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ENGINE FIRE: Passengers suffered minor injuries.

Emergency landing BRITISH AIRWAYS flight BA422 from Heathrow had to make an emergency landing in Valencia on Monday as smoke filled the cabin and passengers suffered minor injuries.

Videos have emerged online of the cabin of the Airbus A321 filled with a cloud of grey smoke.

According to sources the crew made the alarm call, stating ‘engine on fire’ to

ground staff who scrambled emergency equipment to greet the stricken aircraft. As the aircraft landed, emer-

gency escape chutes were deployed and passengers evacuated to safety.

No one was seriously in-

jured on the flight, however nearly 20 had to be treated for minor friction burns, smoke inhalation and panic attacks.

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DETAINED: Football fans arrested at Alicante Airport.

Hooligans arrested POLICE have arrested five British Manchester United fans at Alicante Airport after they touched down on a flight from Manchester.

A warrant was issued for the arrests by a court in Sevilla after the men flew into a drunken rampage last February following a Manchester United football match.

A spokesman for Spain’s National Police said: “National Police have arrested five British men at Alicante-Elche Airport after they arrived on a flight from Manchester.

They are aged 30 to 32. There was a warrant out for their arrests, which had been issued by a court in Sevilla when they failed to turn up for a trial after they were accused of public disorder offences, criminal damage and assaulting police which they allegedly committed in Sevilla in February last year.”

The men were originally arrested last year after allegedly abusing police, throwing stones at a hotel and causing general disruption.

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Man killed by bull

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A MAN has been killed at a festival in the El Pinós fiestas near Alicante after being gored by a bull. The 26-year-old man was standing near some steps when the bull was released. He was gored in the leg and died later from blood loss in hospital.

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THE government of Calpe has approved the reduction of IBI (Real Estate Tax) by 5 per cent applicable to next year’s fiscal year. The measure has not had the support of opposition groups who call for a review and ask to study other factors that favour lower incomes.

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Child porn NATIONAL POLICE officers have arrested 24 people and investigated nine others for sharing child pornography through a well-known social network. Arrests have taken place in 13 territories including Alicante. Four of those arrested were minors at the time of arrest and the youngest was 14 years old.

Woman saved A YOUNG drunk and semiconscious girl was rescued on the beach of El Postiguet in Alicante. The Service of Prevention, Extinction of Fires and Rescue (SPEIS) of the city council of Alicante rescued the young woman at 7.50am on Monday.

Six rescued THE Maritime Rescue boat, Mirfak rescued six people on Monday who were on board a boat that was 35 miles southeast of Alicante. The coastguard was alerted about the presence of a small fibre boat in the area. The six people were taken to the port of Alicante.

Car crash SEVEN people have been injured in an accident in Denia.

A driver, who was on dialysis from the hospital, fainted and his vehicle was hit by a van and another car. The accident occurred at 12 noon on the CV725, the access road to Denia,

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STUNNING: Riaño faces the Picos de Europa range in Castilla y Leon.

Best village THIS picture of a village in Castilla y Leon comes as it was recently crowned the best in Spain following a public vote.

Riaño, in Leon Province, was n a m e d 2 0 1 9 ’s B e s t Vi l l a g e i n Spain after winning almost 20,210 votes in Cadena Ser’s contest.

It beat the town of Frigiliana, in Andalucia’s Malaga Province, by more than 5,700 votes.

Riaño and Frigiliana came first and second in the poll which saw 50 villages vie to be named

Spain’s best. Riaño lies close to Castilla y Leon’s border with Asturias in the north of Spain. It sits 1,148 metres above sea level and covers an area of almost 98 square kilometres.

The village which stands today is known as Nuevo Riaño (New Riaño). It was built after the original village, which dated from the 18th century, was demolished to make way for a reservoir in 1987.

The modern-day village is home to 474 people, according to the lat-

est census data from 2018.

Riaño and the surrounding area are known for their natural beauty.

It lies in the so-called Spanish Switzerland which is popular with skiers and for other winter sports.

The village has been part of the Mountains of Riaño Regional Park since 2016. It lies opposite the Picos de Europa range.

Riaño is also known for the Church of San Martin de Pedrosa del Rey which was built in the 13th century.

Tourist bus crash Horse meat scandal GUARDIA CIVIL have confirmed that two people suffered serious injuries after a coach full of tourists crashed into three cars on the motorway on Saturday.

The two injured passengers were reportedly in one of the cars that collided with the Vale Do Ave bus that was full of holidaymakers and operated by the Portuguese travel company.

The incident happened at 10.30pm on Saturday night at KM 674 on the AP-7 motorway near El Campello. The scene was attended by more than 10 ambulances and various other emergency services and lots of people were spotted being carried on stretchers to the waiting ambulances.

It is thought that the bus was full due to eyewitness accounts that it was loaded with suitcases, while other reports suggest that the cars were more severely damaged than the bus.

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JAN FASE, 68, an expat from Calpe was arrested after previously being sentenced to two years in prison by the High Court in Paris.

The man was arrested for his alleged part in the horse meat scandal that dominated the headlines in Europe when 338 tonnes of meat was sold as beef, but actually contained horse meat. The meat was sold in several supermarkets in the UK and had to be recalled.

Fasen reportedly left a trail of cons and scandals behind him as he has moved around Europe over the past few years and now faces extradition back to France, subject to the decision of the Central Court of Instruction 3. He faces, along with up to 60 other people, charges for animal abuse, document falsification, money laundering, criminal organisation and crimes against public health as a result of this crackdown.

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Jump on board THE long-awaited train in Granadella in Javea could be running as soon as Saturday (August 10).

After several teething problems it appears that the contract for the Granadella train to transport people to the beautiful bay has been awarded to Autobuses La Alcoyana.

The contract was originally awarded to another company but the owner delivered the documents too late and Java Council made the decision to pass the contract on.

Last year the train was delayed by the General Directorate of Traffic as a certificate was required as the road that the train will run along is a provincial road and not a local one as initially believed.

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LONG AWAITED: The Granadella train could be on the road by this weekend.

COAST CUISINE: Deliveroo will now deliver to your sun lounger by jet ski.

Jet ski delivery FOOD delivery app, Deliveroo, has launched something a bit different for this summer food delivery by jet ski.

Following the success of similar initiatives in Dubai, UK and France, the company has decided to roll out the service at several hotspots around Spain.

The service costs no more than a normal delivery through the app and allows people on the beach to order food and drinks directly to their sun loungers.

“Knowing that so many of us enjoy the

beach at this time of year presented us with the perfect opportunity to trial our jet ski deliveries, making sure customers didn’t miss the last rays of sunshine while enjoying delicious dishes straight from our restaurant partners,” a Deliveroo spokesperson said in a statement.

The new offering will be available on the beaches of Barcelona, Valencia, Coruña, Alicante, Malaga, Palma de Mallorca, Almeria, Marbella, Vigo, Cartagena, Fuengirola, Badalona, Huelva, Benidorm, Castellón, Tarragona and Santander.

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Beach vanishing EACH summer the residents of Les Deveses in Denia appeal to the town hall to sort out the disappearing sand at the local beach.

Only a few metres separate the sea from the frontline houses along the shore which quickly becomes saturated with tourists.

Many of these tourists see how busy the beach is and realise that there is nowhere to place their towels and no sand to plant their umbrellas in and leave for other beaches.

In Les Deveses there is a 100 metre stretch of sand where those lucky enough to find space put their towels down, but in some parts the water level already touches the walls that protect the houses from storms.

The barriers that formed these protections have been worn down by the continuous waves and are now a danger to passers-by.

“More than one person has been hit or cut by them,” said Juanjo Jiménez, president of the Les Deveses neighbourhood association.

Benidorm oldies A NEW series aired in the UK on Channel 5 has highlighted a change in the demographic that are frequenting Benidorm on holiday. The series followed older people that are shown drinking to excess and ‘growing old disgracefully.’

The programme focuses on 85-year-old Grace arriving on a six-week holiday and drinking from a bucket with a crude novelty straw and a ‘bad girl’ hat on, tattooed rapper Jeanie B, 65, and Mr Benidorm from the Union Jack Bar amongst other quirky characters.

Jeanie B tells the cameras that she enjoys Benidorm because it’s the “party place of the universe” and she is the “greatest party animal the world has ever seen.”

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RAIDED: Postal Connections in Calpe was robbed in broad daylight on Sunday.

Post Office robbery THE British-run post office, Postal Connections, in Calpe, was broken into at 2pm on Sunday afternoon.

The criminals blasted a hole through the booth and then ‘overrode’ the code to the safe and stole over €9,000 in cash in different currencies.

Heidi Bingham, co-owner of the business made the discovery and said that the whole place was completely ransacked. She said that the thieves entered through a ‘cleaning cupboard’ in an apartment block next door.

She also stated that neighbours may not have raised the alarm as the gang could h a v e b e e n pos ing a s ‘plumbe rs ’ or ‘concierges’ for the apartments.

A Guardia Civil source said the criminals had used a special device to scramble the code to open the safe and they currently have no suspects. But they added the gang chose the busiest time of year for the robbery meaning they are likely professional criminals who have been monitoring the business.

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COCA COLA has launched its ‘Circular S eas’ p r o j e c t o n t h e L ev an te b e a c h in Benidorm. The mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, the councillor for the Environment, Mónica Gómez, and other colleagues participated in the launch of the project, a corporate social responsibility initiative organised by Coca-Cola Iberia and carried out by El Papiro de Shem, with the collaboration of the City Council.

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Throughout the weekend, on the Levante beach, there will be an area where creative recreational activities will be carried out with the aim of raising awareness and promoting waste collection and preventing containers from ending up in the sea.

This activity does not generate any money for the government, Coca Cola or any of the sponsors and no products or drinks are sold.

Turtle campaign THE municipality of Villajoyosa has joined the campaign ‘Turtles in the Mediterranean,’ in order to raise awareness among swimmers and visitors to the beaches of the municipality about how to act in the presence of the loggerhead turtle on the coasts.

La Villajoyosa is one of the 43 municipalities in the Valencia region that have joined this campaign, promoted by the Oceanogràfic Foundation in collaboration with the Red Cross. Posters appeared on various beaches around the areas as well as in the municipal offices in

AWARENESS: Posters have appeared on beaches about turtles in the area.

order to make the public aware of what to do in the face of these sightings.

The campaign suggests that anyone who discovers the turtles on a beach should call 112 in order to report to the Department of Agriculture and Ecological Transition and the Oceanogràfic Foundation.

“We ask for the collaboration of citizens so that all those who visit our beaches and come across any loggerhead turtle will contact the relevant network for rescue and care,” said councillor for the Environment, José Carlos Gil.

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DISRUPTIVE: Rowdy passengers cause havoc on a flight from Cardiff to Alicante.

Rowdy stag do A GROUP of between 25 and 30 men flying from Cardiff to Alicante reportedly caused chaos and upset other passengers on a Vueling flight.

It is alleged that the rowdy men boarded the plane whilst making jokes about the plane crashing which upset some of the younger passengers. One of the group also threw a small bottle of gin towards the

front of the plane which narrowly missed the head of a toddler.

Esther Jenkins, 44, from Pontypridd told a Welsh newspaper that “the group were noisy throughout the flight, using bad language. As the flight went on, they became louder. A steward did ask them to keep the noise down on two occasions, however, alcohol was continued to be served

A FIRE broke out at around 1 2 . 3 0 p m o n S a t u r d a y, a t a f i s h a n d c h i p s h o p i n t h e A re n a l d e Javea beach.

The Local Police of Javea and re s c u e w o r k e r s f ro m t h e J a v e a R e d C ro s s i n t e r v e n e d a n d p e o ple were evacuated from inside the establishment. A fire engine and a command vehicle from the Denia Fire Station were also

to them. It got to the point where there was no beer left so they were then being served wine and shorts.”

The group were asked on several occasions to quieten down but were either abusive or ignored the requests. The group also played loud music as the plane touched down in Alicante.

A spokeswoman from Vueling said: “We are sorry

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to hear about Mrs Jenkins’ experience on board. Our crew is trained to analyse and identify abusive behaviour from passengers and we can assure that they had the situation under control in this occasion. “ We a l w a y s t r y t o p r o vide customers with the best possible experience when travelling with us and we apologise if our service fell below expectations.”

called to the scene as well as Civil Protection personnel from Javea and a Red Cross ambulance to assist the fire crew if necessary.

Nobody was injured in the incident and the fire was quickly extinguished saving the building from any major damage. No official cause of the blaze has been announced to the public.

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No buoys for Moraira THE Portet beach in Teulada-Moraira has still not installed ecological mooring buoys this summer which are essential to highlight to boats that they should not anchor on the seabed and posidonia. Last year the municipality of Marina Alta was a pioneer in the installation of these buoys which protect the ecosystem that lives on the coast.

Now a bureaucratic problem has delayed

the installation of these buoys meaning that boats are free to anchor in any area of the Cap d’Or. The town council of Teulada-Moraira has reported that the ecological buoys installed last year on the beach of Portet had a provisional permit and “this year we are pending the obtainment of the required authorisation by the Provincial Coast Service.”

DELAYS: Portet beach still has no ecological buoys to protect the posidonia.

Injured athlete THE city council of Benissa has taken over the medical expenses amounting to €9,300 for one of the members of the Municipal

School’s football players who suffered a severe injury to the ligaments in his knee. It was the new government that helped to move forward the efforts of the family of the boy to help with the costs of the operation and rehabilitation.

The mayor, Arturo Poquet, stated that “taking care of medical bills is an exercise of responsibility and humanity.”

The family of the injured athlete can now breathe a sigh of relief. The mother of the UD Benissa player said “justice has been done.”

IT’S BACK: The popular Foietes market.

Foietes market returns THE Wednesday municipal market returned this week to its traditional location of Foietes after the end of the season of musical events in the Ciudad Deportiva Guillermo Amor, as reported by councillor for Trade, Lorenzo Martinez.

During the last four weeks, the market has been held in the fairground of

t h e n e i g h b o u r h o o d o f E l s To l l s , t o “maintain its activity during the celebration of festivals in the sports complex of Foietes. An alternative location,” he added, “with which users are already familiar and offers all the services for the normal and comfortable development of the market, after the works of adaptation made by the city

council four years ago, with actions such as the creation of public toilets.”

After the dismantling of all the stages and stands that were erected for the Low Festival, the last musical event planned this summer in the facilities of Foietes, the market returned yesterday (Wednesday) with nearly 270 market stalls.

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War on illegal street sellers in Barcelona BARCELONA has declared war on street sellers and drafted in 100 Mossos d’Esquadra regional police, Urban Guard and Port Police specifically for the job.

They will be permanently stationed at ‘hot spots’ for street sellers between 9.30am and 10pm to prevent sellers laying out pitches in the form of blankets covered with watches, handbags and other goods.

These sites are generally in those areas busiest with tourists including the Rambla, the Rambla de Catalunya, Plaça de Catalunya, Passeig de Gràcia, Passeig de Joan de Borbó, Plaça de Pau Vila, Passeig de Colom and the Portal de la Pau. Deputy mayor of Prevention and Security, Albert Batlle, said there is no deadline for ending the operation, and it will continue until the problem is eradicated. He maintains that such sellers cause damage to legitimate shops.

Child porn arrest AN Italian wanted on child porn charges has been arrested at Tenerife North airport.

National Police executed an international arrest warrant issued by the Italian authorities. The unnamed man has been wanted on child abuse and porn charges after

the Carabinieri searched his house last year.

They had found child pornographic content allegedly recorded by the arrested man himself.

The Italian attaché in Spain and the Carabinieri collaborated in the arrest operation.

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Opportunities for Argentine migrants THE Spanish government has authorised work permits for more than 1,000 Argentine students to enter the country and apply for roles.

The applicants are made up of students between the ages of 25 and 30 years with medium and high qualifications in the technological, research and financial sectors.

Out of 3,000 applicants, 1,084 have been selected to receive a three-month work visa. In that time they will have a chance to have interviews with the companies they organised whilst in Argentina, and once a role has been confirmed, contracts and residencies will be issued.

The s c he me is the firs t implementation of an existing policy that was originally drafted in 2003, however this pioneering authorisation sees the first time it has

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JOB POSSIBILITIES: Secretary of State for Migration, Consuelo Rumí has been instrumental in the new scheme. been used.

The scheme was part of President Pedro Sanchez’s plan to open Spain’s doors to legal migration, providing a relief from the bureaucratic minefield involved with migrating and finding work.

Secretary of State for Migration, Consuelo Rumí explained: “The main objective

of this project is to consolidate a route of entry for professionals who, being of foreign nationality, maintain a link with Spain through their parents or grandparents.

“The selection has taken into account the best employability profiles and the needs of Spanish companies,” she continued.

Argentina was chosen as the first nation to participate in the initiative due to its strong links to Spain. According to the latest INE data, 465,666 Spaniards are currently living in Argentina.

The Argentine government has also expressed a strong interest and maximum collaboration in the scheme.

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Kids! You gotta love ‘em!

EW N Facebook viewers certainly do as videos featuring t he antics of toddlers prove hugely popular.

‘I am a sprinkler ’ s hows a little boy sitting in a fountain w ith the s pr a y of water giving the impression he is having a wee.

‘He must have had a few pints,’ commented one viewer in reference to the huge spray of water cascading in-

to the air.

‘Next morning regrets’ proved massively relatable as a little girl falls back-

ward s i n s h o ck as she opens a wallet we’ve all been there the morning after a heavy night out!

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Support for the EU grows CONFIDENCE in the EU has grown by nine percentage points in Spain since last year and approval now stands at 47 per cent, according to a new survey.

The Eurobarometer, which measures social and political attitudes across the bloc, found support for the bloc rose by two percentage points across the EU on average. The Spanish led in terms of feeling European, with 87 per cent say-

ing they consider themselves EU citizens compared to the bloc-wide average of 73 per cent.

More than four-fifths of Spanish back the euro compared with an average of 62 per cent across the EU. The top three issues for the Spanish were immigration, economy and climate change which were the same across the bloc. Climate change ranked higher than economy as an average.

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THE WEEK IN POLITICS

By Joe Gerrard SPAIN’S acting prime minister is once again courting smaller parties in the Congress of Deputies to secure support for a return to power after his investiture vote failure.

Pedro Sanchez began by travelling to Valencia City to meet with representatives from the regional Compromis party.

He was joined by the leftleaning Partido Socialista’s (PSOE) Organisational Secretary and acting Development Minister Jose Luis Abalos.

Acting Finance Minister Maria Jesus Montero said ahead of the visit that Sanchez would keep ‘discreet’ channels of communication open with such parties.

Sanchez’s current situation is a far cry from PSOE’s triumphalism following April’s general election and May’s local, regional and European vote.

Although PSOE won 123 seats, short of the 176 needed for a majority, a deal with the leftist Podemos and a handful of smaller parties seemed like a

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TRYING AGAIN: Sanchez is attempting to secure support. foregone conclusion.

That, coupled with the rout of the conservative Partido Popular (PP) and an underwhelming showing from the far-right Vox despite forecasts they would bag several seats, gave the left confidence.

But now the picture is completely different.

PSOE’s talks with Podemos ran until the 11th hour but came to naught, resulting in the latter abstaining in two investiture

votes which Sanchez lost.

That began a countdown for the acting prime minister to strike a workable deal and restage the votes by Monday September 23 or hold another election.

Hence this week’s meeting with Compromis. The party has one seat in Congress, but Sanchez needs all the support he can get.

King Felipe, whose constitutional duties include overseeing

indecisive electoral outcomes such as April’s, has said he would prefer politicians to reach an agreement before returning to the polls.

Uncertainty abounds, but one constant is that the PP and the centrist Ciudadanos both remain steadfast in their decision to vote against Sanchez’s investiture come what may.

Both parties have no doubt factored in the possibility of another election which could see the PP in particular claw back its April losses.

But the approach is placing a strain on Ciudadanos. Leader Albert Rivera recently packed the party’s National Executive with figures loyal to his approach after a raft of protest resignations. Meanwhile, Podemos sources indicated they wanted to reopen talks with Sanchez. But their chances of getting a coalition offer may have narrowed since they rejected the last one.

Coalitions common POLITICIANS across Spain’s regions have overwhelmingly acquiesced to coalition deals to govern after May’s elections while their national counterparts continue trying to come to terms with the fractured political landscape.

Analysis in Spanish media this week showed almost 40 million Spanish people now live under coalition governments at a regional level. Only four regional governments, Asturians, Extremadura, Castilla-La Mancha and Galicia are run by one party.

The left-leaning Partido Socialista (PSOE) controls the former three while the conservative Partido Popular (PP) rules the latter.

Elsewhere coalitions, sometimes featuring multiples parties, are the norm. Aragon and the Canary Islands are both governed by four-way coalitions. Two or three parties tends to be more common, and the way they align shows who could be prepared to work with who nationally.

The PP governs in four regions, Andaucia, Castilla y Leon, Madrid and Murcia, thanks to pacts with the centrist Ciudadanos.

The pact struck between the two parties in Andalucia at the start of this year, including backing from the far-right Vox, has become their blueprint for achieving regional power.

Elsewhere PSOE typically sides with the leftist Podemos achieving what acting Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez could not. It also tends to work with regionalist parties.

Poll tracker: • Partido Socialista (PSOE): 36.1 per cent, 137 seats • Partido Popular (PP): 17 per cent, 70 seats • Ciudadanos: 12.6 per cent, 37 seats • Unidos Podemos: 12.3 per cent, 33 seats • Result: PSOE largest party, no overall control

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BREXIT BRIEF Health insurance risk BRITISH travellers could be left without health coverage while holidaying in Europe if Britain leaves the EU without a deal in October, a senior opposition Labour figure has said.

Shadow Culture Secretary Tom Watson told British media ‘millions’ of families would face more expensive holidays because of the government’s no-deal approach.

“Over the school summer holidays, families across the country will have saved and planned for a holiday to spend special, quality time together, but this prime minister’s mishandling of Brexit could make holiday prices rocket,” Watson said.

“Boris Johnson’s reckless, senseless approach to Brexit will leave working families worse off. He must urgently rethink and take no deal off the table,” he added.

British holidaymakers would no longer be covered by European Health Insurance Cards (EHIC) if Britain leaves without a deal and would have to buy travel insurance.

