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By Joe Gerrard BRITAIN’S withdrawal from the EU has led to a fall in British summer reservations in Balearic Island hotels of between 7 and 8 per cent this year, industry figures said. Figures from the Balearic Islands Tourism Board have shown that reservations for the summer season are down compared to this time last year. The islands have seen the biggest fall in reservations from British tourists of any destination in Spain, the same data showed. Carlos Ruiz, Balearic Islands Tourism Office head in London, said Brexit was believed to have caused the drop while bookings for Egypt and Turkey increased during the same period. He was speaking at the Be-
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FALLING: British hotel bookings are down on last year. fore Brexit conference held by the Confederation of Business Associations of the Balearic Islands (CAEB).
Almost 19,260 British tourists holidayed on the Balearic Islands in January, 4.5 per cent fewer than in the same
month in 2018, tourism board data showed. They spent €16.1 million, 2.2 per cent less than in January last year.
Award for expat services AGE CONCERN Mallorca’s president, Jackie Codd, has been presented with the Empire Medal by the British Ambassador to Spain, Simon Manley, in recognition of her service to the expatriate community. The award was made at a gala ceremony at the Hotel Gloria in Palma on Monday night, where her hard work for the British and international community in the Balearics over the last 20 years was honoured. The ambassador expressed his gratitude on behalf of Britain for the assis-
tance Jackie has given to hundreds of British nationals, and added that her work has “provided enormous support to the island’s community.” Jackie said she was astounded and very proud, and pointed out that without the help of her team of volunteers and everybody in the institutions and hospitals, she would not have been able to help so many people over the years. JACKIE CODD: Has been recognised for her services.
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CAEB president Carmen Planas, who also spoke at the event, said Brexit was continuing to cause business uncertainty. The economies of Britain and Spain are likely to weaken following the former’s departure from the EU which will impact the Balearic tourism industry, Planas added. Ruiz said an increase in the number of plane tickets offered for flights between Britain and Mallorca during the summer was a positive sign. Spain’s Secretary of State for Tourism Bel Oliver told conference attendees that Madrid had put measures in place to preserve as many of
the current arrangements as possible in a no-deal. The CAEB’s event had been necessary so that companies could anticipate and plan for future problems, she added.
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NEWS EXTRA Airline staff NORWEGIAN AIRLINES has begun suspending contracts for staff based in Palma after the company failed to agree a relocation deal to the Spanish mainland for workers following talks with trade unions over the closure of its Mallorca base.
Man held LOCAL POLICE have arrested a man in Palma on suspicion of coercion following accusations from his ex-partner that he refused to give their daughter to her despite her having custody of the child.
Cat call OFFICIALS with Palma City Council have called on cat owners to take responsibility for any kittens their pets have and said they should not be abandoned but taken to animal shelters.
Firefighting facilities THE Consell de Mallorca has committed to creating a stable and permanent group of firefighters in 2020. The announcement was made following protests over years of alleged staff shortages. According to Spanish media, over the last three years €6 million has been paid out in overtime because of a lack of permanent firefighters. In 2014, the minimum number of fire workers needed to cover all of Mallorca was 32, going up to 37 in 2015, and 40 in 2019.
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TEAM: Fire crews look set to get a personnel boost. According to official sources, four years ago fire-
fighters were working 73 24hour shifts a year, while the
number has now dropped to fewer than 65 hours.
Spider man burglar A BURGLAR who broke into apartments by scaling the façade of buildings is now languishing in jail serving a three-year sentence. A court in Palma heard that the man broke into two apartments on July 31, 2018, in both cases by clambering straight up the
walls of the apartment blocks. In the first incident he was discovered by the flat’s inhabitants in Calle Alemania and he fled empty handed, but not before hitting the occupants several times on the head. A few hours later he made a second attempt at a different apartment, this time suc-
ceeding in getting away with several items. But he did not remain at large for long - he was arrested the same day and has been in custody ever since. He was found guilty of two burglaries but cleared of a third. The prosecution had originally asked for a seven-year sentence.
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Bumper pay rise HOTEL, bar, restaurant and nightclub workers in Mallorca will get a 5 per cent pay rise. Some 135,000 employees in the Balearic Islands will see their salaries rise from April 1 as a result of the hotel and catering agreement that the Mallorcan employers and trade unions signed in September 2017. That means that almost one in four workers on the islands will have seen their salaries go up 10 per cent in just two years. At the time, the agreement was only signed by the hotel employers of Mallorca, as the association of clubs and bars and restaurants refused to sign, although it ended up accepting the agreement last year.
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Swimming prohibited
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THE beaches of Can Pere Antoni an d C i u t a t Ja r d i were closed for swimming for the first time so far this year due to waste water discharges caused by rain. The public was advised not to enter the water at the two beaches eight times last year for similar reasons.
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ESTELLENCS false tunnel, located in the Estellencs-Andratx road, at km 102.3 (Ma-10), will be clo se d f r o m 9 a m to d ay (Thursday) until Saturday morning while repair work is carried out following damage caus ed b y r a i n a n d w in d s in January. On Monday morning it will be open to light traffic only.
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A REPORT about the preservation of the Gesa building in Palma which all but rules out the possibility of converting it into a hotel or apartments has been issued b y t e c h n i c i a n s a t th e Mallorca Council’s heritage department. Politicians must now decide to agree or reject it.
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A MAN who witnessed a twocar crash early Monday morning in Son Gotleu in Palma did a runner after being caught trying to steal from one of the injured people. Passers-by reportedly spotted the man try to take a mobile phone before he fled.
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Looking lush THIS woodland on the otherwise volcanic and arid Canary Islands comes as the world celebrates International Forest Day today (Thursday). The Garajonay National Park covers an area of 40-square-kilometre La Gomera. Its name comes from the Garajonay rock formation, the highest point on La Gomera at 1,487 metres. Woodlands covers around 70 per cent of the Garajonay National Park. It is considered the best example of Canarian laurisilva. Laurisilva refers to a type of sub-
tropical forest that covered almost all of southern Europe during the Tertiary geological period between 66 million and 2.6 million years ago. Although it is named as one woodland, Garajonay is made up of several varieties of forest. Humid areas in valleys to the north are home to the richest and most complex forests, while higher altitudes remain the preserve of hardier types of foliage. The woodland is home to the Canary laurel, Laurus novocanariensis, which grows between three and 20
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metres high. Slope laurisilva can be found on the park’s peaks. The name Garajonay not only refers to the rock formation but also to folklore about ill-fated lovers Gara and Jonay. Legend has it they took their own lives after circumstances prevented them from getting together. A network of 18 footpaths covers the National Park which is visited by almost 450,000 tourists every year. It was made a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986.
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Port plans A TOTAL of €9.4 million will be invested on improving and rejuvenating Cala Bona, Cala Rajada, Portocolom and Porto Cristo by the management of Ports de les Illes in the Llevant region following an injection of government cash. The works will be c a r r i e d b e t wee n n o w and 2020.
Tree risks SOLLER Council has commissioned a c o m p a n y f r o m th e Eulen group to carry out a study of 40 t r e e s i n t h e P o rt d e Soller sports field to determine if there are risks of them falling and, if this is the case, put in place an action plan.
Four times over limit A MAN who was four times over the drink drive limit crashed his stolen car into three vehicles in Santa Ponsa, Calvia. He has now been fined €5 a day for eight months and ordered to do 180 days of community service for car theft, drink driving and driving without a licence. He was also banned from driving for two years. A Palma court heard that after
an afternoon drinking session the defendant had asked a friend for the use of her car. She refused as she could see he was drunk and knew he did not have a licence. In response he took her keys and sped off before crashing into a B M W, F o r d M a x a n d a S e a t , which were parked in Calle Jaume I. Police were called to the scene and he was arrested after failing an alcohol test.
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Baby on mend A FOUR-MONTH-OLD baby is recovering in hospital after he was allegedly violently shaken by his father. The child’s dad has been arrested, with a court imposing a restraining order banning him from approaching within 200 metres of his son. Police were called by staff at Manacor Hospital after the baby was admitted with symptoms of Shaking Syndrome.
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Due to the severity of the injuries, the child was transferred to the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of Pediatrics of Son Espases. However, his condition has now improved substantially and he has been transferred to a children’s ward. A police investigation has now started. Shaking Syndrome mainly affects children between one month and four months old. It is caused when a child is vigorously shaken and brain injuries can occur.
The total number of news and features which appeared in Issue 1758 of the Euro Weekly News Mallorca edition, including 61 local stories.
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GOB concerns E N V I R O N M E N TA L IST GOB claim there is an ‘ecological emergency’ and has accused the government of failing to meet expectations. President Amadeu Corbera said there has been a lack of dialogue over the past four years and that the government has lacked conviction. He said the tourist tax was a welcome innovation but revenue should be invested in specific environmental projects. GOB argues that the government has maintained policies which represent a continuation of the ‘failed model’ for construction, tourism and road infrastructure, leading to ‘land, environmental and climate breakdown.’
Mallorca’s new moth A SPECIES of giant moth appears to have settled in the Balearic Islands and officially recorded for the very first time by a group of university students. Last autumn, the students came across the large insect and sent photographs to Francesc Truyols Henares, a biology student at the UIB. They were studied in the Interdisciplinary Ecology research group laboratory, and it was concluded that it is an oleander (Daphnis nerii) from the sphingidae family - a great migrating nocturnal moth well known in the rest of the continent, but never before recorded in Mallorca. The species is characterised by its large wings, wingspan 90 to 130 mm, which are only surpassed in size on the island by
FIRST SIGHTING: Also known as the oleander hawk-moth, the species has not previously been recorded in Mallorca. the saturnians family. In a press release, the UIB said student Henares recently began the degree of Biology and his findings have already been published in an indexed journal. Henares was awarded the second prize in the BioBal Award at the seventh Balearic
Spring sun SPRING started last night and is expected to be hotter than usual during the day with night time temperatures lower than normal. According to Aemet, it is also expected to
Environment Conference, organised by the Natural History Society of the islands and the UIB last November. He was recognised for his contribution to the knowledge of the lepidopterological fauna in Manacor and Vilafranca de Bonany developed over eight years.
rain less than in previous years. María José Guerrero, responsible for the Balearic meteorological centre, announced the predictions for the next three months. From April to June, temperatures are expe c te d to r each an aver age temperature above 18 degrees.
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Lasi comes home A SEA turtle which was nursed back to good health at Palma Aquarium before bei ng r el eased has r eappeared after months without emitting any signal from an electronic device placed inside its shell. Nam ed Lasi , t he t ur t l e was discovered by a fisherman in the waters of Cabrera last March. It was having difficulty submerging and was soon transferred to the Marine Fauna Recovery Centre of the Palma Aquarium. After a few days at the centre Lasi was released on the beach of s’Armarador, Santanyi, on March 26 last year, with a device which offers real-time immersion posi t i on and dept h dat a t hr ough a connect i on vi a satellite. Signals were received unt i l Novem ber, and t hen there was nothing until February 21, when the female turtle was recorded between Cabrera and the Algerian coast. Between March 26, 2018 and February 12, Lasi travelled 9,066 km, an average of 35.2 km per day.
