Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 31 Jan - 6 Feb 2019 Issue 1752

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ISSUE NO. 1752

31 Jan - 6 Feb 2019

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Brits in gas horror Expat neighbour praised by police

QUICK WORK: John rushed to the scene.

By Julie Day GUARDIA CIVIL have praised an expat who rushed to the aid of an elderly British couple who were caught in a gas explosion.

Without the swift actions of John Frank and his Norwegian friend Roger the consequences of the frightening Monday afternoon incident could have

been much worse, say police.

The victims, both in their 70’s, were seriously injured due to the gas explosion in their bungalow.

According to the Provincial Fire Brigade, it is likely that an accumulation of butane gas in the kitchen caused the accident, and as the couple had only just purchased two new gas bottles, this theory is well supported.

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THE hotelier’s association in Alicante has criticised the national government’s lack of investment in the area, such as the lack of investment in Alicante-Elche airport and a much-needed rail connection link to the airport.

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LOCAL POLICE in Cartagena will run out of legal working hours before the summer unless investment is approved to replace the officer vacancies currently covered by extra hours and overtime, warned PP councillor Esperanza Nieto.

Youth cards BENEJÚZAR can now issue the Carnet Jove under the agreement signed by the mayor, Antonio Bernabé, and the president of the Valencian Institute of Youth (IVAJ), Mónica Oltra, extending the existing agreement between both institutions.

Surgery wait AVERAGE delays for non-urgent surgical procedures scheduled in the Ribera Salud group hospitals of Torrevieja and Vinalopó, stands at 45 days, which is 70 days less than in other public hospitals in the Valencia region.

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BURNING ISSUE: Protestors hoped to influence the vote.

Brexit vote

By Joe Gerrard BRITISH MPs gathered in parliament on Tuesday to debate a range of options for Brexit the Prime Minister could present to the country and to the EU going forward.

Theresa May opened the debate in the House of Commons which took place ahead of the second crunch vote on her proposed Withdrawal Agreement.

Speaker John Bercow put seven amendments to the agreement forward for a vote.

The Labour opposition’s amendment was among those accepted. It would commit the government to rule out a no deal by seeking a permanent customs union with the EU or holding a second referendum on withdrawal if passed.

Amendments put forward by Conservative MP Dominic Grieve and Labour MP Yvette Cooper would lead to further votes on the deal and to a possible extension of Article 50 respectively.

Conservative Graham Brady’s amendment calling for changes to the Northern Irish backstop was also selected. May signalled the government would be prepared to back it.

MPs voted on each amendment in turn on Tuesday. The results of the vote were not known at the time of this newspaper’s publication.

Any that passed would commit the government to following through on their provisions if the overall deal also passed.

For the full results of Tuesday’s vote visit: www.euroweeklynews.com.

Gas blast couple are ‘on the mend’ The impact of the 2.30pm explosion was so strong that it caused the windows and doors at the back of the property to blow out and shatter, with the frames crumpling at the same time.

First on the scene were neighbour John and Roger, who were at home at the time. “On hearing the explosion, we rushed round to Shirley and Brian’s,” said John. “The first thing we saw was Shirley, who suffers from dementia, just standing there in the middle of the room in shock. Her clothes were all burnt and had fallen off and her body was totally black. She looked like a zombie from a film and had suffered particularly serious burns to her legs.

“Brian, who’s got cancer, was covered in glass and blood.”

Roger immediately called the emergency services, who after several minutes of questions about the incident, sent Torrevieja firefighters, Local Police, Guardia Civil and ambulance services round to the bungalow, which is located in Calle Segovia in the La Mata area of Torrevieja.

In the meantime, after turning off the gas and electricity, John and Frank proceeded to fill buckets with water and managed to put out the clumps of fire that were dotted about the kitchen and front room.

The couple’s 12-year-old Westie also suffered serious burns and is now recovering after being treated by the Clínica Veterinaria San Antón in Guardamar. “Sammie, the dog, looked like burnt toast,” said John, “so we put him in the shower and cleaned him up before he was taken away to be treated.”

After the emergency medical team checked Shirley and Brian over, they were rushed to Torrevieja Hospital and from there to the Burns Department at the General Hospital in Alicante.

Thankfully, Shirley and Brian are going to be fine and will be returning home within a few days, Frank and John told the EWN shortly after visiting the couple in hospital on Tuesday afternoon.

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Bruised but lucky

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A TWELVE-YEAR-OLD boy was injured last Monday after he was h i t b y a c a r o n th e Avenida Baleares in Torrevieja.

The ac c i d e n t t o o k p la c e at 8.45am and luckily the boy was not seriously hurt. He was taken to Torrevieja’s hospital and treated for multiple bruising.

Transparent THE University of Alicante (UA) is the most transparent academic institution of the Valencian Community and the sixth nationally, according to the Dyntra report (Dynamic Transparency Index). The UA obtained a score of 71.97 per cent, the same as the University of Valencia, with which it shares a position.

New centre THE town hall of Pilar de la Horadada has received a €100,000 grant from the Valencia Regional Government, which it will put towards the cost of renovating the medical centre in Pinar de Campoverde.

The company carrying out the renovation work has six months to complete the work.

New board TO R R E V I E J A’ S M u n i c i p a l School Council, chaired by the t o w n ’s m a y o r J o s é M a n u e l Dolón, met last week in an extraordinary session with the aim of renewing the board and welcoming new members, including parents and union representatives, who will oversee the educational needs of the municipal’s children.

WILD: Doñana National Park is home to more than 100 bird species.

Natural beauty THIS picture of a flamingo taking flight was shot in southwest Spain’s Doñana National Park which will be in the spotlight on Saturday when the world marks World Wetlands Day. The National Park lies in the Andalucian province of Huelva and also crosses into Cadiz and Sevilla. It covers an area of 543 square kilometres, 135 of which are protected.

Doñana is in the Guadalquivir River delta which flows into the Atlantic Ocean, creating its many marshes

and wetlands. Its level of biodiversity is one of a kind in Europe. The National Park is home to a myriad of animal species including fallow deer, Spanish red deer, wild boars, European badgers and the endangered Iberian lynx.

There are also several bird species that live or migrate there from Africa, including flamingos, mallards, Egyptian vultures and the endangered Spanish imperial eagle.

Doñana was established as a nature

Showcase THE town hall of Benejúzaris promoting its website bene j u z a re x p e r i e n c e . c o m, w h i c h showcases many of the Vega Baja town’s local produce, including garlic, olive oil, cold meats, honey, eggs, chips and handmade cakes and biscuits.

The site also includes recipes and important local gastronomic events.

House fire A MAN aged 30 was transferred to the Vega Baja Hospit a l l a s t w e e k a f t e r s u ff e r i n g from smoke poisoning caused by a fire at his home in Almoradí. The fire started at 11am in the victim’s detached house, with the fire raging across the second floor of the building.

The RBL in print THE Royal British Legion has launched its first glossy magazine in the Spain District North region, an area that stretches from Almeria to Valencia.

Edition One, which contains 48 pages of news, reports and photos from across the entire region, was put together by Kevin Reardon and Peggy Wyatt from the Orihuela Costa and Hondon branches.

Torrevieja, Orihuela Costa, Hondon and La Marina/Gran Alacant are all

well featured with excellent articles on each of their Remembrance ceremonies held last November, with the front cover image also local, featuring Nicola and Patricia, the standard bearers of the Orihuela Costa and Torrevieja branches.

Although an E-magazine is published four times a year, this is the first time that the RBL has produced a printed version and they hope that the new glossy magazine is just as successful, if not more so.

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reserve in 1969 when the Spanish government and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) bought parts of its marshland. It became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1994.

The National Park attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors every year. But it has also come under threat from farming and irrigation.

A holding dam at the Los Frailes mine burst and released acidic water into the Guadalquivir in 1998. It cost an estimated €240 million to clean up.

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Out the back way A SEVENTY-YEAR-OLD man was injured in a traffic accident that happened on the CV-95, close to the access roundabout leading into San Miguel de Salinas.

Two vehicles were involved in a head-on collision at around 8.45am.

As a result of the impact, one of the cars overturned, ending up on the side of the road and the driver, a 70-year-old Norwegian man, became trapped inside.

Local Police, Guardia Civil and the Fire Brigade were called to the

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scene of the accident last week and proceeded to rescue the man from his vehicle.

Firemen managed to free the driver by pulling him out through the boot.

The pensioner was checked over by the ambulance team and managed to escape with cuts and bruises across various parts of his body.

A family of three - a man, woman and baby - were travelling in the second vehicle, and they all managed to escape without serious injury.

The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1751 of the Euro Weekly News Costa Blanca South edition, including 151 local stories.

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N-332 widening scheme THE mayor of Torrevieja, José Manuel Dolon, held a press conference in which he explained the project to widen the N-332 main road as it passes Torrevieja is continuing on course, as planned, and at a ‘good pace.’

Dolon stated he is permanently in contact with the Ministry of Development through a person of the maximum confidence and explained how ‘the deadlines are being met as planned, and the drafting of the project is in process.’

He added, “the term of the four phases of the layout is 12 months, so it must be delivered before June 23, 2019.”

With the data revealed, the mayor explained, “the execution of the work must therefore be

CREDIT: Press release

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GO AHEAD: Torrevieja’s mayor, José Manuel Dolon, explains how the N-332 widening project will take place. included in the Budget of the year 2020,” and “what did not make sense is what had been

done so far; budgeting €1 million to look good and comply with the file and then do noth-

Summer flights GROWING airline Volotea has announced it will launch more routes from Alicante-Elche Airport in the summer.

From April, the airline will fly direct to Bordeaux, Nantes, Toulouse, Asturias and Bilbao, supporting the Basque Country, and key French areas. Overall, flights from Alicante-Elche Airport continue to grow with initial forecasts indicating summer 2019 will be better than last year, maintaining the growth from both domestic and international markets, with the UK still a stronghold, along with France.

Intelligent tourism DURING the FITUR event, Elche received a surprise award, and now carries the distinction of being an ‘intelligent tourist destination.’ The award certifies that Elche is focused on intelligent tourism, through a self-assessment of the facilities offered by the town.

ing. Now we are certain that the project has been awarded and once the project of the layout is completed, construction will start, and from there we will know how much it will cost and it will be budgeted with objective and real data and not with a simple amount which was guessed.”

Dolon explained “the first two phases of the project comprise 40 per cent of it and with the completion of the third phase we will reach 60 per cent.”

José Manuel Dolon has expressed he is happy that finally, and thanks to the intervention of this city council, it was possible for the Generalitat Valenciana to clarify the situation and unlock the project.

Killed by ‘parked’ car A WOMAN died after being mowed down by her own car while talking to a friend on her mobile phone.

Police believe the 54-year-old may have forgotten to put her handbrake on after parking outside her home in Alicante, and it rolled down a sloping drive and ran over her. The person on the other end of the phone alerted emergency services at around 1pm on Monday.

According to Alicante Local Police, the deceased woman’s friend heard ‘a loud cry’ and rushed around to the house, where she found the car on top of her friend. On arrival at the property between Verdegas and Cañadadel Fenollar, firefighters tried to revive the victim, but she was declared dead at the scene.

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Almoradi earthquake education plan USING the catchy hashtag, #ALMORADIEDUCAENPREVENCION, Almoradi has started an earthquake education plan which it is sharing through schools and social media in order to prepare everyone in the event of an earthquake.

The councillor responsible for the plan, Susana Miralles, believes it is important for residents to be prepared for emergencies, as nobody knows when one might strike.

The plan was also part of the election campaign, and so it is also important for maintaining promises made to voters before the current administration is judged through the next election this year. The project consists of training teaching staff, the sensitisation of schoolchildren and the involvement of residents in matters of prevention.

Raymundo Tomas, Head of Training and Prevention of the Fire Consortium explained this project has begun with visits to schools, so they ‘know their emergency plans and firefighting facilities’ then in February they will continue training the management teams.

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Planting trees A TOTAL of 50 volunteers took part last Saturday in a massive tree-planting exercise, which took place at the Natural Park of the La Mata and To r r e v i e j a L a g oo n s , with the aim of celebrating the Day of the Tree.

T h e g ro u p w as s h ow n how a new planting system, which has been especially designed by the park’s enviro n men tal tea m to h e lp plants survive extreme climatic conditions, works and h o w it e n ab les p lan ts to

New grass AFTER an extremely long delay, renovation work on Torrevieja’s local sports grounds facilities has finally begun.

The artificial grass on the Gabriel Samper and Esteban Rosado football pitches is in the process of being replaced, as is the surface of the municipal athletics track. The town hall has four months to complete the work, which will cost around €668,000, and will be carried out in stages.

In addition, the Vicente García stadium, which has been closed for over a year after it suffered a serious amount of fire damage, has now been cleared and prepared, making it possible for local schools’ teams and the town’s football clubs to train as normal.

ma ke us e of e ve ry s ingle drop of water.

Every volunteer was given around 40 new specimens each of pine, mastic, kermes oak and black hawthorn trees and spent the rest of the day planting them.

An early Brexit THE Camposol and Mazarrón Bridge Club have arranged an England versus Rest of Europe match, which will be held on Monday, March 25 at the Hotel Playa Grande in Puerto de Mazarrón. Entry is €13 and includes a meal. This will be an allday event with lunch. Contact Leen on 666 360 904 for details.

The Club is holding its AGM in Trevi Bar, Camposol, Sector B tomorrow (Friday) at 1pm. bridgewebs.com/camposol/.

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Pensioner in fatal crash A SEVENTY-EIGHT-YEAR-OLD man has died after being knocked down by a vehicle in Alicante City centre. The accident took place at 10am last Tuesday in Calle Teatro. Police are investigating the cause of the accident.

Good beaches FOUR of Torrevieja’s well-known beaches have been awarded the prestigious ‘Q’ certificate, which stands for quality, security and professionalism of their tourist services.

The beaches are Cala Piteras, Cabo Cervera, Los Náufragos and El Cura.

Concert time THE Symphony Orchestra of Torrevieja will be holding a concert on Saturday March 2 at the International Auditorium to celebrate their 10th anniversary, where they will perform pieces by Tchaikovsky and Greig. Tickets are on sale.

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Fire drama SEVEN people were injured from a house fire in Torrevieja which had apparently been started intentionally.

According to the reports from the Provincial Fire Consortium, the fire was started by a man who had intended to commit suicide.

Amongst those injured were two firefighters who attended the incident, and two young girls, said to be aged five and nine.

During the blaze, some 15 people and five pets were evacuated from the building whilst the flames were brought under control.

The Guardia Civil received an urgent call on Thursday morning and two officers attended the building on Calle Dr Mariano Ruiz Cánovas.

The report started that a man had started the fire intentionally, and that he was suffering mental health issues,

CREDIT: Provincial Fire Consortium

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COLLECTIVE RESCUE: A total of seven people were rescued from a burning Torrevieja building. resulting in his intention to take his own life.

The officers broke into the building, for fear of the safety of the occupants, but were fought back by the flames, despite using several fire ex-

tinguishers in their heroic attempt.

The rescue involved creating safe passages through the flames and helping victims off the balconies and down into the street below.

The man who allegedly started the fire was also rescued and was then subsequently arrested, although he was placed into the care of medical staff for psychological assistance.

In total, three fire tenders and 16 firefighters attended the scene in the centre of Torrevieja, along with three ambulances, one of which was a paramedic unit, and they treated a 43-year-old firefighter who suffered a leg injury, another firefighter aged 42, suffering from arrhythmia, and the two girls who were treated for the effects of smoke inhalation.

The other people seen to by medics, all suffering from smoke inhalation, were two women of 31 and 46 years of age, and a man of 76. All those who were treated at the scene were taken to Torrevieja hospital for further care.

As back up, units were also sent to assist from the neighbouring municipalities of Orihuela and Almoradí. Everyone in the building, human and animals, were rescued by the collective effort.

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Championship bowls in May LOS MONTESINOS will become the bowls capital o f S p a i n i n M a y, a s t h e town plays host to a championship tournament.

Some 2,000 people are expected to descend on the town to participate in the competition, which will take place between May 11 - 25.

The councillor for Tourism and Sports in Los Montesinos, Ana Belén Juárez, launched the competition at the FITUR tourism event, explaining how: “Los Montesinos will become the centre of this sport because for two weeks we expect the attendance of the best players in Spain of this very peculiar sport that is English bowls.

“A sport, which is not well-known in Spain but little by little it is becom-

ing more so, especially in o u r a r e a d u e t o t h e l a rg e number of foreigners who choose our territory to have a house as a second home.”

As far as the competition is concerned, the 200 expected players will compete in different disciplines: singles, doubles, triples and quadruples, in categories of women, men and mixed.

And they will have their finale on May 25, which will be when the semi-finals and finals of all the categories will be played, along with a final championship ceremony at the Greenlands Bowls Club in Los Montesinos.

The host club, which h o s t e d t h e Va l e n c i a n Community Championship last September, covers an area of 40,000 sqm on

which there is an eightrink English bowling alley.

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NEW PLOTS: Orihuela Town Hall is looking for plots of land to auction.

Costa land for sale THE town hall of Orihuela has announced it is planning to auction a number of plots of land within the municipality in order to raise approximately €12 million, which is set to be spent on various projects.

In a recent press confere nc e , M a yor Emilio B a s cuñana said that around 40 ne w proje c ts a t a c os t of €5.5 million a re in the pipeline, and will be paid from the sale of municipal la nd a s s e ts ; or in othe r w ords , from the s a le of plots loc a te d on the O ri-

huela Costa.

The task of finding suitable plots to sell has been given to the councillor for Heritage, Rafael Almagro, with the plots of land due to be auctioned in a matter of just a few weeks.

Last year, the town hall managed to raise a total of €14.3 million after selling five plots of municipal land through auction.

Three of the plots are located in Los Almendricos (PAU-26), while the other t wo ar e i n Sect or E- 2, El Barranco.

Cash in REGULAR shoppers at one of Spain’s biggest hyp e r m a r k e t s t o re s , t h e F re n c h - o w n e d Carrefour, are in for a treat this year, as the company has announced that savings cheques will be paid out six times i n s t e a d o f t h e n o rmal four.

What that means, is shoppers who have been accumulating points since the last pay out can now collect what they have accrued.

H o w e v e r, a c t i o n must be taken quickly, because the savings have to be used before March 7, otherwise they will be lost. If you don’t use them, you lose them!

The cheques availa b l e n o w a re f o r savings accrued for the period between November 22, 2018, and January 3, 2019, so all your Christmas spending bonuses, if you made a n y, a re a v a i l a b l e for you to enjoy right now.

So, don’t miss out, go and get your cheque and spend it before it expires.

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DEAD HORSES: Were found in a cattle deworming corridor in Vigo.

Horrific horse attack FOUR horses were found brutally beaten to death in Galicia.

The animals, an endangered species ‘garranos,’ were discovered with severe head injuries by two neighbours out walking.

As well as the corpses which had been dumped in a cattle deworming corridor in Vigo, there were five horses which they released.

The horses were micro-chipped and belonged to four different owners located in several municipalities of the region.

The farmers told Spanish press that the animals ‘never bothered anybody,’ they lived on a

high, very secluded area known as O Areeiro (Viladesuso, Oia).

In order to reach the location where the horses were, a one-kilometre non-asphalted track would have had to have been crossed and it’s believed the ‘culprit’ would have needed experience to be able to lead the wild horses away.

An iron bar, thought to have been used to beat the animals, was found at the scene of the incident.

The Seprona opened an investigation into the brutal attack on January 21.

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Little girl, 3, cancer free after treatment in Barcelona

by Tara Rippin A TODDLER is reportedly free from a rare and aggressive form of cancer after her parents sold their home and sought celebrity help to fund pioneering treatment in Barcelona.

Ka’iulani Forbes, three, was diagnosed with ganglio-neuroblastoma two years ago, and after exhausting all treatment options in her home country, New Zealand, parents Moana and Manihera, began looking overseas for hope.

They believed Ka’iulani’s only chance of survival was to travel across the world and take part in a clinical trial in Barcelona, at a cost of €265,000.

BRAVE: Ka’iulani Forbes received groundbreaking treatment in Barcelona.

CREDIT: Moana Forbes Facebook

Top jobs for women deal SPAIN and Morocco have signed a pact which commits both countries to get more women into leading

civil service roles.

Meritxell Batet, Spain’s Territories Minister, signed the deal with her Moroccan

opposite number Mohamed Benabdelkader.

The deal states that both Spain and Morocco will

work to get women into higher roles of responsibility in public services over the next five years.

The only obstacle was raising the cash, so the Forbes’ sold their home in Hamilton, and launched an appeal to help save their daughter’s life.

A DJ, Dom Harvey, from The Edge radio station in New Zealand, immediately got on board, running five marathons in five days and giving the family’s plight continual airtime.

The combined efforts paid off and the target was reached, allowing the family to travel to Barcelona, aware that there was only a 20 per cent chance the trial would get Ka’iulani into remission.

They stayed in Spain for four months, and on returning to New Zealand, appeared on The Edge last week to share their great news with listeners, revealing that ‘basically, she’s out of the woods.’

Dad, Manihera, said doctors in Barcelona explained the tumours would stay in her body, but they expect them to ‘stay dead’ while Ka’iulani grows.

As she gets older, the rest of her body should grow around the tumours.

The family continue to raise funds and awareness about child cancer.

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Lowest rate for energy THE wholesale price for electricity in Spain stood at €61.04 last Thursday, the lowest of leading European countries including Britain, France and Germany due to record wind energy generation.

Food funds SPAIN has contributed some €4.1m to the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) over the past year, with the money to be spent on providing humanitarian help to vulnerable people worldwide.

