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18th-24th August 2017

Reporting The News Security in place for Iberia festival

A major sec u r i t y plan has been announced for the Iberia festival p4

TRAM continues to break records

THE TRAM service serving areas of the Costa Blanca north of Alicante continues to attract increasing passenger numbers p16

How to help your dog if they overheat p42

Described by police as ‘terror related’

At least 10 killed in possible Spanish terror attack

by Karl Smallman AT least 10 people have died and dozens of people have been injured, according to a local radio report, after being hit by a van in the centre of Barcelona in the popular and

very busy Las Ramblas area.

The incident, which is now being described by police as ‘terror related’ happened at the junction with Carrer Bonsuccés.

Witnesses have reported seeing an armed man fleeing on foot.

Police have evacuated the area, while several ambulances are tending to the injured.

The security forces have asked the public to avoid the Plaza Cataluña area.

There are also now unconfirmed reports of a shooting incident in a

restaurant involving two armed men and another reporting of a gunshot in a nearby market. Police are advising people to stay indoors.

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LUCKY FIND: Police called to ‘domestic incident’ leave with drugs haul

by Ray Chadwick NATIONAL POLICE in València have detained a 49-year-old man and a 42-year-old woman with the crime of drug trafficking.

They were arrested for dealing in cocaine and heroin, but it was purely fate that they were caught as police visited their home for different reasons.

The police were called by neighbours reporting shouting, screams and the sounds of a fight taking place in the Abastos district of the city. When they arrived, the door was opened by a man and they entered the property where they discovered that a woman was locked in the bathroom.

Believing that the woman had either been harmed in the fight or was trying

Beaches continue to report storm damage

to harm herself, they broke down the bathroom door where, taken by the surprise, she immediately begun to dump what was later proved to be the illegal substances down the toilet.

Searching the premises, police discovered 60 grams of heroin and 33 grams of cocaine. They also found several top-ofthe-range watches and equipment for administering the drugs.

Local resident braves the storms as they batter the beach

AS each day goes past, more areas are reporting damage as a result of the recent storms that hit the majority of the Costa Blanca.

The beaches of Muchavista and Carrerlamar belonging to the town of El Campello have been the latest to suffer the consequences.

The amount and the force of the water caused displacement of some of the promenades and the access points to the beaches, which have seen people

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shocked at the enormous sections of their beaches that have been washed away.

A number of rubbish bins had been dragged out to sea and others ended up on the beaches from the centre of town. The beach at Carrerlamar was particularly badly affected and remained closed for several hours until the access could be repaired. Other streets in the town also had to be cleared of rubbish caught up in the original water flow which had blocked access.

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Forest fires extinguished MARINA ALTA once again found itself faced with a potential fire disaster.

Fire broke out between Teulada and Benissa in areas that are very difficult to access for members of the emergency services, and has burned 3.5 hectares of scrubland. The main area affected was a quarry close to the CamĂ­ Pontet and is regarded as a zone of great environmental and value.

Five air units comprising three helicopters and two aircraft were backed up by three forest brigades on foot and other personnel from nearby Benissa and Denia.

The helicopters dropped a number of the firefighters closer to the seat of the fire as it was adjacent to a ridge that is impossible to reach under normal circumstances.

Overall, it took over five hours to bring the blaze under complete control which was helped by a combination of quick and effective work by the emergency services and no wind in the area. Authorities said that they weren’t aware of anyone needed to be evacuated not were any injuries reported.

Another cycle victim on the Costa GATA has been the location for the latest incident involving a cyclist on the N-332.

This time, a 51-year-old man was about to leave Gata, on the lane going toward Valencia, when he was hit by a car about 30 metres from the Javea turn-off.

The victim, believed not to be Spanish, was attended to at the scene by members of the police in Gata and local medical services who, according to witnesses, placed a surgical collar on the man and put him on a stretcher.

He was then transferred by an ambulance from the SAMU to hospital in Denia were has was placed in intensive care.

This latest accident is the third during the summer months on the N-332 between Gata and Oliva; the first two saw lives being lost of people from Javea and Senija.

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by Ray Chadwick

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24 feb - 2 march 2017

Three injured in bull festival Photo credit: YouTube

Security in place for Iberia Festival

NO BULL: Calpe festival claims three victims

by Lynn Whittaker IN the space of a few days, three people were injured by bulls during the annual ‘Bous al Carrer’ festival in Calpe.

The first incident saw a 37-year-old man suffering a deep goring by one of the bulls and a fractured jaw as the animal pushed him against the specially constructed cages. In this case, the victim climbed through the metal polls within inches of the bull so he could take a picture on his mobile phone.

In one of the other accidents, a bull managed to get both his horns through the spaces and badly gored one of the spectators in the buttocks as he was lifted.

According to witnesses, the injured man was transferred by ambulance to hospital with injuries from the goring that were described as not being too serious.

On the same night, an albino bull struck and tossed another spectator to the ground. The young man had

climbed onto the stage that is built for the Calpe event to escape the bull, but it followed him up the stairs and attacked him. He suffered bruises and a torn t-shirt.

The ‘Bous al Carrer’ – literally meaning ‘bulls in the street’ in Catalan Spanish – sees the bulls running through the streets in a different way to what is seen in Pamplona with the spectators kept behind cages, but there is enough space for people to get in and out...and for the animals to get their horns in.

AS THE latest Iberia Festival gets underway tonight (Friday) a major security plan has been announced.

The briefing meeting in Benidorm allows for 90 people to be involved to ensure correct health and safety procedures take place during the Iberia Festival that is being held at the Julio Iglesias Auditorium found in the Parque de L’Aigüera.

The municipal council announced that 20 members of the local police will be used to reinforce the usual surveillance operation in cooperation with members of the National Police and the Civil Protection force.

In addition, the plan presented to the council by the promoter of the event includes the presence of seven security guards, five members of a specialised unit trained in controlling admission to major events, 16 traffic controllers, plus an overall coordinator and the chief of security.

The Iberia Festival will open its doors at 7pm tonight (Friday) and Saturday, and will feature such acts as Loquillo, Los Pistones, Estopa, Hombres G and Seguridad Social, among others, on stage.

Bloodied biker in police chase A BIKER chased by police has crashed on the N-332 in Benissa.

The man was left in a serious condition and was taken to hospital in Denia by one of the two ambulances that arrived at the scene. Eyewitnesses said that he had a surgical collar placed on him before being put into the ambulance.

The incident began when a motorcyclist was spotted crossing a bridge in Altea wearing no helmet, shirt or shoes and with his torso

covered in blood. Sources suggest that the motorbike may have been stolen.

Police were alerted and gave chase along the N-332 out of Altea until he crashed on one of the bends on the stretch of road between Calpe and Benissa.

Previously, various attempts had been made to stop the biker at a series of police control blocks but he managed to avoid them.

The Guardia Civil continue to investigate the case.

No sign of change AROUND six months ago, it was noticed that a number of road signs indicating the way to Xàbia had been vandalised or poorly written. Six months later, there have been no changes to the original one and, in fact, a number of other signs containing the name of Xàbia are poor.

As the summer season is in full flow, Xàbia continues to receive its fair share of visitors but it is leading to confusion for many people not to see the sign expressed as Xàbia / Jávea. Many have been heard to say that Xàbia is being confused with Xàtiva – which is found a few miles inland – and indeed many making their way to what they believe is Javea simply think that Xàbia is a different place entirely.

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Storm hangover brings in consequences

by Steve Collins BEACHES in Dénia are continuing to show the aftermath of the storms that ripped through the area.

The council announced that it has already removed almost 1,000 tons of posidonia using 95 trucks carrying 10 tons each. Additionally, other types of algae, sea weed and rubbish have been washed up on shore and it continued to arrive over the weekend.

Local authorities in Dénia used special cleaning devices to clean up the weed and the debris, and it was only after the initial non-stop cleaning operation came to an end that the magnitude of what was collected was realised. National Spanish TV even featured the process live on their lunchtime news broadcast.

The posidonia is not an algae but a very important marine plant with an enormous environmental value which works as an effective natural barrier against coastal erosion.

An ongoing problem is the faster the posidonia is being removed, the tides continue to bring more on to the beaches of Marineta Cassiana, Punta dels Molins, and the nearby Punta del Raset.

BARRIER: The faster the plant is taken away, the quicker it returns

Emergency services blocked THERE was chaos in the centre of Javea when two ambulances got trapped in the town. Due to the build up of traffic and the way some cars had been parked during one of the busiest times of the day, two ambulances belonging to the local Cruz Roja

Men released after fake accusations

SIX MEN that were arrested in Gandia earlier this week have been released after the woman who accused them admitted it was false.

The six – aged between 29 and 52-yearsold – all shared the same home with the woman and had been arrested after one of the men had allegedly carried out a sexual assault on her; the other five were detained for not coming to her help.

However, two days later in front of a local magistrate, the woman admitted that she was not a victim of any sexual assault, and made the story up to get revenge on her partner.

The man originally arrested for sexual assault – originally from Pakistan – was immediately released once the confession was heard, although the judge in Gandia authorised his expulsion from Spain as it was discovered that he was an illegal immigrant and subject to an expulsion

order issued in October 2016.

During investigations it was established that the man has no formal or informal links to Spain and that he has made no attempt to legalise his status in the country.

The judge justified his expulsion order on the grounds of public security as if the man were to be released he may continue with the illegal life he was living.

He is to be detained for up to 60 days in an immigration centre.

The other men arrested – three Pakistanis, one Algerian and one Cuban – were also immediately released.

that were called out to attend people on the Barraca beach were stuck in an enormous traffic jam. Local police and the Guardia Civil were called to close off one of the roads to direct traffic out of the area and allow the ambulances to continue their journey.

Javea’s Barraca beach

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Police get hybrid additions Photo credit: Ayuntamiento de Benidorm

Singles and doubles only

ON THE BEAT: Keep a watch out for the quieter hybrids in town

BENIDORM police have enhanced their fleet of patrol cars with three new hybrid vehicles.

Not only will they have these extra vehicles, the specialist ‘atestados e informes’ (Witnesses and statements) police van used when on-the-scene investigations take place that has been off the road for some months will be replaced at the end of the summer.

The new cars were presented by the

Mayor of Benidorm, Toni Pérez, Councillor Lorenzo Martinez and Chief of Police, Juan Fuertes in the company of other members of the local authority.

Mayor Pérez said that the two of the three new patrol vehicles – leased with help from Banco Santander – will be seen as part of the fleet immediately taking the total number of cars serving Benidorm to 18. He highlighted that they come complete with all the latest technology and that by incorporating hybrid vehicles the municipality can

contribute to the environment with lower carbon emissions.

Other measures announced include future plans to renew the police motorbikes and increase the overall numbers of local police with an extra 20 senior officers to come through internal promotion.

The union that represents the local police and firefighters in Benidorm (SPPLB) welcomed the additional vehicles but described them as only a first step in solving the many outstanding issues surrounding police equipment and uniforms.

Where did that come from?

MEMBERS of the Benidorm council have raised formal questions as to how a temporary bar has appeared in the area.

The Socialist (PSOE) group have urged the governing party to clarify the situation as to how a ‘chiringuito’ (a Spanish beach bar popular up and down the coast) has managed to trade in the middle of an open field close to the CV-70 road in La Nucia.

Opposition councillors have questioned whether the bar has the correct licences and permits to run such a business and whether it complies with health and safety regulations. “Basically,” they said, “it’s a shack in the trees with tables and chairs operating as a bar!”

The night of the TRAM Photo credit: Wikimedia

by Glenn Scott

WORK has got underway in the University General Hospital of Valencia to remove all rooms in the urology and pathology departments that currently have three or four beds in them. The modernisation due to take place for the remainder of August and into September will change the current room layouts to accommodate single and double rooms only, and at the same time they will be completely repainted and have new doors and light fittings.

According to the hospital, the modernization plan has made it possible to gradually reform the hospital rooms, "taking advantage of moments of less activity, such as the summer season, and adjusting the occupancy rate to the needs of care, trying to interfere as little as possible with the attention given to the patients.”

The total budget for the modernisation plan is €359,000.

THE increasingly popular TRAM service that links Alicante with Benidorm and on to Denia is increasing its once again offering an overnight service.

Known as the Tramnochador the night service run by the Ferrocarrils de la Generalitat Valenciana (FGV), the TRAM only runs on a Friday and Saturday night during the summer months, and this year will continue until the night of August 26. Normally, the last train for Benidorm leaves the centre of Alicante at 10.11pm but the extra services see trains leaving at 12.05am and 1.55am. Overnight departures from Benidorm are at 2.11am and 3.41am, although

the popular first trains back for revellers leave at 7.05am, 7.35am and every halfhour thereafter.

The extra services cost no more than the normal fares and an adult return of €6.40 makes the journey very competitive.

Specifically, the Tramnochador offer services throughout the night between the terminal of Alicante-Luceros and the towns of Benidorm (Line 1), Sant Vicent del Raspeig (L2), El Campello (L3) and Playa de San Juan (L4).

Further details of all the services offered by the TRAM can be found at www.tramalicante.es

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24 feb - 2 march 2017

Low quality of water discovered

by Ray Chadwick AREAS of natural water found in the ground in many areas of the Marina Alta are contaminated by high levels of nitrates; levels that exceed minimum amounts recommended by the World Health Organisation (WHO).

