Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North October October 25 - 31 2018 Issue 1738

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INCITING HATE: The detainees will face trial.

Terror Alert

by Christophe De Chaume TWO men have been arrested in Alaquas (Valencia) and Cocentaina (Alicante) accused of belonging to jihadist organisations and spreading their extremist views on social media.

According to the National Police, the Syrian suspects,

aged 55 and 58, have become increasingly more radicalised and were active followers of Daesh and Al Qaeda.

One of the detainees was allegedly part of an instant messaging group that involved Daesh members who were sending him instructions and propaganda to distribute.

Both suspects reportedly had hundreds of followers on social media and that they frequently posted messages and content inciting hate and violence against the West.

They are facing charges of involvement in terrorist groups, indoctrination and glorifying terrorism.

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Fire rally ABOUT 5,000 firefighters from across Spain took to the streets of Madrid last Saturday to call for their profession to be nationally regulated after the death of one firefighter in 2016 resulted in complications for his surviving family.

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EU budget warning Officials dismiss debt concerns

By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S Finance Minister has said the European Union (EU) will likely approve the country’s budget plans amidst reports Brussels officials were preparing to warn Madrid over public debt concerns.

Maria Jesus Montero said a letter that EU finance officials were due to send Spain “endorsed” measures that will see higher government spending and tax increases if approved.

Montero’s comments follow speculation that the EU was preparing to warn Spain that the draft plans risked efforts to slash the country’s deficit.

The deficit, or negative difference between income and outgoings for the Treasury, stood at more than

NO WORRIES: Montero said the EU would approve Spain’s plans.

€36.2 billion at the end of last year according to government data.

“We understand that Brussels will give its endorsement to our budget plans,” Montero said after a Council of Ministers meeting last Friday.

Pablo Casado, leader of

the conservative opposition Partido Popular (PP), said the budget plans amounted to a two-year election campaign for the ruling left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE).

“The government wants to spend money on unnecessary promises at the expense of the future deficit and debt,”

Casado said.

EU officials are concerned about whether planned spending hikes can be covered by proposed increases in taxes, including the planned ‘digital’ levy on large technology firms.

The EU has the power to strike down Spain’s budget

plans if it deems them too costly. Diplomatic sources said Brussels is not considering this.

The Spanish government has been preparing its response to Brussels this week.

All EU member states in the eurozone are required to submit their budget plans to officials in Brussels before enacting them into law.

The warning comes as the EU showed concerns over plans for Italy’s budget, another country with a large deficit and national debt which also plans increases in spending.

EU budget measures were brought in following the Eurozone debt crisis during the recession, which saw countries such as Greece receive large bailouts to cover yawning gaps in their books.

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Sneaky thieves TWO Spanish men aged 26 and 31 were arrested after they broke into a Denia house while the owner was in the shower. Hearing strange noises, he went to investigate and was confronted by the two men who, despite escaping with valuables worth €1,000, were located

by National Police five days later.

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THE BIG PICTURE Nº 37

Melting away

Clean sweep THE owners of the private Pueblo open-air market held each Wednesday and Sunday in Benidorm should pay for the lengthy clean-up operation afterwards, the Ciudadanos party suggested. Despite agreeing in 2012 that they would pay for the use of municipal street-cleaning machinery, they have never been charged, Ciudadanos complained.

Two dead A MOTORCYCLIST and his passenger died in a head-on collision with a lorry on the CV-800 in Jijona. Although both were killed instantly, emergency services sources complained there was a 22-minute wait for an ambulance from San Juan hospital because the Jijona vehicle had been called to an emergency in Campello.

Des-res finds INVESTIGATORS from Alicante University’s Archaeology department working in La Serrella in inland Banyeres de Mariola found evidence that the site, first settled in 3,000BC, was occupied until the 13th century. Inspections using photogrammetry and digital topography software revealed the remains of uniform and well-cared houses from the Moorish Andalusi era.

Sick staff THE municipal employees’ Health Committee gave Oliva Town Hall until October 31 to comply with a Work Inspection order to transfer 12 workers from the l’Almassera building. All have Semicircular lipoatrophy, a condition mainly affecting office workers, which in their case was triggered by the electrostatic discharges present in the ‘sick’ l’Amassera building.

On track REGULAR trains are again running between Villena and Alicante City, 20 years after the local cercanias service was terminated with only long and medium-distance trains making infrequent stops.

Trains will now run 10 times a day each way and single fares have been reduced from €4.20 to €6.05.

IN RETREAT: Rising temperatures are melting the Monte Perdido Glacier.

THIS view may be gone within a matter of years.

The Monte Perdido Glacier, in the Pyrenees mountain range near the French border, is one of Spain’s last remaining glaciers.

The one-kilometre long and 500 metres high glacier lies near the summit of the Vignemale mountain, one of the highest in the Pyrenees.

The Pyrenean Institute of Ecology (CSIC) has been monitoring the

glacier since 2011 and data currently shows it is melting at an average rate of three centimetres a day.

Ignacio Lopez-Moreno, of the CSIC, told Spanish media the glacier and others in Southern Europe w ould like ly be the firs t in the world to disappear.

“Studying them is very important because we can learn about how glaciers behave in their final phases and to what extent melting can speed up or slow down,”

Rail revamp THE new Cercanias train service between Alicante and Villena is to increase from 10 to 20 daily journeys.

This development was announced by the president of Renfe, Isaias Taboas at Alicante rail station, where he explained that the train will stop at the University of Alicante, San Vincente del Raspeig, Novelda-Aspe, Elda-Petrer, Sax and Villena.

In addition, 76,000 new seats will be incorporated, which will enable the current capacity of 800 passen-

gers to go up to 2,000.

Mr Taboas emphasised that the ‘quality of life and options’ for locals is improved by a form of transport that is ‘greener and more efficient.’

Renfe will carry out an awareness campaign through leaflets, information boards and social media, to publicise the improvements.

Alicante mayor Luis Barcala welcomed the news, but expressed concern about the lack of progress on the railway between Alicante and the airport.

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The glacier was once one complete mass of ice but it has to split into two parts in recent decades.

The upper area of it was almost flat in the 1950’s but now it slopes meaning snow is less likely to settle on its surface which speeds up the melting process.

Lopez-Moreno said large parts of the glacier will vanish if temperatures continue to warm at current rates.

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‘Accusation was revenge’ claim A GUARDIA CIVIL sergeant in charge of the Callosa force denied turning a blind eye to a marihuana haul.

It was brought to the Callosa post by the Local Police but the sergeant attributed the accusation that he had ignored a crime to the ‘hate’ of a subordinate officer.

“I have been in the Guardia

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Civil for 24 years and I have never failed to process a report or a follow through a crime,” he told the Alicante High Court.

The public prosecutor has recommended a year’s suspension for failure to pursue a crime, but the trial is expected to last for several days owing to the absence of the officer who reported the sergeant.

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1737 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca North edition, including 126 local stories.

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POLL OF THE WEEK Should Spain follow Canada and legalise marihuana for recreational use as some have proposed?

LAST WEEK’S POLL: Do you think British tourists will be less likely to holiday in Spain after Brexit?

Yes 64%

BACKTRACK: The Public Safety law is controversial.

‘Gag law’ u-turn SPAIN’S ruling political party has reportedly watered down plans to reform laws which have seen protests banned after the Prime Minister previously said changes were urgently needed.

The left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) government has ruled out repealing measures in the Public Safety Law including ones to stop the filming of police officers and ‘express’ or ‘hot’ deportations.

The latter refers to immigration authorities being able to immediately send migrants back to Morocco instead of processing them in Spain first. The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) is currently hearing a case filed by two migrants who were deported under the rules.

Reports of backtracking on reform plans, based on internal government documents seen

by Spanish media, come as the PSOE laid out plans for changes they do support.

Interior Minister Fernando Grande-Marlaska said it was “essential” that some elements of the law are repealed.

“Some parts of the law are a specific and effective violation of the right to assemble and associate freely and of the right to information,” the minister said.

Grande-Marlaska added the repeal of express deportations should be dealt with under the framework of immigration laws.

Politicians should wait until the case concerning the two sub-Saharan migrants being heard in the ECHR in Strasbourg is resolved, Grande-Marlaska added.

PSOE proposals to change the law, which are backed by their leftist Podemos allies in Parliament, include ending requirements to notify the authorities before staging protests.

The party also reportedly wants to curb police powers and make it easier for people to identify officers on duty.

Proposed changes include only allowing body searches if there is ‘concrete and verifiable’ evidence of wrongdoing and limiting the time detainees can be held without charge.

Plans to abolish fines for filming police officers have been toned down. The PSOE now wants to keep the restrictions in cases where it could endanger officers, their families or investigations.

The news comes as government data shows the Public Safety Law has resulted in the government collecting almost €270 million in fines from the law since it was introduced.

The figure excludes fines collected this year.

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EXCLUSIVE: Villages in the south of Spain experience flash floods.

PHOTO SPECIAL: Full scale-emergency as flash floods rip through villages in south Spain Severe weather alerts for Spain UPGRADED with MORE warnings

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Diving down to the past

CARGO: The reporters with some of the amphorae in Vilamuseu.

2017. Considered one of the world’s most relevant and spectacular underwater archaeological sites, the ship was carrying lead ingots from Andalucia which

were probably intended for Rome’s water pipes and thousands of amphorae containing the garum fish sauce that was a Roman delicacy.

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Corpse found at block of flats Photo credit: Villajoyosa town hall

THREE journalists from five leading media outlets devoted to diving recently visited Villajoyosa.

Invited by the Valencia region’s Tourist Board and the Costa Blanca Tourism Association, they were there to see firsthand the Bou Ferrer galley, a huge Roman cargo ship that sank one kilometre off La Vila around 2,000 years ago.

Olivier Clot-Faybress from the French magazine, Plongez, Briton Kristina representing the Scuba and Unterwasser magazine and Guillaume Ruoppolo, from the Subaqua publication and Plongeur TV channel, made the 25-metre dive to see the wreck.

Reporters from the Tauchen and Diver magazines have also visited the sunken galley and the two visits give Villajoyosa ‘an enormous presence’ in the specialist media, the town hall said.

The Bou Ferrer - named after the two divers who discovered it in 1999 - was declared one of seven sites worldwide awarded UNESCO’s Best Practices of Underwater Cultural Heritage status in

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Villajoyosa would not have been on the ship’s usual course and it is believed it foundered while taking shelter during bad weather.

THE decomposed body of a 45-year-old man who had not been seen since August has been found in a storage room in a residential apartment block.

According to reports, the corpse was discovered at the property in Cabanyal in Valencia, next to a rolled up carpet, after police received reports of a bad smell.

On inspection, officers found a body in a ‘skeletonised state.’

It’s believed the deceased had not been reported missing as his mother expected him to get in touch. She needed medical treatment for shock and anxiety as the shocking discovery was made.

Spanish press reports claim the mother had told a neighbour that she had not seen her son since the summer, and had looked in her mailbox in the hope of receiving a letter, as it was his birthday.

Another resident of the block said the smell coming from the storage room was unbearable, and that she had seen liquid coming from under the door, but had no idea what it was.

National Police have launched an investigation to determine the cause of death, although foul play has not been suggested. An autopsy will be carried out.

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Big screen celebration

Instagram model shares all SOCIAL media star Demi Rose set pulses racing in Ibiza, RUNWAY: Demi Rose as she embraced scorching struts her stuff. temperatures in a series of skimpy bikinis.

The Instagram model put on a provocative display last week in a ripped neon yellow bikini that left little to the imagination, teaming it with a topless cap, aquamarine PVC boots and her poodle, Teddy.

Ibiza was the island of Demi’s choice for shooting the first in a series of modelling campaigns for her own swimwear line, and she turned heads as she transformed the streets into her own personal runway.

Sharing almost every minute of her life with her 7.7 million followers, it was no surprise that even her departure was turned into a photo opportunity.

Luxury liners moored in the idyllic harbour, surrounded by pools of sunshine, provided the perfect backdrop as the ex of American rapper Tyga, said goodbye to sunny Ibiza for another year.

Classy Cruz PENELOPE CRUZ’S lookalike sister Monica is the sensational face of luxury jewellery brand Majorica, launched last week in Spain.

The 41-year-old actress

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and dancer modelled a royal blue front zip dress and black ankle boots, while strategically showing off pieces of Rock Star merchandise from her collection.

THE glitzy seventh annual Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival is due to kick off today (Thursday) with a planned cocktail gala and glamorous red carpet arrival of celebrities.

Among the big screen and television hotshots hitting the island are Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen.

The Hollywood hunk starred in a string of blockbusters including sci-fi movie Doctor Strange (2016), Casino Royale (2006), and Amer-

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RED CARPET: Doctor Strange star Mads Mikkelsen will attend the Mallorca film festival.

Hip hop queen NICKI MINAJ is one of the first performers confirmed for the MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao on November 4.

The undisputed queen of hip hop released her platinum selling, highly-anticipated fourth studio album ‘Queen’ in August, her first in four years.

Ariana Grande and Camila Cabello are leading the gong nominations, with Drake, U2, Foo Fighters and David Guetta among others.

ican psychological horror-thriller television series, Hannibal (2013-2015).

The grande dame of Spanish film, actress Marisa Paredes, 72, will also make an appearance to receive an award for her contributions to the industry during a career spanning almost 60 years.

The festival, organised by actress and director Sandra Seeling Lipski, will see the unveiling of more than 100 films, documentaries and music videos, from 23 countries.

And the ever-growing Made In Baleares section will present a record-breaking 24 films produced and directed locally.

HEADLINER: Nicki Minaj.

Sheer style ISRAELI supermodel Bar Rafaeli suffered a wardrobe malfunction at the Cosmopolitan Awards 2018 in Madrid last week.

The 33-year-old, ex-girlfriend of Leonardo DiCaprio caused a stir as she flashed her bra underneath a sheer polo neck top.

But she still looked sensational in a leather wrap skirt with large gold belt and towering black heels.

MODEL: Chic Bar Rafaeli

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Photo credit: La Nucia town hall

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RESCUERS: GEA members at the La Nucia training ground.

Dogs to the rescue THE GEA search and rescue groups from Cadiz and Alicante joined USAR 13 on a training day in La Nucia.

All use specially-trained dogs in rescue operations following natural disasters and the session at La Nucia’s Search and Rescue Dogs Training Centre was an exercise in improving coordination and teamwork while optimising time and resources.

Local search and rescue group USAR 13 and the GEA groups, which have branches in several Spanish cities, are non-profitmaking

volunteer associations who use their specially trained dogs in rescue operations.

The training ground resembles a disaster area after an earthquake, with tunnels, pits and hollows created from the rubble, pillars and rafters of demolished buildings as well as boulders and other materials.

The municipal installation in La Nucia is one of the few permanent training grounds for search and rescue dogs in Spain and is used by the Army’s UME emergency rescue unit as well as the different police forces.

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Swoop down on pigeon kidnappers FIVE people were arrested in Novelda, San Juan and Alicante, accused of abducting prize-winning racing pigeons.

The group - four men aged between 19 and 59 and a woman of 40 - are charged with stealing 81 pigeons worth a combined €56,000 and demanding ransom, the Guardia Civil revealed.

The sport still has many followers in Spain, particularly in the Valencia region, where a prize bird can be worth up to €3,000.

Officers from San Juan and the Guardia Civil’s ROCA unit which investigates rural crime swooped on the suspects, as they made their first arrests in July and continued until last month.

The gang, all of Spanish nationality, were familiar with the racing pigeon comand had studied their victims beforehand, keeping watch on the premises of Pi-

geon Fancy associations as well as the movements of their members.

They would then break into

pigeon lofts, taking the most valuable birds before contacting their owners and demanding payment for their return.

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Flu vaccine THE health authority began its flu vaccination campaign in the Valencia region this week with a total of 750,000 people expected to receive a protective jab. By provinces, 360,800 doses will be distributed in Valencia, 306,200 in Alicante and 83,000 in the province of Castellon. A total of 1,700 vaccination points will be activated throughout the region and people over 64 years of age and pregnant women should make it a priority.

Killer stream will soon be tamed THE last phase of channelling the Barranco de la Cala de Finestrat stream has now begun.

As promised, work recommenced after the La Pilar public holiday on October 12, and Finestrat’s mayor has now met residents and businesses owners in the zone.

All will be affected to some extent while work is carried out on the section between Avenida Marina Baixa, level with the Pharmacy, and the beach.

The channelling, which began early this year will finally tame the usually dry Barranco, which during periods of torrential rain can turn into raging torrents that have taken three lives in the past.

Benches and other street furniture have been removed and some bus stops relocated,

although those used by pupils from the Balco de Finestrat primary school on their return journey will remain where they are as only one lane will close.

Work should be finished before Easter but as the project progresses, residents in some buildings will be unable to access their car parks and the town hall announced that spaces would be reserved for them in the beachfront car park.

“We are doing everything possible to provide facilities and as far as we are able to prevent the roadworks from causing inconvenience,” Finestrat mayor Juan Francisco Perez said.

“But this work is absolutely necessary to put an end to the grave problems that affect La Cala whenever it rains.”

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The rain in Spain THE tail end of last week and the weekend saw torrential rain hitting the Costa del Sol with massive disruption and the sad death of one firefighter who was swept away when his vehicle got into difficulty.

Roads were closed, rivers flooded and some of the towns which are perched high in the mountains saw their steep stairways becoming waterfalls.

Parts of Malaga Province received as much as 70 per cent of their annual rainfall and one person had to be rescued by helicopter as the flood waters threatened her life.

Some pockets of habitation were untouched by floods although the rain was heavy and continuous thunder and lightning played havoc with pets which in the main are terrified by loud noises.

It would be easy to blame councils and the government for the fact that the infrastructure of drains and flood controls are insufficient but sudden heavy storms such as these can’t really be controlled and at the end of the day, sadly, one just has to live with the knowledge that as the climate changes, so this type of destructive weather is likely to continue.

At the end of the day we can only feel sympathy for those who have seen their houses flooded and grateful to those working in the emergency services for all that they do to try to ensure the safety of citizens wherever they may be.

Also spare a thought for the animal charities which have to try to cope with literally hundreds of terrified animals who run the risk of being flooded out.

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ESSEX Police have opened an investigation into an incident caught on camera during a Ryanair flight to Spain.

The budget airline has faced criticism over its handling of the incident which occurred on a Barcelona flight to Stansted Airport on Friday.

The incident was posted to Facebook by a fellow passenger, David Lawrence, captioned ‘share and shame.’

During the footage, a man is filmed unleashing a tirade of abuse upon an elderly, disabled woman.

A row allegedly broke out between the passengers after the woman was reportedly unable to move out of the way as the man attempted to reach his window seat.

The man is seen shouting at the elderly woman to move whilst her daughter tries to explain that her mother is disabled.

He responded to the pleas of the daughter: “I don’t care whether she’s f******g disabled or not - if I tell her to get out she gets out.”

The abusive man used highly offensive language during the argument including racial insults.

He then proceeds to threaten using physical force on the woman in order to reach his seat: “If you don’t go to another seat, I’ll push you to another seat.”

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Ryanair passenger’s racist tirade

ABUSIVE: Man (inset) verbally attacked elderly woman on Ryanair flight.

The Ryanair cabin crew can be overheard attempting to diffuse the situation, offering an alternative seat to the elderly woman while another passenger verbally demanded

the man be removed from the flight.

One man, dressed in a black t-shirt steps in attempting to put an end to the argument, shouting: “Stop. There’s no need for that at

al l ” and “Just st op. Take i t easy. St op, please.”

