Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South October 18 - 24 2018 Issue 1737

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ISSUE NO. 1737

18 - 24 October 2018

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Surge in migrants despite storms

by Tara Rippin A WAVE of migrants arrived on the coastline of Murcia over the weekend, despite rougher than normal sea conditions as storms hit the shorelines of southern Spain.

In just 72 hours, 75 predominantly Algerian nationals were intercepted, having made the perilous crossing of the Mediterranean from

ARRIVALS: Seventy-five migrants arrived in Murcia in 72 hours.

North Africa.

Volunteers from Cartagena Red Cross recently requested the use of the old Hospital Naval in Canteras, to deal with the volume of migrants in such a short space of time.

They made the separate journeys on four small vessels, the last of which arrived in Cabo de Palos with 12 on board on Sunday evening, following the landing of a further 10 at La Manga beach earlier in the day.

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NEWS EXTRA Tourism figures THE amount of holidaymakers who have visited Spain this year is expected to stand at 81.2 million according to forecasts from the Tourism Ministry, a fall of 0.8 per cent or almost 700,000 compared to 2017.

Crime data ANDALUCIA saw the highest number of gender violence cases of any of Spain’s autonomous communities last year with 34,534 victims and 35,398 complaints to police, an increase of 18 per cent on 2016 levels according to a new study.

Leader call GOVERNMENT ministers have accused the leader of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) Pablo Casado of ‘disloyalty’ and of being ‘unpatriotic’ after he met with party colleagues in Brussels to discuss opposing national budget plans unveiled last week.

Copy claim PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez has been accused of copying his Canadian opposite number Justin Trudeau after posting a video of himself with a nine-year-old girl days after Canada’s leader posed with his daughter for the International Day of the Girl.

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Guilty but free Stolen babies doctor walks free amidst appeal plans

By Joe Gerrard PROSECUTORS have said they will appeal against a Madrid court’s ruling which found a doctor guilty over Spain’s historic stolen babies scandal, but spared him jail.

Madrid’s provincial court convicted Eduardo Vela on all charges after he stood trial over claims he stole a baby and gave it to supporters of former dictator Francisco Franco in 1969.

The 85-year-old was allowed to walk free after the trial because the legal limit for convicting him had expired.

Madrid Public Prosecutors now plan to lodge an appeal with Spain’s Supreme Court in an effort to secure a sentence.

Vela is the first person to stand trial over the stealing of an estimated 300,000 babies from their mothers to sell to families who supported Franco during his rule.

The former gynaecologist was accused of taking Ines Madrigal from her real mother in 1969 and handing her to a 46-year-old woman who raised her as her own child.

CREDIT: Madrid Provincial Court (main), Ines Madrigal (inset)

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FREED: Vela was not jailed for stealing Madrigal (inset).

Madrid’s provincial court convicted Vela on charges of unlawful detention, falsifying official documents and certifying a non-existent birth at the trial last week.

Judges said the 85-yearold’s guilt had been proved ‘indisputably’ and that it was ‘crystal clear’ Vela had forged documents to allow

for the taking of Madrigal.

The judgement went onto state that the defendant would not go to prison because the ‘statute of limitation,’ or time limit to press charges, had passed.

Vela told the court he did not remember details of how his San Ramon clinic in Madrid had been run.

Madrigal, from Murcia, said she now thought she would never know the identity of her real parents and that Vela would take it with him to the grave.

“I feel good because the judges acknowledged the theft, but of course I don’t agree with the statute of

limitations point,” she said.

Madrigal’s lawyer Guillermo Peña argued the statute did not apply in the case because she did not find out about the theft until 2010.

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Farm aid roll out FARMERS in the Valencian region will be among the first to receive the advance of direct payments of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), the first instalment of which represents €30.9 million of European aid which will benefit 39,000 farmers and ranchers across the communities of Valencia.

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THE BIG PICTURE Nº 36

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THE gulf of Valencia registered an earthquake of 2.5 degrees of magnitude on the Richter scale on Monday morning. Movement was recorded at 5.52am, according to the Emergencies of the Generalitat and the National Geographic Institute (IGN), and occurred 12 kilometres below the ground.

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S TO R M L e s l i e c r o s s e d t h e province of Valencia without major incident on Sunday afternoon, and while strong gusts of wind reached 54 km/h, no lightning was registered. Data provided by Met Office Aemet, said areas most affected by rain were Lliria with 26 litres per sqm, and Serra with 24 litres.

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Agri-food THE president of the government, Ximo Puig, has stressed the importance of the Valencian agri-food industry in rural areas after visiting farms which produce gazpacho and horchata in the area. He said the presence of this sector ‘has at the same time a driving effect on other companies.’

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STUNNING: Albarracin was voted the most beautiful town in Spain.

THIS village in the Aragon region has recently topped a list of the 30 most beautiful towns in Spain.

Albarracin, in Teruel Province, saw off competition from almost 250 settlements from across the country in El Viajero’s online poll which ran from September 28 to October 2.

T h e v o te w a s on villa ge s a nd towns with a population of 10,000 or under.

Albarracin, with a population of

around 1,075, was named a National Monument in 1961 due to its historical and cultural heritage.

The tow n is be lie ve d to ha ve been founded by the Muslim Moors sometime in the 10th century.

The name Albarracin is thought to come from the Banu Razin dynasty who chose the town as the capital of its fiefdom from the early 11th century.

The town passed into Christian hands after it was conquered by Pe-

ter III of Aragon in 1284 and fully incorporated into his kingdom in 1300.

Albarracin’s old town is built on the slips of mountains near to the River Guadalaviar. It sits between the Albarracin to the north and the Montes Universales in the south.

The town is home to several historic monuments including the Salvador Cathedral, the Alcazar de Albarracin, the Palacio Episcopal and walls built by the Moors.

Court calls PILAR DE LA OLIVIA, president of the Superior Court of Justice in the Valencian region, has called for the creation of three criminal courts which specialise in gender violence in the area, ‘to respond in this territory to this terrible scourge that constitutes this type of violence’.

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Wind fall THE daily coupon of the Once distributed €1,925,000 in Pilar de la Horadada, in 55 coupons worth €35,000 each in the draw of October 8, according to the organisation. Seller Jose Antonio Sanchez Garcia, attached to the agency in Orihuela, has been accredited with ‘bringing good fate’ to the town.

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Young and old offenders DATA provided by the National Institute of Statistics show the number of convictions have increased in almost all age groups of offenders in the Valencian community in a 12month period.

But in particular, over the last five years the number of convicted people aged 18 to 20, rose by 45.5 per cent, and at the opposite extreme, the number of sentences given to those over 70 saw a hike of 153 per cent.

By the end of 2017, there were 100 more defendants who had not yet turned 18, up 15 per cent on the previous year.

Valencia is the second autonomy with the most convicted minors, with a total of 2,054 registered in the Central Registry of Sentences of Criminal Responsibility, behind Andalucia.

Figures show that almost two out of 10 child offenders in the region are aged 14.

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Son held for assault LOCAL POLICE of Murcia arrested a 37-year-old man on Monday in connection with a violent assault on his father.

At 11am, 092 received a call to say a man was being attacked at a property in San Benito-Barrio de El Progreso.

Officers attended with members of the Multipurpose Group and the Family Protection and Assistance Team (EPAF), as it was a suspected ‘episode of domestic violence.’

The older man was reportedly

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found on the floor at the entrance to the property, with a bloodied face. The suspect was found walking outside the house he shared with his father.

Paramedics tended to the victim before he was transferred to Reina Sofia hospital.

Several witnesses claim to have witnessed the father and son ‘struggling’ beforehand. As such, officers arrested the younger man and took him to El Carmen District Police Station.

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POLL OF THE WEEK Do you think British tourists will be less likely to holiday in Spain after Brexit?

LAST WEEK’S POLL: Do you think women are more equal in Spain than they are in other countries such as Britain?

Yes 12%

No 88%

EWN online this week MAKING HISTORY: Gonzalez and Grandela worked on the Apollo 11 mission.

Space Race link TWO Spanish technicians have spoken about their time working for NASA on the Apollo 11 Moon landing ahead of the release of a film based on the mission.

Carlos Gonzalez and Jose Manuel Grandela both worked at the Fresnedillas de la Oliva tracking station in the Madrid region in the 1960’s.

Both were there during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969 and Gonzalez controlled its communications.

Gonzalez and Grandela both recently attended an event at the Astrobiology Centre in the Madrid region held to mark the premiere of The First Man. The film, starring Ryan Gosling as first man on the Moon Neil Armstrong, dramatises the Apollo 11 mission and is set to be released next year for its 50th anniversary.

Gonzalez said he and Grandela had a privileged position because they could listen to conversations between the Apollo 11 crew and mission control in Houston before anyone else.

Both were the first people to hear Armstrong confirm he and Buzz Aldrin had touched down on the Moon with the words: ‘The eagle has landed.’

Gonzalez said Armstrong wanted to step onto

the Moon no matter what happened and added he remembered an exchange between the astronaut and Houston when told he had to wait.

“I’ve been preparing for this for years, I’ve travelled 400,000 kilometres, I’ve gone down to the Moon with certain difficulties and now you tell me I have to sleep?” Gonzalez remembered Armstrong saying.

“Houston had proposed to abort the mission but Armstrong took semiautomatic control and with Buzz Aldrin giving him altitude and speed data he landed with about 30 seconds’ worth of fuel to spare,” Gonzalez said.

Gonzalez added he also remembered Armstrong asking how he had managed to stumble on his way out of the lunar module despite practising 300 times on Earth.

Grandela, who was 23 at the time, said the mission was an important step in the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union.

“The mission unleashed an avalanche of innovations in engineering, informatics, materials and fuels from which all of humanity is benefiting today,” he said.

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been made to government officials for the alternative use of a sports pavilion at a school in Cartagena, and the setting up of a field

The migrants, all male with two aged under 18, were detained by the Guardia Civil, and said to be in good health.

The Red Cross deal with all migrants brought ashore before the deportation proceedings begin.

And sources claim that the demand for space has been so high, with a record number of arrivals, that the charity is having to use the old navy hospital to temporarily house migrants.

A formal request has

SUPPORTED: Red Cross volunteers attend to the migrants.

Domestic abuse arrests

TWO men were detained

by Murcia and Cartagena police for separate attacks on their partners.

A 39-year-old Spanish man was arrested on Sunday in Alquerias, accused of kicking his wife in the chest. The suspect, according to sources, allegedly kicked his wife in the chest.

Officers reportedly received a call

alerting them to ‘an episode of mistreatment’ taking place inside a property in the hamlet of El Raal.

On arrival, the woman said she had been attacked and was treated at the family home. The accused had fled but was found in Bacchus Puente where he was arrested for the crime of gender violence.

The previous night, Local Police in Cartagena were called to a home in Los Barreros in Cartagena, after receiving a report of domestic violence.

Officers arrested a man, 28, who is accused of beating his partner and their young daughter. According to sources, he allegedly punched them and pulled their hair. Both accused are awaiting appropriate police proceedings.

hospital at the port of La Curra.

This is to avoid migrants being dispersed throughout the region of Murcia while they are being dealt with in the courts of Cartagena, San Javier and Lorca.

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stepped out in sexy red stilettos, teamed with a monochrome outfit of blouse and skinny fit, cropped trousers.

The glamorous royal, who is a hands-on mum to her two daughters, was already famous in her own right before marrying King Felipe, thanks to a career as a TV presenter and journalist.

S h e e v e n won a n award for best Spanish journalist under 30, just before she met her husband.

STYLE: The Royal shows off her flair for fashion.

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BIG BROTHER host Emma Willis showed off her toned figure in a hot yellow bikini while taking a well-earned stay at Ibiza’s famous fitness retreat, The Body Camp.

The 42-year-old sizzled while relaxing with husband, McBusted’s Matt, 35.

Taking to Instagram, the parents of three, who married in 2008, said they had enjoyed a boxing session, abs workout, yoga and meditation classes and a cooking lesson.

BREAK: Hard working Emma Willis takes some time off from work for a fitness holiday with husband Matt.

Showie Chloe SHE jets between Marbella and a mansion in the UK, and now beautician Chloe Bowler is starring in ITVBe’s new reality show Absolutely Ascot.

She gives the plush Spanish resort as her home address and plugs her €140 lip filler treatments on Facebook, but now she looks set for TV stardom.

The show, set to rival the likes of Towie, continues Sunday.

MODEL LOOKS: The budding reality star at La Palma and Teneguia Princess.

And they shared lots of sweet snaps of the two of them cuddling up as well as walking hand in hand.

Matt captioned a romantic, private moment: ‘Having a lovely time in Ibiza. Went for dinner last night and then spent the day training.’

Despite Channel 5 axing Big Brother last month, former model Emma has secured herself as a television favourite, and is sure to be back on our screens soon.

Bianca’s ass-ets PEACHY Bianca Gascoigne has been showing off her Brazilian butt after undergoing the controversial procedure in Spain.

The reality star has been papped by tabloid photographers all week, but particularly during a walk in the park with boyfriend Adam and her dog.

Wearing skin tight leisurewear, the 31-year-old left little to the REAR-LY: The reality star imagination.

has upped her assets.

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QUEEN LETIZIA of Spain has wowed crowds and the paparazzi with her style over the last fortnight.

She looked stunning in a Hugo Boss ensemble, worth a reported €1,200 when she attended congress ahead of last week’s World M e n t a l Health Day in Madrid.

T h e fashionista teamed an orange, navy and white, short-sleeve sweater with a camel tan leather A-line skirt with orange pockets.

