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Man dies after stabbing outside hospital A man who intervened to break up a fight between a group of local girls outside the Molino del Segura Hospital earlier this week was stabbed to death p4

Issue 915

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Alicante-Elche airport 50 year anniversary

Orihuela clean up An action plan set up by the Orihuela Costa coordinated services department is in the process of delivering a clean-up operation to the green spaces and parks of the town p7

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Read more p28 Alicante Airport, pictured here in 1968, celebrated it's 50 year anniversary earlier this week

by Andy Mansell ‘May the fourth be with you!’ might be a cheesy pun on the famous Star Wars quote, but it does aptly sum up a special anniversary for AlicanteElche Airport, which celebrated a landmark anniversary this week, on Wednesday May 4.

It was 50 years to the day that the first commer-

cial flight landed on the tarmac of the El Altet Airport, which is now the fifth largest in Spain and the fourteenth in Europe.

That inaugural flight, a Corvier Metropolitan plane chartered by the Aviaco company arrived from Madrid on May 4, 1967, year in which 80,677 passengers passed through the aerodrome and 3,764 aircraft were processed.

The flight lasted 90 minutes, twice as long as it takes today’s modern aircraft to cover the 500 kilometers between El Altet and Barajas Airport in Madrid.

Fifty years later, owners Aena forecast the airport to exceed 13 million passengers and about 90,000 aircraft maneouvres during 2017.

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Felicidad Sanchez dies, historic mayor of Alicante

Felicidad Sanchez as the plaque inaugurated with her name was unveiled in 2012 Photo credit: David Costa

by Andy Mansell Once neighbourhood leader Felicidad Sanchez passed away on Wednesday morning at the General Hospital of Alicante, just before her 90th birthday.

Sanchez presided over the association of neighbours of La Voz de la Florida from the 80's until its last days.

The emblematic neighbourhood leader suffered from a kidney disease and although she had been in bed at home for some time, she was determined to continue her neighbourhood activity until the end.

The remains were taken to the Tanatorio de la Siempreviva on Wednesday, where the funeral was held at 12 noon on Thursday.

Felicidad Sanchez spent nearly four decades as president of the La Voz de Florida Neighborhood Association. In 2009, she received an honorary mention in the XVII edition of the City of Alicante awards for her dedication to the commerce in the neighbourhood.

In 2012, her name was inaugurated on a plaque in the Centro Comunitario y Social del Distrito 3 of Alicante.

Sanchez was widowed and childless.

Continued from front page In fact, on that same day, May 4 this year, 47,430 passengers passed through the terminal and 277 aircraft from Britain, Russia, Germany, Belgium, Norway and of course, Madrid landed and took off.

The now-defunct Corvier Metropolitan that landed at El Altet on a sunny morning 50 years ago with Pilar Leal La ViĂąa, the first passenger of the airport, was met by then Air Minister Jose Lacalle and Bishop Pablo Barranchina , who welcomed the first commercial flight in the history of the airport of El Altet (until then Alicante used the military base of Rabasa).

The airport that opened in 1967 would be completed with a charter terminal in 1972 with several more buildings added until in 1996 the first major expansion was undertaken. The airport has been key to the tourist development of the province since the early 1970s. Until the inauguration of the charter terminal, tourists arriving from London landed in Valencia and from there they arrived in Benidorm by bus.

Since then the airport has undergone two major transformations to become one of the most modern terminals in Spain with the capacity to move 20 million passengers each year. However those figures would depend on a solution to the ongoing problems regarding lack of rail connections with Elche, Alicante and Benidorm, a city that caters for 50% of passengers who start their holiday on the Costa Blanca.

The new terminal, completed at a cost of 384 million euros in 2011, is 15,500 m2.

In size, with 148 check-in desks, 42 boarding gates, 21 travelators and 25 luggage collection areas and employs 60,000 staff.

In addition it has our thousand two hundred parking spaces and an area reserved for the arrival of TRAM and / or the railway, should that ever happen.

Earlier in the 20th Century, the airfield and runways of El Altet actually saw the first civilian flights ever to land in Spain, run by the French company Lignes Aeriennes LatĂŠcoĂŠre. This company used it as a stopover of its mails with Dakar (Senegal) at the beginning of century XX. From the year 1927 its use was carried out by the company Aeropostale, forerunner of Air France.

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Man dies after stabbing outside hospital

by Andy Mansell A man who intervened to break up a fight between a group of local girls outside the Molino del Segura Hospital earlier this week was stabbed to death by the brother of one of the girls.

The deceased, only identified as Juan Carlos, was waiting outside the hospital for his wife, who was accompanying their 12 year old son whilst he received surgery to a broken arm.

A police spokesman talking to the Spanish press explained that investigating officers are still attempting to piece together the exact events of the evening in question.

However, after interviewing witnesses to the incident, they could reveal that a fight broke out, close to the hospital between a group of girls from the social housing development which surrounds.The victim approached the group of fighting girls in an attempt to mediate and stop the scuffles continuing.

At this point, the assailant, only identified by the police as ‘El Gaucho’, appeared on the scene, threatening one of the women and when Juan Carlos tried to stop him beating her, El Gaucho turned around and stabbed the man four times.

The assailant ran off, leaving the seriously injured man to make his own way back into the hospital on foot, where he was discovered by one of the duty doctors bleeding lightly from his wounds.

Dr Antonio Garcia, who attended the victim explained that the wounded man, entered the emergency area on foot, conscious and oriented, reported to a nurse, who laid him on a

Police outside the Hospital Molino, where the victim was stabbed

stretcher. The nurse called for Dr Garcia to attend the victim, reporting that he had been stabbed: "In less than a minute, he began to lose consciousness, so we thought that not only was there a pulmonary perforation, but that the knife had hit one of the main arteries, with possible internal bleeding, because there was hardly any blood visible externally “ explained the Doctor.

Garcia, began to administer CPR to the victim, but was unable to resuscitate the injured man and he died within ten minutes of arriving in the hospital.

He called the Police, whose station is adjacent to the hospital and they arrived just before Juan Carlos died. The cause of death was attributed to a single stab wound to the hematorix area of the back. "His heroism killed him," proclaimed Dr Garcia.

Eyewitnesses to the incident were able to give police clues to the identity of the aggressor, who was the brother of one of the girls involved in the fight. The sister came forward too, explaining to officers that she and a group of her friends had picked the fight with another group, following a previous incident between the two groups."I got into a fight with some

girls, and they beat me up," said the girl.

She explained that she then got in touch with her brother, to tell him what was wrong. "You see that my brother has come, he did not know anything ... and all this has happened," she said.

Police officers arrested the assailant immediately, but given the large volume of statements made yesterday by witnesses, the suspect was not brought before the courts until the evidence could be processed.The suspect is likely to be transferred within the next few days and will likely be kept in detention.

Close sources explained that the Molina hospital has surveillance cameras, whose recordings have already passed to those responsible for the National Police, in order to serve in the investigation.

Detectives have also recovered the murder weapon, said to be a 15cm kitchen knife, from a rubbish bin near to the scene of the crime.The victim’s wife was informed of her husband’s death immediately, but his son was not informed until after his surgery was complete and he was in recovery.

The face of RTN...

FOR the last 18 months, Benjamin Wickham, Regional Sales Manager for the EWN Media Group has been commuting to Costa Blanca.

Although living near head office in Benalmadena, he was tasked with spending a great deal of time in Costa Blanca to ensure that the Euro Weekly News was devoting sufficient resources to its customers in this very important area.

Now with the take-over of the much respected RTN name he has even more incentive to spend time in the area although there is also to be a brand new title with the launch of the Costa del Sol edition of RTN. Ben says “One lesson I was always taught by my parents was work hard play hard and with hard work we get phenomenal results, and this is what EWN Media Group can guarantee their customers!”

The group continues to expand and needs additional editorial and sales staff for both Costa Blanca North and Costa Blanca South so any interested party should send their CV to include details of their experience to benjamin@rtnnewspaper.com

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UK will not pay €100 billion EU exit bill

Britain will not be paying €100 billion to leave the European Union, Brexit minister David Davis said on Wednesday after the Financial Times reported that the EU was preparing to demand that amount.

Citing its own analysis of new stricter demands it said were driven by France and Germany, the newspaper said €100 billion was a gross figure.

‘We'll not be paying €100 billion What we've got to do is discuss in detail what the rights and obligations are,’ Davis told British channel ITV. He also said that the British government had not seen a figure from the EU for the exit bill.

The FT said that after requests from member states, EU negotiators had revised their initial calAculations to maximise the liabilities Britain would be asked to cover, including post-Brexit farm payments and EU administration fees in 2019 and 2020.

Spain rescues 10 migrants crossing Strait of Gibraltar Spain’s maritime rescue service says it saved 10 migrants from a small inflatable craft trying to cross the Strait of Gibraltar earlier this week.

The service said that the 10 men of subSaharan origin were ‘visibly tired after hours of rowing.’

The rescue boat Arcturus made the rescue in waters off the southern tip of Spain.

Tens of thousands of migrants, most from sub-Saharan African countries, try to make the perilous crossing in boats unsuitable for the open sea to Spain and Italy each year

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Medical charity warns of mafia run prostitution in Alicante

The streets of Alicante City, where much of the prostitution activity goes on behind closed doors

By Andy Mansell Medicos del Mundo, an organization of Doctors set up as a support network for sex workers throughout the World, has expressed grave concern for the health and welfare of female prostitutes in Alicante city, who are being increasingly controlled by Asian mafia groups.

The women’s situation has become an increasingly invisible problem, but that does not mean it has disappeared.

Police pressure and Town Hall directives adopted by many municipalities are shifting prostitution from the streets and squares to clandestine and private premises, where the activity is much more difficult to control.

Beatriz Beseler, advisor on Prostitution, Human Rights and Gender Issues for the Médicos del Mundo organization explained the problems facing support workers in the city: "There are women, mainly from Asia, whom we cannot get access to because they are in the hands of mafia”, she said.In Alicante, the organisation only has regular contact with around 500 women, whom they believe, statistically represent a small percentage of the prostitutes working in the city.Adding that, "Because in many cases it is a question of them using flats, in housing estates or residential buildings rather than streets and parks, so they go unnoticed, by police and support workers."The anonymity is worsened by

the fact that a number of the women arrive in the country from South America, "and are in an illegal situation in Spain" Many of the prostitutes are also of Romanian origin, "and although it is an EU country, and they do not need papers, they are in the hands of trafficking networks that absolutely control their lives" said Ms Beseler.Additionally, in recent years Spain has become a destination for mafia gangs, "since we are the country in the European Union that makes more use of prostitutes than any other" said the advisor, and this becomes a problem that crosses all ages, financial situation and social classes."There are users of prostitutes of all ages, many of them underage, and with cultural levels of many kinds." She explained.

Internet sex sites and social networks have also contributed to aggravate the situation, as many clandestine liaisons are arranged online.

To highlight the growing problem, Médicos del Mundo had, as RTN went to press, organized a round table workshop to "A look at prostitution in Alicante".

Speakers include María Such, director general of the Valencian Institute of Women; Elisa Fernández, from the Centre for Information and Prevention of AIDS at the Ministry of Health; María Jesús Navarro, from the research group "Economy, Culture and Gender" at The University Miguel Hernández and Beatriz Beseler herself representing Medicos del Mundo.

Three Germans die in Spain plane crash Three German nationals died when the small plane they were travelling in crashed in southern Spain at the weekend, authorities said on Monday.

They were flying from the southeastern town of Mutxamel to Granada in southern Andalucia on Saturday afternoon and crashed in a mountainous area some 80 kilometres (50 miles) from their final destination.

‘Initial identification via their ID indicates they were German, but authorities are in contact with the consulate,’ said a spokeswoman for the central government's representative office in Malaga province, where the accident happened.

She did not know whether they were tourists or residents in Spain, adding that authorities were investigating the accident, including whether the plane was forced to deviate its course due to high winds.

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Orihuela costa gets a green facelift Tree pruning is one of the projects on the agenda in the Orihuela Costa green clean up

By Andy Mansell An action plan set up by the Orihuela Costa coordinated services department is in the process of delivering a clean-up operation to the green spaces and parks of the town.

Luisa Bone, who heads the department responsible for the operation explained: “After restoring the normality on our beaches, we are now concentrating on our parks. We have compiled different working groups, each consisting of three employees.”“ A working group will take care of the pruning of trees and plants, as well as the clearing of various areas. The other team is responsible for the maintenance of the city furnishings (the playgrounds, the benches, the paper baskets ...)", said the councillor.

To date, these groups have been active

in the green areas of the residential areas of La Zenia, Las Filipinas, Campoamor, La Florida, Los Valencia, Los Dolses and Blue Lagoon.

This past week they have continued their work in La Florida and will subsequently move on to the residential areas Horizonte, La Ciñuelica and Lomas de Cabo Roig.

“Step by step, we will be active in all the green areas of the residential areas.” Added the coordinator.

Boné pointed out that "these works were very necessary in many residential areas, as many green areas on the coast are not contractually covered by the company that is currently responsible for their maintenance.”“A good work plan and of course also an effort of the employees makes it possible for us to look after all the parks of the coast ".

Rise of new car sales in Spain Spain's vehicle manufacturing association Anfac reports:New car sales in Spain rose 1.1 percent in April from a year earlier to 101,375 carsCar sales rose 6.1 percent in the January to April period from a year earlier to 409,286 carsCar sales rose 12.6 percent in March from a year earlier.

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RTN expands to the Costa del Sol Third edition launched today after EWNMG takeover.

THE RTN newspaper is today launching an edition specifically produced for the Costa del Sol. After firmly establishing itself over the last 18 years as a popular free weekly newspaper with two editions throughout the Costa Blanca, the Costa del Sol now also becomes part of our circulation, readership and advertising area.

Just three short months ago the RTN brand, with a reputation throughout the Costa Blanca for community news, was taken over by Euro Weekly Media Group (EWNMG).

Since then the RTN staff – under the leadership and direction of the bigger EWNMG with headquarters in Benalmadena and offices throughout southern Spain – has been laying the foundations to publish its own Costa del Sol edition.

So today is an historic day for the RTN - with colleagues now also based on the Costa del Sol – as it looks forward to providing the same high quality local and regional news coverage, feature articles and more that it has built a reputation for on the Costa Blanca over so many years.

With the added strength being provided by EWNMG management plus its larger and more

experienced support infrastructure, RTN is already benefitting from increased circulation (20,000 copies per week for each area), better distribution points and more local representatives. It’s no boast to say that advertising clients are already being offered a fuller, more rounded service, and now Costa del Sol based newspaper readers can look forward to experiencing exactly what RTN has only been able to offer Costa Blanca-based families previously.

Michel and Steven Euesden, who head EWNMG and who have been involved at the highest level of newspaper publishing in southern Spain for almost 25 years, said “The launch of the RTN Costa del Sol issue further cements our ongoing expansion plans. Despite challenges throughout the global media industry, these are extremely exciting times for us all within EWNMG.” Meanwhile with the launch the RTN team looks forward to receiving feedback as well as hearing from anyone with local news, information on clubs, societies and general items of interest, including unusual local photographs.

Michel and Steven Euesden

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Military convoy in serious collision

Five men were rushed to hospital in Cartagena this week after a serious accident involving an Army convoy, on the AP-30 Autovia close to Torre Pachacho.

The collision occurred at around 13.30h on Wednesday afternoon on exit 174 of the busy motorway, between two vehicles, a military truck carrying Army Paratroopers and a lorry.

Emergency services were called to the scene and five men aged between 31 to 40 were immediately transferred to the General University Hospital Santa Lucía of Cartagena, where they were treated for a range of injuries.

One of the injured men was described as being in a serious but stable condition by the hospital on Wednesday evening.

Police officers who were also on the scene quickly are investigating the circumstances behind the accident and whether foul play or sabotage to the military convoy was behind the incident.

Police were unable to confirm whether any of the injured men were travelling in the lorry before the accident.

The military vehicles were travelling in convoy on the AP-30 Autovia near to Torre Pachacho

Spain says they will not reopen Castor gas storage site after quakes Spain will not reopen the Castor underwater gas storage facility which was shut in 2014 following minor earthquakes in the area, after a study showed tremors could return if it resumed operations, the government said on Wednesday.

Meant to store almost a third of Spain's daily gas consumption, Castor stopped gas injections after more than 200 minor earthquakes were detected in 2013.A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Harvard University commissioned in October 2015 aimed to detect the origin of the quakes and their connection with the facility.‘ The localisation of the tremors coincides with the Amposta fault line and the studies conclude that these faults were put under stress as a result of the gas injections,’ the energy ministry said in a statement.

Castor was designed to store 1.3 billion cubic metres of gas and pump it in to the national grid when needed.The consortium which built the plant, including Spanish builder ACS and Canada's Dundee Energy, was paid €1.35 billion in 2014 in compensation for not being able to operate the site.