No water MORE than €5,000 in compensation must be paid to the neighbours of a defendant who left them without water in Palma. The man, who was also fined €2,000, told the court on Tuesday he bought a property in Calle Esporles in April 2017. On the land was a further house which had a pump to extract water, owned by his neighbours, which he demolished. The neighbours had been taking water from the nearby well since 1984.
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CLEANING staff at Palma Airport will stage a 24-hour strike on April 17 and 21 to protest against the working conditions amid claims of wage issues, excessive workloads and insufficient personnel to cover shifts.
Taxi talks THE Mobility Area of the City Council of Palma will consult with representatives from the taxi sector on March 28 over the implementation of measures to improve the quality of the service and future management.
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Drugs sniff out TWO men have been arrested after a police dog sniffed out €300,000 worth of cocaine being smuggled through Palma Port. After the dog raised the alarm during a routine search of traffic coming off the Barcelona ferry, Guardia Civil officers searched the car but initially found nothing. They then investigated the vehicle more closely and found a false bottom had been installed, in which five kilos of the drug were hidden. The car’s driver and passenger, both Moroccan, have been sent to Palma Court charged with public health offences.
THE average salary of workers in the Balearic Islands was above the state average at the end of last year, the first time since the National Institute of Statistics (INE) began drawing up reports, reaching €2,054 compared to €2,028 nationally.
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LIVE MUSIC: St Patrick’s Day rocked in Santa Ponsa.
FESTIVE: Huge crowds turned out for Santa Ponsa’s celebrations.
St Patrick in Santa Ponsa HUNDREDS, possibly thousands turned out on Sunday to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in the sunshine at Santa Ponsa. A spectacular line-up of events included free attractions for the children, a craft market, food and drink, live entertainment and Irish groups on the main stage. The proceedings were smoothly run and compered by Gee Carmichael with Spectrum FM. A spokesperson said that “great fun was had by all, and the Guinness flowing freely throughout the day certainly helped warm up the crowd’s singing voices to join in with the singers on stage.” The St Patrick’s Day celebrations were
Chemistry students inhale toxic gases NINE students from a public school in Calvia were taken to Son Espases Hospital after breathing toxic gases during a chemistry class. In total, 11 pupils were affected when certain chemicals were mixed by mistake producing harmful gases at 9.30am last Thursday morning. On realising the children aged between 11 and 13 were suffering an adverse reaction, the teacher evacuated the class to the playground at the CEIP Xaloc de Peguera. The condition of the students was not serious.
COLOURFUL: Children entertain in the sun. organised by the International Department of Calvia Town Hall. The office said “the annual event is going from strength to strength.”
Clearing up costs DURING 2018, Emaya cleared more than 1,500 tonnes of rubble, debris and other construction materials from council-owned and private land in Palma as well as public roadsides. Some €64,329 was spent on cleaning the areas, transporting and treating the waste removed.
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THE Intermodal Station in Palma was evacuated Tuesday morning due to a fire on a train which caused ‘dense smoke.’ Firefighters, Local and National Police and four ambulances were sent to the scene shortly after midday, where they were met with billowing smoke coming from a carriage within the station.
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Fortunately there were no serious injuries, one woman was treated for anxiety and another after a fall. According to sources, the train was about to depart for Inca when there was an explosion followed by thick smoke. The fire appears to have started in the overhead pantograph. The station was reopened later the same day.
Rustic building boom MALLORCA’S countryside is being built on at an ever faster rate. In just two years, licences for 1,114 villas have been approved on rustic land, compared to 355 licences given in the previous two years. M a l l o rc a C o u n c i l says that fears of prospective new planning laws plus a boom in the tourism rental market have led to an avalanche of applications. At the moment, the minimum size of a rustic plot is 14,000sqm to build a villa, but there have been rumours a n d p ro p o s a l s w h i c h could go to 20 or 25,000sqm, leading to a rush of applications.
GIVING: Representatives of cancer charities and volunteers met up at the new shop for a cheque presentation.
Cheque for cancer care A TOTAL of €27,0000 has been handed over to good causes by Calanova Cancer Care’s new Charity Shop in San Agustin. Javier Cortes, president of the AECC (Spanish Association of Cancer Care) in the Baleares, and Jaime Coll, president of the Baleares ASPANOB (Children and their Parents with Cancer) were invited to the shop to be presented with a cheque for €12,000 each by Angela McGrath together with some of the volunteers. A few days later DIME (Association for Palliative Care) was presented with a cheque for €3,000 by Angela. The shop at 354 Ave Joan Miro, Palma presently has a sale on as they prepare for summer stock.
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Gibraltar ‘colony’ comments By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S Foreign Minister has said that Madrid regards the EU’s reference to Gibraltar as a ‘colony’ in recent documents as important, but added it changed little. Josep Borrell told Spanish media the term colony was already used by the UN and other international bodies to refer to the British enclave. Gibraltar is on a UN list of non-self governing territories and this fact was referred to by the EU in a document on visa regulations in relation to Brexit. Borrell said Madrid would
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REMARKS: Borrell (inset) said Madrid welcomed the use of ‘colony’ in reference to Gibraltar. have to reach an agreement on the wording of the text eventu-
ally following talks with the EU Parliament and Commis-
sion. Madrid hopes the final draft of the text will be favourable to Spain, the Foreign Minister added. The European Parliament refused to approve the document, with Borrell claiming that was due in part to the current speaker being British. British prime minister Theresa May previously said Spain’s lobbying for the use of the term colony in reference to Gibraltar was ‘completely unacceptable.’ Spain has long-standing claims to sovereignty over Gibraltar. The territory was ceded to Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713.
Temperatures cool SPAIN’S unseasonably high spring has taken a dip as temperatures fell by 14 degrees in one day in some areas. In Alcoi, Alicante, the thermostat plummeted to 8.4 degrees on Monday, compared to 22.6 the day before. The State Meteorological Agency (AEMET) said rain was ex-
pected in eastern Cantabria and the Pyrenees before making its way further south. The Balearics and eastern Andalucia are expected to be cloudy and wet, while the Pyrenees are anticipating snow.
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Buggy fire FIREFIGHTERS were called out in Valladolid City on Saturday after a buggy caught fire outside a home, according to emergency services. Firefighters arrived to find the burnt remains of the vehicle outside a home on Barrio España. They were called out at around 5.30pm. Local Police said the fire is believed to have started accidentally. No one was injured, emergency services said.
Playing the game ONLINE gambling in Spain is in the midst of an explosion, with the sector turning over €17.349 billion in 2018. This was 30.5 per cent more than the €13.298 billion spent on online gaming the previous year, according to the General Directorate of Game Management (DGOJ).
Swinging sixties by Sally Underwood A NEW Spanish television show will tell the story of three characters who are fighting to start a revolutionary record company in Spain in the 60’s. The drama will show the difficulties of working in a creative industry in Francoist Spain when conservative values still reigned. Starring Guiomar Puerta, Carlos Cuevas and Ivan Marcos, the series is produced by Atresmedia Television in collaboration with Bambu Producciones, and will air on Antena 3.
Missing Agnese Klavina trial begins THE trial of two Brits accused of kidnapping missing Agnese Klavina, a Latvian woman last seen in Marbella in 2014, began at Malaga Provincial Court on Monday. Prosecutors have requested 12 year jail sentences for Wesley Capper, 40, and Craig Porter, 36, if found guilty at the trial which is expected to last until the end of the month. They are accused of unlawful detention in connection with the disappearance of Agnese who disappeared outside a well-known nightclub in the Puerto Banus area. Siene Ousmane, the club doorman is also due to stand trial, accused of holding the door of the car that she was bundled into closed, to stop her from fleeing. Agnes, aged 30 at the time, was last seen leaving the venue on September 6, 2014. CCTV footage showed two people
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TRIAL: Agnese Klavina was last seen in 2014. bungling her into a car at around 6am. She has not been seen since. Capper and Porter were both arrested and charged in connection with her disappearance in May 2016, following an 18month investigation. Both men have said they left the club
with her but deny the charges. Investigators believe Agnes may now be dead. Her body has never been found. A GoFundMe page: https://www.gofundme.com/ju stice-for-agnese has been set up to raise €5,000 to cover legal costs for the trial.
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Fishing fund plan SPAIN’S Fishing Minister has said Madrid is working with Paris to draw up measures to make an EU industry body more efficient. Luis Planas said Spanish officials and their French counterparts under Didier Guillaume were working on a common memorandum for the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF). The measures would cover the body from 2021 onwards. “We understand that the world of fishing has undergone a radical change and our fishermen need support for this transformation,” Planas said.
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Borrell on Brexit SPAIN’S Foreign Minister has warned against an ‘eternal Brexit,’ as a delay to the withdrawal date became more likely this week. Josep Borrell said problems were being caused by Britain currently having one foot in and one foot out of the bloc after MPs have repeatedly blocked the proposed Withdrawal Agreement. “Let’s be logical, it does not seem that an agreement different to the current one can be found. Therefore Britain has to modify some of its initial plans,” Borrel said. “We already know what Britain does not want, we would like to know what it wants,” he added. The Foreign Minister added he would support the withdrawal date, currently set for Friday March 29, being pushed back but for no longer than two to three weeks. British officials have floated Saturday June 1 as a possible new date. “It would be ideal, frankly, for the British parliament to accept Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal. That would eliminate doubts and we could grant a purely technical extension to implement the agreement, otherwise I’m afraid this is going to take longer than necessary,” Borrell said.
Deal i By Joe Gerrard A DELAY to Brexit appeared increasingly likely this week after the speaker of the British Parliament said the government could not hold a new vote without substantial deal changes. John Bercow said on Monday that he would not allow the government to put the proposed Withdrawal Agreement to a House of Commons vote in its current form. The third meaningful vote due to be held on Tuesday was ‘substantially’ the same as the one where MPs rejected British prime minister Theresa May’s proposed deal a week previously, the speaker added. The Commons agreed to rule out a no-deal Brexit ‘under any circumstances,’ and also backed a delay to Brexit in principle. That is May’s only option unless she can secure changes to the Withdrawal Agreement and get MPs’ approval in the eight days until Brexit day on Friday March 29. Bercow’s intervention comes as Brexit minister Kwasi Kwarteng said May would write to European Council president Donald Tusk to ask for a delay to the withdrawal date. The prime minister would then return to parliament to ask for lawmakers’ approval if Tusk lends his backing to the plan, Kwarteng added. Meanwhile, the European Council has agreed a
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BREXIT EXTRA ‘Unhealthy’ influence SNP lawmaker Gavin Newlands has said the influence exercised by the 10 Northern Irish DUP MPs over the government and Brexit process is ‘incredibly unhealthy’ as they continue to prop up the minority Conservative government in Parliament.
Unity push BRITAIN’S Church of England has said it is encouraging parishes to hold ‘cafestyle’ meetings on the weekend of March 30, days after the scheduled Brexit date to promote unity and to pray for the country and its future.
SETBACKS: May now faces seeking a Brexit delay after Bercow’s (inset) intervention. raft of measures covering a nodeal Brexit in case an extension is not possible. Brussels officials said the legislative acts covered British nationals living in EU member states and protected the rights of
EU27 nationals in Britain. Flights to and from Britain as well as road freight and passenger traffic and fishing were also covered on the condition that Britain implements similar arrangements, the Council said.
