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ISSUE NO. 1732
13 - 19 September 2018
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‘Lucky to be alive’ By Tara Rippin A SCOTTISH holidaymaker stabbed six times during a fight with seven English men at a Magaluf hotel was expected to fly home yesterday after discharging himself from hospital. Robert Watson, 31, from Ayrshire, is said to be ‘lucky to be alive’ after suffering ‘very deep wounds’ to his back, stomach, buttocks and near his liver, according to brother Andrew Mullholland. The 20-year-old said he and Robert, who arrived at the resort with a friend the day before, had left their room heading to reception when the group began calling them ‘Scottish b******s.’ Andrew claims a fight broke out, just before midnight on Saturday, and the alleged attackers pulled two knives. He said he was ‘fighting with one of them’ when his brother shouted that he had been stabbed. The pair had to
SIBLINGS: Robert Watson (right) and Andrew Mullholland.
STABLE BUT IN PAIN: Stabbed six times.
lock themselves in their hotel room while they waited for emergency services to arrive. The assailants were unknown to the siblings. Andrew Fries, 29, from Gloucester, faces charges of attempted murder, while Anthony Muggleston, Robert Stafford and Kieran Boughton, all 26, face charges of affray. They appeared at the Court of Instruction in Palma this week, having been arrested early hours on Sunday, and were released while further investigations are carried out. Despite his injuries, Robert
requested that he be released from Son Espases Hospital to return home, where he lives with his grandparents Margaret, 70, and George West, 73. In an interview with an international newspaper, the victim’s grandmother said he ‘was very lucky, he nearly died’ adding that Robert is ‘stable but in a lot of pain.’ Still in shock, she went on to say that the car enthusiast is a ‘fair guy’ who doesn’t drink much and spends most of his time with his girlfriend. Robert is expected to seek
hospital attention on his return. Meanwhile, Michael Reese, 64, the partner of Andrew Fries’ mother Mary, 55, who apparently flew to Mallorca to support the accused after his arrest, said they couldn’t ‘see him getting into that sort of trouble.’ He added that the 29-yearold gardener had flown to the popular Mallorcan holiday resort to celebrate his birthday.
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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.
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
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Poisoned spy Spain link Madrid in the mid-1990’s. He worked officially as a military attaché at the Russian embassy but carried out 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
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COLLABORATION CLAIMS: The victim of the Salisbury attack may have worked for the CNI (inset). on what he and officers discussed in their meetings remains classified. A retired Spanish police officer 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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Users on the up MALLORCA’S Aerotib bus services from airport to resort saw an increase in passenger numbers of almost 26 per cent during the period May to August, compared to last year. The four routes, launched in May 2017, offer a cheaper alternative to taxis and were used by 145,734 people during the summer months.
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Weather worry HEAVY rain and storms led to tailbacks on the Inca motorway heading into Palma on Sunday, and delays on rail services and flights due to electricity breakdowns. Red flags were raised at Can Pere Antoni and Ciutat Jardi beaches and up to 73 litres of water per square metre was recorded in Montuiri.
Nudist hotspots ES TRENC playa in Mallorca is among the top 10 nudist beaches in Europe, according to a UK voucher code website, Promotional Codes. The data was based on TripAdvisor’s reviews and reveals that the best spots for sunseekers are apparently Greece, France, Turkey, Croatia and Mallorca.
Taking flight CHINA, America, Canada, Argentina and Brazil, are all markets considered to have potential for tourism, being considered by the committee for the development of air routes for Palma’s Son Sant Joan Airport. The tourism ministry’s Aetib agency is attending the annual World Routes travel fair in China on Saturday with this is mind.
Speeding up UNDER Mallorca’s transport plan, fast lanes could be introduced on any roads which currently have two lanes on both sides. The council intends to present its scheme to the government in the near future and has hinted it could come into operation before the May election, and next year’s tourism season.
