Costa Blanca South 2 - 8 June 2022 Issue 1926

Issue No. 1926

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WEDDING BELLES

Fashion show raising funds.

Linda Hall SAN FULGENCIO’S Asociacion de Ayuda al Necesitado (AAN) charity raised €530 with a fashion show.

The AAN’s full name, which translates as Help for the Needy, speaks for itself as the association uses the funds that it raises to provide food for the vulnerable families and residents in San Fulgencio

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This is later distributed through the Social Services department at San Ful‐ gencio Town Hall.

“I’d like to say a big thank‐you to Michelle, who provided the background music that accompanied the fashion show,” AAN president Brenda Bentley said afterwards.

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Big thanks “Thanks must also go to Jack’s Bar and the Kosy Korner who gave us the use of their premises so that we had a catwalk for our models. And, as always, huge thanks to the public for their con‐ tinued support,” she said.

One of the high spots of the fashion show ar‐ rived with the entrance of the models who swept in wearing wed‐ ding dresses and carrying bouquets. Adding fur‐ ther authenticity, each was on the arm of a man to give her away and at‐ tended by bridesmaids.

“We have five bridal gowns in total and if any‐ one would like to buy one I can be contacted on 634 301 070,” Brenda said, in a gentle reminder that the fashion show with its grand finale was also fundraiser to ensure that the AAN can contin‐ ue to help those in need.

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No tax but less room Time to go

Linda Hall ORIHUELA’S last plenary council session voted to sus‐ pend the terrace table tax un‐ til 2024. In the meantime, deputy mayor Jose Aix who is also councillor responsible for Urban Development, accom‐ panied by Public Safety coun‐ cillor Antonio Sanchez, ex‐ plained that city hall was reorganising the areas occu‐ pied by tables and chairs in public spaces.

“We worked shoulder to shoulder with the hospitality sector inside the city, in outly‐ ing areas and in Orihuela Costa to provide help when help was most needed during the pan‐ demic,” Aix said. “The initiative was a good one, both eco‐ nomically and as regards

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CHECKING UP: Orihuela’s terrace tables will occupy their original areas, councillors said.

health and safety.” When the hospitality sector works well, commerce works well, he pointed out: “That is why we supported and still support them.” At the same time, An‐ tonio Sanchez announced that the Local Police have recently been out on the streets, gradu‐ ally correcting the public spaces occupied by cafes, bars and restaurants. “We are

BARS and restaurants in Elche’s Glorieta are in the midst of an ongoing conflict with pigeons.

The problems became apparent when adjoin‐ ing Calle Corredora and Plaça de Baix were turned into peaceful pedestrian areas, Roberto Sanchez, manager of a 100 Montaditos franchise explained to the local Spanish media.

No longer startled by passing traffic, they are

marking out the area that cor‐ responds to each terrace ac‐ cording to regulations while meeting the public’s needs with more room to park and less noise,” Sanchez said. “To sum up, we have taken these steps to assist the economy, the hospitality sector and com‐ merce while reactivating Ori‐ huela’s streets and making it easier for residents to rest.”

Pigeon problems gaining in confidence, he said, and the number of pigeons in the area has increased ten‐fold.

“This is constant,” Sanchez complained. “They are no longer afraid of people and now ap‐ proach the tables when they are eating. They even get inside the kitchens.”

THE 500 or so chickens in Torrevieja’s parks and open spaces are to be moved elsewhere The town hall is paying an outside company €8,470 to begin by trapping the chickens that live in the Estacion park and the Jardin de las Naciones gardens as well as the immediately ad‐ joining zones. Animal Pro‐ tection councillor Concha Sala explained that her de‐

partment has received a growing number of com‐ plaints from residents in the affected areas.

“We have decided that the chickens’ coexistence with residents and visitors is not viable,” she said.

The town hall empha‐ sised that the chickens would not be killed but tak‐ en to farm schools and ani‐ mal sanctuaries instead.

TLC for Pilar’s beaches ACCUMULATED Posidonia seaweed is now being re‐ moved from Pilar de la Ho‐ radada’s Puerto beach.

This has had to be car‐ ried out under a special contract since last winter’s severe storms deposited more seaweed than was allowed‐for in the town hall’s contract for cleaning and maintaining the local beaches, municipal sources explained.

Coastal authority Costas’ Provincial Service will redis‐ tribute the Puerto Playas sand that has been dredged from the harbour entrance between Pilar’s Conde, Jesuitas, Rocamar and Mil Palmeras beaches.

The town hall itself will be responsible for taking sand to the Las Villas, Higuericas and Mojon in the municipality’s southern areas.

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NIBS EXTRA Summer influx TORREVIEJA mayor Eduardo Dolon recently congratulated Miguel Minguez on his new appointment at the head of the Generalitat’s Health de‐ partment, replacing Ana Barcelo. Dolon also request‐ ed a meeting to discuss the Torrevieja Health district, which will have to cope with a population due to triple during the summer.

CAT scanners THE regional government’s Health department an‐ nounced that it is spending almost €11 million on 18 new CAT scanners for the Va‐ lencian Community’s hospi‐ tals. Alicante General, Elche General as well as the hospi‐ tals of Torrevieja, Orihuela‐ Vega Baja, Elda, Alcoy and Denia will each receive one of the new scanners.

Sweet dreams CAMPERVANS will have a 15,000‐square metre parking area in Arenales del Sol, in‐ stalled on land that over‐ looks the Carabassi beach and was used until now as an improvised car park. The motorhomes, now legally al‐ lowed to park overnight, will have Wi‐Fi, electricity and fa‐ cilities for emptying their wastewater.

Fiesta bounty BENEJUZAR councillors vot‐ ed unanimously to modify the town hall’s Budget to in‐ clude €178,000 for the local fiestas. An adjustment was necessary as the town hall still works with a carried‐over Budget and for the previous two years had reduced the allocation to €80,000 owing to the pandemic.

Palmed off A LA MATANZA (Orihuela) man was accused of stealing 400 palm trees worth €120,000 growing on land he ceded to a garden centre to pay off a debt. The company involved planted 743 trees but recently discovered found more than half had disappeared, presumably sold by the landowner.

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Please Mr Postman Linda Hall ORIHUELA City Hall and its coastal pedanias (subdivisions) called for a return to door-to-door postal deliveries.

In 2014, Spain’s postal service Correos asked the National Markets and Competition Commission (CNMC) to class Mil Palmeras, Dehesa de Campoamor La Zenia, La Zenia II, La Regia and Cabo Roig as ‘special districts’ not needing doorto-door deliveries.

The CNMC granted Correos’ request that year, after which residents had to collect mail at their local post office.

Last February, sub-divi-

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MAIL DELIVERIES: Luisa Bone and sub-division mayors demand a door-to-door service.

sion mayors Modesto Veloso, David Gonzalez and Fermin Gonzalez applied to Orihuela City Hall, asking the Urban Development and Internal Procedures departments to provide technical reports that would demonstrate they were not ‘special districts’ and back up their arguments for

Success at last THE Sailing Association Mar Menor (SAMM) had many cancellations due to the terrible March weather.

After the World Championships and Dragon Boat rac‐ ing at CTD were called off, and SAMM’s Race officer con‐ tracted Covid, success finally arrived when the first race day was held in early May. “The races went well except for a couple of minor inci‐ dents,” said SAMM’s chairman Terry Chapman.

“The format was Average Lap racing and the Race offi‐ cer set a sausage‐style course for 14 competitors on eight boats.”

The SAMM association was founded in 2006 to help sailors of all levels of experience to understand the rules and procedures of registering and operating boats in Spain.

It also sets out to provide opportunities for members to form groups to share their particular boating or sailing interests.

The association is based in Los Alcazares on the Mar Menor, Europe’s largest saltwater lagoon although mem‐ bers live and sail along the Costa Calida and Costa Blanca.

postal deliveries.

The six mayors have now written to the CNMC, enclosing technical reports and asking for the ‘special districts’ classification to be revoked.

Internal Procedures councillor Luisa Bone explained that her department has compared Hidraqua water

Folk Club fundraiser THE Madhouse, near Villa‐ martin, and the English Music and Folk Club recently held a fundraising concert for Ukraine.

The Folk Club’s house band, the Scratch Band, were de‐ lighted to report that €1,096.17 was raised on the night although to date subse‐ quent donations have brought the total to €1,125.

Members Donie O’Brien, Clare O’Brien, Margaret Hooks, Michael Hooks, Ian Smith, Carol Smith and Gar O’Brien (in spirit) played to a full house all evening and of‐ fered a big thank‐you to the splendid Madhouse audience.

“We hope that everyone enjoyed it as much as we

Fine weather for the Celts THE Celts Club de Golf’s May Championship was held on a very warm day at La Serena (Los Alcazares, Murcia) on Sunday May 22.

“Thankfully the wind got up by early morning to take some of the heat out of the day,” John O’Brien said. “The weather is really fantastic for the new greens and once

again the grass takes on its green hue after the long win‐ ter sleep.”

The restaurant staff coped very well with First Commu‐ nion at the same time as the Celts’ prize presentation, he added.

“Camillus and his trusty team of Philip and Alan looked after all our needs

bills and Padron numbers for the six sub-divisions.

“The census does not correspond to the number of residents. Furthermore, it is very important to bear in mind the significant number of foreign residents as well as this population’s advanced age,” Bone said.

“We have been discriminated because the former city hall did not defend their interests,” Modesto Veloso said.

“We are ready to take this as far as necessary so that justice is done and hundreds of La Zenia residents will no longer need to go to Playa Flamenca to see if they have post.”

and we literally just turned up and played golf. On behalf of all the members, thank you,” John said.

Camillus also reminded members to contact him if they were sharing a buggy or car‐pooling so that he could draw players as close as pos‐ sible to each other on the timesheet.

did,” they said afterwards.

Special thanks went to Tiffany Ritchie for support from the Madhouse, John Sandell for raising €166 by making and selling ribbons in the Ukraine colours and to the generous Folk Club mem‐ bers who donated all the raf‐ fle prizes and individual cash donations. The Folk Club, the only one of its kind on the Costa Blanca, was started by Ian and Carol Smith in 2007 and meets every Tuesday from 8.30pm until 11.30pm at the Madhouse.

For more information about the Folk Club contact Carol Smith on the dive smith@hotmail.com email address.

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Hot trip THE latest Carp‐R‐US match was fished at the Embalse de Argos reser‐ voir for the club’s Murcia series.

“For a change we fished in hot, sunny weather, something we’d become unaccus‐ tomed to over the last few months,” club secre‐ tary Steve Fell said.

The reservoir has re‐ ceived a large quantity of water over the last few months and was a couple of feet higher than last time the club were there, and slightly coloured.

“This was also the day we said goodbye for a few months to our Welsh members, Doug and Alan,” Steve said.

A local fisherman was already in position on the pegged stretch, despite clear notices saying there was a match on and since he refused to move, the pegs had to be adjusted to accommodate him.

Alan Davis won the match with 40.4 kilos from peg 10, with the next three places going to Doug Hornblow (36.6 kilos), Alan Smith (30 ki‐ los) and Ian Brown (29 ki‐ los).

“It’s pleasing to report that all 10 anglers who fished, caught,” Steve said.

For more information about Carp‐R‐Us, visit www.carp‐r‐us.weebly. com or on the Carp‐R‐Us Fishing Costa Blanca Facebook page.

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THE Club de Tenis Torrevieja recently enjoyed a double tri‐ umph. The club’s Charo Esquiva is now Junior champion of the Valencian Community, following her Sunday May 29 victory at the David Ferrer academy in La Nucia in the Under‐16 category with a 6‐0, 6‐1 victory over Carla Verdu.

This means that Charo can now go through to compete in the Spanish championships, the Club de Tenis explained.

The girls’ Under‐13 team had another victory at the Masters match in Valencia on May 29, reaching the final against Club de Tenis Solmar, which the team won 7‐0.

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Xtreme Bike Challenge ALICANTE will host a stage of the Xtreme Challenge on Fri‐ day, June 3 and Saturday, June 4 as thousands of bikers from Spain and across Europe descend upon the city to tackle three different courses.

This year, Alicante City & Beach Tourist Board will host the event, which is also set to be held in Mérida, Madrid and Córdoba.

Alongside the racing, major motorbike brands will also be displaying their new products for bike enthusiasts.

Deputy Mayor and head of the Alicante City & Beach Tourist Board, Mari Carmen Sánchez, said: “This event is an opportunity for hundreds of fans from the rest of the coun‐ try and from other parts of Eu‐ rope to discover Alicante.

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ALICANTE: Thousands of bikers will arrive in the city.

“We find the idea of com‐ bining tourism with the love of motorbikes interesting,” she said.

Participants can choose be‐ tween three different levels: Rookie (350 kilometres); Pro (500 kilometres) and Ultra

Xtreme (more than 650 kilo‐ metres) and will be able to ob‐ tain the routes at the begin‐ ning of the event or via the Gas Biker app.

The event takes place in the VB Space hall, at Avenida de Elche, 186.

Fire station hours summer extension THE Provincial Consor‐ tium of Firefighters of Alicante has agreed to extend the summer opening hours of the fire station in Pilar de la Horadada.

The councillor for Public Safety said that normally the fire sta‐ tion would be “open from July 15 to September 15, but for summer 2022 they will be open from July 1 to September 30.”

Marina Sáez thanked the President of the Consortium, Javier Sendra, for offering Pi‐ lar de la Horadada the extra time.

Marina Sáez said that Pilar de la Horada‐ da has “the largest for‐

est territory between Pinar de Campoverde, Pinar de la Perdiz and Sierra Escalona in the municipality of the Ve‐ ga Baja” and as such, the presence of the Fire Department dur‐ ing the three strongest months of the summer “is an essential and very necessary ser‐ vice.”