Trade deal TRADE between Britain and Iceland and Norway looks set to continue as normal in a nodeal Brexit after officials struck a pact which preserves existing tariff arrangements and quotas on farming and fishing goods.
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EWN Facebook page soars past 30,000 fans THE Euro Weekly News’ Facebook page has climbed past 30,000 ‘likes’ this week as the EWN in print, online and social media continues to enjoy rapid growth in 2019. The EWN team work around the clock, seven days a week to ensure that our fast-growing social media community is provided with the latest, most accurate news from an Englishlanguage news site in Spain. While other sites may engage in sensationalist headlines to gain clicks our readers prefer us to deliver the news as it is. And that’s just one of the reasons why advertisers choose our print and online packages to reach out to customers with maximum reach for their budget. In the past year alone our Facebook likes have grown by a massive 6,000 new fans and now we have new targets in our sights. We generally post more than twice
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More space in store… A POLICY of closing smaller stores in favour of large commercial centre premises has seen Zara grow its total sales floor area in Spain by 50 per cent in just five years. The average size of a Zara store has gone up from 1,452sqm to 2,184sqm in that period as smaller neighbourhood shops have been closed, with investment being put into flagship-style stores instead. This has meant the pace of net openings has slowed to a trickle - just 15 last year.
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High cost of subsidy changes THE then Spanish government’s decision to arbitrarily and retrospect i v e l y c h a n g e r e n e w a b l e e n e rg y subsidy regulations is getting more and more expensive. In a bid to tackle a mounting bill for subsidies generous allowances were slashed, almost crippling the industry overnight. This led to many companies pulling out of the sector - and plenty of them are demanding compensation for money spent on abandoned projects. Now US company Nextera Energy has won a case at Ciadi - the
By Dilip Kuner World Bank’s arbitration court - and is claiming €291 million in compensation from the Spanish government. The company had investments in two solar thermal plants in Extremadura with a capacity of 49.9 megawatts, where it had planned to invest more than €600 million. But the changes to already agreed subsidies made the schemes unprofitable so the group closed its subsidiary in Spain at a cost of €263 million.
The court decided that the government ‘failed to give fair and equitable treatment in the protection of business expectations to obtain a return on investment and development of plants.’ This is just one case that has been heard, with Spain facing another 31 arbitration actions. It recently lost a case brought by RREEF Infrastructure, with a compensation award being calculated at the moment. So far five cases have gone against the country, which has refused to pay. Instead it is seeking to have the cases annulled.
O N E o f S p a i n ’s b e s t k n o w n wine brands could be put up for sale by its French owners, Pernod Ricard SA. The company is considering the future of its wine division, which includes the Campo Viejo Label as well as Australia’s Jacobs Creek. The unit has annual sales of around $500 million but is a relatively low-growth part of P e r n o d , w h i c h i s t h e w o r l d ’s second largest distillery business. Company insiders say no final decision has yet been made.
Job cuts plan at VW plants
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Port pledge for Motril THE new Junta de Andalucia regional government has pledged to boost t h e r e g i o n ’s e c o n o m y b y setting up a working group to develop and improve the port of Motril, a major gateway for goods into Granada Province.
Well paid CUTS: VW plant in Spain. GERMAN car giant Volkswagen, which has major factories in Spain, has announced it is to cut between 5,000 and 7,000 jobs to help fund a move to electric cars. VW brand’s chief operating officer Ralf Brandstaetter said the positions would go by 2023 as it chases cost savings. The plan is to cut staff by not replacing those who re-
tire over the period. Chief financial officer Arno Antlitz said. That the plan would help “finance our investments and satisfy our objectives for the electric era.” Across the whole group, Volkswagen will invest €44 billion into ‘future mobility’ such as electric cars and automatic driving in the next five years.
INDITEX, president Pablo Isla was paid €7.78 million gross in 2018, 18.5 per cent more than in 2017, while his boss Armancio Ortega will get more than €1.62 billion in dividends this year.
AI promise PRIME MINISTER Pedro Sanchez pledged to bring in a national strategy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) when he spoke at a workshop in Granada, saying related technologies are some of the main drivers of growth.
Counting the Brexit cost BREXIT will cost Spanish industry at least €2.6 billion a year, mainly in the automotive and agrifood sectors, according to a leaked report by consulting firm Oliver Wyman. According to the company Spain will be the sixth most affected European country, with Cataluña and Valencia the most affected regions in the country, reported El Mundo Spanish newspaper.
The international consultancy firm based its calculations on damage to exports. In Europe Germany is the most affected country with an annual downturn in trade of €9.4 billion. It is followed by the Netherlands (€ 4.4 billion), Belgium and France (€ 3.9 billion each), with Italy slightly ahead of Spain at €2.6 billion.
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Do you think they care?
LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT DID you honestly think that this bunch of privileged ‘Club Westminster’ layabouts actually cared about what you thought? Ha! The only thing this disgraceful array of arrogant Parliamentarians truly hold dear is who you vote for - not what. If this lot had existed in the days of Cromwell, most of them would by now either be in the Tower or having their necks stretched in the market square. I actually lost respect for our esteemed politicians many years ago, on discovering that people we all blindly placed on pedestals - should actually be standing in the dock! When I was young and fancy free, and doing the Chelsea and Kensington ‘rounds,’ the only parties that most of them cared about were those that catered for everything below the waistline. At one such soiree I clearly recall one of the honourable members coming up to me, sweating profusely from his ingestion of ‘uppers,’ clad in nothing but a string vest and begging me to take over his latest bedtime ‘romp,’ as he ‘couldn’t carry on any longer.’ The next day he was representing his London constituency at Prime Ministers questions! Even if those days of 60’s debauchery are now behind them, I have no delusions about our so-called government representatives. The only thing most of them represent is them-
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HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT: The Palace of Westminster. selves. Power and feathering their own nests are all they really care about, and remaining in the EU is their best way of achieving it. They also can’t bear to think of their fellow cronies in the European old boys club continuing without them. These Westminster wasters are also extremely reticent to take on the challenges of the
worldwide markets. Something that would take them out of the comfort zones of Westminster clubland, get them off their Saville row and Gucci clad behinds and, heaven forbid, do some actual work. Blinded by their own arrogance, they also of course fail to realise that come the next elections, when they are all sidling around, begging
for your votes and pretending they are going to represent your interest, this recent utter betrayal and undisputable revelation of their true colours, will (hopefully) not be forgotten! Look out for a whole new party emerging out of the present chaos. But don’t hold yer breath. ‘New Labour’ was meant to be a whole fresh start, and look where they got us!’ I’m also extremely wary of the Lisbon treaty, a positively horrendous agreement to which all EU members, including the UK are already committed. Google it. It makes extremely disquieting reading, and its lurking just around yet another shadowy political corner. Good luck all. As a final word and in light of the recent horrendous massacre in New Zealand. Would it not have been a better idea for London mayor Khan to have deployed more police outside the churches for fear of reprisal - instead of the hundreds he immediately called up to guard the Mosques? And where did all those police suddenly appear from? I thought there was a glut of knife crimes because the police were sorely depleted. Just asking. Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@ gmail.com
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Mind-boggling blogging Following the money - but Terence Kennedy isn’t there (yet)…
IT used to be said you were nobody if you didn’t have your own internet site. Now you haven’t made it if you don’t have a blog. Guilty as charged, m’lud. Though in fairness the typical blogger is considerably shorter in the tooth than this writer, has been known to back over a cliff when taking a selfie for a blogpost, and constantly posts pictures of today’s latest meal, perish the thought. Yet here’s the 2019 revelation: there are loads of bloggers out there earning a comfy €20,000 or more for every musing they post. That it’s a brave new world which the older among us don’t quite get, is illustrated by a simple statistic: the world’s leading bloggers earn more, infinitely more, than the world’s leading CEOs. How did that happen, and were we looking elsewhere when it did? For the less tech-savvy, ‘blog’ is a contraction of ‘web-log’: a regularly updated website or web
page, typically one run by an individual or small group, written in an informal or conversational style. Sort of like a newspaper column, except bloggers can earn thousands per blog while this one might just buy breakfast. Blogging evolved in the 1990’s from postings on the early bulletin boards and forums. Written originally in the style of online diaries, the (advertising) income
generated by the most popular of them can now be breathtaking. A year or so ago the Huffington Post blog was pulling in more than €12 million a month, TechCrunch €2.5 million and poor old Perez Hilton a mere €500,000. At the bottom of the scale, Englishman Gerard Fletcher blogged regularly in mindnumbing detail about the buses on his local route. To his surprise and
probably everyone else’s, his blog got 500 followers. Even cats are in on the act. Internet star Grumpy Cat from Arizona has more than 13 million followers and was worth an estimated €88 million last time I looked. That’s a lot of Whiskas. Strike the right chord with your blog and you could graduate to becoming an ‘influencer’ - someone whose ‘followers’ will rush out to buy virtually any product you are paid to promote. Get 30,000 followers and agencies will pay you up to €1,000 per post to push, say, a beauty product. When TV reality star Kylie Jenner endorses cosmetics she trousers over €1 million. A week. Which all makes those of us still plugging away doggedly in print simply wonder if, like the sweet young thing who said sex was a pain in the neck, the response is: ‘You’re doing it wrong.’
It’s a blog’s life WHY wouldn’t you start your own blog? The barriers are easier than getting into print: none. All you need is a computer, free software and something to say. Though that’s optional, judging by the vacuous quality of so many blogs out there. WordPress is by far the world’s most-used and free website creation tool, with nearly 100-million users, but Blogger and semi-social-network Tumblr are hugely popular. All offer free ‘hosting’ (the technical infrastructure needed to get and keep your words of wisdom online), but serious bloggers will pay for their own domains. Then just write your heart out, press Publish, and wait for the response. Or not - given that there are ‘only’ an estimated 80 million new blogs posted every month. Perhaps don’t hold your breath.
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LAURA PENN ‘PENN TO PAPER’ THERE are few examples of this island’s diversity more impressive than the St Patrick’s Day celebrations in Santa Ponsa. Why (you may legitimately ask) would the population of a Spanish island in the Mediterranean Sea celebrate the patron Saint of Ireland? Well the answer is pretty clear if you have ever spent a Saturday night in Ramon Moncada street in Santa Ponsa. I have done that joyous thing on several occasions, and the ones I can remember were some of the happiest times of my life. At times you could swear you were in Galway, except for the lack of a gale-force wind blowing off the Atlantic. Ramon Moncada street in Santa Ponsa is known locally as ‘Irish Street,’ and it is awash with celtic music, food and - of course - Guinness. One or two of the bars actually pour a pint of Guinness which tastes like the real black stuff does back in Dublin. The Irish love Santa Ponsa and Santa Ponsa loves the Irish. Thousands of them make their way from
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Who’s your Paddy? the Emerald Isle to this sunny one our Welsh friends kick off about every summer. Although sometimes St David nor the Scots about the culture shock of not being in IreSt Andrew. Why does Paddy land can be too much. I recall one get a knee-up when the night consoling one lassy who wanted other saints do not? to go home to Cork because she was We can thank the homesick and it was ‘too hot’ here. American-Irish emigres She had been on holiday for only six for turning a religious and culdays! tural event into a more secular So, if St Patrick’s Day is to be celeone. The Irish who emigrated brated at all on this little island in the to live in the USA (who may Med, then Santa Ponsa is the obvious have suffered the same kind of choice to host the fun. The ‘Padhomesickness as my Cork lass) dy’s Day’ parade has not alstarted to hold a celebration of ways been a fixture in the all things green and Irish on expatriate calendar, as it is March 17 which rapidly a relatively new additurned into a jolly good tion by Calvia p**s up! Council to the Then again. when many parades have the Irish ever and processions needed an excuse to which we can party? I was amused to enjoy on the issee when I Googled ‘St land. Patrick’s Day,’ the first But why is suggested website it celebrated at all? was ‘find your nearest St We English don’t Paddy’s Day pub’! St Patrick’s Day is a make a big fuss about St SAINT PATRICK’S DAY: Santa Ponsa in Balearics great excuse to dust off George’s Day, nor do celebrates this big day with a parade.