At this point the elderly woman requests to be moved away from the man in order to sit with her daughter.

The man was allowed to remain on the flight, keeping his original window seat.

In the aftermath of the incident, Ryanair have been criticised for their handling of the situation.

Questions have been raised over the capability of Ryanair’s cabin crew to deal with situations involving abusive passengers.

Numerous British politicians have taken to Twitter to voice their thoughts on the video, which circled social media this weekend.

Karl Turner, Labour MP for East Hull, stated “He should have been removed from the flight and handed over to the police.”

Jeremy Vine commented on social media: “If this is Ryanair, they need to explain how this man’s disgusting racial abuse of the black lady in the seat next to him ends up with HER being asked to move. It is beyond belief.”

Ryanair have allegedly since seen the footage and have reported the incident to Essex Police. The airline commented: “As this is now a police matter, we cannot comment further.”

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Fatal crashes SEVEN people died on Spanish roads last weekend, bringing the total to 963 fatalities in traffic accidents so far this year.

A further three were injured in the seven separate incidents, according to the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT).

According to the figures released, 71 people were killed in the first 21 days of October.

Tw o o f t h e s e v e n who died during the weekend were motorcyclists and one was riding a bicycle when he was involved in a collision with a car in Leon.

Five of the accidents occurred on conventional roads, and two on motorways.

Jailed for making sex abuse complaint A WOMAN who accused two men of sexual abuse, saying they drugged her before assaulting her, has been jailed for two years after a judge decided she was lying.

Granada’s Criminal Court sentenced the woman after two men she had denounced were acquitted of using burundanga (Hyoscine, also known as scopolamine) to make her compliant.

The judge decided that Raquel G O had made a false accusation, which could have had serious consequences for the men. As well as the jail term she must pay the victims €3,000 each.

The facts date back to an early morning in December 2013 when the married woman, who has children, went to a disco with a friend after holding a business dinner. The woman then said that

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JAILED: Judge at Granada Criminal Court sentenced the woman. she had completely lost consciousness despite having had only two drinks, the last one bought by two strangers.

She declared that she only remembered having sexual relations with the two defendants, one next to the discotheque and the other in the

town of Motril. She denounced both of them for a crime of sexual abuse for which the Attorney General’s Office requested eight years in prison.

The trial held in July 2016 saw the defendants aquitted.

The judge found no evidence

of drugs or any criminal activity. Now, having heard that a witness said Raquel was “very drunk”, the judge has sentenced her on the basis that she made the complaint despite knowing that the facts she presented “did not correspond in any way to reality.”

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Exotic insect arrives in Spain SCIENTISTS have warned of the arrival of a giant East Asian bee, after making the first sightings of the species in Europe.

The 2.5 cm long ‘resin bee’ from Japan and China was found in two houses, one in Barcelona and the other in Girona, the first time the exotic species has been found in a European country.

The bee is believed to have arrived last year through the timber trade, as they nest in holes found in trunks, and walls with resin, clay and small bits of wood.

Experts have stressed that the solitary insect can attack when it feels under threat, though cautiously, as its survival depends on reproduction.

They advised against having exotic ornamental plants in gardens and parks.

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Fence dash migrants expelled FIFTY-FIVE immigrants who scaled the fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla on Sunday, have already been expelled from Spain.

They were amongst a group of more than 200 who broke through police lines to enter Melilla in an attempt to gain entry to Spain.

One immigrant died in the incident, and police said they were subjected to violence including being on the receiving end of pepper sprays, thrown faeces, and quicklime.

Despite gaining entry to Spain, the immigrants were quickly rounded up by police, and 55 were sent back to Morocco on Monday.

The Spanish government used a controversial treaty between Spain and Morocco to return the migrants. In August they used the same agreement to return 116 people who had stormed the border at another Spanish enclave, Ceuta.

The Spanish government said it was justified to do so, due to the violence used by the migrants in getting on to Span-

ish territory. On Sunday, six Guardia Civil were hurt, although none required hospitalisation.

The Moroccan authorities say 12 soldiers were hurt and needed hospital treatment as a group of 300 sub-Saharan migrants made the crossing attempt, with 209 making it into Spain. They said ‘several’ of the soldiers were in a serious condition.

In total, 19 migrants were hurt in the crossing. It is thought the immigrant who died may have had a heart attack.

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NEWS EXTRA Baby death NATIONAL POLICE officers have opened an investigation after a 16-monthold baby was strangled and died when she became entangled in a blind cord at her family home in a Madrid City suburb last week.

Two hurt THE driver and passenger of a tanker lorry were taken to hospital last Friday, when their vehicle overturned on the N-122 road near Soria in Castilla y Leon, with both seriously injured according to emergency services.

Travel ban SPAIN’S National Court has banned businessman Juan Muñoz from leaving the country and has ordered him to appear before judges every 15 days in connection with the ‘Villarejo’ alleged blackmail case.

Road snap A PHOTOGRAPH of firefighters and Guardia Civil officers with a baby they treated after an accident was shared on social media last Friday, taken at an incident on the A-44 near Granada the day before.

Digital tax SPAIN’S Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero said a digital services tax announced as part of proposals for next year’s budget would help create a fairer society, with the levy forecast to raise €1.2 billion for the treasury.

Judge held SPAIN’S High Court has opened extradition proceedings after remanding Peruvian Supreme Court Justice Cesar Hinostroza in custody, in connection with alleged corruption, involving judges, politicians and business people.

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NEWS EXTRA Flight fight SECURITY officers at Guacimeta Airport, Lanzarote, arrested a 20-year-old Spanish man for allegedly throwing his two-year-old son on the floor during an argument with his partner at baggage reclaim.

Boar war OFFICERS of the Guardia Civil have arrested a man whose dogs attacked and killed a wild boar at a house in Simat de la Valldigna, Valencia, while it was filmed and spread on social media.

Flood cost LESS than two weeks after the floods that devastated the Mallorcan district of Sant Llorenc, leaving 13 dead, the island’s council has calculated the extent of the damage to infrastructure amounts to €91 million.

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Call for Spain to legalise cannabis SPAIN should legalise cannabis according to the leader of the Podemos political party.

“It is absurd that you can buy tequila or gin from a supermarket, but marihuana is illegal,” said Pablo Iglesias, who has led the grass-roots anti austerity party since its inception.

Podemos had organised a forum on the drug with a view to following nine USA states and Canada into legalising the cultivation, sale and consumption of cannabis.

If their ideas come to fruition it would mean farmers would have a new cash crop. People would need a licence to grow, harvest and sell cannabis, with the political party aiming for controls which would favour private crops, small holdings and farming cooperatives in order to stop big business taking control.

At the moment the sale and cultivation of the drug is illegal, as is the public consumption of the drug, although smoking it in private spaces is not deemed against the law.

“The legalisation must be implemented mainly for medical use and research,” said Podemos. In a para-

MAKE IT LEGAL: Pablo Iglesias wants to relax cannabis laws.

dox, Spanish law permits the use of cannabis for therapeutic purposes, but it is not classed as a medicine so can’t be prescribed for medical purposes - only cannabis derived products may be used on a doctor’s prescription.

Podemos said that legalising the drug would replace the black market, reduce crime and control the age of people buying it.

At the moment 90 per cent of young people say they have easy access to cannabis.

The political party added that tax revenues from the drug could be used to transform Spain’s public health care service.

However, the proposals have a long way to go before they are made into law as there is no political consensus on the matter.

Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has avoided the debate on legalising the drug, saying when asked about the issue on a trip to Canada that he had enough problems as it is. Canada earlier this week partially legalised cannabis. People can now possess up to 30 grammes of the drug.

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CARS were washed away and houses left underwater last weekend after flash floods ripped through parts of Spain one week after 13 people died following storms in Mallorca.

Red alerts were issued in parts of Andalucia and Malaga Province following some of the worst floods ever recorded. The Costa Blanca and north eastern parts of Spain were also struck by heavy rainfall.

King Felipe has spoken to both Junta de Andalucia President Susana Diaz and Diputacion de Malaga head Elias Bendodo about the situation.

E m e rg e n c y services despatched helicopters to villages inland from the Costa del Sol to rescue several people trapped in their homes. Personnel were called out 621 times in Malaga Province alone, with a total of 924 incidents recorded across Andalucia.

Almost 400 litres of rainwater fell across Malaga Province in the space of 24 hours, the largest amount ever recorded, according to S p a i n ’s A E M E T M e t O f fice.

One firefighter was found dead near Campillos on Sunday after his vehicle

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SUBMERGED: Houses were left underwater in parts of Malaga Province.

DELUGE: Cars were washed away by floodwater.

DOWNPOUR: Emergency services were called in across Spain.

overturned and he was swept away by the torrent, a c c o r d i n g t o e m e rg e n c y services.

The village of Jimera de L i b a r, i n t h e S e r r a n i a d e Ronda area of Malaga Province, was left underwater after a nearby river burst its banks.

Parts of Valencia Region, C a t a l u ñ a ’s Ta r r a g o n a Province a n d Te r u e l Province in Aragon were also struck, with roads cut and several people left stranded.

T h e Va l e n c i a n t o w n o f Ta v e r n e s d e l a Va l l d i g n a saw around 218 litres of water per square metre fall, 128 of which fell in one hour according to AEMET. Gandia and Simat were also badly hit.

The firefighter in Malaga Province was the 20th person to be killed in floods in Spain so far this year.

The storms are the fifth major downpour to strike the country in 2018. A total of 11 Spanish regions, including Murcia, the Balearic Islands and Valencia, were put on alert in September.

Parts of Almeria Province including Albox and towns across the Almanzora Valley were also struck by storms last August.

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Russian MP cleared criminal investigation.

R u s s ia n M P, V lad is l a v Reznik, was among those a c q u itte d o f la rg e -s c a le money-laundering, although

nine other suspects remain at large.

The trial came as a follow-up to the 2008 ‘Operation Troika’ investigation that led to the arrest of alleged mafia boss Gennady Petrov, and arrest warrants in 2016 for s e ve ra l highranking officials.

Spain’s National Criminal Court did not find sufficient

evidence to prove that the R us s ia ns ’ inve s tme nts in Spain involved the proceeds of organised crime.

Prosecutors had accused the group, ba s e d in St Petersburg, of channelling more tha n €50 million of c a s h from offs hore ba nk a c c ounts into Spanish property and businesses.

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A SPANISH court has acquitted 17 Russian nationals suspected of mafia links of all charges, 10 years after the start of a high-profile

CLEARED: Russian MP Vladislav Reznik was among those acquitted.

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Antarctic wildlife backing SPAIN’S Ecology Minister has backed an international campaign pushing for animals in Antarctica to be protected which began meetings last Monday to discuss conservation plans.

Teresa Ribera appeared in a video in support of the Antarctic Ocean Commission which is made up of representatives from governments across the world.

The Commission is discussing whether to declare a 1.8 million square kilometre area of the Antarctic Ocean, known as the Weddell Sea, the largest protected natural area on Earth.

The meeting is being held in Tasmania, Australia and runs until Friday November 2.

Ribera said protecting the Weddell Sea was “essential” to preserve a balanced ecosystem in the area.

“Resilience needs to be built up to deal with the impact of climate change and to preserve biodiversity which is a source of wealth,” Ribera said.

Mario Rodriguez, the head of the environmental NGO Greenpeace in Spain, said the support of the Spanish government was “fundamental” to ensuring the waters were protected.

“The bottom of the ocean may seem far away, but what happens there is crucial for our future,” Rodriguez said.

The governments of Austria, Britain, Chile, France and Germany have all publicly backed efforts to protect the waters.

They are home to whales, penguins, seals and other animals. The area is more than three and half times bigger than Spain.

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Hotel base jump EXTREME sports enthusiasts launched themselves from the top of a Benidorm hotel last Friday despite tricky weather conditions that are affecting the east coast of Spain.

The base Jump Extreme World Championships were held at the fourstar Gran Bali Hotel, the tallest in Europe.

The landing zone 170-metres below was marked between the hotel’s outdoor pools in an area roped off from spectators but with paramedics on standby in case of accidents.

Twenty-five expert jumpers from all over the world took part. Classification jumps were held on Friday with the semi-finals and finals held on Saturday.

Base Jumping is an acronym that stands for the four categories of fixed objects from which atlhetes can jump: Buildings, Antennas, Spans (bridges) and Earth (cliffs).

Base jumpers have only seconds to deploy their parachute meaning there is little room for error.

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Gib no barrier to Brexit SPAIN’S Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez says the status of Gibraltar after Brexit has “been resolved” and will be no barrier for the UK’s plans to leave the EU. Speaking after an EU leaders’ summit in Brussels he said: “Gibraltar will no longer be a problem in arriving at a Brexit deal.”

Despite suggestions that there might be an extension to the deadline, as it stands Gibraltar will leave the EU at the same time as the UK on March 29 next year. There had been worries that Spain could veto any deal between the UK and the EU over Brexit due to the Gibraltar issue, but such concerns have gradually receded since the more

hawkish right wing government of Mariano Rajoy was replaced by the leftist PSOE party.

While Sanchez said the issue would not stand in the way of a Brexit deal, he said that bi-lateral talks on the British Overseas Territory were continuing, particularly with regards to worker’s movements across the border, tax and environmental matters.

Recently mayors of towns in the Spanish Campo de Gibraltar area have complained that the national government was not doing anything to safeguard the rights and livelihoods of locals. Many Spanish cross the border daily to work, with Gibraltar a major part of the local economy.

RESOLVED: PM Pedro Sanchez says Gibraltar is no problem.

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A SPANISH judge who shelved the case against prime suspect Simon Corner in the case of a missing expat mum in April this year has been ordered to reopen the case.

Three judges at a higher provincial court in Cadiz have ordered the court in San Roque, which led the investigation into Lisa Brown’s disappearance in November 2015, to restart the inquiry.

Judge Garcia Ramila said earlier this year: “This court has serious doubts Simon Corner is the person responsible for the crimes of homicide or unlawful detention being investigated.”

In a 10-page written ruling, the judge insisted he was legally obliged to take into account the ‘lack of concrete proof ’ pointing towards Corner’s involvement in Lisa’s disappearance.

The ruling meant that 35-year-old Corner was not extradited to Spain and was set free from the London prison cell where he had been held since his arrest at Heathrow Airport on a European Arrest Warrant.

But now the judge has been told

he must rule on whether Simon Corner should be charged and prosecuted over Lisa’s disappearance following expert analysis of his mobile phone which was recovered from a harbour in Copenhagen in April 2016 after Corner’s arrest in the Danish capital.

Speaking exclusively to the Euro Weekly News Lisa’s sister, Helen Jordan, said: “We are very encouraged by the news and we have always thought one day we would have justice for Lisa.

“It’s coming up to three years that we have been fighting this and we have done everything and more than we ever thought possible.

“We have had a lot of help from many people and authorities, particularly Guardia Civil who have been with us every step of the way.”

She added: “We still need someone to speak up and tell us where Lisa is and what happened to her, this investigation is not going away and neither are we.”

Helen said she believes after Corner was set free from the London prison he returned to Spain

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MISSING: Lisa Brown’s case was ‘frozen’ by a Spanish judge in April.

and was released.

“Where he is now is anyone’s guess.”

Scottish mum-of-one Lisa, who was 32 when she vanished, was last seen at her home in Guadiaro near San Roque on November 4, 2015.

The alarm was raised when she failed to collect son Marco, then aged eight, from school.

Investigators have said they believed a ‘violent episode’ had taken place prior to her disappearance.

Originally from Alexandria in Dumbartonshire, Lisa worked in Gibraltar and detectives suspect that she was killed, but her body has never been found.

Liverpool-born yacht dealer Corner was held in Denmark on a European Arrest Warrant and extradited to Spain after leaving the country in the wake of Lisa’s disappearance.

Those with information can contact Crimestoppers on 0800 555 111 and 900 555 111 in Spain or via the web form at https://crimestoppersuk.org/give-information/give-infor mation-online/.

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Snow falls in south SNOW has covered the Sierra Nevada ski resort ahead of its opening for the winter season.

Yesterday the most southerly ski station in Europe tweeted a video with the tag: ‘It looks like Christmas.’

The Sierra Nevada, in Granada Province, Andalucia, is typically open from late November to early May for the ski season.

The resort lies 27 kilometres from Granada City and less than 100 kilometres from Motril.

The highest summit of the Sierra Nevada range is Mulhacén at 3,481 metres, the highest ski lift and piste goes to just below Veleta, which is at 3,398 metres.

There are a total of 128 runs with 19 green (very easy), 43 blue (easy), 52 red (difficult) and seven black (very difficult). Snowboard and ski teachers number 400 across 15 ski schools.

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Fan booze ban call MARK ROBERTS, Deputy Chief Constable, responsible for policing all football matters in Britain, has expressed a desire for foreign cities to limit alcohol sales to travelling England fans to help prevent hooliganism.

DCC Roberts has said: “There is too big an element who drink and behave obnoxiously.”

When England fans travelled to Sevilla for the Nations League clash with Spain, numerous incidents of antisocial behaviour were reported including clashes with Spanish police and damage to public property.

DCC Roberts attributes this ‘hooliganism’ to the consumption of alcohol: “There is a significant contingent of people who cannot behave because of alcohol.”

He did, however, acknowledge that those responsible for the trouble leading up to Monday’s game were a small number: “It is a minority, but there are far too many, and it would be wrong to try to minimise it as a small minority.”

DCC Roberts has vowed to find a solution to England fans “drinking to excess and becoming disorderly.”

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MAJORITY: Most fans are well behaved but a minority (inset) cause trouble.

According to the Deputy Chief Constable one possible solution would be to slam disorderly fans with ‘banning orders.’

However, DCC Roberts identified alcohol as the ‘root’ of the problem

which could be controlled through: “Licensing restrictions of host cities, whether that is the closure of places, or fans’ ability to buy alcohol from off-licences.”

The Football Association (FA) com-

mented on the reported incidents stating: “We condemn the unacceptable behaviour witnessed in Sevilla. We urge those following the team to respect our hosts and act in a responsible manner.”

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Franco spy files Papers shed new light on regime

by Joe Gerrard PLANS to thwart a general strike, information about Basque terror groups and

doubts about support from the Pope, are in documents from Francisco Franco’s dictatorship made public recently.

The files, which come from

the archives of the Segunda Bis military intelligence agency, feature communications from regime operatives and senior Franco officials.

The documents, seen by Spanish media, also feature discussions on relations with the United States.

One of the files discusses plans for a General Strike in June 1951 which was believed to be orchestrated by the Spanish Communist Party in a bid to overthrow the regime.

The document said the government considered the plot of little importance but ordered preventative measures to be taken in the event it went ahead.

The Minister of the Army at the time wrote in one of the documents: “Troops cannot be used without my authorisation.”

Another file, from January 1968, sought to warn the military of the emerging Euskadi

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SECRET PAPERS: The files relate to Franco’s (right) time in power.

Ta Askatasuna (ETA) group.

The document, drawn up five months before the Basque nationalist terror group killed its first target, speaks of the ETA’s supposed leftist tendencies and its development throughout the 1960’s.

The report recommended stepping up patrols on rural roads in the Basque Country in a bid to catch ETA members while they were on the move.

A note written by Army

Minister Antonio Barroso in 1959 calling for the Pope’s view of the Franco regime to be investigated, also featured in the trove.

Barroso wrote: “There should be investigations regarding the fact that Pope John XXIII does not view the current regime with sympathy.”

The documents also contain details about the Franco regime’s efforts to court the US as a potential backer, in

the 1950’s.

