Euro Weekly News - Costa de Almeria 15 - 21 October 2020 Issue 1841

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15 - 21 October 2020

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HUERCAL­OVERA is aiming at a registered population of 20,000 inhabitants.

The local government has launched A por los 20,000 habitantes! Empadronate!

(Let’s go for 20,000! Regis­ ter!), a campaign that it hopes will persuade unregis­ tered residents to add their names to the municipal roll, the Padron.

The town hall is also offer­ ing a sweetener in the shape of a ‘welcome pack’ with an Arbol de la Vida (Tree of Life) t­shirt, an Arbol de la Vida face mask and a month’s sub­ scription to the H20 Sports Centre.

The greater a municipali­ ty’s population, the more cash it receives from the cen­ tral government and the greater the benefits to the lo­ cal population.

“We are very near,” said Treasury councillor Adrian Ramos.

“Reaching 20,000 inhabi­

tants would mean improved services for Huercal­Overa, rapid development and more funding for Huercal resi­ dents.”

According to statistics from Spain’s National Statistic In­ stitute (INE), Huercal­Overa had 19,395 registered resi­ dents on January 1 this year, a figure tantalisingly near the desired 20,000.

“It’s a goal that we know is attainable and it would have an important effect as the central government would assign the municipality around €500,000 more,” Ramos explained.

This would arrive in 2022 if the Padron reaches 20,000 by this December, the coun­ cillor added.

Ramos also urged resi­ dents who have put off regis­ tering in the past to do so now.

All it needs is a town hall visit, presenting ID together with a Nota Simple (an ab­

Credit: Huercal-Overa town hall

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breviated copy of a proper­ ty’s deeds), an IBI rates re­ ceipt or a rent contract.

And, although Adrian Ramos made no mention of Brexit and its impact on Britons, not only Huercal­ Over expats but all those liv­ ing in Almeria Province should ensure that they are registered on the local Padron.

Obviously this benefits the municipality where they live but will also ensure that they continue to enjoy their pre­ sent rights after the UK leaves Europe.

PADRON PUSH: Adrian Ramos with a newly-registered Huercal-Over resident.

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Mushroom poachers fined THE regional government impounded 3,680 tons of different types of edible mushrooms that were picked in Almeria Province last year.

Sources at the Junta’s Agriculture, Cattle, Fisheries and Sustainable Development delega­ tion revealed that most of the mushrooms were confiscated because the amounts exceeded permitted quotas. Others had been extracted using unauthorised methods.

Eighty­six fines ranging from €60 to €600 were issued in 2019, although this was roughly half of the previous year’s, as low rainfall affected growth.

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Prawns to the fore GARRUCHA’S famed red prawns recently starred in the Tierra de Sabores cookery show.

The 50­minute after­ noon programme that was shown on Canal Sur also showcased the town’s most emblemat­ ic beauty spots, but homed in on the local delicacy that is prized throughout Spain.

Filmed during the summer and presented by the young Sevilla­ based chef Bosco Ben­ itez, Tierra de Sabores is a new programme that will be uncovering the secrets of Andalucia’s cuisine while visiting its markets, ports and countryside.

LOCAL PRODUCE: Garrucha prawns are famed throughout Spain.

Homophobic attack Name change ALMERIA’S Fiscal (Public Prosecutor) recom­ mended a 27­month sentence for an anti­gay of­ fence in Roquetas de Mar. The accused allegedly confronted two young men walking together in a central Roquetas street, hitting one of them on the shoulder.

When they reproached him, he reportedly raised his arm in a Nazi salute, declaring ‘Heil Hitler.’

Wanting to avoid further trouble, the two men tried to move off but their alleged aggressor fol­ lowed them and began punching and kicking them, taunting them for not defending them­ selves.

As well as the prison term, the Fiscal is re­ questing a four­year restraining order against the accused and €1,000 compensation.

ELEVEN Almeria Province municipalities bear the name of Juan Carlos I on a street, avenue or promenade.

Juan Carlos abdicated in 2014 in favour of Spain’s present king, his son Felipe VI. Since then his popularity has waned ow­ ing to embroilment in corruption and fi­ nance scandals, and the Compromis politi­ cal party is campaigning to erase the former king’s name from Spain’s thoroughfares.

If successful this would affect Anta, Ba­ yarque, Cantoria Cuevas del Almanzor and Turre, which have streets named after the former king.

Fines, Roquetas de Mar, Somontin, Taberno and Uleila del Campo have av­ enues, while El Ejido has a Paseo.

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NIBS EXTRA More staff EL EJIDO’S Hospital de Poniente will have a further 475 staff following the regional government’s decision to contract 1,005 throughout Andalucia.

The additional personnel will be assigned to all medical, nursing and administrative areas, hospital sources confirmed.

Less water AGRICULTURAL growers who belong to the CGUA irrigation syndicate and use recycled water from Almeria’s treatment plants, have insufficient water for their needs. Recent demands of 35,000 cubic metres could not be met by the plants’ daily production of 25,000 cubic metres.

Roadside checks ADRA’S Local Police are taking part in a nationwide inspection of lorries and buses that ends on Sunday October 18. Independently of a vehicle’s country of origin, the officers have been stopping drivers, checking speed limits, driving hours and rest periods while also looking for technical defects.

Crass additions AN Almeria City court imposed a €1,170 fine on a man who draped knickers on the head of a statue of the Virgin Mary in a Nijar church and put a cigarette in its hands. He also removed a crown from a statue of St Joseph and yanked out the public address system’s cables before leaving.

No change THE boundary between Velez Rubio and Huercal-Overa is ‘definitive and unmovable.’ This continues to correspond to the demarcation established in May 1897, the regional government ruled in response to questions raised last February by Andalucia’s Statistics and Cartography Institute regarding a revision of the dividing line between both municipalities.

Special day RAMON FERNANDEZPACHECO, Almeria City mayor, issued a mayoral decree which encouraged residents to join in Spain’s National Fiesta on October 12 by decorating their windows, balconies and shop windows with the Spanish flag “in homage to the symbol that represents us all.”

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Good results from antigen tests TURRE’s mayor Martin Morales thanked residents for taking rapid antigen tests to establish Covid­19’s presence in the town.

“The results were very favourable and further mea­ sures are not necessary, al­ though we shall follow the rec­ ommendations of the health authorities,” Morales said.

The Junta de Andalucia’s health authorities classed Turre’s incidence of approxi­ mately 500 cases per 100,000 inhabitants as high and the screening followed similar tests in Pulpi.

Turre residents, who were chosen at random and notified via text message, waited at the Polideportivo sports ground without queues or overcrowding. Testing was voluntary although the Health

Credit: Turre town hall

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MASS SCREENING: No overcrowding or queues at Polideportivo. department stressed that it was important for as many people to attend as possible.

Unlike Pulpi, where posi­ tive or negative results were called out for everyone to hear, the five­strong team from the Hospital de la Inmac­

ulada gave these out individu­ ally.

Morales said afterwards that the tests were a valuable way of evaluating the munici­ pality’s situation.

There were known to have been five outbreaks with 16

active cases, he said. “But they are controlled and quaran­ tined,” he declared.

“In small towns we all know each other and there is consid­ erable social control, which is an advantage in these situa­ tions,” he said.

‘No Feria’ fiestas for Huercal-Overa HUERCAL­OVERA is taking no chances dur­ ing the town’s ‘No Feria.’

Originally a 19th century livestock fair but now a fiesta, the Feria should start to­ day, Thursday October 15, and continue until next Tuesday.

Instead, like fiestas throughout Spain, the coronavirus pandemic has put the Feria on hold.

Above all, Huercal’s authorities are keen to prevent the crowded gatherings that al­ low the virus to spread.

Shortly before the Feria’s scheduled start, the town hall called a meeting of the Municipal Emergencies Advisory Commit­ tee, presided by the local mayor, Domingo Fernandez.

“Owing to the health situation there can be no celebrating,” Fernandez said.

“The Local Police and Guardia Civil will be keeping a close watch on social distanc­ ing and mask­wearing and making sure

Cats at risk ALMERIA’S Federacion Animalista (FA­ DA) warned that cats are being ill­treat­ ed in Huercal de Almeria.

The federation said that it had recent­ ly received several reports of cats that had been shot or died after eating poi­ soned food deliberately left out for them.

“There are people at large who are committing offences with total impuni­ ty,” a spokesperson said. “Not only are they killing animals, but they are also endangering the health of the local pop­ ulation with their despicable actions.”

that bar and restaurant opening hours are complied with.

“Huercal residents have acted responsi­ bly throughout this crisis and we are sure that they will do so during the fiesta days,” Fernandez said.

He realised that the town’s young peo­ ple had been looking forward to the Feria, he said, but asked them not to organise ‘botellon’ drinking sessions, warning that they faced €100 if they ignored the health and safety rules.

Family fun THE largest travelling animatronic di­ nosaur exhibition is now on show in the province of Almeria at the Aguadulce Conference Centre, where it will remain installed until October 25.

The exhibition includes 22 animatronic figures coated in latex and powered by pneumatic, hydraulic and electrical ener­ gy.

Visitors will enjoy the fabulous docu­ mentary ‘Loving Dinosaurs’ that shows recent discoveries of dinosaurs.

There is also an interactive area where

children will have the opportunity to play at being palaeontologists discovering replicas of dinosaur bones.

But beware as the famous T­Rex will come to life walking among the visitors accompanied by an explorer in a unique show. There will be mandatory use of masks by the public, except for children under six years of age.

Opening hours are from Monday to Friday from 5pm to 9pm and Saturdays, Sundays and holidays from 10am to 2pm and from 5pm to 9pm.

Minor worry THE number of minors up to 14 years old infected with Covid­ 19 in the province of Almeria has grown in the last month by 64.3 per cent. It has coincided with the start of classes in the second cycle of Education. The percentage is a third more than the increase registered during the same period among adults between 30 and 44 years of age, the most affected.

The province of Almeria is the one with the highest rate of minors with positive CRP in Andalucia, with 968.1 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

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Tourist treats

MORE than 200 Almeria companies linked to tourism will benefit from the Junta de Andalucia’s Tourist Bonus scheme.

Those in line include travel agencies, tourist ac­ commodation, campsites and rural guesthouses al­ though there will also be advantages for Almeria travellers.

Referring to the scheme Rosalia Espinosa, who represents El Ejido in the regional parliament, commented that this could bring Almeria resi­ dents savings of €1 mil­ lion.

The Tourist Bonus, which came into effect on October 1 and continues until May 31, has been in­ troduced to encourage mobility inside the region while retaining jobs, par­ ticularly in the tourism and hospitality sectors.

Espinosa also stressed that Andalucia’s regional government has already announced that the next meeting of the govern­ ment board would pro­ pose subsidising the vouchers by 50 per cent for people on annual in­ comes of under €22,000 or those with disabilities.

The regional MP went on to explain that the Tourist Bonus could help Andalucia to regain its po­ sition as a leader in the sector.

Equally important, she pointed out, it would con­ tribute to creating jobs and prevent the closure of restaurants and hotels and at the same time it would promote culture­ linked tourism.

Singing in harmony CUEVAS DEL ALMANZORA’S Local Police now have their own anthem.

The words were written by Cuevas’ former PSOE mayor, Antonio Llaguno Rojas, while the music comes from the Par­ tido Popular’s spokesman on the local council, Miguel Ca­ parros.

The anthem was recently recorded by the singer Mercedes Campoy Guerrero accompanied by Caparros at the piano.

The idea for the song came from Local Police chief Juan Javier Castro, who suggested that Llaguno and Caparros col­ laborate on the project.

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School Under Scrutiny

BRITISH SCHOOL: Not following safety measures properly.

THE British International School of Marbella on the Costa del Sol has come un­ der scrutiny for failing to impose mask rules after it was revealed several com­ plaints had been made against the centre for not enforcing government safe­ ty measures.

The complaints were made after the school failed to follow mandatary mask regulations insisting that there was “a little misun­

derstanding” of the rules.

