Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca North 9 - 15 January 2020 Issue 1801

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9 - 15 January 2020

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BENIDORM put on one of the most elaborate events on Sunday evening, bringing thousands of residents and tourists into the town centre to enjoy the annual tradition celebrated as the Christmas holidays draw to a close.

Some 1,000 people took part in the grand procession through streets packed with eager onlookers of all ages.

Heading the parade of all manne r o f i m a g i n ativ e floats were colourful characters from the worlds of film, television and fairytales. The second half repres ented t h e st o r y o f th e Three Kings’ journey to Bethlehem. The line-up also featured Roman centurions, King Herod and the Christmas star.

Young and old scrambled to scoop up the 4,000 kilos of sweets tossed into the crowds. The Three Kings als o gav e o u t 2 , 0 0 0 t o y s to children who had waited for them i n t h e Pl a z a de la Navidad.

Beni d o r m m a y o r To n i Perez welcomed the three royal visitors to the town.

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Colourful, exuberant Three Kings’ parades brought final festive season magic to the streets of towns and villages all along the Costa Blanca.

JOYFUL: The Three Kings processions delighted young and old in towns and villages throughout the region.

Benidorm happy, especially those who have suffered the lo s s o f a lo v ed o n e , ” he asked Melchior, Gaspar and Balthazar.

Towns like Denia, El Campello and Javea pulled out all the stops for the Three Kings celebrations this year too. In all three, as in Alicante City, Melchior,

Gaspar and Balthazar made their arrivals by sea, adding to the e xc ite me nt be fore taking centre stage in processions featuring everything from da nc ing pola r bears to superheroes, and putting a smile on the faces of thousands of youngsters.

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QUESTIONABLE COALITION ENDING more than nine months of political deadlock, many questions have now been raised about how those residing in Spain will be affected by the country’s first coalition government since the Second Republic.

The new PSOE-Unidas Podemos administration have promised a host of measures that will be rolled out across the country, which are set to negatively impact higher earners and large corporations. This includes a new minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent, rising to 18 per cent for banks and energy utilities, where tax on capital gains above €140,000 will also be increased from 23 to 27 per cent.

Those with high paid jobs will also be impacted, where there is set to be an increase in income tax for those earning more than €300,000 a year by four percentage points. Although Sanchez states this is in aim of forming a “government for all people that broadens rights, restores co-existence and fights for social justice,” many have voiced their outrage on the matter.

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Spain will now be led by a coalition government after acting Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez secured parliamentary approval for a joint administration between his Socialist party (PSOE) and the Unidas Podemos alliance.

NEW LEADER: Pedro Sanchez is congratulated by Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias.

to society and creating jobs for others, see the increases as a brazen attempt at economic targeting.

However, proposals to overhaul some of the labour changes introduced eight years ago when the conservative People’s party was in power has delighted a proportion of the workforce.

This includes measures such as strengthening protection against dismissal for absences caused by illness and lifting the minimum wage to 60 per cent of average national wages.

Although positive news for some, this will again impact business owners, who will now be subject to increased scrutiny and higher pay-outs to meet the governmental standards based upon worker-friendly legislation.

In a tweet sent after the vote, Sánchez wrote: “With the progressive coalition government, Spain is entering a time for the defence of dialogue and useful politics,” where Unidas Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias said the new coalition programme was designed to make Spain “a world reference of modernity to support the most vulnerable groups.”

Record breakers ALICANTE-ELCHE airport recently celebrated the arrival of its 15 millionth passenger which has broken a new historical record.

According to a statement from Aena, the 15 millionth passenger arrived on an easyJet flight from London-Southend airport. Upon disembarking, the lucky traveller was met by the director of Alicante airport Laura Navarro who presented them with various gifts including a pass for the airport’s VIP lounge.

The general director for tourism Herick Campos attended the event and pointed out that this “shared success” highlights the airport as a “fundamental”

tourist infrastructure for the Valencian community as through this terminal arrive around 90 per cent of tourists coming from the UK which is the main foreign issuing market.

He also pointed out the importance of the investment of more than €600 million made by the government in Spain in this infrastructure.

In addition, Campos recalled that the Airport Council has recognised the airport as the best in Europe in the category of facilities and valued the investments made last year to expand the automation and improve access points in the event of possible situations after Brexit.

British takeover

THE regional capital maintains an upward trend in the number of inhabitants. The population registered in Denia according to the data of the register of yesterday showed that the city has 43,949 residents, which reflects that in the last year it has experienced a growth of 2 per cent, which translates into almost 900 people more than at the beginning of 2019.

A striking fact is that now the foreign group with the greatest presence is the British, which has ended the German predominance of recent years.

The 104 different nationalities that live in Denia are proof of the attractiveness to travellers from around the world and the hospitality of its people. Of those registered, 75.67 per cent are Spanish, that is 33,255 people.

It is an amount similar to that of a year ago.

The factor that has marked the increase in global computing is mainly due to the greater presence of foreign residents, who are already 10,694, which is 802 more than 12 months earlier.

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DENIA-based maritime transport company Balearia has taken delivery of a brand new, eco-efficient tugboat from a Dutch shipyard. The 11-metre long ‘Aguila Pescadora’ Stan Tug 1004 will be used for facilitating ship manoeuvres and is also available for rescue and emergency operations in the area.

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DENIA’S Museu de la Mar has attracted more than 100,000 visitors since it opened last June. In the summer visitor numbers to the museum located in the port’s old port fish market averaged 20,000 a month, the ‘Treasures of the Denia sea’ exhibition a major lure.

Jobless dip ALICANTE ended the year with 2,643 less unemployed than at the beginning of 2019, good news but a smaller reduction than 2018’s 7,600 jobless drop. Total unemployment in the province stood at 148,073 at the end of 2019 following a decrease of 881 in December.

Green power BENIDORM Council has invested €5,400 in two electric bicycles and four electric scooters as a noncontaminating means of transport for street cleaning inspectors to get around the town and do their jobs. The council said the move reflected the administration’s commitment to sustainable mobility.

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A WORKER was left with minor injuries requiring hospital treatment when a floor collapsed at an Alicante furniture warehouse and they fell from five metres onto pallets and boxes. A fire service inspection of the premises ruled out there was a structural danger.

THERE were 40 fatal traffic accidents in Alicante last year, three more than in 2018, according to Interior Ministry figures. In all there were 43 deaths on provincial roads in 2019, again an increase of three on the previous year, and 99 across the Valencian Community.

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DEVILISH: People dressed as demons gather around the fire.

DANCING DEMONS EVERY January, the demons t a k e o v e r M a l l o rc a a s t h e Sant Antoni Abad festivities begin. The popular celebration is deeply rooted in popular customs, dating back to the former Balearic agricultural society.

During that time, people revered San Antonio - the patron saint of domestic animals - who they hoped would bless them with protection for their working farm animals. Over the

years, the magical celebrations have evolved into a popular feast. People eat grilled sobrassada and other traditional sausages and food, with plenty of wine as accompaniment.

On January 16 - the eve of the festival - large bonfires are lit in the main streets and squares of the villages.

Adults and children alike gather in the streets dressed as demons, where they go bonfire to bonfire as they sing and dance. The traditional dance symbolises the temptations of the Devil that

Fake president NATIONAL POLICE have arrested a woman of Nigerian origin in Denia for the alleged crime of fraud. The arrested was posing as the President of UN-Women in Spain and the Spanish National Committee of UN Women on the Internet, even going so far as to take part in conferences and interviews with media agencies.

The African woman was in charge of offering courses in Judicial Expertise through which she adopted a false official character. In addition, she was in charge of fundraising for the development of supposed projects related to the institution she was pretending to represent.

The police investigation began in mid-2018 when UN Women reported that a woman was posing as their president and had been requesting funds online for fake projects. At the same time, UN-Women maintained contact with the investigated to request that she cease and desist in her illegal activities, although the now detained refused.

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Sant Antoni had to overcome and the triumph of good over evil.

The following day, a solemn mass is held in honour of the saint and then the Beneïdes (blessing) of the animals and townspeople takes place. Crowds gather as they take their animals to church to receive protection, a very popular tradition in towns including Sa Pobla, Muro, Artà and Sant Joan.

After, the party continues as a parade of floats and animals celebrates their devotion to Sant Antoni.

Gandia growing GANDIA has gained 733 inhabitants between 2018 and 2019, an extra 0.9 per cent more, and ranks as the eighth city in population size of the Valencian Community with 74,562 residents. This follows from the Official Population Figures for the start of the year according to the revision of the municipal registry carried out by the INE. Regarding other large municipalities of La Safor, Oliva reached 25,101 inhabitants (98 less), in Tavernes de la Valldigna there are 17,201 (43 more) and Xeraco reaches 5,655, with 47 less. According to the same source, the Valencian Community maintained in 2018 the population growth initiated in 2017, with 5,003,769 people registered, 40,066 more than January 1, 2018. In general, the years 2012 to 2016 were of loss of inhabitants, mainly for the return of many immigrants to their countries of origin due to the economic crisis.

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Spain backing the US Spain is lending its full support to US forces as the military build up prepares for the current crisis due to an agreement between the Spanish and US governments.

DUE to an agreement made in November 2015, Spain agreed for the US Air Base Morón to be a permanent fixture for the foreseeable future. The mission of Morón Air Base is to operate and maintain a strategic forward operating base to support the US and Allied air/space power projection, to include transient and aircraft maintenance operations.

The agreement was originally for potential conflicts in North Africa.

Spain agreed to at least 3,000 troops and an increase of 40 aircraft to be stationed at the southern Spain military installation. Already the US military personnel stationed at the base have been used to respond to crises in Africa, but now will support the Iran

MORÓN AIR BASE: Will operate to support the US and Allied aircraft. crisis as well.

Flight radar yesterday saw US military planes leaving a base as they flew over Spain to the Middle East, although these aircraft were supply planes for troops on the ground rather than attack planes supplied from Naval air base nearby Roton.

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in Andalucia, the country’s southernmost region. It is less than an hour away from Sevilla, a city of almost one million people famous for its flamenco shows, spring festivals, and bullfights. Morón is 75 miles northeast of Naval Station Rota. The installation is located in a quiet and rural setting within several hours

of many major historical and tourist locations in Spain.

The base itself gets its name from the town of Morón de la Frontera situated nearby where American troops reside and is the home of the US to the C-5 Air Bridge and 496th Air Base Squadron.

Up to 3,000 American

troops and civilians of the Special Purpose Marine Air-Ground Task Force can be stationed there, while the number of aircraft is limited to 40 after the recent 2015 agreement between the US and the Spanish.

Military plane spotter former Naval chief Fred Soul, who served in the Falklands War and the Suez Canal crisis told the Euro Weekly News “I read reports in the press yesterday regards planes taking off from Spain and going to the Middle East and being spotted on flight radar apps, but that’s a normal occurrence as they are simply supply planes, they fly back and forth from Roton naval base, whilst any aircraft from Morón can’t be seen as they are classified aircraft.”

On track increase AN INCREASE OVER LAST YEAR: A total of 154,588 train and tram circulations.

DURING 2019 the Generalitat Valenciana, through TRAM d’Alacant, offered a total of 154,588 train and tram circulations in the whole of the regional network in Alicante,

which implies that there was an average of 423 services daily. The data obtained represent an increase over last year of 9 per cent, thanks to the start-up of Line 5 in June, which links Porta del Mar and Playa de San Juan.

All these trains and trams put into service by Ferrocarrils of the Generalitat Valenciana (FGV) in the province of Alicante, travelled a total of 2,570,900 kilometres, which is equivalent to going more than 64 times around the globe, following the axis of the equator. In the whole of FGV, when adding the services of the TRAM d’Alacant and the 471,466 of Metrovalencia, the figure reaches 626,054 circulations and more than nine million kilometres travelled. With these data, FGV calculates it avoids annually more than 65 million trips in private vehicles that involve the non-emission into the atmosphere of more than 100,000 tons of CO2.

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ACTION: Alicia managed to resuscitate a person who collapsed in the street when their heart stopped.

Life-saving action L I F E - S AV I N G a c t i o n has earned Denia hospital blood dialysis unit supervisor Alicia Rodriguez o ff i c i a l recognition from the local council for service to the community.

Alicia managed to resuscitate a person who collapsed in Calle Via in Denia when their heart stopped beating.

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monary resuscitation for several minutes until the heart started beating again and until a Local Police unit got there with a defibrillator.

Shortly afterwards an ambulance team arrived and stabilised the patient before transferring them to Denia hospital’s intensive care unit, and where they made a full recovery. The blood dialysis unit supervisor received the

council recognition from Citizen Protection, Equality and Diversity councillor Javier Scotto di Tella at a recent event held at the Denia social centre, alongside the young Senegalese Gorgui Lamine Sow who rescued a disabled man from a house fire.

Alicia praised Denia Council for equipping all police units with a defibrillator, saying, “they can save many lives.�

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CONCENTRATED: Around half the year’s rainfall was in April and December.

Rainy year LAST year was a relatively rainy one in La Nucia, the local council has reported.

Rainfall over the whole of 2019 totalled just short of 410 litres, 61 litres more than in the previous year. Or to put it another way, rainfall was up 17 per cent last year on 2018.

The council pointed out that around half of 2019’s rain was concentrated into just two months however: 94.3 litres in April and 101.6 litres in December, although not so much of a drop fell on the municipality between December 21 and the start of the New Year.

In January 2019 there was just 9.5 litres of rain, a mere 0.9 litres in Febuary and rather more in March, at nearly 33 litres.

Registered rainfall in the municipality in May was 7.2 litres, 0.3 litres in June, 3.4 litres in July and 13.1 litres in August.

There was a serious amount of rain in September, but it was concentrated into just a handful of days.

The rain produced by the sudden cold snap was in fact so torrential mid-month that classes in La Nucia were cancelled on September 12 and 13; September 12 was the very rainiest

day of the year, registering 49.3 litres.

The rainfall continued in October and November, with 42.6 and 17.1 litres respectively, and on into the first week of December.

Average annual rainfall in La Nucia over the last decade is 348 litres.

The local council said it hoped 2020 would be a rainier year “in order to continue with the recovery of the Marina Baixa region’s reservoirs and fountains,” while stressing, “but raining with moderation and not with intense episodes such as occurred in 2019.”

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COLLABORATION: The council has called on the public to report suspicious-looking substances if they see anyone acting suspiciously.

Action on dog poisoning ALCOY Council has decided to take action on dog poisoning following a number of recent cases in the Romeral park.

As a result of a meeting with different municipal authorities to discuss the problem and to go over the protocols in such cases, the local authority has announced it will be producing an informative leaflet to help dog owners.

The leaflet will contain specific informa-

tion on what to do in the event an animal is poisoned or if members of the public spot substances they suspect could be toxic if they see anyone acting suspiciously. The leaflet will include a link to the leaflet the council published last year with detailed information.

Both the animal protection society and the police keep a watch on the park and the surrounding area, the council said.

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DAMAGING: Ecologists in Action claim the dunes have been left more exposed to winter storms.

Ecologists’ demands ENVIRONMENTALISTS have strongly criticised the extraction of sand from the L’Ahuir beach in Gandia to use for beach regeneration in other locations.

Valencia Ecologists in Action claims the practice is damaging L’Ahuir, which has Place of Community Interest status and is catalogued as a beach for special protection.

The environmental organisa-

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POBLE NOU DE BENITACHELL Council has launched a newsletter in English, Spanish and Valenciano to keep local residents updated on important local authority information.

The Communications department said the monthly El Butlleti publication will enable local people without internet access, and so particularly the elderly, to keep abreast of the most important council news.

TARGET AUDIENCE: The council said the newletter is particularly aimed at residents without internet access.

tion maintains that removing sand from L’Ahuir to deposit on beaches including the Goleta in Tavernes de la Valldigna is changing its structure and leaving the dunes more exposed to winter storms.

Also, that the noise and emissions from the lorries can affect the Kentish plover shorebirds, a protected species, for which the beach is a natural habitat.

Ecologists in Action further argues that while depositing sand to recover the width of a beach is a costly process, it does not solve the problem in the longer term. The sand gets washed away in the event of extreme weather, the organisation says, as was seen in last September’s violent storms.

The environmentalists call for an end to removing sand from L’Ahuir, insisting priority should be given to protecting the beach and its dunes due to the flora and fauna which inhabit the zone.

Illegal games

POLICE have inspected over 100 businesses in Alicante to verify Spanish League matches are being shown legally. Within the operation named Thermis, National Police officers visited 244 establishments to verify legal licences.

Authorities are continuing investigations focusing on 108 alleged perpetrators of a crime

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against intellectual property, none of whom have been detained. The inquiry began following a complaint filed by the National Football League itself, which allowed detection of establishments streaming matches using illegal decoders. The economic damage suffered amounts to around €300,000 and 80 decoders have been seized.

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More deaths than births in Marina Alta THE number of deaths exceed the number of births in the Marina Alta region, according to the most recent findings from the National Institute of Statistics.

Figures relating to 2018 show more people died than babies were born in 32 out of 33 of the Marina Alta municipali-

ties. Only Ondara bucked the trend, with eight more births than deaths.

There were 1,750 deaths in the region as a whole over the year, 584 more than the 1,166 births.

In Javea there were 97 more deaths than births, 60 more in Calpe, 50 more in

Benissa and 49 more in TeuladaMoraira.

In the regional capital Denia nine more people passed away than new babies came into the world.

No babies were born at all in l’Atzuvia, la Vall d’Ebo and Castells in 2018.

TREND: More people died than babies were born in 32 out of 33 of the Marina Alta municipalities.

BIG INVESTMENT: Camí de Sant Joan in Denia will be redeveloped

STARTING ANEW THE provincial government of Alicante has allocated €850,000 to carry out 11 different projects in Marina Alta.

The grant for financially sustainable investments will be distributed among 11 of the 33 municipalities.

Denia will be the municipality to benefit the most, with a grant of €135,000 to redevelop the Camí de Sant Joan. The work will be carried out on the street that connects the city centre with one of

the residential areas situated at the base of Montgó mountain. The project will focus on the pavement, which has been lifted by tree roots and surrounding vegetation, as well as improving street lighting.

Similar initiatives will be started on Llebeig street in Benitachell for €94,778 and in Vall d’Alcalà for €91,312. Gata de Gorgos, Sagra and Jesús Pobre will also undertake work in terms of rainfall and sewerage. In Llosa de Camatxo, the Provincial Government

will cover costs for the preparation of the plot for a waste treatment plant.

Meanwhile, in L’Atzubia, €83,966 have been allocated for new lampposts in the Basetes housing development and the area surrounding Forna Castle.

Javea hasn’t been included in these financial aids, as the municipality has been granted a special plan to build its second sports centre. The facilities will cost €3.66 million and 75 per cent will be paid for by the provincial government of Alicante.

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BREXIT BRIEF

by John Smith THE acting Lib Dem leader Sir Ed Davey (who hopes to become leader following the departure of Jo Swinson) has announced that there should be a formal investigation into the EU referendum and the Brexit result.

He plans to table an amendment to the Withdrawal Agreement Bill which will be in front of Parliament shortly calling for an inquiry into past events within six months of the bill being passed.

This enquiry would review former Prime Minister David Cameron’s decision to hold the referendum, the finances and conduct of politicians during the campaign as well as the government’s handling of Article 50.

Another area for such an enquiry

Calls for investigation

ANNOUNCEMENT: Jo Swinson and Sir Ed Davey.

would be a review of the government’s handling of key Brexit matters including its decision not to hold

a second referendum.

Mr Davey is on record as saying “Countless lies by our prime minister,

others in the Tory Party and beyond, means questions must be asked about the result of the referendum in 2016.

“The past three years have only gone to show how much deceit was used during the campaign, as well as how determined the Conservative government is to hide the true impact of what they’re trying to unleash.

“We must address the decisions made around the referendum, but also the shambolic approach taken by the Conservatives in the years since.

“To truly understand the events leading up to Brexit, there must be a public inquiry.”

He is still angling for a second Referendum, but has little chance of this happening.