The service will be provided for 12 hours a day, from 10am to 10pm, and will consist of a corporal and three firefighters with a heavy pump vehicle and fire engine.

The town hall is also providing a fire engine with a capacity of 3,000 litres.

THE Torrevieja Com‐ bined Services Group (TCSG) are celebrating the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee of June 3 and 4.

“Come and create your own memories,” said Tony Jenkins, chairman of the Royal Navy Association (RNA).

The celebrations at the OASIS in San Luis, Torrevieja, continue from 11am‐3pm on both days with a free bazaar of stalls and, on Saturday June 4, the sounds of Big FM Radio and a fashion show between 1pm and 2pm.

Friday June 3 sees a three‐course dinner, a ticket‐only event which costs €22.50 per person and in‐ cludes a raffle, in sup‐ port of the Torrevieja Combined Services Group.

Guests arrive at 6.30pm to the Torre‐ vieja Pipe and Drums and will be greeted with cava or orange juice.

June 4 is the day to get your glad rags on ‐ although dress is ca‐ sual ‐ with a street party that starts at 6pm with music of the era and a sing‐along for those who want to join in.

Tickets cost €12.50 per person.

The meal of party food of the era in‐ cludes sandwiches, biscuits, Victoria sponge, jelly and tri‐ fle.

Both evening events are ticket‐only, obtained at the OASIS along with more in‐ formation.

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Head-on collision Anna Ellis A TRAFFIC accident in Abanilla on Sunday May 29, left three people in‐ jured, with the most seri‐ ously injured being taken by helicopter to a hospital in Alicante.

An emergency 112 call was made to the emergen‐ cy services in Murcia at 2.01pm to report the head‐on collision. The im‐ pact between the two cars

left one of the persons in‐ volved in the collision trapped inside the vehicle.

The accident occurred on the road from Hondon de las Nieves to Alguena, very close to the Alicante provincial boundary, in the area of Canada la Lena, Abanilla, according to the local Spanish press.

Two of the three in‐ volved in the crash were transferred by ambulance

to a hospital in Alicante, which is in the Valencian Community. The third per‐ son, who had the most se‐ rious of injuries was taken by helicopter to the hospi‐ tal.

The extent of the vic‐ tims’ injuries is as yet un‐ known. The Guardia Civil, firefighters and two ambu‐ lances were dispatched to the scene in response to the call.

Matthew Roscoe TORREVIEJA has invested €63,000 to rejuvenate the sand on Los Locos beach, which was severely affected by the strong winds, high rainfall and sea storms that battered the Alicante coast‐ line in March and early April 2022.

Following the various damages caused to the coastline of the province

Ayto Torrevieja

Torrevieja sand change

Rejuvenating the sand.

of Alicante, immediate ac‐ tion was deemed neces‐ sary, so an executive order for works was passed on

April 11.

As a result, around 2,500 tonnes of sand will be trans‐ ported to Los Locos beach in lorries, deposited, spread and levelled out.

The city council noted that the new sand will have the same physical and chemical characteristics as the current sand, which was topped up previously in 2019.

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Missing man Anna Ellis LATE on Monday morn‐ ing, May 30, the Special Group of Underwater Ac‐

tivities of the Guardia Civil found the lifeless body of a young man.

The 26‐year‐old had disappeared a day earlier

when he tried to swim across a reservoir in Cre‐ villente, Costa Blanca.

The young man, said to be of Colombian nation‐ ality, his partner and oth‐ er family members had visited a reservoir before the victim and a friend tried to swim the 25 me‐ tres shore to shore.

When his friend had crossed the reservoir he turned and found that the victim was sub‐ merged in the water halfway across the other side, in an area, with a depth of about five me‐ tres.

The body which was recovered was found in an area where bathing is prohibited.

The diving group of the Guardia Civil searching for the young man strug‐ gled with the lack of visi‐ bility in the water which was ‘very cloudy’.

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Business boom Matthew Roscoe THE mayor of Elche, Carlos González, announced that there has been a remarkable growth in the number of businesses launched in the municipality in the first quar‐ ter of 2022.

According to Social Securi‐ ty Statistics from the GVA, there are 11 per cent more companies in Elche than be‐ fore the Covid‐19 crisis.

As noted by González, this has occurred alongside the growth of permanent con‐ tracts and the number of So‐ cial Security registrations ‐ which is at the highest in his‐ tory.

González stated that there are 7,327 companies in Elche corresponding to the first quarter of 2022, compared to 6,626 in the same period of 2020, before the start of the crisis generated by the pandemic.

“This means that, at the moment, there are 11 per cent more companies in

GROWTH: Figures show a remarkable recovery in Elche.

Elche than before the crisis in 2020, which is a really posi‐ tive figure and shows that

there is a recovery in Elche after two really complicated years.”

No language school A NEW branch of Spain’s Official School of Languages (EOI) has been denied for Santa Pola by the Generalitat Valen‐ ciana.

Santa Pola Mayor Loreto Serrano said: “We are very dis‐ appointed because the Generalitat has confirmed that they are not going to approve the section for Santa Pola next year.

“They have not given us any technical arguments and we understand that it is a political decision that directly affects almost 100 Santa Pola residents who regularly attend the EOI, but who have to travel to Elche.”

EOIs are a nationwide network of publicly funded lan‐ guage schools in Spain that are found in most substantial towns and dedicated to the specialised teaching of modern languages, not just Spanish as a second or foreign language but any modern language for which there is significant de‐ mand.

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THE Region of Murcia con‐ tinued to improve its do‐ nation rates, with 29 mul‐ ti‐organ removals in the first five months of the year, according to recent data.

The figure represented three more organ dona‐ tions than in the same pe‐ riod last year, which made it possible to carry out a

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Organ donations increase total of 126 organ and tis‐ sue transplants in the dif‐ ferent hospitals in the Re‐ gion, 22 more than in 2021.

The Virgen de la Arrixa‐ ca University Hospital

continued to be the lead‐ ing hospital in Spain in terms of obtaining donors, with a total of 66 in 2021.

Speaking on Tuesday, May 31, the Regional Min‐

Summer School

FREE PLACES: Are on offer at the Municipal Summer School.

SAN JAVIER is offering free places for this year’s summer school which will run during the mornings of July and August for children from three to 12‐years‐old.

From Tuesday, May 31 until June 8, resi‐ dents can apply for one of the 560 free places offered by the Municipal Summer School 2022 of San Javier.

The Summer School is divided into fort‐ nights and will operate during July and August from 9am to 2pm, with the possibility of re‐ questing an extension from 7.30am to 2.30pm, although in this case there will be limited places, as well as those for children

with special needs, which will also be limited.

The only requirement to apply for one of these free places at the Summer School is to be registered in the municipality of San Javier, although, in the event of vacancies, children enrolled in centres in the municipality without being registered may apply.

Applications must be submitted at the Town Hall Registry, the Registry of the Social Services Centre in Santiago de la Ribera, or through the electronic site of the town hall of San Javier.

Places will be allocated on a first‐come, first‐served basis.

ister of Health, Juan José Pedreño, said: “On Wednesday, June 1, we are celebrating National Organ Donor Day in trib‐ ute to all the families who generously donated the

organs of a loved one af‐ ter their death to give life to other sick people.”

Regional organ dona‐ tion activity was the third highest in the country in 2021, at 52.3 per million

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inhabitants, 12 points above the national aver‐ age. In 2020, this figure stood at 51 donors per million, reaching 79 in to‐ tal.

“I want to thank the sol‐ idarity of the people of Murcia, which has al‐ lowed the Region to record these excellent rates,” José Pedreño said.

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PADDLING: Stand up in Santa Pola over the weekend.

Santa Pola SUP Matthew Roscoe ON Thursday, May 26, Alicante City Council announced that the third edi‐ tion of the World SUP Festival will take place in Costa Blanca next month.

Alicante Provincial Council an‐ nounced the third edition of the World SUP Festival was to be held on the Costa Blanca on June 3, 4 and 5.

The Santa Pola event is organised jointly with Alicante City Council, un‐ der the umbrella of Costa Blanca.

Santa Pola will offer its visitors a whole weekend dedicated to paddle surfing and stand up paddle.

On Friday, June 3, the Spanish Sprint Championship will take place,

with 200‐metre races, very close to the coast.

On Saturday, June 4, the interna‐ tional race will take place in two forms: open, with a distance of seven kilometres and elite, with 15 kilome‐ tres.

And on Sunday, June 5, the Spanish Cup will take place, in which 400 ath‐ letes of all categories are expected to take part.

In addition, the international race, which will be attended by the main riders on the international scene and which includes a route that will go around the island of Tabarca, will be closely followed and broadcast on so‐ cial media platforms.

Mental health care Anna Ellis ON Wednesday, May 25, the new Regional Minister of Health, Miguel Mínguez, an‐ nounced the expan‐ sion of up to 256 places for mental health care in the Ali‐ cante region.

These places will be distributed among var‐ ious health depart‐ ments, and will be de‐ pendent upon population.

Mínguez also con‐ firmed the start‐up of three day centres for child and adolescent mental health before the end of the year.

During his appear‐ ance at the Valencian Parliament he ex‐ plained the general lines of the policy to be carried out, and has

MENTAL HEALTH: New day centres will be set up.

stressed the commit‐ ment of his depart‐ ment is to mental health.

He pointed out that, prior to the Coro‐ noavirus crisis, mental health was “one of the weak points of the

system” and that the emotional conse‐ quences of the pan‐ demic have placed it top of the agenda.

“Our commitment to mental health is clear, decisive and firm,” he assured.

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Beach bars burn TWO beach bars located in Almenara, a municipali‐ ty located in the province of Castellón, Valencian Community, were set on fire in the early hours of Friday, May 27.

Mayor Estíbaliz Pérez and residents of Almenara reacted to the destruction of two Valencian Commu‐ nity beach bars after they burned to the ground and were reduced to ashes in two acts of vandalism.

“What kind of people do this barbarity?” said the mayor of Almenara via social media.

Two fire crews from the Castellón Provincial Fire Brigade were called to the scene on Alme‐ nara beach.

A tweet from the crew said: “We intervened in the extinction of a fire that has affected almost all of a beach bar on the Almenara beach. No peo‐ ple were affected as a re‐ sult of the fire.”

According to local me‐ dia reports, Estíbaliz Pérez made contact with the owners of the affected businesses early that

morning to convey her “solidarity” and offer help to overcome the loss of their businesses ahead of the summer season.

Patrols prepared Matthew Roscoe ALICANTE is deploying the largest beach safety service in the whole of the Valencian Communi‐ ty, with nearly 100 Local Police officers pa‐ trolling the beaches; on foot, bicycles, quads and with boats and drones available for all the beaches.

Officers will be responsible for monitoring coastal areas, sand, the coastline and pedestrian walkways in Postiguet, Albufereta/Almadraba, Saladar/Urbanova, San Juan and Tabarca and will patrol them daily between 10am and 8pm.

Councillor for Safety and Security of Alicante City Council, José Ramón González, said: “It is important post‐Covid that we organise and give effective security on the beaches this year as there are no restrictive measures.”

He added: “Alicante has a police force of which we are all proud, it’s one of the best in Spain and this summer they will save lives again as in past years.”

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LOCATED on the island of Ibiza, in the Hard Rock Hotel, the Sublimotion restaurant is reopening its doors on Wednesday, June 1.

The gastronomic avant‐ garde and technological inno‐ vation creates a total emotion‐ al experience which is amazing and unique.

The restaurant is a dream that has come true for award‐ winning chef Paco Roncero.

He holds Two Michelin stars, three Repsol soles and was the winner of the National Gastronomy Award in 2006.

The restaurant has a single table with seating for 12 din‐

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One of a kind dining SUBLIMOTION: An amazing and unique experience.

ers and the owner said it’s din‐ ing at its most surreal, it’s fu‐ turistic, and thought‐ provok‐ ing.

This one‐of‐a‐kind establish‐

ment pushes the dining expe‐ rience in bold new directions by combining food, art, and il‐ lusionism into a novel, revolu‐ tionary concept that ventures

Circus animal rights Anna Ellis THERE was good news for animal rights ac‐ tivists across Spain on Wednesday, May 25 af‐ ter the government announced that circuses who use wild animals in their performances will no longer be entitled to subsidies.

In 2019, the Ministry of Culture then head‐ ed by José Guirao gave a period of three years for circuses to stop using wild animals in their shows. Otherwise, he announced that they would not be able to access subsidies through

the National Institute of Performing Arts and Music (INAEM).

Spanish circuses containing wild animals performing in other countries will be allowed to continue for another year, however.

Infocircus said there had been, “a gradual decrease in aid granted to circuses with ani‐ mals has been observed in line with the con‐ version process that circuses themselves un‐ dertook towards shows without animals.”

There are three Spanish circuses which con‐ tinue to use wild animals in their shows.

far beyond the palate.

With its own musical menu, choreographed service to match, and groundbreaking technology to awaken your senses one bite at a time, a meal there is anything but or‐ dinary.

During the theatrical gastro‐ nomic show, the lucky diners feast on avant‐garde cuisine in a high‐tech, interactive space called ‘capsule’, which serves as a blank canvas ready to be transformed into almost any‐ thing imaginable.

With a whopping price tag of €1,860 per person you would expect it to be all they claim it to be.

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Asparagus scarcity Chris King ASPARAGUS‐lovers across Spain may find it harder to get hold of their favourite vegetable after production in Granada Province is pre‐ dicted to fall by 30 per cent.

The area is one of the largest producers of aspara‐ gus in Spain.

