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Issue 1042 16th February - 22nd February 2018

Spanish turn their backs on PM Rajoy

A MAJORITY of Spanish voters, including many of those who support the governing Popular Party (PP), believe that Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy should hand the leadership to someone else.

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Popular Party’s ‘corruption’ A FORMER senior official at Madrid’s regional government claims that its current premier, Cristina Cifuentes, and a predecessor, are involved in a corruption case affecting the governing Popular Party (PP).

Francisco Granados, once Secretary-General of the PP’s Madrid branch, said that both Cifuentes and Esperanza Aguirre, a veteran PP politician who headed the regional government from 2003 to 2012, played a role in what is alleged to be illegal party-funding by the Madrid PP. The investigation into these parallel accounts

is an offshoot of a larger nationwide corruption probe, code-named Púnica, which has been under way for more than three years.

Granados and business partner David Marjaliza, a constructor and childhood friend, are considered the masterminds behind a bidrigging scheme, which awarded at least 250m euros in public contracts throughout Madrid, Valencia, Murcia and León.

At Monday’s hearing inside Spain’s High Court (the Audiencia Nacional), Granados stated that the PP organised “a parallel support campaign” to help Aguirre

win re-election in 2007 and 2011.

These parallel activities were not bankrolled with official funds, he said. Investigators be-

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Rajoy on his way out?

Continued from front A recent opinion poll, carried out by Metroscopia for El País daily newspaper, shows that 85% of Spaniards feel that Rajoy should let someone else take the reins of the conservative party.

More significantly, though, is that 62% of people who voted for him in the past believe that his time “is over”.

Rajoy took over the PP party 14 years ago, and has run for Spain’s top office five times. The 62-yearold has been in politics for nearly four decades, and is the most veteran of Spain’s political leaders.

He is the only one who remains at the helm of his party because all other groups, and even Spanish institutions such as the Crown, have renewed their leadership.

Rajoy lost the first two general elections to the Socialist Party (PSOE) candidate José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero, and the consecutive defeats triggered an internal rebellion, led by former Madrid regional premier Esperanza Aguirre, who was viewed by many as a potential replacement for Rajoy.

But the dissent was short-lived, thanks to Rajoy’s control over regional party organisations, and despite his own growing differences with his predecessor and one-time mentor, José María Aznar.

Rajoy’s 2011 Election victory dispelled any remaining dissidence, and, for years, his decisions went unquestioned. But the economic crisis gave rise to two protest groups: Podemos, on the left, and Ciudadanos, on the centre-right.

Between them, they began eroding the two-party system, which had been in place for the last 36 years.

The December 2015 election yielded a hung parliament, and there was a repeat vote in June 2016, when the PP managed to form a minority government.

But the economic crisis, and a

string of corruption cases, together with the Catalonia situation, have all made a dent in the Spanish leader’s image.

The next General Election is not scheduled before 2020, and, this time, Rajoy’s personal strategy of victory through resistance may not work, especially as his main rival, the much younger Albert Rivera, of Ciudadanos, is taking as many as 2.2 million voters away from the PP. The recent opinion poll also shows that Ciudadanos would be the most-voted option, were an election to be held today, with 28.3% support from Spanish voters, compared with 21.9% for the PP and 20.1% for the PSOE. The latter party is also starting to feel the pressure from Ciudadanos, whose reform-oriented platform is attracting Socialist voters as well.

The latest survey shows the veteran PSOE losing around 900,000 votes to the upstart party, which has a lead of over eight percentage points. Although PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez has sought to downplay the situation by saying he does not feel any concern about the “league of the right,” the figures are cause for alarm.

This is compounded by the the 17% of people who voted Socialist in 2016, who now say they are undecided, which could make them either stay at home, or switch allegiances on election day.

Meanwhile, the Sánchez hopes of attracting disappointed Podemos voters to his cause are not yielding the desired results.

And while some supporters of the anti-austerity party are turning to the PSOE, this figure hardly makes up for the losses to Ciudadanos.

This could be explained, in part, because just 39% of Socialist voters believe their party has a clear plan for Spain’s future. And among Ciudadanos voters, this figure shoots up to 79%.

lieve that the Madrid PP handled 5m euros in hard-to-track funds during both campaigns.

It is the first time that Aguirre, who has since stepped back from the political frontline, has seen her name dragged into any of the corruption scandals affecting her party.

The other main case, known as Gürtel, is even bigger in scope, but it contains similar elements of bribery, rigged bids and illegal party-funding.

On Monday, Granados said that current Madrid premier Cristina

Cifuentes was part of the “power structure” at the heart of the undercover campaigns, and that she had a “sentimental relationship” with her predecessor, Ignacio González, who was at the top of this power pyramid.

Soon after these statements were revealed, Cifuentes announced that she would take Granados to court for what she described as “a heap of falsehoods”, adding “I don’t care what this man says, he is a criminal.”

Cifuentes was elected to head the regional government in June 2015. Before that, she was part of the regional executive, from 2004 to 2008, and a deputy in the regional assembly until 2012.

Granados added that the opaque funds came mostly from phony advertising contracts for regional agencies, such as the water company Canal de Isabel II, the Madrid Tourism Consortium and the computer and communications company ICM. The genesis of the Púni-

ca case - the name is a reference to Granados, which means pomegranate trees in English, or Punica granatum in its Latin scientific name - is a tax investigation into Marjaliza and Granados’ Swiss bank accounts, the existence of which came to light in December 2013.

More than 90 people have so far been targeted by the Púnica investigation. Granados, who at various times in the past headed the Justice, Transportation and Internal Affairs Departments at the Madrid regional government, is involved in seven of the 16 separate investigations making up the case.

Granados, who was placed in pre-trial custody in October 2014, was released on bail in June of last year. In December, he received a two-year prison sentence in the only Púnica-related trial to have taken place so far.

Meanwhile his former associate, Marjaliza, has been co-operating with prosecutors as part of a plea bargain.

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ADEJE Council has released details of its 2018 budget, the Mayor promising to continue prioritising individual care and attention, as well as the quality of services.

He also pledged a freeze on taxes, as well as a drop in the rates. But he admitted that the national “law of rationalisation” was creating problems for the Council.

Also present at the launch of the budget proposals were Tax Councillor Epifanio Díaz, and Carmen Rosa González, Councillor for Works and Municipal Services.

Adeje has met all budget targets and aims, as outlined by the National Ministry for Finance and Tax, and under the law of rationalisation, as applied to local public administrations.

The Council is, on average, paying providers within 15 days of presenting bills (the national average is 30 days), and is working with a zero deficit.

Under these circumstances, Adeje Council has presented an expansive, ambitious programme for the year ahead.

But Mayor José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga said: “We are restricted from planning to be more ambitious in our borough, due to the national law.

“I am calling it the ‘law of irrationality’, because it’s tying our hands and not allowing us to grow more than 2.3%, even though we finished last year with a surplus of 15 million euros.”

He added: “It is unjust that

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Adeje planning tax freeze, along with a drop in the rates

boroughs which have met all the budgetary conditions laid down, are being hindered. And, furthermore, as a tourist destination, we have to offer increased and improved services and resources.”

This year, Adeje plans to spend 89.5m euros, with an expected income of 93.6m, which is around the same level as in 2017.

Last year’s handling of the public finances saw a continuation of the monetary stability, which means that

Adeje is one of the bettermanaged boroughs.

The Mayor outlined the Council’s four spending areas for the year: consolidate and improve the quality of public services, accounting for 56% of projected costs; attention to social welfare needs and programmes,13% of the projected cost; training and employment programmes at a projected cost of five million euros, along with freezing local taxes and decreasing local

rates, which will benefit more than 60% of Adeje residents.

Regarding employment, Adeje has one of the lowest rates of jobless people in Spain, with just 7% on the dole.

And the Mayor continues to prioritise training and education as vitally important in tackling unemployment, “helping people, regardless of age or personal characteristics, to improve their job-finding prospects”.

This will include language courses, training in IT, etc.

Creating more jobs in tourism is also a priority, and those already employed in the sector will be offered on-going opportunities to improve their professionalism, and, thus, improve the level and quality of the service.

An integral part of the 2018 plan includes social projects, attention to health, diversity, education and culture, also scheduled to receive extra funding.

Projects such as helping children walk safely to school, social-harmony programmes, prevention projects in health services for seniors, as well as improving equality opportunities, are also included.

Adeje Council representatives also mentioned the town’s on-going works, concentrating on improving parking currently, which, said Rodríguez Fraga, “is one of the major problems affecting our residents”.

Additionally, a total of more than 4m euros is earmarked for road surfacing throughout the borough, while improving the quality and extent of the water supply will also receive funding during the year.

Explosion horror Residents’ training offer of for speedboat five AAdejeNUMBER Council departments have updated their training programmes for residents, to better equip them in learning, and accessing the labour market.

FIVE tourists were injured in a terrifying speedboat explosion off Puerto Colon last Saturday, which hurled them into the sea.

No nationalities were released, but the four women and one man, aged between 25 and 45, were rescued by the emergency services, and taken to Hospiten Sur with various injuries.

A spokesman for the emergency control centre said the casualties were rescued from the water, following the explosion.

The flames and thick plumes of black smoke were visible for miles around, as holidaymakers watched from the beaches of nearby Las Americas and Los Cristianos.

The full range of courses on offer can be seen on the Council’s webpage, www. adeje.es.

Courses and workshops range from pastry-making to digital-imaging, sports, IT, volcanic research, legislation, drones, etc.

The majority are free, and some offer professional certification.

To take part, or register, visit Adeje Cultural Centre, Costa Adeje

Tourism Development Centre (CDTCA) or Adeje Escuela de Seguridad y Convivencia (safety and social harmony) to find out more and sign up.

As well as the training courses, the Council offers interesting talks and meetings on a huge range of topics, throughout the year.

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Evil brothers arrested, for human-trafficking TWO brothers have been arrested in Spain for, allegedly, bringing Romanian women to Spain and forcing them into prostitution.

The Sandulache duo are said to have lured women to Spain, promising them work as bartenders. But they beat their victims and drugged them, forcing them to sell their bodies.

The operation was uncovered when one woman became suspicious as she was about to board the plane with Cristian Sandulache and another woman.

She is believed to have slipped a note saying: “I don’t want to travel. They are making me,” to Bucharest passport control, who got in touch with Spanish authorities immediately, to discuss how to proceed.

As there was already an investigation into Romania’s Sandulaches, authorities allowed them to board the plane, and they were met

by Spanish police once they landed.

Hand it to Bomberos

ADEJE’S voluntary Bomberos firefighters, along with the emergency services, were called out on Wednesday at around 8pm to a Torviscas play-park, to help a small, frightened child.

They were needed to free one of the girl’s hands,

The brothers, Sebastian and Cristian, face up to 127 and 115 years in prison for human-trafficking and money-laundering.

The victims’ lawyer, Judith Gomez, has criticised the Prosecution for not bringing rape charges, despite the women describing constant abuse they faced at their hands.

The brothers, based in Oviedo, in Northern Spain’s Asturias, earned up to 10,000 euros per night from their prostitution business.

One night, the pair, alleged-

ly, forced four of their girls to eat 700 euros in notes after they failed to make enough money.

They called henchman Ionut Baciu, and said: “Bring a little water, because it takes a lot to get the bills down the throat.”

While the girls ingested the money, the Sandulaches warned: “If this happens again, next time you eat it in coins.”

But Sebastian and Cristian both claim that the victims are lying, and “simply want compensation money,” after breaking up with them.

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which was stuck inside a ball machine.

Despite being scared, the youngster was extremely patient as the fire crew began to take the machine apart, so they could release her hand successfully.

Local police were standing by to help, if necessary.

Two dead after jail overdoses AN inmate, aged 37, who was serving a sentence in Tenerife Penitentiary Prison, in El Rosario, was found dead in his cell on Tuesday morning - the second prisoner to die there within a week.

Both men were believed to have overdosed on heroin, suggested by sources close to the investigation, and with added information provided.

Rafael Paniza, spokesman for the Association of Prison Officers, mentioned in a statement that the lack of trained personnel there led to poor caring quality within the public service.

He also stated that many incidents have occurred at national level, but, regrettably, more in Tenerife.

Paniza added that, because of the lack of training and absence of special devices, it was difficult to control illegal substances entering the prison.

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NEWS IN BRIEF La Palma hit by quakes

THIRTEEN minor earthquakes were registered between Saturday night and Monday morning, on the south-east side of La Palma.

The quakes were concentrated in same area of the island, and the largest tremor, of 2.6 magnitude, was measured on the Richter scale at around 6pm on Sunday.

Seven quakes came on Saturday, starting at 11.23pm, with magnitudes averaging at 2.3. And, as well as the Sundayevening tremor mentioned, the other one came less than an hour earlier, The island continued to be shaken on Monday, between 8-9.54am, the tremors all averaging 2.4 magnitude.

The quakes all recorded a depth of between 28-30km.

Danes’ drug-factory raid

TWO Danish expatriates, aged 35 and 43, have been held on suspicion of drug-trafficking on the Costa del Sol. The arrests come in the wake of a police probe, after detectives learned of an alleged “drugs factory” in an Alhaurin de la Torre industrial unit.

When investigators swooped on the premises, they unearthed 640kg of the designer drug “critical”, made by mixing hashish pollen with chopped cannabis buds.

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Whiter than white!

LA PALMA was beating to the rhythm on Monday morning, in preparation for the Carnival of Los Indianos, which began in the afternoon.

And thousands of people, already on the streets of the capital, Santa Cruz de la Palma, were later heading for their final destination,

the Plaza de la Habana, after following La Negra Tomasa through the streets.

They were armed with talcum powder, along with anything lace and linen, as well as good humour.

The Carnival party began from Avenida de los Indianos, where thousands of kilos of talc were thrown over every participant and spectator.

The fiesta, which continued through the streets, carried

on until first light on Carnival Tuesday, when the party came to a close.

It is the island’s most popular Carnival event, and it stems from the La Palma emigrants, known as Indianos (Indians), who returned from America with great wealth.

This parody, which has become a local tradition, involves people wearing white, and throwing talc on just about everyone.

Driver stuns police with minus 70 licence points

AN elderly woman, hit by a six-metre-long advertising sign in Andalucia, has suffered serious head injuries.

The 79-year-old was struck by the huge signage, which had broken away from its fixings in Sevilla.

Firefighters, Local Police and paramedics found the fallen woman in a semi-conscious state, with a severe head injury.

She was transferred to the traumatology unit at the Virgen del Rocío Hospital, where she was described as being in a “very serious” condition.

Police are now investigating why the sign, which took several people to move, became detached from its support.

Neighbours’ bloody bust-up

SEVERAL calls to Lanzarote’s National Police were made by anxious residents in an Arrecife apartment block last Saturday, fearing the worst for a neighbour, who had sustained a brutal attack.

The incident happened at around 11pm, on the second floor of the block, sparked by a heated discussion between neighbours. It led to one of them being left on the floor in a pool of blood, with severe head injuries.

The ambulance arrived in time to transfer the victim to the nearest hospital, where he had emergency surgery.

Police have detained his attacker for questioning.

A DRIVER has had his car seized in southern Spain after testing positive for alcohol … when he already had minus 70 penalty points on his licence.

The astonishing total was racked up through “numerous infractions”,

said police, who were shocked when they found out.

