Euro Weekly News - Costa Blanca South 5 - 11 May 2022 Issue 1922

THE BEST FINANCE NEWS ON PAGES 26 - 30 Commitment to sports PROVINCIAL council, the Diputacion, intends to spend €7 million on build‐ ing, extending or improv‐ ing the province’s sports installations.

Plans include courts for paddle‐tennis, the Valen‐ cian ballgame and beach volleyball as well as im‐ proved dressing rooms, renovated lighting, up‐ graded swimming pools and skateboard parks, Diputacion president Car‐ los Mazon announced.

“Plan+Deporte is going to share €7 million amongst all the municipal‐ ities in Alicante Province,” said Torrevieja mayor, Ed‐ uardo Dolon who also heads the provincial coun‐ cil’s Sports department.

Stressing the Diputa‐ cion’s support for a rele‐ vant area like Sport, Dolon revealed that €1.4 million of the Plan+De‐ porte allocation had been earmarked for the Vega Baja.

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Turn to page 2 SANTA FAZ: Ximo Puig at the head of the traditional pilgrimage.

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ALL CHANGE EMILIO BASCUÑANA, Orihuela mayor until the April 25 censure motion, is again practising as a doctor.

He has returned to his post at Orihuela’s Alvarez de la Riva health centre, Bascuñana confirmed on Thursday April 28.

“I was there by eight,” he said, explaining that he would coordinate his professional and political activ‐ ities.

Asked if he would run in next year’s municipal elections, Bascuñana replied that he had a clear idea.

“But circumstances can change. It wouldn’t make sense to say anything until it was absolutely settled,” he said.

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Sail away Road to recovery

ALICANTE City celebrated its annual Santa Faz pilgrimage for the first time in three years on April 28. Generalitat president Xi‐ mo Puig was one of the 100,000 people who braved the rain to walk the eight kilometres that separate the San Nicolas cathedral and the Santa Faz monastery in San Juan town.

Talking to the Spanish media, Puig said that the traditional pilgrimage was a “day to find ourselves again” and contributed to “emotional recovery” after two years of the pandemic.

As he has in the past, the regional presi‐ dent thanked all of the Valencian Communi‐ ty’s residents for the responsibility they showed during the pandemic.

“This has left us in a good place and a bet‐ ter position than many other autonomous

communities,” Puig said.

Referring to the Valencian Community’s 39,900 new jobs during the first three months of 2022, the Generalitat president described this as very positive, above all for Alicante Province, which generated most of the new posts.

“These figures encourage us to keep go‐ ing, despite the present difficulties,” Puig said.

The ability of business‐owners and em‐ ployees to work together was key to the sit‐ uation, he added. So, too, was the Valencian Community’s stability which was essential for tackling the environmental and digital transformation, assisted by funds from Euro‐ pean, improved productivity and quality employment.

Improved safety for Local Police SANTA POLA Town Hall is spending €45,000 on acquiring 53 bulletproof waistcoats for the Local Police force.

“This is very important for their safety,” said Public Safety councillor Ana Blasco. “We are commmitted to improving security in Santa Pola as well as protecting our officers.”

The bulletproof waistcoats were necessary,

Blasco added, owing to four recent shooting incidents with victims in other parts of the country, as revealed by information from Spain’s National Statistics Institute (INE).

“The number of convictions for illegal pos‐ session of firearms remains steady with around 1,000 cases each year,” the councillor pointed out.

THE Pascual Flores, a small three‐masted schooner, is visting its home port of Torrevieja until May 8. The Pascual Flores is a pailebote or ‘pilot boat’, one of the sleek vessels that pilots once used to steer ships into port.

The boat was built in Torrevieja in 1917 and after a chequered history, was purchased ‐ principally for its sentimental value ‐ in very bad condition by Torrevieja Town Hall in 1999.

Thanks to an agreement between the town hall and the Nao Victoria Foundation, the now‐ restored vessel has become a floating muse‐ um, touring Spain and Europe. The Pascual Flo‐ res departs for Baleares on May 9 but can be

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PASCUAL FLORES: Built in 1907 and restored to its former glory after a chequered history.

visited between 10am and 8pm until May 8.

Tickets, €2, are available from www.funda cionnaovictoria.org or at the ship with no charge for children under 10.

Three‐hour sailing trips on May 7 and 8 cost €45 for adults and €25 for children, with a 50 per cent discount for Torrevieja residents regis‐ tered on the municipal Padron.

Massive clean-up operation LAST month, the Consorcio Vega Baja Sostenible organised the largest clear‐up opera‐ tion ever carried out in the area.

The Consorcio manages the treatment of the rubbish collected from 27 Vega Baja towns, and the consortium’s president Teresa Bel‐ monte commented beforehand that the Vega Baja had beautiful natural surroundings.

“But sometimes there is a lamentable build‐ up of rubbish,” she said.

Belmonte herself joined the 1,500 volunteers who removed the drinks cans, bottles, discard‐ ed face masks and all the other litter that pol‐ lutes the Vega Baja.

Also present was Joan Piquer, director‐gen‐ eral of the Generalitat’s Quality and Environ‐ mental Education department.

“Activities like these are necessary to edu‐ cate and make people aware of the need to manage waste treatment correctly so that we may enjoy surroundings free of scattered lit‐ ter,” he said.

The Vega Baja rubbish‐collecting morning was part of the EU’s Let’s Clean Up initiative, which consists of organising volunteer teams who, with support from the national or region‐ al authorities, remove rubbish and litter from public spaces.

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NIBS EXTRA Summer ready THE Generalitat announced that Alicante Province is to have two extra forest fire‐ fighting units in Guardamar and inland Relleu this sum‐ mer. These and 14 other tem‐ porary posts will supplement the region’s 40 permanent units and 180 personnel, re‐ maining operative until Octo‐ ber 31 to assist with possible autumn flooding.

Slow train RESPONDING to Compromis MP Joan Baldovi, the central government admitted that plans for the Alicante City‐ Airport rail link remain as they were when announced in February 2020. So too has the electrification project for the Alicante‐Murcia track, which is Spain’s only remain‐ ing line that still uses diesel locomotives.

Airport trap THE National Police arrested a 37‐year‐old Polish national at Alicante airport as he en‐ tered Spain on a flight from Ireland on April 30. Sen‐ tenced to a two‐year prison term in Poland for fraud of‐ fences, he has now been transferred to Madrid where the National High Court is processing his extradition.

Special thanks ELCHE mayor Carlos Gonza‐ lez announced on the local group’s 25th anniversary that the city will name a pub‐ lic space after Proteccion Civ‐ il. “You provide a fundamen‐ tal service, especially in difficult moments when called on to cope with situa‐ tions involving risks, dangers, threats or catastrophes,” he told the volunteers.

Staying put THE regional government’s Education department re‐ lented and agreed that Cre‐ villent’s El Realengo primary school could remain open.

The town hall’s Schools com‐ mittee, backed by the local residents’ association, ar‐ gued a move would involve a journey of several kilome‐ tres for the school’s 10 pupils.

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Change at city hall ORIHUELA has a new team at city hall following the noconfidence vote that removed mayor Emilio Bascuñana on April 25.

The team is new, but the five Ciudadanos councillors now in coalition with the PSOE socialists held posts in the previous coalition with the Partido Popular and deputy mayor Jose Aix retains the same role.

Orihuela’s new mayor Carolina Gracia announced that the local government would be based on “mutual trust, respect and balance” although both parties were different.

“There are ideological differences, we know, but that

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NEW TEAM: Orihuela mayor Carolina Gracia with PSOE and Ciudadanos councillors.

strengthens our idea of respect,” Gracia said. “We come with open minds.”

The mayor emphasised the need for respect for the positions of the different parties on the city council

It’s a simple solution PETRI NIEMELA, a Euro Weekly News reader, contacted the newspaper recently, prompted by an article about the Cala Mosca development.

Last September, Orihuela City Hall granted planning permis‐ sion to build more than 2,000 properties on this last remaining unbuilt stretch of coastline, a project which is opposed on sever‐ al counts.

Not least of these is the Ministry of Transport’s claim that the development would saturate the already‐busy N‐332 but Petri maintained that there was an easy solution to the problem.

“That small section of autovia which you have to pay over €4 to use, and again when you drive back, is the only reason why the N‐332 has traffic jams each day,” he said.

“It’s because everyone leaves the highway and drives through Torrevieja and Orihuela Costa to avoid that stupid and very ex‐ pensive toll. If you have to drive every day, that €9 is just too much.

“If that small section of road were free, there would be no more traffic jams,” Petri said.

as well as the local population.

“Residents want to talk about policies that deliver solutions, not the internal problems of political groups. They want under-

Poor fishing CARP‐R‐US club secretary Steve Fell recently comment‐ ed that they often wished they were Darts‐R‐Us or Cards‐R‐S. “That way we could pur‐ sue a pastime indoors in‐ stead of out in the wet,” he explained.

The fishing club held their latest match on the River Se‐ guro at Bigastro, with rain predicted to last almost all day.

“It was fortunate that we were able to hold the draw and set up before the heav‐ ens opened. Equally fortu‐

Reform of empty building TORREVIEJA Town Hall will spend €1 million on rehabilitating a municipally‐owned property in Avenida de las Habaneras.

Work on the building, which cost €6 million to construct and was designed by the architect Javier García‐Solera, began in 2010 but was not completed until four years ago.

Originally intended as a Holy Week Museum, these plans were eventually discarded in 2020 by the town hall as well as Torrevieja’s Brother‐ hoods Committee.

Deputy mayor Rosario Martinez Chazarra re‐

standing, dialogue, open minds and teamwork,” she said.

Preparing a municipal budget was a priority, she added: “Nobody understands that Orihuela has not approved a budget since 2018.”

Meanwhile, Partido Popular spokesman, Rafael Almago, criticised Gracia’s decision to allow Ciudadanos councillors to outnumber those of the PSOE on the Local Government Board (JGL). “We shall of course keep a close watch and report to the Public Prosecutor all cases where we suspect that the law is being broken,” Almagro said

vealed in the local Spanish media that the ground floor would be used as a reception area, with the first floor occupied by a business incu‐ bator run by the Local Development Agency (ADL).

A youth centre is planned for the second floor, with rehearsal rooms for choirs and music groups on the third, while the fourth and fifth floors will be divided into small meeting rooms for local associations.

The town hall’s Occupational Risk Service will be located on the top floor, Chazarro said.

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nate was that the rain stopped again for the weigh‐ in,” Steve said.

That was where their good fortune ended, he continued, as the fishing was very poor, possibly due to the fact that the river had risen over the last couple of days.

What definitely did not help was the reported pollu‐ tion that had occurred up‐ stream, as they saw a num‐ ber of dead or distressed fish.

Ron Dainty won the match with 1.9 kilos, followed by Steve Fell (1.2 kilos) and Tony Flett 0.2 kilos.

“Oh well, it has got to stop raining soon, hasn’t it,” Steve said.

For more information on fishing in the Costa Blanca area, visit the www.carp‐r‐ us.weebly.com website.

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Don’t hesitate PILAR DE LA HORADA’S Guardia Civil recently ex‐ plained to elderly resi‐ dents how they can pro‐ tect themselves from risky situations.

The talk ‐ part of the Ministry of the Interior’s 2010 Plan Mayor Seguri‐ dad programme ‐ was aimed at averting the types of crimes that pose the greatest threats to se‐ nior citizens.

These include theft, mugging and house‐ breaking as well as vari‐ ous kinds of fraud and those that exploit unfa‐ miliarity with new tech‐ nologies and the internet.

The Plan also sets out to build up public confi‐ dence in the security forces so that the poten‐ tially vulnerable will not hesitate to contact the Guardia Civil should they ever find themselves the victim of a crime. This will also help them to carry out their work and to pre‐ vent further incidents from occurring in future, the officers said.

They also explained to those attending the talk that if ever they want to report a crime that in‐ volved them, they need only go in person to Pilar’s Guardia Civil headquar‐ ters in Calle Conde Roche in front of the tower in Torre de la Horadada.

Alternatively, they could ring the 112 Emer‐ gency number, the Guardia Civil’s own 062 number or use the Alert‐ cops mobile phone app.

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MORE than 300 racing and competition pigeons valued at €120,000 have been stolen in Alicante Province since last March. The birds are worth an average €400, although a proven champion can fetch between €3,000 and €40,000, experts said.

A National Polocer investigation in Alicante City’s Juan XXIII and Mil Viviendas districts discovered that adults are staking out pi‐ geon racing clubs and then using under‐14s to steal the most valuable birds. As they are under 14 and cannot be charged with a crime, the thefts continue unabated, police sources re‐ vealed.

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Spain’s jobs boom S P A I N’S Stability Pro‐ gramme, published on Friday April 29, forecasts the creation of 1.5 million new jobs and an unem‐ ployment rate of under 10 per cent by 2025.

The improved forecast is based on the govern‐ ment’s belief that labour reforms approved at the end of 2021, will reduce unemployment.

The main objective is to bring the current unem‐ ployment down from the current rate of 13.6 per cent, with the pandemic over and the government making major investments in new infrastructure and new technology.

Adding to the positive

NEW JOBS: Forecast has improved. forecast is the news that the economy is now on a more sound footing, even though the pandemic drove up borrowing, with a positive current account and savings figures at their highest levels since 2008.

There has also been a drop in temporary unem‐ ployment.

The programme also fo‐ cuses on the implementa‐ tion of active employment policies that seek to re‐ duce structural unemploy‐ ment making an adjust‐ ment between supply and demand. Attention will al‐ so be given to increasing flexibility in employment and an increase in produc‐ tivity.

Oh what a night THE Royal British Legion Con‐ cert Band together with Ste‐ vie Spit performed a spectac‐ ular charity show on Friday evening April 29 to a full house at the Belluga Theatre, San Fulgencio. Jack Kemp RBL Spain District North Chair‐ man welcomed everyone to this charity event and spoke about the dreadful events unfolding in Ukraine.

This was followed by a one‐minute silence to think about the families that have left family members behind to defend what is rightfully their country. He went on to say that the money from the event would be divided be‐ tween the Ukraine Appeal, Mensshed and the RBL.

The mayor of San Fulgen‐ cio who was in attendance was thanked for providing the theatre for the evening’s performance. After two years of Covid restrictions it was really good to be playing once more in a theatre to a live audience said Graham Robinson.

There was a good selection of music from the band in‐ cluding Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture, The Greatest Showman, Jersey Boys sung

by Stevie who also gave a wonderful rendition of The Prayer. The evening conclud‐ ed with the Spanish and Unit‐ ed Kingdom National An‐ thems and of course the Royal British Legion March.

