Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 1 - 7 July 2021 Issue 1878

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1 - 7 July 2021

More spending REDOVAN Council has voted through its 2021 €8.9 million Budget, which local mayor Nely Ruiz described as an “atypical and historic sum.” This year’s spending will try to provide an adequate response to the economic crisis resulting from the Covid-19 pandemic, Ruiz explained.

Weather-wise ORIHUELA’S Beaches department and the Meteorihuela weather service will provide a daily forecast on the sea state, temperature, wind direction and ultraviolet index. This will be announced each day until September 15 on the Playas de Orihuela and Meteorihuela’s Facebook and Instagram accounts.

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Everything under control FOR the second consecutive year, Torrevieja’s beaches will be the safest in Spain.

Visiting the seawater swimming pools on Juan Aparicio prome‐ nade recently, Torrevieja mayor Eduardo Dolon declared that the system introduced last year was one of the most successful and complete on the Mediterranean coast.

Beach capacities are monitored, the sands divided into individual sections with an “exhaustive” cleaning and disinfection service, Dolon said.

Between now and the end of September, 275 people will be pre‐ sent on Torrevieja’s promenades and beaches.

Thirty‐one are Beach Assistants aged between 18 and 30, sub‐ sidised by the Generalitat in a scheme that provides employment as well as safety on the beaches.

The remaining 194 employees were engaged on a €1.221 million town hall contract. Of these, 120 have been allocated to the beach‐ es with another 40 people covering the new service on Torrevieja’s principal promenades. Twenty people mark out individual areas on the sands each morning while another 10 are assigned to cleaning toilets and foot‐showers.

Street view PROVINCIAL council, the Diputacion, has allocated €100,000 to Bigastro Town Hall for infrastructure improvements.

These include converting the municipal archive into a Museum of Local History and adding a balcony to the first floor of the town hall building which was constructed in 1944.

SUMMER SERVICES: Torrevieja’s system is the most successful and complete of the Mediterranean coast.

Turn to page 4 » XIMO PUIG: Too soon to throw away face mask, the Generalitat president warned.

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Play the Benidorm game Arctic voyage for 5 DURING lockdown, Derek Watters decided to send Benidorm to all those who could no longer go there themselves.

With time on his hands, he was inspired to invent a

boardgame for all the family where players start out as tourists, find jobs, work as extras or become a TV celebrity.

The game has elements of Monopoly but Snakes and Ladders, too, and players can either

end up living the dream or sleeping on the Levante beach.

Derek’s Benidorm-based events, promotions and advertising company saw its income go to zero on March 14 when all bars and restaurants had to close.

With very little money €300 to be exact - Derek devoted his time and energy to designing and producing the boardgame.

“Without the friends who have assisted me in different ways, I wouldn’t be here today.

Although I did most of it on my own, I couldn’t have done it without their help along the way,” he declared.

The game is available online from www.benidorm game.com and to order from some businesses in Benidorm.

Derek is also donating 10 per cent of all profits to charity.

“The charity we have chosen for the short to medium term is the Benidorm Food Bank, a worthy and much-needed resource in these times,” he said.

FIVE women who have conquered cancer will sail more than 4,600 kilometres to the Arctic circle in September.

The five were chosen to take part in the seventh edition of the Reto Pelayo Vida (Pelayo Life Challenge), following a tough selection process.

When September comes they will leave Vigo (Galicia), making for the 66th Parallel North, the point where the Atlantic and Arctic oceans meet.

They recently visited the Club Nautico yacht club in Campello where they were greeted by the Bosun, Francisco J Perez Sierra and Sports councillor Cristian Palomares.

CAMPELLO VISIT: The five women who will sail to the Arctic circle.

They explained that they will be helping to crew the boat during the crossing surrounded by ice, icebergs and glaciers in below-freezing temperatures without any kind of exterior help.

Fewer Imserso places this year THE central government confirmed that the Imserso subsidised holidays for pensioners will go ahead, with arrivals scheduled for October onwards.

Toni Mayor, president of the regional hoteliers’ association Hosbec, expressed disappointment with the announcement, as the sector had hoped for an earlier start to the holidays.

Far from the hoped-for “notable increase,” places on this year’s Imserso holidays have been reduced by more than 100,000 to a nationwide 816,029 for the coming campaign.

Of these, 180,000 places will be allocated to the Valencian Community.

Organising the holidays was due to be put out to tender at the end of June, with bids reviewed in July and contracts awarded in August although this, too, has set alarm bells ringing.

Any hitches would prevent hotels from welcoming Imserso tourists in October, Hosbec warned and it would take only one appeal from a rejected bidder to hold up the first arrivals.

It will be an endurance test for the women who have already shown that they could defeat cancer and can complete another type of voyage in extreme and aggressive conditions.

This is the seventh edition of the international challenge organised by the Pelayo insurance company that passes on a message of hope to other women with cancer.

It also draws attention to the need to ensure that early detection of women’s cancers does not lose momentum owing to the Covid pandemic.

Police nab pair on the run NATIONAL POLICE in Alicante have arrested two fugitives wanted by the authorities in the Netherlands and France under Europol warrants for co‐ caine smuggling and other nar‐ cos offences. The pair are in custody pending extradition proceedings.

A 56‐year‐old Dutch man was arrested in the Alicante Province town of El Campello in mid‐June, on the run from Dutch authorities where he was sentenced to 1,567 days in prison as part of a gang in‐ volved in a large‐scale drug dis‐ tribution scheme in 2013. The gang smuggled cocaine inside bananas.

National Police also de‐ tained a 39‐year‐old French woman, accused of belonging to a criminal organisation dedi‐ cated to trafficking cocaine in Paris and with links to Guyana, Suriname and the Nether‐ lands.

She was on the run accused of driving suspects who were smuggling cocaine in their bowels.

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NIBS EXTRA Small gains THE price of water from Torrevieja’s desalination plants will be reduced thanks to the reduction in energy overheads. Nevertheless, it will still cost southern Alicante’s agricultural growers twice as much as the water they have been using that has been sent to the province via the Tajo-Segura pipeline.

Bream dream PILAR DE LA HORADADA is to have another fish farm, following the Generalitat’s go-ahead recently to the San Pedro del Pinatar-based company, Pescamur, to install 25 cages, just over eight kilometres offshore. The 30-metre wide cages are expected to raise 3,000 tons of bream and seabass each year.

Money off TORREVIEJA Town Hall sold €110,805 of Bonoconsumo shopping vouchers in the first six days of its campaign to promote local commerce. The €10 and €20 vouchers, which cost users €5 and €10, can be used in 164 shops, with the town hall later reimbursing shopkeepers with the difference.

At the ready AS well as its Emergency Plan for dealing with future floods, Almoradi is producing another that will handle any kind of emergency situation at the weekly open-air market which is held each Saturday. With 300 stalls, the market is one of the Vega Baja’s largest and most-visited.

Tree mission ALL parties on Orihuela City Council voted in favour of a motion giving official protection to local palms. This will provide an adequate framework for conserving and promoting all palm trees inside the city and, above all, the Palmeral which is Europe’s second most-important palm forest after Elche.

Eagle chicks THERE are currently 25 pairs of gold eagles in Alicante Province and ornithologists are impatient to see how many chicks have hatched this year.

The time is approaching when the nesting period finishes although the chicks’ chances of survival are not assured until they are seen flying.

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Jaguars go racing JAGUAR ENTHUSIASTS’ CLUB COSTA BLANCA (JEC-Costa Blanca) recently celebrated Royal Ascot Ladies’ Day. Setting out from Alfaz del Pi, they stopped at Elche services on the motorway to pick up more members before continuing to the Finca Golf resort in Almoradi, the meeting point for members from southern Alicante.

Once refreshed in the clubhouse bar the Jaguars left in convoy, heading for Restaurante Rebate and taking the sightseeing route around the brilliant blue wa-

JEC-COSTA BLANCA: Preparing to enjoy Royal Ascot Ladies’ Day. ters of the La Pedrera reservoir.

On arrival at the restaurant, a welcome drink and tapas were

waiting at the private outside bar, giving time for meet-and-greet conversations and, for the ladies,

extra glasses of Champagne to go with their Royal Ascot hats.

Meanwhile, the thirsty Jaguar big cats were parked in the restaurant car park, as it was all about members enjoying lunch and the racing. Mike Brook welcomed everyone and Dennis Wilson and Bill McKay explained about the races, because after the meal it would be time to have some fun.

For information about becoming a member of JEC-Costa Blanca, email Mike Brook on mikebike jec@gmail.com or telephone 640 866 711.

Tenth anniversary for The Celts THE Celts Club de Golf celebrated their 10th anniversary with captains Camillus Fitz‐ patrick and Denis McCormack at La Serena.

The weather was ideal for golf with a 25‐ degree temperature and a gentle breeze to keep the players cool. The course and the new greens were in excellent condition, par‐ ticularly taking into account that La Serena has been operating with reduced staff num‐

The show will go on THE clampdown over the long months of Covid prevented the New Cardenal Belluga Theatre Group from performing in San Ful‐ gencio.

However, they are now ready to start rehearsals over the next few months, providing they can find more members to help them out.

“Yes, we need more members and that means you!” said the theatre group’s Thomas Ford.

“We are a friendly group, we have lots of fun during rehearsals and we are looking for interested people.”

They need people who are will‐ ing to take on singing, dancing, acting, backstage and front of house.

“We can show you how to do all of these so there’s no need to be afraid,” Tom said.

“We are also looking for techni‐ cal people to deal with the light‐ ing and sound, as well as a seam‐ stress for altering costumes.

Readers who feel they could of‐ fer their services are asked to con‐ tact Tom Ford on 966 790 547 or send an email to the thomas ford442@yahoo.co.uk address.

bers due to Covid.

The Celts’ competition committee Camil‐ lus, Terry, Alan and Philip who organised the 88 players did sterling work in a fantastic team effort.

The presentation dinner at Meson El Pra‐ do in San Miguel went like clockwork, even with the arrival of one or two unexpected guests.

Thanks to relaxed Covid restrictions, the Celts were delighted to welcome back Jackie who entertained 75 appreciative members and their guests with some of their favourite songs.

At the post‐dinner presentation, the Camillus Fitzpatrick prize went to Colin Soones with 39 with the Denis McCormack prize going Bob Smith with a 69.

High-season headache returns SUMMMER is here and campervans are back on the coast at Cabo de Santa Pola and Arenales del Sol. Neither Santa Pola nor Elche allow these to park overnight, but many ignore the rules and en‐ vironmentalists are complaining that the mo‐ torhomes flout hygiene requirements.

“Even though they have bathrooms, they often dump the contents of their chemical lavatories,” Adolfo Quiles, a member of the Margallo d’Elx en‐ vironmentalist association, told the Spanish me‐ dia.

“They also trample and tamp down the soil, harming protected plants.”

The association blames the local administra‐ tions for allowing the situation to continue, but conceded that there is a legal vacuum over campervan parking.

Jorge Diez, Santa Pola’s Environment councillor described the situation as “complex.”

Consultations with coastal authority Costa re‐ vealed that in seashore zones which are protected as a public‐right‐of‐way, the law does not prevent the entry of vehicles, he explained.

Happy conclusion to bike raffle HELP MURCIA MAR MENOR was finally able to pre‐ sent a bicycle it had been trying to raffle for nearly two years.

The machine was donated to HELP by an expat re‐ turning to the UK in the summer of 2019 and it was decided to hold a raffle and raise some much‐needed funds for the charity.

As with so many plans made over the last couple of years, every time a date was set to draw the winning ticket Spain went into lockdown owing to Covid‐19 and the draw was cancelled.

Once restrictions were lifted, HELP was able to hold a fun Golf Morning at Golf Delux and took the oppor‐ tunity of drawing the winning ticket for the much‐de‐ layed raffle.

Lucky winner Amber Hetherington received the machine from Joan Mitchell, office manager at HELP’s office in Los Alcazares. Amber was delighted with her prize and was wished many happy hours using it.

Health department finally caves in WHEN the Torrevieja Health District reverts to the public sector in October it will come under the Generalitat’s direct control.

Initially, the regional Health department had intended to run it via an expressly‐cre‐ ated public company.

