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ritish buyers are continuing to dominate the Spanish property market in terms of foreign purchasers, and are well ahead of the so-called Scandinavian and Russian “invasions” that have been touted in recent years. Figures from the Colegio de Registradores show that foreign buyers accounted for nearly 13 percent of property sales in the first six months of 2015, with British purchasers amounting to close to 20 percent of the foreign figure. The Balearic and Canary Islands are the most popular areas, followed not-surprisingly by the Costa Blanca, Murcia, and Andalusia.

Demand from foreign buyers saw a slight fall during the first three months of 2015, but recovered in the

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WHATSON’S TV VIEWS second trimester, rising to 12.8 percent of all purchases. In some areas, overseas buyers make between a third and a quarter of all purchases, with the Valencia/Costa Blanca fig-

ure standing at 25.7 percent.

Clare Nessling, director at overseas mortgage specialists Conti, says: “Spain remains top of the list for British buyers, accounting

for roughly half of our enquiries. The Spanish property market is on the up again after a tough few years and British investors are rediscovering their love for this beautiful country.”

BARK SILENCED

popular dog walking event in Los Alcazares in aid of the Cruz Azul animal charity had to be cancelled at the last minute because the local council wouldn't allow it to go ahead. The 'Walk On The Bark Side" had taken place without any problems in 2013 and 2014, but organisers were forced to put out a late statement last Friday saying that the council had "rescinded the license" for the event to take place last

Sunday which was going to be based around the Esplanade as in previous years. The organisers said that Los Alcazares council was responding to a regional directive across Murcia stating that dogs were to be banned from being walked across all promenades in the region, and added that everything had happened so late that they did not have time to challenge the decision, or to see when the law had actually gone onto the statute book.

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guards, with an extra hour in the morning as well as the evening. That will mean ten hours of cover during the three-month contract period during the summer. There are fears that quality of service might be sacrificed in a bid to cut costs on the tender, with the Cruz Roja unable to compete with

other bidders(and perhaps not even tendering in the first place), thus ending a long seaside safety cover association with Torrevieja.

Manzanares said that price was not the sole objective when the council advertises the tender, with safety provision and what is offered absolutely vital.

Rise And Fall

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The Cruz Roja may end up being out in the cold after over 20 years of providing lifeguard cover for Torrevieja’s beaches.

Beaches councillor Javier Manzanares says that finishing touches are being put together for a new tender for next year, which will include an extension of hours covered by life-

A court has ruled that the Murcia government were within their rights to tear up a contract with the management company of the still-toopen Corvera airport. A Murcia court rejected the

legal action taken by Aeromur after the contract to operate Corvera was withdrawn just over two years ago. Costs were awarded against Aeromur, who could still appeal the decision.

Lemons Squeezed

Lemon prices are set to double because of this year’s drought . Farmers in Alicante Province say that the high temperatures between May and July have caused a 25 percent drop in the harvest, leading to the big rise in price.

Spain's unemployment figures rose with the latest returns coming out just hours after Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy announced that the general election will be held on Sunday, December 20th.

The underlying annual trend though remains positive with a big fall compared to a year ago. Jobs are likely to be the key issue for voters, with Rajoy pegging his re-election campaign to faster growth and job creation, promising to have 20 million people at work by the end of his second term up from the current 17 million.

The number of registered unemployed rose in September by 26,087, reaching 4.09 million in total, according to data released on Friday by the Employment

and Social Security ministry.

In annual terms, the number of unemployed decreased by 353,608 people, compared to the same month last year, marking the largest decline ever recorded for September over a one year period.

The same trends were reflected locally, with Alicante Province having a registered unemployment figure of 186 thousand, some twelve hundred more than for August,

with seasonal reductions in the hospitality industry coming into play. The Alicante figures were still eight percent less for September compared to the same month last year. 130 thousand people are on the Murcia regional dole queues, and actually bucked the national trend by having a tiny fall of 179 compared to August's returns, with an annual reduction of eight percent.

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Family Tragedy A 46-year-old Elche man, with a history of schizophrenia, was arrested on Sunday after knifing his 72-year-old father to death in their home on Avenida de Novelda. The incident involving a kitchen knife happened around lunchtime with police discovering the elderly victim in a pool of blood, after the son had called the authorities to tell them what had happened. His

U.S. Justice Department to release 6,000 prisoners.

Recall of V.W. cars hit by scandal to begin in January.

mother, who has suffered from Alzheimer’s for some

years was in the property at the time.

A Safe Landing

25 migrants were taken

into custody by the Guardia

Civil after they were rescued by a boat off the coast of Cartagena early last Sunday morning. The boat, with two French crewmen, picked up the North African immigrants and were then led into the port of Cartagena. 16 of the migrants were children, and all said to be in good health after being examined by the Cruz Roja.

Boaring Time

Wild boars are breeding and spreading around the Sierra de Orihuela making life difficult for the start of next week's partridge shooting season which gets underway on Monday. Boar sightings have been made towards the northern side of the mountain and by the San Antón mines, with a

warning that they can attack dogs during the breeding season, as the boars are very protective towards their young. José Villagordo of the local Club de Cazadores (Hunting Club) told the La Verdad newspaper that the boars were taking advantage of "feeders" that had grain

meant for the partridges, especially if they were hungry. Fencing has now been erected around the area but Villagordo added that the boars tend not to attack anybody if they don't sense danger, but their size might surprise some people if they were not expecting to see them.

Fly Like An Eagle The 30th anniversary of Spain's equivalent of the RAF Red Arrows, la Patrulla Águila (Eagle Patrol) is to be celebrated with a special open day at their Santiago de la Ribera base on Saturday July 16th next year.

San Javier mayor, José Miguel Luengo, said that a series of celebrations are planned over the next 12

Stalemate Park

Over two thousand four hundred residents of the La Siesta and El Chaparral areas of Torrevieja have signed a petition which has been handed in to the council, which calls on the mayor, José Manuel Dolon, to restart a major local park development project which was suspended in the summer by the new administration. 48 people from the Mediterraneo employment workshop had been involved with the 40 thousand square metre area being scheduled

for completion by the end of the year, with skateboard facilities, and water fountains as part of the reinvigoration of a former piece of wasteland. Before May’s local elections, the previous Partido Popular-run council claimed that the project was all running to schedule and would be finished before the end of the year. The new coalition authority say invoices for materials amounting to 140 thousand euro were not produced and the project has run out of cash.

Shark Out Of Water

concert on the Barnuevo esplanade.

Dead Cert

Torrevieja is to get a second crematorium, which will be located in the Aguas Nuevas area of the city. The facility, which will be finished by the end of next year, will include two chapels with parking spots for fifty vehicles.

EU sends 6 ships to Mediterranean international waters to chase smugglers & traffickers.

German woman dies in Thailand from box jellyfish sting.

Belgian rail strike to halt international trains on Friday.

Samsung 3Q operating profit surges, shares jump 9 percent.

Japanese climber with one finger returns to Everest summit.

Australian dry spell threatens agriculture.

Over 20 killed in China typhoon.

Fifteen dead in South Carolina floods.

Viral disease to blame in deaths of some 1,000 Idaho deer.

The rotting corpse of a three-metre long shark washed up on a Torrevieja beach last weekend. The bluntnose sixgill shark washed up on El Cura beach and is common in local waters but is rarely seen

near the coast as they live in deep water. Fully grown, the shark can reach up to five metres in length, and so this specimen was relatively young. The body was removed and disposed of by municipal cleaners.

Best Deals

months including a special exhibition and a musical

4 arrested in connection with Sydney police worker's killing.

The cheapest weekend this year to fly to European destinations from Spain, including the London airports, is between December 11th and 14th, with deals in November offering up to 66% off flights to other locations.

According to low-cost flight

search engine Skyscanner, it will cost an average of 77.49€ to fly to London, Rome, Amsterdam, or Brussels over the weekend of November 27, or from other parts of Spain and Europe to Barcelona, Madrid or Sevilla.

Oil from freighter collision off Belgian coast threatens nature reserve.

U.S. Says hospital airstrike was a “mistake”.

Python almost crushes Kentucky pet store worker to death.

Tesco showing signs of recovery after profit collapse.

U.K. high street prices fall faster.

Air France may cut 5,000 more jobs

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Towelled Off

Found At Last

An Elche businessman has been cleared of selling fake Real Madrid towels on the basis that he didn't know that they were copies. An investigating judge in Alicante threw out a case brought by the football club, pointing out that the man had bought the 83 towels from an official licensed supplier.

Banana Splits Spanish authorities have seized a record amount of cocaine worth 10 million euro from a container loaded with pureed bananas that docked at Valencia City after arriving from Costa Rica. Police and customs officers found 300 kilos of the drug last week, with 300 bricks of high quality cocaine in the container and each had a label with the word "éxito" ("success") on it. Spain's close ties with its former colonies in Latin America have made it the main entry point used by drug smugglers to bring cocaine to Europe. The record amount of cocaine seized in a single year was set in 2005, when authorities confiscated just under 50 tonnes of the drug.

Prickly Problem

The Arizona cactus has made a return to the Sierra de Orihuela, after it caused problems for over a decade with its spores being spread in the footwear of climbers and walkers visiting the area, as well as by animals.

Nearly a million euro was given by the Valencia Government to eliminate the cactus in 2010, which threatens a lot of local flora and fauna, and thrives in hot dry conditions. Some five tons of it was removed in 2011, but it has returned with the Orihuela council alerting Civil Protection teams, though admitting it has no money to stop it.

A 30-year old UK fugitive, Ashley Carlton James, who was doing time for manslaughter at Sudbury open prison in Derbyshire has been arrested by the Guardia Civil on Mallorca, some five years after he

disappeared from the facility. British officers who were patrolling Mallorca as part of a new summer initiative played a key part in his detention as they were called in to deal with a suspected domestic violence case involving the man allegedly attacking a female in August in Calviá, with Carlton James arrested a week later. The subsequent investigation which was jointly carried out between the Guardia and British police found that the way had skipped prison, in addition to ignoring requests for him to return.

He’s been detained under the terms of a European Arrest Warrant as authorities work on extradition formalities.

On The Buses

Eye Opener

Medics at Elche General Hospital have created a new drug that could stop people going blind or slow down the process as a result of diabetes.

Specialists at the facility's ophthalmology department

in tandem with colleagues around the country have produced the drug to deal with diabetic retinopathy, which would put into a patient's eye, and have a far greater chance of success than current treat-

ments as well as fewer side effects in addition to costing less. Tests on animals have proved to be successful with a third of human diabetes sufferers having the diabetic retinopathy condition.

Recruiters Jailed

Torrevieja council is looking at taking control of the local bus network, moving it away from being privately operated under a tender.

Mayor José Manuel Dolón, said that he had started talks with the central government to see if this was feasible and possible, with the coun-

cil likely to have to employ around 50 people to run the bus service, something that is not allowed under austerity measures implemented by the government. Dolón claims that bring the buses under municipal control would save money and provide a better service.

Safer Place

Crime in Alicante Province has fallen by almost a third since 2008 according to José Javier Cuasante, regional commissioner for the National Police, speaking last Friday in Alicante City on the day of Los Santos Ángeles Custodios (Guardian Angels:- the patron saints of the police in Spain).

Cuasante praised the work of his agents, adding that crime was down by four and a half percent so far this year compared to the figures for 2014.

Costly Trip

An elderly woman has been compensated to the tune of 15 thousand euro after she fell over on Torrevieja's Calle Ramón Gallud as her walking cane got stuck in the whole of a manhole cover. She went for a claim of 25 thousand euro against the council, with the court ruling in her favour. but with a lower award than she wanted.

The extent of her injuries was not disclosed.

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Call For Beach Safety Local residents are calling for better safeguards to stop further drownings on a popular Orihuela Costa beach after a German tourist died last week at Cala Capitan. FAOC (La

Federación de Asociación de Vecinos de la Costa) want improved security in what they say is the most dangerous area of the Orihuela Costa, with more warnings and lifeguards

11 jihadists have been given jail sentences between 10 and 12 years by Spain's National Court for belonging to a group with ties to Islamic State extremists that recruited fighters for suicide bombings in Syria. The judges found them guilty of sending "numerous jihadists to Syria", several of whom died in suicide attacks. Based in Spain's North African enclave Ceuta, they sent at least 28 people to Syria between April 2012 and June 2013, when they were arrested, the court

said. At least eight of their recruits lost their lives in "terrorist acts... in which hundreds of people died".

In a major crackdown on jihadists, including those operating online, Spanish police have arrested scores of suspected recruiters in recent years, including more last Sunday in a series of raids, where 10 were detained in a joint operation with Moroccan authorities.

Four of the suspects, two men and two women, were arrested in Spain, with raids

taking place in Badalona, Toledo and Valencia, while the other six arrests happened in Morocco. The women arrested in Spain were both Moroccans, while one of the men was a Spanish national of Moroccan ancestry and the other a Portuguese citizen converted to Islam.

Investigators also seized a considerable amount of computer equipment and data which is being analysed, according to the Interior Ministry.

No Doubling Bank customers in Spain will not be charged twice for using cash machines, after the government passed a new law which the banks have until next year to apply following a consumer backlash against ATM commissions.

The law, passed at last Friday's weekly cabinet meeting, means the bank which owns the cash machine can charge the customer’s bank for a withdrawal. The customer's bank can then decide whether to pass that

charge on to the customer but cannot add an extra charge on top. The bankcustomer association Facua said the new law would not prevent lenders charging abusive fees as it didn't include a ceiling on ATM commissions.

Emitting Lies Spanish police say they have cracked down on a string of garages that provided customers with mechanical and software services that enabled their cars to cheat emission checks in a scam similar to that which has engulfed Volkswagen.

Following a tip-off, police discovered that eight garages in Madrid were removing diesel

filters and reprogramming software so that motors could deliver more power, be cheaper to service and fool emissions testing equipment.

The garages charged customers between 100 to 200 euro to remove diesel particulate filters, thus improving performance and reducing servicing costs that can

amount to 1,200 euro. The reprogrammed software then made the harmful emissions issued by the tampered-with engines undetectable. All of the exhausttampering services were advertised openly online and inside the garage. Some garages worked on car computers that were delivered to them regularly by post.

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Green For Danger A maintenance company has been ordered to compensate a driver who suffered a car crash when both sets of traffic lights at a crossroads in Sevilla were left on green by mistake. Sociedad Eléctrica de Construcciones, S.A., whose engineer was repairing the set of interlinked traffic lights at a Tjunction in the city, has been ordered by the Supreme Court to pay the affected motorist 6,679€ for damage to his vehicle. The driver pulled out onto a dual carriageway having seen the

green light, but a car smashed into the side of his vehicle as he joined the main route, with the

A Online Battle The Spanish division of online retailer Amazon has branched out into groceries and household cleaning products, hoping to compete with major distribution chains such as El Corte Inglés, Carrefour, and Alcampo.

Three new virtual 'shops' on Amazon.es feature health and beauty items, non-perishable foodstuffs, and non-edible supermarket goods. In the same way as books, DVDs, CDs and

other items already wellestablished on Amazon, individual, independent sellers can use the site as a 'window' and point of sale for their own goods.

At present, Amazon is not retailing fresh food produce in Spain – only Amazon.com does this, in some of the main cities in the USA – its newly opened catalogue of groceries features several thousand high - quality branded Spanish products.

Benidorm Blaze

Three squatters were rescued and six people had to be treated for smoke inhalation after a fire broke out at

a former Benidorm hotel last Sunday morning. The blaze went through six floors of the former Selomar hotel on Calle Nuestra Señora del Sufragio de Benidorm in the Levante Beach area of the resort, Nobody was seriously injured as the hotel had been empty since 2007, but 75 people had to be evacuated from adjoining apartments, with half a dozen of them suffering from inhaling smoke. Meanwhile, the trio of squatters were rescued from the third floor and were taken to the police station to give statements on what happened.

A Fair Cop An arrogant sex fiend was caught out by the National Police after he posted a picture of himself on Facebook.

Clever coppers noticed the serial number of the lift that the pervert was using and tracked him down thanks to the stupid selfie which gave away the location of his Malaga address!

The man stalked underground carparks in apartment buildings in the Teatinas area of Malaga, sexually assaulting at least three women before stealing their credit cards and photographing their identity cards with the threat that he would return and kill them if they reported him.

other motorist also thinking it was safe to proceed when he saw a green light on his set of traffic lights.

Bank Problems Spain's "bad bank", set up to relieve ailing lenders of their soured real estate assets, has said that it faced more charges from the falling value of its properties, which have already eaten into its earnings.

Sareb, which was created in the wake of the 2012 financial crisis, will have to carry out valuations on half of its properties by the end of the year under new rules set out by the Bank of Spain.

The review will involve about 250,000 buildings on its books, Sareb said. It will also have to repeat the valuations every three years and revalue its entire portfolio of assets by the end of next year. Sareb said the process would generate more provisions against losses and that it may have to convert some of its debt into capital to help matters.

A Big Fine

Torrevieja council wants the owners of the city's "Tropic 222" nightclub on Avenida Alfredo Nobel to be fined 100 thousand euro for serious violations of health and safety rules.

The venue, which opened in 1981, was closed in August, and a report says that appropriate measures to deal with a fire as well as evacuation procedures were not in place.

Risky Business The police have arrested 81 people so far this year across the Valencia in their push against illegal and sweatshop companies. Nearly 700 illegal companies have been uncovered including 120 firms in the shoe and textile industry, in addition to 134 illegal car workshops. Many workers were not being employed on a contract as well as tax and social security fraud being committed. The Regional Police said that they had recently raided an Elche shoe factory where 26 of the 37-strong labour force were working without a contract.

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Tax Cut

San Pedro del Pinatar residents will see their IBI property tax reduced form seven point three to seven point one percent, which is the third consecutive year that the tax has fallen, starting from a high of eight percent. The council says that tax revenues have gone up in recent years allowing IBI reductions to continue.

Silence Is Golden

Orihuela’s local police are in the middle of a week-long campaign to control excessive motorbike and scooter noise.

Officers are making spot checks aimed at silencing the noisier two-wheelers, with a special emphasis on bikes that have been modified and cause excessive pollution.

Flying Lie

An unnamed ex-general secretary of Orihuela council has pleaded guilty in court on Monday of trying to defraud the municipal coffers to the tune of 36 thousand euros by writing out fake invoices in the name of his son. The man admitted that he made up a story that his son had taken special flights for aerial photographs of the areas ahead of compiling a general plan for Orihuela.

Three flights that never happened were invoiced to the council at 12 thousand euros each. The ex-official accepted a plea bargain jail stretch of five months and eight months disqualification from working for or standing for public office.

Carry On Working Spaniards are working longer than their continental counterparts due to changes in the minimum pensionable age. The Funcas Spanish society reports says that the average retirement age for Spanish males is 62.3 years, with 63.2 years for females. That contrasts with the Germany male/female retirement age of 62.1 and 61.6 years, followed by Italy (61.1 and 60.5) and France (59.7 and 60).

Sent Down

A 39 year old Spaniard, has been jailed for 25 years, after being found guilty of axing to death his 24 year old Romanian girlfriend,

Sorina at a farm cottage two years ago at La Torre de les Maçanes near Villajoyosa.

Martín Ramírez Sellés was given the sentence by Alicante Provincial Court judge Maria Cristina Costa last Thursday after the unanimous guilty verdict from the jury the previous week.

The killing must pay compensation of 100 thousand euros each to Sorina's parents, as well as 50 thousand euro to her brother.

Justice For Eva

Tough Call A Galicia couple have won their fight to allow their 12-year-old daughter Andrea to 'die with dignity'.

Estela Ordóñez and Antonio Lago's battle led to them commissioning a report from the Bio-Ethical Committee in their home city of Santiago de Compostela.

The Committee supported their view that their daughter's life support machine should be turned off and she should be placed under deep sedation until nature takes its course. But the paediatric unit then declined to do so, saying the report is not binding, but there was a change of heart on Monday, and took Andrea off life-support.

Her parents, Estela Ordóñez and Antonio Lago, argued that their daughter was in pain, a claim the hospital denied which forced the couple to turn to the courts. A Santiago court ordered four expert reports into the issue to determine whether the life support was

"unnecessarily prolonging the child's agony". “Andrea has a rare, incurable degenerative disease of the nervous system and she's reached the last leg of life in terrible agony,” says her mother, Estela.

“What's the point in letting her torture drag on?

On Monday the couple’s lawyer, Sergio Campos confirmed that Andrea had been taken off life support after meeting with her medical team. She would have a "dignified death" as her parents had requested, he told reporters outside the hospital. Doctors are currently providing Andrea with "a minimum level of hydration" so that her medication can take effect. She could die within a matter of days. Campos added that he did not know the reason why the medical team had changed their position, but he "suspected" they were motivated by the fact that the family had taken the case to court in a story that has sparked a debate on euthanasia in Spain.

Righting A Wrong

Spain has granted citizenship to more than 4,000 people whose Jewish ancestors were made to leave the country in 1492.

The move last Friday a day after a new citizenship law came into force, which gives individuals with Sephardic ancestry the right to seek citizenship.

Sephardic Jews were told to leave Spain in 1492, or Santa Pola’s councillors have unanimously agreed to convert to Catholicism. ban circuses in their munici- Those who did not would face the Spanish pality that use animals as Inquisition, which saw part of their acts. Santa many Jews burned at the Pola’s move follows a long stake. list of municipalities that The law gives the have been making the declaSephardic descendants ration recently, with locally Callosa de Segura support- three years to seek a Spanish passport, which ing the ban last week.

Bigtop Pledge

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A murder suspect has been caught in France 18-and-a-half years after his victim was found stabbed to death in a ditch in the Madrid region in attack that shocked Spain. A. C. G., 52, originally from Taza in Morocco but with Spanish nationality, has been living in Pierrefontaine-les-

Varans near the Swiss border since 1999, and was arrested there last week.

Many years of investigations, a joint effort between the Gendarmerie and the Guardia Civil, led to a European arrest warrant being issued by a judge in Torrejón de Ardoz in Madrid and acted upon

by the court of appeal in Besançon, the nearest to Pierrefontaine-lesVarans. Eva Blanco Puig was just 16 years old when her body was found near a roundabout off the Cobeña highway in Algete in April 1997. She had been raped and stabbed at least 20 times in the neck and back.

A Very Tight Fit

The National Police discovered a hidden passenger squashed into the spare wheel well of a car that arrived at the southern port of Algeciras by ferry from Morocco last week. The police said that the female driver of the car became

"very nervous and evasive" when they asked her to open the trunk of vehicle after it arrived from Tangiers.

The hidden migrant was a Moroccan national, with the car driver, a Moroccan national who is legally resident in Spain, being arrest-

ed. In August, a 27-year-old Moroccan man suffocated to death while trying to illegally enter Spain hidden inside a suitcase in the trunk of a car that arrived by ferry in Almeria from Melilla, one of Spain's enclaves in North Africa.

Idena’s Honour brings with it the right to seek work and live within the European Union. It also allows applicants to maintain their original nationality. Like other applicants for Spanish citizenship, Sephardic applicants would be tested in basic Spanish and have to pass a current events and culture test about Spain. They would also have to show a modern-day link with the country, such as buying a property or donating to a Spanish charity. Spain expects some 90,000 people might apply for citizenship, although officials say there is no precise way to know how many people fit the criteria.

