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WO years ago, Iranian born Shoja Shojai made headlines following complaints from several women that they had been tricked into staying at his villa, with a promise of a well-paid modelling careers, when in fact they claim they were treated as nothing but slaves and imprisoned against their will.

At the time of the complaint nine women came forward and this week state prosecutors in Spain have confirmed that they will be proceeding with charges for the mistreatment and injury of five women, three of whom bore his children.

Multi-Millionaire Shoja Shojai, is to face trial over allegations that he kept and illegal harem of young women against their will at his luxury mansion in Sierra Blanca, Marbella. If convicted he could receive up to 12 years in jail

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During the initial investigation, police reportedly found the date-rape drug Rohypnol along with oral contraceptive pills which the women claim they were forced to take along with anti-depressant medication. The women also claimed that he controlled their diets, subjected them to emotional and physical abuse and imposed conditions on them not permitting them to show any emotions.

The indictment states that “the accused had maintained a relationship of domination, submission, and mentoring” and that he had “deprived them of money and forced them into non-desired sexual practices.”

Today, Shojai is believed to be residing in London.

At the time of his arrest he denied any wrongdoing and claimed the accusations made by the women were an elaborate ruse to get him out of the house so they could steal his valuables, “ the claim that I was holding them against their will is ludicrous” he said No date has been set for the trial.

Impressive entrance to the millionaire’s luxury Sierra Blanca mansion and inset: Shoja Shojai

SPANISH VOTERS TO RETURN TO THE POLLS SPANISH voters will have to go to the polls again in June in a re-run of the inconclusive December election.

A final round of talks, held earlier this week, between King Felipe and political parties failed to broker a deal on forming a coalition government.

Acknowledging the parties’ failure to

break the political deadlock, which emerged from the most fragmented election result in decades more than four months ago, King Felipe said he would not propose any new candidate for Prime Minister, thus paving the way for the new vote on June 26.

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TRADE deal between Britain and the United States could take between five to 10 years to negotiate if Britain votes to leave the European Union at a June 23 referendum. This was the stark warning made by President Barack Obama.

U.S. President Obama who is nearing the end of his presidential term with just nine months left to run in office, took the bold step to intervene during his three day stop-over in the UK, imploring Britons to stay in the EU and warning that if they left they would be at “the back of the queue” for any future U.S. trade deals.

Rebutting criticism that he was interfering, Obama invoked the cherished “special relationship” between Washington and London. “If one of our best friends is in an organisation that enhances their influence and enhances their power and enhances their economy, then I want them to stay in it,” Obama said. “Or at least I want to be able to tell them: ‘I think this makes you guys bigger players.’”

On trade, he took aim at one of the main “Out” arguments, that Britain could easily negotiate deals and get better terms on its own. The United States would regard a deal with the EU as a higher priority than a separate agreement with a much smaller market such as a stand-alone Britain, Obama said. “The UK would not be able to negotiate something with the United States faster than the EU,” Obama said. “We wouldn’t abandon our efforts to negotiate a trade deal with our largest trading partner, the European market.

It’s fair to say that maybe some point down the line there might be a UK-US trade agreement but that’s not going to happen anytime soon because our focus is negotiating with a big bloc, the European Union, to get a trade agreement done,” Obama said. “And the UK is going to be at the back of the queue, not because we don’t have a special relationship but

US President warns Britain would not get preferential treatment over the EU when it came to negotiating a new trade deal because given the heavy lift on any trade agreement, us having access to a big market with a lot of countries rather than trying to do piecemeal trade agreements is hugely efficient.”

David Cameron welcomed Obama’s comments and said Britain should listen to its friends, as he could not think of any close ally who wanted a Brexit.

DOWNRIGHT HYPOCRITICAL But those campaigning for an “Out” vote in the June 23 referendum were dismissive.

London’s New York-born Mayor Boris Johnson, a leader of the “Out” campaign from within the Conservative Party widely seen as angling for Cameron’s job, said Obama’s advice was “incoherent, inconsistent and downright hypocritical”.

Obama was urging Britain to pool its sovereignty with other nations in a way that the United States would never countenance for itself, Johnson said.

He also referred to “the part-Kenyan President’s ancestral dislike of the British empire”, a comment widely criticised as demeaning the EU debate, and even denounced as “dog-whistle racism” by an opposition Labour politician.

Other “Out” campaigners said Obama’s views did not matter because this is his last year in office.

“Obama doesn’t have the authority to deny us a (trade) deal, as he will be long gone before any such proposals are on the table,” said Richard Tice, co-founder of Leave.EU, one of several “Out” campaigns.

Experts struggled to find a precedent for Obama’s direct appeal to British voters.

“It is the biggest intervention I can think of by an American president who has turned up in this way and intervened directly in the politics of a Western democracy since the end of the Cold War,” said Anand Menon, professor of European politics and foreign affairs at Kings College London. “It is above and beyond what people do in Western democracies.

And if you think as I do that it is a fear thing, then it works.”

Opinion polls suggest that “In” is ahead, but the race is tight and the number of undecided voters is very high.

Many U.S. banks and companies fear a Brexit would cause market turmoil, diminish the clout of Washington’s strongest European ally, hurt London’s global financial hub status, cripple the EU and weaken Western security.

The “Out” campaign says such fears are exaggerated and Britain would profit from greater control over its regulation, the ability to make bilateral trade deals and the right to restrict immigration from EU neighbours.

Many in the “Out” camp say they are passionate supporters of the special relationship with the United States and think Britain would open itself up to America and to the world if it cut loose from what they regard as the dysfunctional EU.

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N the space of just two weeks in 1994, Sweden voted by 52.3 percent to join the EU bloc while Norway chose to stay out, with 52.2 percent voting “No”. They were two of the closest run EU referendums in history, momentous decisions that split families, generations and political parties.

Both nations are relevant to the British campaign. Norway is touted as a model by Brexit supporters, with close EU trade ties despite remaining outside. Sweden is seen as a successful arms-length approach to EU membership with its own currency.

Despite differences, the opposing victorious campaigns offered some similar strategies - playing down links with the establishment and politicians to focus on mobilising civil society and positive messaging. “We didn’t do fear,” said Janerik Larsson, involved in the Swedish Yes campaign as communications head of the Swedish Employers Confederation. Campaigners for Brexit accuse those wanting to stay of organising a “Project Fear” that exaggerates the risks of leaving.

DEEPLY SUSPICIOUS In Sweden, polls had shown a majority of voters were deeply suspicious of joining the bloc. It was only in the last week before the referendum that there was a swing to a “Yes”.

Many campaigners attribute the last minute move by undecided voters to cool-headed calls for Swedes, especially the young, to embrace economic opportunities, in contrast to negative campaigns playing on fears of loss of sovereignty or jobs.

“The fear factor was used by those against the EU,” said Ingvar Carlsson, Swedish prime minister in 1994. “It was seldom used by the other side.”

There was evidence of a lower turnout by some “No” supporters - a problem that can plague those on the side of the status quo like the Remain campaign in Britain.

Admittedly the referendum took place in a different era. The Berlin Wall had fallen only five years before. There was no euro crisis, no single currency. Sweden had just emerged from a financial crisis in 1992 that nearly sunk its banks. Opposition to the EU came from a protectionist left rather than sceptical right. While refugees from the Balkans war had begun to arrive in Sweden, immigration was not central to the debate.

Still Swedish “Yes” campaigners faced a hard task in a country whose traditional neutrality had seen it avoid participating in two world wars.

The “Yes” campaign was rooted in the centre right and business and it knew this was a liability. So its campaign focused on civic society - its final leaflet featured 25 Swedes, from trade unionists to artists, but avoided politicians.

“The lesson is that voter mobilisation and tailored messages, like at the young, can get the final undecided voters on board,” said Fredrik Erixon, director of the Brussels-based Ecipe think tank.

“Yes” Campaigners focused on the young - highlighting opportunities like access to European universities or working in a cafe in Paris.

“I cannot tell you the times that older people told me they were sceptical over the EU but their kids were telling them to vote Yes,” said Larsson.

The pro-EU campaign played on the Swedish flag, in contrast to the centre left that distrusted such symbols.

“I always felt if the No campaign had used the flag they would have won,” said Lars Goran Johansson, who was president of Sweden’s 1994 “Yes” campaign.

NO FROM NORWAY Neighbouring Norway is the only country to have voted “No” to EU membership after negotiating membership terms twice, in 1972 and 1994.

Many voters feared a loss of sovereignty to the EU after winning independence from Sweden only in 1905. Rich from North Sea oil, some voters saw little incentive to join a bloc where unemployment was higher and welfare less extensive.

But the vote was going to be close. Pro-EU campaigners had hoped for a domino effect - the referendum came after the Swedish as well as Austrian and Finnish votes to join the bloc. Most political parties, businesses and media favoured membership but the “No” vote carved out an image in many

A lesson for Brexit a tale of two Nordic EU referendums With Britain’s noisy campaign over “Brexit” polarizing voters, and President Obama wading into to the debate we look at how tight referendums in Norway and Sweden two decades ago offer lessons how “no scare” campaigns can swing voters at the last minute

A Union Jack is seen next to a Swedish flag outside the European Parliament in Brussels. REUTERS/Yves Herman/File Photo

ways like the Swedish campaign for “Yes”, of being about ordinary voters. It had a simple emotional message of a feelgood factor of sovereignty in contrast to a pro-EU side with a “Project Fear” approach - warning of job losses and slower growth outside the bloc.

“We had a simple argument that struck people’s hearts. We argued for self-determination,” said Kathrine Kleveland, head of Norway’s “No to the EU” organization, who visited London in January to share experiences with No campaigners in Britain.

The “No” side painted “Nei” on cows. A farmer once thrust a piglet into the arms of the EU Commission’s ambassador, and

a photographer snapped him trying to hold a squirming pig: “Even the pig said ‘No’” was the newspaper headline.

“We had the people, the ‘Yes’ side had the power, the money and media,” Kleveland said.

Jan Erik Grindheim, head of the European Movement, the main pro-EU campaigners, said the mistake was to be too closely associated with the establishment.

“You have to focus more on what’s in it for me as a normal person,” Grindheim added, a common comment from both campaigns.

“My concern is in the UK is that it is all about the establishment talking down to the people,” said Johansson.

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How did George Osborne calculate his ‘Brexit hit’ for households?

British finance minister George Osborne said last week that a vote to leave the European Union could cost each household 4,300 pounds a year by the early 2030s. But how did he reach this conclusion and what post-Brexit scenario did he assume?

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SBORNE assumed Britain would reach a trade deal similar to the one Canada is about to seal with the EU. Factory goods would have free access to the EU but there would be agricultural tariffs and only some access for services.

Fifteen years after an EU exit, gross domestic product would be 6.2 percent lower than otherwise, equivalent to 1,800 pounds per person or 4,300 per household, Osborne’s team calculates.

BUT HOW DID THE FINANCE MINISTRY REACH ITS ESTIMATE? The government looked at how much impact the higher tariff and non-tariff barriers would have on trade and foreign investment, then at how these would reduce productivity, and how those factors combined would affect GDP. Estimates come from academic studies - including one that researched the closure of the Suez Canal from 1967 to 1975 - the finance ministry’s own calculations, and the economic model used by Britain’s NIESR research institute.

The ministry said it used relatively modest assumptions about the impact on productivity and assumed Britain would keep stronger economic ties with the EU than its exit from the bloc might suggest.

WHAT KEY FACTORS DID THE FINANCE MINISTRY NOT CONSIDER? Migration flows are assumed to stay unchanged even if a trade deal ends the automatic right of EU citizens to move to Britain, something sought by many Brexit campaigners.

The ministry said it was unclear what the net impact of Brexit would be on migration so it used official population projections, which go into government budget forecasts.

WHAT OTHER SCENARIOS DID THE FINANCE MINISTRY LOOK AT? There were two other scenarios. The first looked at a trade deal similar to the one between the EU and Norway, which follows the bloc’s regulations closely, pays into the EU budget and allows in EU migrants. This would reduce GDP by around 3.8 percent after 15 years.

The second assumed Britain would fail to reach a trade

deal with the EU and have to rely instead on its rights as a member of the World Trade Organisation, which would cut GDP by around 7.5 percent.

A trade deal similar to one between Switzerland and the EU would cut British GDP by something towards the lower end of the main scenario’s range of a hit of 4.67.8 percent. Something similar to Turkey’s more limited trade deal would cause damage at the higher end.

HOW DOES THIS COMPARE WITH OTHER FORECASTS? Few studies have looked at the long-term impact on productivity caused by a loss of trade. One, by the London School of Economics, suggested that if Britain reached a trade deal with the EU similar to Norway’s, GDP would be 6.3 percent to 9.5 percent lower after 10 years, twice the hit assumed by the finance ministry.

WHAT DO CRITICS SAY ABOUT THE REPORT? The free-market Adam Smith Institute said the Canadastyle trade deal Osborne chose as his main scenario was “very unlikely”, and that Britain was more likely to reach a Norway-style deal.

Former finance minister and Brexit campaigner Norman Lamont said the precision implied in the forecasts was “spurious, and entirely unbelievable.”

NIESR’s Jonathan Portes said the failure to look at the impact of migration was a “major omission”. Whether trade would fall after a Brexit was arguable, he said, adding that Osborne’s estimate of the effect on productivity and GDP was reasonable although it appeared to be “at the high end”.

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Overall pay gains were at their lowest in a year, hurt by changes in bonus payments.

Economists have linked a recent slowing in Britain’s economy to uncertainty surrounding Britain’s EU referendum in June as well as a slowdown in global growth.

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UNCERTAINTY “The combination of sub-consensus wage and employment growth was not encouraging, and may suggest that uncertainty surrounding the forthcoming referendum is starting to show up in the data,” James Smith, an economist with bank ING, said.

Chris Williamson, chief economist at financial data firm Markit, said economic growth in the second quarter could slow to 0.2 percent or less from 0.5 percent at the end of 2015.

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The unemployment rate was steady at 5.1 percent for the fourth consecutive month.

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The ONS data showed total earnings of workers, including bonuses, rose by an annual 1.8 percent in the three months to February, slowing from 2.1 percent in the three months to January.

The BoE is watching for signs of stronger pay growth as it considers when to raise interest rates from their record low, however most economists expect no increase until next year.

An ONS official said bonuses paid by financial services were lower in February this year than in the same month last year.

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The film prop found at the bottom of the Loch Ness.

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ATHER than the fabled Loch Ness Monster itself, the probe has discovered a 30-foot (9 meter) replica used in the 1970 film “The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes,” which sank nearly 50 years ago after its buoyant humps were removed.

Undeterred, the enthusiastic monster-hunters steering the drone are continuing their twoweek search for any evidence that might prove the existence of “Nessie”.

The survey by Norwegian company Kongsberg Maritime has been the most detailed to date of the Loch’s icy depths.

The Munin drone is capable of mapping vast areas down to 1,500 feet and is often used to locate downed aircraft.

“The vehicle allows sonars to scan just a few meters from the loch floor, giving resolution several orders of magnitude greater than anything before,” said Kongsberg Maritime engineer Craig Wallace.

Drone hunt for Loch Ness Monster finds its film double A high-tech marine drone scouring the depths of Scotland’s Loch Ness for one of nature’s most elusive beasts has found a “monster” - but not the one it was looking for Subsea engineer John Haig launches Munin, an intelligent marine robot, to explore Loch Ness.

