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Women a majority in New Year's Honours
Actresses Angela Lansbury and Penelope Keith became dames in the New Year's Honours list which, for the first time, features more women than men. Six hundred and eleven women make up the majority (51 per cent) of the list – the previous highest proportion was 47 per cent. Penelope Keith, 73, who became a household name as Margot Leadbetter in 1970s sitcom The Good Life, said of her honour: "It's a recognition for not only my 54 years of being an actress but also for all the charities with which I'm associated and I think they'll be thrilled." Murder,
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actress Angela Lansbury, 88, receives hers for services to drama and to charitable work and philanthropy. She said: "I'm joining a marvellous group of women I greatly admire like Judi Dench and Maggie Smith. It's a lovely thing to be given that nod of approval by your own country and I really cherish it."
Apprentice star Karren Brady, 43, vice-chairman of West Ham Football Club and former Birmingham City
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Other prominent women include actress Lynda Bellingham, singer Katherine Jenkins and writer and broadcaster Sandi Toksvig, plus the founders of parenting website Netmums.com,
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form. Composer and conductor Sir Peter Maxwell Davies, who is Master of the Queen's Music, became a Companion of Honour, while DJ Pete Tong received an MBE. CONTINUED ON PAGE 2
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WEDNESDAY, January 2nd 2014
By Kym Wickham k.wickham@thenewsonline.es
A very Happy New Year
I hope you all had a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and that 2014 will be kind to everyone. Our Christmas break was incredibly busy. I have to admit that, because I’m here in the office all the time except for Wednesdays, the house was looking a right tip and, have you realised that it’s only when you know you’ve got guests coming that you notice it? Well, we had a couple of friends coming, and it was only a couple of days but, where we have been decluttering meant that everything was upside down throughout the house and it just looked awful so we were up early each day for the five days leading up to Christmas Eve when they were due to arrive trying to sort it all out. Apart from all the usual tidying, we had to redecorate the dining room at the same time! Then after Christmas it was sorting out all the boxes with the “de-cluttered” stuff in - and that’s still ongoing. Even I have been a bit shocked at the amount of stuff I’ve accumulated over the 30 years we’ve been together. Mind you, it was worth it in the end because it all looks a lot better now. Jackson and the rest of our animals had a lovely time with us being there all the time with lots of treats being handed out. They also had loads of presents from their “other mum”, Jackie, who walks them when I can’t get back in time to catch the light or am away so, to Jackie a very loud couple of woofs and many, many miaows from them all. So, now it’s back to work and it’s time for everyone to get over the “break” and start to think about holidays so over the next few weeks I’ll try and give you some ideas of a few things you might not think of doing or going and seeing... there’s a whole weird and wonderful world out there for us all to enjoy!
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OF YOU.
Towns and villages all over Spain will be welcoming Los Reyes Magos on Sunday evening, January 5th when they will arrive in procession, with bags of sweets. Celebrations will continue on January 6th when most shops and offices will be closed.
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The popular Oh My Goat! exhibition that was a great crowd puller in Malaga’s Calle Larios this year has now moved to Torre del Mar. So if you missed seeing these extraordinary, colourful and imaginative animals you still have the chance. Paseo de Larios, Torre del Mar until January 6th. www.ohmygoat.es
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Malaga’s glass museum always displays a very special nativity in Lladro until early February. This year the scene contains more than 80 pieces. Admission free to see the nativity. Open Tuesday to Sunday 11.0019.00. Museum guided tours 5euros. www.museovidrioycristalmalaga.com
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Women a majority in New Year's Honours Former director of public prosecutions Keir Starmer QC received a knighthood for services to law and criminal justice, with film and theatre producer Michael Codron and former Bank of England deputy governor Paul Tucker also receiving the honour.
CBEs went to ballet dancer Carlos Acosta, former FA chairman David Bernstein, actor Michael Crawford, who played Frank Spencer in 1970s sitcom Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, and presenter Nicholas Parsons, host of the comedy radio game show Just A Minute.
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Dr Marcus Setchell, who delayed his retirement after being asked by the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge to oversee the birth of Prince George was made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO) – an honour in the personal gift of the Queen.
The Order of Merit, which is awarded to individuals of great achievement in the fields of the arts, learning, literature and science went to orchestra conductor Sir Simon Rattle and worldrenowned heart surgeon
Awards for sport make up 4% of the total, with an OBE going to England and Arsenal Ladies footballer Rachel Yankey and former long-distance runner David Bedford, who was race director of the London Marathon for more than 20 years, while England women's rugby team captain Katy McLean got an MBE.
The prisoners collective of the Basque terrorist group ETA, which represents more than 500 ETA prisoners, in a taped statement released last Saturday recognised the legality of Spain’s penitentiary system, agreed that individual prisoners can negotiate early release
terms, and rejected the violence and “suffering and multilateral damage caused” by their terror campaign. To reach this point, the prisoners’ collective has had to digest the fact that the Rajoy government is not prepared to negotiate any solutions with the terrorist group.
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Realising that consumers would not bear the cost of a potential 11 to 13 per cent hike announced by the electricity companies, the government announced last Friday that the rise for the first quarter of 2014 would be fixed at 2.3 percent. That was the lowest proposal offered by the CNMC antitrust authority. The increase will affect 18.5 million consumers whose rates are based on the government’s TUR (Rate of Last Resort) system, the most common billing type in Spain.
With the latest rise taken into account, electricity rates have risen by 10 per cent over the past nine months, following increases of 3.1 per cent in October, 3.2 per cent in August and 1.2 per cent in July.
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Others include Trevor Jarvis, Ambassador for Dementia with the Alzheimer's Society, who has used his own experiences to improve the lives of people affected by dementia; Christina Selby, who founded Hats4Heroes in 2010 and has since sent nearly 10,000 knitted hats, each containing a chocolate bar, to the British forces in Afghanistan as a way of boosting morale; Julie Bailey, who set up the campaign group Cure the NHS after being appalled by the care given her mother and others at Staffordshire General Hospital, and Helene Donnelly, a nurse at the hospital who became a whistleblower.
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It has also taken into account the tensions caused by the freeing of 60 ETA prisoners in the wake of the Strasbourg ruling on the Parot doctrine, which outrage most sectors of Spanish society. All the political parties said it was a step forward, but not far enough.
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'2014 will be the year of the recovery' In his address to the media after the last Cabinet meeting of 2013, Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy said: “If 2012 was the year of cutbacks and 2013 the year of reforms, 2014 will be the year of recovery.” He praised the “attitude of all Spaniards in a difficult year” during which the “results of so much effort are starting to be seen”. Rajoy said there has been a “clear change in Spain’s situation” and added he was sure that 2014 would witness a drop in unemployment, which stands at 25 per cent.
The PM also highlighted the narrowing of the country’s risk premium to 230 basis points from the dangerously high levels of 2012, a six percent
increase in exports and last year's record number of tourists.
On the subject of Catalonia’s drive for independence from Spain, Rajoy repeated what he has said many times in the past: there will be no negotiation over a referendum that Catalan regional premier Artur Mas insists will be held in November. Rajoy said the process “will damage all of Spain and especially Catalonia”.
“I say yes to dialogue with everybody, but no to dividing Spain,” Rajoy said. “National sovereignty is not something I have at my disposal.”
Immediately after the prime minister’s press conference, Socialist leader Alfredo Pérez Rubalcaba said: "2013 was the year of the three crises: the economic and social, the political and the territorial.” In 2013 “there has
been unemployment, poverty and inequality,” Rubalcaba said, adding that his party “will never be glad when things are going badly; neither will we fail to recognise that things are going well,” in reference to the slightly more positive economic data. However, he warned the government not to “hang medals around your necks that don’t belong to you,” noting that the central bank and European policy have been
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Diplomatic offensive Centuries old sanctuary destroyed by fire against Catalan independence The Foreign Ministry has launched a major diplomatic offensive worldwide against Catalan pro-independence forces, ordering Spanish envoys to explain why secession is not the answer for Catalonia or Spain. Foreign Minister José Manuel García-Margallo has sent out a 210-page manual to Spain’s 118 embassies and more than 90 consulates abroad, and to Spanish representatives who hold seats in 11 multilateral organisations. The handbook gives point-by-point arguments against Catalan independence and also explains the reasons why the Madrid government is against letting the November referendum to take place. The manual was inspired by British Prime Minister David Cameron’s “Stronger Together” campaign, explaining his government’s views on next year’s Scottish referendum. Titled Por la convivencia democrática (In favour of democratic co-existence), the manual states that “never since the recovery of freedoms has Catalan society undergone episodes of
The official reason was that it was to protest against cost cuts and the outsourcing of some production, but it was generally believed that it was part of a pro-
Hundreds of local people turned out to help fight the blaze but soon realised there was nothing to be done to save 300year-old building.
“The wind was driving the water away from the flames, and the firefighters’ equipment couldn’t get through the narrow streets, ” Toñico Haz Amigo, a 37-year-old fisherman, said. Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Garcia-Margallo
anguish, social fragmentation and risk of confrontation as it is experiencing now. The drive for independence has caused confusion and dismay in Spanish society, including a large part of the Catalan people.” In the manual, the ministry deals with the pro-independence arguments in detail and covers the case against an independent Catalonia step by step. “It can be said with all historic exactitude that Catalonia has never, in its history of democracy, reached a greater degree of selfgovernment in all areas,
including its politics, economy and culture, as it accomplished on the day in which, by virtue of the Constitution and Estatut, the institutions of selfgovernment were returned to Catalonia,” the manual reads.
The Constitution – which the government argues does not allow any region to secede – was from Spain approved by 91.9 per cent of Catalans in 1978 in a region where there was 68 per cent voter turnout, a level of voter participation that has never been surpassed.
Strike sabotages King's speech King Juan Carlos's traditional Christmas Eve address was not aired on Catalonia's public television for the first time since the monarchy was restored, because workers at the broadcaster had called a half-hour strike for the exact time of the King's speech.
The A Virxe monastery in Muxia, Galicia, was destroyed by fire after a nearby electrical transformer was struck by lightning on Christmas Day.
independence ploy to keep the King off Catalan screens.
In his speech, the King called for national “unity and coexistence” and praised all Spaniards, but especially the unemployed, for the way they were coping with the economic crisis. It was received favourably by all the political parties, except the Nationalist parties in the Basque Country and Catalonia. In his speech, the King
usually deals with the issue most topical at the time. In recent years he has thanked Spaniards for sacrifices in economic hard times and called on the Basque terrorist group ETA to disband.
In 2012 – which had the lowest audience for the yearly address in 15 years – the King said "no one is above the law," in reference to corruption charges against his son-inlaw, and the investigation into his daughter's finances
“Everybody has been deeply affected by the fire, whether they are a believer or not. This place was a museum of our history,” said Ramón Vilela, a sailor who lives close to the now ruined monastery.
The 12th-century sanctuary, which was rebuilt in the 18th century, had just been fully renovated. Tiled floors installed last century were removed, revealing the flagstones underneath. “It is such a shame that after such a careful restoration, they didn’t bother to install fire
The restored sanctuary above and the fire damage below
alarms or smoke detectors. As usual, nobody bothers to think about these things until something terrible happens,” Vilela said.
Regional premier Alberto Núñez Feijóo said the reconstruction and renovation of A Virxe de Barca will be carried out, “whatever it costs,” after visiting the site on December 26th. He said
no expense will be spared in rebuilding the sanctuary, and that “all Galicians are totally committed to the rebuilding, rehabilitation, and replacement of this emblematic site”.
It has since been estimated that it will cost at least €800,000 to rebuild the sanctuary.
Arrests in global operation against credit card fraud Police arrested eight people last Sunday who are suspected of helping to steal more than $60 million from banks worldwide by hacking into credit card processing firms and withdrawing money from cash machines.
In a statement, the police said they had detained six Romanian citizens and two Moroccans on the outskirts of Madrid, and seized €25,000 in cash, around 1,000 blank credit cards, IT material and jewels in raids on several buildings. They said the
global hacking gang had been controlled by a single person, who had been arrested in Germany. They said they had acted with the help of an unnamed US security agency.
The arrests mark one of the biggest breakthroughs yet outside the United States in connection with a series of global bank heists, by coordinated cells that withdrew millions of dollars in a matter of hours. The Spanish-based part of the organisation was dismantled when it was starting to regroup to carry out an attack in
several EU countries and Japan, the police said.
They added that during an earlier raid in February, they discovered that 446 withdrawals had taken place in Madrid that month, with the Spanish-based arm of the ring obtaining $400,000 in a heist totalling $40 million.
They did not name the banks involved but said previous raids had involved withdrawals in several other cities, They said the ring's global takings amounted to over $60 million.
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Mother and daughter hurt in Tenerife blast
A British woman and her eight-year-old daughter were among several people who were injured in an explosion at a hotel in Tenerife last Friday.
The woman was taken to La Candelaria hospital in Tenerife's capital, Santa Cruz, and treated for severe burns to her face and scalp following the blast at a hotel poolside
bar in the coastal town of Adeje. Her daughter suffered neck burns and received treatment in the smaller Hospiten Sur in Arona, to the south of the island. A 34-year-old Spanish woman was treated for minor injuries at the Quiron Costa hospital in Adeje together with a 38year-old Belgian woman. Authorities in the Canary
Islands said a British man had also suffered minor abrasions but the hotel denied this.
Emergency services were called to an explosion in a machine at a poolside bar in Bahia Principe hotel in Playa Paraiso. A spokesman for the hotel claimed that the British woman's husband and a second daughter had avoided injury but were
"obviously in shock" at what had happened. Local media reports said the explosion was caused by a beer canister.
A Foreign Office spokeswoman said: "We are aware of reports of an incident involving British nationals and are talking to local authorities. We stand ready to help if needed."
Police bust counterfeit clothing ring Police arrested 99 people, including two imams, last week over the sale of 235 tonnes of fake designer clothes and shoes.
Counterfeit items were made in illegal factories in Portugal and then shipped to distributors in Galicia, the interior ministry said in a statement which claimed that sales had
generated profits of €5.5 million over two years. Part of the money was held at two mosques in the cities of Ourense and Xinzo de Limia. Among those arrested was the imam of the mosque of Xinzo de Limia, who is suspected to be one of the ringleaders. The mosque received nearly
€100,000 in donations from the ring, officials said. Police also arrested the imam at the mosque in the nearby city of Ourense, on suspicion that he was helping to launder money earned by the ring. Police seized more than a million fake items in several other cities, including Madrid,
Barcelona, Seville and Malaga. They also confiscated 60 bank cards, several weapons and software containing the logos of more than 200 registered brands.
Officers in northern Portugal closed 10 illegal factories where the fake goods had been made.
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More than 2,000 people have signed an online petition posted by Change.org for this year's King Balthasar in the traditional three Kings’ procession to be a "real negro". the petition was initiated by Madrileño Miguel Calabria, who told Change.org, a platform for online petitions, that it made no sense for Balthasar to be a white man painted black. He said: "Fortunately, with the diversity existing in our society today, it is not necessary and makes no sense." Calabria acted after seeing a similar online petition in Pamplona that has collected 3,000 signatures. Calabria said: "i think the message we are sending our children by painting a man black is not correct."
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Protection for vulnerable consumers
the Catalan regional government has approved a decree that will protect the economically vulnerable when they are unable to pay for their gas and electricity during the winter months. Between november and March, consumers who receive a cut-off notice will have a period of 10 days to present a Social Security report confirming they meet three basic requirements to activate a stay. these are an income of less than €569.12 a month, or 7,967.73 per year, for a couple; proof that all possible measures to reduce usage have been taken, and a deal with the applicant's provider that includes a social coupon discount that is automatically applied when the total wattage contracted is less than 3KW. if these requirements are met, providers will be unable to cut off consumers until april, with the accumulated debt “postponed under the conditions agreed by users and service providers, and that can be paid between the following months of april and october,” the government explained. the decree does not cover water.
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World News Helicopter rescue for ice-bound ship
Passengers and some crew on a ship stuck in thick ice in Antarctica will be taken off by helicopter once the weather permits.
Russian officials made the announcement on Monday, after an Australian icebreaker making a fresh rescue attempt had to turn back.
The Russian-flagged research vessel Akademik Shokalskiy was trapped on Christmas Eve by thick sheets of ice, driven by strong winds, about 1,500 nautical miles south of Hobart – the capital of the Australian state of
Tasmania. It is carrying 74 scientists, tourists and crew, who said they had more than enough food and are in no danger. The third attempt to rescue the vessel – by Australian icebreaker Aurora Australis – failed early on Monday because of fierce winds and poor visibility.