Jeremy Corbyn tries to extend Brexit AS various Labour MPs confirm their wish to become the next Labour Party leader, Jeremy Corbyn continues in his now caretaker role but is trying to influence the Brexit situation.

He has tabled an amendment to the EU Withdrawal Bill which would extend the transition period until 2023 if there is no agreement on what

shape the future UK-EU relationship should take.

In addition, he is also is looking to reinstate the rights of unaccompanied child refugees to be reunited with their families after Brexit.

The actual bill is due to be passed through Parliament in three days and as the British government has a working majority of 80 and the

first reading passed with a 124 majority, it seems unlikely that any amendment will be voted through.

Once this piece of legislation is approved and passes through the Lords as well, Prime Minister Boris Johnson will then be in a position to enter into serious negotiations with the EU.

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BREXIT EXTRA Recycling tax IN order to try to plug the financial gap left with the loss of British financial contributions, the EU is looking to introduce a tax on plastic waste and use profits from carbon trading to boost income over the coming years.

Brexit confusion LABOUR leadership hopeful Jess Philips has been giving mixed messages about her stance on Brexit, as on the Andrew Marr show she said she would want the UK to apply to rejoin the EU, but in an article wrote it was best to move on.

Revving up ALTHOUGH UK car sales have been dropping for the last three years, a recent survey by a motoring research organisation suggests that now the Brexit decision is made, motorists are more likely to purchase a new car in 2020.

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Debt end PEDREGUER Town Hall approved the accounts for 2020, with a surplus from 2019. For the seventh consecutive year, the institution has ended the year with liquidity and was able to pay suppliers in less than a month.

The plenary session also unanimously a p p r o v e d t h e l a y o u t o f t h e C o a s t Tr a i n p a r a l l e l t o t h e A P - 7 m o t o r w a y, t h e s o called 3A. The budget presented by the Compromis government team was approved, but saw the abstention of PP and both PSOE and CUP voted against the proposal.

In total, the financial plan garners €7.64

million, 12.3 per cent less than the budget in 2019. This is partly due to the loss of the €147,000 income from the tolls, a fact that the mayor insists will not affect services. However, for the first time in many years, municipal debt on December 31 stood at €0. In 2011, debt stood at €4.49 million and in December 2016, approximately €2 million was still owed.

Sergi Ferrús, mayor and councillor for Finance, expressed his commitment to offer collection and cleaning services of the 21st century. He added that despite the budget decrease for the sector, the town hall would maintain quality services without raising taxes.

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Exam time library extra hours

STUDY HELP: The aim is to make life easier for students revising for university and civil service exams.

LA NUCIA’S Caravana Municipal Library has extended opening hours until the end of the month to coincide with exam time.

The library is open all the way through from 9am to 9pm until Januar y 31, in other words an additional three hours a day.

The local council first started increasing the library hours in January, as well as in the month of May, in 2012 with a view to making life easier for students revising for university and civil ser vice exams.

The statistics suggest library-goers appreciate the extra opening time.

Before the extension the average number of people using the library in January was 2,800, but since 2012 this has risen to more than 4,300.

The Carvana library first opened its doors in February 2007, and has since been used by some

335,000 people.

La Nucia mayor Bernabe Cano pointed out the library not only serves as a facility for residents of La Nucia, but also of surrounding

towns thanks to its “strategic location and easy connection with other municipalities in the region,” describing it as “an excellent study environment.”

FRESH START: Pedreguer begins 2020 with no debt.

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EXCEPTIONAL CASE: The government backed the outpouring of support for the young Senegalese.

Denia hero granted Spanish residency THE Senegalese immigrant hailed as a hero after saving a man with reduced mobility from a house fire in

Denia last month has been granted Spanish residency.

Gorgui Lamine Sow, 20, is now legally allowed to work in Spain after a petition was launched by the local community to expedite his residency application.

The government backed the outpouring of support for the young Senegalese, considering his an exceptional case.

Street hawker Gorgui rescued Alex Caudeli from the burning property on Calle Port after spotting smoke billowing out from a first floor balcony and hearing his cries for help.

He scrambled up the wall to get into the property, hoisted Alex Caudeli onto his shoulder and carried him down to safety.

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Coastal resident rise GROWING: Registered resident numbers in Denia increased by 433 over 12 months.

POPULATION numbers are on the up in Alicante, notably along the coast.

The province’s coastal municipalities have all registered increases in resident numbers over the last 12 months, according to figures from the Spanish National Institute of Statistics.

Denia for example now has 42,166 on the municipal ‘padron,’ compared with 41,733 at the beginning of January 2019. Alicante City has gone from 331,577 to 334,877.

The average population rise for the whole of Alicante Province in 2019 was 1.08 per cent.

Just short of 74 per cent of the 141 Alicante municipalities gained residents. The 30 or so which saw resident numbers fall are all

in inland areas.

Lliber lost a significant chunk of residents, 100, putting the number of inhabitants at less than 1,000.

Elsewhere the resident drops seemed fairly insignificant. Benifallim has three residents less than at the beginning of 2019, but the total population is now just 105.

Taking the 33 municipalities of the Marina Alta region as a whole, the number of inhabitants registered at their local town halls has exceeded 175,000 for the first time in five years.

This compares with 175,156 a year ago and 169,327 at the beginning of 2017.

Seven years ago however the Marina Alta’s registered population stood at nearly 202,000.

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NATIONAL

Number Of Road Deaths Down SPAIN will close 2019 establishing a new record with the lowest number of fatalities in traffic accidents. The government estimates that the number of deaths on intercity

roads is around 1,100, down from 1,188 last year. Improving on the previous record in 2015, when 1,131 people died.

The reduction of the maximum permitted speed from 100

to 90 kilometres per hour on secondary roads is one of the main causes of the drop in fatal accidents after several years of stagnation with a slight upturn in fatalities.

The year 2019 will replace 2015 as the year with the least number of deaths on intercity roads since the beginning of road traffic data col-

lection in the 1960s.

The Directorate-General for Traffic (DGT) finalises the year with the following emotional message: “This year we count less.

Less tears, less emergencies, less ambulances called out. Fewer orphans and fewer tragedy. Fewer absences. Because this year the number of victims on the

TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS: The number of victims has reduced.

road is less again.”

The Ministry of the Interior agrees that the data are not the

Migrants Arriving in Spain Falling THE number of immigrants arriving in Spain between January 1 and December 15, 2019 fell by 50 per cent: from 62,126 people counted in 2018, a record year, to 30,781 registered in 2019, 31,345 less.

In the specific case of the autonomous city of Ceuta, between January 1 and December 15, 2019, 1,895 people arrived in Ceuta in an irregular manner, 32 per cent less than in 2018. However, while the number of migrants who enter Ceuta by land continues to fall, the number of those who do so by sea, increases significantly.

According to the Ministry of the Interior, in 2019, 573 people entered Ceuta by sea, an increase of 25 per cent in respect to the previous year and the number of boats intercepted increased from 45 in 2018 to 85 in 2019.

Despite the decline in numbers, this year has

seen over 300 migrants rescued off Spain over the two-day Christmas period. More than half of those who were rescued were found off the Costa Blanca on Spain’s southeastern coast.

About 100 refugees and migrants were rescued off the coast of Spain on Thursday, adding to about another 200 saved off makeshift boats on Christmas Day, Spain’s maritime rescue service said. More than half of the migrants were found off the Costa Blanca on Spain’s southeastern coast, with 10 people rescued just before dawn, among them eight men, a woman and a child.

So far this year, at least 1,250 men, women and children have died attempting to reach Europe via the Mediterranean, the UN’s International Organisation for Migration said in a statement on December 20.

result of chance: “There is a consistency behind it.” Stressing that the “consistency” and improvement of road safety has a name and surname, that of Pere Navarro, the director general of traffic since July 2018. And previously from 2004 -2012.

Navarro’s implementation of the points-based driver’s licence provoked a dramatic reduction in traffic fatalities. The result was immediate, with a progressive fall in the number of deaths between 2004 and 2011 (from 3,464 to 1,484).

The next major reform that the current government has prepared is to reduce the speed limit in the city from 50 to 30 kilometres per hour. In 2018 there were 489 deaths on urban roads, of which 237 were pedestrians.

Sixty-six per cent were 65 years old or older.

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Spanish Pension: Important Changes In 2020; The retirement age is delayed and the calculation of the pension varies REFORMS in Spain continue to impact Spanish pensions.

The entry into the new decade will lead to changes in the retirement age and also the years contributed into the social security system to determine the benefit. The measures are automatic, and form part of the 2011 reform which gradually delays the retirement age to 67.

As it stands, for those who turn 65 years old in 2020 and have contributed 37 years or more, he or she will be able to retire at 65.

In the case of partial retirement, where one combines work and benefit, the minimum will be 61 years and 10 months if that person has contributed to the system for 35 years or more.

The retirement age will gradually increase over the next few years from 65 to 67.

In December 2019 there were

6,089,294 retirement pensions in Spain, with an average benefit of â‚Ź1,143.55 per month. The current government had originally promised that they would increase pensions by 0.9 per cent however, the measure will not be taken until the definitive governing body is formed.

In regards the actual calculation of the pension to be received, it was previously calculated taking the last 15 years worked into account, however as of this new decade, the state pension will be calculated on the last 23 years contributed instead and by 2022, the state pension will be calculated taking into account the last 25 years worked.

Another measure which will have a strong impact on the system is the arrival of the sustainability factor, which will be applied from 2023 and will

gradually cut back on new pensions, based on the view that pensioners will live longer. A criterion that was originally intended to be implemented in 2019.

PENSIONS: Changes are being made to the retirement age and the years contributed.

Man dies in tractor accident after falling A MAN has sadly died after falling under a moving tractor in Cordoba.

As reported by the Andalucian emergency services, the tragic incident took place on a farm in the agricultural area of Carcabuey on Sunday, December 29.

It is not clear exactly how the 44-year-old man came to fall out of the large and powerful vehicle, however it is known that he was working on the farm tending to the land at the time.

After a report was called in by a distressed colleague working on

the site who found the man and was able to bravely stop the tractor, an ambulance raced to the scene. Sadly, there was nothing that could be done to save the man’s life who was pronounced dead on arrival, suffering from multiple internal injuries after being crushed by the vehicle.

As Euro Weekly News understands, the Guardia Civil have now taken charge of the investigation, where the victim’s body has been transferred to a local medical centre for forensics teams to carry out an autopsy.

TRAGIC: Man was killed by falling under a tractor.

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BENIDORM’S hotels ended what turned out to be a bit of a bumpy year thanks to extreme weather events and other hits to the tourism sector with average occupation levels at 84.2 per cent, just four points down on 2018, sector association HOSBEC reported.

December closed with occupation levels averaging 68.9 per cent, 2.8 points less than in the same month last year.

There were 11.7 million overnight stays in all in 2019, 0.22 per cent less than in the previous year.

HOSBEC President Toni Mayor reflected that the figures should be looked at in the context of various knocks over the last 12 months, starting with what he described as “the worst Easter Week in memory,” in reference to mid-April’s downpours and the resulting cancellations to bookings.

He talked too about the Boeing crisis and the flight ban on the 737Max, which he said prompted airlines and tour operators to restructure routes and flight seat capacity.

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Benidorm hotels weather a bumpy year well er also “disrupted occupation in the second most important month and besides caused structural damage to some establishments,” Mayor explained, only to be followed by the collapse of Thomas Cook, the financial impact of which added up to about €3.5 million for Benidorm and the loss of one of the most important European tour companies.

Yet another negative for Benidorm’s hotels in Mayor’s opinion was less clients and overnight stays stemming from the government’s IMSERSO Institute for the elderly and social services tourism programme over the latter part of the year.

Despite all this, the HOSBEC President said he believed the town’s hotels had shown strength and resilience in the face of unforeseen circumstances.

KNOCKS: Benidorm’s hotels were hit by extreme weather events and unforeseen circumstances like the Thomas Cook collapse.

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He maintained the area had not been unduly affected by a drop in demand from the German market in the same way as the Canary Islands and the Balearics.

He also pointed out that the results for 2019 had been similar to those for the last three years and better than the 2003 to 2015 average.

Spaniards accounted for the biggest Benidorm hotel market last year, representing 45.3 per cent of the total and registering 5.3 million overnight stays.

The British are the second most important market, with a quota of 41.3 per cent. Total overnight stays by UK visitors dropped 2.8 per cent in 2019 to 4.8 million, HOSBEC citing Brexit as a contributing factor to the decrease.

The HOSBEC analysis put particular emphasis on the need to study what has happened to Benidorm’s Belgian and Dutch visitor markets. While they remain the third and fourth most important, there were important falls of 9.7 and 7.6 per cent respectively.

By contrast, the Portuguese market grew by 28 per cent on 2018 and the Irish market by 14 per cent.

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ACCLAIMED ACTOR MISSES OUT ON A GOLDEN GLOBE Spain comes away without a Golden Globe as Almodóvar and Banderas leave the awards empty-handed.

GAS LEAK: House was in a rural location.

Youngster Dead And Three Seriously Intoxicated THE young people, aged between 19 and 21, spent the night of the Three Kings in a rural house in Colmenar Viejo on the M-618 at kilometre 6.

At around 1.30pm on Monday January 6, a family member went to the location concerned by the lack of news from the group and was horrified to discover three of the young individuals unconscious and one already dead. The emergency services were immediately called.

Authorities have confirmed that the young men were intoxicated by carbon monoxide.

Firefighters have certified that the cause of the gas leak was due to a failure in the generator which the young men had left running inside the house all night.

Two of the young men found in a critical condition were taken by helicopter to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro in Majadahonda and to the 12 October. A third young man, also in a serious condition was transferred to the Hospital Puerta de Hierro.

BANDERAS: Missed out on a Golden Globe award.

LA MANCHA lost to South Korean’s Bong Joon-ho and Banderas could not beat Joaquin Phoenix.

Unfortunately for Spain, Almodóvar didn’t get the statuette for Best Foreign Language Film for ‘Pain and Glory’ nor Antonio

Banderas for Best Dramatic Actor for the same title.

The first said award, as the bookies predicted, went to Bong Joon-ho’s ‘Parasites.’

‘Pain and Glory’ began its American journey at the To r o n t o F i l m F e s t i v a l .

Since then, both the actor and the director have committed themselves to an intense promotional campaign in Hollywood.

And despite Cannes showing a preference for Pain and Glory and the internationally acclaimed Banderas, the main rival of the year ‘Joker ’ wasn’t rel e a s e d u n t i l t h e Ve n i c e Film Festival.

The American’s performance, which has been one of the most applauded of the year, gave him his second Golden Globe after the one he won in 2006.

Banderas himself has been previously nominated for the Golden Globes, on four other occasions - for his roles in ‘Evita,’ ‘The Mask of the Fox’ and the T V s h o w s ‘ P a n c h o Vi l l a ’

and ‘Genius.’

The year 2019 has been one of extensive international projection for the M a l a g a a c t o r. Tw o y e a r s after suffering a heart attack, Banderas has returned to the forefront of cinematic conversation and, although he has been left without a Golden Globe, he will be able to console himself with his European Film Award and, probably, with the Goya.

Sandra Bullock presented the last prize of the night at the Golden Globe Awards on Sunday 2020 and the trophy for Best Film, Drama went to … 1917!

The film ‘1917’ tells the heartbreaking story of two British soldiers fighting in the First World War. The youths are given a seemingly impossible mission: infiltrate the enemy territory to deliver a message that could save 1,600 men and one of the soldier’s brothers.

The director and writer of the movie, Sam Mendes, accepted the award on behalf of the cast and crew.

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CHUFFED: Calpe Charity Shop and Red Cross were happy with the result.

OVER the Christmas period the Charity Shop of Calpe helped children of disadvantaged families in the town by donating gift bags containing presents from the Three Kings.

In total, the presents were valued at €1,800 and were giv-

en to Cáritas, the Red Cross and Calpe children’s home. President of the shop, John Bridge, said that he was delighted to be able to make these donations and thanked all of the shop’s customers and the hard working volunteers for making it possible. He also wished them all a happy and healthy New Year.

Cleaning contract THE contract for the collection of urban solid waste and street cleaning of Benidorm will start 2020 with a new extension that will be extended until the council has the specifications of the new concession ready and bids for the service. This has been approved in plenary with the votes in favour only of the local government of the PP and with the PSOE and Citizens against. In addition, the budget to deal with both services will increase by €700,000 next year.

The garbage and cleaning contract expired on December 31, 2018, and during 2019 it was extended pending a new party to take out the tender again. However, these new specifications have not yet reached what has forced the PP in the government to approve a new extension for the year that begins and will be in effect until a new company is done with the contract.

The proposal of the councillor for Street Cleaning, José Ramón González de Zárate, states that the council will designate a person in charge of it who will ‘monitor month to month’ that it is met. The proposal has come fully accompanied by the Intervention and Engineering reports.

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T H E p ro v i n c i a l g o v er nment of Alicante has approved the consolidated budget of the institution for 2020, which amounts to €2 6 6 . 5 m i l l i o n i n revenue and €262.1 million in expenses.

NEW YEAR ACCOUNTS The budget was approved with the support of PP and Ciudadanos (Citizens), Compromís abstained and PSOE voted against the proposal. The project presented by the president of the govern-

ment team, Carlos Mazón, received a majority of support. Only the Socialist party rejected the budget, despite the fact that four out of six of their submitted amendments were incorporated into the plan.

Mazón said he felt ‘very proud’ of the work done by the government and insisted that there was dialogue and collaboration with parties of the opposition during the whole process.

Spokesman for Ciu-

dadanos Javier Gutiérrez, remarked that the budget is the first to be prepared by a coalition government team in Alicante and that it signifies a new stage of change.

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despite acknowledging the willingness of the government to dialogue, they would not support a budget that “does not prioritise municipalities.”

He also highlighted that the accounts do not include €6 million which was promised for the municipalities affected by the DANA.

Sustainable €9m THE town hall of Alicante has approved €9 million for financially sustainable investments in the end of year board.

Among the planned projects is the remodelling of the promenade between San Gabriel and the headquarters of the EU Intellectual Property Office.

Work on the promenade has been valued at €3 million and will include a cycling and pedestrian platform.

A further €2.4 million has been consigned to undertake the renovation of the second phase of Padre Espiá Avenue and €1.6 million has been set aside for improvements in sports facilities. Likewise, 16 motorcycles, three SUVs, a van and

furniture will be purchased for €500,000 for the Local Police.

The neighbourhood of San Gabriel will see an investment of €700,000 that will be used to widen the pavement on seven streets and improve accessibility at intersections around Buenavista. Councillor for Town Planning Adrián Santos, explained that the intention is to modernise and beautify San Gabriel, as well as commercial activity in its streets.

The deputy spokesman, Manuel Villar, pointed out that the final stretch of 2019 has been intense in terms of contracting and highlighted the redevelopment of Rabasa and renovations in Padre Espiá.

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Spanish Life Sponsored by Golden Leaves For more information about the sponsors go to www.goldenleavesinternational.com

What to do in the event of an emergency 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 there are in effect two groups which most people would understand as being ‘the police.’ The National Police (Policía Nacional) who have jurisdiction in the towns and cities and the Guardia Civil outside the towns and cities. The Local Police are employed by town halls; they basically deal with property found, and enforce local laws.

Whilst they have a power of arrest, when exercised they must take the arrested person to the National Police or Guardia Civil according to where the crime took place.

National Police and the Guardia Civil deal with all crimes, missing persons etc in their jurisdiction. The National Police also deal with all applications for immigration paperwork, NIEs, EU Citizens Registration and for non EU nationals, Residencia, etc.

Throughput Europe the general number for all emergencies is 112. In Spain the operators speak English, French, German and Italian, in addition to Spanish and will liaise with the emergency services when the caller does not speak Spanish. No area code is needed and the number can be called from any phone, including mobiles even those without a Spanish SIM card or any credit. You can also fax or SMS 112.