Campaign BALEARIC Islands’ tourism councillor Bel Busquets will unveil her personally drafted Tourism Law this month, which aims to rid resorts of disrespectful activities. One of the main aims is to get a ban on unlimited booze in all inclusive hotels, claiming it has contributed to a rise in crime and dangerous crazes such as balconing.
ON HIGH: The statue is taken on a holy procession through the streets.
Pay up of prison AN Alcudia Town Hall engineer h as 1 0 d ay s to pa y a fine of €5,400 for bribery or face two years in jail. The case was heard at Palma High Court after the defence and prosecution struck an agreement which prevented the case being heard by a jury. The case relates to restoration work at the Ca ses Monges building in Alcudia. The engineer asked fo r a n ille g al ‘commis s ion’ of
€2,000 from an electrician to be subcontracted to undertake electrical work. He then asked for a further payment in relation to work at a tennis club in Alcudia. Because he admitted everything, the prosecution reduced its original demand of a five-year sentence to two and was prepared to substitute this with the fine. He has been disqualified from having a job in the public sector for three years.
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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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Dodgy claims SEVEN people are due to appear in a Palma court on Wednesday in connection with alleged fraudulent claims for holiday sickness compensation. They include Laura Cameron and her brother and sister, founders of a company KLM Ventures, which the Guardia Civil claims was the firm that operated reps, or touts, who encouraged false claims from British holidaymakers in parts of Mallorca. The accused were all arrested last year by the Guardia Civil
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and eight addresses in Calvia and Palma were searched. Cameron has previously told investigators and a court that she and others were involved in collecting names and phone numbers of tourists that were sold to marketing companies in the UK. She said the information was not for any fraudulent use. The companies which paid for this information were named as HH Law Ltd, Holiday Claims and Ruby Diamond.
The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1731 of the Euro Weekly News Mallorca edition, including 89 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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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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By Joe Gerrard 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 leftleaning 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
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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 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.”
Government restores migrant healthcare days will have to provide a reference 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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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.
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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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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 Lam-
NEWS EXTRA Raised standards THE Balearics have done Spain proud again, winning a total of 67 Blue Flags for beaches, marinas and a new category introduced this year, sustainable vessels.
Traffic aid A TOTAL of 300 police officers will monitor traffic in Palma during the school year 2018 to 2019, ‘giving security and fluidity’ to vehicle movement in these zones.
Foul water USERS of the Maritime Club in Molinar reported that a pipe is pouring untreated water into the Bay of Palma, releasing dirty water, tampons and traces of cement and plaster.
Digging up THE Ministry of Culture, Participation and Sports has confirmed the excavation of Civil War graves in seven areas of Mallorca, which will begin at the end of this month.
Women only THE first hotel exclusively for women will open in Porto Cristo, Manacor, at the end of the year after a threemonth renovation of the old Hotel Sol I Vida on Avinguda de Joan Servera I Camps.
Staff sought AIRLINE Jet2.com and its tour operator will offer more than 250 jobs in Mallorca as part of a hiring campaign to support the growth of the company after what it has described as a ‘spectacular summer.’
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Funding call for reforms ban, 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.
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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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PLANE PAIN: The news will concern customers who have booked flights this month.
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 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.”
SPAIN’S Health Minister has resigned following claims of plagiarism and other irregularities over her masters degree. Carmen Monton, of the governing left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE), claimed she had committed no wrongdoing over her final thesis which she withheld from the media. It is alleged that she copied several paragraphs of it from articles on the internet, including some from the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia. There are also claims that grades for the degree, from King Juan Carlos University (URJC), were altered and that she did not attend several classes there. Monton resigned on Tuesday evening after buckling to pressure from the media and from those in her own party who called on her to go. The minister said she was resigning so the scandal would not continue to impact on the PSOE’s and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s work in government. Maria Luisa Carcedo, previously the government’s high commissioner on child poverty, has been appointed as her replacement. Monton said in her resignation statement that she was proud of what she had achieved in government. “We have recov-
ered universal health care. We have laid the foundations for the approval of a law protecting children against violence. It’s a good balance for 100 days. “I am proud and grateful that the Prime Minister has counted on me in government. I have felt his human quality, his support and affection,” she said. Sanchez had backed Monton until hours before she departed. He thanked her for her work and called her decision to resign “brave.” Teodoro Garcia Egea, secretary general of the opposition conservative Partido Popular (PP), said the resignation showed the government was the weakest in recent history. The senior PP official also denied there were similarities between Monton’s case and that of his party’s leader Pablo Casado. Casado is accused of irregularities over a law masters he obtained from the URJC’s Law Institute. He has denied any wrongdoing and the investigation into the claims remains ongoing. BROUGHT DOWN: Monton left government on Tuesday.