The issue for many living in the area has often been whether they have water or not; now the question is whether the quality of that water is good enough. The problem has been caused by the wells being vulnerable to a cer-

tain amount of contamination from nitrates used in agricultural land and the water contains more than 50 milligrams per litre.

The areas where high levels have been discovered are Beniarbeig, Benidoleig, Benimeli, Dénia, Javea, Sagra, Ondara, Orba, Pedreguer, Pego, Ràfol d'Almúnia, Sanet i Negrals, Els Poblets, Tormos, and El Verger. Basically, the most populated areas of the Marina Alta along the coast that attracts the tourism.

This type of pollution is not new – it was first recognised in the 1980s - and

is quite prevalent across the Valencian community. In fact, according to the last figures issued in 2009, there were 215 municipalities affected. The new list, expected to be released shortly, is expected to increase by 24 per cent to 266.

The Marina Alta suffers more than most as the underground water is their only supply and thus contamination is difficult to eradicate. Thankfully, the heavy rains experienced at the turn of the year has helped the problem but many experts feel it may have spread the existing nitrates in the extra flows.

Look for the bare facilities

VILLAJOYOSA council has declared their nudist beaches official!

The popular coves of Racó de Conill and l'Esparralló have been declared areas of traditional naturism and the council will continue to promote tourism to them by means of a poster campaign. The two nudist beaches – part of a 15 kilometre stretch – have long been famous for naked sunbathing and swimming but, until now, have not been officially recognised.

At the start of this week, the municipality placed new signs at the entrances to the beaches which proudly state in both Spanish and Valencian that it’s an

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‘area of nudist traditions’.

The Racó de Conill is a small cove with a beach around 200 metres long and part of Finestrat.

Access is via a short road with the final section completed on foot.

The beach at l'Esparrelló is on the other side of the town, near to Paradís beach, and is 160 metres in length.

Signposting has been changed to specifically advertise them as ‘nudist beaches’ rather than the old term of ‘naturist’.

The council are quick to emphasise however that anyone can use the coves and there is no obligation for people to go naked on the beaches. This will be reflected in the posters and promotional material.

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Beach chameleons arrested

by Ray Chadwick GUARDIA CIVIL officers in Javea have arrested two men after a series of thefts on local beaches.

Both from Romania and living in Benidorm, the 48 and 62-year-olds are believed to be behind 16 thefts that saw them mingling around among fellow bathers in beachwear so as to not arouse too much suspicion.

All of the thefts took place on the l’Arenal beach and the amount and frequency of them was causing friction between bathers and the innocent beach sellers who were pointing the finger at them.

According to a statement from the Guar-

dia Civil, a surveillance operation began around the affected beaches from the end of July when the majority of the thefts were reported. After a short time, police noticed two men behaving in a suspicious manner prowling along the shoreline and appearing to be taking particular interest in groups of swimmers that had left belongings unattended.

Following witness statements and related investigations, two men were arrested and it was later discovered that they were known to the authorities and had committed a series of crimes across Spain.

The investigations continue as it’s believed that there may have been many other victims of these thieves over a longer period of time.

Javea’s Busy L’Arenal Beach

Return of the ‘beach bees’ THE BEACH BEES have returned.

For the second time in as many weeks, a swarm of bees have attacked the town of El Campello, north of Alicante.

Authorities received a call from worried sunbathers just before lunch, when the insects made their home on a pole holding up a beach umbrella. Two firefighters wearing special protective clothing arrived to remove the insects from one of the fixed rented shades, and needed to cordon off the area on the Carrerlamar beach to carry out their operation.

Only the week before, emergency services were called after a beekeeper disturbed a hive in an apartment block in El Campello and unwittingly released an estimated 50,000 bees which ended up covering another beach umbrella.

Let there be more lights THE MUNICIPALITY of Mutxamel and the Diputación de Alicante have combined to improve roadways in and around the town.

After protests from many of the local residents, the main road of La Venteta – the CV-823 and one of the main points of entry to Mutxamel from the local housing estates of La Huerta and Río Park – has been made safer. One of the most welcome enhancements has been the lighting which was absent prior to the works and made driving at night very dangerous.

As well as the new roundabout at the southern access point to the town, 25 LED streetlights have been installed along the 1,200m stretch from La Venteta.

The entire road has seen road markings repainted, a bike and pedestrian lane installed and new central road islands built to reduce speed.

The cost of the entire project was €40,000.

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24 feb - 2 march 2017

Action taken against the dumpers

by Lynn Whittaker ONDARA council is clamping down against the amount of garden waste being dumped in the normal rubbish bins.

They are placing the blame firmly at the feet of the residents who continually ignore the rules and will be monitoring the most abused areas in conjunction with neighbourhood watch-type schemes. They promise to bring the regular offenders to justice.

Residents are being encouraged to deposit all their garden waste and

cuttings at the municipal collection point found on Calle Tomás Edison rather than in the general bins that are overflowing with greenery both inside and outside. Local councillor Francisco Giner says that the poor practice of those that ignore the correct containers must be challenged and educated accordingly.

Each of the regular containers has a poster fixed on it reminding people that is forbidden to dump gardening remains in or around them. Failure to observe these warnings could result

in a fine of up to €600.

Anyone in the area that needs to get rid of their garden cuttings, or from farms or public green spaces should go to the communal collection point at Calle Tomás Edison Nº25 between 7.30am and 1pm Monday to Saturday.

Residents are also reminded that the official time to put general rubbish in the proper containers is between 8pm and midnight during the summer months (from 6pm in winter) which avoids a build-up of garbage throughout the day with the associated smells.

Popular bus gets route extension LAUNCHED only a month ago, a local bus service has proved so popular that it’s already getting an extension to the route.

After a trial period, the circular service that links Dénia and Pedrera Montgó will be extended after 117 people used it in 15 days.

Following suggestions from both residents and crossparty political groups in the municipality, the extra route and bus stops began on Monday and will take in the area around Marquesa.

The bus stops on the revised route are: Start from la Plaza Jaume I, next to the Centro de Salud Pública; IES Historiador Chabás; Pedrera Hospital; Coll de Pous-Centauro; calle Atamante; calle Hebe; Coll de Pous; Coll de PousCentauro; junction of Padre Pedro; junction of la cañada de Santa Lucía and camino de Merle (up the hill); Corral de Calafat; restaurante Galeretes; junction of la cañada de Santa Lucía and camino de Merle (down the hill); urbanización Al-Khalif; Lidl-Consumo supermarkets; junction of Calle Diana with avenida Joan Fuster; avenida de Juan Chabás; Mercadona, to the end of the route where it began in Plaza Jaume I. The bus makes four trips every day leaving at 8am, 2pm, 4pm and 8pm with a total journey time of 35 minutes and a flat fare of only €1.

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Terra Natura seals swim to help THE FAMOUS Terra Natura theme park in Benidorm has unveiled a new activity that encourages even closer interaction between visitors and animals alike.

The latest initiative is to take the traditional swimming with a dolphin one step further and allow people with special needs, or those with some types of disability, to swim with the sea lions.

These sessions are held on a oneto-one basis in the aquarium of Aqua Natura where the relatives of the child are allowed to share these therapeutic treatments with them in a very private and personal environment and away from the crowds of people.

Many children find such interaction as a perfect alternative to the conventional treatments they receive for their conditions and have found that these therapies show positive results in both their physical and mental health.

Medical experts and the sea lion keepers combine to ensure these sessions are conducted in a safe and controlled way for the children to get the highest possible benefit from their experience.

Photo credit: Terra Natura

by Steve Collins

CONNECTION: When Rodrigo met Tino at Aqua Natura The joy on the faces of the children is something to behold and is shown to increase their self-confidence and the ability to relax in the company of the sea lions.

Award-winning blogger Vanesa Pérez, www.ydeverdadtienestres.com is the mother of Rodrigo, a severe-

Student transport help announced THE municipality of El Campello has announced a series of transport schemes to help students living in the town.

When the upcoming term begins after the end of the summer holidays, each student will be given a card that gives them a total of 20 free trips per month to get them to and from their place of study and lasts throughout the academic year up until, and including, July 2018.

In the event that their education centre is outside the limits that the bonus card covers, they will be compensated with the equivalent amount that would’ve been saved on presentation of the relevant bus tickets.

ly autistic child with epilepsy who has been able to enjoy one of these experiences at Aqua Natura along with the rest of his family.

As soon as he saw it, there was an almost immediate connection between little Rodrigo and the sea lion named Tino.

The keeper, Roland, taught the

boy everything about the animal’s body, their characteristics and customs, all in a close up and personal manner.

At one point, Rodrigo and Tino placed the soles of their feet against each other and an even bigger trust and connection appeared to be made, with Rodrigo

now wanting to cuddle his new friend.

Vanesa Pérez wants the rest of the world to know just how beneficial this therapy has been for her own son and to shout from the rooftops that Terra Natura really is the place to go to find this treatment.

The most expensive house in Spain is...

ONE OF the most expensive houses in Spain is found in the Valencia community.

Situated in Denia, this property consisting of 1,600 square metres is worth €9.5m and is high up among the overall highest value exclusive homes in the country.

Topping the list in the whole country is an Italian-style mansion located in the bay of Alcudia (Mallorca) and valued at €57.5m. It has a total of eight rooms among its more than 3,500 square metres and would attract a monthly mortgage

payment of €147,539.

Runner-up is a luxury villa in Marbella consisting of a main house with 10 bedrooms, a guest house with seven other bedrooms and a second space reserved for guests with another four bedrooms. Found in 4,000 square metres, it’s valued at €27m.

The most expensive property in the capital of Madrid is valued at a mere €17m and topping the list in the Murcia region is a property in Molina de Segura lying in 745 square metres and worth €7.5m.

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TRAM continues to break records

Beach reopens after storms

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ONE OF the most popular beaches in Javea has been reopened following the recent storm damage.

Intense work on the Granadella beach – one of the most badly damaged during the heavy rains that raged through parts of the Costa Blanca – began as soon as the level of the problem was known, and were completed by Saturday.

Another local beach affected to a lesser extent was the Cala Ambolo. Some repair works are outstanding on this stretch of beach but it hasn’t stopped bathers being allowed to enjoy the area. Mayor of Javea, José Chulvi, supervised much of the work done and agreed with the contractors that the remaining repairs would start later in the week.

ON TRACK: AlicanteLuceros station on a quieter day

by Glenn Scott THE TRAM service serving areas of the Costa Blanca north of Alicante continues to attract increasing passenger numbers.

During July, across the five lines operated, a total of 1,085,112 people used the service representing an increase of 1.7 per cent compared to the same month in 2016; a new record.

The data shows the most popular was Line 2 which links the main AlicanteLuceros station with San Vicente, was

the most used with 387,424 passengers.

This was followed by Line 3 (Luceros to El Campello), 275,388; Line 1 (Luceros to Benidorm), 215,489; Line 4 (Luceros to Plaza La Coruña), 173,410 and finally Line 9 (Benidorm to Dénia), 33,401 customers.

By stations, Alicante-Luceros once again topped the list with 183,393 travellers. Mercado (also in Alicante) followed with 125,345 and in third place the next station down the line, Marq-Castillo, 56,575. Fourth place went to El Campello, 55,629; fifth place was San Vicente, 50,857, and in

sixth spot Benidorm, 41,970.

The busiest day of July 2017 for TRAM traffic was July 28 when the network saw 39,392 passengers.

TRAM is continuing with their expansion plans for the network with the extension of the line to the AlicanteRENFE station leading the way. The ultimate aim is to extend the service along the coast to Alicante-Elche Airport and beyond to Santa Pola, Guardamar and Torrevieja. Extensions to the TRAM service inland from Benidorm are also beyond the drawing board stage.

Water welcome everywhere THE TRADITIONAL end of the fiestas in the municipality of La Torre de les Maçanes came to an end on Tuesday with everyone getting a soaking!

The fiesta of La Mare de Déu dels Fadrins held in honour of the Virgen de la Asunción ended, as always, at 1pm when for over an hour the streets of the town are full with locals and visitors alike awaiting the ‘banyà’ (bath) dressed in anything other than swimwear. Many take the opportunity to wear the most outrageous fancy dress.

A grand total of 60,000 litres of water – twice as much as last year – is thrown other the gathered throng as well as those passing by who are oblivious to what’s going on!

The tradition comes from La Torre having so much water in their springs from the snows and heavy rains that fall during the winter months.

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Sickness claim thrown out of court

ALL ABOARD: Metropolitan Nº1 back on track for one day

by Ray Chadwick THE GOLDEN era of the steam train is to return to London in September...but only for one day.

A selection of steam locomotives pulling 1950s ex-British Rail rolling stock will be running on the Metropolitan Line between Amersham and Harrowon-the Hill on Saturday September 16.

The event, ‘Vintage Summer Steam’, has been organised by the London Transport Museum and train buffs will get the chance to ride on the Metropolitan Nº1 steam locomotive, Steam Locomotive Nº 9466, two class 20 diesel locomotives and the coaches resplendent in their red livery.

The first train will depart from Harrowon-the-Hill to Amersham at 10.20am,

while the last will leave Amersham at 3.27pm and arrive in Ruislip at 4.11pm.

Tea and cakes will be served from vintage crockery to day-trippers during some of the journeys.

London was the first city in the world to have an underground railway and the initial section built by the Metropolitan Railway ran between Paddington and Farringdon.