The 24 hours national emergency numbers for Spanish speakers are: 091 - police, 061 - health emergencies 080 - firefighters.

By calling 902 102 112, but only when the perpetrator is unknown, one can give details of certain crimes, including:- burglaries, car theft, theft or loss of documents or belongings. The service is available in English from 9am to 9pm seven days a week, and from 9am to 3pm in French, German and Italian.

Having given details of the crime, you must go to the National Police station which you nominate, within 48 hours to make the report using the information supplied on the telephone.

In the case of robbery, where threat or force has been used, victims should call 112 at the time for police attendance, or go directly to the police station which covers that area to make a report.

Other useful numbers are:016, specifically to report instances of gender violence.

For problems at sea, the Maritime Rescue Service (Salvamento Seguridad Maritmo) can be contacted by calling 900 202 202, and the Red Cross (Cruz Rojo) on 902 222 292.

There is also a Red Cross 24-hour helpline 900 100 333.

SAD NEWS: An elderly man died after being struck by a car on a dedicated crossing.

Heartbreaking THE death of a much loved elderly resident in Cadiz, souther n Spain, has received an outpouring of sadness from the local community.

The 86-year-old man was tragically killed on Sunday, December 29 as he walked over a road on a dedicated crossing in the Valdelagrana district, located in the region of El Puerto de Santa María.

As reported by the emergency services, four calls were taken to request urgent medical help for the elderly resident who was struck by a vehicle and who they believed was seriously injured.

A nearby doctor in the area at the time had rushed over to help the unconscious man, desperately performing resuscitation manoeuvres in an attempt to save his life.

Medical personnel arrived a

short time later alongside units from the Local Police, however, sadly nothing could be done to save the man who was pronounced dead on arrival.

As Euro Weekly News understands, an investigation will now be launched to determine how much fault lies with the driver and the victim’s family is being supported by specialist officers in the wake of an incredibly devastating incident.

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091 or 902 102 112 from 9am to 9pm

This information is for guidance only, and should not be taken as legal advice.

If in any doubt, seek professional help.

DOMESTIC TRAFFIC: Saw a significant increase over the last year.

SPAIN’S airports continue to grow, maintaining the influx of passengers visiting Spain on an upwards trend.

The airport which has done exceptionally well in terms of growth and improved connectivity with the rest of the EU as well as customer service was the Alicante-Elche airport which has gained 1.1 million passengers this year and places itself in the group of Europe’s largest airports.

Aena (Aeropuertos Españoles y Navegación Aérea) - Spanish Airports and Air Navigation, forecasts that the terminal will close the year

with over 15 million passengers, 8 per cent more than last year.

The favourable connectivity with the rest of the EU and the attractiveness of the Costa Blanca in winter are the key factors.

About 600,000 travellers were British, followed by Germany, with 99,687; the Netherlands, with 95,726; Norway, with 73,975; Belgium, with 69,966; and Sweden, with 67,065 passengers.

The increase in domestic traffic was also significant, with 144,257 passengers, an increase of 10.8 per cent.

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NON RESIDENTS INCOME TAX CARLOS BAOS WE CAN HELP YOU

AS we do every New Year, we wish to re­ mind readers who are Non Residents for tax purposes in Spain and own a property here that even if they simply

visit for holidays and earn no Spanish income, they are still required to pay Non Residents Tax based on the value of their property.

Wealth Tax If you are non­tax resi­ dent in Spain or even if you live in Spain but are not registered with the tax office as a tax resi­ dent or you do not submit taxes as tax residents, you could be legally con­ sidered as Non Tax Resi­ dent, even though no no­ tice has been given to the Tax Authority.

Non Tax Residents could be liable to pay Wealth Tax, but only if

the value of their assets in Spain (after deducting debts, eg pending capital of the mortgage, etc) is above €700,000.

Income Tax If you are Non Tax Res­ ident in Spain (or you are not legally tax resident in Spain), you will need to pay tax for income in Spain (Income Tax for Non Residents, IRNR): eg in­ come from a letting, in­ terest on bank accounts, etc.

If you do not have any income but you own a property or a share on a property, your tax bill will be based on a calculation as per the Cadastral Value

(the value that appears on your Spanish Local Rates receipt from the town hall, the SUMA of­ fice or the equivalent).

Even now it is quite common for people who are Non Fiscal Residents in Spain (or not legally Tax Resident in Spain) to simply not pay this tax; usually due to ignorance or neglect and especially when they have no in­ come in Spain and only own a house.

Please note however that if you let your prop­ erty in Spain, you have an obligation to submit the tax returns and pay tax every three months and not just once a year.

If you are not sure if you are legally or official­ ly tax resident or non­tax resident and if you want to know what is the most convenient for you, we can assist you by review­ ing your personal situa­ tion.

If you are non­tax resi­ dent, do not forget to meet your tax obligation if you want to avoid a possible tax inspection which could result in penalties, etc. Contact us and we will help you.

The information provid­ ed in this article is not in­ tended to be legal advice, but merely conveys gen­ eral information related to legal issues.

Carlos Baos (Lawyer) Email carlosbaos@white-baos.com C/Diana 19, 2º D, 03700 Denia (Alicante) Spain Tel. +34 966-426-185 Fax +34 965-784-471 Please Like Us: https://www.facebook.com/WhiteBaosAbogadosLawyers

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Benidorm NEWS Naval museum Budget proposal BE N IDORM Council wants to boost its naval and marine history and looks to do it through a Classroom of the Sea which also serves as an informative space about the marine environment.

This project will become the fourth museum in the area and will be located on the site left by the old villa of Martínez Alejos and in the middle of Paseo de Levante.

The Aula del Mar will have a total area of 200 square metres distributed in a central hall, an exhibition hall and another for conferences.

In addition, it will have an outdoor garden

of about 600 square metres in which activities can be held.

The project is subject to a concession which will allow the council to o cc u p y a b o u t 1 ,5 0 0 square metres of maritime-land for 15 years, extendable another 15, and for which there will be no fee to parties that manage the facilities directly.

Costas has given the council 12 months to begin the works and another 12 to complete them.

So, they will have to run in 2020 and the first quarter of 2021, or they will lose that concession.

BENIDORM Council recently approved the municipal budget for 2020, with the 13 votes in favour of the popular government team and the 12 against the opposition made up of the PSPV-PSOE and Citizens.

The document has gone ahead without approving any of the 27 amendments presented by the opposition.

The municipal accounts for next year amount to €102.3 million on expenses, which means €5 million less than in 2019. As for income, the forecast is to reach €103.4 million, so the surplus is estimated at €1.1 million.

It also suggests cancellation of the Adjustment Plan in the first quarter, as well as a fund of €500,000 for participatory budgets, which include proposals made by the Neighbourhood Council.

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EXPECTANT: L’Alfas del Pi was excited to receive the Three Kings.

Magical Magi Albir gracefully welcomed the Three Kings and all of their entourage, who arrived loaded down with sweets. Children couldn’t contain their excitement as the special guests took part in the parade with pomp and enthusiasm.

THE fun afternoon was k i c k e d o ff b y ‘ R a p u n z e l , the musical,’ performed in the auditorium by the Valencian theatre company, Comedyplan. Once the show was over, the Three Kings’ Cavalcade began at the Cultural centre in l’Alfas del Pi. Preparations were carried out by the Associació de Penyes Santíssim Crist del Bon Encert, in order to make sure that the event went smoothly. And the arrival of their Majesties went without a hitch, allowing everyone to enjoy one of the most exciting days of Spanish Christmas.

Children who hadn’t sent their letters, had the opportunity to hand deliver them

personally before the parade. And Melchior, Caspar and Balthasar gave out plenty of sweets and gifts to their audience.

The three Magi travelled the most central streets in town until reaching the Church of San José. After offering gold, incense and myrrh to Baby Jesus, the Kings continued all the way to the municipal tent, where they gave out gifts and hot chocolate.

Making the parade extra memorable were La Lira M u s i c a l S o c i e t y, H a z e l Hiles Dance School and l’Alfas del Pi Primavera Gymnastics Club. Along with famous Disney characters who accompanied the Kings on their tour.

Art lovers THE cultural association Crearte Albir celebrates its 10th anniversary by opening up to all those people who are attracted to art and painting. They are a group of seven amateur painters who meet every Monday and Wednesday morning at the Casa de Cultura de l’Alfas to paint in a social and relaxed atmosphere.

They are self-taught and the link between them is the hobby they share: painting and art. They are not teachers just artists that get together to paint and help each other.

The association stands out for its open and welcoming character. “We are open people and we like that these hours we share serve us almost as group therapy through painting and art,” they explained during a meeting with the councillor for Culture, Manuel Casado.

Any people who like to paint and want to join this group of amateur artists are encouraged to attend the House of Culture one morning to meet them. All materials for painting are free. “All those people of open character who want to share with us their love for painting and integrate into this group of friends will be welcome.”

Each year they organise a collective exhibition at the Casa de Cultura de l’Alfas and participate in les Balconades.

CREDIT: Ayuntamiento de L’Alfas.

Art social group: Crearte Albir.

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Dance battle B R E A K D A N C E proved immensely popular during the 13th Christmas festival ‘Jajaja Risas Navideñas’ in l’Alfas del Pi. The breakdance competition, organised by the Department of Culture in collaboration with the Paradís Urà association, was held at the Cultural Centre.

T h e d a n c e b a t t l e g a rnered great interest, in a unique competition where e v e r y b o d y w a s a w i n n e r.

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Good faith SUCCESS: The l’Alfas dance competition was a hit.

The dancers and an eager public gathered in the Exhibition Hall, which had been transformed into a makeshift ballroom.

The initiative was aimed at a family audience, as young aspirants danced to win the crown. In view of the competition’s success,

Pascual, World Champion in long jump and Nagore Folgado, World Champion in 100 and 200 metres.

Councillor for Sports in the

municipality, Oscar Pérez, highlighted the superb competitive level of the participants and thanked ONCE for their initiative.

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L’ALFAS DEL PI welcomed the Women and Sports 2019 event, organised by the Spanish National Organisation of the Blind (ONCE).

The athletes concentrated in the municipality, which was chosen for the quality of its sports facilities. The young medallists - who compete on an international level - convened at the athletics track in l’Alfas after travelling from all corners of Spain.

The Spanish Federation of Sports for the Blind unconditionally promotes female sports and has been organising the sporting event for women every year.

According to Isabel Hurtado, head coach, the athletes boast an excellent curriculum despite their young age. The majority of the young athletes have been medallists in the 2019 Junior World Championship, held in Switzerland.

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councillor for Culture Manuel Casado stated the initiative would be celebrated again in future Christmas festivities.

The musical play ‘Las Tr e s R e i n a s M a g a s ’ ( t h e three Wise Queens) was also performed in l’Alfas Cultural Centre. Based on a story written by esteemed author Gloria Fuertes in 1978, the theatrical performance was a great hit that promoted equality amongst the audience.

THE church calendar gets very busy over the festive season and for the Albir Anglicans, it was no different. The church is a part of the Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy and the congregation ended their year bringing joy to others.

And to kickstart the New Year, the Albir Anglicans have shared the Puig Climb sponsorship w i t h o t h e r o r g a n i s a t i o n s . B o t h t h e A FA Alzheimer’s Association de la Marina Baixa and MABS have received a donation.

Members of the congregation visited patients at t h e A l z h e i m e r ’s d a y c a r e c e n t r e , w h o w e r e d e lighted to hear the news.

The money will be used to help carry activities that stimulate and entertain the patients at the lovely centre.

The Albir Anglicans hold a service of Holy Communion ever y Sunday at 9.45am on Carrer Mart (turn right at the Rober Palas Hotel).

The church also holds a service every Thursday at 11am at the Forum Mare Nostrum in Alfaz del Pi. For more information visit www.costablanca anglicanchaplaincy.org or call Local Church Warden, Elaine Mitchell on 966 864 962.

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Altea NEWS CREDIT: Casa de Cultura Luis Landero.

Treading the boards

DIFFICULT CLIMBS: Volta Ciclista a la Comunitat Valenciana.

Cycle climb ALBUQUERQUE TEATRO: Casa de Cultura Luis Landero.

FANS of the theatre in Altea have created the group Alb u q u e rq u e Te a t ro , a n i n d e pendent company whose first two performances have been a huge success, and enabled them to donate all p ro c e e d s t o t w o n o n - p ro f i t entities, the local delegation of the Asociación Oncológica Extremeña and Ad-

ifisa, which works with people with disabilities.

The director of the Altea Albuquerque group, Luis Haro Figols, settled in the town a few years ago, from Cataluña, and has a great theatrical experience.

His last staging, ‘El trío del Archiduque,’ featured actors Martín Correa, who worked for almost his entire life in Bilbao and returned to

the town after his retirement, along with his wife, Antonia Matador, who i s a l s o p a r t o f t h e g r o u p . L o u r d e s del Viejo completes the cast of actors.

The group’s two representations to date, ‘Sepultado’ and ‘El trío del Archiduque,’ have won the approval of local critics and the public, encouraging them to put the latter on stage in various municipalities.

EDITION 71 of the Volta Ciclista a la Comunitat Valenciana will be held from February 5 to 9, 2020.

The first stage of the test will start from Castelló and will end with an urban circuit in Valencia. The five-kilometre section that climbs between Altea and Bernia is found to be particularly difficult with a slope of more than 600 metres. Ángel Casero, director of the event, pointed out that this will come at the end of the fourth stage, ’La Etapa Reina,’ on Saturday, February 8.

“The stage will end with the spectacular climb to the Sierra de Bèrnia to the Fuente de la Barca. The event has the participation of 12 World Tour teams and seven Continental Pro teams.”

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Calpe NOW that Christmas is over, what better way to start the New Year than with a concert to look forward to!

Caprice ladies choir are delighted to announce that they will be performing ‘Circle of Life,’ their first concert of 2020, on the following dates: Thursday, February 6 from 7.30pm at the Anglican Church, La Fustera, in support of the Costa Blanca Anglican Chaplaincy. Ticket price €10.

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Rhapsody, Yazoo’s Only You, a lovely acapella version of Scarborough Fair, the beautiful Carpenter’s song We’ve Only Just Begun, a medley of Cole Porter songs and of course the song which gives the concert its name Circle of

Life from the Lion King.

Tickets for both concerts are available from musical director Aileen on 696 514 613 or via the choir’s website: www.caprice ladieschoir.com.

Tickets for the February 6 concert are also available from Margaret & Elena’s card and bookshop, Galerias Mar Azul, 9 Gabriel Miro, Calpe.

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Show goes on A NEW lease of life has been given to Calpe’s auditorium at the Cultural Centre. Following a €107,391 investment in the past year, the Department of

Culture has replaced the stage curtains. The fabric had not been replaced since the inauguration of the auditorium in 1999.

Cyclists hit TWO cyclists from Astana were run over while training in Altea.

Yevgeniy Gidich and Vadim Pronskiy were reportedly struck by a car and had to be taken to a nearby hospital. The Kazakh team, based in Calpe, confirmed that Gidich only suffered scratches but Pronskiy received a serious knee injury. The team wants to send a message about the importance of respect between drivers and cyclists. “This accident is another reminder for everyone to remain focused on traffic and respectful of other road users.”

A specialised company was hired to replace the curtains for a cost of €8,560. The traditional red curtains were replaced with smart oil blue curtains, giving the space a new aesthetic.

This improvement follows the installation of new seats and the replacement of the upper railing in 2018. In addition, LED spotlights were acquired as well as new furniture and a mixer table.

In the coming months, the Department of Culture has promised to paint the auditorium, in order to match the walls to the fresh new look

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THE region of Marina Altea has recovered slightly from the demographic hit that it has been suffering in recent years.

The municipality of Calpe saw a noticeable increase in population, as registered residents went from 21,633 in 2018 to 22,725 in 2019. A big factor that caused the demographic decrease was the return of many immigrants to their countries of origin, an exodus that began with the economic crisis i n 2 0 0 8 . Yo u n g s t e r s a l s o played a big part in the slump, as they moved abroad in search of job opportunities.

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Population boost

GROWTH: Calpe has increased in population in 2019.

official registry published by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), the population has grown for the second consecutive year. Marina Alta has once

Nasty inferno THE New Year in Calpe began with a destructive fire which affected three homes in a centric building. According to sources from the Provincial Fire Consortium, at least 100 residents had to be evacuated amid safety concerns.

The warning was received at 1.20pm and one fire engine from Benissa and two others from Benidorm attended the scene. The blaze had started in a home on the second floor of ‘Las Murallas de Calpe’ building.

Firefighters spent two hours working on extinction of the flames and the subsequent ventilation of the property. The fire spread quickly and reached two other adjacent homes through the window of an interior patio.

Local Police and Guardia Civil collaborated with firefighters as they extinguished the flames. Given the virulence of the flames and the risk of spreading, authorities decided to evacuate the building. An iron is believed to have caused the fire and the owner of the home where the fire started was treated for minor burns.

again surpassed 175,000 inhabitants in the 33 municipalities of the region, something that had not happened since 2014.

Despite the notable growth, figures have not completely recovered. Just seven years ago, 201,840 people were registered in the area. The figure saw a drastic initial collapse after the INE instructed municipalities to urge foreigners to certify their residence.

The measure confirmed what was already evident to many in the region: a significant number of foreigners were still registered when they no longer resided in Marina Alta.

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HOMAGE TO MECANO: One of the most successful Spanish bands of all time.

MECANO were one of the most successful Spanish pop bands of all time. Formed in 1981 and active until 1992 they are still the best-selling Spanish band to this date, reaching over 25 million albums worldwide.

Tribute stars They were considered by some to be avantgarde for their time and part of la Movida Madrileña countercultural movement.

I t has been 27 year s si nce Mecano per f or m ed their last Aidalai Tour, and two generations later, the music is still very present among the general public.

In 2016, to commemorate the 25th anniversary of the group’s split, the tribute to Mecano, Hija de la Luna, was born.

The physical and vocal similarity of Robin Torres with Mecano vocalist, Ana Torroja is undoubtedly the key to the success of this Sevillian group and what sets the band apart from any other tribute.

Robin, who participated in

the 2015 edition of the Tele5 programme, La Voz, and was praised for her interpretative ability by coaches and judges Alejandro Sanz, Laura Pausini, Malú and Antonio Orozco.

Between 2016 and 2019, t hey have per f or m ed 250 concerts throughout Spain and Latin America geography, selling out shows on more than 180 occasions, and becom i ng one of t he biggest shows of the music scene.

On Saturday, February 1 they will take to the stage at t he Audi t or i Teul adaMoraira from 9pm. Tickets can be purchased for €24 from the Sabadell tickets online website.

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FIFTY members of the Vall del Pop U3A left Jalon to spend the festive period in Peniscola.

During the trip, they spent the day in Tarragona, a partly walled city with many historical buildings, interesting shops and along the Rambla, the iconic statue of the ‘human tower’ which Tarragona is famous for. The group took the land train tour and held on for dear life when in the old part of the city the ride became ‘a bit hairy’ with the driver taking the narrow streets and bends at speed.

The travellers also had plenty of time to spend on the long and beautifully kept beach as the weather was perfect and three degrees warmer than Jalon.

Part of the trip took them to Morella, where the highlights are the castle and medieval walls erected in the 14th century. They had been warned to wrap up warmly as Morella sits almost 1,000 metres above sea level.

They found it very cold and windy, but again the sun shone as they explored this quaint and historic town with its narrow streets, tall houses, numerous museums, and beautiful church. On their last morning, they went to Peniscola town with its majestic castle FESTIVE TRIP: Iconic statue in Tarragona. (which featured in the film El Cid) and long sweeping beaches.

They all agreed they’d had a great time and extended their thanks to Sandra Welham and Laura Terry, and of course, Pepe and Gandia Tours, who had helped to make this U3A trip successful.

Fairytale classic GOLDILOCKS AND THE THREE BEARS is coming to the Careline Theatre, Alcalali in Jalon Valley, from Wednesday, January 15 until Saturday 18. Shows begin at 8pm with a matinee performance on Saturday at 3pm.