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Ukraine charity concert F R I D AY M a y 1 3 from 4.30pm there will be a benefit concert at the Emerald Isle in La Florida in aid of Ukraine, where all proceeds will go to the Ukrainian Association Torre‐ vieja.

There will be some great acts appearing in this charity event and we will have the wonderful com‐ pere Stevie Spit to get the fun start‐ ed.

The Costa Singers choir will be singing a mix of English and Dutch songs.

Posh Affaire band will play many of the big band favourites including Glenn Miller, Frank Sina‐ tra plus more that feature their fe‐ male and male vo‐ calists.

There is a sug‐ gested voluntary contribution of €2 per person on en‐ try, and with a raffle comprising of some lovely prizes, we are hoping to raise a good amount for this worthy cause.

Please ensure you book a table by contacting the Emerald Isle via Facebook, Mes‐ senger or What‐ sapp.

For more info you can contact Posh Affaire 722 771 442 or the Costa Singers 633 801 202.

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Russian war warning UK Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has warned that Vladimir Putin will use Russia’s annual vic‐ tory day parade on M o n d a y M a y 9 t o a n‐ nounce the mass mobili‐ sation of his reserves for a concerted push in Ukraine.

Wallace said the Rus‐ sian president might de‐

clare a new war against the world’s ‘Nazis’ at the show‐of‐strength parade which commem‐ orates the end of Rus‐ sia’s involvement in the Second World War. He told media: “I w o u l d n o t b e s u r‐ prised... that he is prob‐ ably going to declare on May Day that ‘we are

now at war with the world’s Nazis and we need to mass mobilise the Russian people’.”

“Putin, having failed in nearly all objectives, may seek to consolidate what he’s got... and just be a sort of cancerous growth within the coun‐ try,” the Defence Secre‐ tary continued.

€3.5bn for refugees ON Friday, April 29, the European Union (EU) announced in a tweet that it has now provided €3.5 billion in support of Ukrainian refugees.

With now more than five million Ukrainians having fled the ravages of war in their country, the EU contin‐ ues to take the lead in providing sup‐ port with food, accommodation, healthcare, education and jobs.

In a show of wonderful solidarity and humanity, European countries have opened their doors to fleeing Ukrainians.

With many having lost everything, the help from people, charities and governments all across Europe has been invaluable.

Every day there are new stories re‐ flecting the kindness of strangers as people open the doors to their homes, such as the Irishman who has opened his 15th century castle to provide accommodation for a family to the stories of baby supplies being left at the border and railway sta‐ tions to allow Ukrainians to take what they need.

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Warning, Nolotil, is a dangerous drug T I R E D, coughing, feverish were the complaints of my neighbour Mark, when I visited him about two weeks ago. Corona, we decided and with this Omicron variety going around he would be back on his job and in the pub in a couple of days. Next day he did not look any better and was coughing up a lot of nasty stuff. Some more Paracetamol, ex‐ tra vitamins and things would be better soon. Next day I called Mark in the morning to ask if he needed any shopping to be done: “I am just at the Farmacia and tested negative for corona” he said with a very shivery and croaky voice. Off we went to the emergency in La Nucia because his throat was on fire.

Streptococcal bacteria had taken hold of him resulting in a ‘Strep throat’, and a quite severe case at that, was the diagnosis of the doctor. Off to the hospital in Vil‐ lajoyosa we were sent. I drove fast because Mark had now also breath‐ ing problems due to his swollen throat and was spewing out more and more muck.

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t a l ward, by now need‐ ing a wheelchair, I delivered him with a very wor‐ ried look into the hands of the medi‐ cal staff. Mark’s wife Mandy had cut her holiday in the UK even shorter and was on her way back to Spain. All we could do was wait.

Next day the news came. Due to a

very painful meniscus problem Mark was prescribed Nolotil (also called metamizol) which he had used for over a week.

However, Nolotil has been found in some cases to cause sepsis leading to different forms of infection in‐ cluding viral ones.

In Mark’s case his white blood cell count was reduced to zero (0) leav‐ ing his body defenceless against in‐ fection. Luckily for him, however nasty and very painful, he only suf‐ fered from a Strep throat. Many cas‐ es are known where the side effects of Nolotil lead to internal infections.

In other cases the rapid drop in white blood cells (Agranulocytosis) can lead to death within a couple of days. Although the Spanish AEMPS (Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products) warned for many years about the danger of this prod‐ uct, it is in Spain still frequently prescribed and at Farmacias also available without prescription.

AEMPS commands Nolotil as a pre‐ scription‐only medicine and recom‐ mends ‘only for short‐term treat‐ ment’.

If prolonged treatment is neces‐ sary, carry out regular (haematolog‐ ical) controls for Agranulocytosis symptoms.

Now, Mandy, glad that her ‘hubby’ is back home after eight days at the hospital, sees it as her duty to warn everybody about this danger. She al‐ so tries to figure out why North Eu‐ ropeans seem to be more suscepti‐ ble to the disadvantages of Nolotil.

This even more since Mark was pre‐ scribed Nolotil for his painful knee for a minimum of 10 days, three times a day at 525 mg without any monitoring. Cristina Garcia de Cam‐ po has been campaigning against the widespread use of Nolotil.

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Ireland border checks FEARING rising inflation, the UK has postponed border checks in Ireland for the fourth time, pushing the implemen‐ tation to the back end of 2023.

The checks required as part of the divorce agreement were implemented by the EU imme‐ diately after the agreement came into force, however the UK has failed to implement the checks despite signing the

agreement. Firstly because they said they needed more time to get prepared, then to appease political allies in North‐ ern Ireland and now as the country battles, like the rest of the world is, with rising infla‐ tion. The government said that spiralling energy costs and frag‐ ile global supply chains were the main reasons behind the decision.

BORDER CHECKS: Have been cancelled again.

Netflix axes Meghan MEGHAN MARKLE’S new animated se‐ ries has been axed by streaming giant Netflix.

After its recent well‐documented loss of 200,000 subscribers, the company has de‐ cided to drop the series, titled ‘Pearl’.

David Furnish had worked on this pro‐ ject with Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, as executive producer. The main feature of the series was a 12‐year‐old girl ‘inspired by influential women from history’.

‘Like many girls her age, our heroine Pearl is on a journey of self‐discovery as she tries to overcome life’s daily chal‐

lenges’, a statement from Meghan Markle read when the series was an‐ nounced last year.

Netflix boss William Ackman said in a statement, ‘While Netflix’s business is fun‐ damentally simple to understand, in light of recent events, we have lost confidence in our ability to predict the company’s fu‐ ture prospects with a sufficient degree of certainty’.

Following the docu‐series ‘Heart of In‐ victus’, ‘Pearl’ was to be the second series to be produced from the Sussexes’ Netflix deal signed in September 2020.

Banking fee rises CAIXABANK and Santander have done away with free banking from Saturday, April 30. Clients of the two banks, who do not meet their conditions for free banking, will have to pay up to €240 a year. According to personal finance website ‘HelpMyCash’: Banks will pe‐ nalise those customers who do not have their salary paid into their account each month, as well as those on low in‐ comes. If you bank with any of these companies it is important that you check what criteria you need to meet to make sure that you do not pay unneces‐ sary fees. Both Caixa and Santander have changed their fee structures effec‐ tively doing away with free banking.

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Proof of funds BRITISH tourists, and many other nationals from outside the Schengen bloc, need to prove they have at least €100 per day for their stay in Spain.

Border guards can ask for travellers to produce such proof.

“Foreigners must prove, if required to do so by the officials in charge of controlling the entry of people in‐ to Spanish territory, that they have eco‐ nomic resources [for entering the country],” the Spanish Ministry of Interior notes.

Means of proof in‐ clude cash, certified checks, traveller’s checks, payment let‐ ters, or credit cards,

which must be accom‐ panied by the bank ac‐ count statement or an up‐to‐date bank book.

In practice such checks are rare, but they do happen.

The reason the rate is set at more than €100 per day (€120 in France) is because that represents 10 per cent of the minimum wage (gross minimum inter‐ professional gross salary).

From January 1, 2022, the Spanish au‐ thorities have estab‐ lished the minimum in‐ terprofessional salary at €33.33 per day or €1,000 per month, de‐ pending on whether the salary is fixed on a daily or monthly basis.

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Dog breeds irrelevant D AT A from more than 18,000 canines shows that pedigree has a lim‐ ited role in behaviour.

A dog’s breed was re‐ sponsible for less than one‐10th of differences in behaviour among thousands of dogs, re‐ searchers said in a study published on Thursday, April 28, in the journal Science.

“When you adopt a dog based on its breed, you’re getting a dog that looks a certain way,” said co‐author Elinor Karlsson, a computation‐ al biologist at the Univer‐ sity of Massachusetts in Worcester, Mas‐ sachusetts.

“But as far as be‐ haviour goes, it’s kind of luck of the draw.”

The reason is partly be‐ cause breeds are a mod‐ ern invention. We have been shaping how dogs appear and behave since dogs evolved from wolves more than 10,000

years ago.

Labrador retrievers aren’t guaranteed to be docile and friendly, ac‐ cording to geneticists who analysed variations in the canine genome.

Behaviour not guaranteed.

Heinz’s Jubilee TO mark the queen’s platinum jubilee Heinz have re‐ branded two of the nation’s favourites HM Sauce and Salad Queen.

The limited edition bottles were due to arrive on su‐ permarket shelves from Monday May 2.

Heinz have said that Brits enjoy quintessentially En‐ glish food and like nothing more than a good reason to celebrate such an event with good old British classics.

Heinz Senior Brand Manager Anke von Hanstein said: “This is an extraordinary moment for the Queen and the great British public, and we want to celebrate this with two of our most well‐loved and historic sauces.

“Releasing limited‐edition bottles in time for the Ju‐ bilee felt like the perfect fit. We hope our customers enjoy these celebratory designs and that they add a squeeze of fun to the Jubilee celebrations, however one is celebrating.”

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5 - 11 May 2022 A 61-YEAR-OLD South African man is attempting to become the first person to row solo across the Atlantic from the US to France Peter Harley is about to embark on a solo crossing of the Atlantic Ocean in a rowing boat. He plans to sail from Vir‐ ginia Beach in the US, 4,000 miles to La Trinite‐sur‐Mer, on the Brittany coast of France.

This will be his second at‐ tempt at a crossing that has never been achieved by a solo rower. If he completes the trip then it will be a new record. It is a hazardous jour‐ ney that he estimates will take him at least three months to complete in his 24‐ foot boat.

Mr Harley, who moved to America in 2019, told media, “I’m not nervous, I’ve been in

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PETER HARLEY: Has taken a year to prepare for the trip.

boats at sea in South Africa for many years, so I kind of know what’s coming, and I’m not afraid of it.”

Having failed on a previous occasion, the sailor is not giv‐ ing in, and has been in train‐ ing for just over a year, to pre‐ pare his body and mind for what lies ahead. Eight months ago Mr Harley said he changed his complete eating habits.

Expat vote success BRITISH expats will be able to vote in Gener‐ al Elections after a new ruling received Royal Assent on Thursday, April 28.

Expats previously lost the right to vote 15 years after they last voted in the UK. The new measures announced in the Queen’s Speech will make it easier for British citizens who have moved abroad to partici‐ pate in UK democracy.

The changes, which will form part of the Elections Bill, will also include measures to enable overseas electors to stay registered to vote for longer, with an absent voting ar‐ rangement in place.

Ministers are to implement the changes

during the current parliament.

Minister of State for the Cabinet Office Lord True, said: “In an increasingly global and connected world, most British citizens living overseas retain deep ties to the United King‐ dom.

“Many still have family here, have a histo‐ ry of hard work in the UK behind them, and some have even fought for our country.

“These measures support our vision for a truly Global Britain, opening up our democ‐ racy to British citizens living overseas who deserve to have their voices heard in our Parliament, no matter where they choose to live.”

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Brexit’s food price push A REPORT by researchers from the London School of Economics released on Wednesday, April 27, said that Brexit has added 6 per cent to the

cost of Britain’s food bills.

The research drew comparisons between the cost of food import‐ ed from the EU, which

$16bn for oceans THE seventh global annual Our Ocean Confer‐ ence concluded on Sunday April 26 with 410 commitments and pledges worth more than $16 billion €(15.15 billion) to protect our seas.

Co‐hosted by the Republic of Palau and the United States, the conference was the first to be held in a small island developing state.

Started by John Kerry in 2014, the conference titled ‘Our Ocean, Our People, Our Prosperity,’ highlighted the importance of a healthy ocean to small island developing states. It also focused attention on all communities where the ocean is a primary source of sustenance.

D e l e g a t e s f r o m m o r e t h a n 7 0 c o u n t r i e s a t‐ tended the conference, all of whom committed to concrete action to advance ocean issues.

Speakers and presentations highlighted the importance of ocean‐based climate solutions, in‐ cluding shipping decarbonisation, marine na‐ ture‐based solutions, and offshore renewable energy, in keeping the 1.5‐degree target within reach and improving global climate resilience.

still accounts for the ma‐ jority of food imported, with food from else‐ where.

They found that extra trade barriers created by Britain’s exit added 6 per cent to the cost of food, with prices rising higher than those levied on imports from else‐ where.

Examples they quote are the increase in the price of fresh pork, toma‐ toes and jam which come mainly from the EU and the rise in prices of items like tuna fish and pineap‐ ples which come from further afield.

Nikhil Datta, a re‐ searcher at LSE said: “This research demon‐ strates a clear and robust impact of Brexit‐induced trade frictions increasing food prices for UK con‐ sumers during a time when the economy is al‐ ready facing inflationary pressures from global sources.”

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RUMOUR has it that Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan are to make an emotional return in the grand finale of Neighbours.

A report in one Australian publication on Saturday, April 30, claimed that Neighbours leg‐ ends Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan are going to make an appearance when the Ramsay

The final bow Street soap takes its final bow in August. Earlier this year, televi‐ sion bosses announced that they

were scrapping the long‐running soap, which has graced our screens for close to 40 years. The

publication claimed that sources told them that ‘Scott and Char‐ lene Robinson’ had filmed

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scenes at Pin Oak Court in Ver‐ mont South, just outside Mel‐ bourne.

Back in March, show chiefs hinted they were going to try and tempt Kylie and Jason to make a return and give the soap a ‘fairytale ending’. The final episode is due to be broadcast on Monday, August 1 this year.