Staff at the Torrevieja Health District’s hospital and primary care centres, as well as the unions, bitterly opposed the plan. The de‐privatisation process should follow the same pattern as the La Ribera Health district in Alzira (Valencia) when Ribera Salud’s con‐ cession came to an end in 2018, they insist‐ ed.

The department headed by Ana Barcelo finally caved in, due not only to pressure from the Torrevieja Health District staff but also political muscle exerted by the regional government’s coalition partners, Compro‐ mis and Unidas Podemos.

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What a mess!

TORREVIEJA resident Helen Parry, exasperat‐ ed by an ongoing prob‐ lem, recently contacted the Euro Weekly News.

“This is a long‐run‐ ning saga,” she warned, explaining that she keeps an eye on an absent friend’s house in Calle Pablo Neruda.

Four times over the last two years, torren‐ tial downpours have filled several gardens there with raw sewage from a nearby Agamed pumping station.

“Agamed and the town hall refuse to clean the properties and expect owners to claim on their insur‐ ance,” Helen said.

“The last time, May 23, the insurance com‐ pany initially refused leaving my 88‐year‐old friend with a garden full of dried sewage while she is grieving her husband’s Covid death in the UK.” The insurance com‐ pany finally relented and the situation was solved. Until next time.

The town hall has in‐ formed Helen that a new underground channel will prevent future sewage spills but as far as she can see, work has never begun.

The Euro Weekly News decided to ring the town hall and after several false starts was put through to the Ser‐ vices department.

A municipal employ‐ ee explained that they were unable to com‐ ment on the situation: “Make an appointment to speak to the Ser‐ vices councillor, Sandra Sanchez Andreu,” she advised.

No sooner said than done, and the Euro Weekly News hopes to continue Helen’s long‐ running saga in the next edition.

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THE UK’s Ambassador to Spain says he’s proud of the record of service provided by the Armed Forces and believes that their dedication to duty underscores their importance to British nationals liv‐ ing in Spain.

Ambassador Hugh Elliott said that as envoy to Spain he wears many hats and is involved in charitable works across the community, but that “one of the roles I am most proud to fulfil is that of Patron of the Royal British Legion in Spain.”

“As we celebrate not only Armed Forces Day, but the centenary of the Le‐ gion, I wanted to reflect a little on what it means to me and why its work is so im‐ portant to UK nationals in Spain,” he said in a press release.

“On Saturday I was honoured to at‐ tend an event in Orihuela, alongside serv‐ ing officers, veterans, families, reservists and volunteers, to mark this double com‐ memoration,” he said, adding that just four weeks ago, I was lucky enough to be able to visit HMS Kent, while she made a port visit to Alicante ‐ a visible demonstra‐ tion of the close cooperation between the British Armed Forces and our Allies.

“The work of the Legion is likewise both

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Defence Attache Ian Clarke and Lieutenant Commander Edward Dunn with Royal Navy and Royal Marine veterans. longstanding and bilateral,” he said. “Over the last 100 years, it has fought to improve the lifelong care and support to serving and ex‐serving personnel and their fami‐ lies, but its achievements are wider than many appreciate, both as champion of the Armed Forces and its contribution to wider society.”

He said the group works very closely alongside Spanish charities such as Cruz Roja and makes every effort to relieve pressure on the Spanish support services where they can.

“And speaking at the anniversary event, the mayor of Orihuela, Emilio Bas‐ cuñana Galiano, could not have been

British Ambassador to Spain Hugh Elliott. more welcoming or supportive,” Ambas‐ sador Elliott said.

“To many of us, the Legion is only visi‐ ble during the Poppy Appeal, but as I was able to hear in person from Don Cubbon, District North Chair, and many others in Orihuela, it provides year‐round support, which goes largely unseen,” he said.

A moment during the Armed Forces Day service at Orihuela Cathedral.

“Over the last 18 months, the fundrais‐ ing climate and Covid restrictions have made the work of the Community Sup‐ port Team incredibly tough, but the Le‐ gion’s dedicated volunteers have found ways to deliver much‐needed support to its beneficiaries in Spain, despite the diffi‐ cult circumstances,” he said.

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Time for emotional recovery GENERALITAT president Ximo Puig hailed relaxing face mask regulations as a “great advance and a small victory.”

“This is the result of a year and three months of common effort and 469 days of patience and re‐

sponsibility,” he declared.

As he has been doing since the onset of the Covid pandemic, Puig also called for caution.

“Vaccination is advancing rapidly but the virus is still out there,” he warned, referring to in‐

creasing coronavirus cases amongst the young.

“Thanks to the Valencian Com‐ munity’s population this has be‐ come the safest place in Spain and an example to Europe,” Puig said.

But the time had not yet come to throw away or forget face masks, he maintained.

“They are still needed inside public places or where social dis‐ tancing cannot be guaranteed,” the president added, recom‐ mending wearing them when out and about or at least having one to hand.

Puig was clearly preaching to the converted, as last weekend in provincial capitals, approxi‐ mately 50 per cent of people were still wearing them on the street or along the promenades and shopping areas of coastal re‐ sorts.

Meanwhile, Puig stressed that summer has arrived in encourag‐ ing circumstances, but it was vital to maintain the offensive against the pandemic “during a period of emotional recovery that we all need.”

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Endesa beefs up fraud squad

HERE’S a shocker: Endesa fraud inspectors are beefing up against meter fiddlers and power scam‐ mers. And the recent hike in power rates is giving the inspec‐ tors’ fight new momentum.

Jose Antonio Franco is head of Endesa’s energy recovery depart‐ ment, and his team are responsi‐ ble for fighting fraud and to en‐ sure that “all the energy that enters the system ends up being billed.”

“The detection rate for these losses has varied considerably over time,” Franco said. “We have evolved technically and in recent years we have doubled our best success rate. Fraud is now detected in one out of every two inspections, which is 25 per cent.”

Endesa is a pioneer in Spain in implementing artificial intelli‐ gence in the detection of electrici‐ ty fraud, thanks to one man ‐ Javier Tejedor ‐ a telecommunica‐ tions engineer who was already part of the company but in whom they spotted a great po‐ tential.

“I am self‐taught, I started in data science in 2012, on my own,” Tejedor says. “I was curi‐

ous and I trained on platforms, many free, where there is a lot of high‐quality content available,” he says, adding Endesa saw the possibilities in fighting fraud.

Franco says that no matter how robust the fraudster is, they look for a way to defraud.

“Before, with the old‐fash‐

ioned mechanical counter me‐ ters, it was very obvious, very simple, fraud was done by one‐ self, or by a brother‐in‐law, but now it is done by someone who is prepared, he has become pro‐ fessional, and you even find inte‐ grated circuits inside the meters,” he says.

Child left alone as mum partied NATIONAL POLICE in Sevilla have arrested a 24-year-old woman who abandoned her child so that she could go drinking.

Police say neighbours found the seven-year-old wandering the common areas of a block of flats in Calle Carlos Marx at 12.40am on Thursday June 24.

Neighbours reported that the girl and her mother and uncle had been living in the complex for about three years.

The neighbours told police the girl didn’t seem to attend school regularly, was left alone often and had bruising on her legs. One told officers she sometimes bathed the girl and fed her when she was hungry.

The mother was located by police at around 2am in the Gran Plaza on a number provided by the landlord. Police say she left work at three in the afternoon and said she needed to go for a drink to relax.

The girl has now been put into foster care.

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O2 re-introduces roaming fees for Brits LGBT rates highest in Spain BRITISH mobile phone compa‐ ny, O2 has said it will re‐intro‐ duce roaming charges for cus‐ tomers who use their phones while travelling in the EU. A charge of £3.50 will come into force on August 2 on each gigabyte (GB) used over 25GB. Roaming charges were scrapped in the EU in 2017 and O2 said after Brexit it did not intend to re‐introduce them.

The EU scrapped roaming charges across its member states in 2017 after the Euro‐ pean Commission said that they amounted to a “market failure.”

In an email to customers, O2 said, “As your monthly UK data allowance is over 25GB, you can still use your data in our Europe Zone. But it’s now sub‐ ject to a Roaming Limit of 25GB. Once you’ve reached this limit, you’ll be charged an additional cost of £3.50/GB.” A spokesperson for O2 said, “Less than 1 per cent of our Pay Monthly customers reach anywhere near 25GB during occasional travel to Europe.

“If a customer’s UK monthly data allowance is over 25GB, from August 2 they will have a Roaming Limit of 25GB when

BEWARE: Roaming charges are set to change.

roaming in our Europe Zone.

“This means they can use up to 25GB of their allowance at no extra cost ‐ we’ll text them if they get close to the limit, and again if they reach it.

“A customer can still use da‐ ta if they reach our Roaming Limit, but will be charged £3.50/GB,” the spokesperson added.

SPAIN has the largest non‐ heterosexual population in Europe with a total of 78 per cent of Spaniards declaring themselves heterosexual while 12 per cent identify as belonging to other sexuali‐ ties.

Those rates are the high‐ est in Europe and third‐high‐ est globally.

The data, from an Ipsos survey on sexuality, said 6 per cent of Spaniards say they are bisexual, 5 per cent identify as gay and another other 1 per cent identify as ‘pansexual’, attraction re‐ gardless of the sex of the other person, or omnisexual, which is an attraction to all genders. That amounts to 2

Euthanasia law takes effect SPAIN’S new law on euthanasia took ef‐ fect on June 25, allowing the chronically and terminally ill to end their own life.

The law allows regional control commit‐ tees to review and authorise end‐of‐life decisions.

When a chronically or terminally ill pa‐ tient makes a request to end their life, a doctor must inform the patient about their diagnosis, therapeutic possibilities and expected results, as well as about pos‐ sible palliative care, making sure that they understand the information that is provid‐ ed.

After that, the patient must again con‐ firm their intention to end their own life.

After that second request, there should

be a new meeting between a new doctor and the patient. It will be this doctor who will authorise the process.

They are required to ask the opinion of a doctor trained in the ‘field of patholo‐ gies suffered by the patient’ but who is not from the ‘same team as the doctor.’

Likewise, the regional evaluation com‐ mission must choose two experts, one be‐ ing a lawyer, to evaluate the case.

Both experts must agree on their deci‐ sion. If not, the full committee would make the final call. Health professionals directly involved in this provision ‘may ex‐ ercise their right to conscientious objec‐ tion’ but those objections have to be ‘stat‐ ed in advance and in writing.’

per cent of non‐heterosexual compared to 11 per cent in Germany and the United Kingdom and 10 per cent in the Netherlands, Belgium and Sweden.

The survey, timed to coin‐ cide with World Pride Day on June 25, found 10 per cent of those surveyed in Spain prefer not to express their sexual identity ‐ one of the highest percentages in Europe, only surpassed by Germany with 12 per cent and Poland with 11 per cent.

The survey also found Spain ranked third globally in its support for same‐sex marriage, with 76 per cent in favour, only behind Sweden with 79 per cent and the Netherlands with 84 per cent support.

Spain once again ranks in the top positions when it comes to attitudes towards same‐sex couple being al‐ lowed to adopt children. It found 77 per cent are in favour, only behind the Netherlands with 83 per cent, and 81 per cent sup‐ port in Canada.

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Javid promises lockdown will end NEW UK Health Secretary Sajid Javid has pledged to lift lockdown by July 19 while Labour has branded his “hapless” predecessor Matt Hancock “the stupidest man on earth.”

Javid said his task as Britain’s health tsar “is to help return the economic and cultural life that makes this country so great” but he warned the Delta variant is causing a “narrow‐ ing of the race between the virus and the vac‐ cine.”

“In truth, no date we choose comes with zero risk for Covid. We cannot simply elimi‐ nate it. We have to learn to live with it,” he said on June 28.

“Make no mistake, the restrictions on our freedoms must come to an end. We owe it to the British people not to wait a moment longer than we need to. With the numbers heading in the right direction, July 19 remains our target date,” he added in his first address

SAJID JAVID: “We have to learn to live with it.”

to parliament. Javid was ushered into the role of Health Secretary when Matt Hancock was forced to resign after The Sun splashed sala‐ cious photos of him kissing his aide, Gina Co‐ ladangelo on June 25.

Within 24‐hours pressure from both inside and outside the Tory party became too much

and the former health secretary was forced to apologise and resign.

The Sun’s exposé featured images taken from CCTV footage inside Hancock’s White‐ hall office. Labour said the leak amounted to a “major security breach” and has called for an urgent investigation.