A guide dog has appeared in a graduation class photo at a Spanish university. Idena is pictured in the line-up of the official social work degree Class of 2011-2015 picture next to her owner, a blind student who was helped throughout

his university career by his faithful friend and admits he could not have achieved his degree without her.

Arturo Benítez Díaz, from Jerez de la Frontera is pictured among his fellow students from his class at Cádiz University and his

pet appears next to him labelled as 'Idena (Arturo's dog)'.

As is traditional for graduates, as well as the class photo, they receive individual head-and-shoulders pictures wearing mortar boards, Idena included!

Dave Silver

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Thursday 8th October 2015

Chicken Dinner With A Plucky Woman

I reckon I've always been a romantic, probably because of my love for cinema.

That scene in Now, Voyager when Paul Henreid puts two cigarettes in his mouth, lights both and then passes one to Bette Davis.

Such a beautiful moment.

'Big deal!' my mother snorted one day 40-odd years ago. 'That bloke could have set fire to his nose lighting up two fags.'

'You are a hard woman, Mother!' I snorted back.

Being a healthy teenager, my snort was a lot snortier than hers.

'That's a lie. I'm a romantic person, too,' argued Mother as she sat on the back doorstep plucking the main component of that evening's chicken dinner.

There was a brief snortless pause before Mother

renewed our war of words.

'If you are using the cinema as your yardstick, my favourite film is that family one where the mum protects her young son from the unpleasant things in life. That flick really tugged at my heartstrings,' said Mother as she flicked and tugged on more chicken feathers.

I shook my head in disbelief. 'Mother, must I remind you that Psycho is NOT a romantic movie.'

'Whatever,' she shrugged and disappeared into the kitchen with the by-now bald bird.

Anyway, dear reader, I don't want to talk about my mother any more.

'Why not?' the psychiatrist asked me the other day.

'Because my mother fussed over the dog more than she did me. That's why I

grew up feeling small and insignificant.'

'And how do you feel now that you are grown up?' asked the therapist.

'Taller but still insignificant,' I mumbled.

'Sorry,' apologised the psychiatrist. 'I missed your reply.

I must have been miles away because of your monotonous, droning voice.'

'I said I still feel insignificant,' I repeated.

'And boring?' queried the doctor.

'Boring?' I answered, puzzled. 'I never said anything about being boring. I don't think I'm boring.'

'Hmmm,' hmmmed the therapist as he scribbled the words 'self-deluded' on his notepad.

Anyway, dear reader, I don't want to talk about my psychiatrist any more.

'Why not? asked Mrs S as we sat down to dinner (not chicken) last night.

'Because what is discussed between a therapist and his patient must remain confidential.'

'Oh,' said Mrs S. 'So he told you that you were boring, then.'

'Not in so many words,' I muttered. And then: 'Oh, dammit. I forgot to tell the doc about the number of times my mother went out and left me to babysit the dog.'

'You told me that that happened only the once,' pointed out Mrs S. 'And in your story it was a cat not a dog that you had to look after.'

'It was BOTH!' I said. 'I had to babysit our dog Rover AND next-door's cat Claude while Mother and the neighbour went to bingo. It was horrible . . .'

As soon as Mother and the neighbour left the house, I called both creatures into the living room. 'Now look, you two. I don't want the pair of you fighting like cat and dog.

Go to your corners -- and stay there!'

Rover dived behind the sofa and Claude jumped onto the sideboard, knocking over and smashing to smithereens the hideous vase which had been a wedding present to Mother from her equally hideous Auntie Hortense.

I could tell you a few stories about my Great-Auntie Hortense but suffice it to say that if she weren't already deceased I would surely have murdered her and damn the consequences.

Anyway, back to my babysitting horror night all those years ago when the aforementioned Hortense was still very much alive although God knows in which dragon cave she was living. But I digress . . .

The next few hours went so slowly that I thought all the clocks and watches in the house had died. It was like when your kids are little and you throw a birthday party for them and their bratty pals -and three hours seem more like six. But let's get back to the plot again . . .

Feeding time was a real barrel of laughs. Rover emerged from behind the sofa and ate Claude's chunky tuna. The cat reciprocated with a lightning raid on Rover's bowl and wolfed down my mutt's beef and turkey.

Then both animals called a truce and polished off my egg and chips.

I was by now becoming very twitchy. In times of stress I like to go to the pictures. Did I ever tell you that when I was young I had been known to visit the cinema twice in one day? That night, I couldn't even go once. How could I leave a dotty dog and

a crazy cat alone in the house?

I switched on the telly but every channel seemed to be showing a fly-on-the-wall documentary about vets. So after making sure that both Rover and Claude were sleeping-off their (and mine) heavy meals, I put on my jacket and went for a walk.

I hadn't got 20 paces from the front door when I was suddenly stricken with guilt.

What if Rover and Claude woke up to find that I wasn't there. Would they pine to death for lack of human company? I would never be able to forgive myself.

So I returned home and switched the telly back on. It was showing a Hollywood film entitled The Truth About Cats and Dogs.

I sighed so loudly that my furry charges commenced to stir in their sleep -- accompanied by the unmistakable churning stomach sounds which heralded the onset of throwing-up from food overindulgence.

'Don't you dare ruin the carpet!' I warned them and rushed to open the front door.

As the creatures raced into the garden, I thought that things could not get any worse. Then a figure marched into the house.

'You!' I shrieked.

'Out of my way!' snapped Great-Auntie Hortense. 'I've come to visit my vase!'

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Power Cut

Double Date

Rafal council has applied for a 100 thousand euro grant for replacement energy-saving street lighting. They are hoping to get the money from the Alicante Provincial council in a bid to cut their municipality electric bills.

Change Afoot

Torrevieja council is reorganising the management of the local Ecoparque, which is currently operating under an extension of the previous contract. The council aims to improve the service offered there once the contract extension finishes in January.

Happy New Year

Spain’s Princess Cristina is to stand trial on charges of tax fraud in January, which will see her become the first member of the royal family on trial in a court. Cristina, the 50year-old sister of King Felipe VI, was formally charged late last year, following a four-year investigation into the affairs of her husband, Iñaki Urdangarin, who faces charges for fraud, falsifying documents and embezzlement. The former Olympic handball player ran a charitable foundation, the Nóos Institute, which is accused of siphoning off some €6m in public funds. The trial will begin on January 11th in Mallorca and will see Cristina, her husband and 16 others appear in the dock. If convicted Cristina faces up to four years in prison, while Urdangarin could face a possible sentence of up to 19 years.

Both the princess and her husband have denied any wrongdoing.

News

Thursday 8th October 2015

Friday October 9th is a Red Day Bank Holiday

across the Costa Blanca as its Valencia Day, and then the whole of Spain celebrates National Day or Hispanic Day on Monday October 12th, which amongst a number of things, commemorates when Columbus first setting foot in the Americas in 1492.

The centrepiece of the day will see King Filipe VI supervising the raising of the Spanish national flag in Madrid, followed by a military parade.

Come On Down

Guardamar's tourist chiefs are looking for more visitors to try out the area out of the summer peak season.

They've launched an initiative called 'Salir por Guardamar, no sólo en verano’, translated as "Don't just visit Guardamar in the summer", where the

local municipal and tourist websites will feature a range of businesses that are open from mid-September through till mid-April. Based on the success of the project, they hope to publish a leaflet for the following winter season of 2016/17.

Getting A New Look

Improvement work around one of Santa Pola's main roads is set to happen next year. Budgets for 2016 have been agreed for the

project to enhance the Avenida Salamanca area which will include better pavements, signage, and parking.

Truth Wanted

Victims and relatives of those killed or tortured by dictator General Franco have launched a campaign for a "truth commission" to be convened which would try to uncover what happened in a series of atrocities during Franco's rule.

The Platform for a Truth Commission called on political parties ahead of Spain's general election on December 20th to commit to investigating disappearances during the 1939-1975 rule of Francisco Franco. The United Nations has already urged Spain to break a decades-long taboo by investigating alleged crimes of the

1936-39 civil war and the Franco dictatorship that followed.

"We ask all the parties to commit once and for all to fulfilling the UN resolutions during the next legislature," said the movement's spokesman Jordi Gordon.

With the 40th anniversary of Franco's death coming on November 20th, the dictator continues to be a divisive figure in Spain. During the transition to democracy after his death in 1975, Spanish leaders agreed an amnesty for the crimes of the past four decades so that the country could move forward. But critics say the atrocities were too

serious to be covered by an amnesty.

The platform estimates there are at least 150,000 unsolved "disappearances" and some 2,380 mass graves that have never been exhumed. It also demands an official investigation into how babies were taken away from their mothers during the dictatorship.

Spain's previous PSOE Socialist government in 2007 passed a "historical memory law" that was supposed to shed light on Franco-era crimes. But Gordon said a "victims' bureau" set up under that law had been suppressed by the current Partido Popular administration.

Anyone For Relish?

Crevillente might have a world record to its name, with the Cárnicas Ortolá company producing the world’s biggest ever hamburger, weighing 466 kilos

and close to two metres in diameter.

Spectators crammed into the town’s Parc Nou on Sunday to see the whopper, with a neutral notary as well as a Guinness

Book of World Records team in attendance. A final verdict from Guinness will come within the next fortnight on the big 24 centimetre thick burger.

News

Final Flurry Monday saw the hottest October daytime temperature recorded at AlicanteElche airport since it opened in 1967. Figures from AEMET clocked an impressive 34.3 degrees Celsius, topping a 34.3 degree return back in 1981. The Rojales area logged 32.6 degrees in the final farewell to the record-breaking summer before this week’s expected break into more autumnal fare.

Green Pest

Hard on the heels of the red weevil, more of Elche’s famous palm groves are now being invaded by a greenish orange coloured Argentinian moth. Though not as dangerous as the weevil, the Paysandisia species is easier to track and detect, and first hit the city in 2004, with council officials saying that they will be drawing up a plan to fight it, in tandem with the weevil. One issue they will also have to address is that the staff of the parks and gardens department that deal with the weevil and other pests has gone by a third in recent times due to budget cuts.

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Thursday 8th October 2015

Crafty Canine

Alicante’s Canine Unit has struck again with one of

its members sniffing out two kilos of hashish that a 50 year old Moroccan woman was travelling with through Alicante bus station on Monday. One of the specially trained dogs sniffed out something nasty in a suitcase in the hold of a coach that was en route to Barcelona from the southern port of Algeciras. Two kilos of hashish divided into acorns was detected by the alert dog who wasn’t fooled by the fact that the woman had mixed various spices between them to try to put him off the scent.

Quick Drag

A mass stash of smuggled cigarettes said to have a market value of one million euros has been seized by the Guardia Civil and the Tax authority at Alicante Port. 230 thousand packs were found in a container

that was raided in a warehouse with the tobacco placed amongst legally imported materials.

Investigations are continuing as to how the stash got there, where from, and where it was going!

Dad In The Dock

There was some good “off the field” news this week for injured Barcelona star, Lionel Messi, as he heard that prosecutors had dropped tax dodging charges against him, but they will still carry on a case against his father. If convicted, Jorge Messi faces 18 months in prison and a two million euro fine.

Both Messi and his father were accused of

defrauding Spanish authorities of more than four million euro.

Prosecutors allege that Jorge avoiding paying tax on his son's earnings by using offshore companies in Belize and Uruguay between 2007 and 2009.

Messi's lawyers argued that the player had "never devoted a minute of his life to reading, studying or analysing" the contracts.

The high court in

Barcelona ruled in June that Messi should not be granted impunity for not knowing what was happening with his finances, which were being managed in part by his father.

The disputed income related to Messi's image rights, including contracts with Banco Sabadell, Danone, Adidas, PepsiCola, Procter and Gamble, and the Kuwait Food Company.

Lower Road Accident Toll Accidents on Alicante Province roads have fallen by 13 percent over the first nine months of 2015, compared to the same period last

year. Fatal accidents figures have also dropped dramatically between January and September by 32 percent, but that was down to making

comparisons with 2014 which saw eight people die in a minibus crash near Cox on the AP-7. The returns are now similar to those of 2013.

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Dick’s Ready The final countdown is on for the Studio 32 pantomime, Dick Whittington, which is being put on at San Fulgencio’s Cardenal Belluga Theatre next month. The youngsters at the Footwork Dance School will be providing be supporting the main players and the shows will be performed on Thursday 12th

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Fashion Boost

No Mystery At All!

and Friday 13th of November, with curtain up at 7.30pm, plus there’s an evening and matinee performance as well on Saturday November 14th, with the matinee starting at 2.30pm. Reserved tickets can be obtained by calling Philip on 642 080 258 or sending an email to tickets@studiothirtytwo.org

Pulling No Punches

The New Cardenal Belluga Theatre Group are performing their Musical Mystery Tour show featuring music and comedy on Thursday 15th October and Friday 16th October 2015 at

Help Wanted Help At Home Mar Menor raised an excellent one thousand euros from their annual fashion show in Sucina last week, with the charity’s volunteers taking to the catwalk as models. The event was staged at La Vereda Restaurant with what

the charity described as “a great atmosphere and a brilliant result”. If you would like to join the fun team, either fund raising or caring, please send an email to helpathomespain@gmail.com or ask one of the HAH volunteers for information.

A Good Show

A hard hitting documentary exposing modern-day sex slavery, is to be screened at the International Christian Assembly Church on Torrevieja’s Calle Urbano Arregui on Friday, October 16th.

Called Nefarious: Merchant of Souls, it gives an in-depth look at the human trafficking industry, showing

where slaves are sold, where they work and where they are confined - filmed in more than 19 different countries. The 7.30pm screening will be in English followed by a question and answer session. The church has been active for many years making contact and helping local girls caught in the sex slave "industry".

the Cardenal Belluga Theatre in San Fulgencio, with proceeds going to the local school to buy books for the youngsters.

Tickets are just five euro at local outlets in the area.

The Rojales-based Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre is better off by 300 euro thanks to money raised by a horse and flamingo showed staged recently at Casa La Pedrera, in Torremendo. In a fateful twist, one of the horses starring in the show had a strong tie to the rescue cen-

tre, after being rescued from an owner who had to leave the country, and now Romero is one of two stunt horses used by rider Emma Tytherleigh in her performances. Pictured are Emma; Casa owner Jenni Ray; and Centre co-founder, Sue Weeding.

The Paul Cunningham Nurses Charity is looking for volunteers for their shop in Quesada on a Monday or

Tuesday between 10.00 a.m. and 2.00 p.m. If you are interested, please call 650 695 482 or 966 790 363.

Jeanette Erath - Learn Spanish

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The most commonly used Spanish verbs

This week we´re going to look at some of the most commonly used Spanish verbs. Remember every sentence must con-

need to include a subject pronoun or noun whereas in Spanish the subject pronoun can be missed because the ending of the verb relates to the subject.

I´m going to start with the two verbs that in English relate to the verb to be, and they are SER and ESTAR. Ser is used for permanent are s situations and e k e ta ar estar is used for “Mis at you f th temporary situations proo trying!” and locations.

I hope you are thinking tain a of the verb to be, which is I verb am, you are, he/she/it is, or it cannot be we are, they are, in the verb a sentence. In English we SER it becomes: yo soy, tú

N LEAR SH I N A P S

eres, él/ella/usted es, nosotros/as somos, vosotros/as sois, ellos/ellas/ustedes son. Of course as you can see the verb changes for each subject pronoun we don´t need to use them. The word for woman is mujer, so to say I am a woman we need the subject and verb: ´I am´, the article ´a´ and the noun ´woman´ as the noun mujer is feminine the indefinite article is ´una´ so put it together and we have ´soy una mujer´ remember the pronunciation, especially of the ´j´ which is a guttural sound like the ´ch´ in loch.

The word for man is hombre and it´s a masculine

noun so the indefinite article is ´un´, therefore: soy un hombre.

We also use the verb ser with the time, the correct way to say it is with es la una or son las for every other hour. For example, it´s one o´clock will be es la una, quarter past one – es la una y cuarto, but then it´s two o´clock – son las dos, etc.

We also use the verb ser when talking about being early or late, for example if we want to say, ´it´s late´ we would say: es tarde, there are a few ways to say early in Spanish, the first word learners are normally faced with is temprano, but Spanish speakers commonly use ´pronto´ to mean early even though the literal dictionary translation will define pronto as ´soon´. So to say it is early, we can say; es temprano or es pronto. With ´pronto´ they will define it even further with ´aún´ or ´todavía´ which in this case means still. So if you want to go out with Spanish friends at 7 o´clock they might say to you, ´es pronto aún para salir´ as they don´t tend to go out until it´s at least 9pm!

Another important use of ser where you might think you use estar due to it´s

use in locations is when talking about events. If you are asking where somewhere is we use estar, however if we are talking about where an event is we use ser, for example; la película es en el cine – the film is in the cinema, la recepción de la boda es en el restaurante ´Torrevieja´ - the wedding reception is in the restaurant called Torrevieja. Be careful with this use though as it can change verbs depending on the noun that is used, for example the noun ´examen´ could refer to an exam (ser) or an exam paper (estar): el examen es en la sala número dos; el examen está en la mesa. So think carefully as to what

the noun refers to.

Next week we will be looking at the verb estar en more detail, and I´ll let you know when to use it and maybe help with some queries you have. I can always be contacted via The Courier if you have any questions about Spanish. I am also still offering Spanish lessons and a conversational Spanish group for those near Almoradí.

Another service my school offers is a Friday afterschool class for English children to help with their English reading and writing.

Send me an e-mail or whatsapp for more information if interested: :onevoicespain@gmail.com or 625 43 72 17. ¡Hasta la próxima!

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Pets

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How To Stop Your Dog Biting

VOTE NOW ONLINEr u Vote for Yo t at e P te Favouri r.es e ri u o c www.the

Voting for Pet Idol 2015 closes at

midnight on Sunday. Make sure you don´t miss the chance to visit the website, thecourier.es, and vote. Already, the leader board has been changing as the votes are coming in.

You can visit every day and add your votes to your favourite pet pictures on the website, thecourier.es, clicking on the Pet Idol 2015 link at the top of the page. Good Luck there are some great Prizes to be Won!

K9 Appeal K9 is an Animal Rescue Organization which has operated in the Valencia Region for many years, and is a fully legal, nonprofit making charity. The organization is run by a dedicated team of volunteers who feel strongly about animal welfare and work hard to rescue, care for and re home animals.

K9 relies totally on public donations, fund raising and the income from

Their two shops to provide the funds to enable them to care for their animals to the high standard that they deserve.

K9 has dogs, cats and kittens ready for adoption and foster, and are looking for people who have a few hours spare a week to help out in the charity shops and on the van doing deliveries and collections. For more details visit their website at www.k9club.es or phone 600 845 420.

Dogs are everywhere, and some are friendlier than others. As dog owners, we must take responsibility for training our dogs and keeping them under our control at all times. We must also help spread awareness to others about proper behaviour around dogs, dog safety, and preventing dog bites. It is important to understand that ANY dog is capable of biting, regardless of breed or size.

Even the nicest dog can snap or bite when injured or afraid.

All children and adults should learn how to keep themselves safe around dogs.

Most importantly, dog owners must be responsible for their dogs.

Prevent Dog Bites • Put your dog through basic obedience training.

Continue to keep up with a training program throughout your dog's life.

• Allow your dog to meet and interact with different types of people under calm and positive circumstances, especially children, disabled persons and elderly people.

• Expose your dog to various situations on a regular basis, such as other animals, loud noises, large machines, bicycles, and anything else that might cause fear. Start at the youngest age possible, and keep the experiences positive.

• Do not discipline your dog with physical, violent, or

aggressive punishments.

• Always keep your dog on a leash or in a fenced area.

Know your dog well before letting him off-leash in permitted areas. Keep your dog in your sight at all times.

• If you suspect or know that your dog has fearful or aggressive tendencies, always warn others. Do not let your dog approach people and other animals unless the situation is highly controlled.

Use a muzzle if necessary.

• Keep your dog's vaccinations current (especially Rabies) and visit your vet routinely for wellness checkups.

• Always reward and praise your dog for good behaviour.

Avoid Dog Bites • Never try to approach or touch an unfamiliar dog without first asking to owner's permission. If an owner is not present, do not go near the dog.

• When meeting an unknown dog, allow the dog to come to you. Crouch down or turn to the side. Let him sniff your hand before you pet him.

• Do not put your face close to an unknown dog this includes "hugs and kisses."

• Understand dog body language - most dogs will show specific warning signs before biting.

• If you are cornered by a dog, remain still and avoid eye contact. Never run

and/or scream. When the dog stops paying attention to you, slowly back away.

• If knocked over by a dog, fall to your side in a fetal position, covering your head and face. Remain very still and calm.

• Never approach a dog that is eating, sleeping or caring for puppies. Dogs in these situations are more likely to be protective and can become startled.

• Never leave young children or babies alone with a dog for any reason.

• Do not approach, touch or attempt to move an injured dog. Instead, contact a vet or animal control for help.

If a Dog Bite Occurs • The dog owner should confine the dog, then immediately assist the victim.

• The victim, if able, should wash the bite area thoroughly with warm, soapy water.

• Contact a medical profes-

sional right away (depending on the severity of the bite, an ambulance may be needed).

The bite victim should follow medical instructions thoroughly.

• The dog's veterinarian as well as local authorities should be contacted.

• The dog owner should comply with officials, providing all requested medical information on the dog especially Rabies vaccine history. This information should also be provided to the victim.

• The dog owner must take measures to prevent the dog from biting again - contact a professional trainer and possibly a veterinary behaviourist. .

Dog bites can be prevented if the proper measures are taken. Remember responsible dog ownership and education of the public are the keys to safety.

Pets Corner: Can You take in a Homeless Dog or Cat?

BRUNO

COOPER

EMILE

HOLLY

LULU

A lady came asked the vet to put this little 4-month old puppy to sleep, as he didn't get along with her other dog.

We have called him Bruno and he is such an affectionate little pup, house trained and is great with the other dogs, cats and children in his foster home. He is a Podenco Maneto cross and weighs just five kilos. Please phone 645 469 253. www.petsinspain.com

Cooper was aged between one and two years when he was found nearly dead under a caravan. PEPA are looking for a foster home for Cooper to finish his recovery. He is the most beautiful natured dog that we have ever come across. If you think you could foster Cooper please phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com

Emile is a beautiful four month old podenco pup, who is very intelligent, and likes to be cuddled. He is very good with other dogs and cats and he’s currently being fostered in a home with plenty of them who he likes to play with. He is very funny to watch and a real little character. For more on Emile, phone PEPA on 650 304 746 or email p.e.p.a.animalcharity@gmail. com

Holly and her three brothers were abandoned as small puppies. Now they are growing, and it appears they are Great Dane X. Although only a puppy, Holly is already a quiet, calm girl who has lots of love and loyalty to give. Anyone looking to adopt a large dog, couldn't get much bigger than them. It you want to meet the family, please call 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

Lulu is a very shy, timid five month old kitten who was rescued with her brothers and sisters.

