Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 15-21 November 2018 Issue 1741

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The Costa’s Danny ‘will go on!’

STAR QUALITY: Danny Tetley gets through to the next round of The X Factor.

by Tara Rippin BENIDORM-based entertainer, Danny Tetley, is through to the next round of The X Factor, taking him another step closer to the grand final in three weeks.

The 37-year-old who is originally from Bradford, gained rapturous applause on Saturday night after singing My Heart Will Go On from the film Titanic.

And he took the stage again on Sunday where he won over audiences voting at home, al-

lowing him to continue competing in the show.

Tetley, who is mentored by Robbie William’s wife Ayda Field, has attracted an impressive following in Britain and among the British expatriate

community in Spain.

He is a familiar face on stages at venues in Benidorm and also made an appearance in the sitcom of the same name which was filmed at the resort and ITV’s This Morning.

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Inquiry into ‘planned’ violence

NEWS EXTRA Valuable service CREDIT: Finestrat town hall

THE National Police is investigating whether the fans of Hercules and Castellon football clubs, involved in a mass brawl before Sunday’s game, had been ‘cited’ through social networks.

Officers identified 55 people, and arrested seven after the violence which left three seriously injured.

The investigation is also looking into whether or not the incident had an ‘ideological origin’ as the Hercules fans involved are said to be from the extreme right, the Curva Sur rock, while those from Castellon are from the Barricada rock, left radicals.

According to source, the Hercules suspects claim that as usual before a match, they had been to eat in a bar near the Rico Perez stadium when the Barricades arrived, and a fight ‘just’ broke out.

But a spokesman for security at Alicante City Council said ‘it is unusual’ that dozens of people from both sides are armed with sticks’ three hours before a game that had not been ‘disputed’ for 10 years.

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DENIA Hospital has been hailed one of the ‘best valued centres in the hip prosthesis approach with osteoarthritis’ in the musculoskeletal section of an award initiative by independent firm IASIST, putting it in the top 20 nationally.

War route HORTETES: Two fires in six months.

Fire strikes twice FINESTRAT Town Hall wants vegetation cleared from the River Anxero to prevent more fires in the area.

Following a blaze last May, another recently broke out in the same Hortetes district and took firefighting aircraft and firemen on the ground more than four hours to extinguish.

There were no casualties although several toolsheds were affected by the fire and Finestrat mayor Juan Francisco Perez praised the Consortium of Fire Brigades as well as the Local Police and Guardia Civil.

“Their rapid response prevented the situation from escalating, as it did in May, demonstrating that we have a team of

experts who know how to act in emergencies like these,” Perez said.

The mayor pointed out that this was the second fire in the same part of the river in recent months, but any action taken is up to the Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ) which controls all Alicante Province waterways.

“We intend to ask the CHJ to clear this two-kilometre section of the river where there are many toolsheds and agricultural areas,” he continued. “The vegetation has grown considerably and is becoming a risk. Unless things change there could easily be another fire.”

AN urban tour of areas in Denia which were affected by attacks and repression during the Spanish Civil War was organised by the Municipal Historic Archive of Denia on Sunday, and led by historian Jaume Sau.

Tree plague BENISSA, Benitachell, Calpe, Gata de Gorgos, La Nucia, Polop and Teulada are currently affected by the plague of Xilella fastidiosa, a disease which affects olive trees, vineyards and fruit trees, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.

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Tourist Interest THE mayor of Benidorm, Toni Perez, announced he is ‘working intensely’ to have the annual ‘Festes Majors Patronals’ recognised as a Tourist Interest of the Valencian Community, after congratulating all of the organisers and members of the public involved in Monday’s ‘spectacular piro-digital mascleta’ and fiestas.

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Dancing day

Gas fears THE passivity of the local government has been denounced by Benidorm’s Municipal Citizen’s Group, after ‘dangerous elements,’ including gas cylinders and other drums, were tied with chains to heavy vehicles and left in the blue zone near houses and the town hall for days.

Home bound FOURTEEN residents of a housing block could be moving home soon after being evicted 14 months ago for security reasons.

Denia Council has granted the building licence which will allow the multi property to be ‘rehabilitated’ by the neighbours who had to pay €7,900 each for the works.

Cave study A FIELD study has been carried out at Cova Tallada which borders Denia and Xabia, amid fears for its ‘degradation’ through tourism.

It was revealed that on one day between July and August, the ‘grotto’ was accessed by 129 people in one hour, and 88 kayaks during the whole day.

CLASSICALLY SPANISH: Tomorrow is the International Day of Flamenco.

THIS mainstay of Spanish culture is set to be celebrated the world over tomorrow (Friday) on the International Day of Flamenco.

The day is celebrated every November 16 and the United Nations’ UNESCO culture body has declared flamenco a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity.

The UN’s status is granted to art forms and traditions in an effort to protect them and to encourage people to continue practising them.

Flamenco is now a professionalised art form, but it emerged out of various folk traditions in the regions of Andalucia, Extremadura and Murcia.

Andalucia is believed to be its original home and the art is thought to have been influenced by Romani people.

The origins of the name Flamenco are disputed, but some say it may come from the Spanish word flama, meaning fire.

The art is made up of six separate

Car park THE Municipal Transport Company (EMT) of Valencia will manage a new underground central car park at Bruges square in Valencia. The five storey facility, due to open before Christmas, will have one level for commercial use and motorbikes and bicycles, and there will be capacity for 431 cars.

Fruit aid THE Christian-Marc Olmos Vente Foundation has donated 1,500 kilos to Red Cross Javea and Denia as a contribution to Orange Volunteer Day. Last Saturday, the association handed over the organic mandarins harvested in l’Hort de l’Alé, located in Pedreguer, which will go to the most needy families.

Hotel occupancy BENIDORM enjoyed 90.7 per cent hotel occupancy from July to September, confirming it as the second most popular destination in Spain this summer, within this sector.

According to a league table released

by HOSBEC Monitor this week, the resort was just 0.01 per cent behind the leader Palma, Mallorca, when it came to hotel bookings.

Valencia took 18th place with 82.7 per cent hotel occupancy, while the capital, Madrid, came in 20th with

72.6 per cent.

The report also provides figures for overnight stays.

Here, Barcelona excelled, hitting the top spot with 5.9 million.

Benidorm remained in the top five, with just over 3.8 million short stays, while Valencia ranked second from the bottom of the table with 1.26 million.

But while Valencia lags behind other tourist destinations, the city accounted for almost half of all overnight stays in the province as a whole (2.6 million).

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actions. These are cante (singing), toque (guitar playing), baile (dance), jaleo (vocals and chorus clapping), palmas (hand clapping) and pitos (finger snapping).

There are several different varieties, or palos, of Flamenco. They are classified according to their rhythm, chord progression and place of origin.

Cartageneras is one example, with that style originally from Cartagena.

Although originally Spanish, the dance is now performed worldwide.

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Quarry emissions SANCTION files have been opened by the Ministry of the Environment against two cement companies in Alicante for ‘lacking the timely authorisation of emissions into the atmosphere.’

The action follows complaints by Ecologists in Action in May. The environmentalist campaign group has reportedly detected that very few facilities are in possession of the authorisation in the Valencian Community, now mandatory after the approval of Law 34/2007, on

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the quality of the atmospheric environment and its Regulations (Royal Decree100 / 2011).

In Alicante, the affected quarries are operated by Lafarge Holcim España SAU in Fontcalent and Fontcalent I, and the quarry of limestones and marls exploited

by Cemex España Operaciones SLU in Serra Mitjana.

Consequences of the sanctions include fines of up to €2m, closure and disqualification from operating for a maximum of five years.

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1740 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca North edition, including 132 local stories.

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Severed hand LOCAL DEVOTION: Thousands make the Santa Faz annual pilgrimage from Alicante City.

Wave of support for local nuns THE last four Poor Clare nuns have left the Santa Faz monastery.

For 500 years, nuns from the Franciscan order have watched over the Santa Faz relic, a fragment of cloth supposedly used to wipe Christ’s face on the way to Calvary.

Rumours that they were being forced to leave by the Bishop of Orihuela-Alicante were refuted earlier by the diocese and the Federation of Poor Clares.

So were claims that that the relic would be taken to San Nicolas cathedral in Alicante City.

Only four sisters, one of whom was ill, still lived in the monastery as other nuns from the community were moved some months ago to convents in Elche and Cartagena.

The Abbess, Mother Luisa María Martínez Moreno, who is also president of the Federation of Poor Clares, explained that the order is being restructured owing to lack of vocations.

Although the nuns had been transferred, others from the same order would take their place, she confirmed.

In an official communiqué, the

abbess stressed that the diocese had not pressured the nuns to leave and in any case the bishop’s authority ‘was not competent’ in this respect.

Within hours of rumours that the nuns were to leave, thousands signed a petition supporting the Santa Faz nuns who were known and loved in San Juan. Its organisers said they trusted neither the Orihuela-Alicante diocese nor the Federation of Poor Clares.

Although the nuns have now gone, the petition continues, demanding their return.

THE National Police has opened an investigation into the circumstances surrounding an ‘amputated hand’ found on the train tracks in the city of Valencia.

The limb was found by one of the station security guards, who discovered the hand in a glove between the stations of North and Joaquin Sorolla last Friday.

According to sources, the ‘first hypothesis’ is that the body part could belong to an ‘unrecovered’ and ‘unidentified’ corpse. For this reason DNA samples are being collated and officers are looking into any ‘missing persons’ reports that may have been filed.

Market back on track AFTER several months of delay, the new municipal market in Muchamiel, which will be built on the site of the old El Salvador School, will be back on track once the contract has been awarded.

This next phase, which must be carried out before the end of the year, will see a budget of more than €1.1 million awarded to the successful company of which 75 per cent will be covered by the Alicante Provincial Council.

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New bins for ‘fag butts’ NEW bins which incorporate ashtrays are to be rolled out in Alicante City in a bid to stop smokers throwing cigarette butts on the floor.

According to the city council, discarded ‘fag’ ends are the most complicated waste to clean up when they get trapped between grids and tiles.

The Department of Infrastructure and Maintenance, led by Israel Cortes, has begun the replacement of the old blue bins for a new model with an ashtray in its upper part incorporating a tray to stub out cigarettes and a compartment to collect the butts and ash.

Cortes stressed that the

council wants to ‘get smokers to stop throwing cigarette butts to the ground because they do not always put them out and they contribute to a residue that is difficult to pick up when caught in the joints and holes of the pavement tiles.’

He added that the new bins are larger and grey, in keeping with the rest of the street furniture, ‘which is intended to convey an image of quality’ in the city’s streets. A total of 200 ‘cigarette’ bins will be replaced, together with new waste bins to replace old or damaged ones which have reached ‘an unexpected level of deterioration.’

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Evolution of children’s first big day BENITACHELL’S Asociacio de Veins residents’ association continues to recover local memories.

The association’s president Pura Bolufer is a historian and she has compiled First Communion photographs going back to the 19th century.

The oldest, dated 1877, shows Ana Maria Llobell Buigues and the collection records the evolution of the ceremony up to 1949.

“We decided to stop there, but we have many more later photos that we shall show later. It’s such interesting material,” Bolufer said during the inauguration of the exhibition at the municipal market.

Emilia Pascual Pastor, aged 96, posed with her photograph taken in 1929 and recalls how she had to fast from the night before. Her mother, afraid that her daughter would faint if she went so long without food, gave her chocolate. “But it didn’t agree with me and I was ill,” Emilia said. “I couldn’t make my First Communion that day and then I had scarlet fever and couldn’t make it until a month later.”

The photographs show how much First

Photo credit: Benitachell town hall

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EMILIA PASCUAL: First Communion in 1929.

Communions and customs have changed, as some of the children wore black because they were in mourning for a close relative.

Benitachell’s Culture councillor Jorge Pascual praised the Asociacio de Veins’ for recovering and recording the town’s history.

“Society has changed and this exhibition also has an educational element,” Pascual pointed out. “Children who see these photographs are amazed by the austerity of former Communions and the difference in the present.”

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NEWS EXTRA Cash raised PUBLICLY-OWNED Sociedad de Proyectos Tematicos de la Comunidad Valencia (Valencian Community Themed Projects) sold land adjoining Benidorm’s Terrra Mitica theme park for €24 million which will probably be used to complete the town’s Cultural Centre.

Long wait QUEUES are getting longer at the Marina Alta’s sole ITV testing station in Ondara, with vehicles waiting up to two hours despite prior appointments.

Mod cons IMPROVEMENTS to La Nucia’s L’Alberca industrial estate include fibre optic internet, resurfaced roads and LED streetlights. The €861,470 cost will be met by the town hall and the Valencian Institute of Business Competitivity (IVACE).

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Anguished family search for mother A SAN JUAN family have appealed for help in locating Nuria Ester Escalante.

She left for Ibiza over three weeks ago in search of work and her relatives have notified the Guardia Civil after hearing nothing from her for days.

Her mobile is always switched o ff o r o u t o f ran g e , sa id Es calante’s son Aaron Berenguer, who appealed for any informatio n th at mig h t h elp to find her.

The 52-year-old was staying with a friend of her children’s who has told the family that he has not seen her since October 31.

She had worked in Ibiza in the past, both in hotels and as a security guard but her family is at a loss as to what has happened to her.

Her son is currently in Ibiza, trying to trace his mother who was familiar with the Sant Antoni de Portmany area.

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Care centre tussle over remote CREDIT: Facebook/NuriaEster Escalante

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MISSING: The 52-year-old has not been seen since October 31.

THREE young people in care in Villena are under investigation for attacking a member of the staff there.

According to sources quoted in the Spanish media, a male member of staff at the Fundacion Antonio Moreno found the three adolescents with the remote for the television late at night.

This is not allowed under the centre’s rules but when the teacher asked them to hand it over they refused and the resulting standoff escalated into an alleged attack on the educator. A female member of staff who attempted to mediate was also attacked, sources said.

It was decided to separate the three boys, all of North African origin, and one was transferred to the Lucentum centre in Alicante City.

He escaped the next day and is now being sought by the National Police.

This was the second incident inside the same week at the Fundacion Antonio Moreno centre in Villena, following complaints of sexual harassment from seven female instructors regarding another underage boy, an illegal Moroccan immigrant.

After an interview with the Public Prosecution department responsible for minors, he is now in the La Villa secure unit, also in Villena.

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Message of hope CREDIT: Benitachell town hall

“As mayor, I am aware that Brexit is a headache for us all,” he said.

“Most British residents in our municipality want to continue living in Spain and to be integrated into Europe,” Garcia continued. “Even so, I want to convey a message of hope.

“Whatever happens you will never be second class citizens here. You will always be citizens enjoying all rights and I can firmly

promise and guarantee that, without a shadow of doubt.”

The mayor also emphasised the importance of registering on the municipal Padron, to ensure that all residents have the right to discounts for sports, educational and cultural offers.

The Padron was also important, Garcia said, in obtaining more help, subsidies and supplements from the central government that would enable the town to grow and improve.

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New role for old building

BREXIT HEADACHE: Miguel Angel Garcia and Sarah Jane Morris with (inset) Benitachell Britons.

BENITACHELL mayor Miguel Angel Garcia has spoken to British residents about Brexit.

The British consul Sarah Jane Morris was also present during the meeting, which began with a speech in English from the mayor.

Garcia assured them of his support and his understanding of the uncertainty and anxiety currently experienced by the Marina Alta’s 30,000 British residents.

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we should be walking towards a future in common,” the mayor declared.

He added that Benitachell Town Hall would further strengthen ties with talks, translations of social services and health programmes that focused on improving quality of life and well-being.

There were also plans for adapted courses in Valenciano and Spanish, Garcia promised, “and, of course, municipal communications in English.”

CAMPELLO Town Hall has now ceded land to the Ministry of the Interior for a new Guardia Civil post.

After several years of negotiations and the town hall’s refusal to take on construction costs, the Ministry can now build a new headquarters and move the force from the rented property it has occupied since 2016.

The historic Guardia Civil building adjoining the mediaeval Torre de la Illeta tower, which was inadequate and in a bad state of repair, has reverted to the town hall, to the satisfaction of archaeologists.

Ceding the municipal land for the new building clears the way for a project, overseen by MARQ, Alicante City’s archaeological museum, to create a cultural area encompassing the former headquarters, the Illeta dels Banyets site with its Bronze Age, Iberian and Roman remains and the tower.

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Upcoming Murcia trip THE Vall del Pop U3A’s next excursion will be a Christmas shopping trip to Murcia on December 5.

The group will be visiting Ikea and

the Nueva Condomina shopping centre, leaving the Rastro car park in Jalon at 8.30am (€8.50). For further information on U3A Vall del Pop, visit their

website www.u3avalldelpop.com.

The organisers of the Christmas Party at Casa Lili in Moraira would like to let people know that the tickets are

Laundry gas blues FIFTY people needed to be evacuated in the municipality of San Vicente del Raspeig after a leak of butane gas was discovered in a laundry.

The incident happened in Calle Doctor Fleming and when they arrived at the scene, firefighters removed five cylinders from inside the building.

Premises either side of the laundry and those from across the road were asked to quickly leave their homes after a high level of gas was detected on the ‘explosiometro’ device. The area was cordoned off for just around an hour.

sold out. The U3A is all about enjoyment and learning, and members usually hold their General Assembly on the first Thursday of each month.

Brit dies snorkelling A 5 5 - Y E A R - O L D British man died off the beach of Els Testos in Benitachell.

According to reports, the man had gone with a friend for a swim and to go snorkelling in the sea off a part of the beach that is only accessible by a path.

While the pair were in the water, his companion lost sight of his friend and

the alarm was raised when he didn’t surface and then failed to return to the beach.

M a r i t i m e R e s c u e O ff i cers who had gone to the scene later found the lifeless body of the man floating in the sea in the darkness. He was taken from the water to the port of Javea where they were met by the Guardia Civil.

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Budget plans LA NUCIA Council has been allocated a municipal budget of €21.4 million for 2019.

Of this, €2.4 million will be assigned to investments and €1.5 million to focus on job training in a bid to improve unemployment rates.

The latter will include courses through the Employment Workshop, School of Trades and for 2019, La Nucia (business laboratory) to help entrepreneurs ‘flourish.’

It will also continue to provide the subsidies to IBI, water, garbage, recycling, transport for university, higher education FP and adult school, together with Bressol nursery school and day centre.

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A HOLIDAYMAKER has told of his eight-day ordeal in a Spanish jail after being mis tak e n f o r a n e sc a p e d convict.

Eddie Gossage, 68, from Merseyside claims he was

handcuffed in his Magaluf hotel room in Mallorca and th e n th ro w n in to a P alma p ris o n ce ll afte r p o l ic e thought he was British fugitive Michael David Phillips.

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que s tione d a longs ide his wife, Brenda, by border patrol guards at Palma airport on the Balearic island.

The pa ir w e re a ble to leave the airport, and continued to their hotel in Mag-

aluf. However, police later arrived at Mr Gossage’s hotel room, ordering him to ‘get dressed’ before handcuffing and taking the 68year-old holidaymaker to jail.

He was unaware that his identity had been stolen by the 63-ye a r-old e s c a pe d c onvic t, M ic ha e l D a vid Phillips, and was being used as an alias by the convicted drug lord.

Mr Gossage said Spanish polic e offic e rs photographed and fingerprinted him and was told he was on Interpol’s most wanted list.

