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Mijas lights up MIJAS will turn on their Christmas lights on Sun‐ day, December 5, from 5pm in the Plaza Virgen de la Peña.

There will be an inaugu‐ ral party with hot choco‐ late, an ice‐skating rink, and games for the little ones, as well as a zam‐ bomba.

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Set for demolition THE Antonio Martín restaurant in Malaga looks set to dis‐ appear. The government has ordered the historic busi‐ ness to be emptied and demolished pending an upcom‐ ing court order. The space occupied by the premises on La Malagueta beach will be recovered and used for public space. Under current plans the area would be converted into a plaza as part of wider coastal development plans.

As part of the procedure, there was an option to keep the building intact. But the central government opted for demolition as a part of a sustainable development pro‐ ject in the area. The restaurante Antonio Martín has been officially extinct since 2007, since when it has been the subject of three legal proceedings before the latest devel‐ opment.

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ATTENTION all Burger Lovers... get ready to rock this week at the launch of La Sala’s exclusive new mid‐ week promotion by the name of Burger & Band!

Head to this vibrant live music venue located in the heart of Puerto Banus every Thursday to eat, drink and enjoy 2 for 1 on their world fa‐ mous Fillet Steak or Be‐ yond Meat V e g a n Burgers.

If that wasn’t enough, then you will also be kept entertained by

Burger & Band night

WALL STREET BAND: Will be performing.

the sensa‐ tional Wall Street Band per‐ forming the best indie, rock,

pop and dance hits the Costa Del Sol has to offer from 8pm.

If live music isn’t your thing and you prefer a more laid‐ back casual setting, have you tried Sala Group’s latest venue known as The Social by Sala?

The Social is located just next door to La Sala and is the place to be to watch live sports, have a game of pool or even Pac‐Man and Space Invaders!

To reserve your spot to en‐ joy the best band and burger night in Marbella, please con‐ tact La Sala at: reserva tions@LaSalaBanus.com or by calling 952 814 145.

deVere Spain’s Charity Walk

SPIDER STRUCTURE: Improvements for youngsters.

New play space THE new children’s play area in the Fantasia Park in Fuengirola has been officially opened by the mayor, Ana Mula. The new park forms part of the Plan for the Reform of Children’s areas which uses surplus funds from prior years to make improvements for youngsters. The new facility, which is a spider‐ shaped structure, is five metres high and occupies an area of 300 square metres.

DEVERE SPAIN complet‐ ed a charity walk in aid of Age Concern Fuengirola Mijas and Benalmadena.

They managed to raise €1,540 from the walk which involved Tom Grif‐ fin and his team, plus friends from deVere Spain walking from Fuengirola Castle to Carvajal and back. deVere Spain, who look after the finances of many people in the surrounding area, are committed to do their bit within the local community. Manager Thomas Griffin said “Get‐ ting the staff together and giving back to the commu‐ nity is a high priority on our agenda. It was great to see families walking

with us and joining in for such a good cause. We will be continuing our support moving forward and look to see as many people at our next event.”

Age Concern Fuengirola Mijas is much more than a charity, they provide a healing hand, from assist‐ ing with taking clients to hospital to simply provid‐ ing advice and support.

All the money raised by deVere Spain was handed to Age Concern’s Deputy President Norman Jolliffe and will be used to sup‐ port their cause.

To get in contact with deVere Spain, please email on info@devere ‐ spain.es or call them on +34 952 905 205.

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A sad loss SWEELAN FORD was born in October 1934 and sadly passed away on November 29, 2021. Sweelan and her late husband Brian were in‐ volved with the Salón Vari‐ etés Theatre right from its in‐ ception 36 years ago, with Brian as a founding member.

When Brian sadly passed away some years ago, Swee‐ lan eventually found com‐ panionship and love from Peter Pillinger with whom she spent many happy years in Fuengirola. A loyal sup‐ porter and hard‐working vol‐ unteer at the theatre, Swee‐ lan was known for enjoying being on stage, as a Director as well as being an excellent Spot Operator.

She was involved with nu‐ merous musicals and pan‐ tomimes supporting Peter Mitchell and Peter Height,

Rest In Peace Sweelan Ford: October 1934 November 2021.

both as a production assis‐ tant and as a dear friend.

Sweelan was active in hun‐ dreds of productions and was one of the longest serv‐ ing SALVA members to date.

It’s with great sadness that it was announced on November 30 that Sweelan had unfortunately passed away in hospital in Spain.

She is survived by Peter, her loyal companion and Kimlan, Sweelan and Brian’s only child, as well as two beautiful grandchildren of whom she was immensely proud.

Siblings raise money TAYLOR and Maddi Rose, aged 14 and 12, had the creative idea of making and decorating small pots for plants using baked beans tins or similar. This was totally thought up by them and a lot of hard work was put into the detailed decora‐ tion. The residents and visitors to Monte B in Miraflores do‐ nated to this generous cause and Susan and Manolo who run the Monte B bar took great pleasure in displaying their artistic achievements! The pots were then covered with people’s wishes and names of loved ones which will soon be hung on a wish tree displayed in the bar.

Susan and Manolo want to give big thanks to Taylor and Maddi as they managed to raise €565 and they are already thinking about their next fundraising project! President of the Age Care Association Tom and his wife Natalie, along with Vice President Roger gratefully received the donation.

Once again huge thanks to Taylor and Maddi!

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NIBS EXTRA Exports grow MALAGA’S exports grew by 7.2 per cent in 2021 however imports grew by 22 per cent re‐ sulting in a small deficit. Exports for the year to date total more than €1,848 million, made up primarily of fresh fruits, olive oil, animal products, appli‐ ances, optical and measuring devices and finally motor vehi‐ cles and tractors.

Coastline upgrade A TOTAL of €7.4 million has been set aside by the Ministry of Ecological Transition, for the regeneration and stabilisation of the coastline of Marbella.

Work on the project has been delayed until 2023 due to its complexity and the expansion of the city although work is al‐ ready advanced on the beach‐ es of San Pedro.

Updating works SALVADOR RODRÍGUEZ, councillor for Operational Ser‐ vices in Torremolinos, an‐ nounced that the municipality is carrying out work to refur‐ bish parks, streets and public buildings. The work which is currently being carried out in Plaza de la Tribuna, will see the entire square updated as well as the central fountain.

Lighting up THE weekend saw Fuengiro‐ la’s mayor inaugurate this year’s Christmas lighting, con‐ sisting of more than two mil‐ lion LED lights. The lighting has been spread throughout the town in more than 100 public places including parks, streets, roundabouts and government properties. The inauguration was welcomed with a show of light, colour and live music.

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Lifesaving defibrillators on the coast WITH heart disease remaining one of the world’s biggest killers and around 50,000 cardiac arrests every year in Spain, increas‐ ing the number of defibrillators in public spaces and raising awareness of where to find one is essential.

Since 2012 the devices have been obligatory in various public spaces across Andalucia with more than 500 of the machines in Malaga City alone.

As part of a series of informative articles, the EWN Community Guides, the Euro Weekly News has set out here where to find a defibrillator and what to do in case of cardiac arrest.

Raising awareness of defibrillators.

Where to find a defibrilla‐ tor in Andalucia: Defibrillators are required in large retail areas measuring more than 2,500 square me‐ tres, airports, commercial ports, bus or rail‐ way stations and stops in towns with more than 50,000 inhabitants, metro stations with an average daily influx equal to or greater than 5,000 people, sports facilities

Benalmadena earthquake AN earthquake shook the Malaga municipality of Be‐ nalmadena on Sunday, November 28. With an in‐ tensity of three according to data from the National Geographic Institute (IGN), it was registered at 4.1 magnitude on the Richter scale.

Residents of other parts of the Costa del Sol report‐ ed feeling the tremor, which hit at around 8.47pm. The movement was recorded at a depth of around 60km. Its epicentre was in Benalmadena, but it could also be felt in Mi‐ jas, Fuengirola, and Las La‐ gunas.

There were no reports of injuries or structural damage to properties in any of the municipalities

that felt the tremor. It was the second tremor of the weekend, after one regis‐ tered in the Malaga resort of Torremolinos on November 26.

That quake was record‐ ed at a depth of 90km, at 2.1 magnitude, and was not felt by the residents of the area.

Interactive tourist boards SIX new tourist information boards have been installed in Torremolinos, providing visitors with up‐to‐date de‐ tails in Spanish, English, French and German.

The interactive boards provide a direct link to the tourism website, incorpo‐ rate a design with promo‐ tional images of the munici‐ pality, and supply QR codes that take you to the Audio guide. Interactive Routes map make the information

more accessible as do the pictograms for people who are hard of hearing.

The six are located in La Bateria Park, Plaza del Re‐ mo, Plaza of the Au‐ tonomous Communities, Calle San Miguel on the cor‐ ner of Plaza de La Nogalera, Plaza Costa del Sol and in the Plaza Blas Infante next to the town hall.

Some more facilities will be added in the coming months.

Malaga receives an award MALAGA received the ‘four flower’ recogni‐ tion at the awards ceremony ‘Andalucía in Flower’. Four flowers was the highest qualifica‐ tion awarded in the second edition of the stan‐ dard with no other municipality being award‐ ed more than three flowers.

‘Andalucia en Flor’, a Multisectoral Associa‐ tion of Andalucian Gardening (AMJA) initiative, aims to promote, protect, improve and en‐

Andalucia in Flower.

hance green spaces of the municipalities of An‐ dalucia, in the process beautifying the area and improving residents’ quality of life.

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Christmas park for children JOSE ORTIZ, the mayor of Torremolinos, announced on November 25, that the town council plans to in‐ stall a large Christmas Park. In his presentation, the mayor explained the park, located in La Bateria Park, will include an eco‐ logical ice‐skating rink, bouncy castles, children’s workshops, and a hospi‐ tality area.

“After last year, in which the pandemic pre‐ vented us from celebrat‐ ing these festivities in all their splendour, we re‐ turn with more strength and enthusiasm. We trust that the health circum‐ stances will allow us to develop the ambitious calendar of activities that we have prepared,” said Mr Ortiz, adding, “Torre‐ molinos moves forward in the new normal with the dreams and hope of Christmas.”

Town councillor, Aida Blanes, announced that the Christmas lighting will be inaugurated in the town centre at 8pm on Friday, December 3. Ms Blanes added that the New Year’s Eve celebra‐ tions will be held in Plaza Costa del Sol, as it is “a special place that allows us to celebrate the New Year outdoors.”

Other activities an‐ nounced include a Toy Run on December 18, and the Torremolinos Choir concert on December 4, at the Buen Consejo church.

Firefighters help La Palma

Sounds good WORKS to reform the Alhaurin de la Torre School of Music’s fa‐ cilities is well underway with the intention to turn the facility into a professional conservato‐ ry. The facility is being painted, ceilings replaced and class‐ room identification plates in‐ stalled along with pictures, mir‐ rors and new equipment and furniture being installed. The school currently has 400 stu‐ dents enrolled.

with 500 or more users a day, and public es‐ tablishments with a capacity of 5,000 or mor people.

For a full list of the defibrillators in Malaga city, visit www.desfibriladores.malaga.eu.

What to do in an emergency: 1. If someone is unconscious and not breathing properly, the first step is always to call the emergency services on 112.

2. The next step is to ask a helper to lo‐ cate someone who works at the public space you are in, who will know whether they have a defibrillator and who is qualified to use it.

3. Begin CPR on the person until the de‐ fibrillator or an ambulance arrives.

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MALAGA FIREFIGHTERS: Helping with the rescue operation.

THE weekend saw firefighters from the Malaga provincial consortium travel to La Palma to help with the clean‐up and rescue operation following the volcano eruption.

The group of seven will be wearing their own personal protective equipment and will work with local firefighters.

Those travelling were María

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García, Antonio Manuel Co‐ bos, Salvador Olivas, Joaquín Molina, Marta Soria and Jair

Pereira, joined by the techni‐ cal head of the consortium, Francisco Soriano.

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MARBELLA’S junior gymnastics team, which has been compet‐ ing in their first major tournament, claimed the top spot. The girls Amalia, Arianna, Jasmin, Lucía and María competed in the Spanish Championship that is being held in Valladolid. The Mar‐ bella quintet, who had sacrificed months of work and effort, completed a flawless mat routine that allowed them to achieve victory and proclaim themselves champions of Spain.

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Caution still needed THERE was some positive news on December 1, as the health authori‐ ties confirmed the coronavirus in‐ fection rate had fallen in five of Malaga’s six health districts.

While this is just a daily drop, the numbers were significantly lower than the previous day, with 149 positive cases across the province compared to 248 reported on November 30.

This has also led to a drop in the cumulative incidence (AI) rate to 117 cases per 100,000 (based on a rolling 14‐day period). This is down from 119.3 the day before. The five health districts that noted a drop in numbers were Costa del Sol, La Ve‐ ga, Malaga, Serrania and Valle del Guadalhorce.

It wasn’t all good news, as there was one death recorded in the province and Axarquia recorded an increase in the number of infec‐ tions.

In Malaga the highest AI rate re‐ mains in Serranía (152.7), while La Vega has the lowest (49). There are 24 patients in intensive care units across the region, while a total of

94 people recovered from the virus.

In Andalucia as a whole, there were 868 new cases of Covid in the same period with five deaths and 413 patients recovered. The inci‐ dence rate for Andalucia is 105.9 in‐ fections per 100,000 people in the last two weeks.

The result of all this is that the territorial committee of experts in charge of restrictions have agreed that the whole of Malaga will re‐ main at level 0. This means that there will be no new restrictions ap‐ plied to shops, bars, and restau‐ rants.

This decision was taken by mea‐ suring the AI, hospital bed occupan‐ cy, number of intensive care unit patients and vaccination coverage.

Despite the positive outlook, ex‐ perts stressed that caution is still needed considering the new variant and with the virus still circulating.

Therefore, masks should still be worn indoors, and outdoors when a safe distance cannot be observed.

Crowds should also be avoided, and regular hand washing is still recom‐ mended.

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Historic Abarth meeting ABARTH DRIVERS: Exhibited their cars in the port.

ON Sunday, November 28, the Abarth Malaga Club held an important meeting. For the first time in history, the Abarth brand had the plea‐ sure of gathering their vehi‐ cles as an exhibition in the same port.

The meeting started at the promenade of San Pedro and headed towards Ronda to en‐ joy the beautiful scenery and splendid weather. The drivers enjoyed a wonderful breakfast at Venta el Navasillo and

would like to thank them for their kindness and service. The return from Ronda to Marbella started at noon and ended in Puerto Banus where they were wel‐ comed with open arms by ev‐ eryone including the manage‐ ment of the port.

In the port, the participants mingled with visitors and other club members of the wonder‐ ful world of Abarth. A celebra‐ tion dinner took place in the restaurant El Gaucho where in

addition to the exquisite food there was some fantastic live music. The club would like to thank El Gaucho manager Se‐ bastian who treated the guests with great kindness.

They would also like to thank both the San Pedro Town Hall, the Mayor’s Office of San Pedro Alcántara and the management of Puerto Banus for making it all possible.

New travel restrictions WITH a new variant of Covid‐19 (Omicron) emerging in the UK, Spain and across Europe, travel restrictions, as well as other safety mea‐ sures, are being rolled out to stop the spread of the virus ‐ meaning that some Brits may be in for another lowkey Christmas.

Those planning to venture to sunny Spain for the holidays will be disappointed as from December 1, Spain will only allow entry to pas‐ sengers from the UK who are fully vaccinated.

This means anyone over the age of 12 and has received both doses of the Covid‐19 vaccine.

Without proof of vaccination, unvaccinated travellers will not be allowed to board a flight to the country. However, for those who are fully vaccinated, according to Spain’s criteria, nothing

much will change. In addition, every traveller heading in the opposite direction, from Spain to the UK, now needs to take a PCR test within 48 hours of arrival, lateral flow tests will no longer be accepted. This follows recent news of the new Omicron variant of Covid which has sparked rule changes in many countries.

The PCR tests must be purchased before travel from a government‐approved list of providers. Travellers must also self‐isolate while waiting for results, regardless of whether they have been vaccinated, but can stop self‐ isolating if the test is negative. Ten southern African countries have also been added to the UK’s travel red list, because of fears about Omicron.

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TikTok warning A WARNING has been is‐ sued by school officials in the USA after students were allegedly suspended for taking part in the ‘Who Want Smoke’ Tik‐ Tok challenge. The stu‐ dents were filmed while pretending to hold guns while at school. One school prank even saw teachers conned into tak‐ ing part in the challenge.

The TikTok challenge was inspired by Nardo Wick’s song ‘Who Want Smoke.’ People taking part in the challenge are filmed while using their phones to make it look

like they are holding guns and promoting gun vio‐ lence.

One student told Clarksville Now: “I was at school and I was on my phone just going through random Instagram stories.

I saw the trend on some‐ one’s page and I’m like, ‘Oh, we need to do this, we need to do this. We could probably go viral for this’.”

The student’s video went viral, but he was soon pulled into the prin‐ cipal’s office for breaching the student code of con‐ duct.

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JUST like all of us, the Queen of England has her own mobile phone. But there are only two people she will ever take calls from, and neither are her sons! The lucky two are her daughter Princess Anne, and her racing manager John Warren. One of the world’s leading horsemen, John takes care of all rac‐ ing and breeding concerns for Her Majesty.

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High-speed chase A REPORT of a stolen car in the Malaga municipality of La Cala de Mijas led to a high‐speed car chase along the A‐7 motorway towards the city of Marbella. This incident oc‐ curred as investigators from Mijas Local Police were conducting local searches in the La Cala area, follow‐ ing several robberies which had tak‐ en place. During one of these search‐ es, the officers spotted a suspicious vehicle.

They set up a surveillance unit and

saw two men emerge from a proper‐ ty, with their faces covered. The sus‐ pects got into a vehicle and drove off at high speed.

Within minutes, a car chase began, with the suspect heading onto the A‐ 7 motorway in the direction of Mar‐ bella and the police in pursuit. Other vehicles joined the chase including patrols from the Guardia Civil, and the Local and National Police. Ac‐ cording to police sources, at one point, the suspect vehicle even

rammed one of the police vehicles.

The speeding car also caught fire, causing its two hooded occupants to flee on foot.

Eventually, a plain‐clothes National Police unit intercepted and detained the men. It turned out the same men had been arrested a few weeks be‐ fore for stealing from storage rooms of one community and were later re‐ leased. It was reported the driver had no licence and was using fake number plates.

‘Fastest formula’ for children JUANMA MORENO, the president of the Junta de Andalucia, announced on November 26, that children under 12 years of age could soon begin to be vaccinat‐ ed against Covid depending on guidance by the Euro‐ pean Medicines Agency (EMA).

Mr Moreno made his statements to the press dur‐ ing a visit to the expansion

Vaccination voluntary.

works of the Costa del Sol Hospital in Marbella.

The president explained

that the Ministry of Educa‐ tion and Health is studying the possibility of vaccinating children at the school itself.

“They are all gathered there, it is more comfort‐ able, and can generate less anguish in children when they see that they are not alone, but with all their classmates. We are looking for the fastest formula.”

Moreno highlighted that

vaccination is voluntary, al‐ though he appealed to the responsibility and the “max‐ imum possible awareness” of the parents of children under 12 years of age, so that the vaccination is “mas‐ sive.” “Pediatrics has also said that it is important to protect children, so we are waiting for the Ministry to give the starting gun,” he concluded.

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Adele tops charts A D E L E’S new album, 30, has topped the UK album charts as the fastest‐selling record of 2021 so far. This is despite the sales being 68 per cent lower than her previous album 25, released in 2015.

The 261,000 first‐ week sales of 30 means it shoots past Abba’s

comeback album ‘Voy‐ age’ which sold 204,000 in its opening week.

The drop in Adele’s sales can partially be explained by the mas‐ sive explosion of streaming services be‐ tween 2015 and now.

Also, 25 was only available to buy and not stream for its first

six months of release.

Adele’s new album pushed Ed Sheeran off the top spot with his al‐ bum = (Equals).

