Euro Weekly News - Mallorca 18 - 24 November 2021 Issue 1898

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The people’s paper Issue No. 1898

18 - 24 Nov 2021

Cleaner Palma SO infuriated is the Palma Council by mindless graffiti that it has set up a special department to deal with alerts from the general public. Anyone who spots graffiti is invited to forward a picture and location details via oficinaantigrafits@pal ma.cat.

Vaccine study THE Balearic Minister of Health, Patricia Gómez, said, on November 17 during her visit to the vaccination centre currently in Inca that a study by her department indicated that as many as 50 per cent of those not vaccinated in the Balearics were foreigners.

Street names AS part of the programme to promote the use of Catalan, the Deia Council has decided to change the names of some 40 streets in the municipality to Catalan spelling and in some cases will give them female names for diversity.

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BULLFIGHTS NO MORE!

ANIMAL charities in Mallorca continue to congratulate the mayor of Alcudia who has confirmed that the island’s oldest bullring will no longer stage bullfights.

Traditionally, the ring which was built in 1892 hosted two fights each year in July and August, organised by a long‐ term concession holder, but the bullring has become run down and in need of renova‐ tion.

Recently there have been a number of demonstrations against bullfighting and the Balearic Government tried to ban it completely, however was stymied by the National Government, but clearly the Alcudia Council consider that it is empowered to decide who does what in the munici‐

OLDEST BULLRING: Will no longer stage bullfights.

pal bullring.

First the Associació Animal‐ ista de les Illes Balears (Assaib) and then Progresso de Verde, two of the main champions of animal rights in the Balearics congratulated the Council

which intends to use the bull‐ ring for different events which will no doubt include con‐ certs, as has become the case across Spain.

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Toy collection WORKING as usual with Caritas Mallorca, the Santanyi Council is appealing to residents to help the No Child Without a Toy campaign which collections gifts for the neediest children in the town.

Unlike last year, they are not just appealing for used toys but would be very happy to collect new toys or gifts as well.

There will be toy collection points at the Santanyí Town Hall, at the Cala d’Or Tourist Office, at the s’Alqueria Blanca municipal office and the Calonge Parish Hall as the Council is determined to ensure that this Christmas is a happy one for every child in the municipality.

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Urban art for Palma OVER the weekend of November 12, 13 and 14, a series of urban art days were held in the Camp Redó district of Palma to add some beauty to the neighbourhood. A group of artists created murals on the electricity transformer building on Carrer de l’Infant Pagà on the corner with Carrer de Joan d’Àustria using materials supplied by the council. The artists created a linked design with elements featuring different images of hands to reflect the topics of social integration, coexistence, environmental awareness and the future.

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Cala d’Or library celebrate

COMMEMORATING 25 years since the opening of the Municipal Library of Cala d’Or in November 1996, the Santanyi Council organised a special event to celebrate its staff and users.

According to the councillor for Libraries, Rafael Batle, the concept of the Cala d’Or li‐ brary was promoted by the parents’ association of the Santa Maria del Mar Primary School supported by the school management which has now served hundreds of

Credit: Santanyi Council

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The real and imagined customers of the library.

students and residents over the years.

The tribute ceremony was attended by some of

those involved in the cre‐ ation of the library and in addition, local artist Llorenç Vidal ‘Garrit’ created the ex‐

terior images on the build‐ ing to celebrate this Silver Anniversary.

As it was originally inspired to help those in the primary school, the very young were not forgotten and a story‐ teller was invited to recite a tale about monsters created

by Algaidarts.

Various councillors spoke about the importance of the library to the community and the fact that librarians Maria José and Tere have worked there since it opened.

Training project for young people ONCE again, the Llucmajor Council will carry out the mixed employment and training programmes of the SOIB Em‐ ployment and Training campaign.

This year it is are working on three projects, two of which are aimed at young people, in order to improve their chances of finding employment.

The Hortus Major II and Bosc Major V projects are mixed programmes for those under 30 (where 20 students‐

workers aim to obtain a Certificate of Competence).

Hortus Major II trains students to lev‐ el 2 in ‘Installation and maintenance of gardens and green zones’ and for 12 months they will be combining their training with an employment contract where they will be doing gardening work for different areas of the munici‐ pality.

The Bosc Major V project lasts for

nine months and the 10 student‐work‐ ers will obtain a Level 1 Certificate of Professionalism in ‘Auxiliary activities in forest conservation and improve‐ ment’.

During this time, in addition to train‐ ing, they will work on cleaning different areas, as well as forest conservation tasks, road maintenance, etc, to im‐ prove the image of the municipality and undertake fire prevention tasks.

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NIBS EXTRA Direct flight CURRENTLY if you wish to fly from New York to Palma, you have to change at one airport, normally Madrid. Next year however it is re‐ ported that United Air‐ lines will run three direct flights a week between May and September, cre‐ ating a new tourist mar‐ ket.

School meals WHEN budgeting for the supply of free school meals for children of par‐ ents facing financial diffi‐ culty, the Balearic Gov‐ ernment set aside €7 million but has been caught by surprise when 10,192 children applied and now has to find the additional funds in the 2022 budget.

Grassed up AN irritated resident has reported the Campanet Council to the Office of Prevention against Cor‐ ruption for giving away artificial grass from a lo‐ cal football pitch said to be worth around €30,000 without putting it up for public auction although the Council de‐ nies that it needed to.

Oops THERE were probably some harsh words spo‐ ken after a father took his daughter out for a driving lesson and ac‐ cording to Palma Local Police, she appears to have mistaken the brake and the accelerator which meant that she crashed the car into a river.

Palma budget THE Palma Council has increased its budget for 2022 by 2.8 per cent meaning that subject to final approval it will amount to €475,490,000 compared to the 2021 figure of €463 million and according to mayor Jose Hila this is a budget for recovery.

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International trotting

TROTTING is back to normali‐ ty in Mallorca with interna‐ tional sport taking the reins.

On Saturday November 13, the Plenary Hall of the Consell de Mallorca hosted the 16 in‐ ternational trotting delega‐ tions that have travelled to the island for the Internation‐ al Meetings Award, which was held the following day at the Son Pardo Racecourse.

This was the first time that one of the International Meet‐ ings was held in Spain and only the second time that they were held outside of France.

Credit: Consell de Mallorca

President Cladera welcomed the visitors.

It is one of the most impor‐ tant events in the world of trotting, with the participation of all the countries collaborat‐ ing with the French Trotting Federation. It is, therefore, a first‐class sporting event with

Cancer charity at Xmas CALA NOVA Cancer Charity shop in Palma closed for a few days to refresh its stock as winter approaches after selling a lot of summer clothes at €1 per piece as well a large number of Halloween costumes.

Now the shop is open again with an impressive Christmas window display and with a special raffle imminent it wants to beat last year’s donation of €30,000 raised to help support four local cancer charities: AECC (Spanish Association of Cancer Care) ASPANOB (Association for Children with Cancer and their Parents) THE CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (for international residents on Mallorca) DIME (Palliative Care Association) that helps in Son Espas‐ es, Clinica Juan March and the General Hospital of Palma.

In addition, every year it takes part in the Big Coffee Morn‐ ing for MacMillan Cancer in the UK. Anyone who wishes to help should visit www.calanova cancer.com, the charities Facebook page, or drop in to the charity shop at Avenida Joan Miro 358. San Agustin. Palma.

Some good news

HAVING implemented some of the strictest measures to battle the pandemic, there has been some fear that with the small but regular increase in Covid‐19 infections the Balearic Government might be tempted to act swiftly.

The good news, on Mon‐ day, November 15 was a state‐ ment made by Government spokesman and minister Iago Negueruela in which he re‐ ferred specifically to this mat‐ ter and gave considerable re‐ assurance although naturally, things could change.

He confirmed the Govern‐ ment had observed the prob‐

lems neighbouring countries were experiencing with an ap‐ parent spike in illness, but he confirmed the Executive Coun‐ cil had no plans at this stage to bring in new restrictions de‐ spite the increase in cases.

