Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 13 - 19 September 2018 Issue 1732

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13 - 19 September 2018

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Brit stabbing

by Joe Gerrard TWO British men were taken to hospital in Torrevieja with serious injuries after being stabbed in a fight in an urbanisation in the town.

One suspect, a Romanian national, has been arrested in connection with the attack. Police said another suspect, also a Romanian man, remained at large this week.

Police alleged the stabbing took place on the San Luis-El Chaparral urbanisation early on Thursday morning.

An argument is said to have broken out between a group of British men and Romanians near a bar on Calle Rodrigo at around 1am. The reasons for the dispute remain unknown.

Blows were allegedly exchanged between the two groups before they parted ways.

Police claim the suspects then returned with knives and

ASSAULT PROBE: The attack happened in Torrevieja. slashed two of the men.

Guardia Civil and Local Police officers were despatched to the scene along with medical personnel. They arrived to find one of the British men aged in his 60’s with knife wounds in his back and chest.

Another man in his 30’s had a wound in his left armpit, with the blade believed to have

LOCAL POLICE stopped a 60-year-old man from jumping off a bridge in what are believed to have been two suicide attempts in one day in Murcia City last Monday.

Officers said the man had since been admitted to the psychiatric unit of Reina Sofia hospital following the attempts to take his own life.

Police came across the man during his

passed close to his heart.

Both men were said to have lost a lot of blood. Pictures of the crime scene showed the roadside including a bench, pavement and the road itself covered in blood.

Paramedics were able to treat some of the wounds at the scene before then taking the two men to Torrevieja Hospital.

‘Suicide’ attempt first attempt on the Hierro bridge at around 7.20am. Officers said he leapt in-

Doctors said both men required emergency surgery when they arrived. Their conditions stabilised hours after their operations and the men remained in hospital this week for monitoring, with their lives not said to be in danger.

The Guardia Civil has taken over the investigation into the incident which remains ongoing.

to the water but firefighters and police were able to pull him out alive.

He was taken to Reina Sofia Hospital and discharged about an hour after arriving and returned to the same bridge. Two passers-by had to restrain him from jumping while Local Police were called.

The man was said to be in a fragile mental state and is now set to be evaluated by a psychiatrist.

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NEWS EXTRA Brit human traffic claim SPANISH prosecutors have warned there are a growing number of groups based in northern Spanish cities such as Bilbao and Santander using ports there to smuggle people to Britain, according to a recent report.

Court help THE Council of Europe human rights watchdog has given its backing to Spain’s government over its handling of the Catalan independence situation following former Generalitat head Carles Puigdemont’s filing of a lawsuit against a Supreme Court judge on discrimination grounds.

Tax hike call PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez has said he would be in favour of tax increases to earn the state an extra roughly €80 billion to help balance Spanish books and maintain funding for public services.

Ruling due NATIONAL COURT judges are set to rule within the next two weeks on whether to allow Herve Falciani’s extradition to Switzerland in connection with industrial espionage charges over his leak of documents that alleged widespread global tax evasion.

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Poisoned spy Spain link Reports claim Skripal worked with intelligence agency

By Joe Gerrard A FORMER Russian who fell victim to an alleged nerve agent attack in Britain had previously worked with Spanish intelligence services tackling organised crime, according to media claims.

Sergei Skripal cooperated with the National Intelligence Centre (CNI) in work against Russian-run gangs in Spain.

He was previously assigned to covert work in Russia’s embassy in Madrid by the Kremlin, according to a highranking Spanish intelligence source and others quoted in the New York Times.

The revelations come as Skripal fell victim to an alleged Russian-sponsored chemical weapons attack in Salisbury in March.

The British government blamed Moscow for the strike and the Kremlin has repeatedly denied involvement.

The New York Times piece cited intelligence sources, an unnamed retired Spanish police chief and the investigative journalist Fernando Rueda.

The sources said Russia’s Military Intelligence Service (GRU) posted Skripal in Madrid in the mid-1990’s.

He worked officially as a military attaché at the Russian embassy but carried out

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COLLABORATION CLAIMS: The victim of the Salisbury attack may have worked for the CNI (inset). covert work whilst stationed there.

Skripal was recruited by British intelligence services in 2004 which led to his arrest.

He was released in 2010 as part of a spy swap arrangement with the United States and then settled in Britain.

Skripal later travelled back to Spain to work with CNI officers on gang crime. Details on what he and officers discussed in their meetings remains classified.

A retired Spanish police of-

ficer said intelligence services recruited Skripal due to his knowledge on Russian gangs.

“We ignored the Russian phenomenon and its organised crime before. We did not know how they operated.

Skripal offered a more precise idea of reality,” the source said.

Spanish intelligence services also recruited Alexander Litvinenko, another former spy who was poisoned with radioactive polonium in Britain in 2010.

Prosecutors and police have both acknowledged that they worked with Litvinenko on organised crime.

A lawyer acting for the former spy’s family said he was planning on travelling to Spain to expose links between the Kremlin and leading Russian gangsters before his death.

This has not been confirmed.

Skripal was found unconscious along with his daughter Yulia in Salisbury in March this year. They were taking into intensive care and it was later revealed they had been exposed to the Soviet-era Novichok nerve agent.

The incident has seen tensions between Russia and Britain and its allies escalate to levels not seen since the height of the Cold War. Several diplomats have been expelled by both countries and Britain issued a joint statement along with several other countries condemning the alleged involvement of the Kremlin in the attack.

Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, both Russian citizens, were charged by British prosecutors in absentia in connection with the poisoning.

Russia has repeatedly denied any involvement. Investigations into the strike continue.

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Levies and fee freeze MURCIA’S regional authority has said it will keep taxes and fees at their current level for the sixth year in a row in 2019. The announcement comes as regional authorities collected a total of €277 million in revenue this year which is forecast to be higher than the same figure next year.

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Name changes ALICANTE’S city council has said it will begin changing 30 street names to make them comply with historical memory laws. The changes are set to be completed in October and are legally required for streets named in connection with the dictatorship of Francisco Franco and his side in the Spanish Civil War.

Car crash A MAN was taken to a hospital in Elda with slight injuries after losing control of his vehicle and crashing it on the A-31 motorway. The accident, which took place near junction 207 of the road at around 6pm last Sunday, resulted in the car leaving the road and hitting a fence.

Suicide stats MEDICAL personnel in the Valencia region have recorded an average of 350 cases of suicidal thoughts per month, triple the amount detected last year according to local health authorities. Medical officials said the introduction of a Suicide Prevention Plan introduced in the region last year meant cases could be detected more easily.

Rail rallies PROTESTS demanding the extending of Murcia City’s underground rail network to the Santiago e l Ma y o r d i st r ict h av e happen e d a l m o st d a i l y fo r a year as o f l a st Tu e sd a y. T h e demonstrations began in 2017 and have continued in amidst authorities committing to building the l i n e a n d i n a c tio n o n their part according to protestors.

Assault probe GUARDIA CIVIL officers have placed three youth suspects under investigation in connection with claims that a 16-year-old girl was drugged and sexually assaulted at a Cehegin fair. The girl said she began to feel drowsy before noticing she was being touched inappropriately, according to claims made by her mother.

ON HIGH: The statue is taken on a holy procession through the streets.

Sex abuse trial PROSECUTORS with Alicante Province have requested that a caretaker accused of sexually assaulting a youth in an urbanisation where he worked be jailed for more than three years if convicted.

Prosecutors told Alicante’s Provincial Court that the defendant, whose trial opened last Tuesd ay, w a s o n d u ty w he n the 14year-old asked her to help him kill a spider. She was alone and afraid to go into her home, they claimed.

The defendant followed her into the home and killed the spider. He then began touching her in a sexual manner.

The man has been charged with the sexual assault of a person under the age of consent.

Prosecutors have requested the courts hand down a sentence of thre e ye a rs a nd s ix months in prison if he is convicted at the end of the hearings. The trial continues.

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THE BIG PICTURE Nº 31 E V E RY y e a r o n t h e t h i r d Sunday in September, the village of Alfarnate displays its devotion to its pat r o n s a i n t , t h e Vi rg i n o f Monsalud.

It is also a unique celebration of the shared history of Christians and Moors living in the area.

The tradition was lost for decades after the Spanish C i v i l Wa r b u t c a m e b a c k strong in the 1990’s.

It marks a show of devotion to the Virgin from the community, for her protection and guidance over the years.

There is a Eucharist in the church square, followed by a procession of the Virgin of Monsalud’s statue.

Battles between Moors and Christians are also reenacted in the village, and writings from knights of the 18th century are read out.

The temple in which the statue of the patron saint is housed dates back to the 16th century and takes pride of place in the village.

Local people from all over the region flock to the festival to pay their respects and streets are lavishly decorated with flowers, plants and almond trees.

Tr a d i t i o n a l s u i t s o f a r mour worn by the Knights are on display, while those representing the Moors wear turbans and robes.

The photograph from the Alfarnate Town Hall Facebook page shows the village’s beloved patron saint in all her glory.

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Poverty figures A TOTAL of 6.2 per cent of households in the Murcia region were classed as being ‘severely deprived’ in 2017, according to figures from the Funcas social studies foundation.

The region was among those with the highest levels of poverty out of Spain’s autonomous communities.

About 5.1 per cent of households nationally were classed as being below the poverty line, down from 7.1 per cent in 2014.

The Murcia region came behind

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the Canary Islands with a 13.6 per cent poverty rate, Melilla with 9.4 per cent, Valencia with 7.4 per cent and the Balearic Islands with 6.9 per cent.

Households are considered ‘severely deprived’ if they lack access to basic goods and services and if their earnings cannot cover essential needs.

The deprivation rate for those under 18 stood at 6.5 per cent. The figure for the 65’s and older was 2.4 per cent.

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1731 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca South edition, including 128 local stories.

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POLL OF THE WEEK Should Catalan be given its independence?

LAST WEEK’S POLL:

Are Spanish school holidays too long?

Yes 69%

No 31%

EWN online this week LIFT OFF: The ESA’s Galileo is currently made up of 26 satellites.

Taking flight THE European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded a €250 million contract to a Spanish company to run part of the body’s satellite navigation system.

GMV, based in Tres Cantos in the Madrid region, is set to maintain and develop the ground operations for the Galileo programme. It is the largest contract in history in money terms awarded to the Spanish space industry.

Jesus Serrano, the general director of GMV, said the company would now be responsible for the infrastructure which monitored and controlled all satellites in the GMV constellation.

GMV saw off competition from three other companies to secure the contract which was signed after almost two years of negotiations. The firm is set to join a multinational consortium of companies that will manage the system.

Galileo was established by the European Union (EU)-backed ESA in 2000 to rival the United States government-run Global Positioning System (GPS). The EU has invested some €10 billion in the programme since it began.

Data collected by Galileo satellites is used in

mobile phones, cars, sea and other forms of land transport for navigational purposes. It is also used by fire, police and search and rescue services.

Javier Benedicto, head of the Galileo programme, said the system had a margin of error of less than one metre. He added it was the only one which operated on three frequencies.

Benedicto said the ESA planned to boost the number of satellites in orbit under the programme from the current 26 to 40. The increase would allow Galileo to be put to additional uses, he added.

Augusto Gonzalez, a navigation advisor to the European Commission (EC), said: “The observations we are making tell us that Galileo is in line to become the leading satellite navigation system.”

GMV representatives signed the ESA contract at a ceremony attended by Spain’s Science Minister Pedro Duque last week.

Duque said it was a sign Spanish industry knew investing in science and technology would prove profitable in the long term.

“This contract is a great example of the good work done over the years,” Duque said.

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Arms sale back on Weapons will be sent to Saudis to save ship deal SPAIN has allowed the previously cancelled delivery of hundreds of bombs to Saudi Arabia to go ahead to save a ship building contract, government officials said.

Madrid was concerned that a deal worth more than €1.8 billion between Riyadh and the ship building firm Navatia was jeopardised after the sale was cancelled. Thousands of jobs are riding on the contract to build five corvettes for the Royal Saudi Navy.

“The deal is back on course. There will be no Saudi reprisals,” government sources said.

The same sources added the incident could ‘take its toll’ on relations between Madrid and Riyadh.

The u-turn follows meetings last week between Spanish defence officials and Prince Man-

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RETHINK: Riyadh has ordered five ships from Navatia. sour Khalid Al Farhan Al Saud, the Saudi ambassador in Madrid.

Margarita Robles, Spain’s Defence Minister, went before Parliament this week to explain the situation which she said had been blown out of proportion.

It comes as several NGOs called on the government to

stand by the scrapping of the sale of 400 laser guided missiles to Riyadh. The groups are concerned the weapons could be used in the ongoing Yemen Civil War. Isabel Celaa, a government spokesperson, said the some 6,000 workers employed directly or indirectly in connection with the programme could rest

assured that officials had found a solution.

“The government wishes to maintain our excellent relations with Saudi Arabia,” Celaa said.

The cancellation was a ‘declaration of intentions’ that had not been finalised and would now be examined, the spokesperson added.

Xiana Mendez, Spain’s

Commerce Secretary, said the government would not jeopardise the Navatia contract.

Jobs at Navatia’s shipyards were a ‘priority,’ Mendez added.

The earlier cancellation followed similar decisions from the governments of Canada and Germany over concerns the weapons were being used in the Yemen Civil War which has claimed civilian lives.

Riyadh had already sent the €9.2 million for the bombs and a transport company was awaiting the go ahead to ship them to Saudi Arabia before Robles cancelled the deal.

Jesus Peralta, chairman of the works council at Navatia’s shipyard in San Fernando in Cadiz Province, previously said he and his colleagues would fight to save the contract.

“If we do not make the corvettes, another one will do it. We have been making war-

ships for 300 years,” the trade union official said.

NGOs including Oxfam, Amnesty International and Greenpeace have called on the government to stand by its decision to cancel the deal.

“Spain cannot continue supplying arms to the Saudi coalition because it runs the risk of being an accomplice in crimes under international law,” the groups said.

Spain sold a total of €932 million in arms to Saudi Arabia from 2015 to 2017, according to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). Around 6.2 per cent of all Saudi arms imports come from Spain.

The Yemen Civil War has claimed the lives of between 10,000 and 50,000 people, including 6,592 civilians. Thousands more have died due to disease and famine in the country.

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Prey for her PREDATOR actress Olivia Munn looked sensational as she promoted the latest film in the iconic franchise in Madrid.

Munn, 38, flaunted her toned abs in a lilac bralet which she paired with a quirky floral two-piece suit.

The beauty stars as one of the leads, a disgruntled science teacher and biologist Casey Bracket under the helm of director Shane Black.

FLOWER POWER: Olivia Munn.

Pool party

TOWIE’s Pete Wicks was spotted enjoying his trip to Ibiza last week, relaxing by a pool with a host of bikini-clad beauties.

The star has been loved up with girlfriend Shelby Tribble since they began dating in February this year, but is on the island for a promotional shoot with false eyelash company Doll Beauty.

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Having a ball ZINEDINE ZIDANE put any thought of future football jobs out of his mind as he enjoyed a well-earned break with wife Veronique on-board a luxury yacht in Formentura, Spain.

The decorated ex-footballer and manager soaked up the sunshine with his stunning wife Veronique, who showcased her lithe physique in a scanty black bikini while topping up her tan.

SAIL BLAZER: Zinedine Zidane.

Kaz dazzles Making a splash in Mallorca LOVE ISLAND’S Kaz Crossley got into the party spirit in Mallorca with fans at BH Mallorca on Wednesday.

The make-up artist, 23, was pictured pouring shots down their throats as she joined fellow reality stars Chloe Crowhurst and Survival of the Fittest’s Georgie Clarke at the raucous hotel venue.

The beauty sizzled in a sexy mesh co-ord, which comprised sheer trousers that featured risqué cut-out detailing at the hips.

Making the most of the raunchy style, Kaz showed off her perky posterior in the sheer garment as she worked her angles and posed up a storm for the cameras.

The design also boasted a tiny crop top that flashed Kaz’s black swimwear as she spent the day drinking with friends and posing for selfies with fans in the sun-soaked location.

Kaz has been inundated with work opportunities after rising to fame on this summer’s series of Love Island.

NICO ROSBERG and his stunning wife Vivian took a break from parenting their two daughters as they enjoyed a loved-up yacht trip around Formentura, Spain.

The Formula One champion, 33, looked completely smitten as he smooched and cuddled his bikini-clad childhood sweetheart.

Vivian, who gave birth to Naila in September last year, showed off her incredible post-pregnancy body in a pink floral bikini with a ruffled Bardot neckline.

Letting her statement swimwear do all the talking and wearing her ultralong blonde tresses in tousled waves, she appeared to go make-up free for the relaxed beachside outing.

Nico meanwhile, showed off his muscled physique in a simple pair of blue swimming shorts as the couple

SAILING SWEETHEARTS: Nico and Vivian Rosberg. frolicked around on the yacht.

Nico announced his retirement from his sport in December 2016 saying that he wanted to spend more time with his wife and children.

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OUR VIEW Summer’s over THE rain this weekend seems to have confirmed that summer is now over especially as the first wave of Spanish children went back to school last Monday and the rest return next week.

There were areas where the rains were so heavy that cars were washed away and considerable damage was caused, but in other areas it wasn’t too bad and will help to fill aquifers as it stopped and started, allowing for much of the water to refresh the ground.

In the Costa del Sol there will be less congestion as the holidaymakers from Madrid and Sevilla return home and those from North Africa have driven back to their places of work mainly in Spain, France and Italy.

Another sign of the end of summer is the fact that those toll roads which hike their prices up to take advantage of holidaymakers will be reducing them and then counting the days to Christmas and Easter so that they can mark them up by 50 per cent or more again.

Councils who have been staging free concerts and other entertaining diversions will be getting back to balancing their finances and preparing for the inevitable Fairs and Festivals yet to come.

Some restaurants and bars will now close until Christmas if they have had a good summer and others who haven’t may not be able to keep going.

Things will quieten down a bit, parking in many places will become easier and charities which help the elderly in particular will get back to hosting regular meetings, so let’s all look forward to a great autumn.

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Research funds ALMOST 100 research bodies in Murcia are set to get a share of €1.3 million in funding from regional authorities this year for their work as part of a €3.5 million investment programme to support science and technical studies.

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NEWS EXTRA Cycling parking A TOTAL of eight new enclosed parking spaces for bicycles have been set up in Murcia City, with users able to access them with a magnetic key any time during the day or night.

Government restores migrant healthcare

By Joe Gerrard

School start STUDENTS numbering 7,161 have started back at school this week across nursery, early childhood, primary and secondary levels in Elda as the town’s council recently presented plans for works to education centres as part of a Valencia Region initiative.

Extra tram MURCIA’S city council put on an extra tram service last Monday so that residents and visitors to the area could travel to the Nueva Condomina shopping centre during the night for a concert.

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SPAIN’S Parliament has approved a government decree which is designed to give immigrants, including those without papers, the right to use the Spanish healthcare system without charge.

The reforms come as part of wider efforts from the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) government to restore universal healthcare in Spain.

The latest move means immigrants without documentation will be able to use clinics and hospitals for the first time in six years.

The measures state that migrants who have lived in the country for less than 90 days will have to provide a reference

REFORMS: Migrants can now access Spain’s health system without charge. from regional social services.

Irregular immigrants will also be required to pay 40 per cent of the costs of prescriptions.

Carmen Monton, Spain’s Health Minister, said: “These measures are thanks to all those professionals and social organisations who fought against health exclusive for six years.”

The minister added the government would work to harmonise the system across Spain after regional governments introduced their own measures following the abolition of free healthcare for migrants in 2012.

Pablo Casado, leader of the conservative Partido Popular

which voted against the reforms, said the Spanish healthcare system would not be able to cope with the additional immigrant patients.

Jose Felix Hoyo, head of the Doctors of the World group, said more details were needed as to when and how irregular immigrants will be able to access the system.

Pablo Iglesias, a campaigner against restricting health care, said he was concerned about the documentation immigrants would have to provide such as proof they were not already covered overseas.

The previous PP government revoked the right of immigrants to access health care in 2012.

Mariano Rajoy, the then Prime Minister, claimed

Spain’s health system was becoming unsustainable due to inefficiency and poor management.

The Network of Complaint and Resistance to Royal Decree 16/2012 (REDER) was formed after Rajoy’s abolition of healthcare for immigrants.

They claim more than 4,755 people were excluded from Spain’s health system since 2014 as a result of the former PP government’s measures.

A total of 322 of these were children and 194 were pregnant women, according to their statistics.

A study from the Pompeu Fabra University found there had been an increase in the immigrant death rate of 15 per cent since the PP abolished their coverage.

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Franco supporters in Madrid protest AROUND 100 people have gathered in Madrid to protest against preparations by the Spanish government to exhume the body of former dictator General Francisco Franco.

EIB stakes its future THE European Investment Bank (EIB) is considering allowing countries to increase their capital stake in it after Britain’s withdrawal from the EU and the bank next year.

Brexit will mean that the EIB will lose €3.5 billion of British paid-in capital, but the EU has said that the shortfall will be replenished by other shareholders on a proportional basis.

The EIB relies on its Triple A credit rating to borrow on the market and then lend on for investment projects, and is the world’s largest multilateral borrower and lender.

It works closely with EU institutions to implement EU policy, but replacing UK money after Brexit will be important for the EIB to keep its top credit rating.

Poland is known to want to increase its stake in the EIB, and its economy has grown significantly since it entered the European Union in 2004, from a GDP of €187 billion then to around €530 billion now.

It is therefore bigger than Sweden, Denmark, Belgium and Austria, all of which have bigger stakes in the EIB. Poland has revealed it is ready to invest up to €10 billion into the EIB in return for a permanent vice president at the bank.

The biggest shareholders in the EIB, apart from Britain, are Germany France, Spain and Italy, and Spain would like to raise its holding.

His remains lie in a controversial mausoleum in the Valley of th e F alle n , in th e G ua da rra ma mountains 30 miles northwest of Madrid.

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the flag of Spain that existed under Franco’s 40-year authoritarian reign, following his military coup w hic h s ta rte d the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War. O the rs he ld s igns re a ding

‘le a ve Fr anco i n peace’ and ‘Hands off the Valley and Franco.’

Franco ordered the construction of the monument before his death in 1975 , and i t has becom e a

shrine for Spain’s far right.

Spain’s Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has pledged to exhume Franco’s remains by the end of the year, and has called the tomb ‘a divisive symbol.’

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Minister masters storm

By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S Health Minister has denied there was any foul play in the obtaining of her master’s degree.

Carmen Monton, of the governing leftleaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) said she had not committed any ‘irregularities’ in connection with her Gender Studies masters.

She was awarded the degree from King Juan Carlos University (URJC) in 2012.

“I got that master’s degree and I have materials to prove my honesty,” Monton said in a press conference on Monday.

The allegations centre around claims Monton enrolled after the deadline, did not study half the course’s modules and that her degree is dated 2012 while the course finished in 2011.

“I followed at all times the instructions given from the university,” the Minister said.

Monton claimed the dating was a clerical error and the URJC has since issued a new updated document but has kept an investigation into the matter open.

“Students are always required to check dates in the registration book when collecting titles,” a

spokesperson for the university said.

The claims surrounding Monton’s degree follow similar ones made against Pablo Casado, leader of the conservative Partido Popular (PP).

Casado obtained his degree from the URJC’s Law institute in Madrid in 2009. He admitted to not attending classes or sitting exams, but claimed it was because the Institute had waived 18 out of 22 modules due to him having a similar qualification.

Casado has since said he and his party would presume the Minister was innocent until proven guilty.

“I will not do to them what they did to me, I trust the explanations they give,” he said.

DEGREE CLAIMS: Monton denies any wrongdoing.

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ORIHUELA Council is asking people not to feed feral cats as they say it is affecting their programme of sterilisations.

They say the cats are capable of feeding themselves and in any case registered volunteers are feeding the animals with dried food. People giving the cats leftovers could be a health hazard and attract cockroaches and rats.

