Euro Weekly News - Mallorca 28 May - 3 June 2020 Issue 1821

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28 May - 3 June 2020

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NOW that the whole of Spain has left Phase 0, we should b e p ro u d o f o u r c o l lective efforts paying off as we have taken the next step on the road to de-escalation.

This newfound freedom and more relaxed measures have helped us understand the value of life.

However, to enter the new normality and help get Spain back on track with its typical tourism and livelihood we need to show the world that we live in a safe environment and welcome visitors with open arms.

The best way to show them this is if we, the residents, make the next step, the step outside. We need to support the local businesses that keep the tourism sector alive.

Businesses have already tried to reopen but with low footfall, it has pushed them back into hiding reinforcing the fear they have of failing.

We should not let them fail. We want

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STEPPING OUT: Waiting staff on Las Ramblas, Barcelona.

them to come back fighting, bigger and better and with all the extra safety measures to put customers minds at ease.

Spanish PM Pedro Sanchez has assured there will be a holiday season this summer and the gover nment has proposed to lift quarantine requirements for international tourists from July 1.

So, if they are coming, now is the time to get ready, let’s give them something to enjoy when they get here after these months of confusion. Something to lift their spirits and something to show that we have won the war against this virus.

We have come so far and worked so hard to reach this point, that it would be foolish to take a step in the wrong direction. Working together is of utmost importance so we can ensure that Spain is a safe destination for all our families, loved ones, and friends to come and visit or live in.

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Masks are a Must MASKS are now mandatory under certain circumstances and not abiding to the new regulations is punishable with a sanction. However, wearing a mask is a

must, not because of a sanction but because it severely reduces the risk of transmitting a virus if everyone is wearing one. It’s not a hard task, just wear your mask!

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National Mourning SPAIN has declared that once all territories are in Phase 1 the nation will have an official 10-day mourning period, the most prolonged length in the history of its democracy.

However, many have been left wondering, what does this national mourning mean? One of the

most significant changes will be all the half-mast flags in public buildings and ships.

In interior spaces it is common to see the flag appear with a black crepe. Furthermore, there will be a posthumous tribute to symbolise the victims fallen by Covid-19 chaired by the Prime Minister himself.

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Award Winner THE way that some people have gone out of their way to help their struggling community over the last two months has been mind-blowing.

Kara Caradas is one of those people, so it comes as no surprise that she has been nominated for this special recognition award throughout our footprint of Spain - Gibraltar to Valencia and the Balearics.

For those who didn’t know her before, she is the fearless leader of the Costa del Sol’s Food Fairies. For many others she is the owner of The Boardwalk in Marbella, and you probably saw her on Sky News, discussing the plight of Costa restaurateurs.

In each of these roles, Kara’s massive, caring and giving heart shines through.

What motivates her to help those in need?

“I have always done it, it’s in my nature.

When I was 16 I used to take meals to the homeless in the street,” she told me when she visited us at the Euro Weekly News.

Kara also runs a project that finds jobs for children from Malaga orphanages or employs them in the restaurants she and her sisters own.

“These children have no rights in the government’s eyes, but if they become employed, then they have a purpose and can later apply for residency,” Kara told me.

“The project also helps the children buy school clothes, glasses or save up for a special day at the beach or the Aqua Park, the things other kids take for granted.”

I asked if Kara had a mantra that gets her through the day but instead of a mantra she told me a story that pushes her to do her best.

“One of the first houses I visited during the crisis was a new mother. As she had not eaten for days her breast milk had dried up so she could not feed her child,” Kara recalled.

“To be able to feed both that woman and her baby was enough to make me want to go on helping.”

Kara and her family are very close and it’s hard to find a photograph where they are not together. Her sister Penny owns The Harbour and The Playwright restaurants, whereas Charley co-owns The

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Boardwalk restaurant and owns the famous Mirage nightclub.

The whole family set up the amazing Food Fairies project that made a phenomenal impact on the Costa del Sol communities. Without their physical and emotional support some people would

“These children have no rights in the government’s eyes, but if they become employed, then they have a purpose and can later apply for residency.”

certainly not have survived the recent crisis, not that you would ever hear Kara say this.

Nor could it have been easy to witness, despite knowing that they were bringing joy to so many families.

Inez Robinson from Last Chance Animal Rescue, who has worked with Kara many times, was full of praise for her friend.

“A few years ago she helped massively

“To be able to feed both that woman and her baby was enough to make me want to go on helping.” by arranging a photoshoot for a calendar which was somewhat risqué,” Inez told me. “But my goodness it raised a huge amount of money for us. Her fundraising skills are phenomenal.”

“Kara should be sainted,” she declared. “She is fantastic and so generous.

What you see is what you get. She will go to the ends of the earth to help someone, whether they be animal or human, and her generosity is boundless.”

Kara was nominated by the business people of the expat community as the greatest motivator and instigator of similar projects throughout the regions.

She is a beautiful personality who radiates good energy and is hopeful that her restaurant, The Boardwalk, will open again soon and she can let her hair down at a big party.

However, when the crisis finally passes it will be business as usual for Kara and she won’t stop helping those who need it: “It’s in my nature,” she said simply.

Her strength brings to mind another strong and influential woman, Audrey Hepburn who said “As you grow older you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself and the other for helping others.”

The American civil rights activist Rosa Parks once said, “One person can change the world” and on the Costa del Sol, Kara is that one person.

She is changing the world constantly for many people, changing their lives for the better.

Rosa Parks also said, “Each person must live their life as a model for others” and what better role model than Kara, someone who does her utmost for others and finds happiness through making others happy.

Kara brought light when there was darkness, hope where there was fear, unity where there was solitude and a purpose for the whole madness.

She is without doubt the holder of the title THE PRINCESS OF THE PEOPLE’S PAPER.

Kara is the name for our new future of sharing and giving. The people along the coast of Spain stand up and salute you KARA CARADAS.

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Ferry sails again THE Balearia ferry company has relaunched its high-speed ferry service between Denia and Ibiza and Mallorca.

The fast ferry Cecilia Payne left the Costa Blanca port for Ibiza and Palma at 5pm on Monday afternoon with 183 passengers on board. On Tuesday Balearia restarted the service uniting Denia with Formentera and Ibiza.

Also setting sail again on Monday were the company’s inter-island connections between Alcudia in Mallorca and Ciutadella in Menorca, and between Ibiza and Palma.

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OBJECTIVE: The Balearia president said the company is “determined to recover and to contribute to this new normality.”

Balearia president Adolf Utor said the company is “determined to recover and to contribute to this new normality which our economy needs so much.”

The ferry operation stressed its priority is guaranteeing maximum

THE 30-kilometre speed limit inside Palma will be extended to include 90 per cent of the city’s streets.

Vehicles will have to learn to share space with pedestrians, cyclists and scooter-users, said Palma’s mayor Jose Hila.

The move aims to pacify traffic, increase safe-

REMODELLING El Molinar port in Palma, interrupted by the Covid-19 crisis, has also held up work on the promenade.

Owing to this delay, the Paseo Maritimo will not open to pedestrians until the end of July while the port itself will not be finished until late summer, admitted the Baleares Port Authority (APB).

The €3.087 million

health safety on all its boats, and it has therefore introduced strict protocols for preventing coronavirus infection.

These include taking passengers’ temperatures before they board, dispensing hydro-alcoholic gel,

steps like signposting to ensure social distancing is maintained and beefed up disinfection and cleaning at terminals and on the ships.

Masks are obligatory on board and screens have been installed in zones where there is face-to-face contact between staff and passengers.

The high-speed ferries will connect Denia on the mainland three times a week with Formentera and seven days a week with Ibiza, with four direct services and the rest via Formentera. The connections with Palma will operate four times a week.

Slowdown extended ty, and make it easier for members of the public to maintain the required two-metre distance from each other to avoid spreading Covid-19.

At present the 30-kilometre per hour speed

limit has been imposed on fewer than 20 per cent of the Palma roads that are open to traffic, including the Old Quarter and three neighbourhoods on the outskirts of the city.

Two-month wait makeover, which began in March 2019 and is being carried out in several phases, will ultimately improve port operations and adjoining urban areas.

Despite the upheaval that is completely transforming the area, residents said they are,

overall, happy at the prospect of improvements to access and the pedestrian zone.

The APB revealed that rehabilitating the social centre, which formerly housed the Club Maritimo Molinar Levante will be put out to tender later this year.

Nadal back on court SPANISH tennis ace Rafael Nadal has been back on court swinging a racket on home ground in Mallorca.

The sport star has been training at his own tennis academy in his native town of Manacor in anticipation of the professional circuits starting up again in the near future following two months of lockdown due to the Covid-19 crisis.

The champion has not played in an official match since March 1 when he beat the US’s Taylor Fritz in the final of the Mexican Open in Acapulco, giving him the 85th title of his career.

The coronavirus pandemic forced Nadal into confinement just when he would have been preparing for the clay court season.

He had had his sights set on winning the Roland Garros French Open and notching up his 20th Grand Slam title.

Cancer charity shop reopening THE Calanova Cancer Care Charity shop in Palma is due to reopen its doors on Saturday May 30 for the first time since the coronavirus crisis lockdown came into force in mid-March.

