5,000 points in MotoGP with third.

“I said that winning at Mugello with Ducati was a dream for me,” said Lorenzo, who has retired from two races this season.

“It’s one of the most special wins of my entire career.”

Moments later though, he signalled what many had suspected: that he would be leaving the Ducati team at the end of the season.

Marc Marquez crashed before finishing 16th in Tuscany, though he remains comfortably clear of the standings

after five races.

The Spaniard had been bidding for his fourth straight win this season but fell off his Honda on the fifth lap.

Rossi moves up into second in the standings, 23 points behind Marquez, with Yamaha team-mate Maverick Vinales in third.

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FORMER world heavyweight boxing champion Tyson Fury will return to the ring for the first time in nearly 1,000 days when he faces Albania’s Sefer Seferi

in Manchester on Saturday.

The 29-year-old has not fought since reaching his ‘Everest’ by claiming the IBF, WBA, and WBO titles from Wladimir Klitschko in November 2015.

Since that triumph Fury has admitted to taking drugs, binge drinking and going to sleep hoping he wouldn’t wake up.

He relinquished his titles and tested positive for a banned steroid, something

he blamed on eating uncastrated wild boar.

“I am living proof that anyone can come back from the brink,” said Fury.

“There are a lot of people o u t t h e r e s u ff e r i n g w i t h mental health problems who think all their days w i l l b e g r e y, b u t l i f e c a n improve and you will start to enjoy the little things again.”

Fury explained that while the first part of his career

was about becoming heavyweight champion of the world, his comeback is about ‘inspiring others who are suffering’ with mental health issues.

He compared boxing with marriage, in that you fall in and out of love and have to work at it.

“But I have spiced it back up again, bought her some sexy lingerie and we are back at it, better than ever.”

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