According to some people the town’s colonies of cats - up

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Don’t feed the cats to 30 or more strong - are becoming a bit of a tourist attraction with people gathering to see them fed.

But for others they are a pest who defecate in gardens and are ‘taking over the town.’

Orihuela Council adheres to the CES programme (Cap-

TAKEOVER: More and more kittens are being born.

ture, Sterilisation and Release), but the results are not as good as hoped as many cats are still not sterilised and litters are still being born.

The Federation of Associations of Orihuela Costa (FAOC) doubts says that a lack of funding is preventing the

programme working properly.

It has sent several letters to the council asking for a solution to what they consider could create a serious health problem because those who feed the cats

do not usually collect the remains of food they leave.

Feeding cats is not forbidden, but leaving the remains of food and containers on the public street can lead to a fine.

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The Councillor for Health, Noelia Grao said: “We have a problem with those who feed the cats because we can only catch them with cages and those which are being fed do not enter them.”

The matter will be discussed at the next meeting of the Animal Welfare Council on Monday.

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NEWS EXTRA Special needs centre works ORIHUELA’S mayor Emilio Bascuñana has visited a centre for children with special needs in the town that recently underwent works which saw it painted and redecorated as well as new toys and materials brought in.

Park revamp WORKERS have began remodelling Alicante City’s Panteon de Quijano as part of works set to run for three months and undertaken by the company Ingenieria y Estudios del Mediterraneo.

Brushing up ROSA MARIA SANCHEZ, a student at the University of Cartagena’s Industrial Chemical Engineering department, has made an electrical chemical brush designed to clean and restore archaeological pieces including objects made of silver, copper and lead.

‘Frightening’ tornados strike the Costa Blanca PEOPLE from across the Vega Baja area and the southern Costa Blanca witnessed spectacular weather phenomena as a tornado made its way across Guardamar del Segura and La Mata during Friday morning.

The severe weather comes less than 24 hours after a yellow warning was issued across the Alicante Province, although within hours clear blue skies and warm sunshine dominated the affected areas.

One reader contacted the EWN to say that he had just returned from shopping in Urbanisation La Marina and became trapped in his car. “It

UNUSUAL: The two tornados arrive in Guardamar del Segura.

Musician dies on stage

A ROCK guitarist has died of a heart attack during a concert performance at a festival in Cartagena.

Abel Andujar Roch, 44, from Cartagena, was performing with the El Callejon del Micro band in the Arizona Route 66 Bar as part of the Apa Rock Festival. The

show began at 11pm last Friday.

Emergency services said he began to experience seizures before passing out following the heart attack.

Medical personnel took Roch to a lo-

must’ve been at least half-anhour before we even considered getting out and trying to get inside the house, such was the strength of the rain and hail falling. We then spotted the tornados in the distance that were coming toward us... it was quite frightening.”

The northern Costa Blanca municipalities of Oliva and Denia experienced several waterspouts out to sea on Thursday afternoon, and the unusual weather conditions have been the result of two storms building up in the Vega Baja and in La Safor. cal health centre where he was pronounced dead at

12.40am on Saturday.

The bar remained closed and shows were cancelled the following day in mourning. His funeral was held in Cartagena last week.

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New senator FRANCISCO MARTÍN BERNABÉ PÉREZ has taken his seat as the right wi ng Par t i do Popul ar (PP) senator for Murcia.

He was one of t hr ee new senators who ratif i ed t hei r com pl i ance with the Constitution before the President of the Senate, Pío García-Escudero.

He was j oi ned by Miguel Angel Nacarino Muriel, senator for the PSOE i n Cacer es who has t aken t he seat l ef t vacant by the new president of CETARSA (Spanish Tobacco Company in Rama), Juan Andres Tovar.

The new socialist senat or appoi nt ed by t he Parliament of Asturias, Mar í a Fer nández Ál varez, has also promised to abide by Constitution A.

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Reviewing your pension options in the face of Brexit

guaranteed income for life.

are able to receive their UK pensions today without any problems.

In any case, funds transferred to a QROPS will not be affected (more on this later).

Also note that UK pension payments are usually only paid in Sterling. If you are living in Spain and your spending is mostly in Euros, you could find that conversion fees and the variable exchange rate reduces the value of your pension income. As we have seen, the value of the British pound is highly vulnerable during these times of Brexit uncertainty.

Brexit implications There is concern that some UK pension payments will stop next March in the event of a ‘no-deal’ Brexit as, under current rules, many UK financial providers lose the right to operate within the EU. However, this outcome can be avoided if new arrangements are established in time. Many British retirees in non-EU countries like Australia and Canada, for example,

Transferring your pension abroad Spanish residents can move UK pensions to a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) tax-free. This can provide flexibility to take your pension in the currency you need and to pass benefits to heirs other than your spouse. Funds would also be protected from future changes to UK pension rules that may adversely affect you - an increasing

It is highly likely that pension opportunities for expatriates in the EU will change once the UK leaves the bloc. With Brexit only months away, there is an increasing urgency to review your options before they potentially disappear.

Leaving your pension in the UK You could do nothing and access your UK pension from Spain. With ‘defined contribution’ pensions, options include taking cash in one lump sum or several withdrawals, receiving a regular income (drawdown) or purchasing a lifetime income (annuity).

While you cannot usually access ‘defined benefit’ pensions as cash, you can expect a regular income for the whole of retirement. On death, payments are usually redirected to your spouse, if applicable. If you have not started taking benefits, you could transfer to a defined contribution scheme for more flexible access - but take care, as transferring could be less advantageous than receiving a

By Gerald Turner, Partner, Blevins Franks

possibility after Brexit.

However, QROPS benefits can vary greatly between providers and jurisdictions, so take specialist advice to determine the most suitable solution for you.

Beware also that the UK imposes tax penalties of 25% if you transfer to a QROPS outside the EU/ European Economic Area (EEA).

There are expectations that the UK could widen this taxation net to include EU-based QROPS postBrexit.

The tax implications UK pensions (excluding UK government service pensions) are generally only taxable in Spain for Spanish residents. The general income tax rates of up to 48% apply (the same tax treatment applies to QROPS withdrawals).

Depending on your situation, it may be more beneficial to reinvest UK pension funds into an alternative tax-efficient structure that is compliant in Spain, so make sure you explore your options.

Your pension is likely to be central to your long-term financial security, so it is crucial to take care and only use regulated providers to protect against pension scams. An adviser with cross-border expertise is best placed to help you establish the best approach for your circumstances and goals.

While there is no one-size-fits all answer for what to do with your pension, everyone can benefit from reviewing their arrangements now, before Brexit reshapes the landscape.

The tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; an individual is advised to seek personalised advice.

Keep up to date on the financial issues that may affect you on the Blevins Franks news page at www.blevinsfranks.com.

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River foam MURCIA City’s Local Police have issued a notice after white foam was spotted in the Segura River as it passed through the city.

Officers said the foam was a ‘natural phenomenon’ not uncommon after rainfall.

“An alteration in the water of the Segura river has been detected due to the presence of foam,” Police said on Twitter.

“We have passed on this information to the relevant services,” they added.

A MOTORCYCLIST has lost his life on the A-7 motorway after he was in collision with a car.

The incident happened near the hamlet of Totanera de Lebor at kilometre 601 of the motorway.

It is believed that the accident occurred shortly after 10pm on Monday.

Emergency services were

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Contracts on the table Rain floods roads SPAIN’S state-owned shipbuilding company Navantia has called the unions to a meeting next Wednesday to continue negotiations of the Strategic Plan 20182022, which involves contracts worth about €11,000 million.

Navantia, which offers its services to both the military and civil sector, wants to resume the dialogue, which was interrupted before the summer.

The call coincides with moves by shipyard workers this week in San Fernando de Cadiz for clarification of the future of a contract for the construction of five corvettes destined for Saudia Arabia. The project

SHIPBUILDING: Navantia is keen to finalise talks on its future strategic plan. would create 6,000 jobs.

The naval company employs 5,300 people, and has nine con-

Biker accident contacted at 10 minutes past the hour. Despite arriving shortly after they were unable to save the biker’s life.

Once the motorcyclist’s death was confirmed the Guardia Civil took control of proceedings and have opened

an investigation into the incident.

This marks the second major biking incident in Murcia during September.

On the first day of September a 25-year-old woman was killed after a collision on the

tracts in force with countries such as Australia, Turkey, India, and Saudia Arabia.

motorway near the Moro Inn. After a series of 112 calls to emergency services reporting two riders had fallen from their bike, ambulances and the Guardia Civil were dispatched to the scene.

Once all means of aiding the pair at the side of the road were exhausted the couple were transferred to the Lorenzo Guirao de Cieza Hospital.

STREETS in Caravaca de la Cruz were awash with rainwater following storms in the town last Sunday.

Footage posted on Facebook from MeteOrihuela weather page showed torrents of water running through the centre. Cars could also be seen driving through the roads.

Spain’s AEMET met office in the Murcia region estimated around 20 litres of water per square metre rained down on the town in the space of half an hour. The storms began on Sunday morning and lasted much of the day.

MeteOrihuela, which is run by a geography specialist, said data from the Cenajo dams

showed their reserves had increased following the storms.

It comes as AEMET forecast cloudy skies and further showers for the area earlier this week. There are also set to be some storms in the north west of Murcia, according to the met office.

Tuesday saw easterly winds blow strongly at times from the coast near Cartagena.

MeteOrihuela said there was a “high probability” of rain over Pilar de la Horadada which lies in Alicante Province near the border with the Murcia region.

These forecasts were yet to be confirmed earlier this week, the page added.

CREDIT: Juan Manuel and MeteOrihuela, via Facebook

WASHED OUT: Cars had to cross the water-filled streets.

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NEWS EXTRA Cleaning up THREE Alzira teachers have created an innovative hydrothermal dish that reuses residual hot water to increase the temperature of the cold, known as a ‘passive shower’ which apparently saves 43 per cent energy.

Activity drive A PROGRAMME of 241 courses for the elderly, including hikes, talks and classes, has been organised by the City Council of Alicante and will be held in 18 main elderly centres from now until June 2019.

Blocked entry A TREE felled by 110 mph winds and heavy rain in Xativa had to be removed by firefighters after it landed directly in front of the entrance to the town hospital, one of several damaged by bad weather.

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Unions strike Ryanair RYANAIR cabin crew in five European countries have given their support for strike action this month, throwing passengers’ flight plans into turmoil.

Although the exact date has not yet been confirmed, unions in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium have agreed to a day of industrial action.

The decision was taken by a conference of unions in Rome yesterday with groups including pilots, cabin crew, and ground personnel all represented.

The unions involved were the USO and Sitcpla for Spain, UILTrasporti and FILT-CGIL for Italy, FNV for the Netherlands, the SNPVAC of Portugal and the CNE/LBC of Belgium.

They have apologised to travellers in advance but place the blame squarely on Ryanair for ‘ignoring the labour laws of each country in which it operates’ despite months of meetings and negotiations.

A date for the strike is currently being discussed and it

PLANE PAIN: The news will concern customers who have booked flights this month. will be announced before September 13.

Unions have highlighted a series of reasons for the strike, including: preventing trade union freedom for employees; not

recognising wage, social security and welfare rights; and using recruitment personnel provided by foreign administration agencies.

For its part, Ryanair said:

“Ryanair’s people have enjoyed significant pay increases, improved terms and conditions, and we have agreed to improved seniority structures, base transfers and

annual leave.

“We have done this in a year when we expect profits to fall by 15 per cent due to a combination of higher fuel prices and higher staff costs.”

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STREET TALK

Do you agree with Spain’s legal drinking age minimum?

(18, same as the UK) Name: John Duffy Age: 79 On holiday: Yes Where from: Glasgow WELL it should be all in moderation shouldn’t it? I think 18 is a sensible age to set it, you’re a bit more sensible and adult by then.

But I started earlier, my dad used to take me along to the pub before he started work, when I was 15!

In Scotland a while back

John Duffy.

they used to close the pubs at 9pm, but that just led to quicker drinking so it didn’t solve anything.

The Spanish are good at allowing kids to have a drink at home in a relaxed way so that they get used to it.

Name: Jack McCord Age: 74 On holiday: Yes Where from: Dundee Yes it’s always been 18 and that’s right in my eyes.

It’s bad enough getting married at 16! That said I went to sea at 15 with the Navy and was drinking from then on.

I was married and had two children by 21 so I lived early. But I can handle my drink,

I’m 74 and still going strong!

Name: Eddie Age: 64 On holiday: Yes Where from: Near Amsterdam, Holland Yes I agree with it. When I was 16 I drank but that’s not the point! It’s healthier for young people so that they can focus on their studies.

In Holland it changed from 16 a few years ago.

That was because a lot of accidents were happening

Jack McCord.

with kids falling off mopeds and bicycles after having had a few drinks.

So the government raised the age and I agree with that.

Name: Bob Hitchens and Kelly Lucas Age: 73 and 68 On holiday: Yes Where from: England No we don’t agree. It should be about 20, and marriage should be 21. Driving should be 19 too, when

Bob and Kelly.

they’ve got a bit more sense.

These days young people have got an attitude and no respect for the old. There are no family values or interaction with the elderly.

The Spanish are much better, they are still very family centric which is nice to see.

Too many 18 year-olds are falling out of clubs and not bothering to get jobs.

things. Back in 1965 you had so many work options and the maturity and commitment to your job.

There wasn’t so much money back then, even though they borrow it these days!

Our generation saved money and we’re now paying for the next generation.

Name: Anne and Dave Age: 69 and 67 On holiday: Yes Where from: Weston Super Mare No, it should be 21. Those three years make an awful lot of difference.

Young people will abuse the freedom to drink, as we see.

They think it’s cool but it can lead to even worse

Anne and Dave.

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Student housing exodus There have also been cases of students moving to the coast where rents fall during the winter.

Rents have increased in Alicante Province by 10.8 per cent on average during the last year.

Elche has seen a rise of 12.1 per cent, with the number of available properties falling. Average rents stand at around €551 a month in the town.

Fina Amoros, an estate

STUDENTS studying at an Elche university are moving out of the town in increasing numbers due to apartment shortages driving up rents, according to property industry sources.

Those studying at Miguel Hernandez University (UMN) have begun opting for lodgings in Alicante City and commuting to classes following the increases. Students typically opt to live in the centre of Elche or in the Altabix district.

agent with the Horizonte Group, said it was practically “impossible” for students to find flats in student areas.

“It is very complicated for young people to find a flat because there are none on offer. We live in a rental bubble,” Amoros said.

Miriam Perez, a psychology student at UMH, said there were some rooms available for €160 a month but said they were typically “shameful” places to live.

PRICED OUT: Students at UMH are struggling to find places to live.

Debt deferral rescues many

MORE than 2,500 families living in social housing in the province have been able to postpone their rental debt since 2015, thanks to the signing of a debt recognition certificate.

The Department of

Housing studied the socioeconomic situation of each family unit and adjusted their payments accordingly.

As a result, the debt

recognition system resulted in the deferral of a total of €7.5 million.

Alicante accounted for €4.2 million, Valencia for €2.8 million, and Castel-

lon for €435,600.

This policy was included in the Social Housing Plan to guarantee the right to housing for those suffering economic hardship.

It enables tenants to defer rental payments until a time they have more means and without having to give up their basic needs.

The number of family

members in the household is taken into account, along with their total in-

come.

The debt recognition allows payments to be drawn out over five years and it exceptional cases the amount is reduced.

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Siblings left in car THE parents of three children who were rescued from a parked car in Alicante two hours before they returned claim they had got lost.

Passers-by and hoteliers in Plaza de Luceros called the police after hearing cries and shots from the youngsters.

One hotel owner said he checked a few times to see if the parents had come back, and after a ‘reasonable amount of time’, he contacted emergency services.

The windows had been left down in the family car with a French license plate.

Witnesses claim that once the children, two boys and a girl, had been released from the vehicle, the parents appeared ‘two hours later’ alleging they had ‘got lost’.

The three youngsters had already been taken to a centre for minors and the car

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Be aware of cystic fibrosis A YOUNG man from Murcia has made his fight against cystic fibrosis go viral on Instagram. Álvaro Abellán Saavedra, a marketing student has launched a challenge among followers of Instagram (from the abesafitness account) which consists of inflating a balloon with a maximum of seven puffs to make people aware of the breathing problems generated by this disease.

This challenge, which he hopes will become viral, started on World Cystic Fibrosis Day September 8) wants to increase awareness of this debilitating disease and improve the quality of life of those it strikes.

In total 130 people in the Murcia region suffer from the condition. The regional cystic fibrosis unit is located in the Virgen de la Arrixaca hospital, where professionals from the Paediatric Pneumology and Paediatric Gastroenterology units work to treat peo-

CAMPAIGN: Álvaro wants to raise awareness of debilitating condition.

ple suffering from this rare disease.

It is so rare that in the region only two or three new patients are diagnosed each year.

Last year, the health department allocated more than €800,000 for medicines to treat Murcianos suffering from cystic fibrosis.

The regional unit, coordinated by Dr Manuel SanchezSolis, last year attended 126 patients, of whom eight started treatment. There are currently nine registered lung transplant patients who, in addition to the usual therapy, receive treatment with immunosuppressants.

Cystic fibrosis is a rare hereditary respiratory disease that causes obstruction of the ducts, damaging the lung, causing pancreatic insufficiency and progressive deterioration of the liver.

In recent years, progress has been made in the knowledge and treatment of the disease.

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Defect detector

NEW TESTS: The use of a new emissions device will seal the fate of tens of thousands of cars in Alicante.

MECHANICS at ITV stations in Alicante will now be obliged to use a new device which controls the emission of car gases.

The apparatus connects to the vehicle’s computer and detects if anything is broken or has been tampered with which could be considered a serious fault.

The E-OBD reading, a protocol that applies to cars manufactured since 2006, of which there are an estimated 200,000 in the province, requires a complementary test for the gases, which will continue to be carried out.

In the event that the vehicle is rejected due to defects in the reading of the new unit, the emissions test will not be necessary.

The diagnostic equipment is connected to the car's computer, which is re-

sponsible for controlling both the gas emissions and the electronic safety systems of the vehicle.

The aim of the new tool is to detect manipulations in terms of emission and increasing the safety of vehicles that increasingly include more electronic control elements.

Seventy thousand diesel passenger cars older than 20 years are at risk of disappearing from the roads

of Alicante with the new tests which were incorporated into the Vehicle Technical Inspection (ITV) last June.

According to statistics, the 200,000 vehicles manufactured more than 20 years ago, represent 15 per cent of all vehicles in Alicante.

Of the oldest, the majority, 122,000, are passenger cars, in addition to 38,000 motorcycles, 35,000 vans and trucks, and 281 buses.

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What a racket NOISY burglars who caused a racket as they tried to steal garden furniture were caught when a neighbour called police.

Elche Local Police arrested three people who are accused of stealing from a house in Travalon Alto.

The neighbour was alerted by banging coming from a courtyard as the alleged thieves tried to load the furniture into a van.

Armed with a description of the van a police patrol stopped a van a few streets away minutes later. The occupants also matched a description given and they all gave inconsistent stories when questioned.

It is alleged the three all resisted arrest, with one accused of assaulting a police officer.

Now the case has been passed to National

CREDIT: Police LOCALE FACEBOOK

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STOLEN: Garden furniture.

Police who are investigating several burglaries in the Llano de San José area and the Altamira urbanisation.

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Sex slavery trial FIVE defendants who stand accused of forcing several Nigerian women and girls into prostitution across Alicante Province appeared before court yesterday (Wednesday).

The defendants, most of which were Nigerian nationals, face between four and nine years in jail if found guilty at Alicante Provincial Court.

Prosecutors told the court sitting in Alicante City the defendants had committed human trafficking offences and violated the rights of foreign citizens.

HEARINGS: The trial has been heard in Alicante Provincial Court.

The Prosecution added one of the defendant’s alleged victim’s, a Nigerian girl, had paid them for a passage to Spain.

She was told she would have to repay them by going into sex work.

She was told she owed the defendants about €40,000 for her trip and was threatened into becoming a prostitute once she arrived in Spain, prosecutors added.

The court also heard the defendants had exploited victims in apartments and premises across the province. The trial continues.

Vandalism goes viral

HEARINGS: The trial has been heard in Alicante Provincial Court.

by Tara Rippin POLICE are close to closing in on a group of young pe ople w ho tra s he d c a r wing mirrors in Santa Pola and then posted videos of their actions on the web.

Guardia Civil and Local Polic e offic e rs of Elc he have managed to identify three offenders in the videos that were shared by Internet users to help report and locate them.

All of the vehicles targeted last weekend had been parked in public roads.

A c c ording to a polic e source, identifying the culprits was easy since their ‘work’ was eventually poste d on s e ve ra l s oc ia l ne tworks.

One author of a video can be heard in the background shout i ng, “i t has been charged, i t has been charged! ” Af t er war ds a youth can be seen kicking the wing mirror of one vehicle.

They can al so be hear d l aughi ng and appl audi ng one another.

There are three videos, about 15 seconds long. In one of them a mirror ends up smashed with a punch, while the group cheer and listen to very loud music, despi t e bei ng cl ose t o dawn.

Whi l e som e peopl e shared the clips in order to catch the gang, others contacted the police.

Guar di a Ci vi l sour ces confirmed that the investigation is well advanced, but want to be cautious in giving away too much information to avoid jeopardising any arrests.

But it has been suggested t he suspect s l i ve i n t he Elche area, deduced from the information on the Instagram account where the videos were originally uploaded.

This data is being passed to the Office of Children of Alicante, in view of their possible ages.

Recently, Elche officers used social media to identify the graffiti artist responsible for vandalising commercial units.

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Brit stabbed in hotel attack

HOTEL HORROR: Police are asking guests for information on the incident.

A BRITISH man is in critical condition in hospital after being stabbed six times while on holiday in Magaluf.

The incident happened at around 2am on Sunday after a row erupted among a group of British tourists at the TRH Magaluf hotel.

Four people have been arrested by the Guardia Civil and are being held at Calvia police station.

Although the victim’s identity has not been revealed, reports suggest he is 31 years old and from Scotland.

It is believed that the man

suffered stab wounds to his back, abdomen and buttocks, but managed to run away from the scene with his brother.

They barricaded themselves in their hotel room until the emergency services arrived, and the injured man was taken to the Son Espases hospital.

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‘Missing’ teacher claims Silent danger AT least 1,000 teachers were absent from their posts in Alicante Province as children prepared to start the new academic year this week, according to trade union estimates.

Figures from Valencia Region Teaching Workers Union (STEPV) showed there were staffing shortages in about 53 per cent of primary schools and 61 per cent of secondary schools in Alicante.

The Independent Trade Union of Teachers (ANPE) claimed an average of 64 per cent of schools across all education levels lacked teachers at the onset of this academic year.

Worker ’s Commission (CCOO) data suggested there were two teachers missing from each school on average across the province.

Education officials in the province and in the Valencia region said they would be able to cover the shortages.

Many teachers had been taken ill before the start of

ABSENT STAFF: Pupils in Alicante returned to school last week. term and a computer programme developed to administer school staff had experienced problems, officials added.

Regional authorities said they had been working since last Friday to cover the gaps left by absent teachers in time for the start of the new academic year last week.

Valencia’s Education Department said they had reduced the waiting time to get

cover teachers to fill the gaps from 21 days to 10.

“We have reduced cover waiting times to less than half and we want to cut further,” officials said.

Javier Mas, from the Public Officials Union (CSIF), said regional authorities had been making the same ‘excuses’ year after year and that pupils had suffered as a result.

Francisco Garcia, of the CCOO, said professional

teachers had to rely on other authorities to approve their contracts due to mismanagement in the region.

The absences come as regional authorities agreed to spend €136 million on improvements to 104 schools in Alicante Province.

Education officials said 22 new centres worth a combined €103 million had been built since 2015 as part of the programme.

THE safety of pedestrians and cyclists could be improved with the development of a new road surface by an Alicante firm.

Once installed, the development would allow people on foot and two wheels to hear the approach of electronic vehicles.

According to road safety experts and emergency services, this is a growing concern as the cars increase in popularity.