The cards cover travellers for health claims ‘medically necessary’ treatment while travelling in the European Economic Area (EEA) and Switzerland.

Figures obtained by Labour showed more than 21,200 claims were made for under 16s under the scheme from January to June this year.

It comes as the NHS recently issued advice stating access to EU healthcare is ‘likely to change’ under a no-deal.

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Testing times

By Joe Gerrard BRITAIN’S new prime minister’s plan to achieve Brexit by October 31 with or without a deal is set to face its first test with new talks in Brussels.

The European Commission is due to hold talks with Boris Johnson to find a way forward on Brexit. A spokesperson for the Commission said the meetings aimed to avoid a no-deal which they added would cause significant economic disruption.

Johnson’s pledge to broker a better deal than predecessor Theresa May faced an immediate stumbling block.

Commission spokesperson Mina Andreeva said the bloc would not reopen the draft Withdrawal Agreement negotiated last year.

She added the EU could revisit the political declaration, the document which sketches out what a future relationship between Britain and the bloc would look like.

Johnson could achieve concessions on the latter but his pledge to scrap the Northern Ireland backstop is not feasible without Withdrawal Agree-

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‘Unprepared’ for no-deal MOST companies which export goods to the EU are not prepared to do business if Britain leaves the EU without a deal in October because they lack the required economic operator registration and identification (EORI) number, government figures suggest.

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RENEGOTIATION: Johnson (inset) is due to return to Brussels.

ment changes.

Brexit Secretary Steve Barclay called on the EU to look at the deal again because parliament would not accept it in its current form. May repeatedly failed to pass it and that ultimately proved to be her downfall.

If Johnson cannot secure changes then he currently plans to push for a no-deal, a path which is equally fraught with obstacles.

Health Secretary Matt Hancock

fired a warning shot to Remain-supporting MPs saying they had run out of time to block a no-deal in Parliament.

But Hancock’s opposition counterpart Jonathan Ashworth said there would be opportunities for lawmakers to stop a no-deal.

Conservative Remain-supporting MP Dominic Grieve said he would be willing to bring down the government to stop a no-deal. Johnson’s path to Brexit will not be smooth.

SECOND Brexit referendum supporters are planning to urge Remain backers to vote tactically to oust dozens of Brexiteer MPs if a snap general election is held later this year, according to leaked documents from the People’s Vote group.

PR call THE Full Fact charity has called on the government to explain how its almost €110m Prepare for Brexit information campaign will be ‘transparent, accurate and value for money.’

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Waterfall death A 26-YEAR-OLD Spanish man has died after what appears to have been a fatal fall from a waterfall on the Thai Island Ko Samui.

The Spanish Embassy in Thailand has made contact with the family of the deceased and organised for his body to be returned to Spain.

The deceased, who has been referred to as DR, was travelling around Asia last week with a group of seven friends enjoying the scenery and nightlife that the Ko Samui island in the Gulf of Thailand offers. DR and his friends reportedly decided to visit the series of waterfalls that is known as the Na Muang 2 waterfall area which is popular amongst visitors but notoriously unsafe.

While crossing one of the precipices, DR’s friends recall that he was nowhere to be seen so they started to look for him. When he didn’t show up they called the police and later notified the Kuson Songkroh Foundation who sent out a search party.

Later in the evening, after a search party had been looking for DR for some time, his body was located between two rocks further downstream. It wasn’t until the morning after however that his body was recovered as the police were not able to reach him in the dark. DR’s body is currently in Ko Samui hospital and is undergoing a post-mortem to accurately assess the cause of death.

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By Marco March A GANG that has allegedly smuggled 100 immigrants into Spain in 2019 and held a rival gang member hostage has been broken up.

National Police in Ceuta in collaboration with Europol arrested 10 people during seven searches in which they seized €4,700, three kilos of hashish, more than 1,000 tablets of karkubi - mixed hashish and psychotropic drugs - various knives and a fake gun.

The organisation sold Spanish identity documents to foreigners and smuggled Moroccan citizens into Spain by inflatable boats.

The nature of the organisation, which was also involved in drug trafficking, was of a markedly violent nature, even carrying out the kidnapping of a member of another criminal gang.

The kidnapped person was held for five days in a house located in the Ceutí del Príncipe neighbourhood, where he received continuous physical and psychological attacks until the required payment was made for a debt he owed the gang.

FATAL FALL: Na Muang waterfall.

A country with a passion for eating out on a regular basis OVER three quarters of Andalucians visit the local bars at least once a week and around 7 per cent do so every day according to a joint study conducted by Madison Market

Research and the Spanish Society of Dietetics and Food Sciences (SEDCA).

The reason for all this dining outdoors is due at least in part to the tapas culture of eat-

ing little and often. Statistics from the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food show that last year €34,539.32 was spent on food and drink consumed outside of the home.

According to SEDCA, eating in bars and restaurants does not necessarily represent bad eating habits as it is often thought. In fact SEDCA commend eating out as long as the food is good quality and not too rich in calories and fats. It also depends on what is on offer at what time as some fatty foods are best consumed earlier in the day.

Of course dietary advice goes hand in hand with exercise so SEDCA also recommend an active lifestyle which they suggest can be achieved by walking as much as possible. Responsible alcohol use is another key component in keeping a healthy diet and as beer is the most popular lunchtime tipple, SEDCA recommends hydrating with pure water before and after any alcohol intake.

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CAMPED OUT: Homeless people are living outside the Prado museum.

Homeless demand housing in Madrid

A GROUP of around 150 homeless people have set up camp outside the El Prado Museum in Madrid and are demanding that the government offer them a place to live.

Mayor Jose Luis Martinez Almeida spoke out against the protest declaring that public spaces may not be used as a campsite, but as of yet has made no attempt to remove them from the museum grounds.

Deputy Mayor Begona Villacis went as far as

to say that most of the protesters were not actually homeless and for the small number that were, she had offered temporary housing.

Since the economic crisis of 2008 and the refugee crisis of 2015 housing has been difficult to come by for those with limited resources.

There are currently 33,000 homeless in Spain according to government statistics and the poverty is clear to see in the parks of Madrid where large groups of refugees are living rough.

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Expats Guide to

Spanish Life

Organ donation 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.

As of 2010, Spain has operated an ‘opt-out’ (or presumed consent) system for deceased organ donation. This addresses the rate or refusal of potential donors or their families in giving permission for the use of organs. The rate of family refusal in Spain is 13 per cent, compared to 37 per cent in England (according to the National Transplant Organisation figures - ONT).

According to the ONT, Brits living in Spain are more likely to donate their organs than their countrymen back home.

It’s not necessary to have a donor card. What is important is to let family members and loved ones know your wishes in terms of organ donation.

Figures published by the Spanish ONT in 2017 put the country as world leader in donation and transplants, reaching a new record with 46.9 donors per million people and 5.261 transplants. Spain has been a global leader in organ donation and transplantation for the past 26 years.

Broken down by organ, there were 3,269 kidney surgeries (up 9 per cent on 2016), 1,247 liver transplants (up 8 per cent), 304 heart procedures (8 per cent rise), 363 lung surgeries (up 18 per cent), 70 pancreas transplants (down 4 per cent) and eight bowel surgical procedures (up 100 per cent).

According to the National Transplant Organisation (ONT), these surgeries are equivalent to six donors and 14 surgical procedures a day.

In addition, Spain saw a new record in bone marrow donation last year, with 78,291 new donors and an increase of 196 per cent over the previous year. At this rate, the country could reach its target of 400,000 bone marrow donors well before the mid-2020 goal.

In Spain the number of those on the waiting list was reduced to 4,896 in 2017, from 5,480, although the number of children waiting for organs increased to 74, from 48 a year earlier.

Lung and heart are viable for four to six hours after death, liver and pancreas 24 hours, kidney 72 hours, corneas 14 days, bone and skin five years, and heart valves up to 10 years. Small intestines, veins, tendons and ligaments can also be donated.

A single organ donor can save up to eight people and a single tissue donor may enhance the lives of up to 50 people.

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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Oil boss found dead

TROUBLE: Inflation in Venezuela is over 10 million per cent causing global unrest.

THE head of the Venezuelan oil company PDVSA has been found dead in an office in Madrid.

The circumstances surrounding the death of Juan Carlos Marquez Cabrera are currently being investigated but police have so far eluded to suicide as the most obvious cause.

Cabrera is of Spanish origin but had worked in Venezuela for many years un-

der the leadership of Hugo Chavez. For his role in the Venezuelan oil industry he was always a character of great interest for the US due to the ties that they and Russia both share in the business.

Cabrera was allegedly prepared to divulge sensitive details pertaining to the Venezuelan oil industry at a US court hearing after receiving several corruption charges from a judge in

Madrid last week.

The accused claimed that he knew many things in relation to Venezuela’s biggest export such as the origin of several million dollar transactions that have gone under the radar.

After Cabrera was reportedly found dead with his belt wrapped around his neck earlier this week, the judge ordered that the case be investigated immediately.

Fireman saves boy A FOUR-YEAR-OLD child has an off-duty fireman and first aid-trained hotel staff to thank for his life after he started to choke on an ice lolly.

Victor Monzon, a fireman in Gran Canaria, was on holiday with his wife and little boy at the island’s Cordial Mogán Hotel.

His wife entered the dining room when she noticed the situation: Marcos, a four-year-old boy, had choked on an ice lolly and was suffocating.

She alerted her husband, who rushed to help, aware that time is of the essence in these cases. The child

was already being cared for by the hotel’s sector chief, Juani González, who like the rest of the workers have first aid qualifications.

“Everything happened very quickly, in thousandths of a second,” explained Victor. “I took the child, who had turned blue, and I put him face down to give him a few slaps on the back.”

What he put into practice was the Heimlich manoeuvre, a first aid procedure that removes obstructions from the airway, using the variant for babies and young children.

Georgian gang busted A GANG of Georgian burglars who toured Spain to commit their crimes has been arrested in Salamanca.

Members of the National Police of Salamanca have dismantled the criminal or-

ganisation, detaining six men during raids on three homes.

The gang allegedly travelled to towns across Spain on burglary ‘tours’ where they would carry out several break-ins in a single day

before returning to Salamanca with their loot.

Police say the gang was well organised with each member having a clearly defined role. The detainees have been brought before the courts.

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AKITA INU: Classified as a dangerous dog.

Dog knifed to death A DOG has been knifed to death after it attacked and seriously injured a woman and slightly hurt two men in the family home.

The Akita Inu attacked the family in the town of Mataro (Barcelona). The animal was owned by one of the adult children and for unknown reasons, shortly after midnight on Tuesday, attacked the mother, aged about 60, the husband, aged 65, and one of the children, aged 25.

Faced with the violence of the attack, a second son took a knife and stabbed the dog several times.

The woman was rushed to Trias i Pujol hospital with very severe wounds, while the two injured men were slightly hurt.

The Akita Inu is a dog that comes from Japan and has its origins in the Japanese warriors, who used it for defence and attack, and to hunt bears.

In Spain it is catalogued as a dangerous breed.

Currently, the law considers potentially dangerous the following breeds and their crosses: Pit Bull Terrier, Staffordshire Bull Terrier, American Staffordshire Terrier, Rottweiler, Dogo Argentino, Fila Brasileiro, Tosa Inu and Akita Inu.

Prisoners’ favourite phones A MOBILE smaller than a cigarette lighter has become the number one phone smuggled into Spanish prisons.

The illegal mobile phone market in Spanish prisons has been on the rise for years, but for some time now the ‘minimobiles’ have been the main ones smuggled in.

At the moment about 1,500 phones of all types are confiscated in prisons each year, showing that it is common for prisoners to have access to a phone, despite it being prohibited.

In 2008 the Ministry of the Interior decided to install frequency inhibitors, so that any illicit phones would not work in any case.

But they are now obsolete as they only work against 2G and 3G phones.

Minimobiles are so small that they can easily be smuggled into prisons. Two were found hidden in the sole of a shoe for example, while others have been hidden in the rectum and only spotted by x-ray. They are cheap too, costing just €20.

Barcelona becoming more dangerous FIVE people were reportedly murdered in Barcelona throughout July.

The latest killing of a young man took place in the port area of the city. Perhaps just as alarming as the murders themselves are the figures that have been released - these murders in July make up 25 per cent of all murders that have been committed so far in Barcelona this year.

With a crime rate of 120 per thousand residents, people have taken to Twitter to highlight any crimes such as violence or pickpockets to warn each other, although the police fear that this may lead to people taking the law into their own hands.

People are encouraged to report crimes to the police for them to handle and to remain vigilant and safe and to remain calm and not incite panic.

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Slap-up Sunday WHO doesn’t love the weekend, in particular that typically British tradition of a slapup Sunday lunch with family and or friends.

But which do you prefer?

Are you a firm favourite of a full roast dinner with all of the trimmings and sauces, or have you been swayed by the Spanish delights on offer at chiringuitos on the beach, and partial to a selection of fresh fish.

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AI ‘opportunity’ SPAIN has an opportunity to become a European leader in artificial intelligence (AI), its industry minister has said.

Reyes Maroto, who attended a recent conference o n t h e su b j e c t, s a id S p ain h ad learned about the technological possibilities of AI ‘very fast’ despite joining the race late.

“We have the resources and the talent. We are already deploying 5G networks and we must also take advantage of this second digital dividend,” Maroto said.

The country now has a ‘unique’ opportunity to take advantage of the strategic technology and emerge as an AI frontrunner in Europe, the minister added.

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A SERBIAN man brandishing a knife paraded a bloodstained countryman he was holding hostage on a balcony in the tourist hotspot of Puerto Duquesa on the Costa del Sol. Four Local Police officers rushed to the rescue when the men - one handcuffed, blindfolded and helpless - appeared on the balcony in full view of passing tourists.

The knifeman was threatening to kill his compatriot, say police.

Officers tried to calm the aggressor, with one keeping him talking while the others raced to the flat where they subdued the knifeman and rescued his victim.

The mayor of Manilva, Mario Jiménez, has congratulated the policemen for their rapid action, professionalism and courage.

He added that violence is rare in the municipality, but it is important that police act quickly when needed to ensure the safety of citizens.

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Knife wielding Serb

ACTION: Police acted quickly and rescued a bloodstained man.

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EU president visits Spain THE newly elected president of the European Commission, Germany’s Ursula von der Leyen visited Spain last week to hold a working lunch with the president of the acting Government, Pedro Sánchez and acting Foreign Minister, Josep Borrell.

Ursula von der Leyen’s trip to Spain was part of a European tour of member states to assemble her new Executive Committee.

The Spanish Commissioner Sánchez is also the Vice-President of the Commission and a high representative, and has been tasked with assisting in the recruitment process.

Under promises given during her election campaign, van der Leven requested that her cabinet be formed of 50 per cent male and 50 per cent female members, with each member state offering up two candidates, one of each gender.

However, so far the confirmed

VISIT: President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. members are in the majority male, with only Malta represented by a female candidate.

Von der Leyen faces an uphill task committing to her pledge, as historically since the European Commission first assembled in 1958, there have been a total of 183 members, out of which only 35 have been female, less than 20 per cent.

WHO: Hike price of cigarettes THE World Health Organisation (WHO) has called on Spain to raise the average price of a packet of cigarettes to €8.

At the moment a pack costs an average of €5. This compares to the most expensive average price in the world, which is €18 in Australia.

WHO points out that whenever prices are hiked consumer response is immediate. In countries like France more than a million smokers quit when taxes were significantly raised.

Roberto Iglesias, from the Department

of Disease Prevention at WHO said that “the price of tobacco in Spain should be increased because we are below average.”

WHO gives the UK as a good example of a country fighting tobacco addiction.

Not only is the price high but the redesign of cigarette packs to plain wrapping is designed to make them less attractive to buy.

While experts in Spain are looking at financing stop smoking treatments, they say the best way to fight tobacco is to prevent people starting in the first place.

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ITV appointment problems in Mallorca THE ITV (the inspection of vehicles) is something that all vehicles have to pass in Spain to ensure that all cars are working properly and safe to drive.

Driv i n g a c a r t h a t d o e s n o t have an ITV will result in a fine of €200.

But in Mallorca, there are reportedly no appointments available until at least November at most centres and none until December in Palma. If you decide to go to the ITV without an appoint m e n t t h e n y o u c o u ld b e waiting up to four to five hours to be seen.

This huge backlog is causing concern amongst motorists who wish to stay within the law and pass t h e I T V a n d av o id th e €200 fine but cannot afford to

wait until the end of the year or s p e n d fo u r o r five hours in a queue.

This concern has reportedly g iv en ris e to ‘fraudule nt a ppointments’ appearing online offering a previously booked slot for €100.

To combat these fraudulent appointments, the president of the Consell de Mallorca, Catalina Cladera, and the director of Mobility and Infrastructures, Ivan Sevillano, has announced a measure that should streamline the system and avoid long waiting lists.

“All those appointments that do not have a registration numb e r w ill b e rele a s e d. The y amount to 14,800,” Sevillano told the media.

POSSIBLE SITE: The Isaac Newton Telescope network in La Palma.

La Palma wants the TMT telescope THE Minister for Science, Innovation and Universities Pedro Duque has claimed that La Palma is ready to set up the Thirty Metre Telescope (TMT) on the island if it is not sanctioned in Hawaii.

Activists in Hawaii are protesting against the installation of the giant telescope on their island as scientists want to build it on the sacred summit

of Mauna Kea which is the tallest volcano in Hawaii and when measured from its underwater base, the tallest mountain in the world.

At over 4,000 metres above sea level, the dormant Mauna Kea is perfect to look into space as there is minimal cloud cover and the clarity of the sky is close to the transparency of the sky in the Atacama desert,

the driest place in the world.

In a meeting at the Council of the Astrophysics Institute of the Canary Islands (IAC) between IAC director Francisco Rebolo and Minister for the Economy, Knowledge and Government Employment Carolina Darias, the Minister appeared fully committed and ready to build the TMT on the Canary Island at a moment’s notice.

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Putting off having children SPAIN is the European Union country where women delay motherhood for the longest.

According to statistics published by Eurostat, 8.8 per cent of Spanish women have their first child after the age of 40.

This puts the country top of the European list, with the most first-time mothers over the age of 40, taking over from Italian women, who are now in second position.

Spain is also among the countries in the Union with the highest percentage of births amongst mothers aged 50 and over. Top is Italy, with 306 births, then the United Kingdom with 157 then Spain, with 130 births to mothers of that age. Of the 194,465 births in Spain in 2017, a total of 117,198 were to mothers aged between 30 and 39.

According to data from the Instituto Nacional de Estadísitca (NIE), by 2018 the average age for first time mothers in Spain had risen to 32.2 years.

In addition, the fertility rate in Spain is also among the lowest: 1.25 children per woman.

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73-year-old retiree cycles around Spain A RETIRED firefighter has circumnavigated Spain on an electric bicycle covering over 4,000 kilometres at the age of 73.

Miguel Vivo set off from Bilbao with a friend in June and whereas his friend had to stop from exhaustion in Murcia, Vivo went on to complete the full circuit of Spain finishing in Basilica de Bogoña a month later.

The Bilbao firefighter is no stranger to adventure, having spent a

large portion of his life canoeing, trekking, paragliding and even motorcycling across South East Asia for three months.

This is sadly his last big adventure as he puts it in his biography. He has been suffering from cancer for some time and does not feel up to another grand world tour but he commented in his book expressing that if he were to die tomorrow, at least he has lived an intense life.

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BIG ADVENTURE: The Haibike electric bike similar to that used by Miguel Vivo to ride around Spain.

A YOUNG woman died after being crushed by her car as she tried to park.

Aroa Gastón Lagar, aged 25, was entering her garage in the town of Nogales (Extremadura). Police believe she left the driver’s door open when she got out of the car. At that moment the car began to roll backwards trapping her between the door of the vehicle and the frame of the garage.

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Belgians rescued GUARDIA CIVIL have rescued two Belgian hikers who became lost and stranded in a Spanish mountain range.

The duo had been making their descent from a walk in the Picos de Europa in northern Spain when they came to a particularly difficult passage.

With markers difficult to interpret they ended up taking a wrong turning, and became stranded when they realised they couldn’t continue descending and were unable to go back either.

They managed to contact Guardia Civil with their coordinates, who sent a mountain rescue team in a helicopter to find them. In an operation made difficult by fog, they were located and picked up at an altitude of 2,000 metres.

They were then taken to a cable car station where they were found to be unharmed but exhausted.

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Moorish remains demolished THE Malaga Metro team has bulldozed through an ancient Muslim archeological site that has been there since the 11th century.

The Guadalmedina train station has taken precedence over the centuries o l d N a s r i d Wa l l a n d h a s thusly replaced it. Some archeologists have expressed that the Nasrid area was so unique that it seemed to defy the effects of time and appeared as though it had been unchanged for almost a millennia.

The Department for Culture in Andalucia is apparently furious with the decision to build over this historic site and has declared the actions of the Malaga Metro as ‘unforgivable’ in a recent council statement.

The rail works are being conducted directly beside El Corte Ingles which is situated parallel to the Muslim historical site. The

REMAINS: Railways supplanting protected historic areas. area next to the Nasrid Wall was previously classified as a Property of Cultural Interest (BIC), but the railway company

has gone ahead with the development anyway.

Even though the council has designated certain areas of this historic Muslim

quarter as ‘protected,’ most of it has been decimated and the remains are now only a shadow of what they used to be.

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Domestic violence death toll JULY was a bloody month when it came to domestic violence in Spain. Nine women and a child died at the hands of men in the 31 days, making it the worst month since January when seven died at the hands of partners or ex-partners.

Those who have died have been named as Piedad, Mónika, María Asunción, Elena, María del Carmen, Rita, Eva, Maruchi, María Josefa and little Cristian.

So far this year at least 37 women have been killed in incidents of domestic violence, the highest figure since 2011.

What stands out about the July figures is the victims themselves. Often murdered women have previously reported abuse, but in July most had not made any previous complaints.

Another recurring pattern is that many of the men who murdered their partner or ex then committed suicide immediately afterwards, or tried to do so.

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CARLOS BAOS WE CAN HELP YOU ALTHOUGH i t see ms somewhat strange, there are quite a f e w si t u a t i o n s in which a property is built, sometimes by mistake and

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Construction on other people’s land in Spain in good faith and sometime s o n p u rp o s e a nd knowing it, on land owned b y s o me o n e e ls e w ith out their permission.