Because of her nervousness, she needs a quiet, calm and loving home, where she will grow up to be a wonderful companion cat for someone in her new forever home.

To arrange to meet Lulu please call 630 422 563 or 616 210 850.

POLKA Polka is a pointer/setter crossbreed who was found tied to a tree near a abandoned house with no food or water, She was thin and had old scars all over her body. She is now putting on weight and has become a bouncy, energetic girl, who loves to go for a walk. If you think you can give her a permanent home then please contact 966 710 047 or email info@satanimalrescue.com

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Thursday 8th October 2015

Tony Mayes - About Life

Living the Dream? Parklife Hell!

If you are thinking of buying a park home in the UK and having it sited on an "idyllic" holiday park, think again. It could cost you dearly and give you nothing but headache and heartache. It's extremely tempting for expats living here in Spain to buy a park home in the UK to give them a bolt-hole, just in case something goes wrong as we get older and need somewhere to return to, perhaps giving a gateway to get back into the UK NHS system and knowing that aftercare and/or retirement home place or hospice care will be available. But beware - you might end up buying a lovely park home of your dreams and have it on a site which is owned by a ruthless money grabber who cares nothing of you and just looks on you as a milch cow.

Here is our experience: Back in 2011, my wife and I decided to sell our home on the south coast of England and to divide our capital to allow us to buy a park lodge and to purchase a quad on the Orihuela Costa, the plan being to stay nine months in Spain and three months in the UK. The first purchase was the lodge. We were recommended to a site by someone who told us that he lived permanently in a van on this quiet country site where the rabbits played and sometimes deer roamed in nearby fields. We focused on how far park homes had progressed, offering luxury living, ours was a two bed-

room, two bathroom, one en-suite, kitchen with American fridge/freezer. It had everything going for it.

We gave the site manager the go-ahead to buy the van from the manufacturer, have the concrete pitch extended to provide decking front, back and one side, plus skirt all around. It cost us almost 80 thousand, but we considered it good value, thinking it would provide summer accommodation for up to 25 years of retirement. Site fees were around three thousand pounds a year but with no council tax or water bills to pay, it all sounded good. If need be we could live there for 11 and a half months of the year, just paying more in rent and leaving for just two weeks. Ridiculous, I know, as this is classed as a holiday park.

Once we moved in we heard rumours how ruthless the site owner was, but we were advised that provided we observed the park rules all would be OK. Everything was fine for the first three years. But then we heard rumours that the site owner wanted to lay a new road enabling him to double the number of plots. The road would run right under our van and 20 others. From then on life became hell. The general manager offered to remove our decking at their expense and to store it, but we would have to have it reerected at our expense. I had the temerity to question why we had to pay for the reerection of the decking,

which originally cost us 13 thousand pounds and bought through the site company. We also suggested the decking should be dismantled by professionals, ideally by the company which erected it. At that point the owner withdrew his offer to have the decking removed at his expense and said that unless I was "cooperative" he would not renew our licence to have our van on his land next year. Then we discovered that this snake in the grass had allocated us a pitch which meant we no longer had room to site our rear decking. I had no alternative but to have the decking removed by the decking company. We have since sold the rear decking, and the side and front decking we moved to another part of the site. This was accomplished thanks to the help of my two sons and a large trailer - no help being offered or provided by the site staff.

In addition to this we had to remove all our heavy paving slabs, statues, plants, ornaments, shed with tools and other garden items from our pitch into storage, again all by ourselves. And remember, all this is for the site owner's benefit, not ours!

Our new pitch is going to be laid about 20 feet away, once the new road is laid. In the meantime the van will be placed temporarily onto a pitch already laid about 50 yards away. Owners of around 20 other vans will be facing the same trauma as

us as the road is progressed and all face having to move all their belongings, decking, and everything else at their expense. If they complain in any way it will be made worse for them. We met our MP a few weeks ago who told us that because we were on an unregulated site, it was just like a car owner leaving it on private land the land owner could order it off at any time. We had no rights whatsoever. He also said that living on an unregulated site was rather like stepping back into feudal Britain, with the lord of the manor "owning" the people on his land. He finally told us that he had come across

vans off, giving them next to no notice. A week before we left to return to Spain, the decking company removed the decking and dumped it on the grass beside our van.

In the process of removing it they ripped two down-pipes away from the van, splitting the plastic side, which now means that three panels need to be replaced.

Needless to say, the company won't be getting their money until the work is done satisfactorily. Taking the decking down and replacing it will cost us almost five thousand pounds, and if you factor in our time in moving our garden ornaments, paving, etc, the cost goes up to seven thousand! And all for the site owner's benefit, not ours!

My advice is that anyone thinking of buying a static van or lodge should be very careful where they have it sited - always ensure it goes onto a regulated site, which gives van owners protection.

Unregulated sites still have to be licensed by local councils, but the licence is, more often than not, not fit for purpose because policing them is so far down councils' lists of priorities it is seldom, if ever looked at.

The licence for our site is a

they want to have new vans on their land - to get the sales commission offered by manufacturers. A very cosy set up, all designed to give maximum benefit to the land owner and screw the van owner. So if the owner ordered us off his land by in effect not renewing our yearly licence we would have nowhere else to put it. Of course, if people were far more reluctant to buy and were far more careful where they sited them, manufacturers might begin to put pressure on site owners and get the whole sickening "industry" into the 21st century.

So, there you are, if you see adverts on TV and in newspapers saying how wonderful park home living in the UK is, be very, very scared. Read the small print on the contract and if it is all one sided, as ours is, don't touch it with a barge pole.

You could live to regret it big time. Please, pass this article on to anyone else you know who is thinking of buying a static home in the UK. The more people that know the pitfalls the better - they should know that there are some site owners who are just as bad as the scumbags who ran the worst timeshare scams in the past - and we

many other cases far worse than ours, for example where owners of sites had suddenly discovered the possibility of gaining planning permission for homes on the land and ordering

complete joke, as the site owner drives a coach and horses through it. And what makes the situation even worse is that site owners are most reluctant to take vans from other sites because

know how much misery they caused people! As for the government - they need to introduce meaningful legislation to control holiday park home site owners and the sooner the better.

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Your Specialist Jeweller & Gift Shop

La Ponderosa jeweler and specialist gift shop has been established for 17 years with an international team waiting

to assist you.

In our 200 m store you will be sure to find a special gift for that special person, even

for those difficult to buy for men. Discover our famous Christmas decorations and card selection.

If you love a party you are at the right place at La Ponderosa. Check in store for dates of our upcoming

events of PANDORA, THOMAS SABO, NOMINATION and UNO DE 50, not to be missed.

Great Cuts and Pampering!

London-trained Hair Stylists, David and Karen run Cut and Co and have established themselves in their

premises in Calle Los Arcos in Quesada which they moved to nearly 2 years ago.

Both have over 20 years'

experience in the hairdressing business and provide precision haircuts in a relaxed atmosphere with care and attention given to every client.

The rest of the Cut and Co team include talented stylist Debbie who works on Mondays and Thursdays,

whilst Annette, Beauty Therapist works on Tuesdays and provides luxury manicures and pedicures, shellac nails and rejuvenating facials.

Every Wednesday running very successfully is the Slimmimg Club. Wedding Packages are now available

at Cut and Co that includes Hair, Nails and Full Make-up.

You can find the salon on Facebook at Cut and Co and also Wedding make-up artist and Nails Costa Blanca. To book a hair or any other beauty appointment phone Karen on 648 879 654 or David on 699 409 433.

Wanted 4 legged stars!

To be our STARS of the Dog Shows at the exciting Town Meets Country Event!

PETTASTIC TIMES ARE AHEAD! On Saturday 14th November in Torrevieja! GM promotions with sponsors Grupo Rubio and Skoda are bringing a brand new style of event to Torrevieja with some amazing animal attractions in the display arena …….. For one day only this fun-day with a village fete, country

show atmosphere will inform and delight everyone, animal lover or not there is something for everyone to enjoy, and everyone is welcome, adult’s, children and your pet dogs, YES WE NEED YOUR PET DOGS to enter into our two DOG SHOWS that we will be staging at the event… .Below are the categories, if you would like YOUR dog to be A STAR at the Town Meets Country Event’s DOG

SHOW? Now is the time to enter into one or more of the following categories! To enter your dog into our Pet Dog Show! sponsored by Continental Wealth Management and The FUN Pet Dog Show Challenge!

Sponsored by Protectapet email address: gina@gmpromotions.es for an entry form and further information. Entry fee just 2.00 euro per category, ALL

proceeds going to our animal charities.

The Dog Show!

Categories are: Showing in the Display Arena from 1.00 – 2.00 pm Proudly Sponsored by Continental Wealth Management Class 1 Best Rescue dogs and bitches of all ages who have been rescued Class 2 Puppy - dogs and bitches under the age of 6 months Class 3 Sprightly Pensioners - dogs and bitches over the age of 7 years Class 4 Most Handsome dog - open to all male dogs Class 5 Prettiest Bitch open to all bitches Class 6 Children Handling - open to children under 16 who take their dog into the ring and present it to the judge And just for fun we have put together The FUN DOG Show Challenges! – Our 2 fun challenges for your clever doggies to participate in, in the Show Arena from 3.00 – 4.00 Proudly Sponsored by Protectapet. If you have a Talented Terrier, a Cute Collie, Delightful

Dobleman, or a Heinz 57 breed of pooch who likes to play, then why not enter them into these fun doggie challenges! To win some wonderful doggie prizes and treats!

In the: The Teddy Bear Retrieve Challenge!

Musical Mats Challenge!

This is the purrrrrrrfect event for all the animal lovers out there, and for those looking for a fun day out!……..

On Saturday 14 th November as Torrevieja is playing host to a fantastic new style animal orientated event…… ..being staged on the Avda.

Cortes Valencianas main road in Torrevieja the location is in between the ‘Needle’ and the Iceland Supermarket on the plot of land behind the V 2 Garage……easy to find and lots of parking too.

Get ready as the latest event is coming to town! The TOWN MEETS COUNTRY Event is being launched right here in Torrevieja!…….For ONE day only! On Saturday 14thNovember from 10.00 am – 5.00 pm, GM Promotions, Grupo Rubio and sponsors SKODA will be

staging the first animal orientated event right here on the Costa Blanca! For this one day we will be going animal quakers!! Raising awareness on how to adopt a pet and raising funds for the Albergue, dog pound in Torrevieja who are going through some very positive changes. This event will have everything for your pet’s…… .. vets, groomers, dog trainers, pet supplies, and many animal attractions will all be at the TOWN MEETS COUNTRY Event which has a village fete, county show style atmosphere with all the fun of the fair! Not to mention some fabulous animal displays! Start your Christmas gift shopping and even try your hand at Rings! Win your breakfast or something on the lucky dip, guess the weight of the cake and many other good old fashioned British fete attractions!…… ..TO BOOK YOUR Stall/Pitch email address: gina@gmpromotions.es Check out facebook Town Meets Country, GM Promotions or Telephone: 695 399 841.

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Inheritance Tax in Spain

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The laws regarding inheritance tax have been confusing. Spain is very different to the UK. In the UK you can leave your estate to whoever you want, this is not the case in Spain. The rules are that family members must inherit some of the estate.

Given that many foreigners own Spanish property and may pass away in Spain, inheritance is an important issue to ensure that the correct persons inherit and taxes are minimal. The EU has been working for some time to create a common set of legal procedures to make it easier for people living in other countries to sort out their legal affairs.

The European regulation No. 650/2012 is now in force and relates to the contesting of Spanish wills of British citizens living in Spain. This means that it is important more than ever to make a will as if there is no will then legal defaults would apply which could disadvantage surviving members.

If you decide to leave your assets to your husband or wife then it is important that your national law is specified in your will. Otherwise, if you pass away while living in Spain, the Spanish Succession Law would apply meaning that your children, as forced heirs, would inherit at least two thirds of your estate. The intention of the European law is to provide general information and not to provide legal advice so it is advisable to take professional legal advice and its essential that you make a will. It is also important that your savings and investments are also working in a tax efficient way. As a resident of Spain you have a number of Spanish tax efficient savings and investment products that are available to you. These products offer tax efficient income and also comply with the new asset declaration law that was brought in this year. If you want further advice on how to make your money work better for you and in a tax efficient way, please phone our Benijofar Office on 965 704 338 or email contact@seagatewealth.es

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It´s all about life on the farm this week, as we celebrate Harvest 2015.

G r a n d d a d Rumbelow used to tell me about the Harvest Festivals they used to hold at the school where he used to work. He told me how all the children used to bring some kind of fruit or vegetable in and then they would be given to the needy. As time went on, it became more tins and packets, but I used to love the part where some needy people would have at least

something to eat.

Grandad Rumbelow also used to tell me about his time working in the school when he used to have really, really long legs and had wooden doors and he spent most of his time in a dark cupboard waiting for the teachers to wheel him out to his waiting audience. He used to say it made him feel like he was on the X-Factor, but I didn´t believe him because the XFactor isn´t as old as Grandad Rumbelow.

Anyway, I was talking

about Harvest. It was on last year so it´s actually the second series and is spread over three days looking at farmers and farming across the UK. Some farmers are having a tough time at the moment, but for me, seeing where the food comes from is amazing really. It makes me feel like Grandad Rumbelow, educating people. There´s also The Big Fish this week, which is kind of connected, as Ben Fogle shows us anglers facing extreme temperatures, violent storms and raging currents, in a kind of X-Factor for fishing people type show.

Also this week, although totally unrelated to food, fishing or harvest, River is

Harvest 2015

Returning for a second series, Harvest 2015 follows the fortunes of Britain’s top farmers as they battle to bring in our harvest this year.

Gregg Wallace, Philippa Forester and new presenter James Manning cross the country to visit farms that produce world-class crops, meeting Britain’s most innovative and pioneering producers, during a crucial time of year for the farmers, the food industry, and everyday consumers.

In the first episode on Tuesday, the team report from the East, where pioneering sweetcorn farmer Peter Barfoot has spent decades turning exotic veg into regular British fridge fillers, growing vegetables that many thought couldn’t

be grown here in Britain.

The East region’s sunny climate has earned it the reputation as the breadbasket of Britain.

Gregg helps out with the winter sugar beet harvest and reveals just how much sugar is produced from our home soil. Philippa finds chillies so hot they need a health warning, and visits the Tiptree strawberry fields to try a sweet treat, used for making a special jam that sells all over the world.

Dairy farmer and new Harvest presenter James then visits a futuristic lettuce farm controlled by robots, to find a cutting-edge drilling machine that plants seedlings faster than the eye can see.

On Wednesday, Gregg Wallace, Philippa Forrester

and James Manning report from the North, as they continue their trip around Britain’s top crops to meet innovative farmers.

The team meets the Hay family in Perthshire, Scotland, who are anxiously awaiting a dry spell to roll out their combine harvesters. Having recently pulled their last ever potato harvest, the Hays have now switched to cereals, in particular oats - the rising star of British grains.

The climate and landscape can make this region notoriously difficult to farm, yet well-watered soil and long daylight hours also make it a producer of quality produce.

Gregg visits a fruit grower taking advantage of long summer days to produce world-class blueberries in Aberdeenshire, as the northern-most grower of this increasingly popular berry.

Elsewhere, Philippa meets a seed potato grower in Loch Leven, Perthshire, and learns why Scotland’s seed potatoes sell all over the globe. Meanwhile James visits a fellow dairy farmer in Cumbria who believes that meticulous attention to the growth of his rye grass can

a new crime drama on BBC One. Oh I do like a good crime drama. John River is a respected police officer, struggling to come to terms with the recent loss of a close colleague, River chases a potential suspect across London, with tragic consequences.

Now, this is where it might get confusing because it also stars Nicola Walker, who you might remember from last week is also on ITV in another crime drama on Thursday, Unforgotten.

Anyway, lots to watch this week, but I will leave you with a farming joke.

What did the neurotic pig say to the farmer? You take me for grunted. Tatty bye my friends, tatty bye.

yield premium quality milk.

In the last episode on Thursday, the team report from the West - a land of ingenuity and farming innovation.

We see how three generations of the Thatcher family are about to begin harvesting their cider apples. The rolling countryside of the West of Britain gets more rainfall than the East, which is why these undulating hills and sweeping valleys are so lush - perfect for growing world-famous cider apples.

Philippa stops off at a soilfree hydroponics farm in Somerset, where one visionary farmer is growing a plethora of produce fuelled by fish. She also visits a Gloustershire farmer’s oilseed rape fields to witness the army of hungry insects he has to contend with.

Meanwhile Gregg meets mushroom mogul Ronnie Monaghan, at the largest mushroom farm in Europe where 30 tons are harvested every day in Langford, Somerset. Lastly James heads to Shropshire where one farmer is painting the countryside vivid yellow with quinoa - the latest 'super food' to hit Britain.

Earth's Wildest Waters - The Big Fish

Presented by Ben Fogle, Earth’s Wildest Waters – The Big Fish will see the anglers face extreme temperatures, violent storms and raging currents, as they battle to impress fishing legend Matt Hayes and an expert from each country, who will decide which angler heads home each week.

Eight British anglers will embark on a worldwide expedition, testing everything they know about fishing as they visit six countries in pursuit of extraordinary fish in the wildest places.

Their first expedition is to the wilderness of Iceland, where the eight anglers brave extreme cold, wind and rain to fish in some of the most challenging conditions they have ever

faced.

Judge Matt Hayes is partnered with Vala, an Icelandic fishing expert who will help him judge the intrepid eight over their first three fishing tasks.

Their initial test of endurance will be to fish in the frozen fjord for as many species as possible in just three hours… but this must all be done from a kayak on the freezing water.

Ben Fogle helps them through their ordeal, learning about fishing along the way. Whoever wins this task gets the chance to choose their team for the next part of the expedition.

On day two, the anglers must swap sport fishing for commercial fishing. Working in teams, the anglers will be fishing for cod the traditional way, using the sustainable quotas Iceland is known for.

For their third and final test, the anglers journey south to Iceland’s largest lake, Thingvillr. Heated by geothermal activity, the unique conditions have created some of the largest brown trout in the world. The anglers battle the elements, and each other, to catch the biggest brown trout they can.

River

Tuesday – BBC One John River is a respected police officer, haunted by the murder victims whose secrets he must uncover.

Struggling to come to terms with the recent loss of a close colleague, River chases a potential suspect across London, with tragic consequences.

Calls for his dismissal grow due to his fragile mental state, and under intense scrutiny from the press and within the police force, River must battle to keep his condition in check.

Meanwhile, the mother of a murdered teenager Erin Fielding is growing increasingly desperate - the boyfriend has confessed but no body has been found, and she blames River for failing to make good on his promise to find her daughter.

Cast: Stellan Skarsgård (John River), Nicola Walker (Stevie), Adeel Akhtar (Ira King), Lesley Manville (Chrissie Read), Eddie Marsan (Thomas Cream), Georgina Rich (Rosa Fallows), Sorcha Cusack (Bridie Stevenson), Owen Teale (Marcus McDonald), Shannon Tarbet (Erin Fielding), Josef Altin (Christopher Riley), Pippa Bennett-Warner (Tia Edwards), Turlough Convery (Frankie Stevenson), Michael Maloney (Tom Read) and Fady Elsayed (Aten Olama).

Strictly Come Dancing Saturday and Sunday – BBC One Lights, camera, action! Tonight Hollywood Glamour will take over the Strictly Come Dancing ballroom as the class of 2015 tackle tracks from classic films in our Movie Week special.

The first couple left the competition last weekend and now the celebrities and their professional dance partners are really feeling the pressure because there will be no second takes tonight.

This week, the 14 dancing duos will be performing routines inspired by some of the greatest films of all time.

Hosted by Tess Daly and Claudia Winkleman, the remaining couples must impress the awesome foursome of Len Goodman, Darcey Bussell, Bruno Tonioli and Craig Revel Horwood in a bid to stay in the competition.

The judges will score each performance out of 10 before the vote lines open so viewers at home can have their say. Sadly, another couple have to leave the competition on Sunday night’s results show and no one wants to wrap their Strictly experience.

On Sunday, there will also be a very special musical performance of a class movie song from the renowned Andrea Bocelli and viewers at home will get to look through Len's Lens once again to put Saturday night’s performances under the microscope.

The Job Lot Tuesday – ITV2 ITV2’s hit comedy The Job Lot returns for its third series this week with Sarah Hadland, Russell Tovey and Laura Aikman all back on board as Trish, Karl and Natalie.

The second series ended with Karl finally get together with sexy deputy manager Natalie. In Series three, the couple will find out just how difficult it is to have a relationship in front of all their colleagues, and a very demanding boss.

No nonsense Angela (Jo Enright) is back with a vengeance to continue her reign of terror on unsuspecting jobseekers, alongside security guards Janette (Angela Curran) and Paul (Martin Marquez) and terminally work-shy Bryony (Sophie McShera).

Friday 9th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Thief Trackers 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 Decimate 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Would I Lie to You? An episode of previously unseen material from the hit comedy panel show

07:25 Homes Under the Hammer 08:25 Flog it!

Trade Secrets 08:55 F1: Grand Prix Practice 10:45 My Life in Books 11:15 The A to Z of TV Cooking 12:00 BBC News 12:30 BBC World News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Bergerac 14:45 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 Best Bakes Ever 16:45 The Truth About Lions 17:45 Coast 18:15 Flog It Come Strictly 19:00 Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Great British Menu 21:00 Mastermind

21:00 EastEnders Emotions are high in Albert Square when Ian demands 21:30 Gardeners’ World answers from those closest Monty is at Longmeadow to him with a host of seasonal jobs 21:30 Still Open All Hours 22:00 The Great British Granville’s ambitions to Bake Off: An Extra Slice open a coffee shop cause Sister series to Bake Off quite a stir

Patagonia: Earth’s 22:00 Have I Got News for 22:30 You Kathy Burke hosts the Secret Paradise Life in the treacherous seas that sursatirical news quiz round the South American 22:30 The Kennedys 10- wilderness year-old tomboy Emma receives her first 23:30 Newsnight 00:00 Valentine’s Day card Artsnight 00:35 Later with Jools Holland 01:35 Film 23:00 BBC News 23:35 Better Mus Come 03:15 The Graham Norton Show 04:15 Time Question 00:25 Asian Provocateur Ultimate Forces Special 00:55 Film - Lay the Favorite (15) 02:20 Hell Week 05:15 Gardeners’ Weather for the Week World 05:45 Great British Menu Ahead 02:25 BBC News

SOAPS In Emmerdale, nothing is happening because it´s not on tonight.

In Coronation Street, Kylie runs after Sarah and begs her not to go to the police. Sarah then heads to work clearly stressed.

Unable to suppress her fears, Sarah tells Michelle that she needs to go to the police station as she has

information about the body they found in the canal.

Later, Kylie finds jittery Sarah in the police station and implores her not to report the murder. Will a desperate Kylie be able to convince Sarah to keep quiet?

Meanwhile, Kevin arrives to work in an upbeat mood and announces that he has just landed another contract. Tyrone is worried as he needs time off to be with Hope. Aware of the stress they’re under, Sinead insists that Tyrone and Fiz go for a drink while she babysits.

