Euro Weekly News - Costa de Almeria 8 - 14 July 2021 Issue 1879

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Party line ADRA councillors voted to ask the central government to take steps to prevent higher electricity bills created by the “peak, valley and flat” rates introduced on June 1. PSOE socialists opposed the motion, prompting Mayor’s Office councillor Jose Crespo to accuse them of toeing the party line instead of putting Adra residents first.

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Bus ride ALMERIA City’s Metropolitan Transport Consortium is running hourly buses to Cabo de Gata-Nijar national park’s San Jose, Genoveses, Monsul, Barronal and Cala Carbon beaches between 10.30am and 8pm. With vehicle access restricted until September 5, the buses offer an alternative to traditional transport while respecting the environment, said Sustainable Development delegate, Raquel Espin.

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A little breathing space CUEVAS DEL ALMANZORA Town Hall has made one‐off pay‐ ments of €800 to 122 self‐employed residents and small busi‐ nesses.

This was the second round of help from the Cuevas Cuenta Contigo (Cuevas counts on you) programme since June 2020, when the town hall allocated almost €100,000 for individual €400 grants.

Both phases of the programme were directed at providing “a little breathing space” for the worse‐affected by the forced clo‐ sures during the State of Alarm, explained Melchora Caparros and Miriam Quintana, respective councillors for Commerce and Economic Development.

Measures like these underlined the town hall’s commitment to its commerce and businesses that need liquidity during a criti‐ cal situation for a strategically important sector.

Over the past year the town hall has also launched its Super‐ heroes of Small Things campaign, which included scratch cards with purchases made in Almanzora shops. “The local govern‐ ment team’s goal is to support the shop‐owners and self‐em‐ ployed who have suffered so much during this unprecedented health crisis,” Capparos and Quintana declared.

“They have ‐ and will have ‐ us at their side to help them over‐ come this difficult lean spell.”

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ALMERIA City now has a dog friendly beach that will be used ex‐ clusively for the recreation and swimming of dogs.

The beach opened on July 1 and was eagerly anticipated. The beach is on the coastal stretch of El Bobar, at the mouth of the river.

Allowing dogs to use this beach is something that has taken years of negotiations. It is only the second canine beach in the province but is

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the first within the city. The Depart‐ ment of Promotion of the City are responsible for setting the area up to be appropriate for your pet pooch.

The beach will be properly main‐ tained and will have bins with bags

so that any mess can be collected and disposed of appropriately. The city council hope that dog owners will cooperate and keep the beach neat, tidy and safe for all users. Car‐ los Sánchez, the councillor for the area will be presenting the rules for

the beach soon, as the Junta de An‐ dalucia has set out certain condi‐ tions for the canine beach.

The Junta have been reluctant to grant permission for dog friendly beaches to the local town halls for the past few years.

BEACH READY: Will be property maintained.

One bidder for stadium AS expected, only Union De‐ portiva Almeria has made an offer to keep management control of the Mediterranean Games Stadium.

The offer was confirmed

by Almeria Sports councillor Juan Jose Segura on Monday,

July 6 after the council re‐ viewed the tender file.

The fact that there is just one bidder for the tender will likely mean the awarding process can be fast‐tracked by the council with the pro‐ cess complete by the end of

Beach programmes THE Department of Youth and Children of Vera has launched ‘Ex‐ playate’, a project that aims to offer leisure alternatives on the beaches of the municipality to children and young people be‐ tween the ages of three up to 16.

The activities are totally free and this year they will be taught with a total of 16 expert monitors in leisure activities based on the beaches in Las Marinas, El Playazo de Vera and Puerto Rey. The ac‐ tivities run weekdays in July and August from 11.00am to 2.00pm and 5.00pm to 8.00pm.

The head of Youth and Children, Ana Lourdes Ramirez, told Ve‐ ra Town Council that this year’s activites have been expanded and will help many families to generate employment and jobs during the tourist season for young people in the municipality.

“It is very gratifying to see how children play and have fun out‐ doors with the different activities we offer while parents can enjoy our beaches quietly knowing that their children are entertained and very well cared for by our staff,” Ramirez said.

the month. As part of the tender process, UD Almeria will also have to provide rel‐ evant documentation and provide financial guarantees.

It has 10 days to meet these requirements under the council’s rules.

Couple killed A COUPLE on holiday were killed on Monday July 5 when their vehicle was struck by a lor‐ ry driver who police say was high on drugs. The female vic‐ tim, the mother of two teenage children, died at the scene. Her partner was transferred by heli‐ copter to University Hospital of Torrecardenas but lost his life shortly after.

The couple’s 14‐ and 16‐year old boys were seriously injured in the accident and are both in the intensive care unit of Alme‐ ria hospital. The accident hap‐ pened on the AL‐2108 highway.

The driver of the lorry tested positive for narcotics, police said and faces a slew of charges.

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NIBS EXTRA Road safety ROQUETAS’ Road Safety Unit won an award in the eighth edition of Spain’s National Prizes for Good Practice in Teaching Road Safety. Roquetas mayor Gabriel Amat congratulated Ricardo and Rafael, two Local Police officers who visit local schools, for their innovative way of explaining road safety to pupils.

Safe swimming NINETY-SEVEN seawater samples taken in 13 Almeria municipalities were pronounced safe for bathing, as all were within the required safety levels. The samples were obtained from 91 different points at 77 bathing areas along the Almeria coast as well as the thermal springs at Balsa Cela in Lucar.

Cruel scam THE Guardia Civil arrested a person in Nijar who charged up to €300 to obtain non-existent Padron certificates for irregular migrants and others at risk of social exclusion. The majority of the victims failed to file complaints owing to their irregular situation and scanty knowledge of Spanish.

Lady luck SPAIN’S National Lottery drawn on Thursday last week smiled on Almeria Province with a second prize sold in Berja and Almeria City. Each entire ticket of 10 decimos bearing the number 21694 will scoop €60,000, although most punters tend to buy just one or two of the fractions.

Fewer people DURING Almeria City’s last plenary meeting, councillors unanimously approved the official Padron figure of 201,780, a reduction of 510 residents compared with 2020. The drop in the registered population, the first in 10 years, was attributed to fewer births and a tendency to move inland owing to the pandemic.

Amazon centre A DELIVERY firm that distributes ‘last-mile’ parcels on the final leg of their journey to clients and habitually collaborates with Amazon, has opened an ultramodern logistics centre in Benahadux. The firm has engaged approximately 50 new employees, with collaboration from the town hall which has forwarded applicants’ details.

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Blood Wedding building saved ALMERIA’S provincial council, the Diputacion, is rescuing the Cortijo del Fraile.

The extensive property located inside the Cabo de Gata-Nija national park was built by Dominican friars in the 18th century.

It was officially protected as a privately-owned Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 2010 but now that it faces imminent collapse, the Diputacion has begun negotiations to purchase the complex of buildings and their 23 hectares of land. “Recovering and promoting this building with its iconic cul-

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ICONIC: The dilapidated Cortijo del Fraile will become a cultural centre. tural, historic and social associations will be carried out in the public sector,” Javier Aureliano Garcia, the Diputacion president

told the local media.

The Cortijo del Fraile was the scene of the notorious Crimen de Nijar, a 1928 murder case that

several years later inspired Federico Garcia Lorca’s novel, Bodas de Sangre (Blood Wedding).

Decades on, the Cortijo provided a location for films including spaghetti westerns, The Price of Death and The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, as well as the Spanish television series, Los Hombres de Paco that featured clumsy, but well-meaning policemen.

Once rehabilitated, the Cortijo will become a cultural centre that can be enjoyed by all Almeria residents and visitors, Javier Aureliano Garcia announced.

Unemployment bucks the trend JUNE saw a 6,286 reduction in Almeria’s un‐ employment figures, 8.10 per cent fewer than in June 2020.

The drop, according to central govern‐ ment’s Ministry of Labour and Social Econo‐ my, was felt in all sectors. It was most notice‐ able in the services sector, where 989 people found jobs last month as well as the previ‐ ously‐unemployed, whose numbers were re‐

Keep them occupied this summer BAYRA, Vera’s municipal play school, will operate through‐ out July and August.

The facilities at the Casa de la Cultura, Juventud and Infancia cater for children aged between three and 11 from 9am to 3pm.

Priority will be given to families where both parents work.

“We want families to be able to combine their work activities with looking after and educating their children during the holi‐ days,” said Vera’s Education councillor Carolina Perez. Seven‐ teen trained assistants will ar‐ range activities for Infants and Primary pupils to include work‐ shops ‐ some of which are bilin‐ gual ‐ centring on computers, art, dancing, sport, science, recy‐ cling and many, many games.

There will be themed weeks as well as visits to different parts of town and the local wa‐ ter park.

August will also see the Pro‐ grama Verano Joven with a week of recreational and edu‐ cational activities for high school pupils up to the age of 18.

duced by 792. “This reduction for June is not habitual for June,” the Ministry report com‐ mented. “The traditional pattern is exactly the opposite, as unemployment usually in‐ creases.” There are currently 29,247 unem‐ ployed males in Almeria Province, although women consistently come off worse as there are now 42,048 without work.

Under‐25s accounted for 5,983 of the un‐

employed, with 65,312 over‐25s out of work, while there are also 17,778 non‐Spanish Almeria residents without jobs.

The Ministry figures also revealed that 42,638 Almeria Province residents received €38.08 million in unemployment benefits in May this year. Of these, 12,586 were non‐ Spanish, accounting for just over 5 per cent of the national total.

Sand all shared-out BANKED‐UP sand on Almeria beaches has now been redistributed to compensate for the havoc wreaked by the January storms.

The project finished on schedule by June 18 with time to spare for the start of the summer season. Manuel de la Fuente, the central govern‐ ment’s sub‐delegate to Almeria, recently visited Garrucha where he was able to see first‐hand the results of work carried out there since May. Over the intervening weeks 3,500 cubic metres of sand were removed from the breakwater in front of Garrucha’s Jesus Nazareno castle and transferred to the section off the Paseo Maritimo where rocks were laid bare by Storm Filomena at

the beginning of this year. Overall, the €200,000 project supervised by coastal authority Costas has moved and redistributed 28,300 tons of sand in Vera, Roquetas de Mar and El Ejido and Garrucha.

The heftiest amount of reallocated sand went to the beaches of Balerma and Guardias Viejas in El Ejido.

The section between Torre de Balerma and La Lonja received 8,300 cubic metres of sand from the Almerimar marina’s Playa de Poniente.

In Guardias Viejas, another 6,500 cubic metres of sand, which again was removed from the accu‐ mulation on Almerimar’s Poniente beach, was used to replenish denuded areas.

Waste treatment THE Junta de Andalucia announced that it will build a €7.6 million wastewater treatment plant (EDAR) in Cuevas del Almazora.

Aranzazu Martin, the regional government’s Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Sustainable Development delegate to Almeria, confirmed that the agreement was signed in June.

“We hope to have the project completed by October and get to work before the end of the year,” Martin said. The plant will take an estimat‐ ed 18 months to complete, the Junta delegate re‐ vealed. “This Cuevas’ EDAR is another of the his‐ toric projects that Andalucia’s regional government has embarked on, spending more than €50 million in the Levante area,” she added.

Similar treatment plants have already been built in Huercal‐Overa, Antas and Nijar, Martin pointed, costing a total of €13 million.

Out of all proportions AT the end of 2020, Almeria Province’s 103 town and city halls owed €359.7 mil‐ lion to the banks.