The team behind the shop explained that to begin with the outlet at 354 Avenida Joan Miro will be open to customers in the mornings only, from 10am to 2pm.

The shop has summer clothes, including nearly new designer outfits at a fraction of their original price, menswear, shoes, bags, belts and swimming costumes. Also items ranging from books and crockery to furniture and antiques.

The team also explained that as a consequence of the pandemic and the enforced closure the charity will not be able to make its usual donations to Mallorca cancer charities in June, but hopes the donations will continue very soon.

The charity’s last donation was to Jackie Codd of Age Concern, which the team stressed helps a great many elderly people with cancer and which has been “absolutely marvellous now during lockdown helping so many of the aged.”

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Tragic death CREDIT: Ryan Horner gofundme For Danielle Brooks family

ing to press reports.

Local Police and Guardia Civil officers found the lifeless body of the 24-year-old in her home located just a short distance from the notorious Brit boozing Punta Ballena strip where she worked, the reports said.

She had like many of Mallorca’s coronavirus crisis-hit hospitality sector staff been waiting for the tourist season to get going again.

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TRIBUTES: Friends of Danielle leave flowers and notes in memory of the 24-year-old.

EXPATS in party hotspot Magaluf have been shocked at the news the body of young British bar worker Danielle Finlay Brookes was found in her apartment.

The tragic discovery last week came after friends of Danielle became worried when they didn’t hear from her for some seven hours and alerted the emergency services, accord-

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An investigation has been opened into the cause of her death, but Spanish press have speculated that there was no foul play involved.

Mates of Danielle set up a gofundme page to help out the young woman’s family with repatriation and funeral costs.

Danielle was, they said, “a girl full of fun a laughter taken far too soon from us.”

THE port of Pollenaa fishing guild will sell freshly-caught fish directly at the Moll (fishing quay) within days.

This will help to distribute catches more widely, as at present most are sold through Palma, the fishing guild said.

It should also ensure that the market will not be saturated with more fish than it can currently absorb now that boats no longer go out on alternate days.

This routine was adopted after hoPOLICE in Palma arrested a 28-year-old boozed-up woman for refusing to wear a face mask and for not social distancing.

Officers went to the city’s Calle Manacor on Friday night after a call came through on 091 reporting an incident involving the THE extra euro that some businesses are adding to their bills has already been dubbed the Covid Tax or Covid supplement.

This occurs amongst hairdressers and dentists who need to get up close

DIRECT SALES: Local boats will sell their catches at Pollensa harbour. tels, restaurants and bars were closed following the State of Alarm in midMarch and there were too few clients for catches.

No Mask Mayhem young woman.

They came across her out on the street and with clear signs she’d been drinking.

Seven times officers asked her to put on a

Covid Tax and personal to carry out their jobs, prompting some to charge clients and patients for masks and sanitising hand gel.

mask. She ignored them every time and even threw the mask on the ground at one point.

They arrested her on charges of serious and repeated disobedience.

Prices are also rising because of their own increased overheads, as hairdressers must also use a mask and provide each client with one-use towels and robes.

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Travel quarantine won’t last SPAIN’S Tourism minister Reyes Maroto declared that the quarantine period for foreign arrivals would not outlast the State of Alarm.

Speaking during an Onda Cero interview, Maroto urged foreign tourists, especially those from France and Germany to visit Spain.

Her statement was a indirect comment on France’s Environment minister Elisabeth Borne

who recommended shunning Spain this summer owing to border controls and quarantine.

Foreign tourists would begin arriving in July, insisted Maroto who nevertheless defended the two-week period for those entering Spain.

“Other countries had adopted the same measure, but it was temporary and would end at the same time as the State of Alarm,” the minister said.

FOREIGN TRAVEL: Tourists are expected to arrive in July.

Go-ahead for renovations

THE Spanish government has given the green light for renovations and repairs in inhabited properties to start up again.

The Health Ministry published an order on Saturday May 23 which lifts the suspension on works in buildings in which people are living, which was brought into force on April 12 in order to reduce the risk of Covid-19 infections.

The ministry’s decision means jobs like painting and decorating can also go ahead in inhabited properties. The only restrictions are guaranteeing health and hygiene measures and sticking to a minimum interpersonal distance of two metres.

The April 12 Health Ministry order prohibited all works in buildings in which there were people

who had nothing to do with construction works. The ministry then modified the order on May 3, allowing works in business premises, properties and defined uninhabited areas of a building or which residents could not access, as well as specific jobs on the building’s connections to services needed for the works to be carried out.

Welcome Aggressive brawl back SPAIN will welcome back international tourism in July, according to Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

Speaking at a news conference Saturday lunchtime (May 23), Sanchez said: “I am announcing that there will be a tourist campaign this summer. Starting in July, foreign tourism to Spain in safe conditions will resume. Spain needs tourism and tourism needs security. We will guarantee security.

“Without health there is no business. I send a message to the tourists: Spain has been waiting for you since July.”

The pandemic has taken a massive hit on Spain’s tourist and hospitality sectors, with pleas from industry representatives for ways to get the summer season going in one shape or another.

PRISON VIOLENCE: Inmates flooded their cells and barricaded all entrances.

A CORRECTIONAL centre in Cordoba has had a rough 48 hours of violence which began on Saturday May 23 with an attempt to begin a riot in the M10 wing of the prison as the inmates flooded their cells using soapy water and barricaded all entrances with their mattresses.

After destroying the furniture, they rallied inmates to ‘rise up’ and

fight the prison officers.

However, the guards were able to keep the potential riot under control.

The next day prison officers were alerted to a disturbance at around 8.00pm in the isolation wing of the facility. Upon entering the cell from which they suspected a disturbance, the prison officers were attacked with a bucket of water

mixed with bleach which if they had not been equipped with the correct protective material could have seriously injured them.

The inmate had a glass shard which he used as a weapon after smashing the light in the ceiling and threatened to kill the officers. After a slight struggle the prisoner was restrained and relocated to solitary confinement.

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THE Junta de Andalucia president has put forward the idea of permanent monuments to health care workers in all the region’s provincial capitals.

Juanma Moreno’s idea is to capture the spirit of the public expressions of appreciation throughout lockdown for Andalucia’s health care staff working on the frontline of the battle against coronavirus.

In a meeting earlier today with the mayors of the region’s principal cities, Moreno explained that the Andalucia Marble Business Association has suggested that each capital have a similar sculpture, in a location of their choosing, which pays tribute to health workers’ determination and dedication in fight-

CREDIT: Twitter @JuanMa_Moreno

Monuments to Bathers venture back health workers

TRIBUTE: The idea is to capture the spirit of the public expressions of appreciation for health care staff.

ing the pandemic and which ensures that their key contribution to the struggle against the virus is always remembered.

“The hope with this is that nobody, not us or future generations, forget everything which has happened and the work and the role played by these professionals,” the regional government head said.

SWIMMERS and sunbathers have been venturing back onto the beaches of some of Spain’s most popular holiday destinations as around half the country moved into Phase 2 of the easing of lockdown restrictions on Monday May 25.

The second phase of the lockdown de-escalation means that after two and half months, and with temperatures reaching summer-like highs, beach-goers can once again take a dip or catch some rays in all the Canary and Balearic Islands, three provinces in Andalucia, Murcia and Tarragona.

Galicia, Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country on Spain’s Atlantic coast are also now in Phase two.

THE Royal Navy was forced to clear out a Spanish boat from Gibraltarian waters for the second time in May. On May 6, the patrol boat HMS Sabre was pressed into action to stop the incursion of the Infanta Cristina into British

CREDIT: Ayuntamiento de Almería Twitter @aytoalm

BEACHES OPEN: Social distancing and hygiene measures must be adhered to.

The beach experience is not quite the same as before the coronavirus crisis turned life upside down. Beachgoers are expected to practise social distancing, to be fastidious about personal hygiene measures, and to be extra careful about rubbish disposal in order to prevent any risk of Covid-19

infection.

Establishing measures like setting out allocated places, limiting maximum beach-goer numbers and specific time slots for the elderly and people in vulnerable groups is in the hands of the individual local authorities.

Fresh Incursion territorial waters.

The latest spat saw the P43 Relámpago patrol vessel going where it shouldn’t and it incurred the wrath of the Royal Navy Gibraltar

Squadron, with one of their patrol boats having to escort the Spanish craft out of the area.

Reports said that the Relámpago was close to

the east side of the Rock of Gibraltar and that it also came close to some pleasure boats.

The vessel had gone so far into the Gibraltarian waters, that the escort back into Spanish seas took over an hour.

Lockdown depression SPAIN’S children are suffering increased levels of depression caused by the coronavirus lockdown according to a leading children’s charity.

Statistics have been published which say that 17 per cent of youngsters

have felt low during the Covid-19 pandemic, with a larger percentage in economically-struggling families.

The stark figures come from a survey conducted

by Save the Children in April, at the height of

Spain’s State of Alarm lockdown.

Save the Children said its April findings had an upside over the lockdown in that many families enjoyed spending the extra time together, but that they were concerned

about the position of lesswealthy households.