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AIRLINE: Their website crashed causing difficulties.

Ryanair chaos ON Friday April 29 Ryanair charged passengers £55 for making use of the airport check‐in counters after their website crashed leaving cus‐ tomers with no other option.

Ryanair, well‐known for its charges and rigid adherence to its policies, continued to charge passengers for using the airport check‐in service even though their website was down leaving passengers with no alternative.

Hundreds of complaints were made to web monitor‐ ing service Down Detector that Ryanair’s website had crashed from 6am to 9.30am

on the Friday morning, with many screenshots being post‐ ed. Passengers who took to social media complained that the site was down with the message “something’s gone wrong with your request” be‐ ing received. Others reported that despite this and having proof the site was down staff at Stansted Airport had con‐ tinued to charge customers the fee. A Twitter user, named Rhys, said: “Just got charged more than €200 to check‐in at [Rhodes International Airport] ‐ Seemingly all because [Ryanair’s] website had an er‐ ror.”

UK driving licences are no longer legal to use in Spain after the grace period to change them for a Spanish licence ended on Sunday, May 1.

On the Brits in Spain con‐ sulate and embassy page, on Friday April 29, British Ambassador to Spain, Hugh Elliott commented: “The UK and Spanish govern‐ ments are still negotiating.

UK and Spanish ministers spoke today and agreed to rapidly accelerate talks next week in the hope of reaching an agreement soon ‐ as we already have in almost every other EU Member State.

“But we’re not there just yet. And we will not have reached an agreement in time for the end of the cur‐ rent grace period (April 30).” He added: “Negotia‐ tions will continue early next week and we will pro‐ vide you with further news when we have it. “We are doing all we can to secure a long‐term solution swiftly.”

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British Army expands THOUSANDS of British Army troops will conduct a series of planned exercises across Europe this summer in one of the largest de‐

ployments since the Cold War. Around 8,000 British Army troops will take part in the exercises the Min‐

Tragic dog death A FAMILY has been left heartbroken after their golden re‐ triever fell victim to the deadly Alabama Rot disease, which has now claimed the lives of seven dogs in the UK this year.

The Backhouse family want to raise awareness of Al‐ abama rot before anyone else suffers the loss of a family pet. Marley, their Golden Retriever, was eight years old when he died earlier this month, after picking up the killer disease on local walks around Ledbury.

“We want to raise wider awareness of Alabama Rot,” Rob Backhouse told media.

“We want to hopefully save another family the pain we have gone through.”

Rebecca Backhouse told one publication: “It’s one of those things you never think will happen to your dog.”

Rebecca first noticed something was wrong when Mar‐ ley wouldn’t stop licking his back left paw, but was sure it was not Alabama rot after checking images online.

He was taken to a vet and treated at a clinic but, sadly, his condition deteriorated rapidly and he had to be put down a week later.

istry of Defence said in a statement on Friday, April 29.

The training mission will see 72 Challenger 2 tanks, 12 AS90 tracked artillery guns and 120 Warrior ar‐ moured fighting vehicles de‐ ploy to countries from Fin‐ land to North Macedonia, demonstrating the Army’s modernisation into a lethal, agile and global force.

Tens of thousands of troops from NATO and Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) allies and partners are involved in the exercises.

The high readiness forces from the Lead Armoured Task Force and Air Ma‐ noeuvre Task Force will take part.

Defence Secretary Ben Wallace said: “The security of Europe has never been more important.

“These exercises will see our troops join forces with allies and partners across NATO and the Joint Expedi‐ tionary Force in a show of solidarity and strength in one of the largest shared deployments since the Cold War.”

EXERCISES: Will see troops join forces with allies.

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Animal welfare law ON Thursday, April 28, protection measures for animals were boost‐ ed as legislation ban‐ ning ‘the use of cruel glue traps and intro‐ ducing fines for people who fail to provide the proper levels of Protecting our animals. care to their pets, zoo animals and livestock’ became law in the UK. The new bills introduced by MP Jane Stevenson ‘ban the use of inhumane glue traps which are a widely available method of rodent control but can cause immense suffering.’

Animal welfare minister Lord Zac Goldsmith said: “We are a nation of animal lovers and the passing of today’s legislation is a significant moment for the health and welfare of the country’s animals.

“The UK, since leaving the EU, has been able to further strengthen its position as a global leader on animal rights.

“The penalty notice measures being introduced to‐ day will act as a powerful deterrent, building on measures we have already taken such as increasing prison sentences for cruelty offences.

“We will also be protecting wildlife and domestic pets from falling victim to inhumane glue traps, and we have delivered on our manifesto commitment to put animal sentience provisions into law.”

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James Corden quits IN shock celebrity news from America, 43‐year‐old James Corden has announced that he will step down as the host of the Late Late Show.

His hit show on CBS has won countless awards, and CBS bosses had reportedly tried their best to convince the Londoner to stay on.

The actor, singer, presenter, and entertainer has allegedly walked away from a multi‐

It’s been a hard decision.

million‐pound deal that CBS had offered him, in favour of spending more time in Britain

RUSSIA has reportedly suffered a setback in Ukraine as a major tank design flaw has been exposed.

The tanks are said to be suffering from a de‐ fect which leads to a ‘jack‐in‐the‐box’ effect that can literally blow the tank’s turret off.

The issue reportedly comes from storing multiple shells inside the tank turrets.

An indirect hit can lead to an explosive chain reaction due to where the ammunition is stored. According to experts that can cause a shockwave that can blast the tank’s turret

with his family. James also wants to be able to go and watch his beloved West Ham playing football he said.

Speaking to one media out‐ let, Corden explained, “It’s been it’s a really hard decision to leave, because I’m so im‐ mensely proud of the show.

I’m thrilled to be extending for a year. I always thought I’d do it for five years and then leave and then I stayed on.”

Russia’s tank flaw ‘as high as a two‐storey building’.

Commenting on the design flaw Sam Ben‐ dett from the Russian Studies Programme at the Centre for a New American Security re‐ vealed: “What we are witnessing with Rus‐ sian tanks is a design flaw.

“Any successful hit … quickly ignites the am‐ mo causing a massive explosion, and the tur‐ ret is literally blown off.”

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The average human will eat 8 spiders in their lifetime at night.

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William’s fundraising A RECORD amount of £944,000 was raised on Monday, April 25, at a gala held by Lon‐ don’s Air Ambulance Charity in the UK capi‐ tal.

The event was attended by Prince William, the Duke of Cambridge, who is its patron.

Prince William even took to social media af‐ ter his visit, sharing multiple images on his of‐ ficial Twitter profile. “As a former Air Ambu‐ lance pilot, I have seen first‐hand the difference trauma teams can make to those in need,” the Duke wrote. Adding, “So it is a great privilege to be the Patron of this excep‐ tional Charity.”

The royal also spoke about a boy called Bruno he met during his visit to the London Air Ambulance Charity. “I had the great privi‐ JEREMY KYLE, the former king of daytime television, is making a return to our screens with his own nightly show on TalkTV. For more than 20 years, Jeremy Kyle was one of the biggest names and most recognised celebrities on British television, until a tragic incident halted his ca‐ reer.

“My suits don’t fit like they used to, but I don’t care ‐ I couldn’t be more

GALA EVENT: Attended by Prince William.

lege to meet a young man named Bruno, and his father Daniel. Aged 11, Bruno was knocked off his scooter and suffered a serious brain injury. London’s Air Ambulance Charity flew to him, arriving within minutes to bring the hospital to his side, and saving his life.”

Jeremy Kyle returns thrilled to be back in front of the camera,” the 56‐year‐ old former king of daytime television told one publica‐ tion.

Jeremy made a cameo appearance on the new television network this week, and revealed, “I had‐ n’t realised how much I’d missed it until I stepped into the studio and felt the

lights. Presenting live TV is almost like a drug, it hooks you in and I just love the format.”

He had already returned successfully to the public domain last year via the new network’s stablemate, talkRADIO. His show on TalkTV will cover current af‐ fairs and topical news each weeknight.

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Olivia Wilde sued AMERICAN actress, and Har‐ ry Style’s girlfriend, Olivia Wilde, 38, was handed legal documents while on stage at an event on April 26.

Wilde was handed a manila envelope with the legal docu‐ ments while she was speaking

about her new thriller movie Don’t Worry Darling at the CinemaCon event in Las Ve‐ gas.

She asked: “This is for me?” as she held the envelope marked personal and confi‐ dential.

UK housing boom DESPITE negative consumer confidence and high inflation, the asking prices for homes in the UK continues its steady march upwards as it rose once again in April.

A survey by the property search portal Rightmove re‐ leased on Monday, April 25, said that the asking price of homes had continued to go up, but that it was expected to slow down as the cost of living crisis started to bite.

According to their survey asking prices rose by 1.6 per cent in April slightly down on the 1.7 per cent recorded in March, with more than half the houses selling at or above the asking price.

Despite fears that interest rates will continue to climb the market continues to experience a boom, even though the temporary tax breaks on property purchases has ended and the costs of ownership have risen.

Originally, it was thought that there was a script inside the envelope, but it contained custody papers.

Wilde and Jason Sudeikis, who share two children, have been separated since late 2020. They were engaged, but never married.

Jason Sudeikis reportedly “had no prior knowledge” that his former fiancée, Olivia Wilde, would be served with child custody documents dur‐ ing her appearance at Cin‐ emaCon. “We have never in the his‐ tory of the convention had an incident where a delegate has approached the stage who was not authorised to be there. In light of this incident, we are re‐evaluating our se‐ curity procedures to ensure the safety of all our atten‐ dees,” Mitch Neuhauser Managing Director of Cinema‐ Con said in a statement.

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The most leaves ever found on a clover is 56.

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US President Joe Biden, speaking from the White House on Thursday, April 28, revealed that he is working on a legislative package that will allow the American government to sell off all the assets that have been seized from Rus‐ sian oligarchs. This would include all the luxury properties and yachts, and the proceeds could then be utilised to help pay for humanitarian and military aid in Ukraine. “We’re going to seize their yachts, their luxury homes, and oth‐

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America’s oligarch crackdown er ill‐begotten gains of Russian President Vladimir Putin’s kleptocracy. These are bad guys,” he declared.

He explained that this new legislation would “create new procedures of forfeiture and seizure of these properties, and it’s going to as‐ sure that when the oligarchs’ assets are sold

Croatia blocks Sweden CROATIA President Zoran Milanovic announced on Tuesday April 26: “We will block Sweden and Finland membership” to Nato, as their applications will pro‐ voke Russia.

Croatia, who are yet to ratify their membership of NATO, believe that any en‐ tertaining of membership applications from Scandina‐ vian states will do little more than provoke Russian Presi‐ dent Vladimir Putin. Croatia has its own issues as it tries to get Bosnia‐Herzegovina to update their electoral law.

Milanovic told reporters in Zagreb that: “As far as I’m

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concerned, they can get into NATO, they can poke the ra‐ bid bear in the eye with a pen.

DiCaprio’s Brazil spat THE climate change denier and President of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro has got into a spat with Leonardo DiCaprio after the actor called on young Brazilians to vote in up‐ coming elections.

DiCaprio, well‐known for his environmental work and donations, has pleaded with young Brazilians to make their voices heard in the hope that deforestation in the Amazon will be curbed.

Deforestation in January 2022 was five times larger than for the same period in 2021, the highest January total since records began in 2015. Some estimates put the rate of deforestation at the size of a football field ev‐ ery minute, not only putting wildlife at risk, but also in‐ digenous communities.

Long referred to as the lungs of the world, scientists are concerned that destruction of the rain forest could have disastrous consequences for the rest of the world.

Bolsanaro however believes in economy first, science second.

The spat started with DiCaprio tweeting on Thursday April 28th: “Brazil is home to the Amazon and other ecosystems critical to climate change. What happens there matters to us all and youth voting is key in driving change for a healthy planet.”

“However, until the electoral law issue in Bosnia‐Herzegovina is re‐ solved, until the Ameri‐ cans, the English, the Ger‐ mans, if they can and want to, compel Sarajevo and Bakir Izetbegovic to up‐ date the electoral law in the next six months and grant Croats their elemen‐ tary rights, the Sabor must not ratify anyone’s admis‐ sion to NATO.”.

NATO cannot admit new members without the ap‐ proval of current ones.

off, funds can be used directly to remedy the harm Russia caused and help build Ukraine.”

Current funding for Ukraine is known to be running out, so the sale of these assets would be welcomed as part of the President’s recent call for Congress to provide an extra $33 billion (€31.4 billion).

BIDEN: New legislation underway.

GMB porn outrage GOOD MORNING Britain’s Ben Shephard made a correction after a guest’s comments on ‘porn’ in Parliament sparked uproar on Thurs‐ day, April 28.

Viewers were fuming after believing that jour‐ nalist Quentin Letts was defending a Tory MP ac‐ cused of viewing porn in the House of Commons.

Letts commented: “If you’ve ever been in the Houses of Parliament, it’s an extremely boring place, “I think it would be wrong of viewers to think parliamentarians are con‐ stantly thinking about great matters at state when they’re in the House of Commons. It’s not ex‐ actly like a church in there.”

He added: “The politi‐ cians tend to represent the people of the country and there are a lot of grotty people in this coun‐ try who get a kick out of

pornography, and it’s al‐ ways struck me as a pret‐ ty peculiar thing to do.”

Viewers soon took to social media to complain, leading host Ben to set the record straight, com‐ menting: “I feel like every‐

body slightly got the wrong end of the stick. A lot of people seemed to be up in arms that you were defending watching porn in the House of Com‐ mons. That’s not what you were doing.”

US pandemic over ANTHONY FAUCI, the Chief Medical Adviser to US President Joe Biden has said that the country is over the pandemic phase of Covid‐19, with cases and hospitali‐ sations notably down.

Speaking to media, Fauci said: “We are certainly right now in this country out of the pandemic phase.”

The expert added in an interview on Wednesday, April 27: “The world is still in a pandemic. There’s no doubt about that. Don’t anybody get any misinterpreta‐ tion of that. We are still experiencing a pandemic.”

Referring to his view that the country is moving to‐ wards normality he said that the US is in a “decelera‐ tion phase” having moved out of the full blown pan‐ demic.

“There’s the full‐blown pandemic dynamic, the way we were months ago, where we were having 900,000 cases a day, tens of thousands of hospitalisations, 3,000 deaths a day.

“The deaths went from 3,000 down to 300.”