A BRITISH tourist who blamed poor hygiene in a hotel gave her diarrhoea has had her compensation claim thrown out by a judge.

Her boasting about her trip on Facebook went against her previous claims that she’d suffered “nausea and diarrhoea” during an all-inclusive Thomas Cook holiday in Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh.

Marissa McLean, 27, alleged that "the way food was cooked and prepared" led to her suffering illness at the resort one minute supposedly back and forth to the toilet and yet the next was saying she was in “paradise.” She claimed the posts were to provoke an ex-boyfriend back in the UK to jealousy.

In his damning conclusion, Judge

Nadeem Khan said her evidence was "neither plausible nor credible" and he formally ruled her claim "fundamentally dishonest", allowing the tour operator to recover the money it had spent fighting her claim.

Instead she was ordered to pay £2,812 within 21 days, and refused leave to appeal. After the hearing, a spokesman for Thomas Cook said: "We've been clear we won't hesitate to take action where we feel it's justified in order to protect the majority of honest holidaymakers.

We're pleased that, for a second time, a judge has recognised the dishonesty in these cases, showing that the courts are increasingly aware of the levels of fraud we're seeing in holiday sickness claims."

Love Island stunner hits out LOVE ISLAND beauty, Cally Jane Beech, has been criticised online for enjoying a three-day holiday on Ibiza without her three-month old daughter, Vienna.

The twenty-five-year-old star took to Instagram to defend her trip, explaining her daughter was staying with her father, Luis Morrison and told critics to “get a life.”

The brunette stunner is taking a break after breaking up with Luis last month after claims he had cheated on her. Cally Jane explained she was at a Miss Swimsuit UK event on Saturday when she saw the online criticism and had to be comforted by a friend. In her Instagram post, Miss Beech hit back, saying, 'You shouldn't judge other parents on how they're living their lives and what they're doing.”

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Big Ben bongs to be silenced

by Lynn Whittaker THE FAMOUS bongs of Big Ben will fall quiet for up to four years as from Monday.

Parliamentary authorities announced that the Great Bell, which has rang out across London almost without a break for the past 157 will sound for the last time at noon on Monday August 21. Renovation work on the Elizabeth Tower isn’t planned to be completed until 2021.

Health and safety concerns have prompted this controversial move in some quarters, but spokesperson said: “The chimes are being stopped to provide a safe environment for the people working on the scaffolding. Constant proximity to the chimes would pose a serious risk to their hearing, and would prevent efficient working.”

Mechanics who currently work on the clock get ear de-

SILENCED: The iconic Big Ben will be quiet for four years fenders but are only exposed to the bells ringing for short periods each week.

The spokeswoman added: “People will be working on the scaffolding day-in day-out throughout the works, and, while protective headgear could be provided, it is not desirable for individuals working at height to have their hearing obscured

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Unforgettable sunbed journey A 19-YEAR-OLD Ukrainian suffered an unexpected awakening when he woke up on his sunbed.

Working as a lifeguard on the Lazurne beach, Mykhailo Doroshenko decided to spend the night aboard an inflatable mat-

Mountain rescue hoaxer slammed VOLUNTEERS responsible for mountain rescue in a part of Wales have described the maker of a hoax call as “irresponsible”.

As a result of three alleged emergency calls made to North Wales Police, 16 members of the voluntary Ogwen Valley Mountain Rescue Organisation (OVMRO) were dispatched into Snowdonia to look for the ‘victim’. He was reported as being lost around Cwm Idwal, Devil’s Kitchen and Glyder Fawr at 7.30am. At the same time, another call came in from someone claiming to be lost on Tryfan.

Chris Lloyd of OVMRO called the hoaxer “irresponsible”.

He said: “There were 16 of us searching the whole area from about 7.30am in wet and frankly atrocious weather. The police received another call after 9am saying they were lost on Tryfan. We asked them to check the voices of all the calls and they realised it was most likely to be a hoax.

As a result, the search parties were recalled to base. “We had 16 very wet team members who were very upset,” said Mr Lloyd. “They have families and partners and there’s only so many times you can ask them to go out - it could affect them next time there’s a genuine emergency.”

Mr Lloyd said it was fortunate another genuine call didn’t come in while they were deployed.

as there is concern the ability to hear each other and any alarms could be affected.”

Parliament’s specialist clock makers will however ensure Big Ben can still bong for important national events such as New Year’s Eve and Remembrance Sunday, and one working clock face will remain visible at all times throughout the works.

tress, only to wake up the following morning floating in the middle of the Black Sea off the Crimea coast. It was three days before he was finally rescued suffering from the effects of dehydration and sunstroke in temperatures of more than 40ºC.

"The first day was fun, the second no so much," he explained to a Ukrainian-based newspaper.

He was found by members of the Crimea military more than 60 kilometres away from where he set off.

Look what the tide’s dragged in!

BEACHCOMERS in East Anglia had the shock of their lives when they took a stroll along a Norfolk beach.

Expecting to see the odd cuttlefish or chunks of seaweed along the shore, they were greeted by a number of gigantic plastic pipes that had been washed-up by Horsey and Sea Palling in Norfolk.

The Norwegian-made bore pipes – normally around two metres in diameter and 100 metres long – broke free when they were being transported to Algeria in mid-July and a passing container ship crashed into them - but they had only just come ashore. Those discovered on the beach ranged from between 200 metres to 480 metres long.

Authorities have said there was no danger from the pipes and that specialist companies Dutch Marine BV and Marine Towing Services were working on removing them.

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Never too old to learn

King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun

by Glenn Scott A 91-YEAR OLD woman in Thailand has earned a college degree after spending more than 10 years studying for it and has received her diploma from the country's king.

Public television broadcaster Thai PBS says Kimlan Jinakul was granted the Bachelor of Arts degree in human and family development at the government-run Sukhothai Thammathirat

Open University just outside Bangkok.

"If we do not study, do not read, do not know, then we won't be able to speak and make sense," she said.

Her diploma was handed to her by King Maha Vajiralongkorn Bodindradebayavarangkun, who took the throne last year. Diplomas at Thailand's public universities are traditionally handed out by members of the royal family.

"I am happy and honoured that the king has graciously shown such limit-

less mercy," Kimlan said, using a phrase meant to show utmost respect to Thai royalty.

Kimlan traveled with her family from their home in Phayao province, 725 kilometers (450 miles) north of Bangkok, to attend the graduation ceremony.

"Sometimes she felt weary because of her body," Kimlan's son, Mongkol Jinakul, told Thai PBS. "But we as her children tried to cheer her on and mom studied until the end and it was a success."

Trump isn’t the only Twitter chump PRINCE Laurent of Belgium has had his Twitter account deleted, and the speculation is that it’s been deactivated by his brother, King Philippe.

The Prince, 53, has built up a reputation for being a firebrand and it’s understood that he’s had his account removed to stop him making further Twitter blunders.

The action has been taken as a result of Prince Laurent tweeting a picture of himself in full military uniform to his 5,000 followers when he recently attended a celebration marking 90 years since the

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founding of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army at Beijing’s Brussels based embassy. It was described by one Belgian newspaper as ‘a gaffe too far’.

Prince Laurent has a history of contentious meetings with foreign governments and faces a 10 per cent fine from his €308,000 annual endowment allowance.

His previous freelance diplomacy has included trips to see President Kabila of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, who, after 16 years in power, refuses to stand down on the grounds that the country cannot afford elections!

He also enjoyed frequent visits to Libya between 2008 and 2010, where he had been hoping to go into business with one of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi’s sons.

The People’s Liberation Army event may have gone unnoticed but the wayward prince tweeted a picture of himself attending the ceremony at the Chinese embassy in Brussels, leaving the Belgian prime minister with little choice but to act.

The Prince is due to give his side of the Chinese incident to the government in September but the conservative Flemish party, the N-VA, is insisting he face the consequences of his actions.

ROYAL GAFFE: Prince Laurent of Belgium tweeting on duty

Sewbots are the new machinists

ADIDAS are investing $20m (€25m) in new technology in a series of robotic arms to make their world-famous shirts.

In raw numbers, 21 robot arms – known as Sewbots – will be able to produce 82,467 per day made up of 3,927 per arm and one shirt every 22 seconds!

Designed and built by the American company SoftWear Automation, Adidas will replace the workforce in its factories in China and Thailand during 2018 to both increase productivity and reduce manufacturing costs.

Each robot has a system of mechanical arms, needles and cameras that can cut and sew the fabric in four minutes. According to its creators, Sewbot is able to make a garment at a level of precision that not

even the human eye can detect.

Chairman of the company that produces the shirts for Adidas, Tang Xinhong of Tianyuan Garments, said that they will eventually have 10 times the amount of Sewbots producing a predicted total of 800,000 units per day in the medium term, all made in American factories.

The idea is that not even the cheapest Chinese factory in the world could compete against the Sewbots.

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High noon at the Town Hall

by

Colin Bird

So I turn up at the office for the padron in the Ayuntamiento at 12pm. It was part of my cunning plan to avoid the long queue that I was convinced would be there if I arrived at the opening time of 9pm.

I was wrong.

A friend had advised me with an all knowing wink and nudge, that before 9pm was when everyone went in order to steal a march on everybody else, and the numbers would be of mob proportions.

He supported this by relating his own experience a few weeks before, when he was able to march straight in at midday.

This made sense, but I hadn’t reckoned on my friend also telling the same thing to the world and his brother and thus, like me, everyone had turned up later in the morning.

I suffer from an extreme case of queuephobia and get very bad tempered, but I figured, hey, what the heck, the office closes at 1.30pm for the day and although there are perhaps fifteen or sixteen people in front of me, quite a few are probably couples, so try and relax.

Because these thoughts were coursing through my mind I forgot the need to extract a numbered ticket from the machine on the wall, until a large lady waiting on a bench indicated brusquely that I should do so.

Having taken my ticket, the large lady exchanged a few words in French to a man standing in front of me and they laughed uproariously in my direction.

What they didn’t realise is that I understood exactly what was said and my resultant glare at the large lady was met with a nervous grin. I say grin but it could have been wind.

It’s just that I take great exception to the suggestion that I have an appendage other than my nose extending from my head.

The clock ticked on in Spanish, meaning very quickly indeed, whilst the queue decreased in length also in Spanish, which is exceedingly slow.

There was the usual banter between our gallant but dwindling band and eventually my turn arrived, although by now it was almost 2pm.

But bless her, the lady dealing single handedly with the padrons and renewals, greeted me with a smile and attended to me quickly and efficiently.

It’s not all bad news when dealing with officialdom.

Just make sure you take along a packed lunch and your funeral plan details.

What’s in YOUR medicine cabinet? by

Barry Duke

“Oooh,” grouched the other half who’d spent the best part of the afternoon on the beach turning himself the colour of a Christmas Island crab on one of the hottest days of August, “I’ve got a thumping headache.”

“Well, I’m hardly surprised,” I shot back, “but there are more painkillers in the medicine cabinet than you can shake a stick at. And while you’re at it I suggest you slather yourself with after-sun lotion.”

I heard Marcus rummaging around in the cabinet, then came the plaintiff cry, “which ones are the painkillers?”

Sigh. I broke away from a game of Scrabble I was winning (me v the computer) and peered at the mind-blowing array of pharmaceuticals the cabinet contained. “Er … these are some sort of paracetamol I said.” I handed him a bright red box of Dolorstop that I really

can’t remember buying.

“How many do I take?” was the next question. I suggested two, the number of paracetamol I normally take for a headache. So down they went. An hour later Marcus complained of feeling ill, threw up and went to bed early.

The next day he said he thought the tablets had made him ill. I believed it was sunstroke. But a quick Internet check revealed that over-the-counterin-Spain Dolorstop is almost FOUR times the strength of your bog-standard Boots’ paracetamol, and only one tablet is recommended.

This little episode prompted me to do a thorough check of everything I had in the medicine cabinet, and, much to my astonishment, I realised that I hadn’t the foggiest notion of what around two-thirds of the phials and packages contained.

There was a box of Doctril with seven tablets missing. Doctril? What was that for? And a blister pack of CoCodamols (six tabs missing). The Naproxeno sodica cinfa packet of blue tablets was less of a mystery because I’d scribbled the word “knee” on it. That was handed to me in a pharmacy when my right knee came the size of an Ogen melon after I fell down a flight of stairs about two years ago. Six of those brought down the swelling.

But what was Ilvico for? And Acoxxel? It was clear that I needed to open Google and run all these medications through it. Doctril, I discovered, was given to me for toothache. CoCodamol is a mixture of codeine and paracetamol and have no idea when I acquired it and what I used it for.

Ilvico, I learned, was for sinusitis and Acoxxel was a gout remedy. Gout?

I’d forgotten about the pain that was caused to the big toe of my right foot a few years back, and I certainly didn’t appreciate being reminded that I was hobbling about for a week like a Victorian gourmand who’d overdone the rich food and port wine in London’s Army and Navy Club.

“Oh my ears and whiskers,” I exclaimed as I gazed at the pile of boxes and blister packs surrounding my computer, “taken together, these suggest that I might disintegrate at any moment.”

“Ah,” said Marcus, “you’ve still got the first aid box to trawl through. It contains about 20 different tubes of creams and lotions with funny names and no indication of what they are for.”

“I don’t feel well,” I retorted. “Let’s leave that for another day.”