The classic fairy tale is brought to life by the wonderful script written by Peter Long and Keith Rawsley. The story centres on Ma Barnaby who runs a travelling circus together with her Daughter Goldilocks and son Barney.

Unfortunately, a wicked zoo owner called Baron Von Trappen follows them around and gradually steals Ma’s animals. Poor Ma has-

n’t paid her circus performers in weeks and then discovers that the Baron is about to steal her remaining animals.

Help comes in the form of handsome gypsy boy Antonio. He and Goldilocks find a cottage in the woods and as a result, meet the family of bears who live there. The pair discover that the bears can dance and it is agreed that they will dance at the circus.

The show is a great success and Ma retrieves her animals from the wicked Baron who gets his just desserts. So, like every good panto, everybody lives happily ever and the course of true love runs smooth.

CHRISTIAN MONK AND HERMIT: The benediction of animals.

LLIBER is set to celebrate the Fiesta Sant Antoni Abat on January 12.

The festival will take place in Plaza Mayor, Lliber from 9.30am to 5pm.

It will feature a parade through the town from 12pm leading to the benediction of animals in the Plaza, where residents are invited to bring their pets. Food will be served in the parking area where tickets can be bought for €1 in exchange for paella.

Saint Anthony Those attending can enjoy family fun with traditional games, music and an inflatable castle.

Sant Antoni Abat or Saint Anthony the Abbot is a pious Christian monk and hermit. Legend has it that he was a great friend of animals and when he saw a wounded one he was known to care for

and heal them. One story tells of a pig, who, to thank him, decided to accompany him the rest of his life; that is why he is popularly called Saint Anthony of the pig.

As a protector of farm animals, a large number of popular festivals are held in honour of the patron saint and these animals, in order to pray for their fertility and food that they bring to the community.

In the past it was a key holiday in many towns, being the traditional winter festival.

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DELIGHTED: The couple from Javea welcomed their firstborn.

Bundle of joy THE first child of the New Year in Marina Alta is from Javea.

Cándido Alejandro was born at 9.26am on January 1, 2020 in the Hospital of Denia. His father Cándido is from Javea and his mum Elisabeta is a Romanian national. The couple’s first baby is a Javea resident and was born in perfect condition following a natural birth.

Cándido thoughtfully gave his parents time to ring in the New Year and eat the traditional 12 grapes before midnight.

The couple arrived at the Hospital at 3.30am, as they started the year with a very special arrival.

N E W Y E A R ’ S D AY saw the end of tolls on the AP-7 in the Ta r r a g o n a - Va l e n c i a a n d Va l e n c i a - A l i cante sections, as well as the AP4 that connects Sevilla and Cádiz.

No less than 21 years have passed since the end of the first concession of the AP-7, but there have been several extensions on the Autopista del Mediterráneo. The result was 48 years of paying tolls in a section in which, most of the towns of the Alicante region of the Marina Alta and surroundings have no connection other than by road.

Some overjoyed local residents even decided to celebrate their New Ye a r ’s D a y m e a l o n t h e road. The group Adéu

Free road

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END OF THE TOLLS: The group Adéu AP7 celebrate with a special meal.

AP7 urged drivers to celeb r a t e w i t h a d i n n e r ‘ p a i porta,’ where everyone was to take their food to the Sant Antoni II service area at 10.00pm for a cel-

ebration.

It is estimated that the end of the tolls will allow d r i v e r s t o s a v e b e t w e e n €2,000 and €2,500 per year per vehicle, while

the residents of the area will be able to carry out their usual trips without a large financial outlay like the one they have suffered up to now.

Early festivities THE business association of Historic Javea celebrated the New Year earl y, a s t h e y g o t t o g e t h e r

for the midday chimes. As has been tradition for a few years, the association commemorated the occa-

sion within a family friendly atmosphere. Despite the cold temperatures, people took to the streets and enjoyed the last day of 2019.

The association had prepared inflatable attractions for the little ones to join the fun.

After the chimes, the Municipal Market came to life as everyone got together to celebrate the end of year.

AIBAX and BUP made sure to provide traditional music to bring the festivities to life.

Celebrations were a success despite the fact that the clock of Sant Bertomeu Church wasn’t able to ring in the New Year.

Due to strong electrical storms, the clock has b e e n s t o p p e d a t 9 .2 0 a m since December 2.

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Kind-hearted community THE Original Charity Shop and Library in Javea has had a busy end of year.

Staff were delighted when the shop re c e i v e d a v i si t fro m th e British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott, accompanied by his wife Toni and the British Consul, Sarah-Jane Morrison. The Ambassador spent a relaxed half hour in the shop, where he was welcomed

by President Georgina Harvey, as he celebrated his first visit to Alicante Province.

In keeping with tradition, volunteers at the Original Charity Shop and Library gave Santa a helping hand with a heavy sack of C h r i s t m a s p r e s e n t s . To g e t h e r, Santa and his elves gave each child a special gift at the Raquel Paya School for special needs.

Volunteers were then treated to tapas and wine carefully prepared by

FESTIVE: Santa and his volunteer elves gave out Christmas presents.

IMPRESSED: The British Ambassador to Spain visited the Original Charity. teenagers attending a catering course. The proceeds were collected from the sale of raffle tickets and the school will also be presented with a

cheque for €1,000.

Another big donation has also been made by the Original Charity Shop and Library as they gave

€2,000 to ‘Javea Aguiles’ to help purchase rugby outfits and equipment. ‘Javea Aguiles’ rugby club was founded three years ago by

expat rugby enthusiasts and now has over 60 children who train under the supervision of eight volunteer coaches. The teams are made up of 50 per cent Spanish children and 50 per cent expats.

More information can be found on Xabia rugby on Facebook and the club is always looking for new sponsors.

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NECESSARY: The popularity of the zone with pet owners means the zone needs to be expanded, the council says.

Pet park expansion BENIDORM Council is doubling the size of the recreation zone for pets next to the Parque de Foietes to 500sqm.

Urban Area councillor Jose Ramon Gonzalez de Zarate said the measure was a response to a request from the Residents’ Council as one of the proposals for the 2020 municipal budget, and from the residents’ association.

The councillor explained the move was necessary due to the popularity of the zone with local pet owners.

As well as extending the

area where dogs play, the works include improving accesses, putting in a double gate and course sand covering, and installing rubbish bins, benches, picnic tables and signs with information on the park regulations.

“We are continuing with our intention of improving and increasing the number of facilities of all kinds for the town,” Gonzalez de Zarate affirmed.

Benidorm currently has six dog parks located in different areas of the town. As well as the Parque de Foietes zone, there are also parks on Aveni-

da Adolfo Suarez, near the fairground, Avenida Marina Alta and on Calles Italia and Ciudad Real.

The councillor further announced the local authority is repairing the fencing in the area around the stairs located next to the bullring, which serves as a pedestrian link between the Parque de l’Aigüera and the Els Tolls district due to its poor state of repair.

He said the works, with a cost of just over €20,600, are already underway and should be completed this month.

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Dads Can Now Enjoy 12 Weeks Paternity Leave AS of January 1 2020, Dads in Spain can now enjoy 12 weeks’ leave on the birth of a child.

Increasing the paternity leave by four weeks more than in 2019.

This extension of paternity leave in Spain came into force last April through Royal Decree-Law 6/2019 on urgent measures to guarantee equal treatment and opportunities between men and women in employment and occupation approved by Pedro Sánchez’s government.

The new law states that of the 12 weeks leave, the first four must be taken without interruption immediately after the birth; however the remaining eight weeks may be taken, without interruption, at any time from after the birth until the child’s first birthday.

The paid leave is strictly only for the father and can not be transferred in any way to the mother.

As established in the approved measure, the first four weeks after birth must be taken

immediately after birth and simultaneously with the maternity leave of the mother. This norm which does not permit the parents to take turns during the first weeks after birth has been met with criticism among some associations and also by the farleft political party Unidos Podemos.

The extension of paternity leave from eight to 12 weeks in 2020 will cost the State €336 million more, according to esti-

mates that the government included in the Budget Plan sent to Brussels last October 15.

Between both parents, the maternity and paternity leave will tally up a total of €705 million a year for the State.

Latest statistics from the Ministry of Labour reflect that there were 120,973 maternity and 150,750 paternity benefits in 2019.

Interestingly there are more men receiving the benefits than

women, however this is attributed to the fact that there are more men in employment than women and therefore qualify for the benefit more readily than women.

Paternity leave in Spain was first recognised in the Organic Law 3/2007, of March 22, for the Effective Equality of Women and Men, which defined it as ‘an individual and exclusive right of the father, which is recognised both in cas-

PATERNITY LEAVE: Is now available for 12 weeks rather than eight.

es of biological paternity and in those of adoption and fostering.’

Until then, the rights of the father were covered by article 37b of the Workers’ Statute, which was approved and published in the Official State

Gazette for the first time in 1980.

It recognised the father ’s right to two days, which could be extended to four in the event of ‘death, serious accident or illness, hospitalisation or surgery.’

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Simian suffering

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AFTER police in Krefeld announced that the monkey house in the zoo which was burnt down killing all of the inhabitants was started by sky lanterns, a local woman and her two daughters volunteered that they had released three.

Santa Claus ALTHOUGH a few days late in the attempt, an 18­year­old on holiday in Central Germany climbed a 15­metre chimney and jumped in, trying get to the bottom. Friends alerted the

BURNT: The destroyed monkey house. fire brigade to his Santa Claus trick and he was removed suffering from hypothermia.

BELGIUM

Busy night

Swamped

BRUSSELS police made 181 arrests on New Year’s Eve for a range of misdemeanours in­ cluding the setting fire to 11 cars and a scooter and the stabbing of one man who is in hospital in a very serious state.

TWO women went for a walk in the Welle­ meersen nature reserve in Flanders on New Year’s Day and after straying from the path fell waist deep into a swamp. Unable to free themselves they had the presence of mind to call the fire brigade for assistance.

DENMARK

FRANCE

Green Dubai

Plastic ban

DENMARK will be one of 192 countries taking part in Expo 2020 being held in Dubai in October of this year. Organised without funding from the govern­ ment, it is planned that this will be the most sus­ tainable pavilion at Expo 2020.

WITH immediate effect, France is to ban single use plastic plates, cups and cotton buds (although they may be sold for six months if purchased in 2019) and the following year it will be the turn of plastic straws and cutlery.

Trumped up

Cheddar-gate

THE former US ambassador to Denmark, Rufus Gifford has criticised President Donald Trump’s ap­ pointment of so called ‘political ambassadors’ who have been ‘consistently inadequate’ and this in­ cludes his own successor, Carla Sands.

UNCONVENTIAL French Chef Marc Veyrat who lost one of his Michelin stars has also lost his court case in which he demanded that the notes made by the inspector who visited his establishment be given to him so that he could find the reason for the loss.

NETHERLANDS

Holland out

Fire trap

IN a decision to rebrand The Netherlands for tourism purposes, the Dutch government has decided to cease using the word Holland when referring to the country, as Holland actually on­ ly refers to two of the 12 Dutch provinces.

A FIRE in an apartment block in Arnhem left a resident and his four­year­old son dead after being trapped in a smoke­filled lift. Two boys aged 12 and 13 were seen on CCTV letting off fireworks and are being questioned by the po­ lice.

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NORWAY

Kidnap resolved

Status change

A KIDNAPPING occurred at Arlanda airport when several people seized an individual and took him to an apartment in Vällingby where he was threat­ ened with injury but not harmed. Police rescued him and have since arrested two men.

THE Norwegian government has been criticised by migrant groups after announcing it would remove refugee status from 1,600 Somalians and send them back to Somalia as it believes that the situa­ tion in the country had improved.

Making amends

Thief shot

THE ashes of a young Swedish boy which were stolen from a hire car in Cyprus have been re­ turned to the family after the thief made a tearful phone call to the mother in Sweden, apologising for what he had done.

POLICE in Oslo opened fire on a man who stole an ambulance and then drove it into a group of peo­ ple. He was arrested and although not critically in­ jured was taken to hospital for treatment. Police have not revealed whether this was linked to ter­ rorism.

FINANCE

Trying it on

MANY of the staff working for TSB Bank had their current ac­ counts with their employer and were amongst the 1.9 million af­ fected by a major IT crash in 2018.

All customers were entitled to compensation, but some em­ ployees took advantage of their knowledge of how the compen­ sation worked and allegedly made false claims in order to re­ ceive the maximum pay out.

The bank (which is a sub­ sidiary of Sabadell) has accused eight members of staff of mak­ ing false claims and has sacked five whilst three were allowed to resign.

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is the expected value of sales to be generated in Malaysia by Spanish energy company Solarpack after winning a new contract in that country.

Closing tax loophole

FOR more than 10 years, the European Union as well as the USA have been working to cut at least one legal loop­ hole which allowed mega companies such as Alphabet, the Google parent company to reduce tax liabilities.

Known by the clumsy phrase ‘Double Irish, Dutch sandwich’ it allowed com­ panies to transfer money to an Irish subsidiary , then to a Dutch holding company which in turn sent the money to an Irish holding company which was based in Bermuda.

It then licensed certain rights back to Google intellectual property and be­

By John Smith cause Bermuda has no corporate tax, this switching of funds ending in a li­ cence allowed Google to delay tax pay­ ments on international earnings in the USA and to reduce tax payments within Europe.

In 2014, after considerable pressure was exerted on it by both the European Union and the US government, Ireland changed their tax law, but companies were still allowed to use this method until 2020.

This is not small change as the

amounts involved in the past two years alone which passed through the Dutch company exceeded €40 billion for Al­ phabet alone and as the Dutch govern­ ment is about to change its licensing laws so that royalties will be taxed in fu­ ture, this is one legal outlet that seems likely to be closed.

Many EU members plus the United Kingdom have been endeavouring to tax not just Google, but all of the major social media companies who use sub­ sidiaries and holding companies to re­ duce their tax obligations, so in theory they will be happy.

Consumer debt

THE Bank of Spain has released figures which show that the personal debt of private indi­ viduals in November reversed a four month trend by increas­ ing by 1.6 per cent.

The main reason for the in­ crease in the private sector is due to personal loans as op­ posed to new mortgages which only increased slightly, al­ though the total amount owed does include a significant amount in respect of mortgage loans.

On the other hand however, company debt has effectively remained static and over the past year has reduced from very high previous levels.

LEGALLY SPEAKING 90-Day Limit Clarified I read with interest your article regarding the 90­day tourist visit. I cannot find anywhere the ruling that the ‘calendar year’ provision means I could visit from October to December, then in January start another 90 days. This would make a huge difference on my decision to buy a property in Spain or not. Can you provide further evidence of this rule?

T W (Costa Blanca)

BUSINESS EXTRA

Bank on it THE Spanish banking sector has started the New Year well with the top six banks on the Ibex stock exchange seeing gains of between 2 and 4 per cent. Bankia, the bank partly owned by the Spanish taxpayer saw the greatest growth.

Veganuary No, I can­ not, be­ cause it was nev­ YOU AND THE er a rule. It was, LAW IN SPAIN however, a fre­ quent misinterpretation which I accepted and I have been caught out. Here is the rule: The tourist stay in European Union countries, which properly is called the Schengen visa, is limited to 90 days in any peri­ od of 180 days. There is no reference to ‘calendar year.’ After 90 days, you must leave Spain and you may not return for the following 90 days. Be warned that ‘90 days’ is not ‘three months’ and ‘180 days’ is not ‘six months.’ My thanks go to ‘J C’ and others whose queries helped me to correct this.

DAVID SEARL

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

BRITAIN’S popular bakers, Greggs has now launched its second product after the vegan sausage roll in a bid to cater for the growing vegan market. The new vegan steak bake is a meatless version of the brand’s original steak bake.

Sevilla Scotch CHIVAS, the whisky distiller from Scotland is now producing an exceptional version of Royal Salute which is sent to Sevilla to be aged in first fill Pedro Ximénez sherry casks in order to create a new blend which has an added taste of orange and sultana.

Registrations down FOR the first time since 2012, the registration of new cars in Spain has dropped, so that the 2019 figure of 1,258,260 is 4.8 per cent (63,177) down on 2018.

The largest drop is in the

number of diesel cars regis­ tered which is down nearly 26 per cent and the drop in private registrations general­ ly is more than double the overall total drop off.

These figures combine the

figures from the three main associations, motor manu­ facturers, sellers and dealers.

December figures rose however, perhaps in antici­ pation of new taxes to hit in 2020.

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% CHG. +1,82% +0,74% +0,97% +2,14% +0,99% +0,46% -0,24% +1,48% +1,42% +0,56% +0,98% +1,45% +1,36% +1,18% +0,47% -0,42% -0,84% +1,27% +1,50% +1,36% -0,06% +1,23% +0,62% +0,50% +1,48% +0,59% +1,10% -0,73% +1,57% +1,21% +0,88% -0,82% +1,52% +0,52% -0,64% +0,62% +1,31% +0,80% +1,29% +0,50% +0,78% -0,35% +0,68% -0,04% +1,33% +0,50% +0,41% +1,51% +1,78%

NET VOL 14,37K 5,10K 5,06K 15,37K 0,60K 8,23K 3,24K 35,73K 197,78K 86,43K 530,94K 40,65K 2,57K 103,43K 1,08M 109,69K 95,51K 413,15K 5,51K 9,75K 10,35K 382,27K 2,79K 43,40K 28,02K 2,78K 0,07K 140,55K 39,96K 45,00K 26,19K 35,89K 4,73K 0,72K 4,67K 165,97K 457,24K 7,23K 7,08K 0,49K 1,01K 852,31K 137,41K 54,45K 23,76K 3,19K 1,53K 56,56K 121,02K

COMPANY Johnson Matthey Just Eat Kingfisher Land Securities Legal & General Lloyds Banking London Stock Exchange Marks & Spencer Micro Focus Mondi Morrison Supermarkets National Grid Next NMC Health Ocado Pearson Persimmon Phoenix Prudential RBS PLC Reckitt Benckiser Relx Rentokil Rightmove Rio Tinto PLC Rolls-Royce Holdings Royal Dutch Shell A Royal Dutch Shell B RSA Insurance Sage Schroders Scottish Mortgage Segro Severn Trent Smith & Nephew Smiths Group Smurfit Kappa Spirax-Sarco Engineering SSE St. James’s Place Standard Chartered Standard Life Aberdeen Taylor Wimpey Tesco Tui Unilever United Utilities Vodafone Group PLC Whitbread WPP

PRICE(P) 3.034,00 839,20 219,00 993,80 308,28 63,73 7.786,40 216,60 1.078,00 1.790,00 202,50 953,90 7.054,04 1.768,46 1.275,00 647,40 2.735,43 751,10 1.467,00 244,60 6.218,00 1.897,50 455,00 643,39 4.538,00 689,80 2.243,25 2.244,44 569,60 750,60 3.369,00 586,13 898,40 2.536,00 1.829,50 1.711,00 2.940,00 9.035,00 1.455,00 1.183,50 716,40 333,70 196,40 257,21 973,00 4.347,95 958,40 147,47 4.913,16 1.084,50

CHANGE(P) +41,00 +5,00 +2,00 +3,80 +4,29 +1,23 +34,40 +3,10 +14,20 +16,00 +2,70 +9,60 +34,04 -26,04 -4,00 +10,40 +38,42 +2,10 +21,00 +4,30 +89,00 -8,50 +2,00 +8,95 +35,00 +3,80 +8,25 -0,15 +4,00 +1,60 +35,00 +7,13 +1,20 +21,00 -3,00 +24,00 +20,00 +145,00 +16,50 +19,00 +4,00 +5,60 +3,00 +1,86 +21,80 +0,16 +15,00 -0,03 +48,16 +18,00

% CHG.