This means she has now secured a chart double, with the al‐ bum’s lead single, Easy On Me, remaining num‐ ber one for a sixth con‐ secutive week.

media organisations for distributing unauthorised images of police, strictly limits demonstrations and imposes heavy fines for offenders.

Spain’s centre‐left government wants to declassify taking photographs or filming police officers at demonstra‐ tions from being a serious offence.

Under the new changes, police will have to adapt what materials they use at protests to items that are less harmful after several people were seriously injured by police rubber bullets. The custody time for people

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The best things in life are FREE! A chart double for Adele.

The singer has also broken the record for a female act by having all four of her albums reach number one.

Police march on Madrid THOUSANDS of Spanish police officers marched through Madrid on Saturday, November 27 to protest a newly pro‐ posed change to a security law that they say will affect their ability to work.

Politicians from across the country’s political spectrum joined the Spanish police march to oppose the changes to the 2015 Citizens Security Law, which critics say damages the right to protest.

People who disagree with the cur‐ rent bill have named the legislation the ‘gag law’ as it allows authorities to fine

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arrested at protests will be cut from six hours to two, and fines will be proportionate to the offender’s earn‐ ings.

Ivan Espinosa de los Monteros, of the far‐right Vox party, said: “There is strong opposition against (the reform) of this law. It is against our police, and we will not let it happen.”

However, Isa Serra, spokeswoman for the far‐left Unidas Podemos party, said at a rally in Cantabria in northern Spain that the law had done a “lot of damage to Spanish democracy.”

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Simply Surviving Group surpasses €20,000

THE Mijas‐based charitable plat‐ form this week reached this signifi‐ cant landmark after only seven months of active fundraising.

Due to a regular monthly pro‐ gramme of dinners, quizzes, auc‐ tions and other social events, seven separate Costa de Sol charities have seen their coffers swell as follows: March: Donkey Dreamland Mijas €1,000 April: The Food Fairies €1,000 May: Last Chance Animal Rescue €1,200 June: Cudeca €5,730 September: Age Concern €4,600 October: SEARCH Equine Rescue Centre €4,000 November: ADANA €2,480 Total raised so far: €20,010 Local businesses have become in‐ creasingly involved, offering dona‐ tions via corporate sponsorships, most notably Euro Weekly News and financial advisors Blevins Franks, plus latterly Ibex Insurance Fuengirola and Costa Funeral Services.

One of the upcoming events.

Zipline Challenge at Sunview Adventure Park.

Last week, in response to a re‐ quest from the producers of a hit BBC Channel 5 TV programme, the Group returned to the scene of their September exploits on the 1.3‐ kilometre Sunview Adventure Park zipline. These TV cameras have been following their exploits over the last few weeks and Simply Sur‐ viving Group will be prominently featured during the series which airs in April and May 2022.

Having grown their Face‐ book membership (it’s free to join) to over 1,300, or‐ ganisers Val Williams and Alan Boardman are currently in the pro‐ cess of establishing the Group as a registered charity here in Spain.

A meeting was held with the For‐ eigner’s Department of Mijas Town Hall last week, during which the couple learned of several ways in which the town hall are able to of‐

fer support once their registered charitable status is secured.

Val and Alan remain well aware that the social aspect of the Group’s activities is as important as ever and therefore invite read‐ ers living alone to come along to one of their events ‐ you will be

made most welcome.

The charity chosen for the Group to support in December is Age Care, based in Calahonda. The charity sent a big thank you to the Simply Surviving Group for choosing them as their nominated charity for De‐ cember.

Age Care Association is a fully reg‐ istered, non‐profit making organisa‐ tion staffed entirely by volunteers. It is a small organisation whose aim is to help improve the lives of the el‐ derly English‐speaking community although they never exclude other nationalities. They hold Coffee Mornings in different locations where people can socialise and make friends as well as receive help and advice on many issues. They al‐ so have a charity shop in El Zoco, Calahonda that is open Monday ‐ Friday from 10am ‐ 4pm and this is staffed entirely by volunteers.

Their Facebook Page is: Age Care Costa. They are currently designing a new website which they hope to have operational early in the New Year.

Simply Surviving Group has a number of events planned over the next three months, full details of which can be found on their Facebook page ‘Simply Surviving group’ or if you’re not a Facebook user please enquire via email to valwilliams39@yahoo.com.

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Government formed A NEW German government has finally been formed. This puts an end to Angela Merkel’s 16‐year rule of the country. Germany will have a new government before Christmas, probably in the week of December 6, with the Social Democrat Olaf Scholz as Chancellor. Social Democrats, Greens, and Lib‐ erals presented on Wednes‐ day November 24 in Berlin the coalition agreement that will give way to a tripartite

Uniting the parties.

system unprecedented since the 1950s.

The leaders of the parties that make up the new Ger‐ man government unveiled the important issues that will

unite the parties over the next four years. They are mainly based on the de‐car‐ bonisation of the economy, the digitalisation, and mod‐ ernisation of the country, and social protection.

The tripartite has agreed “to favour a more rapid devel‐ opment of renewable ener‐ gies to encourage the exit from fossil fuels as soon as possible, and to increase in‐ vestment for projects related to green hydrogen.”

Pyromaniac caught AN arsonist was caught by officers from the Na‐ tional Police in Almeria’s El Ejido. The details of the arrest were released on Sunday November 28. The man had allegedly set fire to a series of containers and caused damage to both vehicles and property in the process.

Multiple complaints had come into the El Eji‐ do police station saying that waste containers were being set on fire. At least 10 containers were set ablaze. Police officers carried out an in‐ vestigation. They set out to watch local areas at different times of the day. The operation

proved successful and on Monday November 15 in the evening, officers from the National Po‐ lice spotted a man inside a container. The man had been spotted at Calle Granada and was soon identified. A fire broke out inside the con‐ tainer which the man had been in. Officers dis‐ covered that the fire had been started using a t‐ shirt. When the detained man was searched officers discovered a lighter in one of his pock‐ ets. The arrested man has been placed at the disposal of the courts in El Ejido. He has been ac‐ cused of a crime of aggravated damage by fire.

Flying taxi INVENTORS have chased the dream of creating flying cars for decades and they have been seen in many sci‐fi films.

But now, Umiles, a company which specialises in the manu‐ facture of drones, has a plan to launch the first‐ever fully electric air taxi in Spain.

Carlos Poveda, the CEO of Umiles, confessed that his company’s taxi is still a proto‐

type and cannot fly. However, he assured that after a series of tests the model will take flight. The model was first re‐ vealed at the Expodronica fair in October.

Poveda explained that their flying taxi ‐ initially dubbed ‘In‐ tegrity’ ‐ will be able to connect the Balearic Islands, Valencia, and Barcelona. The vehicle will have the capacity to transport

ACCORDING to a press re‐ lease from the luxury car man‐ ufacturer Rolls‐Royce on November 16, the company has created the fastest electric aircraft in the world. It has sent the details of this achieve‐ ment to the Federation Aero‐ nautique Internationale (FAI) located in Lausanne, Switzer‐ land, to certify their aeronauti‐ cal record. Rolls‐Royce claim their ‘Spirit of Innovation’ reached a speed of 555.9 km/h, whilst travelling three kilometres.

Its maximum speed at one point was allegedly 623 km/h.

If this turns out to be true,

Rolls-Royce record then it completely smashes the previous record of 213.04 km/h. As explained on their website, “The aircraft was pro‐ pelled in its record trips by a 400kW electric propulsion sys‐ tem, and the propulsion bat‐ tery pack with the highest power density ever assem‐ bled in the aerospace indus‐

Will transport 5 people.

five passengers and be capable of handling routes of up to 300km.

Poveda said the first test model will transport only one or two people. But he claimed they will be able to carry five passengers plus the pilot by June 2022.

try.” The creation of this elec‐ tric plane is part of the ACCEL (Acceleration of the Electrifica‐ tion of Flight) project. Half of its funding is provided by the Aerospace Institute of Tech‐ nology (ATI), in partnership with the UK Department for Business, Industrial Energy, and Innovation.

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Switzerland eats the most chocolate equating to 10 kilos per person per year.

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Move over Squid Game THE smash hit Netflix show Squid Game has been knocked off its throne by another South Korean fantasy horror show, Hellbound. The title of most‐ watched show on the stream‐ ing platform was passed to Hellbound on November 20, just 24 hours after the show was released.

The new series topped the charts in more than 80 coun‐ tries on its first day. The series theme is one of religious retri‐ bution and features a team of hairy demons who hunt down sinners and send them to hell.

They do this through a mix of graphic violence and burning, so it is not a watch for the faint‐ hearted.

The victims of the creatures are informed ahead of their ar‐ rival of the date and time that they will die. The reasons the victims are chosen prompts public hysteria and religious zealotry as people try to avoid a fiery demise.

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Asylum for Afghan Girl THE National Geographic’s ‘Afghan Girl’, who was immor‐ talised more than 30 years ago on the front cover of the mag‐ azine, has arrived in Rome af‐ ter being evacuated from Afghanistan following the re‐ turn of the Taliban.

The Italian government made the official announce‐ ment that green‐eyed Sharbat Gula, who was photographed in 1984 at a refugee camp in Pakistan, had reached Rome on Thursday, November 25.

She had gone to Pakistan at four or five years old following the Soviet invasion of

Green-eyed Sharbat Gula.

Afghanistan, having fled the country along with thousands of others. She was just 12 years old when the iconic photo was taken by Steve McCurry, and it

IT was reported on Friday November 26, that at least 61 passengers arriving at Amster‐ dam’s Schiphol airport from South Africa, tested positive for Covid. They flew in on flights from Cape Town, and Johannes‐ burg.

Because new rules banning flights from South Africa had come into force while they were

made her into an emblem of the suffering and economic in‐ stability of the region.

Her image caught the world’s attention a second time in 2002, when the same pho‐ tographer went back to Afghanistan to find her again.

He found that she was still living in poverty, and once again, she appeared on the front cover of the National Geographic.

Gula, an illiterate mother of four, had no idea millions of people around the world had seen her photo and she had sparked an international move‐ ment for the rights of refugees.

Israel closes borders ON November 27, Naftali Bennett, the prime minis‐ ter of Israel, announced the closure of his country’s borders to all foreign travellers.

This move has been introduced in an effort to com‐ bat the new Omicron variant of coronavirus. One case has been confirmed so far, along with seven sus‐ pected cases. In a statement, Mr Bennett said that the travel ban would last for 14 days but is pending government approval. The Israeli government will al‐ so reportedly reintroduce phone‐tracking technology that is used for counterterrorism. Other countries, in‐ cluding the UK, Australia, the US, and some in the EU, have enforced travel bans on South African nations.

Scientists have voiced their concerns over the latest variant’s capability of being transmitted much easier.

It was first detected in South Africa, and is believed to have more tolerance against the current vaccines, and could have a higher rate of re‐infection.

Passengers test positive in the air, all 600 passengers sub‐ sequently underwent CPR tests on arrival in the Netherlands. A team from the municipal health service (GGD) went to the airport to conduct the tests.

Although they tested positive, it was not clear if all or any pas‐

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sengers carried the new Omicron variant.

The passengers were kept seg‐ regated from the rest of the ter‐ minal. Those who tested positive were moved to a hotel in the Schiphol area, under the surveil‐ lance of local authorities. There,

they must serve a quarantine of at least seven days if they pre‐ sent symptoms, and five days if they are asymptomatic.

The rest of the passengers who obtained a negative result in the test must also undergo a five‐day home quarantine, until a new PCR is carried out, which, if nega‐ tive, allows them to exit quaran‐ tine.

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Sparkling charity dinner for ADANA THE fundraising group Simply Surviving held a glittering charity dinner at Green Label restaurant at the El Cha‐ parral Golf Course on Thursday, November 25.

Raising €1,300 for animal charity ADANA, the event saw 85 people come out for a three‐course dinner, cava, and entertainment by Costa del Sol favourite Alexandra Avery.

Guests were out to support both Simply Surviving, the Costa del Sol group set up to help businesses and charities through the pandemic, and ADANA and told the Euro Weekly

News how happy they were to get in‐ volved.

One guest, Theresa Connor, said: “We are all here to support the ani‐ mals after the Estepona fire, to help both the people and the kennels.”

Councillor Bill Anderson said: “Sim‐ ply Surviving has been doing a fantas‐ tic job and the amount of people here shows how much people support them.” Simply Surviving founder Val Williams ex‐ plained that Simply Surviv‐

ing, which supports a different local charity every month, had already cho‐ sen its organisations for the year, but that when she saw the impact of the Estepona fires in September on ADANA she made sure to fit them in.

She told the EWN: “We decided to support them after the fires made their work so difficult.”

Alan Boardman of Simply Surviving, added: “The charity had a hard time in the fires and needs €50,000 to build a new shelter.”

Guests danced the night away to

singing by Alexandra Avery while sup‐ porting ADANA, with €15 of every €35 three‐course meal at the venue going to the charity.

The event was also supported by the Euro Weekly News, Blevins Franks, and Ibex Insurance.

The funds raised will now go towards helping ADANA build a new animal shelter.

Euro Weekly News CEO Michel Eues‐ den praised Simply Surviving for work‐ ing to help the local community, saying: “Simply Surviving is simply fabulous.

Just like the Costa del Sol.”

Michel and Steven Euesden (top) with the founder of Simply Surviving, Val Williams, together with some of the guests who attended the event at the Green Label restaurant.

For more information about Simply Surviving, visit their Facebook page @Simply Surviving group

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Seen in Barcelona LIAM NEESON has recently been spotted shooting his new film ‘Marlowe’ in sev‐ eral different locations near Barcelona including Sitges, Alella, Blanes, Manresa, and Terrassa. In this thriller, the Irish actor plays the iconic detective Philip Marlowe, created by the celebrated American‐British writer, Raymond Chandler.

The character initially ap‐ peared in the novel, ‘The Big Sleep’, published in 1939.

Years later, his stories were brought to the big screen featuring stars such as Humphrey Bogart, Robert Mitchum, and Elliott Gould as protagonists.

Now the adventures of the intrepid inspector return to the cinema screens in an adaptation of ‘The Blonde with Black Eyes’, a novel from the writer, John Banville, resurrected star‐ ring the detective created

by Chandler.

Abuser arrested OFFICERS from the National Police announced on November 28, they had arrested a man for drugging and sexually abusing a young boy in Valencia.

The man was a friend of the boy’s family, and the abuse allegedly began during the coronavirus confine‐ ment. The boy’s father initiated the complaint with the police.

Reportedly, the abuse started in March 2020 around the time that the coronavirus restrictions came into place.

The alleged perpetrator had spent time living with the boy and his family and had gained his trust which he then abused. The man had threatened and bribed the boy not to tell his family. The man has now been remanded in prison due to the seriousness of the crime.

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New coin for Queen THE Queen’s Platinum Ju‐ bilee will be celebrated by the Royal Mint with a newly designed 50p coin to be re‐ leased next year. The coin will feature the number 70, which represents the num‐ ber of years the Queen will have been on the throne by 2022.

The Queen’s royal cypher is nestled inside the zero and forms the heart of the design. It has been seen and approved by the Queen her‐ self, and it is the first time a royal event has been com‐ memorated on the ‘tails’ side of a 50 pence.

Clare Maclennan, division‐ al director of commemora‐ tive coins at the Royal Mint, said: “The Royal Mint has a proud history of striking coins for British monarchs and 2022 sees one of the greatest celebrations of Her

Queen’s Platinum Jubilee.

Majesty the Queen with the upcoming Platinum Jubilee.

“Marking 70 days until the anniversary of the Queen’s accession to the throne, the Royal Mint is delighted to reveal the commemorative Platinum Jubilee new 50p design ahead of its launch in the new year.

“In recognition of the landmark occasion, this is the first time a royal mile‐ stone has been commemo‐ rated on a 50p coin and is a fitting celebration for Britain’s longest‐reigning

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First drone highway WHILE countries like the USA are seen to be taking the lead on unmanned aircraft, here in Spain, the Valencian community are taking the lead. The re‐ gion is working on a pro‐ ject with UPV (Universitat Politècnica de Valencia) that will see Valencia get Spain’s first aerial drone highway.

What may come as a surprise to many is that the region has already built three drone high‐ ways and is currently qualifying secondary roads or corridors.

Once in place these will allow the normalisation of drone flights around the community, allowing for a variety of uses in‐ cluding the delivery of medicines. The process is expected to be complete between 2023 and 2025.

A crucial step in this process was agreed this week with the signing of a protocol with Enaire, the company that manages the national airspace. This protocol allows for the in‐ tegration of the commu‐ nity’s drone highways in‐ to the national network.

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ONE mum has gone viral after she shared her husband’s X‐rat‐ ed Christmas light display on social media. When setting up the Santa, her husband had accidentally missed out on a zip tie that had been meant to tie Santa’s hand up so that he ap‐ peared to be waving. Now, Santa appeared to be making an explicit gesture. The mum’s TikTok video has been seen over 35 million times.

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Commemorative beer THE terrible fire that broke out in Jubrique on September 8, and devastated around 8,400 hectares of the Sierra Bermeja, was the worst blaze in the history of Malaga Province.

The owners of the La Catarina craft brew‐ ery, which manufactures beer in the Malaga municipality of Estepona witnessed the event: “We are on the Guadalmansa river, in Es‐ tepona, and, at night, both clients of the restaurant and ourselves could not stop look‐ ing at the burning mountains. It affected us a lot. After witnessing this catastrophe, we de‐ cided to design something in recognition of all the emergency services.”

They have now created a limited‐edition beer dedicated to all the people who partici‐ pated in the fire’s extinction efforts. All the costs of which have been borne by one of the

NEW BRAND: Dedicated to fire efforts.

brand’s partners. Their new brand has been christened ‘La Catarina Aid’, and 10 per cent of all its sales will be donated to the various re‐ covery plans that are being carried out in the coming months. Around 700 litres of this beer have already been put on sale. It has been brewed without additives, and without pas‐ teurisation, and comes in two formats, 33cl bottles at €2.50 each, and in barrels.

Olympic school visit OLYMPIC mountain bike bronze medalist David Valero visited a local school in Baza to share his experiences of the Tokyo Olympic Games.

The bronze medalist’s visit to the local school gave the children the op‐ portunity to ask him any‐

thing they wanted to know about his career, about the sport of moun‐ tain biking, and the bronze medal.

The opportunity to see an Olympian and a medal up close evoked much excitement in the chil‐ dren. Some of the chil‐

dren prepared drawings and special gifts for David and many of them took home a signed auto‐ graph.

The visit to the Francis‐ co de Velasco school was especially poignant as it is the former primary school of the champion.

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Brian May rants QUEEN guitarist Brian May has blasted the BRIT Awards for getting rid of their gendered prize cate‐ gories in a rant against ‘woke cancel culture.’ The organisers announced this week they are replacing their traditional male and female categories and re‐ placing them with ‘artist of the year’ and ‘international artist of the year,’ the Queen legend exploded with anger in an interview.

The organisers of the awards have said that the move was a “small but seis‐ mic” way of ensuring artists of all genders are celebrat‐ ed, bringing the focus on their “music and work, rather than how they choose to identify.” But May, 74, shouted down the “knee‐jerk” reaction, be‐ fore claiming Queen “would be forced” to be di‐ verse if remade today.

His comments have left critics baffled, as Queen’s iconic frontman Freddie

Comments were baffling.

Mercury was an openly bi‐ sexual man, born in Zanz‐ ibar to Parsi‐Indian parents.

Queen has also toured with Adam Lambert, the gay

American Idol performer who regularly dresses in gender non‐conforming outfits.

May said on November 23: “I feel very uncomfort‐ able about some of the de‐ cisions that are being made, often out of fear. It’s a decision that has been made without enough thought,” he said of a move that has been in the pipeline since at least 2019.

Motorbike tragedy A 51-YEAR-OLD motorcyclist has lost their life after an accident in Alicante’s Elche. The accident hap‐ pened on Saturday, November 27 when the motorcy‐ clist left the road while travelling along the EL‐20 road in the municipality.

The Traffic Management Centre of the DGT con‐ firmed that the accident took place at around 8.30pm. The accident occurred on a roundabout, but the exact cause is not yet known.