The charity’s survey said that 32.3 per cent of youngsters in financiallystruggling homes had sleep problems, while just over 30 per cent were scared about contracting the coronavirus, which was substantially higher compared to more well-off families.

Save the Children talked to over 1,800 families and youngsters, and said that a quarter of poorer households had seen people made redundant or have to put up with less money, leading to anxiety levels rising amongst children.

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Is time running out for tax-free pension transfers?

With all that’s been going on, it is easy to forget that the Brexit transition period is still due to end in just a few months, on 31 December.

Reassuringly, if you are lawfully settled in Spain before then, you will be able to enjoy uninterrupted residence rights. But with no certainty beyond 2021, there are still many unknowns. If you are already retired or planning to retire, this is the time to review your pension options - before the rules potentially change.

The option to transfer overseas Transferring to a Qualifying Recognised Overseas Pension Scheme (QROPS) can consolidate several UK pensions under one tax-efficient roof and unlock other benefits. As well as immunity from UK taxation on income and gains, you could enjoy more freedom to vary income and draw funds in your currency of choice, with more estate planning flexibility.

Currently, most expatriates in the EU can transfer to a QROPS

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completely tax-free, but there are two key situations in which tax is payable.

First, if your combined UK pension benefits exceed the UK’s lifetime allowance (LTA) - currently £1,073,100 - you would face a 25% tax penalty on anything transferred over the limit, even if you are non-UK resident.

Once in a QROPS, funds would never be subject to LTA charges again.

Second, if you transfer to a QROPS based outside the EU/EEA (European Economic

Area), the UK applies a 25 per cent ‘overseas transfer charge’ on the whole transferred amount. While expatriates can escape this tax by transferring t o a Q RO P S b a s e d i n a n E U / E E A c o u n t r y, t h i s m a y change with Brexit.

What you need to consider Without a guarantee that tax-free transfers will continue, it is sensible for anyone considering transferring to act sooner rather than later. Timing is especially important as the process for pension transfers can take several months.

A closing tax-free window?

As Brexit eliminates Britain’s EU commitments, including freedom of movement for capital, the Treasury gains more scope to recoup revenue from UK nationals abroad. Many expect this will prompt wider penalties on pension transfers, even within the EU. While the government has reassured that expatriates will keep the right to make overseas transfers post-Brexit, it has stopped short of making any tax promises.

However, the legislation for the overseas transfer charge already includes the ability to capture all transfers - the government would just need to remove the EU/EEA exclusion.

However, it cannot be overemphasised that transferring is not appropriate for everyone. Also, all QROPS are not the same there are differences between providers and jurisdictions that can affect the benefits. Alternative investment structures could offer expatriates in Spain comparable benefits to QROPS, so take personalised, regulated advice to establish the most suitable approach for you.

Pensions are likely to play an important part in your long-term financial security, so it is crucial to only use a fully authorised and regulated provider. An alarming number of people have lost retirement savings through pension scams or by reinvesting in

failed, unregulated investments that offer no protection. Your adviser should take into account your unique circumstances, income requirements, goals and tolerance for risk - as well as the cross-border tax implications - to establish the right solution for you and your family.

Even if transferring is not right for you, with still so much uncertainty ahead, now is the time to review your pension arrangements so you can secure the retirement of your choice in Spain, whatever Brexit brings.

Tax rates, scope and reliefs may change. Any statements concerning taxation are based upon our understanding of current taxation laws and practices which are subject to change. Tax information has been summarised; individuals should seek personalised advice.

Keep up to date on the financial issues that may affect you on the Blevins Franks ne ws page at www.blevinsfranks.com.

Round the world for cancer Credit: Chris O’Hare

LOCKDOWN ISLAND: Funding groundbreaking research for breast cancer.

EURO WEEKLY NEWS spoke exclusively to C h r i s O ’ H a re w h o , along with his wife Gabriella, is cycling a c ro s s t h e w o r l d t o raise funds for charity Prevent Breast Cancer.

The brave and kindhearted couple are currently locked down in Thailand on a beautiful little island called Phi Phi

where they can swim to catch their own dinner and their home is a tent erected inside a cave.

The couple set out two years ago and have cycled 21,300 kms across 27 countries so far. Along the way they have promoted their cause, however, due to the coronavirus crisis limiting people’s income, dona-

tions to Prevent Breast Cancer have dropped drastically.

“We have only managed to raise £11,000 so far which the charity is very happy with, but we really feel like we could do more,” said Chris.

Prevent Breast Cancer, based in Manchester, is the only UK charity funding ground-breaking re-

search solely aimed at preventing breast cancer for future generations.

EWN first spoke to the couple when they were living in a motor home in Torrox, Malaga Province and training in Spain for their big event.

Chris pointed out that “being close to Malaga airport meant that

Gabriella was able to fly home to the UK to receive her treatment.”

Gabriella had sadly been diagnosed with breast cancer and had undergone a double mastectomy and was

receiving chemotherapy.

Chris also stressed that “the trip is all self-funded as we sold up in the UK. Every penny that is donated goes directly to the charity.”

If you would like to donate to Prevent Breast Cancer you can do so through the link at www.chrisandgab sworldcyclingtour.com where you can read their full story and follow them on their magnificent journey.

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Political Viewpoint from Spain

by DAMON MITCHELL OTTO VON BISMARCK stated politics is the art of the possible, Mr Sánchez takes this to its limit.

On two occasions he won the leadership of his party and just a few months after literally being thrown out by his own party he rose like a phoenix to make a vote of non-confidence against Mr Rajoy (PP leader) and convert himself into the President of Spain.

A few months later he also won the General Election and made a coalition Government with Podemos which was the reason that his party had originally rebelled against him.

Now four months into his term he has been able to survive five States of Alarms but has once again managed to upset practically everyone, from members of his own party to the unions, the con-

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Setting Sanchez in context

TO THE LIMIT: Sanchez has a win-win attitude. federation of employers and industry and of course all the

opposition parties.

This time he negotiated, in

POLICE were out in force on Monday May 20 trying to stop the flood of people onto beaches in Barcelona.

The local government has said it will consider taking “a step back” in terms of opening beaches if the crowds seen on the first day of walks on the sand were allowed to continue.

Eloi Badia, the local Climate Emergency councillor, suggested restrictions could be tightened once again: “If we see that the desire to enjoy the beach, which is in our

secret, with a political party called Bildu (an antisystem

Step back Mediterranean DNA, is stronger than the regulations, we will have to take a step back.

“In general, the people of Barcelona quickly understand rules, and we are sure we will be able to revert this situation,” he said concerning the crowds seen the first

political party) the annulment of the 2012 labour refor m.

You may at this point ask yourself why would all this bother me? Well, it will make an obvious difference for all expats who work or are employers in Spain.

As always Mr Sanchez has a win-win attitude and whatever he does comes out good for him, therefore, he gave a late-night clarification of the deal and tried to alleviate the situation saying it’s not a total deregulation of the law just a partial change.

The outlook once again seems to be difficult for Mr Sanchez and it looks very improbable for Mr Sanchez to be able to complete the deescalation phases as the State of Alarm is essential for this.

But for Mr Sanchez anything is possible.

day beaches were opened during the 6am to 10am time slot, which is for people aged 14-70.

A top epidemiologist for Catalonia, Antoni Trilla, expressed concern about some images of the first day at beaches on the Catalonia Ràdio station: “This cannot go on by any means.”

He said there were “crowds” and people “not respecting rules” and that this could lead to new Covid-19 transmissions.

New connections LOW-COST airline Volotea has announced it will start operating again this summer with a greater number of domestic flights, including new connections between the Balearic Islands and the Costa de Sol and Costa Blanca.

The Spanish company said it expects to run a twice-weekly service between Costa del Sol capital Malaga and Menorca on July 5.

There will also be flights connecting Alicante with Ibiza, Menorca and Mallorca three days a week.

Volotea said the new routes are part of an “ambitious pro-

CONFIDENT: People will want to travel more, and to national destinations in particular, according to the Volotea CEO. ject,” with plans for new routes in Italy, France and Greece as well as Spain.

The CEO said he believed most of Volotea’s customers “will want

to travel more, especially to national destinations,” hence the airline has “adapted our network, strongly reinforcing all our domestic connections in Spain.”

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Two week review THE new mantra in the UK (albeit not in NI, Wales or Scotland) is no longer staying at home, but being alert.

There are five levels of alert, with the country gradually moving from level four to level three, and although the new system has not received universal approval across t h e U K , i t s e e m e d t o h a v e g o n e down well enough with investors the pound looked reasonably comfortable after the announcement.

The government road map document guides businesses on how the winding back of lockdown rules will affect the various UK economic sectors, including reopenings, either from early June or July.

Although the media were not unanimous in their praise for the plan, investors took it in good part.

Sterling was on average unchanged on the day, lower against the big four and firmer elsewhere.

However, negative interest rates soon dominated sterling, costing the pound an average of 0.8 per cent, sending it a cent and a third lower against the euro.

A week ago the Bank of England governor refused to rule out the possibility of negative interest rates and sterling was almost unchanged on the day.