NET VOL

+1,37% +0,60% +0,92% +0,38% +1,41% +1,97% +0,44% +1,45% +1,33% +0,90% +1,35% +1,02% +0,48% -1,45% -0,31% +1,63% +1,43% +0,28% +1,45% +1,79% +1,45% -0,45% +0,44% +1,41% +0,78% +0,55% +0,37% -0,01% +0,71% +0,21% +1,05% +1,23% +0,13% +0,83% -0,16% +1,42% +0,69% +1,63% +1,15% +1,63% +0,56% +1,71% +1,55% +0,73% +2,29% 0,00% +1,59% -0,02% +0,99% +1,69%

0,30K 13,70K 79,81K 17,78K 205,72K 891,93K 1,83K 102,02K 14,48K 1,57K 196,93K 125,24K 0,17K 4,33K 19,31K 6,70K 14,83K 11,00K 6,18K 167,58K 35,32K 8,27K 34,10K 18,21K 61,06K 49,00K 170,93K 6,02K 12,09K 29,29K 4,39K 32,67K 15,61K 7,20K 23,48K 10,68K 3,95K 1,42K 35,97K 12,19K 103,68K 66,98K 132,83K 337,92K 5,85K 63,20K 11,69K 939,70K 0,37K 48,08K

0.84793

1.17927 Units per €

US dollar ..............................................1.120971 Japan yen...............................................121.945 Switzerland franc ...................................1.08733 Denmark kroner .....................................7.47044 Norway kroner........................................9.81861

currenciesdirect.com/moraira • Tel: +34 966 265 072 THE ABOVE TABLE USES THE CURRENT INTERBANK EXCHANGE RATES, WHICH AREN’T REPRESENTATIVE OF THE RATE WE OFFER

DOW JONES C LOSING P RICES J ANUARY 2

COMPANY 3M Alphabet C Amazon.com Apple Boeing Caterpillar Chevron Cisco Coca-Cola Exxon Mobil Facebook Goldman Sachs Home Depot IBM Intel J&J JPMorgan McDonald’s Merck&Co Microsoft Nike Pfizer Procter&Gamble Tesla United Technologies UnitedHealth Verizon Visa A Walmart Walt Disney

PRICE 176,42 1.337,02 1.847,84 293,65 325,76 147,68 120,51 47,96 55,35 69,78 205,25 229,93 218,38 134,04 59,85 145,87 139,40 197,61 90,95 157,70 101,31 39,18 124,90 418,33 149,76 293,98 61,40 187,90 118,84 144,63

CHANGE% CHANGE VOLUME(M) +0,59 +0,34% 1,57M +0,88 +0,07% 962,47K +0,95 +0,05% 2,51M +2,13 +0,73% 25,25M -0,64 -0,20% 4,97M +0,16 +0,11% 1,95M +0,66 +0,55% 4,22M +0,37 +0,78% 14,89M +0,08 +0,14% 7,98M +0,30 +0,43% 13,16M +0,84 +0,41% 8,96M +0,13 +0,06% 1,45M +1,07 +0,49% 3,79M +1,23 +0,93% 3,78M +0,23 +0,39% 14,44M +0,57 +0,39% 4,44M +0,77 +0,56% 7,20M +0,70 +0,36% 2,28M -0,08 -0,09% 4,50M +0,11 +0,07% 18,39M +0,51 +0,51% 3,21M +0,27 +0,69% 14,40M +0,43 +0,35% 4,80M +3,63 +0,88% 10,29M -0,12 -0,08% 2,03M +0,13 +0,04% 2,22M +0,19 +0,31% 8,47M +0,07 +0,04% 5,27M -0,56 -0,47% 4,92M +0,86 +0,60% 5,66M M - MILLION DOLLARS

NASDAQ C LOSING P RICES J ANUARY 2

COMPANY

CHANGE NET / %

VOLUME

+0.98% +2.79% +0.87% +1.23% +6.38% +40.35% +5.52% +1.29% +0.88% +1.10% +0.60%

50,447 1.97M 9,931 179,092 19,661 683,778 366,376 16,313 10.29M 461,632 292,656

MercadoLibre Inc. -2.04% Akero Therapeutics Inc. -18.61% Coca-Cola Consolidated Inc. -1.71% VelocityShares Daily 2x VIX Short Term ETN -8.11% IGM Biosciences Inc. -10.17% Reading International Inc. Cl B -13.46% Forty Seven Inc. Cl A -9.62% Discovery Inc. Series B -9.35% Eidos Therapeutics Inc. -4.83% Pool Corp.

-1.19% Cracker Barrel Old Country Store Inc. -1.61%

445,187 349,993 41,916 6.43M 233,901 6,622 638,153 133 77,601 167,233 364,599

Most Advanced Broadcom Inc. 8% Pfd. Series A Trade Desk Inc. Cl A Atrion Corp.

MarketAxess Holdings Inc. First Capital Inc. BioXcel Therapeutics Inc. Karuna Therapeutics Inc. National Western Life Group Inc. Cl A Tesla Inc. Illumina Inc. Equinix Inc.

Most Declined

FINANCE, BUSINESS & LEGAL

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New economic policy fears AT the time of writing, it is assumed that the PSOE/Podemos coalition will receive sufficient support from small­ er parties to form a viable Spanish government.

This is of particular interest to busi­ ness interests and a number of associa­ tions representing both companies and the self­employed are already sharing their fears for the future of the Spanish economy.

CEOE and Cepyme have stated that the government programme already announced is likely to discourage fu­ ture investment and job creation.

The PSOE and Podemos believe

Credit: Casa de SM el Rey Twitter

By John Smith

Pedro Sánchez expects to be sworn in as Spanish PM.

No oil found THE Repsol energy group has a strong oil drilling operation and has been working of the coast of Guyana in South America since 1997.

Recently it has been drilling

with partner Tullow Oil plc but has had mixed success and its latest work has led to exploration in the Carapa 1 area being halted and the well plugged and abandoned.

After drilling more than 3,000 metres, it found ver y little oil which meant that it now has to consider all of its exploration activities in the area which it has licensed.

however that their plans will generate more income for the State which will in turn allow them to increase minimum wages and pump more money into the economy through consumer spending.

They plan to repeal certain reforms passed by the previous government, increase Corporation Tax from 15 per cent to 18 per cent for banks and oil companies and apply a new 15 per cent tax on undistributed profit from the recently introduced Socimis (Real Estate Investment Trusts).

Another decision is to implement a ‘Google Tax’ which will allow the Span­ ish government to properly tax profits earned in Spain by mainly American multi­nationals such as Amazon, Face­ book, Google and Microsoft rather than let them transfer the income through holding companies to cheaper tax areas.

As already noted, the Irish and Dutch loophole is being closed but there are still ways for these compa­ nies to repatriate funds which could be taxed, but France has already been threatened with massive trade tariffs by the USA for imposing a similar tax, so this could be a double edged sword.

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BUSINESS EXTRA More jobs THE number of unemployed in Spain in 2019 fell by 38,692 (1.2 per cent) meaning this was the seventh consecutive year to see a drop. It should be noted however that this is the lowest decline in unemployment since 2013.

New Year virus TRAVELEX which offers UK travellers currency exchange facilities at airports was hit by a software virus and had to close its UK online site. Whilst manual transactions could take place, banks such as HSBC and Barclays which use it were left stranded.

Green bank WITH almost 900 branches, the Spanish Kutxabank Group boasts that it is now the first bank anywhere in the world to be completely carbon neutral with its electricity supply. It purchases only renewable energy from Iberdrola.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WOULDN’T it be nice if just for once we could usher in a new year with a mod­ icum of common sense? Ha! Dream on everyone. Only in the UK could head­ lines warning of a possible new Mid East war, or millions of hectares being destroyed in uncontrollable Australian bush fires, be shared with the same front pages informing the nation that veganism must now be considered to be on a par with religion!

This week a judge ruled that ‘ethical’ vegans should be protected under the same rules that apply to religious and philosophical beliefs. Yet another minor­ ity group will now have attained the right to accuse the beleaguered majority of some unfair ‘victimisation’ or another.

How long will it be I wonder before one of these plant eaters manage to drag a ‘disgusting’ carnivore into court for dis­ playing some form of veganophobia?

I truly do respect the views of my ve­ gan friends, but please don’t try to make the majority of us feel bad for eating what some of you colourfully de­ scribe as ‘dead animals.’ It’s a nice pork chop or a sizzling T­bone.

FEATURE

Happy New Year VEGANS: Don’t make the majority of us feel bad!

Awright? Just as a matter of interest, it is also a proven fact that plants do ac­ tually have feelings as well. Looks like starvation time ahead folks.

And talking of the New Year. Once more, in the same way as the lefties managed to hijack the Millennium cele­

brations, they also managed to turn what should have been a New Year cele­ bration of British culture and proud her­ itage into a disgraceful lowbrow exhibi­ tion of mind numbing, diversity rap ‘gangsta’ music, smoky fireworks and pop rubbish, which almost unbelievably

also included the dreadful football song ‘It’s Coming Home’ (which it didn’t!).

I do sometimes wonder if Mayor Khan and his fellow organisers simply have no breeding or class at all, or by dragging us down to their level are de­ liberately trying to sabotage just about

everything the United Kingdom with its proud traditions holds near and dear.

Last year, I remarked there was a re­ markable absence of burkas around the Cenotaph when the UK paid tribute to the brave servicemen and women, who gave their lives so we could live in peace and democratic freedom.

Not so last week. Hundreds of burkas were in evidence when, with al­ most unbelievable arrogance and dis­ tain for the country that succours them, crowds gathered in London to hold a candlelight vigil for Qasem Soleimani, the Iranian general killed by the allies in a drone attack.

This man was a terrorist, a sworn en­ emy of the West and was responsible for the death of thousands of service­ men and innocent civilians. He was planning even more atrocities and had publicly warned the West of his inten­ tions. If any more proof was required as to where the loyalties of many of the UK immigrant populace lie, this demon­ stration was most definitely it.

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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TERROR & TRIUMPH ON LONDON BRIDGE NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

THIS week I was planning to write about the comparative differences between the philosophies of Niet­ zsche, Wittgenstein and Schopen­ hauer. Quite brief. Provocative.

And exciting. You’d have loved it.

Trust me. I’m a writer... Never mind!

But then something happened.

My blood pressure started rising rapidly. In a good way. After weeks of depressing news about Corbyn, Putin and Trump, we read that the London Bridge heroes of last No­ vember are in line to be honoured.

Clearly too late for the New Year’s Honours recently announced ­ but presumably later this year.

One of them, Darryn Frost, who was seen in pictures that spread across the world holding Usman Khan at bay with a narwhal tusk on London Bridge before armed police arrived and shot the terrorist at­ tacker dead, has been rightly

LONDON BRIDGE: There were people willing to risk their lives for others.

praised. That such fine people as Darryn exist gives us all hope and optimism for the new decade in these Trump­related troubled, un­ certain times.

In past attacks, the supporters of the terrorists have praised the per­ petrators as ‘lions.’ But people like this young man are the lions.

They’re the ones who took on the armed killer with whatever came to hand. These heroes are the lions.

That narrative does not belong to the deluded idiot who picks up a knife and starts slashing at people

who are trying to help him. Lions versus losers. Lions will always win.

Sometimes we wonder what would happen in the event of brav­ ery and self­sacrifice being called for. The answer is that fine people still exist. There were such people at the London Bridge incident, will­ ing to risk their lives for others.

Whatever we (and yes, I’m as guilty as anyone) may say about snowflakes or millenials, the wider public has an excellent record of in­ tervening, usually at significant per­ sonal risk, on other peoples’ behalf in these situations.

Would I as a younger woman have done the same? I’d hope so as I’m sure we all would. But no way to know until we’re actually tested ­ like Darryn and those other London Bridge heroes...

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘Betrayal,’ ‘The Girl in the Woods,’ ‘The Girl in the Red Dress,’ ‘No Way Back,’ ‘Landscape of Lies,’ ‘Retribution,’ ‘Soul Stealer,’ ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora­john son.net) available online as ebook (€0.99;£0.99), ibook, paperback and audiobook.

All profits to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity.

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Judge Rinder Good Morning Britain Lorraine This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Dickinson's Real Deal Tenable ITV London Weather Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Tonight Emmerdale Gino's Italian Escape: Hidden Italy Welcome to HMP Belmarsh with Ross Kemp ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Tenable Ideal World Tonight ITV Nightscreen

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Antiques Roadshow BBC News at 9 Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live Politics Live Coast Get Away for Winter The Best Dishes Ever Who Do You Think You Are? The Snow Wolf Family and Me Flog It! Richard Osman's House of Games Great British Railway Journeys The Baby Has Landed Baby Chimp Rescue Murder Trial: The Disappearance Of Margaret Fleming The League of Gentlemen Newsnight Weather

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Teleshopping Dinner Date Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Superstore Superstore Dress to Impress Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show Supermarket Sweep Dinner Date Dress to Impress Take Me Out You've Been Framed!

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8:30pm A Slow Odyssey 9:00pm The Great British Year 10:00pm Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives 11:30pm Horizon 12:30am The Joy of Winning 1:30am Akala's Odyssey 2:30am Bought with Love: The Secret History of British Art Collections 3:30am Gravity and Me: The Force That Shapes Our Lives

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7:00am What They Had After her Alzheimer's-stricken mother, Ruth, wanders into a blizzard on Christmas Eve, Bridget Ertz travels back to her hometown.

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Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live Politics Live Coast Get Away for Winter The Best Dishes Ever Who Do You Think You Are? The Snow Wolf Family and Me Flog It! Richard Osman's House of Games Great British Railway Journeys The Baby Has Landed Monty Don's American Gardens QI Billy Connolly in conversation with Will Gompertz The League of Gentlemen Newsnight Weather Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland Billy Connolly: Made in Scotland

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10:00pm Top of the Pops: 1989 10:30pm Chris Packham: Forever Punk 11:30pm Punk Britannia at the BBC 12:30am Smashing Hits! The 80's Pop Map of Britain and Ireland 1:30am I Can Go for That: The Smooth World of Yacht Rock 2:30am Chris Packham: Forever Punk 3:30am Easy Listening Hits at the BBC

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TRAVEL SET in the heart of the region of Ex­ tremadura about an hour’s drive from the historic Renaissance town of Cac­ eres, the pretty village of Guadalupe is a remarkable destination in its own right.

While its cobbled streets are lined with striking buildings that show the evidence of many centuries of histo­ ry, the reason people come from far and wide is to see the magnificent building right at its centre ­ the Sanc­ tuary­Monastery of Our Lady of Guadalupe.

Founded by King Alfonso XI of Castille in the 14th century, it is a truly exceptional edifice that has been added to and lavishly embellished down the years. In fact it is regarded so highly that it has been named as a UN World Her­ itage Site.

It became Spain’s Royal Monastery, where the great and good gathered amidst some of the most magnificent religious art and exquisite gold, and sil­ verware.

This was not simply a religious house, for it was at the heart of power. It was here that the Catholic Monarchs, Is­ abella and Ferdinand, granted Christo­ pher Columbus an audience that would eventually lead to the discovery of the Americas.

Guadalupe - the Royal Monastery at the heart of Spanish history

ROYAL MONASTERY: At the heart of power.

Exceptional blend Architecturally, it is an exceptional blend of differing styles. The 14th­15th century Mudejar church and cloister is particularly fine, with its intricate façade setting a striking tone.

The interior nave and two side aisles are notable for their fine vault­ ing and feature richly ornamented al­

tars and tombs.

The sacristy is renowned for a series of paintings by Zurbarán and magnifi­ cent wall paintings that seem to leap out from the plain canvas of the archi­ tecture itself. It was built between 1638 and 1647 and provides a contrast to the earlier periods.

Moving through the sacristy the

GUADALUPE: A remarkable destination.

Chapel of Santa Catalina of Alejandria is home to some imposing tombs that date to the 17th century. It is also packed with reliquaries and exquisite works of art.

Entering into the Camarin de la Vigen you will find an octagonal room deco­ rated in baroque style. Head up the stairs and the star of the show awaits ­

Guadalupe’s famous black Madonna.

Here a monk takes over from the usual guide to present the statue to and bless visitors.

The statuette is richly clothed and in her arms holds a baby Jesus ­ also black.

It is the most emblematic symbol of the monastery ­ and for many Catholics the most holy part of the visit.

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7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30pm Lose Weight and Get Fit with Tom Kerridge 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 3:00pm Garden Rescue 4:00pm Britain's Best Home Cook 5:00pm Final Score 6:10pm BBC News 6:20pm BBC London News; Weather 6:23pm Weather 6:25pm The Mallorca Files 7:15pm Pointless 8:00pm The Greatest Dancer 9:10pm First & Last 9:55pm Casualty 10:45pm Mrs. Brown's Boys 11:15pm BBC News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 1:00am The NFL Show 1:30am The Water Diviner 3:20am Weather for the Week Ahead

7:45am Wild & Weird 8:00am Top Class 8:25am The Dog Ate My Homework 8:55am Blue Peter 9:25am Deadly on a Mission: Pole to Pole 9:55am Supersized Earth 10:55am Robot Wars 11:55am The Odd Life of Timothy Green 1:35pm Flog It! 2:20pm Talking Pictures 3:00pm All Creatures Great and Small 4:30pm Monty Don's American Gardens 5:30pm The World's Most Extraordinary Homes 6:30pm Equator From the Air 7:30pm Natural World 8:30pm Dad's Army 9:00pm Earth's Tropical Islands 10:00pm Joanna & Jennifer: Absolutely Champers 11:00pm Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie 12:25am Sara Pascoe Live: Ladsladslads 1:45am Love Is the Devil

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8:00am Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 8:10am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:00am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 9:55am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:50am The Masked Singer 12:20pm Supermarket Sweep 1:20pm Supermarket Sweep 2:20pm Supermarket Sweep 3:25pm You've Been Framed!

3:55pm Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World 4:55pm FYI Daily 5:00pm Spy Kids 4: All the Time in the World 5:45pm Antz 6:45pm FYI Daily 6:50pm Antz 7:25pm Yes Man 8:25pm FYI Daily 8:30pm Yes Man 9:30pm Skyfall 10:45pm FYI Daily 10:50pm Skyfall 12:20am Family Guy

4:30am Teleshopping 7:00am Agatha Christie's Poirot 8:40am Lewis 10:35am Coronation Street Long-running drama with the residents of England's most famous cobbled street.

1:30pm Foyle's War 3:45pm Foyle's War 5:50pm Foyle's War 8:00pm Midsomer Murders Members of the Midsomer-in-theMarsh Ornithological Society fall out when Ralph Ford claims to have spotted a bluecrested hoopoe, meaning he wins the group's year-listing competition.

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Coast Wisting Wisting Top of the Pops: 1989 Top of the Pops: 1989 Radio 2 in Concert Our Musical History Icelandic Walks with Julia Bradbury The presenter embarks on a 38mile journey along Iceland's most famous hiking route.

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Wissper Pirata & Capitano Floogals Digby Dragon Shimmer and Shine SpongeBob Squarepants The Loud House Access Britain's Favourite Cereal Friends Friends Friends Friends Jesse Stone: Night Passage Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise Dogs Behaving (Very) Badly 5 News Update Digging Up Britain's Past Tony Robinson's History of Britain How the Victorians Built Britain The Story of Greatest Ever TV Blunders

6:10am How I Met Your Mother 6:35am How I Met Your Mother 7:00am Rude(Ish) Tube 7:10am Rugrats Go Wild 8:40am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 9:40am Wife Swap USA 10:40am The Goldbergs 11:10am The Goldbergs 11:40am Brooklyn Nine-Nine 12:10pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 12:40pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:10pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 1:40pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:10pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 2:40pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:10pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:40pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 4:10pm The Big Bang Theory 4:40pm The Big Bang Theory 5:10pm The Big Bang Theory 5:40pm The Big Bang Theory 6:10pm The Big Bang Theory 6:40pm The Big Bang Theory 7:35pm Sahara 10:00pm Riddick 12:20am Gogglebox 1:20am Gogglebox 2:30am 8 Out of 10 Cats

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DAVID WORBOYS WE have all met the odd (some­ times very odd) eccentric. There are people who are completely im­ pervious to anybody’s reactions and any repercussions. They will do anything for a laugh and they normally have a dry, deadpan hu­ mour.