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Drug shortage uproar R ES EA R C H by the Pharmaceutical Ser‐ vices Negotiating Com‐ mittee (PSNC) shows that acute medicine shortages in England is resulting in abuse

from frustrated pa‐ tients, as more than two thirds of the phar‐ macies report being without stock every day.

According to their

report, the association said that many drugs are in short supply in‐ cluding Hormone Ther‐ apy Replacement due to Brexit and the pan‐ demic which has af‐ fected supplies of key raw materials needed in the man‐ ufacture of many drugs.

As a result phar‐ macists are being threatened, spat and sworn at for something that it is outside of their con‐ trol.More than half of pharmacists and counter staff say the ongoing supply issues is causing problems for cus‐ tomers managing their health. Two thirds of those phar‐ macies report daily shortages and an‐ other quarter re‐ porting several shortages a week.

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Fatter means fitter A LARGE scale survey has found that people who are over the age of 80 and have a BMI that is higher than what is recommended, may live longer.

The research undertaken in China found that weight guidelines should be changed for this age group, as those that apply to younger people may not be appropriate.

Based on a person’s height and weight, body mass index (BMI) scores are meant to give an in‐ dication of the person’s healthy weight. Most guidelines suggest that someone with a score above 25 is considered overweight and 30

obese. But those guidelines said Xiaoming Shi at the Chinese Centre for Disease Control and Pre‐ vention in Beijing are largely based on measure‐ ments taken from younger age groups. That means they may not be appropriate for an older and less active person.

On average they found that the optimal BMI for the over‐80s was around 29, largely driven by a lower risk of death from non‐cardiovascular causes such as cancer or respiratory disease.

This group also had a lower risk of death from cardiovascular diseases, but the relationship was weaker.

Kellogg’s court battle US food giant Kellogg’s is taking the British gov‐ ernment on as it takes it to court over new rules that would affect the marketing of its products due to their sugar content.

The new rules, which the government said are needed to fight unhealthy lifestyles and obesity, will see foods that are high in fats and sugars restricted from being given prime shelf space in stores.

But Kellogg’s say that the formula the gov‐ ernment is using to measure the nutritional val‐ ue of cereals is wrong and is not being imple‐ mented legally, with the law likely to affect

Frosties may be affected.

products like Frosties, Coco Pops and Crunchy Nut. Chris Silcock, Kellogg’s UK Managing Director said: “It measures cereals dry when they are al‐ most always eaten with milk.

“All of this matters because unless you take account of the nutritional elements added when cereal is eaten with milk, the full nutri‐ tional value of the meal is not measured.”

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Nuclear plant warning Taxpayer fraud squad THE situation at the Russian‐controlled Za‐ porizhzhia nuclear plant in Ukraine is ‘not sus‐ tainable’ and could prove dangerous, the di‐ rector‐general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has warned.

Access to the Zaporizhzhia nuclear plant has been sought, in vain IAEA chief Rafael Grossi said on Thursday, April 28.

The station, in south‐eastern Ukraine, re‐ quires repairs “and all of this is not happen‐ ing,” he said.

Grossi continued: “So the situation as I have described it, and I would repeat it today, is not sustainable as it is. So this is a pending issue. This is a red light blinking.”

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy

TWITTER have followed Google’s lead by banning ads that contradict the science on climate change according to a statement re‐ leased by the company on April 23.

The statement said: “Ads shouldn’t de‐ tract from important conversations about the climate crisis,” with scientific consensus important in keeping the conversation real and factual.

Although social media sites such as Twit‐ ter and Facebook have been targeted for posts by climate change deniers, the ban on ads does not appear to affect posts.

The announcement was made to coincide

Europe’s largest nuclear plant.

does not want IAEA inspectors to go to the facility under the authority of a ‘third power’.

Grossi said he is due to meet Russian offi‐ cials soon to discuss access to the nuclear plant ‐ Europe’s largest ‐ which was captured

by Russian forces on March 4.

Twitter ban with Earth Day coming just hours before the European Union’s agreement to control con‐ tent on their sites that involves hate speech, disinformation and other harmful content.

The company has said that it would make more information available on how it in‐ tends to monitor the situation and how it plans to provide ‘reliable, authoritative con‐ text to the climate conversations’ its users engage in.

THE UK government has an‐ nounced it is launching an expert ‘fraud squad’ to crack down on criminals who steal taxpayer money.

The news was announced by the government on April 27, and Rishi Sunak revealed that the team will be up and running by the summer.

The government ex‐ plained: “The new body will recruit leading data analytics experts and economic crime investigators to recover mon‐ ey stolen from Covid support schemes and spot suspicious companies and people seek‐ ing government contracts.

“Counter fraud experts will also mount mandatory in‐ spections on Whitehall pro‐ grammes to uncover vulner‐ abilities.”

Chancellor of the Exche‐ quer, Rishi Sunak said: “We will chase down fraudsters who rip off the taxpayer. This elite fraud squad, backed by £25 million, will ensure the latest counter fraud tech‐ niques are being used to track down these criminals.

“People are rightly furious that fraudsters took advan‐ tage of our vital Covid sup‐

port schemes, and we are acting to make sure they pay the price.”

Contraceptive pill RESEARCHERS at the Uni‐ versity of Minnesota be‐ lieve human trials of a new male contraceptive pill could be just months away.

According to the scien‐ tists who invented the med‐ ically named YCT529 non‐ hormonal pill, in trials in mice, it achieved results on a level with female birth control medication. Their pill allegedly stopped 99 per cent of the potential mice pregnancies.

Speaking with one publi‐ cation, Minneapolis chemist Dr Gunda Georg, explained that after stopping the tri‐

als, and administration of the pill, “The mice could fa‐ ther pups again four to six weeks after they stopped receiving the compound.”

There were no reported vis‐ ible side effects either.

Dr Georg revealed that as the results had been so en‐ couraging, then human tri‐ als could possibly start in “the second half of this year. Of course, you have to be careful with this analysis because they are mice and not humans, but neverthe‐ less, the effect was very, very promising,” she de‐ clared.

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30% of people refuse to sit on a public toilet seat.

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Andrew stripped ON Wednesday, April 27, York councillors voted unanimously that Andrew should be stripped of his Freedom of the City of York title.

The title was awarded to Prince Andrew in 1987 but he has now been branded as an “utter disgrace” by local councillors.

Darryl Smalley is the City of York Council’s executive member for culture, leisure and communities.

Smalley put forward a mo‐ tion to say that Andrew should be stripped of his ti‐ tle and also proposed that he should not hold the Duke of York title any longer.

Smalley commented: “The Honorary Freedom of York is the highest honour we, as a city, can bestow on those who represent the very best of York. The honour is held by many no‐ table and accomplished people who carry it with pride and responsibly.

“Having been stripped of

his military roles and royal patronages by the Queen, we believe that it is right to remove all links that Prince Andrew still has with our great city.”

Branded a “disgrace.”

€10m violin

THE ‘Da Vinci of violins’ set to be auctioned in Paris on June 3 is expected to fetch up to €10 million (£8.42m).

As explained by Sophie Perrine, from the Aguttes auction house near Paris, “There are many violins, but this one is like selling a Rembrandt, a Goya, or even a Leonardo da Vinci painting.”

It is one of only 150 such violins crafted in 1736 by Giuseppe Guarneri, the revered Italian luthier from

Cremona in Italy. Its owner is the famous French virtu‐ oso Regis Pasquier, which means that the instrument has graced concert halls worldwide.

Violins made by Guarneri have proved to be far more prolific than those crafted by his com‐ patriot and contemporary, Antonio Stradivari. These maple‐backed instruments have shown higher longevi‐ ty and quality compared to that of their nearest rival.

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Dell computers was started by a 19-year-old.

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Harry’s Camilla ultimatum PRINCE HARRY reportedly has ‘no intention’ of attending Prince Charles’s coronation if the Duchess of Cornwall is Queen Consort.

Harry is said to be steadfast in his decision de‐ spite the Queen giving Camilla her seal of ap‐ proval to use the title if the Prince of Wales is to become King.

A report in one publication alleged: “One red line has recently emerged, however.

“Harry has no intention of attending his fa‐ ther’s coronation if Camilla is to be anointed and crowned just a few feet from where his moth‐ er’s coffin lay in Westminster Abbey. “[The Queen] may have given her blessing to Camilla becoming Queen Consort, but Harry re‐ fuses to bend.”

The Queen has clearly and publicly given her

THE defence ministry in Russia has threatened UK diplomats in Ukraine.

Diplomats were warned that as they return to Kyiv they could be targeted af‐ ter Russia threatened to strike back at ‘decision‐ making centres’ in Ukraine, regardless of whether diplomats from other countries including the UK are present.

NO INTENTION: Of attending coronation.

backing to Charles’s wife to be Queen Consort in a move to shape the future of the monarchy.

In a written message to the nation, the monarch said: “It is my sincere wish that, when that time comes, Camilla will be known as Queen Consort as she continues her own loyal service.”

Russia’s UK threat After the UK’s Armed Forces Minister, James Heappey, outlined the UK’s support for attacks on Rus‐ sian supply lines, a Russian spokesperson commented: “As we have warned, the Russian armed forces are in round‐the‐clock readi‐ ness to launch retaliatory strikes with high‐precision

long‐range weapons at de‐ cision‐making centres in Kyiv.

“The presence of advis‐ ers from Western coun‐ tries in the Ukrainian deci‐ sion‐making centres won’t necessarily pose a problem for Russia in making a deci‐ sion to launch retaliatory action.”

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Copenhagen scores

Greener greens

ACCORDING to the 2022 Wellness Travel Report compiled by Icelandair, Copenhagen came fourth based on scores across seven parameters with success in internet speed, safety, quality of life and healthcare and good results in air pollution and climate, but performed badly in the cost-of-living category.

AS golf becomes an ever more popular participant sport in Denmark, a special project financed by the European Union will see five clubs in Copenhagen attempt to become greener by phasing out diesel driven mowers and replacing them with electric robotic machines and even burning the rough.

THE NETHERLANDS King’s Day

New record

FOR the first time in three years, the Dutch were able to celebrate King’s Day on Wednesday April 27 in the usual manner.

Members of the Royal Family who were on the streets in Masstricht attracted a crowd of some 40,000 and all passed peaceably.

AS Dutch trawlers bring up rubbish in their nets, rather than throw it back into the sea as they might have in the past, they now return it to the shore for disposal and in 2021 they had a record haul of 756 tonnes.

BELGIUM Bronze conundrum

Fewer permits

HAVING lost the relevant file and clearly embarrassed that the government sold a stolen Nigerian Bronze for €240 in 2007, the Belgian authorities are investigating the purchaser, as if he knew it was stolen, he could be prosecuted for handling stolen property.

IN order to cut down on bureaucracy and unnecessary paper work, it is now no longer a requirement to obtain a permit to introduce bicycle lanes, solar panels and street art murals in Brussels, provided all meet certain pre-set requirements.

GERMANY Oil agreement

Tehachapi quilters

DIFFICULT times need difficult solutions and it seems possible that the German reliance on Russian oil could be resolved thanks to a proposed agreement with Poland, which would see Germany ship oil to Gdansk from abroad and later deliver it to Germany through the Pomeranian pipeline.

A GROUP of quilters in California’s Tehachapi Mountain have come to an arrangement with quilters in Germany to send them unique blocks of fabric, which they in turn make into finished quilts which are then given to the children of Ukrainian refugees.

FRANCE Three cherries

World’s oldest

AFTER being elected as president for the second time, Emmanuel Macron’s first public outing was a visit to the French town of CergyPointoise. No sooner had he arrived than he was greeted with a barrage of cherry tomatoes, but his security protected him with an open umbrella.

SISTER ANDRE, a French nun who recently celebrated her 118th birthday, is now the world's oldest known person, following the death of a Japanese woman who was just one year older. Now blind and living in a home in Toulon, she still attends Mass daily.

NORWAY Ukrainians banned

Burning question

THE Ukrainian Ambassador to Norway applied for permission to walk with a group of Ukrainian children in Norway’s annual May 17 children’s parade, but his request was rejected as the parade committee said that it would be inappropriate as it is not a political event.

A STUDY of the views of Norwegians on the matter of the burning of religious symbols carried out by the Institute for Social Research has found that 30 per cent who responded were in favour of the action as a freedom of expression.

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turnover (most of it outside of Spain) during 2021 has been announced by Spanish family company Cosentino Group which produces special surfaces for buildings.

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ON April 29, Minister of Economic Affairs, Nadia Calviño and Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero advised that the Spanish government had revised its forecast of GDP growth in 2002 downwards from 7 per cent to 4.3 per cent.

Expected year end deficit to be 5 per cent.

NatWest profits DESPITE potential problems with customers’ ability to pay off loans, NatWest not only posted much larger than expected pre‐tax profits for the first quarter of 2022, 40 per cent up at £1.2 billion, it was even able to reduce bad debt provisions by £38 million.

Legal anomaly THE Spanish Corporation of Registrars has highlighted an anomaly in Spanish law so that unlike other members of the European Union, it is not possible to identify the partners of a limited company which complicates the fight against money laundering and seizing Russian owned assets.

Money released IN the 1970s, Britain made a great deal of money supplying arms to the Shah of Iran and after the Islamic Revolution in 1979, it kept hold of £400 million. On Wednesday April 27, the Governor of the Central Bank of Iran confirmed that the money had been repaid.

Ted Baker sale ALTHOUGH not originally for sale, British fashion brand Ted Baker has received a number of offers of interest to purchase the company which has more than 350 stores worldwide. After an initial approach from one investor, there were quick follow ups from Authentic Brands Group which has recently taken over sports clothing manufacturer Reebok and then a further expression of interest from American private equity firm Sycamore Partners. Initial valuation appears to be in the region of £250 million, although a statement from Ted Baker indicated that offers received so far undervalued the company which in turn saw shares push upwards.

Minister Maroto in centre with Michael O’Leary on the left.

RYANAIR has celebrated its 20th anniversary in Spain and explained its contribution to the Spanish economy and so‐ ciety on Thursday April 28.

To do this, it has released a study by the consulting firm PwC which considers the im‐ pact of corporate activity in Ryanair as a generator of more than €14 billion per year to the Spanish economy.

From modest beginnings with its first Spanish flight to Girona in 2002, Ryanair cur‐ rently invests more than €8 billion in 27 airports, of which 10 are bases and supports more than 300,000 indirect and 6,000 direct jobs, offering

more routes and connections than any other airline in Spain.