Nicolas Chica, the gener‐ al secretary of UPA, the Union of Small Farmers in Granada warned on Thurs‐ day, May 26, that this cam‐ paign’s asparagus produc‐ tion in the province will be 30 per cent lower than the

previous one.

This is mainly the result of adverse weather, with a particularly cold spring, fol‐ lowed by a recent heat‐ wave.

A lack of rainfall during the winter season is at‐ tributed to this decline, along with a ‘lack of labour’, and ‘high costs that make harvesting unfeasible’.

“Production costs have skyrocketed, exceeding the price of boxes, pallets, elec‐ tricity, and labour, by more than 20 per cent,” added Chica.

Yes means yes Peter McLaren‐ Kennedy S P A I N’S minister of Equality said on Fri‐ day, May 27 that the green light had been given to the “only yes means yes” law.

The minister, Irene Montero, told Span‐ ish media: “I am very proud of what we have achieved. To‐ day, the feminist movement is making history again. We owed it to each of the victims.”

IRENE MONTERO: Proud of what we have achieved today.

She added: “Spain is, from today, a freer

and safer country for all women.”

Not all members of Congress were in favour of the legis‐ lation with 201 voting in favour, three abstaining and 140 voting against.

The legislation will now go to the Senate for a final vote before being signed into law.

According to the minister, the new legislation em‐ braces two key points. The first is the need for ex‐ press consent and the second the elimination of the distinction between abuse and sexual assault.

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More speed cameras Chris King DRIVERS around the pop‐ ular tourist areas of Granada and the Sierra Navada will need to watch out after the DGT activat‐ ed three more speed cam‐ eras on Friday, May 27.

The new cameras bring the total in the province up to 45.

One new camera is lo‐ cated in the South Round of Granada, on the A‐395, in the GR‐30 ring road. An‐ other has been installed on the access road to the Alhambra and Sierra Nevada, inside the Serral‐ lo tunnels.

The third device is locat‐ ed on the Circunvalacion, in the direction of Motril, near the Nevada Shopping Centre.

Each of the zones moni‐ tored by these cameras has a speed limit of 80kph, therefore any vehi‐ cle exceeding that speed from Friday, May 27, can end up with a speeding fine. Fines will vary, de‐ pending on the speed the vehicle is captured driving at, but will range from €100 to €600.

Although the DGT had installed the fixed cam‐ eras on the A‐395 in its section of the South Round back in January 2020, they had not been activated until recently.

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Bird of prey rescued Chris King SEVERAL rescues of birds of prey have been carried out after they suffered at‐ tacks in Gibraltar, and the Cadiz municipality of La Lin‐ ea.

The birds ‐ griffon vul‐ tures and eagles ‐ were all believed to have suffered wounds from various at‐ tacks by seagulls and pere‐ grine falcons.

In La Linea, workers from the municipal delegation of Parks and Gardens, led by councillor Raquel Ñeco, res‐ cued a short‐toed eagle on the eastern coast at the end of May, while it was being attacked by several hawks.

The bird was guarded un‐ til the arrival of volunteers from the Centre for the Re‐ covery of Endangered Species (CREA), who took charge of its well‐being.

This is not the first time that the Parks and Gardens Department has acted to save the lives of animals in different areas of the Linense coastline. One no‐ table intervention occurred two years ago when they located an adult eagle owl in the Venta Salvador area.

It had one of its wings dam‐ aged, probably due to a blow, and was missing an eye with a healed wound.

Counterfeit notes arrests Peter McLaren‐Kennedy THE Guardia Civil have arrested a British cou‐ ple after the hotel they were staying at alert‐ ed the police saying they were using counter‐ feit euro notes to pay. The unnamed couple aged 27 and 30, were arrested on Saturday May 28 hotel in the town of Playa Blanca‐ Yaiza.

The police were alerted on May 26 when staff identified counterfeit euro notes had been used. An investigation followed, which resulted in the identification of the

British couple.

A search warrant was obtained and when searching their hotel room police found an‐ other 51 fake notes. After questioning the couple it became clear that the notes were brought with them from the UK. According to the police, the couple have ad‐ mitted to knowingly using counterfeit notes.

They will now appear before the Arrecife Guard Investigating Court, where if found guilty they could be sentenced to prison for between eight and 12 years.

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Making history: 70 years of the reigning Queen Laura Kemp QUEEN ELIZABETH has ruled for longer than any other monarch in British history and has become a respected figure around the world. Her incredible reign has seen her travel across the globe more than any other monarch with many historic and im‐ portant overseas visits.

Her Majesty has been an important figurehead for the UK and the com‐ monwealth during times of social change and is known and respect‐ ed for her devotion to a life of service. Her charities and patron‐ ages cover many im‐ portant issues, from the preservation of wildlife and the environment to op‐ portunities for young people.

The monarch until recently still carried out a full programme of important engagements, be it visits to schools or charities, hosting visitors or leading the nation in cele‐ bratory events. She does this with the full support of other members

of the Royal Family.

The British public has seen Her Majesty carry out all of these duties as well as raising her four children, welcoming grandchildren, and now great‐grandchildren into the Royal Family.

This year on February 6, The Queen became the first monarch to celebrate a Platinum Jubilee and the world will celebrate the outstanding achieve‐ ment from June 2 to June 5 this year.

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Where to watch FOR the Queen’s Platinum Ju‐ bilee this year, there will be a four‐day bank holiday weekend from Thursday June 2 to Sunday June 5, meaning Brits will be giv‐ en two days off work to cele‐ brate! So, what Jubilee celebra‐ tions will be broadcast on TV? On Thursday, June 2, The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee: Troop‐ ing the Colour will see The Queen’s Birthday Parade shown live on BBC One at 10am. During the ceremony, the public can watch the event via large screens set up in St James’ Park, as well as watching the spectacle live on the BBC and Sky ‐ not just in the UK but overseas too.

A Service of Thanksgiving for The Queen’s reign will be held at St Paul’s Cathedral on Friday, June 3, broadcast live in BBC One at 9.15am.

On Saturday, June 4, celebra‐ tions begin at the races as The Queen and other members of the Royal Family attend The Der‐ by at Epsom Downs, which will be broadcast on ITV. The celebra‐ tions then continue into the night with the Platinum Party at the Palace broadcast live on BBC One. On Sunday, June 5, many members of the public will be celebrating in their own ways with parties and lunches, BBC One will also be showing cover‐ age of The Platinum Jubilee Pageant.

Queen Elizabeth has ruled for longer than any other monarch in British history.

Host your own Jubilee party Gran Alacant Jubilee

WHAT better way to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee than holding your own party?

You can purchase a range of Union Jack items such as flags, cups, plates, table cloths and bunting from many shops to decorate your party. If you don’t want to use Union Jack’s, why not colour code your party using red, white and blue.

For food, include some classics to add more of a patriotic flavour such as coronation chicken, cucumber sandwiches, smoked salmon and cream cheese or mini fish and chips.

For dessert, try your hand at a Union Jack topped cake or cheesecake decorated with seasonal fruits ‐ this also makes a great centrepiece.

For refreshments, opt for summer classics such as Pimms and lemonade or a gin and Dubonnet punch based on the Queen’s favourite tipple. For non‐alco‐ holic options, consider iced tea or cucumber and el‐ derflower fizz.

No Great British tea party is complete without a refreshing afternoon brew to finish off the pro‐ ceedings. Use China teapots, cups and saucers for a real British feel!

BRITISH expats within the large international community of Costa Blanca’s Gran Alacant are gearing up to celebrate The Queen’s platinum jubilee this weekend.

Alongside a number of street parties planned by UK expats settled in this Ali‐ cante town, British bar owners will also mark this magnificent occasion with their own celebrations.

Bars such as Zest, Dunbars and The Pub in Masa Square are all planning to cel‐ ebrate the Monarch’s milestone.

Dunbars have organised a Jubilee Jamboree Street Party on Saturday, June 4, which starts at 2pm with a red, white and blue theme and a late‐night disco for patri‐ otic partiers.

While The Pub will mark the occasion with a street party on Saturday, June 4.

Zest has planned a four‐day celebration consisting of a red, white and blue quiz night on Thursday, June 2, a Dancing Queen Platinum Party on Friday, June 3, screenings of the celebrations from back in Blighty on Saturday, June 4 and all wrapped up with a prop‐ er British tea party on Sunday, June 5.

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Double transplant success Jetpack inventor crashes Peter McLaren‐Kennedy UK doctors have success‐ fully performed the world’s first double hand transplant on a patient suffering from systemic sclerosis, an autoim‐ mune disease that caus‐

es tightening of the skin.

Announced on Friday May 27, the transplant was performed five months ago in a 12‐hour operation at the Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Roof tiler Steven

Gallagher, 48, from Ayr‐ shire in southwest Scot‐ land, is now pain free.

Whilst hand trans‐ plants are complex, they are becoming more com‐ monplace. This opera‐ tion was however the first to deal with a pa‐ tient suffering from systemic sclerosis which causes harden‐ ing and tightening of the skin.

The condition is ac‐ cording to the NHS: “Caused by the im‐ mune system attack‐ ing the connective tis‐ sue under the skin and around internal organs and blood vessels. This causes scarring and thickening of the tis‐ sue in these areas.

“In systemic sclero‐ sis, internal organs can be affected as well as the skin. This type mostly affects women and usually develops between 30 and 50 years of age.”

Anna Ellis T H E former jet-ski champion, Frank Z apata, crashed into a lake in B iscarrosse, F rance, on his ‘flyboard’ device on Saturday May 28.

Zapata was performing at an international seaplane meeting which is taking place throughout the weekend.

S hortly after 2pm, as he had just launched his flyboard - a flying machine that this 40-year-old selftaught jetskier invented himself -

F r a n k Z a p a t a a p p a r e n t l y l o s t c o ntrol of the aircraft.

H e was seen soaring into the air up to around 15 metres when he lost control and plunged into the lake.

According to witnesses on the scene, after falling in the water, he was quickly rescued by the crew of a boat and handed to the care of the fire brigade and members of the Civil Security. He was seen moving his hand at the time of his rescue and was conscious.

Dover motorists stuck Anna Ellis DUE to lack of open French border control booths, some passen‐ gers trying to leave the UK and head to France have reported getting stuck at Dover Port for hours The disruption start‐ ed on Saturday May 29.

The extremely busy

UK motorways and roads which added to the various cancelled and delayed flights have seen half‐term holidaymakers suffer.

P&O Ferries said de‐ lays were “out of their control” as border controls are operated

by French border po‐ lice.

A spokesman from

the Port of Dover con‐ firmed it was highly likely the situation would not change for a number of hours.

They did however comment that “The Port is working with its French counter‐ parts to move tourist traffic through the Border Controls as quickly as possible.”

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Breaking the code Peter McLaren‐Kennedy T H E latest version of the Ministerial Code published on Friday, May 27, says that ministers who break the code will not be required to resign.

The updated version instead lays out a range of sanctions for those ministers guilty of breaking parliamentary rules.

The update follows the intense scrutiny of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s ac‐ tions during the pandemic shutdown,

Chris King A £6 M I L L I O N supery‐ acht that caught fire in Torquay harbour on Sat‐ urday, May 28 subse‐ quently sank.

The incident produced a spectacular blaze and as a result of the ensu‐ ing inferno, the vessel broke free of its moor‐ ing.

According to a tweet from the Environment Agency (EA), the ‘Ren‐ dezvous’ was thought to have had around nine

which have angered many inside and outside of parliament.

A policy paper published along with the latest version said that it would be: “Disproportionate to expect that any breach, however minor, should lead au‐ tomatically to resignation or dismissal.”

The previous version released in 2019 stated that ministers who mislead par‐ liament were expected to tender their resignations, however it did not provide for any sanctions.

Superyacht fire tonnes of fuel onboard when she caught fire.

They added that until an investigation is conclud‐ ed, the cause of the fire is being treated as unex‐ plained.

Now the focus has to be on the environment they added, with the harbourmaster leading any response. “Advice and guidance on bathing water quality,” would be provided by the EA they

confirmed.

The fire looked like it was “at the end of a pier,” said one local re‐ porter, who explained that the whole area sur‐ rounding Torre Abbey Meadows had been evacuated by the coast‐ guard. She added: “You could certainly see mas‐ sive flames reaching up into the air and the plume of smoke was just enormous.”

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Brits face travel charges Anna Ellis FOLLOWING Brexit, although British citizens do not need a visa to visit Europe, they will need an ETIAS visa waiver from 2023.

The form will cost €7 per person aged 18 to 70 and will be free for over 70s.

According to EITAS, “the Eu‐ ropean Travel Information and Authorisation System (EITAS) is being introduced to register visitors from visa‐ex‐

empt non‐EU nations.

“The EU Commission has confirmed that British tourists will need to apply for ETIAS to enter Europe from the UK. “Fortunately, ETIAS is easier to obtain than a visa, the reg‐ istration process is fully online with no need to visit an em‐ bassy or consulate.

“ETIAS is being introduced to boost security across the EU, visitors will be screened before they arrive, preventing

potentially dangerous individ‐ uals from crossing the border legally.

“Like all other ETIAS appli‐ cants, British passport holders will pay a small fee which will cover the system’s running costs. With surplus revenue generated from ETIAS being added to the EU general bud‐ get, it could be claimed that UK tourists will continue to pay into the EU budget after Brexit.”

Pounds and ounces Peter McLaren‐Kennedy BORIS JOHNSON is said to be ready to fulfil his post‐Brexit pledge by bringing back pounds and ounces in honour of the Queen on her platinum jubilee.

According to sources within Whitehall spoken to on Saturday, May 28, the an‐ nouncement is due to be made on Friday, June 3, in what the prime minister refers to as ushering in an: “Era of generosity and tol‐ erance towards traditional measurements.”