Reportedly the motorcyclist left the road when they were driving around a roundabout, but it ap‐ pears no other vehicles were involved. No further de‐ tails regarding the incident are known at this time.

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Amazon stores planned ACCORDING to reports, Amazon plans to open physical stores in Spain next year. This news follows hot on the heels of the opening of the first store in the UK in 2021. The online retailer, which has had physical stores in the USA for some time, be‐ lieves that there is still plenty of opportunity for growth in Eu‐ rope, although the pandemic has delayed their plans.

Up to five stores could be opened in Spain in 2022 along with 10 elsewhere in Europe and up to a 100 in the UK. There could be up to 17 in Spain and Italy by 2023.

Hackers arrested A SPANISH couple were ar‐ rested for hacking 16 store computers to mine cryptocur‐ rencies. The pair, who in‐ stalled malware on the store’s machines, intended to benefit from the lucrative trade in cryptocurrencies using the greater computing power of the store’s machines.

The malware installed by the couple enabled them to remotely manipulate the de‐ vices and, in the process, carry out the transactions. Staff in

Hackers were identified.

the store became suspicious when they noticed that the fans of the computers which were on display were operat‐ ing at maximum capacity.

The staff examined the ma‐ chines, which were new and

on display, as they should not have been operating, only to find they had been tampered with and were being con‐ trolled remotely. The au‐ tonomous police force in Tar‐ ragona (Mossos d’Esquadra) were called and their investiga‐ tors identified who was behind the breach, despite their at‐ tempts to hide their identity and their location. Had the breach not been identified, the hackers would have stood to make significant profits.

Ant invasion THE Department of Climate Action, Food and Rural Agenda of Catalonia is monitoring and controlling the actions of the so‐called ‘crazy ant’ (Paratrechina longicornis). This is an inva‐ sive species, which seems to have found a new home in the Port of Barcelona.

As reported by the Generalitat in a state‐ ment, the work will allow an in‐depth survey of the area and verify the extent of this species.

They can then carry out controls with bio‐ cides and assess the effects of the treatment.

This species of exotic ant is native to tropical Africa.

Its presence was first detected in Catalonia when a worker ant was found at an access door to the Port of Barcelona back in February 2020. Subsequently, more were detected in a roundabout and then several colonies were lo‐ cated under the sewer and supply covers. Their distribution is still very limited in the vicinity of the Port of Barcelona. The invasive species dis‐ places other native species and invertebrates.

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Holiday passport chaos BRITISH holidaymakers eager for some winter sun this Christmas are facing the prospect of potentially losing their holidays.

Due to the sudden rush in post‐Covid pass‐ port renewal applica‐ tions, which has caused a backlog in processing time, many may not re‐ ceive their passports on time.

This comes as pass‐ port processing times have allegedly tripled during the pandemic.

Processing their pass‐ port is not the only problem though.

The Passport Office’s courier service has ad‐ mitted that there could be delivery issues.

Some travellers have been told they may face up to a 10‐week delay.

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New lobster law A NEW report by the Lon‐ don School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) has found there is strong scientific evidence that lobsters and other crus‐ taceans feel pain just like us. The results of the gov‐ ernment‐commissioned study mean boiling lob‐ sters alive will be illegal under new laws.

The animals will be recognised as sentient be‐ ings, and this will facilitate their inclusion in the up‐

Lobsters can feel pain.

coming Animal Welfare (Sentience) Bill. “The sci‐ ence is now clear that de‐ capods and cephalopods can feel pain and there‐ fore it is only right they are covered by this vital piece of legislation,” said Animal

welfare minister, Lord Goldsmith.

Before this research, de‐ capod crustaceans ‐ in‐ cluding crabs, lobsters, and crayfish ‐ and cephalopods ‐ including octopuses, squid, and cut‐ tlefish ‐ were excluded from the bill. This was the case even though these animals have a complex central nervous system, which is classed as one of the true hallmarks of sen‐ tience.

French billionaire arrested THE Mossos d’Esquadra an‐ nounced that Barcelona po‐ lice arrested French billionaire Conrad Dadak on Sunday November 21. He is wanted by a Marbella court for fraud and is thought to be a warlord accused of trafficking weapons.

The arrest comes after a hotel in the Ciutat Vella neighbour‐

hood that makes use of the identification system used by establishments in Spain, noti‐ fied the authorities that a client had an outstanding ar‐ rest warrant.

The man was arrested and taken back to the police sta‐ tion where further checks re‐ vealed an international alert from Germany investigating

him for money laundering.

Dadak has a long record of fraud, threats, and crimes.

This is not the first time Dadak has been arrested in Spain. In 2018, he was arrest‐ ed in an Ibiza mansion under an international warrant. He was released hours later and had been missing until his ar‐ rest last month.

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Sword recovered

NATIONAL POLICE have recovered a 2,000‐year‐old Iberi‐ an sword just before it was sold online on what they have called a “well‐known social media site.” The rare sword would have be‐ longed to a warrior somewhere on the Iberi‐ an peninsula in pre‐Roman times.

The falcata is a double‐edged, curved sword that would have been used by the Iberians between the fifth and first centuries

THE European Commission proposed on November 25 that vaccination certificates issued after the second Covid dose should become invalid if the person does not get the third booster jab within nine months.

In line with indications from the European Medicines Agency (EMA) that the vaccines start to lose their effect after six months, Brussels is plan‐ ning to use this move to encourage people to get the third dose. Their idea is to allow a three‐month grace period after the first six months, in which to get the booster vaccination done.

More than 650 million

BC. It was seized as part of a group lot of 203 archaeologi‐ cal pieces that had been posted for sale on so‐ cial media. This particular sword would be very popular with collectors due to the condi‐ tion of the blade on the piece. Falcatas were personal weapons and they tended to be buried with their owners, with the blades de‐ liberately bent and misshapen so no one else could wield the weapon.

EU booster plans EU Digital Covid Certificates, or ‘health passports’, have been issued to date. This has led the Community Execu‐

tive to believe that the ac‐ ceptance of vaccines ‘has in‐ creased significantly’ since last summer.

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MANY have had to rearrange their weddings due to the pandemic. One couple was so determined to get married they even carried on when the groom could not make it.

They had already rescheduled twice, and on the third at‐ tempt the groom fell ill with food poisoning. They did not want to cancel last minute so they devised quite a creative plan. They used a pole with wheels with an iPad strapped on showing a photo of the groom’s face. The bride cut the cake beside her husband and even enjoyed their first dance.

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Babies not allowed BABY: Against the rules.

IT has been stated that babies are not allowed in the House of Commons.

Following Labour’s Stella Creasy bringing her three‐ month‐old baby into the House of Commons on

November 24, it has been stat‐ ed that bringing children is against the rules.

Ms Creasy was informed it was against the rules to bring children to a debate at West‐ minster Halls and Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle has now asked the procedure committee to investigate. She said she was “pleased to hear this” as the

rule means she could not en‐ ter the chamber to hear his statement.

Sir Lindsay told MPs it was “extremely important” for par‐ ents to be able to fully partici‐ pate in the work of the House, and that is why it has a nurs‐ ery. “Rules have to be seen in context and they change with the times,” he told the House.

Brits travel queues BRITISH travellers face huge queues for holidays as the EU gets set for fingerprint checks at airports next year.

New plans are being put together by the European Commission which will affect non‐EU citizens.

The new plans will involve a new European Travel In‐ formation and Authorisation Scheme (ETIAS) along with an Entry/Exit System (EES). The schemes will af‐ fect non‐EU citizens and are expected to come into force next year.

Under the new ETIAS scheme travellers who want to access the Schengen Area would need to pay €7.

Many favourite tourist destinations for Brits are in the Schengen Area including Spain, Greece, France, and Portugal.

As part of the EES system, travellers would be re‐ quired to undergo comprehensive security checks. This would include fingerprints and facial images too.

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Formula 1 renews FORMULA 1: The first one held in Spain was in 1913.

FORMULA 1 has renewed its contract with the Circuit de Barcelona‐Catalunya for the Spanish Grand Prix until 2026.

As part of the new agreement, improvements to the track and facilities will be made ahead of the race on May 22, 2022 including upgrades and improvements towards the circuit’s ambitious sustainability plans. Formula 1 racing began in 1950 and is the world’s most prestigious motor racing com‐ petition, as well as the world’s most popular annual sporting series. The first Spanish Grand Prix was held in 1913 and has been a part of the F1 world championship since 1968 at a va‐ riety of venues.

Franco mass visit SPAIN’S People’s Party (PP) has had to issue a statement confirming its condemna‐ tion of the Franco regime af‐ ter the party leader attend‐ ed a Franco mass. The visit to a church service in which prayers were said for the soul of the dictator on the 46th anniversary of his death is said to have been in‐ advertent. Pablo Casado has

been leader of the PP since July 2018 and was seen at‐ tending the mass in Granada on November 20. According to the PP, Casado attended this church as he was staying with his family nearby. They were in Andalucia for a party conference and he feared work commitments would prevent him from making church the following day.

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La Palma lottery rush THE devastation and loss ex‐ perienced by people in La Pal‐ ma has touched the world, with many people losing ev‐ erything. So, it’s no surprise to hear that Christmas lottery sales have soared on the is‐ land.

Whilst this is a positive story it’s also a sad one, reflecting just how desperate many peo‐ ple on the island are to recov‐ er their lives. Some €360 mil‐ lion, not including private donations, has been commit‐ ted by both the government of Spain and the Canary Is‐ lands, but many residents still don’t believe they will recover all that they have lost.

But there is also another side to this as explained by Borja Muñiz, president of the National Association of Provincial Lottery Administra‐ tors Associations (ANAPAL): “People believe that where there is misfortune there is al‐ so luck, so they play the lot‐ tery.” That makes La Palma a good place to buy a ticket.

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Charles’ racism denial LAWYERS were reportedly called in by Prince Charles regarding claims that he was the ‘Royal racist.’ Earlier this year, Meghan Markle shared her concerns surrounding one member of the family with Oprah Win‐ frey. A new book written by Christopher An‐ dersen claims that Charles was the person that Meghan was talking about. Anderson’s new book, Brothers and Wives: Inside the Private Lives of William, Kate, Harry, and Meghan was scheduled to be released on November 30.

In the book, Andersen claims that Charles was having breakfast with his wife Camilla when he commented: “I wonder what the children will look like?’’ Camilla was some‐ what taken aback, then reportedly replied: “Well, absolutely gorgeous, I’m certain.”

Charles then commented: “I mean, what do you think their complexion might be?’’

The claims have been denied and a spokesperson for Prince Charles comment‐ ed: “This is fiction and not worth further comment.”

Neighbour threat A MAN in the municipality of Manises, Valencia, banged on his neighbour’s wall and got more than he bargained for when his neighbour responded by threatening him with a shotgun. The National Po‐ lice have arrested a 58‐ year‐old man.

The incident occurred at around 12.30 on Saturday, November 28, when the police were called to a house where an armed man was threatening to kill

his neighbour. When they arrived on the scene, the police officers were in‐ formed that just moments before, the irate man had been on the balcony, pointing a shotgun at his neighbour on the adjacent balcony and claiming that he was going to kill him.

The victim had taken refuge inside.

The police went to the suspect’s flat. He gave them permission to enter and openly confessed that

he had threatened his neighbour because he was “banging on the wall.” He also informed the officers that he had the full inten‐ tion of killing him.

Immediately after speaking to the police offi‐ cers, the man opened the door to the balcony and tried to jump off, but one of the officers was able to grab him and pull him back inside.The man has been arrested and will now face trial.

ELKAR: Is located on the 33rd floor of the Madrid building.

High in the sky A NEW restaurant which has just opened in Madrid, has the notoriety of being the highest in the country. Elkar, which translated from Basque means ‘Together’ is locat‐ ed on the 33rd floor of the Torre Emperador Castellana and sits at 160 metres (525ft) above the city.

This haute cuisine es‐ tablishment is the new project in Madrid of Ara‐ mark Spain. It was born from the union of two chefs, Sergio Ortiz de

Zarate, who has a Miche‐ lin star, and Beñat Or‐ maetxea, who won the National Award for Young chefs. They have merged their two kitchens to form a gastronomic heav‐ en. It is the first time they have worked together.

A unique feature of the restaurant is that diners must first enter through the wine cellar before making their way up to the 33rd floor, where they can sit and enjoy the panorama of the Madrid skyline.

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Johnson slammed Poachers caught EMMANUEL MACRON has slammed Boris John‐ son as not being “serious” about the growing num‐ ber of migrant crossings over the Channel as the UK prime minister took to Twitter to publish a letter to the French Govern‐ ment.

This comes shortly after the deaths of 27 people who undertook the cross‐ ing on Wednesday Novem‐ ber 22.

France has now with‐ drawn a summit invitation to the Home Secretary Priti Patel, a move that the UK Government has urged

Special Xmas concerts ON December 12 and 13 the Choir and Orches‐ tra Collegium Musicum Costa del Sol invites you to join us at 7.30pm in the Danish Church ‐ Margrethekirken ‐ in Las Lagunas as we cele‐ brate Christmas with two special concerts.

With our new Musical Director, Delyth Bress‐ ington, we will perform some wonderful sea‐ sonal music associated with Scandinavia, full of vibrant rhythms and wonderful melodies.

Both concerts will be in the Danish Church and there is limited seating. Tickets (€10 ‐ chil‐ dren 5€) are available from info@colmus.org, margrethekirken@margrethekirken.com and from our members. For further information see our website www.colmus.org or call/What‐ sApp: 686 277 272/696 620 872.

them to reconsider. John‐ son said of the move: “This is a problem we have to fix together.”

Mr Macron set up talks in Calais on Sunday November 28 to address the recent surge in migrant crossings of the channel.

Belgium, France, the Netherlands, Germany, and the European Com‐ mission were invited.

The deaths of the 27 mi‐ grants on November 22 was the biggest loss of life in the Channel in many years.

Ahead of the meeting on November 28, Johnson posted the letter to Mr Macron which was then shared on Twitter.

Mr Macron blasted Johnson saying: “I am sur‐ prised by methods when they are not serious. We do not communicate from one leader to another on these issues by tweets and letters that we make pub‐ lic.”

OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil have success‐ fully managed to dismantle a poaching group.

The group had been illegally manipulating hunting seals to pass their taxidermy works off as legitimate. Officers discovered a shocking variety of animal trophies during the investiga‐ tion, which included one wolf skull, 13 roe deer trophies along with four male wild boar tro‐ phies. They also found and seized more than 100 hunting seals, most of which had been tampered with.

The Guardia Civil operation began in May af‐ ter an illegal taxidermy workshop was discov‐ ered in Madrid’s Móstoles.

The illegal taxidermy workshop has now been

TROPHIES: Poaching group dismantled.

successfully shut. The Guardia Civil have asked for people to cooperate and help them detect il‐ legal hunting, as poaching causes severe dam‐ age to the local ecosystem.

History-making PM quits MAGDALENA ANDERSSON was an‐ nounced as the first‐ever female prime min‐ ister in Sweden on November 24, but her time in power was short‐lived. The new prime minister resigned just a few hours lat‐ er after her coalition partner quit the gov‐ ernment and her budget failed to pass.

Instead, parliament voted for a budget drawn up by the opposition: “I have told the speaker that I wish to resign,” Ms. Anders‐ son told reporters.

Her coalition partner, the Green Party said it could not accept a budget “drafted for the

first time with the far‐right.”

Ms Andersson said that she hoped to be‐ come prime minister again, however, next time it will be as a single‐party government leader. The fact that she had support from so many members of the Swedish parlia‐ ment means this could be a possibility.

“There is a constitutional practice that a coalition government should resign when one party quits,” said the Social Democrat.

Andersson said that she chose to resign because “I don’t want to lead a government whose legitimacy will be questioned.”

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Business as usual THE UK Health Secretary, Sajid Javid, has urged people to keep planning for Christmas as normal.

He believes that the UK is some way off implementing harsher coronavirus restrictions, despite concerns raised globally over the new Omicron coronavirus vari‐ ant.

So far two cases of the mutant strain have been detected in the UK. Javid said: “I think people should continue with their plans as normal for Christmas, I think it’s going to be a great Christmas.”

The Health Secretary said that the UK is “nowhere near” reintro‐ ducing social distancing and work from home rules. He explained: “We know now those types of measures do carry a very heavy price, both economically, and so‐ cially, in terms of non‐Covid health outcomes such as impact on men‐ tal health.” “So if one was to make decisions like that they would have to be done very, very carefully and we’re not there yet, we’re nowhere near that.”

New €30 coin

SPAIN now has a brand‐ new coin. One of this coin’s main hallmarks is its colours.

Gold, silver, and even purple can be seen in this new piece, which also stands out for its value ‐ €30.

Numismatics fans will surely want to get hold of the latest coin made by the National Cur‐ rency and Stamp Factory (FNMT). It was launched on November 22 and will interest those who want to expand their collec‐ tions. The coin cannot be used as money to make purchases and is purely for collectors.

The coin pays homage to the Camino de Santiago (the Pilgrim’s Way), which is travelled by many peo‐ ple every year and has be‐

come a once‐in‐a‐lifetime challenge for Spaniards and tourists alike. It is such an iconic route; it is no surprise it €30 COIN: For collectors only.

has been recognised by this commemoration.

The coin has an image of a pilgrim with his back‐ pack, looking at the stun‐ ning cathedral of Santiago de Compostela after com‐ pleting the Camino.

Those interested can get the coin for their collec‐ tion at any branch of the Bank of Spain by paying face value.

Uber munchies UBEREATS is entering the marihuana market by al‐ lowing customers in Ontario, Canada, to order from cannabis retailer Tokyo Smoke via the Uber app and then pick it up at a store nearby.

The firm has not answered on whether they will offer this service in the rest of Canada and the US. Canada’s marihuana market is worth around £3 bil‐ lion per year and the drug has been legal in Canada since 2018, however, it is still illegal to deliver it.

The company said users of the UberEats app will have to verify their age and can then pick up their order within an hour. The company is said to have been planning on entering the booming marihuana market for some time.

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Red-tape gifts ANYONE in the UK sending Christmas presents to loved ones in the EU needs to be aware of possible customs charges and VAT charges.

Experts have said that people sending gifts to the EU face the possibility of delays, missing items, and charges that they were not expecting.

Many Brits are trying to send gifts to friends and family in the EU this Christmas. This means that this could be the first time they have had to contend with VAT and customs charges. Adam French of consumer rights group Which? com‐ mented: “The changes brought about by Brexit have created a greater burden of customs paper‐ work for consumers and couriers alike. “You now have to attach customs declaration forms to anything you send, very clearly describing what it is and where it has originated from.”

Brexit rule changes came into force on January 1. In July further changes also came into effect re‐ garding VAT.

Xmas present charges.

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Sex doll honeymoon YURI TOLOCHKO, a 36year-old bodybuilder from Kazakhstan, went viral on the internet last year after he married his sex doll, Margot, in a lavish wedding attended by all their friends and family. Unfortunately for Yuri, the marriage didn’t last long, because his plastic wife broke soon after they tied the knot.

Undeterred, Yuri soon found another lover, in the form of Luna, and has now - after the pandemic delayed their plans - whisked her away to Bulgaria for a belated honeymoon.

Yuri shared their holiday snaps with his 100,000 followers on Instagram who have been party to his turbulent love life. He always

Luna went on honeymoon wiht Yuri.

keeps them updated on what he and Luna are doing. “The pandemic changed everyone’s plans massively, so when the chance came to go to Bulgaria for work, I was happy I could take Luna. It was a work trip, but it was also so romantic that I consider it a honeymoon as well. We stayed in the capital Sofia for about a week, and it was fabulous,” explained Yuri.

Airlines want simpler forms UK airlines have demand‐ ed that the online pas‐ senger locator form which must be completed when flying into Britain is simplified.

The form must be filled in 48 hours before arriv‐ ing in Britain and while many other countries re‐ quire documentation to be filled out, none are as complex as the UK’s pas‐ senger locator form.