Andrew Bailey refused once again and the pound lost ground to every other major currency, falling by an average of 0.7 per cent. However, there was a striking new context to the governor’s remarks. The government borrowed money at a negative rate of interest.

The Debt Management Office sold £3.8 billion of three-year gilts at a record low yield of -0.003 per cent, and whoever bought the gilts will be paying the Treasury threepence a year to look after every £100 of their money.

Although a negative gilt yield does not automatically translate into a negative Bank Rate, investors were inclined to bet that it might, especially after inflation almost halved from 1.5 per cent to 0.8 per cent.

Making headlines was the news that UK borrowing had soared to £123.2 billion according to latest estimates, its highest level since the Second World War. Brexit was also back, with sterling lower after a report suggested the UK government is prepared to walk away from trade negotiations. Retail sales showed a record 18.1 monthly fall in April, not painting a pretty picture for the UK economy.

Neither did Chancellor of the Exchequer Rishi Sunak, saying, “We are likely to face a severe recession, the likes of which we haven’t seen,” to the House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee.

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He announced that he would extend the furlough scheme until the end of October, but at the end of July employers will have to decide whether to share the burden, chipping in perhaps a quarter of the cost themselves, or to make jobs redundant.

Still, a test to find out whether people have been infected with coronavirus in the past has also been approved by health officials in England, and alcohol sales in April were up 2.3 per cent, so a glimmer of hope perhaps?

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FINANCE Laptop pricing WITH the lockdown in Spain, there has been a considerable increase in demand for laptops and many feared that this would lead to a rise in price as manufacturers took ad­ vantage of the situation.

The director general of Lenovo Iberia, (a Chinese company which took over IBM’s PC business and is now the largest seller of laptops in the world), Alberto Ruano has said that the company will not increase prices unless the price of compo­ nents it uses goes up.

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€4 billion

is the amount that Spanish government owned Official Credit Institute (ICO) has had to reallocate by deadline of April 30.

British government debts keep growing

THE latest figures from the UK Office of National Statistics (ONS) will make painful reading for the British government and Chancellor Rishi Sunak as borrowing for the month of April 2020 was £62.1 billion (€68.4 billion), the highest amount since records were first kept.

It is easily understandable that this need for cash has been caused in the fight against Covid­19 as the government has stepped in to help guarantee furloughed employees wages whilst tax income has fallen by 26.5 per cent when compared to April 2019 receipts.

By John Smith Borrowing in the latest full finan­ cial year (April 2019 to March 2020) is estimated to have been £62.7 bil­ lion (€62.9 billion), £22.5 billion (€24.8 billion) more than in the pre­ vious financial year and as can be seen, April’s borrowings almost equate to the entire borrowing of the previous year.

The ONS has indicated that these figures are estimates and will be ad­ justed as more information becomes available, but the inference is that they are likely to be higher rather than lower when finalised.

It was also announced that net public sector debt at the end of April 2020 was £1,887.6 billion (€2,076 bil­ lion) which equates to 97.7 per cent of GDP and it should be remembered that during the last financial crises, Spain was criticised by the European Union when its borrowing exceeded GDP for a while.

Once the country has recovered from the virus that has affected so many, the British government is go­ ing to have a very difficult and po­ tentially longer job to try to get the economy back to a healthy condi­ tion.

LEGALLY SPEAKING Should administrator inform?

The circumstances have changed since the pres­ ident of our community took office three years ago. The administrator is aware the president now has two ‘denuncias’ against him, which could af­ fect his presidency. As a matter of interest should the administrator inform the community owners of this change of circumstances regarding the president?

B S (Costa Blanca) The admin­ istrator has no obligation to in­ YOU AND THE LAW form the members of IN SPAIN the denuncias against the presi­ dent. The word denuncia simply means ‘report.’ It does not mean that the president is guilty of any infraction of the law.

A semi­official announcement of these reports might well be considered an invasion of privacy on the part of the ad­ ministrator and a violation of Spain’s law of data protection.

This would expose him to a possible lawsuit or even criminal charges. It is perfectly possible that these reports will come to nothing. In which case, the circumstances have not changed. If a court has issued a sentence for some offence, that would be another matter because it is in the public record.

DAVID SEARL

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O2 and Virgin Media THERE has been a great deal of bank interest in the proposed merger of 02 (a subsidiary of Span­ ish group Telefónica) and Virgin Media (a subsidiary of Liberty Glob­ al) in the UK with oversubscription for the €4.5 billion credit line.

The funding is needed to finance the new operation and Spanish Banks Santander, BBVA and Caixa­ Bank have committed to loans as have international banks such as Barclays, BNP Paribas and Gold­ man Sachs.

The new company will have more customers than UK market leader BT.

BUSINESS EXTRA

Aid cut THE European Union has for the second time decided that Spain has been giving too much in aid to Correos, the National Post Office and has now been told to cut the amount by €400 million.

Covid-19 OCU, the oldest Spanish consumer organisation estimates that some 74 per cent of households in Spain have losses averaging more than €1,700 due to Covid-19 and that 36 per cent of the employed population are currently without work.

Mortgage holidays THE Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) in the UK has proposed that mortgage holidays should be extended by three months for borrowers who are in need and that customers should be given until October to apply for extension.

Stelios Loses Battle CONTROLLING 34 per cent of the company, the founder of easyJet Stelios Haji­Ioannou has been at odds with the Board over an order for Airbus planes worth £4.5 billion (€4.95 bil­ lion).

Not for the first time, he has tried to have the Chairman of the company sacked and de­

manded an extraordinary shareholders meet­ ing calling on the dismissal of the Chairman, CEO, CFO and one other director, but proxy votes have seen his resolutions defeated.

The Board argued that despite Covid­19 dis­ ruption the company is strong and needs new aircraft.

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This Prime Minister is for turning DESPITE initially spurning the request from Donald Trump to refuse to allow Chinese corporation Huawei to become part of Britain’s 5G expansion, according to the Daily Telegraph, this current Prime Minister is for turning.

Although only admitted to the groups involved in creating the 5G in­ frastructure with a minimum per­ centage, both American politicians and a considerable number of Tory back­benchers have fought against the Chinese having involvement whatsoever.

With a majority in the House of

Credit: No 10 flickr

By John Smith

TRADE DEALS: An ebullient Boris Johnson outside No 10.

Using excess power STATE owned organisation ADIF is responsible for managing tracks and railway stations across Spain as well as ensuring there is sufficient electricity to power all of the rolling stock.

As it is generating more electricity than it needs, it has turned its attention to diverting this excess to create charging points for electric cars as there will be a demand for at least

300,000 points within the next 10 years and more than double that number longer term.

It is now looking for a commercial partner to install these points.

Commons of 80, you would think that the government would be safe from losing any vote, but with some 50 Conservative MPs indicating that they could vote against the govern­ ment over the matter, it could see an embarrassing loss.

The other problem is that once Britain leaves the European Union it needs decent trade deals with strong economic partners and President Trump has already warned that the involvement of Huawei could affect a deal with America.

It appears therefore that although Boris Johnson can’t simply cut the Chinese company out completely in the short term, he now plans to fin­ ish their involvement by 2023.

The American fears are that if in­ structed by the Chinese government, Huawei could conceivably disrupt se­ curity matters not just in the USA but with its friends and partners.

There is also some concern that despite China’s apparent acceptance of a style of democracy, those in power are still controlling much of what happens and could easily start another ‘Cold War’ if it suited them.

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BUSINESS EXTRA Green deal THE supply of renewable electricity to the nine motorways taken over by the Spanish government and managed by public company Seittsa has been awarded to Endesa.

In return for a two-year contract worth €4.36 million, all electricity will be green.

Busy ports PORTS in Spain have not been adversely affected by the lockdown with Cadiz seeing a growth of 14 per cent over the same time last year and Cartagena being the most profitable with turnover of €50 million and profit of €19.3 million.

Tata help INDIAN group Tata Motors which owns Jaguar and Land Rover is reportedly in talks with the British government over a support package consisting of a £1 billion (€1.1 billion) loan as its car sales have dropped substantially thanks to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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AND THE WIN

Vicki McLeod, Mallorca VICKI, a writer and photographer, wanted to do something creative with her time during the lockdown and so started a Facebook group called ‘Majorca, Mallorca at home together’ a help group to keep people in the community that has become greatly appreciated by those in her community.

“I felt a lot of the other groups were very negative and giving out misinformation. I wanted to create a platform where the rules were to be kind and be nice to each other without spreading fear,” said Vicki.

She now considers herself the “instigator” or “head girl” among the team of friends who helped her keep the page updated and grow to have 2,500 followers.

“Many people have now increased their social circle through the group by sharing good, positive news. I know there are people who are alone who are scheduling their day around the page.”

The page has included fun events like pop quizzes, competitions to win vouchers for local struggling businesses, exercise classes and any information that may help.”

Vicki is a whirlwind of positive energy and hopes

Adrian and Paloma Cockings, Costa Blanca South

WE were inundated with nominations for this married couple from Murcia, who created the Facebook page ‘Coronavirus in Spain-Information’ which has been a lifeline for people in their community.

