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Females Face Fees Fear!

WOMEN have always demanded equal rights - and they will be granted their wish this Christmas.

But female drivers, especially, will not appreciate the nasty shock awaiting them because, thanks to a European Union edict, their insurance premiums will increase by an average of 11%.

Few will even be aware, certainly not in Tenerife, that from 21st December, a new EU “Gender Directive” comes into force.

It means that insurance companies will no longer be allowed to use the sex of a person when setting premiums.

That decision has always weighed heavily in favour of the fairer sex because they are considered to be less of a risk than men - and the figures for claims prove it.

Now, however, the EU’s Court of Justice (ECJ) has decreed that women drivers can no longer look forward to generous discounts.

Basically, it means insurance companies must now charge men and women the same amount, whether for fully comprehensive or third-party cover.

Elena Betes, who runs Spanish price comparison website Rastreator.com, says: “In Spain, each insurance company will adjust its prices according to its customer base, but there will be a single criterion.”

At the moment, the difference between thirdparty car insurance for men and women in the Canary Islands is as high at 45%.

However, many drivers in the UK, men and women

alike, have already covered themselves by installing “black box” technology in their vehicles.

These devices monitor their driving habits in a bid to cut insurance costs and British companies are happy to take the results into consideration when renewing policies.

In fact, most firms are advising their clients to take the black boxes on board.

More than 200,000 drivers have now signed up to “telematic” insurance and, in some cases, have halved their premiums.

The British Insurers Brokers’ Association (BIBA) expects

EU ruling means women will have to pay the same for car insurance as men the drive to “snowball” once the EU ruling is introduced, with more than half-a-million motorists opting to install the technology in exchange for lower insurance premiums.

While this is a relatively small proportion of drivers, experts predict that take-up will climb steeply over the next decade.

The UK’s commercial fleet market has already gone overboard for the device,

while in the United States, where the technology was pioneered, around 80% of new vehicles have black boxes fitted as standard.

The EU changes will affect not only motor insurance but life insurance and annuities as well.

An annuity is a contract with an insurance company to pay you regular income for the rest of your life in return for your pension fund.

Women have traditionally paid less for life insurance because, statistically, they live longer, so there is less likely to be a claim.

They’ll still live longer, but they will soon be forced to pay as much as men for life cover.

Yet men usually get better rates on annuities because they have shorter life expectancy, so insurers have to pay out for less time.

A spokeswoman for Liberty Insurance here in Tenerife told Canarian Weekly: “As far as car insurance is concerned, there’s nothing we can do about it because it is an EU directive.

“But women with existing life cover will not be affected because they will have a contract for so many years. So exsisting mortgage and personal life cover, for instance, will remain the same.

“Also we are advising people looking around for life insurance to get a contract sorted out by 20th December, which is our cutoff date before the Gender Directive comes in on the 22nd.”

She added: “Any policies taken out before then will not apply to the new rules and they will add up to big savings over the years.”

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TENERIFE is to be promoted to the world as the perfect geo-strategic point to invest, according to an announcement presenting the new campaign, ‘Why Tenerife?’

The initiative is designed to inform foreign businesses of the geographical and economic advantages here on the Island and the Cabildo has joined the Santa Cruz Chamber of Commerce, the Port Authority and the Zona Especial Canaria (ZEC) to release the same message: to convey the benefits of working in Tenerife and its usefulness as a platform for financial exchange between Europe, Africa and America.

‘Why Tenerife?’ was presented by representatives of the four major organisations, who explained that the initiative aims to attract new investors linked not only to the world of transport, but also tourism, commerce, industry and new technologies.

The Cabildo’s head of Economy, Competitiveness, Mobility and Tourism, Carlos Alonso said that Tenerife is not only economically attractive because of its geographical

Why Tenerife?

position, but also by its new emerging sectors, such as information technology and communications. In fact, he said the Cabildo has already driven projects that unite the island with other continents.

One example of many is the submarine cable system connecting Tenerife with

markets in Europe, Africa and America.

Carlos Alonso also highlighted the creation of the NAP (Neutral Access Point), a centre that will bring together most submarine cables on the island and become the main focus of the entire telecommunications

system. Similarly, the vice president of the Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Navigation of Santa Cruz, Modesto Campos, pointed out that the Island serves as a bridge between the three continents, not only because of its location but also for the quality of its infrastructure,

ports and airports, as well as the organisational capacity of institutions and professionals, the existence of centres of innovation and the presence of more than 90 Tenerife based companies in Africa or Latin America.

To be effective, Campos said, the groups have made

two commitments: first, to combine the efforts of the Cabildo, the Chamber of Commerce, the Port Authority and the ZEC to coordinate strategies so the Island “is stronger and, on the other hand, continue working on Tenerife to make sure it has a more competitive economy, with the sacrifices and decisions that are necessary for this purpose”.

He acknowledged, “This is a very difficult economic situation that is affecting the survival of many businesses but we are also aware, as entrepreneurs, that our only way out is to look outside and attract businesses here to work with us”.

The chairman of the Port Authority of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Pedro Rodriguez Zaragoza, said the port’s infrastructure should be very appealing to foreign investors, citing the modern facilities that make the capital’s harbour “a perfect place in the Atlantic”.

His counterpart in the ZEC, Beatriz Barrera, warned that with the current budget cuts, “It is more important than ever that the Canarian institutions, whose responsibility abroad is to promote the benefits of the Archipelago, are coordinated and pool their efforts too”.

Murder trial against Irish couple opens THE trial of an Irishman accused of murdering a Tenerife ferry steward in 2010 has opened, with the defendant retracting previous statements made to police in which he confessed to the killing, saying he was tortured into making the confession.

Keith Burke (21) is accused of murdering Abraham Baez (24) during a fight in Playa de Las Américas. According to the state prosecutor Angel García Rodríguez, Burke stabbed his victim in the neck with an eight-inch knife, severing a major artery and causing his death almost instantaneously.

The pair are said to have come to blows when their girlfriends got into a petty argument after the Irish couple were accidentally struck by a car door.

Burke’s former girlfriend,

Sara Stuart (30), is also on trial at the Criminal Court in Santa Cruz, on the lesser charge of causing head and facial injuries to Mr Baez’s partner Laura Negrín.

Burke, who was 18 at the time of the alleged murder, has been on remand in a Tenerife prison since his arrest in April 2010, while Stuart was released on bail in February 2011.

Under cross-examination from Ms Stuart’s lawyer, Burke admitted he had written letters to her while they were in jail and had told her that he “deserved to serve 15 years for what he had done”.

However, he said he had only made the written confession to help her.

The pair attacked the Spanish couple in the street after a 10-hour alcohol binge, the jury was told.

State prosecutor Garcia Rodriguez told the jury: “What started out as a simple argument ended with Abraham Baez dead with a knife in his neck and Laura Negrin injured by a stone.”

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The prosecutor claimed Burke knifed 24-year-old Abraham “with the intention of ending his life”, and said the Irishman should be jailed for 17 years for murder.

The accused couple were returning to their apartment after a night out in Playa de las Americas when the fight broke out at 6am on April 10th, 2010. Burke had

downed at least 10 drinks, including beer and vodka, while his girlfriend had drunk a bottle of wine, 10 vodkas, beer and shots.

The Spanish couple, who had been on a night out with friends, had drunk at least 10 whiskies each, the court heard. The fight broke out outside the Hotel Tropical Playa when Negrin opened

a car door, accidentally banging it into Stuart, the jury was told. Prosecutors say there was a fist fight before Burke went off to the couple’s apartment, returning with a kitchen knife that had a fourinch blade.

Baez collapsed in a pool of blood after being stabbed in the left side of his neck.

The blow severed his carotid artery, and paramedics were unable to revive him.

Negrin told the court she was knocked out by a blow to the head with a blunt weapon. She added: “When I came around, Abraham was lying on the ground”.

Burke denied stabbing Baez and told the court he had been attacked by the Spaniard.

He said: “I took a knife out with me because Playa de las Americas is a dangerous place.

“But that night it never left my pocket and I never stabbed anybody. I just remember being beaten around the back of the head.

There was blood everywhere,

dripping down my back”.

Stuart also claimed she had been attacked and denied striking Negrin with a stone.

She told the court: “The girl opened the car door and knocked me onto the ground.

“She got out of the car and we fought. She hit me and I hit her back. But I didn’t hit her with a stone.”

The court was told Burke wrote daily letters to Stuart from his prison cell, occasionally confessing to the crime.

He wrote: “I killed him but only in self-defence” and “I will be sentenced to 15 years and, to be honest, I deserve it.”

Mr Burke told the court he was lying in the letters to make Stuart feel better, because he was in love with her. They have since split up. Burke has been on remand since the tragedy.

State prosecutors originally charged Stuart with murder but dropped that charge.

They now want her jailed for three years for assaulting Negrin.

The trial continues.

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WHAT'S ON! Arona Folk Festival 25th October 2012 – 22nd March, 2013.

An encounter with the most deeply rooted traditions of the town you can enjoy each week Weekly schedule: Every Thursday at 20:30 pm, folk group acting on the seafront in Los Cristianos (by sculpture of the fisherwoman). On Fridays, 20:30 h, the folk group perform in Playa de Las Americas (City Center Square).

The folk festival will also feature a wide range of items to taste and buy, typical Canarian products.

San Fernando Rey Santiago del Teide Saturday 8th December, 18.30 A concert is taking place in Santiago de Teide - “AveMaria” with compositions by Bach, Dvo àk, Händel, Puccini and Vivaldi. The performance includes a soprano, flautist and organ. Entrance is free!

La Camella Saturday 1st December, 7pm Christmas concert by the students of the Arona School of Music & Dance (Los Cristianos) will take place in the Civic Centre (under the church plaza), La Camella. Free entry.

Feboda Fair Recinto Ferial de Tenerife, (opposite the Auditorium in Santa Cruz) November 30th to December 2nd Everything for the perfect wedding, Feboda is a great showcase for numerous major companies such as travel agencies, caterers, florists and fashion houses.

Admission is 3.50 euros and there will be activities such as musical performances, cooking demonstrations and a wedding cake contest.

Spanish Admiral fends off pirates A SPANISH admiral has been appointed to lead the EU antipiracy operation in the Gulf of Aden.

Rear Admiral Pedro Angel García de Paredes Perez de Sevilla will take up the post of force commander for operation Atalanta on Thursday, December 6th.

According to the latest UN reports, sea pirates carried out 291 attacks and hijackings around the globe in the first 10 months of 2012. They still hold at least 293 hostages.

Pirates are most active in coastal waters around Africa, especially in the Gulf of Aden.

Operation EU NAVFOR ATALANTA, involves 1,500 military personnel, launched

back in December 2008; it aims to prevent acts of piracy and armed robberies off the Somali coast and in the Indian Ocean its

remit extends to 2014 The composition of EU NAVFOR changes constantly due to the frequent rotation of units and varies according

to the monsoon seasons in the Indian Ocean. However, it typically comprises 4 – 7 surface warships and 2 – 3 maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft.

Additionally, a considerable international military naval presence is now in the area, comprising of the Combined Maritime Forces (CMF), NATO and also units from China, India, Japan, Russia, Taiwan and others.

Task forces from the Russian Navy, usually led by Udaloy class destroyers, operate in the area on a rotating basis.

Russian warships have successfully escorted hundreds of commercial vessels from various countries through pirate-infested waters off the Somali coast since 2008.

Julie’s breast-cancer fund-raising gala ball

XXII Half Marathon Almost a thousand athletes will hit the streets on Sunday, December 2nd for the XXII Half Marathon “Santa Cruz de Tenerife” Divina Pastora and the First Edition of the 10,000 meters BASE: Sports Health Race.

The events were originally scheduled for November 4th but had to be postponed due to the bad weather that hit the archipelago in the first week of November. The organisation has worked tirelessly, overcoming all the odds, to make sure this year’s event, now in its 22nd year, will go ahead.

The twenty-second edition of the half marathon in Santa Cruz covers a distance of 21,097 meters, and this year is joined by the new 10k race. It all starts at 9 am at Avenida Francisco La Roche, at the monument to Franco, and follows the waterfront for two laps, to the former Jet Foil station.

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JULIE TOWLER, who pledged to support breast cancer charities after bravely overcoming the disease, is keeping her word.

She chronicled her ordeal in the Canarian Weekly recently, and is determined to raise funds for Tenerife’s annual Walk For life.

Julie, who lives here in the South with her family, held a small charity evening on Sunday at the Marco Polo Bar in Las Americas and raised 300 euros which, she says, was “fantastic”.

Now, she is organising an Xmas Ball at El Rancho, in Palm Mar, for Saturday, 15th December, on the eve of breast cancer’s Walk for Life. And, appropriately, all proceeds will go towards that fund.

Tickets are 18 euros for adults and 12 euros for

children, to include a meal with drinks. There will be live entertainment, which also features a special performance from Estrellas Theatre School, live music and dancing, as well as Julie’s son Luke, who will be singing. Julie adds: “We will be holding a raffle and would be grateful for donations from any businesses. We have already had a good response from some firms, who are willing to help us.

“Please support this as I am sure everyone knows someone who has been affected by this dreadful disease. This is obviously very close to my heart, as your readers will already know.”

Dress code is smart evening wear, and tickets are selling fast.

Please contact Julie on 627 181 167, or Jean on 922 729 329 for more details.

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Joyn to jostle with WhatsApp Operation Kilo Email: editor@canarianweekly.com

SPAIN’S three biggest mobile operators are teaming up to launch a service they hope will help them better compete with the likes of WhatsApp, Viber and Skype, which are luring customers with the promise of free phone calls and messages.

The Joyn service from Telefonica’s Movistar, France Telecom’s Orange and Vodafone will offer free messaging, enhanced call features and in some

cases free calls. The move comes amid a sharp fall in the number of paidfor text messages sent in recession-hit Spain, where the unemployment rate stands at one in four and where WhatsApp is the bestselling application on Apple Inc’s App Store. The service has become so well known that the government here in Tenerife has said officials should use the application to cut mobile bills.

Joyn, which allows users to send video and pictures while on a smart phone, is available for Android phones and will shortly launch for Apple’s iPhone.

More telecoms companies in Spain and globally are

expected to offer the service, which will be implemented across operators in Germany later this year and in several European countries in 2013.

“This is the beginning of something that will cross most operators in most countries,” said Graham Trickey, senior projects director at telecoms organisation GSMA. Telefonica and Vodafone have lost hundreds of thousands of clients in Spain this year since they stopped subsidising smartphones, a policy Vodafone recently reversed.

Cash-strapped consumers are spending less on traditional telecom services, a boon to Internet-based

services like WhatsApp and Skype. The number of paidfor text messages sent in Spain dropped to 1.5 billion in the second quarter of 2012, from 1.9 billion in the same period the year before, according to the country’s telecoms regulator.

Operators are keen to maintain customer loyalty, even if they are not making money from them. And Telefonica, Vodafone and Orange could charge for some Joyn services in future.

“It’s possible that in the future we could launch new added-value services that could be paid for, for example better quality videocalls,” a spokeswoman for Orange Spain said.

Spain stuck in recession SPAIN appears to be stuck in a jobs-killing recession in the final months of 2012, the central bank said in a preliminary report just released.

The scarce available data pointed to shrinking economic output in the final months of 2012, the Bank of Spain said.

An earlier buying spree among shoppers trying to beat a September sales tax rise had now evaporated, the central bank said, allowing the recession to keep its grip on Spain.

“Overall information available points to output still falling in the final months of 2012,” it said in a monthly report.

Car sales in October had picked up from a plunge the

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previous month provoked by higher sales taxes, the central bank said.

But while household and retail sentiment had improved a little, latest indicators “continue showing intense falls in investment in construction”, it said.

Last month, Spain said it had moved into a second year of recession with output shrinking 0.3 per cent in the third quarter, as

the unemployment rate hit 25 percent. The eurozone’s fourth-largest economy has been shrinking for 15 months even as the rightleaning government imposes sweeping austerity measures in the teeth of rising street protests. Scarce jobs, sharp tax rises, and severe public spending cuts including in health care and education prompted general strikes in Portugal and Spain.

THIS weekend a number of Tenerife supermarkets will be participating in the largest food bank appeal ever seen on the island.

Hernán Ceron, President of the Tenerife Food Bank, has unveiled ‘Gran Operación Kilo’, the biggest campaign to collect non-perishable food that has ever been carried out in the province of Tenerife.

The campaign, which will be held today (Friday) and tomorrow, involves the public making donations of basic foods in those supermarkets that have agreed to join the initiative.

Ceron said the project will be explained with the help of a “great team of volunteers” and the collaboration of supermarkets who, for the first time in Tenerife, are joined by a common worthy cause.

After collecting the food, it will move to the Food Bank warehouse, where it will be sorted and classified for further distribution to the numerous groups around the Island that will pass the food on to those in need.

Among the objectives of the

campaign is to include the collection of non-perishable foods, such as gofio, sugar, oil and beans, to help the daily effort of the Tenerife Food Bank to provide food to more than 25,000 people across 127 charities.

It also aims to sensitise and mobilise the public in relation to the current reality of poverty on the Island, and in turn, encourage continued collaboration with the Food Bank throughout the year.

The food collection sites are Hipertrebol de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, El Botánico, Güímar, La Montaña, Adeje, Los Cristianos and La Palma; Hucha El Mocán and Los Rodeos; Alcampo La Laguna; Spar El Mayorazgo and Vistabella; Suma La Paz and Méndez Núñez; Mercadona Adeje; and LIDL in Puerto de la Cruz, Granadilla, La Laguna, Adeje, Las Chafiras, Santa Úrsula, Añaza, Los Realejos, Tacoronte. More information is available from www. bancoalimentostfe.org So, if you live in the south you have no excuse take your food donation to Hipertrebol at Adeje or Los Cristianos, Mercadona Adeje or Lidl.

‘Tis the season of goodwill.

Until next week…

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NEWS IN BRIEF Ryanair cut Spanish flights IRISH airline Ryanair is reducing the number of flights to Spain next summer by 12% because of airport tax increases.

The company says the increase, when added to rising aviation fuel costs, makes it impossible to make a profit.

Flights to Tenerife as well as other Canarian islands will be included in the cut-backs. It means the low-cost airline will lose some 4.5 million passengers and 4,500 direct employees.

The Spanish Airport Authority, AENA, predicts that its income from the taxes and related revenues will drop by around25 million euros.

Heat’s on tax dodgers THE Spanish Government’s amnesty for tax dodgers has now closed. The controversial measure has increased the state’s coffers by only a fraction of what it had targeted.

Tax Agency officials said that until the end of October, the state had taken in an additional 149.6 million in taxes only - just 6% of the 2.5bn-euro target which, they said, was now an “almost impossible mission”.

Jetting off for Christmas RECORD numbers of holiday-makers will be jetting off to enjoy Christmas in the sun this year, as sales to Europe’s most popular beach destinations have rocketed by 160% compared with last year.

Figures released by online travel agent On the Beach reveal that the Canary Islands are the most popular Christmas sun targets, attracting more than twice as many Brits as any other holiday destination over the festive period.

“As the weather in the UK seems to go from bad to worse, it’s great to see Brits making the most of all the holidays available,” said Alistair Daly, On the Beach. marketing director.“Spain and its islands have proved most popular at this time of year.”

Almost half of those spending the festive holiday abroad are couples, while 27% are families with young children and just 6% are those with teenagers.

All eyes on fiscal fraud THE Hacienda plans to create an office to focus on international fiscal fraud. It has detected certain groups who have “exaggerated expenditures” which are subject to tax deductions.

These multi-national companies declare their profits in other countries, such as Ireland, where tax rates are lower.

An agreement between the tax department and the US for the exchange of information is also in the works, and will be key to the discovery of hidden assets and income abroad.

Pay-back time for old folk SPAIN’S Social Security department is reclaiming money from 65,000 pensioners, because of undue 2009 payments.

The sum paid out in error was 117.2 million euros, which will now be recovered by deducting part of the current pensions.

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New: International Child Protection Certificate SPANISH launch a new international initiative to tackle travelling child sex offenders from the UK. A new international initiative to prevent UK sex offenders travelling to other countries and gaining access to children through teaching or volunteering roles was launched in Spain yesterday (Thursday).

Specialist Spanish officers tackling child sexual abuse have shared their expertise and experience of combating this crime with staff from the UK’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre during a two-day law enforcement workshop, which included the launch of the International Child Protection Certificate.

CEOP’s International Child Protection Certificate (ICPC) is a new police check for UK nationals who are travelling and working overseas and will help identify and screen out those who are unsuitable to be working with children.

CEOP has found that some international schools, charities and other agencies overseas do not currently have access to the same level of police checks available to organisations in the UK, sometimes enabling sex offender to gain positions of trust with children.

CEOP is the UK national law enforcement agency dedicated to protecting children from abuse. The certificate has been designed to help prevent known child sex offenders from gaining inappropriate roles in other countries.

The schedule of events is

being delivered through CEOP’s International Child Protection Network and is supported by funding from VISA Europe. Peter Davies, Chief Executive of CEOP: “There is clear evidence to suggest that serious sex offenders who are known to authorities in the UK will often seek out opportunities to work or volunteer abroad.

In many instances this will be through teaching roles but could equally be through other occupations such as charity worker, orphanage worker or as a children’s home worker. The International Child Protection Certificate is intended to be a world-wide safeguard which will give employers and voluntary organisations reassurance that applicants have no convictions in the UK which would make them unsuitable to work with children. It’s

the only UK police check for UK nationals and residents working overseas for some organisations overseas so it’s an essential pre-employment or placement check to protect children.”

HM Majesty’s Ambassador to Spain, Giles Paxman, said: “Sexual abuse of children is a detestable crime. We are determined to do all we can to help schools and other organisations working with children to protect themselves from the perpetrators, both at home and abroad. I am glad to see the interest the ICPC has raised in Spain.

"This initiative is part of a much wider programme of cooperation between Spanish and British law enforcement agencies. I sincerely hope it will protect minors as well as deter offenders.”

Toys must be tip-top THE Canary Islands Director General of Trade and Consumer Affairs, Gustavo Matos, has announced that he will launch an inspection campaign checking labelling on toys for children under three-years-old, in advance of the arrival of the holidays

and Christmas shopping.

This campaign is designed to certify that such toys meet European standards for safety. A total of 40 checks will take place up until January 5th, 2013.

“We will especially be inspecting establishments

not specifically dedicated to the toys, who are offering them to the public alongside other products, and where toys do not constitute their core business,” said Matos.

He also stressed that there will be a special emphasis on

monitoring and enforcing extra labels on toys.

“It is important that all labels on toys that are distributed on the islands are looked at in terms of labelling, especially those bearing the CE mark,” he concluded.

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Record-breaking achievement THE last time Canarian Weekly spoke to local businessman and body-builder Chris Penney, he was adamant that the Mr Universe contest that took place in Sapri, Italy in the summer where he achieved 4th place was his last for this year.

He was taking a break to concentrate on preparing his training partner Lee Burton for the Canary Island Championship, held at Infanta Leonor, Los Cristianos.

Lee did well and achieved second place in the October competition. Chris was a guest star at this show, so was in good condition for his exhibition.

But, it transpired that Chris was in such excellent shape it would have been a shame not to capitalise upon it. So he entered the Spanish Championship held in the beautiful setting of Marina d’or, Valencia on the 10th/11th November. Under the organisation of A.E.F.F

Pro-independence parties in Catalonia won last week’s regional vote, strengthening a drive for a referendum on secession in defiance of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy.

The Catalan President, Artur Mas, who called early elections to force the debate on independence, won 50 of the 135 seats in the regional assembly for his Convergencia i Unio party, down from 62, according to the regional government.

The separatist Catalan Republican Left more than

(Association Espanyol Fitness & Fisico Culturismo).

There were 94 competitors taking part, made up of the champions and runner-up

from each individual Spanish province. Chris came first in the Masters Category, and with it he has become a world record holder – he is the first

person in the Canaries and Spain to win all of the three Spanish championships within a 12 month period. Adding to the W.A.B.B.A Spain – Malaga

in May and I.B.F.A Spain in Valledolid in June where he was proclaimed champion at each. Chris told Canarian Weekly: “This year has been

Catalans say ‘Yes’

doubled its seats to 21 from 10. Two smaller parties secured 16 seats.

In the Canary Islands, Government President Paulino Rivero, has warned Rajoy that if his government increases concessions to Catalonia in an attempt to appease independence supporters, the Canaries will follow suit.

However, Rajoy, weakened by recession and speculation that Spain needs a European bailout, says a referendum on secession is unconstitutional.

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Mas’s failure to secure a majority for his party may leave him dependent on separatist parties to govern Spain’s largest regional economy.

The Republican Left, known as the ERC, ‘’are the winners,’’ said Ismael Crespo, a political scientist at the independent Fundacion Ortega-Maranon research institute in Madrid. ‘’This is going to complicate things for Mas - he had set out a timetable of four years, but ERC want it in six months.

He can’t govern without

them.’’

Rajoy’s People’s Party won 19 seats, a gain of one. The Socialists won 20 seats, down from 28.

Mas has pledged a referendum within four years.

If there’s a majority of proindependence in parliament, ‘’it would be fraud’’ to ditch the planned vote, he said earlier this month.

Mas blamed tax transfers to the rest of Spain for the area’s financial woes and has pushed for independent tax collection. The region

transfers 15 billion euros, some eight per cent of its output, to the rest of Spain.

The 7.5 million Catalans make up 16 per cent of the

incredible, surpassing my expectations. It’s been a long road to success but it has all paid off in the end.”

Last weekend in Alzey, Germany Chris competed in the W.A.B.B.A Mr Universe and achieved his careerbest international placing, gaining 3rd position in the Masters category. Chris was very pleased as this event had over 30 countries, with the champion of each competing.

Chris will continue now to prepare for next season which begins in May 2013 with his sights firmly set on winning a World Championship or Mr Universe contest.