Earlier attempts by Chinese and French icebreakers to reach the ship were also foiled by the
thick ice. Journalists on board the Shokalskiy, said that at Tuesday morning's briefing they discovered that they would have to stay on the ship at least until the New Year.
The remaining crew members will stay on board until another, more powerful US icebreaker arrives in up to 10 days' time. Despite being trapped, the scientists have continued their
experiments, measuring temperature and salinity through cracks in the surrounding ice. Those on board include 22 Russian crew. Passengers are of various nationalities, many of them Australian.
The Akademik Shokalskiy is being used by the Australasian Antarctic Expedition to follow the route explorer Douglas Mawson travelled a century ago.
Thousands flee erupting volcano Thousands of people in eastern El Salvador fled their homes earlier this week after a volcano erupted on Sunday morning. Residents in the coffeeproducing region said they had heard a powerful explosion before the Chaparrastique volcano
began spewing hot ash and smoke into the air.
The authorities said no one has been hurt, but anyone living in a 3km radius will be evacuated. Temporary shelters were set up in the area, where some 5,000 people live. The Salvadoran government said it had
been monitoring the situation since December 13th, when they detected increased activity inside the volcano. There are more than 20 volcanoes in the small Central American nation. At 2,129 metres (7,000 ft) above sea level, Chaparrastique is the
third highest volcano in the country. It spewed lava in 1976 and caused a strong tremor in the area in 2010.
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A circular issued by the Communist Party and the state council on Sunday has banned officials from smoking in public places like schools, hospitals, offices, and on public transport. China is considered the world's largest tobacco producer and consumer, with an estimated 300 million smokers. last year, the Health Ministry issued a report saying that China accounts for about 40% of global production and consumption of tobacco. The circular said: "Some officials smoke in public places, which has not only jeopardised the environment and public health, but tarnished the image of party and government offices and leaders and has a negative influence.' In addition, tobacco can no longer be sold at government and Communist Party offices, where signs prohibiting smoking are to be prominently displayed. It was not immediately clear what the punishment would be for those in violation. In 2011, China instituted a ban on smoking in public places like hotels and restaurants, but its implementation has been lax.
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Power supply disrupted in heatwave
Public sector workers in the capital of Buenos Aires were told not to come to work on Monday while those in Buenos Aires province were told to leave work at noon, in an effort to save electricity. The city has been experiencing power shortages because air conditioning use has soared as residents try to keep cool during a severe heatwave. Some neighbourhoods have been without power for two weeks, with temperatures rising well over 35 degrees Celsius.
On Sunday night, electricity demand reached a record high for a nonworking day, as residents turned on fans and air conditioning units in an attempt to cool down homes. City officials held emergency meetings with federal officials on Sunday in an effort to co-ordinate assistance to those left without power for days. An estimated 11,000 people still had no electricity over the weekend. The heatwave is reported to be the worst to hit the city in 40 years.
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Court approves 75% tax rate
The country's highest court has approved a 75% tax on high earners that is one of President Francois Hollande's signature policies. The initial proposal to tax individual incomes was ruled unconstitutional by the Constitutional Council almost exactly one year ago.
But the government modified it to make employers liable for the 75% tax on salaries exceeding €1 million. The levy will last two years, affecting income earned this year and in 2014. Football clubs in France threatened to go on strike earlier this year over the issue, saying the tax could spark an exodus of top players who are paid huge salaries. Businesses and wealthy individuals have condemned the tax – including film star Gerard Depardieu, who left the country in protest. Polls suggest a large majority in France back the temporary tax. Unlike many other countries in europe, France aims to bring down its huge public deficit by raising taxes as well as some spending cuts.
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Sick student receives death threats
An student suffering from a rare disease has denounced death threats she received after defending medical experiments on animals. Caterina Simonsen said more than 30 "death wishes" and 500 abusive messages were sent to on her Facebook page. The messages came after she uploaded a photo of herself with a message: "I am 25 thanks to genuine research that includes experiments on animals." Simonsen, 25, who lives in Padua and studies veterinary medicine, said that without research she would have been dead at nine. A torrent of comments followed – some suggesting the world would be better off with her dead. She has forwarded the details to the Italian authorities. Animal research has always been controversial. Many people strongly oppose the use of any animals in experiments arguing it is cruel and unethical.
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IOC 'confident' Games will be safe
The International Olympic Committee president said on Monday that he was confident that Russian authorities will deliver a "safe and secure" Games in Sochi. Thomas Bach wrote to President Vladimir Putin to express condolences for the "despicable" attacks that struck Volgograd within 24 hours. Investigators said the attacks on a railway station and trolleybus, which killed at least 31 people, were linked.
No-one has admitted carrying out either bombing. Volgograd was also targeted in October, when a suspected female suicide bomber killed six people in an attack on a bus. The authorities assume that the people who carried out the
Volgograd bombings were involved in the Islamistinspired insurgency against Russian rule in the Caucasus republics of Chechnya and Dagestan, and that the target was the Games. In a statement, Russia's foreign ministry did not blame any particular group and called for international solidarity in the fight against "an insidious enemy that can only be defeated together".
In his statement, Mr Bach said he was "certain
that everything will be done to ensure the security of the athletes and all the participants of the Olympic Games", which open on February 7th. But despite intense security in Sochi, Russians are very nervous that following the attacks in Volgograd – which lies 700km northeast of Sochi – bombers could also strike elsewhere. President Putin has ordered security measures to be tightened across Russia and in particular in Volgograd.
Israel releases 26 Palestinians Israeli authorities freed a group of 26 Palestinian prisoners on Monday as part of a US-brokered agreement to resume direct peace talks.
The prisoners were greeted by cheering crowds on their return to the West Bank and Gaza. Israel approved the releases on Saturday, but they were delayed to allow victims' families to appeal. The prisoners committed murder or attempted murder before the 1993 Oslo accords and have
served 19 to 28 years. Eight were released at checkpoints leading into Gaza and East Jerusalem.
The other 18 prisoners went to Ramallah in the West Bank, where Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas greeted them at his headquarters. He pledged to continue pressing for the release of other long-serving and sick prisoners. Palestinians celebrate the releases as victories over Israel – something deeply resented by families of
Israeli victims of political violence.
A spokesman for the Israeli victims' association, Almagor, told the Jerusalem Post: "These men are time-bombs. Wherever they go they kill, because that's the purpose of their lives."
The Israeli government has stressed that if any of the prisoners "resume hostile activity" they will have to serve the remainder of their sentences.
US 'to prosecute' Indian diplomat The US is proceeding with the prosecution of Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade after her arrest earlier this month caused a huge diplomatic row. Ms Khobragade's detention on charges of visa fraud and underpaying her
housekeeper led to outrage in India, where she is seen as being victimised. She has denied all the charges and has been released on bail.
India has demanded an apology from the US over her alleged "humiliation". But an Indian news agency quoted US sources
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Britain predicted to Mourinho pokes Britain become Europe’s fun at TV pundits stays with analogue largest economy As the busy English Premier League soccer programme plays out over the festive season Chelsea Manager Jose Mourhino, always something of a television entertainer, has made his pitch for a future in television.
While the British economy is rapidly improving, the man in the street is yet to benefit and the New Year announcement that Britain is destined to be Europe’s largest economy is hard to take. But that is what a new report is suggesting. Within 20 years Britain will overtake France and Germany.
But the Centre for Economics and Business Research also points out that Britain’s predicted gross domestic product will put it behind the improving economies of India and Brazil.
The report appears to endorse Britain’s decision to keep the pound and explains Prime Minister David Cameron’s enthusiasm for better business links with
improving worldwide.
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While Germany, traditionally Europe’s economic powerhouse, would lose its position as the largest Western European economy, if the Euro were to fail its outlook could be much better.
The research also suggests Britain could be stronger outside the European Union, although in the short term leaving would have a negative impact. The predictions assume a falling value for the Euro, a falling German population and a rising population in the UK. But it has to be said, we do live in an unpredictable world!
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Chelsea beat close rivals Liverpool 2-1 and during one of his televised interviews Mourinho, always one to inject a little humour, suggested that almost all of the BBC television pundits were former Liverpool players, but there were none who had played for Chelsea.
He said that when aged 75, and presumably retired from management, he would became a television pundit and would
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In spite of a couple of defeats over the festive period, Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers still believes Liverpool can challenge for the title.
And Mourinho endorsed the view that Liverpool were genuine contenders and were a good side even without Luis Suarez. “Let’s be fair, Liverpool did very well without him when he was suspended.” He pointed out that Liverpool could benefit by playing fewer games and being able to concentrate on the Premier League. Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal are still in the Champions League.
While the sales of new gadgets continues at a fast pace, radio listeners in Britain have not embraced digital radio in the way that the Government expected, and as a result analogue radio has been given a reprieve. Both the existing radio bands, FM and AM, were to be switched off in 2015, but many listeners have not been happy with the stability of the digital signal they receive and have continued to use FM.
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Weather fails to stop the shoppers
An estimate 13.3 million shoppers turned out for the January clearance sales on Britain’s high streets and shopping centres on Boxing Day, up two per cent on the previous year.
This increase in activity was in spite of seriously bad weather over the Christmas period, with heavy rain and wind causing flooding and property damage, power cuts and disruption to road, rail and air travel. Around £2.2 billion was spent on by shoppers, some travelling in darkness to queue from 3am outside Next stores. Around £370 million was spent on line during the day.
It seems some people can’t stop shopping even on Christmas Day, when the sales started on line. Store chain John Lewis reported a 19 per cent rise in Christmas Day sales.
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Lord Howe says UK must stay in EU
A former pro-European Chancellor and Foreign Secretary during Mrs Thatcher’s Government has said Prime Minister David Cameron must make the case for Britain’s continued membership of the European Union. Lord Howe of Aberavon’s resignation over Europe in 1990 led to Mrs Thatcher’s downfall as Prime Minister and he has never been forgiven by some within the party for the divisions he caused. The Conservative Party is committed to an in/out referendum on Europe after the next General Election if the Conservatives win.
Lord Howe said in a statement: “Sadly, by repeated concessions to the Eurosceptics, the Government made its own position on Europe, and in Europe, more difficult.” He suggested the Prime Minister and ministers need to make the case for Europe rather that leaving it to President Obama, Nissan and the Confederation of British Industry.
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Bid put an end Haass team fail to to ‘health reach agreement tourism’
In a bid to deter ‘health tourism’ the British Government is to charge overseas visitors and migrants for accident and emergency treatment from the National Health Service.
Ministers say no-one
will be turned away from accident and emergency departments but there will be a bill to pay for those from overseas.
Details of the scheme are still being worked out and the plan will be published in full in March.
Should parents smack children?
The Children’s Commissioner for England has said it is her personal view that parents should be banned from smacking children.
Maggie Atkinson, a former teacher, says that in law you are forbidden from striking another
adult and from physically chastising your pets but there is a loophole that allows you to chastise your child.
A light smack or ‘reasonable chastisement’ is currently permitted in British law.
Suspicious death in West Sussex Valerie Graves, 55, who had two grown up children, has been found dead at the home of Malcom and Jane Chamberlain that she was looking after for them over the holidays while they were away with their two children.
Mrs Graves was found at the house in Smuggler’s Lane, Bosham, near Chichester, West Sussex at 9.50am on Monday morning. She had been staying at the sixbedroomed house with three members of her family.
A neighbour, who did not wish to be named said that the Chamberlains frequently had friends or family stay at the house while they were away. She added that the home was not rented out and people were generally happy to stay there because “it is a nice place to visit. There were cars parked in the drive, they were entirely well-behaved, they came gently and went gently, we
heard absolutely nothing."
Police confirmed that the death was being treated as suspicious and urged anyone with any information to come forward. Detectives from both Sussex and Surrey Major Crime Teams are investigating.
On Tuesday, Detective Chief Inspector Jon Fanner said: "At this stage we are keeping an open mind as to the motive, but we are appealing for witnesses who may have seen anyone acting suspiciously in the area from late afternoon on Sunday, December 29th to around 9am on Monday, December 30th.
“This is a rare incident for Bosham, which is a safe area. We have increased our neighbourhood policing patrols in the village and if anyone has any information or concerns, I would urge them to speak to one of the officers who are there."
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Overnight talks led by US diplomat Richard Haas in Belfast ended in stalemate on Tuesday morning with Northern Ireland's five main political parties having failed to reach an agreement over how to deal with flags, disputed parades and the legacy of the Troubles. However, Dr Haass said that “significant progress” had been made and all parties supported aspects of the proposed agreements but a number of concerns remained. He added that the next step would be to set up a working party from all five parties saying: "The choice is not between the text and some ideal. Rather it is the choice between going forward with an agreement of this sort which necessarily represents some compromise, and the status quo.” There was a chance that all the parties would back all or key parts of his proposals in the future.
Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams indicated his party was ready to strike a full deal, and urged all those involved "to reflect upon the process" – but he said the talks could not continue forever. The DUP and Ulster
Unionists both indicated they had major difficulties with elements of the text with Ulster Unionist negotiator Jeffrey Donaldson MP saying his team "profoundly disapprove" of some of the report's language. The Social Democratic and Labour Party (SDLP) said it would also be conducting a consultation, but party leader Alasdair McDonnell said he would be recommending a general endorsement of the proposals. Alliance party deputy leader Naomi Long said she was willing to endorse proposals on the past, but not on flags and parades. Northern Ireland Secretary Theresa Villiers said: "It is disappointing that it has not been possible to reach a comprehensive agreement on flags, parading and the past within the timetable set out by Dr Haass and his team. Yet this should not be seen as the end of the road in seeking to find a way forward on these difficult and divisive issues. The Haass process has seen much valuable work done involving the political parties along with groups and individuals from across the community. Significant progress has been made. It
Child killer hangs himself in jail Julian Stevenson, 47, killed his 10-year-old son Matthew and five-year-old daughter Carla last May by slitting their throats with a kitchen knife following a bitter custody battle with his former French wife. And on Monday a source at the local public prosecutors office revealed he had now hanged himself in a sports hall in the Corbas prison in Lyon reserved for inmates in solitary confinement. Mr. Stevenson had a history of violence and alcoholism and fled the scene of the murder on roller skates. Previously, he had been banned by a court order to have any contact with the children without a third person being present. It is
believed that this was the first time he had seen the children alone since the order was made and in the hours before their deaths Stevenson, an unemployed former haulage firm manager, was captured on CCTV in a bakery with them buying sweets – they were each carrying a balloon.The 47-year-old, who had a history of violence and alcoholism, murdered his children in a fit of rage then fled the scene on rollerskates.
A Foreign Office spokesman said: "We are aware of the death of a British national in detention in France on December 30th. We are providing consular assistance to the family."
is important to build on this and continue to seek agreement in areas that continue to be a focus for tension and division within society."
Northern Ireland's First Minister Peter Robinson and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness invited Dr Haass after weeks of unrest over flags and marches. There were serious disturbances last December and January when Belfast City Council voted to limit the number of days the Union flag is flown on City Hall. Rioting flared during the summer marching season too when the Parades Commission prohibited an Orange Order return march at Ardoyne in north Belfast. Agreement on when flags should be flown has proven most elusive and the parties may decide to defer that issue to another process after the next election.
Debenhams profit warning
Manic Monday, the first Monday of the New Year Sales in the UK, failed to hit its normal spending fenzy heights leaving Debenhams to reveal their profits were nearly £30 down on last year and forcing them to issue a profits warning with shares in the store plunging by as much as 13% on Tuesday. The store added that while online sales were up on the previous year, they had not increased enough to stop the plunge in sales and share profits.
Debenhams spokespeople blamed the recent terrible weather, a drop in disposable household incomes and the general decline of the high street that the UK has been experiencing recently and announced that they expect additional markdowns to be implemented during the rest of this month and February to clear excess stock.The announcement, which had been due on January 17th but was brought forward because of the results, saw the retailer reveal an £85m profit for the 17 weeks to December 28th – some way off the £114.7m in the same period last year, a 26% drop. The company's statement showed that online sales had increased by 27% during that time and accounted for 15.6% of total sales, compared to 12.4% for the same period last year.
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Some of last year’s quirkier news stories around Andalucia January: Thieves take advantage of New Year's Eve bells to steal 1,000 kilos of hashish.
Amid all that noise, noone heard the group of masked men enter the Huelva Customs house. There were no guards and no alarms but some nearby residents spotted the men and rang the police. Their prompt action saved the day – or the night, in this case.