Adrian is originally from the UK and Paloma is from Spain, together they manage to translate and convey all the important information coming from the government which has helped to set people’s minds at ease.

“When the State of Alarm was announced I uploaded a video I had recorded to my Key Style Properties page pointing

out what the decree meant. There were so many hits it has now reached 31,000 views. I decided to start a page that featured these types of videos and posted them every day for 46 days.”

Upon watching the videos you can see how Adrian has built a trusting audience, he is down to earth, upbeat and certainly breaks down the barriers when it comes to firm and sometimes confusing governmental information and delivering it in a positive and comforting manner that dispels any fear.

The page now has 11,

000 followers and Adrian and Paloma aren’t looking to wind things up when the crisis cools off. “I would like to keep the page as an informative guide to Spain. I have already started on some tutorials and would like to cover parts of Spanish lifestyle. Also, I am currently auctioning off specially made t-shirts to give the proceeds to charity.”

It is amazing that the pair have been able to give up so much of their time as they are new parents to four-month-old Lily who has become a star in her own right. They are certainly a selfless and giving family.

AFTER three weeks of nominations we are ready to announce your ‘Community Heroes.’

Euro Weekly News asked you, the reader, to tell us about the fantastic people who have kept your community together during these trying times. Who has gone out of their way to provide for others?

Who has helped make these frightening times more bearable? Who deserves some pampering?

We l l , t h e f l o o d g a t e s opened and we have been inundated with emails from our readers so impressed by how certain that the page can continue to be a valuable resource for people that are struggling and even businesses.

“The crisis has brought a community closer, until recently I didn’t even know my neighbours three doors down, but now we all come out to clap on our doorsteps and get through it together.”

John Sharples, Costa del Sol JOHN is a whirlwind of energy and humour and could put a smile on anybody’s face. With his personal Facebook page, he posts musings, poems and hilarious videos to lift people’s spirits.

EWN received e-mails aplenty from his supporters and fans on the Costa del Sol who believe that he has given them something to look forward to by bringing the community together through entertainment on social media.

John was eager to do food deliveries to help needy familes but was aware of the restrictions in movement, he explained, “I would let people know where my car would be parked and leave it unlocked so they could fill it with donated food. Then friends that I know who did the deliveries could pick the donations up from there.” John also runs the What’s on in La Cala de Mijas page where he has kept the community up-to-date with information on the virus and the news unfolding in the hope of dispelling any fear and setting people’s minds at ease.

“I love helping people, thousands of people have followed the page now because they know they can get accurate news from there,” said John.

Many of his followers would wait patiently for the live bingo he organised where he sent out hundreds of bingo cards for everyone to play, usually 200 or more people.

Apart from his online presence, John has been helping different charities. He

has arranged with the local La Cala Lions organisation to provide jigsaws to those who need them to relieve the boredom of lockdown and has been collecting dog and cat food for ACE and taking it to the kennels in his van.

John has started slowing the page down now and directed his followers towards the best news sources. “I want the page to get back to letting people know what is going on in the area and also to start helping local businesses and giving them a boost when they need it most.”

There is one thing for sure, lockdown would have been very boring on the Costa del Sol had it not been for John Sharples.

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NNERS ARE… members of their communities have gone above and beyond the call of duty to help make people’s lives easier during the current coronavirus crisis.

The winner from each area will receive €200 to spend in local businesses that need it the most, in the hope of keeping these businesses alive.

Thank you to everybody who got in touch and well done to all those who were nominated, you have done your community proud.

Can we have a drum roll, please!

Jorge Gonzalez, Almeria

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Josefina Navarro, Axarquia UPON speaking with Josefina, or Fina as her friends call her, I immediately realised why so many people had been in touch singing her praises.

She is a warm, caring woman who goes out of her way to make sure everybody else is ok.

She has been a volunteer with the Red Cross in Granada for some time and is very aware of the number of people in need in the area. “There are so many people here who live alone, we help them write letters and try to cheer them up. I also have workshops which help them manage health and emotions,” she said.

Many people pointed out how Fina has helped them with setting up in Spain whether it is to do with paperwork

JORGE or George Gon as he is affectionately known to his friends works for the town hall in Cantoria. He has stood out among all the members of his community for all the extra work he has done to help them during the health crisis.

“When the State of Alarm started I created a small team of five people to help the old people in the a r e a . We w o u l d d o their shopping for them and deliver them face masks. We must have handed out between 30,000 and 40,000 masks to the community,” said George and added, “We also helped with Caritas food donations, delivering food to around 30 families in need.”

George, a positive and cheer ful man originally from Mexico moved to Spain with his Scottish wife 19 years ago and brought up their three daughters here. He has not seen any of them since the lockdown began as they were out of town, but that does not stop him from spreading his positivity He has also recently become the secretary for a cat rescue association Kitty Kat Almanzora Valley. “I helped a couple create this association where they gather up street cats and have them treated, take care of their vet’s bills and I help translate all the paperwork.”

Having spoken to George it is clear to see why he received so many nominations, he is both humble and grateful and admits that it is just in his nature to help people and he hopes to continue to help them long after the crisis is over.

or finding a home. Which is a little ironic as Fina herself is a political refugee from Venezuela currently trying to gain her own citizenship.

When we spoke, Fina was making plans to take a member of the community to the hospital the next day, a man who had to have his foot amputated and she had selflessly been taking him food deliveries and checking up on him.

She also has a WhatsApp group that allows her to keep in touch with the residents and greets them cheerfully to lift their spirits.

It seems she has always been very caring. “In Venezuela when the doctors came from America to treat the children I would be the interpreter between them and the children’s families to make sure they were getting the correct information.”

When the crisis is over Fina will continue helping with the Red Cross and has programmes planned with them. “Afterwards it will be tough but we can all get through it by helping each other.”

Karen Mailing Cowles, Costa Blanca North WHEN the State of Alarm was announced Karen was packing up for the night in her office “I remember it clearly, I got very emotional as it immediately made me realise how many families will go hungry.” That evening I spoke to a friend to work out what we could do. “I know how Spain works, people will not receive food parcels and I was very concerned for those who live day to day not knowing where the next meal is coming from, so we set up a food bank.”

At the time Karen also thought it beneficial to have a group of translators on hand as there was so much information coming in that it could have become very confusing. She also began posting videos every day on her Facebook page to let people know what was going on and give messages of hope and support. With the help of her husband, they transformed their garage into a production line and food bank to put together food parcels for families.

“The town hall would not allow anybody else in the area, apart from me, to leave the house. This meant that I was single-handedly shopping for and delivering to 56 families.”

She also helped organise the fundraising page for Benidorm’s British Businesses Association Food Bank which currently holds €12,713.

Through all her work she saw glimmers of positivity and put smiles on the faces of families. She even had one person tell her “Oh my goodness it feels like Christmas” as they were so relieved to receive what they needed.

Karen felt like a mother with an extended family. From it all, she believes it has created a caring community. “My community has been so, so impressive. They have gone above and beyond, all ages came together.” One thing that was especially touching is that along with some children for the village they wrote anonymous ‘notes of hope’ and added them to to the deliveries for the families to find.

Karen pointed out that she will continue helping those who have suffered the knockon effects of the crisis “There’s no greater thing than giving,” she said.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT HAVE you ever heard so many ‘experts’ give their opinions on a problem they had no idea even existed three short months ago? And have you also noticed how many of these so called intellectuals choose to spout their ‘locked down’ views against a background of shelves stuffed with books? Bearing in mind that most of us have, at the mere push of a button, access to just about every book ever published, is this supposed to instill into us some form of confidence, that those who have access to these ‘libraries’ are the ‘whizzes’ we need to give us the answers to all the tribulations that beset us? Give us a break.

I’d like to see any one of them in the shoes of the British government able to do a better job.

Most of us can hone in on a couple of problems and decide that we know better; but this situation has presented the gov-

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UK GOVERNMENT: Needs the public’s encouragement. ernment with a whole multitude of unprecedented circumstances. Their decisions and actions have needed to traverse an almost unbelievable spectrum of ongoing difficulties, from the supply of paper masks and new laws to the balanced distribution of billions of pounds in their attempts to keep the country and its citizens from sinking into a morass of economic debt and despair.

Medical conundrums, which

include testing and supplies, have created logistical nightmares that would challenge the finest managerial brains in the world. The pure mental strain and responsibilities have been enough to bring any normal bunch of individuals to their knees. Yet, despite the constant nit picking of the left, they have with calm dignity soldiered on, even though their own leader was incapacitated for some weeks. Well I for one think they

deserve far more credit than they are receiving.

If anyone needed the encouragement and gratitude of a public they are obviously trying so hard to protect and serve, it is this government.

A group of dedicated men and women, who, through no fault of their own, suddenly found themselves, forced into the front line of defence from an invisible attacking pestilence whose sole enemy is the

entire human race.