The US requested access to several army, navy and air bases in return for supporting Franco’s bid to get Spain accepted into the UN. Washington also stood to benefit by gaining another ally in the Cold War. Officials from both countries met throughout the 1950’s, with Spain joining the UN in 1955 and US President Dwight Eisenhower visiting Franco in 1959.

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NEWS EXTRA Family reforms A NEW Murcia regional government family law which views abortion as a ‘failure of the natural process of maternity, not a right’ has been accused of setting the cause of women’s rights back decades.

Drug claims NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a 31-year-old man in Valencia in connection with drug trafficking, sexual assault and threatening behaviour, after his partner accused him of violence and officers allegedly found narcotics prepared for sale at his home in Maritim.

Aerial aid THE Director General of Traffic has announced that five remote-controlled drones are ready to be deployed on Spanish roads and will initially be used in ‘special traffic operations motivated by sporting, recreational or festive events.’

Crime hike ACCORDING to figures released by the Catalan regional police force, reports of crimes, particularly thefts, have jumped by 19 per cent in Barcelona so far this year, a total of 146,446 incidents up until the end of August.

Mini tremor TORREMOLINOS suffered a minor earthquake on Monday at 1.12pm, and according to the National Geographic Institute it measured 3.4 on the Richter scale and originated 91 kilometres underground, no reports were made to emergency services.

Dodgy meat SIX members of a criminal organisation have been arrested in connection with distributing more than 1,000 tonnes of ‘bad meat’ to firms in Madrid and Valencia, with eight more under investigation.

A NEW study has honoured Spain with the world’s best beaches award 2018.

It has been named the country with the most Blue Flags, 696, than anywhere else in the world.

The findings were revealed by the Association of Environmental Education (ADEAC), the Spanish section Federation of Environment Education (FEE).

The award was set up in 1987, and Spain has dominated the competition

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Playas take top prize ever since, collecting more ‘quality beaches’ than Portugal, Greece, France and Turkey.

Factors taken into consideration by judges include beach safety, water quality, environmental information

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and management.

The top three regions were Valencia which received 132 flags, Galicia with 109 and Cataluña which was awarded 101 flags.

Despite being 186 miles away from the nearest coast, Madrid was given its first flag for the Virgen de la Nueve, which is located on the banks of San Juan reservoir close to the town of San Martin de Valdeiglesia.

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VATICAN: A commission to prevent child abuse, is to be set up before a meeting with the Pope.

Tackling sex abuse among clergy A SPANISH bishop accused of covering up sexual abuse is to lead a commission against paedophilia in the church.

Juan Antonio Menendez proposes to update its protocols for action against these crimes.

He is reported to say, ‘it is a matter of recovering and bringing back what the civil and canonical regulations have issued all these years’.

The Spanish Episcopal Con-

ference will outline its actions, currently governed by agreements between Spain and the Vatican in 1979, and the Protocol of Action Against Abuses, activated in 2010, before many cases became public.

It comes after Pope Francis declared he wants to open an ‘internal debate’ at the meeting in February 2019, where all presidents of the conference are expected to attend.

The new commission will be required to update current protocol, drafting new regulations for the prevention of child sex abuse and protection of crime.

At the meeting will be jurists of the Episcopal Board of Legal Affairs, representatives from the Civil Legal Service, the Court of the Rota of the Apostolic Nunciature, the Legal Service of Parliament and Deputy Secretary for General Affairs.

Calls to unblock euthanasia bill

By Tara Rippin THE Spanish Congress is expected to debate the legalisation of euthanasia tomorrow (Friday).

The Popular Party (PP) wants to unblock a bill to regulate euthanasia, that was introduced by the Socialist Party (PSOE) earlier in the year.

New President, Pablo Casado, intends to make public his opposition to the PSOE bill, which views euthanasia as an individual right to those suffering from an incurable disease or a serious, chronic and irreversible disability.

He proposes a congression-

al debate and an alternative proposal.

According to the PSOE bill, euthanasia would be available through public and private healthcare, although doctors could opt out, and there would be changes to the laws which currently make the act and physician-assisted death a crime.

But the conservatives are against this proposal, and favour dignified death and palliative care, in common with an initiative by the liberal party Ciudadanos.

Madrid and other Spanish regions, already have laws regarding palliative care, but

they do not condone euthanasia or physician-assisted suicide.

The majority of parties are in favour of regulating euthanasia, and argue that even once palliative care is made available to everyone, there will still be some people who need a law allowing them to end their lives.

If the PP’s alternative is rejected tomorrow, as is expected, all parties must work to reword the bill, which would then be referred to the Justice Committee, before being put to another vote.

Passage will rely on a majority of 176 votes.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS

Weapons woes THE death of reporter Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul earlier this month has had global repercussions, with arms sales to Saudi Arabia once again called into question.

Many have blamed the Saudi regime and have called for weapons shipments to end.

The Saudis have denied any involvement and have vowed to investigate the death.

Germany has already halted arms shipments to Riyadh this week and Canada is considering doing the same.

Politicians in Spain have wrestled with the issue several times this year due to Riyadh’s intervention in the Yemen Civil War decried by human rights groups and others including Khashoggi.

The weapons sales are highly lucrative for Spain. Madrid sold the third-largest amount of arms to the Saudis out of all other suppliers from 2012 to 2016.

The country’s Navatia shipyard is also set to build five warships for the Saudis as part of a €1.8 billion contract. A trade union representing workers there is concerned that a diplomatic spat could risk thousands of jobs.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s ruling left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) is now in a difficult position.

ARMS CONCERNS: Spain’s King Felipe with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

Pablo Echenique, of the leftist Podemos party, has called on the government to halt the sale of weapons to the Saudis.

The PSOE depends on the wider Unidos Podemos leftist coalition’s 67 members of parliament to pass legislation, including the budget. But the party cannot afford to be seen putting thousands of workers out of a

job if they cancel the Navatia deal and others.

Sanchez has so far erred on the side of keeping deals with the Saudis in place. In the wake of Khashoggi’s death, he may have to decide whether he wants to save those contracts or his delicate parliamentary alliance.

Call to vote BRITAIN’S ambassador to Spain has said a final vote on the country’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) is unlikely.

His comments come as an estimated 700,000 people marched through London to call for a ‘People’s Vote,’ or second referendum on Brexit.

Brexit remains as divisive as ever but recent polls suggest public opinion in Britain is turning away from leaving the EU. A total of 47 per cent of people surveyed in a recent YouGov poll said Britain took the wrong decision when it voted to leave the bloc in 2016. Around 40 per cent said it was right.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has already ruled out a second vote. If another ballot were to take place it would be unlikely to be put forward by Conservative MPs. Polling data suggests such a vote would likely be on a knife edge, making it unlikely that a second vote would settle matters once and for all.

Hardline Brexiteers would brand the move as evidence of an establishment conspiracy to upend the 2016 referendum result.

Remain supporters argue voters should be allowed a final say on what is arguably the biggest change in Britain’s constitutional arrangements since it joined the EU’s forerunner the EC in 1972.

Unless there are major personnel changes in Westminster between now and next March Ambassador Manley looks set to be proved right.

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Hotel is what women want

FEMALE FRIENDLY: The hotel in Porto Cristo is a novel concept and may prove popular.

MALLORCAN hotel chain Som Hotels will open next spring in the town of Porto Cristo, and it is the first holiday resort aimed exclusively at female customers.

The four-star hotel, located in Manacor, will offer 39 rooms that are ‘intricately designed for women looking for a rest in a natural and Mediterranean environment.’

President of Som Hotels, Joan Enric Capella, explained that the hotel is a reaction to market trends, and that “it is an innovative project that will help to keep Mallorca at the forefront of the tourism industry.” Capella added that the concept of setting up a women-only hotel arose when observing “an increasing trend of business focused on the female public.”

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Benidorm NEWS Poppy appeal launches

POPPY APPEAL: There was an impressive turn out for the procession.

THIS year’s period of remembrance on the Costa Blanca began with a Poppy Appeal march which took place last Friday in Benidorm.

There was an impressive turn out for the procession which included a parade of

ex-military people wearing their medals and holding standards, led by three ladies carrying the Poppy Appeal banner.

The Torrevieja Pipes and Drums, who had travelled up especially for the event, added more colour and provided the music for the marchers.

Mayor of Benidorm, Antonio Perez Perez, also joined the parade alongside representatives from the Defence Attaché, the British Embassy Madrid, the British Consulate Alicante, and the Royal British Legion London.

Last year, the Legion in Spain collected €169,622.40

towards the Poppy Appeal.

This year, Remembrance Sunday falls on Sunday November 11, exactly 100 years after the guns fell silent on the Western Front, marking the end of the First World War. Details of individual acts of Remembrance across different areas can be found on the Royal British Legion’s website.

On Remembrance Sunday the Benidorm and District Branch will hold their ceremony at 11.00am in Ciudad Patricia, Benidorm.

There will be a fundraising afternoon at the Showboat in Benidorm, starting at 1.00pm.

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Getting fiestaready THE Public Safety Committee met recently to discuss security arrangements for Alfaz’s fiestas which start on November 7.

Presided by Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques and Jose Antonio from the Government’s Sub-Delegation in Alicante, the meeting was also attended by local authorities and officers from the Guardia Civil, National Police and Local Police.

During the three-day celebrations, the National and Local Police will inspect the Peñas’ club houses, while the Guardia Civil will carry out preventive controls while coordinating security during the main events.

Old favourites and new programmes RADIO ALTEA has begun its autumn season of programmes with more staff.

Thanks to the regional government’s subsidised employment programme Avalem Joves Plus, the town hall’s Communications department has taken on journalist Chloe Gallais, community manager Eva Tecles and technician Jacint Gomez.

“With additional staff we can improve the services provided by our Communications department and Radio Altea,” said Communications councillor Pere Barber.

These include, maintaining the www.alteadigi tal.es webpage, and the town hall’s social media presence, as well as Radio

Altea, Barber explained.

This season’s innovations feature travel, culture, books and technology, although the radio station’s manager Paco Lloret stressed that old favourites have not disappeared.

These include Kate Ferry’s weekly slot in English ‘Altea alive’, as well as ‘la radio de tu vida’ presented by senior citizens from the Les Boqueres residence for the elderly, and ‘el guix’, a programme made by the local schoolchildren.

All of the above programmes can be heard live or on demand on the www.radioaltea.com website, and there is also a Radio Altea for mobile phones, Lloret added.

ALTHOUGH the Third International Poetry Festival was organised by Benidorm Town Hall, some events were held in Villajoyosa and Altea as well as Alfaz. The latter hosted an evening of Poetry Reading where 19 poets from the 16 European, Latin American, African and Asian countries, were represented at the festival and read out their works.

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Shared days THE 16th edition of the Hispano-Norwegian days began earlier this week and continues until this Sunday, with Norwegian artists, writers and musicians sharing the Casa de Cultura with their Spanish counterparts. The Culture and Other Nationalities departments urged all the local population to participate as ‘culture and music speak a universal language.’

ALFAZ has established itself as a residential tourist destination, especially for senior citizens.

Many come from the UK, which in less than six months’ time is due to leave the European Union, a step which will inevitably bring changes to the lives of Britons living in Spain.

With this in mind, the town hall’s ‘Other Nationalities’ department organised a talk in English at the Casa de Cultura, today (Thursday) on the repercussions of Brexit on

British residents’ healthcare.

Participants included the British Consul in Alicante Sarah-Jane Morris, Other Residents councillor Martine Mertens, representatives from the Immigration Service, Villajoyosa Hospital, the private hospital Imed Levante, and insurance agent Sophie Goode.

This follows a similar talk attended by Sarah-Jane Morris in La Nucia, with another scheduled for tomorrow (Friday) in Benidorm at Centro Social La Torreta.

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FUNDRAISERS: Applause for Tirill and Sarah.

ALFAZ’S mayor Vicente Arques recently visited the Den Norske Skolen Norwegian

school in Albir.

Accompanied by the president of Cuidemos El Albir

Joaquin Cabañera, he met the 60 pupils of the school, which has been actively col-

laborating with the association in protecting and caring for the Albir environment.

Arques was joined by Rocio Guijarro and Martine Mertens, respective councillors for the Environment and Other Nationalities at Alfaz Town Hall.

They were particularly interested in meeting Elin Lindquist, a teacher at the school, and pupils Tirill Seppola Simonsen and Sarah Adelin Bakke whose commitment to the association’s environmental projects has been outstanding.

They decided to enlist the help of local shops and businesses who donated items for a raffle that the girls organised in order to raise funds for Cuidemos El Albir’s environmental projects.

“Involvement in the care and protection of the environment and our surroundings is vital,” Arques declared as he met the girls and their teacher who were presented with gifts from the town hall.

“Tirill and Sarah’s initiative not only shows that it is possible for anyone to help but it also proves that no enterprise is too small when it comes to supporting activities like these,” the mayor said.

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A LT E A To w n H a l l a n d the Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ) are stepping up their contacts.

The CHJ is the ultimate authority regarding waterways in the area and local mayor Jaume Llinares and Environment councillor Beatriu Nomdedeu recently met the CHJ president Manuel Alcalde Sanchez.

Amongst the issues they discussed were keeping the town’s river and

streambeds clear, reducing red tape and obtaining authorisation to repair the main collector for sewage from Polop, La Nucia and Callosa.

“The meeting was entirely successful, as we put our needs on the table and succeeded in obtaini n g t h e C H J ’s c o m m i t ment towards solving these problems, and avoiding unnecessary bureaucracy,” Llinares said afterwards.

High achievers aim high ATHLETES attending a Norwegian high achievers sports school have been training in Alfaz.

This is the third year that the pupils from the Tonsberg school, as well as those from Tertnes, have used Alfaz’s Pau Gasol complex and other municipal sports installations, together with high achievers’ sports schools which are located in Stavaner, Fredrikstad, Sandnes, Hamar and Oslo.

The pupils have been practising volleyball, handball, football, endurance, dancesport, tennis and cycling.

The other athletes who are expected at a later date, will be concentrating on skating, speed-skating, snowboarding and cross-country skiing as they prepare for the upcoming winter

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Ways and means for waterways

ELITE: Preparing for careers in professional sport. ties, in order to prepare the pupils for sports season. careers in professional sport, while The work ethic at these schools is taking responsibility for their social based on learning the principal sports and sports development. while studying each centre’s speciali-

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Bofill gem WORK has begun on the second phase of improvements to Calpe’s La Manzanera area, the 1970s creation of architect Ricardo Bofill where infrastructure for the domestic water supply is to be renewed, along with street lighting, pavements and green zones. The €536,476 project is due to be completed before next summer.

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Get ready for Christmas THE Charity Shop of Calpe is holding an in-store Christmas event between 10am and 1.30pm on Saturday, November 3.

There will be an excellent selection of Christmas gifts, as well as jewellery and evening wear with the party season in mind.

Home-made cakes will also be on sale, and customers can try their luck at the Tombola stall.

The full range of stock will also be available, in-

cluding winter coats and warm jumpers for the cooler days ahead.

Readers unable to make the November 3 event can still find a bargain on another occasion, as the Charity Shop of Calpe opens each morning except on Sundays.

The shop opened in 2002 with the aim of donating to various charities in Calpe and is located in Galerias Mar Azul, Avenida Gabriel Miro, Calpe.

the fish farm.

Should permission go ahead, the floating cages would cover an area of 5,500,000 square metres.

Although these would be sited away from the Morro de Toix to reduce adverse effects on the environment, the town hall considered that it was impossible to guarantee that there would be no increase in pollution.

The installation’s Environmental Impact Study paid insufficient attention to the effects on the colonies of wild fish in the zone and had not taken into account prevailing sea currents.

The department headed by Jan Van Parijs considered that the study was incomplete and had failed to examine several options before determining which was the least environmentally damaging.

The Supreme Court has annulled applications owing to this oversight in the past, Van Parijs pointed out, and should the company’s Environmental Impact Study be favourably received, the town hall would challenge its validity on these grounds.

Data for the study was collected in December 2016 when conditions off this section of the coast were very different from the summer’s, especially regarding the negative effects of transportation and feed.

The town hall also intends to allege that a study of zones suitable for aquiculture by the Catholic University of Valencia for the regional government’s Environment and Agriculture department listed other zones that would be preferable to the chosen area.

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Fun activities for the young TEULADA-MORAIRA’S youth department has now presented its quarterly programme of activities.

The department offers fun activities in a wholesome atmosphere which commenced last weekend, and continue this Saturday, with ‘tunel del terror’ in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento in Teulada between 7pm and 10pm.

There will be a workshop with make-up demonstrations, alcohol-free cocktails for ‘monsters’, and music at Teulada’s Punt Jove.

The next youth department event is scheduled for December 1, with a weekend fiesta party at Espai La Senieta in Moraira, where between 7pm and 10pm there will be street dance, video games, pizza and alcohol-free drinks.

Auditor’s case reopened A VALENCIA City court has reopened the case against Jose Enrique Montblanch, auditor at Teulada-Moraira Town Hall.

Montblanch is named in the Imelsa scandal, a corruption case from 2014, involving politicians linked to the former regional government who siphoned money from publiclyowned Imelsa.

Montblanch, Imelsa’s financial director, allegedly signed off a €60,000 invoice for work on public lighting in Llutxent that was never carried out.

The case against him was shelved last July when the Teulada-Moraira Town Hall official was excluded from the on-going investigation, after the Valencia judge found ‘no rational indications’ of Montblanch’s alleged actions.

Other activities planned for the October to December period, include a visit to the Manga exhibition that will be held in Barcelona between November 1 and 4.

A Monitor’s Course for leading children’s leisure activities is currently underway and continues until March next year.

The youth department is also organising the Marina Alta Young Promises 2018, a talent contest featuring monologues, micro-theatre sketches, street dance, self-written songs and short films.

El CABAS farmers’ and craft market, with organically grown produce and handmade and home-made products will be held in Plaça Els Porches (Plaza de los Porches) in Teulada this Saturday from 10am until 2pm. Live music is at 10.30am, followed by activities for the children at 12 noon.

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More harm than good AT least 1,000 villas in Teulada-Moraira are rented out as tourist accommodation.

Following changes in regional laws, there are fears it could be impossible to legalise these properties, affecting not only villa rentals but the service industries that depend on them.

According to the FEVITUR associa-

tion, which represents the tourist accommodation sector, holiday rentals in the Valencian community directly and indirectly generated €15.2 billion for the local economy between 2015 and 2017.

Speaking to the local Spanish media, Mariano Espinosa, president of Alicante Province’s Association of Tourist Rentals

Emergency over THE recent ‘gota fria’ cold front caused less damage than on other occasions, though Teulada was well-prepared for the worst.

The town hall listed known trouble spots in Moraira and Teulada, and

warned that these would be closed off at the first sign of flooding.

Emergency phone numbers were issued although there were no urgent situations. Three days later the Generalitat officially lifted the pre-emergency alert.

(AEA), said that although the Generalitat’s new law set out to regulate tourist rentals, this was instead harming the sector.

Information and specific conditions were unavailable for town halls needing to issue vital urban compatibility certificates, Espinosa complained.

Fishing news RAIN held off for the Teulada-Moraira Fishing Club’s sixth match of the winter league, on the River Jucar (Valencia Province). Catches varied, from 20.25 kilos for 10 fish and 15.32 kilos for just four.

For more information about the club call Frank Povey (966 490 338) or Ray Craig (966 492 083).

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A magical production THE recent production of Mozart’s Magic Flute confir m e d Te u l a d aMora i r a Au d i t o r i u m ’s status, the management said afterwards.

