Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 9 - 15 September 2021 Issue 1888

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Nearly there EIGHTY PER CENT of the Valencia Community’s over-12s are now fully vaccinated against Covid.

Meanwhile, the region’s 133 large-scale vaccination centres no longer require a prior appointment, announced Ana Barcelo, the Generalitat’s Health department head. “The immunisation process will be available to the public until the end of September,” Barcelo said.

These centres will then close, but those who have not yet been vaccinated can do so at their local primary care centre.

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On track MORE than 12,000 passengers have now used the AVE high speed train between Elche and Madrid.

Mayor Carlos Gonzalez pointed out that the train only began to operate last February when the pandemic was at its height. “These are positive figures,” he said. Gonzalez added that it was necessary to “give more visibility” to the station especially in regions with strong links to the Vega Baja and Vinalopo areas, like Madrid and Albacete.

Palmeral plan ORIHUELA’S palm trees are now covered by a local by-law. This provides a legal framework for the Palmeral forest’s upkeep, conservation and promotion, explained Environment councillor Damaso Aparicio. Although specifically aimed at the Palmeral, the same regulations also apply to all palm trees located in Orihuela.

“It is essential to safeguard palms everywhere in the city,” Aparicio said.

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Good communications bring prosperity REGIONAL president Ximo Puig called on the national government to improve the Valencian Community’s communications and railways.

Puig was speaking during Transport minister Raquel Sanchez’s visit to Elche where she presented Madrid’s plans for helping municipalities to introduce low-emission zones, computerisation and sustainable urban transport.

“Assisting sustainable mobility will help to fast-track essential infrastructure projects to make the Valencian Community one of Europe’s most prosperous regions,” Puig declared.

The Generalitat president went on to refer specifically to the Mediterranean Corridor linking the Iberian Peninsula with the Hungarian-Ukrainian border.

“This project, historically requested by Valencians, would link cities while improving passenger and freight connections with Europe,” Puig said.

“It would put the Community

at the forefront of Europe,” the regional president added, before commenting on the equally vital need for a rail link with Alicante airport and improvements to the local train network.

Raquel Sanchez stressed during her Elche visit the national government’s intention of speeding up the procedures necessary for an airport rail connection and prioritising improvements to the service provided by local trains.

Earlier, she and Puig had a private meeting that was afterwards described as “cordial and fruitful.”

The Generalitat president assured Sanchez that the regional government’s Cabinet, the Consell, would “row in the same direction” with the region’s municipalities to make the Community one of the most prosperous in Europe.

Sanchez and Puig have now agreed to meet again next month for an in-depth analysis of important infrastructure operations that are the responsibility of the Ministry.

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Go-ahead for Cala Mosca ORIHUELA councillors from the Partido Popular and Ciudadanos parties have voted in favour of constructing 2,274 properties at Cala Mosca.

Both parties argued that the 1990 Town Plan (PGOU) classified the land for building, which was later approved by the Plan Parcial development in 1995.

Plans to build on the last unbuilt tract of land along the Orihuela coast was an “aberration” and an “act of urban violence” according to the PSOE and Cambiemos parties which voted against a project.

Cambiemos spokesman Carlos Bernabe said the development would deplete the coast’s water supply, threaten the area’s wildlife and vegetation and seriously affect traffic.

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CALA MOSCA: Orihuela Costa’s last remaining tract of unbuilt land. fect on the N-332.

“This road is already congested at several times of the year, especially in the months of July and August, causing delays, traffic jams and frustration,” he said.

Houliston pointed out that the Ministry of Transport has already stated that the Cala

Mosca building project would mean an additional 2,000 vehicles.

“It has only one direct exit to the N332 and the Ministry has said it will take all legal measures at its disposal to reverse the decision of Orihuela’s municipal government,” the CLARO councillor said.

Mental health awareness DARKNESS INTO LIGHT COSTA BLANCA and Fundacion ADIEM have outlined their Mental Health Awareness Campaigns in Costa Blanca on World Suicide Awareness Day, which takes place on Friday September 10. To mark

this date, Darkness Into Light Costa Blanca and local Charity Fundacion ADIEM met with officials within Costa Blanca, to outline plans for the joint collaboration on Mental Health awareness.

Both teams will be working together on initiatives including the provision of local support for those in need, as well as creating awareness campaigns on Mental Health within the community.

ADIEM will be providing a support line for those (particularly young adults) who may be in distress and in need of support.

Darkness Into Light was founded in Costa Blanca in

2018 by Fionnula Fitzsimons and Beverley Duffin, with the objective to support those with Mental Health issues or suicide ideation. The team partnered with local charity ADIEM, who share in the same belief that issues of Mental Health and Suicide prevention need to be addressed locally.

Campaigns will also focus around World Mental Health

week in October and other campaigns leading up to the end of the year. If restrictions are lifted, the Darkness Into Light team will recommence their Global Darkness Into Light walk in May 2022.

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€1.9m renovations ALICANTE City Council have put out for tender the renovation pro‐ ject on the ‘Joaquin Villar’ munici‐ pal athletic stadium. In total the

project will come in at around €1.9 million and this will include €600,000 which have already been allocated for the improve‐ ment in energy efficiency of the lighting in the area.

Together the projects will be de‐ veloped by the municipal depart‐ ment of Infrastructures, in coordi‐ nation with Sports, led by councillors Jose Ramon Gonzalez and Jose Luis Berenguer.

According to the council, during the project “the renovation of the eight‐lane athletics track and its equipment will be tackled, an artifi‐ cial grass training corridor will be created, the concrete paving of the north, south and east perimeters will be consolidated, a bio‐health circuit will be installed in the south garden and the kiosk in the north garden, an access ramp will be built from the changing rooms, the toi‐ lets will be renovated, a kiosk‐bar will be built and an outdoor sports circuit will be created, in addition to completing the fencing of the stadi‐ um at its north and south ends.”

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www.euroweeklynews.com AS predicted, regional president Ximo Puig announced that cur‐ fews are to be lifted in all Valen‐ cian Community municipalities.

Nightlife venues and discos may now open until 3am with last orders at 2.30am. Capaci‐ ty is limited to 50 per cent, al‐ though the ban re‐

NIBS EXTRA Taking root TWO types of protected juniper planted in Torrevieja’s Molina del Agua park last winter have survived the hot summer months. The South-East Naturalist Association (ANSE) explained that the 250 saplings are watered by drip irrigation, which will be removed once the trees are perfectly established in some years’ time.

Be prepared THE start of the school year usually costs the parents of state school pupils around €200. But this year, as well as buying writing and other materials, some families are also adding the cost of tablets or laptops in case there is a return to online cases.

No charge THE high court of Alicante acquitted a 37-year-old man remanded for two years for supposedly raping a woman in Santa Pola. The alleged victim’s account was neither coherent nor reasonable, the tribunal said, prompting the judges to find in favour of the accused despite their possible doubts.

Rich pickings A TOTAL of 23,291 residents whose bank balances topped €600,000 after debts were deducted paid the Valencian Community’s Wealth Tax in 2019, Spain’s Tax Authority revealed.

All had fortunes averaging €3 million, putting the region in second place after Catalonia and in front of Madrid in third place.

Music makers MIGUEL HERNANDEZ UNIVERSITY’S Joven Orquesta is auditioning musicians on September 18 for places in the orchestra during the 2021-2022 academic year, although applications should be received by September 13. The tryouts are open to UMH students and over-14s from Conservatoires or those who have finished their music studies

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At last! mains on dancing as well as drinking at the bar.

Social gatherings are no longer restrict‐ ed to 10 people and there can now be eight to a table inside restaurants, bars and cafes, al‐

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CURFEW LIFTED: Regional president Ximo Puig announced the latest measures.

According to plan TORREVIEJA Town Hall insisted that modernising the Palacio de los Deportes sports centre will be finished on schedule.

Mayor Eduardo Dolon maintained that the renovations would be ready for the Women’s Handball World Championships in Decem‐ ber.

Both he and Victor Costa Mazon, director general of the munici‐ pality’s Public Works and Projects, declared that the work would be finished without going over the town hall’s €5.5 million budget allo‐ cation.

Clerk of Works Carlos Brugaras admitted that they were faced with a “heroic” deadline for a very ambition project that the building contractors would need to carry out in record time.

Brugaras also pointed out that the sports centre had borne the brunt of “enormous” daily use throughout the 20 years of its exis‐ tence.

Dolon added that once finished, the comprehensive repairs would turn the Palacio de los Deportes into an “exemplary” sports centre capable of attracting national and international competitions of the highest level.

Seaweed removal project SANTA POLA Town Hall intends to move the mountain of dry seaweed that it stores at the un‐ used Vatasa shipyard.

The Environment depart‐ ment revealed that the town hall has been making plans to transfer the seaweed for the last 18 months, a project that needs the approval of coastal authority Costas.

It will also need further per‐ mission from Costas to reorgan‐ ise the present site once the seaweed has been removed.

Your vote matters IN the 2019 local elections, just over 2,000 of Orihuela Costa’s 7,000 non‐Spanish electorate voted. “Instead of returning a third of Orihuela’s city councillors, we got what we deserved: noth‐ ing,” said Peter Houghton from the Partido Independencia Ori‐ huela Costa.

“This lack of appropriate rep‐ resentation has resulted in bla‐ tant discrimination for Orihuela Costa, with the poorest level of services inside Orihuela.” Peter pointed out that Orihuela Costa

has a population of more than 33,000 and is growing by approxi‐ mately 700 residents a year.

“In roughly 10 years’ time Ori‐ huela Costa could be as big as the rest of Orihuela put together,” he said. “Until we get representa‐ tives from the coast at the council table, the coastal population will be denied essential services.”

Peter explained that Spain op‐ erates a system of proportional representation. “In order to re‐ turn a councillor, a certain per‐ centage of the votes must be cast

but in the last election, Orihuela Costa only returned one council‐ lor!” Peter lamented.

“As the main political parties have no presence on Orihuela Costa, is it any wonder there was nobody from the coast amongst their candidates?

“By the 2027 elections Ori‐ huela Costa’s population could form their own council, decide who is mayor, deputy mayor and supply all the councillors,” Peter said. “But,” he warned, “only if residents come out and vote.”

Don’t go TORREVIEJA HOSPITAL returns to the public sector on October 15 when Ribera Salud’s 15-year contract comes to an end. Huge billboards have appeared at the principal access roads to the municipality, declaring “No to the reversion” followed by the equivalent of “If it isn’t broken, don’t fix it.”

APPROXIMATELY a quarter of the official complaints re‐ ceived by Elche police arise from internet crimes. Online fraud is increasingly common, said police sources, who added that some offences were often hard to resolve when the amounts involved were small or if the swindlers were located outside the country.

According to a 2019 Ministry of the Interior report

though there is no change to the 10 allowed on outside terraces.

Timetables for the hospitality sector remain the same, with last orders at midnight before closing at 12.30am.

A maximum of 1,500 people may attend indoor events and 3,000 in the exterior.

Capacity for sporting events has been increased to 60 per cent in the open air, up to a maximum of 20,000 spectators.

This drops to 40 per cent, with a 4,000 maximum indoors.

These measures will remain in place until September 27 when further restrictions are expected to be eased or lifted.

on internet crime inside Spain, the Valencian Com‐ munity was a favourite tar‐ get of cyber‐criminals after Catalonia, Madrid and Andalucia. The same survey found that 52.3 per cent of their victims were males aged between 26 and 40 who were frequently taken in by online fraud and phishing but were also suscep‐ tible to threats, coercion and computer hacking.

Easily fooled

Once the necessary permits have been obtained, the town hall hopes to transfer the sea‐ weed to an empty water de‐ posit, which is municipal prop‐ erty and adjoins the waste treatment plant.

Santa Pola’s Beaches de‐ partment has meanwhile asked the regional govern‐ ment to provide guidelines for reusing the Posidonia Oceani‐ ca that washes up on the town’s beaches.

In 2019 the town hall had to remove around nine tons of seaweed from the shore, al‐ though in other years this can increase to around 36 tons, de‐ pending on sea conditions, municipal sources said.

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Almost an average summer A TOTAL of 6,006 people visited Torrevieja’s Tourist Information office in July and August.

They made 7,427 en‐ quiries, the town hall’s Tourism councillor Rosario Martinez revealed, with 45.78 per cent coming from national tourists, and 52.28 per cent made by visitors from outside Spain.

“This is the first time since the onset of the pan‐ demic that foreign tourists have outnumbered the Spanish visitors calling in at the office, Martinez said.

The majority were from France and Belgium, the councillor stated. Regard‐ less of nationality, more than half of the visitors asked for information about Torrevieja’s two salt lakes.

This was followed in pop‐ ularity by the the Submari‐ no S‐61 Delfín ‐ a genuine submarine ceded by Spain’s Navy that is now a floating museum ‐ and Tabarca Is‐ land. The councillor also an‐ nounced that hotel occu‐ pancy reached 74 per cent in July and 81 per cent in August. Averaging 78 per cent throughout the high season, this was practically the same as pre‐pandemic occupancy in the summer of 2019.

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Back to basics. Climate change means that some Vega Baja growers could turn to crops that tolerate high tem‐ peratures and need little irrigation.

Carob pods, figs and pomegranates are traditional to the area, as is citrus fruit, but all have been eclipsed by artichokes and other green vegetables needing large amounts of water.

These trees do need additional water, but in most cas‐ es it can be supplied where and when needed by drip ir‐ rigation systems controlled by sensors, explained Julian Bartual, director of the Generalitat’s Agricultural Experi‐ ment Station in Elche.

