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BOATS ABANDONED MORE than 400 beached and abandoned boats have been inspected by the town council of Rincon de la Victoria as part of the final phase of a major beach clear up. The environmental department has issued a warrant to remove a number of vessels as part of the beach management project that will regularise the docks on the beach areas of the municipality and remove unregistered boats. M a y o r o f R i n c o n , S e rg i o Diaz (PP), authorised the first phase of the project which involved the inspection of over hundreds of vessels currently beached along the shoreline and in varying stages of abandonment. Stickers were placed on the boats warning they will be confiscated and disposed
FOUND: Missing hiker discovered safe and well after 13 hours.
MISSING HIKER FOUND
CLEAN UP: The region’s undocumented boats will be removed from the beach if not claimed.
of if not claimed. The purpose of the scheme is to “ensure safety, health, environmental protection and beaches through different pe-
riodic actions, because these boats are often undermined by the use and time,” said the mayor. Removals were made in
25% cut in water supply THE Regional Government of Andalucia has informed farmers in Axarquia that their yearly allowance is to be cut by 25 per cent. The board cites drought conditions and extremely low levels of the La Viñuela reservoir for the cuts, which leaves any farmer with land below the 140 level facing a reduced water allowance for the upcoming year. In the last hydrological year, just 385 litres per square meter has fallen in the area which has brought the reservoir to drought levels of just 51.5 per cubic hectometre. Because of this, the allocation for irrigation to farmers in the region have seen their allocation cut from 4,000 cubic meters per hectare per year to 3,000 cubic metres per
CUTS: The water board has reduced the yearly allowance to Vinuela farmers by 25 per cent. hectare from November going forward into the new year. The cuts will affect around 5,000 hectares of irrigated farmland in the area of the Guaro Plan. According to the spokesman of the Central Board of Users, Alejandro Clavero, the cuts are to ensure
that there are supplies for the upcoming summer season. During the announcement on Tuesday, it was also insinuated that any farmer above the 140 level will see their supplies cut until the reduction is re-evaluated in January.
To r r e d e B e n a g a l b o n l a s t week and will continue along Arroyo Totalan, San Juan and south of the Urbanisation of Calaflores in La Cala Moral.
A HIKER reported missing while on a trek with friends has been found. The alarm was raised by his friends after three men set off to hike the peak of La Maroma in the Sierra Tejeda-Alimajara y Alhama. At around the point of the Tajos Lisos, one of the men began to fall back and lose contact with his friends. After noticing they were a man down at midday last Thursday, they turned back to find their friend, but he was nowhere to be found. The two hikers, of foreign nationality, descended back to base and alerted the emergency services. Officers from the Consortium Provincial Fire Provincial Provincial Council of Malaga, the Civil Protection Service Canillas de Aceituno and the Guardia Civil were dispatched to comb the area in search of the missing hiker. After 13 hours and with the aid of a search helicopter, the man was discovered shortly after 1am. Reports from the Civil Protection organisation suggest he was exhausted, but otherwise in good health. He has been taken to Hospital Comarcal de la Axarquia for further checks.
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VELEZ-MALAGA has been recognised by the Network of Marine Vigilantes for its commitments to being ‘eco responsible.’ The deputy mayor of Torre del Mar and councillor for Beaches of VelezMalaga, Jesus Perez Atencia, attended the congress meeting last Friday to accept the town’s award for its marine environment initiatives. The recognition
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AWARENESS: Victor Gonzalez is flanked by representatives of Association of Women with Breast Cancer of Axarquia. Source: Facebook / Hike Minded
THE famous La Gran Senda will receive a €600,000 investment to create footbridges and hanging walkways. The route, sometimes known as the Great Malaga Path is a 745km loop that traverses through Axarquia and Malaga. The investment will be carried out on stage seven of the Gran Senda de Málaga (GR-249), between the Axarquian regions of Canillas de Aceituno and Sedella. The money will go towards improving the walkways with new safety features and the construction of further trails along the route. It will also cover the installation of a new suspension bridge that will sit 50 metres over the Rio Almanchares. Stage seven of the GR-249 includes 25 kilometres of trails, however there are several sections that require you to walk along a main road. The investment will create new footpaths to take walkers off the busy highway. The most spectacular addition will be the new footbridge, located above
HIKING: The famous La Gran Senda will receive improvements to its Axarquia sections. the banks overlooking the Rio Almanchares in a spot called La Rahige. The already placed metal footbridge will be adapted so that it meets current health and
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safety regulations to allow walkers to safely cross. Along the rest of the route, vegetation clearing, masonry works and municipal groundworks will be carried out.
Pink for Breast Cancer THE capital of Axarquia, Velez-Malaga, turned pink this week to celebrate International Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Victor Gonzalez, councillor of Social Rights and Equality, along with representatives of Association of Women with Breast Cancer of Axarquia ‘Hope’ announced the town’s plans for the special day on October 18. Multiple activities and information points were organised in order to raise much needed awareness for screening and early preventative treatments of the disease. “We want to add another year to the events of this day and support and accompany the Association Hope in all their efforts aimed at improving the quality of life of patients and families,” explained Victor Gonzalez. “We understand research is as fundamental as any innovation that allows early diagnosis of this disease.” Different activities will be taking place across the municipality throughout this month, including the eighth Walk of Hope which will leave Paseo de Andalucía on Sunday, October 27.
Marine eco responsibility draws direct relevance to the Sea Bed Clean-Up Project that took place last month by the diving club of Torre del Mar ‘Apañao Sub,’ organised by the Network of Marine Vigilantes. Perez Atencia said that “our experience in recent years has made us un-
derstand that the work must be constant and always attending to environmental needs. “With more than 22 kilometres of coastline, it is essential to carry out daily work to maintain an environmental balance.”
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RECOGNITION: Jesus Perez Atencia accepts the town’s award for its marine cleanliness.
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Mezquitilla makeover THE town hall of Algarrobo has completed painting works in various locations around the small municipality of Mezquitilla. Numerous public buildings and municipal areas have received cosmetic repairs and a new coat of paint by council workers including the Sala Exposiciones.
La Voz Kids TORRE DEL MAR’S very own Patricia Garcia has taken social media by storm after posting a video of her performance on Antena 3’s La Voz Kids talent competition. Since the video was uploaded of her rendition of ‘Cai’ by La Niña Pastori, she has received over 370,000 interactions.
Elderly hike THE Elders of Almachar took part in the Walk for Life hike last Thursday. The group of elderly walkers from the Senior Programme travelled to Casabermeja to hike up to the shelters of Peñas de Cabrera where they appreciated the prehistoric cave paintings and engravings.
Alcaucin death A 70-YEAR-OLD woman has been found dead at the bottom of her own pool in the Venta Baja region of Alcaucin. The alarm was raised by the woman’s partner, but rescue attempts by the Guardia Civil and Emergency Services were in vain. An investigation is now underway to determine cause of death.
China visit ALMACHAR welcomed the President of the Chamber for Hispanic Cooperation in China, Leticia Chen last week. The president visited the factories of Ucopaxa and the Santo Cristo de la Banda Verde cooperative with a view to promote the region’s grape and wine products in China.
Lonely end THE body of a 60-year-old man has been found in his home in Velez-Malaga after neighbours reported a strong smell coming from his home on Avenida Vivar Téllez in the capital. The man, officially named under the initials JMF, had not been seen since October 10.
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CITY OF HUMAN TOWERS
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TOWER BULDING: The unique tradition is an unforgettable experience. Municipal Tourist Board and the four tower building groups in the city (Xiquets de Tarragona, Jove dels Xiquets de Tarragona, Xiquets del Serrallo and Castellers de Sant
Nerja WWTP meeting THE construction of the new Nerja Waste Water Treatment Plant continues to plough forward after the latest meeting. The mayor of Nerja, José Alberto Armijo and councillors Francisco Arce and Antonio Dorado, have held a working meeting in Nerja with representatives of the Ministry for Ecological Transition and the construction company Lantania, to discuss the outline of the next stages of work. Arce explained that the meeting was very successful and both sides of the table came to a mutual understanding of the next phase of operations in four different areas of the municipality, Calle Mérida, the old N-340 between the WWTP and Capistrano Village, the Paseo de Burriana and Calle Frigiliana The Nerja Town Council have confirmed the project will be completed as soon as possible.
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The human tower constructions - known as un castell - originated in Tarragona and Penedes and their origin comes from Valencian dances. THE unique tradition makes for an unforgettable experience. These towers are formed by teams which practise throughout the year and can reach up to 10 stories in height. Once built, the participants must dismantle the tower without falling. Tarragona has four groups who take part, and the city lives and breathes the tower building spirit and ambience like never before. To build the towers, everyone needs to be there and in the right place. If one person is missing, it doesn’t get built. ‘Tarragona, City of Human Towers’ is a pioneering initiative launched in 2013 with the aim of boosting tourism by bringing both the people of the city, those who were not in one of the groups, and tourists closer to the human tower building world. At the same time, it capitalises on one of the country’s main cultural and traditional resources, the human towers, which are declared an Intangible Heritage of Humanity. The initiative is supported by the
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Pere i Sant Pau). The last human tower events of 2019 takes place at 6pm on Saturday, October 26, having started in June, at Plaza de la Seu in Tarragona.
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DON’T forget - we can all enjoy an extra guilt-free hour in bed on Sunday as the clocks go back at 3am (Spanish time). But on the down side, we will soon notice the dark nights rapidly drawing in. The aim of changing the clocks in spring and autumn is to make better use of light. When we move clocks backward an hour in the autumn, we are effectively transferring an hour of daylight from evening to morning, when it is arguably more useful to more people. The opposite thing happens in the spring. This year the European parliament voted to scrap daylight saving time by 2021. If ratified, it could throw up yet another Brexit-related headache. If the UK leaves the EU before 2021 and the bloc goes ahead with its plan to scrap DST (Daylight Saving Time), a situation could arise in which for half the year Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland would be in different time zones.
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INFOCA, the Junta de Andalucia’s fire prevention and control department have called the end of the fire season on Tuesday to the dismay of its workers. With dry and dusty terrain and drought like conditions still exhibited throughout Axarquia, Infoca has been reduced to minimum staff thanks to the official end of the ‘fire season’ on October 15. Firefighting helicopters, aircraft and almost 50 per cent of the ground crews are relieved of their roles and the aircraft flown to Sevilla and put into storage, despite the ongoing threat of wild fires. The issue, according to the Junta, seems to be that they simply cannot keep the firefighters on as the majority of
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DANGER: The region’s fire teams have now been reduced by over 50 per cent thanks to temporary contracts.
them are on temporary contracts. Unions representing Infoca are pushing for the fire season to be extended until
Beach ticket bonanza THE Popular Weekend Beach Festival of Torre del Mar has released the first batch of tickets for next year’s event. They went on sale on Sunday and if last year’s ticket sales are anything to go by, visitors will have to act fast. Last year, 12,000 tickets sold out in less than a few hours. This year, 15,000 have been released to cope with extra demand. To apply for your ticket, please visit www.weekendbeach.es.
October 31 and for more permanent contracts to be issued, citing changes in the climate necessitating more personnel.
Carlos Maldonado, union representative of Infoca explains, “The forecast for this autumn is that it is going to be dry with warm tempera-
tures; very little rainfall, meaning that natural fire fuel (vegetation) in forests will be abundant, making the risk of fire rather high still.”
Stray cat purr-omise SPOKESMAN for Andalucia por Si in VelezMalaga, Jose Pino, has urged the mayor to deliver his stray cat promise. The CES project (Capture, Neuter, Release) to control the number of stray cats in VelezMalaga had previously been approved during a plenary discussion, led by Velez mayor Antonio Moreno Ferrer, two weeks ago. However the Andalucía por Si party has remained sceptical as an apparent lack of action from the governing party has thrown shade over the initiative. “We still know absolutely nothing of the change of the municipal ordinance so that the CES can be implemented in the feral cats of the municipality of Velez-Malaga,” explained Pino. “The approval of the proposal in plenary was only the first step, now we have to fight for it to be carried out and, therefore I demand the mayor Antonio Moreno Ferrer to
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PROGRESS: Andalucía por Si are pushing Velez mayor for CES action. fulfil what he promised in plenary and start working on it,” he continued. Pino ended his statement with a warning to the government, stating that if actions are not put into place, they will bring proven measures introduced in Malaga into Axarquia to show how it should be done.
Cash saving merge AN extraordinary plenary session held on Friday unanimously agreed on the merging of 15 separate loans in the municipality. The consolidation will save the region a total of €828,056 per year until 2028, meaning a total saving of €9,146,160. The saving will be based on the interest rates of these loans being reduced from 1.311 per cent to 1.294 per cent.
The total amount for the merged loan to be repaid will be €32,086,694. Under the project of ‘grouping of loans formalised with the compartments Fund in Liquidation for the financing of Payments to Suppliers of Local Entities’ mayor of Rincon, Francisco Salado (PP), said that “we continue to work to improve the budgetary stability of the town council, which will allow us to have more fi-
nancial resources to invest in the municipality and improve the welfare of citizens.” Friday’s plenary session also approved an IBI freeze of 0.84 to 0.80, “to mitigate the effects of the 10 per cent increase in cadastral values for 2020,” said the mayor. Approved measures also include tax reductions of electric, solar and hybrid vehicles and 90 per cent tax breaks on people with disabilities.
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Food truck fed lifeline by locals A FOOD truck which was completely gutted by fire has been given a lifeline by the local community. The converted bus was part of the 18 Nudos Surf Club and School when it was destroyed by an apparently deliberate fire last week, leaving owner Antonio Paquet, devastated. However a group of bands which have performed at the club previously have banded together and organised a fundraising concert in order to help the money to rebuild the food truck. A group of surfers who regularly use the surf school have also chipped in to help, organising an online campaign to raise a total of €7,000. So far their total has reached €700 with 25 days remaining. The concert will take place on Saturday and Sunday (October 26 and 27) at the 18 Nudos Surf School.