The t h e a t r e w a s packed with the operaloving public, including those who had travelled from other municipalities.

The Opera 2001 company brought the Auditorium’s Opera Cycle 2018 to a c l o se wi t h a produ c t i o n t h a t h a d a cast o f 1 0 0 a n d a l l t h e specia l e ff e c t s t h at this particular opera requires.

The Teulada-Moraira Auditorium commences its Op e r a C y c l e 2 0 1 9 next Fe b r u a r y, w ith Opera 2001’s production of Madame Butterfly.

‘Not here’ socialists say MARINA ALTA socialists distanced themselves from the decision to declare Teulada-Moraira’s vineyard hotel out of ‘community interest.’

The planned hotel will be built into terracing where muscatel grapes have been grown for centuries.

H ec to r M o rale s , loc a l PSOE secretary, and Oscar Mengual who heads the party in the Marina Alta area, once again voiced opposal to the hotel.

Once built, the hotel will have 59 luxury suites beneath 43,256 square metres of vines, with windows and b alc o n ie s re p lac in g drystone terracing.

The hillside, to be excavated for the hotel, is locate d b etw ee n Teu lad a and

Benitachell, facing Moraira and the sea, on terraced land abandoned years ago.

The hotel will embrace agri-tourism with a bodega that bottles its own wine, a nd a s pa s pe c ia lis ing in therapies based on muscatel grapes and wine.

Morales and Mengual repe a te d the s a me re s e rva tions about the project that

the y ha d ra is e d s e ve ra l months ago.

Having studied the planning application, the socialists pointed out that the new hotel will occupy rural land not zoned for development, although only five kilometre s a w a y the re w a s la nd that would be equally suita ble a nd z one d for hote l use.

THE English Choir of Teulada-Moraira, in collaboration with the town hall, are well into rehearsals for a multi-media event commemorating the 100th anniversary since the guns fell silent over the western front and the end of the First World War was declared.

Members will be joined by choirs from Javea International School and Lady Elizabeth School who will also take part in the concert on Friday, November 2, and Saturday, November 3 at Espai la Senieta Theatre Moraira.

There will also be an exhibition of Great War memorabilia created by schoolchildren, from October 29 to November 18.

Tickets cost €12 and include the exhibition and a slide show. Call Janet Brown on 965 745 091 or email janet browncraft@gmail.com.

All profits will go to The Alzheimer’s Association and The Royal British Legion.

For further information about the choir visit www.theenglishchoirteulada.com or facebook.com/eng lishchoir teulada.

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Big label for a little island THE regional government declared the Illa del Portitxol an archaeological zone with Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) status.

The little island, off the Cala de la Barraca, is also known as Cala del Portitxol, one of five Alicante Province sites that have been added to the updated general inventory of the Valencia region’s cultural heritage.

The Illa, which has an area of 8.3 hectares and is 75 metres high, was once inhabited and Roman archaeological remains have been found there.

It was the property of Javea’s Cholbi family until the end of the 18th century when it was acquired by the Quero family.

Noir literature, film and photography THE Xabia Negra Festival of Literature, Cinema and Photography will celebrate its third edition between November 2 and 4.

Announcing the event, that features all things noir, Javea’s mayor Jose Chulvi emphasised that the festival has made a name for its e lf throughout t he Val enci an

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English-speaking authors Gordon Brown, Lin Anderson, Graeme Macrae and Abir Mukherjee will also be taking part, with thanks to Xabia Negra’s twinning with the Bloody Scotland festival.

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Ready to reign INES DOMECH FONT and Jula Badenes Catala, were elected the adult and junior queens of Javea’s Hogueras fire fiestas in 2019. This will be the 70th edition of the fiestas and for Ana Catala Cholbi a double celebration as it will be the 20th anniversary of her own ‘reign’ as the Hogueras queen.

Town hall pledge ‘more police’ JAVEA Town Hall has taken the first steps that will enable interim Local Police members to become established officers.

Public Safety councillor Pepa Gisbert explained that the personnel department has begun the process by announcing the opposition entrance exams that will convert them into permanent members of the force.

This is an obligation under the Valencian Community’s Local Police Co-ordination

Law that came into effect on October 11.

Earlier this month on October 2, Day of the Guardian Angels, patron saints of Spain’s police, Gisbert pledged that the local government would do everything possible to improve the Javea force’s work conditions.

Parallel to starting the establishment procedures for the temporary officers, another process was underway for a permanent post.

Twenty of the 73 applicants will now go on to complete the last two rounds of tests, Gisbert said.

Javea currently has 63 Local Police officers but needs more to satisfy the municipality’s security needs.

Although these are shared with the Guardia Civil, the Local Police are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

“They are the first town hall face that citizens see,” said Javea’s Chief Superintendent on October 2.

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Holiday solution for villa rentals JAVEA Town Hall intends to modify the town’s Urban Development Plan (PGOU) and register villas as holiday accommodation.

Javea’s mayor Jose Chulvi and Town Planning councillor Isabel Bolufer, have spoken to representatives from Cedma, the Marina Alta’s business association who are meeting town hall officials in municipalities with significant proportions of tourist rentals.

New regional laws on tourist lets require a municipal certificate confirming urban compatibility before authorisation can be granted, Chulvi told them, and Javea’s 1990 PGOU envisages this only for apartments.

Under present regulations, practically no one-

family houses or villas would receive the necessary certificate, the mayor said.

To solve this problem, Chulvi explained that the town hall is working on a one-off modification to the PGOU allowing these properties to be rented out as tourist accommodation with the proviso that they occupy urban land.

The paperwork and red tape will take between five and six months as the proposed adjustments must first be put on public display for 45 days.

In the meantime, the mayor continued, the Urban Development department will not respond to any requests to register one-family houses and villas, although applications can still go through for apartments.

Street surfer THE recent bout of torrential rain at one point brought 80 millimetres of rain to Javea, where some streets were centimetres deep in water.

Not that this was an inconvenience to a young Javea resident who, towed behind a car in a video, posted as he water-skied along Javea port’s Muelle Norte road.

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Depending on the type of show, you can enjoy either a full dining experience or simply a drink. On Monday nights, there is always a flamenco show that includes companies such as Carlos Carbonell, Fefa Gómez or Tomás de los Cariños. Currently, it is one of the best flamenco shows on offer on the Costa Blanca.

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The artists are already well-known in Valencia and Murcia following multiple and very celebrated performances by the orchestra, all extremely well received by public and critics alike.

Perfomance highlights included ‘la Orquesta Sinfónica de Alicante’ in the theatre Principal de Alicante de la Misa KV139 de Mozart, the interpretation of the Requiem de Fauré with the ‘la Orquesta del Conservatorio Superior de Música Óscar Esplá,’ as well as the numerous performances with la Banda Municipal de Alicante throughout its history. In 2008 they performed together with the ‘Fura dels baus,’ in Palma de Mallorca, performing the opera ‘Orfeo’ by Monteverdi and in the current season premiered in the city of Ali-

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War memories THE homage to Denia’s victims of the Civil War bombings, was suspended owing to bad weather and moved to 8pm tomorrow (Friday) at the Centre d’Art l’Estacio.

This now coincides with the inauguration of Denia in times of war and repression 1936-1939, and architecture for the defence of the Mediterranean coast.

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Chef will have the last word D*NA brought €1 million to Denia, which the town hall hopes to repeat next year.

Michelin-starred Quique Dacosta, the gastronomic festival’s creator, is undecided, as he originally intended the event, first organised in 2017, to be two-yearly.

It was so well-received that a further edition was held this year on September 29 and 30.

Twenty thousand people toured stalls on the Marineta Cassiana promenade, listening as leading chefs revealed their secrets and described their favourite ingredients.

Visitors ate 21,600 tapas each day, and filled hotels during the two-day festival, with an economic impact of around €1 million.

Logically, the town hall hopes for another next year, but Dacosta is undecided.

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D*NA: Visitors filled hotels and ate 21,600 tapas each day. to drop, sources said, as the secret of D*na’s success was quality, and he feared that staging a gastronomic festival each year could remove some of its shine.

He stressed that the participation of local restaurateurs and local agricultural growers was fundamental to a festival that gave craftspeople, the

fishing industry and the town’s hospitality trade a shop window to display their wares to the world.

It was important to make clear that Denia’s status as a UNESCO Creative City of Gastronomy was not accidental, and there were many people working behind the scenes, Dacosta said.

THE mansion in Denia’s Carrer de Sant Josep, which nine years ago needed urgent repairs, has been restored.

Originally built in the 17th century by the 19th century La Casa de Sant Josep, it was home to a succession of affluent Denia families.

Each was connected to the Marina Alta’s raisin and toymanufacturing industries and with money to spend, they left their mark on the mansion which later became municipal property.

It was the Hogar del Jubilado - a senior citizens’ meeting place - until the late 90’s when this moved to the Centro Social.

Restoration stopped and started sporadically until 2016 when the Ministry of Public Works began the €1.5 million rehabilitation.

The building will now house the public library and a cultural centre.

Prime site acquired DENIA Town Hall will pay Spain’s Social Security Treasury €900,000 for the old Specialist Centre site.

The building was demolished in 2008, two years after the regional government’s health department closed it after fissures had affected the structure.

After 10 years of negotiations, the town hall has now reached an agreement with Social Security for the land in Calle Marques de Campo.

The purchase was possible thanks to the municipality’s healthy finances, said Denia’s mayor Vicent Grimalt.

The town hall has ruled out using the land for a car park, and will be inviting ideas for its use, Grimalt added.

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IN THE PINK!: Gary donating the money to members of Anemona.

GIVING4GIVING recently donated €1,000 to Anemona (breast cancer c h a r i ty in Benidorm).

Gary, from Giving4Giving, presented Maria Bottlea Solar, the president of Anemona, with the money

BIOPARC Valencia has donated more than €21,000 to the conservation of gorillas and chimpanzees as part of the Ebo Forest Research

a t th e to w n h a ll in Benidorm where they were me e tin g to d o a w alk f or cancer awareness.

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Divorce in Spain before a notary Legal advice for expatriates on International Law FOR several years, following the approval of the 15/2015 law of voluntary jurisdiction, it is possible in Spain to get divorced or separated before a public notary, provided that several requirements are met, including: The divorce or separation must be by mutual consent or agreement.

There are no minor children, and no disabled children (unless their situation is modified by the court).

The notary must have an office in the municipality of the last common domicile of the marriage or if applicable, the address of one of the requesting spouses.

The spouses must appear in person before the notary as it is not possible to sign the divorce deed by proxy, or through a representative by means of a power of attorney or similar.

The law requires that spouses are assisted by a registered

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Spanish lawyer who must appear before the notary, as it is required by law that the parties are aware of their legal rights and understand the consequences of the agreement.

It should be noted that the importance of advice of an expert in family law is fundamental, as the notary will only review the deed of agreement reached between the parties, and not advise them on their rights or potential claims, etc.

In the event that there are dependent children of legal age, and if part of the agreement affects them, they must also go to the notary to confirm their understanding and approval of the agreements that may have con-

sequences for them.

For expatriates living in Spain, the possibility of divorcing before a notary is a quick, economical and acceptable option.

It does however have some potential drawbacks. It can be fast, and parties may not consider carefully the consequences of the agreement which will legally bind them in the future, so proper legal advice is essential before visiting the notary.

The following should be also taken into account: 1. The documentation required. In case of having married in Spain, an apostilled and translated marriage certificate must be provided and a child’s birth certificate if applicable.

2. It is essential to keep in mind that although the divorce is in Spain and the spouses are residents in Spain, it is possible that the law governing the marriage could be determined by

the law of the spouses’ common nationality, or of the place lived at the time of marriage.

This may decide that assets acquired during the marriage belong to both spouses or only to the person who obtained them. This will have a decisive impact on the rights of the parties at the time of the divorce.

In summary, it is possible to divorce quickly in Spain before a notary, but it is fundamental for expatriates to know their rights and obligations, in order to make sure that the agreement to be signed is adequate. In the case of expatriates who decide to divorce in Spain, it is essential to know the applicable law, to receive adequate advice.

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Chain reacts CARREFOUR has announced that it is confident its overhaul plan is on track after its sales growth accelerated in the third quarter.

The international supermarket chain is in the midst of a fiveyear plan to cut costs and jobs and boost e-commerce investment to help it react to competition from Amazon.

Carrefour is reaping the benefits of price cuts and an expansion into convenience stores, and is on track to achieve cost savings of €2 billion by 2020.

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is the amount that Iberdrola SA has agreed to sell a solar power plant in €181 million This Spain to ENCE Energia y Celulosa SA for.

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Finance overhaul agreed SPAIN’S political parties have delivered their conclusions to the Commission for the Investigation of the Financial Crisis, which has lasted a year and a half.

The PSOE, the PP, Ciudadanos, Podemos and the PNV agree that poor supervision has been a key factor, and are calling for radical changes.

They recommend that the Bank of Spain monitors the solvency of banks, insurers and securities firms, while the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) controls the

by Tom Woods markets, the behaviour of intermediaries and commercialisation.

After almost a hundred witnesses and hundreds of hours of debates and exhibitions, the political parties have produced a comprehensive review that will be presented at the full Congress in November.

Both PSOE and PP agree that insurers be under the stewardship of the Bank of Spain, leaving the remit of the Ministry of Economy, but the Spanish Union of Insurance and

Reinsurance Entities (UNESPA) is against it.

The PP said that banking and insurance companies must have a “binding resolution of disputes between all types of financial organisations and their customers,” something that has not happened up to now.

The PSOE said that the current roles of the Bank of Spain and the CNMV “generates many inefficiencies and conflicts,” which is why a reordering of responsibilities was necessary.

THE Bank of Spain has called for a thorough investigation into international payments carried out using Blockchain technology, as it believes that certain elements are capable of making transactions efficient, fast and transparent.

The bank particularly highlighted distributed ledger technology (DLT) as having great potential for the Spanish financial system.

However, it did add that in order for DLT to be practical and efficient within the European financial system, its implementation should be centralised.

Women’s glass ceiling

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Budget bid WITH an election looming, Pedro Sanchez’s socialist government has unveiled a draft budget for 2019 that moderately increases social spending, increases the minimum wage by 22 per cent, and raises some taxes.

Share shock STANDING OUT: Ana Botin is Chief Executive of Santander.

THE presence of women in the top management of Spanish listed companies remains a rarity.

According to data recently released by the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV), only 14.8 per cent of high-level positions are held by females.

This is far from the target set for 2020 by the Code of Good Governance, which envisions women having 30 per cent of the share.

The 14.8 per cent figure corresponds to 156 women in senior management positions in

listed companies.

A gender gap is even higher among companies that have a turnover of less than €500 million, with the figure at only 19.9 per cent.

Acerinox, Merlin Properties and Siemens Gamesa all have no female representatives on their boards, while ACS, BBVA, Grifols, Naturgy and Sacyr have less than 10 per cent.

By contrast, Colonial and Red Electrica had the high proportion, at 50 per cent.

BANCO Santander is the latest big bank to become embroiled in a sprawling German fraud investigation into a shareswapping scheme that allegedly allowed investors to reclaim billions of euros of tax they never paid.

Bank blast THE National Court has ruled that Banco Financiero y de Ahorros (BFA), the parent company of Bankia should be held liable for the alleged irregularities that led to the bankruptcy of Banco de Valencia.

Riu to reap dividends THE company behind Dublin’s Gresham Hotel last year paid a €3 million dividend to new Spanish owners the Riu Group.

Accounts just filed for the business also show that the company behind the hotel made a €4.9 million operating profit in 2017 on revenue of €17.6 million.

The directors of the Gresham firm, who include Riu CEO Luis Guell, noted that while revenue and

profits at the iconic hotel on O’Connell Street fell last year, it is anticipated that the figures will improve.

The latest set of accounts show that the Gresham generated €13.6m in revenue from room sales last year, and €3.5m from food and bar sales.

The Riu group paid €92m for the Gresham, after the hotel had been put up for sale earlier that year by Nama.

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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,623.60 -39.60 Associated British Foods 2,323.00 1.00 Admiral Group 1,983.75 -18.25 Ashtead Group 1,847.50 -36.00 Antofagasta 753.10 -20.30 Aviva 414.95 -5.05 AstraZeneca 5,964.00 -11.00 BAE Systems 534.20 -4.20 Barclays 164.23 -1.09 British American Tobacco 3,381.75 19.75 Barratt Developments 494.25 -2.35 Berkeley GrHoldings (The) 3,277.00 -20.00 British Land Co 575.50 -8.90 BHP Billiton 1,536.50 -13.90 Bunzl 2,190.00 5.00 BP 543.50 -7.30 Burberry Group 1,679.75 -29.75 BT Group 242.33 -1.12 Coca-Cola HBC 2,358.50 -14.50 Carnival 4,237.00 -34.00 Centrica 147.95 0.70 Compass Group 1,476.50 -8.50 Croda International 4,662.50 -110.50 CRH 2,117.00 -19.00 DCC 6,622.50 -42.50 Diageo 2,667.25 -18.75 Direct Line Insurance Group 327.95 -0.15 Evraz 507.60 -7.00 Experian 1,779.00 -17.50 easyJet 1,097.00 -7.00 Ferguson 5,294.00 -41.00 Fresnillo 912.20 16.60 Glencore 305.53 -5.12 GlaxoSmithKline 1,535.40 -4.40 GVC Holdings 916.75 -20.75 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,782.50 -36.50 Halma 1,259.00 -29.00 HSBC Holdings 613.30 -10.80 International Co Airlines Group 555.90 -4.50 InterContinental H Group 3,967.00 -62.00 3i Group 849.60 -1.40 Imperial Brands 2,617.50 8.00 Informa 732.10 0.10 Intertek Group 4,493.50 20.50 ITV 152.30 -2.20 Just Eat 603.80 -7.80 Johnson Matthey 2,889.50 -47.50 Kingfisher 242.30 -1.00 Land Securities Group 831.40 -10.20 Legal & General Group 238.15 -1.65 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 56.34 -0.09

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London Stock Exchange G 4,324.50 Micro Focus International 1,327.75 Marks & Spencer Group 281.55 Mondi 1,739.50 Melrose 160.90 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 248.03 National Grid 835.55 NMC Health 3,158.00 Next 5,044.00 Ocado Group 840.80 Paddy Power Betfair 6,447.50 Prudential 1,492.50 Persimmon 2,188.00 Pearson 878.80 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,686.50 Royal Bank of Scotland G (The) 233.30 Royal Dutch Shell 2,470.75 Royal Dutch Shell 2,525.25 RELX 1,505.00 Rio Tinto 3,667.50 Royal Mail 354.00 Rightmove 429.85 Rolls-Royce Group 849.60 Randgold Resources 6,373.00 RSA Insurance Group 545.00 Rentokil Initial 287.60 Sainsbury (J) 302.15 Schroders 2,736.50 Sage Group (The) 539.10 Segro 622.70 Shire 4,534.25 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,484.00 Standard Life Aberdeen 257.68 Smith (DS) 372.25 Smiths Group 1,271.75 Scottish Mor In Trust 473.58 Smith & Nephew 1,264.50 SSE 1,143.00 Standard Chartered 535.00 St James's Place 1,005.00 Severn Trent 1,867.50 Tesco 213.60 TUI AG 1,293.25 Taylor Wimpey 151.55 Unilever 4,110.25 United Utilities Group 716.60 Vodafone Group 148.52 John Wood Group 707.70 WPP Group 1,044.25 Whitbread 4,394.00

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15,287.62 5,753.42 4,624.39 6,650.73 7,986.97 5,922.88 28,133.35 6,308.78 7,112.78 5,910.92 5,482.53 38,865.46 6,830.60 6,832.75 47,470.75 28,361.54 114,520.98 96,221.55 29,903.37 47,913.32 3,444.00 3,794.26 16,441.29 5,918.07 5,627.05 5,600.05 6,694.73 6,319.59 5,946.15 6,423.58 41,234.96 5,882.88 7,604.56 5,273.56 5,127.15 7,011.50 11,096.57 11,805.08 18,054.73 5,481.25 4,468.39 21,016.81 7,704.45 4,960.88 48,467.16 4,897.32 40,731.79 4,951.56 13,040.84 8,327.91

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PRICE 201,360 104,5100 220,650 355,980 128,710 117,21 45,760 45,97 56,07 81,15 221,60 178,7500 130,02 45,0100 106,3600 138,6800 166,6300 72,57 109,630 74,90 44,3700 86,600 124,07 126,40 262,19 54,98 140,64 97,1400 77,65 118,2700

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Most Advanced American Railcar Industries, Inc. GRAVITY Co., Ltd. Aratana Therapeutics, Inc. T2 Biosystems, Inc. Funko, Inc. PetMed Express, Inc. Scholar Rock Holding Corporation Yintech Investment Holdings Limited Eagle Bulk Shipping Inc. Ceragon Networks Ltd. LexinFintech Holdings Ltd.