Since the beginning of its operations in Spain in 2002, Ryanair has transported more than 400 million passengers to/from Spain, bringing signif‐ icant benefits to the Spanish economy and society as a whole.

Ryanair is committed to con‐ tinuing to grow and develop in Spain and its autonomous communities for many more years to come through collab‐ oration with associated air‐ ports, the government and lo‐ cal tourist organisations, working to reduce access costs

that make Spain attractive to airlines.

The company plans to grow to 225 million passengers in 2026 following a strategy that is in line with what its cus‐ tomers are looking for, a greater range of destinations throughout the year and at low prices.

Minister of Industry, Com‐ merce and Tourism, Reyes Maroto, praised the role of Ryanair in contributing to the connectivity “of Spanish desti‐ nations that were previously off the radar of tourists, such as Girona, Santiago, Malaga, Sevilla or Alicante, among oth‐ ers.”

ECB criticises limit on cash payments A STATEMENT by the Organisa‐ tion of Consumers and Users (OCU) said that the European C e n t r a l B a n k ( EC B ) d o e s n o t agree with Spain’s tax evasion law which limits the amount of cash (€1,000) that can be used for payments as: The limit of €1,000 is dispro‐ portionate.

This limitation will have ad‐ verse effects on the legal ten‐ der status of euro banknotes.

By significantly reducing the ability of payers to use euros, the freedom of citizens to choose the means of payment is also reduced.

The penalty regime laid

down in the law is excessive: the fine of 25 per cent of the amount paid is, in the view of the European Central Bank, too high.

In addition to this, cash pay‐ ment is of great importance, especially for certain social groups, which is why the Euro‐ pean Central Bank also makes several points in this respect; Cash is widely accepted.

It is fast, and allows transac‐ tions to be settled instantly.

It is an always‐available op‐ tion, as it does not require an operational technical infras‐ tructure and related invest‐ ments, issues that need to be

taken into account in situa‐ tions such as power outages or failures of electronic payment systems.

It makes it easier for payers to control their own spending.

It is the only means of pay‐ ment that does not entail the legal possibility of charging a fee for its use.

Cash payment is not subject to daily or weekly payment limits set by banks.

According to the ECB “Cash is essential for elderly users, mi‐ grants, the disabled, socially vulnerable citizens and anyone with limited access to digital services.”

Fill your Boots FOUNDED in 1849 as a single chemist shop in Nottingham, Boots grew into the largest pharma‐ cist in the UK with more than 2,000 stores and has changed hands on a num‐ ber of occasions.

Currently owned by US‐ based Walgreen, it is known to be up for sale at an expected price of around £6 billion and once again, what is seen as a British institution is in the sights of another American investment company Apollo Global Management, but there appears to be a new play‐ er circling the company.

Reports suggest that looking to possibly form an alliance with Apollo is Indian billionaire Mukesh Ambani who could, if suc‐ cessful, see the chain ex‐ pand into Asia and the Middle East.

Cryptocurrencies being used more ON April 26, the Bank of Spain published a report explaining how Spaniards and other Europeans have been using cryptocurren‐ cies during the last year.

The report concludes that Europeans prefer to use decentralised services a n d u n b a c k e d c r y p t o ‐ a s‐ sets such as Bitcoin and Ethereum possibly as there is less chance of tracing transactions.

According to Spain’s Cen‐ tral Bank, more and more money is being spent in Eu‐ ro using crypto‐currency and during the period un‐ der review, with a total of €845 billion it is now con‐ siderably greater than in Canada and the USA. One surprising statistic revealed that contrary to general opinion, just 1 per cent of transactions ap‐ peared to involve illegal ac‐ tivities.

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COMPANY PRICE(P) CHANGE(P) 3I Group 1.314,00 1.332,00 Abrdn 187,05 189,70 Admiral Group 2.507,0 2.540,0 Anglo American 3.443,0 3.547,5 Antofagasta 1.532,50 1.558,50 Ashtead Group 4.177,0 4.360,0 Associated British Foods 1.606,0 1.621,5 AstraZeneca 10.594,0 10.660,0 Auto Trader Group Plc 629,20 631,80 Avast 569,20 571,20 Aveva 2.030,0 2.066,0 Aviva 430,80 435,20 B&M European Value Retail SA490,80 497,40 BAE Systems 732,77 736,20 Bank VTB DRC 1,000 1,000 Barclays 146,84 148,32 Barratt Developments 495,10 502,00 Berkeley 4.065,0 4.092,0 BHP Billiton Ltd 2.684,00 2.730,00 BP 383,50 387,95 British American Tobacco 3.329,0 3.350,0 British Land Company 510,60 515,40 BT Group 179,10 182,10 Bunzl 3.081,0 3.093,0 Burberry Group 1.571,5 1.583,5 Carnival 1.258,5 1.294,0 Centrica 80,04 80,66 Coca Cola HBC AG 1.632,0 1.656,0 Compass 1.695,00 1.704,00 CRH 3.170,5 3.252,5 Croda Intl 7.792,0 7.860,0 DCC 5.988,0 6.014,0 Diageo 3.983,5 4.009,5 DS Smith 326,30 330,00 EasyJet 561,20 571,80 Experian 2.813,0 2.842,0 Ferguson 10.000,0 10.255,0 Flutter Entertainment 8.028,0 8.182,0 Fresnillo 758,00 780,33 GlaxoSmithKline 1.807,80 1.811,80 Glencore 489,55 492,80 Halma 2.439,0 2.463,0 Hargreaves Lansdown 941,20 955,60 Hikma Pharma 2.024,00 2.043,00 HSBC 491,70 502,10 IAG 143,40 145,62 Imperial Brands 1.637,25 1.666,50 Informa 572,80 578,60 InterContinental 5.198,0 5.240,0

% CHG. 1.300,00 187,00 2.492,0 3.429,5 1.513,50 4.176,0 1.591,5 10.516,0 622,00 562,20 1.895,5 428,70 487,40 717,20 1,000 142,34 493,00 4.008,0 2.672,50 378,40 3.268,5 508,20 178,45 3.073,0 1.554,0 1.258,5 78,88 1.605,0 1.678,00 3.163,5 7.668,0 5.928,0 3.952,0 324,20 559,60 2.770,0 9.990,0 7.882,0 752,47 1.781,20 482,50 2.422,0 937,40 1.992,50 489,45 141,66 1.627,50 572,00 5.104,0

NET VOL 1,09M 2,55M 142,29K 2,43M 489,45K 561,49K 623,72K 987,51K 427,52K 132,32K 393,26K 2,16M 1,76M 5,71M 0 34,90M 986,01K 108,48K 1,97M 19,17M 1,92M 406,38K 5,28M 238,04K 350,17K 362,01K 3,10M 1,33M 591,82K 283,41K 102,54K 39,15K 1,39M 1,20M 1,06M 481,29K 285,29K 220,31K 163,08K 4,35M 19,08M 298,87K 268,10K 193,25K 14,69M 10,31M 887,58K 1,25M 170,24K

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Intermediate Capital Intertek ITV J Sainsbury Johnson Matthey Land Securities Legal & General Lloyds Banking London Stock Exchange Meggitt Melrose Industries Mondi National Grid NatWest Group Next Norilskiy Nikel ADR Ocado Persimmon Phoenix Prudential Reckitt Benckiser Relx Rentokil Rightmove Rio Tinto PLC Rolls-Royce Holdings Rosneft DRC Sage Samsung Electronics DRC Sberbank Schroders Scottish Mortgage Segro Severn Trent Shell Smith & Nephew Smiths Group Spirax-Sarco Engineering SSE St. James’s Place Standard Chartered Taylor Wimpey Tesco Tui Unilever United Utilities Vodafone Group PLC Whitbread WPP

1.522,00 5.038,0 73,80 227,10 1.870,5 754,60 249,40 46,10 7.844,0 773,20 115,25 1.460,00 1.228,00 223,30 5.952,0 1,89 915,00 2.100,0 603,40 999,60 6.202,0 2.418,00 548,00 611,80 5.637,0 82,38 0,60 729,00 1.266,50 0,0453 2.830,0 885,00 1.365,50 3.164,0 2.173,0 1.313,50 1.456,50 12.090,0 1.866,50 1.274,00 542,00 127,55 272,20 228,80 3.656,5 1.165,50 126,84 2.835,0 983,60

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1.544,50 5.062,0 74,80 235,50 1.897,0 762,20 251,20 47,41 8.010,0 774,00 117,95 1.487,25 1.228,50 226,40 6.042,0 1,89 957,40 2.128,0 604,60 1.012,00 6.218,0 2.424,00 550,40 616,80 5.736,0 84,88 0,60 731,20 1.281,50 0,0453 2.922,0 902,60 1.371,00 3.169,0 2.188,5 1.321,50 1.466,50 12.190,0 1.868,50 1.309,00 561,40 129,25 275,20 232,80 3.656,5 1.167,50 127,00 2.891,0 990,40

1.513,50 4.982,0 73,20 222,60 1.850,0 752,60 248,10 45,80 7.812,0 772,20 113,25 1.455,00 1.194,00 222,30 5.902,0 1,89 910,00 2.078,0 600,20 996,20 6.102,0 2.379,00 533,60 602,60 5.615,0 82,18 0,60 713,80 1.264,50 0,0453 2.828,0 882,80 1.355,00 3.113,0 2.119,0 1.286,00 1.453,50 11.815,0 1.834,50 1.270,00 524,47 125,70 269,10 226,50 3.564,0 1.142,50 125,74 2.790,0 978,80

1,12M 119,95K 4,71M 7,86M 256,29K 390,64K 5,29M 104,91M 194,00K 543,76K 17,01M 837,71K 2,50M 6,99M 111,81K 0 1,20M 626,00K 385,74K 2,48M 419,83K 1,12M 2,03M 1,21M 1,99M 24,47M 0 746,36K 7,90K 0 603,57K 1,53M 638,30K 140,20K 6,05M 1,39M 489,29K 77,64K 760,00K 1,45M 1,65M 5,48M 7,31M 1,32M 1,86M 410,80K 38,96M 1,27M 3,51M

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US dollar (USD) ........................................1.0505 Japan yen (JPY)........................................137.57 Switzerland franc (CHF) ...........................1.0222 Denmark kroner (DKK) .............................7.4421 Norway kroner (NOK) ...............................9.8759

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PRICE 145,35 178,32 235,25 160,46 151,98 203,91 155,57 49,70 65,45 66,75 313,25 306,07 186,76 135,88 45,98 183,12 121,80 251,64 87,94 284,79 124,16 161,49 180,56 173,10 517,51 49,12 220,72 44,49 155,31 113,49

CHANGE 146,16 180,78 242,91 161,11 156,76 207,69 157,68 49,76 65,63 68,04 317,60 306,84 188,22 136,85 46,09 183,49 123,17 252,30 88,32 287,61 125,24 162,07 182,82 175,00 519,59 49,17 224,93 44,90 155,91 116,00

CHANGE% VOLUME(M) 144,19 456,28K 177,61 359,59K 233,34 2,16M 158,93 25,87M 150,58 2,73M 202,29 1,53M 154,93 1,11M 49,20 3,65M 64,51 5,21M 66,50 970,41K 312,41 319,34K 303,08 600,11K 186,23 378,51K 134,87 590,10K 45,65 4,51M 181,93 1,49M 121,51 2,38M 248,08 715,93K 85,46 4,75M 281,46 7,03M 122,60 1,52M 159,28 1,63M 179,81 2,31M 172,18 130,74K 515,48 335,05K 48,57 4,97M 219,67 2,82M 44,18 754,32K 154,14 773,52K 113,07 3,79M M - MILLION DOLLARS

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Currency outlook: War in Ukraine and central bank rate speculation drives currency volatility

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

Euro EUR/GBP: Unchanged at £0.83 EUR/USD: Down from $1.10 to $1.09 The euro trended broadly lower over the past month, with ongoing concerns over the war in Ukraine infusing considerable volatility into the single currency, due to the Eurozone economy’s vulnerability to the conflict.

At one point this allowed EUR exchange rates to spike on reports of ‘constructive’ progress being made in peace talks and hopes for a face-toface meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky.

However, these hopes were almost immediately scuppered, following reports of alleged atrocities committed by Russian troops in the town of Bucha, prompting the euro to shed most of its gains as Zelensky suggested this would make future negotiations difficult.

The pressure on the single currency was then reinforced by the European Central Bank (ECB), which struck a disappointingly cautious tone in the wake of its latest policy meeting.

Looking ahead, the situation in Ukraine will no doubt continue to act as a key catalyst for the euro in the coming weeks. This could leave the euro

EURO: The pressure on the single currency was reinforced by the European Central Bank.

exposed to further losses so long as peace talks remain at an impasse.

Pound GBP/EUR: Unchanged at €1.20 GBP/USD: Down from $1.32 to $1.30 The pound was also infused with some volatility as a result of the war in Ukraine as an uneven market mood unsettled the increasingly risk-sensitive currency.

GBP investors grew increasingly concerned by the war’s impact on the UK economy, amid fears a prolonged conflict could further stoke global inflationary pressures and exacerbate the UK’s cost-of-living crisis.

A hotter-than-expected inflation print offered some support to Sterling in mid-April, however these gains proved short lived amidst uncertainty

over the Bank of England’s (BoE) next interest rate hike.

There are growing doubts over whether the BoE will follow through with a fourth consecutive rate hike in May, amidst fears the UK could be at risk of a recession this year, Elsewhere the pound’s gains have been stifled

by UK political developments after Boris Johnson was issued a fine by the police for breaking lockdown rules in the ‘partygate’ scandal.

Going forward the primary focus for GBP investors will be on the BoE’s next policy decision, with the pound poised to slump if the bank ultimately opts to stay its hand in May. US Dollar USD/GBP: Up from $0.75 to $0.76 USD/EUR: Up from €0.90 to €0.91

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The US dollar trended broadly higher through April, with demand for the safe-haven currency being underpinned by a prevailing risk-off mood.

The cautious mood was driven by both uncertainty over the situation in Ukraine as well as concerns over strict Covid lockdowns implemented in parts of China and the potential knock-on impact on the global economy.

Also bolstering the US dollar in recent weeks has been hawkish Federal Reserve interest rate expectations.

A continued surge in inflation and some hawkish comments from numerous Fed policymakers helped to solidate expectations that the US central bank will pursue a series of aggressive interest rate hikes in the coming months.

However, it hasn’t all been plain sailing for the US dollar, with the inversion of the US yield curve triggering concerns the US economy could fall into a recession at some point over the next couple of years.