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SHIPWRECK Along with the movie replica, it has also found a 27-foot shipwreck as it maps the Loch floor.

Far from being disappointed by the findings, Steve Feltham who has been hunting Nessie for 25 years, says the maps will help him in his quest.

“I think the findings are fantastic,” he said. “We now have a more detailed map of the rock bottom than ever before, which will show us the location of every lump and bump.

“We can send back cameras to look at anything of interest which could turn out to be the carcass of the animal,” he added. “It’s shown there’s a hell of a lot more to investigate.”

The first written record of a monster relates to the Irish monk St Columba, who is said to have banished a “water beast” to the depths

of the River Ness in the 6th century.

The most famous picture of Nessie, known as the “surgeon’s photo”, was taken in 1934 and showed a head on a long neck emerging from the water.

It was revealed 60 years later to have been a hoax that used a sea monster model attached to a toy submarine.

Countless unsuccessful attempts to track down the monster have been made in the years since, notably in 2003 when the BBC funded an extensive scientific search that used 600 sonar beams and satellite tracking to sweep the full length of the loch.

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LONDON’S BIG BEN CLOCK CHIMES TO BE SILENCED FOR URGENT REPAIRS THE famous chimes of Big Ben will fall silent next year as the 160-year-old parliamentary clock tower undergoes essential repairs as part of a 29 millionpound project.

The tower will be partially covered in scaffolding for three years, although engineers plan to keep at least one of the four clock faces always visible.

The bells will fall silent for several months, chiming only for important events, a House of Commons statement said.

The last significant repair work on Big Ben was in 1983-85 and both the clock and its 96-metre (315 ft) tower urgently need attention. Work is expected to start early in 2017.

The project also aims to restore the clock face surrounds to their original colours as designed in 1856 by architects Charles Barry and Augustus Welby Pugin.

“Parliament’s team of conservation architects is currently analysing the original paint used to decorate the surrounding areas to each clock dial,” the statement said.

“Once a clear picture of the early colour schemes has been built up, the stonework will be repainted to reflect, as far as possible, Pugin’s original design.”

The current black and gold surrounds were painted during the 1980s refurbishment.

Big Ben was last silenced in 2013 as a sign of respect during the funeral of former PM Margaret Thatcher.

UK airport sniffer dogs great at finding sausages, not so good when it comes to drugs A TEAM of sniffer dogs set up at a British airport at a cost of 1.25 million pounds (€1.7 million) have proved adept at discovering small amounts of cheese and sausages but not so good at finding smuggled drugs, as per a report released last week.

An inspection of border security at Manchester Airport in northern England found that during a seven-month period, the six dogs had failed to find any illegal class A drugs, those considered the most dangerous such as heroin or cocaine.

“The deterrent effect of the detection dogs was difficult to measure, but seizures alone represented a low return on investment, given 1.25 million spent on new kennels and the costs of operating the unit,” said the report by the Independent Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration.

Each dog has its own speciality in detecting goods such as drugs, tobacco, cash and meat being illegally brought into the airport by the 22 million passengers who use it annually.

However the report found that although the sniffers had helped customs seize 46 kg of cigarettes and 181 kg of meat, they had uncovered no class A drugs between November 2014 and June 2015 even though this was a “very high” priority.

It said one dog trained to find smuggled animal products had made “multiple accurate detections, but most were of small amounts of cheese or sausages, wrongly brought back by returning British holidaymakers and posing minimal risk to UK public health”.

Managers are now examining how better to deploy the dogs, the report said.

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India still wants Britain to return Koh-i-Noor Diamond

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NDIA has repeatedly demanded that Britain return the 105-carat diamond, which was presented to Queen Victoria in 1850 and today sits on display as part of the Crown Jewels in the Tower of London.

India’s solicitor general surprised many last week when he told the Supreme Court that his country should forgo its claims to the jewel because it was given to Britain as a gift by an Indian king in 1851, rather than stolen as many Indians today believe.

OPINION The government have released a statement which states that his view did not represent its own and that it was going to give its opinion to the court, which is hearing a case demanding the diamond be returned.

“The Government of India further reiterates its resolve to make all possible efforts to bring back the Koh-i-noor Diamond in an amicable manner,” the ministry of culture said.

India will make all possible efforts to get back the Koh-i-Noor Diamond from Britain despite comments by New Delhi’s solicitor general that the priceless jewel should stay with the former colonial ruler, the government said on Tuesday The ministry said the stone was a “valued piece of art with strong roots in our nation’s history” and that Prime Minister Narendra Modi was determined to get it back.

A lawyer in India’s neighbour Pakistan last year filed a court petition calling for the stone’s return. India and Pakistan became two different countries with partition in 1947, when they became independent from Britain.

The Koh-i-Noor is set in the crown worn by Queen Elizabeth.

The Duchess of Cambridge, who last week visited India with her husband, Prince William, will be the next in line to wear the crown when she becomes queen consort. William is second in line to the British throne.

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ORIA, who denied all wrongdoing, said he was stepping down to limit any damage to the caretaker government, the conservative People’s Party (PP), following reports of alleged links to an offshore company on the British island of Jersey.

Broadcaster La Sexta and news website El Confidencial said they had documents showing he headed an offshore firm with his brother.

The government quickly announced that acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos would take on the Industry Minister’s brief alongside his current responsibilities.

Soria’s resignation comes as Spain faces the likelihood of a second general election in June after a December ballot ended

inconclusively.

Latest polls have shown the PP gaining ground, despite a string of corruption scandals involving regional politicians this year, as voters tire of left-wing parties’ failure to put aside differences to form a coalition government.

Leaks from the Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca have embarrassed several world leaders and shone a spotlight on the shadowy world of offshore companies by revealing the financial arrangements of prominent figures.

Icelandic Prime Minister Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson stepped down earlier this month after documents linked him to an offshore company.

SPANISH POLICE ARREST COUPLE WITH LINKS TO ISLAMIC STATE, SON PLACED IN CARE A MOROCCAN man and a Spanish woman with links to Islamic State were arrested in the southern Spanish port of Algeciras as they were trying to leave for Morocco with their young son, the interior ministry has confirmed.

The couple were part of a group that supported and recruited Islamic State fighters, including individuals that had carried out suicide bomb attacks in Syria, a ministry statement said.

The man’s brother had recently died in a suicide bomb attack and that was why the couple were travelling to Morocco in a hurry, the ministry said without giving further details.

Their son has been put in care.

Authorities are searching the couple’s house in Granada and the investigation remains open.

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The tourism sector raises its forecast after attacks in other holiday destinations E

XCELTUR, a non profit association of the 25 biggest and leading Spanish tourist companies, has revised its growth forecast for Spain upwards this year following unrest in North Africa and Turkey.”In the first months of the year, we have noticed an upturn in foreign demand, with growth rates above 10 percent,” said Jose Luis Zoreda, vice president of the association.

While Turkey, Egypt and Tunisia have lost some 890,000 tourists in the first two months of 2016, Spain has won 660,000 during this period, according to data published by the Spanish lobby. “The growing instability in other recipient countries has generated notable detours to Spain” Zoreda said, confirming that this year has so far yielded the highest figures for tourism in the last 15 years.

Last year the number of foreign tourists rose by 4.9 percent to a new record of 68.1 million, a figure that Exceltur hopes to beat this year after the increasing foreign influx recorded so far.

Strong growth is also favoured by other exogenous factors such as the weakness of the euro against the dollar, the lowering of oil prices and an increase in number of flights to Spain, the association said.

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NOTE OF CAUTION On a negative note Zoreda also warned that an increased volume in growth was not always accompanied by an increase in revenue per tourist. “Revenues from tourism have been down for the past 34 consecutive months,” Zoreda said.

In addition a tourism model based solely on growth can generate saturation in some areas and friction with the residential population This has become evident in Barcelona and Mallorca where graffiti has appeared in areas targeted towards tourism with the slogan “Tourist go home”.

Weapons and a homemade Islamic State flag found buried in Ceuta A USB pen drive, two sub-machine guns, four handguns, combat knives, ammunition and a homemade ISIS flag have been discovered in the Spanish territory of Ceuta.

The arms cache discovered by Guardia Civil officers following a tip-off, was uncovered in a field near the Mirador de Benzu buried on a plot of wasteland. Within the buried cardboard box a pen drive which although wiped clean after forensic reconstruction revealed data dating back to 2014 and listed several locations within the region, which are believed to be potential targets for an attack.

In the past few months, ISIS have released a number of videos threatening to attack Spain, because of its popularity as a tourist destination for westerners and since September last year 20 individuals have been arrested with suspected links to the terror group.

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STOP SPENDING! Spanish government pressures regions to control spending S

PAIN’S acting treasury minister recently met with the heads of the country’s regional governments, urging them to control their spending this year in order to rein in one of the European Union’s largest public deficits.

The task is a politically uncomfortable one for the caretaker

government of the centre-right People’s Party (PP) at a time when Spain is likely to hold a second general election in June after an indecisive December vote.

Spain’s 17 regions manage their own budgets on big ticket social spending in areas such as health and education, and

Acting Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro

over-spending by the regional governments have helped lead the country to the brink of an international bailout.

Since then, many of the regional governments have changed hands from the PP to coalitions between the opposition Socialists and leftist newcomer parties, making it more difficult for Madrid to enforce austerity.

Spain announced a 2015 budget shortfall of 5 percent of economic output last month, missing the 4.2 percent agreed with the European Commission and prompting calls from Brussels and Washington for swift action to cut costs.

DEFICIT Only three of the 17 regions; the Canary Islands, the Basque Country and Galicia met their deficit targets for 2015. Six even oversaw spending rises from the previous year.

Together the regions booked a deficit of 1.66 percent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2015, overshooting by one percentage point a 0.7 percent target.

Acting Treasury Minister Cristobal Montoro said the government would approve spending cuts worth 2 billion euros at the central government.

Rather than asking the regions to implement more cuts, he has asked them to maintain spending levels and use any savings from items such as lower interest rates on debt payments to pay down their deficits.

However, regional heads have said the controls on spending are excessive and will hurt ordinary people, Oriol Junqueras, the economy head of the north-eastern region of Catalonia said “It’s unrealistic, both from a social and a practical point of view.”

SPANISH OFFICER DETAINED FOR ROAD RAGE MURDER A 31 year old officer from Spain’s Civil Guard has been arrested after allegedly shooting a man dead during a heated argument following a road-traffic accident.

The incident which took place near Toledo, involved two cars colliding together, according to witnesses the Guardia Civil officer who was driving a BMW and the other driver, a Moroccan man aged 39 who was driving an Opel Zafira were engaged in a heated argument before the Guardia Civil Officer pulled out his gun and reportedly shot the other driver at several time in the head. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.

When questioned at the police station, the officer tested positive for cannabis.

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“DON’T JUDGE A BULLFIGHT UNTIL YOU SEE ONE”, SAYS MATADOR

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RED CAPE Jimenez is only 25 but has already been fighting bulls since he was 15, not long after he and his brother Borja, also a matador, began taking a red cape into school in Espartinas, near Seville, to show off their feints and pirouettes.

Now in his seventh year fighting at the Real Maestranza arena in the Spanish city of Seville, Jimenez says he still feels the same fear he did the first time he knelt in the sand to await the bull charging out of the gate. “I asked a matador who had spent 50 years in the ring and he still feels the same now as he did the first time.”

As Jimenez and the 600 kg (1,300 lb) bull

begin to circle around the cape, the crowd cheer every pass with cries of “Ole! Ole!”.

In his embroidered gold and white “traje de luces” or “suit of lights”, the matador dodges the horns again and again.

The Real Maestranza is packed for this fight, part of Seville’s April Fair, a celebration of all things Andalucian filled with Flamenco dancing and copious drinking of locally produced Manzanilla sherry.

But elsewhere, audiences for a tradition that goes back over a thousand years are dwindling, as new generations shun what they see as a cruel and unfair contest.

Back in the ring, the bull’s movements become ever more laboured as the barbed stakes that have been stabbed deep into its neck drain its strength away.

With the hulk tottering, Jimenez raises his long, thin sword and swiftly delivers the “estocada”, a deft strike through the shoulder blades to pierce its heart. The bull keels over and, as mules are brought in drag out the body, the band strikes up again. This fight is over and the next one can begin.

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HE European Union’s highest court has upheld a Spanish judge’s refusal to let a Moroccan resident bring his wife to join him because he had failed to show he would earn enough to support them both.

In a judgement that joins others in the past two years in restricting migrants’ rights as Europe deals with a surge in immigration, the European Court of Justice said the Spanish ruling was consistent with an EU law that gives long-term, non-EU residents an entitlement to “family reunification”.

“The directive allows the member states to demand proof that the sponsor has stable and regular resources which are sufficient to maintain himself and the members of his family, without him having to have recourse to the social assistance system,” the ECJ said in a statement on the ruling.

Mimoun Khachab, a Moroccan with a long-term Spanish residence permit, asked in 2012 that his wife too be granted residence. Spanish authorities turned

that down on the grounds, among others, that he worked for only 48 days the previous year and was unlikely in the coming year to earn enough to live on.

One issue raised in the case was whether authorities were entitled to forecast his future earnings, from working for building firms and as a fruit picker. The EU judges ruled that they were.

As well as Spain, the German, French, Dutch and Hungarian governments submitted observations on the case to the judges.

The Court has recently underlined a link between economic resources and immigrants’ rights in cases involving EU citizens moving to other European states and claiming welfare benefits.

Immigration is fuelling hostility to the European Union in many countries, notably in Britain which is holding a referendum in June on whether to quit the bloc, and EU officials have been keen to emphasise the legal limits that exist on migration.

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T may be a dying spectacle in more ways than one, but matador Javier Jimenez says the people who oppose bullfighting have simply never gone to feel the intimacy and artistry of the contest. “I have friends that don’t like bullfighting, but they have never been,” he says. “It’s like a song or a painting; you don’t know why you enjoy it, but it gets you deep down.”

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Members of Spain’s Podemos reject coalition deal with centrist’s rivals M

EMBERS of Spanish anti-austerity party Podemos have rejected joining an alliance with the left-wing Socialists that includes centrist Ciudadanos, increasing the chances of a June re-run after an inconclusive national election in December.

Nearly 90 percent of Podemos (“We Can”) members voted against a government based on a pact between the Socialists and Ciudadanos (“Citizens”).

Instead Podemos overwhelmingly supported its leader Pablo Iglesias’ call to form a leftist-only alliance, which would cut out Ciudadanos, a route which has been shunned by the Socialists.

FAILURE Spain’s four big parties are running out of time to form an alliance. A failure to get enough support to agree on a new prime minister by May 2 would trigger another election.

Neither Podemos, Ciudadanos, the Socialists nor the centre-right People’s Party (PP), which won the most votes in the Dec. 20 vote, have enough seats to form a government alone.

Support from Podemos was vital for Socialist leader Pedro Sanchez to get his deal with Ciudadanos done after he failed in a parliamentary vote in March to win over rival parties.

Other options to form a government look equally unpromising, with the only workable two-way alliance, between traditional rivals

The PODEMOS team celebrates its May 2015 election result

the PP and the Socialists, further undermined by clashes between their respective party leaders.