Eurovision visit SPAIN’S 2018 Eurovision contestant, Miki Núñez, visited the El Ingenio shopping centre in Velez-Malaga last Thursday. In a meeting with hundreds of adoring fans, he heaped praise on this year’s Eurovision choice, Blas Canto, saying: “I think it’s the best possible option because it has an incredible musical career,” he said. “Canto needs to absorb everything
that happens around him, Eurovision is a very big thing and, if you worry a lot about everything that happens, you can go mad,” Núñez advised his fellow performer. Núñez shot to fame during the reality TV show, ‘Operación Triunfo’ which led him to be chosen to represent Spain at the famous European contest which will be held in May next year in Rotterdam, Netherlands.
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Natural resources THE Mancomunidad de Municipios de la Costa del Sol Axarquia, APTA and CEDER will travel to Jaen for the Tourism Fair ‘Tierra Adentro’ this month to promote its tourist activities. The fair will take place between October 25 and 27 and representatives of Axarquia will promote the natural resources which the region has to offer tourists from all over Spain. The spokesman of the Commonwealth of Municipalities of Axarquia, Antonio Sanchez wil travel with fellow government members, Juan Peñas, Aroa Palma and the manager of APTA, Elisa Paez to the fair entitled the 18th International Fair of Tourism, Sports and Adventures of Andalucia ‘Tierra Adentro.’ “It’s a very important fair for us because they are the main inland destinations in Spain and because it concentrates professionals in the sector looking for
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PROMOTION: Antonio Sanchez, along with Juan Peñas, Aroa Palma and Elisa Paez. places that offer opportunities for sports tourism or adventure,” said Sanchez. During the visit they will promote areas of outstanding natural beauty such as the Cuevas de Nerja and Tesoro, the Almijara and Alhama Natural Park and the La Caleta marina by distrib-
uting leaflets, tourist maps and creating a tourist information point for all 31 municipalities. The delegates will also push the region’s culinary and cultural offerings as well as highlighting the importance of the tropical fruit industry, specifically the muscatel grape.
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LOAN: Velez-Malaga begins distribution of €4 million treasury loan.
Distribution of treasury loan THE Economic Area of the town of Velez-Malaga has started to distribute the €4 million loan given to the region. The loan has been granted to help fulfil some of the promises made during the municipal budget that was approved last week. Councillor for Finance, David Vilches, explained that once they have confirmed the remaining details of the Velez budget, mechanisms are in place to obtain proposals to begin with the necessary funding straight away. Vilches has explained that the loan has
been granted thanks to Velez-Malaga being in a good financial position, with the municipal government only needing to make small amendments to its initial financial framework to accommodate the repayment. “It is necessary to act quickly and understand the best possible uses for the money that the council has so that the neighbours and suppliers have more solvency,” he continued. A mo n g the firs t ite ms on the lis t for investment is the Torre del Mar theatre which will receive multi annual investments.
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R I NC O N D E L A V I C T O R I A has begun the tender process to maintain the upk e e p o f t h e t o w n ’s g r e e n municipal areas. A meeting was held by the Local Government Board on October 16 to understand the process and to reveal the budget allocated to the project. The details of the tender include an execution period of five years with non renewable contract and an annual budget of €1,398,873. The councillor of the area of Operational Services, Parks and Gardens, Jose Maria Gomez (PMP) explained that the large investment has come around due to, “in light of the need to reach the desirable level of quality of service that is provided and presents a shortage of human resources and lack of suitability in various facets relating to material resources.” He was talking about the well documented lack of fleet of vehicles and insufficient machinery that
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TENDER FOR GREEN AREAS
GREEN PROMISE: RIncon de la Victoria has begun the tender process to maintain the upkeep of the town’s green municipal areas. has blighted previous efforts to maintain municipal areas. “EMVIRIA has a totally undersized staff to be able to cover the works entrusted in the due terms of frequency, quality and endowment, which with this new contract will be reinforced,” he continued. The specifications include different types of green areas with a total surface area of approximately 250,000 square metres, 2,400 trees
and 130 planters distributed throughout the municipality. The sheet also defines its maintenance. The mayor of Rincon de la Victoria, Francisco Salado (PP) has stressed that the investment has been put into place to “develop a significant improvement in the s e r v i c e , s u c h a s t h e p u rchase of vehicles and machinery, in short, to provide a ser vice of quality to the useful and competitive citizen.”
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PROPOSAL: Provincial council has approved plans to scrap the AP7 tolls.
Scrapping of the AP7 toll road A PLENARY session of the Provincial Council of Malaga has approved procedures to scrap the tolls that line the AP7. The PP and Citizens both approved the notion led by Adelante Malaga to urge the government to initiate procedures to rid the tolls on the AP7 as it passes through the Malaga Province. “It is a key proposal to improve the mobility of the Costa del Sol,” argued the Deputy for Development and Infrastructure,
Francisco Oblaré. The plans are designed to alleviate the large amount of traffic that currently uses the A7 in Axarquia and Malaga. Despite the AP7 being the fourth most used toll in Spain, the A7 still receives five times more traffic at peak times, crippling it to a standstill. The existing N340 will be turned into an urban boulevard, with priority to high capacity public transport and bicycles.
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STUDIES have shown that property rental prices in the Malaga and Axarquia provinces are at historic highs. In a report revealed by real estate company Idealista, property prices along the western Costa del Sol and Costa Tropical are at the highest rate for over 20 years. Among the places surveyed, Marbella aside, Torremolinos sits at the top of the table for house rental pricing. Typically you will pay around €10.60 per square metre to rent a space there, demonstrating an increase of 11 per cent over 2018. These prices mean that a typical 100 square metre home to rent would cost around €1,000 per month. Further down the list and across the provincial border, the Axarquia capital Velez-Malaga seems much more affordable, with figures showing properties go for around €5.50 per square metre. Coastal town Rincon de la Victoria is pricier with €7.90.
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TOURISM: Frigiliana is close to becoming an official tourist municipality.
Official tourist status EQUALITY: Students stand with councillor for Culture of the Colmenar Town Hall, N oelia Podadera. THE Diputacion de Malaga has awarded the IES Los Montes de Colmenar for their short film in favour of gender equality. The competition, promoted by the ‘Talent Woman Challenge: We Create Equality’ programme, involved adolescents in the province raising awareness in the struggle for gender equality.
More than 100 students from across the region participated in the challenge which was eventually won by the IES Los Montes de Colmenar High School. In the short film, a group of girls give individual messages related to equal opportunities in different areas of daily life such as sport, home, work and relationships. They also advocate breaking stereotypes, giving
messages of hope for the future and dream of an end to male violence. The winners received a trip to the Warner Park for their efforts. Along with the film competition, more than 450 students took part in workshops on gender equality throughout the academic year, teaching them through audio visual projects and oral based activities.
FRIGILIAN A has passed its final administrative procedure for its application to become an official tourist municipality. The Axarquian town, along with six others, will be notified if their applications have been successful before the end of the year as a decision will be made by the Governing Council of the Board as to whether they will receive the official classification. It was announced last week that Frigiliana had passed their final stages to become a tourist municipality, along with Antequera, N íjar (Almería), Isla Cristina (Huelva), La Iruela (Jaen) and Aznalcazar (Sevilla). The aim of the designation is to help local councils maintain a consistently high standard of facilities and infrastructure during the tourist seasons when the population can sometimes increase by up to 70 per cent. If Frigiliana passes the approval stage, it will join the current 18 municipalities that hold Official Tourism status, including AlmuñEcar and Nerja in Axarquia.
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THE Municipal Water Company Axaragua will have a total of six attorneys, one for each political party represented in the commonwealth. Among the newly appointed heads will be former Velez-Malaga councillor, Jose Antonio Moreno. The announcement was made this week by the water company Axaragua of the new roles that will take representatives from all six governing parties in the province. Also revealed were the salaries that the new recruits by proxi will earn. Each member of the board of directors will take away €24,000 with the vice president and CEO Raul Peña earning €36,000. Fellow councillor, José María Jimenez, will not receive a salary from Axaragua because he is a
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N EW ROLE: Former Velez-Malaga councillor, Jose Antonio Moreno takes on a new challenge. provincial deputy. In addition to these salaries, a compensation of €300 will be awarded to attendance at the
standing committees and the Board of Directors for members who do not have exclusive dedication in the entity.
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THE judging panel of the 10th Evaristo Guerra Painting Competition has been left with no choice but to revoke the winning entry due to a plagiarism claim. The competition, held last month, was won by VelezMalaga-based artist María Ascensión Moreno Gámez. Her painting depicted two eggs frying in a pan with the title ‘Flavours of Yesteryear.’ As her work became public, the judging panel re-
ceived a complaint from a member of the public after her painting bore a striking resemblance to a piece by Bulgarian artist Ignat Ignatov. After two weeks of decision-making the judging panel has decided to remove the award from Moreno Gámez and are now in the process of organising a painting to take the award in its place and receive the €3,000 prize from the Provincial Council of Malaga.
Unusual seaweed find by fishermen AN invasive species of seaweed has been discovered for the third time this month off the coast of La Rabita. The latest find was made last Wednesday by fishermen at a depth of around 250 metres. The seaweed, Rugulopteryx Okamurae, has been an issue in the Strait of Gibraltar this year due to its rapid growth and invasive tendencies which is damaging local marine life. Researchers at the University of Granada are investigating samples.
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MURAL: Members of the Antonio Montes Organisation stand proudly by their creation.
Benamocarra art THE cultural association of ‘Antonio Montes,’ in collaboration with the Benamocarra local council have completed a six-metre long mural in the town. Work on the spectacular piece started on October 8 w ith a te a m of e ight artists from various parts of the w orld a ll putting their take on representing
the best and most unique areas in the town. The c ounc il took the time out to thank all the artists involved, Antonio M onte s (Spa in), M a rc o Antonio Cruz (Mexico), R obe rt C la ros (C olombia ), G is s e lle G a le otti (Guatemala), Diego Losada (C olombia ), J uliá n Vásquez (Colombia), Ange la O s orio (U nite d States), Arlinton Quevedo
(Colombia). Councillor for Culture Desirée Téllez, councillor for Social Affairs Victoria Merenguel, councillor for Sports Pablo López and counci l l or f or Tour i sm José Ramón Palomo were all on hand to witness the unvei l i ng of t he pi ece which is situated on the Pl aza de Tor os r oundabout, next to the Pabellón Cubierto.
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Burglars banged up SERIAL burglars who hit homes around Malaga and Axarquia have been sentenced to a cumulative 12 years in prison. The Provincial Court of Malaga last week sentenced three people to 12 years and six months in prison for break-ins committed back in 2016, including one in VelezMalaga. The Romanian natives have been charged and imprisoned for crimes of robbery, assault, resistance and two minor crimes of injury to one of the National Police officers which occurred during their arrest. As well as the first hit in Velez-Malaga in April 2016, the group committed robberies in Malaga, Murcia and Galicia.
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BREXIT BRIEF
WHILST opponents of Brexit accused Boris Johnson of throwing a childish tantrum, Scotland’s highest court delayed a decision on Monday as to whether the prime minister had fully complied with a law requiring him to ask for a Brexit extension. The situation last Saturday was that he sent an unsigned letter to Brussels requesting an extension (which may or not be agreed to) plus a signed letter effectively requesting that the EU declines to extend. Representatives of the British government stated at the Court of Session that this fulfilled its legal obligations under the Benn Act but the leading judge, Lord Carloway said the case should be continued until it was clear that all of the obligations under the legislation had been ‘complied with in full.’ In theory, if the court rules against the prime minister, he could be sentenced to prison.
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Speaker says no By John Smith IT seems unlikely that Commons Speaker John Bercow who is due to step down shortly will receive any form of recognition, such as a knighthood from the Conservative gover nment in the event that there is a general election. Once again, he trod on Tory toes by simply refusing leave for the government to hold a meaningful vote on the Prime Minister’s Brexit deal saying that it would be “repetitive and disorderly” to allow such a vote last Monday. His decision was based on his belief that the circumstances and the substance of the motion were the same as Saturday’s and that it should not be debated so quickly
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IN reaction to the unsigned letter from Boris Johnson, EU Commission president Donald Tusk tweeted ‘The extension request has just arrived. I will now start consulting EU leaders on how to react.’ This and a signed letter were also copied to President Juncker.
Customs union IT appears that the DUP who for many months helped to keep the Conservatives in power could now vote in favour of a Commons amendment (if tabled) calling for Britain to agree a customs union with the EU.
ORDER: Speaker John Bercow in action. because of the so-called ‘same question convention’ preventing the same matter being discussed twice. Some observers suggest that the government was ill advised to just let the Saturday vote drop as if they had withdrawn it properly, then a new vote should have been
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allowed on Monday. The full Bill went to Parliament, but it is in the region of 100 pages long and although its second reading was approved, the motion that it be finalised this week was defeated. At the time of writing, no final decision had been
made, but it seems likely that if a long extension is offered by the EU, the government will drop the bill and try to force an election. This will probably happen if it calls for a vote of no confidence in itself and instructs Tory MPs to vote in favour.
IT is estimated that as many as one million people descended upon London to campaign against Brexit last Saturday following the extraordinary sitting of the House of Commons. Sadly there were a number of ugly scenes as Brexiteer MPs were booed.