$ 70 $ 26.80 $ 6.06 $ 5.28 $ 20.08 $ 30.64 $ 22.83 $ 6.23 $ 5.31 $ 3.74 $ 10.29

23.71 ▲ 51.22% 4.40 ▲ 19.64% 0.70 ▲ 13.06% 0.54 ▲ 11.39% 1.86 ▲ 10.21% 2.65 ▲ 9.47% 1.97 ▲ 9.44% 0.52 ▲ 9.11% 0.43 ▲ 8.81% 0.30 ▲ 8.72% 0.82 ▲ 8.66%

$ 7.55 $ 4.43 $ 19.50 $ 21.12 $ 11.67 $ 3.08 $ 9.80 $ 5.51 $ 39.89 $ 6.24 $ 11.93

3.21 ▼ 29.83% 1.85 ▼ 29.46% 5.35 ▼ 21.53% 5.24 ▼ 19.88% 2.71 ▼ 18.85% 0.70 ▼ 18.52% 2.11 ▼ 17.72% 1.18 ▼ 17.64% 8.30 ▼ 17.22% 1.19 ▼ 16.02% 2.21 ▼ 15.63%

Most Declined Adaptimmune Therapeutics plc Aduro Biotech, Inc. Opus Bank Clovis Oncology, Inc. Kura Oncology, Inc. Melinta Therapeutics, Inc. Zions Bancorporation N.A. Arcturus Therapeutics Ltd. Nektar Therapeutics ImmunoGen, Inc. Fate Therapeutics, Inc.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT YET again we see a bunch of arrogant, socalled world leaders assassinate someone who disagrees with their policies.

I think this rather bears out my recent column on governments stopping at nothing to eliminate any individual or group that may threaten their positions or control.

However, what worries me about these two recent murders, is the almost unbelievable incompetence of those who organised these utterly despicable ‘hits.’ If their government’s level of intelligence is to be judged by these glaringly flawed acts of murder, it makes me extremely nervous regarding any decisions they may need to make on world issues.

Mind you, I was more surprised with Putin’s botched assassination efforts than the Saudis. I did credit the Russian hierarchy as having a bit more savvy than the arrogant bunch who reign supreme over the sandy wastelands of Saudi Arabia.

Having lived amongst them for some eight years, I can tell you that the only thing they have truly learned from the 21st century is that their money can buy virtually anything.

I do feel however, that with the recent atrocious act of cruelty, against an unfortunate journalist who wanted nothing more than legal papers for his upcoming marriage, they may have just underestimated the intelligence of

FEATURE

Money rules the world

MURDERED: Will the truth about Jamal Khashoggi’s death ever come to light? even Donald Trump. What they failed to realise, in their barely disguised threats to disrupt world oil supplies should their explanations not be accepted, is that unlike Russia, heavy sanctions would have them on their knees within in months.

They manufacture nothing, grow nothing of

note and the heaviest work they are prepared to do is lift a pen to sign some lucrative deal or other. Without their imports, they would very soon be made to realise that you can’t eat oil or weapons of war.

Having said that, you can rest assured that it will all sort itself out sooner or later. Money

still rules the world and is far more important than the life of the occasional rogue journalist or alleged traitor (or the sacrifice of those they set up to do the job!).

In fact to these people, wealth is more important than millions of lives, as long as the results cement their positions of power. Mark my words, the faceless money-men who really run the planet, are burning the midnight oil and puffing frantically on their ‘Double Coronas’ as we speak!

I’m rather more worried about the America/Russia nuclear treaty situation. With two highly arrogant individuals of somewhat flaky intellect in charge of their respective big red buttons, I fear we could find ourselves back in the dangerous situation we experienced in the Cold War/Cuban crisis of the 60’s.

This time it is far more volatile. Iran, India, North Korea, Israel and Pakistan are now all nuclear powers. In the event of conflict between the East and West, any one of them, under the misapprehension that they could somehow be the last man standing, could bring down the apocalypse the Bible warns against.

If that happens, we can all put our heads between our legs and whistle up our Barcelona’s!

Keep the faith Love Leapy . leapylee2002@gmail.com

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

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Cassandra Nash A weekly look

Yellow ribbon, black mark Credit: Wikimedia

- and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

ELSA ARTADI, Minister of the Presidency and spokeswoman of Cataluña’s regional government, could be in trouble.

An independent, who is said to be sp e n d i n g t o o mu ch time in Madrid. That’s one black mark against her name already.

Like all Catalan pro-independence politicians, she wears a yello w r i b b o n t o d emo n s tra te her solidarity with the remanded or se l f - e x i l e d me mb ers of the previous regional government.

N o w, r u m o u r h a s it th at s h e does not wear her ribbon all the time . “ Sh e o n l y p u ts it o n fo r press c o n f e r e n c e s an d p u b lic functions.” a tell-tale reveals.

“She takes it off whenever she can because she says it spoils her clothes.”

Re a ssu r i n g t o k n o w th at at lea st t h e r e ’s o n e s e p ara tis t with a m i n i m u m o f co mmo n sense.

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COLOUR CLASH: Apparently Elsa Artadi (pictured) doesn’t always wear the yellow ribbon.

Hard right, soft centre THE PP’s leaders Pablo Casado an d A lb ert Rive ra , w ho he a ds Ciudadanos, will use Andalucia’s reg io n al ele c tions to w oo the Right.

Both are wasting their time. A large proportion of the Right will vote for Casado anyway because they have never voted anything other than PP. He should look to the voters who wanted former vice-president Soraya Saenz de Santamaria as party leader, not a young fogey.

There’s no denying that Rivera is in a good position to scoop up votes from PP supporters, attracted by his rigid stance regarding Cataluña, but if he veers too far to the Right, he will cheese off his Centre voters.

It’s the undecided Centre who bring Spanish politicians their election victories, not the Right, as Casado and Rivera could learn to their cost on December 2.

Not my bad MARIANO RAJOY, president of the Spa nis h gove rnme nt until May 31, spoke recently about the w a y he w a s e vic te d from the Moncloa.

Talking to students in Quito (Ecuador) he attributed his departure to the ‘sad role’ of the PSOE and the PNV nationalist party’s ‘lack of personality.’

Oh. Right. So it had nothing to do with National High Court’s reference to the Partido Popular’s ‘institutional corruption’ regarding funding when announcing the Gurtel case verdicts.

Nothing to do with the same court’s decision that the Caja B the PP’s slush fund of black money - did exist.

Nothing to do with Rajoy’s unconvincing testimony during the Gurtel trial which, according to the judges, put his credibility in doubt.

Nothing to do with all those allegedly corrupt ex-ministers, remanded ex-ministers and sentenced ex-ministers.

N othin g t o do wi t h Gur t el , Gurtel and more Gurtel. Gurtel?

Nothing to do with him. As always, it was everybody else’s bad, never Mariano Rajoy’s.

The barest minimum PEDRO SANCHEZ and the Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias have signed a 2019 Budget pact.

This increases new spendi ng by €2.8 bi l l i on and am ongst ot her t hi ngs wi l l raise the minimum wage.

Obviously the Partido Popul ar has t o oppose t hi s on principle, but the Confederation of Business Organisat i ons ( CEOE) - Spai n’s equivalent of the CBI - has warned that this could hold back increases for the rest of the wage-earners.

“My heart bleeds” is what those who are paid the minimum wage are probably saying.

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3:30am Teleshopping 7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am The Royal 10:00am Judge Judy 10:30am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:30am Goodnight Mister Tom 1:35pm The Royal 2:40pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:50pm The History of Mr Polly 6:50pm Heartbeat 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Vera 11:00pm Law and Order: UK 12:00am Law and Order: UK 1:05am Grantchester 2:05am Grantchester 3:00am ITV3 Nightscreen 3:30am Teleshopping

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This is BBC Four Beyond 100 Days Top of the Pops Gary Davies and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 July 1986.

Human Universe Professor Brian Cox explores our origins, place and destiny in the universe.

The Motorway: Life in the Fast Lane Blackadder Goes Forth Classic comedy series set during the First World War. Blackadder Goes Forth Britain's Forgotten Slave Owners Top of the Pops Storyville

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

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Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Undercover Boss USA Ramsay's Hotel Hell Channel 4 News Couples Come Dine with Me A New Life in the Sun Countdown Coast v Country A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Embarrassing Pets The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Charlie's Story: Stand Up to Cancer The Great British Bake Off: An Extra Slice First Dates Naked Attraction Celebrity Hunted

Teleshopping The Chase Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Saint The Avengers Kojak Quincy, M.E. LA County's sleuthing chief coroner stakes his reputation on another case.

Minder Arthur gets into the car phone business, not realising he is dealing with a dodgy supplier.

The Saint The Avengers The Car Chasers Darts Football Genius Nacho Libre FYI Daily Nacho Libre The Protectors The Americans ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

9:25am 9:40am 9:55am 10:05am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am

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THURSDAY TV

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

5 News Lunchtime NCIS Home and Away Neighbours Dear Diary, I Died Friends Friends 5 News at 5 Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Traffic Cops Canada: A Year in the Wild Rich House, Poor House Big Brother: Live Eviction Big Brother's Bit on the Side

10:00am Melissa and Joey 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Goldbergs 1:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Young Sheldon 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Happy Together 10:30pm New Girl 11:00pm Celebs Go Dating 12:05am The Big Bang Theory 12:35am The Big Bang Theory 1:00am First Dates 2:05am Celebs Go Dating 3:10am Happy Together 3:30am New Girl When Penny runs into financial uncomforta... (read more)

4:00am

Stone of Destiny The Last Castle The Accountant Robin Hood White House Down The Accountant Robin Hood White House Down Desperado All About the

6:30am First Man: Special 7:00am Hostile 8:40am Bohemian Rhapsody: Special Sky Movies takes a special look at footstomping Queen biopic Bohemian Rhapsody, starring Mr Robot's Rami Malek as legendary late frontman Freddie Mercury.

9:10am Roxy The Cyrano de Bergerac story gets a high-school spin as self-conscious teen Cyrus reluctantly helps a classmate woo the girl he's secretly in love with.

11:05am Permanent 12:45pm Coco 2:35pm The 15:17 to Paris 4:15pm Roxy 6:10pm I Do...Until I Don't 8:00pm Coco 10:00pm The 15:17 to Paris 11:40pm Angelica 1:25am Hostile 2:55am The Wound

10:30am 11:00am 12:00pm 12:30pm

The Last Castle

Roxanne Don't Think Twice Blue Streak Dazed and Confused 1:35pm Daddy's Home 2 3:25pm American Pie: The Wedding 5:10pm Ghost Town 7:00pm The Bounty Hunter 9:00pm Daddy's Home 2 10:45pm American Pie: The Wedding 12:30am Road Trip: Beer Pong 2:15am Here Comes the Boom

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Live WGC - HSBC Champions Total Goals Enjoy all the goals from the Premier League and beyond.

Match Centre Match Centre Live ATP 500: Vienna Day four of the Erste Bank Open from the Wiener Stadthalle in Vienna, Austria.

Live ATP 500: Basel The Debate - Live Welcome to the Weekend Drivers' Press Conference NFL Gameday Get an in-depth look at all the latest action from the 2018 NFL season as the teams head into week eight.

Football Countdowns EFL One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games EFL Goals: Championship Football Countdowns EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games EFL EFL Goals: Championship Football Countdowns One2eleven One2eleven EFL Goals: Championship Football Countdowns EFL Greatest Games EFL Goals: Championship EFL Matters Info not available EFL Goals: Championship EFL Matters The Football Show EFL EFL EFL Greatest Games

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Man-size tissues at the ready TV COUCH CRITIC

by Adam Whalley-Lewis …OR should that be ‘non gender specific, large tissues at the ready,’ well, whatever you call them, we needed them on Sunday evening when BBC1’s drama The Cry came to an end. It seems to have been running for much longer than four weeks and what a journey Joanna and Alistair have been on.

Do you remember the scenes on the flight to Australia and the harrowing intrusion of the Press? I won’t give away the ending, just in case you were doing something else on Sunday, you know, like trying to save your finca from a Biblical storm, but enough to say Stella Gonet (Alistair’s Mum, Elizabeth) steals the show. You can binge watch The Cry on BBC iPlayer.

Whilst BBC1 were concluding things down under, ITV were ensuring that Monday’s chat at the water cooler wouldn’t be dull, by showing the second instalment of Butterfly. Max is now Maxine and all Hell is breaking out. Two scenes stood out on Sunday, the brilliant Alison Stead-

CRYING SHAME: BBC1’s The Cry came to an end on Sunday evening. man (granny) declaring that Maxine is no grandson of hers - quite right granny, Maxine is now your granddaughter and secondly, Dad Stephen calling out the school bullies by reminding them that knocking someone out in order to protect a loved one from a hate crime is all right in his book. This is hard hitting stuff, tackling a subject most of us know little about, whilst pushing some TV boundaries too.

Episodes one and two are available on the ITV Hub, episode three is on ITV next Sunday.

Strictly not mentioning THAT kiss, Come Dancing continued over the weekend. Bruno was off doing something else, so Alfonso Ribeiro joined the judges and made a big impression. As much as we love Bruno, Alfonso was a hit, so I hope that whatever Mr T was doing was worth it because the Fresh Prince star looked really comfortable in the fourth judge’s chair. Vicki and Graziano left the show on Sunday. Let’s hope Bruno is allowed back this weekend for the Halloween special.

I’m not much of a fan of breakfast shows on TV, Radio 4 does it for me, but ITV’s Good Morning Britain rattled a few cages last week and this time it wasn’t Piers Morgan who had the masses screaming at their TV over the cornflakes (or wheatgerm toast with honey, depending on your post code) no, this time it was Ben and Charlotte who ignited the blue touch paper and then failed to retire to a safe distance. Ben and Charlotte were discussing Disney movies being banned or rewritten to reflect ‘modern women’ with two experts (where do they find these people?) both of whom liked the sound of their own voices way too much. We didn’t reach a conclusion, Twitter went crazy and I have reported Prince Charming to the Guardia Civil for being a non-feminist. I know where I stand on this topic, but I don’t want to risk overloading the postal service by saying any more.

Looking ahead (I haven’t forgotten, Caroline) The Great Model Railway Challenge continues on Channel 5 on Friday - no more info needed really, Channel 4 is Standing up to Cancer, again on Friday and if you are in the mood for a late night movie, Deepwater Horizon is on CH4 on Sunday night.

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FRIDAY TV

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Countryfile Autumn Diaries 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Claimed and Shamed 12:45pm Caught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Hardball 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Invictus Games 2018 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Not Going Out 10:00pm Have I Got News for You 10:30pm Would I Lie to You? 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm BBC London News 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show

7:00am Letterbox 7:30am Claimed and Shamed 8:15am Money for Nothing 9:00am Gardeners' World 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Think Tank 2:45pm The House That £100k Built 3:45pm Nature's Perfect Partners 4:45pm Wild Tales From the Village 5:45pm Eggheads 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Strictly: It Takes Two 8:00pm Family Cooking Showdown 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm The Lakes with Paul Rose 10:00pm Made in Great Britain 11:00pm The Mash Report 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am Front Row Late 12:40am Black Hollywood: 'They've Gotta Have Us'

4:35am This is BBC Four 8:00pm World News Today 8:30pm Top of the Pops Janice Long and Mike Read present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 31 July 1986.

9:00pm Blues and Beyond with Cerys Matthews and Val Wilmer 10:00pm Queen: Rock the World 11:00pm The Story of Bohemian Rhapsody 11:55pm Bowie at Glastonbury 2000 1:00am The People's History of Pop 2:00am Top of the Pops 2:30am Sound of Song 3:30am Blues and Beyond with Cerys Matthews and Val Wilmer 4:30am This is BBC Four

10:05am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:10am Undercover Boss USA 12:05pm Ramsay's Hotel Hell 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm A New Life in the Sun 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Coast v Country 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Embarrassing Pets 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Stand Up to Cancer 2018 8:30pm The Muppets for SU2C 9:00pm Carpool Karaoke 9:30pm Stars of Celebrity Bake Off for SU2C 10:00pm Gogglebox 11:00pm Liam Gallagher for SU2C 11:30pm More Celebrity Gogglebox 12:00am Aretha Franklin Tribute

8:45am Peppa Pig 8:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:05am Paw Patrol 9:25am Floogals 9:40am Shimmer and Shine 9:55am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 10:05am Peppa Pig 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm NCIS 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Nightmare 911 5:00pm Friends 5:30pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm The Great Model Railway Challenge 10:00pm Walking Britain's Lost Railways 11:00pm Big Brother 12:30am Big Brother's Bit on the Side

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

Hollyoaks New Girl New Girl Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Young Sheldon The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory X-Men: First Class The Big Bang Theory

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6:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Harbour 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm The Big Audition 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Bad Move 12:15am Through the Keyhole 1:10am Back to Mine 1:35am Jackpot247 4:00am ITV Nightscreen

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3:30am Teleshopping 7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:30am Classic Coronation Street 8:00am Heartbeat 9:00am The Royal 10:05am Judge Judy 10:35am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:30am The History of Mr Polly 1:30pm The Royal 2:35pm Heartbeat 3:40pm Classic Coronation Street 4:15pm Classic Coronation Street 4:50pm Bertie and Elizabeth 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Home Fires 10:00pm Grantchester 11:00pm Grantchester 12:00am Killer Women with Piers Morgan 1:05am Agatha Christie's Poirot 3:00am Elizabeth: The Golden Age

4:00am Teleshopping 7:00am World Cup Rivalries: Brazil v Italy 7:20am The Chase 8:20am Kojak 9:20am Quincy, M.E. 10:25am Minder 11:30am The Saint 12:35pm The Avengers 1:45pm Darts It's a busy afternoon on day two in Dortmund with eight first round games taking place.