The school, which costs around €1,200 a month, had not been complying with the mandatory rules that state: “People aged six and over are required to use the mask on public roads, in outdoor spaces and any closed space for public use or open to the public.”

The school continued to neglect the rules despite having the information since July.

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Rights Infringed

FURTHER HELP THE UK Treasury has announced that it will pay two­thirds of the pay packets of locked down workers up to a monthly value of £2,100 in a varied continuation of the furlough scheme that has been helping support businesses and work­ ers throughout the coronavirus pandemic.

Furthermore, the government will offer aid to businesses in the form of £3,000 grants if they are required to close due to local lockdowns and the businesses will not be required to contribute to the payments. The chancellor Rishi Sunak said: “I have always said that we will do whatever is neces­ sary to protect jobs and livelihoods as the situation evolves.”

BOE: Specifies new powers.

A BOLETIN OFICIAL DEL ES­ TADO (BOE) released from the Spanish government on

September 19, 2020, pre­ sents a new change in the law that would see vitally important human rights and freedoms stripped.

The BOE specifies new powers that affect the fun­ damental rights of Spanish citizens and residents by allowing the implementa­ tion of a law that would see the houses and private residences of the public able to be accessed on the demand of the health au­ thorities via an administra­ tive court. Health inspec­ tors would give a very small three­day notice pe­ riod to allow the occupants to appeal.

Under the umbrella of the continuing Coronavirus pandemic, the law would allow health authorities to violate the privacy of resi­ dential premises by gaining authorisation through the administrative court.

An appeals process is in place for residents of premises that receive a no­ tification of entry, however the three­day period can include weekend days. As such, an appeal of the deci­ sion may not be able to take place due to the resi­ dent not being able to find legal representation in time.

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Robot PCR TWO robots are being readied to perform PCR tests in the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella with the new equipment set to allow up to 900 diagnoses per day as part of the Mi­ crobiology unit.

Versant kPCR Molecu­ lar System and MagNa Pure 96 System, the two robots from Siemens Healthineers and Roche Diagnostic, respectively, are being readied and made available in the hospital to perform larger numbers of Covid­19 de­ tection testing.

The Costa del Sol Hos­ pital has been busy study­ ing the SARS­Cov­2 virus since March 6, 2020, how­ ever, without this tech­ nology they have only av­ eraged 300­350 PCR tests per day.

Vivas Blunder Blade Runner

KILLER athlete Oscar Pistorius has made a heartfelt plea for forgiveness of his victim girlfriend’s family ­ saying: “I want to tell them I’m sorry.”

Paralympian Pistorius, who was jailed for 15 years for shooting his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, has told a close friend, Bill Schroder, he is desperate to have his apology accepted by her parents.

Schroder said, “What he really, really wants is forgiveness. I said to him that if he had killed my daughter, I doubt I would forgive him. He is more concerned about forgiveness than actually getting out on parole.”

Pistorius, now 33, gunned down model Reeva, 29, in their bathroom in Pretoria, South Africa, on Valentine’s Day 2013.

SONIA VIVAS: Has caused a heated row about Jews.

ANTISEMITIC comments by a Spanish politician have caused a heated row after blaming all Jews for the treatment of Palestinians.

Spanish politician, Sonia Vi­ vas has blamed ‘Jews’ for the ways that Palestinians are treated by “their government.”

Podemos councillor, Sonia Vivas, has been quoted as say­ ing, “I haven’t spoken to all the Jews, but their government is elected and … constantly vio­

lates rights of Palestinians.”

Vivas has said that she be­ lieves that Jews should be held accountable for the treatment of Palestinians as they are the members of the public who support a government “that constantly violates the funda­ mental rights of Palestinians.”

Sonia Vivas is a member of the Podemos party and a city councillor in Palma, the capital of the eastern island of Mallor­ ca.

Open for Business BARS and restaurants in Magaluf’s notorious party strip were allowed to reopen last night after months of forced closure.

Every bar and restaurant was closed earlier this summer after footage of tourists ignoring social distancing rules went viral around the globe. Most of the bars and businesses on Magaluf’s notorious Punta Ballena strip were allowed to open again on Saturday.

The Balearic Government had ordered the ban on booze and clo­ sure of bars and restaurants in August when pictures and videos of party revellers ignoring social distancing laws flooded the internet.

Although reopening is a welcome boost to the tourism industry on the island, it remains to be seen if any holidaymakers will return in the same numbers as before.

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Severe Punishment BANGLADESH has autho­ rised the death penalty for rapists after a series of protests on the streets and social media.

Under current law, capi­ tal punishment is only per­ mitted if the victim dies; the new law, approved by Bangladesh’s Cabinet on Monday, October 12, will see the punishment for rape move from life imprison­ ment to the death penalty.

The news has been wel­ comed by many human rights activists in Bangladesh as a wave of violent assaults triggered protests recently.

Ain­o­Salish Kendra, a women’s rights group, re­ ported that 889 rapes oc­ curred between January and August of this year, many of them gang rapes.

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Encrochat

ENCROCHAT: A top-secret communications system.

A RECENT ruling by the EU’s highest court found that UK, French and Belgian mass sur­ veillance regimes did not re­ spect privacy, opening the floodgates to sentence ap­ peals on hundreds of En­ crochat cases.

In July this year, an interna­ tional crime sting operation rounded up several Scottish household names in a major crackdown on the EncroChat phone encryption network.

Authorities managed to ac­ cess Encrochat, an encrypted platform used by 60,000 peo­

ple worldwide, the National Crime Agency has ‘successfully penetrated’ a top­secret com­ munications system used by criminals to trade drugs and guns, said a spokesman.

This is just one example of how UK, French and Belgian mass surveillance regimes used modern high­tech software and equipment to infiltrate and crack high­class criminal net­ works. Now, however, all these ‘triumphs of justice’ will be put under the spotlight and it is feared many previous convic­ tions will now be overturned.

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Royal Tedium

IT seems it’s not just us who strug­ gled with boredom during the lockdown, the Queen and Prince Philip found their summer break in Balmoral ‘a bit tedious’ this year, with social distancing rules due to coronavirus making it less enjoyable, claims a royal expert.

The 94­year­old monarch and the Duke of Edinburgh, 99, spent six weeks at their Aberdeenshire home, before moving to Sandring­ ham.

Despite receiving visits from Princess Anne, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge, and the Wessexes, it ‘simply wasn’t as en­ joyable as usual’ because of the Covid­19 restrictions in place.

Back in Windsor, the Queen is expected to travel to Buckingham Palace for working visits.

CHINA is set to test the en­ tire city of Qingdao with a population of nine million people for Covid­19 in the space of just five days after a cluster of infections sprung up in a local hospital.

Five districts in the port city of Qingdao will be test­ ed within three days, health officials said, while the

Mass Testing whole city will be tested within five.

It comes after 12 cases of the virus were detected in

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the city, 350 miles north of Shanghai, at a hospital treating infected people re­ turning from overseas.

The cases were first re­ ported on Sunday, October 11, and health officials say, 140,000 employees, pa­ tients, and personnel linked to the hospital have already been tested.

Mandatory THE Dutch PM has issued an ultimatum to the public: ‘Wear a mask, or face lock­ down’ as Holland recorded 6,500 Covid cas­ es in one 24­hour period over this last

AN American has avoided jail in Thai­ land over a negative resort review posted on TripAdvisor.

Wesley Barnes posted several un­ flattering comments about a recent visit to the Sea View Resort, allegedly accusing them of ‘modern day slav­ ery.’

The resort owner filed a complaint and Barnes was arrested by immigra­ tion police and charged under Thai­ land’s strict anti­defamation laws.

Harsh Words If found guilty, Mr Barnes faced up to two years in prison together with a maximum fine of 200,000 baht (€5,440).

However, Koh Chang police said the disgruntled traveller and the resort had reached an agreement, which in­ cluded an apology to the hotel and to Thailand’s tourism authority.

week.

The country’s government had already warned it would be forced to impose tighter restrictions by the end of the week­ end if infections did not start to drop. The PM said he was angry over the fact that citi­ zens keep ‘disobeying basic rules.’

Officials issued the stark ultimatum to 17­million Dutch citizens yesterday after it became obvious that the vast majority had totally ignored face mask rules since the pandemic began. The country became a global virus hotspot on Friday October 9 af­ ter its infection rate surged to 160 cases per 100,000 people, although Madrid’s rate is higher at 750 per 100,000 as per Saturday October 10.

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SPAIN’S Equality Minister re­ veals plans to reform the abortion law, allowing 16­ and 17­ year­olds to termi­ nate a pregnancy without parental consent.

Under current Spanish law, young women aged 16 and 17 can have an abortion but must have the permission of

Hot Water

HARRY and Meghan are in hot water again. This time they are being accused of an “inappropri­ ate act of domestic interference in US election” by a US politician.

According to Republican rep­ resentative from Missouri, Jason Smith, the pair have committed “an inappropriate act of domestic interference” in the US electoral process and he has called upon the UK government to strip the couple of their royal titles.

Smith has communicated di­ rectly with the British Ambas­ sador to the United States, Dame Karen Pierce, expressing that the British Royal family have always held a position of impar­ tiality in political matters and that their recent encouragement of the population to vote went against this fundamental posi­ tion.

Legal Change their parents in order to do so. Women can also have an ‘RAINBOW benches’ have been vandalised with homo­ phobic slogans in Pilar de la Horadada.

The Local Police in Pilar de la Horadada are trying to lo­ cate the bigots who defaced two rainbow­coloured bench­ es. The beautiful benches were installed in June to cele­ brate World Pride Day and to acknowledge the LGTB+ com­

‘abortion on demand’ up until week 14 of their pregnancy.

In order to succeed in her reforms, Montero, of the left­ wing party Unidas Podemos, will need the support of other parties, while Vox, have al­ ready publicly announced that they will not support the changes.

No Pride munity in the area.

Officials reported the van­ dalism on the Local Police of Pilar de la Horadada Facebook page on Wednesday, stating: “#PilardelaHoradada has al­ ways opposed all forms of dis­ crimination, we can’t consent to these actions.”

Squatting Squad A SPECIAL police force has been set up to tackle squatting in Mar­ bella. The special force will comprise of 30 officers from the Pre­ vention Unit and the Administrative Police, working in collabora­ tion with the National Police and Foreign Residents Department, in an aim to support residents with lodging complaints and ac­ cessing information and advice about squatters.

The force plans to liaise regularly with relevant local associa­ tions such as estate agents, property administrators and neigh­ bourhood associations. It will also establish ‘at­risk’ areas for squatting which require increased surveillance.

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Whopping catch TRAPPERS have caught a record­breaking 18­foot long Burmese python in Florida Everglades.

According to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conserva­ tion Commission, Ryan Ausburn and Kevin Pavlidis captured the massive python on Friday, October 2.

“That’s a new record! (they) caught the behemoth of a snake weighing a whopping 104 pounds. The re­ moval of this female snake is a triumph for our native wildlife and habitats and a great example of the part­ nership between our two programmes working to­ ward our goal of removing nonnative pythons.”

FWC confirmed the record­breaking catch was a joint effort from the Python Action Team and the

CREDIT: @MyFWC Facebook

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RECORD-BREAKER: The 18-foot Burmese python weighs almost 50 kilos.

South Florida Water Management District Python Elimination Programme.

Python Action Team Members are paid to remove and turn pythons in to the FWC.

Cultural Shift NEW restrictions in bars and restaurants are forcing Spaniards to change their dining habits, as establishments are limited to 50 per cent capacity indoors and 60 per cent outdoors.

The new measures, introduced in Madrid and nine other cities in the region by the High Court last Friday also mean that bars and restaurants must close their doors at 11pm, accepting the last customers at 10pm.

With late dining being a long­standing tradition in Spain, many residents are being forced to adapt their dining habits.

In a bid to maintain their customer base, many establish­ ments are opening earlier, but within three days of the mea­ sures being introduced, hospitality group Hosteleria Madrid reported a loss of €8 million and 75,000 dinner reservations cancelled.

