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TRAGIC: Victim named as Freddie Pring.

Fall tragedy by Dilip Kuner A BRITISH tourist killed in a fall from a Magaluf hotel has been named as 20-yearold rugby player Freddie Pring. He was a player for Minehead Barbarians RFC in Somerset. A statement from the club said: “It is with deepest sadness that we have to inform you that one of our own, Freddie Pring, has been involved in an accident abroad and has passed away. “Our love and condolences reach out to everyone that knew Freddie.”

Friends have left many tributes to Mr Pring on social media, many changing their profile pictures to the Minehead Barbarians club logo in memory of him. The tragedy occurred last Friday at about 3am. Locals called emergency services when they saw something fall from a balcony. Local Police arrived to find Mr Pring in a critical condition. Medics gave him immediate aid, but he died at the scene. Police had to wake up the victim’s friends to tell them what had happened. He had been staying with

them at a hotel called the Wave House. He is the first Briton to die from a balcony fall in Mallorca this year, although in the space of a week there were three other similar incidents. An 18-year-old Swedish man was critically injured after plunging two floors on May 31, while a British man, aged 19, escaped with a broken ankle after an eight-metre fall in Punta Ballena on June 5. The following night a 35-year-old German man was badly hurt after falling from a second-floor balcony.

EIGHT Senegalese ‘street sellers’ have been arrested for allegedly robbing tourists last weekend. Police say that they worked in pairs. One would approach their victim to distract them with a hug or a push, while the other would then snatch valuables. The arrested, who are aged between 20 and 36 years, were found to be in possession of allegedly stolen smartphones, SIM cards, wallets, watches, bracelets and a gold chain. Police made the arrests after a series of incidents along Punta Ballena on Saturday and Sunday. One tourist needed medical attention after a fight.

He had accosted a person who robbed him, only to be threatened with a bottle. One police officer also needed to be treated after being injured during the arrests. From next week extra security is being drafted in, with Guardia Civil officers being stationed at the tourist information office. Palma Town Hall has now applied for ex-

clusion orders for the eight arrested people banning them from the area. There have been several cases in recent weeks of tourists being robbed by people purporting to be ‘street vendors.’ Last week a German tourist was hospitalised after being punched to the ground in the early hours of the morning.

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NEWS EXTRA Pilots go on strike A STRIKE by pilots of firefighting planes has been called for nine days in June by trade union Sepla to protest against an alleged 13 per cent pay cut at Babcock, an operator of emergency planes.

Man hunt POLICE are hunting a 54-year-old man who faces four-and-a-half years in jail for allegedly beating and mentally abusing his partner for a decade, after he failed to appear in a Palma court on Monday

Film award BRITISH film director Ken Loach, who became famous for his 1969 movie Kes, will be presented with the Master of Cinema lifetime award at Palma’s Atlantida Film Fest, being held in the first week of July.

Bins blaze DESPITE the arrest of the alleged main culprit - the fifth man detained - bins keep being set alight in Palma, with two more going up in flames in the early hours of Tuesday morning.

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Search called off AN air and sea search for a woman who apparently fell overboard from a cruise ship was called off earlier in the week. A 63-year-old Korean woman disappeared from the luxurious Norwegian Epic liner as it sailed from Cannes in France to Palma in the early hours of Saturday morning somewhere between Menorca and Mallorca. Spain’s Maritime Rescue started an air search, while the cruise liner itself turned back in an attempt to find the woman. A Norwegian Cruise spokesperson said: “Early morning on June 8, a 63year-old Korean female guest went overboard while the ship was sailing from Cannes, France to Palma de Mallorca, Spain. “As soon as the report was made, the authorities were notified and a

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CALLED OFF: Maritime Rescue has recalled plane. search and rescue operation ensued. “The search has now ceased, and

sadly, the guest has not been found. “Our thoughts and prayers are with

Squatters ruling THE Balearic public prosecutor has said that police can use force to evict squatters, as long as it is reasonable and proportional. Up until now police in many instances have insisted they had no authority to remove people who were illegally occupying property before owners had gone through a relatively complicated legal procedure. But now, Bartolomé Barceló, the senior prosecutor on the islands has said: “The illegal occupation of real estate is generating a serious social and legal problem that is increasing.” And he has urged Local Police and

Guardia Civil to take more action, saying they can evict criminal squatters “without the need to request judicial measures.” Barceló added that his guidance was the first instruction issued in Spain for a problem that has been increasing. He said: “The problem has worsened and there has come a time when, despite the fact that the law remains the same, this interpretation of the rules had to be given so that the security forces would comply with what had been agreed in the instruction.” It remains to be seen whether the courts will agree with him.

the individual’s family during this difficult time.”

‘Neo-Nazis’ assault POLICE have arrested two alleged neo-Nazis after a black doorman was punched unconscious. Palma police were called to Megapark in Arenal at about 9.30pm on Saturday having received reports of a fight. There they found the 44-year-old victim lying on the ground. Witnesses say two German men had attacked the man without any warning, punching and kicking him to the ground. Security personnel went to his aid and restrained the alleged aggressors. When police inspected the phone of one of the suspects, they found many photos of swastikas and the Ku Klux Klan. Passing German tourists started berating the men, aged 21 and 22, and told police the suspects belonged to an extremely violent group of football ‘ultras.’ The doorman was taken to Son Espases hospital where he required surgery because he had lost the use of his legs.

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Not guilty

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ALTHOUGH it accepts that the shell game (known as thimblerig) does involve trickery, a court in Palma has dismissed proceedings against 31 individuals. The opinion of the judge is that players take part of their own volition and it is therefore not an illegal game.

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NATIONAL POLICE in Palma have arrested a 17-year-old male accused of sexually molesting two younger girls over a period of time following information received from a local football club. According to the girls the accused had also chased them and threatened them with a knife.

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Police insult POLICE officers in the Balearics are furious about the publication of a book On es l’Estel·la, by Toni Galmés which they say wrongly criticises the police for their behaviour during the time of the Catalan crisis. Their union may sue the local government which helped to finance the publication.

Rat pack ACCORDING to the Animal Protection Centre of Son Reus, the street population of rats in parts of Palma has increased dramatically because the city is dirtier than it was. The rodents have emerged from the sewers to take advantage of the amount of waste food on the streets.

New citizens THE National Institute of Statistics has revealed that 2,863 individuals received Spanish nationality in the Balearics during 2018 with the largest group being Moroccans with 550 naturalisations. Overall the number of foreigners who obtained Spanish passports in the Balearics has reduced over the past five years.

Boat accident AN 11-year-old Russian boy was badly injured while swimming when his parents’ rental boat was started and sliced his legs with its propellers in Cabrera on Tuesday morning. He remains in Son Espases hospital in a serious condition, but his wounds are not life threatening.

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Minor arrested

SECURITY cameras recorded a 37year-old man beat up his wife on the porch of their Palma residence before a neighbour intervened and called the police. According to the wife, this was the first time that he had attacked her, but Local Police still arrested him.

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CAPTIVATING: Lastres is in Asturias on Spain’s northern coast.

What a beauty THIS village in northern Spain has been named as one of the most beautiful in the country and one of the best places to visit this summer. Lastres (Llastres in Asturian), in Asturias on Spain’s northern Atlantic coast, is a fishing village and belongs to the Colunga urban area. It and the village of Tazones, also in Asturias, were both highlighted by the Association of the Most Beautiful Villages in Spain as two places that travellers should visit this year. Both villages also featured in a

Conde Nast Traveller article on escaping the summer Spanish heat without leaving the country. The magazine said Lastres was a calm place. Its performing arts offering and Las Tres Noches de Lastres festival, which takes place on the first weekend of August, were also highlighted as reasons to visit. Lastres won the Princess of Asturias Foundation award for Exemplary Town of Asturias in 2010. The region’s Tourist Board said the town was famous for its fishing industry, particular-

ly whaling, and for its seafood offering as a result. “Lastres is one of the most photographed and filmed places in all of Austrias, and that charm and its atmosphere of Cantabrian tranquillity is absolutely captivating,” the Tourist Board said. The town is home to the 18th century Church of Santa Maria de Sabada which is a national Site of Cultural Interest. The Spanish comedy drama series Doctor Mateo was filmed in the village.

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No water fun RED TAPE caused by new environmental laws means that there are no beach-based water sports allowed off Playa de Palma as the peak summer season rapidly approaches. In February a Spanish government decree made it mandatory to study the environmental effects of human sea-based activities before granting any licence. Previously permits were almost automatically given. This means that the owner of the water sports concession for such activities as the Banana Boat and paddle surfers is still waiting for the green light. A favourable report needs to be obtained from the Ministry for Ecological Transition before Palma Council can give a licence. No one, not even the Costas coasts authority can say when this will happen. In the meantime, beach-goers can at least relax on the sun loungers, unlike in Llucmajor where the town hall is still waiting for permission from Costas before granting a licence.

IN a twist on the old bogus ‘gas man’ scam holidaymakers are being asked to pay ‘tourist taxes’ by fake inspectors. According to the Federation of Tourist Holiday Stays (FETV) it has been informed of a case where a con man knocked on the door and demanded the tax from the holidaymakers in the rented property. It suspects there may be many more cases. FETV president, Jordi Cerdó, has now alerted police to the case and is warning owners of rental properties to tell their customers of the scam. People should never pay money to visitors on their doorstep - the tax should have been paid upfront. Police are now looking for two men in a white van which was rented in Madrid who speak basic English. The target of the reported case grew suspicious and took photos of the vehicle.

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No to cruise control By Dilip Kuner MALLORCAN business associations have rejected regional council proposals to limit the number of cruise ship arrivals in Palma port. The Confederation of Balearic Commerce (CBC), the Federation o f M a l l o r c a Va c a t i o n To u r i s t Stays other business confederations plus taxi drivers, restaurateurs and car rental firms, have got together to oppose the plans,

BE prepared for traffic chaos heading for the airport in the coming weeks as one of the motorway lanes is being closed off for works. The motorway linking Palma with the airport will have only two lanes of traffic towards Son Sant Joan during the rest of June and July for an 850-metre stretch by the Palacio de Congresos. The third lane is being coned off while Mallorca Council carries out the first

saying the ships are vital to the local economy. In a statement they said: “It is a type of tourism that spends, and all in a short space of time.” They also criticised the ‘interest of certain political sectors’ that seek to ‘demonise’ cruise tourism in order to get easy support. The government proposals want to restrict the number of cruise liners docking in Palma, but wants to encourage smaller ships to use other Balearic ports instead.

WANTED: Businesses don’t want cruise restrictions. The influx of cruise tourists to the Balearic Islands decreased by 3.92 per cent in the first quarter of the year compared to the same

Traffic chaos phase of the works to ‘improve’ the road. The carriageway in the opposite direction will be unaffected.

The PP and Vox political parties have criticised the decision to go-ahead with the works in the summer months, saying they should be suspended until October, warning of potential traffic jams during the tourist season. Apparently the work is being carried out to transform the motorway into an ‘urban road,’ with the lane being closed to allow the removal of the central barriers.

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period last year, according to data from Puertos del Estado. In total, 363,714 cruise passengers arrived compared to 378,550 in 2018.

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Keeping standards MALLORCA’S To u r i s t B o a r d ( F o m e n t o d e l Tu r i s m o ) has warned that irresponsible behaviour by some tourists is just one factor that could hit the island’s economy. It is worried that several issues could come together to serio u s l y h i t i t s re p u t a tion as a top-class destination. A s w e l l a s ro w d y and drunken behaviour from a minority of visitors, it is concerned by illegal s t re e t v e n d o r s a n d even more importantly what it calls the neglect of some of the island’s ‘emblematic beaches.’ The latter refers to ‘deposits’ on the sand - particularly seaweed - which accumulate and become an obstacle to people wanting to spend a day by the sea. Fomento wants m o re re s o u rc e s p u t into beach maintenance and policing to help the island keep i t s g o o d re p u t a t i o n , s a y i n g M a l l o rc a h a s to be ‘impeccable’ to c o m b a t a re c e n t downturn in visitor numbers.

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NINE people had to go to hospital, with two kept in for a week, after getting food poisoning at a barbecue. And in a separate incident, eight diners at a restaurant were taken for treatment after a meal, although none were admitted to hospital.