Search underway POLICE have expanded the search for a Spanish Legionnaire wanted in connection with the death of his 35-year-old 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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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 writ-
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COVER SONG: Spain’s anthem may have been written by a Moor.
ten 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.
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. His remains lie in a controversial mausoleum in the Valley of the Fall-
en, in the Guadarrama mountains 30 miles northwest of Madrid. Many of the protesters waved the flag of Spain that existed under Franco’s 40-year authoritarian reign, following his military coup which started the 1936-1939 Spanish Civil War.
Others held signs reading ‘leave Franco in peace’ and ‘Hands off the Valley and Franco.’ Franco ordered the construction of the monument before his death in 1975, and it has become 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.’
TOMB RAID: The issue has reopened old wounds in Spain.
EIB stakes its future by Joe Gerrard 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 in-
HIGH STAKES: The EIB needs its shareholders to plug the Brexit gap. stitutions 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.
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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.
SPONTANEOUS TRIP: Griffiths (inset) travelled to Palma. A BRITISH man has told media in the country about how he kept a night going by spontaneously travelling from Wales to Palma with a friend. Alun Griffiths, 27, said he was out with work mates in his home town of Merthyr Tydfil when he had the idea of flying to the Spanish island of Mallorca. “After work I went to the Gurnos Club and there was about 15 of us all talking about holidays. So I said ‘anyone want to go on holiday now? Let’s go to the airport and see where we can go,” he said.
Griffiths managed to talk friend Nigel Lewis into joining him and the two made for to Cardiff airport. There they were told they could travel on a plane to Palma which was leaving that evening. “There’s a Palma in Italy too so we didn’t know if we were going there or Spain. “We fell asleep on the plane and woke up in Spain, thank God,” he said. Griffiths took a phone call from his girlfriend shortly after arriving on the island and taking a taxi to the resort of Magaluf. She told him his dinner was ready and he told
her he was now in Magaluf. “I said ‘I’m not joking, I won’t be home for a few days.’ She wasn’t best pleased,” he said. The pair stayed in Mallorca for two nights before returning to Wales last Thursday. Pictures shared by Griffiths on social media showed him and Lewis drinking from early in the morning until late at night. “It cost us about €100 to get out there and €343 for the hotel and my Mrs booked for us to come back. “It was almost €900 each altogether,” he said.
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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 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
John Duffy.
Yes it’s always been 18 and that’s right in my eyes. I t ’s b a d e n o u g h g e t t i n g 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 Ye s I a g r e e w i t h i t . When I was 16 I drank but t h a t ’s n o t t h e p o i n t ! I t ’s healthier for young people so that they can focus on their studies.
Jack McCord.
In Holland it changed from 16 a few years ago. That was because a lot of accidents were happening 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 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. To o m a n y 1 8 y e a r- o l d s are falling out of clubs and not bothering to get jobs. Name: Anne and Dave Age: 69 and 67 On holiday: Yes Where from: Weston Super Mare
Anne and Dave. three years make an awful l o t o f d i f f e r e n c e . Yo u n g people will abuse the freedom to drink, as we see. They think it’s cool but it can lead to even worse 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.
No, it should be 21. Those
Bob and Kelly.
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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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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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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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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.
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-
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.
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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Holidays from hell, and that’s just the airport!
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-
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?