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Children living in Spain at risk from climate change

by Andy Mansell The United Nations children’s division, UNICEF has handed out a stark warning to the Spanish government regarding the future effects of climate change on the nation’s younger generation.“Spain's nine million children will inherit an uninhabitable country if action is not taken quickly,” is UNICEF's dramatic warning to ministers.A report issued last week has urged Spain to take emergency measures to protect its young from the effects of climate change, warning that the western Mediterranean country is one of Europe's most at-risk nations because of its being such a dry terrain.Spain has one of the most diverse climates in Europe owing to it’s size and vast temperature differences between north and South.

Whilst the Northern provinces are lush, with rivers, forests and abundant Winter rainfall, much of the South could be classed as desert, which becomes an ever growing problem owing to continuing deforestation.The ongoing Southern drought coupled with the habitual intense summer heat is expected to be exacerbated over the coming decades by global warming.

Even periods of heavy prolonged rain such as the week long storms parts of Southern Spain have experienced over the last few months, including the worst Winter weater for 85 years in Murcia, do not ease the situation.Reservoirs are still well below capacity and when rain does fall it is often too heavy, causing devastation itself as it runs on top of the parched ground instead of penetrating the surface, flooding towns, villages and causing problems for whole

communities.The Spanish UNICEF Committee's managing director Javier Martos and childhood policies leader Maite Pacheco presented the organisation's report, ‘The impact of climate change on childhood in Spain’, warning that global warming is 'a growing and unprecedented threat' for youngsters.

It has called for the nation's youngest residents to be the central priority in the Spanish government's future Climate Change Law.Spain is the most vulnerable country in Europe to global warming, and if the international community does not make real efforts in reducing emissions in the next few

years, temperatures will rise by up to 5ºC by the middle of the 21st century,” Sra Pacheco and Sr Martos said.

“If this happens, 80% of mainland Spain and Portugal will be desert.“The effects of global warming will transform the economy and physionomy of the country, leaving the population open to more freezing cold snaps and heatwaves, extreme temperatures – hot and cold – rising sea levels, lack of drinking water and greater air pollution.”“We really need to think about what kind of country we're leaving, and want to leave, to our children,” Pacheco concludes.

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Lettuce eat english salad this spring British grown courgettes are back on the shelves of UK supermarkets to end the 'Spanish Courgette Crisis'

by Andy Mansell The Spanish rain induced ‘Vegetable Crisis’ is officially over for UK consumers, with the first English grown iceberg lettuce’s and other salad items appearing on the shelves of the nation’s supermarket shelves last week.

UK shoppers faced shortages of courgettes in January when a cold and very wet snap hit the Spanish growing regions, causing a severe dip in supplies at a time of peak demand from consumers keen to pursue their new year resolutions to eat more greens.

The supermarket shelves emptied and were not refilled and vegetable prices shot through the roof, making the news headlines and front pages of the British papers.

Other produce, including aubergines, celery, green beans, lettuces and tomatoes were also affected, and as prices rocketed some supermarkets were forced to impose rationing to even out supply.

“This winter, the rains in Spain were quite a pain, as they caused floods that destroyed many of the crops,” said Georgina Reid, Tesco’s buying manager for chilled salads. “Now that our British suppliers are ready to send us their lettuces we will be able to reduce the price for customers as we lessen our reliance on the

Spanish supply.”Spanish-grown courgettes are still on supermarket shelves but will gradually be replaced by British ones towards the end of the month, followed by homegrown celery.

The UK salad season usually kicks off in mid-May but, thanks to a mild winter and recent warm weather across the country, crops are being harvested earlier than usual.

Shoppers can look forward to an early bounty of UK-grown salad leaves and radishes in addition to English-grown asparagus and Jersey royal potatoes.

Early British tomatoes and cucumbers already in store are supplemented with varieties from the continent, particularly Spain and the Netherlands. One supermarket giant has gone one step further to ensuring the situation will not occur in the futureWaitrose has committed itself to growing British salad leaves all year round as part of its support for UK farming and to reduce dependence upon imports.

Its new greenhouse growing system – which it says is a UK first and has been in development since 2014 – allowed it to start selling a UK-grown salad bag in February, three months earlier than the usual MayOctober season, meaning in future years a wet Spanish winter will not upset their salad deprived customers.

N.Y. zoo names giraffe calf Tajiri for 'hope' but means 'rich' Tajiri was picked as the winner of a naming contest for a baby giraffe whose long anticipated birth, hooves first, was watched online last month by millions tuning into his mother April's pen at Animal Adventure Park in Harpursville, New York.

Zoo owner Jordan Patch, announcing the name on ABC's ‘Good Morning America’ on Monday, said the Swahili word was chosen for its forward-looking meaning when translated into English.‘Tajiri is a word in Swahili that means hope,’ Patch said, as he fed carrots to April while Tajiri looked on. But it seems no one in Harpursville had a dictionary of East Africa's Kiswahili language handy, as the translation of Tajiri is ‘rich’ or ‘wealthy. ’Hope is usually translated as ‘tarajio’ or ‘matumaini.’

April raised a ‘significant amount’ of money from viewers worldwide who were mesmerised by her 16month pregnancy, Patch said. Those donations will be used for conservation efforts as well as giraffe upkeep at the zoo, he said.The naming contest was narrowed to 10 finalists and the winner, ‘Tajiri,’ was nominated

by Allysa Swilley, the zoo's giraffe keeper, Patch said.‘ They picked that name because they hope that we can continue forward this message of conservation for sustainability and preservation of giraffes in the wild and also our efforts in captivity,’ Patch said.

The calf, nicknamed ‘Taj,’ was 6-feet tall (1.8-meters) and weighed about 150 pounds (70 kg) when he was born on April 15.

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Pets by royal approval

by Andy Mansell Pets In Spain, the La Marina based animal charity has this week announced a new, high profile patron to represent their charity in Spain and throughout Europe.

Grant Harrold normally known as "The Royal Butler" lives at Highgrove and is a member of the Royal Household of Their Royal Highnesses The Prince of Wales and The Duchess of Cornwall.

Known as Britain's official etiquette expert, both in the UK and around the world, he is the personal Aide to HRH Princess Katarina, who is first Cousin to HRH Prince William, The Duke of Cambridge. Grant Harrold has featured on many programmes during the past 18 years as a commentator, broadcaster and presenter for both TV and Radio.

Based in Gloucestershire, Grant runs an etiquette and household consultancy company, Nicholas Veitch Limited.He also gives talks and demonstrations on afternoon tea etiquette, dinner party etiquette and similar etiquette based events.He appeared regularly as the butler on the reality television programme Country House at Woburn Abbey between 2000 and 2003 whilst working for Robin Russell, 14th Duke of Bedford and his son Andrew Russell, 15th Duke of Bedford.

In 2012, he featured in the BBC Three series Be Your Own Boss. And in 2013 Grant featured with Ruth Watson in Ruth Watson Means Business, in which he helped Watson improve Fawsley Hall in Northampton.

Grant also featured in the television series "You Can't Get The Staff for Channel 4, 2014 and in 2016 Grant appeared with Michael Portillo in his BBC series, Great Railway Journeys. A Pets In Spain spokesperson said today "We are thrilled that Grant Harrold is supporting us and is now the patron of our

charity. His protocols and high standards of service reflect our approach to animal rescue and rehoming. He is the ideal person to help us raise our profile and attain more support for our work helping animals in need".

The Pets In Spain charity receives no government funding and there is no authority in Spain charged with the task of enforcing animal welfare laws like the RSPCA does in the UK. A dedicated multi-national team of volunteers not only rescue, rehabilitate and rehome animals themselves, they also provide help and assistance to other animal rescue organizations and via their collaborating veterinary clinics will underwrite important veterinary treatment to animals rescued by members of the public.

Pets In Spain is continually looking for donations to expand their animal rescue and welfare campaigns. Their biggest expense is Vets bills and resources are constantly depleting. They have foster homes and other volunteer staffed places help more abandoned animals.Donations are used to pay for veterinary fees, medication, food, transport costs and the occasional stay in temporary accommodation.

The team at Pets In Spain are currently homing between 30 and 40 displaced pets per month and have a target of 100. With more funding this target is more than achievable.

To make a donation to Pets In Spain charity by bank transfer: Account name: Pets In Spain Bank: Sabadell IBAN: ES14 0081 0687 7700 0168 1672 SWIFT/BIC: BSAB ESBB Paypal donations to: info@petsinspain.com To get in contact with the charity call 645 469 253 or email: info@petsinspain.com

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‘The Big One 2017’ Largest collection of classic Jaguars ever in Spain.

by Tahnee Wright After 18 months of planning, ‘The Big One 2017’ took place across Saturday April 22 and Sunday April 23 in Parador de Leon, Northern Spain.

A joint event between The Jaguar Enthusiasts Club, Spain, The Jaguar Enthusiasts Club, South of France, plus some very enthusiastic members from the JEC in the UK, the result was 97 classic Jaguars, (100 prior to three breakdowns) cleaned and polished to ‘within an inch of their lives’ with 201 very enthusiastic owners congregating at the Parador de Leon Hotel. The main event took place across the Saturday and Sunday, however many of the participants took two to three days or more to travel to and from their homes to the event.

Cars and owners came from all over Spain, France and the UK and on the way up, many members from The Costa Blanca region stopped off at Segovia - World Heritage City, for a spot of sightseeing.

Members from the UK came from as far as Plymouth, Lancashire and North Wales – those opting for the scenic routes covering approximately 3,500 miles over many days.

Having received prior special permission from Leon Town Hall, the outstanding collection of cars parked on St. Marco’s Square in front of the hotel and as expected, attracted much attention.

On the Saturday evening, members gathered for predinner drinks in The Cloisters to the sounds of classic guitar before proceeding to one of the medieval halls and enjoying a masked ball with three-course dinner and wine.

As the Grand Draw was announced, winners took home cash prizes, starting at €500 for the first prize. A prize was also awarded for the best mask, won by Andrew Honour in his classic venetian mask.

Each table was issued with an envelope for a charity donation, raising in total €2,214 which will be donated to Cancer Research UK. After the final announcements, members enjoyed much music and dancing into the early hours.

After a leisurely start on Sunday, members were delighted to meet with the Mayor of Leon at 11.00am before starting their engines at 11.30am and snaking through the city, out into the Spanish countryside and pulling up in Villafranca where a 21-course cocktail lunch was savoured.

The JEC in Spain is organised by Eric Arnold and Ian McMenemy. Eric can be contacted by email at jaguarspain@outlook.com or by phone on 609 931 647 or alternatively check out the JEC Spain website www.jec-spain.com. Events Director, Ian McMenemy can be contacted at McMenemy@JEC-events.com

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Race for life weekend in Los Alcazares

by Andy Mansell Lace up those training shoes, grab a bottle of water and head on down to the Club Nautico in Los Alcazares this Sunday May 7 at 11.00am, for the annual Race For Life cancer charity fundraiser organized by MABS Murcia Mar Menor.

Now in its ninth year, the popular event is open to everybody without restrictions and is a fantastic way of getting a little exercise, having a lot of fun and raising much needed funds for cancer sufferers.

The 3 kilometre course is run in a party atmosphere and participants can complete it however they want, by running, jogging, walking, roller skating, roller blading, skateboarding, dog walking, dancing, in a wheelchair, walking on your hands or a combination of all of them.

Bring along the whole family, wear fancy dress if you feel like it, or maybe get together with a group of friends, family or work colleagues to enter as a team. Who knows, you may even win the prize of the Team Shield.

Entry fee for the race is €10 for adults and €5 for children with every cent going in donation to the charity.

Race For Life raising funds for the MABS Cancer Support Charity on Sunday May 7 It’s not too late to join in with this fun event. Registration and sponsorship forms are available from the MABS Charity Shop, Avenida Ramon y Cajal 12, San Javier; The Post Room, Rio Nalon, Los Alcazares and the Saturday Book Stall at The Arches, Calle Penelope, Los Alcazares.

Alternatively call the charity on 634 310 783 or The Torrevieja market will move to its new location, behind the Aquapark, on la avenida de Delfina Viudes, on 12 May and will open send an email to mabsdonnawalsh@gmail.com. its doors to street vendors at 4.00am. The 80,000 m2 site - which has cost more than €5 million to develop - will have space for almost You can also register on the day, but get there 700 pitches. There will be a Local Police checkpoint and access to public toilets and the site will also be available for other uses such as as early as possible to guarantee your entry. The concerts and fiestas.Councillor Javier Manzanares said the new site will ‘provide far more space to traders and shoppers, alleviate much registration desk will be open at 9.30am on Sunof the current traffic chaos and security will be improved.’ The move will be welcomed by many residents of Torrevieja residents who, for day for later registrations, an hour and a half bemany years, have been hugely inconvenienced simply by living in the neighbourhood of the current market site. fore the race begins at 11.00am.

New market in Torrevieja will open May 12

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MABS looking for an area coordinator

by Andy Mansell MABS Cancer Support Charity are looking to recruit a volunteer in or around the Mazarron area for a strategically important role within their organization.This is a volunteer position and therefore carries no remuneration other than travel expenses.

The position would suit a retired individual with experience of managing people and an understanding of the nature and impact of cancer on people’s lives.Ideally, the Area Coordinator will live within reasonable travel distance from Mazarron.MABS Cancer Support Group was founded in 1999 and has expanded since then to include the Valencia and Murcia regions. It is a charity that provides practical, physical and literal assistance as well as care, comfort and counselling to cancer sufferers of any nationality regardless of their circumstances.

The suitable candidate for the post of Area Coordinator for our Mazarron district operations will be responsible for a MABS Support Centre building in Camposol, a Charity Shop in Totana and a local collection point in Puerto de Mazarron. Reporting to the Regional Director, the Area Coordinator will be responsible

for day to day operations in the MABS Support Centre and MABS Charity Shop as well our Fundraising team and our Care Operations team which includes transport for registered patients, interpretation and translation assistance for patients, care assessments and coordination, patient liaison and counselling and equipment logistics. The Area Coordinator will also be working closely with the Regional Treasurer and will be expected to work within established financial boundaries.The role of a MABS Area Coordinator is not without its challenges, given the nature of MABS work, and with an all-volunteer workforce who expect, and are entitled to, good leadership.

However, the gains include: •a sense of worthwhile achievement; •using your skills; •maintaining mental agility; •life experience and contacts; •sociability and enjoyment; •inclusion in MABS community life, and wider community life; •a sense of purpose.

The full job description will be made available to interested individuals. Applicants should send a brief resume of their experience to mabsmurciadirector@hotmail.com and include their village/town location.

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Local barbershop singers win Spanish gold A group of singers from Pilar de Horadada gave a Gold medal winning performance at a recent Barbershop Singing competition on the Costa Del Sol.

by Andy Mansell The Pilarmonics were up against groups from all over Spain, but finished first in the Chorus category at the Spanish Association of Babershop Singers annual convention in Benalmadena.

The fourteen girls making up the Pilarmonics were considered to be the ‘New Kids On The Block’ and faced other choruses from throughout the country.

On the day of the competition, after an early pep talk, they were in full stage outfits and make up ready for their performance by 09.00h and when their time came they gave it everything they to the judges and audience.

The many rigourous months of rehearsals and practice had certainly paid off, when the group, led by Musical Director, Dawn Ritch, were awarded Gold medal.

In addition, they were also awarded trophies for achieving the Highest scores from judges in both the Music and Singing categories. Unable to contain her excitement, Dawn, from Cabo Roig, said: “This is beyond our wildest dreams. We are a brand new chorus and this was our very first competition so we had no idea what kind of scores we would be able to achieve. We all worked very hard in preparation for the competition and are thrilled to be the new National Champions.”

Pilarmonics founder, Phil Molloy who lives in Pilar de la Horadada, said “We are a great team with a terrific musical director and I am so very proud of all of our ladies who worked in harmony and friendship and together achieved the joint highest score awarded to date in the Spanish National

The Pilarmonics from Pilar de Horadada winning Gold in the Spanish Association of Barbershop Singers competition

Contest. My aim was for Pilarmonics to compete at SABS Convention and I’m absolutely delighted to have won gold in our very first contest.”Pilarmonics was only born as a group in January 2016 and they rehearse every Wednesday evening at the Pilar Christian Community Church on Calle Canalejas in Pilar de la Horadada.Anyone wishing to see the Champion Chorus of Spain in action and find out what barbershop is all about then please feel free to pop in to one the rehearsals

News from Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers

Bar UK in Torre de la Horradada played host to the ‘Bike for Life’ fundraiser on April 15.

The family 10km bike ride, in its seventh year, was sponsored by Family Bike Hire.Com, Image Plus and Fishing Costa Blanca and raised over €1200 through sponsorship, bike hire and donations, split between Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers and Help Vega Baja.

Another €163 was collected for Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers on the day, bringing the total to an impressive €763.

Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers extend their greatest thanks to all involved in the hugely successful event.

In other news, Peacocks Petanca Club raised and generously donated €450 to Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers. The money was presented to the charity by Peacocks Petanca Secretary Irene Tolson and Treasurer June Sutton.