And during an official visit at a college in Mallorca days earlier, Letizia

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Model monarch

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Group trips

Solid as a Rock

THIRTY ‘Darwinian gardeners’ joined a tourist boat in Aguilas for a cruise along the coast last week, the latest event in the group’s programme of events. Their next outing will be to gardens in Elche and Crevillente. For info, visit: dar winiangardeners@gmail.com.

WHILST the UK continues to be in the midst of internal and external dispute over the increasingly imminent Brexit, spare a thought for the politicians in Gibraltar.

At the end of the day, this tiny enclave at the tip of Spain has a voting population which is half the size of Wimbledon and from a pot of around 30,000 people has to find politicians who are capable of becoming involved in international negotiations.

Happily, it would appear that Chief Minister Fabian Picardo, a barrister and QC is capable of entering this heady atmosphere and with the support of certain of his other ministers - including Deputy Chief Minister Garcia - has walked a difficult tightrope.

Although the Spanish government is in theory committed to Spanish rule over the Rock, the change, firstly of Foreign Minister Margallo (who was a ‘sword rattling’ member of those who claim Gibraltar) and then the return to power of the PSOE Spanish Socialist Party has seen a less aggressive stance against Gibraltar in recent months.

It is clear that in financial terms, Gibraltar has an exceptionally strong economy and is said to be the second largest employer of Spanish workers in the Campo de Gibraltar, beaten only by the Government of Andalucia.

Despite all of the hard work that the Gibraltarians may put into the negotiations, at the end of the day, it’s the UK parliament and the remaining 27 member states of the EU who will actually decide the future of this British Overseas Territory.

For what it’s worth however, those born in Gibraltar can currently move to the UK, unlike the citizens of that other territory, Hong Kong which was returned to China.

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Consulate presentations THE British Consulate in Alicante is staging a number of presentations across the region next month to give British expatriates advice about living in Spain and share information about Brexit.

Sarah-Jane Morris will give short talks before taking questions from members of the public, with the help of representatives from the health service and the Guardia Civil.

Topics covered will include how to register with the town hall, how to get a residency certificate, access to healthcare, and driving licences in Spain.

On November 6, at 12 noon there will be a talk at La Marina social centre, Fulgencio, followed by a further event at 4.30pm at Plaza Florida in Pinar de Campoverde.

Additional event dates and times are: November 7, 11am, at Cuidad Quesada social centre; November 8, 10am at Hondon de los Frailes Town Hall; November 13, 1pm at C a mpos ol s oc ia l c e ntre ; Novem ber 15, 10.30am at Playa Flamenca Town Hall; November 15, 1pm at the cultural and sport

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TALKS: Sarah-Jane Morris will hold informative talks in Alicante region next month. centre in San Miguel de Salinas and on November 16, 4pm at CDT Calle de los Lirios in Torrevieja.

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TWO crew members were rescued from their boat after the engine became engulfed in flames off the coast of Mazarron.

Maritime Rescue and the Maritime co-ordinator for the area, despatched the Red Cross Poniente vessel assigned to the Copla Plan (plan of surveillance

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Boat on fire and rescue in beaches and salvage in the sea).

Meanwhile, the Guardia Civil and firefighters from Murcia re-

gion were moved to the nearby yacht club, to offer assistance.

The skipper of the Poniente boat requested assistance for a

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CABBIE CONCERNS: The mayor of Cartagena met with taxi drivers worried about their future.

THE mayor of Cartagena has expressed concerns about regional government plans to give taxi drivers of the municipality of Murcia exclusive

rights to provide a service at the International Airport in the region. Ana Belen Castejon said: “It is inadmissible if Corvera airport is paid for by citizens of

the region, only Murcia taxi drivers can work on it.” The mayor intends to promote an ‘institutional declaration in defence of the taxi sector of Cartagena.’

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caused by his inability to breathe.

The boat, which was damaged mainly by smoke, was towed the 1km distance to the mainland and docked in the Mazarron port.

A source has claimed a faulty battery may have been responsible for the blaze.

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Staff without cover

By Tara Rippin TOWN HALL employees in Torrevieja have reportedly been without life insurance cover since March, despite it being a contractual benefit.

The matter was brought to light by Popular Party councillor Carmen Gomez at a press conference last week.

She claimed a contract was formalised with an insurer in February 2015, but that in December 2017, a local government board, made up of members of the current government, agreed not to extend the contract.

Therefore since March 11, civil servants and employees of the city council have not been covered by life insurance.

According to Gomez, this could have serious consequences on compensation payments should a member of staff die or be permanently retired due to a disability.

A council spokesman said insurance companies don’t want to take over the contract

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CONSEQUENCES: Popular Party councillor Carmen Gomez highlighted lack of life insurance cover for council staff in Torrevieja. due to the of the number of accidents, and when they were prepared to take over policies, it was at a higher price.

As such, the council chose to

go through the Spanish Federation of Municipalities and Provinces (FEMP), which is currently finalising the arrangements.

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Residents rally round AN appeal to ‘Help Bring Sam Home’ was given a €1,500 boost after a fun day at The Archers in Quesada at the weekend.

Samantha Maynard was seriously injured when she fell from the second floor of a building while working as a volunteer at a music festival in Croatia.

She was left with potentially life-threatening injuries, which included a brain haemorrhage, major blood loss, broken legs, a broken arm, pelvis and jawbone.

The cost of her treatment, which involved six operations, is being paid for by her insurance policy, but this doesn’t cover the cost of getting Sam

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CARING: Samantha Maynard is pictured before her accident, with her family who have flown to be by her side.

A LORRY load of firewood spilled across the A-7 motorway at Santomera on Tuesday morning after the vehicle collided with a van, causing 10km tailbacks for more than three hours. A 67-year-old

Motorway mayhem man was seriously injured in the crash which occurred at kilometre 555, at 7am, and was transferred to

Reina Sofia Hospital. Subsequent accidents were allegedly caused as a result of the lorry losing its load.

home, together with her mother Shirley, sister Mellissa and niece Gabriella, who all travelled to Croatia to care for her.

The fundraiser was kicked off by popular local singer Emily Hullman, who explained what the appeal is about, before performing a string of hit songs, followed by vocalist Shannon Campbell.

Essence Dance and Fitness then put on a well-rehearsed routine, with help from the audience, and visitors were treated to sideshows, games, stalls and a bouncy castle.

And Big FM broadcast live from the event to make sure that nobody missed out.

To find out more about the appeal to repatriate Sam and her family, call Paul on 699 221 177.

The Local Pol i ce of Mur ci a advised drivers to look for alternative routes as traffic between the Alicante section between Espinardo and the exit to Santomera came to a standstill.

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Malu fall SINGER Malu has postponed a concert in Murcia on October 27, after suffering ‘one of the dumbest falls of her life’ last weekend at rehearsals, which will keep her off the stage for at least a month.

Flat fire TWENTY residents were evacuated from a fivestorey block of flats at the junction of San Pascual Street and Fragata, Torrevieja, after a fire broke out at 3pm last Wednesday.

Doors open THE first performance of Smile Charity Group’s new production of Escape from Butlitze, will take place on October 25, at Casa Ventura, 7.30pm, at a cost of €10, to raise money for charity.

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A weekend of exhibitions M A N Y of the a re a ’s 500 c lubs , a s s oc ia tions a nd charities will be under one roof at Expo Torrevieja at the International Auditorium this weekend.

The re w ill be a s pe c ia l clubs and associations zone on the firs t floor, giving representatives an opportunity to promote their causes, activities, talks and social gatherings.

According to an exhibition spokesperson, the event focuses on offering products and services that enhance residents’ quality of life.

Visitors can find out what a c tivitie s a re a va ila ble , learn how to become a volunteer, how to take part in s inging, a c ting, da nc ing, finding a hobby or playing sports.

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UNDER ONE ROOF: Clubs, associations and charities will be represented at Expo Torrevieja this weekend.

Door s open f r om 10am until 3pm on Saturday and Sunday. Adm i ssi on and parking are free.

The two-day event will be complemented by a classic and specialist car, motorbike and scooter display,

and owners are also invited to take their vehicles along.

To f i nd out m or e or t o take part, visit www.Expo Torrevieza.com, email: in fo@expotorrevieja.com or cal l / What sApp Kei t h on 609 063 614.

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Jailed for flight rage A MAN from County Down, Northern Ireland has been sentenced to 10 months in prison for threatening to kill and ‘flailing his arms about,’ terrifying a female member of Jet2’s cabin crew.

The Jet2 flight from Fuerteventura, Canary Islands to Belfast also saw Kevin O’Hare, 27, punching the seat of an autistic boy causing the young passenger to ‘scream.’

Reports suggest O’Hare also

acted in an aggressive manner towards police when he was arrested at Belfast airport.

O’Hare’s lawyer told Antrim Magistrates’ Court in Northern Ireland, his client had been drinking since 11am before boarding the Jet2 flight to Belfast International Airport.

O’Hare was given a fivemonth sentence for making death threats towards the cabin crew and an additional five months for assaulting a mem-

ber of Jet2’s team.

The judge described O’Hare’s actions as ‘appalling’ and bemoaned that incidents such as O’Hare’s case are becoming ‘all too prevalent’ on aircraft.

O’Hare allegedly ‘doesn’t recollect anything in relation to the incident.’

He is understood to be battling a ‘longstanding difficulty with alcohol, going back over 10 years.’

SENTENCED: 10 months in prison for threatening the Jet2 cabin crew.

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Emu dies after police chase AN escaped emu has collapsed and died in Spain after it was pursued by police on motorbikes for more than a mile (two kilometres).

The frightened, flightless bird ran through the streets in the town of Sant Cugat del Valles, north of Barcelona.

The animal rights group Plataforma Animalista San Cugat del Valles has denounced the police action and demanded that they be provided ‘with protocols and specific training to be able to manage future interventions where wildlife is involved, exotic and native, to ensure both public safety and animal welfare.’

The town hall has said that the police officers pursued the animal because it could present a danger to the public.

They said the owner of the

EMU CHASE: Police pursued the frightened bird for more than a mile. emu had been located and could face charges or a fine.

“Remember that the owners of this type of animal

have to ensure their safety and that of those around him, because it could have caused serious damage.”

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TRAGIC SCENE: Boy died in hunting accident.

Boy shot dead A 13-YEAR-OLD boy has died after being shot accidentally in the head during a hunting accident in Spain.

The incident happened at the Santamaria farm in Villalba de los Alcores in Valladolid, according to emergency services.

An ambulance and a helicopter were scrambled, but medics confirmed the death of the boy by rifle shot at the scene.

The fatal accident happened shortly after 1pm on Saturday at the farm, located about

five kilometres east of Villalba de los Alcores.

According to sources close to the case, the grandfather of the deceased child is the owner of the El Rocio estate, also located in the municipality of Villalba de los Alcores and ‘very well known’ in Valladolid.

The Guardia Civil have declared that the incident was probably an accident, but are investigating further and ‘do not discount any hypothesis.’

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Franco’s reburial THE Spanish government is turning to the Vatican in its bid to stop dictator Francisco Franco being buried at a famous Madrid cathedral, should his remains be exhumed.

Deputy prime minister, Carmen Calvo will travel to Rome to meet with the Pope’s second in command Pietro Parolin, to discuss the matter with the heads of the Catholic Church.

Last week, Franco’s family demanded his body be reburied at La Almudena Cathedral, next to the Royal Palace, which the government has argued would undermine the object of exhumation from the Valley of the Fallen.

It is also feared the move would create a new pilgrimage site for the dictator’s supporters, posing a security risk.

Socialist Party (PSOE) government officials would prefer

he was moved to a less prestigious location, such as El Prado cemetery where his wife is buried.

But with no legal grounds to prevent the landmark cathedral move, ministers are pinning their hopes on church leaders.

It has been reported Calvo also intends to discuss properties that the government suspects are fraudulently owned by the Catholic

CONCERNS: Government fears a second pilgrimage could be made to Franco at La Almudena Cathedral.

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Brit rescued from collapsed home dies A BRITISH man who had to be pulled from the rubble of his Spanish home when it collapsed on top of him has died, according to reports.

Malcolm Lawrence is thought to have died from emphysema and liver failure, though it is unclear if his condition was made worse by dust and the stress of the incident, i n wh i c h f i r e f ig h ters h a d to c u t

through iron bars to rescue him. They then pulled him though a window in his apartmen t in La Ze nia , O rihue la C os ta (A licante), an area popular with British expatriates.

Now, an insurance company survey has blamed the collapse of the building on an underground stream undermining the foundations.

Church under laws approved

by Franco.

The archbishop of Madrid, Carlos Oslo, agreed not to prevent the exhumation back in July, but has since claimed the church can’t stop Franco’s relatives from moving his body to La Almudena.

It is believed that should the government find a legal reason to stop the transfer, the church will support it, as it did with the exhumation. But at the moment, its only argument is the security risk it might pose, which could be rejected by the courts.

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THE father of a nine-yearold boy, killed after being run ove r b y a d r u g sm u g gling speedboat, has been arrested after stabbing the boat’s owner outside a courthouse.

Police feared that the incident, i n wh i c h t h e b o y died while fishing from a boat at Algeciras (Cadiz) could spark a gang war, and stepped up their presence in the city to deter any attacks.

The child was with his father w h e n t h e i r b o a t w as struck by a powerful semirigid v e sse l t r a v e l l i n g at high speed.

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Speedboat death boy’s father arrested

TRAGEDY: A drug smuggling speedboat similar to the one in the incident.