Elsewhere, Carla, Aidan,

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Morning Good 07:00 Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes?

17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 ITV News and Weather 19:45 Coronation Street The Platts are at breaking point 2016 Euro 20:15 Qualifier: England v All the action Estonia E Group the from encounter from Wembley Stadium, as both teams play their penultimate match of the campaign.

England have already secured their place in the finals in France, but will be looking to maintain their 100 per cent record in the group. Meanwhile, the Estonians still have hopes of qualifying for the playoffs, though only a shock victory tonight is likely to be enough to keep them in contention. The reverse fixture 12 months ago saw England claim a victory thanks to Wayne Rooney breaking the deadlock 16 minutes from time.

23:00 ITV News at Ten and Weather 23:45 Euro 2016 Qualifier Highlights 00:30 Cup World Rugby 01:15 Highlights Jackpot247 04:00 Britain’s Best Bakery 04:50 ITV Nightscreen Johnny and Kate discuss the factory over dinner in the Bistro. Johnny confirms that he’s on board with the factory on two conditions - that he’s central to the running of the business and that they find a job for Kate. How will Carla respond?

Also today, as Roy and Ken set off for their classical concert, Cathy admits to Anna that she’s jealous of Ken. How will Cathy react when Anna explains Roy had intended to take her and only invited Ken out of pity?

There is only one Coronation Street on tonight.

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 13:00 Channel 4 News Summary 13:05 Fifteen to One 14:05 Channel 4 Racing 17:00 Posh Pawn 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:10 Film - A Risk Worth Taking (PG) 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News Tonight

20:30 Unreported World Shaunagh Connaire reveals how some hospitals in China are using treatments involving nausea-inducing drugs and electric shock therapy in the belief they will `cure’ gay people

20:00 Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud Clip show featuring the most hilarious and outrageous cat-themed videos on the internet

21:00 The Last Leg A Stand Up to Cancer edition, the team tear into the week’s main talking points while raising awareness of SU2C 22:00 Gogglebox Insightful, funny and sometimes emotional critiques of popular and topical television shows 23:00 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:05 First Dates 01:10 Rude Tube 02:05 Film - Take Me Home Tonight (15) 03:45 Supernatural 04:30 Location, Location, Location 05:25 Deal or No Deal In Eastenders, emotions continue to run high in Albert Square when Ian demands answers from his mother. Can he forgive her?

With Kathy back in the Square, it’s only a matter of time before some of the other residents learn of her return too.

Meanwhile, Jay’s birthday

21:00 41 Dogs in a 3-Bed Semi Lynn and Tony live with their 41 dogs in her three-bedroom semidetached house, on a very normal looking street in Barnsley 22:00 NCIS: New Orleans After a petty officer is found murdered at Mardi Gras, the team investigates the parades and parties that led to his untimely death 23:00 NCIS 00:00 NCIS: Los Angeles 00:55 Access 01:00 Super Casino 04:10 Now That’s Funny 05:00 Autopsy: The Last Hours of Heath Ledger 05:45 House Doctor celebrations come to a halt when he receives a disappointing phone call.

Ben and Jay talk about their relationships and Ben finally admits that Phil caught him and Paul together. As the pair talk, Jay reminds Ben that what he’s doing to Abi isn’t fair.

After an awkward run-in with Paul, Ben follows him to the toilets and they open up about losing a parent. With Ben sincere about wanting to help Paul, he agrees to meet him later and go for a drink. Later, Paul goes to meet Ben but spots Abi and Ben together - what does this mean?

07:00 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 09:10 You’ve Been Framed 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 14:10 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Film - Rumour Has It(12) 23:00 Film - Practical Magic (12) 01:10 Two and a Half Men 02:05 The Almost Impossible Gameshow ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:20 Murder, She Wrote 09:20 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:05 Where the Heart is 17:10 Doctor in the House 17:45 Rising Damp 18:15 In Loving Memory 18:50 Heartbeat 19:50 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Foyle’s War 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:40 Film Private Benjamin (15) ITV4 07:00 Football’s Greatest 07:05 Gunsmoke 08:00 Minder 10:00 The Chase 11:05 Magnum, PI 12:05 The Professionals 13:05 Minder 14:10 Pawn Stars 14:45 Kojak 15:45 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 17:55 Minder 19:00 Pawn Stars 19:25 Rugby World Cup: Greatest Moments 20:30 Rugby World Cup: New Zealand v Tonga 23:20 Benidorm 00:15 Film Rambo III (18) 02:20 Lawrence Dallaglio: Sports Life Stories

07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

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07:25 F1: Russian Grand Prix - Practice 1 09:15 F1:Grand Prix - Practice 2 10:55 F1:Grand Prix Practice 3 12:05 The Women’s Football Show 12:30 Great British Menu 15:30 F1: Grand Prix 16:30 Coast 17:00 World’s Weirdest Events 18:00 Flog It 19:00 The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure 20:00 19:20 Strictly Come Gardeners’ World Dancing It’s Saturday night at the movies as Strictly cel- 20:30 Patagonia: Earth’s ebrates some of the biggest Secret Paradise (U) Life in the treacherous seas that films in history surround the South 21:25 Doctor Who On a American wilderness remote army outpost, a fearsome alien warlord 21:30 Dad’s Army Captain called the Fisher King sets Mainwaring enlist the help in motion a twisted plan to of a recruit with four feet ensure his own survival.

22:00 Ted Hughes: 22:10 Casualty Cal’s back Stronger Than Death A on an even keel Can things look at the life of Ted Hughes, one of the greatest only get better? poets of the 20th century 23:00 The National Lottery Live 23:10 BBC News 23:30 QI 00:00 Cradle to 23:30 Mrs Brown’s Boys Grave 00:30 Boy Meets 00:00 Film - Pirates of the Girl 01:00 Film - Midnight in Caribbean: On Stranger the Garden of Good and Tides (12) 02:05 Weather Evil (15) 03:25 Film - Lady for the Week Ahead 02:10 Caroline Lamb (15) 05:25 This is BBC Two BBC News

07:00 Breakfast 11:00 Saturday Kitchen Live 12:30 Football Focus 13:00 BBC News 13:10 F1: Russian Grand Prix Qualifying 15:25 Bargain Hunt 16:25 The Great British Bake Off Class of 2014 17:25 Escape to the Country 18:10 BBC News 18:30 Pointless

07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:20 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:45 Share a Story 07:50 Sooty 08:05 Fish Hooks 08:25 Adventure Time 08:45 Avengers Assemble 09:15 Horrid Henry 09:30 Thunderbirds are Go 10:00 Jessie 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 11:20 Countrywise 11:45 ITV News and Weather 11:55 The X Factor 13:55 Downton Abbey 15:00 Rugby World Cup: Samoa v Scotland 17:30 Rugby World Cup: Australia v Wales 19:55 ITV News and Weather

07:10 How I Met Your Mother 08:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 08:30 FIM Superbike World Championship 09:00 The Morning Line 10:00 Frasier 11:00 The Big Bang Theory 11:55 Come Dine with Me 14:30 Channel 4 Racing: Newmarket and York 17:10 Channel 4 News 17:35 Couples Come Dine with Me 19:05 Location, Location, Location 20:00 Celebrity Benchmark One celebrity contestant could make up to £50,000 for their chosen charity

21:00 Britain’s Best Loved Sitcoms The second of this two-part series 20:15 Rugby World Cup: pays homage to the shows England v Uruguay John that have made us laugh Inverdale presents live cov- out loud in our millions over the past half century erage as Manchester gets its first taste of the Rugby 22:00 At Home with Steph World Cup, as England and Dom A special chat take on Uruguay in their show with the much-loved ‘posh couple’ from final Pool Gogglebox 23:15 Through the Keyhole 23:05 Film - Tower Heist 00:15 ITV News and (12) 01:10 Sex Diaries: Weather 00:35 Rugby Gigolos 02:10 Josh World Cup Highlights 01:50 Widdicombe: And Another Jackpot247 04:00 Show Thing 03:05 Alan Carr: Man 04:00 Me the Telly 04:50 ITV Chatty Hollyoaks Omnibus Nightscreen

07:00 Milkshake 10:30 Dora and Friends 11:00 SpongeBob Squarepants 11:35 Cowboy Builders 14:30 Film - Columbo: Grand Deceptions (PG) 16:25 Columbo: Ashes to Ashes 18:15 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 19:10 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 20:05 Funniest Fails, Falls and Flops Comedy clip show featuring pranks gone wrong 21:00 Now That’s Funny Amusing Internet-sourced videos 21:55 5 News Weekend National and international news 22:00 Football League Tonight George Riley introduces highlights of all the day’s games, including Sheffield Utd v Rochdale and Burton Albion v Walsall 23:00 Most Shocking Talent Show Moments 01:50 The Gadget Show 02:40 Super Casino 04:10 The Yorkshire Vet 05:00 Body Donors 05:50 Make it Big

14:20 The X Factor 16:20 The Xtra Factor 17:20 Catchphrase 18:20 Film Beethoven (U) 20:05 Film She’s the Man (12) 22:10 Film - American Pie: The Wedding (15) 00:15 Celebrity Juice 01:05 The Almost Impossible Gameshow ITV3 13:15 Inspector Morse 15:30 Film - Emma (U) 17:55 Lewis 19:55 Doc Martin 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Lewis 01:05 Agatha Christie’s Marple ITV4 12:40 Film - Battle of the Bulge (PG) 16:00 Film Dunkirk (PG) 18:45 Film Police Academy 4 (PG) 20:30 Storage Wars New York 21:00 Storage Wars 22:00 Storage Wars New York 22:25 River Monsters 23:30 Euro 2016 Qualifier Highlights 01:00 Film - The Big Lebowski (18)

09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Keith Nicol

Sunday 11th October 07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 07:45 The Instant Gardener 08:30 Countryfile 09:30 Gardeners’ World 10:00 The Beechgrove Garden 10:30 Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 12:00 Great British Menu 14:05 Film - How the West Was Won (PG) 16:30 Flog it!

Trade Secrets 17:00 The Railway: Keeping Britain on Track 18:00 Rugby Super Final Grand League 20:15 Strictly Come Highlights 19:00 Don’t Panic - How to End Dancing Tess and Claudia Extreme Poverty in 15 return to host the results Years show 20:00 Paul Hollywood 21:00 Antiques Meets Aston Martin Paul Roadshow Fiona Bruce hangs up his apron to his other passion, presents from the Royal indulge Aston Martin cars William Yard in Plymouth 21:00 Earth’s Wildest 22:00 From Darkness Waters Ben Fogle presents Another body is discovered, a fishing challenge in which which seems to have been anglers test their skill in the left as a message for Claire world’s most inhospitable areas when her old shoulder number is found 22:00 Inside the RAF The world’s most famous pilots 23:00 BBC News 23:30 Sir reveal the secrets to their Alex Ferguson: Secrets of spectacular British summer Success 00:30 Rooney: display season The Man Behind the Goals 23:00 Family Guy 00:05 01:30 Weather for the Top Coppers 00:35 Film Week Ahead 01:35 BBC Chances Are (PG) 02:20 Countryfile News

07:00 Breakfast 10:00 The Andrew Marr Show 11:00 Sunday Morning Live 12:00 F1: Russian Grand Prix 15:15 Sunday Politics 16:20 The Great British Bake Off 17:20 Escape to the Country 17:50 Points of View 18:05 Lifeline 18:15 Songs of Praise 18:50 BBC News 19:15 Countryfile

07:00 Bottom Knocker Street 07:20 Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:45 Share a Story 07:50 Sooty 08:05 Fish Hooks 08:25 The Matt Hatter Chronicles 08:45 Avengers Assemble 09:15 Horrid Henry 09:30 Thunderbirds are Go 10:00 Horrible Science 10:25 Murder, She Wrote 11:25 Jeremy Kyle USA 12:20 News and Weather 12:30 Rugby World Cup: Argentina v Namibia 15:10 Rugby World Cup: Italy v Romania 17:20 Rugby World Cup: France v Ireland 19:50 News and Weather

07:20 How I Met Your Mother 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30 Frasier 10:30 Sunday Brunch 13:30 Film - Step Up 3 (12) 15:35 Film Lemony Snicket’s A Series of Unfortunate Events (PG) 17:40 A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:40 Homes by the Sea 19:35 News

20:00 Film - Men in Black 3 (PG) The fight against aliens is taken to a new dimension when Agent J is forced to travel back to 1969 in an effort to prevent 20:00 The X Factor Olly his partner’s murder Murs and Caroline Flack present the climax of the 22:00 Homeland Carrie Six Chair Challenge tries to get on with her new life in Berlin but realises 22:00 Downton Abbey she is now the one who is a The family and servants are surprised with the return of target and no longer has another old friend in unex- Saul and Quinn to rely on pected circumstances 23:00 Experimental 00:05 23:00 News and Weather Film - Predators (15) 02:00 23:15 Rugby World Cup Film - Animal Kingdom (15) Highlights 00:15 03:50 Come Dine with Me Perspectives 01:15 Murder, 05:35 Fifteen to One She Wrote

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 Dora and Friends 10:45 SpongeBob Squarepants 11:20 Access 11:25 Football League Tonight 12:25 Film - Hoodwinked (U) 13:55 Film - Tinker Bell and the Lost Treasure (U) 15:30 Film Tuck Everlasting (PG) 17:10 Film - The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement (U) 19:20 News 19:25 Film - The Count of Monte Cristo (PG) Edmond Dantes is unjustly accused of being a political traitor, betrayed by his best friend over a girl and imprisoned for 13 years in the infamous Chateau d’If 22:00 Film - Parker (15) A professional thief with his own code of ethics is betrayed by colleagues and left for dead, after which he vows to find those responsible and exact revenge 00:25 Film - Layer Cake (15) 02:25 Super Casino 04:10 Skyscraper 05:00 House Doctor 05:25 Make it Big 05:50 Make it Big

14:30 The Very Best of You’ve Been Framed 15:35 Film - Stormbreaker (PG) 17:25 Film - Hotel Transylvania (U) 19:15 Film - Hulk (12) 22:00 The Xtra Factor 23:00 Film Casino Royale (12) 01:55 Viral Tap ITV3 13:25 Lewis 15:25 Agatha Christie’s Marple 17:25 Film - The Prince and the Showgirl (PG) 19:50 Foyle’s War 22:00 Sunday Night at the Palladium 23:00 Birds of a Feather 23:30 City Lights 00:35 Film - Death Becomes Her (PG) 02:35 Agatha Christie’s Marple ITV4 11:15 MSA British Touring Car Championship 19:30 British Superbike Championship Highlights 20:30 Rugby World Cup: USA v Japan 23:20 Film Invictus (12)

09:00 Trev Massey, 12:00 Gordon Lack, 15:00 Tony De Love

Monday 12th October 07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 BBC News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 BBC News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 Inside Out

07:15 Homes Under the Hammer 08:15 Flog it!

Trade Secrets 08:45 Thief Trackers 09:15 Escape to the Continent 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

21:00 EastEnders Kathy attempts to build bridges 20:00 The Great British Bake Off Masterclass with her family Paul and Mary take up the 21:30 Panorama As the reins to demonstrate how they would have tackled the UK’s imprisonment rate contest’s challenges remains the highest in western Europe, Panorama 21:00 University joins Michael Gove - the Challenge Quiz for stuman in charge of British dents prisons - on a fact-finding 21:30 Only Connect Quiz mission in Texas show presented by Victoria 22:00 Crimewatch On the Coren Mitchell eve of the release of new statistics expected to show a rise in hate crime offences, Crimewatch enlists the help of some familiar BBC faces to explore the problem 23:00 BBC News 23:35 Crimewatch Update 23:45 Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:30 The Graham Norton Show 01:15 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:20 BBC News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Kirin is concerned when he spots Jai taking cocaine just before a meeting with an important buyer, but he’s left impressed when Jai holds the buyer in the palm of his hand. Kirin is torn when Jai offers him cocaine, telling him that it will make him feel unstoppable.

Kirin goes on to make an

22:00 The Celts We discover the golden age of the La Tene Celtic warrior and reveal how their world extended as far as central Turkey 23:00 Mock the Week 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Britain’s Ultimate Pilots: Inside the RAF 01:15 Face of Britain by Simon Schama 02:15 The Great British Bake Off 03:15 Who Do You Think You Are? 04:15 This is BBC Two animated and confident pitch to the buyer. He goes out to celebrate with Jai afterwards, but when Jai doubles over in agony with blood running from his nose, Kirin begins to panic.

Meanwhile, Andy starts to feel sorry for Pete over his ongoing family troubles.

They bond when Andy tells Pete about shooting Jack Sugden and how his family forgave him. Andy has a word with James and suggests that he shouldn’t be too hard on Pete.

Rakesh warns that Lawrence won’t be able to prove his story when faced with having to give precise

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 ITV News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 ITV News and Weather 19:45 Emmerdale Kirin is wary of Jai’s methods 20:15 Euro 2016 Qualifier: Lithuania v England Mark Pougatch introduces live coverage of England’s final Euro 2016 qualifier against Lithuania in Vilnius.

England made sure of their place in next summer’s tournament last month and will want to finish their campaign with a flourish. Harry Kane made a dramatic entrance to international football when the sides met earlier this year, scoring 79 seconds after coming on as a substitute in the 4-0 win at Wembley. With studio guests Ian Wright and Lee Dixon, and commentary from Clive Tyldesley and Glenn Hoddle

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xx07:20 How I Met Your Mother 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 Channel 4 News Summary 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 Channel 4 News 20:55 The Political Slot 21:00 Jamie’s Super Food In Ikaria, Jamie finds out about wholegrain cracked wheat as a possible reason so many locals live for so long 21:30 Food Unwrapped Kate learns that pineapples contain a special enzyme that attacks and destroys dead skin cells in your mouth 22:00 First Dates The restaurant opens its doors for a special episode in aid of Stand Up To Cancer

23:00 ITV News and Weather 23:40 Euro 2016 Qualifier Highlights 00:40 The Job Lot 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show 04:55 ITV Nightscreen

23:05 Gogglebox 00:05 Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers 01:10 24 Hours in A and E 02:05 Hunted 03:05 An American in Madras 04:30 Grand Designs 05:30 Location, Location, Location

details during the reconstruction. Chrissie reckons Lawrence has chosen her over Priya when he accepts lunch with her.

that Gavin has taken Phil hostage. She explains that Gavin is likely to hurt Phil if she doesn’t get hold of some money quickly.

In Eastenders, Kathy is still hoping to build bridges with Ben and heads over to the Mitchell house to talk to him. Ben initially rejects her but eventually starts to warm to his mother and they share a hug.

Kathy explains everything that has happened, but her luck runs out when she starts to trip over her lies letting slip that she’s actually still with Gavin. When Ben realises there is much more to the story, a terrified Kathy has to admit

Meanwhile, Kush’s concerns for Shabnam increase when he finds her talking to Jade’s social worker Fiona. Kush is shocked when he realises that Shabnam hasn’t told Fiona about Zaair. Later, he meets up with Fiona

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 5 News Lunchtime 13:15 The Yorkshire Vet 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: New Orleans 16:15 Film The Good Witch’s Gift (PG) 18:00 5 News at 5 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 5 News Tonight 20:00 The Gadget Show Ortis Deley and Amy Williams head to Germany to uncover what some of the world’s most advanced robots can do 21:00 Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 A compilation of animal antics, turning the spotlight on the high jinks of pets of all shapes and sizes 22:00 Autopsy Jason Payne-James examines the last days of Joan Rivers in an effort to establish why she died 23:00 The Joan Rivers Position 00:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away 01:00 41 Dogs in a 3-Bed Semi 01:50 Super Casino 04:10 Underground Britain 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 Divine Designs 05:50 House Doctor himself and opens up over the tragic death of their son.

Elsewhere, Dean becomes jealous over Roxy spending time with Masood on the market stall. Roxy tries to get to the bottom of what’s wrong, so Dean explains that they are understaffed at Blades. Roxy then offers to become the Salon Manager.

Also today, it’s the anniversary of the death of Les and Pam’s son. Les turns to Patrick for support, but Pam is refusing to engage.

When Pam’s attitude takes its toll, Les finds himself in the arms of Claudette.

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Psych 07:55 Coronation Street 08:30 The Cube 09:30 Dinner Date 10:30 Psych 11:20 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Coronation Street 13:40 The Cube 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Film - Bridget Jones’s Diary (15) 00:00 Celebrity Juice 00:50 Two and a Half Men 01:45 Viral Tap 02:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 02:45 Animal Practice ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp (PG) 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Agatha Christie’s Marple 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice (15) 01:35 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke (PG) 08:00 The Professionals 09:00 Minder 10:00 Kojak 11:05 Magnum, PI 12:05 The Sweeney 13:10 The Professionals 14:15 Minder 15:20 Pawn Stars 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Rugby World Cup Highlights 18:00 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge 22:35 Storage Wars 23:00 Motogp Highlights 00:00 Film - The Last House on the Left (18) 02:20 Motorsport UK 03:20 Nitro Circus

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Tuesday 13th October

6 - The Courier TV Pull-out

07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Ben comes face to face with a person from the past and quickly sees their true colours 21:00 Holby City Mo is knocked for six when her old friend Sorcia turns up with Mo’s surrogate son 22:00 River Respected police officer John River, a gifted cop with a troubled mind, struggles to come to terms with the recent loss of a close colleague, and chases a potential suspect across London - with tragic consequences 23:00 News 23:35 Brett: A Life with No Arms 00:35 Who Do You Think You Are? 01:35 Weather for the Week Ahead 01:40 News

SOAPS

07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Rick Stein From Venice to Istanbul 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul Murton sets out to experience island life off the Scottish coast 21:00 Harvest 2015 Gregg, Philippa and James roam the country meeting farmers and witnessing the harvest as it unfolds 22:00 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone Gareth concludes his intensive training with more expert help and a new focus on performance technique 23:00 Later Live with Jools Holland 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 The Celts 01:15 Ted Hughes: Stronger Than Death 02:45 Face of Britain by Simon Schama 03:45 Countdown to Life 04:45 This is BBC Two he has a bag of cocaine on him. He offers Kirin money to take the fall for him, but will Kirin put himself on the line for Jai?

In Emmerdale, Jai turns up to work and tells Kirin that he got a caution for substance abuse. When Priya sees her coked-up brother leaving the pub and getting into his car, she shocks Rishi by ringing the police to report her brother.

Meanwhile, Lawrence urges Chrissie to get Rakesh to call off the reconstruction, as he fears he might be proven innocent. Chrissie refuses the request as she can’t stand the idea of him suffering in prison. Later, Chrissie talks to Rakesh and he’s surprised when she moves in for a kiss. Will Rakesh return the kiss, or will Chrissie be left mortified?

When the police pull his car over, Jai is alarmed as

In EastEnders, Ben gives Kathy some money in the

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale Jai puts Kirin in an impossible situation 20:30 Deals, Wheels and Steals Classic car expert Walter Chrobok is under strict orders from his wife not to buy any cars, but once he is in the auction house he cannot help himself 21:00 Eternal Glory Seven sporting legends remain in the running to claim the title of champion, and now face another round of challenges specifically designed to test every aspect of their athletic training 22:00 Lewis Faced with the seemingly impossible task of identifying the remains of a body discovered in a well, Lewis has also got to contend with new boss Chief Superintendent Moody 23:00 News and Weather 23:40 Through the Keyhole 00:40 Benidorm 01:35 Jackpot247 04:00 Loose Women 04:50 ITV Nightscreen hope that they can get Phil back. Kathy goes to meet Gavin at the park, but Ben defies her wishes by following her.