For heavens sake, all of you trying to get brownie points, or reap cheap political advantage from this nightmare should be giving them all the support you can. Anything less makes you a part of the problem and most emphatically not a part of the solution. Another occurrence arising from all this mayhem is the reduction by 57 per cent of out- patients visiting A&E. Assuming around 10 per cent of these are genuine cases of those not wishing to visit for personal reasons, this leaves a huge section of people staying away with other maladies, which must include the drunks, hypochondriacs and the victims of street violence that usually jam the waiting rooms of these vital overworked departments.

Let’s hope all these time wasters continue to see some sense when all this gets back to normal. But don’t hold yer breath!

Leapy Lee’s opinions are his own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.

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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS ARIES (March 21 - April 20) A rather slow start to the week leads you to feel bored but be assured that the weekend will be far from dull. A recent conversation or correspondence with an old friend leads to unexpected contact.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) Everything on the home front is emphasised and there will be a flurry of activity. Get others involved in any changes. Work in the garden or painting is much more enjoyable and half the work if you enlist the help of someone you get on well with.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) When discussing a holiday with others, be aware that agreement is not always easily met.

Although you are not inclined to compromise, it is necessary to go with the majority decision.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) After the 2nd it is much easier to see the path ahead. This is particularly true of a financial situation, so there's no sense in fussing until you understand what needs to be done.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Your attention is needed on more than one front, and some decisions are at odds with your personal thoughts and attitudes. Being reminded that ‘business is business’ does nothing to relieve your conscience. You may have to upset someone by telling the truth, which may affect your longer-term finances.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) Are you willing to take a risk on someone who has let you down before? Looking into their recent past is likely to tip the balance. What you find shows clearly if there has been a change of heart on their part or if they are trying to pull the wool over your eyes.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) A disagreement with a friend upsets you but is short-lived. To avoid such a situation in

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION Sat 23 May

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37

38

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the future, look at how you should have dealt with it. There is always something to know that guides us to a better position. It will make you smile someone has taken you for a fool as you have the last laugh.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) A great feeling of joy comes over you more than once in the week ahead. Your inner child has been set free, and this is likely to be because of recent restrictions, which are now lifted. Do not feel guilty about this because it is a choice that will serve you well in the future. Right now, things may seem like a bit of an effort for small reward.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) If you suspect that some things are not what they seem, you could be right. Repel doubts, ban anxieties and stick to facts and tact. If certain individuals or situations continue to conspire against you, change course and do something entirely different. What goes around will come around quicker than you think.

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Sat 23 May

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34

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Tue 19 May

05

25 37

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTIONS 32

06

18 27

22 32

02 07

1 Spiders, 2 Tasks, 3 Earn, 5 Under, 7 Reach, 11 Singers, 12 Learn, 14 Often, 16 Tense, 17 Moth, 18/6 Ask for.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) It is difficult to avoid repeating mistakes made in the past. Your approach to certain situations has not changed and therein lies the problem. Someone who blames you for a mistake shows ignorance but that does not make it less upsetting.

PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Who is trying to push you into a corner?

Maybe it is being done so subtly that you have not even noticed. Who wants a decision from you? Appear to take pressure lightly and not give in to an irritation.

Kakuro

How many English words of four letters or more can you make from the nine letters in our Nonagram puzzle? Each letter may be used only once (unless the letter appears twice).

Each word MUST CONTAIN THE CENTRE LETTER (in this case 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: 9 Good: 12 Very good: 17 Excellent: 22

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION deli dell demo dill dime dine ding doge dole doll dome done dong geld gild gold ídem idle idol lend lido lied lode meld mend mild mind mode mold node deign demon denim dingo dogie doing gelid geoid glide limed lined loden lodge midge mined model ogled oiled olden oldie dingle doling dolmen dongle engild gilled Golden limned longed milled moiled monied nilled demoing melding mingled molding goldmine modeling MODELLING

1 Settee, 4 Gulf, 8 Surrender, 9 Easy, 10 Scares, 13 Stored, 15 Stun, 18 Afternoon, 19 Kind, 20 Chiefs.

Down:

The need to plan ahead is frustrating when you know exactly what ought to be going on. Patience is something that you need to cultivate, or you risk upsetting someone close. Spending time with a colleague makes you realise how good things could be, but a lot of effort is involved. Pushing ahead does not guarantee results.

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION

CRYPTIC Across:

Across:

Fri 22 May

03

QUICK

07

43

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20)

Nonagram

TIME

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.

1 Mastiff, 5 Alias, 8 Snipe, 9 Insipid, 10 Upstage, 12 Resin, 13 Soccer, 15 Welder, 18 Round, 19 Notices, 21 Seattle, 22 Ahead, 23 Sheds, 24 Twaddle.

Down: 1 Museums, 2 Ships, 3 Ire, 4 Failed, 5 Absorbent, 6 Imposed, 7 Sedan, 11 Anecdotes, 14 Courage, 16 Residue, 17 Ingest, 18 Rests, 20 Creed, 22 Aga.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across:

1/27 Bunk beds, 3 Speakers, 9 Caballo, 10 Elbow, 11 Deseo, 12 Toalla, 14 Obseso, 16 Muñeca, 19 Hembra, 21 Libre, 24 Zurdo, 25 Emanate, 26 Listener.

Down:

1 Back door, 2 Nubes, 4 Pronto, 5 Avena, 6 Embalse, 7 Sews, 8 Floods, 13 Careless, 15 Suegros, 17 Unload, 18 Tapete, 20 Broke, 22 Blade, 23 Azul.

CODE BREAKER

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Across 1 Poles in trouble with letter from Greece (7) 5 Plenty to join in game (5) 8 A trainee soldier acted strangely (5) 9 Readers re-order proofs (7) 10 Brew some magic up pal (5) 11 Manuscript about beer for men (5) 12 Quick, note the threat (5) 14 Many in poor shape (5) 19 Secret group born in two states (5) 21 Portents some women scorn (5) 23 Is sorry to start robbing the white herons (7) 24 Fireplace that's tremendous, so we hear (5) 25 English composer possibly lost by the hospital (5) 26 A nice evening view sent us wild?

(6) Down 1 Il Duce turned out to be a Greek mathematician (6) 2 Mixed cider as a cocktail (7) 3 Slacken off and allow to surface (3,2) 4 It's not unusual in Japan or Malaysia (6) 5 Endless escapade with French girlfriend in US city (7) 6 Follow the path (5)

7 Haunt wicked bosses? (6) 13 Able to pay bills, get sun in Madrid and wind in Nice (7) 15 Servant traps donkey in corridor (7) 16 Burn monster found in school (6)

Code Breaker

17 Brags about seeing snakes on the way back (6) 18 Old London river boats (5) 20 Sack the Spanish roll (5) 22 Glen I destroyed in Scotland (5)

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 13 represents B and 26 represents L, so fill in B every time the figure 13 appears and L every time the figure 26 appears.

Now, using your knowledge of the English language, work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Across 1 Below required standards (5) 4 Spend thoughtlessly (5) 7 Superfluous (9) 8 Luxuriant (4) 10 Elder (6) 12 Graceful, expressive dancing (6) 13 Excludes (4) 16 Practical (9) 18 Leather with a napped surface (5) 19 Purchaser (5)

English - Spanish

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION FACING PAGE

Across 1 Comida (4) 3 Recibos (de haber pagado) (8) 8 Nada (7) 9 Abril (5) 10 Aeroplane (5) 11 Company (firm) (7) 12 Suecia (6) 13 Temple (6) 16 Richer (3,4) 18 Usher (in court etc) (5) 20 Stem (of a plant) (5) 21 Spoon (7) 22 Más que (4,4) 23 Cuerpo (4)

Down 1 Up to, before the time (5) 2/17 Inconsistency between facts or sentiments (3,3) 3 Neat and clean (4) 4 Victor (6) 5 Enduring strength and energy (7) 6 Come or go in (5) 9 Collect discarded or refused material (7) 11 Long for (6) 12 Feathered vertebrates (5) 14 Relating to the sun (5) 15 Counterfoil (4) 17 See 2

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

Down 1 Country house (5) 2 Fuera (de edificio, objeto, indicando posición) (7) 4 Águilas (6) 5 Monadero (para monedas) (5) 6 Sunny (7) 7 Welcome (10) 9 Jugo de manzana (5,5) 12 Síntoma (7) 14 Private (7) 15 Slice (6) 17 To leave (5) 19 Listo (dispuesto) (5)

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DEPENDENT NATION DEAR Leapy Lee, I like your articles in EWN, in fact, it is the only bit apart from the puzzles I even bother with. Recently the headlines seem to only portray whining expats, mostly British.

Two comments on this week’s article.

I predict that there will be a spike in coronavirus in the UK around June 11, approximately 21 days after the end of Ramadan and the following Eid. The other comment is about UK being able to produce anything, This is more or less straight from Sun Tzu. How do you reduce a country’s capabilities and make it subservient?

Provide a range of goods to them which is cheaper than their own home-produced goods.

Wait 10 years and they will have lost the capability to produce them and many associated goods, their workforce will have a skills gap.

Keep supplying enough goods cheaper than homeproduced goods and you eventually arrive at a nation who is dependent and ripe for effective subjugation or is no longer a threat.

Coal, steel, and national defence goods need not be the first ones supplied. Look at what we are short of and where it is usually sourced from.