An angry reception
SPAN ISH acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s visit to Barcelona on Monday was met with boos and angry protests following a week of Catalan upheaval over the lengthy prison sentences handed out to pro-independence leaders. Hundreds of demonstrators blockaded the office of the Spanish government’s delegation in Barcelona after it was reported by several media that Sánchez was planning to attend a meeting there. Sánchez left Barcelona shortly after midday, and a spokesperson from his office denied claims that the protests had forced him to abandon the visit to the delegation, saying no such meeting had ever been scheduled. Sanchez has been met by criticism on all sides for his visit to the region, to check in on policemen who have suffered grave injuries as a result of the ongoing protests, without taking the opportunity to meet its president, Quim Torra, after a week of chaos on the streets. “He either doesn’t want to, cannot or doesn’t
know how to find a solution to the situation,” said Laura Borràs, spokeswoman for Mr Torra’s Junts per Catalunya party. Torra’s office released a video showing a moment in which he is told that Sánchez is too busy to take his call, one of several attempts the Catalan president says he has made to talk to the Spanish prime minister in the last week. Pablo Iglesias, the leader of Spanish Leftwing party Podemos, said Sánchez’s refusal to speak to Torra was “a joke.” “This is not about whether they get on or feel like talking - it’s about institutional responsibility.” Pablo Casado, the leader of Spain’s main opposition conservative Popular Party, said Sánchez needed to take a harder line. The prime minister, he said, should write a letter to Torra and demand loyalty or launch the constitutional procedure to suspend Cataluña’s autonomy. Close to 600 people have been injured during the confrontations, including 288 police officers.
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Spanish kids spend more time on internet SPANISH children spend more time connected to the internet than they do in school, a new study has found. The ‘Hyper-connected Families’ report revealed that secondary schoolchildren in Spain aged between 12 and 17 are online for an average of just over 1,058 hours a year, four and a
half hours more than they are in their education centres. Report authors Qustodio, in collaboration with Ipsos, carried out 1,220 interviews of parents with children across Spain, as well as in the US and UK. The study estimates that five to 11-year-old Spanish children are typically connected to the Internet for 711 hours and 45
minutes a year, 80 hours and 15 minutes less than they are in school. This works out at an average of one hour, 57 minutes a day, while 12 to 17-year-olds are commonly online daily for two hours and 54 minutes. By region, the Canary Islands and Murcia are where youngsters are on the Internet the most.
Brits stranded on bail SIX holidaymakers from Northampton who were arrested in Elche last month remain on police bail and are banned from returning to the UK, having to report to Elche courthouse once a month. The six men were arrested and charged with ABH after they were reportedly involved in a fight with a group of local Spanish men while watching a football match in a bar. Witnesses in the bar said that they assaulted a 36-year-old man, without any apparent cause, after which they ran off, each also resisting arrest before being batoned by the police to the ground. The men all aged in their 20’s, remain in Elche without funding or income and now say that they may be forced to sleep rough as funds run low. They admit that they were involved in a fight involving football rivalry, but claim they were not the ones to start the fighting and not the aggressors, claiming self-defence. The men are said to have all lost their jobs back in the UK whilst they remain stuck in Spain on bail with passports removed.
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Donating blood in Spain LIVING in Spain can bring with it an array of issues which may not have been encountered when living in the UK. There are lots of things to consider, and we are here to help try to make the transition and life in Spain a little easier by compiling a series of helpful facts and figures relating to a variety of topics. In Spain, Blood Components and Services are provided by 17 Regional Blood Transfusion Services. Despite their autonomous operations management, every regional service is fully incorporated into a unique and common Public National Health System, supplying a cohesive blood transfusion care to all citizens, residents, and visitors in Spain based on 100 per cent voluntary and non-remunerated blood donation. For more general information, visit www.msps.es. Anyone who has lived continuously in the UK between 1980 and 1996 (a minimum of one year) will not be able to donate blood in Spain due to the risk of transmitting mad cow disease. Similarly, there are restrictions if you have received a blood transfer in the UK. However, each region may have different rules about donation. Call the donation helpline on 935 573 500. Alternatively, visit www.donorsang.gencat.cat to find out if you are eligible. If you are eligible, you can give blood at your local hospital, or via the Spanish Red Cross (Cruz Roja) at one of their clinics, or in one of their mobile units. You can check dates and locations by visiting www.donarsangre.org. A donor card is not necessary to give blood. On the first visit you will have to provide DNI, NIE, passport or a driving licence. If you are already registered in the Blood Bank, you only need a donor card or a document with your name and surname. The process of blood donation takes just 10 minutes in which 450 ml are collected (equating to 10 per cent of the total blood circulation of an adult person). Despite huge technological advances, the only way for hospitals to obtain blood is through the generosity of the public. The blood is carefully screened for disease to make sure it is safe.
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After a tattoo, you must wait four months to be eligible to donate. After surgery, the exclusion period will depend on the type of intervention. After minor surgical procedures, you cannot donate blood for seven days or until you are fully recovered. After undergoing major surgery, you will not be able to donate blood for four months. The rarest blood type is AB, present in 1 per cent of Caucasians, according to research by the America Red Cross. Blood transfusions are carried out daily in Spanish hospitals with more than 6,200 patients being given them, of whom almost a quarter are fighting cancer and a similar figure receiving transfusions during or after surgery. Spain has around two million donors in total, but needs closer to four million. 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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Countdown to Brexit October 31 looms, but this year it brings something scarier than Halloween and trick-or-treaters to our calendars. UK’s deadline to leave the EU has caused many complications and a growing sense of dread grips the nation. With mere days left and still no decision on Boris Johnson’s Brexit deal, it’s no wonder people are worried about the imminent exit from Europe. In a bid to gauge the opinion of Britons in Spain, EuroWeekly hit the streets of Fuengirola on the Costa del Sol. Notepad in hand, it wasn’t hard to come across holidaymakers and residents alike who shared one thing in common: uncertainty about the future.
What do you think will happen with Brexit on October 31, 2019? HOLIDAYMAKER Richard Holmes, was enjoying a stroll through the streets of Fuengirola when he was approached by EuroWeekly for a quote. He didn’t mention his position regarding the referendum, but was straightforward in his approach and considered a deal very necessary. “Brexit now. It needs to happen. Even if we don’t leave by the 31st it will definitely be before the end of the year. The whole thing just needs to be over.”
They expressed their unease about the big decision and felt unsure about the exit taking effect by the deadline. Nonetheless, Mr Jobbins maintained that although a deal might not be possible, there would still be trade deals put in place. Ever since the referendum they have been against the decision to leave and prefer to remain in Europe. This may not be so surprising, as they later explained their son is chairman of one of the associations that supports the YesCymru campaign for Welsh independence. Despite this, the insight they gave into the Welsh consensus was very interesting. “In Wales, 20 per cent of people are Welsh speakers and 68 per cent of this group voted to leave the EU. Rural Wales, especially the industrial mining areas were solid to get out. They felt there was a problem with immigration and didn’t think further than that. The funny thing is, there aren’t many immigrants there at all.” PM: Boris Johnson.
She conceded she voted to remain and believes that the upcoming decision is a hard call to make. “I reckon it will be No Deal but then again, countries like Spain need the money. Tourism is a big thing here.” When asked about the prime minister, Eileen admitted she can’t take Boris Johnson seriously. On the other hand, husband Seamus vote d t o l e a v e a n d t h i n k s i t w o n ’t b e p o s t poned after the Halloween cut off. “We will leave by the 31st. I do think that May threw her hand down too soon in the negotiations. The deal we had then was better and I believe we won’t get one now.”
HOLIDAYMAKER: Richard Holmes.
Eileen and Seamus from Northern Ireland spend a lot of time in the south of Spain and travel to the area at least four times a year. The couple, who enjoy the sun and relaxation, aren’t however in complete agreeance over Brexit. Eileen expressed her objection to leaving the EU but admitted that in the case of a No Deal she is eligible for an Irish passport. “If it comes down to it, I can always get an Irish passport.” she said with a smile.
SEAMUS AND EILEEN: Not in agreement over Brexit.
Mr and Mrs Jobbins from Wales travel to Spain often and enjoy their time abroad.
Roy Carrick, holidaymaker from Reading, said: “I hope there will be a deal on the 31st as I c o m e a l o t t o S p a i n o n h o l i d a y. B o r i s Johnson is doing well and he has a good plan. He is looking out for the police and taking care of our healthcare. But I do worry this will affect me and my travels to the Costa del Sol.” British resident in Spain, Sarah Cooke, added: “I don’t want to get started on the topic. Those MPs need to get their act together.” While Keris and Frank, also British residents living on the Costa del Sol, were hesitant to speak up about Brexit, they voiced their trust in the UK. BREXIT. “We’ll get a deal. Whatever happens we will get something. We are the fifth richest nation and Europe aren’t going to let us go just like that.”
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‘Elevator rapist’ jailed PEDRO LUIS GALLEGO, the infamous ‘elevator rapist,’ was sentenced by the Provincial Court of Madrid on Monday to 97 years and eight months in prison for assaults on four girls, one of them a minor, registered in 2016 and 2017 between Madrid and Segovia. The double murderer and multiple rapist from Valladolid, now 59 years old (he turns 60 next month), will not set foot on the street again, at least for the next 22 years. He will be 82 years old when he recovers his freedom and will spend another 10 years, until he is 92, under supervised freedom. During the same period, until the age of 92, he will not be able to set foot in Madrid again. Pedro Luis Gallego is the author of a string of crimes (illegal detention, sexual assault, injury and robbery with violence). The alarming matter behind this sentence is that it’s not the first time Pedro Luis
Gallego will be behind bars. Six years ago, the ‘elevator rapist’ came out of prison with no charge other than that of his own conscience after serving only 20 years, 11 months and 28 days on a sentence of 273 years for the murders of Marta Obregón (Burgos) and Leticia Lebrato (Viana) and 18 more cases of rape committed in 1992. It only took Pedro Luis Gallego three years to reoffend. First he tried to kidnap a 17-year-old girl at gunpoint (December 16, 2016); then he did it with another girl, whom he kidnapped and raped repeatedly in his flat in Segovia (February 19, 2017); he tried again with a third (April 2, 2017), and again with a fourth, which he also raped on the way to Segovia and then for six hours at home (April 14, 2017). There are calls for laws to be changed so that individuals such as Pero Luis Gallego are not released from prison so readily, especially when only part of the sentence has been completed.
Pensioner dies at sea A 75-YEAR-OLD cruise passenger died last Thursday after falling from a balcony on the ship’s eighth floor off the coast of Spain. A spokesperson for Costa Cruises, said one of its ships, the Costa Pacifica, was sailing from Funchal, Portugal, to Malaga, Spain, on October 10 when a senior female passenger ‘vol-
untarily’ jumped off the ship. “Upon information received, the captain immediately turned around to search the location and alerted local search and rescue personnel,” the spokesperson said. “The ship was alerted by the guest’s cabin mate, who witnessed the victim volun-
Killed by hornets A FARMER died after he was attacked and stung multiple times by Asian hornets in Panton in Lugo. The 67-year was reportedly on his tractor clearing land. When the machine went into brambles it disturbed the hornets’ nest. The man apparently got off the tractor and tried to run away from the insect onslaught, but ended up collapsing unconscious. As soon as he was found the emergency services were alerted, but by the time they arrived there was nothing the team could do to save his life. There was no confirmation whether the victim was allergic to the stings.
tarily jump from the balcony of their cabin. As part of emergency procedures, the crew immediately launched a search and rescue mission,” said the spokesman. A sea search and rescue agency that operates in Spain, was alerted at approximately 10.45pm local time after the elderly cruiser went overboard, NATO Maritime Forces also joined Spanish authorities in the effort, according to a press release. A tug boat spotted the body of the missing person on October 11 around 9am in the Gulf of Cadiz area and the body was pulled from the sea. CCTV footage from the cruise ship from the night of the incident is being investigated and the cruise liner operators are cooperating with local authorities in the ongoing investigation.
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Get the power New Luxury Malaga Port Hotel THE town hall’s Equality department announced a free course on Female Empowerment. This will be held on Thursdays and Saturdays between 10am and 12 noon in the H o g a r d e l P e n s i o n i s t a ’s m u l t i p u r p o s e room. Entitled Secretos de una mujer feliz (Secrets of a happy woman) the course continues until next May and is open to women of all ages and nationalities, promoting empowerment individually, collectively and socially. “The course will show them how to handle emotions, listen to them and recognise them,” explained Equality councillor Rocio Guijarro. “It also promotes self-esteem, motivation, and capacity for decision-making.” The empowerment course will provide spaces for reflection and self-awareness that can show women how to identify what they need and what they lack, while improving their self-esteem by appreciating their qualities and resources, Guijarro said. The organisers also hope that the course c a n s t i m u l a t e c r e a t i v i t y, p o s i t i v i t y a n d g o o d h u m o u r, h e l p i n g p a r t i c i p a n t s t o recognise their personal worth, generating networks and encouraging unity.
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MALAGA CITY: A new luxury hotel is proposed for the dock area. THE proposed new luxury hotel and conference centre planned for the Levante dock in Malaga has taken another step forward last week after a meeting was held at the Malaga Town Hall between the mayor and key financiers. Representatives of the Qatari Royal family, who are financing the project, met with Malaga mayor Francisco de la Torre to discuss plans for the upcoming venture. The Qatari royals were represented by former Real Madrid president Ramón Calderón who was acting as spokesperson of both the family and their affiliated holding company, Al Alfia. The proposed hotel is planned for a site at the end of the Levante dock in Malaga’s high end port area. It will include a 135-metre-tall 35-storey tower, luxury hotel rooms and a world class business centre. It is estimated to cost around €150 million, completely funded by the Qatari family. Although construction work was due to begin in 2020, this now seems unlikely as a mountain of bureaucratic paperwork needs to be completed before the work can start.
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Phoenician site clean up THE deputy mayor of Torre del Mar, Jesus Perez Atencia, and councillor for the Environment, Antonio Ariza have announced a clear up programme to uncover the historically valuable Phoenician sites of Tuscany. The sites have been buried under mountains of undergrowth and domestic waste and despite weekly tours given by historical societies; it has remained untouched until now. Atencia, and Ariza announced the plan on Monday morning and have confirmed the council’s commitment to the historical value of the site. “We have, once and for all been able to act in these important sites, which were completely buried in undergrowth,” explained Atencia. “The council has mobilised a team of parks and gardens to adapt this site with an important remit of cleaning and clearing,” continued Ariza “We wanted to start by discovering reeds and weeds throughout the site to continue with a later intervention around the perimeter of the site.” The local council has placed extremely high value on the site historically and they understand the importance that the site offers to the economy and tourism industry in Velez-Malaga and Torre del Mar.