The centre is currently working on the necessary tech‐ nology and training for a shift to alternative crops.

“Paradoxically, this inevitably involves irrigation if the aim is to make a profit,” Bartual said.

“But rational consumption, with irrigation used as backup, would cut the the amount of water needed by two‐thirds,” he added.

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The Moors and Christians demand THE National Union of Festive Entities (UNDEF) has demanded that Moors and Christians festivities in the Valencian Community are allowed to resume after celebrations for Fallas were allowed to take place.

They have demanded the health au‐ thorities give them a “coherent” explana‐ tion surrounding why they allowed the Fallas event to go ahead, but have banned other celebrations such as the Moors and Christians festivities.

The have said that as soon as the Fallas celebrations are over it is “imperatively necessary to talk now and without delay about the Moors and Christians festival.”

The organisation has questioned:

“What difference is there between a Fal‐ las parade and an entrance of Moors and Christians with all the measures of anti‐ Covid security; what difference is there between the offering to the Mare de Deu and the offering to the patron of each town?”

The union added that: “The fallas had to be burnt to renovate the monuments which had been stored in the attic of the Feria de Muestras for more than a year and a half, and to start the fallas industry up and running again. But what about the industry and craftsmanship of the Moors and Christians festival, whose machinery is rusty? Now it is time to grease the gears and get it up and running, without delay.”

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More pay for low paid UK workers THE Euro Weekly News asked readers whether they thought that UK workers’ salaries should be raised and a majority said they should.

In total, 85.7 per cent of readers said they think that low paid UK workers should have their salaries raised, while only 7.1 per cent said that salaries were already good in the UK compared to other countries.

One respondent said that all wages, for both the low paid and the well paid, should be raised to in‐

Airbnb anti-party system AIRBNB have launched a war on illegal parties and have created an anti‐party system that is keeping the peace in Spain and other countries too.

Airbnb are aware that both tourists and locals do not want outrageous parties being held and the plat‐ form has received many complaints about parties, but in August 2020 they began a new system for detecting people who plan to have unauthorised parties.

The system is working in Spain and so far they have blocked around 50,000 people from booking with them. The numbers in Europe are even higher and around 375,000 requests for accommodation have ei‐ ther been redirected or denied.

According to Airbnb the anti‐party system came about “to prevent irresponsible behaviour and reduce unauthorised parties in accommodation in some countries in Europe.”

They have successfully implemented the system in the United States and Canada too.

LUIS BARCALA, the mayor of Alicante has announced that the city is set to apply for more than €15 million in European funding.

If the funding is granted it will be

UK WORKERS: Earn less now than in 2010. crease the amount of money the government could take in taxes to cover the costs of climate change.

It recently emerged that UK workers received on average £1,000 (€1,165) less now than in 2010.

Figures released by the government showed that wages had not risen in line with inflation, costing workers an average of around £1,000 a year.

Correos helping rural areas NEW technology for Correos will help rural ar‐ eas across Spain as they put into operation around 22,000 new portable mobility devices (PDAs).

The PDAs are said to come with a pioneering technological improvement that will mean a world of difference to rural posties and their customers. Customers will be able to pay for services using a bank card via the portable de‐ vice. Over 3,000 new devices have been deliv‐ ered to its staff which will greatly improve the services that are currently offered by Correos.

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used for the Low Emissions Plan for the city of Alicante and the

pedestrianisation of the traditional city centre.

Barcala said: “The Department of European Projects of the City Council is coordinating the design of the Low Emissions Plan on which the areas of Traffic, Urban Planning, Infrastructure, Transport and Environment are working.”

The Alicante Council have multiple projects in the pipeline and Barcala said that “the City Council’s aspiration to obtain European funds for recovery does not end with the Low Emissions Plan, but will also opt for other projects included in the Tourism Sustainability Plan on which we are also working with the Municipal Tourism Board or the projects associated with the Integrated Urban Regeneration Programme in Vulnerable Neighbourhoods, all included in the Alicante 2030 Urban Agenda.”

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House prices rise THE average house price in Spain closed in August with a rise of 3.3 per cent compared to March 2020, the month in which the pandemic broke out and the health crisis be‐ gan, according to reports.

Compared to August of last year, the rise in prices was 5.2 per cent, and 0.2 per cent in August compared to July.

The report highlights the fact that house prices have re‐ covered strongly after the falls they suffered in the sec‐ ond half of last year, ex‐ plained Andrea de la Hoz, se‐ nior analyst at Tinsa’s Research Service. According to the appraiser, the housing market is currently living “in a scenario of a sustained in‐ crease in prices, growing de‐ mand and limited supply,” which has caused “high inter‐ annual variation rates” in prices and “an upward trend that is consolidated without setbacks month by month for the different geographic ar‐ eas.”

EWN readers back Piers Morgan GMB comeback

AN overwhelming majority of Euro Weekly News readers have said they would like to see Piers Morgan back on Good Morning Britain after he was cleared by Ofcom over his criticism of Meghan Markle.

Readers told the Euro Weekly News they wanted to see Mor‐ gan back, with many complaining that Good Morning Britain was less interesting without him.

One reader, Jill Swain, said: “Yes, GMB is boring without him.”

However, others argued that he should not come back to the show following his confrontational interviewing style.

Many said that Piers Morgan had not allowed guests he in‐ terviewed to speak as much as him, while others said he was too opinionated on the show.

Morgan had previously left his job on the programme after he criticised Meghan Markle following her interview with Oprah.

The star later won his Ofcom case following thousands of complaints by viewers over his criticism of the royal.

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Spain donates. The Ministry of the Interior has spent around €100,000 on two purchases of equipment which will be donated to Mauritania with the aim to fight ‘against terrorism, drug traf‐ ficking and any other form of cross‐border crime that is a threat to internal and international security.’

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New website for EU

CEN (European Committee for Standardisation) and CENELEC (European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardisation) have a brand new website.

The two European standardisation organisations said they are “happy to provide all stakeholders interested in European standardisation with an improved digital presence faster, more dynamic and user friendly.”

Elena Santiago Cid, CEN and CENELEC’s Director General, said, “The new website

testifies to our ongoing commitment to making our work accessible, transparent and open to the future. We will be constantly updating the content to enhance the digital presence of CEN and CENELEC and increase our online interaction with our stakeholders and experts.

I sincerely hope that you

STANDARDISATION: An improved digital presence and more user friendly.

THE 2021-2022 academic year begins in the next few days for more than eight million students from all over Spain, but is causing a great deal of uncertainty and anxiousness among parents and children alike.

While teachers strive to make up for lost time, communities around Spain will re-apply the bulk of prevention measures that were put in place last year, although more spaces for relaxation to alleviate organisational difficulties will be opened up.

This is turning out to be a worry for many

Back to school parents due to the rise in younger people of coronavirus - the vaccination campaign has only just targeted 12-year-olds who will undoubtedly be mixing with younger children in break times and play areas.

For example, lower restrictions this year

enjoy the new website and all that it has to offer.”

Among the relevant features of the website, CEN and CENELEC have worked on centralising and providing targeted information to stakeholders and the general public on sectors, news, and events. Furthermore, a dedicated expert area has been introduced, providing a central access to all CEN and CENELEC support tools and applications.

The renewal of CEN and CENELEC’s online presence is part of a wider effort that looks at the evolution and adaptation the European Standardisation System to make it fit for the future. As part of this reflection, CEN and CENELEC recently approved their Strategy 2030, a joint framework that will guide their activities in the next 10 years.

mean an increase in the maximum limit of students allowed in bubble groups, both in kindergarten and primary school, and the minimum distance between tables in secondary school is reduced from 1.5 to 1.2 metres. Each community decides its school calendar, based on its own criteria, needs, contexts and traditions. This year, unlike last year in which the health crisis forced the return to classrooms of the different courses and stages to be staggered much more, it returns to a more classic scenario.

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Tourism in the Pyrenees ACCORDING to reports, the influx of tourists this summer in the Pyrenees has been higher than the most optimistic forecasts that had been predicted, where, in some regions, such as Val d’Aran, or Alta Ribagorça, the data for 2019 (before the pandemic), which were already a record, have been exceeded.

As related by Sergi, who owns the Baliera campsite, just a step away from the border with Catalonia, in the Ribagorza of Huesca, “We can already say that this summer has been one of the best in our entire history,” and the same results have been reported from hotels in the Pyrenean region, who have apparently had to hang

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the ‘no vacancies’ signs up some days.

It is thanks to the national travellers that this situation has arisen, most of whom are known to have chosen this type of destination this summer where sanitary security measures are more guaranteed.

Record numbers have also passed through the doors of the set of Romanesque churches of the Vall de Boi, a treasure declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO, with reports that a record of more than 62,000 people have passed through these churches between July and August, beating the 55,295 from 2019, and 53,545 in 2018, long before coronavirus.

The number of years Spain was under Islamic rule between 711 and 1492 AD.

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New QR scam

THE National Police are warning the public about a new type of fraud that cybercriminals are now committing using QR codes, and in a statement is‐ sued, they want the entire pop‐ ulation to be aware of the pro‐ tection measures that can be taken, as they explain, since the pandemic, “citizens have changed their habits, and its consequences are having an im‐ pact not only on the daily life of the population, but also on dif‐ ferent activities that they carry out through the use of technolo‐ gies.”

They have pointed out that when people go out anywhere, it is becoming more common to

have to check prices ‐ gyms, restaurants, cinemas, shops, plat‐ forms ‐ by scanning the QR code provided, created with the aim of enabling their content to be read at high speed, but, according to the National Police, this type of code "”has been exploited by computer scammers to use them in a criminal way, and obtain per‐ sonal and / or banking data of the victims.”

To avoid being victims of this type of crime, the police cyber‐ crime specialists point out that it is very important “not to click on unknown links, links received via emails or SMS, and be very care‐ ful when scanning an unknown QR code,” while recommending

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Monkey business. Scientiests have been researching different ani‐ mals and found that chimpanzees and bonobos have good man‐ ners when meeting others. A new study published in iScience found that the animals, “frequently exchanged mutual gaze and communicative signals prior to and after engaging in joint activi‐ ties.”

“to avoid falling for the hook of harmful codes” to configure the ‘app’ that scans them “so that it does not automatically redirect to the page or content they point to, or to install a reader ‘app’ that allows a preview of the link.”

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Sarah Harding dies of cancer FORMER Girls Aloud star Sarah Harding has sadly passed away from breast cancer aged just 39. Sarah was diagnosed last August with advanced breast cancer and had undergone treatments included a mastec‐ tomy and chemotherapy, but her mum Marie confirmed on Insta‐ gram on Sunday September 5, that Sarah had sadly passed away, She said: “It’s with deep heartbreak that today I’m shar‐ ing the news that my beautiful

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daughter Sarah has sadly passed away.

“Many of you will know of Sarah’s battle with cancer and that she fought so strongly from her diagnosis until her last

day.” She slipped away peace‐ fully this morning. I’d like to thank everyone for their kind support over the past year. It meant the world to Sarah and it gave her great strength and comfort to know she was loved.

“I know she won’t want to be remembered for her fight against this terrible disease ‐ she was a bright shining star and I hope that’s how she can be remembered instead ‐ Marie x.”

Immediate increase in minimum wage PRESIDENT Pedro Sanchez has said that his govern‐ ment wants an “immediate” increase in the mini‐ mum wage this year for workers as the economy is growing and the cost of living is increasing.

“There won’t be an economic recovery if it isn’t a fair recovery, if it doesn’t reach all levels of society,” the president said at a conference in Madrid on Wednes‐ day, September 1.

The minimum wage in Spain is currently €950 a month.

Last year, Spain suffered the biggest dip in its econo‐ my in the euro zone and is now set to be one of the re‐ cipients of the most European Union recovery funds.

This money will assist the country in closing some economic gaps that have been longstanding between wealthier countries in the north.

The government expects that the unemployment rate will be 15.2 per cent by the end of 2021, according to Economy Minister Nadia Calvino, who made the claim on July 27.

An economic growth of 7 per cent has been predict‐ ed for 2022, in comparison to a 6.5 per cent growth this year.

Sanchez also reaffirmed that his government will continue acting within EU rules to address high energy prices.

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Translators’ contest begins SECONDARY schools in all EU countries can now start enrolling for Juvenes Translatores, the European Commission’s annual translation contest.

Schools can register online for their students to compete with peers around the EU. This year, the topic of the texts that young

students are asked to translate is ‘Let’s get on track - towards a greener future.’

Johannes Hahn, Commissioner for Budget and Administration, said, “The aim of the contest is to inspire young people to get interested in a career as translators and, in general, to promote language learning. The topic is in line with one of the EU’s most important political priorities, the European Green Deal, which is of particular interest to young people.

“In addition to tackling this interesting subject, the aim of the competition is to bring together young people from different countries with a love for languages, to encourage them and help them overcome barriers between people and cultures. The ability to communicate with and understand one another, regardless of differences, is essential for the EU to flourish,” he added on September 2 Participants can translate between any two of the EU’s 24 official languages, that is 552 possible language combinations. In last year’s contest, students used 150 different combinations.

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Pesticide obesity crisis

A COMMONLY-USED pesti‐ cide could be partially respon‐ sible for the global obesity epi‐ demic.

Researchers discovered that chlorpyrifos, which is banned from use on foods in Europe but widely sprayed on fruits and vegetables in many other parts of the world, slows down the burning of calories in the brown adipose tissue of mice.

Reducing this burning of calo‐ ries, a process known as diet‐ induced thermogenesis, causes the body to store these extra

Widely sprayed on produce. calories, promoting obesity.