Although manufacturers have incorporated some sound into the nearly silent engines, in urban areas

where there is background noise this is often drowned out.

Now Alicante developers CHM, along with the University of Alicante, have created an asphalt called Fonoseguro that produces a rolling sound as electric vehicles drive along it.

And the project has been backed by the European Development Fund.

It is particularly important for the safety of blind and visually impaired pedestrians and is intended for use in areas with a speed limit of 50 km/h or less.

QUIET: A new asphalt will allow pedestrians to hear almost silent electric cars approaching.

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Police port crackdown

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NATIONAL POLICE have cracked down on crime and unruly behaviour in Alicante’s leisure port.

Fifty officers were involved in a raid on the area after a string of complaints about the area.

Locals have been complaining that the tourist area has been getting a bad reputation for crime, drugs and almost constant fights in the early hours of the morning.

The blame has been put largely on clashes between groups of different ethnic backgrounds (Latinos, Gypsies, British, Arabs).

Local business owners have become increasingly alarmed by the situation that they say emanates from nightclubs which open until 7.30am.

They say that the increasingly tense atmosphere is driving customers away from the local entertainment and restaurant trade. Even several nightclub owners agree, saying public order problems are costing them trade too.

THE head of San Cristobal primary school in Lorca has claimed the teachers and three students are the only Spanish speakers in the centre while the rest of the pupils speak Moroccan Arabic.

Language claims

Water works MURCIA’S regional authority has earmarked around €336,000 for works which are set to see the Aguilas water treatment plant double its treatment capacity to 3,600,000 litres processed a day and which are set to take three months.

HEAVY PRESENCE: Police descended on Alicante port.

Early on Sunday morning police decided to take action.

They deployed 50 officers in a series of raids in which they made six arrests, registered 52 complaints against people, mainly for drugs sale

‘Fried egg’ creature display

and consumption, and issued 12 penalties for ‘serious infractions’ in two premises.

Between January and March of this year, the National Police carried out four raids, three of them in the

AROUND 50 specimens of the fried egg jellyfish from the Murcia region’s Mar Menor lagoon have gone on display in Valencia City.

The creatures are all believed to have reached their maximum adult size. They were collected in a collaborative project between Murcia’s Agriculture Research and Development Institute, marine biologists and regional fishing officials.

Valencia’s Oceanographic Institute said the specimens, which have the scientific name Catylorhiza tuberculata, could grow larger in the Mar Menor because of the

Barrio de Alicante, to stop the upsurge of crime in leisure areas.

In the last days of summer, these actions have moved to the port, where officers do not rule out more raids in the near future.

amount of nutrients in the waters there.

They usually reach lengths of 35 centimetres in the wild and are native to the Mediterranean.

They can grow to sizes of around 10 centimetres in diameter in captivity but no larger due to the confined space of aquariums.

The creatures are almost entirely self-sufficient, meaning they can produce all the food they need to consume.

About 8 per cent of their food intake comes from algae lodged in their body tissue which takes in light energy and in turn feeds the jellyfish.

Term starts AROUND 5,700 new students studying 44 subjects between them arrived at the University of Alicante to start the new academic year last Monday, with Early Childhood and Primary Education and Nutrition among the most popular degree courses.

Job losses A HAEMODIALYSIS unit in Orihuela’s San Bartolome district is set to close with the loss of 11 jobs before it relocates to the centre of the town where a private company is set to manage the service.

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ELCHE Council’s culture spokesperson has called for one of the town’s most famous archaeological artefacts to be returned to the town.

Patricia Macia made the call for the Lady of Elche’s return at a ceremony held today, (Thursday) to mark the start of the academic year at

Sculpture call the University of Alicante.

She was joined at the event by a number of local politicians.

Macia and others hope to

display the ancient sculpture in Elche’s Archaeology and History Museum (MAHE).

The call comes as part of wider plans which could see the centre house Iberian art works and artefacts as part of a temporary exhibition.

The local authority hopes the Lady of Elche will return to the town where it was first

discovered permanently. The last time it was exhibited in Elche was in 2006.

Elche Council officials are reportedly waiting to restart talks with Madrid in a bid to move the artefact from its current home in the capital’s National Archaeology Museum. MAHE staff are also reportedly in talks to create a

short animated film featuring the sculpture.

The ‘Lady of Elche’ was discovered near the town in 1897. The sculpture, believed to be of the Phoenician-Carthaginian goddess Tanit, is considered one of the most significant examples of pre-Roman Iberian art.

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NEWS EXTRA Hospital new unit ALICANTE City’s University General Hospital has spent €169,000 on a new 200sqm pharmaceutical care unit for outpatients as part of its health infrastructure plan which runs from 2016 to 2019.

Sports centre CARTAGENA’S sports centre is set to be fitted with the third best parquet in Spain according to Mayor Ana Belen Castejon who added the company undertaking the works had ensured them of its quality.

Troops study

RETURN REQUEST: The Lady of Elche is currently housed in Madrid.

MURCIA City’s Catholic University has offered a series of scholarships for the second year running to army, navy, air force and Guardia Civil officers to study a masters degree in Military Law which has received outstanding recognition status from NATO.

RISKING EVERYTHING: The number of migrants taking this route is double that of 2017.

Maritime service rescues 300 migrants MORE than 300 migrants have been saved by Spain’s maritime rescue service trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea this weekend.

The service says it rescued 160 migrants from six boats in the Strait of Gibraltar on Saturday, and a further 172 migrants from four boats there on Sunday.

Spain has overtaken Greece and Italy as a popular entry point, with the latter’s new populist government refusing to accept rescue boats.

According to the United Nations, 34,994 migrants have arrived in Spain this year, while 1,565 people are known to have died making the perilous journey.

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Murcia tops tourist table

CLEARED: The case concerned a Torrevieja holiday home.

Fraud case dropped

HOTSPOT: British tourists were the largest group.

FOREIGN tourists spent more time in the Murcia region than in any other area of Spain during July, holidaying there for an average of 12 days according to figures.

The National Institute of Statistics’ (INE) Egatur survey also showed tourists spent around €667 million in

the region from January to July.

It marks an increase of 21 per cent compared to the same time last year and is the highest amount recorded for the period in Murcia since records began.

It is also seven times higher than the national average of a

3 per cent increase.

British holidaymakers were the largest single group in the region and they are estimated to have spent some €262.2 million, 18.8 per cent higher than January to July 2017.

They were followed in the rankings by the French, Scandinavians and Belgians.

A BRITISH woman has been cleared of alleged fraud in which she was accused of falsely obtaining €67,299 worth of benefits by not declaring her Torrevieja home to tax authorities.

Sally Titchner, 58, from Lowestoft, appeared before Ipswich Crown Court this week to answer for six charges of dishonest representation in connection with benefits payments.

The defendant pleaded not guilty on all

charges and also denied dishonestly making false statements to Waveney District Council over housing payments.

Titchner’s defence told the court she had held the Torrevieja property in a trust for her daughter.

Judge Rupert Overbury, presiding, instructed the jury to deliver a unanimous not guilty verdict due to flaws in the prosecution’s case.

Simon Gladwell, acting for the prosecution, also said the defendant had no case to answer.

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Unions strike Ryanair Funding call for reforms

RYANAIR cabin crew in five European countries have given their support for strike action this month, throwing passengers’ flight plans into turmoil.

Although the exact date has not yet been confirmed, unions in Spain, Italy, the Netherlands, Portugal and Belgium have agreed to a day of industrial action.

The decision was taken by a conference of unions in Rome yesterday with groups including pilots, cabin crew, and ground personnel all represented.

The unions involved were the USO and Sitcpla for Spain, UILTrasporti and FILTCGIL for Italy, FNV for the Netherlands, the SNPVAC of Portugal and the CNE/LBC of Belgium.

They have apologised to travellers in advance but place the blame squarely on Ryanair for ‘ignoring the labour laws of each country in which it operates’ despite months of meetings and negotiations.

PLANE PAIN: The news will concern customers who have booked flights this month.

A date for the strike is currently being discussed and it will be announced before September 13.

Unions have highlighted a series of reasons for the strike, including: preventing trade union freedom for employees; not recognising wage, social

security and welfare rights; and using recruitment personnel provided by foreign administration agencies.

For its part, Ryanair said: “Ryanair’s people have enjoyed significant pay increases, improved terms and conditions, and we have agreed

to improved seniority structures, base transfers and annual leave.

“We have done this in a year when we expect profits to fall by 15 per cent due to a combination of higher fuel prices and higher staff costs.”

SEVERAL Spanish regions which have seen their populations dwindle in recent years have called on Madrid to give them funding to tackle the issue.

The presidents of the regional authorities of Aragon, Asturias, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y Leon, Galicia and La Rioja met in Zaragoza to discuss depopulation last Monday.

Javier Lamban, the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) head of Aragon’s Dipuctacion, acted as host.

The officials sought to build a united front in favour of reforming Spain’s system for financing regions which they claim is now outdated.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has ruled out making any changes to funding until after the regional elections of May 2019.

The six regions whose heads met in Zaragoza cover almost 53 per cent of Spain’s territory and have 21 per cent of its population living in them. A total of 55 per cent of more than 8,000 towns and cities in the country lie within their borders.

The authorities of the six regions claim ageing populations and the spreading of people thinly across their territories was contributing to funding issues.

All six regions have seen their populations fall since 2008, according to National Institute of Statistics (INE) data.

Aragon has 22,920 less people living there, Asturias has 46,360 fewer inhabitants, Castilla-La Mancha lost 17,355, Castilla y Leon 18,151, Galicia 56,698 and La Rioja last 5,618.

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Search underway POLICE have expanded the search for a Spanish Legionnaire wanted in connection with the death of his 35-yearold partner to cover the whole of Spain.

Officers have been surveying airports and harbours as they continue to trace Jose Luis Gallego Sanchez, the chief suspect in the police probe into the death of Eva Bou. Bou was found dead in her home in Borriol in the Valencia Region’s Castellon

Province last Friday.

Gallego Sanchez has since been reported missing and officers fear he may attempt to leave the country.

A total of 30 women have been killed in Spain by their partners or ex-partners in cases of gender violence so far this year.

If Gallego Sanchez is found to be responsible for Bou’s death it would mark the first case of gender violence in the province so far this year. The investigation continues.

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Almost 1,000 arrests during summer NATIONAL POLICE Officers in Alicante Province arrested more than 970 people and seized hundreds of weapons and drugs during their annual summer operation.

Police sources said this year’s’ Operation Summer’ ended with ‘satisfactory results’ and that it fulfilled its purpose of keeping people safe.

The operation ran from July 1 to August 31. It saw officers in towns across the province receive a total of 121 reinforcements between them in July.

Special units such as mounted police, helicopters, dog squads, explosives experts, border security officers were also placed at the force’s disposal.

Alicante Province’s National Police

OPERATION CLOSES: Police numbers were boosted throughout Alicante Province. said in a statement the operation had been an important addition to the area’s security.

“Officers managed to significantly re-

Dog body find LOCAL POLICE officers in Elche were tracing the owner of a dog this week after the animal’s corpse was found chained up on a communal roof terrace.

Police posted images on social media which appeared to show the body in an advanced stage of decomposition.

Officers were called out to the building in the Carrus area of the town after residents alerted them to the remains.

The body was later taken to a vet to determine the cause of death. Police now want to question the owner on suspicion of animal abuse.

Police said in a social media post such incidents happened more than they would like in the town.

“This is a tremendously unpleasant situation, as is the image. Let us say no to animal mistreatment,” the post said.

The investigation continues.

duce the rate of offences such as robberies, thefts and assaults,” police said.

A total of 972 people were arrested and around 600 seizures of weapons and drugs took place during the operation.

The police were stationed constantly in areas popular with tourists such as beaches as well as at ports and airports.

Night services were also extended with up to 60 extra officers and police received about 30 extra motorcyclists.

Staff numbers in police stations were also increased across the province to allow for swifter responses to call outs, officers said.

Provisions were also made for counterterrorism operations in areas popular with tourists.

Flying the flag LIFEGUARDS have raised the yellow flag on six beaches in San Javier and Cartagena this week and have advised swimmers take caution if visiting them.

The flag flew over the beaches of Entremares, Sirenas, Zeus and Calblanque in Cartagena and Banco del Tabal Norte and Pedrucho Norte in San Javier. All other beaches in the Murcia Region flew

green flags as of Monday meaning the sea was safe to swim in.

Emergency services said the colour of the flag flown could be changed at any time depending on weather and water conditions.

Bathers should always be aware of what colour flag is being flown and should take precautions if necessary before swimming, emergency services added.

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Anthem copy claims THE BED SPECIALISTS

COVER SONG: Spain’s anthem may have been written by a Moor.

by Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S national anthem may have been based on a song composed in Andalucia during its time under Moorish rule, according to a video posted on social media.

The video, posted by La Plataforma, plays the Marcha Real before then playing another piece which according to some sources was written by the Moor Ibn Bayyah, or Avempace.

Carlos Sanchez, a Twitter user who shared the video, wrote on the site: ‘I just discovered that the Spanish anthem is a copy of an Andalucian song and I’m freaking out.’

Some users commented saying the song and the anthem

bore little resemblance to each other. Others said it was another example of Spain’s borrowing from other cultures to create the country’s national identity.

“The flag was taken from the Catalan navy, the chotis dance is German, the Bourbon royal family are French and according to a study ‘Castilian’ comes from Catalan,” Twitter user Zontar el Gran i Casamajor said.

Avempace’s composition, named Nuba al-Istihlal, is a nubah, a type of classical music written in Andalucia during the Moorish era to accompany the singing of poems.

It would be the world’s oldest song used as an official national anthem if the claims are

true.

Avempace was born in Zaragoza in the 11th century what was then the Islamic territory of Al-Andalus which covered much of the Iberian Peninsula. He composed music and was also involved in astronomy, physics, philosophy, medicine, botany and poetry.

The Moors were a group of Muslims from North Africa and Arabia who ruled much of Spain and Portugal from 711 to 1492. They also had territories in Sicily, Sardinia, Corsica and Malta in the Medieval era.

The Moors built both the Mezquita in Cordoba and the Alhambra in Granada. They fell from power in the late 15th century following the Reconquista.

A sketchy poster A PICTURE has surfaced on social media which appears to show a do-it-yourself version of a poster for the film Jurassic World 2 advertising a showing in San Javier.

Twitter user Faier took the picture and uploaded it to the site. He wrote as a caption: ‘Why do I live in Murcia?’

The picture was of an advertising hoarding for the Cine de Verano La Ribera theatre in the Santiago De La Ribera district. It features a hand drawn sketch of a Tyrannosaurus Rex along with the words ‘Jurasic World’ (sic).

Several Twitter users commented with their opinions on the attempt at the poster.

Leante, who appears to be the artist behind the poster, said his day had been made ‘strangely special’ by the Tweet.

“I will keep the poster to remember all this but in the meantime we are displaying it in the movie theatre lobby,” he said.

The official account of Universal Studios, the company which made Jurassic World, commented: ‘Some cracks!’

They added in reference to the spelling mistake: ‘We accept it as an oversight, it lacks an ‘S’ but it has plenty of art!’

Jurassic World 2 - Fallen Kingdom was released earlier this year.

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WORLD FIRST: Peral’s submarine is in Cartagena’s Naval Museum.

THE world’s first electrically-powered submarine which is now on display in Cartagena turned 130 last Saturday.

The National Library of Spain (BNE) has launched a series of articles, images and other publications to mark the anniversary.

The vessel was designed by naval officer Isaac Peral. His prototype for the design was launched at Cadiz’s San Fernando naval base on September 8, 1888.

The ship became known as the Peral Submarine after its designer. It left sur-

Submarine anniversary face in 1890 and was stored at the La Carraca Arsenal in Cadiz.

The ship’s scrapping was ordered but instead Admiral Mateo Garcia de los Reyes, the head of the n a v y ’s s u b m a r i n e f l e e t , towed the hull to Cartagena in 1929.

Cartagena’s council dis-

played the remains of the vessel in the Plaza de los Heroes de Cavite in 1965.

It was then moved to the Paseo Alfonso XII near the city’s port in 2002 before b e i n g t a k e n t o t h e c i t y ’s Naval Museum in 2013 for restoration and display. A replica now stands where the submarine once did.

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ROYAL RAMBLE: The Royals met scouts and young mountaineers during the visit.

National Park is hiking royalty AS part of celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of the creation of the Picos de Europa National Park in northern Spain, the Spanish Royal family went for a hike in the beautiful surroundings of Enol lake last weekend. The lake is in the Cantabrian mountains of Asturias, a rugged and stun-

ning region that lines the northern coast, close to Santander.

It was also the first official trip that 12-year-old Leonor, Princess of Asturias, was making as heir to the Spanish throne. She was joined by her parents King Felipe and Queen Letizia, and her 11-year-old younger

sister Infanta Sofia. The Picos de Europa was the first national park in Spain and is known for its rocky trails and dramatic scenery.

The park has a rich wildlife including bears, wolves and deer, and was awarded the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve designation in 2002.

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Cataluña day rallies Marches in Barcelona amidst independence calls

by Joe Gerrard CATALAN independence supporters took to the streets of Barcelona in their thousands to mark the region’s annual holiday last Tuesday.

The city was filled with marchers bearing the Catalan flag as well as some who called for independence on the National Day of Cataluña, or Diada.

More than 440,000 people registered for the event, according to the Catalan National Asse m b l y ( AN C ).

Around 400,000 registered in 2017.

Quim Torra, the president of the region’s Generalitat, renewed his call for another independence referendum almost one year after the previous vote last October.

He said National Day was a “demonstration for freedom.”

“People should fill the

streets in the name of freedom, justice, democracy and the republic,” Torra said.

Police officials had called on Torra to increase officer numbers on the streets ahead of National Day. Torra said the region needed investment in infrastructure rather than for law enforcement.

An estimated 2,000 people turned out to pro Spanish unity demonstrations on Avenida Paral-lel in Barcelona last Saturday ahead of Tuesday’s marches. Some carried placards which read: ‘No pacts with terrorists or separatists.’

Businessman Jose Manuel Opazo attended the rally along with Santiago Abascal, president of Vox along with other members of the farright party.

Abascal said the only solution to the ongoing indepen-

RALLYING: Cataluña’s National Day typically attracts thousands of protestors. dence push was the revoking of Cataluña’s autonomy, the dissolution of the Mossos d’Esquadra police force and the banning of pro-independence parties.

Torra said such groups had every right to protest in

favour of Spanish unity.

“Diada is for the Catalan Republic. If other groups want to make one for federalism then let them do it, but I will not join them,” he said.

The marches come as Catalan officials have begun dis-

cussions with Madrid on how to move forward on the independence issue.

Spain’s Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said he would consider backing a referendum on greater powers for the region but added independence was not an option.

Torra said he remained in contact with Sanchez and they planned to hold talks at the end of this month or in October.

“We have raised the flag of dialogue with the new Prime Minister. We have offered to discuss these issues with the Spanish state,” Torra said.

Maria Jose Segarra, Spain’s Attorney General, said Cataluña could not be treated as an exceptional case constitutionally.

“There can be no exceptions to the rules. The opposite is the very bankruptcy

of democracy itself,” Segarra said.

Spain’s Constitutional Court ruled last year that the independence referendum and declaration that followed were illegal under the Constitution.

The ruling led to arrest warrants being issued for leading pro-Catalan independence politicians including former President Carles Puigdemont over their part in the secession push.

Many, including Puigdemont, remain abroad and some have been imprisoned ahead of their trials on rebellion charges.

Puigdemont recently filed a lawsuit in Belgium, where he currently lives, against Supreme Court judge Pablo Llarena claiming he was not impartial when he issued a warrant for his arrest.

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Wood project

Race row

BUILDERS have fitted the final beam to a skyscraper in Brumunddal built from wood which is 18 storeys high, 85.4 metres tall, is the world’s tallest timber tower and is due to be full completely next March.

POLITICIANS and media figures in Belgium have weighed in on a debate about race relations in the country after Cecile Djunga, a weather presenter, claimed a viewer told her she looked ‘too black’ to appear on television.

Pollution bid OFFICIALS in Norway have begun seeking to buy credits on the g l o b a l c a r b o n m a r k e t t o o ff s e t fossil fuel emissions ahead of a looming pollution target deadline in 2030, according to government sources working on climate plans.

NGO appeal PROSECUTORS have dropped

Costs rising HIGH RISE: The timber tower is the world’s tallest. charges against a human rights organisation in connection with the case of Loai Deeb, a former vice president of the Global Network for Rights and Development accused of laundering money through the NGO.

Expert search POLICE in Norway have begun investigating the case of a Dutch cybersecurity expert linked to the WikiLeaks investigative site who was last seen last month checking out of a hotel in Bodoe in the Arctic Circle.

G ERMANY

Rally doubts THE head of Germany’s domestic intelligence services has said he doubts a video of right-wing extremists

chasing foreign nationals during antimigrant protests in Chemnitz is authentic due to there being ‘no reliable’ information the incident took place.

Off track PLANS from Germany and France to merge Alstom and Siemens in a bid to create a global rail company to rival that of China has hit the buffers after

Spain opened a probe of the firms’ alleged membership of a cartel.

Figures down EXPORTS and industrial output both fell in Germany during July due to the United States slapping protectionist tariffs on the country’s goods and because of issues in the car industry over new environmental rules according to an ING economist.

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S WEDEN

Children sent

Fake wave

MARK HARBERS, the Dutch migration minister, said he and other officials were working with the Armenian government to arrange for the deportation of two children to the country this week following a ruling from the Council of State.

ONE in three articles shared on Twitter on Sweden’s election last Sunday were from ‘fake news’ sites according to the Oxford Internet Institute who added the ratio was similar in the United States before the 2016 Presidential vote.

Envoys back

Account shuts

TURKEY and The Netherlands have both sent ambassadors to each others’ capitals in an effort to normalise relations after Dutch authorities banned Istanbul officials from campaigning among the Turkish community during elections in 2017.

A SOCIAL MEDIA account which was run by a different Swede each week since 2011 is set to close, with more than 196,000 posts made on the Curators of Sweden project’s Twitter page and about 146,000 followers garnered.

Climate claim

Migrant rules

A REPORT from the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency has stated the country’s emissions levels are too high for it to meet climate targets which are causing farms to come close to their full productive capacity.

RULES from Sweden’s Migration Board are causing many university students, academics and researchers to leave the country and in some cases, such as that of PhD student Parisian Rabieifar, in the middle of long-running experiments.

New app PLEK, a Dutch technology start-up firm, is hoping to compete with Microsoft, Slack and WhatsApp with an encrypted chat hosted outside of the jurisdiction of United States intelligence agencies thereby ensuring users’ privacy, the company said.

Jobless fall THE number of people seeking work in Belgium fell last month according to the Employment Ministry who said the number of under 25 year olds out of work was at the lowest level for Augst since 1990.

Death probe PROSECUTORS for Belgium have begun investigating the death of Bruno Charles De Cooman, a businessman from the country, whose body was found at the bottom of a building in Moscow after a suspected fall.

D ENMARK

Money probe

Attack backing BERLIN has said it has ‘full confidence’ in the assessments of British intelligence services after two Russian citizens were charged in absentia over the alleged poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.

THE cost of living in Belgium has risen by almost 39 per cent since the start of the millennium according to figures from European Union statisticians, about 1.5 per cent above the average for the rest of the bloc.

EUROPEAN PRESS

Jail review A 62-YEAR-OLD looks set to be cleared of drowning a man in a bathtub in Solna in 2009 ahead of an appeal ruling which follows his serving eight years of a 15-year prison sentence.

DANSKE BANK, Denmark’s biggest lender, has found that almost €26 billion of Russian and ex-Soviet money was laundered in its Estonian branch in 2013 alone after regulators in that country ruled cash had been parked in the Danish bank’s vaults.

Quota rise THE Treasury of Denmark is set to pay an extra €27 million in European Union coffers next year following a quota rise from the current almost €2.4 billion to more than €2.6 billion according next year’s draft Finance Act.