This can occur in different situations such as for example:

W he n s ome one buys a plot of land thinking that it has a specific surface and s ha pe a nd tha t is not the c a s e , be c a us e the y ha ve been given incorrect information, or the cadastral plan does not correspond to the reality and the person ends up building by error, part or all of the construction on a neighbour’s plot.

Family may have built on ground that belongs to the other. For example a couple who decides to build their holida y home obta ining money from one of them (a non-owner), on the other’s la nd (w ho is de e me d the owner).

Cases where the same land is registered by mistake and is duplicated in the Land Registry and there are therefore two owners and two different registry numbers for the same plot, which is called double reg-

istration.

There are other cases as well which make the possibility of building on another person’s land more common than one would expect.

Le ga l R e gula tion. The construction on foreign soil or land is regulated in the Spanish civil code, and one must take into account: A rtic le 358 w hic h s a ys that in principle what has be e n built on s ome one else’s land belongs to the land owner. This is the gene ra l princ iple , a lthough legally there are some circ ums ta nc e s tha t mus t be considered, as we will see below.

Article 361 introduces the concept of GOOD FAITH, in s uc h a w a y, tha t if the person who built on anothe r ’s la nd did s o in good faith, then the landowner must choose between: Keeping for themselves

the work done and paying compensation to the person who undertook the work in an am ount det er m i ned i n the Spanish Civil Code itself, or The l andowner coul d force the person who built the property to pay a commercial price for the land.

I f however t he per son who built on the land, did it in bad faith, then according to article 362, they will forf ei t what has been bui l t without any right to compensation.

The person who built in good faith on land that they believed was their own, can claim compensation and details are included in articles 453 and 454 of t he Ci vi l Code, which effectively all ow t hem t o r ecl ai m t he costs of necessary work undertaken, but not for anything that may be considered unnecessary.

The r i ght s t hat one can cl ai m i f one has bui l t on someone else’s land, will depend in the first place on whether they have acted in good or bad faith.

For practical purposes, it will be essential to be able to prove the expenses paid by presenting corresponding invoices from builders, suppliers, etc.

Therefore, before acquiring a property in Spain or carrying out a construction on your own, it is necessary t hat you m ake sur e t hat a proper study and due diligence i s done by your lawyer.

If you wish to receive exper t l egal advi ce i n t hi s area, contact us and we will help you.

The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice it simply transmits information related to legal issues.

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A PUBLIC parking lot in Jaen has become the unlikely site of the very first vending machine to sell religious artefacts in Spain.

The novel idea was the brainchild of entrepreneur Rafael Calzado who spotted a gap in the vending machine market.

He says he got the idea after taking over his family’s haberdashery business in Andújar (Jaén). Since 1965 the El Danubio haberdashery has been producing images and artefacts of the Virgin de la Cabeza, and he saw a vending machine as the perfect opportunity to create a 24-hour point of sale.

From the vending machine you can purchase images of saints’ bracelets with the medal of the Virgin of the Head or even a flash drive with photos of the Virgin of the Head. Items start from €3 to €21.50 and you can also buy gourmet products such as different extra virgin olive oils, jams and caviar.

Business has been steady for the vending machine however Rafael remains optimistic.

“So far business is good, it will be necessary however to wait at least one year to see how it works and if expectations are really met. What is clear is that for now the word of mouth is working and the machine has already become a unique attraction for parking.”

The machine is located in the public parking area next to the City Council building.

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Vending for religious items

TECHNICAL DECISION: The Spanish frigate Méndez Núñez was recently withdrawn from the Persian Gulf.

Tensions grow between Spain and the US RELATIONS between the United States and Spain have strained over the past few weeks after the Spanish government rejected proposals to participate in a joint mission in the Strait of Hormuz, Iran.

Spain has backed its close ally Germany in its refusal to partake, and has left the US ‘disappointed’ that its proposed patrol fleet has hit a stumbling block.

Donald Trump’s plan was to create a joint maritime patrol of the Strait, which is the fifth largest oil transit

area in the world, to protect European oil tankers from Iranian ‘piracy’ in the Persian Gulf.

However Spain’s involvement in the programme was withdrawn after Boris Johnson’s recent election in UK parliament, and his election of British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab who stated that, “the European naval fleet was unfeasible without the support of the United States.”

His statement enraged European nations and led to the withdrawal of both Spain and Germany.

Spain has recently withdrawn its frigate, the Méndez Núñez from the area due to increasing tensions between Washington and Tehran. Margarita Robles, Minister of Defence, justified the withdrawal as ‘a technical decision and not a political decision.’

However it does maintain it’s presence in the Indian Ocean for Operation Atalanta. It currently has a Navarra frigate and a P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft patrolling the area protecting the fishing fleets in the area.

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Top in festival tourism SPAIN has for the first time positioned itself ahead of the United States as the second most popular holiday destination amongst foreign tourists to enjoy a festival or event.

A study conducted by StubHub has shown that during the second quarter of this year tourists’ preferred country specifically for visiting a sporting or musical event was the UK, Spain however came in at a close second pushing the US down the podium to third.

The ticket sales website StubHub which is owned by eBay calculated that the highest percentage of foreign tourists visiting Spain to see their favourite band or sports team were US nationals.

Seeing that only 21 per cent of acts that foreigners come to witness actually hail from Spain, the 79 per cent of acts that come to perform in Spain appear to be drawing the biggest crowd.

Ed Sheeran and Elton John are the biggest names on the roster drawing the biggest crowds in Barcelona and Madrid.

It would appear then that those who would rather not suffer the British weather and American prices to watch their favourite musicians and sports stars are going to Spain instead, spending an average of €430 per head at each event whilst enjoying a side of vitamin D.

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FIRST: PP Leader Cayetana Álvarez de Toledo (PP).

All female front for Congress FOR the first time in history the four main political parties in Spain will have a female spokesperson in the Spanish Congress. Álvarez de Toledo (PP), Adriana Lastra (PSOE), Inés Arrimadas (Cs) and Irene Montero (UP) will form the new public facing team that will represent Spain on the political front line.

The appointing of the four female spokespersons can be attributed to good fortune that they have all been elected simultaneously, however the enlisting marks a pivotal moment in the country’s political campaign for gender equality.

“There has been ‘the fortunate circumstance’ that the appointment of these four women coincided, but the essential thing has been deliberately positive discrimination. And, 10 years later, this is the fruit,” re-

flects Ignacio Varela.

Over the past few years, all of the major parties have been heavily campaigning for equal rights and equal pay. The scheme has so far paid dividends as the current percentage of female representation in parliament is 47 per cent.

The spokespersons will also be joined by representatives from the remaining smaller parties, Laura Borràs for the Junta per Catalunya, Mertxe Aizpurua of EH Bildu, and Ana Oramas of Canary Coalition.

The new congressional panel mirrors the effects of the campaigns to bring the genders to equality throughout positions of power.

“Only using laws will not achieve real equality, but without them either, and the political world should serve as an example to society,” said the president of Congress, Meritxell Batet.

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Benidorm NEWS Hybrids for Local Police BENIDORM’S Local Police recently took delivery of seven new hybrid vehicles.

The force’s 20-vehicle fleet has been completely updated and Benidorm’s mayor Toni Perez pointed out that the oldest number-plate is barely two years old.

“In line with our ‘continued renovation’ policy it is essential that vehicles incorporate innovation and sustainability,” Perez said.

“A reduced carbon footprint is a principal objective both for the corporation and the town itself,” he added.

Four of the new Kia Niro patrol cars, which are now ready to use with the police livery, will be used mainly to patrol Benidorm’s promenades, while the remainder will be unmarked.

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NEW WHEELS: Mayor Toni Perez takes a look.

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MARKET EXCUSE: ‘Potato man’ was buying fruit.

Round One to the potato men THE ‘potato men’ have been on Benidorm’s streets for decades.

They invite the public to locate a pea hidden under one of three hollowed-out potatoes, but the punters always lose and their accomplices pick onlookers’ pockets.

The town hall intended to thwart them with charges of grave disobedience but the Alicante High Court recently upheld an appeal against a 12-month sentence.

The accused claimed he was loitering at the open-air market only to buy fruit, not setting up his pitch.

The court ruled there was insufficient evidence to convict him of grave disobedience, although he was guilty of a misdemeanour punishable with a fine.

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Albir NEWS Good start to the summer PUPILS at the Doble Amor occupational centre recently celebrated the end of the summer term by visiting Albir.

A total of 35 people - those attending the centre and their teachers - spent time at the Villa Roman open air museum, the putting green and Eucalyptus park.

This is the sixth time that the centre has celebrated the start of the summer in this way and the festivities were joined

by Social Welfare councillor Marisa Cortes, Groups councillor Martine Mertens and Youth councillor Laura Sevilla amongst other members of the municipal Corporation.

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EUCALYPTUS PARK: Day out for Doble Amor.

Moonlight concerts ALBIR will host a series of weekly concerts each Friday throughout August.

The third edition of Concerts a la lluna de

l’Albir (Concerts under the Albir moon) will be held on August, 9, 16, 23 and 30, with each starting at 10pm.

T h i s F r i d a y ’s c o n c e r t

offers folk, soul, rock, Latin jazz and samba from the One Beat Duo at t h e Vi l l a R o m a n a o p e n air museum near the Albir seafront.

The following week, on August 16, there will be a free concert in Calle Federico Garcia Lorca performed by the Martegiani and Di Fulvio Duo - Carinhosoa - with vocalist, guitar and bass.

The concerts continue on August 23 with the guitar duo, Ausias and Ruben Pareja at the Centro Social Platja Albir.

O n F r i d a y, A u g u s t 3 0 , the last of the summer concerts features the Duo Cuenca with their piano and dance spectacle, Spanish Music and Dance.

The €10 entrance tickets are on sale an hour before each concert with 20 per cent discounts for pensioners of all ages, the o v e r- 6 5 s a n d y o u n g p e o ple.

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Albir NEWS Beach made tourist-ready COINCIDING with the start of the high season, Albir ’s beach was piled high with seaweed that was beginning to rot.

The seaweed, including Posidonia, had been washed up on the Raco de l’Albir beach during the stormy seas brought by strong Levanter winds some days earlier.

Although the seaweed is environmentally-friendly, it is not necessarily welcomed by beachgoers and the town hall’s Beaches and Technical services, together with the town’s street and beach-cleaning concessionary, joined forces to clear the Raco de l’Albir.

The seaweed was removed manually and the shingle and pebble beach, which has received a Blue Flag for 33 consecutive years was in the pristine condition that tourists have come to expect.

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ALBIR BEACH: Before and after the clean-up.

Art agreement signed THE town hall and the ArtAvant association renewed the collaboration agreement they entered into many years ago.

Both are committed to generating and promoting art and the recent signing was attended by Institutional Relations councillor Mayte Garcia, Culture councillor Manuel Casado, ArtAvant’s president Isabel Pedrola and the association’s secretary Enrique Ramirez.

ArtAvant is a national association open to all who are interested in artistic creativity and at present has around 30 members of various nationalities.

ArtAvant’s principle objectives are promoting and making known the work of its members, making art available in all its facets while encouraging communication, the interchange of ideas and cooperation amongst artists.

Since the association’s creation in 2007, its members have exhibited their work in different towns in the Alicante province.

This includes the annual Encuentro de Pintores (Painters’ Meeting) on Albir beach.

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Alfaz del Pi NEWS

ALFAZ football club’s youth team was eliminated from the Norway Cup in Oslo.

CF l’Alfas trainer Pepe Resina said afterwards that the 1-0 elimination was particularly disappointing as the Alfaz boys lost during extra time with a last-minute penalty for Tertness FK. Until their elimination the Alfaz team had done very well, winning five of their six games and, according to team sources, returned to Alfaz ‘with their honour intact.’

The Norway Cup is the world’s second largest football cup for young players aged between 10 and 19, attracting

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Disappointment for youth team

NORWAY CUP: Alfaz side won five of six games. more than 1,000 teams to Oslo each year and one of the most important events in the amateur league.

Exactly 55,000 teams have

competed in the Norway Cup since it was first held in 1972 and for many of the players it represents the first step in a football career, the organisers

said. Norway’s sports elite, many of them footballers are already familiar with Alfaz, which they visit in January to train.

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ALTEA Town Hall is donating €40,000 to local associations.

Doble Amor, Asociacion Integra Marina Baixa, Anemona, the Gargasindi school’s parents’ association, the Red Cross, Expedicion Juita (Friends of the Saharawi People) Asociacion Luali (Friends of the Saharawi People), Corazon Expres and Peluts de la Marina recently signed agreements for municipal grants.

It was municipal policy to support registered groups, explained Social Welfare councillor Jose Luis Leon Gascon.

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Grants for local associations

SIGN HERE: Grants for Altea associations.

He also said that the town hall was currently processing

submissions from other associations, and it was still pos-

sible to apply for grants up to September 30.

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Jalon - Orba Valley NEWS Xalo Vuelta crosses Vall de Pop

THE Vuelta a España cycle race passes through Jalon on August 25.

Along with the Italian Giro and the Tour de France, the Vuelta is the third of the Grand Tour races and the topclass cyclists will cross Jalon during the second stage between Benidorm and Calpe.

The riders leave Benidorm at 11am on the 198.8 kilometres to Calpe, first making for La Nucia before passing through Polop and Callosa, Guadalest and Benimantell.

Awaiting them will be the 737-metre ascent of the Confrides mountain pass before they continue to Benasua and Benilloba with another ascent of 269 metres.

The peloton and leaders

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A cool idea RED wine from Jalon has been transformed into an ice-cream palate cleanser.

Master ice-cream maker Marco Miquel from Denia has used a reduction of Bodegas Xalo’s Marnes wine to create an ice-cream that will be presented to diners eating meat dishes at a Jalon restaurant.

Made from Giro grapes, this wine is described by experts as retaining ‘nuances of freshness while providing the maturity of a red wine with character.’

At the launch of the Marnes ice-cream, Marco Miquel, restaurant-owner Luis Bollain and Daniel Fullana from Bodegas Xalo explained how they had worked together to produce it.

Bollain and Fullana agreed that all the mer-

it should go to Miquel who in turn declared that creating the ice-cream had been a ‘thrilling’ experience. As it was intended to accompany meat it had to be very different from the usual ices sold in an ice-cream parlour, he said.

Miquel has also created another ice-cream, this time for dessert, using mistela made from muscatel grapes grown by Jalon’s Virgen Pobre Cooperative.

Both were a rational way of boosting Marina Alta products instead of promoting ices made with exotic imported fruit, he said.

David Fullana also stressed the importance of the ice-cream initiative that opened the door to a wide variety of opportunities for Bodega Xalo’s award-winning wines.

Bull-running continues JALON’S Sant Domenec fiestas are coming to an end although bull-running continues until August 11.

The Entry of the Bulls in the Plaza Mayor is scheduled for 7pm this Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, with bull-running usually beginning at 7.30pm, with later sessions at 12.15am and 12.45am.

Saturday has sessions at 9.30am and 11.30am as well as at night, followed by a Disco at 1am. Mock bull-running starts at 6pm on Sunday, with a Charlotada comedy session at 7pm and final sessions at 12.15am and 12.45am.

then make for Alcoy and Cocentaina, crossing 10 more towns and villages before reaching Castell de Castells and the Vall de Pop on the CV-720 road.

They follow this through Benigembla and Parcent before taking the CV-750 at the Alcalali-Jalon crossroads, later switching to the CV-745 in Lliber.

The riders carry on through Senija and Benissa to Calpe before leaving for Benitachell, ascending the 285metre Puig de la Llorença and returning to Calpe via Teulada and Moraira.

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Calpe Peñon parking made easier

JORDI BARRANCO took over from Calpe’s mayor Ana Sala for one day during the town’s Virgen de las Nieves fiestas.

He did so on Dia dels Fadrins (Bachelors’ Day) when, in keeping with tradition, an 18-year-old boy amongst the fiestas organisers takes over as the municipality’s principal authority.

From the town hall balcony, Barranco addressed the festeros, residents and visitors gathered in Plaza Miguel Rosello.

In his first official appearance he gave the order the cabilas - where much of the eating, drinking and making merry takes place - should remain open until 6.30am each day during the celebrations.

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Mayor for a day

JORDI BARRANCO: Mayor for a day during Calpe fiestas.

CALPE’S mayor Ana Sala will seek Generalitat permission to tidy up land used for parking at the Peñon.

The regional government, which owns the plot, has allowed cars to park on the plot at the entrance to the Peñon de Ifach national park for some time.

This is where the pedestrian path up to the huge outcrop begins but the land needs attention and the town hall hopes to improve access both for vehicles and visitors to the national park.

The local government has asked the Generalitat to allow it to take over an empty house, also adjoining the pedestrian path and park entrance, to use as a tourist information point and restaurant.

The 730-square metre property, which is situated on 6,452 square metres of land giving onto the north face of the Peñon, was acquired by the Generalitat in 1999 and is currently unused.

Listen to the words IVAN SOUZA AMADOR, Entertainments monitor of 32 at a Calpe hotel, gives dance sessions on the La Fossa beach.

Dozens of beachgoers attend his energetic classes accompanied by Latin American reggaeton, merengue and salsa but Ivan recently noticed that two of the most active participants deliberately stopped moving when

some of the most popular music was played.

At the end of the session he learnt that both women belonged to the women’s association, Calp Mujeres por la Igualdad (Calpe Women for Equality), and they stopped dancing in protest at the songs’ sexist and misogynist lyrics.

Ivan promised to substitute those particular numbers, understanding that they normalised messages degrading to women, and the La Fossa sessions have continued without them.

The two women thanked him and other monitors at the hotels for their commitment to combatting chauvinism and defending women’s dignity.

Library’s Violet Section VIOLET is the colour of the women’s movement in Spain and Calpe’s municipal library now has an Espai Violeta.

The Joannot Martorell library’s Violet Section has 150 books, some acquired with a grant, that are all related to gender,

equality, self-help and literature for adults, children and young people.

The Espai Violeta is clearly signposted in the library and the books are easily identified by a violet-coloured band on the spine.

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is brought to you by Fiestas not quite over GARDEN WASTE: Town hall crackdown on dumping.

Green rubbish is still rubbish CALPE is cracking down on residents and gardening firms who dump garden rubbish in the wrong places.

The Local Police have received instructions to be on the watch to ensure that rubbish collection points are not inundated with pruned branches and vegetation.

The town’s sprawling layout encourages residents - and often visitors - to dump hard-to-dispose-of rubbish that is later problematic to access and remove.

The town hall has now decided to take a tough line and the Local Police have orders to identify and fine the culprits.

When necessary householders can take garden waste to the Punto Blanco in Avenida del Pais Valencia while professionals should take prunings and vegetation to the authorised tip.

Throwing away rubbish of this kind anywhere other than at these locations, whether on publicly or privately-owned plots including wasteland, is prohibited and likely to incur a fine.

CALPE’S Virgen de las Nieves fiestas are drawing to a close and finish this Sunday, August 11.

The main events began with the traditional Entra de la murta with members of the Fiestas Committee in traditional dress throwing flowers.

August 4 saw the Offering of Flowers at the Virgen de las Nieves parish church followed by the big day on August 5 with Mass and mascleta fireworks whose accent is on noise, not colour.

There was a procession through the Old Town as dusk fell and a monumental fireworks display at night on the Bol beach.

Bous continue each day in the local streets and today, Thursday August 8, bull-running sessions begin at 7pm and 7.30pm with another at midnight and 12.30am.

Tomorrow, Friday, sees another session at 7.30pm with more at midnight and 12.30am.

There will be mock bull-running for children at mid-day on Saturday with a final. bous session at 7.30pm.

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THE Moraira, Calpe, Javea and Denia fishing fleets had 66 boats between them by 2018, compared with 87 in 2008.

They also had smaller crews, as by 2012 they totalled 250 instead of the 313 who were working on the fishing boats a decade ago.

Even 10 years ago, Moraira’s fleet and its share of the sector were considerably smaller than in neighbouring towns.

The seven Moraira boats registered in 2008 had been reduced to three by 2018 and the 16 local fishermen had dwindled to six by 2008.

The total volume of catches over the last 10 years descended from an annual 4,903,933 kilos to 3,396,069 kilos, while Moraira’s share fell from an annual 52,406 kilos to 12,872 ki-

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MORAIRA PORT: More pleasure craft than fishing boats. los. Fewer younger people are following in the footsteps of

their grandfathers and only 0.15 per cent of the Marina Alta’s

registered population are employed by the once-powerful fishing fleets.

Overall, the industry that traditionally sustained the Marina Alta’s coastal area, together with agriculture, has shrunk by approximately a quarter in a decade.

These statistics recently published by the official Marina Observatorio were described as ‘worrying’ by industry sources who viewed this latest analysis as ‘bordering on ruinous.’

AECO joins Cedma circle TEULADA-MORAIRA’s shopkeepers’ association AECO is now a full member of Cedma, the Marina Alta’s Business Circle.

AECO sources explained that this was achieved thanks to Cedma’s new president Benito Mestre and also the mediation of Mariano Espinosao, a Cedma member and also president of AEA. At Cedma’s latest meeting, Mestre also gave details of Cedma’s contacts with mayors from several Marina Alta towns during the first month of his mandate, explaining that the talks would eventually take in the entire area.

During these meetings, Mestre stressed local administrations’ lack of agility and Cedma’s plans for a debate at all levels of the public and private sectors.

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FIJO FESTIVAL: Young musicians at a past edition.

Encouraging future musicians TEULADA-MORAIRA’S Auditorium recently cohosted the seventh International Festival of Youth Orchestras (FIJO).

For five days young musicians from Alicante, Chile, Canada and Thailand have been playing to a u d i e n c e s i n Te u l a d a Moraira as well as at ADDA - the Diputacion’s Auditorium in Alicante City and the International Auditorium in Torrevieja.

This festival of musical excellence promoted by A l i c a n t e ’s provincial council, the Diputacion, was proposed seven years ago by its artistic director Francisco Maestre.

Since the FIJO festival’s creation in 2012, TeuladaMoraira has made avail-

able its Auditorium for the concerts, offering the public the opportunity of hearing good music and encouraging young people who are hoping for careers as professional musicians.