Scientists made the discov‐ ery after studying 34 common‐

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The ranking of Spanish among the most spoken languages across the globe.

4.4 million international tourists visited Spain in July SPAIN welcomed 4.4 million international tourists in July, 78.3 per cent more than in the same month of 2020, while spending reached €5,231 million, according to the Statistics on Tourist Movements on the Bor‐ der and the Tourist Expenditure Survey pre‐ pared by the National Institute of Statistics.

In July the average expenditure per tourist stood at €1,190, 19.3 per cent more than a year ago and the average duration of a holi‐ day in Spain was 8.3 days “This data reflects the gradual recovery of

international tourism and shows that Spain has managed to be perceived as a safe desti‐ nation by millions of travellers. The confi‐ dence of international tourists in our country is due to the effective progress of the vacci‐ nation process, which places us at the head of world powers, together with the leader‐ ship shown by the Spanish tourism sector in the development and deployment of strict security protocol,” said the minister for In‐ dustry, Commerce and Tourism, Reyes Maro‐ to.

fos in mice fed high calorie di‐ ets.

“Brown fat is the metabolic furnace in our body, burning calories, unlike normal fat that is used to store them. This gen‐ erates heat and prevents calo‐ ries from being deposited on our bodies as normal white fat.

We know brown fat is activat‐ ed during cold and when we eat,” said senior author Grego‐ ry Steinberg, professor of medicine and co‐director of the Centre for Metabolism, Obesity, and Diabetes Re‐ search at McMaster.

“Lifestyle changes around di‐ et and exercise rarely lead to sustained weight loss. We think part of the problem may be this intrinsic dialling back of the metabolic furnace by chlor‐ pyrifos.”

Steinberg said chlorpyrifos would only need to inhibit en‐ ergy use in brown fat by 40 calories every day to trigger obesity in adults, which would translate to an extra five pounds of weight gain per year.

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Planas praises food distribution Scots need Covid passport THE Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Luis Planas, has praised the food distribution model that makes up the Mercas Network in Spain, an example that is replicated in other countries.

Mercamadrid, the largest

platform for the distribution, marketing, transformation and logistics of fresh food in Spain, is the largest European market for perishable food.

Mercamadrid is one of the 24 food units that make up Mercasa’s Mercas Network , a public company whose

shareholders are SEPI (State Industrial Participation Society) and the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food.

According to Minister Planas, wholesale markets were vital in ensuring the supply of food to the population in the toughest moments of the pandemic.

Created in 1982, Mercamadrid concentrates one of the widest and most diverse offers of fresh food, with products from more than 40 countries, to supply a demand that exceeds the area of Madrid, reaching more than 12 million consumers and a radius of influence of 500 kilometres.

The Mercas Network supports more than 3,300 wholesalers of fresh food and complementary services and more than 100,000 businesses. Together, they employ more than 30,000 workers, and annually channel more than eight million tons of fruits, vegetables, fish, seafood and meats, with a value of around €16,000 million.

N I CO L A S T U R G EO N an‐ nounced on September 1, that vaccine passports will be needed for entry into night‐ clubs and large events in Scotland.

The first minister said that the “limited use of vaccine certification” could help to curb the spread of Covid in autumn and winter.

Sturgeon said numbers of new infections are currently 80 per cent higher than the previous week and five times higher than four weeks ago, describing these figures as “extremely concerning.”

The situation has also been made “fragile and serious” by the rising hospital admis‐ sions, according to Sturgeon.

If the new rules are ap‐ proved by parliament in the coming week, they will affect live events with more than 500 people unseated, out‐ door live events with over 4,000 people unseated and outdoor events with more than 10,000 people.

Sturgeon said that al‐ though these events “matter

to our economy, and to our cultural and social life,” they are “not essential services” and bring “many people to‐ gether in relatively small ar‐ eas.”

“By ensuring that people

entering these settings are fully vaccinated, we would be taking a proportionate step to help make these settings safer for everyone attending and, by extension, for all of us,” she said.

Businesses at odds BUSINESSES in Spain say increasing the minimum wage will hinder job creation and slow the economic growth.

The minimum wage is currently €950 per month, even a symbolic rise of €25 extra per month could harm busi‐ nesses as they attempt to recover from the impact of the Covid‐19 pandemic, business representatives reported.

In May, the Advisory Commission for the Analysis of the Minimum Wage suggested a 10 per cent hike to the mini‐ mum wage. If approved, the increase could see the mini‐ mum wage in Spain rise to €1,045 per month.

The Bank of Spain said the last minimum wage hike may have backfired and cost the country 180,000 jobs, an argument now being used against another raise.

Labour Minister Yolanda Diaz however has dismissed linking the two as an “enormous mistake” and “pure ide‐ ology”.

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Spain on alert from Hurricane HURRICANE LARRY is expected to mainly hit the United States, Canada and the West Indies, but the effects of Hurricane Larry will also be felt across Europe according to experts. It is expected that Spain will begin to feel the effects from Sunday September 12, and will see lower temperatures, DANAs and instability.

The effects are not expected to be anything like the weather seen recently when Spain saw floods in many areas after the last DANA hit.

Hurricane Larry is expected to be a category three Hurricane that will turn into a tropical storm. It is expected that it will bring winds hitting up to 285 kilometres per hour. Luckily though the Hurricane itself is not set to land in Spain, but the country will still feel the knock-on effects.

Although Larry will not directly affect Spain, the hurricane is intensifying and next week, it will transform into a deep squall in the middle of the North Atlantic that will affect the Iberian Peninsula.

From here on, the effects will depend on where this squall is lo-

cated.It is expected that the weekend will begin with temperatures rising due to a tropical air

mass, before a new DANA hits the west of the peninsula bringing with it rain and cloudiness.

Penalty for keeping cash MOST people would consider it a stroke of luck if they were walk‐ ing down the street and found some money on the ground, how‐ ever by law you cannot keep the money and could be fined ‐ or even worse, imprisoned ‐ for keeping it!

Article 253 of the Spanish Penal Code states it is punishable. If the amount of what is appropriate does not exceed €400, a fine of one to three months will be imposed,” the article says. On the other hand, and shockingly, the penalty may be extended up to two years in prison.

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Bungling Bank Robber. Alan Slattery fled empty‐handed from the Nationwide Building Society branch in Eastbourne after tellers struggled to read his threatening note.

Slattery, 67, and a retiree left the bank with no cash earlier this year after employees struggled to read his message demanding they hand over cash, revealed Sussex Police.

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www.euroweeklynews.com SOME 107 people were ar‐ rested during an action day on July 13 which involved law enforcement authorities in Spain, Germany and Albania.

The criminal group is be‐ lieved to have been managing cannabis plantations in Spain where they cultivated and processed the marihuana, be‐ fore it was transferred to oth‐ er European countries for fur‐ ther distribution.

On the action day, some 400 police officers on the ground carried out simultane‐ ous raids in 42 different loca‐ tions in Spain, Tarragona, Barcelona, Girona and Castel‐ lon. An additional nine search‐

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es were carried out a few days later.

These property searches led to 107 individuals arrested, in‐ cluding Albanian, Spanish, Slo‐ vak and Greek nationals; 51 cannabis farms uncovered; 25,000 cannabis plants seized; and €70 000 in cash and two‐ high end vehicles seized.

This clan‐based organised crime group was hierarchically

structured, with branches op‐ erating internationally. Some of its members arrested have a history of drug trafficking in different countries.

The criminals were diverting the electricity supply to illegal‐ ly cultivate the plants indoors.

It is estimated that the stolen electricity amounts to over €1.6 million in lost utility rev‐ enue.

6 2M childcare workers

The number of sardines that make up a standard ‘espeto’ (a skewer of grilled sardines, a tradition on Malaga beaches).

CHILDCARE workers and teachers’ aides are key professions in children’s development as they provide care and supervision for children, including family day care workers, babysitters, nannies, out of school hours care workers, pre‐ school and teacher’s assistants.

In 2020, as in 2019, there were almost two million childcare workers and teachers’ aides employed in the European Union (EU). The ma‐ jority of childcare workers and teachers’ aides were women (93 per cent). By contrast, the age of these workers was fairly evenly split, with just

over a third (35 per cent) in both the ‘35‐49 years’ and the ‘50 years and above’ age groups and a further 31 per cent in the ‘15‐34 years’ age group.

The share of childcare workers and teachers’ aides as a percentage of the total employed population was 1.0 per cent in the EU in 2020.

Among the EU Member States, Denmark stood out with the largest share of people employed in this profession (3.3 per cent), followed by France and Ireland (both 2.3 per cent) and Por‐ tugal (2.2 per cent).

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First EU country to lift restrictions MAGNUS HEUNICKE, Denmark’s Minister of Health, will make his country the first one in Europe to do away with all coronavirus restrictions when they are lifted on September 10, as he explained in a statement at the end of August.

“The epidemic is under control. We have record vac-

cination levels, that is why we can drop the special rules we had to introduce in the fight against Covid-19.”

Although he was quick to follow this up with a warning that the government will not hesitate to “act quickly if the pandemic once again threatens the essential functioning of society,” even if Denmark

Spain aims for 90 per cent SPAIN will aim to have 90 per cent of people vaccinated against Covid-19.

After passing the 70 per cent mark at the end of August, Spain will aim to have 90 per cent of people vaccinated against Covid-19, President Pedro Sanchez said.

However, he did not specify a date for the 90 per cent milestone.

“We have shown that when Spanish society unites there is no one to stop us. We are going for 90 per cent,” Sanchez said on Thursday September 2.

“We are closer to overcoming the pandemic. Spain leads the vaccination of the 20 most important economies in the world. In a country like ours in which we do not recognise the merits that we achieve, the success of this vaccination is a lesson from the best of patriotism,” he added.

is in a good place.

Certain restrictions are set to expire earlier, with restaurants and pubs no longer requiring a valid coronavirus pass to enter since September 1, and in addition, discos and nightclubs will also be allowed to reopen, with visitors no longer needing passes after September 10.

Migrant arrivals double S O M E 8,222 migrants arrived in the Canary Islands between January 1 and August 15 this year. In the same period last year that number was 3,364, according to the Interior Ministry.

In 2020 more than 23,000 migrants arrived in islands, eight times more than the number in 2019.

The total number of people arriving in Spain in 2020 rose by 29 per cent and was almost 42,000 people.

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How colour blindness can affect your job choices Opticians offer colour vision testing as part of a child’s first eye exam

EXPERTS are encouraging children to undergo colour vision tests at an early age to help guide their future career choices.

This is one of the reasons Specsavers Ópticas in Javea, Calpe, Guardamar and Benidorm includes colour vision testing as part of a standard eye test when parents take their children to the opticians for their first appointment.

It is estimated that around 8 per cent of men and 0.5 per cent of wom‐ en are born colour blind. Colour blind‐ ness, also known as colour vision defi‐ ciency, is a genetic condition affecting the colour sensing cells in the retina of the eye. The vast majority of people with colour blindness can see many colours, but have problems distinguish‐ ing certain colours, particularly red and green. Total colour blindness, an inabili‐ ty to see any colour, is very rare.

Although colour blindness or colour vision deficiency does not usually cause

people many problems, it can limit their career choices, with some jobs re‐ quiring a colour vision test to be able to work in that field.

Optometrist and store director of Specsavers Ópticas in Guardamar, Lisa James, said it is much better for chil‐ dren and their parents to find out if they are colour blind at an early age, so they can focus their energy and dreams on the right careers.

“I’ve seen a lot of young people, who have been following the dream of becoming a pilot, firefighter or police officer for many years, only to find out at the final hurdle that they can’t work in that field due to being colour blind. It is a real blow to find this out so late, that’s why we always offer children a colour vision check during their first ap‐ pointment. Knowing that you’re colour blind from an early age allows you to focus your energy and dreams on a profession that you are able to do and

ensures there are no nasty surprises.”

There are various careers which re‐ quire you to have good colour vision and colour identification. These include entering the air force or navy as pilots or engineers, or the merchant navy as an officer. You will also not be able to be an air traffic controller, train or bus driver, a customs inspector, firefighter, or hold certain positions in the police force or in civil aviation.

Specsavers Ópticas use the Ishihara test to identify colour deficiency during a sight test. The optician will show you a number of plates which are printed with dots of different colours, bright‐

ness, density and sizes, arranged so that the dots of similar colour form a figure (for example a number) among a background of dots in another colour.

If a person has defective colour vision, they will be unable to identify some, or all, of the figures hidden in the dots de‐ pending upon what type of colour defi‐ ciency they suffer from.

Lisa added: “We recommend a year‐ ly eye test for children from six years old and asking for your optician to test the colour vision if your child hasn’t had the test before. Regular eye tests are particularly im‐ portant for children, as during the first 12 years of their lives, as much as 80 per cent of learning is accomplished through vision. One in four children has an undetected vision problem that may inhibit their progress, so make having an eye test part of your ‘back to school’ routine.”

Specsavers Ópticas offers free comprehensive eye tests for children, including a colour vision test as standard during a child’s first appointment in their Javea, Calpe, Benidorm and Guardamar stores. Please visit www.specsavers.es to find your nearest store.

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Ringo Starr releases EP The Beatles’ drummer.

RINGO STARR, the legendary drummer with The Beatles, now into his 80s, will release a new four‐song EP entitled ‘Change The World’ on September 24, featur‐ ing guest stars like Joe Walsh and Linda Perry.