Figures from Hacienda, Spain’s Finance Ministry, reveal that El Ejido is Almeria’s most indebted municipality and owes €150 million which works out at €1,800 for every one of its 84,710 inhabitants.

But the town hall at Alhabia which owes €1.8 million is worse off, owing €2,698 for each resident.

Macael’s €14 million debt translates in‐ to €2,460 per head, while Turre’s €8.9 million works out at a daunting €2,355 for every man, woman and child living there.

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A wellconnected health centre MOJACAR councillors recently approved a motion to provide mu‐ nicipal land for a new health centre and bus station.

The new health cen‐ tre will solve the limi‐ tations of the present installation while pro‐ viding a quality ser‐ vice for a greatly‐in‐ creased population in a tourist town, ex‐ plained Mojacar’s mayor Rosa Maria Cano.

Its future site is a 9,196‐square metre plot of municipally‐ owned land in Avenida de Andalucia‐Rambla de Campos which is conveniently located between the Old Town and the coastal strip.

It can also be accessed by two of Mojacar’s principal roads.

The health centre’s 1,232‐square metre built area will be dis‐ tributed over two floors, although the town hall has stressed that this will not ‘dis‐ figure’ the landscape or impede the view.

Andalucia’s Health service is financing the health centre building although the town hall will pay for and pro‐ vide infrastructure, services and landscap‐ ing the immediate area.

Building Mojacar’s new bus station will go hand‐in‐hand with the new health centre as this, too, is to be lo‐ cated in Avenida de Andalucia‐Rambla de Campos.

Occupying 5,607 square metres of mu‐ nicipal land close to the new health centre it will ensure a better public transport ser‐ vice for public and pa‐ tients alike.

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Readers asked: Is Statue of Diana ‘disappointing’?

ONLY 24 per cent of our readers claimed to like the statue of Princess Diana which was unveiled last week at Kensington Palace.

The statue, designed by Ian Rank‐Broadley, has not proved popular, and criticism has ranged from the religious overtones of the statue to the unlikely masculinity of Diana’s face.

Meanwhile, our readers generally said it was disappointing and not a good likeness, adding that it was drab and not lifelike, while others were unsure of the significance and had expect‐ ed to see Diana with her sons, not depicted with other children.

Some said that it is not very flattering and that her hair, clothes and face aren’t those of “the smiling lady we all know.” Some described it as dark and cold, and a “hideous waste of money.”

Some of our readers asked why it was need‐ ed, saying that it was pointless.

Those who liked it pointed out that the statue shows her “on one of her missions” and “doing what she did best,” and others added that they like what it represents, pointing out that it was a “memorial to the children’s charities she helped” and that it shows her love for children and the fact that

NEW STATUE: ‘Drab and not lifelike.’ she was a true “people’s person.”

Many said that whatever the statue looks like, she will “live on in our hearts and minds” and “will always be loved and remembered.”

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Almeria investment strategy A L M E R I A’ S p r o v i n c i a l c o u n c i l , t h e Diputacion, continues to consolidate its Agua-Energia-Alimentos (Water-Energy-Food) investment strategy.

The Diputacion and A S E M P A L , the Almeria Province business-owners’ federation, are joining forces to attract cash for large-scale projects focusing on water infrastructure and renewable energy from Brussels.

This in turn will provide support for Almeria’s agroindustry, the province’s most productive business sector.

The Diputacion’s European Initiatives councillor, Carmen Navarro, recently met Juan Bravo, who heads the regional government’s Finance and European Finance department, to discuss their combined efforts to obtain EU funds.

This investment strategy encourages collaboration between the public and private sectors on carrying out major projects to establish Almeria’s agroin-

dustry as a world leader via sustainability and energy efficiency.

Juan Bravo applauded the Diputacion and ASEMPAL’S investment strategy.

“This centres on using digital technology to transform services or businesses and the ‘Green Revolution’, two indispensable issues in Europe,” he said.

These two lines of action, both which are highly-valued by B russels, were clearly reflected in the project, Bravo pointed out.

“All European policies regard these as cardinal points in territorial planning,” he added.

Navarro thanked Bravo for the Junta’s collaboration with the Diputacion and ASEMPAL on making the Agua-Energia-Alimentos investment strategy a reality.

“This will increase opportunities for the most important pillar of Almeria’s economy,” the councillor declared.

Covid spreads in young Spaniards I N F E C T I O N S in young Spaniards aged between 20 and 29 years of age have caused a sharp rise in the

country’s incidence rate.

Spain continues to break its daily vaccination record by inoculating a staggering

765,399 of its inhabitants in just 24 hours.

Almost 55 per cent of Spain’s population has re‐ ceived at least one dose and 38.9 per cent have now completed the full regimen.

The Ministry of Health has reported 12,563 new infec‐ tions on July 2, also adding a further 28 deaths to the official toll.

In young people between 20 and 29 years of age, the incidence continues to climb and has risen 83 points to 449 cases per 100,000 in‐ habitants.

The average incidence rate for Spain now rises 18 points to 152 cases, with Cantabria and Catalonia above 200 ‐ which places the country at high risk.

There are only four com‐ munities left below the bar‐ rier of 100 infections per 100,000 inhabitants.

The explosion of infec‐ tions among young people will complicate the summer in Spain.

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Searing heat only a matter of time WESTERN CANADA and the north‐western United States are currently being hit by an un‐ bearable heatwave and meteo‐ rologists have warned that “sooner or later there will be episodes of 50ºC in Spain.”

Unbearable heatwave.

Man jailed for neglecting horses A COURT in Malaga has sentenced a man who neglected 21 horses and two dogs he owned at his home to 22 months in prison.

The man will also be forced to pay €98,000 to two associa‐ tions which took care of the animals and he has been banned from working with animals for eight years.

The animals were found at a farm in Villanueva de Algaidas where the man had left them in their own urine and faeces and surrounded by metal spikes, “which posed an obvious risk to their safety.”

Among the animals, police found seven dead horses and a dead dog at the home, while a donkey found at the property lat‐ er had to be put down due to its condition.

Other animals showed signs of injuries as well as deformed hooves and were later taken to animal associations to be cared for.

The man who owned them was convicted of two crimes of animal neglect as well as one of abandonment.

Western Canada and the north‐western United States, in particular Oregon and Washing‐ ton, have been hit with unbear‐ able heat for several days.

The Canadian province of British Columbia is being hardest hit by the heatwave and this has proved deadly. The average ex‐ cess death toll for the time of year has been exceeded by hun‐ dreds of deaths.

“Basically, we are talking about a mass of very warm air that concentrates in a certain area and, in the absence of a persistent wind strong enough to move it, remains stationary.

This is what is known as a high pressure ridge,” Jose Miguel Viñas, a meteorologist at the weather website Meteored, said: “What is normal for this time of year in these northern territo‐ ries is for temperatures to range between 20 and 25ºCs. It’s as if Santander suddenly reached 46 or 47ºC. “Sooner or later there will be episodes of heat in Spain where temperatures will reach 50ºC, predictably in the southern part of the peninsula,” Viñas said.

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Drinking fountains ALMERIA’S 144 ornamental drinking fountains are being restored one by one around the municipality.

Sacramento Sanchez, the councillor for Almeria City Hall has pointed out that the works being carried out by the Department of Municipal Services, to renovate or replace the ornamental drinking fountains that are located along the promenade, and also on the Paseo de Ribera, that were either dam‐ aged or in poor condition, are progress‐ ing well. With an investment of €6,000 from the city hall, the council plans to have around 144 of these ornamental drinking fountains operational around the city, with work going ahead on the Ornamental Fountains Improvement Plan to renovate and repair the foun‐ tains located in the Nicolas Salmeron park. Work on the architectural recov‐ ery and mechanical improvement of the park’s five fountains began at the start of the month and has already been completed in the case of the Los Peces Fountain, which was the first one to be reviewed and restored.

The plan by the Municipal Services Area is to check all of the fountains that are distributed throughout the munici‐ pality, although work will only be car‐ ried out on those that are in a state of disrepair.

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Missing hiker’s 59 migrants land mum can’t rest

THE mother of the missing Brit hiker Esther Dingley has spoken for the first time since her daughter went missing in the Pyrenees in November.

Brit hiker Esther’s mum Ria Bryant aged 74, has moved to Spain to the village of Be‐ nasque. This is the village where Esther stayed before she disappeared in the Pyre‐ nees on November 22 between France and Spain.

Seven months after Esther’s disappear‐ ance the search is still on and boyfriend Dan Colegate, aged 38, is still searching for his girlfriend of 20 years.

Ria says living in the village is “painful” for her. “I find it quite painful being here.

“I do not seem to be able to sleep, but I want to go to the place where they find her,” Ria said.

When the search first started Ria did not feel that she was strong enough to join Dan. Earlier this year Ria said: “Each day has been nothing short of an excruciating hell for me, balancing on the edge of breaking down.

“Not knowing where she is or what has happened to our beautiful Esther is destroy‐ ing me and our family.”

Dan has posted on Facebook and said: “I

FIFTY-NINE migrants reached the Andalucian coast on July 3 after they had sailed through the Strait of Gibraltar and the Alboran Sea in small boats.

Seventeen arrived in Cadiz and a further 42 in Almeria. In Almeria, National Police trans‐ ferred nearly 30 migrants after their boats reached the coast.

According to the Red Cross three of these people needed to be treated in hospital.

Thirteen were transported to the port of Garrucha by Salva‐ mento Maritimo. The transfer occurred when they were locat‐ ed seven miles south of the port. In Cadiz, 17 people arrived in the port of Algeciras and 10 of these people were transferred

ESTHER: Went missing in November. have continued to search these past months as well, zig‐zagging across the mountainsides surrounding Esther’s last known location and her known route.

“I’ve walked about 700 miles now and al‐ so found no sign of her. I will continue to ex‐ pand my search in the weeks and months ahead.”

by Spanish Armed Forces early on the morning of July 4.

The other seven people were said to be of North African origin and were rescued after they were discovered in an inflatable dinghy that did not have an en‐ gine. Guardia Civil told Maritime Rescue they had detected a dinghy in the Strait of Gibraltar, and they helped two men who had been on board a small boat.

It had no engine.

Later in the day Maritime Rescue officers were alerted to another boat which needed help. Officers were able to lo‐ cate the boat and rescued five people. The boat had been trav‐ elling with one woman, one child, and three men.

Man drowns in local pool A 69-YEAR-OLD man has sadly died after he fell into a swim‐ ming pool in the Albox, according to Emergencias 112 Andalucia.

A relative rang the 112 emergency telephone number after they discovered the man had fallen into the pool. The tragedy oc‐ curred at a farmhouse. The man was pulled out of the pool and medics attempted to resuscitate him. The resuscitation attempts were not successful according to sources from the Local Police and the man was not taken to hospital.

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More return to the workplace Jihadist has manuals on bombs

T H E number of employed people in Spain has returned to pre-pandemic levels.

President Pedro Sanchez said that the number of people employed and paying social security had reached 19.5 million in June.

T he P resident said the number of employed people was now at “levels higher than those we had before the pandemic.”

At the end of July 2019 there were 19,533,211 people in employment and registered to pay social security, while that in the last pre-pandemic month, February 2020, there were a total of 19.2 million people employed in Spain.

“This is very important, because in the previous crisis it took us 10 years to regain membership levels before the financial crisis,” Sanchez

PRESIDENT SANCHEZ: “Levels higher than before Covid.” said.