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Hospital kitchens’ Michelin makeover HOSPITAL food doesn’t always get the best reports. But patients at the Hospital Universitario Los Arcos del Mar Menor would have had nothing to complain about when they had food prepared by a Michelin starred chef. Pablo Gonzalez celebrated Hospitality Day organised by food wholesalers Makro - by creating a tapa that was cooked and served at the hospital. In total, more than 540 tapas were offered to patients in five hospitals throughout Spain. The others were the Universitario General de Elche, Vinalopó (C Valenciana) and Universitario Severo Ochoa and Infanta Leonor (both in Madrid). All the tapas had one thing in common - they were created especially for the occasion by local Michelin starred chefs. Pablo González Conejero prepared a strawberry and wild fruit gazpacho, while in Elche Susi Díaz prepared a citrus eclair, a dessert filled with citrus cream, covered with white chocolate and silver powder. Severo Ochoa and Infanta Leonor patients were able to try a ‘plankton’ salad and a croquette of mint stew accompanied by chickpea purée, made by Rodrigo de la Calle and Iván Muñoz, respectively.
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RECOGNITION: The council presented awards in recognition of service, bravery and for doing an excellent job.
Thanks for job well done HUERCAL-OVERA has thanked the municipality’s Local Police and Guardia Civil and Levante firefighters for their good work. Following a mass to mark the celebration of the day of the police’s patron saints, Mayor Francisca Lourdes Fernandez and Local Police chief Cristobal Artero presented several awards. Guardia Civil lieutenant Jose Manuel Bermudez was recognised for his coordination of the municipal security forces. The council recognised the Levante firefighting service for its protection of local residents and for its collaboration with the Local Police team. There was also an award for Jose Benitez for what the local authority stressed was the “bravery” he showed in helping police, Guardia Civil and firefighters rescue a person trapped by flooding in their vehicle on the A-350 during the torrential rains in the early hours of September 13. “Without thinking twice about the risk he was running, and driven only by saving the life of a person who was trapped, he made up part of the rescue team,” the council said. The mayor took the opportunity to highlight “the well-deserved homage and fair recognition” of the Local Police force “for being the true promoters of democratic values based on respect for the law and regulations on coexistence.”
EMAYA has launched a project to improve the quality and taste of tap water and promote its consumption in Mallorca. As part of Palma City Council’s project to promote the consumption of tap water, Emaya’s board of directors awarded Aquambiente and Suez Treatment Solutions the project for the ultrafiltration of water from the natural sources that supply Palma. The work will take around 20 months to complete and aims to improve the taste of water and to double the capacity of treating water from source, which will go from 500 to 1,000 litres per second, and generate more water from renewable and sustainable resources. The current system does not make it possible to take advantage of a significant part of the water that flows from the sources during the rainy season, due to a lack of capacity and because it cannot treat water that has a high degree of turbidity or cloudiness. The town hall hopes to increase consumption of tap water by the public and reduce the consumption of plastic bottles. The president of Emaya, Ramon Perpinyà, reminded everyone that Palma’s water is drinkable, has all the health guarantees for human consumption, and is controlled and analysed continuously. The project will include the construction of a 600 square metre building in Son Tugores with new pipes, pump systems and the renovation of the electrical installation and the control system.
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Tennis star weds THE wedding of the decade in the tennis world was played out at the weekend as Rafael Nadal married longtime girlfriend Xisca Perello. Nadal and Perello’s wedding took place at La Fortaleza in front of about 350 guests. The couple was joined b y a s t a r- s t u d d e d l i n e u p of guests as they tied the knot in Mallorca on Saturday. T h e 3 3 - y e a r- o l d t e n n i s star and his partner of 14 years were surrounded by family and friends. Tennis players Feliciano Lopez, David Ferrer and Juan Monaco were in attend a n c e a s w e l l a s N a d a l ’s uncle and longtime coach To n i , a n d S w i s s w a t c h maker Richard Mille. Juan Carlos I, the former King of Spain, was spotted arriving at the La Forta l e z a p r o p e r t y, w h i c h i s owned by Conservative
IN LOVE: Wedding of the decade in the tennis world as Rafael Nadal ties the knot with longtime girlfriend Xisca Perello. party donor Lord Lupton. Other rumoured attendees include signer Enrique Iglesias, NBA star Pau Gasol and football great Iker Casillas. Michelin-starred Mallor-
can chef Macarena de Castro was reportedly tasked with the wedding menu, quite literally fit for a king. Mallorcan priest Tomeu Catala who married the
Keep calm please THE Valle de los Caídos where the late Francisco Franco is buried is now closed. It will not reopen until the complex task of o p e n i n g t h e f o r m e r d i c t a t o r ’s t o m b a n d transferring the remains to the family pantheon in El Pardo has been completed. Meanwhile, undeterred, Franco supporters tried to enter the monument to the former regime on Spain’s National Day but were held back by the Guardia Civil resulting in moments of tension, accompanied by loud protests and insults. “Cowards! You’re cowards! We want to go to Mass,” one shouted.
Santiago Cantera, the Benedictine prior of the Valle de los Caidos, did his best to calm the disappointed visitors, although his own attitude has contributed to the government’s difficulties in carrying out its pledge to relocate Franco’s remains. After celebrating a Mass which the public were not allowed to attend, Cantera approached the group at the entrance and blessed them from the other side of the closed gates. “Keep calm, don’t look for confrontation with the Guardia Civil and avoid provocations,” he told them.
On the move THE Spanish government has confirmed that the remains of dictator Francisco Franco will be exhumed from the Valley of the Fallen, located northwest of Madrid, today (Thursday, October 24). The long-awaited date was announced after Spain’s Supreme Court last month overruled a string of objections from his family, who had tried to halt the exhumation. The remains of the former Spain dictator will be moved to a state cemetery, Mingorrubio El Pardo, some 20 kilometres north of the capital and placed next to those of his wife. The move has divided opinion in Spain, which is still conflicted over the Dictatorship that ended with Franco’s death back in 1975.
couple said: “Everyone in the weddings I have been involved in has been special and this one will be the same... I am just going to marry two people who love each other.”
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Sixteen arrests for slippery eel set-up SIXTEEN people are under arrest for operating an illegal European elver trafficking set-up valued at some €600,000 in Asturias, Guipuzcoa and Madrid. The Guardia Civil’s ‘Operacion FAME’ also resulted in the seizure of 400 kilos of young eels. The Guardia said they believed the 16 detainees were members of four organised groups operating illegally in Spain and France. The group based in Asturias brought in the undeclared elvers from France and put them with those they had acquired legally from Asturian and Basque rivers. They then sent them to Portugal by taxi to evade controls, and from there they were illegally exported by air in suitcases checked in by Asian ‘mules.’ The Madrid side of the network send larger shipments by plane, declaring them as if they were any other kind of fish or seafood, or even veal. Investigators also believe there were plans to try sending the elvers camouflaged in beer barrels. Elvers are considered a great delicacy in Spain, and a very pricey one. According to the Administrative Authority of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES), in the 2018 to 2019 season young eels were selling for around €1,500 a kilo. The Guardia Civil believe the four organisations could have obtained overall annual profits of more than €6 million. The Guardia released all the seized elvers into the Bidasoa and Orio rivers in collaboration with the Navarra and Guipuzcoa government environment agencies.
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Uncertainty
WITH the latest outbreak of demon strations in Cataluña following the prison sentences handed down to those involved in the illegal Indepen dence referendum, local business owners are worried about the future. The Cataluñia Business Association has appealed to the government to restore security in the region as they contend that demonstrations of this type can lead to serious violence and hurt all types of business. Tourists are unlikely to visit what is one of Spain’s most popular destina tions if there is continued unrest. Their spokesman said 7,000 com panies have left Cataluña since 2012 (of which 5,400 left in 2017) and it is feared more businesses will relocate.
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is the amount that Spanish wireless infrastructure STAT OF Cellnex will pay British company Arqiva €2.2 billion operator 7,400 phone tower sites in the UK. over take to WEEK
Visa free passports for sale
IF you are worried about travelling through Europe after Brexit and have plenty of money, then there is the option of buying a foreign passport for as little as $100,000 (€90,000). The market for these passports is estimated at €22 billion per annum by the BBC and one of the best sell ers is that from the pacific nation of Vanuatu where for $150,000 (€135,000) you can get your pass port in as little as 30 days. Just 40 years ago, this chain of islands was known as the New He brides Condominium and was gov
By John Smith erned by France and the UK, but on independence had to find ways of earning money. It was up there at the start of the email boom selling its very lu crative .vu addresses and now it’s selling passports which if you have the right contacts you can order online. It’s all down to agreements with other countries about visas and those holding a Vanuatu passport can enter 118 different countries (including at the moment the UK)
without a visa, so many rich Asians in particular are finding this an ide al country to become involved with. It won’t get you into the USA but every member of the EU recog nises it as well as plenty that aren’t. In reality, numerous countries (many of them EU members) are doing this, but not perhaps so bla tantly and a Spanish passport will cost in the region of €500,000 and a Maltese one €900,000, although the British passport is still popular even if it costs more than €2 mil lion.
LEGALLY SPEAKING Is town hall responsible? Can you clarify the advice you gave about plan ning permission for building an extension in a community? You surmised that the court case was lost be cause the community’s permission had not been obtained. You then state: ‘Properly, your town hall should not have issued a building permit without first seeing this permis sion.’ Our Community has frequent problems with owners making structural alterations without seeking approval at the AGM. At a meeting with a lawyer for our local town hall, we were told that ensuring someone has AGM ap proval is not the responsibility of the town hall. The lawyer stated that as long as the building regulations were not breached the town hall has to issue the licence. Could you tell me what the legal reference is for your statement? G C (Costa del Sol)
Your town hall lawyer is quite right. The YOU AND THE town building de LAW IN SPAIN partment has no le gal obligation to re quire the community’s permission in order to issue the building permit. However, some of the more conscientious town halls will question its absence, which is what led me to use the term ‘properly.’ Wishful thinking on my part, and sorry to have misled you.
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.
Secret CCTV THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has reversed on ap peal from Spain a judgement it made concerning a complaint from five cashiers at a Spanish supermar ket that they were illegally filmed. The court finally agreed with the Spanish courts that the decision to place hidden cameras in their place of work without telling was both ‘proportionate and legitimate’ as there had been clear evidence of discrepancies between stock counts and daily takings. Staff had been made aware there were video cameras as a method of trying to identify possible theft, but did not that they were suspected of being involved.
BUSINESS EXTRA Norway invests NORGES Bank has now become the fourth largest shareholder in Spanish steel manufacturer Acerinox after spending €67.41 million on its shares. The company is currently shedding 300 jobs from its plant in the Campo de Gibraltar.
Posting profit HAVING been forced by the EU to repay €167 million of improperly granted state aid last year, Correos, the Spanish Post office has shown a return to profit of €1.96 million for the first nine months of 2019.
Dragon slayer ENTREPRENEUR Peter Jones well-known for his appearance in Dragons Den has had to admit defeat with UK high street camera shop Jessops which he purchased in 2013, but has never made a significant profit so may call in administrators.
Car is a no starter AVID Brexiteer Sir James Dyson, who recently an nounced that he would be moving his HQ to Sin gapore, has revealed that he will not be launch ing an electric car. It appears that having spent £2 billion (€2.2 bil lion) on developing what he called a “fantastic electric car” he cannot find a way to produce it vi ably. He has told his 500 employees at the develop
ment centre that he has tried to sell the business to a third party who could take the car to market but without success, so they could all be out of work shortly. In the meantime, the man listed as the fifth most wealthy in the Times UK Rich List will con tinue to produce and market his wide range of different products and also the millions of euros of EU farming subsidies his farms have received.
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13.952.486
8,856
2,10
0,18
72.383
LONDON STOCK
70,680
-0,45
-0,32
28.337
ASHTEAD GROUP
21,840
1,35
0,29
55.970
MARKS & SPENCER
2,036
1,50
0,03
375.540
ASTRA ZENECA
67,310
-0,98
-0,67
76.069
MEDIA CONTEN
3,794
0,53
0,02
49.408
BABCOCK INTE
5,616
0,40
0,02
48.607
MERLIN ENTERTAINMENTS 4,543
-0,07
-0,00
510.530
BARCLAYS BANK
1,677
1,61
0,03
4.938.864
MICRO FOCUS
10,304
-5,54
-0,60
835.209
BARRATT DEVE
6,870
1,90
0,13
315.417
MONDI PLC
15,715
2,14
0,33
95.520
BAT INDUSTRI
26,655
0,08
0,02
212.027
MORRISON SUP
2,044
0,46
0,01
426.317
BILLITON
NEXT
68,280
1,05
0,71
35.133
6,808
0,92
0,06
676.795
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24,280
1,17
0,28
310.120
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ANTOFAGASTA
16,178
1,11
0,18
516.814
BP
4,887
0,75
0,04
2.009.885
BRIT.AEROE
5,402
0,07
0,00
226.392
PERSIMMON
22,360
0,32
0,07
36.987
PROV.FINANC.
4,362
0,94
0,04
2.946
13,540
-10,09
-1,52
1.255.897
BRITISH FOODS
PEARSON
BRITISH LAND
6,296
0,03
0,00
512.791
PRUDENTIAL C
BRITISH TELECOM
2,092
1,43
0,03
902.389
RAMBLER MED.