Vengeance is seen as the prime reason why the boat’s

owner - who was not on the vessel at the time of the in-

cident - was attacked outside Cadiz High Court.

He was one of 14 people appearing before a judge for an alleged drug smuggling operation, the very one in which the boy died.

The victim, aged 35, suffered chest injuries after a man walked up and stabbed him before making his escape. The stabbed man was taken to hospital for treatment.

The 28-year-old father of the dead child has now been arrested. He gave himself up to police after negotiations, despite denying the offence and saying he was not at the scene.

However, police say witnesses had identified him as being the perpetrator of the attack.

The boat owner is refusing to press charges.

The ar r est ed m an i s thought by police to have links to the Pantoja drugs clan.

This led police to fear a gang war i n t he ci t y. I n June, police had to step in when the child’s father and grandparents attacked the man who had been piloting the speedboat, known only as Pedro M B F and his co pilot, Alejandro J C G.

Tax takings highs THE Spanish treasury collected more in the first eight months of 2018 than at any time since the height of the pre-crash property boom, according to government figures.

Tax Agency statistics showed revenues were close to €210 billion in the months up to and including August. The treasury collected €201 billion during the same period in 2007 before

the property market crashed and Spain entered the last recession.

The figures come at a time of economic recovery for Spain, however there are more than 1.4 million more people unemployed than in 2007. The Tax Agency said in its report that the growth in pension earnings as well as previous VAT hikes were reasons for the increase.

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BREXIT WORRIES: Pinanes (inset) warned of a no-deal ‘disaster’ for tourism.

Tourism official: nodeal Brexit a ‘disaster’

By Joe Gerrard A SENIOR Spanish tourist official has said it would be a disaster for Spain if Britain left the European Union (EU) without a deal next year.

Javier Pinanes, the head of Spain’s London tourism office, said there would be “really big” problems if a no-deal Brexit went ahead including for those travelling between the two countries.

British people would probably opt not to travel to Spain or other countries in the EU if a no-deal meant the introduction of visas, flight changes and health insurance problems.

“For Spain it’s decisive.

Britain is our main market. A no-deal Brexit would be a disaster,” he said.

He added while speaking to members of the British travel industry association ABTA in Sevilla that hotels particularly

on Spain’s coast and its islands were heavily linked to their customers.

“I’m convinced there will be an agreement because it is in the common interest of Britain and the EU. “We received 19 million British people in 2017,” he said. British ambassador to Spain Simon Manley, also at the convention, said Westminster was working “day in, day out,” to secure a deal.

“Spain has got a lot of skin in this game,” he said.

Manley added the British government is advising travel companies and holidaymakers on the consequences of a nodeal Brexit.

“But the British government is also having to prepare for the worst,” he said.

Several EU arrangements such as European Health Insurance and visa-free travel could be disputed or stop all together

if Britain leaves the bloc without a deal.

The British government stated last month some flights may also be disrupted because airlines would have to get individual permits to fly between Britain and EU states.

Mark Tanzer said politicians had “argued and dithered” over the withdrawal negotiations.

“The future is unlikely to be a paradise but there’s no reason to believe it will be hell either,” Manley said.

The warning comes as the EU’s chief negotiator Michel Barnier said negotiators were working “day and night” to secure a Brexit deal.

His comments come as an agreement over the status of Northern Ireland and its border with the Republic continues to stall efforts to reach a final agreement.

Britain is due to leave the EU on March 29 2019.

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Rape law reforms

PROTESTS: Demonstration against the La Manada sentencing in Pamplona.

POLITICAL leaders have agreed to change the law to demand expressed consent in sexual relations as part of the fight against violence of this kind against women.

The pact between the government and political group Podemos will lead to a reform of the Criminal

Code with the aim of ensuring that ‘if a woman does not say yes explicitly’ then it is not consensual sex.

A formal document reportedly states that ‘the lack of expressed consent of the victim will become a key issue in sexual crimes.’

The debate was triggered by the ongoing La Manada

case in Pamplona, involving an 18-year-old female who accused five men of rape.

When the men were found guilty of sexual assault, rather than rape, protests were provoked across Spain, with groups and activists calling for reforms to the law.

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Suspected terrorists in court

by Tara Rippin FIVE Spaniards and one Turkish man appeared in the National Court of Madrid on Monday accused of collaborating with Kurdish guerrillas in Syria.

The prosecutor’s office requested that four of the alleged members of the Communist Resistance be given be tw e e n tw o a nd e ight year s i n prison for crimes of conspiracy and possession of prohibited weapons and explosives.

The fifth accused, Nizamettin Gul of Turkey, faces a possible threeyear jail term for the ‘glorification of the terrorist organisation Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).

It has been reported Spaniards Roberto Garcia Vaquero, Carlos Javier del Val, Adrian Delgado Gonzalez, Alvaro Fernandez Ruiz and Pablo Diaz Ocampo, were members of the Leninist Marxist Reconstruction Communist Party, founded in 2009.

According to Spanish press reports, the prosecutor’s office argued Va que ro e xe rc is e d the r ol e of leader, and designed action plans, set objectives and imposed the party’s criteria on the rest of the members.

ACCUSED: Alleged terrorists were facing charges of conspiracy and possession of explosives at the National Court of Madrid.

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Canary isles drownings

TOO LATE: Helicopter was unable to reach hospital in time.

A FATHER and diver have drowned in separate incidents in Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura in the Canary Islands.

A man in his 60’s who was bathing with two children lost his life on Saturday afternoon at La Lajita beach in Gran Canaria. He was pulled from the water by a private boat,

which then took him to shore.

There lifesavers administered CPR in an attempt to revive him, but to no avail and he was declared dead at the scene.

And a 25-year-old spearfishing diver died near the Faro de la Entellada on the island of Fuerteventura. A call to the emergency services

alerted them that he had not returned to shore.

Two people found him and performed CPR until the emergency services arrived.

A helicopter was scrambled to take him to the General Hospital of Fuerteventura but he died before arrival, according to a statement from the rescue service.

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PAYING THEIR RESPECTS: Colleagues of fatally wounded police officer Jose Manuel Arcos Sanchez and government officials.

A POLICE officer who was fatally shot when he stopped a car in Granada on Monday morning, has been decorated with the Cross of the Order of Merit of the Guardia Civil, with a red badge.

Jose Manuel Arcos Sanchez, 47, was fatally wounded in the stomach at around 4.20am when an occupant of the vehicle, which had been travelling at speed, got out and opened fire in Huetor Vega.

The Guardia Civil arrested a 40-year-old man from Granada at the scene, who is said

to have ‘numerous police records.’

The deceased officer was decorated by the General Director of the Guardia Civil, Felix Azon, during a funeral at the cathedral on Tuesday, attended by family, officers, ministers and government delegates.

He had several decorations, including the Cross to the Constancy (silver and bronze).

A spokesperson for Granada police, said: “We want to convey our deepest condolences after the death in service of our partner Arcos.”

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Rare artefacts seized FOUR people have been arrested for allegedly being complicit in the plundering of an archaeological site in Spain.

Guardia Civil have recovered 92 rare Celtiberian pieces said to be of ‘great historical value.’

They have been taken to a museum in Burgos to be studied, restored and put on display.

The arrested men and four others investigated are suspected of crimes of damage to archaeological sites, misappropriation and receiving the items illegally.

The investigation began last November after the Nature Protection Service of the Guardia Civil (SEPRONA) detected the

ANCIENT ARTEFACTS: Were recovered in Burgos. sale of several spearheads through specialised internet media sites.

The agents identified and located an advertiser in the town of Burgos, who was found to have a batch of 50 ancient pieces that were taken by police to be studied and catalogued by the Museum of Burgos.

An expert report showed that the metal items had been recently dug up.

Police then launched Operation ‘Muserola’ to investigate the illegal trade in antiquities in the region.

The aim was to locate the plundered site and identify those responsible and recover

the items stolen.

Guardia Civil searched two homes and arrested those responsible, one in the province of Toledo and three in Burgos.

One raid uncovered links to the drugs trade with cocaine and precision scales discovered.

Police also found the plunderer who was working a plot of land next to the archaeological site. According to experts, the indications are that the hoard was a votive deposit of arms of Celtiberian origin dating to the 4th century BC. Among the recovered pieces, mostly made of iron, are spear tips, an iron sword, daggers and horse bits.

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SIXTEEN INJURED: A heifer escaped from the celebrations in Valdelacalzada, Badajoz.

Four children hurt at bullfight FOUR children - aged between 18-months and six years old - were amongst 16 people injured during a bullfighting festival in Spain.

The 112 Extremadura emergency services control centre said the incident happened at 4.49pm on Saturday afternoon when a heifer escaped from the celebrations in Valdelacalzada, Badajoz.

Spectators scattered in panic as the animal broke free in a bid to find an escape route, but not everyone managed to escape the creature’s attentions.

Among the injured are the four children and 12 adults aged between 21 and 73.

The majority of the casualties were treated at the scene or nearby but five of

the injured, including the four-year-old boy were transferred to hospital.

Firefighters from the Puebla de la Calzada station, as well as a team from the Red Cross of Montijo and an ambulance hired by the town council for the celebrations, were also deployed along with the paramedics.

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LIVES LOST: Fatal crashes on Spanish roads during holiday weekend.

Deaths on Spain’s roads

By Tara Rippin FIGURES released by the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT), reveal nine people died in car crashes during the Bridge of October or Puente del Pilar celebrations.

The data relates to incidents between 3pm last Thursday and midnight on Sunday.

On Friday, a 24-year-old was killed when his quad bike was

Wildlife reserve A TEENAGER has been arrested on suspicion of setting fire to the Centre of Nature and the Coast ‘The Chameleon’ in Chipiona, Cadiz, causing more than €300,000 worth of damage.

The 17-year-old is accused of setting light to a plastic bottle, which fell onto the grass in strong winds, which accelerated the flames.

The fire spread through and destroyed 5,000 sqm of broom where the protected species of chameleon live and reproduce.

A large part of the Facilities of Interpretation Centre itself was also gutted in the blaze.

involved in a collision with a car on the N-332 at Cullera, Valencia. The motorist received minor injuries.

On Saturday there were four crashes, in A Coruña, Avila, Navarra and Las Palmas, with six deaths.

The most serious occurred at 11.15am on the AC-556 in Valdoviño, A Coruña, in which three people lost their lives as they were travelling towards

Cedeira. An investigation is underway to discover why the vehicle hit an electric pole and a concrete wall as the car was exiting the road. Two others died in accidents in Navarra and Las Palmas.

On Sunday, two 23-year-olds were killed when the car they were travelling in left the road between Pozoblanco Cordoba and Villanueva de Cordoba at 6.30pm.

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LUCRATIVE: Gang of migrant traffickers allegedly earned €26,000 per vessel.

Traffickers held

by Staff Reporter POLICE have arrested four people in the Spanish overseas territory of Ceuta, for trafficking migrants to the mainland in speedboats normally used in the drug’s trade.

A Civil Guard union confirmed last month that narcos in the south of the country had moved into the ‘lucrative’ business of migrant trafficking as an increasing num-

ber of people attempt to reach Europe from Africa, via Spain.

Police allege the four detainees led a gang in Ceuta that took migrants, specifically Algerians, across the Mediterranean to the mainland.

It has been reported they charged between €1,800 and €2,000 per person per trip, earning a profit of around €26,000 each vessel.

A source claims the profits

of the ‘organisation’ were such that those involved ‘devoted themselves to this criminal field rather than that related to drugs.’

According to data from the International Organisation for Migration, more than 40,000 migrants have reached Spain by sea since the beginning of the year, with a further 398 dying in the process.

This is more than three times as many as during the same period last year.

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Moves to stop deaths

by Tara Rippin A SUICIDE prevention plan has been put together by the National Police after it was revealed taking their own lives is the biggest cause of death among officers.

According to the Occupational Risk Prevention Service, there were 152 suicides within the force between 2000 and 2016.

The Guardia Civil has a plan in place, but this is the first of its kind within the national force.

A source claims factors such as the organisation and perception of work, the work environment, emotional demands, and shift and night work, are variables of the police profession that cause serious psychological disorders and can lead to problems.

These include post-traumatic stress, anxiety and depression, which ‘can cause sleep disturbances, alcohol and drug addiction, and may end in suicide,’ it was reported.

FORCE FIGURES: Show that 152 police officers committed suicide between 2000 and 2016.

The prevention document has been sent to the Minister of the Interior, Fernando Grande Marlaska, and to the Director General of Police, Francisco Pardo, for imple-

mentation.

It is hoped the plan will raise awareness and help identify signs prior to suicide so that a ‘therapeutic’ or treatment’ process can begin.

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NEWS EXTRA Tech issues THE city of Murcia has detected an increase in addictions among young people to new technologies, according to health bosses, resulting in a series of new workshops at local schools on the responsible use of the internet.

Art display FIVE Murcian artists exhibited various works of illustration within the programme ‘Murcia Se Illustra’ this week at the café-bar El Sur in the capital, as part of an initiative which will see different exhibitors every three months.

Car check CAMERAS will be installed by the city council in residential parts of Santa Pola, at a cost of €60,000, to detect the licence plates of vehicles parked in spots reserved for residents, and fines will be issued to offenders.

ARRESTED: Man is detained after blaze in Calle Arago in Barcelona.

Suspected arson EIGHTEEN people suffered injuries as a result of smoke inhalation during a fire at a residential building in the centre of Barcelona on Monday morning.

Cataluña police have arrested a man in connection with the blaze, and an investigation has been launched.

