Euro Weekly News - Axarquia 14 - 20 October 2021 Issue 1893

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The people’s paper Issue No. 1893 14 - 20 October 2021

Allotments open VELEZ-MALAGA Council has announced that residents over 60 can apply for an allotment to be used for growing fruit and vegetables.

Those interested can register for the plots between October 18 and November 18 and applications can be collected at the elderly day centres in Capuchinos and Torre del Mar.

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The change WOMEN in Rincon de la Victoria are being invited to take part in a workshop to mark International Menopause Day on Monday, October 18.

The workshop will take place online at 6pm and those interested can register at bien estarsocialreservas@gmail. com.

The event will focus on better understanding what happens during the menopause and how to properly manage menopausal symptoms.

On the move THE Coraxalia International Choir has moved to VelezMalaga. The group said it has relocated to provide easier access to people in local communities who want to come and sing with them.

The choir rehearses on Thursdays from 5.30pm to 8pm in Casa Hermandad de la Cofradia de los Estudiantes in Plaza de los Sastres and is inviting anyone interested in singing with them to join.

For more information, contact 657 951 755 or email eu corax@hotmail.es.

Local businesses to be awarded.

A SUM of €600,000 in Covid financial aid has been earmarked for small‐to‐medium enter‐ prises and the self‐em‐ ployed in Velez‐Malaga this month.

The aid was an‐ nounced by the mayor of Velez‐Malaga, Antonio Moreno Ferrer, the first deputy mayor, Jesus Perez Atencia, Councillor Víctor Gonzalez, the

councillor for Finance, David Vilches and the councillor for Commerce, Jose Maria Dominguez.

Councillor Gonzalez said: “Actions like this are the public service that a council should provide in our role as managers... to be next to those who need it most and work together to achieve a united, strengthened municipali‐

ty and town and look forward to the future.”

There are three differ‐ ent awards to be grant‐ ed to businesses de‐ pending on the percentage of revenue they lost over the pan‐ demic. The only condi‐ tion after being awarded the grant is that busi‐ nesses continue trading in the area for up to six months later.

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NERJA: Aiming to enhance its tourist image.

Lighting upgrade THE mayor of Nerja, Jose Alberto Armijo, has an‐ nounced that public lighting will be installed to en‐ hance the area around the Balcon de Europa and the Church of El Salvador.

The amount allocated to the programme is €91,759.35.

He said: “This important action, which aims to en‐ hance the image of the tourist and historical heart of the municipality and achieve greater energy efficien‐ cy, is complemented by the partial replacement works of the promenade that will begin in mid‐ November.”

The work will be carried out by Elecnor, SA after they obtained the best technical assessment of the two companies that applied for the tender. Lighting will be placed within the facades of the Church and bell tower, and the arches of the Paseo and the bases of the palm trees.

“These works are financed by the subsidy granted by the Tourism Council of the Junta de Andalucia to Nerja as a Tourist Municipality of Andalucia (MUNI‐ TUR),” explained the mayor. He also thanked the re‐ gional administration for the allocation of the funds.

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Votes over community funding RINCON DE LA VICTORIA Council has announced residents will be able to vote to choose which community plans they would like to receive funding.

The council said residents will now be able to vote between 32 plans for the funding, which were submitted by the public as part of the council’s citizen participation process.

In total, the council received 106 proposals from residents.

T he plans come under seven different categories, including playgrounds, infrastructures, sports, animals, the environment, transport, and beaches.

C ouncillor for C itizen P articipation, J osefa Carnero, said: “From the study carried out by officials, these 32 proposals have been selected which respond to requests from the community.”

ALMUÑECAR is offering training to improve employability among residents with new courses.

All the training courses will be carried out online and are aimed at sectors including commerce, hospitality and care of the elderly.

Registration is open until October 22.

It is hoped that the courses will help retrain unemployed people in the area, according to the deputy mayor and delegate for Employment and Training, Beatriz Gonzalez.

The new training is also aimed at improving employability.

Deputy mayor Beatriz Gonzalez commented: “The

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courses, with a registration fee of €30, will be held during the months of November and December, taking advantage

of dates which are most availability for users.”

The registration period for the online courses is now open.

For more information and registration, contact the Area of Promotion and Employment, located on the first floor of the Casa de la Cultura or via email: fomentoyem pleo@almunecar.es or call 958 639 170.

The Almuñecar Town Hall’s Employment and Training Department are collaborating with the company Matrícula 10 to provide the training.

Business aid AID has been granted to hundreds of busi‐ nesses in Almuñecar and La Herradura that were hit by the coronavirus pandemic and forced to temporarily close.

According to the town hall, 483 local busi‐ nesses or companies applied for the €700 grants. A grand total of 262 applications have been approved. The grants have been ap‐ proved for businesses that could prove they were affected by closures late last year.

Councillor Rafael Caballero explained: “A total of 483 applications were submitted, of which 262 were accepted and 121 were ex‐ cluded for various reasons, including the vast majority because they were businesses that could be open, according to the rules at the time.” The councillor explained that the town hall had been working hard to process all the documentation that had been received. He commented: “The deadline was also re‐ opened for those who lacked documentation

COUNCILLOR: A total of 483 applications were submitted.

or had to correct it.” The town hall has a bud‐ get of around €250,000 for this aid. It will be handed out to successful applicants through‐ out October. All the successful applicants will receive up to €700.

According to the town hall: “There were seven sections of eligible expenses, including the purchase of material for the protection of Covid as well as the payment of rents, self‐ employed fees and supplies.”

Following 2 year absence.

Patron saints procession NERJA hosted a pro‐ cession of its patron saints on Sunday, Oc‐ tober 10, following an absence of two years.

The patron saints, San Miguel Arcangel and Nuestra Señora de las Angustias, were once again part of a procession through the streets of the mu‐ nicipality.

The saint came from the Church of El Sal‐ vador and the virgin from the Hermitage that bears her name, meeting at the conflu‐ ence of calles Pintada and Cruz to continue the journey back to the Church of El Sal‐ vador together.

The event was at‐ tended by the mayor of Nerja, Jose Alberto Armijo, the councillor for Fiestas, Elena Galvez, the councillor for Culture, Gema La‐ guna, and other mem‐ bers of the council.

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NIBS EXTRA Rural women AS well as being Spain’s National Day, October 12 was declared Day of Rural Women by the Malaga Provincial Council which invited women’s associations in Axarquia to promote the empowerment of rural women and try to generate employment for them in the rural environment.

Periana fire THERE was an outbreak of forest fire reported in the Cortijo Carrion area of Periana on the evening of October 12 which was quickly controlled by 38 firefighters supported by four helicopters who were mobilised in accordance with the Andalucian Plan Infoca.

Oktoberfest DUE to the pandemic, last year’s planned Oktoberfest beer festival in Torre del Mar had to be cancelled, but thanks to the massive drop in infections it returns to the Avenida Tore Tore on the weekend of October 16 and 17 starting at noon on each day.

Mental Health TO celebrate Mental Health Day on Sunday October 10, the Velez-Malaga Council not only announced its support for those having problems with their mental health, but took 10 positive slogans and had them painted on different pedestrian crossings throughout the city.

Virgin of Pilar COINCIDING with National Day, the mayor of Motril, Luisa Maria Garcia Chamorro, along with members of her council, attended the traditional Mass of the Guardia Civil based in Motril in honour of their Patron, the Virgin of Pilar with all members of the Guardia Civil team taking part.

THE APAA animal charity in Nerja has revealed it has raised nearly €3,000 of its €200,000 shelter appeal tar‐ get just weeks after launching its campaign.

The charity is planning to build a large shelter for Nerja’s homeless animals with the funds.

Speaking about the appeal, APAA Treasurer Sue Kiff said: “We have done really well with donations and are com‐ ing to around €3,000 raised in only a few weeks.”

She added that the charity had received several large do‐ nations.

Sue said: “The company Blevins Franks support several

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Help needed APAA: Planning to build a shelter.

charities locally and have now chosen to help the APAA Ner‐ ja. They are donating €925.

“We have also received €414 from another donor who

Mobility improved ALMUÑECAR Town Hall is removing architec‐ tural barriers and improving mobility on the Avenida de Europa.

Work is being carried out to pave the tree sur‐ rounds along the street. Kerbs are also being re‐ moved which had caused pedestrians to fall.