Several people reported seeing the tracks of what appeared to be large reptile in the lake at Majada Vieja, in Mijas. It turned out to be a Nile crocodile which was found dead in a drain in April. More tracks were spotted which appeared to belong to a different croc, which was never found.
April: No Easter Week holiday for not being Catholic.
A Junta de Andalucia councillor used the argument that Andalusian public workers were not Catholics to deny them the Easter Week break while negotiating a reduction in working hours in the Junta's general administration department. He later apologised.
June: Heifer causes chaos in Malaga city.
A heifer escaped from the lorry that was taking her to the slaughterhouse and wandered among the traffic and around the streets of the city causing mayhem and chaos until a group of people were able to corner her.
February: Patient May: Gordillo, the gets July: attacks another occupier Antioccupied patient's eyes. corruption judge gets an admirer.
A patient with mental problems tried to tear out a fellow patient's eyes as they waited to see a psychiatrist at the Hospital Clinico in Malaga. No-one could understand how he managed to do it because they were both tied up at the time!
March: Danger! Crocodile on the loose in Mijas.
A businessman who was denied a licence to open a factory in Marinelada, occupied the office of the mayor, Juan Manuel Sánchez Gordillo, famous throughout Spain and the
Prestwick-Malaga route was forced to land in Madrid to throw out four drunken youths who were molesting the cabin crew and the other passengers. The Guardia Civil escorted them – and two passengers who tried to stop their removal – from the plane and took them off to sleep it off overnight to jail.
world for occupying fincas with agricultural workers and carting off shopping carts full of goodies to be distributed among the poor.
Judge Mercedes Alaya, who is more used to being hated for uncovering corruption in the Junta de Andalucia and the UGT trade union, had an admirer who not only loaded a video on Youtube in praise of her work but also compared her to Agustina Raimunda María Saragossa Domènech, or Agustina de Aragón (March 4, 1786 – May 29, 1857) a Spanish heroine who defended Spain during the Spanish War of Independence, known as the Peninsular War to Brits, first as a civilian and later as a professional officer in the Spanish army. Known as "the Spanish Joan of Arc”, she has been the subject of much folklore, mythology and artwork, featuring in the sketches of Francisco de Goya and the poetry of Lord Byron.
August: A monster Villaricos.
December: Guardia Civil invents false fines because of a sea October: Wanted, dog. in horny, childless, Cadiz Provincial Court clean waitress. jailed a Guardia Civil for
A strange sea creature was found dead on the beach at Villaricos, in Almería. It had horns and was four metres long – a real sea dragon. It was stretched out on the beach and cordoned off while experts studied it. It was decided that the monster was a dragon fish which live along the North African coast and had somehow been swept to the other side of the Mediterrranean.
September: Doctor gives gay man a prescription to "cure" him.
David Cámara went to see his doctor in Jaen to get something for his anxiety attacks. The lady doctor told him his homosexuality was "antinatural" and was "all in his head". He decided to report her homophobia to the local health authorities. She told him gay men suffered from many diseases and passed them on to healthy people. However, the authorities opted for accepting the doctor's explanation of the consultation and decided the man's denuncia lacked foundation.
A Huelva company put this ad in a local paper: Wanted a waitress with no partner, no children. aged about 30, who is simpática, horny, serious, formal and clean.” All for €500 a month. After many readers complained, the ad was withdrawn.
November: Drunken passengers force plane to land. A Ryanair plane on the
giving his neighbour false fines because he allowed his Rottweiler out without a muzzle or leash. The judge said the neighbour should have been reported for letting a dangerous breed loose but did not deserve several traffic fines that the Guardia and a fellow agent gave him, even when he wasn't using his car. Both Guardia were sentenced to four years and six months in jail. The dog owner was fined and told to keep his dog under control, or else.
Díaz opts for Patio of the Lions Junta de Andalucia premier Susana Diaz chose the Patio de los Leones, the most famous spot in the Alhambra, to deliver her New Year speech, unlike her predecessors who always used the Junta's headquarters in Seville, the San Telmo Palace. Her message was simple – the Junta has to do everything possible to reduce the region's unemployment rate, which at 34 per cent is well above the national average of 25 per cent. She also intends to improve the public
education system so that everyone will enjoy equal opportunities, especially women.
Without mentioning the Catalan independence issue, she stressed her belief in the unity of Spain, while not being afraid to try out new ways of coexistence "without making any concessions to inequality and privilege". Once again, she stressed her determination to root out corruption at all levels of government – "achieving maximum transparency in public life is one of our essential objectives".
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Professor Juan Carrión, who became a friend of John Lennon in the 1960s when the Beatle was in Almeria filming How I Won the War, is the subject of a book by journalist Javier Adolfo Iglesias titled Juan y John, el profesor y Lennon en Almería para siempre (the professor and Lennon in Almeria forever), which tells the story of Lennon's stay in Andalusia.
Lennon wrote Strawberry Fields Forever during his stay in Almeria and Carrión used the lyrics of that and other Beatle
songs as a teaching aid in his English classes. The professor said the songs were "a very important source of vocabulary". He said a teacher sometimes can't find the words to explain something and those of the Beatles “are very pretty".
Carrión remembered his conversations with Lennon at the presentation of the book in Almeria recently, which was also attended by the author himself, editor Alberto Cerezuela, and the mayor of Almería, Luis Rogelio Rodríguez
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Adolfo Iglesias said his decision to write the book was based more on his curiosity about Lennon's stay in Almeria than his being a Beatle fanatic. "I tried to get inside Juan Carrion with Javier Adolfo Iglesias his head and found Juan as well," Iglesias toes". He said Lennon wrote said, describing Carrión as a Strawberry Fields to pedagogic genius. escape from "the unbearably muggy Carrión said Lennon was afternoons – he wasn't too a "gentlemen from the top of interested in the film that his head to the tip of his was being made".
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mayor esperanza Oña has said work will begin on a second canine park after the festive season ends on January 6th. The 3,600 m2 will be located in the miramar area in the west of the town, between San Gabriel, San manuel and the reyes magos streets. She pointed out that the Guau Guau canine was opened in march 2012, making Fuengirola a pioneer in this type of facility. The new park will have a gymnasium for the dogs and a fenced-off training area where the animals will be able to strengthen their muscles, the mayor said.
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New fines for feeding apes
a Bill to amend the animals and Birds act to create fixed penalty fines for the feeding of Barbary macaques was published last week. While leaving the maximum fine on summary conviction by a magistrate at £4000, it introduces a new level of fining, on the issuing of tickets, which will be £500 for feeding monkeys outside the nature reserve, or enticing them from there, and £250 for feeding them within the reserve. Officers of the department of the environment and the environmental agency will be able to issue these tickets, as well as the Police. The new laws are aimed at deterring well-meaning people from feeding the macaques in builtup areas, which encourages them to take up residence there.
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Of the five women who died at the hands of their former or current partners, two were under age.
For the second consecutive year, the local council will reduce the basura tax by 10 per cent this year. mayor Paloma García Gálvez said the reduction was in line with her commitment to the town's residents, who "had suffered a huge increase in taxes under the former (Socialist) council". The measure was passed by the votes in favour of the Partido Popular and the Unión de Centro Benalmádena, with the Socialist Party and the United left voting against it.
Last year was the worst year for domestic violence since records started being kept in 2003.
The two previous worst years were 2006 and 2009, when four women were killed each of those years. Malaga is also the province in Andalusia with the highest number of gender murders – 29 of the
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apologise for sounding a bit academic but Wish No. 1 has to be that the improving economic figures – record exports, record tourism, increasing foreign investment, etc – at the macroeconomic level start filtering down to the microeconomic level, which essentially means more jobs to reduce the unemployment rate which will get more money circulating, people will start buying more and in the medium term everyone will be better off.
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aving got that boring economic bit off my chest, on the political scene I can only hope that the Socialists will come to their senses and stop attacking Mariano Rajoy and everything his government does in the belief that this will mean more votes for them at the next general election, to be held towards the end of 2015. The tactic won't work because the economy will have recovered enough by then for people to vote for the party that brought it about, that is, the Partido Popular.
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ormer Socialist PM Felipe Gonzalez left the economy in pretty much the same state that Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero did, and it took Jose Maria Aznar four years to repair the damage. He did it by applying virtually the same economic policies that Rajoy has applied, which didn't stop people from voting him in with an absolute majority. But the Socialists have a very short memory span and seem incapable of learning from their mistakes.
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hird on my wish list – or should I say hit list – is that Catalan regional premier Artur Mas simply evaporates some time soon. This man, whom I once regarded as being slyer than a fox and now see as the personification of evil, is leading Catalonia down the road to disaster. He admitted over Christmas that an independent Catalonia probably wouldn't be recognised by the European Union but has now come up with the theory that the EU will grant him a "transition" period, whatever that means. He insists there will be some sort of referendum on independence for Catalonia in November this year – some weeks after the independence vote in Scotland.
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pinion polls indicate that a majority of Scots will vote against it, which would probably encourage the antiindependence silent majority in
Catalonia to go to the polls. It will be interesting to see how he wriggles out of that one. But if there is one thing Mas is an expert at, it's wriggling.
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he Catalan independentistas have made a big noise about the fact that a million and a half people took part in the "chain for independence" last year – people holding hands along the Catalan coastline in favour of independence. However, there are seven and a half million Catalans. Where were the other six million that day?
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ourth on my wish list is that the BBC, the Guardian, the Telegraph and the New York Times will stop calling the ETA Basque terrorists "separatists". The United Nations, the US government, the European Union and the Spanish government classify ETA as a terrorist group. All I can ask is – what did the aforementioned publications call the organisation most similar to ETA, that is, the IRA? It's a typical case of those close to home are terrorists but similar groups abroad are freedom fighters.
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s for ETA, its prisoners' collective has acknowledged the "harm" their long and bloody fight for independence has caused in what most observers see a just another ploy to soften the government's stand on the whole ETA prisoner issue. There's not much chance of that, now that the European Court of Humans Rights has managed to let 60 or so hardened terrorists and a smaller number of criminals get out of jail and upset a majority of Spaniards in the process.
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he Spanish security forces believe that ETA only has 50 members or so right now, although the French claim they still have enough explosives stashed away for at least another 30 bombings. I predict the whole mess will drag on until a majority of Basques send the message that they don't want independence from Spain. I suspect that both the Basque pro- and anti-independence factions are waiting to see what happens in Scotland and Catalonia before making a move. The Basques aren't quite as short-sighted as the Catalans.
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nce again, it is hard to believe that we are at the start of a new year and yet the old one is still on our minds. This is where we select our best and worst for 2013 – of course this contest is run, judged and prized solely by me.
. Alberto Ruiz-Gallardón. The Justice minister, who had made the best list in previous editions, has become a big disappointment with his controversial reforms to the 2010 abortion law which many in the PP are beginning to question.
en. Cristina Cifuentes. The government’s delegate in Madrid again demanded a cracking down on protesters who continue to harass politicians at their doorsteps and on the streets.
en. Green Party Mayor Monserrate Guillén of Orihuela, Alicante stood up to powerful interests who feel he is blocking their way to make money on a stretch of unspoiled beach. He faces a noconfidence vote later this month.
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. María Dolores de Cospedal. The PP secretary general, with three fat salaries, continued to insist that she was the victim of a defamation campaign over bonuses she received from former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas. She was forced to withdraw a lawsuit filed against El País over these allegations.
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. Toni Cantó. Actor and UPyD deputy couldn’t resist insulting women this year with his Tweets.
. Jorge Fernández Díaz. The Interior chief wants to make “insults on Spain” – whatever that is – a felony with his proposed Citizens Security Law.
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. José Antonio Griñán. The Socialist premier in Andalusia was forced to resign, leaving many unanswered questions, right before his name surfaced in a massive ongoing investigation into fraud committed through a fund set up to help businesses pay severance to dismissed workers.
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. Cristóbal Montoro. The Finance minister insulted all the good taxpayers, including actors and top sports figures, by publicly questioning whether they were paying their fair share to treasury.
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. Bill Gates. Microsoft billionaire helped bring investor confidence back to Spain with his six per cent purchase of shares in FCC construction.
. Susana Díaz. The new Socialist premier in Andalusia who seems bent on cleaning up corruption fomented by her party predecessors in her region.
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. José Antonio Monago. Extremadura premier who plans on telling his fellow PP members next week they are wrong in changing the abortion law.
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. Pablo Ruz. High Court judge who demanded and won a legal battle to continue looking into corruption inside the PP.
. Esperanza Aguirre. The former Madrid regional premier is credible when she says she is disgusted by the corruption inside her PP party.
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. Daniel Brühl. The polyglot “Goodbye Lenin” star is starting to sizzle in Hollywood.
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. UN's Working Group on Enforced or Involuntary Disappearances (OHCHR) pressured the PP government to begin looking into crimes committed under the dictatorship of Francisco Franco.
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. Elpidio Silva. Madrid judge who has come under fire for taking on former Caja Madrid chairman Miguel Blesa – throwing him in jail twice – while scraping the surface of the corruption that occurred at the bank.
. José Ignacio Wert. Our Education and Culture minister who demonstrated this year he has no tact or enough education to be in that post.
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. Luis Bárcenas. The former PP treasurer was everybody’s enemy this year when secret ledgers revealed that he helped pay fat bonuses to party officials. . Artur Mas. The wishy-washy Catalan premier insisted on upsetting the rest of the country with his drive to hold a referendum next year. He finally admitted that the EU would not accept an independent Catalonia.
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. Luis de Guindos. The no-frills, lacklustre economy minister worked hard this year to pull Spain out of the crisis.
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My aim is to continue the great hire service that's been built up over the years and carry on offering a wide range of mobility equipment to holiday makers and locals alike either to hire or to buy.
The plan for the New Year is to get new hire scooters to replace the current stock, so the hire fleet is up for sale. Call now to secure a bargain for the New Year to help you get around. So for all your mobility needs, don't hesitate to call Tony on 952 44 77 64 or 699 16 19 49 for an informal chat. May I take this opportunity to wish you a happy and healthy 2014.
Lux Mundi Torre del Mar’s “magical” Christmas
Lux Mundi , Torre del Mar Ecumenical Christmas Carol Service was held on Saturday the 14th December in the Parish Church of San Andres in Torre del Mar, where Christians from different traditions, friends and residents in the Axarquia, came together to pray and enjoy the traditional carols. The prayers were led by Don Miguel Angel Alonso, Parish Priest, Pastor Mads-Bjorn Jorgensen Danish Church and Rev. James Tayler Anglican Church, and the carols were performed by the choirs of “Coro Santa Ana”, “Los Cantadores German Choir”, “Tapas” English Choir, “Children from the Parish catequism Scholl” and Mr. Stephen Schramm, accompanied by Ms Inger Marie of the Danish Church. During the singing of the first carol there was a candle lit procession to the altar performed by friends of Lux Mundi and after the introductory Blessing,
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during the second carol, the friends lit all the candles placed around the altar, bringing “The Light of Christ to shine over all those present at the service”. At the end of the service, during the singing of the last carol, the congregation was asked to take the candles placed in the church pews and these were then lit by the friends, the lights of the church were then turned off and the final Blessing was made in candle light. It was a moving and beautiful carol service with a difference and after the service many friends went back to the Lux Mundi, Centre, to enjoy a buffet and drinks and of course more carol singing. Lux Mundi give thanks to all who supported them as they raised the generous amount of €659.26 to be distributed between ANNE Axarquia and the Parish Caritas. This helped to make these children smile at this special time, to buy
presents for the local children and food for the families in need. A party was organised by Caritas at the Chapel in Las Melosas on Monday 23rd December, with entertainment by “La Carpa” a local institution specialising in events for children, so there was fun for all, Christmas presents for the children and Caritas provided the families with food for over the Christmas time. Written by Patricia Rothwell of Lux Mundi.