Study leader STUDENTS taking part in the EU’s Erasmus Plus study abroad programme opt for Spain more than any other in the scheme according to data, with the universities of Granada, Valancia and Madrid Complutense the most popular.

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Fake marriages POLICE in Cuenca, central Spain, have brought down a gang allegedly arranging 30 fake marriages between Asian nationals and EU citizens to acquire residency.

National Police arrested seven people thought to be responsible for bringing in women from the EU who would pretend to be married to Asian citizens and help them live in Europe legally.

The reported head of the group, an Indian citizen living in Cuenca, also expanded his criminal ring into Motilla del Palancar, where he recruited another man to help.

The group are suspected of charging between €12,500 and €15,000 for their crimes.

A problem THE European Commission has announced it will take Spain to court over environmental concerns about the Doñana National Park in Andalucia.

The body claims Spain is not adequately protecting this wetland, named a World Heritage Site.

A letter states: ‘The diversion of large amounts of water both for agriculture and for the needs of local tourists is depleting the water table.’ The EC claims the water used from Doñana to grow strawberries and other fruits is causing an environmental problem.

Diamond theft A PRISONER in Valencia has been convicted for his part in the ‘biggest theft in history.’

One member of a gang accused of stealing €63 million of diamonds was sentenced to up to seven years in prison by a court in the Netherlands after being arrested in Valencia Province two years ago.

He is one of six sentenced involved in the robbery in 2005.

The main suspect, Errol HV, was handed a seven-year sentence, while a getaway driver, Marlon D, received six years.

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Bank boss trial THE trial into Rodrigo Rato, the former head of a major Spanish bank accused of fraud, will resume on Monday following a three-week break after the prosecutor fell ill.

Rodrigo Rato, currently serving a four-and-a-half

year sentence for misusing funds when he was boss of both Caja Madrid and Bankia between 2010 and 2012, led the financial giant Bankia when it was floated on the stock market in 2011.

He joins 34 other individuals and clients accused of misleading investors, many of whom lost money.

Rato, 69, faces five years in prison if found guilty of falsifying financial reports.

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‘Negligent manslaughter’ investigation into Julen case A COURT in Malaga has opened a negligent manslaughter investigation into the death of two-year-old Julen who was killed when he fell down a well.

According to Spanish media, officials will examine two leads; whether the owner of the land Julen died on, or the man who bored the hole, Antonio Sanchez, were negligent, and how Julen came to be buried under large quantities of soil after his fall.

The negligent manslaughter charge carries a sentence of one to four years in prison for serious cases, or a fine in more minor instances. Anyone found to be at fault could also be liable for compensation to Julen’s parents, as well as for the costs of the rescue operation, thought to be millions of Euros.

After the Guardia Civil’s Nature Protection Service (SEPRONA) confirmed the hole Julen fell down had been bored without the neces-

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CRIMINAL CHARGES: Officials are investigating why the borehole (pictured) was uncovered. sary permissions, police say they will focus their investigation on whether Antonio Sanchez attempted to seal the well as he claims, and whether the land’s owner removed any covering.

The second arm of the investigation will use witness accounts from those present when Julen fell, including his parents, his father’s

cousin, the owner of the land, and two walkers who came to the family’s aid.

Officials say these statements could uncover how Julen came to be buried under around 70 centimetres of soil and rocks after his fall, leading rescuers to incorrectly believe the boy was trapped two-thirds of the way down the borehole.

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After finding a build-up of soil, workers initially believed Julen was trapped at a blockage around 72metres down the well they thought measured 110-metres. Fears any attempts to rescue the child from above could lead to more harm to him prompted experts to build a second hole and connecting tunnel, taking almost two weeks.

GUARDIA CIVIL officers have found the body of a 45-year-old man in a well in Andalucia days after the rem ai ns of t wo- year- ol d Jul en wer e found.

Emergency services were alerted to the corpse after police were told the man had taken his dog for a walk and had not returned home at around noon on Sunday.

Officers were then despatched to Vi l l anueva de Tr abuco, i n Mal aga Pr ovi nce, af t er bei ng cal l ed out at about 11.10pm.

Guardia Civil underwater specialists found the corpse inside the well at around 2.50am on Monday. An investigation has since been launched into the find.

Separately, firefighters in Galicia have rescued a 61-year-old woman with the symptoms of hypothermia after she became trapped in a well.

One firefighter had to be lowered into the well, in the Salcedo area of Pont ever da, t o pul l out t he t r apped woman. She was stuck in the well with water up to her waist, emergency services said.

Medical personnel treated her at the scene after she was pulled free.

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Two dead and one injured A BRITISH woman seriously hurt in a car crash in Almeria woke from a coma to be told her husband had died in the collision.

The hire car in which the Scottish couple were travelling, with another passenger, collided with a lorry on the A-332 in Cuevas de Almanzora, fatally wounding the two men.

Christine Revil (68), was moved to the Inmaculada Regional Hospital after the crash, the same hospital in which her husband Phil, also 68, died.

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DEATH CRASH: Two men were fatally wounded.

named.

Christine’s cousin, Jim Burnside, told British press that she had been notified after coming out of a coma. He said the situation is ‘horrific,’ adding that ‘they just want to get out to Spain to be with her.’

The couple, originally from Coatbridge, had reportedly been travelling through France and Spain when the collision took place at 3pm on January 20.

Emergency services received calls from several witnesses reporting a collision between a car and a lorry that was transporting fruit.

Public spending figures NEW figures show Spain invested 0.25 per cent of GDP on public aid in 2017, making it the third lowest-spending country in the EU. Data compiled by the European Commission showed Spain joined Ireland

and Italy in spending the least on public services, including agriculture, exports, social support, and development.

The figures, which did not take into account spending on Spain’s railways, saw a total of €3,642 million spent on

state aid in 2017, with €743 million invested in export, and €695 million put into social support.

Among the EU countries investing more in their public sector is the UK (0.36).

Internet use up I NTERNET pr ovi der s fitted just under 200,000 f i br e connect i ons t o Spanish households last November, according to new figures.

The i ncr ease br i ngs t he num ber of hom es with an active internet connect i on t o 8.4 m i l lion.

Of connections across Spain, 46.5 per cent belong to Spanish communications giant Telefonica, who installed 6,700 lines last November. According to the figures released by Spain’s market s r egul at or, t he CNMC, company Masm ovi l f i t t ed t he m ost connections in November, as it had for the previous two years.

The r et ai l er added 50,800 lines, followed

by Vodafone with 6,500, and Orange at 2,500.

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Migration plan and disunity BRITAIN’S Home Secretary has unveiled the government’s back-up plans for EU citizens living in and coming to the country in a no-deal scenario.

Sajid Javid said EU migrants coming into Britain after Friday, March 29 would be allowed to stay for up to three years in the event of a nodeal.

That arrangement covers an interim period, with EU citizens then having to apply under a European Temporary Leave to Remain scheme once free movement ends.

Britain’s immigration system is then set to transition to a ‘skills-based’ model in 2021, which EU citizens will have to go through to remain in the country.

The announcement comes as separate research showed Britain has become a more divided country politically since the 2016 referendum. A total of 69 per cent of respondents to the Edelman Trust poll said they were ‘angrier’ about the state of British politics and society since the referendum.

Around 65 per cent said they thought Britain was on the wrong track, with the pollsters saying it showed Britain was becoming a ‘disunited Kingdom.’

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Beyond leave day

By Joe Gerrard HEALTHCARE for British citizens in Spain and a possible exodus of expatriates from the country have emerged as issues this week as the March leave date looms.

Uncertainty continues to grow over how - and even if - Britain will leave the EU with a deal on Friday, March 29.

The NHS has released information on what it expects to happen to healthcare for British travellers in Spain in the event of a no-deal.

The Health Service said the access to healthcare was likely to change and European Health Insurance Cards (EHICs) would be valid until March 29.

Government officials are attempting to strike deals on no-deal health arrangements, the NHS said. Health officials have called on expatriates to register with Spanish authorities to guarantee their access to doctors and cover themselves for a no-deal scenario.

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Medicine over food MATT HANCOCK, Britain’s Health Secretary, has told a parliamentary committee that securing the supply of medicines should be prioritised over food shipments in a nodeal Brexit.

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BE PREPARED: Uncertainty over Brexit continues.

The Convenio Especial ‘pay in’ health insurance scheme is set to be available to expatriates who have been registered with their town halls for more than a year.

Separately, a leaked government memo has forecast that anything up to 250,000 British expatriates could return from the continent within two years of Britain leaving the EU without a deal.

BuzzFeed News reported that officials are concerned their ar-

rival could strain Britain’s health and welfare system.

Whitehall officials are currently preparing contingency plans to ensure returning expatriates could access welfare, the report added.

The official message continues to remain the same. Regardless of what happens on Friday, March 29 expatriates should make sure they are legal in Spain to protect themselves against a possible no-deal outcome.

A BRITISH Ministry of Defence agency has told staff they may be redeployed in the event of a no-deal Brexit to help the government cope, according to a memo seen by British media.

‘Plan C’ CONSERVATIVE MPs on opposite sides of the Brexit debate have thrashed out a ‘Plan C’ which would extend the transition period for another year while redrafting the backstop, with EU officials dismissing it as unworkable.

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Stole from granddad for holiday in Ibiza A TWENTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD man from Liverpool has been jailed for stealing £4,500 from his granddad to pay for a holiday in Ibiza.

Brett Bridgen reportedly used online banking to send money into his personal account the day before travelling to the Spanish island.

The offender appeared at Liverpool Crown Court last week and received a 17-month jail sentence.

Prosecutor, Jamie Baxter, said that the accused had visited his granddad, 73, at his home in Cheshire, on April 24, 2016 claiming he was owed a birthday present and was planning to fly to Ibiza the next day.

Two days later the victim received a call from the fraud action department reporting that thousands of pounds had been transferred between a savings account and a current account before being sent to Bridgen’s bank account, without authorisation.

According to British press reports, the offender has been jailed in the past for stealing from his grandfather.

Liverpool Crown Court was told that

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Child kidnapping probe begins FIVE members of a gang accused of kidnapping migrant children from shelter homes in Spain and demanding ransoms from their families in Morocco have been arrested.

The Guardia Civil believes the Spanish and Moroccan men, aged between 27 and 36, have kidnapped at least 20 children.

During raids on two properties in Puerto Real, in Cadiz, officers found a young person who had been reported missing

from a nearby migrant centre.

According to reports, the gang allegedly approached the youngsters offering to help them gain residency permits.

But instead, they kept them prisoner in squalid conditions before transporting them across the country, according to a boy taken from a facility for unaccompanied migrant children in La Linea de La Concepcion.

The organisation contacted relatives in Morocco demanding ransoms of up to €500.

Awards galore IBIZA: Brett Bridgen (inset) stole money to fund his holiday abroad.

Bridgen’s grandfather has since found it difficult to sleep at night and to trust people as his relationships within the family had been strained.

Judge Brian Cummings reportedly said the offence was the ‘most personal kind of fraud’ and that it has caused a ‘serious detrimental impact

on the victim.’

Paul Wood, defending, described Bridgen as being at a low point in his life when he committed the fraud.

He was given a 13-month sentence for fraud and a four-month sentence for committing an offence while on bail.

MADRID-based company Exclusivas Latinoamericanas ELA, SL introduced its Excelencias Awards in 2005 and these recognise excellence in different areas related to tourism, gastronomy and culture in Iberian-America.

This year, at the FITUR exhibition, no less than 36 awards were made to organisations based in Spain, United States, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Colombia, Paraguay, Chile, El Salvador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Cuba and Mexico.

The company produces a number of publications on behalf of various tourist offices throughout Latin America.

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FIFTY unauthorised wells were drilled over the last three years in the Valencian Community.

The Confederacion Hidrografica del Jucar (CHJ), which controls the Jucar basin waterways and the Public Hydraulic Dom a i n , f i n e d t h e o ff e n d e r €3,000 in each case.

Illegal prospections are invariably carried out by professionals, revealed CHJ sources, who admitted it would be ‘difficult’ to estimate how many existed in the Valencian Community.

Detection and inspection by the Public Hydraulic Domain is routinely followed by an investigation and owners are called on to legalise the well where possible or otherwise pay the €3,000.

Once an illegal prospection is detected it is immediately sealed off, the same sources said, precisely to prevent accidents like the Totalan tragedy where twoy e a r- o l d J u l e n d i e d a f t e r falling down an unauthorised and incorrectly-sealed well.

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Suspect bailed A JUDGE today agreed to the release on bail of a 38-year-old man arrested in connection with the disappearance and death of Moustapha El Karchaoui, last seen in Sa Pobla last August.

According to reports, Cristofol TP is expected to leave Palma Prison this afternoon, where he has been held for the last 12 days, after paying Inca Court €3,000 bail.

Guardia Civil officers with trained sniffer dogs searched land belonging to the suspect, located between Muro and Can Picafort, over the course of three days last week.

A police source revealed they were searching for the body of the missing 26-çyear-old and said there are ‘numerous incriminating indications’ that would implicate Cristofol.

No corpse was found, and the defendant has ‘flatly denied any involvement’ in the disappearance of Moustapha El Karchaoui.

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THE CHJ: Fined the offenders €3,000 in each case.

Registrations are carried out by the different administrations in each province, which in the CHJ’s case entails 2 4 , 5 0 0 w ells in Alicante, Valencia, Albacete, Cuenca and Teruel.

In principle they pose no danger to the public as the majority are housed in specially-constructed outbuildings or are fenced-off.

Nevertheless, Alicante Province’s Consortium of

Fire Brigades said theywere called out 10 times in 2018 to rescue eight animals and two people from wells, without specifying if these were authorised or not.

AN Italian man who promised to create 1,600 jobs in Spain has been arrested outside his Polish factory on allegations he had defrauded he country’s government out of more than €23 million.

Piero Pini, who had plans to create one of Europe’s largest slaughterhouses in Huesca, Spain, is accused of being at the centre of a large criminal group who ran a VAT scam.

According to police, the gang created 30 fictional companies in Poland ‘in order to generate huge amounts of false invoices related to the alleged employment, training, meals and accommodation of workers.’ These invoices resulted ‘in a fraud to the Polish treasury of not less than 35 million zlotys (€8,159,000) since the company began its activity in 2011.’

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POST MORTEM: The beached whale may have had an infection and been hit by a boat.

Whale tragedy

by Tara Rippin EXPERTS believe a 10-tonne common fin whale, which died on Mallorca’s Cala Millor beach at around 4am on Sunday, may have been weakened by an infection before being struck by a boat.

The 15-metre long mammal showed signs of severe weight loss and severe external wounds.

Luis Parpal, leading the team of professionals carrying out a post mortem, told Spanish press that early indications suggest an infection, ‘toxicological or biological, it’s still unknown, had weakened the specimen, leaving it adrift’ and that ‘a boat later hit the whale causing the wounds.’

Parpal, manager of the Official Association of Pharmacists of the Balearic Islands

(COFIB), explained the team wants to find out if there is an infection that affects cetaceans in general that could rule out toxicology caused by plastic or microbiology interference.

While a technician from the Palma Aquarium pointed out that lately there are ‘more cases of death than normal,’ particularly in the northern part of Spain.

As such, the findings of the post-mortem will be shared with centres across the country to try to determine the cause of the rise in strandings of this marine species.

An emergency tent was installed on the beach and a large plastic canvas placed around the dead whale while the examination was carried out, and security forces were on site to protect the scene.

It is hoped scientists will be able to complete their investigation this week.

Hunter dies saving dogs A M A N ha s drow ne d af t er t r yi ng t o save hi s dogs from drowning in a pond in Huesca, northeast Spain.

Polic e found the 64-year- ol d’s body and t hose of several dead dogs floating in the water in rural Ripoll after the alarm was raised when the hunter did not return home.

Officers believe the man either fell into the pond while trying to help his animals - who are believed to have accessed the site through a hole in the fence - or gone into the water voluntarily to try to help them to shore.

Couple arrested POLICE found a young woman locked inside a cupboard, allegedly by her boyfriend, 19, after responding to reports of violence at the property in Pontevedra.

The 20-year-old told officers she was locked up regularly as a form of ‘punishment.’

When Local Police tried to arrest the male, his girlfriend allegedly punched the officer, and they were both detained.

The woman was later charged and released, while her partner was remanded in custody for imprisonment and an additional charge of possession of hashish.

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Senior officer faces charges SPAIN’S National Court has ruled that a former senior police officer facing corruption charges must hand over his passport.

Judge Manuel Garcia Castellon ruled that Eugenio Pino must hand in travel documents and must appear before the court every 15 days.

The ruling comes as authorities continue to probe allegations of embezzlement, bribery, and administrative offences in connection with Pino and businessman Jose Manuel Villarejo. The case continues.

MISSING: An albino peacock has disappeared from the city zoo.

Fears for feathered friend ZOO bosses in Barcelona suspect a rare albino peacock has been stolen and are appealing for its return.

Nobody is sure exactly when it disappeared from the attraction, but are

confident after searching the area, it has not died on site.

There are approximately 45 peacocks which roam freely around the zoo, but there have been no sightings

of the missing bird in a number of weeks.

They are not clear what sex the bird is, but guess that it is female as it has never shown its plume since its birth in

September 2015.

The peacocks are not actually part of the zoo’s collection, they are ‘the true wildlife of the park, like the hedgehogs and herons,’ explained bosses.

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EXPEDITION ANNIVERSARY: Events are being planned to mark the Victoria and four other ships’ voyage.

500 years since historic voyage THE Foreign Ministers of Spain and Portugal have said the countries will jointly commemorate 500 years since the first round the world voyage.

Josep Borrell, of Spain, and Portugal’s Augusto Santos Silva said anniversary celebrations for the voyage would take place over three years.

Spain’s Juan Sebastian Elcano and Portuguese sailor Fernando de Magallanes undertook their voyage in 1519. Only Elcando, who captained the Victoria, made it back to Europe alive.

Borrell and Silva said they would call on UNESCO to make the route of the voyage a World Heritage Site. The ministers also called on their opposite numbers in countries along the route to join their efforts.

Spanish and Portuguese embassies in those countries, which include the Phillippines, Argentina and Chile, are set to be instructed on plans for local events to mark the anniversary.

Juan Sebastian Elcano and Fernando de Magallanes set sail from southern Spain in 1519 for an expedition to the Philippines via South America’s Cape Horn.

A total of 241 men on five ships took part in the voyage.

Magallanes died during a battle with Filipino natives when the expedition reached the island in 1521.

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DISPUTE: Spain has long claimed sovereignty over Gibraltar.

Decolonisation call SPAIN has called on the EU to include references to the ‘decolonisation’ of Gibraltar in future EU laws in the event of a no-deal Brexit, according to British media reports.

A Daily Telegraph report based on leaked documents claimed Spanish officials had attempted to put a footnote into draft EU legislation on visa-free travel in a no-deal scenario.

The text of the footnote would commit the EU to recognising that a dispute exists between Spain and Britain on sovereignty over Gibraltar if adopted.

The footnote would also state that the British enclave is registered on the UN’s

Non Self-Governing Territories list. Territories on the list are those that have not yet gained full independence, according to the UN. The draft EU document listed all of Britain’s overseas territories with Gibraltar marked and a reference to the footnote.

Gibraltar officials said the Spanish push for the footnote in the document would have no practical effect.

EU sources said Spain was attempting to demonstrate its power and leverage on Gibraltar as Britain’s withdrawal from the EU on Friday March 29 draws closer, according to The Telegraph.

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Fire at hostess club A WOMAN died after a blaze at a hostess club in Salamanca.

The victim was initially found unconscious in a room on the ground floor at Club Messalina at 7.30am, last Friday, but died shortly afterwards of suspected smoke inhalation.

There were no other injuries.

The Guardia Civil has launched an investigation into the cause of the fire at the venue in Miranda de Azan, which was also attended by three Salamanca fire engines and three ambulances.

HOLOCAUST REMEMBERED: The ceremony took place in the Spanish Senate.

Ceremony marks Holocaust Day SPANISH survivors of Nazi concentration camps were among those invited to commemorate Holocaust Memorial Day in Madrid on Friday.

Mexico’s former president Carlos Salinas also attended the ceremony at the Spanish Senate.

The politician was invited by the Federation of Jewish Communities of Spain. Friday’s ceremony marked Holocaust Memorial Day which took place the following Sunday.

Spain’s Foreign Minister Josep Borrell and Dolores Delgado, the country’s Justice Minister, also attended the ceremony.

Borrell said the ceremony was held to mark the deaths of ‘millions’ at the hands of the Nazis.

“May those dark memories inspire us to avoid the paths that must not be revisited,” Borrell said.

“Wickedness dwells in the depths of the human soul.

The only weapons to combat it are intelligence, knowledge and education,” the Foreign Minister added.

Delgado said the day was also a time to remember other crimes against humanity throughout history.

“It happened and it could happen again. It could happen anywhere. This is the essence

of what we have to say,” Delgado said, quoting Holocaust survivor Primo Levi.

Documents relating to the Spanish Jewish community were destroyed after the Second World War. But one unearthed in 2010 showed the regime of Francisco Franco had drawn up a list of some 6,000 Jews that it intended to send to Nazi concentration camps.

There are other cases of Jews fleeing persecution through Spain to Portugal and out of Europe. Many Spanish people who fled the country after Franco took power in 1939 later ended up in concentration camps.

Road monitors DRONES are to be used to monitor speed limits and other road offences in Spain.

Together with new radars, the 11 drones will allow the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) to achieve a broader control over Spanish roads, with the aim of reducing accident rates.

The drones were successfully tested over the Christmas period, can be airborne for two hours and have a performance radius of 500 metres.