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Food poisoning cases In the first case nine out of 10 people at the Manacor barbecue fell ill after eating chicken and spinach burgers. The restaurant diners on Montuiri had all consumed beef burgers. As yet no reason has been found for either incident, and seem to be isolated cases.

WATCH OUT: Drone (inset) will be remote controlled from up to 10km.

Spy in the sky THERE will be no hiding place for rulebreaking motorists this summer after traffic authorities took control of a drone. It will be able to film and photograph offending motorists for a range of infractions from speeding to not wearing a seatbelt, all while being vir-

tually undetectable. The first offenders will know of any fines is when the notification hits their doormat. Up until now the DGT traffic department has made use of a helicopter in the summer for surveillance, but this was highly visible and very expensive.

The drone will be remotely controlled from up to 10 kilometres away with several Guardia Civil officers having been trained in its operation. It can stay airborne for an hour and a half and has the ability to be ‘locked on’ to a target and automatically follow it, filming all the time.

Costly new law LAUNCHING an appeal for a judicial review, a restaurants association says new opening hours for La Lonja businesses will cost jobs and potentially millions of euros.

The Majorca Restaurants Association is opposing Palma Council’s law that makes restaurants close their terraces at 11pm. Previously they were allowed

use of the outside areas until midnight on Mondays to Thursdays and 12.30am at weekends. The association says clients expect to sit outside in the summer months with many local and Spanish citizens not even venturing out to dinner until after 10pm. It adds that the 18 affected restaurants have never had a problem with noise complaints as they are not rowdy bars or nightclubs. The association’s complaint says the new by-law shows ‘manifest incompetence’ and adds: ‘The bylaw was amended without supporting reports, without public participation, without public information, without a financial and economic report and without any analysis of alternatives.’ The complaint asks for the earlier closing time to be suspended until a court ruling has been made.

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BREXIT EXTRA Economy slide THE British economy shrank in April in part due to the biggest fall in car production on record, with a contraction of 0.4 per cent coming as manufacturers hold off on investing amidst Brexit uncertainty.

EU reform A SENIOR French regulator said EU financial arrangements could be ‘profoundly transformed’ following Brexit, with Robert Ophele joining others to call for red tape cuts.

Trade deal BRITAIN has struck a preliminary trade deal with South Korea allowing companies in each country tradeing freely after Brexit, including a no-deal scenario, with International Trade Secretary Liam Fox saying it will boost jobs and growth.

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BREXIT BRIEF By Joe Gerrard BOTH of Britain’s largest political parties have continued soulsearching over Brexit this week. The race to succeed Prime Minister Theresa May in Downing Street is now in full swing after the final list of candidates was chosen on Monday. They include former Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson and Environment Secretary Michael Gove, both Brexiteers of different shades, and Foreign Secretary and former Remainer Jeremy Hunt. Meanwhile Labour faced more internal strife over its Brexit policy after the party’s Scottish branch agreed to back a second referendum with Remain on the ballot paper. Debate among Tory leadership hopefuls tended to stick to policy, with each candidate laying out their forward Brexit plans. Current frontrunner Johnson said he would withhold Britain’s €39 billion divorce bill from the EU if he could not secure the changes he wants to the draft Withdrawal Agreement. Sources close to French Presi-

Party soul-searching said Labour’s desired outcome remained a general election despite Scottish leader Richard

TOUGH TALK: Dominic Raab said he would ‘push hard’ for concessions. dent Emmanuel Macron said doing so would be tantamount to Britain defaulting on a debt obligation. Rival leadership contender and former Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab also took a tough line when laying out his negotiating strategy. He was cheered when he said he would ‘push hard’ for concessions from Brussels.

Raab and Johnson’s tone contrasted with that of Gove who appeared to advocate a more pragmatic approach. He said it was not enough to believe in Britain and he’d deliver Brexit. Separately, pressure mounted on Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn to back a second referendum this week. Shadow International Trade Secretary Barry Gardiner

Leonard saying he was ‘pleased’ his branch had backed another vote.

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British man drowns in heavy seas A BRITON of 53 died after being swept away by strong currents at El Palmar beach between Tarifa and Cadiz. He was swimming with his niece when a surfer who saw that they were in difficulties helped the girl to reach the shore before returning for the man. He brought him back to the beach on his surfboard and a doctor who happened to be present immediately started to perform CPR, but was unable to save the man. He was pronounced dead at the scene and the Guardia Civil are now investigating the circumstances of his death, which initially were not seen as suspicious, sources said. Although police did not reveal whether he was a resident or tourist, according to the local Spanish media he was holidaying with his family and was said to be a strong swimmer.

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Enslaved sex workers set free PO LIC E re s c ue d ei ght women from a Marbella brothe l a nd a rre s te d 21 people suspected of involvement in a criminal network. The a uthoritie s wer e tipped off about the brothe l follow ing a c a ll t o a sexual exploitation helpline. Some of the sex workers were there voluntarily

although others had been lured with false offers of jobs as masseuses, police revealed afterwards. They wer e pr event ed from leaving the building, subjected to ‘exhausting l ong days, f i nes and threats’ in the clutches of a vice organisation run by a Portuguese family who also dealt drugs at street level.

A search of three proper t i es and t he Mar bel l a vi l l a wher e t he br ot hel was located revealed cocaine, MDMA, hashish, firearms, €1,000 in cash as well as four counterfeit €100 not es dur i ng t he r ai d. The vi l l a has now been cordoned off and the assets of the crime ring frozen in Spain and Portugal.

New supercomputer SPAIN is set to take delivery of the world’s second most powerful supercomputer. The MareNostrum V is due to go to Barcelona. The EU gave the city a grant to buy the machine, which is 17 times more powerful than its current MareNostrum IV supercomputer. The supercomputer and the equipment needed to run it costs around €100 million. Cataluña’s Generalitat has said it will subsidise

part of the cost. The computer is due to be installed in Barcelona Supercomputer Centre. About 600 scientists currently use the MareNostrum IV. Supercomputers are used to rapidly process calculations for the aeronautical, naval and automotive industry among others. They are also used for climate and weather models and to study the creation of new medicines.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S acting prime minister has held talks to try and form a government this week, with potential coalition partners naming their price for their support. Pedro Sanchez met with the leader of the leftist Podemos Pablo Iglesias on Tuesday. The two previously allied to get legislation through the Congress of Deputies prior to April’s snap general election. Initial talks held between the two parties before local, regional and European elections in May seemed to go smoothly, with sources from both saying their past working relationship created trust. But a PSOE-Podemos pact is not straightforward for either side to achieve. Sanchez and other senior PSOE figures previously said they want to govern along while other parties join in a confidence and supply arrangement, voting with the government where necessary. Iglesias is however pushing for a full coalition government

Crunch time TALKS: Sanchez (right) met with Iglesias (left) on Tuesday.

with Podemos deputies serving as ministers. Iglesias told Sanchez on Tuesday that he wanted the Labour brief which would give his party control over work laws and the welfare system. His party also wants a say in environmental, tax, public investment and gender equality policy-making, opening up more ministries for their control. This would force Sanchez

to dispense with key PSOE figures in his Council of Ministers. PSOE and Podemos also do not have the numbers between them to govern in the Congress of Deputies, meaning they would have to reach out to smaller, regional groups. But their support will not come cheap. The Partido Regionalista de Cantabria (PRC), which has one member of the

Congress, has already demanded €1.1 billion in investment for the region for their backing of the government. If Sanchez feels he cannot spare the money or would prefer to deal with one other party then the centrist Ciudadanos also remains a potential partner. The maths is on the side of PSOE and of Albert Rivera’s party in this scenario. Their combined seats would get them four seats clear of the 176 majority figure. But the pact is fraught with wider political considerations. Although it is favoured by big business and other elements of the Spanish establishment, entering into a coalition could dampen Rivera’s efforts to make Ciudadanos Spain’s leading opposition party. Sanchez met with Rivera on Tuesday despite the latter declaring he would never work with the acting prime minister.

Far-right worries THE centrist Ciudadanos’ candidate for mayor of Barcelona said he is concerned about his party’s overtures to the far-right as talks on pacts to govern local and regional authorities continue. Manuel Valls said meetings between Ciudadanos officials and those from the far-right Vox risked normalising an ‘extreme’ party. He has previously spoken out about his party’s decision to enter into a coalition deal with the conservative Partido Popular (PP) in Andalucia which is backed by Vox. Vall’s comments have exposed a fissure in a party which pitches itself as progressive and liberal. Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera has previously refused to pigeon hole it as either left or right. But his refusal to work with the left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) and his pivots from the centre to the right suggest the party is retreating from Spanish politics’ middle ground. Elsewhere, Ciudadanos candidate for head of the Madrid Region Ignacio Aguado has also suggested he could break ranks and join with PSOE to govern there. He also ruled out working with ‘populists and nationalists’ a thinly-veiled reference to Vox. Such divisions could come to hamstring a once insurgent force in the Spanish centre.

Poll tracker: Partido Socialista (PSOE): 33.6 per cent, 160 seats Partido Popular (PP): 15.4 per cent, 72 seats Ciudadanos: 15.1 per cent, 43 seats Unidos Podemos: 13.3 per cent, 30 seats Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control

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Air pollution deaths A STUDY carried out by the Sociedad Española de Neumología y Cirugía Torácica (Separ) found that air pollution in the country is responsible for 10,000 deaths per year, substantially higher than the rate for traffic accidents which sits at 1,700 per year. As the world celebrated World Environment Day last Wednesday, the World Health Organisation revealed figures of over seven million deaths worldwide per year from air pollution making it the fourth most prolific killer, just behind tobacco smoke. The main sources of pollution across Eu-

SHARING SECRETS: Rafael Nadal spoke to UK tourists.

Spain woos Brits WITH British tourists contributing so much to the Spanish economy, the government supported tourist organisation Turespaña has launched a new promotion geared to Brexit. They don’t mind whether tourists voted leave or remain, they just want to ensure that whatever side of Brexit the British holiday-

makers sit, that they aren’t afraid to come to Spain for their holiday. Perhaps ignoring that Brexit suggests a move away from the old Common Market, this campaign is entitled ‘We have Spain in Common’ and reminds potential visitors of all of the advantages of spending time in Spain.

This is a follow up to a previous campaign ‘Spain in my Heart’ launched in 2017, which was seen by six million people and then last year, 12 Spanish celebrities shared their secrets about the attractions of Spain in a series of short pieces on social networks under the name ‘Spain in 10 seconds.’

rope are transport and industrial plants, in Spain the former being the cause of 32.5 per cent of all airborne pollution. The president of SEPAR, Dr Carlos A Jimenez, said that the data “shows that from the entire community of pulmonologists we must insist that the competent authorities approve measures to improve air quality, since breathing clean air is a right of all.” He warned that with this data and with the information available, being exposed to a much polluted air is comparable to smoking.

Expulsion order OFFICERS of the Badajoz Local Police working on a separate tip off found a worker who currently has an expulsion order on him from the National Police. The officers were alerted to the establishment after an emergency health and hygiene inspection was carried out at the property. The 112 call was made after workers were observed moving large parcels of meat products from the boot of an unrefrigerated vehicle directly inside. On interview, the three 25kg parcels were determined to be for human consumption and were quickly seized, with an investigation now underway to determine the source of the produce. Within minutes a health and hygiene representative was on the scene and carried out a full inspection of the property, it was during this that the worker was identified to the police. The man in question, working as a waiter, was detained by Local Police and transferred to the National Police station, and an investigation is now underway.