His latest mishap came after police received several calls about a car changing lanes dangerously, in the La Macarena neighbourhood of Andalucian capital Sevilla.

Officers tracked him down to a nearby square, where they breathalysed him, before running his details

through their database.

It was only then that they realised how many points he had accumulated.

An official thanked those who had reported his dangerous driving, because he was, apparently, about to set off for an hour’s drive to his home town of Almonte, in Huelva.

The maximum number of penalty points permitted on a Spanish licence is 12.

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Bluetooth traffic-lights ARONA Council is preparing to install 24 new, acoustic, traffic-light crossings for people with disabilities.

The crossings have been designed specifically for the blind and partially-sighted people, and the traffic lights will be operated with a “pasblue” system.

This works by activating a push-

button on a remote or mobile, enabling the lights to be activated via bluetooth.

Arona will be one one of the first municipalities to put into practice these acoustic crossings.

Initially, they will be placed in Las Galletas and Los Cristianos, because of the volume of traffic in these busy towns.

The project’s budget is 15,120 euros, and the first phase should be completed in three months.

Men battered each other in nightclub

TWO men were arrested by police, following their vicious, nightclub brawl in Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas.

One of them, a 27-year-old Columbian with a history of crime, has charges pending for GBH. He has also had an “exit order” to leave Spain, since 2012.

Witnesses said the men started fighting after a heated discussion,

and two undercover cops, on arrival, found one with his head bleeding heavily, from injuries sustained.

An ambulance took him to hospital, where he had 30 stitches to his head and face for deep lacerations.

The police, unable to find the other person involved, eventually saw him wandering around Las Palmas port, covered in blood.

He was taken to hospital, and had treatment for a fractured finger and broken hand tendons.

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No wonder drug-traffickers simply love this ‘Gateway to Gibraltar’ LA LÍNEA’S Mayor, Juan Franco, displayed a combination of weariness, anger and sadness when he pointed out: “There had to be a gutter somewhere, and it looks like they chose us.”

It wasn’t difficult to sum up his mood after three events, which made headlines in under 24 hours.

Firstly, 20 masked individuals stormed the ER at the local hospital and “rescued” a drug-trafficker, who had been taken there by the police following a car chase.

The second incident occurred at 8am the next day, when 10 people were arrested, but not before assaulting the police officers, who had caught them unloading a hashish shipment.

Also, the same day, two Guardia Civil officers were injured after a four-wheeldrive vehicle, used by a drug gang, slammed into their patrol car, deliberately.

Mayor Franco, a member of the local political party, refuses to describe La Línea (the Gateway to Gibraltar) as a lawless town. But Francisco Mena, a co-ordinator at Nexos, an umbrella group for antidrug associations, puts it clearly.

“The principle of authority has already been lost,” he said.

“And this simply confirms it. It is, simultaneously, a scandal and a source of shame. So what’s next, attacking the police precinct?”

La Línea has long been a perfect breeding ground for drug-trafficking, because it borders Gibraltar. Morocco is just across the Strait, and the unemployment rate is 33%, in a city of 63,278 people.

Until recently, however, the principle of authority had been respected: in a constant cat-and mouse game, traffickers always

We’re in the gutter, says much-worried Mayor of La Línea

admitted defeat if they were caught red-handed, dropping their haul and fleeing the scene.

But things started to change last April, when a mob of around 100 people hurled sticks and stones at police officers, who were attempting to stop a hashish delivery at El Tonelero beach.

That was not the first time it had happened, but, since then, drug gangs have, routinely, used this and other methods to fight lawenforcement.

In annual reports, dating back to 2015, the counternarcotics attorney’s office in Cádiz has been warning about a worrisome rise in violence by these gangs.

One of the methods involves driving several, stolen, fourwheel drive vehicles to transport the drug, using one of them, specifically, to ram into any patrol cars which might come their way.

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Equipment seized during successful raids includes a growing number of weapons, and an increased willingness by gang members to use them.

Against this backdrop, around 5,000 local residents staged a public protest after an on-duty policeman died on 8th June last year.

He had been chasing a tobacco-smuggler, who caused an accident that resulted in the officer’s death.

With residents, unions and civil society groups demanding action, the Spanish Government has appeared to take notice.

Around 150 officers from the Guardia Civil and National Police were sent to the area.

As Interior Minister Juan Ignacio Zoido explained, when he was forced to make a statement about the hospital raid on Wednesday of last week, calling it “an exceptional case”.

But Mena said: “He forgot

to mention that all those reinforcements left when the Catalonia trouble began.”

The tension subsided, simmering under the surface, until early this January, but the aggressive attitude is now back “and growing”, as the Mayor admits.

The issue has taken on political overtones. Minister Zoido, of the Popular Party (PP), noted that “the Guardia Civil seized 202 tons of hashish over the last year, 20% more than the previous year”. But Andalusian premier Susana Díaz, of the Socialist Party, responded, saying that “drug traffickers have free rein” in the area known as Campo de Gibraltar.

The police are still looking for the drug-trafficker, who was carried off from the hospital, and the masked men who helped him get away.

Their gang, Los Castañitas, is known to local officers because it controls much of the hash that comes in across the Strait of Gibraltar, and because of its aggressive methods.

Antonio Sanz, the Government delegate in Andalusia, is asking its leaders there to create a “Special Commissioner” in La Línea, to deal with this issue.

The central government representative said that 80% of responsibility over the problems affecting the area, falls to regional authorities. That’s because of the system of devolved

powers, in fields such as education, employment, training, housing, transportation and communications.

But Mena feels that this political confrontation is sterile. “They need to stop fighting and start working together,” he stressed. “And it is up to the Central Government to make the first moves.”

Mayor Franco added: “Lawenforcement agencies are doing an incredible job, and I really appreciate it. But it’s not enough. We need more resources.”

Police unions agree, and are asking for specialised units and more equipment, including four-wheel drive vehicles of their own.

Mena also wants to see courts specialising in drug crimes, and a ban on “narcoboats”, which are state-ofthe-art speedboats with several outboard motors attached to them.

He added: “In short, what is needed is powerful action that will restore respect for the authorities.”

In the meantime, few people in La Línea would deny that social harmony is being eroded. After the hospital incident, the Mayor is afraid that citizens, who, until now, have largely been left alone by the drug gangs, might also be at risk.

There is another, lessobvious risk, said Mena: “When you project this kind of image, what doctor or police officer is going to want to come work here?”

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Santa Cruz Carnival Tenerife’s capital city has been welcoming people to its annual spectacle over the past week.

The thrills and excitement of the main parade, featuring all kinds of weird and wonderful floats, took place on Tuesday, and spectators joined in the celebrations of the most colourful and crazy, open-air party in the Canary Islands.

This Saturday is regarded as being a Family-Friendly day, when daytime festivities are the norm.

Friends, children and families stream by in their finest costumes, and, in the broad light of day, people of all ages and origins share the streets, seeking enjoyment, wherever they can find it.

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Kindly Rubén is the apple of mum’s eye!

FOR many Spanish children, making their First Communion is as special as a birthday, with smart uniforms for the boys, pretty dresses for the girls, and a party after the church service. And presents... lots and lots of them!

But nine-year-old Rubén, from La Pobla de Vallbona in Valencia, decided to forgo the gifts. Instead, he asked his guests for donations, so he could put them towards a shelter in India, run by the Catholic not-for-profit group Manos Unidos (Hands United).

Anmazingly, Rubén received 7,075 euros from family and friends, all of which he gave to the charitable organisation.

The funds will be used to install solar panels on a house in Guwahati, which is home to 60 girls, aged 4-18.

The idea came from his mother, Amparo García, who runs a veterinary surgery, “I’m anti-consumerism,” she said. “I don’t like giving presents just for the sake of it, collecting things until they end up as landfill. One day, we are going to be eaten up by all of our trash.”

Amparo believes that when children receive so many toys and presents, they stop valuing them.

“If it breaks, they don’t care, because they will get another,” she argues.

Also, she didn’t want her son to think that his First

Communion was about getting presents, rather than an “encounter with Jesus”.

Last summer, Rubén handwrote a letter, which his mum later shared, via WhatsApp with her invitees: “Thanks to God, I have everything I need, so I thought that if you would like to give me a present on this day, it would be more useful for you to make an anonymous donation to a Manos Unidos project that I am collaborating

with.”

The message was sent to the guests, along with a copy of the leaflet, explaining the work of Manos Unidas and its initiative in Guwahati, a city of one million people close to the border of Bhutan and Bangladesh.

The centre, looked after,

Salesian nuns, provides shelter for girls who have been sleeping on the streets, and, in many cases, have been abused and exploited.

Amparo says that with the exception of three guests, who had an “older mentality”, everyone invited agreed to exchange presents for donations. Afterwards, she and her son took the money to a delegation from Manos Unidas, which has a centre in Valencia.

One of the gifts Rubén received was a traditional watch, which his mother insisted on giving him, while another one was a backpack.

No one considered giving Rubén video games, because his strict mother has made it clear that these “little machines” are not allowed in their house.

While things are going well for them today, Ampora says they come from a family who “did not beg on the street, but were humble”.

As a child, she ate little meat but a lot of potatoes, as well as eggs from chickens they raised themselves.

And before she had turned 16, she was already gathering oranges and helping with the onion harvest.

Rubén is happy to have donated the equivalent of hundreds of presents, but he is not considering a visit to the shelter, despite being its generous benefactor.

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Violent woman stole from homeless men

NATIONAL Police have arrested a 49-year-old woman, involved in violent robberies in Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas.

The woman is on record as having clashed with the law at least 21 times. And current investigations began after a couple of reports featured similar characteristics to previous robberies.

Firstly, a homeless man,

attacked while sleeping on a bench, said a woman approached him, hit him on the head and stole his bag, holding all his personal possessions.

A couple of days later, the police received another report of a violent attack, in which a man was robbed of his wallet, containing 475 euros, as he slept in the doorway of a bank.

The police soon found the woman, arrested and charged her, and she is undergoing court procedures.

A GERMAN with a serious health problem, on a hiking trip in La Palma, was rescued on Wednesday by a helicopter crew.

A call was made at around 1.20pm to the Canarian Emergency Services, requesting assistance for

the 60-year-old. When the ambulance crew finally reached the man they assessed his situation, in the deep Las Augustias ravine in El Pas, and decided a helicopter rescue was inevitable.

The man was eventually lifted out and transferred to the nearest hospital for treatment.

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Cabbie accused of theft

A TAXI driver has been arrested by police, alleged to have stolen 2,000 euros from passengers arriving in Spain.

It is claimed that he took a vanity case from a luggage trolley at the MalagaCosta del Sol airport, while tourists from Paris were distracted, loading luggage into another taxi at the “arrivals” area.

National Police officers arrested the 33-yearold cabbie in Malaga, but though the tourists’ documents were recovered, the cops found only 500 euros in cash on him.

Expats facing a ban from voting in referendum

LEGISLATION to enable British expats in Spain and other countries to vote in UK elections might not include referendums.

The Overseas Electors Bill is set for a second reading in the House of Commons next Friday (23rd Feb).

But expats would not be guaranteed a vote, should there be another referendum on Brexit.

A spokesperson for the UK Foreign Office said: “There isn’t a rule for who can vote in a referendum. When a national one is announced, Parliament will decide who can vote in it, as part of the legislation on that particular issue.”

Some 17,410,742 Brits voted to leave the EU in June 2016, compared with the 16,141,241 who opted to remain.

Around 800,000 expats, believed to be living in Europe, were prevented from voting, although the figure might have been much higher.

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Painting ‘too sexy’ to hang in church

A PAINTING, depicting the Apostle Santiago, was covered up by the pastor of a Membrilla church, because it was said to have been “too sexy and erotic”.

The portrait, donated to a Castilla-La Mancha church in Spain’s autonomous community by renowned Membrillan artist Antonio Ximenez Muñoz, portrays the Apostle, wearing a knee-length tunic.

Spanish media said the painter, who visited his hometown last summer, was shocked to see that his work was no longer present in the Sacristy, where a priest prepares for a service, and where vestments and articles of worship are kept.

It had, reportedly, been

covered and out of sight “for years”, after being considered too erotic by the church’s current pastor.

Now, 87-year-old Ximenez, who lives in Miami, has given the pastor an ultimatum: “Display the painting again, or return it.”

Spanish media have also reported that an author, who is compiling Ximenez’s biography, moved to Membrilla recently, and asked to see the painting.

But he was turned away.

Ximenez, who has enjoyed a long, successful career, has had work exhibited alongside Antoni Tapies and Picasso.

It has also been displayed in prestigious galleries across the world, including Rome, Florence and Milan.

Hotel owner facing corruption charges

LUI Riu Güell, who owns one of the largest hotel chains in Europe in his RIU Hotels company, has been arrested in Miami after being accused of corruption there.

RIU Hotels conducts a huge volume of business in the Canary Islands, especially

in South Gran Canaria and South Tenerife.

The hotelier, from Mallorca, turned himself in on Monday to police in Miami, where he is accused of offering free holidays in his luxury hotels to former construction bosses there, in exchange for them turning a blind eye to the renovation of hotels in the South Beach area.

The Riu chain has a total of 17 hotels in the Canary

Islands: Gran Canaria has eight, Fuerteventura and Tenerife four apiece, and Lanzarote one.

A Riu Hotels & Resorts spokesperson insists that Luis Riu and Regional Vice-President Alejandro Sanchez, also accused, are “absolutely innocent of the charges against them”, and hope they trust that the US judicial system will find the accusations untrue.

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Room for a little ‘un?

WHEN police stopped a dangerously- overloaded car in southern Spain, they couldn’t believe what they found in the back of the vehicle.

Local Police officers in Murcia had pulled the driver of the “unstable” car over, but they were so shocked when they looked inside, that, in a post on their Twitter account, they wrote: “Seeing is believing!”

What they spotted was a

litt l e girl, fast asleep on the back seat of the Volkswagen Passat, jammed in amongst all the luggage.

T h e parents a g e d 33 and 36, also travelled in the vehicle.

It’s the second time in r e c e n t weeks that S p a n i s h police have stopped a vehicle for carrying an unsafe load. On the other occasion, the driver had wooden pallets stacked high on his roof.

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It’s a great weight for them to carry around

A NEW study on obesity has pinpointed Andalucia as the fattest region in Spain, citing more than 47% of nationals, from 18-64, as being overweight or obese.

Some 20% of boys, aged 15-18, are above the average weight, while the number of overweight girls has doubled since 1996.

Andalucia, Asturias and Galicia have the highest obesity levels, while the

Balearic Islands, Catalunya and the Basque Country are among the lowest.

The figures, published last week, were supplied by the General Directorate of Public Health.

Nutritionist Miguel Angel Royo said: “All people have an individual responsibility. But, in our society, the ability to choose a healthy diet at an affordable price is complicated.”

Poor exercise and diets, plus too much meat and a lack of fruit-and-veg, were cited as fuelling the obesity problem.

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Franco’s grandson speeds into prison THE eldest grandson of late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco has been sentenced to 30 months in jail for ramming a Guardia Civil car deliberately, following a high-speed chase.

A court in Teruel, a province of Aragon, in north-eastern Spain, sentenced Francisco Franco Martinez-Bordiu, 63, to 18 months for aggravated assault, plus 12 more months for dangerous driving.

He will also have to pay 1,500 euros to one agent, who was injured, and 2,720 euros to the Guardia Civil police force for their damaged vehicle.