The number of people registered as unemployed in Spain decreased in May for the third consecutive month of declining unemployment figures in 2021 and by the largest amount since records began.

Labour Ministry data showed a decrease of

129,378 against April’s figures, with unemployment standing at 3.78 million.

The regional data showed that the biggest declines were reported in Andalucia, with a decrease of 28,561, followed by Catalonia at 15, 368 and Valencia recording a decrease of 12,385.

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A JIHADIST has been arrested in Toledo with hundreds of manuals on making poisons and explosives.

The joint operation by the General In‐ formation Commissariat (CGI) of the Na‐ tional Police and the National Intelli‐ gence Centre (CNI) has arrested a 49‐year‐old man from Morocco who is considered to be a ‘dangerous and radi‐ calised jihadist’.

The man was arrested on June 30 and had been living in Santa Olalla in Tole‐ do. He had been in Spain for around 10 years.

Officers said he had manuals on mak‐ ing poisons, night combat tactics and sniper techniques. He also had manuals to show him how to make explosives.

Sources confirmed the man was a lone

ARRESTED: After a joint operation. wolf and did not attend mosque, but had strict religious beliefs. He had also taken many precautions to avoid being captured.

Marin worried over Delta variant THE Vice President of the Junta de Andalucia, Juan Marin said the Andalucian Government is concerned over the spread of the Delta variant of Covid‐19, especially with more tourists due to visit this summer.

Speaking on Wednesday June 30, Marin stressed that the Junta is “in permanent coordina‐ tion” with the authorities of both Portugal and Gibraltar in the face of “the opening of tourist bor‐ ders” and has demanded that the same happen with the Cabinet of President Pedro Sanchez.

He said offiicials needed to remain “very alert” to stop any further spread.

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Planning a comeback

HAPLESS Matt Hancock is planning a comeback accord‐ ing to pals, but angry locals in his West Suffolk constituency want the disgraced ex‐Health Secretary to resign from the House of Commons.

According to the UK press, Hancock is genuinely sorry for breaking Covid rules and wants to maintain a good re‐ lationship with his three children after he dumped their mother, Martha Han‐

53 arrested in Spain OFFICERS from the Guardia Civil have arrested 53 people accused of swindling €50 million from investors in Spain.

The group now face trial for fraud and organisedcrime links after being accused of setting up more than 700 false companies before scamming their victims into putting money into the businesses, eventually making more than €50 million.

Police began investigating in 2018 after receiving complaints from several banks claiming that the gang had managed to defraud them of €1.3 million.

According to officers, the money made by the gang was then stashed in accounts in Switzerland and Panama. During the investigation, officers seized more than €1 million in cash from one member of the gang who worked for the group transporting large amounts of cash earned from the sale of drugs inside and outside Spain.

cock, by phone on June 24 when he realised pictures of him kissing his tax‐funded aide, Gina Coladangelo, would appear on the front page of The Sun the next day.

“He blames himself for ev‐ erything ‐ this is no‐one else’s fault. For now, his chil‐ dren are his priority and he is going to take some time away. But he knows he has to re‐emerge at some point.

It is going to be a long way back ‐ he knows that ‐ but he is going to try,” a friend said.

The backlash against Han‐ cock in his constituency is being led by Conservative councillor Ian Houlder.

Houlder told The Tele‐ graph, “I am furious. I do not include his personal affair, which in anybody’s mind is quite sordid, but he has been standing up there for a year pontificating to every‐ body in the country. That’s what I found really con‐ temptible.”

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Diagnosis in minutes NEW technology can diagnose infections in minutes which means patients will be able to receive confirmed diagnosis at the doctor’s office.

T he idea of visiting the doctor’s office with symptoms of an illness and leaving with a scientifically confirmed diagnosis is much closer to reality because of new technology developed by researchers at McMaster University in Montreal.

Engineering, biochemistry and medical researchers from across campus have combined their skills to create a hand-held rapid test for bacterial infections that can produce accurate, reliable results in less than an hour, eliminating the need to send samples to a lab.

Their proof-of-concept research, published in the latest issue of the journal Nature Chemistry, specifically describes the test’s effectiveness in diagnosing urinary tract infections from re-

al clinical samples. The researchers are adapting the test to detect other forms of bacteria and for the rapid diagnosis of viruses, including Covid-19. They also plan to test its viability for detecting markers of cancer.

The new DNA-based technology uses a handheld device similar to a blood-glu-

cose monitor. A microchip analyses a droplet of bodily fluid such as blood, urine or saliva, using molecules that can detect the specific protein signature of an infection.

The device, about the size of a USB stick, plugs into a smartphone, which then displays the result.

Flying cars a reality by 2030?

THE idea might seem like something out of a sci-fi movie but flying cars are expected to be seen in cities around the world by the end of the decade.

According to leading car manufacturer Hyundai, flying cars will be a reality and they will even help the environment by lowering vehicle emissions and reducing congestion. The chief executive of the European operations for Hyundai, Michael Cole, has revealed that the firm have invested heavily in the future of flying cars and said: “We believe it really is part of the future. We think that by the latter part of this decade certainly, urban air mobility will offer great opportunity to free up congestion in cities, to help with emissions, whether that’s intra-city mobility in the air or whether it’s even between cities,” he said.

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New Alzheimer’s drug on trial ELEVEN patients from the Victoria Eugenia Hospital in Sevilla are participating in the clin‐ ical trial of a drug against Alzheimer’s that modifies the evolution of the disease, unlike current treatments that are purely symp‐ tomatic.

The drug has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration in the US. The hospital said the drug Aducanumab has been shown ‘to cleanse the brain of these pathological amyloid proteins.’

Alzheimer’s disease is characterised by the accumulation of amyloid plaques in the brain.

The drug is an intravenous treatment and patients receive a monthly dose.

The new drug “represents a before and af‐

ter in the way of approaching this disease and above all a way of hope for patients and their families,” said Felix Viñuela, the director of the Neuroscience Service at the hospital.

Its effectiveness has been demonstrated in the most initial phases of the disease, whether in the phase of mild‐cognitive im‐ pairment or in the phase of mild dementia, Dr Viñuela said.

In mild‐cognitive impairment “there is an objective memory impairment but the pa‐ tients do not have any functional repercus‐ sions, since they continue to carry out all their daily activities, including the most com‐ plex ones such as handling financial matters or continuing to work,” the doctor said.

82-year-old off to space EIGHTY-TWO-YEAR-OLD pi‐ lot, Wally Funk, will join Jeff Bezos in a trip to outer space next month.

Funk was denied her chance to become an astro‐ naut decades ago due to her gender. Now, at the age of 82, she will finally have her opportunity to travel to out‐ er space.

She will be an honoured guest on the Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket that will lift off from West Texas on the 10‐minute trip to space on July 20.

Funk will join Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, his brother and the secret win‐ ner of a charity auction.

Bezos, fellow billionaires

Elon Musk and Richard Bran‐ son have been investing bil‐ lions of dollars on their rock‐ et start‐ups, but Bezos will be the first of the three to actually travel into space on a rocket developed by his own company.

Bezos will be stepping down as Amazon CEO on Ju‐ ly 5.

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Enforcers to visit seniors HUNDREDS of thousands of pensioners could see ‘enforcers’ turn up at their door to clawback TV li‐ cence fees.

After a row between the government and the BBC, pensioners aged over 75 sadly lost their free TV licence entitlement. This happened 11 months ago and now the BBC are ready to ensure that they get their money.

Capita have been instructed by the BBC to start making ‘customer care visits’ and these will begin in the autumn to pensioners’ homes. Pensioners were given a reprieve during the pandemic, but

Indiana Jones AS revealed in the UK press, the latest Indiana Jones filming has had to be put on hold for maybe as long as three months after veteran star Harrison Ford injured his shoulder and will need an operation on it, when he was apparently hurt filming a stunt scene recently.

This stoppage comes after the fifth installment in the franchise had already been delayed due to the pandemic, with an insider saying, “It is Harrison’s last outing as Indiana and everyone thought it would be plain sailing. After the initial delays, everyone was raring to go. But now Harrison is injured and it is worse than first thought.”

this is set to end on July 31. Anyone over 75 could face prosecution if they do not arrange payment. A spokesperson for the BBC said: “From the autumn, subject to Covid restrictions, customers who have not made arrangements may receive a customer care visit from a specially trained support team to assist them in becoming correctly licensed.

“We are now planning how we arrange cus‐ tomer care visits and are looking at a range of op‐ tions.”

The BBC also said that: “In line with general poli‐ cy, anyone who watches or records live TV pro‐ grammes on any channel, or downloads or watch‐ es BBC programmes on iPlayer, must be covered by a valid TV licence.”

Pesetas are now officially history SOME two decades after the euro became the common currency of much of Europe and Spain, the Bank of Spain has officially stopped exchanging old pesetas into real money.

The Bank of Spain had been offering €1 for 166.386 pesetas up to June 30, and were generally accepting the old notes dated after 1939. Now, the notes and coins are worthless.

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Child surnames allowed Regions want more sway at EU

SURNAMES: Now allowed to match systems from home.

EXPAT parents in Spain will now be able to register their chil‐ dren’s surnames to match patronymic or gendered sur‐ name systems from their home countries.

This basically means that the child’s name will be able to be registered as if they had been born in their own nation, ac‐ cording to the national ombuds‐ man.

All the civil registries in Spain have now been informed of the changes which were champi‐ oned by the national ombuds‐ man.

In many European countries surnames agree with the gender of the child. To give an example, the Russian President Vladimir Putin’s wife is named Lyudmila Aleksandrovna Putina.

Lyudmila’s first surname is taken from her father’s name, Aleksandr, so became Aleksan‐ drovna, and the name Aleksan‐ drov would be used if she had a brother.

Juan Josa Ferrer Carratala, is a lawyer based in Murcia and he has dealt with many cases where people have “suffered problems” as they tried to regis‐

ter the name they wanted for their baby. If traditional naming conventions have not been used, when children return to their native country they can face stigma and social problems.

This can badly affect girls if they have been forced to have a male version of a surname, as it means they have a boy’s name.

Previously in Spain a first child could have their name placed in the correct gender but the other children in the family would have to be given the same sur‐ name, as this was considered to be “in the interests of the child.”

REGIONAL leaders have com‐ mitted to a new alliance for greater impact at the EU level, including regions from Spain.

Presidents of regional parlia‐ ments with or without legisla‐ tive powers, including the Ca‐ nary Islands and La Rioja, have endorsed a declaration which will enhance regions’ political impact on the European deci‐ sion‐making process.

The declaration also calls for the Conference on the Fu‐ ture of Europe to discuss the role of regions in the EU insti‐ tutional architecture and to improve it to better address

citizens’ needs.

“We all know that our Union is diverse,” said Apostolos Tz‐ itzikostas, President of the Eu‐ ropean Committee of the Re‐ gions. “Some member states are more centralised, whilst others regions hold legislative powers. But every region, re‐ gardless of their power, has a crucial impact on the national and European level.

“Regional and local authori‐ ties implement 70 per cent of all EU legislation and represent one‐third of public spending and half of public investments.

Therefore, we cannot accept

forever that others will make decisions on our behalf,” he added.