Drug Targets FRESHMAN University students are being tar­ geted by drug dealers across the UK just days after arriving on campus, it has been reported.

The dealers are allegedly putting calling cards under doors in the halls of residence, asking the young students to contact them di­ rectly for ‘Brainblasters.’

The dealers refer to themselves as ‘Just your local friendly stoner.’

They are also targetting the freshers through Instagram and Snapchat within days of their arrival at University, offering a ‘cata­ logue’ of different drugs.

The news has caused outrage following the tragic deaths of three university students in Newcastle.

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COVID Safe Show

A LIVE music industry trial will be a worldwide first dur­ ing the coronavirus pandem­ ic as Barcelona launches a Covid­19 safe event.

The Apolo concert hall in Barcelona will host a 1,000­ person event after the an­ nouncement on Sunday, Oc­ tober 4.

This will be the first trial of this type of event and the

event will take place towards the end of October.

The organisers said that masks and hand sanitisation will be mandatory, however social distancing regulation need not be followed.

To be allowed to enter the event, attendees must un­ dertake a rapid test, be con­ firmed negative and show no symptoms.

Italian Restrictions UK visitors to Italy are now to produce evidence of a negative Covid­ 19 test on arrival after a clampdown on countries ‘at a greater risk’ which also includes France and Spain.

Travellers now need to show they have taken a test within the last 72 hours of arrival along with a negative result. Those unable to provide evidence will need to take a test in Italy, with anyone test­ ing positive required to quarantine until they are able to provide two negative tests.

10% Global Spread CORONAVIRUS is taking over the world. Over 10 per cent of people have had Covid­19. The World Health Organisation (WHO) said that just over 10 per cent of the

global population have been in­ fected with the virus to date.

However, the 90 per cent that have not been infected still have a great chance of being infected.

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Touched hearts

CARLOTA: Funds have been raised to help her treatment.

SINCE the story of Car­ lota, the girl from Vélez­ Malaga, Axarquia whose limbs could be amputat­ ed after suffering sepsis, became public, many have turned to help the family to meet the costs of the operation.

The Asociación de Mu­ jeres ‘La Yedra’ and the Almáchar Town Hall dis­ tributed piggy banks in lo­ cal shops to raise money for the treatment and help in her recovery.

In total, they have raised €1,505.53 “thanks to the help of everyone.”

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To be or not to be

THERE has been much debate on whether or not to sell Channel 4. Currently, it receives its profits from advertising on the television, but with the current climate the channel has had no luck in increasing its viewing figures.

Channel 4 was introduced in 1982 in an at­ tempt to bring a younger audience to televi­

sion. Over the years the competition for nor­ mal televised channels has increased and there is now a massive market for streaming services.

Channel 4 is still under government control however it is proving difficult to keep it that way.

Cancer Shock for Singer TOM PARKER, the 32­year­old singer of boyband The Wanted, has been left fighting for his life after being given the news that he has stage four glioblastoma, a terminal brain tumour.

The father­of­one said, “I’m still in complete shock, it’s so much to take in.”

The singer suffered a seizure in July, then six weeks later he had another more serious seizure and was rushed to hospi­ tal.

Tom told his fans that he had already begun his chemothera­ py and radiotherapy treatment in a heart­breaking post on so­ cial media platform Instagram.

A SELFISH woman was fined £1,000 for going to the pub 25 minutes after being told to self­isolate.

Instead of going home ­ as instructed by a Track and Trace official at Barrow Bor­ ough Council ­ the woman jumped in a taxi and headed to a bar.

Investigations were carried

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Paramedics seek help MANY paramedics in the NHS have been left heartbroken and traumatised because of all of the recent non­Covid related deaths. The trauma has left workers feeling uneasy and the circumstances are now becom­ ing unbearable.

Patients during this pandemic who have non­Covid related dis­ eases have passed away be­ cause they have been scare mongered into not going to hos­ pital. They fear catching the virus as they are at high risk and also do not want to put more work onto the NHS workers. The last thing people should do is de­ lay their treatments out of fear.

Not only does it affect the pa­ tient but also the workers as

TRAUMA: For workers. they have experienced too much death during this virus.

Many workers will experience major PTSD (post­traumatic stress disorder) because of the trauma they have been through and working under such ex­ treme pressure.

Costly drink someone who had tested pos­ itive.

Superintendent Carl Patrick said: “This was a blatant breach and put all those this woman came into contact with at unnecessary risk.

out by Track and Trace to con­ firm the breach and the woman was handed the fine

by Barrow police officers.

According to Cumbria Po­ lice, she was told to isolate af­ ter being in close contact with

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PEDRO SÁNCHEZ took to the stage in La Moncloa last week, to present a ‘Recovery, Transforma­ tion and Resilience Plan of the Spanish Economy’ which con­ tains his strategy to face the coronavirus crisis and the chal­ lenges of the next decade for the for the recovery of the economy.

Based on four identifiers (eco­ logical transition, social and terri­ torial cohesion, digitisation and gender equality), the plan will

boost €25,000 million of Euro­ pean funds next year, contribut­ ing 2.7 points of growth to GDP in 2021 and an increase 2 per cent of potential growth in a decade.

These European funds will al­ low the creation of 800,000 jobs in the next three years. A total of €72,000 million of European funds will be made available in the period 2021­2023 with the aim of accelerating the transfor­ mation of the economy.

Banned THREATENING debt letters that cause people to con­ template suicide have been banned following a suc­ cessful campaign by Martin Lewis, founder of Mon­ eySavingExpert.com and the Money and Mental Health Policy Institute (MMHPI).

Lewis argued that language used in the 1974 Con­ sumer Credit Act has caused people to think about taking their own life as a result of debt letters.

New rules are expected to be introduced by the Treasury in December 2020 and will state that lenders have up to six months to make changes to their practices.

Peace prize THE World Food Programme of the United Nations has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2020.

“It is not just providing food, this organisation helps cre­ ate sustainable communities,” highlighted the jury.

Assisting nearly 87 million people in 83 countries every year, the World Food Programme is the leading humanitari­ an organisation fighting hunger in the world, providing food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve health and nutrition.

Its efforts are directed at emergency assistance, relief and rehabilitation, development assistance and special opera­ tions. Most of the work is carried out in countries affected by war, where people are three times more likely to suffer from malnutrition than those living in countries without conflict.

Scorching SEPTEMBER 2020 was the warmest September on record, reaching the highest in 140 years with records showing the global average was 0.05°C warmer than in September, 2019.

According to a Copernicus Climate Change Service report, Europe was warmer in September this year compared to the 1981­2010 average for the month. The report states that many regions around the world have experienced tempera­ tures well above average including; the Middle East, parts of South America, and off the coast of northern Siberia and Aus­ tralia.

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UK MPs are set to receive yet another pay rise in 2021 of £3,300 as thousands of their constituents find themselves unemployed. This will see them receive a salary of £85,291.

MP’s pay rises are proposed by the Independent Parlia­ mentary Standards Authority

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Payrise Fury Covid Kills Beaches (IPSA) and the body has rec­ ommended that the country’s representatives receive a rise.

According to the Office of National Statistics (ONS), be­ tween March and August in

2020, nearly 700,000 em­ ployed workers have lost their job with a vast number of self­ employed people losing all their work and their sole means of income.

NHS Sued AN NHS Trust has been mired in scandal after the death of a seven­day­old child which sees the suit be­ come the first prosecution of its kind.

The Care Quality Commis­ sion (CQC) has ascertained that the seven­year­old, Har­ ry Richford, and his mother, Sarah were the unwilling vic­ tims of ‘avoidable harm.’

The death, which occurred in November 2017, has been identified by an inquest to have been “wholly avoid­ able” and the trust under whose care the child was un­ der now faces two counts of failing to provide safe care and safe treatment to the in­ fant.

BEAUTIFUL stretches of Britain’s beaches are being blighted by a sea of PPE that is devastating the coastline with waste.

In a two­month period on one stretch of Cornish beach alone, charity volunteers cleaned up over 650 used plastic gloves and over 250 surgical face masks.

These areas are normally a bustling hub for surf­ ing, swimming and crowds of visitors, however both locals and the visiting population is becoming more and more disenchanted with the area due to the ever­increasing waste on the traditionally sandy shores.

It is estimated that the area as a whole has suf­ fered debris caused by the Covid­19 pandemic to­ talling thousands of items of discarded waste.

Napa Valley Disaster MORE than four million acres of vineyards in California’s Na­ pa Valley have been torched by the ongoing California wild­ fires.

It is estimated that 80 per cent of 2020’s wine stock in the famous wine producing area of the US will become un­ usable.

The huge fires, which have continued to rage since the beginning of September 2020, have been classified as the worst ongoing wildfires in US history.

To date, at least 18 vine­ yards in the elite wine produc­ ing region have been either damaged or fully destroyed with many producers having to write off their entire 2020 crop as they are rendered use­ less by either smoke, heat or fire damage.

PLASTIC WASTE: Putting people off visiting.

This worrying new trend means that even in the future, when Covid is a distant memory, we may still end up suffering the ramifications on our environ­ ment for generations to come.

Lynx Love TWO decades ago, it was hard to see how the Iberian Lynx would survive with fewer than 100 of them thought to still be alive. However, thanks to conservation efforts, cap­ tive breeding and habitat management, their numbers are soaring.

The beautiful creatures dominated the Iberian scrub­ land for millennia however had you tried to see one in the wild not that long ago you would have found it exception­ ally hard. In 2002, there were thought to be less than 100 left in the wild, with only a quarter of those thought to be breeding age females, accord­ ing to a report by the New York Times.

As a result of the species devastation, the LIFE+ Iberlince programme was founded with assistance from the European Union which has seen wild numbers in Spain and Portugal increase to an estimate of over 900.

As captive breeding pro­ grammes became more suc­ cessful, the animals were start­ ed to be released into the wild.

The programme has been so successful that the species has spread well beyond the origi­ nal 100 square miles release area and has progressed into established populations in the Spanish regions of Andalucia, Castilla­La Mancha and Ex­ tremadura, and across the bor­ der in southern Portugal.

Rally Tragedy SPANISH rally co­driver, Laura Salvo, has tragically died at the age of 21 in a horrific crash at Rally Vidreiro.

Salva was co­driving for Miguel Socias in a fatal crash during the first stage of the Rally Vidreiro in Portugal.

During the first stage of the Rally the car careered off the road and ramraided into an­ other vehicle.

It took only two minutes for medics to appear on the scene where they desperately tried to resuscitate Salva, however, she was already dead at the scene.

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Stories of strength

By Damon Mitchell EWN had the pleasure of speak­ ing exclusively to expat author Jacqueline Carpenter who after the success of her first novel ‘Louisa,’ is back to repeat that success with part two ‘Joan.’

Jacqueline lives in Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor after relocat­ ing from Essex three years ago.

The books are part of a trilogy which begins in 1937 when the Second World War is looming.

The protagonist in the first nov­ el is Louisa a 15­year­old girl grow­ ing up in London with a life full of emotion, love, strength, happi­ ness and sorrow.

In the second book ‘Joan,’ Louisa, is now a pretty war wid­ ow, it is the 1950s and she is re­ married and living with her new husband in a beautiful farming vil­ lage in Kent.

Jacqueline explained he reason for taking up writing, “My nan

used to tell me stories about the war.

Inspired by her tales I felt I had to write some of these down so that my grandchildren could also read these stories.”

She continued, “ I wanted to motivate young girls by reminding them how strong and indepen­ dent women were in those days.”

‘Joan’ was released on October 2 and along with ‘Louisa’ is avail­ able on Amazon.

Papa Scammed

20,000 chicks

A RECENT investigation has revealed that a mil­ lionaire takeaway pizza chain tycoon is suspect­ ed of stealing more than €280,000 of taxpay­ ers’ cash by claiming fake Eat Out to Help Out meals.

Raheel Choudhary, who owns 61 Papa John’s franchise restaurants is the US giant’s largest UK franchisee, allegedly instructed staff to record thousands of ‘phantom covers’ while the government scheme was running.