He denied the allegations he was the escaped convict Michael David Phillips, in court the following day saying: “No, I’m Edward Gossage.”

Mr Gossage’s daughters Amanda and Jenny, flew out to join the ir dis tra ught mothe r during the orde a l and were only able to see the ir inc a rc e ra te d fa the r through a glass partition.

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Brit locked up after mistaken identity

WRONG MAN: Spanish police arrested Eddie Gossage (centre) thinking he was escaped convict Michael Phillips (right).

After eight days behind bar s t he Br i t i sh hol i daymaker was released when the National Crime Agency (NCA), the body which issued the European Arrest Warrant for Phillips’ capture, was alerted to Mr Gossage’s dubious arrest by the British consulate.

Mr Gossage claims he has

suff er ed f r om t r aum at i c flashbacks since returning home to Kirkby on Merseyside.

The NCA sai d Mr Gossage’s wrongful arrest was the fault of Spanish police.

Meanwhi l e, Mi chael Davi d Phi l l i ps r em ai ns a fugitive on Interpol’s most wanted list.

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Visa free travel for Brits in Europe after Brexit BRUSSELS officials have announced today that British tourists won’t be required to apply for a visa to travel to European Union member countries after Brexit.

British passport holders will be able to visit Europe for three months at a time whatever the outcome of Brexit, deal or nodeal.

The news comes as the European Commission revealed plans today to review their visa regime after Britain’s exit from the European Union.

An EU statement said: “The European Commission has today proposed to grant UK citizens visa-free travel to the EU after the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union.”

But British citizens wishing

VISA REGIME: Applies to EU member states. to work abroad in the European Union will likely require visas post Brexit, though the new guarantee will assure free travel to the Schengen area.

“It would mean that UK citizens would not need a visa when travelling to the Schengen area for short stays of up to 90

days in any 180-day period,” continued the statement.

The new visa rulings will either come into effect immediately after a no-deal Brexit or, in the case of a deal being made, the ruling will be applied after the transitional exit-period concludes in December 2020.

The EU warned however, that the visa-free travel offer will be withdrawn if Europeans are not offered equal travel rights to the UK after Brexit.

But Theresa May has vowed to allow visa-free travel to the UK for Europeans after Brexit.

A UK government spokesperson said in response: “We welcome the proposal by the European Commission, which reflects the future relationship that the UK wants with the rest of the EU.”

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‘Drugs’ divers held after partner dies SPAIN’S National Police force has arrested two men who allegedly allowed their partner to die while they were diving for bales of cocaine off the coast of the south of Spain.

The man’s body was eventually found after 10 days of intensive searching in September in the Getares area of Algeciras, Cadiz.

On the night of September 18, the skipper of a boat alerted authorities that he had lost track of a diver in the Boquete de los Bobiones area.

Police opened an investigation, taking statements from

the two companions of the deceased diver, which threw up contradictions in their testimonies.

As officers delved deeper they allege that the divers were recovering bales of cocaine which had been dropped offshore - understood to be a common delivery method in the waters around Algeciras.

Police said they were highly-qualified divers with equipment valued at more than €20,000.

The two men have been detained in police custody awaiting a court appearance.

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Baby abandoned in hospital OFFICERS of the National Police have arrested a British couple for allegedly abandoning their new-born child in hospital.

Police sources suggest the baby’s mother was still dressed in her hospital gown when she was tracked down.

The couple were held in the village of Fuente Piedra near Antequera, a short distance inland from Malaga.

A spokesman for the National Police said: “Police received an alert from Antequera Hospital informing them a woman had given birth during the night and had just left the hospital, leaving her child there without saying anything to medical staff.

“An operation was mounted to find the baby’s parents, which ended with their arrests in Fuente de Piedra.”

The couple appeared in court behind closed doors on Friday, as only trials in Spain are held in public.

It is believed the child was born prema-

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STRANGE SCENE: The couple allegedly left Antequera hospital without their child. ture and was kept in a specialist unit while the mother was taken to a room on a general ward.

The new-born has been temporarily placed in the care of social services while a decision is taken on her long-term future.

EU defence report A POLICY institute has drawn up a report calling on the Spanish government to integrate its military industry within the defence strategy of the European Union (EU) at large.

The Institute of Governance and Applied Economics’ study said Spanish arms makers had to work ‘hand in hand’ within wider EU defence and security strategies.

Keeping defence and security strategy and industry separate from the EU is the ‘quickest’ way to end the Spanish arms industry, the report said.

The study added France should be looked to as a model country because of its commitment to integrating its own military industry and planning within a wider EU framework.

It comes as French President Emmanuel Macron renewed calls to create EUwide armed forces as leaders gathered to mark 100 years since the end of the First World War.

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Changing of the guard in Spain AS is common practice for civil servants (as opposed to political appointees) who act as Ambassadors for the British government, there is a tendency to see them replaced after a period of four to five years.

This is the case with the current British Ambassador to Spain, 51-year-old Simon Manley CMG who took up the post based in Madrid in 2013, after a long career in the Foreign Of-

fice which saw him seconded to both the United Nations and the European Union.

At the time of his appointment, he could have had little idea that the Brexit Referendum result would have gone as it did, which meant his role as the leading British representative in the European country with the largest population of British expatriates, became a very difficult one.

As a career civil servant, he is required to represent the will of

the British government and to do his utmost to promote Britain within Spain, from both a cultural and economic point of view.

The way in which the government has conducted itself in the Brexit negotiations has not been without difficulty, and it has been Simon Manley’s role to try to explain the situation to both the British community living in (and visiting) Spain, as well as Spanish politicians and economic partners, when in reality, there has been very little positive to say.

There is no doubt he has conducted himself with dignity and tried to allay fears by visiting and speaking to British residents throughout Spain, but when there is little concrete to report (especially if, as has been suggested there are ‘secret deals’ in place) his position has been very difficult.

During the earlier part of his posting to Spain, he was dealing with the Partido Popular over many matters, including of course the thorny situation with Gibraltar.

This was exacerbated by the Brexit vote which was bound to get the Foreign Minister at the time, José Manuel García-Margallo, rushing to call for talks concerning dual sovereignty over the Rock, but with the fall

REMEMBRANCE DAY: Simon Manley and wife Maria Isabel at the service in Madrid alongside a German diplomat and members of the Armed Forces.

Credit: Foreign & Commonwealth Office

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SIMON MANLEY: Promoting British culture. of that government, the new PSOE minority in power has indicated that it does not see Gibraltar as a major stumbling block.

With the look of a slightly perplexed don from academia, Simon Manley is in fact a very

astute diplomat who has worked tirelessly to represent Britain in Spain with the aim of promoting the country to Spanish politicians and the people, as well as endeavouring to foster opportunities for British industry to attract investment from,

and trade with Spain.

Whether this appointment will be the pinnacle of his career remains to be seen, but it is interesting to know he will not be replaced until after the official date of Brexit which takes place in March 2019. His replacement, Hugh Elliot has been a senior official in the Department for Exiting the European Union which shows the importance the British government places on this posting.

As he nears the end of his role as Britain’s most senior diplomat in Spain, we at Euro Weekly News look back over his five-year-plus stay in Spain and congratulate him for the way in which he has performed his duties.

In addition, we would like to wish Simon, his Catalan born lawyer wife Maria Isabel and their three children, all of the very best for the future wherever it may take them.

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Woman killed in lane collision A CORONER’S court in Somerset, UK, heard this week that Pam Millward from Winscombe died due to injuries sustained in a three-car accident in the Canary Islands on February 18 of this year.

Evidence presented in the Avon Coroner’s Court in Flax Bourton on Tuesday stated that Mrs Millward and her husband Paul were on holiday

travelling to a Tenerife beach when a vehicle heading in the opposite direction collided with the British couple’s car.

The inquest found Mrs Millward, who was sitting in the front passenger seat, died at the scene of the crash due to the severity of the injuries sustained, according to a post-mortem report.

The Coroner’s court heard

a vehicle crossed into the wrong lane and collided with two cars, including the vehicle Pam and her husband were travelling in.

Pam, 77, was the only person killed in the collision, however, three others suffered ‘serious injuries,’ the court heard.

The assistant coroner, Myfanwy Buckeridge, recounted

COLLISION: A vehicle coming in the opposite direction crossed into the oncoming lane.

Nine held over asylum fraud NATIONAL POLICE officers working with their counterparts in France have arrested nine people in connection with the alleged fraudulent obtaining of asylum status for more than 1,000 Palestinian refugees.

Spain’s Interior Ministry said the operation, coordinated by the Europe-wide Europol agency, saw five people detained in Madrid and four in France. Six of them have been remanded in custody.

Investigators claim the nine suspects were part of a gang which has trafficked some 1,200 refugees from Palestine into

Spain since January this year.

They were brought into Spain through Madrid’s Adolfo Suarez-Barajas airport, with each refugee charged around €8,000 which netted the group about €9 million according to police allegations.

Police raided three homes, one in Madrid and two in France, as part of the probe.

More than €17,000 worth of cash in dollar and euro notes were seized along with seven vehicles, storage devices and documents.

The case continues.

the events of February 18: “The accident occurred when Pam was travelling in Tenerife.

“Her husband was driving a nd the y w e re tra ve lling downhill on their way to the

beach.

“A vehicle coming in the opposite direction crossed into the oncoming lane of traffic and collided with a vehicle which was travelling in the same direction as the vehicle

Pam was in.

“Having collided with the vehicle that went off the road, it then crashed into the car in which Pam was a passenger.

“Sadly, she died as a result of her injuries.”

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THE WEEK I

Pitching for votes

By Joe Gerrard THE leaders of Spain’s political parties have begun pitching for votes in Andalucia’s upcoming election which is likely to be a dress rehearsal for a national ballot.

The election seems on the surface to be the left-leaning Partido Socialista’s (PSOE) to lose. Junta de Andalucia President Susana Diaz, of the PSOE, fended off rival parties in 2015 elections and has held the post since 2013.

Andalucia has been a PSOE stronghold since Spain transitioned to democracy in the late 1970’s. National polling has put the PSOE ahead of rival parties since taking power last June meaning, in theory, that its Andalucian arm should be comfortably re-elected on December 2.

Success is however not guar-

CANVASSING: Diaz has hit the campaign trail. anteed. Diaz faces potential assaults on all fronts, with one problem coming from inside her own party.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is set to appear at two campaign rallies in Andalucia.

One is set for November 18 in Chiclana, Cadiz Province

and the other for Marbella in Malaga Province on November 25.

The number of planned visits contrasts with the Conservative Partido Popular (PP) leader Pablo Casado’s schedule, who has already been touring Andalucia extensively in support

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IN POLITICS of candidate Juanma Moreno.

The PP and other opposition groups may choose to use the historic rivalry between Sanchez and Diaz to drive a wedge between them.

The two stood against each other for the leadership of the PSOE in 2016 and their relationship was said to be lukewarm at best. Party sources claim it has recently been on the mend. Diaz’s saving grace may prove to be the ongoing jostling between the PP and the centrist Ciudadanos for the centre-right vote.

PP strategists no doubt fear a rerun of the snap election in Cataluña last December which saw the party virtually wiped out

by Albert Rivera’s Ciudadanos.

Diaz also has to contend with Podemos which sits to the PSOE’s left. Their candidate Teresa Rodriguez said the antiausterity part would keep the debate on a local footing.

If her approach makes an impression on voters it could mean Podemos is able to chip away at the PSOE’s core support base, its left-wing voters.

Mulling a change SPAIN’S Deputy Prime Minister has said Spain’s Constitution may need some changes as the country marks the 40th anniversary of the document coming into force.

Carmen Calvo said constitutional arrangements governing the central government’s relationship to regional authorities and the powers of the latter may need updating.

It comes as a pro-Spanish unity Catalan politician called on Madrid to re-impose direct rule on the region.

Calvo, who was speaking during an interview on the Els Matins programme on TV3, said the territorial structure of Spain ‘requires adjustment’.

The debate over regional powers is bound up with the ongoing Catalan independence issue.

Many there feel the region hands over far more tax revenue to Madrid than they get in return.

Each of Spain’s 17 autonomous communities has different amounts of power. Many in Cataluña argue it should have a similar arrangement to the Basque Country which is allowed to keep more of the taxes it raises.

Ongoing demands from Catalans for more powers, may force Madrid’s hand to grant more control over finance and other areas to stave off independence demands.

Poll tracker: Partido Socialista (PSOE): 26.5%, 105 seats Partido Popular (PP): 26.3%, 104 seats Ciudadanos: 19.9%, 65 seats Unidos Podemos: 17%, 50 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control.

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by Joe Gerrard A SENIOR member of Spain’s conservative opposition party has faced a backlash on social media after sharing a Franco-era poem praising the Spanish ‘race’ and religion.

Teodoro Garcia Egea, Secretary General of the Partido Popular (PP) and considered

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PP Francoist poem fury leader Pablo Casado’s deputy, shared the España poem by Jose Luis Santiago de Meras last Sunday.

He posted the poem after Spanish television personali-

ty Jordi Evole invited five regional presidents to define what Spain meant to them.

President of the Madrid Region Angel Garrido said Spain was a country to be proud of.

Francisco Lopez Miras, the Murcia region President, said: “Spain is a common project of solidarity in which we must all be treated equally.”

Garcia Egea posted the poem in reply to Evole though he was not among those asked.

The poem begins with the line: ‘Spain is you and me.’

It goes onto state: ‘Spain is the clean pride of the history of the race.

‘Spain is Our Father who prays in the morning and the red and yellow that puts a knot in your throat,’ another line reads.

Esther Peña, a spokesperson for the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) said Garcia Egea’s ‘radical’

CONTROVERSIAL: Garcia Egea (right) sparked outrage on social media. choice of poem risked turning political discourse into a ‘comedy club.’

Social media users took to Twitter to vent against the Secretary General’s sharing of the poem.

Majadero said: “That is Spain according to a fascist.

The author of the poem was a fascist.”

“What race? Gothic, Iberian, Celtic, Visigothic, Phoenician, Carthaginian, Roman, Arab. Which one?”

Mar Escurdero wrote.

J Mateo de Castro said: “In other words, the ‘new’ PP’s conception of Spain is structured in terms of race, Catholicism and customs.

Not a single mention of free-

dom, citizenship, culture, progress or law. Seriously, not in the dictator’s wildest dreams.”

Poem author Santiago de Meras also penned verses paying homage to former military ruler Francisco Franco and to earlier dictator Jose Antonio Primo de Riviera.

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RIVAL RALLIES: Riot police were deployed in Barcelona (file photo).

Clash during Barcelona protest OFFICERS were deployed to the streets of Barcelona after supporters of Catalan independence protested against a National Police rally in the city.

Photographs showed police dressed in riot gear wielding truncheons as they attempted to push back against marchers from the Committee for the Defence

of the Republic (CDR) on Saturday.

The CDR demonstrators were reportedly attempting to march on a rally organised by the JUSAPOL police trade union.

Police officers were in Barcelona to call for higher wages. Many carried Spanish flags in an apparent display of support for unity.

Spanish forces, including the National Police, have been the target of resentment from some pro-secession supporters following their crackdown on last year’s independence referendum.

The clashes come as Spain continues to deal with the fallout from the vote, and from the failed declaration of independence that followed.

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Expats Guide to

Spanish Life Sponsored by Blevins Franks For more information about the sponsors go to www.blevinsfranks.com or call them on 965 705 502

New residency requirements LIVING in Spain can bring with it an array of issues which may not have been encountered when living in the UK. There are lots of things to consider, and we are here to help try to make the transition and life in Spain a little easier by compiling a series of helpful facts and figures relating to a variety of topics.

While there are new rules for British nationals applying for residency in Spain, there will be no change to the right and status of EU nationals living in the UK, nor UK nationals living in the EU, while the UK remains in the EU. As an EU citizen it is now mandatory to register as a resident if you intend on living in Spain for more than three months.

You must register in person at the Oficina de Extranjeros (immigration office) - visit: http://www.seat.mpr.gob.es/portal/servicios/extranjeria/extranjeria_ddgg.html for regional offices - or a designated police station, which you can find at: https://www.policia.es/docu mentacion/oficinas/oficinas_extran.html You must make an appointment online before going to your local office or station, which can be done on the Spanish public administration website: https://sede.administracione spublicas.gob.es/icpplus/index.html When making your appointment you must select the province where you live and then the option ‘certificados UE’ and follow the instructions.

You take the following documents with you to your appointment: Passport or other identity document (not expired) Official form (EX-18), two copies, filled and signed by the UE national.

In addition, you will need other documents, depending on your situation: • (employed) - contract of employment or other proof of your employment status.

• (self-employed) - proof of registration in the register of economic activities or other proof of your employment status.

• (not employment in Spain) - Proof of: health cover valid in Spain; sufficient means to support yourself and your family.

• (pensioners) - provide proof of public health cover.

• (students) - proof of your registration in an educational establishment; proof of public or private health cover; formal declaration that you have sufficient means to support yourself during your stay. *You will be issued with a credit-card sized residence certificate which will include your name, address, nationality, NIE number, and date of registration. *The old A4 residence certificates are still valid, and you do not need to apply for a creditcard sized alternative unless your circumstances change, for example you move house.

But you can if you want to, at any time. *After five years of being registered as a resident, you can apply for a certificate of permanent residence in Spain. The card will be similar, but state that you are a ‘residente permanente.’

This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice.

If in any doubt, seek professional help.

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FERRY COLLISION: The heavily listing Naviera Armas ferry makes its way back to port.

Two vessels collide at sea SEVERAL people were taken to a Palma hospital after a ferry and a boat collided in Gran Canaria and the impact threw people on board into the sea.

The heavily listing Naviera Armas ferry which was operating the route between Las Palmas and Sant a C r u z i n Te n e r i f e h a s

now safely made it back to port.

It was initially reported that 15 people had been tossed into the sea, but afterwards the number was reduced to three.

Coastguards received an e m e rg e n c y c a l l f r o m t h e crew to say some people who were on deck had fall-

en into the sea.

Two rescue boats and a helicopter were quickly on the scene to pluck them f r o m t h e w a t e r. A l l w e r e then transferred to the Doctor NegrĂ­n University Hospital in Las Palmas.

An investigation is now underway to discover how the vessels came to collide.

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No harm done THE head of a Benidorm and Costa Blanca hoteliers association has said that holiday bookings from British customers have remained stable despite Britain’s impending departure from the European Union (EU).

Toni Mayor, president of Hosbec, said hotels have not had to cut prices in order to woo British travellers to the Costa Blanca.

The recovery of rival destinations such as Turkey, Tunisia and Egypt which up until now have been beset with security problems has also not impacted on bookings, Mayor added.

The Hosbec president said confidence among hotel owners on the Costa Blanca had also been buoyed by the recent World Travel Market in London.

The tourism industry fair saw representatives of Spanish regional tourist boards travel to the British capital to pitch themselves to the county’s holidaymakers.

Mayor said hoteliers were confident a Brexit deal would be finalised within weeks. He also cited figures from Thomas Cook which showed they had already sold 15 per cent of their packages for next year’s holiday season.

Mayor added that the hotel sector could not afford to be complacent. He said price increases of 15 per cent from some could lead to Costa Blanca hotels being undercut by rival destinations if British demand tightens.

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BREXIT EXTRA

May: End is nigh

Differing claims

By Joe Gerrard TALKS over Britain’s withdrawal from the European Union (EU) are entering the ‘end game,’ Britain’s Prime Minister said this week.