To find out more about Lux Mundi find them at: Lux Mundi Ecumenical Centre, Torre del Mar. Avda. Moscatel 1”I”, (Jardines Viña Malága/Antigua Casa de la Viña), Torre del Mar, 29740. Opening hours Monday through Friday 10.00 to 13.00 and 15.00 to 18.00. Tel.952 543 334 Email: luxmundi@lux-mundi.org. Web: www.lux-mundi.org
Celebrations abound for the arrival of the Kings - Los Reyes Just as everyone in the UK is winding down from Christmas celebrations, ready to take down the decorations and the tree for another year, the Spanish – particularly the children – are gearing up for yet another night and day of celebrations. Los Reyes Magos or Three Kings arrive each year in procession on the evening of January 5th, by land on horseback (and sometimes with the odd camel) or on highly decorated floats and even by boat. The crowds who welcome their arrival watch the colourful and frequently noisy cavalcade while trying to avoid the flying sweets that are thrown out for the hoards of eager children who vie with each other to collect the most. (And don´t underestimate how much it hurts when a flying boiled sweet hits you on the head!) Melchior, Baltazar and Caspar – the three wise men who brought gifts of gold, frankincense and myrrh for the Baby Jesus – have long been part of tradition throughout the Spanish speaking world. And, although Spanish children have enthusiastically adopted Father Christmas (who is seen climbing up many a Spanish balcony these days) they still expect a visit from the Kings on January 5th. Instead of stockings children leave out their shoes, hoping to find them filled with goodies the next day, and put out treats for the camels rather than Santa’s reindeer. Traditionally gifts are given on January 6th
rather than Christmas Day (and, of course, our Boxing Day is just another working day over here).
Another important tradition after the presents are opened is the breakfast of Roscón de Reyes. This is a ringshaped cake with colourful candied fruit or fruta escarchada on top, symbolising the precious gems worn by the wise men. The roscón can be filled with fresh nata (whipped cream), trufa (truffle cream) or cabello de ángel (angel’s hair, a sugary pumpkin jam). Inside the cake are two small objects: a bean and a small king. Whoever gets the slice of the cake with the small king is crowned the “king” or “queen” of the banquet, and is said to have good luck for the rest of the year. Whoever finds the bean has to pay for the roscón! Just pop into your local Spanish supermarket and you will find them in great quantities, adorned with gold crowns. Although
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every village has its own Cabalgata de Reyes the most impressive, understandably, pass through the larger cities. Malaga always puts on a very memorable one but sadly last year’s is remembered for a different reason, since a young boy was killed by one of the floats as he tried to gather sweets.
This year the route of the procession has been altered and the floats protected with polystyrene to avoid accidents. The route, which generally starts around 17.00 hours is as follows: Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Avda. de Cervantes, Plaza General Torrijos, Paseo del Parque, Plaza de la Marina, Alameda Principal, Puente de Tetuán, Avenida de Andalucía, calle Atarazanas, Puerta del Mar, Alameda Principal, Plaza de la Marina, Molina Larios, Cortina del Muelle y, de nuevo, Avenida de Cervantes.
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Light a light New Consul at RAFA dinner at Cudeca
The Lions’ volunteers A massive thank you to La Cala Lions' Volunteers
La Cala de Mijas Lions finished off their busy year with a sincere thank you Christmas Lunch for their great band of volunteers.
These ladies – and a few men – work tirelessly in the Lions’ shops in La Cala de Mijas helping Manageress Rosemary to sort, price and sell the hundreds of bags of donations they receive during the year. Clothes, books and bric-a-brac are
amongst the many items needed. Over fifty volunteers and members of the Lions attended a delicious lunch at the Newmarket Restaurant in La Cala. Grateful thanks too to the restaurant who opened up especially for the day.
Wishing all our supporters a very Happy and Healthy New Year, we look forward to seeing you during the year at our various events.
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On 13th December, Cudeca held its annual Light a Light Christmas ceremony in memory of loved ones.
"Light a Light" is a special tribute to those we have lost by the lighting of a candle which continues to shine during the festive season. Thanks to the joint participation of all, we enjoyed a great evening and raised funds from much appreciated donations.
Friends were entertained by the brilliant performances of John Mathisen with his Euphonium, Santa Claus bearing gifts thanks to Leslie Thompson, the Torremolinos Choir, the Sunny View School children’s choir, and a choir from Alhaurin de la Torre, "Cantando Entre Amigos". The highlight of the evening was the switching on the of Cudeca lights surrounding the Hospice Centre. It was a night full of warmth and emotion and very special for the patients, family and friends of Cudeca.
In addition, we were joined by the Mayoress of Benalmádena, Paloma
Garcia; Inmaculada Hernández Rodríguez, councillor of Environment, Health Service and Parks; Francisco Salido Porras, councillor of Welfare; Ana Macías Guerrero, councillor of Igualdad and Participación; and Juan Antonio Lara Galán, councillor of the town hall, who offered words of support for the care Cudeca offers to those who most in need within the province of Malaga. They also gave a commemorative plaque to Cudeca.
Throughout the years, Cudeca has cared for more than 8.000 people with advanced and non-curable illnesses via the costfree multidisciplinary programmes; Homecare, In-patient Unit, Day Care Centre, Rehabilitation and Psycho social care – all coordinated from our Hospice Centre.
Written by Natalia from Cudeca
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The RAFA Christmas dinner and dance proved to be a hit for her first official duty of its kind with our new Consul to Malaga, Charmaine Arbouin. Charmaine wore a beautiful floor length gown that was perfect for the season and participated in the raffle, presentation and dancing at the Tamisa Golf Hotel, Mijas Costa.
Following canapés, a three-course dinner was
served after which the European Area Presidential Certificate of Achievement was awarded to Reg Haywood, for his work in welfare. His certificate was presented to him by Ms Arbouin.
A raffle with many very good prizes raised much needed money for RAFA funds and the assembled guests then danced until the small hours.
Sold out Collegium musical success There was standing room only ... ...because once again, the word had spread around Marbella that the Choir and Orchestra of Collegium Musicum under the baton of their Director of Music, Annemarie Philipps were giving a Christmas concert in the Iglesia de la Encarnacion on December 17th. Works were mainly by European composers, with one exception, which was the opening movement from El Nacimiento by Ariel Ramirez who hails from Argentina. Two of the many highlights from the programme were the Vivaldi Concerto for two trumpets and orchestra, with soloists Angel T. San Bartolome and Juan Carlos Jerez Gomez giving virtuoso performances, and the six dances from the Capriol Suite by Peter Warlock. Both these were ‘sans choir‘ which gave the audience their chance to show their appreciation of music making to a very high standard. The carols, many of
them unknown to me, were by French, German, Spanish, Austrian, English and Scottish composers. The works from these last two were Holst's ‘The saviour of the world is born', Pearsall's ‘In dulci jubilo', and a traditional Gaelic air ‘Child in a manger'. Two works from the pen of Spaniard Jose L. Blasco were particularly well received, as was that old perennial by Schubert, the 23rd psalm – ‘The Lord is my shepherd'. The musical arrangements are made to suit the ‘present' orchestral mix, by the president of Collegum Musicum, Delyth Bressington, who would like it to be known that they warmly welcome new singers and musicians. For more information go to their web site www.colmus.org If a single word were to be used to describe the evening, it would be JOYOUS. Written by Morris Bishop
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Childrens’ concert in Marbella Youngsters from the British School of Marbella helped kick-start the yuletide spirit after putting on a carol concert at the Hotel Gran Meliá Don Pepe on Tuesday, December 17th.
The 30 strong choir sang to a crowd of around 100 family members,
teachers and hotel guests during a 30 minute performance that included 'We Wish You a Merry Christmas'.
The children, aged between four and nine, also impressed the audience by learning sign language for one of the festive songs.
Sixty nine members of F.O.T.A. – Friends of the Theatre Association of the Salon Varietes – enjoyed a splendid Christmas Lunch at the El Brujo restaurant last Thursday. Despite the large number of diners the restaurant staff coped admirably, providing a mouth-watering feast! Entertainment was provided by London Bobby on vocals and keyboard while Trish Reynolds rolled back the years to serenade everyone with a couple of standards.
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FOTA has a very lively society at the Salon in Fuengirola whose aim is to give their members a good social life, make friends, enjoy excursions, holidays, fun together, meet regularly at the Salon Varietes bar and also come along to a monthly lunch club. The cost is only 10 euros per year so, to find out more go along to the theatre, Mondays, Wednesdays or Fridays 11.30–1.15 when the FOTA desk is open.
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The week before Chistmas saw the ladies from Soroptimist International Club Costa del Sol prepare special Christmas parcels at the Red Cross for 450 families in need in the Municipality of Mijas. “We always try to help the Red Cross at this time of year”, said Jenny van der Mark, Club President, “and this year our wish was to help bring some Christmas celebration to these families by giving them speciality foods.” The local Soroptimist branch in Mijas made money through sales at stalls in two different Christmas markets. The Club also received generous donations from the Danish Freemasons, Soroptimist members and friends, as well as the sale of shares in the National Christmas Lottery, el Gordo. “We especially want to thank the GM Cash & Carry for giving us such
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Panto time at The Salon - He’s behind you! Oh, no he’s not! Aladdin Get out in your garden - with help fromThe Andalucian Garden Group Charity concert - in Malaga in aid of Cudeca
Time to register for 2014 Britsoc have a great fair If you want to meet people and expand your interests why not go along and see what U3A has to offer?
Enrolment for the Spring term takes place on Monday 6th January at The Ark, Las Rampas
Centre, Fuengirola between 11.00 and 12.30 and costs only 15€ which entitles you to attend as many groups as you like, subject to availability.
For those new to the organisation, U3A Costa
del Sol aims to promote learning for pleasure and personal fulfillment.
There is something for everyone with 40 different groups covering areas as diverse as Science and Technology, Notable British Crimes, Art History and Spanish lessons, Scrabble, Bridge, Canasta and Mah Jong as well as physical activities including Table Tennis, Jive and Walking in Andalucia.
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New groups starting in January include: •The Golden Age of Spain •Heraldry •Larger than Life People •Russian journey •The Art of Recycling Christmas cards •Table Tennis If you want to find out more, visit the website at u3acostadelsol.org
Unable to come to enrol? Contact U3A President Ian Phillips on 952 494 172 or any of the committee members, whose details are on the website.
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Members of the British Society were celebrating after a very successful Christmas Fair held at Villa Luisa and, despite the economic situation proceeds from the Fair topped the figures for the Christmas Fair held in 2012.
Members of the Society provided some wonderful prizes for the raffle and ticket sales from the raffle contributed a large percentage to the fair proceeds.
The Home Produce Stall had an attractive display of home made pickles, jams and preserves for Christmas and a variety of small and large cakes as well as apple crumbles etc in handy sizes for one or two people. Winners on the Tombola walked away with bottles of wines, spirits or tempting boxes of chocolates. Colourful plants were on display with Christmas Poinsettias being a popular choice or a variety of pansies for the garden tubs. The Café and wine stall was the place to be for a relaxing lunch before moving on to find a book to read in the darker
evenings, a new outfit on the Gear Change Stall or a useful item on the Brica-brac stall.
After the draw for the raffle people gathered in the bar enjoying a drink as the sun sparkled on the sea.
Meanwhile the Treasurer finished checking the proceeds from each stall before handing the sheet to the President John Simpson. John thanked everyone for their help in organising and running the stalls and congratulated them on the proceeds raised. He also thanked the members who had contributed raffle prizes and items for the Home Produce Stall, and also the cooks who had provided the lunches and snacks.
Other events for December included a Quiz on 3rd December, Christmas Carols and mulled wine on 17th December and a Christmas Lunch Party on 22nd December. You can find out more about the British Society by consulting the website at www.britishsocietyspain. com or telephone 952 590 795. Written by Dianne Peel
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Anyone looking to start off 2014 with a full spoon of feel good factor could do no better than to treat themselves to see one of the last shows of this year's Christmas Pantomime at the Salon Varietes Theatre in Fuengirola. Aladdin
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The final shows are tonight Thursday 2nd and Friday 3rd January at 8.00 pm. With 3.00 pm
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Pantomime, it's British and it's good for you and no one can say “oh no it isn't because oh yes it is”. Tel 952 474 542 booking advised. written by Pete Woodall
Around the world but a little quicker and cheaper now The well-known adventure character Phileas Fogg bet half his fortune (20,000 pounds or 23,000 euros), to circumnavigate the world in 80 days with the other half of the fortune expected to be spent on doing so . These days with modern technology it would take nothing like the 80 days it took him some 100 years ago and a fraction of the cost according to holiday price comparison site Trivago. Trivago wondered how many days this odyssey could be completed in, and at what cost, taking into account the technological breakthroughs and new means of transportation. Based on a route designed to stop at the 10 major cities as in the original voyage of Mr. Fogg, you could do the same journey
in a mere 20 days, enjoying at least one day in each location for around €3,345! So next time you look at Easyjet or Ryannair and think they’re expensive, compared to Phileas Fogg’s day they’re incredibly cheap.
Over the next few weeks we will be making some suggestions for holidaying in 2014 so keep an eye out and you may find something that you had never thought of doing before that will take your fancy!
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A charity concert in aid of Cudeca is being held on Tuesday 14th January in the Palacio de los Deportes Food Served all day José María Carpena with 11am to 9pm the following artistes having confirmed that Thursday 2nd January they will be singing: Live Music Rob and Dave - Comedy Carlos Álvarez, Javier Every Night vocals Antonio Torres, Kitchen Open 6pm - 1am Ojeda, Friday 3rd Berna Perles, Diez Established in 1994. Siobhan - female vocalist Negritos, Irene Lombard, Antonio Cortés, Pasión from Dublin Serving Great Steaks, Whole Roasted Shoulder of Lamb, Steak Pies, Vega and Efecto Mariposa. Saturday 4th Stelvis - tribute to TheStroganoffs, Chicken, Fish, Pastas andDue to slow ticket sales Our Famous Pancakes. for this charity concert, King ticket costs have been WE ONLY USE IRISH BEEF Sunday 5th drastically reduced to Happy New Year Explosion - vocal duo ensure that this major To All Our Customers event goes ahead and with the soulful sounds of Málaga residents can Motown and more enjoy this magnificent Monday 6th Moochers is the best place for your concert. The cost for Robbie’s Roadshow & Birthday, Anniversary, Office, Lower Tier seating was Karaoke Golf Presentation, Leaving or €27, now €15, and the cost for Upper Tier seating was Tuesday 7th Homecoming party. Live Football on 7 big Vegetarians catered for €15 and is now just €6. However, if you decide to screens See our website for everything Moochers pay at the box office on the www.moochersjazzcafe.com day, tickets will be €25 HAPPY NEW YEAR TO
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John The Fish at La Parra Gold would like to wish customers old and new a very happy and prosperous New Year. John and the staff are now back and ready for the new year after a short Christmas break and have a new Menu del Dia for your enjoyment which includes double starters. Yes, that’s right, choose two starters, a main course and sweet (or coffee and brandy) for just €5.95
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TAPAS and Andalucian Garden Group charity TAPAS is well known for their excellent plays and their choir that give pleasure to so many people both inland and on the coast. Recently they went even further and delivered much needed donations to a Malaga children’s charity. Over the past few weeks the TAPAS Choir had been raising funds for Malaga Ciudad de los Niños and on Tuesday 17th December members of TAPAS delivered over €400 of food, toys and clothing for the children.
There are 50 children from families with problems who live at the centre and many more disadvantaged children come in on a daily basis for meals. There is also a school. Though the Junta de Andalucia gives an allowance for each child the centre is always in need of funds, especially in these difficult times, so
TAPAS intends to continue to support this very worth charity in the future.
To learn more about Ciudad de los Niños visit their website at www.cnmalaga.com/php/es/
TAPAS’s recent performances of Inspector Drake and the Black Widow were, as usual, very well received with rave reviews so keep a look-out for details of their coming performances in The News. They always welcome new members and, even if you don’t want to act yourself, there’s always something needing to be done behind the scenes that would be much appreciated by this happy group of people. To learn more about TAPAS contact them on 635 293 714, by email at info@tapassociety.com or visit their website at www.tapassociety.com
Donkeys and Directors A group of 225 French multinational Nestle executives taking part in an incentive trip to the Costa del Sol, played a donkey polo match in the bullring Mijas Pueblo bullring recently. The Mijas Taxi donkeys were the horses, brooms were used mallets and the ball was not wood, but a child’s plastic football. The commercial director of Expoloramás, Fabian Lomeña who organizes the company’s recreational and sporting events said that everyone had thoroughly enjoyed the game with each side “becoming distinct and determined to win!”