Whilst Menorca is at level 0, the other three main islands, including Mallorca, were still just at level 1, so whilst still pro‐ moting ongoing vaccination for any who have not been in‐ oculated, he believed that the islands continue to be a safe destination for visitors.

As a final note, Negueruela looked forward to a better Christmas than the last one.

great tourist promotion for Mallorca.

President Cladera said that in Mallorca “trotting is more than a hobby, it is a family, a deep‐rooted tradition that permeates the lives of many families, which has been maintained from generation to generation.

“It boasts world‐renowned athletes and infrastructures like the Son Pardo Racecourse prepared to host international competitions and events like this one, which are also a quality tourist attraction.”

The best horse drivers from Germany, Austria, Belgium, Slovenia, Spain, France, Great Britain, Norway, Hungary and Ireland, Malta, the Nether‐ lands, the Czech Republic, Ser‐ bia, Switzerland and Ukraine took part in the races on Sun‐ day November 14.

Following this, the 2021 awards for best ‘French Trot‐ ter’ horses in each country were presented.

Balearic Emblems project

SHOPS in Manacor have joined the Balearic Emblems project, born from the need to protect local commercial activity and, more specifically, that of the establishments with the most tra‐ dition in the municipalities.

Although the initiative focuses on the listed shops, the rest of the commercial fabric benefits, as the emblematic ones also function as a driving force and attraction for visitors from inside and outside the Islands.

In this case, Manacor has identified 25 different establish‐ ments which meet the criteria established by a special IDI man‐ ual that determines the different categories of tradition and heritage.

Currently, there are 15 municipalities throughout the Balearic Islands with a total of 122 listed businesses and details can be found at www.emblematicsbalears.es.

Taking the long route TAKING the long route to raise funds for charity in Mal‐ lorca as a campaign launched on GoFundMe at https://www.gofundme.co m/f/serra‐4‐life‐2021o helps the Spanish Cornelia de Lange Syndrome Association.

The Association was formed in 1998 by a group of families who had relatives af‐ fected by the syndrome known as CDL which is char‐ acterised by slow growth be‐ fore and after birth leading to short stature; intellectual dis‐ ability that is usually moder‐ ate to severe; and abnormali‐ ties of bones in the arms, hands and fingers.

Money is to be raised as Angel Sotos supported by Ana

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Maria García Fernández, will undertake a 90‐kilometre hike through the Serra de Tra‐ muntana, which will start the evening of December 10, ending the following after‐ noon with the aim to raise at least €1,000 for the charity.

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Vacubús in Inca THE Dijous Bo is an enormous fair that at‐ tracts thousands of people to Inca espe‐ cially on November 18.

Dijous Bo translates from Catalan as Good Thursday and falls on the evening of the fourth Wednesday and Thursday after the feast of St Luke.

The whole town be‐ comes an open‐air shopping centre with hundreds of stalls sell‐ ing a variety of items, but there is some fear that so many people together could cause some additional up‐ wards movement in Covid‐19 infection.

For this reason, the Vacubús with its team of doctors and nurses has moved from Palma ‐ where it gave some 425 people their first vaccination ‐ to the Plaça de l’Orgue opened from 8am to 6pm until Good Thurs‐ day where those who still haven’t been inoc‐ ulated against Covid‐ 19 could turn up with‐ out an appointment.

Currently, the vacci‐ nation rate in the Balearic Islands has reached 82.5 per cent of the target popula‐ tion and the Health Authorities are anx‐ ious to see this figure climb.

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WHEELCHAIR basketball. For a second season, the Hidrobal water company supports Calvià DiscaEsports, a group of wheelchair basketball players who take part on an island and also travel to the mainland.

The financial support from Calvia based Hidrobal will help for travel and other expenses as the team enters into the first division of its league.

Although the main team consists of adults, there is now al‐ so a basketball school open to younger wheelchair athletes, both male and female who wish to take part in this this partic‐ ular sport.

According to Hidrobal’s Laura Fernández, this sponsorship is part of the company’s promotion of social inclusion and sus‐ tainability initiatives within Mallorca.

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Probiotic helps Covid recovery A COMPANY based at Alicante University claims their probiotic helps Covid recovery.

There are many factors that can affect how bad‐ ly someone suffers from Covid‐19.

Numerous studies show aspects such as age and genetics can play their role in how long someone has symp‐ toms of the illness. Now there is growing evi‐ dence that gut microbio‐ ta also plays a part.

An Alicante‐based startup named Bioithas, located at the University of Alicante’s science park has developed a probiot‐ ic that researchers claim can significantly reduce the time that Covid pa‐ tients have digestive symptoms including di‐ arrhoea, abdominal pain, or irritable bowel syndrome.

Probiotics are foods or supplements that con‐ tain live microorganisms

that are created within certain levels to main‐ tain the intestinal micro‐ biota. They also boost the immune system. Re‐ searchers of Bioithas de‐ duced that “by helping to maintain the intesti‐ nal microbiota, the virus would be eliminated more quickly.”

In 2020, they set out to demonstrate their hy‐ pothesis by monitoring a group of 45 coronavirus patients in Alicante Province. The patients were split into two groups, with one group being given the probiotic for a month.

“After 30 days we ob‐ served in the group of patients taking the product, the symptoms had disappeared in all but one of them,” said Vincente Navarro, head of Bioithas. He added that half of the people in the control group had digestive issues a month later.

Wind company lawsuits E O L I C C AT , the employers’ associa‐ tion that represents the wind energy sector in Catalonia, in a move against the new decree of renewable ener‐ gies of the government, has an‐ nounced that it will sue the Generali‐ tat for administrative inaction. The entity argues that the processing of new wind turbine parks has been paralysed pending the new legal framework since the regional Execu‐ tive was established in March.

This demand could see the addition of others who will claim they have suf‐

fered damage, and it is estimated that the total claims could amount to as much as €150 million. EolicCat is bas‐ ing this figure on the assumption that each individual company has been hit with losses of around €500,000.

Included in this figure are the guar‐ antees per megawatt requested to guarantee the right of connection, the cost of preparing the technical specifications, and the fees paid to the regional and local Administration for initiating the 106 projects pre‐ sented.

Coin scam warning

THE Guardia Civil took to social media to warn about a new scam. They warned: “Watch out!!! These are Turkish lira. They pass for €2 because of their resemblance. #Quenotelacuelen.”

People are aiming to scam others as the coins appear very similar and many people will not even notice the difference. The real value of the Turkish coin though is consider‐ ably less than a €2 coin.

Both coins have a similar size and weight.

Reportedly they are being offered up to peo‐ ple and shops and no one has been noticing.

When looked at closely the two coins are easy to tell apart. The €2 coin in Spain has the face of King Felipe VI or of King Juan Carlos I engraved on it.

€2 COINS: Easily mistaken for others.

The Turkish coins however have the phrase ‘Yeni Türk Lirasi’ engraved. They also have a Turkish coat of arms and a face.

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Poll reveals Brexit regret T H E results of a re‐ cent survey show that voters in Britain now want to rejoin the EU. The 2016 ref‐ erendum figures are reversed, with 53 per cent now wanting to be a part of the Euro‐ pean Union, while 47 per cent are for stay‐ ing out.

Shortages of goods since Brexit, and the continual arguments with Brussels were two of the main rea‐ sons given for the change of heart. As head of research, Chris Hopkins, ex‐ plained, “Issues such as disrupted supply chains, and spats with fellow European leaders about fishing and vaccines, may have cut through, al‐ though the results are still on a knife‐ edge.” He added, “The Brexit story isn’t going away any time soon.”

Xmas food dos and don’ts

IF you are travelling back to the UK or have friends and family coming to visit you in Spain, the British Embassy has published some links to help you bring the right Christmas food in your suit‐ case.

The rules around what is al‐ lowed to travel across the borders with you changed at the beginning of 2021 with the UK’s departure from the EU. Now third country rules apply, and this means differ‐ ences between last Christmas and this.

If you are headed to the UK for a festive visit, you can take Spanish cakes (without fresh cream), sweets and biscuits with you without restriction, if they are for personal use and

not to sell. Chocolate is ok too, if not made with lots of unprocessed dairy products.

So, your Turron is good to go!