Results achieved this season: WABBA Championship Espana 1st WABBA World Championship 4th IBFA Championship Espana 1st IBFA Mr Universe 4th A.E.F.F Championship Espana 1st W.A.B.B.A Mr Universe 3rd Chris would like to thank the following people who attributed to his success: Lee Burton (training partner), Jose Domingo (diet & preparer) and also his wife Tanya for preparing his food throughout the year.

Spanish population and last year contributed 19 per cent of the country’s economic output. Catalonia is the country’s most-indebted region, with total borrowing of 48.5 billion. Moody’s Investors Service cut its credit rating to junk on August 31st.

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shopping days until Christmas WITH just over three weeks to Christmas Day and for most people just one pay-day left, new research from MoneySupermarket predicts festive expenditure is set to top £22 billion, in the UK with Brits splashing out an average of £445 per person.

This is up 1.8 per cent on last year’s figure of £437 per person, representing an extra £1 billion in overall spend.

Here in Tenerife the festivities which last a little longer, until

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January 6th – Kings Day – kick off this weekend.

Friday 30th November Municipality of Adeje 5-10pm: Christmas market in Las Torres, the area next to the School of music with stalls, entertainment and there will be a food collection by the Red Cross for the disadvantaged.

6pm: Celebration of the fiesta de San Andrés with street activities in Las Torres.

7pm: Fashion parade in the Music school next to the market.

Santa Cruz Live performances begin today in the Avenida de Anaga and will run until 28th December. This will consist of performances by jazz bands, folk, fusion, songwriters, etc., every Friday and Saturday in

the area from nine at night.

Each performance will last one hour.

Municipality of Arona If ‘Chestnuts roasting on an open fire’ sounds appealing, then the place to go for some early Christmas spirit is Valle San Lorenzo.

Arona’s Councillor for Economic Development, Afonso Marcos Esquivel, has announced that a ‘Night of chestnuts, wine and sweets’ is planned in the heart of Valle San Lorenzo, an initiative that integrates commercial revitalisation strategies ahead of the town’s Christmas celebrations.

About 40 different businesses in Valle San Lorenzo will participate in this event, which includes a Tapas Route, whose star ingredient is chestnuts.

In addition, residents and visitors can enjoy an exhibition of old photographs of the town and its inhabitants, which will be hung in the windows of the various participating shops and restaurants.

The shops themselves have also prepared other activities, such as a letterbox for letters to Santa Claus, music, clowns, the tasting of white and red Canarian wines and storytelling by “Mrs. Pumpkin” (“Doña Calabaza”).

Saturday 1st December Municipality of Adeje 5-10pm: Christmas market in Las Torres.

Santa Cruz Live performances begin today in the Avenida de Anaga and will run until the 28th December. This will consist of performances by jazz bands, folk, fusion, songwriters, etc., every Friday and Saturday in the area from nine at night.

Each performance will last one hour.

Municipality of Santiago del Teide Dusk: Christmas light switch on, including Christmas Tree

in the Plaza Buganvilla, Los Gigantes.

Sunday 2nd December It's the first of the Sunday openings for the big commercial centres including:- Alcampo, El Corte Ingles, Ikea and Worten Stores.

They will continue to open for the five Sundays throughout December.

Municipality of Adeje 5-10pm: Christmas market in Las Torres.

Tuesday 4th December Municipality of Adeje 5pm: Blessing of the Belén in the Centro de Mayores, Centro Cultural de Adeje.

Municipality of Granadilla 8am – 2pm: Street market in the Plaza of El Medano.

Wednesday 5th December Municipality of Adeje 7.40pm: Christmas lights switch on,“Adeje en Blanco”, in Calle Grande.

Thursday 6th December Today is a Fiesta day Día de la Constitución. In Spain, it’s officially Spanish Constitution Day a public holiday throughout Spain and the islands which marks the conclusion of the 1978 Constitutional Referendum in which the Spanish people overwhelmingly approved the current Spanish Constitution. Various events are held in honour of the constitution of 1978.

Please note that Mercadona stores in the south of Tenerife are closed.

Iceland stores in Las Chafiras and the tourist areas of Los Cristianos and Playa de las Americas will be open.

The majority of the large commercial centres will be open, but please check with stores before you travel.

Municipality of Granadilla 8am – 2pm: Street market in the square.

Municipality of Santiago del Teide 5.30pm: Religious activity – Ermita Ntra Sra de la Asuncion en el Molledo

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Battered victims’ relief VICTIMS of domestic violence won’t have to pay inflated courtcase taxes relating to their situation.

Fears that new, increased costs of taking legal action against a violent partner would ensure more people being forced to stay silent.

Thus, they would be unable to escape the violence.

But Ana Mato, Britain’s Health Minister, has confirmed that the additional fees, which means, for instance, that appealing against a parking fine will cost twice as much as the actual penalty, will not apply in such cases.

She has also announced plans to set up a “one-stop shop” in every town, at which victims of domestic violence would be able to get help, legal advice and assistance, as well as counselling and protection.

In Spain, one in three women murdered loses her life at the hands of her current or former husband or boyfriend.

This year, 43 women have already died in Spain through domestic abuse, the most recent being a 13-year-old girl in Albacete.

She was shot dead by her 39-year-old “boyfriend”, who committed suicide when caught by the police. These statistics may even be higher, since many women do not report their ordeal for fear of reprisal. That’s because they do not have a job - which would enable them to live

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independently - and they fear destitution and poverty.

In certain cultures, it is accepted it as part and parcel of a woman’s lot in life - or they are too ashamed to seek help.

Experts say this is often the case among Muslim women, who are led to believe their treatment is the norm and

that they would be unable to leave their husbands without bringing shame on the family.

Statistics about male victims of domestic abuse in either same-sex or mixedsex couples are rare. That, say experts, is because men are too embarrassed, and fear emasculation.

Jobless have little hope of working A STUDY by business school ESCP Europe has revealed that only 20% of . job vacancies in Spain are advertised.

The rest, it says, are being filled by existing staff - or their contacts outside work.

It means that 80% of vacancies are taken up before they are even advertised, and companies are using their own databases to cut the cost of recruitment, selection and head-hunters.

And researchers ESCP maintains that this practice is contributing to the economic crisis and high unemployment rate.

Word of mouth plays an

important part in filling vacancies, perhaps more so than the traditional problem of “contacts” or “favours”.

The business school says that nowadays, people are more likely to send their CVs to firms on spec, whether or not there is a vacancy.

Ramón Aragón, ESCP’s department manager, stresses: “Now, more than ever, it is crucial to keep on the move and build contacts with active professionals, who can give you hints and tips about new job offers.

“The concept of networking is very significant for past bosses and colleagues to bear you in mind when they hear of jobs, since they know best how you work.”

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‘Assault’ on plane strands grandma BRITISH grandmother Janet Kirby was thrown off an easyJet flight for “assaulting” an airline stewardess without setting foot on the plane.

But the 62-year-old, from Stroud, Gloucestershire, maintained she merely touched her on the shoulder to attract her attention.

Mrs Kirby was on her way

back home from Almería airport after spending a holiday with her sister, Carol, in Alfaix. She was stopped at the boarding gates, told her hand luggage would not fit in the overhead lockers and advised it would have to be checked in.

But the grandma said she saw other passengers with even larger bags getting into the cabin, so she tried to attract the attention of the air stewardess, who repeatedly ignored her.

She insisted she touched the stewardess’ arm to try to get her to turn round, and was instantly accused of assault.

According to Mrs Kirby, the flight attendant said: “Do not touch me. You are not flying.”

She then called a manager, who backed up the flight attendant and ordered Janet and Carol off the plane.

They were also told they would not be allowed to fly with the airline the next day, either, then later banned

from flying with EasyJet again.

Instead, they were forced to cough up for a Ryanair flight two days later.

EasyJet said the incident was witnessed by police, who supported their decision, describing the situation as a “confrontation with a staff member”.

Janet’s husband, Michael, said: “It is outrageous that two tourists can be left stranded abroad because of the ‘whims of a local official’.”

PEOPLE-SMUGGLERS' HELD IN CUSTODY THE British Embassy in Madrid and the UK Border Agency have this week revealed details of an important mission to smash a people-smuggling gang.

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bers were arrested in a joint operation between UKBA officers and the Guardia Civil.

They were picked up in Britain and Spain as part of a major international investigation into a suspected organised crime gang.

Operation “MARLO” involved raids on addresses in Alicante, Madrid and London

on Monday, and a further arrest in Hull on Tuesday.

They were the culmination of a joint investigation into an alleged criminal network, suspected of assisting Iranian migrants to reach the UK from mainland Europe.

The investigation also involved the Border Agency’s Immigration Liaison Office, based at the British Embassy in Madrid, and the assistance of airlines.

The network is alleged to have organised travel and provided false documents to its “clients” to facilitate their arrival at UK airports.

Computers, documents and mobile phones were also seized from a number of addresses and are being examined.

Co-ordinated action by the Guardia Civil saw 11 people arrested during raids in Madrid and Alicante, and the eight people nabbed in London were aged between 23 and 56.

The gang are said to have

been contacted by up to 100 potential customers per month, and they charged them up to 18,000 euros each.

Of those enquiries, some 25 a month are believed to have become clients, with 20 heading for the UK monthly

Chris Foster, from the UKBA’s Criminal and Financial Investigation team, said:“This investigation is targeting an organised network suspected of being involved in a systematic attempt to evade the UK’s immigration

controls. “People-smuggling is an international crime, which requires international co-operation, so we have been working very closely with our Spanish lawenforcement colleagues from the outset.”

He added:“Our investigation will continue with the evidence we have seized.”

Simon Cooper, UKBA Assistant Regional Director covering Spain, added: “Spain is becoming a hard place for organised immigration crime to operate, and criminals now know that they will be disrupted and brought to justice.”

All those detained in the UK were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to facilitate an asylum seeker for gain. They are being questioned at police stations in London.

Anyone with information about immigration crime should pass it on via Crimestoppers at http://www. crimestoppers-uk.org/ - or call 0800 555111. Anonymity is assured.

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10 million cheers for Adele HIGH-FLYING singer Adele has set a US record for album sales - in less than two years!

The 24-year-old Londoner is the first British female artist to reach the 10-million mark with her album, simply entitled 21.

She now stands alongside Michael Jackson, Madonna and The Beatles in achieving

that target, following an astonishing period for the young mum.

The best-selling album of 2011 featured hit songs Someone Like You and Rolling In The Deep. And earlier this year, Adele walked off with six Grammys for the same album, including best song, record of the year and album of the year.

The elated singer said: “What an incredible honour.

A huge, huge thank-you

to my American fans for embracing this record on such a massive level.”

The talented songwriter, who gave birth to her first child earlier this year, is also enjoying success with her latest single, Skyfall.

It is the official theme song for the James Bond film of the same name, and has clocked up over two million worldwide sales already.

Youth held after schoolgirl rape AN 18-year-old youth, Opemipo Jaji, has appeared in court charged with raping an 11-year-old girl as she walked home from school.

The girl was attacked last Friday at around 4.30pm in Enfield, north London.

She was dragged into nearby Jubilee Park and

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assaulted in an ordeal which, said police, could have lasted three hours. The schoolgirl returned home at around 8pm and was promptly taken to hospital, where she had surgery for injuries sustained in the attack.

Detective Inspector Simon Ellershaw called the incident “a horrific and unusual attack of a defenceless schoolgirl”.

She had been making her

way home along her usual route - one of the busiest short-cuts in the area - at the start of the Friday afternoon rush-hour when she was grabbed.

Police have appealed for witnesses and DI Ellershaw said: “We are particularly keen to speak to anyone who may have seen her, possibly appearing confused or dishevelled, following her ordeal.”

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Heating bills have gone right through the roof!

HOUSEHOLD heating bills have soared by an average of 63% in the past five years.

And as many as threequarters of homes have chosen to be without heating to keep the bills down during that period.

Even more shocking is that a survey by price comparison website uSwitch reveals that 87% are likely to switch off this winter.

The bill for heating has gone up £227 since 2007, hitting a new annual average total of £587.

The price comparison company says the string of recent price hikes announced by energy companies will add around £40 to the average household heating bill over the winter period.

And today, the typical total household energy bill stands at an annual £1,334, showing

BUDGET airline Ryanair, which manages to upset both customers and the authorities regularly, in equal measures, has done it again!

The no-frills Irish company’s latest plan is to introduce two new charges from today (Friday).

And already, its reason for imposing a credit-card booking fee has been questioned by a regulator.

The airline said it was bringing in a 2% creditcard processing fee on all new bookings, to comply with a recent ruling by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT).

a £515 increase in the space of five years.

Ann Robinson, director of consumer policy at uSwitch. com, said: “This increase has knocked consumers for six, leaving many fearful of how they will afford to keep warm during the winter months.

“It will lead to growing numbers rationing their energy use, even during the harshest weather.”

Householders have been urged to shop around to cut their bills, with a difference of more than £300 between the cheapest and the most expensive energy tariffs.

Energy companies have largely blamed rising wholesale costs for the latest increases in bills.

Prime Minister David Cameron’s has warned all energy companies that they will have to offer their lowest tariffs in the future.

But the new legislation will be introduced far too late to help today’s householders

Ryanair is cashing in again However, the OFT said: “We have not required any airline to introduce new payment charges, increase their credit-card charges, or scrap any discounts they wish to offer.

“We took action to make sure that debit-card charges are included in the headline price, and that credit-card charges are transparent and not sprung on shoppers towards the end of the

booking process.” Ryanair are also charging customers a £6 administration fee to cover the airline’s website costs.

The only exceptions will be bookings made using Ryanair’s “cash passport” scheme in Ireland, Germany and Spain, where administration fees can be avoided until early next year.

Ryanair has defended the move, insisting: “We will continue to deliver the lowest fares and a no-fuel surcharges guarantee to all our passengers.”

The spokesman added: “Passengers can avoid credit-card fees by paying with a debit card.”

Youths held after pensioner’s death

POLICE investigating the death of an 84-year-old pensioner arrested four youngsters, who were said to have thrown stones at her house.

Joyce Moulson collapsed some 10 minutes after her terraced home in Bradford was attacked on Tuesday night.

She was taken to Bradford Royal Infirmary but was pronounced dead soon after her arrival.

The boys - two aged 12 and two aged 13 - were arrested on suspicion of manslaughter, but one of the older lads was released without charge.

A post-mortem established the cause of death as heartrelated illness, but further tests are being carried out.

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helpful, chatty and always had time for you, and a tale to tell.

“She was just a lovely old lady. I heard the kids outside last night and, basically, ignored it because I’m so used to it now.”

Other local residents said Ms Moulson was “a lovely old lady who always had time for you”.

Nicola Taylor, 29, who lives on the other side of the road, said: “It’s devastating. She must have been really, really scared.

“There’s always a lot of kids hanging round on the corner, and it’s quite scary. We were really worried when we heard what had happened.”

Julie Taylor, who owns a shop near Mrs Moulson’s house, said: “Youths are always jumping on the wall outside her house and in the garden. Some of them have no respect.”

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Sickness virus that stuns UK AS if the fierce storms and flooding were not enough to cope with, Britain is also in the grip of a winter vomiting virus.

The epidemic is already forcing hospital wards to shut as cases total the highest in five years.

Thousands have already been struck down by the bug, which has arrived earlier than usual this year, and experts warn the problem will get worse during the winter months.

To date, there have been more than 50 outbreaks at NHS Trusts across the country,

with at least 45 hospitals closing wards for deepcleaning purposes.

The bug has also struck down many front-line health workers, leaving departments badly under-staffed.

Figures from the Health Protection Agency are said to show that the number of confirmed reports of the virus has risen by 52%.

A confirmed case counts as one where laboratories have positively identified the bug in samples sent by hospitals or GPs. There have been nearly 2,000 of these since July, compared with 1,301 cases by this time last year.

But because many victims do not report their symptoms

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to doctors, the numbers are said to be “the tip of the iceberg”.

Professor Hugh Pennington, from the University of Aberdeen, told the Daily Mail: “No one can predict what it’s going to do, except that we are going to have a reasonably hard time of it, I am sure. It would be grossly optimistic to suggest otherwise.”

He added: “It’s a nightmare because wards are closed; it’s a nightmare because essential staff are off. And it’s obviously a nightmare for any patients in hospital, who get it who are already pretty sick.”

Norovirus is an extremelycontagious, vomiting bug, which thrives in locations where large numbers of

people g a t h e r, such as schools and hospitals.

It is often spread by touching the same doors and handrails as someone with the virus.

Children and the elderly are particularly vulnerable to the virus, and are usually the majority of those admitted to hospital.

And although it is known as the “winter vomiting bug”, it can actually be caught all year round.

Experts believe cases are significantly higher in winter because people spend more time together indoors

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The final hurdle!

IT’S probably going to be a lot harder than winning an Olympic event, but the show must go on.

Yes, the BBC’s annual Sports Personality of the Year is fast approaching and, with a wealth of Olympic and Paralympic golden athletes dominating the shortlist, it will be the toughest-ever contest to call.

Cyclists Bradley Wiggins and Sir Chris Hoy, plus rower Katherine Grainger and athletes Jessica Ennis and Mo Farah are joined by tennis star Andy Murray, world No1 golfer Rory McIlroy, boxer Nicola Adams and sailor Ben Ainslie, who are all candidates in a 12-strong list.

The other contenders in the mix are Paralympians Sarah Storey, Ellie Simmonds and David Weir, who will find out who triumphs on 16th December.

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decided the shortlist, and the winner will be decided by a public vote on the night.

The panel was compiled following criticism of the controversial 2011 all-male list, decided via a different method.

The 2000 winner Sir Steve Redgrave, Baroness GreyThompson and Denise Lewis were joined by Baroness Campbell, chair of UK Sport, and representatives from the BBC and sports editors from the newspaper industry.

A capacity 15,000 crowd at the ExCel in London will make it the biggest show in the event’s 59-year history.

It will be a star-studded climax to what has been hailed as the most incredible 12 months in British sporting history, which saw London host the 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games.

With an array of candidates to choose from, the panel faced some difficult choices finalising the shortlist, which was extended from 10 to 12 to reflect Britain’s dazzling year.

Bradley Wiggins became

Sports Personality of the Year contest is closest in history the first Briton to win the Tour de France, and added the Olympic time-trial gold soon afterwards.

Hoy won the team sprint and men’s keirin at London 2012 - his fifth and sixth gold medals overall - to beat the record for golds won by a British sportsman.

Ennis won the heptathlon and the hearts of a nation, while Farah destroyed the world-class field in both the 5,000m and 10,00m in the Olympic Stadium.

Murray clinched gold at the Games, and then ended Britain’s 76-year wait for a major tennis title with victory in the US Open.

Northern Ireland’s McIlroy also triumphed across the Atlantic, taking the US PGA title. He also played in Europe’s winning Ryder

Cup team and won the season-ending World Tour Championship to cement his world No1 spot.

Adams became the first female fighter to win an Olympic boxing title, Grainger claimed rowing gold at the fourth attempt and Ainslie’s victory at the Games made him the most decorated Olympic sailor.

This week, he announced his retirement from the sport after what he described as the pinnacle of his career: winning in front of his home crowd.

At the Paralympics, wheelchair racer Weir won an astonishing four titles, ranging from a sprint to the marathon. Teenage swimmer Simmonds, already the UK’s sweetheart from her previous Olympic exploits,

triumphed twice, and Storey rode to four cycling titles.

Such was the strength in depth of potential contenders that those to miss out included Olympic gold medallists Charlotte Dujardin, Greg Rutherford, Victoria Pendleton, Laura Trott and Alistair Brownlee, along with Europe’s Ryder Cup hero Ian Poulter.

The expert panel will also choose the first, second and third places for the Team of the Year, Overseas Personality of the Year and Coach of the Year awards.

Barbara Slater, BBC Director of Sport and chairing the panel, said: “If we ever needed reminding just how special a sporting year it has been, then the list of those sportspeople who did not make the final 12 is testament to that.”

Other awards on the night will again be Young Sports Personality of the Year and Unsung Hero, which will continue to be decided by the existing specialist panel system, plus the Lifetime Achievement and Helen

Rollason awards, which will be decided by the board of BBC Sport.

It will be almost impossible to forget when the most glittering occasion ever in UK sporting history takes place, but still make a note of Sunday, 16th December.

So who takes the coveted title? If it were simply down to the 12 nominees, Bradley Wiggins would win the most eagerly-anticipated Sports Personality of the Year award.

However, if it were just down to Mo Farah, he would walk off with the prize himself.

There’s modesty for you!

THE GOLDEN CONTENDERS Nicola Adams (boxing) Ben Ainslie (sailing) Jessica Ennis (athletics) Mo Farah (athletics) Katherine Grainger (rowing) Sir Chris Hoy (cycling) Rory McIlroy (golf) Andy Murray (tennis) Ellie Simmonds (swimming) Sarah Storey (cycling) David Weir (athletics) Bradley Wiggins (cycling)

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UK rail fares up again BRITAIN’S rail fares will rise by an average of 4.2% in January, with some passengers paying almost 6% more.

The rail watchdog group Passenger Focus revealed that some season-ticket holders will face fare rises of almost 6%.

It found that an annual ticket from Canterbury in Kent to London will increase by 5.9%, from £4,588 to £4,860.

And those buying season tickets from Tonbridge to London face a 5.2% rise, the cost going up to £3,796.

Other above-average increases highlighted by the group include Northampton to London (up 4.7% to £4,980); Morpeth to Newcastle-uponTyne (up 5.0% to £1,008) and Llanelli to Swansea (up 5.4% to £624).

However, Passenger Focus also found that some season tickets were not rising as much, while others were actually going down.

The cost of a season ticket from Shenfield (Essex) to

London dips in price from £2,720 to £2,704 , while an Ellesmere Port to Chester annual ticket will be going up by just 2.3% to £720.

Among other season tickets rising by less than 4.0% are Aylesbury to London (up 3.2%), Cambridge to London (up 3.8%), Tain to Inverness (up 3.8%) and Stirling to Glasgow (up 3.9%).

The increases could have been steeper but for an intervention by the Government. It has limited the regulated fare rise to RPI inflation (as of July 2012) plus 1%, rather than the planned RPI plus 3% increase.

Train companies have the flexibility to raise some season tickets above the 4.2% ceiling, as long as the average increase on their trains is no more than 4.2%.

Passenger Focus said the train companies appeared to be exercising restraint, but it added that the price rises would still feel steep in some places.

Chief executive Anthony Smith said: “Passengers will feel this pain. After years of above-inflation fare rises,

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fresh increases are piling pressure on already-high fares.

“The Government and the rail industry must now work together to deliver on the welcome promise to get fare rises in line with inflation.”

Regulated fares account for around 40% of total fares, and train companies can raise these by as much as they like.

Manuel Cortes, leader of the TSSA rail union, said the fare hikes were “intolerable”, while RMT general secretary Bob Crow described them as “a full-frontal assault on passengers in the name of profit”.

Rail Minister Norman Baker said: “Family budgets are being squeezed, so that is why this Coalition Government

has taken pro-active steps to cut the planned fare rises from 3% to 1% above inflation until 2014.

“This decision puts an average of £45 per year back into the pockets of over 250,000 annual season-ticket holders.

“Many more holders of weekly and monthly season tickets could also see

lower fare rises, and some commuters could be over £100 better off.”

He added: “It is misleading to search for the highest increase and then imply that it represents the average, as some, I am afraid will do.

“It’s worth noting that some fares, such as the season ticket from Shenfield to London, are actually going down.”

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Corrie legend’s fond farewell CO R O N AT I O N STREET stars and hundreds of fans in Manchester paid their last respects on Tuesday at the funeral of actor Bill Tarmey, who died in Tenerife earlier this month.

The 71-year-old actor and former nightclub singer, who played loveable rascal Jack Duckworth in the soap for 30 years, died in his sleep while on a family holiday here.

As Jack, the long-suffering husband to nagging battleaxe Vera (Liz Dawn), he became one of TV’s most recognisable personalities.

The ceremony, held at the Albion United Reformed Church in Ashton-under-Lyne, was attended by several of his Corrie co-stars, including Julie Goodyear, William Roache and Kevin Kennedy.

Moving readings and tributes were given by his

Poland and Portugal land a double blow for Eurovision grand-daughter, grandson and Nigel Pivaro, who played his son Terry, and Samia Ghadie - hairdresser Maria O’Connor.

She said Bill was “devoted to his family” and revealed that he had been a “surrogate father” to her during her first months on the soap.

Samia added: “He was, genuinely, one of the most decent and honourable men

you could ever wish to meet.

“Jack and Vera were a truly unforgettable and formidable partnership, and I doubt we’ll ever see that again. They were simply iconic, and Jack Duckworth will forever be a true Coronation Street legend.”

The service was relayed on loudspeakers for several hundred Corrie fans, who

gathered outside. Bill was married to childhood sweetheart Alma for 50 years, and they had two children, Carl and Sara.

The soap icon, a lifelong smoker, suffered with persistent heart problems, but his son’s ill-health forced him to quit the soap in 2010 to help care for him as Carl battled a brain tumour.

Huge heroin haul

ITALIAN police have arrested two British men after discovering heroine worth 20 million euros (£16m) hidden in their lorry among boxes of breadsticks.

The truck was stopped by

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customs officials on Monday during a routine check after arriving at the port of Bari, in Southern Italy, following a ferry crossing from Greece.

The men were heading

for Lancashire. Footage released by officials showed officers unloading the white packages, wrapped in black plastic.

The drivers were named as lorry owner Samuel Wilson,

POLAND and Portugal have both withdrawn from next year’s Eurovision Song Contest - because they can’t afford it!

Portugal, given a £63bn bailout by Brussels last year, has missed the annual event just three times in the last 48 years.