The lack of the donkey’s prowess at sports meant that each had their own guide who served as it’s own “sports director” and the lack of expertise of the riders in polo meant the match was hilarious encouraging the executives to take photos on their mobile phones, downloading them to Facebook with one exclaiming: “We are convinced that everyone will have a picture on their mobile because our friends
in France just won’t believe this! They have discovered Mijas, its magnificent climate and landscape, and are convinced that they will return," said Fabian. The group also participated in the reforestation of a plot in Puerto de la Gitana, destroyed in the great forest fire of August 2012, with the planting of 500 trees, including 100 oaks and as many buckthorns. "I like it here and it was interesting to learn about what happened in the terrible fires of 2012" said Juan Antonio Molina, one of the organizers of the activity.
Mijas Town Hall facilitated the repopulation 500 trees by making holes and providing technical advice from the staff of the Department of Environment, whose director, José Francisco Ruiz Fontalba, said he “hoped it would rain soon" to ensure the success of the planted trees. However, the organizer of the event is committed to frequently water the trees.
The Andalucian Garden Group’s next meeting is as usual on the second Tuesday of the month – this one being on Tuesday 14th January at Bar La Peñita, behind the BP garage in Alhaurin el Grande at 5.30pm for a 6pm start.
First of all we will hold our Annual General Meeting, chaired by Graeme Holmes. After this brief meeting, the talk will be given by two of our members – Eileen and John Jackson. They will take us on a stroll through a magical and inspiring garden, which they visited when they were in Italy last summer. Afterwards we will have a short member’s Question and Answer time, when we can get help and hints from some of the more experienced gardeners in the Club. We also have a very extensive library and
members can borrow books each month. Visitors are always very welcome and if you want to just come for a particular talk, the fee for one meeting is €5. If you haven’t yet paid your annual subscription, then now is the time to take advantage of the discount rate!
The meetings provide a great opportunity to make new friends and pick up some gardening hints as do the monthly coffee mornings at members’ gardens. These are always enjoyable and a source of inspiration and motivation. We all need that!
If you would like to know more, then just phone Eileen (952 455 213) or Chris (952 119 767). Look forward to seeing you on the 14th! Article submitted by Eileen Jackson
Shop re-opens Just a quick reminder that the Age Concern charity shop in Calle Zaragoza, Estepona re-opens on Tuesday 7th January 2014.
Age Concern would like to say thanks to all of their customers for making last year a good one and for all those who have donated such a wide range of quality goods. They look forward to seeing you again in January.
Pesetas
As you may have read in the local papers there are millions of pesetas still hidden away in Spain. Age Concern is collecting pesetas in note form and can get them exchanged for Euros as a way of raising funds to support their volunteers working in the community. Please have a look through where you live and see what you can discover – recently they received a donation of 14,000 pesetas from one person who discovered them hidden away. If you have any and would like to donate them, please drop them into the shop in Calle Zaragoza, Estepona or give them a call on 951318234.
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MOVIES A ND DVD RE LEAS ES 2 0 1 3 / 1 4
Sweetwater
DVD NEW RELEASE
Release date: December 31st
Director: Logan Miller Starring: Ed Harris, January Jones, Jason Isaacs In the late 1800's, a beautiful former prostitute is trying to build an honest life with her husband in the rugged plains of New Mexico. The newlyweds find their modest plot of land coveted by a malevolent preacher who will do everything in his power to steal it away from them in this
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western from sibling filmmakers Logan Miller and Noah Miller, who coauthored the screenplay in addition to sharing directing duties.
Miguel and Sarah are just starting their lives together when religious zealot Prophet Josiah sets his sights on their land.
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MOVIES TO WATCH OUT FOR
Mandela:
long Walk to FreedoM Directed by Justin Chadwick Starring: Idris Elba, Naomie Harris
The Royal premiere of this movie in London was overwhelmed by the poignant news that the man to whom it pays tribute had died very shortly before screening began. And the death of Nelson Mandela led to an avalanche of newspaper and magazine articles and wall-to-wall television coverage about the man, and the events leading up to his body being taken to his ancestral home.
So the story of one of the most important men of the 20th and 21st century is probably more familiar and fresh to us now and makes the release of the account of the life of the late South African leader very timely.
It’s based on his autobiography, which was painstakingly and secretly written while he was imprisoned and smuggled out by a fellow prisoner. It’s a worthy and
When a big-city sheriff shows up in their dusty western town, tempers flare, setting the stage for a fiery confrontation.
Release date: December 31st
Director: Joseph Gordon-Levitt Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Scarlett Johansson
Jon Martello has earned the nickname of Don Jon because of his ability to seduce gorgeous women day in and day out.
Despite his knack for one-night stands, developing real relationships is far more difficult for him. He is so addicted to pornography that he must watch it several times a day in order to keep himself sane, and all of his
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physical gratification comes from this.
Gradually, Jon realizes that he is not truly enjoying any of his flings, and he decides to try making an actual relationship work.
He'll need to undo many of the preconceptions he has from watching so much porn, and the woman he's interested in will need to
let go of her own misconceptions from too many romance movies.
Release date: December 31st
10th5th
beautifully illustrated lesson in the ‘Gandhi’ school of biography, and it’s possible that despite its running length of two and a half hours there is no way that one film can do justice to the life that was Mandela’s. The movie is driven by a powerful performance by Idris Elba (best known for The Wire and Luther) who brings to the fore the man’s charisma and charm. But the movie is
not just about the myth that was Mandela and it does not shy away from the less attractive side to his character either. Naomie Harris is equal to the task in portraying Mandela’s second wife Winnie. The film includes all the major landmarks of Mandela’s life and is a respectful film which helps us understand one of the most heroic struggles for freedom.
Directors: Randall Miller Starring: Alan Rickman, Rupert Grint, Malin Akerman CBGB follows the story of Hilly Kristal's New York club from its conceit as a venue for Country, Bluegrass and Blues (CBGB) to what it ultimately became: the birthplace of underground rock 'n roll and punk. When Kristal had difficulty booking country bands in his club on the Bowery he opened his doors to other kinds of
rock music. Kristal had one demand of the acts he booked; they could only play original music.
No top 40s, no covers. It was the credo he lived by, support the artist at whatever the cost.
Hilly Kristal ironically became known as the godfather of punk giving a chance to such bands as
Blondie, Television, Ramones, Talking Heads, Dead Boys and The Police.
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By Cathy Stronach
For your personal birth chart please contact: cathy.stronach@gmail.com www.cathystronach.com ARIES
March 21st April 19th
TAURUS
Partners may seem unpredictable still and seem to constantly surprise you with their antics, but as you enter the New Year it is likely you will perceive them in a different light. Liberation from the old is your key word for the moment; if you have been walking around in circles then it is time to take a less travelled route, the change of pace with prove fruitful.
Not all tears are because of a hurt and not all things that seem crazy are madness – sometimes by allowing yourself to experience something different, that you would normally sit in judgement of, can give you a whole new outlook. This is how you begin 2014, with choices which can make you feel a little restless until you take the time to reflect on what holds real meaning for you.
April 20th May 20th
GEMINI
Although you thrive on activity even you Gemini could be finding the speed at which things are now moving quite overwhelming. The good news is it is a major sign that you have turned a corner and as one thing leads to another it is likely you will be doing some considerable travelling in the upcoming months. Now you are swimming in the right lane, every stride you take will be supported.
May 21st June 21st
CANCER
There is still an element of stress in your life and you realize more than many the benefits and rarity of relaxation. The beginning of 2014 gives you the opportunity to forge new partnerships and friendships – you are not meant to be alone and this year will show you this tenfold. You will have an inner drive to accomplish all you can in the first part of the year and others will have a hard time saying ‘no’ to you.
June 22nd July 22nd
LEO
July 23rd August 22nd
VIRGO
August 23rd September 22nd
There are many things that have been left unsaid and your instincts are willing you to say everything you have ever wanted to. By delaying the inevitable who are you protecting? Make sure that you have enough rest and relaxation as your energy levels may be lower than normal so the idea is to pace yourself. There is a lot going on behind the scenes that will eventually work in your favour. You begin 2014 feeling slightly overworked and wondering if you have taken on too much but this all begins to fade as January takes hold. Many of the restrictions that bogged you down in 2013 will leave you and you will find that you have much more personal freedom. Others will be opening up to you and sharing more of their thoughts and feelings, some will be quite revealing and encourage you to reflect upon your own inner depths.
Say it as it is Libra. I know you like beating around the bush or sitting on the fence but directness works a treat for you right now. If you work on directing your energy and focusing your drive then the world is your oyster. Recognition is yours to claim and those that doubted you will be surprised at the turn of events that are happening in your life. This is a new beginning September 23rd - that you have worked and waited for.
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October 23rd November 21st
SAGITTARIUS
November 22nd December 21st
CAPRICORN
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AQUARIUS
January 20th February 18th
PISCES
February 19th March 20th
There is a rising ambition in you to close the doors of the past, reconcile the injustices of the past, verbally clear the decks and feel free to walk down your own path. As this negativity leaves you it will be easier for you to relax down and recharge your batteries. Financially the horizon is looking good and there is a clear sky ahead.
Your heart is longing to express itself this New Year, in fact it will be hard to keep you quiet or your passions hidden from view. You will feel ready to take on anything new as we enter 2014, you are relaxed and in tune with the universe, so everything seems easier than normal. Personal relationships, love and romance become sensuous and exciting.
It may feel like you have been through the mill, completely jigged up and about until all that you were clinging to has crumbled away. Even though you could feel vulnerable and exposed, an issue that was weighing you down has been eradicated. Everything is working out for you even if things seem confusing right now, you will begin 2014 with a fresh perception.
Adventure comes your way and gives you a chance to do the extraordinary. A change of plan is likely and if you go with the flow you will find that this unpredictable turn of events becomes a voyage of discovery. A person from the past may get in touch, some unfinished business that needs sorting out but if you meet it with a spirit of compromise much can be achieved.
Insights are causing you to become much more aware of the real reasons, motivations and actions of others. This will allow you to invest your energy in the places that support where you are heading versus where you have been. Foresight is a valuable skill and you will be feeling grounded enough to be able to access this quality. Unpredictable tides in early 2014 will not throw you off course.
Kym’s Kitchen ...you don’t have to be a chef!
This favourite Italian rice dish has been tweaked making it low-fat and nourishing. Prep: 40 mins Cook: 35 mins, just 475 calories and perfect for veggies
Healthier Risotto Primavera
Ingredients: • 350g bunch asparagus • 2 tbsp olive oil • 1 bunch (about 9) spring onions, ends trimmed, sliced • 17g fresh or frozen peas • 250g shelled fresh or frozen broad beans • 2 tbsp shredded basil • 2 tbsp snipped chives • 1 tbsp finely chopped mint • finely grated zest 1 lemon • 1.7 litres/3 pints vegetable bouillon
(Serves 4)
• 4 shallots, finely chopped • 3 plump garlic cloves, finely chopped • 300g carnaroli or arborio rice • 150ml dry white wine • 25g parmesan (or vegetarian alternative), grated • 25g rocket leaves
Directions 1. Cut the ends off the asparagus, then slice into 5cm diagonal lengths. Heat half the oil in a large, wide non-stick frying pan. Tip in the asparagus and stir-fry over a medium-high heat for about 4 mins or until nicely browned all over. Stir in the spring onions and fry for 1-2 mins with the asparagus until browned. Remove, season with pepper and set aside. Cook the peas and beans separately in a little boiling water for 3 mins each, then drain each through a sieve. When the broad beans are cool enough to handle, pop them out of their skins. Set the peas and beans to one side. Mix the basil, chives, mint and lemon zest together in a small bowl and season with pepper and then set aside. 2. Pour the stock into a saucepan and keep it on a very low heat. Pour the remaining oil into a large, wide sauté pan. Tip in the shallots and garlic, and fry for 3-4 mins until soft and only slightly brown. Stir in the rice and continue to stir for 1-2 mins over a medium-high heat. As it starts to sizzle, pour in the wine and stir again until the wine has
been absorbed. Start to stir in the hot stock, 1½ ladlefuls at a time so it simmers and is absorbed after each addition. To tell when it is ready to have the next 1½ ladlefuls added, drag the spoon across the bottom of the pan and it should leave a clear line. Keep stirring the whole time, to keep the risotto creamy. Continue adding the stock as above – after 20 mins the rice should be soft with a bit of chew in the middle. If it isn’t, add more stock – you should still have at least a ladleful of stock left at this point. Season with pepper, you shouldn’t need to add any salt. 3. Take the pan off the heat. Pour over a ladleful of the remaining stock to keep the mixture fluid, then scatter over all the vegetables, a grinding of pepper, half of the herb mix and half the cheese. Cover with the pan lid and let the risotto sit for 34 mins to rest. Gently stir everything together, if necessary adding a drop more remaining stock for good consistency. Ladle into serving dishes and serve topped with a small pile of rocket and the rest of the herbs and cheese scattered over.
POCO A POCO Feliz, Felices
SPANISH
By Valerie Mitchell
LESSON
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Well, Christmas may be over for another year but I had a question pertaining to the Christmas lights in Coin. At one end of the town there is a sign across the street which reads "Feliz Navidad". At the other end of the town is another sign which says "Felices Fiestas". I was asked which was correct. Well, the answer is that they both are. Feliz Navidad means Happy Christmas while Felices Fiestas means Happy Holidays The doubt of my student arose with the change of "feliz" to "felices". All Spanish words which end in z in singular change it to ces to make them plural. So una vez is once and dos veces is twice Un pez is one fish and dos peces is two fish Un lápiz - a pencil. Dos lapices - two pencils.
This is useful to remember if you are looking up a word in the dictionary. For example, you will not find the word codornices in any dictionary. However, using your knowledge and intelligence you will be able to work backwards and change the final "ces" to "z" and so look up codorniz - quail.
No doubt most of you will know that in Spanish not only the noun becomes plural but also the adjective, the word which is describing it.
That is why feliz (happy) becomes felices (happy when referring to more than one thing). So, un avestruz is an ostrich and dos avestruces would be two ostriches And un avestruz feliz is a happy ostrich while dos avestruces felices are two happy ostriches. Who knows when you will need to use this in casual conversation? And with that it only remains to wish you all Feliz Año Nuevo - Happy new year.
Hasta la próxima - Until next time. Valerie
Valerie runs the Centro Idiomas Language School in Coin.
Her books, “The First Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” , “The Second Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” , “The Third Twelve Shortcuts to Spanish” (€5 each) and “The Verb Book” (€7) are available from The News office in Coin, Woody’s Cards and Books in Los Boliches, David’s Books in Los Boliches or by email from vjeffrey1@fastmail.fm Valerie's books can now be bought from her website – www.centroidiomas.es or call 952 450 747.
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I have fair skin and blue eyes,could you give me any guidance? Dear Kate,
Having fair skin and blue eyes,it is best to keep to the warm spectrum of the colour wheel, such as honey, gold, copper, caramel and light chocolate shades, as all these shades will give your fair skin a nice glow. Please bear in mind that if you are going for a complete change, you will probably have to change your makeup tones and possibly look at changing your colours clothes wise. Often clients forget
Dear Sue,
Jayne, Torremolinos Dear Jayne,
Blackheads are enlarged pores with blocked openingsthe black is not dirt but trapped oxidized sebum. Eliminate pore-cloggers such as too-rich moisturisers, heavy foundations and concealer. It's not about hygiene – it is excess oil production. Avoid squeezing – it can damage pores and lead to scarring. Instead have a facial to have them extracted at a salon.
A whitehead is a blackhead with a layer of dead skin over it, so keep your skin regularly exfoliated. Dear Calvin,
I travel a lot back and forth to England and mostly travel with just hand luggage, which makes it difficult for me to take my hair products. Do you know a company that sell professional products in 100ml sizes? Karen, Benalmadena Dear Karen,
Paul Mitchell have just re-introduced their 100ml sizes which are perfect for you, I have currently in stock the colour saving range, the moisture range and the
extrabody range. Each pack has three 100ml products in it for just €25. The advantage with these packs is that once you have the bottles you can top up from your larger bottles. Most professional companies no longer produce these smaller products as they say they are to expensive to produce, so I am very pleased that Paul Mitchell have decided to bring them back as I get asked your question alot If you have any questions for Calvin or Sue, you can contact them on email – Calvin, calton1@hotmail .co.uk and Sue’s email is aniathome05 @gmail.com. If you don’t have time to email you can phone on 633 733 374 (Calvin) or 952 473 681 (Sue).