LAURA PENN ‘PENN TO PAPER’ I GOT collared this week by Barry from Bolton. I do try to avoid him, but I was taking rubbish to the bins and he was laying ready to ambush me. Not that there is anything wrong with Barry from Bolton, but he does like to talk. The big news is that I will have to change his name to ‘Barry from Benidorm’ because he is moving. Barry then went on to regale me with the benefits of living on the mainland compared to Mallorca; it’s cheaper, you can drive to France, it’s warmer in the winter and - there are no Mallorquins. It amazes me how some Brits manage to be racist even when they live in a c o u n t r y d i ff e r e n t t o w h e r e t h e y w e r e born. Barry then continued, (as he does) to tell me that his new place is in Benidorm Old Town, “I can’t stand the new town too many Brits!” Brilliant Barry, you can even dislike your own countrymen! Presumably the only people that Barry considers acceptable are from Bolton (excluding the 15 per cent of Boltonians who are of Asian origin).
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
FEATURE
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.
Bye Bye Benidorm Barry BREXIT BARRY: Bolts to Benidorm.
Photo Credit: Laura Penn
The British have always assumed an air of superiority over other nationalities. Any country that adds the adjective ‘Great’ in front of its name must be bigging itself up. I won’t use the word arrogance, but other countries refrain from such superlatives - join the party - Super Spain and Fabulous France! There are many things that are ‘great’ about Britain: the transport system runs on time, Cadbury’s and Stephen Fry to name just three. Oh, and yes, a Brit invented the worldwide-web. Should Tim Berners-Lee decide to call himself ‘great’ no one would argue, but for the rest of us some modest reserve would not go amiss. P e r s o n a l l y, I h a v e a l w a y s f e l t m o r e Spanish than British and considered myself more European than English. My traceable ancestors were Irish and as many Spanish dropped off on the Emerald Isle in centuries past, I like to think that I have some Catalan chromosomes in
my DNA. I certainly prefer chorizo to Cumberland, ensaimada to Eccles cakes and Rioja to urrgh? There is no British wine worth mentioning. The UK is a country where 17.5 million people voted for Brexit leaving, the other 48.5 million wondering if they will still be able to shop at Aldi (German), drink Belgian beer and go to Spain on their holidays. The first two are pretty safe but as for the third, the passport controls at Palma airport have already increased for passengers on flights from the UK, along with hotel room prices for anyone booking from a computer with a UK IP address. This is not a concern for Barry of course, and I am delighted that he is moving to the peninsular, whoops, I am delighted for him that he is moving. I am sure he will find any number of people in Benidorm that he considers to be genetically inferior as he sips his Estrella.
Laura Penn presents ‘The Sunshine Club Radio Show’, 10am - 12 noon Sunday on Mallorca Sunshine Radio 106.1 FM - www.mallorcasunshine.radio.com
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Cryptic Across 1 Playing with sword in castle (7) 5 Outer garments from a production of Tosca (5) 8 Up the stakes for more pay (5) 9 Sprinkle on feline inside, rest disperse (7) 10 Support new settler (7) 11 Panic encountered in business career (5) 12 Cared about a group of activists (5) 14 Outsiders changed Italy (5) 19 Works hard on oil in back street (5) 21 Wrong serums I suspect (7) 23 I posed a problem being fat (7) 24 Cleaned out horrible stink (5) 25 Pitchers were transported south (5) 26 Odd seaside complaint (7) Down 1 Thaw somehow envelops empty room, generating friendliness (6) 2 The sound in a piano is exhilarating (5) 3 Around lake there's poor protection (7) 4 Rewrote resort schedule (6) 5 Unrefined credit on a ship (5) 6 To appeal to a tart, act flustered (7) 7 Setter wandering in the road (6) 13 Getting in twice into rough sea is
stupid (7) 15 A Russian leader takes it easy, then stops all together (7) 16 Flammable gas found in bottle then explodes (6)
Code Breaker
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)
English - Spanish
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
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)
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.
Nonagram 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.