In a move that it is said will please the so‐ called ‘red wall’ voters in the north of Eng‐

land and some within his party, the govern‐ ment will remove the restriction that stopped the usage of pounds and ounces on goods.

The requirement to use metric measure‐ ments was enshrined in European legislation that the government is set to remove.

Then Brexit minister Lord Frost declared: “Overbearing regulations were often con‐ ceived and agreed in Brussels with little con‐ sideration of the UK national interest. We now have the opportunity to do things dif‐ ferently.”

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EXPLAINER: The new ‘visa waivers’ for UK nationals PeterMcLaren‐Kennedy THE European Union has an‐ nounced British travellers will need a ‘visa waiver’ to visit any one of the bloc’s 27 countries from 2023.

The latest information, re‐ leased on Saturday, May 28, confirms that all non‐EU resi‐ dents will require a visa to visit the EU. Some countries howev‐ er, like the UK, will not require a visa but will have to apply for a waiver, the European Travel In‐ formation and Authorisation System (ETIAS), instead.

But for those who enjoyed free access before, the question remains why a ‘visa waiver’.

Brexit cancelled free move‐ ment Leaving the EU meant British nationals lost the freedom of movement they enjoyed be‐ fore Brexit, and that’s where the ‘visa waiver’ comes in.

British nationals are not sub‐ ject to the visa requirements that many other non‐EU coun‐ tries are, but there is still is ac‐

VISA WAIVER: Required to visit the bloc’s 27 countries.

cording to the EU, the need to manage visits ensuring that these are within the rules.

Border security For some time the EU has wanted to secure its borders, ensuring a common approach to the admittance of visitors, migrants and immigrants. In the past not all countries ap‐ plied the rules in the same way, with some member countries having allowed non‐residents to gain a foothold in the EU ‘ille‐ gally’, often conducting criminal activities from their new resi‐ dence.

Introducing the European Travel Information and Authori‐

sation System (ETIAS) across the whole of the EU will mean that security checks are under‐ taken before the person is al‐ lowed to visit the EU. How long The ETIAS will cover short stays in Europe up to 90 days. It will not replace the need to ap‐ ply for residency or comply with local laws if intending to stay in an EU country longer.

Costs The new visa waiver will cost €7 per person aged between 18 and 70 and will be free for over 70s.

Full details are available on the Schengen Visa site.

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easyJet cancels 200 flights Chris King A R O U N D 36,000 holi‐ daymakers are expected to receive an email from easyJet informing them that their flight has been cancelled.

A statement from bud‐ get airline easyJet on Fri‐ day, May 27, announced that more than 200 flights over the half‐term

holiday period between May 28 and June 6, were to be cancelled from London Gatwick.

As reported by the British media, it is be‐ lieved around 36,000 fliers were due to re‐ ceive an email telling them their trip had been cancelled.

These cancellations come hot on the heels of

the IT failure that result‐ ed in around 200 flights having to be cancelled across the country on Thursday, May 26. This issue continued into Fri‐ day, May 27, with anoth‐ er 20 flights cancelled.

Several TUI flights were also affected, three of them delayed for more than 24 hours.

The software failure

which caused Thursday’s cancellations has since been rectified, and the company insists the lat‐ est flight cuts are totally unrelated. easyJet point‐ ed to baggage handling delays at airports, works being carried out to run‐ ways, and air traffic con‐ trol restrictions as being responsible for these new cancellations.

Park probe Kevin Spacey Anna Ellis A FORMAL investigation was launched on Thursday May 26 by the Equalities Watchdog into whether Pontins has broken the Equality Act. The probe is expected to last for months.

The company has been accused of banning 40 cus‐ tomers with common Irish surnames to stop suspect‐ ed traveller families book‐ ing holidays at its parks.

The UK’s equality watchdog launched a for‐ mal probe into Pontins amid claims of racial dis‐ crimination against gyp‐ sies and travellers. It came after a whistleblower re‐ vealed it was using an ‘un‐ desirable guests’ list to ex‐ clude Gypsies and Travellers and was operat‐

ing a discriminatory book‐ ing policy.

The whistleblower said that Pontins told staff to monitor calls and refuse or cancel bookings made by people with an Irish ac‐ cent or surname, while Pontins’ commercial vehi‐ cle policy excluded Gyp‐ sies and Travellers from its holiday parks. Last year, the Equalities and Human Rights Commission signed a 12‐month legally‐bind‐ ing agreement with Pon‐ tins’ parent company Bri‐ tannia Jinky Jersey Limited to prevent racial discrimi‐ nation.

But the watchdog can‐ celled the agreement in February amid suspicions that Pontins has not taken ‘required steps’ to quash discrimination.

charged

Anna Ellis ON Thursday, May 26, Hol‐ lywood star Kevin Spacey was charged with a string of sexual offences against three men in Britain.

The crimes allegedly took place between 2005 and 2013 in Gloucester‐ shire and London.

The Crown Prosecution Service revealed one man claims he was sexually as‐ saulted twice by Spacey in March 2005. A second man has claimed that he was sexually assaulted and then forced to engage in a sex act against his will in August 2008. These al‐ leged incidents all took place in London.

The third alleged that on April 2013 in Glouces‐ tershire he was also sexu‐ ally assaulted by Kevin Spacey.

Head of the CPS Special Crime Division, Rosemary Ainslie, said: “The CPS has authorised criminal charges against Kevin Spacey, 62, for four counts of sexual assault against three men.

“He has also been charged with causing a person to engage in pene‐ trative sexual activity with‐ out consent. The charges follow a review of the evi‐ dence gathered by the Metropolitan Police in its investigation.”

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Adrian Edmondson’s struggles Strong criticism COMEDIAN Adrian Ed‐ mondson has opened up about living with suicidal thoughts and poor mental health.

In an autobiographical es‐ say, renowned actor Adrian

Edmondson revealed how he has lived his life strug‐ gling to overcome suicidal thoughts and poor mental health. The 65‐year‐old ex‐ plained his history in ‘Signs of Life’, a piece written for

radio.

“No one mentions the phrase mental health. No one talks about anything.

And that attitude still per‐ sists in the 70s. I don’t know I’ve got a mental health is‐

Billion euro holidays Joshua Manning TEN years’ worth of UK trav‐ el data provided by the Of‐ fice for National Statistics (ONS) were analysed by Moneytransfers.com, to predict what holiday desti‐ nations will see the most Brits in the next 10 years.

The data showed that Spain is set for an incredible summer, with holidaymak‐

ers expected to spend an average of £630.78 per per‐ son per visit, especially when considering that Spain has now relaxed its entry requirements in re‐ gards to Covid restrictions.

More men are expected to visit Spain this year, spending an estimated £6 billion, with females only slightly behind at an esti‐ mated £4.2billion on their

trips to Spain.

Ibiza appears to be one of the most popular destina‐ tions amongst holiday‐goers with a whopping 18.5 mil‐ lion hashtags on Instagram.

Over the past 10 years Spain has stayed at the number one top country visited by British tourists as well as being the country where most money is spent.

Lester Piggott dies Peter McLaren‐Kennedy LEGENDARY jockey Lester Piggott has died aged 86.

On Sunday, May 29 his son‐in‐law an‐ nounced that the sportsman had died in hospital in Switzerland. A cause of death has not yet been released.

Piggot’s son‐in‐law, Derby‐winning trainer William Haggas, said: “Sadly we can confirm that Lester died peacefully in Switzerland this morning.

“I really don’t wish to add much more

than that at this stage, although Mau‐ reen (Maureen Haggas, Piggott’s daughter) will be making a statement later.”

The revered jockey enjoyed a long ca‐ reer of almost 50 years during which he rode over 4,400 winners.

His final win came on Palacegate Jack at Haydock in 1994, a few weeks before his 59th birthday.

Piggott, who retired in 1995, rode his first winner at the age of 12. That race back in 1948 was also at Haydock.

sue. I don’t like the tran‐ quilisers. I stop taking them,” he said.

Edmonson told how after the breakdown of a mar‐ riage he attempted to com‐ mit suicide on his motor‐ bike. Following that attempt to take his own life he was prescribed tranquilisers by the doctor at his university.

The actor said that since seeking help he has now learned to live with his is‐ sues.

Has mental health issues.

OFFICIALS at Dublin Airport on Sunday, May 29, came in for strong criticism from Irish ministers over the disrup‐ tions and delays being expe‐ rienced by travellers. Some passengers even missed their flights due to the lengthy queues at the facility, accord‐ ing to a report by one publi‐ cation.

As a result, in a statement released by the Department of Transport, demanding ex‐ planations from the airport, both Eamon Ryan, the Minis‐ ter for Transport, and junior minister Hildegarde Naughton, expressed their “deep unhappiness” at the situation.

“The passenger experience at Dublin Airport is falling far short of the service that our

Dublin Airport is falling short of the service expected.

citizens and visitors should expect at our largest state airport,” read the statement from the ministers.

It added: “They said that it was not satisfactory that some people, who are fol‐ lowing DAA guidelines, are turning up to the airport for check‐in on time, but are still missing their flights. The situ‐ ation is causing undue stress and potential cost to people, which is simply not good enough.”

Harry’s christening plans IT is expected that Harry and Meghan will fly to the UK this week to cele‐ brate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee and are expected to stay at Frogmore Cottage. Rumours are rife that they will christen their daughter in front of the Queen.

Frogmore Cottage was the home where the couple spent their final pe‐ riod as working royals before moving to North America, and last month they extended the lease on a 12‐ month rolling arrangement.

The property is reportedly empty as tenants Princess Eugenie and her husband Jack Brooksbank are in Por‐

RUMOURS: That Harry and Meghan will visit.

tugal.

Harry and Meghan will be joined by their children, three‐year‐old Archie and Lilibet who turns one on Satur‐ day, in their visit to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations

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Down the toilet Queen’s Guard raids Anna Ell TRAVEL chaos ensued on a Ryanair flight at the end of May when a bathroom with a cracked pipe on board was flushed. Ryanair flight FR3104 was due to fly out of Dublin Airport to Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam. How‐ ever, the expected 70‐ minute journey turned into a six‐hour nightmare.

One passenger on the

flight recalled the delays be‐ ginning as they were queu‐ ing up to board. He told me‐ dia: “The gate was due to open at 2.40pm, but we were left standing there until 3.30pm.”

At round 3.45pm passen‐ gers eventually got on the plane and it began to taxi out seemingly with no problems until the captain put the brakes on and issued a warn‐

ing message.

“The captain came over the radio to explain that the toilets weren’t working on‐ board,” the witness said.

According to the passen‐ ger, someone had flushed a toilet with a cracked pipe, causing chaos on board.

Eventually, a replacement plane took passengers to Amsterdam six hours after initially scheduled.

Danny Dyer quits Chris King AFTER four series hosting the BBC quiz ‘The Wall’, Danny Dyer has reportedly quit the show.

On Thursday, May 26, it was an‐ nounced that 44‐year‐old Dyer would be walking away from the show.

The former EastEnders star has fronted the show since 2019, ably assisted by An‐ gela Rippon in her role as the question master.

Asked by one publication if he would be fronting the next series of the quiz, he re‐

sponded ‘No’. While the show is off the air, the BBC has been encouraging fans to watch old episodes online.

It added: “Plus there are plenty of other great quiz and game shows currently air‐ ing on Saturday nights on BBC One, in‐ cluding The Weakest Link, Celebrity Catch‐ point, and Pointless Celebrities amongst others.”

Dyer has already confirmed that he has another hosting job lined up, teaming up with comedian Ellie Taylor on the new Netflix game show called ‘Cheat’.

Chris King SOLDIERS from the Queen’s Guard have been arrested in a drugs sting operation carried out by the Roy‐ al Military Police.

This incident comes just before the Plat‐ inum Jubilee celebra‐ tions are due to begin.

According to reports, a veteran ex‐sergeant from the Coldstream Guardsman, and six serving Irish Guards, have been detained on suspicion of conspira‐ cy to supply drugs.

They also face charges of money laundering and loan shark opera‐ tions.

Raids reportedly took place in Northern Ireland, North Wales, and Hampshire, in the finale of an operation that had apparently been many months in the planning stage.

Five of those arrested

have since been re‐ leased on bail, and will not take part in the parades to cele‐ brate the Jubilee.

On Thursday, June 2, under the gaze of the

Royal Family standing on the Buckingham Palace balcony, the regiment, in its tradi‐ tional red tunics, will lead the Trooping of the Colour parade.

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New cardinals appointed Anna Ellis ON Sunday May 29, Pope Francis announced that he will create 21 new car‐

dinals in August.

Among the priests sin‐ gled out by the pontiff to receive the prestigious red hat were two prelates

Powerful quake Chris King THE South American countries of Peru and Bo‐ livia were rocked by a powerful 7.2 magnitude earthquake on Thursday, May 26.

There were no immediate reports of danger to life, nor of any damage to buildings.

The strong quake occurred at a depth of around 220km (136 miles). At this depth, the tremor is termed as taking place at an ‘interme‐ diate‐depth’, which is unlikely to cause any sig‐ nificant damage. Quakes that occur at shallow depths are the ones that cause the most de‐ struction said the US Geological Survey (USGS).

Tremors were first felt at around 7.02am local time. It was felt with the most intensity just north of Lake Titicaca, in the mountainous An‐ des region of southern Peru. Buildings in the cities of Cusco and Arequipa were reported as swaying from the force of the tremor.

The quake was felt as far afield as the capital of Bolivia, La Paz.

from India and others from Mongolia, Ghana, Nigeria, Singapore, East Timor, Paraguay and Brazil, in keeping with Pope Francis’ determina‐ tion that Church leaders reflect the global reach of the Catholic Church.