Firefighters received a call just before 5 . 3 0 a m , a n d 11 v e h i c l e s f r o m t h e Barcelona Fire Department, and nine am-

bulances from the Sistema d’Emergencies Mediques (SEM) attended the fire in Calle Arago. As a precaution, the whole building was evacuated, and sources claim the structure of the building appears not to have been affected.

Tr a ff i c w a s c u t o ff f o r a n h o u r a n d a half, with lanes reopening at 8am, although crews were still working to extinguish the flames.

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Forecast: Spain to age by 2030’s SPAIN’S population is set to be older while growing to 49 million people by the 2030’s, according to new figures.

The county’s National Institute of Statistics’ forecasts stated there would be 12 million people over the age of 65 by 2033, up from the current roughly nine million.

That would be equivalent to around a quarter of the predicted population.

The total number of people living in Spain is set to grow by 2.4 million. Migration is expected to continue offsetting the increasing imbalance between the birth and death rate, with the latter becoming bigger than the former.

About 6.5 million people are expected to die between now and 2033, around 15 per cent more than in the previous decade and a half.

Life expectancy is forecast to rise to almost 88 for women and 83 for men, while the annual birth rate is expected to be 3.5 per cent higher in 2033.

Women are predicted to have 1.41 children in 15 years’ time, compared to the current fertility rate of 1.31.

It is predicted that 5.7 million children will be born between now and 2033, 16 per cent less than in the previous three decades.

INE statisticians said the three main factors used to make the forecasts, fertility, mortality and migration, were hard to predict over the long term. The latest predictions were made based on current trends, they added.

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NEWS EXTRA Low footfall THE city council, which organises the annual, seven-day Outlet Fair held in the Plaza Heroes de Cavite in Cartagena, claims numbers of visitors were down this year, as noted by the 50 small entrepreneurs who took part.

Lunar watch THE night of the moon will be celebrated in the Eras de la Sal, Torrevieja, on Saturday from 8pm to 11pm, organised by the city council and the headquarters of UA, Mastral and Astroingeo Project of Alicante.

Traffic move SANTA POLA has received authorisation to limit the number of vehicles which can park under the lighthouse after several months of discussions between the local government and the General Directorate of Coasts and the Ministry of Ecological Transition.

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PM agrees budget pact Largest ever minimum wage rise among agreed plans

by Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S Prime Minister has signed an agreement with the leader of his leftist allies in Parliament to include a minimum wage increase and tax hikes in the draft 2019 budget.

Pedro Sanchez and Pablo Iglesias, the head of the anti-austerity Podemos, signed the 50-page document outlining their budget plans at the Prime Minister ’s residence of La Moncloa last Thursday.

The Prime Minister said the budget put the Spanish people at the centre of politics.

“This is our shared goal that we brought into being today. We are working to get other parties to join our agreement for the budget which will expand rights and improve people’s lives,” Sanchez said.

Podemos leader Iglesias said putting people at the centre of politics was not incompatible with financial stability while claiming the plans would leave austerity behind.

“The agreement reached with the

CREDIT: La Moncloa

DEAL STRUCK: Sanchez (left) signed the deal with Iglesias (right). government will improve the lives of the people of this country,” he said.

The largest ever increase to Spain’s minimum wage is now among the measures set to be put forward for next year’s budget.

The rate would rise from €736 a month to €900 a month, or by 21 per cent, if Parliament backs the plans.

Government spending would rise by an additional €5.1 billion under the plans if passed. Maria Jesus Montero, Spain’s Finance Minister, said the increase would be covered by almost €5.7 billion extra coming into the treasury’s coffers from tax hikes and reforms.

The document itself stated the

spending plans would see an extra almost €2.1 billion spent. Those calculations do not include pension payments and other welfare outgoings.

Ignacio Cosido, a leading spokesperson from the opposition conservative Partido Popular (PP), said the budget would lead Spain to go hungry ‘like Venezula’ in the next few years.

Alberto Nadal, a PP economy spokesperson, said: “The budget contains the used of the next economic crisis and recession for the Spanish economy.”

Additional measures in the plans include spending increases on state housing, extra aid to low income families and a rise of 6.7 per cent on civilian research and development funding.

These would be funded by measures including a 3 per cent tax on digital companies and a 1 per cent equity tax on fortunes of more than €10 million.

Sanchez will now have to court smaller parties in Parliament including Basque and Catalan nationalist groups to get the measures passed.

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DISPUTED TERRITORY: Both Russia and Japan claim the Kuril Islands.

Russia rebukes island protest MOSCOW has said it has the sovereign right to deploy military personnel and equipment to a disputed island chain off its far eastern coast after Japan asked for reductions. The Foreign Ministry’s statement on the Kuril Islands, seized from Japan after the Second World War, follows a previous warplane deployment and plans for a naval base. Talks aimed at resolving the sovereignty dispute are still ongoing.

Sanctions warning PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin’s goal of ramping up spending on infrastructure, technology and investment by €104 billion will be ‘practically unattainable’ if new sanctions are introduced, a senior official has said. Audit Chamber head Alexei Kudrin’s warning comes after Putin signed a decree outlining the spending plans shortly after his inauguration in May. The spending plan is set to run until 2024.

Inequality rankings RUSSIA has ranked 50th out of 157 countries on a global inequality index, coming be-

hind Belarus, Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Lithuania and Ukraine. Oxfam’s index, which ranks countries based on policies designed to reduce inequality, gave Russia a low score on its level of worker’s rights, social spending and tax policies.

Investigator shot AUTHORITIES have opened a probe after a senior Russian investigator was gunned down outside her home northwest of Moscow last week. The body of special investigator Yevgeniya Shishkina, who dodged a previous assassination attempt earlier this year, has been tested by forensics experts as the investigation continues.

Trading ‘scam’ probe POLICE have launched an investigation into allegations that more than 1,000 people were defrauded out of more than €13 million in a foreign currency exchange market investment scam. An Interior Ministry spokesperson said three suspects had been remanded in custody as part of the probe which remains ongoing.

Flight fine A COURT in St Petersburg has fined a helicopter pilot around €1,900 after he flew under a bridge in the city. The court heard pilot Yevgeny Kuzovlev, who pleaded guilty to damaging a mode of transportation, had been forced to pass under the bridge in August due to not gaining altitude in time.

He was filmed ‘threading the needle’ between the motorway bridge and the Malaya Neva River in a Gazelle helicopter.

GUILTY: The stunt happened in August.

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Sunny outlook THE Spanish government is set to suspend the country’s controversial 7 per cent solar power tax, as it seeks to move towards renewables and lower the cost of electricity bills for families with solar panels fitted to their homes.

According to Spanish energy experts, the average family home with three solar panels fitted to their home currently has to pay around €70 each month to remain connected to the grid, whether or not they use the electricity it generates.

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is the value of 80 per cent of BBVA’s real estate business, which it has just €13 billion This sold to US Fund Cerberus.

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Flying into trouble COMPETITION regulators have launched a probe into a transatlantic pricing deal between British Airways, Iberia, American Airlines and Finnair.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is investigating a series of commitments made by the quartet to the EU, which allow them to co-operate on pricing, capacity and schedules.

The Atlantic Joint Business Agreement (AJBA) was struck in 2010 to address competition concerns raised

by Brussels.

by Tom Woods The CMA said in a statement: “This case is at an early stage and no assumption should be made that the AJBA infringes competition law.”

British Airways and Iberia’s owner, IAG, said the transatlantic accord had “enhanced customers’ travel choices” and provided “cheaper fares.”

IAG pledged to respond to the CMA’s reviewing, adding: “Since 2010, British Airways and Iberia’s transatlantic joint business

with American Airlines and Finnair has been bringing significant benefits to millions of travellers.”

Shares in IAG fell 2.3 per cent after the news to 577 pence, their lowest for a year.

The CMA said that it decided to study the partnership as commitments made by the airlines under a European Union competition probe from 2010 will expire in 2020.

By that time, the UK will no longer be part of the EU and its competition authorities are more likely to review international agreements.

THE real estate investment fund Blackstone is on its way to bec o m i n g t h e l a rg e s t o w n e r o f rented housing in Spain, a position thus far reserved for banks.

It entered the market in 2013 with the purchase of a portfolio of social housing that Madrid Council had put on sale.

Those 1,860 flats were the b e g i n n i n g o f B l a c k s t o n e ’s steady expansion into the market, and by acquiring thousands of toxic assets from banks like Caixa and Popular, it now has 32,000.

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Price rise ACCORDING to data from the National Statistics Institute, Spanish consumer prices rose more than expected in September, at 2.3 per cent year-onyear, driven by an increase in the cost of electricity, heating oil and gas.

Trade tactics POSITIVE SIGNING: Pedro Sanchez and Pablo Iglesias cement their plans.

THE Socialist government of Pedro Sanchez has reached an agreement with Podemos about the 2019 budget that includes the minimum wage rising to €900 per month, and increasing minimum pensions by 3 per cent.

The two parties have been in talks since August and are preparing to send their plans to the European Commission.

Currently the minimum wage stands at €735 per month, so a rise to €900 would represent an increase of 22.3 per cent.

Boosting minimum and noncontributory pensions by 3 per cent will cost the government €384 million, while the remaining pensions will go up by 1.6 per cent.

The agreement also contains housing measures, including proposals to limit rental prices in areas that have seen a sharp escalation.

There are also plans to help the long-term unemployed aged over 52 get back training and jobs, with a budget allocation of €323 million.

S PA I N h a s u rg e d Q a t a r t o shoulder more responsibility in bringing the global leaders to Doha, to give a final push to The Doha Round in the World Trade Organisat i o n ( W TO ) i n o r d e r t o achieve meaningful multilateralism.

Free transfer THE European Commission has authorised Caixa Bank to transfer 80 per cent of its real estate business to Lone Star, stating that the transaction does not breach competition regulations in the EU bloc.

Saudi railway on track THE new AVE Mecca-Medina railway, one of the largest international projects undertaken by Spanish companies in recent years, finally began commercial operations for passengers on October 11.

T h e f i r s t j o u r n e y s o n t h e ‘ Tr a i n o f t h e Desert’ were launched 18 months after they were due to begin.

In its first phase, the train will travel at a maximum speed of 200kph, four days a week

(Tuesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday), stopping at Jeddah and Kaec.

A travel time of two hours is expected for direct journeys between Mecca and Medina, and two hours, 20 minutes for trips with stops, according to the Public Transport Authority of Arabia.

From September 2019 the AVE will operate at full capacity, and will reach speeds of 300kph.

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Most Declined China Internet Nationwide Fina Services Inc. NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. vTv Therapeutics Inc. NutriSystem Inc Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc. USA Technologies, Inc. Trinity Biotech plc Evelo Biosciences, Inc. Pepper Food Service Co., Ltd. P.A.M. Transportation Services, Inc. Altimmune, Inc.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT HAVE to say I was absolutely delighted when an Irish bakery won their Supreme court case this week. The Belfast bakery ‘Ashers’ had objected to the message that gay activist Gareth Lee had requested for a decorated cake.

The message, ‘Support Gay Marriage,’ was considered by the company to be inconsistent with their religious doctrine. They, quite rightly in my opinion, objected to a law that decreed they do something they didn’t believe in. This week the Supreme Court agreed and ruled that the refusal by the bakery to carry out their wishes was not discriminatory and subsequently dismissed the case.

Now before I get deluged with hate mail and messages accusing me of homophobia and Lord knows what else, I am NOT homophobic. I have absolutely nothing against people’s sexual preferences, or indeed anything they have, do not have, or would like to have - either between their legs or their ears.

What I am against is the increasing difficulty the majorities have in standing up for what they believe in. This Christian, heterosexual run establishment, did not agree with the sentiment of the message required by the person who ordered the cake. To my mind, (on one of their own products) they had every right to refuse to advertise something

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Takes the cake… that went against their opinions.

You can rest assured, that had the boot been on the other foot and a gay activist had owned the bakery, a request to put ‘don’t support gay marriage’ on a product, would have been refused point blank and nothing more would have

CASE LOST: Baker not forced to make a cake supporting gay marriage.

been heard of it. But these activists were a minority, weren’t they? Once again, the minority were pandered to by the state.

Although the Christian owners eventually won their case, it’s been through a number of courts, taken four years and cost somewhere around a quarter of a million pounds of taxpayers’ money, plus another £200,000 provided by a Christian trust.

To me, the attitude of the authorities toward majorities has become unacceptable and utterly undemocratic.

Minorities are being allowed to run slip-

shod and virtually unchecked through our traditions, our culture, our laws and plain old common sense. They have come to realise perfectly well, that all they need to do is scream ‘discrimination’ or ‘offended’ and the authorities will fall over backward to cater to their every whim - however unacceptable or utterly biased against the majority they may be.The lunatics are indeed taking over the asylum and unless those at the top get their act together and start using some common sense, I see complete disaster looming on an ever-increasing scale. Discrimination; a stifling of free speech, and unfair bias, are completely unacceptable in this day and age.

When they are constantly used against the majority, purely because they happen to be a majority, it can only ultimately lead to a complete disintegration of our society as we know it.

Get a grip. Minority rule belongs in the far reaches of Korea or Corbyn’s beloved leftwing states. We live in a democracy. This week remember to share a prayer or two for those who fought and died that we may enjoy it!

Keep the faith Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com

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‘HOTELS and restaurants are trying to cheat their way to the top of TripAdvisor amid claims that as many as a third of the reviews are fake,’ according to a recent undercover investigation.