Readers support the right to choose how and when to die WITH the Euthanasia Law having come into effect last week in Spain, we asked our readers if they are for or against it: 95.9 per cent were in favour.

Based on the results of our online survey and the comments from our Facebook post, we found that almost 96 per cent of our readers who took part support the right to choose death.

Some clarified that only if it is under the right circumstances

and pointed out that it must be a decision made by the person themselves, not their inheritors. Some readers spoke from per‐ sonal experience of how awful it is to see a loved one suffering until the end and not being able to do anything to help them and in some cases this had been what changed their minds about eu‐ thanasia, while others said they had always supported the right for someone to choose how and when to leave this earth.

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New VAT rules for online shopping NEW EU‐wide Value‐Added Tax (VAT) rules for online shopping came into force this week as part of efforts to en‐ sure a more level playing field for all businesses. The new rules also aim to simplify cross‐border e‐commerce and introduce greater transparen‐ cy for EU shoppers when it comes to pricing and con‐ sumer choice.

The new rules came into force on Wednesday July 1 and will affect online sellers and marketplaces/platforms both inside and outside the EU, postal operators and couriers, customs and tax administra‐ tions, as well as consumers.

Under the current system, goods imported into the EU valued at less than €22 by non‐ EU companies are exempt from VAT. As from July 1, this exemption is now lifted.

Currently, e‐commerce sell‐ ers need to have a VAT regis‐ tration in each Member State in which they have a turnover above a certain overall thresh‐ old, which varies from country to country. From July 1, these different thresholds will be re‐

placed by one common EU threshold of €10,000 above which the VAT must be paid in the Member State where the goods are delivered.

The EU’s VAT system was last updated in 1993 and has not kept pace with the rise in cross‐border e‐commerce.

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Warning over email fraud A WARNING has been released of a new mali‐ cious email campaign pretending to be from Vodafone.

The National Cybersecurity Institute (INCIBE), based in Spain’s Leon has discovered a new dodgy email which tries to install malware on devices. The phishing email pretends to be from Vodafone.

The phishing email contains two links. The links are supposed to take you to an invoice which has not been paid, but in fact they take you to file meant to infect your device. This is a form of mal‐ ware.

If you have received one of these emails but on‐ ly clicked on the link to download the file you could still be safe. In this case it is essential that you find the file and delete it. The phishing email should then be deleted or sent to the trash too.

If you have clicked on the link, downloaded the

MALWARE: Your device may be infected. file and opened or executed the file then you could be in trouble and your device might be in‐ fected. In this case users should run a scan of their device with up‐to‐date anti‐virus software.

INCIBE offer a support service for users who are not sure how to remove malware and need assis‐ tance.

Mechanic crushed by lorry A MECHANIC in Sevilla who had been working underneath the cab of a lorry changing a wheel was crushed to death on Thursday June 24 when the jack gave way.

The 54‐year‐old man from Lebrija was dead by the time emergency services arrived on the scene.

The accident happened around 4.45pm in a lorry park‐

ing area at a roundabout on the A‐471 road into Lebrija. A co‐worker who was helping him change the tyre as the jack failed was unable to help the victim as the lorry fell on him.

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Brit licences deadline extended THE Spanish Government has agreed to extend the deadline to exchange a British driving li‐ cence for a Spanish one from June 30 to October 31.

Negotiations are also under‐ way between Madrid and Lon‐ don to try and reach ‘mutual recognition’ for holders of British

driving licences in Spain and those using Spanish driving li‐ cences in the UK. “We know that many of you have been anxious that the recognition of UK driving li‐ cences was set to end on 30 June,” the UK embassy in Madrid posted on its Facebook

More than half have 1 jab MORE than half of Spain’s residents have received at least one coronavirus vaccination injection and more than 31.9 per cent have received both.

And on June 24, Spain broke its previously set record for administrating the largest number of vaccines in one day on June 24 with more than 680,000 people getting a jab.

Before that, the highest number of injections administered in a single day was some 654,000, back on June 11.

More than 80 per cent of people aged 40 or older have had one injection now, and 47 per cent have had both.

The government’s goal is to have 33 million people vac‐ cinated in Spain by the end of August, and the country re‐ mains on track to have 25 million people with both doses

by July 19.

Currently, all those over 80 years of age are fully vacci‐ nated as well as 96.4 per cent of those aged between 70 and 79. Of those aged from 50 to 59, 59.5 per cent have had both doses. Just over 34 per cent of those between 60 to 69 have had both doses.

page. “We are pleased that the Spanish Government … an‐ nounced that UK licences will continue to be recognised until October 31, 2021 for those of you who were resident in Spain before December 31, 2020 ‐ even if you did not get your resi‐ dency document until after the end of the Transition Period.”

The embassy said the exten‐ sion applies “whether you regis‐ tered your intention to ex‐ change your licence with the DGT before 30 December 2020 or not.”

If you arrived after January 1, your licence will only remain valid for six months from your arrival in Spain, the embassy said.

It says that if you did not regis‐ ter to exchange your licence with the DGT before December 30, 2020 and wish to exchange your UK driving licence now, you would need to follow the DGT process for non‐EU nationals ‐ and that includes taking a driving test.

The talks between London and Madrid hope to make it pos‐ sible to simply exchange UK driv‐ ing licences without taking a test.

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Man tries to drown dog A MAN has been arrested in Madrid’s Coslada after he attempted to drown his dog in the middle of the street.

Luckily for the poor animal, Local Police officers were able to intervene. According to the local council the man was ar-

rested in Coslada by the Local Police after he attempted to drown his dog. He has been arrested for suspected abuse.

The shocking event happened a few days ago, but luckily Local Police officers were on patrol and caught the

man red-handed. The officers spotted the man, who appeared drunk at the time, as he tried to drown a dog.

Thanks to the quick action of the officers the life of Oso, the dog was saved.

The dog had been microchipped so it was possible to find out that the man who had tried to drown him, was in fact his owner.

Oso was taken by the Local Police officers to an Animal Protection Centre, where he is set to stay for a while. The dog’s owner has been arrested for the alleged offence of mistreatment, and he was also arrested for assaulting a police officer who stepped in to stop him from drowning the dog.

The City Council are seeking authorisation from the Community of Madrid to change the dog’s ownership over to the Animal Protection Centre. As soon as change of ownership has gone through the current owner will be disqualified from owning further animals.

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Buckingham Palace says it ‘must do more’ to improve ethnic diversity BUCKINGHAM PALACE has released figures showing the levels of ethnic minority staff and says it “must do more” because levels are “not where it would like to be.” The release of the figures comes after the Royal family became embroiled in controversy after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex aired racism complaints during an interview with Oprah Winfrey.

The palace report shows that just 8.5 per cent of staff belonged to an ethnic minority in the year 20202021. It says it will increase this to 10 per cent in the coming year.

T he figures were published by the palace voluntarily. A senior palace source said the report was released so that there would be “no place to hide.” “ W e are not where we would like to be despite our efforts,” the source told the

ROYAL FAMILY: Have been embroiled in controversy.

Evening Standard. “It is not that we have not been progressing diversity and inclusion initiatives during this period, it is that simply the results have not been what we would like,” adding the palace “must do more.” “ O ne of the key points about the publishing of our statistics, which is actually on a voluntary basis, is that there’s no place to hide,” he said. “We fully expect you

to come back and hold us accountable for the progress that we made. A nd if we don’t make the progress, we’ll have to explain why.”

Raj Tulsiani, co-founder of Race Equality Matters, said he believed the palace could do much better. “Amplifying aspirations for future inclusion, it’s nothing,” he said.

“It’s just words. You know if they were serious they’d say ‘Here’s our action plan’.”

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71% more tourists in May

THE number of airline passen‐ gers arriving in Spain from inter‐ national airports grew by 71 per cent in May ‐ the largest number recorded since August 2020.

Some 1,396,549 travellers ar‐

rived in Spain last month, but the figure is still 84.2 per cent lower than the number of arrivals in May 2019, according to the Spanish tourist board, Tures‐ pana.

Hospital failed to treat TB patient

A COURT in Sevilla has ordered the Andalucian Health Service (SAS) to pay €20,400 to the family of a 69-year-old woman who died in October 2018 from tuberculosis that was not diagnosed, nor treated.

The Patient Ombudsman said that the poor medical treatment occurred at Reina Sofía Hospital in Cordoba and dated back to January 2017 when the patient was treated with medication for her Crohn-type inflammatory bowel disease.

The immunosuppressant drug, however, has the ability to awaken bacteria that cause tuberculosis.

Some 15 per cent of Spaniards, especially those over 40, are unaware that they have latent tuberculosis. Medical staff are supposed to carry out a tuberculin test, which must be repeated, to ensure that the person does not have latent TB before administering the drug.

The test was not repeated and a CT scan that showed the TB infection also went unnoticed.

“Although we are still far from pre‐pandemic levels, the data suggest that we have begun a gradual recovery in mobility, which will increase with the ad‐ vance of vaccinations, the lifting of restrictions and the implemen‐ tation of measures such as the EU Covid digital certificate,” Reyes Maroto, the Minister of In‐ dustry, Commerce and Tourism, said on Wednesday June 23.

The largest number of passen‐ gers arrived from Germany with 407,431 travellers or 29.2 per cent of the total; there were 191,035 French passengers and 98,329 passengers from Switzer‐ land.

The Balearic Islands was the main destination with 386,247 international passengers arriving at its airports followed by the Community of Madrid with 351,647 travellers; Catalonia with 196,466 passengers; the Canary Islands with 159,292; Andalucia had 152,292 international ar‐ rivals and Valencia had 136,806.

Adolfo Suarez Madrid‐Barajas and Palma de Mallorca regis‐ tered the most activity.

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Migrant rescues senior from river Painful Tenerife search A 72-YEAR-OLD man fell un‐ conscious into the River Nervion, Bilbao, and a Sene‐ galese migrant jumped in to save him.

Senegalese migrant Mouhammad Fada Diouf did not hesitate to jump into the

river in the northern city of Bil‐ bao as soon as he saw the un‐ conscious man fall into the riv‐ er.

Diouf, 26, jumped into the river and proceeded to keep the elderly man afloat. When Diouf began to lose strength,

other migrants jumped in to help until a nearby boat arrived to rescue the group.

He told Reuters he was near the river on Monday, June 21, with a group of friends when they noticed the man lose his balance and tumble into the river, which was muddied by heavy rainfall.

“A lot of people were stand‐ ing there and recording, and nobody was able to help him,” Diouf said.

“He was in a bad situation so I decided to save him, to help him, because I know how to swim, I knew that I could do it.”

Diouf has been living in Spain for four years where he makes a living by weaving dreadlocks and various odd jobs.

The video of the rescue went viral on social media, causing Change.org to reward him with legal papers to stay in Spain be‐ cause of his heroic and coura‐ geous act.

“A lot of them called me and said ‘we love what you did, you are a superhero, nothing more’,” he said.

GIMENO: The search is on.

THE high‐tech oceanographic vessel Angeles Al‐ variño is now close to completing its first month of deep‐sea searching of the ocean bed off the coast of Tenerife. The task now is focused on lo‐ cating Anna and Tomas Gimeno, after having al‐ ready recovered the lifeless body of six‐year‐old Olivia.

Local media announced a few days ago the dis‐ covery of a strange mass next to a metallic object, but it is still unknown whether or not it is linked to the case.

The participation of this ship is key in the inves‐ tigation since thanks to its findings it has been possible to reconstruct the events and learn more about the last steps of Tomas Gimeno and his daughters, who disappeared on April 27.

Equipped with a side‐scan sonar and robot, the

Angeles Alvariño has found several objects includ‐ ing a duvet cover and diving bottle, now known to be owned by Tomas Gimeno.

Within days it located two sports bags, togeth‐ er with the anchor of the boat at a depth of 1,000 metres. In one bag was the body of the eldest daughter, Olivia, while the other was ripped open and completely empty.

The investigation is also focused on locating an eight‐kilo lead belt, which is suspected of having been used by the girls’ father and Olivia’s alleged murderer, to sink and commit their bodies to the bottom of the sea.

According to the hypothesis of the team inves‐ tigating the case, the lead diving belt and the two oxygen cylinders were used to cause the death of his daughters.