Laughter not always the best medicine A new review by British researchers describes the many harmful effects of laughter – it can dislocate jaws, prompt asthma attacks, cause headaches, make hernias protrude and provoke cardiac arrhythmia. It can also cause incontinence – dubbed “giggle incontinence” by an irreverent team of researchers in 1982. The equally irreverent team who carried out the review have said that 2014 is poised to be the year of the humourless healthy. Their analysis, "Laughter and MIRTH (Methodical Investigation of Risibility, Therapeutic and Harmful)", was drawn from about 5,000 studies and appeared in the Christmas issue of the
British Medical Journal. For more than 30 years, it has traditionally featured rigorously researched but light-hearted articles in its Christmas issue.
This year, companion studies in the issue include “Were James Bond's drinks shaken because of alcohol-induced tremor?”, and "The survival time of chocolates on hospital wards: covert observational study".
The researchers said their review was timely, because BMJ had not addressed laughter in a serious fashion in over a century. In 1898, it had published a case study of heart failure in a 13year-old girl following prolonged laughter.
The next year, the laughter problem was raised again, when an editorial writer, in response to an Italian doctor’s suggestion that telling jokes could treat bronchitis, dismissively proposed the term “gelototherapy” (Gelos was the Greek god of laughter; in Italian, gelato is ice cream.).
Respiratory threats caused by laughter include the popping of alveoli (the air sacs in the lungs, which together typically contain about 600 million). The researchers said: “If you’re going to make asthmatics laugh heartily,
they might want to have an inhaler by their side.” There are also choking hazards, such as ingesting food during belly laughs.
The MIRTH review did take an even-handed, costbenefit approach to laughter, noting ample evidence of its salutary effects. It concluded that laughter’s benefits included reduced anger, anxiety and stress; reduced cardiovascular tension, blood glucose concentration and risk of myocardial infarction. “The benefit–harm balance,” the researchers wrote, “is probably favourable.”
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After months of gruelling, muscle tensing dancing one of Stricly’s best arrives, despite Gatwick!
Kristina waltzes to the Costa in style
… but it was strictly for a relaxing break following months of training and before the live tour Strictly Come Dancing star Kristina Rihanoff has been steppin' out and taking in the tourist sights during a postChristmas and New Year stay on the Costa del Sol.
Kristina and her mum Larisa were guests at Club La Costa World and last night saw in the New Year at a gala dinner at the resort. The twosome fly back to the UK today and Kristina starts rehearsals with rugby star Ben Cohen on January 6th as they prepare for the Strictly UK live tour. Kristina visited Marbella five years ago but it was a first visit for Larisa, only marred by being caught up in the Gatwick delays.
"We have made up for lost time ! I loved Malaga and Puerto Banus and would love to visit again soon," said the Russian star, who joined Strictly in 2008 when she was famously partnered with political correspondent John Sergeant, who dragged her across the dance floor in a memorable Paso Doble! The unlucky couple were slated by the panel of judges every week but the public just kept voting them back into the competition. Their highest judges score throughout that year’s competition was 25 out of a possible 40 points. In 2009 she was partnered with Joe Calzhagie, in 2010 with Goldie, in 2011 with Jason
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in the US National American Rhythm Finals (2003–2005), 2nd in the Open to the World,[4] Mambo Championship (2003– 2004), and was a Semi-Finalist at the Open to the World, 2007 Blackpool Dance Festival. After being partnered with American professional Brian Fortuna, she has performed in the UK with Robin Windsor since 2011. Kristina is also the author of a book entitled “The Art of Dancesport Makeup” for newcomers to Ballroom dance competition and also appeared in The Weakest Link, as well as Strictly Come Dancing television programmes in 2008.
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Just in case you missed the final show and don’t know the results, The News office favourite Abbey Clancey won the 2013 series of Strictly Come Dancing with partner Aljaž Skorjanec.
Also in the final were actress Natalie Gumede and Artem Chigvintsev who almost everybody expected to win, and popular couple newsreader Susanna Reid and her partner Kevin Clifton from Grimsby – as he has become to be known.
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May, who is also a qualified astrophysicist and married to Eastenders TV show Queen Vic pub’s original landlady Anita Dobson, thanked all his fans for their messages of support in a further blog on Monday, saying: “ I now realise that so many of you have been wrestling with this all along, personally, or in family or friends, and, like me, found it hard to share. Hearing of your experiences, and courage, and hopes, and solutions, has been a massive eyeopener for me." While waiting for his results the plucky guitarist says he is carrying on with his plans for his new tour. May has recently been in the news as a campaigner against the badger cull in the UK.
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WEDNESDAY January 1st
6:00am Breakfast 9:00am The Ant Bully 10:20am Who Framed Roger Rabbit 11:55am Polar Bear: Spy on the Ice 12:45pm The Archbishop Sun, Jan 5th 11:05pm of Canterbury's New FILM Year Message 12:50pm BBC News 1:00pm Regional News Drama (1997). A troubled maths genius refuses to 1:05pm Gangsta Granny 2:15pm The Sound of use his gift, preferring to work as a janitor and Music lead a normal life with his friends. Eventually, a 5:05pm Kung Fu Panda 2 university professor persuades him to see a 6:25pm BBC News psychologist, who befriends him and proves the 6:35pm Regional News only person able to help him come to terms with 6:45pm Gnomeo & Juliet 8:00pm EastEnders his talent and past traumas. Drama, written by 9:00pm Sherlock and starring Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, who 10:25pm BBC News won Oscars for their screenplay. With Robin 10:40pm Regional News Williams, Minnie Driver and Stellan Skarsgard.
10:50pm Match of the Day 12:20am The Graham Norton Show 1:20am Weatherview 1:25am BBC News
Good Will Hunting
FILM
Sun, Jan 5th 5:45pm
Catch Me If You Can
Drama (2002). The story of Frank Abagnale Jr, who found notoriety as a teenager conning and charming his way across America. Posing as a pilot, a doctor and a lawyer, Frank was able to fund an extravagant lifestyle while outwitting the FBI at every turn. Fact-based drama, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen and James Brolin.
FILM
Mon, Jan 6th 11:20pm
Hellboy II: The Golden Army
Fantasy (2008). The demon superhero, aided by a team from the Bureau of Paranormal Research and Defence, leads the fight against renegade elf Prince Nuada who is intent on reawakening an unstoppable robot army and bringing about the demise of mankind. Action fantasy sequel directed by Guillermo del Toro, starring Ron Perlman, Selma Blair, Doug Jones and Luke Goss.
FILM
Sat, Jan 4th 9.00pm
Robin Hood
Adventure (2010). An archer fighting in Richard the Lionheart's crusading army returns home to England and assumes the identity of a nobleman killed in battle. His new-found status draws him into the dangerous world of the newly crowned King John's court, while a traitorous knight plots to aid the French in conquering England. Ridley Scott's medieval adventure, starring Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett and Mark Strong.
FILM:
Fri, Jan 3rd 7.40pm
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa
6:50am Natural World: Zambezi 7:50am Flight of the Navigator 9:15am The Great British Bake Off 10:15am The Great British Bake Off 11:15am New Year's Day Concert 12:40pm The Many Faces of Michael Caine 1:20pm The Eagle Has Landed 3:30pm Sports Personality of the Year at 60 4:30pm Final Score 5:20pm The Archbishop of Canterbury's New Year Message 5:25pm Christmas University Challenge 5:55pm The Terminal
8:00pm Nature's Weirdest Events 9:00pm Glasgow: Big Night Out 10:00pm The Many Faces of Stanley Baxter 11:00pm The Sarah Millican Slightly Longer Christmas Television Programme 11:40pm The Resident 1:05am Shadow of the Vampire
6:05am According to Jim 6:30am Will & Grace 7:00am Freaky Friday 8:50am How I Met Your Mother 9:20am How I Met Your Mother 9:50am The Big Bang Theory 10:20am Planet 51 12:05pm Deal or No Deal 1:05pm Channel 4 Racing 3:40pm The Simpsons 4:10pm Big 6:10pm Channel 4 News 6:20pm The Karate Kid 9:00pm David Blaine: Real or Magic 10:20pm Big Fat Quiz of the Year 2013 12:20am Alien 2:20am The Quiller Memorandum
4:05am Deal or No Deal: Ideal Christmas 5:00am Countdown 5:40am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard
7:05am Horrid Henry 7:20am Om Nom Stories 7:25am Share a Story: The Winners' Journey 7:55am Bottom Knocker Street 8:10am Bottom Knocker Street 8:25am Dinner Date 9:25am Murder, She Wrote 10:25am Columbo Goes to College 12:20pm Dickinson's Real Deal 1:25pm ITV News and Weather 1:50pm Uncle Buck 3:40pm 50 Greatest Harry Potter Moments
5:40pm The Illusionists 6:45pm ITV News 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Coronation Street 8:00pm Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 10:30pm ITV News 10:50pm 2013: A Funny Old Year 11:50pm The Jonathan Ross Show 12:55am Jackpot247 3:00am Training Day 5:00am ITV Nightscreen 5:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show
7:00pm Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade 9:00pm Jack Whitehall Live 10:25pm Backchat with Jack Whitehall and His Dad 11:10pm EastEnders 12:05am Family Guy 12:30am Family Guy 12:50am Backchat with
Jack Whitehall and His Dad 1:35am Russell Howard's Good News 2:05am Impractical Jokers 2:35am Fuzzbox 3:00am The Call Centre Christmas
PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster
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THURSDAY January 2nd
6:00am Breakfast 9:00am Match of the Day 10:30am The Pacifier 12:00pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News 1:30pm Regional News 1:45pm The Sorcerer's Apprentice 3:25pm Escape to the Country 4:10pm Flog It! 5:10pm Pointless Celebrities 6:00pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News Programmes 7:00pm Celebrity Mastermind 7:30pm EastEnders 8:00pm Dolphins - Spy in the Pod 9:00pm Silent Witness
10:00pm BBC News 10:25pm Regional News 10:35pm Pretty Woman 12:30am The Rebound 2:00am Skiing Weatherview 2:05am BBC News
6:30am Natural World: Queen of the Savannah 7:30am Tudor Monastery Farm 8:30am Britain's Empty Homes 9:00am Africa 10:00am Earthflight 11:00am The Great British Bake Off 12:00pm The Great British Bake Off 1:00pm Antiques Road Trip 2:00pm The Heroes of Telemark 4:05pm The Queen's Palaces 5:05pm Vintage Antiques Roadshow 6:00pm Celebrity Eggheads 6:30pm Glasgow: Big
Night Out 7:30pm Christmas University Challenge 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster 10:00pm Rab C Nesbitt 10:45pm John Sergeant Meets Rab C Nesbitt 11:30pm Idris Elba King of Speed 12:30am Idris Elba King of Speed 1:30am World's Busiest Maternity Ward 2:30am Two Doors Down
6:05am According to Jim 6:30am Will & Grace 6:55am Will & Grace 7:25am Flicka 9:05am How I Met Your Mother 9:40am How I Met Your Mother 10:10am The Big Bang Theory 10:35am The Big Bang Theory 11:05am The Simpsons 11:35am Flash Gordon 1:50pm The Jewel of the Nile 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm The Restoration
Man 9:00pm My Big Fat Gypsy Holiday 10:00pm Secrets of the Scammers 10:55pm Aliens 1:50am Coming Up 2:15am Emily's Song 2:30am Food Unwrapped's Christmas Dinner 3:30am A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 4:25am Deal or No Deal: Ideal Christmas 5:25am Countdown
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News 1:55pm ITV News London 2:00pm All Star Mr & Mrs 3:00pm Secrets from the Workhouse 3:59pm ITV London Weather 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm ITV News London 6:30pm ITV News 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Do You Know Your Neighbours?:
Tonight 8:00pm Emmerdale 8:30pm Birds of a Feather 9:00pm Benidorm 10:00pm ITV News at Ten 10:30pm ITV News London 10:35pm The Americans 11:55pm The Unforgettable Leslie Crowther 12:20am Jackpot247 3:00am Do You Know Your Neighbours?: Tonight 3:25am ITV Nightscreen 5:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show
7:00pm Winter Wipeout 8:00pm Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 10:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:30pm EastEnders 11:00pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:10am American Dad!
12:30am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Impractical Jokers 2:30am Impractical Jokers 3:00am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents
Between 1941 and 1945, merchant ships escorted by vessels from the US, Canadian and British navies delivered 4 million tons of essential goods to the Soviet Union. In this documentary, Jeremy Clarkson retraces the journey of the convoy of 35 ships codenamed PQ17 from Iceland to the Russian port of Arkhangelsk in June and July 1942, revealing how the Anglo-American mission became one of the biggest naval disasters of the 20th century.
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January 3rd
6:00am Breakfast 9:10am The Cat in the Hat 10:25am Race to Witch Mountain 12:00pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News; Weather 1:30pm Regional News and Weather 1:45pm The Shaggy Dog 3:15pm Escape to the Country 4:15pm Flog It! 5:10pm Pointless Celebrities 6:00pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News 7:00pm Celebrity Mastermind 7:30pm A Question of Sport
8:00pm EastEnders 8:30pm Miranda 9:00pm Silent Witness 10:00pm BBC News 10:25pm Regional News and Weather 10:35pm The Graham Norton Show 11:25pm EastEnders 2:10am Weatherview 2:15am BBC News
6:30am Britain's Natural World: The Unnatural History of London 7:30am The Secret Life of Mary Poppins: A Culture Show Special 8:30am Britain's Empty Homes 9:00am Africa 10:00am Earthflight: Flying High 11:00am The Great British Bake Off 12:00pm The Great British Bake Off The Final 1:00pm Antiques Road Trip 2:00pm Rebecca 4:05pm The Queen's Palaces 5:05pm Antiques Roadshow
6:00pm Celebrity Eggheads 6:30pm Coast 7:00pm Nature's Weirdest Events 8:00pm Kangaroo Dundee 8:30pm Christmas University Challenge 9:00pm James May's Toy Stories: The Motorcycle Diary 10:00pm Drive 11:35pm Top Gear Africa Special - Part One 12:35am Top Gear Africa Special - Part Two 1:35am DH Lawrence: A Journey Without Shame - A Culture Show Special
6:10am According to Jim 6:35am Will & Grace 7:00am Candleshoe 8:50am How I Met Your Mother 9:20am How I Met Your Mother 9:50am The Big Bang Theory 10:15am The Big Bang Theory 10:45am King Kong 1:15pm Zulu 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Celebrity Come Dine with Me 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm Channel 4 News 8:00pm Gordon Ramsay's Home Cooking 9:00pm 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown
10:00pm Rude Tube: Welcome to 2014 12:05am Alien 3 2:05am The Ricky Gervais Show 2:35am The Big C: Hereafter 3:30am Don't Trust the B**** in Apartment 23 3:50am Suburgatory 4:10am Four Rooms 5:05am Deal or No Deal: Ideal Christmas
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News 1:55pm ITV News London 2:00pm All Star Mr & Mrs 3:00pm Secrets from the Workhouse 3:59pm ITV London Weather 4:00pm Tipping Point 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm ITV News London 6:30pm ITV News
7:00pm Great Movie Mistakes 2013 7:30pm The Madagascar Penguins in a Christmas Caper 7:40pm MOVIE: Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa 9:00pm Sherlock 10:30pm EastEnders 11:00pm Family Guy
7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Coronation Street 8:00pm The Martin Lewis Money Show 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm Piers Morgan's Life Stories: June Brown 10:00pm ITV News at Ten and Weather 10:30pm ITV News London 10:35pm The Americans 11:35pm Benidorm 12:30am Jackpot247 3:00am Hearts in Atlantis 4:40am ITV Nightscreen
11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:10am Starship Troopers 2:05am Impractical Jokers 2:35am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 3:35am Going Native
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Mon, Jan 6th 9.00pm
SATURDAY January 4th
First of a two-part documentary taking an intimate look at the world of the marine mammal, one of the most captivating and intelligent creatures on the planet, using camcorders attached to fast-moving submersibles to record life in the oceans. The manmade `spies' swim alongside bottlenoses and a megapod of spinner dolphins, filming behaviour rarely seen before, such as a newborn and his mother hunting kingfish, while nearby males play chicken with supertankers, visit a coral health spa and surf the waves. Narrated by David Tennant.
Thur, Jan 2nd 8.00pm
SUNDAY January 5th
MONDAY January 6th
NOTE: Add 1 hour for Spanish viewing times.