LOTTERY
TARGET: Average: 10 Good: 14
UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
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33
34
52
53
BONUS BALL
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IRISH LOTTO Saturday September 8
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24
Excellent: 26
36
37
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BONUS BALL
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Tuesday September 4
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28
4 11
47
30
27
1 8
50
EL MILLON: HHS91578 LA PRIMITIVA Thursday September 6
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11
21
27
28
34
Saturday September 8
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16
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CRYPTIC Across:
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.
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,
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.
Down: 25 Scale.
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.
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There is a lightness to this week that is welcome. After more than a little bit of aggravation and frustration of late it is overdue. Someone you believed had lost interest in you suddenly surfaces. You may be unsure of how to react, so save judgment.
With so much energy around you, it will be hard to concentrate on business matters. Finances, however, do require your attention and a brief period of scrutiny will show you why. Someone close may be spending too much or undermining the situation by making big plans.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)
KAKURO
Across: 1 Polar bear, 5 Young, 7 Cider, 9 Shin, 10 Regret, 12 Anorak, 13 Liar, 15 Dense, 16 Logic, 18 Extrovert. 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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Nostalgia overtakes you and an urge to look back into the past is strong. Perhaps you are thinking of tracing your family tree. It may be that you have received a letter or phone call that aroused your curiosity. Whatever it is, do be aware that any decisions made this week could have farreaching effects, for the good as well as the ‘not so good.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) A need to listen to your innermost feelings and needs has perhaps been overlooked. With the hustle and bustle of everyday life, philosophical thoughts are often pushed into a corner. Even so, you owe it to yourself to truly consider what you want as opposed to going along with what others want from you.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)
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Your opinion of someone is in the process of changing. It is not through any particular action of theirs towards you, rather it is a feeling that you should not be involved with their business. Trusting our instincts is something that we do not do enough.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23)
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be changing. You need to know why and maybe believe that you do. However, be sure to get all the facts. Asking outright questions of the person involved is your best chance of getting the right answers. Someone may urge you to ‘read between the lines’ but it is hardly necessary.
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Someone you would not normally consider to be a friend shows an interest in you. Your immediate reaction may be joy or suspicion. In fact, you are not quite sure what to think. All the same, try to put aside preconceived ideas and give them a chance.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Time is of the essence when pursuing a pet project this week. Having been given the opportunity to go ahead with a plan, do not waste time. Some opportunities do not come twice so be sure to show your enthusiasm.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) A close relationship seems to
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) When you start to worry too much about things, it is time to take a step back. Senseless worrying is when you really cannot do anything to change the situation. Take into account how, in the past, worrying has affected your well-being. Maybe it is time to walk away and take another path entirely. Some may not be happy about this. You must come first now.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) This is a creative week and one in which you seek to find your talents. For some time now you have toyed with the idea of joining a club or group. This will enhance your social life and bring you laughter. Although your confidence has been a little lower than usual, you have the chance to impress someone important to you
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Life can get complicated at this time of the year and you may feel pulled in more than one direction. You are perfectly entitled to change your mind about an arrangement. Those who try to make you feel guilty may be thinking only of themselves, and what does that tell you?
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. ARTHUR HAILEY
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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
going the way of its northern neighbour, Zimbabwe which once had profitable
DO YOU QUALIFY?: Check it out. 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
commercial farms exporting around the world but now only has subsistence farm-
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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
Comments from EWN online Facebook group well done, great support for those ladies, give yourselves a big clap on the back. 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. Julian Ward, Volunteer worker with National Police for 20 years
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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.
See a future in exercise 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, during an eight-year period.
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 look refreshed. It is especially great for people with dry skin.
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Slices have been used in many beauty treatments, and are particularly effective in reducing dark circles and treating puffiness around the eyes. You can 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,
BEAUTY BENEFITS: Cucumber can also be grated and applied to skin. is a complete beauty food, it is not just great for the skin, but also for the nails and hair. It can help 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 people wanting to reduce weight.