Treasury to axe interns IN the coming months, the State Public Employment Service (SEPE) will dispense with 1,500 interns who have provided emergency assistance in manag‐ ing benefits for the unemployed and workers affected by ERTE.

The interns were employed to alleviate the workload in the or‐ ganisation after an avalanche of applications for the emergency support programme.

The influx of interns, however, failed to prevent services from

collapsing as hundreds of thou‐ sands of suspended workers re‐ ceived their benefits late or the amount they received was incor‐ rect.

Currently, there are half a mil‐ lion more unemployed in Spain than before the pandemic and another half a million workers af‐ fected by ERTE. The SEPE staff amounts to 7,000 people who have been warned in recent months that there are insuffi‐ cient staff for the volume of ser‐ vices they must provide.

The ministries of Finance and Public Function are trying to ne‐ gotiate with unions to establish a new labour framework that re‐ duces the volume of temporary contracts and enables more full‐ time staff.

The union complained that the departure of 1,500 workers means that the SEPE will lose 20 per cent of the workforce with which it currently operates and that the evolution of the labour market is uncertain between now and the end of the year when the last interns hired will be let go.

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60% Brits fully jabbed

MORE than three in five adults in the UK have received a sec‐ ond dose of a Covid‐19 vaccine, securing the fullest possible pro‐ tection, as the vaccination pro‐ gramme continues at an un‐

precedented pace and scale.

With 75,188,795 million doses administered in total, 43,448,680 million people across the UK have now been vaccinated with a first dose ‐ some 82.5 per cent ‐ while

Horses were filthy, starving and thirsty THE Guardia Civil are investigating a man in Almonte near Huel‐ va after 15 horses were left starving, without water and kept in a faeces‐strewn field.

Six of the animals needed immediate veterinary care because they were extremely malnourished and were suffering from po‐ tential liver and kidney problems.

Four other horses also needed immediate care and were pro‐ vided with proper forage and water. The others were checked and were found to be thirsty and hungry.

The owner faces charges for not providing the animals with adequate hygienic, nutritional and veterinary care, the Guardia Civil said.

Police, animal care and veterinary staff raided the property on June 17 after learning of the horses’ poor condition.

The Guardia Civil have previously advocated a public cam‐ paign highlighting the mistreatment and abandonment of do‐ mestic animals. They urge anyone who witnesses abuse of ani‐ mals to immediately report it to authorities.

31,740,115 million people have had both doses.

Recent analysis by Public Health England (PHE) showed that Covid‐19 vaccines are highly effec‐ tive against hospitalisation from the Delta variant. The analysis sug‐ gests the Pfizer‐BioNTech vaccine is 96 per cent effective and the Ox‐ ford‐AstraZeneca vaccine is 92 per cent effective against hospitalisa‐ tion after both doses.

The government met its target of offering a vaccine to the most vulnerable by April 15 and is on track to offer a first dose to all adults by July 19, two weeks earli‐ er than planned. NHS England has extended the offer of a vaccine to everyone aged 18 and over.

By July 19, all those aged 40 and over and the clinically extremely vulnerable, who received their first dose by mid‐May, will have been offered their second dose.

“Two doses of a Covid‐19 vac‐ cine are absolutely vital in ensur‐ ing the fullest possible protection the jabs have to offer ‐ it’s extraor‐ dinary that three in five people have now been vaccinated with both jabs,” said Vaccines Minister Nadhim Zahawi.

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McAfee complained THE prison in Spain where John McAfee was found dead in a suspected suicide appar‐ ently serves ‘stale bread and cold hot dogs’ according to the now deceased software pio‐ neer.

McAfee was discovered dead in his cell in the Barcelona Sant Esteve Sesrovires prison on Wednesday June 23, and it ap‐ pears that he committed sui‐ cide. According to local media reports in May two inmates killed themselves at the prison.

McAfee’s cause of death is un‐ der investigation.

McAfee had entered the prison in October after he had been caught at Barcelona air‐ port. He had been wanted by US authorities for tax evasion when he was detained. McAfee died on the day that he was due to be extradited to the US and had been on the run since 2019.

The prison has also housed other well‐known felons includ‐ ing a former Barcelona official.

When speaking of the prison McAfee had considered it to be

Madrid terminals reopen in July

BARAJAS AIRPORT: Things slowly returning to normal.

JOHN McAFEE: Was found dead in his prison cell. “the Hilton” in comparison to prisons in the United States, but he still managed to com‐ plain about the food that the prison served.

Last November, shortly after McAfee’s arrest he compared the Spanish prison to a five‐star hotel in a letter to his wife. “Life in Spanish prisons is like the

Hilton compared to the abject surrealism and dehumanisation of American prisons,” he said.

“Here I am treated as a human being instead of a number.'”

After his arrest McAfee had been initially held at the Brians I prison complex, but was later transferred to Brians 2, where he was at the time of his death.

IN yet another sign that things are slowly returning to nor‐ mal, Aena has announced that it will be reopening terminals T2 and T3 in Madrid’s Barajas Airport this coming July 1. The terminals have been adapted for coronavirus and the health and safety of passengers.

With the reopening of these two terminals, it means that Madrid’s airport will be fully operational once again, and back to pre‐pandemic functionality. AENA recom‐ mends passengers who plan to travel in the next few days to check first with their air‐ line, because if their return flight is on the same day, July 1 or later, the arrival terminal could be different from the

one used in the outbound flight.

Under the coronavirus con‐ ditions, passengers will only be allowed to enter through the signposted entrances, and only passengers with a valid flight ticket or boarding pass, or those accompanying chil‐ dren or passengers who re‐ quire special assistance, are allowed to enter the terminal buildings.

Parking areas A, B, and C of the P2 level will be opera‐ tional again, along with the express surface parking, and from July 1, the transit bus service will stop at T3, main‐ taining a frequency of every 10 minutes during the busiest hours.

Spain extends health care for cross-border workers THE government has approved extending health care for cross‐ border workers who work in Gibraltar but live in Spain. The measure is being extended for four months until the end of Oc‐ tober, Madrid said June 22.

The extension will allow officials from both the UK and Spain to continue talks on issues arising from Brexit.

Juan Lozano, the president of Campo de Gibraltar, said he’s satisfied with the extension of health care for the cross‐border workers and other measures such as recognising the British driv‐ ing licence and the provision for degrees from universities and higher education centres and other studies.

“The correct decisions adopted by the government of Spain mean that people … regardless of their nationality ‐ Spanish and British ‐ are not affected in this negotiation period in which we are currently immersed,” Lozano said.

He expressed appreciation for “the involvement and firm commitment made by the government of Spain to the Campo de Gibraltar and its citizens.”

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Turtle dove shooting banned AN estimated 900,000 turtle doves are shot by hunters each year in Spain, which has led to almost all of the Spanish autonomous communities placing a one‐year ban on the shooting of the birds.

The turtle doves fly each year across Spain in spring and autumn migrating from sub‐ Saharan Africa.

In Britain, the turtle dove is an endangered species, with reports claiming that there are as few as 2,000 pairs of them left, and globally, the species is also in danger of extinction.

Scientists have urged that a four‐year shooting ban be put in place to cover their entire route that also includes Portu‐ gal, Malta, Italy and France.

Experts say that if turtle dove hunting was halted in Western Europe, their num‐ bers would increase by about 5 per cent each year. As well as shooters, the birds also face threats from agricultural in‐ tensification that reduces their food availability. They normal‐ ly thrive on the seeds from an‐ nual wildflowers that have been virtually eradicated by modern herbicides.

“This is a really positive step from Spanish authorities be‐ cause Spain is a key country on the migration route of the species,” said Dr Andy Evans from the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds.

“Hunting exacerbates the problems for these birds caused by agricultural changes, but both problems need to be tackled in order to save the turtle dove. By stop‐ ping hunting, turtle doves are given a better chance to recov‐ er.”

Spain’s Ornithological Soci‐ ety said that putting a stop to shooting wasn’t enough and that the country should add the bird to its list of endan‐ gered species.

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THE European Court for Justice con‐ firmed on June 24 that Spain needs to do more to protect Doñana National Park, home to one of Europe’s largest wetlands.

The enormous park in the southern region of Andalucia spreads across Cadiz, Huelva and Sevilla and boasts a diverse ecosystem of lagoons, marshlands, scrub woodland, beaches and sand dunes.

It is home to fallow deer, wild boars, badgers and endangered species includ‐

Spain needs to do more

ing the Spanish imperial eagle and the Iberian lynx.

It is also on the migratory route of mil‐ lions of birds each year and the Court has found that farmers are illegally building wells which drain off much of the water

and the Spanish Government has al‐ lowed water to be diverted for use to support the tourist industry.

The Court, based in Luxembourg has agreed with the European Commission which filed a complaint in 2019 that la‐

goons and marshes were drying out and ruled that Spain was in breach of EU na‐ ture legislation because it “did not take into account the illegal water extrac‐ tions” in the park and their impact on groundwater.

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The Spanish Government is required to act in accordance with the ruling or face the possibility of significant fines if the Court requirements are not com‐ plied with.

A report in RFI France, suggests that Spain has been found guilty of more in‐ fringements of any other member state of the EU and the breaches are more than three times the average of each member of the other 26 states according to the European Commission.

Mask rule relaxed outdoors

SAFE DISTANCE: Although not necessary, many people are still opting to wear masks.

THE law in Spain states it is no longer necessary to wear a mask outdoors if you can keep a safe dis‐ tance. But this weekend, some people could be seen still wearing their masks while others weren’t.

We asked our readers if they felt safe enough to remove their masks.

In general, they responded that they thought it difficult to maintain a safe distance in crowded ar‐ eas, so they would continue to wear their masks as they did not feel safe in crowds.

The problem, some said, is that other people don’t seem to understand or care about maintain‐ ing a safe distance.

The general opinion is that it’s better to be safe than sorry and some readers compared the situa‐ tion to the UK where masks have not been manda‐ tory outdoors and still have high figures.

One reader commented on the situation in Ali‐ cante saying “it’s disgraceful, bars and nightclubs

and streets with people in their thousands shoul‐ der to shoulder. I’ve also seen an article from WHO and the Delta variant is managing to infect people in Israel and other countries even though they’ve been vaccinated. Just look what’s happened in Mallorca as the result of a few days of students there.”

Another said that especially with tourists now arriving from different places she would not feel safe.

On the other hand, several readers claimed to feel safe regardless of if they’d had the jab and one said “I love being outdoors with no mask now.”

Another pointed out “Most masks don’t protect you from others, but will help protect others from you if you happen to be infectious. So while you may FEEL less safe not wearing a mask, you won’t actually be any less safe. So go out and enjoy the freedom. Unless you are worried about others in‐ fecting you. In which case, keep your distance.”

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THE lack of spectators during the coronavirus pandemic appears to have had a noticeable effect on the performance of athletes at the 2020 Biathlon World Cup, a new study by Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg Psychology of Sport and Exercise shows. According to the new analysis, women also performed better in complex tasks, such as shooting, when an audience was present while men did not.

“The studies have been relatively clear so far, but the results are more heterogeneous when it comes to more complex coordinative tasks,”

Slow men, quick women…

said Amelie Heinrich from the Institute of Sports Science at MLU. In general, it is assumed that performance tends to deteriorate when there is an audience.

She compared the running times and shooting successes of male and female biathletes from the 2018/2019 season with their performances in the 2020 season in the sprint and mass start events.

“The men’s results were as expected: they ran faster with an audience present, but performed more poorly in shooting,” Ms Heinrich said.

“The pandemic offers a unique opportunity to study an audience’s influence outside of experimental conditions in the real world,” she said.

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stamina, shooting is a coordinative task.

It was the other way around for women.

They ran slower in the presence of spectators, but on average, it took them an entire second less to make their shot and, at least in the sprint, their scoring performance was 5 per cent higher.

“To our knowledge, this is the first time that a study was able to show a different effect of the audience on men and women,” said Professor Oliver Stoll, head of the sports psychology section at MLU.

Geckos lose tails, but not dinner GECKOS remain fierce hunters whether or not their tails are attached to their bodies. Like other lizards, geckos can distract predators by quickly dropping their tails.

The small lizards’ vertebrae are perforated, making it easier to disconnect them without any formation of scar tissue or loss of blood.

Though this ability can keep lizards from being eaten, the manoeuvre is performed at a cost, according to a new study from the University of California at Riverside.