In a statement released by his

record company, Ringo said, “I’ve been saying that I just want to re‐ lease EPs right now and this is the next one. What a blessing it has been this year to have a studio here at home, and to be able to collaborate with so many great mu‐ sicians, some that I have worked with before and some new friends.”

The first two songs on the EP are entitled ‘Change The World’, which is an ‘optimistic’ piece written by Joseph Williams and Steve Lukather, followed by ‘Just That Way’, composed and performed by Starr himself, together with Bruce Sugar, his engineer for years, with Tony Chen guesting on guitar.

‘Coming Undone’, is Ringo’s first collaboration with Linda Perry, of ‘4 Non‐Blondes’ fame, who co‐wrote this track, in which Trombone Shorty also participates, while the former Beatle provides the vocals.

Finally, ‘Rock Around The Clock’ will allow you to enjoy the guitar of Joe Walsh, the emblematic gui‐ tarist from The Eagles, with Nathan East on bass, Bruce Sugar on piano, and Amy Keys and Windy Wagner on backing vocals.

‘Change The World’ will be avail‐ able in digital, CD, and cassette for‐ mat from September 24, as well as on 10‐inch vinyl from November 19, as reported by the local Spanish press.

THE EU and AstraZeneca have reached an agreement which will secure the delivery of the remaining Covid‐19 vaccine doses to Member States under the terms of the Advance Purchase Agreement concluded on August 27, 2020, with AstraZeneca.

The agreement will also end the pending litigation before the Brussels Court.

Commissioner for Health and Food Safe‐ ty Stella Kyriakides said, “Today’s settle‐ ment agreement guarantees the delivery

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Sanchez ignored advice P R E S I D E N T Pedro Sanchez reportedly ig‐ nored advice given to him in 2018 that could have lowered the cost of electricty by 30 per cent.

In 2018, the Executive of Pedro Sanchez ig‐ nored the proposals of the Energy Transition Expert Commission to lower the price of elec‐ tricity by up to 30per cent.

The Expert Commission also recommended a tax shakeup that would make greener source of electricty cheaper.

Their recommendations were first made in 2018 when the Partido Popular held power, but the were again made to Sanchez when he took control of La Moncloa later that year.

The average daily price of electricity in the wholesale market continues to reach record highs with a cost of €132.65 per megawatt‐ hour (MWh) on September 6, making the most expensive day for electricity consumers in the history of Spain.

The EU and AstraZeneca agree of the remaining 200 million Covid‐19 vac‐ cine doses by AstraZeneca to the EU. “While this week we reached the impor‐ tant milestone of 70 per cent full vaccina‐ tion of the EU’s adult population, there are significant differences in vaccination rates between our Member States, and the con‐

tinued availability of vaccines, including As‐ traZeneca’s, remain crucial.

“And as the strongest supporter of glob‐ al vaccine cooperation and solidarity, we will continue helping the rest of the world.

Our aim is to share at least 200 million dos‐ es of vaccines through COVAX with low and middle‐income countries until the end of this year. Vaccine solidarity is and remains our trademark,” she added on September 3.

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Armed Collaborators trapped Forces selection processes IN 2021, the Spanish Ministry of Defence called 51 selection pro‐ cesses, with a global offer of 9,742 places.

Of these, 1,920 were for ca‐ reer and complement military personnel, 6,500 to the ranks of troops and sailors, and 1,072 for permanent status.

There are also plans for 250 places for volunteer reservists.

The processes are being de‐ veloped according to estab‐ lished programming and accord‐ ing to the prevention and protection protocols against Covid‐19 prepared by the Gen‐ eral Health Inspection, the gov‐ ernment said.

More than 43,000 candidates this year have chosen to partici‐ pate in the different selection processes called, 7.5 per cent more than the previous year.

Women account for 19 per cent of all applications, an in‐ crease of 2 per cent compared with 2020.

ABOUT 110 Afghan collaborators who worked for the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID) in Afghanistan in Badghis province remain trapped in Kabul, a city that has become a place of despair since the arrival of the Taliban.

The former employees asked the government for an evacu‐ ation plan to leave Afghanistan, but neither agency nor For‐ eign Ministry leaders have contacted them, according to re‐ ports.

The number of local personnel who collaborated with the Spanish humanitarian mission in the Central Asian country may be much higher. A large part of the contingent of collabo‐ rators have not been able to reach the capital and remain hid‐ den in their cities, some thousands of kilometres from the on‐ ly exit, Hamid Karzai airport. Among those stranded are doctors, pharmacists, clerks, veterinarians and their families.

By August 27, Spanish Armed Forces had evacuated a total of 1,900 Afghan aid workers and their families, Spaniards and citizens from other countries such as the US and Portugal, the European Union, UN, NATO, and Embassy personnel.

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Estonian chief. A museum chief in Estonia has become the coun‐ try’s only candidate for the presidency.

Alar Karis, the director of the Estonian National Museum, is the only candidate running in the election after he was the only per‐ son to get support from the required minimum of 21 lawmakers.

Some Estonians are now calling to get rid of the president role be‐ cause only one person is running for it.

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Lemon sales up

SPAIN has seen a 20 per cent in‐ crease in the purchase of lemons produced in Spain this summer, intensifying commitment to the Spanish countryside. In this way, 100 per cent of the lemons that supermarket Carrefour makes available to its customers this summer, come from the Valen‐ cian Community and Murcia.

Carrefour’s commitment to fruits and vegetables of national origin encourages the promotion of the consumption of seasonal

Lemons grown in Spain. products, regional employment and also contributes to reducing the ecological footprint by facili‐

tating the purchase of local items.

For the development of this campaign, Carrefour has collabo‐ rated with four local producers: Citricos La Paz, specialists in lemon and grapefruit; Frutas Beri, which has more than 30 years of experience in the sector; Frutas Naturales, which started working with the chain this year and Perales y Ferres.

The first three come from the region of Murcia and the last from Alicante.

Spain backs global agreement SPAIN, in line with the common position of the Eu‐ ropean Union and most of the participating coun‐ tries, considers it necessary to move towards a glob‐ al international agreement to tackle marina plastic pollution. At a Ministerial Conference, the Ministry of Ecological Transition and the Demographic Chal‐ lenge has advocated the need to create an Intergov‐ ernmental Negotiating Committee on Marine Litter and Plastic Pollution to work on a global agreement to tackle marine plastic pollution.

The Ministry’s Director General for Environmen‐ tal Quality and Assessment, Ismael Aznar, Spain’s representative at the Conference, stressed that it is

essential to work on an agreement that will make it possible to address aspects not covered by existing instruments, coordinate the efforts of the parties, establish new measures focused on prevention and create a framework for the development of nation‐ al action plans.

Aznar highlighted the measures adopted by Spain to tackle plastic pollution, in particular, those aimed at restricting single‐use plastic articles in the Draft Law on Waste and Contaminated Land ‐ cur‐ rently in parliamentary procedure ‐ and the mea‐ sures to combat marine pollution included in the National Marine Strategies.

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9 - 15 September 2021 TV sources have confirmed that controversial host Piers Morgan will not get his job back on ITV’s Good Morning Britain despite being cleared of breaching broadcast regulations over comments he made about Meghan Markle.

ITV said after the news was announced: “We welcome the Ofcom ruling that GMB did not breach the broadcast standards relating to harm and offence.

“The ruling sets out clearly

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Piers won’t be back that it was the balance and context the programme makers provided which was key in mitigating against the potential for harm and offence which could have been caused by Piers Morgan’s comments.

“It is because of the programme’s editorial decisions and the opposing views which

were forcefully expressed by other presenters and guests, that the programme did not breach Ofcom’s rules.”

Following the announcement from Ofcom, Morgan, tweeted with delight: “@Ofcom rejects all complaints against me over Meghan Markle furore that led to my exit from @GMB.

“Verdict says I was entitled to disbelieve her and Prince Harry and to restrict my right to do so would be a ‘chilling restriction on freedom of expression’.

“This is a resounding victory for free speech and a resounding defeat for Princess Pinocchios. Do I get my job back?”

Congratulations for Williams Syndrome girl O F F I C E R S from the Na‐ tional Police Huelva,have congratulated a very spe‐ cial girl called Nuria, who has been working hard to provide others with ad‐ vice to prevent the spread of the coronavirus.

The police officers have supported the girl who has Williams Syndrome and congratulated her for being ‘especially active’ on social media where she has been ‘providing advice to her followers to stop the spread of Covid‐19.’

The police have said

that Nuria is a girl “with an outgoing, friendly and enthusiastic personality” and that she was “very ex‐ cited” with the special vis‐ it that the officers made to her home.

With her mother and sister’s help they sur‐ prised the young girl and gave her National Police related gifts and also a personalised diploma to thank her for “the help re‐ ceived during the pan‐ demic.”

W i t h t h e v i s i t , t h e N a‐ tional Police also aimed to

‘help give visibility’ to rare diseases, in this in‐ stance Williams Syn‐ drome.

Nuria greatly enjoyed her visit with the police.

This syndrome is a ge‐ netic disease due to a loss of part of the DNA on chromosome 7, which oc‐ curs in one in every 7,500 new borns and is charac‐ terised by a disorder of in‐ tellectual development, hypercalcaemia in infancy and supravalvular aortic stenosis ‐ a narrowing of the main artery immedi‐

ately after leaving the heart.”

Further probes for the ex-King PROSECUTORS are investigat‐ ing both withdrawals and de‐ posits that were made to for‐ mer King Juan Carlos over several years and are looking into his account from 2014 to 2018, where he had received his annual allowance of nearly €200,000. According to reports, investigators are checking that payments correspond with those set out in the Spanish na‐ tional budget. Royal officials have been answering ques‐ tions put forward by the in‐ spectors and have provided all information requested.

The inspectors are said to be trying to trace small deposits, that were made to Juan Carlos.

It is thought that these small amounts were meant to pay for store purchases.

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FRANCE

Cycle success

Still controversial

ACCORDING to the Cycle Cities Report compiled by money.co.uk, Copenhagen is the best city for cycling in the world just freewheeling ahead of nearest competitors, the Estonian capital Tallinn and Amsterdam. The high cost of hiring or buying a bike in Denmark was a negative factor.

THE 93-year-old Jean-Marie Le Pen who was considered too extreme for the French National Front party which he founded and was expelled by his daughter, continues to hit the headlines and is due to go on trial for allegedly inciting racial hatred.

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NORWAY

Stop and Search

Winter woes

IN a bid to cut the amount of gun and knife crime committed in Amsterdam, the police are undertaking a trial ‘stop and search’ regime and have given an absolute assurance that there will be no racial bias and all stops will be on a random basis.

STILL not out of the financial woods, Norwegian Air which is currently operating 51 aircraft, has made it clear that if winter bookings are slow and seats are not filled, then it will cancel flights at the last minute in order to save money.

BELGIUM

FINLAND

Copper haul

Brighter lights

AS the price of copper has increased dramatically, thieves in Brussels have been targeting antique style street lights and are climbing the lampposts and removing the copper shades which, once the glass is removed, can be sold as scrap. More than 20 in two streets have disappeared.

THE Finnish Sodankylä Geophysical Observatory in Lapland said that the intensity of the Northern Lights is determined by the sun’s 11-year solar cycle and as the northern hemisphere is now entering a period of higher solar activity, so the Northern Lights will be brighter than ever.

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SWEDEN

Festival of Lights

ABBA Voyage

EVERY September, Berlin is illuminated for the annual Festival of Lights (not the religious kind) where some 75 public buildings are illuminated at night with around 100 different art designs and this year unique art light is the theme. Visitors are urged to respect social distancing.

‘THANK you for waiting, the journey is about to begin’ was the cryptic message on a new Twitter account called ABBA Voyage, apparently set up by the four former members of the Swedish mega pop group and many believe that there are new songs on the way.

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Two years on EWN speaks H U G H E L L I OT T became British Ambassador to Spain in August 2019 and whilst he would have expected to deal with Brexit, the pandemic came out of the blue.

In commemoration of his two years in post, he kindly agreed to speak with Spain’s largest circulating English language newspaper Euro Weekly News and was both friendly and quite open, subject always to the fact that the British Government makes policy decisions.

We spoke first about his role as a champion of British commerce and when asked how Brexit had affected exports to Spain, the Ambassador confirmed that Brexit had affected business as the UK, as a country, is now out of the Custom’s Union which means that there are new procedures for both sides to follow and the Embassy had been very involved in giving advice.

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Her Majesty’s Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott. turn during 2020, but he was able to say that the trend is now positive with a recent up-

turn of 13 per cent.

Next came the situation between Gibraltar, the UK and

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with ‘Our Man in Madrid’

Spain and he was on the Rock on August 31 alongside the new UK Ambassador to the EU and the Gibraltar Government to discuss the next step towards an agreement with the European Union which will have to be managed by Spain.

Having agreed the framework for the future on New Year’s Eve 2020 which Britain, Gibraltar and Spain were comfortable with, the matter then progressed to the EU which has its own procedures, but the mandate that was finally forthcoming is not acceptable to Britain or Gibraltar and the matter is being reviewed.

His view however is that he remains confident that agreement which is acceptable to all parties will be forthcoming.

There has been considerable disruption for British passport

holders, be they resident in Spain or the UK with regards to travel and many of our readers are anxious to know whether Spain which is seeing a considerable improvement in the number of infections and the increase in vaccinations would soon join the ‘green list’.

Hugh Elliott acknowledged that travel is still not normal and that things can change rapidly as the pandemic still exists, but the important thing for travellers to the UK is the fact that if they are double vaccinated then there is no requirement to undertake quarantine and travel is so much easier now.

Having said this, he urged potential travellers to always check with the UK Gov website for the latest travel advice.