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that leprechaun outfit and enjoy a Guinness while singing along to ‘Galway Girl.’ ‘Sláinte!’ The A - Z of Mallorca reaches the letter ‘L’ for leather. Mallorca has a long heritage of making leather (or piel) goods, and is home to some world famous shoe making brands such as Camper and Tony Mora. Inca is the leather capital of the island and here you will find the biggest and best leather shops. The first leather workshops were set up by the Moors as long ago as 1240, and the industry thrived until 1652 when the bubonic plague killed over 2,000 people in Inca and the leather industry died with them. Wine became the biggest industry in the Inca region until the phylloxera disease destroyed the vines and the local people returned to what they knew best, leather making. Now the island is home to international brands such as Farrutx, Yanko and Lotusse. Bags, belts, gloves, coats, Mallorca is a leather-lover’s paradise. Laura Penn hosts The Sunshine Club every Sunday 10am - 12 noon on Mallorca Sunshine Radio. www.mallorcasunshineradio.com email laura@mallorcasunshine radio.com.
It just doesn’t feel right Mike Senker In my opinion Views of a Grumpy Old Man THIS week has been pretty weird and it’s got me very worried. It started innocently enough when I called Vodafone and, surprise, surprise they couldn’t give me the information I was asking for because their computer system was down. But then, about 20 minutes later, they called me back with all the information I had requested. They were really nice and very helpful. This is unheard of! The next day I had to go to a big DIY store that did some renovation work for us recently. I was ready, primed and prepped for the confrontation I was sure was about to happen - but no, they were fantastic. Really helpful and very accommodating - sorted out the things I had concerns about and it was all very quick and easy - I’d allocated a morning for something that ended up taking half an hour. I haven’t had one wobbly table whenever we’ve eaten out and even the motorbike owner, who was parked so he was encroaching on the disabled bay I was parked
in, apologised profusely when I confronted him to explain how difficult his parking there made it for me to get my wheelchair in and out of my car. He even thanked me for pointing this out to him and promised that in future he would be more considerate! By now I was in uncharted territory - I hadn’t felt grumpy in days. I felt like it was a conspiracy - where were all the annoyingly stupid people? Has someone put something in the water? Am I mellowing as I approach a major birthday this year? The sun is shining, I’m off to Gibraltar to enjoy a few days of snooker and my daughter surprised us by announcing she will be visiting for a few days. Even my troublesome neighbour has been keeping out of my way! Mrs S even asked me if I felt alright as ‘I didn’t seem myself.’ Drivers have let me out instead of pushing their way in front of me, cyclists have been in single file and nobody has jumped onto a single zebra crossing from behind a parked vehicle all week! I have no idea what’s going on but I don’t like it – it just doesn’t feel right! Hopefully I’ll be back to my old self very soon and feeling right as rain or, at the very least as grumpy as usual, because I’m really struggling with all these new feelings.
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12:00pm Good Morning Dagenham 12:45pm Dom on the Spot 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One; Weather 2:30pm BBC London News; Weather 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six; Weather 7:30pm BBC London News; Weather 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm DIY SOS 10:00pm Stabbed: Britain's Knife Crime Crisis 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm Regional News and Weather 11:35pm Question Time 12:35am This Week
7:00am The World's Most Photographed 7:30am Good Morning Dagenham 8:15am Money for Nothing 9:00am The Great British Sewing Bee 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Think Tank 2:45pm The Great British Year 3:45pm Talking Pictures 4:25pmWhisky Galore! 5:45pm The Hairy Bikers' 6:15pm Put Your Money 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great Continental 8:00pm Match of the Day 8:30pm Gone Fishing: Mortimer & Whitehouse 9:00pm Great British Menu 10:00pmPose 11:15pmPose 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Race Across the World 1:15am Sacred Rivers with Simon Reeve
8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm The Crusades 10:00pm Stonehenge: A Timewatch Guide 11:00pm Blackadder Goes Forth 11:30pm Blackadder Goes Forth 12:00am Blackadder Goes Forth 12:30am Top of the Pops 1:00am The Incredible Story of Marie Antoinette's Watch with Nicholas Parsons 2:00am Cornwall's Native Poet 3:00am Capability Brown's Unfinished Garden 4:00am Amsterdam: An Art Lovers' Guide
11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale Tracy's suspicions are raised. Aaron and Doug plan a gesture. Rishi hides a development. 9:30pm Australia with Julia Bradbury 10:00pm Fraud: How They Steal Your Bank Account 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Harry's Heroes: The Full English 1:05am Football Genius
7:00am The Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am You've Been Framed! 9:00am Emmerdale 9:25am Coronation Street 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am Superstore 12:15pm You've Been Framed! 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:35pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 6:50pm Take Me Out 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm You've Been Framed! 10:00pm Family Guy 10:30pm Family Guy 11:00pmCelebrity Juice 11:50pm Family Guy 12:20am American Dad!
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 8:00am Heartbeat 9:05am Murder, She Wrote 10:05am Judge Judy 10:35am Judge Judy 11:00am Judge Judy 11:25am On the Buses 12:00pmOn the Buses 12:35pmRising Damp 1:05pm George and Mildred 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Vera 11:00pmLaw and Order: UK 12:00am Law and Order: UK 1:00am Scott and Bailey 2:05am Agatha Christie's Poirot
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Frasier Frasier Frasier Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Ramsay's Hotel Hell Undercover Boss USA Channel 4 News Come Dine with Me Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown A Place in the Sun Escape to the Chateau: DIY Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Ugly House to Lovely House with George Clarke 60 Days on the Streets 24 Hours in Police Custody Married at First Sight
9:55am Shimmer and Shine 10:05am The Secret Life of Puppies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Nightmare Nanny 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Alaska: A Year in the Wild 9:00pm Secrets of Your Supermarket Food 10:00pm Mega Volcano: Draining the Pacific 11:00pm The Sex Business 12:00amDie Hard with a Vengeance
11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Good Morning Dagenham 12:45pm Dom on the Spot 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One; Weather 2:30pm BBC London News; Weather 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Shakespeare & Hathaway Private Investigators 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Money for Nothing 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six; Weather 7:30pm BBC London News; Weather 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm MasterChef 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm Regional News and Weather 11:35pmIron Man 3
7:30am Good Morning Dagenham 8:15am Money for Nothing 9:00am Antiques Roadshow 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Think Tank 2:45pm The Great British Year 3:45pm Talking Pictures 4:30pm Rio Conchos 6:15pm Put Your Money 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Great Continental Railway Journeys 8:00pm Mastermind 8:30pm David Attenborough's Natural Curiosities 9:00pm Great British Menu 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:00pm Australia: Earth's Magical Kingdom 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather
8:00pm World News Today The day's leading stories. 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Kenny Rogers Documentary chronicling Rogers' career and the golden era of country music he helped usher in. 10:00pm The Secret Science of Pop 11:00pm Duran Duran: There's Something You Should Know 12:00am Glam Rock at the BBC 1:00am Top of the Pops 1:30am Sings Neil Diamond 2:00am Kenny Rogers Documentary chronicling Rogers' career and the golden era of country music he helped usher in. 3:00am Arena
7:00am World of Sport 7:15am The Chase 8:15am The Avengers 9:20am Kojak 10:25am Quincy, M.E. 11:30am Minder 12:40pmThe Professionals 1:45pm Snooker 5:30pm The Professionals 6:35pm The Sweeney Police drama series. 7:45pm Snooker 11:15pmThe Dirty Dozen Classic action movie. 12:15am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. 12:20amThe Dirty Dozen Classic action movie. 2:20am River Monsters
7:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Live European Tour Golf 11:30am Match Centre 12:00pmMatch Centre 1:00pm Sky Sports News 1:45pm Live Valspar Featured Groups 3:30pm Football 6:30pm Sky Sports News at 5 7:00pm Sky Sports News at 6 8:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 8:30pm Football 11:00pmLive PGA Tour Golf 12:00am Live NBA: Denver @ Washington 2:30am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 3:00am Sky Sports News
7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25amThe Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Euro 2020 Qualifier Live: England v Czech Republic 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Euro 2020 Qualifier Highlights: England v Czech Republic 12:45am Harry's Heroes: The Full English 2:05am Jackpot247
7:45am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am You've Been Framed! 9:00am Emmerdale 10:00am You've Been Framed! 10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:20am Superstore 12:15pm You've Been Framed! 1:15pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:40pm The Jeremy Kyle Show 7:00pm Take Me Out 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Crazy, Stupid, Love 10:05pm FYI Daily 10:10pmCrazy, Stupid, Love 11:25pm Family Guy 12:50am American
7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am Murder, She Wrote 10:00am Judge Judy 10:25am Judge Judy 10:55am Judge Judy 11:20am On the Buses 11:55am On the Buses 12:30pm On the Buses 1:05pm George and Mildred 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm Agatha Christie's Marple 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pm Doc Martin 11:00pm Lewis 1:05am Agatha Christie's Poirot
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Cheers Cheers Frasier Frasier Frasier Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Ramsay's Hotel Hell Undercover Boss USA Channel 4 News Come Dine with Me Find it, Fix it, Flog it Countdown A Place in the Sun Escape to the Chateau: DIY Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Can I Improve My Memory? Gogglebox The Last Leg The Big Narstie Show
9:20am Floogals 9:35am Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom 9:55am Shimmer and Shine 10:05am The Secret Life of Puppies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Twisted Sisters 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Alaska: A Year in the Wild 9:00pm There's a Croc in My Kitchen 10:00pm Eamonn and Ruth: In Search of George Clooney 11:00pm Meghan and Harry: Inside the Palace
World of Sport The Chase The Avengers Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Professionals Snooker The Professionals The Sweeney Snooker The Contender After two wins, the Blue Team plants the idea of sweeping the Gold Team. 12:35amThe Conjuring 1:35am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. 1:40am The Conjuring 2:50am Better Late Than Never 3:40am ITV4 Nightscreen
7:30am Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize 8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Live European Tour Golf 11:30am Football Centre 12:00pm Football Centre 1:00pm Football Centre 1:45pm Live Valspar Featured Groups 6:00pm Football Bulgaria host Montenegro in Sofia in Group A qualification for the UEFA Euro 2020. 8:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 8:30pm One2eleven Former France midfielder Robert Pires who played 79 times for his country gives his #one2eleven. 8:40pm Football 10:45pm Live PGA Tour Golf 12:00am Football
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Nora Johnson
Breaking Views Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist. To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson
WE’VE all heard the phrase ‘Let them eat cake,’ coined allegedly by Marie Antoinette before the French Revolution. Well, apparently, she didn’t! Indeed, she was quite generous to charitable causes, intelligent and wouldn’t have said something so inflammatory. Which made me wonder which other sayings simply don’t stand up to scrutiny… ‘Ne’er cast a clout till May be out.’ In other words, don’t break out the barbie until Theresa May’s got her deal? This May, next May, May 2030? Murphy’s Law (‘if anything can go wrong, it will go wrong and at the worst possible moment’) is also way off the mark. For instance, ripping off a shirt button or breaking a shoelace when in a rush is probably down to the extra stress you’re under. Likewise: ‘Healthy as a horse.’