Gavin embraces Ben when he arrives, but it doesn’t take long for him to show his true colours - demanding even more money and revealing that he and Kathy will soon be leaving Walford.

Once they’re back home, Kathy defends Gavin to Ben and insists that she has to leave to keep everyone safe. Not wanting to lose his mum again, Ben tells her they’ll leave together.

Meanwhile, social worker

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun (PG) 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News Summary 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 The Political Slot

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - The Good Witch’s Family (PG) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News

20:00 Police Interceptors Barry Peach hunts a man suspected of assault, a drunk driver tries every trick in the book to avoid giving a breath sample and 21:00 Obsessive Jon Peacock has a lateCompulsive Cleaners A night encounter with two pair of compulsive spring- unusual law breakers cleaners are challenged to tackle two properties in 21:00 The Yorkshire Vet Norfolk in dire need of Julian treats a bad-tempered goat with a suspectattention ed broken leg and a trainer 22:00 Educating Cardiff awaits Peter’s verdict on a Auditions for the big show horse has cut open its hoof are well under way, and energetic pupil Coral is 22:00 Witch Hunt Dr Suzannah Lipscomb invesquick to sign up to sing tigates the origins of the 23:00 Girls to Men 00:05 obsession for mass witch First Dates 01:15 hunts and trials that swept PokerstarsCom Shark the British Isles 400 years Cage 02:10 KOTV Boxing ago Weekly 02:35 Gillette World Sport 03:05 Mobil 1 23:00 CSI: Cyber 23:55 The Grid 03:30 FIM The Mysteries of Laura Superbike World 01:40 Super Casino 04:10 Championship 04:00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Location, Location, Railway Journeys 05:00 Location 04:55 Kirstie’s Wildlife SOS 05:25 Great Vintage Gems 05:15 Deal Scientists 05:50 House Doctor or No Deal Fiona pays another visit to Shabnam and suggests that it’s too soon after Zaair’s death for her to consider looking after another child. Shabnam then heads over to Blades in a rage, assuming that Dean was the one who told Fiona the truth. As Shabnam rows with Roxy, Kush is forced to admit that he was the one who told Fiona.

In Holby City, after a topsy-turvy year, Mo decides to focus on her career, gaining more responsibilities on the ward. However, the personal intrudes on the professional when her old friend Sorcia arrives on

the ward with partner Brett and her surrogate son William after a road traffic accident.

Brett is put into an induced coma and Adele, Zosia and Ollie begin to comment on the unusual circumstances of William’s birth. When Sorcia also requires emergency surgery, Mo promises her friend she will look after William if anything happens to her.

07:00 The Hot Desk 07:10 Psych 07:55 Emmerdale 08:30 The Cube 09:30 Dinner Date 10:30 Psych 11:20 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 The Cube 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men (PG) 22:00 Tricked 23:00 Glitchy 23:30 The Job Lot 00:00 Release the Hounds 01:05 Two and a Half Men (PG) 02:00 Glitchy 02:25 The Job Lot 02:50 Animal Practice ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:20 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:25 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 20:55 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Joanna Lumley’s Trans-Siberian Adventure 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:35 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:50 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 Motorway Patrol 10:45 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:50 Minder 14:55 Magnum, PI 15:55 The Professionals 16:55 Motogp Highlights 18:00 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge 20:30 Euro 2016 Qualifier: Italy v Norway 23:00 Storage Wars 23:30 Euro 2016 Qualifier Highlights 01:00 Film - Rambo III (18) 03:05 Minder

07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

Wednesday 14th October xx07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 21:00 DIY SOS Nick Knowles and the team take on their most ambitious project to date and transform a whole street of rundown empty properties in Manchester into homes for veterans. They are joined by the local community, as well as Prince William and Prince Harry, who volunteer their assistance on site In the first edition of the two-part special, the team builds houses for two former soldiers 22:00 The Apprentice Alan Sugar begins his 11th search for a new business partner, offering the hopefuls a £250,000 investment in a new start-up company

07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Pound Shop Wars 09:45 Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip 10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 News 12:30 The Daily Politics 14:00 Lifeline 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul sets off from Mallaig to visit a group of islands famed for their unusual names 21:00 Harvest 2015 The team meet the Hay family who are anxiously awaiting a dry spell to roll out their combine harvesters 22:00 Face of Britain by Simon Schama Simon investigates what portraits of the famous can reveal about Britain’s national character

23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 Welcome to the Mosque 01:15 23:00 News 23:35 A Reginald D Hunter’s Songs Question of Sport 00:05 Sir of the South 02:15 The Alex Ferguson: Secrets of Hairy Bikers’ Northern 03:15 Alex Success 01:05 Weather for Exposure the Week Ahead 01:10 Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 04:15 This is BBC Two News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, the police prepare to stage a reconstruction of the night that Robert was shot. When Lawrence is brought to the village, will he manage to accurately recreate the scene of the shooting?

When Chas has to go through her own reconstruction, her opinion of where the shot came from

contradicts what Lawrence said. After making an admission, she soon crumbles from the pressure and has to be taken away by Aaron.

Later, Adam is looking through the video he made for Johnny and is horrified to see footage that incriminates Aaron.

Meanwhile, Priya and Rishi are worried about Kirin, as he didn’t return home after a night out with Jai. Later, the family are aghast when Priya admits that she called the police on Jai. Priya then has cause to be disappointed in Rakesh and he is firmly in the doghouse. As the

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale The police stage a reconstruction 20:30 Coronation Street Fiz and Tyrone face Hope’s hospital results 21:00 All Star Mr and Mrs The game show in which three celebrity couples battle it out to see who knows the most about their other half in a bid to win up to 30,000 pounds for their chosen charity 22:00 Land of the Midnight Sun Alexander Armstrong embarks on an epic 8000-mile journey halfway around the Arctic Circle, deep in mid-winter the most spectacular, but potentially deadly, time to explore this incredible region 23:00 News and Weather 23:40 Sports Life Stories 00:40 Wild Ireland 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Ejector Seat 04:50 ITV Nightscreen day continues, Rishi makes a major decision regarding Jai and the company going forward.

Elsewhere, a mortified Chrissie apologises to Rakesh for the attempted kiss the previous day. Also today, Eric agrees to Leyla’s terms when she plans to increase bookings. He is unaware that she is marketing him as the star attraction - people will pay to have Eric chuck abuse at them!

In Coronation Street, Fiz and Tyrone do their best to remain upbeat, knowing that it’s Hope’s hospital appointment today. At the hospital, the consultant

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07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 20:55 The Political Slot 21:00 Restoring Britain’s Landmarks This brand new series goes behind the scenes at conservation charity The Landmark Trust, following amazing restorations and delving into the history surrounding some of Britain’s most remarkable buildings 22:00 Grand Designs Can you really convert a cowshed into a home by learning everything from the internet? Private chef Ed Versluys and pilates instructor Vicky Anderson do not do things by halves 23:00 Million Pound Properties 00:00 24 Hours in A and E 01:05 Blink 01:30 Embarrassing Bodies 02:30 Supermen of Malegaon 03:45 Film - The Violent Men (15) 05:20 Deal or No Deal

07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS: Los Angeles 16:15 Film - Client Seduction (15) 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 World’s Toughest Prison The workings of some of the most secure prisons in the world 21:00 GPs: Behind Closed Doors The doctors deal with a woman in the midst of a panic attack, a chronic asthmatic, a man who can only eat boiled eggs and a harrowing diagnosis of stomach cancer 22:00 Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away The High Court Enforcement Agents face neighbours at war, a showdown in a kebab shop, a plane seizure and a tenant who believes they are going to hell 23:00 Britain’s Flashiest Families 00:00 Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 01:45 Super Casino 04:10 Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 Great Scientists 05:50 House Doctor

tells them that Hope’s cancer hasn’t spread. She needs chemotherapy but has an 80% chance of recovery.

have the building work in the annexe finished, Kylie announces to Jason, Gary and Tony that she is going to spend the day helping them. In The Rovers, Todd and Tony quiz Sarah, wondering if she has seen Callum. Worried that Sarah might crack under the pressure, David steps in and tells them that Callum has gone to ground and nobody has seen him.

Back at home, Maria calls round with some toys for Hope, and Mary drops in with a lasagne. Tyrone and Fiz are moved by their show of support.

Back at home, Kylie stares at the concrete floor covering the body and breaks down in David’s arms, lamenting that they’ll never be free of Callum as he’ll be in their house forever.

Meanwhile, desperate to

07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 08:35 The Cube 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 The Cube 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 Through the Keyhole 23:00 Release the Hounds 00:00 Tricked 01:05 Two and a Half Men 01:55 Release the Hounds 02:45 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 03:10 The Hot Desk 03:20 Teleshopping ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:50 Inspector Morse 14:05 Heartbeat 15:05 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 20:00 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Midsomer Murders 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:35 Inspector Morse 03:30 Teleshopping ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:45 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 The Chase 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:55 Minder 14:55 Motorway Patrol 15:50 Gunsmoke 16:55 Magnum, PI 18:00 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge 23:00 Benidorm 00:10 Film Maximum Conviction (15) 02:15 Hell on Wheels (PG) 04:00 Teleshopping

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Thursday 15th October

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07:00 Breakfast 10:15 Rip Off Britain 11:00 Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 The Sheriffs are Coming 12:45 Caught Red Handed 13:15 Bargain Hunt 14:00 News 14:45 Doctors 15:15 The Edge 16:00 Escape to the Country 16:45 Home Away From Home 17:30 Antiques Road Trip 18:15 Pointless 19:00 News 20:00 The One Show 20:30 EastEnders Vincent continues to be caught between Ronnie and Kim 21:00 Watchdog The consumer series returns with a new presenting team. The team investigate the companies selling lists of phone numbers of vulnerable people, the ethical pet insurance firm using excuses not to pay out and how to save money buying clothes online. Plus Matt Allwright tackles another Rogue Trader 22:00 The Apprentice The candidates are summoned to the Barbican Conservatory, where Lord Sugar tells them that they must create a new shampoo brand and design an advertising campaign to promote it 23:00 News 23:35 Question Time 00:35 This 01:20 Holiday Week Weatherview 01:25 News

SOAPS

In Emmerdale, Adam is troubled over the footage he has seen of Aaron.

When he goes to the scrapyard, Adam is dismayed to find the gun just where he saw Aaron hide it. Later, Adam shows Aaron the footage of him stashing the gun and asks him if he shot Robert.

At the same time, Victoria

07:00 Homes Under the Hammer 08:00 Caught Red Handed 08:30 The Edge 09:15 Eat Well for Less?

10:15 Victoria Derbyshire 12:00 BBC News 13:00 The Daily Politics 14:00 Coast 14:10 Bergerac 15:00 Cash in the Attic 15:30 A Taste of Britain 16:00 The Box 16:30 The Great British Bake Off 17:30 Natural World 18:15 Flog It 19:00 Eggheads 19:30 Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 20:00 Grand Tours of the Scottish Islands Paul explores the islands scattered in the Firth of Forth

07:00 Good Morning Britain 09:30 Lorraine 10:25 Jeremy Kyle 11:30 This Morning 13:30 Loose Women 14:30 News and Weather 15:00 Judge Rinder 16:00 Who’s Doing the Dishes? 17:00 Tipping Point 18:00 The Chase 19:00 News and Weather 20:00 Emmerdale Adam’s discovery shakes his faith in Aaron 20:30 Tonight Tonight investigates where the money goes when raising a child and advises what families can do to keep the cost down 21:00 Emmerdale Aaron is arrested

21:00 Harvest 2015 The team are in west Britain, where the Thatcher family are about to begin harvesting their cider apples

21:30 Paul O’Grady: For The Love of Dogs Paul O’Grady returns to Battersea Dogs and Cats Home to meet more of the canine residents

22:00 Cradle to Grave Double lives are being led by father and son and a tale of two romantic milestones in the Baker family history

22:00 Unforgotten DCI Cassie Stuart begins to identify people mentioned in the diary of Jimmy Sullivan, whose body has been found during a house demolition 39 years after his disappearance

23:00 The Apprentice: You’re Fired 23:30 Newsnight 00:15 The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone 01:15 Panorama 01:45 Horizon 02:45 Doctor Who 03:30 This is BBC Two uploads the video to the internet, unaware of what she is about to publicly expose. It’s not long before Rakesh watches the video online and sees the footage of Aaron.

Meanwhile, Chas worries that Aaron is guilty. Diane insists that Chas should get some rest. She admits that she won’t be able to as she is having nightmares.

Elsewhere, Priya is still upset that Rakesh lied to her about spending time with Chrissie. Rishi isn’t convinced when Priya says that she would be more capable of running the factory than Jai.

23:00 News and Weather 23:40 The Late Debate 00:10 River Monsters 00:40 Birds of a Feather 01:10 Jackpot247 04:00 Tonight 04:25 ITV Nightscreen Later, Adam and Aaron are desperate to get rid of the gun, but when the police turn up at the scrapyard, is it too late? At the same time, a disorientated Chas awakes to notices that her wardrobe has been left open with half of the contents strewn around the floor.

Soon afterwards, Aaron bursts into The Woolpack and tells Chas about the gun, stressing that he didn’t shoot Robert. The police then arrive and arrest Aaron. Diane is absolutely livid at Chas’s betrayal, knowing that she was covering for Aaron by implicating Lawrence.

Diane demands that Chas

07:00 Countdown 07:45 3rd Rock from the Sun 08:35 Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 Frasier 11:00 Undercover Boss USA 12:00 Posh Pawnbrokers 13:00 News 13:05 Come Dine with Me 14:10 Deal or No Deal 15:10 Countdown 16:00 Fifteen to One 17:00 A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 18:00 Four in a Bed 18:30 Come Dine with Me 19:00 The Simpsons 19:30 Hollyoaks 20:00 News 21:00 George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces George meets a couple wanting to transform two dilapidated air raid shelters in their garden 22:00 Hunted With just seven days to go, the remaining fugitives must reach a pre-arranged extraction point to evade capture once and for all, but with the clock ticking, the hunters are ramping up their efforts to find them 23:00 First Dates 00:05 Gogglebox 01:10 Educating Cardiff 02:10 Embarrassing Fat Bodies 03:05 Sex Diaries: Trans Lovers 04:00 Location, Location, Location 04:55 Deal or No Deal 05:45 Fifteen to One leaves the pub, but she refuses.

Later, Aaron’s mind races as he is questioned in the police interview room. He becomes desperate when he is reminded that he is on license and whatever happens, he is going straight to prison.

In Eastenders, News about Fatboy and Donna’s passion spreads around

xx07:00 Milkshake 10:15 The Wright Stuff 12:10 Cowboy Builders 13:10 News 13:15 Now That’s Funny 14:15 Home and Away 14:45 Neighbours 15:15 NCIS 16:15 Film - A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery 18:00 News 18:30 Neighbours 19:00 Home and Away 19:30 News 20:00 Secrets of Underground Britain Rob visits a prehistoric cave system that altered Victorian Britain’s view of human history, and a Cold War nuclear bunker 21:00 Aircrash New Yorkers still traumatised from the events of 9/11 two months before watched in horror as American Airlines Flight 587 fell out of the sky onto a densely populated part of the city shortly after take-off from JFK. Had the terrorists struck again?

22:00 Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys Chris sets out to reach the northernmost railway station on Earth in an epic 2000-mile adventure from Moscow into Arctic Siberia 23:00 Film - Tombstone (15) 01:30 Super Casino 04:10 41 Dogs in a 3-Bed Semi 05:00 Wildlife SOS 05:25 Great Scientists 05:50 House Doctor the Square. As Donna bonds with Nancy and they talk about their past relationship experiences, Fatboy admits to Tamwar that Donna is just a friend.

After a suggestion from Tamwar, Fatboy invites Donna for a drink.

Later, Donna gets more than she bargained for when she finds Les in Claudette’s living room.

Meanwhile, Martin happily reveals that he is planning to get an allotment, but he soon gets distracted by the news that his divorce has been finalised. In an attempt to cheer Martin up, Stacey and Kush turn to Patrick for help.

07:00 You’ve Been Framed 07:20 Psych 08:05 Emmerdale 08:35 Coronation Street 09:05 You’ve Been Framed 09:35 Dinner Date 10:35 Psych 11:25 The Real Housewives of Atlanta 13:10 Emmerdale 13:40 Coronation Street 14:15 You’ve Been Framed 14:40 Dinner Date 15:40 Jeremy Kyle 19:00 Judge Rinder 20:00 Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed 21:00 Two and a Half Men 22:00 The Almost Impossible Gameshow 23:00 Celebrity Juice 23:50 Glitchy 00:20 The Job Lot 00:50 Two and a Half Men 01:45 Viral Tap 02:20 Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 02:45 Animal Practice 03:10 The Hot Desk ITV3 07:00 In Loving Memory 07:25 Heartbeat 08:25 Murder, She Wrote 09:25 Where the Heart is 10:30 Judge Judy 11:55 Inspector Morse 14:10 Heartbeat 15:10 Wild at Heart 16:10 Where the Heart is 17:15 Doctor in the House 17:50 Rising Damp 18:20 In Loving Memory 18:55 Heartbeat 19:55 Murder, She Wrote 21:00 Rosemary and Thyme 22:00 Million Dollar Princesses 23:00 Law and Order: UK 00:00 The Vice 01:35 Inspector Morse ITV4 07:00 Gunsmoke 07:50 The Sweeney 08:50 Minder 09:50 Motorway Patrol 10:50 Magnum, PI 11:50 The Professionals 12:50 The Sweeney 13:50 Minder 14:45 Motorway Patrol 15:40 Gunsmoke 16:45 Magnum, PI 17:50 BT World Wheelchair Rugby Challenge 23:00 Film - Invictus (12) 01:40 Film - The Last House on the Left (18)

07:00 Peter Hurst, 11:00 Dennis Christian, 13:00 Alex Trelinski, 16:00 Andy James, 18:00 Suzy G

The Courier TV Pull-out - 9

TRELI ON THE TELLY Nostalgia Rules, OK!

WITH ALEX TRELINSKI When I noticed BBC1 had a new series called The Kennedys on a Friday night, I thought initially that we were going to get a new mini-series on America’s most famous political family, but instead we’ve got yet another comedy that has childhood nostalgia all over it.

In a year that has seen Cradle to Grave (the seventies) and Raised with Wolves (the eighties but in the modern day), The Kennedys is a family tale set in the late seventies and is based on writer and actress Emma Kennedy’s life as a 10-year-old growing up in Stevenage.

Having loved the other two shows, I was certain that I would resist this one heavily, especially as the

opener crammed in a lot of seventies clichés in the space of just a few minutes. But like the other two nostalgia-fests I‘ve mentioned, it’s a jolly old half-hour, with Lucy Hutchinson the showstealer as young Emma.

There’s nothing new, but everybody is having so much fun, it would be churlish to pour cold water on something that actually does offer some good Friday night entertainment.

Prior to The Kennedys, I loved the dry wit of Richard Osman taking Jeremy Clarkson to pieces when he guesthosted the start of the new run of Have I Got News For You last week, but the entertainment value of it

should not mask a blatant piece of double-standards at the Beeb. Some years ago the permanent presenter of the show, Angus Deayton, was removed because of some frankly pretty trivial personal behaviour that made the tabloids. It was rough treatment I thought at the

Alexander Armstrong In The Land Of The Midnight Sun

time, yet in 2015, we have a man back working for the BBC just months after he punched a producer in an inexcusable piece of behaviour that lost him his position with Top Gear.

Why one rule for Deayton but another for Clarkson?

All hail to ITV for firing some big drama guns in

the priceless 9.00pm slot that it seemed to give up over the summer. Old favourites Lewis, Doc Martin, and Downton Abbey this week have been joined by a Thursday night cracker in the shape of Unforgotten which I think is the best new drama that ITV have produced this year with familiar faces Nicola Walker and Sanjeev Bhasker playing detectives who get involved in a “cold case”.

The X Factor six-chair challenge is a wicked piece of television, but utterly gripping, and I thought Rita Ora did pretty well with her picks as he went up first last Sunday in the girls category.

There’s no need to feel

sorry for the wanabes as they know what’s coming up, and we’ll get more hysteria come the Judge’s Houses section. But, how hysterical will Cheryl Fernandez Versini get if the rumours prove to be true, and Louis Walsh reappears as a neutral fifth judge come the live shows? It hasn’t been denied and Walsh has allegedly turned down half a million quid to go to the jungle for I’m A Celebrity, so that he can return to his favourite show. I love Louis and his sense of fun, but surely The X Factor has moved on?

Meanwhile over on deadly rival Strictly Come Dancing, isn’t Peter Andre the most obvious early favourite of all time?

Sir Alex Ferguson: Secrets Of Success

“I’m going to embark on an incredible challenge, to follow the path of the Arctic Circle half way around the world in the depths of winter. To uncover a land of breath-taking natural beauty.” Alexander Armstrong

Sunday - BBC One

Wednesday - ITV Alexander Armstrong embarks on an epic 8000-mile journey halfway around the Arctic Circle in this new three-part documentary series for ITV. His journey takes place deep in mid-winter, the most spectacular but potentially deadly time to see this incredible region.

We think of the Arctic as an unforgiving, ice-bound wasteland, but his journey is full of surprises.

Alexander’s voyage begins in Scandinavia, before he heads westwards into Iceland and Greenland, through Canada and Alaska and finishing on the international dateline that divides the continents of North America and Alaska.

He witnesses the world’s most stunning natural wonders and finds out why the far north has such a magnetic lure for its extraordinary inhabitants, in a challenging adventure in which

he needs to survive wildly unpredictable weather and temperatures as low as -40 degrees Celsius.

In episode one, Alexander’s odyssey begins in Scandinavia, as he flies into Northern Norway on a light aircraft towards Bodo, ten miles north of the Arctic Circle.

His pilot John decides to let him lose on the controls for his first ever flying lesson, before they land at Bodo to catch the day’s only ferry to the Lofoten Islands.

Sir Alex Ferguson is one of the most successful leaders this country has ever produced.

He was the mastermind of one of Britain's leading brands. Not a soft drink or a smart phone, but a football club: Manchester United.

During his 26 years as manager of Manchester United Football Club, Sir Alex transformed it into a multi-million pound global business, picking up every single domestic trophy there is in football along the way – many times.

In this one-off programme,

the BBC’s political editor for the past decade, Nick Robinson, will get up close and personal with Sir Alex and uncover the secrets of his success.

Sir Alex will share his unique insights on leadership that speak to everyone, revealing how he stayed at the top of his profession for so long and crucially how best to motivate, discipline and inspire people.

Viewers will discover not only how he turned United into a team of champions but how he kept them at the top and what skills he deployed.