So too is delicious Spanish honey, dates, chorizo, and Ja‐ mon. If you have loved ones coming to visit in Spain, or are heading back after a jolly good time, here are the re‐ strictions for the UK to Spain leg of the journey ‐ and unfor‐ tunately, they are a lot stricter! No meat or dairy products can be taken this way across the borders, so even your Christmas pudding may be out of bounds if it contains suet.

You can bring a small amount of fruit and vegeta‐ bles with you though, as well as eggs and honey.

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Hero officers honoured

Partial pardon for Rivas

Scorpion plague

TWO Spanish police of‐ ficers in Albox, Almeria were honoured for sav‐ ing a woman from a Brit fugitive. The officers were decorated with the Green Cross.

In 2017, a local wom‐ an had managed to es‐ cape from her attacker and call the police. She said that her life was in danger and that some‐ one was trying to kill her.

The two officers rushed to help the woman. One of the offi‐ cers fought the wom‐ an’s assailant who was armed with a knife. The officers were forced to draw their weapons and fire several warning shots to keep the wom‐ an safe.

The British National had been wanted for two years. He was ar‐ rested and charged with multiple crimes includ‐ ing attempted murder and illegal detention.

SPAIN’S Council of Ministers are planning to ap‐ prove a partial pardon for Juana Rivas, the mother sentenced for the abduction of her two children in 2018. It means her reduced sen‐ tence from a Supreme Court ruling in April of two years and six months in prison would be halved to one year and three months. The mother from Granada would also see her loss of parental custody dissolved in favour of 180 days of community service.

Juana Rivas was charged with two offences of child abduction, one for each child, after refusing to return to Italy, where the three were living with Francesco Arcuri, the children’s father. She disappeared with them for a month during July and August 2017. Spain’s Minister for Equality, Irene Montero, was in favour of the partial par‐ don, stating that the government was taking “decisive steps” to ensure that women and

TORRENTIAL storms have hit the Egyptian city of Aswan, bringing rain, hailstones, and severe flooding. The accumulation of water has led snakes and scorpions to seek refuge inside the homes of the city’s residents. As a result, a plague of scorpions has invaded the city and killed three people who were not able to sur‐ vive their stings. Another 503 people have had to be treated with an antidote.

Doctors have had to be recalled from holiday to meet the demand for treatment. Stocks of the antidote have also had to be expanded.

Symptoms of a scorpion sting include severe pain, fever, sweating, vomiting, diarrhoea, muscle tremors, and head spasms.

The thick‐tailed Arabian scorpion can mea‐ sure up to 10cm and has a highly toxic venom that can kill an adult person in around one hour.

DECISIVE STEPS: Being taken to help mothers like Juana.

mothers like Juana Rivas, “are not persecuted or criminalised for protecting their children.”

“There are already public policies and a greater social awareness about all forms of gen‐ der violence because it involves using children to attack women where it hurts most, which is with their sons and daughters,” Montero said.

Rivas was ordered to pay €12,000 in compen‐ sation to the children’s father.

New inhalable Covid vaccine A NEW inhalable vaccine against the coronavirus has been unveiled in China. The vaccine has been developed

by Chinese biotech company CanSino Biologics in conjunc‐ tion with a team of scientists working with the Chinese army’s infectious disease ex‐

pert Chen Wei. Scientists have been conducting research that shows that the inhalable vaccine can trigger a similar response to that produced by the current injectable coron‐ avirus vaccines. At the mo‐ ment the vaccine is only in Phase II clinical trials. It has

though been permitted to be used for ‘emergency use.’

Work on this new vaccine began at the Zhongnan Hospi‐ tal of Wuhan University back in September 2020. This is the same city that was the epicen‐ tre of the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

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EVERY McDonald’s in Madrid, Barcelona, and Va‐ lencia is reportedly running out of chicken.

“We have removed some chicken products from the screens so that the customer does not see it,” said one manager in the northwest of the capital. He claimed this problem had been present for the last six weeks.

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Hero cabbie back home School dinner debts pledge

DAVID PERRY, the taxi driver who escaped the car bomb outside Liverpool Women’s Hospital on Sunday Novem‐ ber 14, was discharged from treatment and allowed to re‐ turn home the next day. Po‐ lice have now declared the explosion a terror incident.

Liverpool mayor Joanne Anderson congratulated Mr Perry for his heroic efforts: “The taxi driver, in his heroic efforts, has managed to divert what could have been an ab‐ solutely awful disaster at the hospital.

“Our thanks go to him and our emergency services, and authorities who worked

CAR BOMB: Exploded outside hospital.

through the night.” She added, “Well, we knew that the taxi driver had stood out and locked the doors, we knew that early on.”

Conservative party co‐chair‐ man Oliver Dowden com‐ mented on the investigation:

“It is an emerging situation, and the home secretary is be‐ ing kept briefed on it. It is a re‐ minder to us all that the threat of terrorism hasn’t gone away and how much we depend on our police and security ser‐ vices.”

Hunt on for valuable banknotes CO L L EC T O R S are eager to get their hands on certain UK bank notes. The prized £5 notes went into circulation in September 2016, but have recently at‐ tracted attention. The notes are made of polymer and feature Sir Winston Churchill.

If you are lucky enough to own one of the notes from the first batch, it could be

worth a bit more than a fiver. The notes to look out for are ones with the serial code starting in ‘AA01’.

The closer the serial number is to the first batch of the banknote, the more profit you could make. One eBay user recently sold a £5 note for £99. This note had the serial number AA01 010110.

A BLOGGING dad vowed to clear school dinner debts at a Welsh school to stop the “mad‐ ness of kids potentially going hungry.”

Simon Harris, a father of four, made the offer via his Twitter account on November 11, after the headteacher of the school, Neil Foden, sent a letter to parents saying the school would not provide food to any child who had a school dinner debt. He wrote that any child who owed more than a penny would not be given food.

The incident caught the attention of Marcus Rashford, who just re‐ ceived an MBE from Prince William for the hard work and dedica‐ tion he has shown to en‐ sure no child goes hun‐ gry. He tweeted “Has

SIMON HARRIS: Has thousands of Facebook followers.

the pandemic not taught us anything? Can we not be understanding?

Come on now...?”

The dad‐of‐four, who has tens of thousands of Facebook and Twitter followers said: “I’ve just made this genuine offer to the management of Ysgol Dyffryn Nantlle on Twitter. I will absolutely cover their catering deficit if it stops this madness of kids poten‐ tially going hungry be‐ cause of a school dinner debt.”

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Ancient elephant skeleton found

A COMPLETE skeleton of a 120,000‐year‐old elephant calf has been found in Spain. The species is known as Palaeoloxodon antiquus.

The unique remains were discovered in Barcelona’s Rhinoceros cave in Castelldefels.

The elephant calf is be‐ lieved to have been five years old when it died. The calf would have weighed in at around 1,500 kilograms.

The Rhinoceros cave in Castelldefels is known for numerous remains of dif‐ ferent species. Adult Palae‐ oloxodon antiquus remains have been discovered in Eu‐ rope, but the remains of young elephants are hard to find and normally only consist of single bones. This is the first complete skele‐ ton that has been recov‐ ered in Europe.

Brit passport warning

THE Foreign Office updated their advice on November 15 which says that Brits should confirm their passport has been stamped when entering or exiting the Schengen area via Spain: “If relevant entry or exit stamps are not in your passport, border guards will pre‐ sume that you have overstayed your visa‐free limit. You can show evidence of when and where you entered or exited the Schengen

area, and ask the border guards to add this date and location in your passport. Examples of acceptable evidence include boarding pass‐ es and tickets.”

Holidaymakers could possibly find they need to prove they have enough money for their holiday or prove they have organised ap‐ propriate accommodation when passing through Spanish border controls.

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Beyond the call of duty

TWO police officers used an old fishing rope to climb down a sheer cliff to rescue a man who needed CPR.

PC Mandir Xherija and PC Steve Merritt from North Yorkshire Police have been nominated for a 2021 Na-

Blackout warning assurance

ALMOST two weeks ago, the government of Austria an‐ nounced the risk of a possible major blackout across Europe.