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Myths, rumours and some very tall tales Any horse owner will tell you that a horse is like an Italian sports car. If it can break down, it will. ‘Lightning never strikes in the same place twice.’ Rubbish! Lightning strikes repeatedly wherever the surface offers points of conductivity - and where the conditions produce lots of thunderstorms. ‘Cracking your knuckles gives you arthritis.’ Most medical studies have found no link whatsoever between this annoying habit and arthritis. The cracking sound isn’t bones being mangled out of
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shape, but the release of pockets of gas from between joints. However, long periods of knuckle-cracking may contribute to lesser grip strength. So best pack it in! Basically, these sayings are straight out of the ‘I saw you coming’ school of coffee table books and not meant to be taken literally. A bit like those nightmares in which you’re about to sit an exam but can’t because you’re astride a horse naked except for wellies... Or you’re about to plunge over a cliff edge into an abyss. Help! Are we back to ‘Ne’er cast a clout till (Theresa) May IS out’? Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.no ra-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99; £0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
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Cassandra Nash A weekly look - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene
THE central portion of the Partido Popular is cheesed off with Pablo Casado’s decision to lurch further to the Right to entice back defectors who have listened to Vox’s siren song. The central portion of Ciudadanos - theoretically most of the party - is cheesed off with Albert Rivera’s lurch to the Right and his acceptance of Vox in Andalucia while vetoing the PSOE. And the PSOE? The PSOE needs to woo everyone and not only the diehards who have always voted PSOE regardless. Above all it needs to woo back the PSOE’s once-considerable support from the Centre. Pedro Sanchez, the Moncloa’s current tenant, is more beloved by the card-carrying militants who twice gave him the primaries than the territorial barons who gave him the bird. But the Centre - the PSOE’s and everyone else’s - is there for Sanchez to mop up and it is the Centre, especially the undecided Centre, that decides elections. Theirs are the votes that all parties need and Casado and Rivera ignore them at their peril because they will push them into Sanchez’s arms.
Black joke THE irony of it! Not long ago, Spain was proclaimed as the healthiest country in the
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LEGALLY SPEAKING Can he change the system? Two years ago, I purchased an apartment in Mallorca. I have now discovered that my small single bedroom apartment is being charged community fees at the same amount as a large three-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment. I have checked my deeds and they clearly say I pay community fees per square metre. The administrator tells me that all apartments must pay equal community fees whether they are one-bedroom or a four-bedroom penthouse. He says that, in order to change this, all owners must unanimously agree. This cannot be right. My title deed says my community fee is based on my square metres. I have ceased payments in protest. E W (Baleares)
Standardly, community fees are David Searl charged according to the You and the Law size of the flat, just as it in Spain says in your title deed. A very few communities have voted to charge all units the same and this is legal, as your administrator says. However, the system is clearly unfair to you. One owner who feels his interests are harmed can go to court and ask the judge to order the system changed. The stoppage of payment will not help.
E.W.Send (Baleares) your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.
Centring on the Centre Yes me no yesses THE PDeCat’s (Catalan independence party) National Committee recently met to decide its election strategy. This entails making life as difficult as possible for everyone concerned, including those in their own party who want nonconflictive independence and some kind of understanding with the other parties. Its list of candidates for the General Election on April 28 underline Carles Puigdemont’s rejection of dialogue and his decision to go all out for conflict. As someone once said of GW Bush in the run-up to the Iraq invasion, he’s not going to take yes for an answer.
CONFLICT: Carles Puidemont rejects dialogue.
world, thanks mainly to virgin extra olive oil and its 85.8 year average life expectancy, according to a Forbes.com online report.
Then an OECD survey goes and finds that only 6.4 per cent of the Spanish are happy with their lives, compared with the Finns who top the list.
Spain is credited as the cradle of black humour and what else could you expect in a country where the population is condemned to live longer than everyone else and be bloody miserable at the same time.
CUP runneth out ANTI-SYSTEM party CUP announced that it will not present candidates in next month’s election. This is not a priority CUP, said party spokeswoman Mireia Boya: “The necessary conditions do not exist to present a groundbreaking and transforming candidature in Madrid.” It’s tempting to respond with ‘Chicken!’ because CUP held PDeCat to ransom when its votes were needed to install Artur Mas as regional president in 2016. Mas’s head its price and PDeCat could come up with no-one better than Girona’s mayor, Carles Puigdemont. CUP had as much to do with pushing the Procesas PDeCat, ERC or the pro-independence organisations Omnium and ANC. The party has a great deal to answer for, because it foisted Carles Puigdemont not only Cataluña, but the rest of Spain, too.
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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Mary Berry's Quick Cooking 1:00pm Football Focus 1:30pm Money for Nothing 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Gymnastics: World Cup 2019 5:00pm Escape to the Country 6:00pm Impossible Celebrities 6:50pm BBC News 7:00pm Regional News 7:05pm Weather 7:10pm Pointless: The Good, the Bad and the Bloopers 7:50pm Catchpoint 8:20pm All Together Now 9:25pm Casualty 10:15pm All Round to Mrs Brown's 11:15pm BBC News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Little Fockers 1:05am Weather for the Week Ahead
9:00am Top Class 9:30am The Dog Ate My Homework 10:00am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 10:30am Nature's Microworlds 11:00am Natural World 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 1:00pm Rick Stein's Long Weekends 2:00pm Nigellissima 2:30pm Talking Pictures 3:05pm The 39 Steps 4:30pm Nature's Great Events 5:30pm Pilgrimage: The Road to Santiago 6:30pm James May's Cars of the People 7:30pm The Great British Sewing Bee 8:30pm Race Across the World 9:30pm Dad's Army 10:00pm A United Kingdom 11:45pm Live at the Apollo 12:15am Pose 1:30am Passion 3:10am This is BBC Two
8:00pm The Inca: Masters of the CloudsThe Inca: Masters of the Clouds 9:00pm Hunters of the South Seas 10:00pmI Remember You 11:40pmTop of the Pops Studio performances, videos, celebrity interviews and archive footage of classic hits. 12:10am Top of the Pops 12:40am Sisters in Country 1:40am Black Music Legends of the 1980s 2:40am Tap America: How a Nation Found Its Feet 4:00am The Inca: Masters of the Clouds
7:00am King of Queens 7:25am King of Queens 7:50am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:15am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:25am The Big Bang Theory 11:50am The Simpsons 12:20pm The Simpsons 12:50pm Four in a Bed 3:00pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm A Place in the Sun 4:30pm Sun, Sea and Brides to be 5:35pm Location, Location, Location 6:35pm The Secret Life of the Zoo 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Great Canal Journeys 9:00pm Warcraft 11:25pm The Take 1:15am The Cabin in the Woods
7:00am Milkshake! 11:00am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:15am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:25am Beverly Hills Ninja 1:10pm Friends 1:40pm Friends 2:10pm Friends 2:40pm Friends 3:10pm Friends 3:45pm Gallagher Live Rugby 6:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 7:10pm The Yorkshire Vet 8:05pm Around the World by Train with Tony Robinson 8:55pm 5 News 9:00pm Elizabeth: Our Queen-Wife, Mother, Monarch 10:50pm The Royal Family at War 12:05am Meghan and Harry: Inside the Palace
10:00am BBC News 11:00am The Andrew Marr Show 12:00pm Sunday Politics 12:30pm Walks of Life 1:30pm Homes Under the Hammer 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Songs of Praise 2:50pm Lifeline 3:00pm Bargain Hunt 4:00pm Money for Nothing 4:45pm Escape to the Country 5:45pm Pointless 6:35pm BBC News 6:50pm Regional News 6:55pm Weather 7:00pm Countryfile 8:00pm Antiques Roadshow 9:00pm Blue Planet Live 10:00pm Baptiste 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides
7:20am A to Z of TV Gardening 8:05am Great British Garden Revival 9:05am The Edible Garden 9:35am Gardeners' World 10:05am Countryfile 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm The Hairy Bikers' Chicken and Egg 1:30pm My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles 2:30pm Gymnastics 4:00pm Figure Skating 6:00pm World's Busiest Cities 7:00pm Australia: Earth's Magical Kingdom 8:00pm Inside the Factory 9:00pm Dragons' Den 10:00pm Race Across the World 11:00pm The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan 12:00am White Gold 12:30amThe Reluctant Fundamentalist
8:00pm The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl 9:00pm From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's TV 10:00pm Deep Ocean 10:50pm Arena Award-winning arts documentary strand. 11:00pm The Believers are But Brothers 12:00am Rich Hall's Working for the American Dream 1:30am David Cassidy: The Last Session 3:00am Barneys, Books and Bust Ups: 50 Years of the Booker Prize 4:00am From Andy Pandy to Zebedee: The Golden Age of Children's TV
7:20am The Big Bang Theory 7:40am The Simpsons 8:35am Frasier 9:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Jamie's Quick and Easy Food 2:00pm Jamie's Quick and Easy Food 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Doctor Dolittle 5:15pm A Place in the Sun 6:15pm The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Escape to the Chateau 9:00pm Egypt's Valley of the Kings Uncovered 10:00pm Traitors 11:00pm 999: What's Your Emergency? 11:55pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 1:00am Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back 1:55am Ride Upon the Storm
10:55am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:05am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:20am Make You Laugh Out Loud 11:40am Police Interceptors 1:40pm Friends 4:10pm Winter in Alaska: A Year in the Wild 5:05pm Spring in Alaska: A Year in the Wild 6:05pm Summer in Alaska: A Year in the Wild 7:05pm Autumn in Alaska: A Year in the Wild 8:00pm World's Most Luxurious Cruise Ship 8:55pm 5 News 9:00pm Britain's Favourite Crisps 11:00pmBlack Hawk Down
8:05am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:20am Mr. Bean: The Animated Series 8:30am Scrambled! 8:35am The Tom and Jerry Show 8:50am The Powerpuff Girls 9:10am Toonmarty 9:30am Robozuna 10:05am Teen Titans Go! 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:40pm Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen 1:40pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:50pm On Her Majesty's Secret Service 4:35pm Tipping Point 5:35pm The Chase 6:40pm ITV Evening News 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:05pm Info not available 9:00pm The Voice UK 11:00pm The Jonathan Ross Show 12:05am ITV News
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Brexit driven?