Sir Alex will also reflect on

the nature of legacy and life after leaving the stage with Manchester United, and how, through his relationships with eminent figures outside football and his teaching, his approach to leadership has found resonance beyond the world of football.

The programme will feature contributions from leading figures in business, politics, military and sport including Cristiano Ronaldo, Tony Blair, General Sir Michael Jackson, Lord Sugar, Ryan Giggs, Rio Ferdinand, Sir Michael Moritz, Jose Mourinho and Professor Anita Elberse.

10 - The Courier TV Pull-out

CODE CRACKER Code Cracker is a crossword puzzle with 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. In this week’s puzzle, 7 represents F and 14 represents M, when these letters have been entered throughout the puzzle, you should have enough information to start guessing words and discovering other letters.

QUICKIE

Across 1 Crude (5) 4 Angled (4) 9 Boat race meeting (7) 10 Keyboard instrument (5) 11 Acquire (3) 12 Brightly coloured (5) 14 Fool (5) 15 Long for (5) 16 Chooses (4) 18 Border (4) 20 Aches (5) 22 Concur (5) 23 Smooth glossy fabric (5) 25 In favour of (3) 26 Apartments (5) 27 Outshine (7)

29 Drench (4) 30 Foundation (5)

Down 1 Ring (6) 2 Strong emotion (5) 3 Pose (3) 5 Vacuum (9) 6 Merchandising (7) 7 Generous or forgiving (11) 8 Reluctant (5) 13 Indigestion (9) 17 Maybe (7) 19 Faux pas (5) 21 Except if (6) 24 Snares (5) 28 Weep (3)

Last weeks Solution

Across: 1 Cosset, 4 Press, 9 Afterward, 10 Ape, 11 Gaudy, 12 Extreme, 14 Pass, 16 Pest, 21 Entitle, 23 Surge, 24 Rob, 25 Grenadine, 26 Faith, 27 Depend.

Down: 1 Change, 2 Satsuma, 3 Early, 5 Rod, 6 Shame, 7 Eager, 8 Fever, 13 Tip, 15 Set, 17 Surmise, 18 Learn, 19 Deter, 20 Legend, 22 Tibia, 23 State, 25 Get.

Scribble Pad

DOUBLE CROSS-WORD Solve the Double Cross-Word puzzle using either the standard or cryptic clues, the answers are exactly the same.

CRYTPIC CLUES Across 1 You and I are after Buzz for compost (5) 4 There is a sharp knife is in the ambulance today (6) 9 Club keeps memory in knots (7) 10 Princess cross over the delay taken in adding on an extra room to the palace (5) 11 Predict socialist to hold American capital (4) 12 Lower and leave stranded (3-4) 13 Used to be found in Washington DC (3) 14 If a mother is involved with a criminal group (5) 16 Up to unlit broadcast (5) 18 Games without me will result in idle chit-chat (3) 19 Voluntarily avoid this beaten up RAF bore (7) 20 Reel back with a lascivious look on one's face (4) 23 Places for members to socialise where suits are required? (5) 24 Organised midshipman and a canine for a small boat (7) 25 Get involved with broken spinet (4-2) STANDARD CLUES Across 1 Organic fertiliser (5) 4 Medical knife (6) 9 Knotted lace work (7) 10 Add on (5) 11 Scan the print (4) 12 Disappointment (3-4) 13 Existed (3) 14 Crime syndicate (5) 16 Up to (5) 18 Air-like fluid substance (3) 19 Refrain from doing (7) 20 Lascivious look (4) 23 Stout sticks (5) 24 Small sailing boat (7) 25 Become involved (4-2) 26 Plundered treasure (5)

26 Get a kick at the end of day from the spoils taken (5) Down 1 Urdu, hmm! Confused?

No, boring (7) 2 City made from bits of Meccano (5) 3 Marine mammal left under the ocean (4) 5 A staunch representation of bear's breeches (8) 6 Associate with a regal spouse (7) 7 Tin containing bull meat is a pollutant (5) 8 Sleek backing for the under parts in boat-building (5) 13 Support for aquatic recreation? It wreaks havoc! (5-3) 15 In favour of music making a lot of money (7) 17 Confused Clare in New York was a victim of petty theft (7) 18 Keeps a tight hold on one's bags (5) 19 Concentrate on central point (5) 21 Muse of love gets to the centre of the copper atom's heart (5) 22 Ignore cooked buns (4) Down 1 Boring (7) 2 Saudi holy city (5) 3 Make tight (4) 5 Herbaceous plant (8) 6 Husband or wife of a reigning monarch (7) 7 Poisonous substance (5) 8 Boat bottoms (5) 13 Ride behind a speedboat (5-3) 15 Large amount of money (7) 17 Stealing (7) 18 Grabs onto (5) 19 Centre of interest (5) 21 Greek muse of lyric and love poetry (5) 22 Refuse to acknowledge (4)

Last weeks Solution Across: 1 Expected, 5 Plea, 9 Portend, 10 Adore, 11 Dine, 12 Protest, 15 Tester, 16 Enigma, 19 Trolley, 21 Flat, 24 Haven, 25 Scooter, 26 Pill, 27 Pardoned.

Down: 1 Expedite, 2 Parents, 3 Crew, 4 Elders, 6 Lions, 7 Awed, 8 Ratting, 13 Telling, 14 Battered, 17 Gelatin, 18 Red Sea, 20 Revel, 22 Chap, 23 Bold.

FILL IT IN

Complete the crossword grid by using the given words:

2 letter words Hi Ma Or Us 3 letter words Ale All Are Ark Art Ave Bam Doe Dry Ell Era Gal Gel

Had Has Hoe Ids Loy Nae Nil Oft Ort Ply Ron Sap See Shy Sir Ten Tut 4 letter words Abet Aloe

Arcs Area Bars Bass Blur Boat Boss Cent Cost Cosy Cure Cuss Dose Else Envy Flee Leer Lens Less Lino Mass

Oats Oral Parr Rage Rent Scan Sear Sent Tell Tent Yeah 5 letter words Alone Ankle Avers Bagel Cedar Curio Hasty Horse

Meant Melee Sales Stand 6 letter words Cosset Parrot Sandal Settee Shears Stylus 7 letter words Cavalry Restore 8 letter words Cashmere Tuneless

SPANISH-ENGLISH CROSSWORD

Improve your Spanish - clues in Spanish, answers in English or vice versa.

Across 1 Anoche (4,5) 4 Pierna (3) 6 Gemelos (5) 8 Manzana (fruta) (5) 9 Trajes (5) 10 Behind (at the back) (5) 11 Sistema (6) 13 Bones (human, animal) (6) 16 Proyectos (5) 17 Wall (interior) (5) 19 Comb (for hair) (5) 20 Dueño (de casa, coche, perro) (5)

21 Gold (metal, commodity, currency) (3) 22 Sink (kitchen) (9) Down 1 Whips (7) 2 Cielos (5) 3 Herboso (6) 4 Hares (7) 5 Goals (5) 7 Arañas (7) 10 Aquarium (7) 12 Champú (7) 14 Help! (7) 15 Esfera (6) 16 Peter (5) 18 Baile (pieza, arte) (5)

The Courier TV Pull-out - 11 Across 1 Edge tool for cutting grass with a long handle that must be held with both hands and a curved blade that moves parallel to the ground (6) 5 Official routes of communication (8) 9 Light biscuit made with egg white, sugar and ground almonds or coconut (8) 10 Exit a computer (3,3) 11 Mountain range in southern Spain along the Mediterranean coast to the east of Granada (6,6) 13 City in western Nevada noted as a gambling resort and for its liberal laws enabling quick marriages and divorces (4) 14 Number of players in a rugby league team (8) 17 Surname of US general who commanded the Allied forces in China and

Burma and India during World War II, nicknamed Vinegar Joe (8) 18 Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis (4) 20 In North America, a prison for people convicted of serious crimes (12) 23 Hindu festival celebrating the end of the monsoon also known as the Festival of Lights (6) 24 Dish of beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan and served plain or with a savoury or sweet topping or filling (8) 25 Huge bronze statue of the sun god Helios that was built around 285 BC and that stood beside the harbour entrance on the island of Rhodes for about 50 years be fore it was toppled by an earthquake: -------- of Rhodes (8) 26 Small slender-bodied

SUDOKU (Easy)

Quiz Word

chiefly marine decapod crustaceans with a long tail and single pair of pincers, many species are edible (6)

Down 2 Which word can precede: black, face, field, gas,

hole, man and tar (4) 3 Spore-bearing fruiting body of a fungus, typically in the form of a rounded cap on a stalk, especially one that is believed to be inedible or poisonous (9) 4 Guided missile developed by the French government for use against ships (6) 5 Song written by Bill Martin and Phil Coulter as the UK entry in the 1968 Eurovision Song Contest, performed by Cliff Richard (15) 6 According to legend, an island in the Atlantic Ocean that Plato said was swallowed by an earthquake (8) 7 Arid region forming most of southern Israel, between Beersheba and the Gulf of Aqaba, on the Egyptian border (5) 8 Establishment with

coin-operated washing machines and dryers for public use (10) 12 American golfer nicknamed Supermex, who was the first man to win all three Open championships (Canadian, US and British) in the same year (3,7) 15 Child’s stuffed plaything named after US President Theodore Roosevelt (5,4) 16 Study of heredity and the variation of inherited characteristics (8) 19 Professional basketball team based in Los Angeles (6) 21 Final and fully developed adult stage of an insect, typically winged (5) 22 In physics and chemistry, the smallest component of an element having the chemical properties of the element (4)

SALLY’S SIMPLE SPANISH

FORMAS DE COCINAR Match these words with their Spanish translations then find them in the wordsearch.

(Answers below)

a la brasa

freír

a la plancha

guisar

al vapor

hervir

asar

hornear

batir

mezclar

calentar

moler

cocer

picar

congelar

rallar

enfriar

rebozar

sports QUIZ

ANSEWRS 1. Roger Milla 2. 4 3. Red Rum 4. Baseball 5. Brands Hatch 6. 4 Inches 7. Henry Cooper 8. 14 9. 2.5m 10. Southpaw 11.

Badminton

Last Week’s Solutions Code Cracker Last weeks Quiz Word Solution Across: 1 Costa Rica, 6 Focus, 9 Rarebit, 10 Quinine, 11 Yuppie, 12 Hijacker, 14 Opel, 15 Chesterton, 18 Buttresses, 20 Wasp, 23 Sri Lanka, 24 Patter, 26 Twin tub, 27 Adam Ant, 28 Yalta, 29 Bull's eyes.

Down: 1 Currycomb, 2 Scruple, 3 Albeit, 4 Iota, 5 Acquiesced, 6 Frigates, 7 Cricket, 8 Shear, 13 Shish kebab, 16 Nephritis, 17 Cream tea, 19 Trivial, 21 Actuary, 22 Casals, 23 Satay, 25 Hall.

Empareja estas palabras - Match the Spanish and English words You will find the answers at the bottom of the quiz.

1.a la brasa, 2.a la plancha,

17.rallar, 18.rebozar.

k.to grate, l.to roast, m.to boil, n.to stew, o.to cool down,

3.al vapor, 4.asar, 5.batir, 6.calentar, 7.cocer, 8.congelar,

a.to mix, b.to bake, c.to grind,

p.to fry, q.to cook in water,

9.enfriar, 10.freír, 11.guisar,

d.barbecued, e.to heat,

r.to freeze.

12.hervir, 13.hornear,

f.to dip in batter, g.to beat,

14.mezclar, 15.moler, 16.picar,

h.to chop, i.grilled, j.steamed,

Soduko

Span - Eng

Quizword

Answers: 1d, 2i, 3j, 4l, 5g, 6e, 7q, 8r, 9o, 10p, 11n, 12m, 13b, 14a, 15c, 16h, 17k, 18f.

1. Who is the Oldest Goal Scorer in a World Cup Finals Match?

2. How Many Players Are In A Polo Team?

3. In 1977 Which Horse was Guest Of Honour At The Opening Of The Steeplechase Ride At Blackpoll Pleasure Beach?

4. In Which Sport Would The Detroit Tigers Face The Chicago cubs?

5. At Which Sporting Venue Do Competitors Travel Down The Brabham Strait?

6. How Wide Is The Beam In Womans Gymnastics?

7. Which Former Heavy Weight Boxing Champion Has An Identical Twin Brother Called George?

8. What Is The Maximum Number Of Clubs Allowed In A Golf Bag? 9. What Diameter Is The Circle From Which You A Discus?

10. What Term Is Used For A Boxer Who Leads With His Right Hand?

11. Poona, was the original name of what sport or game?

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Thursday 8th October 2015 Aries March 21-April 20 With Mercury, the planet of communication, travelling backwards through the area of skies that rules your love life, you could create more problems than you solve early in the week by trying to break the ice or clear the air with someone. You can turn the situation to your advantage if you do not try to force the pace.

Taurus April 21-May 21 An unexpected setback could turn out to be a blessing in disguise this week, so do not try to carry on along your chosen course or insist that others fit in with your plans. If you give yourself a break, you could also come up with a new, inspired solution to a recent problem. It seems that there is more than one route to your goal.

Gemini May 22-June 21 Much as you might like to branch out on your own and conquer new horizons, with your ruler, Mercury, still travelling backwards through the skies, this is not the time to take unnecessary risks. Something you discover later in the week could give you a new advantage, so postpone all decisions until then.

Cancer June 22-July 23 The planetary pattern early in the week could make it hard to see your way ahead and enlist support from someone you rely on. If you are patient, you can overcome resistance to your plans, so let things be and wait until the situation changes, which it will do later in the week. Meanwhile, focus on domestic changes that you had postponed.

Leo July 24-August 23 Whether you succeed in solving problems that have held you back could depend on how you play your hand this week. With Mercury now stirring up confusion in your chart’s communication zone, others could misread your real intentions and expect concessions you are not prepared to make.

Virgo August 24-September 23 In the week ahead, with the headstrong planet, Mars, now travelling through your sign, you could say too much, too soon, and create unnecessary problems. Slow down and let others do the talking. The situation will resolve itself if you stand back, so do not jeopardise a long-term bond or new, important friendship. All you need to do is wait.

Libra September 24-October 23 Relax and let events unfold this week. The confusion caused by Mercury, the planet of communication, which is travelling backwards through your sign, will pass later in the week when it changes course. Postpone all decisions until then and do not let a passing comment throw you off your stride.

Scorpio October 24-November 22 While Mercury is travelling backwards, you could read meanings into someone’s words that are not there, or see problems where there are none. The position you are in is stronger than you think, so put ambitious plans on hold and wait until the planetary pattern changes later in the week. You can start to make real progress then.

Sagittarius November 23-December 21 Do not take on more than you can handle in the week ahead. If you let others feel that they are in control, you will reach your goal much sooner, so take a more relaxed approach to a situation that you cannot change. An unexpected conversation later in the week could put you in a strong position.

Capricorn December 22 - January 20 If you let others make their own decisions they could start to see things from your side, so do not try to push through changes now.

Tensions ease from Friday, when persuading someone to change course should be plain sailing and you’ll be able to focus on your social life. Someone you spend time with could help you unexpectedly.

Aquarius January 21 - February 19 Something you discover from a friend could help you turn a tricky situation to your advantage, so postpone hurried decisions early in the week and do not hesitate to ask some leading questions. Just how easy it would be to reach your current goal should soon be clear. You will recognise the moment to take action when it comes.

Pisces February 20 - March 20 This week’s clash between decisive Mars and your ruler, Neptune, suggests that someone close could put you under pressure to do things their way. If you are diplomatic, you can sidestep problems, but, for now, let them feel that they are making the decisions. Put your plans on hold until later in the week when you’re in an easygoing phase.

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Thursday 8th October 2015

Halloween Pet Safety - Top 10 Tips

Halloween can be a festive and fun time for children and families. But for pets?

Let's face it, it can be a downright nightmare. Forgo the stress and dangers this year by following these 10 easy tips provided by petmd.com.

1. Trick-or-treat candies are not for pets.

All forms of chocolate -- especially baking or d a r k chocolate -can be dangerous, even lethal, for dogs and cats. Symptoms of chocolate poisoning may include vomiting, diarrhoea, rapid breathing, increased

heart rate, and seizures.

Halloween candies containing the artificial sweetener xylitol can also be poisonous to dogs. Even small amounts of xylitol can cause a s u d d e n drop in b l o o d sugar and subsequent loss of coordination a n d

seizures. And while xylitol toxicity in cats has yet to be

established, it's better to be safe than sorry.

2. Don't leave pets out on Halloween. vicious Surprisingly, pranksters have been known to tease, injure, steal, and even kill pets on Halloween night.

Inexcusable? Yes! But preventable nonetheless.

3. Keep pets confined and away from the door.

N o t only will your door be constantly opening and closing on Halloween, but strangers will be dressed in unusual costumes and yelling loudly

for their candy. This, of course, is scary for our furry friends. Dogs are especially territorial and may become anxious and growl at innocent trick-or-treaters. Putting your dog or cat in a secure room away from the front door will also prevent them from darting outside into the night … a night when no one wants to be searching for a lost loved one.

4. Keep your outdoor cats inside several days before and several days after Halloween.

Black cats are especially at risk from pranks or other cruelty-related incidents. In fact, many shelters do not adopt out black cats during the month of October as a safety precaution.

5. Keep Halloween plants such as pumpkins and corn out of reach.

Although they are relatively nontoxic, such plants can induce gastrointestinal upset should your pets ingest them in large quantities. Intestinal blockage can even occur if large pieces are swallowed. And speaking of pumpkins …

6. Don't keep lit pumpkins around pets.

Should they get too close, they run the risk of burning themselves or knocking it over and causing a fire.

7. Keep wires and electric light cords out of reach.

If chewed, your pet could cut himself or herself on

shards of glass or plastic, or receive a possibly lifethreatening electrical shock.

8. Don't dress your pet in a costume unless you know they'll love it.

If you do decide that Fido or Kitty needs a costume, make sure it isn't annoying or unsafe. It should not constrict movement, hearing, or the ability to breathe or bark and meow.

9. Try on pet costumes before the big night.

If they seem distressed, allergic, or show abnormal

behaviour, consider letting them go in their “birthday suit”. Festive bandanas usually work for party poopers, too.

10. IDs, please!

If your dog or cat should escape and become lost, having the proper identification will increase the chances that they will be returned. Just make sure the information is up-todate, even if your pet does have one of those fancyschmancy super-modern embedded microchips.

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The Best Halloween beauty kits

From fake blood and batwing lashes to pumpkin-coloured lip gloss, here are the beauty essentials for your Halloween kit

If you want to raise the Halloween stakes you should probably raise your make-up game too. Whether you're planning to scare the neighbours or are off to a hot Halloween party, here we present you with some of the spookiest, and easiest howtos to crack the creepy look.

Day Of The Dead Face Lace, from £29.95-£39.95 It looks complicated, but in fact these face stickers are the easiest way to sport Halloween make-up - just don't work up too much of a sweat on dancefloor because your face may fall off - creepy.

Shu Uemura Gloss Unlimited in Orange shade 50, £18.50 Orange is in fact one of the most flattering colours we can wear - but knowing that most are too freaked out by bright hues, we thought we'd suggest a tangerine tone for Halloween to ease yourself in.

Remember, this shade would double-up as a longterm lipstick investment Givenchy Ombre Couture Noir Sequin, £18

For haunting eyes go heavy on the liner, particularly below the bottom lashes.

This one comes complete with the hint of a sparkle so it doubles up as a great partypiece, too. Illamasqua Freak Eau De Parfum, from £34 With poison hemlock, black devana and opium flower, the ingredient list reads like a witch's recipe. In fact the intoxicating blend, thanks too to added oud and myrrh, is a rather wonderful heady floral that makes for a super, sexy warm winter fragrance.

Laukrom's Artificial Blood, £13.10 Water-based and easily removed, this gel blood is the easiest to work with, and scarily looks just like the real thing. House of Holland False Nails Mental Monsters, £7.99. Stick-on nails without the trickery but all the cheating so you won't have to dream up your own Halloweenthemed nails.

Mistair Airlites Hair Art Colours (75ml), £13.25 In a rainbow of 28 colours in matte and pearlescent finishes, these washout colours are your cheat to switching up

your colour for a night. You can also find stencils available if you're going creative for Halloween.

Eylure Batwing Lashes, £6.95. Eylure, the UK's bestselling lash brand, has created some brilliant Halloween themed lashes this year.

Another favourite is the Batwing Lashes. We hear they're reusable, but perhaps stick to Halloween-themed parties only. ThumbsUp!

Finger Candles, £10. For one night only sling out the Jo Malones and get these guys in to create just the right kind of Halloween ambience lighting. Mistair mistFX Aqua Body Paints £12 Far better to use theatrical paints than make-up if you're attempting any kind of body-art - and these come highly recommended for their waterbased, smudge-proof, foolproof fancy dress ease.

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Halloween costume ideas

The spooky season is upon us. No idea what to wear? Relax, we've got your every Halloween costume quandary covered Nina Sayers, aka Natalie Portman's psychologically unstable Swan Queen, has been high on Halloween costume lists since the 2010 release of Darren Aronofsky's Black Swan.

Note to revellers attempting the look on All Hallow's Eve: fit in some serious squat sessions before donning

Wednesday Addams Pale, plaited youngster Wednesday Addams is obsessed with death and the macabre. Though her deadpan wit is optional Wednesday's morbid school girl style is easy to replicate. Pop a sharp white collar on a dark longsleeved dress and keep everything else a complete black out.

Catwoman

Michelle Pfeiffer, Halle Berry and Anne Hathaway have all moonlighted as sassy fictional superhero Catwoman in recent years, but it's Lee Meriwether's Sixties siren that captured our imagination. With a shiny second-skin suit, bandit style mask and cat ears, there's something wonderfully DIY and easy to copy about her feline faรงade.

Black Swan

that tutu.

Carrie Chloe Moretz's recent interpretation of Sissy Spacek's tormented character Carrie, from the 1976 supernatural horror film that takes the protagonist's name, means a resurgence of blood-soaked costumes.

Prepare for a messy dress-

ing-up session.

Velma Dinkley "My glasses! I can't see without my glasses!"

Scooby-Doo's nerdy gang member, Velma, might always solve the mystery, but she's got zero fashion sense.

Cowabunga!

Rihanna (below) comes out of her

shell for Halloween as she dons Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle costume while partying with pals.

From Kim Kardashian's washed-up mermaid to Kate Moss and Gwen Stefani vamping it up at Jonathan Ross' Halloween Party, see celebs below for the best costumes last year.

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Heston’s golden ticket £255 to eat in the Fat Duck? That’s indefensible

Food & Drink Where does creative cooking meet crazy cake territory

Desserts A la Banana

2 tablespoons milk, 4 teaspoons sugar, 1 teaspoon vanilla, 1 medium banana, cut in quarters, 1 cup plain low fat yogurt, 8 1/4-inch banana slices.

Directions 1. Place milk, sugar, vanilla, and banana in blender.

Process 15 seconds at high speed until smooth.

2. Pour mixture into a small bowl; fold in yogurt. Chill.

Spoon into 4 dessert dishes; garnish each with 2 banana slices just before serving.

Pineapple Angel 1 box (1-step) angel food cake mix. 1 large can crushed pineapple.