2,249
2,24
0,05
73.422
BUNZL
20,040
2,04
0,40
30.175
RECKITT BNKR
59,760
-0,48
-0,29
48.236
BURBERRY
18,920
1,11
0,21
43.196
REED INTER
17,400
0,03
0,00
337.395
CARNIVAL PLC
30,780
0,59
0,18
83.139
RENTOKIL GRP
CELLTECH
24,270
0,87
0,21
40.457
RIO TINTO
CENTRICA
0,726
3,71
0,03
2.420.724
CGNU
4,188
0,73
0,03
1.485.919
4,471
-1,24
-0,06
99.674
39,965
0,88
0,35
207.708
ROLLS ROYCE
7,128
0,17
0,01
173.494
ROYAL & SUN
5,348
1,06
0,06
87.367
5,67
0,13
3.088.141
1,832
-0,16
-0,00
38.988
ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND 2,464
CRH
27,310
0,66
0,18
95.994
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL SHRS 22,310
-0,73
-0,16
416.981
CRODA INTERN
47,580
0,59
0,28
31.053
ROYAL DUTCH SHELL
22,420
-0,19
-0,04
390.109
DCC ORD IEP0
71,040
1,43
1,00
4.549
SAGE GROUP
6,914
0,20
0,01
91.252
DELLING GRP
2,928
0,93
0,03
291.976
SAINSBURY
2,180
0,83
0,02
259.592
DIAGEO
30,944
-0,71
-0,22
231.977
SCHRODERS
30,630
1,36
0,41
23.586
EASYJET
12,525
-0,49
-0,06
188.303
SCOT.& STH
13,125
0,31
0,04
230.554
EXPERIAN GROUP LTD
23,620
-0,38
-0,09
156.754
SEVERN TRENT
22,870
0,75
0,17
66.362
25,120
1,30
0,32
25.663
CONVATEC GROUP
6,214
1,72
0,11
46.885
SKILLSGROUP
GLAXO WELLCO
16,378
-0,51
-0,08
279.144
SLOUGH EST.
8,337
0,62
0,05
71.735
GLENCORE INTL
2,325
2,00
0,05
2.809.224
SMITH & NEP.
17,270
-5,60
-1,02
535.558
GROUP 4 SECU
2,060
1,73
0,03
230.469
SMITHS INDU.
15,970
1,27
0,20
34.241
HAMMERSON
3,176
1,71
0,05
122.361
ST JAMES S P
10,045
0,00
0,00
283.813 428.666
FRESNILLO
HARGREAVES LANSDOWN 17,520
0,75
0,13
68.287
STAN.CHART
6,608
1,44
0,09
HSBC
6,051
0,58
0,04
2.227.371
STANDARD LIFE
2,902
1,39
0,04
213.046
18,794
1,47
0,27
72.852
TAYLOR WOOD.
1,704
2,96
0,05
1.690.121
INFORMA GROU
7,686
0,21
0,02
59.760
TESCO
2,467
0,37
0,01
1.244.325
INTERCON.HOT
45,530
-0,01
-0,00
18.843
TUI
10,645
0,98
0,10
48.277
INTERTEK GROUP
49,610
0,55
0,27
11.771
UNILEVER
45,885
-0,81
-0,38
147.742
IMPERIAL TOBACCO
INTL CONSOLIDTD AIRS GR 5,168
1,61
0,08
384.021
UN.UTILITIES
8,824
0,52
0,05
155.173
ITV
1,27
0,02
833.149
VODAFONE GRP
1,619
0,91
0,01
2.409.491
1,391 30,010
0,44
0,13
113.344
WHITBREAD
42,480
0,59
0,25
19.487
KINGFISHER
2,189
0,86
0,02
415.361
WPP GROUP
9,146
-0,17
-0,02
254.950
LAND SECURIT
9,592
0,10
0,01
265.174
3I GROUP
10,970
1,43
0,16
52.288
JOHNSON MATT
0.86129
1.15843 Units per €
US dollar ................................................1.11642 Japan yen...............................................121.235 Switzerland franc ...................................1.09925 Denmark kroner .....................................7.47090 Norway kroner........................................10.2222
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Airlines to reduce cabin fumes By John Smith SOME two months ago flight BA422 from Heathrow to Valencia suddenly filled with what was de scribed as choking smoke and a BBC report has highlighted the fact that some of the passengers con tinue to suffer with breathing diffi culties. As the matter is still being investi gated by Spanish air accident au thorities, BA have declined to com ment due to legal reasons, but this is just one of a whole string of simi lar incidents that go back for more than a decade.
CHECK IN: Any flight could experience a fume event.
Safer online transfers
FEW consumers will realise that with effect from the end of September new security and authentication requirements (PSD2 directive) were supposed to be in place throughout the European Union to cover online transactions. In actual fact, there has been a time-slip and the Bank of Spain has indicated that all banks, online businesses and payment service providers in Spain have until the end of this year to submit their proce-
dures which would require positive responses to two out of three questions to allow payment to go through. The concept is that there must be an answer to a question, details of a password and voice or fingerprint recognition and once all of that is in place, then the actual start date will not be until January 1, 2021! The idea behind this is to increase consumer safety and harmonise the rules across the EU.
In actual fact it is unlikely that the problem was caused by smoke, but was yet another fume event which some experts say is responsible for symptoms known as Aerotoxic Syn drome which may also affect pilots and cabin crew on a long term basis. Ironically when smoking was banned on aircraft, most airlines decided that rather than suck fresh air into the cabins through the en gine intakes, they would make oth er arrangements in order to reduce fuel costs. Instead, they decided to recycle air via the engines and it is claimed that the valves controlling this can often allow pollutants to escape, causing these fume events within an aircraft. It is in theory possible to add spe cial filters to the system, but some observers suggest that this is not being done because it could give public recognition to the concept of Aerotoxic Syndrome and thus leave airlines open to being sued for com pensation. As the number of fume event re ports grow, so will the need to in vestigate the true reason for their cause.
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BUSINESS EXTRA
Canadian munchies THE second round of legalisation of cannabis based food products in Canada has seen Lloyds of London allowing its names to become involved in offering insurance to manufacturers in the same way it does for food and drinks.
Travel tale FORMER Thomas Cook CEO Peter Fankhauser who received a grilling by a UK Select Committee over the collapse has told The Guardian newspaper that a consortium of Spanish hoteliers backed by the Spanish government would have helped finance a deal with Britain.
Electric Avenue THE European Investment Bank is lending €70 million to Spanish energy solutions company Ingeteam to invest in research, development and innovation to find new solutions for renewable energy generation, energy storage and electric mobility.
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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT AT the risk of upsetting my gay friends and relatives, whom I truly do love dearly, I am going to stride purposefully out on a limb and state quite categorically that I am utter ly against transgender males competing in female sporting competitions. This statement has nothing to do with ho mophobia (heaven forbid) it is reached by the simple conclusion that it’s obviously not fair. Merely because a muscle bound weightlifter decides he wants to change his name to Doris and live as a woman, his choice should in no way give him / her / it / us / them / we, the right to compete against the fair sex in trials of strength. If this practice were allowed to prevail in all sporting competitions, most of them would never see a genetic female grace the winner’s dais again. So, as much as I truly do sympathise with the situations that the transgender cyclist Rachel McKinnon finds herself in, the idea that she has being ‘vic timised’ and ‘it’s not fair’ that she be exclud ed from female competitions, is in fact quite the reverse. Despite what she would have us think, men and women on this planet are dif ferent, particularly in the physical sense. Does she truly believe that it would be
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Transgender games
GAMES: Should there be a separate category for transgender sportsmen and women?
‘fair’ to pit male boxers and wrestlers, against females? Would she be prepared to take the responsibility of fatalities or serious injuries in the ring simply because she con siders all opposition to her opinions are ho mophobic, or simply ‘not fair’? No, this is the usual rhetoric from another minority, not at
all happy with their lot, who are utterly inse cure in their ‘differences’ and consider the only way they can be accepted is to brow beat the majority into recognising their situa tion as ‘the norm.’ Well, it’s not the ‘norm.’ What this person should really be doing is accepting and taking pride in the knowledge
that there are many human beings who are in fact different, and to celebrate this phe nomena by working toward and perhaps in troducing a separate category for transgen der sportsmen and women, in much the same way as the wonderful work and effort that has resulted in the worldwide success of those that find themselves physically im paired. I didn’t hear those marvelous people whingeing and whining about their infirmi ties. Their paraOlympics and competitions are magnificent and a sparkling example of what can be overcome by the human spirit. So I suggest that all those transgender sports people who figure themselves hard done by and put upon, to stop blaming the majority and come up with some positive way of improving their lot. What a great event something like that could actually be. ‘The Transgender Games.’ Book me in on the front row and stop being such pathetic de generating drags! Many congrats here to Grete and Steiner on their 50 years together and many thanks to the good people of the Pineapple Albir for a great welcome at the gig for the celebrations. Keep the faith. Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com
Leapy Lee’s opinions are his own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.
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How are you playing the game of life? ROBERT SHALLIS DO you remember playing a b o a rd g a m e c a l l e d ‘ T h e Game of Life?’ A brief outline of the game; it’s a simulation of travels through the latter stages of life, from university to retirement, facing the challenges, twists and tur ns that life brings along the way. However, unlike the board game, life is not lived on a quick roll of the dice to determine the outcome. Re al life events are very different, but we can play the real game of life and give ourselves a better chance of beating the odds. Have you ever played a game against someone who can never ac cept losing? Becomes a sulk and re sorts to cheating. Whilst others lose gracefully, accept it and look for ward to improving the next time around. This is how many people play out their real lives too. It’s easy to relish in the enjoy
GAME OF LIFE: Enjoy being in the moment is key, regardless of your commitments. ment of your own successes in life, but, it’s equally as important to ac cept our failings and learn from them, thus improving our lives and the lives of others around us. I have worked alongside and dealt with successful real estate agents, London bankers and Wall Street traders. Many may perceive
these highpowered lucrative ca reered people to be winning their game of life, but it couldn’t be fur ther from the truth for some of them. Some find themselves too busy trying to make a living and for get to make a life. They have al lowed the scales to tip too far in one direction leading to other im
portant areas of their lives becom ing neglected such as family, friends and even themselves. So how do we keep a reasonably balanced life? Firstly, we need to re member what is important to us and to whose benefit our daily ef forts are for. There is no point in slaving away at a job for the greater
good of your family if it means you don’t get to spend time with them or it becoming detrimental to your health. Over 95 per cent of us de part this world without fulfilling our real desires. Regretful of not spend ing more time with families due to commitments that seemed so much more important at the time. Enjoy being in the moment is key, regardless of your commitments as opposed to seeing it as an annoying stepping stone to a perceived hap pier future. Tomorrow never really comes and before you know it, you’ll look back and realise how much of life’s joys you have missed out on, without even noticing the scales of your life will have slowly tipped against you. When you are living a balanced life, you are living in harmony with a sense of peace, able to focus on what really matters. You are then winning your game of life. You are starting to understand that you can actually design your own life and al low yourself to be the creator of it. Things can now stop happening to you and start happening for you. So, discard that dice and deter mine a balanced outcome that ben efits all.
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Across 1 Clergymen dance so awkwardly (7) 5 Company business, a hot drink maybe (5) 8 An imbecile somewhere in Belgium (7) 9 Nitre unusually static (5) 10 What thief does in police stations? (5) 11 Maigret's sort of music? (7) 12 In court, long for seal of approval (6) 14 Good landlords providing spirits (6) 17 Shoe salesman returned after blunder (7) 19 First breaks, then splits! (5) 22 A funeral party no longer in the Land of Nod (5) 23 Facial contortion of severe expert (7) 24 Retains the inner towers of some castles (5) 25 Those posing problems, cryptic setters (7) Down 1 Exhaust water supply after day (5) 2 Some Australian ticked off for prank (5) 3 Supervise a spell of cricket, understand? (7) 4 New purse, black and brilliant (6) 5 Hold on tight having caught fish (5) 6 Magic circles for churchmen (7) 7 Man worried about the country song (7) 12 Russian horseman finding a Greek island to plunder (7)
13 Greek character with stick that's bendy (7) 15 He's embracing a horrible pair of nasty women (7) 16 Fear the fellow is correct (6)
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18 Verse manuscript abridged by US shortstory writer (5) 20 Notoriety that surrounds first love - old one? (5) 21 Drops off outbuildings (5)
Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents F and 5 represents Z, so fill in F every time the figure 1 appears and Z every time the figure 5 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 Down 1 Fully developed (6) 1 Long-handled hammers (7) 4 Young horse (4) 2 Two times (5) 8 Carry out (9) 3 Ready for harvest (4) 9 Large pitcher (4) 5 Unfastens (5) 10 Not open (6) 6 See 18 13 Look for (6) 7 Answer (5) 15 Information (4) 11 Highly-prized gemstone (7) 18 Jerky American dance that was 12 Threaded metal fastener (5) popular in the 1940s (9) 14 Subsequently to (5) 19 Abrupt cry of a dog (4) 16 Wrath (5) 20 Cross-breed (6) 17 Comply with orders (4) 18/6 Miscellaneous collection of things sold together (3,3)
English - Spanish
Across 1 Tail (of dog, bull, ox) (4) 3 Besides (6,2) 8 Globo (de aire) (7) 9 Sobre (5) 10 Obeso (5) 11 Company (firm) (7) 12 Poesía (6) 13 Fresh (fruit, vegetables, meat, milk) (6) 16 Notebook (7) 18 Empates (en partidos) (5) 20 Tin cans (5) 21 Defeat (7) 22 To learn (language, words, skill) (8) 23 Borde (4)
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE
The clues are mixed, some clues are in Spanish and some are in English.
Down 1 Blonde (5) 2 Ticket (bus) (7) 4 Bailarín (6) 5 Puntuación (deporte) (5) 6 Stranger (7) 7 Más o menos (4,2,4) 9 Vacuum cleaner (10) 12 Moth (7) 14 Mariscos (7) 15 Mango (6) 17 To beat (mix) (5) 19 Vergüenza (5)
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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A door fleetingly opens in front of you and you see something desirable. After the door has closed you still see the image. Why do you deny what you need when it is so easily possible for you to attain it? Reach out this week in the right direction and keep moving forward. .
PISCES (February 20 - March 20) As you know what you want, it should be a simple thing to devise a method of getting it. But you may need a little expert help and lots of determination. Younger people turn out to be most useful in this respect and treat the whole thing as a game.
ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A surprise visit or phone call this week takes your mind back into the past. Perhaps something that you did not fully understand is now explained. Although, there may be elements that you find upsetting midweek, it is important to realise that some things come your way for a good reason.
TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) It is always difficult for you to stand by and see others make glaring mistakes, especially a family member. However, there are times when it is important that people work things out for themselves. It is only then that a lesson is truly taken on board.
GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) Doing what is 'right' comes easily to you, but this week throws up a strange situation, and this time doing what is 'right' could have the wrong result. I do hope that doesn't sound confusing, because it is not meant to be. To get the outcome that you desire it may be necessary for you to withhold some information.
CANCER (June 22 - July 23) It is hard to fit into a situation this week you thought nothing of putting yourself in a certain position, but now that you are there you see the problem. You are not so much out of place, as feeling rather awkward. Why? This is a new experience for you, and you are unused to new places.
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LEO (July 24 - August 23) A recently-accepted project seems to be running away with itself - did you volunteer to do something small and find out that it is a big task? Never mind, because you are quite able to ask for help, and in doing so you could meet someone who will be very important to you. Do I have your interest now?
Saturday October 19
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BONUS BALL
Sudoku 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.
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LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
IRISH LOTTO Saturday October 19
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8
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34
BONUS BALL
33
VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) You will consider this quite a boring week, no doubt, but that could soon be remedied as you seek out invitations and social events. You are doing no favours, either to yourself or others, if you do not push yourself forward. Others enjoy your company, even though you may be bored with it yourself.
LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) It may be a bit scary doing something different - you are a strong person, but unused to entering into new experiences. Consider how you would have approached this situation 20 years ago; have you really changed? Are you not the same person? Try to gain a new experience every week. .
SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) It may be that you hesitate when offered an opportunity, not necessarily because you think that you are not up to it. The problem may be that you are aware that there are social aspects, and perhaps you feel unable to cope with too much attention at one time. Life busy enough?
EURO MILLIONS Tuesday October 15
BONUS BALL
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28
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34
32
Friday October 18
BONUS BALL
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Non-communication is a worrying thing. You sent out a message some time ago that remains unanswered, so to save yourself agonies, why not telephone? Perhaps you hesitate because of a rejection in the past.
CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) Having put out feelers for something to do in the summer evenings, it now seems that you are spoiled for choice. Go for new experiences first and the tried and tested later.
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EL MILLON: XJR10817
Thursday October 17
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7 2
JOKER: 8 514 919 3
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49
BONUS BALL
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JOKER: 8 145 414 EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA Sunday October 20
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How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice). Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case T) and there must be AT LEAST ONE NINE LETTER WORD. Plurals, vulgarities or proper nouns are not allowed.
Fill all the empty squares using the numbers 1 to 9, so that the sum of each horizontal block equals the ‘clue’ on its left, and the sum of each vertical block equals the clue on its top. No number may be used in the same block more than once.
TARGET: Average: 15 Good: 21 Very good: 30 Excellent: 39 LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION rete riot rite rort rote tier tire tiro tore tori torr tree trio trow twee vert veto vote wort evert overt retie retro revet rivet tower trier trove tweer voter write wrote retire revert rioter trover vetoer writer rewrite rewrote riveter overtire OVERWRITE
LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS
QUICK Across: 1 Plea, 3 Caddy, 8 Archetype, 9 Fixed, 10 Pass, 14 Obey, 15 Camel, 18 Portfolio, 20 Stare, 21 Best.
Down: LA PRIMITIVA
Saturday October 19
SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21)
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1 Pact, 2 Examine, 4 Apex, 5/19 Dry rot, 6 Octet, 7 Dense, 11 Anemone, 12 Coypu, 13 Fault, 16 Afar, 17 Boat.
CRYPTIC Across: 1 Gates, 4 Santa fe, 8 Earlobe, 9 Tulip, 10 Tweet, 11 Chanson, 12 Castle, 14 Flocks, 17 Ascends, 19 Brawl, 21 Tosca, 22 Outcome, 23 Residue, 24 North.
Down: 1 Guest, 2 Targets, 3 Stout, 4 Sketch, 5 Netball, 6 Atlas, 7 Expands, 12 Chapter, 13 Lanyard, 15 Clamour, 16 Ashore, 18 Cases, 19 Baton, 20 Leech.
ENGLISH-SPANISH Down:
Across: 1 Chance, 4 Crimes, 9 Avión, 10 Aliento, 11 Llegadas, 12 Body, 14 Really, 16 Giants, 19 Card, 20 Chickpea, 23 Indoors, 24 Aquel, 25 Borrow, 26 Powder.
1 Charlar, 2 Alive, 3 Contable, 5 Raíz, 6 Monsoon, 7 Story, 8 Cazar, 13 Hinchado, 15 Abridor, 17 Smaller, 18 Chess, 19 Climb, 21 Pound, 22 Mozo.
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Well where do you start? MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man
NATURE PARADISE: The Lagunas de Ruidera is a spot of natural beauty.
Castile-La Mancha ALTHOUGH made famous worldwide through the tales of the unfortunate and disillu sioned Don Quijote, the region of CastileLa Mancha is largely overlooked by the modern tourist. Despite being the third biggest autonomous region in Spain, it is one of the most sparsely populated; yet it is still an area of unspoilt beauty and has plenty to offer all types of visitor. It certainly has a lot
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more to show than deserted, arid plains and the odd bleak windmill as recounted by Cer vantes. CastileLa Mancha forms the main part of central Spain and is bordered by the provinces of Castilla y León, Aragon, Madrid, Valencia, Murcia, Andalucia and Extremadura. It is divided into five provinces, namely, Toledo, Cuenca, Guadalajara, Ciudad Re al and Albacete.
Campo de Montiel is a comar ca in the southern part of CastileLa Mancha that sits with in the southeast region of Ciu dad Real and the southwest part of Albacete. This is a hilly area of natural beauty with great his toric and cultural wealth. There are several natural protected parks in this region too. This fun damentally forgotten part of Spain is a paradise for nature lovers and history enthusiasts.
WITHOUT looking at google, what is a ‘snowflake’ generation? Or ‘woke millennial’ or ‘woke generation’? How about a meme? Ever heard of that? All of a sudden I’m hearing and reading these phrases all the time and I don’t have a clue what they are talking about. I heard someone call a person on the TV a ‘fan toosh.’ I mean, have I missed something? I know what you’re thinking, ‘yeah but we have always had new words.’ I remember when the word fab was used for the first time and other ‘cool’ words, but they were all mostly used by the kids to confuse their parents. These new(ish) words are part of everyday language. I hear them on the news or read them on Twitter from older people. Then we have the whole gender thing. It used to be men and women now, well where do you start? Gender fluid, pansexu al, trans fluid, agender, demisexual there are now hundreds of different words to de
scribe what you are. Here’s a blinder for you ‘cisgender’ is a phrase I heard a woman on the telly describe herself as. So I looked it up and guess what it means? Ready? de noting or relating to a person whose sense of personal identity and gender corre sponds with their birth sex. In other words she’s a woman identifying as a woman. Why doesn’t she just say I’m a woman? I am not transphobic, I’m just confused. I also get angry because I think as soon as some one has any kind of opinion other than the trans world’s they are accused of all sorts of things. I don’t agree that awards cere monies should now only have awards for ‘them,’ not best male or female artist. Why is my opinion less valid than a singer who doesn’t identify as a bloke any more? Why does everything have to be changed for him or them or however they wish to be called? Plus I don’t agree that children as young as six should be taught in school that there are over a 100 different genders. The Royal College of General Practition ers recognises six genders. That’s four more than I was taught about at school! Yes there has to be sex education for kids at school but at what age I’m not sure and telling them there are over 100 genders is just bonkers. Sorry if that offends anyone, but I’m allowed my opinion!
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THIS may be something that gets you angry. Speaking to many Brits who drive through France and parts of Spain, there seems to be a dramatic i n c r e a s e o f d r i v e r s r e c e i v i n g m e s sages from home saying that they have a speeding notification from ei ther the French or Spanish police. I personally have had four, and one of them was for exceeding the limit by 1kph. Looks like a ‘get the British before Brexit’ scheme to me. Would greatly appreciate your take on this. Cheers. John Sales NOTIFICATION: Is there a rise in speeding penalties?
Which way? I READ a while ago that Torrevieja Town Hall announced that there was now a relief road to reduce conges tion on the CV95 and, true enough, there is... except that there is nothing to advise the motorists of same. The signs at the roundabout on the CV95 still say only ‘Urbanizacion’ whilst at the Via Park 3 end, there is nothing to indicate where the road goes to. The sign for Orihuela is still indi cating the road by the Via Park 3 centre. To make matters worse, if any one does find and take the road from the Aldi end they will soon see a ‘No Through Road’ sign con fronting them! No chance of the congestion be ing relieved whilst these signs re main as they are. Barry Weston
Politically correct LEAPY LEE Just read your article in Euro Weekly and it reminded me of a true story that happened in west Wales about 20 years ago. A local shopkeeper used to put up a joke of the day in his shop window.
The one day he displayed Q/ ‘What do you call three days of rain and then a day of sunshine?’ A/ ‘A bank holiday in Wales.’ Most people thought it was just a crap joke.
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A guy made a formal complaint about the shopkeeper stating it was racist as it was antiWelsh. Everybody thought the complainant should get a life until the guy was interviewed and it transpired that the shopkeeper was Indian and that if the complainant had made a similar type of joke about the shopkeeper’s home town he would have been had up for racism. All he was saying is that it should be a twoway street. I have also argued that being born in 1960 exposed you to a totally different education and upbringing just look at the TV shows and remember the name of Richard Todd’s (Guy Gibson) dog in the film Dambusters. Robertson’s jam with Gollywogs etc. We are now re ferred to as racist. I am not at all racist but I still find black jokes amusing. I have conceded that in current times I may not be politically correct, but I am definitely not racist. Kind regards Mark Evans, Moraira
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CLOCKS will be going back all over the EU in the early hours of Saturday October 26. This will mean a whole 60 minutes more in bed. Three in the morning will go back to two, giving people the perfect start to a restful Sunday. This practice is known as DST - daylight saving time and will essentially transfer an hour of evening daylight to the morning. The contrary happens between spring and autumn, when there is an extra hour of daylight in the evening. DST has been the subject of much debate this year and in March the European Parliament announced its support to abolish the system in 2021. However, the majority of countries haven’t been able to come to a decision internally. Many investigations have tried predicting the preferable schedule. The Spanish Society of Sleep backs the winter timetable, explaining that it allows a better relation between sunlight and the population’s activity. They argue that light in the morning is more beneficial. The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents in the UK disagrees and complains that the clock moving back means that traffic rush hours in the afternoon are in darkness. More accidents happen in the afternoon peak than in the morning peak and the time change may increase the numbers. With 80 per cent of Europeans against DST, it is probable that the practice will be revisited in future discussions in an attempt to decipher the best routine for people’s lifestyle and well-being.
Any onboard equipment failures brought to the at tention of the crew is normally assessed and taken care off. Must admit that Ryanair seats are not the most comfortable. Murray Wasik
Monk parakeets were brought to Spain in the 70’s as pets, but are now taking over and damaging city safety and biodiversity. Do you think it is right for local councils to start culling them?
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irrational hatred of Spain. When precisely the Spanish State (even during the Franco dictator ship) has remarkably benefited the economy, de velopment and infrastructure of Cataluña. The Spanish State has to disable the Regional Govern ment of Cataluña through Article 155 of the Con stitution, before it is too late. Francisco García Comino
Boxer Dies From Traumatic Head Injury If they banned it, boxing would go back under ground with no doctors etc so it would be dan gerous to ban a sport that is loved the world over. You could say banning boxing is brain dead. Jamie Evs
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Landmark breast cancer survey THOUSANDS of women are experiencing ‘avoidable’ delays in being diagnosed with the return and spread of breast cancer, a new report by Breast Cancer Now suggests. In the largest ever UK survey of people living with incurable secondary breast cancer, nearly one in four (24 per cent) respondents who had previously been treated for breast cancer had to visit their GP three or more times with symptoms before being diagnosed with the return and spread of the disease. In addition, four in 10 (41 per cent) re spondents who had spoken to a health care professional before being diagnosed with secondary breast cancer said they felt that their symptoms had not been taken seriously. If left untreated, secondary breast can cer continues to spread and symptoms are likely to worsen and have a greater impact on daily life. While there is insuffi cient evidence to show whether delays in diagnosis may significantly shorten pa tients’ lives, early diagnosis and timely ac cess to treatment and support can help FOLLOWING the launch of the new mental health campaign Every Mind Matters, it has been revealed music can improve mental health. There is strong evidence that making music and playing a musical instrument, even a little, is beneficial to mental, physical and emotional health. For children and young people who have a problem expressing themselves, play ing an instrument is a fun way to limit stress and keep de pression and anxiety at bay. A survey
alleviate symptoms and have a dramatic impact on quality of life. Breast Cancer Now is calling for better support for GPs such as online training and for alerts of the redflag symptoms of secondary breast cancer to be included and used in all GPs’ IT software as well as for all primary breast cancer patients to be given full information on the signs of secondary breast cancer as part of fol lowup support after treatment to help ensure everyone receives a prompt diag nosis. The findings come as the charity launches ‘The Unsurvivors,’ a bold new campaign calling for greater recognition of the estimated 35,000 UK people living with incurable secondary breast cancer and for a stepchange in their di agnosis, treatment and care. The charity said the campaign aimed to challenge the “worrying perception that everyone survives breast cancer” which fails to recognise “the heartbreaking reali ty for 11,500 families in the UK each year.” Breast cancer is the UK’s most com mon cancer, with around 55,000 women
and 370 men being diagnosed each year. While more women than ever are surviving the disease thanks to decades of progress, NHS invest ment, and increased charity support funded by the public, around 11,500 still die in the UK each year. Almost all of these deaths are attribut able to secondary breast cancer, where breast can cer spreads to an other part of the body, such as the bones, liver, lungs, skin or brain. While secondary (also known as ‘metastat ic’) breast cancer can be treated and controlled for some time to help patients live well for as long as possible, it remains in curable and patients stay in treatment for the rest of their lives.