They don’t have a real-time speed camera, so they will only be used to monitor traffic and record any criminal action using 13-megapixel cameras.

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Car production drops again FOR the second year running, Spanish factories saw a drop in the production of motor vehicles to 2,819,565 according to ANFAC, the Spanish Association of Vehicle Manufacturers.

This is 1 per cent less than the 2017 total which itself was 1.5 per cent down on 2016 and the main fall is in

the production of passenger cars.

The decision to phase out diesel products saw the most dramatic drop to 32 per cent of all new vehicles as compared to 40 per cent the previous year and there is little doubt that this fall in diesel figures will continue with hybrids and electric cars be-

Compo order A COURT in San Sebastian has ordered budget airline Ryanair to pay a total of â‚Ź1,869 plus interest in compensation to two passengers affected by cabin crew strikes in July. The plaintiffs were returning to the UK after a summer holiday in Spain, and were delayed three days.

coming more popular.

The one area of good news for the Spanish manufacturers is that production of SUVs and light commercial vehicles increased, but there is some fear that poor trading patterns in the latter part of 2018 may see a further slow-down this year.

Exports are also down slightly, but the best European markets are holding their own and sales to parts of North and South Africa are encouraging.

Overall, sales to North and South America as well as Asia have also fallen quite significantly, so the fact that overall production is down by just 1 per cent is considered a reasonably good result.

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Venezuela crisis

EVERY two years the European Commission publishes a report on the cost of energy needs across the Union, and Spain is listed as the fifth most expensive country for electricity consumers and sixth for gas.

Interestingly, those same figures also show that the cost to industry for electricity is much lower than in many other countries and Spain sits in just 14th place, as tax is a much lower percentage than that charged to households.

Although prices fell by 3 per cent in 2017, latest news suggests it has reached record levels in January 2019 here in Spain due to colder weather, less winds, export of power to France and higher raw fuel costs, so it is now likely the government will have to take action to try to change the rules concerning calculation of price and possibly even reduce the tax.

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By Joe Gerrard SPAIN, the EU and the US have called for Venezuela’s leader to hold elections after an opposition figure declared himself acting president while the country’s political and economic crisis deepens.

Spanish prime minister Pedro Sanchez joined figures including British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt in calling for Nicolas Maduro to call a national vote. Opposition leader Juan Guaido would be recognised as the country’s legitimate president if elections did not go ahead, Sanchez and others added.

“We do not seek to install or remove governments, we want democracy and free elections in Venezuela,” Sanchez said.

It comes as Maduro has faced allegations of electoral fraud and is increasingly seen as a dictator. Critics claim the regime’s economic policies have impoverished the country, with

POWER STRUGGLE: Spain’s PM spoke to Maduro’s opponent Guaido (inset). around 3.3 million Venezuelans having fled since 2015.

Pablo Casado, leader of Spain’s conservative Partido Popular, and

head of the centrist Ciudadanos Albert Rivera, have both called on Madrid to recognise Guaido.

The news come as the US, Canada and a host of Latin American countries recognised Guaido as the legitimate leader of Venezuela.

The EU has called for a peaceful resolution to the crisis, while Bolivia, China, Russia and Turkey continue to back Maduro.

Maduro and his supporters claim the US and other countries are attempting to engineer a coup.

Nicolas Maduro took over as Venezuela’s president following the death of revolutionary leader Hugo Chavez in 2013.

Falling oil prices and US sanctions have plunged the country’s already fragile economy deeper into crisis and Maduro has tightened his grip on power since. Some opposition groups are banned, activists have been arrested and police have cracked down on anti-government demonstrations.

Ghost plane in Madrid IF you have ever wanted your very own jet airliner yo u m a y so o n h a v e your chance.

Bos se s a t Ma d r i d ’s Barajas Airport have put into motion the process to auction off a McDonnell Do u g l a s MD 8 7 medium-range commercial je t t h a t h a s st o o d abandoned at the airport since 2010.

Tho u g h t t o b e wo r th around €1.1 million no one actually knows who owns it, with staff calling it the ‘ghost plane.’

A p u b l i c n o t i c e h as been placed in the official st a t e g a z e t t e o f Spain, the Boletín Oficial del Estado, asking for anyone with information t o c o m e f o r ward within three months before it is sold.

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Goya Awards

WHEN the British originally bought in to the Spanish lifestyle, they tended to purchase new properties but latest results show they now prefer to buy secondhand.

There was a minor drop in British spending following the Brexit decision but 2018 figures suggest that the ‘Brits’ are back and buying, more so than the French and Germans.

In fairness the numbers are far fewer than in the heyday of 2007 at the time of the crash but with more than 10,000 properties purchased in 2018 this is actually more than 2006.

What may be worrying for the Spanish developers is that so few people are purchasing new properties as opposed to those that have been previously occupied.

The reasons are many but the most obvious are that following the crash, new

SPANISH stars from the world of cinema are set to gather in Sevilla City this Saturday for the 33rd edition of the Goya Awards.

Political thriller El Reino (The Kingdom) has racked up 13 nominations, including for Best Film.

Lead actors Antonio de la Torre and Monico Lopez have been nominated in the Best Actor and Best Actress category while Rodrigo Sorogoyen has been put forward for Best Director.

Todos Lo Saben (Everybody Knows), featuring Penelope Cruz and Javier Bardem has also been nominated for best film. Romance Carmen y Lola (Carmen and Lola) and documentary Entres Dos Aguas (Between Two Waters) have also been nominated.

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SEAFRONT APARTMENTS: Still popular with Brits. building almost ceased immediately and some people did lose significant sums of money if developers ceased to trade whilst prices of pre-owned property dropped meaning that there appeared to be some major bargains on offer.

Prices are now on the rise and developers of new builds are ensuring that their potential clients are protected against future problems and this is reinforced by new banking and property laws. As property prices rise, so do rentals,

which give decent returns for investment and encourage people to return to purchase in Spain.

There is no question that the property market is recovering and the British continue to be part of that recovery.

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Asylum applications break records THE number of people who applied for asylum status in Spain stood at around 55,600 last year, the highest amount since records began according to UN data.

Figures from the UN’s High Commissioner for refugees (UNHCR) showed Venezuelan applicants made up around 40 per cent of the total, with about 20,000 applications made. That is almost double the amount made in 2017.

Colombian applications came second with 8,700, about 20 per cent of the total. Syrians came third, making up around 5 per cent of the total with around 2,500 applications.

The number of applications from Syrians fell compared to 2017 when it stood at around 4,200.

The UNHCR estimated that there would be around 78,500 applications placed this year, according to current trends.

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Spain attracts hotel investment INVESTMENT in Spanish Hotels reached €4.86 billion in 2018, second only to the UK in the whole of Europe according to a report by Christie & Co which was previewed at FITUR in Madrid.

The FITUR show which ran for five days is the largest and most important annual travel exhibition in Spain and attracts representatives of all of the major Spanish holiday destinations as well as exhibitors from around the world.

The report was delivered by Inmaculada Ranera, general director of the company’s Spanish and Portuguese office and detailed the fact that the bulk of investment came from US-based companies, followed closely by Spanish organisations and

THE Spanish Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism publishes regular details of the cost of fuel on its Geoportal Gasolineras website.

The latest information shows that there is a vast disparity between prices in different regions with the cheapest petrol costing

STRONG INVESTMENT: Inmaculada Ranera reveals the report.

comprised mainly of investment companies and hotel groups.

The bulk of investment was fo-

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cused on holiday destinations such as the Canary Islands, Balearics and to a lesser extent Costa del Sol, al-

€1.06 per litre (compared to up to €1.308 in some parts of the country) and diesel at €1.019 (compared to €1.25).

The cheapest fuel is generally found in service stations in Cataluña although there are also good prices in parts of Huesca and Tarragona.

though Madrid, Sevilla and Barcelona also saw good volumes of money spent.

Violent robbery A KNIFE-WIELDING robber who managed to flee a petrol station in Mallorca having grabbed the cash register, after a struggle with the cashier, was run over by a well-meaning member of the public.

The suspect, who is being sought by police, reportedly got up and escaped, empty handed on a bicycle.

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Tackling fake medicines PHARMACIES across Spain are set to adopt a new system which helps to verify medicines against a national list of prescriptions next Saturday.

The new system was brought in after the EU passed new rules aimed to tackle counterfeit medicine.

It has been trialled successfully in Logroño in La Rioja.

Maria Angeles Figuerola, director of the new SEVeM system, said: “The new system will create even more guarantees of safety for patients.”

Property prices strong ACCORDING to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the Spanish Statistical Office (INE) house prices in Spain continued to rise during 2018.

Main areas of rising prices are Madrid, Mallorca and to a lesser extent Barcelona with very cheap properties still available in old and neglected blocks. Rental income is rising and investment companies believe Spain still offers a very good opportunity for those who want to purchase properties here.

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Bill scam NATIONAL POLICE have warned people in Spain that scammers are sending out fake electricity bill emails in a bid to steal bank details.

Officers said the scam has seen emails made to look like those from Endesa sent to internet users telling them they have paid bills twice.

The email claims there has been an incorrect accounting estimate and invites the receiver to claim a refund of €636.30.

Police have told anyone who receives the email not to follow its instructions as it is a ‘phishing scam.’

Cultural jewel SPAIN’S national museum, the Prado, celebrates its 200th anniversary this year, and boasts three million visitors annually.

Hailed as the country’s ‘cultural jewel,’ the building was commissioned by King Charles III in the 1780’s and is now home to one of Europe’s finest painting collections.

STRIKE CALL: Millions are estimated to have taken part in demonstrations last year.

Women’s strike call A SPANISH trade union has approved a motion at its conference, calling on female

workers to stage walk outs on March 8 to mark International Women’s Day.

The General Confederation of Labour (CGT) union passed the motion at a conference in Merida in Extremadura. It comes almost one year after women across Spain went on strike to mark International Women’s Day. This year’s strike is set to see participants call for an end to gender inequality in the workplace and in wider society, the union said in a statement.

It is set to be held for 24 hours across all sectors of the Spanish economy, CGT added.

‘CGT makes an appeal to the whole of society to support the General Strike next March 8,’ the union said.

Other unions including the General Union of Workers (UGT) and Worker ’s Commission (CCOO) have also called on their members to stage two-hour strikes throughout March 8. Union leaders are reportedly looking into calling for a full general strike.

The Women’s Strike of 2018 saw around 5.3 million protesters take part in cities across Spain, according to union estimates.

Their demands included an end to workplace inequality and to gender-violence.

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Health tourism PEOPLE who travelled to Spain for medical treatment and other services brought around €500 million into the country last year, according to the head of an industry group.

Spaincare’s president David Medina said he expected the amount brought in by so-called health tourism to double in the coming years.

He was speaking as the group, which represents health tourism providers across Spain, exhibited its services at the International Tourism Festival (FITUR) in Madrid last week.

Health tourism includes medical treatment and services as well as spas and other experiences.

The sector has grown by an average of 20 per cent globally in the last few years.

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Number of Brits in Spain falls RECOVERED: The reliefs date from the Visigothic era.

Artefacts return TWO artefacts dating from Spain’s Visigothic period have been returned to the Spanish Embassy in London almost 15 years after they were stolen in Castilla y Leon.

Spanish diplomats, Guardia Civil officers, experts from the Museum of Burgos and London Metropolitan Police were on hand when a Dutch researcher returned the two stone carvings last week. They were stolen

from Quintanilla de las Viñas in Burgos Province in July 2004.

The reliefs, which depict two religious figures were found in the hands of a buyer in Britain who purchased them in good faith without knowing they had been stolen.

The carvings were found with the help of the Dutch researcher. Spanish police officers, officials and archaeologists were sent over to Britain hours

after they were found. The reliefs were due to arrive back in Spain this week.

Researchers are now due to check the artefacts to see if they need restoration work. The carvings measure 35x54x30 centimetres and weigh around 35 kilograms each.

They once decorated the nave church hermitage of Our Lady of the Vineyards which dates back to the seventh century.

THERE are almost 241,000 British citizens living in Spain, down from a peak of almost 400,000 in 2011 according to new National Institute of Statistics (INE) data from 2018.

INE figures showed there has been a gradual decline in the number of British nationals living in Spain since 2012. The figures are based on towns’ municipal registers, the Padron.

The decline became more rapid in 2013 and has continued since in a trend which is reflected in data for citizens from other EU countries.

The British remain the fourth-largest group of foreign nationals in Spain. Moroccans are the largest group with about 825,000, followed by Romanians with almost 600,000 and Ecuadorians with more than 400,000.

The amount of Venezuelan nationals increased by 22 per cent in 2018 compared the previous year, the largest rise of any foreign group.

Foreign nationals are estimated to make up between 13 and 14 per cent of Spain’s total population.

They accounted for about 3 per cent about 20 years ago.

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PM addresses Davos forum SPAIN’S Prime Minister has told attendees at the World Economic Forum that the level of global inequality is ‘unacceptable’ and that it is fuelling the rise in populism.

Pedro Sanchez told those gathered in Davos, Switzerland economics was not an end in itself and it had to meet people’s needs.

World leaders and businesspeople needed to remember the ‘mistakes’ that were made during the last financial crisis which had cost the global economy 10 years, the Prime Minister added.

“Inequality is destroying our

societies. Populism is already the main challenge for democracy and if we had not forgotten that the economy should serve the people, maybe it would not have grown to its current level,” Sanchez said.

“The neoliberal economic model offers a hostile world for those who do not belong to the elite,” the Prime Minister added.

The World Economic Forum takes place in Davos every year.

It sees politicians, businesspeople and academics gather for talks and meetings on economic, business and financial policy.

Activist arrest row A PRO-WESTERN Sahara group has criticised Spain for deporting an activist from the Canary Islands who is now in prison in Morocco for ‘illegal political activities.’

The Polisario Front, which supports the liberation of the Western Sahara from Moroccan rule, claimed Spanish police arrested Husein Bachir Brahim after he arrived in Lanzarote earlier this month. He was fleeing persecution in Morocco, the group added.

Spanish police failed to bring Bramin before the courts after his arrest, the Polisario Front claimed. Officers have yet to comment.

GROWING OLD: Asturias is the oldest region on average in Spain.

Oldest regions THE average age of people in Asturias is about 48 years old, making it the oldest region by that measure in Spain according to new National Institute for Statistics (INE) data.

INE figures from 2018 show the average age overall for Spain was 43. The youngest part of Spain is the African enclave of Melilla with an average age of 35.

Asturias was followed by Castilla y Leon

with an average age of 47.3, Galicia 47.1, the Basque Country 45, and Aragon, 44.

The youngest regions after Melilla were the African enclave of Ceuta with an average age of 37, Murcia with 40, the Balearic Islands with 41 and the Canary Islands, 41.9.

The average age in Andalucia was almost 41.6, while in Valencia it stood at 42.

INE data showed the overall average age

for Spain has been rising since the 1990’s.

The average age stood at 39.2 in 1998 before rising to 40 in 2001, 31 in 2010 and 42 in 2014.

It comes as official figures showed that 179,794 babies were born in Spain during the first half of 2018, the lowest since records began in 1941. A decline in the number of births and people living longer has contributed to a rise in the average age.

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Spanish Life

Donating blood in Spain 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.

In Spain, Blood Components and Services are provided by 17 Regional Blood Transfusion Services. Despite their autonomous operations management, every regional service is fully incorporated into a unique and common Public National Health System, supplying a cohesive blood transfusion care to all citizens, residents, and visitors in Spain based on 100 per cent voluntary and non-remunerated blood donation. For more general information, visit www.msps.es.

Anyone who has lived continuously in the UK between 1980 and 1996 (a minimum of one year) will not be able to donate blood in Spain due to the risk of transmitting mad cow disease. Similarly, there are restrictions if you have received a blood transfer in the UK. However, each region may have different rules about donation. Call the donation helpline on 935 573 500.

Alternatively, visit www.donorsang.gencat.cat to find out if you are eligible.

If you are eligible, you can give blood at your local hospital, or via the Spanish Red Cross (Cruz Roja) at one of their clinics, or in one of their mobile units. You can check dates and locations by visiting www.donarsangre.org.

A donor card is not necessary to give blood. On the first visit you will have to provide DNI, NIE, passport or a driving licence. If you are already registered in the Blood Bank, you only need a donor card or a document with your name and surname.

The process of blood donation takes just 10 minutes in which 450 ml are collected (equating to 10 per cent of the total blood circulation of an adult person).

Despite huge technological advances, the only way for hospitals to obtain blood is through the generosity of the public. The blood is carefully screened for disease to make sure it is safe.

After a tattoo, you must wait four months to be eligible to donate.

After surgery, the exclusion period will depend on the type of intervention.

After minor surgical procedures, you cannot donate blood for seven days or until you are fully recovered. After undergoing major surgery, you will not be able to donate blood for four months.

The rarest blood type is AB, present in 1 per cent of Caucasians, according to research by the America Red Cross.

Blood transfusions are carried out daily in Spanish hospitals with more than 6,200 patients being given them, of whom almost a quarter are fighting cancer and a similar figure receiving transfusions during or after surgery.

Spain has around two million donors in total, but needs closer to four million.

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Baby’s life saved by ‘heroic’ police officers

by Tara Rippin TWO police officers are being hailed heroes after saving the life of a 14-month-old baby who was unconscious and had stopped breathing in Cordoba.

The Lucena-Cabra National Police officers carried out the Heimlich manoeuvre on the child, before she was transferred to a nearby hospi-

tal. According to a police statement, they were patrolling Lucena when the occupants of a car asked for their help.

Several people got out of the vehicle carrying ‘an unconscious baby in their arms’ and officers confirmed the girl’s eyes were closed and she wasn’t reacting to stimuli.

After ‘verifying the absence of pulse and breathing’ they

began the Heimlich manoeuvre realising she had obstructed airways. The officers managed to get the child breathing and kept her stable until emergency services arrived.

A National Police source praised the performance, pointing out it was ‘fast and effective, managing to save the baby’s life,’ who after several hours in hospital was discharged in ‘perfect condition.’

Writer prison remarks AN association representing writers in Spain has accused an international literature group of ‘distorting reality’ after the latter said Spain had imprisoned authors for their work.

The Association of Spanish Writers (ACE) said no one was imprisoned in the country over their writing and that it protected freedom of expression, as required to under EU law.

It came after PEN International called on Spanish authorities to drop charges against

Jordi Sanchez and Jordi Cuixart. Both are currently in detention ahead of trials on Catalan independence in February.

“Time and again, PEN has defended writers regardless of the position they have taken. We believe this case is no different,” the organisation said.

Sanchez was a member of the Catalan regional assembly and a pro-independence activist. Cuixart was a businessman and activist.

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‘Golden visa’ concerns THE European Commission (EC) has said that member states offering passports and citizenship to wealthy foreigners under so-called ‘Golden Visa’ schemes are encouraging an influx of criminal applicants.

The EC’s report on the schemes stated that they could encourage money laundering, corruption, tax evasion and pose security risks.

Spain is among the EU countries that issue Golden Visas.

Vera Jourova, the EC’S Justice Commissioner, said the bloc wanted to see more transparency from countries that have launched such schemes.

“There should be no weak link in the EU, where you could shop around for the most lenient scheme,” Jourova said.

Dimitris Avrampoloulos, the EC’s Migration and Citizenship Commissioner, said that legally living in the EU came with rights and privileges that should not be abused.

Britain, France, Ireland and Portugal are also among the EU member states that have adopted Golden Visa schemes.

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THE amount paid in taxes in Spain is equivalent to around 23.2 per cent of average disposable income, with the Balearic Islands’ burden the highest of Spain’s regions.

Government figures showed that a taxpayer earning €24,999 a year would pay a total of €5,812.51 in taxes. The figure includes income tax payments as well as indirect levies such as VAT (IVA in Spanish).

The amount people in the Balearic Islands pay in taxes is €7,064.51 on an average income of €25,772.

Melilla had the lowest proportional tax burden with 9.62 per cent, followed by Navarra with 14.86 per cent and the Canary Islands with 18.55 per cent.

ENFORCEMENT CALL: The rules cover ruddy ducks and other invasive species.

Invasive species THE European Commission (EC) has give Spain and eight other member states two months to enforce new EU rules on non-native ‘invasive’ animals, birds and plants.

The new rules require member states to take measures to curb the num-

ber of invasive species. Invasive species are defined as those which live outside their natural habit, spread rapidly and outnumber native animals, plants and birds.

There are estimated to be around 168 invasive species in Spain, accord-

ing to government estimates. These include the ruddy duck, the zebra mussel and red swamp crayfish.

The EC called on Spain, Czech Republic, Cyprus, France, Greece, Ireland, Poland and Portugal to comply with the rules.

Book readers rise THE number of people who read books regularly in Spain grew to 61.8 per cent of the population last year, according to a publishing industry body.

The Spanish Federation of Publishers Guilds of Spain (FGEE) said their data showed the amount of people who read books digitally grew to almost 23.2 per cent of the total.

But almost 40 per cent

of those surveyed said the amount of reading they did was little to none.

Culture Minister Jose Guirao said the increase was welcome, but much remains to be done.

Miguel Barrero, head of FGEE, said the data on people who did not read showed Spain was a ‘problem country’ in terms of accessing culture.

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Chemical reaction MORE than 40 slaughterhouse workers suffered itchy throat and eyes after having a reaction to a ‘toxic chemical mixture.’

Firefighters ventilated the abattoir in Osona in central Cataluña, while a dozen ambulances dealt with those affected by the fumes given off when sodium hypochlorite and iron chloride were combined.

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Four dead in flash flooding in Asturias

by Tara Rippin FOUR people died in landslides and river overflows caused by the heavy rains which struck Asturias last week.