Chief executive of the Dutch airline KLM, Pieter Elbers, said that a col‐ league completed his form for him ahead of his trip to the UK. “My assis‐ tant almost asked for a pay rise for sorting it out,” he said.

Chief executive of Virgin Atlantic Shai Weiss said that during the Covid pan‐ demic the amount of pa‐ perwork and bureaucracy had increased. “We’re be‐ having as though we don’t have a vaccine,” he said.

Eurostar’s strategy direc‐ tor Gareth Williams told a committee from the

House of Lords earlier this month that the form “runs on a list of redun‐ dant questions for six pages.”

The length of the form has increased since it was introduced in summer last year, with extra questions such as the code number

for the mandatory ‘day two’ test and any islands visited in the 10 days be‐ fore arrival in the UK. At the Airlines 2021 event, aviation minister Robert Courts insisted: “We’ve already simplified the passenger locator form.”

Interpol torture accusation A GENERAL from the United Arab Emirates who has previously been accused of complicity in tor‐ ture has been elected as president of the global po‐ lice agency Interpol.

The inspector general of the UAE’s interior min‐ istry, Ahmed Nasser al‐Raisi, was elected at the agency’s general assembly in Istanbul, Turkey.

Human rights groups have led campaigns against the candidate, citing accusations of failing to inves‐ tigate credible complaints of torture. Gen Raisi de‐ nies the allegations.

The UAE’s foreign ministry said he “strongly be‐ lieves that the abuse or mistreatment by police is abhorrent and intolerable.”

The Interpol president role is part‐time and un‐ paid and his duties will include chairing meetings of the executive committee.

The committee supervises the work of Secretary General Jürgen Stock who is a full‐time official who oversees the day‐to‐day running of Interpol.

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Windows 11 Cyberattack MICROSOFT has an‐ nounced that Windows 11, its newest operat‐ ing system, suffered its first cyberattack last month.

The software, which has already received some criticism for its impact on perfor‐ mance, has been hit by an attack, which grants hackers administrator privileges on all ver‐ sions of the Windows operating system.

Microsoft thought they had dealt with the attack, which takes ad‐ vantage of a bug in the Windows installer.

However, it is now clear the patch issued has not worked. Mi‐ crosoft has rated the vulnerability to be of medium severity, though the company has yet to provide a timeline for when they will release a ‘fix.’

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Has the Spanish tax office knocked on your door? Don’t be afraid to answer!

WE don’t have to tell you these are difficult times for the Spanish Tax Au‐ thorities. They need to generate more revenue at a time when tax col‐ lection levels are not what they ex‐ pected.

But we must ask if chasing foreign‐ ers who regularly submit their income tax returns and aim to have their tax affairs in order, is the right way to do this.

It’s normal for the Spanish Tax Au‐ thorities to send out tax inspection letters querying a particular tax year.

If you are one of those people who have received an unexpected letter querying how you have declared your income received from a British source, we know how you feel.

You need help to understand what the letter is about and what action is required, so you ask the person who prepared and submitted the tax re‐ turn on your behalf in the first place.

The problems start when the Span‐

ish Tax Authorities do not accept your reply to their letter and ask you to pay more tax on top of what you have al‐ ready paid. It’s hard when you did what was expected, declaring your in‐ come, and paying tax and now the au‐ thorities claim you have not.

You are not on your own. We know because many of those people have contacted us. They explain that the person who submitted their tax return has not given them an explanation of the tax query and what they need to do to defend themselves correctly.

It’s important to meet the timelines for replying to the Spanish Tax Au‐ thorities. You may have everything re‐ quired to win your case, but if you miss the deadline then you could lose.

At this point, UK Tax Refund SL should be the company you contact.

We are registered Agents with HMRC and understand the English and Span‐ ish tax systems and the way they fit together.

You may be in receipt of a state re‐ tirement pension, a private works pension and/or a pension paid by a government or local government au‐ thority, or you may receive rental in‐ come. If the Spanish tax office asks you for proof of the sources of your income and the way in which they have been included on the income tax return, then you must be able to give them proof and an explanation.

If you receive an income which ac‐ cording to the Double Taxation Treaty has to be declared in both countries and this income you receive is from a British source, then you have the right to deduct the tax paid in the UK when completing the Spanish income tax re‐ turn. This said, if the Spanish tax au‐ thorities query this you must be able to prove this has been done correctly.

And here is where the problems arise. There are lots of Tax Advisers in Spain who are very good when it comes to dealing with Spanish in‐

come, but they struggle when it comes to understanding and dealing with British pensions and other sources of British income and how they should be declared in Spain. Or those who understand how to include the income from a British source in the Spanish tax return, but struggle to produce the documents to satisfy the tax inspection.

You could end up paying extra tax, not because you have made an error, but simply for not being able to prove it was done correctly in the first place, or by missing the deadline to reply.

If you are one of the many expats who received a letter from the Span‐ ish Tax Authorities, please do not pan‐ ic, we can help put your tax affairs in order.

Give us a call on 965 636 938 and stop worrying! Or e-mail us: michelle@uktaxrefund.net

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Cash is disappearing J O N C U N L I F F E, deputy governor of the Bank of England, said cash is dis‐ appearing with improving technology and the popu‐ larity of debit and credit cards. Online shopping, self‐service, ease of use and security are all given as reasons for the decline in cash purchases which in 2019 accounted for only

Cash is being used less.

23 per cent of sales trans‐ actions.

Cunliffe, said that the percentage of cash trans‐

Asteroid smash ON November 24, NASA’s DART (Double Asteroid Redirection Test) spacecraft launched from Van‐ denberg Air Force base on a historic mission to de‐ flect an asteroid.

The aim is to deflect the 160‐metre asteroid Di‐ mosphos, which orbits the larger asteroid Didy‐ mos. The object is travelling at a speed of 24,000 kilometres per hour.

If successful, the mission will deviate the course of the asteroid. DART will test the theory that the kinetic energy from the impact will reduce the threat of the asteroid heading towards Earth.

DART is being carried by a SpaceX rocket on a mission that will take almost a year, travelling 11 million kilometres before it reaches its destination in September 2022.

actions declined further due to the pandemic and highlights the need for politicians to support a new form of safe, flexible, and useful money, such as cards and cryptocurren‐ cies.

An example of this is the attempt by authorities to put their faith in the Cen‐ tral Bank Digital Currency (CBDC), a proposal if adopted would work with online payment platforms and allow banks to further evolve their technologies alongside.

The situation in Spain is quite different with a re‐ cent survey by Plataforma Denaria published in September 2021, showing the need to preserve cash.

According to the survey most Spanish consumers still consider cash to be critical to their lives, with a significant percentage of the population still living in less populated areas and therefore areas less well served by banks.

Underwater village reappears THE Spanish village of Acere‐ do, near Lobois which was abandoned in 1992 has reap‐ peared.

Families were forced to abandon their homes when a reservoir was built, and a Por‐ tuguese hydroelectric plant closed its floodgates causing the Limia river to flood the val‐ ley.

Five villages in the province of Ourense tried to oppose the evictions but failed and were forced to evacuate. With 51 per cent of homeowners agreeing to depart, a forced seizure of land was published which meant that the rest of the inhabitants also had to leave. Aceredo has been un‐ derwater ever since, only emerging in the very rare case that Lindoso reservoir falls to very low levels ‐ which is hap‐ pening now.

Images taken on Monday, November 22, show an eerie and partially preserved Acere‐ do. The stone structures in the village have survived, howev‐ er, many of the roofs have de‐ teriorated and collapsed. Met‐ al has been rusted and mud

has filled doorways and homes due to three decades of being underwater.

Now, with water levels low, roads, pathways and outlines of farmland can be seen.

There are also abandoned

cars, personal objects and even possessions on shelves and tables.

Villagers who still live nearby have been seen wandering around what remains of the lost village.

UK booze shortage BRITS face an alcohol short‐ age at Christmas over sup‐ ply chain troubles where deliveries could be delayed by weeks.

Alcohol producers are concerned that there could be a shortage of Christmas favourites such as mulled wine, gin, whisky, Cham‐ pagne, wine, and Buck’s fizz.

Shipping costs have risen by around 7 per cent com‐ pared to last year and deliv‐ ery times have increased dramatically too going from just days to weeks.

Brits could see less choice.

Big brands have the pow‐ er to absorb more of these costs, but the smaller brands will struggle. Brits could see less choice at Christmas.

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The national flag with the most colours in it is Belize, with 12.

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Marbella gunman arrested A 35-Y EA R-O L D man with numerous police records was arrested in the Malaga municipality of Marbella on Novem‐ ber 16. His arrest took place at around 12.30pm after the individual re‐ portedly fired a weapon into the air. After firing the shot, he reportedly shouted, "I'm in charge here".

The incident occurred on Calle Santo Domingo, when the man got out of a vehicle and fired the shot. After discharging the weapon, the man fled and tried to hide in a nearby building. An eye‐ witness alerted the police and they quickly cor‐ doned off the area and initiated a search for the suspect.

The search of the im‐ mediate vicinity soon lo‐ cated the man, who was spotted leaving a build‐ ing, having changed his clothing but fitting de‐ scriptions given by wit‐ nesses. He was immedi‐ ately arrested for crimes against people and prop‐ erty, public disorder, and the illegal possession of a weapon.

Gordon’s Xmas warning F O R M E R prime minister Gordon Brown has warned that this and next Christmas could both be at risk from Covid restrictions.

He believes the UK and other well‐ off nations need to share vaccines and stop hoarding them.

The UK had promised to donate 100 million coronavirus jabs, but so far only 11 per cent have been delivered.

Brown has called on Chris Whitty and Patrick Vallance to “sit Boris Johnson down and acquaint him with some basic medical facts.”

Brown has hit out at Johnson for claiming that the Omicron variant can be blamed on countries having a low uptake of coronavirus vaccines.

Brown has instead blamed this on a shortage of jabs.

Mr Brown commented on donated jabs being delayed: “Through no fault of their own ‐ a number of countries have become spaces for outbreaks of new variants of the virus.

“Not for the first time, Johnson has shown a casual disregard for the facts.”

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Pregnant women crisis DOCTORS have warned that maternity services are at crisis point over the number of unvaccinated pregnant women who are in-

fected with Covid on labour wards.

Expectant mothers who have Covid need additional care and doctors are wor-

Spain’s richest menu DABIZ MUÑOZ’S restau‐ rant, DiverXO, in Madrid, boasts three Michelin stars, and three Repsol suns.

Not surprisingly, the chef has just been given the award for Best Chef in the World 2021. How‐ ever, after a price in‐ crease, it seems that his establishment is also about to become the most expensive in Spain.

From January 2022, Cristina Pedroche’s hus‐ band’s restaurant will raise the price of its tast‐

ing menu from €250 to €360. Added to this amount would be €150 per person if you want to enjoy a selection of wines chosen by the sommelier Miguel Angel Millan, or €300 if you want a high‐ class pairing.

DiverXO is, since this year, positioned at num‐ ber 20 in the list of the best restaurants in the world, and the only one with three Michelin stars ‐ of the 11 in Spain ‐ to raise the price of its menu.

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Koalas sleep around 18 hours a day.

ried that this could be compromising the care of other pregnant women.

Dr Biswas is an adviser to the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch. The doctor revealed: “Covid-positive expectant mothers in hospital need a lot closer monitoring.

“If they are in labour, they will need detailed heartmonitoring every few hours.

We’re supposed to have one midwife to every pregnant woman. But if you’re running those tests on the Covid patient every few hours, you can’t be with another woman in labour.

“If there are not enough midwives to go around, it’s feasible the patient who doesn’t have Covid will miss out on adequate care.”

Doctors all agree that maternity services across the country are not set up to deal with the current situation. There has been a chronic staff shortage for years, and the pandemic has made this much worse.

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Public defibrillator becomes life saver ON November 24, a nurse of the Regional University Hospital of Malaga saved the life of a 66‐year‐old man who was suffering a heart attack on a pub‐ lic road.

Nurse Esther Diaz used a municipal de‐ fibrillator that was in‐ stalled less than 20 metres away, without which, according to her, she would not have been able to re‐ vive him.

The events took place around 9:30am o n Av e n i d a d e A n ‐ dalucia.

Diaz was out of her working hours and was about to have breakfast in a cafete‐ ria when she found a man lying on the street in serious con‐ dition. She started to

assist him while an‐ other citizen contact‐ ed 061.

The health care provider explained: “The patient was in a lateral security posi‐ tion, he was pulsing and breathing but had lost consciousness. I started doing cardiac massage, because I knew that at any mo‐ ment, he could stop breathing,” she added.

Another citizen ap‐ proached Diaz with a defibrillator that was installed on the road and thanks to this de‐ vice the man began to regain consciousness.

“If it were not for the AED (automated ex‐ ternal defibrillator), I would not have been able to save him,” said the nurse.

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Beatlemania is back!

LOS ESCARABAJOS: A tribute to the Beatles.

THE 31st edition of the most traditional event in the history of Spanish Beatlemania takes place on Sunday, December 5, 2021, on the anniversary of John Lennon’s death. The Sala Malander in Sevilla will be the venue for the 31st Homenaje Nacional a Beatles.

There will be a special per‐

New MP sleaze rules AN MP sleaze rules shake‐up has been unveiled. The new plans will mean that Boris Johnson will have to reveal how much his Spanish holiday had cost.

Johnson had jetted off to a Marbella retreat, but had avoided saying how much it cost by recording it on a minis‐ terial register. The Standards Commit‐ tee has put forward proposed changes to the rules which would mean freebie holidays would need to be added to the MPs’ register too.

Recommendations from the commit‐ tee include: “ending the exemption whereby ministers are not required to register gifts and hospitality they re‐

ceive in their ministerial capacity with the Commons Register, so that all of a Member’s outside interests can be found in a single place.”

The committee has also proposed: “introducing a new requirement that a Member must have a written contract for any outside work which makes ex‐ plicit that their duties cannot include lobbying ministers, Members or public officials, or providing advice about how to lobby or influence Parliament, and that their employer will give them an undertaking not to ask them to do so.”

Second jobs are also on the crackdown list for similar reasons.

formance by top Beatles trib‐ ute band, Los Escarabajos, along with guest artists and a Beatlemania collectors’ mar‐ ket. After two years of waiting due to the Covid‐19 pandem‐ ic, Spain’s National Tribute to The Beatles returns in time for the Puente de la Inmaculada on the eve of Constitution Day with its historic concert presented by Enrique Sánchez, musician, writer, and founder of the host band.

The event is produced by BeatleBiz (Beatlemania & Bis Managers) and Strawberry Fields Radio Beatles, with the involvement of Beatle 6‐7 Route and Los Escarabajos.

Opening the show is the new line‐up of the group Los Beat‐ os, which evokes the fab four’s live rockers between 1964 and 1966.

The event attracts fans of the band from far and wide and promises to be an edition to remember after a two‐year wait.

Sala Malander is located on Calle Torneo 43 in Sevilla.

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EUROPEAN PRESS DENMARK

Anti-ants

Green taxis

A NEW European Union directive requires that all food not eaten in member states prior to 1997 has to be given special approval before it can be sold. This means that the restaurant voted the world’s best, Noma in Copenhagen has to remove ants from the menu.

IN a first step towards meeting the Danish Government’s plans to ensuring that all taxis issue zero CO2 by 2030, Toyota has supplied 100 hydrogen powered taxis to the DRIVR service operating in Copenhagen by way of an initial experiment with more to follow.

THE NETHERLANDS Drug smacks

New register

DUE to EU restrictions on pulse fishing, a number of small Dutch fishermen are suffering financial difficulties which according to research revealed by police and prosecutors has led to some being approached and recruited by drug smugglers to pick up cocaine from container ships.

ALL vehicles such as golf carts and lawn mowers which use public roads (which include private land with access) and can travel faster than six kilometres an hour will have to be registered before January 1 or their owners will have to pay to have them inspected.

BELGIUM Corona monument

Uber and out

IN a cruel twist of fate, a monument to highlight the pandemic was commissioned in 2020 by the town of Izegem. The local sculptor Piet Duthoit has now completed the work, but the unveiling ceremony had to be postponed due to the new wave of coronavirus.

A BRUSSELS Court has confirmed that a decision made in 2015 to ban the use by drivers of the Uber App is still in force which means that the 2,000+ drivers on the company’s books will find it much harder to receive bookings for travel.

GERMANY Coalition formed

Taiwan support

FINALLY, an agreement has been reached between the three parties set to form the next German government, the Social Democrats, the Greens and the Free Democrats who announced their alliance under the title ‘Dare more progress’ and said that they promoted freedom, justice, and sustainability.

ALTHOUGH China won’t be pleased, the new German Government is the first in recent years to acknowledge Taiwan and to suggest that it should be allowed routine participation in international organisations, albeit in accordance with the European Union’s One China Policy.

FRANCE Airbnb pledge

Clever lights

ALTHOUGH some countries are unhappy with Airbnb as not all owners declare taxes and long-term rental is reduced, France is delighted that the American company has entered into an agreement with a national charity to supply funds to restore heritage buildings.

AN interesting experiment in energy saving is taking place in the parts of the city of Lyon where street lights on busy roads only brighten as cars are detected by the LED lights whilst on smaller roads, they are also illuminated by pedestrians walking past.

NORWAY Annual gift

World Cup

THIS year, Norway will send its 75th holiday gift of a fir tree to London in thanks to the British people for their help during the Second World War. The 22-metre-tree was cut down near Oslo with schoolchildren singing carols and will as usual be erected in Trafalgar Square.

MANY in Norway argued that the Norwegian national team should not take part in next year’s Qatar World Cup due to distaste for the regime and two Norwegian journalists were arrested whilst in that country, but the matter is now irrelevant as the team didn’t qualify.

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Ear lights

Terminal 2

IT was hoped 10 years ago that a new product, the Valkee 2, a pair of ear buds that shine bright LED lights into the wearer’s ears in order to relieve seasonal affective disorderrelated depression would be successful.

Sadly, the company has now filed for bankruptcy.

THE pandemic and the shutting down of international flights gave impetus to Finavia, the company that operates Finland’s airport to speed up the extension of Terminal 2 at Helsinki airport which opened on December 1.

The architecture is influenced by classical Finnish design.

IRELAND Exploding lightbulb

St Brigid

A COURT has agreed that a 10-year-old boy should receive €27,000 in damages after a lightbulb in his bedside lamp exploded and caused him facial injuries which meant that he had to be rushed to Temple Street Children’s Hospital in Dublin for emergency treatment in 2016.

THE Irish Government is in a quandary as to when a new bank holiday should be introduced. The General feeling is that it should be on February 1, the feast day of St Brigid which heralds the start of spring, but with Covid surging it may be postponed.

ITALY Massive fine

Vatican tree

BOTH Amazon and Apple have been jointly fined a total of €203 million by Italy’s antitrust authority, following an investigation into reselling of Apple and (Apple-owned) Beats kit on Amazon’s Italian e-commerce marketplace as the authority alleges collusion to keep the price high in Italy.

THE Vatican City Christmas tree, a 28-metrehigh spruce from the northern Trentino region of Italy, arrived in St Peter's Square so that it could be raised and decorated with low energy lights in St Peter’s Square in time for the Christmas celebrations.

PORTUGAL Operation Sashimi

Food banks

THE Portuguese Food and Economic Safety Authority (ASAE) undertook an investigation of some 60 operations across the country which produce sushi and other dishes where fish is not fully cooked. As a result, some 25 breaches of health requirements were noted and five establishments suspended.

FOR nearly two years, due to pandemic restrictions, volunteers from food banks were stopped from visiting supermarkets and asking for donations, but the ban was lifted so that on the weekend of November 27, teams were in evidence again collecting food for those in need.

RUSSIA Netflix investigation

Orphaned kittens

AFTER a formal complaint from the St Petersburg based Olga Baranets, the Russian police will probe Netflix for streaming content that contains alleged gay propaganda and only labelling it 16+, whilst Russian law requires such material to carry an 18+ warning.

THE Moscow Zoo which has a mascot of a Manul or Pallas cat has taken into care two such kittens discovered by villagers in eastern Siberia weighing just under 200 grams each. Alisa and Brungilda were looked after locally until it was safe to send them to Moscow.