Pensions are another important topic for those living in Spain and whilst the Ambassador was not able to comment upon the future of the Triple Lock, he wanted to remind everyone that there had been a major step forward following Brexit in as much as those

British pensioners living in Spain would continue to enjoy the increases (whatever they be) as if they were living in the UK. As far as residencia is concerned, the majority of British applicants who had applied have been accepted and by the end of December 2020, the latest available figures, it was recorded that 381,348 UK passport holders had been granted residency.

Speaking of residency HMA Elliott wanted to remind readers not to overlook the fact that the entire family, including children should be registered and finally suggested that although not technically necessary, it would probably be more convenient for those with the green paper document to now exchange it for the T I E card.

The Embassy and the consulates around Spain exist to offer advice and assistance to British passport holders and the www.gov.uk website is a good place to start when looking for the latest information.

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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Twitter news TWITTER Spain employs just 21 people to manage its dwindling 4.1 million users and despite concerted actions by both the Spanish Government and the European Commission to see taxation based on country of service, the American owned company is still invoicing out of Ireland.

Unemployment down THE number of registered unemployed in Spain fell by 82,583 in August (-2.4 per cent) and is the largest decline for the month since records began according to information released by the Ministry of Labour and Social Economy, although there are still 3,333,915 unemployed.

Frankenfish WITH the demand for fish continuing and the fear that stocks will dwindle even more due to overfishing, companies around the world are looking to create vegan versions or to grow fish using stem cell biology and tissue engineering to create the perfect replica.

No sale RYANAIR has announced that it has terminated talks about purchasing up to 250 Boeing 737 Max jets because it considered the price to be too high and Boeing was not prepared to meet the Irish airline’s budget despite the size of the potential order.

Trade with Pakistan DURING a recent visit to the Islamabad Chamber of Commerce, Spanish Commercial Attaché Aitor Santiago Garin said that Spain and Pakistan had to do more to encourage imports and exports.

He confirmed the current bilateral trade volume between Spain and Pakistan was quite low with the bulk of Pakistan’s exports to Spain confined to textiles products, when there was so much more in the areas of fruit and vegetables and pharmaceuticals for example which could be developed.

It was agreed the lack of awareness about Pakistani products in Spain was a major trade barrier, which should be addressed to enhance trade ties.

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is the amount that the Expansion newspaper understands is STAT OF being paid by Spanish private equity company Portobello Capital €300 million to take over its infrastructure services division of Ferrovial.

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Takeover reviewed THE CMA has provisionally found JD Sports’ takeover of Footasylum could lead to a worse deal for shoppers, af‐ ter reassessing the merger.

The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has reached the provisional view that the merger could result in a worse deal for Footasylum shoppers throughout the UK. This means customers could find themselves facing higher prices, fewer dis‐

counts and less choice of products in store. It could al‐ so result in the merged company investing less in improvements to customer service.

At this stage, the CMA’s view is that blocking the deal, by requiring JD Sports to sell Footasylum, may be the only way of addressing these competition concerns.

Kip Meek, chair of the group conducting the in‐ quiry, said, “Since our origi‐

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nal inquiry, we have gath‐ ered a significant amount of additional evidence, includ‐ ing on the impact of coron‐ avirus, and we still have concerns about JD Sports’ takeover of Footasylum.

“This deal would see Footasylum bought by its closest competitor and, as a result, shoppers could face higher prices, less choice and a worse shopping expe‐ rience overall.

“While many stores were

closed during lockdown, on‐ line sales in this market have been stronger than ev‐ er, and revenue from in‐ store sales is rebounding as people return to the high street.

“JD Sports, Footasylum and others in the sector now have the opportunity to give us their views, on both our provisional deci‐ sion and our suggested rem‐ edy,” Meek added on Thurs‐ day September 2.

Bank accounts

I have been told that Andalucia is going to sharply reduce inheritance tax and include inheri‐ tors who are not direct children in the reduction as well.

Is this correct? If so it would make an important differ‐ ence to my estate planning.

Second-Hand September ACTRESS Sienna Miller is fronting this year’s #Second‐ HandSeptember campaign to raise awareness about the harmful effects fast fashion ‐ clothes that are produced in high volume and at relatively low cost to the consumer ‐ have on the planet.

Oxfam’s campaign comes ahead of the UN climate summit COP26, which will be held in Glasgow in November, and is a vital opportunity for global lead‐ ers to take decisive action to tackle the climate emergency.

Consumers send 13 million items of clothing a week to land‐ fill, and the textile industry ac‐ counts for up to 10 per cent of the world’s greenhouse gas emissions ‐ more than interna‐ tional aviation and shipping combined.

To help reduce emissions, Ox‐ fam is asking UK consumers to only buy second‐hand clothes for the month of September and donate their pre‐loved items.

S D (Costa del Sol) Provide a Will.

Yes, it is correct.

The important YOU AND THE LAW change is not so IN SPAIN much a tax reduc‐ tion because Andalucian law had already lowered the tax to 1 per cent for spouses and children, but the inclu‐ sion of other family members in this reduction, which opens the door for nearly a million Andalucians and resi‐ dents to share in the reduced tax.

The exemptions will now apply to brothers and sis‐ ters, aunts and uncles, nieces and nephews. The change is planned to come into effect in 2022. It forms part of a more general lowering of taxes in Andalucia including in‐ come tax and property transfer tax. The first stages of the tax reform, put into effect in 2018, have already pro‐ duced positive results as the reduced taxes actually pro‐ duced increased revenues

DAVID SEARL

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

MAKING a complaint about an online purchase in Spain is far more compli‐ cated than if you wish to make a com‐ plaint in store.

It is very well‐known that business‐ es in Spain are required to keep com‐ plaint books and if a consumer has a dispute with that seller or service provider, even if the consumer is in the wrong, then they can demand ac‐ cess to the complaints book.

WHEN someone passes away in Spain, another concern is what to do about their bank accounts. It is best not to withdraw money before the person’s death, even if they tell you to do so, because this could cause problems lat‐ er with other heirs. If you are authorised to use their ac‐ counts, you can do so, but any withdrawals or transfers will show up later. If you are an heir and the Will of the deceased states that you are entitled to the money in their account, then you will need to provide the bank with the Will, the Certificado de Ultimas Voluntades and death certificate to access the contents.

If you are not sure what bank accounts the deceased owned, then you will need to go to the Tax Agency and they will be able to provide you with the information if you prove that you are the heir.

Also remember that direct debit bills will continue to be paid until they are cancelled.

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Online complaints All businesses are required by law to make these available and the complaint can be made formally by completing a form which is signed by both parties and submitted to the Community Consumer Office where the matter will be considered

and a solution recommended.

Often a simple demand to make a formal complaint will be sufficient to change the mind of a business which is trying to get away with something when it is in the wrong, as it may well prefer not to be in‐

More US investment IT’S not just supermarkets in the UK that American investment companies are interested in as investment giant T Rowe Price has taken a 10 per cent stake in the online fashion retailer Boohoo to become one of its largest shareholders.

This investment will now sit with its 11 per cent shareholding in ASOS, another UK online fash‐ ion business which earlier this year scooped up Topshop, Top‐ man and Miss Selfridge brands following the demise of Sir Philip Green’s Arcadia business.

As companies start to recover from the lockdown, it seems that the UK is a particularly at‐ tractive market for US investors. volved in a formal dispute.

In theory, consumers have similar rights if they purchase online, but the reality is somewhat different and far more complicated to access, as many major companies do not have the equivalent of an online complaints book.

It can be done and the Consumer Offices of Autonomous Communities will give advice on how to do this.

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% CHG. 1.340,00 263,70 3.498,0 3.087,5 1.428,00 5.754,0 1.969,0 8.520,0 635,60 592,20 4.182,0 414,20 548,20 564,80 1,396 184,64 710,40 4.669,0 2.120,00 297,00 2.712,0 538,20 161,20 2.586,0 1.895,5 1.498,8 53,08 2.629,0 1.496,00 3.817,0 9.228,0 6.294,0 3.536,0 443,60 781,80 3.254,0 10.642,2 14.455,0 863,80 1.474,40 334,08 3.052,0 1.492,40 2.577,00 384,20 156,00 1.555,00 548,60 4.599,0 2.254,00

NET VOL 21,51K 214,97K 41,54K 161,53K 36,16K 34,70K 34,34K 115,02K 73,46K 81,82K 8,09K 831,05K 81,80K 214,43K 38,19K 3,06M 197,48K 22,62K 625,72K 3,39M 89,45K 88,29K 1,26M 26,30K 41,12K 130,75K 985,17K 15,58K 47,95K 75,03K 6,91K 12,55K 171,75K 608,55K 517,58K 33,85K 1,51K 5,59K 142,19K 258,07K 843,75K 47,36K 24,66K 10,75K 1,80M 4,02M 71,19K 103,79K 12,55K 9,61K

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5.368,0 117,15 305,50 2.920,0 733,80 282,50 43,52 8.182,0 834,34 190,52 2.040,00 938,50 215,49 7.953,6 33,78 2.030,00 2.874,0 630,00 1.551,50 5.729,0 2.204,72 581,40 730,27 5.386,3 113,00 7,51 1.440,31 1.440,6 1.439,4 749,31 1.672,50 18,04 3.818,0 1.394,00 1.294,00 2.811,0 1.389,72 1.449,50 16.545,0 1.660,50 1.693,00 459,60 178,45 257,35 305,80 3.980,0 1.058,50 120,52 3.209,0 1.001,50

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5.380,0 117,45 305,60 2.920,0 737,80 282,70 43,81 8.216,0 836,71 191,35 2.049,00 945,60 215,90 7.968,0 33,88 2.036,00 2.897,0 630,60 1.555,00 5.750,0 2.205,73 585,80 730,80 5.443,0 113,22 7,60 1.441,31 1.441,4 1.440,2 749,40 1.675,50 18,11 3.823,0 1.401,50 1.296,50 2.815,0 1.407,00 1.452,50 16.575,0 1.665,00 1.695,00 460,10 179,75 257,55 308,40 3.993,0 1.062,00 121,02 3.228,0 1.002,50

5.358,0 113,60 303,00 2.898,0 731,00 280,40 43,31 8.090,0 833,00 189,25 2.036,00 937,80 214,30 7.912,0 33,49 2.000,00 2.859,0 624,80 1.541,00 5.698,0 2.194,53 581,20 726,00 5.367,0 112,20 7,49 1.433,11 1.432,8 1.431,4 743,00 1.670,50 17,96 3.773,0 1.386,50 1.292,00 2.804,0 1.389,50 1.439,00 16.445,0 1.659,00 1.672,00 454,00 177,55 255,75 304,90 3.967,5 1.057,00 120,22 3.202,0 992,00

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Bitcoin is bitten

TAKING ACTION: Cryptocurrency is under scrutiny.

AS the European Central Bank considers introducing a virtual euro, Bitcoin is bitten as Spain takes action to regulate cryp‐ tocurrency.

The Bank of Spain has been warning that investments in all types of cryptocurrencies, not just Bitcoin, are potentially, very risky, but a significant number of Spaniards have been taking advantage on the until now rel‐ atively tax free profits from buy‐ ing and selling.

This is likely to change very shortly as the Government and the Bank want to protect Spain against the twin evils of terror‐ ism financing and money laun‐ dering as well as making sure that no tax avoidance takes place.

A new registration process for crypto‐exchanges is due by Oc‐ tober so that exchanges, along with crypto‐asset custody plat‐ forms and wallets, will be re‐ quired to register with authori‐

ties in order to comply with le‐ gal requirements.

According to website www.ambcrypto.com, the Na‐ tional Securities Market Com‐ mission (CNMV) issued warn‐ ings to 12 entities on Monday August 30 for remaining unlist‐ ed in the commission’s registry.

Those under fire include pop‐ ular exchanges such as Huobi and Bybit, both of which al‐ legedly don’t have permission to provide investment services.

Once the new registry is es‐ tablished, companies will have until January 2022 to apply for registration and to be accepted.

They will have to be able to prove that they have sturdy an‐ ti‐money laundering and anti‐ terrorist measures in place.

This registry will be shared with other countries within the European Union with the intent of ensuring that all transactions are transparent and above board.

No-shows AS restaurants all over Europe are trying to recover from the problems of closures over the last year and in many cases reduced capacity, a major problem for them is people not turning up for bookings without bothering to cancel.

A report by hospitality company Zonal revealed that as many as 14 per cent of all reservations are ignored by customers and in the UK, 18-34-year-olds were the worst offenders and this was having a dramatic financial effect on businesses. According to Zonal the British hospitality sector alone could be losing as much as £17.6 billion (€20 billion) a year because of this.

Spain isn’t necessarily anti‐ cryptocurrency but it wants to ensure that it takes its fair share of the profits and doesn’t leave any options for money launder‐ ing in any form.

BUSINESS EXTRA Golden welcome GEARING up for the Christmas rush, Amazon in the UK first offered a £1,000 (€1,150) signing on bonus for new staff and now it is promising a £50 (€57) weekly bonus for staff who turn up for work on time.

Inflation up CONSUMER prices in Spain are rising at the fastest pace in almost 10 years, ironically fuelled by massive increases in the price of diesel, petrol and electricity although a report by the European Central Bank says that this spike will be temporary and prices likely to drop in 2022.

Blame Brexit THERE’S an old song about A Pub with no Beer and that’s what has happened to Wetherspoons in the UK who have found themselves out of Heineken, Carling and Coors due to the shortage of HGV drivers due to a combination of Brexit and Covid.