According to a complaint lodged by an officer involved in the car chase, he and a colleague spotted MartinezBordiu driving near Calamocha, in the Teruel province, in the dark, without any lights.

When they signalled for him to stop, he picked up speed instead and jumped several stop signs, before ramming a patrol car and running it off the road.

Martinez-Bordiu, one of seven children by Franco’s only daughter, Maria del Carmen Franco Polo, who died in December, denied driving that vehicle when he appeared in court in 2014.

His lawyer told reporters that Martinez-Bordiu had loaned his car that day to a former Romanian employee, who,

Riot-gear kids cause a storm A CARNIVAL float in Catalonia has sparked controversy, because it depicts a dozen children as baton-wielding police in riot gear.

“probably”, no longer lived in Spain.

It was the latest in a series

of brushes with the law, experienced by the heirs of Franco, the dictator who ruled Spain with an iron fist from 1939 until his death, in 1975.

Martinez-Bordiu, who published a book about his grandfather, was charged in 2009 with assaulting a railway employee at a railway station in Zaragoza, northern Spain, after missing his train.

He was acquitted after the employee, who accused him of striking her, failed to show up at his trial.

His younger brother, Jaime Martinez-Bordiu, was given a one-year suspended sentence in 2009 for beating his then girlfriend at a hotel on the Costa del Sol.

It was styled on the much-mocked cruise ship, carrying National Police and Guardia Civil officers, who were deployed to Catalonia during the illegal referendum, which erupted into violent clashes last October.

The float, which also carried the independence flag, was paraded in the municipal town of Torrelles de Llobregat, drawing cheers from many onlookers, as it rolled through the streets.

But Catalan antiindependence group Societat Civil Catalana denounced it as being “unbelievable”, while others complained that secessionists were “using” children for political purposes.

Pro-independence Catalans, however, shrugged off complaints, accusing critics of hypocrisy, at a time when antisecessionist parodies are proliferating elsewhere in Spain.

Meanwhile, in La Palma, a couple celebrated their carnival by having sex in the gutter, which was videoed and went viral!

And Germany’s carnival is over, after festivities and parades in several cities, and hundreds of thousands celebrating the Rose Monday parades in the Rhineland.

In Düsseldorf, several political leaders were mocked, and a lot of attention was paid to Germany’s latest coalition partners, Angela Merkel and Martin Schulz.

Merkel was portrayed as a giant, black-widow spider, with the skulls of her political victims by her feet.

Unfortunately for her, though, Schulz quit as Social Democrat leader this week, which could jeopardise the new coalition.

‘Pervy’ picture man’s lies lured youngsters A PROFESSIONAL photographer has been held by La Orotava’s Guardia Civil for, allegedly, taking advantage of his profession to sexually-abuse minors.

He was said to have approached the youngsters through social networks, promising them a career in modelling or acting.

The snapper took sexual pictures of them, which enabled him to touch his victims phys-

ically, with sexual acts very much in mind.

Another trait he used to lure the impressionable kids was to offer free photo sessions for their friends, so he could extend his port-

folio as a sexual predator.

When the accused was finally arrested, Guardia Civil officers issued a warrant to enter and search his home, where they found a large number of photos and archives, some relevant to existing cases.

Pictures of minors, aged 11-17, who appeared on the images seized by the Guardia, were of a highly-sexual content.

The man is well-known

on the island within his profession, specialising in model/fashion photography.

His minors’ photoshoots took place on secluded beaches in the North, or hotel rooms in Puerto de la Cruz To date, Guardia officials have identified 13 victims, all male, whose family or guardians made official reports and statements, which led to the man’s arrest.

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Car limit on over-run island is on the cards

THE Balearic Islands Government has proposed a limit on the number of cars on Formentera, to cope with the tourism surge there.

The draft bill will limit the cars in circulation, and cap the number of rental cars and motorbikes.

Formentera is the smallest island in the group, which means the 50,000 vehicles there stretch its road infrastructure network to the limit. Instead, it is promot-

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ing electric cars as a green alternative.

The traffic congestion is worsened by the 1,295 vehicles arriving each day on ferries from nearby island Ibiza, and the port city of Dénia, on the coast of mainland Spain.

Councillor Marc Pons describes the initiative as a “pioneering measure for Spain and Europe”, but he stresses that it will not be extended to other islands.

If approved, it will take effect at the end of this year, or the beginning of 2019.

That’s what you call a snowfall...

AN enormous wall of snow, measuring seven metres high, and being cleared by workers in the north of Spain, has gone viral on the internet.

The extraordinary video, attracting thousands of views, was shot at San Isidro, in the Asturias, and the workers and machinery are dwarfed by mountains of snow ahead of them.

The region was particularly affected by the last snowfall, but most roads have now reopened.

Moroccan trio had more than cereals!

NATIONAL Police arrested three Moroccan men, who were behaving suspiciously by circulating a Santa Cruz area in a car for no apparent reason.

They stopped the vehicle to ask for an explanation, and, while it was stationary, they searched inside and found a hidden sports bag with a box of cereals, containing nearly a kilo of Crystal (MDMA), along with mobile telephones and 490 euros in cash.

The cops asked each occupant for ID, and it soon became apparent that one of them had nothing to prove who he was.

Police suspicions were aroused, and they suspected that he’d had previous issues with residency documentation for Spain.

All three, aged between 2741, were arrested, and the authorities made an order for immediate imprisonment, while court prceedings were being processed.

THE European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Spain to pay convicted ETA terrorists Martin Sarasola Yarzábal and Igor Portu Juanenea, 20,000 euros and 30,000 euros, respectively, for “inhuman and degrading treatment”.

The order, which following their arrest by the Guardia Civil in 2008, was issued, despite the Court rejecting, specifically, the description of the actions as “torture”, confirmed an ECHR spokeswoman.

Yet three justices of the court, Keller (Switzerland), Pastor Vilanova (Andorra) and Serghides (Cyprus), expressed a dissenting, minority opinion that the mistreatment suffered by the pair could be described as torture.

Sarasola and Portu, arrested by Guardia Civil officers in January 2008 in Mondragón (Basque Country), in connection with the

bombing in December 2006 of Terminal 4 of Madrid Barajas airport, alleged they had been beaten in separate vehicles on the way to the police station.

The court concluded that there had been a violation of Article 3 of the European Human Rights Act, which states that “No one shall be subjected to torture, or to inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment”.

The ruling, available in French only, says the lack of long-term harm to the men, and the lack of any proof about the reason for their mistreatment, means “it cannot be classified as torture. Yet it was sufficiently grave enough to be considered inhuman and degrading treatment”.

An accompanying press statement read: “Consequently, the Court found it sufficiently established that the injuries were described in the certificates produced by the applicants, the existence of which had not been denied either by the Supreme Court or by the Government.

“The Court found, in particular, that the injuries described in the

certificates presented by Mr Portu Juanenea and Mr Sarasola Yarzabal had been caused while they were in the hands of the Guardia Civil”.

The ECHR also criticised Spain’s Supreme Court, which considered the case on appeal in 2011, for not investigating details of the allegations properly.

“Regardless of this discrepancy, between the judgement of the Supreme Court and that of the Audiencia Provincial,” read the ECHR press statement, “it was clear to the [ECHR] that the former had merely dismissed the applicants’ version without determining the origin of the injuries sustained, as established by the medical reports, in the light of their arrest and detention by officers of the Guardia Civil”.

Sarasola and Portu were each sentenced to more than 1,000 years in jail in 2010, for their role in the bombing at Madrid Barajas airport in December 2006, along with a third man, Mikel San Sebastián.

Sarasola and Portu are currently imprisoned in Cordoba and Jaén (Andalusia) respectively.

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Call to ban kids from bullfights

A UNITED Nations committee has urged Spain to ban under18s from attending bullfights, or bullfighting schools.

The Rights of the Child committee says children need to be protected from “harmful effects” of the socalled sport.

One committee member said bullfighting constituted a form of “extreme violence”, from which chil-

dren needed protection.

The panel of independent experts, which monitors minors, said it was concerned about the impact bullfighting could have on youngsters.

Members also told a Spanish delegation that they were anxious about the level of violence in their country’s 55 bullfighting schools.

The delegation was asked whether the Spanish Government had considered banning children from bullfighting schools, and

from bullfighting events.

Spanish delegates told the committee that each bullfighting school, and autonomous government, had its own rules governing bullfighting.

The UN committee said its concluding report: “In order to prevent the harmful effects of bullfighting on children, the committee recommends that the state party prohibits the participation of children under 18 years of age, as bullfighters and as spectators, in these events.”

Burning problem for under-fire Bomberos

MALAGA firefighters have been forbidden from using potentially lifesaving equipment… because they paid for it out of their own pockets.

The instruction was issued after five Bomberos, lacking the equipment, bought their own protective legwear, or “zahones”, which protect their thighs when operating chainsaws.

But Malaga’s Real Bomberos bosses issued a statement, saying equipment had to be supplied by official sources.

It read: “The use of any

equipment considered as Individual Protection Equipment, that is not supplied or controlled by the service, is strictly prohibited.”

The statement followed a plea, urging the local fire-fighting service to provide workers with the right materials to handle chainsaws.

And the bewildered Bomberos have been warned that if unauthorised equipment is used, strictly for protection, they will be “usurping” the administration’s obligations.

Yet the area’s fire-fighting authorities have not yet complied with the requirement of last November’s Labour Inspection.

Mystery scammer cost a woman 53,000 euros AN online scammer convinced a woman he was employed by a well-known clothing company, and that he had a type of epilepsy which required costly medicine.

The profile of 26-year-old “Anxo”, from Arteixo in La Coruña, appeared on the dating social network Badoo in March 2013.

It featured two photos, and said he worked at the central headquarters of Inditex, a Spanish multi-national and parent company of clothing chain Zara.

Days later, a woman contacted him, and they developed a friendship which led to a romance, all conducted via online messages and phone calls.

Anxo later added on his profile that he had dual USSpanish nationality, was an

orphan (his parents had died in a traffic accident) and that he suffered a strange form of epilepsy, which required extremely expensive medicine.

He told his online girlfriend that it had to be sent from the United States, and paid for at the US Embassy in Madrid.

Each box, he said, cost 600 euros, and he needed 6,000 euros a month to pay for the treatment.

A month later, once he had won his girlfriend’s trust, Anxo chanced his arm again, telling her he’d been in an accident on the way

to Madrid to collect his medicine. And, when asked by traffic authorities for his identification, he realised he’d had left his wallet, containing the 6,000 euros, at home.

“The car needs to be urgently repaired, and, as soon as I return home, I will pay you back,” he told her. His girlfriend deposited 13,000 euros in his bank account that day, to cover the costs of the car repairs and the treatment. But he never returned the money.

When he returned to Galicia, he said he couldn’t find his wallet, and assumed he’d lost it. After a few days offline, Anxo told his girlfriend that he’d had an epileptic attack at work and fallen to the floor, breaking his mobile phone, which was why he hadn’t contacted her.

He said the attack had landed him at the Juan Canalejo Hospital in A Coruña.

The next day, pretending

to be a work friend, he told her: “I have bad news. Anxo is in a crisis and has been sent unconscious to hospital, which means he can’t access the money he owes you. But he still has expenses.

“He has to continue to pay for his special American medicine, and a specialist has to come from Valencia to try to surgically intervene and install a brain electrode.”

She sent him another 5,000 euros, and, soon afterwards, Anxo said he’d recovered from the epilepsy attack. He also told the woman he would return all the money because he had inherited a large estate from his parents, and that he’d received compensation when they both died in the accident.

He then said he was going to be transferred to Valencia for the specialist operation. But Anxo feigned more troubles.

Once in Valencia, he said he needed a medical helicopter to fly him back to Galicia.

After receiving another bank transfer, he asked his girlfriend to pay for the tax bill to claim his inheritance. Meanwhile, the debt ballooned to 53,081 euros.

Finally, the woman caught on, and reported him to the police after he warned her in a voice message: “I promise you, you are going to regret this, and I am going to ruin your life,” and disappeared offline.

But he was traced by police and summoned to appear in court, where his final voice message was used

by Pontevedra’s Provincial Court court prosecutors to demand Anxo, identified as ADL in the court filings, be sent to prison.

The accused, who faces four years in jail, has been ordered to return all the money he stole from his online girlfriend, with interest, as well as 10,000 euros in compensation, for psychological damage inflicted on her.

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Ex-con never handled less than 4,000 tonnes of cocaine SITO Minanco had, reportedly, ditched his past, as one of Spain’s most powerful drug barons, to work as a parking attendant, following his conditional release from prison in 2016.

But last week’s nationwide sting saw the 62-year-old, real name Jose Ramon Prado Bugallo, re-arrested on suspicion of trying to re-impose himself on the lucrative cocaine trade, along with 20 alleged members of his suspected network.

Minanco is from Galicia, a region in Spain’s northwest, whose rugged coastline has proved ideal for trafficking, because of its narrow waterways that wind in-land, which used to be at the forefront of the illegal drug trade.

Minanco was arrested last Monday in the southern city of Algeciras, where he worked as a car-parking attendant, despite living in a villa, complete with swimming pool.

Colombian Enrique Garcia Arango, said to be his righthand man, was also held, along with the son-in-law of a major Galician hashishtrafficker.

Last Friday, police announced that close to five tonnes (metric tons) of drugs had been seized in the operation, although four people, including two elite police officers, were injured during the arrests.

Investigative journalist Nacho Carretero, who wrote a book on cocaine-trafficking in the region, said: “He could be the most powerful drug-trafficker ever, in Galicia, and Spain.

“He is often compared with Pablo Escobar (the late drug lord) because, just like the Colombian, Sito Minanco was always a man who managed his social

Leading drug baron was also working as car-park attendant

relations well, a man who looked after people who worked with him, and who nurtured his image among neighbours.”

Minanco, who owned a Galicia shipyard, is accused of using it as a cover to bring in drugs, said a police source, who refused to be named.

The source said his vessels would meet with boats at sea, coming from Latin America, particularly Colombia, and, allegedly, collecting cocaine to bring to Europe.

“The operations that Sito Minanco oversaw never involved anything under four tonnes of cocaine, of

which he would take a 3040% cut,” said Carretero.

Shortly after his conditional release, judicial authorities re-opened a probe on him and placed him under surveillance, according to the El Mundo daily newspaper.

They believed he was linked to the seizure of 616kg of cocaine in an industrial warehouse, in The Hague, in the Netherlands.

He is also, allegedly, linked to a group of men who tried to transfer close on 900,000 euros in cash, hidden in bags with false bottoms, to Colombia a year ago.

Minanco already jailed twice, in 1991 and 2001,

has spent a total of 17 years behind bars.

He is from a family of fishermen in Cambados, Galicia, and he quickly attracted the attention of tobacco smugglers, who noted his prowess at piloting boats.

“From tobacco, he made the step to drugs, especially cocaine,” said Carretero.

“Thanks to contacts in Panama, with Colombian drug cartels, they forged an association of trust. And from there, he became a powerful narco.”

Galicia, already used for tobacco-smuggling, became a prime entry-and-exit spot for cocaine in the 1980s.

That was a time when drug

barons ruled the roost there, with big houses and flashy cars. Now, though, said Carretero: “They are more discreet, and traffic there has dropped from its previous highs.

“But it still continues, and there are still thousands of kilos of cocaine that enter Galicia every year, distributed throughout Europe.”