A 70-year-old was killed when his car dropped 50 metres after a road collapsed in Mieres, just after 1pm last Thursday.

Hours earlier, at 11.20am, the dead body of a 41-year-old man was recovered in the Porciles River in Tineo, during a search operation launched after he was reported missing the day before.

The resident of Pena had told his family he was going to check on land nearby at 2pm, which meant crossing the river.

It is believed he made his journey at the same time river levels rose due to the intense rains.

And a 62-year-old man died when his vehicle was struck by a landslide in Llero, Laviana.

The car overturned, and

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CASUALTY: Man, 70, died after car dropped 50 metres. dropped four metres.

Meanwhile, co-workers of a 42-year-old found him dead in his car after the vehicle reportedly fell 500 metres from a forest track in the Salas area at around 1.40am the same day.

They had gone looking for him when he didn’t return home.

In some stations, the

Cantabrian Hydrographic Confederation registered up to 126 litres per sqm last Thursday.

Around 20 roads were closed in Asturias, 15 schools were shut down and Arriondas Hospital and a nearby nursing home were evacuated as a precaution.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS

Touching nerves THE two largest parties in Spain’s parliament spent Monday hurling accusations against each other on Catalan independence and the far-right.

Dolors Montserrat, of the conservative Partido Popular (PP), accused the prime minister of ‘betrayal’ over his overtures to Cataluña’s pro-independence regional government.

Meanwhile, the left-leaning Partido Socialista’s (PSOE) Jose Zaragoza said the PP was feeding the ‘monster’ of the far-right.

The exchanges touched raw nerves for both the left and the right of Spanish politics. Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s decision to attempt to negotiate with Catalan leader Quim Torra since taking power in June has provided ample ammunition for the PP. The party has been able to spin Sanchez’s talks as a sign

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TRADING BLOWS: Congress witnessed bitter exchanges this week. that he is neglecting the integrity of the Spanish nation. The prime minister has long argued his approach is designed to diffuse tensions which have been high in the region since the 2017 independence push.

Sanchez has had to lean on small regionalist parties in Congress, including those from Cataluña, in order to pass key legislation since PSOE took power in June.

The prime minister cannot afford therefore to alienate those parties. His government would be paralysed in parliament if they refused to back PSOE, as recent wrangling over the 2019 budget shows.

The PP’s accusations of Sanchez secretly supporting the breakup of Spain may be a cheap shot. But it is true current circumstances have presented a golden opportunity for pro-

Catalan groups to extract further concessions from Madrid on self-rule.

The reference to the ‘monster’ of the far-right comes as the PP and centrist Ciudadanos secured the support of Vox to help form their new coalition in Andalucia.

The PP and Ciudadanos claimed their actions were necessary but many on the left feel they have shown their true colours.

The decision to support Vox poses problems for both. Ciudadanos will now have to square its progressive circle with its willingness to work with reactionary political forces in order to gain power.

Vox’s aid may have helped the PP topple PSOE in what has typically been a key stronghold.

But working with them legitimises them as an electoral option, with the two in direct competition for the right-wing vote.

Obstacle course THE leader of the centrist Ciudadanos has said his party could work with the ruling left-leaning Partido Socialista but added Spain’s prime minister was an ‘obstacle.’

Albert Rivera said Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had ‘muddled’national politics with his strategy of dialogue with pro-independence groups in Cataluña.

The leader of Ciudadanos also accused Sanchez of working for his own interests and not for the good of Spain.

“Sanchez has become an impediment that has muddled national politics which has become polarised and has encouraged separatist groups,” Rivera said.

Ciudadanos and PSOE have a chequered history but there seems to be a basis for an alliance on paper.

Ciudadanos pitches itself as a progressive pro-market alternative to the conservative Partido Popular (PP) while PSOE has championed liberal social causes and is socialist in name only.

But Ciudadanos’ recent history does not bear this out. The party has often aligned itself with the PP on a national level, helping to return former prime minister Mariano Rajoy to power in 2016.

Rivera’s comments will also raise eyebrows in Andalucia where Ciudadanos recently entered into a coalition with the PP with the help of the far-right Vox. Poll tracker: Partido Socialista (PSOE): 22.3 per cent, 98 seats Partido Popular (PP): 21.5 per cent, 89 seats Ciudadanos: 19.8 per cent, 67 seats Unidos Podemos: 14.8 per cent, 51 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control.

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Military history SPAIN’S King Felipe has met with military historians for a presentation of a new collection of books on the country’s armed forces.

King Felipe met with representatives from the Spanish Military History Commission for the presentation of the nine-volume Mili-

tary History of Spain.

A total of 170 people worked on the books, including 51 military officers, 26 academics and other armed forces personnel.

The work covers military history from prehistory to the present.

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Circus animal ban for Madrid

UNJUSTIFIED: The use of wild animals (inset) in circuses.

TRAVELLING circuses featuring wild animals look set to be banned in Madrid City.

The city council has approved an amendment to animal welfare by-laws acknowledging that circus facilities do not meet the ‘physiological, mental and social condition needs of animals’ or respect animal welfare.

The decision is based on a

recommendation by the European Veterinary Federation (FVE), adopted in June 2016, which warns the needs of animals ‘cannot be met in a travelling circus, especially with regard to accommodation and the possibility of expressing natural behaviours.’

It adds the use of ‘wild animals is unjustified’ and has ‘little or no educational, con-

servationist or economic value’ while at the same time ‘violating’ the universal declaration of animal rights in 1987.

This states that every wild animal has the right to live free in its own natural environment.

Prior to approving the amendment, the city council carried out an online public consultation and met with representatives from several animal protection associations.

The move must now be ratified by the Plenary in March or April.

The use of wild animals in circuses is already prohibited in the provinces of Valencia, Murcia, Galicia, Cataluña, Cueta, La Rioja and the Balearic Islands.

The majority of Madrid municipalities have also outlawed the practice.

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ICON: Elio Berhanyer.

ONE of the greatest names in Spanish fashion, designer Elio Berhanyer, has died at his home aged 89.

The Cordoba fashion icon created more than 100 collections and more than 22,000 costumes throughout his career spanning more than half a century, and his designs dressed the likes of Ava Gardner, Cyd Charisse and Queen Sofia.

In fact, Iberia Airlines commissioned Berhanyer to design its official air steward uniforms in 1972.

As well as clothing, his empire included perfumes and cosmetics.

In 2002, the designer was decorated for his work and his contribution to the world of fashion with the Gold Medal for Merit of Fine Arts.

And Berhanyer was also awarded the National Fashion Design Award in 2011, granted by the Ministry of Culture, for being a ‘self-made designer, tireless and self-taught worker whose passion and dedication stand out.’ His ‘capacity for innovation and footprint as a reference of Spanish fashion in the international arena’ was also praised.

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FRANCE FRENCH president Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel signed the Treaty of Aachen last week designed to deepen ties between France and Germany on security, the economy and digital policy 56 years after the historic Elysee Accord.

New treaty

Tax gains THE richest 1 per cent of people in France are set to see their incomes rise by 2.3 per cent due to tax cuts which come into effect this year, according to findings from the country’s Institute of Public Policy (IPP).

PACT: The deal deepens Franco-German ties.

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Space deal

Attack service

BELGIUM has signed a pact with Luxembourg committing both to work together on the exploitation and use of resources extracted in space in a bid to be in the race to the stars ‘from the start,’ Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said.

AROUND 100 people gathered in Dendermonde last week for a ceremony to mark 10 years since Kim De Gelder carried out a mass killing at a nursery in the region, killing two babies and 54-year-old nurse Marita Blindeman and injuring 13 others.

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Migrant data

Reform call

AROUND 3,500 people sought asylum in Denmark last year, according to figures from the country’s Immigration and Integration Ministry which showed the amount was similar to 2017 and that most came from Eritrea, Syria and Georgia.

GERMAN Chancellor Angela Merkel has called on attendees gathered at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland to defend multilateral institutions while calling for reform to prevent them from breaking apart.

First team

US trip

DENMARK is set to have its first national e-football team which will compete internationally, with the first games set to be against Norway, Sweden and Finland on Saturday, Danish football association head Kenneth Reeh has said.

HEIKO MAAS, Germany’s Foreign Minister, said he would seek ‘new co-operation’ with the US before leaving for a visit to the country last week as German officials attempt to strengthen trans-Atlantic ties.

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Climate claim

Visa call

EMISSIONS in the Netherlands look set to fall by about 21 per cent from 1990 levels, less than official targets of 25 per cent according to government research commissioned after an appeal court ruled it had a legal duty to meet pollution goals.

THE European Commission (EC) has called on the Netherlands and 22 other countries to halt ‘golden visa’ schemes which see papers granted to wealthy foreigners in exchange for payments over concerns they could be linked to criminal funds.

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SWEDEN

Death probe

Port strike

A LACK of collaboration between doctors led to the death of a woman in her 60’s after she became infected with flesh-eating bacteria at Flekkefjord’s Sorlandet hospital, an investigation from Norway’s Board of Health has concluded.

A TOTAL of 15 ports in Sweden were affected by the walkout of around 1,000 workers called after the Swedish Dockworkers’ Union failed to reach a deal with harbour bosses over collective bargaining.

U-boat plan

Train crash

NORWAY’S Coastal Administration has opened bidding for companies to help map the wreck of a Second World War German U-boat which lies 150 metres below the sea off the island of Fedje.

A MAN in his 30’s has died after being taken to hospital last week when a train crashed into his car in the Kalmar region of Sweden, according to local officials.

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With six editions on the Spanish Costas and Mallorca we cover the main expat areas of Spain - take a look at what is happening around our regions.

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Marihuana mistake

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Off-duty shooting incident A SAN VICENTE Local Police officer accidentally shot himself in the thigh while off-duty.

He was in a physiotherapy clinic when, for reasons now under investigation, the gun went off.

He immediately contacted the emergency services and was taken to hospital in an am-

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Gale force winds FIERCE winds which hit Palma from Sunday night and Monday morning left a trail of damage and kept firefighters busy around the clock.

At least 10 incidents were recorded with the majority involving fallen trees.

Fortunately there were no injuries, though a motorist had a lucky escape when a branch fell on his car in the Real de Secar area on Sunday night.

Firefighters were earlier despatched to Calle Can Estada after huge LUCKY ESCAPE: Large branch falls on car in Palma. gusts had blown a tree into nearby telephone cables, where it was being supported precariously.

The emergency team evacuated and made the area safe.

And around 6am on Monday morning, several members of the public reported large tiles were falling from a building in Calle Sant Vicenc Ferrer into the road below.

According to the State Agency of Meteorology, Aemet, wind speeds reached 80 km/h and up to 110 in mountainous areas.

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A ROQUETAS de Mar man is under arrest after Guardia Civil spotted him dumping three bags of marihuana after he got held up in a traffic jam following an accident.

Guardia patrols had been called out to the incident involving several vehicles and leaving a number of people requiring medical attention on the A-7 dual-carriageway in El Ejido.

While officers were alerting drivers to the situation and trying to keep traffic moving, they saw a man get out of a car about 200 metres away, open the boot, drop three large bags on the hard shoulder, then get back into his vehicle and start up the engine.

Suspicious, when the vehicle got level with officers they pulled it over and identified the driver, while other Guardia picked up the bags. They turned out to contain 10 kilos of the drug.

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T h e o ff i c e r, w h o i s a l s o a firearm training instructor, was described by the San Vicente police commissioner as ‘very experienced and meticulous.’

According to police sources, he still had his gun with him as he would have been late for his physiotherapy appointment if he had stopped to leave it at home.

He was also unable to explain how the gun was fired, the same sources revealed, but

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The gun is now in the keeping of the Guardia Civil who are investigating the incident.

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Paint store blaze FIREMEN in Almuñecar spent more than an hour battling flames which gutted a painting

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The incident occurred after a fire broke out in the basement of a house in the neighbourhood.

Emergency services received calls from residents who spotted smoke coming from the building. Three members of the Almuñecar fire brigade worked to extinguish the blaze while flammable chemicals in the workshop hindered their efforts.

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Head teacher assault A SCHOOL in Malaga City has suspended an 11-year-old pupil who allegedly kicked his head teacher in the groin while waiting for his mother.

The Hans Christian Andersen school pupil, was waiting at the centre, in the La Union area of Malaga City, at the end of the day when the assault took place.

The 11-year-old kicked, punched and scratched the head teacher who then tried to restrain him to stop him from leaving.

The boy then kicked the staff member in the groin, according to a complaint filed after the incident.

The head teacher has since contacted the National Association of Teaching Professionals (ANPE) trade union. The boy’s parents have also been called in and the case has been passed onto education inspectors.

ANPE said authorities were alerted to a total of 33 cases of student assaults on teachers in Malaga Province last year. Four of those cases have come before the courts.

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there was a lot of flammable: material, paint, wood, etc that made the task more difficult.

We also had the support of a couple of Local Police and Almuñecar Guardia Civil.”

Police are yet to announce if anyone was injured in the incident or whether other residents living in the Torrecuevas neighbourhood were forced to leave their home.

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France-Spain pipe setback SPAIN’S market regulator has rejected the first phase of a planned gas pipeline between the two countries saying it does not serve market needs.

The National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) and France both rejected part-one of the Midcat project.

Midcat is set to cost €3 billion in total and it would span from Spain to France through Cataluña if built.

The CNMC said Spain should continue to work towards greater integration into the European energy network.

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Company policy concerns THREE of the largest companies in Spain have said they are concerned over what they said was a lack of legal certainty, surrounding economic policies the government has proposed.

Electricity provider Iberdrola, the BBVA bank and telecommunications firm Telefonica said planned tax hikes on investments and the increase of the minimum wage to €900 were causes for concern.

It comes after government ministers announced a range of policies which also include new levies on digital companies and currency exchanges.

Begoña Garcia-Rodriguez, head of

By Joe Gerrard Iberdrola’s fiscal department, said analysts and investors were already asking about the impact of the plans.

Plans to tax earnings from dividends which came from companies abroad were ‘bad news,’ Garcia-Rodriguez said.

Jose Maria Vallejo, the head of global tax at BBVA, said new levies and tax hikes would cause Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to fall and financing costs to rise. The planned rates would also hit company balance sheets, Vallejo added.

Iñigo Fernandez de Mesa, head of the economic committee of the Spanish Con-

federation of Business Organisations (CEOE), said: “Right now, companies and individuals do not know what they have to pay and they are not investing.”

Silvia Ropas Ribas, deputy head of the government’s Directorate General of Taxes (DGT), said ministers would continue looking at how new rates would be applied before they are enforced.

The government’s tax plans come as part of its 2019 budget which Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero formally presented to parliament earlier this month.

Taxes have been raised to help fund planned increases in government spending.

SPANISH bank Santander has said it is going to close 140 of its British branches and cut 1,270 jobs due to the rise in online banking.

The bank is set to talk with unions over the closures.The bank’s British arm said branch transactions had fallen by 23 per cent during the last three years as the use of its online service has grown.

Susan Allen, head of retail banking at Santander UK, said: “The way clients relate to the bank has changed dramatically in recent years.”

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HQs move regions A TOTAL of 2,359 companies moved their headquarters out of Cataluña to other Spanish regions last year amidst ongoing uncertainty resulting from the 2017 independence referendum and declaration, according to Registrar data.

Stays fall FUND: Cabify offered to fund the sector.

C A B I F Y m a d e a n o ff e r t o Spain’s Development Ministry to create a taxi fund in response to protests from drivers, but the offer was not accepted.

The ride-hailing platform wanted to make the offer to ‘reassure’ the sector, according to company founder Juan de Antonio. It was designed to help taxi drivers integrate into the ride-hailing sector.

The fund would have seen

Cabify pay five cents in the Euro for every kilometre that one of its cars travelled.

The company estimated it could have raised some €400 million in one year.

It could have raised an estimated €1 billion if applied to other ride-hailing applications, the firm added.

De Antonio said the company had already introduced a similar fund in eight LatinAmerican countries.

OVERNIGHT stays in Spanish hotels fell by 0.1 per cent in 2018, the first since 2012, with declines of 0.6 per cent among Spanish holidaymakers and 0.4 per cent from foreigners according to data from the National Institute of Statistics.

New director THE Michelin factory in Va l l a d o l i d i s s e t t o s e e Bruno Arias Perez, formerly of the firm’s plant in Vitoria, take over from Mariano Arconada Calvo tomorrow (Friday), the company has announced.

Minister levy assurance SPAIN’S finance minister has said companies will theoretically be able to deduct their contributions for the new digital tax announced as part of the 2019 budget, from future corporate levy payments.

Maria Jesus Montero said during a visit to the Spanish Confederation of Business Organisations (CEOE) that deductions could be made ‘in principle.’ She added the government was looking into

how the new levy could be combined with existing corporate taxes.

Montero said the government wanted to be sure there were no misunderstandings on the part of business if and when the new tax comes into force.

The new levy, dubbed the ‘Google Tax,’ taxes companies 3 per cent on online advertising, brokerage and the sale of data and metadata.

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% CHG. NET VOL 0.99 26,201.69 -0.71 18,833.93 -0.36 6,071.51 0.23 9,153.28 -0.64 8,155.01 -0.11 4,271.82 -0.22 15,987.91 -0.02 68,052.69 -0.47 16,330.49 -2.21 28,114.94 -1.31 54,866.99 0.41 5,440.47 1.73 33,990.49 0.24 4,875.49 0.07 5,476.50 0.34 7,882.45 -0.92 102,727.42 -1.75 7,345.28 0.78 23,457.48 1.55 9,117.21 0.77 7,891.11 0.06 7,693.31 -0.22 25,162.47 -0.43 6,314.92 -0.88 18,046.80 -0.74 6,297.79 -0.46 65,629.22 -0.05 4,570.50 2.78 6,777.91 -0.92 17,336.04 -0.08 5,133.92 0.72 11,764.39 0.91 6,976.91 0.51 41,541.99 -0.20 71,508.11 -0.23 3,796.70 0.75 3,688.23 0.73 8,611.26 -0.11 5,337.81 -0.75 127,826.79 -0.75 4,230.55 0.06 12,589.65 0.65 8,122.06 -0.15 7,976.39 -2.30 23,153.03 -0.71 8,452.14 0.32 7,838.86 -0.85 5,313.54 -0.03 5,827.29 -0.22 4,701.33

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Land Securities Group 852.50 Legal & General Group 256.50 Lloyds Banking Group ORD 57.96 London Stock Exchange Grp 4,444.00 Micro Focus International 1,451.00 Marks & Spencer Group 295.45 Mondi 1,850.50 Melrose 161.90 Morrison (Wm) Supermarkets 233.88 National Grid 789.10 NMC Health 2,607.00 Next 4,836.00 Ocado Group 992.40 Paddy Power Betfair 6,075.00 Prudential 1,499.50 Persimmon 2,388.00 Pearson 899.80 Reckitt Benckiser Group 5,651.00 Royal Bank of Scotland Group 240.05 Royal Dutch Shell 2,229.75 Royal Dutch Shell 2,246.75 RELX 1,619.25 Rio Tinto 3,982.00 Rightmove 472.28 Rolls-Royce Group 865.80 RSA Insurance Group 514.00 Rentokil Initial 333.45 Sainsbury (J) 281.80 Schroders 2,594.00 Sage Group (The) 627.80 Segro 640.80 Smurfit Kappa Group 2,196.00 Standard Life Aberdeen 259.50 Smith (DS) 322.95 Smiths Group 1,425.50 Scottish Mortgage Invstmnt Trst 473.58 Smith & Nephew 1,409.50 Spirax-Sarco Engineering 6,250.00 SSE 1,131.75 Standard Chartered 619.70 St James's Place 947.80 Severn Trent 1,921.00 Tesco 222.95 TUI AG 1,215.50 Taylor Wimpey 166.48 Unilever 3,957.50 United Utilities Group 797.40 Vodafone Group 138.65 John Wood Group 524.60 WPP Group 868.10 Whitbread 4,900.00

CHANGE(P) -1.10 -0.60 -0.61 24.00 -42.00 5.45 9.00 -1.95 -1.47 -7.30 -59.00 59.00 46.00 50.00 -5.50 -4.00 -1.60 -47.00 -3.25 -21.75 -21.75 -0.75 104.00 0.03 -3.00 -4.40 -0.35 -0.90 7.00 -2.40 -1.20 4.00 -1.50 2.45 2.50 -0.42 -9.50 10.00 2.25 -5.70 -3.20 -4.00 -1.95 2.00 0.68 -18.00 -3.40 1.65 -9.60 -4.90 20.00

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6,329.12 15,325.14 41,680.52 15,389.09 6,206.42 4,712.29 6,762.74 7,960.25 5,573.44 27,157.73 5,550.90 6,621.19 6,608.64 4,761.25 39,025.32 7,596.04 7,040.64 40,313.45 29,314.26 100,401.56 84,966.37 31,852.96 49,727.61 4,215.10 16,469.93 5,323.65 6,153.05 6,226.50 5,847.20 6,841.54 6,506.69 5,199.71 6,566.13 4,389.04 5,634.20 6,942.94 12,427.15 4,593.40 11,594.74 20,694.15 5,035.16 4,565.42 22,025.57 7,134.18 5,435.18 46,454.94 5,460.56 36,606.35 3,640.78 11,015.72 8,931.24

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PRICE 100,770 157,760 364,200 136,860 113,220 46,130 47,370 71,720 200,740 180,400 133,970 47,040 128,230 103,390 184,000 72,950 107,170 80,610 40,640 93,600 124,980 115,810 268,050 56,400 138,670 71,890 96,940 111,090 195,900

CHANGE% CHANGE 1,05 1,05 0,00 0,00 1,66 5,93 3,11 4,13 -0,26 -0,29 0,00 0,00 -0,67 -0,32 0,45 0,32 1,49 2,94 1,75 3,11 1,09 1,44 -5,47 -2,72 0,94 1,20 0,63 0,65 -1,80 -3,37 -0,30 -0,22 0,91 0,97 0,21 0,17 -0,76 -0,31 -0,74 -0,70 0,48 0,60 0,22 0,25 0,72 1,92 -1,17 -0,67 0,70 0,97 0,80 0,57 -1,44 -1,42 0,49 0,54 1,76 3,38

VOLUME(M) 1.037.982 813 644.204 1.641.816 1.708.603 200 2.986.415 3.245.070 750.017 1.013.055 1.400.470 21.447.074 2.236.006 4.339.310 1.285.890 3.823.891 11.179.667 1.241.865 10.379.959 3.231.299 662.371 1.035.335 878.917 4.670.175 4.395.334 2.331.276 1.308.914 1.446.031 557.994

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Most Advanced PHI, Inc. PHI, Inc. Mersana Therapeutics, Inc. Scholar Rock Holding Corporation Overstock.com, Inc. Agilysys, Inc. Tocagen Inc. Tiziana Life Sciences plc Calumet Specialty Products Partners, L.P. OSI Systems, Inc. iClick Interactive Asia Group Limited

$ 3.1658 $ 2.77 $ 4.25 $ 16.59 $ 18.38 $ 16.42 $ 10.02 $ 6.75 $ 3.17 $ 86.06 $ 4.55

0.4858 ▲ 18.13% 0.40 ▲ 16.88% 0.61 ▲ 16.76% 2.35 ▲ 16.50% 2.57 ▲ 16.26% 2.28 ▲ 16.12% 1.22 ▲ 13.86% 0.81 ▲ 13.64% 0.38 ▲ 13.62% 10.22 ▲ 13.48% 0.52 ▲ 12.90%

$ 9.87 $ 12.05 $ 3.65 $ 26.76 $ 3.30 $ 42.18 $ 43.88 $ 2.31 $ 3.62 $ 2.40 $ 5.9654

1.04 ▼ 9.53% 1.15 ▼ 8.71% 0.34 ▼ 8.52% 2.35 ▼ 8.07% 0.28 ▼ 7.82% 3.52 ▼ 7.70% 3.46 ▼ 7.31% 0.18 ▼ 7.23% 0.28 ▼ 7.18% 0.18 ▼ 6.98% 0.4246 ▼ 6.64%

Most Declined Equillium, Inc. Orchard Therapeutics plc ASLAN Pharmaceuticals Limited Credit Suisse AG Verastem, Inc. Papa John's International, Inc. Credit Suisse AG Chimerix, Inc. Jounce Therapeutics, Inc. SPI Energy Co., Ltd. Verona Pharma plc

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A ghostly visitation LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WELL, I’ve just appeared in a haunted hotel. No not as an apparition (yeah, yeah!) Just as this old, boring pop-singing mortal I’m afraid.