Regards A follower

OUR VIEW Every man for himself IT seems reasonable to say the world has been extremely poorly served by those that should have been there to help - but have failed dreadfully.

It is reasonable that we have put our government under intense scrutiny and, regrettably, in too many instances they have been found wanting. From selling vital PPE to overseas countries to the delay in ordering a lockdown, our political leaders emerge as well-meaning, hard-working, but extremely incompetent.

If ever there was a time for a global organisation to seize control this was it; yet nobody has risen to the challenge. One of the main culprits has to be the World Health Organisation and some very questionable moves from its director-general Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus. In late January he met with Chinese President Xi Jinping and went on to praise China for “setting a new standard for outbreak control” and commended the nation’s leaders for their “openness to sharing information.”

The sinister truth was radically different. In Wuhan, the virus epicentre, Chinese police were busy arresting citizens who dared to tell the truth about the growing pandemic. There is no doubt that the WHO’s shocking lack of action and near collusion with the deceit from China allowed the virus to spread.

Meanwhile, the United Nations’ major agencies have issued a graphic warning of a famine of ‘Biblical’ proportions and said this is the greatest challenge the world has faced since the Second World War. However, it has raised only around a quarter of the £3 billion it wants immediately to provide relief to 250 million people worldwide it fears are in imminent risk of starvation. It’s plain to see that when a ship is sinking it’s a case of every man for himself, and therefore it’s hardly surprising that countries across the planet are keeping hold of their cash to look after their own citizens.

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COMMENTS FROM FACEBOOK Nobel Prize winner believes UK lockdown saved no lives and may have actually cost them Unbelievably he is NOT the only one saying it, it continues to surprise me how some people still only accept one side, and not try common sense and ask why? The same ones that always dispute the fact someone other than governments say is not true, the same ones that just accept what governments say without even for one moment doubting, what makes you think they know all, and the right decisions???

But yet hundreds of doctors and scientists, virologists and biologists, have been saying and presenting facts that are different, and people say it’s a conspiracy, is it??

Why would the government know better with only a hand full of advisers against the other hundreds???

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DEAR Euro Weekly News, I am just writing as I have seen so many Brits moaning on your Facebook posts and I am completely sick of it. May I suggest that if they do not want to wear masks they should stay at home and surely their world does not revolve around drinking in the bars, although it makes them furious that they cannot go there. If they do not enjoy their life here then they should just go home.

I am very happy with Pedro Sanchez, as he has done a smashing job of keeping this country under control. I live in La Colina in Torremolinos and we have had hardly any cases of Covid here thanks to the lockdown and our locals respecting social distancing and wearing their masks.

Just to let you know that not all Brits are moaning.

Caroline McCafferty La Colina

Pen pals HELLO Leapy, Believe it or not, I have afforded myself time to sit down and read the EWN (May 7-13 ).

Seldom do I get inspired to put ‘pen to paper’ about political issues, instead, I spout off to my, long-suffering wife, to vent my frustrations! You could not have spoken truer and wiser words with reference to the, predominantly, left-wing inspired BBC. Personally, I don’t think it stops with the BBC, but it is certainly dominated by them.

As tax-paying citizens of a democratic country, we should demand unbiased, informative reporting, and, NOT anti-Conservative party mind games.

Everyone is entitled to their political opinions but journalists have a duty to broadcast factual information that is not influenced by their own, or that of the giant organisations who pay their generally over-inflated wages, political persuasions.

At sad and serious times as we now find ourselves in, this has never been more important.

Keep up the good work.

Regards Peter Wythe Calpe

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Piers Morgan says Boris Johnson Must Sack Dominic Cummings or He Will Personally End His Lockdown Piers Morgan always looking for ways of raising his celebrity status, you really think he cares one iota? Personally I don’t.

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Spain’s Vox supporters lead convoy of residents, angry with Pedro Sanchez’s handling of health crisis, through the Costa del Sol Why can't all politicians pull together at a time when in crisis.

Sanchez is doing a good job. If Vox had been in charge no lockdown and a lot more deaths.

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Spanish Drinks Industry to ask government for state aid to turn unsold quality wine into cheap table plonk Why not just sell it as cheap plonk? I don’t drink wine, tried it a few times and got headaches, but instead of asking for money why not sell it off cheap? As I’ve been saying from day one, this is all a con and nothing will be the same again. Including people paying more for wine than necessary.

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Mask Up or Pay Up - Zero Tolerance Policy by Police across Spain’s Costa del Sol and Costa Blanca for Coronavirus Mask Flouters Starts Today We have been locked up for nine weeks! And they are giving us a bit of freedom to get back to normality!!

Do your bit and wear the mask! It’s a little bit of inconvenience!!

If you do the crime, then you pay the fine!!

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WATCH: Over a thousand Costa del Sol citizens march rattling pots and pans in protest of Spanish Government’s handling of coronavirus pandemic This is a very complex time for everyone, people are feeling deprived of salaries, socialising and security, a protest like this is only showing their frustrations.

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Is your glass half full or half empty?

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What a Day to be Alive GAVIN LAMBE-MURPHY

HALF EMPTY: Why is it easier to see things in a less positive way?

ROBERT SHALLIS IS your glass half full or half empty? Many of us have heard this c o m m o n e x p re s s i o n or even used it occasionally. It’s simply a measure of your outlook on life and situations. It determines whether you see things in a positive (half full) or negative (half empty) way, optimistically or pess i m i s t i c a l l y. S o w h y is it that so many people find it easier to see things in a less positive way?

How many times do we hear people say things such as ‘I knew it was going to rain today,’ ‘I had a feeling that my flight was going to be delayed’ And so on.

Somebody once said to me. ‘I’m not a pessimist, I’m a realist. If I expect the worst and it doesn’t happen, then that’s a bonus. ‘What a way to live each day when there really is no justified reason in doing so. Can you imagine a sportsman adopting such an attitude?

What are the real chances of winning at

anything with such a mindset?

Psychologists tell us that we have around 6080,000 thoughts a day and 70-80 per cent of those are negative ones. This is a habitual way of being because we live in a negative culture, marinating ourselves daily with news and media that create anxiety, fear, worry and drama.

We s i m p l y a l l o w events and people to determine how we f e e l . We b u y i n t o t h e drama all too easily, which in most cases is negative. So, it’s easy to see the influences behind the ‘glass half empty’ approach to life.

I t ’ s o u r c h o i c e . We can continue to be influenced in a negative way or be influential to others in a positive way.

The way to begin this, is to take note of yourself, become more aware of your thinking around certain situations. Change that little voice inside your head that tells you ‘no, I can’t’ to ‘yes, I can.’

Start to break those old habits and replace them with positive thoughts until they eventually become the new habitual way of

thinking. It will take time and effort at first but eventually you will start to notice a difference.

It’s impossible to think negatively and live positively, it just doesn’t work. The thoughts we allow to occupy our mind can only be changed if we decide to make an effort to change them.

So, make an effort, what do you have to lose?

One thing I always try to do, is uplift othe r s . Ta k e f o c u s a w a y from yourself and encourage, compliment and instil some happiness and positivity in those around you.

Everyone needs some reassurance and belief in themselves at times and by giving that to others, reflects back on how you feel which is a great feeling. It helps them and in turn helps you to start breaking the habit of being your old self.

Be mindful that old habits can be difficult to break and new habits take time and effort to form. Bear that in mind when you find yourself adopting the glass half empty attitude.

Rob Shallis www.robshallis.com

WAKING on Monday, I was ready for my ‘new,’ old routine. Out of bed at 6am, a quick shower, a quicker coffee, and it was time to run. One week back to my morning fitness regime, and already I feel that life is somewhat normal. Los Monteros, as the sun rises, is reason enough to be out early. However, the chance to push harder each day, against the pasta and wine diet, is the goal. Of course there’s the added icing on the cake; a cool swim once home.

While fitness mode is well and truly on track, I really must work on my pasta intake (note to self).

On Tuesday, I had to meet a friend for lunch in Marbella, and while the idea of simply being able to utter those words made me giddy, arriving at Da Bruno, I felt like the cat who got the cream. Paseo Maritimo, just as the Marbella I love - tranquil, friendly and stylish. I adore Da Bruno, and have done for years. With this in mind, I was curious to see how they would adapt to the new normal.

I’m glad, but not surprised, to report that everything was done perfectly, in accordance to the guidelines. Awaiting my friend Olivia, I sipped a Campari and soda, while all around me, smiling faces. Each table on the terrace occupied, with fellow diners, who looked as chuffed as me, to be free.

Olivia arrived, turned heads, and we air kissed at a social distance, that would make Anna Wintour take notice. Without flinching, I ordered carbonara, only to be asked if I wanted traditional Italian, or a version made with cream. I’m aware that some people opt for a mixed up idea, prepared with a cream sauce. I don’t.

Few things bother me, but messing with classic recipes, such as pasta alla carbonara, is sinful. Whoever concocted the con panna, should be reprimanded. Anyhow, more pressing, was the fact I’d eaten more pasta. It was very good.