Timeless Fashions also hosted a fashion show on the April 27. The grim, wet weather did nothing to deter the staff and models, who did a fantastic job. Maria and the Pink Ladies and Panthers thank Simon Morton of Sunshine FM, Dan Davy and Sinead Hansard who battled on through the elements to entertain the crowd and raised the magnificent sum of €600.

The sessions begin around 6.45pm and run through to around 9.15pm when the girls normally visit a local hostelry for a well-deserved drink to lubricate their vocal chords.

For further information email phil.pilarmonics@gmail.com or take a look at their facebook page. Just click like at www.facebook.com/pilarmonics and aswell as having the chance to watch the Pilarmonics prize winning performance, you will be kept up to date on future events.

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Catwalk girls raise 1500€ for local cancer charity

by Andy Mansell Twelve glamourous volunteers modelled a total of 48 different outfits at the MABS Mar Menor Spring Fashion Show at Las Claras in Los Alcazares last week, raising a total of 1500€ for the charity in the process.On a beautiful, sunny afternoon, the very popular event attracted an audience of 114 women and one lucky man, to watch the dozen models strut their stuff on the catwalk.

The ladies showcased some wonderful outfits which were all donations to the MABS charity shop. Many of the clothes were new or nearly new, with some fabulous designer labels amongst them. Better still, they were all available for purchase at the end of the show.However the bargain hunters in the audience didn’t have to wait until the end of the afternoon to spend on a summer wardrobe as there were racks full of lovely fashionable items available to purchase when the doors opened. The MABS volunteers were only too happy to assist their customers and were always on hand to point out accessories, shoes, bags and jewellery, to compliment their outfits. By the time the fashion show started, there was hardly a table in the room without carrier bags full of purchases on top of it.

Looking fabulous herself, presenter and ex-Tiller Girl, Ziggi opened the show to rapturous applause, as the wonderful models took to the stage to show off the variety of clothing.

Each of the volunteer ladies, modelled four outfits, having to run upstairs to the end of a long corridor at every changeover.

This great emphasis and pressure on the volunteer dressers, who worked hard backstage to keep the changes running smoothly, ensuring there were no long gaps between outfits on the catwalk.

The twelve fashion models strutting their stuff on the catwalk at the MABS Mar Menor Spring Fashion Show

As if to prove that practice makes perfect, the well-rehearsed fashion show ran slick and smoothly to its finale, without a hitch or glitch all afternoon.

The hard working team at MABS Mar Menor would like to extend their gratitude to the supporters who attended the event and helped to raise the much needed funds for the charity.

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€6,000 donated to local Torrevieja and Vinalopo associations The hospitals of Torrevieja and Vinalopo have donated €6,000 - received by the Foundation Ad Qualitatem – to local associations in the respective areas.

Among the local associations to receive part of the donation is the ALPE centre of Torrevieja, and occupational facility and special education school devoted to the rehabilitation of the handicapped.

The presentation ceremony was held alongside the 1st Conference of Quality in the health sector held in the University Hospital of Torrevieja, where experts from various regions across Spain shared knowledge and experience about the importance of quality in health centres and the development of specific programmes that improve patient care.

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Follow their slime trails by

Michael Walsh

keyboardcosmetics@ gmail.com

British media is full of let’s incinerate the Russian Federation and teach Putin a lesson bombast. He did something wrong?

Seriously, just what illegal substances are government officials and tabloid editors on?

Like the other 220 nations Russia doesn’t threaten the UK or its interests. However, this much provoked state has the means and the will to turn the UK into a glass-strewn parking lot if it feels threatened. Russian parliamentarian Frants Klintsevich doesn’t mince his words. “Britain’s threat deserves a tough answer.”

The First Deputy of the Russian Defence Committee adds: “Russian cannot conquer Europe or the US through invasion or occupation. It is absolutely evident and thus pointless (to do so). It is high time to remind (London) of the vulnerability of its territory, which could be literally wiped off the face of the earth.”

Russia is perfectly entitled to react to British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon threatens to use nuclear weapons pre-emptively. This privately educated idiot never held a proper job, ran a business and never wore anything but a school uniform. Yet, without feeling it necessary to give reason or consult the people, he absurdly threatens the annihilation of the world’s second most powerful nuclear-armed superpower.

Britain’s infamous ‘if it bleeds it leads’ red top tabloids took up the cry. The Daily Mail, ‘So how do you like it, Vlad?’ This newspaper had earlier confused Latvia on the Baltic Sea with landlocked Mordovia 1,500km distant.

Déjà vu: British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain on August 16, 1939: “History will judge the Press generally to have been the principle cause of war.”

Alexander Khrolenko takes a more positive view. The international affairs analyst says the main purpose of

war rhetoric is to drive up arms sales. Sardonically, he alludes to taxpaying Britons paying for war with their incinerated ashes or their tax obligations.

Until they are elected British MPs are a run o’ the mill lot who aren’t particularly wealthy. However, after their being elected, 78% of MPs are millionaires. Why? Because MPs and the Lords pass legislation that favour corporate interests. Then, having made trading conditions favourable they invest in corporations including

the taxpayer subsidised armaments industries.

Senators who voted to attack Syria received 83 per cent more campaign money from military contractors than lawmakers voting no.

The West’s legislators and corporate media should have their investments carefully scrutinised. I would put money on it that their slime trail leads straight to their stockbroker’s office. The fact is, every time we vote for politicians we vote for war.

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May 1st –A Wellington Day by

Colin Bird

An anniversary that went virtually unnoticed his week was May 1st 1769, the birth of Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington.

Born in Dublin to aristocratic British parents, his first love as a boy was music. But his widowed mother anxious for her son not to be labelled a wuss, insisted he join the army where he was commissioned as a major, serving as the aide-de-camp to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. A bloke about as popular with the Irish as St George at a dragon convention.

At age 26 he became Lieutenant Colonel in the 33rd Infantry Regiment of Foot, a rank he purchased with a loan from his brother, and was first bloodied in the disastrous Flanders campaign.

In spite of this failed attempt to put paid to the First French Republic, Wellesley acquired a taste for war and obviously thought to himself: “I’ll have some more of that”.

After returning home he soon left again for India where he covered himself in glory, not to mention curry sauce, and was awarded a knighthood for his efforts along with a promotion to the rank of Major General. In fact he was the very model of a modern major general.

A year after returning to England, he became the M.P. for Rye, and shortly after was appointed Chief Secretary of Ireland.

But he continued with his military career despite his parliamentary duties and took part in campaigns in the Peninsular War where he was made army commander and promoted to Field Marshall.

But Waterloo is the one name above all others that is synonymous with Wellesley, who had by this time been granted a Dukedom.

The Prussians under the command of General Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher - a name that if mispronounced sounds like someone trying to cough up a fish bone – played a decisive role in the battle, and along with other coalition forces under the command of Wellington, they finally defeated Napoleon’s army on the evening of Sunday 18th June 1815.If anything, Wellington is perhaps under appreciated.

Apart from Waterloo and his status as Commander-in-Chief of the British army – a position he held up until his death – he also became Prime Minister twice and later a leading figure in the House of Lords.He is still regarded as one of the finest military tacticians of all time and is truly one of the greats of British history.

Happy birthday Arthur.

Are Spaniards more honest than Brits?

As the US commemorated ‘National Honesty Day’ last week, language exchange app Tandem polled its members across Europe, Russia and China to compare the differences in honesty around the globe.

Likely to be dishonest to their family were Chinese respondents (38 per cent) while Russians (32 per cent) found it hardest to be honest during school and university and Brits most commonly lie to their colleagues at work (26 per cent).

Nearly half of those Italian respondents (45 per cent) would go so far as to lie about their health to avoid work, as well as over a third of Russians (34 per cent) and Germans (31 per cent).

However, when asked to name the most dishonest of seven top professions including estate agents, lawyers, politicians and journalists, a more unanimous result was declared across the world.

Over half (58 per cent) of all respondents voted politicians the most dishonest; in Spain (86 per cent), Italy (71 per cent), UK (69 per cent), Russia (55 per cent), France (54 per cent) and Germany (53 per cent).

From nation to nation, the most dishonest respondents resided in the UK (62 per cent), China (62 per cent) and Russia (61 per cent), followed by France (59 per cent) and Germany (55 per cent) who each admitted to telling a few regular lies. Spain however was found to be the most trustworthy, with over three quarters (78 per cent) declaring they were very honest, followed by over half of Italian respondents (55 per cent).Respondents also admitted that it wasn't just zdults that they lie to, with Brits (70 per cent) and Russians (69 per cent) tending to favour the little white lies and tales of fairies and superheroes told to children, while scare tactics of ghosts and monsters prove most effective with children in China (76 per cent) and France (68 per cent).

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Blogger Bea Pla the face of the ‘Spectacle Wearer of the Year Competition 2017’ Blogger Bea Pla, has been announced as the official face of the Specsavers Opticas’ ‘Spectacle Wearer of the Year 2017’ competition.

Bea is a lover of fashion who shares her looks on her blog and social media with over 50,000 followers.

She is from Valencia and started her blog in 2013 after graduating from university, combining her love for fashion and photography. Since then she Bea has featured in many magazines, including being chosen as a Marie Claire ‘it girl’, modelling in the Glamour Street Fashion Show and collaborating with the magazine THEOMODA. Bea loves to have fun with fashion, displaying a wide range of looks which can work for any woman and for this reason she has been chosen to spearhead the competition.

This competition is in full swing, having opened earlier this week.The objective is to provide a platform to show everyone how great they look in their glasses and reward them for expressing their style and personality.

Those wanting to join in the fun and participate can enter until June 11 via Facebook and online at en.specsavers.es/loveglasses.

The winner of the competition will receive a cash prize of €1,000 and five semi-finalists will win a pair of designer frames worth €159. To enter, you simply need to submit a recent colour photo of yourself wearing glasses. Anyone from the age of 16 or over can enter, please note that under-18s need parental permission. ‘We are delighted to have Bea as part of this campaign. She took part in the competition several years ago and loved the positive message, not to mention the cool glasses, so she was happy to become the official face of the campaign.

We believe that her image will inspire others to show the world how good they look in their glasses and share them on social media by entering the competition’ explained Jose Angel Moral-Tajadura, Commercial Director of Specsavers Opticas.

More information, terms and conditions can be found on the website, along with a wide collection of glasses and sunglasses www.specsavers.es.

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Basic Spanish for everyday needs by

Jane Cronin

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Colours I thought we could start back with a subject that wasn´t too taxing, although I did struggle a little to think of something that I haven’t written about before.

I mean, I have written in the region of 300 articles about the Spanish language, and sometimes I accidentally write the same one twice. Anyway, inspiration came to me earlier on in the shower – I’ve never written about colours!

I presume you know the basic ones – “rojo”, “azul”, “amarillo”, “verde”. Some people are surprised by the word for brown – “marrón” as they assume it means “maroon”. “Marrón” is also used colloquially to mean “a mess” or “a pain” (the mental association, for me any way, is “a heap of ..” something). “Blanco” obviously means “white” but it also means “blank”. “Tener la mente en blanco” means to have a blank mind, or “to go blank”. Next time this happens when you’re speaking Spanish, maybe you could remember to say “tengo la mente en blanco” – except that then it would be true – never mind!

In English we say “black and white” but the Spanish put the words in the opposite order “blanco y

negro”, abbreviated to B/N when discussing photos and adverts. In between those two we have “gris” which has a pronunciation closer to the English word “grease” that the first half of the word “gristle”. Orange is the same word as the fruit “naranja” and pink is the same word as the flower “rosa”. Both of these colours, along with “crema” end in the letter “a”. Remember that colours are adjectives and as such change their endings to agree with the nouns they describe. This means that those which end in “o” change four times – “libro negro, silla negra, libros negros, sillas negras”. Those that don’t end in “o” can only change twice – “libro verde, silla verde, libros verdes, sillas verdes”. Also, remember that if the adjective ends in a consonant (e.g. azul) we add “es” to make the plural, as in “ojos azules”. Anyway, going back to “rosa”, “naranja” and “crema” these also only change twice – that is, they retain the “a” ending for both masculine and feminine singular

“vestido rosa” “papel naranja” but add the “s” as usual for plurals.

The word for purple varies according to shade. “Morado” is dark purple and there is also “violeta”, “lila” and “malva”. Amongst the reds is a popular colour called “granate”. We actually don’t have a common single word in English to describe this colour but I think the closest equivalents are “burgundy” or “claret”. I find that when I get students to describe their furnishings they very quickly find the need for the word “beige”. Interestingly the Spanish have had to import this word and until recently have retained the spelling “beige”. They have now officially changed the spelling to “beis” so it is pronounced similarly to the English word “base”.

Here’s one more thing about colours – how do we say “-ish”? Well, “bluish” is “azulado”, “greenish” is “verdoso” “reddish” is “rojizo” and “yellowish” is “amarillento” –good for those more imprecise moments.

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Diamonds are forever Know your diamonds: The Certificate of Authenticity Whenever you are purchasing a piece of diamond jewellery or indeed loose diamonds, you should be issued with a diamond Certificate of Authenticity (COA). This certificate, also known as a 'diamond grading report', assures the buyer with verification of the quality of the stone. You could say that the certificate resembles a passport.

Let's explore this further...

You may ask the question who issues these certificates?

The Certificate of Authenticity is issued by leading independent experts and the most recognised laboratories are the HRD of Antwerp, the GIA of New-York and the IGI of Antwerp. These organisations conform to global standards so it does not matter where you buy your diamonds, the ruling and validity for certification will be the same.

What does the certificate state?

The certificate will feature the 8 criteria that establishes the quality of a diamond and these are: Carat (Weight) Clarity

Colour Shape Proportions Symmetry Finish Fluorescence What is also important to know?

Diamonds are issued with a unique inscription that corresponds with athe Certificate of Authenticity. The inscription is made by using a very fine laser onto the girdle of the diamond which can only be seen using a gemological microscope.

In general, certification is supplied for diamonds of at least 0.50 carat in size and it is worth adding that the certificate does not contain any details for the value of the diamond. This must be done independently.

To avoid difficulty should you wish to resell or insure your diamonds, note that Certificate of Authenticity issued directly from a jeweller will not be recognised in the industry mainly because the jeweller is not considered to

be an impartial assessor. Its provenance must come from such institutes and laboratories we have recommended above.

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Join Wincham at a “Tea on the Terrace” event in June to discuss your Spanish property concerns?

Spanish Inheritance Tax can be a very misleading subject due to the varying advice and “solutions” spoken and written about in Spain Wincham have been providing professional, friendly and informative advice to our clients to successfully and legally protect their loved ones from the gigantic burden that is Spanish Inheritance Tax. The Wincham solution to Spanish IHT is for the owner/s to invest or purchase their future Spanish property into a UK Limited Company that Wincham can supply.

Other benefits include:Saving of Spanish Property Purchase Tax (6-10%) Spanish Inheritance and Wealth Tax Savings No Spanish Will/Spanish Probate required Reductions of Capital gains Tax No Off-Shore Company Tax Wincham are made up of qualified Lawyers, Tax Consultants, Chartered Accountants, Gestores (Qualified Legal assistants) and Economistas. Whatever your requirements, Wincham

are here to expertly and efficiently supply you with the best advice and service on all Spanish property matters. We recognise that every customer property requirement is different and this is why our experienced team listen carefully so that we can deliver an excellent and precise bespoke service to help generate the results you wish to achieve.

Other Wincham services include:UK and Spanish Probate Estate Agents Property Legal Advice and Conveyancing Accountancy & Tax Services Off the Shelf Corporate Solutions UK Buy to Let Property Advice Wincham are delighted to announce that during the Month of June we will be hosting our “Tea on the Terrace” events in Calpe, Altea, and Javea. Offering complimentary one to one appointments with our consultants, giving you the opportunity to discuss your individual circumstances regarding your Spanish property.

Venue

Diamante Hotel, Calpe SH Hotel Villa Gadea, Altea Parador de Jávea, Javea

Date

Thursday 8th June 2017 Friday 9th June 2017 Saturday 10th June 2017

Appointments are available between 10am to 5pm For details of the “Tea on the Terrace” events please call Wincham on 0034 965 830 991 or 0044 (0) 1260 299 700.

Alternatively please visit www.winchamiht.com to make your appointment with one of our Tax Consultants where you will be provided with a complimentary Spanish Inheritance Tax Illustration.

If Wincham International can assist with any other matters including Legal, Accountancy, Probate, Buying or Selling, then please complete the enquiry form to make an appointment at www.wincham.com

Book an appointment today to meet with one of our Consultants at our "Tea on the Terrace" events in June.

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Trust is what makes a success of digital workplaces Trusting employees by giving them autonomy is the key to making a success of the digital workplace, according to research conducted by Nick van der Meulen of Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) and MIT’s Center for Information Systems Research (CISR).

In an era where digital workplaces are quickly becoming the norm, the study found that organisations that invest most into these digital workplaces – in employee connectedness and responsive leadership – performed above their direct competitors in their respective industries. This was assessed on a basis of five indicators, including growth in market share, profit growth and employee satisfaction.

The survey of 313 organisations showed that the high-performing organisations have an integrated and company-wide approach to greater employee connectedness. They achieve this by designing physical spaces, digital technologies and social networks specifically focused on enabling more collaborative work.