Theresa May told an audience at London’s Guildhall there were still ‘significant’ issues to resolve but progress was being made thanks to the hard work of negotiators.

May said at the City of London gathering that the negotiations were proving immensely difficult.

It comes as her proposal to temporarily keep Britain in the customs union to avoid a backstop in Northern Ireland provoked ire from Conservative Party Brexit hard-liners.

They are concerned it could mean Britain staying in significant parts of the EU’s framework indefinitely.

The pro-union Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), May’s backers in Parliament, opposes any arrangement that would see Northern Ireland treated differently to the rest of Britain.

In what appeared to be a nod to both, the Prime Minister said the

LABOUR’S Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer has said Brexit can be stopped after leader Jeremy Corbyn said the party couldn’t prevent Britain’s withdrawal from the EU and it should seek to understand why voters backed leaving.

Plane talks

HIGH HOPES: May said a withdrawal deal is in sight. agreement would not come “at any cost.”

She added plans were being drawn up for a trade mission to the Asia Pacific region after Brexit.

Meanwhile in Spain, Pedro Sanchez mourned what he said in an interview was a “great loss” for both Britain and the EU. “I hope Brexit can be reconsidered in the future. Self-absorption isn’t going to be good for either the EU or

Britain,” he said.

“I’d like to see the British government call a second referendum. I don’t mean now, but in the future so that it can come back to the EU,” he said.

Sanchez’s comments come as British Transport Minister Jo Johnson, brother to arch Brexiteer Boris, resigned last week. He said not holding a second referendum would be a “democratic travesty.”

IAG, the owner of the British Airways airline, has been in talks with the Spanish government for support for its operations in the country’s airspace in the event Britain leaves the EU without a deal next year.

Port plan BRITISH Transport Secretary Chris Grayling has said the Kent port of Ramsgate could be expanded to accommodate larger ships as concerns over Dover becoming backlogged with traffic and freight after Brexit continue.

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Driver loses all control A 10-YEAR-OLD girl was among four people who were seriously injured after a driver lost control of his vehicle and mounted the pavement of a busy Barcelona street.

According to the Barcelona City Council and the System Emergencies Mediques (SEM), the accident took place last Friday morning in Calle Santalo.

It is reported that at 8.30am seven ambulances were called to the scene of an accident where four casualties, including a small child, were in need of immediate medical attention.

It is alleged by the Guardia Urbana that the driver of the vehicle lost control and struck several motorcycles and a terrace before ploughing into pedestrians on the pavement

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RUN-OVER: Four casualties, including a small child, were in need of immediate medical attention. near Travessera de Gracia.

Traffic was diverted away from the area to accommodate the arrival of the seven ambulances and several more emer-

gency services support vehicles. The 10-year-old girl is reportedly in a ‘serious’ condition and was rushed to Hospital Sant Joan de Deu.

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Just fancy that!

Photo credit: Benidorm town hall

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LEGENDARY: End-of-fiestas fancy dress party in the Rincon de Loix.

BENIDORM fiestas are officially over but the legendary Fancy Dress party i s i n f u l l s w i n g t o d a y, Thursday.

Te n s o f t h o u s a n d s o f revellers, most of them British, have congregated in the Rincon de Loix for what has become an unmissable date.

“Many have been coming for years and plan their holidays around our fiestas,” said Benidorm’s m a y o r To n i P e r e z . “ B e cause of that we include the Fancy Dress Party in our calendar of events.”

It was a draw not only for UK tourists, Perez added, but was increasingly attracting other nationalities and visitors from neighbouring areas.

More than 30 hotel and catering establishments joined forces to organise the party that began at 2 p m t o d a y. T h i s i s a l s o the third year that there has been street parade, s e t t i n g o u t f r o m Av e n i d a del Derramador and continuing along Calle Gerona and Calle Cuenca before finishing in Calle Lepanto.

An extra 15 police officers will be on the streets today, ensuring the event’s safety, together with a Red Cross ambulance and first aid volunteers.

Benidorm’s Public Safety councillor Lorenzo Martinez also revealed that the Local Police is operating the same antidrone system used during the Iberia Music festival.

This deactivates any unauthorised drone or remote-controlled airborne device that could cause danger by flying over a large group of people.

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INTERNATIONAL DAY was recently rounded off at Alfaz’s Escoles Velles centre with diplomas for those who collaborated with the event.

Each year local residents’ associations celebrate Alfaz’s diversity and social harmony on International Day. They share with each other the traditions, customs, culture, folklore and gastronomy that characterise their birthplaces and for one day they become proud ambassadors for their countries of origin, Martine Mertens, Other Nationalities councillor, accompanied by Alfaz’s mayor Vicente Arques, presented the diplomas and thanked the associations whose members had once again made International Day so successful.

“The diploma is a token of the appreciation that the town

Photo credit: Alfaz town hall

A year-round contribution

DIPLOMAS: A token of the town hall’s appreciation. hall and Other Nationalities department would like to show towards all these groups,” Mertens said.

“We are grateful not only

for their contribution to International Day but the work that each and every member of the associations carries out in Alfaz throughout the year.”

ALTEA’S Public Library now opens each day at 9am instead of 10am. The number of people using the library is steadily increasing, Culture councillor Diego Zaragozi said, and extending the library’s opening hours had been made possible by additional staff under the regional government’s Avalem Joves youth employment scheme.

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Best of health MORE than 100 mayors, councillors, town hall officials and health professionals attended the recent XarxaSalut seminar held at the Casa de Cultura in Alfaz. Promoting healthy and sustainable tourism, the initiative enables networking between the different administrations and institutions while enabling participants to exchange information on best practices in healthcare.

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‘There is no need for social alarm’ IN the wake of a scabies outbreak at Villajoyosa hospital, another case was recently discovered in Altea.

The town hall immediately contacted the Marina Baja Health authority and launched established procedures to prevent the disease from spreading, while putting the local population’s minds at rest.

It was possible to take immediate a c tion a s a loc a l mothe r, w hos e daughter belongs to Altea’s rhythmic gymnastics team, notified the

tow n ha ll a s s oon as i t was confirmed that she had contracted scabies, explained Sports councillor Pere Barberr.

Teachers at the girl’s school and instructors at the municipal sports schools as well as anyone who has had contact with the infected girl, believed to be aged between 12 and 14, was advised to take preventive measures, Barber continued.

It is not yet known whether the child’s case is connected to the out-

break - now under control - at Villajoyosa hospital where four patients and 25 members of staff were affected on the Orthopaedic and General Medicine wards.

“This is not a serious illness,” Altea’s Health councillor Diego Martinez said. “It is easily treated and t her e i s no need f or soci al alarm.”

Rhythmic gym classes and other sports activities were continuing as usual, Pere Barber added.

Train of thought A LT E A h o s t e d a w e e k o f multidisciplinary activities drawing attention to the need for the Mediterranean Corridor railway link.

The Generalitat initiat i v e c e n t r e d o n A l t e a ’s railway station, built over a century ago, where 30 students from the Miguel H e r n a n d e z U n i v e r s i t y ’s Fine Arts Department staged an ‘artistic action.’

The event was attended b y A l t e a m a y o r, J a u m e Llinares and Lluis Ferrando, a high-ranking official from the regional governm e n t ’s P u b l i c Wo r k s d e partment, as well as the u n i v e r s i t y ’s v i c e - r e c t o r and local councillors.

“Altea is using culture and art to unify calls for the C o r r i d o r, ” said Llinares, expressing satisfaction with the collaboration between the town hall, regional government and university.

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Flu jabs made easy at local health centre ALTEA’S Health Centre is holding three ‘Open Doors’ days for flu vaccinations.

The first will be held tomorrow Friday, followed by two others on November 23 and 30 in the section of the Health Centre where blood samples are usually taken.

Vaccinations will be carried out between 3.30pm and 8pm and no prior appointment is necessary.

“These Open Doors sessions have been arranged to facilitate vaccination and encourage the local population to protect themselves against flu,” the town hall’s Health and Social Welfare councillor Diego Martinez said.

“Vaccination is important for anyone who belongs to one of the at-risk group, like the very young or the elderly or for people who come into contact with

those who are,” added Martinez, who thanked the

Health Centre staff for their cooperation.

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Concert time THIS Sunday at 8.30pm the Coral Ifach offers its traditional concert honouring St Cecilia, patron saint of musicians. There is no entry fee, although numbers are limited to the capacity of the Salo Blau at the Casa de Cultura. Invitations may be collected from 7.30pm onwards at the box office.

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Calpe CALPE Town Hall finished 2017 with a €3.2 million surplus which must go to the banks.

A law introduced during the economic crisis by the previous government’s Finance minister, Cristobal Montoro, obliges town halls who use the Suppliers’ Payments Plan to use excess cash to pay off bank debts.

Any income through rates, taxes or licence fees that exceeds initial estimates must go directly to the banks, although municipal sources explained that there can sometimes be a surplus if initiatives included in the town hall Budget were not carried through.

The Compromis party, in

Banks gulp down town hall surplus opposition on the council, lamented that the €3.2 million could not be used for

vital projects which included main drainage for the t o w n ’s u r b a n i s a t i o n s o r

protecting the Salinas salt beds from flooding during periods of heavy rain.

VITAL PROJECTS: Cash needed for main drainage and flood plans.

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Smoother ride

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Ice cream shows the way TEULADA-MORAIRA Auditorium’s Dolia recently made its debut at the Gastronoma fair in Valencia City.

Dolia - the plural of the Latin dolium or wine jar - is the Auditorium’s gastronomic culture initiative and since 2011 it has been held during the first weekend in September.

The project is a platform for drawing attention to conserving local land and the landscape via produce like the Alexandria muscatel grapes or those originating in the Mediterranean.

During the Valencia fair, the master ice cream maker Santi Gomez gave a demonstration entitled ‘Deciphering the Alexandria muscatel grape’s code through ice cream.’

The project involved many months of work that was finally presented in society during the seventh edition of Dolia last September. Members of the public were invited to discover the muscatel code for themselves by sampling five

THE Diputacion Council is to spend €2.882 million on improving nine of the secondary roads in Alicante Province for whose maintenance it is responsible.

Four of these roads are located in the Marina Alta and include the CV-746 between Moraira and Calpe which will be repaved with microsurfacing agglomerate.

Lawman and lawyer combined CHIEF INSPECTOR NAVARRO of Teulada-Moraira’s Local Police force is finalising his Law studies.

Already a graduate in Work Sciences and with a Diploma in Social Work from Alicante University, Navarro is specialising in Administrative Disciplinary Law. Once qualified, he and colleagues in the National Police and Guardia Civil who are studying the same course will be equipped to instruct, represent or defend colleagues on internal disciplinary issues.

Until June next year, Navarro

SANTI GOMEZ: Ice cream maker extraordinary. different types of wine and savouring their principal flavour notes via ice cream.

This time, at the Valencia fair, Gomez gave a gastronomic demonstration with three wines produced by the

Sant Vicent Ferrer bodega in Teulada and three ice creams named Wind, Temperature and Rain-gauge and Tradition.

Gomez explained to the public that was endowed by

its surroundings.

First they were invited to sample the wine, then the ice cream that had been made for the occasion and once again the wine, this time to savour the enhanced floral notes.

will be travelling once a month during his free time to Madrid to study and analyse this littleknown field with the reduced group who are experts and lecturers in the subject.

Police regulations require a qualified lawyer to be present during disciplinary proceedings and it was this, together with his own personal experiences, that drew him to this branch of the Law, Navarro said.

Quoted in the local Spanish press, he also referred to the ‘administrative barbarities’ that often occur during disciplinary proceedings in the public sector.

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Looking ahead

NEWS THE next Arts Society Marina Alta’s presentation, will be held in December at Salones Canor in Teulada.

Joseph Mallord William Turner (1774-1851) is one of the greatest artists Britain has ever produced, and the presentation by Nicola Moorby takes a fresh look at his late works. It sheds light on his life and art, challenging the myths, assumptions and interpretations that have grown around his later work.

One of his most enduring subjects was found on his doorstep, in his native city of London. The Thames became one of Turner ’s most frequently depicted subjects and by the end of his life had inspired some of his most innovative and celebrated works.

Nicola Moorby, a curator at Tate Britain with extensive experience of lecturing to a wide variety of audience, is a freelance art historian specialising in British art of the 19th and early 20th centuries.

She studied at the University of York and Birkbeck

THE Partido Popular is already planning the voting lists for next year’s municipal and regional elections and according to media sources, Teulada-Moraira’s former mayor Antoni Joan Bertomeu will not repeat as a regional MP. Instead it is believed that he will run for mayor in Denia, where he lived during his time at Teulada-Moraira Town Hall.

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TURNER: Nicola Moorby (inset) looks at Turner’s later work.

College, London and forme rly w orke d a t Ta te Britain as a curator and researcher. She has curated a number of exhibitions and published widely on Turner, and is co-editor and author of How to Paint Like Turner

(Tate Publishing 2010).

This presentation is sponsored by Blevins Franks, and as usual, wine and soft drinks will be offered after the presentation to allow socialising with the speakers and the committee.

Doors open at 10am for registration. Directions to the venue are on the w w w. m a r i n a a l t a a r t s . com website, and for membership details, email mem bership@marinaaltaarts. com.

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Fish didn’t feel the cold TEULADA-MORAIRA Fishing Club recently held the ninth match of their winter league programme.

They were fishing the narrower E1 section of the River Jucar in neighbouring Valencia Province, and it was 10 degrees centigrade outside when members met in a bar in Favara.

The morning sky was overcast with broken cloud and the water temperature down to 12 degrees but conditions nevertheless looked favourable and nine members caught 36 carp.

They weighed a total of 82.72 kilos between them, with two members enjoying bags of over 24 and 26 kilos.

For further information about the TeuladaMoraira Fishing Club, please contact Frank Povey on 966 490 338, or email frank.povey@btopenworld.com, or call Ray Craig on 966 492 083.

TEULADA-MORAIRA Town Hall and the Diputacion Provincial Council are spending €40,000 on the Portitxolet green zone.

Wo r k s t a r t e d e a r l i e r t h i s week on the plot of municipally-owned land, located on Av e n i d a d e l P o r t e t n e a r Moraira port, and is expected to be completed within six weeks.

It can now be enjoyed as a leisure zone, but although thinning out the massed pines will give the impression of landscaped woods, this is also designed to reduce the fire risk.

Creating the Portitxolet garden area is one of several town hall initiatives designed to imp r o v e t h e t o w n ’s p l a n t e d spaces.

The current project includes a footpath linking the new

THE PSPV socialists, in opposition on the Teulada-Moraira Council, called on the town hall to join the EU’s WiFi4EU initiative, promoting free Wi-Fi access in public spaces including parks, squares, public buildings, libraries, health centres and museums. An internet connection has become vital for all aspects of daily life, PSPV spokesman Hector Morales said.

New landscaped wooded area green zone with the outdoor fitness area, which is to be equipped with shock-absorbing flooring.

A ramp will improve accessibility throughout the area which will also be equipped with litter bins, benches and an information panel.

GARDEN ZONE: Will be completed in six weeks.

Town hall tackles energy usage TEULADA-MORAIRA received a €130,000 grant from the Diputacion Provincial Council to replace lighting and electrical fittings in two municipal buildings.

Environment councillor Nieves Rodriguez signed the agreement which will enable the council to cut down on energy

bills at the town hall building in the centre of Teulada and the Espai La Senieta social centre in Moraira.

The Diputacion grant will cover most of the cost of modernising the fittings in both centres under the 2016 Provincial Energy-saving Plan.

Work began in early July and was com-

pleted in both buildings by the end of September.

The Diputacion initiative has been taken up by 133 Alicante Province town halls committed to reducing energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 20 per cent before 2020 in line with the Paris Agreement to combat climate change.

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Rain damage ALTHOUGH vegetation is returning to Granadella following the 2016 forest fire that destroyed 812 hectares of land, paths through the area are practically unusable.

The last spells of heavy rain, including the 70 millimetres that fell in a few hours last September, badly eroded the paths which were further damaged by rivulets caused by the downpours.

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JAVEA Town Hall has improved the Municipal Market’s interior lighting, replacing existing lights with others using LED technology.

Tere Bisquert, the town hall councillor responsible for markets, explained that these improv e m e n t s h a v e co s t €9,352 although the Diputacion Provincial Council supplied €5,000 of the total.

Bisquert also revealed that the process of allocating Municipal Market stalls, which was put out to tender in September, has now begun.

The town hall has received enquiries from six people interested in opening businesses, and offers will be assessed on technical as well as economical merits, the councillor said.

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THE Podemos party urged the town hall to take over the town’s street cleaning and rubbish collection service.

Podemos believes that all municipal services should be publicly owned, a spokesman declared: “They should not be privatised, nor should they be outsourced.”

The company responsible signed a 10-year contract in 2007, which was extended for a year, and terminates on November 30.

“The town hall intends to extend it for a further 12 months but we would like to hear the opinion of local residents,” Podemos said.

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Making music FOUR new musicians ha ve joine d J a ve a ’s Centre Artistico Musical brass band, and four the orchestra.

All will be playing in the concerts scheduled for tomorrow, when the band will be playing at 9pm in San Bartolome church, and also on Saturday when the orchestra gives a recital, also in the c hurc h, a t 9.30pm.

CLASSIC: Mediterranean plants are less thirsty.

Sowing on stony ground JAVEA’S municipal water company Amjasa hopes to persuade villa owners to replan their gardens.

Many local villas have huge gardens with large turfed areas which have undeniably generated employment over the years, but require huge amounts of water.

Strictly speaking, the more water which is used to water local gardens, the more Amjasa will earn, but this also makes them unsustainable compared to Mediterranean-type gardens with stones, raked gravel and native plants, Amjasa maintains.

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Oleanders, rosemary and lavender easily withstand the local climate, while homeowners wanting an expanse of green could always resort to article turf, the water company suggested.

Amjasa’s managing director Jose Luis Henarejos raised the subject during the recent Observatori de l’Aigua held recently.

“We have to make it clear that water is a scarce and precious commodity,” Henarejos said.

“This means that its rational and principal use should be for human consumption and not for the upkeep of gardens, especially during a drought.”

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Bright idea BUSINESS owners on the Arenal Beach and those on the second line behind it, are asking the town hall for more Christmas illuminations this year. The decorations and lights have remained the same for the last 10 years, they said, although the area had evolved and changed considerably in this time.

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JAVEA recently paid tribute to local athlete Mohamed Rida Younes, Moha.

Last September in Malaga, Moha, who belongs to Javea’s Llebeig Ahtletics Club, was proclaimed world sub-champion in the 1,500 metres over-35’s category.

“You have won respect as a sportsman and for being a good person, public-spirited and committed to your

t o w n , ” d e c l a r e d J a v e a ’s S p o r t s c o u n c i l l o r Vi c e n t Colomer at the homage held for the athlete in the town hall’s council chamber.

This has been a good year for Moha, who “takes the name of Javea wherever he goes,” Colomer continued, wishing the sportsman the necessary strength and e n e rg y f o r h i s n e w c h a l lenges.

M o h a ’s t r a i n e r F r a n k Beneyto also drew attention to his worth as a person and as a sportsman.

“He always has a smile never a bad word - for everybody,” Beneyto said.

“He is always ready to help, and with discipline, constancy and hard work to reveal ‘the beast’ which he carries inside him.”