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Two week review Commentary by Moneycorp AFTER Theresa May pre-announced her resignation, the pound has lost an average of 0.2% to the other 10 most actively-traded currencies. It is not just the change at the top that has unsettled investors, the possibility of a disorderly Brexit is also casting a dark shadow. The bookies’ favourite to take over as PM is currently Boris Johnson, who has not ruled out the possibility of leaving without a deal. Other candidates have differing views, including Sam Gyimah who is proposing a second referendum. There was little in the ecostats to support the pound; the service sector came in above forecast at 51.0 but construction, manufacturing and retail sales all came in below forecast and retail sales posted the largest seasonally adjusted decline since the survey began in 1995. The outcome of the European elections has meant that the field has widened for the top jobs at the EU in order to represent the broader range of political parties gaining influence in the par-

liament. As elsewhere, the euro failed to find any good news in the ecostats and the slowdown is leading to speculation about what the actions of the ECB might be. While inflation remains below target, there is a slight chance that rates may be cut, but there is little left to be cut, and a return of the quantitative easing programme is likely to lead to downward pressure on the euro. President Trump’s announcements on global trade caused the US dollar to fall. As well as the ongoing dispute with China, the US added Mexico, India and Turkey to the list of countries where it wished to review the current trade terms. These moves rattled financial markets; investors see tariffs exerting an upward pressure on inflation and interest rates and potentially downward pressure on the US economy. Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell acknowledged ‘recent developments involving trade negotiations and other matters’ and

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down. However, the recent US moves against trade with Mexico bring the US-Mexico-Canada trade agreement into question and there are concerns that Canada may be next. The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the benchmark cash rate by 25 basis points to 1.25%. The accompanying statement suggested that another cut may be in the pipeline. The Aussie didn’t react on the news, which had been priced in, and in fact made gains the following day, although this was attributed more to optimism about the US approach to trade tariffs. ANZ’s Business Outlook described the situation as ‘a decidedly mixed bag,’ with business confidence improving to -32% and inflation expectations falling to 1.8%, the lowest level in more than two years. However, weakness in USD and GBP has presented an opportunity for the New Zealand dollar, which made gains this week.

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Ins and outs of the Padron

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

IN simple words, the padron is a local certificate that you are given when you register at your town hall. In Spanish it is called ‘certificado de empadronamiento,’ and helps compile a list of those people who live in a municipality. The padron is used by the government and local authorities to keep a ‘head count’ on how many people live in the area, and as such receive financial assistance in the form of subsidies and grants from provincial, regional and central authorities for the provision of services. Anyone who lives for more than six months in Spain is required to register on the padron. However, the certificate itself only lasts for a limited period of time, and must be renewed. A handy website is: www.spanishsolutions.net/of ficial-documents-in-spain/padron To register on the padron you need: Your passport, Your NIE or residence certificate, The deeds to your house or a copy of your rental agreement, A recent utility bill in your name. To add someone onto your padron, as it must contain all occupants, you will need: • Title deeds of the property, • The passports of both parties, and copies, • A utility bill, • Both certificates of residence, • Rental agreement (if renting and not residing with owner). Since you need the padron certificate to become a Spanish resident, but you cannot give the padron office your residency until you apply for it, the padron offices usually give a set period to return and present your Spanish residency. In the Alicante Province, for example, it’s three months. To find out more, visit: www.gov.uk/guidance-requirements-in-spain. Padron holders have the right to vote in local elections. Residents who can demonstrate a specified time on the padron, can also receive benefits or a cash grant when getting married to another resident, or could qualify for financial assistance for any children born in Spain. The traffic department of Spain, require a padron to register a car in your own name, to import a car from another country, to qualify for a Spanish driver’s licence, and in some cases to purchase mobile phones or electrical goods. This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice. If in any doubt, seek professional help.

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Losses to piracy A REPORT by the EU Intellectual Property Office (EUIPO) shows that the annual losses to the Spanish economy are around €6.7 billion, equivalent to 10.6 per cent of total sales in the country. This figure forms part of a large picture across Europe that estimates the total loss to counterfeit items being €60 billion,

Committed to space SPECIAL GUEST: Queen Letizia is to appear at a conference in El Burgo de Osma.

A royal visit QUEEN LETIZIA was due in El Burgo de Osma (Soria) on June 12 to tour the town and to be a guest at a special conference being held to discuss depopulation in rural areas. The exodus from rural areas to cities has been going on for many years, but it has now become a major talking point as some

communities are literally denuded of their young people in particular who look for a better life in cities or abroad. This conference is aimed at representatives of the media who may be able to highlight the social problems involved and to try to influence the revitalisation of rural areas.

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SPAIN is committed to supporting the country’s growing space industry including through public funding, its Science Minister has said. Pedro Duque said Spain’s industrial and scientific capabilities meant it could take on the new challenges presented by international space projects. The minister, also head of the Council of the European Space Agency (ESA) and a former astronaut, was speaking at a European conference on space in the Netherlands on Thursday.

according to the EuroAgencia based in Alicante. Items that are most regularly found being sold illegally are clothing, footwear, toys and games, jewellery, personal items, music, pharmaceuticals

and technology. The most popular item is clothing and footwear which annually accounts for €3.8 billion in losses to the market. Second is pharmaceutical which equates to €810 million.

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STAT OF €9.3 bn WEEK

Amount spent online during the second half of 2018, according to figures from the National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) showing a year-on-year rise of 27 per cent.

Regulator to take on cartels

EU ends Spanish debt procedure

THE head of Spain’s market watchdog has said the fight against cartels in the public works contract bidding process remains a top priority. National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) President Jose Maria Marin Quemada said the watchdog regularly saw companies banding together in Temporary Company Unions (UTEs) for bids. While there is no problem with UTEs in general, their use in contract bidding distort markets and undermine competition, the president added. Marin Quemada has proposed raising the €60,000 fine limit to tackle the issue.

THE European Commission (EC) has formerly requested the end of the excessive debt procedure brought against Spain in 2009 but said reduction efforts should continue. The EC’s request is pending improvement from the European Council of member states. “Once the Council adopts this decision, all procedures for excess deficits that date from the eurozone crisis will be closed,” the EC said. The decision came after Spain’s public spending deficit stood at 2.5 per cent of economic output (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) last year. It

By Joe Gerrard was 11 per cent of GDP when Spain entered the procedure. Spanish Economy Minister Nadia Calviño said Madrid was satisfied with the EC’s decision and pledged to cut the deficit to 2 per cent of GDP by the end of 2019. The EC said there was a risk of Spain ‘significantly’ deviating from its spending targets this year and in 2020. The warning comes as the left-leaning Parido Socialista (PSOE) pledged to hike taxes and boost spending if it can re-enter government following

April’s snap general election. The EC’s announcement follows comments from its Economic Commissioner Pierre Moscovici who said about a month ago it would request the shelving of the procedure. Spain was one of 24 member states subject to the procedure in 2011 when the eurozone debt crisis was at its height. The excessive deficit procedure forms part of the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact. It states budget deficits must not exceed 3 per cent of GDP and overall public debt should not exceed 60 per cent of GDP.

Iberdrola green energy push ENERGY company Iberdrola is planning to invest more than €300 million in a new 590-megawatt solar plant in Extremadura which is set to be the biggest in Europe. The firm’s plan, which would see the 1,300-hectare site enter service in 2022 and employ about 1,000 staff, comes as part of moves towards generating more power from renewable sources. Iberdrola has also made a deal with financial company Macquarie’s Green Investment Group subsidiary to bid for a 750-megawatt offshore wind farm near the Netherlands.

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EC lodges foreign asset case THE European Commission (EC) has lodged legal proceedings against Spain in the European Court of Justice (EJC) over laws requiring residents to declare assets in other EU member states. The EC said the Model 720 law, which came into force in 2012, hands down ‘disproportionate and discriminatory’ penalties to non-compliant individuals and companies.

The rules were brought in by the previous conservative Partido Popular (PP) government in a bid to curb tax fraud. The requirement also discourages residents and companies investing elsewhere in the single market, violating the freedom of movement for capital which is one of the EU’s four founding freedoms.

Mango China growth deal S PA N I S H f a s h i o n s t o r e chain Mango has struck an agreement with Chinese online retailer Vip.com to sell its goods and open 15 more shops i n t h e c o u n t r y, b r i n g i n g the total to 45.

Wage claims THE CCOO trade union has claimed that some Spanish companies are trying to get around complying with the increase in the minimum wage to €900 a month, either by cutting staff hours or refusing to introduce the new rate.

Early sale THE El Corte Ingles department store chain held an early sale from last Thursday to Sunday, with the prices of fashion, sports, home, culture and leisure items reduced by up to 30 per cent before its traditional summer sale from Monday July 1.

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COMPANY ADMIRAL GROUP

PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) 20,930 0,04

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20,065

0,43

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NET VOL 17.173

COMPANY

PRICE(P)

CHANGE(P)

% CHG.

NET VOL

LEGAL & GENERAL

2,706

0,01

17,14

464.585

14,80

184.100

LLOYDS BANK

0,580

0,00

11,86

5.386.903

8,214

0,15

4,88

175.507

LONDON STOCK

54,500

0,38

34,17

16.983

ASHTEAD GROUP

19,555

0,10

19,46

101.030

MARKS & SPENCER

2,218

0,03

-10,28

421.596

ASTRA ZENECA

60,860

0,37

3,63

48.658

MEDIA CONTEN

3,128

0,01

-3,01

4.482

BABCOCK INTE

4,909

0,19

0,33

35.115

MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS

3,767

0,03

18,65

30.858

BARCLAYS BANK

1,519

0,01

0,89

775.008

MICRO FOCUS

19,682

0,26

42,31

15.380

BARRATT DEVE

5,652

0,06

22,13

94.181

MONDI PLC

16,935

0,18

3,67

20.227

BAT INDUSTRI

30,565

0,68

22,26

102.616

MORRISON SUP

1,965

0,01

-7,85

125.067

BILLITON

57,160

-0,33

43,22

19.156

8,074

0,08

-13,96

55.856

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18,544

0,40

12,28

356.864

5,561

0,04

12,13

454.836

PEARSON

BRIT.AEROE

4,815

0,04

4,86

257.928

PERSIMMON

25,490

0,33

24,77

4.626

PROV.FINANC.

5,152

0,05

-10,40

7.897

16,415

0,22

17,08

213.222

BRITISH FOODS BRITISH LAND

5,416

0,10

1,58

185.567

PRUDENTIAL C

BRITISH TELECOM

2,073

0,01

-12,94

711.874

RAMBLER MED.

1,987

0,03

-26,98

124.030

BUNZL

21,800

-0,07

-7,98

14.523

RECKITT BNKR

64,140

-0,36

6,67

41.298

BURBERRY

17,800

0,27

2,56

48.614

REED INTER

18,720

-0,06

15,81

104.739

CARNIVAL PLC

39,400

0,62

4,70

35.359

RENTOKIL GRP

CELLTECH

29,270

0,51

19,37

20.705

RIO TINTO

CENTRICA

0,954

-0,01

-29,31

421.659

CGNU

4,196

0,02

11,74

149.466

CONVATEC GROUP

1,413

0,00

1,66

CRH

25,490

0,12

CRODA INTERN

52,300

0,41

DCC ORD IEP0

68,800

DELLING GRP

3,815

0,04

13,14

121.751

45,870

0,74

22,98

154.344

ROLLS ROYCE

9,098

0,01

9,61

90.836

ROYAL & SUN

5,752

0,07

11,99

114.441

85.645

ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND

2,140

-0,00

-1,25

327.116

23,08

85.169

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL B SHARES25,595

0,26

9,38

150.855

11,63

4.466

ROYAL DUTCH SHELL CL.A NLD 25,505

0,27

10,53

263.886

0,26

14,95

2.679

SAGE GROUP

7,597

0,07

26,32

30.862

3,273

-0,01

2,70

63.758

SAINSBURY

1,981

0,01

-25,25

103.567

DIAGEO

34,095

0,03

21,99

62.470

SCHRODERS

29,690

0,07

21,53

4.874

EASYJET

9,144

0,06

-17,25

98.257

SCOT.& STH

11,085

-0,12

2,50

148.852

24,120

0,12

26,61

71.534

SEVERN TRENT

20,640

-0,14

13,69

12.511

22,870

0,50

9,85

16.742

EXPERIAN GROUP LTD

8,010

-0,10

-6,86

56.724

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GLAXO WELLCO

15,726

0,07

5,46

193.204

SLOUGH EST.

7,164

0,01

21,71

51.988

GLENCORE INTL

2,651

0,04

-9,01

1.294.717

SMITH & NEP.

16,910

0,01

15,51

61.367

GROUP 4 SECU

2,176

0,08

10,48

44.895

SMITHS INDU.

15,010

0,12

10,04

16.235

HAMMERSON

2,812

0,06

-14,63

135.515

ST JAMES S P

10,465

0,04

10,86

56.479

18,920

-0,45

2,33

116.718

STAN.CHART

6,964

0,05

14,30

544.596

6,541

0,03

1,11

709.377

STANDARD LIFE

2,756

0,00

7,34

281.427

20,790

0,07

-12,54

71.646

TAYLOR WOOD.