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TV COUCH CRITIC 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: 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
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
Flamenco Jazz Fusion TONI CUENCA and his trio along with Jorge Pardo return to the Alcudia Jazz festival playing the symphonic format that they had previously unveiled in the town some years ago. They will be joined by la Banda Municipal de Música d’ Alcudia, which is celebrating the 30th anniversary of its foundation. This will be an evening of some of the most outstanding compositions from Jorge Pardo, a major influence on Spanish musicians and audiences who enjoy his fusion of flamenco with jazz. The programme will include classic jazz themes with special arrangements created by Toni Cuenca himself for the occasion. The concert starts at 8pm in the Auditori d’ Alcudia on Sunday September 23.
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SOME 16 years ago, worldrenowned opera director Toyo Masanori Tanaka and French director Oliver Tardy inaugurated the Symphony of MúsicaMallorca Festival composed of musicians from various prestigious orchestras. This year as part of the continuous activity of this training in the greatest classical scenarios in Europe, this orchestra will participate in Viva l’Ópera as part of the festival and organisers expect this to be a sell out event. Due to the fame of the MúsicaMallorca Festival Symphony Orchestra, this great Opera Gala has attracted this year, the musical direction of the Spanish Maestro José María Moreno. The artistic director of the MúsicaMallorca Festival, Wolf D Bruemmel, has assembled a splendid cast of international opera stars for the Opera Gala which takes place at the Palma Auditorium on October 13. Amongst others are the soprano Theresa Dax (Teatro alla Scala Milano), the mezzosoprano Kremena Dilcheva (Bayerische Staatsoper
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to Live Well 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
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Viva l’Ópera München), the tenor José Manuel Sánchez (Teatro Reina Victoria of Madrid and Opernhaus de Graz) and the baritone Tohru Iguchi (Opera H o u s e To k y o / O p e r n h a u s München). Another top class participant for the night will be the pianist Stephan Lademann, Professor at the Universität für Musik Vienna, presenting a programme of works by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. Also this year sees the inclusion of the prestigious international Chor Capella Mallorquina, consisting of
80 singers. The programme includes the best arias, overtures and choir pieces from Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s most famous operas (‘Don Giovani’, ‘La Clemenza di Tito’), Gioachino Rossini (‘La Cenerentola’,‘Il Barbiere di Siviglia’), Charles Gounod (‘Faust’), Vincenzo Bellini (‘I Puritani’), Carl Maria von Weber (‘Der Freischütz’), Giuseppe Verdi (‘Il Trovatore’, ‘Rigoletto’), and many others. Tickets cost €38 and €48, for this one-night-only performance.
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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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House prices continue to rise THE price of housing in Spain rose by 2.6 per cent in the second quarter of the year over the previous three months.
This was the biggest increase by quarter in the last three years, according to data released by the National Sta-
tistics Institute (INE). Driving the rise was the cost of new housing, which rose 5.7 per cent between April and
June. Since January, the prices of new and used housing have increased by an average of 6.8 per cent.
GOING UP: Madrid experiencing a housing boom.
The priciest streets in Spain WHEN it comes to high end property, exclusive streets in Madrid, Barcelona and Benahavis (Malaga) are at the top of the market with average asking prices touching €6 million. Leading the streets with the most expensive homes in Spain is the Camino del Sur, located in the Madrid urbanisation of La Moraleja, Alcobendas, where owners ask an average of €5,987,000 for one of the luxury villas. In second place in the ranking is the Paseo de la Marquesa viuda de Aldama, also in the urbanisation of La Moraleja, with an average price of €5,963,323, somewhat higher than the Avenida del Tibidabo, in the upper part of Barcelona, which occupies third place. Above the €5 million mark
LA MORALEJA: Home to the two most expensive streets in Spain. are the Coto Zagaleta (€5,729,500) and Los Monteros (€5,448,000) urbanisations in Malaga, as well as the Encinas de Pozuelo de Alarcon street (€5,022,000) in Madrid. They are followed by two avenues in Sant Andreu de Llavaneres in Barcelona: Supermaresme (€4,528,781)
and Rocaferrera (€4,404,000). The Madrid town of Pozuelo de Alarcon is home to the seventh most expensive street: Avenida de los Lagos (in the exclusive development of La Finca) has homes with an average price of €4,358,300. The list of the 10 most ex-
pensive is completed with the only address of the Balearic Islands: Calle Es Cubells in the Ibizan municipality of Sant Josep de Sa Talaia at an average €3,725,714. The study carried out by Idealista is completed with the most exclusive streets of each of the 17 Spanish autonomous communities. In addition to the communities with streets in the top 10 positions, three more autonomous regions have addresses where average prices exceed half a million Euros: Valencian Community (€2,148,611), Euskadi (€1,547,500) and the Canary Islands (€1,117,083). The cheapest is Extremadura, where its most expensive street has an average price of €299,709 followed by La Rioja (€469,583) and Castilla y León (€486,181).