Moha said how grateful

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One of the planet’s fastest HOMAGE: Moha running to victory with (above) his family. he was to the town hall and the Llebeig club for the homage. “I came late to athletics when I was 30 but I was lucky to have good genes which have helped me,” he disclosed.

He also had praise for

his trainer: “I am proud to have Frank as a trainer. I am what I am thanks to him,” he said, while also thanking Club Llebeig and referring to its many upand-coming young sportsmen.

He also stressed that his family was his most import a n t m a i n s t a y, t h a n k i n g them as well as his friends for their help and support.

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A lot of bottle MUNICIPAL water company Amjasa is giving away 2,000 glass bottles to persuade residents to decant and drink Javea’s desalinated domestic supply instead of buying bottled water.

Exhaustively tested before reaching the public, the tap water is safe and drinkable and using it will cut down on plastic which is increasingly becoming an environmental hazard.

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RESIDENTS in Edificio Caribe in Javea were woken at 1am by a British neighbour shouting and banging on their doors.

It took them some time to realise that he was telling them there was a fire inside his apartment.

“His hands were burnt and blackened, but he was banging on our doors,” one neighbour said. “ A t f i r s t w e d i d n ’t u n d e r s t a n d what was happening.”

The Briton, who had burnt his hands trying to put out the fire, was taken by ambulance to the local health centre.

Most of the neighbours were able to leave their homes safely apart from a woman of 39 who was trapped on the floor above the Briton’s apartment.

This was now ablaze but

ARENAL AREA: Apartment fire soon put out.

Guardia Civil and Local Police went up to the top of the building to reassure the woman that help was on its way and - in the words of police sources later - to prevent her from panicking or taking a “reckless decision” and suffering probable injuries.

The Denia fire brigade arrived shortly afterwards and firefighters used a platform ladder to lower the woman to the ground, where she received medical attention for smoke inhalation.

All the furniture and domestic appliances in the Briton’s rented apartment were reduced to ashes and the ceilings and wall scorched, witnesses said afterwards.

A section of stairway was also affected, but residents were able to return to their homes by 3am.

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What really characterises Marina Alta cuisine most is the quality of the product, its freshness. All ingredients must be fresh or seasonal, because only then can the nature of our dishes be duly appreciated.

The town of Denia is the capital of Marina Alta.

In it’s gastronomic heartland, in the historic quarter, lies Calle Loreto. The street is a clear example of Marina Alta cuisine. Whilst there may be restaurants of greater renown in other areas of the town, such as Las Marinas or Las Rotas, Calle Loreto has become in recent years one of the most effervescent areas at the gastronomic level.

Its large number of bars and restaurants, its wide gastronomic offer, and the excellent level of service offered, have turned this street into one of the biggest tourist attractions of Denia.

One example restaurant that encompasses all of the aforementioned is restaurant Ca Pepa Teresa, on Calle Loreto 23, located in the heart of Calle Loreto. It is a perfect place to enjoy the culinary tradition of the Marina Alta. There you will find paellas, stews, meats, fish and a constant hallmark: the daily purchase of the best fresh produce in the traditional food markets of the area. Conditions that other similar restaurants like Els Tomassets (C/Loreto 35), share.

All have a wide selection of tapas and traditional dishes of the Marina Alta. Cocas, tapas, marinades and seasonings: a whole range of authentic and home-made starters. The Cocas de la Marina are seasoned with different ingredients, so you can try different aspects of our gastronomy. Always with products from the area, fresh and seasonal vegetables.

Restaurant La Seu is one of the Calle’s essentials. In addition to working with the freshest fish, La Seu (C/Loreto 59) make their own salted fish themselves. What clearly denotes a respect for their product and a love for work well done. La Seu

could be characterised as recovering the traditional recipes of our gastronomy and reinventing them in a contemporary way.

The experiences proposed in La Seu pivot on concepts and designs based on the attachment to the land and the eternal learning, which emerges from the admiration for other cultures and procedures: “The construction of our dishes has a harmonious order that reconciles tradition and innovation,” says Diana Cervera, its Chef and manager.

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MEDIAEVAL MARKET: All kinds of products but no animals.

Animals out, tea in DENIA will as usual have a Mediaeval Market this year but with one or two changes.

No live animals may be used in or appear at the market, municipal sources revealed. This follows Denia Town Hall’s policy of respecting animal rights following an earlier ban on allowing circuses to perform with animals inside the town.

According to municipal sources, there

is also a safety aspect to the ban as two years ago two dromedaries ran amok in the narrow streets of the Old Town, with one child bitten and another suffering a broken leg.

The ban on animals is included in the town hall’s tender of conditions for the concession to organise and run the market over the Inmaculada and Constitution national holiday starting December 6.

Taverns have also been barred although tearooms will be allowed.

The Mediaeval Market will be installed in La Mar, Loreto, Cavallers, Ramon y Cajal and Sant Josep streets as well as Consell, Constitucio and Valgamdeu plazas.

The number of stalls has not been announced as this will depend on the bids put in for the tender which will cost the concessionary a minimum of €3,000.

Spreading Christmas cheer MORE Denia streets will have Christmas illuminations this year, the Fiestas department announced.

Ten central streets and a plaza will have lit arches and illuminated Christmas messages will be installed in the principal accesses to the town as well as the Plaza de la Constitucion.

This year the town hall also plans to decorate the trees along the Cervantes Esplanade, Avenida de Valencia, Calle Loreto and the Valgamedios, Cholet, Jaume I and Benidorm plazas.

The €29,500 contract to provide the service, which includes illuminations for the Moors and Christians fiestas, has now been put out to tender.

CHRISTMAS LIGHTS: Denia decorations from a previous year.

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SERIOUS INCIDENT: The victims are being treated in hospital.

Man arrested in double stabbing A 24-YEAR-OLD man has been arrested in the Basque town of Santurtzi for allegedly stabbing his partner, 51, and her 28-year-old son.

The son’s injuries are believed to be the more severe, according to the Basque government’s Department of Security.

While the woman received several stabs, the son was reportedly stabbed eight times.

The incident occurred at 10am on Monday morning and when the police arrived they managed to locate and apprehend the

suspect.

Both the mother and her son were transferred to Cruces Hospital to be treated for their injuries.

The wounded son had to be evacuated through a window of the house, as the staircase was not wide enough for the stretcher.

The suspect is reportedly a national of Cameroon who has a criminal record.

According to the Department of Security, the woman reported her partner a year ago for domestic violence.

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Pros and cons of creating a Spanish or foreign company How to set up and create a Spanish company IF you are thinking about starting an economic activity in Spain, you should know that one of the most attractive alternatives is the constitution of a private limited company.

By forming this company, you can separate the assets which you place in your company as part of the capital base, from your personal assets, thus safeguarding your own assets

against potential future debts.

The first step to set up a Spanish company is the choice of the company name. Once decided, you must try to reserve the chosen name at the Central Company House.

You can choose up to five names, which you must list in order of preference. If any of your preferences are not currently being used and the name chosen is permitted in accordance with Company House rules, you will receive a certificate reserving the name for a period of six months.

The next step will be to open a bank account in the name of the new company, in which the social capital must be deposited, and if the contribution is monetary, the capital base may not be less than â‚Ź3,000.

After receiving confirmation of the reservation of the company name, and with documentary proof of the opening of the bank account, you must sign a

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public deed of the company constitution at the offices of a notary.

Included within this document will be the articles of association of the company, details of its activities, social address, and legal representation. Once the deed is signed, a provisional CIF - which is the tax identification number of the new company - may be requested.

Next, the Company Operations Tax should be paid. However, at the moment, the creation of a new company is exempt from paying this tax (which is confirmed in accordance with article 45.I.B.11 of the Tax Law).

Once this has been done, the deed must be presented to Company House, in the company domicile, for entry and registration.

Once the approval of the registrar is received, the company will be ready to act.

When the company is registered, as a final step you must register it with the appropriate tax office based on the professional activity in which the company will be involved. This is done by completing form 036, which must detail the activity and tax regimes to which the company will be subject.

Another alternative: operate in Spain, using a foreign company. If you already have a company registered in another country, you do not have to set up a new company in Spain if you do not wish to. You can request a CIF number for your foreign company, and then you will be able to register the company’s economic activity in the

Agencia Tributaria (tax office).

Please note, to apply for a Spanish Tax Number, you must submit an official certificate with an apostille (confirmation document), from the Companies House in the country in which your business is registered, which certifies its existence.

Please also bear in mind that if the legal representative of the company is not a tax resident in Spain, it or you, must appoint, in a public deed, a tax representative resident in Spain who will act on behalf of the company and will be liable for the company’s actions in Spain.

If you wish to create a company in Spain or carry out a professional activity with your foreign company in Spain, contact us and we will help you.

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

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SATISFACTION: People in Navarra were found to be the happiest in Spain

Happiness ranking in Spain Satisfaction highest in Navarra and Balearics PEOPLE living in the regions of Navarra and the Balearic Islands are the happiest in Spain, according to a new ranking.

The Centre for Sociological Investigaton (CIS) surveyed almost 3,000 people from across Spain and asked them how satisfied they were. It then ranked each region according to the responses from people living there.

Navarra and the Balearic Islands scored highest on

the regional ranking with respective scores of 7.85 and 7.84 on its satisfaction scale.

The regions of Galicia, La Rioja and Asturias came last with scores of 7.05, 7.12 and 7.18 respectively.

The findings reflect a similar survey from the Organisation of Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) which placed the Balearic Islands first with 7.3 and Navarra second with 7.2.

The Spanish average satisfaction rate was 7.36, according to the CIS survey.

The OECD gave Spain an average rating of 6.5, meaning it ranked 31st out of the 38 countries studied.

Men were found to be slightly happier than women and the happiest age group was young adults aged between 18 to 25 year olds.

The regions of Andalucia, Valencia, Murcia gained scores of 7.4, 7.38 and 7.27 respectively.

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WARY: Gorbachev spoke about rising tensions between Russia and the US.

Gorbachev gives Cold War warning THE former leader of the Soviet Union has said there should be no return to the Cold War in a warning over worsening relations between Russia and the United States (US). Mikhail Gorbachev said during a public appearance war needed to be banned “once and for all” and that nations should continue with efforts to do away with nuclear weapons.

Syria flights back on AN airline has resumed flights between Moscow and the Syrian capital six years after halting them due to civil war there. Cham Wings, a Syria-based airline, is set to put on weekly flights between the countries and the first plane arrived in the Russian capital’s Sheremetyevo airport last week.

New Crimea sanctions THREE people and nine Russian entities have been hit by new sanctions from the United States (US) brought in over Moscow’s ongoing occupation of Crimea. The US Treasury said the two Ukrainians, a Russian offi-

cer and the entities had profited off Russia’s annexation of the Crimea in 2014. A senior Kremlin official said the new sanctions were unacceptable.

Church arson probe POLICE officers in Moscow have arrested a 35-year-old suspect in connection with an alleged arson attack on a church in the Russian capital. Police launched their investigation after the St John the Apostle Church burnt down last week, with more than €13,220 in damage estimated to have been caused.

Hatching a plan PRESIDENT Vladimir Putin has reportedly revived Soviet-era plans to boost Russia’s supply of chickens to feed the country in the face of potential United States (US) food sanctions. Kremlin sanctions planners said Putin viewed the country’s reliance on foreign food imports as an unacceptable security risk as the government continues working on home grown alternatives.

Historic parade AROUND 5,000 people donned Second World War-era Red Army uniforms in Moscow last week for a reenactment of an armed forces parade which first took place in 1941. The procession, which took place in the Russian capital’s Red Square, was put on to pay homage to the soldiers who paraded there 77 years ago before going to fight. It also coincided with the anniversary of the 1917 revolution.

MARCH: Some 5,000 people paraded.

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Comment fury PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron backtracked on remarks made last week praising Marshall Philippe Petain, a French general during the First World War and the man who surrendered to and collaborated with Nazi Germany during the Second World War, as a ‘great soldier.’

Attacks rise PRIME MINISTER Edouard Philippe revealed last week the attacks targeting France’s Jewish community have risen by 69 per cent during the first nine months of this year and has called for a new task force to combat antiSemitism.

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OUTCRY: Macron faced a backlash last week

BRITISH coastguards in a helicopter winched four Belgian fishermen to safety off the country’s southern coast about 20 kilometres from their home port of Ostend last week after their boat capsized in heavy seas.

Britain ‘bond’ BRITAIN’S Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has said the bond between his country and France is ‘bigger than Brexit’ while visiting Paris last week as talks on next year’s withdrawal from the European Union continue.

Army call A ‘REAL’ European Union army is the only thing that would allow the continent to defend itself against Russia and reduce reliance on the United States according to President Emmanuel Macron who has long pushed for a bloc-wide defence force.

EMILE RATELBAND, a 69-year-old Dutchman and self-proclaimed ‘young

TRAINS from Thalys and between Ostend and Eupen and Welkenraedt had to be diverted last Friday after several cables were stolen from railways lines, with engineers called in later to assess the extent of the damage.

MORE than 90 per cent of workers at Belgium’s Bpost courier service staged walkouts for three days last week as company bosses and trade unions continued to hold talks aimed at ending the strike.

Murder probe PROSECUTORS in Brussels have opened an investigation into alleged sabotage amidst claims a piece of evidence key to the trial of Flemish parliament member Christian van Eykenon on murder charges has gone missing.

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NETHERLANDS OFFICIALS with the Dutch National Co-ordinator for Security and Counterterrorism have warned that right wing extremism is on the rise in the Netherlands and added some websites encouraging hatred towards foreigners could lead people to commit violent acts.

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god,’ has appealed to an Arnhem court to legally become 49 arguing that how old he is should be his choice and that he does not want to match with women his age on dating apps.

Asylum request A PAKISTANI Christian woman has applied for asylum in the Netherlands after being acquitted in her home country on blasphemy charges, according to her

lawyer who said Asia Bibi would be joined by her husband and two daughters.

Fund shortfall YOUTH protection bodies have been left without some €39 million in funds for next year due to government austerity measures and reorganisation, according to the sector which added finding staff was proving difficult due to the complexity of work.

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CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel has said Germans should be wary not to be seduced by ‘simple’ xenophobic arguments while President Frank-Walter Steinmeier urged people to reject nationalism during separate events last Friday marking the 80th anniversary of the Night of Broken Glass anti-Jewish pogrom.

DANISH prosecutors have charged Britta Nielsen with fraud in connection with allegations the 64-year-old scammed the government out of around €15 million by transferring money earmarked to help vulnerable people to fictitious projects.

Budget deal A COMMITTEE in Germany’s parliament has reached an agreement on plans for government spending in 2019, with budget proposals featuring a boost for the military, government departments and welfare while sticking to a commitment not to increase the country’s debt.

Rally on THE We are for Germany (WfD) far-right group held a march in Berlin last Friday after the German capital’s Administrative Court lifted a ban imposed by State Minister for the Interior Andreas Geisel.

Bus rallies BUS drivers have staged protests in Aalborg, Esbjerg, Roskilde and Glostrup over claims of timetable pressure, with a trade union study of 400 workers finding 50 per cent of them do not have time to use the toilet during shifts.

Probe call SEVERAL political parties have called on Danish authorities to investigate whether the Iranian embassy in Copenhagen was involved with alleged assassination plots targeting exiled citizens from the Middle Eastern country.

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ROBBY, a 47-year-old circus chimpanzee from Celle, is set to stay in a zoo following a ruling from the Higher Administrative Court of Luneburg which was weighing up whether to allow him to remain or to place him in an ape centre.

THE government of Denmark has introduced a bill into parliament which would make it harder for people from outside the European Union to claim benefits, with lawyers having informed officials it could be illegal under EU law.

MORE than 3,000 people signed up last week to take part in the search for Dante, a 12year-old boy with Down’s synd r o m e f r o m F a l k e n b e rg w h o went missing on Tuesday November 6 after walking his family’s dog.

Reporter plea THE Reporters Without Borders journalist advocacy group has called on the Swedish governm e n t t o g r a n t t h e Ye m i n i r e porter Hind Aleryani and her daughter asylum due to the ‘serious’ security risks she faces if deported to her home country.

Power bid ULF KRISTERSSON, the leader of the centrist Moderate Party, has said he feels ‘obliged’ to try and form a coalition government and claimed other alternatives would leave Sweden worse off as talks over which parties will take office following recent elections continue.

Cancer study WOMEN who undergo screenings were 60 per cent less likely to die from breast cancer, according to a study based on data from more than 50,000 women from Dalarna County conducted by Britain’s Queen Mary University.

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Ship crash A TOTAL of 137 crew members had to be evacuated from a Norwegian warship after the vessel collided with an oil tanker from Malta in the Hjeltefjord near Bergen while returning from the NATO Trident Juncture exercise.

Death risks THE risk to Eastern European workers of dying in an accident while on the job is more than three times that of native Norwegians, according to new data from the DeFacto Knowledge Centre for Professional Organisations.

Ban plans NORWAY’S Maritime Authority (NMA) is reportedly considering introducing a ban on ‘scrubbers,’ the exhaust system used on large ships, in fjords declared world heritage sites over environmental and safety concerns.

Abortion claim THE Public Health Institute of Norway has said that no woman terminated a pregnancy due to lip palate in 2017 as Kjell Ingolf Ropstad, of the conservative Christian Democrat Party (KfF) claimed as part of ongoing debates on abortion laws.

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Blocked in BBVA, the second largest bank in Spain, has piloted a €133 million syndicated loan on the Ethereum blockchain.

The loan was shared between BBVA, MUFG of Japan and BNP Paribas of France, and was awarded to Red Electrica, which operates Spain’s national electricity grid.

Banks rely on an antiquated, paper-based system to run this market (worth €4 trillion a year) and blockchain is seen as a possible way of modernising it.

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Banks get stamped SPAIN will hold banks, rather than customers, responsible for paying mortgage stamp duty, thwarting a recent court ruling that home buyers should pay the tax.

The announcement caps a turbulent few weeks in Spain’s banking sector in which the country’s Supreme Court ordered in mid-October that lenders should cover the costs, changing more than 20 years of jurisprudence.

However, only 24 hours later the Supreme Court reversed its decision in light of a plunge in the share prices of Banco de Sabadell, Bankia

by Tom Woods and Caixa Bank.

The judicial back and forth sparked harsh criticism from politicians across the political spectrum for damaging faith in the Spanish judicial system.

Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez, has now confirmed in a press conference: “The Spanish will no longer pay this fee and the banking sector will.

We will modify the law.”

Mr Sanchez also revealed that his government would propose a law cre-

ating an independent consumer protection agency aimed at finance sector clients.

Many Spaniards blame the banking sector for the 2008 financial crisis and the ensuing collapse of the housing market, which led to a wave of more than 300,000 foreclosures between 2009 and 2012.

Analysts believe that shifting the stamp taxes to lenders will cost the Spanish banking sector about €640 million a year, though there is speculation that they may pass on the costs to customers.

A EUROPEAN UNION plan to tax Google, Facebook and other internet firms risks failure, after a handful of member states announced their opposition.

The proposed 3 per cent levy on companies that make money from digital advertising and data is running into serious opposition from Ireland, Sweden and Denmark.

Even Germany is seeking to water down and delay the measures, although a dozen countries are moving ahead with their own national digital taxes, with Spain and the UK among the recent converts.