1,566

-0,00

14,90

593.832

TESCO

2,314

0,02

21,73

352.197

FRESNILLO

HARGREAVES LANSDOWN HSBC IMPERIAL TOBACCO INFORMA GROU

7,968

0,05

26,44

25.539

INTERCON.HOT

52,410

0,26

23,70

9.104

TUI

INTERTEK GROUP

54,620

0,30

13,79

3.762

UNILEVER

7,528

0,20

-33,11

95.728

49,200

0,06

19,75

85.191

INTL CONSOLIDATED AIRLS GRP 4,714

0,04

-23,72

170.911

UN.UTILITIES

8,268

-0,08

12,31

63.559

ITV

1,094

0,01

-12,36

164.787

VODAFONE GRP

1,304

0,01

-14,69

1.764.789

31,500

0,26

12,54

12.210

WHITBREAD

47,490

0,39

3,71

6.441

KINGFISHER

2,121

0,04

2,22

136.534

WPP GROUP

9,924

0,03

17,22

98.960

LAND SECURIT

8,518

0,02

5,89

43.637

10,580

0,02

36,80

34.401

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0.88896

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VOLUME(M) 545.070 9.276.815 463.831 560.292 1.547.610 5.368.251 4.100.623 3.300.536 476.273 764.326 753.600 8.689.496 1.626.425 2.632.229 1.064.061 3.040.568 11.716.539 1.128.756 5.460.333 2.350.458 332.722 483.192 795.107 3.105.705 2.935.862 1.525.513 1.705.777 1.294.022 425.576

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Bond yield at new low THE yield on 10-year bonds issued by the Spanish Treasury fell to about 0.6 per cent last week, the lowest level in a decade according to market data. Bonds were trading on markets at 0.6 per cent on Thursday. It touched 0.599 per cent at one point, the lowest level for 10-year bonds in history. The fall in the yield came as the European Commission (EC) announced it would close its excessive debt procedure for Spain. The EC placed Spain in the mechanism in 2009 following the outbreak of the financial crisis the previous year. The low yields indicate investors are now more confident that Spain can meet its debt obligations. That confidence comes as the EC said there was a risk Spain could deviate ‘significantly’ from its debt targets this year and in 2020. Yields on five-year bonds issued last week went negative on the markets, reaching -0.09 per cent. The Treasury offered investors a marginal interest rate of 0.033 per cent.

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THE CEO of CaixaBank has said the banking sector has made mistakes in recent years after a recent survey found almost 70 per cent of Spanish people viewed it negatively. Gonzalo Gortazar said the reputation of banks among Spanish customers put the sustainability of the industry at risk. It comes as almost 70 per cent of respondents to LLYC’s Reputational Relevance report said they viewed banks as ‘lousy’ or ‘bad.’ Consumers said they felt banks lacked ‘social sensitivity.’ Gortazar said the sector had a bad reputation and said banks should stop complaining and instead focus on addressing the problem. “We need to make sure that the population perceives a change in the industry,” the CaixaBank CEO told an insurance sector meeting. The memories Spanish people have of the 2008 financial crisis and subsequent recession are hard and banks seen as having left

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Boss Botin’s jobs call SANTANDER president Ana Botin has said the Spanish economy needs to redistribute wealth effectively ahead of the expected replacing of between 40 and 50 per cent of current jobs with machines, adding the country risks being ‘left behind.’

CCOO ‘unease’

BAD REPUTATION: Gortazar (inset) said banks needed to prove to customers they are changing. taxpayers out of pocket, Gortazar added. “There were practices that should not have taken places. Banking is an industry in which many mistakes have been made,” the CEO said. Gortazar added traditional banks such as his were the ones who typically faced the

biggest reputational problems. Many were investigated in the aftermath of the crisis and criminal proceedings were launched in some cases. A solution to the problem of negative consumer attitudes will not be easy to find, the CEO said.

He added profitability was another big challenge facing banks, saying companies would have to be ‘very disciplined’ going forward. Gortazar cited CaixaBank’s recent agreement with unions to cut more than 2,000 jobs, saying it would free up more funds for investment.

THE head of CCOO trade union’s committee for the Euskaltel telecommunications company Javier del Blanco said he feels ‘total uneasiness’ towards the planned takeover of British rival Zegona due to concerns over whether it is motivated by making quick profits.

Firm to hire FRENCH supermarket Carrefour has said it will hire an extra 6,500 staff in its Spanish stores to meet extra demand during the summer, with shops in areas popular with tourists set to take on the most workers.

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The people behind the publication BUSINESS people and friends of EWN from across the Costas joined the team for an afternoon of socialising, music, drinks and tapas to mark EWN National Day. CEO Michel Euesden explained: “All day the team have worked and put their heart and soul into celebrating 20 years producing papers. Today is about the people involved. We all have a story and have a life, aside from what we do. We are not our job title, we are real people. “Seven years ago my life was different. Of all the charities that we continue to support, I was one of those people who received that support when I was ill. Never think you are alone.” Co-owner Steven added: “We want to thank everybody present and all of the team for their hard work. Some people have been here as long as us and it has been a wonderful journey.”

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EWN team, frie celebrate succe “THIS girl is on fire… You can make yourself into anything you want to be, your life is about you!” This is the mantra and visionary advice CEO Michel Euesden, shared during a day of celebrations to mark EWN’s 20th anniversary year. Staff, advertisers and friends of the company gathered for EWN’s National Day at the Posidonia Restaurant in Puerto Banus, Marbella last week - incredible videos and photographs are still being shared all over social media. In thanking and motivating the complete EWN team from across six regions, Michel Euesden spoke about her illness, life experiences, beliefs and principles, all of which have helped her overcome challenges. On her recovery from her illness, she told the EWN team: “I got through that with the help of you guys. What people don’t tell you about serious illness is that you suffer from depression. But I decided to live.” She added: “Give thanks for the things you have. Be grateful.” Michel urged everybody to believe in their own abilities, to set and continually strive to achieve their goals, to realise their full potential and always be thankful. “You always feel better when you move and take action. The more you give the more you receive,” she said. Husband and EWN co-owner Steven Euesden also took to the stage to share his enviable wealth of sales knowledge in a combined drive to ensure EWN remains at the top of its game - the leading weekly, free Englishlanguage newspaper in Spain.

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At the heart of the community AFTER inspirational speeches from the Euesdens, moving talks from members of staff, lunch and live music, Costa celebrity DJ Maurice Boland paid tribute to EWN and the part it has played in the community over the last 20 years. “From the bottom of my heart, congratulations,” he said. “When I first met Michel and Steven there was something special about them and their ambition. “The very first charity event I did with comedian Max Bygraves, they were there supporting and from that moment on they have supported 100 per cent and helped me raise money for charity. “There are so many charities they have supported, as well as t h e c o m m u n i t y, they are amazing. “I would like to say a big thank you to EWN and Michel and Steven.”

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Across 1 Prueba (4) 3 Chops (culinary) (8) 9 Techo (7) 10 Trinchar (carne) (5) 11 Más tarde (5) 12 Trapo del polvo (6) 14 Tailor (6) 16 Eighth (6) 19 Burbuja (6) 21 Malva (5) 24 Por delante (5) 25 Hora de acostarse (7) 26 Twice (3,5) 27 Árbol (4)

2 Walk as if unable to control one's movements (7) 3 Playground device (6) 4 Friendly nation (4) 5/18 Test (3,3) 6 Book of maps (5) 11 Cases used to carry belongings when travelling (7) 12 Professional reviewer of literature, art, drama or music (6) 13 Take hold of (5) 15 Pool or fund of money held in common (5) 16 Ancient Greek harp (4) 18 See 5

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

Down 1 Cosquillas (8) 2 Falda (prenda) (5) 4 Liver (anatomical) (6) 5 Cordones (5) 6 Card (greetings card, visiting card etc) (7) 7 Parecer (4) 8 Espejo (6) 13 ¡Ven aquí! (4,4) 15 Platillos (para tazas) (7) 17 Comfortable 18 Guijarro (6) 20 Insignia (distintivo) (5) 22 Usher (in court etc) (5) 23 Mano (4)

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FOR NEXT 7 DAYS AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) More than one possibility presents itself in connection with a problem. A foreign visit or visitor figures highly in plans and solutions. A change in someone close is brought to your attention. Get people talking to make real progress. Some may be inclined to put their head in the sand but not you.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) A date on your calendar draws near. It seems less important than it did and you may be tempted to cancel. Think twice. The question of who to go on holiday with comes up and someone is keen to tie you down. Keep options open because things this week are changeable, indeed.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) An opportunity to do something socially arises. It is not earth shattering, but could have a great long-term impact. Others seem to have confidence in you and enjoy your company this week. Having been given the chance to show what you are really capable of, allow your talents to show through.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) A new start with someone, socially, shows great promise. Consider what you want to get rid of in your life and plan how to approach the task. A bit of military precision goes down well. Cast your net wide. It may be necessary to invest in a few theatre tickets or a weekend away.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Should things go absolutely perfectly for you this week, then I would eat my hat. I don't usually wear one but would go to a charity shop immediately. Rolling round in your mind is the thought that, just as things start to go well, another problem crops up. Relax, anyway.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) Social life is squeezed because of business commitments. As you are a people person, there will be fun and times out aplenty this week. Burning the candle at both ends works for a while and there is the chance to meet someone that you admire.

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) May we consider for a moment what you thought that you would be doing, right now, five years ago? Yes, do you see what I mean? Breaking away from an old habit could be the best thing that you have done for a long time.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Taking a step back from the activity appeals right now. After an active time, energy needs building up. Basking in someone's glory shows you just how things could be. Give a new relationship more of a chance to grow. The avenues this person can open up to you will put a twinkle in your eye and a blush on your cheek.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) At some time in the future you may look back on this week and ask yourself, 'Why didn't I do that?' Let me help you to see the possibilities. The emphasis is firmly on your social life and someone special is about to step into it.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Feeling really balanced and calm? Being aware that you have full knowledge of a situation is good, isn't it? Absolutely anyone could snap at you this week and have no success at all in upsetting you. To say that the period is tranquil is an understatement.

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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

IRISH LOTTO Saturday June 8

BONUS BALL

EURO MILLIONS Tuesday June 4

BONUS BALL

2 8

Friday June 7

BONUS BALL

2 5

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) The past has been kind to you but also unkind. It is the same for most of us, so don't think that you have been singled out for a bumpy ride. Be aware that basing a decision made this week on what happened a long time ago could be a mistake.

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Thursday June 6

BONUS BALL

3 7

JOKER: 9 866 093 Saturday June 8

BONUS BALL

JOKER: 2 706 124 EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA Sunday June 9

7 27

13 31

BONUS BALL

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

TARGET: Average: 5 Good: 7 Very good: 10 Excellent: 13

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION alee axel axil axle dale deal dele deli dial elan idle Ilex lade laid lain land lane lead lean leap lend lied lien line nail pail pale peal peel pile plan plea pled ailed alien aline anele anile eland elide exile expel ideal laden lined paled panel pedal penal piled pixel plaid plain plane plead plied aedile alined alpine denial exiled leaden leaned leaped nailed pealed pineal planed aliened deplane explain paneled EXPLAINED

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK Across: 1 Botch, 4 Stiff, 7 Frivolous, 8 Lack, 10 Defer, 13 Ample, 14 Idle, 17 Identical, 19 Guess, 20 Prior.

Down: LA PRIMITIVA

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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 T) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.

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.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) The strong urge to make physical contact with someone leads to a bit of bother. Not that there is anything wrong with a few hugs and kisses. It is the person or the timing that could be wrong.

BONUS BALL

Sudoku

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

1 Baffle, 2/18 Tai chi, 3 Hood, 4 Spoken, 5 Instead, 6 Fake, 9 Combine, 11 Pliers, 12 Cellar, 15 Brag, 16 Stop.

CRYPTIC Across: 1 Rest, 3 Thickset, 9 Crooner, 10 Aloof, 11 Sorry, 12 Stripe, 14 Avocet, 16 Castro, 19 Pagans, 21 Clogs, 24 Lagos, 25 Emulate, 26 Obstacle, 27 Lots.