The hotel in question is situated in the depths of the beautiful, but somewhat foreboding New Forest. It’s called the Foxlease.

Parts of this imposing edifice date back to the 16th century and it abounds with stories of unexplained noises and apparitions, which over the years have manifested both to its staff and residents alike.

All right, all right, I can hear the snorts of derision from here. No, this is not some establishment trying to sell rooms on the backs of paranormal spirits created by some dubious PR exercise.

On the contrary, because the main core of their business is centred on Guides, Scouts, and schools whose students take camping holidays and ‘outward bound’ courses in the summer, they are trying to keep the whole thing as quiet as possible.

As a spiritualist and staunch believer in such things, I was more than a little interested to find out as much as I could about their numerous supernatural experiences.

SCARY: Would you have the courage to stay the night?

Subsequently, on further investigation of the hotel I found that a number of the restricted areas (purposely not used as guest accommodation!), were extremely spooky indeed.

In fact, while I was there, the landlord took a small party on a guided tour of these areas. Within a few minutes, one young lady rushed back into the lounge, and shaking noticeably, told me she was frightened to even walk down one of the corridors! The staff and landlord were actually extremely ‘matter of fact’ and quite nonchalant

about the whole situation. An acceptance I had not actually experienced before, and did indeed lend a whole new authenticity to their ghostly claims and stories.

Apparently none of them lock their bedroom doors at night, they explained this was a precaution enabling them to escape in a hurry should they feel the need! All had heard the noise of footsteps and children talking and crying. The landlord told me last summer he was having a drink with a friend in the garden, when the friend sud-

denly froze and went deathly white. When he asked him what the matter was, he said he’d just seen a woman walk out through the wall of the hotel!

Apparently, a few years ago, without them naming the hotel, Channel Five’s TV paranormal ‘Ghostbusters’ spent a few nights filming there.

They later reported, in their opinion, there were eight ghostly ‘guests’ residing on the premises.

Sometime later the landlord invited the Royal Navy paranormal squad (yep they really do exist, mainly to investigate reports of ship haunting) to look in to their claims. This team had no connection or links with the TV series, but lo and behold, after their overnight stay, they too reported they had detected eight spirits in the hotel! Whoooooo!

Well be that as it may, and having actually seen a (never forgotten) manifestation at the age of four, I am not a sceptic and my mind is always totally open to all things both spiritual and mortal.

I have to confess however, despite their kind invitation, we declined their offer to stay the night!

Have a good week and try to take strength from the inspiring words of the great Rumi, who told us. ‘You are not a drop in the ocean; you are an ocean in the drop.’

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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By Juan Angel AlvarezGómez González Solicitor, AG Solicitors FROM January 19, 2013 a single European driving licence has been in existence.

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With their charismatic faces and extraordinary head-turning ability, owls are one of our bestloved birds.

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Doctor Who kicks off series 12 filming in South Africa Gill are filming thanks to the c a s t o f Wa l s h ’s o t h e r s h o w, The Chase.

His chasers revealed while a c c e p t i n g a N a t i o n a l Te l e v i s i o n Aw a r d o n J a n u a r y 2 2 , that Bradley couldn’t be with them because he was busy working on Doctor Who in South Africa!

Doctor Who previously used South Africa to double for the American Deep South in the 13th Doctor adventure ‘Rosa,’ which saw the TARDIS family trying to preserve a historic moment in the American civil rights movement from a time meddler.

Richard Shanley THAT faint sound you’re hearing might just be the TARDIS rematerialising because Doctor Who has officially started filming series 12!

Fresh off her encounter with one very p****d off Dalek on N e w Ye a r ’s D a y, J o d i e W h i t taker is all smiles in a firstlook photo of the cast which confirms they’re officially back in production on new episodes.

The background location might not be giving off any strong hints, but we actually do know where Jodie, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip

SOURCE: Vamers-Entertainment

DOCTOR WHO: The cast is currently filming in South Africa.

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7:45am Great British Garden Revival 8:45am Life in a Cottage Garden with Carol Klein 9:15am The Instant Gardener 10:05am Countryfile 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm Mary Berry Cooks 1:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Northern Exposure 2:00pm Talking Pictures 2:50pm A Matter of Life and Death 4:35pm Galapagos 5:35pm Flog It! 6:15pm Six Nations Rugby Special 7:15pm Ski Sunday 8:00pm The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer 9:00pm Dragons' Den 10:00pm Africa with Ade Adepitan 11:00pm Match of the Day 2 12:00am Rugby Union 12:30am Insert Name Here 1:00am Valhalla Rising 2:25am Question Time 3:25am Holby City

8:00pm Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest 9:00pm A Slow Odyssey: The Great Wall of China 10:30pm The Greatest Tomb on Earth: Secrets of Ancient China Documentary exploring the true origins of China.

11:30pm Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor 12:30am Gods and Monsters 1:30am This Green and Pleasant Land: The Story of British Landscape Painting 3:00am Our Classical Century 4:00am Masters of the Pacific Coast: The Tribes of the American Northwest

8:20am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Scrambled!

8:35am The Tom and Jerry Show 8:50am Ben 10 9:10am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 9:30am Spy School 10:05am Mighty Magiswords 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Parveen's Indian Kitchen 11:30am This Morning - On Sunday 12:30pm Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen 1:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:45pm To be Announced 3:15pm Goldfinger 5:30pm ITV Evening News 5:45pm Regional News and Weather 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Dancing on Ice 9:00pm Vera 11:00pm ITV News 11:15pm Britain's Top 100 Dogs Live 2019 1:35am Cold Feet

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7:00am World Cup Rivalries: England v Argentina 7:20am The Motorbike Show 8:20am Pawn Stars 8:50am The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 9:55am The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 11:00am Ironside 12:05pm Columbo 1:45pm Darts 6:00pm Pawn Stars 6:25pm Pawn Stars 6:55pm Mr. Bean The blunderingly inept master of disaster finds himself looking after a baby at a funfair.

7:25pm Mr. Bean 8:00pm Darts 12:00am The Ghost Writer 1:00am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment.

1:05am The Ghost Writer 2:40am Minder 3:40am ITV4 Nightscreen

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Pirata and Capitano Paw Patrol Shane the Chef Floogals Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Cruising with Jane McDonald Naughty Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud Friends Friends Honey, I Shrunk the Kids 5 News Honey, I Shrunk the Kids Robin Hood 5 News Robin Hood 5 News Weekend The Magnificent Seven 5 News The Magnificent Seven The Last Stand When Demolitions Go Wrong

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In and Out Bean Mr Bean's Holiday Blockers Beetlejuice Summer Rental Bean Mr Bean's Holiday Blockers The Other Guys American Pie: The Wedding American Pie: Reunion

6:30am Mary Queen of Scots: Special 7:00am Isle of Dogs 8:45am Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High 10:15am Love, Simon 12:15pm Breaking in 1:50pm A Quiet Place 3:40pm Beast of Burden 5:15pm The Hidden World of How to Train Your Dragon Sky Movies takes a special look at animated sequel How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World.

5:45pm Isle of Dogs 7:30pm Lego DC Super Hero Girls: Super-Villain High 9:00pm Love, Simon 11:00pm Breaking in 12:35am A Quiet Place 2:30am The Toybox 4:25am The Elephant and the Butterfly

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Hollyoaks Omnibus Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Charmed The Goldbergs Young Sheldon Young Sheldon Young Sheldon Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Bad Neighbours Gogglebox Gogglebox The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Shipwrecked

SUNDAY TV

7:00am Cricket New Zealand host India at Westpac Stadium in Wellington in the fifth and final ODI of their series. After this, the sides will play three T20 matches.

10:30am Live European Tour Golf 3:00pm Live Renault Super Sunday 5:00pm Live Renault Super Sunday 8:00pm Cricket 10:30pm Live PGA Tour Golf 12:00am NFL 4:00am Live Rugby 7s: Sydney Day two of the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series from Sydney.

9:30am EFL Greatest Games 9:45am EFL Greatest Games 10:00am EFL Goals: League One and League Two 10:30am Football Years 11:00am Sunday Supplement 12:30pm EFL Greatest Games 12:45pm EFL Greatest Games 1:00pm Football 3:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 4:00pm EFL Goals: Championship 5:00pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 5:30pm Sunday Supplement 7:00pm EFL Goals: Championship 8:00pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 8:30pm EFL Greatest Games 8:45pm EFL Greatest Games 9:00pm EFL Goals: Championship 10:00pm EFL Goals: League One and League Two 10:30pm EFL Greatest Games 10:45pm EFL Greatest Games 11:00pm EFL 12:00am Football's Greatest 12:30am Football's Greatest

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12:50am The Graham Norton Show 1:40am Weather for the Week Ahead

9:00am Great Alaskan Railroad Journeys 9:30am The Week in Parliament 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Rugby Union 2:30pm Coast 3:00pm Britain and the Sea 4:00pm A Place to Call Home 4:55pm The Wonder of Animals 5:25pm Natural World 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm Made in Great Britain 9:00pm Only Connect 9:30pm University Challenge 10:00pm Inside Europe: Ten Years of Turmoil 11:00pm Two Doors Down 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am NFL

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Handmade on the Silk Road Series about traditional crafts along the ancient trade route of the Silk Road.

9:00pm Coast Great Guides Travel documentary exploring Britain's coastlines.

10:00pm Don Mccullin: Looking for England 11:00pm Walt Disney 12:00am Francesco's Venice 1:00am The Art That Made Mexico: Paradise, Power and Prayers 2:00am Majesty and Mortar: Britain's Great Palaces 3:00am The Lost Genius of British Art: William Dobson 4:00am Don Mccullin: Looking for England

7:30am King of Queens 8:20am King of Queens 8:45am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 10:10am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Sun, Sea and Selling Houses 2:05pm Find it, Fix it, Flog it 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm The £100k Drop 6:00pm Couples Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Food Unwrapped Takeaway Special 10:00pm Teachers Training to Kill 11:15pm Dispatches 12:15am 999: What's Your Emergency?

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Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Superstore Superstore Dress to Impress Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Take Me Out Take Me Out: The Gossip You've Been Framed!

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Two and a Half Men Superstore Family Guy Family Guy The Stand Up Sketch Show Family Guy American Dad!

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Classic Emmerdale ITV3 Nightscreen Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Judge Judy Judge Judy Judge Judy On the Buses On the Buses Rising Damp George and Mildred Heartbeat Classic Emmerdale Classic Emmerdale Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Midsomer Murders Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Endeavour Scott and Bailey Scott and Bailey DCI Banks DCI Banks

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The Chase The Avengers Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals The Avengers Kojak Quincy, M.E. Another case for the sleuthing coroner.

Minder Terry helps out an old friend and is in danger of being run in by the law - not once, but twice.

The Professionals Action-packed drama series. Bodie and Doyle investigate a special long-range gun.

Snooker Fire Down Below FYI Daily Fire Down Below River Monsters

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Sky Movies Preview - February 2019 Battle for Moscow Walking Tall Battle: Los Angeles Batman Batman Returns Baby Driver Avatar The Terminator T2: Judgement Day Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

Summer Rental An Actor Prepares Bowfinger A Little Something for Your Birthday 12:50pm Social Animals 2:20pm Mamma Mia! 4:20pm The House 5:55pm Boomerang 7:55pm Pretty Woman 10:00pm Mamma Mia! 12:00am The House 1:35am 48 Hrs

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Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Shipwrecked The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona The Big Bang Theory Young Sheldon Shipwrecked The Sex Clinic The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Gogglebox

Rugby Gold Live Women's Rugby 7's: Sydney 8:55am Rugby Gold 9:05am Live Rugby 7s: Sydney 11:00am NFL Super Bowl Highlights 1:00pm Football Centre 2:00pm Sky Sports News 2:30pm Cricket 8:00pm Live Monday Night Football 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.

2:00am Live WWE Late Night Raw 5:15am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.

Top Ten Show, the 2019 The Hidden World of How to Train Your Dragon Lego DC Super Hero Girls: SuperVillain High Beast of Burden Breaking in Mad to be Normal Love, Simon The Leisure Seeker Lego DC Super Hero Girls: SuperVillain High Breaking in Love, Simon Mad to be Normal The Toybox Who We are Now Top Ten Show, the 2019 Which movies are doing the best business at home and across the pond?

Isle of Dogs

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EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games Football Countdowns Football Countdowns Football Years Football Years EFL One2eleven One2eleven Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games Soccer Am Best Bits EFL Goals: League One and League Two EFL Goals: Championship Soccer Am Best Bits Best Championship Goals Football's Greatest Football's Greatest SPFL Round Up Show SPFL Greatest Games Soccer Am Best Bits Football's Greatest

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7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm Regional News and Weather 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm To be Announced 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm Regional News and Weather 11:45pm Fred and Rose West: The Real Story with Trevor Mcdonald 12:45am Cleaning Up 1:40am Tenable 2:30am Jackpot247

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The Sweeney Snooker Quincy, M.E. River Monsters Snooker Safe House FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment.

Safe House Lethal Weapon ITV4 Nightscreen Text-based information service.

Teleshopping Shopping from home.

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10:25am The Karate Kid 12:35pm The Karate Kid, Part II 2:35pm The Karate Kid, Part II 4:35pm The Next Karate Kid 6:30pm The Karate Kid 9:00pm The Karate Kid 11:10pm Fearless 1:00am Birth of the Dragon 2:40am Big Trouble in Little China

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Extreme Cakemakers Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Shipwrecked The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Coach Trip: Road to Barcelona Charmed Shipwrecked Tattoo Fixers Extreme The Big Bang Theory

7:00am Mad to be Normal 9:00am Lego DC Super Hero Girls: SuperVillain High 10:30am Beast of Burden 12:10pm Breaking in 1:45pm Love, Simon 3:40pm Dark River 5:15pm The Hidden World of How to Train Your Dragon Sky Movies takes a special look at animated sequel How to Train Your Dragon: 5:45pm Lego DC Super Hero Girls: SuperVillain High 7:15pm Breaking in 9:00pm Love, Simon 11:00pm Dark River 12:35am Mad to be Normal 2:25am Beast of Burden 4:15am The Toybox

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Football Countdowns Football Countdowns Football Years Football Years EFL One2eleven One2eleven Football's Greatest EFL Greatest Games EFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Round Up Show SPFL Greatest Games Soccer Am Best Bits Football's Greatest Football's Greatest SPFL Round Up Show SPFL Greatest Games Soccer Am Best Bits Football's Greatest Football's Greatest EFL Football's Greatest Football's Greatest Football Years Football Years

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More questions than answers Reader John Hare in Almeria Province has taken issue with the EWN over its coverage of the PGOU master plan that helps to make homes legal in Zurgena.

HAVING attended the PGOU meeting, it was good to think that quite a high number of Zurgena residents may eventually, in time, get legal status for their property.

However, having sat through the whole meeting, seen the article in the Euro Weekly News, I must take issue over some of what I heard and have read. The main reason for my suspicion is the status of some of the land as on the plan shown at the meeting, seems to be clearly wrong and contravenes one of the strictest parts of the LOUA planning laws. That is: Article 46. Non Urbanisable Land (Suelo No Urbanizable) Section i. “It presents real risks of erosion, slippage, landslide, flood or other natural risks.” Many properties have already been affected by flooding and some have lost land into the ramblas (gulley). There are even cases where the villas are very close to crumbling edges and look dodgy to say the least.

Such examples, I would have thought, must be non-urbanisable yet shown on the provided plan as Non Consolidated Urban. I therefore think it is misleading to the community to make quotes such as ‘approval of the PGOU in its entirety’ and ‘all properties shown as urban consolidated, urban not consolidated and urbanisable will become urban consolidated, in other words fully legal.’

If the council intends to issue more building licences on such land in the future, surely, this could be very misleading and costly to unsuspecting buyers.

Ultimately we need honesty and transparency from the council.

John Hare

Tyre help wanted I SEE that Spain wants to use tyres for future roads. We have lots of tyres, we are looking for a company that wants to purchase them for recycling. Can any of your readers help?

Rob (full name supplied)

Doggy query I WOULD like to know if you could please tell me the location of the Dog Rescue Centre run by Jo and Jan which is featured in the Bargain Brits Channel 4 programme. I would like to give them some support if possible. Thank you.

John Corry Editor’s note: Jo and Jan of Animals in Distress (AID) in Coin (Malaga) can

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Rest in peace WE were sad to learn that the remains of Julen, the twoyear-old boy who fell down a well in Andalucia’s Malaga Province, were found on Saturday.

Post-mortem tests have now begun on his body, with the results due in about two weeks. Coroners and forensic experts said the two-year-old probably free fell 71 metres down the bore hole in Totalan.

Sunday saw hundreds of mourners gather at Malaga City’s San Juan Cemetery for Julen’s funeral. Parents Jose Rosello and Victoria Garcia were joined by government officials and those who took part in rescue efforts for the ceremony.

The death of Julen is tragic, made all the more so by the fact the two-year-old’s parents lost another son in 2017.

The search for Julen saw the local community rally round to lend its efforts in hope of reaching him alive.

Their efforts were in vain but in the tragedy we saw how the desire to put aside daily concerns to help those in jeopardy can push people to heroic lengths. Those efforts captured the imagination of our readers, Spain and large parts of the world.

The death has also cast light on the wider issue of illegal wells in Spain. The Ministry of Agriculture estimates there could be as many as 510,000 throughout the country.

But for now we join our readers who commented in the hundreds on our coverage to say: ‘Rest in peace’ to Julen.

Now we want to hear your views.

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Two-year-old had ‘clean fall’ down 71m hole From what the autopsy has revealed ‘Julen’ had a ‘clean fall’ 71 metres - not 110 as originally mentioned. He landed on earth that filled up the lower part of the well and there was no water. He wouldn’t have drowned, but most definitely that fall would have killed him instantly.

You may wonder why a stranger in the UK is writing this?

I’ve no one to talk to - and Julen has been on my mind since the accident. It helps me - as i hope it does you too - to know he didn’t suffer.

I send my love to all. God bless.

Mary Hey Mary, Writing to you from IL, USA. I’ve been heartbroken since first hearing about the boy who fell down the borehole. I checked his update every few minutes on Google, hoping for a success. I think about Julen every day since I have a three-yearold daughter. It is definitely a sad discovery and hope to get closure from his autopsy, as I hope he did not suffer. If you want to talk I’m here. Sending love from the USA. Danijela It has been on my mind too Mary. It does help to think he didn’t suffer, I hope it will bring some comfort to his parents and family, if not now, perhaps in the future. May he rest in peace.

Fiona

COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE ful that he is out of that place, and thanks to those wonderful people that were willing to risk there lives for little Julen, safe with Jesus, will always remember him, and may God bless you all, and comfort you at this most painful time.

Ann I prayed and cried out for the family, I thought about him every day, I am so sorry for your loss, may he dwell in the house of the lord, he is now an angel along with his brother.