6:00pm The Avengers 7:05pm The Car Chasers 8:00pm Darts 12:00am Take the Tower 1:00am The Avengers 2:05am Lethal Weapon 3:10am The Protectors 3:40am ITV4 Nightscreen 4:00am Teleshopping

9:00am Jarhead 3: The Siege 10:45am The A-Team 12:45pm Kingsman: The Golden Circle 3:15pm Death Race 5:15pm Jarhead 3: The Siege 7:00pm The A-Team 9:00pm Kingsman: The Golden Circle 11:30pm Bad Boys 1:35am Death Race 3:35am Kiss of the Dragon

4:35am

I Do...Until I Don't Comedy about a filmmaker hoping to show that marriage is an archaic idea that needs a rethink.

Final Score: Special Roxy Coco I Do...Until I Don't The 15:17 to Paris Roxy I Do...Until I Don't Coco The 15:17 to Paris Fifty Shades Freed Angelica Hostile I Am Gangster The Wound

12:00pm One2eleven 12:15pm One2eleven 12:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 1:00pm Football's Greatest 1:30pm Football Countdowns 2:00pm EFL Greatest Games 2:15pm EFL Greatest Games 2:30pm EFL Greatest Games 2:45pm EFL Greatest Games 3:00pm EFL 4:00pm Football's Greatest 4:30pm Football Countdowns 5:00pm One2eleven 5:15pm One2eleven 5:30pm One2eleven 5:45pm One2eleven 6:00pm Football Years 6:30pm To be Announced 7:00pm SPFL Matters 7:30pm EFL Matters 8:00pm Football 11:15pm The Debate - Live 12:15am SPFL Matters 12:45am SPFL Greatest Games

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

Dress to Impress Emmerdale Emmerdale You've Been Framed!

The Ellen DeGeneres Show Who's Doing the Dishes?

Dress to Impress Emmerdale Emmerdale You've Been Framed!

The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show You've Been Framed!

Take Me Out Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men The Conjuring Family Guy Family Guy

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The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear 10:30am The Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult 12:05pm Liar Liar 1:40pm Girls Trip 3:50pm American Pie: Reunion 5:50pm Big Daddy 7:30pm The Dictator 9:00pm Girls Trip 11:10pm American Pie: Reunion

6:30am 7:00am 9:00am 10:50am 12:40pm 2:25pm 4:20pm 6:15pm 8:15pm 10:00pm 11:50pm 1:35am 3:05am 5:00am

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Live WGC - HSBC Champions Good Morning Sports Fans Football Centre Football Centre Live ATP 500: Vienna Live Mexican F1 GP: Practice F1: Grand Prix Sky Sports News at 6 Football The Debate - Live SPFL Matters SPFL Greatest Games NBA Profiles:Golden State Warriors Basketball Sky Sports News Live WGC - HSBC Champions Day three of the WGC-HSBC Champions from the Sheshan Golf Club in Shanghai, China.

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1:45am BBC News 7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Classic Mary Berry 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Invictus Games 2018 3:00pm Rugby League 5:30pm Final Score 6:10pm BBC News 6:20pm Regional News 6:25pm Weather 6:30pm Invictus Games 2018 7:00pm Pointless 7:50pm Strictly Come Dancing 9:35pm Casualty 10:25pm Killing Eve 11:10pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 12:50am The NFL Show 1:20am The Borderlands 2:45am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:50am BBC News

9:30am 10:00am 10:30am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm

5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm

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8:15am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Scrambled!

8:35am The Tom and Jerry Show 8:50am The Powerpuff Girls 9:10am Toonmarty 9:30am Robozuna 10:05am Mighty Magiswords 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:40pm Countrywise 1:05pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:15pm Midsomer Murders 3:10pm The X Factor 4:15pm Catchphrase 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 6:55pm ITV Evening News 7:05pm Regional News and Weather 7:15pm Info not available 9:25pm The X Factor 11:25pm The Jonathan Ross Show 12:25am ITV News 12:45am Play to the Whistle 1:45am Jackpot247 4:00am Long Lost Family

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Elephant Diaries Elephant Diaries Natural World Homes Under the Hammer Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul Wanted Down Under Escape to the Country Britain's Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF Saving Lives at Sea Letterbox A House Through Time Dad's Army Mediterranean with Simon Reeve Elizabeth I's Secret Agents Black Hollywood: "They've Gotta Have Us" QI XL Snowfall Later Weekend with Jools Holland Cosmopolis

7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am Emmerdale Omnibus 10:00am Coronation Street Omnibus 1:05pm You've Been Framed!

1:35pm Step Up 3 2:35pm FYI Daily 2:40pm Step Up 3 3:50pm Beethoven's 2nd 4:50pm FYI Daily 4:55pm Beethoven's 2nd 5:35pm Casper 6:35pm FYI Daily 6:40pm Casper 7:40pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 8:40pm FYI Daily 8:45pm The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King 11:30pm Celebrity Juice 12:20am Family Guy 12:45am Family Guy 1:15am Family Guy 1:45am American Dad! 2:10am American Dad!

4:30am This is BBC Four 8:00pm Natural World Special 9:00pm Life Story 10:00pm 54 Hours: The 11:30pm There She Goes 12:00am Top of the Pops Gary Davies and Peter Powell present the pop chart programme, first broadcast on 23 July 1986.

12:30am Top of the Pops 1:00am Britain's Most Dangerous Songs: Listen to the Banned 2:00am Neil Sedaka: King of Song 3:00am Knights of Classic Drama at the BBC 4:00am Natural World Special

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11:50am 1:50pm 3:50pm 6:00pm 8:00pm 10:00pm 12:00am 2:25am 3:10am 3:30am

Judge Judy Judge Judy ITV3 Nightscreen Judge Judy Murder, She Wrote Columbo Goodnight Mister Tom World War II drama in which a curmudgeonly widower living in a small village takes in a painfully shy evacuee from London.

Housewife 49 Sparkling Cyanide Agatha Christie's Poirot Lewis Midsomer Murders Endeavour Inspector Morse A Touch of Frost ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

SATURDAY TV

8:15am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Come Dine with Me 2:00pm Four in a Bed 2:30pm Four in a Bed 3:00pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm Four in a Bed 4:00pm Four in a Bed 4:30pm A Place in the Sun 5:30pm A Place in the Sun 6:35pm Escape to the Chateau DIY 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Transformers: Dark of the Moon 11:00pm F1 Mexican Grand Prix Qualifying Highlights 12:35am Mortal Instruments: The City of Bones 2:45am Experimental

7:00am Milkshake!

10:50am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:25am Secret Life of Puppies:Terrible: Terrible Two's 12:10pm Police Interceptors 1:05pm Police Interceptors 2:05pm Police Interceptors 3:00pm Free Willy 5:20pm Rich House, Poor House 6:20pm Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 7:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

8:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

9:00pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

9:55pm 5 News 10:00pm Live Boxing 11:30pm Carrie 1:25am Silent Hill: Revelation 3:00am Super Casino 4:10am Gps Behind Closed Doors 5:00am Now That's Funny!

5:45am Wildlife SOS

6:10am The Big Bang Theory 7:00am Couples Come Dine with Me 7:55am Made in Chelsea 9:05am The Goldbergs 9:30am The Goldbergs 10:05am The Goldbergs 10:35am The Goldbergs 11:05am The Goldbergs 11:35am Young Sheldon 12:00pm Young Sheldon 12:30pm Young Sheldon 1:00pm Young Sheldon 1:30pm Young Sheldon 2:00pm Father of the Bride 4:05pm The Great British Bake Off 5:25pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 5:35pm The Big Bang Theory 6:05pm The Big Bang Theory 6:35pm The Big Bang Theory 7:05pm The Big Bang Theory 7:35pm The Big Bang Theory 8:05pm The Big Bang Theory 8:35pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Fast and Furious 6 12:35am Gogglebox 1:35am Gogglebox

5:00am

4:00am 7:00am 7:15am 8:20am 9:25am 10:30am

10:45am Final Score 12:45pm Atomic Blonde 2:45pm King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 5:00pm Jungle 7:00pm Final Score 9:00pm Atomic Blonde 11:00pm King Arthur: Legend of the Sword 1:15am Collateral Damage 3:15am Death Wish 4:00am The Longest Day

5:00am The Wound 6:30am Bohemian Rhapsody: Special 7:00am Roxy 9:10am Coco 11:10am Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas 12:50pm Fantastic Beasts The Crimes of Grindelwald: Special 1:05pm The 15:17 to Paris 2:50pm I Do... Until I Don't 4:50pm Coco 6:50pm Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas 8:20pm The 15:17 to Paris 10:00pm Fifty Shades Freed: Unveiled Edition 12:00am Hostile 1:30am Angelica 3:15am The Wound 3:55am Hostile 5:30am Final Score: Special

6:45am 7:00am 7:15am 10:30am 11:00am 12:30pm 1:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:15pm 9:00pm

11:30am 11:55am 12:20pm 1:25pm 2:30pm 5:20pm 5:40pm 6:10pm 7:10pm 7:15pm 8:00pm 12:00am 1:00am 1:05am 2:20am 2:25am 3:20am 3:45am 4:00am

Teleshopping Football's Greatest The Avengers The Avengers Motorsport UK ITV Racing: The Opening Show Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Big Fish Off The Motorbike Show ITV Racing: Live from Cheltenham World Cup Rivalries: England v Argentina Pawn Stars The Scorpion King FYI Daily The Scorpion King Darts Pale Rider FYI Daily Pale Rider The Americans Minder The Protectors ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

8:30am 10:25am 12:20pm 2:10pm 3:45pm 5:25pm 7:10pm 9:00pm 10:35pm 12:15am 2:00am 3:50am

Nine Months Music and Lyrics Drillbit Taylor The House Fist Fight American Pie American Pie 2 The House Fist Fight American Pie American Pie 2 Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

8:00am 10:00am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm

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9:00pm 12:00am 1:00am 2:00am 5:00am

10:00pm 10:15pm 10:30pm 10:45pm 11:00pm 12:00am 12:30am 1:00am 2:00am 2:15am 2:30am 2:45am 3:00am 3:30am 3:45am

Live WGC - HSBC Champions Live Bledisloe Cup LPGA Golf Info not available Soccer Saturday PreMatch Football Middlesbrough take on Derby County at the Riverside Stadium in the Sky Bet Championship.

Cricket Sri Lanka and England meet in the sole T20 in their series in Colombo.

Football Leeds United take on Nottingham Forest at Elland Road in the Sky Bet Championship.

Boxing Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Live Intl Fight Night Live WGC - HSBC Champions

EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games Football SPFL Matters Soccer A.M. SPFL Matters Football Time of Our Lives Time of Our Lives EFL Greatest Games Football EFL Goals: Championship One2eleven One2eleven One2eleven One2eleven EFL Goals: Championship Football's Greatest Football's Greatest EFL Goals: Championship One2eleven One2eleven SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games

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8:00pm Locomotion: Dan Snow's History of Railways Dan Snow examines the development of the railways.

9:00pm The Ghan: Australia's Greatest Train Journey 12:00am I Was a Yazidi Slave 1:00am Art of France 2:00am The Golden Age of Coach Travel Documentary which journeys back to the 1950s, when the coach was king.

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True democracy more complicated DEMOCRACY, well now we dream of that, all of us in our hearts, but the ruling on the case where Northern Irish bakers refused to bake a cake with a gay theme (Leapy Lee Issue 1737), was not democratic as I see it.

The bakery is in the business of baking cakes, what the required writing on the cake has to do with the cake making business is beyond my understanding, it was just a personal choice similar to Aunt Bridget’s birthday. Real democracy would not get involved with such nonsense. We are all in this life together, but when we side against ‘the other’ it leads to dreadful outcomes as what else is war?

If we continue to think with ideas of majorities versus minorities we will never understand democracy or what it is attempting to be - that simplification is just majority rules which in its truest sense is not actually what democracy means.

Maureen Comyn

HAVE YOUR SAY

WHILST I sympathise with ‘Kev’ whose wallet was stolen from his rucksack at Alicante airport, (Some editions Issue 1736) I’d love to be able to ask him, if at any stage of his journey, did he have that rucksack on his back? There are gangs operating around crowded areas such as airports, and they are so skilled, they could take that wallet in the blink of an eye, and you wouldn’t feel a thing.

Gang warning WATCH OUT: Thieves can strike in a flash.

Seamus Neary Editor’s note: ‘Kev’ reported that he had his wallet stolen while going through airport security.

Radio times OUT of deference to the true pioneers of English Radio in the Balearics, I feel I must correct your columnist, Laura Penn, on

her recent claim to have been the instigator of the first Englishspeaking radio station on Mallorca.

In fact, English radio was first introduced to the Balearic Islands

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by Ricky ‘Lash’ Lazaar, an American cohort of the legendary Errol Flynn, from his club in Palma in the early 80’s. It then progressed to the studios of Antenna 3 in Palma where it continued to

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Surge in migrant arrivals to Spain despite recent storms Apart from a bit of Press censorship Algeria is a reasonable country. There is no reason for anyone to pretend they are ‘refugees’, or seeking asylum. Send them back.

PM

Record cruise numbers on the Costa Blanca Cruise ships harm not only passengers of the cruise but all those in the vicinity of the ship at 150 tons of fuel a day which releases as much particulate matter into the air as about one million automobiles each day… plus the entire industry dumps over one billion gallons of sewage yearly in our seas… not to mention the disruption of tourists in our ports… they don’t make residents happy in the places they visit…

Felipe And everyone is talking about cars and their emissions, so why are we getting so many cruise ships and other ships letting out so much rubbish. Why are they not paying more, because it is all about money, and the car drivers are easy pickings.

R Besomi

British Consulate to tour the Costa to give Brexit advice What about the hundreds and thousands who do not

Comments from EWN online live on the Costas? We need information as well.

Alan Bowman

WATCH: Gang of drug smugglers turned migrant traffickers held in Spain I don’t think we should let them drown, but they should be sent back where they came from. They are economic migrants not asylum seekers. The people bringing them in should be locked up.

Naimah

SHOCKING: More than one third of all people in Mala- WATCH: ‘English hooligans’ ga Province are at risk of trash the streets of Sevilla ahead of Nations League poverty clash with Spain They are bringing migrants in by the thousands and there are Spanish people living in poverty, there is something wrong here.

Edgar

Find ’em, arrest ’em, JAIL ’em.

Colin

Emu dies from ‘stress’ afPLASTIC TRAP: Distressing ter one-mile police chase deer stuck in bottle snap in Spain goes viral in Spain Oh how brave and courageous to chase a frightened bird This poor guy was never helped??

Michael

with motorbikes and then pounce on it (and gloating) as if a dangerous fugitive when already dead… pathetic…

Felipe

broadcast in English for a wide audience over the next 13 years.

It employed over a dozen DJs, one of the most popular being your own Leapy Lee. If only from a purely historical point of v i e w, I h o p e y o u c a n s e e y o u r way to correcting this extremely misleading, and to many ex ‘Lash’ fans, somewhat distressing report.

Sylvan Whittingham

Expensive move CAN anyone help with a problem that affects the residents of Canillas de Albaida (Axarquia). If you want to sell your property, you need a DAFO certificate issued by the town hall. The cost is €7,000.

C o m p e t a c h a rg e € 3 , 5 0 0 a n d Archez €2,500. Have you any suggestions as to why? It would be very interesting to know what other local authorities are charging to sell properties.

Dennis Haslam Editor ’s note: DAFO certificates were brought in by the Junta de Andalucia in response to the estimated 200,000 ‘illegally’ built homes in the region, and affect rural properties. These were often given building licences by local town halls, which were later declared invalid.

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Tad the Lost Explorer and the Secret of King Midas

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TECH FOR THE TIMID I WAS assaulted by aural barbed wire in the cinema the other day.

One minute there I was, minding my own popcorn, the next I was savaged by verbal incontinence from a patron on his phone.

As mobiles breed like a nuclear reactor (five billion phones now and growing fast), there are inevitably some downsides.

From relying on messengers with cleft sticks just a couple of aeons ago, we want 24/7 communication, and we want it now.

Mobiles are everywhere - especially everywhere they shouldn’t be, like in the hands of inattentive drivers at 120 kph - competing with the muzak in restaurants and rammed down our ears in public spaces.

Perhaps they’ve even made communication too easy. In Denmark for instance, the advent of the mobile has inundated emergency services like those run by animal protection agencies. It’s all too easy to phone while out walking, just to report a cow

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The march of the mobile: ET tweet Sometimes it’s good to switch off home

looking cold.

I spent much of my youth in Africa, where the traditional local aspiration was a bicycle and a radio. Ah, simpler times, when later even the impoverished gardener we used to help out by providing ‘piece work’ had a mobile phone better than mine.

With the world in our pockets, these days we’ve got Big Brother everywhere at every time. Wherever we go to get away from it

all, we take it right there with us.

And we almost never, ever, switch the things off - except overnight, and not always then if you’re a chronically sleep-deprived teenager.

One study says that we check our phones on average every 12 minutes.

Two in five adults look at their phones within five minutes of waking, while a third check them just before falling asleep, accord-

‘To me… To you’ Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man I PURCHASED a pedometer for the ever suffering Mrs S for her birthday at her request.

When she opened it and asked me to set it up she also handed me the booklet that had all the instructions in about 10 different languages.

Well, I have to tell you, it was impossible - not because I didn’t know any of the 10 languages but because the writing was so small that it could not possibly be read. I don’t wear glasses, not even for reading, and I even tried with a magnifying glass and I still couldn’t work out what the instructions said.

This has happened to me a few times recently.

I challenge you to pick up any toothpaste box, deodorant can or, come to think of it anything in that size box, can or bottle and read the instructions on the back. So why? In their eagerness to create new and fancy products, companies very often overlook the optical needs of their older consumers. Sometimes that oversight is just a small daily annoyance. But, in some cases, it can also have potentially dangerous consequences.

What if, as in many cases, there is something important that needs to be passed on regarding a potential safety issue? Regulations and lawyers have helped turn boxes, bottles and instruction

manuals into a fine-print nightmare by demanding so much information that the print must be tiny to accommodate it all. Otherwise, the packaging and manuals would be too big and costly.

But that doesn’t help me or other oldies trying to read the darned things. Another reason is the young designers themselves. Young designers want to reinvent the world, but they have none of the problems of eyesight challenges. So it’s very difficult for them to imagine why fine print should be an issue. Having said that I bet some of them struggle too.

Then, of course, a lot of companies are trying to go global and that means trying to fit text in several languages into one document or one bottle to meet each country’s regulations. I’m not even sure if there is a minimum size font they have to use. There is no point in complaining to any of the big companies because they don’t give a monkey’s but I am tempted to have a little try in contacting a few smaller companies to see what they say.

I know it was a few weeks ago that Barry Chuckle of the Chuckle Brothers died but it made me think - I don’t believe anyone that has ever picked up a bit of furniture in their house to move it hasn’t uttered the now immortal phrase, ‘To me… To you.’ Not the funniest line ever but I’d love a Euro for every time a member of the public has used it. mikesenker@gmail.com

ing to the report. Guilty as charged m’lud, at least on the second two.

A high percentage (71 per cent) say they never turn off their phone and 78 per cent say they couldn’t live without it. The average daily time spent on a smartphone is two hours 28 minutes, rising to over three hours for 18 to 24-year-olds.

As one pastor noted recently; ‘These days it’s quite something if people switch off their phones while they’re getting married, or on their deathbed.’

Certainly the march of the mobile is unstoppable and even beneficial to society; in rural areas it’s often cheaper to issue mobiles than to wire long and difficult terrain with landlines.

But whether we are really any better off being permanently within reach of family, friends and employers is something only you the user can decide. Don’t even think of phoning to tell me, though.

PHONING will soon be the one thing we don’t actually do with our phones, it seems.

Although smartphone usage is rocketing, voice-calling drops by several per cent each year, and voicemail as a concept is all but dead.