The stalemate has yet to fully derail Spain’s economic recovery from a deep recession, with activity broadly holding up in the first

three months of the year. But the central bank and analysts have warned that a more prolonged deadlock would take its toll at a time when the country is still suffering from more than 20 percent unemployment and is struggling to rein in its budget deficit.

Most major opinion polls show a new election would do little to fix the situation and would instead replicate the fragmented result after newer parties such as Podemos and Ciudadanos made big inroads for the first time last year.

SPANISH JUDGE DENIES BAIL FOR FORMER TOP BANKER MARIO CONDE A SPANISH judge has remanded former top banker Mario Conde in custody following his arrest two weeks ago on suspicion of money laundering 13 million euros ($14.66 million) as he oversaw the collapse of one of Spain’s biggest banks.

Conde was one of the country’s most prominent bankers of the 1990s when he was chairman of Banesto, which the Bank of Spain had to bail out in 1993 under his watch due to a financial shortfall worth 3.6 billion euros in today’s money.

Banesto was subsequently bought by Banco Santander, which went on to become the dominant bank in Spain.

Police arrested Conde along with six other people, including his daughter and son-in-law, after an investigation by the High Court into whether he had set up a network of companies abroad and in Spain to help disguise money he had taken from Banesto before its state rescue.

In a written ruling, the judge Santiago Pedraz said Conde, who is 67, would be remanded in prison, with no bail granted, until the start of his trial on charges of money laundering, eight counts of tax fraud and for belonging to a criminal organisation.

The judge also ordered that Conde’s lawyer Francisco Javier de la Vega be detained without bail. The others are either to be held under domestic arrest or provisionally released.

Conde, released from prison in 2005 after serving 11 years of a separate 20-year sentence related to misappropriation of funds and fraud, is being held in a cell at the High court and will shortly be moved to the Soto del Real prison north of Madrid, a court spokesman said.

He joins a long list of former Spanish bankers - such as ex-IMF chief Rodrigo Rato accused of misusing credit cards for personal expenses - that face trial for lining their pockets during their tenures, as public anger against such scandals continues to build.

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N expanded naval mission would be part of the EU’s emerging support plan for Libya, which EU foreign and defence ministers discussed over dinner in Luxembourg, and could see Europe return to the country with 100 million euros (79 million pounds) in aid.

The mission could also work with the U.S.led NATO alliance to build up a Libyan coastguard capable of stopping traffickers, but the European Union says it cannot act until the United Nations-backed Libyan government invites it to do so.

“It is indispensable to ensure Libya’s stability, the security of Libyans and also its borders,” said French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, after a weekend visit to Tripoli. “We must do all we can to fight against the human smugglers and arms trafficking,” he told reporters, referring to the United Nations arms embargo on Libya, in place since 2011.

More than 50 ministers debated the plans that also include sending security personnel to train Libyan police and border guards and that could mark Europe’s most significant intervention in North Africa in decades.

Europe is eager to support the new unity leaders to tackle Islamic State militants and stop migrants, though the new government is still trying to establish itself in Tripoli and is wary of being seen as a foreign-imposed body with no legitimacy.

Europe’s failed efforts to help its neighbours since 2003 has created what some officials have described as “a ring of fire” on the EU’s borders, with refugees teeming towards the European Union, but there are differences about how to proceed.

British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond, said he hoped training could happen in Libya or a neighbouring country. Germany is adamant its security personnel will not be on the ground in Libya.

Asked if the naval mission should operate in Libyan waters, Spanish Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo said: “Yes, it is very urgent.” EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini said EU generals had briefed her that such a move was feasible for Europe’s naval forces.

The EU’s “Sophia” mission is operating in international waters near Libya and has saved some 13,000 lives since it started in mid-2015,

Britain, France and Italy seek bolder EU naval mission in Libya Britain, France and Italy have urged their European partners to move the EU’s Mediterranean naval mission into Libyan waters, to stop a new tide of migrants and uphold a U.N. arms embargo but it is too far out to destroy boats used by people smugglers, catch traffickers or head off an expected surge in migrants trying to reach Europe by sea from Libya.

RUSSIAN CONCERN EU governments want a request from the new government in Tripoli to operate in Libyan waters and some, such as Sweden,

say that might also require a U.N. Security Council resolution if the mission is to try to stop arms smuggling.

Security Council member Russia said it was unlikely to back such a request any time soon.

Moscow believes the West went too far when a NATO-backed mission helped bring down Libya’s long-time leader Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Russia says it overstepped

a U.N. mandate that was only to impose a no-fly zone and protect civilians. “It is up to the Libyan government to say exactly what help they need,” British Defence Secretary Michael Fallon said. “But we need to build up a better picture of the smugglers to break the business model.”

While a broader EU naval mission may be difficult to agree, EU governments hope to prepare a bigger role for EU training personnel to build up Libya’s shattered security forces.

Talks on a possible EU training mission could give momentum to discussions among Italian, French, British and U.S. military planners on whether to send troops to Libya to help to protect key installations, government buildings, ports and the airport.

SOUTH AFRICAN ‘BLADE RUNNER’ PISTORIUS FACES JUNE SENTENCING FOR MURDER DISGRACED Paralympic gold medallist Oscar Pistorius will be sentenced in June for the 2013 murder of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, after his original conviction was upgraded from the lesser charge of manslaughter.

Pistorius, 29, known as “Blade Runner” for the carbon fibre prosthetic blades he used to race, faces a minimum 15-year jail sentence and cannot appeal after the country’s top court ruled in March that he had exhausted all his legal options.

Pistorius initially received a five-year sentence for “culpable homicide”, South Africa’s equivalent of manslaughter.

He was released from prison last October after almost a year behind bars and allowed to serve out his term under house

arrest on his uncle’s property in a wealthy suburb of Pretoria.

But in December, the Supreme Court upgraded the conviction on appeal to murder. He was allowed to stay at his uncle’s pending the final decisions on appeals and sentencing.

Pistorius denies killing Steenkamp, saying he mistook her for an intruder at his home. Last week at a court hearing High Court Judge Aubrey Ledwaba said, “The matter of sentencing is postponed to the 13th of June 2016 and will be heard until the 17th ”.

The case has prompted a fierce debate in a country beset by high levels of violent crime. Some rights groups have said the white track star got preferential treatment

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OLUMNIST Ebru Umar, who is of Turkish descent and an outspoken critic of Erdogan, was detained overnight by police in Turkey while holidaying and has been instructed not to leave the country.

The reason why! In the free newspaper Metro, Umar called Edogan a “dictator” and criticised a Turkish consular official in the Netherlands for asking all Turks there to report incidents of insults against Erdogan in the country. The call was widely criticised and later withdrawn.

Erdogan is known for his readiness to take legal action over perceived slurs. At his behest, prosecutors in Germany are pursuing a comedian for mocking him. Critics say Erdogan uses the courts to stifle dissent.

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, who joined the criticism of the Turkish official’s call, said he had spoken with Umar after her arrest. A Dutch foreign ministry spokesman said of her detention: “We are aware of this and we are following the situation closely. We are in contact with her.”

NO JOKE On her official Twitter account, Umar tweeted before her arrest “Police in front of the door. No joke.” She later tweeted that she was being taken to a police station in Kusadasi, a resort town on Turkey’s Aegean coast. “Free but under country arrest,” she said in a tweet on Sunday afternoon, her first since her arrest 15 hours earlier.

Umer’s Twitter feed showed she had recently engaged in spirited exchanges with her critics. She reposted a tweet from someone claiming to have reported her to the police.

Insulting the president is a crime in Turkey punishable by up to four years in jail, but the law had previously been invoked only rarely. Since Edogan became president in 2014, prosecutors have opened more than 1,800 cases against people for insulting him, the justice minister said last month.

Those who have faced such suits include journalists, cartoonists, academics and even school children. Erdogan has said he is

DUTCH JOURNALIST WHO CRITICISED ERDOGAN HELD IN TURKEY A prominent Dutch journalist was detained by Turkish police while on holiday, simply because a week prior she had criticised President Tayyip Erdogan in print for clamping down on dissent open to criticism, but draws the line at insults.

Germany has decided to allow prosecutors to pursue a case against a German comedian who mocked Erdogan. This decision has angered many Germans, who see it as a sop by Chancellor Angela Merkel to an authoritarian leader.

Last year, Turkey deported another Dutch journalist after she was detained on suspicion of aiding Kurdish militants.

Born in The Hague to Turkish parents, Umar has been an outspoken critic of militant Islam, first in columns for the website of Theo van Gogh, who was murdered by a radical Islamist in 2004 after making films critical of the religion.

Writing in Metro and the critical website GeenStijl, she has denounced headscarves, excessive noise from mosques and what she sees as excessive Dutch tolerance, attracting bulging bags of hate mail from furious critics.

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HE choice, agreed by the president, prime minister, heads of parliament and foreign and defence ministers, must still win cabinet approval before the Foreign Ministry can lodge the name with the United Nations and it becomes the country’s official short name.

The Czech Republic emerged, along with Slovakia, from the peaceful breakup of the old Czechoslovakia in 1993. But so far there has been no standardised one-word English name for the Czech Republic, unlike, say, France, the shortened version of the French Republic.

That has led to a lot of head scratching.

The largest part of the country is known as Bohemia (“Cechy” in Czech), but there are also other parts, Moravia and Silesia, so one name is needed that does not exclude those historic lands.

The Czech Republic’s adored ice hockey team has donned “Czech” on their jerseys, as have bottles of the country’s premium export beer, Pilsner Urquell. But “Czech” is an adjective and cannot be used as a one-

word name for the country.

Supporters of “Czechia” say the term in English can be traced back to the 19th century and was codified by the Czech surveying and mapping authority soon after the 1993 split of Czechoslovakia as a possible one-word alternative.

But it never gained traction until now and it may not have an easy start once it gains official status.

To some, it sounds ugly. Others, including Regional Development Minister Karla Slechtova, think it is too close to “Chechnya”, making it prone to confusion.

Slechtova tweeted that the Czech Republic had invested more than $40 million into a tourism promotion campaign using its full name, and should stick to it.

In some other languages, including French and German, the Czech Republic is already designated by a single name, but in Czech itself the name ‘Cesko’ has only made slow progress since 1993 and ‘Cechy’ - or Bohemia - is still commonly used to mean the whole country.

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INCE last summer, the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from the war-torn Middle East has overshadowed all else, dominating the political debate in Berlin and the front pages of German newspapers.

But over the past weeks a shift has taken place. With the tide of arriving migrants slowing to a trickle, angst over Europe’s long-suffering currency bloc has returned with a vengeance.

“A storm is brewing,” warned an editorial in the left-leaning daily Sueddeutsche Zeitung The euro zone crisis is back - at least last week. “Sometimes the fate of a people in the minds of many Germans is decided in moments where there is not so much drama. That is what is happening now with Europe’s currency union.”

The renewed focus on the euro zone is tied three state parliaments, stunning the established parties and to a series of distinct yet interconnected developments that have deepened the sense of anxiety in forcing them into a strategic rethink.

Merkel’s conservatives emerged from this discussion Germany’s political and media establishment.

These include the shift away from austerity in southern convinced that they must do everything in their power to Europe, the loose money polices of the European Central shift the domestic debate away from refugees. Since then, party leaders, led by Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble, Bank and recent changes in the German political landscape.

One month ago, the Alternative for Germany (AfD), a right- have stepped up their verbal attacks on the ECB’s low interest wing populist party that had railed against Chancellor rate policies.

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New Myanmar government frees scores of jailed activists Myanmar’s new government has pardoned 83 prisoners held for political crimes, just weeks after securing power, and said it was preparing to pardon 100 more people serving sentences for political offences.

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ANY around the world have praised the move by Aung San Suu Kyi (pictured), whose post as state counsellor makes her Myanmar’s de facto head of state Many of Suu Kyi’s supporters and members of her National League for Democracy (NLD) party were political prisoners under the junta that ceded power in 2011 after nearly 50 years of military rule. The new government which was sworn in on March 30 after the NLD swept a general election in November.

Suu Kyi, who spent years under house arrest, said that releasing remaining political prisoners was a top priority. It was unclear if the military, which controls key cabinet posts overseeing local government, law and order and security, supported the moves.

Sixty-nine student activists and supporters had charges against them dismissed and were released from jail in the town of Tharrawaddy, north of Yangon, said Zaw Htay, a spokesman for Suu Kyi’s office. Students and relatives hugged and some waved NLD flags after their release.

Many of them were detained during a violent police dispersal of student protests in March 2015.

President Htin Kyaw was putting together another pardon for more than 100 people serving sentences for political crimes, Zaw Htay said.

Amnesty International applauded the release and called on the government to free remaining prisoners of conscience and repeal laws that it said fuelled arbitrary arrests.

Amnesty said at least five student leaders facing charges remained in detention.

The released activists were among 414 people facing political charges in Myanmar, said Bo Kyi, the head of rights monitor for the Assistance Association for Political Prisoners (Burma). The release leaves 47 on remand in jail and another 298 on bail while facing charges.

Suu Kyi has said she wants a reconciliation government and to avoid recriminations over the military’s brutal rule of the country. But tensions have simmered between the NLD and the military over the role of the enormously popular Suu Kyi in the government.

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euro party, could seize on this theme too in the run-up to the next federal election in 2017.

One senior coalition leader described the rates debate as “the next big theme for the AfD”.

Low rates are an especially sensitive topic in Germany because they are seen as eroding the savings of millions of people who have squirreled away cash in banks for their retirement.

The AfD was quick to jump on ECB President Mario Draghi’s comment last month that “helicopter money” - whereby a central bank hands cash directly to euro zone citizens to bolster inflation - was a “very interesting” concept.

“It is an opportune time to complain about the ECB right now,” a senior official close to Merkel acknowledged this week.

REFORM FATIGUE The ECB is also coming under fire for another reason: the sense in Germany that its loose policies have diminished the pressure on southern European countries to reform their economies and reduce still-swollen debt piles and deficits.

Berlin has watched on in horror this year as one euro zone country after another has signalled a departure from the consolidation path that Merkel and Schaeuble insisted upon at the height of the euro crisis.

In Portugal, a new Socialist government backed by farleft allies in parliament announced plans last month to lift the minimum wage by 20 percent, cut value-added tax for restaurants by a whopping 10 percentage points and reintroduce four public holidays.

Further afield, attempts by the French government to reform the labour market have stalled in the face of protests. And both Italy and Spain have signalled that they have little interest in listening to the European Union about lowering their deficits.

Meanwhile, German frustration with Greece is bubbling over again as reform talks between Athens and its creditors drag on. This week the normally reserved German head of the euro zone’s rescue fund, Klaus Regling (pictured above), complained that Greek reform implementation was the worst in all of Europe.

German newspapers have been full of charts showing rising debt levels across the euro zone’s southern periphery.

Germany and its euro zone partners still hold sway over Greece, which needs funds from its third bailout to pay its bills and avoid bankruptcy.

But Berlin is realising that its influence in other countries, which never received a bailout in the first place or have already exited their programmes, is limited.

Although still strong at home, Merkel has emerged weakened in Europe from the refugee crisis. And in the eyes of many of her partners, Germany no longer enjoys the moral high ground on economic issues.