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A favourable result

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WELL, I’m sure it will come as no big surprise that I was delighted with the outcome of the Piers Morgan Ofcom enquiry. As an ardent exponent of the freedom of speech, and lucky enough to contribute to a publication of similar leanings, the favourable result of the Morgan/Markle affair, was not only a triumph for common sense, it was a victory for all those who believe that, irrespective of who you are, and provided it doesn’t cause unnecessary suffering to others, you should be able to air any opinions you so desire.

Of course, this awful woman won’t stop there. No doubt she will put her humiliating defeat down to the biased British hierarchy protecting their monarch. This view in itself is of course offensive, but as I believe we only judge others by our own behaviour, I think this just about sums up the attitude of this wholly unpleasant young lady.

What I also found most interesting was that there were some 57,000 dissenters who wrote in complaining about the programme ‐ a figure that the BBC revelled in; but many thousands more on social media ‘liked’ the final outcome.

OFCOM ENQUIRY: Talk show host Piers Morgan’s recent case was a triumph for common sense.

It goes to prove that it is generally those who don’t agree with an opinion who tend to make the most noise. The majority, who do concur, are more likely to simply nod to themselves, poke a button on their PC and be quietly thankful that some common

sense still prevails. I do however, sometimes wish the majority would make themselves a little more explicitly responsive, after all with the overall lack of public positive agreement, the disillusioned minorities are often of the opinion that they are in fact the

actual majority. Time they were unwoken up! Stop being the silent majority OK? Make some noise. How can we stamp out racism in the game, wail the football big shots?

Well, in my opinion the first thing they should do is ban the taking of the knee. I do

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wholeheartedly agree that the recent racist behaviour at the Hungary/England football match was totally unacceptable. However, knowing Hungary’s record of racism, particularly among its football fans, would it not have made more common sense to have just dropped this controversial ritual, for this one game at least? Anyone with half a brain should have realised that blatantly paying homage to a fascist anti‐white organisation (BLM) at the beginning of the match would be like showing a red rag to a bull. No wonder racism subsequently kicked off in all its repugnant glory.

A few weeks ago I wrote that the true effects of the Covid vaccinations would not be known until we had experienced the passing of real time. I took some quite heavy stick for that particular assessment.

A number of letters accused me of ‘Irresponsibly spreading fear, particularly among the young’ etc. Imagine my surprise, when this week the government announced they were not recommending the vaccinations for children between the ages of 12 and 15. Funny that!

Keep the faith Love Leapy. leapylee2002@gmail.com expatradioscotland.

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B uilding is due to start in 2022 with completion of the 18 luxurious two-bedroom apartments ready for occupation in 2023.

The entire resort is aimed at offering exceptional quality of living to those who are now retired with all of the support and security that you could possibly expect to receive.

These final 18 modern apartments will be built to the highest standard and are ideal for those who want to enjoy a larger than normal space in the most luxurious of surroundings as they enjoy their retirement lives here in Spain.

All of the apartments in the resort are special, but those in Edificio Jazmin go that step further to ensure that they are built to incorporate the latest advances in technology and offer just that bit more to the discerning resident who is looking for the best of everything.

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It doesn’t matter where you are situated in Jazmin as there are lifts to all floors and once in your apartment there is underfloor heating as well as the latest technology to keep you cool and for those who may be a little hard of hearing, the rooms have sound insulation to ensure that noone is bothered by noise.

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DAVID WORBOYS IF you are reading this, you are most likely over 50. Even more likely, in less than 60 years you will be dead.

But, for your peace of mind, eventu‐ ally we shall all be dead. A lot of people know that! But none of us knows for certain what to expect.

Death of the body has been likened to bursting a balloon. The spirit (or air) is indestructible and survives by escaping its terrestrial shell which eventually disintegrates, having fulfilled its purpose.

Eventually, if we want to move on to finer things, we should be pre‐ pared. The Grim Reaper may give us no advance warning before striking and hoisting us before the judge‐ ment panel. Whether we have prac‐ tised mass genocide or jumped a queue in Huddersfield, we need to ask if we are fit to come in.

When called upon to leave our temporary encasement, we are therefore advised to reflect on our sins of thought, word, deed and ne‐ glect. This makes me feel uneasy, for they are many. And if we reject the

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GRIM REAPER

The Grim Reaper may give us no advance warning.

concept of an ‘after‐life’ completely, we are taking a pretty scary gamble.

Richard Dawkins, as an example, is prepared to take this gamble in ex‐ tremis.

It is, of course, acceptable to be‐ lieve either in the existence or non‐ existence of a God and a form of af‐ terlife, because neither view can be proved or disproved. Dawkins dis‐ misses anything that can’t be backed by scientific evidence. He simply rejects the existence of God because it’s beyond his understand‐ ing. Furthermore, he has tried to persuade children from Christian families to abrogate their beliefs.

Hardly an act of tolerance.

Through a medium, it is possible to contact the ‘departed’. Those with adequate faith do receive mes‐ sages and communicate with the spirits, especially of loved ones.

Do the Pearly Gates actually exist?

Heaven and Hell? Reincarnation of spirits? Everlasting Life? Until we croak, we can’t be sure.

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As in the Monty Python parrot sketch, there are many ways of ex‐ pressing this transition. We will have fallen off the perch, gone to meet our Maker, crossed the great divide or simply snuffed it.

Should we be fearful of death? It depends on our attachment to the people, objects and experiences we have held dear during our lives on Earth. By the time we gasp our last, all our life experiences are mere memories and we can’t take the BMW or our library of books and music with us. We’ll miss not sharing further time with friends and family, but we may meet again in a better world.

Fear of the manner of death is a different matter. Those suffering prolonged illnesses, starvation, men‐ tal issues or life in captivity may face death with resignation. Likewise, people without medical care or fam‐ ily comfort. And for those facing tor‐ ture or execution? They may be ter‐ rified of dying ‐ but praying for death.

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

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NEWS THAT LEAVES EVERYONE LOST FOR WORDS scribed as suitable for ‘faeces’. The errors re‐ portedly resulted from a poorly designed computer programme unable to cope with multiple meanings of certain English words.

Amazon claimed it was ‘always keen’ to im‐ prove customers’ experiences...

But apology of the year surely came from ‘The Scottish Farmer’ (buy it to keep up with the latest ewes!) which contained the startling revelation that the Royal Highland and Agricultural Society of Scotland had opened ‘a brand‐new spanking pavilion’. The magazine’s political affairs editor comment‐ ed: “I can only apologise for a faux pas which has brought much joy to our readers.” I bet!

NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS

Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

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AS we try to deal with the grief, fear and anxiety of the past 18 months, mis‐spelt subtitles, misprints and misunderstandings won’t cure the ills of our times, but they’ll hopefully take our mind off them.

Church Service Sheet Typos, a rather eclectic Facebook group dedicated to ecclesi‐ astical misprints, discovered an alarming new way of fighting Covid. Pictured on the site was the following notice: ‘Please Sa‐ tanise Your Hands.’ It also reported the fol‐ lowing unfortunate text message about a pri‐ mary school church service: ‘Please join us for refreshments afterwards and if we can wash your dirty willies, please bring them along.’ Followed swiftly by the correction: ‘WELLIES!’ Another one: ‘The ladies of the church have cast off clothing of every kind. They may be seen in the basement’, and: ‘Low self‐esteem support group will meet Thurs‐

FAUX PAS: But misunderstandings will hopefully take our mind off the ills of our times. day at 7pm. Please use the back door.’

For its part, Norwich Cathedral was quick to assure worshippers they would always find a welcome during lockdown: ‘We are still open daily, providing space for silliness, reflection and prayer.’ ‘Silliness’ was later corrected to ‘stillness’, but was the message right first time round? The cathedral had

previously installed a helter‐skelter in the nave, so either would have been accurate.

And the launch of Amazon’s new Swedish website didn’t go as planned due to numer‐ ous cultural gaffes/ mistranslations. Cus‐ tomers saw a swastika‐emblazoned shower curtain for sale, frying pans listed as items for ‘woman’ and a silicone baking mould de‐

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Sentinel’, ‘No Safe Place’, ‘Be‐ trayal’, ‘The Girl in the Woods’, ‘The Girl in the Red Dress’, ‘No Way Back’, ‘Landscape of Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora‐johnson.net) available online as eBook (€0.99;£0.99), Ap‐ ple Books, paperback & audiobook.All prof‐ its to Costa del Sol Cudeca cancer charity

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EMMA WALLSWORTH MANY of us here is sunny Spain are still not overly sure what the difference between the shop sold root vegetable Yuca and the version in which we grow in our gardens actually are. Well hopefully for those of us who are still not sure in the difference, it will be clearer at the end of this article.

Common Difference: Well apart from the possible spelling error of a ‘C’ missing from Yuca, there actually is a huge difference and one certainly that cannot continue to be con‐ fused.

Does the title of this post make you feel slightly dizzy? Me too. That’s why I felt compelled to put fin‐ gers to keyboard.

Without realising it, I have been using the words ‘yucca’ and ‘yuca’ interchangeably when, in fact, they refer to two completely different plants.

On the other hand…

Yuca is an extensively grown tropical vegetable that has other common names that you may recog‐ nize, such as cassava, manioc, and tapioca.

The Yuca tuber can be roasted, boiled, and fried.

Because it is starchy and high in carbohydrates, it can be used as a substitute for potatoes. The Yuca is very low in saturated fat, cholesterol and sodium. It is also a good source of manganese, and a very good source of Vitamin C. Differences of a Yucca and Yuca The drastic differences in their growing environ‐ ments leads to stark differences in the yucca and cas‐

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YUCA & YUCCA: The two are actually quite different.

sava plant structures. The yucca plant has long, sword‐like leaves with a waxy coating that radiate out in a rosette pattern from a central stalk. This enables the plant to capture and funnel the minimal rain avail‐ able towards the core of the plant. Below the leaves there may be a tree‐like stem that can be several feet in length. Both the yucca and the (Yuca) cassava plant have beneficial uses, the yucca plant is used for more medicinal purposes than the (Yuca) cassava.

The yucca plant is rich in resveratrol, yuccaols, and saponins that the scientific world is finding very bene‐ ficial in several profound ways. Research has shown that these three natural compounds can reduce in‐ flammation, ease arthritic‐type pain, and protect the skin from sun damage. Conversely, the (Yuca) cassava root is more like a starchy vegetable that can be pre‐ pared and cooked. Eating yucca root in the same manner as one would eat (Yuca) cassava root is

strongly discouraged, if not almost impossible.

First, yucca root is incredibly hard and fibrous, so cutting, or slicing it requires more than a standard knife. Second, yucca root tastes bitter even after be‐ ing ground into a powder. Almost all of the yucca plant can be used as food. The stems, leaf bases, flowers, emerging stalks as well as the fruit of most types of yucca are edible. The stems or trunks of yuc‐ ca store carbohydrates in chemicals called saponins, which are toxic, not to mention taste of soap. To ren‐ der them edible, the saponins need to be broken down by baking or boiling.

Flower stalks need to be removed from the plant well before they bloom or they become fibrous and tasteless. They can be cooked, or when very newly emerged, eaten raw while still tender and resembling large asparagus stalks. The flowers themselves must apparently be picked at just exactly the right time for

optimal flavour. The fruit is the most desired part of the plant when utilising the yucca plant as a food source. Edible yucca fruit only comes from the thick‐ leaf varieties of yucca. It is about four inches (10 cm) long and is usually roasted or baked engendering a sweet, molasses or fig‐like flavour.

The fruit can also be dried and used thus or pound‐ ed into a type of sweet meal. The meal can be made into a sweet cake and kept for some time. Baked or dried, the fruit will keep for several months. Yucca fruit can be harvested before it is totally ripe and then allowed to ripen. Besides growing yucca fruit for food, it was used historically as a laxative. Native peoples used the sap to treat skin issues or an infusion of the roots to treat lice infestations.

Yucca powder must be encapsulated, or mixed with other fillers to disguise the taste, and must be consumed in smaller amounts.

Hopefully this article has helped you.

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Orthostatic Tremor awareness month MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man OT needs awareness because it’s rare - not many people have heard of it, not many people have it, and when you tell them it means you can’t stand still, not even for a minute, quite frankly, it sounds ridiculous! “Just don’t stand still then.” Imagine that - now who’s being ridiculous?

How do you have a shower, get clothes from the wardrobe? How do you fill your car with petrol, cook dinner, put your make-up on, for the men shave, wait in line for your coffee or queue at the bank or go to the supermarket?

That’s not to mention occupations that involve a lot of standing. And imagine going into a panic just because you walk into a strange place and can’t see any seats, or bumping into a friend in the street and you can’t stop to chat, and no more cocktail parties for you my dear!

Orthostatic Tremor is a neurological disorder and usually needs a Neurologist, one that specialises in Movement Disorders, to diagnose it.

But not all Neurologists have heard of it either, so on average, diagnosis takes five to six years

from the onset of symptoms. My own diagnosis took nearly 10 years and didn’t happen ‘til I was living in Spain. And there is no cure and no medication to stop the symptoms. It is a progressive neurological disorder, it’s an invisible disability and it’s relentless, chipping away at your quality of life, day in day out.

So in September, spare a thought for me, and those few others out there in the world with Orthostatic Tremor, some of whom I have been lucky enough to meet in person and who have become very dear friends.

This is a description from a fellow sufferer, Susie Beard from Australia, but it’s almost identical to every other person I know who has OT. I changed one part which was the time it took her to get diagnosed was three years. I have had this condition now since at least 1999. I now use a wheelchair for every shopping trip and every vacation and would not go anywhere without it. Thank goodness the Spanish medical system recognise it as a disability and have registered me 66 per cent disabled and give me a blue badge to help me park with enough room to get my wheelchair out of the car.