‘Connectivity built across silos rather than in an isolated fashion is critical to empowering employees to provide seamless customer experiences,’ van der Meulen explains.

In other words, a physical and digital work environment

designed for a collaborative, integrated employee experience enables the delivery of more complex customer solutions.In terms of leadership style, high performers adopt a facilitative approach in which managers trust their employees to decide when, where, and how best to work. Management typically encourages employees to share mistakes and failures, but is also interested in their innovative ideas. Staff are allowed to be flexible, while enabling the entire organisation to learn, innovate and remain competitive.

In addition, these leaders articulate a vision that links workplace design to the organisation’s strategic objectives.

They encourage experimentation with new approaches to work, have a high tolerance for failure of new workplace initiatives and provide continuous learning opportunities.

These companies also tend to have cross-functional digital workplace leadership teams.

The research emphasised that responsive leadership - which is critical in getting full value from the digital workspace - requires a shift in mind-set. Leaders in highperforming companies facilitate workplace design rather than direct it.

‘The end result is that they empower employees to make decisions in the best interest of customer experience and their work,’ Nick van der Meulen added.

Organisations that invest most into digital workplaces performed above their direct competitors

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Getting a divorce

by

IGNACIO PELLICER MOLLĂ & PEDRO HEREDIA ORTIZ

LAWYERS

Q A

My husband and I have been seperated for several years.

We now want to file for a divorce.

Where can we file for divorce?

Which is the applicable... law?

When the parties involved cannot decide or agree on the applicable law, the following divorce regulations apply (as set out in Article 5 of the European Regulation EU No. 1259/2010) subject to the law of the State: a) Where the spouses have their usual residence at the time of the lodging the lawsuit b) Where the spouses had their last usual residence, provided that the period of residence did not end more than one year before the filing of the complaint, and that one of them still resides there at the time of lodging the lawsuit or, failing that; c) The nationality of both spouses at the time of the filing of the complaint or, failing that, d) Before the Courts where the application was made.

According to the European Commission, there are about 16 million international couples in the EU, whose members come from different Member States or living in an EU country of which neither is a national.

Family law remains the exclusive competence of the national authorities. The EU regulations include provisions to ensure respect for the legal system of each country.

The information provided in this article is not intended to be legal advice, but merely conveys general information related to legal issues.

If you have any further questions about this or any other legal matter, please do not hesitate to contact us; we have a team of experts standing by to assist you in any way we can. Call 965 480 737 or 606 056 282 or email info@pellicerheredia.com Videos at www.pellicerheredia.com

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Sammy Kruz reporting for duty.

A few quick tip-bits about myself to get us started.

I have been living in Benidorm for the last 10 years, having tried my hand at many things from karaoke host to Radio presenter I finally found my true place in this wonderful and diverse seaside town! I currently manage a fabulous bar in the Old Town, called Sensations, and guest DJ at People’s Night Club. On top of that, I am very proud to be a part of the committee that are responsible for Benidorm Pride, taking charge of the entertainment and staging of this wicked event! Enough about little old me! Let the entertainment gossip commence!

The Sound Of Music UK Singles Charts Top 5 1. Symphony Clean Bandit ft Zara Larsson

On everyone’s lips Love it or hate it … Eurovision is upon us!

2. Shape Of You Ed Sheeran 3. Galway Girl Ed Sheeran 4. Sign Of The Times Harry Styles 5.

Passionfruit Drake

The Eurovision Song Contest 2017 will be the 62nd edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. It will take place in the International Exhibition Centre in Kiev, Ukraine, following Ukraine's victory at the 2016 contest in Stockholm with the song "1944", written and performed by Jamala. This will be the second time the contest takes place in Kiev, after 2005.

The contest is expected to consist of two semi-finals on 9 and 11 May and the final on 13 May 2017.

Celebrated TV comic Graham Norton will host the event in the UK. He has been the UK’s ESC commentator since 2009 and become increasingly popular since Terry Wogan retired from the gig.

Forty-two countries will participate in the 2017 contest. Portugal and Romania are to return to the contest, both having been absent from the 2016 edition. After returning in 2016, Bosnia and Herzegovina has withdrawn again due to financial difficulties. Russia announced their withdrawal on 13 April 2017, after their singer, Yulia Samoylova, was banned from entering Ukraine after the government said she had illegally travelled directly to Crimea from Russia, a region that was annexed by Russia in 2014, to give a performance. Blooming politics, cant it just be about the music?

Lucie Jones will be representing the UK with her track “Never Give Up On You”

The money Living is Spain I rarely get a chance to watch British telly. However, the one show I adore is The Graham Norton Show. The host is OK! The guests he has on the sofa are mind-blowing!

A bit about him.

Graham William Walker, better known by his stage name Graham Norton, is a famous Irish comedian, actor, commentator, TV presenter and writer-columnist. In 1998 he established a production company “So Television” with Graham Stuart. This company still produces Norton’s chat shows, such as the famous “So Graham Norton” and “The Graham Norton Show”. When Norton decided to sell this company in 2012, he received about $28 million!

He also earns millions of dollars thanks to his acting and writings; today Norton’s income reaches well over $5 million per year!

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BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

7:00am 10:15am 11:00am 12:00pm 12:45pm 1:15pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 4:45pm 5:30pm

6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:25pm 11:35pm 12:25am

7:00am 7:30am 8:15am

9:00am 10:00am 2:00pm 2:30pm

3:00pm 5:00pm 5:35pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:45pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 12:05am

7:00am 9:30am 10:25am 11:30am 1:30pm 2:30pm 2:55pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:40pm

Breakfast Rip Off Britain Homes Under the Hammer The Wanted Claimed and Shamed Bargain Hunt BBC News BBC London News Doctors The Boss Escape to the Country Garden Rescue Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Pointless BBC News BBC London News The One Show A Question of Sport EastEnders MasterChef Have I Got News for You Hospital People BBC News BBC London News The Graham Norton Show Witless

Flog it! Trade Secrets Garden Rescue Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is The World According to Kids Election 2017 Two Tribes Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman Election 2017 Coast Red Rock Flog It! Celebrity Eggheads Debatable Great British Menu Gardeners’ World Grand Tours of Scotland Versailles QI Newsnight Later... with Jools Holland

5:35pm Red Rock

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Judge Rinder Culinary Genius Tipping Point Babushka ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories Coronation Street Lethal Weapon ITV News and Weather ITV News London American Gangster

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

itv2

7:00am 7:45am 8:10am 8:35am 9:00am 9:35am 10:05am 10:35am 11:05am 12:05pm 1:00pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 12:05am

7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm

2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:15pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm

9:00pm

10:00pm

11:00pm

7:00am 7:10am 7:35am 8:20am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:35am 11:25am 12:20pm 1:25pm 1:55pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:50pm 4:55pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 12:10am

Countdown Will and Grace Will and Grace Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell Channel 4 News The Question Jury Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Extreme Cake Makers The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Unreported World Posh Pawn Gogglebox Britain Today Tonight Britain Today Tonight 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

Childrens TV The Wright Stuff GPs: Behind Closed Doors 5 News Lunchtime The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door Home and Away Neighbours NCIS Undercover Bridesmaid 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Cricket on 5: England v Ireland The Final Mystery of Stonehenge Spectacular Spain with Alex Polizzi It’s Complicated

E4 The Hot Desk You’ve Been Framed!

Below Deck The Ellen De Generes Show Emmerdale Emmerdale You’ve Been Framed!

Psych Below Deck Who’s Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Emmerdale You’ve Been Framed!

The Ellen De Generes Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You’ve Been Framed!

You’ve Been Framed!

Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Delivery Man Family Guy

7:00am 7:30am 7:55am 8:55am 9:55am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 12:15am

The Hot Desk Emmerdale Omnibus Coronation Street Omnibus Britain’s Got Talent Britain’s Got More Talent Take Me Out Take Me Out: The Gossip You’ve Been Framed!

Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang FYI Daily Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang Paul Blart: Mall Cop FYI Daily Paul Blart: Mall Cop Scorpion Britain’s Got More Talent Celebrity Juice Family Guy

7:00am 7:25am 7:45am 8:05am 8:35am 9:35am 10:05am 10:35am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 12:30pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 3:15pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 10:00pm 12:10am

Hollyoaks Coach Trip Baby Daddy Rules of Engagement Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother New Girl New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine New Girl New Girl The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Safe House The Big Bang Theory

SATURDAY 6th May BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

7:00am 11:00am 12:30pm

1:00pm 2:00pm 2:15pm

2:45pm 3:45pm 4:45pm 5:30pm 6:30pm 7:10pm 7:20pm 7:30pm 8:20pm 9:05pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:20pm 12:40am

7:25am 9:20am 10:05am 12:00pm

1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 4:20pm 5:20pm 5:55pm 6:25pm 7:25pm 8:20pm

9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:50pm 12:35am

7:00am 7:25am 7:35am 7:40am

8:00am 8:05am 8:30am 8:55am

9:25am 9:30am 10:25am

11:20am 12:20pm 1:20pm 1:25pm 2:30pm

5:00pm

5:30pm 6:15pm 7:15pm 7:25pm 7:45pm 9:00pm 10:15pm

Breakfast Saturday Kitchen Live Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites Football Focus BBC News Usain Bolt: The Final Chapter Athletics Bargain Hunt Escape to the Country Final Score Who Dares Wins BBC News BBC London News Pointless Doctor Who Casualty Michael Mcintyre BBC News Match of the Day Murder in Successville

That’s Entertainment! 3 Talking Pictures Silk Stockings Monty Halls’ Great Hebridean Escape Great British Menu Great British Menu Great British Menu Four for Texas Trust Me, I’m a Vet Flog It! Gardeners’ World Springwatch Japan’s Northern Wilderness Trump on Culture: Brave New World?

Grand Tours of Scotland Dad’s Army Nightcrawler QI XL Versailles

Bottom Knocker Street Sooty Share a Story Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures Oddbods Marvel’s Avengers Assemble Thunderbirds are Go Ninjago: Masters of Spinjitzu ITV News Weekend ITV Racing: The Opening Show Judge Rinder Tipping Point ITV News Bigheads ITV Racing: Live From Newmarket Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs Catchphrase Britain’s Got More Talent ITV News London ITV News Take Me Out Britain’s Got Talent The Keith and Paddy Picture Show

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

itv2

7:15am 7:40am 8:10am 8:35am 9:00am 9:25am 9:55am 10:25am 10:55am 11:25am 11:55am 12:30pm 1:00pm

1:55pm 2:55pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:35pm

5:35pm 6:35pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 12:35am

7:00am 11:35am 11:40am

12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm

3:00pm 4:00pm

5:00pm

6:00pm

7:00pm

7:55pm 8:00pm 8:45pm 9:45pm

10:45pm 10:50pm

12:45am

7:00am 7:10am 9:35am 12:05pm 1:25pm 2:25pm 3:40pm 4:40pm 5:10pm

6:10pm 6:15pm

7:25pm

8:25pm 8:30pm

9:15pm 10:15pm 11:20pm 12:20am

Mobil 1 The Grid Motorsport King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun Big House, Little House Location, Location, Location Channel 4 News The Restoration Man Walking Through Time The Fault in Our Stars Ghost

Childrens TV Access Criminals Caught on Camera Police Interceptors On Benefits On Benefits: Breadline Brummies On Benefits The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

5 News Weekend NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves 5 News Weekend Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves Football on 5

BBC1 Breakfast Match of the Day The Andrew Marr Show The Big Questions Sunday Politics Bargain Hunt BBC News Homes Under the Hammer Money for Nothing Escape to the Country Points of View Songs of Praise Pointless BBC News BBC London News Countryfile Antiques Roadshow Babs Mrs. Brown‘s Boys BBC London News Match of the Day 2 The Women’s Football Show

BBC2 7:15am A to Z of TV Gardening 8:00am The Instant Gardener 8:45am Gardeners’ World 9:15am The Beechgrove Garden 9:45am Countryfile 10:45am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:15pm Great British Menu 12:45pm Great British Menu 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm Natural World 3:00pm Equestrian 5:00pm Rowing 6:30pm Flog It! 6:55pm The Terminal 9:00pm Mexico 10:00pm Dara and Ed’s Road to

Mandalay 11:00pm The True Story 12:40am The Reluctant

Fundamentalist

Rude(Ish) Tube The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Made in Chelsea Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Goldbergs Astro Boy The Net The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hanna Gogglebox

12:20am Family Guy

SUNDAY 7th May 7:00am 8:40am 10:00am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:15pm 2:00pm 2:15pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 5:15pm 5:50pm 6:35pm 6:50pm 7:00pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:30pm 11:20pm 11:30pm 12:40am

E4

ITV1 7:00am Bottom Knocker Street 7:25am Sooty 7:35am Share a Story 7:40am Dino Dan:

Trek’s Adventures 8:00am Oddbods 8:05am Marvel’s Avengers Assemble 8:30am Thunderbirds are Go 8:55am Ninjago:

Masters of Spinjitzu 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am Countrywise 11:00am Peston on Sunday 12:00pm Judge Rinder 1:00pm ITV News 1:10pm Britain’s Got Talent 2:30pm ITV Racing:

Live From Newmarket 5:05pm Diamonds are Forever 7:35pm ITV News London 7:40pm ITV News 8:00pm Bigheads 9:00pm The Durrells 10:00pm Grantchester 11:00pm ITV News 11:20pm Peston on Sunday 12:20am Rugby

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

itv2

E4

7:15am King of Queens 8:30am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm Eat the Week with Iceland 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Ghostbusters II 5:40pm World’s Most Expensive Cars 6:40pm George Clarke’s Old House,

New Home 7:35pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Escape to Costa Rica 9:00pm Captain America:

The First Avenger 11:25pm Prometheus 1:45am Ramsay’s Kitchen

Nightmares USA

7:00am Childrens TV 11:30am Football on 5 11:55am Criminals Caught

on Camera 12:25pm Police Interceptors 1:20pm Police Interceptors 2:20pm Cats and Dogs 4:00pm Puppies Make You

Laugh Out Loud 5:00pm Cats Make You Laugh

Out Loud 3 7:00pm 5 News 7:05pm Journey 2:

The Mysterious Island 8:00pm One Day International

Cricket 9:00pm Football on 5 9:55pm 5 News Weekend 10:00pm When Magic Goes

Horribly Wrong 11:00pm Comedy Gold:

Tv’s Funniest Ever

Sketches 12:30am Football on 5

7:00am Totally Bonkers

Guinness World Records 7:25am Emmerdale Omnibus 9:50am Coronation Street Omnibus 12:20pm Take Me Out 1:40pm Mr. Magorium’s Wonder

Emporium 2:40pm FYI Daily 2:45pm Mr. Magorium’s Wonder

Emporium 3:30pm Miss Congeniality 2:

Armed and Fabulous 4:30pm FYI Daily 4:35pm Miss Congeniality 2:

Armed and Fabulous 5:45pm Britain’s Got Talent 7:00pm Britain’s Got More Talent 8:05pm Evan Almighty 9:05pm FYI Daily 9:10pm Evan Almighty 10:00pm Take Me Out: The Gossip 11:00pm Family Guy 11:30pm Family Guy 12:00am Family Guy

7:00am Couples Come Dine with Me 7:55am Hollyoaks Omnibus 10:25am Made in Chelsea 11:30am The Goldbergs 12:00pm The Goldbergs 12:30pm The Goldbergs 1:00pm Black-Ish:

Just Christmas, Baby 1:30pm Baby Daddy 2:00pm Kevin Can Wait 2:30pm Brooklyn Nine-Nine 3:00pm New Girl 3:30pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 3:40pm The Big Bang Theory 4:10pm The Big Bang Theory 4:40pm The Big Bang Theory 5:10pm The Big Bang Theory 5:40pm The Spy Next Door 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Big Bang Theory 8:30pm The Big Bang Theory 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Marvel’s Agents of

S.H.I.E.L.D. 11:00pm Tattoo Fixers 12:00am Tattoo Fixers

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MONDAY 8th May BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Rip Off Britain 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm A1:

Britain’s Longest Road 12:45pm Claimed and Shamed 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News at One 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Doctors 3:15pm The Boss 4:00pm Escape to the Country 4:45pm Garden Rescue 5:30pm Put Your Money Where Your

Mouth Is 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Panorama 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Room 101 10:00pm MasterChef 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Match of the Day 12:15am Have I Got a Bit More

News for You

7:00am 7:30am 8:15am

9:00am 10:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 3:50pm 4:50pm 5:30pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:45pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm

11:00pm 11:30pm 12:15am

7:00am 9:30am 10:25am 11:30am 1:30pm 2:30pm 2:55pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:25pm

7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm

9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:40pm 11:50pm 12:55am

My Life in Books Garden Rescue Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Antiques Roadshow Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics Athletics Natural World Who Do You Think You Are? Red Rock Red Rock Antiques Road Trip Celebrity Eggheads Debatable Great British Menu Nature’s Weirdest Events Amazing Hotels: Life Beyond the Lobby Mock the week Newsnight Second Chance Summer: Tuscany

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Dickinson’s Real Deal Culinary Genius Tipping Point Babushka ITV News London Party Election Broadcast by the Conservative Party ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Tonight - The Leader Interviews: Tim Farron Coronation Street Little Boy Blue ITV News and Weather ITV News London Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain Joanna Lumley’s Postcards

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

itv2

7:00am 7:45am 8:10am 8:35am 9:00am 9:35am 10:05am 10:35am 11:05am 12:05pm 1:00pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:55pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:55pm 12:55am

7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm

2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:15pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 7:55pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am

7:00am 7:10am

7:35am 8:20am 9:00am 9:30am 10:00am 10:35am 11:25am 12:20pm 1:25pm 1:55pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:50pm 4:55pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:55pm 12:25am

Countdown Will and Grace Will and Grace Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay’s Hotel Hell Channel 4 News The Question Jury Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Extreme Cake Makers The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Party Election Broadcast Dispatches Food Unwrapped The Island with Bear Grylls Loaded Gogglebox Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

Childrens TV The Wright Stuff GPs: Behind Closed Doors 5 News Lunchtime Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

Home and Away Neighbours NCIS The Perfect Roommate 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Party Election Broadcast MotoGP Police Interceptors Inside the Gang Mind the Age Gap Parker

8:00pm MotoGP

E4 The Hot Desk Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Below Deck The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street Scorpion Below Deck Who’s Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You’ve Been Framed!