The work is being carried out by students f r o m t h e c o n s t r u c t i o n w o r k s h o p o f t h e ‘ E m‐ pleate’ training programme. The students are working to remove architectural barriers caused by the kerbs located in Avenida Europa.

The deputy mayor and head of Training and Employment, Beatriz Gonzalez visited the works and explained the difference the improvements would make.

She commented: “The removal of the kerb is accompanied by the paving of the planters, which are located on the pavement, thereby, in addition to eliminating the barrier that caused falls, we have gained space for the passage of passers‐by, especially if they are using pushchairs or wheelchairs.”

The council said the plants will be maintained and watered.

offered to give the charity a percentage of their rental in‐ come.”

She added: “Our dog spon‐ sorship programme is also do‐ ing really well.”

To continue to raise funds for the APAA’s shelter appeal, the charity is now holding a fashion show in November to raise funds for its €200,000 tar‐ get to build its new animal refuge.

The show will take place at the Hotel Rural Almazara on Sunday, November 28 from 2pm to 6pm.

Sports funding RESIDENTS of Motril can ap‐ ply for €130,000 of athletic financial aid until Monday, October 18.

The Diputacion de Grana‐ da announced it would be helping local entities pro‐ mote their grassroots sports by identifying their out‐ standing individual athletes and offering them the grants. The athletes must have received sports merits

Up to nine live music per‐ formances were also held with artists and groups.

The mayor of Rincon de la Victoria, Francisco Salado, said, “the interest that this type of event continues to arouse, aimed at the general public, which is invigorating the tourist, leisure and gas‐ tronomy agenda of Rincon de la Victoria.”The head of Baobab Eventos, Fabian

in official competitions in the 2020 season to apply and the money is to be used to continue their participa‐ tion in future high level events. The funding can also be used to publicise the ath‐ letes, their efforts and achievements to the wider public.

The maximum budget available to grant the subsi‐ dies is €130,000.

Choir concert A MEN’S and boy’s choir from Denmark, Syngedren‐ gene, will be performing a concert at the San Andres Apostol church in Torre del Mar on Thursday, October 21. The choir will be performing European choral music from across five centuries under conductor Finn Peder‐ son. The group, from Our Lady’s Church in Denmark, will be performing from 5.30pm in Torre del Mar.

Food Trucks Xperience RINCON DE LA VICTORIA has celebrated its Food Trucks Xperience with events and live concerts.

The culinary event took place in the Plaza Al‐Andalus from October 8 to 12 and of‐ fered different culinary vari‐ eties such as Argentine em‐ panadas, German sausages, Venezuelan arepas, as well as vegetarian and gluten‐ free foods.

Sue Kiff said: “We are just picking out clothes for it now and tickets will be available soon.”

Both pre‐loved and new clothing will be on sale after the show and all proceeds will go towards the APAA’s shelter appeal, raising the money needed to provide a refuge for Nerja´s homeless animals.

The APAA is also planning to create a calendar with pictures of its rescue dogs outside of lo‐ cal businesses which will pay to advertise in it.

Tickets to the APAA’s fash‐ ion show, priced €15, can be bought from the charity’s shop at Calle Chaparil 7 in Nerja, or on 643 406 591.

D’angelo, thanked Rincon de la Victoria Council for their collaboration and said “this year we include gluten‐free foods as well as dishes for vegetarians.” The participat‐ ing establishments of the Food Trucks Xperience were La Porteña, La Rica Vida, The Wurstruck, The Trick Truck, Broasted Chicken Truck, Arepita, Nómada street food, and Little Havana.

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Active elderly THE mayor of Nerja has encouraged the elderly to participate in activi‐ ties following the suc‐ cess of the Nerja Feria.

Mayor Jose Alberto Armijo, together with the councillor for Fiestas, Elena Galvez, and the councillors of Social Ser‐ vices, Citizen Participa‐ tion and Urban Plan‐ ning, greeted the elderly present at a lunch or‐ ganised by the council.

After lunch, they were able to enjoy a perfor‐ mance by local artist Pa‐ co el Apañao.

During the event, the winner of the Flamenco 2021 of the Third Age was chosen, which went to Maria del Carmen Muñoz Muñoz for her traditional fair dress.

The councillor con‐ gratulated the winner, again encouraging the elderly to participate, “join in all the activities carried out both from the council and from the Active Participation Cen‐ tre. It is very important to stay active as it con‐ tributes to good health.

Jose Alberto Armijo concluded by reiterating the council’s willingness to continue working hand in hand with the associations in all the ac‐ tions that they consider beneficial for the elderly.

Training for jobless

FREE COURSE: Will teach people to become cleaners.

RINCON DE LA VICTORIA Council is offering free training to local unemployed people from October 27 to Novem‐ ber 12. The council is offering 15 places for the free training, which will teach people how to become cleaners, and reg‐ istration is open from October 13 to 20. The course will in‐

volve 60 hours of training from 9am to 2pm at the APAL Delphos facilities. Those inter‐ ested in taking part in the training can visit APAL Delphos on Calle Arroyo Tota‐ lan Edificio Puerta Axarquia, bajo, Cala del Moral, from 9am to 2pm. For more infor‐ mation, contact 952 978 330.

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Bullfighting awards approved THE Junta of Andalucia has approved the cre‐ ation and regulation of the Andalucia Bullfighting Awards. The awards intend to recognise all the different groups that contribute to the defence and promotion of the festivals. The prizes will be of an honorary nature and may be awarded to individuals or legal entities, public or private, na‐ tional or foreign, who have distinguished them‐ selves in the different artistic and cultural areas of bullfighting.

Winners will be chosen by a jury made up of no

less than five and no more than 15 members, who will be appointed by the Ministry of the Presiden‐ cy, Public Administration and Interior, and compe‐ tent in bullfighting matters. The representation of women and men will be respected and balanced.

At a time when there is increasing anti‐bullfight‐ ing sentiment, the regional government has also given the green light to the creation of the Andalu‐ cian Network of bullfighting, whose main objective will be to protect and promote the cultural and so‐ cial aspects of the activity.

Basque fines refunded BASQUE COUNTRY Vice‐President and Security Councillor, Josu Erkorekaand, has announced the regional government will return all fines paid in the first State of Alarm. The fines were for failure to comply with the measures established to stop the coronavirus pandemic. Those mea‐ sures were later annulled by the constitutional court. In total, he estimates about €1.6 million will be refunded. The councillor acknowledged the constitutional resolution, which annulled some of the measures of the State of Alarm “has a demotivating effect for those managing the responsibility of public health.” During the first State of Alarm, 22,900 complaints were filed that required processing. Erkorekaand insisted they were not “a whim, as the health and lives of many people depended on compliance with the rules. But the work was done for nothing.”

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Expats reject further refugee help EURO WEEKLY NEWS readers have voted to say that they believe countries nearer to Afghanistan should be help‐ ing refugees there.

The EWN asked readers whether European countries should be taking in more refugees and 100 per cent said they should not.

Instead, readers said that there are other ways to help people in Afghanistan, with many suggesting that neigh‐ bouring countries help.

One reader, Tom Hassel, suggested that Saudi Arabia could take in Afghan refugees.

Meanwhile, Linda Exton said: “Plenty of suitable coun‐ tries bordering their own same culture.”

The United Nations Refugee Agency last week de‐

REFUGEES: Better that suitable cultural countries help out.

manded that the EU resettle more than 40,000 Afghan refugees.

Speaking after an EU‐host‐ ed online forum, European Commissioner for Migration Ylva Johansson said that the target is “doable,” but that it requires EU member states to make pledges.

She said: “Countries will al‐ so take into account other ways of protecting people.

We had a broader approach to protecting people at this fo‐ rum.”

She added: “I was over‐ whelmed by the support of the member states. We are right in the middle of resettle‐ ment pledges for next year and the member states are ready to increase them.”

UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi told the EU’s high‐level forum on providing protection to Afghans at risk that at least 85,000 people ‐ and possibly more ‐ would need their pro‐ tection over the next five years and that the EU should take in at least half of that number.

Social media growth THE instant messaging app Telegram added a record‐breaking 70 million new users on Monday while Facebook, WhatsApp, and In‐ stagram went offline for several hours, ac‐ cording to the company’s CEO. In a post on October 5, Telegram Pavel Durov called the influx of new users ‘refugees from other platforms.’