At a time when the euro zone is putting pressure on Greece to save on pensions, Merkel’s coalition is considering reforms that would funnel more money to the elderly - another measure, it seems, which is designed to thwart the rise of the AfD. Still, the hand-wringing continues over southern Europe and an ECB with few if any arrows left in its quiver. “If southern Europe continues like this the euro will slip into a new crisis,” the Sueddeutsche editorial warned. “And this time the coffers will be so empty and the defence mechanisms so weak that the currency could be completely swept away.”

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HE official countdown to this year’s Rio de Janeiro Olympics began last week with the official lighting of the torch at the site of the ancient Games, with organisers hoping it will shift attention away from Brazil’s political and financial turmoil.

On a glorious spring day with the sun burning hot above the ancient stadium in Olympia, an actress playing a high priestess lit the torch from the rays of the sun at the temple of Hera, using a parabolic mirror.

REFUGEE Greek gymnastics world champion Lefteris Petrounias started the domestic relay after receiving the flame and Brazilian double Olympic volleyball champion Giovane Gavio took over as the second runner.

A refugee also carried the torch during the Greek leg of the relay before Brazilian organisers received it at the handover at the Panathenian stadium yesterday (April 27th) in Athens, the site of the first modern Olympics in 1896.

Brazil will then start its relay on May 3rd in the capital Brasilia with the first of 12,000

Greek actress Katerina Lehou, playing the role of High Priestess, lights a torch from the sun’s rays reflected in a parabolic mirror during the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games at the site of ancient Olympia in Greece. REUTERS/Yannis Behrakis

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The lighting ceremony marked the 80-year anniversary since it was introduced by the Nazi organisers of the 1936 Berlin Games.

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Preparations for the first Games in South America, which run from Aug. 5-21, have been plagued by problems and a shortage of cash for organisers as the country is experiencing its worst recession in decades.

Brazil President Dilma Rousseff, who cancelled her trip to ancient Olympia, is facing impeachment and federal prosecutors are investigating Olympic projects for corruption.

The crisis has paralysed the country’s ability to revive its economy from recession in the midst of a huge corruption scandal involving state-run oil firm Petrobras.

“Despite the difficulties that Brazil is facing, the lighting of the flame is a timeless reminder that we are all part of the same humanity,”

Olympic flame first torch bearer, Greek gymnast Eleftherios Petrounias, attends the Olympic flame lighting ceremony for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games inside the ancient Olympic Stadium on the site of ancient Olympia. REUTERS/Alkis Konstantinidis

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and the 9/11 Commission found “no evidence that the Saudi government as an institution or senior Saudi officials individually funded the organization,” but 28 pages of the commission have been classified leading to much speculation especially as fifteen of the 19 hijackers were Saudi Arabian citizens.

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Ancient remains found in Peru

DANISH GOVERNMENT EYEING UK, URGES REFERENDUM ON EU TIES DENMARK should consider holding a referendum on its relations with the European Union, a key ally of the country’s minority government said, as Britain prepares to vote on June 23 on whether to leave the 28-nation bloc.

Like Britain, Denmark has negotiated several exemptions from EU laws, most notably from having to join the euro currency.

The British referendum comes after Prime Minister David Cameron renegotiated some terms of Britain’s EU membership, including curbs on EU migrants’ access to some welfare benefits.

Denmark should try to win similar concessions from the EU if Britons vote to stay in the bloc, said Kristian Thulesen Dahl, leader of the populist Danish People’s Party, the largest of the three parties supporting the minority government in Copenhagen.

If the Danish parliament is unable to agree on the matter, “then why not ask the Danes to decide on the matter via a

referendum,” Thulesen Dahl (above) said in a blog.

If Britain votes to leave the EU, Thulesen Dahl said he thought London would forge an accord with the EU based on close cooperation, adding that this would also “most likely” be an interesting position for Denmark. “Other countries may find it attractive as well,” he said without elaborating. He stopped short of calling for a British-style In-Out referendum on Denmark’s EU membership.

The Danish People’s Party says it is not opposed to Denmark’s EU membership but calls for less interference by Brussels in Danish affairs. The party holds 37 seats in Denmark’s 179-seat parliament, three more than the ruling Liberal Party, giving it a strong hand in negotiations with the government.

Denmark joined the European Economic Community (EEC), the forerunner of the EU, with Britain and Ireland in 1973.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS say the 4,500-year-old mummy found near one of the oldest cities in the Americas probably belong to that of a noblewoman.

Buried in northern Peru, the archaeologists believe the remains could provide new insights into the ancient Caral civilization.

The mummy said to be that of a noblewoman aged between 40-50 years was discovered in the coastal fishing village of Aspero.

Along with the mummy, archaeologists also found artefacts, such as carved objects of

birds and monkeys, in the grave. The items suggest possible trade between Aspero and the city of Caral, the most ancient civilization of its kind of the Americas, which was about 14 miles (22 km) away.

Archaeologist Ruth Shady, the director of the Caral Archaeological Zone, said objects were brought from different places and that the woman is seemingly of important social status.

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There’s no place like home, even in Chernobyl!

SOME people found life away from home so unbearable they decided to return, even when home was the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster.

Maria Lozbin was one of tens of thousands of people to be evacuated from their homes after the Chernobyl accident in April 1986, but returned with her family six years ago, to live off the land inside a 30 km (19 mile) exclusion zone where the risk of radiation poisoning remains.

A 69-year-old with a ready laugh and a green shawl wrapped round her, Lobzin said the village to which she had been evacuated was full of drunks and drug addicts.

The house into which she was moved was so shoddily constructed, with a huge crack running from the roof to the basement, that she was afraid of being killed or maimed by a falling object. “Living there was like waiting for death,” she said.

Now she lives with her son and his family back in Chernobyl, in a zone that can only be reached by crossing a checkpoint and where guides accompany curious tourists with radiation meters. She keeps chickens, geese and ducks, grows potatoes and tomatoes, and goes foraging for mushrooms in nearby woods.

“There is no radiation here. I’m not afraid of anything,” she said. “And when it’s time for me to die, it won’t happen because of radiation.”

BIRD SONG Tuesday marked the 30th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster in then-Soviet Ukraine. The disaster and the government’s handling of it -- the evacuation order only came 36 hours after the accident -- highlighted the shortcomings of the Soviet system with its unaccountable bureaucrats and entrenched culture of secrecy.

Mikhail Gorbachev has since said he considered Chernobyl one of the main nails in the coffin of the Soviet Union which eventually collapsed in 1991.

The accident killed 31 right away and forced tens of thousands to flee. The final death toll of those killed by radiationrelated illnesses such as cancer is subject to debate.

A Greenpeace report ahead of the anniversary cites a Belarusian study estimating the total cancer deaths from the disaster at 115,000, in contrast to the World Health Organisation’s estimate of 9,000.

The Greenpeace study also said people living in the area continue to eat and drink foods with dangerously high radiation levels.

But that matters little to Lozbin, one of around 160 people estimated to have returned to the zone. “What’s there to be afraid of?” said Maria’s daughter-in-law Oleksandra Lozbin.

“We don’t want to go to Kiev. Why would we leave such nature were you can hear cuckoos and nightingale?”

Oleksandra said police initially tried to force them to leave, but the family refused.

Oleksandra hopes to inspire others to move back. To remind people what life was like before the accident, the family has created a makeshift museum in a house across the street with objects collected from nearby abandoned cottages.

“We decided to save the history of Chernobyl,” she said.

“We hope that people will come back here and will live here, and their children and grandchildren will see what life was like here”

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What happens to the environment when humans disappear? Thirty years after the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, booming populations of wolf, elk and other wildlife in the vast contaminated zone in Belarus and Ukraine provide a clue

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YEARS ago on April 26, 1986, a botched test at the nuclear plant in Ukraine, then a Soviet republic, sent clouds of smouldering radioactive material across large swathes of Europe.

Over 100,000 people had to abandon the area permanently, leaving native animals the sole occupants of a cross-border “exclusion zone” roughly the size of Luxembourg.

In the Belarussian part of the zone, tumbledown villages marked with yellow and red radiation warning signs have become hunting grounds for predators such as wolves and hawks. Birds, including tawny owls and magpies, nest in the roofs and chimneys of abandoned buildings.

“People can never live there - it’s impossible - not even for the next 24,000 years,” Ukrainian Ecology Minister Hanna Vronska said of the zone, which encompasses 2,600 sq km of forest, marsh and open countryside.

Special government permits, usually valid for a few days, are required for anyone wishing to visit the exclusion zone from the Belarussian side. Roads going into the zone are guarded to prevent any unauthorised person entering.

While the rules of access are also strict on the Ukrainian side, small tour groups can visit sites within the zone, including the “ghost town” of Pripyat.

CONTAMINATION The long-term impact of the radiation on animal populations is a subject of intense debate because scientists who have struggled to untangle the positive effects of human absence from the negative effects of living in a poisoned environment.

Yet despite the radiation, wolf numbers are over seven times higher in the Belarussian part of the zone compared with that of uncontaminated areas elsewhere, according to a study

published in the scientific journal Current Biology last October.

Worryingly some wolves have taken to straying outside the zone to steal calves from nearby farms, prompting hunters to set traps or shoot them as a deterrent. International donors have help find a resolution by funding the building of a 30,000 tonne “safe confinement” arch to prevent more deadly particles spewing from the stricken nuclear reactor’s site for the next 100 years. Nevertheless, nothing can be done to decontaminate trees and soil that suffered the worst of the nuclear fallout within a 30-km radius of the plant In March, Vronska said authorities were considering turning the uninhabitable zone into a biosphere to protect and study its native animal populations in what would be the largest nature reserve in Europe.

There are also plans to use parts of the area to store nuclear waste and for solar power.

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The ‘CONSTANCE’, commanded by Captain Skobel, responded to an emergency request from the Greek maritime authorities to rescue persons from a vessel in distress. Captain Skobel and his crew successfully engaged the vessel and embarked 235 refugees onto the Gibraltar ship.

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Gibraltarregistered ship rescues 235 refugees STANCE’ to proceed to Augusta, Sicily, where the rescued persons were successfully disembarked at port.

The Minister with responsibility for Maritime Services, the Hon. Albert Isola, has written to Captain Skobel of the ‘CONSTANCE’ to congratulate him on his crew’s bravery in the rescue, as well as the calm and responsible way in which the situation was handled.

Richard Montado, the Gibraltar Maritime Administrator said, “It is sad to note that there are increasing numbers of people crossing

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The Master and crew of the CONSTANCE have demonstrated tremendous courage in saving the lives of more than 200 people, in the face of a complex and potentially dangerous operation.

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BREXIT WOULD LEAVE GIBRALTAR VULNERABLE TO SPANISH AGGRESSION MPS TOLD THE British Overseas Territories of The Falkland Islands & Gibraltar have warned the Foreign Affairs committee they fear losing vital protection if voters backed Brexit in the June 23 referendum quitting the European Union.

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Gibraltar Joins the G5 Initiative on Automatic Exchange of Beneficial Ownership Information Along with Member States of the EU

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HM Government of Gibraltar is pleased to confirm that it has given a commitment to embrace the G5 initiative on automatic exchange of beneficial ownership, along with EU Member States. It is fully expected by the G5 that further countries and territories outside the European Union will begin to participate as from next week. Gibraltar’s commitment was contained in a letter sent by the Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC MP, to the Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, yesterday evening following discussions between respective officials and a conversation between the Hon Albert Isola and the United Kingdom Financial Secretary, the Right Hon David Gauke MP. This initiative is designed to be the global standard in the area of transparency in the same way as the Common Reporting

Standard has become so in the field of automatic information exchange for tax purposes, which Gibraltar also joined in 2014. Entities covered by this agreement will be those already identified in the 4th Anti Money Laundering Directive which Gibraltar is transposing. A critical part of the initiative on beneficial ownership requires a strict application of data protection and confidentiality by all countries and territories that participate.

The Chief Minister, the Hon Fabian Picardo QC MP, said: “The Government’s position as regards international standards is clear; Gibraltar will adhere to internationally agreed principles of cooperation that deliver a level playing field and we are at the forefront of compliance along with the United Kingdom and other EU states.”

NO JOB LOSSES DESPITE BHS in the UK filing for administration jobs on the Rock are not at risk. The announcement by BHS made earlier this week, which places 11,000 jobs at risk and threatens closure of up to 164 stores will not impact the franchise based on Main Street because International Franchises Ltd who have successfully operated within Gibraltar for over 30 years have already made arrangements to bring another major UK brand to the Rock to replace the failing brand.

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n Jackson Pollock’s “Mural” comes to Malaga, 20 April - 11 September, Museo Picasso Málaga He was a major figure of the Abstract Expressionism; Jackson Pollock is often regarded as one of the greatest American artists of the 20th century and his painting the ‘Mural’ which is not only a remarkable piece in its own right because of its sheer size but because as one of the twentieth century’s most historic and influential paintings it signified the creative beginning of what resulted in Pollock’s famous drip paintings.

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CHASING DON QUIXOTE ACROSS THE SPANISH PLAINS OF LA MANCHA Four centuries after his death, Miguel de Cervante still intrigues and enchants and it seems the life of one of Spain’s most revered author’s seems just as captivating as the adventures of the delusional hero Don Quixote having survived a sea battle, capture by pirates, five years of captivity in Algiers and stints in prison

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HEN he wrote “Don Quixote”, Miguel de Cervantes did not give away the name of the birthplace of the eponymous middle-aged gentleman obsessed with heroically righting the world’s wrongs and bringing back lost chivalry.

But many identify Argamasilla de Alba, a weather-beaten village of almost 7,000 people, as his hometown. It is found in the arid central Spanish region of La Mancha, a patchwork of buff and green fields. “The two most well-known things about La Mancha are Don Quixote and our (manchego) cheese,” says Angel Gutierrez, a 55-year-old shepherd and rancher, tending to his flock of sheep not far from the quiet town.

Four hundred years after Cervantes’ death, references to Don Quixote, his loyal squire Sancho Panza and his beautiful lady Dulcinea abound in the surrounding villages of La Mancha from sweet treats to theatre productions involving livestock.

Every year, for example, Gutierrez lends his animals to a theatre group to re-enact on the streets the part of the novel when Don Quixote charges at two herds of sheep after taking them for armies.

The region is dotted with historic, whitewashed windmills, central to the best-known episode of the book when Don Quixote fights windmills he imagines are giants.

The scene gave rise to the expression ‘tilting at windmills’ or fighting imaginary enemies, just as ‘quixotic’ now means idealistic and impractical.

Other locations in La Mancha fight for the

distinction as Don Quixote’s birthplace, but Argamasilla de Alba showcases a rebuilt house with a cave underneath where, according to local legend, Cervantes was imprisoned.

In the prologue to his masterpiece, Cervantes wrote that his work had been “engendered in a jail” and these days visitors can see Medrano’s Cave and imagine Cervantes writing there.

Don Quixote’s great, unrequited love Dulcinea, a common farm hand he imagines as a refined and beautiful damsel, supposedly lived in the village of El Toboso, a small town surrounded by vineyards. Sister Isabel, a cloistered Nun of the Order of Saint Clare, makes sweets named after Dulcinea at her convent’s bakery.

Sister Isabel, 39, and other nuns have been making the ‘Caprichos de Dulcinea’ (Dulcinea’s Fancies) since 2005, the fourth centenary of the publication of the first part of “Don Quixote”. They have become one of their most popular sweets.

Meanwhile, grey powder lies on the ground in Montesinos’s Cave near the Ruidera lagoons, where Cervantes is believed to have based the part of the book where Don Quixote falls asleep in a cave to be beset by fantastic dreams.