But for Poland, it will be their second successive nonappearance, this time because of the financial pressure of cohosting football’s European Championship.

It will not make much

difference to the event, being staged in Malmo, Sweden, next May, because neither country has ever won it Poland did come second in 1994, while Portugal’s best effort was a sixth-place finish 12 years ago.

It is not the first time financial woes have beset the Eurovision. This year, the Spanish entry was reportedly told not to try to win because the country could ill-afford to host the lavish event.

And following the Republic of Ireland’s four successes in the Nineties, there was speculation that the contest was becoming a financial burden to the country.

42, from Scotland and 32-year-old Peter Cameron, from Belfast.

They were remanded in custody, and customs impounded the lorry and drugs.

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Open your sterling account with Lloyds Bank International SAU LLOYDS TSB Spain and Banco Halifax Hispania joined forces in 2010 to become Lloyds Bank International SAU. It is part of the Lloyds Banking Group, which is the largest UK retail bank with more than 300 years of banking experience, serving more than 30 million customers worldwide.

At Lloyds Bank International SAU, we want our strength to be your peace of mind.

With our 28 branches throughout Spain, including one in the south of Tenerife, Lloyds understands the expat community, and we pride ourselves on our excellent customer service and comprehensive range of products. We offer a range of accounts in Euro, Sterling and US Dollar, but in this article we are focusing on the Sterling offering as this is something many of you might be interested in.

Multicurrency Account If you are an expat in Spain,

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It lets you save and make transactions in Sterling, (it can also be used for US Dollars and Swiss Francs), and it can help protect you against exchange-rate fluctuations.

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This account is available for both residents and non-residents, and there are no management or administrative fees.

Also, if you have a Lloyds Banking Group* account in the UK, you can make free transfers between accounts under the same name.

You get a free chequebook

and free access to our telephone and internet banking services, and a monthly statement will be sent to you to help you keep an eye on your transactions.

It gives you the freedom of having your funds easily available to take advantage of when exchange rates are favourable.

And, should you need funds in a hurry, it means you don’t have to wait until you get them transferred from the UK. This account is available to all customers who have a Premier current account with Lloyds Bank International SAU in Spain.

Fixed Term Deposits** In addition, Lloyds Bank International SAU also offers fixed-term deposits in Sterling (on top of our offering in Euros and US Dollars), whereby your money can work for you by earning a fixed rate of interest over a fixed term, from one month up to 12 months.

It means you can relax in the knowledge that you will receive your capital, plus a fixed amount of interest at a specific date in the future.

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Fixed-term deposits are available to both residents and non-residents, and for

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K9 in the Xmas mood for Sound of Musicals

all points in between. Phone for details, and to book your ticket for the evening.

But remember, transport must be booked before next Saturday (8th Dec). Tickets are 30 euros and include a meal, the show itself and free drinks (wine, beer, soft drinks and water).

Tickets can be obtained direct from the K9 Kennels, Mikey (619 678 384) or Lin (922 781 105), or email Mikey at k9mikey@gmail.com As with all K9 functions, guests are invited to bring along some treats or dry food for the kennel inmates.

And, as usual, there will also be a fund-raising raffle and tombola.

OFFICIALS at K9 have planned a spectacular Christmas Dinner with a difference this year, in association with The Sound of Musicals.

It will be held on Thursday, 13th December, and this fantastic, must-see show takes place at Showtime, Karting Las Americas, off Exit 78 (Adeje) on the TF1.

Doors open at 7.30pm and the show ends at 11.30pm.

Transport is available to and from the venue for just six euros per person, from Los Gigantes to Golf del Sur and

Sponsored Walk On Thursday 6th December there is a 3km sponsored walk from the Apolo Centre Los Cristianos at 3pm, to Leonardos, Playa de las Americas.

The event is arranged by

Vicky Denton and Poppy Lane nursery who want to raise funds to help those children a little less fortunate who deserve to have a little magic in their lives.

The charities benefiting are Guardyl Children’s Home Granadilla, Martha Dos Cerebral Palsy centre, Santa Cruz, Martin House Children’s Hospice (Wetherby, UK) and Candle

lighters (Leeds General Infirmary, UK). The event is live on Oasis Fm from 5pm-7pm. There will be a host of live acts appearing throughout the evening, supporting the charities.

Peggi the podenco THE latest abandoned dog brought into Accion del Sol’s Granadilla refuge is “Peggi” the podenco.

She will join the other 40-odd podencos already residing at the refuge, and all hoping for new homes.

Wendy and Pichon (pictured) are two gorgeous puppies. just two months old, who were cruelly dumped.

Luckily, Protection Civil received a phone call from the public and the puppies were duly collected.

They are already picking up nicely and will soon all be seeking new homes as well.

Christmas is not far away and the dogs would love some new blankets or toys in their stockings, so if you have any to spare, you can make a few dogs very happy.

If you would like to visit or assist Accion del Sol in any way, please call 922 778 630 for more information, or look in from Monday to Friday (36pm).

The refuge is situated at Granadilla Industrial Estate, Exit 51 on the TF1, right next to the ITER ecological park, by the windmills.

In view of today’s desperate economy, Accion would like to help orphans at the SOS Children’s Village in Santa Cruz to have a better Christmas.

If you have any used or new

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timing because, as you girls, know, you can never have enough handbags!

The shop is located inside the Designer Outlet building, next to the Oasis Fm office.

Canarian Weekly were invited to the recent opening, and there were plenty of splendid offering among the gorgeous selection of bags. Betty has lived on the Island for over 20

A SPECIAL tribute was paid

by San Miguel Lions Club in memory of their hardworking stalwart Karen Parfit who, tragically, died of cancer recently.

She was just 49, and the club donated a beautiful little tree as part of a Lions Worldwide Plant A Tree project.

It was planted at Amarilla Bay, complete with an explanatory plaque, by her husband Don, who is also a Lion. “It’s our little bit towards the main project,” said Lions President Ralph Solomon.

“We remember Karen fondly because she worked so hard towards our annual Disadvantaged Holidays scheme for youngsters in the UK. “And we have special memory of her dancing at our Children’s Christmas Party last year.”

Karen’s mother and father, Marie and John, were among

Lions and friends present at the planting ceremony, which was particularly poignant for the family because her mum was too ill to attend her funeral.

Ralph added: “We will be planting one more tree as part of the international project, in honour of our former Vice-President John McClusky, who also passed away recently.

“We are just awaiting site details from his wife, Nan, who is also a Lion, and their daughter, Carol.”

Elsewhere, AMISUR day centre for the physically and mentally handicapped, are planting lots of different fruit trees, donated by the Lions, on their land in Aldea Blanca.

“With the kids’ care and attention, we hope they can watch them flourish, and then enjoy gathering in a ‘fruitful’ crop,” said proud President Ralph.

The Live Arico Pets Animal Welfare Supporters (PAWS)

toys you would like to donate to the kids, please call the above number, or take them directly to the refuge.

All help and support will be gratefully received by Accion staff - and welcomed warmly by the children.

Toys and teddies have already been donated, so a big thank-you to all the people who have helped towards giving the children a better Christmas.

Betty’s superb handbag opener WHAT better name for Betty Rankin’s new handbag shop at Las Chafiras than Betty’s Handbags?

And with Christmas fast approaching, what perfect

Colourful tribute to tragic Karen

years, and she is well aware that the market over here needs a decent handbag shop. Why not go along and see for yourself - you won’t be disappointed!

2013 calendars out now Our 2013 calendars have been produced on a shoestring, but are still good value at 2.99 euros.

Each month features dogs and their stories, and we are pleased to feature on the cover our wonderful vet, Cesar, with celebrity pooch Dennis.

The calendars are now on sale at all our shops, and in the Golf del Sur area at Slippers Bar, Top Square, San Blas.

Bess needs a home.

Remember Bess, the gorgeous podenco cross dumped with a leg injury on Golf del Sur a couple of months ago? Well, her foster parents Jason and Ang have done a sterling job with her physio, but she now needs her forever home.

Are you able to carry on with Bess’ daily exercises? Can you cope with a lively dog, who completely ignores her disabilities?

Bess needs a special family to take her on, and, if you would like to meet her, please get in touch.

Her future vet care, with respect to her leg, is taken care

of through fund-raising. She is a cracking dog and will make someone a loyal and loving pet.

Volunteers wanted We need people to help out in our Silencio and Los Cristianos shops. If you can spare a few hours a week and enjoy meeting people, please call Siobhan on the number below.

Important phone numbers Adoption hotline: 682 517 045. Heidi speaks Spanish, English and German General inquiries: Sue Havenhand 629 388 102, Siobhan Fergusen 630 857 626

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As from the New Year, January, Megabowl are holding their Mega Monthly Competition during the last

It's the only 10 lane bowling alley in the south! weekend of the month. For 10 euros you get 2 games of bowling, shoe hire - if you buy a ticket in advance during the month you’ll receive a free drink of your choice when you play. Your ticket then gets entered into the monthly draw – you can win a selection of prizes everything

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The Royal Variety Performance 2012 Monday 3rd December 2012, 19.30, ITV1 One of television’s best loved personalities, comedian, actor and children’s author David Walliams hosts The Royal Variety Performance 2012 at the magnificent Royal Albert Hall. This year 2012 will mark the 100th anniversary of The Royal Variety Performance in the presence of Her Majesty The Queen and His Royal Highness The Duke of Edinburgh.

International music sensation Rod Stewart, music icon Neil Diamond, Brit Award winners One Direction, Britain’s Got Talent winners Ashleigh and Pudsey, Brit Award winners Girls Aloud, pop sensation Kylie Minogue, superstar Robbie Williams, opera legend Andrea Bocelli, multi Grammy Award winner Alicia Keys, comedians Rhod Gilbert and Bill Bailey, an extract from the Seven Olivier Award-winning Matilda The Musical and the eagerly anticipated musical ‘The Bodyguard’, Cuba’s Ballet Revolución plus a spectacular duet from tenor Plácido Domingo and classical singer Katherine Jenkins.

Also representing the best of Britain’s Got Talent, Diversity will be performing a Britain’s Got Talent celebration showcase featuring Spelbound, Paul Potts and Stavros Flatley.

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Friday Friday Friday 06:00 ...........................Breakfast 09:15 ....................Heir Hunters Series following the work of probate researchers as they search for heirs of people who have died without a will. The team are trying to find the heirs to the estate of Robert Mead, who died in Thailand. The team face a tough challenge working out if Robert had any relatives in the UK. Will all their efforts be rewarded when they find out how much the case is worth? And the case of Robin Miller enables an heir to find out more about his grandfather's past as one of Kitchener's army during World War I. Plus, details of unclaimed estates where heirs still need to be found.

10:00 .................. Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ............. Watchdog Daily 11:45 ............ Cash in the Attic 12:15 ...................Bargain Hunt 13:00 .......... BBC News at One 13:30 ........ BBC London News 13:45 ............................. Doctors 14:15 ...........................Escape to the Country 15:00 .........................BBC News 15:05 .........................Deadly 60 15:35 ............................... Sadie J 16:00 .........................Blue Peter 16:30 ........................Vip People 17:00 ......................Newsround 17:15 ........................... Pointless 18:00 ....... BBC News at Six 18:30 ... BBC London News 19:00 ..........The One Show 19:30 .............Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day 20:00 ............... EastEnders 20:30 .......... Outnumbered 21:00 ................. Have I Got News for You 21:30 ............ John Bishop's Big Year 22:00 ...... BBC News at Ten 22:25 ... BBC London News 22:35 .............. The Graham Norton Show 23:20 ............. The National Lottery Friday Night Draws 23:30 ..... Live at the Apollo

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06:00 ..................................Zigby

06:00 .......................... Daybreak

06:10 .......................... Finley the Fire Engine

08:30............................. Lorraine

06:20 .................... Little Robots

09:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show

06:30..................... 64 Zoo Lane

10:30................... This Morning

06:45 ...................Chuggington

11:25........................... ITV News

06:50 .....................Rastamouse

11:30................... This Morning

07:00 ........... School of Silence

12:30 ................. Loose Women

07:30......................... Pet Squad 07:40 ............................. Eliot Kid

13:30 ........................... ITV News and Weather

07:55 ...................... Newsround

14:00 ...................Crime Stories

08:00 ...................... What's New Scooby-Doo? 08:25 ....................Mister Maker Comes to Town 08:45 ......I Can Cook with You 09:00 ..........................ZingZillas 09:15 ..........................Baby Jake 09:25 ...............................Dipdap

When a girl wakes up with an offensive word written on her forehead after a heavy works night out, DI Jane Preston and DS Shaw are called in. The girl has little or no memory of the night, leading the pair to suspect she was drugged. With this is mind, they prepare to interview her work collegues.

Starring: Jane Antrobus, Ben Hull, Natalie Cassidy, Cristian Solimeno, Adam Astill

09:30.........................Wibbly Pig

15:00 ... Dickinson's Real Deal

09:40 ........The Koala Brothers

16:00 ..... Britain's Best Bakery

09:50.................. Big and Small

17:00 .........................The Chase

10:05 ..................Big Barn Farm

18:00 ........London Tonight

10:20 ............. Charlie and Lola 10:30 .....................3rd and Bird

18:30 ................... ITV News and Weather

10:40 ......................... Waybuloo

19:00 ............... Emmerdale

11:00...... In the Night Garden

19:30 .... Coronation Street

11:30 .............BBC World News

20:00 ......... Island Hospital

12:00 ............The Daily Politics

18:30 ............ Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two

Series following the staff and patients of the Princess Elizabeth Hospital in Guernsey, offering unique insight into life on this part of the Channel Islands.

The Sark tractor ambulance comes to the rescue of one of the island's most important patients, Dr Mat Dorrian is worried a playground tumble may have done serious damage to sixyear-old Sammy Hancock's finger, hospital chef Dave Partington is relying on veteran scallop diver Jeff Belshaw to save his dish of the day, and horse rider Tracey hopes an operation will finally bring an end to her knee problems and get her back in the saddle.

19:00 .. Antiques Road Trip

20:30 .... Coronation Street

20:00 .............. Mastermind

21:00 .......... I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

13:00 ..................Royal Upstairs Downstairs 13:30 .....To Buy or Not to Buy 14:15 ...........The Weakest Link 15:00.................... Real Rescues 15:45 ..........................Flog It!

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16:30 ........................Breakaway 17:15 .............. Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is 18:00 ..................Eggheads

20:30 ....... An Island Parish 22:00 ...............................QI 22:30 ................ Newsnight 23:00 ..... The Review Show 23:50 ............... Later... with Jools Holland

22:30 ................... ITV News and Weather 23:05 ................Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior

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Friday Friday Friday 30 November 06:05....................Children's TV 07:55 ............Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00................................ Frasier 10:00 ........... Undercover Boss 11:00 ............Secret Removers 12:05...............Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not 12:35 ..... Come Dine with Me 13:35 .................... Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 14:40 ..................... Countdown 15:30 ............. 1001 Things You Should Know 16:00 ..............Deal or No Deal 17:00 ..... Come Dine with Me 17:30 ......................... Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:00 ............The Simpsons 18:30 ................. Hollyoaks 19:00 ....... Channel 4 News 19:30 ... Unreported World 19:55 ..............4thought.tv 20:00 .. Come Dine with Me 21:00 ..................Lee Evans 22:10 .................. Alan Carr: Chatty Man 23:15.........4funnies: The CW Rubberbandits CHOICE 23:40 ....... 8 Out of 10 Cats

06:00....................Children's TV

19:00 ....................... Merlin

06:00 ...............................Cricket

Fantasy drama series. When Merlin agrees to help a young Druid boy, Daegal, he has no choice but to leave Camelot on a dangerous mission. With the citadel distracted by the visit of the fearsome Sarrum of Amata, it seems that no one will notice his absence.

But as the sky darkens, so do Merlin's suspicions - is there more to Daegal than meets the eye? And can a man as ruthless as the Sarrum ever really be trusted?

19:45 .............. Doctor Who 20:35 .............. Great Movie Mistakes 21:00 ...................... World's Craziest Fools 21:30 ...... Russell Howard's Good News

08:30.... Roary the Racing Car 08:45 ......Bananas in Pyjamas 09:00 .......................Tickety Toc 09:15 .............The Wright Stuff 11:10 ......... The Removal Men 12:10........ 5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..............Build a New Life in the Country 13:15 ............Home and Away 13:45..................... Neighbours 14:15.................. The Mentalist 15:15.The Christmas Pageant 17:00...................... 5 News at 5 17:30..................... Neighbours 18:00 .......Home and Away 18:30 ...................... 5 News 19:00 ......Cowboy Builders 20:00 ...... Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan 21:00 ........... The Mentalist 22:00 ........................Castle 23:00 ......... Law and Order: Criminal Intent 23:55 .... Inside Hollywood

10:30 ..............The Footballer's Football Show 12:00 .............Barclays Premier League Review 13:00 ........Sky Sports Classics 13:15 .........................Sky Sports Victory Shield 15:30 ............................Ringside 16:30............. Barclays Premier League Review 17:30 .............Barclays Premier League World 18:00 ..............Elite League Ice Hockey 19:00 ............... Tight Lines

22:00 ... Impractical Jokers

20:00 ............................NFL

22:30 ............... EastEnders

22:00 ....... World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Smackdown

23:00 ................ Some Girls 23:30 ............... Family Guy

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06:00................. Good Morning Sports Fans News, reviews and previews - including a look at the back pages, a racing tip and a sporting weather forecast.

07:00 .................Good Morning Sports Fans 09:00 ...................Nedbank Golf Challenge 14:30 ...............The Footballer's Football Show 16:00 ............. Barclays Premier League World 16:30 .................SPL Round-Up 17:00 ................................Cricket 19:00 .......Barclays Premier League 19:30 .................... Football 22:00 ............... The Fantasy Football Club 23:00 ..................... Barclays Premier League A look ahead to the weekend's Barclays Premier League games, with footage from the key press conferences, interviews with players and managers and crucial team news.

23:30 ...... Great Matches of Euro Football

07:15 .................. Dragons' Den 08:00 ......................... Meat Men 08:30.......................... Fifth Gear 09:00.............................Top Gear 10:00 ..........The Gadget Show 11:00 ......................Man v Food 11:30 ......................... Meat Men 12:00 ............................Top Gear 14:00........ Three Men in More Than One Boat 15:00 ......................Man v Food 15:30 ......................... Meat Men 16:00............................ Top Gear 18:00 ................... Top Gear 19:00 ..................Meat Men 20:00 ... Three Men in More Than One Boat 21:00 ..... Gavin and Stacey 22:20 .........Mock the Week 23:00 ..................... Angelos Epithemiou's One Night Stand

06:00 ................................ Airline 06:30 ................................ Airline 07:00 .......................The Middle 07:30 .......................The Middle 08:00 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter 08:30 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter 09:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0 10:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles 14:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0 15:00 .................. Stargate SG-1 16:00 .................. Stargate SG-1 17:00 .......................... Futurama 17:30 ...................Raising Hope 18:00 .................. Futurama 18:30 ........... The Simpsons 19:00 ........... The Simpsons 19:30 ................ The Middle 20:00 ......... Modern Family 20:30 ............................ Spy 21:00 ........An Idiot Abroad 22:00 ...............A League of Their Own 23:00 ............Flintoff: From Lords to the Ring

06:00 ................America's Next Top Model

06:00 ........................ The X Files

06:00 .......................Emmerdale 06:55 ..................Life's Funniest Moments 07:20 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US 08:10 .......................Judge Judy 08:35 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 10:30 .......................Judge Judy 12:00 .......................Emmerdale 13:00 .......................Judge Judy 13:30..The Jeremy Kyle Show 15:40 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 17:30 ................. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

19:00 ...................The Cube 20:00 ......The X Factor USA 21:00 ..................Benidorm 22:00 .........Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 22:30 ... I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now! 23:30 ................The 40 Year Old Virgin

07:00 ...... Star Trek: Enterprise 08:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 09:00 .........................................ER 10:00 ........................ The X Files 11:00 ............................ Star Trek: Enterprise 12:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 13:00......................................... ER 14:00 .................................House 15:00 .................................House 16:00.......... Star Trek: Voyager 17:00 .........................................ER 18:00 ........................House 19:00 .........................House 20:00 .............. Blue Bloods 21:00 ........................Falc贸n 22:00 .................Boardwalk Empire 23:15 ....................The Wire

07:00 ................................ Maury 08:00 ...................Cougar Town 08:30................... Cougar Town 09:00................. Jerry Springer 10:00 .......Nothing to Declare 10:30 .......Nothing to Declare 11:00 ...............Passport Patrol 11:30 ...............Passport Patrol 12:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 13:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 14:00............... Criminal Minds 16:00 ...............Passport Patrol 17:00 .......Nothing to Declare 18:00 .. Nothing to Declare 19:00 ........ Criminal Minds 20:00 ........... Show Me Your Wardrobe 20:30 ... Nothing to Declare 21:00 ........................ Nikita 22:00 ........ Criminal Minds 23:00 ........................Bones

W C C H O IC E Flog It! BBC2, 15:45

Cheshire.

Antiques series. Flog It! comes from Cheshire's Tatton Park. Steeped in history, Tatton is home to a Neo-Classical mansion, a rare breeds farm and one of the UK's oldest deer parks. Presenter Paul Martin is joined by Mark Stacey, Anita Manning and David Fletcher, as they select their favourite finds to take to auction in Liverpool. Mark befriends a rare and life-like pottery figure, made by Bretby around 1895. Meanwhile Anita sets her sights on an art deco dressing table set, which goes on to dazzle the buyers at auction. And David has found a collection of old toys which he hopes will spark nostalgia among the bidders.

4funnies: The Rubberbandits Channel 4, 23:15 4Funnies is a series of brand new 30 minute comedy pilots. Comedy duo The Rubberbandits consist of Blindboy Boat Club and Mr Chrome, two Irish rappers who wear plastic bags over their heads. This Irish musical comedy phenomenon have registered over 25 million YouTube views across the globe for their assorted radio prank calls, DIY sketches and music videos. Building up a reputation - both live and as emerging TV writers and performers The Rubberbandits debuted for Channel 4 in C4.com's Comedy Blap and took 2012's Edinburgh Comedy Festival by storm, earning the distinction of 'Most Original Act'.

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Saturday Saturday 06:00 ...........................Breakfast

06:00 ...........................Tikkabilla

10:00 ............................ Saturday Kitchen Live

06:30 .......................... Balamory

11:30 .........Baking Made Easy

07:05 .................... Cloudbabies

Chef, baker and patissier Lorraine Pascale shares her secrets, passion and knowledge on baking sweet and savoury recipes. Featuring old favourites and new twists on modern classics, as well as tips on helpful shortcuts, techniques and kitchen secrets for baking.

An old favourite gets a makeover, and strawberry and mascarpone swiss roll is more delicious than ever before. Lorraine reveals her chef's tips for food presentation, and she's got an easy recipe for a true modern classic, focaccia.

Even baked pasta gets the Lorraine treatment, with glam mac and cheese offering the perfect combination of oven comfort and pure indulgence.

12:00 .........................BBC News 12:15 ................Football Focus 13:00 .......................Snooker

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14:00 ...................Rugby Union 16:30 ....................... Final Score 17:10 .........................BBC News 17:30 ..... A Question of Sport 18:00 ...................Pointless 18:50 ............ Strictly Come Dancing 20:00 ....................... Merlin 20:45 ............. The National Lottery Saturday Night Draws

turday Numbers for Sa e: r ar be em ec D 01

06:50 ............. Charlie and Lola 07:15 ......... Everything's Rosie 07:25 .............. Bob the Builder: Ready, Steady, Build!

06:00 ..................Babar and the Adventures of Badou 06:10 ..................Babar and the Adventures of Badou 06:25 ............................ The Hive 06:35 ............................ The Hive 06:45 ............................ The Hive

07:35 ...................Chuggington

06:50 ........................... Canimals

07:45 .........................Octonauts

07:00 ........................... Canimals

08:00 .............Tilly and Friends

07:05 .................. The Avengers

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

07:25.................. Almost Naked Animals

08:15 ..............Mike the Knight 08:30..................... Timmy Time 08:40 ...........................Tweenies 09:00.......................... Baby Jake 09:10 ..................Big Barn Farm 09:25 ...... Mr Bloom's Nursery 09:45 ........Something Special 10:05 ........ Zingzillas Zingbop 10:10 ............... Get Squiggling

07:40 ..................Almost Naked Animals 07:50 ................... Horrid Henry 08:05 ................... Horrid Henry 08:15 ................... Horrid Henry 08:30 ......................Shake it Up! 09:00 ............ My Phone Genie 09:25 ...........................ITV News

10:30 ................. Get Well Soon

09:30 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US

10:45 .................... Nina and the Neurons: In the Lab

10:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US

11:00 ................. Justin's House

11:20 ...........................Columbo

11:25 .........................I Can Cook on the Go

13:20........................... ITV News and Weather

11:40 ....................Mister Maker Comes to Town

13:30 ................. Holiday Home Sweet Home

12:00 .................................. Coast 12:05 ......................Animal Park

14:30 ................. Holiday Home Sweet Home

13:05 .............The Gay Divorce

15:30..The Unforgettable...

14:45 ..................... Houseguest

16:00 ...................Jonathan and Charlotte

Hearing a suburban dad talking about an old friend that he hasn't seen in years, conman Kevin sees a way of evading the loan sharks who are hunting him. He pretends to be the friend, but how long can he keep the charade going? Comedy. Director: Randall Miller Starring: Sinbad, Phil Hartman

16:30 ......................Snooker: UK Championships

CW

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17:00 ..............London Tonight 17:15........................... ITV News and Weather 17:30....................... The Golden Rules of TV 18:00 ...............You've Been Framed!

18:30 ............. Take Me Out

17:30 ................................Flog It!