Pope Francis read the list of those elected at the end of his public appear‐ ance in St Peter’s Square.

At least 16 of the new cardinals will be under the age of 80 and there‐ fore eligible to vote for the next pope in the con‐ clave.

The pope also indicated that he would hold the consistory, the ceremony to promote his chosen to the rank of cardinal, on October 27.

Other new cardinals come from France and San Diego, California.

Three of the names on the list are prelates who already hold positions of responsibility in the Vati‐ can.

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Ukraine drone drive Peter McLaren‐Kennedy LITHUANIANS worried about the war in Ukraine have organised a donation drive to raise money to enable them to buy a Bayraktar drone, which they plan to donate to the Ukrainian army. Throughout the war Lithuani‐ ans have been showing solidarity with their for‐ mer fellow soviet state, this time by buying an advanced drone that can be used to help repel the Russian invaders. Within three days of launching the fundraiser, Laisves TV, a Lithuani‐ an internet broadcaster that launched the drive, said they had raised three of the €5 mil‐ lion needed. Most of the donations have ac‐

DONATION DRIVE: To purchase a drone.

cording to the site come in the form of small amounts from people up and down the coun‐ try. Agne Belickaite, 32, who donated €100 as soon as the fundraising launched on Wednes‐ day, May 25, said: “Before this war started, none of us thought that we would be buying guns. But it’s a normal thing now.”

Denmark’s gas risk Anna Ellis ØRSTED, the Danish power company, has said Denmark could be the next country cut off from Russian natural gas.

This is because it is refusing to cave in to Gazprom, the ex‐ porters, and make payments in roubles, according to the British press.

The firm said in a state‐ ment on Monday May 30,

that it “expects it will be able to secure alternative supplies in the European wholesale market. The payment dead‐ line is Tuesday and the com‐ pany will continue to pay in euros.

“We have no legal obliga‐ tion under the contract to [pay in roubles], and we have repeatedly informed Gazprom Export that we will

not do so,” Ørsted added. Ørsted said that if Gazprom cut the supply it would be a breach of contract. The com‐ pany added that as no gas pipeline directly connects Rus‐ sia with Denmark, it would still be possible for the Scandi‐ navian country to get gas, but that it would “to a larger ex‐ tent” have to be purchased on the open market.

Portugal warning THE UK government has issued a warning to holidaymakers trav‐ elling to Portugal due to confusion over e‐ gates after entry re‐ quirements for British tourists were updated again.

The latest advice on GOV.UK states: “Check your passport is stamped by the border officer when you enter and exit Portugal as a visitor.” That is a slight alteration to the earli‐ er version of the guid‐ ance, which previously stated, if you use a manned booth, check that your passport is stamped by the border officer when you enter or exit as a visitor.”

The “If you use a manned booth” line has since been dropped as all Brits need to get their pass‐ port stamped regard‐ less of which gate they use.

The initial update was issued to ensure that British holiday‐ makers are aware of the important role that passport stamps play in policing its 90‐day visa‐free limit for

short stays. “Border guards use passport stamps to check you’re complying with the 90‐ day visa‐free limit for short stays in the Schengen area,” the guidance says.

Major airport chaos Anna Ellis AMSTERDAM Schiphol, the airline’s major hub, is currently facing staff shortages subse‐ quently causing mas‐ sive delays and lead‐ ing to KLM flight cancellations.

A spokeswoman for Amsterdam Shipol Air‐ port has said “we re‐ ceive a lot of ques‐ tions from passengers who have seen the queues at the security checkpoints and are hesitant to depart from Amsterdam Schiphol.”

A union represent‐ ing the staff said “something needs to be done if the current working conditions for airport employees do not change, a strike on June 1 is likely.

Amsterdam Schiphol Airport (AMS) began its life as a military airfield during the First World War. It opened in this capaci‐ ty in September 1916.

As far as its name is concerned reports are that it dates back to the 15th century when the area was rather different.

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Harry Styles pledges $1m Russian oil imports banned TOP-SELLING vocalist Harry Styles has pledged $1m (€927,500) to a gun safety organisation saying he was devastated by the events that took place in Texas last week.

Writing on his Instagram page on May 30, Styles said: “Along with all of you, I have been ab‐ solutely devastated by the recent string of mass shootings in America, culmi‐ nating at the latest in Robb El‐ ementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

Partnering with Everytown.

“On our North American tour, we will be partnering with Everytown who work to

end gun violence, donating to support their efforts, and sharing their suggested ac‐ tion items.”

The donation is to be matched by tour promoter Live Na‐ tion who said they will match Harry’s donation to Every‐ town, saying “equalling over $1m and counting”.

The donation fol‐ lows the terrible events of last week that saw 19 children and two school teachers murdered after po‐ lice failed to take action to deal with a shooter at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas.

French journalist killed FRENCH journalist Frederic Leclerc Imhoff, who was covering the war in Ukraine, was killed on Monday May 30, in an attack by Rus‐ sian forces "Efforts to evacuate civilians in the Luhansk region of eastern Ukraine were suspended af‐ ter an armored transport was hit by shrapnel from a Russian shell, killing a French journal‐ ist," regional governor Serhiy Gaidai said.

Serhiy Gaidai wrote on the Telegram app that the shrapnel pierced the vehicle’s armor, killing the accredited French journalist travel‐ ing inside, according to 20 Minutos.

Gaidai also posted a picture that he said was the journalist's press card, though it is yet to be confirmed if the man pictured on the card was the victim.

The French foreign ministry has confirmed it was looking into the report of the journal‐ ist's death.

Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has had eco‐

nomic repercussions across the world, and it’s creating a food shortage.

With Russia and Ukraine both key agricul‐ tural suppliers, the ongoing conflict has only served to highlight the fragility of the global food‐supply chain when two major players are essentially taken off the market.

In 2021 alone, Russia and Ukraine ranked as global export leaders for barley, corn, rape‐ seed, sunflower seed, and sunflower oil. They exported almost 30 percent of the world’s wheat supply combined.

Russia exported 17 percent of global wheat while Ukraine accounted for 20 percent of the world’s rapeseed.

Thank you for taking the time to read this article, do remember to come back and check The Euro Weekly News website for all your up‐to‐date local and international news sto‐ ries and remember, you can also follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

Peter McLaren‐Kennedy A MEETING of ministers overnight saw the EU vote agree to the sixth round of sanctions and to ban most Russian oil im‐ ports.

The agreement to stop Russian oil imports was announced on May 31 but will provide a tempo‐ rary exception for those receiving oil via pipeline.

That exception was agreed to appease coun‐ tries like Hungary which had expressed concerns over the economic im‐ pact of any sanction.

Oil imports by sea will be banned in full affect‐ ing around 75 per cent of Russian oil imports into the EU. The agreement could see up to 90 per cent of all Russian oil im‐ ports being prohibited by the end of the year.

The ban on oil comes as part of the sixth pack‐ age of sanctions that will see Russia’s largest bank Sberbank cut off from the SWIFT global pay‐ ment system, and bans three more Russian state‐owned broadcast‐ ers.

The EU ban on Russian oil imports will come at a cost but is according to experts necessary for the bloc to move away from unreliable suppliers and to achieve greater inde‐ pendence.

SANCTIONS: To ban most Russian oil imports.

Ukrainian cyclist escapes shelling ARIF BAGIROV, a 45‐year‐old Ukrainian cyclist, man‐ aged to escape the Russian bombardment by fleeing on his bicycle. He rode from his besieged hometown of Severodonetsk in the Luhansk region, for around 70km, to Bakhmut.

According to local media, once he reached the safety of Bakhmut, a Ukrainian‐controlled town, Bagirov boarded a bus to the capital, Kiev. With the road from Severodonestk to Bakhmut bombed, he explained how he saved his life.

“There were holes in the road, everything was smashed up, including cars, and there was a lot of de‐ bris everywhere. Thank God, there were no bodies, but you could tell there were dead people there,” he re‐ vealed.

He continued: “I learned from my experience in Severodonetsk that shelling doesn’t hit the same target twice. He knew if they bombed a factory, they would not bomb it again.” He watched where the shells landed and rode there, saying: “It was the safest route.”

He decided it was time to leave when a Russian shell hit the apartment below his. While it didn’t explode, he had to spend three days in the basement with limited electricity and water. With his ability to help others re‐ duced, Bagirov opted to leave on his bike.

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Mayor’s shooting checklist Peter McLaren‐Kennedy THE incidence of mass shoot‐ ings in the US are so common that mayors have a checklist of what action to take when one happens. On Friday, May 27, the organisation UnitedOn Guns has written and distribut‐ ed a checklist for use by may‐ ors across the US that takes them through the first 24 hours of a mass shooting.

Sarah Peck, Director of Unite‐ dOnGuns, part of the Public Health Advocacy Institute at Northeastern University School of Law, said: “The checklist guides mayors and city man‐

MASS SHOOTINGS: Mayors will have to make decisions.

agers through the first 24 hours after a shooting and outlines the major decisions they will have to make. “Mayors often don’t realise what their role is until a shooting happens in their

community. “What we’re try‐ ing to do is give them the tools they need to understand the magnitude of their role, which starts when the shooting starts and can continue for years.”

Russia sued over losses Chris King RINAT AKHMETOV, believed to be the wealthi‐ est person in Ukraine, has said he intends to sue Russia for business losses incurred during their in‐ vasion of his country. Among other businesses, the billionaire oligarch is the owner of Azovstal steelworks in Mariupol, the recent scene of heavy bombardment by Russian forces. His enor‐ mous steel facility in the southern port city ended up as the location where Ukrainian fighters made their final stand against the invaders.

Akhmetov claims he is out of pocket by be‐ tween $17 bn (€15.8 bn) and $20 bn (€18.6 bn).

His other plant ‐ part of his Metinvest company ‐ the Illich Steel and Iron Works, also suffered huge damage from Russian shelling. Speaking with media, the businessman told them: “We will def‐ initely sue Russia and demand proper compen‐ sation for all losses and lost business. The replace‐ ment cost, due to Russian aggression, is from $17 to $20 billion. The final amount will be deter‐ mined in a lawsuit against Russia,” he explained.

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FINLAND

Going Green

Oh deer

IN April, the Danish Minister for Food, Agriculture & Fisheries, Rasmus Prehn, arrived at his first meeting in Washington DC by bike and in the latter part of May, following his lead, 20 selected Danish embassies are showing how easy it is to go green.

THE white-tailed deer is an invader which arrived in Finland from the USA in the 1930s and there are an estimated 109,000 in the country, running wild, causing accidents and damaging crops so the Association for Nature Conservation wants them listed as a harmful invasive species.

THE NETHERLANDS

IRELAND

Airport queues

Irish recognised

SCHIPHOL airport has admitted that it is currently extremely busy due to a shortage of staff and as a result, there are very long queues at the airport and this situation may last for several months. Passengers are even advised to bring water with them to drink whilst queueing.

IRISH is due to become an officially recognised language in Northern Ireland and in the courts there, following the passing of legislation in the UK parliament, but whilst welcoming the decision, campaigners don’t know how the law will be implemented with no working Assembly.

BELGIUM

ITALY

Chat checkout

Boss is back

DUTCH supermarket Jumbo has announced that it is introducing its first chat checkout lane in its Antwerp store in Belgium which is apparently popular with customers who may be lonely and enjoy a chat as they pack their groceries before paying for them.

THE Circus Maximus in Rome will be one of three Italian venues in 2023 to welcome Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band which has reformed since their last world tour came to an end in 2017. Other Italian venues will be Ferrara and Monza.

GERMANY

PORTUGAL

Helping Namibia

Praise indeed

AS Germany looks to escape from the clutches of Russian gas, its former colony in southern Africa, Namibia is making a play to produce cheap green hydrogen thanks to a promise of €40 million from the German government as well as using wind power to export electricity.

DESPITE the apparent difficulty in attracting teachers to work in Portuguese schools, a UNESCO educational specialist Amapola Alama told a meeting of 800 educationalists that Portugal’s education system is “the Rolls Royce” of the world and rates in the top 40 in the realm of education.

FRANCE

UKRAINE

Mummy’s curse

High hopes

FORMER director of the Louvre Museum, Jean-Luc Martinez, has been accused of turning a blind eye to alleged fake certificates of origin for five Ancient Egyptian artifacts purchased in Abu Dhabi for €8 million. It is thought that they were smuggled out of Egypt during the ‘Arab Spring’ uprisings.

THE owner of the Azovstal steel plant in Mariupol Rinat Akhmetov who is said to be Ukraine’s richest man has announced that he plans to sue the Russian government for between $17 billion and $20 billion to compensate him for losses caused by the bombardment of the city.

NORWAY

SWEDEN

Passport chaos

Abbatars unveiled

NORWAY is experiencing significant delays in issuing new passports partly due to the fact that the supply chain problems mean that French company Thales which produces Norwegian passports is facing serious shortages of the special paper and components needed to ensure their security features.

EVER popular money-making machine ABBA keeps coining it in and their special Voyage show which includes two new songs from the album is now open at the purpose-built 3,000-seat ABBA Arena in London’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park with advance ticket sales of 380,000.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT JUST when you thought you heard it all, up pops an organisation that has recently suggested we should ‘off’ old people as a ‘favour to our children’!

Yep, you ‘eard. ‘The World Economic Forum’ is an extremely well‐financed outfit which has its finger in a positive global pie shop. It is also a somewhat shady union of powerful left thinking people who want to change the world.

This latest edict does actually take the whole tin.