Gustavo A Matos Exposito, President of the Parliament of the Canary Islands and Presi‐ dent of the Conference of Eu‐ ropean Regional Legislative As‐ semblies said “regional parliaments and legislative as‐ semblies of the EU represent the citizens of their regions, through their elected repre‐ sentatives, therefore they are fundamental tools to achieve the involvement of citizens in the process of redefining the EU.”

Embassy warns of qualifications THE British Embassy in Spain is warning expats of a deadline in having their UK qualifications recog‐ nised in Spain.

The embassy took to its Facebook page to warn expats that they only have months left to have their UK qualifications recognised by Spain.

Those with qualifications from the UK that they may want to use in Spain have until October 31 to have them validated, in a move which is likely to af‐ fect many Britons working in Spain.

“For most of us there is no need to have our UK degree qualifications officially recognised. But there are some who do, for example if you want to enrol for further study in Spain or those who work in a regulated profession,” the embassy said. “The pro‐ cedure for recognising foreign qualifications in Spain is known as homologation. It is carried out by the Spanish Ministry of Education. Until October 31 the process will be exempt from the requirement of what is known as the ‘Hague Apostille’.”

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Sanchez shuts door on Catalan vote PRESIDENT Pedro Sanchez has warned there will never be a Catalan independence referendum but a separatist leader shot back “give us time.”

Speaking in parliament after his meeting with the President of Catalonia, Pere Aragones, Sanchez said, “There will be no referendum, unless those who defend it manage to convince three-fifths of this House to modify Article 2 of the Constitution and then those changes are ratified. But I already anticipate that the PSOE will never accept it.”

However, the spokesman for Esquerra Republicana de Catalunya, a left-wing pro-independence party, Gabriel Rufian, quickly shot back at the President, “Mr Sanchez, you say that there will be no referendum.

You also said that there would be no pardons. Give us time.”

It was a clear dig at Sanchez who has been criticised by opposition parties for saying prior THE UN said tourism in Europe could recover in the second half of this year.

The research carried out by the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) and the UN’s World Tourism Organisation (UNWTO) found that, despite some recovery this year, the tourism sector will not fully re-

SANCHEZ: Has been criticised. to his election that he would not grant pardons.

In an interview with La Sexta, Aragones said that he and Sanchez are yet to find a middle ground.

"The positions are very far apart. We defend independence and the government defends the unity of Spain,” he said.

Tourism set to recover ‘in second half of the year’ bound until 2023.

According to the report, vaccinations and vaccine passports will this year see an increase in tourism after international arrivals across the world fell by 73

per cent last year.

“The outlook for this year doesn’t look much better,” said Ralf Peters of UNCTAD’s trade analysis branch. “There is an expectation of a certain recov-

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A race against Delta surge EUROPE is racing to vaccinate people, particularly the young, as fears mount that the Delta variant may crash across the continent.

French region Landes, a favourite with surfers, has delayed lifting restrictions until July 6 because of a high number of Delta infections. “We do not want to take the risk of having a restart of the epidemic. We have all the cards in hand to avoid a fourth wave of the epidemic,” said Gabriel Attal, a French government spokesman, said on June 30. The European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control said recently that the Delta variant is likely to account for 90 per cent of all cases in the EU by the end of August. In Germany, ery in the second half of the year, at least for North America and Europe to a certain extent.”

Spain’s vaccination rollout has so far seen more than half the population receive at least one dose of a jab, while several age groups, including the over 80s, have been completely immunised.

Delta accounts for 15 per cent of all Covid cases and the rate of infection is doubling by the week.

Italy also fears the Delta variant will become dominant and Italian Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, has expressed concerns that the EURO 2020 final is being held in Wembley

given the UK’s problem with the variant. Anna Teresa Palamara, an Italian epidemiologist, said, “Our epidemiological monitoring shows a rapidly evolving picture that confirms that also in our country, as in the rest of Europe, the delta variant of the virus is becoming dominant.”

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Recovered Picasso dropped by police A PICASSO painting was dropped by officers after they recovered pieces stolen in a 2012 art heist in Athens.

The Cubist Picasso piece, ‘Head of a Woman’ (1939), was personally donated to Greece by the Spanish master in recognition of the country’s resistance to the Nazi Germany regime.

However, an art heist in which many famous pieces were stolen saw the painting disappear until now.

During the press conference, where it was revealed that artworks had been found, footage shows officers letting the painting drop to the floor. Luckily, there was no damage caused to the piece! The painting slid off its perch and an officer swiftly picked it up from the ground. Police said that a builder, 49, had confessed to the 2012 art heist and has now been arrested, claiming his motives were his love of art and that he did not intend to sell the paintings. He had initially hidden the pieces in a house before recently moving them to thick vegetation at a local gorge. “This painting is of particular importance and sentimental value to the Greek people, as it was personally dedicated by the great painter to the Greek people for their fight against fascist and Nazi forces,” Mendoni said.

TEN European countries, including Spain, will accept the Indian‐made AstraZeneca vaccine, also known as Covishield, after it was initially not included the EU’s Covid vac‐ cine passport scheme.

At least five million Brits could have been prevented from travelling as a result. The vaccines have still not been approved by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) and

Tragic Tenerife search ends

TOMÁS GIMENO: Disappeared along with his two daughters at sea.

THE judicial authority investigat‐ ing the case of the girls Anna and Olivia allegedly murdered by their father in Tenerife is expected to call for the cessation of the track‐ ing operations of the oceano‐ graphic vessel Angeles Alvariño.

The captain and the vessel’s head of search operations came to the conclusion that it is “impossi‐

Indian-made vaccine do not qualify for the EU’s vaccine passport scheme under its current rules. But on July 2, eight EU states including Spain, plus Ice‐ land and Switzerland, said they would ac‐ cept the Indian‐manufactured vaccine at their borders. On Friday, the European Commission said it was exploring options

ble” to continue with the tracking in the face of the rugged and diffi‐ cult to negotiate underwater ter‐ rain.

The head magistrate of the Court of Violence against Women number two of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the body in charge of the case, made the decision on June 30, after having received a report

for accepting the Covishield vaccine across the bloc but warned this could take time.

“In order to ensure a coordinated ap‐ proach, the Commission is in discussion with the member states to see which is the best approach to follow,” a spokesperson for the Commission said. “I don’t think you can say it will not be possible to come to the EU with this vaccine,” he added.

from the ship that described the search as “completely unap‐ proachable.” According to the technical report, in the course of the search, the Judicial Police were able to collect and analyse new in‐ formation. Officers discovered that the boat had drifted for a long while after Tomás Gimeno’s mo‐ bile phone signal had been lost, af‐ ter which the engines started working again and he sailed for around three minutes before they cut out again.

Thus, “the point where the en‐ gines stopped again becomes the most probable point where Thomas could have thrown him‐ self into the sea,” surmised the team.

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Baby boomers pension bust?

JOSE LUIS ESCRIVA, the Minister of Inclusion, Social Security and Migrations is suggesting that those from the ‘baby boom’ generation - those born from the late 1950s to the mid-1970s might end up getting a smaller pension.

The minister explained that the generation is “wider” and will have to assume “some of the effort that must be made to moderate pension spending during a specific period of time.”

He said on July 1 that to facilitate this, the government would have to choose between “a small adjustment in their pension” or alternatively, they could “work a little more.”

Escriva said Spain “does not have an acute pension problem” but rather “a temporary problem” to face an increase in spending that the retirement of the baby boom generation would entail.

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First steel cut for HMS Belfast

THE first steel has been cut for HMS Belfast, the third ship in the Royal Navy’s fleet of next gener‐ ation Type 26 anti‐submarine frigates.

Prince William officially cut the steel for the UK’s newest warship, at a ceremony held at BAE Systems’ Govan shipyard on the River Clyde. The steel cut marks the official start of build on the third of eight Type 26 warships.

The steel cut represents an

important milestone for the Type 26 programme, the Royal Navy, UK defence and shipbuild‐ ing in Scotland. All eight Type 26 frigates will be built by BAE Sys‐ tems on the Clyde, sustaining around 1,700 jobs in Scotland and 4,000 jobs across the wider UK maritime supply chain.

“Scotland is a world leader in shipbuilding and it’s great to see construction of the British mili‐ tary’s latest warship beginning by the River Clyde in Govan,”

New animal centre to open at Heathrow

AIRLINES, pet owners, and logistics or travel operators, will be able to benefit from a new London Heathrow Airport animal reception centre, which is due to open later this year.

The specialist facility, operated by Animal Aircare Ltd, will double as an approved border control post and state-of-the-art animal reception centre.

Services will include assistance with airline approvals to carry animals, transit of animals through London Heathrow Airport, boarding, travel boxes, and processing the necessary documentation to ensure the safe and comfortable movement of pets and other animals internationally.

said Alister Jack, the Secretary of State for Scotland.

“When complete, HMS Belfast ‐ and the rest of the sev‐ en strong Scottish built Type 26 fleet ‐ will help protect the UK and our NATO allies 24/7. In the meantime, the anti‐submarine frigate building programme is boosting our country’s prosperi‐ ty through the investment and skills footprint defence projects bring,” he added.

The Type 26 is an advanced

warship whose primary purpose is anti‐submarine warfare to protect the Continuous at Sea Deterrent and Carrier Strike Group.

The UK’s first three Type 26 ships ‐ HMS Glasgow, HMS Cardiff and HMS Belfast ‐ were ordered for £3.7 billion. HMS Birmingham, HMS Sheffield, HMS Newcastle, HMS Edinburgh and HMS London will form the second batch of Type 26 war‐ ships.

Martin Lewis furious after teacher scammed

MARTIN LEWIS has been left in a ‘cold fury’ after a retired teacher was scammed out of £125,000.

Theresa is a retired teacher and made an appearance on Good Morning Britain, and revealed how she had been scammed by an illegal advert which used Bear Grylls’ face. The scam involved Bitcoin, and left her facing thousands of pounds’ worth of debt and has badly hit relationships with family and friends.

On the show host Susanna Reid said: “They were just milking you for money and you couldn’t withdraw.

“The thing is, not only did you lose a huge amount of money £125,000 in all - but it’s damaged the bond you have with friends and family, which must have had a massive impact on your support system and your mental health.”

Theresa commented: “Yes, absolutely. The friend that lent me the money - I think it affected our relationship after. It’s very hard, with my daughters it was hard because they tried to advise me.” Martin explained to Theresa how the scam was not a surprise to him and had left him in a cold fury. Martin said: “Can I just say to you - you said it was astonishing.

It’s not for me - I had someone lose £100,000 this weekend, I had someone lose £200,000. I cannot tell you how many people there is in your position.”

Luckily, Theresa has been able to get half of the money back with the help of her bank, but she has still been left thousands of pounds out of pocket.

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Covid-19 common in cats and dogs COVID‐19 is common in pet cats and dogs whose owners have the virus and they should avoid contact with their animals in the same way they would with humans, ac‐ cording to new research.

Cases of owners spreading the disease to their dog or cat have been documented be‐ fore, but are considered to be

of negligible risk to public health. However, as vaccina‐ tion and other measures re‐ duce human‐to‐human trans‐ mission of the virus, it is becoming imperative that we understand more about the potential risk posed by animal infections.

To find out more, Dr Els Broens and colleagues at

EU launches cancer centre The EU has launched the Knowledge Centre on Cancer, the first Flagship action delivered under Europe's Beating Cancer Plan.

The Knowledge Centre is a new online platform to gather evidence and coordinate actions against the number one cause of death among under-65s in Europe.