WE received a letter from Hacienda which we understood but couldn’t grasp what was wrong with our 2017 tax return, so we took it to our Spanish tax advisor. They are looking into it for us but as far as we are concerned all of our affairs are transparent and above the radar. The worrying thing about this is that our Advisors office has a large multi-national client base, but have 30 such letters to investigate and without exception all were received by British clients. The numbers are also unprecedented. They are aware of German, Belgian and French who use the in-house lawyer who have never submitted a tax return whether resident or non-resident. Regardless of status, no other nationality has contacted them in connection with a similar letter. The conversation made us think of the visit to our local post office to collect this letter which was one of a significant pile of identical envelopes. Our village is small and has a number of British expat residents. From the size of the envelope pile we suspect most if not all have a letter from the Hacienda waiting for them. We cannot avoid the conclusion that Brits are being targeted. Even our Advisors office has said they feel it is Brexit driven. It would be interesting to know just how many Brits are affected. Please withhold my name if printed. Name supplied
Driver warning I JUST wanted to warn you of the latest scam aimed at drivers, especially if female and driving alone. An elderly friend was stationary and just about to pull out onto Mijas road. A car came along, stopped and one of its three occupants got out and pointed to her front tyre. She got out to look and very quickly another man took her handbag from her car. She was very shocked. It was a white car with three occupants. Please take care and stop for nobody. Name supplied
Drought doubt I READ with interest ‘Irrigation guarantees’ in last week’s Axarquia edition. I understand that occasional water shortages and interrupted services are to be expected when we live in a hot, arid climate, but the drought problems in La Viñuela seem to get worse every year. It was only the heavy rainfall last spring and autumn which seemed to prevent a serious problem and I very much hope the Junta de Andalucia agree to the meetings mentioned in the article to discuss solutions. Agnes Cavendish (Mrs)
RECYCLING: Put discarded cards and stamps to good use.
New use for old I WOULE like any organisation which has a use for used postage stamps and / or used greetings cards to contact me. They are, of course, free. Best regards.
OUR VIEW
Teaching a lesson THOUSANDS of school pupils in Spain, Britain and across the world walked out of their classrooms on Friday to teach adults a lesson about our planet. The students were taking part in school strikes for climate change in walkouts dubbed Fridays for Future. Their efforts were inspired by 16-year-old Swedish activist Greta Thunberg. She is up for this year’s Nobel Peace Prize for her role as fountainhead of the movement. The activists’ message is clear: why should we go to school to prepare for a future that looks likely to be seriously jeopardised by climate change caused by adults? The pupils are overwhelmingly backed by scientific evidence which has shown for years that inaction on climate change spells global catastrophe. Their questioning of whether it is worth studying for a future which will see mass extinctions, catastrophic weather and rising sea levels if nothing is done is entirely reasonable. Not only is their cause sound, but the pupils are reclaiming a spirit of activism, hope and idealism that often gets smothered by adult conservatism, cynicism and apathy. This saying attributed to Native American Chief Seattle seems appropriate: ‘We do not inherit the world from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.’ As Thunberg herself said, if adults really claim to love their children more than anything why would they allow their tomorrow to be destroyed for today’s corporate greed?
Now we want to hear your views.
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Bloody fight breaks out on Ryanair flight Ryanair have such a fast turnaround for their aircraft that the gate staff cannot possibly check passengers to see if they are fit to fly or if they have had too much alcohol. It’s time the CAA stepped in to penalise airlines who allow drunken passengers to board aircraft. John McLean I wonder if any alcohol was involved?
Angus It is time airlines formed up and banned these idiots from all flights - everywhere - forever. PM Funny. The only issue we have had in North America with alcohol and planes was a British passenger last year. Don’t think it is the alcohol that is the problem. Rhea Rouw Horrendous, the airlines are suffering from their greed of money, when will they realise that alcohol and flying don’t go together? No wonder our countrymen have such a bad name abroad, bet Europe will be glad to get rid of us. Gill Reynolds
ANIMAL CRUELTY CLAIMS: Mijas council and donkey owners to meet They say things will change and nothing ever does. The mafia that control the donkeys make too much money as it is now, why should they change and pay out to improve the
COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE conditions of their animals? The hooves were supposed to be checked by a vet periodically, but the state of their hooves means probably the vet hasn’t been paid for the last visits and has stopped coming. I have lived outside the village for 15 years and other than a shaded area nothing has changed and I’m ashamed to say it, nothing will. People stop riding the donkeys and horses, stop paying money because you are the ones that can stop this cruelty, not us who live here because they don’t want to listen to us and even intimidate people that protest. ONLY YOU CAN STOP THE ABUSE! Julie Packwood We last visited Mijas several years ago and have not returned after we were so shocked and upset at the disgusting treatment of the poor donkeys. Having read some months ago action was at last being taken to improve their lot, we booked a holiday near Mijas Pueblo for July this year. Please, please keep the pressure up to help these poor animals. Ideally, the whole wretched business would stop, but we realise that people’s livelihoods are at stake, so at least persuade the owners to show some compassion and treat their donkeys in a responsible way. As for the tourists, they must bear some responsibility; there is absolutely no need to use donkeys to see the beautiful village, maybe they could be kept just for a novelty ride for small children. Stephen Thomas
EXCLUSIVE: Brit expat outraged by cat poisoning deaths in Spain APDA Policías por los Animales (cops for animals) published a protocol how to act in case of poisoning on their Facebook. And it’s advisable to report every case, otherwise authorities will never take action. Sorry for what happened. MiMiga
CRUISING: Passenger numbers up in Spain but ships down Really optimal for the environment…
Felipe
Brits in Benidorm wreck hotel room and get banned from flight home And you wonder why the Spanish don’t like us???? REALLY?? Tristan Barnaby
BREXIT: Brits could pay €60 for EU travel after Spain blocks fee waiver over Gibraltar Guess many Brits won’t be holidaying in Spain any more… Florida next year it is then. Too late to change this year so I will enjoy La Zenia just in case it is the last time. Justmyview
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TIME
Across 7 Let nine off when showing mercy (7) 9 Some trouble, as extending contract (5) 10 Unpredictable fellow sheltering rodent (7) 11 A male representative (5) 12 Vehicles begin transporting male sheep (5) 14 Keep us confined in a bad spot (7) 16 Quietly begrudge gift (7) 18 Churchmen from the Andes? (5) 20 Cook in the right oven (5) 22 Accept torn veil held by busy worker (7) 24 Dodge back out of crowded avenue (5) 25 Square head on wild Alpine dog (7) Down 1 British capital held by vigilant prince (6) 2 Additional pay for a sincere sort (8) 3 Most appropriate wager about son (4) 4 Leeds can change if purified (8) 5 Frenchman took food to a companion (4) 6 Out to change the bonnet (4,2) 8 Marks made by parasites (5) 13 Paste applied round very small plant (8)
15 Fellow who's learned what's not relevant (8) 16 Package from redhead in wrong place (6) 17 VAT, as for instruments (5)
Code Breaker
19 Takes stock in haste also (6) 21 The first person mentioned in Nostradamus's predictions (4) 23 Storyteller in the billiard hall (4)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 17 represents L and 25 represents C, so fill in L every time the figure 17 appears and C every time the figure 25 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 Morally pure (6) 4 Two items of the same kind (4) 8 Lasting (9) 9 Wild mountain goat (4) 10 Marked by intense agitation or emotion (6) 13 Brief sleep (6) 15 Costly (4) 18 Reproduce or make an exact copy of (9) 19 Naked (4) 20 Standing (6) Down 1 Of or relating to the heart (7)
English - Spanish
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
Across 1 Wardrobe (for clothing) (7) 5 Ganso (ave) (5) 8 Seguro (7) 9 Listas (5) 10 Western (side, part) (5) 11 Reservar (7) 12 Goats (6) 14 Cemento (6) 17 Milagro (7) 19 Key (typewriter/piano) (5) 22 Miser (5) 23 Alfombras (7) 24 Pala (para cavar) (5) 25 Superficie (7)
2 More than enough in size, scope or capacity (5) 3 Revolve (4) 5 Having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude (5) 6/18 Busy side road during rush hour (3,3) 7 Glazed yeast-raised doughnut-shaped roll with hard crust (5) 11 Inquisitive (7) 12 Lowest point (5) 14 Moderately warm (5) 16 Throw out (5) 17 Lure (4) 18 See 6
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 Wide (street, river, trousers) (5) 2 Yeguas (5) 3 Royalty (7) 4 Dueños (de casas, coches, perros) (6) 5 Vendavales (vientos fuertes) (5) 6 Observar (7) 7 El más fácil (7) 12 Brújula (7) 13 Hut (7) 15 To stretch (7) 16 Vallas (6) 18 Cerca (5) 20 Cream (for face, shoes etc) (5) 21 Nave (de iglesia) (5)
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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 R) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
TARGET: Average: 6 Good: 8
LOTTERY UK NATIONAL LOTTERY
FOR NEXT 7 DAYS
Saturday March 16
6
26
32
BONUS BALL
38
59
42
37
Saturday March 16
15
23
BONUS BALL
Very good: 12 Excellent: 15
3
43
41
37
EURO MILLIONS
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION acre care cart cere cert crag gear grit race rage rate rete rice rite tare tart tear tier tire tree trig aerie agree cager caret carte cater ceria cigar citer crate eager eagre eater egret erect erica grace grate great greet irate react recta recti retie tater terce tetra tiger titer titre trace tract trait treat trice trite attire cagier create gaiter getter recite target tercet tierce tragic triage cattier cigaret citrate iterate aigrette CIGARETTE
Tuesday March 12
BONUS BALL
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7
13
2
Friday March 15
BONUS BALL
3
15
24
9 12
46
42
EL MILLON: PTK34932
Sudoku
Thursday March 14
10
16
17
23
27
43
BONUS BALL
39 3
JOKER: 9 908 320
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
Saturday March 16
6
17
19
29
31
38
BONUS BALL
35
4
JOKER: 4 371 453 EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA Sunday March 17
19
20 36
34
BONUS BALL
37
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
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Across:
Across:
1 Nursery, 5 Charm, 8 Valve, 9 Liebres, 10 Next, 11 Corregir, 13 Afraid, 15 Reason, 18 Sin parar, 19 Over, 22 Ranuras, 23 Agree, 24 Besos, 25 Redondo.
1 Code, 3 Bitterns, 9 Set fair, 10 Minor, 11 Audit, 12 Earner, 14 Taster, 16 Plasma, 19 Tackle, 21 Sofia, 24 Dense, 25 Granite, 26 Landseer, 27 Ohms.
1 Noventa, 2 Relax, 3 Even, 4 Yellow, 5 Cherries, 6 Abrigos, 7 Miser, 12 Milagros, 14 Riñones, 16 Noruego, 17 Cansar, 18 Scrub, 20 Varón, 21 Land.
An exciting invitation may set tongues wagging and make a loved one jealous. You, meanwhile, are quite bemused by the whole thing. What comes out of this week is that you are of considerable value to others. The mere thought of you not being around sends ripples through your social circle.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Being asked to take on a new and demanding task this week may see you wishing that you had been less visible. However, don't think of the hard work involved but rather the brilliant outcome. You will be popular.