“The daily growth rate of Telegram exceed‐ ed the norm by an order of magnitude. I am proud of how our team handled the unprece‐ dented growth because Telegram continued to work flawlessly for the vast majority of our

users,” Durov wrote.

Telegram, which recently topped one billion downloads, had 500 million monthly active users this year.

Signal, which competes with both Telegram and WhatsApp, also added new users. It said yesterday in a tweet that ‘millions of new users’ had joined the app.

This isn’t the first time Telegram and Signal have gained at the expense of their chief rival.

The two added millions of users earlier this year when WhatsApp was struggling to explain exactly what its new privacy policy entailed.

Third vaccine dose agreed SPAIN’S Ministry of Health has agreed to administer a third dose of the Covid‐19 vaccine from Pfizer or Mod‐ erna to those over 70 years of age as from October 25, provided that six months have passed since they re‐ ceived their last dose.

After this age group has been inoculated they will be followed by the 65‐year‐ old group, according to re‐ ports from regional

sources. In the voting, there were 12 votes in favour, five abstentions and two against (Community of Madrid and Galicia).

The vaccinations will be carried out together with the flu vaccine, claim sever‐ al autonomous communi‐ ties such as Andalucia and Castilla‐La Mancha. There are also internal reports that support the fact that it could be done as long as

they are inoculated in dif‐ ferent anatomical places.

“The objective is to in‐ crease the protection of the most vulnerable people.

With the agreement adopt‐ ed on Tuesday, October, 5, the Vaccination Strategy against Covid‐19 in Spain continues and scientific evi‐ dence has shown that age is the main risk factor,” said the Ministry of Health in a press release.

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Google password warning GOOGLE has alerted users that billions of passwords for online accounts have leaked to the web.

However, there is a free handy tool (extension) that allows users of its Chrome web browser to quickly check if their online cre‐ dentials are compromised.

The tool is called Password Checkup (released in 2019) and is a free add‐on for the Chrome browser. It works by scanning known databases of usernames and passwords that have been stolen from websites by hackers and made available online.

Password Checkup encourages you to change your usernames and passwords if they’ve been leaked by hackers and is worth running even if your account has not been hacked.

“Since launch, our early experi‐ ment has involved over 650,000 people. In the first month alone, we scanned 21 million user‐ names and passwords and flagged over 316,000 as insecure ‐ 1.5 per cent of logins verified by the extension,” explained Google’s Jennifer Pullman.

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Unemployment down again UNEMPLOYMENT in Spain has de‐ clined for the seventh consecutive month, falling by 76,113 people, with the biggest drop ever in a month of September.

There have not been seven con‐ secutive months of decline since 2000, although the decline in 2021 is more than three times that of two decades ago (‐201,649). In year‐on‐year terms, there are 518,683 (‐13.73 per cent) fewer un‐ employed people.

Unemployment fell in all sectors of activity with respect to August.

In the service industry it fell by 39,312 (‐1.68 per cent) people, in agriculture by 13,067 (‐8.08 per cent) people, in construction by 12,309 (‐4.53 per cent) people and, lastly, among the group without previous employment it fell by 4,757 people (‐1.68 per cent).

Industry, agriculture and con‐ struction already have a lower level of registered unemployment than at the beginning of the pandemic.

Female unemployment in

FIGURES: Show that there are fewer unemployed people.

September fell by 39,977 (‐2.03 per cent) compared to August to a total of 1,932,239. Unemployment also fell among men, with 36,136 (‐2.65 per cent) fewer registered, bringing the total to 1,325,563.

The number of contracts regis‐ tered in September was 1,923,846.

Of this total, 216,688 employment contracts are permanent. They rep‐ resent 11.26 per cent of all con‐ tracts and represents an increase of 53,479 (32.77 per cent) compared to the same period in 2020.

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Good Samaritan

A GOOD SAMARITAN hand‐ ed in more than €1,000 in for‐ eign currency along with bank cards that they had found in a folder.

Officers from the Accident In‐ vestigation and Attestation Group (GIAA) of the Malaga Lo‐ cal Police were able to locate the owner of the folder, who was a 70‐year‐old Venezuelan woman. Somehow she had lost the folder which contained US$1,500 in 50 and 100 dollar notes. The folder also contained English pounds along with Swiss francs. The total value came to €1,368. Early in the afternoon on Friday, September 24, a local resident headed to the GIAA premises of the Malaga Local Police station which is located in Llano de la Trinidad. The local woman had discovered a black

folder in the area and had decid‐ ed to make sure it was returned to its rightful owner. She told the police that there were docu‐ ments inside. Local Police offi‐ cers inspected the folder and found it contained documenta‐ tion along with a white enve‐ lope. The envelope contained money from various countries.

Two bank credit cards were also discovered inside. The officers quickly set about locating the rightful owner of the folder.

They soon managed to contact the owner who then made their way to the police station. The el‐ derly woman thankfully had all of her belongings returned to her. She was extremely grateful to the honest lady who had turned in the folder. She was al‐ so pleased with the excellent work of the Local Police officers.

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FROM next year, the EU will ban a food additive commonly used as a colourant in products such as chewing gum, pastries, food supplements, soups and broths. Member States, including Spain, have approved the European Commission’s proposal to ban the use of Titanium Dioxide (E171) from 2022.

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Child poverty warning

CHARITIES have warned that the Universal credit cut will push 22,000 children into poverty in Scotland alone.

On October 6, child poverty campaigners high‐ lighted the financial support that hard up families are still entitled to as the £20 a week cut to uni‐ versal credit comes into effect.

Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) in Scotland says too many families don’t claim council tax re‐ duction or other benefits that they have a right to, including additional support for disabilities or long term illness.

With a £1,040 a year cut to their universal credit now a harsh reality they say it is vital these

families are supported to get the benefits they are still entitled to.

Commenting on the report Kirsty McKechnie, Early Warning System Project Manager at CPAG in Scotland said: “It is shameful that the Prime Minister has pressed ahead with today’s extraor‐ dinary cut to ordinary family incomes ‐ ripping over £1,000 a year from already inadequate fam‐ ily budgets.”

The new report highlights that the universal credit cut will now push an estimated 22,000 chil‐ dren into poverty in Scotland alone. It will also dramatically increase the loss in social security support available to low paid workers since 2010.

Diabetes forecast

ACCORDING to new data, nearly one in 10 people in the UK are expected to de‐ velop diabetes by 2030. In England, the majority of adults are now considered to have unhealthy weights and over a quarter of peo‐ ple in England are consid‐ ered to be officially obese.

Type 2 diabetes is far more common in people who are overweight.

Over the last 15 years, the

number of diabetes diag‐ noses has doubled. Suffer‐ ers are at risk of serious complications which include amputation and blindness.

Chris Askew, Chief Execu‐ tive of Diabetes UK, believes the UK is facing a public health emergency: “Every diagnosis of diabetes is life‐ changing, the relentlessness of the condition, and the ev‐ er‐present fear of serious and life‐altering complica‐

tions, is a lifelong reality for millions of families across the UK. “It’s a sobering thought then that if we don’t act to‐ day, hundreds of thousands more will face the life‐ changing news that they have Type 2 diabetes. We’re at the tipping point of a public health emergency and need action today to stop it in its tracks,” he added.

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Long Covid battle

DATA provided by the Of‐ fice for National Statistics (ONS) has shown a growing number of people are fight‐ ing long Covid.

The ONS said: “An esti‐ mated 1.1 million people (1.7 per cent of the popula‐ tion) experienced self‐re‐ ported long Covid in the four weeks to September 5, 2021.”

For a person to be suffer‐ ing from long Covid they need to have symptoms that have lasted for more than four weeks since they were first infected with Covid. According to the ONS, over 400,000 people are thought to have been suffering for more than a year.

The ONS published their latest figures on October 7 and said: “There has been a notable increase in the number of people with self‐ reported long Covid who were first infected (or sus‐ pected they were infected) less than eight weeks previ‐

LONG COVID: A growing number of people are suffering.

ously, from 50,000 (5.2 per cent of those with self‐re‐ ported long Covid) at Au‐ gust 1 2021 to 132,000 (12.2 per cent) at Septem‐ ber 5 2021.

“These new cases of self‐ reported long Covid follow

a period of increased inci‐ dence of Covid‐19 infec‐ tions in the UK during July 2021,” they added.