SWEDEN PM resigns

State visit

JUST 12 hours after becoming Sweden's first female prime minister, Social Democrat Magdalena Andersson had to step down when Green Party coalition partners decided to walk away after Parliament rejected the proposed budget bill. She now hopes to be reappointed as head of a single party minority.

QUEEN SILVIA donned a special tiara for the State Banquet in honour of the King and Queen of Spain at the Royal Palace in Stockholm on Thursday November 25, marking the first Spanish State visit since 1979, although the couple have visited informally before.

Christmas traditions

IF you’re getting into the holiday feel at this time, you may be already be getting involved with some traditional Christmas activities.

But to ramp up the festive vibes, why not take a look at some of our Christmas traditions to take part in that involve the whole family?

Christmas carols No Christmas would be complete without a trip to a carol concert, or even to do some carolling of your own.

writing their letters to Father Christmas to get all their presents in on time.

Making your own cards More personal than buying a box of cards, this year why not make some cards for your friends and family?

All you need is some coloured card, scissors and glitter to make your own set of festive notes this year.

Decorate your tree.

Letters to Santa If you have children, now is the time to get them to start

Write a letter to Santa.

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The best festive movies

WHAT would the festive lead up be without the traditional Christmas movie marathon?

And if you’re planning a day of non-stop movie watching, there are some serious classics that need to be included in your list.

From universal favourite It’s a Wonderful Life to newer classic The Holiday, Christmas movies are ones that can be watched year after year, loved for their heartwarming storylines.

Here are 10 of the top Christmas movies for all the family to get you in the festive mood.

1. It’s a Wonderful Life 2. Home Alone 3. Elf 4. The Muppet Christmas Carol 5. Miracle on 34th Street 6. The Holiday 7. The Snowman 8. Jingle All the Way 9. Let It Snow 10. Bad Santa And to make a real day of it, why not get the popcorn out, add some sugar, and even invite family and friends around for a Christmas jumper-themed movie day?

POPCORN: Get in the mood.

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The festive jumper Go green this Christmas WHILE for many years most people used to dress up in their finest for Christmas, increasingly the fashion is to find the most outrageous festive-themed jumper you can find to wear over the holiday.

Starting several years ago with the ‘ugliest Christmas jumper’ trend, this fun chance to go full-blown Christmas has since taken off, with shops across the world now selling everything from reindeer f a c e d tops to glittery sweaters.

So if you’re already planning your Christmas jumper look, why not go even further this year and customise?

All you need is a range of Christmas-inspired badges or decorations and a plain jumper to add them to. Simply pin or sew them on and

even add glitter to create your own personalised Christmas look which can be worn to all your festive parties.

To really complete the outfit, you could even add a pair of Christmas socks for a truly festive look this year.

FROM recycling to taking the train over planes, more and more people are beginning to look for ways to reduce their impact on the environment and be a bit more eco-friendly.

But when it comes to Christmas, a time of year when we traditionally go all out, how can those who want to reduce their environmental impact go a bit greener this year?

There are plenty of ways to have a green Christmas, beginning with using a re-

plantable tree year after year. Similarly, decorations can be either homemade using green materials including WRAP UP: Decorate using papier mache or home-made materials. even clay. Alternatively, this year you could also make sure that present this year, why not any decorations you buy are either make your own premade from glass, wood or sents for friends and family other natural materials, in- or search out second-hand stead of plastic. Finally, in- finds at charity shops, aucstead of giving a brand new tions of online?

Make your own garlands

Go for a festive look.

THE festive season is all about being around those you love, enjoying good food and some time off work.

But the perfect Christmas is never complete without a festive backdrop, and making your own garlands can add a personal and homely feel this year. Making garlands is simple, and an activity that everyone can join in with. There are also several types you can go for, depending on the look you want. For a very home-made look that

children will love, popcorn garlands strung with cranberry look great hung from walls and ceilings. For a more sophisticated look, however, you could go for dried orange slices.

Or for a traditional Christmas look, why not make your own paperchains from thin strips of colourful paper. Whichever look you go for though, these garlands look great hung from ceilings or draped across mirrors or wall pictures.

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Secret Santa ideas It’s Christmas!

MINCE PIES… stockings… carols…. There are lots of traditions that bring Christmas to mind, but the Christmas song has got to be one of the greatest.

Whether it’s a classic that has been going for a years, or a song by a favourite band, everyone has a Christmas song that instantly reminds them of the holidays.

So why not create a Christmas playlist this year to fill your home with the sound of the season with this list of 10 of the best tracks?

THE Christmas season is here and that means that offices, families and friends across the country will be swapping names to start finding a present for their secret Santa.

But with a small budget, and especially if buying for a colleague you don’t know that well, what are some of the best present ideas?

Here are some of the best ideas for under €15, including a set of three non-brand golf balls for a person who

BEST IDEAS: Look for a really personal gift.

likes sport and is looking to improve their game, or a spa voucher for a manicure for someone who likes a bit of pampering.

A l t e r n a t i ve l y, yo u could get someone a paperback book by one of their favourite authors. Make sure not to g e t o n e t h ey a l re a d y have by asking family

or friends first.

For someone you know who is creative, why not buy them some craft materials so they can make something for themselves with your gift?

Or for a foodie, you could always put together a mini box of all their favourite food treats for a really personal gift.

1. Do they know it’s Christmas? - Band Aid 2. Last Christmas - Wham 3. All I want for Christmas is you - Mariah Carey 4. A holly jolly Christmas – Burl Ives 5. Jingle bell rock - Bobby Helms 6. Winter Wonderland - Tony Bennett 7. The Christmas song (Merry Christmas to you) - Nat King Cole 8. Have yourself a merry little Christmas Judy Garland 9.Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer – Harry Connick Jnr 10. Frosty the snowman Gene Autry

XMAS SONG: Everyone has a favourite.

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XMAS MARKET: Take a tour of your local one this year.

ONE of the most famous traditions every year is the Christmas market.

Taking place across Europe, Christmas markets have been around for hundreds of years, offering people the chance to shop for presents, sample local festive cuisine, and get into the Christmas mood.

Spain hosts plenty of Christmas markets each year, but where and when did the tradition begin?

Christmas markets first originated in Germany in the late Middle Ages, before also being held in surrounding countries, including the east of France.

Most famous in Germany, Switzerland and Austria, Christmas markets now take place across most of Europe, with the UK and Spain now also hosting many each year.

Selling traditional Christmas foods, including German candied almonds known as Gebrannte Mandeln, these markets often also offer up handmade items which can make great presents.

So to get the full Christmas market experience, why not grab some stollen and a hot chocolate and take a tour of your local one this year.

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Gift ideas for her BUYING Christmas presents for the woman you love is one of the best parts of Christmas, but how do you ensure you get something she really wants?

Here, the Euro Weekly News has put together a gift guide for women for some ideas of personal presents everyone will love.

Craft gifts If the woman you love enjoys making things and has a favourite craft, why not take a look through her supplies and work out what you could buy her to complete her collection or allow her to make more of what she loves.

Book gifts If she has a favourite author, why not try to find a book of theirs she has not read. Or, if she is a fan of a particular topic, take a look for recommendations on the best books on the subject.

Toiletry gifts Everyone loves to be pampered

so if she has a favourite perfume, make-up or skincare brand why not go further this year and buy something extra special from that collection. Ideas include buying the matching body lotion or shower gel to go with her perfume for a luxurious feel.

Spoil your woman this season.

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How to wrap presents CHRISTMAS can come with many challenges, from finding enough extra chairs to accommodate everyone around the dinner table to getting the perfect gift for that picky relative.

But there’s one challenge which everyone seems to share, wrapping presents.

That’s why the Euro Weekly News has put together this quick guide to wrapping presents for a professional, seasonal look this year.

Step 1: Get the right equipment. To get your presents looking good though, first you will need the right equipment, including high quality wrapping paper (the thicker the better) and double-sided sticky tape to avoid any visible tape. It’s also a good idea to invest in some gift boxes in various sizes for any items that are too small or awkwardlyshaped to wrap neatly.

Step 2: Now for the fun. Place your wrapping paper face down on a table and place your present on top of

it. Next bring the paper over the present until it fully covers it to measure how much wrapping paper you will need, and then cut it to size.

Position your gift so it is in the middle of the paper before bringing the sides of the wrapping paper together over the present and taping down using double-sided sticky tape on the inside of the paper. Then move to the open ends of the paper, folding in the corners and leaving an envelope flap shape at the bottom.

Tape this using the double-sided sticky tape.

Step 3: Add personal accessories. Give your gift a personal feel with a handmade card label or by attaching leaves, cookies or bows.

For children’s gifts, a tiny toy attached to a label can add a fun vibe.

Add your own bow.

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Gift ideas for him GETTING the perfect present for the man in your life is not always easy, but here the Euro Weekly News has set out some gift ideas to take the effort out of buying this year.

Sports gifts Sports fans are among the easiest to buy for with season tickets and sports equipment all good options.

For golf fans, why not buy their club membership for the next year, or treat them to a game at a club they have always wanted to visit.

Or for rugby fans, take a look for international games they might like tickets to.

Music gifts

Similarly, if you know he has a favourite band or type of music, why not look for tickets to an event near to you which he might like to attend.

Clothes gifts Most people prefer to choose their own clothes, but rather than the usual socks this year if you are going to gift clothes take a look through their wardrobe at some of their favourite items to get ideas for what you could buy them.

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FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Green deodorant SUSTAINABLE and natural deodorant brand Wild is having some success in launching its green brands in the UK with distribution in 285 Sainsbury’s stores as well as tests in Boots and Waitrose and the eco‐ friendly products finding a new outlet in Selfridges.

Official languages IT appears that it is the intention of the Spanish Government to require by law that at least 6 per cent of all programmes in streaming platforms such as Netflix should be presented in one of the other official languages of Spain, namely Basque, Catalan or Galician.

Lidl plans PLEASED with its current growth and the potential to increase dramatically, Lidl GB has announced plans to open 1,100 new stores by the end of 2025, creating 4,000 new jobs across the country and many will feature solar panels and electric vehicle charging points.

Own goal THE National Securities Market Commission (CNMV) has announced that it is upset with former Barcelona football star Andrés Iniesta for promoting investment in cryptocurrencies on his Instagram and Twitter social networks at a time when a number of companies offering investment are in trouble.

Back to work METAL workers in Cadiz city and province have called off their strike over wages after some fairly angry demonstrations in the streets of Cadiz. Workers from the oil refinery in San Roque managed to block one of the two main arteries into La Linea and Gibraltar for nine days, with rocks thrown and at least one car set on fire. Now it appears that after unions accepted a pay deal offered by employers, the matter was resolved and roads opened to traffic.

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is the amount that Spanish brewery company Estrella Galicia STAT OF plans to spend on opening a new factory in Sao Paulo, Brazil. €300 million WEEK

Pandora tests new store in the UK DANISH jewellery company Pandora opened doors to its first stores under the new store concept Evoke in Mi‐ lan and London.

The new concept, which is still in its test phase, aims to make shop‐ ping more intuitive and will improve speed of service, enabling customers to easily explore, find and try on products.

From the moment customers en‐ ter the store, the simplified layout al‐ lows them to navigate through dif‐ ferent product categories and view the jewellery in newly designed dis‐ plays.

Two‐thirds of Pandora’s revenue comes from gifting and the new stores will have a dedicated ‘gifting zone’ with inspirational displays therefore as a further way to person‐ alise the jewellery, the stores will al‐ so offer an engraving service to cus‐ tomers.

The layout of the stores has been designed with today’s multi‐channel journey in mind. More than 80 per cent of consumers start their shop‐ ping online, and when they enter the new stores, they will recognise Pan‐ dora’s campaigns at the front.

Following the openings in Italy and

the UK, Evoke will launch in Guangzhou, China in December and Pandora expects to introduce it in other key markets later in 2022. The new store concept will gradually be evaluated and improved, and new features will be added.

“Pandora is built on the concept of personalisation and the idea that you can tell your story through your jewellery.

“We now want to bring personali‐ sation to all customer touch points and create a unique shopping experi‐ ence,” said Martino Pessina, Chief Commercial Officer, Pandora.

December offer from Golden Leaves Can they extend 90 days?

LEGALLY SPEAKING

I have seen reports that some groups are work‐ ing to get a reciprocal agreement between Spain and the UK because the UK allows stays of 180 days and Spain only 90 days. This does not seem fair to those UK citizens who want to spend more time in their Spanish villas. What are the possibilities? Also, what punishments can be imposed on a person who spends more than 90 days in Spain?

S D (Costa del Sol) To answer DAVID SEARL your sec‐ ond question first, YOU AND THE LAW the Spanish border IN SPAIN control officers have a wide range of discretion. If a person has over‐ stayed his limit by just a few days, they are often let go with only a warning.

Those who have chosen to stay longer might be fined up to €300. For those serious offenders who simply stay as long as they want, one suggestion has been to put a stamp in their passport and put them in the computer with a prohibition from returning to Spain for, say, two years. Nobody wants to go to such extremes. As to an agreement between Spain and the UK based on re‐ ciprocity, this is very unlikely.

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

SPAIN’S brave new financial world is taking a bit of a beating as more workers go on strike and shocking rises in electricity costs hit manu‐ facturers.

Naturally if it costs more to make products locally, then it is clear that the consumer will be hit twice, first with their electric bills and then with an increase in prices of a number of products.

THE funeral plan experts at Golden Leaves have announced this year’s De‐ cember offer, with a reduction on deposits and two years’ interest‐ free payments.

This offer, which is Interest-free payments. available throughout December, will also see the payment term on their plans increased to up to seven years, making the monthly payments on their Opal plan €51.43 a month and payments on their Pearl plan €58.23 a month.

Funeral plan deposits will be reduced to €100.

Golden Leaves are experts in funeral plans, ensuring that your wishes are carried out in full when the time comes and saving your loved ones from having to plan your funeral in another country and another language.

Their plans also ensure that you beat rising funeral costs, making sure that your service is paid in full and that your loved ones are not left with any further costs.

To save money on your funeral plan and ensure that your loved ones are not left to plan your service or with further costs, contact Golden Leaves before De‐ cember 31 and begin choosing the right funeral plan for you.

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

Economy stalling The European Union Recovery Fund is going to help in the medi‐ um to long term without doubt but as HGV drivers threaten to strike before Christmas and the forecast for 2021 GDP (Gross Do‐ mestic Product) continues to be

revised downwards, then 2022 could be a difficult year for the government.

Much will depend on whether the government can somehow persuade or instruct the energy companies to reduce their fees,

Government special loan WITH 1.7 million customers, energy supplier Bulb is sim‐ ply too big to be allowed to go bankrupt, especially as the giant providers in the UK don’t want to take on new customers used to cheaper rates.

For this reason, Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng has revealed that the UK Government will make a spe‐ cial loan of around £1.7 bil‐ lion to Administrators in or‐ der to try to keep the company trading until next spring.

Without this assistance, they would have had to close down in December, but it is hoped that this lifeline will al‐ low the Administrators to ei‐ ther sell the company or find ‘new homes’ for its cus‐ tomers.

Spain links with Iran UNDER the Partido Popular Government it was an‐ nounced that once Iran was able to export oil again, it had agreed to invest in southern Spain to open at least one new oil refinery.

With the decision by the Trump Administration to once again treat Iran as a pari‐ ah, the flow of investment quickly faded, but things may be changing. When welcom‐ ing the new Spanish Ambas‐ sador to Tehran, President Ebrahim Raisi said, “The cur‐ rent level of economic rela‐ tions between Iran and Spain is not acceptable and efforts should be made to further de‐ velop these relations.”

He indicated further that he wanted to develop economic, political, cultural and sports relations with Spain. assuming the promises of ade‐ quate supplies of liquid gas from Algeria are maintained by that country’s government.

If that happens and the tourist industry continues to recover in 2022, then there is every chance that the economy will turn around again and see some positive news in the first two quarters of next year.

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LOOKING AHEAD: The single currency could face an uphill battle in the coming weeks.

ASK THE EXPERT Peter Loveday Contact me at euroweekly@currenciesdirect.com

• Euro EUR/GBP: Unmoved at £0.84 EUR/USD: Down from $1.16 to $1.12 The euro has come under some consistent pressure over the past month, with the single currency slumping to year‐to‐date lows against the US dollar. This slump in EUR ex‐ change rates has been partially attributed to the European Central Bank (ECB) as the policy divergence between it and the other major central banks only looks to be growing wider as the ECB remains glued to its dovish bias.

Accelerating the downtrend in the euro through the second half of November has been the dramatic resurgence of Covid cases in many parts of Europe, which has prompted countries such as Austria to reimpose lock‐ down measures. Looking ahead, the single currency could face an uphill battle in the com‐ ing weeks if the Eurozone’s economic recov‐ ery is undermined by more countries being forced to impose restrictions.

• Pound GBP/EUR: Unmoved at €1.18 GBP/USD: Down from $1.37 to $1.34 The pound has traded in a wide range over the past four weeks, as the currency was rocked by the Bank of England’s (BoE) latest in‐ terest rate decision. Ahead of its November policy meeting, a series of hawkish comments from BoE policymakers had seen the majority of GBP investors price in an interest rate hike this month. However, the BoE then pulled the rug out from underneath the pound after it opted not to hike rates, leading to accusations of governor Andrew Bailey being an ‘unreli‐ able boyfriend’, a moniker which was previ‐ ously given to his predecessor Mark Carney.

Sterling then languished in mid‐November amidst heightened Brexit jitters, with GBP in‐

vestors fearing the UK government’s threat to trigger Article 16 of the Northern Ireland pro‐ tocol could prompt a UK‐EU trade war.

But Sterling rebounded in the second half of November as some stronger‐than‐expected employment and inflation figures reignited speculation the BoE could hike interest rates by the end of 2021. Hopes for a December rate hike may help to underpin the pound over the next few weeks, but GBP investors are likely to be wary of being too aggressive with their bets, after being wrong footed by the BoE earlier this month.

• US Dollar USD/GBP: Up from £0.72 to $0.74 USD/EUR: Up from €0.85 to €0.88 The US dollar made steady gains over the past month, with the currency being under‐ pinned by a deterioration of market senti‐ ment. There are multiple factors for this, in‐ cluding concerns over slowing growth in China, a resurgence of Covid cases in Europe as well as the collapse of the Turkish Lira, all of which have helped to bolster the appeal of the safe‐haven ‘greenback’.

The US dollar was also bolstered by the Fed‐ eral Reserve’s long‐awaited tapering an‐ nouncement at the start of this month, de‐ spite the bank also indicating that its next rate hike may be a little further off than previously forecast. While the Fed was a little more cau‐ tious with its forward guidance, a surge in US inflation has seen USD investors predict the US central bank could still hike rates earlier than mid‐2022. The US dollar now looks well poised to maintain its momentum through to the end of the year as renewed coronavirus con‐ cerns in Europe and other parts of the world are likely to raise additional questions over the trajectory of the global economic recovery.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT WELL, it’s all coming apart, isn’t it? Trying to remain positive and retain some degree of optimism through all the doom and gloom is becoming more difficult by the day. And the whingers don’t help. The moaners and groaners are everywhere.

Even drama queen vocalist Adele, who you would think had very little to complain about, recently occupied Oprah’s ‘griping chair’, bleating about people ‘not knowing what goes on behind closed doors,’ while conveniently plugging yet another money‐spinning album.

Priorities have gone completely haywire. Recently the UK public has had to put up with hypocritical, anti‐Semitic cricketers, crying on TV because they’ve been ‘offended.’ Celebrities, who are earning more in a fortnight than most people can hope for in years, bewailing the fact that they failed to digest the testicles of some animal or another, added to the ever‐increasing uncontrolled numbers of illegal immigrants pouring in, and floundering politicians at a complete loss what to do about it ‐ does truly makes you feel it is all going completely to pot!

Coming apart Is this the start of the demise of Western civilisation as we know it? Well, I personally thought it embarked on that journey years ago. The trouble is that so‐called progress has made it all too easy. Even in the light of yet another ‘variant’ and the indisputable climate change, the complacency among the masses, particularly the young, is almost beyond belief.