You’ve Been Framed!

You’ve Been Framed!

Two and a Half Men Two and a Half Men Family Guy The Great Indoors American Dad! American Dad! Family Guy The Cleveland Show

7:00am 7:30am 7:55am 8:55am 9:55am 11:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 3:00pm 3:30pm 4:00pm 4:30pm 5:00pm 5:30pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am

Hollyoaks Coach Trip Baby Daddy Rules of Engagement Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine Brooklyn Nine-Nine New Girl New Girl The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Baby Daddy The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Made in Chelsea Empire The Big Bang Theory

Pick of the Week

Tattoo Fixers Sunday 7th May, 11:00pm, E4

TUESDAY 9th May BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

7:00am 10:15am 11:00am 12:00pm 12:45pm 1:15pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 4:45pm 5:30pm

6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 10:30pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:45pm

12:45am

7:00am 7:30am

8:15am

9:00am

10:00am 12:00pm 1:00pm 2:00pm 2:45pm 2:50pm 3:50pm 4:50pm 5:30pm 6:15pm 7:00pm 7:45pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 10:00pm

11:00pm

11:30pm 12:15am

7:00am 9:30am 10:25am 11:30am 1:30pm 2:30pm 2:55pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 7:25pm

7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm

9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm

11:40pm 11:50pm 12:50am

Breakfast Rip Off Britain Homes Under the Hammer A1: Britain’s Longest Road Claimed and Shamed Bargain Hunt BBC News BBC London News Doctors The Boss Escape to the Country Garden Rescue Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Pointless BBC News BBC London News The One Show EastEnders Holby City Our Friend Victoria Our Friend Victoria BBC News BBC London News Football Abuse: The Ugly Side of the Beautiful Game The Truth About Stress

My Life in Books A1: Britain’s Longest Road Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Great American Railroad Journeys Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Daily Politics The Super League Show Countryfile Natural World Who Do You Think You Are? Red Rock Red Rock Antiques Road Trip Celebrity Eggheads Debatable Great British Menu Bake Off Crème de la Crème Second Chance Summer: Tuscany Later Live... with Jools Holland Newsnight Dara and Ed’s Road to Mandalay

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London Dickinson’s Real Deal Culinary Genius Tipping Point Babushka ITV News London Party Election Broadcast by the Labour Party ITV Evening News Emmerdale Save Money: Good Food Don’t Ask Me Ask Britain Long Lost Family ITV News and Weather ITV News London Little Boy Blue Car Crash Britain Caught on Camera

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

7:00am 7:45am 8:10am 8:35am 9:00am 9:35am 10:05am 10:35am 11:05am 12:05pm 1:00pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:55pm 9:00pm

10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am

7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm 2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm

4:15pm

6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 7:55pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:05am

Countdown Will and Grace Will and Grace Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay’s Hotel Hell Channel 4 News The Question Jury Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Extreme Cake Makers The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Party Election Broadcast Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners One Born Every Minute First Dates Confessions of a Junior Doctor

Childrens TV The Wright Stuff GPs: Behind Closed Doors 5 News Lunchtime On Benefits Home and Away Neighbours NCIS: Los Angeles A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Party Election Broadcast Police Interceptors The Yorkshire Vet Elizabeth I Mind the Age Gap 20 Moments That Rocked Pop

itv2

7:00am 7:10am

7:35am 8:20am 9:00am 9:30am 10:35am 11:25am 12:20pm 1:25pm 1:55pm 3:00pm 3:50pm 6:00pm 7:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:25pm 12:00am

The Hot Desk Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Below Deck The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale Coronation Street Scorpion Below Deck Who’s Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You’ve Been Framed!

Two and a Half Men Hell’s Kitchen Family Guy Family Guy Family Guy

10:00pm Hell’s kitchen

E4 7:00am 7:30am 8:00am 8:30am 8:55am 9:30am 9:55am 10:30am 11:00am 11:30am 12:00pm 1:00pm 1:30pm 2:00pm 3:00pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:30pm 9:00pm 9:30pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 12:00am

Hollyoaks Coach Trip Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Rules of Engagement Rules of Engagement Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy How I Met Your Mother New Girl New Girl Brooklyn Nine-Nine The Big Bang Theory How I Met Your Mother Brooklyn Nine-Nine New Girl New Girl The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks Black-Ish The Goldbergs The Goldbergs E4’s Tattoo Artist of the Year Bizarre ER The Big Bang Theory

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wednesday 10th May BBC1

BBC2

7:00am 10:15am 11:00am 12:00pm

12:45pm 1:15pm 2:00pm 2:30pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:00pm 4:45pm 5:30pm

6:15pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 9:00pm 10:00pm 11:00pm 11:30pm 11:45pm 12:15am

7:00am My Life in Books 7:30am A1:

Britain’s Longest Road 8:15am Put Your Money Where

Your Mouth Is 9:00am Nature’s Weirdest Events 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 1:00pm The Daily Politics 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm Coast 3:00pm Natural World 3:50pm Who Do You Think You Are? 4:50pm Red Rock 5:35pm Red Rock 6:15pm Antiques Road Trip 7:00pm Celebrity Eggheads 7:45pm Debatable 8:30pm Great British Menu 9:00pm Trust Me, I’m a Vet 10:00pm King Charles III 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am Mexico

Breakfast Rip Off Britain Homes Under the Hammer A1: Britain’s Longest Road Claimed and Shamed Bargain Hunt BBC News at One BBC London News Doctors The Boss Escape to the Country Garden Rescue Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Pointless BBC News BBC London News The One Show MasterChef Panorama BBC News BBC London News A Question of Sport Teenage Knife Wars

ITV1

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Lorraine 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:55pm ITV News London 3:00pm Dickinson’s Real Deal 4:00pm Culinary Genius 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Babushka 7:00pm ITV News London 7:25pm Party Election Broadcast

by the Liberal Democrats 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Tonight at the London

Palladium 10:00pm Britain’s Busiest

Airport - Heathrow 11:00pm ITV New and Weather 11:40pm ITV News London 11:50pm UEFA Champions

League Highlights 12:50am Sports Life Stories

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

itv2

7:00am 7:45am 8:35am 10:05am 10:35am 11:05am 12:05pm 1:00pm 1:05pm 2:05pm 3:10pm 4:00pm 5:00pm 6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 8:00pm 8:55pm 9:00pm

10:00pm

11:00pm 12:05am

7:00am 10:15am 12:15pm 1:10pm 1:15pm

2:15pm 2:45pm 3:15pm 4:15pm

6:00pm 6:30pm 7:00pm 7:30pm 7:55pm 8:00pm

9:00pm

10:00pm

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Countdown Will and Grace Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay’s Hotel Hell Channel 4 News The Question Jury Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Extreme Cake Makers The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Party Election Broadcast How to Live Mortgage Free with Sarah Beeny Confessions of a Junior Doctor Quadruplets and Homeless One Born Every Minute

Childrens TV The Wright Stuff To B&B the Best 5 News Lunchtime Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

Home and Away Neighbours NCIS Still Life: A Three Pines Mystery 5 News Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight Party Election Broadcast Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys Gps Behind Closed Doors: Best of Patient Files Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

Mind the Age Gap Violent Child, Desperate Parents

E4 The Hot Desk Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Below Deck The Ellen DeGeneres Show Emmerdale The Cube Scorpion Below Deck Who’s Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Totally You’ve Been Framed!

The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You’ve Been Framed!

Two and a Half Men The Expendables FYI Daily The Expendables Family Guy

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Countdown Will and Grace Will and Grace Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Car S.O.S Ramsay’s Hotel Hell Channel 4 News The Question Jury Posh Pawnbrokers Countdown Fifteen to One A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Extreme Cake Makers The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Party Election Broadcast The Supervet Born to Kill How to Get a Council House First Dates

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Scorpion Below Deck Who’s Doing the Dishes?

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The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder You’ve Been Framed!

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Book Review

The Real Mystery of Jack the Ripper.

The Untold Investigation.

by Darren Mark Wright

This is a plausible account by Wright using his research from casebook.org and I am assured that every fact of the case is actual fact and that these facts can be traced to their source. The investigators are a creation of the author and the conclusion made by Lieutenant Davis who has "weird, unique and imaginative ways of recreating crime scenes." Essential for interesting storytelling. His techniques are theatrical, using improvisations and revisiting scenes like a time traveller. The murder victims are included adding to the story-telling and characterisation.

Multiple narration is a device used well by Wright as he seamlessly moves from 1888 to 1900 or 1905, from Whitechapel, London to South Africa during the Boer war.

The story moves backwards and forwards constantly with lots of overlap and repetition. There is a purpose to this. As the investigation develops Davis uncovers more facts which develop into theories of who was responsible for committing these gruesome murders. What is satisfying is that when you finally reach the end and it is a long haul, so be warned, Wright presents you with the murderer(s) and the evidence.

Lieutenant Christian Davis tells the story to a company of soldiers in the South African Republic before fighting commenced, twelve years after Jack the Ripper committed his murder spree. It was believed that an "intriguing, unsolved murder story" would distract them from the "throngs of the Great Boer War." After the war, Captain Arthur Phillip Hughes sat with a psychologist, Doctor Schultz who wanted to know about the Ripper killings. This was in 1902. The Captain has been suffering from insomnia which he assumes are connected to the info@bookworldpuertobanus.com www@bookworldpuertobanus.com | 952 816 084

war although the doctor believes it has more to do with the Ripper investigation. He retells the story explaining why the Ripper was never caught.

We move into 1905 where a Doctor Brown is a tour guide taking tourists around the sites of the murders and other related locations giving his expertise to the Whitechapel murders, accompanied by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.

The main narrative details the murders committed during the 1888s in the East End of London. The social setting reminds one of Dickens with streets full of prostitutes, drunken binges with people passing out in the street and police patrolling the area. Bayonets were so common that you could buy them in the market for a penny. Murder was cried out so often just like the child crying wolf story. George Street was considered the most dangerous street in this locality even though the police were always patrolling the area.

Emma Elizabeth Smith nee Jones was the first victim. We are told that she was beaten and raped with a blunt instrument.

It had been alleged that she was savaged by a gang who had stolen her money. The truth revealed later in the story is more shocking. "They shoved some blunt instrument up her vagina.

Destroyed her insides, then left her to die." She was depicted as a drunken prostitute, always getting into brawls. Her peritoneum was ruptured. The Coroner referred to the crime as being barbarous, a "brutal and dastardly assault."

Hughes and Davis were very drunk when the next murder took place close to where they passed out in a stairwell in George Street. The doctor described the act as one of overkill because of the excessive number of stabbings, 38

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stabs using a pen-knife and the fatal blow was a bayonet rammed through her heart. Martha Tabram. Another prostitute who had been drinking in the same public house as Hughes and Davis: The White Swan. We are told that she had been drinking with Mary Connolly and a Corporal and a Private.

Several more murders followed, more destructive. There is an indication that the murderer was practising his mutilations and there would be a climax before the murders stopped. Intriguing. Worth a read if you have the stomach for it!

Publishers: D.M.Productions. Adelaide.

ISBN: 13: 978-1517707804 REVIEW it by Carol Naylor naylorcl@hotmail.es.

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Cars galore at the Alicante motor show

Costa Blanca residents looking to change their car will have an ideal opportunity to see a huge selection of both new and used vehicles all under one roof, when the Alicante Motor Show drives into the city.

The three day FIRAUTO event at the IFA Exhibition Centre on the outskirts of Alicante, is now in its 40th year and will have representatives from the majority of the world’s major motor manufacturers A their range of cars including the latest models to hit their fleet.

In addition to new cars, the show will also host the EXPOCAR used car show, where customers will be able to browse through a huge number of used, second hand and

zero kilometre models available for instant purchase at discounted prices.

This will be the 26th year of the used car show and is a perfect way of seeing hundreds of quality cars under one roof ready to drive away.

And two wheel fans will not be disappointed either as the SOBRE2RUEDAS Motorcycle Show also takes place on the same weekend, with new and used models on show throughout the three days.

Other exhibitors at the event include driver products and car accessories, motor insurers and representatives of car finance houses.

You can even get an ITV on your own car on your visit to the motor show as the Applaus ITV service will also have a stand at the show.

The show takes place at the IFA, Institucion Ferial Alicantina from Friday May 12 to Sunday May 14, with the doors opening from 10.30am to 9.00pm daily.

The cost of entry on the day is €8 or €6 for over 60’s or under 30’s by presenting the discount bonus that can be downloaded in the download section of the website.

Children under 12 years old are free and discounted tickets at €5 can be bought in advance from the event’s website www.feria-alicante.com

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what’s on

Showtime in Los Montesinos

Performers from Rascals preparing for the 'On Broadway show later this month

Fatty arbuckle is back in town A San Fulgencio theatre group will be taking a step back in time next month, making a return to the golden age of silent movies, when the Keystone Cops and Fatty Arbuckle were the names on every picture house’s posters.

Studio 32’s summer production ,’Mack and Mabel’ is set in the era of silent movies, from 1911 to 1938, and contains a fine mix of solo and company songs.

Add to that some hilarious slapstick comedy with Mack Sennett’s most famous silent movie creation – the Keystone Kops – and you know you’ll be in for a great night’s entertainment.Fatty Arbuckle was a real character, who mentored Charlie Chaplin and discovered Buster Keaton and Bob Hope. He loved comedy, and was particularly famous for his love of the “pie in the face” comedy routine with leading lady Mabel Normand. His popularity was such that he became the highest paid actor of his time in Hollywood.The most recognisable song from the wonderful score, with words and music by Jerry Herman is ‘I won’t send roses’.

The leading role of Fatty Arbuckle is being played Mervyn William. Before moving to Spain in 2000 Mervyn had never been on stage.

Then last year, having done a few small shows, Mervyn wanted to take the challenge of full-scale musical theatre and so joined Studio32.

His first role with the company was Mr Fezziwig in their winter production “A Christmas Carol”. Enjoying the comedic aspect of the character Mervyn successfully auditioned for the role of Fatty, and

is thoroughly enjoying the challenge of singing, dancing and acting this great comedy character.

Studio32 are continuing to support the San Fulgencio Alzheimer’s Association and local charities with this show.

Past shows have raised significant sums of money and the company hope to repeat that with sell-out performances again.

Seats for their previous productions have sold out quickly so to ensure you don’t miss this hilarious and entertaining musical, make sure to book soon.

Show dates are Wednesday May 31st to Saturday June 3rd at the Cardenal Belluga Theatre in San Fulgencio, all performances start at 7.30pm with doors open 7pm.

Reserved seating tickets are now on sale, priced at 9 euros, and can be obtained by calling Philip on 602 454 033, or by emailing tickets@studiothirtytwo. org. A seating plan is available on their website www.studiothirtytwo. org, along with lots of information about the company and past shows.Tickets can also be purchased from: News 4 U, La Marina (966 790 531); Cards & More, La Marina (966 790 954); The Card Place, Benijofar (966 713 266) and the Kennedy Supermarket,Los Montesinos 966 720 006

Lovers of classic and up to date musical theatre productions are in for a treat later this month when Rascals Theatre Company premiere their latest show ‘On Broadway’ at the Los Montesinos School of Music and Culture on Friday May 26 and Saturday May 27.

This lively, entertaining show is brim full of song & dance numbers from Broadway shows such as Kinky Boots, Beautiful, Hairspray, Cabaret, Show Boat, Chess and Les Miserables.

The performers will also be singing a selection of hits from the Andrew Lloyd Webber songbook and scenes from Mama Mia, Grease & Motown the Musical, including a few comedy sketches put in for good measure.

Tickets for the ‘On Broadway’ show are priced at just €7 and can be ordered in advance by calling Jill on 96 672 7282.