Directions Put dry cake mix in bowl. Add entire can of pineapple with juice. Mix carefully until all dry mix in incorporated. Pour into either a tube pan, 9x13 pan, or cupcake pan with liners.

Bake at 350 degrees for time on box for size pan (around 30-40 mins. When sides pull away from pan and toothpick, cake is done. You can also use low calorie cherry, blueberry, or lemon canned pie filling instead of pineapple.

What better for the Willy Wonka of British gastronomy, than choosing who dines at the Fat Duck by lottery? The restaurant gets 30,000 booking enquiries a day and is open for, roughly, 260 days-a-year. If 10% of those applicants bought a £10 lottery ticket, that would generate £7.8m annually (before wine sales, service charge etc).

As opposed to the approximately £8.32m that the restaurant will make, over 12 months, assuming its 80 covers a day spend £400a-head.

The people’s brand ambassador From Marco Pierre White’s Knorr stock cubes to Michel Roux Jr’s new

Lexus, top chefs often work as brand ambassadors.

Most notably, in Spain, Telefónica has helped fund the El Bulli foundation as part of its association with Ferran Adrià. Blumenthal has Waitrose, Little Chef and, erm, Vision Express on his CV, but could he forge a more lucrative partnership that would subsidise a cheaper Fat Duck menu?

Who would begrudge a Heinz-Heston hook-up or a collaboration with Dr Oetker, as long as that money was being used philanthropically in Bray?

In short, Blumenthal needs to take one for the team (us).

Good old-fashioned public funding Can food be art? No. It is

a craft skill that aims to deliver heightened pleasure. However, certainly at the Fat Duck’s rarefied level, food has a cultural value that could, perhaps, see it qualify for public funding. The Arts Council England, for instance, has supported various events that include a food element or which use food in the creation of art. Heston, get filling in those funding applications.

The Corbyn plan Double the price of the tasting menu for those wealthy diners who wish to book in advance, but give half the tables away for free each day, on a firstcome, first-served basis. It may be the only way I ever get to eat there again.

About five years ago, Christopher Thé from Sydney’s Black Star Pastry came up with a novel idea for a wedding cake: layers of almond cake, whipped cream, a strip of fresh watermelon, pistachios, more cream, strawberries and dusted with edible rose petals. Despite the flamboyance of the ingredients, the cake was light, fresh and delicious and quickly became the cafe’s signature dish.

Delicious! There was a long line to sample the classic cake.

Weird but it works: Andy Bowdy’s Nutella and cherry pie The foodie world is abuzz with the news that the pastry chef at the Sydney hipster eatery Hartsyard, Andy Bowdy, has gone out on his own with Andy Bowdy Pastry,

an online bespoke cake service that will ship around Australia.

Promised offerings include chocolate fudge cake with Milo mousse and salted caramel with Snickers wedding cakes. tried the deep-fried Nutella and cherry pies which were yummier than they sound. The warm golden pastry pillows, dusted with cinnamon sugar, split open to reveal oozing Nutella and rich, ripe, dark cherries. Wonderful to eat – but could be a nightmare to ship.

LuxBite specialises in desserts that combine Asian influences with French dessert techniques. There are two stores: the original LuxBite, which does macarons and cakes, and T by LuxBite, which specialises in tarts.

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The Perfect Caponata Caponata, a lovely, piquant dish of stewed Mediterranean vegetables

Sicilian cooking embraces contrast, discord, counterpoint, counterpunching, variance and the absence of delicacy … the dishes are as bold and baroque as any flamboyant building.”

In keeping with this philosophy, caponata is a vegetarian feast to be reckoned with, a clear example of what Del Conte describes as one of the key characteristics of Sicilian cuisine, where “a simple local ingredient, in this case the aubergine, is taken as the basis of the dish, and is then embellished and enriched until the end result is an opulent and

almost baroque achievement”. In other words, until it’s got more flourishes than a fancy palazzo.

However, Ruth Rogers and Rose Gray note warily in the River Cafe Classic Italian Cookbook that “there are as many ways to make caponata as there are cooks in Sicily”, a fact confirmed by Giorgio Locatelli, who claims that “in every house and in every restaurant you will find a different version and opinion” – both facts to send a shiver down the spine of anyone not born in the shadow of Mount Etna. So, just how do the rest of us capture the

essence of this bold and quintessentially Sicilian dish?

Aubergines The River Cafe book informs me that “the basis of caponata is the popular aubergine” – and theirs is the only recipe to demand anything special in this department – “a large, pale aubergine about 12cm in diameter”. I’m only able to lay my hands on the chalkstriped variety labelled “graffiti aubergines”, which are indeed slightly paler inside, although I don’t detect any difference in the finished dish. Rogers and Gray also require me to salt them before cooking, as do Del Conte and Locatelli, while Yotam Ottolenghi and Jacob Kenedy’s Bocca don’t bother.

As in previous aubergine-

related experiments, I find that there is no need to do so with the fruit we get here, which has had most of the bitterness bred out of it, but it does improve the flavour.

(Ottolenghi salts after frying, which doesn’t seem to work as well.) Del Conte and the River Cafe suggest half an hour, which proves sufficient.

Kenedy dices them into 1cm cubes, Ottolenghi 2.5cm. I compromise and choose Locatelli and Del Conte’s 2cm cubes: too small and you lose the contrast between the caramelised exterior and the creamy inside; too large and there aren’t enough pieces to go round. Ottolenghi and the River Cafe both shallow-fry their aubergines, while everyone else deep fries them.

Shallow-frying aubergines is an endeavour bound to disappoint: as Norwegian food writer Andreas Viestad has pointed out, “a recipe that tells you simply to ‘pan-fry eggplant in oil’ plays a cruel joke on a home cook … before I knew better, I would start with a generous amount of oil, but the pan would be completely dry after a few seconds.

When I added more oil, that disappeared, too, leaving me with the choice of pouring in

even more or having some part of the eggplant cooked in a dry pan.”

Aubergines are like sponges – sponges with a special affinity for fat. Mine soak up the 160ml of oil in Ottolenghi’s recipe in seconds, leaving me with the dilemma outlined above. It’s much better, in fact, to go with deep-frying; it’s a bit more of a faff, but, as Viestad explains, the high temperature involved prevents the aubergine from soaking up too much of the oil, leaving it far less greasy than the shallow-fried version.

Bit players Onion and celery are the other mainstays of caponata – indeed, Jane Grigson lists the latter as a main ingredient. I like the River Cafe’s choice of red onion, which complements the other sweet flavours, but I’m less keen on the two whole heads of celery they use. To be honest, it’s not my favourite vegetable, which may explain my preference for Locatelli and Kenedy’s more moderate number of stalks. The River Cafe blanch theirs before use, and Del Conte deep-fries it, but it’s just as easy to soften smaller amounts alongside the onion.

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How your GP is paid to stop you going to hospital Doctors are being offered financial incentives to reduce outpatient referrals

Family doctors are being offered bonuses of thousands of pounds to reduce the number of cancer patients sent to hospital, an investigation has found.

GPs are being paid up to £11,000 to stay within targets for outpatient referrals and follow-ups, which can

include two-week cancer waits and emergency admissions.

Critics last night called the payments “highly unethical” and “very concerning”. The General Medical Council (GMC) suggested they could be regarded as an inducement and warned doctors it

could constitute a conflict of interest. The schemes are at odds with the recently announced NHS cancer strategy, which promised an 80 per cent increase in tests for cancers.

The UK has the worst survival rates for cancer in Western Europe, largely due

to late diagnosis.

Dr Maureen Baker, chairman of the Royal College of GPs, said: “This is a preposterous idea. It is deeply insulting and demeaning – as well as being highly unethical – to suggest that offering GPs money will change the way in which we care for our patients.

“Most worryingly, it undermines the doctor-patient relationship and the trust that underpins it.”

She said GPs “will always make decisions in the best interests of our patients based on their clinical needs”.

GMC guidance states that doctors must not accept any “inducement, gift or hospitality” that affects or could be seen to affect the way a doctor treats or refers patients.

The NHS in England is

attempting to save £22 billion by 2020. Reducing referrals from GPs to hospitals would reduce costs for clinical commissioning groups (CCGs) – the NHS bodies responsible for planning and commissioning regional health care and overseeing GP practice budgets.

However, health officials last night said that CCGs would be asked to explain their plans and should not be taking any actions which could prevent referrals of suspected cancer.

It found that the NHS North-East Lincolnshire CCG is offering the average practice the equivalent of more than £6,000 to reduce outpatient referrals, including two-week urgent cancer referrals, to the same level as the 25 per cent of practices with the lowest referral

rates in 2014-15.

A spokesman insisted that the figures quoted were the absolute maximum a practice could earn, and that in order to show significant improvements they would have to completely overhaul how patients were managed.

NHS Birmingham South Central CCG is offering the average practice the equivalent of more than £11,000 to reduce new outpatient attendances, follow-ups, A&E attendances and emergency admissions by one per cent, compared with last year. The CCG said it had considered the “full impact” of the incentive scheme and was “confident there is no conflict of interest”.

In London, at least six CCGs offer incentives for practices to cut referrals.

Are you taking medications you don’t need?

Many patients take two different brands of exactly the same medication When people come to our clinic for a scan, we usually go through their medications, and what we find is that many people take medications that they don´t need. Worse still is that sometimes people overdose by taking two different brands of exactly the same medication.

Errors with medications are very common among expats who come over with already prescribed medications that they are allowed to continue taking. However, other medications may be prescribed on top of already prescribed medications, without any thorough review. Also

adding to the problem is the reluctance of GPs to stop medications prescribed by specialists.

The danger of taking many different medications is that they increase the risk of a likely interaction between the medications. In pharmacology, it is understood that tak-

ing 3 or more different medications especially for the same purpose, may cause a counter-reaction.

For example, we often see people taking up to 3 or more different medications for blood pressure, and typically, their scans will show severe damage to the liver, kidneys

and other detox organs.

Those taking several medications should have them evaluated regularly to see if there is any need to continue.

Furthermore, those suffering from high blood pressure or diabetes should continuously monitor their blood pressure and sugar levels for sudden changes.

Our observation at Medb is that many people are diagnosed with high blood pressure that is caused by high levels of toxins or the presence of microbes especially viruses in the body. And usually when the problems are properly managed, the high blood pressure goes down.

Hollywood’s New Star Salon

The Hollywood Unisex Hair & Beauty Salon has settled down nicely into their new home, with their Salon now in Los Dolces Commercial Centre, Orihuela Costa, after moving from Punta Prima. A warm welcome is extended from the friendly staff to new and of course the very valued existing clients!

Pop into the Salon for a perfect pamper from a team that pride themselves in giving you a calm and relaxing

experience. You can enjoy the treatments in total privacy from the fully qualified technicians who are also insured for your peace of mind. Free consultations are conducted in confidence.

There’s men’s and ladies hairdressing across the whole range, with a man’s cut starting at just six euros, and no appointment is necessary. You can enjoy SemiPermanent Makeup; General Beauty treatment (including facials); giving your nails a

new look; in addition to an ear piercing service, waxing, and spray tanning. Plus there’s waxing and everything you need for your eyebrows and eyelashes.

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People are usually prescribed high blood pressure medications, without any proper checks carried out to determine the cause of high blood pressure.

When the underlying cause of the high blood pressure is treated, the blood pressure medications will no longer be needed.

Likewise, people with diabetes will notice an improvement in sugar levels when they start eating healthier foods.

For A Full Body Diagnostic Scan, Call MedB Clinic: 965071745.

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Running into problems Contact@medb.es

In medical terminology, “runners knee” is called patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). It is a problem that responds very well to physiotherapy treatment and there is a reasonable amount of research evidence behind what we do.

What is it?

The pain arises from around or under the patella (knee-cap) and can be as a result of it not tracking properly in its groove. There are some common risk factors that can affect how the patella tracks.

The resting position of the patella: some people are pre-

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disposed to problems because of the position of their patella. It may sit too far to the outside of the groove, or be tilted or rotated, which may increase contact within the groove. Physiotherapy can treat the muscles around the knee to alter biomechanics to optimise this tracking even with patellae that are malpositioned.

The muscles around the knee: namely the quadriceps or thigh muscles. If the inside quads muscle does not activate well it can cause tracking issues, and people with patellofemoral pain tend to develop weaker quads. If the

iliotibial (IT) band, which runs down the outside of the thigh, is tight, it can pull the knee cap more towards the outside of the knee.

Hip and pelvis control: if your pelvis drops on the opposite side as you bend your knee this can cause strain through the knee and affect the angle of pull through the muscles, causing tracking issues. A simple way to test how you move is to do a single leg squat in front of the mirror; if your belt line drops down as you bend and your knee does not move over your foot then you do not have optimal mechanics.

But the good news is that this too can be improved.

Foot position: if your feet roll in a lot then your knee will have a tendency to twist in and this can cause tracking issues as well.

What causes it?

Like most running injuries, runner’s knee is an overuse rather than a traumatic injury.

Changes in load can be one of the biggest factors. So this could be related to the volume or intensity of your training. Insufficient recovery can also be a factor. This is why it is important to keep a record of what you have done and only change your training parameters gradually. I normally tell my patients that it is best to avoid changing both speed and duration in the same session as they are building up mileage. You should also factor in a lighter week every four weeks to allow for some recovery in your training.

Biomechanics, relating to the way you move, can also affect the relative load through the patellofemoral joint. The risk factors listed above can increase the chances of developing problems. This is something a physiotherapist should assess in detail in terms of muscle length, activation and how you move, with functional tasks as well as walking and running.

How to treat it?

There are a lot of treatment options for patellofemoral pain and it normally responds well to physiotherapy. The treatment is not prescriptive and will depend on where you are in your training and why you have developed symptoms. The main treatment options are as follows Rest or reduction in activity: mostly there will need to be some alteration in your running activity. If you are lucky, it might just be cutting this back a little but if the pain is too severe, you will need to rest to allow the irritation to settle. If you are training for a particular event then it is important that you keep up cardiovascular training where possible.

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RICHARD CAVENDER

Bluemoon Solutions www.bluemoonsolutions.es

BlueMoon Solutions is the computer and IT services company on the Costa Blanca, they provide quality computer services at realistic prices and specialise in working with home users and small businesses.

Richard moved to Spain eight years ago having left his management background behind in the UK and decided to use his IT skills to help home users and small businesses with their PC problems. Now a relaxed 'computer man' he is out and about in the Spanish sun every day, making house and shop calls and using his vast experience and qualifications to (usually) sort out the problem there and then. Computers are his hobby as well as his work so don’t be surprised to get an answer to your email in the early hours!

ADVICE: Bob wanted to know whether MalwareBytes was ADVICE: Niel had lost his contacts from his Mac and worth shelling out his hard earned cash for wanted to know how to get Hi Richard, I them back.

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downloaded and tried MalwareBytes but now it says my free trial is ending and I have to buy it at $25. Is it worth it or is there another free program which is just as good?

Bob

Hi Richard, I have lost my contacts on my Mac computer. They are still on my iPhone and iPad. So it seems I have done something wrong myself.

How can I get them back? Niel

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Hi Niel, have a look in Finder > System Preference > iCloud

Hi Bob, yes I fully recommend upgrading to the “paid for” version of MalwareBytes, its well worth it and for the price you mentioned you can install it on up to 3 computers 

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ADVICE: Annika wanted to know what to do when her AVG said “don’t lose your protection”

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Hi. Hope everything is ok with you. We got something from AVG yesterday. ''Don’t lose your AVG protection! Your AVG protection will expire in 28 days''. What shall we do? Kind regards Annika

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Hi Annika, it sounds like you have upgraded AVG to the trial version (which lasts only for 30 days), if you have then you will need to downgrade it back to the free version.

You can do this by going into the control panel, selecting uninstall a program, click on AVG and click change, then click on downgrade.

This will put you back to the free version.

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Ford Mustang Shelby GT350 Packs New V-8 One of the most iconic performance Mustang nameplates of all time is returning

If you thought you might have to wait some time before the storied Shelby name gets spliced back into the Mustang narrative, think again. An all-new Mustang Shelby GT350, based on the all-new sixth-generation Mustang, is already here— ahead of its official public debut later this week at the Los Angeles Auto Show. We were fortunate enough to be able to shoot live photos of the car, during the private

pre-show unveiling this evening.

This time, the car has been developed by Ford Motor Company's [NYSE:F] own SVT performance division and not Shelby American, which ceased production of its own GT350 last year.

There will be something new and special under the hood of this latest beast, and rest assured it’s a V-8. The 2016 Shelby GT350 has

what the automaker is calling its most powerful naturally aspirated Ford production engine ever. Ford won’t say exactly where power and torque ratings land, but it confirms that the new top pony will make more than 500 horsepower and more than 400 pound-feet of torque.

Ford says that the new “unique, high-revving” 5.2liter V-8 has a racing-derived arrangement that spaces

crank pins at 180-degree intervals rather than 90degree ones, which is typical in normal-production models—yes, we're talking a flat-plane crank here. That effectively reduces the overlap of exhaust-pressure pulses, improving breathing—albeit potentially with some sacrifice in smoothness.

That engine is said to make the most of the new Mustang’s finessed chassis

dynamics, and it comes paired with a six-speed manual gearbox.

MagneRide comes to Ford As for those dynamics, this is Ford’s first application of the MagneRide magnetorheological suspension system—one that’s already used across a wide range of performance cars and wellrespected. It can fine-tune damping at each wheel, in milliseconds, to filter out road harshness yet provide crisp responses when needed for abrupt maneuvers and in high-performance driving. The GT350 also includes a Ford-tuned Torsen limited-slip differential, which should especially help gain better traction and grip out of corners.

The GT350 also includes special 19-inch alloy wheels—10.5 inches wide in front, 11.0 inches wide in back—with Michelin Pilot Super Sport tires and sidewall construction, tread face, and compound all specific to this model. Brakes have been upgraded with big Brembo six-piston fixed calipers and four-piston calipers in back.

Actually a different silhouette than other ‘Stangs In order to offer up the most performance possible with all those technical upgrades, the GT350 has an aerodynamically optimized shape, ahead of the windshield, that’s unique and up to two inches lower than that of the regular Mustang models. Ford lowered and sloped the hood a bit more versus the base Mustang, while the front fascia is resculpted, with a more aggressive front splitter and a functional hood outlet that aids with cooling as well in reducing front-end lift at high speeds. And they further improved the stiffness of the Mustang’s front end with a new injection-molded carbon fiber composite grille opening and an (optional) front tower-to-tower brace.

Fender vents, an angledforward grille, a high-pressure engine air intake, and front-brake cooling ducts are additional functional improvements that all factor into this model’s performance. With the Track Pack, the GT350 also includes an engine oil cooler and transmission cooler.

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Nico Is Davis Cup Dazzler

Torrevieja teenage tennis sensation Nicola Kuhn proved himself the world's best player of his age with a sensational individual performance at the Junior Davis Cup finals in Madrid, writes

DONNA GEE. The 15-year-old La Mata lad crowned a run of 11 successive singles victories in the competition by caning Canada's much-vaunted No1 Alex Augur-Aliassime in

F1 Title Race Not Over

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg thinks he can beat Lewis Hamilton and says he has not given up hope of beating Mercedes team-mate Lewis Hamilton to the Formula 1 title going into Sunday's Russian Grand Prix.

Rosberg, who finished second to Hamilton last time out in Japan, trails the defending champion by 48 points with five races left this season.

Mercedes lead Ferrari by 169 points in the constructors' championship.

"I'm not backing down and in my mind it's not over yet,"

said Rosberg, who is 11 points ahead of Sebastian Vettel.

Second-placed Rosberg has won three grand prix races this season to Hamilton's eight, and added: "The gap on Lewis is quite big. "But the way the whole team has performed this year - from the factories to the garage - has been just incredible. I have the car I need to get back to the top step."

Hamilton led Rosberg home in Russia last year to clinch the 2014 constructors' title for Mercedes.

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straight sets in Madrid.

Kuhn, who finished the tournament scarcely able to serve because of a stomach-muscle injury, had steered No.5 seeds Germany to the final with victories over Colombia, Australia and Japan. In the qualifying tournament in August he won all his six matches – the only player to achieve the feat.

Ultimately the Germans were robbed of overall Davis Cup victory in the final set of the final match against Aliassime and Denis

Shapovalov, who last month won the US Open junior doubles title. Kuhn and Marvin Moller succumbed in three sets after Kuhn had twice received treatment on court for muscle injuries. But there were no complaints from Nico, who had the consolaton of being named Player of the Tournament.

Nico, who has lived in Spain since the was three months old, switched his tennis allegiance to Germany because the cashstrapped Spanish authorities were unable to help with his

travelling and equipment.

The son of a German father and Russian mother, Austrian-born Kuhn – whose neighbours in La Mata are predominantly British -, is a truly international star in the making.

As 14-year-olds, he and teammate Rudolf Molleker won the World Junior Championship for Germany, and Nico crowned 2014 by lifting the World Masters title. Now, as he climbs the Under-18 and ATP rankings, he stands on the brink of true stardom.

Jellyfish Conquered!

Five swimmers from Club Natacion Torrevieja took part in the first ever two and a half kilometre sea swim from the Isla Grosa, just off the Mediterranean side of La Manga, back to the beach, next to the Sports Pavilion.

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ticipants from the Port of Tomas Maestre through to the Isla Grosa, with the swimmers having to jump off the ferry and wait in the jellyfish infested waters at the beach on the island until the starting orders were given!

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was trophies all round, as Zoe Connolly came in first followed by Piroska Rideg and Yuriy Lymar. Masters Vicki Connolly and Paul Matthews followed shortly after. Zoe got first place in the girls 15-20yrs category and Vicki’s swim gave her first place in the female Masters 46-50yrs category.

Zoe and Piroska then continued with more trophies being placed first and second in the overall race, being the first two female swimmers, and Zoe’s day was completed as won the trophy for the youngest female swimmer who took part.

Strong Mentality Manchester City’s walking footballers are visiting Los Montesinos this week and will be there both today, Thursday October 8th, and tomorrow, Friday October 9th, taking on two sides each morning from the Monte Mentals in the shape of the Bulls and the Bisons.

Action on both days will start at 10.30am running through to around 1.00pm, with spectators more than welcome on both mornings at the pitch behind the main Los Montesinos ground.

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Thursday 8th October 2015

Beeb’s Golfing Let Down

The BBC have thrown in the towel and let Sky pick up the rights one year early for The Open, so that’s it for free to air coverage on a tournament that the BBC have an involvement with stretching back to the fifties. From 2016 the Beeb will show highlights, provide radio commentary, and a bit of online coverage, whatever that means. And that’s your lot. There will zero live coverage. So from next year, Sky will basically own the whole kit and caboodle, and if you are not a Sky subscriber, well bad luck.

As it stands there is a pitiful amount of golf left on the BBC, and they ended up showing Homes Under the Hammer when a classic finish was unraveling on the fairways of St Andrews this year. And now live sport on the BBC is now an endangered species after they gave up on the last year of its deal to show live coverage of

the Open, apparently to save money on its existing seven million pound a year deal with the Royal & Ancient Club. Conversely, they announced a fortnight ago that they’ve signed a new extended deal to screen Wimbledon into the next decade. Game, set, and match for golf?