The age of technology has led the present generation to believe that all the nation’s problems can be settled at the press of a button. ‘Nanny State’ attitudes have raised the public’s sense of entitlement to unprecedented levels, while getting something for nothing has become an acceptable mode of existence.

Many great civilisations have peaked and subsequently foundered when the going got too easy. I came across a statement by one Sheik Rahid, the founder of Dubai, which hit the nail decisively on the head. When asked about the future of his own country, he replied: “My grandfather rode a camel, my father rode a camel. I ride a Mercedes; my son rides a Land Rover, and my grandson is going to ride a Land Rover; but my great grandson

will have to ride a camel again. You must raise warriors, not parasites. Past civilisations were not conquered by external enemies, they rotted from within.”

He went on to observe: “The greatest Western generation consisted of 18‐year‐ old kids storming the beaches of Normandy and now, two generations later, the young people want to hide in safe rooms when they hear words that hurt their feelings!”

Well, personally I think that just about sums it all up. The sheik went on to astutely remark that “hard times create strong men, strong men create easy times, easy times create weak men and weak men create difficult times.” So, in the light of all that, folks, all I can declare is ‐ the camels are on the horizon!

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The music, dancing and styling in this film is incredible, it takes you effortlessly back in‐ to the 60s and builds tension as Eloise finds it increasingly difficult to decipher her dreams from reality. There’s twists and turns that you won’t expect which will have you hanging on the edge of your seat.

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The good, the bad & the back-stabbing NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

To comment on any of the issues raised in her column, go to www.euroweeklynews.com/3.0.15/nora-johnson

FORMER French President François Hollande, recently describing Em‐ manuel Macron as a “spineless frog,” is scathing of his performance in office.

Well, what a way to describe his one‐ time protégé who was supposed to help HIM secure a second term! In‐ stead he regards Macron’s own rise to power as an outright act of betrayal.

Well, this made me think about other embarrassing ‘mistakes’ at work.

During my gap year, I was a trainee in a company and, on my first day, asked to make tea for visiting Japanese busi‐ nessmen. In the kitchen I boiled up wa‐ ter as you do, but added it to the tea leaves left in the pot by someone else and innocently stirred up the contents.

(Stop sniggering at the back there! OK, spoilt rotten by the parents!)

Anyway, I can’t imagine how yucky Nora Johnson’s opinions

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Recall your greatest blunder, then?

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So, over to you, François Hollande, what’s your LATEST monumental mis‐ take, eh?

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that stewed tea must have tasted. So, France, added some of her own dirty yes, pretty yucky. In fact, it couldn’t clothes to the family’s laundry. When have got much more yucky than that (as the machine cycle finished, she was Gregg Wallace might say). Strangely, all aghast to see her red shirt had turned the Japanese businessmen declared her boss’s exquisite white lingerie how much they’d enjoyed their ‘English’ shocking pink. In desperation, she tried tea ‐ such a change, they said, from to bleach it back to white, using neat To read more articles from our columnists their usual green variety. bleach. The lingerie fell apart in her and to have your say in the comments go And what about other holiday jobs? hands. to www.euroweeklynews.com An acquaintance, working as a nanny in Working in retail is also rife with mis‐ are her own and are not necessarily representative of those of the publishers, advertisers or sponsors.

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CLAIRE GORDON FINDING BALANCE IN AN UNEVEN WORLD I HAVE been thinking a lot this week about the mental leaps people make when they are upset over something, and how these jumps in logic create such big divides between people that it makes discussion and debate almost impossible. I looked up what I was trying to describe, and the closest thing I can find is called ‘catastrophising’.

A lot of people involuntarily suffer from this way of imagining things and it only relates to themselves. It is an issue that mental health counsellors describe as a type of distorted thinking that is not based in reality and can be debilitating to those who cannot physically shake themselves free of it. Future-oriented catastrophising is believing something terrible will happen, without evidence to support this belief, and this is where I mostly pick up the other type of person I encounter with this train of thought. These people don’t necessarily have a medical problem that causes them to think in this way, but instead, lean into this way of thinking as a means to further their po-

Catastrophising litical or personal opinion. This all-ornothing thinking can actually hurt their coherence and does nothing for the spirit of debate or discussion as they pick up their imaginary scenario and refuse to let it go.

“Next thing you know…” is a common, and relatively innocuous, starter for this kind of conversation. The person that brings out the idea of never being able to say the word Christmas again because they’ve been asked to consider other holidays. The thought of white people disappearing from their television because there is a black woman with a supermarket loyalty card on their screen. They run down their line of thought until they reach a scenario so extreme that they panic, then hold firm that belief as if it is here in reality already. Catastrophising.

Right-wing politicians adore it when people create their own false dichotomy, or all-or-nothing situations, as it saves them the job of creating them on the campaign podium. Psychology professor Ryan Martin says: “When things happen to us and we evaluate those events in highly negative ways, we’re

Winter underway

more likely to get angry about them, and we’re more likely to get scared.”

Scared people are easier to manipulate into voting against their own interests to protect themselves from the imaginary scenarios created from fear.

The more that these thoughts become ingrained into people’s minds, the more self-perpetuating they become, until small things explode. This way of thinking leads to chronic anger and in turn, this creates misattributed causation, putting the blame where it doesn’t belong. This is how people are easily turned against each other in times of hardship when they have more in common with each other than they do with the people in charge who are actually creating awful situations.

This goes some of the way to explain the current rise in right-wing ideology and individualism across the globe, at a time when we should really be helping each other instead.

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THE Sierra Nevada is Eu‐ rope’s southernmost ski resort and on November 27, its ski‐lifts were acti‐ vated once more, as this year's winter season got underway. It is reported that there is already 20cm of fresh snow on the ground, and nine kilome‐ tres of slopes are skiable.

In the hope of a more stable season this year, af‐ ter last year’s on‐and‐off restrictions, the Sierra Nevada’s hoteliers and business owners in Pradollano and Bor‐ reguiles are optimistic.

Now they just need a re‐ turn to the numbers gen‐ erated in 2019.

The drop in tempera‐ tures, combined with rain‐ fall in recent weeks has helped to get the doors open. While the capital of the province, and other parts of the region experi‐ enced rain, the mountain peaks received a generous covering of snow.

Slopes are now skiable.

A real bonus for the Sierra Nevada is that data shows the Granada Province currently has the lowest virus infection rates in Andalucia at more than 30 points below the second‐lowest, Jaen.

Masks must be worn on ski lifts and chairs, but there are no capacity re‐ strictions on the slopes.

Although that could change if it becomes over‐ crowded.

According to Enrique de la Higuera, a spokesman for local businesspersons, a hotel occupancy of 50 per cent is expected for this first week of the sea‐ son. That’s compared to a 30 per cent occupancy last season.

THE HALLMARK OF HAPPY HUMANS TONI C. EASTWOOD OBE, MBA

#TheWomanBeyond IF there’s one thing I have had to get used to, being in business, particularly over the last 18 months, it’s being able to turn on a sixpence, to be flexible, to have to look at what’s going on and make some sort of sense and be able to make what may seem like sponta‐ neous decisions, only to turn them on their head again just a few days later!!

That can mess with your head, and your teams. As a leader, we have to be able to put in place structures that keep the engines oiled and the wheels turn‐ ing. We also have to make the most of what the data is telling us in any one moment and be willing to make a deci‐ sion, a choice, even though that may have to be overturned in light of new information.

Dan Siegel is one of the world’s lead‐ ing mindfulness, neuroscience and in‐ terpersonal neurobiology experts.

Dan tells us that the healthy human being is psychologically flexible. He says we need to be kind of like a river flow‐ ing between two banks, on one side we have structure and on the other we have spontaneity.

So, what is the trick to maintaining flexibility, well it is to make sure we don’t flood one side or the other. We want to have just the right amount of structure, too much and you get rigid.

And we know that’s not good.

On the other side of our river of flexi‐ bility we have spontaneity. Again, we need a certain amount, but not too much. If we go over the top on spon‐ taneity, we can flood that side and wind up with chaos. Also, not good.

Dan tells us that the hallmark of a healthy human being is just like the riv‐ er of flexibility, it runs between the banks of structure and spontaneity.

Structure + Spontaneity = Flexibility.

How’s your river? Are you sticking rigidly to structures that don’t work anymore, or can you be a little too spontaneous?

Are you flooding one side or the oth‐ er?

As with all these things it’s a delicate balance, the tightrope of life and busi‐ ness.

What’s one little thing you can do to Optimise today?

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EW YOUR PAPER - YOUR VOICE - YOUR OPINION Letters should be emailed to yoursay@euroweeklynews.com or make your comments on our website: www.euroweeklynews.com Views expressed and opinions given are not necessarily those of the EWN publishers. No responsibility is accepted for accuracy of information, errors, omissions or statements.

BRITS IMPORT WARNING From our Facebook Hola, I have just read your article in this week’s EWN about import charges and thought that you might like to know how much I have just had to pay.

I have just had delivered from the UK a new fabric cover for a folding frame for a motorcycle cover which was destroyed in the recent high winds.

The cost of the cover was £59.99. The cost of import charges was €31.50 Customs, €14.91 Administration charge and €6.62 IVA. A grand total of €53.03 charges which is a complete rip-off! I was expecting to have to pay some charges, but not just short of the cost of the item!

David Lomas

Leapy Lee Commentary Loopy at his best again this week. White American shoots three other White Americans, fortunately killing only two, but Leapy makes this a racial issue and the fault of a black guy who was killed by a white policeman.

I must be missing something. George Floyd was no innocent bystander, but maybe just arresting him would have been enough.

PS. Loved this week’s letter asking about Little Arrows. I can assure the writer that that was all Leapy ever did.

All the best, Peter

Importing into Spain Dear Editor, Having read your warning in the EWN , I know what you mean. I sent off for 50 tins of food from the UK which is not stocked by any Brit shops here.

WE’VE COME SO FAR THE controversial topic of Covid passports has been in the news this week, with several Spanish communities giving the green light to new restrictions.

With mandatory vaccinations ruled out at this stage and a new variant of the coronavirus detected, the move seems like a natural response. Just as everyone in Spain was feeling relieved at a sense of normality returning, alarm bells started to ring again.

The news will not be welcomed by those who see any

CORRECTIONS

RIP-OFF: Watch out for import charges.

The normal price would be €3 a tin for similar products by Princes. With postage it came out to €3.80 a tin.

I tracked the parcel and it quickly arrived at Customs at Madrid airport 17 days ago. Instead of just using the customs information on the package, they instead sent me a two-page document (in Spanish) to fill in, to decide how much taxes I have to pay, which I have returned to them and I will have to pay whatever they decide before they will release the parcel.

This I did not understand. A few years ago, I had to pay set taxes on a parcel from California directly to the postman who delivered the package. Now Spanish customs seem to be making it up as they go along on how much I pay and I have no choice but to pay whatever inflated figure the señors decide, as punishment for Britain leaving the EU and for Gibraltar.

Significant charges could ruin it for British shops in Spain, making food and other things too expensive for we expats to buy.

Michael Hill Benidorm

OUR VIEW

restrictions as an impingement on their freedom. But for the 35.5 million people who have had at least two doses of the vaccine, the news will mean the path to normality can continue to some extent.

Anyone who has visited the UK in the past year will have noticed the stark contrast in the adherence to protocols such as mask-wearing compared to Spain.

Here, it has become a habit for many, and most people comply without fuss. Walking into a shop without a mask

almost seems unthinkable and many still wear them in open spaces.

After a tough 20 months in which people have missed events such as births, weddings, and funerals and many more have been separated from friends and families, the introduction of Covid passports now seems like a minor inconvenience.

There is no solution that satisfies everyone, but with so much hard work done to get this far, these latest measures might be what is needed to get us over the line.

BABIES AT WORK: Most people said absolutely not!

Malcolm Stoddart No, they have a creche there, she is being paid enough to afford professional care! Attention seeker!

Deborah Clynshaw No. Maternity leave should be increased. For everyone!

Pamela Symons It’s not proffesional to take a baby or child to work. Where are her work ethics.! You can’t have everything in life. Pay for a nanny. And express your milk.

Helen Jordan Definitely not. What do any other mothers do, get childcare.

After all she’s paid enough to afford it but being an MP she thinks she can do as she likes. Maybe Boris can take the child to Peppa Pig World and give her a day off.

Nick Houghton No there are many industries where it is impossible. What happens when the baby gets cranky at work and screams the place down - no one can work.

Elaine Smith No way, there is an expensive creche there if children need to be looked after, if they don’t want to use that either, stay home or employ a nanny.

Richard Gill Davies No. Do what everyone else does and make suitable arrangements before embarking on starting a family. Take responsibility and think ahead. This child will need you to be a role model.

At the EWN, we pride ourselves that reports are accurate and fair. If we do slip up, we promise to set the record straight in a clear, no-nonsense manner. To ask for an inaccuracy to be corrected. Email: editorial@euroweeklynews.com

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CONSULAR MATTERS O N E of the things that peo‐ ple believe in Spain is that you cannot disinherit your children. Well, this is untrue.

We advise you to have a Spanish Will if you have a property in Spain, or you are resident in Spain, then you can choose whether your na‐ tional law or the Spanish law applies to your estate, legal advice could save your estate a huge amount in taxes. If you are thinking of buying a prop‐ erty in Spain, we advise you have a Spanish Will drafted to facilitate the Spanish inheri‐ tance for your heirs.

It appears that recently there has been a 500 per cent increase in requests to effec‐ tively disinherit children in Spain. To put it briefly if you do not ‘look after’ your par‐ ents or grandparents they can apply to the courts in Spain to have you disinherited.

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Disinheriting children in Spain

SPANISH WILL: You are advised to have one drafted up.

The causes of disinheri‐ tance are assessed, and the Courts apply them restrictive‐ ly. Regarding the disinheri‐ tance of the children, article

853 of the Civil Code includes disinheritance for three rea‐ sons: having denied the par‐ ents or grandparents food (maintenance, failure to care

for them) for no legitimate reason, having mistreated them, or seriously insulted them by words.

The judgement of the Supreme Court of January 30, 2015, includes the emotional abandonment of parents as a cause of psychological abuse, subsuming such assumption in the abuse of work included in the Civil Code. And the same would happen in the case of inattention to a par‐ ent during the Covid pandem‐ ic.

However, it is a complex process, a ‘simple argument’ is not enough, but there must be a real assumption of psy‐ chological abuse. The proof that is provided will be deci‐ sive if the child brings an ac‐ tion to challenge the disinher‐ itance, the burden of proof, of course, is on the parents who intend to disinherit their

heir(s). In addition, it will be required that the disinheri‐ tance be made by means of a Will, having to write one or modify the existing one, in compliance with the formal requirements inherent to it.

Likewise, and considering that Covid can be associated with purely economic circum‐ stances, we could take advan‐ tage of Article 853 if the chil‐ dren had denied their parents ‘food’ for unjustified reasons, and the parents were in a state of need because of the crisis caused by Covid.

Marisa Moreno Castillo Consul of Denmark and senior lawyer at Just Law solicitors To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com

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GO LOCAL

THE EURO WEEKLY NEWS has urged its readers to support lo‐ cal businesses in the commu‐ nity by shopping locally in re‐ cent times. Now things are heading back to normal, we challenge you to maintain that habit by supporting local high streets, markets, butchers, greengrocers and all of the wonderfully quirky inde‐ pendent businesses in your area.

Local businesses make our villages, towns and

cities what they are. They add unique character. They are convenient. And they offer ex‐ cellent produce from known suppliers. The joy of shopping locally means that indepen‐ dent businesses can support the local community. You may find something a euro or two cheaper online but have you considered where your money is actually going?

By shopping locally you’re putting food on a local family’s table and there is nothing better than giving back to the communi‐ ties that have given us so much. Local stores sup‐ port charities BUY LOCAL: By shopping locally, and they independent businesses can help sponsor local support the local community. sports teams.

In many cases, they are much more than just a business, they’re a legacy. They may have supported generations of the same family. Likewise, brand new local stores and bars may help the generations of the future fulfil their dreams and ambitions.

Remember, your local store is going up against multination‐ als and chains. They can’t win that battle on their own. So

give them your support.

Spending your money locally will make a real difference to the local economy. Local busi‐ nesses recirculate a greater share of every euro they re‐ ceive at local level. They create locally owned supply chains and they invest in their employ‐ ees.

So remember.

When you go shopping ‐ go local!

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I THINK I have no choice this week but to cover the issue of scams going around. There are always many; lockdown brought a whole new variety of ways of getting our details and into our homes or renting us a home that doesn’t exist; the list is literally endless.

Things to take into considera‐ tion if someone contacts you: If the person who telephones you asks you to identify yourself, in order to give you the ‘impor‐ tant’ information they have for you, please DO NOT GIVE THEM ANYTHING. They will frequently give you the majority of your identification document details and then ask you to fill in the blanks, for verification. They need those missing particulars to steal from you, so please NEVER give information to anyone!

If you feel the matter is per‐ haps of importance, ask them to send you a written confirmation of the matter, providing either your email or that of your lawyer for them to respond and send the relevant documentation. If they say they cannot do this, it’s defi‐

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It’s a scam

MARBELLA MOMENTS

BY NICOLE KING nitely a scam. If the information never arrives, same thing applies.

The more aggressive approach with threats of dire conse‐ quences un‐ less you heed to their re‐ quest, either for your person‐

al details, payment of a supposed credit card debt or purchase ac‐ count, the more unlikely to be au‐ thentic. Please apply the same tactic as previ‐ ously, ask them to confirm anything in writing.

A new scam is using the Ama‐

Don’t give them anything!

zon name. With so many of us making purchases online it’s likely that when they call about our Amazon account being hacked we think it may be possible. They use the fear of a scam to scam you. This new scam call tells you that your Amazon account has been hacked and purchases for exorbitant amounts being made and they need to talk you through the steps to stop you be‐ ing liable for the expenditure.

They will then put the fear of the Lord into you and try to get you to give them your bank de‐ tails so they can ensure you haven’t already been charged.

I know someone who followed similar instructions, to the point of downloading TeamViewer to give them access to all their ac‐ counts, ‘so the caller could make sure they were safe’. Due to the panic they infused in her they managed to bully her into open‐

ing and sharing her entire com‐ puter with a total stranger.

If this happens to you, don’t ev‐ er let anyone into your accounts, let alone your computer! No one from any official administration or company will telephone you in this manner. If you do fall for the ploy, immediately contact your bank and cancel your credit cards, as well as report the mat‐ ter to your Local Police station.

Posting and sharing any scams you know of on social media will also help keep us all protected; we just have no idea where the blows can come from, so we all need to cover each other’s backs.

Stay safe.

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

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IN MY OPINION Views of a Grumpy Old Man I WAS asked this week if I trust the big pharmaceutical companies and my answer was an emphatic no and I have very good reason for that. When I was diagnosed with my Orthostatic Tremor I was told by my doctor that there was no medication for it, but he recommended that I try something called Gabapentin or one called Lyrica.

I tried Gabapentin and I have to tell you the side effects were absolutely horrendous - literally mind altering. I managed them for a month then stopped, because I started to dig around for more information and what I discovered was truly incredible. Pfizer had been sued and fined over both these drugs.

They had agreed to pay $240 million for using ‘fraudulent scientific evidence’ to promote off-label uses of Gabapentin - a drug made and approved for treating epilepsy. What that means is they were bribing doctors to prescribe this medication to people that did not suffer from epilepsy. In my case I had no pain, I just had shaky legs. The company suppressed study results, planted people in medical audiences to ask questions intended to put

Gabapentin in a good light and lavished perks on doctors. The other drug, Lyrica, made by a subsidiary of Pfizer was also in big trouble.

Pfizer agreed to pay $1 billion to resolve allegations under the civil False Claims Act that the company illegally promoted four drugs including Lyrica, an anti-epileptic drug - and caused false claims to be submitted to government health care programmes for uses that were not medically accepted indications and therefore not covered by those programmes.