Alternatively, they can purchased from Bobby Jo’s in Los Montesinos; the Card Place in Punta Prima or by calling into Sackos Bar ,El Limonar on Monday or Thursday mornings between 10.00am and 2.00pm.

As always, with productions from the Rascals company, proceeds from the show will go to help local charities in the Los Montesinos area.

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food & drink

Have an aperol spritz summer

On a recent sunny weekend in Southern Austria, I spent an awful lot of time sitting around in pavement cafes, shady squares and cool, trendy bars.

Fascinated by a bright orange drink in a tall, stemmed wine glass, that everyone appeared to be consuming in great quantities, I decided to try one …... an Aperol Spritz.

Now, I love a Campari, which makes me rather strange I know. Campari is like Marmite to most of us. You

either love it or hate it and I sit firmly in the camp of the former.

However, Aperol, is like the baby cousin of the bitter Italian queen. So much sweeter, fruitier and lighter, without the heavy accent and alcohol content. And I am hooked on her.

Originally produced by the Barbieri brothers in Padua, Italy, Aperol is now part of the Campari family. It’s made with typical amaro botanicals like bitter orange, gentian and cinchona, as well as rhubarb, the sour stalk that just screams summer.

With less than half the alcohol of its darker, more bitter kin, it’s perfect for all-day sipping and acts as a perfect mixer with stronger spirits.

Hugely popular throughout, Italy, Austria, Germany and Switzerland, Aperol is now getting a foothold into Spain and is widely available in Supermarkets.

Here are a few ways to try this Italian sweetheart this Summer: APEROL HIGHBALL: You really don’t need more than a couple fingers of Aperol, a soda top and a lemon twist. But you can always embellish this simple cocktail with some fresh citrus juice and simple syrup or even make it as you would an Americano.

The ever-popular Italian aperitivo that you can still order in just about every bar in Italy is made with — one-and-ahalf parts Aperol (instead of the traditional Campari) to one part sweet vermouth, topped with soda and garnished with an orange twist.

ON THE ROCKS: This one is pretty self-explanatory. Aperol is perfectly tasty on its own, especially with an orange twist.

Drink it outside — it’s such a pretty color in sunlight. Like an orange popsicle with a bittersweet bite.

VODKA APEROL: Everyone will love Aperol’s low alcohol, but sometimes you want some kick to your cooler. And you can’t always wait all day to get the buzz off Aperol spritzers. With its odourless, flavorless profile, vodka is perfect for adding a little sauce to your sipper.

You may be a lush …... but no one will ever know!

THE CLASSIC APEROL SPRITZ: This is the classic afternoon and early evening drink I tried in Austria. Think of this one as a highball with an extra twinkle in its eye. Top a couple fingers of Aperol with bubbly instead of club soda. Prosecco is the natural sparkler for Aperol, but Cava will work just as well. Hell why not top it with Dom Perignon if you're feeling flashy.

And serve it in a champagne flute with a strawberry sunk to the bottom. perfect way to feel sexy this summer.

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Code Breaker

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 8 represents N and 18 represents H, so fill in N every time the figure 8 appears and H every time the figure 18 appears.

Now using your knowledge of the English language work out which letters should go in the missing squares. As you discover the letters, fill in other squares with the same number in the main grid and the control grid.

Kenny, a fortune teller told me that I had the evil eye on me. It scared me and I didn’t take up her offer to remove it. I just walked away and have been having troubles ever since. What can I do?

Esme G. Esme you were right to just walk away. Such people working with what they call the evil eye will offer you a solution to the problem of the evil by you paying a sum of money to remove it. Since the evil is their creation in the first place, then it is simple to remove since it doesn’t really exist! This con, which is what it is, scares many; and like you have experienced, anything subsequently negative happening to you gets blamed on the,”evil eye.”

I have never ever worked in this way and never would; but I have heard of large sums quoted to remove something that just does not exist!

Worry not!

If It’s Your Birthday This Week

The Cosmos favours those who are able to help themselves. Consolidate your inner strengths but keep your eye on what's really on offer right now; and so look before you leap!

Aries: There is something rather wonderful in the air, as you finally realise that your patience and persistence is about to be rewarded. The midweek conjunction of Mercury and Uranus heralds enterprise and communication and finally shows you the missing link in your scheme.. Do what you are about to do with love in your heart and a spring in your step!

Leo: The Sun trines on Pluto and there will be illumination but not just yet! This annoying aspect of Pluto heralds a slowing down, when what you feel that you need right now is to accelerate. Whatever you do take your time to consider that an alternative may very well be your next move, but weigh up the pros and cons, just in case, because you can.

Taurus: The wisdom of Saturn boosts your great powers of intuition and starts the ball rolling. Why you are waiting for something to happen right now? You have to make something happen to enable you to tune into all the right channels; as this is a time to consolidate your motivation and belief. Forget what others are saying, they are only jealous

Virgo: Spend time with those who you love this week! Not only do you need the rest and relaxation; but it is time to focus on those whom you take for granted. Life may be busy, but there should always be a time to reflect and share together with those who seem to have your genuine interests at heart.

Find your way of celebrating in your inimitable style

Gemini: As Mercury and Saturn tryst there comes a time when you would be wise to look fully before you leap. There are choices and you are now no longer bogged down by guilt and regrets anymore.

Take what’s on offer and decide to make plans to integrate and share rather then to sit and watch, because, more than ever, a strong leader is needed.

Libra: Mars squares up to Neptune and Mercury trines with Saturn. Both these actions shake your resolve and see the balance you thrive on under some threat. Its all about loyalty. Will you stay or should you go? Personally you are not a quitter and now things are explained in greater detail you know where your heart lies and just what you have to do!

Aquarius: You need the co operation of others and may well find that if you consult with them they will be able to nip something in the bud before a drama becomes a crisis; for no good reason. You are preoccupied with the work front at the moment, where the time comes to open your eyes and take a good look around at all the alternatives that exist around you

Cancer: The energies of the Third Quarter of Moon focuses on personal development. Facing a turning point you are starting to look within to see your inner self, and it is quite surprising to you that you like what you see. Working with inner emotion is the keynote to making that much needed love connection; since, yes, two hearts can beat in tandem.

Scorpio: Change is an ever inspiring element that allows you to fearlessly face new beginnings whilst facing up to the realities of life around you. You are far more than you think that you are, and are about to find out the depths of your soul with a new project that really grabs your attention and which shows you more then ever that the future is of your making!

Pisces: Money is going nowhere and the time to pull your belt in has arrived. Your planetary leader Neptune connects with Mars midweek and this action involves the tracking of expenses and a need that all those concerned pay their share, as that’s only fair, after all! Keep finances in check because your money should be working for you, not you for it!

Sagittarius: Temper, temper! You are right to be angry but see to it that this inner anger is harnessed and that it goes no further. Pluto brings up a host of minor irritating things that have to be dealt with, not brushed under the carpet and ignored. Jupiter trines with Mars next week and all will be well, so whatever you do, hang on and shelve any decisions.

Capricorn: Saturn’s over reaction to current events may be traced to positive actions by Mercury that reveal things before you are really ready. Communication has closed down as of late and your silence is for a definite reason, though it is not one that you wish to share. You either csn or you can’t but it seems the way you play this will see someone else win!

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Cryptic Crossword

Across 1 A lot of hot air from Hamlet, right? (7) 5 See 22 Down 8 Bill’s mate at home in Africa (5) 9 It’s instrumental in getting a doctor involved in a journey (7) 10 Bring up a railwayman, but not in the van (9) 12 Group came out of the closet (3) 13 Strangest ingredient of food destined for the rubbish bin (6) 14 Enjoy being in a pickle (6) 17 Change of colour from red, yellow and then blue (3) 18 Old ways to make weapons on a lathe?

(9) 20 Sailor upset scene due to nonappearance (7) 21 Girl’s hidden hoard (5) 23 Is backing First Lady to sort things out (5) 24 Steps into one’s trousers (7)

Down 1 Tribe regenerated river (5) 2 Someone having a lot of time inside (3) 3 A chap with plenty of time gets on OK (7) 4 A mistake in serving Henry can be very dangerous (6) 5 Well-known for being given food to swallow before noon (5) 6 Cut wood to make something to to eat (9) 7 Withdraw because of a very minor injury (7) 11 One who gets the post? (9) 13 Severe examinations can reveal alternative bargains (7) 15 Make a mistake with a poem about a ruler (7) 16 Many pieces of tackle and where to keep them (6) 18 It is said that these marquees are on edge (5) 19 Wounding results? (5) 22/5A Features of elderly people one’s known for ages (3,5)

Quick Crossword Across 1 Be disloyal to (6) 4 Right of entry (6) 9 Partly cover (7) 10 Fruit (5) 11 Style (5) 12 Bring back (7) 13 Thoughtful (11) 18 Threatening (7) 20 Wire (5) 22 Send away (5) 23 Stir up (7) 24 Caring (6) 25 Up to date (6)

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What is the main dog character called in Norton Juster’s 1961 popular children’s/adult- crossover book The Phantom Tollbooth?

Who detailed his experiences before and during World War I in Memoirs of a Foxhunting Man, and Memoirs of an Infantry Officer?

What significant law relating to literary and artistic works was first introduced in 1709?

Who wrote the 1891 book Also Sprach Zarathustra (Thus Spake Zarathustra)?

What word, meaning ‘measure’ in Greek, refers to the rhythm of a line of verse?

Cheap literature of the 16-18th centuries was known as ‘what’ books, based on the old word for the travelling traders who sold them?

What was Samuel Langhorne Clemens’ pen- name?

Derived from Greek meaning summit or finishing touch, what word refers to the publisher’s logo and historically the publisher’s details at the end of the book?

Japanese three-line verses called Haiku contain how many syllables?

Down 1 Increases (6) 2 In that place (5) 3 Makes an indirect reference (7) 5 Pandemonium (5) 6 Take advantage of (7) 7 Spear (6) 8 Arousing sexual desire (11) 14 Personal belief (7) 15 Take delivery of (7) 16 Clandestine (6) 17 Dishonesty (6) 19 Extremely overweight (5) 21 Cutting edge (5)

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health

Torrevieja hospital launches cancer rehabilitation programme Hospital Quirónsalud Torrevieja has launched an integrated programme within its multidisciplinary oncology platform in an effort to reassure cancer sufferers that rehabilitation can improve their quality of life after diagnosis and prevent possible future disabilities.

Backed by a team of 30 top specialists, the Hospital now receives patients from throughout Spain, Europe and beyond for its ground breaking rehabilitation programmes.

The treatments of cancer produces physical, emotional and psychic changes interfering with the daily life of the patient and their relatives, presenting some complications such as: acute or chronic pain, fatigue, mobility deficit, lymphedema, edema, sleep disturbances, Vesico-sphincter dysfunctions, cardiorespiratory alterations, neuropathies, muscular weakness, depression or cognitive deterioration, among others.

Oncological rehabilitation is highly recommended in any cancer treatment process, since it can reduce the disability resulting from the unwanted effects of the healing process.

There is solid scientific evidence that supports its implementation in its different forms of intervention (preventive, restorative, supportive, palliative) provided there is no clear clinical contraindication.

According to Dr. Lucía Fernández Cuesta, ideally the oncologic patient should receive rehabilitation when the cancer is diagnosed in order for it to be successful "The biggest problem is that patients do not usually talk about their discomfort to the doctor, since They think that is part of the burden that has to pay to survive the cancer.

The program has a doctor specializing in cancer rehabilitation and an entire interdisciplinary rehabilitation team to provide support to cancer patients in order to improve their functionality, reduce the impact of the disease and provide them Quality of life, in addition, training is also given to their families.

The treatment of multidisciplinary oncological rehabilitation must be directed in two ways: Prevention and integral rehabilitation.

Prevention is achieved by means of measures to avoid the establishment of disabling or causing more damage independently of the prognosis of life.

It begins with a review of the oncological history of the patient, taking into account the diagnoses and treatments received, then a complete assessment of the patient's health status is made (general condition and skin, neurological, osteomuscular and osteoarticular situation, fatigue related to Cancer).Once the patient is diagnosed with cancer, prior to receiving medical and / or surgical treatment, he / she must undergo an exercise, education and information program in order to improve his / her basic condition, as well as the knowledge of possible damage that they could be left with.

Patients living with cancer as a chronic disease and those in remission or survivors are also candidates to receive a rehabilitation program to help them manage treatment-related conditions and improve their immune system.

Among the benefits after receiving a rehabilitative treatment is more independence in daily activities, support to adapt to actual and / or potential losses due to cancer and its treatment, improving physical strength, helping to compensate for the related limitations with

the illness and the side effects of treatment, help in managing pain, contributing to decrease cancer-related fatigue, decreasing frequency and time of hospitalizations, and helping with symptom management. Cognitive problems, among others.

On the other hand, the most commonly used techniques are manual lymphatic drainage, presotherapy, school lymphedema, energy-saving techniques for fatigue associated with cancer and therapeutic physical exercise, among others.

Therapy involves physiotherapy (individualized kinesitherapy, reeducation of gait), occupational therapy (training in daily life activities, prevention of fatigue, home adaptations, technical aids, speech therapy (speech and language disorders, swallowing).

Pain control.In addition to the above, the rehabilitation physician can intervene in

the control of cancer pain, osteoporosis (prevention of fractures) and cardiovascular health (through exercise recommendations).

Finally, Dr. Fernández emphasizes that "it is important to emphasize in the oncologic rehabilitation the flexibility during the treatments because the clinical situation of each patient changes day by day. Although working together we can achieve functional independence and a quicker reincorporation back into normal life. " Oncology rehabilitation is integrated within the oncology platform composed of a multidisciplinary team of more than 30 Top level specialists and leading technological equipment such as PET-CT, intraoperative radiotherapy (Mobetron), personalized pharmacotherapy, genetic counseling or the genetic room that has made an international reference for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer.

Mens Health

Sometimes it’s tough being a man. Pressures from family, work, friends and social media sites can leave us feeling confused about our role in life.

How to dress? Do we need to lose weight? Are we sensitive enough to our partners? Are we too sensitive with our mates? And the perennial male dilemma…..How do we get a six-pack?

Well, we’ve got some good news for you. You are now reading our new RTN Men’s Health Column.

Every week, we’ll cover subjects which affect us men in our daily lives, not only health related, but also covering relationships and work issues.

First off this week, we’re looking at a subject that causes a lot of daily grief, not of course for those of us who have beards, but for men who prefer a smooth, stubble free face.

Here are a few tips on how to get that perfect shave.

EXFOLIATE - Shaving removes up to two layers of dead skin cells, which is brilliant exfoliation for the skin as dead skin cells, combined with oil and dirt on the skin surface can cause blocked pores.

Warm the skin before shaving to open the pores and consider using a shaving brush to spread shave crème evenly and to lift the hairs. Most importantly, always shave with the growth of the hair, never against.

CLEANSE – After exfoliation, it is important to deep cleanse with a face wash containing tea tree oil and witch hazel, with their anti-septic, anti-bacterial and anti-inflammatory ingredients. This helps to calm any redness and irritation post shaving. Finish by rinsing the skin with cold water to close the pores.

TONE - Men have more active sebaceous glands than women, meaning we often have better nourished skin than women. However the natural oils produced can also block pores.

A toning product is key to reducing the levels of oil on the skin. Key ingredients to look out for are Kaolin Clay and Witch Hazel which are both great for removing excess oil.

MOISTURISE - The face is exposed to all kinds of elements, which can swiftly result in a loss of moisture in the skin. Moisturising is therefore a key step in the shave/skincare routine.

Go for a good quality, unscented product, always applied with clean hands massaging the cream gently into the skin.

Fill a small travel container with your favourite moisturiser for re-applying during the day, as your skin dries out after exposure to the elements.

Now, if these easy to follow tips don’t keep your facial skin feeling as soft as a baby’s backside we don’t know what will.

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The promise to be slimmer for summer 2017 -May is the month to start

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home and garden

How to grow Alcochofas (Globe Artichokes') Here in Spain, there is not just one globe artichoke variety or even two; there are many. Of course, there are many: there’s a variety for every region and a season that extends from early spring to early summer.

Here, as in France and Greece, artichokes are often eaten young, tender and raw, sliced into salads. Or when they are the size of a walnut, they are briefly fried in olive oil. Then a little water goes in and they cook until just tender. These can be marinated, used in pasta sauces or enjoyed whole.

When artichokes are picked young, the stems are not hard or pithy and it’s possible to snap rather than cut them off the plant.Even the stems can be eaten by peeling off the stringy outsides and eating the soft, crisp insides with salt, like you might celery. It’s bitter and nutty. You’ll love it or people will think you're mad.

I hear a lot from people with rotting clumps. These are getting too wet over the winter and rotting off; they may also be too shaded. My plants are grown on heavy clay, but in full sun.