Millennials in particular think that calls are too intrusive, actually repelled by the idea of making or taking voice calls when a text will do nicely instead.

So last year, for the first time, texting, tweeting and other social media, chat and other ‘indirect’ contacts, overtook the traditional voice call, with more than 35 per cent of interactions now in digital format.

The trend was summed up neatly in an automatic call response I got from my nephew: ‘You’ve reached […....…..].

No one answers phone calls any more, send me a text.’

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Cryptic Across 1 Anna taught here in Asia Minor (4) 3 Cause to lose weight? I came back and ate! (8) 9 Watches The Seekers (7) 10 This set of rooms sounds charming (5) 11 Stick out bent bugle (5) 12 Missing seaman dispatched (6) 14 Feel bitter about Sterne novel (6) 16 Some critic and leading light (6) 19 Clergyman beginning to prevent crime (6) 21 Tries different examination again (5) 24 Thin Egyptian finding slippery substance (5) 25 Fibre for number one gallery (7) 26 Fast athlete comes second to office worker (8) 27 Small county in which flowers are grown (4) Down 1 He composed Butchers' Dance (8) 2 Cancel year-book, it has a letter missing (5) 4 Accident caused by masthead on a ship at sea? (6) 5 Scots change prices (5) 6 After a shuffle, dealing is in order (7) 7 Constantly veer off (4) 8 Humiliate within the wide meaning of the word (6) 13 Ring leader is French and less

impatient (8) 15 Less salubrious fish I follow with a little ruler (7) 17 Contracted in meagre education (6) 18 Recruit an engineer with lots of time

Code Breaker

available (6) 20 Polish lady has a nurse (5) 22 Shiver when she drinks a cocktail (5) 23 Invites not to start tasks (4)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 3 represents R and 7 represents J, so fill in R every time the figure 3 appears and J every time the figure 7 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 Be upright (5) 4 Identify and correct computer errors (5) 7 Deadlock (9) 8 Deep, translucent red (4) 10 Holds up (6) 12 Parents and their children (6) 13 Fearless and daring (4) 16 Helper (9) 18 Edges (5) 19 Sediment that has settled at the bottom of a liquid (5)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

Across 7 Folder (para papeles, documentos) (7) 9 Hasta (5) 10 Selfish (7) 11 Sentido (5) 12 Jarabe (líquido) (5) 14 Margaritas (7) 16 Sospechoso (comportamiento) (7) 18 Cuellos (5) 20 Con frecuencia (5) 22 Sobrinos (7) 24 Heel (5) 25 Patinete (7)

Down 1 Cut off from a whole (5) 2 Foolish person (3) 3 Unable to hear (4) 4 Type of fuel (6) 5 Swaggering show of courage (7) 6 Conjecture (5) 9 Bewildered (7) 11 Shuts (6) 12 Apartments (5) 14 Popular pub game (5) 15 Rod used by a magician (4) 17 Digit of the foot (3)

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

Down 1 Tornillos (6) 2 Rainbow (4,4) 3 Abejas (4) 4 Pregunta (8) 5 Tuna (4) 6 Alicates (6) 8 Coffin (5) 13 Embarazada (8) 15 Uncertain (8) 16 Pantalones cortos (6) 17 Melodías (5) 19 Tailor (6) 21 Cloth (fabric) (4) 23 Worse (4)

Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.

Nonagram How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case R) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) You are likely to reveal information unintentionally. You’ll find it easy to charm members of the opposite sex this week. Have some fun, but draw the line if someone tries to fast talk their way into your heart.

You have to let go of your past if you wish to get out of any sentimental mood that might be hanging over your head. Your lucky day this week will be Saturday.

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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) New partnerships will develop if you join investment groups.

Property investments could be prosperous.

You can’t do everything on your own. Family responsibilities are escalating. Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

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ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Your home environment may be hectic, which could result in emotional upset if you aren’t well organised. Try not to take everything so seriously. Be sure to find out all you can before you commit to anything. There might be a problem with a will or with an insurance policy. Your lucky day this week will be Thursday.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Put your efforts into being creative.

Don’t give out any personal information that you don’t want spread around. You could lose a good friend because of it. Learn some new skills that will increase your income. Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) You can’t make things better if you don’t know what to fix. You may interest people in a service you have to offer. Work quietly behind the scenes for best results. Don’t hesitate to look for alternatives that will enable you to raise the kind of donations you need to do the job right. Your lucky day this week will be Monday.

ers carefully. Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Those you work with may have little consideration for the underdog.

You can raise your standard of living if you pick up some freelance work on the side.

Don’t jump into investments too quickly. Try not to overreact to the loss. Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Use your energy wisely. You may find yourself in the limelight for the wrong reasons. Someone envious of your popularity may challenge you to a debate. Travel for business purposes may bring the highest returns. Your lucky day this week will be Tuesday.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) You can ferret out secret information if you just listen to what others have to say. Travel will be good if you are seeking knowledge.

Minor accidents may occur if you don’t concentrate on what you’re doing. Problems with financial investments could make you nervous. Your lucky day this week will be Wednesday.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Changes involving your domestic scene may be unpleasant. Try to mix business with pleasure while travelling. You can convince anyone of anything. Get your domestic chores out of the way early.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Arguments with children or friends may leave you steaming. You will have excellent ideas and you should be able to help your partner get ahead. Concern yourself with legal matters and formulating contracts rather than finalising your objectives.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Your ability to visualise will help you convince others of the possibilities. Insincere gestures of friendliness may be misleading.

Spend some time with people who can shed some light on your personal situation. Don’t be too quick to voice your opinion. Listen to oth-

You need to sit back and enjoy.

Things have been moving so quickly that you need to do something physical to release your tension. Unexpected changes in friendships could occur. Make creative changes to your living quarters.

QUIZ: REINVENTING THE QUIZ 1. In 1895, which pair of French brothers patented their Cinmatographe, a cine camera and projector in one?

They also invented the improved autochrome process of colour photography.

2. Thought to have originally been invented by the ancient Babylonians, what was a clepsydra?

3. What the name of the American inventor who took out the first of more than 1,000 patents at the age of 21? His inventions include the phonograph, the motion picture camera and the long-lasting, practical electric light bulb.

4. What was the nationality of Ernő Rubik, the inventor of the 3-D combination puzzle the Rubik's Cube?

5. Which 19th century British scientist’s inventions of electromagnetic rotary devices formed the foundation of electric motor technology?

6. Which heat-resistant, strong synthetic fibre was invented by the Polish-American chemist Stephanie Kwolek at DuPont in 1965?

7. Which influential American musician formed the avant-garde rock group the Mothers of Invention in California in 1964?

8. Which of the following toys was invented first: Crayola Crayons, Etch-a-Sketch or Mr Potato Head?

9. Which pop group took their name from an 18th century English agriculturist who invented the seed drill?

10. Which type of waterproof raincoat made out of rubberised fabric that was first sold in 1824, is named after its Scottish inventor?

Not a lot of people know that… Mikhail Kalishnikov, inventor of the AK-47, greatly regretted having invented the weapon, and is quoted as saying “I would prefer to have invented a machine that people could use and that would help farmers with their work, for example a lawnmower.”

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HUNGARIAN (born in Budapest), 5.

MICHAEL FARADAY, 6. KEVLAR, 7. FRANK ZAPPA, 8. CRAYOLA CRAYONS (1903), Etch-A-Sketch (1960), Mr Potato Head (1949), 9. JETHRO TULL, 10. MACKINTOSH (named after Charles Macintosh)

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Throughout autumn, Medcare is releasing an array of dazzling treatment packages and skincare products with great prices, for men and women. Many patients want to take care of themselves and their appearance, but also, they would like to treat a special friend or partner.

What better way to do this than with a fabulous treatment or bespoke package? If you are unsure what your friend requires but still want to get them a thoughtful gift, Medcare sells gift cards. These are the ideal gift for birthdays, anniversaries, Christmas or weddings!

One of the secrets to Medcare’s success is that it is a ‘Polyclinic’. It has numerous different departments for health and well-being all under one roof, and as such can offer patients treatments from two or more areas in one package.

One of the most recent examples of this is the Complete Beautiful Smile package. This not only gives the patient the opportunity to enhance their smile with professional teeth whitening, but looks after the smile as a whole by incorporating lip fillers and two chemical skin peels as well! This package displays true synergy between the dental and aesthetics department, and

BLOW DRYING. Straightening. Curling. There are plenty of ways to damage our hair in the name of styling.

Whilst we can limit the damage by using lower heat, heat protectors and hydrating products, is there a way of limiting the harm at the source?

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Perhaps better known for its hoovers than its haircare, the brand has sought to make in-roads in the beauty market,

Give your special friend a gift they really want!

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Another new combination of treatments and products comes in the form of the Rapid Results package. This was designed for those wanting to look and feel better, but didn’t have the time or

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In less than an hour this package will give you two areas of Botox, lip fillers, plus four Glycolic acid peels to be booked at your leisure.

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The latest promotion is released this week and is the Five Years Younger package. Without any surgical intervention you can look at least five years younger with long lasting results. Using the award-winning Teoxane rehydration ‘skinbooksting’ treatment, Botox, peels and four skincare products from professional brand GLO, this is the ultimate anti-ageing kit!

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Heat without the hurt? first launching a hairdryer two years ago and now a hair multi-tool.

The Dyson Airwrap Hair Styler comes with a hefty price tag (€499.99) but promises to take the hassle and damage out of styling. Designed to be used on wet hair, the tool also comes

with six attachments, using a mixture of warm air and suction to draw hair in before drying and styling.

Using less heat than straighteners, a maximum 150 degrees Celsius compared to a typical straightener at 185 degrees, the tool promises less break-

age and shorter styling times.

The Airwrap works by ‘gripping’ the hair using innovative technology, eliminating the need for clips or barrels and creates large or small curls. Other attachments include a dryer and heated brush to straighten and dry hair.

If spending almost €500 on a hair product doesn’t appeal to you, there are other multi-tools designed to reduce the stress and time of styling.

At around a 10th of the price is the Babybliss Airstyler Big Hair (€46.45).

This heated brush can style hair from wet using a spinning ceramic barrel to recreate the effect of a professional blow dry, either curling hair or drying it straight.

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Back in matte er marks on cups and glasses.

So if you want to be ‘on trend’ just in time for party season, why not try out either of this week’s newest releases including Chanel’s Rouge Liquid Powder lipstick, €35, or MAC’s Powder Kiss, €19.50. Both formulas offer full coverage with a matte, soft-focus finish, which promises to even out imperfections.

Chanel’s launch offers a range of six shades from nudes to bright reds, while MAC offers slightly more selection with 15 shades, in-

cluding some deeper berry colours and beiges.

For a more budget-friendly option, earlier this month, L’Oreal Paris launched a limited edition collection in collaboration with French fashion designer, Isabel Marant.

Labelled L’Oreal Paris X Isabel Marant Color Riche Lipstick, the collection of seven shades is enriched with camellia oil, ‘for enhanced comfort,’ and is available from €8.34.

Last month, Maybelline New York also launched its

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FOR more than a year now the hottest beauty trend has been for glowing, youthful looking skin.

The look saw major cosmetics companies move away from powder finish foundations, primers and moisturisers to lighter formulas promising the dewy glow of a teenager.

Even blushers and eyeshadows got in on the act with powders replaced by creams, gels and glosses.

Highlighters - formerly the preserve of the 1980’s - also came back on trend with subtle cream and liquid formulas used to gently add glow to cheekbones and brow bones.

While the ‘lit from within’ trend shows no signs of abating, a raft of new products released this week show the look has evolved for autumn and winter, pairing a naturally glowing face with a sophisticated matte lip.

This may not seem like good news for those of us who equate matte with dryness and creasing, but despair not. Gone are the cakey, dehydrating formulas of yesteryear, and in are moisturising products offering a blurred, perfecting look. The even better news?

Matte formulas tend to stay on the lip longer than glossier ones and leave few-

MAYBELLINE NEW YORK: Has launched a new range.

Super Stay Matte Ink City Collection, with five shades of hydrating matte colour from €6.50.

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Sole food WE all know fish is good for us at any time of our lives, but now scientists have found it can be particularly beneficial after we retire.

Researchers have found that eating a diet rich in oily fish can reduce the risk of age-related illnesses by up to a quarter.

The study carried out at Tufts University in Boston, showed that pensioners with higher levels of Omega 3 oils, those found in oily fish like salmon, mackerel and sardines, were up to 24 per cent less likely to develop heart disease, dementia and cancer. Scientists say the oils could also help to regulate blood pressure, heart rate and inflammation.

Researchers tracked 2,662 people with an average age of 74 to see how they aged. The study’s lead author, Heidi TM Lai explained, “In our study we found that adults with higher blood levels of Omega 3 from seafood were more likely to live longer and healthier lives, so it is a great idea to eat more fish.”

In addition, the research showed, participants in the highest group consumed about one additional weekly serving of fish, compared with the lowest group.

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Get glowing THE recent trend towards healthy, glowing complexions has also seen a move away from traditional ‘scrub’ type exfoliators to their slightly more sophisticated chemical cousins.

Although the words ‘acid peel’ may bring to mind horror stories of red, angry skin, many new formulas created using natural plant or sugar acids can be gently effective.

What’s more, because acids ‘gobble’ up dead skin cells rather than simply sloughing them off, they can provide a multitude of additional benefits, including higher cell turnover, increased collagen production, reduction in hyperpigmentation from sun damage (definitely a plus in Spain) and improvement in skin tone.

Skin peels use one or more acids and come in a variety of forms, from toners to masks and skin pads to serums. The chemicals used range from glycolic acid derived from sugar, to malic acid from apples, and citric acid from fruit.

There is also salicylic acid, a very strong and drying form of acid derived from plants. This is generally only advised for topical use, for example on a blemish rather than all over the face.

In contrast, one of the gentlest acids, lactic acid, is derived from milk and provides a very light exfoliation. In fact, for an all-over gentle body exfoliation you can simply add a small amount of powdered milk to your bath (just

don’t mind the slight dairy smell!).

So are acid peels for you? Unless you suffer from eczema or another skin condition, or have particularly sensitive skin, you can generally find a peel gentle enough to work for you. The less sensitive your skin is - and the longer you have been using acids - the stronger the formula you will be able to use.

Sensitive and normal skin will benefit from the gentlest of peels in the form of a toner or serum, such as Pixi Glow Tonic which offers a mixture of ge ntle a c ids from €12 and promises to ‘reveal a brighter, glowing complexion.’

Oily, acne-prone or mature skins may be able to take slightly stronger formulas such as the Dr Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Universal Daily Peel pads, from €16.50, which claims to lessen, ‘depth of lines,’ and reduce, ‘visibility of pores,’ as well as getting to work on sun damage.

The main thing to remember, whatever your skin type, is that acids make your skin more sensitive to sun burn and hyperpigmentation, and so you should regularly use an SPF 30 to 50 for at least two weeks afterwards.

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An oasis of pleasure THEY say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but Denia’s most loved Indian restaurant seems to hav e u n i v e r sa l a p p ea l - ju s t check out their reviews.

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Dutch artists exhibit ‘Light and Colour’ in Calpe DUTCH artists, Jacqueline van Tol a n d Ta n i a H e n s w i l l e x h i b i t t h e i r colourful paintings at Galería de Arte Contemporáneo in the historic centre of Calpe. Their passion for the special light and colours of the Spanish coast inspired them to the joint Art Exhibition ‘Light and Colour.’

With the positive energy that their creations exude, they invite you to connect with the source of light, colour, joy and harmony. For this ex-

hibition they created a painting together that they will offer to the municipality of Calpe.

The official opening will take place on Saturday November 3 at 11am at the Galeria Contemporáneo / Sala de Exposiciones Ajuntament Vell, Plaça de la Villa 20, Calpe.

The exhibition will run until the 29th. Opening hours are 10.00 to 14.00 and 16.30 to 19.30, closed on Sundays and Mondays.

You raise me up JALON VALLEY HELP is hosting a concert to be held on November 9 in Benissa at 9.30pm. The event will include popular and modern classics and will take place at the Salon de Actos Municipal (La Cultural) Benissa. C/Padre Andres Ivas no 21-3. Donation €15. For more information call 625 349 599 or email eventsjvh@gmail.com. Everyone welcome.

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Revellers in costume THE unofficial Benidorm British fancy dress party is to take place on November 15.

Once the annual Spanish fiestas have come to a close, revellers take part in a different type of day, and night, of fun and colour.

The event, now considered a ‘tradition’, was started 20 years ago by a l andl or d who off er ed f r ee dr i nks t o anybody who dressed up.

Numbers continue to grow and each year the party gets bigger and bigger, so the complimentary drink has been hit on the head.

But hundreds of residents and holidaymakers still don their most outrageous outfits and an increasi ng num ber of busi nesses i n Benidorm’s main square and surrounding areas make everybody welcome.

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CHILD’S PLAY: The Christmas fair has a range of entertainment for all the family.

Christmas and International Fair BALEARIA Port has organised a Christmas and international fair on November 29, 30 and December 1.

The Christmas fair will include 36 stalls selling Christmas gifts and trinkets for all the family. There will be also be children’s entertainment, Christmas carols and even a visit from Santa Claus.

The fair will be open from 11.30am to 5.00pm over the three days and will take place in the Jauja de Baleària port.

Visitors can also enjoy the Christmas decorations, a nativity scene and lights in the maritime station. Those who want to see the unveiling of the nativity scene and switching on of the lights should gather on November 29 at 6.00pm.

Proceeds of the raffle will benefit five charities: Make A Smile, Help of Dénia and Marina Alta, Amedem, Red Cross Dénia and Aprodeco.

During the three-day event, visitors can enjoy numerous leisure, entertainment and recreational activities.

Come along and enjoy the skating rink at the maritime station as well as a play area and children’s activities.

In addition, there will be an exhibition of high-end vehicles, while the maritime station will hold a Volkswa-

gen club show.

Located in the main hall of the maritime station, the international fair will have 14 stands from different countries visitors can enjoy diverse cuisine, culture and traditional music.

This fair will take place from 7.00pm to 1.00am on November 29, 30 and December 1.

For more information, please email navidad@ balearia.com or phone Yvonne on 686 904 645.

Before these two events however, there is a great opportunity to spend a lovely day out Christmas shopping for gifts on the November 14 a t Inn on the G re e n in Javea.

Make A Smile will be there and the €1 entrance fee will go straight to the charity, for educational programmes for children in care.

For more information email janetbigsby@gmail.com.

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Arrive as guests, leave as friends THE OCEANA CLUB is a sophisticated treasure trove of fine food and drink. Simply irresistible!

Owner Franco’s vision for his restaurant and cocktail bar is still focused on their artistic gastronomy and mouth-watering flavours, which is complemented with wonderful cocktails and a stunning panoramic view of the Mediterranean Sea. Simple pastel blues, whites and flashes of various shades of terracotta accentuate the elegant and inviting décor.

The Oceana Club creates a pleasant atmosphere, with contemporary lighting and intriguing objets d’art that makes it one of the most stylish restaurants in Benissa.

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OCEANA CLUB: Panoramic views of the Mediterranean. is too much trouble, no matter how big or small.

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CCORDING to a study by Vía Célere, a property developer specialising in building and managing residential assets, 74 per cent of Spaniards own their own home, with Andalucia (85 per cent), Aragon (76 per cent) and Asturias (75 per cent) leading the way.

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Flats (68 per cent), followed by villas or houses (22 per cent) are the most demanded type of residence in Spain.