The most common symp‐ toms are fatigue, shortness of breath, loss of smell and difficulty concentrating.

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IN George Washington’s days, there were no cameras.

One’s image was either sculpted or painted. Some paint‐ ings of George Washington showed him standing behind a desk with one arm behind his back, while others showed both legs and both arms.

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MUSEUM: Bones were found in a drawer.

UK dinosaur identified SCIENTISTS identified the oldest‐known meat‐eating di‐ nosaur from the UK after bones were rediscovered at London’s Natural History Mu‐ seum.

The fossil fragments that belong to the dinosaur were originally discovered in Wales.

Scientists have now been able to determine they belong to a new species of dinosaur. The bones were found in a drawer at the Natural History Muse‐ um mixed in with crocodile materials.

Dr Angela Milner, who found the bones, died earli‐ er this year. Senior re‐ searcher in paleobiology at the museum, Dr Susannah Maidment admitted: “This paper would not have been

possible without her.”

Scientists have named the chicken‐size animal, Pendraig Milnerae. It would have been around one‐metre‐long in‐ cluding its tail. It has been identified as being the oldest known meat‐eating dinosaur in the UK. Dr Stephan Spiekman, a re‐ search fellow at the museum commented: “Pendraig mil‐ nerae lived near the begin‐ ning of the evolution of the meat‐eating dinosaurs. It’s clear from the bones we have that it was a meat‐eater, but early in the evolution of this group, these animals were quite small, in contrast to the very famous meat‐eating di‐ nosaurs like T. rex which evolved much later.”

MODERNA co‐founders Noubar Afeyan and Robert Langer, and investor Timothy Springe have made it onto the Forbes rich list. The three billionaires made it into the top 400 richest Americans for the year.

Their fortunes have grown significantly due to sales of the Moderna vaccine during the ongoing Coron‐ avirus pandemic.

The three are said to be worth over $3.5 billion each. They were added to the list based on Septem‐ ber stock prices, financial records and SEC docu‐ ments.

Moderna was the first coronavirus vaccine compa‐ ny to make it to human testing. This saw the stock value climb. More than 150 million doses have been administered since the vaccine was first approved by

the US Food and Drug Administration.

Across the world, many people have seen their jobs disappear and their businesses devastated due to the pandemic. However, according to Forbes, the 400 richest people in America have seen their fortunes grow dramatically.

This year many new names are featured on the list.

Most of these people come from tech, finance and healthcare industries.

Massachusetts‐based Moderna has been criticised for the profits the investors have made. CEO, Stephane Bancel, believes next year vaccines will be accessible to ‘everyone on Earth’. AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have stated that they do not ex‐ pect to profit from their coronavirus jabs.

EU citizens’ benefits warning CHARITY workers have warned EU citizens face losing benefits in a few weeks’ time if they fail to update their DWP profile.

The Department for Work and Pen‐ sions (DWP) has reportedly informed the Work Rights Centre (WRC) that all EU and European Economic Area na‐ tionals need to prove their right to re‐ side in the UK. They will be able to do this by uploading a code provided by the Home Office. This needs to be

done before the end of the month.

The charity has warned that if on‐ line DWP profiles are not updated correctly, people could disappear from the system. Other charities have warned of the same issue.

WRC believe that many people could see their benefits disappear.

They have warned that not everyone knows they need to update their pro‐ file. Olivia Vicol, director for the chari‐ ty said: “Frankly, this is mass disenti‐

tlement waiting to happen. Many charities, including ours, warned that a digital‐only immigration status wouldn’t remove the pressure of hav‐ ing to prove your rights.”

There are around 450,000 appli‐ cants still waiting to be processed through the settlement scheme. The demand from the DWP could cause these people anxiety as the govern‐ ment sits on a backlog of applica‐ tions.

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Expats divided over anti-vaxxers

VACCINES: Everyone has the right to choose freely.

EXPATS in Spain are divided over whether anti‐vaxxer protestors who cause disrup‐ tion should be arrested.

The EWN asked readers whether they thought protestors should be arrested and a narrow majority of 57.1 per cent said they should not.

Meanwhile, 42.9 per cent said they think they should.

Many of those who support‐ ed demonstrators said they had a right to protest, while those against them argued that they cause disruption.

One reader, Alan Howard, said: “Whilst I agree some vac‐ cines are good and needed, others are not and everyone has a right to investigate and choose freely.”

Last week, anti‐vaxxer protesters in Rome targeted the Italian Prime Minister’s of‐ fice and the CGIL trade union headquarters.

Italian police used water can‐

nons and tear gas to push back hundreds of people, including neo‐fascist activists, that were demonstrating in Rome against a government drive to make the Covid ‘Green Pass’ manda‐ tory for all workers .

One group of protesters tried to break through police lines to reach Prime Minister Mario Draghi’s city centre office in the capital, at the same time, an‐ other group tried to smash their way into the headquarters of Italy’s main CGIL trade union.

Italy was set to become the first country in Europe to make all workers carry the Green Pass in an effort to accelerate vacci‐ nations and stamp out infec‐ tions.

The pass, a digital or paper certificate showing someone has received at least one vac‐ cine dose, has tested negative or recently recovered from the virus, was originally conceived as a way of easing travel.

Housing vouchers for youngsters THE Spanish President Pedro Sánchez announced on Tuesday, October 5, that the new housing law will include a voucher to help young people. The ‘youth housing voucher’ aims to help young people become independent and rent somewhere to live.

It is expected that the housing voucher will be worth €250 per month. It is planned to last for two years. The voucher will be aimed at young people between 18 and 35 years of age. The voucher would only be available to those who have an an‐ nual income of less than €23,725.

Sánchez confirmed that for the

most vulnerable families the housing voucher may be complemented with direct rental aid too. Sanchez spoke in Sevilla at the first Urban Forum of Spain.

“We are going to allocate a public policy to reduce the age of emancipa‐ tion, which is so unbearably high in our country, so that young people can access decent rental housing with the support and help of the General State Administration,” said the Spanish President.

The new housing law will still need to go through several stages before being approved.

Snow cannons for Sierra Nevada THE Sierra Nevada in Granada, has an‐ nounced that they are adding 77 of the lat‐ est‐generation snow cannons to their snow‐ making system for the 2021/22 winter season.

This move sees the resort taking another step forward in the renovation and mod‐ ernisation of their snowmaking equipment.

Since last season the ski resort has already installed over 200 new cannons. All are said

to provide high performance, especially in marginal conditions. The new cannons are highly efficient too. Due to the fact that they are so electrically efficient the ski resort has been able to co‐finance them via the An‐ dalucian ERDF Operational Programme. This financing is only available for energy‐saving products. The financing comes as part of the European Union’s response to the coron‐ avirus pandemic.

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Police unveil Megadron THE National Police has rolled out its latest acquisition. The Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) weighs in at 600kg and has been nicknamed Megadron. The giant drone is capable of carrying a payload of up to 220kg and can travel at a maximum speed of 130kph. It has a range of 35km when fully loaded.

In its official Twitter account, the force anticipates the ‘Megadron’ can be used to access contaminated areas, or restricted and reduced airspaces where it will be able to manoeuvre more efficiently than a helicopter.

Chinese company, EHang, manu‐ factured the vehicle, known as the EHang 216 unit. EHang has loaned the drone to the National Police force for the time being. The model is capable of being manned by two people.

With a total length of 5.6 metres, it can take off and land vertically, incor‐ porating the latest LTE and 5G connec‐ tivity to communicate with the com‐ mand centre or mobile. It is not expected to be operational until 2023, or at the earliest, once the European Union has prepared a regulatory framework for the use of these types of vehicles.

Landlords’ tax loss LANDLORDS in Spain that rent out a large number of properties, (more than 10) will lose over half of the tax benefit they currently claim,

dropping from 85 per cent down to 40 per cent.

According to government sources, this is to balance out the losses incurred due to

lower taxable incomes from smaller landlords as rents were lowered during the cri‐ sis.

At present, companies ded‐ icated to renting homes enjoy a special regime when it comes to paying corporation tax, which is levied on profits.

As long as they are legal com‐ panies and have eight or more rental homes regis‐ tered, they can benefit from a bonus that amounts to 85 per cent of what they would have received for the rent obtained from those leases. The ex‐ emption amounts to 90 per

cent if the tenant is disabled and adaptation works and in‐ stallations have been carried out in the house.