They even went as far as to appeal to the entire population of the country to prepare themselves for a failure in the Euro‐ pean energy supply. Such a failure would leave the entire country without electricity, internet, or heating.

Yet, in Spain, energy companies have assured that this is not possible. Spain does not have a blackout risk, neither by capacity, by generation, nor by distribution. The country’s ca‐ pacity to generate electricity is 107 gigawatts (GW) per day.

In fact, the highest consumption in the history of Spain, be‐ fore the 2008 stock market crash, was on December 17, 2007. On this date, consumers used 45 gigawatts, which is less than half of the available capacity that suppliers can gen‐ erate.

Not even during storm Filomena, when 42 gigawatts were consumed, was there any risk of shortages. The power plants generate twice what the country can consume on any given day. This means there is no risk of a generation collapse, nor is there a risk of nuclear collapse, and if it does, 10 different energy sources are available to back it up every day.

tional Police Bravery Award.

“They administered emergency CPR to the man as the incoming tide began to rush in.

North Yorkshire Police commented: “A Coastguard rescue helicopter was on the way. While [they] waited for the helicopter, they continued to perform CPR on the man for around an hour and a half in challenging and dangerous circumstances.

“Unfortunately, the injuries from the fall proved too severe for the man, and he later passed away. Our thoughts continue to be with his loved ones.”

POLICE RESCUE: The man had fallen down a sheer cliff.

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Biddu loves Marbella

PRODUCER Biddu who has sold millions of records loves Marbella so much that he and his wife Sue split their time be‐ tween the Costa del Sol and Kensington in be‐ tween visits to India.

Although born in Banga‐ lore, the young Biddu found himself attracted to British music and with no radio shows in India found himself excited by the Merseybeat which he could pick up on Radio Ceylon once a week.

He joined a local band playing the music of the Beatles and the Stones but decided that he want‐ ed to visit what he saw as the home of modern pop, so set off on a journey and worked his way across the Middle East singing and playing music before arriv‐ ing in England in 1967 aged 23.

He quickly got a deal to

Credit: Biddu BIDDU: Still has his music publishing company and has been married to Sue for 50 years.

record a single Look Out Here I Come which was produced by a young American Tony Visconti, who went on to find fame with David Bowie both as a musician and producer.

It didn’t set the world on fire but laughing he said during the interview “for some reason, the song has been picked up more than 50 years later for the soundtrack of a

documentary ‘The Beatles in India’.”

In the meantime, he was still producing records with what became known as a disco beat and al‐ though they received no

air play, they kept bub‐ bling under the top 40 charts as they were being bought by those into Northern Soul in clubs in places like Wigan.

“I had never even heard of Northern Soul and couldn’t work out who was buying the records, but at the end of the day they helped me to keep going and not give up.”

What really gave his ca‐ reer an enormous boost was producing Kung Fu Fighting for Carl Douglas which was a huge hit, not just in the UK but also in the USA and he followed that with records by Jim‐ my James and the Vagabonds and Tina Charles, being able to claim that he really creat‐ ed the British disco beat.

From there his career really took off around the world with hit singles from the Biddu Orchestra and

then against his better judgement agreed to record a number for an In‐ dian film producer, but he is now pleased that he did.

“I kept saying no be‐ cause I really didn’t under‐ stand typical Indian pop with sitars and high‐ pitched vocals, but in the end, on the understanding that I could write and pro‐ duce as I wanted, I finally wrote Aap Jaisa Koi for the newly discovered Nazia Hassan and it wowed audiences across the sub‐continent as did the subsequent album.”

Now 75 and married to Sue for 50 years, he has given up performing, but still has his music publish‐ ing company and son Zak runs a hugely successful music event company, rubbing shoulders with the likes of Sir Paul McCar‐ ney and Jay Z.

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

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Criminals go under radar THOUSANDS of foreign criminals go under the radar as immigration checks are bypassed during Covid, according to a new report.

During the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, many immigration controls normally conducted in person have been performed over the phone, and around 70,000 foreign criminals were not properly checked.

According to Migration Watch U K, only 11,000 out of 80,000 high-risk people were contacted in person for checks to be conducted: “The majority of individuals currently required to report are those whom the Home Office considers present the greatest potential risk of causing harm to UK society, often foreign national offenders with previous convictions in the UK.” It is vital changes of address and other details

are recorded. If a person re-offends then this data could prove crucial. The watchdog believes that

the public in the UK could be put at risk due to the ‘minimal’ checks that are being carried out.

Illegal ‘sea cucumbers’ seized MUNICIPAL POLICE officers in Madrid recently seized a total of 2,275 sea cucumbers (Holothurians) in a restaurant in the Usera district of the city. It is prohibited by interna-

tional law to poach the species for commercial purposes.

This action occurred on November 3, in a restaurant on Calle Ferroviarios. Officers who patrol this area

A 16-YEAR-OLD girl has been saved and a pae‐ dophile arrested thanks to a gesture learnt on TikTok. The girl used the hand ges‐ ture to alert drivers that she needed rescuing.

Officers arrested 61‐ year‐old James Brick of Kentucky, USA, and res‐ cued the young girl. The girl used a signal seen on TikTok that indicates a person is suffering from gender violence.

A car driving behind Brick’s vehicle saw the girl make the sign with her hand and reported the in‐ cident. She had been ab‐ ducted from her home in Asheville, North Carolina.

The sign involves raising

the palm and putting the thumb against it, then lowering their fingers so that the thumb is trapped, resembling a clenched fist.

Brick has been incarcer‐ ated and charged with kid‐ napping the young girl. He was also charged with possessing child pornogra‐ phy.

Spain to finance revolutionary drug Teen saved by TikTok SPAIN’S National Health System, Sanidad, has reached an agreement with Vertex, the Ameri‐ can biopharmaceutical company, over the price of its revolutionary new drug, Kaftrio, that helps treat cystic fibrosis.

KAFTRIO: New drug.

In addition, the Min‐ istry highlighted this treatment will be financed in a combined administration regime. The 150 mg tablets are suitable for the treatment in patients 12 years of age or older.

This is included in the April 2021 extension of the indi‐ cation initially authorised by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). With this action, Spain joins many Euro‐ pean Union member states that finance this treatment, after the approval of the drug by the EMA. Sanidad hopes that the benefits of this treatment will make it possible for patients affected by cystic fibrosis to improve both their quality and life expectancy.

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saw an establishment with the marine specimens hydrating in an aquarium.

Upon inspection, they were verified as sea cucumbers, an animal whose sale and purchase are restricted within the international CITEs agreement.

Those responsible for the premises could not prove their origin, so they could have been smuggled into the country. The authorities are investigating the owner for a criminal offence.

The establishment also failed to comply with various hygienic-sanitary measures contained in the Law of Public Shows and Recreational Activities (LEPAR).

and finally...

EARLY diagnosis of cancer can be one of the main factors which determine a patient’s outcome. Tests can be com‐ plex and time‐consuming, however, researchers have come up with a new blood test ‐ the Galleri ‐ which could be a game‐changer. This new test only requires a simple blood sample from a patient and can detect over 50 types of cancer.

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Digital Nomads

Corona Pass

ALTHOUGH Copenhagen normally comes very high in reviews of friendliness and work conditions, it only made 43rd place in a review of 80 cities ideal for digital nomads undertaken by WorkMotion, a global HR platform, failing due to high taxes and cost of living.

WITH effect from November 12 for an initial period of four weeks, a corona pass showing vaccination will be required to enter all Danish nightlife venues and indoor restaurants, regardless of their size, as well as venues that hold 200 people inside or 2,000 outside.

THE NETHERLANDS Firework Ban

Royal Visit

AMSTERDAM on New Year’s Eve is relatively quiet until midnight when it feels like war has broken out with the noise of exploding fireworks. The Dutch Government is considering banning them again this year to reduce pressure on emergency services as Covid-19 figures increase.

THERE was a great deal of excitement and ceremony due to relaxation of Covid-19 restrictions as the Netherlands’ King WillemAlexander and Queen Máxima arrived in Oslo for the 100th state visit, hosted by Norway’s own royal couple, King Harald and Queen Sonja.