They consider that the world is grossly over populated and to give our children a better chance, old people should take voluntary euthanasia ‐ and they are deadly serious. They have actually produced a video full of assenting geriatrics, stating they have had a good life and as there are too many humans on the planet, elderly people who are no longer productive should opt for euthanasia. You really couldn’t make it up.

Personally I find this group a highly dangerous and disturbing bunch of nutters, but what is most disturbing is that its founder, Klaus Schwab, is a billionaire, and one of its major

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Terrible idea affiliations is the ‘Open Society Foundation,’ a corporation funded and chaired by George Soros, who has already given away some 32 billion dollars to various organisations around the world. We’re talking truly serious money which in the hands of people who condone the ‘offing’ of old people, simply cannot be taken lightly.

The only upside of these organisations seeking to initiate the ‘great reset’, is that Schwab is over 84 and Soros 91 years old. Perhaps they would like to lead by example and be the first to ‘off’ themselves? Preferably on television, so we can all heave a sigh of relief! Now that would be worth tuning in for.

Could you believe that cynical hypocrite Meghan Markle actually showed up at the scene of the tragic Texas massacre of the innocents, insisting that she was there as a Mother!? Did anyone actually believe that she was there for any other reason than a cold blooded opportunist attempt to milk all the publicity she could from a press that she knew would be there in droves? I actually gave ginger and whinger’s

marriage three years. What I didn’t take into account was her obviously fanatical desire to retain some vestige of royalty in her self‐serving existence.

If the Queen had allowed them onto the balcony for the Jubilee celebrations, it would have been a mistake of epic proportions. What it would have done however is show this gruesome twosome just exactly how the British people feel. Have no doubt, the boos and catcalls would have reverberated around the globe. But don’t hold yer breath, these two could still slither in there somewhere; they are so arrogant they may just believe they are still welcome in the UK. Some chance.

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is the amount that an arm of the Mexican government has STAT OF fined Iberdrola Energía Monterrey, a subsidiary of the WEEK €435 million Spanish energy company, for breach of a sales agreement.

UK pensioners in Spain Credit: Bank of Spain

SPEAKING to China’s Xinhua news agency, Eduardo Irastorza from the OBS Business School in Barcelona said that the European Union should become closer to China in economic terms as “Europe competes with quality but not quantity, and this is the competitive advantage.”

New industry

High street loss DISMAYED by the way many UK councils have let high streets less popular, Marks and Spencer has an‐ nounced it plans to close a further 32 stores, seeing 110 disappear and fu‐ ture openings will be outside towns in newer buildings and easy parking.

No embargo ALTHOUGH new laws allow the Spanish Tax Office to embargo sav‐ ings, it is no longer able to seize mon‐ ey earned monthly to the equivalent of the minimum interprofessional gross salary which equates to €14,000 per annum which will en‐ sure that those with tax arrears will still have some funds.

EU lottery THE Centre for Economic Policy Re‐ search (CEPR) was founded in 1983 to enhance the quality of economic policy‐making within Europe and be‐ yond. Its online portal VOX EU pub‐ lishes theories put forward by some of its 1,600 economic research fel‐ lows uses the success of El Gordo, the Spanish Christmas lottery as an example of outside the box thinking.

It argues that as countries attempt to refinance their economies follow‐ ing the financial assistance they had to give to consumers and companies during the pandemic, a European Union run lottery could generate sig‐ nificant income for member states.

Chancellor Rishi Sunak with Money Expert Martin Lewis.

AFTER weeks of delay, the UK Chancellor, Rishi Sunak announced support for those most affected by the rise in the cost of living with payments for lower income house‐ holds, pensioners and the disabled.

Making the announcement in the Commons on Thursday May 26, he said: “Over eight million house‐ holds already have income low enough for the state to be support‐ ing their cost of living through the welfare system.

“Right now, they face incredibly difficult choices, so I can announce today we will send directly to

around eight million of the lowest income households a one‐off cost‐ of‐living payment of £650 (€765), support worth over £5 billion (€5.87 billion) to give vulnerable people certainty that we are stand‐ ing by them at this challenging time.

“DWP (Department for Work and Pensions) will make the payment in two lump sums, the first from July, the second in autumn, with pay‐ ments from HMRC for those on tax credits following shortly after.”

It is understood that payment will be made directly into the bank

accounts of those who qualify, with additional support of £300 (€352) being provided to pensioners and £150 (€176) to the disabled.

As the pensioner’s payment is to be made at the same time as the Winter Fuel Payment which means it unlikely that those resident in Spain without a UK property will re‐ ceive any financial support.

In something of a U‐turn, the chancellor announced a temporary windfall tax on oil and gas giants but said it would include a “new in‐ vestment allowance” to incentivise the reinvestment of profits.

Children’s clothes rental IN January 2022 Charlotte Morley made Dragons’ Den history by dou‐ bling the amount of investment that she had asked for.

The creator of Little Loop, a chil‐ dren’s clothes rental company had originally asked for £70,000 for a 7.5 per cent stake, but eventually walked away with £140,000 invest‐ ed jointly by Deborah Meaden and Steven Bartlett who now own 25 per cent of the company.

According to the budding en‐ trepreneur, “Like most parents I was stuck in a rut of hand‐me‐downs supplemented by buying new, with no good solution for getting rid of clothes once my smallest had out‐

FINANCE

Credit: La Moncloa

ECONOMY MINISTER Nadia Calvino has confirmed the Spanish govern‐ ment is to increase its financial com‐ mitment to funding a new semicon‐ ductor and microchip industry to €12.25 billion mainly from European Recovery Fund money, an increase of €1.25 billion, much of which will be spent on plant.

Charlotte Morley and Deborah Meaden.

grown them.

“The hand‐me‐downs were great but never enough, and often not to my (or my daughter’s taste). Buying new wasn’t enjoyable ‐ I wanted to get ethical brands but couldn’t justi‐ fy the cost, yet felt guilty for buying from the high street because I knew

it was unsustainable and that work‐ ers were being poorly treated.”

So, she came up with the idea of a club whereby parents could pur‐ chase credits on a monthly basis that would then allow them to rent clothes for the children and then re‐ turn them to swap for different styles or seasons from a very large base stock.

As clothes age, so rental prices go down and once no longer wearable will be sustainably recycled in the UK. Now, Little Loop has just signed a deal with John Lewis who will be adding some 48 items to the collec‐ tion and if successful this number will be increased.

Jubilee boost THE latest figures from the New West End Company, which rep‐ resents 600 retail, restaurant, hotel and property owners across Bond Street, Oxford Street, Regent Street and May‐ fair, forecast that sales over the Jubilee weekend (June 2 to 5) will hit £80 million.

This new research predicts that the four‐day bank holiday weekend is expected to draw in 2.6 million domestic and interna‐ tional visitors to the Capital, kick‐ starting the UK’s tourism recov‐ ery, as the nation prepares for its first restriction‐free summer.

Despite the large turnout ex‐ pected over the Jubilee week‐ end New West End Company is turning to the Government to ask for more support to help en‐ tice overseas holidaymakers back to British shores as London has fallen behind competing destinations such as Paris and Milan.

Farmers feel deserted FARMERS in Huelva Province who produce 90 per cent of the straw‐ berries grown in Spain are angry with both the National Govern‐ ment and the Junta de Andalucia.

Firstly, in early May, Minister Teresa Ribera said that “depend‐ ing so much on the cultivation of red fruits is dangerous and we must seek other alternatives,” which statement the Platform in Defence of Irrigation in the Coun‐ ty rejected.

Now, the Junta de Andalucia is considering allowing expanding ir‐ rigation rights to illegal farmers operating near to the Doñana Na‐ tional Park wetlands whilst both local legal producers and experts from such bodies as the WWF, UNESCO and the EU say that too much water is being extracted al‐ ready which is harmful to the en‐ vironment.

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Currency outlook: Euro rocked by EU-Russia tensions, Pound fluctuates amid recession

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

Euro EUR/GBP: Up from £0.84 to £0.85 EUR/USD: Unchanged at $1.07 The euro traded in a wide range over the past month as heightened tensions between the EU and Russia rocked the single currency.

EUR investors were unnerved as Moscow took steps to begin cutting off gas exports to ‘unfriendly countries’, in a move which the EU branded as ‘blackmail’.

The resulting pullback in the euro was so dramatic it sent the EUR/USD exchange rate reeling to a five-year low and raised speculation the pairing could even reach parity.

However, the euro was able to rally towards the end of May amidst some hawkish signals from the European Central Bank (ECB) as the bank strongly indicated it will begin raising interest rates from July.

Looking forward, ECB rate hike bets may help to underpin EUR exchange rates in June, although the euro’s upside potential remains capped so long as the war in Ukraine continues.

The ECB strongly indicated it will begin raising interest rates from July.

Pound GBP/EUR: Down from €1.18 to €1.16 GBP/USD: Down from $1.28 to $1.25 The pound was also infused with volatility over the past month as fears over the UK’s economic trajectory spooked GBP investors.

This was most notable in the wake of the Bank of England’s (BoE) May policy meeting, in which it published its latest economic forecasts.

These made for some bleak reading, with the GBP/USD exchange plunging as much as 2% after the BoE predicted inflation would climb above 10% this year and warned that there is a clear risk of a recession.

The pound fared better in the second half of May however, as Sterling’s sharp plunge made it attractive to investors seeking to buy the dip, although these gains were later tested by the UK’s consumer price index as a sharper-than-expected surge in inflation exacerbated cost-of-living fears.

GBP exchange rates may remain volatile through June as while the BoE is expected to continue to raise interest rates, recent data points to UK economic growth becoming increasingly anaemic.

US Dollar USD/GBP: Up from $0.77 to $0.80 USD/EUR: Up from €0.92 to €0.93

NEWS

The US dollar roared higher over the past month, with the US dollar index which measures the ‘greenback’ against a basket of its peers - soaring to a 20-year high.

This came as growing fears of a global recession, the war in Ukraine and concerns over the ongoing lockdowns in China unsettled investors and bolstered demand for the safe-haven currency.

While the Federal Reserve’s push back against calls for more aggressive rate hikes tempered USD exchange rates at the start of May, a sharp downturn in equity markets was quick to revive demand in the middle of the month.

Despite persistent risk-off flows, the US dollar then gave ground through the second half of May, with the currency’s bullish run giving way to some profit taking.

With the global economic outlook becoming increasingly grim it's likely the US dollar will remain well positioned against its peers in the coming weeks, particularly if the Fed relents to pressure and signals plans to further accelerate its current tightening cycle.

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BUSINESS EXTRA Synthetic fuel REPSOL is committed to invest €100 million in the creation of a syn‐ thetic fuel production plant based in Bilbao, bringing in a number of Spanish partners as well as Britain’s Johnson Matthey in another ex‐ ample of how Spain is embracing the green economy.

Bowelbabe Fund FASHION company In The Style has raised half a million pounds in aid of Dame Deborah James’ The Bowelbabe Fund for Cancer Re‐ search UK through the sale of the ‘Rebellious Hope’ t‐shirt, the first item to be unveiled from In The Style’s Dame Deborah James collection.

UK KEEPS LOW PROFILE IN DAVOS IN 2019 around a quarter of the British Cabinet flew to Davos in Switzerland to take part in the World Economic Forum.

Included in the party of six se‐ nior ministers were the then Chancellor Philip Hammond, In‐ ternational Trade Secretary Liam Fox, Health Secretary, Matt Hancock, and the Culture Secretary, Jeremy Wright.

At the time, the then leader of the Labour Party, Jeremy Corbyn criticised their atten‐ dance at a ‘billionaires’ jam‐ boree’ whilst the UK was in the throws of trying to negotiate Brexit.

This year as the Conservative Party had to deal with ‘Party‐ gate’, rising energy prices and Northern Ireland, the British contingent to the event which ran from May 22 to 26 was somewhat less high powered.

The only elected minister to

Alok Sharma with microphone speaking in Davos.

represent Great Britain was Alok Sharma in his role as Presi‐ dent, 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

He was accompanied by Lord

Grimstone of Boscobel, the un‐ paid Minister for Investment jointly at the Department for International Trade and the De‐ partment for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy.

At a time when the world is facing an unprecedented crisis caused by the Russian invasion of Ukraine, recovery from the Covid‐19 pandemic as well as shortage of both labour and parts, the majority of leaders of the developed world thought it an important event to attend.

From the EU alone top politi‐ cians such as Pedro Sánchez of Spain, Olaf Scholz, Chancellor of Germany, Michaél Martin, Taoiseach of Ireland, Mark Rutte, Prime Minister of The Netherlands and many more heads of state were there.

Even, Rwanda was able to af‐ ford to send more than double the UK political delegation!

Boss resigns THE 69‐year‐old head of JD Sports, Britain’s largest sports retailer, Peter Cowgill has resigned with immediate ef‐ fect from the company he helped grow dramatically since he first joined in 2004.

For the last eight years, he has com‐ bined the roles of CEO and Chairman but following a £4.7 million fine for breaching the competition regulator’s rules and a re‐ cent shareholder’s revolt over a bonus of £6 million when the company took mon‐ ey from the UK government during the lockdown, questions had been asked about his position.

It is suggested whilst the board wanted to split his role between two people, he was opposed to this, hence he resigned.

Energy price cap SPEAKING to the TVE television station in Davos on May 25, Teresa Ribera, Spanish Minister for the Ecological Transition touched on the agreement to cap electric‐ ity prices. Explaining that the negotiations with the EU had resulted in a somewhat complicated way of calculating the cap, she admitted that whilst a 30 per cent re‐ duction was still the target, it may not be possible to achieve more than 15 per cent. Time will tell and much depends on the raw price of gas but she still believes the result will be a worthwhile saving for industrial and domestic consumers.