In the meantime however, the US dollar looks well positioned to extend its current bullish momentum, with an expected half-per cent Fed rate hike in May and ongoing concerns over the war in Ukraine likely to underpin demand for the ‘greenback’ in the near-term.

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BUSINESS EXTRA Algerian warning ON Wednesday April 27, the Algerian govern‐ ment warned Spain that if it supplied any Algeri‐ an gas to Morocco, it would terminate sup‐ plies gaining a response from Spain’s energy minister saying that it would not sell Algerian gas. Spain also imports gas from France, Qatar and Nigeria.

Inflation down PRELIMINARY figures released by Spain’s Na‐ tional Statistics Institute for April show that in‐ flation has dropped from last month’s 9.8 per cent to 8.4 per cent, thanks mainly to lower fuel and electricity prices. The Spanish gov‐ ernment is subsidising diesel and petrol costs until July.

NEW ONLINE BETTING COMPANY GIBRALTAR had no option oth‐ er than to follow the lead of the United Kingdom and ac‐ cept the obligation to leave the European Union following the Brexit vote.

There are a number of rea‐ sons why this appeared a poor result for the Gibraltarians, not the least being that having worked hard to shrug off its perceived position as a tax haven, it had attracted a num‐ ber of overseas gaming compa‐ nies to invest there.

A number decided to either leave completely or reduce their presence on the Rock and move to what they expected to be easier EU locations such as Malta.

Now however, one company founded just six years ago in the UK and said to be worth billions, sports entertainment b u s i n e s s DA Z N h a s c h o s e n

DAZN has partnered with major sporting stars.

Gibraltar‐based Pragmatic Group to partner with and un‐ der an exclusive, multi‐year agreement, a new business headquartered in Gibraltar will launch and operate a new bet‐ ting service under the DAZN

BET brand.

According to the broadcast‐ er, responding to what DAZN customers say they want and the trend towards recreational in‐play betting, over the next few years the partnership will develop a fun, convenient, and integrated experience for ca‐ sual bettors to enjoy alongside DAZN’s live sports streaming.

S h a y S e g e v , C EO o f DA Z N Group, said, “The convergence of sports media and betting is the future. This historic part‐ nership brings together the leading sports media company and a technology partner who is committed to developing in‐ novative experiences for fans.

“It underscores DAZN’s com‐ mitment to revitalise the sports viewing experience by offering a broader spectrum of digital entertainment for fans.”

Legal tender ON April 27, the president’s office in the Central African Republic (CAR) an‐ nounced that it has adopted bitcoin as legal tender alongside the CFA France.

The CAR which is one of the poorest countries in Africa is now the second country in the world to officially recog‐ nise the bitcoin following the earlier decision by El Salvador in Central America.

With a single bitcoin currently trad‐ ing at just over €37,400, it is question‐ able how helpful this decision will be for ordinary people in the country, al‐ though some members of the elite may find that moving large amounts of money across the internet is attractive.

Checks delayed FOR the fourth time since Brexit, the UK government has delayed introducing checks on EU goods entering the UK (which were finally due to begin in July) until 2023, over fears it will cause disrup‐ tion at ports and increase delays and in‐ flation.

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TV & Film Review by Laura Kemp

LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT THIS piece is dedicated mainly to those crying into their herbal teas over the UK government’s decision to ship the rubber boat immigrants to Rwanda.

This week I received a link from a black lady living in the north of England. Her son has just resigned his position as chef at a local hotel; one of scores allocated to immigrants from Afghanistan.

Apparently he had become so upset by the constant racist and rude remarks from the ‘guests’ that he finally decided he would simply have to relinquish his position. His Mum, visibly upset on the link, then went on to explain that almost without exception, most Afghans are arrogant racists and will not even sit down with any local councillor who is black!

They also refuse to have their food served by anyone black or allow black cleaners to tidy their rooms. Those in this same hotel recently complained that their television sets were too small and all rooms subsequently had their TVs exchanged for 42 inch screens.

Hotels On arrival they are each issued with prepaid cards containing £1,000 and mobile phones. They are all signed on, given job seekers allowance and many are signed up for brand new houses. And as if this wasn’t enough, they are repaying the generosity of the British people by showing no respect whatsoever and virtually trashing these hotels with damage that could ultimately cost the taxpayer millions.

I also received a letter from a gentleman in Eastbourne, East Sussex. He told me that Eastbourne hotels, which charge around £100 a day, are full of these immigrants.

Almost beyond belief, once a week large numbers are ferried by 15 or 20 taxis for a free day at David Lloyd’s Health Club, plus a day at a nine‐hole golf club! You really couldn’t make it up.

And all this is going on while Britain’s homeless including many ex‐ servicemen are sleeping in doorways!

Still think they shouldn’t all be sent to Rwanda? Give us a break. Let us

just hope that the woke bleeding hearts brigade (and leftie money grabbing lawyers) are unable to delay this utterly commendable and absolutely necessary operation for too long.

We may as well upset everyone this week. I recently received an e‐mail attachment which showed the transgender winner of a female swimming competition in the USA. This individual was broad shouldered, six feet three in height and heavily muscled.

All power however to the female contestants who came second and third. They insisted on calling the girl who came in fourth to join them on the podium for photographs.

Well done girls, but the way things are going I’m afraid you’re in one race you will be extremely lucky to win; unless of course the world sport governing organisations decide to use some common sense and label this whole exercise completely illegal.

Keep the faith Love Leapy leapylee2002@gmail.com To read more articles from our columnists and to have your say in the comments go to www.euroweeklynews.com

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The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes THE fascination with Marilyn Monroe and the details sur‐ rounding her death is still pre‐ sent today, and this Netflix documentary delves a little deeper into the life of the icon‐ ic movie star and her personal conversations with her inner circle. This documentary has a disappointing 41 per cent critic rating and a 21 per cent audi‐ ence rating on Rotten Toma‐ toes, however, I think it is worth a watch for those inter‐ ested in the popular sex sym‐ bol. Monroe’s death in 1962 at the age of just 36 has been a controversial topic over the years, given her close relation‐ ships with President John F Kennedy and his brother Bob‐

by Kennedy. The documentary is the creation of investigative journalist Anthony Summers, following a three‐year investi‐ gation into her death in the 1980s. Summers returns to the investigation and narrates the documentary, which is based on interviews with thousands of people and 650 hours of

recorded audio, which serves as the backbone for the docu‐ mentary. Monroe was known to have kept secrets and, by the time of her death and the height of the Cold War, Mon‐ roe was celebrated as Ameri‐ ca’s most famous ‘dumb blonde’. Just three months af‐ ter the infamous performance at Madison Square Gardens for the President’s birthday, she was found dead.

Monroe’s case was officially closed following a botched in‐ vestigation riddled with flawed evidence, inconsistent state‐ ments and a conflicting time‐ line. However, this documen‐ tary debunks the theory that she was murdered after inter‐ views with the ambulance company owner, Walt Schae‐ fer, who claims that she died in an ambulance on the way to the hospital.

This is a fascinating docu‐ mentary, particularly because of the previously unheard con‐ versations with Marilyn and her closest confidants.

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ELON MUSK, the world’s richest man, gets a lot of flak about his wealth and passions (buying Twitter, the latest).

People ask: ‘Elon, how about doing something worthwhile?’ Well, what about virtually creating the electric car industry, building a Hyperloop, SpaceX? Not forgetting Starlink, with‐ out which Ukraine communications wouldn’t exist.

Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk are all products of the US ethos of every‐ thing is possible no matter what class you belong to or what school you went to. Also the big three weren’t focused on making money initially. They wanted to develop products benefiting mankind and started at the bottom against the odds working day and night for virtually nothing, often in the garage. In 2008, facing bankruptcy, Elon put in all the money he possessed because he had a vision of what could be achieved with Tesla and SpaceX ‐

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THAT’S RICH! THE WORLD’S ENTREPRENEUR BILLIONAIRES

ELON MUSK: He had a vision.

the sign of a true entrepreneur. In the UK, Richard Branson is probably the closest to the big three above.

Problem is, the UK doesn’t really en‐ courage thinkers anymore. True, we’ve produced Sir Clive Sinclair, Turing and Berners‐Lee. But we’ve become too cautious and, instead of cheering on those with inventive minds, we often just knock them.

Many recoil at the very mention of extreme wealth, but forget that some of the world’s richest people worked hard to acquire it. Bill Gates was per‐ sonally involved with writing the codes which evolved into the software that runs on so many of the world’s com‐ puters. And has given over $50 billion to the Gates Foundation which seeks cures for infectious diseases.

Gates and the founders of Amazon, Tesla, Facebook etc are all en‐ trepreneurs who have created, mainly through their own drive and determi‐ nation, substantial and reputable busi‐ nesses serving millions of customers

and employing hundreds of thousands of staff. One hundred and fifty years ago, the list would have been dominat‐ ed by people who inherited their wealth across centuries, originally ac‐ quired by men who waged wars and unleashed barbaric kinds of violence.

Speaking of which, can you buy Rus‐ sia and sack Putin, Elon?

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THIS week, hearty pat on back, deafening sounds of cheers and ticker tape falling like snow from the Sierra Nevada, I have com‐ pleted my and my son’s tax returns.

The dreaded Renta. All online, not a gestor or visit to the good folk at the Ha‐ cienda in sight.

My son will receive a re‐ bate (hooray) but I, howev‐ er, owe them money (Boo! How? I have one job which is taxed at source.).

True it is a nominal sum but still…Thankfully the pro‐ cess for filing tax returns on‐ line in Spain is now much easier than it was 15 years ago.

When I first filed my own returns one had to down‐ load a complicated bit of software and try to negoti‐ ate a dense, terminological jungle of scary and impene‐ trable tax speak…in Spanish.

Now, however, one can even file the return in En‐ glish. I kid you not. English!

In the past the thought of filing made me sweat with terror and consider the pros and cons of faking my own death.

Death and taxes, as the saying goes, can never be avoided, and for the most part nor should they (al‐ though, I would much pre‐ fer not to be in the room when it happens, as Woody Allen once said) tax is there

SUZANNE MANNERS

SAVING: For our own retirement.

to pay for the infrastructure of our privileged lives; hos‐ pitals, schools, pensions etc.

We who work pay tax to save for our own retire‐ ments and pay for the pen‐ sioners and those less able than us who cannot work.

We pay to educate the next generation who will then in turn pay for our pensions.

We pay for light, security and health.

Spain is the country I have chosen to live my life in and the country in which I shall retire, having earned the right to enter into its pen‐ sion system. So while my

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Death and Taxes taxes support today’s pen‐ sioners, so will the taxes of the next generation support my own retirement. Neat and decent and thoroughly human. We work to live and to look after those less for‐ tunate…unless you are a ‘nom dom’.

Billionaires, oligarchs, overpaid and over entitled movie stars, sports stars, CEOs, politicians and their spouses and hedge fund foragers savagely guarding their piles of unimaginable wealth.

They earn more than they will ever spend in their life‐ times and pay less tax than a sloth minding its own business in a rapidly defen‐ estrated rainforest.

You and I cannot avoid tax, but it seems that the more you earn the more you can slip by it unnoticed, by taking the dark and dubi‐ ously legal pathways open by extreme wealth. We plebs then are forced to lis‐ ten while a pampered politi‐ cian who inherited Daddy’s billions tells us all to stop

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putting on the heating and wear more jumpers and maybe just get up off your a**e and work; this last a

quote from someone born into privilege who’s idea of work is sitting in front of a camera preening.

Ultimately and unavoid‐ ably, Death, my friend, comes for us all…dressed as a tax collector.

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UK TV: Gone completely woke.

Hi there How I agree with you about TV in the UK now. I wonder if Barclays Bank have any white customers as their last three adverts were only showing nonwhite actors.

Last Sunday we went to Benidorm Palace to see the Manfreds. It was a brilliant show, but I do not expect to see them on UK TV anytime soon as they tick all the wrong boxes - they are elderly, white, male and don’t swear!!

Regards Roger

Two points of view How refreshing that at last we are able to read contrasting comments in the Euro Weekly News, for far too long Loopy Lee has been able to air his racist white supremacy capitalist views with little rebuff, but now we appear to have a regular weekly column by Claire Gordon that outlines the vast difference of opi-

nion between extremism and moderation, it’s almost like having the Sun newspaper and the Daily Mirror on the same page. Well done to the editor, now we really can call it the People’s Paper.

Ramon

UK has gone woke

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Totally agree with Leapy.

Been saying this for months. The whole of the UK has gone woke.

The adverts on TV are ridiculous. Can’t remember seeing an all white or all black couple depicting the subject of the advert. Why are they overstating a multi race relationship ALL the time? It’s not fact.

They are forcing us to believe that is what we MUST do.

Of course, there are a few of those relationships, but not the same percentage that these adverts show.

Who are the cretins that make these rules up?

John

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OUR VIEW

HOW different things might have been if the Conservative Government under David Cameron had had the foresight to implement the election pledge to grant voting rights to all British expatriates living abroad.

There could have been time to push through the bill meaning that those who had lived abroad for more than 15 years could have had a part in deciding the most important vote in living memory.

One can understand that there is actually a strong argument against those living abroad from voting in general elections as they are not really affected by the results but for the Brexit Referendum, they were and still are intimately involved.

The actual limit is arbitrary and has changed from as little as seven years to more than 15 but it was Conservative policy that the time limit should be scrapped

and it supported a private members’ bill to this effect.

An estimated 2.3 million Britons live abroad and now following the vote in parliament on April 28, they will all have the right to vote in UK General elections and in 2019, almost 250,000 who had been out of the UK for less than 15 years did so.

Anecdotal evidence suggests that a number of those living overseas supported Brexit and for those living outside of the European Union it probably meant little, It is however probably safe to assume that the majority of those living within the 27 member states actually didn’t support Brexit and although it is too late to do anything about it, those affected by the changes are probably a little resentful about their inability to influence such an important change to their lives.

CORRECTIONS

COST OF LIVING: Does it cost you €100 per day in Spain?

Sounds like with this and everything else Spain doesn’t want tourism. Wake up or tourists will be going elsewhere to support those economies.

Jim Fraser €100 per person? Or per family? In actual cash? As people use cards more now or you take out from ATM whilst on holiday, so basically impossible to implement.

Leanne Evans So for a family of four for 14 nights that £5,600. Probably won’t have paid that for the holiday. Ridiculous.

Karen Preece Strange calculation because on that basis you can stay 10 days for what people who live there spend in a month.

Chris McGovern Who on earth decided that you need that amount, is that per person, obviously they don’t want holidaymakers to come. So stupid.