PSOE and Unidos Podemos reached an agreement on Oc‐ tober 5 for the coalition gov‐ ernment to carry out the Housing Law. This includes specific aspects, such as new regulations for large property owners.

The law will regulate prices to lower rents based on the reference index for all con‐ tracts in ‘stressed’ market ar‐ eas. In addition, tax privileges will be withdrawn.

and finally...

AFTER a bumper harvest, Spain retains its position as the world’s top exporter of fresh lemons. The 2020/2021 harvest of fresh lemons in Spain topped 1,340,000 tons. It’s the number one exporter of fresh lemons in the world, the top grower of lemons in Europe and ranks second in the world in terms of processing the fruit.

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Best restaurants

Treasure trove

AFTER a hiatus due to the pandemic, the 2021 World’s 50 Best Restaurants Awards have been announced and the top two restaurants in the world are both situated in Copenhagen. Number One for the fifth time was Noma whilst in second place came Geranium.

MORE than 600, mainly silver, coins dating back about 1,000 years were found in a field near the small Zealand town of Ruds Vedby by two men using metal detectors.

Hailed as a major find, the horde consisted of coins from Denmark, England and Germany.

THE NETHERLANDS The pill

Match fixing

A NUMBER of women’s organisations went to court to argue that the contraceptive pill should be included in Holland’s basic health package again. The court ruled against them saying that although women over 21 have to pay for the pill, this is not discriminatory.

FOLLOWING a detailed media report by NOS which included convincing evidence, the Dutch football association KNVB has called for police to investigate allegations of match fixing in the youth league as it is claimed that betting syndicates are earning thousands of euros.

BELGIUM Malaria vaccine

River revealed

AFTER three decades of testing, Belgian pharmaceutical company GSK has had the world’s first effective malaria vaccine Mosquirix recommended by the World Health Organisation as being effective for use on children after successful trials in Ghana, Kenya and Malawi.

Malaria killed 260,000 children in 2019.

UNLIKE most European capitals, Brussels appeared not to have a central river, but in fact it did until the River Zenne was first sealed off in 1867 in order to prevent epidemics and flooding. Now, it has been decided by the authorities to slowly open the river up to view.

GERMANY War crimes

Cry wolf

AFTER the disappearance and capture of a 96-year-old woman accused of war crimes, it has now been revealed that a further 17 individuals are being investigated and a centenarian who was a guard at Sachsenhausen camp is about to stand trial in a Neuruppin court.

THE reintroduction of wolves into the wilds of Germany has been relatively successful, but has not found favour with some sections of the public as so far this year some 11 bodies of these animals which have been killed illegally have been discovered.

FRANCE Surprise protest

Under wraps

AROUND 30 Extinction Rebellion climate activists worked together to ensure that one of their group was able to make her way onto the catwalk at Louis Vuitton's Paris Fashion Week show on Tuesday October 5 carrying a banner condemning the effect of excessive consumption on the environment.

AN art installation conceived by now deceased artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude in 1961, finally came to fruition at the end of September when the Arc de Triomphe was wrapped in 25,000 square metres of fabric for 17 days at a cost of €14 million.

NORWAY Munch’s secret

Viking ships

HIDDEN beneath the painting of the Madonna

by Edward Munch at the National Museum in Oslo was a pencil sketch which showed how the artist tried different poses before finding the best position. All of this was revealed after researchers exposed the painting to infrared examination.

THERE has been an outcry over the decision to close the popular Norwegian Viking Ships Museum and leave the contents ‘under wraps’ until a new Museum of the Viking Age is opened in 2025 on its existing site. Ironically although closed, the museum will still receive Government funding.

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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Nuclear power THE Spanish Government has made it clear to energy companies Iberdrola and Endesa that they are obliged to maintain and keep running, the Ascó nuclear power station in Tarragona, which went into service in 1984, for at least another 10 years.

Quality Street MANY families, following a Christmas dinner of turkey and all the trimmings plus mince pies or Christmas pudding enjoy spending the evening digging into their chocolates. Nestlé have told the BBC that they are doing all they can to ensure that there is no shortage of Quality Street.

Avatel expansion HAVING moved headquarters from Marbella to Madrid, Avatel Telecom which specialises in supplying telecommunication services to rural areas in Spain has announced that whilst continuing with that arm of its business, it intends to expand into sales of electricity and also home alarms.

Morrisons sale THE on/off sale of Morrisons supermarket chain has been settled by an auction whereby original bidders the US private equity firm Clayton, Dubilier & Rice has offered to pay £7.1 billion for shares plus take on a debt of £2.87 billion subject to shareholder approval.

Canine therapy DURING the lockdown British families purchased more than three million dogs and puppies but now with the return to work, many of these animals have become distressed as the person that they spent more than a year with is suddenly disappearing every day.

Now to try to combat this problem, some 44 per cent of new dog insurance policies include full cover to help with behavioural therapy if recommended by a vet according to research by Market analysts Defaqto.

There is also a growth in owners trying to pass their dogs to animal charities.

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€190 million

is the latest turnover figure of the three stores in Spain owned by American wholesale giant Costco which plans to expand.

Amazon 4-star opens in the UK AN Amazon 4‐star has opened in the UK, marking its first expansion outside of the USA following its launch of a physical supermarket in March of this year.

Based at the Bluewater Shop‐ ping Centre in Kent, it opened its doors on October 6 offering a huge range of different products popu‐ lar with online customers and in receipt of a minimum of four stars.

It carries products from the top categories across Amazon.co.uk including consumer electronics, toys, games, books, kitchen, home, and more. Customers will also find the full range of Amazon

devices in the store, including Kin‐ dle e‐Readers, Fire Tablets, and Echo Dots.

Digital price tags are located alongside each product with the item price, average star rating, and the number of customer reviews, enabling customers to make more informed purchases. Amazon ac‐ count holders will pay the same low price as they would on Ama‐ zon.co.uk and Prime members will receive exclusive perks and deals throughout the store.

Products will change on a regu‐ lar basis depending upon trends both in store and online and cus‐

LEGALLY SPEAKING How to calculate tax?

As a non‐resident owner of property in Spain, I complete the annual Impuesto so‐ bre la renta de no residentes on Modelo 210, which includes three variable values. The catastral value, and the tax bracket (19 per cent or 24 per cent) can be discovered with a little research, but you must apply a factor of 1.1 per cent or 2 per cent to deter‐ mine your property tax. This factor depends on how long ago the catastral valuation was calculat‐ ed. Where can I find this information?

K W (Costa Blanca) Your catas‐ DAVID SEARL tral value is YOU AND THE LAW what in England is IN SPAIN called the rateable value, used to as‐ sess your property tax. This tax, called the Impuesto so‐ bre Bienes Inmuebles or IBI for short, is paid to your town hall. It is regularly raised a small amount to keep up with inflation. I am going to suppose that you pay your yearly IBI through your Spanish bank. If you look at your IBI receipts for the last few years and you find a sudden large increase for one year, then you can use the 1.1 per cent figure. Otherwise, apply the 2.2 per cent. If you wish to delve more deeply into this, the Junta de Andalucia publishes a table of tax rates every year.

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

AS Spain looks to greatly increase its new technology knowledge and product, it will soon face a dilemma as it tries to balance business with environmental goals.

Many high‐tech products ranging from wind turbines to electric vehi‐ cles, smart phones and even medi‐ cal devices need to use one or more of the 17 rare earth minerals in their production.

tomers can check what is hot when they visit the store.

“The Amazon 4‐star store is a great place for customers to dis‐ cover hot new releases, guaran‐ teed page‐turners, top‐selling elec‐ tronics, and more,” said Andy Jones, director, Amazon 4‐star, UK. “Every part of the store is de‐ signed with our customers in mind and we think they will be delight‐ ed by the curated selection of the most‐loved products at great prices, an opportunity to test drive Amazon’s latest devices, and the convenience of pickup and re‐ turns,” he added.

How to create a Will with Golden Leaves International FOR expats living in Spain, creating a Will is essential to ensure that your wishes are carried out in full when the time comes.

But how do you A Will is essential. go about creating a Will in a different country and another language?

Find a legal expert who knows how to cre‐ ate a correct Will in Spain.

Golden Leaves are in touch with legal experts in Spain who can help you put together a Will that en‐ sures your wishes are carried out in full.