20:00 ..............The X Factor

18:30 ............. Great British Food Revival 19:30 ............... Dad's Army

21:30 .......... I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

21:45 ..... Live at the Apollo

20:00 .....Attenborough: 60 Years in the Wild

22:30 .................... ITV News and Weather

22:15 ................. BBC News

21:00 ..........................QI XL

22:45 ..... FA Cup Highlights

22:30 ..... Match of the Day

21:45 ....................... Bad 25

23:45 ..................... Serenity

Bonus Ball

20:55 ....................Casualty

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Snooker: UK Championship BBC 1, 13.00

The UK Championship, the second most prestigious event on the World Snooker calendar, gets underway today from the Barbican Centre in York.

Three-time UK Champion John Higgins opens up proceedings against a qualifier in a best-of-11-frames match. Hazel Irvine introduces the action.

Commentators/Guests: Steve Davis, John Parrott, Dennis Taylor, Willie Thorne, John Virgo, Ken Doherty, Neal Foulds and Stephen Hendry.

Coverage continues 16:30–17:30 on BBC Two, where three former UK Champions are in action this afternoon – John Higgins, Ding Junhui and Stephen Maguire.

Hazel Irvine introduces highlights 23:30–00:20 BBC Two and Snooker Extra 00.20–02.20 BBC Two.

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Saturday

06:05 .............................Sali Mali

06:00.................... Children's TV

06:10 ........................The Hoobs

08:05 .........The Adventures of Bottle Top Bill and His Best Friend Corky

06:35 ........................The Hoobs 07:00 .............Beach Volleyball 07:55 .......... The Morning Line

08:25 ......... Angelina Ballerina

06:00 ...............Sporting Greats Babe Ruth. A look back on the career of legendary baseball player Babe Ruth. The American hit over 700 home runs during his career and was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1936.

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06:00 ...........................Lion Man

06:00 ...............Passport Patrol

06:30 ...........................Lion Man

06:30 ...............Passport Patrol

07:00 ............. UK Border Force

07:00 ................................ Maury

08:00 ............. UK Border Force

08:00 ............Ghost Whisperer 09:00 ................Animal Rescue

09:00............... Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

06:30 .............................Ringside

09:00 ..............World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars

07:30 ..............................Football

10:00 .......................Soccer A.M.

09:10..............Toby's Travelling Circus

09:00 ...................Nedbank Golf Challenge

10:30 ................Animal Rescue

11:05 .................... Suburgatory

12:00 ............................Diversity

11:00 ..........The Biggest Loser

11:40 .... The Big Bang Theory

09:25.....Roary the Racing Car

13:30.................... Rugby Union

13:00.................. Little Crackers

13:20 ..................The Simpsons

09:40........................ Jelly Jamm

13:55 ...........Channel 4 Racing 15:55 ..................The Simpsons

10:00 ............... Power Rangers: Super Samurai

16:20 ......Come Dine with Me

10:35 ....................ThunderCats

16:55 ......Come Dine with Me 17:25 ......Come Dine with Me

11:00 ......................The All New Gadget Show

18:55 ........Channel 4 News

11:55 ............Cowboy Builders

19:25 .............. 4thought.tv

12:55 .........................Superman

19:30 .................... Heston's Fantastical Food

15:35 .........The Christmas Gift

20:30 ............. Stephen Fry: Gadget Man

19:10 ................ Catwoman

08:55 ................................ Frasier 09:25 ................................ Frasier 10:00 .............Made in Chelsea

08:45...................... Rupert Bear

17:20 ....... Our First Christmas

10:00.................. Show Me Your Wardrobe

England v New Zealand. England conclude their autumn international series against New Zealand at Twickenham. The home side will be looking for their first victory against the All Blacks since 2003.

13:15 ................. Little Crackers

13:00 ................America's Next Top Model

13:30.................. Little Crackers

14:00 ...............Passport Patrol

14:30.......................... Futurama

14:30............... Passport Patrol

15:00 .......................... Futurama 15:30 .......................... Futurama

16:00 ................. Show Me Your Wardrobe

17:00 ..............Women's Rugby International

16:00 .......................... Futurama

16:30 ...............Passport Patrol

16:30 ............... Modern Family

17:00 .......Nothing to Declare

17:00 ............... Modern Family

17:30 .......Nothing to Declare

17:30 ............... Modern Family

18:00 ... Nothing to Declare

18:00 ...........Michael Buble Home for the Holidays

19:00 ........... Show Me Your Wardrobe

19:00 ............Hawaii Five-0

19:30 ... Nothing to Declare

20:00 ............Hawaii Five-0

21:00 ..................Ladyboys

21:00 ................ Cop Squad

22:00 ........ Criminal Minds

22:00 .................. From Hell

23:00 ........................Bones

06:00 ............ Planet's Funniest Animals

18:55 .....................Football 21:00 ..................... Football 23:00 .............International Rugby Union

23:25 .............. The X Files: I Want to Believe

23:00 .......BAMMA 11: Alex Reid Returns

England v New Zealand. England conclude their autumn international series against New Zealand at Twickenham. The home side will be looking for their first victory against the All Blacks since 2003.

19:00 ............ Rugby Union

06:00.......... Aerobics: Oz Style

07:10 ......................... Meat Men

06:00 ........................ The X Files

England v New Zealand Highlights. Jason Mohammad introduces highlights of the Twickenham Test match between England and New Zealand. England have lost their last nine matches against the All Blacks and face a daunting task against the 2011 World Cup winners. Graham Henry's side racked up 16 successive Test wins earlier this year, narrowly failing to equal the record for most victories by a top-tier nation. They also won the southern hemisphere Rugby Championship, the enlarged successor to the Tri-Nations. In contrast, England are a team in transition under coach Stuart Lancaster, who will be looking to build on this year's promising displays in the Six Nations.

06:30 .............Barclays Premier League

08:00 .................................. Crash

07:00 ........................ The X Files

09:00 ..........The Gadget Show 10:00 ............................Top Gear

08:00 ............ Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets

08:00 .............Barclays Premier League

12:00 ......................... Meat Men

09:00...... Star Trek: Enterprise

07:00 .......... Coronation Street Omnibus

13:00 ............................Top Gear

10:00 ...... Star Trek: Enterprise

09:15... Emmerdale Omnibus

08:30 .......................Champions League Weekly

15:00 ......................Man v Food

14:00 ............................. Seinfeld

12:15 ..................Cheryl: Access All Areas

09:00 ......................The Fantasy Football Club

16:00......................... Meat Men

15:00......................................... ER

17:00 ............................Top Gear

16:00 .........................................ER

10:00 ...................... Soccer A.M.

18:00 .................... Top Gear

17:00......................................... ER

19:00 ...............Man v Food

18:00 .............................. ER

16:15 ................. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

20:00 ..........................QI XL

20:00 ...... Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets

17:45 ..............................Garfield

21:00.................Star Trek

CW CHO ICE

20:55 ...... 5 News Weekend 21:00 ..International Boxing

07:00 .......................Tight Lines

12:00............. Barclays Premier League 12:30 .............................Football

06:15 ........................Gossip Girl

13:15 ........... The X Factor USA 15:15 ........... The X Factor USA

21:00 ... Boardwalk Empire

19:25 .............Batteries Not Included

15:30 ...............................Cricket

21:00 ......... Have I Got a Bit More News for You Christmas Special

22:15 ............ House of Lies

21:30 .........The Xtra Factor

20:00 ................... Top Gear

17:00 .............................Football

22:00 ..........................QI XL

22:50 ...........................Girls

21:00 ...... Russell Howard's Good News

19:55 ............... Champions League Weekly

23:00 ...Would I Lie to You?

23:25 ................ Don't Sit in the Front Row

22:30 .......... I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now!

21:45 ...........Pretty Woman

20:25 ............Football First

23:40 ................Family Guy

23:45 ............Football First

23:55 .............How to Make it in America

23:30 ............. Take Me Out: The Gossip

15:15 ..........Sky Sports Classic

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23:40 ..................... Angelos Epithemiou's One Night Stand

W C C H O IC E The Unforgettable...

BBC2, 15:30

Hattie Jacques.

The story of one of Britain's best-loved comedy actors, famous for her roles in 14 Carry On films and the long-running TV sitcom Sykes. With unique home movie footage and contributions from Eric Sykes, Bob Monkhouse and many of her close friends, this programme offers a fascinating insight into Hattie's personal life and 35-year showbusiness career.

Star Trek Channel 4, 21:00 JJ Abram's sci-fi adventure prequel, starring Chris Pine and Zachary Quinto, uses the twin devices of a parallel timeline and time travel to boldly move the franchise in a new direction. In order to foil a Romulan attack, George Kirk sacrifices himself, having first arranged for an escape pod to take his pregnant wife to safety. Around 20 years later, the young tearaway James T Kirk is encouraged to join the Starfleet Academy by Captain Pike. An equally youthful Spock has also recently thrown in his lot with humankind and with Starfleet, having had enough of the Vulcan racism directed at him due to his half-human parentage.

The two recruits instantly clash. But they must overcome their differences if they are to survive a vengeful visitor from the future, who's determined to make Spock pay for his part in an atrocity that's yet to be committed.

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The Only Way Is Essex ITV2, 22.00

Our colourful cast will welcome you back into their lives just in time for Christmas. As always, the series will be filmed close to transmission ensuring everything that happens remains as dramatic and explosive as the previous episode.

Just what do our uber glamorous residents of Essex get up to when planning Christmas?

Does Joey Essex have any festive tricks up his sleeve? how much of a challenge will Christmas shopping be for our cast?!

Sunday Sunday Sunday 06:00 ...........................Breakfast

06:00 ...........................Tikkabilla

06:00 ......................Engie Benjy

07:30 ...........Match of the Day

06:30 .......................... Balamory

09:00 ......................The Andrew Marr Show

06:50 ............. Charlie and Lola

06:10 ..................Babar and the Adventures of Badou

10:00 ..... Fern Britton Meets...

07:15 ......... Everything's Rosie

11:00 ...............Sunday Politics 12:20 .......................Countryfile

07:25.............. Bob the Builder: Ready, Steady, Build!

13:00 ...................Bargain Hunt

07:35 ...................Chuggington

14:00 .................. Homes Under the Hammer

07:45 .........................Octonauts

15:00 ...........................Escape to the Country

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

15:45 .......Call the Midwife

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16:45 ...............Songs of Praise

17:20 .................... Nigel Slater's Dish of the Day 17:50 .........................BBC News 18:10 .... BBC London News 18:20 ............... Countryfile Countryfile is deep in the heart of rural England, exploring the chalk-lands of the South Downs.

Centuries ago this countryside, with its green fields and wooded hedges, gladdened the heart of Jane Austen, and as Matt Baker and Ellie Harrison discover, there is still plenty around today that the great novelist would recognise. Ellie walks in Jane Austen's footsteps, and discovers how Austen reflected country life in her novels when she visits Jane's home in the village of Chawton. Matt is at Selborne, where he finds out how the Hampshire landscape inspired an earlier writer, Gilbert White.

One of Britain's best-loved naturalists, White's observations of the county's flora and fauna inspired Darwin and are still being read today. Also in the programme, Tom Heap investigates just what 'five a day' means when it comes to healthy living. Is the campaign to get us all to eat more fruit and veg really making us healthier?

19:20 ............ Strictly Come Dancing 20:00 ....................Antiques Roadshow 21:00 .............The Secret of Crickley Hall 22:00 ................. BBC News 22:15 .... BBC London News

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07:05 .................... Cloudbabies

08:00 .............Tilly and Friends 08:15 ..............Mike the Knight 08:30..................... Timmy Time 08:40........................... Tweenies 09:00 ..........................Baby Jake 09:10.................. Big Barn Farm 09:25 ...... Mr Bloom's Nursery 09:45 ........Something Special 10:00 ............Saturday Kitchen Best Bites

06:25 ..................Babar and the Adventures of Badou 06:35 .................Signed Stories 06:45 ........................... Canimals 06:55 ........................... Canimals 07:00 .......................Matt Hatter Chronicles 07:25.................. Almost Naked Animals 07:35 ..................Almost Naked Animals 07:50 ..................Almost Naked Animals 08:00................. Big Time Rush 08:30 .........Good Luck Charlie 09:00..........Good Luck Charlie

11:30............. The Great British Bake Off

09:25 .........................There's No Taste Like Home

12:30 ................... Rugby Union

10:20............Carry on Cruising

13:30...................... Snooker: UK Championships

12:00 ........................... ITV News and Weather

17:30 ................................Flog It!

12:05 .........FA Cup 2nd Round Live: MK Dons v AFC Wimbledon

18:30 ...........Fawlty Towers 19:00 ................... Top Gear

15:00................... Farewell Jack 15:30..................... The X Factor 17:00 ..................... The Nation's Favourite Number 1 Single 18:30 ........London Tonight 18:45 ................... ITV News and Weather

20:00 ................... Return to Forgotten Britain

19:00 .... Coronation Street

21:00 ............Dragons' Den 22:00 ......... Harry and Paul Two of the biggest comedy names in Britain, Harry Enfield and Paul Whitehouse are back with a whole new range of characters in a new series of their sketch show.

22:30 .........Never Mind the Buzzcocks

22:25 ... Match of the Day 2

23:00 ......... I've Never Seen Star Wars

23:15 ............... The Graham Norton Show

23:30 .................... Snooker

20:00 .............. The X Factor Results Show 21:00 ..... Steppin' Out with Katherine Jenkins 22:15 ................... ITV News and Weather 22:30 .... FA Cup Highlights 23:30 ..... Rugby Highlights

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Sunday Sunday Sunday 02 December 06:15 ....................... The Hoobs

06:00....................Children's TV

07:05 ............................... Sailing

08:15........................... Mio Mao

07:35 ....North Face Ultra Trail Du Mont Blanc

08:25 .........Angelina Ballerina

08:05 ................ Will and Grace 08:30 ................................Frasier

08:55 ...............Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

09:00 ................................Frasier

09:10 ......................Castle Farm

09:30 ...............Sunday Brunch 12:05 ....The Big Bang Theory

09:15 .............Toby's Travelling Circus

13:00 ................. The Simpsons

09:30 ... Roary the Racing Car

13:30 ............................ Hugh's 3 Good Things

09:45 ........................... Jelly Jam

16:10 ..............Deal or No Deal

08:40 ..................... Rupert Bear

10:00 Power Rangers: Super Samurai

10:35 ................... ThunderCats 17:10 ....................Miracle on CW 34th Street CHOICE 11:10 .................. Chinese Food in Minutes 19:20 ....... Channel 4 News 19:50 ..............4thought.tv

11:25 ........... The Singing Friar

19:55 ......The Political Slot

11:55....... Rolf's Animal Clinic

20:00 Alien Investigations

12:55........ Road to Christmas

21:00 ................ Homeland

14:40......................... Jack Frost

22:00 ................Peep Show

16:35 ...........5 News Weekend

22:30 .........British Comedy Awards Nominations Show 2012

16:40 .....................Rush Hour 2

23:35 ................. Rude Tube

19:00 ......... Junior Doctors: Your Life in Their Hands 20:00 ..... Gavin and Stacey 21:00 ............. Sun, Sex and Suspicious Parents Series in which teenagers take their first summer holiday abroad without their parents, who, unbeknown to the kids, secretly watch everything that unfolds. In Kavos, Asher from Wales leaves his doting mum behind for a blowout week with his rugby mates before leaving for uni, whilst Cambridge hairdresser Charlie is escaping his overprotective parents. Asher spends the week trying not to get lucky as he is determined to stay faithful to his girlfriend, whilst Charlie is the opposite and hopes to make the holiday one he will never forget.

22:00 ............. Him and Her 22:30 ......... American Dad!

18:30 ..............Superman 2 21:00 ......... Magnum Force 23:30 ........... Road House 2: Last Call

06:00 ..........Aerobics: Oz Style Join Australia's fit and healthy instructors as they put even the most devout armchair gymnasts through their paces with this half-hour workout.

06:30 ..................................... NFL

06:00 ..............Sporting Greats Ed Moses. A look back at the career of US track and field athlete Ed Moses. A gold medal-winner in the 400m hurdles at the '76 and '84 Olympics, Moses was also a two-time world champion in the sport.

06:30 ....................Football First 08:00 ....................Football First 09:30 ...................... The Sunday Supplement A discussion of the latest sports stories. Each week, four of Fleet Street's most respected sports journalists will be in the studio to sift through the big talking points.

11:00 ............Goals on Sunday 13:00 ............................. Football 15:15 ............................. Football 18:30 ..................... Football 22:00 ............ Ford Football Special

22:55 ......... American Dad!

15:15............................. Football

23:15 ............... Family Guy

18:00 ............................ NFL

30 November - 6 December 2012

08:00 ...................Cougar Town

09:00 ............ The Glee Project

08:30 ...................Cougar Town

10:00 ..............World Wrestling Entertainment Superstars

09:00 ...............Passport Patrol

11:00 ........... WWE Experience 12:00 .......................Andr茅 Rieu 14:35 ...................... The Middle 15:00 ...................... The Middle 15:30 ...................... The Middle 16:00 ...................... The Middle 17:00 ...................... The Middle 17:30 ...................... The Middle 18:00 ...........The Simpsons

09:30 ...............Passport Patrol 10:00 ................Animal Rescue 10:30................ Animal Rescue 11:00 ..........The Biggest Loser 13:00 ...............Passport Patrol 13:30 ................. Show Me Your Wardrobe 14:00............... Passport Patrol 14:30 ...............Passport Patrol 15:00 .......Nothing to Declare

18:30 ............Raising Hope

18:00 ......... America's Next Top Model 19:00 .. Nothing to Declare 19:30 .. Nothing to Declare

20:00 ........................Arrow

20:00 .. Nothing to Declare

21:00 ...................... An Idiot Abroad

20:30 .. Nothing to Declare

23:30 ..............Scottish Cup Football

22:00 .... NCIS: Los Angeles 23:00 .... NCIS: Los Angeles

07:15 ................................ TOTP 2 Christmas 2004

06:00 ............................. Seinfeld

09:00............................ Top Gear

08:00 ............ Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets

11:00 ............................Matt and Allegra's Big Farm

12:00 ............................Top Gear

Golf Classic - 2010 U.S Open.

A chance to relive the 2010 US Open from Pebble Beach, California. The field included seven former champions, including Ernie Els, Angel Cabrera and threetime winner Tiger Woods.

07:00 ................................ Maury

08:00 .............UK Border Force

19:30 ...........The Simpsons

09:00 ..................Nedbank Golf Challenge

15:00........ Sky Sports Classics

07:00 .............UK Border Force

06:30 ...............Passport Patrol

19:00 ...........The Simpsons

11:30 ............................Matt and Allegra's Big Farm

Gary Player. A look back on the career of legendary golfer Gary Player. The South African picked up nine Major titles and was inducted in to the World Golf Hall of Fame.

06:00 ...............Passport Patrol

Norwich City v Sunderland. Norwich City welcome Sunderland to Carrow Road for this Barclays Premier League clash. The Canaries claimed a 2-1 win in the corresponding fixture last season.

07:30 ...............................La Liga

14:30 ............. Sporting Greats

06:00 ........................... The Hour of Power

14:00....................................QI XL 15:00 .... Have I Got a Bit More News for You Christmas Special

07:00 ..................Urban Secrets

09:00 ........................ The X Files 10:00 ........................ The X Files 11:00 ........................ The X Files 12:00 ........................ The X Files 14:00 ............ Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets 15:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager

16:00 ......................Man v Food

16:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager

17:00 .........................Red Dwarf

17:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager

19:00 ..........................QI XL

18:00 .... Star Trek: Voyager

20:00 ...............Man v Food

20:00 ...........Urban Secrets

20:30 ............... Man v Food

21:00 ...... Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets

21:00 ....... Russell Howard's Good News 22:00 ...... Russell Howard's Good News

22:00 ........................Falc贸n 23:00 ........................... Girls 23:35 ...................Mad Men

21:00 ....... Grey's Anatomy 22:00 ........................Bones 23:00 ........................ Nikita

06:00 ..................All Star Family Fortunes 06:35....Emmerdale Omnibus 09:15 .......... Coronation Street Omnibus 11:45 .....................The X Factor 13:15 ............... The Xtra Factor 14:15 .................... Take Me Out 15:45 .................... Take Me Out: The Gossip 16:45 ................. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

17:45 ................. I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here Now! 18:50 .... Kindergarten Cop 21:00 .....................The Xtra Factor Results 22:00.................The Only CW Way is Essex CHOICE 22:50 ........ 2 Fast 2 Furious

W C C H O IC E Call the Midwife BBC2, 15:45

Drama about a newlytrained midwife in 1950s London. A baby girl, recently delivered by Jenny, is snatched from her pram, causing great anguish to her family and uniting the local community as they search for the missing child. Meanwhile, Cynthia witnesses another type of loss as she assists in the case of soon-to-be parents David and Margaret. Newly married and excited about their future, everything is put in jeopardy when Margaret develops eclampsia. Director: Philippa Lowthorpe, Jamie Payne Starring: Jenny Agutter, Pam Ferris, Vanessa Redgrave, Miranda Hart, Judy Parfitt, Jessica Raine.

Miracle on 34th Street Channel 4, 17:10 Richard Attenborough stars in Les Mayfield's charming remake of the 1947 classic as Kris Kringle, who insists he really is Santa Claus. Kringle gets a job at Cole's department store on 34th Street thanks to toy department executive Dorey Walker, who, like her daughter Susan, doesn't believe in Santa Claus. But such is Kringle's success that a rival store, which is losing money, decides to have him declared insane for his insistence on his identity. The case comes to trial, with Bryan Bedford, Dorey's would-be-suitor, acting for Kringle, out to prove that he really is Santa Claus, knowing that failure will break the hearts of children all over the world.

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Monday Monday 06:00 ...........................Breakfast

06:00 ...........................Tikkabilla

06:00 .......................... Daybreak

09:15 ....................Heir Hunters

06:30.......................... Balamory

08:30 .............................Lorraine

10:00 .......... Homes Under the Hammer

06:50 ............. Charlie and Lola 07:05 .................... Cloudbabies

09:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show

11:00 ............. Watchdog Daily

07:15 ......... Everything's Rosie

10:30 ................... This Morning

11:45............ Cash in the Attic

11:25 ...........................ITV News

12:15 ...................Bargain Hunt

07:25 .............. Bob the Builder: Project Build It

13:00 .......... BBC News at One

07:35 ...................Chuggington

12:30 ................. Loose Women

13:45............................. Doctors

07:45......................... Octonauts

14:15 ...........................Escape to the Country

08:00 .............Tilly and Friends

13:30 ........................... ITV News and Weather

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

14:00 ...................Crime Stories

15:00 .........................BBC News

08:15 ..............Mike the Knight

15:05 .......... School for Stars 2

08:30 .....................Timmy Time

15:00 ....................... Dickinson's Real Deal

15:30 ...............Science Fiction

08:40 ...........................Tweenies

15:35 .... Dennis and Gnasher

09:00 ......................... Numtums

15:45 .......................The League of Super Evil

09:05 ...............................Abadas

16:00 ....................Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

09:20 ........ The Rhyme Rocket

16:30 ........................Pet School Series which sees nine pet-crazy kids and 51 loveable animals brought together for two weeks.

On day one at the Pet School, the nine children are assigned their first-ever pet practice. Rachel and Giulia get freaked out by frozen mice and live locusts. Tej, Ysabel and Micah find out that while waking up a sleeping ferret is tough, getting harnesses on them is even trickier. Britain's most talented dog, Pudsey, and his owner Ashleigh drop in for a visit, and the pet heads meet their pet buddies for the first time; Sam is thrilled with his corn snake, Ysabel has to overcome her fear of handling Kitkat the hamster, and Rachel bonds with her bearded dragon. Can Pet School give our nine Pet Heads the skills to become responsible pet owners? And when term is out, will they persuade their parents to get them pets of their own?

09:15 .....................Alphablocks 09:35 ............. The Lingo Show 09:45 ........Something Special: We're All Friends 10:05 ....... Show Me Show Me 10:35 ........................... Let's Play 10:55 .........................I Can Cook on the Go 11:10 ....................Mister Maker Comes to Town 11:30 .............BBC World News 12:00............ The Daily Politics 13:00 ......................Snooker: UK Championships 18:00 ..................Eggheads 18:30 ............ Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 .............. Ricks Stein's Christmas Odyssey

17:00 ......................Newsround 17:15........................... Pointless 18:00 ....... BBC News at Six 19:00 ..........The One Show 19:30 ................. Inside Out 20:00 ................ EastEnders 20:30 .................Panorama 21:00 ................ New Tricks 22:00 ...... BBC News at Ten 22:35 ...............Have I Got a Bit More News for You 23:20 ...................... Duplex

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20:00 ................. University Challenge 20:30 ....... MasterChef: The Professionals 21:00 .......Inside Claridge's 22:00 .........Never Mind the Buzzcocks 22:30 ................ Newsnight 23:20 .................... Snooker

11:30 ................... This Morning

Some of the best moments from past series including some dusty old books that take Karen Dalmeny by surprise, Mike Melody having his bartering skills pushed to the limits, and a collection of saucy postcards that get everyone titillated.

16:00 ..... Britain's Best Bakery Today's three independent bakeries are all from East Anglia - a Brazilian bakery in Cambridge, a baker who makes the unusual Donker Bread, and a deli/bak- CHO ICE ery in Norwich that is a foodie's paradise. Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell can only pick one to go through to the next round.

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17:00 .........................The Chase 18:00 ........ London Tonight 18:30 ................... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ............... Emmerdale 19:30 ......The Royal Variety Performance David Walliams hosts the 100th Royal Variety Performance from The Royal Albert Hall. The star-studded line-up includes Robbie Williams, Neil Diamond, Girls Aloud, One Direction, Rod Stewart, Kylie Minogue, Ashleigh and Pudsey, the cast of the hit musical Matilda, Katherine Jenkins and Placido Domingo, Andrea Bocelli and Alicia Keys.