A business colleague of mine, Monty, was such a man. He spoke several languages and he had a gift for imitating the accents of those he was addressing. This occasional­ ly provoked physical retaliation, es­ pecially in pubs, but was normally met with humour. As I frequently travelled on business with him, I found some situations frustrating ­ even quite uncomfortable ­ but al­ ways very funny.

Filling in the landing card as our flight approached New York, he came to one of the questions: ‘Have you ever committed geno­ cide?’ Monty duly wrote ‘Yes’ and passed it to me for my approval. I had to laugh. I also had to wait for over an hour for him to give an ac­

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ODD PEOPLE: They will do anything for a laugh and normally have a dry, deadpan sense of humour. ceptable explanation at immigra­ tion control after undergoing all sorts of questions and checks.

When we entered the customs area at airports Monty would adopt an exaggerated innocent pose, wheeling his trolley with his head

held high, staring into the air and whistling. Invariably he was stopped and I had to wait while his bags were searched. On other occa­ sions he would grip his trolley and charge through at high speed; with the same result.

Monty had his own way of preparing for our forthcoming trip to Israel. He had found a passport­ size photo of Hitler which, with an adhesive, he carefully superim­ posed over his own photo. He invit­ ed us all over to his desk. “I’m going

to Israel” he said as he opened his passport with a flourish. Spotting the image of Hitler, most of us found it hilarious, but two of our colleagues were disgusted. It was especially offensive to Sidney Gold­ berg.

The trip to Israel was cancelled.

Monty had a special assignment at our base in Oxford while I went to some meetings in Madrid for a week. Soon after that, Monty and I were booked for a conference in Frankfurt. At passport control in Frankfurt airport, with me behind him, Monty presented his passport, not realising he had forgotten to re­ move the photo of the Fuehrer. The immigration official was speechless for a moment before asking in Eng­ lish “What does this mean?”

I was already sniggering uncon­ trollably before Monty chose this moment to adopt a German accent and imitate the official as he replied “Oh, mein Gott! Ziss vas a joke. I haff forgotten to remove it.”

Eventually it was sorted out but Monty will probably never change his ways.

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11:00am Sunday Politics London 11:30am Homes Under the Hammer 12:30pm Wanted Down Under 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Songs of Praise 2:50pm Flog It! 3:15pm Money for Nothing 3:45pm Garden Rescue 4:45pm Eat Well for Less 5:45pm Blue Planet II 6:45pm BBC News 7:00pm BBC London News; Weather 7:05pm Weather 7:10pm Countryfile 8:10pm Doctor Who 9:00pm Call the Midwife 10:00pm The Trial of Christine Keeler 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm BBC London News; Weather 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2 12:30am The Women's Football Show

7:30am I Escaped to the Country 8:15am The Instant Gardener 9:00am Around the World in 80 Gardens 10:05am Countryfile 11:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:30pm Mary Berry's Country House Secrets 1:30pm Trust Me, I'm a Doctor 2:00pm Live Snooker: The Masters 6:15pm Top Gear 7:15pm Ski Sunday 8:00pm Dragons' Den 9:00pm The Speedshop 10:00pm Louis Theroux: Selling Sex 11:00pm The Finest Hours 12:50am Snooker: The Masters 1:40am Snooker: The Masters - Extra 3:40am Question Time 4:40am Best House in Town 5:25am Holby City

8:00pm The Women's Football Show 8:30pm David Attenborough's Zoo Quest in Colour 10:00pm Fake or Fortune?

11:00pm The Sky at Night 11:30pm How to See a Black Hole: The Universe's Greatest Mystery 12:30am Arena 1:20am Being the Brontes 2:20am Bauhaus 100 A century after it opened its doors, this programme tells the story of the Bauhaus art school in Germany, and the men and women whose designs shaped the modern world.

3:20am David Attenborough's Zoo Quest in Colour

6:35am Kirstie's Vintage Gems 6:40am Extreme Chocolate Makers 7:05am King of Queens 7:30am King of Queens 7:55am Doctor Dolittle 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm The Simpsons 2:05pm The Simpsons 2:35pm The Simpsons 3:05pm The Simpsons 3:40pm Jamie and Jimmy's Friday Night Feast 4:40pm National Treasure 7:15pm Channel 4 News 7:45pm The Great Pottery Throw Down 9:00pm George Clarke's Old House, New Home 10:00pm SAS: Who Dares Wins 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 12:00am Escape Plan 2:15am Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 3:05am Phil Spencer's Stately Homes

9:20am Paw Patrol 9:35am Nella the Princess Knight 9:50am Wissper 10:00am Pirata & Capitano 10:10am Floogals 10:30am Digby Dragon 10:40am Shimmer and Shine 10:55am SpongeBob Squarepants 11:05am The Loud House 11:20am Access 11:25am Make You Laugh Out Loud 11:50am Friends 2:20pm Friends 2:50pm The Angry Birds Movie 3:50pm Access 3:55pm The Angry Birds Movie 4:50pm Death Becomes Her 5:50pm Access 5:55pm Death Becomes Her 6:45pm Ocean's Eleven 8:55pm 5 News Update 9:00pm Inside Iceland 10:00pm The Wonderful World of Chocolate 11:00pm Notting Hill 12:00am Access

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The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Herbie: Fully Loaded Star Trek: Discovery Gogglebox Gogglebox The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Star Trek: Discovery Gogglebox Schooled Hollyoaks Drama following the lives and loves of a group of teenagers and young adults in Chester.

7:00am Sky Sports News 8:00am Total Goals A round-up of the latest football action.

9:00am Total Goals 10:00am Live European Tour Golf The South African Open. Coverage of the fourth and final day's play at Randpark Golf Club in Johannesburg, where Louis Oosthuizen is the defending champion.

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9:30am Kung Fu Panda: The Paws of Destiny 10:05am Craig of the Creek 10:25am ITV News 10:30am Ainsley's Caribbean Kitchen 11:30am Living on the Veg 12:30pm Gino's Italian Escape: Hidden Italy 1:05pm The Greek Islands with Julia Bradbury 1:35pm ITV Lunchtime News 1:44pm ITV London Weather 1:45pm The Voice UK 3:15pm The Masked Singer 4:45pm Minions 6:30pm ITV News and Weather 6:50pm ITV News London 7:00pm Dancing on Ice 9:00pm Vera 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:14pm ITV London Weather 11:15pm Bradley Walsh & Son: Breaking Dad 11:40pm Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow 12:40am Liar

9:05am The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:00am Dress to Impress 11:00am The Masked Singer 12:30pm Supermarket Sweep 1:35pm Supermarket Sweep 2:35pm Dr. Seuss' the Lorax 3:45pm FYI Daily 3:50pm Dr. Seuss' the Lorax 4:20pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 5:20pm FYI Daily 5:25pm Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl 7:05pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 8:05pm FYI Daily 8:10pm Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest 10:00pm Love Island 11:35pm Family Guy 12:05am Family Guy 12:30am Family Guy

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7:00am Goals of the 80s 7:10am The Protectors 7:35am The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 8:30am The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes 10:45am Hornblower 12:55pm Cheyenne Autumn 1:55pm FYI Daily 2:00pm Cheyenne Autumn 4:00pm Nevada Smith 5:00pm FYI Daily 5:05pm Nevada Smith 6:35pm The Last Sunset 7:35pm FYI Daily 7:40pm The Last Sunset 8:55pm Return of the Seven 9:55pm FYI Daily 10:00pm Return of the Seven 11:00pm The Last Boy Scout 12:05am FYI Daily 12:10am The Last Boy Scout 1:10am The Nice Guys 2:10am FYI Daily 2:15am The Nice Guys 3:30am The Protectors 4:00am Teleshopping

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7:00am Spy Cat 8:35am Instant Family 10:50am Sometimes Always Never 12:35pm Us 2:45pm Final Score: Special 3:15pm The Sisters Brothers 5:30pm Spy Cat 7:15pm Sometimes Always Never 9:00pm Us In 1986, young Adelaide goes on holiday with her parents to Santa Cruz.

11:00pm Instant Family 1:00am Book of Monsters 2:25am The Sisters Brothers 4:35am JT Leroy

8:00am EFL Championship Highlights 10:30am EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2 11:00am The Sunday Supplement 12:30pm Live EFL 3:30pm EFL Highlights 5:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 6:00pm EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2 6:30pm EFL Highlights 6:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 7:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 8:00pm EFL Highlights 8:15pm EFL Championship Highlights 8:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 9:00pm EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2 9:30pm EFL Championship Highlights 11:45pm EFL Championship Highlights 12:00am EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2

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Sleepless in Seattle The Family Stone About a Boy Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls 2:35pm Wayne's World 4:20pm Wayne's World 2 6:10pm Sleepless in Seattle 8:05pm About a Boy 10:00pm Team America: World Police 11:50pm Little Monsters 1:40am Death Do Us Part 3:30am Brüno

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Drug your wife for a peaceful life BARRY DUKE I'M often left flabbergasted by things I’ve seen on the Internet, but never to the point when I’ve had to vacate my chair and take a walk in the park to get my head around an advertisement I’d just spotted.

I concluded that what I’d seen this week ­ an ad exhorting husbands to dose their wives with Valium ­ had to be a wind­up, especially as the caption be­ neath it claimed it would make wives ‘behave as a dutiful mother and wife, silent and without revolt.’

But it was NOT a spoof. This from a book entitled ‘Governing the Female Body: Gender, Health, and Networks of Power’: ‘In the 60s and 70s, as women were gaining more power in the work­ force and fought to alter the patriarchal structure, psychotropic pharmaceuti­ cals were used to calm down angry and irate feminists who would rock the so­ cial boat, demanding equality in wages and opportunity.’

I discovered the Roche Laboratories

ad, aimed at husbands wanting to zombify their uppity wives, while doing some picture research. I required an im­ age to illustrate a piece submitted to my Freethinker website by Seattle­based feminist and atheist blogger, Ophelia Benson.

Roche’s Valium ad was an extreme example of how rampant sexism was in the advertising industry during that era.

But while most ads were grossly offen­ sive, some were laugh­aloud funny, though clearly not intentionally so.

Example: a 60’s cigarette ad suggest­ ed that if you blow smoke in a woman’s face she’ll fall at your feet in adoration.

Why? Because the brand, Tipalet, came in a variety of irresistible flavours. It said: ‘Hit her with Tipalet Cherry. Or rich grape­y Tipalet Burgundy. Or lus­ cious Tiplalet Blueberry … a puff in her direction and she’ll follow you, any­ where.’

Now I never knew flavoured ciga­ rettes ever existed, aside from men­ thol, and imagined fruity aromas only hit the scene when vaping became fashionable and I took to it like a fat ADVERT: If you blow smoke in a woman’s face, she’ll fall at your feet in adoration.

kid takes to pies.

I threw over the fags about four years ago when I acquired my first Personal Electronic Nicotine Inhalation System (PENIS) and quickly discovered that people have some very odd reactions to vaping. One old geezer who periodically visits my local makes a point of sitting very close to me to sniff blueberry and mint, my favourite vape flavour.

Others stare daggers at me, feign coughing fits and wave their palms in front of their noses. One imbecile even did this when I simply placed an e­cig on a bar counter and made no move to puff on it.

But back to my main point: the man­ ner in which women were objectified as chattels, and portrayed as fragile, mind­ less creatures whose only purpose was to clean, cook and submit to their hus­ bands. In one a woman is shown actual­ ly getting spanked by her spouse for buying the ‘wrong’ coffee!

The image I eventually chose to illus­ trate Ophelia’s article was for a brand of ties called Van Heusen. It shows a woman kneeling beside her husband’s bed, offering him breakfast on a tray.

Your guess is as good as mine as to why hubby is in a single bed wearing a pris­ tine white shirt and a grotesque tie.

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7:00am Wanted Down Under 7:45am The Farmers' Country Showdown 8:30am MasterChef: The Professionals 9:30am This Week in Parliament 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Live Snooker: The Masters 5:45pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Richard Osman's House of Games 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Twinstitute 8:30pm Mastermind 9:00pm Only Connect 9:30pm University Challenge 10:00pm Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret 11:00pm I Love 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days 8:30pm Handmade: By Royal Appointment 9:00pm Caribbean with Simon Reeve 10:00pm The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story 11:00pm Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story 12:00am The Art of Scandinavia Andrew GrahamDixon explores the history of the North European region through its art.

1:00am Britain in Focus: A Photographic History 2:00am Paula Rego: Secrets and Stories 3:30am Handmade: By Royal Appointment 4:00am Caribbean with Simon Reeve

6:05am Judge Rinder 7:00am Good Morning Britain 10:00am Lorraine 11:00am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 4:00pm Tenable 4:59pm ITV London Weather 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Cold Feet 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm Welcome to HMP Belmarsh with Ross Kemp 12:45am All Elite Wrestling: Dynamite

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7:00am World of Sport: Petrol Heads 7:15am Quincy, M.E. 8:05am Kojak 9:00am The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 10:05am Minder 11:15am The Professionals 12:20pm The Sweeney 1:30pm Quincy, M.E. 2:30pm Kojak 3:35pm The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes 4:40pm Minder 5:45pm The Professionals 6:50pm The Sweeney 7:55pm The Chase Celebrity Special 9:00pm Rescue: River Deep, Mountain High 9:30pm Rescue: River Deep, Mountain High 10:00pm Fighter Pilot: The Real Top Gun 11:00pm Carlito's Way 12:00am FYI Daily 12:05am Carlito's Way 1:55am Minder 2:55am The Contender

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8:50am Raising Arizona 10:40am The Ladykillers 12:35pm You Don't Mess with the Zohan 2:40pm Johnny English 4:25pm Johnny English Reborn 6:15pm Johnny English Strikes Again 8:00pm Sometimes Always Never 9:45pm Little 11:40pm The Big Lebowski 1:40am Raising Arizona

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Hollyoaks Celebrity Coach Trip Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Young Sheldon Young Sheldon The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Mike & Molly Mike & Molly Young Sheldon Young Sheldon The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Celebrity Coach Trip The Big Bang Theory Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation 12:40am The Big Bang Theory 1:10am The Big Bang Theory

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7:15pm Spy Cat 9:00pm Us In 1986, young Adelaide goes on holiday with her parents to Santa Cruz.

11:00pm Vault 12:45am The Sisters Brothers 2:50am Burning

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1:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 2:00pm Football Countdowns 2:30pm Football Countdowns 3:00pm Football Years 3:30pm Football Years 4:00pm EFL Highlights 5:00pm The Fantasy Football Club 5:15pm The Fantasy Football Club 5:30pm Football's Greatest Players 6:00pm EFL Greatest Games 6:15pm EFL Greatest Games 6:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 6:45pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:00pm Soccer AM: The Best Bits 7:30pm EFL Goals: Leagues 1 &2 8:00pm EFL Championship Highlights 8:15pm When Jamie Met Frank 8:35pm Live Irish Football 10:45pm EFL Highlights 11:00pm The Debate 12:00am EFL Highlights

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7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Rip Off Britain: Holidays 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Wanted Down Under 12:45pm Caught Red Handed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm Father Brown 4:00pm I Escaped to the Country 4:45pm The Farmers' Country Showdown 5:30pm Antiques Road Trip 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News at Six 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Match of the Day Live: The FA Cup 11:00pm BBC News at Ten 11:25pm Regional News and Weather 11:30pm Weather 11:35pm Veganville 12:20am Nadiya's Asian Odyssey 1:20am Weather for the Week Ahead

Wanted Down Under 8:15am The Farmers' Country Showdown 9:00am MasterChef: The Professionals 10:00am BBC News at 9 11:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:15pm Politics Live 2:00pm Live Snooker: The Masters 5:45pm The Hairy Bikers' Pubs That Built Britain 6:15pm Flog It! 7:00pm Richard Osman's House of Games 7:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 8:00pm The Baby Has Landed 9:00pm Cornwall: This Fishing Life 10:00pm Exposed: The Church's Darkest Secret 11:00pm Better Things 11:20pm The Archiveologists 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am NFL This Week 1:05am Snooker: The Masters

8:00pm Beyond 100 Days BBC News teams in Washington DC and London report on the events that are shaping the world.

8:30pm Monkman & Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain 9:00pm Italy's Invisible Cities 10:00pm The Yorkshire Ripper Files: A Very British Crime Story 11:00pm Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story 12:00am Dan Cruickshank: At Home with the British 1:00am Romancing the Stone: The Golden Ages of British Sculpture 2:00am Big Sky, Big Dreams, Big Art: Made in the USA 3:00am The Mystery of Van Gogh's Ear 4:00am Italy's Invisible Cities

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11:00am Sky Sports News 12:00pm Sky Sports News 1:00pm Transfer Talk Discussion of the latest transfer news.

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6:05am Judge Rinder 7:00am Good Morning Britain 10:00am Lorraine 11:00am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 4:00pm Tenable 4:59pm ITV London Weather 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm The Chase 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm The Metro: A Rail Life Story 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:45pm White House Farm 12:45am Tenable 1:35am Ideal World 4:00am The Home Game 4:50am ITV Nightscreen Text-based information service.

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7:00am Spy Cat 8:35am Sometimes Always Never Alan is a tailor whose son Michael stormed out years ago over a game of Scrabble.

10:10am Pond Life 12:00pmUs In 1986, young Adelaide goes on holiday with her parents to Santa Cruz.

2:00pm Spy Cat 3:35pm Berlin, I Love You 5:40pm Vault 7:25pm Sometimes Always Never Alan is a tailor whose son Michael stormed out years ago over a game of Scrabble.

9:00pm Us In 1986, young Adelaide goes on holiday with her parents to Santa Cruz.

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9:00am Football Countdowns 10:00am SPFL Greatest Games 10:30am Football Years 11:00am Championship Season Review 12:00pm The Fantasy Football Club 12:30pm Football's Greatest Players 1:00pm EFL Greatest Games 1:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 2:00pm Football Countdowns 3:00pm Football Years 4:00pm EFL Highlights 5:00pm The Fantasy Football Club 5:30pm Football's Greatest Players 6:00pm EFL Greatest Games 6:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 7:00pm EFL Highlights 8:00pm Soccer AM: The Best Bits 8:30pm EFL Championship Highlights 11:00pm EFL Greatest Games 11:30pm SPFL Greatest Games 12:00am Championship Season Review

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A Year of decision MAKING decisions is an inevitable part of life and the new decade will surely bring many new choices along with it. And it’s safe to say that 2019 has seen a barrage of what most would consider as ‘bad’ decisions.

Prince Andrew went against his PR advisor to do a highly controversial interview with the BBC. Facebook was fined $5 billion after some shady emails brought their privacy lapses to light. And in the political sphere, Jeremy Corbyn led his party to their worst result since 1935.

Research suggests that the typical person makes around 35,000 decisions per day. Most of these decisions are minor and automatic, but many also have serious consequences.

Good decision-making takes rest, concentration and balanced emotions; circumstances that aren’t always possible to maintain. However, as we prep a r e t o t a k e o n t h e Ne w Ye a r, s o m e a r g u e t h a t there are no ‘bad’ decisions and that taking action trumps everything.

Life coaches agree that decisions resulting in an ugly aftermath allow people to refine what they want from life and increase resilience. They also give the opportunity to master the art of self-forgiveness and exercise freedom of choice. One thing is for certain, if a boat never sets sail it will never reach its destination, even if it has to correct course along the way.

WHAT INVESTMENTS? Dear EWN, AS all the local town halls finish up their budgets for 2020, I am left wonde­ ring. When will the average resident see any improvements? Living in Malaga City I am left very confused with the big investments the town hall is conti­ nuously announcing. In my area, I have barely seen any changes in the past ye­ ars. And compared to the Christmas lights in the centre, we only got a few old lights put up. Last year, one of the Christmas lights came down in the middle of a busy road and nearly hit a passing lorry. Also, the pavement on my street is lifted up in lots of places and is a safety concern, especially for my older neighbours.

It’s very discouraging to see all the money go to the same areas time and ti­ me again. As much as Calle Larios is very important to the city, I think the town hall could work by areas and slowly fix everything up.