They are the ashes of Bob, ‘The English Don Quixote’, who came to the region to live with

Argamasilla de Alba - Quixote’s birthplace

his Spanish wife and started impersonating Don Quixote outside the cave and along the lagoons.

After dying in a car accident in January, his family decided to scatter his ashes in the places he was so passionate about.

Almost quixotic, some might say.

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Sophia Loren and Peter O’Toole in a movie still from the film Man of La Mancha, 1972

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Spain cuts growth forecasts for this year and next

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Spain’s acting Economy Minister Luis de Guindos has cut the country’s economic growth forecast for this year and next, blaming a global economic slowdown, a ministry spokeswoman said.

De Guindos, who last week was in Washington for a Last Prev.

High Low Chg. % Vol. meeting of the International Monetary Fund, cut the 69.3600 70.0000 69.8950 68.5600 -0.91% 54.06M forecast growth in national output for 2016 to 2.7 175.3000 173.9500 181.4500 172.7000 +0.78% 42.76M percent from 3 percent and the 2017 forecast to 2.4 151.2000 152.0000 153.3000 149.6750 -0.53% 29.21M percent from 2.7 percent, she said.

381.2750 375.9000 382.4000 376.6500 +1.43% 21.65M Earlier this week the IMF reduced its growth forecast 175.7500 183.4500 181.1500 175.5500 -4.20% 20.80M for Spain for the first time since 2013, to 2.6 percent from 2.7 percent. It also cut its global growth forecast 224.3500 226.7000 226.4500 223.9500 -1.04% 14.76M 234.44 232.80 237.40 233.20 +0.73% 10.91M for 2016 for the fourth time in the past 12 months.

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Caixabank to launch takeover offer for BPI Spain’s Caixabank is set to launch a full takeover bid for Portuguese lender BPI The offer would come after BPI said Angolan investor Isabel dos Santos and Caixabank had failed to reach an agreement on their shareholdings in the Portuguese bank and its costly exposure to the Angolan market.

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percent from the same period in 2015, widely beating analysts’ forecasts.

One of the most acquisitive bank during the financial crisis, Sabadell has also benefited from a sharp rebound of the country’s real estate market which has enabled it to set aside less money to cover for bad loans and boosted earnings at its property unit.

Net profit came in at 252 million euros ($284.61 million), beating a Reuters forecast of 215 million euros, while net interest income, or profit from loans minus funding costs, rose 51 percent to 974 million euros.

Excluding TSB, which has been consolidated in Sabadell’s earnings since the third quarter of last year, net profit and net interest income would have been up 9 percent and 8.2 percent respectively.

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UROPEAN Union antitrust regulators said that by requiring mobile phone manufacturers to pre-install Google Search and the Google Chrome browser, the U.S. company was denying consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and stifling innovation.

Google is already facing EU charges over the promotion of its shopping service in Internet searches at the expense of rival services, in a case that has dragged on since late 2010 despite three attempts to resolve the issues.

The stakes are higher for Google in the Android case as it made about $11 billion last year from advertising sales on Android phones through its apps such as Maps, Search and Gmail, according to estimates by financial analyst Richard Windsor.

The European Union has charged Google with abusing the dominant position of its Android mobile operating system, opening a second front against the U.S. technology giant that could lead to large fines

INNOVATION “A competitive mobile Internet sector is increasingly important for consumers and businesses in Europe,” European Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager said in a statement. “We believe that Google’s behaviour denies consumers a wider choice of mobile apps and services and stands in the way of innovation by other players,” she said.

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browser, and Norway’s Opera Software were not immediately available to comment.

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Retailer group BHS goes into administration BRITISH department stores group BHS has collapsed into administration, putting about 11,000 jobs at risk.

Philip Duffy and Benjamin Wiles, managing directors of Duff & Phelps, have been appointed joint administrators, the restructuring firm said.

“The group will continue to trade as usual whilst the administrators seek to sell it as a going concern,” it said.

PROTECTION BHS employs about 8,000 people, while 3,000 contractors work with the 88-year-old firm which has 164 stores.

Its placing into administration, a form of creditor protection, means it is Britain’s most high profile retail casualty since Phones4U in September 2014.

BHS was acquired for one pound in March 2015 by Retail Acquisitions, a collection of little known investors, from billionaire Topshop owner Philip Green.

Green had bought it for 200 million pounds in 2000.

Hit hard by intense competition in the UK retail sector and a failure to embrace the shift to Internet shopping, the firm had in March won the support of its creditors for a rescue plan that gave it big cuts to its rent bill.

However, saddled with over 1 billion pounds ($1.44 billion) of debt, including a 571 million-pound deficit in its pension schemes, BHS failed to raise the additional funds it required, particularly from planned asset sales to meet all its contractual payments, prompting the administration process.

Last-gasp talks over the weekend with Sports Direct, Britain’s biggest sportswear retailer, to engineer another rescue failed.

Administration means BHS’s pension fund will likely have to be bailed out by the government-backed Pension Protection Fund (PPF).

percent of smart mobile devices in Europe and the world run on Android, the operating system developed by Google.

Google, which has 12 weeks to respond to the charges, said in a statement that Android was a remarkable system based on opensource software and open innovation.

“We look forward to working with the European Commission to demonstrate that Android is good for competition and good for consumers,” Google’s general counsel Kent Walker said.

FairSearch, the lead complainant, said Google had launched Android as an open source project, but was now hindering the development of versions that might lead to new operating systems able to compete with Android.

The Commission alleges Google has breached EU antitrust rules by making phone manufacturers pre-install its search function and Chrome browser, and by preventing them from selling mobiles running competing operating systems based on the Android open source code.

The EU also charged the U.S company with giving financial incentives to manufacturers and network operators to pre-install Google Search exclusively on devices.

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The majority of analysts agreed Standard & Poor’s, which like fellow agency Fitch Ratings currently rates South Africa just one notch above junk, was most likely to cut. Moody’s Investors Service has it two notches above junk but on review for a downgrade.

Finance minister Pravin Gordhan has pledged to narrow the budget deficit to 2.4 percent of GDP by 2018/19.

UNCERTAINTY It is political concerns and policy uncertainty constraining growth which in turn is putting budget targets under threat, Carmen Nel, economist at Rand Merchant Bank said.

South African growth has slowed due to lower prices for its commodity exports and power-generating constraints. The economy is expected to grow 0.7 percent this year.

Economists said a credit rating downgrade would hurt the poor who depend on social welfare the most with about a quarter of the labour force out of work.

“A downgrade to junk will increase the country’s interest burden on servicing debt, taking money away from where it is needed the social and welfare dependency scheme,” said Colen Garrow, economist at Lefika Securities.

However, emerging market risk sentiment has improved, taking the rand with it.

A Reuters poll of global foreign exchange strategists conducted earlier this month showed while volatility will remain high currencies aren’t likely to sink to new lows, mainly because expectations for U.S. interest rate hikes have been scaled back.

Still, Rand Merchant Bank’s Nel added there would likely be renewed downward pressure on the rand and asset prices leading up to or around the event, particularly given the recent appreciation in asset prices that has partly priced out some of the ratings-related risk.

The rand has recovered from massive selling pressure caused by President Jacob Zuma’s decision to sack his finance minister Nhlanhla Nene in December, replacing him with littleknown David van Rooyen, only to swap him with Pravin Gordhan days later.

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THE NEW TAX LAWS PLANNED IN WAKE OF PANAMA PAPERS

Written by MALCOLM JAMES

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HE fallout from the Panama Papers data leak has been manifold, and amid the furore over his financial dealings, British Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced fresh proposals to counter tax avoidance and evasion. And the EU is also putting forward new legislation that targets multinational companies.

Both moves were well underway before the Panama Papers leak, but the public outcry they caused has giving them newfound impetus.

Since the start of the year, the EU has been pushing a new Anti-Tax Avoidance Package, which is geared toward creating “fairer, simpler and more effective corporate taxation in the EU”. It is now introducing a new rule that requires the largest companies operating in the EU to disclose key information on where they make their profits and where they pay their tax in the EU on a country-by-country basis. The rules will affect multinational firms with more than €750m in sales.

This will counteract one of the commonly used forms of aggressive tax planning by multinationals, which would normally consolidate their total profits and tax paid into a single figure. By forcing them to report on a country-by-country basis, it will make clear how they are shifting profits into low-tax jurisdictions in order to avoid tax. It does not stop them from doing so, but transparency is an important condition for reform, particularly when there is public interest in how much tax companies and individuals are paying.

The City of London, as a global financial hub, has played an important role in facilitating much of this aggressive tax planning. Its financial services and law firms are used by multinationals to legally move their money around the world. But new measures could change how easy this is to do.

Cameron plans a measure to make firms criminally liable if they fail to stop their employees from facilitating tax evasion.

The idea was mentioned in the British government’s March budget and it has since been confirmed that it will be introduced

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into legislation this year. It follows a recommendation made by a consultation into ways of combating aggressive tax avoidance and evasion by multinational companies.

IGNORANCE IS NO LONGER BLISS The proposals have attracted criticism – mostly from the financial services sector, at whom this measure is particularly targeted.

Many within it are worried that under the new law tax evasion will be considered a strict liability offence.

This means that financial services and law firms cannot use as a defence the fact that they were unaware of the tax strategies being used by its clients. Under the current law they can only be guilty of a criminal offence if HMRC can prove that the failure was deliberate. Under the new one, ignorance is no excuse.

The Chartered Institute of Taxation, a UK industry body, for example, has stated that it is “opposed as a matter of principle to the creation of a new strict liability offence for offshore tax evasion”. Strict liability offences are controversial, since they can potentially penalise those who are not at fault and who have taken all reasonable steps to comply with the law. The law is simply concerned with the fact that a breach has occurred, rather than why.

Court acquits Deutsche Bank’s Co-CEO DEUTSCHE Bank’s co-chief executive Juergen Fitschen has been acquitted of charges of misleading a court in connection with the 2002 Kirch media empire collapse, closing a painful chapter after 14 years of legal wrangling.

The presiding judge said on Monday that he found no evidence of the prosecution’s allegations that Fitschen and his co-defendants gave misleading evidence in an earlier trial in connection with the Kirch bankruptcy.

“The alleged criminal offences could not be proved,” judge Peter Noll said. The prosecution can appeal the ruling.

Along with the Kirch lawsuit, Deutsche Bank has been dealing with a string of other legal issues, which have cost Germany’s flagship bank billions of euros in fines, settlements and legal costs and contributed to its record loss in 2015. This has also been a distraction for management who are attempting to overhaul the bank to revive profitability.

The Kirch case became one of Germany’s most acrimonious corporate disputes, despite Deutsche Bank settlement of a civil suit in February 2014 in a deal costing about 925 million euros (£720.06 million).

Another concern is that this proposal represents an attempt by the British tax collector to extend its authority beyond the borders of the UK, which violates a basic principle of international taxation.

Companies cannot be extradited and it is therefore extremely difficult to prosecute overseas firms for breaching a UK law – not to mention the fact that they can up sticks and re-locate.

Instead, UK tax authorities might resort to shaming companies into compliance and “prosecution by press release”. By publicly criticising (and even attempting to prosecute) companies, this could lead to reputational harm, which is just as worrying for them.

Commentators have pointed out that a similarly aggressive approach to countering tax avoidance and evasion in the US has put off some firms from exposing themselves to this risk by doing business there and fears that these proposals might have a similar effect in the UK. Tax policy can be driven by public opinion, however, and public opposition to tax avoidance and evasion is no doubt making firms nervous. Furthermore, the threat of re-location is only viable if there is a low-tax, lightly-regulated jurisdiction offering the same logistical advantages and facilities to which a company can move. If the net gets tighter on companies that are looking to aggressively avoid and evade taxes, with the US, EU and UK all starting to seriously crack down on tax avoidance, this may simply no longer be possible.

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IT’S IMPORTANT TO CONTROL GUM DISEASE BEFORE PUTTING IN DENTAL IMPLANTS GUM disease is present in almost 90 per cent of the population to some extent. This leads to many doubts about which type of dentures such patients can have. Dr Eduardo Crooke Gonzalez de Aguilar, the manager of Crooke Dental Clinic, answers some questions regarding this matter.

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It’s an infectious disease caused by bacterial plaque which affects the tissue surrounding the teeth, that is, the gum, the bone and the periodontal ligaments. Depending on how serious it is, in some cases it affects only the teeth, and in others, the bone which holds the teeth is also affected, causing them to move. Depending on the degree to which it affects the patient, we can refer to gingivitis or periodontitis.

What causes it?

The origin is bacterial plaque which accumulates in the mouth after meals or due to inadequate brushing. But there are factors which make people more prone to gum disease or worsen it, such as smoking, diabetes, pregnancy, hypertension medicine, epilepsy and immunosuppresants. There can also be a genetic predisposition to get the disease. I have seen patients with gene IL-1 alteration which causes an excessive inflammatory response

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and consequently, greater bone destruction.

If it is not treated, the patient can lose their teeth and the bone that holds them in place.

So, can a patient with gum disease get dental implants?

Of course, as long as the gum disease has been treated and controlled. In fact, it is the chosen treatment, as patients with gum disease have reduced tooth support, and it is not ideal to fit them with removable dentures with hooks on the teeth, or to chip into healthy teeth. Plus, with implants we avoid collateral damage which sometimes occur with caps or bridges, such as damage to the dental pulp (which force us to remove the ‘root’ of the tooth) or decay beneath the denture. However, the truth is that a patient with gum disease is more likely to suffer bacterial contamination of the implants, which is why it is so important to attend periodical dental check-ups and carry out occasional checks with x-rays.

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May is National Smile Month A charity campaign that is dedicated to improving oral health and promoting the importance of a healthy smile. If you’re passionate about health and wellbeing, keen to raise awareness of important health issues, and ultimately, ready to make a positive difference to the oral health of millions of people, then National Smile Month is for you

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OOR oral health doesn’t just cause problems inside the mouth. A smile is hugely important to our personalities, self-confidence, relationships and success, and as time goes on studies continue to associate poor oral health to serious health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, strokes, pneumonia, premature babies and other major conditions.

Organised by the Oral Health Foundation, National Smile Month is an annual reminder about the true value of our oral health – and this year is celebrating its 40th birthday! The campaign brings thousands of individuals and organisations together, promoting three key messages, all of which go a long way to improve oral health. They are: • Brush your teeth at night and at least one other time during the day with fluoride toothpaste.

• Cutting down on how often you have sugary foods and drinks. • Visit your dentist regularly, as often as they recommend.

The saying goes that ‘the mouth is the window to the body’ and when we’re talking about taking care of our teeth, this couldn’t be truer.

likely to have coronary artery disease than people without gum disease. When people have gum disease, bacteria from the mouth can get into their bloodstream. The bacteria produce protein. This can then affect the heart by causing the platelets in the blood to stick together in the blood vessels of the heart. This can make clots more likely to form. Blood clots can reduce normal blood flow, so that the heart does not get all the nutrients and oxygen it needs.

If the blood flow is badly affected this could lead to a heart attack.

What is the link between gum disease and strokes?

Several studies have looked at the connection between mouth infections and strokes. They have found that people who have had a stroke are more likely to have gum disease than people who have not had one.