LA PRIMITIVA
Fill the grid so that every row, every column and every 3X3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved. You solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.
Down:
PISCES (February 20 - March 20)
Down: 1 Casualty, 2 Dated, 4 Israel, 5 Tamer, 6 Runners, 7 Sari, 8 Sartre, 13 Managers, 15 Shannon, 17 Lascar, 18 Meagre, 20 Keels, 22 Faith, 23 Idol.
QUICK
KAKURO
Across: 1 Dyspepsia, 7 Error, 8 Rules, 9/19 Pay cut, 10 Tangle, 14 Insane, 15 Inn, 18 Occur, 20 Aroma, 21 Takeaways.
Down: 1 Deep, 2 Surpass, 3 Earn, 4 Scream, 5 All, 6 Busted, 11 Gondola, 12 Kimono, 13 Anorak, 16 Data, 17 Bans.
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TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) An interest in technology is not something new to you. What is great, though, is that the penny has suddenly dropped. This week sees you understanding more and wanting to know more. This is good for both your work and social life.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) An urge to get moving must mean that spring is round the corner. Certainly, you are questioning where you want to be in the months ahead. A house move or work placement may be on your mind. At what seems to be an unsettled time, decisions need to be made and worked towards.
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CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Be aware that not everyone is willing to work as hard as you. When approached by someone wanting you to trust them, be sure of their motives. Do what you feel is right but remain firmly in control, especially financially. It may not be the time to make a particular move, although others think that it is. There's no problem with discussing things and talking them through. Keep up your healthy habits because you need lots of energy, especially at the weekend.
LEO (July 24 - August 23) Social demands are made, but try
QUIZ: NURSES 1. According to the Beatles’ 1967 number one hit single Penny Lane, what was the pretty nurse selling from a tray? 2. Born in Chicago in September 1931, and originally named Franceska Mitizi Marlene de Charney von Gerber, which actress starred as navy nurse Nellie Forbush in the 1958 film version of South Pacific? 3. In BBC television sitcom Open All Hours, what was the name of the nurse, played by actress Lynda Baron? 4. In which long-running BBC medical drama has actor Derek Thompson play the part of (senior) charge nurse Charlie Fairhead for over 30 years? 5. In which novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a serial in 1843–1844, did the dissolute, sloppy and generally drunk Sarah Gamp first appear? 6. Living in warm shallow waters on both coasts of North America and South America and from south-east Asia to Australia, by what more familiar name is the Ginglymostoma cirratum better known?
to shuffle them to the weekend. Be diplomatic or someone close could become irritated. Keep an eye on the small print because something fundamental may have changed in a long-standing arrangement. Suddenly, at the weekend, you are thrust into the limelight.
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Be aware that leopards do not change their spots, they merely hide them. Those who demand your trust need a cool checking out and don't be afraid to say 'no' as and when necessary. Finances are well aspected this week with a new idea proving both worthwhile in terms of your time and profitable.
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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) This being a family oriented week, much of it may be spent getting together with relatives and going over old times. Perhaps you are compiling a photo album for older members of the family or vice versa.
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7. What was the name of the English nurse who was executed by a German firing squad in October 1915, for aiding the escape of British soldiers in Belgium? 8. Which English nurse, best remembered for her work during the Crimean War, was nicknamed the Lady with the Lamp? 9. Which famous English comedy actress played the part of the no-nonsense matron in the 1959 film Carry On Nurse? 10. With which sport would you principally associate Seymour Nurse, who was born in Barbados in 1933? Not a lot of people know that… former nurse Ellen Church, who died in 1965 aged 60, was, in May 1930, the world's first female flight attendant (airline stewardess)
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Career and home are in disharmony but a bit of compromise soon sorts things out. You don't like playing the 'bad guy', but honesty is also important to you. Speaking your mind can be liberating although, initially, you may see it as a nuisance and embarrassing. A meeting at the weekend is both confusing and disarming.
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Someone with a larger-than-life imagination makes you smile but that was not their intention. Try to be diplomatic and steer them in a different direction. Some feelings of loneliness will not be assuaged by working more. Perhaps it is time to consider taking on a pet or giving a current pet more attention.
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Sometimes, you find it hard to do things just for the pure enjoyment of it. Realise that not everything has to have a purpose or a profit. Look round this week and seek out something that will please your senses and bring a smile to your lips. Make this a week when you live for the moment and give full rein to your imagination.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Contact with a less than ideal situation makes you realise just how lucky you are. It has been clear that the weeks are changeable and your situation at the moment far from settled. Pity those whose day-to-day life is completely predictable. As someone who values an element of challenge, it is enjoyable to know that unexpected times are ahead.
Answers: 1. POPPIES, 2. MITZI GAYNOR, 3. GLADYS EMMANUEL (she was played by Sheila Brennan in the pilot), 4. STATE ENROLLED NURSE, 4. CASUALTY, 5. MARTIN CHUZZLEWIT, 6. NURSE SHARK, 7. EDITH CAVELL, 8. FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE, 9. HATTIE JACQUES (she also played the same role in Carry On Doctor, Carry On Again Doctor, Carry On Camping and Carry On Matron), 10. CRICKET
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By Sally Underwood WE all know we should keep a frequent eye on our health, whether it is to monitor existing conditions or ward against potential problems. Among the most frequently-heard health advice we may have come across the phrase, ‘know your numbers.’
This motto is often used to refer to cholesterol or blood sugar figures, but there are in fact a series of numbers it is helpful to keep a check on. Many Spanish pharmacies offer quick and cheap tests, often with results while you wait. So which are some of the most common tests and what can they tell us? First up is cholesterol, which can lead to heart at-
tack or stroke if too much of the ‘bad’ type accrues in the body. There are two types of this waxy substance; lowdensity lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins (HDL). LDLs are considered bad as they can collect in the arteries, eventually causing blockages, whereas HDL can actually carry cholesterol away from the body to be processed in the liver. The British Heart Foundation recommends a combined total of four millimoles per litre of blood or less for those at high risk of some diseases. Next is glycated haemoglobin, which indicates average blood sugar level for the last two or three months and can help indicate prediabetes, as well as types I
PHARMACY TESTS: Many Spanish pharmacies offer tests to keep an eye on overall health.
and II diabetes. Also important in indicating risk of fatty liver disease and pancreatitis is knowing your triglyceride levels. These chemicals are a type of fat found in the
blood and can raise risk of coronary heart disease, particularly in women. For men, a PSA test can indicate healthy prostate function. PSA is a protein produced by both cancerous and non-cancerous tissue in the prostate and testing its levels can help with early detection of any issues such as an enlarged or inflamed prostate and prostate cancer. For men and women, monitor your kidneys with uric acid and creatinine tests, both of which can help give an insight into how well they are functioning. Finally, keep a frequent eye on blood pressure using a home machine or one in a p h a r m a c y o r d o c t o r ’s surgery to make sure levels stay within a healthy range.
Intermittent fasting Kate Broadhead Health and Lifestyle coach OK so it’s not for everyone, but having a fast can be an excellent way of resetting your body and has even been shown to boost your immune system, and improve mental clarity and concentration levels. I’m not talking fasting for a week but with lent looming on the horizon, why not try a 24-hour fast? This is basically having an evening meal and not eating until your evening meal the next day. The beauty of this is that for a huge chunk of the fast, you are asleep! This is where the term ‘breakfast’ comes from. The first meal of the day which essentially breaks a short fast whilst sleeping. During the fast you consume plenty of water, herbal teas - but not green tea as this can accelerate metabolism which is no good in an empty stomach - and black coffee. For the meal which breaks your fast,
RESET: Fasting can be an effective way to reset your system. make sure it is not too large and well balanced. Ideal food would be fish or lean meat with some vegetables. You will probably find you are not as famished as you expect to be! Take a note of the scale before and after too. You may just be pleasantly
surprised! Visit Kate’s successful Facebook group on www.facebook.com/groups/ carbcyclingforbeginners or follow on Instagram @carbcyclingqueen. For personal coaching please email her on ccforbeginners@hotmail.com.
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PRINCE Charles greeted the Queen of Spain with a warm embrace and a kiss – despite her having kept him waiting for 20 minutes. Queen Letizia blamed London traffic for her late arrival at the opening of Sorolla: Spanish Master of Light at the National Gallery, but the Prince of Wales didn’t seem to take offence. He had waited in the foyer of the Sainsbury WARM WELCOME: Wing for her, before he The royal pair eventually decided to enjoyed the Spanish get a sneak peek of the Master of Light Sorolla exhibition himexhibition. self before her arrival. The royal pair then greeted one another with a smile and a double kiss on the cheek.
CROWD PULLER: Bruno Mars is a live music hit.
Mars moves the music market SPAIN’S live music industry is dancing to the tune of a record annual turnover of €334 million last year. Hit maker Bruno Mars attracted the biggest crowds, drawing 110,000 fans across two concerts in Barcelona and Madrid. Latin artists Ricky Martin and Shakira also proved popular, with Martin playing to 79,657 fans over 10 dates and Shakira performing to 71,000 over five shows. The figures were released during the 10th edition of the Spanish Association of Music Promoters’ Live Music Yearbook.
STRICTLY Come Dancing’s Gemma Atkinson has revealed she wants to move to Spain, the native country of her dancer boyfriend Gorka Marquez. Apparently the biggest attraction for the pair is the hot, sunny climate. Their plans to up and leave the UK became apparent when Gorka, originally from the north of Spain, uploaded images of him walking the couple’s dogs in a hailstorm on Instagram. He quipped about the stormy and windy weather in London and tagged ex-Hollyoaks and Emmerdale star Gemma. T h e p re g n a n t b e a u t y q u i c k l y re sponded, revealed her dream plans: ‘Told you we need to move to Spain.’
PLANS: The stunning couple could move to Spain.
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Mexican sensation on tour MEXICAN singer Carlos Rivera will be performing in Palma tomorrow (Friday). The international star, who has released five studio albums, will be performing at the Auditorium Palma at 9pm. Th e 3 3 - y e a r- o l d w ill v is it Mallorca as part of his Spanish tour, which opened on March 15 in Gi j o n . As h e arriv ed in Spa i n , R i v e r a e x p lain ed : “ I come willing to wage war, a war of love.” S p e a k i n g t o m e d ia, R iv e ra said of his tour: “We just started and I cannot be happier. I am
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very surprised by the reaction of the audience to a show which contains many surprises. “The show is centred on my new album, Guerra, which is a war of love, a good war. We use many elements of war to explain poetically what we all experience, which is the war of life.”
CARLOS RIVERA: The singer is one of Latin America’s most popular exports.
Award winners THE Jove Band from the Conservatori de Manacor has won second prize at the third International Francisco Fort Memorial Competition in Montcada, Valencia. The event, which saw different youth bands from Spain and Portugal compete for first place, was organised by Montcada’s Artistic Musical Centre. The Jove Band, which is formed by the students from the Conservatori musical school in Manacor, was directed by Antonia Bassa. The group submitted a video interpreting the works Pompeia by Hugo Chinesta and Zombies Party by Azael Tormo Muñoz.