Neil Hutchison I can see holiday firms being inundated with cancellations. In fact I’m booked for October in Mallorca but looking at switching to Greece now.

Neil Hutchison Looks like Spain has too much tourism and wants people to go elsewhere.

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Hadron super collider reboots THE Hadron Collider is the world’s largest and highest‐energy particle collider. It was built by the European Organisation for Nuclear Research (CERN) between 1998 and 2008 in collaboration with over 10,000 scientists and hundreds of univer‐ sities and laboratories, as well as more than 100 countries. It lies in a tunnel 27 kilometres in circumference and as deep as 175 metres beneath the France‐ Switzerland border near Geneva.

Following three years of maintenance, consolidation and upgrades, the Hadron super collider has rebooted and immedi‐ ately broke a world energy injection world record.

Restarted on April 22, the collider has since circulated two beams of protons in opposite directions at a record energy in‐ jection of 450 billion electron volts (450 GeV).

The restarting of the collider is the be‐ ginning of preparations for four years of physics‐data taking that is expected to start this summer.

CERN’s Director for Accelerators and Technology, Mike Lamont said: “The LHC itself has undergone an extensive consoli‐ dation programme and will now operate at an even higher energy and, thanks to major improvements in the injector com‐ plex, it will deliver significantly more data

Hadron super collider reboots and immediately breaks world record.

to the upgraded LHC experiments.”

Once at full speed the collider is expect‐ ed to break even more records with the energy and intensity of the beams ex‐ pected to deliver up to 13.6 trillion elec‐ tron volts (13.6 TeV).

The increased energy coupled with a new specialised detector, ALICE, scientists will be able to record up to 50 times more ion collisions. That means being able to study the Higgs Boson, the fabled God Particle, in greater detail putting the Stan‐ dard Model of particle physics and its var‐ ious extensions to the most stringent tests yet.

Most importantly the new tests will im‐ prove physicists’ knowledge of cosmic‐ ray physics and the quark‐gluon plasma, a state of matter that existed shortly after the Big Bang ‐ hence the name the God Particle as scientists believe this is where everything that we know started.

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Vienna International Convention on Consular Relations events CONSULAR MATTERS THE Malaga Consular Body has organised the commemo‐ rative events of the Vienna In‐ ternational Convention on Consular Relations signed in 1963. The Consular Body of Malaga is made up of almost 50 accredited consulates.

The Vienna Convention states that consular relations have existed between people for centuries and has taken in‐ to account the Purposes and Principles of the Charter of the United Nations relating to the sovereign equality of States, the maintenance of peace and security and the promotion of

PICASSO MUSEUM: One of the events which was held in Malaga.

friendly relations among na‐ tions. The first consular repre‐ sentation in Malaga was a commercial agreement signed in 1641 with Denmark.

It seemed evident that an in‐ ternational convention on con‐ sular relations, privileges and immunities would contribute to the development of friendly relations between nations, re‐ gardless of their differences in constitutional and social sys‐ tems of each country and awarding that the purpose of said privileges and immunities is not to benefit individuals, but to guarantee the consular offices the effective perfor‐ mance of their functions on behalf of their respective countries.

Among the commemorative

acts of this 59th anniversary, the Consular Body of Malaga organised an academic confer‐ ence about the consular func‐ tion for the morning of April 28th 2022, at Law School of Malaga University where the panelist talked about the diplomatic and consular rela‐ tions and public international law. Likewise, the Consular Body of Malaga held a cocktail party in the Gardens of the Pi‐ casso Museum in Malaga.

In the photo with my col‐ leagues, is the German and Ukranian general Consuls at the Picasso Museum.

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7 surprising things that harm your gut bacteria KEEPING your digestive sys‐ tem happy is not just about diet. Continue reading to find out seven surprising things that may be harming your gut bacteria without you realising it.

Smoking and alcohol Smoking and alcohol influ‐ ence the variety of microor‐ ganisms in our large intestine.

These changes can lead to an increase in pathogens, produc‐ ing inflammation and pain.

Lack of exercise Good fitness has been asso‐ ciated with more Akkermansia muciniphila, which has anti‐in‐ flammatory effects and could be used to prevent obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Antibiotics Antibiotics prevent bacteria from multiplying and have saved millions of lives. Howev‐ er, they affect both good and bad bacteria. They can cause harmful changes in the diversi‐

DIGESTIVE SYSTEM: There are several things that can cause harm.

ty of gut flora.

Stress When under stress, the body releases cortisol. This hormone affects the smooth muscles of the digestive tract, producing alterations in the large intestine that affect the intestinal flora and cause in‐ flammation and pain.

Poor diet A lack of diversity in gut bac‐ teria slows recovery after ex‐ posure to infection. A diet rich in whole foods provides your gut with a variety of nutrients

that help promote the growth of different types of bacteria.

Lack of sleep Your body has its own inter‐

nal clock, called the circadian rhythm. It seems that the gut also has a circadian rhythm.

Disrupting this through lack of sleep can have harmful effects on gut bacteria and may be linked to obesity and type 2 di‐ abetes.

Travel Making long trips can tem‐ porarily affect our gut bacteria.

These disruptions cause cer‐ tain microorganisms to in‐ crease and others to decrease.

Recovery from this can take up to 48 hours after travelling.

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DAVID WORBOYS THINGS could be a lot better these days. In the last few years, we have experienced a number of setbacks, some of them seemingly irre‐ versible. The greatest issue glaring at us right now must be climate change. If this is irreversible, then in the longer term, all other prob‐ lems, however serious at present, will soon be irrelevant. Let’s just hope that we can take all necessary measures in time.

The Russians could rise against Putin if they have the will or the courage, and Ukraine can be rebuilt.

Covid will phase itself out in the face of increasing immunity and scientific solutions. Inflation will eventually re‐ cede as the economic cycle pro‐ ceeds. Declining standards in every‐ thing may be halted by a general realisation that quality products and pride in service still matter. Mean‐ while, huge damage has been in‐ flicted by all these factors.

Other problems may not be re‐ versible. The transgender move‐ ment, artificial intelligence, intensive

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COULD IT BE WORSE? Climate change and artificial intelligence - life could be a lot worse than it is today.

farming and Kim Jong‐un’s dynasty could be here to stay.

Could it get worse? Well, there could be five different sexes in vari‐ ous permutations; our minds may be controlled by humanoid robots; we could be cloning sheep and goats for factory farming; and Kim may strike and subjugate South Ko‐ rea.

Yes, it certainly could be worse than it is. As I sit here, China has not invaded Taiwan, Singapore and

Japan. In Western Europe we are not at war and there has not been a global outbreak of bubonic plague for quite a while. Europe has no Zimbabwe‐style hyperinflation and acceptable goods and service can still be found.

There are advances in communi‐ cation, science and technology. Tes‐ la cars are manufactured entirely by robots and advances continue to be made in medical research, if not in treatment.

Meddling around with nature will most likely be the cause of the ex‐ tinction of the human race and our planet. Already the joys of romantic and physical love are not what they were 90, or even 60, years ago in a less cynical world. Then we were ei‐ ther masculine or feminine and our mental and physical differences mu‐ tually attracted each other. Widely reported waning interest in sex and increasing sexual confusion could unsettle society as we know it ‐ and

even affect procreation.

The other enduring dangers we face are potentially apocalyptic. We have been granted the ability to cre‐ ate artificially intelligent machines able to think more quickly and make broader decisions than we can. Fu‐ ture intelligence may not take the form of robots, but it may be able to control and subjugate us. It may de‐ cide whether or not the human race should continue to exist.

The climate change issue may take longer. If our planet becomes sufficiently polluted, it will not be able to sustain us or any of its living creatures. If we continue to neglect the environment, we may not be controlled by robots. We simply won’t exist.

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

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

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Discover Tarragona THE port city of Tarragona in Catalonia has it all ‐ sun, sea, city and ancient ruins. Be‐ cause of this, the city wel‐ comes over four million visi‐ tors each year ‐ so what’s so special about Tarragona?

Declared a UNESCO Her‐ itage City, Tarragona was the first important Roman capital in the West and you can visit the many ancient ruins, an ideal way to get to know this part of the city’s history is to take the Roman Tarraco route.

Endless activities await you in Tarragona, as well as the numerous Roman remains, the city also boasts a wide range of beautiful sandy beaches with calm turquoise waters to enjoy. The most outstanding beach is Miracle Beach, with the amphitheatre as its backdrop ‐ which was originally used for battles be‐ tween gladiators or animal hunts.

For those who like shop‐ ping, there is a network of all kinds of shops called Rambla

HAS IT ALL: Sun, sea, city and ancient ruins.

Nova as well as large shop‐ ping centres including an El Corte Ingles. For foodies, par‐ ticularly lovers of seafood, vis‐ iting the Serrallo seaside neighbourhood is a must for fresh and local cuisine.

Stroll up from Rambla Nova and you will find the Mediter‐ ranean Balcony, with unbro‐ ken panoramic views of the sea and lots of bars, restau‐

rants and cafes. Part of the rit‐ ual is to ‘tocar ferro’ ‐ to touch the iron for good luck.

So, whether you are inter‐ ested in Roman ruins, shop‐ ping ‘till you’re dropping, re‐ laxing on the beach, relaxing with incredible views, trying out the local cuisine or explor‐ ing meandering Spanish streets ‐ Tarragona has so much to see.

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GO LOCAL THE EURO WEEKLY NEWS has urged its readers to support local businesses in the community by shopping locally in recent 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 excellent produce from known suppliers. The joy of shopping locally means that independent businesses can support the local communi‐ ty. You may find something a euro or two cheaper on‐ line but have you consid‐ ered where your money is actually going?

By shopping locally you’re putting food on a local fami‐ ly’s table and there is noth‐

ing better than giving back to the communi‐ ties that have given us so much.

Local stores support charities and they BUY LOCAL: By shopping locally, sponsor lo‐ independent businesses can help support cal sports the local community. teams. In many cases, they are much your support. Spending your more than just a business, money locally will make a they’re a legacy. They may real difference to the local have supported generations economy. Local businesses of the same family. Likewise, recirculate a greater share brand new local stores and of every euro they receive at bars may help the genera‐ local level. They create local‐ tions of the future fulfil their ly owned supply chains and dreams and ambitions. they invest in their employ‐ Remember, your local ees. store is going up against multinationals and chains.

So remember.

They can’t win that battle on When you go shopping ‐ their own. So give them go local!

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Excitement as Ospreys return to the UK.

Ospreys return CONSERVATIONISTS and bird watchers across the UK have reacted with excitement to the news that a pair of Ospreys laid eggs in Poole Harbour, Dorset, the first to do so in southern England in almost 200 years.

The nest, which is under 24 hour guard in a secret location, can be viewed live thanks to nest cameras.

The bird numbers have dwindled over the past two centuries due to persecution, hunting and habitat loss. The picture was even more dire in southern England where the birds disappeared 200 years ago, with nests plundered for eggs and birds shot for taxidermy.

In Dorset experts at the Roy Dennis Foun‐ dation and Birds of Poole Harbour have been working to reintroduce Ospreys to

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Paul Morton from Birds of Poole Harbour said: “To know there’s now an osprey egg in a Poole Harbour nest is just amazing. This is the culmination of seven years’ hard work.

Projects like this are always going to take time, but it’s such a great feeling to know that the birds have reached this important milestone, and to see CJ7 incubating her first egg is stunning.

“There’s still a lot for them both to learn as new parents, and breeding success is cer‐ tainly not guaranteed. However, everything we’re seeing at the moment is looking really positive, and hopefully by late May we’ll be‐ gin to see them feeding their newly hatched fledglings.”

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A high BMI A LARGE scale survey has found that people who are over the age of 80 and have a BMI that is higher than recommended may live longer.

The research undertak‐ en in China found that weight guidelines should be changed for this age group, as those that apply to younger people may not be appropriate. Most guidelines suggest that someone with a score above 25 is considered overweight and 30 obese.

Xiaoming Shi at the Chi‐ nese Centre for Disease Control and Prevention in Beijing said the guidelines are largely based on mea‐ surements from younger age groups and might not be appropriate for an old‐ er and less active person.

Shi and his colleagues studied mortality risk in over 27,000 people over

Those over 80 with a higher BMI may live longer.

the age of 80 from across China. With an average age of 93, the study start‐ ed in 1998 and ended in 2018 or until the partici‐ pant died.

On average they found that the optimal BMI for over‐80s was around 29, driven by a lower risk of death from non‐cardiovas‐ cular causes such as cancer or respiratory disease. This group also had a lower risk of death from cardiovas‐ cular diseases, but the re‐

lationship was weaker.

Even those with a BMI in the ‘obese’ range, be‐ tween 30 and 35, had a lower mortality rate than those in the 20 to 25 range.

The team, who account‐ ed socioeconomic status, education background and whether a person smoked, said it is unclear why a higher BMI is linked with a lower mortality rate and that it may be due to diet.

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From a private collection THE temporary exhibition ‘Lost Heritage, Recov‐ ered Heritage’ (Patrimonio perdido, patrimonio re‐ cuperado) can be visited at the Diocesan Museum of Sacred Art in Orihuela until Wednesday, June 1, from Tuesday to Sunday and on public holidays from 10am to 2pm, and also from Tuesday to Satur‐ day from 4pm to 7pm. The exhibition consists of three pieces from a private collection in Murcia that serve as a guide to the evolution of 18th and 19th‐ century sculpture in the south‐east of Spain, which was significantly marked by the work of the Mur‐ cian sculptor Francisco Salzillo Alcaraz.

The image of the Virgen del Socorro by José Caro Utiel and Francisco Salzillo; the carving of Saint An‐ thony, by José López; and the drawing of the Last Supper that Santiago Baglietto designed for the Venerable Third Order of Saint Francis of Orihuela are the main features of the exhibition. For more in‐ formation, visit https://museodeartesacro.es/.

LOST HERITAGE: One of the pieces exhibited.

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Guys and Dolls IN New York, a gambler is chal‐ lenged to take a cold female mis‐ sionary to Havana with the hidden motive of financing a crap game, but they end up falling for each other. All the hot gamblers are in town, and they are all depending on Nathan Detroit to set up this week’s incarnation of ‘The Oldest Established Permanent Floating Crap Game in New York’. The only problem is that he needs $1,000 to get the place. Trying to get the gamblers to change their wicked ways are the members of the Sal‐ vation Army’s Save‐A‐Soul Mis‐ sion, led by General Cartwright, played by Lonee Hopwood, and Grandma Peggy, played by Judith O’Neill.