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Tips from pros SUMMER is often the time hordes of friends and rela‐ tives decide to descend on us for a visit, which is great but can be hard work for the hosts, especially if they don’t happen to live in a huge villa with a fleet of cleaning staff!

If anyone knows how to prepare small spaces for large visitor numbers and keep them decluttered and ready for use, its cruise ship staff. Here are a few tips from ship housekeepers which we can all learn from: 1. Prepare a kit for each room with towels, bedlinen and anything else you want to leave ready for your guests in advance. This will save time running around the day before they arrive and means you have every‐ thing on hand when you go to prepare their room(s).

2. Have a special storage area for linen and separate or label it by size or room. Once washed and ironed, or re‐

BEDLINEN: Make sure everything is kept in order.

turned from the laundry, or‐ ganise your bedlinen in one place and keep double and single sets apart so you can quickly and easily grab what you need without hunting through piles of sheets, wrin‐ kling everything else in the process.

3. Storage boxes are a great way to make the most of available space, but make sure you stack them right to keep things simple.

4. Opt for multi‐task

cleaning products to cut down on the number of bot‐ tles you need, and keep them all in one place. While hotel and cruise cleaners have a trolley, you can con‐ vert this idea for the home but keeping everything in a bucket or box.

5. Keep to a cleaning rou‐ tine. If you always do every‐ thing in the same order, you’ll be able to perfect an efficient routine and save time.

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Simple gardening tricks THERE are hundreds of minor tweaks and tech‐ niques you can make to improve your garden and gardening skills. Here are a few: collect eggshells and use the halves to pack with soil and grow seedlings, you can use the egg packet to hold them and keep your six seedling pots inside using minimum space.

Plastic forks stuck in the soil will help prevent pesky animals from ruining your budding gar‐ den. You can also protect vulnerable seedlings by making a mini‐greenhouse from half a plas‐ tic milk carton.

The same works with cut‐up water bottles, allowing you to give each seedling its very own protective environment.

Newspapers wrapped up carefully can make excellent pots all by themselves, while if you’re complete‐

EGGSHELLS: Ideal for seedlings.

ly out of papers and pots then a crate filled with straw and soil will do just the trick. Rice water should be saved as it works as a fantastic fer‐ tiliser, and the same applies to coffee grounds, both of which many people simply throw out regardless of their benefits. Milk is also an un‐ derappreciated anti‐fungal resource which is chock full of plant‐friendly nutrients. And don’t forget citrus peels which are an abundant source of nitrogen, sulphur, magnesium and calcium. They can also fight aphids, repel mosquitoes and attract but‐ terflies.

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Something doesn’t add There should be much up. Are graduates setting more importance placed their expectations too on practical skills develop‐ high or not trying hard ment and less on constant enough? examinations. Countries Or basically getting de‐ such as Germany invest grees in ‘useless’ subjects? much more in apprentice‐ A degree in sports/media ships and workplace train‐ studies is no preparation ing and perform very well for the world of work. To‐ economically. The sooner day’s world needs people the UK government realis‐ with ‘useful’ skills; lucra‐ es that higher education tive jobs abound in the en‐ has become a massive Nora’s latest thriller. gineering sector. The Ponzi scheme the better. worst subject for employment prospects Nora Johnson’s critically acclaimed psy‐ is ‘animal science’ because it’s not a prop‐ chological crime thrillers (www.nora‐ er subject: it’s just about being nice to johnson.net) all available online including cats and rabbits. If it were a proper sub‐ audiobooks at Amazon etc. Profits to ject it’d be called zoology or biology.

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HEALTH & BEAUTY LOWER back pain can be very uncomfortable, espe‐ cially when you are doing physical activities, sitting for a long time or sleeping. It can be caused by a variety of factors such as carrying a lot of weight, poor posture or excess tension, and it is important to determine the source in order to find the right treatment. But in the meantime, there are several things you can do to help you sleep.

First, think about your habits and identify what could be causing the dis‐ comfort. Having good pos‐ ture when using a comput‐ er, taking frequent breaks to stretch your legs, keeping stress under control, having a quality mattress and lead‐ ing an active life are all as‐ pects that help to prevent lower back pain.

If you are already experi‐ encing discomfort, howev‐ er, it may help to sleep in the foetal position, on your side with your legs bent and your spine and head aligned. The pillow must not be too high. If you prefer, you can also straighten one leg.

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Sleeping with lower back pain

UNCOMFORTABLE NIGHT: Lower back pain can be relieved by certain sleeping positions.

If you like to sleep on your back, then you should always place a pillow under the back of your knees and calves and a low pillow un‐ der your head. This will

support your lower back properly and relieve dis‐ comfort.

Sleeping on your stomach or on your back without a pillow under your legs for

support is likely to make lower back pain worse. It is also advisable to avoid pil‐ lows that are too high and mattresses that are too hard or too soft.

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Homes and hormones IT’S no secret that homes can wreak havoc with your hormones, causing mood swings, stress, and even affecting fertility, but many people remain un‐ aware of how this happens and the de‐ tails are typically swept under the rug as more pressing issues take priority.

Harsh cleaning products are one of the worst endocrine system disturbers and yet, unless you’ve gone entirely nat‐ ural or forgo cleaning altogether, you’re eyes, nose and skin will constantly be exposed to their residues.

There’s a huge demand for ‘ecologi‐ cal’ or ‘organic’ products but the market is largely unregulated and ‘green’ doesn’t necessarily mean ‘safe’.

When it comes to your health (and your finances) it’s best to stick with en‐ tirely natural homemade cleaning solu‐ tions which can easily be found with a little research.

As an example you could try orange oil cleanser for your laundry and add baking soda as a disinfectant. Both can also be used to clean floors, windows, mirrors and toilet bowls, with simple baking soda and water a potent, non‐ toxic mix that gets the job done.

When it comes to air fresheners, for‐ get the faux‐fruit artificial chemical sprays and instead opt for an electronic essential oil diffuser. They smell great, can be customised, and are far safer.

The benefits of pets OWNING a pet can make one happier and more likely to live longer, study shows.

Pet owners tend to be healthier, better self es‐ teem, are less lonely, more conscientious and extroverted, less fearful

and better able to han‐ dle rejection, re‐ searchers at the Ameri‐ can Psychological Association said.

People with pets were just as close to them as they were to key people in their lives. “The pre‐

sent work presents con‐ siderable evidence that pets benefit the lives of their owners, both psy‐ chologically and physi‐ cally, by service as an im‐ portant source of social support,” the re‐ searchers wrote.

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Stay safe in the summer sun SUMMER will end this year with a bout of misery for all of us in Spain. It’s not that the hot weather is bad, it’s just beyond all human tolerance. Every year, scores die of heat-related complicated and countless more are affected by heat cramps, heat rash and heat stroke.

What’s to do be done?

The most obvious thing to say is stay inside in the cold air as much as possible. Ensure your home is well-ventilated but only if the outside is cooler than the inside.

Drink water It’s recommended you drink two to four glasses of water an hour in hot weather. You’ll be sweating profusely and dehydration is the

biggest source of issues in intense heat, particularly when your day doesn’t change but the temperature rises.

Wear loose or cool clothing Natural fabrics like linen and cotton absorb sweat. They also allow the skin to breathe.

Finally, know your symptoms Life doesn’t stop, which makes it more important than ever to know when you’re thirsty.

Symptoms of a headache and tiredness are a surefire sign that you’re beginning to suffer, and if it’s not kept in check, it could lead to heat exhaustion and heatstroke and even a fatality.

Be careful, and enjoy the final weeks of summer!

Loving a coffee COFFEE is good for more than just waking you up in the morning, in fact your garden will appreciate it almost as much as you do!

However, we’re not talking about Nescafe out of a jar here; for the following tricks to work you need proper coffee grounds. Along with giving yourself and your plants a boost, you’ll be reducing your household waste by recycling: another bonus!

First of all, a little known fact is that slugs

and snails really hate coffee, so if you pop it round the base of your plants the pests should stay away.

Also, it can be used as a natural fertiliser as coffee grounds are high in nutrients and will help your plants grow bigger and better.

Finally, it can alter and improve the colour of your flowers as it is acidic and will change the pH level of the soil.

Coffee, anyone?

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SOCIAL SCENE

Living in Spain Live Virtual cathedral tours Tamsin Brown FROM 2pm to 6pm on Thursday, June 23, the Orihuela real estate company easyads Multi‐ national will be hosting

an event for local expats to learn and understand more about the legal is‐ sues that may affect them while living and working in Spain.

Based in La Zenia, Ori‐

huela Costa, easyads Multinational is a group of companies designed to offer Spanish proper‐ ty buyers, sellers, land‐ lords and tenants an ap‐ parelled end‐to‐end Spanish property solu‐ tion.

The event is complete‐ ly free and there will be drinks and canapés for all those attending. It will take place at The View Sky Bar and Restaurant in Cam‐ poamor Golf (Avenida del Tiro de Pichon).

Qualified solicitors and experts will be giv‐ ing special legal advice on topics such as legal services, residency, visas, insurance, taxes, driving licences, selling property, currency ex‐ change, mortgages, new builds and resale prop‐ erties.

To book, email services@ easyadsm.com or WhatsApp 0034 686 756 037.

THE Cathedral of Orihuela, which has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) and is the seat of the diocese of Orihuela‐ Alicante, can now be visited virtually via the website www.culturaorihuela.com.

The announcement was made on May 25

by Mar Ezcurra, the councillor for Culture of the Orihuela Town Hall.

“This new virtual experience that will show people the cathedral, one of the cul‐ tural jewels of our heritage, has been added to those already offered by the Miguel Hernandez House and Museum, the Town Wall Museum, the Municipal Museum of the Nativity Scene, the Dioce‐ san Museum of Sacred Art and the Teatro Circo Atanasio Die. All of them can be ac‐

It is now possible to visit the Cathedral of Orihuela virtually.

cessed easily on our website totally free of charge,” said Ezcurra.

The virtual tours allow visitors to travel without leaving their homes and to learn all about Orihuela’s heritage, history and culture.

Phoenix Solos Club THOSE who are over 50, on their own, want a better so‐ cial life and live in the Torre‐ vieja area of Alicante are welcome to join the Phoenix Solos Club. Formed in 2001 and now going stronger than ever, Phoenix Solos is an English‐speaking club open to people of all nationalities that aims to

provide a social setting for the widowed, divorced or single to network, plan ac‐ tivities or just have a chat.

The group meets every Monday from 11am to 1pm at Reflections Bar/Restau‐ rant (San Luis, Calle Avilés, 11‐12, 03184 Torrevieja).

They also have a lot of ex‐ tra social events throughout

the month and many small‐ er spin‐off groups that par‐ take in ten‐pin bowling, petanque, games nights and many other such activities.

Membership only costs €10 for an entire year. For more information, visit https://phoenixsolos.wixsit e.com/phoenixsolos or call Lynette on 602 432 073.

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Get those mozzies to buzz right off ASK people what they love about the warm weather months and you’ll get a vari‐ ety of answers.

They love the sun, the heat, swimming, walking and just being outside with family and friends. However, if you ask them what they like least about being outdoors during those same months, the an‐ swer is simple… mosquitoes.

Everyone is familiar with the buzzing of a mosquito by their ear or the itchy sensa‐ tion that accompanies a mosquito bite. However, con‐ cern regarding mosquitoes has grown in recent years as these insects are capable of transmitting potentially seri‐ ous diseases to humans, in‐ cluding the West Nile virus and Zika virus.

Follow these tips to reduce mosquitoes around your property:

MOSQUITOES: Nobody likes to hear their buzzing.

1. Ditch that standing wa‐ ter. A small puddle may seem insignificant to you, but it is the perfect breeding ground for mosquitoes. Eliminate stagnant water areas ‐ includ‐ ing emptying the water out of clogged gutters, flower pots, bird baths and children’s pools ‐ and you deny mosquitoes a place to lay their eggs. Don’t ignore even the smallest water collection

as mosquitoes can breed in as little as a 1/2 inch of water ‐ that’s about the size of a bot‐ tle cap.

2. Protect the indoors.

Adding screens to your win‐ dows and doors allows you to welcome warm, fresh air into your home without letting mosquitoes in as well. Care‐ fully inspect existing screens and repair any holes using a patch kit.

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

THOUGHTS ON LIFE Hola Leapy We are here in Almeria re‐ turning home to England on Saturday after a month in this beautiful part of Spain. I picked up a copy of the free paper today as we do when in Spain and I was delighted to read your ‘Naughty boy’ article, brilliant. I refuse to watch ‘the news’ or buy a newspaper anymore at home, but always enjoy reading your objective point of view on general issues when here so good to know I’m not on my own in my thoughts on life today, keep it up please.

Alex Davies, Southport, Merseyside

Bracing for a coup Putin, this flawed individual will, unlike the citizens of Rus‐ sia, know exactly what is hap‐ pening in his vanity war in Ukraine. He will have access to western news and media channels and be fully aware of the resistance, which is costing his army dearly, put up by the Ukrainian armed forces.

He will realise that the sup‐ port of the west in terms of weapons, intelligence and funds may be having a signifi‐ cant effect on the prosecu‐ tion of his war. The sanctions imposed on his regime must, logically, be having a detri‐ mental effect on the Russian economy. The future looks bleak in Russia as more and more financial losses are in‐ flicted by foreign nations withdrawing their businesses.

The only answer to solve this despicable act of bar‐ barism is for regime change from within Russia itself. Let us hope that the possibility of a coup turns into reality.

John Green

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OUR VIEW KEEP ALERT WITH the rising cost of living globally it’s unfortunate but true that more people will turn to crime rather than take advantage of the large number of job vacancies that are currently available.

Sadly, this is affecting us in Spain and is no different to what is happening across Europe as opportunist crime seems to be growing.