Suzanne King

Leapy and Scotland YOUR correspondent, Leapy Lee, ap­ pears to have a number of fans amongst the expats in Spain. Fair enough if he is pontificating on rat­ her stunted musical histories, condi­ tions in prisons or running a bar in Mallorca, all subjects he has expe­ rienced in his career and may well be well informed on such matters.

He does, however have no obvious knowledge whatsoever of the Scot­ tish people and their wishes.

In the 2014 Independence refe­ rendum, 55 per cent of the electora­ te voted to remain within the UK and to be honest, had I had a vote at that time, I would probably have vo­ ted with the 55 per cent. I do believe that the larger unit is better placed in most circumstances and certainly as far as negotiations, for whatever the object, may be.

At that time the UK was part of the EU and there was no serious talk of them leaving that union. Fast for­ ward to 2016 and the referendum on the subject of leaving the EU and although Scotland voted 62 per cent

MALAGA CITY: Needs investment to be spread around. to 38 per cent against leaving, and the Northern Irish people also voted against leaving, they were obliged to follow the English voters.

In the recent general election, 48 of the 59 Scottish constituencies voted for the Scottish National Party. (A party with a second referendum high in its manifesto). The Conservatives won six seats, but still an English Prime Minister has rejected the Scots’ wishes for a re­

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LL may well feel that the Scottish are incapable of governing themselves, (he may even be correct) but what would his reaction be if the English people we­ re being treated in such a shameful manner?

Regards, Alex Walker San Miguel de Salinas

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risk, these parole boards are a joke.

I have no issue with people trying to make a living and if they were selling merchandise like this it would be fine.

I just think this differs hugely from selling goods that pass off genuine brand names which is highly illegal, in fact tourists attempting to later import these items into the UK can find the item not only confiscated but them­ selves in court. It would be great if they could sell this

Less than 25% of people stay committed to their New Year resolutions for more than 30 days. Are you one of them?

• YES, I commit!

• NO, it doesn’t last!

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kind of merchandise instead, and be permitted to do so by the authorities while they await their time before ap­ plying for residency. That said, it’s still wrong to simply turn up on a foreign nation’s shores without going through the relevant customs and disease checks, which can potentially cause a vulnerability to that na­ tion and people living there.

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Tip for today: When going to a restaurant, if you wouldn’t use their toilet, don’t eat their food!

My husband and I ran a bar/restaurant and we were so particular about the loos ensuring they were always clean, we overheard someone who came in with their family say, ‘it’s okay, we will stay, the toilets are nice and clean ‘, this just goes to show how important it is.

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CES, The Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Nevada 2020 Peek Preview RONNIE ROCKS THE TECH FANCY a robotic pizza mak­ ing machine?

Seattle­based company Picnic’s robot can produce up to 300 12­inch person­ alised pizzas per hour. In the future, the technology could well be adapted to make up other dishes, in­ cluding buns, bowls, tor­ tillas, and plates.

For now, though, pizza is the focus, and we’ll be sure to get our best taste­testers on the case of checking for even dispersal of cheese, tomato, salami and other toppings.

Pets versus robots Comparing robots to one another is usually a point­ less pursuit, given how di­ verse they are in both build and purpose. The one ex­ ception is when judging which robot is the cutest ­ and there’s a lot of compe­ tition.

The cutest robots are of­ ten designed for the home, either as toys or as compan­ ions. The best­known of these is Sony’s Aibo, the robo­dog pet surrogate.

Shenzhen­based Elephant Robotics is listed as attend­ ing the show this year, and though the company histor­ ically has focused on mak­ ing robotic arms, we’re hop­ ing to see another project it’s been working on.

PING PONG: To coach your game.

In December, it put its ro­ botic feline MarsCat on Kickstarter, and we’re hop­ ing to play with the purring, pouncing bionic robo­cat at the show.

We’re also crossing our fingers that we may meet Tombot, a realistic Labrador companion robot designed for seniors with dementia.

As well as robots that are pets, we’ll also see robots for pets at the show this year, including the LavvieBot smart litter tray for cats and the launch of Mia, a robot that will play with your precious puss or pooch and dispense dry food and treats.

Righteous robots Bosch will present a sen­ sor system that’ll ride around on NASA’s Astrobee robot, which roams the In­ ternational Space Station, to detect sounds that could indicate technical faults.

We’re also expecting to

ROBOTIC PIZZA: Tasters will check for even dispersal.

see a number of advances in surgical robots and ro­ botic hands, as well as ro­ bots designed to help with care and recovery.

There’s the latest Room­ ba robot vacuum cleaner, an esports fighting robot and the show­stealing star of CES 2019, Groove X’s huggable companion ro­ bot Lovot.

Robot Ping Pong anyone?

The whole aim of For­ pheus is to coach you on improving your game. The robot uses sensors on your bat (aka paddle) and five cameras to work out where you are and how you’re moving. It plays us­ ing a multi­axis robotic arm that can mimic human tac­ tics such as topspin. Feed­ back arrives via voice and on a screen, which offers tips about posture, posi­ tioning, and swing.

More to follow soon CES 2020.

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Across 1 Get up around noon and wash lightly (5) 4 South of Spain and Portugal, a region far to the east (7) 8 Electricity supplier got name wrong (7) 9 Staff conceal a French circular (5) 10 Abroad, went out with old hat (8) 11 Have in mind the middle position (4) 13 Passes the time shopping? (6) 14 Blackbird becomes a hound (6) 17 A bird has to take evasive action (4) 19 Roman Catholic official's vehicle Linda crashed (8) 22 Grub of a popular variety (5) 23 Back away, it’s a horrible tree rat (7) 24 Doubter, cold, in infected surroundings (7) 25 Afghan ruler appearing in dream, eerily (5) Down 1 Young lover runs rings around me (5) 2 Close to neckwear, item of lingerie (7) 3 Stones thrown by mere lads (8) 4 Pushes steamship around East Sussex resort (6) 5 Hurtful remark from pub bore, initially (4) 6 Get up or use make-up (5) 7 Plus, the poker stake is a musical direction (7) 12 A blood-feud to sell - and for the

French, a thankyou (8) 13 Dad's going round with Les to get some bicycle seats (7) 15 Birds circling on rising from an Italian city (7)

Code Breaker

16 Material contained in half a brick (6) 18 Five taken into care are cut up (5) 20 Some rare talent returning afterwards (5) 21 Compassion, we hear, for male deer (4)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 4 represents M and 25 represents Y, so fill in M every time the figure 4 appears and Y every time the figure 25 appears. Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across Down 1 Not complex (6) 1 Game similar to billiards (7) 4 Swearword (4) 2 Slightly wet (5) 8 Containing faults (9) 3 Be without (4) 9 Toy flown in the wind (4) 5 Watchful (5) 10 Position (6) 6/18 Casserole of meat and vegetables, 13 Free from harm or evil (6) typically topped with sliced potato (3,3) 15 Give temporarily (4) 7 Fact that has been verified (5) 18 Establish or official way of doing 11 Vocalists (7) something (9) 12 At rest (5) 19 Narrative, story (4) 14 Mar (5) 20 Washes (6) 16 Musical drama (5) 17 Having no empty space (4) 18 See 6

English - Spanish

Across 1 Shoe polish (5) 4 Brújula (7) 8 Puddles (7) 9 From (indicating starting place) (5) 10 Hasta ahora (2,3) 11 El más largo (7) 12 Fuga (6) 14 Platillo (para una taza) (6) 17 Mustard (7) 19 Less (5) 21 Dejar (5) 22 Beggar (7) 23 To stretch (7) 24 Enojado (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

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

Down 1 Mouths (of people, animals, bottles) (5) 2 Tráfico (7) 3 To be born (5) 4 Castillo (6) 5 Move (house) (7) 6 Nave (de iglesia) (5) 7 Refugio (sitio) (7) 12 Enamel (7) 13 To plan (7) 15 Astuto (7) 16 Martillo (6) 18 Inteligente (5) 19 Sleeve (5) 20 Nevado (5)

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AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) The pleasure you will get from helping in the home this week should not be underestimated. What you have been thinking of as a chore turns out to be a great ball of fun. Youngsters may be involved at the weekend, so plan ahead to give them a festive surprise.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Your relationships to others linked to the home environment are going well. Aim to build on that this week because the chance to make a real change to your surroundings opens up. Comfort is top of your agenda and the continuing sales give scope.

Restlessness can be channelled into an energetic response when others seek help.

Taking on a small charitable task makes you smile and brings satisfaction.

ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Your mind is as sharp as a razor this week, so woe betide anyone who tries to trick you.

It's a great time to use your talents fully, particularly in regard to a business venture.

It is possible that your strengths are a little unrecognised so don't be afraid to try something entirely new. A strong urge to take control keeps others on their toes.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) This week is mainly concerned with financial matters, and it is easy to both save and make extra money. Keep your energy levels high by making the most of chances to exercise and get out in the fresh air.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) The repayment of a favour should see you with extra money in your pocket.

Holding on to it is your best bet. Trying to change someone close is so obviously not going to work that it is surprising you tried for so long.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) A social gathering turns up an old friend who makes an offer.

Although you may feel unworthy, please be reminded of the times in the past when you have given them support. It will be through others that real progress will be made.

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LEO (July 24 - August 23) Keep energy levels high by being at the hub of any social activities. Accept all invitations, however dull you feel that they may turn out and allow yourself to be surprised. Continue with any checkups on your health, eating sensibly if you overindulged during the holiday.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) As you have decided to rearrange both your business and home life, it is a busy time, indeed. You enjoy a challenge so it will not worry you that other people have different ideas. Although you are not inclined to listen to silly whims, some things crop up time and again and have to be dealt with at some point.

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SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Making a new start is not always the exciting thing that people imagine. When there are still old matters to be resolved, it takes the edge off the pleasure. It may be worth cooling off a new relationship until your social life is more settled. An urge to move around could be caused by your not facing a problem straight on.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

IRISH LOTTO Saturday January 4

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CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) This is the time. It isn't a nibble that is needed at the moment, but a feast. Accepting anything less would be a mistake because someone is watching your reaction to an offer. If you feel unsure of your worth, then ask a few trusted friends.

Nonagram

BONUS BALL

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EURO MILLIONS Tuesday December 31

BONUS BALL

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48

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Friday January 3

BONUS BALL

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47

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Thursday January 2

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JOKER: 4 581 061 Saturday January 4

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JOKER: 2 157 304 EL GORDO DE LA PRIMITIVA Sunday January 5

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25 32

27 44

BONUS BALL

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

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: 12 Good: 17 Very good: 25 Excellent: 32

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION acme acre cake came camp cape care carp cere cram mace mack marc pace pack peck race rack ackee apace caper crake cramp crape creak cream creek creep crepe macer pacer peace recap amerce camera camper packer pecker raceme repack PACEMAKER

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS

QUICK Across: 1 Scrub, 4 Bison, 7 Menagerie, 8 Deck, 10 Caries, 12 Single, 13 Less, 16 Overwhelm, 18 Delay, 19 Tinny.

Down: LA PRIMITIVA

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Get both business and personal plans sorted out in the coming week. Thereafter, changes to your routine may be necessary, which is disruptive. The best-laid plans can need adjustment, so don't beat yourself up over that.

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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LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) Concentrating on hearth and home gives you great satisfaction. As a born homemaker, you relish the idea of making something beautiful. This week it may be possible to show more of your skills when someone seeks your advice. You could end up helping with appearances.

BONUS BALL

Sudoku

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

1 Scold, 2 Ram, 3 Bank, 4 Beggar, 5 Sardine, 6 Needs, 9 Conceal, 11 Slowly, 12 Sword, 14 Scary, 15/17 Best man.

CRYPTIC Across: 1 Pays, 3 Saracens, 9 Ethanol, 10 Abide, 11 Stoke, 12 Method, 14 Nickel, 16 Tucson, 19 Weasel, 21 Rosie, 24 Snipe, 25 Granite, 26 Stealing, 27 Zeus.

Down:

1 Pheasant, 2 Yahoo, 4 Aflame, 5 Abaft, 6 Editors, 7 Sees, 8 Annexe, 13 Integers, 15 Chemise, 17 Uproar, 18 Flagon, 20 Smell, 22 Suite, 23 Uses.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Down:

Across: 1 Castaña, 5 Snore, 8 Llano, 9 Receipt, 10 Flechas, 11 Slide, 12 Nevera, 14 Empate, 18 Wings, 20 Alambre, 22 Emanate, 23 Prima, 24 Traje, 25 Pretend.

1 Celofan, 2 Suave, 3 Another, 4 Atraso, 5 Socks, 6 Oficina, 7 Entre, 13 Ventaja, 15 Meat pie, 16 Emerald, 17 Make-up, 18 Wheat, 19 Shake, 21 Bride.

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FEATURE

How are you playing the game of life?

ROBERT SHALLIS DO you remember playing a board game called ‘The Game of Life.’ A brief outline of the game: it’s a sim­ ulation of travels through the latter stages of life, from university to re­ tirement, facing the challenges, twists and turns 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. Real 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 forward to improving the next time around.

This is how many people play out their real lives too.

It’s easy to relish in the enjoyment

GAME OF LIFE: Discard that dice, design your own life and allow yourself to be the creator of it. of your own successes in life, but, it’s equally as important to accept 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 careered people to be winning their game of life, but it couldn’t be further from the truth for some of them. Some find themselves too busy trying to make a living and forget to make a life. They have allowed the scales to tip too far in one direction leading to other important areas of their lives

becoming 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 efforts 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 depart this world with­ out fulfilling our real desires. Regret­ ful of not spending 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 happi­ er 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 bene­ fits all.

TRAVEL A ROMANTIC and elegant city, the first impression of Ante­ quera is the magnificent view of ‘Peña de los Enamorados’ (Lovers’ Rock) a magnificent mountain with the silhouette of an Indian’s face, set in a vast area of flat land with neat rows of olive trees.

Folklore legends say that a young Christian man from Ante­ quera and a Muslim girl from nearby Archidona held hands and threw themselves from the top of the mountain, as they could not be together.

The ancient Moorish Alcazaba and its castle walls look down over Antequera. The steep climb to it is worth a visit, with views of the whole of Antequera.

Archaeologists have uncov­

Historical elegance

CULTURE AND HISTORY: The breathtaking city of Antequera. ered Roman mosaics in the grounds below and right next to it is the 15th century church of Santa Maria, the first Renais­ sance style church in Andalucia.

There are, in fact, 33 churches in Antequera, making it the city with the most churches per capita than anywhere else in Spain.

A bronze Roman sculpture ‘El Efebo’ was discovered in Ante­ quera by archaeologists in 1955.

It is 1.43m tall and perfectly pre­ served and can be seen in the lo­ cal museum along with other in­ teresting artefacts. Last year UNESCO named two sites in An­ tequera as World Heritage Sites; the dolmens and El Torcal. The

dolmens are ancient burial tombs dating back to 4,000 BC. There are three dolmens, Men­ ga, Viera and El Romeral. En­ trance is free and there is an in­ formation centre. A short drive up the hills just out of Antequera leads to the natural park of El Torcal, an area of curious, im­ pressive Jurassic age limestone formations which are 150 mil­ lion years old and one of the most impressive karst land­ scapes in Europe. In the past, the whole area was under the sea. Those feeling energetic may want to hike up the mountain.

There are three guided routes: green, orange and red, the latter being the most difficult. Perfect

for nature lovers and all types of birds, eagles and even vultures can be seen. Afterwards why not have a refreshing drink and traditional tapas in the restau­ rant.

A few local delicacies include ‘porra Antequerana’, a cold dish of blended tomatoes and bread served cold with one of their fa­ mous ‘molletes,’ delicious soft, white bread rolls, usually eaten for breakfast or ‘merienda’ (high tea).

Gazpachuelo is a white soup with fish, garlic, prawns, potato and mayonnaise and for the sweet toothed ‘bienmesabe,’ lit­ erally meaning ‘it tastes good to me,’ an ancient dessert of Arabic origin, made with ground al­ monds, honey, egg yolk and cin­ namon.

Antequera, being the centre of Andalucia, is easily accessible by car from Malaga, Cordoba, Sevilla, Granada and Cadiz provinces, or by air from airports across both the UK and Spain.

The nearest airport is Malaga, just a 45­minute drive or just over an hour by train.

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Stretch it out THERE’S a lot of research that prais­ es the benefits of Pilates, from re­ ducing the risk of certain illnesses to strengthening muscles and improv­ ing flexibility.

It’s also a gentler workout than most but it can be just as effective, meaning you get all the benefits of exercise without any of the soreness afterwards.

According to a study by the Jour­ nal of Orthopaedic & Sports Physical Therapy, Pilates can help ease back ache as those with chronic lower back pain who attended classes for a month experienced more relief than those who went to see a physician or other specialist.

This is believed to be because Pi­ lates strengthens the core, which then alleviates stress on the lower back region.

A stronger core also will help to improve your posture and overall sports performance as all the body’s

muscles are connected through the core, so this will make your move­ ments sharper and help you run faster.

It’s also easier on your joints than other workouts as the slow, controlled move­ ments cause minimal im­ pact.

One of the major benefits of practising Pilates is the won­ ders it does to your flexibility, which can improve your body’s range of motion and, therefore, your exer­ cise performance.

A study that followed young Brazilian women, without any prior experience, as they attended 20 Pilates ses­ sions showed they became 19.1 per cent more flexible by the end of the research.

PURPLE GAIN: Lavender has been proven to reduce emotional stress and nervous tension.

Lathering in lavender LAVENDER oil is extracted from the flowers of the lavender plant, usually using steam, and is often used in beauty and health products such as aro­ matherapy oil, lotions and soaps.

The essential oil also works well when blended with other essential oils such as pine, cedar wood, geranium and nutmeg.

The health benefits of laven­ der oil have been raved about for centuries. It has the ability to relieve pain, enhance blood cir­ culation, get rid of nervous ten­ sion, disinfect the skin, enhance

blood circulation, and treat res­ piratory problems among oth­ ers.

It also works as an effective bug repellent and has anti­in­ flammatory qualities that help to reduce the irritation if you do get bitten.

Lavender oil has been used for centuries to induce sleep and can be used to treat insom­ nia. Studies on elderly people have revealed their sleep regu­ larity increases when they place some lavender essential oil on their pillows due to its relaxing impact.

For this reason it also helps to calm the nerves and ease anxi­ ety.

The stimulating aroma has been proven to get rid of ner­ vous exhaustion and restless­ ness while increasing mental ac­ tivity at the same time. This, therefore, makes it effective in treating depression, headaches, emotional stress and nervous tension.

One study revealed that peo­ ple taking exams suffered from less anxiety if they inhaled lavender and rosemary oil be­ fore taking the test.

STRONG: Pilates helps to strengthen the core.

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REGULAR CARE: Stay well for the rest of your life.

Why Chiropractic care is good for you!

THE following 10 statements explain why getting a spinal adjustment by a Chiropractor can help you to get and stay well for the rest of your life. Each statement is sup­ ported by some great peer reviewed articles which backs up the benefits of regular chiropractic care.

To find out more about the research please visit www.kironilsson.com.

1. It’s good for your nervous system. This is the system that controls and regulates every single function in your body.

2. It’s good for your posture. The author of the sup­ porting paper also suggests that you may need more than one or two adjustments if you want to train your­ self out of poor postural habits.

3. It’s good for your brain function. There is evidence to suggest that getting adjusted may help improve vi­ sion, reading ability, memory, alertness, energy.

4. It keeps your joints young and well lubricated. An adjustment can help restore normal joint movement and mechanics and help remove joint adhesions or scar tis­ sue.

5. It’s good for your overall. Health measurement of ‘serum thiol levels’ reveal the higher the level the health­ ier you are or the less chance of disease. People without pain or symptoms and were getting adjusted had high serum thiol levels.

6. It’s good for your family. Especially babies with colic as it may stop them crying and this makes mummy and daddy happier.