Lord bless all the workers who continually to fight day and night to bring precious Julen home. May God bless his family and heal them in this time of loss.

Lynda Thank goodness to have found Julen and brought him out!

Terrible tragedy, but the people working on this did wonderfully and were very brave. Just hope Julen didn’t suffer bless his little heart. My condolences and love to his parents.

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Dead body of two-year-old Julen found in Totalan well

EU’s ‘Golden visa’ offered to wealthy foreigners could encourage criminal applicants

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You realise this week how liberating it is to share your thoughts and feelings with someone close. It is not always easy to do this, until you realise everyone has them. Some hopes and dreams are more attainable than others, of course, and someone has to find out which are which.

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Time is precious this week because you are in demand. A chance lost in the past presents itself again but won’t be too easy. Holding back just a little makes you more desirable. A want to travel could be cramped by financial considerations. If making extra money is too difficult, consider sharing something of value with someone else.

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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) With a mind as sharp as a needle, you spin through the week, weaving your own charming spell. A bit of extra confidence works wonders for your mood. Something that you read sets you thinking about doing some writing or creating something artistic, perhaps even a musical.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Although energy is not high, there is the need to have some kind of challenge. With the brain active, it is an ideal time to plot and plan your next moves.

Maybe something that has been delayed might now be advanced.

You find it hard to choose between opportunities. The road ahead is open. Keeping things simple is best.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) The imagination stirs and the heart races at a suggestion this week. Your strong intuition tells you it is the right thing to do.

You are a constant friend, but such an adventure may mean an absence from someone close.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Reading the small print or being sure what is offered in a personal encounter is most important this week. Leave nothing to chance or you could be out of pocket. When discussing the future with someone close, you are expected to take the lead.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Being over-generous with cash midweek could see you making a poor move. Perhaps someone needs to be more hardworking or perhaps less of a spendthrift.

Propping up a bad habit would be doing them no favours.

There are doubts in your mind about a family holiday.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A suggestion made by you recently did not seem to be taken seriously. This week, however, negotiations could be opened.

Circumstances change and it may seem someone gave up too early.

Bide your time and even hold your tongue when someone in a strong position spouts rubbish.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Confidence in a close relationship should be maintained. Possibly someone who envies your position would like to see discord. A matter of spiritual or religious faith is questioned, but the answer comes more clearly and sharply than you would have thought. In discussions with yourself (sometimes the best kind) answers come easily.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) An emotional cut-off from the past is not as bad as anticipated. Indeed, it confirms in your mind who you are and what your place in the world is.

Inherited traits knit easily with your present life and bring contentment. All that you want to change at the moment are certain things round you that have been outgrown.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) An investment made recently is built upon and brings peace of mind. Finances do need consideration but more in the long than the short-term. Much is happening in the background that does not require your attention but, all the same, be aware. Life may be like a game of chess, but this week if you turn your back an opponent may cheat.

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Cryptic Across 1 Gloomy elk crossing river (6) 4 Austrian composer of Harlem Shuffle (6) 9 Curse a small company in a surge (7) 10 Frank is not attractive (5) 11 Harvest in Lancashire, apparently (4) 12 Not a positive denial (8) 14 Complete western part of golf course (5) 16 Left on the side of a shelf (5) 20 Various butcher stores feature in ad (8) 21 Pastry dish left in cooler (4) 24 Easterner is back among articles (5) 25 Italian city designed for romance?

(7) 26 Revolver for an artist? (6) 27 Master of Italy gets a scare, perhaps (6) Down 1 Unhappiness of skinflint with ponytail (6) 2 South American city, and yes, German red wine (5) 3 Tender god of love turns up (4) 5 A paper edited before editor turned up (8) 6 Badly aligned in front (7) 7 Untidy diners should be washed with water (6) 8 Characters in a magazine were more up-to-date (5)

13 Enforce changes around Lithuanian capital, European city (8) 15 Has a row, being more rash (7) 17 Empty tin placed in barrel (6) 18 Juicy fruit, penny apiece (5)

Code Breaker

19 Not just a peacekeepers' festival (6) 22 The pride of British rugby (5) 23 Greek goddess is part of the Ram constellation (4)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents T and 10 represents G, so fill in T every time the figure 1 appears and G every time the figure 10 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 Refund of some fraction of the amount paid (6) 4 Bypass (4) 8 Savagely violent man or animal (5) 9 Another time (5) 10 Writing desk (10) 13 Ardent follower (10) 17 Abnormally fat (5) 18 Snow leopard (5) 19 Piece of music for one person (4) 20 Act upon (6)

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

Across 1 To empty (out) (6) 5 Cadenas (6) 8 Respuestas (a preguntas, en examen, test) (7) 9 Wave (4) 10 Capaz (4) 11 Sunrise (8) 12 Enviar (4) 13 Quién (3) 14 Carbón (4) 16 Arriba (8) 20 Lion (4) 21 Turnip (4) 22 Regalo (7) 23 To lie (6)

Down 1 Loose flowing garment (4) 2 Melancholic music (5) 3/18 Commence a game of golf (3,3) 5 Yellowish brown colour (5) 6 Weigh in the mind (6) 7 Cause to be firmly attached (6) 11 Destroyed physically or morally (6) 12 Widely known and esteemed (6) 14 Perfection (5) 15 Thick, closely-spaced, compact (5) 16 Amount owed by one person to another (4) 18 See 3

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

24 Fever (6) Down 2 Wire (metal) (7) 3 En cambio (7) 4 Wheel (5) 5 Chestnut (7) 6 Encima de (5) 7 Nobody (5) 13 Susurrar (7) 14 Colegio (7) 15 To bet (gamble) (7) 17 Toll (on road, bridge) (5) 18 Trucha (5) 19 Estante (5)

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The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (ICEBOX) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

BEYOND GLOOMY HUNGRY ICEBOX (10) INTONE LARYNX MOMENT OBLIGE PATROL POPLIN PRIORY PRISSY SENIOR SHAGGY SLEUTH SNIVEL SPRUCE VOYAGE YOGURT

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Campus 2 Lignum 3 Hymnal 4 Thirty 5 Swampy 6 Waylay 7 Latter 8 Fleshy 9 Grater 10 Twelve 11 Famine 12 Teller 13 Fallen 14 Oxygen 15 Vandal 16 Tanned 17 Inland 18 Infant 19 Syndic.

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Boggled How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

• The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’.

They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

• Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

• No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

• No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

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

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

TARGET: • Average: 28 • Good: 39

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

TARGET:

• Very good: 55 • Excellent: 72

SCORING: 4 letters: 1 point 7 letters: 5 points 5 letters: 2 points 8 or more letters: 6 letters: 3 points 11 points

Average: 10 Good: 14 Very good: 20

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Excellent: 26

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION beer bore born bred burn deer doer dour drub erne euro nerd redo reed rend robe rode rube rudd rude rued rune bored borne bourn brede breed drone enure erode odder orbed reded robed round udder under bedder bender bonder bourne burden burned droned endure enrobe enured eroded nodder redbud redden redone undoer bounder endured enrobed rebound redound rounded underdo burdened REBOUNDED

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QUICK Across: 1 Brass, 3 Sharp, 6/18 Tai chi, 8 Regatta, 9 Steal, 10 Fees, 13 Avid, 14 Latte, 17 Evasive, 19 Sleet, 20 Twice.

CODE BREAKER

Down: 1 Bets, 2 Stream, 3 Saga, 4 Authentic, 5 Praise, 7 Intricate, 11 Cadets, 12 Latest, 15 Mist, 16 Dire.

CRYPTIC

ENGLISH-SPANISH

Across:

Across:

1 Lack, 3 Contests, 9 Terrain, 10 Gorge, 11 Liszt, 12 Titled, 14 Strand, 16 Grange, 19 Glared, 21 Truce, 24 Spill, 25 Service, 26 Enduring, 27 Bent.

1 Pack, 3 Campaign, 9 Afilado, 10 Bison, 11 Flour, 12 Clever, 14 Riddle, 16 Abades, 19 Biblia, 21 Sobre, 24 Erizo, 25 Emerald, 26 Ansiedad, 27 Deer.

Down:

Down:

1 Littlest, 2 Cords, 4 Ornate, 5 Tight, 6 Surgeon, 7 Seek, 8 Wanton, 13 Vehement, 15 Rallied, 17 Retort, 18 Odds-on, 20 Ruler, 22 Unite, 23 Isle.

1 Platform, 2 Chico, 4 At once, 5 Pobre, 6 Instead, 7 None, 8 Barrel, 13 Ascender, 15 Daisies, 17 Basket, 18 Bañera, 20 Loose, 22 Brave, 23 Cena.

App of the week Swipe of finger TENKYU is a new app which requires users to roll a ball through a 3D world to reach the goal while collecting gems and moving up the levels.

Carefully manoeuvre through stages, or meet your doom. At the swipe of a finger you can tilt the stage and roll the ball. But you have to be careful not to tilt too much, it’s game over if the ball falls.

QUIZ: HEART TO HEART 1. Because of his reputation as a great military leader and warrior, which king of England was known as Cœur de Lion or the Lionheart?

2. In L Frank Baum’s children’s novel The Wizard of Oz, first published in 1900, which of the characters was searching for a heart?

3. In which year did cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard perform the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant at the Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa?

4. Octopuses have how many hearts?

5. The professional football club Heart of Midlothian, more commonly known as Hearts, is based which city?

6. What is the name of the United States military decoration awarded in the name of the president to those

wounded or killed while serving, on or after April 5, 1917, with the US military?

7. What name is given to the branch of medicine that deals with diseases and abnormalities of the heart?

8. Which 1949 British black comedy film, featured Dennis Price, Joan Greenwood, Valerie Hobson and Alec Guinness, who played nine characters?

9. Which American undergarment manufacturer first produced its famous Cross Your Heart bra in 1954?

10. Which duo wrote Cilla Black’s first UK number one hit single Anyone Who Had a Heart (1964)?

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EDINBURGH (Gorgie), 6. PURPLE HEART, 7. CARDIOLOGY, 8. KIND HEARTS AND CORONETS, 9.

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Showtime series Dexter. The role earned him a Golden Globe Award and a Screen Actors Guild Award. He first • Alice Cooper, Rock singer; February 4, 70 gained recognition on the hit HBO series Six Feet Under.

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• Cristiano Ronaldo, Footballer; February 5 One of the world’s best footballers, he rose to fame as a forward for Real Madrid after being bought from Manchester United in 2009. He became captain of the Portuguese national team in 2008 and received the Ballon d’Or as the European Footballer of the Year in 2008, 2013, 2014, 2016 and 2017. In 2018, he signed with Juventus.

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WHEN Jessica Farris signs up for a psychology study conducted by the mysterious Dr Shields, she thinks all she’ll have to do is answer a few questions, collect her money, and leave.

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60 - First day The earliest date for which the day of the week is known. A graffito in Pompeii identifies a day in this week as a ‘dies Solis’ (Sunday), but in modern reckoning, it would have been a Wednesday.

211 - Emperor dies Roman Emperor, Septimius Severus, dies at Eboracum (modern York, England) while preparing to lead a campaign against Caledonians.

1141 - Battle of Lincoln King Stephen is captured by forces loyal to Empress Matilda and commanded by Robert, 1st Earl of Gloucester.

1349 - Black death By this week, at least 200 people a day are being buried in London from the Black Death.

1587 - Execution Queen Elizabeth I of England signs death warrant for her cousin, Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots.

1870 - Equal rights The 15th Amendment to the US Constitution is ratified, guaranteeing the right of citizens to vote, regardless of race or colour.

1943 - Big defeat German troops surrender at Stalingrad, marking the first big defeat of Hitler’s armies in the Second World War. During the Battle of Stalingrad, 160,000 Germans were killed.

2003 - Space shuttle Sixteen minutes before it is scheduled to land, the Space Shuttle Columbia breaks apart in flight over west Texas, killing all seven of its crew.

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WHEN 90-year-old Earl Stone loses everything he loves, can he use ill-gotten gains to win it back before the DEA, or the cartel, takes him down?

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SPAIN is brimming with spectacular spots for a sojourn, but you knew that anyway didn’t you?

You probably also know that wine culture is very close to Spaniards’ hearts, and in fact anyone living in Spain. There’s good reason for it as Spain has the largest area of cultivated vineyards in the entire world.

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Here are some of our favourite choices. Let us know yours and we’ll publish the best in the next issue.

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dominates the cava towns, why not explore the remarkable 1,000-yearold Benedictine monastery of Santa Maria de Montserrat, panoramic views and scenic walks accompa-

nied by Catalan fare for lunch and an afternoon tasting some of the best Cava the Penedes region has to offer.

How about must-see Bodegas in lush La Rioja? Bodegas Ysios is architecturally one of the most stunning winery buildings to visit. Designed by celebrated architect Santiago Calatrava, it mirrors the rolling Sierra de Cantabria Mountains which serve as its backdrop.

Or try the family-owned winery Eguren Ugarte, located near the old town of Laguardia. Opt for a tasting tour, or a full underground cellar experience where winery patrons store their personal collections of precious wines.

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Have you been hacked?

TECH FOR THE TIMID IMAGINE the distress message from a friend last month, stranded on a Greek island without her passport, her money and her phone. Could I, would I, head for the nearest Western Union to help?

Except I had been having coffee with her that very morning. Half a world away from the Greek Islands.

Hacking is what happens to other people. As the Mafia tried to teach Hugh Grant to say in ‘Mickey Blue Eyes’: ‘Fuhgeddabahtid!’

Stealing our friend’s previous phone had unleashed the bad dudes on her data, hence the spurious message to everyone in her contacts list. Nobody responded, which either says a lot about how scam-savvy we all are, or perhaps she needs better friends.

Being hacked can change your life, as the 2013 movie ‘Identity Thief’ portrayed so graphically. The hero is ruined financially, loses his job, is falsely identified as a drug dealer, and is arrested for missing a court date for a crime he didn’t commit, all from online identity theft.

Hollywood hyperbole? Again: ‘fuhgeddabahtid.’ Better still, mosey

Terence Kennedy discovers how the bad guys will find you

BE AWARE: Have you been ‘pwned?’ over to the instructions alongside to check safely and easily whether your own e-mail accounts are secure, just for starters.

I just did and alarmingly, two of the three e-mail accounts I use have been compromised, one of them by three different sets of hackers.

How does that happen? Let me not

name the ways, there are simply far too many and increasing by the day.

One of the most recent, if you’ve ever stayed at a Marriott hotel anywhere in the world, in November they admitted ‘losing’ 500 million customer records to hackers. Oops.

Yahoo had a breathtaking one billion accounts compromised in 2016.

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Still strutting their stuff!

I’VE written here before about some of the strange musical phenomena which punctuated my school days.

In 1981, I was taken aback by the arrival in England of The Stray Cats. The spectacularly coiffured retro rockers who took the 1950’s sound of Sun Studio Rockabilly, added a dash of punk attitude and styling, and for a brief period, added something different and pure to the charts.

Formed in Massapequa, New York in 1979 by guitarist and singer Brian Setzer, double bass player Lee Rock and drummer Slim Jim Phantom, the trio quickly picked up a substantial following across New York.

On a trip to England to play a

STRAY CATS: On tour. few gigs they met rock ‘n’ roller and producer Dave Edmunds who offered to produce their first album. The eponymous Stray Cats was released in 1981.

Three hit singles from the album, Runaway Boys, Rock

This Town and Stray Cat Strut cemented their popularity.

This year marks the band’s 40th anniversary and they have just announced a European tour.

Music fans who want to see Rock n Roll in its purest form should try and catch them.

LinkedIn released 165 million account-holders’ data into the wild. Sony, Tumblr and Evernote have all been breached and the list goes on. And on.

‘Sextortion’ is the newest twist in this never-ending story. Hackers with stolen passwords ambush their victims, showing the passwords as ‘proof’ they have records of porn site visits, which they will release to family and friends if ransoms are not paid.

According to the ‘Have I been pwned’ website (see alongside), my own far less salacious data went public thanks to breaches of Dropbox, an online ‘spambot’ in Holland, and a South African cinema club I joined in another life.

As the site specifies, the stolen data includes my birth date, my e-mail address, my gender, my name, my passwords, my phone numbers, my physical address and my spoken languages.

All that seems missing is my underwear size. At least until M&S gets hacked.

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Being ‘pwned’ (pronounced ‘poned’ but your mileage may differ) is a streetwise corruption of being perfectly ‘owned.’

Hence the name of the definitive site, ‘Have I been pwned’ (https://haveibeen pwned.com). Enter your address, press search, and brace for dismay.

Of my three current addresses, only one is still sacrosanct, the other has starred in no fewer than three infamous dumps, and the third in ‘just’ one. Ouch.

Obviously the service only searches among known data dumps from breaches; there’s no guarantee your info isn’t also lurking out there somewhere else, quietly ticking like the proverbial time bomb.

Have a nice day!

Telly making me grumpy Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man AS my readers know by now, Mrs S and I like a bit of telly. Currently there are two shows making me grumpy: The Voice and The Greatest Dancer.

It’s not the content, but the judges, and not actually the judges themselves, but their clothes. The shows have been on for three weeks now and in every episode they are wearing the same clobber.

Now, either they stink, or all the episodes are filmed on the same day. If so, at least give them a few changes of clothing because it’s really getting on my nerves.

How hard can it be to have a few shirts around for the blokes and some frocks for the ladies? I mean, for goodness sake, make an effort to make me believe it’s just not churned out on one day.

Here’s another one the PC brigade have come up with. In movies where the storyline features a disabled person they say the part should only be played by a genuinely disabled person.

I am registered 66 per cent disabled so I am allowed an opinion on this. Here it is.

Don’t talk nonsense - if there is a disabled actor who fits the role then fine, and if not, then use any actor who can do the part justice and make the movie as realistic as possible.

Eddie Redmayne, Al Pacino, Daniel DayLewis, Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio - to name just a few - have all done it, done it well and in a sympathetic way.

Who are we to say that Sean Penn has no right to portray someone with a disability?

That’s his job - to portray people who he is not - and he’s pretty good at it too. That’s what actors do! It’s getting ridiculous.

Let’s take advertising. Does every painkiller ad have to be played by someone with a headache? What about the Maltesers ad where two secretaries are chatting - here’s an exclusive - they are really actors!

Oh and here’s something I’m sure is going to shock you: the meerkat compare insurance ads don’t actually feature real meerkats!

Of course, there are some brilliant actors with disabilities or learning difficulties who play great parts like Liz Carr in Silent Witness, RJ Mitte from Breaking Bad and Liam Bairstow from Coronation Street.

On that subject, I’m trying to get hold of David Walliams as I am the real Andy Pipkin from Little Britain, because although I use a wheelchair, I can get up and walk and I want them to use me in the show in future.

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Barry Duke IN the space of a week, first as a passenger in a taxi and then on a bus, I heard the respective drivers swearing like fishwives after they’d come within inches of what could have been two serious prangs.

In both instances - in the same week that Prince Philip, 97, crashed his Land Rover - the cars which had caused the near-collisions had UK licence plates and elderly drivers.

Most of what the bus driver yelled was incomprehensible to me.

But I got the gist of what he shouted: ‘Foreign drivers are s*&t!’

The taxi driver ’s tirade, on the other hand, was in English and he told me foreign drivers were the bane of his life. ‘The problem is they are far too old and have no idea what they’re doing.’ Then, suddenly realising he may have offended me, he asked whether I drove.

I replied that I gave up because I suffer glaucoma, a condition which has robbed me of my peripheral vision. So I decided the responsible thing to do was to pack in motorcycles and cars.

But I agreed that far too many

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Time to surrender the wheels?

BARRY: On a friend’s Harley.

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OF all the self-improvement obsessions which have gripped the UK this month - like ‘Veganuary,’ ‘dry January’ and ‘clothes sobriety’ (a respite from retail therapy) - none seems to have gripped more than the first one, the worship of the plant-based diet, veganism.

But please can we stop talking about it so much? Yes, it’s on the rise, however, and in the past four years the number of vegans in the UK has quadrupled to 600,000, with many more signing up to ‘Veganuary.’

But let’s get to the meat (sorry, couldn’t resist) of the issue. The problem with veganism (and vegetarianism, for that matter) is it seems to turn what simply amounts to a food choice, into basically, a religion.

One which apparently requires its adherents to try to make converts of the rest of us in a humour-free, hectoring fashion with about as much warmth and brio as a dinner party jointly hosted by Jeremy Corbyn and Theresa May. My other ‘beef’ is why do vegans try to imitate meat, fish or dairy products? An imitation burger will always compare unfavourably with a decent meat one. They should be developing their own cuisine, with

have reached an age which makes them a danger to themselves and others.

For decades, I tore around the streets of London on a variety of motorbikes without getting turned into flying mince by incompetent drivers, but when I moved to Brighton, all that changed.

Very soon I learned the roads of Sussex were full of pensioners mainly driving Volvos, and they only ever looked into their rear view mirrors to check whether they were wearing their cloth caps and spectacles.

On one occasion, a Volvo ahead of me stopped without warning. The driver then threw the car into reverse, and crashed into me.

Amazingly he angrily accused me of rear-ending him! The old geezer quickly backed down when a witness confirmed not only was I stationary when I was hit, but that I was sounding my horn. Turned out

The unstoppable rise of veganism VEGANISM: Are we obsessed with becoming vegans?

the vegetarian cuisines of India, China and south-east Asia a good place to start.

As veganism grows and McDonald’s offers vegan Happy Meals, even naysayers like Gordon Ramsay, who once said if his children ever went vegetarian he’d electrocute them, offered a Veganuary menu. (Well, business is business.)