Wreck find DIVERS with Jutland’s Sea War museum have found the shipwreck of a German transport vessel sunk while en route to Norway on September 2, 1940 during the Second World War following an extensive search.

Credit cards DENMARK saw the third highest rise in the rate of credit card fraud in Europe during 2017, jumping to almost €13.3 million in stolen cash during that time according to figures from Euromonitor International.

F RANCE

Officer held AUTHORITIES in Paris have arrested a suspect who is believed to have been a commander of forces in Liberia’s Civil War in the 1990’s as part of an investigation into war crimes including alleged torture and cannibalism.

Booze cruise THOUSANDS of people guzzled wine and took to the streets in a town in Bordeaux for the Marathon du Medoc last Saturday, with the race having seen competitors plied with drink along the way.

Royal visit THE heir to the Japanese throne Crown Prince Naruhito arrived in France last week for a nine-day long goodwill visit which is due to see him visit Lyon, Santenay, Grenoble and a French-Japanese institute in Paris.

Fraud charges A SENIOR associate of the far-right Front National has been charged with embezzlement in connection with an investigation into the party over its alleged misuse of European Union subsidies which the party has been trying to reclaim.

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ACCUSED: Two Russian citizens have been charged over the Salisbury incident.

Kremlin denies poison claims MOSCOW has denied that Russia was involved in any way in the poisoning of a former spy from the country and his daughter in Britain.

It comes as British authorities charged Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov in absentia for attempted murder in connection with the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury.

Opposition ‘attacks’ MEMBERS of an opposition party running in upcoming local elections have claimed they have been assaulted and their cars have been torched.

Sergei Balabayev, from Yaroslavl and of Parnas, was kicked and punched by a masked assailant according to claims from his party. Parnas have blamed the attack on the team of rival Roman Slonin, of the ruling United Russia party.

War games ‘defensive’ MILITARY officials in Russia have said war games which began this week were defensive in nature. Valery Gerasimov, the chief of Russia’s general staff, said the Vostok-2018 manoeuvres were not directed against other

countries. The exercises are the biggest Russian drills in almost four decades.

Climate warning KREMLIN environment officials have published a report claiming Russia could face epidemics, droughts, mass flooding and famines in the coming years due to climate change. The 900-page document, from the Environment Ministry, stated humans had pumped ‘unprecedented’ levels of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and also forecast forest fires and monsoons.

Lending cost call PRIME MINISTER Dmitry Medvedev said the costing of lending for Russians should fall in comments on monetary policy made ahead of a Central Bank meeting tomorrow (Friday). Bank officials, who work independently of the government, are set to discuss whether or not to raise interest rates in the face of a weak ruble and slow economic growth.

Move u-turn AN outspoken pro-Kremlin pop star made headlines in Russia after backtracking on social media posts which suggested she was emigrating to Europe. Yulia Samoylova, who has performed in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, said a video in which she said she was leaving the country was designed to raise awareness of difficulties faced by the disabled in Russia. The singer has been wheelchair-bound since childhood.

NO GO: Samoylova posted from a Moscow airport.

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STAT OF WEEK €291.23 million

Online launch PREMIUM goods supermarket chain Sanchez Romero has entered the e-commerce.

The company, with nine stores in Madrid, is initially offering an online delivery service in 35 postal codes within the city. And has teamed up with Correos for speedy dispatch.

The company aims to cash in on online sales of fresh products by offering customers the possibility to select different formats, cuts and maturations of products.

It currently offers 7,000 products in total online.

13 - 19 September 2018 Total authorised by Spain’s Council of Ministers recently to be spent on conservation and operational contracts on roads in Valencia, Valladolid, Madrid, Salamanca and Toledo.

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Signs of slowdown THE economy of the eurozone and the European Union grew again by 0.4 per cent in the seco n d q u a r t e r o f t h e y e a r, i n l i n e with the start of the year, according to Eurostat.

These figures confirm the slowdown in the European economy, since they remain below the rates recorded in 2017 when the GDP of the Euro rose by 0.6 per cent in the first three months and 0.7 per cent in the following three.

Compared to the same quarter

by Tara Rippin of last year, the GDP of the eurozone and the EU grew by 2.1 per cent in the second quarter, while in the next two it had risen 2.4 per cent and 2.3 per cent respectively.

With the emphasis remaining on the second quarter of the year, the countries that have seen the highest growth have been Malta (1.9 per cent), Estonia and Romania (both 1.4 per cent), while the lowest rates have been registered in

Denmark, Greece, France and Italy (all 0.2 per cent).

Spain, although it has not led the growth of the region, has been slightly above the average with a rate of 0.4 per cent.

In the second quarter of this year, the final consumption expenditure of households rose by 0.2 per cent in the eurozone and by 0.3 per cent in the EU, after registering both areas a progression of 0.5 per cent in the three previous months.

LARGE companies in Spain will be forced to evaluate their carbon footprint and undertake measures to reduce it, as well as create ‘green labels’ which provide that information to society as part of The Climate Change Law. The Minister for the Ecological Transition, Teresa Ribera, last week called on the bigger listed companies to be involved in the fight against climate change, which will mobilise €100,000 million in Spain by 2030 only in renewable energy efficiency.

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Bye Barca THE exodus of companies from Cataluña since the political crisis has continued, with 595 businesses leaving in the last three months.

This represents an increase of 234 per cent from the same period last year.

Problem poll ON THE CHARGE: Endesa is muscling in on the market.

ENDESA, the largest electric utility company in Spain, is making plans to carry out a massive deployment of vehicle recharging posts throughout the country.

In a direct challenge to those offered by oil giants Repsol and Cepsa, Endesa will be rolling out 4,000 electric stations.

The company has established an ambitious and wide-ranging network of agreements with household names like Decathlon, Carrefour, McDonald’s to make

installations in their car parks.

Endesa’s contracts include the four largest car park companies in Spain: Saba, controlled by La Caixa; Empark, owned by Macquarie; Indigo, under Ardian; and Parkia, owned by First State.

Hotel chains Ibis and Holiday Inn are also involved, along with the Quiron hospital.

Between January and August of this year, 8,157 electric vehicles and 3,574 plug-in hybrids were sold in Spain.

IN a recent survey of 1,000 people, six out of 10 Spaniards believe the S o c i a l i s t g o v e r n m e n t ’s policy on employment, the economy and immigration, has been negative, while most believe unemployment is the most serious problem.

Tech reboot B B VA h a s r e s t o r e d t h e service of its digital banking system in Spain after s u ff e r i n g t e c h n i c a l p r o b lems on its app and website. The breakdown did not affect any of the b a n k ’s b r a n c h e s o r c a s h machines.

Alvarez defends Popular choice THE CEO of Santander has appeared before Spain’s Congressional Research Committee on the financial crisis to defend the purchase of Popular.

Jose Antonia Alvarez claimed that the move had saved the state between €28 billion and €36 billion, in terms of the money it would have had to invest to save Popular.

Mr Alvarez attributed Popular’s problems to its low profitability which made it impossible to raise the capital necessary to avoid a takeover.

He also warned the government against introducing new taxes into the financial sector, stating that Spain faces competition from large international banks whose tax burden is lower.

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% CHG. NET VOL -0.76 21,099.70 -2.91 18,208.51 0.20 5,844.75 0.49 11,258.85 -1.38 7,654.19 0.15 19,013.99 0.50 71,383.02 -1.11 19,483.10 0.54 30,153.32 -0.12 84,467.07 0.40 5,608.92 -0.21 4,690.95 0.18 6,008.21 -0.11 32,626.14 -0.25 7,991.24 0.51 108,135.95 -1.22 8,663.55 0.20 21,867.87 -0.45 9,362.90 0.52 9,192.57 0.03 8,495.10 -0.06 25,902.99 -0.40 6,595.32 -0.18 21,113.46 -0.40 6,016.76 -0.05 65,923.86 -0.12 4,505.88 0.11 6,979.83 0.08 17,222.17 -0.63 5,803.21 -0.29 14,549.69 -0.66 6,359.39 -1.33 43,329.67 -0.20 75,664.67 -1.08 6,316.01 -0.21 10,297.46 -0.54 5,326.42 -0.27 131,464.00 -1.16 13,655.33 -0.13 8,797.51 -0.36 8,914.10 -0.33 25,679.37 -0.46 9,429.58 -0.12 8,185.86 -0.19 6,396.38 -0.43 4,759.89 -0.43 6,725.29 0.57 5,722.53 0.28 6,576.76 -0.06 15,156.28

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Lloyds Banking Group ORD 59.06 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,668.50 Micro Focus International 1,289.00 Marks & Spencer Group 292.90 Mondi 2,082.00 Melrose 223.70 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 265.83 National Grid 805.10 NMC Health 3,684.00 Next 5,421.00 Ocado Group 979.90 Paddy Power Betfair 6,870.00 Prudential 1,680.75 Persimmon 2,362.50 Pearson 891.90 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,446.00 Royal Bank of Scotland Grp 247.25 Royal Dutch Shell 2,446.00 Royal Dutch Shell 2,483.25 RELX 1,667.25 Rio Tinto 3,513.50 Royal Mail 471.10 Rightmove 479.78 Rolls-Royce Group 965.20 Randgold Resources 4,783.50 RSA Insurance Group 614.10 Rentokil Initial 320.15 Sainsbury (J) 317.40 Schroders 2,968.00 Sage Group (The) 578.70 Segro 648.40 Shire 4,281.50 Smurfit Kappa Group 3,182.00 Sky 1,545.50 Standard Life Aberdeen 315.40 Smith (DS) 486.20 Smiths Group 1,578.50 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 530.75 Smith & Nephew 1,377.00 SSE 1,246.50 Standard Chartered 620.90 St James's Place 1,100.00 Severn Trent 1,952.75 Tesco 238.85 TUI AG 1,330.00 Taylor Wimpey 165.88 Unilever 4,246.50 United Utilities Group 721.90 Vodafone Group 166.42 WPP Group 1,165.75 Whitbread 4,698.50

CHANGE(P) 0.32 24.50 2.50 -0.50 0.00 -2.50 3.93 0.20 -6.00 -27.00 2.30 35.00 -0.25 -6.50 -4.90 -10.00 2.25 2.50 4.25 15.75 4.00 3.50 1.78 -4.80 14.50 -0.30 -0.35 -1.50 2.00 -2.90 -3.00 -3.00 -8.00 -4.50 1.70 1.40 9.00 -0.25 -7.00 -6.00 1.40 -1.00 -1.75 -0.05 -4.50 0.08 1.50 2.90 1.16 0.75 -11.50

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0.54 0.53 0.19 -0.17 0.00 -1.11 1.50 0.02 -0.16 -0.50 0.24 0.51 -0.01 -0.27 -0.55 -0.15 0.92 0.10 0.17 0.95 0.11 0.75 0.37 -0.49 0.30 -0.05 -0.11 -0.47 0.07 -0.50 -0.46 -0.07 -0.25 -0.29 0.54 0.29 0.57 -0.05 -0.51 -0.48 0.23 -0.09 -0.09 -0.02 -0.34 0.05 0.04 0.40 0.70 0.06 -0.24

42,615.51 16,232.84 5,562.57 4,830.64 7,763.47 11,173.99 6,195.94 27,537.93 7,574.71 7,668.73 6,969.96 5,647.01 44,075.07 7,556.15 6,998.29 45,757.66 29,891.58 112,544.37 93,655.90 17,572.22 46,518.58 4,662.00 4,344.08 18,213.67 4,616.05 6,312.95 5,913.41 7,045.54 6,778.41 6,184.59 6,583.84 39,613.88 7,576.58 26,516.50 9,433.47 6,705.99 6,286.93 7,702.41 11,843.69 12,877.91 20,562.54 5,946.97 4,626.66 23,492.50 7,944.41 5,504.81 50,240.33 4,934.15 43,812.96 14,440.95 8,630.88

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COMPANY 3M AMERICAN EXPRESS APPLE BOEING CO CATERPILLAR CHEVRON CISCO SYSTEMS COCA-COLA DOWDUPONT EXXON MOBIL GOLDMAN SACHS HOME DEPOT IBM INTEL CORP J.P.MORGAN CHASE JOHNSON & JOHNSON MC DONALD'S CORP MERCK AND CO. NEW MICROSOFT NIKE PFIZER PROCTER AND GAMBLE TRAVELERS CIES UNITED TECHNOLOGIE UNITEDHEALTH GROUP VERIZON COMMS VISA WAL-MART STORES WALGREENS BOOTS WALT DISNEY CO

PRICE 212,570 106,0800 221,300 349,280 141,320 114,60 47,050 45,72 70,00 81,83 233,91 206,2300 145,45 46,4500 114,3200 137,3200 163,9000 69,67 108,210 80,30 42,2000 81,910 130,09 132,01 268,28 54,00 143,20 95,8300 68,19 110,9700

CHANGE% CHANGE VOLUME(M) -0,08% -0,170 124.749,22 +0,65% 0,6800 91.392,30 -0,81% -1,800 1.069.442,21 -0,57% -1,990 200.802,15 -0,18% -0,250 83.996,01 -0,55% -0,63 219.590,46 -0,49% -0,230 221.317,63 -0,11% -0,05 194.401,09 -0,11% -0,08 161.516,38 +1,70% 1,37 346.452,70 -0,26% -0,61 88.348,16 +0,17% 0,3400 236.024,27 -0,64% -0,94 132.775,82 -1,71% -0,8100 216.596,80 +0,19% 0,2200 384.485,14 +0,33% 0,4500 368.798,48 +0,10% 0,1600 127.192,48 +0,42% 0,29 185.368,91 -0,49% -0,530 831.398,86 -0,12% -0,10 102.823,25 +1,01% 0,4200 247.556,88 -0,90% -0,740 203.966,69 -1,87% -2,48 34.828,27 -1,13% -1,51 105.628,32 -0,51% -1,37 258.116,11 -0,53% -0,29 223.165,84 -0,90% -1,30 254.541,84 -0,64% -0,6200 282.867,94 +0,24% 0,16 67.672,56 +0,64% 0,7100 165.069,06 M - MILLION DOLLARS

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Most Advanced Okta, Inc. MCBC Holdings, Inc. Shiloh Industries, Inc. Scholar Rock Holding Corporation Dicerna Pharmaceuticals, Inc. Five Below, Inc. Zealand Pharma A/S RigNet, Inc. Zscaler, Inc. Nightstar Therapeutics plc Crinetics Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

$ 71.92 $ 34.57 $ 10.08 $ 22.95 $ 14.81 $ 130.89 $ 16.06 $ 21.05 $ 46.05 $ 24.80 $ 36.63

11.72 ▲ 19.47% 4.86 ▲ 16.36% 1.33 ▲ 15.20% 2.79 ▲ 13.84% 1.79 ▲ 13.75% 15.38 ▲ 13.31% 1.69 ▲ 11.76% 2 ▲ 10.50% 4.18 ▲ 9.98% 2.20 ▲ 9.73% 3.15 ▲ 9.41%

$ 14.972 $ 4.5835 $ 7.83 $ 10.24 $ 2.575 $ 10.77 $ 19.26 $ 4.55 $ 7.05 $ 2.01 $ 34.40

5.278 ▼ 26.06% 1.0065 ▼ 18.01% 1.66 ▼ 17.49% 1.92 ▼ 15.79% 0.475 ▼ 15.57% 1.74 ▼ 13.91% 2.46 ▼ 11.33% 0.55 ▼ 10.78% 0.80 ▼ 10.19% 0.22 ▼ 9.87% 3.65 ▼ 9.59%

Most Declined Mercantil Bank Holding Corporation Opko Health, Inc. Aurora Mobile Limited Clementia Pharmaceuticals Inc. Maiden Holdings, Ltd. ChemoCentryx, Inc. Domo, Inc. Affimed N.V. Aduro Biotech, Inc. Gemphire Therapeutics Inc. Freshpet, Inc.

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FEATURE

Government directed assassinations?

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT ALL governments are not only capable, but often only too ready to use assassination as a means to a favourable end. Motives of course may differ. This latest effort, which was obviously the work of the Russian hierarchy and perpetrated as a warning to like-minded defectors, is not an exception.

‘Accidents,’ that conveniently solve political or embarrassing internal scandal issues have been around since the Neanderthals. And the British government are no slouches at it either.

All the ‘holier than thou’ shock and horror reaction to this latest Novichok attack is simply because it was perpetrated on British soil by a foreign country. Morally the UK hasn’t a leg to stand on. It is my firm belief that, even during my relatively short existence, I have witnessed at least three, glaringly obvious ‘removals’ of fellow human beings, who one way or another posed a threat to the establishment.

The first was the apparent ‘suicide’ of Stephen Ward during the Perfumo trial of the 60’s. This man was as deeply involved in that whole squalid affair as it was possible to be and so were others, whose names never came to the surface. Ward simply couldn’t believe

APPARENT SUICIDES: Dr Kelly who ended his life in a field and Jill Dando (inset) who was shot on the doorstep of her home. that he was to be sentenced the next day and that even his refusal to divulge the names of others involved (who were heavily rumoured to be royalty!) was not going to save him.

Without doubt, he was going to enter the court the following day and shop the lot. But he never made it did he? That night he managed to ‘commit suicide’! Just Google up the

footage of his body being taken from his apartment. No nurses or medics accompanied that stretcher. He was surrounded and hustled out very quickly, by men in suits! Two more recent events also took some swallowing.

One was the apparent suicide of the unfortunate Dr Kelly, who allegedly managed to voluntarily end his life in a field, after threatening

to blow the whistle on Blair’s so-called ‘sexed up’ blatant lies about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction. A number of other scientists who worked in the same Porton Down defence establishment have also met questionable deaths since his bizarre demise.

Another was the shooting of Jill Dando on the steps of her home in 1999. Jill Dando was the leading anchor of BBC TV’s Crimewatch and was, at the time, preparing to release explosive details of a leading paedophile ring she had been investigating. Her rather convenient, still unsolved murder, did of course put an end to this investigation and the subsequent unmasking of any high-profile individuals who may have been involved in it. Judges, politicians, police, pop singers? Who knows? Not us minions for sure.

And with the elite of the country prepared to go to any lengths to protect their rear ends, we probably never will.

Many thanks for all of last week’s mail.

However, to the one sad individual, that turned a small spelling error into a three-act play, (I really do know the difference between emphasise and empathise) all I can say is get a life!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

Leapy Lee’s opinions are his own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.

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

NON-LEAGUE football club Clapton wears a shirt with the colours of the Republican flag, the three-pointed star of the International Brigade and Dolores Ibarruri’s slogan unprophetic battlecry ‘No pasaran’ (They shall not pass).

Clapton is a far cry from Guadalajara or Teruel but the team chose the shirt from a selection of 16.

“I wanted to make something that marked the importance of the sacrifice of those who fought against fascism,” the shirt’s designer.

Instead of selling an expected 250 shirts, there are orders for thousands more because it is a sell-out in Spain.

All thanks and gratitude towards Juan Carlos

Red, yellow and purple and for what he contributed to the Transition in his younger days and his son Felipe is giving a thankless task his best shot but the Spanish are not genuinely monarchist.

There is general media interest in what Letizia or the Infantas are wearing and everyone loves a touch of royal scandal but there is still something about the colours of the Republican flag that provokes a stab of pre-Franco nostalgia.

Or there was until the unilateral declaration of the Catalan republic on October 27 when Carles Puigdemont went and gave Republicanism a bad name.

Boxing clever SCOTTISH First Minister Nicola Sturgeon

Help from above PABLO IGLESIAS and Irene Montero are now the parents of twins, but the boys Manuel and Leo arrived ahead of schedule in July at 26 weeks.

The couple - supremo and sub-supremo of the Podemos party - recently issued a statement, thanking the Gregorio Marañon hospital in Madrid for the care the babies have received and are receiving there.

LETTERS FROM CANARIES

By Barbara Belt barbarabelt@gmail.com THE Canarian summer season’s winding down, hooray. It’s been a good one, with lots of visitors from the other islands and the mainland enjoying the usual round of fiestas, romerias, bailes and beaches.

This summer’s novelty has been the large number of camper vans parked up wherever they can get away with it, fruit of our wonderful 75 per cent resident travel discount. Taking just a car on any of the 29, inter and intra-island Canarian ferry routes was disproportionally expensive before.

Incredibly, it was far cheaper to fly to Europe than to go by ferry from one of the western isles (Tenerife, La Gomera, El Hierro, La Palma) to one of the eastern (Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, La Graciosa) and pricey to even pop across to nearer neighbours. So nobody had campers.

Now they do, lovely new ones predominating amongst the home-converted vans and hippy buses. Congratulations camper sales teams everywhere, who must be so happy they can hardly count.

As is traditional, this fairly obvious development has taken the islands by surprise. Nobody really wanted it. I mean, come on! Who do they think they are just driving in here all self-contained with beds and kitchens?

Spanish veto that would result from cosying up to the Catalan separatists for the benefit of the pro-independence vote.

Wrong target

who was enthusiastically planning a Cataluña visit is cooling off.

This has cheesed Scottish nationalists who like to see parallels with Cataluña but they can look for them until they are blue in the face and under their kilts but the similarities are few.

Cataluña has never suffered under the Spanish in the same way that Scotland suffered centuries ago under the English unless you count Franco’s repression, which was felt all over Spain and was even more savage in some of the country’s other regions.

Not that Sturgeon is cooling off about Scottish independence. Instead she’s boxing clever because if that happens, Scotland would have to apply straight away to rejoin the European Union.

The last thing Edinburgh wants is a future

Although the couples are republicans, the communique said, the King and Queen asked after the twins “and all our political rivals frequently wanted to know how they were” they said.

“We are atheists but will explain to our children that our friends who are believers prayed for us. The Virgen del Transito, Santa Rosa de Vi t e r b o a n d S a n t a M a r i a L i b e r a t r i c e w e r e asked for help (and one never knows...).”

FEATURE

SPAIN’S Minister of Labour Magdalena Valerio described the newly-created prostitutes’ trade union OTRA as an own-goal.

“This is one of the biggest upsets of my political life,” she fumed, and plans to annul the legalisation.

Prostitution is supposed to be the oldest profession and unfortunately pimping is the second-oldest. Valerio should instead devote her energies to eradicating that and the peopletrafficking and drugs trade it involves.

Indeed one does not, which is why Santiago Carrillo, leader of the Spanish Communist Party between 1960 and 1982 happily described himself as a ‘god-fearing atheist.’

PABLO IGLESIAS: Now father of twins.

The summer season is winding down

SUMMER SEASON: It’s been a good one, with lots of visitors.

So, of course no provision was made and our tourists on wheels must fend for themselves with where to get away with parking, or dumping rubbish, or filling up with fresh water or, worryingly, where to dump waste tank black water.

Adding to the holiday challenge is the Guardia Civil’s interestingly random behaviour.

Where it was OK to park last week isn’t this, and vice versa.

It’ll all sort itself in the fullness of time. The traditional, prescribed period of regulation scrapping must first take place between political parties, stuck as they are in permanent combat mode. Forward progress is tortuously slow.

I left my last (ever, I hope) public council meeting needing several stiff drinks, totally disgusted by the nitpicking rancour, vindictiveness and hopeless obstructionism displayed. I felt very sorry for the poor bugger

trying to whip the whole circus into line and, by extension, all island politicians, though not those who’ve used the nest-feathering opportunities such discord affords.

But that’s another story.

On the news front, 12 yachts left Huelva on September 1 in the 700 nautical mile, annual Regatta Colombina to La Gomera, commemorating the first stage of Columbus’ 1492 journey to the New World, while eastern province news is of Dark Tourism, the very latest in niche tourism, involving visits to tragedy sites. (It’s true!) Gran Canaria is proud to offer not only: ‘Heartbreaking cries, provoking a profound sadness’ at its Casa del Niño de Zárate, to those so inclined, but also: ‘Terrifying glimpses of rusty wheelchairs appearing in a bathroom mirror’ at the long closed San Martín Hospital.

I won’t mention that Christopher Columbus’ arrival in the Americas heralded much tragedy and, thus, future Dark Tourism potential for the New World. The conclusion that tragedy’s good for tourism confirms all my misgivings about it.