The series of concerts in Teulada-Moraira, Alicante C i t y a n d To r r e v i e j a a l s o promote understanding, cooperation and comradeship between different cultures, Diputacion sources explained, and at the same time FIJO provides the province with another cultural and tourism opportunity.

The concerts, held each day at 8pm, were free although audiences were limited to the Auditorium’s permitted capacity.

The Thailand orchestra

performed pieces by Kiangsiri, Sarasate and Tchaikovsky with their Alicante counterparts offering a repertoire that included Granados and Dvorak.

The orchestra from Chile played pieces by S a l a s , Vi l l a - L o b o s a n d Beethoven while the C a n a d a Yo u t h O r c h e s t r a interpreted works by M i l l e r, M a n u e l d e F a l l a and Mahler.

All four orchestras took part in the grand FIJO gala concert under the direction of Francisco Maestre, with a programme that included Bruch’s First Violin Concerto with Paye Srinarong - conductor of Thailand’s Yo u t h O r c h e s t r a as soloist.

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Cleaners hit by change EMPLOYEES of TeuladaMoraira’s publicly-owned street cleaning service, Teumo Servies should have been paid on July 30.

They were still waiting earlier this month and the councillor responsible for Teumo, Hector Morales, admitted that they would probably have to wait a little longer.

Problems arose because Teumo’s manager Joaquin Valles was automatically dismissed after the changeover at the town hall last June following the local elections on May 26.

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TEUMO SERVEIS: Street cleaning and rubbish collection service.

This managerial position was a direct appointment

made by the former town hall and a substitute must al-

so be found because Valles is now a councillor for the Partido Popular opposition party. For the time being and until a new Teumo board has been approved Hector Morales will temporarily take over and, once he can access the public sector company’s accounts, can pay the employees who are in arrears.

“If they should be out of pocket - if they are charged interest or are penalised for a late mortgage instalment they can pass on the receipts which we will pay,” Morales pledged.

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ANTIQUES FAIR: Beautiful, rare and quirky items.

All the fun of the (antiques) fair THE Summer Antiques, Vintage, Retro and Collectors Fair will be held in Salon Canor in Calle Assagador, Teulada on Thursday, August 15.

“It’s a national holiday, so what better way to spend the day than in a cool salon experiencing the pleasure provided by the beautiful, rare or quirky items that will be on sale?” the organisers said.

The Fair is open from 9am until 3pm, and there will be a bar with food available. The parking facilities at Salon Canor and entrance to the Fair are free of charge. “We continue to support the Akira animal sanctuary and the children’s charity CAM who will be represented at the Fair and selling generously-donated items to raise runds,” the Fair organisers added.

For more information ring 626 795 587 or 620 641 006.

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NEWS IN the absence of ecological buoys, boats are again dropping anchor off Moraira’s beaches.

At the beginning of the summer, coastal authority Costas refused authorisation to reinstall the ecological buoys after the previous local government failed to supply the requested paperwork.

Municipal sources confirmed that this, following an initial delay, has now been provided and the town hall expects to receive a favourable reply and permission to put the buoys in place once more.

The buoys first appeared last year after the town hall, then headed by the Partido Popular’s Carlos Linares, received permission to use them, although this was only provisional as there were errors in the documents submitted at the end of 2017 and Costas was waiting for these to be amended.

The current local government, now a three-party Compromis-PSOE-Ciudadanos coalition headed by Rosa Vila automatically applied for permission but again came up

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Anchors aweigh for a while

Brits on theft charges GUARDIA CIVIL officers from the Teulada-Moraira post arrested five people for alleged breaking and entering.

Alerted after household appliances and effects were taken from an empty holiday villa in Moraira, the Guardia Civil’s enquiries led them to the suspected housebreakers.

During a subsequent search of their home, also in TeuladaMoraira, investigating officers found numerous items of doubtful provenance which included a television, a computer, three videogame consoles, a safe, laptops and tablets, once of which had been stolen in the Moraira robbery.

The Guardia Civil officers also located the tools which had apparently been used to break into the local house, a knuckleduster and a prohibited flicknife.

Four of the five people arrested were British men, but the fifth person was an 18-year-old Bulgarian girl. All were released with charges.

One of the men has also been linked to an earlier theft of items worth €500 from a Moraira restaurant and is under investigation for threatening behaviour.

The case remains open as Guardia Civil investigators do not rule out the possibility that they could be involved in similar break-ins in the area.

Late-night shopping SEABED PROTECTION: Previous mayor installs one of the buoys. against the same bureaucratic obstacle caused by the incomplete paperwork.

The buoys, as in other Marina Alta and Marina Baja towns are used so that yachts and

launches can tie up without dropping anchor.

There are extensive meadows of Posidonia Oceanica (Neptune Grass) off the Moraira coast and studies by

universities in Alicante and Valencia has shown that conventional anchors are damaging both the seabed and the Posidonia that supports so much marine life.

SHOPS in Moraira’s town centre that belong to the AECO association will stay open until midnight on August 16.

At 9pm there will be a street parade by the Font Santa traditional dance group from Teulada with children’s workshops and bouncy castles organised by J-Park in Plaza Tresmall.

A fashion show is scheduled for 10pm at Local 6, Edifio Norte, on the Moraira-Teulada road and there will be music by the Tarbena and Pedreguer charanga bands between 9.30pm and 12.30am.

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OSCAR BENTO presents canvases painted over the last decade at the Isabel Bilbao art gallery in Javea.

The Sea, Inland, Music, Wine and Chocolate interpret nature, music and the sensual idea of wine while revealing the innermost Oscar Bento.

Painter, sculptor and photographer although his main production is his painting, Bento was born in Buenos Aires but has lived in Javea since 1980.

The exhibition at Galeria Bilbao, Avenida Ausias March, 11, can be visited until August 28 f r o m Mo n d a y to S atu rd a y b etween10.30am and 1.30pm and from 5pm until 8.30pm.

More information is available on 965 771 900 and 650 984 314 or the ibgaleria@ isabelbilbao.com email address.

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Month-long exhibition

OSCAR BENTO: Miles Davis’ handkerchief.

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SAM SALT, a Royal Navy lieutenant, is the hero of a seven-volume saga by Nigel Williams.

Nigel, who is 59 and married with four children, now lives between Javea and the UK village of Rangeworthy.

He retired from business three years ago and started writing Salt’s War almost immediately, he told the Euro Weekly News.

This first volume set introduces Sam Salt, sent to a Navy orphanage following the death at sea of his submarine commander father during the Cold War, and his mother’s untimely suicide.

After overcoming overwhelming odds and danger at the orphanage, Salt, now a lieutenant in the Naval In-

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Sam Salt’s Cold War saga

NIGEL WILLIAMS: Creator of the Sam Salt saga. telligence Service, begins his first mission posing as an Ordinary Seaman, to investigate a network involv-

SAGA BEGINS: Sam Salt enters the scene.

ing Soviet arms, the IRA and Class A drugs.

T h e second volume, Blood and Country, is set in Javea in F r a n c o ’s time, and centres on former SS guards in a Polish concentration camp who escaped

post-war justice in 1945 and fled to Spain.

Horrific murders of Franciscan and Benedictine monks occur along the Mediterranean coast whenever the Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier, HMS Eagle is in port.

Where does Sam Salt enter a story that involves a cryptic Yiddish word?

Why is the young officer, who has been tortured, exchanged in Potsdam in East Berlin for an IRA brigadier?

All is explained by the end of Blood and Country, which is to be followed with a third volume, Seven Dragons.

The books are available at www.amazon.co.uk as a download or paperback. They are also on sale at Sandra’s Bar, Arenal, and at Nova’s on the Costa Nova.

Undertow peril WHILE bathing is safe on other Javea beaches, the red flag often flies on Arenal, owing to currents and undertow.

Red Cross lifesavers recently formed a human chain on Arenal to prevent determined swimmers from entering the sea.

“They risk their own lives and make our work more difficult,” one said.

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EXHAUSTIVE STUDY: Oceanografic expert takes notes underwater.

Reasonably clean bill of health THE Valencia-based Fundacion Oceanografic recently presented the results of a three-year study of Javea’s seabed.

This exhaustive analysis of the 2 7 k i l o m e t r e s b etween Cabo San Antonio in Javea and Cap d’Or in Morair a p r o n o u n c e d th e state of health of its marine life an d v e g e t a t i o n as ‘good’ or ‘very good.’

Paco Torner, the project director and Alejo Muruaga, responsible for the scientific-tech n i c a l si d e o f th e study, nevertheless warned that they had observed clear signs that the underwater meadows of Posidonia Oceanica (Neptune Grass) were receding in some areas.

This was caused by ‘the high incidence’ of human activity and the impact of using conventional moorings and anchors, they said.

Despite the warning, the

study also located zones of areas of ‘extraordinary abundance’ that were comparable to those of the Island of Tabarca off Alicante.

The ecological condition of Posidonia was ‘very good’ off the beaches and coves of Cumbres, Granadella, Tango and Portitxol but only ‘good’ off C ala B lan ca a n d th e S a rdinera beach owing to the p res e n ce o f u p to 200 moored pleasure craft each

day during the summer.

The tow n ha ll ha s installed 70 ecological buoys, which the Oceanografic experts considered too few, although they recognised that s ome boa ts de libe ra te ly chose areas without Posidonia , a w a re of the offic ia l ban on anchoring over the meadows.

Muruego also warned of other ill-effects of human activity, especially the reduced density of false coral and sponges.

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Twenty years on JAVEA Town Hall finally owns a Calle Cristo del Mar prope rty tha t it w a s promised 20 years ago.

In August 1999 the town hall of the time gave planning permission to a developer on the understanding tha t the ground floor pre mis e s , va lue d at â‚Ź64,600, w ould be made over to the municipality.

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opment company was declared bankrupt and its as-

sets handed over to the official receiver.

Si nce t hen, Javea t own hall’s Patrimony and Legal departments have struggled to ensure that the Cristo del Mar property was excluded from these assets when other creditors made their individual claims.

Now, 10 years later, the

AGREEMENT: Cristo del Mar property signed and sealed.

town hall has agreed to take on t he pr oper t y’s unpai d Community and Rates debts which, municipal sources revealed, are considerably l ess t han t he val ue of t he property.

Unwanted botellon revellers JAVEA recently endured its first large-scale botellon of the summer.

A botellon is a non-authorised outdoor bingedrinking session organised by t he young, m any of whom ar e under 18 and not l egal l y al l owed t o drink.

The Javea celebration, which lasted until 8am the following morning, was held in the public car park near a well-known discotheque, whose employees could be seen the next morning, coping with the debris.

A trail of empty bottles, broken glass, discarded

plastic and litter led as far as t he adj oi ni ng Cal l e Gar ci l aso de l a Vega where residents complained of urinating and vom i t i ng youngst er s who disturbed their rest and f oul ed t hei r pavements.

Last m ont h t he young Bot el l on f ans had not caused too much noise or bother, they said, but the arrival of the high season coincided with the wildest night yet.

The residents also lamented that this year the Local Police failed to install barriers to discourage the youngsters.

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FERRY company Balearia and the Iberdrola energy firm are installing two fast charging points at Denia’s maritime station car park.

The recently-signed agreement foresees two double charging points allowing up to four electric vehicles to charge simultaneously.

They will be easy to access and available 24 hours a day and users need only use the Recarga Publica Iberdrola app to reserve charging time and pay via their mobiles.

Balearia already has charging points at its ferry installations in Valencia Port and the company’s president, Adolfo Utor, explained that these are

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A ferry good idea

MARITIME STATION: Balearia and Iberdrola to install charging points. in line with the firm’s commitment to the environment and sustainability.

Iberdrola pointed out that

its agreement with Balearia entered into plans to provide the Valencian Community with 1,000 charging points.

Disappearing beach DENIA’S Les Deveses beach, always threatened by erosion, has practically disappeared.

Residents remember when the beach was 50 metres wide, but now waves are almost reaching the houses lining the seafront.

“We’re in August and there’s no beach left.

I don’t want to think what will happen this au-

tumn and winter,” said Sebastian Alcaraz, vice-president of the Deveses-Bassot residents’ association.

“The regeneration project has been drawn up and it’s fantastic, but it needs to be done.

It’s urgent and we can’t wait any longer,” he warned.

Bidding error shuts out APAD APAD, the animal protection centre that taken in Denia’s strays for the last 25 years has lost its town hall contract.

In accordance with transparency regulations, this was put out to tender but an error in APAD’s bid meant the concession went to Serproanimal from Vinaros (Castellon).

Faced with a social media storm, Denia councillor Javier Scotto expressed admiration for APAD on his Facebook page but explained that

the town hall’s hands were tied.

As APAD’s bid was equal to the maximum stated by the town hall, it was awarded no points in the contract’s financial segment.

The animal shelter should instead have put in a bid at least one euro lower in order to have been in the running, Scotto said.

An identical situation arose three years ago when the Red Cross’s bid was excluded

from the bidding for the same reason.

APAD has issued its own social media statement, lamenting the loss of the municipal contract after 25 years of working for animal rights in Denia and the surrounding area.

Supporters have now begun an internet petition and have also the discussed the possibility of organising a demonstration in support of APAD.

Story that didn’t wash A SPANISH girl of 19 was arrested after reporting fraudulent charges made to her credit card.

She maintained that more than €600 had gone from her bank account, after which officers from Denia’s Judicial Police criminal investigation brigade launched an investigation.

She was detained after they discovered that she had made the purchases herself, but was released after making a statement and now awaits a summons to attend court.

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By Joe Gerrard THE leader of Britain’s Labour opposition has said the party will table a no confidence motion against Boris Johnson’s government after the prime minister ruled out calling a snap election.

Jeremy Corbyn said Labour would push for a no confidence vote at a point where they can win it. Boris Johnson said calling a general election

No confidence pledge was the ‘last thing’ he wanted to do. Corbyn said Labour would do ‘everything’ to stop a no-deal including holding the no confidence vote.

“The prime minister seems to be trying to slip no-deal through, slip past Parliament and slip past the British people,” Corbyn told British media.

“No-deal will be really serious. Serious for food prices, for medical supplies, for trade, for investment, and it will drive us straight into the hands of the sort of trade deal that Donald Trump wants to do with Boris Johnson. “I’m sorry, it’s not on, it’s not acceptable. We will do everything we can

INTERNATIONAL

to block it,” the Labour leader added.

It comes as Johnson said Britain would leave the EU on Thursday October 31 with or without a deal. The government’s preparations to face a nodeal outcome have also been ramped out.

The prime minister recently pledged almost €2.3 billion-worth of funding for no-deal preparations. Labour said the money was an ‘appalling waste.’

Six-year-old ‘thrown off’ Tate Modern art gallery A 17-YEAR-OLD schizophrenia patient has been charged with throwing a six-year-old French tourist off a balcony at London’s Tate Modern art gallery.

Police sources said the six-year-old, who was on holiday with his family, fell more than 30 metres after being pushed off the balcony on Sunday.

He was in a critical but stable condition in hospital this week after doctors were able to save his life, according to medical sources.

Witnesses said they heard a woman scream ‘he’s my son’ after he landed on a fifth floor roof on the gallery.

The suspect is said to have evaded minders before allegedly pushing the boy. Police said it is unclear if he escaped the secure home where he lives or if he was out on a day trip and they are still investigating The 17-year-old has been charged with attempted murder over the fall. The case continues.

PUSHED: The boy fell more than 30 metres off the Tate Modern.

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‘Deep shame’ BERLIN feels morally responsible for Nazi Germany’s devastating occupation of Poland during the Second World War, an episode in history which can only induce ‘deep shame’ according to Foreign Minister Heiko Maas who attended an event marking 75 years since the Warsaw uprising.

Sword death

MEMORIAL: Officials marked the Warsaw Uprising.

A 36-YEAR-OLD man died in Stuttgart last week after being stabbed in the street with a a suspect arrested the following day after fleeing on a weapon which police described as a sword, with bicycle and questioned a day after.

FRANCE

Power fine

Body found

FRENCH authorities have fined the EDF energy company €1.8 million for paying its suppliers late, according to the country’s Finance and Economy Ministry, while the company said it would step up procedures to prevent it happening again.

POST-MORTEM tests on a body found in the River Loire near Nantes have confirmed it belonged to Steve Caniço, a 24-year-old who disappeared after French police raided a music festival in June.

NETHERLANDS

BELGIUM

Burqa ban

Six days stuck

A BAN on the burqa and niqab was made practically unenforceable on its first active day after the police and transport companies refused to enforce rules which make those caught wearing the garments liable for fines of up to €415.

A 45-YEAR-OLD woman has been freed from her car six days after she became trapped inside it without food and water in Saint-Georges-surMeuse, near Liege, during Belgium’s heatwave, with Maria Bastide forced to drink rainwater.

Photo ‘too nude’

Prison concerns

FACEBOOK took down the page of the Netherlands Fotomuseum last week after saying a picture taken in 1960 by well-known photographer Ed van der Elsken of a naked woman lying under an open window was too offensive despite exceptions for art.

BELGIUM lacks an effective reintegration approach for its prisoners and the system is instead centred on punishment and an ‘obsession’ with security, according to Itter Prison Supervisory Committee’s report on incarceration published last week.

DENMARK

Trump visit

Bribery appeal

US President Donald Trump is set to make a state visit to Denmark from Tuesday September 2 to Wednesday September 3 where he is set to discuss security, the Arctic, trade and investment according to Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen.

TWO defendants convicted in one of Denmark’s largest bribery trials in July, the so-called Atea case, have instructed their lawyers to appeal their sentences in the country’s Supreme Court where judges are now set to examine if lower courts made errors.

SWEDEN

NORWAY

Clothes row

Man missing

A 19-YEAR-OLD woman has accused a Malmo bus driver of sexism after he refused to let her on for not wearing enough clothes, with the driver having since been suspended pending an investigation after he allegedly told Amanda Hansson she was ‘showing too much.’

A 50-YEAR-OLD man was feared dead last week after floods and landslides struck western Norway, with the man swept away along with his car near the town of Arnes, while between 150 and 200 people were evacuated from Jolster and Forde.

Rapper testifies

Space race

US rapper A$AP Rocky has told a Stockholm court he was ‘really scared’ during an altercation which saw the performer arrested and claimed he and his entourage were followed by the alleged victim who in turn said he was only asking for help.

NORWAY may be in pole position in the European space race but it risks being beaten by Sweden because the government is too slow to provide funding for projects, leader of the opposition leftleading Arbeiderpartiet Jonas Gahr Store said.

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FINANCE

First sales drop for seven years

CAR sales have fallen in Spain for the first time since July 2012, with the number of purchases last month 11 per cent less than last year industry figures show.

Data from the ANFAC, Faconauto and Ganvam associations found almost 116,690 cars were sold in July.

ANFAC said: “The situation is worrying, especially if one takes into account that July is one of the best months for families buying cars.”

The carmakers’ association has called for ‘shock measures’ to reverse the decline.

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The rate at which rents have risen since 2013, according to the Bank of Spain which found increases were the highest in Madrid, Cataluña and the Balearic and Canary Islands.

Temporary jobs to fixed posts

Minister hopes for deficit cut SPAIN’S acting finance minister has said the government still aims to meet EU deficit targets of 2 per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) by the end of the year.

Maria Jesus Montero said she was not concerned about figures which showed the deficit rose by 27 per cent during the first half of this year.

The figures reflected increases in p en s io n s me a n in g the y did not show a ‘real’ rise in the deficit, according to Montero.

“If everything goes as planned by the government, this year the deficit will be at the 2 per cent we

By Joe Gerrard have committed to Brussels.”

The finance minister’s comments c ome a s gove rnme nt figure s s how e d the s ta te de fic it ros e to more than €10.5 billion while the public deficit climbed to almost €17 billion.

Montero said the Independent Authority for Fiscal Responsibility (AIReF) had forecast the deficit to fall below 2.5 per cent of GDP by the end of this year.

The finance minister also said the government would soon be in a position to present a draft budget to

lawmakers. Montero added the left –le a nin g Par t i do Soci al i st a’s (PSOE) investiture into government, which will be needed to pres e nt a budget , was out of her hands. “I hope that we can count on a new government to update the budget as soon as possible,” the minister said.

It comes after its previous draft budget was effectively vetoed earlier this year, triggering April’s snap general election.

The Cortes instead chose to extend the previous conservative Partido Popular’s (PP) 2018 budget to cover expenses for this year.

MORE than one third of all indefinite job contracts signed in Spain during the first quarter of this year began as temporary positions, the highest rate in seven years.

Data from the Public Employment Service (SEPE) showed the figures had grown for the fifth year in a row. Andalucia, had the highest conversion rate with 48.4 per cent.

More than 397,700 temporary contracts became indefinite during the first half of this year, the first time the number has fallen in absolute terms since 2013.

BUSINESS EXTRA

Gas price cut call THE National Commission of Markets and Competition (CNMC) has called for gas tariffs to be cut by 26 per cent for residential customers and by 6.7 per cent for industrial users to benefit buyers and boost competition.

Centre sale DROP: Companies belonging to IAG saw earnings fall.

IAG profit fall COMPANIES belonging to the International Airlines Group (IAG) made a total consolidated profit of €806 million in the first half of this year, a year-on-year fall of 42.3 per cent.

Accounts sent to the National Stock Market Commission (CNMV) showed total pre-tax profits stood at more than €1 billion, 11.7 per cent lower than January to June 2018.

CEO Willie Walsh said the company had performed solidly despite the drop, with passenger revenues rising by 1.1 per cent. Ticket revenues rose by 7.2 per cent.

The company’s fuel and emission permits costs also rose by 20.5 per cent, hitting overall earnings.

A SUBSIDIARY of the South African property company Vukile, Socimi Castellana Properties, has closed a deal to buy the more than 100,000-squaremetre Puerta Europa shopping centre in Algeciras, Andalucia for €56.8 million.

More clients DUTCH financial company ING now has four million customers in Spain and made more than €2.5 million in net profits in the country in the first half of this year, according to the firm’s figures.

Plan to tackle hiring fraud OFFICIALS with the Labour Ministry have drawn up plans to combat the fraudulent hiring of workers on incorrect contracts.

The ministry is set to use its Anti-Fraud Tool to detect possible irregularities this month. September is due to see letters being sent to companies warning them they will have one month to put workers on correct contracts.

Ministry officials are planning on conducting a

round of inspections in October at companies suspected of not complying with these requests.