At the end of January, Spain’s Interior Ministry said it had doubled its seizures of cocaine in a year, from 15 tonnes in 2016, to 32 tonnes in 2017.

That, it said, represented “40% of all South American cocaine seized in Europe.”

Educating the family

ADEJE Council and the Regional Education Department, in collaboration with the Regional Federation of Parents Associations (FITAPA) and Tenerife Cabildo, have announced details of this year’s socialeducation programme “Educar en Familia” (education within the family).

It aims to provide a space in which families with schoolgoing children are able to explore social themes, and also arm themselves with the tools and strategies they might need to resolve conflict within the home.

This training programme is structured through twohour workshops with different themes, looking at the practical and participa-

tive themes for families. In Adeje, there will be 10 such workshops during February, March, April and May, all taking place in the cultural centre there.

Education Councillor Adolfo Alonso Ferrera said that since its inception, a number of years ago, it had been a huge help for parents, with excellent results.

Ferrera added: “The course contents have been spe-

cialised to deal with certain themes of major interest, such as bullying, drug-dependency, how the adolescent brain operates, sexual adolescence, diversity, family harmony, sport and emotional education, prevention of gender violence, etc.”

The first session for parents, on Tuesday (20th Feb), at 6pm, deals with bullying, and the talk will

be given by sociologist Patricia G Ojeda. All the talks and workshops are in Spanish. But although the workshops are free, you must register to take part because places are limited.

Email campus@adeje.es.

Further information is also available on the Council webpage www.adeje.es.

During the workshops, care for under-threes is also provided.

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GBP/EUR slumps on fresh, Brexit uncertainties

By Carol schleisman at currencies direct

STAYING on top of the latest currency news can help you time your transfers more effectively, so find out what you should be looking out for, over the next couple of weeks.

Increased currency volatility, and resurgent Brexit concerns, have left the pound fluctuating against the euro and US dollar. Over the last two weeks, GBP/ EUR has slipped from highs of 1.1441 euros, to 1.1284.

On the other hand, EUR/ GBP has climbed from 0.8778 to 0.8861 over the last fortnight, while GBP/ USD has fallen from 1.4155 to 1.3827, and EUR/USD has dipped from 1.2426 to 1.2253.

The pound’s recent losses have been driven by disagreements in UK-EU negotiations, with ongoing concerns undermining Sterling’s spurt of strength, after the Bank of England’s

(BoE) first interest-rate decision of 2018.

The BoE adopted a surprisingly-hawkish tone at the gathering, and indicated that UK interest rates may need to rise, to tackle high, domestic inflation.

However, as the bank’s monetary-policy outlook could be dramatically altered by the course of Brexit negotiations, the latest uncertainties caused Sterling to shed its brief gains against the euro and US dollar. EU chief negotiator, Michel Barnier,

stated that a post-Brexit transitional period between the UK and EU was not a done deal, especially if the UK does not agree to certain non-negotiable terms.

As a transitional deal had previously been priced into the pound, concerns that it could still fall through, caused the British currency to plunge against its rivals.

While the euro has been supported by domestic data, the biggest winner last week was the US dollar.

Amid an equity market sell-

off, investors found “safehaven” currencies, like the US dollar, more appealing, which helped the US currency advance against both the pound and euro.

The Bank of England currently expects British inflation to remain well above target levels, so elevated consumer price pressures could keep hopes of a rate hike alive, and support Sterling.

That being said, interestrate-hike expectations could suffer, if the Brexit outlook fails to become clearer. As a result, pound

investors are likely to focus on Brexit developments over the next few weeks, although key UK job market and growth stats, next week, could be influential, too.

Speaking of growth data, Eurozone growth projections will be published this week, and could boost the shared currency if they impress, with key Eurozone inflation data due next week.

However, the inverse correlation between the euro and US dollar means EUR exchange rates could dip, if US data keeps the Fed on track to raise borrowing costs in March.

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Driving-licence points may well be refunded By mariano zunino siri

Registered lawyer at the tenerife bar association

A RECENT judgement, by the Content i o u s -A d m i n i s t r a tive Court of Madrid, has ordered the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT) to return deducted driving-licence points to a driver.

The Tax Office had previously annulled a fine for being wrongly notified, so the driver had been punished with a fine and a deduction of points.

The points are actually a matter of whose competence belongs to the Traffic Office, and the Contentious-Administrative Court

also demanded that the DGT pay the case’s legal costs.

This case was initiated by a claim presented at the Tax Office, because the driver had never been alerted to the 240-euro fine because the certified letter never arrived.

Initially, the Madrid Tax Office (AEAT) denied the claim, arguing that the DGT had edictal notified the fine through publication in the Traffic Sanctions Board (TESTRA).

The postal notification had been returned by the post office, which indicated that there was no one at home during delivery hours.

However, the claim filed in the second stage before the Economic-Administrative Court (TEAR) of Madrid (the Court that belongs to the Administration and it is not part of the judicial power, as explained in my previous columns) was accepted.

That’s because the certified

postal letter was sent to an address which was not the one indicated by the driver and, thus, the edictal notification was not justified.

The edictal notification phrase actually means publicising the fact that proceedings have been brought against the defendant, usually by posting it on court bulletin boards, or publishing it in official gazettes, etc.

Consequently, the TEAR asked Madrid’s DGT to return the points. But the latter refused, saying that the Tax Office’s annulment of a fine could not mean nullifying the points’ deduction because the said Tax Office (or even the TEAR) did not have “faculties to review the sanctioning competence in traffic matters”.

As you can see, this is an extremely rigorous and narrow interpretation of the law.

In view of the DGT decision,

the petition was reasserted because it did not nullify an economic fine for illegal notification of keeping the deduction of driving-licence points.

The DGT stood by its decision, and the case was sent to the Contentious-Administrative Court, which belongs to the judicial power and which, finally, ruled in favour of the driver.

The European Automobile Association says that one out of every three fines is badly notified. As pointed out by the EAA, this is the first judgement of its kind in Spain, which will enable about 10,000 drivers to recover, annually, the points that both DGT and City Halls deduct incorrectly, because they were wrongly processed.

This means that at least 45,000 drivers each year would be losing points without being warned.

In addition, the EAA considers that the Adminis-

tration “abuses the system of edictal notification”, bearing in mind that the Constitutional Court has ruled several times that among the guarantees of the right of defence (article 24 of the Constitution) is included the right be informed of the accusation.

More importantly, it also notes that the edictal notification constitutes a “last remedy of a supplementary and exceptional nature, since no citizen is obliged to read the bulletins daily to see if their names appear in them”. In other words: no citizen is enforced to have breakfast reading the official bulletins.

Mariano Zunino Siri, is a lawyer registered at the Tenerife Bar Association since 1991. Emai.: marianozuninosiri@gmail.com, abogado@abogadosmadridtenerife.com WEB: abogadosmadridtenerife. com

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For Edith (Alison Steadman), life is pretty good. She’s been a widow for some years now, but her children live locally and drop by regularly, and she enjoys daily visits from Phil (John Cleese), an old boyfriend who now lives across the road.

Phil dreams of marrying Edith, and the pair of them upping sticks and moving abroad to the sunshine. But after months of turning him down, on the happy day Edith finally says YES, there’s a knock on the door - and there on the step, with a large suitcase, is her 50 year-old son Roger (Jason Watkins).

He announces that he’s left his wife, his kids and his good job at the bank, and come home in an attempt to find his lost happiness again. And in a blink, to Edith’s dismay and Phil’s fury, all dreams are on hold.

Original multi-layered ITV crime drama series Marcella, written by internationally renowned screenwriter and novelist Hans Rosenfeldt (The Bridge) and starring International Emmy award winning Anna Friel (The Girlfriend Experience, Broken, American Odyssey) returns to ITV. Returning alongside Anna Friel as the lead Marcella, in the highly praised drama are Ray Panthaki (One Crazy Thing), Nicholas Pinnock (Fortitude, Guerrilla), Jamie Bamber (Fearless, NCIS) and Jack Doolan (White Gold). New cast members are also welcomed; Nigel Planer (Episodes, Comic Strip Presents, The Young Ones), Keith Allen (Eddie The Eagle, My Mad Fat Diary), Sophia Brown (Beauty & The Beast, Clique, Disobedience), Peter Sullivan (Cuffs, Critical, The Borgias), Jason Hughes (Three Girls, Midsomer Murders), Victoria Smurfit (Once Upon A Time, Trial & Retribution, The Beach), Yolanda Kettle (The Crown, Love Nina), Josh Herdman (Harry Potter) and Harriet Cains (Line of Duty, Safe House).

The eight-part series is once again set in contemporary London and the new series unfolds in the unique style of Rosenfeldt’s Nordic style. Interweaving storylines and characters from all different walks of life and backgrounds will lead the audiences on a complex and emotional journey and keep them guessing until the very end.

The story begins with the discovery of a body inside a wall. The body is clothed in a school blazer and surrounded by soft toys; a devastated Marcella soon works out that the body is that of schoolboy Leo Priestley, who was abducted a few years beforehand and a friend of Marcella’s son, Edward.

A task-force is quickly pulled together by newly promoted DCI, Tim and we are introduced to a new member of the team, LeAnn. As the investigation progresses, we’re introduced to a number of new characters – a former famous musician Reg and his manager and friend Alan; edgy businessman Vince Whitman and his charity boss wife Maya; a previously convicted criminal Phil Dawkins; sister and brother Gail and Eric; and Becky, the new girlfriend of Marcella’s ex-husband.

Whilst the storylines entwine, Marcella is still battling with her ongoing sporadic fugue states which she struggles to come to terms with and is getting increasingly worried about the effects it is having on her and her family around her.

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Nigel Slater’s Middle East: Iran Friday 16th February, BBC2, 21.00

Nigel Slater’s Middle Eastern food adventure concludes with a visit to a country shrou and often in the headlines: Iran.

Here Nigel sets out to discover the secrets of Persian food, one of the oldest and m cuisines in the world. He begins his journey in the bustling capital Tehran, where he the homes of people who cook dishes that have been handed through the generations. lunch at his taxi driver’s house to sample Dizi, an Iranian favourite for hundreds of yea the nation’s most popular dish.

From here Nigel ventures north to the shores of the Caspian Sea to meet fishermen w for the famous beluga caviar but who now have to find other incomes sources since st have declined.

Nigel also explores the varied landscape and harvests pomegranates and saffron, tw that epitomise Middle Eastern cuisine. Finally, Nigel returns to Tehran to explore its c Shopping Malls and fast food outlets are booming in the city but somehow the dishes have a place in the heart and culture of the people.

Through The Keyhole Saturday 17th February, ITV1, 21.30

Keith Lemon rummages around three mystery celebrity houses unearthing clues for the studio panel to guess ‘who habitates in a house like this?’

On this week’s star-studded panel are comedian Paddy McGuinness, soap star Catherine Tyldesley and football legend Chris Kamara.

Troy: Fall Of A City

Saturday 17th February, BBC1, 21.10

Told from the perspective of the Trojan family at the heart of the siege, Troy: Fall Of A City is an epic story of love, intrigue, betrayal and belonging. Combining thrilling adventure with heart-breaking intimacy, it explores primal emotions, the psychological repercussions of human actions and life-changing decisions amid the devastation and destruction of war.

Following a fateful encounter with the gods, the life of young herdsman Paris (Louis Hunter) changes forever. At the Troy city games he discovers something extraordinary about himself. Then, on a trip to Sparta as a guest of Menelaus (Jonas Armstrong) and Helen (Bella Dayne), he falls in love, with unpredictable and far-reaching consequences - provoking a conflict that threatens to bring an empire to its knees.

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Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame – Exposure

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An estimated one million people in Britain today went to boarding school. But increasingly the true extent of sexual abuse in these elite institutions is coming to light.

ITV’s Exposure investigates the private schools that appeared willing to disregard children’s safety, with some failing to take action against predatory paedophiles, who groomed and assaulted young boarders over and over again, sometimes getting away with it for decades. Did protecting a school’s reputation mean their pupils were put at risk?

This documentary follows Alex Renton, a journalist who himself was sexually abused as an eight year old by his teacher at one of the country’s top boarding schools.

Alex is sharing with Exposure a unique database, created from the huge personal correspondence he has received from victims of abuse since he began writing about his own experience of it.

Alex speaks with abuse survivors to expose the systematic failures that allowed paedophiles to go unpunished, and how in some cases this permitted them to continue teaching elsewhere in the private and the state sector, preying on more children. He also meets ‘James’, a former boarding school teacher and convicted paedophile, to ask the questions he couldn’t ask of his own, now dead, abuser.

Despite the decades that have passed since Alex’s time at school, the reporting of abuse allegations is still not legally mandatory at schools in the UK. Exposure examines the current safeguarding procedures in place at boarding schools and asks whether these go far enough to protect children in the system today.

Winter Olympics

Saturday 17th February, BBC1, 10.00

Clare Balding introduces live coverage from the busiest day of the 2018 Winter Olympics, where nine gold medals are up for grabs.

They include the women’s skeleton, in which Britain’s Lizzy Yarnold is the defending champion. Another British woman looking for gold is short track speed skater Elise Christie, who suffered heartbreak in Sochi four years ago, but who arrives in Pyeongchang as the world champion in the 1500m, today’s gold-medal event.

Bereaved sisters Mona (July Namir) and Fatima (Ahd Kamel) are processed at Harsfleet detention centre.

Sandrine (Jeany Spark) returns to her army desk job, under the threatening gaze of Major Dyson (Robert Portal), and works through her troubled past in Afghanistan with therapist Xan (Adrian Lukis).

Pizza manager Laurie (Hayley Squires) has gone missing. Searching Laurie’s home, a fatigued Kip (Carey Mulligan) discovers a hidden stash of cash.

Meanwhile Nathan (Nathaniel Martello-White) discovers Mikey (Brian Vernel) is using Regal Pizza to deliver drugs. Clues continue to build as David (John Simm) reveals to Kip that Linh (Kae Alexander) thought the killer was a woman.

Kip and Nathan interview Fatima at Harsfleet with MI5 operative Sam Spence (John Heffernan) in attendance.

Fatima claims Abdullah was killed because he had an explosive piece of information...

Benidorm: 10 Years On Holiday Tuesday 20th February, ITV1, 21.00

New documentary celebrating 10 years of the award winning comedy.

First screened in 2007 in a 30-minute format, the show has grown to be hugely popular with ITV viewers and has been BAFTA nominated and won numerous TV awards over the years including two National TV Awards.

The show’s creator and writer Derren Litten will guide viewers around Benidorm to reveal all about how the show was created whilst visiting the show’s many real life locations. Cast (past and present) will talk about their roles on the show alongside show bloopers and exclusive behind the scenes footage of the upcoming 10th series being filmed.

All the Garvey family return for the one off special – Steve Pemberton, Siobhan Finneran, Sheila Reid, Ollie Stokes and Hannah Hobley talk about their time on the show.