Links to further info: • Maps: http://mapasmercadocultural.com/en/mapas-2018-presentation.

• Tips: https://www.lornoar.com/copie-de-epk (Lornoar from Cameroon); http://kukai.info/es/topa (Spanish dance group Kukai Dantza).

• Favourite: https://soundcloud.com/trokerofficial (Troker, from Mexico).

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Are you a psychopath?

Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man AFTER 30 odd years of being together and three years of her tidying up my articles, I am proud to announce Mrs S today officially became Mrs Grumpy after nearly starting World War Three in the post office.

Well, a very English, Berkshire brought up version of a world war. So here’s why Mrs Grumpy kicked off and how she did it. She wanted to pay an electric bill - not even ours I might add. Endesa was mobbed so we decided to go to the post office where there was the standard one person serving and there was just one person being served.

Mrs S was next to be served. After 15 minutes waiting and a bit of eyebrow raising exchange with the man who was now next to be served after Mrs S, Patti felt she had no choice but to begin the ‘tut’ combined with a ‘huff’ combination. This is the standard British way of signalling one’s discontent to anyone who might be interested.

After this elicited no response whatsoever from the lady being served or from the woman serving her, Patti went full blown into the demonic waving of the said electric bill swiftly followed by the adoption of the classic

war pose - hands on hips whilst continuing to tut and huff - this is no mean feat!

What was really annoying was that the customer was filling out forms and putting addresses on envelopes and, of course, what she should have done was go to one side to do that so other people could be served, and then come back when her admin was completed. I personally never understand why people don’t speak up - I would have said, ‘excuse me love - pop over there and do that,’ but Mrs S seemingly prefers the mime method of communication.

The bottom line is no-one took any notice of my wife’s valiant attempts to move things along, even though the fellow Brit behind her had joined in the huffing and tutting therefore making a two pronged attack. So 30 minutes later, with a queue now snaking out of the door, our friend’s electric bill was duly paid and Mrs S was feeling murderous.

Whilst I talked her down in the car we decided that people here in Spain who work in banks, post offices, utility companies etc must have to undergo a psychological evaluation before they are taken on to ensure they are a psychopath. That’s the only sure way of maintaining the lack of empathy, lack of guilt and lack of eye contact. It’s an art - shallow emotional response traits found in all these workers plus in all psychopaths. mikesenker@gmail.com

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Paw Patrol Floogals Shimmer and Shine Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Peppa Pig Jeremy Vine Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

5 News Lunchtime NCIS Home and Away Neighbours You Killed My Mother Friends 5 News at 5 Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Police Interceptors I Survived a Sinkhole Celebs in Solitary Texas Mega Jail: Serial Killer Hell Inside Wormwood Scrubs

10:00am Melissa and Joey 11:00am Young and Hungry 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Young and Hungry 5:30pm Young and Hungry 6:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm All Star Driving School 9:00pm Young Sheldon 9:30pm Young Sheldon 10:00pm The Big Bang Theory 10:30pm The Big Bang Theory 11:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 11:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 12:00am The Big Bang Theory 12:30am The Big Bang Theory

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Batman Batman Returns Batman Forever King Arthur: of the Sword Jack Reacher Final Score King Arthur: of the Sword Jack Reacher Fearless Kiss of the Dragon

6:30am Black Panther: Special Sky Movies takes a special look at Marvel's superhero adventure, starring Chadwick Boseman (Captain America: Civil War) and Creed's Michael B Jordan.

7:00am The Disaster Artist 9:00am Singularity 10:50am Final Score 12:40pm My Friend Dahmer 2:40pm Never Steady, Never Still 4:45pm The Disaster Artist 6:35pm The Ballad of Lefty Brown 8:30pm Final Score: Special 9:00pm Final Score 10:50pm My Friend Dahmer 12:45am Hatred 3:00am Psych: the Movie 4:40am Final Score

12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm Football's Greatest 1:30pm Football Countdowns 2:00pm Football Years 2:30pm Football Countdowns 3:00pm Play Off Final Highlights 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm One2eleven 5:15pm One2eleven 5:30pm One2eleven 5:45pm One2eleven 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm EFL Greatest Games 7:15pm EFL Greatest Games 7:30pm Football Countdowns 8:00pm EFL Matters 8:30pm Football's Greatest 9:00pm Football Years 9:30pm EFL Matters 10:00pm Best Championship Goals 2017/18 10:30pm EFL Greatest Games 10:45pm EFL Greatest Games 11:00pm EFL Matters 11:30pm Football's Greatest 12:00am Play Off Final Highlights

That's Not Me Election Growing Up Smith Look Who's Talking Too 1:50pm Little Nicky 3:30pm The Other Guys 5:25pm Table 19 7:00pm American Pie: Reunion 9:00pm Little Nicky 10:40pm The Other Guys 12:35am National Lampoon's Animal House

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by Adam Whalley-Lewis LET’S start this week with a triplet of thank you messages. Firstly, thank you for the TV emails, I love reading them and will try to get around to looking at all of your suggestions.

Just for the record and in particular in reply to Susan447 in Costa Blanca North, no the picture isn’t me, I think it’s an emoji-typething…

Secondly, thank you to new pals Pam and John who I met in Gibraltar, via a much delayed flight to the UK and my lovely other half, for the email about their viewing habits, more on that below and finally, thank you to my wonderful parents who celebrate 50 years of marriage this week, love to you both.

How are you getting on watching the Bodyguard and Vanity Fair? They are both grabbing the ratings back in the UK. I’m still not convinced about Vanity, but the Bodyguard is an absolute winner. Told you it would be.

A sure sign that Christmas can’t be too far away (yes, Christmas, not The Holidays, we don’t live in Florida) is the start of Strictly Come Dancing, or Strictly as we will call it.

I say start, more of a limp into the new season last weekend and then a two week break.

Strictonites will love it, I like the music, but

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Gogglebox, Goggle-who?

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FEATURE

GOGGLEBOX: A few new faces as well as some of the regulars. let’s wait and see if the dancing is up to scratch.

Not necessarily connecting to Christmas, Gogglebox is back on Channel 4, Fridays and via catch up. There are a few new faces but I’m pleased to say some of the regulars remain. I’m really pleased that Giles, Mary and their wonderful thatched cottage are back -

wouldn’t you just love to see around the rest of their home, rather than just their TV corner - can you imagine what their taste in pillows and throws is like?

The two London based all-about-town girls seem to be fun, but maybe they should watch a little bit more TV and eat a little bit less popcorn, just a thought? Whilst we are in Goggle-

land, where did Channel 4 find the two friends from South Shields, you know, fake tan, portrait of The Queen and statue of The Madonna all in the same room?

You might remember that my brother lives on the north east coast in Shields and he doesn’t have any sort of tan or any regal pictures. I will come back to you on the statue point, need to be careful on that one.

I need to mention X Factor. Sorry, but I do.

Did you see Robbie steal Andy’s thunder and self promote his own song? I’m a Robbie fan, but he didn’t need to belt out Angels and push Andy to the side. We know Mr Williams is amazing, but surely the contestant should have been given centre stage?

So, to Pam and John’s TV choices. It’s probably Pam’s choice if I’m honest, but what choices they are. You will need to hunt down Succession, probably via a Dish or something similar. This is a US drama focused on the Roy family and their media empire. Jerry Hall should look away at this point.

Fans of James Patterson’s Murder Games should look out for Instinct, again via satellite.

Expect a gritty police drama which focuses on being realistic and which gets procedure and process spot on.

Happy Viewing.

HappyViewing1@outlook.com

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Council House Crackdown 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Dom on the Spot 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Neighbourhood Blues 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Celebrity MasterChef 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm Room 101 12:15am The Luke McQueen Pilots 12:50am The Other Man

4:00am ITV Nightscreen 6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 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 ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Island Strait 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show 12:50am Red Heat 2:30am Jackpot247

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An Island Parish Garden Rescue Antiques Road Trip Gardeners' World Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live Politics Live For What It's Worth Building Dream Homes Who Do You Think You Are? World's Weirdest Events Attenborough's Big Birds Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Celebrity Eggheads The Repair Shop Great British Menu Gardeners' World Ancient Invisible Cities: Athens Mock the Week Newsnight Front Row Late Trust Gettys: The World's Richest Art Dynasty Panorama

9:25am Emmerdale 9:55am You've Been Framed! Gold 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:15am You've Been Framed! Gold 12:15pm Dress to Impress 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! Gold 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 4:45pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 5:50pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm You've Been Framed! Gold 8:00pm You've Been Framed! Gold 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pm The Expendables 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Expendables 12:05am Family Guy

5:00am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 17 April 1986.

9:00pm Queens of Soul 10:00pm Classic Albums 11:00pm Amy Winehouse 11:50pm Arena 12:55am Top of the Pops Gary Davies presents the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 17 April 1986.

1:25am Music Moguls: Masters of Pop 2:25am Queens of Soul 3:25am Classic Albums 4:25am This is BBC Four BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

3:30am Teleshopping 7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 8:55am The Royal 9:55am Judge Judy 10:25am Judge Judy 10:50am Judge Judy 11:20am Inspector Morse 1:35pm The Royal 2:35pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:50pm Goodbye Mr Chips 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Home Fires 10:00pm Grantchester 11:00pm Grantchester 12:00am The Mafia with Trevor McDonald 1:05am DCI Banks 2:05am DCI Banks 3:05am A Touch of Frost 4:50am A Touch of Frost

9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:55am Frasier 10:25am Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Practice 1 Live 12:05pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News Midday Summary 2018 1:05pm A New Life in the Sun 2:10pm Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Practice 2 Live 4:05pm Find it, Fix it, Flog it 5:00pm A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Naked Attraction 12:05am First Dates Hotel

8:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:05am Paw Patrol 9:25am Floogals 9:40am Shimmer and Shine 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:05am Peppa Pig 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm NCIS 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Secret Liaison 5:00pm Friends 5:30pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Loch Ness Monster: The Missing Evidence 9:00pm Britain by Bike with Larry and George Lamb 10:00pm Big Brother 12:05am Big Brother's Bit on the Side

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Teleshopping The Chase The Chase Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Saint Cycling: La Vuelta a Espana Highlights The Protectors ITV Racing: Live from Doncaster Football's Greatest: Bobby Charlton The Saint The Avengers Storage Wars Cycling: La Vuelta a Espana Highlights Jaws 4: The Revenge FYI Daily Jaws 4: The Revenge The Departed FYI Daily The Departed The Saint Lethal Weapon ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Death Race Doctor Strange Logan Kingsman: The Golden Circle Rocky Balboa Logan Final Score Kingsman: The Golden Circle Machete Death Race

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Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Young and Hungry Young and Hungry How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks All Star Driving School The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol Friday Night Dinner

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Final Score Mamma Mia - Here We Go Again: Special My Friend Dahmer Never Steady, Never Still The Disaster Artist Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Final Score Final Score: Special The Ballad of Lefty Brown My Friend Dahmer Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Starry adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery novel.

Final Score Psych: the Movie Hatred Final Score

10:00am Football Years 10:30am EFL Matters 11:00am Championship Season Review 12:00pm One2eleven 12:15pm One2eleven 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm Football's Greatest 1:30pm Live Chinese Super League 3:35pm One2eleven 3:50pm One2eleven 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm One2eleven 5:15pm One2eleven 5:30pm One2eleven 5:45pm One2eleven 6:00pm EFL Matters 6:30pm Football Countdowns 7:00pm SPFL Matters 7:30pm EFL Matters 8:00pm Football 11:15pm The Debate - Live 12:15am SPFL Matters

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Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Rugby Gold Live New Zealand NPC Rugby Good Morning Sports Fans Premier League Greatest Games Live Singapore F1 GP: Practice Live LPGA - Evian Masters My Icon Live Singapore F1 GP: Practice Live LPGA - Evian Masters Sky Sports News at 5 Sky Sports News at 6 Football The Debate - Live Premier League Match Pack Premier League Greatest Games Cricket Cricket Cricket

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Nora Johnson

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

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

RECENTLY we’ve been bombarded with a flurry of reports from consumer watchdog ‘Which?’ that basically confirm how nervewracking flying’s become!

According to one survey, flight times have been quietly padded out by up to 30 minutes by major airlines (British Airways, Ryanair etc) to ensure they don’t arrive late and thereby avoid compensation for delays.

According to another report, Luton’s won the title of Britain’s worst airport for the third year in a row. What an achievement.

Well done Luton!

Passenger activity at airports fundamentally boils down to three things: departing, arriving and waiting. Airport passengers are a captive audience, with disposable income, time on their hands, and literally nowhere else to go. So is it surprising airports are scrupulously designed to make you spend your hard-earned cash?

Well, they might think those wretched ‘serpentine’ duty free shops smelling like a tart’s parlour you’re forced to traipse through after security are inclined to make you spend, certainly not with me or anyone I know. After the invariably long, often irri-

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Holidays from hell, and that’s just the airport!

DREAMBOAT OR DREAMBOARD: No budget at airport for passengers. tating experience at security, the first thing I want to do is find somewhere quiet to sit down and recover.

Airport shops also baffle me. A suitcase?

I’ve just checked mine in so why do I want to buy one now that undoubtedly won’t be permitted on the plane? Booze is often cheaper at the destination and chocolates often cost up to 50 per cent more than locally.

And who buys all those emergency ties and underwear?

Oh, and I left off: the security checks that on one occasion lasted as long as the flight; the dreadful, overpriced terminal food; the sense that every official involved in the process is trying to catch you out and send you to the back of an ever-growing queue; the bag-drop cattle-like queues; IT glitches; the poor signage; the car parking rip-off charges; the wait for the lack-of-courtesy bus.

The mindless consumerism of terminal shopping, (plus interminable flight delays) is to calm and peace of mind what Trump is to feminism!

OK, rant over. Next scandal, please!

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.norajohnson.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

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LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can community ban lets?

Last week we held our community AGM. On the published agenda was the question: should we allow touristic lets, YES or NO? We heard arguments from both sides and the item was put to the vote and the result was NO. Some of those who voted YES became upset and said they did not accept the vote. Then our administrator said that we had been too hasty in our decision and that in a month, we should bring the item back at an extraordinary general meeting, even though we had more than three weeks notice that this was a agenda item. Can they really attempt to reverse the vote?

D C (Mallorca) Yes they can.

David Searl However, the You and the Law real question here is in Spain whether the community in fact has the power to prohibit short-term touristic rentals. Unless the community’s original Statutes state that tourist rentals are prohibited, or may be prohibited by majority vote, the community does not have the legal power to prohibit such rentals. The original Statutes can only be modified by unanimous vote, which does not seem likely in this case.

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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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Nadiya's Family Favourites 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Rowing: World Championships 2018 3:45pm Triathlon World : Gold Coast Highlights 5:15pm Final Score 6:15pm BBC News 6:25pm Regional News 6:28pm Weather 6:30pm Impossible Celebrities 7:20pm Pointless 8:10pm Strictly the Best 9:25pm Casualty 10:15pm Killing Eve 11:00pm BBC News 11:15pm Weather 11:20pm Match of the Day 12:45am The NFL Show 1:15am Weather for the Week Ahead 1:20am BBC News

9:00am The Dengineers 9:30am Absolute Genius with Dick and Dom 10:00am Planet Dinosaur 10:30am Elephant Diaries 11:00am The Animal's Guide to Britain 12:00pm Natural World 1:00pm Nigel Slater: Eating Together 1:30pm Great British Menu 2:00pm Great British Menu 2:30pm Tom Kerridge's Proper Pub Food 3:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 3:45pm Wanted Down Under 4:30pm Scrappers 5:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 6:00pm Trust Me, I'm a Doctor 6:30pm Ancient Invisible Cities: Athens 7:30pm Dad's Army 8:00pm This Beautiful Fantastic 9:30pm Princess Margaret: The Rebel Royal 10:30pm Live at the Apollo 11:00pm Three Summers 12:40am Mean Streets

4:25am This is BBC Four BBC Four is the BBC channel for people who want more.

8:00pm Secrets of Our Living Planet 9:00pm Lost Land of the Tiger 10:00pm The Plague 10:40pm The Plague 11:30pm British Sitcom: 60 Years of Laughing at Ourselves 12:30am Biggest Band Breakups and Makeups 1:30am Top of the Pops Paul Jordan and Steve Wright present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 27 February 1986.

2:05am Secrets of Our Living Planet 3:05am Lost Land of the Tiger

7:45am King of Queens 8:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:25am The Big Bang Theory 11:55am Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Practice 3 Live 1:25pm F1: Grand Prix 1:55pm Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Qualifying Live 4:45pm Car S.O.S 5:45pm The People's Vet 6:45pm Escape to the Chateau: DIY 7:40pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Britain at Low Tide 9:00pm Hannibal's Elephant Army: The New Evidence 10:00pm Daddy's Home 11:50pm X-Men: The Last Stand 1:45am The Master

6:35am The Great Artists 7:00am Milkshake!

11:00am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35am The Wonderful World of Puppies 12:20pm Police Interceptors 1:20pm Police Interceptors 2:20pm Police Interceptors 3:20pm Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 4:20pm Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 5:20pm Rich House, Poor House 6:20pm 5 News 6:25pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

7:20pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

8:05pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

9:00pm Secrets of Underground Britain 10:00pm How the Victorians Built Britain 11:00pm Tower Bridge: Britain's Greatest Bridges 12:05am The Headless Gladiators of York

8:55am All Star Driving School 9:30am All Star Driving School 10:00am All Star Driving School 10:35am Diary of a Wimpy Kid 12:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:00pm The Goldbergs 2:30pm The Goldbergs 3:00pm The Goldbergs 3:30pm The Goldbergs 4:00pm The Great British Bake Off 5:15pm The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice 6:15pm Extreme Cake Makers 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Die Hard 12:40am Gogglebox

7:55am Share a Story 8:00am Cut the Rope: Om Nom Stories 8:05am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:15am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Toonmarty 8:40am Toonmarty 8:55am Thunderbirds are Go 9:25am Spy School 9:55am The Haunted Hathaways 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:40pm The Island Strait 1:10pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:25pm The X Factor 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm WOS Wrestling 6:00pm ITV Evening News 6:15pm Regional News and Weather 6:35pm Info Not Available 9:30pm The X Factor 10:45pm The Jonathan Ross Show 11:45pm ITV News 12:00am Play to the Whistle

7:35am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:45am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:40pm Celebrity Catchphrase 2:40pm You've Been Framed! Gold 3:45pm You've Been Framed! Gold 4:10pm The X Factor 5:15pm Spy Kids 3: Game Over 6:20pm FYI Daily 6:25pm Spy Kids 3: Game Over 7:05pm The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 8:05pm FYI Daily 8:10pm The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor 9:10pm Hot Pursuit 10:10pm FYI Daily 10:15pm Hot Pursuit 11:00pm Celebrity Juice 11:50pm Family Guy 12:20am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:20am American Dad!

6:30am ITV3 Nightscreen 7:00am Murder, She Wrote 7:55am Columbo: Suitable for Framing 9:40am The Likely Lads 11:30am Inspector Morse 1:50pm Inspector Morse 4:05pm Carry on Loving 6:00pm Lewis 8:00pm Midsomer Murders 10:00pm Endeavour Crime drama series about the early career of detective Endeavour Morse.

12:00am Vera 2:00am On the Buses Classic sitcom. Stan's attempts to woo the inspector's niece at a dinner party end in disaster.

2:30am On the Buses 3:00am ITV3 Nightscreen 3:30am Teleshopping

10:30am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:30am Cycling: La Vuelta a Espana Highlights 12:35pm Football Rivalries 12:45pm Storage Wars 1:10pm Storage Wars 1:40pm Storage Wars 2:10pm Storage Wars 2:40pm Storage Wars 3:05pm Storage Wars 3:35pm Storage Wars 4:05pm Silverstone Classic 5:05pm Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 6:10pm FYI Daily 6:15pm Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure 6:55pm The Chase: Celebrity Special 8:00pm Cycling: La Vuelta a España Highlights 9:00pm River Monsters 9:30pm River Monsters 10:00pm Rambo III 11:05pm FYI Daily 11:10pm Rambo III 12:10am Platoon 1:15am FYI Daily 1:20am Platoon

7:00am Conan the Barbarian 9:15am Final Score: Special 9:45am Legion 11:30am Fast and Furious 8 2:00pm Thor: Ragnarok 4:15pm Conan the Barbarian 6:30pm Fast and Furious 8 9:00pm Thor: Ragnarok 11:25pm Legion 1:15am Sudden Death 3:15am Death Warrant

6:30am Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Special Sky Movies takes a behind-the-scenes look at the latest trip into JK Rowling's wizarding world.

7:00am Never Steady, Never Still 9:00am The Ballad of Lefty Brown 11:00am The Oddsockeaters 12:35pm Final Score: Special 1:05pm Final Score 3:00pm Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express 5:00pm Top Ten Show, the 2018 5:20pm The Disaster Artist 7:20pm The Oddsockeaters 9:00pm Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express 11:00pm Final Score 12:50am My Friend Dahmer 2:45am Psych: the Movie 4:35am Final Score

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Shallow Hal Norbit Stuck on You Girls Trip Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Jack and Jill The Bounty Hunter Girls Trip Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy Jack and Jill

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7:00am Breakfast 9:35am Match of the Day 11:00am The Andrew Marr Show 12:00pm Sunday Politics 12:30pm Sunday Morning Live 1:30pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Still Open All Hours 2:45pm Hold the Sunset 3:15pm Escape to the Country 3:45pm Lifeline 3:55pm Points of View 4:10pm Songs of Praise 4:45pm Fake or Fortune?

5:45pm Shop Well for Less 6:45pm Pointless 7:35pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:55pm Weather 8:00pm Countryfile 9:00pm Antiques Roadshow 10:00pm Bodyguard 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2 12:30am The Devil's Double

7:05am Around the World in 80 Gardens 8:05am Gardeners' World 9:05am Countryfile 10:00am The Beechgrove Garden 10:30am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:00pm Great British Menu 12:30pm Great British Menu 1:00pm Great British Menu 1:30pm Rowing: World Championships 2018 3:00pm Triathlon World : Gold Coast Highlights 4:30pm Flog It! 5:20pm Money for Nothing 6:05pm Jaguars: Brazil's Super Cats 7:05pm Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 9:00pm Dragons' Den 10:00pm King Arthur's Britain: The Truth Unearthed 11:00pm Mock the Week 11:30pm No Activity 11:55pm No Activity 12:20am The Mighty Redcar 1:05am American Justice

8:00pm The Last Night of the Proms From Around the UK 9:30pm Tate Liverpool at 30 10:00pm James May: The People's Car 11:00pm Storyville Documentary which combines astonishing footage from Saigon in April 1975 with contemporary reflections from those who were there.

12:40am The Last Explorers Archaeologist and writer Neil Oliver follows in the footsteps of four Scottish explorers.