Amanda Holden also introduces a celebratory anniversary performance from the stars of Britain's Got Talent, and more laughs are provided by Alan Carr, Rhod Gilbert, Sir Bruce Forsyth, Ronnie Corbett, Bill Bailey, Bradley Walsh, Jimmy Tarbuck and Des O'Connor.

22:05 ............... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40 ............... The Agenda 23:10 ............. State of Play

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Monday 06:05 ................... Children's TV 07:30 ............According to Jim 08:00 ............Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 ................................ Frasier 10:00 ......Come Dine with Me 12:30 ............. Channel 4 News 12:35 ......... The Comancheros 14:40 ......................Countdown 15:30 ............. 1001 Things You Should Know 16:00 .............. Deal or No Deal 17:00 ......Come Dine with Me 17:30 ......................... Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:00 ........... The Simpsons 18:30 ...................Hollyoaks 19:00 ........ Channel 4 News 19:25 .............. 4thought.tv 19:30..Turner Prize 2012 CW CHO ICE 20:00 ................Dispatches 20:30 ............. Stephen Fry: Gadget Man 21:00 ..........The Real Man's Road Trip: Sean and Jon Go West 22:00 .................... The Fear

19:00 ...............Snog, Marry, Avoid?

Tessa, Nina and Ryan. Britain's fakest fashion fiascos now have nowhere to hide as a new, upgraded POD and host Ellie Taylor tour Britain on their natural beauty makeunder mission. In Cardiff, Ellie discovers why Welsh girls love hair extensions and POD goes into overdrive with two mega makeunders. First up are a pair of Barbie wannabes who have turned sisterhood into an unclassy act.

19:30 ..............Snog, Marry, Avoid?

20:00 ....... Britain's Biggest Beauty Queens 21:00 ..........Junior Doctors 22:00 ...... Russell Howard's Good News 22:30 ................EastEnders 23:00 ................Family Guy 23:45 .......... American Dad!

Monday

06:00....................Children's TV

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06:00 ................................ Cricket

09:00....................... Tickety Toc

Australia v South Africa 3rd Test (Day 4). Day four of the third test between Australia and South Africa from the Western Australia Cricket Association Ground.

09:15 .............The Wright Stuff

10:30 ................................La Liga

11:10......... The Removal Men

12:00 ... Scottish Cup Football

12:10........ 5 News Lunchtime

13:00 .... Ford Football Special

12:15 ......................Build a New Life in the Country

14:30 ................................La Liga

08:45 ......Bananas in Pyjamas 08:55 ........Milkshake Monkey

16:00 .... Ford Football Special

December

06:00................................ Airline 06:30 ................................ Airline

06:00 ................America's Next Top Model

07:00 .......................The Middle

07:00................................ Maury

08:00 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter

08:00 ...................Cougar Town

08:30 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter

10:00 .......Nothing to Declare

09:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0

12:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

10:00........... NCIS: Los Angeles

09:00................. Jerry Springer 11:00 ...............Passport Patrol

13:15 ............Home and Away

11:00.......... NCIS: Los Angeles

13:45 ..................... Neighbours

12:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles

13:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

14:15 ............................... CSI: NY

13:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles

14:00 ...............Criminal Minds

15:15 ............ Love's Christmas Journey

14:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0

15:00 ...............Criminal Minds

15:00 .................. Stargate SG-1

16:00.. RSPCA Animal Rescue

17:00 ......................5 News at 5

16:00 .................. Stargate SG-1

17:00....... Nothing to Declare

17:30 ..................... Neighbours

17:00 ...................Raising Hope

17:30 .......Nothing to Declare

18:00 .......Home and Away

17:30 .......................... Futurama

18:00 .. Nothing to Declare

18:30 ...................... 5 News

18:00 .................. Futurama

19:00 ........ Criminal Minds

19:00 ...... Wild Things with Dominic Monaghan

17:30......................Soccer A.M. The Best Bits

18:30 ........... The Simpsons

20:00 ... Nothing to Declare

19:00 ........... The Simpsons

20:00 ...............The All New Gadget Show

18:30 ................ Netbusters

20:00 ........................ Arrow

20:30 ............ Show Me Your Wardrobe

19:00 .....................Football

21:00 ............Flintoff: From Lord's to the Ring

21:00 .. XIII: The Conspiracy 23:45 .........Shops, Robbers and Videotape

23:00 ................ Netbusters 23:30 .......Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits

22:00 ........ An Idiot Abroad

06:00 ................ Good Morning Sports Fans

07:10 .................. Dragons' Den

06:00 ........................ The X Files

09:00 ............................Top Gear

07:00 ...... Star Trek: Enterprise

07:00 ................ Good Morning Sports Fans

11:00 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

09:00 .........................................ER

09:00................... Ford Football Special

12:00........................ Bush Pilots

10:00......................... The X Files

13:00 ............................Top Gear

11:00...... Star Trek: Enterprise

14:00 ............................Top Gear

13:00......................................... ER

15:00...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

14:00 .................................House

12:30 ..................Nedbank Golf Challenge

15:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

16:00.......... Star Trek: Voyager

16:00...................... Man v Food

17:00 .........................................ER

14:30 ................... Rolex Middle Sea Race

16:30 ......................Man v Food

18:00 ........................House

17:00 ............................Top Gear

20:00 .....................Seinfeld

15:00 ...............................Cricket

18:00 .................... Top Gear

17:00 ..................................... NFL

19:00 ................ Bush Pilots

21:00 ................ Don't Sit in the Front Row

19:00 ............. Rolex Middle Sea Race

20:00 ...............Man v Food

10:30 ....................International Rugby Union

19:30 ............ Road to Kona Ironman 20:00 ...................... Cricket 22:00 .. European Tour Golf 23:00 .............. British Rally Championships

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21:00 ......... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00 ................... Mock the Week...Again

23:00 ........................ Fringe

21:30 ........ Alan Partridge's Mid-Morning Matters 22:00 ...........................Girls 22:35 ............. Nurse Jackie

22:40 ...Would I Lie to You?

23:10 ..............BrandX with Russell Brand

23:20 ......... Frank Skinner's Opinionated

23:40 .............. Flight of the Conchords

21:00 ......... America's Next Top Model 22:00 ........ Criminal Minds 23:00 ........................Bones

06:00...................... Emmerdale 06:25 ..........Coronation Street 07:20........................The Jeremy Kyle Show US 08:10....................... Judge Judy 08:35 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 10:30..................... The X Factor Results Show 11:30 ....You've Been Framed!

12:00 .......................Emmerdale 12:30 ..........Coronation Street 13:30..The Jeremy Kyle Show 15:40 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 17:30 ...................The Hot Desk 17:40 .... You've Been Framed!

Christmas Special 18:15 ...........................Hulk 21:00 ..The Vampire Diaries 22:00 ............The Only Way is Essex 22:50 ................The 40 Year Old Virgin

W C C H O IC E EastEnders BBC1, 20:00

Sharon supports Phil on the day of Ben's sentencing, but the unexpected return of a familiar face threatens to throw their lives into turmoil. Alfie and Fatboy arrive back from their trip to Germany, but Alfie's good mood is soon dampened when he discovers Kat is missing. Unable to stay away from Joey, Lauren drunkenly confronts him about his feelings and is left confused by his response.

Turner Prize 2012 Channel 4, 19:30 The Turner Prize returns to Channel 4, broadcasting live from Tate Britain in London. The ÂŁ25,000 prize will be announced and presented to the winner by Jude Law during the programme. Hosted

by Lauren Laverne, the programme features profiles of the nominated artists, Paul Noble, Elizabeth Price, Luke Fowler and Spartacus Chetwynd.

Guest panellists will also discuss the prize backstage and Lauren will interview the winning artist. The Turner Prize was established in 1984, and is awarded to a British artist under 50, for an outstanding exhibition in the 12 months preceding 24 April 2012. It is intended to promote public discussion of new developments in contemporary British art and is widely recognised as one of the most prestigious awards for the visual arts in Europe, with previous winners including Grayson Perry, Steve McQueen, and Gilbert and George.

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Tuesday Tuesday 06:00 ...........................Breakfast

06:00 ...........................Tikkabilla

06:00.......................... Daybreak

09:15 ....................Heir Hunters

06:30.......................... Balamory

08:30 .............................Lorraine

10:00.......... Homes Under the Hammer

06:50............. Charlie and Lola 07:05.................... Cloudbabies

09:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show

11:00 ............. Watchdog Daily

07:15......... Everything's Rosie

10:30 ................... This Morning

11:45 ............ Cash in the Attic

11:25........................... ITV News

12:15................... Bargain Hunt

07:25 .............. Bob the Builder: Project Build It

13:00 .......... BBC News at One

07:35 ...................Chuggington

12:30 ................. Loose Women

13:30 ........ BBC London News

07:45......................... Octonauts

13:45 ............................. Doctors

08:00 .............Tilly and Friends

13:30........................... ITV News and Weather

14:15........................... Escape to the Country

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

14:00 ...................Crime Stories

15:00 .........................BBC News

08:30..................... Timmy Time

15:05 .......... School for Stars 2

08:40 ...........................Tweenies

15:35 .... Dennis and Gnasher

09:00......................... Numtums

15:45 .......................The League of Super Evil

09:05 ...............................Abadas

16:00 ....................Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated 16:30 ........................Pet School

Lemon La Vida Loca: Merry Keithmas ITV2, 22.00 The first of a two-part Christmas special of Keith Lemon’s comedy reality show. Why is Keith spending so much time with Emily Atack?

Why have the neighbours complained about his Christmas lights? And is it ever OK to buy your girlfriend a boob job for Christmas?

All will be revealed as we get to spend some more time with the REAL Keith Lemon.

Series which sees nine pet-crazy kids and 51 loveable animals brought together for two weeks.

Sophie, Liam and Rachel welcome six newly-hatched chicks to Pet School, but cleaning out the chicken coop tests their teamwork. While one group mucks out the stables, another learns about dog breath - up close and personal. Things get hairy when Nikita, the curly haired tarantula, is brought in for an Extreme Pet visit. And Ashleigh and her famous pooch Pudsey give Giulia some celebtested tips for bonding with her dog. Can Pet School give our nine Pet Heads the skills to become responsible pet owners? And when term's out will they persuade their parents to get them a pet of their own?

17:00...................... Newsround 17:15 ........................... Pointless 18:00 ....... BBC News at Six 18:30 ... BBC London News 19:00 ..........The One Show

A SUPERSCRIMPERS’ MERRY CHRISTMAS Channel 4, 20.00 Mrs Moneypenny and her army of SuperScrimpers share their newest hints and tips about Christmas cost cutting. From beauty tips to Christmas cooking, from decorations to presents, every possible part of a cut-price Christmas is covered. Harry Wallop targets online criminals who use every trick in the book to rip punters off. And one family is challenged to produce a festive buffet for 20 people for just £50.

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19:30 ............... EastEnders

08:15 ..............Mike the Knight

09:15 .....................Alphablocks 09:20 ........ The Rhyme Rocket

11:30................... This Morning

A nurse discovers that someone has got into her room, ripped up her clothes and torn up her photographs. DI Preston and DS Shaw are called in to investigate but find there is no sign of a break in. They soon begin to suspect that all is not well between the nurse and her flat mates. Starring: Jane Antrobus, Ben Hull, Jamelia Davis, Marcus Patrick, Anna Acton, Martino Lazzeri.

09:35 ............. The Lingo Show

15:00 ... Dickinson's Real Deal

09:45 ........Something Special: We're All Friends

16:00 ..... Britain's Best Bakery

10:05....... Show Me Show Me 10:35........................... Let's Play 10:55......................... I Can Cook on the Go 11:10.................... Mister Maker Comes to Town 11:30 .............BBC World News 12:00 ............The Daily Politics 13:00 ......................Snooker: UK Championships 18:00 ..................Eggheads 18:30 ............ Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 ................Rick Stein's Spanish Christmas 20:00 ....... MasterChef: The Professionals 21:00 ..........Dara O Briain's Science Club 22:00 ....The Sarah Millican Television Programme

17:00......................... The Chase 18:00 ........ London Tonight 18:30 .................... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ............... Emmerdale 19:30 ...... UEFA Champions League Live Adrian Chiles is joined by Roy Keane, Lee Dixon and Gareth Southgate for live coverage of one of the final Champions League group games. Arsenal are away to Olympiakos in Greece and goals by Gervinho, Lukas Podolski and Aaron Ramsey earned them a 3-1 win when the sides met at the Emirates stadium in October. Manchester City are away to Borussia Dortmund and Mario Balotelli's dramatic last-gasp penalty salvaged a 1-1 draw for City when the sides met at the Etihad stadium in October.

Commentary by Clive Tyldesley and Andy Townsend.

22:00 ............... ITV News at Ten and Weather

20:00 .................Holby City

22:35 ...... UEFA Champions League

21:00 ..................Last Tango in Halifax

23:35 ............. Take Me Out

22:00 ...... BBC News at Ten 22:25 ... BBC London News 22:35 ..................Imagine...

22:30 ................. Newsnight

23:55 ........... Transsiberian

23:20 .................... Snooker

It is the girls' last chance to bag a date and matchmaker Paddy McGuinness is determined to prevent his flirty 30 from being left on the shelf. Find out how the couples from last week and this week got on with their dates in the Isle of Fernandos.

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06:05....................Children's TV 07:30 ........... According to Jim 07:55 ............Everybody Loves Raymond 08:55 ................................Frasier 09:55 ..... Come Dine with Me 12:30 .............Channel 4 News 12:35 ....... Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 12:45 ......... The Enemy Below 14:40 ..................... Countdown 15:30 ............. 1001 Things You Should Know 16:00 ..............Deal or No Deal 17:00 ..... Come Dine with Me 17:30 ......................... Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:00 ...........The Simpsons 18:30 ................. Hollyoaks 19:00 ....... Channel 4 News 19:55 .............. 4thought.tv 20:00 .... A Superscrimpers' Merry Christmas 21:00 .................Heston's W C Fantastical Food CHOICE 22:00 ....................The Fear 23:05 ................ Homeland

06:00....................Children's TV 08:30 ... Roary the Racing Car 08:45 ......Bananas in Pyjamas 08:55 ........Milkshake Monkey 09:00 .......................Tickety Toc 09:15 .............The Wright Stuff 11:10 ......... The Removal Men 12:10 ........5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..............Build a New Life in the Country 13:15 ............Home and Away 13:45..................... Neighbours 14:15 ..................................Shark 15:15 ............ Love's Christmas Journey 17:00 ......................5 News at 5 17:30 ..................... Neighbours 18:00 ....... Home and Away 18:30 ...................... 5 News 19:00 ................... Highland Emergency 20:00 ............. Murder Files 21:00 ...........Body of Proof 22:00 ...................... CSI: NY 23:50 .......CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

06:00 ................................Cricket

06:00 ................................ Airline

10:30 ........................Netbusters

06:30 ................................ Airline

06:00.................America's Next Top Model

11:00 .....................Soccer A.M. The Best Bits

07:00 .......................The Middle

07:00................................. Maury

07:30 .......................The Middle

08:00 ................... Cougar Town

12:00 ....................... Champions League Weekly

08:00 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter

09:00 ................. Jerry Springer

12:30 ....................Ford Monday Night Football

09:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0

10:30 ....... Nothing to Declare

10:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles

11:00 ................Passport Patrol

11:00.......... NCIS: Los Angeles

11:30 ................Passport Patrol

12:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles

12:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

19:00 ......All New Celebrity Total Wipeout

06:00................ Good Morning Sports Fans 09:00 ...................Ford Monday Night Football 11:30...Road to Kona Ironman 12:00 ...........Shell's Wonderful World of Golf 13:30 ....... Trilby 2's Golf 2012 14:30 .................... Soccer A.M. The Best Bits 15:30 .......................Netbusters 16:00 ....... Trilby 2's Golf 2012 17:00 ............Aquabikes World Championship 17:30............ Ladies European Tour Golf 18:30 ...........Golfing World 19:00 ......UEFA Champions League 22:00 ............... Champions League Goals 23:00 ........................ Poker

Richard Hammond and Amanda Byram present the first of two celebrity editions of the world's silliest extreme obstacle course-based game show.

This special sets celebrities the task of conquering the Sucker Punch, the Big Red Balls and Crash Mountain. For the winner, invitations to appear on a lot of daytime talkshows and a cheque for 10,000 pounds to the charity of their choice.

For the losers, a face full of Argentine mud. It's a win-win situation.

20:00 .......... Junior Doctors 21:00 .................. Inside the Body Beautiful 22:00 ................ Some Girls 22:30 ................EastEnders 23:00 ................Family Guy 23:25 ................Family Guy 23:45 ..........American Dad!

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15:00 ................................Cricket

13:00 .......... NCIS: Los Angeles 14:00 ...................Hawaii Five-0 15:00 .................. Stargate SG-1 16:00 .................. Stargate SG-1 17:00 ................. Little Crackers 17:00 ............. Barclays Premier League Review

17:15 ................. Little Crackers

18:00 ..... Revista de la Liga

18:00 .................. Futurama

19:00 ............ Football Asia

18:30 ........... The Simpsons

19:30 ...........Gillette Soccer Special

19:00 ........... The Simpsons

22:00 ............ Football Asia

17:30 .......................... Futurama

20:00 ................ Last Resort

22:30 ..... Revista de la Liga

21:00 ................... A League of Their Own

23:30 .......Barclays Premier League Review

22:00 .................. From Hell

07:10 .................. Dragons' Den

06:00 ........................ The X Files

09:00 ............................Top Gear 11:00 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

07:00 ............................ Star Trek: Enterprise

11:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

08:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager

12:00 ........................Bush Pilots

09:00 .........................................ER

13:00.............................Top Gear

10:00 ........................ The X Files

14:00 ............................Top Gear

11:00 ............................ Star Trek: Enterprise

15:00 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving 15:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving 16:00 ......................Man v Food 17:00 ............................Top Gear 18:00 .................... Top Gear 19:00 ................ Bush Pilots 20:00 ...............Man v Food 20:30 ............... Man v Food 21:00 ..........................QI XL 22:00 .......................... QI XL 23:00 .........Mock the Week 23:40 ......... Never Mind the Buzzcocks

10:00....... Nothing to Declare

13:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 14:00 ............... Criminal Minds 16:00 ..RSPCA Animal Rescue 16:30.. RSPCA Animal Rescue 17:00 ....... Nothing to Declare 17:30 ....... Nothing to Declare 18:00 ... Nothing to Declare 18:30 ... Nothing to Declare 19:00 .........Criminal Minds 20:00 ........................ Bones 21:00 ............... Elementary 22:00 ..............Chicago Fire 23:00 .........Criminal Minds

12:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 13:00 .........................................ER 14:00................................. House 16:00.......... Star Trek: Voyager 17:00......................................... ER 18:00 ........................House 19:00 ........................House 20:00 .. Friday Night Lights 21:00 ....................... Awake 22:00 ............ House of Lies 22:35 ............. Nurse Jackie 23:10 ...................Mad Men

06:00 .......................Emmerdale 06:25 ..........Coronation Street 07:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US 08:10....................... Judge Judy 08:35 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 10:30....................... Judge Judy 12:00 .......................Emmerdale 12:30 ..........Coronation Street 13:30...The Jeremy Kyle Show 15:40.... The Real Housewives of New York City 17:30 .......................Judge Judy 18:00 ........ The Jeremy Kyle Show US 18:55 ......... Lemon Tonight 19:00.........Keith Lemon's CW LemonAid CHOICE 19:45 .....Back to the Future 22:00 .. Lemon La Vida Loca 22:50 ..........Celebrity Juice

W C C H O IC E Heston's Fantastical Food Channel 4, 21:00

The Pub in a Pie. Episode 5. Heston tries to rekindle our love for the traditional pub food. For centuries local taverns have provided a wondrous mix of good times, hearty grub and beer that's famous the world over. But pubs appear to be in decline, with around 18 locals a week shutting their doors for good. Heston plans to put the fun back into old-fashioned pub grub - to build a giant edible pie and transform it into a fully functioning public house in the Welsh village of Minera. Heston makes a billiard table from cod, tartare sauce and pea mousse all topped with a crumbled crisp and green watercress extract. The edible table is finished with pickled egg billiard balls dipped in a tomato and cardamom gel.

Keith Lemon's LemonAid ITV2, 19:00 Keith Lemon brings his unique brand of mischief and anarchy to this exciting new series which sees him embark on a mission to satisfy the needs of the public - in his own special way. Keith meets real people with real dreams, hopes and dilemmas and aims to bring LemonAid to those who need it.

This week, he is joined in the studio by celebrity helper Cilla Black. Plus Rizzle Kicks perform and the whole audience has the chance to win prizes in the epic game Lemon Drops.

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Peter Andre: My Life ITV2, 21.00 Peter Andre’s reality hit, My Life, is back for a third series on ITV2.

While Pete’s finally found happiness in his personal life, his family life has been a different story. At the beginning of the year his brother Andrew was diagnosed with life threatening cancer - a battle that is on going.

With an album to promote and a tour coming up, Pete is under intense pressure with a gruelling schedule pushing him to his limits. But what is keeping him together is his family and girlfriend Emily who Pete couldn’t do without.

More honest than ever, we follow Pete as he juggles fame and fatherhood under the spotlight.

The Town ITV1, 21.00 The Town is a three-part contemporary drama from Big Talk Productions starring BAFTA winner Andrew Scott alongside an outstanding ensemble cast including Julia McKenzie, Charlotte Riley, Gerard Kearns, Kelly Adams and Martin Clunes.

The first television series by Laurence Olivier award-winning playwright Mike Bartlett, The Town follows a shocking incident within an otherwise normal family. Mark Nicholas (Scott) returns to the town where he grew up to find his grandmother Betty (McKenzie) is now living in his childhood bedroom and he barely knows his teenage sister Jodie (Avigail Tlalim).

Mark is drawn back into the life he left behind. Hardest of all is meeting his first love Alice (Riley), now married with a child.Thrust into the complicated lives of his former neighbours, it’s not surprising there are awkward moments as Mark becomes reacquainted with his past, including his old friends ‘down the pub’ Lucy (Kelly Adams), Carly (Aisling Bea) and Jeff (Sam Troughton).

Running parallel with Mark’s story, we get to know the town Mayor, alcohol-soaked Len (Clunes). With his world falling in around him, Len is stumbling from one PR disaster to another. As we get to know the community, we’re also introduced to the enigmatic Inspector Franks (Douglas Hodge) from the local police force whose links to the family are stronger than it first appears...

Mark struggles to decide whether he should stay permanently to be with his family. But a new life is difficult to build in the place you used to call home and now feels like you barely know it.

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Wednesday Wednesday 06:00........................... Breakfast

06:00 ...........................Tikkabilla

06:00 ..........................Daybreak

09:15 ....................Heir Hunters

06:30.......................... Balamory

08:30............................ Lorraine

10:00 .................. Homes Under the Hammer

06:50 ............. Charlie and Lola 07:05 .................... Cloudbabies

09:25....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show

11:00.............. Watchdog Daily

07:15 ......... Everything's Rosie

10:30 ...................This Morning

11:45 ............ Cash in the Attic

11:25 .......................... ITV News

12:15 ...................Bargain Hunt

07:25 .............. Bob the Builder: Project Build It

13:00 .......... BBC News at One

07:35 ...................Chuggington

12:30 .................Loose Women

13:45 ............................. Doctors

07:45 .........................Octonauts

14:15..Escape to the Country

08:00............. Tilly and Friends

13:30 ........................... ITV News and Weather

15:00 .........................BBC News

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

14:00 .................. Crime Stories

15:05.......... School for Stars 2

08:15 ..............Mike the Knight

15:00... Dickinson's Real Deal

15:30 ...............Science Fiction

08:30 .....................Timmy Time

16:00..... Britain's Best Bakery

15:35 .... Dennis and Gnasher

08:40 ...........................Tweenies

15:45 .......................The League of Super Evil

09:00 ......................... Numtums

16:00 ....................Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

09:15 .....................Alphablocks

11:30 ...................This Morning

17:15 ........................... Pointless

09:45 ........Something Special: We're All Friends

Judges Mich Turner and Peter Sidwell are in the East Midlands and Staffordshire. Today's competitors are a bakers in Rutland in a disused power station, a mother and son in Stoke who took over their local bakery when it was threatened with closure, and a couple who left the rat race to run a local Derbyshire village bakery. They all have to make a classic sausage roll.

18:00 ....... BBC News at Six

10:05 ....... Show Me Show Me

17:00 ........................ The Chase

18:30 ... BBC London News

10:35 ........................... Let's Play

18:00 ....... London Tonight

19:00 ..........The One Show

10:55 ...............................Dipdap

20:00 ..... Supersized Earth

11:00 ............................See Hear

18:30 ................... ITV News and Weather

21:00 ....................... War on Britain's Roads

11:30 ............................. Autumn Statement 2012

19:00 ............... Emmerdale

22:00 ...... BBC News at Ten

15:30 ......................Snooker: UK Championships

20:00 ... I'm a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here!

Coming Out

16:30........................ Pet School 17:00 ......................Newsround

22:35 ............. The National Lottery Wednesday Night Draws

09:05 ...............................Abadas 09:20......... The Rhyme Rocket 09:35.............. The Lingo Show

18:00 ..................Eggheads 18:30 ............ Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 ................Rick Stein's Cornish Christmas 20:00 ....... MasterChef: The Professionals

ednesday Numbers for W r are: be m ce De 05 Bonus Ball

19:30 ....Coronation Street

21:00...............The Town

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Following a family tragedy,CHO ICE 30-year-old Mark Nicholas returns to the town where he grew up. After ten years away, coming home is harder than Mark could ever have imagined.