SURVEY: Reveals many breast cancer patients experience ‘avoidable’ delays in treatment.
To sign The Unsurvivors petition, visit breastcancernow.org/unsurvivors
Make yourself heard! carried out by the mental health charity Mind found that three in five young peo ple aged between 11 and 19 have experienced a mental health problem or are close to someone who has. Children and young people today also face the additional online pressures of cyberbul lying and the competitiveness of social media. Yamaha Music London is backing the campaign, and stressed that learning to play a musical instrument is life enhancing and can help over come chal lenging sit uations at home, at school or at work. Here are five easy steps that the music store recom mends: Give your brain a
BENEFITS: Playing a musical instrument can improve mental, emotional and physical health.
workout Playing a musical instru ment is like doing a workout for every part of the brain. It helps improve mental perfor mance and memory. Over time, playing music will refine coordination and motor skills. Improving musical skills will use all parts of the brain involved in concentration. Reading music helps the brain to strengthen the ability to process information resulting in improved reading and maths skills. Too much work and not enough play Finding time for relaxation is vital to help the mind and body switch off from feeling overwhelmed. A new and fun hobby can be a great way to relax. Finding an enjoyable hobby will help switch the brain off from the pressures of work, school or col lege and you will cope better with work or studying after taking a break from it. If you have always wanted
to play or are a lapsed musi cian what are you waiting for? Just do it. Communicate Music can help cope with understanding difficult feel ings. Music is a creative way of opening up and sharing feelings of sadness and emo tions. Music helps you com municate and helps you grieve. You might like to write down your feelings in song form. Sharing and playing mu sic makes you realise that you are not alone. Go for goals Low selfesteem can lead to depression and anxiety. By setting some realistic goals, for example to learn to play a few bars or notes or practise for 20 minutes every day, will give a wonderful sense of achievement. It will improve confidence and feelings of positivity in other areas of life too. Exercise Being active reduces some of the emotional intensity around you. Playing an instru
ment naturally leads to in creased physical activity. Whether you are playing the guitar, piano, strings or a wind instrument, you are using arm and back muscles to play or
hold your instrument. Vigor ously play the drums and get a cardio workout for free! Find friends Having a good social net work is important. Music can be a way to meet new, like minded people playing in a band, orchestra or a choir can be a great way to make new friends.
Pouting Pattison Her post continued: ‘You are alive to laugh, to fall in love, to travel, to experience new things, to meet new people, to enjoy food, to feel sand between your toes, to be amazed at what your body is capable of, to dance til the sun comes up... you are alive to LIVE.’ The day before, the former Geordie Shore stunner revealed
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REALITY star Vicky Pattison proved her new healthier lifestyle is paying off as she posted a sexy snap of herself in an animal print bikini at a health retreat in Ibiza. The 31yearold, who has fluctuated between a size six and 16 over the years, shared a message on Instagram in which she said ‘you are not alive just to lose weight.’ Putting her ample assets on display, Vicky is pictured pout ing as she shields her eyes from the sun in a pair of gold rimmed sunglasses.
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RETREAT: Vicky Pattison shows off her assets in racy snap. she and boyfriend, Ercan Ra madan, are now ‘proud par ents’ to a ferret, and shared im ages of her health stay in Ibiza.
Heiress pregnant ZARA heiress Marta Ortega has revealed in HO LA! Spain that she is expecting her second child next spring. The Spanish fashion magnate married former model agent Carlos Torretta last year in one of the most glamorous and exclusive events of 2018, surrounded by the cream of high society and the fashion industry. The pair started out as friends three years ago, and soon realised they had a lot in common.
They both grew up in the fashion world as Carlos is the son of Spanish designer Roberto Torretta, and they are both highly educated. Marta has an International Business Degree and Carlos graduated in Arts and Communication. The couple currently live in the north of Spain, close to the headquarters of the Zara fashion empire with Marta’s sixyearold son, Amancio, from her previous marriage to jockey Sergio Al varez.
Earlybird tickets THE Weekend Beach Festival in Torre del Mar has now es tablished itself as one of the premier music events in southern Spain. Earlier this year, some 150,000 festival goers were on hand for the big weekend with Black Eyed Peas as the head
line attraction. Now without even announc ing the name of a single artist taking part, the first 15,000 specially discounted tickets sold out in less than an hour. It has just been announced that a further tranche of tickets is available on their website at the still reduced price of €45 so visit www.weekendbeach.es. The 2020 Festival is the sev enth and runs from July 1 to 4.
Torrox rocks ROCK music seems to act like an elixir of youth on many mu sicians and three of them will be appearing at The Amigos of Torrox clubhouse on Thursday November 21. Koolrock is a power trio made up of guitarist Steve Lamb (formerly of Tygers of Pan Tang), bassist Martin Bland (longtime member of The Ani mals) and drummer Harry Hill (from Fist). They will be playing a selec tion of great rock hits which everyone will remember and enjoy and to find out more call 675 301 758.
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Kravitz in concert AMERICAN Rock God Lenny Kravitz will return to the Costa del Sol five years after his last appearance in the region. He is bringing one leg of his ‘Here to Love’ tour to Marenostrum Fuengirola on July 23, 2020 from 10pm. Tickets will go on sale on Monday, October 28 on the concert websites Ticketea and Click Taquilla with prices ranging from €50 to €90. The last time he came to the Costa del Sol was for Marbella’s Starlite festival in 2015. On this occasion, the multifaceted artist will take to the stage installed on the hill of Castillo Sohail in Fuen girola to perform songs from his latest album ‘Raise Vibration.’ He will also review the most emblematic songs of his 30year, 11 album career. A singer, actor, composer, multiinstrumentalist and producer, Kravitz moves freely through genres ranging from blues to ballads, passing through reg gae, rock, soul, funk and folk. His career has earned him four Grammy awards and he has sold more than 40 million albums worldwide. Fuengirola’s Marenostrum Festival this year attracted more than 127,000 spectators to its events, more than twice as many as the previous year. Performers in cluded Jennifer Lopez, Bob Dylan, Manuel Carras co, Rod Stewart and The Scorpions.
LENNY KRAVITZ: Will return to Costa del Sol in July 2020.
Oktoberfest is near TONIGHT, Thursday October 24 is the last night of the VelezMalaga Beer Festival (Oktoberfest) which is being held in the Jardines de Trapiche. It is not just about drinking as there will be a selection of great German food as well as dancing and music from a selection of German artists as well as Paul Maxwel. The event is open from 4.30pm with all perfor mances running from 6pm until midnight and this promises to be a fun day for residents and visi tors alike.
OKTOBERFEST: Enjoy a beer and a pretzel.
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Baby Bugatti enters Production NICK HORNE’S Rich Pick Freelance correspondent, London, England THE Geneva Motor Show has seen the launch of many new cars to the world. Bugatti celebrating its 110th birthday this year decided to mark the anniversary with several special editions including the Baby Bugatti II. Announced as a limited edition of just 500 cars the Baby Bugatti II’s sold out in just weeks. At the Geneva Motor Show the Baby was a 3D printed model. After many months of further de velopment this year the first working prototype the Baby Bugatti II XP1 was presented to a spe cial gathering of Bugatti customers held at the marque’s home at Molsheim in September. The original Baby Bugatti was a gift by Ettore Bugatti to his son Roland for his fourth birthday in 1926. The toy car was a half scale of the Type 35 built for the 1924 French Grand Prix at Lyon. The response from customers to this charming present was so strong that some 500 Baby Bugattis were manufactured between 1927 and 1936. The Baby Bugatti II unlike the original is de signed to be driven not only by children but also by adults, with the scale pushed up to three
quarters rather than half scale. The inclusion of a sliding pedal box accommodating adults when they manage to wrest the car away from the child. Also redesigned for the modern era is the drive train, now electric and powered with lithi um ion batteries and regenerative braking the BB II comes in three specifications. With a com posite body, with a carbon fibre body and a ‘speed key,’ and the BBII Pur Sang with a hand crafted aluminium body and ‘speed key.’ Speeds of up to 45 km/h indicate the driving experience that young and old will enjoy. A re mote control key to disable the car at up to 50 metres range, just in case a driver gets carried away. In short the BBII is expected to be fully en joyed by collectors as well as their grandchildren.
The innovative in its day eightspoke alloy wheels are replicated though now clad with modern Michelin tyres. The lightweight hol low front axle has been re produced as has the sus pension and the signature steering mechanism from the original. The cockpit is dominated by the fourspoke wood steering wheel in front of the turned alu minium dashboard on which are mounted cus tom Bugatti instruments. The original cars had a tachograph with oil and fuel pressure gages, these have been re placed with a speedometer, battery level indica
One happy driver focused on the drive through the woods.
Bugatti’s famous Macaron badge made of 50g of solid silver just like the Bugatti Chiron’s displayed on the nose of the Baby. tor and power gauge. The clock used for measuring race performance in the Type 35 remains. The fuel pressure pump has been re purposed as a forward / reverse control. All BB II’s be equipped with a rear view mirror, hand brake, headlights and the essential horn. The exterior of the Bugatti Baby II is faithful to the original Bugatti Type 35 and will be painted as standard in French Racing Blue with a black leather interior. Naturally other colour options are available for both the exterior and interior. Actual manufacture and production is due to start in early 2020 and the option to join a Re serve List is still possible, just in case a prospec tive buyer should change their mind. Prices start at €30,000 [plus local taxes and delivery of course]. Deliveries are expected to conclude during 2021. Nick Horne, London, England.
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A TIME for memoirs, it seems. No sooner has David Cameron published his than we have those of the late Peter Sissons, an account of his 45 years in broadcast journalism, the last 20 of which he spent at the BBC after he was offered a halfa-million-pound contract to quit ITN in the late 1980s. But whether, in their respective mem oirs, it’s Cameron upsetting HM The Queen or Sissons the BBC, Sissons has, undeniably, the better anecdotes. Becoming a familiar face on TV but not necessarily a household name, he found people frequently mistook him for Regi nald Bosanquet. This wasn’t as bad, though, as the occasion when he was on a cruise and a woman yelled out: “Look, it’s that Peter Sutcliffe!” Despite being confused with the York shire Ripper, Sissons was often invited to speak at conferences. One was to a
CAMERON: Published memoirs. group of sex therapists discussing erec tile dysfunction. Keen to appear knowl edgeable, Sissons read up academic pa pers, discovering that patients rarely want to discuss the condition with their GP. They make an appointment on a pre text and raise the issue only as they’re at the door about to leave. Sissons later dis covered from medics that the technical term for this is ‘the ‘handonknob’ con sultation.’ As for Theresa May, she’s not writing her memoirs fortunately! I mean, what COULD they possibly say? ‘My Time As
PM or How I Fudged Everything, Messed Up Democracy and Delivered Nothing.’ Chapter 1. Handed job of Home Secre tary. Messed up police service. Chapter 2. Handed job of PM with good majority. Chapter 3. Called General Election, messed up campaign, lost majority. Chapter 4. Messed up Brexit. Chapter 5. The End. When Boris inevitably pens HIS mem oirs about Britain and Brexit, they’ll make Monty Python look like Panorama. Since you need to dig the dirt to shift memoirs, let’s hope they don’t dwell on those infamous poledancing ‘technical’ lessons he received at the, um, hands of his, um, ‘technical adviser.’ Incidentally, I’m often asked if I’m re lated to Boris (Johnson, geddit?). Well, I couldn’t possibly comment! Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribu tion,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.norajohnson.net) avail able online as ebook (€0.99;£0.99), ibook, paperback & (now) audiobook. All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.
of variety ELCHE and its predecessor, La Alcudia, was settled by the Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Goths and Moors. So it is safe to say that the city has some history. But the city offers far more than museums in fact, part of its appeal is its variety. The coastal location provides it the obligatory beach attraction but there are cultural options aplenty for those looking for a more sophisticated experience. Perhaps the most notable is the Basilica of Santa Maria an impressive, Arabiclooking structure well worth a visit. Another must for architecture is the Torre de la Calahorra. If greenery is your thing then the Palm Grove of Elche should be right up your garden path, having been declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 2000. Twinned with six towns including Toulouse in France Elche is within striking distance of Alicante, for those who want the allure of one of Spain’s largest cities. But Elche should be easily big enough for all travel needs and boasts a number of top restaurants and hotels. The local football team, Elche CF, were in the top tier of Spanish football until last year, but could make a return to La Liga in the coming seasons giving foot ball fans the chance to see giants like Real Madrid or Barcelona in quaint surroundings.
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A letter to my younger self and an unsympathetic cop de manded to know just how much you’d drunk that night. Now let’s deal with those pills given to you by a colleague who, while stoned, fell off the platform of a moving bus. When you visited Joe Openshaw, lying in hospital with multiple fractures, he said: “Try these, they’ll make you feel great.” So that night you took three and nothing happened. You then necked a bot tle of Chianti and sever al vodkas and Coke, and popped three more. Then something did happen. You collapsed in the street and were rushed to A&E where a medic demanded to know what you’d taken. When you showed him the re maining pills, it was all hands to the stomach pump. You’d swal lowed amphetamines which, when mixed with alcohol, can be deadly. You, dear boy, came within a
GRAVE MISTAKE: As a junior reporter I tumbled into a grave while taking a photograph.
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The BMW M5 engine is so quiet that fake engine noises are played through the speakers in order to remind buyers of their cars’ performance levels.