However, another big trend is, apparently, flexitarian; people who eat meat, fish and dairy but want to cut back or try vegan/veggie food. A bit like the chap who decided he was trans-vegan so he could virtue signal all day but still have a nice bit of steak in the evening. But each to their own.

Take my dog, for instance, who is lactose and gluten-intolerant but loves chips. Only kidding! As for me, I’m off to have my eggs, bacon, black pudding, sausages and fried bread (all cooked in delicious duck fat) breakfast. What more could anyone want?

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the driver was practically stone deaf.

But British drivers in Spain are often heard loudly complaining that Spanish drivers are the ones who are rubbish. This from freelance writer Sandra Piddock: ‘Your average Spaniard is very laid back and never in a hurry; unless he’s behind the wheel.

‘He’ll overtake anyone who isn’t going fast enough for him, which means just about everybody else on the road. What’s really annoying is the way the Spanish signal their intentions. They don’t, and you have to play Mystic Meg and guess where they’re heading.

‘The average Spaniard is so full of his own importance behind the wheel he expects everyone to know what he’s doing and where he’s going. If you don’t guess right, it’s your fault, not his.’

I’m fine not owning a vehicle in Spain because bus and train fares are dirt cheap, and taxis charge fair prices, so my annual outlay on transport is minimal.

But not everyone thinks public transport is a good thing. A moronic Tory politician once told me in all seriousness that if London were to ban buses, car drivers would get around the city far faster than they do.

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I would like to cancel my medical insurance at the end of 2019. When exactly do I have to cancel it? Can I do it now, or must I wait until December 2019?

Attached is a text from the insurance company which I do not understand very well.

HK (Costa del Sol)

The i nsurance David Searl company’s t ext You and the Law says just what you think in Spain it does. You must cancel your policy in writing at least a month in advance. If your insurance office is near you, my advice is to deliver your written notice personally and discuss it with your agent or broker. In addition, inform your bank in writing not to pay the insurance bill. Just in case. It is surprising how often the insurance company sends the bill and the bank pays it, even when they are properly informed. Do this in November.

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

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THE prospect of doing a large amount of exercise can sometimes be off-putting, and the more we avoid it, the guiltier we feel, creating a cycle where exercise can seem like a chore rather than something to be enjoyed.

But one scientist says that instead of focusing on creating large goals and then feeling b a d i f w e d o n ’t a c h i e v e them, we should actually just take small steps towards fitting a little more activity into things we naturally do every day.

Michelle Segar, a psychologist and director of the University of Michigan Sport, Health and Activity Research and Policy Centre, told American radio station NPR, that we place too

STAIR WALKING: Scientists say this could be as good as other exercise.

Get fit for free WITH growing rates of heart disease, cancers, and obesity, we are often urged to exercise more, which has b e e n sh o wn t o h elp p rev en t many illnesses and improve quality of life.

But while we know moving more is good for us, the cost of gym membership or expensive exercise equipment can become a barrier to doing more activity.

However, there are still plenty of ways to get fit without spending a cent.

Living in Spain has many advantages, one of which is its fantastic

weather nearly all year round.

So why not take advantage of it to get moving?

Whether it is going for a swim in the sea, taking a run along the beach, or a hike or walk in the mountains, there are so many healthy, fun - and most importantly - free ways to exercise using equipment most of us already own.

Even lifting weights, which can mean costly club membership, can be carried out using objects you already own. A litre of water equals roughly one kilo in weight, meaning those two or five litre bottles of wa-

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much importance on thinking of exercise as an organised activity which must involve the gym, running, Spandex, or sweating.

Segar explains that literally every time we move our bodies we are benefiting our health, whether that movement constitutes traditional forms of exercise or not.

She says: “The research does now show that basically all movement counts, and anything is better than nothing,” adding, “I’ve been astounded that even u p u n t i l t o d a y, v e r y e d u cated people don't know don’t believe - that walking actually ‘counts’ as valid exercise.”

Loretta DiPietro, exercise research scientist at G e o rg e Wa s h i n g t o n U n i versity’s Milken Institute School of Public Health, told the same station that scientists measure how an a c t i v i t y a ff e c t s o u r b o d y using the value MET (metabolic equivalent).

She explains this means that any and all activity has a rating, and some routine tasks we perform

on a near daily basis without considering them exercise have a higher MET value than some workouts.

DiPietro says exercise that is moderate to intense will have a value of between three and six METs, both of which are covered b y m o p p i n g ( 3 . 5 M E Ts ) , or slowly climbing the stairs (four METs). Climbing the stairs fast uses nine METs, more than line dancing at eight.

And given that we are told to take in 150 minutes of moderately intense exercise a week, it is easy to see how normal activities could easily add up.

DiPietro says this means instead of focusing on inc r e a s i n g l e v e l s o f o rg a n ised exercise, if you are unlikely to actually stick to this it may be better to just slightly increase the level of activities we already perform.

This could mean taking the stairs instead of the lift or parking further away when shopping.

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Health myths laid bare WE have all been given the same health advice so many times - ‘ e a t f i v e a d ay, ’ ‘walk 10,000 steps,’ ‘drink alcohol in moderation’ - we could be forgiven for thinking w e k n o w a l l t h e re is about how to keep ourselves fit.

But now some research suggests that many of the most c o m m o n l y - t o u te d wellness sayings may not be all they seem.

Take, for example, the advice to drink between six and eight glasses of water a day.

This guidance is regularly dispen se d i n n e wsp a p e rs and magazines, but may not actually be correct.

It is thought this recommendation comes from either a 1945 medical study, or from a book published by nutriti o n i st Dr Fr e d e rick Stare in 1974. While both original sources point out

that much of the hydration humans need comes from food sources and other beverages than water, this info rmatio n s ee ms to h a ve been lost in translation over the years, leading many of us to think we are not looking after ourselves unless we take in around two litres a day.

Some latest research suggests we should do not need to worry so much about the source of our fluids, however, claiming that around 20 per cent of the hydration w e n ee d co mes fro m food.

S cie n tis ts a ls o c la im man y o th er beverages, including tea and coffee e v en c a ffein ate d v ers io n s - c a n count towards our fluid needs.

Similarly, scientists across the world

have also failed to agree on what constitutes reasonable levels of alcohol consumption.

While many experts share t he vi ew t hat t her e i s no guaranteed ‘safe’ minimum - since alcohol consumption is linked to a variety of diseases - the maximum number of weekly units recomm ended by di ff er ent countries varies enormously.

A 2013 study at the University of Sussex found a, ‘ r em ar kabl e l ack of agr eem ent ,’ i n al lowances, such as the difference between the UK, which recom m end no m or e t han 14 uni t s a week, and Spai n, where men are allowed a suggested

maximum of four drinks a day, and women two. The same study claimed that to avoi d conf usi on, t her e should be, ‘internationally agreed standard definitions of al cohol uni t s and consumption guidelines.’

And finally, we frequently hear we should be walki ng 10,000 st eps dai l y t o st ay heal t hy. Agai n, t hi s ‘fact’ has an interesting origin, actually starting off life as part of a Japanese advertising concept to get people exci t ed about t he 1964 Tokyo Olympics. , before making its way into mainstream beliefs.

In fact, a BBC report published last year debunked the myth, showing that 10 minutes of moderate intensity exercise daily could actually reap greater benefits.

WATER MYTH: Scientists believe we actually get a significant proportion of our water from food.

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Cervical cancer; ignorance is NOT bliss IT is now 10 years on from the publicised illness and death of Jade Goody, the young mother who was diagnosed with cervical cancer and died shortly after at age 27.

In her final months, she was seen to be actively promoting cervical screening for young women and thanks to her tenacity, Public Health England saw a rise of nearly half a million women going for their screening.

However, sadly all Jade’s hard work seems to be in the past as women are missing their cervical smear appointments, putting them off and putting their lives at risk.

Screening attendance rates have dropped to the lowest for at least 21 years, which is dramatic given the large upsurge 10 years ago.

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MISSED APPOINTMENTS: Don’t put off this life-saving screening.

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“Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest threats to public health in the world, and the large number of antibiotics that providers prescribe for patients are a major driver of resistance.”

The expert added: “Providers urgently need to eliminate prescribing that is not needed, both for the sake of their patients and society.”

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THE concept of having something made just for us has always felt like the height of luxury; whether it’s a suit, kitchen, pair of shoes of piece of furniture, bespoke products feel like the ultimate indulgence.

And it seems the beauty industry has caught onto this sentiment, with multiple companies now offering bespoke or custom-made products.

These businesses claim you can take the guess work out of whether a product will suit you or

Bespoke beauty work for your hair or skin by creating it to your exact specifications. Theoretically, this in turn will cut down on the amount of money spent on products which end up resigned to the back of the cupboard when they do not fulfil their claims.

The range on offer spans mascaras, make-up palettes, and even shampoos, beginning with

Function of Beauty, a US-based company which creates shampoos and conditioners to order.

Whether you have always struggled to find the ‘perfect’ shampoo for your hair, or your favourite has been discontinued and you cannot find an equivalent anywhere, Function of Beauty claims to have the answer by providing a service where

Kate Broadhead Health and Lifestyle coach NOW I agree that carbs aren’t great, generally speaking, when trying to lose weight. However, they still have a vital role to play in exercise.

When we exercise, especially intensively such as performing cardio, High Intensity interval training (HIIT) or a full-on weights session, our body requires fuel and energy to sustain this.

This fuel comes from protein which helps to repair muscle, and carbs which our body draws on for energy. To exercise and not supply our body with this, will lead to storing fat we have eaten, for energy. The result? Fatigue, injury, and certainly not weight loss.

That doesn’t mean go to the gym and binge on toast when you get home! It means, eating complex carbs. Green vegetables, wholegrain rice, lentils, quinoa, pasta, sweet potatoes, all with a healthy supply of meat or fish for the protein.

The most effective exercise to make part of your weekly routine, is

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you are a short quiz away from a completely custom-made shampoo and conditioner.

The company will even print your name on the side of the bottle, as well as allowing you to choose the colour and scent, and filling the formula with ingredients specifically designed to deal with the information you give them about your hair and scalp type and hair concerns.

While Function of Beauty does not currently ship to Spain, the company says it hopes to soon.

The role of carbs in exercise

CARBS: Still have their place. simply 15 minutes of HIIT on a moderate or high-carb day.

The interval nature of this keeps your metabolic rate higher for longer,

even more than if you went for a longer run at a steady, even pace.

Even better, everyone can fit this in, even in your living room! YouTube have some great and easy to follow videos, simply type into the search, ‘HIIT at home.’

Tomorrow (Friday) I fly to the UK to embark on a 15-mile/24 kilometre hill run for charity, titled ‘It’s grim up North’ and I will certainly be carb-loading for the event as otherwise I will not have enough fuel to keep me going!

Come back next week to find out if I survive the monstrous trek!

Visit Kate’s successful facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/carb cyclingforbeginners or follow on Instagram @carbcyclingqueen.

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Open-fit/RIC hearing aids NOWADAYS hearing aids are like computers: every six months something new comes along!

The vast majority of the improvements are small, but every now and then a great leap forward occurs.

The last of these was the invention of the open fit/RIC (receiver in the canal) hearing devices.

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SHAKIRA has announced ‘the break is over’ as she hits the gym after spending Christmas with Barcelona football star partner, Gerard Pique, and their two children. The stunning singer, 41, boasts an incredible figure, but has vowed to put everything into looking nothing short of spectacular in her upcoming tour, dates of which have yet to be released.

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Celeb packed coach tours Spain and Tattoo Fixers’ Paisley Billings with controversial Celebrity Big Brother contestant and former Emmerdale star Roxanne Pallett The show has so far seen the celebrities stop off at Barcelona, paddleboard on the famous gay resort of Sitges and sea kayak in Tarragona.

While in Tortosa they tried their hands at a survival master class, wakeboarding, before reaching the festival town of Benicassim, where it was another adrenaline fuelled competitive day with go-karting followed by sky gliding.

The coach parked up in Valencia for two days to give the VIP passengers time to enjoy the sights and give paella making a go, before it was time to drive on to Denia for a bit of wine tasting, and on to Altea this week for a spot of fly boarding.

ROXANNE PALLETT: Former Emmerdale star.

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VIEWERS are lapping up the rows and the laughs dished out by E4’s Celebrity Coach Trip as the bus makes its way across Spain, seeing famous faces voted off and getting on each episode.

It’s been six years since the celeb version was screened. The non-celeb show has been running since 2005, but the VIP spin-off only ran from 2010 to 2012, until now.

Everyone’s favourite coach driver Brendan Sheerin is back at the wheel of the starriest bus on the continent, but who has he been driving/chauffeuring around?

The line-up of pairs include; Strictly Come Dancing pros James and Ola Jordan, singers Mutya Buena and Lisa Maffia, reality star Charlotte Crosby and boyfriend Joshua Ritche, and Made In Chelsea’s Sam Thompson and James Dunmore.

Also boarding the bus are TOWIE’s Bobby Norris with Celebs Go Dating love expert Nadia Essex, rapper Big Narstie, X Factor duo Jedward, Union J stars Jaymi and JJ,

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This week Celebrity Chef from Ready Steady Cook & Fellow Master Chef Steven Saunders, proprietor of The Little Geranium in La Cala cooks a beautiful winter dish of slow cooked oxtail with truffled potato.

The perfect dish to fall asleep over!

Steven Saunders FMCGB The Little Geranium La Cala de Mijas & Marbella

www.thelittlegeranium.com IN Spain this fantastic dish is called Rabo de toro (tail of the bull, or cow nowadays). Over the years it has become one of the most popular cuts of meat, very much on trend with chefs like me that like using the souvide machine or slow cooking unusual cuts of meat. It is one of those dishes that is widely appreciated all over the world, but it hailed from Cordoba on our doorstep!

Its tradition began around the 16th century when most women had to reinvent their cooking skills in order to cook for large numbers of people. Since they were allowed to take the tails from the bulls killed in the bull fights, this type of food became extremely popular. Soon rabo de toro turned from the poor food into an elegant and

Ingredients for 4/6 THE recipe for this popular dish can vary enourmously and as you can imagine my version is not totally common! I add foie gras for creamy luxury, but it’s not essential and I also use good red wine and add locally grown seasonal vegetables, so you could add what you like here.

For the stew 2 kilos oxtails, cut into 5cm pieces approx.

2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 teaspoons of Maldon salt 2 teaspoons of black fresh ground pepper 2 large Spanish onions, chopped 4 Spanish tomatoes, chopped 2 celery stalks, chopped coarsely (save leaves for garnish) 1 large parsnip peeled and cut into chunks 1 large carrot, chopped into chunks 4 cloves of garlic, cloves crushed 2 sprigs of fresh thyme 2 bottles full bodied good quality red wine, such as Rioja 400ml of good beef stock or a rich stock made from beef gravy

TRADITIONAL SPANISH: Oxtail stew with potatoes. aristocratic dish, like most poor food! Although found all over the world especially in places like South America, the Spanish have the dish perfect in my opinion. The rich gravy flavoured from the tender meat cooking on the bone, creates the most amazing flavours. Oxtail is a gelatin rich meat which helps it keep moist whilst it slow cooks and adds all that rich thickness and sticky texture.

I remember cooking Rabo de toro a few years ago for a group of friends for a dinner party at home. I got started before lunchtime to prepare in advance. I opened at least three bottles of good red wine to cook it in and obviously sampled them first!

The first wine was an amazing Barolo from Italy and after a few glasses I reluctantly gave the

rest up for the stew. The second bottle was a French burgundy and that too was great and so I took a couple of glasses. The third bottle was a Spanish Rioja reserva and after a large glass of this beautiful smooth red I started to feel a bit dizzy and very tired and so I put the stew in the oven on a low heat and sat down on the sofa.

I fell asleep and when my friends turned up for dinner at 8pm I had been asleep for almost eighthours! Oh my god the stew!! I rushed to the oven with my friends laughing out loud and looked in the pan. To my surprise the oxtail had cooked to the most tender delicious meat absorbing all the red wine and the stock, the flavours were amazing. I served it up with truffled mash and everyone said it was the best oxtail they had ever eaten. Falling asleep had done me a favour albeit the recipe I was looking at had only called for four hours cooking.

From that day on I have always made it the same way. I drink some of the wine, put the rest in the stew, put the stew in the oven and then fall asleep. It’s such a treat to wake up to this delicious meal as long as you set the alarm!

I served this dish up in my Geranium in La Cala this week and regulars Mike and Mary (foodies) were so delighted that they left me a great TripAdvisor review and begged me to cook it more often.

Rabo de toro, foie gras, truffled potato granules 2 bay leaves 2 whole pieces of star anise To finish the dish ½ bottle tawny port (to finish the sauce) Mashed potato (enough for 4/6 portions) 125g unsalted butter cut into small cubes 200ml thick cream 1 tablespoon of truffle oil 1 tablespoon of truffle pieces Maldon salt ½ a small fresh Foie liver, cut into 4/6 small pieces (optional) Method Like making any stew, the oxtail pieces are seared in a deep thick bottomed sauce pan in a little olive oil and seasoned with the salt and pepper.

When they start to colour up, add the tomatoes, vegetables and garlic and stir well in. When the pan is re-

ally hot and the pieces of oxtail are a nice light brown colour add the first bottle of wine and the star anise, the bay leaves and the thyme.

Now add the beef stock and stir it all in well. Make sure the meat is totally submerged in the liquids.

Put in a pre-heated oven at 180ºc uncovered and cook fast to get the stew moving for about 10 mins.

Now reduce the heat to 120ºc and top it up the stew pot with more red wine until full and cover the stew pot with a lid or tin foil. Now it’s time to fall asleep. Set the alarm for seven hours later!

Time to wake up! After seven hours, check the stew. It should have absorbed nearly all the wine and stock, if not then keep cooking slowly for another hour. When the sauce is thick and the meat is tender and falling away easily from the bone then the stew is done.

Now remove the pieces of oxtail and the vegetables and star anise etc and pass the remaining sauce

DELICIOUS MEAL: A tenderly cooked rabo de toro dish.

through a fine sieve into a clean saucepan. Add the port and reduce until thick (usually 10/15 mins Put the oxtail pieces back into the fresh pan (into the new reduced sauce) and simmer on low heat until needed. Serve with creamy truffle mash.

Truffle mash Heat the cream and add a good tablespoon of truffle oil to the cream.

Warm the mashed potato and add the warm cream and the truffle pieces and then gradually add the butter and beat it all in using a plastic spoon or spatula until light creamy (like the consistency of thick cream) Season and taste.

The final Presentation Serve at least two pieces of oxtail per person each on some creamy mash which you have pulled over the plate so that it’s not too dense.

Fry the foie in a hot pan with no oil or anything else until golden then sear quickly on the other side. Place the cooked foie on top of the oxtail with a few micro cresses or herbs or even the celery leaves and serve.

Serve with plenty of sauce spooned over and sit back and watch the expression on your guests’ faces!

You can email Steven your questions or enquiries to: steven@thelittlegeranium.com.

Steven Saunders FMCGB - The Little Geranium, La Cala de Mijas & Marbella. www.thelittlegeranium.com

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GREAT SHOW: The Rojales Pantomine Group love performing together.

BAD GUY: King of the Tangled Wood, Valerin the Vicious.

Hooray for Camelot PANTO season has come and gone… boo hoo, but the cast and crew of the Rojales Pantomime Group had a fantastic time performing their latest show with a difference, Camelot The Panto, at the Escuela de Musica y Cultura in Los Montesinos in January.

A tale was told of love so true and deeds so bold with a very happy ending, seeing Prince Arthur finally winning the hand of the beautiful Guinevere, and even the court jester, Laughalot, found his true love.

Evil was tamed and good prevailed with Morgan Le Fey and her evil sisters succumbing to goodness, finally renouncing their magical powers.

Songs were sung and dances

were perfectly danced and nurse Connie Clatterbottom and Dancing Teddy made it safely through the night in the Haunted Hotel in the Shrieking Bog where the ghost was always behind them… oh yes it was!

Merlin, with the help of magic became younger, although Valerin the Vicious and his mum were unsuccessful in winning the hand of the fair Guinevere.

‘A pantomime with a difference, Camelot, had it all. It was slick, smooth and professional with lots of laughs. Costumes and props were very good.

Well done to the cast and crew for all their hard work, we really enjoyed the matinee

performance,’ said Susan Phillips.

Just one of the many reviews received from the fantastic audience who all participated to make this pantomime a resounding success.

If you are interested in joining our merry band of thespians to either act or just help out, you can catch up on all our events at www.rojalespan tomime.com or email us on ro jalespantomime@gmail.com.

Proceeds from our performances will be donated to a variety of local charities which we will publish as and when we make the presentations.

Thank you again to everyone who bought tickets, we couldn’t do it without you.

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Exclusive preview: Bargain Loving Brits THIS Thursday, fans of popular series Bargain Loving Brits in

the Sun will be introduced to a whole raft of characters trying

to carve out a new life in Spain.

Episode four, airing on Channel 5 at 8pm UK time, will see audiences meet Jill Newman-Rogers, who runs ARCH horse rescue, and follow her as she races around dealing with cases of equine cruelty and neglect.

This week, Jill will check up on Askara, a horse which has been attacked and suffered an extensive facial injury. Expensive nose surgery is needed, but the charity does not have the finances to pay upfront. Will generous Britons dig deep and raise the necessary funds?

The Euro Weekly News exclusively caught up with Jill to discuss the charity’s work. Jill said although the episode had not yet aired, since filming began last summer, ‘it has been an excellent year for rehoming.’

She added: “Around 99 per

cent of horses we take in are cruelty cases or abandoned and unidentified. We are very grateful to those who take them in.”

Jill told the Euro Weekly News: “We certainly always need donations, however, as well as volunteers for both our charity shop and the horse shelter.”