Independent analysis of tens of thousands of reviews on TripAdvisor reportedly demonstrates that supposedly top-rated B&Bs at tourist hotspots, for instance, have almost twice as many ‘fake’ reviews as lower-ranked accommodation. Two thirds of reviews posted about top B&Bs in some hotspots are thought to be fishy.

Add to this a recent landmark legal ruling in Italy that saw one fraudulent online reviewer sentenced to jail after the court ruled that writing fake, paid-for reviews under a false identity was ‘criminal conduct’ in the first convicted case of ‘review fraud’.

TripAdvisor is a site that encapsulates the internet conundrum. Its benefits to the paying public are obvious but its misuse can threaten or even wipe out good, honest, small businesses.

My take is that TripAdvisor is a useful tool. But obviously it’s only as good as the

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FAKE REVIEWS?: There are growing concerns about the authenticity of some reviews. reviewers. As a general principle I tend to ignore any review by those who have only posted one review. There’s a surprising number of these, and they’re invariably completely glowing or completely doom and gloom - and probably either fake or by someone who doesn’t get out enough.

(Conversely, if the reviewer has 10+ reviews across a range of star ratings, I’m inclined to listen to what they say.)

I’ve come across daft mistakes such as

confusion over similar-sounding hotel names or same name, different locations.

Sometimes a fake review stands out because the standard of English is so poor that the author obviously isn’t Janet or John from Bognor!

But it would help if TripAdvisor made greater efforts to weed out fakes and ensure that the reviewer is genuinely ‘genuine’.

So we have fake news and fake reviews - what’s next, fake columnists?

And who is Nora Johnson, you ask?

Easy! A North Korean columnist internet bot who gives this column an unbiased article five stars! Haha!!

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

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LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can they control the feral cats?

I have an apartment in Port Pollensa in Mallorca. Our community has two blocks of three floors each. I live on the middle floor. Below me is a woman who is a tenant, not an owner. Over the past few years she has been feeding feral cats. At first it was about five. Then with new kittens it was 12. The issue was brought up at the AGM and she said she would deal with it. But they increased! At the last AGM she said she would neuter them. More kittens then appeared. It smells terrible in hot weather and the land around us is filled with cat urine and faeces.

Our Administrator says we must go to the police. Can anything be done under law of horizontal property?

B D (Mallorca) It is not really a community matter. David Searl Yes, you can go to the po- You and the Law in Spain lice but you might prefer your town hall. They have a department of animal control, probably under ‘medio ambiente’ which is the environment. Many town halls actually have municipal regulations that prohibit feeding street cats under penalty of a fine. The best ones have a policy of capture, neuter and release.

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

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4:45am Permanent 6:30am Black Panther: Special 7:00am First Man: Special 7:30am Top Ten Show, the 2018 7:50am Zombillenium 9:30am Coco 11:30am The 15:17 to Paris True-life drama focusing on the lives of three US backpackers who, in 2015, thwarted a terrorist attack on a high-speed train bound for Paris.

1:20pm I Do...Until I Don't 3:10pm Zombillenium 4:35pm Black Panther 7:00pm Coco 9:00pm The 15:17 to Paris 10:40pm I Do...Until I Don't 12:30am Black Panther 2:50am I Am Gangster 4:45am A Little Something for Your Birthday

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Anaconda Fearless 300 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 12 Rounds Legion 300 Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle 12 Rounds Fearless

8:00am How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days 10:05am Nutty Professor II: The Klumps 12:00pm Keeping up with the Joneses 1:50pm Pitch Perfect 3 3:35pm This is the End 5:30pm The Back-Up Plan 7:20pm Jack and Jill 9:00pm Pitch Perfect 3 10:40pm This is the End 12:35am Coming to America 2:35am The Heartbreak Kid

Don't Tell the Bride Rude(Ish) Tube Hollyoaks Omnibus Made in Chelsea Don't Tell the Bride The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Happy Together New Girl The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Info not available Info not available Celebs Go Dating Club Rep Wars The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory First Dates Celebs Go Dating Club Rep Wars Rude Tube Hollyoaks Omnibus

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TECH FOR THE TIMID CALL me old-fashioned, but I’ve never seen the attraction of watching the latest blockbuster on a six-inch smartphone screen.

Hey, even just seeing the screen at this stage of my life is tough enough, never mind actually identifying Bruce Willis on it as he saves the world (again).

With ‘content’ hurled at our multitude of devices these days, the trick is getting it onto something which won’t be an optician’s nightmare to watch. Enter the current buzzword: streaming.

There are two basic flavours: either from the internet to your device, or from your device to another device. Let’s tackle the second of these.

How do you get your ‘content’ from, say, your computer, onto your TV screen?

Many new TVs can take USB drives or SD cards directly. If not, the good news is that it’s a doddle with just a cable - as long as your computer is modern enough to have an HDMI socket.

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Stream on Cat videos are even finer on a full-sized TV screen, advises Terence Kennedy Most laptops certainly do.

Plug an HDMI cable into your laptop and your TV, choose the input source on your TV (perhaps ‘HDMI 2’), choose the TV in your laptop’s Display settings, and ‘Roberto’s your tio’, (‘Bob’s your uncle’).

Another option is a dedicated mini-PC, some retailing for as little as €100 or so.

Retailers are increasingly using these powerful little cubes for their in-store displays, and they’re perfect for streaming audio and video to anything from a computer monitor to a TV or sound system, in stunning quality.

A cheaper alternative to a computer is to buy a dedicated media player or streamer.

The best-known come from Roku, Google, Apple or Amazon, or a Kodi box. Their main party

MEDIA PLAYERS: Size of a cigarette pack. trick is streaming online content through your Wi-Fi, for a fee, from the likes of Netflix or Hulu.

Most will also play content you already own.

My own favourite gadget for

the job is the simplest addon of all: a no-frills, cheapand-cheerful media player like the dinky one shown here.

Available online for as little as €40, there are dozens of such players to choose from. Often barely the size of a cigarette packet (but happily without the health warning), most will handle virtually any current format you throw at them, either from a USB drive or SD card.

One final option is to ‘tether’ your smartphone by cable or wirelessly, directly to your TV, ‘mirroring’ its content onto the TV screen.

The bad news: for now this still only works with really, really, really high-end smartphones.

Which can cost more than a whole new media-capable TV and never mind the popcorn.

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Free or fee HOLD on to your wallets: by 2020 most of us in the developed world will have at least f our di gi t al subscr i pt i ons costing around €40, says anal yt i cal f i r m Del oi t t e.

Younger f ol ks wi l l have a 10-a-month habit.

What began i n ear nest wi t h vi deo- on- dem and provider Netflix and music streamer Spotify is fast becoming the standard way of watching and listening, as the young in particular turn away from traditional TV. A fifth of us now have at least one subscription, and in the UK, for instance, serious football fans are forced to take two subscriptions because gam es ar e spl i t between two providers.

Net f l i x al one has m or e t han 130 m i l l i on vi ewer s.

Minus one, when I actually manage to catch the neighbour I’m convinced is pirating my signal.

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Is all this fuss Strictly necessary?

Credit: BBC

by Adam Whalley-Lewis SO, to answer my own question, no it isn’t necessary. Strictly is a BBC1 weekend staple and it doesn’t need shock-headline-tactics to keep millions of us glued to our TV sets of a Saturday and Sunday. Now I know that Auntie didn’t break the story, but She hasn’t done much to dampen it down either. And whilst I don’t go along with the ‘we’ve all been there, too much to drink …’ spin (maybe I was just brought up right, I haven’t kissed anyone except my other half since we got married). I think the kiss story should just be left alone so we can focus on the dancing.

Katie and Gorka left the show on Sunday, which is a shame. Katie has been wonderful and I think she would have got better and better if she had been able to stay. Oh, and she doesn’t kiss the face off her dancing partner in front of tabloid photographers - sorry, cheap shot. Strictly is back on Saturday evening, BBC1.

Did you watch the Royal Wedding last week? Well, about four million people watched it live and about the same number watched the highlights show later in the day.

Not sure why Duchess Sarah chose a quality street design for her hat or who the woman

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A SHAME: Katie and Gorka have left Strictly. with the blue hat, you know the one with the enormous blue ‘so I can spot myself on TV’ feathers was, but we had a lovely friend over - hola Val - complete with Her Majesty face masks, cucumber sandwiches and something in a glass, with bubbles. Lovely.

Random Question, have you had any heat on at home yet? I’ve been tempted, but haven’t fired up the wood burner just yet.

Speaking of people who probably have had

the heat on, we weren’t really, but I needed a link, I suspect that Extreme Diet Hotel proprietor Galia Grainger has had the heating going for weeks, there is nothing of her! The Diet Hotel is a Channel 4 offering which I stumbled across on ALL4. Galia charges guests £1,200 per week to live on 450 calories a day, that’s about two G&Ts I think, and she treats the weight-shedders like rubbish.

She is one of those people who either

doesn’t gain weight or simply doesn’t eat either way it makes her nasty to her guests and very opinionated. Some of the personal stories are nice to follow, so it’s worth a look if you find yourself with a massive pizza, lots of chocolates and some good friends to shout at the TV with.

ITV are trying to counter the obvious appeal of BBC1’s Sunday night offering The Cry, with a drama about a couple who get back together when their 11-year-old son Max identifies as a girl. Butterfly started last Sunday and the keyboard warriors have been furiously typing their thoughts ever since.

Callum Booth-Ford is brilliantly cast as Max, treading a minefield of bullying, schoolwork and coming to terms with her identity. Anna Friel and Emmet J Scanlan are Mum and Dad, Vicky and Stephen and Millie Gibson is sister Lily. Anna is marvellous, Emmet plays Dad brilliantly and Millie is fantastic. Of course the topic will alienate some, will no doubt draw comment from Leapy and will leave most of us open mouthed. A brave choice for prime time Sunday evening, but as a conversation starter, it is a winner. Butterfly continues on ITV, Sunday evening.

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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 I WANT to report a very disturbing incident that occurred on the N-332 returning to Orihuela Costa from Alicante Airport.

At 9.15 at night as I was passing the salt lakes at Santa Pola, a car was parked by the old tower without any headlights on. As I passed he pulled out and sat very close to my bumper, only using his headlights to flash me, which he did constantly.

He only used his headlights to flash me, all the rest of the time his car was in darkness, and I was unable to determine the make of car or his registration number. On the single lane part of the road he continuously tried to overtake me on the wrong side of the road, ie on the curb side rather than the overtaking lane.

I must admit I have heard of the means used by the local highway robbers and the behaviour of this driver was exactly the same as that recorded previously in the local press. Each time he tried to get in front of me, I admit that I put my foot down to prevent him getting in front of me and cutting me up, or forcing me to stop. I had determined to go to the police at Guardamar, but when we reached the lit section of

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Watch out for robbers AN extremely rare, one in a million, white sparrow was photographed in a garden in Villas Andrea in Bigastro. The sparrow visits the garden four to five times a day. What makes this bird a wonder of nature is that it has a rare condition called leucism, which is a lack of melanin in the feathers. In most cases it results in paleness or white streaks in its plumage. In very few cases the melanin is completely absent and the bird is all white. This makes the white sparrow one of the rarest birds in the world!

Caroline James

the road on the outskirts of Guardamar he returned the way he had come at the first available roundabout, I am sure to look for another more willing victim.

Please advise all readers to be

One in a million…

VERY RARE: White sparrow in Bigastro.

aware that highway robbers are now operating in our area and so it would be advisable for car hire companies to make people aware of this.

Basically never stop, report the incident to the police and do not let

All letters by email or post should carry the writer’s address, NIE and contact number though only the name and town will be published.

the driver get in front of you or cut you up. If they do manage to get in front of you lock all doors and windows and call the police immediately.

Jan Holden

Readers who have missed correspondence can see all letters - which can be edited before publication - posted on: www.euroweeklynews.com.

WATCH: ‘English hooligans’ trash the streets of Sevilla These hooligans are so stupid, hope the police caught up with them and battered them - Spanish police are much rougher than British police. They should be banned from all football grounds, but so difficult to enforce.

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Boy shot in head dies after hunting accident in Spain

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Devastating wildlife crimes are far too may on the planet hence rid the local inferiority complex hunters…

Felipe

of us almost our entire income is from the UK. That is to say pensions and through reciprocal healthcare. Clearly it is going to need the British government’s agreement to continue with these.

Alex

Sad for the family but hunting isn’t accidental. Stop it. Ban it. Destroy weapons.

Wyn

Costa arsonists run riot starting 23 fires Sounds like a repeat of Sweden’s problems.

Sean Department for Exiting the EU minister meets groups WATCH: Shocking video of representing UK nationals young Brit woman beaten in Spain to discuss Brexit by police baton in Spain I hope Minister Walker was not allowed to get away with creating the impression, that peoples’ futures in Spain are only dependent on the actions of the Spanish government. Those of us who spent our working life in the UK, or at least made National Insurance contributions and taxes into the UK system, are extremely dependent on what is decided by the British government. For some

I lived in Spain for 11 years, the crime rate is very low. This is why the police don’t mess around and the prisons are horrendous places to be.

Samantha P This is a case of rubber necking of a fight and the Guardia

intervening, it’s about time UK police did the same to drunkards on the street in the UK Mark

AQUARIUS 2.0? Migrant vessel ‘determined to go back to sea as soon as possible’ This ship should never be allowed to sail ever again in the Med. All it does is collect illegal immigrants a few metres off the African coast and sail three days to get them to Europe (Spain recently). If they were really interested in saving the illegals then why don’t they disembark them in Tunisia or Algeria both which are much, much closer than the Spanish or Italian coasts?