Launched on June 30, it will map the latest evidence on cancer, provide healthcare guidelines and quality assurance schemes, as well as monitor and project trends in cancer incidence and mortality across the EU. It is also a space where everyone invested in the fight against cancer can share best practices, collaborate, and coordinate to make the most of our collective knowledge and evidencebased science.

Utrecht University studied dogs and cats of people who had tested positive for Covid‐ 19. A mobile veterinary clinic visited the homes of owners who had tested positive in the past two to 200 days and oropharyngeal and rectal swabs and blood samples were taken from their cats and dogs.

Some 156 dogs and 154 cats from 196 households were tested in total. Six cats and seven dogs (4.2 per cent) had positive PCR tests and 31 cats and 23 dogs (17.4 per cent) tested positive for anti‐ bodies.

Eleven of the 13 owners whose pets had positive PCR tests agreed for them to un‐ dergo a second round of test‐ ing one to three weeks after they were first tested. All 11 animals tested positive for an‐ tibodies, confirming they had had Covid‐19. Three cats still had positive PCR tests and were tested for a third time.

Eventually, all PCR‐positive animals cleared the infection and became PCR negative.

Stress can turn hair grey, but it is reversible, researchers find LEGEND has it Marie Antoinette’s hair turned grey overnight just before her beheading in 1791.

Though the legend is inaccurate, hair that has al‐ ready grown out of the follicle does not change colour. A new study from researchers at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Sur‐ geons is the first to offer quantitative evidence link‐ ing psychological stress to greying hair in people.

And while it may seem intuitive that stress can ac‐ celerate greying, the researchers were surprised to discover that hair colour can be restored when stress is eliminated, a finding that contrasts with a recent study in mice that suggested that stressed‐in‐ duced grey hairs are permanent.

The study has broader significance than confirm‐ ing age‐old speculation about the effects of stress on hair colour, says the study’s senior author Martin Pi‐ card, associate professor of behavioural medicine at Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons. “Understanding the mechanisms that allow ‘old’ grey hairs to return to their ‘young’ pig‐ mented states could yield new clues about the mal‐ leability of human ageing in general and how it is in‐ fluenced by stress,” Picard said “Our data add to a growing body of evidence demonstrating that human ageing is not a linear, fixed biological process but may, at least in part, be halted or even temporarily reversed.”

EU wants end to caged farm animals THE EU will propose phasing out of cages for farm animals in a document that will be ready by 2023 and in force by 2027.

The move comes after a Eu‐ ropean Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) ‘End the Cage Age’ was signed and supported by more than one million citizens across the EU. The EU will now plan for a legislative proposal by 2023 to

prohibit cages for a number of farm animals. The proposal will come as part of the ongoing re‐ vision of the animal welfare leg‐ islation under the Farm to Fork Strategy.

While all farm animals bene‐ fit from current legislation on the protection of animals, only laying hens, broilers, sows and calves are covered by rules on

caging. In its response to the ECI, the Commission commits to table, by the end of 2023, a leg‐ islative proposal to phase out, and finally prohibit, the use of cage systems for all animals mentioned in the Initiative.

Hens, pigs, calves, rabbits, quail, ducks and geese stand to benefit from the proposed changes.

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Unjabbed US citizens can now come to Spain SPAIN has announced that travellers from the United States will now be able to enter the country without being subject to any Covid testing and quarantine re‐ quirements ‐ regardless of what their vaccination status is.

Effective immediately, the new measure applies to all US citizens who do not visit any other country before ar‐ riving in Spain. Connecting flights without leaving the airport are still allowed.

Now that travellers from the US no longer need to un‐ dergo Covid‐19 testing or stay self‐isolated upon their arrival in Spain, the only re‐

quirement they have to fol‐ low is to fill out a Health Control Form.

The form can be filled out electronically, and once com‐ pleted, travellers will receive a QR code which must be shown to the Spanish health authorities upon their ar‐ rival. If the travellers justify such an action, the form can also be provided in paper format.

The US has been placed on a list of non‐risk countries not affected by the tempo‐ rary restriction of non‐essen‐ tial trips. Other countries currently listed include Aus‐ tralia, New Zealand, Israel, Japan, and the UK.

Covid passport now in use THE new Covid passport came into force on Thursday July 1 and has been promoted by the European Union to make travel within the EU easier.

So far in Spain 2.7 million of these Covid passports have al‐ ready been issued by the Ministry of Health and the au‐ tonomous communities.

The idea for the Covid passport was put forward by Greece early last year. The aim of the passport is to help the tourism industry during the summer and the ‘digital green certificate’ or Covid passport was approved in May 2021. All member states of the EU will use this system from July 1.

The passport comes as both a digital and paper version and has a QR code. The Covid passport shows if a person has been fully vaccinated, has recovered from the coronavirus or has a negative test.

US travellers welcome.

Portugal ends quarantine for minors

MINORS under 18 who are travelling to Portugal will not need to quarantine as long as they are with a parent or guardian who has had both doses of a Covid vaccine.

Adult travellers to Portugal must be able to prove they have had both jabs, but the rules about minors were unclear.

However, children older than 12 will need to provide a negative PCR test to avoid quarantine.

The rules apply to mainland Portugal, which remains on the UK’s amber list. Travellers returning from Portugal to the UK must quarantine at home for 10 days.

Madeira, which was added to the UK’s green list in June, has different rules.

In Madeira, there is no quarantine for holidaymakers with both vaccines or have recovered from Covid and will not be required to take a Covid test.

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Rise of online scams GOOGLE has confirmed it will clamp down on fake online companies in an effort to pre‐ vent financial scams.

According to Reuters, the in‐ ternet giant announced that from September 6 all financial services companies will need to be verified by regulators before Google will show their adverts.

Last year, the Financial Con‐ duct Authority (FCA), the UK’s fi‐ nancial services watchdog, is‐ sued more than 1,200 warnings

over scam adverts online ‐ twice the figure in 2019.

“While this is an important step from Google, we think a permanent and consistent solu‐ tion requires legislation,” an FCA spokesman said.

The FCA added that it will as‐ sess whether the move has helped cut down on the number of online scam adverts once the new measure comes into effect.

The news comes after earlier this month the FCA refused to

say whether it would accept Google’s offer to pay back the £600,000 the regulator had spent on online adverts warning consumers of scams.

The issue of fake online ad‐ verts has seen thousands of consumers lose money after signing up to fraudulent finan‐ cial services companies, with critics now calling on the gov‐ ernment to intervene to pre‐ vent the adverts being shown in the UK.

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Watch your speed

S P A I N’S traffic cops are planning more radars, more speed drones and more checkpoints this summer.

The Directorate‐General for Traffic (DGT) has un‐ veiled a three‐prong plan for more intensive policing over the summer months. And that means more speed con‐ trols, more drink‐ and drug‐ driving tests, and increased

checks on motorcycle travel in the coming busy weeks.

The DGT estimates there will be 91.2 million journeys on Spanish roads during the months of July and August alone.

In June this year, 110 peo‐ ple have lost their lives, 64 more compared to June last year, and 40 more than in June 2019.

Do you know how to react in a traffic emergency?

WORRYINGLY, half of the people driving in Spain do not know how to react when they have to perform an emergency traffic stop, not knowing how the emergency red triangles are used.

And 14 per cent don’t know they are required to wear reflective vests when getting out of their vehicle.

A study prepared by the Royal Automobile Club of Spain (RACE) and the energy company BP, reveals that three out of four Spanish drivers have had an emergency breakdown or an accident during a trip, yet 22 per cent did not use their emergency triangles.

Interior Minister Fernando Grande‐Marlaska is deter‐ mined to improve those numbers, saying “vaccines make us immune to the virus, not to traffic acci‐ dents.”

The DGT expects a very significant increase in week‐ end travel and short‐term trips, with national mobility similar to that of summer 2019.

Given this, three large special control campaigns will be established by the DGT, in addition to the tradi‐ tional motorway and dual‐ carriageway exit and entry operations carried out by the traffic police.

The traffic police plan ex‐ tensive patrolling operations every weekend. As well as increased patrolling and surveillance, the traffic po‐ lice will be deploying 780 fixed speed control radars, 545 mobile radar devices and 12 helicopters.

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Scientist Whitty harassed UK Government Ministers have led calls for Professor Chris Whitty to be offered po‐ lice protection after a string of attacks on the scientist by members of the public have heightened fears for his safety.

Police launched an investi‐ gation over two men who ha‐ rassed England’s Chief Medi‐ cal Officer after video footage emerged of him on social me‐ dia being heckled as he walked through St James’s

Comedian Lee Hurst kicked off Twitter COMEDIAN Lee Hurst has been kicked off Twitter for abusive Chris Whitty tweets.

Lee Hurst’s tweets caused much controversy on Twitter when he said the attack on Chris Whitty, England’s Chief Medical Officer, was ‘not enough’. The shocking attack happened last week and Hurst has now seen his Twitter account suspended over the abusive tweets.

Video footage came out last week which showed Whitty walking through Saint James Park in London and being grabbed by two men. Whitty attempted to free himself from the men who also filmed the incident.

Comedian Hurst shared his opinion of the attack with some 18,000 followers on Twitter before the account was suspended after users reported him to Twitter officials. Not only was Hurst reported to Twitter but also to the police as followers claim that he was ‘inciting hatred’.

Park in London at 7.20pm on Tuesday June 27.

In the viral video, Professor Whitty appeared to be grabbed by two men who are shouting and laughing. He at‐ tempts to walks away and cross the road before the men grab him again and shout “oi oi” “"one photo, one photo please.”

The professor himself is un‐ derstood to have dismissed the park incident as “school‐ boy behaviour” and said he would not have told anyone if the footage had not already spread online. He has said not to want to take the matter any further.

A statement released by the Metropolitan Police said that the incident has been record‐ ed as “common assault”, and that officers took down the details of the two men at the time of the attack.

The men were apparently ‘robustly’ warned about their behaviour then ordered to leave the area.

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Half time called on sausage wars THE UK and EU have called half time on the so-called sausage wars with the UK securing a three-month extension on exports of chilled meat to Northern Ireland.

Chilled meats from Great Britain, such as sausages and

chicken nuggets, which would otherwise be prohibited in Northern Ireland, will continue to move from Great Britain to Northern Ireland after the U K and the E U agreed to extend the grace period allowing this until

September 30.

The extension means that Northern Ireland consumers will be able to buy chilled meat products from Great Britain, and allows for further discussions to continue on a permanent solution.

EU probes Spanish airlines THE EU has opened an in-depth investigation to assess the proposed acquisition of Air Europa by IAG, two of Spain’s biggest airline groups, under the EU Merger Regulation. What happens next could reduce competition and cause the price of domestic and international flights from Spain to increase.

The EU Commission is concerned that the proposed transaction may reduce competition in the markets for passenger air transport services on Spanish domestic routes and on international routes to and from Spain.

Executive Vice-President Margrethe Vestager, responsible for competition policy, said, “IAG, which flies with Iberia and Vueling among others, and Air Europa are leading airlines in Spain.

They are also key providers of connectivity between Spain, the rest of Europe and Latin America. We will carefully assess whether the proposed transaction would negatively affect competition on domestic, short-haul and long-haul routes to and from Spain, possibly leading to higher prices and reduced quality for travellers.

IAG and Air Europa are respectively the first and third largest providers of scheduled passenger air transport services in Spain.