TUESDAY January 7th
6:00am Breakfast 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30am Food & Drink 12:00pm Football Focus 12:45pm Saturday Sportsday 1:00pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 1:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:45pm Escape to the Country 2:30pm Live Darts: BDO World Championships 4:30pm Final Score 5:10pm Frozen Planet 6:10pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 6:30pm Celebrity Mastermind
7:00pm Pointless Celebrities 7:50pm The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins 8:40pm Casualty 9:30pm Catherine Tate's Nan 10:05pm BBC News; Weather 10:25pm Little Fockers 11:55pm Romance & Cigarettes 1:35am Weatherview 1:40am BBC News
6:00am Breakfast 9:00am The Andrew Marr Show 10:00am The Big Questions 11:00am Homes Under the Hammer 12:00pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News 1:15pm Moving On 2:00pm Escape to the Country 2:45pm Helicopter Heroes 3:15pm That Puppet Game Show 4:00pm Songs of Praise 4:35pm Dolphins - Spy in the Pod 5:35pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather
6:00pm Countryfile 7:00pm Celebrity Mastermind 7:30pm Antiques Roadshow 8:30pm Sherlock 10:00pm BBC News; Regional News and Weather 10:25pm Mrs Brown's Boys New Year Special 11:05pm MOVIE: Good Will Hunting 1:05am Weatherview 1:10am BBC News
6:00am Breakfast 9:15am Wanted Down Under 10:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:00am Rip Off Britain: Holidays 11:45am Real Lives Reunited 12:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News; Weather 1:30pm Regional News and Weather 1:45pm Doctors 2:15pm Father Brown 3:00pm Perfection 3:45pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Antiques Road Trip 5:15pm Pointless
6:00pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News Programmes 7:00pm The One Show 7:30pm Inside Out 8:00pm EastEnders 8:30pm A Question of Sport 9:00pm The 7.39 10:00pm BBC News 10:25pm Regional News and Weather 10:35pm Secrets of the Sales 11:35pm The Graham Norton Show 12:20am Weatherview 12:25am BBC News
6:00am Breakfast 9:15am Wanted Down Under 10:00am Homes Under the Hammer 11:00am Rip Off Britain: Holidays 11:45am Real Lives Reunited 12:15pm Bargain Hunt 1:00pm BBC News; Weather 1:30pm Regional News and Weather 1:45pm Doctors 2:15pm Father Brown 3:00pm Perfection 3:45pm Escape to the Country 4:30pm Antiques Road Trip 5:15pm Pointless
6:00pm BBC News 6:30pm Regional News Programmes 7:00pm The One Show 7:30pm EastEnders 8:00pm Holby City 9:00pm The 7.39 10:00pm BBC News 10:25pm Regional News and Weather 10:35pm Secrets of the Body Clock with Terry Wogan 11:15pm Insomnia 1:10am Weatherview 1:15am BBC News
6:05am My Fake Fiance 7:30am Stick It 9:10am Life on Earth 10:05am Life on Earth 11:00am Fred Dibnah's Made in Britain 11:30am Great British Railway Journeys 12:00pm Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 12:45pm Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 1:30pm The Horse Whisperer 4:10pm Coast 4:30pm Live Darts: BDO World Championships 5:30pm James May's Toy Stories: The Motorcycle Diary 6:30pm Flog It! 7:30pm Dad's Army 8:00pm Morecambe &
Wise: Leading Ladies 9:00pm Dave Allen: God's Own Comedian 10:00pm Dave Allen: The Immaculate Selection 11:00pm Dave Allen in Search of the English Eccentric 11:55pm Darts: BDO World Championships 12:45am Darts Extra
6:10am Odette 8:05am Monty Don's French Gardens 9:05am Countryfile 10:00am Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:30am Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 12:15pm Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 1:00pm Live Darts: BDO World Championships 5:00pm Ski Sunday 5:45pm MOVIE: Catch Me If You Can 8:00pm Nature's Weirdest Events 9:00pm Operation Grand Canyon with Dan Snow 10:00pm Charlie Brooker's 2013 Wipe 11:00pm Darts: BDO World Championships
11:50pm Darts Extra 1:50am Countryfile 2:45am Holby City
6:20am Homes Under the Hammer 7:20am Bargain Hunt 8:20am Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 9:05am Britain and the Sea 10:05am Britain's Empty Homes 10:35am Click 11:00am BBC News 11:30am BBC World News 12:00pm Daily Politics 1:00pm Live Darts: BDO World Championships 4:15pm The Great British Winter 5:15pm Flog It! 6:00pm Eggheads 6:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 7:00pm Great British
Garden Revival 8:00pm University Challenge 8:30pm The Sacred Wonders of Britain 9:30pm PQ17: An Arctic Convoy Disaster 10:30pm Newsnight 11:20pm Darts: BDO World Championships 12:10am Darts Extra 2:10am Idris Elba - King of Speed 3:10am This Is BBC Two 4:00am Schools - The Science of Space Dive 4:30am Schools - The Code
6:05am Homes Under the Hammer 7:05am Rip Off Britain: Holidays 7:50am Real Lives Reunited 8:20am Paul Hollywood's Pies & Puds 9:05am Antiques Roadshow 10:05am Britain's Empty Homes 10:35am HARDtalk 11:00am BBC News 11:30am BBC World News 12:00pm Daily Politics 1:00pm Live Darts: BDO World Championships 4:15pm The Great British Winter 5:15pm Flog It! 6:00pm Eggheads
6:30pm Great British Railway Journeys 7:00pm Great British Garden Revival 8:00pm Stargazing Live 9:00pm Stargazing Live: Back to Earth 9:30pm The Truth About Immigration 10:30pm Newsnight 11:20pm Darts: BDO World Championships 12:10am Darts Extra 2:10am The Midwives 3:10am This Is BBC Two 4:00am Schools: Wonders of the Universe
6:10am Little Wolf's Book of Badness 6:35am Arctic Tale 8:00am The Morning Line 9:00am The American Football Show 10:00am How I Met Your Mother 10:30am How I Met Your Mother 11:00am The Big Bang Theory 11:30am The Big Bang Theory 12:00pm The Simpsons 12:30pm Jamie's Festive Feast 1:30pm Channel 4 Racing 4:00pm Come Dine with Me 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:05pm Come Dine
with Me 6:35pm Channel 4 News 7:00pm Speed with Guy Martin 8:00pm New Secrets of the Terracotta Warriors Secret History 9:00pm MOVIE: Robin Hood 11:45pm Charlie Brooker's How Videogames Changed the World 1:40am Fresh Meat 2:25am Hollyoaks 4:30am Suburgatory 4:50am 90210 5:35am Deal or No Deal
6:30am Barnyard 8:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:30am Frasier 9:00am Frasier 9:30am Sunday Brunch 12:30pm How I Met Your Mother 1:00pm How I Met Your Mother 1:30pm The Big Bang Theory 2:00pm The Big Bang Theory 2:30pm The Simpsons 3:00pm The Simpsons 3:30pm Edward Scissorhands 5:35pm Channel 4 News 6:05pm Deal or No Deal 7:00pm Shipping Wars 8:00pm Speed with Guy Martin
9:00pm Bad Teacher 10:50pm Rude Tube: Welcome to 2014 12:50am Waltz with Bashir 2:20am Coming Up 2:50am How Not to Get Old 3:45am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 4:40am Deal or No Deal 5:35am Baking Mad with Eric Lanlard
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News 1:55pm ITV News London 2:00pm All Star Mr & Mrs 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:59pm ITV London Weather 4:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm ITV News London 6:30pm ITV News 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm Coronation
Street 8:00pm A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones 8:30pm Coronation Street 9:00pm The Bletchley Circle 10:00pm ITV News at Ten 10:30pm ITV News London 10:35pm I Shot 2013 11:20pm MOVIE: Hellboy II: The Golden Army 1:15am Jackpot247 3:00am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 3:45am ITV Nightscreen 5:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show
6:00am Daybreak 8:30am Lorraine 9:25am The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30am This Morning 12:30pm Loose Women 1:30pm ITV News 1:55pm ITV News London 2:00pm All Star Mr & Mrs 3:00pm Dickinson's Real Deal 3:59pm ITV London Weather 4:00pm Britain's Best Bakery 5:00pm The Chase 6:00pm ITV News London
6:30pm ITV News 7:00pm Emmerdale 7:30pm River Monsters 8:00pm Weight Loss Ward 9:00pm The Lying Game: Crimes That Fooled Britain 10:00pm ITV News at 10 10:30pm ITV News London 10:35pm Keane & Vieira - Best of Enemies 11:50pm Brian Lara: Sports Life Stories 12:40am Jackpot247 3:00am Loose Women 3:45am ITV Nightscreen 5:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show
7:00pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 7:30pm Snog, Marry, Avoid? 8:00pm Don't Tell the Bride 9:00pm Knight Club 10:00pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:30pm EastEnders 11:00pm Family Guy
11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:10am American Dad! 12:30am Knight Club 1:30am Russell Howard's Good News 2:00am Russell Howard's Good News 2:30am Snog, Marry, Avoid? 3:00am Knight Club
7:00pm Top Gear 8:05pm Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull 10:00pm Bad Education 10:30pm EastEnders 11:00pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm American Dad! 12:10am American Dad! 12:30am Russell
7:05am Canimals 7:15am Sooty 7:25am Sooty 7:40am Almost Naked Animals 7:50am Almost Naked Animals 8:05am Horrid Henry 8:15am Horrid Henry 8:30am Victorious 9:00am Deadtime Stories 9:25am ITV News 9:30am Dinner Date 10:25am Murder, She Wrote 11:25am ITV News 11:35am The Chase 12:40pm Midsomer Murders 2:45pm Show Me the
Telly 3:45pm You've Been Framed! 4:15pm ITV News London 4:30pm ITV News 4:45pm Live FA Cup Football 7:20pm Splash! 8:50pm Take Me Out 9:50pm The Jonathan Ross Show 10:50pm ITV News 11:05pm FA Cup Football Highlights 12:35am Jackpot247 3:00am Ladette to Lady: Australia 3:45am ITV Nightscreen
7:00pm Doctor Who: The Ultimate Guide 8:00pm Top Gear 9:00pm Die Hard with a Vengeance 11:00pm Family Guy 11:25pm Family Guy 11:45pm Family Guy 12:10am Family Guy 12:30am Family Guy 12:50am Family Guy
1:15am Family Guy 1:40am Snow, Sex and Suspicious Parents 2:40am Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2010 3:40am Bamboo
7:15am Sooty 7:40am Almost Naked Animals 8:05am Horrid Henry 8:30am Victorious 9:00am Deadtime Stories 9:25am FA Cup Football Highlights 10:55am The Unforgettable Leonard Rossiter 11:25am ITV News 11:30am Live FA Cup Football 2:15pm The Cube 3:15pm Splash! 4:45pm The Celebrity Chase 5:45pm News London 6:00pm ITV News
7:00pm The Gruffalo 7:30pm The Gruffalo's Child 7:55pm 101 Dalmatians 9:30pm Russell Howard's Good News 10:00pm Starship Troopers 12:00am Family Guy 12:25am Family Guy 12:45am American Dad!
6:15pm Dancing on Ice 7:45pm All Star Family Fortunes 8:30pm Dancing on Ice: The Skate Off 9:00pm All New It'll Be Alright on the Night 10:00pm ITV News at 10 10:15pm Birds of a Feather 10:45pm FA Cup Football Highlights 11:45pm Premiership Rugby Union 12:40am The Store 2:40am The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 4:05am ITV Nightscreen 5:05am The Jeremy Kyle Show
1:10am American Dad! 1:30am American Dad! 1:50am Edinburgh Comedy Fest Live 2010 2:50am Russell Howard's Good News 3:20am Impractical Jokers
6:35am According to Jim 7:00am Will & Grace 7:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:25am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:00am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:30am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Building the Dream 12:00pm 4 News 12:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:40pm Come Dine with Me 2:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 3:10pm Countdown
4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine with Me 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm 4 News 8:00pm Food Unwrapped Diet Special 9:00pm Benefits Street 10:00pm Secrets of the Living Dolls 11:00pm American Football Playoff Highlights 12:00am Speed with Guy Martin 1:00am The Class 3:15am How Not to Get Old 4:10am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent
6:35am According to Jim 7:00am Will & Grace 7:50am Everybody Loves Raymond 8:55am Everybody Loves Raymond 9:25am Frasier 10:00am Frasier 10:30am Frasier 11:00am Building the Dream 12:00pm 4 News 12:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:05pm Come Dine with Me 1:40pm Come Dine with Me 2:10pm A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 3:10pm Countdown 4:00pm Deal or No Deal 5:00pm Come Dine
with Me 6:00pm The Simpsons 6:30pm Hollyoaks 7:00pm 4 News 8:00pm Location, Location, Location 9:00pm The Taste 10:00pm Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:00pm Secrets of the Scammers 12:00am Poker 12:55am KOTV Boxing Weekly 1:25am KOTV Boxing Weekly 2:20am Alex Brooker: My Perfect Body 3:15am How Not to Get Old 4:10am Phil Spencer: Secret Agent
Howard's Good News 1:00am Russell Howard's Good News 1:30am Bad Education 2:00am Knight Club 3:00am Bluestone 42 3:30am Bluestone 42
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1. Governance (14) 10. Sheriff's group (5) 11. Extemporaneous (9) 12. Supervise (7) 13. Avoiding detection (7) 14. Locations (5) 16. Cutbacks (9) 19. Circumference (9) 20. Honks (5) 22. Hole in a road (7) 25. Give forth (7) 27. Involve (9) 28. Come up (5) 29. Achievement (14)
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Jim Fenton
The notice on the back of the Airbus seat told me "Enjoy real coffee – AS YOU LIKE IT. Was the Los Boliches based "Thespa Playreading" gang joining the crew on board to serve hot drinks before performing yet another comedy, but this time one by the Bard himself? Not a bad idea. There was more. "Choose from 3 great blonds on board" trumpeted the advert. "Great in-flight
entertainment" I chortled, until a steel-tipped elbow skewered me, and my companion hissed, "It's blends, not blonds. It's an ad for coffee bags!” And so it was. With full directions on making a DIY coffee with the coffee bag and scalding water thoughtfully provided, together with timing notes (3 minutes for regular coffee and 5 minutes for a stronger brew). By now tossed by an even stronger gale, the Airbus
Pauline I know this is a very busy time for you all, but there are many dogs being looked after by FAMA, the animal rescue charity, so if anyone is looking for a rescue dog to share their home and their life with,
I have liked your paper since it first came out and read it even when I’m back in the UK. That’s online of course as I can’t get a “real” one but I can’t possibly miss my latest instalment of Wickham’s World (heavens, does that woman lead a busy life – she must be run ragged!), I
was doing the Gay Gordons whereas its Captain would have preferred the Palais Glide, thus the arrival of the Coffee Bag Trolley was a welcome diversion So, on to the final phase: “Stir”. The lady in the window seat creates a stir by wishing to go to the loo. A 5 minute Stronger Blend becomes the 9 minute Cooler blend. But it's good coffee!
FAMA small, medium or large, please check out our website www.famaspain.com or contact: Pat on 620 354 885. Many thanks to all of you
Denise MacDonald I must say that I shall be looking forward to my first copy of The News of 2014.
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who helped us re-home many of our abandoned and mistreated dogs – we are truly grateful.
A very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous New to you all.
Marbella
have to see what the inimitable Ms Pilkington has to say for herself, plus of course her opposite in Marty Delfin. I read Ken Campbell’s Stargazing piece every week which is most interesting and a majority of the time I even manage to understand it all and love to stand in my garden gazing skywards to see what he’s talking about, especially when the International Space
Station was zooming around overhead. I love the bit about what’s on and where, Sue and Calvin’s hair and beauty tips, the sports pages are never boring – even to an old biddy like me and the news itself is informative and accurate without putting me to sleep like other papers I could mention! Thank you, The News and Happy New Year to you all.
Anne Staines It has always struck me that the ex-pats that live here on the Costa del Sol seem to fall into two categories. The first are the sensible ones who join all the clubs and societies and make a life for themselves here by meeting new friends and aquaintances. The others, it seems to me and, after all, it is only my opinion, seem to do nothing but moan about their lot. I know people from both sides and those from the latter I just cannot understand. All right, at the moment it’s winter time and somewhat cold of late but, at least on most days the sun comes out to warm your back while you go about
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your business and I have noted that these same people that are now moaning that “We didn’t come ‘ere for the cold, did we?” are exaclty those people who just two or three months ago were wishing it would rain “just like it does in England” and “it’s too flippin’ ‘ot for me ‘ere!” All I can say is that there is an alternative. They can either join the first group of people and start enjoying their lives or they can trot off back to the UK and be flooded out, blown away with the winds or spend practically the whole of your outdoor life wet from the constant drizzle. I know which I would rather do!