Harry B So the illegal trafficking is set to continue! Let us hope the Master and the crew are arrested and charged next time.

PM

JAILED: Man sentenced for threatening cabin crew on Jet2 flight from Spain GOOD.

PM

Heaven forbid MICHAEL HILL’S letter (issue 1735) stating his disbelief in religion has drawn a response from other readers…

I must confess I felt very sad for Michael and he is entitled to his view of course, but in my many years I have come across many atheists that spend a lifetime in denying a God that they don’t believe in.

What does surprise me is that someone on your editorial staff would publicly allow such insults covering many people around the world, and who do good works in the name of religion or in their beliefs.

Giving one example of the Salvation Army and the work they do.

Heaven forbid Michael falls on bad times and that he has to turn to the people he decries, Ray Ward, Alcalali

Recycling plan AS someone who has complained about the plastic bags left after La Mata market which are drawn across the beach and into the sea, I would like to draw your attention to the crisp bag recycling scheme introduced by Walkers.

Hopefully other companies can follow suit.

Thank you for an excellent paper.

Jim

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Cryptic Across 1 A young girl he entertained produces whips (6) 4 Vast multitudes some author despised (6) 9 A fish for the photographer (7) 10 Swear nothing is taken from path (5) 11 Record some of The Carpenters' songs (5) 12 Overhaul religious ceremony (7) 13 Drove around internee before being subdued (11) 18 Judas formed art trio (7) 20 Insects making right marks (5) 22 French pen with a feather? (5) 23 Give up part of attic once decluttered (7) 24 Like court case without one of the stars (6) 25 Village play (6) Down 1 Salted nuts didn't run out (6) 2 Last change includes new inclination (5) 3 Salesman in Rome, returning as leader (7) 5 Award kept in De Niro's caravan?

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crust (11) 14 Half-a-dozen beside a channel bridge (7) 15 Turn sea into land (7) 16 You said redesigned patio could be perfect location (6)

Code Breaker

17 Appearance of cap set askew (6) 19 Character from Greece or the borders of Transylvania (5) 21 Wicker basket a North American Indian left (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 8 represents Z and 26 represents R, so fill in Z every time the figure 8 appears and R every time the figure 26 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 Prolonged stay in bed in the morning (3-2) 3 Cuttlefish ink (5) 6 Long-tailed rodent (3) 8 Very large pot used for boiling (7) 9 Freshwater fish (5) 10 Spanish sparkling wine (4) 13 Prepare for publication (4) 14 Enthusiastic (5) 17 Absurd blunder (7) 18 In addition (3) 19 Requires (5) 20 Range (5)

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Across 1 Bed (furniture) (4) 3 Acera (8) 8 Soldier (7) 9 To kill (5) 10 Desván (5) 11 Wallet (7) 12 Cattle (livestock) (6) 13 Stain (mark) (6) 16 Blowtorch (7) 18 Tarjetas (5) 20 Islas (5) 21 Capillas (7) 22 Superviviente (8) 23 Slash (cut) (4)

Down 1 Songbird (4) 2 Drink of the ancient gods (6) 3 Exchange for money (4) 4 Fixed (9) 5 Once a year (6) 7 Bring to an end (9) 11 Member of the clergy (6) 12 Large marine mammal (6) 15 Eras (4) 16 Not any (4)

The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.

Down 1 Basket (5) 2 Briefcase (7) 4 En seguida (2,4) 5 Between (5) 6 Terrace (patio, verandah) (7) 7 Disfraz (5,5) 9 Merchandise (10) 12 Chismorreos (7) 14 Plum (7) 15 Third (fraction) (6) 17 To peel (fruit, vegetable) (5) 19 Fright (sudden fear) (5)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS Across:

Across:

1 Sword, 4 Cosecha, 8 Afilado, 9 Grass, 10 Teenager, 11 Goma, 13 Smooth, 14 Espejo, 17 Mood, 19 Arrivals, 22 Lindo, 23 Station, 24 Already, 25 Annoy.

7 Purpose, 9 Ideal, 10 Restore, 11 Solve, 12 Spade, 14 Toadies, 16 Creates, 18 Dolts, 20 Rebel, 22 Blarney, 24 Serge, 25 Entwine.

Down:

Down:

1 Smart, 2 Oxígeno, 3 Diamante, 4 Closer, 5 Sage, 6 Clavo, 7 Aislado, 12 Espinaca, 13 Semilla, 15 En avión, 16 Frosty, 18 Owner, 20 Sandy, 21 Mora.

1 Spurns, 2 Brisbane, 3 Polo, 4 First aid, 5 Deal, 6 Pliers, 8 Erect, 13 Extolled, 15 Illinois, 16 Cerise, 17 Sabre, 19 Styles, 21 Barb, 23 Arts.

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Being firmly in control this week shows results. Although you prefer to accommodate others, this is not the time. Once you have realised how much easier your life is when you put your foot down, there will be no looking back.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) This is a great week for parties and socialising. Libra is shining on you and the light is shooting right through your love life. Other relationships benefit, too, and it is a good time to ask favours. When it comes to showing your affections, avoid being super-cool. This will only give the impression that you do not care, which is far from the truth.

KAKURO

Across: 1 Catch, 4 Broad, 7 Important, 8 Flop, 10 Below, 13 Still, 14 Hear, 17 Bungalows, 19 Sorts, 20 Talks.

Down: 1 Chiefs, 2 Tip, 3 Hard, 4 Brakes, 5 Outcome, 6 Dear, 9 October, 11 Blends, 12 Crisis, 15 Bits, 16 Bait, 18 Owl.

CODE BREAKER

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23)

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Finances may be the last thing on your mind at the moment but deal with matters now and get them out of the way. There are other directions that your thoughts are taking.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Please, please be organised. Not to be so would mean problems on the financial side for months to come.

Money is good and this, combined with a romantic interest, means that you will be sorely tempted to overspend. When it comes to giving of yourself, emotionally, remember that you will only receive back what you are willing to give.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21)

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Changes are to be made as soon as possible. There are people in your life who give you nothing but trouble. Being kind to them seems to do no good at all. Why not be kind to yourself for a change? Arrange not to be available to them all the time and they will soon find some other outlet.

had with someone should not be allowed to take up your time any longer. Be sure to take the bull by the horns and get it sorted out. It may not be possible to use your charm in this situation but, if you look and sound determined enough, the message will get across.

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A pet love is given a helping hand from someone close. You may have criticised this person in the past but now they are showing you their best side. To keep this going, be sure to show your appreciation.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Steaming ahead this week, it will surprise you just how much you get done. A relationship that seemed to be going nowhere perks up and the chance to show just how versatile you are in that direction sees you shine. Generally, your confidence is good so don’t be surprised if someone starts singing your praises.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) That niggling disagreement that you

Making changes in your surroundings takes priority this week. You want to be ready for a busy party time ahead and that means making a special effort. You do so love making your friends comfortable and giving them pleasure.

As money is not likely to be so tight at the moment you have the chance.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Some disruptions from Jupiter’s influence mean that this is not likely to be a smooth week. However, there are some niggling drawbacks that you do not even notice until they are already past.

That is no bad thing because time often solves these matters. Be aware that someone is waiting for a decision on the romantic front.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Why has that special plan not been started? Could it be that you are waiting until next year? Best strike while the iron is hot and not delay a moment longer. While others are having a good time this week, you can steal a lead.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Joint efforts and team projects go hand in hand this week. Your social life will improve dramatically if you make a special effort at the weekend. Realising and then admitting that you need others is the start of real progress. Only foolish people insist that they are selfsufficient. Sooner or later, they realise differently.

QUIZ: A NICE DROP OF SHERRY 1. In which autautonomous community (region) of Southern Spain is the city of Jerez (Jerez de la Frontera), which gave its name to the fortified wine, sherry?

2. In which year did the Four Seasons’ version of Sherry first enter the UK singles chart?

3. The fictional character Sherry Palmer, played by Penny Johnson Jerald, is the wife, later ex-wife, of US President David Palmer who featured prominently in the first three seasons of which American television series, which first aired in 2001?

4. The head of which major British jewellery company stated in April 1991: “We also do cut-glass sherry decanters complete with six glasses on a silver-plated tray... all for £4.95... People say, ‘How can you sell this for such a low price?..’ I say, ‘Because it’s total ****’”?

5. The name of which variety of heavy, dark, medium-sweet sherry is derived from the Spanish word for ‘fragrant’?

6. What are Palomino, Pedro Ximénez and Moscatel?

7. What breed of dogs were Sherry and Whisky, who were surprise Christmas presents from the Queen to her children Charles and Anne in 1955?

8. Which eight-letter word can mean both ‘a glass for drinking a large measure of sherry’ and ‘a sailing ship with two or more masts (typically with the foremast smaller than the mainmast)’?

9. Which English dessert is made with fruit, a thin layer of sponge fingers soaked in sherry (or another fortified wine), custard and topped with whipped cream?

10. Who composed the 1875 opera Carmen, in which the heroine drinks manzanilla sherry at her friend Lillas Pastia’s tavern?

Not a lot of people know that... according to the composer Bob Gaudio, the song Sherry took about 15 minutes to write and was originally titled Jackie Baby, in honour of then-First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy

Answers: 1. ANDALUCÍA (although some argue that it originated in Shiraz, Persia), 2. 1962 (accept 1961 to 1963), 3. 24, 4. GERALD RATNER, 5. OLOROSO, 6. VARIETIES OF GRAPE USED TO MAKE SHERRY, 7. CORGIS, 8. SCHOONER, 9. SHERRY TRIFLE, 10. GEORGES BIZET

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On the lookout for seals, turtles and pateras LETTERS FROM CANARIES

By Barbara Belt barbarabelt@gmail.com HELLO from down here, with news of night skies and powerful telescopes in La Palma; an annual swimming race off a seismically active stretch of El Hierro’s coast; a drunken British, erm... lady’s antics in Tenerife; pateras carrying African migrants to Gran Canaria and Lanzarote; and Monk Seals in Fuerteventura.

There’s been a heatwave too, exacerbated by the hot, sandy African calima wind, which brought with it three pateras (small migrant boats, or in today’s sad terminology, illegal immigrants) to Caletón Blanca in Lanzarote and Mogán in Gran Canaria.

Of the 42 migrants, 17 are minors and go straight into the care of island Cabildos. The rest will eventually get sent back, despite all the risk and the money paid to patera owners, who are guilty of

NIGHT SKIES: The Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory on La Palma.

BETTER LIFE: Three boats carrying migrants arrived to the islands. charging extortionate fees, lying and murder. Non-swimmers are routinely dumped in deep water a hundred metres offshore.

We’re politically and economically Spain, geographically Africa, on islands settled by North

Africans. On which sad day in history did it become illegal to migrate in search of a better life?

Didn’t we all migrate? I certainly arrived here, relatively skint, looking for refuge. Is the difference between expats and refugees racial, economic or both? It’s selective exclusion.

More exclusion from Fuerteventura’s fishermen, who don’t want Monk Seals re-introduced to the island on the basis they’ll eat all the fish. As they predate the fishermen by millenia this seems churlish, but a British tourist’s ad-

UNWELCOME: Fisherman don’t want the Monk seal reintroduced to Fuerteventura. ventures in Tenerife have shifted everyone’s focus of attention, so perhaps they can slip some seals in, so to speak.

“A British tourist was examined in A&E with severe abdominal pains ‘after drinking.’ Examination revealed a dead turtle, which was subsequently removed from her vagina. She had ‘no idea’ how it got there,” reported the Arona hospital, now investigating online photos presumably taken by personnel unable to resist the temptation. Holiday fun.

On a saner note, El Hierro’s sixth annual Mar de Las Calmas swimming race with 350 participants from Argentina, USA, UK, Belgium, Italy, Slovenia, France,

Uruguay, Sweden and Spain, including 20 Canarians, was on September 29.

Olympic swimmer Juan Carlos Vallejo won the 18km swim between Faro de Orchilla and La Restinga. Two other entry points at Tacorón, a 6km swim, or at Bahia de Naos at 2.5km, attract the less hardcore, but are still demanding.

Domingo Gutierrez’ support boat, as always, provided food, drink and a brief rest for swimmers. “It’s a good year, despite wind and choppy seas. We’ve got international and national names and lots more Canarians, with an 82-year-old from Gran Canaria competing,” said Domingo.

Meanwhile, on neighbouring La Palma, with its night skies and prestigious Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, a Night Light European Programme meeting, about the control of light contamination and the promotion of Astrotourism, was taking place.

More niche tourism! Last time Dark Tourism, now Astrotourism.

What’s the name for the kind of tourism where turtles are inserted into orifices, I wonder?

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Size is not the point!

Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England AN auction in Hong Kong during April saw competitive bidding drive the valuation of a FamilleRose porcelain bowl to €24.7 million.

It’s happened again. At a Sotheby’s auction in Hong Kong on October 3, 2018 the Yamanaka Reticulated Vase recently discovered in a Private Japanese Collection sold for €19,749,200 (US$19,009,102 or £14,637,024) almost three times its pre-sale estimate of €5.6 - 7.7 million or US$6.4-8.9 million. Bidding opened at HK 40 million (€4.4 million) and rose steadily as five bidders competed for the vase.

The Yamanaka is a pair to the famed Bainbridge Vase which hit global headlines when it sold in the UK in 2010. This example had remained dormant and unknown to the wider world, having been in Japan for almost a century since its acquisition in 1924 following a public showing with Yamanaka in New York in 1905.