BELGIUM Dangerous driver

Royal dancer

A TAXI was discovered balancing precariously over a crash barrier above the entrance to the Louisa Tunnel in Brussels with no sign of the driver and firefighters had to remove the vehicle. He was soon identified as he had left his ID behind and was arrested.

IT was only in 2020 after a DNA test confirmed that she was the biological daughter of former king, Albert II that Delphine Boel was given the title of Princess and now she is to take part in Belgium’s Dancing with the Stars.

GERMANY Emergency numbers

Green leaf

EARLY on the morning of November 11, emergency services across Germany confirmed that calls for urgent assistance being made to the police and fire departments were not going through in a number of major cities. Service was eventually restored and the cause is being investigated.

THE words Green Party might take on another meaning, if they eventually manage to form a government in Germany with other Liberal parties, as it appears that they will be pushing to decriminalise possession of cannabis and eventually legalise its recreational use.

FRANCE Friendly talks

Going home

REALISING that in the long-term France will have to accept that it has lost the Australian submarine deal, President Macron has told US Vice President Kamala Harris in Paris that it is vitally important that the two countries continue to have a friendly association.

FRANCE has become the latest country to return looted African antiquities to their country of origin following the lead of Belgium and Germany and although some British universities have returned items, the British Museum appears reluctant to do so, perhaps worried about Greece and the Elgin Marbles.

NORWAY Cables cut

Equal rights

THERE were signs of deliberate sabotage after a unique underwater observatory in strategic waters off the coast of Northern Norway had more than 4.3 kilometres of its specially designed offshore fibre optic and electric cables cut and removed. So important is the observatory that the police and Navy were alerted.

AFTER months of international campaigning following a €1,500 fine on the Norwegian Women’s Beach Handball team for wearing shorts like men rather than bikini bottoms, the International Handball Federation had to give in to pressure and change its rules to allow shorts.

FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Permanent contracts THE Secretary of State for Employment, Joaquín Pérez Rey has confirmed that due to irregularities, Spanish companies have been made to convert 267,600 temporary contracts into permanent ones in the first 10 months of 2021, an increase of more than 50 per cent over 2019.

LV= offer THE latest UK business being eyed up by American investors is insurance company LV= with a £530 million offer on the table from Bain Capital. As a mutual company with 1.2 members, they will have to vote 75 per cent in favour and if they want a pay‐ out.

Inflation up SPANISH inflation continues to increase as the consumer price index (CPI) rose 5.4 per cent year‐ on‐year in October, slightly less than forecast by the National Institute of Statistics (INE), but still 1.5 per cent over the September figure, with the blame put on the increase in electricity prices.

More mojitos UK pub chain Wetherspoons is seeing a major shift in customer drinking as it appears that more young people are taking advantage of its lowish prices to enjoy an evening drinking cocktails whilst traditional older clientele are staying home, so beer sales have reduced.

Looking for profit ANGLO-SWEDISH pharma‐ ceutical company AstraZeneca has announced that now the Covid‐19 pandemic is under reasonable control it plans to increase prices. Up until now, it says it has made no profit from the sale of more than 1.5 billion doses of vaccine, but as and when it receives new orders it intends to increase the price marginally to make a small profit.

It is understood it will still supply at cost to countries around the world classified as poor.

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€10 BILLION

is the amount that Spain has asked that the European Union pays over as a first tranche from the European Recovery Fund.

Renault create Refactory project RENAULT GROUP has created a Refactory project in Sevilla to pro‐ mote sustainability a year after creat‐ ing their first hub in France.

The project was announced in the presence of Juan Manuel Moreno, president of Andalucia and the Sevilla Refactory will be structured around four areas of activity, from mainte‐ nance to recycling, in order to support the entire life of the vehicle.

The stages are: • Re‐Trofit: reconditioning of used vehicles.

• Re‐Energy: repairing and develop‐ ing applications for batteries in sec‐

ond life such as energy storage.

• Re‐Cycle: for recycling, resource management and the manufacture of E‐TECH gearboxes.

• Re‐Start: a training and R&D cen‐ tre dedicated to the circular economy.

The project will be rolled‐out be‐ tween 2022 and 2024 and will cover a built‐up area of 5,000 m2 when com‐ pleted.

The Re‐Trofit division will start op‐ erations at the end of 2022, with the capacity to refurbish more than 10,000 vehicles and repair up to 1,000 batteries per year by 2025.

This is part of the ongoing industrial

plan covering 2021 to 2024 for the Group’s Spanish plants, and includes the allocation of five new vehicles and a new family of engines for the Castil‐ la y Leon plants. The plant in Sevilla will also handle the manufacture of two new models of electrified gear‐ boxes for the Group’s hybrid vehicles.

The commitment to sustainability of its vehicles and accessories by the French Group guarantees continued long‐term employment for workers in its Spanish factories and is also in keeping with the Spanish Govern‐ ment programme of increasingly Green industry.

Home insurance from Golden Leaves Complain to bank?

LEGALLY SPEAKING

We live in England, and we have a property in Spain, with a bank account in a Spanish bank.

Last May €211.60 was paid out of our account for someone else’s insurance. With Covid 19 we have been unable to travel to Spain until recently. We have been to the branch and written a complaint to an ad‐ dress we found on the Internet, showing them the evi‐ dence. We have been told that it is too late to rectify.

Surely this cannot be correct. What else can we do now?

R H D (e‐mail) No, it is DAVID SEARL not too late to rectify. If YOU AND THE LAW your visit in person IN SPAIN to your bank has produced no results you then have recourse to the bank’s ombudsman, or defender of the customer, the Defensor del Cliente. Perhaps the Internet address you found was this ombudsman. Finally, if you get no an‐ swer or receive an unsatisfactory reply, after two months you can make your complaint directly to the Bank of Spain. You must do this with full documenta‐ tion. The central bank promises to reply within six weeks. Their website is bde.es.

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

A BOTTLE of Batman inspired Scotch whisky costs £495 and with just 145 bottles of Irishtree Speyside Single Malt available from DC Comics inspired London food and drinks venue Park Row. Who could have imagined when the first Action comic fea‐ turing Superman (now worth in excess of $3 million) was re‐ leased in 1938 that what was ini‐

THE experts at Golden Leaves are able to help expats in Spain with ev‐ erything from pre‐paid fu‐ neral plans to creating a Will and providing all All risks cover available. types of insurance.

In association with our expert partners, Golden Leaves is able to provide advice and products to aid in the protection of your buildings, contents, and valuable possessions in Spain with different options to suit you.

Underwritten by Lloyd’s of London, the world’s leading insurance market, they offer tailor‐made policies to suit your needs as well as worldwide, all risks cover available for personal effects and valuables on permanent resi‐ dences.

Golden Leaves’ policies also include discounts for direct alarms connected to a security firm and multi‐property policies, as well as cover for accidental damage on your home entertainment equipment as standard.

They also offer multi‐policy discounts and up to 15 per cent no‐claims discount.

Alongside home insurance, Golden Leaves also offers all other types of insurance, including car and health insur‐ ance.

So why not get in touch with Golden Leaves Internation‐ al to cover everything from your home to your car and health?

www.goldenleavesinternational.com enquiries@goldenleaves.com Facebook: goldenleavesspain

Batman inspired whisky tially aimed at children would some 80 years later become a huge business running alongside rival Marvel comics?

Irishtree is the fictional ances‐ tral home of Batman’s alter ego Bruce Wayne and the restaurant offers a multitude of different

options including The Iceberg Lounge, a bar themed around Batman villain The Penguin, Rogues Gallery, a restaurant de‐ voted to Catwoman, the Old Gotham City bar and Penny‐ worth’s, a whisky bar inspired by Batman’s British butler Alfred.

Charity jobs AS controversy continues over UK MPs second jobs, charity website Civil Society has undertaken a review of those in Parliament who are connected to one or more charities.

They accept that there is no requirement to actually de‐ clare their connection on the register of interests, but as‐ sume that the majority will wish to do so.