On wetter ground they need to be sheltered from the worst of the winter weather and on a slightly raised bed to aid drainage. I mulch them now to give them a boost of nutrients, lock in moisture and keep weeds down.Sow globe artichoke seeds

around April indoors, hardening off in May to plant out in June. If you are in the south or somewhere warm sow outside in April, but these plants won’t flower till next year. Or buy young plants from garden centres, which can go out from mid-May onwards.Rare, heritage varieties tend to be easiest to source as seed; 'Romanesco' and 'Violetta Chioggia' from Chiltern Seeds are two fine purpleheaded varieties. Artichokes need moisture over the summer.

If the roots are deep, they will often find their own, but young plants will need watering in.

Artichokes do best in deep, rich fertile soil that is well-drained in a sunny position. A healthy plant will have a root system 90-120cm deep. Perennial crops are grown for five to 10 years, though they can last much longer. Commercially the plants are divided every four to five years to keep up vigour.

Some growers do something called stumping to their crops: cutting back hard to force the plant to produce a new flush of offshoots.If done towards the end of August and provided you can keep the plants frost-free (either covering with fleece or low cloches) over the winter, you’ll get a much earlier crop the following year. It’s also a great method to get new offshoots from an old plant without having to divide the whole thing.

Sow globe artichoke seeds in April hardening off in May to plant out in June

Small garden? Plant vertically In a small garden, all your ways are on show. There are often no hidden bits, particularly in a terrace garden; if not from ground level, then from upstairs, where you are definitely confronted with your lot. This can be delightful and frustrating all at once.It’s hard to hide the ugly bits in a small space: the lopsided shed, the old barbecue and the weed buckets. One solution is to have aesthetically pleasing barbecues and buckets, and to recycle plastic pots and old labels. Another is to distract.Who cares if your kitchen is a bit of a mess if you create a fantastic meal? All is forgiven and forgotten as you fight over the leftovers. The garden is no different. You need to lift the eye away from the offending object; no one is drawn to a barbecue if there’s something better to look at.The best thing to do is, come to think of this as the spires and saucers trick. Spires – tall, elegant flower spikes – lift the eye upwards, connecting the earth with the sky. If planted in pleasing clumps and loose drifts with the right rhythm, they introduce a clean line, a little clarity into the planting around them. Foxgloves (digitalis), dark pink Verbena Hastata, pale pink culver’s root (Veronicastrum Verinicum var incarnartum) white willowherb,Chamaenerion angustifolium 'Album' (which, be warned, self-seeds everywhere) and white wild indigo ( Baptisia lactae ) will all add elegant upright notes.

Bugbane ( Actae simplex Atropurporea Group ), with its tall, gently bending spires of white fading to dusty pink, works well in deep shade, as long as it never dries out. Broad beans, elephant garlic, Babington leeks, and brussels sprouts do a similar thing in a mixed vegetable and flower garden.

Once you have your top notes, you need to think about the rhythm section. Fill in the rest with umbels and other flat or saucer-shaped flowers such as orpine (Sedum telephium) , achilleas and perennial phlox (Phlox paniculata).

Herb fennel, either the green (Foeniculum vulgare) or bronze-leave (F. 'Giant Bronze') forms, is delightfully relaxed and a little dishevelled in the right way, though fennel works best towards the back of the border, because it’ll get to 2m. Or try the biennia Angelica sylvestris 'Vicar's Mead' with heads of rounded umbels above dramatic dark foliage. You can allow a little selfseeding and use the rest as slightly bitter and perfumed spice.For something delicate that likes shade, lime green perfoliate alexander (Smirnium perfoliatum) flowers in early summer before the foliage. Perennial hairy chervil (Chaerophyllum hirstum 'Roseum' is shamelessly pink and fluffy, evoking countryside hedgerows: growing to 75cm tall, it prefers partial shade and is over by early summer. If you want white flowers, Baltic parsley (Cenolophium denudatum) will do a similar job in partial shade; it likes it a little damp and flowers much later and gets taller – up to 150cm tall.

Parsley, chervil, par-cel (looks like parsley, tastes like celery), caraway and sweet cicely are edible choices: eat the leaves, then leave them to flower for the bees. It’s also worth leaving a few carrots, celery and parsnips to stand over winter and flower the next spring, where they may self-sow and certainly will be much admired.

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Studio living in style Studio living has become a necessity of modern life. With property prices, particularly in cities, soaring to levels preventing younger people from taking that first step on the property ladder.

Sometimes a tiny studio is the only affordable way to live and work in a city, when people are tired of flatshares and room renting.

However, if you think tiny spaces are a headache, think again. There are so many inspirational examples of just how harmonious and stylish the smallest studios can be.

With several rooms miraculously compressed into one, every centimetre needs to be cleverly used to its greatest effect.

Here, in this newly renovated Manhattan apartment, Russian architect Peter Kostelov, has featured tucked-away furniture and used 'versatility' as his watchword for all the available space.Originally the pint-sized apartment had two bedrooms, a living room, a bathroom and a kitchen, but this layout boxed in each space.

Instead Kostelov wanted to make the whole apartment more adaptable: the living room can easily be switched around into a dining room, while a working studio turns into a guest

bedroom in no time at all.

A bed slides out into the bedroom, while a table and two benches on wheels draw out to just over two metres in length into the living room.

The narrow kitchen faces a brick wall across a tiled corridor, where wooden shelves fold out to form a breakfast table or extra counter space.

Kostelov also paid attention to providing brighter living spaces, quieter sleeping areas away from the street, more ventilation in the living room by the large windows.

Living in small quarters doesn't have to mean sacrificing style for drab storage solutions and "it's the only thing that will fit" furniture. It just takes a little creativity.

There is no need to paint an entire small apartment bright white; colour can add real drama to small spaces and the addition of a mirror can cleverly mimic a doorway, creating the illusion of grander space.

Forget cumbersome wardrobes. Instead go for separate

storage crates (Ikea is a one-stop mecca for storage solutions) and hanging rails, which can be hidden behind a decorative curtain. Studio rooms are often used for everything from dining and entertaining to reading and watching television.

A flexible, well-planned lighting scheme can give the impression of extra space and create handy areas for different activities within the room.

Well-positioned lights highlight your prized possessions and as you will not have space for many, make sure they are really important to you.

Effective lighting can evoke so many different atmospheres depending on what kind of statement you want to make.

Remember, these small spaces can be the bane of any studio dweller or owner's life, but they can also be a blessing in design disguise.

Awkward, small spaces are often a catalyst for change, forcing you to a) clear the clutter and b) come up with clever design ideas you may never have thought of otherwise.

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Tech

Kick your map into touch with a new phone app

It’s not easy being a pedestrian, even more so if you’ve moved to a new city, or are unfamiliar with the one you’re staying in.

You can’t help feeling like the world wasn’t built for you, it was built for cars, which are bigger and scarier than you and one false move, can leave you within inches of your life. But you’re just trying to find a coffee shop that isn’t terribly crowded or an ATM that won’t charge you 5€ to withdraw your own money. Why should walking around a city be so difficult?

Well, the simple truth is, it shouldn’t be and thanks to a new phone APP called Sidekix, it doesn’t have to be.

The three entrepreneurs behind the app – Jenny Drezin, a native New Yorker living in Israel who’s admittedly had one too many traveling misadventures; Miron Perel, a graduate of the Technion Institute in Israel with a background in aerospace engineering; and Eli Baram, a computer science graduate of Tel Aviv University – thought that pedestrians were getting lost in the navigation shuffle and wanted to develop an app dedicated specifically to them.

Sidekix helps you navigate your way around your city using your interests as a guide

Thus Sidekix was born, a GPS platform that uses interest-based routing – suggesting places and things to do based on the user’s passions – to enhance the experience.

Or, according to CEO Perel: “It’s an urban navigation app that offers you a personalized walking experience to get you to your destination in a better, more interesting way.”

From fashion, food, culture, art and nightlife to simply finding safer, well-lit routes at night, Sidekix is designed to find routes based on your preferences.

You can also add specifications to routes, such as stopping at an ATM and grocery store on the way to a friend’s house.

And though it was developed in Israel, Sidekix is now available in more than 100 cities worldwide, including Tel Aviv, New York, London, Rome, Barcelona, Boston and San Francisco, and new cities are added regularly.

It’s available for free in the App Store and Google Play.

Facebook and Google duped in $100,000,000 scam In March, it was reported that two major tech companies were tricked by a Lithuanian man into sending him over $100m (€91m). Evaldas Rimasauskas, 48, was charged with wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft for impersonating Quanta Computer – a Taiwanese electronics manufacturer that includes Google, Facebook and Apple as clients.

On 27 April, Fortune reported that the two victims were Facebook and Google. Rimasauskas allegedly deceived the companies from at least 2013 until 2015.

‘Fraudulent phishing emails were sent to employees and agents of the victim companies, which regularly conducted multimillion-dollar transactions with [the Asian] company,’ the US Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a statement.

Facebook said in a statement: ‘We recovered the bulk of the funds shortly after the incident and have been cooperating with law enforcement in its investigation.’ Likewise, Google said it had ‘detected this fraud against our vendor management team and promptly alerted the authorities. We recouped the funds and we’re pleased this matter is resolved.’

The case shows just how big an issue phishing and online fraud has become, with phishing attacks conning people and companies all over the world out of significant sums of money.

Mobile children 18 per cent of children aged between six and eight now own their own mobile phone according to research among 2,000 consumers carried out by Peli.

Ownership rises to nearly 20 per cent for children aged between nine and 11 - with over 50 per cent of children over the age of 13 now owning a phone.

‘Parents don’t usually share their mobile devices with kids for speaking to someone,’ says Estefania Fenoy at Peli. ‘Parents loan their smartphones to keep their children occupied. Over 20 per cent of parents in the research said they loaned their phones to their children at restaurants; 18 per cent in a

doctor’s or dentist’s waiting room; and 22 per cent generally when outside the home. Only 29 per cent of respondents said they did not loan their mobile to their children, with the majority passing it out for at least a little while.’

In terms of time, parents allow their children to use their phone for a range of time: time ranges from 49 per cent saying they allow use for one hour a week; 33 per cent up to five hours a week; 10 per cent five to 10 hours a week; 2.5 per cent allow 1015 hours a week; and 4 per cent allow over 15 hours a week.

18 per cent of children aged 6-8 own their own phone

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I Will Clean You...

The Dyson 360 Eye is a neat little unit. Rechargeable obviously and very intelligent. It can literally see in all directions at once and map out its surroundings.

It knows where to go and it has the legendary Dyson “Power Suck” Twice as much suction as many robot models gives this little beasty the edge. There is even an App to control it with if you wish. Visit www.dyson360eye.com for the full rundown on this futuristic house cleaner.

App of the week Fast Player can play almost any video file formats such as MP4,MOV,AVI, MKV, WMV All you need to do is copy files to Fast Player app via built-in web browser, USB or via WiFi then play it and even you can play a video file from your MAC directly without copying. √ Music & Video player √ High quality video playback: √ Up to Full HD quality (1920x1080 pixels) for MP4, MOV, M4V and MPV files. √ Up to HD 720p quality (1280x720 pixel) for MKV files on iPhone 4S, iPhone 5, iPad 2, iPad 3, iPad 4 and iPad Mini. √ Up to DV quality (720x576 pixels) for MKV files

Last Weeks Puzzle Answers (Issue 914) Quick Soloution

Across: 1 Chaste, 4 Truant, 9 Reserve, 10 Comma, 11 Extra, 12 Observe, 13 Substandard, 18 Adamant, 20 Polka, 22 Shark, 23 Chortle, 24 Eleven, 25 Bagels.

Down: 1 Carpet, 2 Asset, 3 Threats, 5 Racks, 6 Admirer, 7 Travel, 8 Aeronautics, 14 Unaware, 15 Diploma, 16 Hassle, 17 Caress, 19 Ankle, 21 Litre.

Cryptic Solution Across: 1 Pinch, 4 Abacus, 9 Cobbler, 10 Upset, 11 Elba, 12 Picture, 13 Aye, 14 Acid, 16 Need, 18 Peg, 20 Precise, 21 Stew, 24 Erupt, 25 Clapper, 26 Reside, 27 Force. Down: 1 Packet, 2 Nabob, 3 Halt, 5/15 Bouncing cheques, 6 Costume, 7 Sitter, 8 Tripe, 13 Admitted, 17 Appear, 18 Peace, 19 Swerve, 22 Taper, 23 Calf.

on iPhone 4, iPod 3, iPod 4, iPad 1. √ Support HTTP streaming: play a video file on your MAC directly via Web Sharing. √ File Manager √ Automatic classification and rename √ Move, rename and delete files √ Sorting by name, date and type √ iTunes file sharing folder support √ USB Export to PC √ Wifi file sharing

Literary Quiz 1

Beowulf

2 Existentialism 3 Lewis Carroll (1832-98) 4 Boris Leonidovich

Pasternak (1890-1960)

6 Magazine 7 Isaac Newton (1642-1727) 8 The Mermaid Tavern 9 Robert Browning (1812-89)

5 Farce or farcical (from the 10 Walt Whitman (1819-92 -

French farcir, to stuff,

based on analogy

between stuffing in

cookery and the insertion

the title is apparently a

self-effacing pun, since

grass was publishing slang

of frivolous material into

for work of little value, and

medieval plays.)

leaves are pages.)

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WE BUY, sell & transport all makes of static caravans 630 055 418 Elsyd7@hotmail.com (249246) CHARITIES/CHURCHES

LA SIESTA EVANGELICAL CHURCH on Urbanisation La Siesta, Torrevieja is a friendly, English speaking Church. We hold services each Sunday and everyone is welcome. Our 11.00 am Services are held every 2nd and 4th Sunday in the month (and 11.00 am on the 5th Sunday, if this applies.)

On the 1st and 3rd Sunday’s

our Services are at 9.30 am.

Our choir sings at our 11.00 am Services and there is also a Sunday School, called Stepping Stones, on these Sundays. We welcome residents, visitors and children. For more information see our website www. lasiestaevangelicalchurch.org or telephone Pastor Keith on 666 180 108.

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS IS ALCOHOL COSTING YOU MORE THAN MONEY? Drinking to excess not only affects your health it can spill over into every other aspect of your life – damaging everything that is important to you. Englishspeaking AA meetings are held throughout the Costa Blanca from Valencia City to Murcia.

Anyone wishing to attend a meeting or discuss a possible drinking problem contact Costa Blanca North: *648 169 045* or Costa Blanca South: *625 912 078* or Costa Calida *679 385

105*. All calls are treated in the strictest confidence. AA in German: 645 456 075; Spanish: 679 212 535; Flemish: 635 047 053; and Scandinavian: 659 779 222. www.aa-costablanca.org (93323)

ROUNDABOUT CHARITY SHOP. We are now into summer and very soon we will be feeling the heat! It is time therefore for another visit to the shop where you might find a bargain or two. Choose from the clothing selection, jewellery, household goods, books or bric a brac.

There is usually something there for everyone --- but not always. Charitable donations have recently been made to The Alzheimers Centre, Cancer Research and The Amigos Ambulance Service. We still need your help with donations etc. Please keep them coming in! We are situated on Avenida Del Furs close to the Fountain Roundabout and immediate left by Don Colchon bed shop.

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THE ROYAL NAVAL ASSOCIATION, Torrevieja Branch, meet at 17.00 on the first Wednesday of each month at the Restaurante El Paraiso, Urb. Jardin del Mar 3 (behind Carrefour), Torrevieja. Contact Paul Edwards, Chairman 618 644 934 or Margaret Forshaw, Secretary 966 921 996. (95455) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Orihuela Costa - covering from Punta Prima to San Javier.

The branch meets at Olympia restaurant, Mil Palmeras on 3rd Thursday of each month at 19.00 - 19.30pm. More info can be found on branch website www.orihuelacostarbl.co.uk.

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HELP VEGA BAJA. We are a nonprofit making organisation that helps and supports anyone, without prejudice, in times of need or crisis within the Vega Baja area. Our offices are based in San Miguel at Calle

Lope de Vega 46 (Tel 966 723 733), Torrevieja at Rambla Juan Mateo Garcia 4 (Tel 965 704 282). Both offices are open Monday to Friday from 10 am to 1.30 pm and the Helpdesk at La Marina is open every Thursday (10 am to 1.30 pm) at the Hope Fellowship Church (opposite the Thursday Market site) at Avda de Justo Antonio Quesada, Urb. La Marina (Tel 615770145). We are online at www.helpvegabaja.com and also on Facebook. You can email the San Miguel Centre at office@helpvegabaja. com We also have a 24 hour Emergency help-line which is available to both members and non-members on 966 723 733 (95456) The Baker Foundation Spiritualist Centre.

Find us on the Saturday market road opposite the Chinese Restaurant.

Playa Flamenca.

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Different International and local mediums every Sunday and Tuesday.

Sunday, divine service with clairvoyance 11 am start.

Tuesday, evening of clairvoyance doors open 7’o’clock for 7.30 start.

Spiritual Healing is available on Sundays after service and on Thursday mornings from 10. 30 until 12.

We have a development group on Tuesdays 5 until 6.30 for those interested in meditation and advancing your knowledge of spirit. Private readings are available on request. Please join us and make new friends, a warm welcome awaits you all.

Tea, coffee and soft drinks are available.