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French farce by

Michael Walsh

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One doesn’t need to be a conspiracy theorist to express concern at sharp electoral practice in some European Union nations. One can also draw conclusions from a voting system wide open to abuse on a massive scale.

In this day and age it is a simple matter to provide a voting system that is 99% tamper proof. Why then use a paper system more suited to medieval Europe.

The surprising spike in votes cast for French President Emmanuel Macron was likely the outcome of electoral fraud. It is now suggested that populist candidate Marine le Pen might have become France’s president had the system not been rigged.

In France, people cast their votes on paper slips distributed by the state.

Delivered by post, each voter receives slips each carrying the names of candidates. Choosing their preferred nominee their choice is then placed in the ballot box. Damaged ballot papers are rejected.

Evidence is emerging that up to 60 per cent of the ballot slips bearing the name of Marine le Pen were damaged before their being mailed to the electorate. There is no evidence that slips bearing Macron’s name were similarly damaged.

The damage to a slip need only be slight but that is enough to disqualify the vote. How convenient if you want an electoral process that is far from

tamper proof.

The randomness of the rips in the Le Pen ballot slips suggests that destruction was carried out by hand with intent.

Another oddity is that many electors in districts known to favour Macron received multiple ballot papers.

Unnervingly, the French Election Commission confirmed that multiple votes would count. If there were complaints these would be investigated after the election. Sure!

When evidence of electoral tampering was referred to the election watchdog the complaint was dismissed and media asked not to report the news story.

Television corporate CNN conceded that ‘there had been irregularities’ in the French elections. The American broadcaster says ballot papers were spoiled. The report went on to say, Emmanuel Macron’s ‘mandate may not be as overwhelming as it seems.’

There was a breaking of the ranks in media output.

Agence France Press reported that ‘a staggering number of French voters cast votes which didn’t count.’

There is always allowance for

blank or spoiled protest votes. However, it was reported that the number of spoiled ballots in the most recent French election was quadruple the usual number recorded. This anomaly was shrugged off as voters ‘declined to choose’ between the two candidates.

The failed vote records were the worst in nearly half a century, abstention the highest since 1969. The fact is the European Union is corrupt from top to bottom.

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Masculine and Feminine Part 2 Basic Spanish for everyday needs by

Jane Cronin

The idea of “gender” in the Spanish language is something most students have to come to terms with quite early on in their learning. The idea that a chair can be “female” and a car “male” usually gives rise to a few jovial remarks, followed by general incomprehension as to why such female related objects as “bolso” (handbag) and “vestido” (dress) should be masculine, although for some reason no one ever worries that “camisa” (shirt) and “corbata” (tie) are feminine. There is possibly some strange psychological reason why we question some words and not others, but I have no idea what it is. In any case I always insist on making sure that people use the terms “masculine” and “feminine” rather than “male” and “female”, and also explain that this gender distinction belongs to the words themselves, and not what they represent. Sometimes I wish they were called “apples” and “pears” or “giraffes” and “elephants”, but at some point in the development of the language the distinction was made in terms of “masculine” and “feminine”, and whilst this is meaningful when applied to male and female people and animals, it is really arbitrary when referring to anything else.

Anyway, hopefully my present readers have overcome this initial difficulty. The next question that arises is whether there is any way of knowing whether a word is masculine or feminine. As usual the answer

is not conclusive. There are certain characteristics which can indicate which gender a word is, but there are exceptions, and also many words that give us no indication whatsoever. The best known indicator is the characteristic “o” ending for masculine and “a” ending for feminine words. There are some notable and very common exceptions, such as “la mano”, “la radio”, “el sofá” “el planeta” and so on. Then there are many words that have other endings which do not indicate gender in any way. Here are just two examples out of thousands: “reloj” (clock) and “pared” (internal wall). You cannot tell by looking which one is which!

In fact the word “reloj” is masculine – “el reloj” (the clock) and “pared” is feminine “la pared” (the wall).

We just have to learn these differences gradually, and not worry about getting them all mixed up at first.

Having said that, there are some very common endings that are always feminine (I’m very wary of using the word “always”, but in this case I have never come across any exceptions). These are “– ción, -sión and –xión” (la estación, la televisión, la conexión), and also the “– dad” endings (la comunidad, la universidad, la felicidad). On the other side you have the “-ema” endings (el dilema, el problema, el tema) and a few other bits and pieces. Apart from that, you are more or less on your own.

I’ve always found the gender issue a little strange

when it comes to people. We have the usual clear distinctions (el niño – the boy, la niña – the girl), but some people words are always feminine irrespective of the gender of who they refer to. Two common examples of this are “la víctima” and “la persona”. We can say things like: “Mi hermano Pedro es una persona muy simpática”, and “la víctima era un hombre de 55 años”. These sentences sound perfectly normal in Spanish, but take a bit of getting used to for us.

When it comes to job words, there is a certain amount of argument and variation. This has a lot to do with the fact that for many years in Spain professional jobs where exclusively in the hands of men, so it was not necessary for them to have feminine forms. A good example is the word for “doctor” which would normally be “el médico”, but has evolved to “la médico”, and now “la médica”, although not everyone accepts this final form. Other cases where masculine job words have been adapted to the times are: “juez” (male judge) “jueza” female judge, “presidente” (male president) “presidenta” (female president). Some jobs do not alter their endings in any circumstances, for example: “el piloto, la piloto” (pilot) and more surprisingly “el modelo, la modelo” (model).

Now here’s a thought to finish off with – is the word “agua” masculine or feminine? The answer and a riveting discussion on the matter to follow next week.

An Enchantment of Ravens

by Margaret Rogerson Isobel is a prodigy portrait artist with a dangerous set of clients: the sinister fair folk, immortal creatures who cannot bake bread, weave cloth, or put a pen to paper without crumbling to dust. They crave human Craft with a terrible thirst, and Isobel’s paintings are highly prized among them. But when she receives her first royal patron—Rook, the autumn prince—she makes a terrible mistake. She paints mortal sorrow in his eyes – a weakness that could cost him his life.

Furious and devastated, Rook spirits her away to the autumnlands to stand trial for her crime. Waylaid by the Wild Hunt’s ghostly hounds, the tainted influence of the Alder King, and hideous monsters risen from barrow mounds, Isobel and Rook depend on one another for survival. Their alliance blossoms into trust, then love, violating the fair folks’ ruthless Good Law. There's only one way to save both their lives, Isobel must drink from the Green Well, whose water will transform her into a fair one—at the cost of her Craft, for immortality is as stagnant as it is timeless.

Isobel has a choice: she can sacrifice her

art for a future, or arm herself with paint and canvas against the ancient power of the fairy courts. Because secretly, her Craft represents a threat the fair folk have never faced in all the millennia of their unchanging lives: for the first time, her portraits have the power to make them feel.

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ACCORDING to official statistics, the Eurozone is now out of its decade of financial crisis. Not only that, it’s growing at a rapid rate.

With Greece showing its own major signs of recovery from its lowest ebb and Spain's economy growing again – albeit some aspects of the job market among the youth population still have some way to go – economic recovery in the 19 countries which use the euro, as a bloc, is showing positive signs at last.

Figures from Eurostat show year-on-year growth at 2.1 per cent, with the economy increasing at 0.5 per cent in the first quarter of 2017 and 0.6 per cent in the second quarter.

Unemployment figures in the 19 nations are said to be at their 'lowest-ever' since

the plunge back in 2009. Added to this, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has already reported that Italy, Germany, France and Spain are doing better than they had originally believed.

Spain, one of the weakest Eurozone economies during the crisis, grew 0.9% in the second quarter of 2017 as a result of higher consumer spending and increases in exports, making it one of the fastest-growing of the Eurozone countries.

Current figures from the National Institute of Statistics (INE) suggest Spain's economy is now back to where it was prior to the crisis which began in 2008.

Unemployment has gone from approximately 25 per cent to 17.2 per cent, although at present this is largely because of summer tourism work and jobless figures are likely to rise again in September.

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Eurozone enjoys rapid growth

ON THE UP: Spain leading the way among Eurozone countries

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TIME FOR CHANGE: Old £1 coin has two months left as legal tender.

NOW IS time to check your purses, wallets and draws and dig out those old £1 coins. Perhaps you’ve been on a recent trip to the UK and came back with a pocket full of change? You have until October 15 to spend them or give them to people who are returning to the UK to spend them on your behalf.

The point has now been reached where there are more of the new 12-sided £1 coins in circulation than the old round pounds.

Speaking on reaching the changeover point between the old and new pound coins, the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, Andrew Jones MP said: “To have more new coins in circulation than

old at this point is great news. However, with less than 100 days to go, the clock is ticking. We are urging the public to spend, bank or donate their old pound coins and asking businesses that are yet to do so, to update their systems before the old coin ceases to be legal tender.

CEO and Deputy Master of The Royal Mint, Adam Lawrence, said: “The Royal Mint is very proud to have delivered the new 12-sided £1 pound coin and ensuring a smooth transition is now our top priority. We hope our announcement about the changeover point will encourage those businesses who have not yet upgraded their

equipment to do so ahead of the October 15 deadline.”

The new 12-sided £1 coin was brought in to tackle the rise of counterfeit coins, which cost businesses and the taxpayers across the UK millions of pounds every year. With less than two months to go before the round pound loses legal tender status, it is vital that the public continue to return their old pound coins.

Businesses are also being encouraged to get ready. The government is reminding all those who are yet to prepare for the new 12-sided £1 coin to do so now by upgrading equipment and informing customers.

Prudential announce major tie-up Prudential plc has announced that it is to combine Prudential UK & Europe and its asset manager M&G, to form a leading savings and investments business that is ideally positioned to target growing customer demand for comprehensive financial solutions.

The market for savings and investments is changing fast – and Prudential are changing with it. They believe they’ll be better placed to meet the changing needs of customers and financial advisers by combining the complementary strengths of Prudential UK & Europe and M&G. The two businesses already collaborate closely.

M&G manages most of Prudential’s UK life assets, including two-thirds of the very successful PruFund.

So the creation of the new business being announced is a logical step.

Prudential UK & Europe is a leader in the provision of managed funds through PruFund, which offers smoothed returns to protect savers from the extremes of market volatility. They are also a leading player in the retirement income and pension savings markets.

M&G is recognised for its active fund management across the full range of major asset classes – from bonds and equities, to multi-asset, real estate and private debt.

M&G also has an extensive institutional and wholesale distribution network.

In this new combined business – which is called M&G Prudential – they will be able to invest more efficiently in the growth of the business, including the improvement of customer service through new digital channels. They will also have the larger scale to enable them to meet the evolving needs of customers and advisers more effectively.

Their priority, of course, is to build this new business without any disruption to services to existing customers. There should be little change in the interactions that both customers and advisers have and they are keeping both brands – Prudential and M&G. They believe this is a powerful combination of businesses which will enable them to offer a wider choice of propositions and a better service to their customers and advisers.

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IGNACIO PELLICER MOLLÁ & PEDRO HEREDIA ORTIZ

LAWYERS

Healthcare in Spain for non-residents

Q A

Can an under age child or a pregnant woman be refused medical care in Spain if they are not resident and have no European health card?

According to the Spanish Ministry of health, all people are guaranteed basic health care in Spain even if they do not meet the legal requirements to obtain a SIP card. If the patient is under 18, they will be entitled to the same attention as any Spanish citizen, assistance in pregnancy, childbirth and postpartum is also fully guaranteed. If your local health centre or public hospital refuses to treat you, you can make a formal complaint in writing by asking for the “Hojas de Reclamaciones”.

For further information contact us today.

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 email info@pellicerheredia.com Videos at www.pellicerheredia.com

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Photographed 7:30am Bargain Hunt 8:15am Heir Hunters 9:00am Gardeners’ World 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm Natural World 3:30pm Grand Prix 6:15pm Put Your Money

Where Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Royal Recipes 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Mastermind 9:30pm Only Connect 10:00pm Gardeners’ World 11:00pm QI 11:30pm Newsnight 12:05am In Our Name

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 Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Teach My Pet to Do That 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Benidorm 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Piers Morgan’s Life Stories 12:40am Tipping Point

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Cheap Cheap Cheap 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Four in a Bed 6:30pm Come Dine with Me 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Child Genius 10:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats

Does Countdown 11:00pm Naked Attraction 12:05am Rude Tube

7:00am Childrens TV

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 7:55am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm The Host 12:25am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 8:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 9:00am Monkey Life 9:30am Monkey Life 10:00am The Dog Whisperer 11:00am It’s Me or the Dog 11:30am It’s Me or the Dog 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Modern Family 9:30pm Modern Family 10:00pm Zoo 11:00pm The Force: North East 12:00am Micky Flanagan

Thinking Aloud 1:00am A League of Their Own

10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Jesse Stone: Sea Change 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm 20 Moments

That Rocked the 80s

9:30pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Make or Break?