The UK’s minister for Brexit, David Frost, said, “We are pleased we have been able to agree a sensible extension on chilled meats moving from Great Britain to Northern Ireland - one that does not require rules in the rest of the U K to align with future changes in E U agri-food rules.

“This is a positive first step but we still need to agree a permanent solution. Northern Ireland is an integral part of the United Kingdom and its consumers should be able to enjoy products they have bought from Great Britain for years.

The British government proposed to the E U that it would “be sensible” to extend the chilled meats grace period, on certain conditions.

“Crucially, the agreement does not require the rest of the U K to align with any changes in EU agri-food rules during the grace period there is no dynamic alignment,” the government added in a statement.

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THE Danish foreign minister, Jeppe Kofod, visited Morocco to discuss a number of matters including the fact that many illegal migrants pass through North Africa as they attempt to enter Europe and Denmark wants to find a more just and humane asylum system.

WITH the rapid move away from hard cash and into payment by card, the Governor of the Bank of France warns that Europe needs a digital euro and a European payment system sooner rather than later, especially as Visa and Mastercard are American companies.

THE NETHERLANDS Pulse fishing A DEMAND for information from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries by broadcaster NOS has shown that officials knowingly fed incorrect information to the European Union in order to obtain large numbers of pulse fishing licences. Use of electric pulses to catch fish is now banned.

BELGIUM USB deal

NORWAY Whale’s hearing A CONTROVERSIAL plan to capture whales off the coast of Norway and spend four days testing their hearing has finished for this season as not a single whale was tempted into the ‘traps’, but scientists from Norway, Denmark and America will try again later

FINLAND

IN order to avoid being charged with assisting customers to evade tax in Belgium, Swiss investment bank UBS has come to an arrangement with the Belgian authorities to pay over €50 million and this compares well with the reported €4.5 billion previously paid to France.

Scooter scare

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THE German federal parliament has passed a bill which grants German citizenship to descendants of Jews, Roma and Sinti, and political opponents whom the Nazis had stripped of citizenship or prevented from acquiring it thus restoring rights to some who had been deprived of German passports.

THE Swedish Transport Department was forced to issue a major warning about the likelihood of a number of moose straying onto the road and affecting traffic in both directions on the E4 between the junctions Ättekulla and Helsingborg S. Happily the animals wandered off again and no-one was hurt.

NEARLY 70 per cent of those who responded to a recent survey created by the Finnish Road Safety Council said that they believe electric scooters are a threat to pedestrian safety. Almost one in four confirmed that they had found themselves in a dangerous situation.

FINANCE BUSINESS EXTRA Airport city AFTER an understandably quiet year, airport manager AENA has announced that it plans to look for investors to help it develop land around Madrid Barajas airport with a view to creating what is referred to as a new airport city in the surrounding area.

Gummy bears CONFECTIONERY giant Haribo has warned that it is finding it difficult to meet UK demand for its products at the moment due to a shortage of lorry drivers caused by the pandemic and the increasingly difficult customs requirements following Brexit.

Bacardi promotion IN an innovative promotional campaign to help existing customers in Barcelona and Madrid to recover some of the lost business, the Bacardi spirits group which owns such brands as Bacardi rum, Bombay Sapphire gin and Dewar’s whisky will give a 50 per cent subsidy to 750 establishments.

Anthony Joshua invests TWO-TIME Heavyweight Champion of the World and Olympic Gold Medallist, Anthony Joshua OBE, has invested in Manchester based percussion muscle therapy and recovery brand, Pulseroll.

Joshua, who is a regular visitor to the Costa del Sol has been using Pulseroll’s full range of vibration massage devices for nearly five years and will also join the company’s board of directors in an advisory capacity.

On the partnership, Joshua said; “Joining the Pulseroll family as an investor and ambassador is just the start. I am looking forward to helping with the development of the next generation of recovery technologies. I’m always using the products even when not training.”

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€300 million

is the amount Spanish investment fund GPF received when it sold The Natural Fruit Company, Spain’s leading distributor of citrus fruits to Femman Capital.

El Corte Inglés’ new acquisition IN a short statement re‐ leased on Thursday July 1, El Corte Inglés announced that it had completed a transaction to take over Madrid‐based gourmet su‐ permarket chain Sanchez Romero for an undisclosed sum.

Supermercados Sanchez Romero is a Spanish com‐ pany founded in 1954, which specialises in food and consumer product re‐ tailing, with a number of its products already on

sale at El Corte Inglés’ own supermarket chain Super‐ cor and Hipercor super‐ stores.

The year 2020 was not a good one for the depart‐ ment store, except for on‐ line and instore sales of grocery products and by taking over this company, it says that the “transac‐ tion strengthens El Corte Inglés’ foothold as the leader in high‐end super‐ markets, with a broad and unique sales proposition.”

LEGALLY SPEAKING

Sanchez Romero has 10 supermarkets in Madrid, with over 9,000 square metres of combined sales floor.

It also owns a 4,000 square metre distribution hub in Alcala de Henares (Madrid), where the com‐ pany also has its offices and headquarters.

The company is noted for its broad, varied and unique product and ser‐ vice offering, as well as the type and formats of its

What are the rules for garden apartments with a sea view which have fences 1.5m high between them. Is it permitted to install a pergola two and a half metres high close to the fence, which blocks the sea view of the neighbour? Do you have to have permission from the neighbour to do that? I’ve heard that permission is needed whenever you are closer than two metres from the neighboor. Is that correct?

R M (by email) Yes, there are some situations where a YOU AND THE LAW two‐metre distance IN SPAIN must be maintained but your situation is different. All of your gardens are in fact on community of property owners’ land. Everything outside the building walls in effect belongs to the community. You are assigned the private use of it, but the garden area itself belongs to the community. This means that your neighbour must obtain permission from the AGM in order to make any change in his garden. This would include permission from the neighbour whose view is being blocked. If he does not have this permission the community can order him to re‐ move the pergola.

DAVID SEARL

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US fashion giant Gap has confirmed it plans to close all of its 81 stores in the UK and Ireland and will continue to operate the business online only.

The firm said it would close all its stores “in a phased manner” be‐ tween the end of August and the end of September ‐ 19 stores which were already scheduled to close in July as their leases were expiring will close as well.

stores, and the high quali‐ ty of its fresh products.

It currently has 419 em‐ ployees and reported €61 million of revenue with €6.2 million net profit in 2020.

The company’s current manager, Enric Ezquerra, who took over the compa‐ ny in 2017 is staying on and there are likely to be plans to expand the chain into other major cities throughout the Spanish peninsula.

Funerals and coronavirus

Can he block view?

Aldi expansion GERMAN supermarket group Aldi continues to target Spain as a major area for growth having opened 23 new stores in 2020 and will now increase its logistics capacity by 61,000 square metres to support the 340 existing stores and 5,500 employees.

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FUNERALS: Restrictions still in place.

Biel Glasses A SMALL Spanish start‐up company Biel Glasses has just won a prize for innovation at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona for their glasses aimed at those with low vi‐ sion.

The founders, a married couple found that their two‐ year‐old son had very poor eyesight and he was diag‐ nosed with low vision which cannot be corrected with nor‐ mal glasses or operation.

With a lot of effort and nearly €1 million spent in de‐ velopment, relying on crowd funding and their own invest‐ ment, they have created a pair of glasses which incorpo‐ rates computer technology, 3d vision and artificial intelli‐ gence to allow anyone with low vision to be able to im‐ prove mobility and autono‐ my.

Global tax deal MANY restrictions which ap‐ plied to funerals and memo‐ rial services throughout the coronavirus pandemic have now been lifted, but recom‐ mendations and regulations still remain in place to pre‐ vent Covid from spreading.

Depending on where the funerals or memorial ser‐ vices will be held, it is impor‐ tant to know what restric‐ tions are in place at the time. Failing to comply with regulations could lead to fines.

Don’t attend a funeral or memorial service if you have Covid‐19, and if you have symptoms or have been in

contact w i t h someone who tested positive, you should get tested too.

If you attend a funeral, keep your hands clean and your face covered, and make sure you avoid get‐ ting too close to others.

Limit the number of people you come into contact with and try to stay outside as much as possible.

If you have to be inside, check that the room is well‐ ventilated. If you are at high risk of complications from coronavirus, it may be best to stay away.

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Mind the Gap The company has not disclosed ex‐ actly how many employees the clo‐ sures will affect but said it intends to shortly start a consultation process with the staff.

In a statement, Gap said: “Due to market dynamics in the United King‐

dom and the Republic of Ireland, we shared with our team today that we are proposing to close all company‐ operated Gap Specialty and Gap Out‐ let stores in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland in a phased manner from the end of August until

AFTER several years of dis‐ agreement between the Trump Administration and European Union states, a deal has finally been agreed with regards to tax payments by global corporations.

An announcement from the Organisation for Econom‐ ic Co‐operation and Develop‐ ment (OECD) confirmed that officials from 130 countries have agreed to review the global tax system to ensure big companies pay tax wher‐ ever they operate.

According to the OECD, there should be a minimum corporate tax rate of 15 per cent and it believes that this deal could raise an additional €120 billion in revenue.

The only negative is that Hungary and Iceland have de‐ clined to sign up for the deal. the end of September 2021.

“We are thoughtfully moving through the consultation process with our European team, and we will provide support and transition assis‐ tance for our colleagues as we look to wind down stores.”

The firm said it was “not exiting the UK market” and would continue to offer a web‐based store when all the shops had closed.

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KEY POLICIES: Rishi Sunak gives Mansion House speech.

NOWADAYS it seems that no senior British politician can give a speech without some‐ one ensuring that the contents are revealed in advance.

This is exactly what has hap‐ pened with Rishi Sunak who was due to give his first Man‐ sion House speech on Thurs‐ day July 1 which is considered the Chancellor’s key policy speech of the year.

According to the BBC he in‐ tended to announce that he will make the UK the most “advanced and exciting” finan‐ cial services hub in the world even though Amsterdam took over from London as the largest financial trading centre in Europe as Brexit changes fi‐ nally came into force.

The full speech was actually released on Twitter by the Treasury with teasers several hours before the Mansion

House event and contained a number of promises and statements of intent.

There will be action to en‐ sure that companies report the effects on the environ‐ ment that their businesses have and what they plan to do to mitigate damage over the long term via the new Inte‐ grated Sustainability Disclo‐ sures Requirements.

He has also given an under‐ taking that Britain will be able to compete equally with members of the European Union, especially in the finan‐ cial sector, but also confirmed that the USA is now one of Britain’s most important mar‐ kets for finance and that posi‐ tive discussions are ongoing with China.

He looks to the future with young leaders and en‐ trepreneurs taking the stage

Cryptocurrency AS the European Central Bank (ECB) expresses its wish to see a digital euro at some time in the future, the European Union is worried about uncontrolled cryptocurrency.

At the same time, as part of its programme to increase expertise in new technology, the Spanish Government has been contemplating issuing some form of crypto exchange mechanism, although the Chairman of the Bank of Spain has warned against investment in that form of online currency.

Now, according to Spanish financial news outlet Cinco Dias , the EU intends to charge the ECB, Bank of Spain and National Stock Market Commission (CNMV) to supervise crypto-related activities in Spain with effect from 2022.

and said “As the baton passes to a new generation of leaders in finance, I feel optimistic about the future. Ambitious at home. Confident internation‐ ally.”