His grandmother Betty is now living in his bedroom and he barely knows his teenage sister Jodie. The town is governed by an influential mayor and there's a claustrophobic sense everyone knows everyone else's business. Most of Mark's school friends still live there, as does his first love Alice, who stayed behind when he left. They still have strong feelings for each other but Alice is now married with a child. Starring: Andrew Scott, Julia McKenzie, Martin Clunes, Charlotte Riley

22:45 ... Would I Lie to You?

21:00 ................... The Hour

22:00 ............... ITV News at Ten and Weather

23:15 .................. Film 2012

22:00 .....The Culture Show

22:35 ................ Inside Man

23:45 ....... The Daisy Chain

22:30 ................. Newsnight

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Wednesday Wednesday 05 December 06:10 ........................The Hoobs 07:00 ...........Freshly Squeezed 07:30 ............According to Jim 07:55 ............Everybody Loves Raymond 08:55 ................................ Frasier 09:55 ......Come Dine with Me 12:30 ............. Channel 4 News 12:35 ....... Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 12:45.....Sink the Bismarck! CW CHO ICE 14:40 ......................Countdown 15:30............. 1001 Things You Should Know 16:00 .............. Deal or No Deal 17:00 ......Come Dine with Me 17:30 ......................... Jamie's 15 Minute Meals 18:00 ........... The Simpsons 18:30 .................. Hollyoaks 19:00 ........Channel 4 News 19:55 .............. 4thought.tv 20:00 ........... Sarah Beeny's Selling Houses 21:00 ..........Grand Designs 22:00 ..................... The Fear 23:05 .............. True Stories

06:00 ...................Children's TV

19:00 .... Young Apprentice 20:00 ..... Gavin and Stacey Special festive edition of the hit sitcom. Nessa and the Wests head east, with some help from Dave and his coach. Meanwhile in Essex, Dawn and Pete visit for drinks, Mick is preoccupied with his new love, and Smithy cannot wait to spend his first Christmas with Neil the baby. Pam has prepared a lovely spread and Bryn has his mistletoe ready. But as the bubbly starts flowing and the Christmas spirit gets a grip, Gavin and Stacey have a startling announcement to make. Starring: Mathew Horne, Joanna Page, Steffan Rhodri, Alison Steadman, Larry Lamb, Ruth Jones.

21:00 .................... Die Hard with a Vengeance 23:05 ................Family Guy 23:25 ................Family Guy 23:45 ..........American Dad!

08:30 ... Roary the Racing Car 08:40.............. Bert and Ernie's Great Adventures

06:00................................ Cricket India v England 3rd Test (Day 1).

Day one of the third test between India and England from Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

08:45...... Bananas in Pyjamas

11:30 .................... Football Asia

09:00 .......................Tickety Toc

12:00 ....................... Champions League Goals

09:15............. The Wright Stuff 11:10 ......... The Removal Men

13:00............ Revista de la Liga

06:30 ................................Airline

06:00 ................America's Next Top Model

07:00....................... The Middle

07:00 .................................Maury

07:30....................... The Middle

08:00................... Cougar Town

08:00 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter

09:00 ................. Jerry Springer

09:00 .................. Hawaii Five-0

10:30 ....... Nothing to Declare

10:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

11:00 ................Passport Patrol

11:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

11:30 ................Passport Patrol

06:00 ................................Airline

10:00 ....... Nothing to Declare

12:10 ........5 News Lunchtime

14:00 ............. Barclays Premier League Review

12:15 ..............Build a New Life in the Country

15:00 .................... Football Asia

12:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

12:00 .............CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

13:15 ............Home and Away

15:30 ............Revista de la Liga Scott Minto is joined by Guillem Balague for a round-up of all the matches from La Liga. With features and interviews from some of the top names in Spanish football.

14:00 .................. Hawaii Five-0

13:00 ............ Ghost Whisperer

15:00.................. Stargate SG-1

14:00 ............... Criminal Minds

16:00 ..................Stargate SG-1

15:00 ............... Criminal Minds

17:00................. Little Crackers 17:15 .................Little Crackers

16:00 ................................ RSPCA Animal Rescue

17:30 ..................... Neighbours

16:30 ....................... Champions League Goals

18:00 .......Home and Away

17:30 ................................ Cricket

18:00 .................. Futurama

18:30 ...................... 5 News

19:30 ............Gillette Soccer Special

18:30 ...........The Simpsons

22:00 .....................Hyundai A League

19:30 ...........The Simpsons

13:45 ..................... Neighbours 14:15 ..................................Shark 15:15 ...... Farewell Mr. Kringle 17:00 ......................5 News at 5

19:00 .... World's Strongest Man 2012 20:00 ....... Mysteries of the Bermuda Triangle 21:00 ............ Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways

22:30 ................ FIFA Futbol Mundial

17:30 ..........................Futurama

19:00 ...........The Simpsons 20:00 ....... The Glee Project 21:00 ............... Last Resort

17:00 ....... Nothing to Declare 17:30 ....... Nothing to Declare 18:00 .. Nothing to Declare 18:30 .. Nothing to Declare 19:00 .........Criminal Minds 20:00 ............... Elementary 21:00 ..............Chicago Fire

23:00 ................ Cop Squad

23:00 ........................ Bones

06:00 ................ Good Morning Sports Fans

07:10 .................. Dragons' Den

06:00 ........................ The X Files

06:00........................Emmerdale

08:00 .................. Dragons' Den

06:25 ........................Nanny 911

09:00 .......................Champions League Goals

09:00 ............................Top Gear

07:00 ............................ Star Trek: Enterprise

11:00 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

08:00.......... Star Trek: Voyager

07:20 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US

11:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

09:00 .........................................ER

08:10....................... Judge Judy

12:00 ........................Bush Pilots

10:00......................... The X Files

13:00............................ Top Gear

11:00 ............................ Star Trek: Enterprise

08:35 ....The Real Housewives of New York City

10:00 ...........Revista de la Liga 11:00............. Barclays Premier League Review 12:00................ Carp Academy 12:30..... European Challenge Tour Golf

14:00 ............................Top Gear 15:00 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

13:30 ................. Golfing World

15:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving

14:00 .................................British Basketball League

16:00 ......................Man v Food

16:00 .........World Cup of Pool

18:00 ................... Top Gear

17:00 ........ Hyundai A League

19:00 ................Bush Pilots

17:30 .....FIFA Futbol Mundial 18:00 ..........................UEFA Champions League 22:00 ............... Champions League Goals 23:00 ..............Card Games

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17:00 ............................Top Gear

20:00 ............... Man v Food 21:00 ..........................QI XL 22:00 ... Milton Jones's One Night Stand 23:00 .........Mock the Week 23:40 ..........................QI XL

10:30....................... Judge Judy

12:00.......... Star Trek: Voyager

12:00 .......................Emmerdale

13:00......................................... ER

12:30 ........................Nanny 911

14:00 .................................House

13:30 .The Jeremy Kyle Show

16:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 17:00 .........................................ER

15:40 ....The Real Housewives of New York City

18:00 .........................House

17:30 .......................Judge Judy

19:00 ........................House

18:00 ........The Jeremy Kyle Show US

20:00 ...... Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets 21:00 .........................Falc贸n 22:00 ........... The Sopranos 23:10 ... Boardwalk Empire

Sink the Bismarck!

Channel 4, 12:45 Lewis Gilbert's Second World War film stars Kenneth More as Captain John Shepherd, charged with masterminding the British attack on Germany's largest battleship, The Bismarck. As the ship, captained by Captain Lindemann, breaks out from its anchorage in Norway to join the rest of the German fleet at Brest, Shepherd, from his control room in London's Admiralty building, sends out the British ships to take on her might. The mix of war footage, newsreels and superb models conveys the climatic sea battles, while More, nursing the loss of his wife in an air raid, gives a strong performance as the unflappable Shepherd.

22:00 ........Grey's Anatomy

23:00 ....................A League of Their Own

22:00 ....................... Fringe

22:00 ............. Untraceable

W C C H O IC E

19:00 ................ Gossip Girl 20:00 .........Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 20:30 ..You've Been Framed!

21:00 ...Peter Andre: My Life

World's Strongest Man 2012 Channel 5, 19:00 Qualifiers. The second qualifying round of the 2012 World's Strongest Man competition is in Tampere, Finland. Britain's Laurence Shahlaei is gunning for the top spot.

Shahlaei has never won a major international event before and he is up against a host of Scandinavian strongmen who are famed for their strength and determination. Because the contest is taking place in Finland's largest shopping centre, certain events have an everyday twist.

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Madeley Meets The Squatters ITV1, 21.00 Today in Britain, it’s estimated there are anything between 20,000 and 50,000 people squatting. They are often portrayed as anti-social, drug-taking freeloaders, who contribute nothing to society. But is that really the case? With a new law having just come into force making squatting a criminal offence, Richard Madeley is on a mission to meet Britain’s squatters, to see what their lives are really like and find out why they squat. He also hears from landlords and even brings them face-to-face with the people occupying their property against their wishes.

Richard travels the country to meet squatters from wide-ranging backgrounds, all with a different story to tell and conflicting views on the morality of how they live. In doing so, he examines how the change in the law will impact on the current situation faced by both squatters and landlords.

Richard visits a former pub in Walthamstow, used as a squat for five years despite being surrounded by local businesses. Nigel Jenkins owns the garage opposite and explains what he has seen in the past:“Nine o’clock in the morning they are drunk out of their skulls.

First thing in the morning we come in…they have used the driveway as toilets.” Despite this he admits: “Everyone sees them as an inconvenience but nobody sees the amount of trouble these people are in. What are you going to do with them? Unless you can re-house them, there’s nothing you can do with them.”

Richard heads to Bristol, where he discovers that local squatters have organised themselves into groups, with their own planning committee that meets each week to help members find new squats to live in. Richard attends one of the meetings to find out more and a squatter explains to him: “I like to think of us as urban wombles, we roam the streets that aren’t being used and we make a use of them. How can you argue the morality of that? We don’t pay rent, no, but at least people aren’t sleeping rough.”

There is a tense atmosphere when Richard introduces Dave Durant to the squatters who have occupied a property he owns in south Bristol. It’s the second time he’s had squatters in his building and with Richard as mediator he confronts the people occupying his building: “I know that the place was locked, you know that the place was locked. I know, that you must have broken into my house.” Squatter Tristan refuses to confirm how he gained access but is keen to respond: “If people are suffering they should be allowed to sleep under a roof, especially if it lies dormant like this one.” He tells Richard: ”I see it as greed. When there are five of us wandering the streets, hungry, needing somewhere to live, when he has multiple properties, I see that as greed. Until you’ve been in our position and suffered like we have, you’re going to find it hard to have a balanced view.”

Richard visits the houses of parliament to meet Mike Weatherley, MP for Hove and the architect behind the new law, which has made squatting in a domestic property a criminal offence. Mike says: “The first thing we want to do is protect people’s homes, they’re just freeloaders, they’re not contributing to society and they are taking what’s not theirs.”

It’s estimated there are nearly a million empty properties in the UK, despite homelessness being on the rise. Richard visits a squat in the heart of the Barbican, a five-storey commercial building worth millions where even the new law is powerless to evict the squatters because it is not a domestic property. Catherine Brogan is one of its inhabitants: “Owners of empty properties destroy their property so that no-one wants to live in it...” It is Catherine’s view that: “The owner isn’t interested in bringing this property back into use. To them I think it’s just a number on a balance sheet. This is a £20million asset to them and why do they want to do anything with it? I think that if you’re going to leave a property empty then we’ve got a responsibility to come in and use it and I feel happy that I’m taking something that’s been laid waste and turning it into a home for up to 20 people who wouldn’t have anywhere else to go otherwise.”

Richard is keen to learn more about the concept of ‘skipping’ from local supermarkets and he joins squatters on an evening visit as they forage for free food in bins. They acknowledge that skipping is breaking the law but claim “We are stealing bread that is destined for landfill. It’s absolutely ridiculous isn’t it, which is why I’m doing it so openly. If the police want to arrest me, I’ll take the charge.”

Richard also meets Dory, who is now in her 50’s and gave up a high-flying career to be a squatter. And Mary, a victim of domestic abuse who was assigned a council flat to escape her situation but on the day she was due to move in, found that a squatter had got there first.

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Thursday Thursday 06:00 ........................... Breakfast

06:00........................... Tikkabilla

06:00 .......................... Daybreak

09:15 .................... Heir Hunters

06:30 .......................... Balamory

08:30 .............................Lorraine

10:00 .................. Homes Under the Hammer

06:50 ............. Charlie and Lola 07:05 .................... Cloudbabies

09:25 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show

11:00 ..............Watchdog Daily

07:15 ......... Everything's Rosie

10:30................... This Morning

11:45..............Cash in the Attic

11:25........................... ITV News

12:15 ................... Bargain Hunt

07:25 .............. Bob the Builder: Project Build It

13:00 ...........BBC News at One

07:35 ...................Chuggington

12:30 ................. Loose Women

13:30 .........BBC London News

07:45 .........................Octonauts

13:45 ..............................Doctors

08:00 .............Tilly and Friends

13:30........................... ITV News and Weather

14:15 ...........................Escape to the Country

08:10 ................Woolly and Tig

14:00 ...................Crime Stories

15:00 ......................... BBC News

08:30 .....................Timmy Time

15:05 ...........School for Stars 2

08:40 .............................Tweenie

15:35 .....Dennis and Gnasher

09:00 ......................... Numtums

15:45....................... The League of Super Evil

09:05 ...............................Abadas

16:00 ....................Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated

09:20 ........ The Rhyme Rocket

11:30 ................... This Morning

10:05 ....... Show Me Show Me

Detective Inspector Jane Preston and Detective Sergeant Ben Shaw are assigned to a case of criminal damage and threatening behaviour after volatile Patrick Johnson vows to kill his brother Nick for stealing his dog.

Nick denies this, but it becomes clear that the brothers are locked in a high stakes dispute. Patrick's wife Molly plays the situation down, claiming the dog has been found safe and well, but the dog has already been found dead.

Why is Molly lying? Starring: Jane Antrobus, Ben Hull, Chandra Ruegg, Alex McSweeney, Charlie Clements, Saira Choudhry

10:35 ........................... Let's Play

15:00 ... Dickinson's Real Deal

10:55 ... I Can Cook on the Go

16:00 ..... Britain's Best Bakery

19:30 ................EastEnders

11:10 ....................Mister Maker Comes to Town

17:00 .........................The Chase

20:00 .... Young Apprentice

11:30 .............BBC World News 12:00 ............The Daily Politics

18:30 ................... ITV News and Weather

13:00 ......................Snooker: UK Championships

19:00 ............... Emmerdale

18:00 ..................Eggheads

20:00 ............... Emmerdale

16:30 ........................ Pet School 17:00 ...................... Newsround 17:15 ............................Pointless 18:00 ........BBC News at Six 18:30 ....BBC London News 19:00 ........... The One Show

Hair Product. The remaining seven candidates battle it out to be crowned Young Apprentice and receive 25,000 pounds to kick start their business ambitions. This week, they must brand a hair styling product, shoot an advert and pitch their ideas to industry professionals. Things get sticky when one team target their product as something to make you stand out, but decide to call it 'Chameleon'. While the other team risk an equally confusing message when one candidate claims their product is, 'tacky... but in a good way'.

21:00 .............. Who Do You Think You Are? Celebrity genealogy series. John Bishop famously changed career from pharmaceuticals sales director to stand-up comedian.

John is surprised to discover that he's not the only person in his family to have made extraordinary career choices. He is astonished when he finds out what his great great grandfather, Charles Bishop, ended up doing.

22:00 ....... BBC News at Ten 22:35 .......... Question Time

08:15 ..............Mike the Knight

09:15 .....................Alphablocks 09:35.............. The Lingo Show 09:45 ........Something Special: We're All Friends

18:00 ........London Tonight

19:30 ...................... Tonight

18:30 ............ Strictly Come Dancing: It Takes Two 19:00 .............. Snooker: UK Championships 20:00 ....... MasterChef: The Professionals 21:00 .....Great Continental Railway Journeys 22:00 ...........Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience Zoo Keeper. Stand-up comedian Rhod Gilbert tries his hand at some proper jobs. This week, he takes on the mantle of zoo keeper at Welsh Mountain Zoo, North Wales. Looking after tigers, sea lions and freaky monkeys, Rhod faces up to the realities of exotic animal care.

20:30 ......Emmerdale at 40 21:00 ......... Madeley Meets the Squatters 22:00 ............... ITV News at Ten and Weather

22:30 ................ Newsnight

22:35 ..............Dirty Britain

23:20 .................... Snooker

23:35 ....... The Late Debate

The Repeat Offenders: Tonight ITV1, 19.30 Recorded crime is at its lowest level for a generation – but, despite that, re-offending rates are at a record high. The latest criminal justice statistics show that nearly half of those convicted of a serious crime in the last year had at least 15 previous convictions or cautions.

All of which means a relatively small number of hard-core criminals are responsible for a higher proportion of crimes than ever. Tonight’s Fiona Foster goes behind bars at Leeds Prison to see for herself the efforts being made to cut the number of repeat offenders.

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Thursday 06:10 ....................Children's TV 07:55 ............Everybody Loves Raymond 08:55 ................................ Frasier 09:55 ......Come Dine with Me 12:30 ............. Channel 4 News 12:35 ....... Kirstie's Handmade Treasures 12:45 ...................The Frogmen 14:40 ......................Countdown 15:30............. 1001 Things You Should Know 16:00 .............. Deal or No Deal 17:00 ......Come Dine with Me 17:30 ......................... Jamie's 15 Minute Meals

Thursday

06:00.................... Children's TV 08:15 ......................... Peppa Pig 08:30 ....Roary the Racing Car 08:45 ...... Bananas in Pyjamas 09:00 ....................... Tickety Toc

23:45 ......... American Dad!

09:00 .................. Hawaii Five-0

10:00 ....... Nothing to Declare

10:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

11:00 ................Passport Patrol

11:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

11:30 ................Passport Patrol

12:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

12:00 ............ Ghost Whisperer

13:00 ..........NCIS: Los Angeles

13:00 ............ Ghost Whisperer

14:00 .................. Hawaii Five-0

14:00 ............... Criminal Minds

15:00.................. Stargate SG-1

15:00 ............... Criminal Minds

16:00....................... Champions League Goals

17:00.......................... Futurama 17:30 ..........................Futurama

16:00 ................................ RSPCA Animal Rescue

18:00 ............Raising Hope

17:00 ....... Nothing to Declare

18:30 ...........The Simpsons

17:30 ....... Nothing to Declare

Amlin Cup Round 3 - Worcester v Perpignan. Worcester Warriors face Perpignan at Sixways Stadium in the third round of the Amlin Challenge Cup. Both teams have taken maximum points from their opening two pool games.

20:00 ................ The Middle

18:00 .. Nothing to Declare

20:30 ......... Modern Family

18:30 .. Nothing to Declare

21:00 ............ Flintoff: From Lord's to the Ring

19:00 .........Criminal Minds

22:00 ....... An Idiot Abroad

20:00 ......... America's Next Top Model

22:00 ......... The Footballer's Football Show

23:00 ............................ Spy

21:00 .................. Ladyboys

23:30 ................... A League of Their Own

22:00 .........Criminal Minds

06:00 ........................ The X Files

06:00 .......................Emmerdale 06:25 ..........Coronation Street 06:55 ..................Life's Funniest Moments 07:20 ....................... The Jeremy Kyle Show US 08:10....................... Judge Judy 08:35 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 10:30 .......................Judge Judy 12:00 .......................Emmerdale 12:30 ..........Coronation Street 13:00....................... Judge Judy 13:30 .The Jeremy Kyle Show 15:40 ....The Real Housewives of New York City 17:30....................... Judge Judy 18:00 ........The Jeremy Kyle Show US 19:00 .You've Been Framed!

Christmas Special 19:30 ..You've Been Framed!

20:00 ......The X Factor USA

13:15 .............Home and Away 13:45 ......................Neighbours 14:15 .................................. Shark 15:15 ........... The Wishing Tree 17:00....................... 5 News at 5

CW

CHO ICE

20:00 ...................... World's Strongest Man 2012

21:00..............Jamie and CW Jimmy's Food CHOICE 21:00 ...... Cowboy Builders Fight Club 22:00 ..............Under Siege 22:00 .................... The Fear

23:00 ............... Family Guy

08:30................... Cougar Town

Nomura Varsity - Oxford v Cambridge. Oxford take on Cambridge at Twickenham in the 2012 Nomura Varsity Match.

Oxford claimed a convincing 2810 victory when the sides crossed paths last year.

19:00 ............ Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railways

22:30 ................ EastEnders

08:00................... Cougar Town

08:00 ............................. Dog the Bounty Hunter

12:15...................... Build a New Life in the Country

19:55 .............. 4thought.tv

22:00 ...................... World's Craziest Fools

07:00 .................................Maury

07:30 ...................... The Middle

13:30...... Varsity Rugby Union

18:30 .......................5 News

21:30 ... Impractical Jokers

07:00 ...................... The Middle

13:00.......... Hyundai A League

19:00 ........Channel 4 News

21:00 ...... Russell Howard's Good News

06:00 ................America's Next Top Model

12:10 ........ 5 News Lunchtime

18:30 .................. Hollyoaks

Another brave bride leaves the most important day of her life in the hands of the man she loves. Fun-loving Essex girl Nikki Bacon gives full control of her wedding to historical-loving Nathan Bones. Having met on a blind date two years ago, their fairytale romance was straight out of the history books. Now Nathan has just three weeks and 拢12,000 to pull off the wedding of a lifetime. Despite coming from the same neighbourhood, this Essex couple couldn't be more different.

06:30 ................................Airline

11:10 ..........The Removal Men

18:00 ....... Home and Away

20:00 ... Don't Tell the Bride

11:30............... Sporting Greats

06:00 ................................Airline

12:00 ....................... Champions League Goals

17:30..................Neighbours

19:00 ................... Top Gear

India v England 3rd Test (Day 2).

Day two of the third test between India and England from Eden Gardens in Kolkata.

December

09:15............. The Wright Stuff

18:00 ........... The Simpsons

20:00 ..................... Kirstie's Vintage Home

06:00 ................................ Cricket

06

06:00 .........................Asian Tour Golf Show 06:30 ...................Thailand Golf Championship 08:30 .......................... European Tour Golf 10:30 ....................Dubai Ladies Masters Golf 13:30 .......................... European Tour Golf 15:30......................... Australian Open Golf 17:30 ........ Hyundai A League 18:00 .................... Ringside 19:00 ...... Barclays Premier League World 19:30 ............... FIFA Futbol Mundial 20:00 ...................... Cricket 22:00 ....... World Wrestling Entertainment Late Night Raw

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17:00 ................................ Cricket 19:00 ....... European Rugby Special

23:30 ............Varsity Rugby Union

07:10.................. Dragons' Den 08:00.................. Dragons' Den 09:00............................ Top Gear 10:00 ............................Top Gear 11:00 ..........................Fifth Gear 11:30...... Red Bull Cliff Diving 12:00........................ Bush Pilots 13:00 ............................Top Gear 14:00 ............................Top Gear 15:00 ..........................Fifth Gear 15:30 ...... Red Bull Cliff Diving 16:00 ......................Man v Food 16:30...................... Man v Food 17:00 ............................Top Gear 19:00 ................ Bush Pilots 20:00 ...............Man v Food 21:00 .......... Not Going Out 21:40 .......... Not Going Out 22:20 ...... Russell Howard's Good News 23:20 .............That Mitchell and Webb Look

07:00 ...... Star Trek: Enterprise 08:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 09:00 .........................................ER 10:00 ........................ The X Files 11:00 ...... Star Trek: Enterprise 12:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 13:00 .........................................ER 14:00................................. House 16:00 .......... Star Trek: Voyager 17:00......................................... ER 18:00 ........................ House 20:00 ...........Urban Secrets 21:00 ...... Richard E Grant's Hotel Secrets 22:00 ........................Falc贸n 23:00 .............. BrandX with Russell Brand 23:30 .............. Flight of the Conchords

09:00................. Jerry Springer

23:00 ........................ Bones

W C C H O IC E Jamie and Jimmy's Food Fight Club Channel 4, 21:00

Jamie Oliver and Jimmy Doherty have been best mates since they were in short trousers, getting up to all sorts of scrapes growing up together in Essex in the 80s. One thing that brought them together was their shared passion for good food. Now they're all grown up, they're opening a little pop-up caff at the end of Southend pier to serve up, and big up, the best of British food.

Over four programmes there will be some tasty cooking from Jamie, a little bit of foodie science from Jimmy, and a lot of laughs with some special friends, including Gwyneth Paltrow, Gary Barlow, Alan Carr and Jonathan Ross.

Neighbours Channel 5, 17:30 Paul berates Andrew for endangering his life by keeping his illness a secret, sending him straight to the hospital for clinical tests.

Paul vows to support his son, taking the bar away from him so he can focus on his health.

Andrew is devastated that his dream has been snatched away. Susan is startled to learn that Karl is searching for a new life partner online.

Chris moves in with Kyle. Starring: Ashleigh Brewer, Stefan Dennis, Kym Valentine, Gemma Pranita, Chris Milligan, Morgan Baker

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SUE MCDONALD Common Sense Furnishings Email: sue.mcdonald@canarianweekly.com

Less is definitely more!

THE above headline is one of those sayings you originally think is meaningless, but it isn’t.

Sometimes, you can have too much of a good thing (although that doesn’t seem to apply to Viña Sol, now I come to think about it!).

But if you take a look at the photos, you can see the point I am trying to make.

In one picture is my beautiful daughter Amber, who is modelling a bag and scarf from Betty’s Bags, in Las Chafiras. And if you haven’t “bagged” a bargain there yet, you should hurry up!

You can see that a touch of co-ordinated colour works well and makes her look, well, fabulous! (Amber’s boots and dog with built-in boots are model’s own).

In the other picture, you can see that overdoing the co-ordination can look dreadful.