Because these non­existent meals were classed as ‘Eat Out to Help Out,’ the UK taxpay­ er footed half the bill. However, most of his restaurants were not even eligible for the offer because they were collection and delivery only.

AROUND 20,000 chicks have been abandoned at a Madrid airport, prompting an appeal from a Spanish animal welfare group for help to save them.

The little chicks were found in boxes at Adolfo Suarez Madrid­Barajas Airport, waiting to be shipped, but the planned shipment to Africa was refused.

The boxes remained at the airport for three days, and sadly many died having been left in the hangar.

They are appealing for donations of heat lamps, cardboard and flat drinking troughs, so that the chicks can be kept warm, have access to water and food.

If you can help, email: contactar@albinismo.es.

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Lost Love?

VLADIMIR PUTIN’S se­ cret lover gave birth to twins last year, howev­ er, she hasn’t been seen much since!

Alina Kabaeva was rumoured to be Putin’s lover back in 2008 in spite of the fact he was married to his ex­wife Lyudmila Shkrebneva.

Kabaeva is a 37­year­ old Olympic gold medallist, with many more awards under her belt and she announced she was two months pregnant with his chil­ dren in 2018. Since giv­ ing birth in April 2019, she has never been seen in public.

Putin is a very guard­ ed man, and never dis­ closes his private life, in an attempt to keep himself and his family safe.

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Queens Honours Tourism Safety Campaigner Georgia Hague and volunteer Ian Warren are among three UK nationals in Spain named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List GEORGIA HAGUE, who cam­ paigns to promote safer youth tourism, has been awarded a

British Empire Medal (BEM) for services to the British communi­ ty in the Balearic Islands and Ian

Warren, who has brought the Red Arrows to Menorca four times, has been awarded a British Empire medal (BEM) for services to the British Communi­ ty in Menorca, in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List, published on Friday October 9, 2020.

Following a tragic fall which killed one of her friends, Georgia instigated a safety awareness campaign aimed at young British tourists visiting the Balearics.

Alongside this, Georgia worked closely with the British Embassy in Madrid and Con­ sulate in Palma to become a key spokesperson for the FCO’s ‘Stick with your Mates’ cam­ paign, sharing her personal ex­ perience in a video that reached almost a million people on Face­ book.

HMA Hugh Elliott said: “It is wonderful to see some­ one as young as Georgia being recognised for the work they do in the community. Channelling

her personal grief into helping to save the lives of others, she has managed to reach millions of young people through social media ­ communicating a mes­ sage of personal safety in a way that was both compelling and relatable. Her work has made a real difference.”

Georgia Hague said: “I am ex­ tremely grateful and humbled to have been recognised for my ef­ forts in Mallorca. If the cam­ paign helped to save just one life, then that means the world to me. Thank you for the posi­ tive recognition, I am grateful beyond words!”

Ian moved to Menorca in 1988 to set up a car hire busi­ ness with his family. For the last 10 years he has put his retire­ ment to one side to focus on bringing the Red Arrows to Menorca; building relationships with the local military and avia­ tion community, ensuring that whenever The Red Arrows visit

Georgia. the event forms part of the life of the whole island.

In addition, he has put his fundraising and project manage­ ment skills to use in support of the work of the Royal British Le­ gion’s Poppy Appeal and annual Poppy Service in the Anglican Church in Menorca.

HMA Hugh Elliott said: “Ian is truly a force of nature.

Leading the effort to bring the Red Arrows to Menorca, he has created a platform to strength­ en bilateral relationships be­ tween the UK and Spain and

Ian. promote the historic links be­ tween the UK and Menorca. Ian never seeks publicity for himself, but is ever­present in the life of the British community on the is­ land, selflessly devoting his free time for the benefit of others.”

Ian Warren said: “I am very humbled and most honoured to be awarded the British Empire Medal from her Majesty. My journey has taken me in many directions, none of which would have been achieved without the help of many friends. My grate­ ful thanks to you all.”

The three UK nationals named in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List are: § An MBE to Dr Janet ANSCOMBE, Retired University Lecturer and Historian, Tenerife, Spain. ‘For services to the British Community in Tenerife.’ § A British Empire Medal (BEM) to Miss Georgia Evie HAGUE, Tourism Safety Campaigner. ‘For services to the British Community in the Balearic Islands.’ § A British Empire Medal (BEM) to Mr Ian J WARREN, Volunteer, Menorca, Spain. ‘For services to the British Community in Menorca.’

FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA

Pension age HAVING made women wait until they were 65 in order to claim the UK state pension, the government has now, as promised, increased the pension age to 66 for both men and women and looks to increase again to 68.

VAT added ALTHOUGH it has been forced to abandon many of its taxation targets due to the pandemic and lack of support, the Spanish government is pushing through the introduction of VAT on private health and education services.

Tax evasion AMERICAN anti-virus entrepreneur John McAfee has been arrested in Spain at the request of the US authorities who want him extradited to answer charges of tax evasion as they claim that he has not filed taxes for four years.

SME help THE Madrid Council has announced that in order to assist the small to medium enterprises in the city it will make €30 million available, but the maximum that any one organisation can claim is just €12,500.

Chinese high tech ORIGINALLY planning to launch its European business at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona which was an early casualty of the Coronavirus pandemic, Chinese technology giant Vivo is now ready for the market and currently has a small office in Madrid.

Seeing the current fall from grace of competitor Huawei, it intends to confirm towards the end of October what products it intends to launch, but it is anticipated that it will concentrate on Smartphones priced up to €400 in Spain based on market research.

ALTHOUGH this has been going on for some time, UK newspapers have picked up on the fact the world’s second largest re­ tailer, American brand Costco is now selling gold and silver bullion through its UK outlets.

It is not as if you can wander through their warehouse picking up much valued toilet rolls and then stopping for a one kilo gold bar priced at around £24,500 (€27,000) but there is plenty of choice from around 50 grammes to a kilo.

The problem is price as

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€150 million

Buy gold and silver and groceries for the kilo gold bar (which is sold without VAT) the price will change daily but will be in the region of 7 per cent over the daily spot and this is because Costco

LEGALLY SPEAKING

must be purchasing from a third party and there­ fore needs to make a rea­ sonable margin on its in­ vestment.

If you buy 32 single ounce bullion coins like

is the amount that Spanish energy company Soltec Power Holdings hopes to raise by bravely going public during the ongoing pandemic.

Krugerrands you will probably pay around 3 per cent over spot and you can also buy similar bullion bars and at around the same price so whilst it’s a good way for the company to obtain publicity, it’s not great for an investor.

They also offer silver at more than 25 per cent over spot but if delivery is taken within the UK then VAT is payable, so effec­ tively you could be paying 45 per cent over spot and there would have to be a lot of upwards movement to make that worthwhile.

Bounce Back Scheme

Is fire alarm obligatory?

I live in an 11­storey block of 44 apartments and two penthouses on the Costa del Sol. The building is over 40 years old. There is no fire escape and there are no fire alarms. There are fire extinguishers on alternate floors. Fire engines can­ not access the rear of the building. The Administra­ tion state there is no legal requirement for either fire alarms or a fire escape. Can this be true?

Bounce Back Scheme still runs until end of November.

Credit: Chancellor Rishi Sunak Twitter

M G (Costa del Sol) Yes, it is true.

In YOU AND THE LAW buildings put up IN SPAIN before 2006 there was very little le­ gal requirement in national law regarding fire safety.

Even if your own municipality has some stricter regulations in place, but no building inspector has called on you to enforce them, you are not legally obligated.

More modern buildings are designed for hallways and staircases to block direct airflow that feeds fires, but even they are not required to have alarm sys­ tems or fire escapes.

If you wish to discuss this at the AGM, you might want to consider individual smoke alarms in each flat which is a solution favoured by many large buildings.

DAVID SEARL

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

A NEW month and a new Chief Execu­ tive, as Ken Murphy takes over the helm at Tesco, Britain’s largest super­ market chain with a promise to keep everything on track with the policy initiated by former boss Dave Lewis.

It was only a few years ago that Tesco hit the headlines for the wrong reason as three of its senior staff were accused of false accounting, but having shaken off that problem, it

ALTHOUGH it was initially be­ lieved that criminals might em­ bezzle up to £1.9 billion (€2.1 billion) from the Government Bounce Back Scheme, the UK National Audit Office (NAO) has announced that it esti­ mates that the scale of loss could be as much as £26 billion (€28.6 billion).

That is an incredible 60 per cent of the amount loaned and the main banks involved, Bar­ clays, HSBC, Lloyds, NatWest and Santander, which provided more than £30 bn (€33 bn) in funding will be protected and should between them earn more than £1 bn (€1.1 bn) in government paid interest.

To summarise, the Bounce Back Loan Scheme provides registered and unregistered businesses with loans of up to

£50,000 (€55,000) or a maxi­ mum of 25 per cent of annual turnover, to maintain their fi­ nancial health during the pan­ demic.

According to the NAO, once the government decided to support small businesses facing cash flow problems owing to the pandemic, it moved very quickly to set up a scheme.

It prioritised one aspect of value for money ­ payment speed ­ over almost all others and has been prepared to tol­ erate a potentially very high level of losses as a result.

The problem is that because of the speed in which it set up and the 1.2 million cases ap­ proved in record time, it didn’t really know who was legiti­ mate and who would be able to pay back loans received.

Social Security cost APPEARING before a Parlia­ mentary Committee, Minister of Inclusion and Social Security, José Luis Escrivá has confirmed that social security payments to Spanish residents impacted

by Covid­19 amount to almost €13 billion up to the end of September.

The largest expense has been on ERTE (furlough) at €5.218 billion, followed by sup­ port for the self­employed at €4.138 billion with €2.2 billion lost by the exemption granted from paying social security with a further €1.369 billion spent on those with temporary ill­ nesses or holiday.

Overall, when taking into ac­ count loss of tax revenue the government is €22 billion out of pocket.

Free beverages RESTAURANT chains and fran­ chises have suffered badly with the Covid­19 restrictions and the Restalia Group, which has brands such as 100 Mon­ taditos and La Sureña, has launched an unusual plan to help all of its franchisees af­ fected by restrictive measures.

For those located in the most restricted areas, the group will supply one month of free beverages, either beer or soft drinks for the month of October based on average consumption.

In addition, it will run ad­ verts encouraging visitors to the outlets even though num­ bers seated are low.

New Tesco boss had a change of direction and has been concentrating more on its core business.

Recently it managed to reach agreement to sell its business in

Malaysia and Thailand for £8.2 billion (€9 billion) which will allow it to con­ solidate its finances and create a spe­ cial profit dividend for shareholders.

Sales for the first half of the year

were up, but with the cost of Covid­ 19 protection and extra staff at more than £500 million (€550 million) prof­ its were down by 15 per cent com­ pared to last year.

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Carry on Regardless CINEWORLD CLOSURES: Not a scene from Carry on Cowboy.

THE news that the release of the new James Bond film No Time to Die - almost certainly Daniel C r a i g ’s l a s t a p p e a r ance as 007 – has been postponed again, this time from November until April 2021 may well have spelled the end for Cineworld which employs 45,000 in the UK and USA. There seems to be a complete dearth of blockbuster movies be­ ing released, in many cases be­ cause so many were postponed due to coronavirus, but without decent films to draw people into the cinema and the additional cost of reducing audiences and keeping them safe is simply caus­ ing problems all round.

The fact that TV generally is

relying on repeats or old episodes of programmes filmed before the lockdown, coupled with the success of the espi­ onage film Tenet which was re­ leased in August suggests that there is an audience anxious to enjoy a night at the movies.

The major distributors howev­ er want to ensure that they re­ ceive the maximum income from theatrical releases, espe­ cially in America, before letting them out for TV and then DVD screening, so there is very little new quality product available to view.

In the UK, Cineworld employs 5,500 staff in 127 venues and it says that the closures are tempo­ rary and it is monitoring the situ­ ation so that once it has more in­ formation about planned releases it will in turn be able to consider when to reopen.