1:40am Pappano's Classical Voices 2:40am Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? Britain's Hidden Art History 3:40am James May: The People's Car

7:15am King of Queens 7:40am King of Queens 8:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Sunday Brunch 1:00pm Formula 1 1:40pm Formula 1 Singapore Grand Prix Live 4:30pm Formula 1 5:15pm Orangutan Jungle School 6:15pm The Great British Bake Off 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Million Pound Mega Yachts 9:00pm Battle of Britain: Model Squadron 10:00pm Celebrity Island with Bear Grylls 11:00pm Dawn of the Planet of the Apes 1:35am Adore 3:40am Homes by the Sea 4:35am Grand Designs 5:30am Vet on the Hill

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11:00am Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:35am Monkeys Make You Laugh Out Loud 12:20pm Police Interceptors 1:10pm Friends 1:30pm Friends 2:00pm Friends 2:30pm Friends 3:00pm Friends 3:30pm Friends 4:00pm Friends 4:30pm Friends 5:00pm Friends 5:25pm Friends 5:55pm The Kid 7:55pm 5 News 8:00pm World's Most 9:00pm Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle 11:00pm Big Brother 12:30am 20 Moments That Rocked Comedy 2:00am Super Casino 4:10am Loch Ness Monster: The Missing Evidence 5:00am Tattoo Disasters 5:25am Tattoo Disasters 5:45am Wildlife SOS

7:00am Hollyoaks Omnibus 9:20am Made in Chelsea: Croatia 10:25am Don't Tell the Bride 11:30am Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 11:40am The Goldbergs 12:10pm The Goldbergs 12:40pm The Goldbergs 1:10pm The Goldbergs 1:40pm Young Sheldon 2:10pm Young Sheldon 2:40pm The Big Bang Theory 3:10pm The Big Bang Theory 3:40pm The Big Bang Theory 4:10pm The Big Bang Theory 4:40pm The Big Bang Theory 5:10pm The Big Bang Theory 5:40pm The Big Bang Theory 6:10pm The Big Bang Theory 6:40pm The Big Bang Theory 7:10pm The Big Bang Theory 7:40pm Back to the Future 10:00pm Krypton 11:00pm Fear the Walking Dead 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory 1:05am Tattoo Fixers 2:10am Krypton

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8:15am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Toonmarty 8:40am Toonmarty 8:55am Thunderbirds are Go 9:25am Spy School 9:55am The Haunted Hathaways 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Ninja Warrior UK 11:30am WOS Wrestling 12:30pm The X Factor 1:45pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:50pm You've Got Mail 4:00pm Paul O'grady's Little Heroes 4:30pm Love Your Garden 5:30pm Tipping Point 6:30pm The Chase 7:30pm ITV Evening News 7:45pm Regional News and Weather 8:00pm 5 Gold Rings 9:00pm The X Factor 10:00pm Vanity Fair 11:05pm The Imitation Game 11:45pm ITV News 12:00am Joanna Lumley's Silk Road Adventure

7:00am The Planet's Funniest Animals 7:25am You've Been Framed!

Gold 7:50am Emmerdale Omnibus 11:00am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:50pm Ninja Warrior UK 2:50pm You've Been Framed!

Gold 3:20pm The X Factor 4:40pm Paul Blart: Mall Cop 5:45pm FYI Daily 5:50pm Paul Blart: Mall Cop 6:30pm Minions 7:35pm FYI Daily 7:40pm Minions 8:25pm Battleship 9:25pm FYI Daily 9:30pm Battleship 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 11:55pm Family Guy 12:25am American Dad! 12:55am American Dad! 1:25am The Cleveland Show 1:50am Ghosted 2:20am Release the Hounds 3:15am Teleshopping

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7:00am The Disaster Artist 9:00am The Oddsockeaters 10:40am Top Ten Show, the 2018 11:00am My Friend Dahmer 1:00pm Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Starry adaptation of Agatha Christie's classic murder mystery novel.

3:10pm The Forgiven 5:20pm The Oddsockeaters 7:00pm Final Score 9:00pm Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express 11:00pm The Forgiven 1:10am Final Score 3:00am Psych: the Movie 4:40am My Friend Dahmer Chilling biopic exploring the troubled high-school years of notorious cannibalistic serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.

8:00am EFL Goals: League One and League Two 8:30am EFL Goals: Championship 9:30am EFL Goals: League One and League Two 10:00am EFL Greatest Games 10:15am EFL Greatest Games 10:30am Sunday Supplement 12:00pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:30pm Live Chinese Super League 3:35pm Football 5:40pm SPFL Greatest Games 6:00pm EFL Goals: Championship 7:00pm MLS Live 9:05pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 9:35pm EFL Goals: Championship 10:30pm EFL Greatest Games 10:45pm EFL Greatest Games 11:00pm MLS Greatest Games 11:10pm Football 1:15am MLS Greatest Games

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The Good Karma Hospital Hospital drama series set in southern India.

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Moonraker Action starring Roger Moore and Lois Chiles, 1979.

FYI Daily The latest news from the world of entertainment.

Moonraker Cycling: La Vuelta a Espana Highlights A showpiece finish on the streets of Madrid for the final stage of the Vuelta.

Universal Soldier: Regeneration

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10:00am My Best Friend's Wedding 11:50am Sleepless in Seattle 1:40pm Role Models 3:30pm Chips: Law and Disorder 5:20pm Made of Honour 7:10pm Sleepless in Seattle 9:00pm Role Models 10:45pm Chips: Law and Disorder 12:35am Hot Tub Time Machine 2:25am Coming to America

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11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Dom on the Spot 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Chase the Case 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Inside Out 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm Reported Missing 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got a Bit More 2017 News for You 12:30am Segregated America: A School in the South

7:15am An Island Parish 7:45am The World's Most Photographed 8:15am Antiques Road Trip 9:00am Fake or Fortune?

10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 12:45pm The Week in Parliament 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm World Equestrian Games 4:30pm Natural World 5:15pm Ingenious Animals 6:15pm Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Celebrity Eggheads 7:45pm The Repair Shop 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Monkman and Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain 9:30pm University Challenge 10:00pm Black Earth Rising 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Chris Packham: In Search of the Lost Girl 1:15am Celebrity MasterChef

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm National Treasures of Wales 9:00pm South Pacific 10:00pm Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox 11:00pm Handmade in the Pacific 11:30pm Iolo's Brecon Beacons Iolo Williams explores the Brecon Beacons over the seasons.

12:00am Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture Alastair Sooke looks at the history of British sculpture.

1:00am Time Shift 2:00am The Story of Scottish Art 3:00am The Joy of Data 4:00am Oceans Apart: Art and the Pacific with James Fox

8:15am Mike and Molly 8:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:05am Frasier 10:35am Frasier 11:05am Undercover Boss USA 12:00pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 2:05pm A New Life in the Sun 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Find it, Fix it, Flog it 5:00pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Extreme Cake Makers 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Jamie Cooks Italy 9:30pm Travel Man 10:00pm The Undateables 11:00pm Gogglebox 12:00am 24 Hours in A&E

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 Tenable 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 Griff's Great Britain 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Strangers 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm Regional News and Weather 11:45pm Serial Killer with Piers Morgan 12:45am Monster Carp 1:40am Jackpot247

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The Chase The Chase Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Saint Cycling: La Vuelta a Espana Highlights Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Saint The Avengers Storage Wars Storage Wars Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Our Everest Challenge with Ben Fogle and Victoria Pendleton Benidorm Better Late Than Never 8 Mile FYI Daily 8 Mile Motorsport UK The Protectors ITV4 Nightscreen

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My Friend Dahmer Black Panther: Special The Disaster Artist Behind-the-scenes farce charting the chaotic production of cult film The Room.

The Oddsockeaters Never Steady, Never Still Final Score: Special Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Devil's Gate The Forgiven The Oddsockeaters Poirot: Murder on the Orient Express Devil's Gate The Forgiven My Friend Dahmer The Disaster Artist

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TECH FOR THE TIMID WHAT’S almost the most expensive liquid you can buy? Champagne? Not even close. Rocket fuel? Hardly.

It’s actually none of the above.

It’s printer ink.

Forget human blood at a cheap €350 a litre - raise it to €1,500 for that precious inkjet fluid and the only thing remotely close is Chanel No 5. Which doesn’t come in black.

All this is why actual inkjet printers can be cheap-as-chips and may even be sold at less than it costs to make them.

Did I get a bargain with my €45 printer-scanner-copier? You betcha until I put new ink cartridges into it the other day at €50 a pop. In thriftier times I was a dab hand at refilling ink cartridges myself, despite the unsettling effect on visitors of a household littered with used syringes. These days your cartridge may well have a microchip on-board to block such DIY workarounds.

So which should you buy: a bar-

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Prints of thieves Do not scan and print this article, cautions Terence Kennedy

3D PRINTERS: Really have come a long way. gain-basement inkjet printer followed by its lifetime of liquid gold refills every couple of hundred sheets, or dipping deeper for a laser printer with a cartridge good for several thousand?

They work very differently. An inkjet sprays minute bubbles of ink through microscopic nozzles. Laser printers use a toner cartridge filled

with fine powder and a heated fuser. Each system has its strengths and weaknesses.

One rule of thumb might help: buy an inkjet for sporadic home use and/or if you print the odd item in colour, but a laser for the heavierduty office or that ageing familymember whose stubborn insistence on printing every e-mail makes him

eligible for the Dead Trees Society.

PRO: Ink-jets are cheap to buy, do a reasonable job with colour, can print on all sorts of stuff including fabric if you really must, and won’t break the bank when they finally spray their last.

CON: The ink costs several limbs, prints are susceptible to water damage, they’re slow, and they have limited paper-trays for big jobs.

PRO: Lasers by contrast, are fast, produce laser-sharp (duh!) text and graphics, generally print at a lower cost per sheet, and can easily handle high-volume jobs.

CON: Photo output ain’t great, they’re fussy about paper types, they take time to warm-up, the initial cost is higher and trust me, toner leaks are a nightmare.

Whichever you choose, bear in mind one infallible rule: never let a printer know you’re in a hurry.

That’s when you realise they have just three main parts: the case, the jammed paper tray and the blinking red light.

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3D or not 3D 3D printers are the latest evolution in gadgets we didn’t know we couldn’t do without.

Now you can pay about four times as much for another printer which won’t print when you absolutely need it.

Prices have dropped at breathtaking speed, in direct contrast to the time taken to actually 3D-print anything, which is painful beyond belief.

A halfway decent 3D printer can now be had for upwards of €200, and they pop up in the most unlikely places - like my local DIY superstore whose staff will print a new (plastic) part for your obsolete vacuum cleaner or other no-more-spares appliance, as long as there’s enough of the old part to scan.

The ultimate 3D-printing dream? A 3D printer which will print another 3D printer.

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YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE - YOUR OPINION Letters should be emailed to yoursay@euroweeklynews.com or make your comments on our website: www.euroweeklynews.com THANKS Leapy for your Article on PM May’s visit to Africa. As a British Civil Engineer, I worked in South Africa for more than 40 years and like the majority of ‘whites’ was pleased to see the end of apartheid and even voted for the ANC in the first democratic election in 1994.

South Africa WAS a First World Country with a well-developed infrastructure including power, water supply and treatment, modern roads designed and built in the 1970’s which make the N340 here on the Costa del Sol look like a farm track for use by cattle, to say nothing of the visual intrusion caused by the multitude of rusting advertising hoardings which litter both sides of the carriageway.

In SA there were many hospitals caring for all races including Groote Schuur, famous for the first heart transplant and Baragwanath in Johannesburg, the third largest in the world. Industry and cuttingedge mining technology were competently managed by professionally qualified staff and, to my knowledge, no person was promoted to a position without the necessary experience. Today sadly, this is no longer the case - your political orientation is the only factor.

No doubt the lefty-liberal bleeding-heart PC brigade will jump on me and play the race-card for daring to suggest that SA is

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DEAR Editor, The Spanish government has raised pensions by 0.25 per cent and if you receive IPREM of €7,519.59 / annum, this means the increase is less than €20 this year.

Now in order to receive a Bono Social of 25 per cent discount on your electricity bill, new conditions come into force on October 8, 2018.

• You have to be registered at your town hall and have DNI doc • Your total pension (UK and Spanish) must be less than 1.5 x IPREM = (€11,280) • You must use less than 1,680 KWh / annum This is a killer requirement, since being a Yorkshireman, I am extremely frugal with electric and my electricity statement with graphs shows I used 3,467 KWh / annum.

In my case during the winter here Dec, Jan, Feb, Mar and

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April I used three times the average to keep warm.

My conclusion is that for pensioners (Spanish and English) to qualify for Bono Social, this figure of 1,680 KWh / annum plucked out of the air, should be doubled at least.

Anyway, once you have applied and check out the six pages of form filling, you may well be deterred from completing your Solicitud Del Bono Social.

Don’t worry - Be Happy !

Brian Johnston, Benalmadena Costa

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OPINION: The British are failing to integrate in Spain…

I assume this article has been written to be deliberately controversial and is not the true beliefs of the author - nobody could get things that wrong or be that stupid surely????

Colin There’s way too much truthful stuff in there. If it upsets expats, then they need to take a long hard look at themselves. I speak more Spanish than most expats and I have a) never lived in Spain b) never studied Spanish I can’t believe such moronic comments as ‘see just how we are being kicked out of our own country.’

Rick We have an expression in Spain… ‘La verdad duele’ …

Jose

Benidorm Facebook group races to rescue of five Brit girls stuck in Spain The newspapers both here and the UK have heavily criticised Brits living abroad! They need to read this story and be proud of the help and support these girls have received. Well done to everyone!

Lynne

Please Africa, do not think China is your saviour because they are like a plague of locusts which will eat their way through the Continent devouring everything in their path using their own labour and leaving the local inhabitants with nothing but debt and inferior, not so cheap, Chinese clothing.

Regards, Richard Beames

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Michael

Unions agree to Ryanair strike across five European countries including Spain No idea how they’re still in business or why anyone actually chooses to fly with them...

Karon I never book Ryanair but it’s come with our holiday, can’t believe it.

Mags

ORANGE ALERT: Severe weather warnings in Spain updated for TOMORROW Bring it on!! Nothing in Pinar de Campoverde yet!

Stephen

Had some heavy rain on way to airport for about 10 mins then nothing x Lydia

SHOCKING VIDEO: Man repeatedly gored at bullrunning festival in Spain More power to the animals! Hope they win the fight at the end of the day…

Felipe It’s time this ridiculous ‘macho’ atrocity was ended. For those who have no compassion for the animals at least it will stop silly idiots hurting themselves.

Annie

WATCH: Ryanair passenger stands on seat and rants in Arabic and Spanish midflight ‘Following a search and a police caution he was released.’ Really?? Having caused enormous concern to all the passengers who presumably were worried he was about to commit an act of terror?

John

DEAR Sirs Re article on the Padron (Issue 1731).

The information was wrong when it said those staying in Spain over three months must register on the padron. The padron is the list of people who are resident in the town.

Whilst some municipalities have for many years encouraged holiday home owners to register, and thus obtain discounts on their town hall taxes, it is and was contrary to the law.

That is demonstrated by a person, say resident in Madrid, who spends more than three months a year in their holiday home on Costa Del Sol. They must register on the padron in Madrid. He/she cannot also register on the padron in the town where his/her holiday home is. Doing so would give them two votes in local and national elections and two municipalities would be getting subsidies for them.

A person who lives in Spain (thus the three month and the 183 days rules do not apply) is required to register on the padron in the town where they live. If from another country, EU or non EU, they must register on the EU Citizens’ Register as resident in Spain (or if a non EU citizen have ‘Residencia’). Residents are taxable on their worldwide income and, if their total wealth exceeds one million euros, subject to Patrimonio Tax. I know some town halls still permit non-residents to register, but they act as if in ignorance of the fact they are not resident in Spain, leaving the citizen who unlawfully registers at fault.

Unfortunately the padron system for financing municipalities was fine when the vast majority of the population were residents. However, since the increase in foreign owners the system increasingly fails to work. In some municipalities around 50 per cent of properties are owned by nonresidents, encouraging town halls to ‘dishonesty’ register non-resident home owners on their padron, so they will receive subsidies from provincial, regional and government authorities, in order to have sufficient income to run the town.

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17 Doesn't change Belgian port (6) 18 Plant leaf, half of it for an insect (6) 20 Places one vessel inside another (5) 22 One business area for Mediterranean resort (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 11 represents W and 21 represents D, so fill in W every time the figure 11 appears and D every time the figure 21 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.

Across 1 Fortified military post (8) 8 Timepiece (5) 9 Viper (5) 10 Slightly open (4) 11 Remove or make invisible (6) 13 Talkative person (6) 15 Long narrative poem telling of a hero's deeds (4) 18 Depart (5) 19 Same in appearance or character (5) 20 Tragedy (8)

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Across 1 Recibo (7) 5 Petirrojo (5) 8 Champú (7) 9 Playing card (5) 10 Son-in-law (5) 11 Evitar (7) 12 Bolsillo (6) 14 Bishop (6) 17 To shiver (7) 19 Acantilado (5) 22 Robo (5) 23 Plum (7) 24 Mirar fijamente (5) 25 Estaciones (partes del año) (7)

Down 2 Fragrance (5) 3 Garden tool (4) 4 Made afraid (6) 5 Gentle poke with the elbow (5) 6 Highly imaginative but unlikely (10) 7 Having eight angles (10) 12 Touch or stroke gently or lovingly (6) 14 Injure with hot liquid or steam (5) 16 Of first importance (5) 17 Worn, torn or waste scraps of cloth (4)

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

Down 1 Oxidado (5) 2 Silla (5) 3 Mejorar (7) 4 Trunk (of elephant) (6) 5 Enjuagar (de ropa) (5) 6 Calderas (7) 7 Our (7) 12 Potatoes (7) 13 Bark (of tree) (7) 15 Calf (animal) (7) 16 Precios (6) 18 Título (5) 20 Unharmed (5) 21 Banderas (de países, ciudades) (5)

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

ALUMNI ANSWER (10) BOUNCY CACTUS DIATOM DIESEL EMBODY EYEFUL FUNNEL HAGGLE JUMBLE LEADEN MEADOW NUTRIA POLLEN SASHAY SCHISM SUBMIT SWISHY

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Bewail 2 Impale 3 Twisty 4 Ramrod 5 Trauma 6 Debtor 7 Impute 8 Blurry 9 Stripe 10 Tarpon 11 Waffle 12 Penmen 13 Puffin 14 Twenty 15 Almond 16 Baffle 17 Teller 18 Dialog 19 Lagoon.

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• The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’.

They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

• Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

• No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

• No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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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 K) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

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TARGET: • Average: 18 • Good: 25

• Very good: 35 • Excellent: 46

SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points

Average: 10 Good: 14 Very good: 20

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Excellent: 26

pert pent pens erns ells etna rent lent lens naps napa tern terns tell tells tens tans taps tapa tapas snell snap span spat spate spam sago pane panel panels pant pans pate pater paten patens ante antre apter grot gasp gaps abate amort amigo bane banter bans bate baps baas bags bigot bias boas torr torc tors togs toga togas orcs maple maps mags magi mort imago

able alar alba alee aloe alto bale belt blat blot bola bole bolt earl late leer lobe lore oral rale real reel role tael tala tale teal tole abler alate alert altar alter areal baler betel blare blear bleat bloat elate labor later lobar ratel rebel roble tabla table ablate aboral aortal arable areola boatel boreal elater lobate oblate relate treble areolae bloater earlobe eatable ratable retable areolate rateable tearable ELABORATE

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK Across: 1 Polar bear, 5 Young, 7 Cider, 9 Shin, 10 Regret, 12 Anorak, 13 Liar, 15 Dense, 16 Logic, 18 Extrovert.

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Down: 1/17 Pay cut, 2 Rage, 3 Exceed, 4 Curator, 6 Unicorn, 8 Darling, 9 Slander, 11 Latest, 14 Alto.

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Across:

Across:

1 Mocha, 4 Selects, 8 Sort out, 9 Sable, 10 Coasters, 11 Bait, 13 Cannes, 14 Valets, 17 Also, 19 Caterers, 22 Chase, 23 Sheathe, 24 Sprints, 25 Scale.

1 Eagles, 4 Arctic, 9 Chispas, 10 Barco, 11 Spoon, 12 Iceland, 13 Ordenadores, 18 Castaño, 20 Golpe, 22 Arado, 23 At least, 24 Eneldo, 25 Govern.

Down: 1 Music, 2 Certain, 3 Apostles, 4 Satire, 5 Lost, 6 Cobra, 7 Sleuths, 12 Nameless, 13 Chances, 15 Electra, 16 Causes, 18 Stair, 20 Sieve, 21 Bean.

Down:

1 En casa, 2 Grifo, 3 Expense, 5 Roble, 6 Terrace, 7 Cloudy, 8 Aspiradoras, 14 Rescate, 15 Orgullo, 16 Scrape, 17 Peatón, 19 Aloud, 21 Leave.

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QUIZ: A QUESTION OF HOTELS 1. How many episodes of the famous BBC2 sitcom Fawlty Towers were made?

2. In which 1980 horror film did Jack Nicholson play Jack Torrance, the off-season caretaker of the Overlook Hotel?

3. In which country was the 2011 British comedy-drama film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel principally set?

4. The songs New Kid in Town, Life In The Fast Lane, Wasted Time and Victim of Love all featured on which Eagles’ album, originally released in December 1976?

5. ‘Well, since my baby left me, I found a new place to dwell’ is the first line of which 1956 Elvis Presley hit single?

6. Which 1984 Booker Prize-winning novel by English writer Anita Brookner centres on Edith Hope, a romance novelist who is staying in a hotel on the shores of Lake Geneva?

7. Which evangelical Christian association founded in Wisconsin in 1899 is responsible for leaving bibles in

hotel rooms?

8. Which luxury hotel located in the Strand in central London that opened in August 1889, was built by the impresario Richard D’Oyly Carte with profits from his Gilbert and Sullivan opera productions?

9. Which Native American tribe purchased the Hard Rock Cafe chain of cafes, hotels and casinos, as well as its extensive collection of rock and roll memorabilia, from the Rank Group for $965 million December 2006?

10. Who was the author of the 1965 best-selling novel Hotel? His other books include Airport (1968), Wheels (1971), The Moneychangers (1975) and Overload (1979).

Not a lot of people know that… according to the Guinness Book of World Records, the oldest hotel in operation is the Nisiyama Onsen Keiunkan in Yamanashi, Japan. The hotel, first opened in AD 707 has been operated by the same family for 46 generations.

Answers: 1. 12 (two series of six episodes each), 2. THE SHINING, 3. INDIA, 4.

HOTEL CALIFORNIA, 5.

HEARTBREAK HOTEL, 6. HOTEL DU LAC, 7. GIDEONS INTERNATIONAL (GIDEONS SOCIETY), 8. SAVOY HOTEL, 9. SEMINOLE TRIBE OF FLORIDA (accept SEMINOLE), 10.

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in Vadnagar in the country, he ran a tea stall as a teenager and he was the longest-serving Chief Minister in Gujarat history.

• Patrick Schwarzenegger, Model; September 18, 25 The son of actor Arnold Schwarzenegger was born in Los Angeles in the United States and co-founded the Project 360 charity with his father aged 15. He has since had a role in the film Grown Ups 2 and has featured in the music video for Ariana Grande’s Right There.

• Twiggy, Model; September 19, 69 The model was born Leslie Lawson in London in England and was known for her petite looks which led to her getting the name Twiggy. She also popularised the ‘bob’ haircut for girls and later went on to feature in Marks and Spencer adverts.

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• Stella McCartney, Designer; September 13, Carr studied political science at university and 47 after leaving he briefly worked in the Shell oil The fashion designer and daughter of Beatles bass company’s marketing department before player and singer Paul McCartney was born in breaking into comedy. He has since gone on to London in England and travelled the world with host the Eight out of 10 Cats TV panel show. her musician father while growing up. She • Amy Poehler, Actor; September 16, 47 designed her first jacket when she was 13 years The comic actor has impersonated Hillary Twiggy. old and went on to be a successful fashionista.

Clinton, featured on Saturday Night Live and • Andrew Lincoln, Actor; September 14, 45 won a Golden Globe for playing Leslie Knope in Lincoln landed his first major film role in the rom com the TV sitcom Parks and Recreation. Born in Newton, Love Actually in 2003. Born in London in England, he Massachusetts in the United States, she studied at Boston later played Rick in the TV series The Walking Dead. His College. portrayal led him to be nominated for a Critics’ Choice • Narendra Modi, Prime Minister, September 17, 68 Modi became India’s Prime Minister in 2014 and was Television Award for Best Drama Actor in 2013. previously the Chief Minister of the state of Gujarat. Born • Jimmy Carr, Comedian; September 15, 46

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This week in history

D A RI NG jo u r n eys around the world help to open our minds. They can lead to great insights but can also leave us vulnerab l e a n d o f te n m e a n w e have to rely on someone we’ve never met to lend a helping hand.

From the Calais Jungle m i g ra n t c a m p to the A m az o n , f r o m L a n d’s End to the Gobi Desert or from New Guinea to Iran, every journey has a story to tell us.