BUSINESS EXTRA Profits up UK based JD Sports has increased its full-year profit outlook to ‘no less than’ £550 (€605) million, compared to £324 (€356) million the previous year. With 3,300 stores in 29 countries, including a new Spanish subsidiary, turnover has grown substantially in the past year.

Bounce back WITH Spain in a major lockdown situation in the second quarter of 2020, the economy was in a difficult situation, but in accordance with expectations, the second quarter of 2021 has seen a bounce back and in fact economic output rose a record 18 per cent.

Back to work MORE than one million workers in the UK came off furlough in May thanks to the reopening of the economy and with 2.4 million workers still on the furlough scheme which ends in September, this is the lowest number since the start of the pandemic.

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LEAPY LEE SAYS IT OTHERS THINK IT THE only colours that do truly worry me are the rose‐coloured hues that tint the glasses of authorities when they view the true problems that beset many of our great cities ‐ no matter how they try to generalise those responsible for the lawlessness that prevails; no matter how they carefully fail to mention any particular creed or section of the public at fault.

Irrespective of how many advertisements they produce on TV showing everyone living happily together in environments of multicultural diversity, the true circumstances indisputably reveal that most of the problems originate firmly at the doors of the black communities.

Last week the LBC revealed that 74 per cent of young people awaiting trial in London prisons are black.

Couple this with the inescapable fact that 90 per cent of all knife crimes are committed by young blacks. And the black community makes up 13 per cent of London’s population.

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Rose-tinted glasses Until the wokes and PC brigade are put firmly in their place and the whole situation can be openly admitted and honestly approached by reasonable people with no fear of racist accusation or threats of retribution, it will NEVER be sorted. The disinformation and downright lies perpetrated by the media MUST be addressed.

The UK is not a Shangri La of happily integrated communities with all ethnicities and nationalities living together in spacious and prosperous environments. This deceptive propaganda is a blatant insult of the public’s intelligence. A large section of black citizens lives in overcrowded run‐down areas with no hope of EVER integrating with the white indigenous population.

Existing within these environments are numbers of one

Authorities’ view is clouded. parent families, consisting of children who will never know or even see their absent fathers.

Consequently, children run wild, often spilling over into what they observe as the ’privileged’ white areas, where even more hatred is spawned.

They find companionship and a sense of belonging in the lawless drug gangs that become the ‘family’ they have never experienced. They are then instilled with a warped sense of loyalty to their gang leaders,

many of whom have been raised in the same unloved and dysfunctional way as they themselves. In other words, it is a vicious circle that simply MUST be broken.

Special policing efforts need to be taken to infiltrate these violent gangs and incarcerate their leaders.

Morally decent black families, unable to escape these areas, must be encouraged to inform on criminal gangs and given adequate protection

and secure accommodation for their efforts.

Stop and search must be a priority too for police, and slum areas must be cleared.

Billions need to be invested.

More youth clubs and citizens advice points must be established.

Successful minority professionals must be encouraged to visit these areas and give a message of hope to these young people.

Freedom of speech must be seen as a priority and most importantly the disgraceful media distortion has to stop. Falsification of the facts is the most evil travesty of them all.

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MIKE SENKER IN MY OPINION

Views of a Grumpy Old Man WHAT’S going on in the world? Outdoor Covid ‘test’ events are taking place in football stadiums and crowds at Wimbledon.

There are still rules about going to restaurants, cinemas and theatres and when it rained at Wimbledon and they closed the roof didn’t that then become an indoor event? All nonsense. If people want to go on holiday, let them. Have tests to leave and return but stop making money on the tests.

It’s costing families thousands just for testing. If the government wants people tested let them pay. You have the ridiculous situation of millions of people being tested for a disease they have no symptoms of.

My ITV needs renewing at the end of July.

I was aware that you now have to book in advance but I didn’t realise what a horror story it actually is. I went in my garage, which always does my pre-test check-up then take it for testing, in May to book for July. He said he couldn’t get an appointment, come back in June.

I did - same problem - told me to come back in July which I did today and now he is

telling me to come back in August - after it’s run out which of course I pointed out. He just shrugged and said don’t worry about it, won’t be a problem - yeah not for him!

It’s a ludicrous situation. With Mrs S’ car they at least gave me a booking date and a piece of paper to show the police that there was an appointment booked. This time nothing, just a shrug and told not to worry.

Is this happening everywhere?

Two thugs attacked Chris Witty in the street and videoed themselves doing it.

One’s been sacked from his job as an estate agent and once again there are people saying that it’s wrong he’s been fired. I’ll tell you what’s wrong is that a bloke, regardless what you think of him, because he’s been on the telly, can’t walk along the street without being attacked, just because these thugs decide they want a selfie with him.

The police should have got involved and nicked them. Poor guy looked terrified. The ridiculous thing is that if it had been someone a bit lively and he knocked them both out, people would be saying he overreacted.

Totally no win situation for him. My opinion is they should have been nicked and at least fined for assault.

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WHAT REALLY IRRITATES ME ABOUT TV SHOWS NORA JOHNSON BREAKING VIEWS

Nora is the author of popular psychological suspense and crime thrillers and a freelance journalist.

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

FOR starters, characters always find a park‐ ing space, or plonk their car down anywhere without acquiring a ticket in streets unusual‐ ly devoid of traffic for the time of day. And ever see anybody in a TV show pay the taxi driver before leaving the cab?

Characters who are interviewed by the po‐ lice in a murder enquiry, particularly at their workplace, where, though they’re clearly be‐ ing considered as suspects, they continue to work ‐ unpacking boxes or cleaning a car or fiddling with a computer keyboard. If you were being interviewed by the police could you keep working at the same time?

And what about characters talking to themselves about what they’re thinking/do‐ ing (so that the viewer knows what’s happen‐ ing), but who does that in real life? Phone calls that are over in five seconds and usually don’t involve ‘Hello’ or ‘Goodbye’? Charac‐

TV SHOWS: Just how realistic are they? ters who apply for a job for which they’re patently under‐qualified, but which they get anyway in a show where the plot holes could accommodate an ocean liner drifting side‐ ways?

Let alone characters coming home where ALL the lamps are already on. Who put them

on? Did they leave them on all day? Female characters waking up in nanoseconds looking beautiful with full, perfect make‐up. Eye shadow, lipstick the works! Who goes to bed like that?

Conversely, when detectives use their flashlights to check out a crime scene instead

of switching the lights on. Or when the victim goes into a dark house, yet fails to turn the lights on! I mean, who looks for an axe mur‐ derer in the dark?

Finally, on a completely different note, many thanks to all of you who’ve purchased my just‐published thriller, The Sentinel, the latest in my ‘DI Barbara Forster and Alice My‐ ers Crime Thriller Series.’ What’s more, now available in audiobook format narrated as be‐ fore by my good friend Rayner Bourton who created the role of ‘Rocky’ in the original Lon‐ don production of ‘The Rocky Horror Show.’

Thanks, too, for helping my other novels sell so fantastically well. And keep those great comments coming to my website and dona‐ tions to Cudeca!

Nora Johnson’s psychological crime thrillers ‘The Sentinel’, ‘No Safe Place’, ‘Be‐ trayal’, ‘The Girl in the Woods’, ‘The Girl in the Red Dress’, ‘No Way Back’, ‘Landscape of Lies’, ‘Retribution’, ‘Soul Stealer’, ‘The De Clerambault Code’ (www.nora‐johnson.net) available online as eBook (€0.99; £0.99), Ap‐ ple Books, paperback and audiobook.

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VOLUNTARY SELF-ISOLATION DAVID WORBOYS WHEN it has not been compul‐ sory, many of us have voluntari‐ ly self‐isolated during Covid, thus surrendering freedom of movement. In a sense, others have been doing this all their lives.

Outside our office on a street in Barcelona in the 80s, an elder‐ ly man known as Martin was en‐ sconced in an ONCE kiosk where you could buy lottery tickets. Ap‐ parently, he had been there ev‐ ery weekday for the past 40 years and had never been no‐ ticed as absent. He was always there, confined to a space of about one square metre.

Likewise, my barber, whose salon had a kitchen and bath‐ room attached. From 1977 to 1995, I was travelling extensive‐

Self Isolation may be voluntary - or involuntary. ly. At any time from Monday to Saturday between 10am and 6pm, I knew where Franco was. I could be in an office, a hotel, an airport or a restaurant anywhere in Europe, the Americas, Japan, South‐East Asia or Australia but, unless he were ill, Franco would be merrily snipping away in his Berkshire village salon ‐ until he

hung up his scissors in 2018.

Martin and Franco had chosen a presumably contented lifestyle within a very limited environ‐ ment. Like shopkeepers and pub‐ licans, they can get out in the evenings, travel at weekends or take holidays, but the fisherman on the beaches of Axarquia and the tillers of the surrounding soil

rarely stray far from their famil‐ iar world.

Most careers involve restric‐ tion of free movement. We may spend most of our days in an of‐ fice, a factory or a warehouse, but at least there is space to move around and a change of scene in the evenings.

Even airline crews, flying ev‐ erywhere, may have a routine, being confined most of their working lives to a small space and repetitive routes. But they experience a variety of restau‐ rants, hotels and cultures in their free time.

The president of a company I worked for frequently flew from London to New York spending one night there and returning the following day. On several oc‐ casions he did this twice in one week! Otherwise, assuming he was awake, he was in his or somebody else’s office or tuck‐ ing into a business lunch or din‐ ner.

Self‐isolation is not always vol‐ untary. It could be a result of one’s economic or financial situ‐ ation or it may be a temporary requirement of Covid law for travellers returning to the UK. Prisoners are denied freedom to come and go as they please, as are many modern‐day slaves.

The parrot locked in a cage outside a restaurant on Nerja’s Burriana beach suffers a pitiful existence as a sacrifice to the oc‐ casional amusement of a passing child. It can’t even flap its wings.

What is it thinking as it watches the seagulls gliding freely in the infinity of the sky above? The dog permanently tethered day and night by a rope no longer than a metre probably senses that it is missing out on exercise, nutrition and affection.

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HEALTH & BEAUTY

Time for a hip-op?

FRESH AIR: Major study findings probably surprise nobody.

Healthy outdoor lifestyle ANYONE living in Spain will probably be among the first to agree with the following statement ... ‘spending time outside is good for you.’

This has also been backed up by a major study undertaken from almost 300 million people who were analysed as part of a review into the supposed benefits of nature.

The researchers found that an outside lifestyle can dramatically cut the risk of type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stress and high blood pressure.

Those behind the research which has taken place over a number of years - hope that

the discoveries will encourage doctors to recommend patients spend more of their time in green and open spaces.

Data was studied by the University of East Anglia from 20 countries around the world, including the UK, to come up with their one sentence conclusion.

Caoimhe Twohig-Bennett, a PhD student and lead author of the study, admitted they are unsure what causes the benefits found.

She said: “Spending time in nature certainly makes us feel healthier, but until now the

impact on our long-term wellbeing hasn’t been fully understood.

“It reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, premature death and preterm birth, and increases sleep duration.”

Miss Twohig-Bennett added: “We hope that this research will inspire people to get outside more and feel the health benefits for themselves. Hopefully our results will encourage policymakers and town planners to invest in the creation, regeneration, and maintenance of parks and green spaces.”

I F you’re experiencing pain in your hip due to an injury or arthritis, you understand the affect that it has on your everyday life.

W hen arthritis or injuries are severe, many times your only option is to have a hip joint replacement.

T he hip is a ball-and-socket joint and is one of the largest joints in the body.