Natural Gas ORIGINALLY planned for April but postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchéz made his first trip to Algeria where he met with its President Abdelmadjid Tebounne in Algiers.

Apart from discussions about migration and dealing with the pandemic, the Prime Minister was on a mission to try to find a way to reduce the price of natural gas supplied by Algeria to Spain.

After dominating the market for 30 years, Algeria has seen an upsurge in Spanish imports from the USA and the Middle East.

In the meantime, Prime Min­ ister Boris Johnson has encour­ aged people to go to the cine­ ma and enjoy the movies that are on offer, although that may be difficult with the Cineworld closures.

BUSINESS EXTRA Money back ONLINE estate agent Aliseda which is owned by American investment company Blackstone and Santander is offering 8,400 flats for sale with a guarantee of a 10 per cent refund if the value of the property falls more than that amount in three months.

eBay IN a bid to stimulate growth, eBay in the UK will not make any charges to new sellers until they manage to sell 100 items a month and then new lower fees will be introduced on a sliding scale.

Tobin tax IN January 2021, the new Spanish Tobin tax will be put into place whereby the Treasury hopes to earn €850 million by charging 0.2 per cent on the purchase of shares from listed companies which are valued at more than €1 billion.

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Use your common sense LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT HERE we go again. Some weeks ago I re­ ferred to Corona deniers as being akin to members of the Flat Earth Society.

Well, despite the derision I took for that statement, my opinion hasn’t changed one iota. Do people truly believe that all the leaders of the free world, including the ‘Kranky’ person, have actually put all their heads together and conspired to cripple all their economies and throw their respective countries into chaos - merely to gain some kind or Orwellian hold over their citizens?

Are you listening to yourselves? You sound utterly ridiculous. Our leaders may be making errors of judgement, some of their rules and regulations may appear to be over the top and ‘unfair,’ some of the ‘numbers’ may be incorrect, but they are doing their darndest to control and eliminate an unprecedented virus that is running riot and killing the population.

To achieve success, they are acting on

the advice of the highest and most expert medical authorities in the land. What suddenly made all those social media posters experts in pandemics and how to deal with them? The minute we began to ease off and allow all the diddums’ to go for drinkie poos and ‘let their hair down’ the numbers began to rise again.

It’s not a fallacy; the infection rate is now increasing at an alarming rate. The front line workers of the NHS are once again under extreme pressure to control and deal with the extra influx of patients.

For those who insist it’s nothing more than a touch of the flu, new figures out today show that between January and August three times the amount of people died from the Coronavirus than died from Pneumonia and Influenza combined!

The areas that are now finding themselves under the strict restrictions has nothing to do with north and south divides, it’s to do with numbers of people not complying with the rules and regulations they were asked to observe.

The sooner people stop crying in their milk and voluntarily knuckle down and follow the rules, the quicker we will see the end of this nightmare. Why should

those who do comply be suffering because selfish numbers of the population decide they are being ‘hard done by’ and know better than the experts?

We are all suffering in one way or another. No one is getting any preferential treatment. If the selfcentered minority would observe the rules, keep their toys in their prams and see a bit of sense, the government wouldn’t need to make and enforce new laws, which have to be implemented by extra police patrols and subsequent arrests.

Make no mistake. Everyone wants this over. Even if you halve the published numbers you have to be totally moronic to deny the world is in the grip of a virus that, if not contained or eliminated, will continue to kill and incapacitate our citizens for well into the foreseeable future.

Wear a mask. Wash your hands, observe social distancing and use your common sense. For all our sakes.

Keep the faith Love Leapy leaplee2002@gmail.com expatradioscotland Mon. Wed. Fri.

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

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Miracle Find HOPEFUL: A donor has now been found for Reign.

REIGN MILLER-HARDY, from Barry, South Wales, has been found a bone marrow donor just days after his first birthday.

Miller­Hardy was suffering from an extremely rare and deadly genetic con­ dition which required a one­in­a­million bone marrow donor.

The condition, hemophagocytic lym­ phohistiocytosis (HLH), sees healthy tis­ sue and organs subject to an attack by his own immune system, with attacks occurring in the liver, heart and brain among other vital body organs.

The family is overjoyed at the finding of a compatible donor and now hold out hope for his future.

Force for Good INSPIRATIONAL Cardiff pensioner, Dilys Price, has passed away at 88 after completing 1,139 solo para­ chute jumps all in the name of charity.

Price started her skydiving career at the age of 54 and entered the Guinness Book of World Records in 2013 as the world’s oldest female solo parachute jumper.

Price, with a background in dance, also founded a charity which provided vulnerable people and those with learning difficulties access to free creative move­ ment programmes which help their cognitive and mo­ tor functions.

She was awarded an OBE in 2003 and the Pride of Britain awards in 2017.

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Three Student Outbreak Arrests THREE men have been arrested in Sweden on suspicion of the mur­ der of Flamur Beqiri, who was fatally shot outside his home in Battersea on Christ­ mas Eve, 2019.

The 36­year­old, who had a wife and young child, was the brother of former Real Housewives of Cheshire star Misse Beqiri.

Three Swedish na­ tionals, aged 33, 31 and 22, were arrested on October 8, at ad­ dresses in Stockholm and Vaxjo, under a UK European Arrest War­ rant (EAW).

They will now be subject to the extradi­ tion process through the Swedish judicial system.

NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY has seen more than 1,000 students test positive for coronavirus.

That figure, together with the 770 positive tests among students at neighbouring Northumbria University, means over 5,000 students in the UK across 91 universities now have the virus.

A crackdown has now be­ gun with 91 rule breakers in

Manchester already fined €56 (£50) and others threatened with €560 (£500) penalties.

The city’s health chiefs have revealed that more than half of Manchester’s surging Covid cases are affecting those be­ tween the ages of 17 and 21.

Manchester still has one of the highest infection rates in Eng­ land after several outbreaks among the student population.

Mask Up Please HOLLAND is quickly becoming one of the world’s Covid hot spots as it refuses to bring in face mask rules.

Over the past month, a surge in new cases has catapulted the per capita infection rate into the top 10 in the world. Holland now has a weekly infection rate of around 160 per 100,000 people.

The Dutch parliament recently debated an emergency law that would give the government the power to make masks mandatory.

Royal Restriction SOPHIE, Countess of Wessex is self­isolating at home amid Covid­19 fears. Prince Edward’s wife, 55, is quarantining after being in contact with someone who has tested positive for

coronavirus. The countess has not reported any symptoms, and is not thought to have seen any other members of the Roy­ al Family since being in touch with the infected person.

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NEARLY a third of all coron­ avirus infections are linked to pubs and restaurants, accord­ ing to a government minister.

Business minister Nadhim Zahawi said England’s Chief Medical Officer Chris Whitty had presented the evidence to MPs. Zahawi said: “Be­ tween restaurants, bars and cafes about 30 per cent of the infections are coming through that hospitality, social interac­

tions if I can describe it as such.”

Zahawi added: “And it is only right that we take action with the local leadership, with public health local teams, be­ cause they know their area best.”

This revelation comes as Central Scotland’s pub’s and restaurants will be forced to close today in a bid to curb the recent spike in cases.

Hoarded fortune THE biggest hoarder in Britain has passed away suddenly and left an es­ timated £4 million worth of possessions behind.

The unnamed gentleman had to move into a bed and breakfast a year ago as he was not able to move around his own home. He lived alone in a three­bedroom house in Nottingham, however passed away in the B&B. He hid all of the possessions across a rented one bedroom flat, 20 council wheelie bins and two garages.

Just a few conspiracy theories MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man UK cinemas are closing ­ another sign of the economic catastrophe happening worldwide. The reason is that yet another studio has pulled another potential block­ buster, to be shown next year, instead of this year. So far the new James Bond and Mission Impossible are two of the the 30ish that have been put back.

This is a disaster in so many ways. The spiral effect is going to be no cinemas, which means nowhere to show movies.

This means no revenue to make the movies which plays right into the hands of Netflix, Prime and Apple.

See the connection? They are all online companies and will now be in control. Of course the talent that appears in these movies will also be affected. At the mo­ ment movies aren’t even being made be­ cause of Covid. Maybe the conspiracy the­ orists aren’t too far off saying it’s all a plot.

Talking about conspiracy theories, there are a serious amount about regarding Covid. Here’s a few to choose from ­ 5G ­ not sure how a virus travels via a mobile network.

Bill Gates ­ this is a Q Anon one. You re­ ally need to check this scary mob out. It es­ caped from a Chinese lab ­ slightly more plausible than some of the others. It was developed as a biological weapon in China.

When China heard this they came back with their own theory that it was the USA that imported it into China.

This one’s a biggy from the likes of David Icke and Alex Jones ­ two absolute nutters as far as I’m concerned: Covid­19 doesn’t actually exist, but is a plot by the globalist elite to take away our freedom.

Early weaker versions of this theory were prevalent on the political right in the notion the novel coronavirus would be ‘no worse than flu’ and later versions are now influencing anti­lockdown protests across several states in the US. Because believers increasingly refuse to observe social distancing measures, they could directly help to spread the epidemic in their localities and increase the resulting death rate. This is their theory not mine.

The point I’m making is nobody actually knows what’s going on but whatever it is it’s grinding the world to a halt and I’m fed up with it all.

By the way didn’t Donald Trump recover the quickest anyone has ever recovered since the epidemic started? There’s a few conspiracy theories about that too!!

Email: mikesenker@gmail.com

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DAVID WORBOYS TRUMP is not an exact anagram of Putin but he seems to be modelling his presidential dictatorship on that of the Russian. He also sees Kim Jong­un as a great leader. Is he seeking a term for life, regardless of the wishes of the people?

If he refuses to budge from the Oval Office after the election, he should be frog­marched across the White House Lawn with cameras at the ready, humili­ ated as he has single­handedly humiliat­ ed and polarised his nation. Surely, even in today’s USA, it seems inconceiv­ able that he could be re­elected.

For the wrong reasons, he may be re­ membered in history more than any President since Kennedy, Roosevelt or Lincoln. But then, Hitler is far better known than Adenauer.

This devious, selfish man will stop at nothing to avoid surrendering his cata­ strophic presidency. He is banking on the gullibility of millions of his compatri­ ots. We shall see how it turns out.

Let’s look at the desperate measures he has tried in order to facilitate the nightmare of another four years. He has meddled in or tried to interfere with

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MAKE AMERICA Licence Fury SANE AGAIN the Supreme Court, the media, the electoral process (even the election date!), free trade, alliances, Brexit, mul­ tilateralism, social harmony, Obama Care, and the scientific conclusions of coronavirus.

Trump has criticised United Nations, NATO and the World Health Organisa­ tion, and regards war heroes and fallen US soldiers as losers and suckers. He de­ fended right wing extremist attacks on peaceful demonstrators against police brutality.

And he has sacrificed or endangered the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens through his reckless behaviour.

He dismisses any challenge to his own view of the world as fake news or hoax.

He has evaded taxes and abused his power. And, it goes on. He would even claim to have Christian values if it would win him a few votes.

He used the embarrassing peace deal parade alongside his Israeli crony, Netanyahu, as a political rally. “He is a great leader, like me; I’m a tremendous

leader.” Whatever our opinion of Xi Jin Ping, Trump’s tirade against China at the UN showed him up as impetuous and immature, when contrasted with the measured address by the Chinese leader.

The corona statistics, the state of the economy and the national division and the image of the USA abroad speak for themselves. An alarming number of se­ nior members of his administration seem to accept that he is the greatest and most successful President in histo­ ry.

The lies and ridiculous personal accu­ sations propagated against Joe Biden seem to be believed by millions of vot­ ers. What is more dangerous than Trump himself is the fanaticism and ig­ norance of his supporters. It brings back horrific images of the Nuremberg rallies of the thirties. There seems to be enough sanity among the electorate for sense to prevail. Otherwise two things could emerge, fascism and civil war. Ei­ ther way, extremely dangerous times.