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

Friday 16th February

09:15 ....... Winter Olympics

06:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

06:00............. Good Morning Britain

13:00 ......................BBC News at One

09:15 ..................Animal Park Easter Special

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

13:30 ....BBC London News

10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer

13:45..........................Doctors 14:15 ................The Coroner 15:00................Escape to the Country 15:45 .......................Get Away for Winter 16:30 ........................Antiques Road Trip 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00 ............... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30 ...................Would I Lie to You? 20:00 ............ EastEnders

11:00............. Wanted Down Under 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt

13:55...... ITV News London

13:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

14:00............. James Martin’s American Adventure

18:00 .............. Eggheads

15:00..........................Tenable

18:30....................... Great American Railroad Journeys

16:00...............Tipping Point

19:00 .................... Winter Olympics 20:00 .......... Mastermind

21:00..............Requiem

21:00 ..........Nigel Slater’s Middle East: Iran

22:25............ BBC London News 22:35............ The Graham Norton Show 23:25............... The Young Offenders 00:00..................... Winter Olympics

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

11:45 ............... Heir Hunters

20:30 ..............Room 101 22:00.... BBC News at Ten

10:30 .............. This Morning 13:30............. ITV Lunchtime News

20:30 ..........A Vicar’s Life

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

22:00 ........................... QI 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:05 .................... A Most Violent Year 01:00 ..............Panorama 01:30 ..........Animals with Cameras

17:00.....................The Chase 18:00................. ITV News London 18:30....ITV Evening News 19:00...............Emmerdale 19:30....Coronation Street 20:00.... Love Your Garden 20:30....Coronation Street 21:00...Lethal Weapon

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00:15 ..............Super Casino

06:00 ...... The Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:10 .............. Dress to Impress 07:55 ........................ Emmerdale 08:50 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:10 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 10:25 ...................Space Chimps 12:10 ........................ Emmerdale 13:15 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35 ...The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50...................... Take Me Out 19:00..You’ve Been Framed!

20:00....Two and a Half Men 20:30 ................. Superstore 21:00... Survival of the Fittest 22:00............ Celebrity Juice 22:50.................. Family Guy 23:20.................. Family Guy 23:45............ American Dad! 00:45....Two and a Half Men

08:55 .................Supershoppers

06:00 .........The Dog Whisperer

07:10..... Scrapheap Challenge

09:30 ........... A Place in the Sun

07:00 .......................Monkey Life

08:10 .............American Pickers

10:30 ........... A Place in the Sun

08:00 ............................Futurama

09:00 ...............Storage Hunters

11:30 .....................Four in a Bed

08:30 ............................Futurama

09:30 ...............Storage Hunters

12:05..................... Four in a Bed

09:00 ................. Modern Family

10:00 .............American Pickers

12:35..................... Four in a Bed

10:00 ................. Modern Family

12:00 .............American Pickers

13:05 .....................Four in a Bed

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

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

13:35..................... Four in a Bed

13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0

14:00 ............................. Top Gear

14:10....... Come Dine with Me

14:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

15:00 .......................The Hurting

14:40 ....... Come Dine with Me

16:00 ....................Stargate SG-1

15:10 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:00 ................... The Simpsons

16:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

15:45 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:30 ............................Futurama

16:15 ....... Come Dine with Me

18:00 ....................Futurama

16:50 ........... A Place in the Sun

18:30 .............The Simpsons

17:55 ........... A Place in the Sun

19:00 .............The Simpsons

18:55 ............. The Supervet

19:30 .............The Simpsons

19:55............ Grand Designs

20:00 .............The Simpsons

21:00.. Rebecka Martinsson: Arctic Murders

20:30 ...........Modern Family

22:00.... 24 Hours in A and E 23:05.... 24 Hours in A and E

22:05.... Sky Sports Funniest Moments: Best Bits

00:05.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

00:05.................. A League of Their Own

01:10.... 24 Hours in A and E

01:00.............. Hawaii Five-0

22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather

09:15 ...............The Wright Stuff 11:15 .........................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 12:10.......... 5 News Lunchtime 12:15............. Cowboy Builders 13:15 .............. Home and Away 13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:15 ................Ncis: Conspiracy to Murder 15:15 ......... Fatherly Obsession 17:00 ........................ 5 News at 5 17:30 ....................... Neighbours 18:00......... Home and Away 18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight 19:00 .......... The Wine Show 20:00 ..............Celebrity Five Go Barging 21:00.......Cruising with Jane McDonald 22:00............ Will and Grace 22:30 ............... Bette Midler 23:30 ............That’s So 1989

22:30.. ITV News London 22:45............Through the Keyhole 23:45...........Take Me Out 00:45............ Jackpot247

Aron Morgan lodges a formal complaint against Matilda for harassing Davey, and the police are unmoved by Matilda showing them what she believes is a clue to Carys’s disappearance.

Trudy is wracked by guilt for her part in Carys’s disappearance and meets Matilda to ascertain whether she’s telling the truth. Rose is pushed to breaking point as old wounds are reopened and her relationship with Aron deteriorates. Ed gets jittery as Trudy gives him the cold shoulder and Graves becomes increasingly suspicious that’s he hiding something.

Matilda senses Meredith knows more than she’s letting on and pumps her for information. Sylvia reveals the peculiar ancestry of the Dean family, whilst Hal identifies the source of the eerie music on the audiotapes.

And Trudy remembers a crucial detail about the day Carys went missing.

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06:00....................... Countdown 06:45... 3rd Rock from the Sun 07:35 ...........................Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ..................................Frasier 10:05.............. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:00.... Undercover Boss USA 12:00............... Channel 4 News 12:05 ................... Couples Come Dine with Me 13:05.......... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10....................... Countdown 15:00 ........... A Place in the Sun 16:00 .... A New Life in the Sun 17:00 .....................Four in a Bed 17:30 .... Extreme Cake Makers 18:00 .............The Simpsons 18:30 ................... Hollyoaks 19:00......... Channel 4 News 20:00...... Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast 21:00................... First Dates 22:00................ The Last Leg 23:05................... Rude Tube 00:10..................Magic Mike

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21:00 .................Jamestown

Lethal Weapon ITV1, 21.00

17:00 ............................. Top Gear 18:00 .....................Top Gear 19:00 ...................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 20:00 ................ Traffic Cops 20:30 ..................Fight Night Preview Show 21:00................. Live Boxing 23:00 ................................ QI 23:40 .... Would I Lie to You? 00:20........... Mock the Week 01:00................................. QI 01:40..... Would I Lie to You?

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Riggs is reunited with childhood friends and comes to realize they might be mixed up in the robbery-homicide case he and Murtaugh are investigating. Meanwhile, Murtaugh finds a joint stashed in his kitchen that he brings to Scorsese for testing in effort to bust one of his kids.

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06:00 ...................... Breakfast 10:00............................ Winter Olympics 12:00 ............Football Focus 13:00 .....................BBC News 13:15 ............................ Winter Olympics 16:30 ...................Final Score 17:25 .....................BBC News 17:35 .................BBC London News 17:45 ..................And They’re Off... for Sport Relief 18:25 ................Pointless 19:15 ........... All Together Now 20:20 ................ Casualty

Saturday 17th February

06:00............................ Winter Olympics 10:00........................ Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30....................... The Hairy Bikers’ Comfort Food 12:00............................. Winter Olympics 13:15 ...............Escape to the Country 13:45........................ Trust Me, I’m a Doctor 14:15............ The Third Man 16:00........................... Flog It! 16:45................ Nigel Slater’s Middle East: Turkey 17:45............. Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good 18:15 .................... Hugh’s Wild West 19:15..................... Winter Olympics

21:10 ....................... Troy 22:10.............. BBC News 22:30..................Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 23:35......................Live at the Apollo 00:20..................... Winter Olympics

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20:00 ......................David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities 20:30 ............Dad’s Army 21:00...................... QI XL 21:45.............. Imagine...

23:00..................... Young Frankenstein 00:40........The Producers

06:00 .............................Sooty 06:10............. The Aquabats!

Super Show!

06:35 ................... Dino Dana 06:50 ......................... Super 4 07:00 .............. Share a Story 07:05..... Marvel’s Avengers: Ultron Revolution 07:30 ..................Scrambled!

07:35 ................The Tom and Jerry Show 07:50 .................... Fangbone 08:10 .The Powerpuff Girls 08:30 ......................... Be Cool, Scooby-Doo 09:05........................ Wishfart 09:25...................... ITV News 09:30...... Saturday Morning with James Martin 11:25 ...The Hungry Sailors 12:25...................... ITV News 12:30 ...........Dancing on Ice 14:30....... Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 15:00 ........................Celebrity Catchphrase 16:00 ..............Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase 18:00................ ITV News CoiWce 18:30 ..........Take Me Outch 20:00 ......... The Voice UK 21:30 ...........Through the Keyhole 22:30................ ITV News 22:45....Lethal Weapon 3 00:45............ Jackpot247

The Voice UK ITV1, 20.00

The Blind Auditions on The Voice UK conclude this week as the contestants sing for their chance to win one of the final places on the coaches’ teams.

Taking their positions in the infamous red chairs are coaches will.i.am, Jennifer Hudson, Sir Tom Jones and Olly Murs who will be seeking out the finest vocal talent to complete their line-ups.

Those who earn a place on a team are in for a chance to win a recording contract with Polydor Records

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06:05..................Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV

06:20................................3rd Rock from the Sun

10:05................ Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

07:10................. King of Queens

10:35 ................... Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud

08:00............... Everybody Loves Raymond

09:50........................... Peppa Pig

11:05 ..........Police Interceptors

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

13:00 ........................The A-Team

10:30 ......The Big Bang Theory

15:00 ..................Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

12:00 ................... The Simpsons 13:30....... Come Dine with Me 14:30............... Coast v Country 15:35........... A Place in the Sun 16:35 ................... The Secret Life of the Zoo 17:35 .................... The Supervet

16:00 ..................Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

17:00 .........................Rich House, Poor House 18:00 ............ The Wonderful World of Puppies

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06:00.................. Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 06:15 ......................... Emmerdale Omnibus 08:50..............Coronation Street Omnibus 11:45 ...................... Take Me Out 12:55 ..............................Mr. Bean 13:30 ............. The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas 15:15....................Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 17:05.............. Despicable Me 2 19:00 ............Jurassic World

19:00.......Cruising with Jane McDonald

21:30 ...................Survival of the Fittest 22:35 ................. Family Guy 23:05 ................. Family Guy

20:00......Britain at Low Tide

20:00................. Building the World’s Most Luxurious Ship

21:00............................ Ted 2

20:55.........5 News Weekend 21:00...............Football on 5

00:05 ........... American Dad!

23:15........... Dracula Untold 00:55................ The Last Leg

22:30...... There’s Something About Mary

18:30 ......... Channel 4 News 19:00 ......... Penelope Keith’s Coastal Villages

01:50..................... Hollyoaks Omnibus

00:40...............Super Casino

08:55.... Kirstie’s Vintage Gems

06:00 ................. Modern Family

09:30...................Grand Designs

06:30................. Modern Family

10:25............ A Place in the Sun

07:00.. Monster Family Special

12:35 ........... A Place in the Sun

07:30.............................Futurama

14:40 .....................Four in a Bed

08:00.................... The Simpsons

15:10 .....................Four in a Bed

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

15:40 .....................Four in a Bed

11:30......................What’s Up TV

16:15 .....................Four in a Bed

12:00......Black Panther Special

16:50 .....................Four in a Bed

12:30.............NCIS: Los Angeles

17:20 ....... Come Dine with Me

13:30.............NCIS: Los Angeles

17:50 ....... Come Dine with Me

14:30.................... Gillette Soccer Saturday

18:25.... Come Dine with Me 18:55.... Come Dine with Me

17:30........ Harry Hill’s Tea Time

19:25.... Come Dine with Me

18:00..............The Simpsons

19:55......China: Treasures of the Jade Empire

18:30..............The Simpsons 19:00..............The Simpsons

21:00............. Secret History

19:30..............The Simpsons

22:00........ China’s Forgotten Emperor

20:00.......NCIS: Los Angeles

23:10........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:10........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 01:10................... Father Ted 01:45................... Father Ted

23:30........... American Dad! 00:30.............. The Cleveland Show 01:00 .............. Zack and Miri Make a Porno

07:10........................... Scrapheap Challenge 08:00 ............................... Ice Road Truckers 09:00 ............................... Ice Road Truckers 10:00 .............American Pickers 11:00 .............American Pickers 12:00 .............American Pickers 13:00 .................Sin City Motors 14:00 .................Sin City Motors 15:00 ......... Would I Lie to You? 15:40 ......... Would I Lie to You? 16:20 ......... Would I Lie to You? 17:00 ............... Motorway Cops 18:00 ......... Motorway Cops 19:00 .................. Red Dwarf 19:40 .................. Red Dwarf

21:00.................. A League of Their Own

20:20 .................. Red Dwarf

22:00............................BLISS

23:40 ........................... QI XL

23:00...... Football’s Funniest Moments

00:45......................... Would I Lie to You?

01:00.......................... Russell Howard’s Hour

01:25......................... Would I Lie to You?

21:00 ............. Kill Bill: Vol. 2

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06:00...................... Breakfast 07:55 ...... Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 09:00 ................. The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 ...........................The Big Questions 11:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 12:00 .....................BBC News 12:15........ Winter Olympics

Sunday 18th February

06:00 ............................ Winter Olympics 09:00 ............................ Winter Olympics 12:15 ........Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 13:45................ A Vicar’s Life 14:15 ........ The Crane Gang 15:15 ................ South Korea: Earth’s Hidden Wilderness

15:35................ Match of the Day Live

16:15 .......................... Lifeline

18:05 .............. BBC News

17:00........................... Back in Time for Tea

18:20 ........... BBC London News 18:30 ............Countryfile 19:30 ................. Hold the Sunset 20:00 ................... Call the Midwife 21:00 ..............The British Academy Film Awards 2018 23:00............... BBC News 23:20............ BBC London News 23:30...........Julius Caesar Revealed 00:30..................... Winter Olympics

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16:25.......... Songs of Praise

18:00................ New York: America’s Busiest City 19:00 .................... Winter Olympics 20:00 ........ Dragons’ Den 21:00 .................. Life and Death Row 22:00.................The Mash Report 22:30......................Live at the Apollo 23:15..............Cleverman 00:05............Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner 01:50....... Question Time

06:00................Childrens’ TV 08:30 ...................Spy School 09:05 ........................Wishfart 09:25 ...................... ITV News 09:30 ..... Love Your Garden 10:00 .....Peston on Sunday 11:00 ........The Martin Lewis Money Show 11:25............... The Voice UK 12:55...................... ITV News 13:00................ The Harbour 13:30.................... The Cruise 14:00 ................. What Would Your Kid Do? 15:00........Britain’s Brightest Family 15:30.............. Tipping Point 16:30...................... ITV News 16:45..... ITV News London 17:00 .................... The Chase: Celebrity Special 18:00.......Dancing on Ice 20:00..........Endeavour CWce ch oi 22:00................ ITV News 22:15..................... Peston on Sunday 23:15.... Frustrated Britain: Caught on Camera 00:10................. Car Wars 01:05............ Jackpot247

Endeavour ITV1, 20.00

The railway takes centre stage as Endeavour investigates the disappearance of a local woman - with initial fears linking it to the unsolved murder of a teenager, killed several years earlier. Endeavour puts the missing woman’s last known movements under scrutiny, while Thursday is absorbed in the investigation of a lorry hijack which he suspects is linked to local gangster Eddie Nero.

The murder investigation takes a surprising turn when a woman’s body is discovered, but Endeavour notices anomalies at the murder scene which point away from the cold case theory.