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Share drop SHARES in BBVA fell after a senator from the Mexican president-elect’s party unexpectedly proposed stopping banks from charging certain commissions, deepening fears about the leftist’s economic policy and compounding the ongoing squeeze on lending in Spain.

HOLDING COURT: President of the European Commission Jean Claude Juncker.

THE European Commission has decided to put on hold its referral of Spain to the European Court of Justice for failing to implement its regulations on financial markets.

Brussels has said that it accepts the Royal Decree which was approved by the Spanish government in October, which has moved to address previous shortcomings.

However, the Commission has warned that if the measures set out in the Royal Decree are not adhered to in relation to supervision of credit institutions and in-

vestment firms, it will consider going through with legal action.

Other issues the EU expects Spain to address this month include licensing, supervisory cooperation, risk management, corporate governance and capital buffers.

These all form part of the EU’s Capital Requirements Directive, and its full adoption is compulsory.

Further legislation expected in December from the Spanish government will focus on the solvency of credit institutions, and stock markets.

Buying boom A STUDY by price comparison site Idealo suggests that 68 per cent of Spaniards will purchase something on ‘Black Friday,’ which falls on November 23 and has become the signature day of festive discounts.

Amazon poach US digital bank Simple (backed by BBVA) has brought in Amazon executive David Hijirida as its CEO, in an example of talent moving from tech to banking rather than the other way around.

Telefonica sells Antares THE Catalana Occidente group has reached an agreement with Telefonica for the acquisition of the insurer Antares for a total of €161 million, according to the National Securities Market Commission (CNMV). The Catalan insurer will continue to manage the group policies of the Telefonica Group for the next 10 years, and will integrate Antares employees into its workforce.

Telefonica has said that the sale is a piece of ‘non-

strategic business for the company’ which will generate an approximate capital gain of €90 million and a reduction of net financial close to €30 million.

Antares offers a range of services including health insurance, accident and life insurance, and life savings protection in Spain up to €200,000.

It was set up in 1987 and in 2011 began its expansion outside of Telefonica, providing services to other clients and companies.

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PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) COMPANY Anglo American 1,724.40 36.60 Associated British Foods 2,620.00 -18.00 Admiral Group 2,033.50 -20.50 Ashtead Group 1,921.50 21.50 Antofagasta 788.70 10.50 Aviva 428.90 -4.80 AstraZeneca 6,264.00 92.00 BAE Systems 532.50 3.30 Barclays 172.97 -3.83 British American Tobacco 3,030.75 -283.75 Barratt Developments 537.40 -6.60 Berkeley Group Holdings 3,596.00 -44.00 British Land Co 615.00 -9.80 BHP Billiton 1,636.20 50.60 Bunzl 2,254.50 22.50 BP 535.60 11.70 Burberry Group 1,805.00 31.50 BT Group 254.60 0.45 Coca-Cola HBC 2,384.50 12.50 Carnival 4,385.50 14.50 Centrica 155.53 1.23 Compass Group 1,549.00 11.50 Croda International 4,835.50 33.50 CRH 2,263.00 5.00 DCC 6,322.50 -37.50 Diageo 2,727.25 -19.25 Direct Line Insurance Group 321.60 -3.60 Evraz 558.70 -2.30 Experian 1,815.50 0.50 easyJet 1,225.25 -28.75 Ferguson 5,169.50 -10.50 Fresnillo 847.40 -13.60 Glencore 306.00 2.10 GlaxoSmithKline 1,578.70 8.30 GVC Holdings 825.25 -12.75 Hargreaves Lansdown 1,898.00 -18.00 Halma 1,314.00 -3.00 HSBC Holdings 644.20 10.40 International Consldtd Airs Grp 641.00 -2.40 InterContinental Hotels Grp 4,084.00 25.00 3i Group 858.90 -6.30 Imperial Brands 2,655.75 -94.25 Informa 728.90 18.30 Intertek Group 4,603.00 -6.00 ITV 150.40 -0.20 Just Eat 590.50 -16.50 Johnson Matthey 2,965.00 18.00 Kingfisher 247.65 -7.45 Land Securities Group 850.00 -12.20 Legal & General Group 257.55 -4.05

% CHG. NET VOL 2.17 24,600.48 -0.68 20,741.86 -1.00 5,894.30 1.13 9,281.96 1.35 8,064.31 -1.11 16,706.01 1.49 77,186.01 0.62 17,068.53 -2.17 30,642.69 -8.56 77,334.39 -1.21 5,527.11 -1.21 4,722.58 -1.57 6,018.05 3.19 34,712.79 1.01 7,478.03 2.23 106,136.15 1.78 7,669.91 0.18 25,300.86 0.53 8,751.48 0.33 8,482.60 0.80 8,692.99 0.75 23,998.62 0.70 6,360.99 0.22 18,658.60 -0.59 6,233.34 -0.70 65,791.10 -1.11 4,433.00 -0.41 8,340.28 0.03 16,576.85 -2.29 4,877.72 -0.20 12,193.02 -1.58 6,654.15 0.69 44,898.50 0.53 77,394.71 -1.52 5,062.27 -0.94 9,092.69 -0.23 5,079.66 1.64 128,375.59 -0.37 12,525.76 0.62 7,708.79 -0.73 8,456.92 -3.43 25,693.67 2.58 8,663.72 -0.13 7,501.55 -0.13 6,094.47 -2.72 4,317.80 0.61 5,794.39 -2.92 5,473.20 -1.41 6,426.99 -1.55 15,533.29

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Lloyds Banking Group ORD 59.42 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,205.50 Micro Focus International 1,288.75 Marks & Spencer Group 307.55 Mondi 1,755.75 Melrose 169.95 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 252.60 National Grid 857.70 NMC Health 3,486.00 Next 5,356.00 Ocado Group 839.30 Paddy Power Betfair 6,627.50 Prudential 1,604.50 Persimmon 2,348.50 Pearson 922.70 Reckitt Benckiser Group 6,287.00 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 246.30 Royal Dutch Shell 2,461.75 Royal Dutch Shell 2,507.50 RELX 1,563.50 Rio Tinto 3,983.50 Royal Mail 344.90 Rightmove 442.85 Rolls-Royce Group 836.70 Randgold Resources 6,228.00 RSA Insurance Group 538.00 Rentokil Initial 313.40 Sainsbury (J) 320.65 Schroders 2,585.00 Sage Group (The) 549.00 Segro 628.80 Shire 4,719.00 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,296.00 Standard Life Aberdeen 267.25 Smith (DS) 355.80 Smiths Group 1,345.00 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 490.38 Smith & Nephew 1,392.50 SSE 1,142.75 Standard Chartered 576.00 St James's Place 1,050.00 Severn Trent 1,957.75 Tesco 217.85 TUI AG 1,277.75 Taylor Wimpey 164.85 Unilever 4,164.75 United Utilities Group 761.20 Vodafone Group 144.62 John Wood Group 685.50 WPP Group 869.20 Whitbread 4,515.50

CHANGE(P) -0.53 -7.50 4.25 -5.15 5.25 -0.70 1.25 2.00 -44.00 -68.00 -13.30 77.50 0.50 -37.50 0.90 32.00 -5.60 43.75 45.00 5.00 134.00 -0.90 -7.30 22.30 32.00 -7.80 0.40 -1.35 -22.00 -2.40 -3.40 106.50 -60.00 -2.85 -2.00 -10.00 7.08 -2.50 -9.75 6.70 -12.50 -22.75 -0.85 -5.75 -3.15 18.25 -10.80 0.70 20.50 12.20 -77.50

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42,439.41 14,566.94 5,518.38 5,074.54 6,692.96 8,533.53 5,897.23 28,548.62 7,312.36 7,654.76 5,970.05 5,369.19 41,729.96 7,573.27 7,170.20 44,293.76 30,470.07 109,786.04 92,326.25 30,171.91 51,653.28 3,507.00 4,034.60 15,713.63 5,974.72 5,565.54 5,812.03 7,133.14 5,878.84 5,984.45 6,383.04 42,077.09 5,849.67 6,931.63 5,149.03 5,402.51 7,154.24 12,198.58 12,138.79 19,149.29 5,563.35 4,655.24 21,408.58 7,545.71 5,452.38 47,835.04 5,215.08 39,295.30 4,723.07 11,020.68 8,425.25

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COMPANY AMERICAN EXPRESS APPLE BOEING CATERPILLAR CHEVRON TEXACO CISCO SYSTEMS COCA-COLA EXXON MOBIL GOLDMAN SACH HOME DEPOT IBM INTEL JOHNSON & JOHNSON JP MORGAN CHASE MCDONALDS MERCK MICROSOFT NIKE PFIZER PROCTER & GAMBLE ST. PAUL TRV UNITED TECHNOLOGIES UNITEDHEALTH VERIZON VISA CLASS A WALGREENS BOOTS WAL-MART WALT DISNEY 3M

PRICE 108,280 204,470 369,340 126,910 119,510 47,110 49,680 80,870 222,650 185,990 123,540 48,110 145,340 111,290 185,940 74,860 109,570 76,360 44,280 92,410 131,030 130,710 276,550 58,460 143,930 82,390 105,560 118,000 201,100

CHANGE% CHANGE -0,20 -0,22 0,00 0,00 -0,39 -1,43 -3,41 -4,48 0,13 0,15 0,00 0,00 0,71 0,35 -1,03 -0,84 -3,89 -9,00 -1,07 -2,01 0,13 0,16 0,00 0,00 0,03 0,04 -0,97 -1,09 0,25 0,46 -0,82 -0,62 0,00 0,00 -1,83 -1,42 0,98 0,43 1,15 1,05 0,03 0,04 -0,48 -0,63 -0,04 -0,10 0,33 0,19 -0,90 -1,30 0,00 0,00 0,65 0,68 1,72 2,00 -1,46 -2,97

VOLUME(M) 1.014.650 3.315 729.170 1.363.023 2.610.941 8.428.101 4.188.330 4.982.521 927.905 1.326.500 2.207.656 7.742.489 1.959.659 3.115.823 989.879 4.708.888 186 1.253.793 7.525.612 3.792.636 401.061 1.019.076 942.320 4.813.438 3.358.283 1.367.094 1.761.356 4.164.838 683.718

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CHANGE NET / %

Most Advanced Twist Bioscience Corporation Autolus Therapeutics plc Rockwell Medical, Inc. LogicBio Therapeutics, Inc. Ubiquiti Networks, Inc. Universal Electronics Inc. Finisar Corporation Invesco Multi-Strategy Alternative ETF PHI, Inc. NCS Multistage Holdings, Inc. Clearfield, Inc.

$ 25 $ 48.01 $ 4.38 $ 15.11 $ 111.13 $ 36.80 $ 21.79 $ 25.26 $ 8.72 $ 7.70 $ 13.71

6 ▲ 31.58% 9.12 ▲ 23.45% 0.79 ▲ 22.01% 2.31 ▲ 18.05% 16.59 ▲ 17.55% 5.13 ▲ 16.20% 2.91 ▲ 15.41% 3.23 ▲ 14.66% 0.87 ▲ 11.08% 0.70 ▲ 10% 1.24 ▲ 9.94%

$ 2.27 $ 4.24 $ 3.95 $ 4.84 $ 2.75 $ 6.63 $ 16.59 $ 165.20 $ 15.67 $ 17.195 $ 38.01

2.20 ▼ 49.22% 2.80 ▼ 39.77% 1.80 ▼ 31.30% 2.16 ▼ 30.86% 0.97 ▼ 26.08% 2.12 ▼ 24.23% 5.23 ▼ 23.97% 49.48 ▼ 23.05% 4.28 ▼ 21.45% 4.585 ▼ 21.05% 8.87 ▼ 18.92%

Most Declined Moneygram International, Inc. InnerWorkings, Inc. Apollo Endosurgery, Inc. Net 1 UEPS Technologies, Inc. NantKwest, Inc. ViewRay, Inc. SpartanNash Company Cavco Industries, Inc. Funko, Inc. Motorcar Parts of America, Inc. II-VI Incorporated

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Vodafone to slim down operations RESPONDING to challenging conditions in Spain and Italy, Vodafone’s new Chief Executive Nick Read said he would reduce operating costs b y € 1 . 2 b i l l i o n b y 2021.

Replacing Vittorio Colao at the helm, Read revealed that he would also freeze the di v i d e n d u n t i l th e Britis h c o m p a n y h a s reduced its debt mountain.

“My new strategic priorities focus on radically simplifying our operating model and g e n e r a t i n g b e tte r returns from our infrastructure assets,” Read said on Tuesday.

The initial market reaction was positive, with Vodafone shares trading 7 per cent higher shortly after the market opened.

Share s i n t h e c o m p an y

BELT TIGHTENING: Vodafone is looking for ways to pay down its debt. had fallen 39 per cent since the beginning of the year as investors fretted about the cost of acquiring Liberty Global’s cable assets in Germany, the outlay on new

spectrum for 5G services and tougher conditions in some European markets.

As part of a move to drive better returns from investments and to share capital

assets where possible, Vodafone will create a ‘virtual tower’ company to manage the 58,000 towers it controls across Europe, with a de dic a te d ma na ge me nt team.

The proposed €18 billion takeover of Liberty Global’s assets in Germany, Hungary, the Czech Republic a nd R oma nia , dubbe d ‘a considerable threat to consumers’ç by one rival, is up for review by the European Commission.

The de a l w ould ma ke Voda fone a c ha lle nge r to D e uts c he Te le kom, the la rge s t pla ye r on the G e rma n ma rke t a nd European authorities a re e xpe c te d to reach a decision

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Clothing giant gets changed SPANISH clothing giant Inditex, the owner of the Zara, Bershka and Massimo Dutti brands, has moved to close the Irish-based unit that handled a large chunk of its online sales until earlier this year.

Inditex, considered one of the world’s largest fashion retailers, has come under fire in recent years for what has been described as ‘aggressive’ tax avoidance measures. A report produced by Green party lawmakers in the European parliament in 2016 suggested that the

firm had saved about €30 million in taxes between 2011 and 2014 by basing its ITX Fashion subsidiary in Ireland rather than Spain, where its headquarters are. Ireland’s corporate tax rate is 12.5 per cent, while companies can pay as much as 24 per cent in Spain.

Documents filed in Ireland’s companies office in February indicated that Inditex was looking to wind down ITX Fashion as part of a global restructuring.

On November 7 the subsidiary filed a voluntary request to be struck off the companies register.

The 2016 Green party report suggested that the company has avoided more than €580 million in taxes by using entities based in Ireland, Switzerland and the Netherlands.

MAKING CHANGES: Inditex chief Amancio Ortega is adapting operations.

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Diversity - Bah, humbug!

IS there such a thing as a diversity biscuit? If so, this year’s deluge of TV commercial Christmas-tide claptrap truly does take the full tin.

A whole conglomeration of adverts has been sanitised by political correctness, dissected with diversity, mugged by multiculturism and treated to a positive blizzard of ‘snowflaking’ that is utterly mind-boggling.

Mixed marriages and relationships abound.

Bunches of people in cars, restaurants and crowd locations, all containing the ‘correct’ number of ethnic minorities. Happy families of carefully selected denominations gather around tables, groaning with Christmas fare, and all is well with the world on the birthday of our Lord. Ha! Unfortunately, this so called ‘merry’ conception is in no way a true reflection of British society. The great cities and communities of the UK are more segregated than ever. Whole boroughs are dedicated to one particular race or religion. A vast majority don’t even celebrate Christmas. Diversity is not working.

It’s a lie, pure and simple. A pipe dream as dangerous as it is degenerate. Until we face up to the truth, we will NEVER find the Shangri-La of existence so desperately depicted by these sadly delusional ostriches, who are in utter denial of the true state of affairs and seem to worm their way into every nook and cranny of our beleaguered social existence... talking of whom.

DIVERSITY: Does it really exist?

It did strike me that the gatherings of those responsible for these ads must produce some of the most racial, riddled, confusing, mish-mash of problems imaginable. Terrified of being declared non-PC, the selection committees or casting agents, are no longer torn between those who may have more talent and be better qualified for

the gig, but more importantly are judged by their ethnic background and appearance.

Try to imagine a large modern casting agency.

The room is full of selectors choosing artists to appear in up-and-coming TV commercials, all bartering and shouting to each other, rather like the stock exchange floor.

‘I need a brown male adult over here’. ‘I can give you two mixed teens for it’. ‘No? what about a female ginger?’ ‘Are you kidding? gingers are at a premium, one ginger for at least two blacks and a brown’. ‘I’ve got two indiscernible.’

-Voice across the room - ‘I need two green-eyed white adults, one teen brown and an off-white baby. What ya got in exchange?’ ‘Two mixed balds and an adult blonde brown’. ‘No chance.’

‘Hey what about a black and white dog?’ (Look out for that one around the table!) ‘Can anyone find me a mixed-race parsnip and a yellow carrot?’ Arghh!

The whole thing has become utterly ridiculous.

Nothing more than a pathetic attempt to fool the viewing public that good old diversity is truly working and we are all living the paradise of goodwill and human understanding.

Well I’m sorry, I maintain that truth in these matters, however hard it is to bear, is the only pathway to peaceful resolution. For those who would rather not hear the truth, I leave you with an ominous reflection of the great George Orwell, who wrote: ‘The further society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those who speak it’! Ain’t that the truth.

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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Richard Shanley THE story of the ‘hubris and greed’ of billionaire Sir Philip Green’s controversial rise to retail power is set to be turned into a TV drama.

Mammoth Screen, the company behind Victoria and Poldark, has secured the rights to adapt a book covering the Arcadia Group boss’s business dealings. Damaged Goods: The Inside Story of Sir Philip Green, The Collapse of BHS and the Death of The High Street, written by Sunday Times business journalist Oliver Shah, was published in the summer. It follows the ascent of Sir Philip, who through Arcadia owns high street brands including Top Shop, Burton and Dorothy Perkins.

The book came out a few months before the retail tycoon was named as the businessman behind an injunction against the Daily Telegraph. The newspaper had earlier reported that an unnamed businessman had been granted an injunction to prevent them revealing alleged sexual ha-

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TV drama to tell story of Sir Philip Green’s rise to power

GREEDY GREEN: Sir Philip Green’s story will be turned into a TV drama. rassment and racial abuse of staff.

Sir Philip previously made headlines during the collapse of British Home Stores (BHS),

which was sold off for £1 in 2015, ultimately leading to thousands of job losses. The company’s boss, Damien Timmer, told Radio

Times magazine: “Oliver’s book is an unparalleled account of the last 40 years of big business in this country. It’s the ultimate story

of hubris and greed. We look forward to adapting this extraordinary book into a gripping and seminal drama for our times.”

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BRAZEN: Franco’s family refuse to reinter his body in a discreet location.

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

THE retired police chief Jose Manuel Villarejo, is now in prison awaiting trial for money laundering, breach of confidence and sundry criminal offences.

In retaliation he is revealing bugged conversations with political celebs who would obviously rather those conversations were not made public.

Villarejo isn’t fussy, and is as happy embarrassing the PP as the PSOE, and his latest victim is Dolores de Cospedal.

De Cospedal, accompanied by her husband Ignacio Lopez del Hierro, entertained him in her office at the Partido Popular’s Calle Genova headquarters in Madrid.

At the time she was the PP’s secretarygeneral and wanted the lowdown on party grandee Javier Arenas, the mentor whom by then she had turned on.

Villarejo was also asked to keep businessman Lopez del Hierro au fait with Gurtel developments.