They reveal to us how people we have never met before, or could just as w e l l h a v e wa lk e d p a st , choose to help out. Their selflessness helps us to g r o w a n d se e a wo rl d f i l l e d with lo v e r a ther than fear.

Several short stories on the themes of travel and charity from Sarah Outen, B e n e d ic t Alle n , Ed S t a ffo r d and Al H u m p h r e y s f e a tu r e i n The Kin d n e ss of Strangers.

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681 - Pope sanction The Catholic Sixth Ecumenical Council decides to posthumously excommunicate Pope Honorius I due to his beliefs concerning the divinity of Jesus Christ.

1176 - Army ambush The forces of the Byzantine Empire are attacked by Seljuk Turks in a surprise raid at Myriokephalon in modern day Turkey. It would mark the last attempt by the Byzantines to reclaim Anatolia from the Turks.

1541 - Religion reform The theologian John Calvin returns to Geneva in Switzerland after three years in exile to work on his theories on Christianity which would become known as Calvinism.

His beliefs would have extensive influence on Protestant thought.

1739 - Treaty made Belgrade, in modern day Serbia, is handed over to the Ottomann Empire by the Habsburg Holy Roman Empire following the signing of a peace treaty named after the city. The Treaty ended the Austro Russian-Turkish War. 1752 - New calendar The British Empire adopts the Gregorian calendar and skips forward 11 days from September 3 to September 14 which is still in use today.

1868 - Revolution begins La Gloriosa, or the Glorious Revolution, begins in Spain.

Queen Isabella II is forced into exile and the First Spanish Republic is established two years later.

1916 - Battle first Tanks, or landships as they are known in 1916, are used for the first time in the Battle of the Somme.

2007 - Bank run Savers begin queuing up to pull their cash out of the bank Northern Rock in Britain. It is the first bank run in the country for 150 years.

IT is July 1976 and a flight travelling from Tel-Aviv to Paris has just been hijacked by a group including Wilfried Bose (Daniel Bruhl) and Brigitte Kuhlmann (Rosamund Pike). The pilot has been forced to touch down in Entebbe, Uganda and all Jewish passengers on board have been ransomed in exchange for the release of terrorists in Israeli prisons.

Israel’s government attempts to resolve the dispute diplomatically.

Their efforts come to nought. After that they decide to send in Israeli special forces in Entebbe.

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Cucumber: beautiful inside and out THE humble cucumber is a summer must have offering a number of health and beauty benefits as well as helping to beat the heat.

The vegetable is made up of 95 per cent water and is therefore incredibly hydrating with the added bonus of helping to detoxify the body.

It can even treat bad breath.

During long, sweaty days and punishing heat, it’s important to take care of your diet and while certain foods can ensure you stay cool from the inside, others may end up aggravating your

body and increasing your body heat.

Cucumber is one of the recommended daily additions to the plate, cleaning the body internally and keeping skin healthy and beautiful on the outside.

With its high water content, the veggie is an effective system cleanser that can expel waste products.

While it’s doing its work on the inside, it can be put to use on the outside, too.

It’s no secret that cucumber soothes and refreshes the skin.

When applied to the face, the juice can make skin

BEAUTY BENEFITS: Cucumber can also be grated and applie look refreshed. It is especially great for people with dry skin.

Slices have been used in many beauty treatments, and are particularly effect i v e i n r e d u c i n g d a r k c i rcles and treating puffiness a r o u n d t h e e y e s . Yo u c a n even put grated cucumber on your face for a fresh skin. Simply put them on your eyes for eight to 10 minutes daily.

Not as many people know this, but cucumber helps in reducing excess heat in the stomach, which is a primary cause of bad breath. Just

holding a piece of cucumber in your mouth can kill the bacteria that cause stinky breath.

And while the green vegetable, available all year round, is a complete beauty food, it is not just great for the skin, but also for the n a i l s a n d h a i r. I t c a n h e l p in reducing tanning and the silica in the vegetable can promote hair growth and make your nails stronger.

It also promotes weight loss.

High in fibre and low in calories, the cucumber is a great snacking option for

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ed to skin. people wanting to reduce weight.

And, owing to its high potassium, magnesium and fibre levels, it is effective in controlling blood pressure.

PHYSICAL activity, even just the bare minimum, may lessen glaucoma risk and its threat of vision loss.

A new study suggests simply meeting physical activity guidelines could reduce the risk of developing glaucoma by up to 50 per cent or more.

Glaucoma is a group of eye disorders that progressively damage the optic nerve and cause irreversible vision loss. Although it can’t be cured it may be managed with early, timely intervention.

It’s unknown exactly what causes glaucoma and researchers strive to understand whether lifestyle factors can affect its development. So the research from Iowa State University and the University of South Carolina has been welcomed.

Researchers examined nearly 10,000 American adults, aged 40 to 81 years old, enrolled in the Aerobics Centre Longitudinal Study during an eight-year period.

Their physical activity and cardiovascular fitness were recorded weekly via a treadmill test with an average nearly six-year follow up period.

Of those participants, 128 new cases of glaucoma were diagnosed.

It was found participants who met physical activity guidelines, 150 minutes activity per week, had a 50 per cent lower risk of glaucoma than those considered completely sedentary.

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WHILE most sources claim that gluten is safe for everyone except those who have coeliac disease, some health experts believe it is harmful for most people.

And while everybody seems to be talking about it, do we really know what gluten is and how it can affect our health.

It is actually a family of proteins found in grains like wheat, rye, spelt and barley.

Of all of these grains, wheat is the most commonly consumed.

The two main proteins in gluten are glutenin and gliadin. The latter is responsible for most of the negative health effects.

When flour is mixed with water, the gluten proteins form a sticky network that has a glue-like consistency.

This makes the dough elastic, and gives bread the ability to rise when baked. It also provides a chewy, satisfying texture.

It’s not surprising then that the name glu-ten is derived from this glue-like property of wet dough.

Most people tolerate gluten,

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INTOLERANT: Wheat is the most commonly consumed grain. but it can cause problems for people with certain health conditions, including coeliac

disease, gluten sensitivity and wheat allergy among others.

Coeliac disease, (also spelled as celiac), is the most severe form of gluten intoler-

ance and affects less than 1 per cent of the population. It is an auto-immune disorder,

and involves the body treating gluten as a foreign invader.

The immune system attacks the gluten, as well as the lining of the gut.

This in turn damages the gut wall, and may cause nutrient deficiencies, such as anaemia, severe digestive issues and an increased risk of other diseases.

The most common symptoms of coeliac disease are digestive discomfort, tissue damage in the small intestines, bloating, diarrhoea, constipation, headache, tiredness, skin rashes, depression, weight loss and foul-smelling faeces.

However, some people with coeliac disease do not have digestive symptoms, but may have other symptoms like tiredness or anaemia, making it harder to diagnose.

There are many people who do not test positive for coeliac disease, but still react negatively to gluten, a condition called non-coeliac gluten sensitivity.

Some experts believe this isn’t a real condition. They think the adverse effects are imaginary or caused by substances other than gluten.

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Advertising Feature SO it doesn’t seem two minutes since the last Palace Variety Show. However a whole year has passed and its here again. The sixth Annual Palace Variety Show which takes Place on Sunday September 23 and is sponsored by Spain Property Shop.

This year’s show stars Sam Bailey, the 2013 winner of X Factor. You’ll remember her as the ex-prison warden with the big voice who blew our minds with her renditions of Skyscraper and Listen.

Headlining alongside Sam will be Jake Quickenden, also from the 2014 series of X Factor, but more recently known for his appearance on ‘Im A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here.’ Not forgetting of course that he is also this year’s Dancing On Ice Champion.

Also starring with them is the returning comedy legend Jimmy Cricket, who entertained so well at The Palace

PALACE VARIETY SHOW: Featuring Jimmy Cricket, Sam Bailey, drag artiste and dancers who will dazzle on stage.

6th Variety Show Variety Show 2015 alongside Stacy Solomon and Chesney Hawkes.

The Palace Variety Show is an annual fundraiser which takes place at The Benidorm Palace. In the past it has raised funds for Help4Heroes and Elche Children¡s Home. This year all profits will be donated equally to the Royal British Legion and the AECC Cancer Charity, both of which will be

there helping on the night alongside Maria and The Pink Ladies and Pink Panthers.

Last year’s show was hit a little bit with the downfall of Monarch Airways. Many people had bought tickets for the show but got stranded and were unable to come.

The show was a smash hit though and saw the amazing Sonia own the stage. Starring alongside the very controver-

sial Honey G. Previous shows have included Gareth Gates, Katrina & the Waves, Crissy Rock, Ray Quinn and Mick Miller, to name a few. This year the organisers promise to blow all previous shows out of the water..

Other artistes on the night will include local stars like James Macdonald, Benidorm’s most glamorous singing drag

artiste. Nigel Birchill for all you Elvis fans and young singing superstar Dan Davy.

The Amazing Fusion Show will be there featuring Stevie Spit, Nikki G, Kylie Burgazzi, Jay, Jaz Markwick and dancers from La Sal De Torrevieja who will dazzle once more in some incredible Las Vegas style costumes.

Also joining us on stage will be Footwork Dance Studio with Al Joel as this year’s welcome artiste.

The organisers say this year’s show will be so special. It will have a slight mil-

itary theme. This is a salute to the 100th anniversary of the end of the First World War. So keep the date free and remember Sunday September 23, 2018.

Doors open at 7.00pm.

Show starts at 8.00pm.

Tickets are €25 for Standard or €50 for VIP which includes front of house seats.

Chicken or Fish & Chips. Also entry to the secret after show party.

Tickets are available from the box office 965 851 660.

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Trumpet serenade MULTI award-winning trumpet player Pacho Flores will be appearing at the Victor Villegas Auditorium in Murcia City on Friday September 21 with the Murcia Symphony Orchestra.

Also appearing with the classical trumpet player is Venezuelan four-string guitar player Leo Rondón who had his own group playing normally in France.

Having won the Maurice André award, the most outstanding trumpet contest in the world, as well as other international competitions, the Venezuela born Flores has performed with major orchestras throughout the world and his stop in Murcia is just one part of a major tour which is taking in Europe and beyond.

Using instruments created for him especially

by Stomvi House and recording exclusively for famed classical label Deutsche Grammophon he will perform a number of pieces

Pacho Flores.

for trumpet and strings by composers such as Neruda, Flores and Ginastera with tickets costing €8, €11 and €13.

As part of his ongoing tour, the trumpet player will return to Costa Blanca on November 14 when he will appear with the Israel NK Orchestra conducted by Christian Lindberg at the Auditorium in Alicante City.

Rendezvous 2018 A PAIR of electronic music specialists will be presenting a tribute to Jean Michel Jarre in their Rendezvous 2018 concert at La Sala Babel in Alicante City on Saturday September 29.

Juanjo Butron and Jose Jibaja Grok will be presenting this review of the music of the hugely successful French musician with entry costing just €3 or €5 which will include a drink from the bar.

Considering that Jarre now only appears at large outside events and then only occasionally, this will be a good opportunity to enjoy the compositions from his most successful album.

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Attention all stoners THERE is quite a mysterious music festival due to take place in San Vicente de Raspeig on Saturday October 6 running from 4pm to 11pm.

The Surnia II Fest is billed as a Psychedelic/Stoner event which features five different bands, with tickets costing €10, but you will only be told of the location once you buy the tickets.

The full line up is Fuzz Forward (Barcelona), Wild Ripple (Valencia), Rosy Finch (Alicante), Double Horse (Valencia) and CREEPY (Las Palmas).

The Rosy Finch Band on stage.

Probably not an event for those who like quiet melodic music but certainly with five bands, the fun of finding out

where it is taking place, an admission fee of just €10, it could well be an interesting evening for those who like

music of this type and as it is organised by a record company, there might be some great goodies available.

Free music and fireworks this week TODAY (Thursday), halfway through the celebration of the Virgin of Monserrate in Orihuela there will be a free concert starting at 9.30pm in the Plaza Ramón Sijé.

The locally based Troupers Swing Band will be performing a selection of their own compositions as well as their interpretations of much loved standards performed in swing and rockabilly style.

This is an event guaranteed to get people tapping their feet and finding it hard to

resist the temptation to get up and dance.

Saturday and Sunday will see masses as well as processions of the statue of the Madonna through the town with the Sunday evening mass at 7pm being presided over by Jesús Murgui, Bishop of the Diocese of Orihuela-Alicante.

Once the Virgin is returned to her sanctuary after 8pm, there will be a tremendous fireworks display to bring the celebrations to an end.

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Vetusta Morla near the end of Spanish tour HAVING been turned down by Spanish record companies, Vetusta Morla, an Indie Rock band from Madrid decided to form their own record label and since them they have achieved significant success with numerous gold and platinum records.

They are coming to the end of a successful Spanish tour promoting their fifth album, Mismo Sitio, Distinto Lugar (Same site, different place) and will be appearing at the Plaza de Toros in Alicante City on Friday September 28 before moving on to tour much of Europe.

Having not been influenced

INDIE ROCK: The six members of Vetusta Morla. by record companies telling them what to do, this hard rocking and socially aware band formed in the late 1990’s

go their own way, supporting projects that appeal to them individually and through their music hope to form a bond

Mercury Rev CELEBRATING the 20th anniversary of the release of their iconic album Deserter’s Songs, two original members of US Indie Band Mercury Rev are appearing at the Victor Villegas Auditorium in Murcia City on Saturday September 22.

The band itself was formed in 1989 and struggled to find commercial success until it travelled to the UK and was an almost instant hit with critics and fans.

Jonathan Donahue and Sean Mack-

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by Andrew Harding LAST week I completed my discussion about macro-minerals. This week I want to discuss micro-minerals, these minerals have less than a five gram presence in the average human body.

Iron: Is the most abundant micro-mineral and is needed in red blood cells that transport oxygen and carbon dioxide in and out of the body. Meat, fish, poultry and enriched cereals and grains are the main sources.

Copper: Is needed for the absorption of iron and the production of melanin to protect the skin from sunburn. Nuts, seeds and seafood are good sources.

Zinc: Is required to produce RNA and DNA (the genetic material in the body’s cells) and aid the immune system and wound healing. Sources include; oysters, red meat and whole grains.

Iodine: Used to produce thyroxine which regulates human metabolism.

Consumption of iodised salt, prawns, tuna will fulfil dietary requirement.

Fluoride: Protects the teeth by making the enamel more able to resist tooth decay. The best source is fluoridated tap water consumed by an expectant mother

Jonathan Donahue and Grasshopper appearing Saturday September 22.

with their fans.

Tickets for the Alicante gig are available online and cost €32.50.

owiak (Grasshopper) are ending a tour of Spain with this appearance in Murcia and rather than bring the current band, the pair are playing an acoustic set based on this album where they will also explain how the songs came about and the problems that they encountered during recording.

After short stops in France and Portugal, they then return to America to appear at a number of festivals there.

Tickets for the Murcia concert appear to be selling well and cost €40 plus booking fee online.

Spanish greenorange chicken

SEASONAL: Orange chicken. from day one of pregnancy, this will confer these benefits to the child. Too much will create unsightly yellow bands on the teeth, so it is important to check if the local water supply is fluoridated or not and check with your dentist if supplements are necessary.

I will discuss the other four next week.

This week’s recipe is seasonal, using a fruit that is normally discarded now marmalade is no longer fashionable. It is the unripe and bitter Seville orange which is sweet when green.

Spanish Green-Orange Chicken Serves 4 4 chicken breast halves, no skin, cubed 2 tablespoons olive oil 1 large onion, chopped

4 large garlic cloves, chopped 1 cup dry white wine 2 bitter orange tree leaves, torn 1 large can tomatoes 1 chicken stock cube, crumbled 6 mushrooms, sliced Zest and juice of two whole green, Seville oranges Salt and black pepper, to taste 1. Place chicken and olive oil in a pan.

2. Fry the chicken on a medium heat until sealed on all sides.

3. Add the onion and fry for two minutes, stirring constantly.

4. Add the garlic and stir for another minute.

5. Add the wine and orange tree leaves, simmer until the odour of alcohol has disappeared.

6. Add the tomatoes, their juice, the chicken stock cube and stir until the stock has dissolved.

7. Continue to simmer until the sauce has reduced by about a third.

8. Add the mushrooms and simmer for 10 minutes more.

9. Add the zest and juice from the bitter oranges, stir, take off the heat.

10. Season.

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Massive free event THE sixth Conference of Alternative Leisure of Torrevieja, ComarCON18, will be held this Saturday and Sunday at the Palacio de los Deporte in Torrevieja.

U n u s u a l l y, t h i s i s a n event which has three main aims, free admission, a large number of activities on offer and the promotion of associations.

Visitors can enjoy more than 150 different activities and more than 120 table games in 23 hours of fun without interruption and t h i s y e a r, y o u c a n c a m p

overnight to ensure that you don’t miss any of the fun.

On Saturday from 10am to 9pm and Sunday from 10am to 8pm, different activities will be carried out in the Sports Palace, in the outdoor area and in the parking area, as well as in one of the artificial turf pitches.

This year sees an expansion of the space available with increased capacity within the Palace of Sports as well as better security with first aid available.

Appearing will be Joan Tretze, renowned cartoonist and scriptwriter of the roleplaying web comic El Sistema D13, and Román López Cabrera who has published several comic books about the figure of Miguel Hernández and won comic awards as well as working for Marvel and Ulises Ponce (UPL). He has also published his works in several magazines and newspapers throughout Spain, as well as producing some covers for Angry Birds.

Elite Street Girls

A GROUP of friends who call themselves the Elite Street Girls are undertaking a fundraising walk dressed in Hawaiian style costumes in La Marina this Saturday.

They are trying to raise money for medical treatment for young Nigel Watson who has recently been diagnosed with an inoperable brainstem

glioma.

The girls are going to start at Jack’s Bar at the top of Urb La Marina and collect as much as they can from other bars on the way down to Consum Square.

The Higher Polytechnic School of the University of Alicante has a degree in Multimedia Engineering where, among other things, there is training in the development of video games.

In fact, many of its graduates have created their own companies and are working in this field.

ComarCON is already a m o n g t h e t h r e e l a rg e s t free entry events in Spain and last year saw more than 6,000 visitors with the target for this year being set at 8,000.

They expect to start at around 6.30pm so if you see a number of ladies in grass skirts as you head off for dinner, please give generously to help this plucky 10-yearold and if you don’t see them on Saturday, you can donate at https://www.go fundme.com/nigels-brain-stem-gliomatreatment.

There will be a little bit of Magic at ComarCON18

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Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England ULYSSE-NARDIN made time pieces to aid navigation to the world’s navies. Though Swiss and so landlocked, the founders conceived that they could and would manufacture trusted maritime chronometers.

By the 1870’s more than 50 navies and global trading fleets were esteemed customers of the Swiss manufacturer. Ulysse-Nardin supplied both Imperial Navies, Russia and Japan, in the Russo Japanese war of 1905. In modern times the maritime heritage of innovation horological development lives on.

Ulysse-Nardin’s most recent spectacular, launched just two weeks ago, is the Free Floating Executive Tourbillon ‘Free Wheel.’

The ‘Free Wheel’ turns the traditional watch inside out displaying the brand new movement UN-176 to the eye.

Beneath a box domed sapphire glass the Free Floating components appear to defy gravity, the dial’s tourbillon bridges and the seven-day power reserve indicator at four o’clock which are boomerang shaped, look like they are floating, as do the elegant drive trains and the hour and minute indicators.

The case back is of sapphire too, however there is nothing to see. Where traditional watches would show components here, all the extraordinary components are visible on

Spoilt for choice the face of the watch.

The watch comes in two versions, white gold and rose gold, happily neither is a limited edition, this watch is a full blown production. A contemporary sized dial of 44 mm the 18-carat rose gold version is in dark stone carved from a slab of slate, while the 18-carat white gold has a sleek black honeycomb grid and is the foundation setting off the exquisite components beneath their sapphire dome. Strap this extraordinary and imposing timepiece to your wrist with a carbon leather matte alligator strap, a soft and silky material smooth to the touch.

Take your pick, the Free Wheel Rose Gold is priced at CH96,0000 and the Free Wheel white gold at CH99,000.

‘Expressive and sumptuous the UlysseNardin ‘Free wheel’ in 18-carat rose gold.’

‘Stylish and extraordinary the Ulysse-Nardin ‘Free Wheel’ 18-carat white gold.’

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The documents I need to sell a property‌ NOW is a good time to sell your property - in fact September is a traditional time for houses and apartments to be put on the market in Spain.

A return to routine in September after the long summer holiday helps when it comes to gathering all the correct paperwork and showing potential buyers around.

But without a doubt the main reason for doing so is that most flats are sold in the last months of the year, so September is the start of the busiest time of year for sales.

However, if you decide to sell your house, whether it is a single-

family home or a flat in a residential building, you need to know the formalities that need to be carried out.

These come in two ways - technical reports - for which you will need an engineer or surveyor, and documentation. We recommend you use the services of a lawyer or real estate professional to advise and smooth the way, but here we give you a brief guide to what you need.

Energy certificate It is a legal requirement to have an Energy Efficiency Certificate, which is necessary before putting the

property up for sale. Whether you advertise it online, in a real estate agency or through posters stuck on lamp posts, you must show the energy rating of the house.

Obtaining the energy certificate is quite fast and inexpensive. Once the energy surveyor visits the property you should have your rating and proof of registration with your autonomous community in just a few days.

However, depending on where the house is located, the delivery of the physical certificate can take up to three months, but don’t worry! If you already have the rating and the proof of registration you can advertise and even sell your house if you find a buyer before the certificate arrives.

Certificate of habitability The certificate of habitability, or licence of first or second occupation, is the document that the town hall grants you after verifying the habitability of your home. In order to obtain it, you will need a technical report drawn up by a professional.

Before applying for it, you can

check to see if you already have a licence and if it is valid or expired.

Depending on the age of the property, it is possible that you still have the first occupation licence. Whether it is first or second occupancy, if it is valid you can use it and, if you do not find it, you can ask for a duplicate.

If it has expired you will have to renew it with a new report. In that case, the technician will take care of everything but it will be the council that will decide whether to grant it to you.

If you do not have a licence, you will have to talk to a technician as you will probably need a legalisation of the property, which could complicate the sale process.

SOLD: But what about the paperwork?

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Vistacasas - a bright light in selling property IT’S very easy to find the Vistacasas office in Villamartin Plaza... it’s where everyone is gathering around and looking at the great selection of properties available.

Located on the ground floor, Vistascasas attracts thousands of people as they make their way to the bars, restaurants and shops in the popular area for both residents and tourists alike; and that means, quite simply, that they’re looking at YOUR property on display.

But Vistacasas don’t just stick a piece of paper in the window and wait. They’ve embraced technology and all properties are mounted on special LED lighting boards that brighten up this corner of Villamartin Plaza, giving maximum impact at all times of the day and night.

Such is the success of Vistacasas that owners Angela and Mark DaCosta - professionals in the estate agency business for 20 years - now open seven days a week (when the law permits), and so are there at the busiest times for the Plaza too.

Needless to say, your property will be on view as part of the Vistacasas website at www.vistacasas.com as well as the most famous portals such as Rightmove, A Place in the Sun and Kyero... among others.

The database of many thousands of active and interested clients will also be notified by e-

stage of the process.

This year has been a particularly busy and successful year for Vistacasas, and they have a long list of people ready and waiting to buy your property.

Vistacasas adopt a ‘No sale - No fee’ policy with an agreed fixed commission rate and no hidden extras or last minute surprises.

The continued success of Vistacasas can be explained by their professional and modern approach to their work; an approach that has gained trust and confidence which has resulted in much of their business coming via referrals from highly delighted and satisfied clients.

ON DISPLAY: Day and night. mail of your property instantly, as well as many being part of weekly local press advertising in the Euro Weekly News (EWN). In fact, over half of the properties that have been featured in the EWN in recent weeks have already sold... and they are the words of Vistacasas.

To take advantage of this success, all new properties listed as a result of this editorial will have a guaranteed inclusion in the coming weeks’ advertising campaign. Simply quote EWN when you contact the Vistacasas team.