BRITISH licence payers are furious at the discovery that the BCC has blown almost £300,000 of their money on a PR chief.

While over 75’s have had their free licences removed and at a time when the UK is in an economic spiral, the news that the BBC has chosen to shell out such an enormous amount on Public Rela­ tions spin is an exceptional misuse of public money.

This desperate bid to save the TV licence fee is an afront to the trust that the British public put in the BBC to use their finances for the better quality of broadcasting that is received.

Miracle Maisie

WHEN footballer Jordan Sin­ nott was killed on a night out, he had no idea that his fi­ ancée was carrying his baby, now 10 months later, Kelly Bossons has shown off baby Maisie to the world.

Kelly was three­weeks pregnant when 25­year­old Sinnott was killed by a punch that left him with a fractured skull from which he died of

brain damage hours later.

Twenty­seven­year­old Kel­ ly revealed, “At 7.53am on September 27, 6lb 11oz Maisie Jordan ­ middle name in her dad’s honour ­ entered the world. I gazed at her with love but was devastated Jordan was not here to hold his ba­ by.”

“Our miracle daughter was Jordan’s gift to me.”

Concert Chaos No social distancing.

DONALD TRUMP’S unexpected Covid­19 infection and hospitalisa­ tion should be the election wake­ up call the USA needs.

For many, America has stopped being American ­ for four years its citizens have been living under the shadow of a president who has more in common with Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin than Abraham Lincoln or Franklin Roosevelt.

Hopefully, the USA ­ a great country I lived in for many years ­ will finally wake up to what is hap­ pening to its democracy and, sadly, to its morality.

Things started going pear­shaped way back in the Nixon days with the Watergate scandal which re­ moved a Republican president.

Since then, there has been an al­ most deep­seated desire to smear whoever is in office.

Witness the attempts by the Re­ publicans to get the Clintons over the Whitewater controversy.

That didn’t work so they widened the investigation to cover Clinton’s private life which ended up tearing down Monica Lewinski for her af­ fair with the president.

On the other side, Republicans Ronald Reagan and George W Bush were both portrayed as not particu­ larly razor­smart by the mass me­

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But, arguably, things really start­ ed going pear­shaped with the ‘Tea Party’ and other more extreme groups that tried to steer the elect­ ed administrations towards their worldview with street marches and demonstrations. (Much like the BLM movement today although that’s more extreme.)

Until the parties in power ­ whether Republican or Democrat ­ stop governing by focus group rather than what is best for the country, this polarisation will in­ evitably continue.

A rules­based democracy can’t work effectively if there’s no moral framework to undergird it. The

greater the corruption, racism, ex­ ploitation etc, the harder it is for governments to govern.

There is a saying that people get the governments they deserve. I suggest that we need to think about this in the UK, not just the USA. Finally, on a lighter note, a Scot­ tish newspaper’s report on Trump (‘Turnberry hotelier tests positive for coronavirus’) follows a publish­ ing tradition of pursuing the local angle. It could have added: ‘Local lad gets sick. Also runs America.’

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HUNDREDS of revellers were ordered to leave the end­of­ season concert in Villa Martin Plaza after police found that several venues were not ad­ hering to proper social dis­ tancing regulations.

The Plaza, a popular venue with expats and famous for its summer­long, live entertain­ ment, has already faced many blows this season, with gigs being cancelled due to rising

Covid­19 cases in the region.

This final concert of the summer attracted locals and tourists alike, with customers asked to book tables prior to arriving.

A representative of the Plaza stated that while one complaint was received about a restaurant not adhering to social distancing guidelines, the concert was completely legal.

Top Queen FOR the first time in 25 years, Queen has topped the album chart beating back current K­pop sensations Blackpink and Spice Girl, Melanie C to claim the coveted Number 1 position.

This is the first time since 1995 that Queen have returned to the charts as they floor the competition. Their album, Live Around the World, is their eighth live album and their 10th Number 1 album.

However, it is the first Number 1 album they have garnered since be­ ing joined by new frontman, Adam Lambert, who joined in 2011.

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Adapting to the new situation EMMA and Scott from Scoffers bar have seen the change of the seasons on the Costa Del Sol from their cute family bar in Fuengirola for 33 years.

This year has been tough for many, however, in an exclusive in­ terview with the EWN, Emma and Scott told us how they’re adapting to the new situation and continuing to keep their doors open.

This seafront bar has been here for 33 years which is an incredible achievement in itself, but this won­ der­couple have not just established a family­friendly bar, they have raised their own family here whilst doing it.

Emma and Scott are passionate about what they do and family is at the forefront of their business and it shows. They’re so welcoming it’s no wonder people return each year.

“We’ve not just watched our own children grow up here, we’ve

EMMA AND SCOTT: Have been in business for 33 years. watched our customers’ children grow, and we’ve even seen some of their children have their own chil­

dren,” Emma explained.

“Unfortunately as we watch some people have babies we’ve also seen

some pass away, but we’ve had a 92nd birthday party here this week for a long­standing customer which

was really so incredible,” Scott con­ tinues, “I think the success of our bar has been due to us being family­ friendly. Whilst there is a need for sports bars, we are certainly not one of them, we have a great relation­ ship with our neighbours and our customers because we put family and the children first.”

The couple are sad to have staff off work at the moment on ERTE and hope things pick up soon to wel­ come back their workforce, but for now, they’ve cut back hours and Emma is back in the kitchen, just like how they started out!

Emma tells me how sorry she is to see so many people struggling who have not been here long, “not every­ one is fortunate enough to have family here to support them,” Em­ ma’s mum who is now 76 has been here giving a helping hand since the start.

Scoffers family bar is located at Paseo Marítimo Rey de España, 17, Fuengirola, whilst they have reduced their hours slightly due to the pandemic, the opening hours are still 10.00 - 16.00 Monday to Saturday and they’re rated number one on TripAdvisor for breakfast.

Scott tells us TripAdvisor is continuing to feed them business as people search for the best breakfast in Fuengirola online. This really is a lovely place, beautiful views and immaculately clean, with an open kitchen, and open arms, they’re waiting to welcome you and your family.

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Exclusive Interview with Psychic Tracey Woolterton

AS we learn to live in this ‘new normal’ many of us are con­ fused about what the future holds for us. Maybe you’ve lost your job, or your business is struggling to stay afloat. So many of us are facing new challenges on a daily basis in a world we could never have seen coming or could have prepared for... except for Tracey of course, she predicted this back in October 2019.

Psychic Tracey Woolterton is a psychic from Birmingham, and in an exclusive interview with EWN, she tells us how she not only had visions of this whole pandemic unfolding but how she has been helping people stay positive and look ahead to their own futures.

Now I know some people are sceptical of mediums and all things supernatural but, quite honestly, I’ve had a few read­ ings in the past and none have been as accurate as Tracey’s.

With clients in her phone book like Katie Price, Gemma Collins, and even Mama June in America, there’s a reason she’s the go­to psychic for not only the celebs, but for the po­ lice too.

Throughout her life, she has had premonitions and vi­ sions, and from being a small child she has been aware the world doesn’t look the same through her eyes as it does

everyone else’s.

Tracey has a gift of remote vision and can see things through other people’s eyes. During a phone call, she asked where I was going because she could see a rucksack, I was sat in front of a backpack, packing it with my camera and note­ book to go to do another interview.

This lovely lady is so down to earth and overflowing with a bubbly personality just talking to her cheers you up. It’s not al­ ways easy though, Tracey told me how after a tragic accident in America a client called her, and using her remote vision she helped her find her daughter who unfortunately had passed away. Tracey’s vision was so detailed she could describe the long grass, the wooden slatted walkway, and the rope that had tangled around the young girl’s ankles trapping her.

Tracey keeps a diary of her visions and back in October 2019 she wrote “Country in threat, from an animal that causes breathing problems, people believe it’s bats, that many birds will die, it will spread via food or touch, it causes fibres in the chest and lungs.” There are then other notes for her to do some research on bird flu because it is important and few oth­ er comments, but it’s hard not to have faith in her gift when you see these things and speak with her.

TRACEY: Helping people stay positive.

In a time when everything is so uncertain and we don’t always know which path to take, Tracey is helping so many, her motto is ‘Positive vibes - make positive lives.’

If you are looking for some guidance you can contact her through her website https://www.psychictracey.online/

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FEATURE

This week Celebrity Chef and proprietor of the award-winning Little Geranium in La Cala de Mijas makes Master Chef style healthy Salmon Wellington!

Steven Saunders FMCGB The Little Geranium La Cala de Mijas www.thelittlegeranium.com ON the foodie calendar Oc­ tober is not a great month for much really. It’s a bit too early for all those love­ ly root vegetables and win­ ter fruits and a bit late for the beautiful soft summer fruits and vegetables.

With the fantastic weather we have been having here, it’s no wonder that we are not quite ready for the slow cooked stewy dishes just yet and so I cooked salmon wellington for some friends at the restaurant last week and they were totally blown away by it!

I said “well it’s just a salmon wellington” and they replied “OMG the flavours, the textures are simply amazing.” Simple, it is really, it’s an easy dish to make and a nice change to meat and not as expen­ sive if you buy the right

Wild about Salmon!

MASTER CHEF AMERICA: Steven, as a young chef.

salmon.

So, what is the right salmon? Salmon varies in quality depending on where it is from and how it is farmed. The season for wild salmon is always May t o a b o u t t h e e n d o f S e p­ tember and so you won’t find it in October.

However, that’s one of the reasons I choose to write about it, because whilst wild salmon is off the menu (and is absolute­ ly fantastic) it is also very expensive, like twice the price. So now the only salmon available is farmed and as long as it is farmed with some love and care it won’t have the toxins or high levels of mercury that cheap farmed salmon has.

I buy mine from a spe­ cialist supplier in Asturias (northern Spain) and it is superb, however the biggest producer in the world for farmed salmon is Norway. The quality is good and the price is usual­

ly fair as they have taken the lead in the market. It s h o u l d s a y F a r m­ R a i s e d Salmon from Norway, this is what to look for. Ask where the salmon is from and if it doesn’t say, it does matter.

Certain parts of the world for example are pro­ ducing cheaper farmed salmon but it’s riddled with chemicals which is in its feed and therefore high in toxins and mercury which is unhealthy.

The big producers like the Norwegians have all their ducks (or rather salmons!) in a row, they have some impeccable farming methods and offer quality assurance.

Salmon is a super food because of the high levels of Omega 3 which is a healthy and essential fat, necessary for cardiovascu­ lar health.

My friends had flown over from the UK specially and I asked about quaran­

tine. “Lol” they said, “the UK is in such a muddle they can’t possibly police it and s o w e a r e n o t a t a l l c o n­ cerned.” Hence, they are remaining nameless!

In total contrast to that, my oldest daughter Serena is in Australia and just came out of a two­week q u a r a n t i n e i n a g o v e r n­ ment owned hotel which she describes as similar to a prison, albeit she has never been in a prison!

“Dad, the food” she says, “comes in a polythene bag dumped outside your room as we are not allowed out of the room.” After two weeks and umpteen Covid tests she has just been re­ leased.

“Dad” she said, “I have been watching your food posts on Facebook and In­ stagram, the food is amaz­ ing, we need a chef here in Australia!” “Babes,” I said, “there are chefs in Aus­ tralia but possibly not at the hotel you stayed in!”

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

Master Chef Steven’s Simple Salmon Wellington (Serves four) 1 kilo (Approx 2 lbs) of good quality salmon skinless and boneless.

Approx 300g of ready made puff pastry (I make my own, but the ready made is far quicker and easier, buy the type that uses butter) 500g of brown cap or porto­ bello mushrooms 3 large cloves of garlic peeled and sliced 1 white onion peeled and sliced 4 leaves of fresh basil 1 lemon and 1 lime seasoning Olive oil 2 egg yolks mixed together in a small dish Method Firstly, make the mushroom

duxelle which is like a mush­ room pate.