De Cospedal who has now resigned from the PP’s executive committee, remains superglued to her parliamentary seat but what emerges from the bugged conversations is their banality and dullness. John Le Carre it ain’t.

Kingly reflections IT has been said that in Spain, the Left and especially the far Left, identifies democracy with republicanism.

That’s logical, bearing in mind that until Franco’s death, the only time democracy was present, recognisable and documented in Spain was the Second Republic, declared in 1931 and interred in 1939.

It’s hardly surprising that the Catalan separatists who want to abolish Spain, also want to abolish the monarchy, still incensed by Felipe VI’s speech calling for unity on October 2 last year, following the unauthorised referendum.

Sign of the times MEMBERS of the former Catalan government who are now remanded in prison, will no longer be charged with rebellion, only sedition, which still sounds more like Ruritania or a banana republic than a 21st century democracy.

The third charge of misappropriation of public funds also remains, and there can be nothing more representative of the 21st century than that.

That speech appeared to have been written by the then-PP government but according to some sources it was all Felipe’s own work, although it’s debatable if that makes the speech itself any better.

What is not debatable, is that the speech made matters worse. For non-separatists and the rest of Spain, Felipe was preaching to the converted while the separatists refused to get the message.

It was a far cry from his father’s speech on the night of February 23 in 1981 when Juan Carlos defused a coup d’état.

If it’s any consolation, Felipe can at least reflect that the world’s most civilised and democratic countries all have monarchies - and that still includes Spain.

Grandad’s legacy FRANCISCO FRANCO’S descendants continue to fret about where to bury the old dictator whose remains will be remo v e d f rom the Va lle de Los C a idos mausoleum where he lies in state.

The family’s arrogance and refusal to bury him discreetly and out of the way is totally in character, but the demand for their democratic rights grates like a fingernail on a blackboard.

Aren’t they aware that under grandad they’d have had none?

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I didn’t knock Christianity WHEN did I knock Christianity? I didn’t and I am one!

Although I was disappointed to see the ‘God himself told the Christians themselves that homosexuality is an abomination’ card was played by Michael Hill (Letters, Issue 1470).

He said a lot more too, Mike, but the majority of Christians don’t seem to apply those to their daily lives either. I also don’t believe any god would condemn anyone based on sexual persuasion!

However, I am on the fence when it comes to the business’s decision and ultimate court findings and want to make it clear that I had no objection to Leapy’s opinion on that subject.

On one hand I feel the positive discrimination being demonstrated in the UK goes too far the wrong way.

However, I am not so sure I agree that someone should be refused something that would otherwise be available to them had it not been for their sex, sexuality, religion etc.

My outrage was at the tone of the column, the name calling and reference to lunatics and militants for having views different to the columnist’s own.

As for my reference to the civility of the UK, I hold my hands up as being inappropriate. Sure, there are things in Spain that I might not agree with, but I chose to make this country my home for all the positives this country also holds.

Jamie Truby

Living in past!

LOOKING GOOD: David de Gea looks young for his age!

Keeping young for his age I JUST happened to notice that among the birthdays in edition 1739 was David de Gea the Manchester United goalkeeper. Apparently he was 90 years old on November 7 and I have to say that he does not look a day over 27!!

Peter Sanderson Editor’s note: With apologies – to our readers and Mr de Gea - due to a glitch the year of his birth (90) was reported rather than his age. Thanks for keeping us on our toes Peter!

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OUR VIEW

Tax move welcome A DECISION from the Spanish government to make banks bear the costs of a controversial mortgage tax is a welcome end to a saga of contradictory decisions from the courts.

The Supreme Court originally heard the case last month and decided first to make the banks pay the levy, overturning 20 years of legal precedent.

That decision was reversed after the shares of Spanish banks tumbled on the stock market and customers were made to pay.

The government stepped in, with Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez saying customers would ‘never again’ pay the charge.

The government’s decision is a boost for borrowers and homeowners. It is also a positive move for the Spanish Treasury which has secured €2 billion a year from the levy as a result.

The unwelcome part of the saga comes from it exposing the influence private capital and the financial industry has on Spain’s legal and political system.

A court decision should, under the rule of law, be the final say on the matter. No less so than with the Supreme Court, the highest legal body in the land.

The court’s earlier reversal showed financial institutions, which are not accountable to the Spanish people, enjoyed far too much influence over them.

The government’s intervention is welcome because it means the people’s representatives were able to force powerful commercial interests to play by the rules.

Now we want to hear your views.

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NOLOTIL BAN: Painkiller ‘will no longer be prescribed’ to Brit tourists in Spain following inquiry I’m Irish and I think it is the best pain killer around. I had it intravenously in hospital and boy does it work!

Pat S It’s not just Brits it’s northern Europeans too.

FURTHER to the letter from Jamie Truby commenting on Leapy Lee, if you think his latest rant was bad you should have read the one about the Grenfell Tower disaster when he said many would have preferred to be burnt alive rather than being woken up at that time.

His weekly views I am afraid are a reflection of the problems he regularly comments on in the UK. He fails to understand the UK like every other major country is now multicultural, his views are in a time warp from 50 years ago.

He continually runs down what is happening in the UK and thinks everyone should be white and with the good old British bulldog spirit, while he never misses a week without a stab at Jeremy Corbyn and his ‘looney lefties’ as he calls them. He seems to forget his right wing Tories are the very ones supposedly running the country.

Ray Osborne

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Eight migrants picked up from boat which landed on Axarquia beach with two bodies Let us hope the rest are all safe and well, and returned to their families back home as soon as possible.

PM

BREAKING: Government transport minister quits and calls for new Brexit referendum Fast forward five months. Brexit has happened. You need to fly from (say) Glasgow to Paris. You need your British passport to get on and off the plane. No problem. But what if you fly from Glasgow to Belfast. It’s an INTERNAL

COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE UK flight. No need for a passport - no different from Glasgow to London. You hire a car in Belfast. You drive to Dublin via the ‘open’ Irish border with no passport checks.

You’re in an EU country with NO PASSPORT, no ID. You’re anonymous to the authorities anywhere. Now do you understand why Britain’s BREXIT plans are unworkable.

You’re looking at a criminal’s or terrorist’s paradise! The British government needs to wake up! So do the more thoughtless BREXIT supporters who think the Irish border is not an issue.

Brian E He’s a ‘remainer’ who’s trying to cause trouble.

2016: Jo Johnson - ‘it’s time to move on, unite and deliver Brexit.’

2018: ‘I believe it is entirely right to go back to the people and ask them to confirm their decision to leave the EU.’ Reg B We have already voted, a new vote would be rigged, don’t be fooled.

Wendy

WATCH: ‘Looky looky’ man floors tourist with punch to head in Spain The man in blue attacks the street vendor and he defends himself. Looks very simple. I have dealt with hundreds of disputes between street vendors and customers and yet to find one where the street vendor was at fault.

Jaime

WATCH: Spanish couple THROWN OFF flight to Spain for failing to speak in English claim The a****** recording the video could also have helped and translate for the poor old guy.

Martin

An international laughing stock?

Another well needed dose of common sense.

Graham K

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Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man pppOK, stop it now. I’ve had enough of this ‘identifying’ nonsense!

The straw that broke the camel’s back is I’ve just read that a 69-year-old man who now identifies as a 45-year-old has begun a legal battle to lower his age to help him pull women on Tinder. Emile Ratelband argues if transgender people are allowed to change their sex, he should be allowed to change his date of birth.

The entrepreneur and self-help guru says doctors told him he has the body of a 45-yearold, and he’s suing his local authority in the Netherlands after they refused to amend his age on official documents. It’s nonsense. He’s taking the Mickey but who can blame him for trying. He reckoned if he’s 45 again he can get a mortgage and buy a new house and talks about other benefits.

Society, governments and anyone else that is involved have got to stop all this ‘identifying.’ Take the case of the 62-year-old bloke - a convicted sex offender and paedophile who, after being sent to a men’s prison, told authorities he ‘identified’ as a woman. So the authorities moved him to a women’s prison where he

attacked and sexually assaulted four women.

Are they bonkers? Other than changing his name and wearing wigs and women’s clothing, he made no effort to embark on gender reassignment. As I’ve said before, I don’t care if you are gay, straight, bi, asexual, trans or anything else. But, once you start using all ‘identifying’ stuff to hurt men, women and children, animals or plants you don’t have any rights or civil liberties and all the do-gooders and such can KMA. Lock ‘em up, throw away the key!

Now, we all have printers. They used to be very expensive but now you can buy a hokey cokey 2000 all singing and dancing one for €50. Good price we all think when we buy them. How do they do it for the money, you ask? Well I’ll tell you how they do it. They rob you blind when you want to buy a new ink cartridge which, by the way seems to last a much shorter time than they used to when printers were €400-500. Did you know that printer ink, pro rata, is more expensive than gold in terms of weight? They charge over €40 for a multi pack of cartridges which is actually almost the price of the printer. Another absolute rip off! It reminds me of the old days when they used to almost give away razors but charge fortunes for the razor blades. They got their comeuppance when the disposal razor was invented. Hmmmm there’s an idea! mikesenker@gmail.com

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STOKE HIGH SCHOOL in Ipswich reported concerns to the Home Office that a pupil claiming to be 15 might be much older, when classmates posted a photo of him on social media with the caption: ‘How’s there a 30-year-old man in our maths class?’

Images were shared online of a Facebook picture of a man with a beard, alleging it was the ‘pupil’.

The problem is, those doing age assessments for refugees, have to operate within rules to ensure fairness. Decisions can be neither arbirtary nor inconsistent.

It’s a problem not unique to the UK. In some countries, medical evidence is gathered to reach a decision (A case in Sweden where a refugee who claimed to be a minor, was reckoned by dentists to be 38), but the British medical establishment isn’t happy to use such information for non-medical purposes.

The 6ft 1in ‘pupil’ told classmates he needed GCSEs, as qualifications from his country may not be recognised in the UK. This is often the case at all different levels in the belief that ‘foreign’ qualifications won’t be acceptable.

TECH FOR THE TIMID THE quotation stopped me dead in my digital tracks: ‘The best sign of a healthy relationship, is no sign of it on Facebook’.

I’d only just finished lowering my eyebrows over the findings of an American tech journalist.

He discovered through diligent and dogged research, that Google knew everywhere he had been, even though ‘location’ was disabled on his phone. It knew how much he exercised, all of his interests, who his friends were, who he worked for, what he bought, that his daughter was pregnant (she hadn’t yet told him), and it still had every e-mail he had ever received or sent - even deleted ones.

That’s just for starters.

Privacy is the price we pay for our brave new digital world. Millennials worry less about this trade-off than the more fogeyish among us. Get over it pops, they say.

So we must, like it or not. It’s either that these days, or go and live in a cave.

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School’s out! Is a 15-year-old schoolboy really a 30-year-old refugee?

STOKED: No doubt the adult was delighted to gain access to education in the high school.

OK so why didn’t he go to a FE college, more geared to adult students? like Suffolk New College, which has over 3,000 students aged 16+. Parents of 15-year-old daughters in the same class could be concerned, as he reportedly bombarded a female classmate with texts.

Then again, he could just claim to be a girl and they’d be forced to share changing rooms with him, wouldn’t they? Oops!

But in the final analysis, let’s not be ageist! We can now claim to be whatever sex we wish, despite evidence to the contrary, so why not choose one’s age as well?

LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can they keep his money?

I sold my villa through a firm of solicitors. When signing at the notary I was inf o r m e d b y t h e m t h a t t h e b u y e r ’s s o l i c i t o r would retain four years’ worth of unpaid council tax, amounting to €1,600. I had not paid any council tax because the house was illegal and not registered on the ‘cadastro’. My solicitor now tells me that the buyer’s solicitor has given my money to the buyer. There is no way that this can be legal. Can you advise? I would like to name and shame the solicitors in question for this malpractice.

J G (Costa del Sol)

Let’s go for 65 (and a pension) during the week, and 25 at weekends to splash out on Instagrammed meals at trendy ‘pop-ups’, selfie ‘experiences’ and other millennial fun on the pension money thus obtained. Haha!

Nora Johnson’s thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer’ and ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.net) are available from Amazon. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

If the house needs David Searl to be made legal or semi- You and the Law legal and correctly regis- in Spain tered at the Property Registry, it is quite possible that the town hall will want to collect the unpaid property tax up to the legal limit of four years. If the seller, you, agrees to make a provision of funds against this liability, it is perfectly legal even though it seems unfair. Your lawyers are guilty of poor practice for not informing you of this in advance, but it is not malpractice.

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If privacy really is dead, we simply need to get over it. By Terence Kennedy

PRIVACY: How much are we sharing online?

The secret to not lying awake at night worrying just how much Big Tech knows about you, is to redefine your whole concept of privacy.

Privacy is essential when it keeps the bad guys out of your bank account. But it’s sadly outmoded now if we want to keep using those shiny new (free!) apps that insist on looting our contacts

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lists, our browsing and location history and our shopping habits.

Can you imagine the alternative: paying Google €10 or €20 a month to use its indispensable search engine? Going back to the penny-post to stay in touch with friends and family? Me neither.

The downside to Big Tech knowing everything about you is

when Big Tech gets hacked.

Some 145 million Americans discovered that rather starkly during the infamous Equifax credit rating agency breach a while back, and barely a week goes by now without news of another hack.

Yes we should be able to control who knows what about us, but we’re not there yet, and young people in particular seem happier to pay the privacy price in exchange for the undoubted benefits of the digital world.

Smart appliances and the socalled Internet of Things will only make it worse, as does every time we click ‘agree’ to give our consent.

Privacy is now an illusion, says a former Amazon executive, and if you’re a privacy zealot you don’t stand a chance.

That’s simply because what the KGB would have extracted from people under torture, we now knowingly and willingly publish on Facebook. Food for thought, but keep it to yourself.

Naked on the net AS privacy takes a beating, the best one can do is never tell people more than they need to know about you.

Always use an alias where possible, never give your main e-mail address to the commercial world, and check carefully what you’re agreeing to before hitting that button.

If you’re really concerned, under the EU’s new General Data Protection Regulations, or GDPR, you now have the right to ask Big Tech what data it holds on you.

Vary your passwords, regularly clean out your browser history, and turn off ‘location’ on your phone except if you really need it.

F i n a l l y, t r y n o t t o p o s t anything online you’d cringe to see when older and wiser. What goes on the net, stays on the net. Forever.

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Cryptic Across 1 Awfully bad sign for stomach (7) 5 Court service admitted workmanship (5) 8 Follows A-list characters (5) 9 Public relations' record are put in order (7) 10 Ordering a meal is causing uneasiness (7) 11 Plant at the southern border (5) 12 Velocity back in deep space (5) 14 Care for a spin around (5) 19 Absolute, say (5) 21 Get core rebuilt for the procession (7) 23 Apprentice from Aintree messed up (7) 24 Part of speech idealists blame (5) 25 Andres Segovia reveals his clothes (5) 26 Take out former partner's piece of land (7) Down 1 Fall reversed in American mutual funds (6) 2 Exercise makes doctor unwell (5) 3 Miss Eli arranged to give you a weapon (7) 4 One pinching a child (6) 5 Caught, she's out in game (5) 6 A group on leave (7) 7 Loudspeaker wife left out for rock (6)

13 Stew made from pet goat (7) 15 Fruit transported to Capri (7) 16 Edward is after a barbarian on the run (6) 17 Consent to give up first small account (6)

Code Breaker

18 He’s entering wager by request (6) 20 Where people box jewellery (5) 22 I race around for a girl (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 4 represents H and 13 represents B, so fill in H every time the figure 4 appears and B every time the figure 13 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 Discover or come upon accidentally, suddenly or unexpectedly (5) 4 Covering a wide range (5) 7 Of great significance or value (9) 8 Fall loosely (4) 10 Underneath (5) 13 Motionless (5) 14 Perceive by the ear (4) 17 Small houses with a single storey (9) 19 Classifies (5) 20 Speaks (5)

English - Spanish

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

Across 1 Esponja (para el aseo) (6) 4 Solapas (de chaquetas) (6) 9 Aquarium (7) 10 Steel (metal) (5) 11 Aprender (5) 12 Always (7) 13 Vendedor (11) 18 Before (5,2) 20 Envelope (5) 22 Wheel (5) 23 Terraza (7) 24 Bra (6) 25 Bathtub (6)

Down 1 People who are in charge (6) 2 Slender, often tapering extremity (3) 3 Not easy (4) 4 Devices for slowing or stopping moving vehicles (6) 5 Consequence (7) 6 Expensive (4) 9 Tenth month of the year (7) 11 Combines into one (6) 12 Crucial or decisive moment (6) 15 Small pieces (4) 16 Angler's lure (4) 18 Nocturnal bird of prey (3)

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

Down 1 Estable (6) 2 Caterpillar (5) 3 Manager (person in charge) (7) 5 Despierto (no dormido) (5) 6 Example (7) 7 Chubasco (6) 8 Of course (3,8) 14 Actriz (7) 15 Reservation (7) 16 Goats (6) 17 Refrigerator (6) 19 Compartir (5) 21 Valiente (5)

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

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

LOTTERY UK NATIONAL LOTTERY

7

12

17

38

42

44

BONUS BALL

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IRISH LOTTO

Average: 14

Saturday November 10

Good: 20

7

8

12

22

36

46

BONUS BALL

Very good: 28

31

Excellent: 36

Tuesday November 06

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14

24

36

2 9

43

40

Friday November 09

BONUS BALL

14

17

32

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LA PRIMITIVA

Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

Thursday November 08

16

22

26

30

35

39

BONUS BALL

33 6

JOKER: 6 306 097

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Saturday November 10

20

21

22

24

40

46

BONUS BALL

8

JOKER: 2 221 137

46

42

BONUS BALL

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

ENGLISH-SPANISH

CRYPTIC Across:

7 Trueno, 8 Perros, 9 Isla, 10 Entonces, 11 Cajones, 13 Laces, 15 Rubio, 17 Rara vez, 20 Príncipe, 21 Yawn, 23 Suntan, 24 Al azar.

1 Bitter, 5 Treats, 8 Oversee, 9 Ahoy, 10 Ball, 11 Slapdash, 12 Keys, 13 Cry, 14 Chad, 16 Brigands, 20 Aura, 21 Bone, 22 Evasion, 23 Regent, 24 Seemed.

Down: 1 Gris, 2 Pecado, 3 Forever, 4 Spots, 5 Prensa, 6 Come here, 12 Aquarium, 14 Maletas, 16 Ignoto, 18 Anyway, 19 Digno, 22 Weak.

Down: 2 Isolate, 3 Trellis, 4 Rests, 5 Therapy, 6 Eland, 7 Tools, 13 Convent, 14 Cyanide, 15 Arrange, 17 Rhone, 18 Geese, 19 Snags.

QUICK

KAKURO

Across: 1 Crisps, 4 Mass, 8 Split, 9 Enter, 10 North Korea, 13 Accelerate, 17 Evade, 18 Ounce, 19 Seek, 20 Afraid.

Down: 1 Cash, 2 Igloo, 3/18 Put off, 5 Alter, 6 Spread, 7 Beaker, 11 Teller, 12 Cadets, 14 Crave, 15 Tonga, 16 Feud.

CODE BREAKER

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) During your social encounters this week you meet someone who offers to help. That is great, but do ask yourself if you would be prepared to give anything in return.