When the bacteria that cause gum disease get into the bloodstream, they produce a protein. This can cause inflammation of the blood vessels, and this can block the blood supply to the brain. This can cause a stroke.

How could diabetes affect my dental health?

Problems, which may be caused or made worse by poor dental health, include: Heart Disease Strokes Diabetes Giving birth to a premature or low-birthweight baby Respiratory (lung) disease

People with diabetes are more likely to have gum disease than people without it. This is probably because diabetics are more likely to get infections in general. People who do not know they have diabetes, or whose diabetes is not under control, are especially at risk.

If you do have diabetes it is important that any gum disease is diagnosed, because it can increase your blood sugar. This would put you at risk of diabetic complications.

Also, if you are diabetic, you may find that you heal more slowly. If you have a problem with your gums, or have problems after visits to your dentist, discuss this with your dentist before you have any treatment.

New research has also shown that you are more likely to develop diabetes if you have gum disease.

If you have diabetes, you have an increased risk of losing teeth.

How can the health of my mouth affect my heart?

How could bacteria in the mouth effect my lungs?

People with gum disease are almost twice as

Bacterial chest infections are thought to be

So could the health of my mouth really effect my general health?

Yes. There are new findings which support something that dental professionals have suspected for a long time: infections in the mouth can cause problems in other parts of the body.

What problems could poor dental health cause?

caused by breathing in fine droplets from the throat and mouth into the lungs. This can cause infections, such as pneumonia, or could make an existing condition worse.

People with gum disease have more bacteria in their mouths and may therefore be more likely to get chest infections.

Can tooth loss lead to dementia?

A recent study found that people with fewer teeth had a higher risk of experiencing memory loss or early-stage Alzheimer’s disease.

This may be because the gum infections that

can cause tooth loss may release chemicals that increase the brain inflammation, which leads to earlier memory loss.

With health risk likes these, we should really start to take care of our teeth and oral health and in turn this will promote a better sense of well-being and overall health.

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RETHINK RADISHES

KNOWN for being one of spring’s first and finest treats, radishes are peppery in taste and vibrant in colour. Full of flavour and easy to incorporate into a variety of side dishes and main courses they’re the vegetable this season that you won’t want to go without any longer.

Rediscover this crisp, colourful, and peppery root with our favourite radish dishes.

ORZO SALAD WITH CHICKEN AND RADISHES Because the lemon and basil flavors become even more vibrant with some time to marinate together, this fiveingredient salad makes the perfect to-go lunch. Pack it up the night before, and skip the cafeteria for a bright and luscious midday meal.

INGREDIENTS 1 cup uncooked whole-wheat orzo 2 bunches radishes with greens (about 1 pound), scrubbed 2 cups shredded skinless, boneless rotisserie chicken breast 1/4 cup chopped fresh basil 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt 1/2 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper PREPARATION Prepare orzo according to package directions, omitting salt and fat. Drain; rinse with cold water, and drain. Set aside.

While orzo cooks, thinly slice radishes to equal about 2 cups.

Coarsely chop greens to equal about 1 cup. Combine cooled orzo, radishes, greens, chicken, basil, olive oil, lemon juice, salt, and pepper in a bowl; toss.

NECTARINE AND RADISH SALSA Spicy-sweet and cooling with a citrus tang, this salsa is a refreshing no-cook condiment.

Serve with grilled chicken, pork, or fish, or as a dip for toasted tortilla wedges.

INGREDIENTS 2 1/4 cups (1/4-inch) diced nectarines 1 1/2 cups radishes, halved lengthwise and thinly sliced 1/2 cup chopped cucumber 1/4 cup finely chopped red onion 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice 2 teaspoons chopped fresh cilantro

1 1/2 teaspoons sugar 1/4 teaspoon salt PREPARATION Combine all ingredients in a medium bowl; toss well. Let the salsa mixture stand 30 minutes.

THAI BEEF AND RADISH SALAD Southeast Asian salads are traditionally eaten out of the hand, with lettuce leaves for wrappers. To make the job easier, chill the steak in the freezer for 10 minutes before slicing.

INGREDIENTS 1 tablespoon chili paste with garlic 2 teaspoons minced peeled fresh ginger 1 garlic clove, minced 1 pound (1/2-inch-thick) boneless sirloin steak, cut diagonally across grain into thin slices 1 1/2 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 tablespoon fish sauce 2 teaspoons sugar Cooking spray 2 cups sliced radishes 1/4 cup chopped fresh cilantro 2 tablespoons chopped fresh mint 1 serrano chili, seeded and finely chopped 8 Bibb lettuce leaves PREPARATION Combine chili paste, ginger, and garlic in a large zip-top plastic bag; add steak, tossing to coat. Marinate in refrigerator 30 minutes, turning once.

Combine lime juice, fish sauce, and sugar, stirring with a whisk; set dressing aside.

Heat a large non-stick skillet coated with cooking spray over medium-high heat. Remove steak from bag; discard marinade. Add steak to pan; cook 2 minutes or until desired degree of doneness, turning once. Cut steak into 1-inch pieces; place in a medium bowl. Add radishes, cilantro, mint, and serrano. Pour lime juice mixture over beef mixture, tossing to coat. Spoon about 1/3 cup salad into each lettuce leaf, and serve immediately.

BEEF AND PINTO BEAN CHILI For a three-alarm chili, leave the seeds and membranes in the jalapeños. The sour cream has a cooling effect, but you can seed the peppers or use less for a milder result.

INGREDIENTS Cooking spray 1 pound boneless chuck roast, trimmed and cut into 1-inch pieces 3/8 teaspoon salt, divided 2 tablespoons canola oil 4 cups chopped onion (about 2 medium) 1/4 cup minced jalapeño peppers (about 2 large) 10 garlic cloves, minced 1 (12-ounce) bottle beer 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon ground cumin 2 tablespoons tomato paste 3 cups fat-free, lower-sodium beef broth 1 (28-ounce) can whole peeled tomatoes, drained and chopped 1 (15-ounce) can pinto beans, rinsed and drained 1/2 cup thinly sliced radish 1 avocado, peeled, seeded, and chopped 6 tablespoons small cilantro leaves 6 tablespoons sour cream 6 lime wedges PREPARATION Heat a Dutch oven over high heat. Coat pan with cooking spray. Sprinkle beef evenly with 1/8 teaspoon salt. Add beef to pan; sauté 5 minutes, turning to brown on all sides. Remove from pan.

Add oil to pan; swirl to coat. Add onion and jalapeño; sauté 8 minutes or until lightly browned, stirring occasionally. Add garlic; sauté 1 minute, stirring constantly.

Stir in beer, scraping pan to loosen browned bits; bring to a boil. Cook until liquid almost evaporates (about 10 minutes), stirring occasionally. Stir in paprika, cumin, and tomato paste; cook 1 minute, stirring frequently.

Add broth, tomatoes, beans and beef; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 1 1/2 hours or until mixture is thick and beef is very tender, stirring occasionally. Stir in remaining 1/4 teaspoon salt.

Issue 17 April 28 - May 11, 2016 Ladle 1 cup chili into each of 6 bowls. Divide radish and avocado evenly among bowls. Top each serving with 1 tablespoon cilantro and 1 tablespoon sour cream. Serve with lime wedges.

QUINOA SALAD WITH VEGETABLES AND TOMATILLO VINAIGRETTE Quinoa combines with crisp, colorful vegetables and tart vinaigrette for a delicious main-dish salad. Creamy queso anejo balances the tartness of the dressing. Queso blanco or ricotta salata are good substitutes.

Ingredients 3/4 cup coarsely chopped onion (about 1/2 medium) 1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro 3 tablespoons fresh lime juice 1 1/2 tablespoons extravirgin olive oil 1 1/2 teaspoons Champagne vinegar 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/2 pound tomatillos (about 4 medium), husked and quartered 1/2 serrano chile, minced 1 garlic clove, minced Dash of freshly ground black pepper 3 cups water 2 cups uncooked quinoa (about 3/4 pound) 1 cup thinly sliced peeled English cucumber 4 large radishes, halved and thinly sliced 1 small red bell pepper, thinly sliced 1/2 cup (2 ounces) queso anejo, crumbled 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley Preparation Place first 10 ingredients in a blender or food processor, and process until smooth. Set aside.

Place 3 cups water in a large saucepan over mediumhigh heat, and bring to a boil. Stir in quinoa; cover, reduce heat, and simmer 15 minutes or until water is absorbed. Transfer to a large bowl. Drizzle with tomatillo mixture; stir well to combine. Cool.

Add cucumber, radish, and red bell pepper to cooled quinoa mixture; toss gently to combine. Divide salad among each of 6 plates; top evenly with cheese and parsley.

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Spain seeks UNESCO Heritage status for its Tapas

A MONTH after Italy announced its plans to seek UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage status for Neapolitan pizza, Spain has followed suit asking that the status be given to its most prized culinary traditions: Tapas The Intangible Cultural Heritage list is made up of “heritage elements that concerned communities and countries wish to keep alive,” according to the UNESCO website. The list offers a fascinating peek at global traditions, including practices like a Mongolian coaxing ritual for camels, Romanian Lad’s dances, and Brazilian capoeira circles. There’s plenty of food on the list, too, including Korean kimchi, Croatia’s decorated gingerbread, and Turkish coffee culture.

In Spain, tapas refer to as a variety of dishes, from olives to marinated seafood, served in small portions alongside alcoholic beverages. The origins of tapas are nearly as varied as the dish itself. According to one popular theory, the 13th-century king of Castille, Alfonso the Wise, ordered that taverns serve tapas with

drinks because wine with small snacks between meals helped him quickly recuperate from an illness.

According to another, tavern owners from the Castilla-LaMancha region disguised the betraying smell of bad wine with the strong taste and aroma of mature cheese.

A more practical explanation is that the highest temperatures in Spain occur at 5-6 p.m., which considerably delays dinner and creates an opportune bar-browsing time window after work.

The proposal to add tapas to the Intangible Cultural Heritage list will take at least a year. “The project is very advanced. The Ministry of Culture will make the formal presentation, but I have spoken to UNESCO and they are already looking into it,” said Rafael Anson the president of the Royal Academy of Gastronomy in Spain, Anson also noted that “before tapas can be included, it will have to be voted on by all 193 members of the United Nations”.

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SPAIN’S TOP CHEFS TO PARTICPATE IN GASTROLEDO 2016 S MÁLAGA Gastronomy Festival 2016 kicks off its third edition, starting April 21 and running through to May 08, making it the main culinary event in the city of Malaga. The event will consist of 36 actions linked to the Malaga province and gastronomic territory.

This year the MGF2016 includes activities such as Cinema Kitchen, which will be screened on May 02 ‘Snacks, snacks revolution‘, directed by journalist Cristina Jolonch and Veronica Escuer and ‘Cooking Up a Tribute‘ , directed byLuis Gonzalez and Andrea Gomez on 03 May. The exhibition GastroEsculturas will feature artist Sergio Montoya’s work merging gastronomy and art.

OME of Spains most famous chefs will participate in a series of events for the Gastroledo Capital 2016 conference, in the City of Toledo organized in collaboration with the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM). Renowned chefs such as Joan Roca, Martin Berasategui, Pepe Rodriguez Rey and Ivan Cerdeño, among others, will participate in what is being billed as “a culinary masterclass.”

The event which will be held from May 5th to November 14th aims to promote, encourage and disseminate the myth that haute cuisne is for the elite.

The seminars, which will include lectures, interviews and tastings will be held at the Cultural Center of San Marcos and will be aimed at students of the School of Hospitality Toledo, UCLM students and the interested public in general.

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MOUTH-WATERING A buffet was then laid out presenting their signature dishes. Firstly there were a range of starters including Peri Peri chicken quesadillas, Argentinian style home-made chicken and bacon pasties; there followed Frangos ‘coup de gras’, their Portuguese style chicken which was mouth-watering, their ribs which I have to say are the best I have ever had, all complimented by their sauces which some take up to six hours to make.

These are not just any run-of-the-mill condiments. The barbeque sauce is home-made with Jack Daniels, their Peri Peri sauce mind-blowingly spicy and honey mustard sauce among many others. In a nutshell they have sauces to suit each and every palate and all are PH neutral. Indeed Frangos byline is ‘the secret is in the sauce’. I can certainly lay testament to that.

Comments from fellow diners on the day included “This is the best place in the whole of Spain if you like free range chicken and ribs” and Steph Miller from the Costa’s favourite radio station TRE certainly endorsed Frangos throughout.

“The meat on the ribs just falls off the bone, simply divine and delicious. Anybody who knows the peri peri chicken that you get in Portugal certainly do not have to go that far now to relish this Mediterranean cuisine just go to Frangos.

Those with a sweet tooth can enjoy a zanata – a Portuguese custard tart with caramelised sugar on top or a mini cheesecake with an infusion of Baileys; nice little finishing touches to the lunch. These are made by Celso’s partner Michelle Weeks”.

Like their wine, their dishes are equally affordable. Their starters range from €1.50 - €2.50. There is a wide range to choose from including Peri Peri chicken skewers, deep fried camembert, quiche Lorraine and

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T was on a gloriously sunny day that I headed into Marbella to discover a gastronomic jewel which has become the talk of the town since opening their doors five weeks ago. Frangos, quite simply, is a clever interpretation of the vastly popular chain ‘Nandos’. It is unique and a new concept to hit the Costa del Sol and as their name depicts ‘Frangos’ (chickens in Portuguese) specializes in Portuguese styled marinated chicken and meats cooked on the grill.

Frangos is ideally situated in the heart of Marbella with easy parking as they are a stone’s throw from the Municipal car park. It boasts a large terrace and the interior has airconditioning and fans. It is only five minutes’ walk to the beach and a two minute walk to Orange Square. They also have free fibre optic WIFI and flat screen televisions to show all the most popular sporting events and with the Euro Championships now coming up they will have screens outside. They are a non table-service restaurant so you just pop in, place your order whether it is to eat in or take away, have a drink or two before relishing the Frangos experience as I was soon to discover.

On arrival, I was greeted warmly by the ebullient business partners Celso and Jorge and was guided to their sun drenched terrace for a couple of glasses of white wine.

Their wines are carefully selected to offer quality at a reasonable price. For instance their house wine start at €7.00 a bottle and for a glass €1.50.

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marinated chicken wings. Their main courses do not go beyond the threshold of €9.50.

Apart from their signature dishes customers can enjoy wraps, burgers and many other Nando style platters. Side orders including fragrant rice, fries, couscous, jacket potatoes and coleslaw and range from €1.50 – €2.50.

There are also many options for children on their Little Frangenstein Menu which is a little as €5.95 for a main course and two side orders, a dessert and a soft drink.

FRIENDSHIP Celso and Jorge’s friendship goes back 30 years. They have both, over that time, been involved in the industry. They first met when they worked together at The Coconut Grove in Nueva Andalucía. Jorge then went on to work at El Gaucho restaurant in Sotogrande which he ran for 3 years and Celso’s first restaurant was La Mimosa in Nueva Andalucía followed by opening

Shiraz in Marbella Port where he was the owner and chef. Last year he decided to sell his restaurant after running it for five years.

They then decided to join forces to open Frangos bringing a taste of Portugal to the Costa del Sol. Their concept started with a trip to Oporto in Portugal where they saw how the frangos (chickens) were cooked and marinated in a specific way. They were staying next door to a restaurant that prepared the chicken, ribs and sausages on the grill. It developed further when they saw the fantastic Nandos chain of restaurants. At that point they decided to do their own interpretation and Frangos was born.