The civil settlement also resolves allegations Pfizer paid kickbacks to health care providers to induce them to prescribe these, and other drugs. The federal share of the civil settlement was $668,514,830 and the state Medicaid share of the civil settlement was $331,485,170.

This is the largest civil fraud settlement in history against a pharmaceutical company.

So, my friends do not believe everything you read and hear about big pharma companies. Most of the stuff will be absolutely correct but every now and again they tell porky pies. This company has serious previous offences and some of the doctors were getting back handers for dishing out meds never made for the condition they were licensed for.

This will be my last grump this year so I will take the opportunity to wish everyone a merry Xmas and a happy and healthy New Year.

Email: mikesenker@gmail.com

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

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Let’s dance WITH Strictly Come Dancing as popular as ev‐ er, more and more people are taking up danc‐ ing. And researchers in Japan have found older people who take up the hobby are less likely to lose their independence.

A team of scientists tracked a group of more than 1,000 women aged between 75 and 84 and found those who dance were less likely to need help with everyday tasks such as bathing.

They also found dancing was more effective than other forms of exercise in helping with in‐ dependence, compared to jogging, cycling, and golf. The study, carried out at the Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology and published in the Scandinavian Journal of Medicine and Science, found that dancing, ‘is a more useful exercise for maintaining brain structure and balance in older adults’ ability to walk, strength and flexibility exercise.’

Lead author Dr Yosuke Osuka said: “Al‐ though it is unclear why dancing alone reduced the risk of ADL [activities associated with daily living] disability, dancing requires not only bal‐ ance, strength, and endurance ability, but also cognitive ability ‐ adaptability and concentra‐ tion to move according to the music and part‐ ner, artistry for graceful and fluid motion, and memory for choreography.” The study’s au‐ thors concluded: ‘Participation in dancing was significantly and independently associated with a reduced risk of incident ADL disability among older Japanese women.’

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DANCING: Older women benefited from dance.

Researchers studied the women over eight years, during which time they participated in a range of exercises, indulging martial arts and tai chi. Dancing was found to improve both en‐ durance and strength, whilst also adding a mental challenge element which scientists think may help with everyday tasks.

The study found older women who dance are 73 per cent less likely to need help with routine tasks, such as dressing, bathing and eating. Dr Yosuke said: “Dancing should be a useful exercise for maintaining functional ca‐ pacity in this population. This finding may en‐ courage participation in dancing among the older population.” During the research, older women were asked to take part in 16 exercise types, including hiking, ball games, bowling, aqua exercise and yoga. All members of the study group lived independently at the begin‐ ning of the eight years, and none had difficul‐ ties with daily tasks, but roughly one in eight developed problems. Scientists compared ex‐ ercises, and found dancing reduced women’s risk of needing help with daily activities, includ‐ ing walking, eating, bathing, dressing and using the bathroom.

AS we age, the amount of col‐ lagen and elastin we have keeping our skin springy de‐ creases and our skin sags slight‐ ly, leaving us with pores which appear larger.

And while there is nothing that can change the size of your pores, there is plenty that you can do to make them appear smaller. Firstly, while you cannot pysyically shrink your pores, a build‐up of dirt and sebum in them can certainly have the op‐ posite effect so start your skin‐ care routine every day by gently cleansing.

Using an oil‐based cleanser will work well for most skin types as oil actually attracts oil which means these cleansers are a very effective way of rid‐ ding your skin of any grease without using stripping deter‐ gents.

The latest oil‐based cleansers use emollients which turn milky on contact with water, allowing the product to dive deep into your pores and bring out any dirt too, preventing blackheads.

Next, use a gentle exfoliator to slough off dead skin cells which can make pores look more

prominent. Dead skin will also prevent any products you use afterwards penetrating as deeply as they should.

Ensure that at every stage you are gentle with your skin, however, as being overly‐ag‐ gressive with any products can cause permanent damage to the pores, even stretching them out.

Retinoid products (ones con‐ taining vitamin A) naturally exfo‐ liate the skin without using any beads or scrubs and increase cell turnover, making the pores appear smaller.

Next, before applying any make‐up or primers, make sure to moisturise your skin. While this may seem counterintuitive, well‐hydrated skin should not over‐produce oil to compensate for dryness, meaning you actu‐ ally produce less sebum which makes your pores look bigger when you have moisturised.

Finally, make sure to always use an SPF. Apart from its bene‐ fits in helping to prevent skin cancer, sun protection will help you prevent further fine lines, wrinkles and sagging caused by excess sun, which in turn will

help prevent your pores enlarg‐ ing further.

Now apply a make‐up primer or BB cream to your skin. These products often contain particles which diffuse the light, ‘blurring’ out imperfections and providing a softer appearance to the skin.

This will help to make pores look significantly smaller while also helping your make‐up last longer.

These cosmetic changes should make an overall differ‐ ence to the appearance of pores. You can help to treat your body from the inside too though, by staying hydrated which in turn plumps up the skin’s surface and reducing the look of pores.

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Club DanSing’s Xmas STARTED in 2009 by Tina Rose, a profes‐ sional singer and vocal coach, and her daughter Gemma Lloyd, a choreogra‐ pher, singer and performer in her own right, Club DanSing is a popular perform‐ ing arts school on the Costa Del Sol.

UNIQUE SHOW: Who Stole Christmas.

While children make up the bulk of the classes on offer, Club DanSing also offers tuition and classes for enthusiastic dancers wishing to keep fit and have fun at the same time!

Both owners Tina and Gemma have been involved with the Salón Varietés Theatre for many years, but this year is a little different as they direct a unique Christmas Mu‐ sical, called ‘Who Stole Christ‐ mas?’

This original show centres around several well‐known char‐ acters, whose lives are thrown to‐ gether by chance, magic and Christmas spirit. Jam packed with comedy, on‐point dancing, well blended harmonies and plenty of Christmas joy, this feel‐good show hits the Salón from Decem‐ ber 3‐7 as the perfect opening story to the Salón’s Christmas season. Having to put a pause on Christmas last year was a heartbreak for so many, the Salón Varietés will be making sure to throw all the extra Christmas spirit out into the community this coming season!

Box office open Mon‐Fri 11am‐2.30pm by calling 952 474 542 or book online at salonvarietes.com.

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Cudeca raises €90,000 A FUNDRAISER aiming to turn Cudeca founder Joan Hunt’s former home into Spain’s first children’s pal‐ liative care centre has raised nearly €90,000.

Taking place on Novem‐ ber 26 to 28, the One in a Million campaign launched in Joan’s honour was organ‐ ised by Cudeca and TRE ra‐ dio and will now continue until the end of January to raise even more funds.

TRE Chairman Martin Nathan told the Euro Week‐ ly News: “TRE is delighted at the magnificent response from listeners to its Joan Hunt ‐ One in a Million cam‐ paign to fund a comprehen‐ sive paediatric palliative care progarmme for the Malaga Province.

“Following the weekend, the total including matched donations from sponsors was approaching €90,000 with further sums expected.

“Once again the expatri‐ ate communities have shown their amazing gen‐ erosity for an important

FUNDRAISING: For first children’s palliative care centre.

cause. This is the beginning not the end of the cam‐ paign and Cudeca will now continue its fundraising with the Spanish community un‐ til the end of Janaury.”

The Children in Need‐ style flash fundraiser saw the community on the Cos‐ ta del Sol pull together to hold fundraising events and donate on the charity’s website.

To reach their ambitious target, Cudeca and TRE also enlisted the help of business sponsors, who have gener‐ ously agreed to double the donations received from the public.

The funds will be used to create the first ever hospice palliative care unit for chil‐ dren and teenagers in Spain.

In addition to providing an in‐patient facility, the money raised will support the organisation and train‐ ing of a team of profession‐ als to provide home care, day‐care and in‐patient care for children and teenagers suffering from the life‐limit‐ ing conditions.

For more information, or to donate, visit www.oneinamillion.org.es between November 26 and 28.

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THE Rotary Club Marbella‐ Guadalmina is organising a unique Bollywood Charity Gala on Saturday, December 4 at Restaurant Tikitano at 8.00pm.

The event will have all the joy and atmosphere of an Indi‐ an wedding, with authentic In‐ dian food, an Indian musician and DJ, and Bollywood dancers. A three‐course meal, cocktails and wine are included

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Charity Gala Laude Xmas Fair

in the price of €100.

Award‐winning songwriter and producer Biddu and Nicole King of Marbella Now will host and there will be video appear‐ ances from Bollywood stars in Mumbai. Star of TV and movies, Ronit Roy, has been

promoting tickets to the event.

Roy has earned numerous ac‐ colades in his career including a Filmfare Award, two Screen Awards, five ITA Awards and six Indian Telly Awards.

There will be a fashion show featuring exotic clothes, a raf‐ fle, and a silent auction, to raise funds. You will have the oppor‐ tunity of dressing up in Bolly‐ wood style with wardrobe as‐ sistance available.

They are working with Ro‐ tary Club Mumbai SOBO, who are active on the ground in Mumbai Province, and know exactly where the current needs are. India has suffered more than most during the pandemic, and it is now the ru‐ ral areas that are being left be‐ hind.

They will help with vaccina‐ tion programmes and food dis‐ tribution, supporting teachers and pupils whose salaries and learning have been disrupted, and orphanages for children who lost their parents during the pandemic.

For more information email: lorrainemarbella@gmail.com.

THE Laude San Pedro Interna‐ tional College will have their community Christmas fair on December 11.

The event starts at 10.00am and will finish at 1.00pm and will support the amazing non‐ profit organisations, Street Child United, Collective Call‐ ing, Adana dog shelter, and Angeles Custodios.

There will be plenty for ev‐ eryone with Christmas gifts, Santa’s grotto, live perfor‐ mances, crafts and artisan products, games, and food and drink. Come along and enjoy the fun, while helping some great causes.

There will be stalls from local business and plenty of other festive surprises for all the family.

The fair is being held on the Laude San Pedro Inter‐ national College premises at Urbanización Nueva Al‐ cántara, Av. de le Coruña, 2, 29670 San Pedro Alcántara, Málaga.

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952 935 513. We are Junta de Andalucia authorised installers as the new law states (real decreto 115/2017). On the Costa del Sol since 1993 (285118) MR COOL – Air Conditioning, Refrigeration, Heating Systems, Sales & Service – Call Christian +34 629 527 587 or Nick +34 618 678 853 – www.mrcool.es (294131)

AWNINGS ACE OF SHADES – All colours available. Urbanisations catered for, electric and manual operation; also recovery service available, largest selection of colours and designs on the coast. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design T1(101730) S U N S H I N E AWNINGS/BLINDS Awnings, Persiana, Shutter & Rejas Specialist. New & Repairs. 25yrs on the coast. 680 323 969 (294351)

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METALWORK NEW REJAS, GATES, Carports & Fencing, repairs & alterations. Work Guaranteed.

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CAMPER VANS, CARAVANS, MOBILE HOMES, BOATS AND ALL PLANT, DIGGERS, DUMPERS, MOTORBIKES, CARS AND COMMERCIALS WANTED. BEST PRICE PAID, CASH TODAY, ANY REGISTRATION WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 (290739)

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IMAGINE you can speak Spanish in no time with me 647 103 430 (294424)

ADVANCED Cleaning Services. Professional carpet, upholstery cleaning, 27 years experience, wet/dry clean. Honest, reliable service 678 808 837 / 952 669 701 or email acservs@outlook.com (290739)

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www.handymanservices .es Electrician, plumbing, construction, painting. Innovation. ROT deduction for Swedish, Sotogrande to Marbella 648 712 530 (294359)

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CLEANING/MAINTENANCE

HOUSE CLEARANCE SPECIALISTS, FULL OR PART CLEARANCE. ALL FURNITURE WANTED, WE PAY MORE. TEL 634 324 914 OR EMAIL house clearanceman@hotmail.com (293619) PRIVATE collector will buy your Gold, Rolex & Patek Philippe Watches Tel – 678 716 693 (288662)

THE Ark Christian Church. We meet at The Ark Christian School, Calle Río Darro 2 y Plaza Juncal, 29651, Mijas Costa (The road behind the Mijas Aquapark)on Sundays at 11.00am. Pastor, Andrew Seale Tlf 682 713 491 www.theark spain.com (293850)

CHIMNEY SWEEP. Clean reliable professional. All types, special price for more than one. Chris 608 337 497 (293053) APEX CHIMNEY SERVICES, professional chimney sweeping and smoke testing. NACS Qualified. Clean and efficient Tel: Bob 696 320 202 (293804)

CHURCH SERVICES BENALMADENA Elim Family Fellowship. Elimfamilyfellowship.com or call 951 912 525 or 952 446 627. (10011) CALAHONDA: Encounter Church (Elim), Family church with kids activities, Iglesia San Miguel, Sundays 4.30pm, Rev. David Hodgson, 695 115 496 (10012)

CONEJO CLEANING & Property Management. Est. over 25 years. Rentals management, one off cleans. New Property set up service. Wendy 635 630 370 / 952 964 407 www.conejocleaning.com (293382) Starlight Cleaning Services. All types of cleaning.

Any size of property. All Areas.

Residential & Holiday Lets.

Deep Clean for Bars & Restaurants. We also do a professional Chimney Sweeping service. 682 636 451 www. starlight-spain.com (293737)

DECORATORS RAINBOW Pinturas. English Painters & decorators. All aspects. Interior/exterior, private residential, commercial & communities. Spraying: door, kitchens & furniture. Light construction.

Call/WhatsApp: Daniel: 628 066 308 www. rainbowpinturas.com (292646)

ELECTRICIAN LIT ELECTRICIANS for all your Electrical & maintenance needs, no job too small for a FREE Quote. Call Craig on 604 106 414 or Ben 679 505 761 (293499)

FLOOR POLISHING MARBLE FLOOR (2.50€/m2) WHY PAY MORE. WE CLEAN, CRYSTALLISE, SEAL THEN POLISH YOUR MARBLE TO HIGH GLOSS, NON-SLIP. PROFESSIONAL GUARANTEED, FAST SERVICE. 25 YEARS EXPERIENCE. ALSO REPAIRS DAMAGES TO MARBLE, CLEAN AND SEAL TERRACOTTA TERRACES, COVERS ALL COSTA DEL SOL. TEL: 671 244 683 (291570) MARBLE POLISHING, CRYSTALLISING, LASTING, HIGH SHINE. REGRINDING, RESTORATION OF SALTY, DEAD FLOORS. 27YRS EXPERIENCE. RELIABLE. REFS AVAILABLE. CYRIL. 645 840 199 (293076) MARBLE FLOORS polished high shine non-slip. Fast Service Reliable, family run business. TERRACOTTA CLEANED and sealed. No job too small.

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PRO PAINTERS. All trades.

Inside, outside. Plasterboard & coving.

Tlf 635913885 (292673) ATD DECOR. British Painter.

30 Years’ Experience. Punctual. Great Rates. Call for free quote. 603 132 783 Facebook: @ATDDecorMalaga (294436)

DOMESTIC APPS REP. DOMESTIC Appliance repairs - washing machines, fridges, cookers, ovens, water heaters, gas / electric, professionally repaired. Christian 608 337 497 (293053)

DRAINAGE BLOCKED DRAINS? Leak detection, CCTV survey, root removal, Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drainspain.com (288655) CLEARFLOW– Unblocking, CCTV inspection, repair and installation. Tel: 630 200 600 / 952 885 661. www.de satorosclearflow Facebook: DesatorosClearflow (292924)

FURNITURE FURNITURE wanted, same day collection, also house clearance and removals.

697 511 071 (293788)

GARDENING PROFESSIONAL garden services from Fuengirola to Estepona. All aspects of gardening and full maintenance and landscaping, free quotes, competitive prices. Contact Andrew 600 259 981 Andrew@gar den-professionals.com (291784) If you can read it, so can your clients.

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THERAPIST

IRIS-IRRIGATION and landscapes. TRENCHLESS NO DIG Irrigation installation, Cables, Fibre Optic, Electric & Lighting Cables.

New Installations & problem-solving. Turf (supply and laying). Garden constructions. Tree surgeon.

Clearing. Astro Turf (Free Quotation) 676 747 521 (292929)

EMOTIONAL THERAPIST SABINE Spiritual one to one Reading, family constellations.

Proficient & Professional. 18yrs experience. Call / Whatsapp 622 825 153 (293839)

GATE REPAIRS ELECTRIC GATE/GARAGE DOOR automation repaired. Free, no obligation quotation. Call Colin - 636 394 641 (292658)

GATES ELECTRIC GATES / Garage Doors. Intercoms/access control systems and replacement remotes. New installs and repairs.

For all your electric gate and garage door requirements call us on 605 356 469/952 786 178.

The Garage Door Co & 2 Way Gates. tgdc@hotmail.co.uk www.2waygates.com (291445)

GLASS CURTAINS GLASS CURTAIN repairs, specialist in replacement of discoloured plastic strips that act as a seal between the glass panels. Call Julian 655 825 931 (292490)

HEATING FIRES: Electric, Gas. Top Quality. 952 663 141/670 409 759. info@envirocare spain.com www.enviro carespain.com (293903)

HOME IMPROVEMENTS VINYL WRAP VINYL SOLUTIONS WHY REPLACE WHEN YOU CAN RENOVATE? Modern adhesive vinyl coverings in hundreds of styles and designs can renovate a tired kitchen, bathroom, wall panels, bedroom wardrobes, fridge doors. Turn a tired looking wood designed kitchen into a modern solid colour or metallic look without painting or replacing. Work carried out on site with 10 year warranties Contact Ian 644 546 176 for design brochure and samples. (292272)

HOT TUBS & SPAS HOT TUBS new used, bought, sold, hired. Also move & repairs. Used good Hot Tubs for sale. 691 973 131 / +44 7836 379122 (292436)

GOLF FOR SALE FULL set of irons never used, plus ping putter. Offers for the lot. 625 908 687 (293391)

GUTTERING GUTTERING: Top Quality.

952 663 141 / 670 409 759 info@envirocarespain.com www.envirocarespain.com (293903)

HEALTH & BEAUTY BEAUTY TREATMENTS BOTOX & fillers from €95.

Skinny Jab & Fat reducing injections. Cover Coast & Inland. www.beautifulmarbella.es 609 347 086 (293618)

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INSURANCE

HOUSE CLEARANCES ALHAURIN FURNITURE EMPORIUM furniture wanted, same day collection, also house clearance and removals.

697 511 071 (293788)

INSURANCE EU INSURANCE DIRECT. Best prices, best service, best cover for all your Insurance needs. TEL 951 080 118 or 952 830 843 (282687) MOTOR INSURANCE. For the most competitive quotes in English call Linea Directa on 902 123 309, you could save as much as 30% and you can transfer your existing no claims bonus. Call Linea Directa on 902 123 309 for motor insurance with a human voice in English from Monday to Friday 9am to 6pm and save money now! (200726) STAY SAFE! Abbeygate Insurance Call 971 277 455 For your security www.abbeygatein sure.com (291234) LSM INSURANCE. No fat singing blokes or trumpeting telephones, just professional service at the best prices for all your insurance needs including car, household, commercial, life, health and travel.

Tel 952 578008 or www.lsminsurance.biz for a quotation (293388)

LOCKSMITHS LOCKSMITH emergency / appointment. Doors opened without damage, locks changed, patio doors and windows secured, 24 hour honest, fast and reliable service. Call Paul 657 466 803 (288129)

ENGLISH 24/7 LOCKSMITHS AND SECURITY COMPANY, FREE HOME SECURITY SURVEY. 636 770 865 / 952 660 233 WWW.SECURITYOF SPAIN.COM CONTACT DAREN

MISCELLANEOUS GOLD & SILVER Bought & Sold, Rolex & Patek Philippe Watches Tel – 678 716 693 (288662)

MOBILITY SENIORWORLD (est.2008) – MOBILITY scooters, wheelchairs, stairlifts, nursing beds, rise ‘n’ recline chairs & a large range of daily living aids for sale or hire, for a better life.