According to the review, 130 out of 650 MPs have de‐ clared a current, or recent, for‐ mal role with a voluntary or‐ ganisation which compares to findings from the BBC that around 200 have second jobs.

The larger parties have the greatest number of charitable MPs standing at around 18 per cent and this ignores asso‐ ciation with political organisa‐ tions.

Expansion THE sports equipment distri‐ bution company Decathlon has opened a new continental warehouse in Barcelona which cost €53.4 million to build in just 14 months de‐ spite the pandemic.

This centre has been devel‐ oped using latest Building In‐ formation modelling (BIM) technology, following the strict criteria of energy effi‐ ciency, sustainability and healthy working conditions.

The elements used include PV solar panels for self‐con‐ sumption, an integrated building management system to control the artificial lighting through adjustable low‐con‐ sumption LEDs with presence sensors, and construction ma‐ terials respectful of the car‐ bon footprint.

Already 51 new employees have been added to the pay‐ roll with a further 20 due to be recruited shortly.

Pride of place however goes to the Monarch Theatre which can seat just 20 people and offers a one‐of‐a‐kind gastronomic show, with carefully crafted staging and immersive courses that play with the senses.

Running up to Christmas, the 10‐course menu (which includes a drink) will cost £249 per per‐ son.

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NET VOL 41,70K 109,18K 69,34K 217,00K 53,84K 60,10K 80,01K 29,63K 313,31K 1,66M 15,75K 676,77K 436,90K 765,91K 167,39K 2,40M 229,29K 14,30K 258,83K 3,55M 167,82K 269,55K 3,48M 36,31K 73,09K 108,90K 1,04M 10,92K 140,70K 40,42K 6,89K 45,31K 430,69K 97,65K 1,16M 56,83K 42,72K 9,28K 46,77K 510,80K 2,91M 27,70K 18,26K 16,60K 2,12M 7,50M 444,55K 294,88K 20,96K 54,46K

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5.140,0 125,25 295,60 2.289,0 710,00 294,60 49,17 6.932,0 746,20 171,30 1.849,00 977,50 219,20 8.158,4 30,46 1.802,50 2.711,0 665,60 1.506,50 6.228,0 2.369,00 633,00 723,24 4.515,0 146,26 8,57 1.675,31 1.675,0 1.684,9 752,00 1.524,00 19,01 3.716,8 1.502,00 1.357,18 2.825,0 1.316,00 1.484,00 16.975,0 1.641,75 1.585,50 470,20 157,93 285,11 231,67 3.907,5 1.071,50 112,34 3.211,0 1.103,00

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5.154,0 126,20 298,20 2.321,0 710,00 294,80 49,53 6.974,0 747,20 171,45 1.866,00 980,50 219,80 8.168,0 30,67 1.823,50 2.719,0 665,80 1.508,00 6.242,0 2.380,00 636,20 725,60 4.564,5 146,38 8,63 1.683,51 1.683,4 1.692,4 755,20 1.526,50 19,36 3.742,0 1.508,50 1.366,50 2.837,7 1.322,00 1.484,00 17.025,0 1.650,50 1.599,00 471,60 158,30 286,25 231,20 3.920,5 1.075,00 113,96 3.218,0 1.106,50

5.110,0 124,00 293,70 2.271,0 701,60 291,20 48,94 6.910,0 744,00 169,70 1.848,00 972,60 216,30 8.110,0 30,39 1.793,50 2.677,0 658,20 1.491,00 6.218,0 2.367,00 633,00 721,38 4.509,5 141,96 8,51 1.645,60 1.639,6 1.650,0 750,60 1.518,00 19,00 3.710,0 1.501,00 1.355,00 2.810,0 1.309,00 1.474,50 16.945,0 1.641,00 1.578,00 457,70 155,95 284,00 223,00 3.900,5 1.068,50 112,30 3.157,0 1.097,50

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AGREEMENT REACHED: Spanish family-owned Banca March.

FINANCIAL help is to be giv‐ en to Spanish companies af‐ fected by Covid‐19 with €300 million available through Banca March with the support of the European Investment Fund (FEI).

There is a €210 million guarantee from the FEI and with its own funds involved Banca March will be able to channel up to €300 million in loans to SMEs and mid‐ caps, much of it to the Balearic Islands.

The agreement is backed by the Pan‐European Guar‐ antee Fund (EGF), which is part of the package of mea‐ sures worth €540 billion ap‐ proved by the European Union to alleviate the eco‐ nomic effects of the pan‐ demic.

It is estimated that the signed agreement will facili‐ tate access to financing un‐ der advantageous condi‐ tions for more than 350 SMEs affected by the pan‐ demic, which will also help to safeguard employment

levels and the EIF will guar‐ antee up to 70 per cent of the new loan portfolio.

European Investment Bank (EIB) Vice President Ri‐ cardo Mourinho Félix stated: “As early as December 2020, Banca March was the first bank to sign an agreement with the EIB Group within the framework of the Pan‐ European Guarantee Fund.

“This is one more exam‐ ple of the EIB Group’s com‐ mitment to supporting Spanish financial institutions in the creation of new credit lines for small companies in the context of the recovery from the Covid‐19 pandem‐ ic.

“By collaborating with Banca March, we can reach numerous companies affect‐ ed by the pandemic in the Balearic Islands and throughout Spain, providing liquidity to support their in‐ vestment needs for growth in the medium and long term.”

Since the beginning of the

Looking East THE mayor of Romanian town Resita is excited by the fact that he has been approached by a Madrid‐based IT company which is considering opening a data centre in the town’s industrial estate.

According to the mayor, one of the major factors in de‐ ciding whether to open there is the availability of large amounts of electricity as well as easy access to the inter‐ net, both of which are possible. Many university gradu‐ ates have moved out of the town to obtain reasonably paid jobs but the company has indicated that it will look to employ around 100 local staff and pay above the mini‐ mum wage.

pandemic Banca March, a family‐owned investment bank, has reinforced its com‐ mitment to promote and stimulate the role of family businesses.

BUSINESS EXTRA Watching brief THE Bank of Spain, having introduced rules for traders in cryptocurrency is now turning its attention to Spanish banks and will re‐ quire a three‐year plan on what each bank wants to do in that particular market in order keep an eye on de‐ velopments.

Marks and Spencer THANKS to a turn around in sales of clothing and the usual strong performance by food, Marks and Spencer has returned to pre‐tax profit of £187.3 mil‐ lion for six months to Octo‐ ber compared to an £87.6 million loss for the same period in 2020.

Waiting time AS Uber become more popular in Britain and Spain it is interesting to note that the US Government is suing them for discrimination against disabled users who may be charged ‘waiting time’ because they take more than two minutes to get into a car.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WITH all the predictability of the sun sinking in the West, the Christmas deluge of diversity rammed down viewer’s throats by the UK’s left‐wing media has this year reached epic proportions.

Christmas screens are now awash with so much diverse hogwash, the white indigenous population must be more convinced than ever they are living on some parallel planet. Just this week the John Lewis advert, which depicts an all‐black family, provoked a flurry of offended ‘woke toxicity’ accusations from established British sources.

Other commercials, which depict typical British family gatherings on Christmas Day, now contain so many diverse nationalities and cosmopolitan children that the family ‘tree’ is more likely an overgrown hedgerow.

In short, it is all intelligence insulting propaganda.

Racially motivated hate crimes in the UK have increased 12 per cent this year alone.

So much for promoting diversity and racial harmony! These media organisations are not stupid, they have people monitoring social sites; they are perfectly aware that their disproportionate use of black and ethnic actors is raising concerns among

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thousands of the white indigenous population. Subsequently, this agenda, coupled with their unwavering support of the BLM Marxist movement and highly controversial ‘knee’ is widening the gap between the white and ethnic communities even more.

The British left‐wing media and particularly the BBC are perfectly aware that by stirring up as much disharmony as they can before the next general election, they may just stand the chance of a beleaguered public opting for a change to a Labour government. It worked in America!

Their negative reporting and heavily prejudiced coverage of everything the British government has achieved over the past couple of extremely difficult years, has been nothing short of disgraceful. Every opportunity is taken to undermine all their efforts. They have pounced gleefully on the mistakes and contemptuously brushed aside their successes.