Meanwhile, Cowley is disrupted by the arrival of two rough-and-ready burglary squad officers, also investigating the lorry hijack, who commandeer Fancy for their plans. Soon stumbling on a potential informant, Fancy is thwarted when his new lead is violently killed. The discovery of another body uncovers a clue that blows the case of the missing woman wide open - and leads to an unlikely culprit.

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06:15................ King of Queens

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV

06:40................ King of Queens

09:50 ........................... Peppa Pig

07:05 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond

09:55 ........................... Peppa Pig

08:00 ..................................Frasier

10:00 ................Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

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

10:35 .....................Football on 5

09:30 .................Sunday Brunch

12:00.................... Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud

12:30 ...........Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast 13:30................... The Simpsons

12:30 .................... Justin and the Knights of Valour

14:00 ................... The Simpsons

14:15 ....... P.S. I Love You (Film)

14:25................... The Simpsons

16:45 ........................Something’s Gotta Give

14:55................. The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water 16:45..................................... Rio 2 18:35......... Channel 4 News

17:45 .................................5 News 17:50 ........................Something’s Gotta Give

06:00 ......................... Emmerdale Omnibus 08:20 .............Coronation Street Omnibus 11:20...................... Take Me Out 12:55..................... The Voice UK 14:20................... Spy Kids 2: The Island of Lost Dreams 16:20 .................Nanny McPhee 18:20.......... The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 19:20 ..................... FYI Daily 19:25.......... The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies 21:00........ Ibiza Weekender 22:00................... Survival of the Fittest

19:00.................. Posh Pawn

19:05 ........5 News Weekend

20:00............... The First Brit: Secrets of the 10,000 Year Old Man

19:10 ...... Greatest Celebrity Wind-Ups Ever!

20:00........Caught in the Act

00:00 ................. Family Guy

21:00 .................. Homeland

21:00............. When Comedy Goes Horribly Wrong

00:30 ........... American Dad!

01:15 ........ The World’s Most Expensive Food

00:00................ Bette Midler 01:00...............Super Casino

01:55 ...........Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

08:55 .........Walks with My Dog

06:00 ..........The Hour of Power

07:10..... Scrapheap Challenge

10:00 ...........Location, Location, Location

07:00................. Modern Family

08:00............................. Top Gear

11:00..........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

07:30................. Modern Family

10:00 ............... Motorway Cops

08:00 ................... The Simpsons

12:00 .............American Pickers

09:00................... The Simpsons

14:00 ...........Dynamo: Magician Impossible

22:15 .....Our Kind of Traitor 00:20 ............. The Supervet

12:05 ....... Come Dine with Me 13:10 ....... Come Dine with Me 14:10 ....... Come Dine with Me 14:40..................... Four in a Bed 15:45 .....................Four in a Bed 16:50 .....................Four in a Bed 17:20 ....... Come Dine with Me 18:20.... Come Dine with Me 19:25.... Come Dine with Me 19:55 ........... Grand Designs 21:00........First Humans: The Cave Discovery

10:00................... The Simpsons 11:00 ...........................WWE Raw 12:00 ...........................MacGyver 13:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles 14:00 ................ Portrait Artist of the Year 2018 15:00 ....... Harry Hill’s Tea Time 15:30 ...... The Legend of Zorro 18:00 .............The Simpsons 18:30 .............The Simpsons 19:00 .............The Simpsons 19:30............. The Simpsons

23:00 ................. Family Guy 23:30 ................. Family Guy

00:55 ........... American Dad! 01:25...The Cleveland Show

15:00 ......... Would I Lie to You? 17:00.. Red Bull Soapbox Race 18:00.......... Yianni: Supercar Customiser 18:30.......... Yianni: Supercar Customiser 19:00....... Jay Leno’s Garage 20:00....................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 21:00............ Have I Got a Bit More News for You

20:00................... MacGyver

22:00................ Unspun with Matt Forde

21:00.............. Hawaii Five-0

22:30............................ QI XL

22:00.......NCIS: Los Angeles

23:30....... Live at the Apollo

00:15........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

23:00................The Blacklist

00:30.................... Room 101

00:00....The Force: North East

01:00.................... Room 101

01:20.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

01:00.............. Ross Kemp: In Search of Pirates

01:50............ Have I Got a Bit More News for You

22:05................... Father Ted 22:40................... Father Ted 23:10............... It Was Alright in the 1970’s

www.canarianweekly.com 16th February - 22nd February 2018

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

monday 19th February

06:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

06:00 ............ Good Morning Britain 08:30 ........................ Lorraine

13:00 ......................BBC News at One

09:15 ..................Animal Park Summer Special

13:30 .................BBC London News

10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer

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

13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 ................The Coroner

11:00 .......................... Bargain Hunt

13:30...ITV Lunchtime News

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

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

15:45 .......................Get Away for Winter

13:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

16:30 ........................Antiques Road Trip

18:00.............. Eggheads

09:15 ............................ Winter Olympics

17:15....................... Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 18:30........... BBC London News

18:30 .......... Great British Railway Journeys 19:00..................... Winter Olympics

19:00....... The One Show

20:00 ........................Only Connect

19:30................. Match of the Day Live

20:30 .............. University Challenge

22:00................ BBC News at Ten

21:00................Collateral

22:30.BBC London News 22:45........ Have I Got Old News for You 23:15............ The Graham Norton Show 00:05..................... Winter Olympics

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22:00...............Two Doors Down 22:30..............Newsnight 23:15.................. Horizon 00:15..................Odyssey 00:55..................Odyssey 01:40.............Countryfile

09:25................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30 ............ Loose Women 14:00........James Martin’s American Adventure

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15:00......................... Tenable 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00.................... The Chase 18:00.. ITV News London 18:30..ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30..Coronation Street 20:00....The Martin Lewis Money Show 20:30..Coronation Street 21:00................. Marcella 22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:15 ...............The Wright Stuff 11:15 .........................GPs: Behind Closed Doors

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06:00 ........................ The Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20.................. Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

12:10 ..........5 News Lunchtime

07:10 .............. Dress to Impress

12:15 ..................Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

07:55 ........................ Emmerdale 08:20............ Coronation Street

13:15 .............. Home and Away

09:25............................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show

13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:15 ................Ncis: Conspiracy to Murder

10:15 .....................................Babe 12:10........................ Emmerdale

15:15 .................. Final Recourse

12:45............ Coronation Street

17:00........................ 5 News at 5

13:45 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show

17:30 ....................... Neighbours 18:00 .........Home and Away 18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ...... Aviva Premiership Rugby Highlights 20:00.............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 21:00................... The X Files 22:00......When Game Shows Go Horribly Wrong 01:00...............Super Casino

14:35 ......................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50...................... Take Me Out 19:00................. You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...Two and a Half Men 21:00... Survival of the Fittest 22:00.................. Family Guy 23:30............ American Dad! 00:25............................Plebs 00:55....Two and a Half Men

22:30.. ITV News London 22:45.. Boarding Schools: The Secret Shame - Exposure 23:55...Children Who Kill

08:55............ Food Unwrapped

06:00 ................. Modern Family

07:10..... Scrapheap Challenge

00:45... Ross Kemp Behind Bars - Inside Barlinnie

09:30........... A Place in the Sun

07:00 ................. Modern Family

08:10..............American Pickers

10:30 ........... A Place in the Sun

08:00 ............................Futurama

09:00................Storage Hunters

11:30 .....................Four in a Bed

09:00 .......................... Road Wars

10:00..............American Pickers

12:05 .....................Four in a Bed

10:00 ...................Warehouse 13

12:00..............American Pickers

12:35 .....................Four in a Bed

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

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

13:05 .....................Four in a Bed

13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0

14:00.............................. Top Gear

13:35 .....................Four in a Bed

14:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

15:00........................The Hurting

14:10....... Come Dine with Me

16:00 ....................Stargate SG-1

15:30 .......................The Hurting

14:40........ Come Dine with Me

17:00 ................... The Simpsons

15:10 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:30 ............................Futurama

16:00............................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

01:35............ Jackpot247

James Martin’s American Adventure ITV1, 14.00

06:00 ....................... Countdown 06:45....3rd Rock from the Sun 07:35 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30...................................Frasier 10:00...............Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:00.....Undercover Boss USA 12:00................Channel 4 News 12:05.................... Couples Come Dine with Me 13:05........... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10........................ Countdown 15:00............ A Place in the Sun 16:00..... A New Life in the Sun 17:00......................Four in a Bed 17:30..... Extreme Cake Makers 18:00..............The Simpsons 18:30.................... Hollyoaks 19:00.......... Channel 4 News 20:00.................. Dispatches 20:30........Food Unwrapped 21:00........24 Hours in Police Custody 22:00................... First Dates 23:05....Married at First Sight 00:10.............The £1 Houses: Britain’s Cheapest Street

TV Guide

James Martin enters the “City of Dreams” in style, driving a vintage Porsche on his way to some of the standout foodie highlights of the series. After a visit to an incredible food market in Santa Monica, James heads to the beach to cook up a storm. In a place full of fitness fads and the “body-beautiful”, James meets a pensioner who also happens to be a fitness coach – and she looks far from her age! James drops in on his old friend, chef-to-the-stars Wolfgang Puck, at his Beverly Hills restaurant CUT, where James assists in the kitchen in return for a bite of the best steak in town. But there’s always room for more in LA, and James finishes his visit with a bite of his favourite pizza.

15:45 ....... Come Dine with Me 16:15 ....... Come Dine with Me 16:50........... A Place in the Sun 17:55 ........... A Place in the Sun 18:55 ............. The Supervet 19:55 ........... Grand Designs 21:00 .....................Car S.O.S 22:00 ............... World’s Most Expensive Cars

18:00 ....................Futurama 18:30 .............The Simpsons 19:30 .............The Simpsons 20:00............................ David Attenborough’s Conquest of the Skies 21:00............... Jack Reacher

23:00.... 24 Hours in A and E

23:25.....................The Force: Manchester

00:05.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

00:25.............. Ross Kemp: In Search of Pirates

01:10......................Car S.O.S

01:25.............. Hawaii Five-0

17:00 ............................. Top Gear 18:00..................... Top Gear 19:00...................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 20:00 ................. Ross Noble 21:00....... Live at the Apollo 22:00............. Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit 23:00................. Taskmaster 00:00............. Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 01:00................................. QI 01:40..... Would I Lie to You?

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www.canarianweekly.com 16th February - 22nd February 2018

06:00...................... Breakfast 09:15........ Winter Olympics

06:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

06:00............ Good Morning Britain

13:00...................... BBC News at One

09:15 ..................Animal Park Summer Special

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

13:30.... BBC London News

10:00...............Homes Under the Hammer

13:45 .........................Doctors

06:00 ....................... Countdown 06:45....3rd Rock from the Sun 07:35 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30...................................Frasier 10:05...............Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:00.....Undercover Boss USA 12:00................Channel 4 News 12:05........ Come Dine with Me 13:05........... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10........................ Countdown 15:00............ A Place in the Sun 16:00 .... A New Life in the Sun 17:00......................Four in a Bed 17:30..... Extreme Cake Makers 18:00..............The Simpsons 18:30.................... Hollyoaks 19:00.......... Channel 4 News 20:00..............Joe Wicks: The Body Coach 21:00.... 24 Hours in A and E 22:00............... Working with Weinstein 23:05............. Before We Die 00:20.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:15 ...............The Wright Stuff 11:15 .........................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 12:10.......... 5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..................Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

13:15 .............. Home and Away 13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:15 ................Ncis: Conspiracy to Murder 15:15 ........... Deadly Departure 17:00 ........................ 5 News at 5 17:30....................... Neighbours 18:00......... Home and Away 18:30.......... 5 News Tonight 19:00...................World Rally Championship 2018 20:00........ The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 21:00... Elizabeth: Our Queen 22:00.................... Ben Fogle: Return to the Wild 23:05.................... Sinkholes 00:00............... Chris Tarrant: Extreme Railway Journeys

06:00 ........................ The Planet’s Funniest Animals

22:45............Through the Keyhole

08:55............ Food Unwrapped

06:00................. Modern Family

07:10..... Scrapheap Challenge

09:30 ........... A Place in the Sun

07:00 ................. Modern Family

08:10 .............American Pickers

23:45...........Take Me Out

10:30 ........... A Place in the Sun

08:00............................ Futurama

09:00 ...............Storage Hunters

01:00............ Jackpot247

11:30 .....................Four in a Bed

09:00 .......................... Road Wars

09:30................Storage Hunters

12:05 .....................Four in a Bed

10:00 ...................Warehouse 13

10:00............. American Pickers

12:35..................... Four in a Bed

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

11:00 .............American Pickers

13:05..................... Four in a Bed

13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0

12:00 .............American Pickers

14:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

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

16:00.................... Stargate SG-1

14:00 ............................. Top Gear

17:00 ................... The Simpsons

15:00....................... The Hurting

09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 .............. This Morning

11:00 .............. Bargain Hunt

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

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

13:30............. ITV Lunchtime News

15:45 .......................Get Away for Winter

13:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

13:55..... ITV News London

16:30 ........................Antiques Road Trip

18:00.............. Eggheads

14:15................ The Coroner 15:00............... Escape to the Country

17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 18:30 ........... BBC London News 19:00....... The One Show 19:30............ EastEnders 20:00............. Holby City 21:00.............Shetland

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22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:30............ BBC London News 22:45....... Plastic Surgery Capital of the World 23:45..................... Winter Olympics

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14:00 ............ James Martin’s American Adventure

18:30 .......... Great British Railway Journeys

15:00......................... Tenable

19:00..................... Winter Olympics

18:00.. ITV News London

20:00............Back in Time for Tea 21:00.................. Flatpack Empire 22:00....................... Mum 22:25...........................The Archiveologists 22:30..............Newsnight 23:15..............Generation Gifted 00:15..............Generation Gifted 01:15................The Super League Show

16:00 ..............Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase 18:30..ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30............100 Year Old Driving School 20:00............ What Would Your Kid Do? 21:00........ Benidorm: Ten Years on Holiday

07:55 ........................ Emmerdale 08:20 ............Coronation Street 09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:15 ..................................Honey 12:10 ........................ Emmerdale 12:45 ............Coronation Street 13:45 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35.......................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50....................... Take Me Out 19:00..You’ve Been Framed!

20:00....Two and a Half Men 21:00....................Survival of the Fittest 22:00............ Celebrity Juice 22:50.................. Family Guy 23:40............ American Dad! 00:35...The Cleveland Show

22:30.. ITV News London

Perez is on the trail of an attacker, Tosh investigates an oil company in the hunt for Sally’s killer, and DNA testing in the Kilmuir case yields a surprising result, as murder-mystery Shetland continues.

Tosh is met with a wall of silence when she attempts to meet with Først Energy, the oil company Sally was investigating for corporate manslaughter before her death. When she then discovers Først’s Health and Safety officer Andreas Hagan disappeared the morning after Sally’s murder, he quickly becomes their number one suspect.

Meanwhile, Alan Killick’s alibi for Sally’s murder doesn’t hold up and his sarcastic protestations of innocence raise questions about whether he was involved in the attack on Malone. Perez’s unease grows when step-daughter Cassie, encouraged by her biological father Duncan, starts volunteering at the Killick’s wildlife sanctuary, run by Alan’s mother, Donna.

Sandy goes through evidence from the Kilmuir case and finds a potential lead on Malone’s attack - Benny Ray, star witness in the Kilmuir case and a police informant for Drew McColl.