The move comes as part of the government’s Master Plan for Decent Work 2018-2020 which was approved a year ago with the agreement of employers and trade unions.

Figures show there were more than 48,550 inspections at companies thought to be improperly hiring workers from August 2018 to June.

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Calviño out of IMF head race SPAIN’S economy minister is no longer running to lead the International Monetary Fund (IMF) after the government agreed to withdraw her candidacy to achieve a European consensus on the appointment.

Government sources said Nadia Calviño would no longer seek to lead the IMF, a key pillar in the global financial system.

“The government is committed to achieving a European agreement so Economy Minister Nadia Calviño will not go through to the next selection phase,” the sources said.

“We will continue to work to put Spanish officials forward for the governance of international organisations and we consider it an honour that any member of the government is considered,” they added.

Calviño’s departure from the race comes as European leaders remained at loggerheads over who would succeed current IMF director Christine Lagarde last week.

She said a full consensus was yet to be reached as she prepares to step down.

Jobless higher than 18 states THERE are more people out of work in Spain than in 18 other EU member states combined, according to the bloc’s latest unemployment figures.

The latest figures from the Eurostat data agency showed there were more than 3.2 million people out of work in Spain as of June. A total of 18 other countries have almost three million people out of work between them, still below the amount in Spain.

Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Croatia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Austria, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Slovakia and Sweden’s combined rate of unemployment was still lower than Spain’s.

Those countries have a combined population of around 120 million compared to Spain’s 47 million, showing the proportion of people out of work was also higher.

The Spanish proportion of unemployed was higher than two of the EU’s largest economies, France and Germany.

France, which has a population of 67 million, had 2.5 million out of work in June, while Germany with 83 million people had 1.3 million unemployed.

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Bankruptcy rate decline CHEAPER: ADIF hopes train companies will pass on savings to customers.

Rail changes on track THE body which manages Spain’s railway infrastructure has paved the way for the country’s publicy-owned train company to cut prices ahead of the market’s opening to competition.

ADIF has changed the system used to calculate what it charges to Renfe in fees and taxes, as well as those of the company’s future competitors. The Spanish rail market is due to be opened to competition from December 2020 under EU rules.

ADIF president Isabel Pardo unveiled the changes as part of the body’s strategy for the period from 2020 to 2025, the first five years of

rail market liberalisation.

Operators will be offered discounts on fees if they increase the number of trains on Spanish tracks to reward them for increasing services, the plans state. Aena, the body which manages Spanish airports, uses a similar system for charging airlines.

Pardo said ADIF was offering the discounts on the understanding savings would be passed on to customers through ticket price cuts.

The president added ADIF would consider allowing Renfe to run night trains under its AVE high speed service to better compete with rivals.

They would be allowed to run at night provided they did not interfere with track maintenance, Pardo said.

Both plans are subject to changes to Spain’s Railway Law which are pending the investiture of a new government following the indecisive result of April’s snap general election.

France’s publicly-owned SNCF, ILSA, Globalia and Britain’s Virgin have all said they are interested in entering the Spanish rail market after it is opened to competition.

ADIF is set to chose the first companies which will be allowed to operate in Spain this December.

GDP growth slows THE Spanish economy grew by 0.5 per cent in the second quarter of this year, down from the first quarter rate of 0.7 per cent according to new figures.

Figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) showed gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 2.3 per cent between the second quarters of 2018 and this year. The rate was down from the first quarter year-on-year rate of 2.4 per cent.

The INE said in a statement national demand had fallen during the second quarter, but external demand grew at the same time.

The growth rates fell just shy of those forecast by the Bank of Spain.

The central bank predicted GDP would grow by 0.6 per cent quarteron-quarter and by 2.4 per cent yearon-year.

The General Council of Economist’s Financial Observatory said the slowdown was caused in part by a fall in domestic demand.

Data showed household consumption increased by 1.7 per cent from the second quarter of 2018 to that of this year. The rate of growth was 0.2 percentage points higher than the first quarter’s year-on-year rate.

THE amount of families and businesses which declared bankruptcy fell by 4.6 per cent and 13.6 per cent respectively from the second quarter of 2018 to April to June this year, according to data from the National Institute of Statistics (INE).

New store SWEDISH fashion chain H&M has opened a new store in the Alicante Province town of Alcoy’s Alzamora shopping centre after making net profits of almost €510 million in the first half of this year.

Sea delivery FOOD delivery company Deliveroo has unveiled plans to launch a service to serve boats off the coast of 17 Spanish cities this summer, similar to services launched in Britain in 2017 and for riverboats in Paris in 2018.

Costs to fall THE National Commission for Markets and Competition (CNMC) has approved a 33 per cent cut in tariffs for fixed network phone calls, a reduction from more than 0.08 cents a minute to around 0.064.

‘Tough’ month SPANISH manufacturing contracted last month, according to the purchasing managers index (PMI) which registered 48.2 points which IHS Markit economist Paul Smith said was another ‘difficult’ month for industry.

SLOWDOWN: Spain’s economic output grew at a slower rate during the second quarter of this year.

Government administrative spending grew year-on-year by 1.9 per cent, 0.1 points less than in the first quarter.

Investment grew by 1.2 per cent year-on-year compared to the 4.7 per cent rise from the first quarter of 2018 to this year.

Investment in capital goods shrank by 1.4 per cent year-on-year in the

second quarter after growing by 7.2 per cent from the first quarter of 2018 to 2019. The latter indicator is seen as a litmus test of business confidence in future economic activity.

Construction grew by 5.8 per cent year-on-year, 0.8 percentage points less than the equivalent rate for the first quarter.

Plant sale ALUMINIUM maker Alcoa has sold factories in Asturias and Galicia to the Swiss for Parter Capital for about €115 million after nine months of talks between the firms and stakeholders including government officials and trade unions.

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The great, now sadly lamented, Joe Longthorne MBE LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT THIS week saw the passing of probably one of the finest variety entertainers the UK has ever produced. So mystified was I at the extraordinary initial lack of main media coverage, I decided to dedicate this week’s offering to his memory.

I’m talking of the great, now sadly lamented, Joe Longthorne MBE. Joe was world class. Unfortunately, over the years, those who managed his career and well-being were not. Consequently, even after appearances in Las Vegas and success on TV, this multi-talented vocal impressionist, never maintained the world accolades he so richly deserved.

Nevertheless, his UK theatre tours, club dates and charity functions were always sold out and he never failed his thousands of adoring fans.

Throughout his long battle with cancer, Joe continued to follow the profession he loved, and only recently pulled out of his latest tour when the dis-

JOE LONGTHORNE: A truly unique international artist of the first order.

ease simply became too overwhelming. Although I hadn’t seen Joe for some years, I have followed him closely on social media and have often related the circumstances surrounding my first meeting with this highly amusing and lovable entertainer. It was back in the late 70’s.

I had been engaging in an ultimately disastrous business enterprise to bring live entertainment to the expats working in Saudi Arabia. We had brought in a few shows and decided in the light of somewhat limited success, to ‘up the ante’ and import a rather more upmarket group of acts.

Joe, then relatively unknown, was one of the artists we selected. On the bill we also engaged a band, which comprised of five young musicians who worked under the name of ‘Coaster’ - a title which by sheer coincidence happened to be the name of the model of local buses in Jeddah at the time. The cast duly arrived and after a couple of days, decided they wanted to visit the local Souk.

Now Jeddah, in those days, was not exactly conducive to tourism and ‘Westerners’ were looked on with no small amount of apprehension and suspicion. Instructing the boys to be as inconspicuous as

possible, I told our Yemeni chauffer to drive them to the local market. They promised to be back for tea - they weren’t! A nail biting hour or so later, the door flew open and the driver rushed in. In a complete panic he told me the band had been arrested!

Apparently the boys, including Joe, had seen what they thought was a dumping ground for crashed cars and buses and had been trying to prise off one of the chrome ‘Coaster’ emblems as a keepsake. In fact the site was actually the local police pound! I hurried down, my thoughts a turmoil of possible deportations, lashings and Lord knows what. I needn’t have bothered. As I approached the circle of police surrounding the group, I realised they were all laughing!

There in the centre was Joe. Notwithstanding a total language barrier, he had the whole bunch of them in peals of laughter. They actually escorted us all home. That was Joe Longthorne, a truly unique international artist of the very first order. RIP Joe. Far more deserving of a knighthood than others I could mention!

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com

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Ain’t what it used to be CASSANDRA NASH A WEEKLY LOOK - and not entirely impartial reaction to the Spanish political scene

THE Left can’t get it together and it’s not all that easy for the Right, especially Albert Rivera.

He doesn’t want to be seen cosying up to the ultra-Right, but is too ambitious to renounce the power brought by the three-way Partido Popular Ciudadanos and Vox arrangement.

Inside his party, Rivera occupies a political no-man’s-land where he calls the shots in splendid and increasingly autocratic isolation.

Ciudadanos founder Francesc de Carreras has left the party, likewise C’ Economy spokesman Toni Roldan.

De Carreras lamented that the party is no longer what it set out to be, and Roldan said that Albert Rivera puts his own interests before those of the party and Spain.

In an informal online poll in the Catalan daily La Vanguardia 84.65 per cent of participants believed that

Rivera would eventually pay - in votes - for his dalliance and ill-disguised alliance with Vox. And a probable November general election will show whether Rivera paid a bargain price for his Vox-enabled elevation or was sold a pup.

Hitting the big time IF Podemos and the party supremo Pablo Iglesias were destined

to hit the big time, it would have happened by now.

Iglesias presumably believed that erupting onto the political scene in the European elections of 2014 by taking five seats had set the pattern for Podemos’ national trajectory.

Support amongst the undecided and politically-uncommitted has drifted away with each national, regional and local election, but

Loser takes all THE latest Centro de Investigacion Sociologica (CIS) poll put Pedro Sanchez and the PSOE on 41.3 per cent of the vote.

The Partido Popular took second place with 13.7 per cent and Unidas Podemos’s measly 13.1 per cent overtook Ciudadanos’ measlier 12.3 per cent.

Vox slid downhill to 4 per cent.

Ironically Sanchez’s investiture has defeat hurt him less than his rivals, especially Albert Rivera whose anti-Sanchez veto has done him more harm than good.

Anti-Sanchez.

Iglesias and Podemos nomenclature have not yet received and digested this message.

If, as he maintained, Iglesias really did hope for a left-wing progressive government, he would have put his own ambitions to one side and voted in favour of Pedro Sanchez in the investiture debate.

The other half of the Unidas Podemos tandem, Izquierda Uni-

da, increasingly favours backing Sanchez, asking for nothing in return.

After all, it is more blessed to give than receive and Sanchez would have been - could still be eternally in their debt.

Trouble is, Iglesias knew that a role in a putative Sanchez government, even in the shadows, was his only remaining chance of hitting the big time.

He blew it and the small time is all he can expect now.

Genderless offence NOT long ago a Vox councillor, observing a minute’s silence after a woman was killed by her partner, stood several metres away from mourning fellow-councillors of all parties.

She regretted the death, she said, but insisted that gender played no part in ‘inter-family’ violence.

What else to call it when a male kills a female partner? Apart from murder?

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Every night is music night IF you dream of moving with the glitterati in Ibiza then a recently opened nightclub in Moraira can satisfy that dream as well as plenty more.

Ope Moraira has been created by owners who have worked in the music scene in France, Ibiza and Marbella and they have now created a multi-space disco/restaurant/ nightclub which is already attracting visitors from all over the Costa Blanca area.

The newly decorated building has a number of different areas made to satisfy all possible expectations of a chic and modern audience.

Sit on the Chillout style terrace, sipping a drink, perhaps having a snack and enjoying the sounds of different musicians and singers who appear every night.

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featuring DJs from across Spain and on some nights live bands hand-picked to provide the sort of entertainment that guests would enjoy.

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MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man What a bunch of aerosols! It drives me nuts. I shake the container and hear plenty of swishing so I assume there is plenty in there, which there is. But after pressing the button nothing, except a little puff of air, comes out. I shake it again, I tilt the container – nothing. How hard can it be to make a product that actually works? This is not an unusual occurrence in the Senker household.

There’s the sun creams all packed ready to go to the beach. We get there, find our pitch, move the beds this way and that whilst trying not to remove a layer of skin from my feet whilst walking round the bed.

The ice box is in position under the shade. I sit down; get the sun cream - a spray bottle of course for a more even application. I shake the bottle as per instructions, point the nozzle at my legs, and pump three times ... nothing, zilch, nada. I check that I’ve twisted the thingy on the nozzle into the on position.

Yeah, everything is in the correct place.

Now I’m staring at it, talking to it, trying to unscrew the - what I now find out is a top that doesn’t unscrew. I’ve paid about €20 for this stuff. I’m on the beach. I can’t take it back because it came from the UK with my daughter. So here are the choices. Go and buy another which I’m not doing.

Or I force the top off and try and apply it that way. Of course I go for the brute force and ignorant approach as there is no way I’m buying another one. I finally manage to remove the top and as it comes off the bottle semi explodes showering me with more sun cream than would be needed to protect the two rows of sunbeds in front of me. I can tell my family is really concerned for me by the level of screeching laughter I can hear.

Oh well, it can’t get any worse can it?

Well not until we get home and Mrs S asks me to help her make a tuna and sweetcorn salad. Good idea - pass me the tuna please.

It’s a ring pull can. I get it in the upright positon and pull, simplicity itself, and there is the ring pull sitting there on my finger instead of the tin. OK, back to the tin opener. Why, oh why does this happen to me? Or maybe to you too?

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from 8.30pm until 6am during August (six nights a week from September) and entry is free before 1am, so this is without doubt the ideal place to visit for an exceptional night out and you might even receive a farewell gift if you leave at breakfast time.

Ope Moraira is situated at Carretera MorairaTeulada, N° 31, 03725 Teulada and the office is open during the day from 10am to 3pm if you want to discuss a special booking or event by calling 643 982 512.

Find out more about the range of entertainment on offer at www.opemoraira.com or visit their Facebook and Instagram pages.

There is such a wide choice of entertainment that you cannot fail to enjoy Ope Moraira and once you have visited, you will be bound to return.

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BARRY DUKE FELLA approaches me in a bar, points at the fearsome demon’s head, all teeth and horns, that I have tattooed on my upper right arm and asks ‘did that hurt?’ ‘Sure,’ I replied, ‘but the pain was exquisite.’

I added: ‘But it was nothing compared to the agony of having a lizard inked on my right buttock.’ ‘Oooh, can I see it?’ was his response. As we were the only people in the place, and because the bartender, polishing glasses, had his back turned to us, I exposed it.

There was a long silence before he exclaimed ‘that doesn’t look like a lizard, it’s more like Godzilla!’

The moment I got home, I rushed to a mirror to see what he was on about - and was horrified to discover that time and the loss of skin elasticity had transformed the cute wee reptile into a bloody great monster.

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Addicted to ink

EXQUISITE PAIN: ... and even the Pope approves.

Gone, alas, was the pert little butt that once won me the ‘Rear of the Year ’ title in a gay nightclub competition 52 years ago.

My addiction to tattoos was triggered when my t h e n p a r t n e r, B r i a n , a n nounced on our 15th an-

niversary 31 years ago that his gift to me was a red rose. ‘So, where is it?’ I asked. ‘Oh,’ he replied, ‘we’ve yet to get it. Put on some clothes and I’ll take you there.’

‘There’ turned out to be a tattoo parlour in Soho,

London. Brian introduced me to Simon, the needle man, and showed me the rose he’d chosen for my left upper arm. ‘You’ll always think of me when you look at it,’ he said. And I still do, 23 years after I lost him to cancer in 1996.

Filled with trepidation, I let Simon get to work, and with the pain came a feeling of exhilaration that I’d before experienced. This, I later discovered, was because needles release endorphins in the brain.

‘Endorphins are your body’s natural pain relievers’ Lisa Barretta, author of Conscious Ink: The Hidden Meaning of Tattoos, says.

‘These chemicals come directly from the brain, flooding your body. Endorphins are ‘feel-good’ chemicals that help us realise on some level that we are more resilient to pain than we think. It can become a deeply therapeutic process, for that very reason.’

She sure got that right.

Soon I was back to Simon for more, and in the process discovered to my astonishment that his biggest client base comprised New York Catholic

priests. It started, he said, when one was on a visit to the UK, and was so pleased with the piece he’d had done that word spread like wildfire among his colleagues.

‘I’m guessing they all wanted religious tattoos,’ I surmised. Simon chortled ‘oh no, demons were mainly their thing.’ Seeing the look of surprise on my face, he confided that one an archbishop no less wanted his dangly bits coloured red and blue.

Ouch!

Then I learned that, in 2018, Pope Francis told aspiring young priests ‘not to be scared of tattoos’ and to use them as a talking-point to encourage dialogue.

But what kind of dialogue can be encouraged by having brightly coloured testicles?

Your guess, dear reader, is as good as mine.

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NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

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A BIT of a rant this week (so what’s new, I hear you say!). First off, news that struggling British high streets experienced their worst month in 24 years in May as sales fell at the highest rate on record potentially leading to further closures.

Followed by reports that more than 200 Boots stores across the UK could be closed by their American owners in a bid to cut costs, Boots join the list of a string of well-known names suffering in the tough high street environment.

Last year, Poundworld, Toys R Us and Maplin all went bust and disappeared altogether. Other household names - Homebase, Mothercare, Carpetright and New Look - were forced into restructuring deals with their landlords, closing hundreds of stores.

Changing consumer behaviour as shoppers spend more on experiences and increasing concerns about the economic outlook post-Brexit are continuing to wreak havoc on the industry.

Yet if British high streets are being left empty, then Primark, which notched up 50 years in business in June, seems indestructible. Sales increased by 4 per cent in the six months to March, while established brands (such as Debenhams and LK Bennett) were going belly up and, under pressure from online shopping

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LOW POINT: May was the worst month in 24 years. and popular fast-fashion brands, the fate of Sir Philip Green’s Topshop empire was left hanging by a thread (see what I did there?).

And it’s even more surprising that the UK’s biggest fashion retailer by volume (though not by value) has succeeded without moving into online shopping. Basically, Primark’s message is: if you want it, you have to get off your **** and go buy it. And clearly mega-crowds do. Its brand-new Birmingham mega-store is almost a tourist destination, day-trippers magnetised by its in-store blow-dry bar, beauty salon and Disney-themed cafe.

Primark proves that brands can’t just stay still. Companies have to keep reinventing

themselves with fresh products - trading on past glories no longer cuts it.

Nonetheless, it’s sad that with fewer Boots around soon there’ll be nothing much left on the high street bar betting shops and Oxfam...

Nora Johnson’s psychological 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 online as ebook (€0.99;£0.99), ibook, paperback and (now) audiobook. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can they pay him less?

I am 71 years old, retired, and I receive a state pension from the UK. At the last municipal elections I was elected councillor. I was told that I am not entitled to the retribution of €16,000 per year which the other part-time councillors receive, because this salary is incompatible with my pension.

Instead, I am offered a payment of €700 a month for attending the monthly ‘Information Commission’ meetings and €300 a month for attending the council meetings. If I don’t attend, I don’t get paid. I do not receive any expenses or benefits. This sounds wrong to me. Can you please tell me if the decision taken by the town hall is correct?

S B (Costa Blanca) In principle, yes, it is correct. Spanish YOU AND THE law states that a LAW IN SPAIN pensioner can earn up to the amount of the legal minimum wage without affecting the amount of his pension. After a big jump last year the legal minimum wage for 2019 is almost €10,000. The councillor’s salary of €16,000 is well above this.

Because the Spanish tax man cannot reduce your UK pension, it seems they have found a way around this.

DAVID SEARL

Send your questions for David Searl through lawyers Ubeda-Retana and Associates in Fuengirola at Ask@lawtaxspain.com, or call 952 667 090.

Choices , choices: have them both?

NICK HORNE’S Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England TWO cars on the horizon are the Lotus Evija and the Mercedes-AMG GT R. Both are looking for buyers now, yet one you may have to wait a little longer for delivery than the other. So time enough to get sated rather than bored before having yet more fun with the second. The Mercedes-AMG GT R is available now for deliveries in the autumn and uses a hand built biturbo four-litre V8 engine to push this supercar from 0 to 62 mph in 3.6 seconds. The Lotus Evija will go a little faster, but let’s not get too far ahead of ourselves as they are very different cars.

Back to the Mercedes-AMG, its top speed is electronically limited to 197 miles hour. Yes, that’s a lot and there are going to be few roads that will permit the attempt to reach that top speed without winning a long conversation with an angry speed cop and a large fine.

Though of course there is always the track if you really must push through the gate.

The Roadster has a triple layered soft top whose elaborate structure is fitted with what Mercedes describe as an ‘acoustic mat’ to reduce noise. The soft top is naturally made to be opened and closed and comes in three colours black, red or beige. Why beige? No idea, though thoughtfully the soft top may be deployed while at a standstill to entertain the gawping pedestrian or at speeds of to 31 mph, a very precise and German upper limit.

Fully kitted with AMG highlights and enhancements from the Performance Exhaust to the Performance Headlights, ‘climatised seats with a memory package; air

Lotus Evija dihedral doors open via keyfob.

Mercedes-AMG GT R Roadster ready for the Autobahn.

scarf with neck level heating,’ the Roadster is on the road from £178,000.

The Lotus Evija, emits no carbon at all. It’s also the first British all electric Hypercar meaning it has a top speed of 200mph and will get from 0 to 62 mph in less than three seconds. Weighing in at just 1,680 kg’s the Evija is certainly no MercedesAMG GT R the aesthetic is utterly different while both convey even while stationary the capacity for agility, speed and savage yet controlled acceleration they do so with utterly different sensibilities.

The Evija has a range of 250 miles or 400 km and will enter production in 2020 to reserve a production slot, there are just 130 slots as this is a very limited edition will entail a £250,000 deposit with an on the road cost from £1.7 million each.