“Other studies have documented the negative effects of tail loss on lizards’ ability to run, jump, mate, and reproduce,” said UCR biologist Marina Vollin. “However, few have examined their ability to capture food when they lose their tails, which is critical for regenerating the tail and for overall survival.”

The researchers found that geckos successfully captured crickets about 77 per cent of the time both before and after losing tails - a surprising retention of accuracy since tails appear to help stabilise gecko body positions during and after a strike. “The geckos were much slower without tails, and their attack strikes much more awkward,” she said.

SMALL LIZARDS: Can distract predators.

Ceuta: Don’t feed immigrants A GOVERNMENT delegate has asked Ceuta residents not to give food to immigrants to try and stop them from loitering near supermarkets and restaurants.

A government delegate in Ceuta, Salvadora Mateos, has asked people not to hand out food to Moroccans who remain in the city following a recent dramatic increase in immigration.

Ms Mateos has praised the people of Ceuta for their solidarity, but asked them to work with the NGOs - non-governmental and non-profit organisations that often help out with humanitarian disasters.

“I want to make them see that their actions cause these young people to remain at the doors of supermarkets, restaurants, etc, looking for help,” she said.

In May Spain mobilised the army in Ceuta after more than 5,000 immigrants entered the autonomous city in a single day.

Authorities said that they entered via the Tarajal and Benzu maritime breakwaters.

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Two new luxury hotels

CORDOBA is getting two brand new four‐star hotels soon, adding some 300 rooms to the city’s supply. The new sites were visited on June 24

by Angel Pimentel, the territo‐ rial delegate of Tourism of the

Junta de Aldalucia in Cordoba.

“Cordoba is an interesting and attractive destination for investors who, even in this context of crisis, have been encouraged to bet on our province and create new ac‐

No, it’s not Nile virus THE first case of West Nile virus detected this year in Andalucia has finally turned out to be a false positive, health sources say.

A 35-year-old man from Dom Hermanas who was admitted to Sevilla’s Virgen del Rocio Hospital on June 12 was thought to have the virus that caused seven deaths and 77 serious cases in Andalucia last year.

The virus is transmitted by mosquitoes.

The patient was admitted and then referred to the ICU of the Sevilla hospital after confirming that he was positive for coronavirus. Two days later, he began to suffer ‘neuromeningeal’ symptoms that can occur in Covid-19 cases. He tested positive for meningoencephalitis - an inflammation of the brain - and there were indications it was brought on by West Nile virus.

Later tests, however, showed that West Nile virus wasn’t present in the man’s system.

Health officials say that false positives with viruses are not strange, and in this case, the man’s positive tests for coronavirus clouded the testing process.

commodation options that come to join and strengthen the Cordoba offer,” he said.

Secotel will operate the new Hotel Las Delicias ‐ the chain’s first facility there ‐ and it will feature 129 rooms, two suites, a gym, a restaurant, a swimming pool and solarium area. It is scheduled for com‐ pletion by the end of the sec‐ ond quarter of 2022, with a plan to open that September.

Soho Hotels already oper‐ ate one facility in Cordoba and others across Andalucia and will open a new four‐star hotel on Calle Fernando de Cordoba. It will have 182 rooms, four junior suites, a gym, restaurant, swimming pool, and solarium area, and it is forecast to be completed in June. It will open this sum‐ mer.

“Without a doubt, tourism continues to be a fundamen‐ tal engine for the province’s economy and a source of wealth and key employment,” Pimentel said.

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Minimum wage hike on cards? Banned from France SPAIN’S President Pedro Sanchez and Labour and Social Economy Minister Yolanda Di‐ az were due to meet this week to consider hiking the mini‐ mum wage by 10 per cent.

The meeting follows a report from the Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the Minimum Wage that recommended the 10 per cent hike on June 18.

If approved, the increase could see the minimum wage in Spain rise from €950 per month to €1,045 per month.

The government faces pres‐ sure to approve the increase not only because they face re‐ election in 2023, but because of growing public anger against in‐ creasing living expenses and soaring electricity bills.

Diaz said she is in favour of raising the minimum wage by 10 per cent, but that it is up to the government to decide. “Our position is known, but the gov‐ ernment will decide,” she said on Thursday June 24.

“We have skyrocketing prices for electricity and other basic products. It is very striking that we leave those who need it

YOLANDA DIAZ: Is to meet with President Sanchez. most with this protection,” she added.

The Bank of Spain said earlier this month that the last mini‐ mum wage hike may have back‐ fired and cost the country 180,000 jobs. It said the in‐ crease impacted young people the most, while those over the age of 45 largely did not receive any benefit.

Young workers on the mini‐ mum wage now face reduced chances of getting a permanent contract and have probably seen their hours per month cut back.

A SOUTH YORKSHIRE MP is fighting back against new Brexit rules which mean pigeons are banned from flying to France.

The rules will stop pigeon rac‐ ing across the English Channel, and the MP hopes that they can be overturned. Wentworth and Dearn MP John Healey has ap‐ proached George Eustice, the environment secretary after pi‐ geon racers got in touch with him.

New Animal Health Regula‐ tions due to come in on April 21

PIGEONS: Not welcome. would have required pigeons to have a health certificate signed by a vet and be in the EU for 21 days before release. The transi‐ tion period for the rules has now

Spanish homes selling quickly A THIRD of Spanish homes for sale find a buyer within one month ‐ just slightly lower than it was be‐ fore the Covid‐19 pandemic began, Spain’s largest online property site reported.

A third of the homes for sale on Idealista during the month of April had been on the market for less than a month, the company said.

However, that percentage is lower than recorded before February 2020, when 36 per cent were sold in less than a month.

The largest increase occurred in Girona, where quick sales grew from 17 per cent in February 2020 to 40 per cent in June. Swift sales in Leon went from 17 per cent to 33 per cent and in Huelva from 22 per cent to 35 per cent; Cordoba went from 16 per cent to 28 per cent, Santa Cruz de Tenerife went from 22 per cent to 33 per cent and Lugo went from 7 per cent to 17 per cent.

The number of houses selling within a month in Palma went from 28 per cent to 32 per cent and Malaga from 38 per cent to 40 per cent. In Madrid the percentage of homes sold in a month dropped from 53 per cent to 43 per cent.

been extended until October 2021 due to an EU agreement.

France, however, decided to require the animal health certifi‐ cate as member states can apply their own national rules.

Mick McGrevy, 73, is a former chairman and life vice‐president of the National Flying Club and has owned pigeons for many years. The National Flying Club has members across the UK and races pigeons from France and Spain. Normally pigeons quickly return home the same day after completing a 500‐mile trip in on‐ ly a few hours.

“We really want to see this sorted out so we can get back to the racing we enjoy and have been doing for decades,” Mc‐ Grevy said.

“Owners appreciate the need for stringent regulations for movement into the EU, but these birds are low risk and are not being imported, only trans‐ ported then released,” said pi‐ geon racer John Healey.

“This should have been re‐ solved as part of the Brexit terms and now needs an agree‐ ment with the EU.”

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PRINCE WILLIAM and Kate Middleton told Prince George that he will be King of England “sometime around his seventh

birthday” and despite trying to give him as normal a childhood as possible, George has already realised he is treated differently

Crowdfunding pays for girl’s cancer operation DOCTORS at a hospital in Barcelona have operated for Ewing’s sarcoma on Israe, a 10-year-old Moroccan girl whose treatment was made possible by a worldwide crowdfunding campaign.

Ewing’s sarcoma is a rare type of cancer that begins in the bones or surrounding soft tissues and usually occurs in children and adolescents.

Israe was diagnosed with pelvic cancer last January and, since she could not be operated on in her country due to the high surgical complexity and not being able to afford treatment abroad, her parents sought help. Thousands of people around the world responded to their crowdfunding campaign online.

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from his siblings, a royal author has claimed.

Robert Lacey, who released a new chapter of his updated book Battle of Brothers, said William and Kate wanted to break the news to George at a “controlled moment of their choice.”

“William has not revealed to the world how and when he broke the big news to his son,” Mr Lacey wrote. “Maybe one day George will tell us the story himself. But sometime around the boy’s seventh birthday in the summer of 2020 it is thought that his parents went into more detail about what the little prince’s life of future royal ‘ser‐ vice and duty’ would particularly involve.”

Royal commentator Katie Nicholl said the fact that George gets to spend more time with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Charles makes him understand he is different from Princess Charlotte and Prince Louis, de‐ spite the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge’s efforts to treat their children the same.

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Why Russia fired on HMS Defender 2M Brits had long Covid WAR SHIP: The UK denied an incident took place.

RUSSIAN claims that it fired on HMS Defender, which was in the Black Sea on a NA‐ TO mission, came just two days after the UK signed an agreement to boost Ukraine’s naval capabilities.

Britain and Ukraine inked a naval cooperation agreement on June 21 onboard the HMS Defender which will include the development of a new naval base in the Sea of Avoz along with eight hi‐tech naval warships for Ukraine.

Russia has been meddling in Ukrainian affairs for more than a decade, since the ex‐ Soviet country made a bid to sign a cooperation agreement

that would bring it closer to the EU. In 2014 Russia an‐ nexed Crimea and has en‐ couraged separatists in east‐ ern Ukraine.

The June 21 agreement for the UK to bolster Ukraine’s naval capabilities was signed

by Minister for Defence Pro‐ curement Jeremy Quin and First Sea Lord Admiral Sir Tony Radakin representing the UK and the Ukrainian Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Oleksandr Myro‐ niuk.

“The UK and Ukraine have a close defence relationship, and we continue to strength‐ en this partnership to help

deter shared threats,” said Mr Quin, the minister respon‐ sible for naval procurement.

The deal is likely to have angered Moscow as it in‐ cludes the sale of missiles which can be integrated into existing Ukrainian naval and military platforms.

Two days later, on June 23, Russia’s Ministry of Defence claimed a coastguard vessel had shot at HMS Defender because it had breached Rus‐ sia’s territorial water. The UK however swiftly denied an in‐ cident had taken place and said Russia was conducting regular exercises and did not fire at the war ship.

OVER two million people in Eng‐ land are thought to have had one or more Covid‐19 symp‐ toms lasting at least 12 weeks, according to one of the largest studies of the virus funded by

the government.

The study is based on self‐re‐ ported data from 508,707 adults aged 18 and above who took part in REACT‐2 rounds three to five carried out between September

Ryanair furious over digital certs RYANAIR launched a blistering attack on Ireland’s Transport Minister Eamonn Ryan who has not yet reopened Ireland to air travel. The low‐cost airline, Ireland’s biggest carrier, on Wednes‐ day June 23 called on Minister Ryan to clarify why, when 18 other EU countries are now issuing the Digital Green Cert, he has failed to do so for Ireland’s vaccinated citizens.

British visitors arriving by air must quarantine for 10 days, but the airline pointed out that if they were to fly into Belfast instead, they can drive across the border from Northern Ireland with no restrictions whatsoever.

“With less than 50 Covid patients in our hospitals, and less than 20 in our ICUs, Ireland continues to delay the recovery of avi‐ ation and tourism due to the bogus and non‐medical fears about a Delta variant in the UK which is not resistant to vaccines,” Ryanair’s Eddie Wilson said. “It is time for Minister Ryan to wake up and roll out the EU Digital Cert at least for those Irish citizens who have been double vaccinated, and this can be switched on today! Negative PCR tests and Covid recoveries can be added lat‐ er.”

2020 and February 2021.

Around a fifth of those sur‐ veyed reported having had a Covid‐19 symptom previously, with over a third reporting persis‐ tent symptoms lasting at least 12 weeks. Around one‐10th of those with symptoms said they lasted at least 12 weeks and were se‐ vere.

The findings suggest preva‐ lence of persistent symptoms, or long Covid, increases with age, with a 3.5 per cent increase in likelihood in each decade of life. It shows long Covid is higher among women, people who are over‐ weight or obese, who smoke, live in deprived areas, or had been admitted to hospital. Persistent Covid‐19 symptoms were lower in people of Asian ethnicity.

“Long Covid can have a lasting and debilitating impact on the lives of those affected,” said Health and Social Care Secretary Matt Hancock. “Studies like this help us to rapidly build our under‐ standing of the impact of the con‐ dition and we are using these findings and other new research to develop support and treat‐ ments.”