Down:

1 Rickshaw, 2 Scour, 4 Heresy, 5 Chair, 6 Shot put, 7 Tiff, 8 Enzyme, 13 Toasters, 15 Oranges, 17 Accrue, 18 As well, 20 At sea, 22 Otago, 23 Alto.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Down:

Across: 1 Lonely, 4 Juntos, 9 Sincere, 10 Spike, 11 Rezar, 12 Estable, 13 Grasshopper, 18 Pilgrim, 20 Tallo, 22 Oveja, 23 Relojes, 24 Smooth, 25 Espada.

1 Lustre, 2 Niñez, 3 Liebres, 5 Upset, 6 Thimble, 7 Suéter, 8 Tener hambre, 14 Relleno, 15 Petalos, 16 Spoons, 17 Poesía, 19 Roast, 21 Lejía.

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FRIDAY - 14 JUNE

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Critical Incident 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pmA1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pmCaught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Would I Lie to You? 9:30pm EastEnders 10:00pmAmbulance 11:00pmBBC News at Ten 11:25pmRegional News and Weather 11:30pmWeather 11:35pmQuestion Time 12:35am This Week

7:00am Wednesday in Parliament 7:30am Bargain Hunt 8:15am Critical Incident 9:00am Equator From the Air 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm The Boss 2:45pm Going Back, Giving Back 3:30pm The TV That Made Me 4:15pm School for Scoundrels 5:45pm Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup 8:00pm The 1900 Island 9:00pm Springwatch 10:00pmWho Should Get to Stay in the UK? 11:00pmMock the Week 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am The Ranganation 1:00am What We Do in the Shadows 1:25am What We Do in the Shadows

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm The Sky at Night 9:00pm Rome's Invisible City 10:00pm Our Classical Century 11:00pm This World 12:00am Horizon 1:00am Ice Age Giants 2:00am Secret Universe: The Hidden Life of the Cell Documentary 3:00am Rome's Invisible City 4:00am Our Classical Century Suzy Klein and Alexandra Burke explore the world of classical music from the 1980s until the present day when the walls between classical and popular culture began to come down

7:25am Cheers 8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 10:10am Frasier 10:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pmUndercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Bake Off: The Professionals 10:00pmBattle of the Super Eaters: 3000 11:00pm999: What's Your Emergency? 12:05am First Dates 1:00am ICC Cricket World Cup 2:00am Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back

9:05am Digby Dragon 9:20am Little Princess 9:40am Shimmer and Shine 9:55am Floogals 10:10am Sunny Bunnies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pmPolice Interceptors 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Stepson: Evil in My House 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Dog Rescuers: Best in Show 9:00pm Dirty Britain 10:00pmThe Hotel Inspector 11:00pmStudent Sex Workers 12:05am My Secret Sex Fantasy

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Critical Incident 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pmA1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pmCaught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:20pm BBC London News 2:30pm Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup 5:15pm 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 Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup 11:05pmBBC News at Ten 11:30pmRegional News and Weather 11:35pmWeather 11:40pmThe Graham Norton Show 12:30am Killing Eve

7:00am Thursday in Parliament 7:30am Flog It! 8:15am Critical Incident 9:00am Gardeners' World 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm The Best Dishes Ever 2:30pm Doctors 3:00pm Impossible 3:45pm Escape to the Country 4:15pm The Lavender Hill Mob 5:30pm Royal Recipes 6:15pm Flipping Profit 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Repair Shop 8:00pm Pubs, Ponds and Power: The Story of the Village 8:30pm Mastermind 9:30pm Gardeners' World 10:30pm The Looming Tower 11:15pm The Mini Mash Report 11:30pm Newsnight 12:00am Weather 12:05am Foxcatcher

8:00pm World News Today The day's leading stories. 8:30pm Top of the Pops 9:00pm Bublé at the BBC 10:00pm I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock 11:00pm Top of the Pops 12:00am People's History of Pop 1:00am Top of the Pops 1:30am California Comes to the Whistle Test 2:30am Top of the Pops 3:35am I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock

7:25am Cheers 8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pm Undercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Bake Off: The Professionals 10:00pm Celebrity Gogglebox 11:00pm The Last Leg 12:05am ICC Cricket World Cup 1:10am Sexy Beast

10:10am Sunny Bunnies 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pm Police Interceptors 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Recovered: Chronicle Mysteries 1 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm The Gadget Show 9:00pm The Yorkshire Steam Railway: All Aboard 10:00pm The Nile with Bethany Hughes 11:00pm The Morecambe and Wise Story: Look Back in Laughter 1:05am Utterly Outrageous XRated Comedy

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Tenable 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 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 9:30pm The Cruise 10:00pmDeath Row: Countdown to Execution 11:00pmITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pmITV News London 11:45pmElton John: The Nation's Favourite Song 1:10am Tenable

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 3:45pm Dress to Impress 4:50pm Judge Rinder 5:55pm Take Me Out: 10th Anniversary Special 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm The Guide to You've Been Framed! Gold 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:00pm Shopping with Keith Lemon 11:35pm Family Guy 12:30am American Dad!

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:25am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 8:55am Murder, She Wrote 9:50am On the Buses 10:20am On the Buses 10:55am Rising Damp 11:25am A Touch of Frost 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 7:00pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Vera Detective drama series based on the novels by Ann Cleeves. 11:00pmLewis 1:00am Inspector Morse Drama series featuring Colin Dexter's laconic detective.

7:00am The Protectors 7:25am Cycling 8:25am Kojak 9:30am Quincy, M.E. 10:30am Isle of Man TT 11:30am The Sweeney 12:35pmThe Professionals Action-packed drama series about two criminal intelligence agents. 1:40pm The Avengers 2:45pm Kojak 3:50pm Quincy, M.E. 4:50pm Minder 5:55pm The Professionals 6:55pm The Sweeney Tough 70s police series. 8:00pm Cycling: Criterium Du Dauphine Highlights 9:00pm Cycling 10:00pmIsle of Man TT 11:00pmScarface 12:00am FYI Daily 12:05amScarface 2:20am River Monsters 2:50am River Monsters

8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre A round-up of all the latest news from the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup in England and Wales 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket India take on New Zealand at Trent Bridge in the group stage of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. 8:00pm Cricket 10:30pmLive US Open Golf Day one of the 2019 US Open from the famous Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. 4:00am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond.

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Tenable 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Judge Rinder Avril is in court to claim for nonpayment of wages after performing at an event. 4:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase for Soccer Aid 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:30pm Foyle's War 11:20pmITV News 11:50pmITV News London 12:05amRocky Balboa 1:55am Jackpot247

7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am You've Been Framed! 9:00am Emmerdale 9:55am 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 3:45pm Dress to Impress 4:50pm Judge Rinder 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:05pm Celebrity Juice 11:55pm Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:55am American Dad!

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 8:55am Murder, She Wrote 9:50am On the Buses 10:55am Rising Damp 11:25am A Touch of Frost 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Paul O'Grady for the Love of Dogs 9:30pm Les Dawson Forever 10:30pm Les Dawson Forever 11:30pm Lewis 1:30am Vera 3:20am Secrets of Growing Up

7:00am 7:25am 8:25am 9:30am 10:30am 11:30am 12:35pm 1:35pm 2:45pm 3:45pm 4:45pm 5:50pm 6:55pm 8:00pm

8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket England take on the West Indies in Southampton in the group stage of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. 8:00pm Cricket 8:15pm Cricket 9:00pm Live US Open Golf Day two of the 2019 US Open from the famous Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. 4:30am Live Bellator MMA A Bellator MMA card.

The Protectors Cycling Kojak Quincy, M.E. Isle of Man TT The Sweeney The Professionals The Avengers Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Professionals The Sweeney Cycling: Criterium Du Dauphine Highlights 9:00pm Cycling 10:00pmThe Spy Who Loved Me 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pmThe Spy Who Loved Me 12:35amRush Hour 1:35am FYI Daily Latest news from the world of entertainment. 1:40am Rush Hour

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I wish we had one of him

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT LOVE him or hate him. Laugh or lampoon him. I wish we had one of him. It’s Donald Trump I’m referring to. Personally I think his recent State visit was pretty successful. At least it managed to show up a few of our own so-called statesmen in their true colours. Not the least Jeremy Corbyn. This man is supposed to be a potential leader of the country - Ha! I wouldn’t trust him to run a London bus. We have the President of our greatest and strongest ally visiting, on what I considered a brilliantly selected occasion for our two countries, and this so-called contender for number 10, the leader of the opposition, who has condoned terrorist organisations and supports Communist regimes, refuses to break bread with the Queen of the realm and the leader of the free world - basically because he doesn’t like some of his policies! I mean how juvenile and utterly ridiculous can you get? Not only that, he chooses instead, to address a (much smaller than anticipated or reported) rabble of lefties, at a rally comprising mainly of followers epitomised by an overweight (ex) NHS worker, with a ring through her nose and purple hair, screaming ‘Nazi Scum’ into the face of an OAP who dares to display ‘Welcome Trump’ on his hat. Corbyn’s speech to these people (that includ-

PRESIDENT TRUMP: Made a very favourable impression on his visit. ed a large number of burkas, which are of course worn by the voters he thinks will put him in number 10!) reminded me of the Hyde Park rantings of the 60’s, which were orated mainly by leading dropouts, to gatherings of other motely unwashed dropouts, who opted for any-

thing other than actually getting a job! Future Prime Minister? I would make a better Prime Minister than this antiquated leftie. Vote for meee! Trump just about managed to retain his dignity when voicing his opinion of that other childish creep, London’s Mayor Khan, who he

described as a ‘stone cold loser.’ I thought this was pretty mild, considering he once again encouraged the raising of that ridiculous ‘blimp’ over London, which just about sums up the mentality of a man who doesn’t like Trump, purely because the American President doesn’t want his country overrun with benefit chasing Muslim or Mexican immigrants! As for Trump’s unfortunate boo boo, with his remark on the NHS. This was obviously a mistake in the heat of a Q and A session, from a man who comes from a country far away that is awash with the initials of whole conglomerations of different companies. NHS could have been the title of the Nuneaton Haricot Sowing organisation for all he knew. As soon as he realised the error, the following day he made it absolutely clear that there would be no meddling in the NHS whatsoever. No, I think Trump and his extremely sophisticated First Lady, made a very favourable impression on this visit. I just hope the antics of a few utterly childish members of our so-called leaders and their motley rag tag of supporters, didn’t give him the impression that the majority of the British people all follow the same lines of infantile persuasion. Keep the faith. Love Leapy. Leapylee2002@gmail.com

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TECH FOR THE TIMID LAST week I paid €10 for a bargain. It cost €31 million to develop, and originally sold for €1,250 to the few privileged families who ordered and cherished it. Fulfilling a bookworm’s dream at a charity bazaar, I staggered away with 60 kg of the world’s most expensive literary creation: 30,000 pages holding 40 million words in 32 volumes, of the last edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica ever to be printed - in this case back in 1993. Given the ridiculous colonisation of household real estate it needs, my wife is seriously unimpressed. Especially considering she bought me the newer digital version of that same Britannica on one little DVD just a few years back for about the same price. In its heyday Britannica was the ultimate font of all knowledge. Forests were felled to produce up to 120,000 expensively-bound sets a year at its peak (1990). It represented man’s last, and arguably finest, attempt to collect

One world, one encyclopaedia? Terence Kennedy wonders if it’s wise to be wacky about Wiki

ALTERED STATES: ‘Hey look what I can do!’ all human knowledge in one printed repository. Then popular computing happened. In the 2000s Microsoft’s attractive Encarta knocked it from its lofty perch until it, too, succumbed to the internet. Since then nothing has been able to withstand the steamroller of the mighty ‘crowd-edited’ behemoth Wikipedia. Britannica is down but not (entirely) out. Like so much of the traditional media it pins its hopes

of survival on a website paywall, a small alternate voice in the vast Wikipedia wilderness. Other reference sites nurture similar hopes: Oxford with its famous dictionaries, specialist publishers controversially putting scientific papers behind paywalls, even struggling local newspapers hoping you will actually cough up to learn what’s happening down your street. As the new ‘font of all human knowledge’ Wikipedia seems unstoppable. Free to anyone with an

internet connection where Britannica was only for the privileged, Wikipedia is now in 300 languages with 40 million articles and 500 million visitors a month. Britannica served as the inspiration for that ultimate fictional encyclopaedia of life, the universe and everything, Encyclopedia Galactica, first conceived by sci-fi novelist Isaac Asimov back in 1951, then recycled by Robert Heinlein and Arthur C Clarke, until it appeared most famously in Douglas Adams’ fabled Hitchhiker’s Guide series. Thus Britannica begat Encarta which begat Wikipedia which may beget Galactica if humanity lasts that long, and despite it all, one thing can be certain: despite Herculean efforts, rest assured that we will never, ever, manage to collect all human knowledge together in one repository, thereby granting it a monopoly on facts. As Douglas Adams emblazoned on the cover of his own fictitious guide: ‘Don’t Panic!’