Obviously, this article is about furniture, but exactly the same principles apply - a neutral background with a splash of colour looks very well put together and, classy.

It is also one of the simplest looks to achieve, whether you are applying it to your outfit or your living room.

Of course, the difference is that you could be forgiven for wearing a bad outfit because it will last for a day only, but your interior decoration will last a lot longer, so it’s worth giving it a fair bit of thought.

The point is, Amber’s outfit looks co-ordinated and easy

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on the eye, and it doesn’t look as though she has made too much effort. The fact that the dog and the boots match is a bonus!

But if you start adding a jacket in the bright blue, jewellery etc, you just end up looking as though you

have tried too hard, like in the other photo!

It can be expensive if you are buying larger items for your house, so it may be best to do one of two things: either take your time, and see how things look before adding more accent colour one piece at a time, or use an interior designer who will advise you accordingly.

So, accessorise carefully… and you, too, can achieve the look you want.

All items mentioned are available from Deco Nuevo and Betty’s Bags, in the orange-and-green building next to Pit Team (except the dog).

A NEW Which? survey has revealed the most common delivery problems experienced when people order gifts online.

It also demonstrates a lack of awareness among consumers about what to do if things go wrong.

The survey says 80% of us bought Christmas presents online last year, but 8% said their gifts failed to arrive in time for the big day.

Yet the vast majority (88%) ordered on, or well before, the cut-off date for Christmas delivery.

As well as festive shopping, the survey questioned more than 2,000 people about their experience of receiving online goods over the period of a year.

There was a low level of awareness about online delivery rights, with 60% of people not knowing that if a delivery company says it has left the parcel with a neighbour without consent and the neighbour doesn’t have it, you can ask the seller to re-send the order at no extra cost.

Some 30% didn’t know that if you receive a damaged item, you can ask the seller for a refund, or to replace it free of charge - even if you have signed for the delivery.

And 75% had no idea they had seven working days to change their mind about an item, from the day that they received it.

PITFALLS OF DELIVERIES *40% said the item wasn’t delivered when specified *19% complained that a note was left, saying they were out, when they were actually in *15% said their parcel was left with a neighbour without their consent *4% found their parcels had been thrown over a fence or a hedge Other complaints reported to Which? included a new phone being left out in the rain, and a £135 pair of football boots left on a doorstep Which? executive director, Richard Lloyd, said: “With household budgets squeezed, more of us are shopping online to find a bargain. But consumers are in the dark over their delivery rights, and that can leave them struggling to fight back against shoddy service.

“Shoppers can get clued up ahead of the festive season with our Christmas Delivery Rights Guide, but we also want to see more retailers doing more to ensure people get their festive gifts in time.”

Top tips Cancelling your order: You can cancel your online order for goods from the moment you place your order to up to seven working days from the day after you receive it.

Returning goods: If an online shop doesn’t explain who pays to send returned goods back, then it must cough up. But watch out, because some items can’t be returned if you simply change your mind, such as CDs, DVDs or software if you’ve broken the seal on the wrapping, perishable items such as food and flowers, and tailor-made

or personalised goods.

Returning faulty goods: The Sale of Goods Act maintains that items must be “fit for purpose”, as described, and of satisfactory quality. If you have to return an item for one of these reasons, give the retailer a chance to collect it, or ask for the cost of postage back.

Contacting the retailer: The E Commerce Regulations state that online shops have to give full details of who they are, and they must provide a geographical address and an email address at which to contact them.

T&Cs to watch out for: Some online retailers say that the price of your order will be fixed the day the goods are sent to you, rather than the day you order. Most supermarkets do this, so if you’re ordering lots of halfprice goods to be delivered at a later date, bear in mind that the deals might have ended by that time and that you might end up paying more. For more information about shopping rights visit www.which.co.uk/ consumer-rights

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DAVID HUDGELL

Getting to the root of your gardening problems!

Email: David.hudgell@canarianweekly.com

SUTTONS seeds have introduced an innovative range of Grow Pots and Windowsill Propagators.

They are complete growing kits that are designed for use by a beginner as well as an expert gardener; both

A GROWING GIFT

wanting a fast and reliable method of growing tasty vegetables and stunning flowers.

The Suttons Grow Pots are available in 11 varieties and feature firm favourites such as Tomato ‘Alicante’, and Sweet Basil. Stunning flowers include Sweet

Planning ahead Plants are the ideal gift for those that are a little difficult to buy for.

Best of all they don’t need to cost a fortune.

Whether it’s a small holly, a myrtle tree, signifying friendship and love or something more theatrical like a Skimmia with its stunning red berries, they’re a good present.

Marry them with a personalized or pretty plant/container your job is done.

You could even plant up a container with an array of beautiful plants for the recipient, a herb pot with dangling red chillies is ideal.

Other garden gift ideas include:• Adopt a Beehive – supporting vital research into honeybee health and welfare, the British Beekeeping Association

(bbka.org.uk) offers a gift pack with seeds to encourage bees into your garden, plus beeswax candles, honey and newsletters.

• The Eden Project knows a thing or two about horticulture and its website (edenprojectshop.com) is full of gardeners’ delights, from compostable watering cans to allotment kits packed with all you need to grow your own sustainably.

• Jolly Christmas cards from gardening charity Thrive (thrive.org.uk) that improves the lives of the disabled through gardening. www.bur ford.co.uk/gif tcollections has got a variety of garden related gifts and they deliver overseas but you will need to order now!

And of course you could always purchase a voucher for a garden visit.

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Pea ‘Spencer Mixed’ and Sunflower ‘Giant Yellow’. The grow pot is not just a carrier for the included compost, seed, plant label and inner pot but also serves as a propagator once the clear lid is re-attached post sowing.

Suttons have created these Hi David Although I like your gardening page in the Canarian Weekly, I find it very British influenced such as, jobs to do this week “spike the lawn”.

I did talk to my mate Ross about this and he said that you get a lot of people on line reading the paper.

But this is no help to me.

Now on my patio I have plenty of limes on my lime tree but no lemons on my lemon tree both the same age and some of the leaves on both are curled up and have scab like marks on them.

My mint keeps getting eaten. (So no Mojito’s and I have the limes.)

I find little black specs on the floor around my pots in the mornings.

So please could we some info for here please. I NEED HELP.......lol Yours Mr RP

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Patio problems Thank you for your comments, they are most welcome. We do indeed have a number of people who read the paper on-line and visitors who take the newspaper back to the UK. Here in Tenerife you have to bear in mind not everyone lives in an apartment, not everyone that reads the newspaper lives in the south of the island; we try and cater for our wide readership.

In relation to your own individual gardening (patio) problems I would like to offer the following advice:No lemons to squeeze Dark brown/black scabby blotches appearing on leaves and sometimes on fruit is a common problem. It is spread by rain-splash and wind. In the spring the spores

are released into the air and are carried by the wind into trees. You need to prune out all infected branches during the winter and dispose of affected leaves as they fall.

Chemical - Spray at the first sign of symptoms and at fortnightly intervals with a fungicide. It may just be better to buy a new tree that is disease resistant.

Minty mouthful Mint is a fantastic herb to grow in the garden. It is easy to grow and emits a wonderful scent when you brush past it.

It will also thrive in pots; in fact if you have a small garden it is recommended that you grow mint in a pot to prevent it from spreading and taking over the other herbs. It sounds like you have a few caterpillars – the

luminous green variety. You need to handpick caterpillars from plants as you find them.

You may need to patrol your garden at night to find them.

You can dispose of them to another area of the garden or kill them by dropping them into a bucket of soapy water.

You could try and invite more birds onto your patio who will naturally feed on the insects. Alternatively plant some lavender as the tiny green creatures don’t like the aroma.

Black specs The black specs are the calling card left by the caterpillars; once they go the specs will go. Perhaps follow the trail they will be leaving in the day somewhere cool, dark and damp.

Good luck.

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Health & Beauty

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Parkinson’s sufferers get on their Five-star headliners! bikes CARL PATTISON

from Robot, Los Cristianos answers your hair questions

FOLLOWING on from last week’s column on how not to have your hair, this time it’s all about the celebrities who do get things right - and not just one-offs, either.

Here are a few examples of who, I believe, really know how to rock their hair.

They are never seen without a new style or colour, always testing the boundaries of hairdressing with their new looks. And there’s one thing these celebs do: they keep it simple.

Yes, I know our Katie Perry gets out the vibrant colours now and then, but she keeps the styling simple and always looks sophisticated.

Getting your colour right is what Sarah Harding always does, although she once turned her famous blonde hair brown, which wasn’t a good look.

However, she soon returned to her rightful blonde tresses and, whether her hair is short or long, she always seems to look her best.

Dannie Minogue is a stylist’s dream. Her hair is always immaculate, and I have yet to see her styled badly. She never really strays from her brown look and her styling is impeccable.

So now, ask yourself why these girls get it soooo right.

Is it that they have an army of stylists on hand 24-7?

Sometimes, yes, but often it’s the cut these girls have which makes their hair stand out and look its best.

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IT is possible that regular cycling could help ease the symptoms of Parkinson’s disease.

Getting this result for your hair isn’t so difficult, either. Finding the right stylists and having faith in them will ensure that it is always looks good.

Try not to scrimp on your hair maintenance. Okay, don’t go over budget, but investing money in a good cut and colour will improve your look 100%.

I love doing complete image changes because this sort of styling, literally, can turn around someone’s whole outlook on herself.

True, you can buy a new dress or new shoes, but nothing works as well as a good cut and colour, After all, you wear your hair every day, so why shouldn’t it look good all the time?

Forget that “just-walkedout-of-the-salon look” - hav-

ing your hair blowdried every week just so it looks halfdecent.

Forget, too, your hair looking great the day you have it done in the salon and then for six weeks, until your next visit, it looks bad.

Your hair should resemble something decent every day.

The secret is in the cut, and finding the right one for you.

Your hairstyle should rely on the cut and not on half-anhour styling every day.

Stylists should be able to take a look and tell you exactly what’s going to suit you.

Don’t let them be guided by you totally. In my experience, this is when clients DON’T like the final result.

Trust in your stylist’s expertise and training. A good cut should still look good when you return to the salon for another cut.

A bad one? Well, you know the score!

It’s a view held by one scientist, who says: “Cycling is an effective, low-cost therapy for the disease.”

The exercise improves connections between brain regions linked to the disease and boosts patients’ coordination and balance.

Some 120,000 Britons have Parkinson’s, and symptoms include tremors, speech problems and a gradual slowing-down of the body.

As the disease progresses, speech and balance can be affected, and some sufferers become wheelchair-bound.

High-profile patients include Michael J Fox, who was just 30 when diagnosed with the condition, and world heavyweight boxing champ Muhammad Ali, who has had the disease for many years.

Jay Alberts, an American neuro-scientist, began a research programme after noticing improvements in his companion, a Parkinson’s patient, after a long-distance tandem ride.

Dr Alberts, from the Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute, Ohio, said: “The finding came by accident. I was pedalling faster, which forced her to

pedal faster. She showed improvements in her upper extremity function, so we started to look at the possible mechanism behind this improvement.”

The doctor carried out a series of scans on the brains of 26 Parkinson’s patients, who used exercise bikes three times a week for two months.

Some pedalled at their own pace, while others undertook “forced-rate” cycling, in which they were made to pedal faster by motors fitted to their bikes.

The scans revealed that pedalling, particularly vigorous pedalling, boosted connections between brain regions linked to movement.

The study was carried out

at the Cleveland Clinic, and researcher Chintan Shah said: “The results show that forced-rate bicycle exercise is an effective, low-cost therapy for Parkinson’s disease.”

The scientists are now studying how patients fare with exercise bikes in their homes. They also want to see whether other forms of nonweight-bearing exercises, such as swimming and rowing, have similar benefits.

Dr Kieran Breen, the Parkinson’s UK charity’s director of research, said: “While it is too soon to encourage people with Parkinson’s to get on their bikes three times a week, we do know that exercise can be beneficial.”

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VAL SAINSBURY Keeping her finger on the pulse Email: val.sainsbury@canarianweekly.com

Smoking your brains out!

AN addiction to smoking doesn’t just damage the lungs - it also “rots” the brain, according to a new, long-range scientific survey.

Researchers at King’s College London, who studied 8,800 people over the age of 50, discovered that high blood pressure and being overweight also seemed to affect the brain, but to a lesser extent.

Scientists involved said people should be made aware that poor lifestyles could damage the mind as well as the body. Their study was published in the journal Age and Ageing.

The King’s team were investigating links between the likelihood of a heart

attack or stroke, and the state of the brain.

They collected data about the health and lifestyle of a large group of over50s, and brain tests, such as making participants learn new w o r d s , or name as many animals as they could in a minute, were also performed.

They were all tested again after four and then eight years. The results showed that the overall risk of a heart attack or stroke was “significantly associated with cognitive decline” and those at the highest risk showed the greatest decline.

The research team also noted that there was a “consistent association” between smoking and lower scores in the tests.

Researcher Dr Alex Dregan said: “Cognitive decline becomes more common with ageing and, for an increasing number of people, interferes with daily functioning and well-being.

“ We have identified a number of risk-factors which could be associated with accelerated cognitive decline, all of which could be modifiable.”

He added: “We need to make people aware of the need to do some lifestyle changes because of the risk of cognitive decline.”

The researchers admit they do not know how such a decline could affect people going about their daily life. They are also

unsure whether the early drop in brain function could lead to conditions such as dementia. Dr Simon Ridley, from Alzheimer’s Research UK, said: “Research has repeatedly linked smoking and high blood pressure to a greater risk of cognitive decline and dementia, and this study adds further weight to that evidence.

“Cognitive decline as we age can develop into dementia, and unravelling the factors linked to this decline could be crucial for finding ways to prevent the condition. These results underline the importance of

looking after your cardiovascular health from mid-life.”

An Alzheimer’s Society spokesperson said: “We all know smoking, high blood pressure, high cholesterol levels and a high BMI [Body Mass Index] is bad for our heart. This research adds to the huge amount of evidence that also suggests they can be bad for our head as well.

“One in three people over 65 will develop dementia, but there are things people can do to reduce their risk.

“Eating a balanced diet, maintaining a healthy weight, exercising regularly, getting your blood pressure and cholesterol checked and not smoking can all make a difference.”

Why we’re itching to have a good scratch!

WATCHING someone having a good old scratch is likely to make you feel itchy as well.

A paper by the British Journal of Dermatology looked into whether images of others scratching, or ants crawling on skin, automatically made people scratch.

The 30 people studied were asked how they felt looking at these and “non-itch” images - and researchers found that the visual cues did provoke a “scratch response”.

Experts believe the work could genuinely help doctors to understand more about skin disorders.

The participants in the study, overseen by researchers at Liverpool

John Moores University and the University of Manchester, were shown a range of images: insects such as ants and midges on and off the skin, skin conditions or neutral images such as butterflies and healthy skin.

For each picture, people were asked how itchy they felt. The researchers also checked how often they scratched themselves while looking at the images.

And watching another person scratching - rather than seeing the cause of an itch – actually made them feel itchy themselves.

Professor Francis McGlone, a cognitive neuroscientist at John Moores University, who led the study, said: “The results suggest that the desire to scratch is more effectively provoked by viewing others scratching.

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“Our findings may help to improve the efficiency of treatment programmes for people suffering from chronic itch.

“Itch has far more serious psychological consequences than people give it credit for.

“If you have chronic itch, your life is blighted, but if you’re unable to scratch that itch - or if you do scratch it it gets worse and worse.”

A spokeswoman for the British Association of Dermatologists said: “Itching is often the worst symptom for people with skin disorders, and any research into its causes which may lead to new methods of alleviation will be greatly welcomed by millions of skin patients.”

Another recent study used brain scans to demonstrate that the same parts of the

brain are activated when watching someone else scratch, as when someone does it himself.

That team included experts from Hull University, and the

leader, Dr Henning Holle, said: “It was particularly interesting to see that contagious itch is not only elicited by observing someone scratching.

“Simply seeing potentially itchy stimuli, for instance ants crawling on the ground, seems to be enough to induce feelings of itchiness in one’s own body.”

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Food News

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Spain’s comfort food - Garlic Soup

By Betty Cortina (NBC Latino) Latin cooking is filled with dishes that started out as peasant food but have gone on to become classic culinary symbols of who we are and where we come from.

Spain’s garlic soup, sopa de ajo, is one of those dishes.

A few humble ingredients, garlic, paprika, day old bread, and a poached egg - come together deliciously to make a soup that’s hearty in flavour and nourishment, yet light and easy to make.

Considered one of Spain’s ultimate comfort foods, sopa de ajo has long been used to help cure colds. (The peasants may have been peasants but they well understood what even the ancient Greeks, who fed garlic to their athletes before the Olympic Games, knew: that this little white bulb has important medicinal powers.)

So, as the weather turns cold, paving the way for colds and the sniffles, here’s a fastto-make and scrumptious antidote. Remember, the idea is to keep things simple. If you don’t have beef stock, replace it with chicken or vegetable stock.

(In its original form, sopa de ajo was actually made with water!) And while you might be tempted to skip the poached egg, don’t; its runny yolk blends with the broth to make something lusciously silky. Taste it and you’ll be amazed at how just a few ingredients can create something so decadent.

Sopa de ajo (Spanish garlic soup) • 2 Tbsp olive oil • 8 slices day old French bread, sliced 1/2 inch thick • 5 garlic cloves, peeled and sliced very thinly • 8 slices day old crusty bread, sliced 1/2 inch thick • 2 teaspoons smoked, sweet paprika • A small pinch of saffron threads • 4 cups unsalted beef broth • Salt and fresh ground black pepper, to taste • 3 Tbsp white vinegar • 4 poached eggs Method Preheat the oven.

Heat the olive oil in a heavy saucepan over low heat.

Add the bread and cook for about 4 minutes, until lightly browned on both sides.

Remove, place on a baking sheet. Place the sheet in the oven, leaving it there for about 5 to 7 minutes until the bread toasts and gets crunchy. Set aside.

To the saucepan add the sliced garlic, paprika and saffron and a little more olive oil if the pan is looking dry.

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Stir and cook for about 3 minutes until the garlic is tender but not browned.

Add the broth, increase the heat to medium and bring to a boil. Reduce heat slightly and allow to simmer for about 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, poach the eggs. Fill about 3/4 of a large saucepan with water. Add 3 T of white vinegar and large pinch of salt. Bring the water to a boil. Reduce heat to low, allowing the water to simmer slightly, with only a few bubbles coming to the surface.

Crack open the eggs, one by one, and gently drop them

into the simmering water.

Poach for about 2 minutes and 30 seconds to 3 minutes, just en-ough for the whites to coagulate and the yolks to remain runny. Using a slotted spoon, remove the eggs from the water and set aside. Taste the soup and season with salt and pepper. Add 4 of the toasted bread slices to the soup and simmer for 1 more minute. To serve, place each of the poached eggs into a shallow and warmed ceramic bowl. Gently ladle the soup around the egg. Top each soup with the remaining toasted bread slices.

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BEST VALUE SKI DESTINATIONS TripAdvisor® has issued a cost comparison - TripIndex Ski, a chart of key ski destinations in Europe tracked against the British pound.

It’s based on the combined cost of one night’s hotel accommodation, one day’s ski pass, one day’s basic ski hire, a local meal and a bottle of beer.

Topping the list for affordability is Italy’s Mount Etna with a total TripIndex cost of just £98.40, while Bulgaria’s Bansko takes second place with £103.82 and Spain’s Astún ranks third with £109.44.

When it comes to the best value country, Germany takes the lead, laying claim to four destinations in the top ten.

In this year’s TripIndex Ski, two French destinations emerge as the costliest. The most expensive is Meribel with a total TripIndex cost of £354.91, closely followed

by Courcheval which totals £354.06. Both are over three times the cost of Mount Etna (Italy), Bansko (Bulgaria) and Astún (Spain).

There are five Swiss resorts in the top ten of the most expensive resorts in Europe, with St. Moritz the priciest with a TripIndex total of £349.79.

“The TripAdvisor TripIndex Ski helps British travellers to identify which European

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ski resorts deliver the best value for money this season. Skiing is often thought of as an expensive holiday, but TripIndex Ski shows that there are destinations where British travellers don’t have to break the bank,” commented Emma Shaw, TripAdvisor spokesperson.

“The biggest driver of expense is clearly the price of hotels, but with all outlays there are remarkable differences between resorts across Europe.”

Eating sees the biggest price gap, while closest cost is ski hire.

The biggest single expense is clearly the price of hotels, but with all items there are significant cost differences between resorts across Europe.

For a basic meal the most expensive destination for a meal is St Moritz, Switzerland where the average cost of a basic meal is £28.82, compared to £4.52 in Bansko, Bulgaria – that’s over six times that of the cheapest in the list.

Hotel – Meribel, France has the highest hotel cost of £286.29 per night, compared to £55.38 in Astún, Spain.

Bottle of beer – The most expensive destination for a bottle of beer is Saas Fee, Switzerland at £4.45, compared to £1.21 in Ordino Arcalis, Andorra.

Basic ski hire – The most expensive destination for one day’s ski hire is Klosters, Switzerland at £42.07,

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compared to £11.98 in Bansko, Bulgaria.

Ski pass – The most expensive one day’s ski pass is in Zermatt, Switzerland at £50.08, compared to £18.47 in Bansko, Bulgaria - nearly triple the price.

The comparison table looks at 43 popular ski destinations across Europe.

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ON THE ROAD WITH JAV Behind the Wheel

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Mokka’s tough, but it’s missing a touch of class THIS is Vauxhall’s latest offering, the Mokka, which is a small SUV crossover model in the same mould as the popular Nissan Juke and Dacia Duster.

With a raised ride height, plastic bumpers and a prominent bonnet, it features the “tough” looks to suit its off-road image.

It is available with two or four-wheel drive, but is also small enough to park comfortably.

It will be sold with a choice of 1.4-litre turbo-charged petrol or efficient 1.7-litre diesel, while entry-level S models also have the option of a naturally-aspirated 1.6-litre petrol.

There are three other trim levels to choose from, including a well-equipped Tech Line version, which is aimed at company car-buyers looking to keep options to a minimum.

But the Mokka isn’t particularly refined, and it is

also expensive compared with its rivals - from £17,000 - and it isn’t as much fun to drive.

Vauxhall have played it safe when it comes to exterior styling. The tall bonnet and oversized headlights give it decent, on-road presence and all bar entry-level S models get alloy wheels and daytime running lights.

That said, it lacks the distinctive styling of rivals like the quirky Nissan Juke and the more utilitarian Skoda Yeti.

The interior lay-out is similar to the Astra, with a cluttered centre console and sturdy interior plastics. Large wing mirrors and windows provide good visibility, while lots of adjustment to the seat and steering wheel should make it easy to get comfy.

Picking a petrol version of the Mokka might leave you disappointed. The

1.6-litre engine is really underpowered and would struggle up even small inclines, while the quicker, 1.4-litre turbo is noisy at higher revs.

You’d think the engineers would test them out before giving them the okay, but it doesn’t seem so.

However, the 128bhp diesel, expected to be the biggest seller, is a stronger performer without being particularly refined.

Following criticisms of its ride and handling in early

reviews, Vauxhall has tweaked it for UK roads.

Each engine variant now gets its own bespoke suspension set-up and, although it is still firm, improved damping means it no longer thumps over potholes.

The steering is also more weighted, which makes it more responsive. But it still

lacks feel, and the Mokka isn’t as comfortable as the Skoda Yeti or VW Tiguan.

All the engines in the Mokka range have been tried and tested in the Vauxhall Astra and should be trouble-free, as a result. And it comes fitted as standard with plenty of airbags and traction control.

The chassis platform is new, though, so it is untested.

But the brand’s reputation for reliability h a s

improved with recent models, and it finished 13th overall in the 2012 Driver Power survey - up from 29th in 2011.

The materials inside are of a good quality but some areas, like the thin seat cloth, feel as though they will wear over time.

In its favour is plenty of passenger space. There’s easily enough room for five adults, with lots of head and legroom. The boot is one of the biggest in its class, too, at 356 litres with the rear seats in place.

Fold the rear bench flat and that increases to a useful 1,372 litres, putting it ahead of the Nissan Juke, but behind similarly-priced larger rivals like the Nissan Qashqai and Kia Sportage.

The most efficient Mokka, naturally, is the front-wheeldrive diesel, with stop-start.

It is said to return 62.8mpg and emits 120g/km of CO2.

The petrol models are much more expensive to run, with the 1.4-litre turbo emitting 149g/km.

But, as with all new Vauxhalls, the Mokka comes with a 100,000-mile warranty.

Leader of the pack: New CAT will lead the charge for BMW BMW and MINI are planning to blitz the market with up to 20 front-wheel-drive models over the next few years.

All the cars will use the same platforms as the next-generation MINI and the production version of the Concept Active Tourer (CAT).

The CAT is aimed straight at the Mercedes B-Class. It is a five-seater and almost the same size as the Merc.

Importantly, BMW say the CAT is designed so that, despite using the same platform and engines, it won’t steal sales from the all-new MINI, which debuts at the end of 2013.

“We’ve got plans to produce up to 20 new models on

this platform,” confirmed Ian BMW, who’s on the BMW management board. “We’ve

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already got approval on 1012 so far.”

Although the first to arrive

will be the new MINI Hatch, the firm are believed to be planning a range of MINI

derivatives such as the Convertible, Coupe and Clubman models. From BMW’s angle, their offerings are said to include the nextgeneration X1 crossover - a small, convertible sports car that could be called Z2 - and the next-generation 1 Series, which is scheduled for 2017.

The company are easing purists into the switch to front-wheel drive by showing the CAT with a plug-in hybrid powertrain, as seen in the i8 supercar concept.

The 134bhp 1.5-litre threecylinder turbo-charged engine drives the front wheels, while the rears are boosted by a 67bhp electric motor.