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The dazzling destroyer VISUALLY impressive, the dragonfly is also an airborne warrior chomping its way through unwanted mosquitoes and gnats.

And with smart planning and a bit of luck, you can create a habitat to bring the brightly coloured creatures zooming, hovering and darting across your landscape.

One planning strategy is to build a water source such as a small pond. Dragonflies, whose ancestors are among the Earth’s oldest insects, are aquatic insects that need a freshwater environment to breed.

The second is to provide a food source. A garden with a diversity of plants will serve that need because the flowers will

attract a variety of tiny insects on which the dragonflies can feed.

The aerial predators feast on the tiniest of insects which we rarely see but certainly feel. In fact their appetite for mosquitoes and their fast-flying ambush acrobatics while hunting have apparently earned them the nickname mosquito hawk’.

Where luck comes into play is if you don’t have a pond or other water feature in your garden. In that case, you can still attract dragonflies if you’re fortunate enough to be near a water source that will serve as a breeding area for them.

Dragonflies can travel up to a mile in search of food, so ‘near’ isn’t that far. Alternatively, a large bird bath may be an attractive magnet.

And where you have dragonflies, you have damselflies doubling the fight power against the dreaded bloodsuckers.

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important in attracting breeding dragonflies and damselflies because both species lay their eggs in water.

This begins with an aquatic stage that’s usually the longest period of their life. Dragonflies in their immature stage, for instance, are called nymphs and live in a pond or stream for an average of eight months.

Mosquito dunks, containing Bti (Bacillis thuringienis isrealensis), can be purchased

MAGNET: Garden ponds and other water sources attract dragonflies.

from garden centres and placed in the water source. They dissolve over 30 days, slowly releasing the bio-control agent which the mosquito larvae will eat. The toxin kills them, and black fly larvae, but not other insects such as dragonflies.

Because the dunks are selective and biodegradable, they are considered environmentally safe.

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SNAKES play a vital role in the ecosystem, but not everybody wants to run into one at home.

There are ways to reduce the risk. Keep grasses short and bushes and shrubs trimmed. Ivy and pachysandra provide cover for the reptiles, so try to limit the use of these plants.

Unused mulch piles or a thick layer of hardwood or pine straw also offer a safe haven for snakes. Try to keep only what is needed.

Be aware of large rocks stacked on top of one another, snakes love crevices.

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A soggy gem in Andalucia HIDDEN away in the parched landscape of Andalucia you can find an oasis of verdant green - the natural park of Grazalema.

Somewhat surprisingly the pretty white village of Grazalema is renowned for being the rainiest spot in Spain, a title that you might expect to be taken by a town in the cooler regions of Asturias or Galicia.

The magnificent rocky outcrop of Peñon Grande that towers over both the village and the whole park is the reason for all the rain - it is the first high peak that warm wet winds from the Atlantic encounter when they hit Spain.

The copious rain has made this a unique place in Andalucia. An ecology has developed over thousands of years that combines Mediterranean and more northerly species, with

PRETTY: Grazalema is one of Andalucia’s famous white villages. microclimates providing a haven for all manner of wildlife.

Grazalema village is an idyllic spot from which to explore the glories of the park.

Its steep cobbled streets and selection of small bars and restaurants are well worth a

visit on their own, as are the magnificent views.

The restaurants are extremely proud of the fish that comes from Europe’s most southerly trout river, which wends its way through this area of outstanding natural beauty.

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‘Did you know?’ - Fun stuff for dog lovers

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HERE are some fun and interesting dog facts. See how much trivia you know about man’s best friend. Did you know…

• A dog’s heart beats between 70 and 120 times a minute, compared with a human heart which beats 70 to 80 times a minute.

• A dog’s normal body temperature is 100.5 to 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit.

• A female carries her young about 60 days before the puppies are born.

• According to the Guinness Book of World Records, the smallest dog on record was a Yorkshire Terrier in Great Britain who, at the age of two, weighed just four ounces.

• The longest lived dog, according to the Guinness Book of World Records, was an Australian Cattle Dog, named Bluey, who lived to be 29.

• An adult dog has 42 teeth.

• It is a myth that dogs are colour blind. They can actually see in colour, just not as vividly as humans. It is akin to our vision at dusk.

• If never spayed or neutered, a female dog, her mate, and their puppies could produce over 66,000 dogs in six years!

• The only sweat glands a dog has are between the paw pads.

• In 1957, Laika became the first living being in space via an earth satellite.

• The world’s smartest dogs are thought to be (1) the border collie, (2) the poodle, and (3) the golden retriever.

• Chocolate contains a substance known as theobromine (similar to caffeine) which can kill dogs or at the very least make them violently ill.

• Dogs’ sense of hearing is more than 10 times more acute than a human’s.

• More than one in three American families own a dog.

• Dogs don’t like rain because

the sound is amplified and hurts their very sensitive ears.

• The 10 most popular dogs (AKC, 2007) are in order: Labrador Retriever, Yorkshire Terrier, German Shepherd, Golden Retriever, Beagle, Boxer, Dachshund, Poodle, Shih Tzu, and Bulldog.

• Dogs were the first animals domesticated by people.

• A greyhound can run as fast as 45 miles an hour.

• Spaying/neutering your dog before the age of six months can help prevent cancer in your dog.

• Puppies acquire a full mouth of permanent teeth between four and seven months old.

• Small dogs live the longest.

Toy breeds live up to 16 years or more. Larger dogs average is seven - 12 years. Veterinary medicine has extended this estimate by about three years.

However, some breeds, such as Tibetan terriers live as long as 20 years.

• Eighty per cent of dog owners buy their dog a present for holidays and birthdays. More than half of them sign letters and cards from themselves and their pets.

• The dog name ‘Fido’ is from Latin and means ‘fidelity.’

• The US has the highest dog population in the world.

• Most pet owners (94 per cent) say their pet makes them smile more than once a day.

• Dogs are mentioned 14 times in the Bible.

• It has been established that people who own pets live longer, have less stress, and have fewer heart attacks.

• All dogs can be traced back 40 million years ago to a weasel-like animal called the Miacis which dwelled in trees and dens. The Miacis later evolved into the Tomarc-

tus, a direct forebearer of the genus canis, which includes the wolf and jackal as well as the dog.

• Seventy per cent of people sign their pet’s name on greeting cards and 58 per cent include their pets in

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family and holiday portraits, according to a survey done by the American Animal Hospital Association.

• A dog’s whiskers are touchsensitive hairs called vibrissae.

They are found on the muzzle, above the eyes and below the jaws, and can actually sense tiny changes in airflow.

• The origin of amputating a dog’s tail may go back to the Roman writer Lucius Columella’s (AD 4-70) assertion that tail docking prevented rabies.

• Dogs can smell about 1,000 times better than humans.

While humans have five million smell-detecting cells, dogs have more than 220 million.

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THE BAKER FOUNDATION SPIRITUALIST CENTRE. Find us on the Saturday market road opposite the Chinese Restaurant. Playa Flamenca. Different International and local mediums every Sunday and Tuesday. Sunday, divine service with clairvoyance 11 am start. Tuesday, evening of clairvoyance doors open 7 o’clock for 7.30 start.

Spiritual Healing is available on Sundays after service and on Thursday mornings from 10. 30 until 12. We have a development group on Tuesdays 5 until 6.30 for those interested in meditation and advancing your knowledge of spirit. Private readings are available on request.

Please join us and make new friends, a warm welcome awaits you all.

Tea, coffee and soft drinks are available. You can join us on Facebook at, The Baker Foundation spiritual centre. Hall is available for hire. For more information please contact Linda on 606 990 665.

Email, schugy54@gmail. com (95458) THE PHILIP SCOTT LODGE No 10671 of the RAOB meets every Friday in the Bar Catorce, Benijofar. Please call the secretary, Colin Bird on 693 287 614 for further information. (95459) CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue. More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460)

TORREVIEJA Christian Fellowship (TCF) is an English speaking lively church located at Avenida de las Valencianas 68, Torrevieja 03183. Residents and holidaymakers are welcome to attend our services with communion and ‘kids church’ each Sunday at 10.30am.

We have a Fellowship Meeting (Bible Study) each Wednesday at 6.00pm. For further information see our website www.tcf-Spain.org or tel 966 700 391. (95464) INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY, TORREVIEJA Calle Urbano Arregui, 23, Torrevieja 03185, Alicante Evangelical non-denominational church. All nationalities welcome. Sunday service 11.00 a.m.; Sunday school; Prayer meetings; craft and computer clubs.

Ladies Bible Study: Thursday 11.00 a.m. Church Bible Study: Thursday 1.30 p.m.

House groups in Torrevieja, La Siesta, La Zenia - Contact 966 752 543 / 617 215 463. For other church matters phone: 966 799 273 / 966 752 543 / 617 215 463 www.icatorrevieja.org (95476) CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc., and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display. Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 email aecc_campello@hot mail.com (95475)

THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial & friendly organisation, now in its 21st year. www.aca costablanca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 (95465) ROYAL AIR FORCES Association Branch #1359 Costa Blanca.

The Branch meets on the third Tuesday of the month at the El Paraiso Restaurant located close to the Carrefour Supermarket in Torrevieja.

The meeting starts at 1430 hrs. You do not have to be an ex-member of the RAF to join this friendly Association, which supports the welfare of the RAF family and provides a social hub for ex RAF members and their friends. For further information about the Association and its activities please contact the Chairman on 692 508 916 or the Welfare Officer on 615 048 892 or visit our website: www.rafa.org.uk/costablanca (238593) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meets 1st Monday of every month (except July and August) at Bar Sioux , Avda Escandinavia GA at 7pm for 7.30pm prompt. For further info contact Brian, Branch Secretary on 639 917 971 / email secretarybr3606@gmail. com (95474) THE PATIENCE LODGE No 2177 of the R.A.O.B meets every Sunday morning at the Sacko´s Bar, El Limonar near Las Siesta at 10am. We are always looking for new and lapsed members to join us. Please call Secretary Dave Tonge on 688 704 091 for further information. (253807)

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STROKE ASSOCIATION Spain (formally known as Torrevieja stroke support) meet every Wednesday and Friday 2.30pm until 5.00pm.

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Tea, coffee and fellowship after every service.

Transport can be arranged. Tel: 950 617 549 www.givinglight.com.

The Spiritualist Centre, Benijofar meets at Hamilton´s Bake House, 62 Calle Vicente, Blasco Ibañez, Benijofar 03178.

We hold a Sunday Service at 11.30 a.m., a Tuesday Evening of Mediumship at 7 p.m.

Spiritual healing is available every Sunday and Tuesday after the service. Our Open Circle is every Thursday at 6.30pm. The Divine Service, with Mediumship on Sunday 16th September will be taken by Linda Sheppard (UK Medium). The Evening of Mediumship on Tuesday18th September, will also be taken by Linda Sheppard. The Divine Service on Sunday, 23rd September will be taken

by George Lawson (UK Medium).

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ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION (Costa Blanca) The aim of the Association is to bring together not just ex Royal Marines, but ex Service personnel with an affinity to the Royal Marines. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month at 5.30. For further details Hon Sec 692 938 664

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The first car radio was introduced in 1922 and cost a whopping $200. Several safety agencies sought to have it banned as a distraction.

Volvo takes on airlines with its latest concept VOLVO’S latest concept car imagines a self-driving ‘pod’ which will let drivers and passengers work, play and relax and forget about all that tedious driving.

There is nothing new in such a concept of course, but what sets the Swedish manufacturer’s idea apart is that it is aimed at taking on air travel.

The big plus of the 360c concept is that by making your own way to your long distance destination you avoid all the hassle and stress of airport security, hours of queuing and waiting, and noisy, cramped airliners.

Instead users of the 360c will travel in their own first-class private cabin from the moment they leave their door to the minute they arrive at their destination.

Volvo explains: “The basis of the 360c is a fully autonomous, fully elec-

VOLVO 360C: The latest in self-driving cars.

tric car without a human driver. The concept capitalises on the freedom in design afforded by the absence of a steering wheel and a combustion engine, providing the ability to reimagine the traditional placement of passengers in rows of two or three.”

This means that the space freed up can be reconfigured for one of four po-

tential uses of autonomous driving vehicles - a sleeping environment, mobile office, living room and entertainment space - which all reimagine the way people travel.

According to Volvo, the 360c represents a potentially lucrative competitor to short-haul air travel, focusing on shorter routes where the

distance between origin and destination is around 300 kilometres.

For example, within the United States over 740 million travellers embarked on domestic flights last year and America’s domestic air travel industry is worth billions of dollars in revenue.

Several busy domestic air routes, such as New York to Washington DC, Houston to Dallas and Los Angeles to San Diego, are more time-consuming by air than by car when including things such as travel to the airport, security checks and waiting times.

“Domestic air travel sounds great when you buy your ticket, but it really isn’t. The 360c represents what could

be a whole new take on the industry,” said Mårten Levenstam, senior vice president of corporate strategy at Volvo Cars. “The sleeping cabin allows you to enjoy premium comfort and peaceful travel through the night and wake up refreshed at your destination. It could enable us to compete with the world’s leading aircraft makers.”

“When the Wright brothers took to the skies in 1903, they did not have a clue about what modern air travel would look like,” said Mårten Levenstam. “We do not know what the future of autonomous drive will hold, but it will have a profound impact on how people travel, how we design our

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ROAD TEST

by Nick Fletcher SOME drivers would like an MPV because of its seven seat capacity, but find the overall size of the vehicle too large, and some would like an SUV but find its seating capacity too small. Luckily there is an alternative - the Nissan X-Trail.

The X-Trail meets both needs - it has SUV styling but is also available with seven seats, comes in 2WD or 4WD form, petrol or diesel engines and prices start at €28,562 (£25,590).

Four-wheel-drive models are very versatile - in normal conditions they send all the power to the front wheels, but if sensors detect a slippery surface, power is sent to the rear wheels as well. And if ground conditions are more demanding, you can lock the system in 4WD for better grip.

Cabin space is very good though not of course as roomy as a proper MPV. However, while the third row of seats is primarily designed WITH SEAT due to officially launch its new SUV the Tarraco on Tuesday in Tarragona the Euro Weekly News can give you a sneak preview.

Stefan Ilijevic, head of Predevelopment, Patents and Innovation at SEAT, took to the wheel to give the car its first (public) road test, albeit in camouflage to try to hide its

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Model: Nissan X-Trail Tekna Engine: 1.6 litre petrol Tranmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 9.7 seconds, top speed 200 kph (124 mph) Economy: 15.6 kpl (44.1 mpg) Emissions: 149 g/km

Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

for use by children, adults can be accommodated because you can slide the middle row of seats forward to create more leg-room. Boot space is good even with seven people on board - 565 litres.

And with all seats folded down you get a van-like 1,996 litres.

X-Trail has a more rugged look than most SUVs and all grades get alloy wheels, cruise control, air conditioning, a CD player and DAB radio among standard kit though most people will go for the mid-range Acenta trim. It adds a lot more kit including dual-zone climate control and even a powered panoramic sunroof.

My test model was an upper-spec Tekna with 1.6 litre petrol engine and six-speed manual gearbox. Top speed is 200 kph (124 mph), the 0-100 kph 9.7 seconds and emissions 149 g/km. Fuel econo-

my is 15.6 kpl (44.1 mpg).

Standard kit includes touchscreen with sat-nav, larger alloy wheels, chrome detailing, front and rear parking sensors, a bird’s-eyeview camera system, intelligent Park Assist, hands-free powered tailgate, plus extra safety features.

It also has two rows of heated seats and an upgraded audio system. This version, in seven-seat form and with pearlescent paint, costs €36,559 (£32,755).

The Tekna suspension setup is supple so you get a comfortable ride and decent cornering composure. The steering feel is quite light which makes the car easy to handle in urban driving. The manual gearshift is not as slick as some, but perfectly functional.

While there are rivals in the class which may be more economical or offer lower emissions, few can match the XTrail for its overall family-friendly practicality.

Take a look at SEAT’s new SUV lines.

He gave us his impressions of what is now the biggest member of the SEAT range.

After turning on the ignition and putting it through its first few bends Stefan com-

mented that: “The feeling at the wheel of the new SEAT Tarraco is impressive. It’s very dynamic and makes you feel safe at the same time.”

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luggage compartment. It gives the driver ‘a great feeling of size and spaciousness,’ added the engineer.

To see how it fares away from the tarmac Stefan headed for an off-road course prior to its international presentation.

He said: “It handles rocky mountainous terrain with a slope of up to 70 per cent with ease,” while driving down a very steep incline. “Its allwheel drive seems to have no limits. Right now the car is braking by itself,” adds Stefan.

Next he threw the Tarraco round some very tight curves

to see how it handled. “It has been designed to successfully tackle lateral tilts of 85 per cent. On this kind of terrain it conveys a feeling of sturdiness and safety,” says Stefan.

In addition, the new model is equipped with two new driver assistants. One is the Rollover Assist, which automatically unlocks the doors, turns off the engine and activates an emergency call in the hypothetical case of a rollover.

After completing the offroad portion of the test, Stefan changed to ‘sport’ mode.

Thanks to this system the car provides an extremely versa-

tile range of driving capabilities: “You can use it in the mountains at the weekend and drive just as comfortably around the city,” explained the engineer. With the car’s adaptive suspension setup (DCC), “you get the dynamic feeling of a car that can also take you on long journeys”, he concludes.

These and other details of the SEAT Tarraco will be made public at its international presentation in Tarragona, the day when the company is officially adding a new model to complete its SUV offensive which began in 2016.

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Premier League Preview

Zidane looks for a big club signed a new five-year contract with the club.

Maguire had been courted by Manchester United and was one of England’s key players at the World Cup. But the fans’ favourite said: “Ever since I came to this club, I’ve always reiterated how good they (Leicester) have been to me.”

The Foxes will face Bournemouth on Saturday looking to bounce back from their defeat by Liverpool last time out.

Liverpool also tied up a key player on a five-year deal, as captain Jordan Henderson committed his future to the table toppers.

The Reds have a tricky away tie at Spurs on Saturday, before their first Champions League group game against Paris Saint Germain on Wednesday.

Other fixtures after will see Everton host West Ham, Southampton face Brighton, and Newcastle entertain Arsenal.

La Liga Preview

Modric the great Credit: lukamodric10/Twitter

WHILE Spain basks in its victory over England last weekend, its clubs are gearing up for their first match after the international break.

The window between domestic games has allowed a gust of gossip to blow and Real Madrid captain Sergio Ramos believes teammate Luka Modric deserves to beat Cristiano Ronaldo to FIFA’s Best Men’s Player award.

It is also believed that Uruguayan defender Jose Luis Rodriguez, 21, is close to signing for Real.

Los Blancos will face Athletic Bilbao in the late kickoff on Saturday hoping to continue their impressive unbeaten start and keep the pressure on league leaders Barcelona.

Meanwhile, Girona have accepted a proposal to play a regular-season game against Barcelona in the United States as part of the promotion of the league there.

The first El Clasico of the season will see Barcelona host Real Madrid at the Nou Camp on October 28, as recently

confirmed by La Liga president Javier Tabas.

Before that though, Barca will travel to eighth placed Real Sociedad on Saturday.

Sevilla has suffered a blow as France international Maxime Gonalons is expected to miss at least six weeks of action after breaking his leg in training.

The midfielder only joined on loan from Roma in August after Steven N’Zonzi moved the other way.

Sevilla will hope to continue their promising early season form at home to Getafe on Sunday.

Other fixtures will see struggling Valencia host Real Betis, Espanyol entertain Levante, and Alaves travel to Real Valladolid.

STELLAR YEAR: The World Cup’s best player Luka Modric could be in line for more awards.

JOB HUNTING: Zidane would be the first choice target for many clubs.

Great North Run: Farah storms to fifth win BRITAIN’S Mo Farah won a record fifth Great North Run on Sunday in Newcastle.

Farah clocked 59 minutes and 26 seconds for his fifth win in a row in the race, with New Zealand’s Jake Robertson 31 seconds back in second.

Farah narrowly missed out on his half marathon personal best - which he set in winning his second title in 2015 - after fading inside the final 200 metres.

He had pulled well clear of Robertson with about two miles to go, and Belgium’s Bashir Abdi came home in third.

London Marathon champion Vivian Cheruiyot from Kenya won the women’s race for a second time in three years.

Briton David Weir set a new course record to win the men’s wheelchair race for the seventh time, with Pole Martyna Snopek taking the women’s race.

Credit: @Great_Run/Twitter

WITH the international break last weekend, it is all quiet on the premier league front.

But that has not stopped the gossip from swirling around in the meantime.

Zinedine Zidane is eyeing a return to management and is reportedly a target for Manchester United should Jose Mourinho leave.

Zidane guided Real Madrid to a third successive Champions League crown in May and recently said: “I am sure that I will coach again before long.”

Mourinho is in an uncertain position with apparent bust ups with vice-chairman Ed Woodward and midfielder Paul Pogba, as well as two defeats already this season.

Manchester United will travel to Watford on Saturday hoping to inject some momentum into their campaign.

Former Chelsea midfield linchpin Claude Makelele believes it will be difficult for Blues manager Maurizio Sarri to win the title in his first season, but is expecting big things from the Italian in the long-term.

In fact, Makelele believes Sarri “has the capacity to make history for Chelsea again.”

Sarri arrived from Serie A side Napoli in the off-season and has overseen a flawless four wins on the bounce so far.

Chelsea will host Cardiff City on Saturday, who have a more indifferent total of two points from their four games.

Leicester City defender Harry Maguire has

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13 - 19 September 2018 JAPAN is celebrating its first ever Grand Slam tennis win after Naomi Osaka’s US Open triumph over Serena Williams 6-2 6-4 at Flushing Meadows. The match was overshadowd by a Williams meltdown at the umpire after receiving several penalties.

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Fans back Raikkonen Spain edge England MORE than 20,000 Kimi Raikkonen fans have signed an online petition urging Ferrari to keep the Finnish Formula One driver for another year rather than replace him with rookie Charles Leclerc.

The petition, on change.org, argued that rep l a c i n g t h e 3 8 - y e a r- o l d was ‘not justifiable’ and that the team needed him to keep the balance alongside four times world champion Sebastian Vettel.

“Kimi has also outperformed Vettel a number of times proving he is back on form, and his drive in

at Wembley EXIT BOUND: Raikkonen is likely to have no shortage of offers.

Monza just adds more credibility to that,” argued petition organiser Christy John.

The petition is highly unlikely to have any influence on matters, with Ferrari believed to have already made their decision to replace the 2007 world champion with their 20year-old Monegasque protégé who debuted for Sauber this season.

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e ff e c t i s e x p e c t e d s o o n , with the championship next heading to Singapore.

Nicknamed ‘The Iceman’ for his often glacial d e m e a n o u r, d o u r n a t u r e and dislike of media engagements, Raikkonen has endeared himself to many fans who see him as a throwback to a bygone era.

He is the oldest driver in the sport but has returned to close to his best form this year.

ENGLAND’S Nations League campaign opened with defeat as they were beaten 2-1

by Spain in their first match since the World Cup. Marcus Rashford gave England the perfect start with an 11th minute strike from Luke Shaw’s pinpoint pass but Spain responded with an almost instant equaliser thanks to Saul Niguez’s low finish.

Rodrigo Moreno then took advantage of poor marking at a free-kick to score the winner from close range after 32 minutes.

England suffered a blow just after halftime when Shaw was taken off on a stretcher with a head injury following an accidental collision with Dani Carvajal, but they rallied late on and could have earned a draw.

David de Gea, who saved brilliantly from Rashford’s header in the first half, denied his Manchester United teammate again with a low save from close range.

England were also furious that Dutch referee ruled out an injury-time finish from substitute Danny Welbeck after Spain’s keeper spilled the ball under pressure from

HARRY HUMBLED: It was a learning experience for the captain and his young team. the striker.

England were left to reflect on their first competitive defeat at Wembley since they lost a Euro 2008 qualifier to Croatia in November 2007, a run stretching for 24 games.