Visit our showroom in Los Boliches - or call on 952 663 131 or 670 964 181 for advice & best prices (292598)

MOSQUITO SCREENS ACE OF SHADES – Don’t let the bugs get you! Available in enrollable, slider and pleated. Large choice of colours including wood effect. Tel: 951 273 254 / 671 732 204 / info@aceof shades.design (101730) MOSQUITO Screens for windows, doors and a high-quality sliding patio door screen. All finishes available. Quick service. All areas covered. Call Julian 655 825 931 (292490) MOSQUITO screens, sliding, pulldown, pleated, colours call Mosquito Nick 647 072 861 www.mosqui tonick.ws (293466)

MOTORING FOR SALE – RAPIDO motorhome / Fiat Ducato 2.3L, 2006, 80,0000 miles, RHD, 2 berth, shower, toilet, heater, water boiler, fridge, gas hob and TV. Leather swivel seating. Good condition. MOT April 2022, good service history. Presently in Malaga. £22,995 ono. Enquiries +44 7921 905209 (293901)

CHIROPRACTOR FUENGIROLA, Myofascial Release. J Schaegen, Specialised in treating neck, back & extremity disorders, 30 years in Practice.

652 291 224 www.body work.es (292480)

MASSAGE ENGLISH fully qualified masseuse. Relaxing Swedish massage in the comfort of your own home. Whatsapp me 652 189 088 (294221)

PEDICURES PEDICURES in the comfort of your home. All ages catered for, Elderly with mobility difficulties.

Fuengirola-Mijas Jacqueline 672 870 589 (294571)

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SELLING YOUR SPANISH CAR? PHONE Bill Brady for the best cash price. Stay safe and phone Bill on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 billbradycars.com MASSIVE SAVINGS AT BILL BRADY CARS has been established on the Costa del Sol since 1986, in which time he has helped thousands of expatriates to buy or sell their quality used Spanish cars and also keeping all the documentation simple so you understand all that is going on (which is important). You can contact Bill direct on 952 838 842 / 608 950 221 or billbrady cars.com

CLASSIFIEDS CAR SERVICES MOBILE MECHANIC will come to your home or work.

Servicing, repairs, ITVs & diagnostics. Call Mick on 617 553 072 (293920) ENGLISH bodyshop, fully equipped, Mijas Costa. No Job Too Small. 952 667 074 (293789)

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NEW Cars and SUVs coming soon please check our web page billbradycars.com.

CONVERTIBLE Automatic / Diesel Mercedes SLK 250 CDI. 2012 R:H:D: With service history 96’000 Klm. (60’000 Mls) New ITV. (MOT) Health forces this sale this car is immaculate for year yes the price is correct at only 14’995€ 952838842 608950221 billbradycars.com PRICE SLASHED PART Exchange to clear Opel Combo 1’7 Diesel 2004 side loading door From private owner only 145’000 Klm. (90’000 Mls) With a lot of service history also new ITV. (MOT) new service also just been done air-conditioning drives great perfect work horse WAS 2’995€ NOW ONLY 2’500€ 952838842 608950221 bill bradycars.com.

AUTOMATIC / Petrol Opel Zafira seven seats (top of the range) 2016 One private owner full service history 23’000 Klm. (15’000 Mls) bluetooth, parking sensors front and back, sat-nav, alloy wheels and lots of other extras massive saving at only 14’995€ 952838842 608950221 bill bradycars.com AUTOMATIC / Petrol Nissan Qashqai 2015 One private owner full service history 73’000 Klm. (45’000 Mls) Bluetooth, sensors and camera, panoramic sunroof, to many extras to list here don’t miss this one at only 14’995€ 952838842 608950221 bill bradycars.com WE ARE currently the market leader in our country in the sale of direct car, motorbike, home and company fleet insurance. Since we started out in 1995, our philosophy has always been to offer an excellent service with the best prices in the market. For the most competitive quotes in English, call Linea Directa on 902 123 309.

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ALL CARS / Commercials wanted, runners or non-runners. Cash. Buyer collects.

Transfer included. 605 109 796 (293389) WANTED, wanted, wanted!! All cars, all years, all models… from exotic to classic. Spanish, English, Dutch plated. Call us on 951 977 329 or 606 647 597.

(293494) CAMPER VANS, CARAVANS, MOBILE HOMES, BOATS AND ALL PLANT, DIGGERS, DUMPERS, MOTORBIKES, CARS AND COMMERCIALS WANTED. BEST PRICE PAID, CASH TODAY, ANY REGISTRATION WITH OR WITHOUT PAPERS. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 (290739) CAR, VANS BOUGHT WITH/WITHOUT PAPERS. CASH WAITING 678 808 837 (290739) CARS, VANS UK OR SPANISH BOUGHT FOR CASH. FREE COLLECTION IN SPAIN/UK. PLEASE CALL 678 808 837 OR 952 669 701 (290739) CARS, VANS, ANY REGISTRATION, INSTANT CASH, FINANCE/EMBARGO UK OR SPANISH 685 524 921 (290739) WANTED CARS AND VANS, FREE COLLECTION, SAME DAY 685 524 921 (290739)

IMPORT / TRANSFER CARS transferred, history checks, Imports and Embargo problems. Change of use and lost papers. Change your car to Spanish plates, simple efficient service. Cars bought and sold.

Please call 678 808 837 Or email carsinspain@live.co.uk (290739)

CLASSIFIEDS MUSIC ENHANCE YOUR SPECIAL DAY WITH THE BEAUTIFUL SOUNDS OF LIVE SPANISH GUITAR PLAYED BY DAVID CHRISTIAN-CLARK. ECLECTIC REPERTOIRE. RECOMMENDED

BY TOP WEDDING-PLANNERS AND AGENTS. SEE HIM ON GOOGLE & FACEBOOK. PARTY BAND AVAILABLE ALSO. CALL 00 350 540 367 29 (293731)

NAUTICAL INTERNATIONAL SKIPPER LICENCE: Courses held in English and starts soon.

RYA VHF and Radar Courses. 626 245 098 (294236)

PASSPORT RENEWALS UK & IRISH Passport renewals including photo’s. Complete Service. Cath’s Cards.

952 885 759. www.cath scards.es (291992)

PEST CONTROL COCKROACHES, ANTS, insects, fleas, mice, rats, wasps, termite specialists. Fumigations, bars, restaurants, houses, etc. Sanitary department officially registered certificates.

Guarantee. Serving the coast since 1985. Only legal English owned pest control company on the coast. If you want the best then phone N.P.S. Nigel 606 008 940 (293982)

PETS KENNELS CAT & DOG World Kennels and Cattery. 952 112 978 / 630 197 435. www.catanddog world.com (294546)

PET CHARITY ACE CHARITY ‘El Refugio’ in La Cala de Mijas is a registered charity. We have on average 275 dogs in our care and we receive no help from the Town Hall or the Andalucian government. We desperately need foster homes and adoptants for our many dogs, especially the small ones and puppies who do not do well in a big shelter. We are grateful for any help offered, including donations of food and blankets. Visiting times are from 13.00 to 15.00 and you can always turn up or make an appointment by calling Denise on 669 018 736.

Our website is www.ace-chari ty.org where you can view all the dogs in our care. (93320) ADANA THE ANIMAL SHELTER IN ESTEPONA. We always need volunteers to walk and socialise with our dogs and help with cleaning. We also need good homes for our animals that you can see on www.adana.es. Kennels open every day 10-1.30, Camino de Casares, near Parque de los Pedregales, Estepona. (5 minutes from the Poligono) For more information call 952 113 467, available from 10.00am until 14.00pm. (93319)

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ANIMEX Foundation offers free will upgrading when leaving something for abandoned animals. Contact animexfoun dation@gmail.com or call 692 166 434 now for this absolutely free service (288287) ARCH - The Andalucian Rescue Centre for Horses, registered charity 8448, the Centre is now open again to visitors every Sunday from 9am until 2pm. Working closely with the Spanish authorities, we rescue, rehabilitate and rehome abused and abandoned horses and donkeys. Come and meet our current rescues, learn about our work and how you may be able to help. Run solely by a small team of dedicated volunteers, the Centre is located between Alhaurin el Grande and Coin in Comm. de Viña Borrego behind Venta Miralmonte. For more information and directions see our website www.horserescuespain.org, our Facebook page Centro Andalusi de Rescate de Caballos or tel. 610 845 491 or 656 935 613 (93322) SEPE the horse and donkey charity is open to the public at weekends from 10.00 to 5.00.

Volunteers are much needed in all departments and are welcome at any time. For our riding for the disabled classes, we are also in need of extra helpers. We are nationally registered by the Spanish Ministry of the Interior (164640) but only with your support can we give the equine a voice. If you can just commit to 2 or 3 euros a month it will really help make a difference. You can find us at Lauro Golf Equestrian Centre, Alqueria, Alhaurin de la Torre.

Tel. 608 258 950 info@sepeon line.net www.sepeonline.net (93321) SOS ANIMAL REFUGE we have dogs, young and old looking for homes. Some of our dogs have been with us for some time and would love to find a cosy spot to curl up in and a knee on which to rest their heads. If you have room in your heart and home we would love to hear from you.

We do not put our dogs to sleep - no matter how old, they are safe with us. For day to day needs and to pay for veterinary care, we much appreciate the support we receive. We desperately need items to sell on our market stall to help raise funds and are happy to come and collect.

So, if you are having a clearout, please contact us on 605 227 155. If you would like to know more about rehoming, please call 653 257 875. Visit our website www.sos-animals .org or please phone Sandy on 952 385 923 or 666 814 056 if you would like to make a donation or help in any way.

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PLUMBING PLUMBING. Leak detection & blocked drains. Tel 952 568 414 / 661 910 772 / drain spain.com (288655)

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SELLING UP?? Why not give us a call an let us give you an honest and realistic valuation of your property. List with us and let us take the stress out of selling your home. No sale no fee!! English agent on the ball with clients waiting. Please call 685 524 921. (290739) WE have many clients actively looking for villas, townhouses & apartments from Torremolinos to Calahonda. Call Joe 626 864 683 (293698) WWW.INTERMARBELLA .COM Costa del Sol Property Sales & Long term rentals wanted. All areas / All budgets / All types. Spain +34 951 708 422. UK +44 208 144 5008.

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PROPERTY FOR SALE WWW.INMOANDALUZ .COM. Bargain inland properties for all budgets, fincas, village homes, apartments and villas. Legal building plots. 952 491 609 / 685 514 835 (292246)

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LONG TERM RENTALS AVAILABLE and also wanted. Super prices. Apartments, townhouses, villas, fincas, shops, offices, bars, restaurants. Coast & inland. Tlf 679 111 522 (293817) WWW.INTERMARBELLA .COM Costa del Sol Property Long Term Rentals All areas / All budgets / All types. Spain +34 951 708 422 UK +44 208 144 5008. Email info@inter marbella.com (291563) MIJAS countryside townhouse. 2 bedrooms 2 bathrooms. Spectacular sea views.

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ORA CAT - new all-electric Cat on the prowl from 2022 ROAD TEST

Due to launch in 2022.

by Mark Slack ONE of the most frequent criticisms of electric cars is their price, it’s all too often high and beyond the reach of normal drivers. Whether buying outright, increas‐ ingly unusual these days, or on some kind of per‐ sonal lease scheme, the costs are still prohibitive for many drivers. The other is‐ sue is our poor infrastructure in the UK, EVs are great to drive but only practically use‐ ful as commuter cars in the main, unless you have the funds to buy more premium models with a long range.

Hence those higher prices are still dissuading a lot of mo‐ torists from taking the EV route, unless they also keep a

combustion engine car on the drive.

You will struggle to find an EV for under €23,832/ £20,000 with only Fiat’s chic 500 Electric promising a de‐ cent range of 199 miles, but bear in mind, as with all EVs, this is a perfect conditions

sce‐ nario. However, there is a po‐ tentially very useable new EV about to start prowling the roads with the launch of the ORA CAT. Due next year, and priced from around €29,790/£25,000, it has a promised range of 261 miles

ITV sticker placement AS drivers in Spain, we are all aware that our vehicle must periodically pass the Technical Vehicle Inspection (ITV) in or‐ der to obtain the technical in‐ spection card. This document certifies that the vehicle meets all the technical condi‐ tions necessary to circulate on the roads.

After passing the test, the driver will obtain the ITV stick‐ er, formally known as the V‐ 19 distinctive. This coloured sticker is placed on the inside of the windscreen of the car so that traffic officers can recognise the status of the ve‐ hicle at a glance.

However, do you know ex‐ actly where the ITV sticker is supposed to be put, and if its display is mandatory?

The Royal Decree 2822/1998 indicates in Article 12 that all vehicles passing the ITV must display the sticker on a mandatory basis. Failing to display it brings a fine of €80. Annex XI of the General Vehicle Regulations clearly ex‐ plains where the ITV sticker should be placed. “In the case of vehicles that have a wind‐ screen, the distinctive will be placed in the upper right‐ hand corner of the wind‐ screen, on the inside. The printed side of the badge will be self‐adhesive. On all other vehicles, the badge must be

ITV STICKER: Place on the windscreen in the correct place.

placed in a conspicuous place.

The unprinted side of the

badge will be self‐adhesive,” it states.

for the larger battery model.

It will perhaps be no sur‐ prise that the ORA CAT is from a Chinese company, Great Wall Motor who are best known in the UK for pick‐ups.

Two battery options are listed, 48 kwh with a predict‐ ed range of 209 miles, and 63 kwh that will offer the afore‐ mentioned 261 mile range.

The ORA CAT reaches the benchmark 62mph in a rela‐ tively spritely 8.5 seconds and then on to a maximum speed of 100 mph. Technology in‐ cludes a 10.25 inch screen

with infotainment, Apple Car Play and Android Auto, rear parking sensors, lane keep, autonomous parking, facial recognition for fatigue and distraction detection, 360‐ degree camera integra‐ tion, 12 ultrasonic radars and updates over‐the‐air a’ la Tesla style.

Additionally, there are full LED head‐ lights, 18‐inch alloys and safety wise six airbags.

Customers will have a five‐ year vehicle warranty and an eight‐year warranty on the battery.

Pre‐orders of the ORA CAT 01 will begin in December 2021. While exact details will be revealed later this year, in‐ dicative pricing for the entry level trim version suggests the vehicle will be available to purchase for around £25,000.

First deliveries of the ORA CAT are scheduled for the first half of 2022 and addition‐ al models and variants will be announced in due course.

Facts at a Glance • Model: ORA CAT • Engine: all-electric with 48kwh or 63kwh battery options • Price: €29,790/£25,000 estimated • Performance: 0-100 kph (62 mph) 8.5 seconds/Maximum Speed 160 kph (100 mph) • Economy: Range 209 miles for 48kwh version and 261 miles for 63kwh version • Emissions: 0 g/km

Model quoted is UKspecification and equipment and final version specification and prices may vary.

SPORT Messi wins 7th trophy THE Ballon d’Or 2021 cere‐ mony returned to Paris on Monday, November 29, after being cancelled in 2020 due to the pandemic.

Argentinian wizard Lionel Messi was in the running to win his record seventh trophy.

Messi has six awards to his name from his time with Barcelona, but now he is play‐ ing for Paris Saint‐Germain.

Five players were left in the final selection, with Leicester City and France midfielder N'‐ Golo Kante coming fifth.

Fourth place went to Karim Benzema, France’s prolific Real Madrid striker.

Chelsea’s Brazilian midfield‐ er Jorginho was given third spot. In second, Robert Lewan‐ doski, which meant the winner was ‐ Lionel Messi.

The Portuguese legend is currently back with Manch‐ ester United after leaving Ju‐ ventus.

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CALAHONDA AT THE DOUBLE A GOOD week for Calahonda WFS with an excellent 2‐0 away win in the Hidromaster Premier‐ ship against a strong Sporting Benahavis team at San Pedro on Tuesday evening, November 23.

The drizzle soon turned to heavy rain making a slippery surface, and passing had to be accurate and goalkeepers on their toes.

Tomas Otero put the whites ahead in the first half. The game could have gone either way in the second half until an inspired substitution by the manager saw Ian Ingram put the ball in the net off the post from an ex‐ cellent pass from sub Dave Williams.

This win for Calahonda over the Walking Dead takes them to within one point of the league leaders. Manager Lesh Brzuzy is delighted at the team’s recov‐ ery after losing their opening match at Viñuela.

The seniors took the historic cup honours. Saturday Novem‐ ber 27 saw walking football his‐

HISTORIC: Male vs Female.

tory made at the Finca Naun‐ drup. A female team played a male team for the first time in a competitive match in the south of Spain (probably all of Spain) when Benalmadena ladies lined up against Calahonda WFS in the first round of the Baha Whisky Cup. The greens fielded four over 70 players who rarely feature for the first team and they went about a difficult job being on a

FIRST ROUND: Calahonda WFC.

hiding to nothing taking a quick two goal lead. By half time Cala‐ honda were 9‐0 up with the ladies finding it difficult to cope with the pace of the game. They did improve in the second half restricting the greens to only two more goals for an 11‐0

Barcelona agree transfer ACCORDING to reports circulating on sports pages and social media in Spain, a deal has al‐ legedly been reached be‐ tween the agent of

Manchester City’s Span‐ ish international striker, Ferran Torres, and Barcelona FC. It is known that with Argentinian legend, Ser‐

gio Aguero, being forced into premature retire‐ ment after signing for the La Liga giants, they are on the lookout for his replacement.

The Catalan club is al‐ so reportedly suffering a massive financial dilem‐ ma right now, so how they would fund such a move remains to be seen. One rumour is that they will include a player in a potential swap, possibly Ousmane Dembele.

Respected sports out‐ let Marca claims that a deal has been brokered between both parties, but without any involve‐ ment from Torres’ club, Man City.

It is believed that Tor‐ res’ agent was spotted in Barcelona on Tuesday November 23, leading to speculation that he was at the Camp Nou dis‐ cussing a move for his player.

Spanish striker, Torres.

There has also been talk of Mateu Alemany, the Catalan club’s di‐ rector of football, flying in the opposite direc‐ tion, for talks at the Etihad.

Torres joined the Pre‐ mier League champions in 2020 from Valencia, but has not been seeing regular playing time un‐ der Pep Guardiola, yet has constantly found the target while playing for his country.

score line. Scorers were Nigel (six), Seymour (three), Ingram, and T Jones with one each. Spe‐ cial mention for Rosie’s skills in the ladies team.

The ladies were disappointed but not undaunted and manag‐ er Kirsty said they had enjoyed the experience, learned from it and would be back.

Calahonda join the Walking Dead A team in the next round.

Tuesday November 30 saw Malaga a play Atleti‐ co Benahavis and Malaga B face Sporting Benahavis in the Hidromaster league matches at El Cañadon (Coin Road). Results and reports in next week’s Eu‐ ro Weekly News. Make sure you get your copy!!!

Charity match for the Malaga orphans Saturday December 4, El Cañadon 1 to 3pm. East v West Angels. Come along and see the fun and help a worthy cause!!!

(Organised by Malaga WFS)

Wales and Scotland rivals WALES and Scotland found out on Friday, November 26, exactly who their opponents will be in the Qatar 2022 World Cup qualifying semi‐final play‐offs. Both home nations have home matches in the one‐legged deciders.

Robert Page’s Welsh team will host Austria in Cardiff, with the manager commenting, “We’ve worked ever so hard to finish second and get that home draw. We’ve got everything to play for.”

Scotland can look forward to taking on Ukraine at Hampden. Manager Steve Clark was confident as he said, “We have shown over the course of the play‐offs for Euro 2020 that we can handle the tension for semi‐fi‐ nal, and final games.”

Adding, “Ukraine is up there with the toughest [draw] and then from that, we know Wales have done really well recently. We know the Austrians well. It’s some‐ thing for everyone to focus on and think about over the winter months and look forward to some good games in March, hopefully.”

If both teams win then they will face one another at Cardiff, with the victors heading for the World Cup finals in Qatar. It has been 64 years since the Welsh competed in the World Cup, back in 1958, while for the Scots, it has been a patient 24‐year wait.

In the other two play‐off semis, Portugal will be at home to Turkey, and Italy will welcome North Macedo‐ nia. The winners will then face‐off, which means one of Europe’s big football nations will not be present in Qatar.