Think about which assets you want to include and who you want your property to go to.

It is important to think ahead about exactly which assets you want to go where, otherwise when the time comes, these decisions may be taken completely out of your hands and left to others to make on your behalf.

Plan for other issues, including long‐term care Consider other important planning issues, including what to do about your long‐term care or what will happen to your assets if your partner remarries after your death.

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Rare Earth not just a record label Currently, China is the main sup‐ plier of these minerals to the world, but it would make a great deal of sense if Spain was to mine its own minerals and this is in theory per‐ fectly possible.

According to the president of the National Confederation of Mining

and Metallurgy Companies, Spain comes second to Finland as the country with the largest deposits of rare earth minerals (the 15 lan‐ thanides on the periodic table plus scandium and yttrium) in Europe.

In theory, not only could it supply its home market but could also ex‐

Proceedings dropped ON October 6, the Euro‐ pean Commission an‐ nounced that it had decid‐ ed not to open proceedings against the UK Government for the failure by the Gibraltar Govern‐ ment to recover illegal aid granted under the Income Tax Act 2010 to two multi‐ national companies.

This is further to a state aid decision taken by the European Commission on December 19, 2018 finding that Gibraltar’s corporate tax exemption regime for passive interest and royal‐ ties, as well as five specific tax rulings, were illegal un‐ der EU State aid rules.

The Gibraltar Govern‐ ment has now recovered the aid from all the compa‐ nies hence the EU decision not to proceed.

Smart greengrocers IT might have appeared to have been a very bad time to start a new company, just before the pandemic took hold, but Catalan com‐ pany Talkual Foods appear to have been riding the crest of a wave.

Their concept is simple, they work with farmers to rescue fruit and vegetables that are considered too ugly for large supermarkets and package everything in biodegradable boxes and deliver them direct to the consumer at discounted prices.

They say it’s good for the farmer, good for the con‐ sumer and good for the planet with sales already reaching €1 million. port to other countries who are cur‐ rently purchasing from China which would be an added boost to the Spanish economy.

The first application to obtain a mining licence in Ciudad Real in Castile‐La Mancha Province has been blocked by the regional au‐ thorities on environmental grounds and now other potential miners are awaiting the decision to an appeal.

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WELCOME: Ryanair were pleased with the decision.

THE UK competition regu‐ lator has closed down their investigation into whether Ryanair and British Airways broke the law when they did not of‐ fer refunds to customers who were prevented from flying by Covid travel re‐ strictions.

Consumer groups and passengers had com‐ plained about the lack of refunds and in June the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) launched its investigation which has now been closed due to a ‘lack of clarity’ in the law.

According to the gov‐ ernment: “CMA has con‐ cluded that the law does not provide passengers with a sufficiently clear right to a refund in these unusual circumstances to justify continuing with the case.”

Andrea Coscelli, Chief Executive of the CMA, said: “We strongly believe people who are legally

prevented from taking flights due to lockdown laws should be offered a full refund and we launched this investigation in the hope that we would be able to secure a posi‐ tive outcome for con‐ sumers.

“However, after consid‐ ering the relevant law and gathering evidence in our investigation, we have concluded that the length of time that would be re‐ quired to take this case through the courts, and the uncertain outcome, can no longer justify the further expense of public money.

“Given the importance of this to many passengers who have unfairly lost out, we hope that the law in this area will be clarified.”

Ryanair is pleased by the decision made by the CMA and commented: “Ryanair welcomes the CMA’s deci‐ sion to close its investiga‐ tion.

“Passengers had the op‐

Civil Service pay ACCORDING to a report published by Reuters, based on a source at one of the Spanish Government’s ministries, there are plans to increase civil servants’ salaries by 2 per cent in 2022.

Assuming this suggestion is correct, then the decision will have to be approved by the cabinet and parliament as part of the 2022 budget bill.

This news follows an earlier decision to increase the minimum wage in Spain by 1.6 per cent despite the fact that inflation is currently running at 4 per cent.

tion to change their book‐ ings without paying the flight change fee and many availed of this option.”

BUSINESS EXTRA Home delivery SPANISH competitor to Uber, Cabify, has come to a deal with supermarket firm Lola Market so that its customers can order groceries through its app in nine cities including Barcelona and Madrid, arguing that this is the green way to cut down on private vehicle use.

In trouble IN a first criminal prosecution of a financial institution in the UK under moneylaundering regulations, NatWest bank has admitted three counts of failing to properly monitor £365 million deposited into a customer’s account who had indicated that annual turnover was expected to be £13 million.

Looking East THE Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office in Brussels took part in the South Summit on October 6 in Madrid in order to promote business opportunities in Hong Kong for European start-ups who are looking for funding as well as business accommodation.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT TALK about adding insult to injury. With black actors now dominating UK commercials more than ever and also beginning to take leading roles and in just about every UK TV production on offer, we have to suffer the ignominy of a Western feature movie containing an all‐black cast.

This means that if John Wayne in his heyday had applied for a part in this latest movie ‘The Harder they Fall,’ he would be turned down because of the colour of his skin! It really doesn’t get more racist than that! When one of the film’s leading actors was asked if casting all black cowboys was a little implausible, he actually maintained that it was perfectly acceptable as there were masses of black cowboys back in the day.

What utter and complete balderdash.

This is merely another blatant attempt to provoke even wider bias between the black and white cultures of the world. If a movie was cast insisting on only white actors, it would simply never be allowed to come to fruition. These one‐sided ethnic concessions are now causing more division of cultures than ever before. Members of the public,

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who have never had a racist bone in their bodies, are now becoming so disillusioned at the utterly disproportionate appeasement of the black and Asian minorities, they are leaning more to the right than ever.

Many white actors now have to look to other ways of earning their living due to the lack of demand for Caucasian artists and performers ‐ quite understandably many of them are not happy at all. What on earth is going on? I can only reiterate an earlier observation. That the left leaning media see the votes of the black and Asian population as the only possible way that Labour has any chance of winning the next election.

Subsequently, when they start their usual left wing propaganda trail toward polling day, they hope to be looked on more favourably by the ethnic population. Well I have recently heard about a far‐right political party that has actually been granted political status in the UK; if the woke and biased media continue to antagonise and anger the public the way they are doing at present, they could find their whole scheming operation completely backfire, and subsequently ‐ as happened in France ‐

deliver more votes to a far right candidate than they could have ever envisaged.

Their bias toward the Conservative party was also no more obvious than in their reports on Johnson’s closing speech at last week’s conference. Not only did they find fault with just about all of it, they glaringly omitted any reference whatsoever to his outstandingly anti woke remarks, that he would not abide those who would ‘seek to change our history’. He scorned others who ‘wanted schools where no one was allowed to win’ and announced that Churchill, who saved us from the worst despot the world has ever seen, was ‘one of our greatest statesmen’. Three prodigious points that extorted utter silence from this left wing driven, bitter bunch of unacceptable would be authoritarians.

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com expatradioscotland Mon Fri. 1pm till w4.

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Steam trains return RAILWAY enthusiasts in Andalucia are working to restore a section of the 19th century railway line from Zurgena, a small village in the Almanzora valley in Almeria to Arboleas.

It is a project of huge historical and economical importance.

The Zurgena to Arboleas railway line is just a short section of the line built between 1885 and 1894 by the Great Southern of Spain Railway Company Ltd between Baza in the Granada Province to an ore loading dock at Aguilas in Murcia. The last train ran back in 1984.

The line had been taken over by RENFE in 1941 and with the closure of the iron ore mines in Almeria and Granada in the 1960s was no longer profitable.

The Zurgena Railway Museum project is backed by the local mayor, Luis Diaz García and the councillor for Culture, Paco López as well as the entire Zurgena Town Council.

The project is being organised

by La Asociación de Amigos

Zurgena railway line.

del Ferrocarril de Zurgena, whose president is Rafael García de la Mata Escudero, a professor of engineering at Granada University.

Work started on the project in December 2020. The old railway station at Zurgena had already been restored and permission was granted for it to become a museum.

During excavations on the site, original railway lines, a turntable and sidings were discovered. Much of the land surrounding the station has been donated by the town council.

The mayor of Zurgena hopes the completed project will help restore the economic fortunes of his village.