The Evija benefits from a power train developed by the scion of the F1 and Formula E Williams racing team, and Lotus’s technical partner Williams Advanced Engineering. Lotus and WAE have developed a mid mounted power pack immediately behind the two seats that supplies energy to the four powerful e-motors, with a target

weight of just 1680kgs Lotus expect the Evija to be the lightest pure electric Hypercar to go into series production. The Evija incorporates recently developed techniques and technologies tested on the racetrack from the Formula E series as well as Le Mans. Inspired by Le Mans race cars an intriguing exterior element are the Venturi Tunnels which pierces each rear quarter of the Evija, directing airflow through the bodyshell. A visual exclamation mark yet this design element pursues a concept known as ‘porosity’ the delivery of high energy air flow to the rear of the car, this reduces the low pressure behind the car and so reduces drag. The car goes faster!

When viewed from the rear each Venturi tunnel is illuminated with red LED evoking the afterburner effect of a fighter jet especially when seen at night. To make the point Lotus fit an extra LED hidden within the tunnel to illuminate its interior.

Two supercars with striking exteriors, two super powerful powertrains, two amazing decisions to make or just one. Which to choose? An entertaining time to be hand in making the choice.

Nick Horne, London, England

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I READ the news of Spain’s PSOE and Podemos failing to agree to a coalition with despair and I see it as a missed opportunity.

I had looked forward to a new government that would serve the interests of workers here in Spain rather than those of big business.

As a Brit I have watched as rightwing governments there and in Spain loot and pillage their countries to serve their corporate puppet masters. Taxes for the wealthiest have been slashed while ordinary people have been punished with brutal austerity regimes.

PSOE and Podemos had a chance to put an end to this but they failed to take it. Their failure to put aside party politics and unite on a left-wing basis is tragic but it will ultimately be the working class, not they, who pay the price.

The two party’s lack of political vision may allow reaction to rear its ugly head.

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Possible backlash DEAR Leapy Lee Totally agree with you on items of your manifesto (Issue 1776).

Unfortunately difficult for people that agree with you to be outspoken on these matters as would be called RxxxxT. Good luck.

Sue Gell

In support DEAR Leapy It was with great delight we read and re-read your article (What if manifesto, 1776). Our top 10 are as follows 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 13, 16, 18, 23 and in top place should without any doubt be number 9 - regards introduction of two years national service.

Keep on with your thinking because we really enjoy your article every week.

Best regards, Lynda and Laurence Patterson

Support? No chance I WAS surprised to read a raft of letters backing Leapy Lee’s rightwing daydream ‘manifesto’ so I thought I would restore impartiality by writing in.

The article features all the classic hallmarks of the reactionary right which are now being put into practice across the world to ruthless and inhumane degrees.

Nationalist tripe including the reintroduction of national service can be dismissed easily. Why any parent would want their teenage children to be taught to kill people in the service of neo-imperialism is beyond me.

But what caught my at-

NATIONAL SERVICE: Should it be re-introduced? tention most were points 10 and 12, where the wanna-be führer explicitly advocates that camps be opened for young offenders and ‘illegal’ immigrants.

We’ve seen that before and we know how it turned out. But we also see it today, in Leapy’s

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If you are saying you support Leapy’s manifesto then you ought to research those centres where children are caged and separated from their families and women are forced to drink from toilets.

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A SCHEME which saw 45 children from Africa’s Western Sahara travel to northern Spain for summer holidays shows what can be achieved with global thinking and international solidarity.

The ‘Holidays for Peace’ scheme saw children aged between nine and 12 visit Asturias’ Oviedo.

They will not only benefit from cooler climes. Such schemes help both the children and people here in Spain look beyond the narrow confines of nations and see that we are all part of one global community.

When people from different backgrounds come together they are able to share ideas, experiences and cultures not only to their benefit, but to the betterment of all.

The children can learn that the world offers opportunities for exploration and for making meaningful connections in the most unlikely places with the most unexpected people.

Barriers of country, religion, culture and society soon evaporate and what is left is one human being enjoying the company of another.

The children will also have much-needed respite from conditions in their home countries that are tough to say the least.

Western Sahara was annexed by Morocco in the late 1970s.

The UN and NGOs have repeatedly denounced the occupation and its associated human rights abuses.

The children now have a respite from the fear and suspicion living under such conditions produces. Everyone needs to have holidays to rest, but we should think ourselves fortunate that we do not have to return to such situations.

Now we want to hear your views.

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idea how to treat, train and care for them?

Steve Walsh Sometimes animals can snap. They are ill, a disease, exactly the same as humans. We don’t always know the reasons why. Such a sad ending, but if the dog severely injured the woman and continued in the attack. I am sure that anyone would have tried to defend themselves however they could.

Man gets goats he rescued put down For heaven’s sake, leave him alone! Raising your own food has been the norm for thousands of years! The law is there for use where appropriate and this is NOT such a case. Use common sense legal eagles!!

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BBC News at 9 Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live Curious Creatures Getting the Builders in 3:15pm Len and Ainsley's Big Food Adventure 4:00pm The Hairy Bikers' Best of British 4:45pm More Creatures Great and Small 5:15pm Extraordinary Animals 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Celebrity Eggheads 7:30pm The Customer is Always Right 8:00pm The Repair Shop 9:00pm Interior Design Masters 10:00pm Murder Case 11:00pm Better Things 11:25pm Rick Stein's Long Weekends 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather

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1:30pm 2:30pm 2:55pm 3:00pm

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7:25am 7:50am 8:55am 9:55am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am

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Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Dickinson's Real Deal Tenable ITV London Weather Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Round-up of the main national and international news.

Emmerdale Coronation Street Long-running drama with the residents of England's most famous cobbled street.

The Best Little Prison in Britain?

Coronation Street Deep Water ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Police, Camera, Action!

British Touring Car Championship Highlights

10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 2:00pm 2:30pm

The Planet's Funniest Animals 7:20am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 7:45am You've Been Framed!

8:10am Dinner Date 9:00am Emmerdale 10:00am You've Been Framed!

10:25am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 11:25am Superstore 12:15pm Dress to Impress 1:15pm Emmerdale 1:45pm Emmerdale 2:15pm You've Been Framed!

2:50pm The Ellen DeGeneres Show 3:45pm Dinner Date 4:50pm Dress to Impress 5:50pm Take Me Out 7:00pm You've Been Framed!

9:00pm Two and a Half Men 9:30pm Two and a Half Men 10:00pm The Hangover Part II 11:00pm FYI Daily 11:05pm The Hangover Part II 12:10am Family Guy

9:00pm 10:00pm

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12:00am 12:45am 1:45am

2:45am 3:40am

Beyond 100 Days Eisteddfod 2019 with Jason Mohammad Part one of two.

A History of Scotland The First Georgians: The German Kings who Made Britain Mary Beard's Ultimate Rome: Empire Without Limit Susan Calman's Fringe Benefits Time Shift Calculating Ada: The Countess of Computing A History of Scotland The First Georgians: The German Kings who Made Britain

Coronation Street Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote On the Buses On the Buses George and Mildred Agatha Christie's Poirot 1:40pm Heartbeat 2:45pm Emmerdale Rachel and Michael have an uncomfortable meeting.

3:15pm Emmerdale 3:50pm Coronation Street 4:20pm Coronation Street 4:55pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 6:55pm Downton Abbey 7:55pm Murder, She Wrote 9:00pm Agatha Christie's Poirot 11:05pm Unforgotten 12:05am Unforgotten 1:10am Law & Order: UK

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

Mike & Molly King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Simpsons The Simpsons Channel 4 News A New Life in the Sun Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown A Place in the Sun The £100k Drop Come Dine with Me The Simpsons The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special Jade GameFace GameFace 24 Hours in A&E

7:00am Only When I Laugh 7:25am The Saint 8:15am Kojak 9:15am Quincy, M.E. 10:15am Minder 11:20am The Sweeney 12:30pm The Professionals 1:35pm The Saint 2:40pm Kojak 3:45pm Quincy, M.E. 4:50pm Minder 5:50pm The Professionals 6:55pm The Sweeney 8:00pm The Chase 9:00pm DirtQuake 2019 10:00pm Speed Freaks 11:00pm Enter the Dragon A powerful crime kingpin hosts a martial arts tournament on his island lair.

12:05am FYI Daily A round-up of the latest entertainment news.

12:10am Enter the Dragon 1:10am The Sweeney

9:40am 9:55am 10:10am 10:15am 12:15pm

Shimmer and Shine Floogals Sunny Bunnies Jeremy Vine GPs: Behind Closed Doors 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

2:10pm Access 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm Evil Nanny 5:00pm Friends 6:00pm 5 News at 5 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Cricket on 5 9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm When Cruises Go Horribly Wrong & Other Travel Nightmares 11:30pm Me Before You 12:30am Access

4:30pm Solo: A Star Wars Story 7:00pm Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope 9:15pm Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 11:30pm Star Wars: Episode VI - Return of the Jedi 2:00am Bad Boys

6:30am Billy Madison 8:05am A Little Something for Your Birthday 9:50am How to Get Girls 11:30am We're the Millers 1:30pm Johnny English Strikes Again 3:10pm Game Night 4:55pm Pretty Woman 7:00pm We're the Millers 9:00pm Johnny English Strikes Again 10:40pm Game Night 12:25am Father Figures

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

WEDNESDAY TV

Hollyoaks Rules of Engagement How I Met Your Mother Melissa & Joey Black-Ish Black-Ish Baby Daddy Speechless Speechless The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa & Joey Melissa & Joey Baby Daddy Black-Ish Speechless Speechless The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks The Goldbergs Young Sheldon Celebs Go Dating Wife Swap USA The Big Bang Theory

7:00am Nobody's Fool 9:00am The Adventures of Jurassic Pet 10:45am Shoplifters 1:00pm Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 3:10pm Lizzie 5:10pm Age of Summer 7:00pm Nobody's Fool 9:00pm Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse 11:00pm Shoplifters A poverty-stricken group living in Tokyo makes ends meet by shoplifting.

1:10am Lizzie 3:15am Boogie Man

7:00am 8:00am 9:00am 10:00am 11:00am 7:55pm

Total Goals Total Goals Total Goals Total Goals The Ashes - Live Live Vitality T20 Blast Cricket Essex Eagles v Middlesex.

Coverage of the South Division match from The County Ground in Chelmsford.

11:00pm The Debate Discussion on the latest football news.

12:00am Sky Sports News 1:00am Sky Sports News 2:00am Sky Sports News 3:00am Sky Sports News 4:00am Sky Sports News 5:00am Sky Sports News

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EFL Greatest Games Football's Greatest Players Football's Greatest Players Football Countdowns Football Countdowns Football Years Football Years EFL Highlights Action from the Football League.

The Fantasy Football Club Guests select their all-time line-ups.

The Fantasy Football Club Guests select their all-time line-ups.

Football's Greatest Players EFL Greatest Games A chance to see action from a memorable EFL fixture.

EFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games SPFL Greatest Games

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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS

Keep up the pace this week so that you have plenty to discuss and 'write home about’. With your mind so active, you are capable of doing in a day what would normally take a week.

By-pass those who try to slow you down. There will be plenty of time to be a plod later.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Others may be changing their minds, and generally being a bit of a pain. That may irritate you but it is no reason to change your plans. Both you and your colleagues will be glad that you did in the longer term. You may need to find some peace and space for yourself come the weekend.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Looking back over the past few months you will realise that fine adjustments are needed. Both your working life and diet need attention, so be determined that progress made will continue apace. Certainly, you have no qualms about facing any problems straight on. You thrive on responsibility and there is no shortage of that at the moment.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Now that you are feeling much better, it will be tempting to put aside your healthy eating and exercise, but if you remember what a difference it makes it would be silly to stop now.

Enlist the help of a friend or two in keeping the momentum going.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) There are so many things to do or try that you should be spoiled for choice. No, don't settle down in front of the TV. Get out, make some friends and aim to learn something new every day. That may only be the name of your neighbour on the bus but it counts. You are charming and urbane, so don't keep it all to yourself.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) When your feelings are so positive, which they should be now, it is hard to remember that they have ever been any other way. You may have a plan in mind for a new activity to get the adrenalin flowing. How much more enjoyable, though, to find someone to share this with you. Book that course and maybe you will meet them there.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) After a few recent excesses, bad habits can prove hard to shake off. Remember that any time of the year is a good time to make a fresh start. Don't put off looking after your health any more than you would put off stashing a cheque in the bank. Use it or lose it? You know it makes sense. Think about combining health with a holiday.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) It happens that energy is sometimes low. Take the chance to read up on why this could be.

You may think that you know it all, but in this world there is no chance of that. Maybe you are out of touch generally, or just out of touch with your own needs.

Give building your strength priority. How much better you will cope with extra energy.

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Women’s wit

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If love does not know how to give and take without restrictions, it is not love, but a transaction that never fails to lay stress on a plus and a minus.”

Emma Goldman, Activist

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) With so much going on, you are in danger of burning yourself to a frazzle. You won't realise until you have done it, so make a point of getting some peace and quiet, preferably both of them at the same time. Relax and don't even think about things that are unchangeable. Time will sort out most things for you.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Leave nothing to chance when it comes to your health. Although you are feeling good now you will soon have problems because you are more concerned with others than yourself. This can be good but can also be overdone.

You know how good you can feel. Increase this by simply not accepting second-best treatment.

EAR-SPLITTING: Spending a lot of time in the New York Subway can cause hearing loss.

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Concentrate on your physical needs this week and spend much more time on yourself.

There will be plenty of opportunities to look after others when you are feeling 100 per cent yourself. Stay in control of day-to-day plans.

‘

There are some persons in this world who, unable to give better proof of being wise, take a strange delight in showing what they think they have sagaciously read in mankind by uncharitable suspicions of them.”

Herman Melville, writer

IF you spent just a few minutes in the New York City Subway you would eventually suffer hearing loss, according to a study. Researchers found the volume in the 86th Street Station was as high as 101.9 decibels, louder than a jet plane taking off or a power lawn mower. Times Square, one of the busiest, registered up to 96 decibels.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) guidelines state people should not be exposed to noises louder than 90 decibels during an eight-hour working day.

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SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Your tendency to see yourself through the eyes of others can lead you to undervalue your worth. This could see you going pear-shaped, emotionally. Try not to believe everything that you are told because there are always at least two ways of seeing things. Be positive. You are capable of so much. Take care of your needs on a daily basis.

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19)

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Cryptic

TIME

Across 1 Time runs out – it's the end of the line (8) 4 Middle Eastern oil is hard work (4) 8 Some formal takeovers for an island (5) 10 Spain's victory, as I've read is hard to pin down (7) 11 Correspondence from landlords (7) 12 Condiment for a mariner (4) 14 Thai tangled with it in Society Islands (6) 16 Gene spinning round in motor (6) 19 Instrument made of brass or ebony initially (4) 21 Italian city in which more can mingle (7) 24 Keep, to look at (7) 25 Trees uprooted and planted again (5) 26 Glossy magazine uncovers a beating (4) 27 Soft soap, dupes are converted (8) Down 1 Part-timer behind original design (8) 2 Frivolous, as in an Emily Bronte novel (5) 3 No longer any use when anxious (6) 5 Oxford college window (5) 6 A German song was not true (4) 7 Biblical character upset masons (6) 9 Fastening left at church (5)

13 Are Peter's letters swapping witty banter? (8) 15 Conservative chap inside offering a possibility (6) 17 Religious images one deceives (5)

Code Breaker

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

18 Seem upset about central heating plan (6) 20 Shatters sculptures (5) 22 Noblemen needing laser treatment (5) 23 Mexico always provides fuel (4)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents M and 24 represents Z, so fill in M every time the figure 1 appears and Z every time the figure 24 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Close observer (9) 5 Russian country house (5) 7 Rhythmic dance originating in Cuba (5) 9 Accidental hole that allows something to enter or escape (4) 10 Young unmarried woman (6) 12 Chess piece (6) 13 Forbids (4) 15 Passage between rows of seats in a building such as a church or theatre, an aircraft or train (5) 16 Generally incompetent and ineffectual (5) 18 Extremely small (9)

Down 1 Unhappy (3) 2 Cooperative unit, especially in sports (4) 3 Traditional headdress consisting of a long scarf wrapped around the head (6) 4 Infectious childhood disease (7) 6 Skeleton of a motor vehicle (7) 8 Error (7) 9 Building or room where books are kept (7) 11 Relating to the present or recent times as opposed to the remote past (6) 14 Caress or greet by touching with the lips (4) 17 Fasten or secure with a rope, string or cord (3)

English - Spanish

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

Across 1 Peine (4) 3 Paraguas (8) 9 Charity (7) 10 Hamlet (5) 11 Autumn (5) 12 Podrido (6) 14 To tear up (6) 16 Spark (from fire, electricity) (6) 19 Ortiga (6) 21 Discutir (5) 24 Cups (5) 25 Casita (de campo) (7) 26 Surtido (8) 27 Lake (4)

Down 1 Puppy (8) 2 Blackbird (5) 4 Ripe (6) 5 Asado (5) 6 Escaleras de mano (7) 7 Abbot (4) 8 Language (6) 13 Porter (airport, railway station) (8) 15 Estornudos (7) 17 Salud (6) 18 Rescate (6) 20 To cough (5) 22 Good-looking (f) (5) 23 Other (f) (4)

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Hexagram

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

ANYWAY BEAUTY BUSBOY CHORAL (10) DEAFEN FROSTY HOYDEN HURRAH LACKEY LAUNCH LINDEN OBLONG RANKLE SHABBY SHEATH SHEAVE SNOTTY TURBAN TURKEY

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION 1 Lichen 2 Retort 3 Cashew 4 Artic 5 Wealth 6 Filthy 7 Glycol 8 Beetle 9 Bounty 10 Gabble 11 Gallop 12 Bauble 13 Beadle 14 Befoul 15 Bumble 16 Edging 17 Bedlam 18 Nibble 19 Bubble.

Nonagram

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.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

TARGET: Good: 17 Very good: 25

• Average: 23 • Good: 32

• Very good: 45 • Excellent: 59

SCORING:

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

Excellent: 32

bees bebop wees webtop weed weir wise wisp wispy wins snip sewed seed spin spiry nisei nips ewes espy pins pies pipit pion dews debt boor boom boon iron yips twit twirp tipi tiptoe tiptoed tiptoes tiro toed toes topi toon troop troy tromp trip poise poor pips porn port prom rips riot root rort romp mooed moot morn mort noir norm

cede cedi deft dent dice diet dine dint edit feed fend find iced need teed tend tide tied cited edict feted fetid fiend fined indie tined deceit decent defect define deific fenced indict indite deficit edifice eidetic enticed feinted incited definite feticide infected DEFICIENT

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK Down:

2 Trek, 3 Scarab, 4 Unanimous, 5 Eager, 6/16 Ask out, 8 Imitation, 12 Revere, 13 Heart, 17 Alms.

CRYPTIC

ENGLISH-SPANISH

Across:

Across:

1 Span, 3 Reptiles, 9 Avoided, 10 Embed, 11 India, 12 Report, 14 Lairds, 16 Sprain, 19 Chumps, 21 Smear, 24 Merit, 25 Averred, 26 Nitrogen, 27 Tsar.

1 Butcher, 5 Sepia, 8 Split, 9 Needles, 10 Enojado, 12 Those, 13 Owners, 15 Noises, 18 Peral, 19 Conocer, 21 Prestar, 22 Donde, 23 Leyes, 24 Degrees.

Down:

Down:

1 Spaniels, 2 Avoid, 4 Endure, 5 Twerp, 6 Liberia, 7 Soda, 8 Edward, 13 Intruder, 15 Inherit, 17 Pastel, 18 Estate, 20 Motto, 22 Earns, 23 Oman.

1 Bostezo, 2 Toldo, 3/22 Hot dog, 4 Rincón, 5 Sweetcorn, 6 Pillows, 7 Aisle, 11 Abrelatas, 14 Nursery, 16 Streets, 17 Scared, 18 Pupil, 20 Canoe.

App of the week Fitness challenge AN app which challenges users to a 30-day fitness challenge workout which are designed by professional coaches to improve health. Data from Google Fit can be synchronised with the app to show how many calories have been burned while the app also automatically tracks users’ progress. It offers short and long workouts as well as special routines for abs and full body sessions.

QUIZ: HA HA HA All the answers are words that begin with the letters HA 1. According to Greek mythology, what is both the name of the underworld abode of the souls of the dead and also another name for Pluto, the god of the underworld, brother of Zeus and husband of Persephone?

2. Begun in AD 122, what is the name of the Roman defensive wall across northern England, stretching from the Solway Firth in the west to the mouth of the River Tyne in the east (about 120 km, 74 miles)?

3. From the Latin for ‘you shall have the body’, in law what name is given to a writ requiring a person under arrest to be brought before a judge or into court, especially to secure the person's release unless lawful grounds are shown for their detention?

4. Introduced in The Crab with the Golden Claws, what is the name of the merchant marine sea captain who is Tintin's best friend?

5. Originally built as a Christian church, converted to a mosque in 1453 and made into a museum in the middle of the 20th century, what is the name of the sixth century masterpiece of Byzantine architecture in Istanbul?

6. Port-au-Prince is the capital of which country in the Caribbean, occupying the western third of the island of Hispaniola?

7. What name is given to a dealer in small items used in sewing, such as buttons, zips, and thread?

8. What surname is shared by the US rock’n’roll singer who was backed by the Comets and the Afro-American author who wrote a fictionalised account of tracing his family roots back to Africa?

9. What was the name of the nightclub and music venue in Manchester that became famous in the Madchester years of the 1980s and early 1990s? Despite considerable and persistent financial troubles, it survived until 1997, mainly supported by record sales from New Order.

10. Which city is the provincial capital and largest city of Nova Scotia?

Not a lot of people know that… Shakespeare’s play Hamlet has given us a whole host of famous phrases, including: to the manner born, cruel to be kind, neither a borrower nor a lender be, brevity is the soul of wit, this mortal coil and hoist with one’s own petard.

Answers: 1. HADES, 2. HADRIAN’S WALL, 3.

HABEAS CORPUS, 4. HADDOCK, 5.

HAGIA SOFIA/SOPHIA, 6. HAITI, 7.

HABERDASHERS, 8. HALEY (Bill and Alex), 9. HAÇIENDA , 10. HALIFAX

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

CODE BREAKER

TARGET:

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

Average: 12

1 Grotesque, 7 Alike, 9 Amass, 10 Edit, 11 Nadir, 14 Dazed, 15 Dove, 18 Unite, 19 Laser, 20 Incessant.

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

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

They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

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

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

• No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

Kakuro

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.