Just ask Google? THOSE of us so attached to actually owning physical works of reference are a dwindling band. Unable to afford the mammoth 24 printed volumes of the Oxford English Dictionary years ago, I shelled out handsomely for its CD version. But that too is now obsolete: pay your modest fee these days and you can look up nearly a million words on Oxford’s website. Where my computer still chokes on installed reference works, younger users just ask Google. Why, they wonder, would you buy a physical source when it’s all there at the tap of a screen in your pocket? Oh well, my sprawling Britannica does at least have one advantage over a smartphone. It’s 60 kilos. Looking stuff up is often the best exercise I get.

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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pmNadiya's British Food Adventure 1:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:45pm Women's World Cup 5:00pm Escape to the Country 6:00pmThe Jungle Book 7:40pm BBC News 7:50pm Regional News 7:53pm Weather 7:55pm Pointless 8:45pm The Hit List 9:25pm Casualty 10:15pmKilling Eve 11:00pmBBC News 11:15pmWeather 11:20pmBilly Elliot 1:05am When in Rome 2:30am Weather for the Week Ahead 2:35am BBC News

9:00am Thunderbirds are Go 9:25am ITV News 9:30am The Sara Cox Show 10:25am Saturday Morning with James Martin 12:35pm John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen 1:35pm Save Money 2:05pm Love Your Garden 2:35pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:45pm Babe 4:30pm Tenable 5:30pm Tipping Point 6:30pm The Chase 7:25pm ITV Evening News 7:35pm Regional News and Weather 7:45pm Catchphrase 8:30pm Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule 9:00pm The Voice Kids 10:35pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories 11:30pm ITV News 11:45pm The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 2:10am Jackpot247

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SUNDAY - 16 JUNE

7:45am The Zoo 8:00am All Over the Place: UK 8:25am The Dengineers 8:55am Mustangs FC 9:20am The Dog Ate My Homework 9:50am Deadly Top 10 10:20am Astronauts: Do You Have What it Takes? 11:20am The World According to Kids 12:20pmThe Odd Life of Timothy Green 2:00pm Athletics 3:00pm £100k House: Tricks of the Trade 4:00pm Equator From the Air 5:00pm Triathlon 7:00pm Queen Victoria: My Musical Britain 8:00pm The Planets 9:00pm Dad's Army 9:30pm Royal Academy Summer Exhibition 2019 10:30pm QI XL 11:15pm Spotlight 1:15am Mia Madre

8:00pm Natural World 9:00pm Horizon 10:00pmInspector Montalbano 12:00am Fathers and Songs: Music for Father's Day A selection of songs that celebrate fatherhood and probe the emotional complexities of a man's relationship with his son or daughter. 1:00am TOTP2 Another selection of performances from the archives, focusing on hits of the 1960s. 1:30am Top of the Pops: 1988 2:00am Horizon 3:00am Natural World 4:00am Britain's Lost Masterpieces

7:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:00am The Big Bang Theory 8:20am The Big Bang Theory 8:45am Frasier 9:10am Frasier 9:35am ICC Cricket World Cup 10:35am The Simpsons 12:00pm Young Sheldon 12:55pm Four in a Bed 1:25pm Four in a Bed 1:55pm Four in a Bed 2:30pm Four in a Bed 3:00pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm Big House, Little House 4:30pm Sun, Sea and Brides to be 5:35pm A Place in the Sun 6:35pm The Supervet 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Info not available 9:00pm Britain's Most Historic Towns 10:00pmDeadpool 12:05am Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back 1:00am ICC Cricket World Cup

11:15am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:25am Make You Laugh Out Loud 11:50am Police Interceptors 1:40pm Friends 3:10pm Friends 3:40pm Friends 4:10pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 5:10pm The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 6:10pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 7:05pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away! 8:00pm Info not available 8:55pm 5 News Weekend 9:00pm Flights From Hell 10:00pm Tyson Fury: Rise & Fall of the Gypsy King 11:00pm Most Shocking Moments in Sport

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7:15am Glorious Gardens From Above 8:00am Gardeners' World 9:00am Countryfile 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:30am Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul 12:30pm Whisky Galore! 1:50pm Pal Joey 3:35pm Flog It! 4:15pm Canoe Slalom World Cup Highlights 5:45pm Women's World Cup 8:00pm Equator From the Air 9:00pm Top Gear 10:00pm The Ranganation 10:45pm What We Do in the Shadows 11:10pm What We Do in the Shadows 11:30pm I'll Get This 12:15am What We Do in the Shadows 1:40am Question Time 2:40am Holby City 3:40am This is BBC Two Highlights of programmes on BBC Two.

8:00pm Engineering Giants 9:00pm Inside Chernobyl's Mega Tomb 10:00pm BBC Cardiff Singer of the World 2019 12:00am Discovering the Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra Benjamin Britten 1:00am Anjelica Huston on James Joyce 2:00am Treasures of Ancient Greece 3:00am Forest, Field & Sky: Art Out of Nature 4:00am Engineering Giants The inner workings of some of the world's biggest machines.

7:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 7:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 7:55am The Big Bang Theory 8:20am The Big Bang Theory 8:45am The Big Bang Theory 9:05am The Simpsons 9:30am The Simpsons 10:00am The Simpsons 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm The Simpsons 2:00pm The Simpsons 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Bake Off: The Professionals 4:30pm A Place in the Sun 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Coast v Country 7:00pm Channel 4 News 7:30pm Britain's Next Pm - The C4 Debate 9:00pm Great Canal Journeys 10:00pm The Handmaid's Tale 11:05pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 11:30pm ICC Cricket World Cup 12:35am St. Vincent

11:10am Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 11:20am Father's Day's Funniest Dads 12:05pm Friends 12:35pm Friends 1:10pm Friends 1:40pm Friends 2:05pm Friends 2:35pm The Man in the Iron Mask 5:10pm Before They Were Stars 6:10pm Greatest Ever Celebrity Wind Ups 7:05pm 5 News 7:10pm When Rich Kids Go Skint 8:00pm The Woman with 106 Dogs 9:00pm Blind Date 10:00pm 13 Moments: The Death and Destruction of Michael Jackson 11:35pm Michael Jackson: Bad and Dangerous 1:35am Lip Sync Battle

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7:00am Love Your Garden 7:50am On the Buses 8:25am On the Buses 8:55am Inspector Morse 11:10am A Touch of Frost When a young drug addict is found dead it is assumed that he died from an overdose. 1:25pm A Touch of Frost 3:40pm A Touch of Frost 5:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot The impeccable Belgian detective returns, engaging his little grey cells to solve a gruesome murder against the clock. 8:00pm Midsomer Murders 10:00pm Vera Detective drama series based on the characters created by Ann Cleeves. 12:00am Vera

7:00am The Protectors 7:25am Cycling: Women's Tour Highlights 8:15am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 9:20am The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes 10:30am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:35am World of Sport: Petrol Heads 11:50am Kojak 12:50pm Columbo: Playback 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm The Way West 6:00pm FYI Daily 6:05pm The Way West 7:25pm River Monsters 8:00pm Cycling: Criterium Du Dauphine Highlights 9:00pm Cycling: Women's Tour Highlights 10:00pm The Blues Brothers 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Blues Brothers 12:40am Cliffhanger 1:40am FYI Daily 1:45am Cliffhanger 2:50am Minder

7:00am Live NRL 8:50am Rugby Gold 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans Round-up of the sports news with live analysis and comment plus extended interviews with the headline makers. 11:00am Cricket Sri Lanka take on Australia at the Oval in the group stage of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. 8:00pm Live US Open Golf Day three of the 2019 US Open from the famous Pebble Beach Golf Links in California. 4:00am Sky Sports News 5:00am Sky Sports News

9:00am Milo Murphy's Law 9:15am Milo Murphy's Law 9:25am ITV News 9:30am The Sara Cox Show 10:25am John and Lisa's Weekend Kitchen 12:20pmGino's Italian Coastal Escape 12:50pmMidsomer Murders 2:45pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm Babe 2: Pig in the City 4:35pm Tipping Point 5:30pm The Chase 6:30pm Harry Hill's Alien Fun Capsule 7:00pm ITV Evening News 7:15pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm Info not available 11:00pmITV News 11:20pmBritain's Busiest Airport Heathrow 11:45pmWild Bill 12:40am Tenable

6:55am ITV2 Nightscreen 7:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:25am You've Been Framed! 7:50am Emmerdale 11:00am Coronation Street 1:55pm Catchphrase 2:40pm In for a Penny 3:10pm You've Been Framed! 4:15pm Beethoven's 2nd 5:25pm FYI Daily 5:30pm Beethoven's 2nd 6:05pm The Secret Life of Pets 7:05pm FYI Daily 7:10pm The Secret Life of Pets 7:50pm Step Up 3 8:50pm FYI Daily 8:55pm Step Up 3 10:00pm Love Island 11:00pm Love Island: Aftersun 12:05am Family Guy 12:35am Family Guy 1:05am American Dad! 1:30am American Dad! 1:55am The Stand Up Sketch Show

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ITV2 Nightscreen ITV2 Nightscreen Emmerdale Coronation Street Catchphrase Ninja Warrior UK Japandemonium You've Been Framed! Peter Pan FYI Daily Peter Pan What a Girl Wants FYI Daily What a Girl Wants Step Up 2: The Streets FYI Daily Step Up 2: The Streets Love Island: Unseen Bits Shopping with Keith Lemon Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad!

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IN recent weeks we haven’t been able to move for media ads prodding us to visit this or that hot city, this or that hot beach resort. Yes, we’ve been clobbered on all sides by images of scantily dressed women and unrealistically smiling family groups trying to turn current worries - Brexit, the unreliable British summer, granny’s annual visit - into sundrenched paradise. But hey, now there’s an alternative if you’re looking for a summer break and a bit of travel one-upmanship. And just think of all those jaw-dropping photos you’ll be able to upload on your return on Instagram! While Foreign Office advice puts Crimean War battleground tours off-limits to ordinary travellers, some opportunist firms offer tourists in Ukraine the chance to visit the modern-day war zones. Ads for trips have appeared in areas frequented by tourists, containing phrases like ‘Impress your friends with the ultimate selfies’ and ‘see where the fighting is.’ Incredible! Or how about a trip to Afghanistan, Iraq or Algeria? All available to visit by fearless tourists courtesy of trigger-happy tour companies, though finding adequate travel insur-

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LEGALLY SPEAKING Who pays the property tax? I have recently sold my house in Spain, but I am told that I will have to pay the SUMA tax on it in September because the owner of the property on January 1 of each year is responsible for this tax. Could you confirm that this is true? J N (Costa Blanca) Traditionally, this has been true, that the YOU AND THE o w n e r a s o f J a n u - LAW IN SPAIN ary 1 pays the municipal property tax for that year. But wait. There has also always been the possibility for the buyer and seller to agree beforehand to pay the tax in amounts proportional to the time each one has owned the property during that year. And now comes the Spanish Supreme Court with a sentence of June 15, 2016, declaring that, even without a previous agreement, the seller who pays the full amount of the property tax can claim from the buyer the amount proportional to the time that has passed since he became the legal owner. Consult your lawyer. Finally, you are asking about the IBI, the municipal property tax, the rates. SUMA is the tax collection agency which handles the municipal taxes for Alicante Province.