12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s

Bit on the Side

SATURDAY CHANNEL 5

E4

Sky1

11:50pm The World is Not Enough

7:15am Motorsport 7:45am Triathlon 8:40am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:05am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am The Big Bang Theory 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:25am The Big Bang Theory 11:55am The Simpsons 12:25pm The Simpsons 12:55pm Ramsay’s Kitchen

Nightmares USA 1:50pm Four in a Bed 2:25pm Four in a Bed 2:55pm Four in a Bed 3:30pm Four in a Bed 4:00pm Four in a Bed 4:35pm A Place in the Sun 5:35pm Big House, Little House 6:35pm Kirstie and Phil’s

Love it or List it 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Britain at Low Tide 9:00pm Child Genius 10:00pm The Hunger Games:

Catching Fire 12:50am X-Men

7:00am Childrens TV 11:50am Igor 1:25pm Disobediant Dogs

Make You Laugh Out Loud 2:20pm Bargain Loving Brits

in the Sun 3:20pm Bargain Loving Brits

in the Sun 4:15pm Nightmare Tenants,

Slum Landlords 5:15pm Nightmare Tenants,

Slum Landlords 6:10pm The Nightmare Neighbour

Next Door 7:05pm The Nightmare Neighbour

Next Door 8:00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

9:00pm Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

9:55pm 5 News Weekend 10:00pm Football on 5 11:00pm Football on 5 11:30pm Celebrity Big Brother 12:30am Lip Sync Battle UK

7:00am The Goldbergs 7:25am The Goldbergs 7:50am Coach Trip 8:25am Coach Trip 8:55am Coach Trip 9:30am Coach Trip 10:00am Coach Trip 10:30am Made in Chelsea 11:35am Escape From Planet Earth 1:15pm Rude(Ish) Tube Shorts 1:30pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Goldbergs 2:30pm The Goldbergs 3:00pm The Goldbergs 3:30pm The Goldbergs 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm Don’t Tell the Bride 7:30pm Beautiful Creatures 10:00pm I Give it a Year 12:00am Gogglebox

7:00am Ashley Banjo Street Crew 8:00am The Dog Whisperer 9:00am Duck Quacks Don’t Echo 9:30am Soccer Am Best Bits 10:00am Premier League

Prediction Show 10:30am Premier League

Preview Show 11:00am Soccer A.M. 12:30pm What’s Up 1:00pm David Attenborough’s

Natural History History

Museum Alive 2:00pm The Dog Whisperer 3:00pm The Dog Whisperer 4:00pm It’s Me or the Dog 4:30pm It’s Me or the Dog 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Funniest Moments 10:00pm Days of Thunder 12:05am Micky Flanagan

Thinking Aloud

BBC2

ITV1

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

E4

Sky1

7:15am The Instant Gardener 8:00am Garden Rescue 8:45am Gardeners’ World 9:45am The Beechgrove Garden 10:15am Countryfile 11:15am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:45pm Lorraine’s Fast, Fresh

and Easy Food 1:15pm MOTD2 Extra 2:00pm The Hairy Bikers’ Pubs

That Built Britain 2:30pm Athletics 3:50pm Flog It! 4:45pm Britain’s Ancient Capital :

Secrets of Orkney 5:45pm Equestrian 7:50pm Tribes, Predators and Me 8:50pm Meet the New Dragons 9:00pm Dragons’ Den 10:00pm Astronauts:

Do You Have What it Takes?

11:00pm Ill Behaviour 12:00am The Hunter

7:00am CITV 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am Judge Rinder 11:20am Long Lost Family 12:20pm Love Your Garden 1:20pm ITV News and Weather 1:25pm James Martin’s

French Adventure 2:00pm Rebound 2:55pm Tipping Point 3:55pm Bear Gryll’s Survival School 4:25pm Licence to Kill 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:10pm ITV News and Weather 7:30pm The Chase Celebrity Special 8:30pm Harry Potter and the

Deathly Hallows: Part 2 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:15pm Judge Rinder’s Crime Stories 12:15am Take Me Out

7:00am Last Man Standing 7:25am Last Man Standing 7:50am Last Man Standing 8:10am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Sunday Brunch 1:30pm George Clarke’s

Amazing Spaces 2:35pm The Simpsons 3:05pm The Simpsons 3:35pm The Simpsons 4:05pm The Simpsons 4:35pm Toy Story Toons 5:05pm Toy Story That Time Forgot 5:30pm Tangled 7:30pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Amazing Spaces

Shed of the Year 9:00pm From Russia to Iran:

Crossing the Wild Frontier 10:00pm The State 11:00pm The Gunman 1:10am Belle

7:00am Childrens TV

7:00am Kevin Can Wait 7:25am Couples Come Dine with Me 8:25am Couples Come Dine with Me 9:25am Hollyoaks Omnibus 12:00pm Made in Chelsea 1:00pm The Goldbergs 1:30pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:30pm The Big Bang Theory 4:00pm The Big Bang Theory 4:30pm The Big Bang Theory 5:00pm The Big Bang Theory 5:30pm The Big Bang Theory 6:00pm The Big Bang Theory 6:30pm The Big Bang Theory 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm The Crystal Maze 9:00pm Shallow Hal 11:15pm Don’t Tell the Bride 12:20am Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

7:00am The Hour of Power 8:00am Futurama 8:30am Futurama 9:00am Futurama 9:30am Futurama 10:00am Futurama 10:30am Duck Quacks Don’t Echo 11:00am WWE Raw 12:00pm MacGyver 1:00pm MacGyver 2:00pm MacGyver 3:00pm MacGyver 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm Modern Family 5:30pm Modern Family 6:00pm Modern Family 6:30pm Modern Family 7:00pm Modern Family 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm David Attenborough’s

Natural History History

Museum Alive 10:00pm Ross Kemp Special 11:00pm The Force: North East 12:00am Zoo

BBC1

BBC2

7:00am Breakfast 11:00am Saturday Kitchen 12:30pm Nadiya’s British

Food Adventure 1:00pm Football Focus 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather 2:15pm Bargain Hunt 3:15pm Money for Nothing 4:15pm Escape to the Country 5:00pm Final Score 6:15pm Toy Story 7:30pm BBC News 7:40pm Regional News 7:43pm Weather 7:45pm Len Goodman’s

Partners in Rhyme 8:20pm Pointless 9:05pm Who Dares Wins 9:45pm Casualty 10:35pm Mrs. Brown’s Boys 11:05pm BBC News 11:20pm Weather 11:25pm Match of the Day 12:50am People Just Do Nothing

7:00am Coast 8:00am Return of the Bad Men 9:30am Great Day in the Morning 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Ulster Derby Highlights 1:00pm Nigel and Adam’s

Farm Kitchen 2:00pm Wanted Down Under 2:45pm Forbidden Planet 4:20pm Mastermind 4:50pm University Challenge 5:20pm Only Connect 5:50pm Gardeners’ World 6:50pm The Big Family

Cooking Showdown 7:50pm BBC Proms Extra 8:30pm Welcome to Edinburgh 9:00pm Iolo’s Great Welsh Parks 9:30pm Dad’s Army 10:00pm The Lady in the Van 11:40pm Being Alan Bennett 12:40am The History Boys

7:00am CITV

ITV1

BBC1 7:00am Breakfast 8:35am Match of the Day 10:00am BBC News 11:00am Sunday Morning Live 12:00pm Homes Under the Hammer 1:00pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:10pm Weather for the Week Ahead 2:15pm Money for Nothing 3:15pm Songs of Praise 3:50pm Athletics 6:10pm Celebrity Mastermind 6:40pm BBC News 6:55pm Regional News 7:00pm Weather 7:05pm Countryfile Summer Special 8:05pm Fake or Fortune?

9:05pm Far From the Madding Crowd 11:00pm BBC News 11:20pm Regional News 11:25pm Weather 11:30pm Match of the Day 2 12:30am Dream House

9:25am ITV News 9:30am Weekend 10:25am Judge Rinder 11:20am Gok’s Lunchbox 12:15pm 1000 Heartbeats 1:15pm ITV News and Weather 1:25pm The Chase 2:25pm Joanna Lumley’s Postcards 2:55pm Tipping Point 4:00pm Midsomer Murders 6:00pm Little Big Shots USA 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:05pm ITV News and Weather 7:20pm You’ve Been Framed!

8:15pm Catchphrase 9:00pm Amazing Spider-Man 11:35pm ITV News and Weather

CHANNEL 4

SUNDAY 11:40am Football on 5 12:30pm Football on 5 1:00pm Police Interceptors 2:00pm Police Interceptors 3:00pm Police Interceptors:

Deadly Pursuits

4:00pm Police Interceptors 4:55pm Police Interceptors 5:55pm 5 News Weekend 6:00pm Biggest Dog in the World 7:00pm The Secret Life of Puppies 7:45pm The Secret Life of Puppies 8:30pm The Ant and Dec Story 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:05pm Before They Were Stars 1:05am Cricket on 5

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MONDAY BBC1

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Heir Hunters 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm Impossible 4:15pm Escape to the Continent 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Land of the Giants 9:00pm EastEnders 9:30pm Damilola, Our Loved Boy 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm Have I Got Old News for You 12:15am Have I Got a Bit More

Old News for You

BBC2 7:00am The World’s Most

Photographed 7:30am Heir Hunters 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am Super Small Animals 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Two Tribes 2:30pm The Pirates! In an Adventure

with Scientists!

3:55pm The Hairy Bikers’ Pubs

That Built Britain 4:25pm Coast Australia 5:15pm Planet Earth 6:15pm Put Your Money Where

Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Royal Recipes 8:00pm Royal Cousins at War 9:00pm University Challenge 9:30pm Nadiya’s British

Food Adventure 10:00pm Dangerous Borders 11:00pm Normal for Norfolk 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am Astronauts:

Do You Have What it Takes?

1:15am Billy Connolly:

Portrait of a Lifetime

ITV1 7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Good Morning Britain 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Countrywise 9:30pm Coronation Street 10:00pm Easyjet: Inside the Cockpit 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm Britain’s Busiest Motorway 12:10am Sugar Free Farm

CHANNEL 4 7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Cheap Cheap Cheap 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Streetmate 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Jamie’s Quick and Easy Food 9:30pm Superfoods: The Real Story 10:00pm The State 11:00pm How to Get a Council House 12:05am Naked Attraction

CHANNEL 5 7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm Dark Desire 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Car Crash TV 9:00pm All New Traffic Cops 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Paul Burrell: In Therapy 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s

Bit on the Side

E4

Sky1

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Made in Chelsea 11:00pm How’d You Get So Rich?

11:55pm The Big Bang Theory 12:30am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 8:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 9:00am Monkey Life 9:30am Monkey Life 10:00am The Dog Whisperer 11:00am It’s Me or the Dog 11:30am It’s Me or the Dog 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm MacGyver 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm The Simpsons 9:30pm The Simpsons 10:00pm A League of Their Own 11:00pm Micky Flanagan

Thinking Aloud 12:00am Karl Pilkington:

The Moaning of Life

Pick of the Week Carpool Karaoke James Corden takes Katy Perry and Jennifer Lopez for a musical spin in his minivan, and even performs an opening act of his own. He also shares highlights from his shows.

Thursday, 9pm, Sky 1 TUESDAY BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

E4

Sky1

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Heir Hunters 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm Regional News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm Impossible 4:15pm Escape to the Continent 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm Regional News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Holby City 10:00pm Trust Me 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm Regional News 11:40pm Weather 11:45pm New Tricks 12:45am Land of the Giants

7:00am The World’s Most

Photographed 7:30am Heir Hunters 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am The Farmers’ Country

Showdown 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Super League Show 2:45pm The Odd Life

of Timothy Green 4:25pm Coast Australia 5:15pm Planet Earth 6:15pm Put Your Money Where

Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Royal Recipes 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm The Big Family Cooking

Showdown 10:00pm India’s Partition:

The Forgotten Story 11:00pm Quacks 11:30pm Newsnight 12:10am Weather 12:15am The Mash Report

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Good Morning Britain 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:30pm ITV Lunchtime News 3:00pm Judge Rinder 4:00pm Tenable 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm Local News and Weather 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Britain as Seen on ITV 9:00pm Midsomer Murders 11:00pm ITV News 11:40pm Martin Clunes

Islands of Australia 12:40am Play to the Whistle

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Cheap Cheap Cheap 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Streetmate 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Food Unwrapped Special 10:00pm The State 11:00pm My Son the Jihadi 12:05am Delhi Cops

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:15pm The Other Wife 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm FIA World Rally

Championship 9:00pm The Dog Rescuers

with Alan Davies 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm My Extreme Ocd Life 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s

Bit on the Side

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Tattoo Fixers on Holiday 11:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats 11:55pm The Big Bang Theory 12:25am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 8:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 9:00am Monkey Life 9:30am Monkey Life 10:00am The Dog Whisperer 11:00am It’s Me or the Dog 11:30am It’s Me or the Dog 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm Supergirl 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Diana: A Tribute to the

People’s Princess 10:00pm A Few Good Men 12:40am Modern Family

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wednesday CHANNEL 5

E4

Sky1

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Cheap Cheap Cheap 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Streetmate 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Location, Location, Location 10:00pm The State 11:00pm Flights From Hell:

Caught on Camera 12:00am Taxi of Mum and Dad

7:00am Children TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm The Other Wife 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm Starting Up, Starting Over 9:00pm GPs: Behind Closed Doors 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Football on 5 12:30am Police Interceptors

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish:

Just Christmas, Baby 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm The Big Bang Theory 10:00pm Don’t Tell the Bride 11:00pm Made Over By 12:05am The Big Bang Theory

7:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 8:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 9:00am Monkey Life 9:30am Monkey Life 10:00am The Dog Whisperer 11:00am It’s Me or the Dog 11:30am It’s Me or the Dog 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm Supergirl 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Road Wars 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Freddie Down Under 10:00pm Colony 11:00pm Ross Kemp Special 12:00am Air Ambulance