The vase is carved and exquisitely painted with four pairs of fish below Rococo-inspired motifs on a yellow sgraffiato ground. Sgraffiato is a technical term used to describe the application to an unfired ceramic body of two successive layers of contrasting slip or glaze, and then ‘scratching’ so as to reveal parts of the underlying layer.

The exceptional famille-rose reticulated vase is skillfully modelled with an inner blue and white vase. It ranks amongst the most complex porcelains ever commissioned by the 18th century Emperor of China, Qianlong.

This porcelain masterpiece is not only a reflection of the exacting standards on technical proficiency, but of the insatiable demand for stylistic novelty at the court of the Qianlong Emperor as well as an aesthetic representation of the cultural confluence of East and West at its pinnacle in Chinese history.

Reticulated yagcai vases with double walls represent one of the PRICELESS: This Yamanaka Reticulated Vase sold for almost €20 million.

last great innovations introduced by Tang Ying, the imperial kilns’ creative supervisor. When peering through the outer shell, the Emperor would have had a real surprise, since nothing on the outside of this vase would have prepared him for what was on the inside.

Also at auction that day was an outstanding Falangcai Poppy Bowl, arguably one of the greatest examples of Qianlong falangcai porcelain in private hands. This also achieved the exceptional price of €18,778,500 / US$21,600,158 or £16,632,138. Unassuming in its beauty, the bowl is exquisitely enamelled on the exterior with an intricate design of poppies issuing from rockwork, with a butterfly depicted fluttering gracefully overhead, a 14- character poem, and the interior with finger-citron, apple and cherries.

Some of the most valuable and valued objects are diminutive, rare and exquisite.

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Clean and clear skin creating oily, blackhead-prone skin.

The right cleanser for your skin type should leave it feeling clean but not tight after use. For particularly oily or spot-prone skin, a salylic or glycolic acid cleanser can help remove dead skin cells and speed up cell turnover, prev en tin g th e p ro d uc tion of ne w blemishes.

Once your skin is clean, you can encourage blackheads out of the follicles by gently and carefully steaming your face with a facial steamer or over a bowl of hot water.

After around 10 minutes you can then gently exfoliate, removin g an y d irt an d oil w hic h ha s come out of the skin.

If any blackheads are still stubbornly lingering, you can encourage them out by applying strips which can be found in supermarkets and pharmacies, which can re mo v e b e tw ee n 15 a nd 20 pe r cent of blackheads.

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IT doesn’t seem to matter how old we get , b l a c k h e a d s c a n alw ay s make an unwanted appearance on our faces and bodies.

Even long after fine lines and wrinkles have set in, our bodies can somehow still produce enough oil to create those annoying little black dots, often on our noses and cheeks. And while blackheads caused when a hair follicle becomes clogged with oil and dirt are harmless, they can certainly be irritating.

Unfortunately, there is no permanen t wa y t o r e m o v e b la c k heads, although thankfully with good skin hygiene and regular extraction their appearance can be lessened.

An important first step is making sure skin is cleansed both thoroughly and regularly.

Many dermatologists recommend cleaning skin both morning and evening with a mild cleanser.

Avoid harsh or foaming formulas as these can strip the skin, leaving it likely to overproduce sebum,

OUR SKIN: Can attract blackheads at any age. be worth booking in for a professional treatment with a beautician

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Cos you’re worth it WHO doesn’t love autumn? Milder temperatures, snugglier clothes and the changing landscape can all make for an enchanting time of year. But what may be enjoyable for us sadly isn’t always great for our hair.

Open f i r e s, c e n t r a l h ea tin g a n d w indy we a t h e r c a n a l l d ry o u t o u r locks, leaving them looking dull and unhealthy. And with a season full of social events - from fireworks and Halloween to Christmas and New Year - this change in the appearance in our hair comes at an inconvenient time.

Luckily, there is plenty we can do to limit the damage this time of year can bring (and even better news, it doesn’t involve spending hundreds of Euros on

new products). The first thing you can do to protect your hair - after using a good quality shampoo and conditioner suited to your particular hair type - is to dry your hair as quickly as possible after it has been washed.

Wet hair is much more fragile than w h e n it is d r y be c a us e its c utic le s swell as they take on water. This repeated action in itself causes damage over time as well as leaving you vulnerable to hair breakage while it is wet. Try to remove the majority of water from hair quickly by using a microfibre towel - which is much more absorbent than a normal towel - leaving it on in a turban style for up to 10 minutes. Next, it is important to seal

mois ture into your ha ir s o it is n’t stripped away by heat, cold or wind.

This is a s s imple a s us ing a ha ir serum, leave-in conditioner, or even a light natural oil such as jojoba oil on your hair.

Finer haired types should use products sparingly as they can weigh you down, removing volume.

Finally, if you are going to use heat to style your hair, don’t skimp on the heat protectant which will limit the da ma ge c a us e d. M a ke s ure to turn your hairdryer, tongs or straighteners down to a lower heat level before finishing with a shine spray or a small amount of serum leaving you party ready.

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A bit of what you love THEY say a bit of what you love is good for you, and it turns out that could be true.

New research has found fatty cheese, yoghurts and butter could actually lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, despite previous dire warnings about the health risks of these dairy products.

A team of scientists at the University of Cambridge has found those who ate dairy-rich foods, including cream and fullfat milk, had a 30 per cent lower risk of the lifethreatening disease than those who ate less of these foods.

The scientists are now suggesting dairy products shouldn’t be discouraged, as they are on some diets, and that we should be doing more research into their possible health benefits.

The comprehensive study involved results from more than 63,600 adults over the course of 20 years from 16 different research projects. The participants were all measured for dairy-fat markers - ones which show how much dairy has been consumed in the body - before the

study began. All participants were free from type 2 diabetes when the studies began, although by the time of the follow-up, more than 15,100 had developed the disease. At the end of the research, scientists found those with higher levels of dairy-fat markers had a 30 per cent lower risk of type 2 diabetes.

The study’s lead author, Dr Fumiaki Imamura from the Medical Research Council Epidemiology Unit at the University of Cambridge, explained, “our results provide the most comprehensive global evidence to date about dairy fat biomarkers and their relationship with lower risk of type 2 diabetes.”

He added, “we’re aware that our biomarker work has limitations and requires further research on underlying mechanisms, but at the very least, the available evidence about dairy fat does not indicate any increased risk for the development of type 2 diabetes.”

The scientists see they would now like to explore whether the method of preparation of dairy products has any impact on their health benefits.

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Dial S for stupidity Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man OK lots of things this week - I have had my iPhone for a few years - it’s a 6S Plus. To be honest it’s fine but I didn’t bother with the iPhone 7, 8 or 9. Was there a 9? But the new ‘X’ - pronounced ‘ten’ got some good reviews.

Well, the X S max to be precise.

As an aside it got me thinking - were MI 5 and MI 6 upgrades by the UK government from MI 1 and MI 2?

Sorry, back to the phone. I decided to go and check it out. I went to the local Vodafone store.

Now, I have been with them for years and years - probably over 14 in fact - when it was Airtel so overall I am pretty satisfied with them. I spoke to the sales assistant in the store and asked if he had one in stock which he did.

He explained that it was €1,200 for the top model but it could be paid for in instalments if I sign a new contract for two years.

I don’t have a contract at the moment but I said, ‘OK, that’s doable - can I see one please?’

He replied, ‘No, I can show you one in a box but you can’t take it out as I can’t take the plastic cover off the box.’ ‘Don’t you have a display model?’ ‘No.’ ‘So I am meant to buy a phone

and sign a two-year contract without being able to handle the actual product I’m buying?’

It’s pretty unbelievable because once I sign I’m committed. Yes, I could go to the Apple store and no doubt see one live but how stupid not to have one in every store. I didn’t buy one.

Something interesting I have noticed is that so many of the top companies now don’t actually make anything. Facebook, Amazon, Uber etc have taken over from so many of the manufacturing companies.

In fact 10 or 15 years ago most didn’t even exist. The majority are all online controlled.

Bricks and mortar companies are getting smashed to pieces by these tech created companies and, on top of that, is the danger involved.

I mean, this week it was announced that 50 million Facebook accounts had been compromised. Fifty million!!! Will they get sued or fined? I read about the hacking but have seen nothing following it up. Facebook was started by a university geek with the sole purpose of picking up girls and now it is one of the most powerful companies in the world. That cannot be right.

How about this - instead of testing products on animals, how about testing them on people that don’t say thank you after you hold the door open for them? Or after you let them out in traffic? How hard is it to say thank you or just raise your hand in acknowledgement? mikesenker@gmail.com

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Avian excitement THE Birding Festival, Humedales del Sur (Wetlands South) will be held at the Natural Park de las Lagunas de la Mata Torrevieja from Friday October 26 to Sunday October 28.

Organised and supported by the council with the participation of the Valencian Government and the Spanish Ornithological Society this event plans to bring together a range of companies, experts, administrations, guides, NGOs, photographers, tourist accommodation and travel agencies to enjoy birding which has become a very popular destination event around the world.

Coinciding with this event will be a visit of a number of Nordic Tour Operators who will be considering Torrevieja as a potential destination for clients.

Generally environmentally friendly, this type of event is also good for local people to enjoy more about the local birds.

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Autumn, a musical season THERE is quite a lot going on at the Teatro Principal Alicante over the next few weeks with music of all styles.

Tonight (Thursday) sees The Tenor Gala, a benefit concert featuring four top opera singers with proceeds going to help the Soledad Cazorla Tax Scholarship Fund with tickets costing from €20 to €30.

There is quite a change the following night (Friday) which sees a modern yet traditional presentation of flamenco with Nacida Sombra which is described as a meeting of flamenco dancing with the great creators of the Golden Age in Spain.

Tickets costs from €15 to €25 and the performance will see the participation of four dancers, two singers, two guitars with accompaniment and new choreography based on classic styles.

Opera returns to the Alicante stage on Thursday October 24 with a performance of The Magic Flute

by Mozart which is a beautifully staged fantasy performed by the Opera 2001 company with tickets costing from €26 to €48.

Wake App is a circus performance in the style of Cirque du Soleil which features four performers acting out an amusing review of the latest technological developments. Tickets for the show on Sunday November 4 cost from €12 to €20.

Ballet lovers will enjoy the Russian National Ballet performance of Cinderella by Prokofiev on Wednesday November 7 with tickets costing from €20 to €40.

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Modern dance follows the ballet on Sunday November 11 with the presentation of All Ways by Israeli choreographer Sharon Fridman whose new work explores the multiple roads that can be followed. Tickets for the show cost from €14 to €22.

As part of a popular ongoing presentation, Momentos Alhambra welcomes the singer Paco Roman from the Granada band Neuman on stage in an un-

usual acoustic event which is open to 150 people over the age of 18.

The audience will meet the singer, sit on stage, take part and even enjoy a complimentary glass of Cervezas Alhambra. Tickets cost €20 in advance or €25 on the day.

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Meet the man of mystery THE latest instalment of the story of the next STUDIO32 presentation the blues/soul musical The Wiz introduces the man himself to the potential audience.

This take on the story of The Wizard of Oz follows the main theme of the original musical but with a whole selection of new songs which earned the original Broadway production seven Tony Awards.

Dorothy travels through the Land of Oz to meet the Wizard who she hopes will enable her to return home to Kansas.

The Wizard is a strange and all-powerful being, as he explains in his introductory number called So You Wanted to Meet the Wizard. But is he really all he makes himself out to be? To find out come and see this wonderfully entertaining show which is a perfect start to the Christmas season.

The role of The Wizard is being played by Bill Nichol-

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Bill Nicholson is The Wiz. son who joined STUDIO32 a few years ago having played principal roles in the UK in over 150 shows including La Cage Aux Folles, Guys & Dolls and A Chorus Line.

More recently Bill has starred as Tevye in Fiddler on the Roof, Mack Sennett in Mack and Mabel and most recently Billy Flynn in Chicago.

Once again STUDIO32 will be supporting local charities including the San Fulgencio Alzheimer’s Society with this presentation and the company has raised almost €30,000 for charity in less

than five years.

Show dates are Wednesday November 28 to Saturday December 1 at the Cardenal Belluga Theatre in San Fulgencio, all performances start at 7.30pm with doors open 7pm. Reserved seating tickets are now on sale, priced at €10 and can be obtained by calling 744 484 933, by emailing tickets@studiothir tytwo.org, or from the following outlets: Cards & More, La Marina 966 790 954 The Card Place, Benijofar 966 713 266.

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The Great Escape ESCAPE ROOMS are a natural extension of Murder dinners and are perfect for younger people who want to exercise their brains and discover the secret which will let them escape from a sealed room.

In the run up to Halloween, the Benijofar Council is hosting an evening of Escape Rooms for groups of four to eight who must be over 12 years of age.

Participation is free but if you want to take part in one of the escapes which take place at the Benijofar Cultural Centre between 6pm and 11pm on Saturday October 27, you must register in advance at the town hall.

Youngsters are invited to become Sherlock Holmes as they attempt to solve all of the clues and puzzles with a 20-minute time limit.

SLEEPING BEAUTY: The evil fairy with the king and queen.

Strictly Ballet SLEEPING BEAUTY, by Tchaikovsky was first brought to notice when leading dancer, the French/Russian Marius Petipa stepped on to the stage.

Now, often considered the finest achievement of classical ballet it is a grandiose and refined blending of traditional mime and expressive dance in a lavish theatrical setting.

Tchaikovsky was invited to

write the music for a ballet based on Charles Perrault’s well-known fairy tale. A baby princess, condemned at her christening by an evil fairy to prick her finger and die on her 16th birthday, is saved by the gift of the good Lilac Fairy, who declares the princess will only sleep until awakened by the kiss of a prince.