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UNLIKELY DESTINATION: Tourists can now visit Chernobyl exclusion zone. ance might be problematic - and don’t forget to pack those sexy-looking bullet-proof vests! But, you couldn’t ask for a hotter (yes, in all senses!) city than charming Chernobyl! Prompted by the highly-rated Sky-HBO mini-series named after the site in Ukraine of one of the world’s worst nuclear disasters in 1986, trips inside the 30km exclusion zone reportedly jumped by 40 per cent year-onyear in May when the show first aired. With its dilapidated apartment blocks, abandoned fairground and school littered with textbooks smothered in radioactive dust, Chernobyl might appear an unlikely tourist destination. Guides leading tour groups carry Geiger counters and visitors have to undergo

full-body scans for traces of radiation on departing the exclusion zone (the radiation levels supposedly similar to those experienced on an average transatlantic flight). Hmm. Well, I think I’ll just wait until the fairground is up and running again. It’s got a big wheel and some bumper cars, but does it have a roller coaster? Nora Johnson’s crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora-johnson.net) available from Amazon in paperback/eBook (€0.99;£0.99) and iBookstore. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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MONDAY - 17 JUNE 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Punjab United Our Lives 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Panorama 10:00pm War on Plastic with Hugh and Anita 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Famalam 12:00am Ellie and Natasia

12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Tennis Coverage of the latest tennis action. 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Repair Shop 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm The Family Brain Games 10:00pmThatcher: A Very British Revolution 11:00pmI Love 1989 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Wild Scotland 8:45pm Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup Nigeria v France (Kick-off 8.00pm). 11:05pmThe Alan Clark Diaries 11:35pmThe Alan Clark Diaries 12:05am Colour: The Spectrum of Science 1:05am Tales From the National Parks 2:05am Pacific Abyss 3:05am Handmade in Mexico

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Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Beat the Chef The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News How Safe are Your Medicines?: Dispatches 9:30pm Tricks of the Restaurant Trade 10:00pm999: What's Your Emergency? 11:00pmYear of the Rabbit 11:35pm8 Out of 10 Cats 4 12:30am ICC Cricket World Cup

3:15pm Stalked by My Ex 5:00pm Friends 5:30pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Britain by Boat 9:00pmPolice Interceptors 10:00pmNightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 11:00pmThe Sex Business 12:00am Jason Statham's War

3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Years and Years 11:00pm BBC News 11:25pm Regional News 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Hot Property 12:00am Hayley Goes...

12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Tennis 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Repair Shop Documentary in which family heirlooms and valuables are brought in to be repaired. 8:00pm Inside the Factory 9:00pm The Family Brain Games 10:00pmThe Planets 11:00pmLive at the Apollo 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Horizon 8:45pm Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup 11:05pmEmpire of the Tsars: Romanov Russia with Lucy Worsley 12:05am Forces of Nature with Brian Cox 1:05am Ice Age Giants 2:05am Horizon 3:05am Handmade in Mexico 3:35am Tones, Drones and Arpeggios: The Magic of Minimalism

1:00pm Channel 4 News Midday Summary 2019 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Ackley Bridge 10:00pm24 Hours in A&E 11:00pmFirst Dates 12:05am ICC Cricket World Cup

First Class Fear Friends Friends 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Britain by Boat The Thames: Britain's Great River with Tony Robinson 10:00pm Great British Gardens: Season by Season with Carol Klein 11:00pm The Sex Business 12:05am Too Fat for Love

7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Love Your Garden 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm Regional News and Weather 11:45pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories 12:45am Tenable

4:45pm Dinner Date 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:00pmHey Tracey! 11:50pmFamily Guy 12:20am Family Guy

3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Doc Martin 10:00pmDoc Martin 11:00pmLewis 1:10am Joe Maddison's War

9:05am Kojak 10:10am Quincy, M.E. 11:10am Minder 12:10pmThe Sweeney 1:20pm The Professionals 2:20pm The Saint 3:25pm Kojak 4:30pm Quincy, M.E. 5:30pm World Rugby U20 Championship Live 7:50pm World Rugby U20 Championship Live 10:35pmRiver Monsters 11:05pm Wanted 12:05am FYI Daily

8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 8:00pm Sky Sports Tonight 9:00pm Info not available 11:00pmSky Sports News at Ten 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News 2:00am Live WWE Late Night Raw

2:25pm Regional News and Weather 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Save Money 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm Her Majesty's Cavalry 10:00pm Dark Angel 11:30pm ITV News 12:00am Regional News and Weather

1:45pm Coronation Street 2:15pm Coronation Street 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Dress to Impress 4:45pm Dinner Date 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pm Love Island 11:05pm Family Guy 12:05am Family Guy

2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pmLewis 1:00am Agatha Christie's Poirot

12:05pmThe Sweeney 1:10pm The Professionals 2:15pm The Avengers 3:25pm Kojak 4:30pm Minder 5:35pm The Professionals 6:40pm The Sweeney 7:45pm World of Sport: Crazy Racing 8:00pm The Chase 9:00pm The Spy Who Loved Me 10:00pmFYI Daily 10:05pm The Spy Who Loved Me 11:35pm Scream 4 12:40am FYI Daily

9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket 7:45pm Cricket England Women meet Windies Women in the first T20 of three in Northampton. 11:00pmCricket 11:15pmCricket 12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News

11:25am Superstore 12:15pmYou've Been Framed! 12:45pmYou've Been Framed! 1:10pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed! 2:45pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Dress to Impress 4:45pm Dinner Date 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed! 7:30pm You've Been Framed! 8:00pm You've Been Framed! 8:30pm You've Been Framed! 9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Superstore 10:00pmLove Island 11:00pmCelebability 11:50pmFamily Guy 12:20am Family Guy

7:00am Classic Coronation Street 7:55am Heartbeat 9:00am Murder, She Wrote 9:55am On the Buses 10:25am On the Buses 11:00am Rising Damp 11:30am A Touch of Frost 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Classic Emmerdale 3:15pm Classic Emmerdale 3:50pm Classic Coronation Street 4:20pm Classic Coronation Street 4:55pm A Touch of Frost 6:55pm Heartbeat 8:00pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 11:00pmLewis 1:00am Les Dawson Forever 2:00am Les Dawson Forev

6:00am ITV4 Nightscreen 6:30am Teleshopping 7:00am World of Sport: Footballing Upsets 7:10am The Chase 8:00am The Avengers 8:55am Kojak 10:00am ITV Racing: The Opening Show 11:00am Minder 12:05pmThe Sweeney 1:15pm The Professionals 2:20pm The Avengers 3:25pm Kojak 4:30pm Minder 5:35pm The Professionals 6:40pm The Sweeney 7:45pm Goals of the 70s 8:00pm The Chase 9:00pm British Superbike Championship Highlights 10:00pm The Blues Brothers 11:00pmFYI Daily 11:05pm The Blues Brothers 12:40am The Last Boy Scout

8:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 8:30am Cricket World Cup Centre 9:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 10:00am Good Morning Sports Fans 11:00am Cricket New Zealand take on South Africa at Edgbaston in the group stage of the 2019 ICC Cricket World Cup. 8:00pm Live Weber Cup 2019 12:30am Sky Sports News All the news from the Premier League and beyond. 1:00am Sky Sports News 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News 4:00am Sky Sports News

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WEDNESDAY - 19 JUNE 7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Critical Incident 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm A1: Britain's Longest Road 12:45pm Caught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Impossible 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Women's World Cup: England v Japan 11:05pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:35pm Weather 11:40pm Hometown 12:10am Hometown

7:00am Tuesday in Parliament 7:30am Critical Incident 8:15am Flog It! 9:00am Britain in Bloom 9:30am Defenders UK 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pmBBC Newsroom Live 12:15pmPolitics Live 2:00pm Tennis 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm The Repair Shop Documentary in which family heirlooms and valuables are brought in to be repaired. 8:00pm Inside the Factory 9:00pm The Family Brain Games 10:00pmSummer of Rockets 11:00pmMum 11:30pmNewsnight 12:10am Weather

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Match of the Day Live: FIFA Women's World Cup 11:00pmMadagascar David Attenborough narrates the story of the island in the Indian Ocean and the wildlife that evolved there over 70 million years of isolation. 12:00am Britain's Lost Masterpieces 1:00am Andrew Marr's Great Scots: The Writers Who Shaped a Nation 2:00am Utopia: In Search of the Dream 3:00am Info not available 4:00am Madagascar

8:20am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:40am Frasier 11:10am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 12:05pmUndercover Boss USA 1:00pm Channel 4 News Midday Summary 2019 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Fifteen to One 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Beat the Chef 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm The Supervet 10:00pmThe Restaurant That Makes Mistakes 11:00pmCelebrity Gogglebox 12:05am 24 Hours in A&E

7:00am Milkshake! 10:15am Jeremy Vine 12:15pmBargain Loving Brits in the Sun 1:10pm 5 News 1:15pm Police Interceptors 2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm The Vanished Family 5:00pm Friends Sitcom based on the lives, loves, and laughs of six young friends living in Manhattan. 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News 8:00pm Britain by Boat 9:00pm GPs Behind Closed Doors 10:00pmCasualty 24/7 11:00pmThe Sex Business 12:05am Gypsy Kids: Our Secret World

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am Tenable 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:25pm Regional News and Weather 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 7:00pm Regional News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Britain's Busiest Airport Heathrow 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pmWild Bill 11:00pmITV News at Ten and Weather 11:45pmPeston 12:40am Tenable 1:45am Play to the Whistle 2:30am Jackpot247

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NOW, I am a glass half full kind of guy and I just think about how wonderful it is to live here in Spain. Earlier today my cousin spoke to me after he had returned home to Blighty yesterday, to howling winds and rain and has even lit a fire indoors. Meanwhile, I am writing this, sat in my shorts in the garden, enjoying a nice cooling breeze, a cacophony of birdsong and the scent of flowers. For lunch, I will have some really fresh fish simply grilled with a nice glass of cold white wine. People ask me, what do you miss about England, the seasons, the food, the beer? No, I really cannot think of anything. Except, if I have to go back for any reason, I think I will miss the plane! Raymond Stark

What if? DEAR Ed, imagine if the Barcelona authorities had refused Gaudi’s planning permission for the Sagrada Familia. Dear Don Antoni Gaudi I refer to your application for planning permission dated April 1, 1885 and can confirm the City of Barcelona, in a meeting of the full council on May 22, 2019, has reached a decision on this matter. It is my duty to inform you that planning permission has been denied. In your application, whilst you had form Modelo 4502934567 - in triplicate, signed by both Grandparents with a translation into Monrovian, attested to by a Native of Timbucktoo, it was not stapled to Modelo 45938576 (B). Under Regulation 1236 of Section 246 of the 1792 law, it distinctly states that these forms must be stapled together. As this building has been erected without permission, please knock it down. Your obedient servant, Juan Burócrata Jonathan Leigh

Beyond belief THE sheer number of candidates jostling for the Conservative leadership astounds me. I don’t know why anyone in their right mind would want the prime minister’s job at the moment. It’s truly a poisoned chalice and I wouldn’t be surprised if Brexit brings down whoever lands the job, just like it brought down May and Cameron. I’m looking forward to it all being over. Mark DuPont

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Missing England? EXHUMATION HALTED I READ about the halting of the moving of General Franco’s body from the Valley of the Fallen in last week’s paper ( Issue 1770) with concern. I don’t see how keeping a dictator who murdered thousands in a mausoleum built by political prisoners can be justified in a democracy. Imagine if the same were the case in Italy or Germany with their former fascist leaders! I have many Spanish friends and one thing that comes across is the difficulty in confronting a painful period of history. Many say it is better to let the matter lie and for

VALLEY OF THE FALLEN: The moving of General Franco’s body has been delayed. wounds to heal. I respect their point of view, but I think if Spain succeeds in getting Franco out of the mausoleum

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it could be a step towards burying the poisonous ideology of fascism once and for all. Derek Simon

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NEWS that anti-tourist graffiti appeared on the walls of Granada City last week has reignited the debate over the effects of an economically vital industry on Spanish locals. Spain’s tourism sector is the third largest contributor to the overall economy, accounting for about 10 per cent of total output (Gross Domestic Product, GDP) according to government figures. The industry is responsible for developing large swathes of the country’s Mediterranean coastline which expatriates now call home, as pictures of Benidorm from the 1950s and 1960s illustrate. Cities such as Granada also draw a hefty dividend from tourists who spend their money in local shops, bars and restaurants, benefiting the wider economy. The traffic of travellers into Spain has also helped to build bonds across borders and break down misconceptions held by tourists and locals about each other and their countries. But as with all aspects of the economy, the gains are seldom shared equally and the price of success for some is suffering for others. The Canary and Balearic Islands are both home to anti-tourism movements who argue the industry has led to overdevelopment, harming their homes and the environment. In Barcelona the rise of holiday rentals has seen residents priced or even turfed out of neighbourhoods where they grew up because of the lure of profits from tourism. If tensions are to be eased then the benefits from the industry must be more widely shared and the impact on locals reduced.