Their free range chickens – cereal fed come from Galicia. Says Jorge, “As far as we know, there are no other restaurants or food chains that sell them therefore making us unique.

The ribs also come from Galicia”.

Celso is the head chef and has set his sights,

like Jorge, catering for all, including the essential Sunday lunch aptly named ‘make a roast of it’. “On the day you can have your chicken or ribs with roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings and gravy”.

Your low prices are amazing. How do you manage to maintain these with the produce you use? “We have margins but think many restaurants abuse these. We made it our mission not to follow suit with other culinary establishments”.

Collectively is it your ultimate goal to franchise Frangos? “Yes it certainly is. There is definitely a possibility”.

Having spent a heavenly afternoon at Frangos, I departed, knowing without a shadow of a doubt, Frangos having indelibly made their mark in the highly competitive restaurant industry will, within a relatively short space of time, be franchised not only across the Costa del Sol, but globally.

Frangos versus Nandos. Watch this space!

Calle Jacinto Benavente, No 5 Local 9, Edf. Mendisol, Marbella, 29601. Open: 12-5pm. 7pm-11pm. 7 days a week. Tel: 952 916 521

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The peace of a quiet former pit village has been spoiled by mating peacocks which also attack cars, residents have claimed.

Folks living in Ushaw Moor, outside Durham, claim the birds are roaming loose and “causing mayhem”.

Graham Bridge has set up a petition on the change.org site, which has been backed with more than 100 signatures.

He wrote: “For more than six years Villagers in Ushaw Moor a former pit village in County Durham UK have had peacocks and peahens

CODEWORD Codewords are like crossword puzzles - but have no clues! Instead, every letter of the alphabet has been replaced by a number, the same number representing the same letter throughout the puzzle. All you have to do is decide which letter is represented by which number! To start you off, we reveal the codes for two or three letters.

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A 6ft-tall escaped prisoner was found hiding in his girlfriend’s dishwasher, wearing only boxer shorts and handcuffs.

Wesley Evans, 20, was captured in Timber Creek Apartments in East Texas and taken back into custody after an escape that lasted 24 hours.

“He took out the racks and made himself a nice cubbyhole,” said Chief Deputy Glenn Blank from the Jasper County Sheriff’s office.

Terry Tootle, who owns the apartments, told KTRE: “That’s pretty hard for a man that size to get in. He’s about 6ft tall.”

Evans escaped from a hospital in Jasper County while receiving treatment for a swollen hand. He is expected to face charges for the escape attempt. Evans has been in jail since 8 March on charges of aggravated robbery, vehicle theft and arson.

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“Damage to property with their sharp claws, scratching cars by pecking at their own reflection and hurting their beaks in the process. They are regularly seen on house roof tops especially at night where some stay till morning. Mating season has started and screeching is heard throughout the day and night, continuously disturbing many peoples sleep.”

Mr Bridge claimed no-one wanted to act, despite complaints to the RSPB, the police and the council.

He wrote: “These birds should be in a safe environment where they can be admired and properly looked after and not seen as pest.”

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“She had never done anything like it before and I liked that. I think it brightened up her life a bit. I’m looking for someone who wants to have an adventure,” he said.

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S much as they may jump up at you, lick your face and seemingly crave attention, hugging your dog can actually make it stressed.

Canines despise being held close by their owners because their first line of defense is to run away, a study has found.

By depriving them of that, you are making them miserable and anxious.

In a study, 81 percent of all dogs being hugged were uncomfortable, suggesting they wanted to owners to put them down.

The research was carried out by Dr Stanley Coren, a canine expert and professor of psychology at the University of British Columbia.

He examined 250 dogs being hugged by adults and children and analysed them for signs of stress.

At an extreme end, when dog is especially anxious it bares its teeth or may bite, but Dr Coren said there are ‘subtler indicators’ that it may be uncomfortable.

Signs of canine stress are when the dog has its ears down, half moon eyes or his head turned away to avoid eye contact.

If the dog has its eyes closed or is licking its lips it may be stressed out too. Yawning or raising one paw is another warning sign.

In the research, Dr Coren only used images where the dog’s face was clearly visible and did not use pictures where the dogs were in situations which might be independently stressful.

He found that in 81.6 per cent of cases, the dogs had at least one sign of discomfort, stress, or anxiety. Only 7.6 per cent showed comfortable dogs whilst the remaining 10.8 per cent were either neutral or ambiguous.

In an article in Psychology Today, Dr Coren wrote that ‘the results indicated that the internet contains many pictures of happy people hugging what appear to be unhappy dogs’.

The key to understanding why is that, quite

STEP AWAY FROM YOUR DOG Hugging and showering canines with affection can make them feel stressed and miserable simply, ‘dogs are not human children’.

Dr Coren said: ‘Dogs are technically cursorial animals, which is a term that indicates that they are designed for swift running.

‘That implies that in times of stress or threat the first line of defense that a dog uses is not his teeth, but rather his ability to run away.

‘Behaviourists believe that depriving a dog of that course of action by immobilizing him with a hug can increase his stress level and,

if the dog’s anxiety becomes significantly intense, he may bite’.

Dr Coren added: ‘The clear recommendation to come out of this research is to save your hugs for your two-footed family members and lovers.

‘It is clearly better from the dog’s point of view if you express your fondness for your pet with a pat, a kind word, and maybe a treat’.

SIGNS YOUR DOG IS STRESSED Signs of canine stress include when the dog has its ears down.

So-called half moon eyes, in which the dog looks down with its eyes up, are another sign, as is a head turned away to avoid eye contact.

If the dog has its eyes closed or is licking its lips it may be stressed out too.

Yawning or raising a paw is another warning sign that your pet is uncomfortable.

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Rafael Nadal sues former French minister who accused him of doping R

AFAEL Nadal has filed suit against a former French minister who accused him of doping, saying he needs to defend his integrity and image as an athlete.

The Spanish tennis star said his lawyers lodged the defamation suit in Paris against Roselyne Bachelot because of her “offensive remarks” on French television last month.

Bachelot, France’s former minister for health and sport, said on TV show Le Grand 8 that the Spaniard’s seven-month injury hiatus in 2012 was “probably due to a positive doping test.”

“Through this case, I intend not only to defend my integrity and my image as an athlete but also the values I have defended all my career,” Nadal said in a statement.

“I also wish to avoid any public figure from making insulting or false allegations against an athlete using the media, without any evidence or foundation and to go unpunished.”

He said that if he wins the case, any compensation awarded by the judge will be “paid back in full to an NGO or foundation in France.”

Rafael Nadal lawyers lodged defamation suit against Roselyne Bachelot because of her ‘offensive remarks’ accusing him of doping

FTER was rocked by allegations of matchfixing on the eve of this year’s Australian Open and suffered another blow to its integrity when former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova said in February she had failed a drugs test, organisers confirm that the Wimbledon championships will protect its squeaky clean image with enhanced anti-doping and anticorruption measures for this year’s 130th tournament.

At a news conference announcing yet another substantial hike in prize money, the All England Club pledged to beef up its safeguards against sport’s two biggest threats.

Measures will include data streams and videos of all matches, including in qualifying events, enhanced data monitoring and player education as well as additional anti-doping controls to complement those already run at the tournament by the International Tennis Federation (ITF).

“Whether it’s integrity or anti-doping we feel we should enhance what we are doing,” Richard Lewis, chief executive of the All England Club, told reporters.

“There has been lots of media scrutiny since January and it’s appropriate that we respond accordingly.”

SAFEGUARD

OUTRAGE Bachelot’s remarks upset Nadal and outraged Spaniards, including many fellow athletes who quickly came out to defend the tennis star. The Spanish Olympic Committee and members of the Spanish government also loudly criticized the former French minister.

Nadal’s coach and uncle, Toni Nadal, called Bachelot “an imbecile,” according to Spanish media.

A 14-time Grand Slam champion and the gold medalist at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, Nadal is one of Spain’s biggest sports idols.

The president of Spain’s Olympic committee said he would like to see Nadal as the country’s flag bearer at the Rio de Janeiro Games, in part to make a statement after the recent accusations made by Bachelot.

Alejandro Blanco said Nadal “is a reference” and deserves the honor “after how he has been treated” by the former French minister.

Nadal had been selected as Spain’s flag bearer for the 2012 London Olympics but missed the games because of an injury.

Nadal expressed his “complete trust in the

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French justice system” which will handle the lawsuit and said that he will not make any further statements about

Bachelot said on TV show Le Grand 8 that the Spaniard’s seven-month injury hiatus in 2012 was “probably due to a positive doping test”

the case.

Bachelot’s allegations came in the wake of Maria Sharapova’s failed doping.

The Tennis Integrity Unit (TIU) received no betting alerts during the 2015 championships, but All England Club chairman Philip Brook said the prestigious tournament needed to safeguard public trust, admitting that the sport’s image was under threat.

“We don’t think there is a big issue but we will do whatever it takes to keep the sport clean,” he said.

“It’s an issue of perception rather than reality.”

“I think it’s hard to say that this year’s events) haven’t had an impact,” he added.

It is still unclear whether provisionally suspended Sharapova, the 2004 champion, will play this year as she is awaiting the outcome of her anti-doping hearing after testing positive for Meldonium at the Australian Open.

Brook said her absence would be a “great shame”.

“She is a former champion here at Wimbledon and very popular with the crowds. But I think in terms of what has happened we need to let due process take its course,” he said.

No figures were revealed regarding how much the All England Club is investing to safeguard the tournament’s integrity.

They were more forthcoming about a five percent rise in prize money, taking the total pool to 28.1 million pounds -- second only to the U.S. Open.

The winners of the men’s and women’s singles titles will pocket two million pounds, up 6.4 percent on 2015.

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HUNGARIAN GAMES? Budapest will test drive a more frugal Olympics

COSTLY EVENT! The London Games held in 2012 cost an estimated €13 billion - but those Games are often mentioned as a good example for the widespread use of temporary facilities.

Hungary is plying Olympic authorities with visions of a 2024 games played out from the elegant Danubian capital Budapest to the shores of Lake Balaton, eschewing the extravagance of recent years it plans to host a more modest global sporting celebration

infrastructure and financial clout,” said an Olympic consultant who has worked for bid and host cities, on condition of anonymity.

The likelihood of coming up short, however, does not deter Hungarians, said several people involved with the bid.

“Winning the games for a first time bidder is always a huge challenge, but you can only win the Games if you entered the race,” said Attila Szalay-Berzeviczy, founder of the Budapest Olympics Movement.

“The whole process can be up to 10-20 years long. We saw that in London, where the games were won by Tony Blair but the closing ceremony was done by David Cameron.”

NECESSARY?

Beijing in 2008 cost nearly €20 billion. Athens in 2004, had a price tag of €4.4 billion and is widely seen as an example for inefficiency while Sochi which was held in 2014 which cost €25 billion budget has drawn scorn for exuberance.

Because of this extravagance and financial burden bigger cities, such as Boston, have baulked at taking on the ever-increasing burden.

“The IOC (will) invite potential candidate cities to present an Olympic project that best matches their sports, economic, social and environmental long-term planning needs,” the IOC said in Agenda 2020.

Chief among other points, venues are now welcome beyond the host city to better use existing facilities or sustain new ones.

Hungary has targeted its bid to exploit

Agenda 2020 features.

It involves eleven cities, including sailing and golf near Lake Balaton, Central Europe’s largest lake and a popular resort in the west of the country.

What Hungary lacks in facilities will mostly be built by 2024 regardless of the Olympics, which means much lower Olympics-specific costs, Borkai said.

“This is not money we throw away,” Borkai said.

LOW VISIBILITY The bid has had limited international visibility, with little social media presence.

Moreover, Rio and its political and social turmoil could work against Budapest.

“It is likely to be a case of the IOC going for a safe choice, one with experience,

Even when the Olympics were not seriously on the agenda, Hungary invested in its sports infrastructure.

The Orban government has supported a veritable building spree in recent years despite growing resistance among some voters. Even the country’s National Stadium is being torn down to make way for a 65,000seat football arena by 2019.

A spectacular swim complex is under construction by the Danube for next year’s World Aquatics Championships - seen as a key opportunity for Budapest to make its mark weeks before the 2024 Olympic Games are awarded in September 2017.

The green-liberal party LMP (Politics Can Be Different) is among the few opponents of the Budapest Games at home, largely because they see the Games as unaffordable. LMP Budapest Council member Antal Csardi said he would prefer the Games in the 2030s.

“Agenda 2020 can help make the Olympics cheaper only in a country that has 80-90 percent of the infrastructure in place already.

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UNGARY is wagering its offer of a more frugal summer games than those that might be offered by richer rivals Los Angeles, Paris and Rome, claiming it will better reflect the spirit of the International Olympic Committee’s Agenda 2020 policy- a new initiative which seeks a return to simpler values and smaller price tags.

A return to more modest, functional facilities, less lavish ceremonies, could break the hold of bigger cities like, this year, Rio De Janeiro, which with its economic and political troubles has highlighted the hazards of hosting.

“The IOC wants to return to its roots,” said Balazs Furjes, the Hungarian government’s commissioner for the Games. “Antwerp, Stockholm, or Helsinki once hosted very successful Olympics; each is smaller than Budapest, and the IOC wants to make that possible once again.”

If successful the 2024 Games will be the first time that principle is put into practice, and the IOC hopes 11-digit price tags for facilities that would go largely unused after the Games will become a thing of the past.

“There have been maybe twenty cities around the world that had a chance to host the Games, and they rotated,” Hungarian Olympic Committee Chairman Zsolt Borkai said.

“At last smaller cities have a shot now.

“Hungary is not without its own problems.

Prime Minister Viktor Orban has been criticised by EU allies for moves to reshape the judiciary and tighten control on media as well as his hard line on migrants.

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Suarez makes history as Barca, Real, Atletico win LUIS Suarez became the first La Liga player to score four goals for the second game in a row as Barcelona, helped by three penalties in the second half, stayed top by hammering Sporting Gijon 6-0 on Saturday.

The prolific Uruguayan, moved ahead of Ronaldo as the league’s top scorer on 34 goals.

RISING WAGE COSTS EAT INTO PROFITS OF ELITE ENGLISH CLUBS The aggregate pre-tax profits of English Premier League clubs fell nearly 37 percent last season due to a spike in wages, according to Deloitte

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RE-TAX profits for the 2014-15 season went down to around €151 million from €240 million in 201314, Deloitte said, as wage costs rose six percent to a record €2.52 billion.

Despite the dip, this is the first time since 1999 that the topflight clubs have recorded an aggregate pre-tax profit in two consecutive seasons, driven mainly by a rise in broadcast revenue.

Combined revenue went up three percent to a record €4.3 billion.

The results point to a period of sustained profitability for clubs ahead of next season’s record television deal, Dan Jones, a partner in Deloitte’s Sports Business Group, said in a statement.

The league’s new TV deal with broadcasters Sky Sports and BT Sport for 2016-19 is worth an eye-watering €6.52 billion pounds,

a 70 percent jump on the current €3.81 billion contract.

The clubs also recorded combined operating profits of more than €631 million, with 17 of the 20 teams in the black last season.

Operating profits exclude player trading, net interest charges and the amortisation of player contracts.