ITV1

CHANNEL 4

CHANNEL 5

E4

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Good Morning Britain 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Can Crooks Hack

Your Home? Tonight 9:00pm Emmerdale 9:30pm James Martin’s

French Adventure 10:00pm The Brighton Police 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm Easyjet: Inside the Cockpit 12:40am Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

7:00am Countdown 7:45am Will and Grace 8:10am Will and Grace 8:35am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm The Simpsons 1:00pm Channel 4 News 1:05pm Couples Come Dine with Me 2:05pm Posh Pawn 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Cheap Cheap Cheap 5:00pm A Place in the Sun 6:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:30pm Streetmate 7:00pm The Simpsons 7:30pm Hollyoaks 8:00pm Channel 4 News 9:00pm Lego Masters 10:00pm 24 Hours in A and E 11:00pm Wasting Away 12:00am Britain’s Benefit Tenants

7:00am Childrens TV 10:15am The Wright Stuff 12:15pm The Yorkshire Vet 1:10pm 5 News Lunchtime 1:15pm Celebrity Big Brother 2:15pm Home and Away 2:45pm Neighbours 3:15pm NCIS 4:10pm A Wife’s Suspicion 6:00pm 5 News 6:30pm Neighbours 7:00pm Home and Away 7:30pm 5 News Tonight 8:00pm All New Traffic Cops 9:00pm Named and Shamed 10:00pm Celebrity Big Brother 11:00pm Celeb Trolls:

We’re Coming to Get You 12:05am Celebrity Big Brother’s

Bit on the Side

7:00am Hollyoaks 7:30am Coach Trip 8:00am Made in Chelsea 9:00am Melissa and Joey 10:00am Black-Ish 11:00am Baby Daddy 12:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm The Goldbergs 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 3:00pm Melissa and Joey 3:30pm Melissa and Joey 4:00pm Baby Daddy 4:30pm Baby Daddy 5:00pm Black-Ish 5:30pm Black-Ish 6:00pm The Goldbergs 6:30pm The Goldbergs 7:00pm The Big Bang Theory 7:30pm The Big Bang Theory 8:00pm Hollyoaks 8:30pm Coach Trip 9:00pm The Big Bang Theory 9:30pm Kevin Can Wait 10:00pm Body Fixers 11:00pm The Inbetweeners 11:35pm The Inbetweeners 12:10am The Big Bang Theory

BBC1

BBC2

ITV1

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Heir Hunters 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm Impossible 4:15pm Escape to the Continent 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm Fake Britain 9:00pm The Sheriffs are Coming 10:00pm Celebrity MasterChef 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm A Question of Sport 12:15am Live From the BBC

7:00am The World’s Most

Photographed 7:30am Heir Hunters 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am The Bug Grub Couple 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm Coast 2:05pm Two Tribes 2:35pm Flushed Away 3:55pm The Hairy Bikers’ Pubs

That Built Britain 4:25pm Coast Australia 5:15pm Planet Earth 6:15pm Put Your Money Where

Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Royal Recipes 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm Saving Lives at Sea 10:00pm No More Boys and Girls: Can

Our Kids Go Gender Free?

11:00pm Detectorists 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am India’s Partition:

The Forgotten Story

7:00am Good Morning Britain 9:30am Good Morning Britain 10:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30am This Morning 1:30pm Loose Women 2:00pm ITV Lunchtime News 2:20pm ITV News London 2:30pm ITV Racing Live 5:00pm Tipping Point 6:00pm Cash Trapped 7:00pm ITV News London 7:30pm ITV Evening News 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Love Your Garden 10:00pm Long Lost Family 11:00pm ITV News and Weather 11:30pm ITV News London 11:40pm UEFA Champions

League Highlights 12:40am British Touring Car

Championship

BBC1

BBC2

7:00am Breakfast 10:15am Wanted Down Under 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Heir Hunters 12:45pm Close Calls: On Camera 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 2:00pm BBC News 2:30pm BBC London News 2:45pm Red Rock 3:30pm Impossible 4:15pm Escape to the Continent 5:15pm Flog It! 6:15pm Pointless 7:00pm BBC News 7:30pm BBC London News 8:00pm The One Show 8:30pm EastEnders 9:00pm Who Do You Think You Are? 10:00pm Ambulance 11:00pm BBC News 11:30pm BBC London News 11:45pm Deadliest Place to Deal 12:45am Killing at the Carwash

7:00am The World’s Most

Photographed 7:30am Heir Hunters 8:15am Bargain Hunt 9:00am Nadiya’s British

Food Adventure 9:30am Great British Menu 10:00am Victoria Derbyshire 12:00pm BBC Newsroom Live 2:00pm A to Z of TV Gardening 2:15pm Two Tribes 2:45pm Cars 2 4:25pm Coast Australia 5:15pm Planet Earth 6:15pm Put Your Money Where

Your Mouth Is 7:00pm Eggheads 7:30pm Royal Recipes 8:00pm Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 9:00pm The Pacemakers 10:00pm Top of the Lake 11:00pm The Premier League Show 11:30pm Newsnight 12:15am No More Boys and Girls: Can

Our Kids Go Gender Free?

CHANNEL 4

thursday Sky1 7:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 8:00am NCIS: Los Angeles 9:00am Monkey Life 9:30am Monkey Life 10:00am The Dog Whisperer 11:00am It’s Me or the Dog 11:30am It’s Me or the Dog 12:00pm Modern Family 12:30pm Modern Family 1:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 2:00pm NCIS: Los Angeles 3:00pm Hawaii Five-0 4:00pm Supergirl 5:00pm The Flash 6:00pm The Flash 7:00pm Futurama 7:30pm The Simpsons 8:00pm The Simpsons 8:30pm The Simpsons 9:00pm Carpool Karaoke 10:00pm Karl Pilkington:

The Moaning of Life 11:00pm A League of Their Own 12:00am Freddie Fries 1:00am A League of Their Own

Life

Jalon Valley Help support ADIMA Eight volunteers from Jalon Valley Help (JVH) have visited ADIMA (Association de Discapacitodos de la Marina Alta) in Pedreguer. The volunteers, who had not attended in previous years, were given a tour of the facilities and then were all treated to a delicious lunch of a paella lunch cooked by the president of ADIMA, Nicklaus.

The visit was arranged so that JVH could pass on their annual donation, which this year amounted to â‚Ź4,000.

This is given towards ADIMA´s summer activities which are vital in providing support and stimulation to children

and adults with learning disabilities.

During the tour, the group noticed that an electric bed would assist the care staff and after due consideration, this was purchased, delivered to the home several weeks later, and from the comments received, was very much appreciated.

Jalon Valley Help continue to reaffirm their commitment to ADIMA and the work they do. The staff are all very committed and do a wonderful job and JVH hope to support them for many years to come.

The voices of Jalon enjoying a break MEMBERS of the Valley Voices may well be enjoying their long summer break, but with autumn around the corner all are eagerly looking forward to September 4 when the weekly rehearsals begin again.

After a successful series of concerts held, one in aid of Jalon Valley Help where they performed some of

the much loved music of ABBA and a relaxed afternoon at Bar Citrus in Orba where they sang a collection of easy listening songs, Valley Voices are raring to go.

Fancy joining them? So, if you like to sing in the shower, warble whilst you walk or whistle while you work, why not share your vocals with Valley Voices.

Rehearsals are held every Monday at the Animo drop in centre in Alcalali at 4pm under the watchful eye of musical director Aileen Lightfoot.

For more details call Jennie Tollan on 966 480 062.

Valley Voices are proudly sponsored by Garcia Villas in Jalon - the Costa Blanca property specialist.

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RTN and EWN become Media Partners for Benidorm Pride 2017 Euro Weekly News and RTN - the two most popular newspapers on the Costa Blanca, are now the official media partners for Benidorm Pride 2017.

Geoffrey Gartland, organiser of Benidorm Pride, said he is delighted by the media partners agreement. RTN and EWN, two brands within the expanding EWN Media Group, have been publishing newspapers for the expat community in on the Costas for more than two decades As media partners, the newspapers guarantee extensive coverage of this year´s popular Benidorm Pride event.

What’s on!

BENIDORM PRIDE 2017 Fun Friendly Flirty!

The most famous resort in Spain has confirmed BENIDORM PRIDE 2017 will take place from September 4th to 10th with the BIG PARADE on Saturday the 9th. This is only the 7th big pride outing for the high octane resort and is set to be the biggest and most WOW FACTOR event on the Costa Blanca coast in 2017!

With a week-long series of flamboyant events leading up to the Playa Levante big parade and main stage open air party, visitors can expect an exciting week in the resort that truly never sleeps. The main attraction for visitors is the old town which is where you will find the pumping heart of the gay village still very much local and Spanish where we visitors can blend in and mix with our lovely hosts. Enjoy up to 30 hugely friendly but small and intimate gay bars and eateries all just a hop and a skip from each other. And when the sun is up head for one of the three golden beaches which wrap themselves around the old town.

White Party Thursday 7th 8pm-1am

Black Party Friday 8th 8pm-1am

Parade Saturday 9th from 5pm

Main Stage Saturday 9th from 8.30pm

Kluster Party Saturday 9th

Les Party Saturday 9th from 11pm-5am

It is this that makes Benidorm Pride week a unique experience as the summer pride calendar comes to a close. From small beginnings of just a few thousand regulars who know and love Benidorm, the event has gained momentum with up to 10,000 happy revelers in 2016. Next pride is expected to grow to a 15,000+ crowd as more and more people discover Benidorm and the three F´s that make her the superstar place in the sun, lots of FUN very FRIENDLY & just a little bit FLIRTY! So much more than you imagine!

Make some time to discover or re-discover Benidorm in your party calendar in 2017.

For the latest news, to book flights, recommended hotels and cheap transfers visit the one stop Benidorm Pride website www.benidormpride.com

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Last Weeks Solutions on page 40

Each number in the Code Breaker grid represents a different letter of the alphabet. In this week’s puzzle, 13 represents K and 14 represents B, so fill in K every time the figure 13 appears and B every time the figure 14 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.

Code Breaker

Horoscopes and Puzzles

Kenny’s Mystical Postbag

Kenny, what are Cardinal Signs? How do they affect my horoscope?

Solveig H.

There are four cardinal signs in the Zodiac. They each deal with activity and adaptability and are fixed and mutable signs, which means that they know how

to go with the flow! The Cardinal signs are Aries,

Cancer, Libra and Capricorn. People who are born

under these signs will act directly and decisively under most circumstances. They have very strong initiative, and are enterprising, realistic and organising. Able

to think on their feet, they are decisive and rapidly

grasp situations just as they can openly see potential coming their way!

If It’s Your Birthday This Week Guidance is the greatest gift the Cosmos can give

you, but you have to have sufficient faith! This year

will only be the same old, same old, if you wish it to be.

Your belief in your many talents will see you taking a chance on something that finally will work...for

you!

Mars takes on Jupiter in sextile and Saturn in trine bringing you a mixed bag for the week ahead. Whilst something now needs the go ahead, you will be kept waiting; and something new falls into your lap just when you least expect it. Lucky Jupiter prevails to ensure that even behind the darkest cloud, up there is a silver lining!

Forever championing the cause you are openly perceptive this week as your psychic energies are released and you see a clear way ahead. You are being tested right now as a leader, and this may herald the spearheading of a number of poignant changes. The Sun moves on towards Virgo, and trines dramatically with Uranus midweek.

You can be so very stubborn if you want to be! The Venus square with Jupiter brings you a camouflage for your inner anger and bad temper right now. Time will resolve the actions that you feel are directed at you, but there are currently some things that you do not know and may find hard to understand.

Value truly all that you have.

Sometimes love and friendship can get confused! It all depends on exactly how much of your personal freedom you wish to surrender in order to bring some stability back to a rocky relationship. A brief encounter really does put this into perspective as Venus squares with Uranus and your emotional energies are haywire this week.

There is much to achieve right now, and little time to do what you now know that you have to. The entry of the Sun towards the end of the week should be seen as a blessing in disguise, but you are taking the reins, and this boosts your own confidence to highly positive levels.

The Sun has strong influences, and aspirations should be high!

Everything seems to be pointing towards your overpowering need to achieve. You are a good provider and a great organiser and you veer between favouring your ambitions, whilst protecting your security at the same time.

Actions of Saturn see you on your toes this week, and ready and willing to take on now that which you have to!

Don’t let anybody interfere with your plans just now. Your creative and original thinking has brought you to a stage whereby you have to follow your own instincts and ignore what others have to say on the subject. As you visualise your way ahead, Ceres opposes Pluto, which brings you a solution right here and now, calling time!

Mars is in detriment because Libra is in opposition to Aries, which rules Mars with an iron glove! It is hardly surprising however, that Libra tones down the selfish and aggressive actions of Mars due to the social graces of leader, Venus. This week Saturn adheres to bring discipline and timbre, which are much needed to steer things along!

The Sun trines with Uranus and you are getting some flashes that are portents for the future. Something right now has happened for a reason and that reason though yet unknown, is the stimulus you need to move onwards and upwards. Stay cool, look around and then take on something that nobody else has even heard of.

The position of the Moon is strong right now, and you seem to be protecting your loved ones as there is a strong focus on the domestic front. Financial prospects are better than they were and without re-inventing yourself you are turning things around. Don’t stop the flow and be very unafraid to ask for the guidance that you need to get by!