Across:

Boggled

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weather

Costa Blanca

TOMORROW

TODAY

DENIA

DENIA

JAVEA

JAVEA

CALPE

CALPE ALTEA

ALTEA

BENIDORM

BENIDORM

ORIHUELA

ORIHUELA

TORREVIEJA

TORREVIEJA

Malaga

Almeria

Bilbao

Madrid

TODAY: MAX 32, MIN 23-S

TODAY: MAX 29, MIN 24-S

TODAY: MAX 33, MIN 23-C

TODAY: MAX 34, MIN 20-S

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

35 34 33 33 30 30

25 - S 24 - Cl 23 - S 22 - S 21 - S 21 - S

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

29 30 30 30 28 28

25 - S 25 - S 24 - S 24 - S 22 - Cl 22 - S

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

31 24 21 21 23 24

18 - C 18 - C 16 - Sh 15 - Sh 14 - Sh 15 - Sh

33 34 33 31 31 32

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

Mallorca

Barcelona

TODAY: MAX 31, MIN 25-S

TODAY: MAX 34, MIN 22-S

TODAY: MAX 30, MIN 23-CL

S: Sun

25 - S 24 - S 24 - Cl 23 - Cl 22 - Cl 22 - S

32 32 31 30 29 29

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed Cl: Clear

26 - S 24 - S 25 - Cl 24 - Cl 23 - Cl 23 - S

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

34 35 34 33 31 31

C: Cloudy

22 - S 23 - S 24 - S 23 -Cl 21 - S 22 - S

Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

31 30 30 29 28 28

JAVEA CALPE ALTEA BENIDORM

Benidorm

TODAY: MAX 31, MIN 24-CL

33 32 31 31 29 30

DENIA

20 - S 19 - S 17 - S 16 - S 16 - S 16 - S

Alicante Fri Sat Sun Mon Tues Wed -

SATURDAY

23 - S 23 - S 22 - S 21 - Cl 21 - Cl 20 - S

Sh: Showers

ALICANTE ORIHUELA TORREVIEJA

Th: Thunder

Sn: Snow

Sudoku LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

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.

James by the Coward Robert Ford. Born in Falmouth, Massachusetts in the US, he studied physics at Colombia University.

• Alan Shearer, Footballer; August 13, 49 Shearer was born in Gosforth in England and played football on the streets while growing up before making his professional debut with Southampton in 1986. He went on to be a striker with Newcastle United and joined England’s national team in 1992.

• Mila Kunis, Actor; August 14, 36 Kunis made her big screen debut in 1995 in Piranha and has since gone on to feature in That ‘70s Show, Forgetting Sarah Marshall and Black Swan. Born in Chernivtsi in Ukraine, she first enrolled in acting classes aged nine.

Word Ladder WEAK

HAND BACK

DVD

Tough choice

Move from the start word (WEAK) to the end word (HAND) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

WEAK BEAK BEAD BEND BAND HAND

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• Princess Beatrice, Royal, August 8, 31 Malaga Province, Andalucia in Spain, he The daughter of Prince Andrew and Sarah initially showed promise as a footballer before Ferguson is the first woman in line to the throne giving up the sport to pursue acting. but is sixth overall. Born in London, she studied at • Hulk Hogan, Wrestler; August 11, 66 Hogan is the second-longest combined reigning Goldsmiths, University of London and now occasionally performs minor royal duties.

WWE Champion of all time and was inducted Gillian Anderson.

• Gillian Anderson, Actor; August 9, 51 into the organisation’s Hall of Fame in 2003.

Sar of The X-Files was born in Chicago, US and began Born in Augusta, Georgia in the US, he played bass in acting with an amateur group while in secondary school. several bands and dropped out of the University of South Florida to form the group Ruckus.

She went on to land roles in films The House of Mirth, A Cock and Bull Story and The Last King of Scotland.

• Casey Affleck, Actor; August 12, 44 • Antonio Banderas, Actor; August 10, 59 The star of Manchester by the Sea won an Academy Banderas is best known for his roles in The Mask of Zorro, Award for his role as Lee Chandler and was nominated in 2007 for his performance in The Assassination of Jesse Interview with the Vampire and the Shrek series. Born in

Solution WEAK LEAK LEAD LEND LAND HAND or

BIRTHDAYS

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Wartime journey REMOTE marshes in the southern corner of England cannot escape the country’s civil war which in 1648 is about to reach its bloody climax.

On Midsummer’s Eve that year Alinor sits in a graveyard waiting for deliverance from her abusive husband. She is descended from a wise woman and has been ostracised by a society in the throes of anti-witch hysteria.

Alinor expects to see a ghost but instead she meets James who is on the run. She begins to show him a secret passage across the marshland but does not know she is leading him into impending disaster.

The man and woman begin to traverse the landscape during a time where women such as Alinor are feared for their arcane knowledge of herbs. Villagers contemplate taking violent action against her in Phillippa Gregory’s Tidelands.

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523 - Reaping rewards Byzantine Emperor Justinian I rewards Liberius, a leading official in the empire, with extensive estates in Italy for his service to the Pragmatic Sanction.

991 - Battle defeat An army of Vikings led by Olaf defeat the Anglo-Saxon forces of King Æthelred at the Battle of Maldon. The AngloSaxons would pay off the Vikings with around 3,300 kilograms of silver to prevent them from pillaging what is now Essex.

1040 - King death Scotland’s King Duncan I is killed by his cousin and rival for the throne Macbeth. The killing would go on to be immortalised in the William Shakespeare play of the same name.

1264 - In revolt Muslim rebels defeat a Castilian garrison and capture the Alcazar of Jerez de la Frontera in the Mudejar revolt against Christian rule in Spain.

1765 - Rule begins Mughal Emperor Shah Alam II signs the Treaty of Allahabad with Robert Clive after the Battle of Buxar. The treaty marks the beginning of the British East India Company’s rule in India.

1945 - Atomic bomb The nuclear bomb Fat Man is dropped on the Japanese city of Nagasaki by the US, killing around 35,000 people. Japan would surrender days later, ending the Second World War. 2003 - Taking charge NATO takes command of peacekeeping forces in Afghanistan in its first major operation outside Europe.

JOAN STANLEY (Judy Dench, Sophie Cookson) is living out her retirement peacefully in an English suburb when she is arrested by MI5.

Secret services suspect her of passing intelligence to the Soviet Union during the Cold War and begin to question her.

The interrogation brings back memories of when she was studying physics at Cambridge University and falls in love with German Jew and communist Leo Galich (Tom Hughes).

The romance ignites an interest in Marxism. She becomes torn between her country and beliefs in Red Joan.

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Leap of faith

JORIS PLU TAKING the leap of faith - what does it mean? For instance, the path you have been walking on until now in your life no longer suits you. Taking the leap of faith means you are willing to go forward, taking the next step in your new positive and wonderful chapter of your life.

That is why so many photos about the leap of faith are about jumping. Sometimes or may I say most of the time jumping means not really knowing where you will be landing.

And that is called trust. A very, very powerful word. Trust.

Trusting that the next step you are going to take will be ok will be the step you need.

How many times do you see other people doing this and saying to yourself ‘Wow, I wish I had the nerve to do it. But it all looks so scary, so uncontrollable.’

And most people do not take that

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jump, that leap of faith. Staying in a place where they do not belong any more.

And it gives them pain. Pain which is in that moment more ok than the belief, the trust that the next step will be even better for them.

Who are we to decide that another person needs to change, needs to take that leap. If at that certain moment a human being needs to stay on the rather safer site than that which is ok.

We all have our reasons, our fears, our time to take the leap.

Or not take it at all.

Sometimes it takes a long time before we jump. That is ok too.

There is totally nothing wrong with being happy with where you are in life. But if you keep on hearing

HERE are some tips to keep your eyes healthy: * Get regular eye tests. The tests carried out by an optician will not only detect eye conditions such as glaucoma, but can actually detect medical conditions like diabetes. * Wear decent quality sunglasses to protect your eyes from the sun.

Sunglasses help prevent certain eye diseases related to the sun. Prolonged exposure to the sun’s UV

that nagging voice in your head that you have to jump… then just jump.

If we listen to our body, heart and soul. Really listen.

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know very well what is good for us or not. Most of the time we do not trust enough that feeling.

Fear and trust. Two powerful words.

Taking the leap is about trusting, even though you do not see the net to catch you, knowledge that you will land safely.

Think for a moment about all

GO FOR IT: Take the leap of faith.

those people who took the leap, who jumped. If you ask them, most of them, if not all, will tell you that they have should done this much earlier in life. That the jump was totally fine. That they are so happy with their next step in life.

Once we master our jumps in life we will be much happier since we are listening to our inner voice, our soul, what it really wants.

From that moment on we will love to jump. We now know how it feels. And it feels good. So practice your jump. One step at a time. And if you need help for your first jump, ask for help. You will receive it.

Once someone said… When you are at that point in your life that you are scared to jump… then that is the moment to jump. Otherwise you end up staying in the same place for the rest of your life.

Enjoy the leap of faith in your life, enjoy the jump.

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rays can lead to cataracts, and macular degeneration. It’s therefore important that your sunglasses provide 100 per cent UV protection. * Eat healthily, particularly plenty of fish, fruit and vegetables which have specific nutrients that are important for eye health. Remember the old joke, ‘Are carrots good for your eyes?’ and the answer was, ‘Of course, have you ever seen a rabbit wearing glasses?’

Well actually there is some truth in the joke, Carrots are high in vitamin A, a nutrient essential for good vision and eating carrots will provide you with the small amount of vitamin A. Try to ensure that you eat a balanced diet containing sufficient omega-3 fatty acids, lutein, zinc, and vitamins C and E. * Dry eyes can be a problem.

Drinking more water can help. Mild dehydration often makes dry eye

problems worse. This is especially true during hot, dry and windy weather. Simply drinking more water sometimes reduces the symptoms of dry eye syndrome. * Stop smoking. Smoking is harmful to the eyes. Research has shown that smoking increases the risk of age-related macular degeneration, glaucoma and cataracts. Cigarette smoke irritates the eyes and will worsen dry eyes.

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More than skin deep

BLOCK THE RAYS: Wear a wide brimmed hat.

HEALTHY skin, full of vitality tends to be the preserve of the young and beautiful. As we age our skin loses its elasticity. Skin also becomes thinner and more fragile; glands lose their ability to effectively moisturise the skin and it’s therefore common for older adults to have dry skin.

Here are our top tips for keeping you and your skin looking at their best and keeping it that way.

Use warm water rather than hot when you wash, and avoid taking too many baths or showers. Use mild cleansers rather than harsh soaps and alcohol-based products.

Consider using a fragrance-free moisturiser and keep your skin well hydrated to help prevent the cracking and itchiness that can accompany dry skin.

Stay out of the sun, whenever possible, during the time when rays are strongest, 10am to 4pm. Remember you can get sunburnt even when it’s cloudy or when you’re in water. Use broad-spectrum sunscreen with SPF of 35 or more. Apply it 15 to 30 minutes before going out and reapply every two hours.

When outside in the sun, wear loose, lightweight, long-sleeved shirts and long pants or long skirts, along with a wide-brimmed hat.

Also wear sunglasses that block the sun’s rays to protect your eyes.

Smoking damages your skin in numerous ways, contributes to wrinkles and generally ages your skin. Blood vessels in the outer layer of skin narrow in smokers, reducing blood flow and depleting the skin of nutrients and oxygen. Collagen and elastin, which provide elasticity in skin, are also damaged by smoking.

Even minor nutritional deficiencies can cause rashes, skin lesions and other skin changes. Make sure you’re getting a healthy mix in your diet.

Make sure you drink enough water - when you dehydrate, your skin does, too.

Lastly, put a humidifier in your home to add moisture to the air, particularly if you use air-conditioning, as these units tend to dry the air.

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BB Glow A SKIN glow treatment is the latest trend in skin care technology. This method of skin care is a popular treatment all over Europe, producing amazing results. The BB Glow treatment is an intensive skin treatment that uses a Dermapen to penetrate the layers of the skin. This penetration GLOWING: Intensive treatment. stimulates natural collagen production as well as offering a myriad of other benefits.

Collagen is a natural protein found throughout the body, and it helps to give structure, elasticity and vibrancy to your skin. Unfortunately, as we age, our body produces less collagen, which in turn leads to wrinkles, and a loss of skin elasticity and firmness.

Stimulating collagen production can improve the look and texture of your skin and lessen the appearance of fine lines and wrinkles quickly, safely and affordably.

BB Glow treatments also supply your skin with BB serum, which is made from natural ingredients. The BB serum is applied with the Dermapen, which uses microneedles to penetrate the skin. Microneedles are so small they can barely be felt, and the treatment is gentle. The BB Glow treatment is designed to improve the look and feel of your skin fast, with visible improvements often discernable immediately after your first skin glow treatment. It improves your skin by clearing and unclogging your pores. It also speeds up the growth of new skin cells, which makes your skin healthier and brighter, and reduces the impact of ageing skin cells.

Some of the improvements you may notice include: • Fewer freckles • Brighter, more radiant skin • A more even skin tone • Less skin discolouration • Fewer fine lines and wrinkles The most significant advantage of a skin glow treatment is how long it lasts. After your treatment, results can last up to four months. The treatment is safe, and the BB serum is free of parabens, fragrances, alcohol, and allergens. You’ll see results immediately, but the serum will also continue to work for two weeks after your treatment. Many clients repeat the treatment two or three times to maximise its effectiveness.

At Derma Clinic Spain we now have a summer offer for this treatment. Visit us on Facebook or Instagram to see our offers, or call for your appointment.

Call for an appointment on: 674 255 579 Avda. del Albir 161, local 1 674 255 579 www.dermaclinicspain.com Alternatively see our Facebook page facebook.com/DermaClinicSpain

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Getting a good night’s sleep A REFRESHING night’s sleep is essential to our health and indeed our beauty regimes (tired bags under the eyes just are not sexy) and although each individual’s actual requirements can be different, it is normally recommended to get between seven and nine hours sleep per night. There are ways to get a good night’s kip.

Try to get into a routine with the same bedtime and wake up time, even on the weekends. Your body will then adopt this pattern and you will be ready for sleep at the right time. A relaxing, routine before bedtime will enable you to wind down ready to go to bed.

Daily exercise can help you to be tired when it’s time to go to sleep.

Your bedroom should be free from any noise or light that could disturb your sleep.

Check your room for noises or other distractions. This includes a bed partner’s sleep disruptions such as snoring.

Consider using blackout curtains, eyeshades and earplugs.

Make sure your mattress is comfortable and supportive. You will feel more refreshed and this will reduce aches and strains in the morning.

Avoid bright light in the evening and expose yourself to sunlight in the morning.

This will keep your circadian rhythms in check.

Alcohol, cigarettes and caffeine can disrupt sleep as can eating big or spicy meals which can cause discomfort from indigestion that can make it hard to sleep.

Switch off your mobile phone, television and computer well before bedtime, they invariably stimulate the brain, making it harder to get to sleep.

If you can’t sleep, go into another room and do something relaxing until you feel tired.

If you’re still having trouble sleeping, don’t hesitate to speak with your doctor or find a sleep professional.

Is your skin revealing a healthy glow?

WHAT does your face say about your health?

From rosy cheeks to patches under the eyes, experts say your complexion can reveal a lot about your lifestyle.

Facial colouration seems to be the most important in determining how healthy someone looks.

Research has identified that faces with lighter, redder, and yellower skin were seen as the healthiest and there is some biological

processes associated with these colours.

Lighter skin is associated with the ability to absorb more vitamin D. Greater redness may indicate more efficient circulation and blood supply to the skin and people with yellower skin tend to have healthier diets, rich in fruit and vegetables.

Tanning also increases skin yellowness and makes faces appear healthier, but the yellowness brought about from a healthy diet is obviously preferred to tanning.

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CELEBRITIES

Let me entertain you posed for a picture with pal Karl Brazil in a vest featuring a psychedelic lion.

Both pictures come as Williams and Field recently enjoyed a family holiday on Formentura with their daughters Teddy, six, Coco, 10 months and son Charlie, four.

Williams and Field wed in 2010.

Daughter Teddy was a bridesmaid at Princess Eugenie’s wedding in October.

SINGER Robbie Williams sported a daring new look while holidaying with wife Ayda Field in the Balearic Islands.

The 45-year-old Williams donned a military style hat adorned with a picture of a tiger and teeth to match.

He wore colourful face paint to complete the look. A picture posted by Loose Women host Field to Instagram bore the caption: ‘This Tiger Ain’t Sleeping Tonight.’

Other pictures showed Williams continuing the big cat theme when he CREDIT: Ayda Field Williams, via Instagram

COUNTDOWN star Rachel Riley showed off her baby bump during a recent trip to northern Spain for her honeymoon.

The 33-year-old newlywed took in Cataluña’s Barcelona and Bilbao in the Basque Country with husband Pasha Kovalev.

Riley captioned one picture taken next to Bilbao’s Guggenheim art museum: ‘Half-way bump and

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Baby on the way

ROARING TIME: Robbie donned tiger face paint in Formentura. all brewing nicely! Mother’s intuition says it’s definitely a girl. Or a boy. Or a cockapoo.’

The mathematician also joked her husband was now having to dig her a ‘bellyhole’ while on the beach.

Riley’s baby bump was on full show in one shot taken in what looked like her hotel room when she sported just a bikini.

ALTHOUGH it’s only a small town with a population of less than 1,000, Lliber certainly knows how to party and its fiesta runs from Tuesday August 13 to Thursday August 22.

There is something on every day and night with a number of highlights including a giant paella for lunch on August 14, with dancing until dawn with the Orchestra La Tribu on the same night.

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All loved up LOVE ISLAND host Caroline Flack appears to have found romance herself if a picture posted by apparent beau Lewis Burton is anything to go by.

The former professional tennis player, who is 12 years Flack’s junior, uploaded a picture to Instagram of the two sharing a loving embrace and kiss in Ibiza.

Burton captioned the picture: ‘self-confessed Caroline Flack.’

Celebrity gossip magazines interpreted this as a reference to Flack being a self-confessed ‘cougar,’ or woman that dates younger men.

The pair are said to have shared a string of dates before going ‘Instagram official.’ But Burton’s ex Lauren Rose threw a spanner in the works JUST FRIENDS?: Flack and Burton when she told British media he shared an embrace in Ibiza. was still in love with her.

“He’s just playing us both. I know it’s a rebound but that will show in time,” scorned lover Rose said. Burton is also said to have told his ex him and Flack are ‘just friends.’ In another twist, the picture of Flack and Burton appears to have been removed.

CREDIT: Lewis Burton and Caroline Flack, both via Instagram

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Thursday August 15 is children’s day with a grand parade of floats and kids in fancy dress and then in the evening there will be four bands playing at the Medical Centre, namely Arsénic, Ebri Knight, Reaccio and Plan B starting at 11.30pm.

There is so much going on that it is impossible to list everything, but full information can be found at the Tourism Department website http://www.vallde pop.es.

ON TOUR: Aitana from her latest video.

Chart topper THE 20-year-old pop sensation Aitana who was runner up in Operación Triunfo is currently touring Spain following the release of her second gold disc Spoiler.

She will be appearing at the Plaza de Toros in Alicante City on Saturday August 10 with tickets costing from €32.

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HAPPY MONDAYS: still standing after all of these years

Remember the 80s and 90s THERE are those who say that if you remember the Swinging 60s then you weren’t really there, but Visor Fest 2019 celebrates some of the best music to come out in the 80s and 90s.

It runs for two days, September 13 and 14 at the Auditorio Julio Iglesias in Benidorm with eight bands from Spain, the UK and USA appearing with tickets costing €60 for two days or €40 for one day plus booking fees and discounts for the young and those with limited mobility.

This annual event wants to recreate a concert in a club but on a larger stage with bands which grew up at the time and were important in their own genres of rock, pop and electronic music.

The Friday show features Happy Mondays, Lightning Seeds and the House of Love from the UK alongside Buffalo Tom from the USA. Saturday showcases James and New Model Army from the UK, Spanish band Surfin’ Bichos (who at the time were considered better than Nirvana) from Spain and Nada Surf from the USA. All of these bands have seen a number of lineup changes but all are still committed to their particular brand of music and with the added bonus of a market at the event, this promises to be a weekend to remember.

To find out more and to secure tickets visit https://visorfest.com/en.

Jazz in the streets THERE is a selection of free concerts featuring different jazz bands in the streets of Moraira and Teulada during the month of August.

Line-up is as follows: Moraira August 13 at 7.30pm - The Little Big Band in C/Iglesias August 13 at 8.30pm - Daisy’s Swing Band in C/Castello August 14 at 7.30pm - Riudolç Brass in C/Barranquet August 20 at 7.30pm - The Little Big Band in C/Iglesias August 20 at 8.30pm - Daisy’s Swing Band in C/Mar August 27 at 7.30pm - The Little Big Band in C/Iglesias August 27 at 8.30pm - Daisy’s Swing Band in Plaza la Sort Teulada August 15 at 830pm - Riudolç Brass in Plaza del Ayuntamiento August 29 at 8.30pm - Daisy’s Swing Band in Plaza del Ayuntamiento

THERE are four moonlight musical presentations in Albir at 10pm each Friday night during August, with three costing €10 per concert for adults and one completely free of charge.

August 9 the duo One Beat play a mixture of folk, soul, rock, Latin jazz and samba at the open-air muse-

Music by moonlight um Villa Romana.

August 16 welcomes a performance of Carinhoso by Martegiani and Di Fulvio Duo

(voice, guitar and bass) in Calle Federico Garcia Lorca which is free.

August 23 guitar duo Ausias & Ruben Parejo play in the Centro Social d’Albir.

August 30 sees a concert of Spanish music and dance by Duo Cuenca also at the Centro Social.

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Tasty and unique BOWLERS’ PRIVATE DINING

!!Dani’s weekly food tip!!

THIS week’s recipe is simple, but at the same Did you know? time tasty and unique.

After working Everyone likes chocolate with garlic, rub truffles so why not come up with the idea of a your hands cheese truffle? I have vigorously on chosen goat’s cheese, it’s your stainless my favourite cheese and steel sink for 30 works with many seconds before ingredients. washing them. It I have come up with three will remove the Follow Dani Bowler: different types, you can odour. coat the truffles with instagram: Dani.bowler hazelnut, black olive and Web: www.danibowler.com sesame seeds.