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Belated building permit for Gaudi’s iconic church I have seen this being built over 62 years, it always looked like a building site you could climb up and three years later I went inside, it took my breath away never seen anything so wonderful. I just sat and stared around me, it’s wonderful words cannot express the marvellous inside. Sheila R

Dutch women hit by car, one killed and one in critical condition in northern Spain Poor ladies, hope the other injured lady recovers, RIP to the other lady how sad... People drive too fast these days. Jeanette D

Brit tourist dies in Magaluf balcony fall Such a waste of life, perhaps the airlines could show a short film showing the dangers of alcohol related deaths/

COMMENTS FROM EWN ONLINE injuries and how devastating it is for the families of these young people? It may plant a seed. Debra B

Spanish economy counting the losses to piracy Quite a few counterfeit goods are sold online, as well as the pavement or open market stalls, sometimes the quality is ok, but often they are not nearly as good as the real thing (ironically, the counterfeit goods and real goods could be made in factories near each other in China, etc). Erik R

Video found of Spanish woman slapping baby after she posted her baby smoking Disgusting behaviour of a mother who is there to care for her child. What else happens when the video isn’t on? Jacquie W

Labour beats Brexit Party to hold Peterborough in by-election Sometimes apparently little affairs like the Peterborough by-election result can have enormous consequences later on! With the rejection of the extremist views of Farage and his party, this will send strong signals around Britain that a more intelligent and thoughtful approach is needed in future with the EU, the Brexiteers have had their own way for three years now, but could the tide be turning? David B

EWN online this week POLL OF THE WEEK After Amnesty International claimed thousands of school bullying cases are going unreported, do you think more could be done to protect children from harassment and harm in the education system?

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The inspirer within you

JORIS PLU WHEN you type the words ‘all you need is…’ in any browser, then you will discover that most of the time the next word is ‘love.’ I believe that even without looking it up you would have known this. For the most of us this is common, we hear it all the time. This is the way it is. When asking people, which I did, what this means for them personally, 99 per cent gave the same kind of answers - that love needs to come from outside of themselves. From a partner, children, animals, employers, neighbours, the government, the city council, the waiter of a restaurant, the car sales person, food and drinks. The list is endless. I am pretty sure that if you ask yourself that same question at this very moment, you would also like that ‘love’ should come from an outside source.

LOVE YOURSELF: Make it positive. And again this is normal since we are so used to being told via market-

ing and what others have told us that something or someone else will make

us happy. So self-love is not included here, that kind of self-love that we need so much in our life. Without it people may feel lost and may feel the need for others to fill in that gap. So start loving yourself. When I asked the question to the same people if they knew how to do this most of them could not give an answer. You may be in the same position yourself right now. Do not blame yourself. You have probably never learned how to love yourself. I will write some guidelines how to start loving yourself (more) in forthcoming columns. In this week’s column I want to tell you that all the inspiration, all the power you need in your life is within yourself and therefore first of all you have to love yourself. Imagine what your life would be like if you really loved yourself, if

Hayfever relief FOR hayfever sufferers, the great o u t d o o r s c a n b e a nightmare, here are some tips to hopefully prevent, but certainly minimise your suffering. • Start your allergy medications before the pollen season gets underway. • D r y y o u r c l o t h e s in doors , a n d r e m e m b e r to keep y o u r wi n d o ws a n d doors shut at home to limit your e x p o su r e t o p o l len . Don’t be tempted to hang w ashin g o u t d o o r s t o d ry. Shower and wash your hair as soon as you get home in the ev e n i n g t o r e mo v e pollen, a n d t a k e y o u r clothes off in the bathroom rather than the bedroom. • When in your car, keep your w i n d o ws u p . I f y o u can, adjust your air vents to re-circulate air inside rather

d raw in g in th e o u ts id e air. It is also advisable to keep the sunroof closed. • Plan a trip to the seaside, where pollen levels a re a lw ay s rela tiv ely low, which may offer some respite. • G ro o m a n d w as h p e ts more frequently, to remove trapped pollen from their coats. • Dusting your home with a damp cloth and vacuuming more frequently will also help to keep pollen levels down. Some vacuums are more effective at removing pollen, so investigate which is best. • Try to re la x an d ge t s o me s le e p to o . S tre s s seems to make hay. fever worse and it has been found that people who slept for at le a s t s ev en h o u rs a n ight

POLLEN SEASON: Prevention measures will help with the symptoms.

were found to have milder symptoms too. Ask your pharmacist for advice on the best products

for your pa rtic ula r s e t of symptoms and consult your doctor, if the symptoms persist.

you could fully plug into your own power starting doing those things ‘you’ would like and love to do. It’s your life. Not someone else’s life (any more). The life inspirer you are looking for is within you in the first place. So what you can do already today is just tell yourself, even out loud if you can, that you really love yourself. And together with this put a big smile on your face. Make it positive. It does not matter at this stage that you do not know exactly how to deeply love yourself. Just by saying it your brain will already get into a positive mode. Do this a few times a day. Make it a habit, like eating, drinking and sleeping. Make it a daily routine. I am sure things will already start to change in your life in an inspiring way.

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No mixed messages LITTLE MIX’S Perrie Edwards and beau Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain proved their relationship is as hot as ever in a series of snaps taken while holidaying in Ibiza last week. The stunning 25-year-old star shared snaps showing her professional footballer boyfriend, 25, with his head at her waist as she pushed him closer towards her with her tongue out. In others the singer, wearing her blonde hair in a bun and sporting killer

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black stilettos, wraps her arms round the Liverpool player, who can be seen sporting casual t-shirt and jeans. The loved up couple, first rumoured to be dating in November, recently moved in together with Perrie’s childhood cat. A nd the be a uty re c e ntly re vealed she wants to marry the sports star, but while she loves ba bie s , s he doe s n’t fe e l broody at the moment.

LOVED-UP: Celebrity couple Perrie Edwards and beau Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain.

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Miley Cyrus groped MILEY CYRUS was allegedly groped by a fan after a Spanish festival performance. According to reports, Miley Cyrus was forced to flee a group of fans when a member of the public reached out and grabbed her as she left a Spanish hotel with her husband Liam Hemsworth. The Wrecking Ball singer was headlining at the Spanish festival, Primavera after Cardi B was required to cancel her performance. A few days later she tweeted ‘She CAN’T be grabbed without consent.’

FAN ASSAULT: Miley Cyrus was said to be groped by a fan.

Taste the summer FOR the fifth year in a row the Pecan Pie musical coll e c t i v e i s o rg a n i s i n g t h e Summer Pie Festival which takes place at the Es Baluard museum of modern and contemporary in Palma this coming Friday and Saturday. The emphasis is on music with an American theme but the line-up features bands from Spain, Canada and the UK with

four each night starting at 8pm until late. The price of the tickets is €35 for both nights (€30 in advance) or individual day tickets are available costing €20 (€17 in advance) and can be obtained from www.summer piefestival.com or at the museum’s ticket offices. A donation of €1 will be given to Oxfam Intermón in respect of each ticket sold and the NGO will have an information booth

at the event. The line-up tomorrow (Friday June 14) in the central courtyard is Juanjo Monserrat (Mallorca), Felix Holt & The Radicals (UK), Together (Mallorca) and Romantica (USA). Whilst on Saturday the bands playing at the same location will be Fame & the Flames (Mallorca), O d d Ye a r s ( C a n a d a ) , Roller Disco Combo (Barcelona), Bennett Wilson Poole (UK).

Nualaia THIS Saturday at 8pm in the Sala d’actes in Pollensa a female trio, Nualaia will be performing a free concert of their selection of jazz and traditional Celtic music featuring voices and cello.

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Take a back seat when selling! IT may seem the right thing to do when a potential buyer comes to view your home,

but estate agents will probably say it is not a good idea for you to remain in the prop-

erty at the same time. While you may think it perfectly natural to point out all the property’s best features and answer any questions the buyers might have, most real estate professionals disagree. There is a time for being the perfect host, and a viewing is most definitely not the right time! The reason? Well for one thing, when sellers are around, buyers feel less comfortable. They are likely to feel rushed and will spend less time in the home, since their visit feels like an imposition on the sellers. This is most definitely not the feeling you want them to have. What you need is for them to feel relaxed and comfortable in their surroundings. This way they can take their time and give the property the attention it deserves and better still start to envisage themselves living in it.

WHEN SELLING: Let the estate agents do their job. Bear in mind that what you think are a home’s best features may not impress a prospective buyer. You may be simply emphasising a feature they don’t particularly like!

Buyers also tend to prefer asking an agent questions they may have and are more willing to bring up slightly awkward points. Your agent can then settle any minor issues that

may have been a deal breaker otherwise. So don’t be too keen - take a back seat and let the agent do the work when selling your home.

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What’s the tax you have to pay? SOME things are unavoidable in life. Tax is one of them, although it must be said that in years gone by many people did seem to get away with not paying it when it came to property sales in Spain. Despite the stories you may have heard about the ‘wild west’ days of yore, it is advisable not to try to evade what you are due to pay these days. The taxman is highly likely to catch up

with you, and then it can become very expensive indeed. So, when buying or selling what taxes do you need to pay? Here is a brief guide of what you may be liable for. When buying a home all people (private individuals, not companies which have different regulations) must pay: IVA (VAT): This is levied in new builds, generally those homes bought direct from a developer. It is

charged at 10 per cent of the sale value, which should be listed in the title deed. ITP (Property Transfer Tax): Aha! But my house is not a new build, so I won’t have to pay the IVA, you say. Correct! Unfortunately, you will need to pay the ITP instead. The state has set a minimum rate of 6 per cent, but different Autonomous Communities are free to charge more. In practice

it should not exceed the 10 per cent IVA rate for new builds. Having bought a property there are annual taxes you will have to pay. These are: IBI (rates): This is a municipal tax that must be paid to the local town hall (ayuntamiento) and depends on the cadastral value of the property. This will vary, sometimes consid-

Living in Spain: IBI, Plusvalia, IVA are taxes that you need to know about.

Bad bank changes course AFTER seven years of trying to collect defaulted loans ‘bad bank’ Sareb is to change tack in an effort to get taxpayers money back. Up until now it has mainly tried to sell packages of mortgage debt on to private institutions. But with the latter demanding discounts of up to 70 per cent the bank has realised it has little chance of ever getting value for the vast amount of bad debts it took on. Sareb was specifically created in 2012 as a dumping ground for property related loans gone sour in order to save banks that were over-exposed to the housing crash. Some €40 billion of bad debt was shifted on to its books - a form of in-

direct aid to the banking sector on top of the €60 billion of direct support pumped into the sector by the Spanish government (much of it originally from the EU). Sareb has been so far managed to recover €18 billion but has decided the time is right to push for billions more. It is now preparing thousands of demands to foreclose on loans and get hold of real estate it can sell on the market, which has largely recovered. Speaking to El Mundo, sources from Sareb said: “We have tried not to have to prosecute these loans, but the time has come when the best way to fulfil our mandate is to execute. It is less difficult to sell real estate in

the market than loans of this quality.” Basically if Sareb was to sell on its remaining bad loans at the 70 per cent discount being demanded it would mean a loss of €15.4 billion for Sareb, which would be lethal for a company that is already close to dissolution because of high annual losses. Last year it made losses of €878 million, 55 per cent more than the previous year. It would also be politically untenable to throw away that sort of money - Sareb is 45 per cent state owned with the big banks holding the other 55 per cent - on top of the huge sums written off already. The bulk of the €60 billion given to savings banks is already lost.

erably, from area to area. IRPF (Personal Income Tax): If you are tax resident in Spain and it is your home there is nothing to pay. If the property is empty an imputed income based on the cadastral value is applied. Any rental income needs to be declared. If you sell your home and it is your habitual residence and you buy another property to live in, there is a tax exemption (subject to certain conditions). Non-residents taxation can be complicated (particularly if you are a non-EU citizen,

so professional advice is highly recommended. When selling a property, the main tax to be aware of is Plusvalia which is raised on the increase in the rateable value of the property combined with the number of years since it last changed hands. It is paid to the local authorities by the person who sells a property, unless otherwise stipulated in the contract. This article is for guidance only. Competent legal advice should always be sought as individual circumstances and liabilities can vary.

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