Mars is afflicted in Scorpio, which can mean extreme anger and resentment over nothing!

Such feelings are not forgotten very easily and can bring grudges and the nursing of anger.

Try to find peaceful solutions that work for all those concerned, but if people do not want to listen to you then out comes a pressure cooker of deep anger!

Look towards your opposing sign of Virgo this week to see that you need to approach something from another direction entirely.

You are a cardinal sign of leadership and though you need to see things happen on your terms so too are you free to share energies and balance your mystical powers for the true benefit of all!

Cryptic Crossword

37 ACROSS

DOWN

1 Runner’s problem with mounted frame (6,2)

2 First-class swimming in the pool (3-4)

6 Watering place in cyberspace? (3)

3 Principle of having it both ways? (5)

9 Singular writer behind a tree (5)

4 Simpson’s pigeons? (6)

10 I’m great novel detective (7)

5 Trap I’ve set for soldier (7)

11 Fish left in hat (7)

6 Kid taking part in news

12 Wrath when fisherman loses heart (5)

programmes (5)

13 A kid relaxed (2,4)

7 Wine waiter finally on the move (5)

15 Council finally reduces rents (6)

8 Essayist getting attorney to reveal Greek letter (6)

19 See most of the soldiers retreating (5)

14 Declining environment? (7)

21 Come forward for a loan (7)

16 Nurse is working at break of day (7)

23 First nuts in glade (7)

17 Transport needed by Santa - his leg is broken (6)

24 Telling stories — some only in Greek (5)

18 Witch is eating good food in Scotland (6)

25 You must get time to be still (3)

19 Rush out suddenly to see a girl (5)

26 Delicate material found when sorting some

20 Allowance made for American general (5)

rags (8)

22 Home where criminal dropped in (5)

Quick Crossword ACROSS 1 Lacking flavour (7) 5 Accommodate (3,2) 8 At no time (5) 9 Mexican liquor (7) 10 Compensation (7) 11 Praise highly (5) 12 Severe shortage (6) 14 Stilton, for example (6) 18 Tartan cloth (5) 20 Around-the-clock (7) 22 Careful and sensible (7) 23 Tropical fruit (5) 24 Give way (5) 25 Brio, flair (7)

General Knowledge 1 Playboy Russia covergirl Maria Kozhevnikova, boxer Nikolai Valuyev, and tennis player Marat Safin shared what honour in December 2011?

2 What William S Burroughs 1961 book popularised the rock music term ‘heavy metal’, and provided the names for at least two rock bands of the 1970s?

3 What main religion celebrates festivals including Nuakhai, Yatra (or Zatra/Jatra), Pongal, Holi and Shigmo?

4 Which country experienced the Velvet Revolution in Nov-Dec 1989?

5 According to the UK General Teaching Council how many of the 28,000 newly qualified teachers in 2010 had a computer-related degree: 3; 30; 300 or 3,000?

6 Spell the word: Remanisence; Reminissense; Remeniscence; or Reminiscence?

7 What ancient Sanskrit word loosely meaning ‘region’ commonly now refers to people (and culture, products, etc) of Indian sub-continent origins?

8 Whom did Forbes Magazine list as the most powerful woman in the Southern Hemisphere in 2011?

9 Unrelated, what is a set of slats and a museum?

10 What ship, whose name means thunderbolt, was Nelson’s flagship 1799-1801, and later a training ship for boys?

DOWN 1 Disregarded (7) 2 Rescued (5) 3 Omen (7) 4 Hate intensely (6) 5 Resentment of a slight (5) 6 Scottish emblem (7) 7 Precious stone (5) 13 Generally (2,1,4) 15 Executioner (7) 16 Blow up (7) 17 Part of the foot (6) 18 Bright red flower (5) 19 Fear greatly (5) 21 Pick-me-up (5)

Word Wheel

There is 1x10 letter word and 203 others!

Make as many 3 or more letter words as you can using any letter combination just once and you must use the central letter in every word!

Fill the grid so every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9

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health

Are we nuts to be nuts about nuts?

Many of us would happily drink a pina colada laced with cocunut spirit, or knock back an almond based ameretto liqueur and then later pronounce, “I don’t like nuts!”

However, the truth is, nuts have amazing health benefits, when consumed in a more natural form, even though they lend themselves to so many sinful delights …..

Honey pistachio ice cream anyone?

Not only are they a far better alternative to biscuits when you get your mid-morning hunger pangs, but they also work wonders for the body.

Here are six scientifically-backed benefits to eating them regularly.

They could help you live longer Eating a handful of nuts a day keeps the doctor away - and might help you live longer, according to two long-running Harvard studies.

“We found that people who ate nuts every day lived longer, healthier lives than people who didn’t eat nuts,” said study coauthor Dr. Frank Hu, professor of nutrition and epidemiology at the Harvard School of Public Health.

The report showed that daily nut-eaters were less likely to die of cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease.

Overall, the daily nut-eaters were 20% less likely to have died during the course of the study than those who avoided nuts.

(Peanuts, which are actually legumes, counted as nuts in this study).

They could positively impact cholesterol Initial findings from the Walnuts and Healthy Aging (WAHA) study indicate that daily walnut consumption positively impacts blood cholesterol levels without making people gain weight.

“Given walnuts are a high-energy food, a

prevailing concern has been that their long term consumption might be associated with weight gain,” said Dr Emilio Ros, director of the Lipid Clinic, Endocrinology & Nutrition Service at the Hospital Clinic of Barcelona.

“The preliminary results of the WAHA study demonstrate that daily consumption of walnuts for one year by a sizeable cohort of ageing free-living persons has no adverse effects on body weight.

“They also show that the well-known cholesterol-lowering effect of walnut diets works equally well in the elderly and is maintained in the long term.

“Acquiring the good fats and other nutrients from walnuts while keeping adiposity at bay and reducing blood cholesterol levels are important to overall nutritional well-being of ageing adults. It’s encouraging to see that eating walnuts may benefit this particular population.”

They’re full of nutrients In terms of dietary composition, nuts have a good nutritional profile, are high in monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA) and polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA).

They are also good sources of vegetable protein.

Nuts also contain substantial amounts of dietary fibre, minerals such as magnesium and potassium, vitamins including folate and vitamin E, and other beneficial bioactive compounds such as phytosterols, tocopherols, and polyphenols.

“The results of this study suggest that incorporating nuts into diets does not lead to greater weight gain and may help weight control,” researchers said.

They could help prevent pancreatic cancer Eating nuts regularly may ward off pancreatic cancer, according to researchers from Harvard School of Public Health.

Researchers sampled data of more than 75,000 women from the Nurses’ Health Study - a long-running investigation into the health of thousands of female nurses in the US - and analysed the link between pancreatic cancer and nut consumption.

The findings revealed that women who ate a handful of nuts two or more times per week had a 35% lower pancreatic cancer risk, compared to those who did not eat them.

They could help you lose weight A study published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating nuts regularly was associated with a lower risk of weight gain and obesity.

The aim of the research was to determine the relationship between nut consumption and long-term weight change.

Nut-eaters are less likely to die of cancer, heart disease and respiratory disease

Banana and Egg Hair Treatment Looking for a little more shine in your hair?

Simply mix one egg and a mashed up banana.

Apply it as a thick paste to your hair and leave it on for 10 – 30 minutes. Wash it our doing your usual hair washing ritual (if you usually use a store-bought conditioner you’ll probably only need to condition the ends). And voila! Super simple, and all natural, beauty tip.

Beauty tips

Simple Honey Face Mask

Raw honey is naturally anti-bacterial and a super quick way to get soft, beautiful skin. Once a week use a tablespoon or so of raw honey (not the processed stuff parading as honey) and gently warm it by rubbing your fingertips together. Spread on your face. Leave on for 5 – 10 minutes and then use warm water to gently rinse it off and pat dry. Then bask in the glow of your honey-awesomeness. This raw honey is awesome, by the way.

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Maintaining a healthy liver LIVING IN Spain can, in some cases, put temptations our way that may be fun at the time but can create a long lasting effect on our bodies and our health.

One of the key organs of the body, the liver, can suffer from the relaxed lifestyle that most of us enjoy across the Mediterranean, with tapas combined with a glass of wine or two or three on a daily basis causing our livers to struggle processing the alcohol.

The liver is the largest gland in our body and without it a person cannot survive. It has a number of functions the key ones being: • Detoxifying the blood to rid it of harmful substances (such as toxins, drugs, alcohol and more) • Converts stored sugar to usable sugar when the body’s sugar levels fall below normal • Produces bile, a substance needed to

digest fats • Breaks down haemoglobin as well as insulin and other hormones • Destroys old red blood cells

Performing so many vital functions the liver is very prone to disease.

It isn’t all doom and gloom though as you can detoxify your liver with certain super foods, here are just a few: 1. Beets and Carrots: Carrots are rich in Glutathione, a protein that helps detoxify the liver. Both are extremely high in plantflavonoids and beta-carotene. Eating beets and carrots can help stimulate and improve overall liver function.

2. Tomatoes: They have abundant amounts of Glutathione which again, are a great detoxifier for the liver. As a side effect,

Lycopene in tomatoes will protect against breast, skin, and lung cancer.

3. Grapefruit: Another source of the liver cleansing glutathione. It’s also high in vitamin C and antioxidants, which boost the production of liver detoxification enzymes and increase the natural cleansing process of the liver.

4. Spinach: Raw spinach is also a major source of glutathione, triggering the toxin cleansing enzymes of the liver.

5. Citrus Fruits: Lemons and limes contain very high amounts of vitamin C, which helps stimulate the liver and aids the synthesizing of toxic materials into substances that can be absorbed by water.

6. Turmeric: Turmeric is the liver’s favorite spice and helps boost liver detox. It does this by assisting enzymes that actively flush out dietary carcinogens.

Psoriasis – symptoms and causes

PSORIASIS IS a common skin condition that causes skin cells to grow too quickly and build up, leaving thick, red, silvery, or scaly patches (plaques) on the surface of the skin.

Psoriasis is not contagious so you can’t get it from touching someone who has it. It’s an accepted fact, but not proven, that men are more prone to suffering from psoriasis than women.

Symptoms Skin patches with raised edges that are red with silvery-white scales (called plaques), rashes on genitals, scalp, or in skin folds (such as the folds you have on your knees and elbows), itching, pain, dry, cracked skin that may bleed, thickened, pitted, or discoloured nails, swollen, painful joints (psoriatic arthritis).

Photo credit: Pixabay KEEP IT CLEAN: Psoriasis sufferers tend to be men more than women.

For most people, psoriasis patches vary in size. They can range from small spots with dandruff-like flakes to wide patches that cover large areas of skin.

Mild psoriasis can be annoying, but severe cases can be disfiguring, painful, and sometimes disabling. Flares (when psoriasis gets worse) occur in cycles, with symptoms that last for weeks to months and may then lessen for some time before coming back.

Causes Medical researchers believe that psoriasis is a chronic autoimmune skin disease; however, it has also been linked to genetic and environmental factors.

There are certain things that can trigger a psoriasis flare-up (when the psoriasis becomes worse). Such as: Certain infections (such as strep throat), certain medicines (for high blood pressure), stress, smoking, cold, dry weather, alcohol and injury to skin (insect bites/cuts/burns, etc.)

There isn’t a cure for psoriasis, but there are many good ways to keep the symptoms under control with the most important being general cleanliness of the skin.

7. Apples: They are high in pectin and other chemicals essential to cleansing and releasing toxins from the digestive tract. Apples make it easier for the liver to handle the toxic load during the cleansing process.

8. Garlic: Garlic is loaded with sulphur, which activates liver enzymes that help your body flush out toxins. Garlic also holds high amounts of allicin and selenium, two natural compounds that also aid in liver cleansing.

9. Leafy Green Vegetables: Green veggies are extremely high in plant chlorophylls that absorb environmental toxins, increase bile production, and neutralize heavy metals, chemicals, and pesticides, which lowers the burden on the liver.

10. Green Tea: Green tea is full of plant antioxidants known as catechins, a compound known to assist liver function.

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food & drink

Jungle Juice, Mister …?

by Simon Roberts

On an all-inclusive holiday, staying in a small two star hotel on the island of Mauritius a few years ago, I discovered a new drink.

Or, to be exact, it discovered me, as every time I walked past the bar the waiter would shout loudly …… ”Jungle Juice Mister? “ Not wanting to be rude, of course I accepted the barman’s kind offer and spent the whole two weeks in a jungle juice induced semicoma.

The delicious but ever so slightly lethal drink was actually their version of rum punch, basically, rum mixed with tropical fruit flavours to give it a bit of a kick.

Here are three variants on the Jungle Juice theme, from around the tropical world straight to a large jug full of ice close to you.

Caribbean Rum Punch There is an old saying in Barbados, that goes, “One of sour, two of sweet, three of strong and four of weak.”

Hey presto, a perfect (if rather lethal) punch. The ratio works for just about any punch. Serves one.

Ingredients: 1 shot fresh lime juice 2 shots sugar syrup 3 shots rum 4 shots water 1 dash Angostura bitters Nutmeg, to garnish

Mississippi Planters Punch The Planter´s Punch is an old rum drink and the origin is unknown to me. The most common recipe is 1/3 Rum, 1/3 Orange Juice, 1/3 Pineapple Juice and a dash of Grenadine.