It must be remembered high numbers of employees in the British media, particularly the BBC and C4 are recruited from the same schools of thought. Many of them are ex‐ Student Union members from the colleges

and universities. The same left‐wing organisations that are currently removing historic links to the British Empire by taking down patriotic statues and renaming buildings and lecture theatres at their places of learning. It is also common knowledge that the vetting for BBC staff is very stringent indeed. If you’re not of the same mind set or never read the Guardian, you are lucky to get the job. Don’t take my word for all of this public dissent. A recent poll revealed that 42 per cent of the populace considered the BBC biased and 21 per cent ‘didn’t know’. Not the best of results for an impartial company, supported by taxpayer’s money.

I couldn’t help a giggle at reports Joe Biden passed a long unmistakable expulsion of wind in front of Camilla last week. Didn’t surprise me. He’s been doing that from the other end since he came to power!

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Film Review by Laura Kemp

Streaming Now: Finch

FINCH was released on Apple TV on November 5 and stars Tom Hanks, Caleb Landry Jones, and a dog on a heartfelt road trip ‐ what more could you want?

Directed by Miguel Sapochnik (Game of Thrones), the film follows a man and a scavenging robot (that resembles Wall‐E) on a road trip to the Golden Gate Bridge in a post‐apocalyptic future.

Finch, played by Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump) is struggling to survive both physically and mentally in a world that is slowly killing him. He invents an AI‐based robot, Jeff, played by Caleb Landry Jones (Get Out) to help him to carry out tasks and ultimately take care of his beloved dog Goodyear when he dies.

I was sure this film was going to be a tear‐jerker, and I was right. It’s a heart‐warming tale of loss

Tom Hanks’ new film. and companionship, with Finch teaching Jeff about life and trust, as age and the effects of radiation slowly catch up with him.

This film is basically a two‐man movie, and the acting is incredible as Jeff begins to learn about trust, life and feelings from the man who created him and who he will ultimately replace. It is a father‐son metaphor set in a hostile and cruel environment, sweetened by humour and an upbeat soundtrack.

The movie doesn’t put you on the edge of your seat, but the two hours flies by as the relationships between Finch, Jeff and Goodyear the dog grow.

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THE LAST TWO WEEKS WE HAVE DISCUSSED THE MATHS BEHIND MOTIVATION AND ENERGY - FOUND YOURS YET? So, this is a tool from old school sci‐ ence.

What is it then, I hear you asking!!

TONI C. EASTWOOD OBE, MBA

#TheWomanBeyond THIS week I ask: Have you ever heard of ‘activation energy’?

Me neither, until a few years ago. It’s another formula, this time not from maths, but chemistry and physics. One thing I realise time and time again is that there are life lessons to be learned from everywhere, I have already shared with you that the model that I developed for personal and business transformation and success (ASPIRE© ‐ Six Secrets to Success) is based on my 30 years of re‐ search, taking in Antient Wisdom, Posi‐ tive Psychology, Neuroscience and shar‐ ing practical tools from everywhere and when I say that I really, really mean it, there’s even Harry Potter Wisdom (I’ll share that with you another time ‐ LOVE it).

Activation Energy That is the minimum amount of energy that must be provided for compounds to result in a chemical reaction.

A great, but what might seem a mun‐ dane example is WATER: Water only boils once it reaches its activation energy point of 100 degrees Celsius (212°F). Twenty degrees won’t make it happen, 85 de‐ grees won’t do it and not even 99 de‐ grees will do it. Sure, you’ll get lots of sim‐ mering but certainly no boiling.

If you want boiling, you’ve got to get the heat all the way up to 100°. Then the magic will happen, you’ll undergo the ‘specified reaction’ and boil.

Same rules apply with creating fire, 232 degrees Celsius (451°F) is where the mag‐ ic happens here. So if you’re busy rubbing two sticks together and get to 200 de‐

grees? Nothing. 225°? Nothing. 230°?

Nope. Nothing.

BUT at 232°?

BAM! Let there be light.

BOOM! You’ve got Activation Energy.

And your point is Toni? All of this is to arrive at this question: Are you simmering or are you boiling?

Because if you’re not willing to flip the switch and go ALL IN, you won’t arrive at the necessary Activation Energy required to undergo the specified reaction of step‐ ping into your truly Goddess, heroic po‐ tential.

BTW. As I said this is not a new idea.

(No great wisdom ever is.) Socrates used to tell his students they needed to ap‐ proach life with the same intensity of a man whose face is underwater struggles for oxygen.

Eastern mystics have used the same ba‐ sic metaphor ‐ telling us that we need to approach this whole process of enlight‐ ened living like a wo(man) whose hair is on fire approaches a pond. YIKES!

Let’s do that.

Stay Focused, Keep Positive and Choose to +1 in Every Moment. Fulfil Your Dreams and Awaken Your Greatness!!

Love, Hugs, High Fives and Fist Bumps Toni x PS. Want PERSONAL TRANSFORMATION or BUSINESS SUCCESS, to get laser focused on your Vision or Biggest Most Audacious Goals? Get a FREE e‐copy of my Book #The Woman Beyond ‐ Six Secrets to Success from here. https://quantumvantage.co.uk/thewom anbeyond ‐ Don’t hold back another moment. Get ready to dive into the experience and explore your BIGGEST MOST AUDACIOUS GOALS. To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com

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CLAIRE GORDON FINDING BALANCE IN AN UNEVEN WORLD T H I S week I received a surprise parcel in a hand-written envelope through the post. This in itself is a rare enough occurrence these days as to cause a little rush of happiness when it arrived. But when I opened it, I was filled with even more joy. It contained honey candy, olive oil soap from a Greek island, and a red string bracelet with an engraved gold coin attached.

There was also a thank you note from a stranger.

A month ago, I had answered a message for help from a friend in Greece. Someone they knew needed assistance with translating some documents and embellishing them with some English words they didn’t know. I had some time on my hands and thought it would be a nice thing to do, so I said I would help. It took up a few hours of my time, we completed the work, and I thought no more of it. The woman asked for my address to send a thank you card, I gave it but said it wasn’t necessary as I was happy to help.

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Kindness Fast forward to this week, I receive my wonderful parcel and it really got me thinking. It was World Kindness Day on November 13 and its purpose is to reinforce that compassion links us all together and that being kind has immense power in this not-so-kind world. An act of kindness can fill our hearts with joy and yet in our busy schedules, it is so easy to forget to take some time out to make a kind gesture for a friend, family member, loved one or even a stranger.

I know a lot of people have a twisted view because the world hasn’t been so kind to them. They are busy, no one would do it for them, they won’t get anything back, so why should they bother?

That’s understandable but practising kindness itself can be the reward. I do think kindness is always in some way a transaction because even if you receive nothing in return, the sheer act of doing something nice makes you feel better.

It can make you feel like you are being the best version of yourself and honestly when you put that out into the world, you will soon start to see changes.

These changes may not be in the actions of others particularly, as some people do not know how to respond well to kindness. But the changes can be in the way you view the world. You will be able to see that someone tearing down celebrities, or activists or just people going about their lives is not kind and it is not conducive to making that person’s life better, only someone else’s life worse.

These actions add to a world that seems harsh and uncaring enough already, so I think I will look at my little red bracelet today and choose to be kind instead.

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Travel

Paradise on the doorstep

WOODEN WALKWAY: Through a dramatic canyon.

WITH domestic tourism booming, many are discov‐ ering the hidden gems on their doorsteps. Castril is a small village in the north of the Granada Province. It is nestled at the foot of a mountain range, at the top of a valley that carries the river of the same name and boasts a castle that dates to the Almohad period of the Muslim empire. A trip to the top of the monument offers stunning views across the high plains of Granada and towards five different moun‐ tain ranges including the ad‐ jacent Sierra de Castril.

The village is famed for a wooden walkway that takes you through a dramatic canyon to lush riverside

walks. The mixture of cul‐ tures that have shaped the village over the years is evi‐ dent in the architecture and cuisine. The surrounding area is a haven for nature lovers and those fond of out‐ door pursuits, with moun‐ tains, lakes and ravines offer‐ ing a wealth of activities from kayaking and canyon‐ ing to hiking and mountain biking.