Sky Sports, who won the rights to golf's oldest Major in a £15m-a-year deal with the R&A, will now take over live coverage at Troon in 2016.

The BBC , who had broadcast the Open live for 60 years, will continue to televise the tournament in a twohour, prime-time highlights programme. But senior executives at the R&A were unimpressed when their flagship championship spilled over into a fifth day because of bad weather in July – and the BBC screened repeats of daytime floss(or should it be dross?) Homes Under the

Hammer.

Although they showed the drama of Zach Johnson winning the Claret Jug after a three-way playoff, the Beeb missed every shot of many clubhouse leaders earlier.

Since 1999, the BBC have lost the rights to Test cricket, the Derby, England football internationals, the Paralympics and even part of the Lakeside world darts championship. After losing Formula One to ITV, they have recaptured a share of the rights with Sky and they renegotiated a deal to show Six Nations rugby in a shared coverage with ITV to keep Sky out. Earlier this year, the BBC also lost control of Olympic Games coverage from 2022 onwards, and so from next year, Sky will hold the rights to all four golf Majors plus the Ryder Cup, with the BBC having just the last two rounds of the Masters live.

THREE THINGS WE’LL MISS ON THE BEEB Peter Alliss Love him or loathe him, Alliss is the voice of golf to millions. We do love his rambling monologues, his ‘hellos’ to Captain Peregrine Smyth on shooting his age around some private Surrey club, and his great one-liners.

Who can forget these gems:Peter Alliss: "What do you think of the climax of this tournament?"

Peter Thompson: "I am speechless."

Peter Alliss: "That says it all."

“It's like turning up to hear Pavarotti sing and finding out he has laryngitis." (on witnessing Tiger Woods shoot 81 at the 2002 Open) “Wentworth Golf Course is in remarkable condition after the wettest drought in history."

Ken on the course Like Alliss, Ken Brown is an institution. We’ll miss his gangly gate as he strides down the fairway, his pocketful of balls he uses to illustrate green slopes and that rubber duck he used this

year to illustrate where the Swilken Burn went…

Brilliant!

Ad-free coverage There’s no getting away from it, there will be ads on Sky. The Masters has got it right, limiting the amount and time advertising can be shown during its broadcast.

Whether that will be the case for the Open remains to be seen.

AND THREE THINGS WE WON’T MISS… Lack of modern graphics Who can forget this year’s Open, when Ken Brown displayed the day’s pin positions not on some high-tech graphic on a ‘Skycart’, but by holding a piece of crumpled A4 paper up to the camera.

Times have moved on, and Sky uses its extensive resources to produce top quality interactive graphics of the holes, stats and shots.

Sky has pioneered golf innovations to continually develop the coverage and to bring fans closer to the sport, including showing all three days in full of The Ryder Cup, HD, 3D, interactive and multi-platform coverage, and more in-depth analysis through the Shot Centre and Sky Cart.

Squeezed coverage The BBC came in for some rightly harsh criticism this year, when it didn’t start its Monday coverage of the event until 1.45 on BBC One. Play began at St Andrew's at 7.45 on Monday morning, meaning the vast majority of the final round did not appearing on TV. Instead, BBC One stuck with its regular schedule, which included Homes Under the Hammer, Bargain Hunt and Close Calls: On Camera. That just wouldn’t happen on Sky, which will also compile evening highlights shows (not on the BBC), an Open breakfast show (not on the BBC) and on-demand options.

Wayne Grady and Mark James I could never understand how Grady got the BBC gig

TITTER ON THE TEE A wife asks her husband, "Could you please go shopping for me and buy a carton of milk and if they have any avocados, can you get six?”. A short time later the husband comes back with six cartons of milk.

The wife asks him, "Why did you buy six cartons of milk?"

He replied, "They had avocados."

in the first place. Sky will throw all its weight behind its commentary team at Troon, which is likely to include the usual suspects of Ewen Murray, Bruce Critchley, Butch Harmon, Paul McGinley and Darren Clarke.

Colin Montgomerie is a Marmite character but knows Royal Troon!

Sky will struggle to get one million viewers. They have wonderful technology, every

gizmo under the sun, but what they don’t have are viewers. Sky isn’t bothered about viewers. They do well over 200 golf programmes per annum but they aren’t interested in viewing figures, but instead getting the allimportant subscribers.

With the Ryder Cup also long gone, there’s precious little high quality live golf.

With the live coverage of our premier annual golf championship now left to the minority pay-per-view channels, the sport will become further marginalised. As the number of golf players in Britain continues to decline, the BBC and the R&A (golf’s governing body) will need to take responsibility. So from next year, Sky will basically own the whole kit and caboodle, and if you are not a Sky subscriber, well bad luck. It is, however, unfortunate that popular broadcasters Peter Alliss and Ken Brown weren’t given a proper send off at St Andrews.

McIlroy considered quitting European Tour Rory McIlroy spent a fortnight in the air flying to and from tournaments in the past year, touching down at nearly 120 airports along the way.

Although this is time usually spent in the most cosseted of cabins, it also explains why he has no problem with Paul Casey potentially turning his back on the Ryder Cup. Indeed, McIlroy admits that he has considered following the Englishman's example and resigning from the European Tour to help make his schedule easier to manage.

"I've definitely contemplated it," the 26-year-old told BBC Sport. "You know, getting sick of the travel, getting sick of having to cross back and forth between tours.

"The players on the European Tour have had endless dialogue about reducing the number of tournaments that you need to play."

Players are required to compete in at least 13 events a year to retain their European Tour membership and remain in the Race to Dubai, although McIlroy has been given

special dispensation this year because of an ankle injury suffered in July, meaning he will play 12.

Only European Tour golfers are eligible to play for the continent in the Ryder Cup and Casey, who has a one-year-old son and lives in the United States, will sacrifice a probable place at Hazeltine next year if he does not renew the membership he gave up in January.

Nevertheless, figures released this week detailing McIlroy's travel and golfing commitments offer an interesting insight into the world number three's lifestyle.

They reveal that in the last 12 months the Northern Irishman has hit 16,500 balls in training and competition, performed 6,800 press-ups, signed more than 6,000 autographs and walked 932 miles around golf courses.

But it is the statistics that detail the extent of his travel that most catch his eye.

"There's a lot of not sleeping in my own bed, but that's the life of a professional golfer these days," he said.

KNOW YOUR RULES

QUESTION

A player has a six foot putt and strikes the ball firmly and it rolls past the hole and off the putting green into a water hazard. Can the player opt to play a ball as near as possible at the spot from which the last putt was made under the penalty of one stroke?

ANSWER A: YES See Rule 26-1a.

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European Championship Qualifiers

Heads Will Roll After Cup Disaster!

THE House of Lancaster has fallen – and King Stuart will fall on his sword any day now, writes GERRY GREEN. What other outcome can there be in the inquest into England's Rugby World Cup embarrassing, humiliating 33-13 defeat by Australia?

It wasn't so much that they lost to an inspired Wallabies team that looks destined to go all the way to the final; it was the way they were torn apart up front by an Aussie pack that has traditionally been the weakest part of their armour.

The team that had promised to give everything for the cause went out of the tournament with scarcely a whimper – the first time a host nation has failed to reach the knockout stages.

And immediately the knives were out for Lancaster and his coaching team – with defence coach Andy Farrell accused of having too much influence on team selection, particularly in the choice of his son Owen at outside half rather than the more creative George Ford and untested

rugby league convert Sam Burgess ahead of Northampton's Luther Burrell in the 31-man squad.

Farrell insisted that Lancaster had the ultimate call in deciding whether a player was in or out. "You might find it hard to believe, but we agree on more things than we disagree with,'' he said. "It's not even a disagreement, because we're on the same page as each other.

'Stuart has put the graft in to lay solid foundations.

'We'll obviously be defined by two losses, but it's more than that. If we stay on, or whoever comes in, it's a much easier job now than it was three-anda-half years ago when he made those big decisions.

'His percentage of making big decisions has been outstanding over that time.

That's why I say it's been built on rock-solid foundations.

'Stuart has done marvellous things for this country.

He's the proudest, hardestworking Englishman I've ever met.

Not Monte’s Day

'We've had some big wins and losses along the way but Stuart's ability to put in place what he has and bring a meaning to the shirt has been absolutely second to none.

'It's been an absolutely privilege to work for such a caring guy. He's a brilliant coach who has done wonders for this team and connected everyone back to this team.'

England have been on a roller-coaster ride since Lancaster replaced Martin Johnson after the 2011 World Cup. The pinnacle was a remarkable 38-21 victory in 2012 over New Zealand – one of only two All Black defeats since they won the last World Cup; the lowest point obviously last weekend's humiliation by the Australians. In between, England have finished runners-up in the Six Nations championship four times in a row. Is that success or failure? Decide for yourselves.

Lancaster's demise reminded me of the oftrepeated words of legendary Australia coach dur-

ing the 1984 Grand Slam tour, when the Wallabies bounced all four home nations on their own patch.

Hailed as the world's best coach, the charismatic Aussie quipped: ''One day you're a rooster, the next day you're a feather duster.''

Meanwhile, Warren Gatland and Michael Cheika, two coaches with plenty to crow about, go head to head at Twickenham on Saturday, with the likely prize a quarter-final against South Africa or Scotland at England HQ. Gatland, shone through injury of a third of his first-choice lineup sends a patched up Wales team out against England's conquerors on a hiding to nothing.

They will take heart, however, from the news that versatile back Liam Williams is fit to play and that the Wallabies will be without vice-captain Michael Hooper, who was suspended for a week on Tuesday after being cited for an illegal tackle on England fullback Michael Brown.

Shaky Defence SS FULGENCIO 0 CD MONTESINOS 2

saved well again stopping a certain own goal from a Dario cross.

Carlos and Pley came on at the start of the second half, but things got worse when Dimitry shielded the ball out for a goal kick but Borneo’s Jair cheekily played the ball back in play, with referee waving play on for Jair to score.

Monte’s already high anger levels after the first half penalty rose still further, with Mena coming on for the furious Dimitry and he gave Monte hope when he connected well from a cross by M&A to score.

The game then opened up but Borneo‘s Cristi produced a string of great saves to keep his side ahead, and then a soft header from Manu made it three and that was it.

Montesinios are back at home this coming Sunday, when they entertain RP Orihuela with a 5.00pm kick-off.

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For the second time this season, Torry treated home fans to a recovery from a two goal deficit in what proved to be an entertaining match, but how frustrating was it that the conceded goals were so soft, and against the run of play in the 18th and 22nd minutes? The defence was once again sadly wanting on both occasions and fans were left wondering when Jorge will get the recall to central defence to sort it all out!

Torry looked bright from the start with Sanchez, Adrian and Martin dominating the midfield. Martin was tough and determined,

never flinching in the tackle and winning nearly every ball in his path. Adrian thought he had scored in the first half when he beat the keeper to the ball as just before it crossed the line a desperate sliding clearance from a speedy defender sliced it wide for a corner. Sanchez pulled one back for Torry on the half hour mark and once more Torry assumed the role of aggressor, However, Crevillente defended in numbers, often having all eleven in their own third of the pitch behind the ball.

They were still able to breaking fast, but their best hopes were when Torry

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18:00 Azerbaijan v Italy 18:00 Iceland v Latvia 18:00 Kazakhstan v Netherlands 18:00 Norway v Malta 20:45 Andorra v Belgium 20:45 Bosnia and Herzegovina v Wales 20:45 Croatia v Bulgaria 20:45 Czech Republic v Turkey 20:45 Israel v Cyprus

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18:00 Armenia v Albania 18:00 Faroe Islands v Romania 18:00 Finland v Northern Ireland 18:00 Greece v Hungary 18:00 Serbia v Portugal 20:45 Germany v Georgia 20:45 Gibraltar v Scotland 20:45 Poland v Republic of Ireland

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18:00 Austria vLiechtenstein 18:00 Russia v Montenegro 18:00 Sweden v Moldova 20:45 Belarus v Macedonia 20:45 Estonia v Switzerland 20:45 Lithuania v England 20:45 Luxembourg v Slovakia 20:45 San Marino v Slovenia 20:45 Ukraine v Spain

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CD BORNEO 3 CD MONTESINOS 1 Monte’s visit to the Coxside based side saw them suffer their first defeat of the season after winning their opening two games. It was a combination of some bad luck, a blinding performance from the Borneo keeper; and a strange decision from manager Roberto to leave two of the best players, Carlos and Pley, on the bench that contributed to the final result from Monte’s perspective.

The early threatening signs came from Borneo but Orouker did have a header well saved from keeper Cristi, before the home side took the lead in strange circumstances.

Monte’s players were incensed when a penalty was awarded after a Borneo player apparently felled his own team- mate, with Cachorro converting the spot kick.

The visitors lost some momentum but Cristi

Friday 9 October

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decided to get into a muddle by playing balls across the back four and to their keeper. Coaches and managers are so out of touch with fans when it comes to this play and it would be a Godsend if football took a leaf out of Rugby's paradigm and entertained the fans from beginning to end!

Midway through the second half Quintero was pushed more forward and Torry benefitted from this when he was the most courageous and able when getting his head to a ball four or five competed for and nodded into the empty net. It was his second of the season, having scored

the late equaliser against Borriol, which was the other match where Torry recovered from being two-nil down.

The good news is that after only netting two goals in their opening five contests, Torry has now scored five in their last three matches. Deadly rivals Orihuela come to the Vicente Garcia Stadium on Sunday, again with a 5.00pm kick off. The visitors sit just one point above Torry, so a win will see the Salineros rise at least a place or two in the table, maybe putting a little daylight between themselves and the relegation trio.

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Ilicitanos Flounder LLAGOSTERA 4 ELCHE 1 Elche’s excellent start to life in the Segunda Division got something of a rude awakening as the secondplaced Ilicitanos got a hiding at a side that was in the relegation slots. The home side were two-nil up within 18 minutes, and deservedly so as Elche had surprisingly little to offer away to the Catalan side. Llagostera started off the second-half in similar positive vein and killed off the match with their third goal the hour mark.

Elche had little to offer at the other end with Espinosa looking the most dangerous, and though Niko got a consolation with a quarter of an hour left, there was little surprise when Llagostera got their fourth goal, eight minutes later. The Ilicitanos entertain Mirandes on Saturday evening with a 6.00pm kick-off.

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Barcelona lost their first La Liga match since Lionel Messi's injury as they were beaten at Sevilla last Saturday. Michael Krohn-Delhi gave the hosts the lead after 52 minutes and Vicente Iborra increased the advantage six minutes later, capitalising on awful defending from the Catalans. Neymar pulled one back for Luis Enrique's side but, despite dominating the latter stages and hitting the woodwork three times over the course of the game, the champions could not find an equaliser and fell to a second straight away defeat, which meant they fell to fourth in the table, but just a point off the top in what’s turning out to be a highly competitive Primera division contest.

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Luciano Vietto was Atletico Madrid's supersub in the Sunday night derby against Real Madrid, with the young Argentinian leaving it late to cancel out Karim Benzema's goal and rescue a point for the hosts. Summer signing Vietto, 21, scored his first goal for Atletico in the 83rd minute at the Vicente Calderon to deny Real top spot in the Primera Division.

Los Blancos had taken an early lead through Karim Benzema and managed to stay in front in the first half despite the hosts being awarded a penalty, with Keylor Navas producing an excellent save to keep out Antoine Griezmann's spot-kick. The good news for Real is that they are just a point off the leaders Villarreal who surprisingly lost at struggling Levante.

Will Klopp New Boss Liverpool hope to appoint Jurgen Klopp to replace sacked manager Brendan Rodgers by the end of the week.

The former Borussia Dortmund coach is favourite to take over from the Northern Irishman, with ex-Chelsea boss Carlo Ancelotti also a contender.

German Klopp, 48, is understood to be open to the idea of a move.

Talks with his representatives are progressing well and the club want a new manager in place to prepare for a visit to Tottenham on 17 October.

The leaving of Liverpool came suddenly for Brendan Rodgers on Sunday, following Liverpool’s draw in the Merseyside derby. With the Reds sitting in tenth place the sacking looks harsh when you look down the table at worse performing managers, including some (very) big names. But in the Prem there is always nowhere to hide - and Anfield is one of the hottest spots in world football.

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BLITZES TOON Experts slam sorry Magpies after heavy defeat

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Negotiations will now take place over Rodhers’s severance package, which could cost Liverpool in excess of £5m.

There is massive potential right across the Merseyside club, but when you consider world-renown names like Gerrard, Suarez and lately Sterling all leaving Liverpool relatively recently the Mersyside club stands squarely at the crossroads, squirming impatiently in the shadow of mighty Manchester with some big, wealthy London clubs also currently ahead on points.

Whilst the favourite for the red hot seat is Jurgen Klopp, followed by other continental suspects like Carlo Ancelotti, Frank de Boer and Jurgen Klinnsman.

Ex-England Under-19 manager O'Driscoll and former Reds player McAllister will take charge this Weekend.

Jose Mourinho is making such ridiculous decisions these days, its little wonder Chelsea are fourth from bottom.

Last Saturday at The Bridge, he took off one midfielder Ramires and replaced him with another, Matic who himself is struggling badly for form. Just 17 minutes later uninjured Matic was then substituted for a striker obviously short of match practice. Result?

Jose’s heads-down puzzled, de-motivated team steadily fall apart and eventually go down 3 -1 to a lively Southampton side.

The super Saints even came back from a goal down to tear Chelsea apart – and some Blues’ defenders were so bad it can’t be believed.

But no mistake, it’s muddled Mourinho who is at fault, big time. The FA are now charging him (again) with misconduct, following his rambling, desperate interviews giving no sensible answers for the plight Chelsea are in. Ongoing battles with the press, match officials, his own female club doctor who has now acrimoniously left the club amid sexist and swearing accusations, the man is in a bitter, barely-controlled rage

against the world; at this rate the end can’t be long now. It’s surprising hatchet man Abramovich has not acted yet like he did with the others, one of whom even won him the Holy Grail in the shape of the Champions League.

Now it’s time for someone new to try to re-motivate the huge juggernaut that is Chelsea Football Club.

Advocaat was the toast at Sunderland as the honest manager who somehow saved the Black Cats from relegation last season but sensibly resigned last weekend before he was sacked, to give A.N. Other a chance to rescue the season as Sunderland sits rock-bottom of the Premier League. The owner at the Stadium of Light, Ellis Short is not long on soundly appointing managers: since Steve Bruce was sacked in November 2011m Martin O'Neill, Paolo di Canio, Gus Poyet and now Dick Advocaat have all had their turn at managing the club with little success and the 40 odd thousand loyal fans who turn up each week deserve much more. Next, please?

Steve McClaren’s future at Newcastle is not black and white. Only one win in

19 sounds dangerous, although the Magpies actually played some scintillatingly serious stuff before being blown away

by Sergio’s Aguero’s amazing five goal blitz in Man City’s 6 – 1 demolition of Newcastle.

Wither Villa? Similarly sheltering Tim Sherwood must be sweating with the current savage management Prem pruning; the latest Villa vanquishing came from surfacing Stoke who enjoyed two welcome wins on the spin.

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Wales are flying in Euro’s Amongst the other Home Countries, qualification is not quite so straightforward - although for once the Welsh nation is doubly delighted, a dog with two doodahs doesn’t come into it. After heroically overcoming England in the Rugby World Cup, the Welsh footballing brothers are poised to join the old enemy in France. On Saturday, Chris Coleman’s boyos are in Bosnia- Herzegovina, currently fourth with 11 points, as the Welsh head their group B with 18 points leading Belgium and Israel. On Tuesday night, the visitors to Cardiff are bottom-placed minnows Andorra, unsurprisingly with nil points, and if Euro 2016 qualification has not already been achieved by then, a win will give Wales the certainty of joining England in France. to d e e n s Wales fan Now it gets t they are more complicatrealise tha d e e talk ed: both going to b now! t u Scotland and o ab Republic of Ireland are in the same Group D. The Scots are doing better at rugby than soccer, and manager Gordon Strachan has injury worries. Wolves midfielder Kevin McDonald has already pulled out of the squad, and there are concerns over Ikechi Anya, James Morrison and Darren Fletcher. The strikingly good news is that Steven Fletcher scored for Sunderland against West Ham on Saturday, and Leigh Griffiths headed in his 12th goal of the season in Celtic's 2-1 win at Hamilton. Tonight at Hampden Park, the Scots must beat second placed Poland who have seventeen points versus fourth- placed Scotland on 11. Sunday at bottom-placed Gibraltar must surely prove no problems, but it may be too late by then for those north on the border to qualify, where Germany head the group on 19 points.

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Can England’s footballing Tornados soar up and reclaim the nation’s pride after Lancaster’s bombers crashed out of the Rugby World Cup? Tomorrow night in Group E will Estonia royally rollover to Roy and Rooney at Wembley? And England will be in Lithuania on Monday to finish their Euro 2016 qualifiers, although hotels have already been happily booked in La Belle France next summer.

Liverpool striker Daniel Sturridge has been left out after previous strife between his now-sacked club manager Brendan Rodgers and Roy Hodgson over injuries sustained while on national duty. The Reds’ forward is fit again, and scored twice in last week's win over Villa, but not in Rodgers’ illfated derby with Everton. But Liverpool’s new striker Danny Ings did score their only goal in that match, and he and Spurs midfielder Dele Alli, get their first senior call-ups.

Everything in the English (football) garden looks rosy, so suggestions for national vocal support at Wembley tomorrow? In place of the now out-of-favour ‘Swing Low, Sweet

Chariot’ how about ‘And Did Those Feet‘ etc, suitably doctored with national football clichés?

Will irish eyes smile? It’s looking better for the Republic of Ireland, sitting four points ahead of the Scots in third place.

Martin O'Neill has a big task as his team go to leaders Germany tonight and then to second–placed Poland on Sunday, making direct qualification a very daunting mountain to climb. But it is within Irish control to control their own destiny - good luck lads – you’ll need it.

Other Irish eyes are smiling, as happily heading Group F with 17 points it’s… Northern Ireland! Bottom side Greece come to Belfast tonight, followed by a Sunday trip to fourthplaced Finland who could still qualify, so no risks must be taken by Michael O’Neill’s side to make certain of getting through to France. Doncaster Rovers defender Luke McCullough and MK Dons midfielder Ben Reeves are added to the squad as doubts remain over WBA duo Jonny Evans and Gareth McAuley.

LEGEND HAS ROO: MAJOR ALZHEIMER'S DOUBT

Bayern Munich and Germany legend Gerd Muller is receiving treatment for Alzheimer's disease.

Nicknamed 'Der Bomber', Muller, 70 next month, scored 68 goals in 62 games for what was then West Germany, and netted over 650 goals in his club career. Bayern chairman said "Gerd Muller is one of the alltime greats of world football."

England captain Wayne Rooney appears to be a major doubt for Friday’s Euro 2016 qualifier against Estonia after missing training with an ankle injury.

The Man United striker suffered the knock in Sunday's 3-0 defeat to Arsenal in the Premier League.

Rooney was forced to miss Tuesday and Wednesday’s training.

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