The system switches automatically between

petrol power and electric power alone, which gives a range of around 19 miles, or both in tandem, for 200Nm of torque and quick acceleration.

This allows the CAT to sprint from 0-62mph in less than eight seconds and hit a top speed of more than 120mph, while returning at the same time a claimed average of 113mpg - and emitting less than 60g/km of CO2.

Economy is further boosted by the hybrid system getting information from the satnav, switching automatically to the most efficient drive source for the planned route.

The CAT will form the basis of BMW’s first front-wheeldrive car, and a five-seat model will be followed swiftly by a seven-seater.

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Ken can’t put it on the Fritz THERE was a smashing derby at The Palms on Tuesday as the two Tenerife Hammers’ teams locked horns.

The A side were without Penguin, but they didn’t seem to be missing him as they raced into a 5-0 lead. The C team were barely potting three balls, and there was a real chance of a rare whitewash.

Slowly, the C team played themselves back into the match. They nicked a few frames, but even at 6-2 the A team looked home and hosed.

Or were they?

Shaun took the ninth frame to make it 6-3, and when Tony grabbed the 10th it was gameon. Jambo had only to account for Bobby Baker and the A team would be over the line.

Jambo got down to the black and was a strong favourite, with Baker looking at four reds.

Somehow Bobby, the veteran eel-muncher, found his eye and produced the craziest clearance in years.

The A team were stunned, and it all came down to the last rubber. Fritzel has been in good nick since his defeat to Terrace B’s Jean a few weeks ago and he held all the aces

against Ken, who barely had a chance.

The dungeon master kept his cool to sink the black, give the A team bragging rights and three vital points.

It would surely have been title over had they drawn, but as it is, Hammers A are still trailing Gaffers A, who won again. Bar La Caña were swatted away 9-3 to keep Neil’s lads at the summit.

Phoenix Potters are back in third after collecting four points this week. On Monday they fought back from 5-1 down to Toscales A to snatch a point, while it was slightly easier on Tuesday. Terrace A gave them a fright, but they stuck to their guns and edged a 7-5er.

Palms A had one of those nights as they crashed 8-4 at home to Dreamers. Oh, and if you see Tommy, ask him to explain his last-frame defeat.

It was something to behold.

Toscales A followed up their Monday draw with the same result 24 hours later against The Peacocks. And Phoenix Knights got back in the groove at Inn The Pink A. Harry’s lads enjoyed the won-

Match Report

By Geoff Huxtable THE last unbeaten record in the Premier League finally went amidst a flurry of great darts during a double-header at Bar 180 last Friday.

Xtreme Sports Bar, holding a commanding lead at the top of the table, were held to a draw in the first match, and then beaten 5-3 in the second.

Xtreme Sports Bar Target Army The Pub

PREMIER LEAGUE TABLE

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RESULTS Gaffers A Inn The Pink A Palms Bar A Phoenix Potters Tenerife Hammers C Toscales A Inn The Pink A Phoenix Potters LEAGUE TABLE

Table 1 Gaffers A 2 Tenerife Hammers A 3 Phoenix Potters 4 Tenerife Hammers C 5 Palms Bar A 6 Toscales A 7 Phoenix Knights 8 Dreamers Bar 9 Terrace Bar A 10 Inn The Pink A 11 The Peacocks A 12 Terrace Bar B 13 Bar La Cana

9-3 3-9 4-8 7-5 5-7 6-6 8-4 6-6

Bar La Cana Phoenix Knights Dreamers Bar Terrace Bar A Tenerife Hammers A The Peacocks A The Peacocks A Toscales A

P W D L F 15 13 2 0 125 16 13 1 2 124 15 8 5 2 103 16 8 3 5 92 16 8 2 6 102 16 7 3 6 101 15 7 2 6 96 16 6 3 7 94 16 4 5 7 92 16 3 4 9 87 16 3 4 9 83 15 2 3 10 67 16 1 1 14 58

derful spread and the 9-3 win.

Division Two leaders Next Door have finally lost a match! Their unbeaten record went at home against Exiles A, who had a night to remember. They shocked the leaders, whitewashing them in the first set, and it was an

The stand-out result in Division 1 was the Naturals’ 7-1 thrashing of near-rivals Rood. Dennis hit his first 180 for our Belgian friends.

Leaders Palms Sports Bar A almost slipped up, but the trebles leg win gave them a hard-fought victory over Target Titans.

Summerland and Sundowners also won their

Gaffers A Naughty Nautas Ourplace Naturals Ourplace Playboys Palms Sports Bar A Summerland Hopefulls Sundowners

5-3 6-2 1-7

P W 16 14 16 10 14 7 16 5 16 5 16 3 16 2

DIVISION 1

A 55 68 77 100 90 91 84 98 100 105 109 113 134

+- PTS 70 41 56 40 26 29 -8 27 12 26 10 24 12 23 -4 21 -8 17 -18 13 -26 13 -46 9 -76 4

advantage they never looked like squandering. Steve H and Craig pulled it back to 4-2 only for Del to win a couple of frames and then Rob sealed the famous win. The night before, Next Door had accounted for Inn The Pink B 9-3.

The Bluebell are eyeing a

matches in the same, last-leg fashion, while Ourplace Playboys continued their surge up the table as they recorded their seventh consecutive win.

Elsewhere, Ensecan took all the points from Naughty Nautas, and Gaffers A remain fourth after Barracuda Bytes got a virus and crashed!

DIVISION 1 RESULTS

PREMIER LEAGUE RESULTS

Table DIVISION 1 TABLE 1 Xtreme Sports Bar 2 Bar 180 A 3 Cozy Wanderers 4 The Pub 5 Target Army 6 Phoenix Bar 7 La Central

RESULTS

D L 1 1 2 4 1 6 4 7 2 9 4 9 4 10

F 91 74 58 56 58 50 53

A 37 54 54 72 70 78 75

Full Monty A Next Door The Bluebell The Square Treehouse B Next Door Exiles B

5-7 9-3 10 - 2 6-6 4-8 5-7 6-6

Palms Bar B Inn The Pink B Toscales B Picasso's Gaffers B Exiles A Inn The Pink B

LEAGUE TABLE

Table P 1 Next Door 16 2 The Treehouse A 15 3 James Place 14 4 Exiles A 14 5 Inn The Pink B 16 6 The Square 16 7 The Bluebell 15 8 Palms Bar B 16 9 Picasso's 16 10 Exiles B 14 11 Gaffers B 15 12 Full Monty A 15 13 Tenerife Pool Tables 14 14 Treehouse B 15 15 Mountain Rangers 13 16 Toscales B 15 17 Hoppys Bar 2 18 The Wigan Arms 3 19 Jardin Canario 14

W D L F 14 1 1 133 11 1 3 118 10 3 1 101 9 4 1 108 9 3 4 104 8 4 4 115 9 1 5 101 8 2 6 105 7 3 6 90 5 4 5 81 5 1 9 92 4 1 10 77 3 4 7 71 3 2 10 83 3 0 10 54 2 0 13 61 1 1 0 18 0 1 2 11 0 0 14 25

higher position, and the 10-2 win over Toscales B certainly helped their cause. Palms B are also heading north. They won 7-5 at Full Monty, despite being without Sicknote Shai!

Gaffers B inflicted another home defeat on The Treehouse B (8-4) and Steve

A 59 62 67 60 88 77 79 87 102 87 88 103 97 97 102 119 6 25 143

+- PTS 74 43 56 34 34 33 48 31 16 30 38 28 22 28 18 26 -12 24 -6 19 4 16 -26 13 -26 13 -14 11 -48 9 -58 6 12 4 -14 1 -118 0

continued his great form for Picasso’s as they held The Square to a draw.

Finally this week we welcome new boys Hoppys Bar to the league. They start this Tuesday at home to league leaders Next Door. In at the deep end, huh!

Bar 180… Xtremely happy!

The night saw maximums from in-form Justyn, plus Mick - and yet another from Mitch.

Tam and Shammy both hit 180s as Cozy won at home against Target Army, while Grant also hit one for the visitors. But Phoenix Bar’s disappointing season continued with a 7-1 home defeat to The Pub.

Darts League Tables Bar 180 A Cozy Wanderers Phoenix Bar

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renowned as a pool player, but his first 180 tells us that he is not a one-trick pony!

Surely, a man with so much talent ought to support a better football team!

There were drawn matches at La Central B and Amistad 2, a last-gasp win for the Hunters and a local derby success for La Cana over Phoenix Flames.

DIVISION 2 RESULTS 5-3 2-6 7-1 5-3 5-3 5-3 5-3

Barracuda Bytes Vikings Ensecan Rood Bar 180 B Target Titans Marilyns Cozy Warriors

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Table P 1 Palms Sports Bar A 19 2 Ourplace Naturals 19 3 Rood 19 4 Gaffers A 19 5 Ourplace Playboys 18 6 Target Titans 17 7 Scruffy Macs 19 8 Sundowners 18 9 Summerland Hopefulls 18 10 Vikings Ensecan 19 11 Bar 180 B 19 12 Barracuda Bytes 19 13 Cozy Warriors 18 14 Naughty Nautas 18 15 Marilyns 19

Bar 180 C will be breathing a little easier after the latest round of Division 2 matches produced a couple of setbacks for the chasing pack.

Chipeque Pool Bar lost against Amistad 1, while Emerald Lounge could only draw at home to Gaffers B and had to win the trebles to do so.

Gaffers chief, Neil is more

Bar Amistad 2 Bar Plaza Rebels Barracuda Hunters Chipeque Pool Bar Emerald Lounge La Caña Lancers La Central B

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Sporting Gijon B 3 CD Tenerife 2 CD Marino 1 Caudal 3 IT was a shoddy Sunday for the Island’s two major football sides. One lost their proud unbeaten record while the other sacked their proud and capable boss.

Only the chairman knows quite what Willy Barroso has done to deserve the Spanish Archer as manager of Marino.

He did an amazing job and turned the club on its head.

Barroso took Marino into the third tier for the first time in a generation, and the fact his thin squad were able to get eight points is a minor miracle.

They are not set up to survive in this standard, and that is not the fault of the hardworking Barroso.

What was he expected to achieve? In same way that those calls for the head of Nigel Adkins, who has guided Southampton to back-toback promotions, is ridiculous, so is this.

It can be argued that Barroso would have been better advised to have got his side beaten gallantly in the playoffs. He would have still been in the dug-out.

But if you are a success,

Double despair as Barroso pays price

gaffer has an impossible task.

He begins with a trip to improving Leganes this Sunday morning.

CD Tenerife must also bounce back after a disappointing defeat at Sporting B. After 13 matches unbeaten, the loss was due - and was no real

over-achieve and then reality kicks in, you are useless at the job. I wish Willy Barroso all the luck in the world, and I’m sure he will be back sooner rather than later.

New manager Jose Juan Almeida has the job of keeping Marino up, and the former Universidad and Vecindario

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surprise. What was a shock was the manner of the defeat.

I'm not joking, Tenerife battered the hosts.

In a see-saw encounter in which Tenerife twice equalised (Aridane and a rare Moyano goal), it was a match the league leaders should have won late on.

Sporting were running on empty and Tenerife squandered chance after chance.

They had defended poorly all match and, when Guerrero slipped the offside trap in time added on, you just knew he would score.

Maybe this is the kick in the jewels Tenerife needed. We will find out what sort of reality check it was this Sunday.

Manager Alvaro Cevera was furious after the match, saying: “We defended badly, we attacked well, but were sloppy in front of goal.

“It’s something we have to learn from and then get over.

It’s not what I expect from this side. This match should have been won.”

Cevrera has been ruthless already this season, dropping Llornete and Cristo Martin for no apparent reason. And I’d wager he has another surprise up his sleeve for Sunday.

His hand could even be forced. Centre-back Tarantino is a major doubt and Cervera

could drop David Medina into the gap. This would allow a rare start for Yeray, who is chomping at the bit. Victor Bravo did well in a practice match on Wednesday and could even get a shock start.

Sunday’s visitors have been in the news recently as they somehow found a way to survive. Real Oviedo are a good, old-fashioned, traditional name in Spanish football.

They have been there and done it, but recently their fall from grace has made Tenerife’s plight look serene.

They needed a massive fan bail-out to get through No-

vember, and even then the future looked dicey, only for the world’s richest man to buy them!

And it all started as a prank by a radio Dj crank, who called Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim.

The Dj, pretending to be football legend Emilio Butragueño, told him of the club’s plight and begged Slim to buy the club.

After discovering the truth, the billionaire was so taken by the story that he went ahead and purchased them anyway!

Slim is worth just a few dollars more than 86 billion!

So while Oviedo’s longterm future looks bright, they have work to do on the field.

They find themselves in third place but, after a dodgy start, are now going in the right direction. Their home form is mustard, but their easyon-the-eye passing style has made them vulnerable on the road. They have kept only two clean-sheets away from Asturias and, in many ways, this could be the perfect match for Tenerife.

Over the last year they have excelled against the better sides, and with Oviedo keen to play with the ball, there should be lots of space to explore.

A large crowd is assured for the noon kick-off, which is live on Oasis Fm.

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You must speak excellent Spanish with Russian, French or Scandinavian an advantage. Excellent salary potential, unbeatable commissions, continual formation Training and the possibility of promotion. Email your CV with a recent photo to rrhh.clubmelia@melia.com or call 922 869 050 B Funky fashion shows are looking for International girls to model swimwear in the South of Tenerife for an immediate start. Must be presentable, and speak good English with other languages an advantage.

Sales experience essential. Daily work, salary, commissions paid and contracts given. Call José between 11am & 5pm on 606 181 946 Diamond Resorts International are now recruiting sales professionals in Tenerife to expand their existing team to support a fantastic new product launch. High earning potential and incredible career growth opportunities. No experience required as full training will be provided.

Email EU.Recruitment@diamondresorts.com or call 922 712 610

AUCTIONS Flog it @ Tenerife Auction Rooms AUCTIONS ALTERNATE SATURDAYS 10.30am

Buy & Sell Furniture & Household Items & just about everything else.

Make more money selling Save more money buying Cut out the middleman Located at top of Amarilla Golf Road, Chafiras J24. Phone 609 303 634

Collections & Deliveries Available BLINDS

One of the leading resort groups in south of Tenerife are looking for Russian, Moldavian and Bulgarian sales representatives. You must be self motivated and goal oriented. Excellent communication and negotiation skills are required. For interview please send C.V. to info@regencyresorts. com or call Sue on 922 713 070 Monday to Friday.

Softkleen Furniture and Car Care. Upholstery and leather furniture cleaning, sofa’s rugs any soft fabrics, fast dry system, excellent prices. Call for free quote and demo 631 036 043 Aaron or 693 818 599.

CLUBS & SOCIETIES DINERS CLUB – An opportunity to meet and socialise at the Castañuelas, seafront, Los Cristianos. Every Wednesday at 7.30pm. To reserve your place call Nancy on 655 679 033.

Christmas Dinner 12th December

COMPUTERS

Suncare Central are looking for a person to join their team in the Las Americas / Los cristionos area and also a multilingual person for Los Gigantes. No experience necessary as full training will be given. Full contract provided. For this great opportunity call Craig on 651 172 738 A new company are looking for individuals with telephone or sales experience to work in a brokerage in El Camison. A nomina contract and commission will be given. Full training and ongoing support. Full time only, Monday to Thursday 11am to 7pm and Friday 11am to 5pm. Email Luke@newfrontierpartnership.com or call Dean on 661 160 623 A Marketing Company requires Czech, Slovak, Polish, Russian, Romanian and Scandinavian speaking staff. No Experience needed as training will be given. Basic wage plus commission. Hours of work 9.30 to 5pm Monday to Friday. Call Sue on 922 713 070 or email your CV to mail@ destinationtenerife.com

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TELEPHONE: 902 811 069 E-mail: Computer Service Provider

CARS

Cars to Rent Long & Short Term From 270 euros per month including Insurance.

Phone Mags on 600 882 722 or email magsbehan@gmail.com

BT Authorised Dealer Dell Registered Partner

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Web:

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CCTV, wifi, hotspots, networks, ADSL, internet kiosks, till and touch screens, biz support + IT, apple, hosting, repairs, audio/ video, karaoke, free quotes, fully qualified, call Intech 608 186 642 / 922 775 378 / info@intechnetworks.es

CONSTRUCTION

AIR-CONDITIONING

CHIROPODIST Elaine Watson Jones MSSCh MBCHA, serving the community from El Medano to Los Gigantes for 13 years. Telephone 608 029 790

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FINANCIAL SERVICES

LAWYERS

FITNESS Gym open 7 days, Pilates, Yoga, aqua gym, in H10 Gran Tinerfe Casino. Call 663 787 920

FLY SCREENS

MECHANICS

GARDEN FURNITURE

HANDY MAN Handyman Peter for all jobs. Call 922 530 347

HEALTH & BEAUTY www.tenerifehairandbeauty.com DRAINAGE

INSURANCE

PATIO DOORS & WINDOWS

ALUMINIUM & PVC

VISIT OUR SHOWROOM in Granadilla! Call for directions

Tel: 922 778 050 Fax 922 778 051

Mobile 696 889 048

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Specialists in security shutters and blinds, locks security glass and grills.

QUALIFIED FITTERS AND FULL GUARANTEES Free no obligation survey & quotation. We speak English & German!

DRIVING SCHOOL

KITCHENS & BATHROOMS

ELECTRICIAN PERSONAL SERVICES Reana, Travesty, active, passive, good body. www.canarias69.com Whatsap or call 652 124 448 Colin Taylor – Renovations & Maintenance, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Tiling, Plumbing etc. (e.g. complete bathroom & kitchen refurbishments, including all materials & labour from under 2000 euros) Tel 661 081 843 for quotation.

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Emilie, 36 y/o delicious Scandinavian voluptuous little kitten with long blond hair and curves all in the right places. Mature gentlemen more than welcome. Hotels and apartments. Call sweet Emilie 672 529 426

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PERSONAL SERVICES (CONT.)

REMOVALS (CONT.)

SECURITY (CONT.)

Beautiful, blonde young lady from Czech Republic, barbie face, body like top model, very sensual, erotic massage, couples, lesbians, erotic toys, much more.. Available for dinner, parties, hotel visits (24 hours) discreet, luxury apartment in Las Americas. just for exclusive gentlemen, good English spoken.

Tel: 603 134 068 or 672 573 649

I am Patricia, a loving, complacent, fiery Latin girl.

My body is full of fascination so come along & enjoy.

Natural French, kisses, cuddles, massages, you will find me in front of the Hotel Aguamar in Los Cristianos, 24 hour service, call me now on 650 442 665

TILING REPAIRS

Las Americas, blonde, 40 years, sexy, attractive, sympathetic, massage and more. 0034 660 618 331

Tiling Specialist

For All Your Tiling Needs: Bathrooms, Kitchens & Floors Most Aspects of Building Work Undertaken

Transsexual Venezuelan, tall, beautiful and well built, blond, hot, Cristianos, 603 31 76 46

Tel: 679 736 409

Sisi in Los Cristianos, massages, dominant, natural French, toys, complete services, in front of the Hotel Aguamar, call 692 506 973 Nice, sporty, young Spanish lady, certified masseur, toys and naughty lingerie also available. Discreet hotel/home visits.

Reasonable prices. Viagra available. Las Americas – Buzanada.

Tel 634 305 696

PETS Pet Hotel Linde. Short breaks and holiday care for your pet. Pick up and return service. www.pethotellinde.com. Call 922 530 347

PLUMBING Boiler King: All plumbing works undertaken including boiler replacements, drain clearance, swimming pool pump repair & maintenance. Tel: 680 278 579

Colin Peel

TRANSLATION SECOND-HAND SHOPS

Furniture & Household Items bought for cash Immediate decisions

Phone Freddie 609 303 634

TENERIFE TRANSLATION SERVICES

RE-UPHOLSTERY POOL TABLES

Sofas, bar seating dining chairs Free quotations & home visits Call Mike at ReStyle: 677 806 800 SECURITY

Over 20 years experience. Official Translations, Medical, Conveyancing, Notary, Wills, Utilities, Insurances, Building licences Etc.. Transport available if required. Professionalism & Confidentiality guaranteed.

For these and many more call Tracey on 666 857 991 info@tenerifetranslationservices.com

TV AND SATELLITE Menny Fix, Satellite TV Tel 922 792 116 Avnd; Antonio Dominguez 18, Edif: MarOLa Local 2, Los Cristianos. EST 1994, Repairs, Maintenance and Sales.

WINDOWS

REMOVALS UNIVERSAL EXPORTS S.L. PROFESSIONAL REMOVALS TO AND FROM THE U.K. Email: info@removals-tenerife.com Transport Licence: No. 11572932 C.I.F. No. B38820395 Tel: 922 720 711 ALADDINS CAVE. House clearance & removals.

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www.canarianweekly.com British Consulate Address: Plaza Weyler, 8, 1º, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Public opening hours from 1st July 2012: Tuesdays & Fridays: 08.30hrs – 13.30hrs Notarial services: Please consult our webpage or call 902 109 356 or alternatively +34 913 342 194 for further information on how to make an appointment.

Please note, we are no longer able to provide notarial services without prior appointment.

Emergency Assistance: Assistance is available 24hrs a day, 7 days a week by calling us on 902 109 356 or alternatively +34 913 342 194 E-mail: info.consulate@ fco.gov.uk Web:http//:ukinspain.fco. gov.uk British Consul: Maria Leng British Vice-Consul: Helen Keating Cosumer Office Tel: 922 76 16 00 Town Hall Tel: 922 76 16 00 Emergencies Emergency Services (All) Tel: 112 National Police - Tel: 091 Local Police - Tel: 092 Ambulance - Tel: 061 Fire Brigade - Tel: 080 Guardia Civil - Tel: 062 Multi-lingual police central office Tel: 902 102 112 Call this number and ask to speak to an English operator to make a report or official complaint.

Local Police Tel: 922 75 70 06 Red Cross

Emergencies and Ambulances Tel: 922 28 18 00 Information and Blood Bank Tel: 922 28 29 24 International MEDSERVICE Tel: 922 79 05 63 Medical Benefits Agency Tel: (00 44) 191 218 7547 For if you find yourself in medical difficulties whilst on holiday and without the proper holiday insurance.

Pharmacy Information and Locator (24 hours) Tel: 922 28 24 24 Citizen Information Tel: 010 Postal Services Tel: 902 19 71 97 International Operator Tel: 11825 Local Operator Tel: 11818 Tourist Information Tel: 922 60 55 90 Hospitals & Medical Centres (Answering Machine) Tel: 094 Hospital Las Americas, Playa de las Americas Tel: 922 75 00 22 Playa de Las Americas Centro Medicos Del Sur Tel: 922 79 10 00 Candelaria Hospital Tel: 922 60 20 00 Beach Safety Obey the beach warning flags and always supervise children when near water.

Red - Strong currents do not swim Yellow - Strong winds and turbulent sea conditions. Take care.

Green - Safe to swim Shopping Most shops open from

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Mon - Sat 09:00 - 13:00 then 16:00 - 20:00 Some shops may open for just Saturday Morning, and many shops are closed on Sundays and Tourist Offices, Bank Holidays, with the exception of souvenir shops which tend to open 7 days a week.

Tourist Offices Tenerife Sur Tourist Office (Main Tourist Office) Tel: 902 00 31 21 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tel: 922 28 93 94 Santiago de Teide Tel: 922 86 03 48 Costa Adeje Tel: 922 75 06 33 Puerto de la Cruz Tel: 922 38 60 00 El Medano Tel: 922 17 60 02 La Laguna Tel: 922 63 11 94 La Orotava Tel: 922 32 30 41 Las Galletas Tel: 922 73 01 33 Los Cristianos Tel: 922 75 71 37 Los Llanos de Aridane Tel: 922 40 18 99 Playa de las Américas Tel: 922 79 76 68 Playa de las Vistas Tel: 922 78 70 11

Telephone numbers: Flight Information 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) Airport Information Tel: 922 75 90 00 Tourist Information Tel: 922 392 037 TFN - Tenerife Norte airport (Los Rodeos) For all domestic flights and some scheduled international and mainland services.

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Radio Taxis Tel: 922 64 11 12 N.B. Taxi cabs display a special SP (Servico Público) licence plate.

Arona Taxis Tel: 922 74 75 11 National Ferry Services Fred Olsen Tel: 922 62 82 52

Friday Sunny Skies 22 °C. Wind 22mph.

Friday Night Clear skies 18 °C. Wind 22mph.

Saturday Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 21°C. Wind 22mph.

Saturday Night Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 18°C. Wind 22mph.

Sunday Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 19 °C. Wind 21mph.

Sunday Night Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 18°C. Wind 21mph.

Monday Clear skies 19 °C. Wind 19mph.

Monday Night Clear skies 19°C. Wind 19mph.

Tuesday Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 21°C. Wind 17mph.

Tuesday Night Cloudy skies/Chance of rain 19°C. Wind 17mph.

Wednesday Cloudy skies 22°C. Wind 17mph.

Wednesday Night Cloudy skies 19 °C. Wind 17mph.

Transport TFS - Tenerife Sur Airport (Reina Sofia) For flights from the Spanish mainland and nearly all scheduled international flights.

chris.elkington@canarianweekly.com

Buses TITSA is Tenerife´s public bus company.

Tel: 922 53 13 00 The ´Bono-Bus´ discount card can be purchased from all TITSA stations and terminals of TITSA and reduces the cost

of transport by up to 30%.

Weather Outlook

Tour Operators Thomson Tel: 922 79 86 07 TUI Tel: 922 77 77 20 Thomas Cook Tel: 922 757 409 Cosmos Tel: 922 793 802

Managing Editor & Director: Chris Elkington

Flight Information Tel: 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) General Information Tel: 922 635 800

Thursday Cloudy skies 22°C. Wind 17mph.

Thursday Night Cloudy skies 19 °C. Wind 17mph.

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