It’s made up of the acetabulum which is the part of the pelvis bone that forms the socket and the femoral head which is the upper end of the femur that forms the ball.

The surfaces of the ball-and-socket are coated with articular cartilage that provides cushioning for the joint as it moves. The synovial membrane, the tissue that surrounds the hip, creates fluid that lubricates the cartilage to reduce friction during movement.

In a damaged hip, the articular cartilage becomes worn down so that the ends of the bones rub against each other without any form of cushioning. This causes a great deal of pain for the patient.

There are many diseases and conditions

PAIN RELIEF: A hip replacement is often the only option. that can cause a hip injury severe enough to warrant a hip replacement. Arthritis can cause the synovial fluid to become inflamed and results in cartilage wearing away too.

If you’re dealing with severe hip pain and stiffness that persists even when at rest, you may need to undergo a hip joint replacement.

This surgery will relieve your pain and help you return to the activities you enjoy most.

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WE hope you can get to the end of this article without yawning ....

To yawn is an almost impossible feeling to resist and control, and yet some of the world’s top scientists are still uncertain of the biological reasons for it.

In the past, there have been many theories as to why we yawn, and indeed go back as far as Hippocrates in 400BC who believed that yawning actually removed bad air from someone’s lungs before a fever.

Many centuries later - in the 1600’s and 1700’s - medical professionals thought yawning increased the amount of oxygen in the blood, blood pressure, heart rate and the actual flow of blood itself.

In more recent times, the consensus has moved toward the idea that when somebody yawns, the brain cools down. Therefore, if the air temperature and indeed the temperature of the brain itself rises, the episodes of yawning increase.

Actually, if the truth is known ... scientists have no idea why we yawn, but what they do know is that almost every species does it. Animals do it when they’re tired and it can often be used by some as a form of threat.

There are even suggestions that the wide-open mouth that comes with a yawn can be contagious and set off a series of networks in the brain that are responsible for empathy, this explains why when someone yawns others follow.

Be honest, how many of you yawned when reading this?

UNKNOWN: Scientists find the reasons for yawning a mystery.

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THE EUROWEEKLY NEWS is urging its readers to support local businesses in the com‐ munity by going local now that the lockdown has end‐ ed and for your all your shopping this year, instead of feeding online giants and superstores.

We challenge you to redis‐ cover your local high streets, markets, butchers, green‐

grocers and all of the won‐ derfully quirky independent businesses in your area.

Now that the Covid‐19 pandemic appears to be un‐ der control, it is a good idea to try and support many lo‐ cal businesses by ordering online and making use of any click and collect services they can operate, especially if you are unable to get out

due to health reasons or any other restrictions.

The joy of shopping local means that independent businesses can help support the local community.

Although it may be a euro or two cheaper elsewhere or online, consider where your money is actually going.

By shopping at an inde‐ pendent store you’re putting food on a local family’s table, and there is no better time than now to give back to your community by mak‐ ing a small gesture and shopping in this way.

Many local stores support local charities, support and sponsor local sports teams and in many cases the small independent stores are actu‐ ally much more than just a small high street shop, they’re a family’s legacy, of‐ ten passed down through numerous generations and support not just the current owner but the generation before.

For those stores which are new, that extra couple of eu‐ ros spent there are support‐ ing someone’s dream and ambition, and also the courage it took them to step out alone, which is no easy

task. It takes quite a large chunk of money to set up an independent store and com‐ pete with the multinational and chains.

So be sure to pre‐order your meat from a local butcher and get your spuds from a local greengrocer, let us revive that community spirit and get to know our neighbours again.

You could also consider purchasing gift vouchers from local businesses to help them over the coming weeks, thinking outside the box can often lead to some fantastic ideas.

Why not buy a meal for two, an hour’s tattoo time at a local studio, a hair cut at a local salon or an online study course for someone looking to change their ca‐ reer path.

As people are struggling with finances thinking about what friends and family may actually need is important too. Whilst it’s nice to give a glamourous gift perhaps pre‐ paying a family member’s phone bill for the month would actually be a better gift. Helping people alleviate stress and worry, give the gift of peace of mind

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SPENDING LOCALLY: Will make a difference to the local economy.

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through these difficult times.

Choosing to spend your money locally will really make a difference in the re‐ covery of the local economy.

When we buy local, our money stays local, and it strengthens the local econo‐ my in two ways. First, buying local keeps money circulat‐ ing within the local econo‐ my.

Studies have shown that local businesses recirculate a greater share of every euro as they create locally owned supply chains and invest in their employees.

Data shows that local re‐ tailers return 52 per cent of their revenue back into the local economy, compared to just 14 per cent for national chain retailers.

Money circulating through the local economy benefits everyone who is a part of

each transaction. For exam‐ ple, let’s look at a local farmer growing produce.

First, they sell to a local restaurant, which in turn prepares the fresh produce and sells it to local cus‐ tomers.

The farmer pays its local employees and the restau‐ rant uses revenue from sales to buy supplies from a neighbourhood hardware store. This example illus‐ trates how the recirculation of money in the local econo‐ my leads to a stronger finan‐ cial foundation for our neighbours and communi‐ ties.

Buying local also fuels new employment and job oppor‐ tunities for people within our community.

Studies show, locally owned businesses employ more people per unit of

sales and retain more em‐ ployees over time.

A fantastic example of how to support your local community is with a Charity Gift certificate, why not do‐ nate to your loved one’s favourite cause.

Just remember to still fol‐ low the latest government advice and any guidance businesses have to keep ev‐ eryone safe in the future.

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For this reason, owners and veterinarians have been becoming aware of the need to provide special care for their pets.

There have been great advances in veterinary medicine and surgery, especially in the field of can‐ cer treatment. Early diagnosis is essential.

The checkup that is carried out on your pet every year should be more exhaustive from six years of age.

Any patient suspected of having a malignant pro‐ cess should be thoroughly investigated by the vet‐ erinary team.

This information will help us to know which treat‐ ment to use and will inform us of the prognosis, time and cost necessary for the treatment.

We can only establish a complete therapeutic pro‐ tocol and with probability of success if we have in‐ formation on the extent of the process.

This way we can answer the pet owner’s ques‐ tions about the prognosis and quality of life. Specific laboratory tests, ultrasound, endoscopy, CT or MRI may be necessary.

Taking in a stray ONE of the many things British people in Spain will au‐ tomatically apprehend is that stray cats and dogs seem to be more of a normal sight.

The problem is of course in‐ tensified by the lack of ser‐ vices and financial support available to the dedicated shelters across Spain which prevents early neutering and excessive breeding of more feral felines.

The belief seems to be a stray cat will undoubtedly be feral and therefore impossible to tame. This is not strictly the case. Stray cats can make wonderful pets and even with a tendency towards more ‘wild’ behaviours, there are solutions.

Taming a more feral stray cat is no easy feat and pa‐ tience is required. After mak‐ ing sure the physical needs are dealt with (vaccinations,

registration, chipping and neutering), the next stage is developing trust. Gloves may be an essential at first as stray cats can be fearful and bite or scratch in self‐defence.

To create security for the cat, the house should become its home little by little by des‐ ignating areas to it and giving it its own corner, bed or feed‐ ing space.

Don’t worry if the cat de‐ cides to hide frequently or doesn’t always show great af‐ fection. This will come with time. Food and treats will help the cat trust its new owner and see them as a friend in‐ stead of a threat and consis‐ tency here is truly the key.

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SUMMER is upon us in Europe, and drivers should be aware of the way in which rising tempera‐ tures can reduce the perfor‐ mance of their vehicles, while in‐ creasing fuel costs.

Driving with a heavily laden ve­ hicle will increase fuel consump­ tion dramatically as the engine toils to deal with the extra payload, and on a long journey, this can be cost­ ly.

Air conditioning is one of the most costly items for drivers, bad use can cost you between 5 and 20 per cent according to data from Acierto.com, which recommends only using the aircon in your vehi­ cle when it is necessary, with con­ tinual use of the aircon apparently costing you, on average, an extra 8 per cent they reckon.

Their advice is to turn the aircon off when you are driving at low speeds in the city, and to open the window instead, whereas once out on the open road, having the win­ dow open creates more resistance, and you will consume more fuel, but it is advisable to open the win­ dows to at least lower the internal temperature before opening the aircon, depending of course on the temperature outside at the time.

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Save money in fuel costs tirely up to you!

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General vehicle maintenance plays a big part in cutting fuel costs, as you will always save on fuel when the engine is running smoothly, as well as all the vehicle systems and components, includ­ ing lubricants, fluids, and so on, and you should always use the oil recommended by the vehicle manufacturer as well.

Tyre pressures will also affect fu­ el usage, as apparently, a pressure 0.3 bar below that recommended by the manufacturer will increase fuel consumption by 3 per cent, and also increase tyre wear.

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This difference created by in­ creasing your speed by just 20kph, could create an increase of almost €1,000 per year in petrol costs, or €700 in diesel, for drivers who clock up a lot of mileage.

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Max Verstappen wins Emma Raducanu taken ill at Wimbledon match the Austrian GP PODIUM: His third win in three races.

MAX VERSTAPPEN won the Austrian GP at the Red Bull Ring in Spielberg on Sunday July 4 ‐ his third win in three races ‐ to increase his lead at the top of the driv‐ er’s championship to 32 points, as his nearest rival, world champion Lewis Hamilton, finished back in fourth, and not on the podium.

Young British driver, Lando Norris , in the McLaren, put in another fantastic performance, having started from second on the grid, to finish in third, behind Mer‐ cedes driver, Valtteri Bottas, even after Norris had been handed a five‐second time penalty for an incident in‐ volving Red Bull’s Sergio Perez ‐ who finished sixth.

This was Lando’s third podium finish this season, with his third‐place finish only down to the penalty incurred, and his McLaren really looks to be ready to challenge Red Bull and Mercedes for the rest of this season.

Max Verstappen was out on his own for the best part of the race ‐ on what is his team’s home circuit, where he has now won a race two weeks in a row ‐ and his Red Bull’s superiority, combined with the Dutchman’s excellent driving, must surely see him crowned F1 champion at the end of the season.

Lewis Hamilton had been running in second position at one point, but he was told by team orders to let his teammate Botas go by, before Norris also overtook him, which sent Hamilton into the pits for new tyres, but it was too late by that point for him to make up any sig‐ nificant ground on the others.

Verstappen said happily, “Even better than last week.

The car was on rails on every tyre. Incredible, guys. That was just amazing, let’s keep this up,” as the teams head to Silverstone for the British GP on July 18.

EMMA RADUCANU: The UK’s last hope of success.

E M M A R A D U C A N U has been forced to quit the Wimbledon fourth‐round match against Ajla Toml‐ janovic.

Raducanu appeared to be clutching her stomach during the second set, before retir‐ ing 3‐0 down to the shock of spectators at No1 Court. She had become the nation’s last

hope of success at the grand slam after British tennis su‐ perstar Sir Andy Murray crashed out of the tourna‐ ment last week.

Raducanu had already won over the hearts of mil‐ lions in reaching the fourth round of Wimbledon and she was up against another player ranked much higher

than her in Tomljanovic for a place in the quarter‐finals.

The 18‐year‐old went toe‐to‐toe with the Aus‐ tralian in the first set with the Court One crowd get‐ ting behind her. She had a number of break‐point op‐ portunities as well, but Tomljanovic stood firm when it mattered most.