M Performance parts THANKS to its combination of ex pressive design and outstanding brandtypical driving dynamics, the new BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe (fu el consumption combined: 7.1 4.2 l/100 km, CO2 emissions com bined: 162110 g/km*) has every thing it takes to continue the sev enyear success story of the BMW Gran Coupe in the compact seg ment too. In order to accentuate its athletic character even more and tailor the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe to the needs and require ments of motorsportenthusiastic customers, BMW also offers a wide range of M Performance Parts from the date of launch in November 2019. Developed by BMW M Gmbh ex perts with their many years of mo torsport expertise and countless victories on the world’s race tracks, these components meet the high est requirements with regard to performance, production quality
ROAD TEST by Nick Fletcher TOYOTA’S Aygo is one of the few stand-out models in the city car class thanks to more charismatic styling and underpinned by the brand’s solid reputation for durability.
and design. The M Performance Parts are not only visually attrac tive, but also integral elements of the lightweight construction con cept. All components are perfectly matched to the specific character to the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe. A number of individual options enable the customer to enhance the exterior of the new BMW 2 Se ries Gran Coupe to give it even more dynamic looks. The M rear spoiler in highgloss black not only adds an attractive touch of visual flair, but also optimises the air stream around the car and positive ly affects driving behaviour thanks to reducing lift. The highgloss black meshstyle M front ornamental grille gives the front a highly dynamic look. The Carbon M Performance exterior mirror caps add both discreet yet distinctive details to the side view of the car. Like all carbon fibre com ponents they are handcrafted,
sealed with a clear finish and given a highgloss polish for an impressive depth effect. The interior of the new BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe can also be up graded with various M Performance Parts. The most distinctive visual detail is the M Performance steer ing wheel. Its extremely highgrip al cantara handling area features large thumbrests and special underlining. Not only insiders know that it isn’t engine power alone that leads to success, but above all braking performance. And since this insight from motor racing can also be ap plied to road use, the BMW 2 Series Gran Coupe may also be equipped with an M Performance brake sys
tem fea turing highly distinctive red brake saddles. The 18inch M Perfor mance YSpoke Styling 554 M forged wheels and the 19 inch M Performance Double Spoke Styling 555 M complete wheel sets emphasise the sporty character of the BMW 2 Series Grand Coupe. In Jet Black matt they add yet another athletic touch to the car’s sporty visual appeal.
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Toyota Aygo X-Trend The latest Aygo comes in three and five-door form and several trim levels but only one engine - a busy little one-litre petrol unit pushing out a respectable 71 hp which is enough to get the car around urban areas with agility and
cruise quite comfortably on motorways. Top speed is 160 kph (99 mph), the 0-100 kph time 13.8 seconds and average fuel economy 19.4 kpl (55 mpg), with low emissions of 93 g/km. Toyota’s X-design architecture gives the Aygo a sporty and rather funky look
and such styling is an important sales factor in a city-car sector where a distinctive image is hard to find. In the cabin, the layout is clear and simple with a central touch-screen and steering-wheel-mounted controls taking care of the the essentials. The seating is more supportive than in most rivals - which include the Citroen C1, Hyundai i10 and VW Up! - and most will find an ideal driving position
thanks to a multi-adjustable steering column. Visibility in the Aygo is very good and the cabin can take four adults without anyone being too cramped. Boot space is 168 litres, adequate for most people, though not the largest in the class. Aygo prices start at €11,025 (£9,825) though the upper range X-trim versions are more popular as they are better equipped - my five-door XTrend test model had a price tag of €14,828 (£13,215). For that you get a raft of features which include alloy wheels, integrated rear spoiler,
projector headlights, rear privacy glass, touch-screen multimedia centre with digital radio, Bluetooth and smartphone mirroring. Safety kit incudes pre-collision system, front, side and curtain airbags, lane departure alert, hill-start assist and a speed limiter. Most city cars are not too quick off the mark and the Aygo is no exception, yet it does feel nimble and has responsive steering and a supple ride quality, so it is a pleasant little car to drive and its stand-out styling helps gives it extra appeal in its sector.
Facts at a glance Model: Toyota Aygo X-Trend Engine: 1.0 litre petrol Transmission: 5-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 13.8 seconds, top speed 160 kph (99 mph) Economy: 19.4 kpl (55 mpg) Emissions: 93 g/km AYGO STYLING: Has a sporty and rather funky look.
Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.
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The All-new Renault Captur AS a pioneer on the urban SUV market, the Captur has sold 1.5 million vehicles in more than 90 countries since its launch in 2013. It rapidly became the best seller in its segment, both in France and in Europe. On a market that has become extremely competitive, the All new Captur has reinvented it self by reinforcing the identity which brought its success. It has transformed itself, now display ing updated SUV contours that are both athletic and dynamic. Still just as modular, it has be come even more welcoming due to an interior revolution within that allows it to enter a new dimension of technology and quality. As the front runner on the urban SUV market, the Captur has always been able to play the versatility card, including
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on every type of road, where the driver demands a touch of dynamism. So, the engineering teams that developed the chassis looked at every parameter to ensure that the Allnew Captur has an overall balance that nev er dulls the feelings of respon siveness and security, especially when it is fitted with the TCe 155 EDC FAP engine. Its reassuring roadholding is maintained by rear axle guid ance that offers greater stability when taking bends at a steady speed. Lateral movement is re stricted even on the harshest roads, and comfort has been improved with a special devel opment of the shock absorbers. The efficiency of the chassis is supplemented by the more pre cise, more direct steering. The vehicle’s agility is further increased by 10 per cent reduc tions in the steering ratio around the zero point and in the turning circle, which is now down to 11 metres kerb to kerb. Use of the new modular
CMFB platform has also al lowed better sound insulation of the passenger compartment. A special effort has gone into various components to boost acoustic comfort for the occu pants: a reinforced body struc
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Welsh dragons roared THE time for talking was over 80 minutes f o r Wa l e s t o s t a y i n Japan or head home. Not the start Wales would have wanted. France crossed the try line first in just five minutes and it was through Sebastien Va haamahina. Ntamack misses the conversion 05 Just two minutes later Wales were rocking as France went from coast to coast from the kickoff. Na vidi missed a tackle in mid field and Ntamack and Dupont combined to put Alldritt over. Conversion was scored making it 012. Just a minute later Wales got back in the game, Aaron Wainwright, the 22yearold picked up a loose ball and galloped away from the French chase to score. Wales were starting to build pressure. Good carries from Jake Ball and Parkes got them moving forward and a penalty came follow
WALES: Determination kicked in. ing a high tackle on Ball by tryscorer Vahaamahina. Biggar opted for the sticks. He nailed it. It was a calm recovery from Wales to get back to within two points after a horror start. 1012 Twentynine minutes saw
Moriarty in trouble. He got across to tackle Fickou but he went high. It was yellow but it could have easily been a straight red. France were building pressure against a 14man Welsh defence. The pres
sure told almost immediate ly as Vakatawa crossed after an offload from Penaud and with the extras took the score to 1019. Wales were under the cosh, quite how France had not scored again who
knew? Half time Wales 1019 France. After the restart, it was a scrappy first 48 minutes un til the TMO concluded filthy play by the French. It was good work by ref Nic Berry to spot a French elbow on Wainwright and Va haamahina was the guilty party. The replays looked nasty, it was red all day long horrible piece of filthy play. France deservedly went down to 14 men for the last 30 minutes. Wales started playing with urgency and that was testing French discipline when Wales won a penalty, Biggar went for the posts and scored bringing the game back to 1319. They may have been down to 14, but France started hammering at the Welsh defence in defiance but it saw good Welsh de fending, but they were struggling to get out their
own half as the clock was kicking down. France looked to have shut up shop and Wales had just 12 minutes to pull something out of the locker but the game was being sti fled by the burly 14 French man. Complete drama in the 75th minute Moriarty went over, but had he scored? It looked like it after the French scrum was splin tered, but did Tomos Williams knockon? Two minutes of TMO re plays and the ref blew for the score! Biggar slammed the conversion and Wales took the lead 2019 with just five minutes to play out. Three minutes between Wales and a World Cup se mifinal and Wales milked a scrum, two minutes and then one minute. They did and Wales were through in an astonishing comeback! Fulltime Wales 2019 France.
Career highlight WIN : Murray puts injuryravaged years behind him.
ANDY MURRAY broke down in tears after winning his first ATP tournament after recovering from recent h i p s u r g e r y, A n d y Murray beat Stan Wawrinka in the final o f t h e E u ro p e a n Open. The former world num
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Man City closed the gap on Liverpool winning 0-2 away to Crystal Palace, Liverpool came back for a draw and point at Old Trafford as they took on Man United and drew 1-1. Liverpool head the table on 25pts as City now gain slightly on 19 points leaving Liverpool 6 clear.
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England destroy Australia REECE HODGE got the game underway and Daly gave Vunipola his first carry before the ball was booted back to Australia. Slade’s first contribution was to have the ball bumped off him in the tackle, Beale received it and went through the gap and ran 60 metres up to the England 22, but he got so far that there was no support with him. Not that it mattered as England had given a penalty away that Christian Leali ifano lined up, and the Wal laby 10 slotted 03 Australia to take the lead of the game. Quarter of an hour in, Eng land got the ball out and ran a nice pattern outright to Watson who nearly got away but was scragged, it went all the way left and England were laying siege to the line before Pocock and Hooper got in and nicked it at the breakdown, England got the ball back and there was more fast soft hands right to Watson, it was recy cled and went all the way left, with some clever dum my runs in midfield and past the Aussie defensive line and May went in right in the left corner for the try, Farrell slotted a great kick from the touchline for Eng land to take the lead 37. Just two minutes later Ge nia threw an interception to Slade and he was away, but he didn’t have the pace to get there from 70 metres so he dinked a beautiful kick on the run for May to gather and he definitely had the pace to get in scoring anoth er English try! Farrell kicked another one from out left successfully to further the lead 143. Shortly after the Wallabies grabbed from the lineout and sent their midfield run ners at the England line, Iza ck Rodda punched a bit of a hole through and when it was recycled Jamie George was pinged for off
side and Christian Lealiifano has the simplest of kicks for the penalty 146. Tuilagi got some momen tum on a carry and Christian Lealiifano gave away a kick able penalty on 29 mins for not rolling away. Owen Far rell stroked it over to in crease the lead to 176 to England. Australia had a scrum in the England 22 on 39 min utes a reset scrum brought the Aussies a penalty. Christ ian Lealiifano lined it up and smacked the penalty to make it a half time score of 179. Farrell got the second half underway but England soon saw their lead dwindle, Daly dropped a straightforward catch, and Australia went back on the attack. Slade pushed up too far in defence and the ball was floated over him and popped to Koroi bete on the inside drift on halfway and he was through and took Daly to the cleaners by standing him up and going around him to score. It wasn’t a great few min utes for the England full back. The conversion was added and the game very much on as it went 1716. England refired up, Wat son made some headway up the right and when the ball was recycled left Sinckler ran
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and was through and in from 15 metres. He even deliber ately ran at Beale to bump him, just to make some sort of point. Farrell converted
for England to extend the lead to 2416. Shortly afterwards on 48 minutes, England held up Sio in defence after the prop was
given a pretty impossible task by a dodgy pass from Leali ifano and they won the scrum. They doubled down on this by splintering the Wallaby eight and winning a penalty. Farrell indicated the sticks and scored 2716. Fiftysix minutes and Itoje did a great job of dis rupting the Aussies throw and thwart ed the catch and drive, but the Wallabies still had it and were working phases in the England 22 with Toomua orchestrating. Australia got another penal ty too as Underhill went off his feet in the 22 and they took the scrum in the shadow of the posts, but after a few changes to the line England stole the ball back with tremendous de fending, it was a massive mo ment in the game. Farrell pointed at the sticks with a penalty on 68 minutes and smashed it over to make it 3016. More points came for Eng land with another 10 scored just before the final whistle. Make no mistake, this was a complete pasting of the Aussies!
Game of two halves REF Wayne Barnes blew his whistle and South Africa kicked off. First blood went to South Africa as Tamura fell off a tackle allowing Mapimpi to go over the line on four minutes. Conversion missed and the scoreboard was underway 05. It was a terrible start for the hosts with South African setpiece power making a difference. Although as the clock approached 15 minutes Japan kept the score down and started to attack well themselves. On 18 mins South Africa had another scrum. Japan were not having the best of it at scrum time. South African power at the first scrum of the match created the first try. But this one brought a penalty for Japan! The players celebrated like they’d won the match. They kicked for goal and made it 35. The rest of the first half saw some great freeflowing rugby from both sides but it remained a very tight game scorewise, despite be ing an excellent and exciting tense match between the sides. Half time 35. Three minutes into the second period and South Africa scored a penalty to extend to 38 and just another two minutes later yet an other penalty to create some breathing space as Pollard scored again smashing the ball through the posts 311. Pollard cracked another penalty through the posts on 68 minutes with the Spring Boks taking total control of the game. 314. A minute later, from the restart, South Africa won another penalty for a headgrab on Kolbe. It looked like Kolbe was lucky not to be penalised for tipping the Japanese tackler on to the floor. Too much power, too much precision for the Japanese a big shove from the Boks at a maul and de Klerk went over for a deserved try after a lovely offload by Marx making a score line of 319. The host nation supporters sighed as South Africa went over the line again making it 326. Japan had made history by becoming the first Asian quarterfinalists at a Rugby World Cup.
Hurri Kane THERE is one Premier League manager feeling a little more relaxed as Mauricio Pochettino watched his Tottenham Hotspur team beat Red Star Belgrade at home 5 0. Spurs have had what can only be described as a terrible start to their season and whilst not relegation candi dates, certainly have disappointed their le gion of fans with their performances in both the Premier and UEFA Champions League. With three losses and three draws they lie in seventh place in the Premier League and second in the Champi ons League, six points behind leaders Bayern Munich. On Tuesday night it was stalwarts Harry Kane and Som Hueng Min who won the match with two goals apiece with Erik Lamela scoring one and supply ing two scoring passes. Most clubs undergo a down turn during the season and perhaps Spurs have experienced theirs early. Pep Guardiola saw his Manchester City side cruise to a 51 win over Italian side Atalan ta, also at home, with a brace for Sergio Aguiro and a clinical 11minute second half hat trick from Raheem Sterling. The light blues lead their Champions League table with nine points from three matches but were shown to be de fensively vulnerable al though to lose one goal but score five isn’t cur rently a problem. Youngster Phil Foden was sent off but Guardi ola put it down to just part of the learning curve.