These can be used as a great elegant impress your guests) or you could simply appetiser or for a pre-dinner drink (it will add them to a salad.

Goat’s cheese truffles Ingredients 150g goat’s cheese (chilled) Salt and pepper Truffle oil (optional) Coatings 50g chopped walnuts 50g chopped black olives (pipped) 50g toasted sesame seed (If you’re going to use for a salad I would use one of the ideas) Method Prepare the coating and set aside.

In a bowl whisk together the goat’s cheese, pinch of salt and pepper. Chill the mixture for about an hour. Take a small spoonful of the goat cheese mixture and shape it into truffles.

Pass the truffle balls through truffle oil (this will give a great aroma of truffle) then roll the cheese balls in the coating of your choice and place on a serving plate or add to a salad.

TRUFFLES: Coated with black olives.

And why not try infused water Fusing your water with fruit and herbs is a fun way to keep cool this summer. Sure, drinking plenty of water is always a great idea especially in the heat, but why not twist this up with fresh fruit and herbs. With the summer time here and temperatures already reaching 32 degrees this week... give it a go!!

Cut up fruit and pick the herbs of your choice. Place them in a pitcher or large glass container. Fill the pitcher with filtered water.

Let it chill in the refrigerator for at least two hours (this will release the flavour).

Pour, serve and enjoy... Here are some ideas you can use; strawberry, blueberry, kiwi, peach, apple, lime, lemon, cucumber, mint, basil.

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Yamato Japanese YAMOTO Restaurant serves wonderful Japanese food, is really well priced and everything is served by really friendly staff.

If you do not believe me just check out the various review sites and see what others are saying about this fantastic restaurant.

Since 2017 it has even gained TripAdvisor’s ‘Certificate of Excellence.’

The bright modern restaurant maintains an air of modern Japan, with its clever use of classical furniture in a modern square room.

Now, please do not go to this restaurant expecting a pile of raw fish. Yes, you can order Sashimi, the delicate freshest of fresh fish served with condiments including Wasabi, an ultra spicy Asian horseradish but there is so much more to Japanese cuisine. Try the sushi, little bites of meat, fish or vegetables encased in rice and maybe seaweed, again served

with condiments of wasabi and perhaps some pickled ginger.

Or try Teppanyaki, which is a style of Japanese cuisine, the name is derived from the words ‘teppan’ (iron plate) and ‘yaki’ (grilled, boiled, or pan-fried). So, it literally means ‘grilling on an iron plate.’ The dishes of meat, fish, vegetable and noodles are ‘show’ cooked in front of the customer on the flat service with incredible skill and precision.

Or try authentic Japanese dishes like Yakitori, chicken skewered on bamboo then grilled to perfection and served with a homemade sauce or one of the restaurant’s range of tempura dishes, ones that are deep-fried in a light crispy batter like Eba Tempura, langoustine in this fantastic batter.

You should also try their Gyozas, a Japanese crescent-shaped dumpling filled with a minced stuffing. The Japanese equivalent of the Chinese dim sum. Ab-

solutely delicious.

And of course, being an incredibly healthy cuisine, the vegetarians and vegans are well catered for.

Now, if you have ever tried to eat Japanese food in other parts of Europe you may have either found it too expensive, inauthentic or bad quality. Yamoto is none of these.

By the way, this is not a buffet restaurant, so all the food is cooked fresh to order and not left lying around in heated trays all night.

The restaurant operates a system where you can order up to eight dishes per round up to four rounds, though you should be warned that they will charge you extra for any dishes that you order and then do not eat!

And their fixed price menu costs a mere €13.50, which incredibly includes unlimited house wine, beer or soft drinks.

SUSHI: Little bites of meat, fish or vegetables in rice or seaweed.

FRESH: All the food is cooked to order.

Yamato Japanese Restaurant, Cami Vell d’Altea, 26, 03581 El Albir, L’Alfas del Pi Tel: 966 866 605

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Every week we will be listing some of the hundreds of events, happening in the Costa Blanca North region. We are particularly keen to help to promote charity events, so if you are organising one or know of one, please let us know at info@euroweeklynews.com If you enjoyed any of the events we have listed, please do not hesitate to let us know. Have fun

Now to end of August

August 9

August 16 From 8pm

August 29 to September 1

There are a number of free activities every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at the Cala de Finestrat for children aged three - 12 years. There is also Zumba for the adults.

Details from the Finestrat Town Hall.

The Jacksons at 7pm. The original line-up featuring, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine and Jackie at Eras De La Sal, Torrevieja. Bookings: www.heatwavepromotions.com.

White full moon party at Carretera les Marines Racons a Dénia, 8A, 03770 Les Deveses, Dénia. Tickets from www.purobeach.com.

Now to October 20

August 5 to 11

August 22 11pm

Four days of partying around the pool and on the beach hosted by Benidorm International Congress.

Around 3,000 people expected, with top international acts and DJs. Tickets from www.salsero.es.

The seaside town of Miramar will be holding its fiesta.

Denia’s jazz festival. This week with Olivier Franc playing the music of Sydney Bichet.

Jardines de Torrecremada, Denia.

‘Van Gogh alive.’ A fantastic multi-media exhibition of this brilliant artist’s work.

More information from https://vangogh.es/

August 12, 14, 16 & 17 Evenings at 8pm, the local sports clubs will be putting on a display on the Arenal, Javea of acrobatics, tricking, dance and acro (opposite Octopus).

August 1 to November 10 Titanic exhibition in Alicante. At the Museo de la Lonja del Pescador in Alicante open every day except Monday. Complete with a 1:30 scale replica of the ship.

August 8 at 11pm Denia’s jazz festival. This week with Jessie Gordon Quartet. Jardines de Torrecremada, Denia.

August 10 at 7pm Concert of music from 60s, 70s and 80s in the grounds of the beautiful Jardins l’Albarda, la Xara. Tickets cost €10 www.fundem.org. The gardens are worth a visit in their own right.

August 15 - Day of the Assumption This is a National holiday in Spain. Expect shops, public buildings and banks to be closed. A number of towns will hold religious parades, with fireworks etc.

(There will also be some businesses that will be closed the next day, so as to make a long weekend).

Please also note that we will be off that day, so your Euro Weekly News will be out on Friday August 16.

August 23 and 24 Ondara, inland from Denia will be hosting its Jazz festival. Four concerts over two days, featuring woman jazz stars. Details on their Facebook page Col.lectiu Jazzdara.

August 25 to 27 La Vuelta cycling race will spend three days criss-crossing the region. It all starts in Torrevieja on August 24 then moves to this region for two hill climbs and a stage around Valencia on August 27.

August 29 Summer Dance Festival at The Gandia Palace Hotel.

August 31 at 11pm Film concert of the music of John Williams and Hans Zimmer (should be plenty of recognisable film scores!).

Plaza de Toros, Ondara. Check out the superb trailer on Facebook, events page. Tickets from the Casa del Cultura.

September 1 Dominican Swag party in Benidorm.

Bachata, Salsa and all things Latino.

Full info from https://www.salsero.es/ events/5175.

September 7 Said to be the biggest and best, Benidorm Pride concludes with a massive parade.

September 17, 7.30pm The OK Band, party with meal in aid

of APROP at Restaurant Moleta, Adsubia, €22. Contact Marion on 966 403 923.

September 29 Doors open at 1pm. Benidorm Palace is hosting A marvellous show called ‘Save my life 3’ in aid of the local dog rescue centre. All the acts are giving their time for free and last year, the Palace raised thousands of pounds for this worthwhile charity. Tickets available in various places around Benidorm and the Box Office. By the way, please let the Box Office know beforehand if you want food.

October 11 9pm John Mayall, the revered guitarist in his 85th-anniversary concert. At VB Spaces, Avda Elce 186, Alicante. Tickets from http://bit.ly/EntradasJohnMayallAlicante.

October 13. 8.30pm Direct from London’s West End, The Rolling Stones story. A one-night special at Benidorm Palace.

*For village and town fiestas check the local towns’ websites for full details.

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LETTERS FROM CANARIES

By Barbara Belt barbarabelt@gmail.com WHILST summer temperatures down here on the islands are normal, we’re still being bombarded with very high UV rays. It’s dropped to nine today, a small mercy but an improvement on the 12 and 13 we’ve had over the last month or so.

Here’s the UV risk scale: 0-2, no danger; 3-5, little risk of unprotected exposure to the sun; 6-7, high risk; 8-10, very high risk and 11+, which has been the case for some time, extremely high risk. It feels a bit like being microwaved. The beaches, nevertheless, are full of sunbathing tourists, although locals lurk in the shade whenever possible. No warnings are offered to visitors. Nothing on news or weather forecasts, so as not to disturb the tourism=money status quo, but if you’re coming to the Canaries, or in fact going anywhere, be warned: check the UV count. Ask Aussies about what happens when a Caucasian population carries on regardless under a hole in the ozone layer.

Although this is just one of many climate peculiarities being experienced all over the planet, affecting global warming believers and non-believers indiscriminately, our high UV is unusual.

The UK and Northern Europe are sweating in unprecedented temperatures, but even at 39º, the

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At this no-news time of year

BEACH PARTY: Combined music with safety information.

UV’s still a safe 3-5.

As we languish, preferrably under big trees, there’s plenty of time for tertulias about the post election political circus, notable here because the local Coalición Canaria party has lost its decades-old hold on the Canarian Autonomous Government to PSOE, the Spanish socialist party. Our new president is Ángel Victor Torres, whose investiture was livened up by his fouryear-old son shouting ‘Papi’ - at which parliament erupted in applause - as he became president. See: https://www.lasexta.com/noticias/na

cional/papi-papi-el-hijo-pequeno-del-nuevopresidente-de-canarias-se-cuela-en-plena-se sion-de-investidura_201907125d28b8650 cf24fa103c22e96.html, courtesy of La Sexta.

‘He seems an ok bloke,’ say the sages in the shade. We shall see.

At this no-news time of year, I often get concerned calls about a bit of La Palma dropping off, plunging into the sea and causing the mother of all tsunamis, which will obliterate New York, indeed the entire US eastern seaboard, and may cause trouble here. Thrill to http://www.exitmun

di.nl/tsunami.htm Got a wall for that, Trump?!

And here’s a selection of Canarian news bites: Lanzarote’s grape harvest is 50 per cent down on last year’s bumper 3.7 million kilos. We’re talking Malvasia wine, beloved of Shakespeare.

Mysteriously, a second dead cow has been found floating off the coast ‘in an advanced state of decomposition.’ No connection between these two news items, as far as we know.

Fred Olsen Ferries celebrate 30 years of service between Lanzarote and Fuerteventura, where Beach Party Caleta de Fuste combined music with safety info on the Canaries 1,500 km coastline.

Another bash, the Isla Bonita Love Festival in La Palma, was a resounding success: professional, well-organised, free and good fun. See, courtesy of El Apurón: https://elapuron.com/noti cias/sociedad/129936/isla-bonita-love-festival2019-official-aftermovie/ More ferry news,(ferries are important to islands): the Volcán de Tagoro, a new state of the art Naviera Armas boat, built by Incat, is on its way to the Canaries from Tasmania. With luck, I’ll enjoy it on my forthcoming August tour of the islands, a last fling on my soon-to-be-Brexited 75 per cent EU resident travel discount, sleeping in my ancient Nissan Patrol, discovering new places, great nature and nice people while I can still afford it. Watch this space.

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THE names of all Lamborghini’s cars are derived from the world of bullfighting. The Diablo and Murcielago are both the names of famous bulls, while the Estoque is the style of sword that Matadors use.

New 2019 Ford Focus ST FORD has released details of the all-new Focus ST, which they claim delivers nimble hot-hatchback thrills in a stylish, comfortable and practical family car.

A new generation of Ford’s 2.3-litre EcoBoost all-aluminium engine is the most powerful ever offered for a Focus ST. Using advanced turbocharging technology to deliver 280 PS power at 5,500 rpm and 420 Nm of torque from 3,000 rpm to 4,000 rpm. Alternatively, Ford’s 190 PS 2.0-litre EcoBlue diesel engine model, delivers peak power at 3,500 rpm and 400 Nm of torque between 2,000 rpm and 3,000 rpm and 360 Nm from 1,500 rpm, which give acceleration of Zero-

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WITH an output of up to 310 kW (421 hp), the completely new Mercedes-AMG 2.0 litre engine is currently the world’ s most powerful turbocharged four-cylinder manufactured for series production.

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POWERFUL: Mercedes-AMG CLA 45 4MATIC+ shooting-brake.

Agile and dynamic precise self-steering characteristics, as well as track stability when driving at high speed.

The eight-speed dual-clutch transmission also contributes to the car’s agile and dynamic character. The gear ratios have been configured so that the driver experiences spontaneous acceleration in all speed ranges. Depending on the selected driving mode, the driver receives a specific drive configuration with different

accelerator and gearshift characteristics.

With its sporty appointments and the sophisticated infotainment system, the high-quality interior creates a close, personal connection between man and machine. The driver and front passenger are seated in an active po-

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Combined fuel consumption 8.4-8.2 l/100 km; combined CO2 emissions 191-188 g/km.

The shooting-brake additionally offers a pronounced degree of practicality. At 505 litres, the boot is large enough to accommodate a wealth of recreational and outdoor equipment plus the tailgate can also be opened contactlessly with an easy-pack system and comes with handsfree access.

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by Nick Fletcher HONDA’S Jazz hatchback has been a very popular model in recent years, appealing to those who look for reliability and low running costs, but are not too concerned about sporty performance.

However, the Jazz is now available with a more punchy 1.5-litre petrol engine which will widen its appeal to younger buyers who tend to prefer more zesty performance and sharper handling.

The previous 1.3-litre 101 hp petrol engine is still available, but the new 1.5-litre unit packs 128 hp, and with a sixspeed manual gearbox (a CVT auto gearbox is an option) delivers a quick 0-100 kph time of 8.7 seconds and a top speed of 190 kph (118 mph). Average fuel economy is 17 kpl (47.9 mpg) and emissions are 133 g/km.

With this larger engine in my upper-spec Sport Navi test model, there was not only an immediate performance boost but a whole new persona for the Jazz because it has also had an exterior make-over to

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Honda Jazz Sport Navi SPORT NAVI: With forceful new styling.

give it a bolder and more potent look, which helps it compete in a tough sector which includes rivals such as the Ford Fiesta, VW Polo and Toyota Yaris.

The Jazz also boasts lighter suspension for more agile handling and a new damper

Facts at a glance Model: Honda Jazz Sport Navi Engine: 1.5 litre petrol Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 8.7 seconds, top speed 190 kph (118 mph) Economy: 17 kpl (47.9 mpg) Emissions: 133 g/km

Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

system which improves ride quality, so out on the road it excels with responsive acceleration and assured cornering. It is pleasingly comfortable to drive on urban roads and when you leave the city and need more speed, the car revs eagerly and shows it wants to go.

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means the Jazz is bigger inside than you might expect, and has good occupant space front and rear, with wide doors allowing easy access. A large tailgate reveals a 354-litre boot, expandable to 897 litres by folding the rear seats flat. It gets full marks for practicality.

And it score highly for equipment too. Standard kit on this model includes fourpowered windows, cruise control, auto lights, touchscreen infotainment unit with connectivity and smartphone mirroring, sat-nav, forward collision warning, lane-keep assistance, and auto city braking system.

Jazz prices start at €16,290 (£14,600) and there are several trim levels, with my Sport Navi version at €20,383 (£18,250).

With the new engine option, forceful new styling and with Honda’s legendary reliability record, the potential market for the Jazz is greatly increased and this sporty version should prove popular.

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IT was magnificent seven for Lewis Hamilton as he clinched a gripping Hungarian GP for the seventh time seven years on from his first win for Mercedes.

That first win was also at the Hungaroring and had been an unexpected victory at the time after Mercedes had struggled in the first few races of the season.

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Magnificent 7 for Lewis Hamilton sion and drama.

The two had a race-long battle that the young Dutchman looked to be winning after an excel-

WINS AGAIN: Hamilton had an incredible drive.

lent drive from pole.

Hamilton was all over the back of Verstappen after the first round of pitstops saw the British racer with fresher tyres. But Verstappen impressively held him off despite Hamilton pushing hard. When his Mercedes brakes started to get overheating problems and his tyres started to wear Hamilton had to ease off.

It was then that the Mercedes team had a masterstroke.

They changed strategy and brought Hamilton in for a second pitstop.

Verstappen’s Aston Martin Red Bull team failed to react, leaving him to try to last the race out on worn tyres.

While Hamilton now had the advantage of fresh tyres he still had a massive gap to close on the leader of around 20 seconds.

The Briton chased down Verstappen,

and with three laps to go, Hamilton made the pass to take the lead, going on to take his seventh Hungarian GP win.

Verstappen was forced to pit, as his tyres were now totally worn, and came back out in second. He promptly pumped in the fastest lap, to get the extra bonus point, and crossed the line 17.7s adrift with Sebastian Vettel passing Ferrari teammate Charles Leclerc late on for third.

Spain’s Carlos Sainz took a brilliant fifth for McLaren ahead of Red Bull’s Pierre Gasly and Alfa Romeo’s Kimi Raikkonen. Bottas, who was forced to pit early on for a new nose after contact with Hamilton and Leclerc, recovered to eighth, with McLaren’s Lando Norris and Toro Rosso’s Alexander Albon completing the top 10.

In the championship race Hamilton now has 250 points, a 62 point lead over teammate Bottas.

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Lewis Hamilton said: “We’ve been together for seven years, but this feeling never gets old. If it wasn’t for everyone here and back at the factory, this wouldn’t have been possible.

“I’m so grateful to be a part of it and for the team for continuing to believe in me, push the limits and take a risk. We struggled a little with the brakes today, so I was trying to save as much as I could for when I had a chance to pass Max. It was very, very difficult to get by.

“I wasn’t sure if I could close the 19second gap, but the team said to just get your head down, so I did. I kept pushing, the gap closed and the laps were like qualifying laps. I was on the limit all the way. I take my hat off to the team and I think if Niki were here today, he would take his hat off too.”

Mercedes team leader Toto Wolff said: “What an unbelievable comeback.

This is why we love the sport, you are holding onto moments like this, where it’s an unexpected result and this is why it feels so great.

“We didn’t think it would go this way but the strategy team did so well and made great calls. There was a specific point in the race where we weren’t sure if Lewis would catch Max, but he got his head down and once the Red Bull was in sight, we knew he’d pounce.

“An incredible drive and a great result to head into the summer break with.”

Exciting regatta in Mallorca European champs again THE Copa del Rey MAPFRE is a regatta with a reputation for exciting sailing and tense finishes, and the 38th edition that finished at the weekend didn’t disappoint.

After six exciting days of competition, the identity of the champions of the 11 classes was only revealed on the last day.

Among the milestones of the 38th Copa del Rey MAPFRE was the defence of their 2018 titles by Estrella Damm in the BMW ORC 2 class and L’Immens Laplaza Assessors in BMW ORC 3.

Historic victories were scored

by Natalia in Mallorca Sotheby’s ClubSwan 42, which became the first Romanian champion and Oman Air, which became the first Omani champion. On top of that the Federación Balear took the first all-female crew prize.

In total 132 teams of 26 nationalities competed in 11 classes and four regatta areas in Palma Bay. The 11 winners are: the Italians Cannonball in Mallorca Sotheby’s IRC and Cuordileone in ClubSwan 50; the French Team Vision Future in BMW ORC 0; the Omani Oman Air in

GC32; Natalia in Mallorca Sotheby’s ClubSwan 42; and the Spanish Porrón IX in Swan 45, Estrella Damm in BMW ORC 1, El Carmen - Elite Sails in BMW ORC 2, L’Immens - Laplaza Assessors in BMW ORC 3, Federación Balear in Purobeach Women’s Cup and Grupo Garatu in Herbalife Nutrition J80.

Speaking after the final classifications were anounced Helena Alegre, skipper of Federación Balear, Purobeach Women’s Cup champion said: “We only met for the first time one week ago. It was all to play for today but when we won the first race then we could breathe a little easier. And to win this event for all female crews on our own home waters with a bunch of girls we all met up together is great. We have won the Cup and won friends.”

This was the first time the Copa del Rey has had a category for all female crews. It was introduced as a way of helping Spain’s Olympic qualifying campaign.

But it is not the only category that women can sail in, as proven by Natalia Brailoiu, skip-

per of Natalia, Mallorca Sotheby’s ClubSwan 42 champion.

She said: “It is a dream come true! This has been a good, strong class in which you have to fight for every place, every point.

This time we were very concentrated and focused.”

Ed Baird, tactician on Cannonball, Mallorca Sotheby’s IRC champion said: “This is terrific.

You come here worried when you have not seen another Maxi72 for eight months and so to win is great.

“Proteus did a great job winning today which was the best they could do to get second. Bella Mente is a brand new boat and the other two boats here are three years old and we are all here hoping we are competitive with the new boat.”

Leonardo Ferragamo, skipper/owner on Cuordileone, ClubSwan 50 champion said: “I feel extremely rewarded and very excited. There is a lot of relief, the tension of racing seven very intense days goes away. I think this will be my 10th Copa del Rey and to win it with the ClubSwan 50, one of the main classes here, feels like a great achievement.”

IT has been a long wait but Spain’s under-18 basketball players are European champions once again.

T h e y o v e r c a m e Tu r k e y 57-53 in the final to take the title for the first time since 2011, but they had to do it the hard way.

They found themselves 13 points behind in the second half of the match b e i n g p l a y e d i n Vo l o s (Greece) but 6ft 11in Santi Aldama stepped forward to grab the game by the scruff of the neck.

He sank shots from long distance, got to the hoop and dominated the game as he collected 23 points, all after coming off the bench.

Even then Spain nearly gave it away again as they went seven long minutes in the final quarter without scoring a single field goal.

H o w e v e r, a s t h e c l o c k ticked down up stepped Oier Ardanza who scored with a pair of free throws,

and a put-back layup that made it 55-50 with 38.5 left to play.

Turkey managed a quick t h r e e - p o i n t e r, b u t c o u l d not secure a rebound and Spain scored late to ensure

the win.

FIBA Secretary General Andreas Zagklis and FIBA Executive Director Europe Kamil Novak were on h a n d t o w i t n e s s S p a i n ’s triumph.