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07:10 .............. Dress to Impress

22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather

Shetland BBC1, 21.00

06:20 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

13:35 .....................Four in a Bed 14:10 ....... Come Dine with Me 15:10 ....... Come Dine with Me 16:15 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:30 ............................Futurama 18:00.................... Futurama

15:30 .......................The Hurting

18:30 .............The Simpsons

16:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

19:30 .............The Simpsons

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

19:55............ Grand Designs

20:00 ................. A League of Their Own

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

21:00 ..........Fatal Flight 447: Chaos in the Cockpit

21:00 ...............The Blacklist

22:00.... What Destroyed the Hindenburg?

22:30... Harry Hill’s Tea Time

16:50 ........... A Place in the Sun 17:55 ........... A Place in the Sun 18:55.............. The Supervet

23:05.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares 00:10........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 01:15............. Bodyshockers

22:00........................ Trollied

19:00...................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 20:00..............Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish

23:00 ....................The Force: Manchester

21:00.................... Room 101

00:00.............. Ross Kemp: In Search of Pirates

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

01:00................The Blacklist: Redemption

23:00....... Live at the Apollo 01:00................................. QI 01:40..... Would I Lie to You?

www.canarianweekly.com 16th February - 22nd February 2018

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ............................ Winter Olympics 13:00...... BBC News at One 13:30................. BBC London News 13:45 .........................Doctors

weds 21st February

06:00 ............................ Winter Olympics

06:00 ............ Good Morning Britain

09:15.................. Animal Park Summer Special

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

10:00.............. Homes Under the Hammer 11:00.............. Bargain Hunt

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:15 ...............The Wright Stuff 11:15 .........................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 12:10 ..........5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ............. Cowboy Builders 13:15 .............. Home and Away 13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:15 ................Ncis: Conspiracy to Murder 15:15 ...............A Housekeeper’s Revenge 17:00 ........................ 5 News at 5 17:30 ....................... Neighbours 18:00......... Home and Away 18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 20:00................. GPs: Behind Closed Doors 21:00.... Peyton and Polizzi’s Restaurant Rescue 22:00.... Undercover: Nailing the Fraudsters 23:05................When Kids Kill 00:05..... The Killer Next Door: Countdown to Murder 01:00...............Super Casino

06:00 ...... The Planet’s Funniest Animals

23:10....UEFA Champions League Highlights

08:55 ............ Food Unwrapped

06:00 ................. Modern Family

07:10.... Scrapheap Challenge

09:30........... A Place in the Sun

07:00 ................. Modern Family

08:10............. American Pickers

00:10...Play to the Whistle

10:30........... A Place in the Sun

08:00 ............................Futurama

09:00........ Storage Hunters UK

11:30..................... Four in a Bed

09:00 .......................... Road Wars

10:00............. American Pickers

12:05..................... Four in a Bed

10:00 ...................Warehouse 13

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

12:35 .....................Four in a Bed

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

14:00 ............................. Top Gear

13:05..................... Four in a Bed

13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0

15:00....................... The Hurting

13:35 .....................Four in a Bed

14:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

14:10....... Come Dine with Me

16:00 ....................Stargate SG-1

16:00.............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

14:40....... Come Dine with Me

17:00 ................... The Simpsons

15:10 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:30 ............................Futurama

15:45 ....... Come Dine with Me

18:30 .............The Simpsons

16:15 ....... Come Dine with Me

20:00 ................. A League of Their Own

09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30.............. This Morning 12:30............. Loose Women

11:30....... The Daily Politics

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

13:00........ Winter Olympics

13:30............. ITV Lunchtime News

18:00 .............. Eggheads

13:55..... ITV News London

15:45 .......................Get Away for Winter

18:30 .......... Great British Railway Journeys

14:00............ James Martin’s American Adventure

16:30........................ Antiques Road Trip

19:00 ...Winter Olympics

15:00......................... Tenable

20:00 .......Tom Kerridge’s Lose Weight for Good

16:00 ..............Tipping Point

18:00 .... BBC News at Six 18:30 ........... BBC London News 19:00....... The One Show 20:00............ EastEnders 20:30 ..............Panorama 21:00 .......Earth’s Natural Wonders 22:00 ... BBC News at Ten 22:30.BBC London News

20:30 ....... Trust Me, I’m a Doctor 21:00 ......... Murdered for Love? Samia Shahid 22:00 ..... Mock the Week 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:15 .................. Lifeline 23:25 ................. Flatpack Empire

22:45..............A Question of Sport

00:25 ......................David Attenborough’s Natural Curiosities

23:15....And They’re Off... for Sport Relief

00:55.... Flatpack Empire

00:00..................... Winter Olympics

01:55........................Hairy Bikers’ Mediterranean Adventure

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06:00 ....................... Countdown 06:45 ...3rd Rock from the Sun 07:35 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ..................................Frasier 10:05 ..............Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:00 ....Undercover Boss USA 12:00 ...............Channel 4 News 12:05 ....... Come Dine with Me 13:05 .......... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10 ....................... Countdown 15:00 ........... A Place in the Sun 16:00 .... A New Life in the Sun 17:00 .....................Four in a Bed 17:30 .... Extreme Cake Makers 18:00 .............The Simpsons 18:30 ................... Hollyoaks 19:00......... Channel 4 News 20:00 ........... Supershoppers Savers Special 21:00............ The £1 Houses: Britain’s Cheapest Street 22:00 ......................Damned 22:30 .......... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:35.... 24 Hours in A and E 00:30.................... Pokerstars Championship Cash Challenge

14:15 ................The Coroner

17:15........................Pointless

TV Guide

17:00 ....................The Chase 18:00.. ITV News London 18:25........ Party Political Broadcast 18:30 .ITV Evening News 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30 .............Coronation Street 20:00................... The Brit Awards 2018

06:20 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:10.............. Dress to Impress 07:55 ........................ Emmerdale 08:20 ............................ The Cube 09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:15 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 10:25............................ Planet 51 12:10 ........................ Emmerdale 12:45 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35 ...The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00. You’ve Been Framed!

19:00...................... The Brits 20:00 ..... Two and a Half Men 21:00 .. Survival of the Fittest 22:20 .......... The Brit Awards 2018: Backstage 23:25.................. Family Guy 00:20............ American Dad!

22:20..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:50.. ITV News London

01:00............ Jackpot247

16:50 ........... A Place in the Sun 17:55 ........... A Place in the Sun 18:55 ............. The Supervet 19:55 ........... Grand Designs 21:00 ....Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 22:00.............. Ugly House to Lovely House

21:00................... Strike Back Retribution 22:00............................BLISS 22:30.................. A League of Their Own 23:00.....................The Force: Manchester

23:05............. Dogging Tales

00:00.. Ross Kemp: In Search of Pirates

00:20.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares

01:00................The Blacklist: Redemption

17:00............................. Top Gear 18:00..................... Top Gear 19:00...................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 20:00 ......... Yianni: Supercar Customiser 20:30 ......... Yianni: Supercar Customiser 21:00 ...... Live at the Apollo 22:00............. Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 23:00............ Unspun Xl with Matt Forde 00:00............................ QI XL 01:00................................. QI 01:40..... Would I Lie to You?

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06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ............................ Winter Olympics 13:00...................... BBC News at One 13:30 .................BBC London News 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 ................The Coroner 15:00 ...............Escape to the Country 15:45 .......................Get Away for Winter 16:30 ........................Antiques Road Trip 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 18:30 ........... BBC London News 19:00....... The One Show 19:30............ EastEnders 20:30 ...................Would I Lie to You?

thurs 22nd February

06:00............................ Winter Olympics

06:00 ............ Good Morning Britain

06:00....................... Countdown

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV

06:45 ...3rd Rock from the Sun

09:05..................................... Mofy

09:15 ..................Animal Park Summer Special

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

07:35 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond

09:15 ...............The Wright Stuff

10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer

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

11:00 .............. Bargain Hunt 12:00 ....................... The Daily Politics 13:00............................ Winter Olympics 18:00.............. Eggheads 18:30........... Great British Railway Journeys

22:00.................The Mash Report

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23:05..................... Elizabeth: Our Queen

08:55 ............ Food Unwrapped

06:00................. Modern Family

07:10.... Scrapheap Challenge

09:30 ..................................A Place in the Sun

07:00 ................. Modern Family

08:10 .............American Pickers

10:30 ..................................A Place in the Sun

08:00............................ Futurama

09:00 ........Storage Hunters UK

08:30............................ Futurama

09:30 ........Storage Hunters UK

09:00 .......................... Road Wars

10:00............. American Pickers

10:00 ...................Warehouse 13

11:00............. American Pickers

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

12:00 .............American Pickers

12:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

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

13:00.................... Hawaii Five-0

14:00............................. Top Gear

14:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

15:00....................... The Hurting

15:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles

15:30....................... The Hurting

16:00 ....................Stargate SG-1

16:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

08:30 ..................................Frasier

11:15 .........................GPs: Behind Closed Doors

10:05...............Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

12:10 ..........5 News Lunchtime

11:00.....Undercover Boss USA

12:15 ............. Cowboy Builders 13:15 .............. Home and Away

12:00................Channel 4 News

13:55...... ITV News London

13:05........... Posh Pawnbrokers

14:15 ................Ncis: Conspiracy to Murder

14:00 ............ James Martin’s American Adventure

14:10........................ Countdown

15:15 ............... Killer Obsession

15:00............ A Place in the Sun

17:00 ........................ 5 News at 5

15:00......................... Tenable

16:00..... A New Life in the Sun 17:00......................Four in a Bed

17:30 ....................... Neighbours

16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase

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

21:00....................Girls on the Edge

06:00 ...... The Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20.................. Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 07:10 .............. Dress to Impress 07:55 ........................ Emmerdale 08:20 ............Coronation Street 08:50 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:15 ..................Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 10:30 ...................Space Chimps 12:10 ........................ Emmerdale 12:45 ............Coronation Street 13:15 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35 ...The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00 ............... Take Me Out 19:30 .You’ve Been Framed!

20:00....Two and a Half Men 21:00... Survival of the Fittest 22:00.................Celebability 22:50.................. Family Guy 23:40............ American Dad!

13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News

20:00................ Sea Cities - Bristol

18:30....ITV Evening News 20:00....... Trans Kids: The Right Response? Tonight 20:30..Coronation Street

12:05........ Come Dine with Me

17:30..... Extreme Cake Makers 18:00..............The Simpsons

13:45....................... Neighbours

18:00 .........Home and Away 18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight

18:30.................... Hollyoaks

19:00 ............ The Wonderful World of Puppies

19:00 ......... Channel 4 News

20:00..... Police Interceptors

20:00............George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces

21:00............... Dale Winton’s Florida Fly Drive

21:00....Married at First Sight

22:00...........Critical Surgery: Changing Lives

22:00.......The Job Interview

21:00....John Worboys: W 23:05........24 Hours in Police C Custody The Taxi Cab Rapist choice with Susannah Reid 22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:30.. ITV News London

22:30............ BBC London News

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

19:00 .................... Winter Olympics

22:00.... BBC News at Ten

23:45...............This Week

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

18:00.... ITV News London

21:00 ................. Death in Paradise

22:45....... Question Time

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22:45...........UEFA Europa League Highlights 22:30............. Newsnight 23:15........ Dragons’ Den

23:45..................... Play to the Whistle

11:30 .....................Four in a Bed

John Worboys: The Taxi Cab Rapist with Susanna Reid ITV1, 21.00

“More than anything, I want to know if women are still being let down by the criminal justice system when it comes to sex crimes.” Susanna Reid, reporter In this one-off documentary for ITV’s Crime & Punishment season, Susanna Reid speaks to victims and people who knew John Worboys to ask whether he really is fit to be freed - or whether he remains a threat to women.

Cab driver and former stripper Worboys is one of Britain’s most prolific sex attackers, who is thought to have assaulted over 100 women.

Worboys received an indeterminate prison sentence in 2009 for attacks on 12 women, but the Parole Board has ruled he is now fit to be released after only a decade behind bars, causing a national controversy in which the case was raised in Parliament. Featuring new testimony from those closely involved in and affected by his case, plus archive footage, this programme provides a unique insight into the chilling story of how Worboys drugged and raped women while working as a taxi driver.

12:05 .....................Four in a Bed 12:35 .....................Four in a Bed 13:05 .....................Four in a Bed 13:35 .....................Four in a Bed 14:10....... Come Dine with Me 14:40....... Come Dine with Me 15:10 ....... Come Dine with Me 15:45 ....... Come Dine with Me 16:15 ....... Come Dine with Me 16:50 ........... A Place in the Sun 17:55 ........... A Place in the Sun 18:55.............. The Supervet 19:55........... Grand Designs

17:00 ................... The Simpsons 17:30 ............................Futurama 18:00 ....................Futurama 18:30 .............The Simpsons 19:00............. The Simpsons 19:30 .............The Simpsons

21:00.......................... WWII’s Great Escapes

20:00 ............... Duck Quacks Don’t Echo

22:00.......... 999: What’s Your Emergency?

21:00...... My Wonderful Life 22:00..................Jamestown

23:05.......................24 Hours in A and E

23:05.................... The Force: Manchester

17:00 ............................. Top Gear 18:00..................... Top Gear 19:00 ...................... Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 20:00............. Dara O Briain’s Go 8 Bit 21:00................... Red Dwarf 21:40................... Red Dwarf 22:20................... Red Dwarf 22:55................................. QI 23:35..... Would I Lie to You?

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this weekend

this weekend

Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival 2018

Taking as its theme this year the world of fantasy, the Tenerife capital’s most iconic celebration will once more fill the city streets with fancy dress, music, rhythm and colour. Proceedings got under way on 22 January with the preliminary round of the junior Murgas (satirical singing groups) contest, which will be followed by a host of events including: the Grand Opening Parade (Friday 9 February), the Rhythm and Harmony Parade (Saturday 10 February), the Daytime Carnival (Sunday 11 February and Saturday 17 February), the traditional Coso closing parade (Tuesday 13 February), the performance by the Ni Fu Ni Fa group and, lastly, the fireworks display (Sunday 18 February) which brings the curtain down on this key event in the Santa Cruz calendar.

22nd january - 18th February Santa Cruz www.carnavaldetenerife.com/ calendario-provisional

February

Carnival at Siam Mall

On Saturday 24th from 11:00h to 14:00h and from 17:00h to 20:00h we will arrange an area for the kids, and at 18:00h our customers will be able to enjoy a Masquerade Ball. This will be spectacular.

And Sunday, February 25th, we will enjoy an unique Carnival. At 17:00h we will welcome the Danzarines Canarios and then at 18:00h the Murga Diablos Locos.

Perfect music for the whole family.

Puerto de la Cruz International Carnival 2018

The Carnival gets under way officially in the first week of February, with the presentation of the contestants for the Carnival Queen. Colour and Greek Mythology, this year’s theme will inundate the streets of Puerto de la Cruz until Sunday 18 February, when the proceedings come to an end with the traditional closing dance. Important highlights include the Burial of the Sardine (Ash Wednesday), the closing Coso parade - which takes place the following Saturday and features numerous spontaneous groups, floats, dancing troupes, satirical singers, and Carnival delegations from other countries - and the Men’s High-Heels Race, a hilarious and fun-filled obstacle race in which hundreds of men don fancy dress and heels at least 8cm high to run along the cobbled streets.

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SPIN - DJ Competition

Kaluna Beach Club Every Saturday and Sunday starting Sunday 25th February until Sunday 25th March.