Comment By Ken Campbell
Changing times It was my birthday on New Year’s Eve, and I got to thinking, 40 years ago I was a 15-year-old schoolboy and how things have changed since then.
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n January 1974 co-operation between NASA and the USSR was non existent. The cold war was still too ‘hot’ and it would be another 18 months before they could put their differences aside and link up in space during the historic Apollo-Soyuz rendezvous. Now NASA doesn’t have the ability to launch manned space flights anymore and so all astronauts are launched into space via Russian rockets. n 1974 NASA were struggling with their ailing SKYLAB space station. The third and final crew of three spent Christmas 1973 on board before returning to Earth in February 1974. SKYLAB itself was abandoned and left to eventually burn up in the Earth’s atmosphere in 1979. Now, after an international agreement between nations including USA, Japan, Europe, Canada and the Russian space agency we have the mighty International Space Station orbiting the Earth every 90 minutes. Its current crew of six have been up there since November 2013 and are due to return to Earth in March 2014. e didn’t quite get it all right back in 1974. I remember writing an essay in school entitled ‘life in the year 2000’. Flying cars were high on my list. Routine trips to the Moon and back, I passed on the silver suits and didn’t realise just how much we would all come to depend on computers. atellites have also completely changed our lives, everybody now uses a mobile phone, watches satellite TV, uses a satnav, watches upto-the-minute weather reports, the list of uses for satellites is almost endless and all of these things were pure science fiction back in 1974. ur knowledge of the Solar System and deep space has had to be virtually rewritten. In 1974 ‘I knew’ that Jupiter had 10 moons, that Pluto was a solitary planet and that there was no water on the Moon but probably vegetation on Mars. All these things turned out to be untrue. We now have probes in orbit around Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. There have been two fly pasts of Uranus and Neptune and in 2015 the New Horizons probe will pass within 6,000 miles of Pluto and its family of four moons after a flight lasting over nine years. here are currently three rovers exploring the surface of Mars looking for even the tiniest signs of life. It is now believed that liquid
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water may still be flowing beneath the Martian surface but that all important sign of life is still eluding us. he Hubble Space Telescope, launched in 1990, has shown us more than we could ever have imagined about the Universe. It now seems that every answer generates a thousand more questions. The Hubble deep space image was created when Hubble was able to find a tiny area in our Galaxy that contained no stars. It peered out into deep space through this gap and captured an image containing thousands of individual Galaxies. If this image is a random sample of just how vast the Universe is then it extends beyond our imagination. ince 1974 we have flown spacecraft to comets and asteroids, Halley’s Comet was ‘buzzed’ by six separate probes back in 1986. We crashed the Deep Impact probe into another comet in 2005. Also in 2005 NASA landed the Huygens probe on the largest of Saturn’s Moons Titan and discovered a world with a dense atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane. he discovery of hundreds of Exoplanets orbiting around other stars was given priority with the launch of the Kepler Space telescope in 2009. Although the telescope developed faults that greatly reduced its ability, it still discovered almost 150 Exoplanets. Based on these figures astronomers estimate there could be over 400 billion planets in our Galaxy alone. t’s disappointing that we scrapped the Space Shuttles and have not returned to the Moon. I was hoping to be able to book a fortnight’s holiday on the banks of the Sea of Tranquillity by now. ut all things considered, we’ve certainly come a long way since 1974. I had hair back then and my favourite group Slade was at Number 1 with Merry Xmas Everybody.
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Christmas festivities at Mijas Bowls Club The Christmas season began early at Mijas Bowls Club with the annual dinner/dance held on 10th December at Restaurante Valparaiso....
Citroen release some teaser images of Cactus C4 Citroën has published a batch of teaser images that preview the production version of the Cactus concept that bowed at the Frankfurt Motor Show last September. The car will debut on February 5th, 2014, a date that marks the 136th birthday of founder André Citroën.
Tentatively christened C4 Cactus, the crossover will retain the concept's high ground clearance, tall front end, narrow headlights and floating Cpillars. With huge pressures on showroom pricing for mainstream brands and the premium makers continuing to make hay, Citroen bosses sat down to completely re-think the cars that European mainstream makers should be building in the future. The cars needed to be cheaper to build, cheaper to run, and, easier to own.
The Cactus came out of research which suggested that the way people were interacting with technology was changing very quickly, with the new emphasis on simplicity, driven by the smartphone revolution. This also means decluttering the interior, completely ‘taking out elements of the traditional dash’. The low running costs are intended to extend beyond frugal engines. The radical ‘air bump’ panels in the doors are designed to make the Cactus immune from typical supermarket carpark damage – a must here in Spain then.
Indeed, Citroen’s emphasis on ease of ownership is pinned on the idea that if a car is too highly-finished, trying to keep it that way (and being distressed by damage) is a big part of making car ownership stressful. In that
sense, the Cactus is a very French car: there’s a clarity and honesty in its design as well as it being unpretentious. Because Cactus drivers aren't the sort who squeal round corners on the doorhandles, there's no need for deep quasi-sports seats. Instead the front seat is a sofa-like bench. It has a remarkable effect on relaxing you. The designers say it's also very sociable. Apparently when people are sitting in the car they tend to have longer conversations than when
they're sitting in a pair of normal car seats.
Much of this will be carried into production. Most C4 Cactuses will have manual transmissions, so the sofa-bench is slightly reshaped to allow a gear-lever. But the screens, the separate air vents and the glovebox are real enough. The arrival of the real Cactus in showrooms later in 2014 will test this most French philosophy, but Citroen’s future is pinned on its success.
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... at which a group of bowlers and some friends enjoyed an excellent meal and some good entertainment before dancing the night away.
That was followed quite quickly by the Christmas Draw on Sunday 15th December when bowling took place during the morning. After the bowling came a buffet lunch which, on this occasion, was provided by the members. While all those present were enjoying carrot cake made by Jenny Parkin, the draw began and many superb prizes were won. On Boxing Day bowling took place during the morning instead of the afternoon and, as if not enough had been eaten and drunk on Christmas Day, about twenty went for a
pre-booked lunch to La Gavia in Torreblanca, a new venue for Mijas Club.
All these events were organised by Carol Wright, the Social Secretary, who is already busy Carol Wright about to mussel in. working on the next event which will be Three Kings' Day. This and you will be made very year the celebration of the welcome. Mijas Bowls Club Kings is being held on is situated behind Bugar, Sunday 5th January as the the Peugeot Garage, on the Ladies' and Gents' Triples Carretera de Mijas. Club are due to begin at Mijas days are normally held on Club starting on Monday Tuesday and Thursday 6th January. afternoons at 1.30pm for 2.00pm and on Sunday Have you thought about mornings at 10.00am for playing bowls? If so, 10.30am. We look forward whether you are a beginner to seeing you. or an experienced bowler, why not ring Ann Fenton, Report by Christine telephone number 952 588 Wilson. Photograph by Eric 321. Coaching is available Wilson
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C.O.G.S. end their season at at’s a turn-up Santana Golf Club The end of season game was played at Santana Golf Club, with sixteen players and guests taking part. The course was in, as always, very good condition. The results for the day were as follows.
Nearest the pin on hole 16 Ian Holden, longest drive on hole 10 John Bamber.
The winning team with an average score of 93 points was Dave Haworth, Charles Randell, Chris Gardener and The News’ own Geoff Heading. The day’s main competition went as follows. In third place with a score of 30 points was Gerry Owens, second place with 31 points was Zack Sturgess and in first place with 32 points was Del Allwood. On the Saturday 45 players, their partners and guests, celebrated the end of season annual awards presentation and Christmas dinner at Lainey’s, with Frankie B supplying the music.
Thanks go to all the staff at Laineys’ for their service on the evening and
From L to R, Charles Randell, Andy Macfarlane, Sav Ramayon, Joe King, Gerry Owens and Del Allwood
to Frankie B for his performance which was greatly enjoyed by all.
The evening was opened by yours truly welcoming everyone, and then handing over to Joe King our Captain to carry out the presentation of the year’s trophies, which were as follows.
The 6’s competition was won by Charles Randell with a score of 167 points. The 8 from 12 resulted in Sav Ramayon with 203 points finishing in second position and Ian Holden with 207 points taking the winner’s trophy. Now to the winners of the main trophies for our 2013
season. In third place with 273 points was Del Allwood, in second place with 285 points was Gerry Owens and in first place with a score of 289 points was Andy Macfarlane. Well played Andy, a worthy winner.
Well that’s it for our 7th year and how quickly it has gone. I think the older you get the quicker time flies by. Our thanks go to John Bamber our Treasurer, Andy Macfarlane our Secretary for another dedicated job he has done for the Society and to Joe King our Captain for carrying out his duties to the full despite suffering through
illness, and all the members would like to wish Joe a full and speedy recovery.
We are now taking new members for next year and anybody who would like to join us please see our notice board in Lainey’s Bar, with all the relevant contact phone numbers. Lastly I would like to thank The News for allowing me to write the articles throughout the year, and, to wish all the readers a very happy and Healthy New Year. Nig Bowler. Chairman.
Wayne’s Poker Tips Chris Froome: Tour de I was asked this week by a novice player, who has a very limited bank roll of 30€ wanting to play for real money on one of the leading on line sites, whether he should play cash or tournaments. The answer is simple – play both. With a small bank roll he must play the micro limit cash/ring games of 1c/2c, and also play the double-your-money sitand-go tournaments, say at the 1€ buy in. He needs to play both because different players have different strengths which can make you a better cash or tournament player. Phil Hellmuth has won many WSOP bracelets, all at Holdem may I add, and is probably one of the best tournament players ever. As a cash player he has not really been up there with the likes of Doyle Brunson, who is also a great tournament player with many WSOP bracelets to his name at various formats. With cash you need to be aggressive from the start. If you have the odds to make a call or feel you’re
ahead you call if you’re beat rebuy and carry on with the game. However in a tournament (unless a rebuy format) you can't, one mistake and you’re out! I would have to think hard about laying down AK to a 4 bet in a cash game but in tournament play in the early and mid levels this would not be a hard fold, for the simple reason it is better to wait for a better spot, hoping one of the two aggressive players busts out laddering you up the leader board to a prize spot. So my advice is play the small sit and go tournaments to test your tight aggressive game and the micro cash games for your loose aggressive style. But always remember it's selective aggressive play and good hand selection that wins long term. If you have any questions regarding poker or would like to add to anything in this column please email wayne@bolsafiesta.com
France winner signs new Team Sky deal Led by 2013 Tour de France winner Chris Froome, the team extended the contracts of 10 riders to solidify a squad which has enjoyed another marquee year.
Four of the nine-man Tour de France line-up have since put pen to paper on new deals, with Froome, Peter Kennaugh, David López and Ian Stannard adding to the mid-season contract extension of Richie Porte. In Kennaugh, Stannard and Froome, the team sees three British founding riders continue their successful journey with Team Sky. After two strong years in the pro ranks, Luke Rowe followed suit alongside Salvatore Puccio, the latter buoyed by a season which saw the Italian don the famous maglia rosa in his Giro d’Italia debut. Sergio Henao added wins
to his immense promise in 2013 and the Colombian will continue his development with a new contract going forward. Sergio will be joined in the squad by cousin Sebastian Henao in 2014 – one of four new signings alongside Nathan Earle, Mikel Nieve and Philip Deignan. The team also took steps to retain experienced riders, with another founding member, Chris Sutton, staying on with the team. Few riders have more Grand Tour knowledge than Danny Pate and Xabier Zandio, with both men also lining up in Team Sky colours next season.
Just before the Christmas festivities began Novak Djokovic, accompanied by his coach, Boris Becker, trained at the new tennis venue run by 'tennis brothers' Frank and Bernard Frances, which is located next to the Marbella Superbowl Bowls Club. Novak is training in Spain ahead of the first Grand Slam of the year in Australia.
Novak Djokovic, with Jamie Ali, owner of Superbowl and Holly, one of his staff
The Bowls Club held a 'Fun Christmas Tournament' in which over 30 members took part with Pat Fisher and Janet Holden coming out as winners. After the tournament all went on to enjoy a Christmas lunch at Pasta Caffe.
On Sunday 5th January the club is holding a Three Kings’ Day Tournament, which is an open event and all are welcome. A lunch will be served at the club following the event. For details please ring 952817713. By Janet Holden
Henrik Stenson wins European Tour's Golfer of the Year award Henrik Stenson has won another title after being voted the European Tour's Golfer of the Year for 2013.
The 37-year-old was the unanimous choice of the selection panel after a stunning and trophy-laden campaign. The Swedish player won the money list titles on both sides of the Atlantic, was runner up at the Open and third at the PGA Championship. Stenson began the year ranked outside the top 50 but his form means he heads into 2014 as world number three.
In the standings he trails only Tiger Woods and Masters Champion Adam Scott. It took a runner-up finish in Houston in early spring to enable the Swede to force his way into the field for the Masters in April.
"That was a big one in terms of how my season shaped up," Stenson said. "It has been an unbelievable year and I'm delighted to win the award especially as I'm the first Swede to do so.
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IOC 'confident' Sochi Games will be safe
The International Olympic Committee president says he has confidence that Russian authorities will deliver a "safe and secure" Games in Sochi. Thomas Bach wrote to President Vladimir Putin to express condolences for the "despicable" attacks that struck Volgograd within 24 hours. Investigators say the attacks on a railway station and trolleybus, which killed at least 31 people, were linked. They struck just over a month before the Winter Olympics begin. (Pictured Putin and Bach)
Michael Schumacher's condition improves Former motor racing champion Michael Schumacher's condition has improved slightly after an operation to relieve pressure on his brain, his doctors have said. A new scan taken overnight showed signs that he was "better than yesterday", but he was still "not out of danger", doctors said.
The seven-time Formula 1 champion suffered head injuries on Sunday in a skiing accident in the French Alps. The driver had been skiing off-piste with his teenage son when he fell and hit his head on a rock.
He was first evacuated to a hospital in the nearby town of Moutiers.
Professor Chabardes said the driver was in an "agitated condition" on arrival in Moutiers and his neurological condition "deteriorated rapidly".He was put in a medicallyinduced coma. An initial scan on Monday night showed "an improved
situation" and indicated a window of opportunity for a second operation, doctors said.
The family took the "difficult decision" to give consent for the procedure, and doctors operated on Schumacher for about two hours. A subsequent scan revealed a "slight improvement".
On Tuesday the medical team at the Centre Hospitalier Universitaire in Grenoble
said his situation was "better controlled" than it was on Monday, but that he was not out of danger yet and remained in a medically-induced coma in intensive care.
Alastair Cook wants to remain England captain Tomorrow the 5th and final test gets underway in Sydney – the last chance this England team have of denying Australia the 5-0 whitewash. Australia have named uncapped Tasmania batsman Alex Doolan in their squad. The 28-yearold is added as cover for Shane Watson, who injured his groin in the eight-wicket victory at Melbourne. Former England batsman Geoffrey Boycott was scathing of the team after their third day batting collapse. Boycott; "This day promised a great deal for English cricket but finished really disappointingly," he said on TMS. "I feel very dejected after feeling this
was England's best chance to win for a long time. I'd like to be in the dressing room telling them what I think. They think they're better than they are. They've won three series against ordinary Australian sides and they think they're world beaters. "I hope they don't go home thinking everything will be all right when they get back to England because it damn well isn't." You have to love old Geoffers!!
"We can't say he is out of danger but... we have gained a bit of time,'' said Dr Jean-Francois Payen. "The coming hours are crucial. But all the family is very much aware that his state is still sensitive and anything can happen."
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Anelka, 34, made the sign – described as an inverted Nazi salute – after scoring his first of two goals in Saturday's 3-3 draw at West Ham. France's sports minister accused him of a "disgusting anti-Semitic" gesture. The French government is trying to ban comedian Dieudonne M'bala M'bala's shows over his use of the gesture and Anelka confirmed on Twitter he did it in support of the performer. A statement from West Brom said: "The club has asked Nicolas not to perform the gesture again. Nicolas immediately agreed to adhere to this request."
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OBE for England footballer Rachel Yankey England's most capped women's footballer Rachel Yankey has become an OBE while Katy McLean, captain of the England women's rugby union team, is appointed MBE. Ann Jones, who beat Billie Jean King to win the 1969 Wimbledon singles' title, is appointed a CBE after years of work in tennis administration. West Ham vice-chairman Karren Brady has been made CBE for services to entrepreneurship and women in business.
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