Its streets are full of histo‐ ry and offer a glimpse back in time, with tales waiting to be told at every turn. It was this magic that attracted Por‐ tuguese writer and recipient of the 1998 Nobel Prize in Literature, Jose Saramago, to call the village home for many years.

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RESIDENT OR NOT? Dear Sirs I refer to your article last week entitled ‘Passport stamp clarity’ in which you refer to UK nationals who can demonstrate that they were resident in Spain before January 1 should not have their passport stamped or be subject to routine questions. A couple of weeks ago I decided to visit Gibraltar and, in an attempt to avoid any complications at the border, took with me my green residence certificate and my vaccination certificates as well as my new British passport.

Having given these documents to the National Police at the border two policemen then spent five minutes on their computer discussing my residence certificate and informed me that it had expired. They explained to me in great detail that the UK had left the EU at the end of last year and therefore my residence certificate had expired and I had to apply for a TIE which replaced the green residence certificate. I knew fine well that the certificate was still valid and that applying for a TIE was optional since even the British Ambassador had made reference to this on several occasions. Despite having been a resident of Spain for 40 years I was beginning to wonder whether it was just my certificate that had expired or had the government had a change of mind and cancelled all green residence certificates.

Unsure as to whether it was still valid or not, over the next few days I put together the necessary papers in order to apply for the TIE at the National Police in Estepona. Once my papers had been accepted I explained my situation to the person handling my application. Following several minutes of discussions I was informed that apparently a new system had been installed for dealing with the green residence certificates, but unfortunately a certain number of them had been rejected by the new system. As a result of this many more people may find themselves in the same predicament as myself when passing through Spanish border controls.

Yours etc Peter Sanderson

WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? THE evidence of the last few weeks suggests that there is another surge in the pandemic and the decision by Austria and the Netherlands to enforce some form of lockdown is worrying to say the least.

It seems that whilst infections in Spain are beginning to climb, the rate is not yet more than disturbing and it seems highly unlikely that major new restrictions will be introduced in the foreseeable future.

Whether you approve of the vaccines or not, anecdotal evidence suggests that whilst the inoculated can still spread the dis-

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A right to reply Dear Editor, I believe that Mr Oram is attempting to overcomplicate a straightforward observation of mine; for example, it is minority groups that wish to remove from British history anyone associated with actions which, in the context of the standards of the past were considered to be acceptable but which, rightly so, are considered not to be so today. Cecil Rhodes, Edward Colston, Horatio Nelson, Winston Churchill, to name but a few, each of whom made an enormous contribution to so many aspects of life in the UK and around the world, although, in the cases of Nelson and Churchill, we owe them our very survival!

Yet it is minorities who would denigrate their reputations and, if they ever had their way, would see them ‘cancelled’ and cease to feature in our past! We are all a product of our history and have a responsibility to learn from errors of the past, not seek to erase them.

The minorities to whom I referred (elderly men, Tories, or MPs who went to Eton excluded), have a democratic right to express their views and to protest, legally; what they do not have is the right to bring business to a halt or to prevent the general public from going about their day-to-day lives, and this, thankfully, has been endorsed by the courts in recent weeks.

As for my remark about ‘not being racist’, it was a personal one and contained no implications for any other person or group; it was merely stated in case anybody should misconstrue my criticism of ‘minorities’ or their composition - one has to be so careful nowadays!

Ken Turner

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ease, the worst affected are those who for one reason or another have not been vaccinated.

The more who can be encouraged to volunteer for vaccination, the better it must be for the majority of people here in Spain and of course in the UK where so many of our readers have relatives.

The concept of a booster third shot also seems sensible but at the end of the day, the number of people who are killed by Covid19 whilst horrifying for those involved, is no longer a huge percentage of those catching coronavirus.

It would simply be unconscionable for Spain or the UK to cripple their economies yet again by introducing new lockdown laws, even assuming in the Spanish case that they would be legal, so the difficulty is knowing what actions could help.

If you make restaurants close at 8pm, why would that be likely to reduce the number of people infected, as customers can catch the virus as easily at 7pm as 11pm?

All we can really do is wait and see how infection progresses and try to be as careful as possible.

MASKS: Should there be stricter regulations put into place?

Gill Reynolds Yes, most of us residents respect the rules, now we are getting another rise because visitors have been ignoring them.

Jenny Trask Absolutely without any doubt - why should someone spread germs just because they think it’s their right to do so . A mask is now an essential accessory!

Adam Boyce We now know the virus is airborne. So what do all the mask fanatics think happens to the air they breathe? Do masks magically filter Covid out?

Rita Turner Yes it’s the same here, a rise in cases and they say are imported ones, visitors walk about as if they are exempt from the law.

Karen McCarrick Evans Yes there should be. As residents living in Almeria, Spain we wear them all the time and get some funny looks walking into bars with them on. We are keeping ourselves safe and everybody else around us. I have no issues wearing a mask and will continue to wear one until we are told otherwise.

Pam Rossiter Yes, definitely. Residents stick to the rules (most of the time): so should tourists. Before they come over to Spain they should check what they need to do and what the law is.

Sheila Allan Definitely, if you can’t follow Spanish law you should be deported!!

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Spain qualify for 2022 Qatar World Cup S P A I N are through to the Qatar 2022 World Cup finals after a 1‐0 vic‐ tory over Sweden in Sevilla on Sunday, November 14. A goal in the 86th minute by Ju‐ ventus’ on‐loan striker Alvaro Morata was enough to secure their passage, and consign the Swedes to the play‐offs next spring.

Needing only one point to top Group B, the Span‐ ish came into this match as favourites to clinch that top spot. Sweden could only top the group with a victory in Sevilla’s stunning La Cartuja Stadi‐ um.

With this win, Luis En‐ rique has continued Spain’s impressive record

VICTORY: Spain beat Sweden 1-0 in the 86th minute.

of qualifying for every World Cup finals since 1974. It will be their 12th appearance in a row at the finals.

The Spaniards were un‐ lucky not to go ahead early on, when Pablo Sarabia curled his 20‐ yeard shot just wide of Robin Olsen’s goal. Swe‐ den grew into the game,

and with the enigmatic Zlatan Ibrahimovic back in the side, anything was possible. It was Emil Fors‐ berg though who came closest to putting the vis‐ itors ahead on two occa‐ sions.

Janne Andersson’s side pressed the home side after the break. Alexan‐ der Isak will probably be

losing sleep if he thinks back on how he managed to miss a golden opportu‐ nity. Midway through the second half, after some dreadful defending, he found himself clean through on Simon, but somehow managed to scuff his shot.

Just as the match looked like ending all square, a fierce long‐ range effort from Dani Olmo was superbly tipped onto the crossbar

by Robin Olsen.

Unfortunately for the Swedes, the ball dropped in front of Morata, who calmly, and clinically, chipped it into the net over the keeper to initi‐ ate crazy scenes around the stadium.

Hamilton keeps championship alive LEWIS HAMILTON completed one of the great‐ est Formula One drives of all time to win the Brazilian Grand Prix on Sunday November 14.

The British driver overcame a total of 25 grid place penalties to take the chequered flag ahead of championship rival Max Verstappen. The win came at a time when his title hopes seemed to have disappeared following a disqualification from qualifying on Saturday for a technical in‐ fringement.

That sanction sent him to the back of the grid for the evening’s sprint race. Yet, Hamilton re‐ mained focused and navigated his way to fifth. A further five‐place penalty sent him back to10th on the grid for Sunday’s race in Sao Paulo.

In one of the most spectacular drives seen in years, he steered his Mercedes all the way through the field to take top spot on the podium, passing title favourite Verstappen of Red Bull in the closing stages.

The win was hailed by pundits and ex‐drivers as one of the greatest of all time, given the con‐ text surrounding the weekend. Verstappen’s championship lead was slashed from 21 points to 14 points when it looked certain to go the other way.

With just three races remaining and 78 points still up for grabs, the season finale promises to be one of the most thrilling in years.