The only thing known is that the recipe has been evolving through the decades and the name

Method:

Stir the lime, syrup, rum and water in a large glass or jug, and pour into a glass over lots of crushed ice. Add a few drops of bitters and a grating of nutmeg, and serve.

Jungle Juice

changed from Jamaican Rum Punch (In Modern American Drinks (1895)) to the Planter`s Cocktail #2 (Savoy Cocktail Book 1930) and in Trader Vic`s Bartender’s Guide (1948) there are no less than four variations, switching the lemon to mostly lime, and three of the recipes call for grenadine.

Jungle Juice with rum, pineapple juice, passionfruit juice and lime juice, is absolutely perfect for a hot summer night.

Ingredients:

Dark rum (1,5 part) Pineapple juice (1 part) Passionfruit juice (1 part) Lime (juice of half a lime) Syrup (2 drops) Garnish: pineapple or passionfruit 1 part = 30 ml

Ingredients: 1 tblsp sugar (or simple syrup) Juice of 1 lemon 1/2 jigger rum (1.5 oz) 1/2 jigger (0.75 oz) Bourbon whiskey 1 jigger ( 1.5 oz) cognac brandy

Method:

Use a shaker and a tumbler glass filled with crushed ice. Take the shaker with ice cubes and pour in the rum, pineapple juice, passionfruit juice and fresh juice of half a lemon. Give it a good shake for about 5 to 8 seconds.

Pour out the cocktail into the glass with a strainer and fill it up till te top of the glass.

Now add the 2 drops of grenadine syrup.

This gives the cocktail a special look and feel. Garnish the cocktail with a piece of pineapple of fresh passion fruit.

Method: Dissolve the sugar with a little water in a mixing glass. (or use simple syrup) Add the lemon juice, bourbon and brandy. Fill with fine ice and shake thoroughly, strain into a tall glass.

Garnish with fruit and serve with straw.

Tip: This cocktail is also perfect to make in a big punch bowl if you have a lot of friends coming over for a BBQ this summer.

Last weeks puzzle answers (Issue 929) Cryptic Solution

Easy Solution

Soduku Solution

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Codebreaker Solution

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pets

Pets essential for good mental and physical health Credit: Blogspot.com PUPPY LOVE: 79% said their pet would be more helpful than a therapist

A RECENT poll in the United States has revealed that 94% of those surveyed agree that pets are essential for people to maintain good mental and physical health. PetSmart Charities, a non profit animal welfare organisation commissioned an extensive survey into pet owners beliefs on issues affecting animal shelters, pets and owners.

Whilst most respondents recognised the important role adoption has to play in helping support animal shelters and ultimately the pets they help, most massively underestimated the size of the problem

and the sheer number of pets that need re-housing each year. The good news is that those seeking to re-home pets from shelters rather than sourcing them from shops and professional breeders is a growing year on year.

“This survey demonstrates the continuing need to educate current and prospective pet parents about how easy it is to adopt a pet, and the difference adoption can make to this issue that is so wide-spread” said David Haworth, DVM, Ph.D., president of PetSmart Charities. “Programs like PetSmart Charities’

National Adoption Weekends are moving the needle by finding homes for as many as 20,000 pets in a single event. But there is more we can do.”

It seems pet owners are relying on their pets more than ever before through both good times and bad.

“The results of the PetSmart Charitiescommissioned survey speak volumes about the human-animal bond and the tremendous value pets bring to our everyday lives,” said Dr. Haworth. “Once they are adopted, not only do they provide unconditional love and support, but pets have also become irreplaceable members of our families and an essential part of our physical and emotional well-being.”

96% agreed that more pets would be rescued if people had more information about how to adopt a pet.

70% said they would turn to a local animal welfare agency as a key source of information on pet adoption.

40% said they would turn to their local pet stores 94% agreed that pets are essential for people to maintain good mental and physical health

92% said their children frequently turn to their pet when they are sad, upset or in need of comfort.

93% said that they had experienced at least one health benefit from pet parenthood.

Benefits included: improved mood, decreased stress, increased physical activity, weight loss, enhanced work-life balance and more.

64% reported that giving up their pet would be worse than losing their jobs.

66% said that adopting a pet would make them happier in the long run than winning the lottery.

79% said their pet would be more helpful than a therapist during a difficult time in their lives.

How to help your dog if they overheat internal organs caused by the excessive heat is not always obvious but can often be severe and fatal. While veterinary treatment is essential so is the initial first aid you can carry out yourself prior to this treatment.

A recent study showed that whilst many dogs affected by heat stroke do fortunately recover, 38% of those that received initial first aid from their owners to cool them down prior to seeking veterinary assistance died, compared to 61% that were taken direct to the vet without any owner intervention. Thus showing a rather startling discrepancy between those that are cooled down prior to seeking trained professional help and those that are not.

So what are the key points to remember if you are ever needed to help care for an overheated dog prior to them receiving veterinary assistance?

First ask someone to phone a vet and make an emergency appointment if possible whilst you deal with cooling the dog.

• Try to move the dog into a cooler environment away from the heat source.

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PREVENTION IS always better than a cure, with thousands of dogs suffering from heat stroke each year, owners need to be fully aware of the risks and do all they can to avoid it. As most responsible dog owners in Spain are aware it´s important to never leave an animal alone in a car, never exercise them in the full heat of the day and always give them plenty of fresh cool water to drink. However sometimes even the most cared for Dog can fall victim to the heat. So what should you do if your dog becomes a victim of heat stroke?

There are many possible complications that can result from a dog becoming over heated and it is always best to get your beloved pet to a vet as soon as possible if they have suffered from heat stroke. Damage to

• Never douse an overheated dog in cold water as this can have an adverse effect on their bodies ability to cool it´s self, instead use lukewarm water.

• Cover the animal in wet towels or clothes, again using lukewarm water not cold water.

• Use natural draughts or electric fans to help speed up the cooling process.

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Never leave an animal alone in a car

When the dog has cooled down significantly, transfer them to a car still in wet towels and proceed to the veterinary clinic with a window or two open to ensure the dog is still in a breeze and continues to cool.

The vet will continue the cooling process whilst ensuring the dog is not over cooled by monitoring their core temperature and possi-

This little dog was found by the roadside is a very poor state and taken to Bernia vets who treated him for a flea infestation and other unpleasant visitors. He has Leish, which is responding well to treatment. He is now safe in foster care but needs a forever home. He is a very happy little fella about 8 years old and would make someone a lovely companion.NO ADOPTION FEE but a donation would be appreciated. Also, many other dogs, cats & kittens needing homes.

bly taking further measures such as administering intravenous fluids to maintain blood pressure, helping to cool internal tissue.

This can significantly reduce the risk of dogs dying from internal damage days later after showing initial signs of recovery. The high temperatures caused by heatstroke can affect a number of organs and systems within the body, known as ´global thermal injury´, this is the damage that needs to be treated and monitored by the vet. Whilst this damage can be serious of course following the simple steps above to help cool your dog as soon as possible, prior to taking them to the vet, can help reduce the severity of the damage caused by heatstroke and reduce further complication, increasing the overall survival rate massively.

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FORD PERFORMANCE have revealed a new limited edition 1967 Heritage themed GT40. Following on the highly successful 1966

Heritage edition released in 2017, this new car is a tribute to the Mark IV GT40 race car driven to victory by the all-American team of Dan Photo credit: Ford

The original GT40 MK I, MK II and MK III were designed and built in England Gurney and A.J.Fiyt at Le Mans in 1967.

Continuing to celebrate the time when Ford beat Ferrari at Le Mans for four years in a row, this latest Heritage edition is again a loud and brash reminder of past glory.

This stunning edition features a gloss Race Red exterior with exposed carbon fibre details and Frozen White bonnet and door graphics. The wheels are 20 inch, one-piece forged aluminium with a silver satin clearcoat finished with black wheel nuts and red brake callipers behind.

The interior is just as discrete with exposed carbon fibre elements alongside leather trimmed carbon

fibre racing seats with red stitching and red seat belts. Matching leather steering wheel with anodized grey paddle shifters and dark satin stainless steel details on the instrument panel, doors and cross brace. Each of the 1967 Heritage edition cars will come with an unique serialised identification plate.

“The first Heritage edition car was a huge success, honouring our Ford V8 history with a modern engines interpretation of the were Le Mans winner,” said used to compete Garen Nicoghosian, exterior design manager with the Ferrari for the car. “Continuing V12´s

Growth in specialist sports car sales

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Mercedes AMG GT With a M156 6.3 V8 engine

corresponding falls of -23.8 per cent, -10.1 per cent and -6.8 per cent. Elsewhere, in the month more buyers opted for dual purpose and specialist sports cars – the only two vehicle segments to enjoy growth of 7.3 per cent and 10.3 per cent respectively.

The demand for alternatively fuelled vehicles (AFVs) soared 64.9 per cent as consumers continue to invest in the latest low-emission

Westfield SEWi with a 4 cylinder Ford engine.

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THE UK new car market declined -9.3 per cent in July, according to figures published by the Society for Motor Manufacturers and Traders (SMMT), the fourth consecutive monthly fall. 161,997 new cars were registered in the month as the market continues to fall amidst growing uncertainty over Brexit and in line with forecasts.

Demand was down across business, fleet and private buyers – with

with a 2018 Ford GT based on the winning GT40 Mark IV race car was simply something we needed to do.”

Whilst only limited numbers of this edition are to be made and 1967 was the only time a GT40 won Le Mans with an all-American team, the GT40 also claimed victory in 1968 and 1969, so there may well be two more heritage editions to come.

Photo credit: Ford

The name GT40 is a combination of Grand Touring and the original cars height of 40 inches

Photo credit: Ford

Ford celebrates beating Ferrari at Le Mans

fuel technology. AFVs took a new record 5.5 per cent market share in July, as 8,871 new units were driven off forecourts.

Nearly 70,000 new AFVs have joined UK roads this year. Meanwhile registrations for new petrol and diesel cars declined by -3.0 per cent and -20.1 per cent respectively.

Months of speculation about government policies on diesels has inevitably led to a softening of demand and slowed the market shift to the latest cleaner Euro 6 diesels which are valued by consumers for their fuel efficiency and lower CO2 emissions.

Despite the disappointing July sales figures, so far the year-to-date overall performance remains at a high level thanks to a strong first quarter – with more than 1.5 million new cars registered on UK roads since January.

Mike Hawes, SMMT Chief Executive, said, “The fall in consumer and business confidence is having a knock on effect on demand in the new car market and government must act quickly to provide concrete plans regarding Brexit. While it’s encouraging to see record achievements for alternatively fuelled vehicles, consumers considering other fuel types will have undoubtedly been affected by the uncertainty surrounding the government’s clean air plans.”

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HISTORY WAS made in England yesterday (Thursday) when the first ever day-night Test Match held in the country started at Edgbaston.

Joe Root’s side take on the West Indies in a three-match series that ends at Lord’s in September and the home XI are strong favourites having only last week beaten South Africa 3-1 in a four-match series.

The day-night Test is the fifth of its kind across the world after three held in Australia and one in Dubai. Play gets underway at 2pm (UK time) with ‘lunch’ at 4pm and ‘tea’ taken at 6.40pm and cricket due to finish at 9pm. It’s a trip into the unknown for many and hard practice with the pink ball took place leading up to the game.

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England in the pink England fast bowler Stuart Broad had never bowled with the pink ball before which has been proved to be easier to pick up under lights without clashing with white clothing.

The 31-year-old admitted: “It’s stepping into the unknown completely. I’ve bowled one ball with the pink ball – I got it relatively straight! I just don’t know what to expect. We are just going to have to be so adaptable on the day, and figure out what’s going on.

“It’s an exciting concept. I watched the day-night match in Adelaide and enjoyed it. The exciting thing as a player is we are going in with a clear mind and learning on the job almost. The team which will come out successful this week will be the team which reacts quicker.”

CLEARER: Pink cricket balls easier to see under floodlights.

special award. She was presented with the IAAF’s International Fair Play Award for ‘outstanding sportsmanship’ by Lord Coe for the way she consoled a rival Italian athlete, Alessia Trost, for some time after she was eliminated and ended up sobbing on the sidelines.

Ruth said: “I’ve spent 32 years practising this sport [since she was six years old] and I owe all that I am to athletics. I don’t know whether what I did was a beautiful or an ugly gesture or what – for me, it was just a human gesture and I’ve always been like that around my fellow competitors.”

Ruth has said she will be 41-years-old come the time of the next Olympics in Tokyo 2020 and the Rio 2016 gold medallist is uncertain of her future. However, she seemed more concerned about the COMFORT: fellow high-jumper Spanish she helped. athletics “[Alessia] has gone hero Ruth through a rough Beitia

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AS THE eyes of the world were focused on getting glimpses of world superstar athletes Sir Mo Farah and Usain Bolt – whose farewell performances ended in disappointment – a Spanish athlete was left in floods of tears for different reasons.

Veteran Olympic high-jumper Ruth Beitia, now 38, was seen by millions of viewers in her emotional state after crashing out of the World Athletic Championships but the smile quickly returned when it was announced that she would be receiving a

ride this year – only two weeks ago, her lifelong trainer died, and she was distraught when she arrived here in London. We get on really well. The day after [Alessia’s elimination], she sent me a really affectionate message to say it had been a ‘lovely gesture’ on my part and congratulating me on having reached the final,” s a i d Ruth.

Beitia first broke the Spanish record in 1998

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Special award for Spanish athlete