Generally, this is still a very safe country and those who have been resident for some time will know that there are areas especially in larger cities where it is unwise to walk.

If you are an elderly person who doesn’t speak a great deal of Spanish, then there is no question that you are a possible target especially for non-violent but often costly scams and you need to be alert.

Don’t let anyone into your house who turns up without an appointment claiming to be from one of the utility companies, especially if they are accompanied, simply close the door on them and if they persist, call 112 for help.

Equally, don’t leave phones or bags sitting on a table if you are having a drink or meal on a terrace as someone wandering by can easily snatch them and be off.

On the whole, the majority of people, Spanish or foreigners are nice and friendly but beware of so called ‘Good Samaritans’ who offer to help, especially if they say that a bird has pooped on your shoulder, as that’s a simple ruse used by pick pockets.

There’s every chance that nothing untoward will ever happen to you, but just be alert to potential problems.

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FEATURE

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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IKEA redecorates IKEA is redecorating more than 400m2 of professional areas in different business‐ es as part of the ‘IKEA Re‐ decorate your business’ competition launched last October to mark the launch of the new IKEA Business Network in Spain.

The six winning spaces comprise different types of business activities: offices, shops, a textile craft work‐ shop and a library, in five locations in Spain.

More specifically, they are the Peanuts&Nuts tex‐ tile workshop in Barcelona, the Dukana fragrance shop in Bilbao, the Metrica6 of‐ fices in Malaga, the Amasol Association centre in Zaragoza and the Mi grani‐ to de Arena bulk shop and library at the San Isidro School in Murcia.

All are professional spaces that have been re‐ designed under the person‐ alised advice of the compa‐ ny’s expert interior designers with the aim of

IKEA is redecorating more than 400m2 of professional areas in different businesses.

making them more attrac‐ tive to the eyes of their clients, providing them with greater functionality and reflecting the corpo‐ rate identity of each com‐ pany.

Jesús Álvarez, IKEA Busi‐ ness Sales Manager, said: “Having an inspiring space that reflects well the at‐ tributes of a brand is key to the commercial strategy.

We know that these changes can make a posi‐ tive contribution to the smooth running of a busi‐

ness and we hope that the six winners will be able to see this in their bottom line very soon.”

Manuel Delgado, the IKEA interior designer who has coordinated several of the projects, said: “One of the keys to any interior de‐ sign project is actively lis‐ tening to the needs, but al‐ so to the expectations and style references that the client has in mind. This ini‐ tial conversation is funda‐ mental to personalise each space.”

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DAVID WORBOYS THINKING ALOUD IN Western Europe we have enjoyed (at the time of writing) 77 years of peace. Although there have been economic and social chal‐ lenges since the halcyon decades of growth and glamour from the 60s to the 90s, it has been a great part of the world to live in during this time.

In a relatively small area from the Arctic cir‐ cle to the Mediterranean, there is enormous variety in climate, topography, natural re‐ sources and scenery. France and Spain alone, being Atlantic, Mediterranean and Alpine/ Pyrenean, seem like several countries rolled in‐ to one. The green and prosperous Basque Country contrasts strongly with the lazy heat of Andalucia. Likewise, rugged Brittany with glamorous Provence.

From Uppsala to Porto and from Dublin to Naples, there are differences in language, tem‐ perament and physical appearance whilst cul‐ tural variety is visibly reflected in the architec‐ ture, infrastructure and social and political maturity.

We have the great historical cities of Sevilla, Cordoba, Rome and Florence contrasting with the attractive modern ones like Munich, Mala‐ ga and Stockholm ‐ all totally different.

English and French villages are especially pic‐

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Great achievements and wonderful countryside. Western Europe has it all.

turesque, again with completely differing fea‐ tures. Turville and Castle Combe versus Dambach and Conques. The idyllic Alpine vil‐ lages such as Wengen and Lech are very spe‐ cial all the year round.

Today the world still enjoys and benefits from the achievements of so many Western Europeans. Art, philosophy and science have reached the zenith with the works of Beethoven, Shakespeare and Leonardo; New‐ ton, Einstein and Freud. Medicine was revolu‐ tionised by Pasteur, Fleming and Rontken.

Luther challenged the Holy Roman Church and

redefined Christianity while Darwin and Alfred Russel‐Wallace discovered the origin of species.

The telephone was invented by Meucci, the radio by Marconi, and the world‐wide‐web by Berners‐Lee. From the printing press of Guten‐ berg to the French invention of the stetho‐ scope and the discovery of DNA (pioneered by Miescher, a Swiss scientist), our continent has shown the way.

In sport, Lennox Lewis, Graf and Nadal, Hamilton and Schumacher, Roger Bannister, Cruyff and Cristiano Ronaldo have all achieved

excellence that places them among the world’s greats. And apart from the South Americans, only Western European teams have ever won the World Cup. The Aston Martin, Ferrari and Porsche, the Bentley, BMW and Mercedes are the kind of cars preferred by the well‐off and successful everywhere. French and Italian cuisines are recognised as among the best in the world. It is the same with their fashion. It can be argued that the six greatest and most versatile classical composers are either German or Austrian (Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms).

And what about the great Western Euro‐ pean explorers? Marco Polo opened up Asia to Europeans, paving the way for Columbus (dis‐ covery of the Americas), Vasco da Gama (In‐ dia), Magellan (the Malay Archipelago) and Cook (Australasia).

Over the centuries the achievements origi‐ nating from this part of the world have been staggering.

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ACCORDING to a study to be presented at Digestive Disease Week (DDW), young children who grow up with a dog or in a large family may have some protection from Crohn’s dis‐ ease.

“Our study seems to add to others that have explored the ‘hygiene hypothesis’ which sug‐ gests that the lack of exposure to microbes early in life may lead to lack of immune regula‐ tion toward environmental mi‐ crobes,” said Williams Turpin, PhD, the study’s senior author.

Researchers used an envi‐ ronmental questionnaire to col‐ lect information from nearly 4,300 first‐degree relatives of people with Crohn’s disease en‐ rolled in the Crohn’s and Colitis Canada Genetic, Environmen‐ tal, and Microbial (CCC‐GEM) project.

Using the responses and his‐ torical data, Dr Turpin and his team analysed several environ‐ mental factors, including family size, the presence of dogs or cats as household pets, the number of bathrooms in the house, living on a farm, drinking unpasteurised milk and drink‐

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Dogs help Crohn’s ing well water. The study found that exposure to dogs, particu‐ larly from ages five to 15, was linked with healthy gut perme‐

ability and balance between the microbes in the gut and the body’s immune response, all of which might help protect

against Crohn’s disease. Similar effects were observed with ex‐ posure to dogs across all age groups.

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Beat the heat THE summer has arrived and while many of us are enjoying the wonderful weather, our pets may not be enjoying it quite so much. Rabbits are vulnerable to heat stroke ‐ but how do you prevent it?

Give your rabbit plenty of shade, move the hutch into the shade under a tree or bush. You can also place tiles in the bottom of the hutch ‐ they are a cold material and your rab‐ bits will like the cooling feeling against their body. A tunnel or hideaway is also a great idea for inside the hutch, perfect for an extra layer of shade.

An obvious one, but make sure your rabbit has lots of cool fresh water that is filled up a few times a day. Adding ice‐ cubes to the water bowl will offer some cooling relief, as will offering a supply of fresh vegetables.

Be sure to keep flies at bay. Flies are the most persistent of creatures that can drive us to distraction and, unfortunately, they have the same effect on our rabbits. Flies can cause seri‐ ous harm if they lay eggs on your rabbit, so keeping them away from your rabbit hutch is vital.

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by Mark Slack WE have become used to manufacturers creating sporting or luxury brands as offshoots to their main pro‐ duction vehicles. One of the car makers that began this trend, and certainly brought it to greater public con‐ sciousness, is Toyota. In 1989 they launched Lexus as their luxury arm and unlike some brands have maintained a presence where others have retreated. They have also succeeded in differentiating their two brands with Lexus having much sharper and more angular looks and strong exterior lines.

The latest Lexus NX has just been launched and prices for this larger SUV start from a not unreason‐ able €46,383/£39,760. Pow‐ ertrain choices are the 350h, a self‐charging hybrid, or a plug‐in hybrid, the 450h, the first from the company. You can drive the front wheels or all four of them, and the 2.5‐

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Facts at a Glance Model: Lexus NX 350h Takumi AWD Engine: 2.5-litre 4-cylinder petrol with electric hybrid self-charging Gears: e-CVT automatic Performance: 0-100 kph (62 mph) Petrol 7.7 secs Maximum Speed - Petrol 180 kph (112 mph) - EV 125 kph (77 mph) Economy: Petrol 6.4 l/100km (44.1 mpg) WLTP Emissions: 145 g/km WLTP Model tested was UK-specification and equipment levels and prices may vary in other markets.

over func‐ tion approach.

Not so in this latest NX and it enhances the us‐ ability of an already impres‐ sive interior.

On the road the refine‐ ment and smoothness of the NX is excellent, unless you over exercise your right foot

when the engine’s vocals rise noticeably due to the nature of the CVT gearbox. For the main part though it’s a very nice drive with well con‐ trolled suspension over the rough stuff and decent steer‐ ing. The NX is a classy, com‐ fortable and refined SUV with all the usual, and very welcome, Lexus attributes.

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Which decade produced the most beautiful cars?

A RECENT study by a renowned financial services com‐ parison website revealed the most beautiful models of car ever made.

The results of a new study from web portal confused.com ‐ the British insurance and financial ser‐ vices comparison service ‐ reveal that the 2010s produced the most beautiful cars, according to Fibonacci’s Golden Ratio ‐ a mathematical symmetry ratio that influences perceived attractiveness.

The Golden Ratio ‐ which analyses the height and width dimensions of the ‘face‐on’ view of the car, was used to determine the scientific beauty of over 370 cars.

Of the cars released during this decade, the 2017 McLaren 720s 4.0 V8 is the most attractive of the 2010s.

With an almost perfect 99.73 per cent match to the Gold‐ en Ratio, it’s also making the most stunning of all cars analysed.

The McLaren 720s.

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Discover 50 years of BMW Chris King BMW M ‐ the most pow‐ erful letter in the world ‐ is celebrating its 50th birthday, and the BMW Museum in Munich is joining in the celebra‐ tions. The new BMW M exhibition opened on Tuesday, May 24, cele‐ brating the very day that BMW Motorsport GmbH was founded on 24 May 1972. It is dedicated to the hugely successful BMW M brand, which emerged from BMW Mo‐ torsport GmbH. Little could anyone have known how much of a unique success story BMW Motorsport GmbH would grow into when it was founded half a cen‐ tury ago ‐ bundling and further professionalising all of BMW’s racing ac‐ tivities.

The newly developed BMW 3.0 CSL won the 1973 European Touring

Car Championship.

Since then, BMW M has passed many unique milestones in the fields of motorsport, technolo‐ gy and design.

Visitors can now walk

through large sections of the museum on a spe‐ cially created BMW M circuit, modelled on a racetrack: “We have consciously integrated the eight BMW M sta‐

tions into our perma‐ nent exhibition to high‐ light the BMW M an‐ niversary everywhere,” said Helmut Kas, Head of BMW Group Classic, ex‐ plaining the concept.

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WALKING FOOTBALL - MORAIRA SHOCK HONDON IN a close competitive game played in the true spirit of the game on Tuesday May 24, Moraira in their last home game of the season took themselves level on points with Portobello at the top of the CBWFL with a surprise win over Hondon Valley Flyers with a 4‐1 win. The ‘Porto’ however have a better goal difference and have played two games less. The ‘Flyers’ now trail the joint league lead‐ ers two points behind with more games played.

This month (June) sees For‐ mentera v Portobello (June 22), Portobello v Moraira (June 24 and Hondon v Portobello (June 27).

Three games in five days for Portobello with two against their main rivals so all to play for in what should be an excit‐ ing end of season week.

Big games where the League title will be decided. A preview of these matches in next

Esquina Park Rangers Over 50s won the trophy. week’s edition of the Euro Weekly News.

Esquina Park Rangers Over 50s squad returned from the prestigious Mallorca KNVB Walking Football Tournament held at Santa Ponsa on May 22/23 with the third Place tro‐ phy.

A great achievement having played in a Division with 16 teams from France, Germany, Italy and the UK.

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Saturday involved the Pre‐ liminary Rounds with EPR pro‐ gressing to the Quarter Finals with three wins, one draw and four defeats.

Sunday, again in scorching heat, they came up against Hal‐ lam FC from Sheffield who had ex‐England Professionals Chris Waddel and Alan Kennedy in their team. EPR raised their game which finished 1‐1 with the Costa Blanca team going

WALKING FOOTBALL: Check out your local team and their scores every weeek. through on penalties.

The Semi‐Final pitted them against Notts Forrest who had beaten them 1‐0 in the Prelimi‐ nary Round.

EPR were denied a stone wall penalty at a time they had Forrest on the back foot and which they vociferously protested to the referee so much so it knocked them off their stride and Forrest went upfield and scored. EPR never

got back into the game with Forrest going on to win 4‐0.

Despite the feeling they were denied a great opportuni‐ ty to reach the Final Rangers got their act together again for the third/fourth Play Off where they met Fireman Pescara from Italy who they had drawn with in the Preliminary Round and which also ended all square at 1‐1 in this game.

EPR are becoming expert at

Penalty Shoot Outs and went on to win this one to take a de‐ served third place.

So congratulations to Es‐ quina Park Rangers for return‐ ing from another great well or‐ ganised tournament with the third Place trophy.

Make sure you pick up your copy of the Euro Weekly News to read more about walking football which the EWN active‐ ly supports.

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