Wash then slice the mush­ rooms and heat a pan on a high heat. Fry the mushrooms in a little olive oil and add the sliced onions and garlic.

Cook until a dark brown colour but not burned!

Now blend in your food processor, pulsing is better as you still want some lumps (e.g. not totally smooth) Reserve in fridge for later.

Now cut the salmon into four small even portions about 200g each and seal in a hot pan on both sides in a little olive oil but only seal, (eg 15 seconds each side). Squeeze the fresh lemon and lime juice over each salmon fillet.

Roll out the pastry and cut in­ to approx 14 cm squares and place the salmon in the cen­ tre of each square.

Top each piece of salmon with a generous coating of the duxelle and finish with a leaf of basil.

Fold the pastry up over the salmon covering it entirely.

Then twist any excess pastry at the bottom of each piece and remove some of the flack so that you don’t have thick pastry at the bottom.

Keep them in a fridge until re­ quired.

To cook the salmon Pre­heat the oven to 200ºC. Brush the salmon welling­ tons all over with the egg yolk mix and line a baking

tray with baking paper or just use a little olive oil on a baking tray to avoid them sticking.

Bake in the oven until the pastry is golden brown, usual­ ly eight minutes. Remove and crisp the underneath of each wellington in a hot frying pan to seal the bases. Be careful not to burn.

Serve with a truffle sauce, a simple version is made using thick cream reduced and then add truffle pieces (in most su­ permarkets) and some truffle oil and seasoning, or a simple mushroom sauce.

Enjoy simple salmon welling­ ton with Chef Steven’s Mas­ ter Chef expertise in your own home!

Follow Steven on Instagram ….@saunderschef The Little Geranium, Winner of Best International Restaurant Spain…2020 www.thelittlegeranium.com For bookings: Michele@thelittlegeranium.com

SALMON WELLINGTON: Serve with truffle sauce.

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Have you tried Fuengirola’s best breakfast?

Scoffers was always our, and my parents, favourite in Fuengirola for breakfast.

WS

President Trump ‘Clear of Covid’ - Dr Sean Conley I don’t believe he had it in the first place. Looking for sympathy votes.

LC

BGT Finalist attracts thousands of complaints I’m a very white female, I thought it was funny, why are people so offended by comedians, they make us laugh, and laughter is good.

Leapy Lee As a regular reader of [Leapy Lee’s] column I agree with most of what you say, particularly this week’s column which gave out about the sentences handed out to young oiks for the crimes they have committed. I can remember back to the 60’s when my younger brother was in a borstal in Rochester for a crime he did not commit, but got six months for the crime was possession of cannabis. He was a local oink known to the CID and had been fitted up by one officer on his way home from work. They found minute traces in his trouser pockets, but that was enough to convict him.

My elder brother at the same time got three months for bouncing a few cheques, which if I remember rightly did

OUR VIEW Sunday Shopping

SUNDAY is closing time in Spain. It is traditionally a day of relaxation, reflection, worship and family.

For most shops this means that they are closed and therefore the public need to ensure that any shopping should be carried out on Saturday.

Sunday shopping has always been a debate subject in many parts of the world.

Many people who agree that shops should be able to choose whether to open on a Sunday argue that the idea of remaining closed no longer fits with the 24/7 global economy of the 21st century.

There is also the argument that Sunday is one of the few days when people are fully available to enjoy leisurely shopping due to working through the week.

However, there are just as many opponents of the full opening of retail environments on a Sunday.

Many see it as a dangerous symbol of commercialism that is taking over the human condition and the full and unbridled opening of shops at all times would see a loss of valuable time and, potentially, see increases in working hours and the destruction of much needed down time.

There are also objections on the ground of religion. Particularly in countries like Spain which still have a highly religious community.

So, with so many arguments for and against Sunday opening, it is clear that there is no specific consensus on the way forward.

We believe that Sunday shopping should be allowed and that it is more in keeping with our modern society, however, you may disagree … and that is okay too.

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PHONE APP: Brings you all the latest news. not amount to more than a few pounds all in, something that nowadays would not even have raised an eyebrow.

Myself I have been convicted of a two driving offences in the 80’s and I was convicted of exceeding 30 miles an hour on an empty road at eight o’clock on a Saturday morning. The princess royal’s husband got a lesser sentence for doing far more than me, in the early 90’s I received a three-month ban for exceeding 100mph on an empty motorway, while in court I watched worse cases regarding illegal immigrants receiving lesser sentences for doing far worse than me, but then I did not have a clever solicitor, no legal aid for me and one person who had been doing the same speed as me got two weeks and a £200 fine. I got three months and a £100 fine. The two weeks and £200 I could have lived with, but three months! Absolutely ridiculous compared with the rest of the sentences I heard being handed down that day, at the end of the day the only thing I can say is that there is no such thing as British justice, unless you are supposedly under privileged or on legal aid.

Billy Hayling, Email

Buy British?

The television licence is a waste of money. There are countless ways of watching events and entertainment without turning to this mind numbing organisation. This is probably the only time that I would say, not to buy British.

Vincent, Online

Spain’s VOX party protests against Madrid’s lockdown Trouble with people from Madrid they never listen to rules, they are back down here near Malaga spreading this awful virus as they did before, how irresponsible can you be.

PB

Legal action launched against the government for failure to disclose £3bn worth of spending Hope it brings this sham of a government down before the country is ruined by them all. Keir Starmer’s vision seems the best imo - rather have someone with a social conscience and a true meritocrat as PM than those who have been in No.10 in recent years that’s for sure!

SO

Breaking News - Family tragedy as three-year-old accidently shoots himself The family should be charged with neglect for leaving the gun out, should have been locked away, a three-year-old should never have been able to get hold of it, I do feel sorry for the family as they have to live with that for the rest of their lives.

CM

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YOUR STARS FOR NEXT 7 DAYS ARIES (March 21 - April 20) Are you in the mood for some retail therapy? There are bargains to be had this week. The trend also extends to your personal life where it is possible to negotiate much more easily with a loved one. Suggestions for a busy weekend may be resisted owing to overload.

TAURUS (April 21 - May 21) The more sensitive side of your nature comes to the fore this week. You are likely to find yourself upset but, by looking on the bright side and keeping your sense of humour, brings a balanced view.

GEMINI (May 22 - June 21) This is a time to keep your mind sharp, so get plenty of sleep and exercise for sure. Legal matters may be paramount and need specialist advice. So long as you are doing your best in a certain situation, no more can be expected of you.

CANCER (June 22 - July 23) This is a time of the year when new starts and fresh ideas come to you, which is excellent news for those who are looking forward to changes. The weekend brings you courage and determination and you feel confident enough to speak plainly with people.

LEO (July 24 - August 23) Something said to you in confidence should be respected this week. Should the beans be spilled, it will not be you who is feeling guilty. The need to help someone with legal forms or some other complicated matter will be much appreciated.

VIRGO (August 24 - September 23) A slow start to the week sees you full of beans come Wednesday.

What is the cause of this change of attitude? Something you worked on last week shows signs of progress just when you thought it wouldn't.

LIBRA (September 24 - October 23) It is now that you may realise how right you were to keep something in reserve. Certainly, so far as a relationship is concerned, holding back has proved its worth.

Financially, you are entering a period of frugality, but this is more for your own satisfaction than because of any money worries.

SCORPIO (October 24 - November 22) Getting more sleep and fresh air last week may show dividends now. The results are a brighter mind and more willingness to be social. Young people will be particularly helpful and fun to be with. Asking for their help makes them feel important in your life and will also bring you great pleasure.

SAGITTARIUS (November 23 - December 21) Keep a wide circle of friends and constantly seek to add to them.

With such an active mind as yours, boredom is agitating and nonproductive. Autumn gives you the ideal opportunity to visit others and get out in the open. Both your health and finances gain from a day somewhere new as an inspired idea comes to you. An invitation you are tempted to refuse should be accepted if possible.

HEXAGRAM

The purpose of the Hexagram puzzle is to place the 19 six-letter words into the 19 cells. The letters at the edges of interlocking cells MUST BE THE SAME. The letters in the words must be written CLOCKWISE. The word in cell 10 (CREDIT) and one letter in four other cells are given as clues.

ABLATE ABORTS ABRUPT BEATEN CELLAR COARSE CREDIT (10) DEARTH HEROIC HOLLER INTONE LEGEND LETTER MOTLEY RANCHO RECALL SHAKEN STREAK TANGLE

LOTTERY

CAPRICORN (December 22 - January 20) News of someone close brings finances into your mind. Perhaps some juggling is needed to keep the balance. There is more than one way to conserve both energy and money, which will give you a head start. Getting involved with a charity, even on a small scale, can bring immense satisfaction and costs nothing.

AQUARIUS (January 21 - February 19) A shopping trip with a friend makes you realise that there is more to them than meets the eye.

Should you have underestimated them, encourage them to open up. Something you hear this week will be of immense value to you in the future. Decorating and changes at home make a big difference to your life and perks you up.

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PISCES (February 20 - March 20) Someone new to your circle of friends brings humour and a new lease of life, socially. When something outside your comfort zone is suggested, then be sure that it is not just faint heart that is stopping you. There is nothing wrong with saying ‘no,’ unless there is heartache in doing so and then wishing that you had not.

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Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 1 represents S and 17 represents R, so fill in S every time the figure 1 appears and R every time the figure 17 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 Sixty (7) 5 Juez (5) 8 Llama (de fuego) (5) 9 Salchicha (7) 10 Teatro (7) 11 Friend (f) (5) 12 Tow trucks (5) 14 Risa (5) 19 Ocurrir (5) 21 To seem (7) 23 To arrest (7) 24 Valor (5) 25 Narices (5) 26 El más alto (7)

Down 1 Seguridad (6) 2 Agitar (5) 3 Our (f) (7) 4 Respuesta (a pregunta, en examen, test) (6) 5 Cage (5) 6 Dibujo (7) 7 To raise (6) 13 Prescriptions (7) 15 Llegada (7) 16 Dorado (6) 17 Espíritu (6) 18 Cura (6) 20 Frogs (5) 22 Street (5)

LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION • LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION • LAST WEEK’S SOLUTION QUICK

BOGGLED

HEXAGRAM

WORD LADDER

Across: 1 Drops, 4 Soak, 7/18 See red, 8 Certain, 9 Last, 10 Centre, 12 Casual, 14 Fast, 17 Examine, 19 Bets, 20 Steep.

Down: 2 Ovens, 3 Sack, 4 Sorted, 5 Apart, 6 Invested, 7 Selected, 11 Radios, 13 Scare, 15 Agree, 16 Lets.

quest quests fess fest sing singe singes sings sins snug snuggest snugs snub smug smuggest infest infests ingest ingests inst ingot ingots omen eggs gesso gests nims numen ming mooing moue mung mungo mugs menu sots guns gunge gunmen gums unit units toss togs tots obit dolts buns bung bungs bums bugs bene boss bogs bots bios bitt bitts bits nuns nits tine

1 POTENT 2 SYNDIC 3 ARDENT 4 ENTICE 5 LINDEN 6 LAMBDA 7 INHERE 8 BEADLE 9 COHERE 10 HIDDEN 11 MANAGE 12 ENTIRE 13 AGREED 14 CREAKY 15 ESTEEM 16 TRACER 17 THEIST 18 METEOR 19 FILTER

NEWS NETS WETS WITS WITH WISH

NONAGRAM

KAKURO

CRYPTIC Across: 1 Reposte, 5 Regal, 8 Voter, 9 Distort, 10 Nudge, 11 Dwell, 12 Haunt, 14 Lease, 19 Grieg, 21 Urban, 23 Inspect, 24 Chief, 25 Great, 26 Resolve.

Down: 1 Reveal, 2 Petunia, 3 Shred, 4 Eddies, 5 Residue, 6 Grove, 7 Lately, 13 Neglect, 15 Sundial, 16 Ogling, 17 Custer, 18 Baffle, 20 Issue, 22 Bucks.