The fairy tale, complete

with a king and queen, fairies both good and evil, a beautiful princess and dream prince, magical stage effects, and courtly splendour was the ideal vehicle for this exceptional ballet.

Tickets for a one-off performance on Thursday October 25 by the Russian National Ballet at El Batel Auditorium Cartagena cost from €18 to €30.

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Are you ready to Rock?

MOON W O LR D R EC O R D S is a Spa nis h company which specialises in putting toge the r la rge stage presentations based on the mus ic of s ome of the most successful rock bands of recent years.

The ir s how s a re highly profe s s iona l w ith s upe rb lighting and special effects with outstanding musicians a nd profe s s iona l s inge rs who understand the music that they are presenting.

O ve r the pa s t 30 ye a rs , the company has grown and perfected the musical pres e nta tions it is involve d with and these include Symphonic Queen, Symphonic Pink Floyd and Symphonic A bba , but one the ir mos t popular presentations which has been revamped for this 2018 tour is The History of Rock.

The thre e -hour s how s ta rts w ith the origins of rock and roll in the 50’s and covers many of the greatest songs from then to the pre-

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BIG MUSIC: Expect a full on performance from The History of Rock. sent day so if you like Elvis, C huc k B e rry, R olling Stone s , The B e a tle s , Le d Zeppelin, Dire Straits, U2, Metallica, Guns N ‘Roses, B on J ovi, A C / D C a nd ma ny more the n this is a show to visit.

Fi ve except i onal r ock si nger s ar e backed by a band formed by musicians who have toured the world with artists such as Simple Mi nds, George Mi chael , Chris Rea, Mike Oldfield and Ri ck Wakem an, so

quality is guaranteed.

The History of Rock will be presented at the Teatre Romeo in Murcia City on Sunday November 18 starting at 7pm with tickets costing from €36.95 to €46.95 (including booking fee).

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The company opened their first office in Spain in 2008 - they now have 20 - and since 2010 have been established in Torrevieja with their Ciudad Quesada and Torre de la Horadada offices opening since and, in the last few months, the newest in La Zenia on the Orihuela Costa.

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SMART BUY: Spanish real estate attracts global interest.

BUYING to let has become an increasingly popular way of investing money and the practice in Spain has grown steadily, particularly in coastal areas.

There are good reasons for opting for the Spanish coast, and as a favourite tourist destination there is no shortage of people interested in renting for short periods, par-

ticularly in peak season.

Some people prefer to rent their properties on a longer term basis to people who are living and working in the area, as it requires less administration.

Pensioners are increasingly preferring to rent too, as they are often dividing their time between Spain and the UK.

The construction industry is back on its feet and the situation is much improved from the 2008 crisis, but there are some parts of Spain where there is a shortage of property to buy.

Spain’s natural beauty, its proximity and its wide availability of flights ensures that it continues to be an attractive destination for tourists.

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SHOULD you be thinking about building your dream home from scratch or making major changes to your existing house, it should be noted that a First Occupancy Licence will be needed.

This is the document that is issued when the local council is satisfied that the construction project or adaptation work meets all technical standards and regulations, including health and safety.

There are three types of First Occupancy Licences: for new builds; for those that have been substantially modified (eg an extension), and those premises that h a v e c h a n g e d t h e i r p u rpose.

The licence is also necessary when securing contracts to make the house h a b i t a b l e , s u c h a s w a t e r, electricity and gas.

It acts as a guarantee for third parties that may purchase the property in the future, proving to them that all the paperwork is above board.

M o r e o v e r, a n y s a l e o f properties that do not have

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PLANNING PERMISSION: The licence is simply essential in Spain. the licence can be declared null and void in a court of

law, which would be a very costly mistake and the buy-

er may even be entitled to compensation.

The licence is also essential for the opening of in-

dustrial and commercial establishments in Spain.

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HEMP could soon be competing with conventional bricks, cement, concrete and synthetic insulation.

In recent decades interest in natural materials like clay or haybales has re-emerged, particularly amongst owners looking for bioclimatic houses whose designs are based on local climate, aimed at providing thermal and visual comfort while making use of solar energy or other environmental resources.

Bricks manufactured from hemp fibre mixed with lime or clay fit this bill and are now used in constructions from France to Israel to Australia, although the market for them in Spain, where they have been used for 300 houses, remains small.

Most are one-family homes on two or occasionally three floors and the majority are in rural areas, although they are also popular for restoring traditional regional buildings - Asturian horreos and Valencian barracas for instance - and monuments.

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The house that hemp built

HEMP: A legal and subsidised crop.

Hemp is claiming a place for itself, although the marihuanaconnection formerly thwarted its potential in the construction industry. Both hemp bricks and marihuana are made from cannabis sativa, but hemp is a legal and subsidised crop containing less than 0.2 per cent of tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), cannabis’s principal psychoactive constituent, compared to marihuana’s 10 per cent.

Hemp is more than a versatile construction and insulation material as it is fire resistant and since hemp fibre contains no nutrients for hungry parasites, it does not need treating in the same way that wood does.

The biggest drawback is price, as sufficient hemp bricks to build an insulated and medium-sized one-family dwelling cost between €10,000 and €15,000.

“But what you spend on the bricks, you save on insulation and the final price is much the same as a traditional house,” said architect Ricardo Higueeras who has built a house of hemp bricks in Sepuleda (Segovia).

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ON October 3, the European Parliament voted for draft cuts in carbon-dioxide (CO2) emissions from new cars of 20 per cent by 2025, and 40 per cent by 2030.

An additional requirement means that by 2030, 35 per cent of all new car sales will be low or zeroemissions vehicles.

As a result, the future of private motoring is looking very different.

Three things are virtually certain: almost all new cars will have some kind of electrical propulsion; motoring will get more expensive; and sports models with large capacity V8 and V12 engines will be consigned to history.

The brave new world involves battery electric; petrol and diesel hybrids; and the fuel cell.

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room front and back.

The fuel-cell and electrical systems have been made 30 per cent smaller so

GROUNDBREAKING: The Mercedes F-Cell GLC is at the cutting edge of automotive engineering. ment in the universe, but it’s also difficult to separate the strong bonds it forms with other elements.

M o r e o v e r, w h i l e m e m bers of the global ‘H2 Mobility’ partnership have a long-term aim of 400 European hydrogen filling stations, at present there are only 13 in the UK; there’s more range anxiety in a fuel-cell car than in its bat-

tery-electric equivalent.

However, compared with the complicated software and chemistry requirements of building a battery-electric car, fuel cells add advanced engineering design and production.

T h e b a s i s o f t h e M e rcedes F-Cell is the GLC, the Bremen-built SUV version of the C-class, a sturdy five-door with plenty of

they’ll fit under the bonnet in place of a conventional in-

ternal combustion engine.

The 13.5kWh lithium-ion battery pack can be r e c h a rg e d e x t e r n a l l y a n d twin hydrogen tanks hold a total of 4.4kg of gas at 10,000 psi and sit in the transmission tunnel under the rear seats.

I t ’s a r e a r- w h e e l d r i v e c a r, w i t h a 2 0 8 b h p A C e l e c t r i c m o t o r, w h i c h gives a top speed of 100mph.

Most car-makers stress that fuel-cell hybrids use technology developed from petrol and diesel hybrids, but in practice a fuelcell hybrid has a more natural feel because both power sources supply electricity.

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ENGLAND won in Spain for the first time in 31 years as they recorded a memorable 32 UEFA Nations League victory in Sevilla on Monday.

Gareth Southgate’s side were 3-0 up at half-time as Raheem Sterling ended his three-year, 27 game goal drought with an early opener rifled into the top corner.

He then tucked in his second from close range just before the break, his goals coming either side of a well taken strike by Marcus Rashford.

Spain, torn apart by England’s pace and precision in that sensational opening period, pulled a goal back through substitute Paco Alcacer ’s near-post header.

They netted again through Sergio Ramos with the final touch of the match in the 97th minute, but a resolute defensive display secured England’s first victory in

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Sterling shows his worth

GOLF MASTER: Pepperell celebrates with his family.

STERLING EFFORT: Raheem scored his first England goals for three years.

Spain since 1987.

England goalkeeper Jordan Pickford’s technical ability with the ball helped create the first two goals, but he was also lucky to survive a penalty appeal when he seemed to

bring down Rodrigo after attempting to be too clever in his own area.

Manager Gareth Southgate said: “We spoke to the forward players before the game to re-

mind them what a threat they are and they were outstanding, causing all sorts of problems. The young players put on a mature performance and withstood pressure really well.”

SMASHING PLAYER: The victory is Djokovic’s 72nd career title.

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NOVAK DJOKOVIC continued his superb form by beating Croatia’s Borna Coric in the final of the Shanghai Masters.

The second seed, 31, beat 21-yearold Co r i c 6 - 3 6 - 4 i n 9 7 min u te s to claim his fourth Shanghai title.

Coric, the 13th seed, upset Roger Federer in Saturday’s semi-finals to reach his first Masters 1000 final.

Serb Djokovic has won 18 consecutive matches since losing at the Rogers Cup on August 10, and will replace Federer as world number two on Monday.

The 14-time Grand Slam champion cruised through the first set, dropping just four points on his serve.

Coric recovered from 3-0 down in

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Djokovic holds court again

BOLT BRACE: The sprinting scored two goals on his first start for the Mariners.

the second to earn a break point at 3-2 be fore s a ving the e c ha mpions hip points to break Djokovic and make it 5-4.

But Djokovic won his 26th straight set to clinch his fourth title of 2018 and go just 35 points behind Rafael Nadal in the ATP Race for London.

Djokovic’s winning run includes victory at the Cincinnati Masters in August, when he became the first player to win all nine Masters 1000 tournaments.

Meanwhile Briton Katie Boulter has broken into the top 100 of the WTA world rankings for the first time.

Boulter, 22, is now ranked 96th following her run to the quarter-finals at the Tianjin Open last week.

Pepperell is British Master ENGLAND’S Eddie Pepperell won his second European Tour title with a two-shot victory at the British Masters.

The 27-year-old took a three-shot lead into the final day at Walton Heath, and closed out the win by carding a level-par 72 to finish on nine under.

Victory means Pepperell, who also won the Qatar Masters in February, will break into the world’s top 35 for the first time.

“I am over the moon,” he said.

“I did not sleep well the last two nights. It was hard to keep my mind on the golf because I was leading all week.”

Pepperell finished two shots ahead of playing partner Alexander Bjork of Sweden, who carded a one-under-par 71.

Australia’s Lucas Herbert and England’s Jordan Smith finished a further

two shots back, with 2002 winner and tournament host eighth on three under.

Pepperell’s overnight lead was reduced to just a single stroke when Bjork completed the front nine in 34 and the Englishman three-putted the ninth, which was the hole at which he’d enjoyed a holein-one on the opening day.

However, he moved three clear again on the 10th after holing an eagle from 122 yards.

“The credit for the eagle goes to my mum Marian because she gave me some mittens as I was walking off the 10th tee.

As well as a rise in the world rankings, Pepperell’s win will have almost guaranteed him a Masters debut in April 2019.

The top 50 at the end of the year qualify for the first major of the year at Augusta.

Testing is Bolt from the blue USAIN BOLT has questioned why he has received a notice for a drugs test from Australia’s anti-doping authority (ASADA), saying he is not yet a professional footballer.

The eight-time Olympic sprint champion has been on trial with Central Coast Mariners and scored twice on his first start in a friendly on Friday.

Bolt says he has been told he is being tested as he is an ‘elite athlete.’

In an Instagram post on Monday, in which he showed the drugs test notice, Bold wrote: ‘How am I going to get a drug test today? I’m not even a professional footballer yet. Seriously.’

The notice from ASADA requesting blood and urine appears to have been issued by Football Federation Australia.

It is understood that even as a trialist, Bolt is officially registered with

the club, and is therefore subject to drug testing.

Bolt’s trial period with the ALeague club came to an end at the weekend and the Mariners now have to decide whether to offer the sprint legend a permanent deal, a further trial period, or release him.

ASADA defines an athlete as a person who ‘competes in sport and who is subject to the National Anti-Doping Scheme.’

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SHAUN WANE ended his rugby league tenure as Wigan Warriors’ head coach on a high, with a gripping 12-4 victory over Warrington Wolves in the Super League Grand Final, and will now join Scotland rugby union.

Schumacher claims F3 title MICK SCHUMACHER, the son of seven-time Formula 1 world champion Michael, won the Formula 3 European title with a race to spare.

The 19-year-old finished second in race two of the season finale in Hockenheim, Germany, to estab-

lish an unassailable lead in the drivers’ standings.

In Sunday’s race three, Prema driver Schumacher finished second again for his 14th podium of the season.

“I am absolutely delighted,” German Schumacher said.

“What this team has achieved over the last year is unbelievable.”

Schumacher had failed to score in the opening race in Hockenheim following a first-lap collision, but held a 49 point advantage going into the final round in Germany.

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Vi p s w o n r a c e t w o f r o m pole position, and with Dan Ticktum coming home in seventh, Schumacher ’s second-place finish was enough to seal championship victory.

His Prema team-mate Robert Shwartzman won race three, but Schumacher is tipped to follow in his father’s footsteps into F1.

“Mick has the racing genes of Michael,” said G e r h a r d B e r g e r, h e a d o f t h e G e r m a n To u r i n g C a r Championship.

“If he can continue to deliver performances like these, then he will find his way into Formula 1.”

FATHER’S SON: Mick Schumacher has his father’s love of winning.