In the same episode, viewers are introduced to Andy Wainwright from Nottingham, who runs a second-hand furniture business and must make €2,000 a week to pay all the bills and keep his business afloat.

Also hoping to make a new life for himself this episode is West-Midlander Vince Neale, trying to live the dream and open a bar in the sun. Vince runs into trouble early on however, after it emerges he must furnish the entire place himself before opening.

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Time for change on planning laws?

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EXPERTS say they hope Spain’s central government may make changes to urban planning laws, allowing for easier development.

At the Europa Press Foro Inmobiliario (real estate forum) in Madrid, specialists claimed they want to work with the government to improve urban planning and reduce regulatory barriers in an effort to create more office buildings, warehouses, urbanisations, and public buildings.

At one conference, ‘The real estate sector facing the challenge of planning large cities,’ according to ideal ista.com, experts discussed the General Urban Plan (PGOU), the current legislation governing planning law.

Many of the attending specialists spoke of a need to standardise planning laws, making it easier for developers to work across the country. Among those advocates was Marcos Sanchez, managing director of Valdebebas, a new urban development outside of Madrid.

He said, “More and more

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it is necessary to standardise urban management to avoid the current regulatory jungle,” adding, “the challenges of the new type of urban planning gives places responsibility on administrations to homogenise laws.”

Mr Sanchez said the issue of transport was also a growing concern for developers,

explaining, “It is necessary for the different municipal and autonomous governments to work on the area of transportation and day-today improvements in order to evolve at the same time as the cities themselves.”

Fernando Ferrero, director of Merlin Properties, agreed, adding, “in 20 or 25 years

the types of demands on municipalities have changed. I think public-private collaboration is positive for the sector, because it can pick up the experience of the private sector to improve execution times.”

Gabriel Sanchez, general business director of Neinor Homes, added, “a state pact is required which grants viability and visibility to promotion. You have to establish how you want cities to be in the coming years. The regulatory disparity in Spain affects the costs and financing of the sector.”

He added space was at a premium in Spain, saying, “The soil cannot serve as a currency or be linked to the cycles of the sector, and demand should be stable.”

At the end of the conference, Consuelo Villanueva, director of Institutions and Large Accounts at the Valuation Society, spoke about the need to make urban planning laws more flexible in order to prepare for the many changes coming to cities over the next few years.

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House prices still rising Shrinking sizes prompt innovation INCREASING house prices and growing populations have seen a series of companies innovate to try to solve the issue of shrinking property spaces.

In response to the issue, a new wave of multipurpose furniture is increasingly gaining in popularity, signalling an end to the days when a small home meant limitations of the amount of furniture or uses a property could have.

One such company, Ikea, has this week expanded its modular range to include a bed which owners can add to or change, depending on their needs at any particular time.

The Delaktig bed, made from 50 per cent recycled aluminium, offers the possibility of changing headboards to match an owner’s mood, or attaching side tables or lamps, saving space.

The range, which launched in February last year, includes adaptable sofas, clip-on side tables and lamps which can be used on the floor or in a frame. Ikea claimed it ‘can be combined in multiple ways to suit different looks, activities and lifestyles,’ meaning you can update your room’s look and layout simply by changing one or two pieces of the De-

laktig rather than whole pieces of furniture.

This innovation, and others like it, could help with issues such as the decreasing size of properties as house prices rise across Spain, particularly in areas such as Madrid and Barcelona where house prices rocketed by around 20 per cent last year.

Another company’s attempt to solve this issue in Barcelona faces an ongoing court battle over its legality. The ‘hive,’ created by company Haibu 4.0, is a building which rents out a series of three square-metre ‘capsules’ for €250 a month.

It sparked outrage at Barcelona City Council who ordered the building to be sealed after it opened last September.

Built with the aim of offering low-cost homes in the heart of the city for those on a low income, the development has instead courted controversy from the outset, with local politicians accusing its promoters of flouting regulations on housing standards.

Barcelona City Council applied to a court to have the building sealed at the end of October, effectively ceasing trade, while a judge decides whether the council’s actions were legal.

SPAIN’S growing population is causing house prices to continue going up.

According to real estate website idealista.com, booming population growth is assisting house prices, boding well for homeowners and potential investors.

While house prices rose by an average of 8.4 per cent in Spain in 2018, some areas were affected more than others. This distinction did not just come down to areas where prices are traditionally high, such as Madrid or Barcelona.

Of the 10 Spanish provinces whose population grew last year, six of these were among areas with the highest increase in house prices, according to data from the Spanish Institute for Statistics (INE). In total, 40 provinces also saw housing prices grow in 2018, bringing Spain’s average price to €1,720 per square metre.

According to Idealista this growth goes beyond normal fluctuations expected in supply and demand, and can partly be explained by an increasing number of people, which grew by 0.32 per cent last year. Easier access to

PRICES SOAR: Property went up by 15.8 per cent in the Balearics. credit, a return to investment in housing, improvements in wages, as well as consumer confidence have also helped.

The most impressive increases were found in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, where housing soared by 22 per cent in 2018, while Madrid was not far behind at 20.2 per cent. Las Palmas’ prices rose by 17.9 per cent, the Balearic Islands by 15.8 per cent, and Barcelona by 11.9 per cent. At the same time, Madrid and the islands also recorded the largest rates of population growth.

Interesting results were seen in La Rioja, where prices grew by 11.4 per cent while population increased by 0.1 per cent, and Malaga, where housing shot up 11.1 per cent and population grew by 0.6 per cent in Andalucia.

The same pattern was found in reverse; in areas where house prices fell, population figures declined. In Teruel, prices reduced by 4.6 per cent, while residency dropped by 0.7 per cent, and in Caceres, houses fell by 3.9 per cent at the same time population reduced by 0.9 per cent.

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

REMEMBER Harold Wilson and George Brown, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, or even further back, K and B? Political duos rarely last, as it happened in Spain too, with Felipe Gonzalez and Alfonso Guerra, so Pablo Iglesias and Iñigo Errejon were an estrangement waiting to happen.

Errejon was one of Podemos’ founders, but the rot had set long before 2017 when Iglesias’ partner Irene Montero eclipsed Errejon by taking over as party spokesman and the party’s second in command.

The split is likely to be less helpful than the Podemos hierarchy might hope, because the considerable number of voters who did not take to party supremo Pablo Iglesias were rather taken with Errejon.

Podemos came out of nowhere, arriving with flash and a bang and a wallop by winning five seats in the European parliament in the May 2015 elections.

That’s the trouble with arriving in a blaze of glory as fireworks so often turn out to be damp squibs. Are you listening Santiago Abascal?

MADRID mayor Manuela Carmena is an independent backed by Mas Madrid while Iñigo Errejon has left his parliamentary seat but insists that he still belongs to Podemos.

Meanwhile, he has nailed his colours to Carmena’s mast to campaign with Mas Madrid for the Madrid Community presidency, instead of Podemos as originally planned.

Errejon for community president? A lot of people would like to see him put Iglesias’ nose out of joint and he might manage both.

An ill-wind THE PSOE has the jitters, fearing that Podemos’s imminent shipwreck won’t do it any favours come May and the municipal and regional elections.

At present, Podemos shores up PSOE town and city halls all over Spain and Pedro Sanchez expected more of the same this time round.

What’s the problem? Hardcore supporters will still vote Podemos while outside Madrid they’ll only have the PSOE to turn to, just as pre-Vox right-wingers only had the PP to vote for. The Iglesias-Errejon split could be just what Sanchez needs.

FORMER PRIME MINISTER: Harold Wilson.

The anointed one AT the Partido Popular’s recent Madrid conference the former president Mariano Rajoy made only a fleeting appearance.

He also demonstrated his opinion of Pablo Casado by not staying around long enough for a family photo with Jose Maria Aznar which would formally anoint the present PP as a worthy successor.

On leaving politics after losing the vote of no confidence at the end of May, Rajoy said, “I will be loyal” ; a pointed but elegant dig at Aznar who had named him as his successor in 2003.

Aznar was not loyal to Rajoy, criticising him for being insufficiently forceful and ditching his honorary presidency of the Partido Popular in 2016.

Much of that was pique because Rajoy did his own thing, not Aznar’s, so it will be interesting to see how Casado rubs along with Aznar although since the former is further to the Right than Rajoy ever was, everything should be fine and dandy. Until Casado spreads his wings, that is.

Vega Baja full of surprises David Hudson HAVE you wondered why there are pirates in the Moors and Christian parades? It is because the Berber pirates from the island off Santa Pola for centuries plagued the Alicante area and were first to fly the cross bones flag in the Middle Ages.

These pirates were brutal attacking merchant ships, raiding the main land and ransomed wealthy people. If the families did not pay they received the person’s head. Being Muslim they are lumped with Muslims in the parades now.

In 1708 Charles III freed 300 Geonese slaves from the Ermir of Tunis and relocated them to the island having first removed the pirates.

He named the island Tabarca after the prison that they were held in. That was not the only problem from the sea, in the eighth century Orihuela was raided by Vikings using the River Segura at Guardamar.

HISTORY: Moors versus Christians.

Over 60 pieces from Orihuela are now in the Copenhagen National Museum. The ‘giants of the sea’ were stopped when the Moors created a Navy base at Guardamar.

Orihuela dates from the Bronze Age with 1,000 people living there trading olives, cereals, sheep, cows, pigs and goats throughout the Mediterranean.

The area has been occupied by the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Visigoths, Muslims and Christians.

You can easily imagine Hannibal with his elephants passing San Miguel from Cartagena on to Orihuela turning right to Rome. ‘El Cid’ used this road when driving back the moors from the Aragon kingdom.

Look out for the red signs ‘Camino Cid’ from Callosa crossing the Murcia border between the obelisks at Beniel.

The Orihuela Castle was the best and strongest in Spain and sits on top

of Saint Michael’s Mount 2,000 feet above sea level. It was originally constructed by Romans to protect the Vega Baja from the Carthaginians.

When the Moors arrived at the battlements they were manned by Visigothic King Teodomiro troops and women dressed as soldiers.

It was so convincing that it led to the Moors negotiating a pact that allowed Teodomiro to remain King of the Christians until he died at the

age of 70. The Orihuela area covered Alicante, Murcia up to Hellin and Albacete and was the most important city in the south east of the Peninsular.

There were three entrances to the large fortified wall and when the Moors took charge they developed the now important city with an irregular layout that pointed to Mecca.

The ninth century Zoco Market sold apples, pears, pomegranates and quinces. The Moors constructed today’s irrigation system using the river Segura.

They had 200 square metres of private and public baths that had hot, normal and cold baths. The town included gardens and farms.

Under the Moors Orihuela maintained Christianity, Jewish and Islam but the influx of Syrians from Valencia and the restriction to descendants of the Visigoths and Jews made it unbearable.

Because of the micro climate and fertile soil the Moors said that ‘Life is always easy in the Vega Baja.’

For more information about the Vega Baja, clasicos600@yahoo.co.uk

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Living standards have been much raised.

Travel and Tourism is now by some measures the largest global industry. Most of the developed world expects to travel to the ends of the earth for a week in the sun. While two weeks in Benidorm are still popular and weekends in Marbella or Barcelona are as glitzy as ever, the search for a moments diversion now encompasses Oslo, New Orleans or even the South Seas of the Pacific. The Galapagos Islands are no longer considered distant, more an option to add to the visit list.

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ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. Englishspeaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia. Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078* or Costa Calida *679 385 105*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456 075; Spanish: 679 212 535; Flemish: 635 047 053; and Scandinavian: 659 779 222. www.aa-costablan ca.org (93323) ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two.

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selection, jewellery, household goods, books or bric-abrac. There is usually something there for everyone - but not always. Charitable donations have recently been made to The Alzheimers Centre, Cancer Research and The Amigos Ambulance Service. We still need your help with donations etc.

Please keep them coming in! We are situated on Avenida Del Furs close to the Fountain Roundabout and immediate left by Don Colchon bed shop. (93325) THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 15.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Paul Edwards, Chairman 618 644 934 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996.(95455) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Orihuela Costa - covering from Punta Prima to San Javier. The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 - 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuelacostarbl.co.uk HELP VEGA BAJA. We are a non-profit making organisation that helps and supports anyone, without prejudice, in times of need or crisis within the Vega Baja area. Our offices are based in San Miguel at Calle Lope de Vega 46 (Tel 966 723 733), Torrevieja at Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia 4 (Tel 965 704 282). Both offices are open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 1.30 pm and the Helpdesk at La Marina is open every Thursday (10 am to 1.30 pm) at the Hope Fellowship Church (opposite the Thursday Market site) at Avda de Justo Antonio Quesada, Urb. La Marina (Tel 615770145). We are online at www.helpvegaba ja.com and also on Facebook. You can email the San Miguel Centre at office@helpvegabaja.com.

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Residents and holidaymakers are welcome to attend our services with communion and ‘kids church’ each Sunday at 10.30am. We have a Fellowship Meeting (Bible Study) each Wednesday at 6.00pm. For further information see our website www.tcf-Spain.org or tel 966 700 391. (95464) THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial & friendly organisation, now in its 21st year. www.aca costablanca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 (95465) STROKE ASSOCIATION Spain (formally known as Torrevieja stroke support) meet every Wednesday and Friday 2.30pm until 5.00pm.

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(95473) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meet the 1st Monday of every month at Lounge D, Calle Holanda, Plaza Mayor, Gran Alacant at 6pm. For further info, contact the branch Secretary at granalacant.secre tary@rbl.community CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open

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“ Porsche anniversaries GERMAN car maker Porsche is celebrating the birthdays of three of its classic models: the 917, 914 and the younger Panamera.

Both the 917 and 914 are celebrating 50 years of being on the road this y e a r, w h i l e t h e Panamera has reached its 10th birthday.

Porsche said it was committed to making the history of its company tangible. Events have been planned at the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart, Germany and others are set to take place across the world.

Technicians at the Porsche Museum have been working to restore the first 917 ever built, to mark the occasion.

AROUND 35 per cent of the world’s population drives on the left-hand side of the road, with countries including Britain, Australia and Mozambique among those opting for left-hand roads.

CREDIT: Porsche

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BIRTHDAY: The first 917 is being restored for its 50th anniversary.

They have been working for years to return it to the condition the car was in when it made its world debut in 1969.

The 917 premiered at the Geneva Motor Show in 1969 and it won the first of 19 gold medals

at the Le Mans 24 Hours race a year later.

The 914 was first presented at the International Motor Show (IAA) in Frankfurt, Germany in 1 9 6 9 . I t w a s G e r m a n y ’s f i r s t mid-engine sports car and came

i n t w o t y p e s , o n e w i t h a f o u rcylinder engine and another with six cylinders.

The Porsche Panamera was the company’s first four-door saloon car and it was premiered in Shanghai in 2009.

It featured a number of technical innovations never included in a luxury series Porsche car.

A special exhibition has been organised at the Porsche Museum to mark 10 years since it made its debut.

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TWINGO model, with the company having teamed up with Le Coq Sportif to give it a sporty feel.

The TWINGO comes fully equipped with highend features including the company’s EASY LINK 7 multimedia system, automatic air conditioning and a parking assistant.

It also features rain and luminosity sensors and a reversing camera as part of the parking system.

Renault said the car was

designed to easily weave its way through city streets and urban roads.

“The New R e n a u l t TWINGO remains an unequal partner for urban adventures,” the company said.

Renault said the TWINGO’s red, white and blue colour scheme was part of what gave the car

CREDIT: Renault

its ‘chic, sportyFrench’ look. The car also bears the Le Coq Sportif logo on the right side of its exterior.

The interior continues the sporty theme with Le Coq Sportif branding on the door sills, floor mats, dashboard and gearstick.

The latter features ‘TWINGO by Le Coq Sportif ’ engraved on an aluminium plate.

The latest model of the

COLLABORATION: The TWINGO comes with Le Coq Sportif design features.

TWINGO is available with either the SCe 75 or TCe 95 engine.

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“A taste for competition and commitment to the excellence and quality of our products: Renault and Le Coq Sportif share the same values.

“This partnership, initiated during Formula 1, has been extended and is now taking the form of a car with a singular and elegant design,” Renault said.

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ALREADY the holder of a number of Spanish football records, Barcelona’s win over Girona on Sunday edged superstar Lionel Messi even closer to yet another milestone.

Taking into account the 0-2 victory, the Argentine, 31, has now won 328 matches in 437 appearances in La Liga, overtaking Raul Gonzales, who notched up 327 out of 550.

Just six more victories will see Messi match the all-time record, held by Real Madrid legend Casillas with 334 wins.

The Barca favourite holds the record for the most goals scored (50) in a single league campaign in 2011/2012, and is the highest scorer in the history of La Liga.

While Nelson Semedo opened the score sheet on Sunday, banging home his first goal of the season, Messi himself guaranteed the points with a second inside the last 20 minutes.

Atletico also celebrated a 2-0 victory when they took on Getafe on Saturday, keeping them hot on the heels of leaders Barcelona.

Antoine Griezmann and Saul Niguez scored for Diego Simeone’s side, while Getafe had Djene Dakonam and Leandro Cabrera sent off, both for two bookable of-

CREDIT: leomessi Instagram

Messi on target for record wins

MESSI: On the road to breaking another Spanish football record.

Djokovic defeats Nadal

La Liga Review

CREDIT: Novak Djokovic, via Twitter

Morata’s return

VICTOR: Djokovic (right) beat Nadal (left) in Australia. kept Nadal off the court for 129 days and his place in the Open was not certain before the tournament began.

“I have been playing against a player that was at the highest level possible,” Nadal said.

“With the way he was hitting, maybe it was difficult to beat him even if I was at my 100 per cent.

“It has been a positive two weeks. The only thing that I probably need is time and more matches,” the 32year-old added.

Djokovc scored eight aces to Nadal’s three and won 80 per cent first serves compared to 51 from the 32year-old.

The Serbian player won five break points and 33 receiving points, scoring 89 points in total. Nadal did not win any break points or tie breaks, and bagged 13 receiving points and a total of 53 points.

Djokovic won 18 games to Nadal’s eight.

EIGHTEEN months after leaving Real Madrid for Chelsea, striker Alvaro Morata looks set to ret ur n t o La Li ga on loan to Atletico Madrid.

The 26- yearold told press at the weekend that he had passed a medical and is ‘looking forward’ to returning to Spain, adding ‘I’ve spent days waiting for this.’

In 2017, Morata signed a five-year contract when he joined Chelsea, and has made 47 Premier League appearances, scoring 16 goals.

He began his career at Atletico, second in the division, before signing for city rivals Real. k toc ers utt Sh IT: ED CR

SERBIAN tennis player Novak Djokovic has bested Spanish rival Rafael Nadal in the final of the Australian Open, securing victory in Melbourne just over two hours.

Djokovic, 31, beat 32year-old Nadal by 6-3, 6-2 and 6-3 on Sunday, his biggest margin of any of his victories.

It is the third consecutive win for Djovovic in seven months, having previously taken home titles at Wimbledon and New York.

Djokovic said the match was truly perfect. Going up against the Mallorcan Nadal made the match important but amazing, he added.

“The ultimate clay-court challenge is to win against Nadal,” Djovokic said.

“I don’t want to sound arrogant, but I always believe in myself.”

Nadal said the way Djokovic played was ‘unbelievable’ but added he had not been able to go the extra mile.

Injuries had previously

fences.

Atletico have lost just once in the 20 league games this season.

Meanwhile Real Madrid won convincingly, 2-4, against Espanyol adding weight to their claim that their recovery is fact, not fluke.

Los Blancos kicked off the goal scoring with Benzema finding the net after four minutes for his first of two goals, followed quickly with another from Ramos. Baptistao put one in for Espanyol, before Welshman Bale scored within two minutes of coming on after 24 days injured. Espanyol’s second was provided by Rosales.

Valencia took a comfortable three points, beating Villarreal 3-0, scoring goals four minutes either side of the game and one just into the second half.

In the second division, RCD Mallorca drew 1-1 when they took on Cadiz on Saturday, as did Elche when they met CD Numancia. Neither Malaga nor opponents Tenerife could hit the back of the net, and Almeria suffered a 0-1 defeat at the hands of CA Osasuna.

The former won five games in a row to the latter’s one, while winning 56 service points and 13 service games to Nadal’s 40 and eight.

MORATA: On loan for 18 months.

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Alonso and teammates win at Daytona were changing all the time,” Alonso said.

“The conditions were complicated although not so much

for us. Others with so much water would have been much

worse,” the driver added.

The 37-year-old, from AsCREDIT: Fernando Alonso, via Twitter

SPANISH motor racing driver Fernando Alonso and his teammates won the Daytona 24 Hours race in the US at the weekend amidst rain that made driving difficult.

Alonso and teammates Kamui Kobayashi, Jordan Taylor and Roger van der Zande secured victory in the competition which was cut short by 11 minutes due to bad weather.

Alonso said he was “very proud” of what the team had achieved.

“The race itself was very, very difficult. Conditions

WINNERS: Alonso (centre) and his team won at Daytona.

turias, was the first of the t eam t o get behi nd t he wheel of the Number 10 Cadillac. He began at eighth position.

Unf azed by t he r ai n, Alonso was able to gain time and averaged around two seconds per lap faster than his opponents before teammate Kobayashi took over.

Alonso braked skilfully on his return, with the track having gotten wetter as the day went on. The 37-yearold went head-to-head with Brazilian Felipe Nasr and came out on top before driving to victory.

The wi n com es af t er Alonso won the Le Mans 24 Hour race with Toyota in May. He now has his sights on t he 500 Mi l es of I ndi anapolis with McLaren.

Alonso is a two-time Form ul a 1 wor l d cham pi on, having bagged the title in 2005 and 2006.