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THE MET – HOW MANY MORE BAD APPLES? NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS

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

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FOLLOWING the national outrage over Sarah Everard’s murder by a serving Met police officer, the wrongful shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes and the botched inves‐ tigation into a VIP paedophile ring, the Met has come in for substantial criticism. Espe‐ cially its Commissioner, Cressida Dick.

Perhaps the issue with the oft‐cited ‘dearth of talent’ at the top of public office is that those people are held responsible by the media/public for the actions of indi‐ viduals far below them. Maybe we should stop calling for the ‘heads’ to resign and in‐ stead accept the sacking of those individu‐ als who act beyond the parameters of their roles/responsibilities. We might then get change as the leadership could continue work on reforms which no large institution can achieve overnight.

That said, a police officer who was re‐

Outrage over Sarah Everard’s murder.

ferred to years earlier as ‘the Rapist’ by fe‐ male colleagues, who indecently exposed himself in February and again twice in the three days before he abducted, raped and murdered a woman, had his vehicle regis‐ tration and name matched by police to a sex offence and still wasn’t identified as one of their own? Hasn’t the chain of com‐

mand had maybe more than enough time to close this loophole?

‘The Sentinel’, the latest in my psycho‐ logical crime thriller series featuring inves‐ tigative journalist Alice Myers and DI Bar‐ bara Forster (or ‘DI Barbara’ as Audible fans call her), happens to include one char‐ acter who ‐ spoiler alert ‐ is also a serving

Met officer (though the events described differ from the Everard case).

Just as DI Barbara Forster is hailed a na‐ tional heroine for solving an earlier case, she faces accusations of evidence tamper‐ ing in it. And what starts out as a missing‐ person case turns into a murder inquiry as she finds herself also dealing with the mess left behind by another bent cop.

With Wayne Couzens’ life sentence, Sarah’s parents (reportedly ‘haunted by the horror’ of her murder) hopefully find closure and some peace of mind just like the mother of the missing girl in my thriller.

Though whether she finds it, only time will tell...

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‐john son.net) available online as eBook (€0.99; £0.99), Apple Books, paperback and au‐ diobook. All profits to Costa del Sol Cude‐ ca cancer charity.

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So folks, what’s the point?

MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION

Views of a Grumpy Old Man WE are often told that we live in a democracy and we have the power to change things because we all have a vote. The truth is that we don’t make the decisions. What most do, in fact, is vote for a person that has promised to do all the things you would like to happen but when they get in power they just don’t. That’s why I don’t vote anymore because they all lie and will do and say anything to get into power.

The UK Prime Minister openly admitted breaking his contract with the British people a couple of weeks ago, by raising taxes and abandoning the ‘triple lock’ on the state pension in a mini-Budget that pumped money into the creaking NHS and a social care sector that has been in crisis for a decade. That’s an absolute prime example.

So folks, what’s the point? The UK Government has handed more than £1 billion of contracts to companies run by Conservative ‘friends and donors’ since the start of the coronavirus pandemic. Some contracts were

given to firms under emergency procedures, in which there is no need for competition between companies for the work. Bit smelly isn’t it?

As you all know by now I love a bit of telly and one of the soaps I watch is EastEnders and maybe some of you watch it too. If so has anybody else noticed how quick it is to do a property deal there? In a half hour episode someone will say “I’m looking for a flat.” They find one in the square and move in the same day. This week one of the characters left, signed a bit a paper, and the next day the people working at her hairdressing salon, including her husband, were instantly chucked out. I’ve been in touch to ask who does their conveyancing and when I get reply I’ll let you all know. I’m sure we will all use them in future.

I have always been a wheeler dealer and someone asked me this week what was the weirdest thing I’d ever bought. After much consideration I think it has to be somebody’s teeth for the gold content. A close second was 16 tons of pickled onions! Then there were 144,000 white socks - not pairs - individual socks. There may be 50 shades of grey but I can assure you there are many, many more shades of white!

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DAVID WORBOYS FOUR or five years ago, I changed my diet. Until then, I was turning up at the surgery several times a year and regularly knocking back all sorts of chemicals in the form of pills and medicine. I’d had a prostatectomy, operations for kidney stones, in‐ guinal hernia and haemorrhoids. I had regular back problems, assort‐ ed aches and pains, colds and sore throats.

In the last four years, I’ve been to a surgery twice (for a blood pressure check: 140/70 each time) and taken the odd antihistamine tablet. No more pains or colds ‐ just the occa‐ sional bout of hay fever. Not a single day in bed.

Since 1846, there have been huge advances in medicine, ranging from anaesthetic to the X‐ray, penicillin, antibiotics, transplants and laser, keyhole and robot surgery. The re‐ sult is far less suffering, greater effi‐ ciency and the saving of countless lives.

However, it is in the interests of all employees and enterprises in the

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GOOD HEALTH! health sector that we live long un‐ healthy lives. The doctors support the pharmacies, who support the pharmaceutical companies, who support the government (with tax revenue on profits and salaries). This is why there is no incentive to adopt a policy of prevention rather than temporary relief or cure. This is why the traditional medical authorities react to alternative suggestions and natural treatments with cynicism and repudiation.

The normal practice is testing, pharmaceuticals or surgery. GPs vaguely refer to exercise, smoking and alcohol but have never demon‐ strated to me how the mind can control many of the body’s functions and ailments. No mention of the

Traditional medicine does not seem to solve our health problems.

properties of nutrition. There seems to be time only for a quick fix.

There is still widespread dismissal of veganism by the kind of people who sneer at organic food, yoga,

Ayurveda and spiritism. The result is a sick and overweight population.

Our bodies are composed entirely of molecules derived from what we have ingested in the form of food

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and drink. The average person eats 100 tons of food in a lifetime, which contain the essentials of life ‐ water, fat, protein, carbohydrates, fibre, vi‐ tamins, minerals. These elements need to be absorbed in the right proportions. Nature provides the so‐ lution, because every source of food contains a different composition.

This is why for almost every chron‐ ic disease ‐ every potential natural ail‐ ment (excluding birth defects, acci‐ dents and negligence etc) ‐ there are particular fruits, vegetables, grains, pulses, nuts, seeds, herbs or spices to prevent or combat the symptoms.

But, if the food is not organic, the beneficial properties could be infil‐ trated by pesticides and herbicides.

Most meat, fish, milk and eggs also contain toxins such as mercury, an‐ tibiotics and growth hormones.

Ironically, the traditional attitude of the health sector, while keeping millions in employment, puts so much pressure on itself that its surg‐ eries and hospitals can hardly cope.

There are many losers in this ‐ none more than the patient. Profits be‐ fore health.

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YOUR INFINITE POTENTIAL… WHERE DO YOU FIND IT? TONI C. EASTWOOD OBE, MBA

#TheWomanBeyond I HAVE always been fascinated with how successful people achieve their success, be it a musician, an artist, ath‐ lete, leader or entrepreneur, I want to know how they get there. AND most importantly what tips I can learn from them, what I can apply in my life or business and of course what I can share with my clients. There’s nothing like a great practical tool!

One of my favourite books is ‘The Tools’, written by Phil Stutz and Barry Michels, in the book they share five bril‐ liant Tools, that help us focus on the biggest challenges in our life. I am sure I’ll share all of them with you at some point, however, for today I wanted to focus on the first one, I personally think it’s the most powerful.

Phil and Barry tell us that most people like to live within their comfort zones.

Why is it that we do that?

Well, we know what it feels like out‐ side of our comfort zones, it’s, well, un‐ comfortable.

And, most of us hate feeling any level of discomfort, even the tiniest bit of dis‐ comfort, so we do pretty much every‐ thing we can to avoid the pain of being outside our comfort zone.

Now, of course that’s great if being mediocre is your goal, but not so great if you’re serious about stepping up into your heroic potential.

Here’s the deal: Your INFINITE (!!!) potential exists just on the other side of your comfort zone. Every single great thing you’re capable of exists OUTSIDE of your current comfort zone.

And what does the barrier between your comfort zone and your infinite po‐ tential zone feel like?

Pain. Fear. Doubt. Anxiety. Fill in the blank with your favourite negative emo‐ tion, it feels icky.

So, now you know that your infinite potential exists on the other side of your comfort zone and that we feel

pain, discomfort etc when we exit our comfort zone en route to our infinite potential, what do we do about it?