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An exciting project is bubbling away in your mind but may need financial backing. Take advice from a professional or someone with successful experience in these matters. Remember that any idea has to grow, so consider what you need to see happen in five years’ time. There is little time for romance and you may decide to put that on hold because of complications.

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EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA 2

Someone will most certainly come to the rescue when your situation changes. Well, they will, won'’t they? Have Plan B ready just in case. In continuing to think in the short term you do yourself no favours. Think now of a ‘10- year plan’ and be determined to reach your goal. Bit by bit and day by day you will progress. You don’t have to rush ahead and get stressed.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20)

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A chance remark alluding to your past brings a flashback. This helps you to see a current situation more clearly. We all make mistakes and follow the same old patterns, but this time you are being forewarned. It is in your experience and power to make a different choice of action this time.

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Some exciting suggestions make you think twice about a current business matter. However, it may not be necessary to change anything but to consider the new suggestion as a sort of ‘add on’ to a current project.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The moment that you have been waiting for has arrived. A colleague has made a decision that is long overdue. Perhaps you are a little shocked and speechless because there has been such a time lag, but this will pass.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) You work hard for your money.

Make it worthwhile by trying to hold on to as much of it as possible.

Someone who is charming and plausible may try to get you involved in a fast-track money making scheme.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) By showing confidence in your own way of doing things, you inspire others. This is chiefly because you are at last finding a balance between work and home life. In the past you may have felt stressed and equated that with working - not so now.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Because you are intent on pleasing others, you may be cramping your own style. This is something that you have in abundance and it should be used. You may be feeling that a business idea does not stand a chance and, in any case, you don’t want to risk any money. .

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A juicy bit of gossip comes your way this week and it is hard to keep it quiet. You must do so, however, because there is a lot riding on it.

When people trust you, they are saying much about the relationship.

In this particular case, the person may well be able to progress you socially at some time in the future.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) The rather more serious side of your nature needs to take over this week.

Someone in a higher position is keeping an eye on you. This may be because they are considering you for promotion, so be on your best behaviour. It is important at the moment to stick to any rules and regulations or your reputation (and pocket) could be hit.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Letting life get too tame will eventually irritate you no end. Your social life needs a boost which, in turn, helps romance blossom. It is easy to be a bit lazy when things are going smoothly but we all need constant stretching. With an active mind such as yours, the important thing is to keep making progress. This may be in a physical way or in some kind of business

QUIZ: A MILK ROUND 1. Acording to the traditional seasonal song The Twelve Days of Christmas, how many maids were a-milking?

2. Carnation processed its first can of evaporated milk in which year: (a) 1899, (b) 1909 or (c) 1919?

3. First contested in 1958, with which sport would you principally associate the Milk Race?

4. Roquefort, the soft blue cheese named after a village in southern France is traditionally made from the milk of which animal?

5. Tevye, a poor Jewish milkman with five daughters, is the principal character in which famous musical, first performed on Broadway in 1964?

6. Used in processed foods and in adhesives, paints and other industrial products, what is the name of the main protein present in milk?

7. Which chocolate product was advertised with the slogan ‘a glass and a half of full cream milk in every half pound’?

8. Which prolific songsmith wrote Herman's Hermits 1966 UK Top 10 hit single No Milk Today? He also wrote or co-wrote I'm Not in Love, I'm Mandy, Fly Me, Art For Art's Sake and Dreadlock Holiday.

9. Who topped the UK singles chart in 1971 with Ernie (The Fastest Milkman in the West)?

10. Who wrote the 1954 radio drama Under Milk Wood?

Not a lot of people know that... a cow produces an average of 6.3 gallons of milk daily and 350,000 glasses of milk in a lifetime.

Answers: 1. EIGHT (8), 2. A- 1899, 3. (Road) CYCLING, 4. SHEEP (EWE), 5.

FIDDLER ON THE ROOF, 6. CASEIN, 7. CADBURY DAIRY MILK, 8.

GRAHAM GOULDMAN, 9. BENNY HILL, 10. DYLAN THOMAS

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MORE and more people are opting for a vegan lifestyle, and embracing a huge array of alternative health and beauty products.

The benefits are wide reaching and the market is vast.

For starters, switching your toothpaste to a vegan alternative can help both your smile and the environment.

White Glo’s Pure and Natural toothpaste is completely vegan and organic.

Free from fluoride, harmful chemicals and bleaches which are often incorporated into tooth whitening products, White Glo’s toothpaste formula uses natural ingredients.

There are an estimated one billion plastic toothbrushes contained within landfill sites across America alone. To try and combat this, White Glo’s toothpaste includes a free biodegradable bamboo toothbrush which naturally decomposes as opposed to plastic toothbrushes that take an estimated 400 years.

Most importantly, switching

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Benefits of a natural approach to life to vegan friendly cosmetics means products are 100 per cent cruelty free. Purchasing vegan cosmetics instantly shrinks the support for animal testing.

Moreover, using vegan cosmetics can have benefits for the individual user due to the avoidance of animal by-products such as lanolin, which commonly blocks pores and encourages acne.

Vegan cosmetics are also perfect for people with sensitive skin, due to the limited number of ingredients used to formulate them, making it less likely to irritate skin.

The naturally sourced plant ingredients used in vegan cosmetics means that inherently vegan formulas contain a greater amount of vitamins, perfect for

Panic attacks

WHILE it won’t stop panic attacks occurring, knowing what is happening to you physiologically and why, can help prevent it escalating. During an attack, you will often automatically take shallow, rapid breaths. Simple breathing exercises can help you to be conscious of filling your lungs, slowing your heart rate. Focus on relaxing your muscles. Progressive muscle relaxation (PMR), techniques such as visualisation and yoga, teach you to connect to sources of acute physical tension, so that you know where you

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keeping skin supple, healthy and bright.

Currently, non-vegan shampoos contain Sodium Lauryl Sulphate (SLS) which has been proven to encourage hair loss.

While natural plant-based alternatives such as tea tree oil and jojoba extract, stimulate hair follicles and the paraben free formula incorporated into vegan shampoo further reduces hair damage, as opposed to non-vegan alternatives.

Another simple and effective vegan swap, is substituting a plastic hair brush for a more sustainable alternative, such as a bamboo and rubber hairbrush.

Choosing a vegan hairbrush is better for the environment, as materials such as bamboo and rubber are biodegradable.

need to focus on relaxing. During an attack, try to limit the stimuli you are experiencing. If possible find a dark, quiet space where you can practise your breathing and relaxation techniques.

Avoid caffeine, a possible trigger, and drink water to avoid dehydration, another possible trigger.

Combat external stressors by making the most of audio apps, such as guided meditation, or an audio book to ground you mentally and hold your focus.

Whilst detangling hair is a painless and gentle process which preserves hair and prevents breakage, vegan hairbrushes tease the scalp releasing natural oils which promote healthier, shinier and stronger hair.

It’s clear that small modifications to vegan alternative products have an endless list of advantages, from protecting the environment, benefiting health and improving aesthetic appearance.

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SOUND WAVES: Measuring somebody’s pulse from their neck can predict damage in the brain.

Neck scans could predict Alzheimer’s disease A BRITISH study of more than 3,000 people has found that a five-minute scan could predict dementia, a decade before symptoms appear.

Researchers at University College London claims that me a s uring s ome body’s pulse from their neck can predict damage in the brain which causes problems with memory and thinking skills

in old age.

Data suggests those with the most intense pulse in this area, were around 50 per cent more likely to suffer rapid cognitive decline over the following 10 years.

The pulse of 3,191 people with an average age of 61, was measured using one of the large carotid arteries which supplies blood to the

head and neck.

An ultrasound recorded the sound waves that bounce off blood vessels.

Over the next 15 years the participants were monitored to keep an eye on their memory and problem-solving skills. The quarter of participants with the highest intensity pulse at the start of the study were around 50 per cent

more likely to have accelerated cognitive decline. This meant falling within the 15 per cent of people with the most rapid drop in thinking abilities.

If larger studies of more people are carried out, the neck scan could become a routine test which doctors give middle-aged people at risk of dementia.

A surge in the search for a smooth body NEW research reveals more and more young men are embracing the ‘hair-free body’ trend, believed to have been inspired by reality show, Love Island.

Over the last two years, the popularity of body hair removal has shot up among the nation’s men.

According to market intelligence agency Mintel, figures for June 2018 show as many as 46 per cent of all men removed hair from their bodies, up from just over a third (36 per cent) in 2016.

In fact, it seems that no place on young men’s bodies is considered too private, as they shave, wax and laser their way to the smoothest of looks. A plucky 57 per cent of young British males aged 16-24 say they have removed hair from their pubic region, compared to 40 per cent in 2016.

Meanwhile, 42 per cent of males aged 16-24 remove hair from their underarms, (16 per cent in 2016), and shaving the chest has doubled, to 30 per cent in 2018, and the

back from 10 per cent in 2016, to now 12 per cent this year.

Mintel research reveals that young men aged 16-24 are removing body hair almost as much as young women of the same age, with similar proportions of both (29 per cent of men versus 34 per cent of women).

The top three areas for women in this age group are underarms (90 per cent), legs (90 per cent) and the pubic region (75 per cent).

While almost half (45 per cent) of adults agree it is unfair that women’s bodies are expected to be hair-free, around one in five (19 per cent) adults agree that men should remove hair from their bodies.

Roshida Khanom, associate director of beauty and personal care at Mintel, said: “While the pressure on women remains higher, we’re seeing more and more young men in particular feeling the need to be hair free too.

“Reality TV shows such as Love Island have popularised hairless torsos,

normalising the hair free aesthetic amongst men.”

Facial hair removal has also increased from 73 per cent in 2016 to 80 per cent this year. Raising eyebrows, the number of Brits removing hair from their eyebrows has gone from 33 per cent in 2016 to over four in 10 (42 per cent). Nose hair removal has risen from 11 to 20 per cent.

While older men have traditionally been less concerned with hair removal (just 12 per cent of men aged over 65 removed hair from their nose in 2016), modern times have seen a shift. Recent data shows 31 per cent of men aged over 65 removed hair from their nose, with 32 per cent from their eyebrows and 34 per cent from from their ears.

However, the beard trend shows no evidence of waning, with 44 per cent of all men sporting ‘some’ stubble, 20 per cent a closely trimmed beard and 7 per cent a thick/full beard.

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You meet the nicest people on a classic motorbike STAR TEAM are accredited dealers for the classical motorbike trademarks Ural and Royal Enfield. Their objective, is to establish themselves as the go-to place for these makes on the Costa Blanca.

The company is an innovating, fast-growing firm. Their employees have years of experience in the automotive industry, and are at your disposal, with their main focus being customer satisfaction.

This is the reason why they continue to maintain excellent contacts with all well-known manufacturers, whose products are currently available at their branch.

They give you sound advice and support, from sales to aftersales service.

This includes extensive modern equipment, and an array of spare part options.

You can have peace of mind, knowing that Star Team give 100 per cent when preparing your vehicle for the road ahead.

CLASSICS: Some of Star Team’s bikes.

To quote one five-star review from the UK: “This will always be my first choice for mechanical work on the Costa Blanca.”

In their large exhibition area and showroom, you can find new and second-hand motorbikes as well as an extensive accessory range.

Go along and enjoy the unique charm of Ural and Royal Enfield bikes, or simply take a cup of coffee and browse through their accessory catalogues.

Your opinions are important to them, as they seek to obtain an ever-improving service and upto-date product list. They can organise importation, are happy to work to order and have

performed many high-quality, bespoke projects.

If your motorbike has been in an accident they can do any repair work necessary for your insurers, often at a much better price than you will find elsewhere.

Star Team, along with giving some great advice on scenic tours for motorbike enthusiasts, also organise tour days and have several routes planned out.

Their easily accessible premises are situated in El Verger right on the N332, next to the AP7-exit Denia/Ondara.

Avda. de Valencia, 49 El Verger 03770 965 750 552 / www.star-team.es

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Black Friday extravaganza IT’S that time of year again when everyone is rushing round to g r a b a b a rg a i n i n t h e now eagerly awaited BLACK F R I D AY SALES. S i e s t a G r o u p d o n ’t want you to miss out on the opportunity to grab a bargain by limiting their offers for one day, therefore they will be offering huge discounts across all of their stores for a week commencing Friday, November 23.

Yo u w i l l f i n d a h u g e choice of dining and sofa sets, corner sofa sets, sun loungers, daybeds, artificial trees and planters as well as decorative items for the home and garden.

They have also increased their SUNBRELLA range of furniture which can be left outside all year

SIESTA GROUP: A little of indoor comfort outdoors.

round and is waterproof, stain proof, UV resistant, breathable and extremely easy to clean. The range is very stylish and modern and allows you to have a little of indoor comfort outdoors.

As a company they have now been trading for over 16 years on the Costa Blanca and they pride themselves on not

only their products, which are handpicked with their customers in mind, but also their customer service.

You can buy from them with confidence and know that from start to finish the customer is the priority. They offer FREE DELIVERY with assembly of all items, either on site or beforehand where practical, making your buying experience less stressful.

Their four stores are in easily reachable locations based at Avda Del Mar Nave 15, Los Montesinos, Calle Isla Cerdena, Cabo Roig, Avda Pinatar, San Javier and N332 KM 188, Gata De Gorgos and you can view the majority of their range online at www.siestagroup.com.

The sale will run from Friday November 23 until Saturday December 1 inclusive and their dedicated sales team look forward to seeing both old and new clients.

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GURAS CURRY HOUSE, the only Nepalese and Indian restaurant in Moraira has much for you to appreciate. On arrival it won’t take long to realise that you are in a very special place.

The restaurant has recently been taken over by a truly charming gentleman who transformed the place just a few months ago.

He has brought something special and unique with him that is his own concept, based on years of experience in design and marketing of how a really 21st century Indian restaurant should look like. The emphasis is on the modern aspects of the country and cuisine, while managing to blend the more traditional and well-loved features in a positive Nepalese-Indian style.

DON’T MISS: Super surroundings for the best curry in town.

T h e d é c o r i s l i g h t a n d a i r y, with walls adorned with a mix of modern-day scenic photos and traditional paintings. So, refreshing. As for the music -

and I must add that the place was packed - it seemed everyone was tapping their feet to sounds from the 60’s, 70’s and 8 0 ’s w h i c h m a d e f o r a n i c e

change of atmosphere.

The owner has a vision for Guras Curry House and it seems that he has succeeded in creating a unique venue on the

Nepalese/Indian food map.

However, most important of all is the food and that’s where the owner has truly excelled himself.

He has managed to bring to the area excellent chefs that can produce not only your old favourites, but some wonderful personal creations that will send your taste buds to heaven.

S o , d o n ’t d i l l y d a l l y, h e a d down to Guras Curry House, the beautiful location with something special on the menu every day. They also have a takeaway service for those who want a quiet night in.

Carretera Moraira-Calpe no. 253 03724 Moraira, Alicante 965 748 298 https://gurascurry-house.business.site

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The 35-year-old recently admitted she was planning to slim down for her upcoming wedding, and she showed off the incredible results of her hard work in a floral triangle bikini.

Totally body confident, the mother-of-two offered beach goers a glimpse of her tiny back tattoo as it peeked out of her bikini bottoms and her famous cleavage.

Wearing her brunette locks in a relaxed beach style, Danczuk accessorised with just a pair of large black shades.

She was snapped without her engagement ring, probably left at home for safe-keeping as she has been regularly quoted in the media gushing about her young fiance, David.

Danczuk kept her make-up light and natural as she showed off her naval piercing as she walked along the beach, before later settling down on her towel to catch some rays.

Speaking on British TV earlier in the year, she said her future ingram danczuk) Insta n_ re laws were eager for ka k(@ Danczu CREDIT: Karen the couple to have children, but that she intended ‘to focus SELFIE QUEEN: Karen Danczuk. on the wedding’ because she’s ‘determined to get slim.’

SELFIE queen Karen Danczuk flaunted her svelte and toned figure as she sunbathed in Spain last week.

The ex-wife of Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk, who got engaged to her toyboy Spanish waiter lover David last July, enjoyed a beach day without her husband-to-be.

Ferry revealing CREDIT: Chloe Ferry(@chloegshore1) Instagram

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GEORDIE SHORE stars failed to hit the right note at the MTV Europe Music Awards, in Spain.

Chloe Ferry led the fashion faux pas list, leaving little to the imagination as she arrived at the Bilbao Exhibition Centre in a sheer jumpsuit that did nothing

to hide her modesty, paired with PVC heels.

Fellow reality show star Abbie Holborn failed to impress in a bright red lace suit, going braless to ensure everything was on display.

And in the battle of the boobs, Sophie Kasaei wore a plunging black tuxedo jacket, ensuring her best assets were centre of attention.

But she had competition in the form of Spanish singer Rosalia, who donned a pink satin tracksuit. The sporty number was adorned with huge ruffles and was paired with chunky white trainers.

CHLOE FERRY: One of the worst dressed.

Lazy weekender ELLIE YOUNG gained a massive following after appearing in the penultimate series of Big Brother.

But as the final episode aired last week, the 25-year-old was snapped sunning herself in Palma, Mallorca.

The Ibiza Weekender star was seen posing for selfies, before taking it easy on a lounger, while revealing her large thigh tattoo and glittering naval piercing.

LOOKING W-ELLIE: In Palma.

CREDIT: ellieyoung1993/Instagram

MABS annual dinner ball MABS is holding its annual Christmas dinner ball on November 24 at 7.30pm in the Marina Hotel in Benidorm.

The money raising event this year is for two electric chairs to enable carers to sup-

port MABS’ clients in their homes. Entertainment will be provided by local artists from Benidorm plus a three-course meal will be served.

MABS is a non-profit organisation and one of the

leading charities in Spain dedicated to the support of all who are affected by cancer, whether patients or those close to them.

Their aim is to help anyone affected by cancer. They can provide transport to and from hospital or clinic appointments.

Where possible, provide patients escorts if you do not have a family member or friend who can accompany you to your appointment, we can arrange for one of our volunteers to go with you.

MABS has a panel of experienced translators/interpreters who are able to attend appointments with you should it be necessary.

Depending on your situation, their volunteers may be willing to help around the house in the form of ironing, washing, gardening, walking the dog, or just visiting you

now and then.

The charity has a comprehensive stock of mobility and medical equipment including hospital beds, ripple mattresses, wheelchairs, walking frames, and other personal aids.

These are available, on loan, to MABS patients.

They have information pamphlets or booklets on cancers and their treatments, information on where to get specific items, and counsellors who can talk through any concerns you may have.

You can donate to the charity shops if you or a neighbour or friend are replacing furniture or home items in reasonably good condition.

MABS also accepts clothing, shoes and ladies’ bags in good condition.

You can buy a ticket for the Christmas dinner and ball for €35. Contact Sheila 628 783 398 or Sue 664 266 991.

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IF you want to see some top class Flamenco, then head to the Aula de Cultura in Alicante City.

Until December 1 the Caja Mediterráneo Foundation is organising the second Mediterranean Flamenco Festival, which is bringing together some of the most outstanding figures in flamenco today.

The festival is divided into four main sections. On the one hand there is a series of shows, and in parallel, master classes, screenings and a photography competition related to the festival.

Tomorrow (Friday) the festival presents a show with a markedly feminine accent.

Under the title ‘Mujeres en Flamenco’ (Women in Flamenco), the Aula de Cultura will welcome dancer Carmen Herrera, who will be accompanied by Tía Juana ‘la del Pipa,’ Lela Soto, Tomasa Peña Santiago and Gema Cantarota. In a culture that has traditionally been described as machista, it is very positive for new generations to have such positive role models, say the organisers.