After lunch we strolled the almost empty streets of Marbella, under shady trees, where glamorous ladies chatted, socially distant, of course. All around us, an air of afternoon calm. Most stores remained closed, which was a pity, as

FREEDOM: Life now seems semi-real. we both wanted to buy things. Still, life felt semi-real.

Now is the time to reboot the economy. Now is the time to remember, that while we are all on the same yacht, and money’s too tight to mention, a simple coffee at a local café in the morning, is a step in making cash flow, and society come alive.

The sooner we adapt correctly and return to life, the better. I know many will probably say they disagree, and base this on the fact that certain people are unable to adhere to simple laws. We must remain positive in the hope that even those who are sadly slow on the uptake, will wake up soon.

Yes wearing face masks is horrible. Social distancing, a task. But the rewards are why we are here. Life.

As the week came to a close, I realised I only know what day it is, once this column appears. I for one clearly need normality to kick in fast. Looking back over the last 10 weeks, it feels like I’m just coming to the end of a summer holiday. Long days, long lunches, too much food, and way too much wine. I even started smoking cigarettes at one point. Marlboro Menthol. Thankfully I gave that up quick, as I believe menthol cigarettes, or ‘Mintys’ as I call them, have been withdrawn from the market. With my addictive personality, I am now stockpiling whitening toothpaste, paranoid I’ve stained my teeth.

The sooner we spend, the sooner we work. As the headline says - it is indeed great to be alive, but let’s remember those who lost lives to Covid-19. Let’s proceed, but with advised caution.

Enjoy your freedom.

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A bit of business with the old man MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man I’VE had enough of reading, watching, tracking and everything else about the pandemic so I’ve decided not to write about that for a couple of weeks. What I’ve decided is to tell you a couple of stories that will eventually go into the book that supposedly I will write one day.

My dad was a London Eastender. He was a bit of a criminal but not a very good one because he kept getting caught and finished up in prison. In fact, till I was about five I thought he worked in the post office because I always saw him behind a glass partition when mum said we are going to see dad at work today.

I also had a lot of ‘Uncles’ that used to come round and discuss a bit of business with the old man. My favourite was Uncle Sammy who always brought me sweets. On one occasion, when I was about seven, he came round with a lorry load of stuff for my dad. After a bit of chit

chat my dad said to me that Uncle Sammy was going to Southend and would I like to go with him and get some ice cream and keep him company.

I say asked. He actually said to Sammy take the kid with you and buy him an ice cream. So off we went. Sammy delivered the stuff, I got my ice cream and I never gave it another thought until many years later when I was visiting my dad, who, by this time, was very ill with Parkinson’s. I told him I had this vague memory of this outing and asked my dad if my memory was correct.

He laughed and said yes it was. I asked why it was funny and he then proceeded to tell me the reason I went. Uncle Sammy was a ridiculous gambler and couldn’t be trusted with money so my dad, in his infinite wisdom, decided that as he didn’t want to deliver this lorry load of stolen property himself he would give Sammy a ‘drink’ for delivering the stuff. He reckoned if he took me he’d have to bring me back and therefore wouldn’t be able to nick the money!

Give me your feedback if you would like to hear more of these stories whilst there’s nothing else happening in the world except for you know what.

mikesenker@gmail.com

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It’s a marathon not a sprint!

Healing for the long run MS BIPOLAR UP AND DOWN WITH BALANCE UNEDITED IT’S important to give yourself time to recover and really heal after a mental breakdown, whatever your final diagnosis may be… whether its bipolar, anxiety, borderline personality disorder, etc.

Imagine the time it takes to heal a broken bone. If you fell down the stairs and broke your ankle, would you expect to get up and walk within a few days? Probably not. In fact, society would help you take the time you need to heal. “Don’t rush things! Stay off that ankle until it heals.

Here, let me help you with that!”

The image of your leg in a plaster helps people associate the injury with the need to take it easy and let nature work its magic.

Oh, how different it is when we fall off the wagon of life because of a mental breakdown or in my case after a bipolar episode. We all try to ‘get back to normal’ way too quickly, and often the result is another mood swing to knock us down once again, and it tends to hit us harder than the original episode.

Mood swings exhaust the mind and the body. Leaving you feeling weak and exhausted. Mine pick me up and throw me around like a rag doll. And like anyone who goes through a physical illness, I need time to recover in order to get my life back on track.

After a mild episode it usually t a k e s m e t w o d a y s t o r e c o v e r, stripping it back to basics with early nights, a no sugar diet, off the fizzy drinks and alcohol!

After a bad episode it can make your body feel like it has run a

marathon for a while (not that I have ever ran a marathon, but it’s what I imagine it feeling like!)

You’re emotionally and physically worn out.

I’ve learned that true healing is not just about getting rid of mood swings; it’s about letting the brain and body get back on track over time. Trying to get back too quickly after such a draining experience can lead to a vicious cycle of never healing fully - and being more susceptible to another collapse.

Society expects so much from us. I still expect way too much of myself. If I don’t take the time I need to heal, my bipolar may go away for a while - but it doesn’t go far, and not for long.

Mood swings and episodes bash away at my day to day functioning, ability to work, relationship stability, and even my immune system... YES, I know the feeling of “I have to get back to work or I will lose my job!”

I wish we could come out of mood swings quickly and immediately pick up our lives, but we rarely do.

Ye a r s o f t r y i n g t o m a n a g e m y bipolar with a job and being a mother to a very active sevenyear-old have taught me to think of my immediate needs and not to look so far into the future.

I have built a life around my bipolar that works for me. When I break and it happens - I give myself time to heal and get back on track!

Wr i t e t o m e a n d t e l l m e w h a t you do to cope with your day to day. How do you manage to the pressure from society to always be well and available?!

I’d love to hear from you, email me below or follow me on my Facebook page @mswillowbipolar.

Love Ms Bipolar X

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BARRY DUKE WHEN I was 18, I began dating an attractive Italian girl to hide the fact that I w a s g a y. We g re w v e r y close through our mutual l o v e o f p h o t o g r a p h y. S o close that I gave her a key to my apartment.

It all went horribly wrong when Alessandra walked in one evening and found me canoodling with Renee, a German guy with Hollywood looks. In a fury, she seized a heavy glass ashtray and threw it at my head. I ended up in A&E to have a gash stitched up and suffered a headache that lasted three days.

Alessandra then ‘outed’ me to my mum who insisted I see a ‘gay cure’ therapist called Aubrey Levin. Because Levin was unavailable, I agreed to see another psychiatrist, Dr Wolff. When he asked what I hoped to get out of therapy. I

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replied ‘I want you to make me straight.’ He chuckled and said ‘there’s no such treatment. You’re the best-adjusted homosexual I’ve ever encountered. Now go away and enjoy your life.’

So I did. To the full!

Later I learned that Levin, known as ‘Dr Shock’ for his use of electroshock therapy and chemical castration, had wrecked hundreds of lives before he relocated to Canada, where he was ar-

Boyfriend Renee in 1965. rested in 2010 for sexually assaulting male patients. He was jailed for five years.

But for the fact that Levin was unable to treat me at the time, I might well have ended up as one of his victims.

What reminded me of the Alessandra episode was a recent demand made by the UK’s National Secular Society (NSS) to have the charitable status of a Christian outfit called Core Issues Trust, headed by ‘ex-gay’ Mike

Davidson, removed. CIT runs ‘pray-away-the-gay’ sessions.

The NSS said: ‘Organisations that serve no clear public benefit - or worse, cause harm by actively promoting ‘conversion therapy’ - risk fundamentally undermining public confidence in the charitable sector.’

I would have gone further, and called for CIT to be banned outright. In fact, it wouldn’t be operating AT ALL

if the UK government had followed through on a promise made two years ago to stop this dangerous nonsense.

In some regions of Spain, conversion therapy has been banned, and the country wants to extend the ban nationwide this year. Earlier this month Germany joined Germany, Malta, Ecuador, Brazil and Taiwan in banning conversion therapy.

The time has come for Britain to do the same.

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Rob Kenney launched Dad How Do I? With the sole aim of helping children become good adults.

Rob wanted to leave a legacy, particularly for those who struggle with a broken family or absent parent, and video topics include shaving, checking the oil, checking your tyre pressure, ironing a shirt and unblocking a sink or drain.

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Rob from Washington, America, was left without a father after he walked out on him and his seven siblings when he was 14 and his mother turned to alcohol.

Rob was taken in by his 23-year-old brother and his wife who lived in a tiny mobile home, making things very tough.

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Wild animal ban WUHAN in China has banned the eating of wild animals as the coronavirus pandemic continues to be linked to the city’s wet market.

A press release on the municipal government website of Wuhan on May 20, in Hubei province, and shared widely on Weibo, states a list of tough new prohibitions that go into immediate effect and will last for five years.

THE UK government must get a holiday air deal with EU countries according to the country’s tour operator and travel agent group.

The Association of British Travel Agents (ABTA) says that it is deeply worried about the impact that a 14-day quarantine will have on tourists coming to Britain, and also the fact that it will put off travellers going to Europe for a summer holiday.

According to the edict, there will be a ban on the sale and eating of terrestrial wild animals that are both in the wild as well as bred and reared.

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