Well, if we’re serious about optimis‐ ing our lives and reaching our heroic potential, we need to REVERSE OUR DE‐ SIRE ‐ so rather than try to avoid pain, we need to learn to love it. Yeah, that’s right, I said LOVE IT. We need to see those moments when our heart skips a beat and our palms start to sweat as gifts ‐ it’s true, they are gifts ‐ golden tickets to our destiny.

The Tool then, it’s very simple. The next time you feel even an inkling of fear or doubt, or you feel yourself feel‐ ing too comfortable, even shrinking, practise saying to yourself (actually, Phil and Barry tell us to SCREAM to your‐ self), “BRING IT ON!!!!!!!”

And continue the mantra by saying “I LOVE PAIN!! PAIN SETS ME FREE!!”

Try it. Believe me it works wonders; I probably use this mantra every day (LOL).

See you in your Infinite Potential Zone!

PS. If you are into Mantras or Affirma‐ tions, or you’d like to give them a try, I have written a great book full of them ‐ 101 Affirmations to help you live your BEST life NOW, achieve your BIGGEST most HAIRY most AUDACIOUS GOALS. Want PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION, WEALTH, HEALTH or BUSINESS SUCCESS ‐ Achieve your wildest career and busi‐ ness aspirations and change your mind set in just days with these simple affir‐ mations.

Get a FREE e‐copy from here. https://quantumvantage.co.uk/101‐ affirmations Stay Focused, Keep Positive and Choose to +1 in Every Moment. Expect Miracles!

Love, Hugs, High Fives and Fist Bumps Toni x To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com

Please do get in touch if you have any questions. Follow me, chat and share your thoughts and network with other fabulous women in my Visionary Women Facebook Group.

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As volcano eruption continues to affect La Palma, read a fascinating eyewitness account LETTER FROM

CANARIES

AFTER many hours reporting close to La Palma’s volcano, leaving for a breather through the tunnel connect‐ ing west coast Los Llanos and the disas‐ ter zone, to capital Santa Cruz on the east coast is like arriving from a war‐ zone to sudden peace. But in such record time that it’s difficult to believe it’s the same island.

Exhausted, grimy and scrambled as I am, isn’t everyone here strangely nor‐ mal and unconcerned?

The air’s clean. There’s no fine ash or strange smell, no extraordinary rum‐ bling, emergency vehicles, roadblocks or visible distress. What happened to the full‐on volcano, shooting constant lava and smoke high into the air a short dis‐ tance away?

A caffeine top‐up after two sleepless nights tunes in the conversations

around me and of course everybody’s talking about the volcano. How could they not, when all that separates these two worlds is the barrier of a 1,500m high ridge, helped by prevailing winds.

There’s massive concern and solidari‐ ty. Islanders look after their own. With 6,000 evacuated to date, fewer than 300 Palmeros used the centres provid‐ ed. As I write, it’s down to 49. The oth‐ ers, who’ve either lost homes, or are about to as the lava flow makes its way, now very slowly, down towards the sea, are with family, friends or in locally owned holiday accommodation.

Tourists evacuated from island hotels were in the majority at the centres, until moved to Tenerife hotels.

Whether or not the shelters will fill because things get worse fast is difficult to predict. So far, according to Jose Mangas, Geology Professor at Gran Ca‐ naria University: “This is a textbook Ca‐ narian eruption, but that doesn’t help with predicting how long it’ll last.”

Enormous advances in related sci‐ ences and their technology, interpreta‐

tion and diffusion have been made since the Canaries’ last eruption under‐ sea off El Hierro in 2011/12. It became apparent then that Canarian seismolo‐ gy and volcanology knowledge far ex‐ ceeded accessibility and diffusion pro‐ tocols.

The lead up to the La Palma volcano eruption has been closely monitored and publicised since seismic activity in‐ creased noticeably in 2017, then expo‐ nentially last October.

Experts nailed it this time, announc‐ ing what was essentially an eruption warning 11 days before it happened.

Tremors had increased in frequency and strength and moved up to just below the surface. There was time to warn is‐ landers and make evacuation plans with communities likely to be affected.

Then it blew.

At first, with the low viscosity lava’s main flow going where gravity invited: down barrancos (ravines) towards the coast, all boded well, despite the drama.

Canarians don’t build in barrancos.

After day one, the lava thickened,

cooled and slowed down, solidifying, thickening and creating a barrier to sec‐ ondary flows, which diverted to either side, spreading the danger zone. Then a new vent blew in Tacande, causing last minute evacuations and the loss of more homes.

What will happen next is unclear. It depends on uncontrollable factors and how well they’re interpreted. The rela‐ tive calm with which the volcano was greeted when it erupted has evaporat‐ ed, just like water in pools and irrigation tanks when lava hits, as seen in count‐ less video clips.

What looked relatively straightfor‐ ward and predictable isn’t, with increas‐ ing loss of buildings, fincas, livelihoods, livestock and calm.

Like many people, I find the volcano thrilling. It’s difficult not to be moved by such an extraordinary spectacle, impos‐ sible not to see our ant‐like insignifi‐ cance in the face of nature. But touting this volcano as a tourist attraction, or be‐ ing thrilled by it, seems inappropriate when the plight of people losing every‐

thing moved us to tears.

It’s an understandable contradiction.

One aspect doesn’t cancel out the oth‐ er, but sensitivity is essential. Feeling awe for the truly awesome is under‐ standable, as is compassion for those who’ve suffered the awful.

Pedro Sanchez’ and the King’s stated intention to ‘cover all losses’ and the massive show of support, both inside the Canaries, nationally and internation‐ ally, ease the dreadful sense of despair and helplessness.

The town hall of Los Llanos de Ari‐ dane has set up a bank account to re‐ ceive donations for the victims of La Pal‐ ma volcano eruption.

You can donate here: IBAN ES06 2100 1921 1902 0014 1752 Add your name and concepto: ‘Donación Volcán La Palma.’

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A QUIET WEEK FOR WALKING FOOTBALL Fury stuns in Vegas A QUIET week football wise with a lull in fixtures.

The only one on the calen‐ dar so far is for Monday Oc‐ tober 18 when Calahonda WFC have a tough home debut with a ‘local derby’ against the rampant Walk‐ ing Dead B team fresh from their 8‐1 thrashing of Sport‐ ing Benahavis. This will take place at the Finca Naundrup with a 6pm kick off.

Malaga WFC made the trip across the border to Albufueira on the Al‐ garve for the Eurocopa Walking Football Tourna‐ ment at the beginning of this week (October 11) taking an Over 50s and over 60s teams. While optimistic the manage‐ ment team said they had gone for the experience, to make new contacts and generally enjoy themselves.

This Tournament attracts top teams from all over Eu‐ rope including Benfica and

The Aston Viñuela A Team.

holders Luso Africa.

Results and report in next weeks Euro Weekly News... make sure you get your copy.

The Axarquia Real Es‐ tate.com Aston Viñuela A team while disappointed with the recent 3‐3 League draw, are looking forward to a ‘local derby’ against Nerja Nomads A to boost their challenge at the top of the HIDROMASTER Pre‐ miership.

Nerja went down 2‐1 re‐ cently at home to Malaga

and won’t be a pushover andare looking for their first points.

This should be a good tight game. Date to be ar‐ ranged.

The other Premiership match to be arranged is an‐ other ‘local derby’ when high flying Walking Dead take on old rivals Malaga WFS. The Walking Football As‐ sociation of Iberia Commit‐ tee Elections enters its sec‐ ond week with member clubs slow to react so far.

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TYSON FURY put on a stunning performance in Las Vegas, knocking out Deontay Wilder to retain his WBC heavyweight title. The contest featured an incredible five knockdowns.

Wilder looked to be struggling at the end of the third round but turned it around in the fourth round and put Fury on the floor.

Fury fought back hard and gradually wore down his oppo‐ nent. Referee Russell Mora had to stop the fight in the 11th Round after the American hit the deck.

This was the heaviest that both fighters have weighed in at.

Only days before the two had verbally fought it out during a heated news conference.

In December 2018, the pair fought in their first bout which ended in a draw. The second ended in victory for the English‐ man. The trilogy fight was initially postponed after Fury tested positive for the coronavirus in July.

Fury spoke after his victory: “I’m the greatest heavyweight of my era, no doubt. If you play with fire long enough, you get burnt.”

He added, “I will not make any excuses, Wilder is a top fighter, he gave me a run for my money.”

TYSON FURY: “Wilder gave me a run for my money.”