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Passenger faked PCR test A MAN who tried to fly from Brussels Airport with a falsi‐ fied PCR test has been sen‐ tenced to a year in jail. The sentence is the first handed

down by Belgian courts since authorities announced in April that using a false PCR test would be punishable by prison time.

Venice to ‘danger’ list UNESCO may add Venice to the list of ‘World Heritage in Danger’ after advisors warned the city is facing a series of threats.

“The continued deteriorating effects of human intervention, combined with climate change on the vulnerable lagoon ecosystem, threaten to result in irreversible change,” the body said this week. It said cruise ships are deemed a ‘threat’ to the famous Italian city as they continue to sail through the historic city’s water front centre, despite the Italian government ruling that they should be banned.

“While legal bans already exist for ships over 40,000 gross ton to enter the Venice Lagoon, it has no practical effect, as no alternative exists for the mooring of these large ships,” UNESCO said, adding a long-term solution was needed as a matter of urgency.

Complex impacts of mass tourism, the constant decrease of population and the basic deficiencies in governance and cooperated management have led to a significant loss of historical authenticity within Venice, UNESCO stated. It also said the lagoon’s ecology faces “irreversible change.”

Authorities say that be‐ tween April 19 and June 11, 576 people were discovered with a forged PCR test at Brussels Airport after Bel‐ gium allowed non‐essential foreign travel. Travellers are required to show a negative PCR test result and complete a locator form.

Failing to fill in the form correctly, making a false declaration or attempting to beat the PCR test system can result in an immediate €750 fine or further prosecution.

The man jailed on Tues‐ day, June 22, presented a negative PCR result from a friend who had falsified the test. He had also refused to accept an out‐of‐court agreement and failed to ap‐ pear before judges.

The court said the man’s behaviour was “not only an‐ tisocial” but was also poten‐ tially life‐threatening, and the jail term was appropri‐ ate given the circumstances of the case.

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THE annual report from Mercer has ranked Copenhagen as the 16th most expensive city for expats to live in, a jump of nine places since last year and as far as Europe is concerned, it is the fourth most expensive after three Swiss cities.

SIX rather embarrassed French football fans discovered only when they arrived in the wrong country that they had confused Bucharest (Romania) and Budapest (Hungary) when they booked their travel to watch France play Hungary in the Euros. They ended up watching the match on TV!

THE NETHERLANDS Night Watch IN 1715, when Rembrandt’s Night Watch was moved to a new home, parts of the original were cut off. Now a computer has created the missing images in the style of Rembrandt so that the entire painting may be viewed at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.

BELGIUM Undercover officer A PLAIN-CLOTHES police officer on a motorbike which has police markings on the rear has been on the streets of West Flanders looking for motorists who break the law. So successful has he been that he has issued 222 fines in just seven days.

GERMANY Rainbow row HUNGARIAN Prime Minister Viktor Orban cancelled his visit to Munich to watch the Germany v Hungary football clash as by way of protest against new Hungarian antigay laws, the stadium was due to be lit with the rainbow colours, although this was eventually banned

by UEFA.

NORWAY Oil exploration ENVIRONMENTALISTS were up in arms after the Norwegian Government decided on June 23 to issue new oil and gas exploration licences in Norway’s Arctic waters to seven different oil companies. This was just a week after the Government unveiled its green energy strategy.

FINLAND Vaccinating youth THE Finnish Health Authority has now approved the vaccination against Covid-19 of those aged between 16 and 19 years of age within the next two weeks and then plans to follow this up with inoculations for the 12 to 15 age group subject to parental permission

SWEDEN Robot restaurant DUE to open in Sweden later this year is a new robotic ice cream parlour called BonBot, where you order and pay for your ice cream via an App and then watch a robotic arm make it on the spot and hand it over to you.

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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA New strategy TENDAM, formerly the Madrid based Cortefiel Group, which is one of Europe’s leading fashion retailers aimed at women aged 25 to 40 is to introduce several new brands and will offer 200 third party products through its website and shops across Europe.

Scottish power SCOTTISH based battery manufacturer AMTE Power is to receive £2.3 (€2.5) million out of a £5 (€5.5) million pot from the British Government over three years in a project aimed at preparing for the switch to electric-powered vehicles in the UK by 2030.

Cryptocurrency AS a number of members of the Spanish Parliament press for the introduction of some form of Spanish cryptocurrency, the head of the Bank for International Settlements and several global Central Banks including Bank of Spain are fighting to keep control of currency away from the ether.

Interest rates THE experts at the Bank of England have left interest rates on hold at a historic low of 0.1 per cent despite concerns that inflation will grow during 2021 as the economic recovery gathers pace.

This doesn’t however seem to make any difference to mortgage and loan rates.

Premium Bonds MANY premium bond holders in the UK loved the concept of a prize cheque dropping through their letter box and were very disappointed when National Savings decided that ERNIE would no longer deliver the prize direct.

Now after research and feedback from bond holders, it has been decided that the cheques will still be posted, although holders will have the option to request that any money won be either credited to their bank account or converted to new premium bonds.

According to BBC Business, Premium Bonds introduced in 1956 are the most popular savings product in the UK.

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is the amount that AT&T is due to receive as it merges Warner Media with Discovery and Spanish Bank Santander will be involved with some of the funding.

5m+ new millionaires IN its 12th Global Wealth Report released on June 22, Credit Suisse, reveal that more than five million new millionaires were cre‐ ated during 2020.

The research showed that despite the economic fallout caused by the Covid‐19 pandemic, there are now 56.1 millionaires worldwide (more than the entire population of Spain).

You don’t have to be cash rich in order to be classified as a millionaire

and rising house prices and a stock exchange boom have increased the value of assets and for some, even cryptocurrency rises have pushed them into the mil‐ lionaire bracket.

Credit Suisse researchers suggest that wealth cre‐ ation has simply ignored the economic problems of the pandemic and the ap‐ plication of low‐cost gov‐ ernment backed loans has also encouraged house‐ hold savings which bumps

LEGALLY SPEAKING

Can debtors be named?

Can you advise whether a community presi‐ dent or the appointed administrator is obliged to supply a fully paid owner with a current debtors’ list? Owing to the Covid situation we have not had any accounts or debt lists for two years and have requested a debtors’ list without response.

T A (by email) No, neither the presi‐ dent nor the adminis‐ YOU AND THE LAW trator is obligated to IN SPAIN provide a list of com‐ munity debtors. Spain’s law of data protection prevents this, ex‐ cept in the notification of the AGM. The Horizontal Law estab‐ lishes that the notification of the AGM must include the list of those debtors who are prohibited from voting.

If the members are notified by letter in a sealed envelope, this meets the requirement or if notification is by email, the emails should be sent individually. If there is a notice board, it should be in a closed box opened by key or code.

A recent change because of Covid now permits communities to hold the AGM by email or Internet. This means that the list of debtors would appear with the notification of the AGM.

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BRITISH transport company National Express has announced its acquisi‐ tion of Transportes Rober (Rober) in Spain at a cost of €13 million.

The acquisition of Rober, which has operated the urban bus contract in Granada for more than 20 years, represents a further step in consoli‐ dating the regional and urban bus markets, a strategy which Alsa (which it also owns) has successfully

up individual worth.

The report also found that total global wealth grew by 7.4 per cent and wealth per adult rose by 6 per cent to reach a record high of $79,952 (€67,000) and interestingly, overall, the countries most affect‐ ed by the pandemic have not fared worse in terms of wealth creation.

A lot now depends upon the future and whether high share and house prices are sustainable over

the long term.

The regional breakdown shows that total wealth rose by $12.4 (€10.4) tril‐ lion in North America and by $9.2 (€7.7) trillion in Eu‐ rope.

These two regions ac‐ counted for the bulk of the wealth gains in 2020, with China adding another $4.2 (€3.5) trillion, although In‐ dia and South America saw significant falls in individual worth according to Credit Suisse.

Head-shaped urns AN American company developed commemora‐ tive urns shaped like the heads of deceased loved ones by using 3D imaging techniques. Would you get one?

Cremation Solutions, specialises in memorial products.

They make 28cm‐high urns to hold the ashes of an adult (€2,175) and a smaller version which can hold part of the ashes (€500).

Both come with a marble base and the ashes are put inside by removing a plug in the bottom.

They say on their web‐ site that as long as they are provided with good photos, they can make the urns look like anyone.

Complexions can be ad‐ justed, hair can be added

URNS: But not to everyone’s taste. and imperfections can be removed so that they will always look their best and you won’t have to worry that you may forget what they looked like.

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National Express in Spain executed in Galicia, the Basque Re‐ gion and Leon amongst others.

Granada is a major hub for long haul connections and builds on Al‐ sa’s existing urban business in Alme‐ ria and regional services, consolidat‐ ing the group’s leadership position in Andalucia with a combined fleet of 650 vehicles and 1,900 employees.

Alsa, in partnership with Repsol, has started the first pilot test in Spain with HVO, a fuel with zero net emissions.

Twelve buses from the Bilbobus fleet will circulate during the next four months through Bilbao, using advanced biofuels made from waste.

HVO is an advanced biofuel that

Bad bank review SPEAKING at a meeting in Santander, Spain’s Minister of the Economy Nadia Calvino explained her view of the fu‐ ture of Sareb, the National ‘Bad Bank’ which was set up after the 2008 financial crisis.

According to a report from Reuters, when questioned about the future she said “We are currently considering what the strategy should be for the entity from now on.”

Sareb which was set up in 2012 to take on bad loans has been losing money for some time which is a worry for its shareholders, the Spanish State and major banks.

Although it has managed to sell property worth €15.9 bil‐ lion it still holds around €35 billion of debt, much of it in depreciating empty or unfin‐ ished property.

Commonwealth business office WHEN Gibraltar sadly removed the European Union flag from one of its three flag poles at the land border with Spain, it was replaced by the Commonwealth flag.

Now, the Chairman of the Commonwealth Enterprise and Investment Council (CWEIC) Lord Marland has formally opened the Council’s offices in Gibraltar n the presence of the Deputy Chief Minister Dr Joseph Garcia, who has responsibility for relations with the Common‐ wealth.

CWEIC has a mandate from the Heads of Government to promote trade and investment across the organisation which has 53 member nations, a num‐ ber of associated and overseas territories with 2.4 billion peo‐ ple. meets the sustainability certifica‐ tions required by the European Union Renewable Energy Directive and is considered a net zero emis‐ sions fuel.

The product meets all the techni‐ cal requirements that guarantee its use in existing vehicles in the Bil‐ bobus fleet, operated by Alsa, with‐ out the need for any modifications to the engines.

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Currency outlook: Hawkish Fed turbocharges the US dollar, reopening delay rocks the pound

EXCHANGE RATES: Remained largely subdued through the latter half of the month.

ASK THE EXPERT Peter Loveday

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Euro EUR/GBP: Down from £0.86 to £0.85 EUR/USD: Down from $1.22 to $1.19 The euro spent the first half of June trad‐ ing in a narrow range, as optimism over the reopening of more parts of the Eurozone offset some dovish forward guidance from the European Central Bank (ECB).

However the euro then suffered a dra‐ matic drop off in mid‐June, as the strong negative correlation in the EUR/USD pairing saw the single currency suffer following a surge in the US dollar.

EUR exchange rates have then remained largely subdued through the latter half of the month, only finding some modest sup‐ port on the back of some upbeat Eurozone PMI figures.

Looking ahead, with the ECB expected to maintain its dovish bias for some time, and indications that the Delta variant of the coronavirus is starting to spread through Europe, any upside in the euro over the next month may prove limited.

Pound GBP/EUR: Up from €1.15 to €1.16 GBP/USD: Down from $1.41 to $1.39 The pound has traded in a wide range over the past four weeks, amidst a mix of coronavirus and Brexit uncertainty.

In regards to coronavirus concerns, the rapid spread of the Delta variant through‐ out the UK, and the government’s subse‐ quent delaying of its reopening date dealt a major blow to Sterling.

Renewed Brexit tensions between the

UK and EU over the Northern Ireland proto‐ col has also driven volatility in GBP ex‐ change rates.

Sterling’s attempts to rally towards the end of June were then scuppered by the Bank of England (BoE) as it struck a disap‐ pointing dovish tone following its latest policy meeting.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT IT’S not often I allow myself to succumb to pure unmitigated anger.

I’m a bit long in the tooth for a condition that can sometimes create more problems than it actually eliminates.