You can join us on Facebook at, The Baker Foundation spiritual centre.

Hall is available for hire.

For more information please contact Linda on 606 990 665.

Email, schugy54@gmail.com CHARITY BOOK STALL PEGO THURSDAY MARKET. Selection of over 500 books, all proceeds given to the elderly/disabled of Pego and local Animal Rescue.

More stock always required please contact Chrissie 965 977 228/617 647 395 (95460) THE ANGLICAN CHURCH, La Fustera. For more info: contact

Frank Bentley on 966 495 188 (95461) CANCER SUPPORT GROUP (MABS) MURCIA/MAR MENOR Help and support is just a phone call away, Avda Rio Nalón, Tel: 693 275 779 (95462) PILAR CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY CHURCH, Calle Canalejas, 3.

Pilar de la Horadada. Sunday Service at 11am & Thursday at 5pm for Prayer and Praise and Worship. Home groups meet during the week. All welcome from any church background or none. For further information www.pilarchurch.org Reg No: 2009-SG/A (95463) TORREVIEJA Christian Fellowship (TCF) is an English speaking lively church located at Avenida de las Valencianas 68, Torrevieja 03183.

Residents and holidaymakers are welcome to attend our services with communion and ‘kids church’ each Sunday at 10.30am. We have a Fellowship Meeting (Bible Study) each Wednesday at 6.00pm. For further information see our website www.tcf-Spain.org or tel 966 700 391. (95464) THE AIRCREW ASSOCIATION COSTA BLANCA BRANCH. Former & serving aircrews of the UK or Allied Armed Forces are welcome to join this convivial

& friendly organisation, now in its 21st year. www. acacostablanca.org or call the Secretary on: 966 495 042 (95465) THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION JAVEA BRANCH meet on the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month @ Scallops Rest on the Arenal at 11.00am. Everyone is welcome to attend as a visitor and join the branch if they wish. Anyone needing any help or advice on welfare, or any information regarding the branch can contact either Sheila on 965 791 270 or Roger on 965 790 123 (95472) TORREVIEJA STROKE SUPPORT GROUP meets each Friday 2.45pm to 5pm in The Annex, (behind Age Concern Centre), Calle Paganini, Urb. La Siesta.

Our aim is to support stroke survivors and their carers by a range of facilities from speech therapy, rehabilitation exercise, group discussion etc.

For info: Louie 966 718 964 or 965 071 920, e-mail: strokesupportgroup@ hotmail.com Donations and further voluntary helpers are needed and guest speakers with relevant knowledge or experience are very welcome.

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THE ROYAL BRITISH LEGION Gran Alacant & La Marina Branch meets First Monday of the month 18:00 at “La Taberna next to Monte & Mar Restaurant & Bowls Club, Plaza Mayor (MASA Square) Gran Alacant. granalacant.secretary@gmail. com CAMPELLO CONTRA CANCER in conjunction with AECC Association Español Contra Cancer has opened a charity shop at C/Virgen de los Desamparados No 13 (next door to Mas y mas) El Campello. The shop is open Mon-Fri 10 - 2pm and is run by unpaid volunteers and all monies raised goes to the AECC. We urgently need donations of clothes, books, large and small furniture etc, and we will arrange collection of large items. We need volunteers to help out in the shop and also clothes rails, shelves etc. for display.

Please support your local Cancer charity and if you wish to obtain literature or simply talk to someone. Please stop by at the shop. Contact Mina or Trisha. Tel 650 071 278 or 610 921 413 e-mail aecc_campello@ hotmail.com (95475) INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN ASSEMBLY Calle Urbano Arregui

23, Torrevieja Evangelical non-denominational Sunday services 11am Children’s church 11am House groups in Torrevieja, Los Balcones, San Javier Ladies meeting Thursdays 11am. Pastor, Rafael Restrepo All nationalities welcome 966 799 273 / 660 127 276. (95476) ROYAL MARINES ASSOCIATION (Costa Blanca) The aim is to bring together not just ex Royal Marines but ex Service personnel with an affinity to the Royal Marines.

We enjoy a full programme of social events, menus del dia, and an annual dinner. we are a friendly bunch that supports other local ex Service Associations and Charities.

We meet on the last Tuesday of the month. For further information . Hon Sec 692 93 86 64 ROYAL AIR FORCES Association Branch #1359 Costa Blanca The Branch meets on the third Tuesday of the month at the El Paraiso Restaurant located close to the Carrefour Supermarket in Torrevieja.

The meeting starts at 1430 hrs. You do not have to be an ex-member of the RAF to join this friendly Association which supports the welfare of the RAF

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For further information about the Association and its activities please contact the Chairman on 692 508 916 or the Welfare Officer on 615 048 892 or visit our website: www. rafacb.com.

MEETS at Hamilton´s Bake House, 62 Calle Vicente, Blasco Ibañez, Benijofar 03178. We hold a Sunday Service at 11.30 a.m., a Tuesday Evening of Mediumship at 7 p.m. Also, every alternate Thursday from 23rd February, there is an Development/Awareness Circle where you can develop your skills commencing at 6.30 p.m. Spiritual healing is available every Sunday and Tuesday after the service.

The Divine Service with Mediumship on 19th February will be taken by Ray Bailey.

Len Cox will take the Evening of Mediumship on Tuesday, 14th February. The Divine Service with Mediumship, on Sunday, 26th February will be taken by Anna Marie.

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Fake Ferraris Busted In Spain We’re all used to seeing fake Rolex watches doing the rounds for unbelievable prices and Raybeni sunglasses masquerading as Rayban Aviators, but what about knock off cars? Is it possible to fake a Ferrari?

Well, you may be surprised to know, the answer is yes and Spanish Police have the evidence to prove it, having recently busted a gang dealing in rip off versions of the supercar.

They have just caught a group of fraudsters for the second time in five years, specialising in turning bog standard passenger cars into Ferrari-badged fakes and selling them to unsuspecting punters.

According to Spanish detectives, the gang was caught last month in the process of transforming 14 mid-range motors into highly desirable super sports cars.

The gang allegedly planned to sell the cars via the internet. Some had already been listed online as second-hand vehicles even though they were still a work in progress.

Police said the investigation into the fake supercars kicked off after it became aware of “a vehicle that simulated the appearance of a sports car of the Ferrari brand infringing

the industrial property rights of the aforementioned brand”.

“The agents also located the clandestine workshop ... where they found 14 vehicles in different degree of transformation. Four of them were several Ferrari models already ready for sale,” police said.

“The records involved a number of parts, distinctive elements of the marques concerned, fibreglass moulds for body parts of the marques concerned, speedometers and vehicle-related documentation.”

One of the items seized was a complete blank for the body of a V8-engined Ferrari F430, a mid-2000s coupe and convertible worth more than $200,000 (£160,200) second-hand.

The gang appears to have sourced a number of donor cars to run underneath the fake skins. These range from what looks like a V6engined Ford Mondeo to a Pontiac Fiero and even a mystery Peugeot.

The trickery didn’t just relate to fairly recent prestige models, either; at one point the vision cuts across a complete outer-skin cast of a Dino, a car potentially worth $500,000 – if it’s the real deal.

Now, next time one of our lovely ‘looky looky’ men offer you a Ferrari for a knock down price ….. Look the other way!

Two of the Fake Ferraris found by Spanish Police when the gang was busted

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Flying car goes on show in Monaco A Slovakia-based company unveiled the commercial design for a flying car priced at more than â&#x201A;Ź1 million in Monaco, saying it was ready for pre-orders with first deliveries expected by 2020.

AeroMobil said its teardrop-like shaped AeroMobil Flying Car, displayed at the Top Marques Monaco, could switch to flight mode in less than three minutes. The wings fold away for driving on roads and swing out for flying.

The company, one of several developing such flying vehicles, aims to make up to 500 units of its first commercially available edition, priced at â&#x201A;Ź1.2 million to â&#x201A;Ź1.5 million To fly, the car would need an airfield or another approved place to take off, while owners would require driving and pilot licenses, AeroMobil Chief Communications Officer Stefan Vadocz said.

AeroMobil said deliveries to customers of the flying car, which Vadocz said would comply with air and road regulations, was expected to start by 2020.

Before so-called flying cars become mainstream, they must overcome a host of flight safety issues to allay public fears.

Governments are already studying how to regulate drones and driverless cars, while the auto and aviation industries are working on advances in software and city planning to ensure the vehicles are restricted to travel within safe corridors.

People look at the AeroMobil flying car during its unveiling at the Top Marques Monaco supercar show in Monaco. Photo credit: Reuters

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Real Murcia and FC Cartagena battle for play-offs Another fine away win last weekend keeps Real Murcia hopes of reaching an end of season play-off spot very much alive as they climbed to within three points of FC Cartagena who could only manage a home draw.

Two months ago at the beginning of March, the picture was very different as a poor run of form had left Murcia five points adrift of the play-offs in fifth and twelve points behind Cartagena, who were and still are sitting second in the table behind leaders La Hoya of Lorca.Since, losing to S. Fernando on March 5, the Pimentoneros, managed by Vicente Mir, have embarked on a remarkable run of nine games without defeat including a 3-1 win at their Murcian rivals and now sit in the final play-off position with two games to play.By contrast FC Cartagena have only picked up 11 points out of 27 in the same period and now face missing out altogether.

Last weekend Real Murcia won away 3-1 at Atletico Sanluqueno, whilst Cartagena could only muster a 2-2 at home to FC Jumilla setting up a nerve jangling end to the season.

The top position team, currently occupied by La Hoya, six points ahead of Murcia and three ahead of Cartagena, join the other three group winners and are drawn into a twolegged series where the two winners are promoted to the Segunda División and enter into the final for the Segunda División B championship.

The two losing semifinalists enter the playoff round for the last two promotion spots.The four group runners-up are drawn against one of the three fourth-placed teams outside their group while the four third-placed teams are drawn against one another in a two-legged series.

The six winners advance with the two losing semifinalists

Real Murcia sold out their allocation of 2000 tickets for the next match away at La Roda in 48 hours

to determine the four teams that will enter the last twolegged series for the last two promotion spots. In all the playoff series, the lower-ranked club plays at home first.

This end of season streak coincided with new faces in the team, led by David Sánchez, Curto, Guardiola and Josema, among others, who’s form has added six wins and two draws in the last eight games.

The Real Murcia fans have also got behind the team, so much so that they sold all their allocation of tickets for Sunday’s away game at La Roda in 48 hours and will take over 2000 supporters in buses to cheer the former La Liga regulars on.

In reality reaching top position would mean La Hoya losing

both their matches and Murcia winning both of theirs.But team coach Deseado Flores said "We do not give up on anything.

First place seems almost impossible, but the second and third are close. " adding, "The group looks capable of everything and in the playoff we can be a hard nut to crack," "We do not give up anything, but Lorca will really go for it in their last two games. Player for player they are stronger than Cartagena and I see them finishing first, " He explained.

If that is the case then it sets up a possible two-legged play off derby between Murcia and fierce rivals the albinos of Cartagena. One thing is for sure …. It’s going to be an exciting end to the season.

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What next for Joshua?

Last Saturday's thrilling Wembley victory over Wladimir Klitschko, in front of a post-war British record 90,000 fans, leaves former Olympic champion Anthony Joshua unbeaten in 19 fights as a professional now holder of the WBA and IBF world champion.

In stopping the most dominant heavyweight of this century, the question now for Joshua is who will he fight next?

The champion’s promoter, Eddie Hearn, has been hitting the phones since Saturday night to make sense of a complicated landscape, but the odds are Joshua will not fight again until October.

Matching an event as iconic as last week’s which delivered an expected pay day of 15 million pounds and finding an opponent capable of competing, looks a tall order in the short-term.

However this hasn’t stopped the big names lining up to challenge boxing’s latest hero.

First to throw his hat into the ring was Tyson Fury, who tweeted a provocative message after the match from his twitter account @tyson_fury, which read: “Well done @anthony fJoshua, good fight, you had life & death with @klitschko & I played with the guy, let’s dance “ Joshua did hit the canvas hard before toppling Klitschko, whereas Fury ducked, weaved and earned a comfortable points win by comparison in 2015.

Fury who would understandably be Joshua’s preferred option stoked the fire a little further on Monday by claiming: “I can beat AJ with one arm tied behind my back. I don’t even need a warm-up.”

Meanwhile, Anthony Joshua had already tweeted a message to Fury which read, "Fury, where you at baby?"

The truth remains that, substantially overweight and devoid of a boxing licence, former world champion Fury will likely need time and a warm-up bout before meeting the IBF and WBA champion.

Other options are WBC champion Deontay Wilder who warned Joshua not to get "comfortable, I’m coming for you” Wilder's lack of appeal in the UK presents a difficulty, so he would probably needs at least one more fight as he is not at the stage of his career to hold pay-per-view stature yet.

Wladimir Klitschko too, confirmed he holds a rematch option, adding that he believes the champion is "vulnerable" at times. "I could have done more to finish him off," said the 41-year-old.

However, Joshua beieves the Ukrainian’s elder brother, Vitali, and his partner, the American actress Hayden Panettiere, will counsel against his continuing in the sport at 41 after taking a heavy beating in the 11th and final round.

Most boxing pundits agree the champion’s next fight will proably be in Madison Square Garden against a lesser challenger, or at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff against WBC champion, Wilder.

Joshua's rise, after being all-but beaten in the sixth round, to administer a devastating uppercut and finish in the 11th, wowed the world of boxing. American viewers tuned in and lapped up the destruction.

Legendary boxers Sugar Ray Leonard and Evander Holyfield were just some of those tweeting praise, while promoter Eddie Hearn believes his fighter's profile is now "stratospheric", adding: "He is unquestionably world boxing's biggest star."

His standing as a marketable asset for more than a dozen global brands brings closer his ambition to become boxing's first billionaire, while it also heaps pressure on his broad shoulders.

"The win accelerates him to be one of the world's most sought-after major properties," said sports marketing expert Alun James, UK chief executive at Four Sports and Sponsorships.

"A YouGov survey showed 20% of the UK population have a favourable view of him. That is a very good number for boxing, which is not a mainstream sport.

"Because he's a young black man, he also allows brands to extend into demographics they haven't worked in before. He's already working with brands from Asia to the US, the UK and Dubai.

"I think he will certainly be the richest boxer ever and probably surpass Floyd Mayweather, who set the benchmark."

The champion himself said The champion said: "I showed that fights are won in the gym. It gets tough and boxing isn't easy. You have to have the whole package."

With every passing punch, he looks just that.

After his thrilling victory last weekend, Boxing World Champion Anthony Joshua may not fight again until October

Gold medal winner aged 101

Man Kaur, 101, on the way to her Gold medal winning sprint victory at the World masters Games in Auckland NZ last week

We’re always being told that it’s never too late to take up a new sport, but very few of us imagine we’d become a gold medal winning athlete once we did.

However that didn’t deter Man Kaur, from Chandighar India, who took up sprinting rather late in life, at the age of 93 years young, following encouragement from her son Gurdev Singh, 78.Eight years later, the remarkable athlete has just won her 20th medal at the World masters Games in Auckland New Zealand.

The World Masters Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years which, in terms of competitor numbers, has developed into the largest of its kind.

Anyone can participate in the games so long as they are over the age of 35 though some sports will allow athletes who are younger than that. Participants compete for themselves – there are no country delegations. Beyond the age requirement and membership in that sport's governing body, there are no competition qualification requirements.

The 101-year-old Indian athlete said she feels like a hero after picking up her first gold medal at the New Zealand World Masters Games.Man Kaur won gold, and the heart of the crowd, when she completed the 100m sprint at the 2017 World Masters Games in Auckland on Monday.

Ms Kaur is the only contender in the over 100 age grade, so effectively, unless she falls over and fails to finish, the 101 year old is guaranteed a Gold medal every time she takes to the field.But that isn’t the point, as World Masters Games director Dianne McAteer succinctly pointed out, Ms Kaur is "just everything that World Masters Games epitomises"."It's a sport for life, it's being active, it's about not letting age be a barrier to being active so she's amazing."

Ms Kaur completed the 100 metres in a personal best time of, one minute and 14 seconds, but didn’t rest on her laurels, through a translator she told TV reporters she feels like she's "Mother India"She went on to win another three gold medals during the remainder of the week, in the 200 metre sprint, the shotput and in the javelin, competition, where she set a new record for her age group of 5 metres.

Speaking to the press afterwards the ecstatic winner of 20 medals said, "I'm going to run again, I'm not going to give up. I will participate, there's no full stop."

Speaking to the Canadian Press, her son said: "When she wins, she goes back to India, and she's excited to tell others, 'I have won so many medals from this country.' Winning makes her happy."

When training at home in Chandigarh, Kaur runs a number of short distances every evening - and she believes other women should follow in her footsteps.

"She encourages them, old ladies, that they should run, they should not eat wrong foods, and they should encourage their children also to take part in the Games," said her son.So, the question is, will Man Kaur be back to defend her titles at the next World Masters Games in Kansai Japan in 2021 at the age of 105?

And the answer is rhetorical ……

Would you back against it?

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