“Clubs now enjoy a significant revenue advantage over all but a handful of the biggest clubs from elsewhere in Europe,” said Adam Bull, senior consultant at Deloitte’s Sports Business Group.

“The security of world-leading revenues, now augmented with sustained profitability, aided by cost-control measures in place for both domestic and European competitions, makes clubs playing in the Premier League, and those with aspirations to get there, particularly attractive to investors from around the globe.”

MANCHESTER UNITED TO CUT THEIR LOSSES ON £25M FLOP MEMPHIS DEPAY AFTER just one season Manchester United has finally lost patience with misfiring winger Memphis Depay.

Depay who signed for United from PSV Eindhoven last summer for a fee of £25 Million, has now been tipped for a move, with Liverpool eyeing up the young striker, having spent most of his season on the bench.

Depay moved to the Theatre of Dreams with a score sheet of 22 goals for PSV helping them win the Eredivision title but after making just 26 appearances the young striker has only managed to score just two league goals this season for Manchester United.

It is reported that following Depay’s exit the Red Devils will spend big and sign Barcelona striker Neymar to bolster the squad with claims that they are now ready to pay an astonishing £144 million signing bonus and £300,000 per week salary.

P Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Leicester 35 22 10 3 63 33 30 76 2 Tottenham 35 19 12 4 65 26 39 69 3 Man City 35 19 7 9 66 34 32 64 4 Arsenal 35 18 10 7 58 34 24 64 5 Man Utd 34 17 8 9 42 30 12 59 6 West Ham 34 14 14 6 57 43 14 56 7 Liverpool 34 15 10 9 58 45 13 55 8 Southampton 35 15 9 11 49 37 12 54 9 Chelsea 34 12 11 11 53 46 7 47 10 Stoke 35 13 8 14 37 51 -14 47 11 Everton 34 9 14 11 53 48 5 41 12 Watford 34 11 8 15 33 40 -7 41 13 West Brom 35 10 11 14 32 43 -11 41 14 Bournemouth 35 11 8 16 42 61 -19 41 15 Swansea 35 10 10 15 34 49 -15 40 16 Crystal Palace 35 10 9 16 36 45 -9 39 17 Sunderland 34 7 10 17 39 57 -18 31 18 Norwich 34 8 7 19 35 60 -25 31 19 Newcastle 35 7 9 19 38 64 -26 30 20 Aston Villa 35 3 7 25 25 69 -44 16

Sky Bet Championship Table P Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Burnley 44 24 15 5 68 35 33 87 2 Middlesbrough 44 26 9 9 60 28 32 87 3 Brighton 44 24 15 5 70 40 30 87 4 Hull 43 22 11 10 62 33 29 77 5 Derby 44 21 14 9 65 41 24 77 6 Sheff Wed 44 18 17 9 62 43 19 71 7 Cardiff 44 17 16 11 55 47 8 67 8 Ipswich 44 16 15 13 49 49 0 63 9 Birmingham 44 16 13 15 50 46 4 61 10 Brentford 43 17 8 18 64 64 0 59 11 Preston 44 14 16 14 42 43 -1 58 12 Leeds 44 14 16 14 48 55 -7 58 13 QPR 44 13 18 13 53 53 0 57 14 Wolves 44 13 15 16 50 56 -6 54 15 Reading 44 13 13 18 50 54 -4 52 16 Huddersfield 44 13 12 19 58 61 -3 51 17 Nottm Forest 44 12 15 17 40 45 -5 51 18 Blackburn 44 11 16 17 42 45 -3 49 19 Rotherham 44 13 10 21 52 65 -13 49 20 Bristol City 44 12 13 19 50 70 -20 49 21 Fulham 44 11 15 18 65 76 -11 48 22 MK Dons 44 9 12 23 36 64 -28 39 23 Charlton 44 8 13 23 38 76 -38 37 24 Bolton 44 4 15 25 40 80 -40 27

Spanish BBVA La Liga Table P Team P W D L F A GD Pts 1 Barcelona 35 26 4 5 102 29 73 82 2 Atl Madrid 35 26 4 5 59 16 43 82 3 Real Madrid 35 25 6 4 104 32 72 81 4 Villarreal 35 17 10 8 42 31 11 61 5 Celta de Vigo 35 16 9 10 49 55 -6 57 6 Ath Bilbao 35 16 7 12 53 43 10 55 7 Sevilla 35 14 10 11 49 42 7 52 8 Valencia 35 11 11 13 44 42 2 44 9 Las Palmas 35 12 7 16 42 46 -4 43 10 Málaga 35 10 12 13 31 32 -1 42 11 Eibar 35 11 9 15 46 54 -8 42 12 Real Sociedad 35 11 9 15 42 46 -4 42 13 Real Betis 35 10 11 14 31 48 -17 41 14 Dep. Coruña 35 7 18 10 43 57 -14 39 15 Espanyol 35 10 7 18 35 67 -32 37 16 Rayo Vallecano 35 8 11 16 48 69 -21 35 17 Granada CF 35 8 9 18 39 63 -24 33 18 Sp. de Gijón 35 8 8 19 35 61 -26 32 19 Getafe 35 8 8 19 33 64 -31 32 20 Levante 35 7 8 20 33 63 -30 29

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Horner sceptical of F1 engine breakthrough

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ORMULA One is ‘nowhere near’ an agreement to ensure all teams have access to competitive and cheaper engines from 2018 and time is running out, warns Red Bull principal Christian Horner.

The governing International Automobile Federation (FIA) has asked the four engine manufacturers to come up with a plan by the end of April to ensure no team was left without power units in future.

“I think it’s a complex situation, but fundamentally there were four criteria that were requested by the governing body to be met to ensure stability moving forward,” Horner said at the Chinese Grand Prix.

“And as we sit here now, we are not anywhere near having met any of those criteria,” he added. “I think unfortunately what will happen, as is often the case with these things, (is that) time will run out at the end of the month and nothing will be achieved, nothing will change.”

THREATENED The FIA and the sport’s commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone have threatened to introduce a cheaper independent engine if manufacturers fail to reach an agreement.

The main criteria were for a power unit supply to cost 12 million euros per season, for the supply to be guaranteed, performance gaps to narrow and engines to be louder.

Red Bull struggled to secure an engine for this season after falling out with long-term engine supplier Renault.

They eventually reached a deal to continue with the French manufacturer after Mercedes ruled out a supply, Ferrari offered only an old engine and Honda’s interest was vetoed by sole partners McLaren.

Mercedes motorsport director Toto Wolff said all parties were working hard to find common ground by the deadline but it was impossible to satisfy everyone.

“Christian isn’t so happy. But I think we need to come up with a solution until (by) the end of April,” he said.

“We need to ratify those regulations and at the moment everybody is working very hard to at least find the smallest common denominator.”

CHEATS SHOULD NEVER PROSPER

Cameron wants parliament to consider criminalising doping MPs should consider making doping in sport a criminal offence, Prime Minister David Cameron said following a series of scandals, which have raised the issue’s profile high on his political agenda.

Asked during his weekly question session in parliament what more could be done to tackle doping, Cameron said sport would be among topics discussed at an anticorruption summit due to be held in Britain in May. “We are going to be looking at corruption in sport and bringing forward new codes of practise that we will adopt in this country and we hope others will adopt,” he said.

“There is also the question about whether doping should be made a specific criminal offence which I think is something we should

be looking at and debating in this house.”

Other European countries, such as Spain and Italy, have already made doping a criminal offence and Germany extended its anti-doping law last November to include coaches and managers.

Kenya, at the heart of a series of scandals in recent months, is also in the process of criminalising doping.

But Britain, still leaves anti-doping control to individual sports’ governing bodies and anti-doping agencies, with punishments limited to bans and reclaiming prize money.

This month the UK government ordered an inquiry into the way Britain’s anti-doping agency handled allegations that a British doctor prescribed banned performanceenhancing drugs to leading sports people.

Hamilton hat-trick?

Continued from back cover

Hamilton was also on for a hat-trick of wins in Bahrain and China, having won both races there in 2014 and 2015, and Rosberg denied him both. But the German remains wary of what might happen.

“I would never have expected the first three weekends to go the way they have,” said Rosberg.

“I’ve made the most of my opportunities and I have a bit of an advantage in the points right now - but we are only three races down and it would just take one bad weekend for that gap to disappear.

“I was looking good all weekend last year until a technical problem put me out of the race and I had great fun fighting from the back the year before, so I know I’m competitive at this track.”

Both Mercedes drivers can expect to be pushed hard by Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel and Kimi Raikkonen but they also need to worry about Red Bull’s Australian Daniel Ricciardo and local hero Daniil Kvyat.

Conditions for Sundays Grand Prix are expected to be fine all weekend, with temperatures of around 18 degrees Celsius.

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Joshua to make first defence against American Breazeale

ANTHONY Joshua’s first defence of his IBF world heavyweight title will be against unbeaten American Dominic Breazeale on June 25 at London’s O2 Arena, the Briton’s camp have announced Olympic champion Joshua (pictured above) won the title in only his 16th professional fight this month when he stopped American Charles Martin in the second round of their fight also at the O2.

“I can’t tell you how excited I am to fight again, especially at the O2 which I have made my fortress,” the 26-year-old Joshua said in a statement.

“My coaches have watched Breazeale for a long time and they knew he was going to be a player in the division and now we get the chance to go to war on June 25.”

Like Joshua, the Californian Breazeale is also undefeated as a pro and appeared at the 2012 London Olympics, where Joshua won gold. His record is 17-0, with 15 wins inside the distance.

Joshua’s fellow Briton Tyson Fury holds the higher-profile WBA and WBO heavyweight belts after beating long-time champion Wladimir Klitschko in November.

Fury faces Klitschko in a re-match in Manchester on July 9.

“I am looking to get passed Breazeale in style and continue moving towards the unification fight everybody is waiting for,” Joshua said of a possible match-up with Fury.

Fury, who was forced to vacate the IBF belt, stoked the fire recently when he described Joshua as a “pumped-up weightlifter”.

Leave the rules alone, says Mercedes boss T

HE Austrian, whose team have dominated since the 1.6 litre V6 turbo hybrid power units were introduced in 2014, said there was an argument for doing nothing after three exciting races this season.

Formula One teams have until the end of April to agree 2017 rule changes by majority vote and meetings are scheduled over the coming months as the sport seeks to make cars faster and more spectacular.

“We always said that... the longer you keep the regulations stable the more the performance is going to converge between everybody,” Wolff said.

F1 should shelve plans for major rule changes in 2017 because the sport is in an ‘ideal situation’ already with faster cars and more competitive races, according to Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff.

BIGGER STEPS “This is exactly what is happening now.

Engines are converging, the teams are converging, the gains we are making are smaller because the curve flattens out and the others are making bigger steps. There is no selling proposition within those new regulations in my opinion, we should just leave it alone,” added Wolff. “The racing is great and it will become even greater if we leave the regulations alone.”

Nico Rosberg has won all three races for Mercedes, who have started all from pole position. The champions have now won 35 of the last 41 races and nine in a row.

Wolff’s view is unlikely to prevail, however, with other principals saying that approving new regulations, which will also feature wider tyres and wings, is a formality.

Rivals have chafed at Mercedes’ dominance while drivers have complained that the cars are too easy to drive. Declining audiences, amid a switch away from free-to-air television, is another factor.

However Mercedes’ triple champion Lewis Hamilton this month smashed the quickly enough and acknowledging Bahrain track record, which was set in “We are having an ideal situation with great racing and three great races in a row that and reverting maybe to regulations 2005 during the V10 era. now,” he said.

“Are we capable of reacting which seem to be OK now? I don’t know.”

Wolff says rewriting the rules risked spreading the field out again and making one team more dominant while overtaking Key change recommendations: could be harder.

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FORMER WORLD CHAMPION DAVIS RETIRES

Johnson’s eternal wait for British title is over RICHARD Johnson was finally crowned British jump racing’s champion jockey on Saturday after two decades of being the sport’s ‘nearly man’.

The popular Englishman, one of the finest riders of his generation, has been striving for years to claim the most winners in a season only to be deprived season after season by the great Tony McCoy.

REWARD In the first year since McCoy’s retirement, 16-times runner-up Johnson finally received the deserved reward for his enduring excellence after riding his 235th winner of

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IX-TIMES world champion Steve Davis has announced his retirement from snooker at the age of 58 following a 38-year playing career.

The Englishman who failed to qualify for this year’s world championship in Sheffield, England told the BBC “I told (World Snooker chairman) Barry Hearn it was time to call it a day. My father passed away recently and it was a natural time to stop playing.

I should have done it ages ago. I played a bit for my father. I am delighted to have had such a great time in the game, I was lucky to have a hobby as my profession.”

Davis dominated the sport in the 1980s, winning the world championship at the Crucible Theatre six times during the decade.

He collected 28 ranking titles, joint second on the all-time list behind Scotland’s Stephen Hendry, and made a surprise run to the world championship quarter-finals in 2010 at the age of 52.

Davis also played in the most memorable world championship final, losing 18-17 to Dennis Taylor on the final black in 1985, and he compiled the first televised maximum 147 break in 1982.

“It has been fantastic,” Davis said. “The game will move on to other places but I feel like the grandfather of the sport.”

the season on the final day of the campaign at Sandown Park in London’s suburbs.

To make his day just perfect it was McCoy, winner of the title 20 years in succession, who was on hand to present the trophy to his 38-year-old friend and rival.

“I know I wouldn’t have achieved what I did without him driving me on,” said McCoy. “For me he has always been a champion.

He thoroughly deserves it.”

The final day of the season also saw an exciting climax to the British trainers’ championship with Paul Nicholls winning his 10th crown in 11 seasons, holding off the challenge of Ireland’sx Willie Mullins.

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Speculation is rife that MANCHESTER UNITED has signed Jose Mourinho as their next manager replacing Louis van Gaal.

The former Chelsea boss who has been in the running to take over at Old Trafford since December is alleged to have finally put “pen to paper” and signed a new managerial contract at the end of last week, an announcement is expected within the coming weeks to tie in with the end of the season Manchester United have had a disastrous year they were dumped out of the Champions League in the group stages and then failed to impress in the Europa League, they also look like missing out on the Champions League next season after falling behind into fifth place behind Arsenal and archrivals Manchester City in the Premier League table.

HAMILTON NEEDS A RUSSIAN HAT-TRICK TRIPLE world champion Lewis Hamilton is the only Formula One driver to have won the Russian Grand Prix and, with Mercedes team mate Nico Rosberg on a red-hot winning streak, he needs to keep it that way this Sunday.

Hamilton won the inaugural race around the 2014 Winter Olympic Park and returned last October to repeat the feat after Rosberg had secured pole position but then retired with a throttle failure. Hamilton is already 36 points

behind Rosberg and while he is unlikely to be sending out any Mayday distress signals the Briton is in definite need of a track turnaround.

“There was plenty going through my head after China, as you’d expect,” he said after starting that third race of the season at the back of the grid and finishing seventh.

“But, after all these years, experience has taught me to stay calm and keep pushing forwards when I get knocked back. I’ve been

here before a few times now. “Adversity is part of the journey,” he added. “There are lots of positives to carry into the next battle.

If nothing else, I know after these first few races that I can still overtake.”

Rosberg has not had to do much of that recently, leading from pole in Shanghai and also enjoying comfortable wins in Australia and Bahrain.

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