Singer Arcángel will perform at the Aula de Cultura de Alicante on Friday November 23 at 8.30pm for a show in which the singer will be accompanied by guitarists

CREDIT: Arcángel/Twitter

Thrill to flamenco

HEAVENLY: Arcángel is a major draw for the festival.

Dani de Morón and Salvador Gutiérrez, as well as dancer Patricia Guerrero.

Arcángel has been a big name in flamenco practically since he started as a professional singer around the age of 15. A composer and promoter of the genre, Arcángel has received numerous critical and public awards from the Bienal de Flamenco de Sevilla (the most important in the world).

His international career includes performing at such prestigious theatres as the Carnegie Hall (New York), Teatro Real and Auditorio

Nacional de Musica (Madrid), Fundacion Gulbenkian (Lisbon), the Flamenco Biennials of Rome and the Netherlands and festivals in Aix-en-Provence, Mont de Marsan and Les Sud in Arles.

The events finish on December 1 with the concert ‘Navidad: zambomba flamenca de Jerez.’ With the help of the Grupo Jerez Flamenco Internacional, this show will focus on flamenco carols and using the zambomba.

For more information visit: http://flamenco.cajamediter raneo.es/programa/.

Touching heaven on frequency FOLLOWING the Valley Voice’s recent performance in the ‘You Raise Me Up’ multichoir concert in Benissa, thereis another chance to hear the popular singers.

Their Christmas Concert is at 7pm Saturday December 15 at The Pensionistas building, Xaló (Jalon). A festive donation of €10 will cover entry, mulled wine and mince pie. As always, their mixed choir welcomes new members - they rehearse Mondays, 4 to 6pm, in Alcalali. For more information: 966 480 062 or 699 603 088 or val leyvoiceschoircb@gmail.com.

CHOIR: Life is a song, love is the music.

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Save on home insurance IT is important to take out home insurance when buying a property in Spain.

From break-ins and accidents, to damage caused by rental guests, insurance can cover you when the unexpected happens.

But like buying insurance in the United Kingdom, there is a wide variety in the policies and prices on offer, which can make picking one a lengthy process. Thankfully, Spain also has a series of price comparison websites, which make it easier to sift through the options.

Sites such as reastreator.com, acierto.com, kelisto.es, and rankia.com all contact a variety of insurance companies on your behalf, organising the deals according to price and your needs, ensuring you only have to fill in your details once.

However, as with many things in the world of home insurance, you often get what you pay for, meaning the cheapest option is not always the best.

Things to consider when applying

WILDFIRE: Can affect countryside properties.

for insurance include whether you have a mortgage and what level of cover your bank may insist on, as well as optional cover in the event you can no longer pay your bills.

Other important factors may include taking out a policy which covers natural disasters such as flood and fire, particularly if you live in a heavily wooded area or near water.

You may also want to cover your contents, particularly if you own any expensive equipment or keep valuables at your property. A good policy may also cover portable goods such as mobile phones and laptops.

Finally, you should consider who you are going to be inviting into your home. Any policy you take out should include some form of third-party liability in the event a guest injures themselves at your property or has anything stolen.

If you are going to rent out your home for money, this will often require additional insurance.

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IF you have ever dreamed of owning your own small holding, complete with livestock, why not check out one of the many farms for sale in Spain.

With prices ranging from the tens of thousands of Euros into the millions, there is a property to suit every budget.

Many farms come complete with large amounts of land, perfect for keeping goats, pigs, chickens, bees and a generous vegetable patch; everything you could need to live off the land.

One property on offer, is a 110 square-metre house in Uleila del Campo, 50 minutes away from Almeria and on a plot of 4,129 square metres. For sale on www.spanishfarmhouses.info,

Credit: www.spanishfarmouses.info

The good life FARMHOUSE: Is on the market for €110,000. the property is settled on ‘the majestic mountain range of the Sierra de los Filabres rising up behind it, with the Sanctuary of La Virgen de la Cabeza as a landmark at the very top.’

The sellers say: ‘the house comes with an ideal plot of easily worked land, with only a gentle slope which has been planted with olive trees which are now well mature. Around the house itself there is a large gravel area bor-

dered with fruit trees.’

Inside, the house has a ‘lounge/ kitchen/diner, dominated by a wonderful fireplace and high ceilings. It has three bedrooms and a good sized bathroom.’ Better still, ‘unusually for a remote property it has electricity connected, and also has its own well.’

On sale for €110,000 the farmhouse offers potential smallholding owners plenty of options.

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MAKING money on selling a property always feels good. The capital gains tax levied on your profit, feels less so.

Like most countries, Spain taxes any gains made when selling an asset, including property. For residents this tax can reach 23 per cent on profits of more than €50,000, and a blanket 19 per cent for non-residents.

Similar to other taxes though, deductions can be written off against what you owe, meaning you could lower your liabilities if you keep the appropriate records of what you have spent.

Lawyers, C&D Solicitors explain that renovation works to your property may be a good way of decreasing any capital gains tax bill when selling. Gustavo Calero Monereo, a lawyer at the firm, says: “The expenses from the renovation and improvement of a property can reduce the tax on capital gains in the event that it is evidenced in the future sale of the property.” He clarifies though, “repair or preservation costs for the property are not deductible. Deductions only apply to renovations or improvements which increased the value of the property compared to before they were made.”

The most important thing to remember is that you must prove what you have spent on a property in order to qualify for a deduction.

Monereo explains the best way to do this is by having an architect draw up any project and oversee its construction, by applying for a building permit, forming a contract for any works between you and your builder and by keeping copies of any invoices.

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CONSTRUCTION WORKS: Could be offset against capital gains tax.

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The millennial market MILLENIALS have been accused of being many things, from work-shy and over-dependent on technology, to easily-offended ‘snowflakes.’

Now, experts have concluded this generation - broadly agreed to cover anyone born between the early 80’s and mid-90’s - has even affected the way the housing market works.

At the recent Real Estate Forum, property experts warned how attitudes of those aged under 38 towards work, money and responsibility, were creating shifts in Spain’s rental and property development sectors.

While the housing market continues to boom here, developers say they are concerned the rental sector is spiralling out of control, with millennials often reluctant to put down permanent roots.

According to one publication, only 15 per cent of buyers are aged under 38. Mostly graduating from school or university during the middle of a recession, many millennials have found that opportunities to get their foot in the door of preferred jobs are limited.

Experts say this in turn has created an emphasis on enjoying the now, rather than saving for later, fuelling a

generation heavily reliant on renting.

Alberto Valls, a financial advisor partner at consultancy firm Deloitte, explained: “Given this situation, in Spain a reform is urgently needed to professionalise the offer and the management of the rent.”

As technology continues to grow, so does the rate at which millennials use the internet. Marcos Foncuevas, manager of Valdebebas, a new development in Madrid, says this is shaping the way young people spend money, explaining: “They have everything online and can compare everything.

There is no physical store that can compete, so now the challenge of any shopping centre and any business in it, is to offer chances and experiences that can compete with the speed of the internet.”

Experts also agree increasing techsavviness may shape the way new homes are built, with developers choosing to include ‘smart’ systems, or offer the use of virtual reality simulators to help advertise their homes.

Foncuevas says millennials are also less likely than previous generations to hold traditional office-based jobs, creating a need to think about the lay-

NEW BUILDS: May soon include a home office. out of new developments.

He explains, “We must remember that millennials invented the collaborative economy.

“This, beyond Uber or Airbnb, suggests that they need new services from buildings. From co-working spaces in the same development, to areas which combine leisure and work.”

All this begs multiple questions about the changing face of Spain’s property market, from what impact rising rental rates will have on house prices, homelessness and the age at which young people leave home, to whether the smart homes might be the investment property of the future.

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Fortunately, there are plants you can grow in the home which are ideal for stressedout people, nature’s very own way of improving well-being.

So in order to enhance the feeling of calm and well-being inside the home, why not consider increasing the amount of

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As well as being a wonderful addition to cooking, studies have found that the smell of mint can lower feelings of frustration and boost awareness. Growing a mint plant from cuttings is simple, just cut a healthy spring, root it and plant.

Aloe vera is great for sunburn, moisturising the skin and soothing insect bites, but it also purifies the air of carcinogens and emits oxygen at night. Aloe plants should be potted in a soil mix made for succulents. They prefer to be dry and warm, so water only

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The snake plant is also known to be great for purifying the air during the night and emitting oxygen while you sleep. The added bonus is that they are extremely hardy, and hard to kill.

Basil is good to have around the kitchen. It is perfect for pesto and contains a compound called linalool which has been found to reduce the activity of certain genes which go into overdrive during stressful situations. So it’s worth adding to as many meals as you can.

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Trunk-makers to the creator of Sherlock Holmes Nick Horne The Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England MOUNT STREET is an almost quiet, almost secluded street in the heart of Mayfair, London. People walk, and hyper cars glide though this locale, which is home to one of the most select of London hotels, The Connaught.

Mount Street also hosts globally select retailers of high-end watches, shoes, clothing and restaurants, but of primary interest to me is that Mount Street is also home to the London outlet of a 165year-old brand which you may not have heard of, Goyard.

Goyard do not advertise and they do not give interviews. In 1998, Jean-Michel Signoles and his sons bought the company and took it private. With a heritage stretching back to before 1853, it has had several owners whose names successively adorned a company with a growing elite patronage.

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CRYSTAL WINDOWS, doors, conservatories and glass curtains have become a household name synonymous with quality and service. A known and trusted business on the Costa Blanca since 1997.

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The multilingual team is there to help. In the event that you suffer problems with their products (aside from accidental breakages) they have a dedicated service team at your disposal, who will help you to a speedy resolution.

Crystal Windows is the only company on the Costa Blanca to manufacture its own curved PVC arches.

Based at the heart of the stunningly beautiful northern Costa Blanca coastline, they have proudly been improving their clients’ views from Valencia to Alicante for over 20 years, with more than 12,000 installations completed on

EXCLUSIVE: One in one out is the rule at Goyard. yard moved to 233 Rue Saint-Honore, Paris, the year before the now globally-famed trunk-makers Louis Vuitton opened on the Rue des Capucines.

Goyard have remained at 233 Saint-Honore ever since. Over the decades, select outlets were opened

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Celebrity customers include the Duke and Duchess of Windsor, and Catherine Deneuve. Contemporary celebs including Madonna, Victoria

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What is the enduring appeal of Goyard? Perhaps it’s their clutch bags or tote bags which are so exquisitely a la mode, though cost a mere £700 and upwards. Your trunk will cost rather more.

Perhaps it’s the fact they still make luggage the way they did over a century ago. As Goyard put it, everything is possible. ‘Champagne trunk, tea trunk, polo trunk, caviar trunk, bicycle trunk, gardening trunk, fishing trunk, picnic trunk, everything is possible from classical to extravagant, and each customer’s imagination is the only limit as exemplified by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary trunk, which included a fully-equipped office, or Alain Ducasse’s state-of-the-art culinary trunk.’

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Animal based protein is a necessary component in a cat’s diet, as it supplies essential amino acids, such as taurine.

In addition to protein, your cat requires a proper balance of fats, carbohydrates, minerals, vitamins, and water. Many nutritional experts feel that providing a variety of different diets/foods for your cat will help to provide optimal nutrition.

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Some owners suggest the addition of supplements to the daily diet of elderly cats.

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‘WHAT greater gift than the love of a cat,’ said Charles Dickens. We have to agree with him.

If a cat’s love is earned, it is of great value. But there are cat lovers, and there are cat lovers.

One of our home owners on the Costa Blanca lives in a lovely villa with sea views, and 10 rescued cats who all adopted her.

They chose her because she feeds the local strays who visit her property.

This spring, she is looking for somebody who can care for her cats while she is away, between March and April.

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In 1968, one year after Hyundai Motor Company was founded, it signed an agreement to build Fords under licence in South Korea.

Toyota C-HR Hybrid: Big and butch TOYOTA’S C-HR Hybrid certainly catches the eye, and is far more visually striking than most SUVs. The C-HR looks the way it does because it’s designed to appeal to bright young things who might need or want a small SUV with a modicum of practicality, but aren’t yet ready to blend in.

The C-HR’s quirkiness continues inside, where a swooping dashboard sits beneath a leather-effect soft-touch pad and houses a well placed, solid-feeling switchgear.

Elsewhere you’ll find enormous cup holders, tracts of glossy piano-black plastic and, on the door trims, some curious three-dimensional diamond-effect patterns which seem to be designed to ape the quilted inserts found on pricier

BIG BEAST: This Toyota cuts an imposing figure.

cars.

These look and feel more like petrified crocodile skin, but they’re in keeping with the quirky feel of the C-HR and make a refreshing change from the

usual fabric or fauxleather swatches.

The infotainment system is a little fiddly, and you have to take your eyes off the road to make sure you’ve pressed the

right touch-sensitive ‘buttons.’

The chunky rear pillars extend into the doors, meaning there is no window where your head actually rests, only a thick chunk of black plastic.

While there is plenty of leg room on offer, the boot could be a little bigger.

The hybrid C-HR accelerates seamlessly and silently, and easily zips around corners.

The steering is quick and responsive with lots of grip and neat body control,

Addison Lee seeks autonomy SELF-DRIVING cars could be on London’s streets within three years under a partnership between private hire firm Addison Lee, and British driverless car pioneers Oxbotica.

The companies have signed a deal, to develop and deploy autonomous vehicles by 2021. Oxbotica will start mapping more than 250,000 miles of public roads in and around London from next month.

While the link-up could eventually allow Addison Lee’s fleet of black Mercedes and Prius cabs to be driven autonomously, the 5,000 drivers in London will remain employed, says the firm.

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Mercedes W123 series: MERCEDES-BENZ estate cars are widely seen as among the best luggage-loaders you can buy, offering a winning blend of practicality and comfort.

It is now 40 years since Mercedes-Benz launched its first factory-built estate, on the plat-

form of the long running - and highly regarded - W123 series.

The saloon version made its debut in early 1976 and they have been engineered to behave exactly the same as the original model, even when fully laden or towing.

The vehicles were built at a new production facility in Bremen, under the supervision of Mercedes staff from its headquarters in Stuttgart, so that the new model would be constructed to the same exacting standards as the rest of the range.

As well as the new extended bodywork at the rear, alterations include a strengthened rear chassis and tailgate, along with engine-driven, self-levelling hydraulic suspension at the back.

Although these models established themselves as the most desirable estate cars in the world at the time, the demand was so great that Mercedes originally decided not to produce them in right-hand drive.

With a straight-six-cylinder, twin-cam engine developing 188bhp, the range-topping 280TE model had a top speed of nearly 130mph.

Very few now survive in good original order or with low mileage. Because they were so sturdy, they were often used to carry large loads and even for semi-commercial purposes.

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City slickers down United

CLASS ACT: Ilkay Gundogan scored after a move that featured 44 passes.

MANCHESTER CITY proved just too good for rivals Manchester United as they won 3-1 in Sunday’s derby at the Etihad Stadium.

City dominated the early stages and took the lead through David Silva from eight yards, before Sergio Aguero’s fine strike from an acute angle just after the break put them in control.

Anthony Martial’s penalty 10 minutes later got United back in contention, but the champions regained their twogoal advantage with four minutes remaining as substitute Ilkay Gundogan controlled superbly and slotted home from close range.

The result means City go back to the top of the league, two points above Liverpool and four above Chelsea, while United languish in eighth, 12 points off the pace.

City next go to West Ham after the international break, while United will host Crystal Palace.

Goals from Mohamed Salah and Xherdan Shaqiri condemned Fulham to their sixth successive Premier League defeat (2-0) against Liverpool on Sunday.

Salah’s 34th goal at Anfield gave Liverpool a first half lead just seconds after Aleksandar Mitrovic had his headed goal controversially ruled out for offside at the other end.

Shaqiri’s cushioned finish early in the second half secured Liverpool’s 10th league win of the season, equalling

their best ever start.

Liverpool will next travel to Watford, while Fulham will entertain Southampton.

Juan Foyth bounced back from a difficult Premier League debut to score the winner as Tottenham battled to a 1-0 win over Crystal Palace.

The 20-year-old Argentine, who conceded two penalties against Wolves last weekend, headed home from close range in the 66th minute at Selhurst Park to secure a fourth win in a row in all competitions for Spurs.

Palace, without injured forward Wilfred Zaha, struggled to

create chances, with substitute Alexander Sorloth spurning their best opening in injury time when he was denied by Hugo Lloris.

Spurs have now won seven of their eight away league matches this season, while Palace are yet to win at home.

Spurs next have a mouthwatering tie at home to Chelsea after the international break on November 24, while Crystal Palace travel to Manchester United on the same day.

Other fixtures that weekend will see Bournemouth host Arsenal, Everton entertain Cardiff, and Brighton face Leicester.

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ENGLAND’S Lee Westwood shot a stunning eight-under-par 64 to win the Nedbank Challenge, his first victory on the European Tour for four years.

The former world number one took the outright lead from Louis Oosthuizen with a birdie at 17, completing the back nine in 31 to finish on 15 under.

The South African’s challenge faded as he finished third on 11 under, behind Spain’s

overnight leader Sergio Garcia.

“I’m a bit emotional to be honest,” said a tearful Westwood, 45.

“You’re never sure whether you’re going to be able to do it again. I was just trying to hit fairways, stick to my gameplan and hit it in the right places.”

Westwood, who carded six birdies and an eagle on the second hole in his round, celebrated with caddie and girlfriend

Helen Storey after holing a putt on the 18th.

The win was Westwood’s 24th on the European Tour and his third at the Nedbank.

Oosthuizen carded a 69, with a damaging bogey on the 15th and then finishing with a double bogey on the 18th.

Garcia hit a 70 as his twoshot lead from round three evaporated while England’s Ross Fisher (70) was fourth on eight under.

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Westwood swings in for win SPARKS FLYING: This clash denied Verstappen victory.

Formula 1: Verstappen loses cool LEWIS HAMILTON claimed a fortunate win in the Brazilian Grand Prix after Red Bull’s Max Verstappen lost the lead in a collision with backmarker Esteban Ocon.

Verstappen was on course for a superb win when Force India’s Ocon left his car on the inside of the Red Bull at the Senna S and forced it into a spin.

The incident saw the Dutchman drop back to second place and although he came back at Hamilton, he could not quite catch him.

A clearly furious Verstappen confronted Ocon in the driver

weighing area afterwards and reportedly pushed the Frenchman three times in his frustration.

Both drivers were called to see the race stewards to explain the incident, and Verstappen has been ordered to carry out ‘two days of public service’ to atone for his behaviour.

The punishment is similar to that served by Sebastian Vettel after his collision with Hamilton at the 2017 Azerbaijan Grand Priz, where he took part in educational activities organised by the FIA. Hamilton’s win helped Mercedes secure the constructor’s

championship, with Ferrari’s challenge fading.

Verstappen looked on course for victory after surging through the field from fifth to second, before overtaking Hamilton on lap 39.

However, on lap 44 Ocon, who was fresh from pitting for new tyres, clipped the Red Bull when trying to unlap himself.

Verstappen’s right rear wheel caught Ocon’s left front as he turned into the corner, pitching him into a spin and into the runoff area.

The Dutchman blasted ‘what an idiot’ into the radio.