Please Google OT and read about it.

Thanks for reading this and from next week my grumps should be back to normal.

Email: mikesenker@gmail.com

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Aim Higher, Achieve More

BE PATIENT: All habits can be broken and so can self-image.

ROBERT SHALLIS HOW high are you aiming and more importantly, what target are you aiming for?

With many students returning back to school or further education, some may be feeling anxious with the challenges and stresses that lie ahead, my article this month is with them in mind, although it most certainly applies to us all when it comes to following our dreams, achieving our goals and succeeding in things we may never have thought possible before.

Author, Norman Vincent Peale once said; “shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you’ll land among the stars.”

But all too often our dreams remain just dreams as we believe they are too far out of our reach and therefore perceived by many of us impossible. We feel more at ease remaining in our comfort zone and aiming and shooting for the things we feel we ‘can’ achieve. We keep ourselves small, we play small, think small and therefore achieve small results. The pattern continues as the lack of belief in our abilities quietly prevails bringing us straight back down to earth. Those little fires of hope are soon extinguished when they try to re‐ignite any notion of that dream becoming a reality.

So, what’s the answer, what do we need to do to dismiss those moments of doubt when they arise and all too often consume us?

The first step in breaking the mould and eradicating this all too familiar pattern of behaviour is to start the practice of changing your self‐image. This isn’t always an easy task because our self‐image is constantly running in the background without consciousness.

It only decides to remind us once we’re challenged with something out of our comfort zone. That little voice will say to us ‘I can’t do this.’

‘I’m not good enough.’

It creates such an impression and a very believable reminder convincing us that it knows best.

The way to tackle this is to start editing that self‐image. Create an image of success, belief and faith in yourself until it becomes more powerful than the current image. It’s a battle we can all win if we decide to practise doing, however, never forget to be kind and patient with yourself. All habits can be broken and so can self‐image.

It takes as much energy to see yourself succeeding as it does failing so why waste your energy on something that does not serve you to its best ability.

It is time to aim higher and think bigger and believe that you are the person who can do it, not anyone else. Yes, you! To change a situation, you need to change yourself as that’s where the power lies. Those disempowering negative feelings are certainly real but the belief around them that we alone created, is not.

A little trick is to know that ‘a positive thought starves any emotion created by a negative thought.’

If you can stop feeding your mind with negative thoughts and replace them with thoughts and images of success, it will soon diminish becoming weaker each time it tries.

So, with the tools to have a new found belief in yourself, you now have a reason to aim that little higher. If you shoot and miss then keep shooting as practice makes progress, which is the path to reaching where you wish to be.

Our lives are based on the results of the choices we make, therefore, make the choice to change the most important person in your life, you.

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SOME FAMOUS PEOPLE Dear Euro Weekly This is a reply to Leapy’s letter to me.Yes I agree there has been some famous Jewish people, but please do not count on Amy Winehouse, a very talented woman who chose drink and drugs.

The new immigrants also opened thriving businesses and there are many in the sport and medical profession.

I for my part have only met one Jewish lady who invited me and a few friends for lunch. We were expats in the Republic of Congo. I helped her with transport to many of our activities. I have had the honour to live and work in many countries, one of them was Prague.

I visited the Jewish cemetery and wrote a wish on a piece of paper, folded it, picked a pebble and put it on a tomb, and visited the little museum. You forgot to mention the wonderful Sir Nicholas George Winston, a banker and humanitarian who rescued 669 children from Nazi Germany and Czechoslovakia. I visited the concentration camp at Terizine.

But nothing prepared me for Birkenau and Auschwitz. One is hit by the smell of pain and suffering. The crematorium and gas chamber. I paid my respects to the men, women and children who suffered horrors there. For that reason I feel that the Jews like to keep themselves to themselves I am not a fan of Muslims, having lived and worked in a few Muslim countries. I too was shocked when I saw the flag waving thugs, what are our government and police doing? Do that in their countries and see what happens.

It is not only Jews who are leaving, but also the English to Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Spain.

I still think we live in a wonderful world with many good people, let us say thanks to them, and hope the world will be a better place for our children and grandchildren. I paid my respects to the Jews who had suffered so much, have you Leapy? We are all coming to the end of our life, I am at peace with the world, are you?

Many regards Sheila

Leapy again What’s happened to Lee’s great new news channel GB News that was going to reflect his own selfish opinions or so he thought to millions of viewers? With a miserly 20,000 daily viewers it appears to have fallen on deaf ears. It is ample proof that Lee and his right wing extremist views are very much in the minority.

His friend Trump is also now in the minority after creating a rise in the populist parties across Europe that are now thankfully since his demise losing support.

Farage is another with similar views and he also is now very

BACK TO SCHOOL CHILDREN all over Spain and the UK are returning to school after a very strange 18 months, where they have been in and out due to the pandemic.

Councils here in Spain have made it clear that they have devoted a great deal of time and money to ensure that the majority of classrooms are as safe as possible and many schools did set work for children to undertake during the holidays.

The incidence of infection generally is continuing to fall, but the next few weeks will show whether there will be a spike in children as

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AMY WINEHOUSE: A very talented woman. much in the minority albeit too late after the damage and chaos he has created with Brexit. Typically Lee wants Trump back not because of Joe Biden’s errors with Afghanistan, but simply because he’s a socialist and his Vice President is the wrong colour and wrong religion.

Ramon Osborne

New treaments In the UK news, the Mail and the Mirror the NHS are rolling out Leqvio (Inclisteri) for those with high cholesterol.

It was approved for the 27 members of the EU on December 20, 2020.

My question is when will it be available in Spain?

Regards Barrie Dennís

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they start to mix in larger groups again.

We have to hope that this will not be the case with the youngest, but anecdotal evidence suggests that University students are particularly vulnerable because their lifestyle is much less controlled than for younger children.

The incidence of ‘bottle parties’ across much of Spain and the continued constraints on closing times of certain establishments as well as restrictions on audience numbers shows that the pandemic is far from finished, even though it is under much better control.

The very young in particular do need to have clear guidelines as they grow and it is important that they are now able to settle back into clear routines at school and aren’t finding themselves attending one week and then having to stay at home because classmates or teachers have become infected.

Parents have a responsibility to ensure that their children do attend school and aren’t kept away over trivial matters and with luck and determination this coming school term should be one of the least disturbed since the start of the pandemic.

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PIERS MORGAN: A mixed bunch of replies.

Emma and Kevin Williams Yes yes at least he’s honest to say it as it is.

Linda Stevens A BIG FAT YES!! Have only watched the programme once since he left and it was terrible. Haven’t watched it since. Bring back Piers!

Jackie Leslie Only if he stops obsessing over Meghan. He was great at holding politicians to account.

Wendy Parkin Yes IF he can ask questions of those being interviewed and allow them to respond before he goes into ‘verbal attack’ mode! His lack of respect and consideration for those being interviewed has at times been disgraceful. GMB was NOT - and never has been - the Piers Morgan show! Having said that, GMB is pretty dull without him!

Ellie Mccauley-Cummins Nope ... but he does have entertainment value ... unfortunately his narcissistic self would be impossible to endure. I guess his lawyers are busy preparing the lawsuit against GMB.

David Garcia Absolutely not. He is bad enough now. He would be intolerable.

Eileen Thompson Definitely, someone who says it as it is, come back Piers.

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WEARERS of contact lenses are being warned to look after their eye hygiene following the detec‐ tion of cases of a rare infection which can cause blindness.

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Listen to your tummy

THE body’s reaction to certain foods can cause stomach bloating, an uncomfort‐ able problem that can be avoided by making food choices that reduce the production of excess gas.

Foods known for their bloat‐inducing qualities include beans, onions and broc‐ coli, but there are things we can eat that help do the opposite.

Five bloat‐blocking foods recommend‐ ed are rice, banana, yoghurt, cucumber and papaya.

Certain foods, especially some carbo‐ hydrates, are only partially digested in the gut, and this can result in gas build‐ up.

But rice is fully digested in the small in‐ testines.

Foods with high sodium intake can be culprits as sodium attracts and retains water in the body.

So to counteract this, experts recom‐ mend eating potassium, high levels of which are found in bananas.

Yoghurt has long been known for help‐ ing balance out gut bacteria. By choosing one with active cultures, the ‘good’ vari‐ eties in the digestive tract can be in‐ creased.

Cucumber is a natural diuretic with its high water and low fibre content, mean‐ ing they lead to increased urination and

EXCESS GAS: Certain foods can reduce risks of bloating. help achieve a flatter stomach.

Studies have shown that shavings of papaya contain a white substance called papain, which when ripe have a laxative quality which helps bowel movement.

As well as the foods we eat, the way in which we eat them is important too for a happy abdomen.

Eating regular meals means the diges‐ tive system can get into a routine, allow‐ ing digestion to flow more smoothly.

Excess gas sufferers are advised to limit their intake of baked beans, cabbage, cauliflower, sprouts, turnips and leeks.

High fat foods and eggs are also notori‐ ous for producing bad smelling gas.

COUNTERACT: Potassium eliminates the negative effects of sodium.

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Making good food choices WHILE women who enjoy a Mediterranean diet reduce their risk of a stroke, the protective attributes of fish, oil and vegeta‐ bles are apparently less effective in men.

Researchers have found that females reduce their risk by 22 per cent, but the odds were only 6 per cent lower in males who follow the eating regime.

Cutting down on meat and dairy products, the preferred foods on the continent include fish, fruits, nuts and vegetables.

And there is no shortage of studies which show these food types can boost heart health and even stave off cancer and fatigue.

Experts at the University of An‐ glia led a study of 23,000 people, aged 40 to 77, who were as‐ signed into four groups, based on how closely they adhered to a Mediterranean diet.

Volunteers were asked to complete seven‐day diaries of ev‐ erything they ate and drank, said to be more precise than ques‐ tionnaires.

They then compared their stroke risks over a 17‐year period.

The findings showed the overall

risk was slashed by around 17 per cent, but with a massive differ‐ ence depending on sex.

Those at high risk of heart dis‐ ease, leaving them susceptible to a stroke, also had a lower chance of the latter if they opted for the healthier eating regime.

But again, the protection of‐ fered was higher in women.

The universities of Cambridge and Aberdeen were also involved in the study, one of the largest conducted, and the results were published in the American Heart Association’s journal Stroke.

Professor Ailsa Welch said that it is unclear why there are differ‐ ences between the genders, but suggested it could be down to

the types of stroke men and women experience.

However, she pointed out the study was too small to test for this and called for further experi‐ ments to investigate further the link.

Greek scientists have discov‐ ered that people over 65 slept sounder after eating olives, fish and seasonal fruits, major parts of a Mediterranean diet, al‐ though the exact reasons are not fully understood.

But experts said it could be be‐ cause some foods in the diet are good sources of melatonin, a hormone that tells the brain it’s time to wind down and go to sleep.

and finally...

5 doses. According to reports a man has received five doses of three different vaccinations.

He got his first shot of Pfizer in May. In June he got a shot of As‐ traZeneca, then went on to a Coronavac jab.

In July he allegedly managed to get a second dose of Pfizer and an‐ other Coronavac jab too. Officials initially believed that the man had a glitch on his record, but an investigation is now being carried out by the Municipal Health Department in Rio.

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CANARIES

DEAR reader, we’re through August and on the home straight into cooler times.

Hopefully. Who really knows, in this interesting new weather? My partner, back in California after his USA passport got the EU thumbs down, gives nightly reports of raging fires, abandoned towns and flooding. Is this divine retri‐ bution for Trump’s climate change de‐ nial?

News that by 2050 chunks of Spanish coastline’ll be under water and the Ca‐ naries arid, due to the Trade Winds that keep us cool ‘diminishing’, can’t be blamed solely on Trump, comforting though scapegoats are.

My latest grandson’s now three weeks old. The other little dears are three and six. By 2050, I’ll be long gone, but what about them? What about all the world’s kids? Can anybody explain why political correctness andhealth & safety are obsessions, whilst we still wantonly trash the planet? We worry about perfect kids’ car seats and traffic accidents, then continue to ignore the mega‐accident being imposed on their

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It’s getting cooler now LIFE GOES ON: An endless stream of Africans arrive, if they’re lucky.

whole future well‐being and planet?

Meanwhile, life goes on. The end‐ less stream of Africans arriving, if they’re lucky, continues. The casual‐ ties are horrific. So far this year, 7,000 have made it, amongst them 2,666 minors. Ninety‐six per cent of the 2,170 who didn’t make it had a watery

grave. Their bodies were never recov‐ ered.

At the other extreme of the wealth scale, the Atlantic between Africa and the Canaries is in the news with the in‐ stallation of a submarine Canalink cable connecting us and Morocco to main‐ land Spain, providing ultra fast, fibre op‐ tic communication.

“Worldwide, there are more than a million kms of submarine cable already functioning, 3,500 of which belong to this company,” explains Canalink CEO Carlos Suarez. Tenerife’s island Cabildo and Vodafone are 50/50 owners of the

new 2Africa connection Submarine cables are apparently un‐ der ‘permanent shark attack, causing recurring damage’. Do sharks know something we don’t? Of prime concern, however, is security and protection against military or terrorist attack, given our increasing dependence on cable‐ connected data processing centres. An attack, or failure, could paralyse a coun‐ try’s vital communication systems.