Studio 32 believes that they have assembled one of the best vocal casts that they have ever had for this performance and do not want anybody who enjoys musicals to miss out on seeing this fantastic show. For this reason, they are of‐ fering groups of 20 or more who use their online booking service to book for the performances on Wednesday, May 18, and Thurs‐

FUNDRAISING: For the charity, Help at Home.

Glamour Glamour Fashion Show The Salvation Army members.

day, May 19, a discount of €24. The money will be refunded on the night of the performance when the ticket receipt is shown at front of house. There will also be a compli‐ mentary drink upon arrival and at the interval.

For further information, call 679 062 272 or 636 020 547. To book tickets online, visit www.studiothir tytwo.org and for any further ques‐ tions and advice on how to use the online booking service email stu dio32shows@gmail.com. Tickets will also be available at the door on the night of the performance.

THE charity Help at Home Costa Blanca will be hold‐ ing its next fundraising event from 12pm to 4pm on Thursday, May 12, in collaboration with Glam‐ our Glamour Fashion Shows, a high‐quality ladies’ fashion company in Spain. Lunch costs €16 and includes a glass of wine.

The event will take place at Panache Restau‐ rant in Cabo Roig and pro‐ ceeds will go towards helping those in need in the community. Those wishing to attend are ad‐ vised to book as soon as

possible as the previous event sold out very quick‐ ly. Call 645 290 780 to book. More information, as well as the menu, can be found at https://www.facebook.co m/helpathomecaboroig.

The Help at Home vol‐ unteers offer short term support and assistance for people of all ages in their own homes. The ar‐ eas covered are from Pi‐ lar de Horadada to La Ma‐ rina, including Torrevieja, Quesada, Rojales, San Luis, La Zenia, Playa Fla‐ menca and all areas of Orihuela Costa.

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PETS

Advertising Feature DIRTY AND HAPPY canine centre is a dog daycare, pet hotel and dog training ser‐ vice located on the road from Los Mon‐ tesinos to Ciudad Quesada, near the Zoco market, where the experienced team will treat your animals as if they were their own pets.

Dirty and Happy covers the Alicante south area including Torrevieja, Orihuela Costa, Guardamar and Rojales, offering a pet boarding service with spacious kennel facilities. Each of the rooms are eight square metres and there are several play‐ grounds where guests spend the majority of their time.

During the day, Dirty and Happy has a dog daycare service where they look after dogs while their owners are working or running errands. The team is made up of experts in the animal world who have years of experience in the field.

Dirty and Happy also offers dog training services with its team of dog trainers who have over 20 years of experience in cor‐ recting behavioural issues, as well as train‐ ing courses for puppies where basic train‐ ing and tricks are taught in order to prevent future issues. Basic training cours‐ es for adult dogs are also available as well

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Dirty and Happy offer 10 per cent dis‐ counts for pets staying with them on a long‐term basis, as well as other discounts on multiple pet boarding for the same family.

If you would like to find out more about what Dirty and Happy can do for you and your beloved pets, head to their Facebook page ‘Dirty and Happy Centro Canino’ or their Instagram page ‘@dirtyandhappy’.

You can also contact them via WhatsApp on 617 117 151 or email via info@dirtyandhappy.com.

DOGS will often beg for food or find sneaky ways to get their paws on extra treats, but not all foods are safe for dogs to eat. Below are some of the foods that are poisonous to our furry friends to avoid ill‐ ness and even fatalities.

Onions, garlic and chives Whether dry, raw or cooked, foods in the onion family are particularly toxic to

Toxic food to avoid dogs and can cause damage to red blood cells and gastroin‐ testinal irritation.

Chocolate However much dogs enjoy it, chocolate is poisonous to dogs as it contains theo‐ bromine which is toxic to dogs and can cause kidney failure.

Macadamia nuts Macadamia nuts contain a toxin that can affect your dog’s muscles and nervous system.

Avocado Avocado plants contain persin in the leaves, fruit and seed, which causes vomiting and diarrhoea in dogs.

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Five tips on caring for older dogs ALTHOUGH offering all our love and enhanced care, our dog is very important and it helps them live better. The truth is that the longevity of our pet is largely related to its breed, weight and size. In fact, dogs with greater weight and size, as a general rule, tend to live less years than small dogs. Also breed, diet, ge‐ netics and environment have an impact on a dog’s life ex‐ pectancy. Although veterinary medicine has extended the lives of dogs, with the right combination of attention and preventive care, it is important to incorporate some strategies.

1. Watch your dog’s diet. Mature dogs often have food issues, including problems chewing, lack of appetite, obesity and diges‐ tive difficulties.

2. Exercise your dog’s body. Like people, ageing dogs experi‐ ence pain and have difficulty performing physical activities they used to enjoy, but exercise continues to be imperative to their health and mind.

3. Dental hygiene is particularly crucial. Regular brushing and professional cleaning can prevent dental disease.

4. Visit the vet more often. Take your dog in for a vet checkup at least twice a year. Monitor changes in behaviour, appetite, weight loss or gain, dental issues, and any lumps or lesions and bring them to your vet’s attention.

5.Make your house comfortable for an old dog. Keep food and water in areas they can easily reach, heated beds can allevi‐ ate painful joints in case colder days, avoid sliding floor and use ramps to get into the car.

In Costa Blanca Sur: www.resonanciaveterinaria.es Centro Veterinario de Diagnóstico por Imagen de Levante C/Los Arcos 23 Ciudad Quesada, Rojales. Tel: 609 779 109

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ROAD TEST

by Mark Slack THE advent of the electric car has produced an array of striking car designs from the stylistically avant‐garde to interiors that resemble a modern incarnation of a Conran shop. However, for some manufacturers it’s evolution rather than revo‐ lution and Volkswagen is arguably the main propo‐ nent of this ethos. It has served them well as can be seen by the second‐hand values of cars like the Golf.

The purpose‐built ID range of EVs ‐ ID3, 4 and 5 ‐ is a complete range of models from hatchback, to SUV and Coupe.

Prices for the line‐up start at €42,626/£35,835 and its design is such that the uninformed would be hard pressed to know it doesn’t have a combustion engine under the bonnet.

Unless of course it glides past you in a car park or city street. It’s essentially an EV Golf in all but name and many people I spoke to agreed, in fact some even

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VW ID4 - practicality for your EV shortlist thought it was a new Golf.

My test model was the ID4 SUV that offers six trim levels with prices starting at €43,479/£36,550. There are four battery options with ranges stretching from 213 miles up to 320 miles, and pow‐ er options from 148PS up to 204PS. As with MPG figures the ranges quoted are ideal world, which you are unlike‐ ly to achieve. Having said that some EVs are now get‐ ting much closer to their potential maximum range and the ID4’s range seemed pretty good.

Standard fare includes navigation, dual zone cli‐ mate, heated front seats, wireless mobile phone charging and LED lighting.

The interior is functional, although looks better in this writer’s view in lighter colours, with nicely clear graphics. Gear changes, such as they are in an auto‐ matic, are controlled via a

ID4: Handles well and feels confident even on winding cross-country roads.

l e v e r mounted to the side of the steering wheel instrument panel, not unlike a column change for those old enough to re‐ member such things.

On the road the ID4 is commendably refined with little in the way of road or wind noise and there’s a general feeling of airiness and space. Power is good, as with all EVs, and the ID4 can easily leave other traf‐ fic in its wake, meaning a keen eye needs to be kept on prevailing speed limits.

Facts at a Glance Model: VW ID4 Life Pro Performance Engine: Li-lon 77kwh 204PS Gears: Automatic Performance: 0-100 km/h (62 mph) 8.5 seconds/Maximum Speed 160 km/h (100 mph) Range: up to 320 miles Emissions: 0 g/km (WLTP) Price as tested: €51,744/£43,500 Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

It handles well and feels confident even on winding cross‐country roads. It’s one of those cars that feels

so comfortable longer dis‐ tances shouldn’t be an is‐ sue, not least due to its electrically induced silence.

If you’re looking to switch to a practical EV then the ID range really has to be on short list.

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WHENEVER you receive the notification of a traffic fine, the first thing you should do is check who has issued you with the fine. It could be from an autonomous community, or the city council, and to pay it, claim against it, or make any allegation, you must always go to the body that has sanctioned you.

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How to obtain and pay a discounted DGT traffic fine If the fine is from the DGT, they give you the possibility of paying it in a voluntary period. This period includes the first 20 calendar days from when the complaint was notified to you. In most

Cost of running out of fuel on the road RUNNING out of fuel whilst driving in Spain could be a very costly affair if a traffic police patrol happens to come along at that unfor‐ tunate moment in time. The General Direc‐ torate of Traffic (DGT) has a selection of four different fines that the officers can apply in situations like these. We should know, there is no actual fine for running out of fuel, only for the consequences.

The easiest solution is to not reach that stage and to always stop and fill the tank with plenty of notice. Driving a vehicle until it reaches the very end of its fuel supply can be harmful to the engine if sediment or impuri‐ ties that normally collect at the bottom of the tank should be sucked into the fuel sys‐ tem. It is possible that your vehicle could run dry and end up stranded in the carriageway.

If your vehicle starts stuttering, the sign it is running out of fuel, you might panic and pull the vehicle up somehow facing in the wrong direction. This would be the first €200 fine.

Once a vehicle runs dry, the power steer‐ ing normally stops working, which means you might have to get out and start pushing

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your vehicle out of the road. This is another €200.

From the moment you step out of your vehicle on a road, by law you are required to warn other roads users. You must wear a re‐ flective vest, as must all passengers who exit the vehicle. A new V‐16 warning beacon must be placed on top of the vehicle, or, fail‐ ing this, the old‐type warning triangles. Any failure in these aspects can incur a fine of €80.

Usually, once parked up, the instinct is to call for the tow truck. It is always advisable to check this in your insurance policy, and know where to find the number quickly.

Should you decide to make your way on foot to the next service station, this is when you could receive the biggest fine. It is essen‐ tial that any container you transport fuel back to your car with, is approved. The transportation of dangerous goods ‐ which petrol or diesel are classed as ‐ is regulated by law. Any container, regardless of capaci‐ ty, that is not approved, can land you with a hefty fine of up to €3,000.

cases, this process offers a 50 per cent reduction in the amount of the fine.

You can of course always dispute the fine, and make an appeal against it. The only danger with this is that if your appeal is eventually dismissed, you have then lost the chance to get the discount, and must pay the fine in full. The DGT always re‐ minds drivers that the payment of fines can never be divided, or postponed, and has to be paid in

full, in one amount. Once the 20‐days voluntary period has expired, the ordinary period begins.

This lasts up to 45 days from receiving the notifica‐ tion, and now, 100 per cent of the penalty must be paid. If this 45‐day period also expires without the fine being paid, then it will automatically be passed to the State Tax Administration Agency.

They will be in charge of collecting the money, with a 20 per cent surcharge added.

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EPR TRIUMPH IN ALBUFEIRA Real Madrid ESQUINA PARK RANGERS returned from their long trip to the East Algarve on April 25 & 26 with their Over 50s team winning the East Al‐ garve Tours Plate Trophy in one of the biggest tourna‐ ments in Walking Football.

The Plate Trophy was the part of the tournament where teams who didn’t qualify from their group for the main Cup event played in the Plate Trophy. After losing their first match 1‐0 to visiting English team Kingsmead, they went on to beat the Silver Coast Strollers 6‐0, drew 0‐0 with East Algarve Olhao before losing 1‐0 to 1874 North‐ wich. They had done enough to reach the semi‐ final where they took their revenge on the unbeaten Kingsmead, who hadn’t conceded a goal, drawing 0‐0 and winning 1‐0 on a penalty shoot‐out; Each team taking a penalty until one was missed.

EPR: Won the East Algarve Tours Plate Trophy.

They then faced East Al‐ garve Olhao again in the fi‐ nal and emerged victors af‐ ter another penalty shoot‐out winning 1‐0 to bring the Plate Trophy back to the Costa Blanca.

So congratulations all round to Esquina Park Rangers Over 50s team bringing a prestigous tro‐ phy to the Costa Blanca.

The Over 60s team failed to make an impact in their group against tough oppo‐ sition.

The Costa Blanca Walk‐ ing Football League got

under way again with Hondon Valley Flyers gain‐ ing the three points they needed to close the gap on league leaders Porto‐ bello with a narrow 2‐1 win at Formentera who remain without a win and bottom of the League. A close game as always with the ‘Flyers’" doing enough to clinch the three points they needed.

Portobello entertained Camposol (Murcia) in two ‘warm up’ friendlies in preparation to maintain their lead at the top of the

CBWFL with the second half of League fixtures about to resume.

The ‘Porto’s’ Over 50s had a 7‐0 win while the Over 60s faced tougher op‐ position but came out on top 2‐0.

More fixtures and results in next week’s Euro Weekly News. Make sure you get you copy.

Pinoso Walking Football Club are looking for Over 50s who think they could ‘strut their stuff’ again, but at a much slower pace.

Walking Football is an ex‐ cellent exercise with no running and minimal physi‐ cal contact.

Why not drop in to one of their sessions where you will be given a warm wel‐ come and learn what it’s all about.

For more information see the club Facebook page, the CBWFL Facebook page or contact www.wfai.info.

clinch LaLiga

REAL MADRID thrashed Espanyol 4‐0 on Saturday, April 30 at the Santiago Bernabeu to wrap up their 35th LaLiga title. With four matches still to play, Carlo Ancelotti’s team has an unassailable lead at the top of the table.

Two goals from Rodrygo, and one apiece from Marco Asensio and Karim Benzema sealed a brilliant win against their lacklustre opponents.

At 62 years old, Carlo Ancelotti has achieved an un‐ precedented fifth title in five different European leagues. The Italian coach has now won the title in 2004 with Milan in Italy, 2010 in England with Chelsea, in France in 2013 with PSG, in 2017 and 2018 in Germany with Bayern Munich, and now today, in Spain.

Portuguese coach Jose Mourinho has managed to win in four different leagues in Portugal, England, Italy and Spain, while Giovani Trapattoni equalled this in Italy, Germany, Portugal and Austria.

Often criticised for the way he sets his teams up, the Italian’s track record as a master tactician cannot be questioned as he enters the football record books.

The celebrations will be short and sweet as Ancelot‐ ti and his men turned their attention to Champions League second‐leg tie with Manchester City on Wednesday May 4. They trailed 4‐3 from last week’s leg at the Etihad in England.