In terms of the size and typology of Spanish households, 46 per cent live in dwellings between 81 and 120 m2 and 50 per cent say they live in a newly built dwelling.

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According to real estate portal www.pisos.com the typical penthouse in Spain costs €275,735 compared to €258,876 in 2017, meaning a year-on-year price increase of 6.51 per cent. As for ground floor flats, the current average price stands at €143,891 for 85 sqm. In 2017, the price was €139,058, an increase of 3.48 per cent.

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Keeping warm is expensive and apparently accounts for more than 70 per cent of household energy consumption at this time of year.

But there are ways to reduce heat consumption, which in turn cuts bills while helping the environment, too.

It sounds obvious, but opening curtains and blinds during the day and closing them at night is a great way to heat your home.

During the daytime, keeping them open lets the sunlight and warmth in.

In the evenings, they act as a layer of insulation to keep heat in the rooms.

If you have radiators, a good idea is to place tinfoil behind them. It helps insulate from the cold and retain warmth in the home. The idea is that the heat is reflected back into the rooms, meaning they warm up faster and stay that way longer.

Setting your central heating boiler to turn on the heat 30 minutes before you get out of bed in the morning, but at a

lower temperature, is cheaper than turning it on when you get up at a higher temperature. The same applies to pellet burners.

Rather than leaving the heat generators on all day, set the timers to come on for when you return. Pipe-lagging with foam tubes keeps the water inside hotter for longer and protects against the cold.

And, while tempting, placing your sofa close to the heating prevents warmth from circulating in the living room as well as damaging your settees.

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A SUNNY space and the right soil is all you need to create a mini allotment inside your home.

You can save yourself a trip to the market by cultivating vegetables, fruits and edible plants in the home all year round.

By placing a pot with specially designed indoor potting soil and drainage holes next to a window with lots of sunshine, can see you well on your way to harvesting crops in no time at all.

Some of the best types of vegetable to try are leafy greens and lettuce which do well inside all year round, with the right drainage.

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easy to care for and don’t need as much sunlight as other veggies.

On the contrary, radishes, which are known to do well indoors, need heaps of light, and you will need a deep container for the growing bulbs.

Micro-greens are not just easy to grow, they are extremely good for you, packed with up to 40 times more vitamins and nutrients than fully grown vegetables and plants.

An idea is to start with a mixture of baby kale, beets and arugula, which harvest at an incredible speed.

Herbs also grow very well in the home, such as basil, rosemary, cilantro, chives, thyme, parsley and oregano.

Cold air may cause wilting, so make sure they are not too close to a window during the winter months.

Grow your own indoors proper drainage and air exposure for the roots.

Strawberries can be grown in pots or hanging planters throughout the year, provided they have plenty of sunlight.

You could consider buying growing lights or a hydroponic system which would also allow you to grow tomatoes without having to move them outdoors once established.

Again, when growing both, good drainage is vital.

Potatoes can surprisingly grow well in fuss-free planter pouches, though they will need a lot of light once they take hold. They will also need a bit more space than fruit and vegetables.

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A COMMON problem in Spain is mouldy walls. Façades that are solid without any cavity can transfer moisture from outside in, and over time, cause mould.

There are innumerable species of mould growth and lichens, which first appear as tiny coloured specks or patches on render and masonry.

They gradually merge until the surface is covered with colours that range from bright orange to yellow, green, grey and black.

Moulds and lichens will only flourish in damp conditions, so try to cure the source of the problem before treating the growth. If one side of the house always faces away from the sun it will have little chance to dry out.

Relieve the situation by cutting back any overhanging trees or shrubs to increase ventilation to the wall.

Check for leaks. Maybe think about installing a gutter system at roof level as many houses on the Costas don’t have one, and when they do it is inadequate for the volume of rain that can suddenly come down.

What causes damp in the first place?

Moisture or ingress of water. This could be a leak, an area where there is a large concentration of water like an outside wall being dripped on by an inadequate drainage system, or a leaking roof. Ground water penetrating

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MOULD: Common problem which flourishes in damp conditions.

HOME & GARDENS through walls that have no cavities is also a culprit, or there may be a water source in the room causing high moisture/humidity levels.

Removing the growth Caution is required and safety gloves, goggles, overalls and dust masks are highly recommended. The black mould can be harmful if left unattended.

There are various products which remove these stains but a good quality bleach will do the job to kill the spores and remove the blackness.

Brush the wall area vigorously with a stiff bristle brush. If the problem persists, seek out a fungicide solution from most DIY places.

Damp proofing Basements can be tanked by sealing the floor and walls.There are many products and ways to do this including resin-based floor paints and waterproof render to the walls before decorating.

It may be as simple as drilling a hole through the wall and covering with ventilation plates, the ones with the insect mesh. The key is to let the room air and vent.

The Spanish will cover a metrehigh section of the exterior wall with natural stone that lets the wall breathe and dry out. They also, in worse cases, put stone on the inside of the wall for the same results.

Don’t forget to service your boiler THE spate of bad weather which Spain has been enduring has come as a nasty reminder of how chilly the country can be.

At this time of year, we should be thinking about checking our boiler to make sure it is in good working order ahead of the hard work it has in store over winter.

After months of inactivity, firing up heating again can put a considerable strain on boilers. If there are any underlying mechanical faults, the initial rude awakening from its summer slumber is often when problems reveal themselves.

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MAINTENANCE: Make sure your boiler works.

Having your boiler conk out the first time it drops cold, leaving you sitting shivering in your own home, is not a pleasant experience.

It is far better to check for any potential problems in advance, so when it comes to the weather changing, you have peace of mind that your heating will work.

In a recent consumer survey carried out on behalf of Go Assist in the UK, 51 per cent of people who took part said they had their boiler serviced regularly. A quarter said

they did not get their boilers serviced, while 24 per cent said they did not own a boiler.

If you are one of the 25 per cent who do not have their boiler serviced annually, it is strongly recommended that now is a good time to change your habits.

Boilers are one of those things you don’t really appreciate until they stop working, and you’re watching TV wearing three jumpers clutching the hot water bottles.

If you have a gas boiler, it may be worth considering a

maintenance plan from your reputable local gas fitters. But even without one, a regular service should be performed.

Just remember, you should never deal with the ‘gas men’ who often appear at this time of year knocking on doors saying a service is due.

Many people have been caught out and ended up with bills for hundreds of euros for work worth a fraction of the price.

You should always prebook an appointment with a reputable firm.

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“ Bloodhound out of breath

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THE British land speed record (LSR) attempt has run out of financial road and gone bust.

Supersonic land vehicle Bloodhound requires another €28 million to guarantee funding for future record attempts, up to and including eventually going for 1,000mph on an 11.8mile track at Hakskeen Pan in South Africa’s Northern Cape.

The administrator is FRP Advisory LLP and Andrew Sheridan, its joint administrator, acknowledges the ground-breaking nature of the Bloodhound project.

“Administration provides some breathing space to identify an investor who will bring the guaranteed funding, impetus and expertise required to drive the project,” he said.

“The €28 million the Blood-

IN 1865 the British government introduced the Locomotive Act, which required each vehicle to have three people on board: a driver, a stoker for the boiler, and a man walking ahead with a red flag to warn people.

hound requires to break the land speed record is a fraction of the cost of, for example, finishing last in a Formula 1 season or running an America’s Cup team.”

It was always going to be an uphill task, both technically and financially.

The project to build the 14metre 135,000 thrust horsepower jet and rocket-powered car has been overseen by Richard Noble, team founder and former LSR record holder.

He and his co-founder and Bloodhound driver, Wing Commander Andy Green, have been full-time fundraisers since 2007 when the project was launched.

Yet through endless public appearances, speeches to industry leaders and schoolchildren, meet and greets at conferences

RECORD-BREAKER: With funding, the Bloodhound can make land speed history. and endless press rounds, neither of them have flagged or been anything less than supremely enthusiastic.

Many were called on in that time but few stepped up, though they have had crucial sponsorship and partnerships with Rolls-Royce, Castrol,

Rolex, Cisco, Oracle and Geely, as well as the Ministry of Defence, which loaned expert staff and provided the EJ200.

The public too, have been inspired by the project, donating millions to have their name on the tail fin or to watch the first

runs of the car at Newquay aerodrome last autumn.

It was actually Paul Drayson, businessman, amateur racing driver and the then British Minister of Science back in 2009, who encouraged the duo to push on and try to break 1,000mph.

With major skills shortages hindering UK manufacturing companies, Drayson was also looking to inspire a new generation of scientists and engineers with the ‘Apollo Effect.’

To that end, education was always key to the Bloodhound project and in its role as a contributor to the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) campaign, it has reached more than two million children since launch, including 120,000 UK schoolchildren a year.

Even the low-level air-speed record, which is no longer contested, stands at ‘only’ 994mph.

Unlike Formula 1, there are no restrictions on design, besides the stipulation for four or more wheels, two of which are required for steering.

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Save a Porsche A RUST-BUCKET Porsche, hidden away for decades has emerged for sale for an eye opening €108,000-€130,000.

The 1958, 1600 Super Speedster has been kept in storage since 1983, leaving it cov-

ered in rust and in a state of total disrepair.

However, RM Sothebys is in charge of the auction and is pitching it as a ‘prime example for restoration.’

Originally built for the

American market, the car is one of a select group to be made with a speedometer reading in miles rather than kilometres, and US-specification bumpers.

Given the car’s current condition, its original colour is not listed, but a door stamp claims it once boasted a metallic silver finish.

Though its early history is not known, the current owner purchased the motor in 1983 as a restoration project.

But after sanding off the majority of the paint, they placed the car in storage in Dallas, Texas, where it would remain for more than three decades.

The car has been off the road for so long it still boasts its 1983 Texas licence tag.

The Speedster is mostly complete, but requires some serious work to get it back on the road.

According to the seller, “its next owner can expect to replace any sheet metal in the usual areas, including floor plans, trunk floor and battery box.”

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Premier League Preview

Barkley gives Mourinho the blues Credit: RBarkley8/Twitter

MANCHESTER UNITED manager Jose Mourinho was involved in a furious touchline melee after Ross Barkley’s 96th minute equaliser for Chelsea saw a thrilling game end 2-2.

Mourinho’s side looked on course for an outstanding win over his former club after two goals from Anthony Martial overturned the first-half lead given to the hosts by Antonio Rudiger’s 21stminute header.

But when Chelsea technical assistant Marco Ianni celebrated Barkley’s late goal in front of him, the Portuguese jumped up and was held back by a mixture of stewards and staff as he tried to get to Ianni.

The incident put a dampener on an impressive performance from Mourinho’s men, although Ianni was largely to blame and apologised afterwards.

Man United will next host Everton on Saturday, while Chelsea will travel to Burnley on Sunday.

Manchester City remained at the

ROSS THE BOSS: Barkley’s good form continued with a last-gasp winner.

Alaves’ season kicks on

SURPRISE PACKAGE: Tomas Pina’s goal gave Alaves their fifth win of the season.

Julen Lopetegui.

Los Blancos were stung twice inside 13 minutes when first Jose Luis Morales and then Roger Marti, from the spot, scored for Levante.

Marcelo pulled one back with a thumping strike in the 72nd minute ending the team’s goal drought of 482 minutes.

Real tried their utmost to find a second, bringing on Bale and Benzema, but Levante’s impressive defence held out.

Lopetegui’s side’s next assignment is El Classico at Barcelona on Sunday, while Levante will entertain Leganes on Saturday.

Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp said he is “winning average games” for the first time in his life after Mohamed Salah sealed a hard fought 1-0 victory at Huddersfield.

Salah’s 50th goal in English football came with a clinical low finish into the far corner after he ran onto Xherdan Shaqiri’s incisive 24th minute through ball.

Huddersfield missed a number of presentable chances in a game that they were very much in until the final whistle.

Liverpool rise to second in the table and remain level on points with league leaders Man City, while Huddersfield continue the search for their first win of the season.

The Reds will next face Cardiff on Saturday while Huddersfield will take on Watford.

Other fixtures this weekend will see Fulham host Bournemouth, Brighton entertain Wolves and Leicester take on West Ham.

Raikkonen spoils Hamilton party LEWIS HAMILTON missed out on the chance to claim a fifth world title when he finished third in a dramatic US Grand Prix.

Mercedes let victory slip away by delaying a second pit stop as Ferrari’s Kimi Raikkonen earned his first win in more than five years.

Hamilton’s title rival and Raikkonen’s teammate Sebastian Vettel looked to have handed the Briton the title early on when he spun battling with Red Bull’s Daniel Ricciardo.

Red Bull’s Max Verstappen also beat Hamilton, who will have to wait until the race in Mexico next weekend to have another chance of clinching the title.

He leaves, Austin, Texas, with a 70-point lead over Vettel, who eventually finished fourth, with 75 available over the remaining three races.

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ALAVES briefly surged to the top of La Liga following Tomas Pina’s second-half winner in a 1-0 victory over Celta Vigo.

Midfielder Pina smashed home from close range in the 58th minute at Balaidos after the ball was laid back to him by Victor Laguardia.

The Basque side, having rocketed from sixth in the league, moved a point clear of secondplaced Sevilla, although they have played a game more.

Alaves have never won a major trophy and were in the third tier as recently as 2013.

They will host Villareal on Sunday, while Celta Vigo will face Eibar on Saturday.

However, their reign at the summit of Spanish football was short-lived as Barcelona claimed an impressive 4-2 home win over Sevilla.

It was not all rosy for the Catalan side though, as Lionel Messi was ruled out for three weeks with a fractured arm.

The Argentine star left the field in agony in the 26th minute, after colliding with Franco Vazquez, and will miss important ties against Inter Milan and Real Madrid.

Despite the setback, Barca’s other marquee players Coutinho, Suarez and Rakitic ensured that Barca returned to the top of the league, by one point.

Real Madrid suffered their fourth loss in five games in a 2-1 defeat against Levante at the Bernabeu, piling more pressure on coach

top of the Premier League with a thumping 5-0 home win over Burnley.

The Clarets’ Joe Hart, a former Man City favourite, made smart first-half saves to deny Sergio Aguero and David Silva, but was powerless to stop Aguero rounding off a slick passing move inside the box.

Burnley looked out of their depth and their hopes vanished when City added two more goals in two minutes shortly before the hour mark, through Bernardo Silva and Fernandinho.

Salt was firmly rubbed in the wounds when Riyad Mahrez curled home a superb fourth goal, and Leroy Sane converted a Benjamin Mendy cross.

City will next face Tottenham on Monday, while Burnley will host Chelsea on Sunday.

SHADING IT: Raikkonen broke with convention to wear sunglasses on the podium.

In a tense finish, Raikkonen, Verstappen and Hamilton were nose to tail and the Mercedes driver failed in his one opportunity to pass the Dutchman with three laps to go.

In the end even doing that would not have been enough to clinch the title for Hamilton, as Vettel passed the second Mercedes of Valtteri Bottas for fourth place on the

penultimate lap.

Mercedes’ strategy confusion let Vettel off the hook, after the German made another mistake in a season that has become defined by them.

Hamilton said: “I thought we would be able to do better, but this was the best we could do.

“We just have to keep working, keep pushing to the next race.”

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Marquez rides to fifth MotoGP title SPANIARD Marc Marquez won a fifth MotoGP title - his third in a row - then suffered a bizarre shoulder injury when celebrating in Japan.

Marquez, 25, dislocated his shoulder after enthusiastic hugs from his Honda team and British rider Scott Redding.

The victory gave Marquez his eighth win of the season at his team’s home track.

“The shoulder just popped out,” he said.

“Luckily with the adrenalin it doesn’t hurt but I’ll need to be careful not to overdo it on the dancefloor tonight.”

Ducati’s Andrea Dovizioso was his main title rival but the Italian slid off while in second on the penultimate lap.

Fellow Honda rider Cal Crutchlow finished runner-up after Dovizioso’s fall with Alex Rins (Suzuki) edging out Rossi (Yamaha) for third.

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WHEEL CLASS: Marquez is on course to be the most successful MotoGP rider of all time.

Rossi (7) and Giacomo Agostini (8) ahead of him.

The Spaniard started the race in Japan in sixth place and had never won a MotoGP race after failing to qualify in the top five places on the grid.

But he quickly passed Briton Cal Crutchlow and then moved in front of pole sitter Dovizioso to take the lead, and although a mistake briefly allowed the Italian back in, Marquez eventually hauled him in to take the title.

Edmund nets European Open BRITAIN’S Kyle Edmund cried tears of joy on the court after securing a maiden ATP title against Gael Monfils at the European Open in Antwerp.

World number 38, Monfils, 32, broke in top-seed Edmund’s first service game and took the opening set in 31 minutes.

But Edmund, 23, ranked 15 in the world, then won back-toback tie-breaks to clinch the title 3-6 7-6 (7-2) 7-6 (7-4).

It was only Edmund’s second final, having lost 6-2 6-2 to Spain’s Pablo Andujar at the Grand Prix Hassan II in Marrakesh in April.

He was 3-0 down after barely seven minutes of play against Monfils, but fought back impressively to take charge of the second set tiebreak.

Edmund held off two break points at the start of the deciding set before sealing the title with his first match point, prompting tears of jubilation.

He said: “It’s a great feeling, just overall the bigger picture is the overriding emotion, like so many years of putting in the work, on and off the court.

“It fills you with confidence and belief, and next time you’re in that similar situation you have an experience to look back on and see how you reacted.”

SMASHING JOB: Edmund claimed his first ATP title with victory.

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Koepka becomes ECB dismisses best in business spot-fixing claims BROOKS KOEPKA is set to become world number one for the first time after winning the CJ Cup in South Korea.

Koepka, who was named the PGA Tour’s player of the year earlier this month, carded an eight-under-par 64 on Sunday to finish on 21 under, four shots clear of fellow American Gary Woodland.

The 28-year-old replaced his Ryder Cup teammate

Dustin Johnson at the top of the rankings on Monday.

“To be world number one is something I dreamed of as a kid,” said Koepka.

“Everything I’ve done this year has been working, so I don’t want to change anything - just keep improving.”

Three-time major champion Koepka, who won the US Open and US PGA Championship earlier

this year, is the third player in 2018 to reach number one for the first time, after Justin Roase and Justin Thomas.

His final round in South Korea included chipping in for a birdie from the greenside rough at the par-four 16th.

AMERICAN DREAM: Koepka has achieved his goal of becoming world number one.

THE England and Wales Cricket Board has rejected allegations of spot-fixing against England players made in a new television documentary.

An investigation by the Al Jazeera network claims to have ‘uncovered evidence of corruption at the highest levels of international cricket,’ including a ‘small group’ of England players.

In a statement, the ECB said: ‘Whilst the limited information we have been given by Al Jazeera is poorly prepared and lacks clarity and corroboration, it has been properly assessed.

‘Analysis of this by the ECB Integrity Team has cast no doubt on the integrity or behaviour of any England player, current, or former.’

Al Jazeera says it has ob-

NOT CRICKET: The allegations will be troubling for the ICC. tained recordings of a matchfixer dealing with a notorious Indian bookmaker linked to organised crime.

The broadcaster claims the corruption ‘appears to involve two dozen fixes in 15 international matches’ dating from 2011 and 2012.

The report alleges that a small group of England players carried out spot-fixes in seven matches, Australia players in five matches and

Pakistan players in three.

In its statement, the ECB added: ‘The materials we have been given have been referred to the ICC’s Anti-Corruption unit and we will continue to work with them, as is the correct procedure for protecting the game.’

For its part, the ICC has said it will take the allegations seriously and will be investigating fully.