You’ve perhaps heard about the Royal Navy’s proposed Multi Role Ocean Surveillance ship, in service in 2024 to ‘ protect undersea critical na‐

tional infrastructure’.

Will crews of such surveillance ships commissioned to protect our new sub‐ marine cable close their eyes as Africans drift past on small boats, I wonder?

More science and high tech news: the world’s largest robotic telescope (NRT) is to be sited at La Palma’s Roque de Los Muchachos Observatory, fruit of collaboration between Oviedo Universi‐ ty, the Instituto de Astrofísica de Ca‐ narias and Liverpool’s John Moores Uni‐ versity, which will invest £4 million in the project.

Ending on a Covid note, check your genetic ancestry, dear readers of Euro‐ pean ancestry. Should your OAS1‐3 genes be of Neandertal haplotype, re‐ lax. You’re less susceptible to a severe reaction.

A last, and ingenuous, question: how can our species, blessed with such inge‐ nuity and inventiveness, not trouble it‐ self to protect its extraordinary, endan‐ gered natural environment as priority?

Barbara Belt. barbarabelt@gmail.com

Barbara Belt’s opinions are her own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.

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Go walking in Orihuela

WATERWHEELS: An opportunity for cyclists to ride out to Norias Gemelas.

ORIHUELA’S conducted tours continue in Septem‐ ber, city hall’s Tourism department announced.

These include a route leaving Orihuela cathedral at 8.30pm on Saturday September 11.

This takes participants to the 16th century Nues‐ tra Señora de Monserrate chapel which also hous‐ es a copy of the statue that is kept in the Nuestra Señor de Monserrate Sanctuary.

A week later, on September 18, the tour will in‐ stead set out from the Sanctuary, again at 8.30pm, taking a similar route to arrive at the chapel.

According to legend, the Sanctuary is construct‐ ed above the cave where the image of the city’s patroness was found in 1306 where it was hidden

for centuries. The existing building was built in the 18th century.

Friday, September 17, sees the Leyendas (Leg‐ ends) route followed by Palacios on September 24.

Both leave the Oficina de Turismo in central Ori‐ huela at 8.30pm.

Last up on September 26 is an opportunity for cyclists to ride to the Norias Gemelas waterwheels, leaving the Plaza del Carmen at 9am.

The excursions are all free, but places are limited and it is necessary to make a prior reservation via the web page of the Concejalía de Turismo web‐ site. For more information, send a WhatsApp to 673 836 385.

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A MORE unusual kind of pet has been rising in popularity in households in recent years.

An increasing number of people are choosing chickens as their pet of choice, and give them names and rights to

roam in their gardens. More than half a million are now kept as domestic animals in households across the UK alone according to the Pet Food Manufacturers’ Associa‐ tion’s annual survey.

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Chicken litter is a great nat‐ ural fertiliser so if you let them have free range of your garden, your plants will start looking perkier in no time.

They also devour any un‐ wanted pests and bugs in the gardens. Not to mention you’ll get an endless supply of fresh eggs in the morning.

Before taking a few hens in‐ to your home, check with neighbours and the local council first, as they’re classed as ‘livestock’ and sometimes aren’t allowed to be kept in gardens.

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

THE EUROWEEKLY NEWS urged its readers to support local businesses in the com‐ munity by going local now that the lockdown has ended and for your all your shop‐ ping this year, instead of feeding online giants and su‐ perstores.

We challenge you to redis‐ cover your local high streets, markets, butchers, greengro‐ cers and all of the wonderfully quirky independent business‐ es 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 collect services they can oper‐ ate, especially if you are un‐ able to get out due to health reasons or any other restric‐ tions. The joy of shopping lo‐ cal means that independent businesses can help support the local community.

Although it may be a euro or two cheaper elsewhere or online, consider where your money 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 independent stores are actu‐ ally much more than just a small high street shop, they’re a family’s legacy, often passed down through numerous gen‐ erations and support not just the current owner but the generation before.

For those stores which are new, that extra couple of eu‐ ros spent there are support‐ ing someone’s dream and am‐ bition, 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 multinational and chains.

So be sure to pre‐order your meat from a local butch‐ er and get your spuds from a local greengrocer, let us re‐ vive that community spirit and get to know our neigh‐ bours again.

You could also consider purchasing gift vouchers from local businesses to help them over the coming weeks, think‐ ing outside the box can often lead to some fantastic ideas.

Why not buy a meal for two, an hour’s tattoo time at a lo‐

cal studio, a hair cut at a local salon 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 family member’s phone bill for the month would actually be a better gift. Helping people alleviate 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 lo‐ cal economy in two ways.

First, buying local keeps mon‐ ey circulating within the local economy.

Studies have shown that lo‐ cal businesses recirculate a greater share of every euro as they create locally owned supply 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 retailers.

Money circulating through the local economy benefits everyone who is a part of each transaction. For exam‐ ple, 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 employ‐ ees and the restaurant uses revenue from sales to buy supplies from a neighbour‐ hood hardware store. This ex‐ ample illustrates how the re‐ circulation of money in the local economy leads to a stronger financial foundation for our neighbours and com‐ munities. Buying local also fu‐ els new employment and job opportunities for people with‐ in our community.

Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of sales and retain more employees over time. A fantastic exam‐ ple of how to support your lo‐ cal community is with a Chari‐ ty Gift certificate, why not donate to your loved one’s favourite cause.

Just remember to still fol‐ low the latest government ad‐ vice and any guidance busi‐ nesses have to keep everyone safe in the future.

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DGT clamping down ONE of the most common, and irritating, offences on Spanish motorways and dual carriageways, is drivers constantly using the middle or left lane, when the inside lane is empty, a practice that the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) calls ‘left lane syndrome’ and a habit that many drivers surely carry out in a subconscious fashion.

The Law on Traffic, Cir‐ culation of Motor Vehicles, and Road Safety is very clear about this situation, as stated in Article 15, “As a general rule, and espe‐ cially in curves and changes in elevation with reduced visibility, the vehi‐ cle should always circulate on all the roads covered by this law to the right, and as close as possible to the edge of the road, main‐ taining sufficient lateral separation to make the crossing safely.”

That said, when driving on roads with several lanes in each direction, it is mandatory to always travel in the right‐hand lane if you do not want to overtake, since the rest of the lanes on your left are only for overtaking, taking an exit on that side, or for use dur‐ ing a period of encounter‐ ing heavy traffic.

Despite the fact that the DGT always had the right to fine road users who drove in the central and left lanes while the right was free, the truth is that it has not usu‐ ally been a highly sanc‐ tioned infraction, but this has changed, as Traffic has begun to impose the first fines on drivers who habitu‐ ally use the left lane, hin‐ dering other drivers, and causing different dangerous situations on Spanish mo‐ torways and dual carriage‐ ways.

As proof of this, the Twit‐

ter profile SocialDriver post‐ ed online one of the sanc‐ tions that the DGT has im‐ posed on a driver this summer for, ‘driving out of town in a lane other than the one located further to the right, on a road with more than one lane for the same direction of travel, without the existence of traffic or road circum‐ stances that make it advis‐ able.’

The amount of the fine will be €80, but without the withdrawal of points from your licence.

Finally, the DGT asks drivers to remember that you cannot pass a vehicle while travelling on the right of them, when they are travelling slower on your left, as this practice is con‐ sidered serious, and is pun‐ ishable by a fine of up to €200, and the withdrawal of four points from the driv‐ ing licence.

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Toyota Corolla Touring Sport - a car for all reasons ROAD TEST

by Mark Slack T H E term Tourer is used a lot nowadays and essential‐ ly means a small estate car.

That might seem a bit of a contradiction, but most peo‐ ple don’t need the extra space offered by a tradition‐ al estate car, they just need that little bit of additional practicality. Whether for family sporting activities, weekends away or that ex‐ tra load of gardening rub‐ bish to the local tip, the Tourer offers a neat bridge between a normal car and a potentially larger than re‐ quired SUV or estate.

One of the best Tourers in terms of that additional lit‐ tle bit of practicality is Toy‐ ota’s Corolla. The Corolla name has been a mainstay in Toyota’s sales lists for decades, a slight Auris relat‐ ed intermission apart, and a popular addition to many driveways up and down the country. In its current hybrid

guise the range of Corolla Tourers start from €30,036/£25,755 and ends with my top‐line Excel ver‐ sion with 2.0‐litre petrol power costing €37,272/£31,960.

There are seven grades within the Touring Sports line up and standard equip‐ ment across the board in‐ cludes adaptive cruise, auto lights, LED headlights, dual zone air conditioning, heat‐ ed front seats, reversing camera along with Blue‐ tooth, Apple Car Play An‐ droid Auto.

Engine choices are 1.8‐ litre 122hp or 2.0‐litre 184hp petrol engines, both mated

to automatic transmissions.

Toyota’s hybrid system starts the car in EV mode and introduces the petrol engine once moving above what might be termed car park speeds. While cruising, the petrol engine and elec‐ tric motor are used indepen‐ dently according to demand, accelerate and both cut in to provide power, when decel‐ erating the car goes to elec‐ tric power only.

It’s a clever system that’s not only efficient but man‐ ages, unless you’re con‐ stantly using full throttle, to use electric power for a sur‐ prising amount of driving. As a hybrid it removes range

and finally...

Becoming popular. Electric vehicles are increasing in popularity with around 260,000 in the UK according to the latest available da‐ ta. It’s now far more common to see charging points in public car parks, large supermarket car parks and motorway service stations and you can now share your neighbour’s charger too (with their permission of course).

anxiety and makes the Corolla a true car for all journeys, whether long or short.

Inside there’s a feeling of quality in the build and ma‐ terials with a usefully large touch screen, unusually for

a Japanese car pretty intu‐ itive to use, and some but‐ tons. Hurrah! It’s a smooth performer with very decent acceleration and there’s even a vaguely sporting ver‐ sion.

The only downside was

the darker interior of my test car made one of my passengers feel a little on the claustrophobic side, but lighter colours are available.

Overall this is an eminently sensible and practical choice on so many levels.

SPORT THE Qatar 2022 World Cup quali‐ fier between Brazil and Argentina was abandoned under the most bizarre and unprecedented cir‐ cumstances.

In an unprecedented turn of event on Sunday September 5, the Qualifier in Sao Paulo, be‐ tween Brazil and Argentina was abandoned, when Brazilian health officials took to the pitch accom‐ panied by Brazilian Federal Police officers just after the game had started, to confront Argentinian players and accuse them of break‐ ing coronavirus rules.

The Argentina team walked off the field, leaving captain Lionel Messi, with the health officials and the managers of both teams, who held a discussion on the pitch, which resulted in the match being abandoned, with CONMEBOL, the South American football confed‐ eration confirming that the match was called off by the referee.

A disciplinary report will now be submitted to FIFA, and the presi‐ dent of Brazil’s health agency An‐ visa, Antonio Barra Torres, has al‐ legedly said that four Argentinian players will be fined and subse‐ quently deported from Brazil for allegedly not complying with coro‐

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Brazil v Argentina qualifier abandoned

ON THE PITCH: Health officials together with police officers stopped the match. navirus protocols, after he had ap‐ parently already asked for the im‐ mediate isolation of the four play‐ ers prior to the game.

Coronavirus rules in Brazil state that anybody arriving from the UK ‐ which was the case with the four Premiership players ‐ must isolate for the mandatory 14 days, and while Anvisa refused to publicly name the players, the only four who play in the Premier League,

and who had flown in from Cara‐ cas last Friday with the rest of the squad ‐ are Cristian Romero and Giovani Lo Celso of Tottenham, and Emiliano Martinez and Emil‐ iano Buendia of Aston Villa.

In a statement issued before kick‐off, Anvisa said, “Anvisa con‐ siders the situation a serious health risk, and so has asked local health authorities to determine the immediate quarantine of the

players, who are stopped from participating in any activity, and should be prevented from re‐ maining on Brazilian soil.”

Anvisa also claim to have been tipped off to the fact that all four players had been in the UK during the last 14 days, but had not stipu‐ lated that on their immigration forms, which is clearly being inter‐ preted as them giving false infor‐ mation to the health authorities.

Max Verstappen becomes a Dutch national hero FORMULA ONE driver Max Verstappen is a national hero in the Netherlands after becoming the first Dutchman to ever win the Dutch Grand Prix.

Max Verstappen started the Heineken Dutch GP at the Zandvoort racing circuit on Sunday afternoon, September 5, in pole position, and led the race from start to the che‐ quered flag, to become the first Dutch Formula One driver to ever win a home Grand Prix, elevating him to the status of a national hero, as the capacity crowd of 80,000, mostly or‐ ange‐clad fans went ballistic, with orange smoke filling the sky as they celebrated.

This victory in the Red Bull car puts the 23‐year‐old Dutch‐ man back on top of the driver’s championship, three points ahead of his rival Lewis Hamilton, in the Mercedes, who fin‐ ished in second position, and now they will head to Monza in Italy next weekend and do it all again, for the season’s second sprint race.

Speaking emotionally after the race, Verstappen said, “Obviously the expectations were high going into the week‐ end, and it’s never easy to fulfil that, but I’m just so happy to win here, to take the lead in the championship as well. It’s just an amazing day. The whole crowd... it’s incredible,” with Toto Wolff, the boss of the Mercedes team conceding, “Credit to him, credit to Red Bull, they were absolutely fault‐ less today.”

Hamilton’s teammate Valtteri Bottas finished third, briefly leading the race when Verstappen went in for a pit‐ stop, with France’s Pierre Gasly bringing his AlphaTauri home in fourth spot, as another French driver, Ferrari’s Charles Leclerc took fifth.