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Did you register your property purchase? THERE are many steps required to buying a property in Spain and it’s always best to ensure that you know what you are doing, buying and how to go
about it. Taking each step with the help of a lawyer is always advisable, particularly if you are not fluent in Spanish and you are not familiar with the ins and
outs of purchasing a property in this country. Once you have signed on the dotted line, handed over the cash and paid all the taxes and fees that need to be paid, there is still one more legality that must be attended to before you can finally put your feet up and relax in your new home. And that’s registering your purchase at your nearest property registry office. Although this action is voluntary, it is recommended to everyone who buys a property as it could save you a lot of hassle and stress in the future if you are faced with any type of problem. Doing this is a must if you want to safeguard your purchase and especially if you ever need to prove that the house you have just bought is legally yours. Registering the purchase will act as a guarantee of protection if your name has been logged as the owner. Although signing the title deeds or ‘escritura’ will auto-
REGISTRATION: It is important that each buyer registers his or her property purchase with the Property Registry office as soon as possible. matically name you as the new owner of the property, if you don’t register this change with the property registry office straightaway, you could find that other charges or fees, which would rank ahead of your ownership rights, could be added against the property while it still
appears on the Registro list in the name of the previous owner. In the worst-case scenario, you could end up having to sell the property you have just bought in order to repay a debt that wasn’t yours! You will also need to register your property purchase at the Registro if you are looking to take out a mortgage. This will not be possible otherwise. It is also important to ensure that you register the purchase immediately for the following reasons: • To be considered as the only and true owner of the property • Protection against the seller’s creditors • Will be legally protected in any court case if the property’s ownership is in doubt or under discussion. For example, if two people buy the same property - unknowingly, of course, it doesn’t matter which of them purchased the property first, it is the one who registers the property first that will have priority over its ownership rights. It is also important to have your property registered in your name if you are planning to sell
it in the future. Anyone that is seriously considering buying it from you will go to the registry office specifically to check that the house is in fact in your name and that there are no outstanding debts allocated to it. If you have not registered the property, it may be a struggle to sell it. If you have purchased a property with your spouse, for example, and this figures on the title deeds but then when you go to sell it and your spouse no longer figures as one of the owners, if they have passed away, unless this has also been registered (presenting a death certificate or will is not enough, the sale of the property will then be stalled until the transfer of ownership to the living spouse (which should have already been done) has gone through. So, as you can see, registering the purchase of your new property with the correct office as soon as the sale has gone through is extremely important and a necessity that could save you a lot of legal problems and hassle. As with most legalities in Spain, it is better to be safe than sorry.
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New builds see sharp price increase ACCORDING to figures published by the Notaries Centre for Statistical Information, a total of 40,388 property purchases were completed in January this year, which is an increase of 0.3 per cent for the same month in 2018. While the number of transactions increased only marginally f r o m l a s t y e a r, h o u s e p r i c e s went up slightly more, at 2.6 per cent more than 12 months ago. The average price of property is now valued at €1,424 per square metre, as calculated by the General Council of Notaries. Types of property On a year-upon-year basis, the number of detached family homes sold in January increased by a substantial 6.6 per cent, but sales of apartments fell 1.3 per cent from last year. Prices While the average price of a property per square metre registered at €1,424 per square metre in January which is an increase of 2.6 per cent, this was attributed almost equally to
PROFITABLE: New-build properties registered a price increase of 18 per cent.
both detached properties and apartments registered higher p r i c e s t h a n l a s t y e a r, w i t h i n creases of 4.1 and 2.7 per cent
respectively. N e w b u i l d s , n a t u r a l l y, a r e more expensive than resales, and the former saw the average
price per square metre at €2,186, with resale prices of €1,555. According to these figures, the price of a new build
has gone up 18.5 per cent in the last 12 months, with the price of resales showing an increase of just 1 per cent.
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ADVANCE TECHNOLOGY: Brought over by the aliens! adamant that no such thing exists because of the many differences in human appearances. Eskimos and Africans, Indians and Asians, he asserted, owe their variations to the creation of separate DNA. This is pure hogwash, and harks back to a mad theory proposed by an American scientist, Samuel Morton,
who, in the first half of the 19th century, convinced many that humans could be divided into five races, and each represented separate acts of creation. Racists gleefully embraced this baloney which ‘proved’ that Whites, or ‘Caucasians,’ were the most intelligent of the races, and Blacks, or ‘Ethiopians,’ were at the bottom of his intelli-
gence scale. Not surprisingly Morton became known as the ‘father of scientific racism.’ An indisputable fact is that there is only one human species - Homo sapiens - and that we evolved in Africa and developed different characteristics when we spread to different parts of the globe.
Seeing how sceptical I was by his views on separate races, he threw in ‘ah, but what about the pyramids?’ This was a terrible blunder because just a week before I was reading about pyramids and the large number of people who believe they could only have been built by aliens. Why? Because the Egyptians back in 2500 BCE were ‘too stupid’ to have erected them. One debunker of the alien theory pointed out that before the pyramids were erected, the Egyptians had developed agriculture, writing, astronomy, mathematics, metal-working, sophisticated artwork, monumental stone architecture and a host of other things. The researcher added: ‘When you really learn enough about them, it’s not difficult at all to imagine that the Egyptians were capable of such architectural sophistication. They had a certain expertise in stone working that we lack today. By the time of the pyramids, a corps of craftsmen had been developing their quarrying and building skills since the Early Dynastic Period. We have evidence to support the Egyptians’ responsibility for all the construction stages of the pyramids.’ When it appeared likely that my new-founding drinking mate would start in on alien abductions and anal probes, I swallowed my Scotch in a single gulp, grabbed my coat and scarpered.
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Fastest production Seat ever SEAT has upgraded its Leon with the new Leon CUPRA R ST special edition which is the fastest production car ever made by the Spanish manufacturers. The Leon Cupra ST will reach 250kph, with it sprinting to 100kph in just 4.9 seconds. An optional after sales tuning package boosts power from 296 bhp to 365 bhp and brings the sprint time down to 4.5 seconds pretty impressive for what is after all an estate car. Its two-litre turbo charged four cylinder engine is allied to four wheel drive to ensure you can make the best use of all that power, giving a smooth ride and snappy handling. In order to improve cornering speed and handling performance, new uprights have been added to the front axle that modifies the negative camber (2º);
the rear negative camber is also at 2º. The performance is matched by the distinctive CUPRA sound from the quad exhaust pipes at the rear of the vehicle giving drivers a sound as well as a visceral experience from behind the steering wheel. At first glance the Leon CUPRA R ST stands out from the competition with what Seat calls a ‘compelling’ exterior design. The newly developed lateral air intakes have been given a copper colour treatment that may not be to everyone’s taste, but is distinctive. Extensive use of carbon fibre helps with performance and is evident in the front diffusers and other aesthetic features. Antonino Labate, director of Strategy, Business Development and Operations of CUPRA, said: “The Leon CUPRA R ST represents our ability to
make unique, exciting cars with the most advanced technology ready for the most demanding and diverse of drivers.”
Hyundai i30 - a very pleasant surprise REVIEW by Tim Saunders WHEN the Hyundai i30 is delivered I am pleasantly surprised. I had been expecting a plain and functional five-door hatchback. But instead I am looking at the Fastback, a much more exciting proposition. Its sleek lines make it a vehicle to admire from the design perspective. The striking front is impressive if similar to a growing number of cars these days. The rear has hints of Mercedes about it… and Aston Martin without the hefty price tags. The i30 Fastback clearly has a talented designer. The result should be a Lexus beating sports saloon that is very pleasing on the eye and really does create a double take, especially for those who have previously ignored the virtues of a Hyundai. This family car surprises at every turn and probably the
biggest achievement is the fact that it is powered by a tiddly little one-litre petrol engine, which promises low emissions. Through turbo charging, the engineers have cleverly squeezed almost 120bhp out of it to give more oomph than much bigger engined vehicles. Build quality seems a bit on the flimsy side. For instance, when shutting one of the rear doors there is still a fair amount of give after it is closed. While I’m on this subject I notice that the paint finish isn’t as sharp as it should be around the boot rubber. My biggest gripe though is the positioning of the three seatbelt points in the rear. Bear in mind that I am the owner of an ageing Ford Fiesta and I regularly travel with three cumbersome car seats in the back without a problem. Therefore, I do not anticipate any problems in fitting the same three car seats in more modern vehicles. The Hyundai is a considerably
larger car. But oh dear, oh dear. The positioning of the belt buckle slots means that I must have wasted over an hour of my time during the course of the test fiddling around fitting the car seats for my two daughters. Because Henry’s is a slightly wider Cosatto seat it covers both slots for Harriett’s and Heidi’s car seats. I dread every time we all return to the car because I know that my fingers are really going to hurt as I have to forcibly lift Henry’s seat up to allow for Harriett and Heidi to be strapped in. I have had some problems with other new cars but never to this extent. The boot is large enough for the family’s luggage and has good amounts of storage space. The black cloth seats are comfortable and so is the ride. Overall it feels sporty and quite low to the ground. The six-speed manual box can be a little too notchy on occasions. It can be a slow car but if revved hard it does deliver a
FAMILY CAR: But child seats may be a problem.
smile especially with the raspy note of the exhaust, which gets louder the harder it’s driven. Here is a car for a family of four without any car seats.
HOT: Leon Cupra R ST will hit 250kph.
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SPANISH tennis player Garbiñe Muguruza ranks 24th in the 25 most famous female athletes in the world in a list of 800 of the biggest names in sport, compiled by media group ESPN, which produces cable television, satellite and radio channels related to sport.
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VICTORIOUS: Rory McIlroy is The Players Champ 2019.
Rahm’s costly error SPANISH golfer Jon Rahm was left kicking himself after opponent Rory McIlroy made two late birdies at The Players Championship PGA Tour and
closed with a two-under 70 to win the next best thing to a major. But despite a great victory, it was Rahm who took the headlines after a costly mistake. The Spaniard held the lead going into the final day’s play and sat in a tie for the lead on the 11th hole of the final round. But after landing in the bunker, Rahm ignored the advice of his caddie Adam
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Hayes to lay up, and chose to go for the green before watching his shot land straight in the water. The decision saw Rahm, 24, end with a bogey on the 11th hole and appeared to lose his cool as the 24-year-old went on to bogey the 15th before a double bogey on 17 saw him finish in a tie for 12th place. Rahm walked away with $356,000 (€313,800) a far cry from McIlroy’s pay cheque of €3.1 million (€2.73 million).
Emery visits Mestalla stadium ARSENAL manager Unai Emery was spotted in the Mestalla stadium at Valencia where he was making the most of an opportunity to see his former side and potential Europa League opponent, Valencia, in action. With Arsenal not due to play again until April, Emery flew to Spain to watch the club, with whom he enjoyed success as manager between 2008 and 2012, take on Getafe in La Liga. His former side were held to a 0-0 draw in La Liga by Getafe, who currently occupy the fourth and final Champions League qualification spot and sit six points ahead of Valencia with 10 games of the season remaining. If they get past Napoli in
UNAI EMERY: Checking out potential competition Valencia. the Europa League quarter-finals, Arsenal would face either Valencia or Villarreal in
the semi-final, explaining Emery’s return to eastern Spain.