ENGLISH-SPANISH Across: 1 Punch, 3 Bacalao, 6 Leñador, 8 Salud, 10 Bride, 11 Abrazar, 14 At home, 15 Niñera, 17 Foolish, 20 Mismo, 21 Norte, 22 Palillo, 23 Embassy, 24 Sixty.

Down: 1 Palabra, 2 Hedge, 3 Barra, 4 Casar, 5 Order, 7 Neighbour, 9 Luz del sol, 12/13 Bunk beds, 16 Apology, 17 Fence, 18 Items, 19 Happy, 20 Males.

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Malaga TODAY: MAX 23 MIN 17-C Fri 23 20 - Th Sat 23 18 - Th Sun24 18 - Cl Mon 27 17 - Cl Tues 24 17 - Cl Wed24 17 - Cl

Alicante TODAY: MAX 24, MIN 23-C Fri 27 23 - C Sat 24 17 - Th Sun24 20 - Cl Mon 27 17 - Cl Tues 24 20 - Cl Wed24 20 - Cl

Almeria TODAY: MAX 27, MIN 23-CL Fri 31 23 - C Sat 24 22 - Cl Sun23 17 - Cl Mon 23 17 - Cl Tues 23 17 - Cl Wed23 20 - Cl

Benidorm TODAY: MAX 24, MIN 23-C Fri 27 23 - C Sat 24 22 - Th Sun24 22 - Cl Mon 24 22 - Cl Tues 24 17 - Cl Wed23 17 - Cl

Bilbao TODAY: MAX 31, MIN 20-C Fri 32 17 - C Sat 27 17 - Th Sun24 16 - Th Mon 26 16 - Cl Tues 26 15 - Th Wed25 15 - Sh

Mallorca TODAY: MAX 28, MIN 20-CL Fri 31 17 - Cl Sat 27 17 - Th Sun24 20 - Cl Mon 27 20 - Cl Tues 24 20 - Cl Wed23 17 - Th

Madrid TODAY: MAX 24, MIN 17 -CL Fri 20 15 - Th Sat 22 13 - Sh Sun24 13 - Cl Mon 25 13 - S Tues 24 13 - Cl Wed25 13 - Cl

Barcelona TODAY: MAX 28, MIN 20-CL Fri 24 17 - Cl Sat 24 17 - Th Sun23 17 - Th Mon 24 17 - Cl Tues 23 17 - Cl Wed23 18 - Th

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FUTOSHIKI Fill in the squares so that each digit from 1 to 6 occurs exactly once in each row and column. Greater-than and less-than signs indicate the relationship of the two adjacent squares. There is only one solution, and you can find it without guessing.

BOGGLED How many English words can you find in the Boggled grid, according to the following rules?

• The letters must be adjoining in a ‘chain’. They can be adjacent horizontally, vertically or diagonally.

• Words must contain at least four letters and may include singular and plural or other derived forms.

• No letter may be used more than once within a single word, unless it appears twice.

• No vulgarities or proper nouns are permitted.

TARGET:

SCORING:

• Average: 25 • Good: 35 • Very good: 50 • Excellent: 65

4 letters: 1 point 5 letters: 2 points 6 letters: 3 points 7 letters: 5 points 8 or more letters: 11 points

KAKURO 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.

CRYPTIC Across 1 Bee is back in, for example, to surround the enemy (7) 5 Intends to have money resources (5) 8 Penny gets poor return for flag (5) 9 Mix cider to make explosive (7) 10 Naughty lads sin on these atolls (7) 11 Small fastener for slow mover (5) 12 Hills in Oslo pessimists avoid (6) 14 Admission made by clubs in unusual cases (6) 18 Some self-indulgent treats for a petite type (5) 20 Noisy talk about a ratchet (7) 22 Rumpus resolved in court (7) 23 Wilbur mad to disguise Asian country (5) 24 Tough English novelist (5) 25 Checks for means of keeping insects out (7) Down 1 Birds used big nuts (7) 2 Group of fish also swimming round husband (5) 3 Writes in river cost (7) 4 Cut out for this type of duty? (6) 5 Horses from the farm are saddled (5) 6 Inspire a Northern Ireland colleague (7) 7 Short period of enchantment (5) 13 Person in authority if force is involved (7) 15 Room in church getting colour (7) 16 Masters vandalised small rivers (7) 17 Plain little cakes in square ice cream containers (6) 18 World consisting of energy, skill and hydrogen (5) 19 Curious about one making a racket (5) 21 During the winter season it's short (5)

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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.

Across 1 Light informal meal (5) 4 Begin (5) 7 Large, important church (9) 8 Appear to be (4) 9 Short moral stories, often with animal characters (6) 12 Armed engagement (6) 13 Floor coverings (4) 16 Underwater vessel (9) 18 Enclosures made of wire or metal bars for birds or animals (5) 19 Assigned jobs (5)

Down 1 Closes (5) 2 Very old (7) 3 Plaything flown in the wind at the end of a string (4) 4 Playground device (6) 5/17 Car safety-device (3,3) 6 Speaks (5) 10 People who rule, guide or inspire others (7) 11 At all times (6) 12 Fundamental (5) 14 Loses velocity (5) 15 Present (4) 17 See 5

WORD LADDER Move from the start word (CLOG) to the end word (FEET) in the same number of steps as there are rungs on the Word Ladder. You must only change one letter at a time.

CLOG

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

TARGET:

BACK FEET

• Average: 8 • Good: 11 • Very good: 15 • Excellent: 20

SPANISH LESSONS How to conjugate the word VIVIR (to live) and give examples of how to put it into a sentence.

Yo… VIVO Tú… VIVES Él/Ella/Ud… VIVE Nosotros… VIVIMOS Vosotros… VIVÍS Ellos/Ellas/Uds… VIVEN

I… live You… live He/She/You… lives We… live You all… live They… live

How to use certain phrases when you are eating out Tengo una reservación/ Tengo una reserva – I have a reservation De tomar, quiero… -To drink, I would like…

Soy vegetariano – I am vegetarian Tengo alergia a… - I am allergic to… ¡Salud! – Cheers!

Days of the week Dias de la semana

Words used to describe the people in your family!

Monday – Lunes

Family Tree/ Árbol Genealógico

Tuesday – Martes

Mother – Madre/ Mamá Father – Padre/ Papá Hermana – Sister Hermano – Brother Abuela – Grandmother Abuelo – Grandfather Tía – Aunt Tío – Uncle Sobrina – Niece Sobrino – Nephew Prima – (girl) cousin Primo – (boy) cousin

Wednesday – Mièrcoles Thursday – Jueves Friday – Viernes Saturday – Sábado Sunday - Domingo

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It’s Time To Let Go Of What Is Not Serving You

they are telling you, under­ stand what has triggered them, and now it is time to let go of whatever it is that is hold­ ing you back from living your de­ sired life!

The world is so noisy right now.

It can sometimes feel impossible to actually understand what it is you want in life. You may feel fear for being different to what is called ‘the norm.’

Your circle may not understand nor like your growth, therefore, you resort to going back to the old you, just to ‘fit in.’ You were not born to ‘fit in!’ You were born to experience your own unique life, to experience different things, and to be your own person.

So please, don’t dim your own light to brighten another. Don’t dim your light to please.

Wear your light with pride and if it’s too bright for some, let them go!

Fear is the only thing that holds you back from living the life you truly desire and I am here to teach you how!

Here are five steps that will help you to let go of what is no longer serving you, and guide you to live the amazing life you truly deserve.

End Result Create a clear mental image of what life you want to live. What does it look like? What can you smell? What can you see? How does it make you feel? The more detail you give the picture, the more realistic it will feel.

Action List What steps do you need to take to achieve your end result? Write each action clearly. Be specific with exactly what needs to be done. Al­ ways have your end result in your mind when creating these actions.

Timeline and Deadlines Create realistic timelines and deadlines to complete each action.

Understand your own strengths, get to know yourself inside and out. Make it fun! A small reward after each action is completed will help motivation. Again, keep the end goal, clearly in your mind.

Your Why Many people try to achieve new things. Whether it be to lose weight, reinvent their image or

even try a new business. But what most do not do is ask themselves why they are doing it.

If you are not passionate about why you want to achieve your end goal, I can guarantee you will NOT see it through to the end.

There will always be something else that comes up to take you away from what you are trying to achieve.

Take Responsibility The life you have today is be­ cause of you. This is a hard pill to swallow for some, but it is the truth.

Whether you have had bad ex­ periences in your past, you are the one that has allowed it to create the way you are today.

The sooner you take responsi­ bility, the quicker you will be able to let go. This is your life, This is your dream. This is your goal, therefore, it is your responsibility to complete all of the above.

DO NOT DREAM YOUR LIFE. LIVE YOUR DREAM!

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Make-up dangers in your bag CHEMICALS found in certain make-up products, shampoos and lotions could disrupt hormone levels in teenage girls.

Scientists have warned that this increases the risks of cancer and other illnesses later in life.

Researchers at the University of California, Berkeley, (USA) focused their study on teenage girls.

For three days, the study’s 100 teenage participants stopped using their regular cosmetics and were provided with others labelled free of chemicals, including phthalates, parabens, triclosan and oxybenzone; all chemicals thought to affect changes of hormone levels within young women.

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Complete redesign HIS Holiness, Pope Francis, has taken delivery of a brand new car, and it’s squeaky clean and green.

Toyota has converted a hy­ drogen­powered Mirai saloon into a Popemobile, having been commissioned by the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Japan as a gift.

The modified £66,000 Mirai is said to fulfill Pope Francis’ deep interest in global environ­ mental matters and will allow him to undertake public ap­ pearances with a range of 310 miles from a tank of hydrogen and emits only water from its exhaust.

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biles, the converted Mirai fea­ tures a completely redesigned rear, with a traditional elevated seat and viewing platform, wrapped by a safety cage so the Pope can greet large crowds while on the move.

Steps have been fitted to the rear door sills to allow for easy access into the podium.

There is protective glass on either side of the seat with the gilded Vatican crests etched in­ to them.

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POPEMOBILE: Squeaky clean and green.

It can accelerate to 62mph in 9.6 seconds and has a top speed of 111mph ­ though it will mostly be driven at a far more civilised pace.

SPORT Hamilton Equals Record BRITISH racer Lewis Hamilton cruised to victo­ ry in the Eifel Grand Prix to equal the amazing record of 91 Formula One win­ ning races set by the leg­ endary German driver, Michael Schumacher.

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Record Setting Rafael SUPER Spaniard Nadal secures his 13th French Open title after successfully seeing off Serbian Novak Djokovic and is now equal with Swiss superstar Roger Federer after winning his 20th Gram Slam title.

The 34­year­old Spanish su­ perstar beat world number one Djokovic, 6­0, 6­2, 7­5 in a game that lasted two hours and 41­ minutes.

Speaking after the game Nadal said: “This is not the time to think about the big 20 or records, it’s time to think about this tournament, which is everything to me. Just being able to play here is a pleasure.”

Rafael Nadal’s recording set­ ting Roland Garros win is equally impressive considering that no­one has previously raised 13 cups in the same tournament before, with only Martina Navratilova coming close, lifting 12 championships in Chicago.

Don’t miss a match

AGREEMENT: Footie fans will be able to watch Premier League games until end of the month.

NADAL WINS AGAIN: Spaniard secures 13th French Open title.

THE Premier League has confirmed all fixtures until the end of October will continue to be made available for fans to watch live in the UK. Under these new arrangements, the current live match se­ lections will remain in place and will be broadcast as normal.

In addition, the five matches per round not already selected will be made available to supporters on a pay­per­view basis, accessed via BT Sport Box Office and Sky Sports Box Office platforms.

Clubs agreed this interim solution to enable all fans to con­ tinue to watch their teams live.

The Premier League has worked closely with both broad­ casters to provide this arrangement.

In a statement, the league said: “It will be regularly re­ viewed in consultation with clubs and in line with any deci­ sions made by government regarding the return of spectators to stadiums.

“Football is not the same without supporters at matches.

The Premier League and our clubs remain committed to the safe return of fans as soon as possible.”