In the second quarter of 2018, all the Autonomous Communities plus the cities of Ceuta and Melilla registered rises in the price of housing year-on-year. The most pronounced increases in prices were in Madrid (+10.1 per cent), Cataluña (+9.3 per cent), Ceuta (+8.6 per cent) and the Balearic Islands (+8.4 per cent). Prices rose least in Castilla-La Mancha (+1.5 per cent), Extremadura (+2.2 per cent) and Murcia (+2.6
per cent). Likewise, quarter-on-quarter, housing prices also rose in all Autonomous Communities. The greatest increases were seen in Cataluña, Cantabria and Comunidad de Madrid, with increases of 3.7 per cent, 3.3 per cent and 3.3 per cent, respectively. Galicia (+0.7 per cent), Principado de Asturias (+0.9 per cent) and Region de Murcia (+1 per cent) registered the lowest quarterly increases.
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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
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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.’
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Red, yellow and purple
- 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
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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
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
there. 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...).”
Spanish veto that would result from cosying up to the Catalan separatists for the benefit of the pro-independence vote.
Wrong target 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 people-trafficking 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.
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Give your bathroom a boost on a budget FROM storage to accessories, tiles and artwork, there’s a wealth of ways you can transform a bathroom without spending weeks or a fortune. Making a feature of laundered towels can have a big impact. Narrow shelves fitted in the corner lend themselves perfectly, while a small basket positioned nearby is perfect for rolled up flannels. Concrete and slate is the latest trend popping up in bathrooms, creating a modern and stylish look. A slate sheet is a great place to pop jewellery and watches while you’re showering or taking a bath. Reed diffusers, which can last for up to four weeks, are great decorative pieces in their own right and will also fill the room with a beautiful fragrance. A chrome bath rack is great for keeping special bathroom soaps and essentials on
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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.
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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 Tomarctus, a direct forebearer of
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M A RTA L A Z A R A N a n d P a u H o m a r o f the Nautical Club of S’arenal sailed their way to second position at the Balearic Islands in the 4.7 Laser Balearic Islands Trophy in the sub-16 category. O r g a n i s e d b y t h e C l u b d e M a r, t h e three-day competition was held in the waters of the Bay of Palma last weekend. The competition kicked off on Friday with unfavourable weather conditions, which produced many surprises in the general classification. Conditions had not improved on Saturday which created many difficulties for
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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 electric car without a human driver. The 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 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 commented that: “The feeling at the wheel
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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 potential uses of autonomous driving ve-
hicles - 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 destina-
tion 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 cities and how we use infrastructure.”
Take a look at SEAT’s new SUV of the new SEAT Tarraco is impressive. It’s very dynamic and makes you feel safe at the same time.” The car can seat up to seven passengers and has a 760-litre 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 all-wheel 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
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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 off-road portion of the test, Stefan changed to ‘sport’ mode. Thanks to this system the car provides an extremely versatile 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. and currently features the Ateca and the Arona.
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Premier League Preview 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
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.
JOB HUNTING: Zidane would be the first choice target for many clubs.
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 replacing the 38-year-old 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
at Wembley EXIT BOUND: Raikkonen is likely to have no shortage of offers. form, and his drive in 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. An announcement to that
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 demeanour, dour nature 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.