7. It can make you more flexible.The article by Fox us­ es hamstrings as an example of how being adjusted and stretching can help your muscles to relax.

8. It can make your muscles stronger and more flexi­ ble. Quite an in­depth explanation into why getting ad­ justed can improve neurological control and muscle strength.

9. It can improve your co­ordination. Significant im­ provement to hand­eye co­ordination are noted in this article following a series of adjustments.

10. It is an effective treatment for back pain. Chiro­ practic came out on top in this article relative to hospital out­patient physiotherapy treatment.

For more information, call in to our practice, connect on Facebook, or visit our website.

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Stay clean CLEAN eating has been the focus of many dieti­ cians and health­food obsessives for a while now, but what does the term actually mean? Is it actually as good for you as it’s made out to be?

Clean eating is defined by the Oxford Dictionary simply as: ‘Relating to a diet consisting of un­ processed, unrefined, and nutrient­rich food, typically eaten as small meals throughout the day.’

Ea t i n g a d i e t o f f r e s h , unprocessed food is un­ doubtedly important, and is the basis for the entire clean eating movement. However, the term has now been used to describe many recent diet trends such as organic, vegan or al­ kaline diets.

Some believe you have to cut out all gluten products to be eating ‘clean,’ others think the same for dairy.

While many of these diets have their bene­ fits, it’s important to make sure your diet is rich with all the essen­ tial nutrients your body needs, and eliminating entire food groups sometimes defeats the

purpose of healthy eat­ ing.

Although society as a whole is undoubtedly eating more processed food than a hundred years ago, simply be­ cause there were less processed ingredients back then and it was more common place to eat from scratch, the clean eating movement has had a positive im­ pact in that it’s encour­ aging more people to get back to basics and con­

sider what they actually put in their bodies.

You shouldn’t cut out every indulgence in the

name of healthy eating, but eating a range of un­ processed, fresh food is always important.

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Blonde bombshell T O W I E’S Amber Turner brought a touch of Essex allure to Marbella as she enjoyed a romantic break with boyfriend Dan Edgar. The starlet has been feuding with T OW I E co-star Chloe Sims, ever since it was revealed her beau Dan had been two-timing them.

However, the loved-up pair seemed to be in good spirits as they soaked up the sun during the Christmas break.

The blonde beauty enjoyed the good weather as she stunned in a feminine, low-cut top and pink trousers. Brushing off the drama, the good-looking couple only had eyes for each other as they posed for Instagram on Marbella’s seafront.

After a rocky year, the pair seemed to have reconciled as they frolicked during the sunset stroll. Amber and Dan be-

2017, but have split on numerous occasions. Earlier in the year, it was revealed that Dan had enjoyed a brief fling with mum-of-one Chloe in March.

FAMOUS RAPPER: Kylie Jenner’s ex, Travis Scott.

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gan their relationship in

SPANISH singer Rosalia recently announced her latest collaboration with one of the most famous rappers in the world Travis Scott.

The song, Highest in the Room is a remix of the original version that Scott released last October that went directly to Number 1 on the Billboard charts. The song belongs to JackBoys, a miniLP of remixes featuring heavyweights of hip hop and rap.

Last July, she shared a photo with Scott on Instagram that hinted at a possible collaboration. The truth is that the musician, former beau of Kylie Jenner and father of her daughter Stormi, knows Rosalia’s talent well. Both

share a producer, Frank Dukes, considered the ‘King Midas’ of hip hop. Dukes, creator of some of Kanye West and Rihanna’s successes, has worked with Scott on his three studio albums. Rosalia recorded with him two of his hits of the year: Con Altura and A Palé.

Hours after the release of Highest in the Room, social networks began to speculate on who will make cameos on the new Rosalia album, planned for 2020. Travis Scott, of course, but also names like Kanye West and Billie Eilish were mentioned.

Rosalia closes an impressive year, positioning herself as ‘royalty’ in the music industry.

The Spider in the toaster I SHOW you this picture as a gift from nature to a friend of mine who now has a new website. Could you break up this beautiful home and kill the creature that made it?

I have a spider that lives in my toaster and I honestly don’t know how it sur­ vives. There is no web and it is one of those Spanish jumping varieties that run like Usain Bolt.

Three years ago I was driving at night in South East France near the Pyrenees, on a two­lane country road when the car ahead slammed on its brakes and jinked right, on the left was a car pulled over with squiffy headlights, and in the middle of the road still kicking, a large wild boar on its side. The car with the squiffy head­ lights was going to need a tow truck. The car in front of me pulled over and stopped, I cruised onwards into the night with little I could do about anything.

Suddenly racing towards me was a convoy of small French vans of all sorts and varying degrees of dilapidation.

These were the local hunters sum­ moned to despatch the wild boar as quickly and humanely as possible before butchering the animal at the road side. A wild boar in that condition is very danger­ ous indeed. This was the best outcome

SPIDER’S WEB: Could you break up this beautiful home?

and the fastest for the situation.

Really city folk should not be judge­ mental of what goes on in the country, and most city folk would not have the guts to put this unfortunate boar out of its misery quickly. Even with a gun, if they

had one to hand and knew how to take the safety catch off and where to put the bullet.

I mention this because of a fool in the UK delighted to post on Facebook how he clubbed a fox to death that was caught in barbed wire. I am no fan of fox hunting for pleasure but I could not club the poor ani­ mal to death either. I would have got hold of someone with a gun to put it out of its misery as quickly as possible.

Some people condemn country life, and those who live it, I think that is quite wrong. City people who think a steak comes wrapped and packaged should think again.

A few years ago in the USA a pilot friend who lived opposite a poor family in Florida had an experience too. The moth­ er regularly left her children to come home from school and sit on the front porch before she might come home to feed them in two­three hours. My friend and his wife started to take the children in and feed them until the mother came home. The children were horrified that burgers came from pigs and cows and nuggets came from chickens. Yes, it did take an animal to die to provide.

My spider will live on in the toaster, it does not have to provide for me.

SOCIAL SCENE BOWLER’S PRIVATE DINING THIS week’s recipe is a classic which has become trendy on food menus all over the UK in the last few years.

Pulled pork is an American culinary dish that originated in the southern US states which uses shredded barbecued pork shoulder as the main ingredient.

The methods of cooking em­ ployed to make pulled pork are primarily slow cooking using a slow cooker or in an oven cooked on a low heat for four hours.

The meat is then shredded by hand and mixed with a selection of sauces. In this case I have used BBQ sauce as it’s every­ one’s favourite and you can’t go wrong, especially with the younger generation!

It serves well on bread, with potatoes or even a summer sal­ ad. So turn on the music, crack open a bottle and let’s get cook­ ing!

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Pulled BBQ pork AMERICAN DISH: Originated in the southern US states Ingredients 1 kg boneless shoulder of pork wrapped in netting 2 onions, peeled, sliced 4 garlic cloves, diced Drizzle olive oil 1 tablespoon brown sugar 1 teaspoon mustard powder 1 teaspoon chilli flakes 1 teaspoon salt 2 teaspoons ground cumin 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon 2 cups BBQ sauce BBQ sauce Ingredients 120g ketchup 2 tablespoons brown sugar 2 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce 2 tablespoons HP sauce 1 tablespoon cider vinegar 1 dash Tabasco 1 tablespoon honey 1 clove garlic, minced

BBQ SAUCE: Perfect accompaniment for pulled pork.

1/4 teaspoon mustard powder 1/4 teaspoon salt Method Preheat the oven on 160°.

Wash the shoulder of pork and pat dry. Combine the sugar, chilli powder, salt, garlic, cumin, mustard powder, chilli flakes and cinnamon in a bowl.

Rub the spice mixture all over the pork and place the meat on top of the onions in a baking tray and drizzle with oil. Cover with foil and cook until the pork is fork tender, about four-five hours.

Remove from the oven and

set aside. Using two forks, shred the meat into bitesized pieces, discarding any large pieces of fat. Add the shredded meat to the bowl and combine with my next recipe, BBQ sauce. Taste and season with salt if needed.

Method - BBQ sauce In a saucepan over medium heat, add the ketchup, sugar, Worcestershire sauce, vinegar, Tabasco, HP sauce, honey, garlic, mustard powder and salt. Bring to a boil and leave to simmer for one minute to reduce a little.

Then remove from heat and allow to cool.

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SINCE the introduction of the Dream D­Type in 1949, Honda’s 70th anniversary of motorcycle mass­production marks the compa­ ny’s 400 million­unit milestone for global motorcycle production.

Honda was founded in 1948, and began mass­production of motorcy­ cles at its first overseas production facility in Belgium in 1963. Since then, Honda has expanded its pro­ duction globally in accordance with its fundamental principle of produc­ ing locally where there is demand.

Honda currently produces a wide range of motorcycles, from 50cc commuters to 1,800cc models, at 35 facilities in 21 countries.

Since its foundation, Honda has developed and provided products that meet the needs of customers in many countries and regions, based on its belief that ‘the purpose of technology is to help people.’

As a result, Honda achieved its 100 million­unit milestone in 1997, and its 300 million­unit milestone in 2014. In 2018, Honda exceeded an annual production of 20 million units for the first time in its history, and enjoys strong support from cus­ tomers in the Asia region and worldwide. Honda will continue to

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construct its development and pro­ duction structure to meet rising de­ mand. And, Honda will strive to re­ alise its 2030 vision, to serve people worldwide with the ‘joy of expand­ ing their life’s potential.’

Takahiro Hachigo, Chief Executive Officer, Honda Motor Co Ltd, said: “For 70 years, Honda has provided to customers worldwide motorcy­ cles that make life easier and en­ joyable. As a result, we have achieved our 400 million­unit milestone. I am grateful to all of our customers, and everyone involved in de­ velopment, manufactur­ ing, sales and service of our products.

“We will continue to do our best to provide attractive products that meet the needs and dreams of our customers worldwide.”

1949 DREAM D-TYPE: Honda’s first major motorcycle model, manufactured in Japan.

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ROAD TEST

by Nick Fletcher THE Mercedes­Benz brand is mostly associated with sports and luxury models, but many with more modest budgets aspire to own a Mercedes and the entry level model is the A Class, a well­designed and well­equipped family car.

Priced from €27,717 (£23,710), the A Class range of­ fers petrol and diesel engines and manual and automatic transmissions and even entry­ level SE versions come with a generous amount of standard features.

One of the popular choices is the entry­level SE model A180 diesel, which offers out­ standing fuel economy, aver­ aging 24.9 kpl (70.6 mpg).

Powered by a 1.5­litre 116 hp diesel unit and with six­speed manual gearbox, this version has a 0­100 kph time of 10.6 seconds and top speed of 203 kph (126 mph). Emissions are low at 106 g/km.

In a sector which includes stalwarts such as the Volk­ swagen Golf and BMW 1 Se­

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A CLASS: A well-designed and well-equipped family car. ries, the Mercedes A Class cuts a dash, offering more vi­ sual cachet thanks to its sleek styling and a dramatic front end dominated by a large ex­ ample of its famous three­ pointed badge.

Inside, it is a similar story with a wow­factor dashboard with turbine­style vents, multi­

Facts at a glance Model: Mercedes-Benz A180 SE Engine: 1.5 litre diesel Transmission: 6-speed manual Performance: 0-100 kph 10.6 seconds, top speed 203 kph (126 mph) Economy: 24.9 kpl (70.6 mpg) Emissions: 106 g/km

Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

function sports steering wheel, chrome detailing and use of quality trim materials to create a very classy appearance which helps make you feel you are in something that is rather spe­ cial. The seating is comfortable and supportive, and there is good occupant space front and rear. The boot space of 360

litres is expandable by folding the rear seats.

Standard equipment in­ cludes four powered windows, climate control, sat­nav, cruise control, reversing sensors, digi­ tal radio, Bluetooth and con­ nectivity features, and safety kit includes auto emergency braking, lane departure warn­ ing and tyre pressure monitor­ ing.

On the road, the engine de­ livers its power quietly, smoothly and progressively, making both city and open­ road driving quite relaxing, The suspension is well­balanced providing precise and com­ posed handling and supple ride quality.

Summing up, the A180 is a strong contender in the crowd­ ed family car sector, offering a very good all­round package with the kudos of a prestige badge. Mercedes says the A Class ‘redefines the compact class’ and I think anyone who test drives one will find it hard to challenge that assertion.

Quarter of a million IN Mid­December at the Autostadt, the Volkswagen brand delivered the 250,000th electric car since the introduction of the e­up! in 2013.

The brand’s electrified model range has been con­ tinually expanded in the following years: e­Golf and Golf GTE followed in 2014, the Passat GTE and Passat Variant GTE in 2015. Since 2018, the Passat and Tiguan have been available as plug­in hybrids in China, where they were followed by battery electric versions of the Bora and Lavida this year.

The best­selling electric car has been the e­Golf with 104,000 units deliv­ ered, followed by the Golf GTE (51,000), Passat Vari­ ant GTE (42,000) and e­up!

(21,000). Half of the cus­ tomers opted for a battery electric vehicle and the other half for a plug­in hy­ brid.

The 250,000th car is a ‘Pure White’ e­Golf which was presented to Sandra Fleischer from Herne, who took delivery of the car at the Autostadt in Wolfsburg.

Jürgen Stackmann, Board Member for Sales, Market­ ing and After Sales, said: “With the 250,000th elec­ trified vehicle, the Volk­ swagen brand has reached a major milestone on the way to carbon­neutral mo­ bility. Especially all­electric vehicles such as our new ID family are the answer to major challenges of our times.

“They offer considerable driving pleasure and advan­

tages we could only dream of a few years ago.

“They have a carbon­ neutral balance, offer more space with comparable outside dimensions, and are quiet, highly efficient, economical and inexpen­ sive to maintain. This is why we will be selling the next 250,000 electrified ve­ hicles in a considerably shorter period of time. At Volkswagen, we are con­ vinced that the future is electric.”

Despite some model changes, the Volkswagen brand delivered more than 70,000 electrified vehicles in 2019 ­ following 50,000 last year. The main sales markets in 2019 were Chi­ na, Norway, Germany, the USA and the United King­ dom.

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ARSENAL THROUGH ARSENAL moved into t h e f o u r t h ro u n d o f the FA Cup with a 1-0 victory over Leeds United on Monday.

Mikel Arteta earned his second win as head coach in all competitions thanks to a scrappy finish from Reiss Nelson 10 minutes after the restart.

Championship leaders Leeds had entirely con­ trolled a first half in which Arsenal looked a shadow of the team that played so well in the narrow loss to Chelseaand 2­0 victory over Manchester United recently in the Premier League.

Arteta, though, managed to spark a second­half up­ turn to secure a fourth­ round match away to Bournemouth.

A strong Arsenal side were outplayed in the first 45 minutes at Emirates Stadi­ um, Leeds managing 15 shots and 63 per cent of the ball on the Gunners’ own turf.

Goalkeeper Emiliano Mar­

ARSENAL: Will be looking for some silverware this year. tinez saved well from Jack Harrison’s strike before Patrick Bamford rattled the crossbar from inside the penalty area, as the visitors continued to win the ball back with ease whenever the hosts moved forward.

Martinez had to react bril­ liantly to make sure Sokratis Papastathopoulos did not turn Luke Ayling’s cross into his own net, as the visitors failed to make the most of several good openings.

Arteta’s half­time talk

clearly got through as Arse­ nal started the second half on the front foot, and they snatched a fortuitous break­ through after 55 minutes when Nelson scuffed a finish past Illan Meslier after a cross from Lacazette deflect­ ed into his path.

Leeds were now looking unable to cope with a high press and substitute Gabriel Martinelli forced a good save from Meslier, after La­ cazette had escaped punish­ ment when VAR reviewed

him kicking out at Gaetano Berardi.

Such was the difference between Arsenal’s perfor­ mances in the first and sec­ ond halves that whatever Arteta said to his players should be noted down and taught in coaching classes.

A lifeless, disconnected display turned into a high­ pressing and hard­working approach to which Leeds had no answer.

But for Martinez’s excel­ lent first­half saves, this game could have been be­ yond the Gunners long be­ fore Arteta had the chance to lift his players’ perfor­ mance.

Having hit the bar in a promising first half, Bamford grew less and less effective in the second and was most­ ly a passenger for the final 20 minutes.

Arsenal under their new manager will be looking for some silverware this year and the FA Cup is probably their biggest target and off they go into the next round.

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ALONSO TACKLES DAKKAR SPAIN’S greatest racing dri­ ver Fernando Alonso learned the hard way as he set about his introduction to the Dakar Rally on Monday, when his Toyota Hilux tore a wheel off as he hit a ditch caused by sand blinding from rival cars, Alonso had no vision at all as he ripped off the wheel and causing bad damage to his car.

Spain’s double Formula 1 world champion started Mon­ day’s second stage 11th overall and was close to the front run­ ning pace on the Al Wajh ­ Neom test when he ‘hit a hole’ less than halfway through the 228­mile stage setting him back down the positions.

Alonso and his teammate Como turned mechanic and fixed up the car themselves to save time using parts they were carrying in the car rather than using the assistance truck that can be provided in the desert, this saved them valu­

ALONSO: Spain are routing for their sporting hero.

able time, although it cost them two hours, which could have been a lot worse for the Spanish hero.

The country of Spain are routing for their sporting hero to get back on the pace and catch up with the leaders and

Alonso’s vast experience on car repairs from his Formula 1 days where he used to study rather more than other drivers. That experience came to good use on Monday saving vital time.

Spain’s Alonso, is attempting to be the first driver from F1 to

win the Dakkar rally and bring back the winning trophy to Spain.

As he does so Spaniards are glued to their TV sets across Spain willing him on, with many bars across Spain switch­ ing off football in preference

for their racing hero.

This is not the first different test for Fernando, he’s also won the iconic Le Mans title as well as his two times world championships in F1, although he has twice attempted the gruelling Indy 500 to no suc­

cess yet, although that remains forefront of his mind.

The first attempt as a rookie saw him in great position to take the flag and the famous bottle of milk in Indianapolis but engine failure on the final laps put paid to that, whilst in 2019 his McLaren team set the car up wrongly against his me­ chanical wealth of knowledge and he failed to qualify for the ‘big one.’

Paul Mohamed a former ‘lug nut’ ( mechanic) of Alonso as known in America told the Eu­ ro Weekly News, “It’s early stages yet still in this challenge for Fernando ­ his experience and understanding of car re­ builds certainly made a huge difference, most drivers would have relied on the assistance truck costing them at least four to five hours, but he cut that time.

“I still wouldn’t write him off, he has the heart of a lion.”

FIFA CERTIFICATION

LIVERPOOL: Unbeaten in their last 23 home games against Everton.

REDS MARCH ON OBLIGATORY: The certification is essential for hosting international matches between teams from two confederations and international tournaments.

THE International Football Federation (FIFA), has awarded El Campello’s El Vincle football ground the necessary certification to host competitions.

El Campello Council has received a certificate stating ‘this installation has been

certified according to the FI­ FA Quality Programme for Football Turf ­ FIFA Quality.’

This means the artificial turf pitch meets the require­ ments for land for commu­ nal and amateur football use.

The certification is obliga­

tory in order to be able to host international matches between teams from two confederations or in interna­ tional tournaments.

The FIFA Quality stamp for El Campello has now been registered in the federa­ tion’s database.

LIVERPOOL coach Jurgen Klopp made nine changes from the team that beat Sheffield United 2­0 last Thursday, most notably Takumi Minamino making his debut after his move from Salzburg.

Everton boss Carlo Ancelotti did all he could to win the tie making just two alterations, and the Toffees made a flying start at Anfield.

Neither side could make a breakthrough in the first 70 minutes, but Jones sent Liverpool fans wild just a minute later.

The 18­year­old worked a one­two on the edge of the box with Origi before curling a shot in off the underside of the crossbar, giving Pickford no chance in goal.

Everton tried in vain to grab an equaliser and in the end, they were punished for their poor finishing as Liverpool extended their impressive record against them.

The Reds are unbeaten in their last 23 home games against Everton in all competitions now as they progress through to the next round.