But this week I encountered an exception to my own rule. It began with the announcement that poor white schoolchildren were under‐ achieving in UK schools. Oddly the UK media actually gave this news quite extensive coverage. (Deferring perhaps to the new GB channel that is literally plundering their viewing figures!) This announcement was bad enough, but it was watching the young white pupils being interviewed that truly got this old boy’s hackles up. Primarily it was quite a pleasant rarity to see two or three white pupils appear on the screen in succession!

However, that’s where any pleasurable viewing ended.

It was the general demeanour of these youngsters that got to me; they seemed confused and almost reticent to air their views on camera.

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Educational opinions SCHOOLCHILDREN: Normally bright, happy and full of hope for the future.

The vast numbers of black and ethnic minority students, who regularly appear on these programmes for a whole cross section of their ‘educational opinions,’ are generally (unless they’re whinging) bright, happy and full of hope for the future. In contrast these white children seemed bewildered and

utterly lacking in confidence. This is a direct result of the woke and PC attitude toward the education of our youngsters; a system of the left which is deliberately concentrating so much on making sure the minorities are put to the fore and given every opportunity, they are neglecting the children of the white indigenous

majority. Instead of instilling them with national pride and confidence, these ‘privileged’ children are being made to feel ashamed of their ancestry and responsible for just about every malady that ails their great nation.

Everywhere they look they witness anti‐white propaganda; from their sportsmen taking the knee to the desecration of their historical statues.

Is it any wonder their grades are suffering and they are developing complexes of inferiority? This week (not for the first time) the BBC advertised jobs where only black and ethnic minorities need apply. This is a disgraceful example of the pure hypocrisy of an organisation that is supposed to be anti‐racist, but is actually steeped in racism and panders to the ethnic minorities purely to make sure Labour gets a favourable result in the next election.

(Some chance!) This is all a part of the insidious woke and Marxist BLM agenda.

Attack British culture, undermine its historical achievements, lower morale, diminish belief in itself and turn the citizens and families against each other. And where better to start than among the young and most impressionable? Have no doubt the aim of this evil ideology is not integration, it is domination. It’s time for the indigenous majority to stand up and be counted and let these people know that the UK is utterly sick of its whole traitorous anti British attitude. If not I’m afraid the white populace will finish up the same way as many have in South Africa.

And believe me, that is not a pleasant proposition at all!

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Just a nuisance, not a benefit MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION

Views of a Grumpy Old Man SO that piece of lower than pond life Hancock has resigned. It shouldn’t have been up to him - Boris should have fired him instantly it was confirmed that the photo was genuine. Hancock has been totally taking the piss out of every single person in the UK, especially all the folks that wanted one last kiss with a loved one that was about to die, but his rules wouldn’t allow it. Yes his rules!

Once again a politician has proven that they are all just lying, cheating toe rags.

Please don’t tell me any more what I can’t do or that I might face a £10,000 fine if I break a quarantine rule or get arrested, until he is now arrested and fined.

Never mind the fact he employed this woman just to have his bit on the side on hand for their own reasons, nothing to do with his work as Health Secretary. And how about the arrogance of Johnson saying that Hancock had apologised and that was the end of it - was it heck!

I watch quite a lot of TV for no real reason except I actually quite enjoy it. But being an

OAP with various health problems I do find the advertising on daytime TV a bit depressing. Every other advert is about making arrangements for when I die so my loved ones don’t have to worry about the funeral. I've seen commercials where investors offer to purchase your home with a cash offer so you can avoid repossession.

There are lots of ads for cancer charities.

The assumption is that the daytime TV viewers are in financial turmoil, very sick or unemployed when, in fact, all I want to do is watch a bit of light-hearted TV. So how’s everyone enjoying Brexit? I was criticised a few times for only worrying how it affected me and how I should look at the bigger picture and my reply was I actually don’t give a toss about the bigger picture.

Import duty is putting up prices on products in the UK and sending a parcel to anyone in the UK now comes with the added delight of filling in a customs declaration.

And it’s stopped us travelling back and forth to the UK during the pandemic.

It’s affected trading shares on the UK stock exchange and Marks and Sparks have had problems getting fresh salad stuff in their stores.

Just all a nuisance rather than a benefit.

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SAVE US FROM THIS PLAGUE OF WOKERY NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS

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SPARE a thought today for all the virtue‐sig‐ nalling going on. Have some sympathy for this plague of wokery which decrees that, for example, certain garden features ‐ ‘out‐ door living space’ (formerly known as ‘a gar‐ den’), ‘outdoor fireplace’ (um, ‘barbecue’) or patio (sorry ‘terrace’) ‐ are as dated and naff as a Sony Walkman. Since when, and more importantly, why, did rooms and gardens become ‘spaces’?

Frankly, though, whether you call it a gar‐ den or an outdoor living space, it’s funda‐ mentally the same principle as inside your house ‐ design it based on what you like and how you plan to use it, rather than some glossy magazine ideal of how these spaces should look and function.

I know many people who’ve spent vast sums on renovations that basically make their place look like a mid‐priced hotel. Or spent a

SINCE WHEN: Did your garden suddenly become ‘an outdoor living space?’ fortune on a ridiculous range cooker when, in reality, all they do is just reheat pasta and or‐ der takeaway.

What’s the point? So, if you have a fire pit and you have people over a lot in the evening, great investment. If it’s something

you’ve bought because that gets you entry in‐ to the middle class aspirational garden club, then there’s really no point. As for artificial grass, if you have kids and dogs and are time poor, it’s actually an excellent proposition.

So, in summary, homes are not about

keeping up with the Joneses, but making a space work for YOU. But why confine any list of ‘tackiest things’ to overpriced rubbish sold in shops smelling of incense and playing whale calls as back‐ ground music? Our anger would be better di‐ rected at virtue‐signalling corporations which produce propaganda claiming that by buying their products consumers are saving the plan‐ et from ecological disaster and promoting the physical and psychological well‐being of all mankind.

The best example I’ve come across was a company plaque with the subversive mes‐ sage: ‘You don’t have to be mad to work here but we have our diversity quota to fulfil.’

Nuff said. I rest my case, m’lud.

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GO LOCAL

THE EUROWEEKLY NEWS is urging its readers to support local businesses in the com‐ munity by going local now that the lockdown has ended and for your all your shopping this year, instead of feeding online giants and superstores.

We challenge you to redis‐ cover your local high streets, markets, butchers, greengro‐ cers and all of the wonderfully quirky independent businesses in your area.

Now that the Covid‐19 pan‐ demic appears to be under control, it is a good idea to try and support many local busi‐ nesses by ordering online and making use of any click and col‐ lect services they can operate, especially if you are unable to get out due to health reasons or any other restrictions.

The joy of shopping local means that independent busi‐ nesses can help support the lo‐ cal community.

Although it may be a euro or two cheaper elsewhere or on‐ line, consider where your mon‐ ey is actually going.

By shopping at an indepen‐ dent store you’re putting food on a local family’s table, and there is no better time than now to give back to your com‐ munity by making a small ges‐ ture and shopping in this way.

Many local stores support local charities, support and sponsor local sports teams and in many cases the small inde‐ pendent stores are actually much more than just a small high street shop, they’re a fam‐ ily’s legacy, often passed down through numerous generations and support not just the cur‐ rent owner but the generation before.

For those stores which are new, that extra couple of euros

BUY LOCAL: By shopping locally, independent businesses can help support the local community.

spent there are supporting someone’s dream and ambi‐ tion, and also the courage it took them to step out alone, which is no easy task. It takes quite a large chunk of money to set up an independent store and compete with the multina‐ tional and chains.

So be sure to pre‐order your meat from a local butcher and get your spuds from a local greengrocer, let us revive that community spirit and get to know our neighbours again.

You could also consider pur‐ chasing gift vouchers from local businesses to help them over the coming weeks, thinking outside the box can often lead to some fantastic ideas. Why not buy a meal for two, an hour’s tattoo time at a local studio, a hair cut at a local sa‐ lon or an online study course for someone looking to change their career path.

As people are struggling with finances thinking about what friends and family may actually need is important too. Whilst it’s nice to give a glamourous gift perhaps pre‐paying a fami‐

ly member’s phone bill for the month would actually be a bet‐ ter gift. Helping people allevi‐ ate stress and worry, give the gift of peace of mind through these difficult times.

Choosing to spend your money locally will really make a difference in the recovery of the local economy. When we buy local, our money stays lo‐ cal, and it strengthens the local economy in two ways. First, buying local keeps money cir‐ culating within the local econo‐ my.

Studies have shown that lo‐ cal businesses recirculate a greater share of every euro as they create locally owned sup‐ ply chains and invest in their employees.

Data shows that local retail‐ ers return 52 per cent of their revenue back into the local economy, compared to just 14 per cent for national chain re‐ tailers.

Money circulating through the local economy benefits ev‐ eryone who is a part of each transaction. For example, let’s look at a local farmer growing

produce.

First, they sell to a local restaurant, which in turn pre‐ pares the fresh produce and sells it to local customers. The farmer pays its local employees and the restaurant uses rev‐ enue from sales to buy supplies from a neighbourhood hard‐ ware store. This example illus‐ trates how the recirculation of money in the local economy leads to a stronger financial foundation for our neighbours and communities.

Buying local also fuels new employment and job opportu‐ nities for people within our community.

Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more peo‐ ple per unit of sales and retain more employees over time.

A fantastic example of how to support your local commu‐ nity is with a Charity Gift certifi‐ cate, why not donate to your loved one’s favourite cause.

Just remember to still follow the latest government advice and any guidance businesses have to keep everyone safe in the future.

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RICHARD and Tony from Neater Heater are urging all our read‐ ers to start preparing for next winter now. “We really want people to imitate Squirrels,” said Tony. “As we know; all the other woodland creatures just laze about in the summer, relax‐ ing.

“So when the winter comes they have to furiously compete with each other for the scraps left over or hide‐away and hiber‐ nate, waiting for next summer.

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To be or not to B-12 YOU won’t want to feel weak or fatigued as the social demands of the summer increase.

So be sure that you are getting sufficient B-12 into your system.

B-12 is an essential vitamin for the health of your red blood cells and your nervous system, as well as the creation of DNA and cell division.

As it is stomach acid which liberates B-12 from the food into your body, a common cause of B12 deficiency is a lack of stomach acid.

This is especially true in adults who regularly take medications that suppress stomach acid, such as proton-pump inhibitors, H2 blockers or other antacids.

Even though symptoms develop gradually, when they do finally show themselves they can include weakness and fatigue, confusion, balance problems as well as bruising and paleness. They can also include shortness of breath, feeling dizzy and a rapid heart rate.

Later stages can result in a tingling in your extremities, called neuropathy, or a red irritated tongue and loss of taste.

If you are experiencing any of these symptoms, or think you might have a Vitamin B-12 deficiency, you can be tested to know for sure. In the meantime, it might be worthwhile to supplement your diet with multivitamins.

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Sleepless cyan RECENT research has shown that the colour cyan - between green and blue - affects our sleep.

Biologists based in the University of Manchester say that higher levels of cyan keep people awake, whilst lower levels induce sleep.

It is hoped that the results will mean that computer screens and phones could increase or decrease the levels of cyan in the screen.

Existing ‘night mode’ settings for phones and laptops are the result of previous research which showed a link between blue light and sleep. However, this research, published in the journal Sleep, shows the particular impact of the colour cyan.

Participants in the research were exposed to more or less cyan in order to measure the different levels of the sleep hormone melatonin.

The researchers suggest that shades of cyan could be used on computer screens to keep people awake, such as those

working on night shifts for example.

Or shades and colours which give the same affect, but don’t actually have cyan, could be used if the aim was to reduce

anything that impedes sleep.

The findings could be particularly useful to help families with teenagers who stay up at night using their mobile phones.

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Following in the wheel ruts of driving over lemons CONSULAR MATTERS IT’S fair to say that the vast majority of my work as a lawyer in the last 30 years has been acting for clients as an independent lawyer for purchases of villas and apartments, and now as Consul I am having many requests about having a property here, but what about buying your dream home in rural Spain?

Sandy beaches, convenient English‐ speaking bars and restaurants aren’t something that a small minority of buyers want here in Spain.

What about those of you who wish for example to emulate Chris Stewart in ‘Driving over Lemons’ in the Alpujar‐ ras and make a go of an off‐grid farm or finca as it is called here in Spain?

Well it’s certainly possible, I increasing‐ ly find myself in a rural Notary office signing for a client, but the legal chal‐ lenges you’ll face could be great.

Sometimes with these rural proper‐

RURAL RETREAT: Make sure your home is all you want it to be.

ties there are questions of whether or not the Cortijo or farmhouse is legal.

Does the catastro match the escritura, if any? Does the seller have all the cor‐ rect paperwork? Do you have the right to take the spring water? Can you get a mortgage? Can you find all the owners

of the property? Who is responsible for the upkeep of the track and many oth‐ er potential problems.

One of the biggest mistakes that po‐ tential buyers make is that they as‐ sume that they can simply build a house or renovate a ruin.

Don’t be put off, the key here is once you have had your offer accepted like any other purchase in Spain is don’t sign or pay anything until you have taken some specialist legal advice from a lawyer that you have chosen yourself. That way you will have a

qualified legal opinion as to what you are getting into. The Spanish Solicitor or Abogado will be able to liaise with the authorities, local town hall, your ar‐ chitect and builders to ensure that you have the necessary licences to ensure that your rural retreat is everything that you want it to be.

So if you’re planning a move to Spain, whether it is for a new place in the sun or you plan to retire to Spain, take some independent advice. As with all my articles this isn’t legal advice and myself and many other lawyers are at your disposal. Of course ask the lawyer for their registration number and check with the Bar Association that they are able to practise.

If you plan to open a business like a holiday rental (Airbnb, Booking etc) then other legal requirements for will have to be met and this is something for a future article.

To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com

Marisa Moreno Castillo Danish Consul, lawyer and owner and founder of Just Law Solicitors in Malaga, Fuengirola and Marbella. www.justlawsolicitors.com • contact@justlawsolicitors.com

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TABARCA: The island viewed from its southernmost tip.

TABARKINAS, an exhibition at Santa Pola’s Museo del Mar by artist and photographer Carma Casula, can be visited until September 15.

The exhibition, whose inauguration coincided with the launch of Casula’s photobook, centres on the Cultura Tabarquina.

These are the communities from present-day Tabarca off the Santa Pola coast as well as the Sardinian islands of San Pietre and Sant’Antioco in Italy, the town of Pegli in Genoa and the island of Tabarka in Tunisia.

The Italian settlers migrated to Tabarka in the 16th century, but religion and financial greed eventually stepped in and in the mid-1700s the islanders were held captive by Barbary pirates, but were later ransomed by Spain’s Carlos III. Concerned about marauders along the Alicante coast, the king sent them to what became New Tabarca, now regarded by its residents and many visitors as simply Tabarca.

Carma Casula’s photographs tell a story of fishermen, kings, corsairs, captivity and rescue

that coincides with the 250th anniversary of the Alicante island’s first arrivals.

The artist, who has a Fine Arts doctorate from Madrid’s Complutense University continued her studies in Milan’s European Institute of Design and the International Centre of Photography in New York.

The Exhibition Room at the Museo del Mar is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 10am-1pm and between 4pm and 7pm. Sundays open from 11am-1.30pm. Closed Mondays.

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PROBABLY the most popular pets are cats, dogs or birds, but finding a family with a pet snail would most likely be quite rare.

Snails are quiet, they don’t take up much space, they don’t need to be taken for a walk, and it does not cost a lot to feed and care for them.

They can be kept in a special clear terrarium made of plastic or glass.

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They have a sharp point and several rough filaments. When they pierce the skin or a natu‐ ral hole, for example the ear, they act like a harpoon, they Spikelets stick to dogs. cannot go back, the filaments open like an umbrella and stick with increasing force at the point where they have been fixed.

In summer, the spikelets dry out and fall off the plant and eas‐ ily adhere to the dog’s hair. They can be inserted into the skin in any area, but one of the places where they are easily inserted is between the fingers, creating fistulas.

The ears are another of the places where they can be intro‐ duced, being more frequent in dogs with long hair and floppy ears. They can cause severe otitis, sometimes perforating the eardrum.

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Follow the snail trail A layer of soil is needed at the bottom of the container, approxi‐ mately 4cm deep, so they can bury themselves in it and it is also where they lay their eggs. Rather than earth from the garden, it is recommended a special terrari‐ um earth is used, which can be bought from local pet stores, as garden soil may contain para‐

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As snails do not like extreme temperatures, keep them pro‐ tected from the cold and the heat. A terracotta pot on its side gives them a good place to hide if there is sun.

These small creatures are hermaphrodites, which means they have male and female re‐ productive organs at the same time. These molluscs are more active at night, when they feed and reproduce. They like to eat most green leaves, vegetables, carrot halves, beetroot, etc.

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€1 coin to check tyres

TYRE CHECK: Manufacturers recommend changing every five years.

WITH the hot summer months almost upon us in Spain, and after a long period where ve‐ hicles have not been used so much ‐ if at all ‐ drivers should take care to check that the tyres on their vehicle are in good working order, before undertaking any journeys.

It should be normal anyway to check the tyres for any defi‐ ciencies or wear and tear, and also to ensure that they meet the minimum legal require‐ ments for driving, both for your own safety, and to avoid any unnecessary fines, be‐ cause in the event of the police stopping you and discovering

that the tread on your vehi‐ cle’s tyres is less than 1.6 mil‐ limetres in depth, the resulting fine is €200 per tyre.

There are easy ways to check your tyres without the need to visit a garage or a me‐ chanic, and the best‐known check for the tyre tread depth is by using a one euro coin (in the UK, normally a 20p coin) into the groove, and if the gold edge of the coin is not visible then the depth of the tread is within the required measure‐ ment.

However, if the gold edge of the coin does not fit into the groove then the depth is too

shallow and the tyre should be changed as soon as possible.

Of course, it is standard practice to always check the condition of your vehicle’s tyres, and even if the tread is intact, a tyre can still lose trac‐ tion as it gets older, and most tyre manufacturers will recom‐ mend you change the tyres a minimum of every five years.

If you look closely at the numbers engraved on the sides of the tyre, they will refer to the week and the date of manufacture, so it is easy for you to calculate how old they are, and whether they might need changing or not.

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ROAD TEST

by Mark Slack IF you have looked at the price of most new cars you’ll have gathered they aren’t cheap, even small hatch‐ backs are not necessarily in the affordable bracket. How‐ ever, value for money can be had from mainstream manu‐ facturers if you are looking for a family car.

Citroen’s new C4 provided an enjoyable week’s motor‐ ing and with prices starting from a smidgen over €24,498 (£21,000) it represents in‐ credibly good value for your motoring money. There are petrol and diesel engines, manual or automatic gears

Does a great job.

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The great value Citroen C4 and even full electric power.

Standard equipment across the board includes 18” wheels, LED lights, Apple Car Play and Android Auto, Bluetooth, height adjustable front seats, automatic dual zone air conditioning, rear parking sensors, auto lights and wipers and heated and powered door mirrors.

My test model was the mid‐table Shine version with prices from a still very rea‐ sonable €28,011 (£24,010), bringing a significant ramp up in the standard equip‐ ment stakes. Petrol power for the range comes from a

1.2‐litre, three‐cylinder tur‐ bocharged unit in two power outputs, 129hp and 153hp.

In my case the 129hp engine mated to a six‐speed manual gearbox.

The first thing that strikes you about the Citroen is re‐ finement, even under hard acceleration, when three‐ cylinders generally sound like an over excited lawn‐ mower, the Citroen is re‐ markably quiet.

It has a feeling of quality, not something that has al‐ ways been a hallmark of Cit‐ roen’s past.

A nice slick gear change and well‐chosen ratios means the C4 bowls along with little extra effort re‐ quired from the driver, and it’s a comfortable place to be seated.

It’s no hot hatch and you certainly won’t want to be hus‐ tling it along twisty roads, even though the famously comfortable

Citroen suspension produces less body roll than you might imagine.

It’s a very modern looking car with swooping lines, es‐ pecially to the rear, but ac‐ cess and egress remains comfortable and most who

saw my test car loved the looks. This is a car aimed at the family in my view, and it does a great job of providing practical, well ‐equipped transport at an affordable price.

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er Peugeot the quality has come on in leaps and bounds over the last few years, yet you do get a distinctly differ‐ ent car to any Peugeot sta‐ blemates.

I loved the C4, it has dis‐ tinct echoes of Citroen’s quirky past but in a very use‐ able, modern form in a great value package.

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Huge shock as favourites beaten WORLD champions France stepped into the knockout ed a penalty to Switzerland! spotlight on Monday June 28, in the National Arena in Rodriguez’ penalty kick was easily saved by Lloris, and Bucharest, up against geographical neighbours France were reborn, pushing forward, until inevitably, Switzerland, who qualified for the last 16 despite fin‐ on 57 minutes, it was Real Madrid striker Karim Benze‐ ishing third in Group A. ma, picking up Mbappe’s through ball, and placing it France coach Didier Deschamps was hoping his play‐ past Sommer for 1‐1. ers could avoid a shock defeat against the Swiss, never Unbelievably, only 90 seconds later it was 2‐1 to having lost against them in any major tournament, with France, as Mbappe teed up Griezmann, whose flick a quarter‐final game against Spain ‐ who earlier beat went straight to the head of Benzema who couldn’t fail Croatia 5‐3 after extra‐time ‐ on offer to the winner of to miss from a yard out. this match.

Then on 75 minutes we witnessed a piece of With only three minutes on the clock, sublime Paul Pogba magic, as he Varane put a header just curled a shot into the net from out‐ over the bar, as France side the box, into the top corner of pressed early doors, but Jan Sommer’s net, 3‐1 France, and it then came a huge moment looked like game over, but, as with on 16 minutes, as Steven Croatia against Spain, the Swiss Zuber lofted into the penal‐ didn’t give in, as Seferovic got his ty area, for Benfica’s Haris Se‐ second of the game, heading ferovic to outjump Lenglet and home a cross from Mababu. head the ball past Tottenham’s On 90 minutes, Xhaka sent an in‐ Hugo Lloris for a 1‐0 lead to the credible pass to the feet of Gavra‐ Swiss. novic who powered the ball into the bottom cor‐ The second produced another ner past Lloris, and it was extra time. amazing moment in the 52nd Extra time could not produce a goal and so it minute as Zuber fell at the edge was the first penalty shootout of Euro 2020, of the French box, only for play and with the score at 5‐4 to Switzerland, up to move to the other end, with stepped Kylian Mbappe, only for his tame Mbappe having a penalty penalty to be palmed away by Jan Som‐ shout, when suddenly the ref mer, and it’s a huge shock at Euro 2020, MBAPPE: His tame halted the game, went to con‐ with the Swiss going through to play penalty failed. sult the pitchside TV, and award‐ Spain in the quarter‐finals.

Spain find scoring magic FORMER Euro champions Spain were in action on Monday June 28 in their first match of the knockout phase of Euro 2020, up against a strong Croatia who were beaten World Cup fi‐ nalists three years ago.

Luis Enrique’s men strug‐ gled in the group matches, but suddenly came alive in the final match where they ran out 5‐0 winners over Slo‐ vakia.

In one of the most bizarre own goals ever, a harmless soft back‐pass from the halfway line from Pedri to keeper Unai Simon went in as it skidded off the keeper’s boot.

Spain’s pressure paid off in the 38th minute as Li‐ vakovic managed to parry a shot from Gaya, but it fell to PSG’s Pablo Sarabia to fire in his second goal of the tour‐ nament from the edge of the box.

Spain went 2‐1 ahead when Chelsea’s Azpilicueta

MORATA: Was the hero of the 100th minute. fed Pedri, who in turn passed to Ferran Torres, whose pinpoint pass fell for Azpilicueta to bury on 57 minutes.

It looked like game over after 76 minutes when a pass picked out Manchester City striker, Ferran Torres, who calmly rounded the keeper.

With five minutes remain‐ ing, Croatia responded as

Orsic put the ball across for 3‐2. Incredibly, in the 90th minute, Orsic sent a pinpoint pass for Pasalic to head home to secure extra time.

Morata became the hero after 100 minutes as he took down Olmo’s cross at the back post and smashed a shot past Livakovic for 4‐ 3. On 103 minutes, Oyarza‐ bal slotted the ball home for 5‐3.