To participant in the competition you need to submit your full name and DNI/NIE via a private message to Kaluna Facebook.

This is a competition to see the mastery of the traditional and most important DJ techniques.

All styles of house music are accepted but no EDM. The judges will be the Kaluna Resident DJ's and other industry professionals.

The Events will be hosted by DJ Dylan & the finals broadcasted live on Oasis Fm

from 25th February kaluna Beach www.kalunabeachclub.com this weekend

PUP + This Drama

Canadians PUP visit Spain for the first time in February and Tenerife has been included on the tour. The Toronto quartet will present their second album The Dream Is Over and will be accompanied on tour by This Drama.

this weekend

9th Arona International Music Festival

This year’s Arona International Music Festival, now in its ninth year, features musicians Paco Varoch (Spain – piccolo soloist in Les Dissonances and occasional performer with the Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Mahler Chamber Orchestra), Isabel Martínez (Spain – international concert performer and guitar teacher at the Conservatory of Music in San Javier - Murcia), György Gyivicsan (Hungary – trombone teacher at the Universidad of Szeged and member of the Slokar Quartet), and Juan Javier Rodríguez (Cuba – percussion teacher at the Conservatory of Professional Music in Tenerife). Tomoko Sawano (Japan) will also take part as guest pianist.

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Arico Half Marathon 2018 A new edition of one of the most popular mountain races in Tenerife, featuring a 20k Half Marathon and an 11k race.

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World News

16th February - 22nd February 2018

Miguel earns his degree, at the ripe old age of eighty

MIGUEL Castillo, who is 80, must surely be the oldest scholar ever to be awarded a university degree.

And he is celebrating by travelling to Italy on the Erasmus student - exchange programme on Monday.

The pensioner, a retired Spanish notary with a wife, three daughters and six grandchildren, is also something of a celebrity at Valencia University History School.

Janitors are always on hand to help him find a quiet room, in which he can talk to the media; reporters are standing in line for a chance to interview him, and professors stop to greet him on the way to their class.

In addition, fellowstudents congratulate him for having won that Erasmus scholarship to study in Verona.

One student, also retired, asked him: “How did you get up the nerve to do this? I thought about it, too, but I was embarrassed to go to the student affairs office to ask.”

Miguel was not embarrassed. He applied for the grant, which allows recipients to take courses in another European university.

And he applied for the same reason that persuaded him to study for his history degree, after suffering a heart attack and having a quadruple by-pass.

“Shortly after recovering, I told myself, ‘I would like to do something other than the classic napping,’” said Miguel. “I’d always had an interest in history...

I am interested in all of it, but especially contemporary history.”

Erasmus students are usually in their early twenties, but Migul considers himself one of them! He goes to lessons, exchanges notes

with classmates, asks for help, and offers help when required. “I feel welcome,” he said.

“Age is not a problem.”

He has been getting pass grades in nearly all his courses, but, he admitted: “Not all though, because my age and my family duties don’t let me follow the regular pace.”

And by “duties”, he means taking care of his grandchildren.

“They are going to miss me, but, at the same time, they are glad to see that their grandpa has this desire for self-improvement,” he added. In fact, family members are already making plans to visit him in Italy.

The octogenarian is aware that the Erasmus grant is known to students as much for the parties as for the study programme, and he jokes about it, saying: “I will attempt, insofar as my own limitations allow me, to follow in the footsteps of those who came before me.

“But keep in mind that my wife will be there with me, and we will be living in an apartment.

Attending the school dorm pyjama party would be a little odd at our age.”

Miguel was born into a family of farmers in 1937, in the Valencian town of Llíria. As a young man, he travelled by train to Valencia every morning to attend high school, where he secured good grades. He then started to study for a law

degree, but flunked all his exams and dropped out.

He spent a year out in the fields with his father, and realised that farming was, in fact, a lot tougher than studying. So he packed his bags again, and moved to Barcelona to continue his law studies.

Way back in his highschool days, Miguel played in Valencia’s junior football leagues.

In Barcelona, Castillo was signed by one of the teams which eventually merged into Barça B. His salary as a footballer, and what he earned tutoring students, paid his tuition fees.

And before becoming a notary, he taught at Barcelona University, and spent two months in Rome and Bologna, where he learned some Italian.

He is now catching up with that as fast as he can!

Miguel, a music fan, was once in Verona to see and hear the singing of renowned soprano Maria Callas.

A Verona hotel now awaits him and María Luisa Alamá, a retired nurse who became his second wife five years ago.

Soon after their arrival, they will move into an apartment in the city, which was the setting for Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet.

That was a sorrowful tale, which has lasted through the ages, while his fairytale just grows and grows!

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Flight of fancy, on the wings of love!

A VIRGIN aeroplane performed a few mysterious manoeuvres on Wednesday after taking off from Gatwick… all in the name of love!

The Airbus 330, which set off at around 11.30am, created some suspicion when the pilot failed to stick to the

scheduled flight route, heading straight towards the Cornish coast instead.

The passenger plane was flying at around 30,000ft, and making strange twists and turns, when, suddenly, it turned around and headed back to Gatwick.

Then something absolutely perfect happened.

The pilot’s enterprising ma-

noeuvres, on St Valentine’s Day, led to a huge heart, some 100 miles long, appearing in the sky, above the sea.

Sadly, though, his astonishing work of art could be seen from space only.

But Virgin Atlantic, it seemed, were determined to celebrate the biggest loved-up day of the year in this special way.

Murder suspect may be sheltering in Ibiza Victim John Pordage and, inset, possible killer Bradley Blundell

A TEENAGER, wanted in connection with a fatal shooting outside an Essex petrol station, is thought to be hiding in Spain.

The fugitive, Bradley Blundell, now 18, is accused of killing 34-year-old John Pordage at a Chelmsford BP garage.

Police believe he might have fled to Ibiza, after vanishing in the wake of the incident.

A 16-year-old boy,

who cannot be named for legal reasons, was cleared of the attack, after a month-long trial at Chelmsford Crown Court.

But he was charged with perverting the course of justice, while 18-year-old codefendant Saul Stanley was found guilty of a series of firearm offences. Both admitted handling stolen goods.

At the end of the inquest, the prosecuting judge revealed that the youngster was with Blundell when he pulled the trigger.

The victim had, re-

portedly, left a nightclub, and gone to buy cigarettes at the garage, when he got into an argument with a group of teenagers on 5th August last year.

He died from a single gunshot to the chest.

DCI Martin Pasmore, of the Kent and Essex Serious Crime Directorate, told UK media: “We remain determined to locate Bradley Blundell and bring him to trial. I appeal to Bradley to give himself up.”

Crimestoppers has announced a £10,000 (11,300-euro) reward for information leading to his arrest.

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Lifestyle

16th February - 22nd February 2018

Decorating in a warm climate

IF you are decorating a property in Tenerife with the lovely warm climate, there are different things to consider than if you were doing so in the UK. If you think of a colonial decorating scheme, it brings to mind big, open spaces, a lot of bamboo furniture with tropical prints, light airy curtains, tiled floors and lazily-turning fans.

And they knew what they were doing! Here are some of the reasons why that type of design works so well in a warm climate. Bamboo furniture has long been popular in hot climates, because it is a material that responds well to high temperatures and humidity.

Nowadays, synthetic rattan is a good alternative, because it is impervious to water and temperature, and light to handle.

Cheaper versions may suffer degradation from direct sunlight, including fading and unravelling, so spending a bit more could be a better investment, long-term.

It’s probably a good idea to use quite-brightlypatterned fabrics, because, generally, floors and walls here will tend to be pale and plain, rather than wallpapered and patterned, as in the UK. Tiled floors are cool to the touch, and are much fresher than those which are carpeted. They are much easier to keep clean, when you factor in sun cream and sand. You can use very pale coloured tiles to give the impression of light and space, which wouldn’t work well with a carpet.

However, that doesn’t mean that you can’t use a rug to add a touch of warmth and colour. In fact, they can help to delineate an area, such as the lounge, or under the

dining table, and separate it, visually, from other zones.

In the UK, one of your main concerns is to keep the heat in and the cold out, hence wallpapers and carpeted floors, and heavydraped curtains to exclude draughts.

In Tenerife, the opposite is true, because you want to keep the heat out! So, you can afford to keep your windows free of drapes and great swathes of heavy material, and let in lots of sunshine, only muted by pale, gauzy drapes.

You can use sunblock

curtains to keep heat out at particular times of the day, if necessary. Exterior sun-blinds are for this purpose, and keep direct sunlight off your windows.

They’re not just for providing shade when you sit outside!

If you have air-conditioning, ensure that your doors and windows have a good seal, or you will be paying for all your cool air to escape.

In a new-build, you may have UV-resistant glass that will let light in, but keep the heat out. If that isn’t the case, you can buy

a laminate film to apply to the panes, which will have the same effect.

A lot of properties in Tenerife have far more of an open-plan design than you would expect in the UK, for the same reason. At home, you heat the rooms you are using, and keep the doors shut to retain the heat.

In Tenerife, any airflow is good, so an open-plan design is more efficient, and, if you have windows at each end of the property, you may be able to get a good airflow going, with a cooling effect.

Last of all, a fan will move the air about, giving you an impression of freshness, as the breeze touches your skin. There are so many variations on this scheme that you can bring your own taste into play, but the principles are sound for coping with a completely different temperature.

All items mentioned are available from Deco Nuevo, who also give estimates without obligation. Call them on 922 789729 for a free consultation, in the comfort of your own home.

Flush those kidneys

By Val Sainsbury YOUR kidneys are an essential part of your body's purification system. They help to detoxify your blood, so that the waste they filter out can then be discharged through your urine.

Good kidney function is essential to any healthy body, and a thorough kidney cleanse, once in a while, will help your cause.

About your kidneys Every normal, healthy human

being has one pair of kidneys, which are located at the back of the abdomen. The average kidney is approximately 4-5 inches long, and is shaped like a kidney bean.

Your kidneys each contain approximately one million particles, known as nephrons. Each nephron is a tiny microscopic filter, and removes any unwanted substances and toxins from your blood.

Your kidneys can stand quite a bit of abuse. You can actually afford to lose as much as 90% of your kidney function without ill effect.

To avoid unwanted, kidneydisease symptoms, the best advice is to keep your kidneys healthy.

Infections and diseases linked to kidney function include: · Urinary tract infection · Infection of the urethra · Infection of the bladder · Problems with urination · Prostate disease · Kidney stones · Kidney failure · CKD (chronic kidney disease) · Pyelonephritis Kidney disease symptoms: · A change in the appearance of your urine · A change in the quantity of your urine · Dizzy spells · Bouts of vomiting · Anaemia · Problems with concentration · Difficulty breathing ·

Feeling cold the majority of the time · Tiredness or fatigue · Itchy skin · Bad breath · Pain in the legs · Pain in the waist Kidney disease, or infection, can be brought about by many things including: 1. Ongoing problems with emptying your bladder 2. Not consuming sufficient amounts of water or fluid 3. Too much salt in your diet 4. Too much conventional meat in your diet 5. Not getting proper nutrition through diet 6. Infections that are not correctly treated 7. Infections that are not treated promptly

8. Overuse of analgaesics 9. Not properly managing prescribed kidney medications 10. Alcohol abuse 11. Chronic fatigue Finally, complications with Type-2 diabetes is another very common risk factor for kidney disease. Injury to your blood vessels over time, as well as neuropathy in your bladder, both contribute to too much stress on the kidneys.

Without consistently keeping your blood-sugar levels in check, you raise the risk of kidney problems. It's estimated that somewhere between 10-40% of Type2 diabetics will suffer from kidney failure, and up to 30% of Type-1 diabetics.

To keep your kidneys healthy, try this cleansing juice on a regular basis.

Ingredients · Two large or three medium carrots · Two sticks of celery · One medium beetroot · One small or half a large cucumber with the peel · The juice of one large or two small lemons (always discard citrus seeds) ·One ounce of parsley (roughly half an averagesized bunch), soaked in warm water, with a dash of apple cider vinegar

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Wine and Dine

16th February - 22nd February 2018

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Flambé favourites THIS week, we treated ourselves to a feast with the flambé specialists at The Oyster Catcher restaurant, on the popular Mirador strip in Los Cristianos.

Established since 2006, and taken over three years ago by La Gomera native Angel, and his more-thancapable team, The Oyster Catcher is a firm favourite among residents and holidaymakers alike.

The range of flambés includes prawns and mushrooms, and fillets of fish, steak and pork. All are created in front of you with a flourish and flair, using only the freshest ingredients, delivered daily.

We opted for the prawn-andmushroom flambé to start, with a side of bruschetta, topped with tomato and feta cheese, to mop up the sauces. The prawns and mushrooms were tossed in garlic, white wine, parsley and a hint of chili.

I then chose Sole Meunière with a lemony caper sauce and creamy mash, with a fresh salad on the side.

My partner selected Fillet Steak Diane in a cream,

mustard and mushroom sauce, set alight with the finest brandy. It came with crunchy veg and a dish of roast potatoes, which were crispy on the outside, but fluffy in the middle.

Many people may not realise that The Oyster Catcher has a wider range available, other than flambés; they serve breakfasts and lunches, too. And, because Angel’s better half hails

from the sunny UK, they are one of the few places in the area to serve a traditional roast dinner - every day!

Other dishes include steakand-ale pies, and a twoperson mixed grill or Paella Valenciana. They even have their own unique “OysterCatcher” sauce.

Their specials change daily, depending on the availability of the fresh products, and, once these dishes are gone, they’re gone! So, get in there

quickly.

They’re open 11am-11pm, seven days a week.

You may have noticed that I haven’t yet mentioned desserts; I was saving the best until last. The selection included Lemon Cheesecake and Toffee Lumpy Bumpy, and a range of fruit flambés. And, of course, our favourite Crepe Suzette, doused in local liqueurs. If these don’t get your taste buds tingling, nothing will.

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The Swan Fresh food served 7 days a week, all with goodquality produce. We also cater for any special requirements.

Daily Specials. Friday: Cod and chips night.

Sunday Lunch: 12noon - 8pm. Bookings advisable.

24hr-notice for paella, lamb shank, fillet steak or ask us for anything you fancy.

Or just pop in for a drink, with live entertainment every night, 9pm - midnight, and your favourite quiz on Sunday evenings. Great entertainment, even greater value!

Come and join us on our smart new terrace. Sample a meal from our new improved menu or just enjoy a drink from our extensive cocktail menu. Live music on Wednesday and Sunday evening. Happy Hour everyday from 5.30pm - 6.30pm. All major sports events Castle Harbour, Los Cristianos can be seen on the TV’s inside the snack bar area.

Open: 9am - 11pm, kitchen open, 9am - 10pm Food served all day including full English breakfast, burgers, salads and snacks. From the evening menu choose one of our succulent grilled steaks or one of our other mouthwatering choices.

Tel: 922 750 949

Oyster Catcher Angel, the owner of The Oyster Catcher, has had restaurants for over 25 years, and now he has brought all that experience to The Oyster Catcher. Angel and his English-speaking team pride themselves simply on good food made from the freshest ingredients. Specialising in amazing flambĂŠs, both sweet and savoury, The Oyster Catcher also offers salads, pastas, meat and fish with prices to suit all budgets. Come and try and decide on your favourites for yourself.

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In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 603 164 862

Fusion Restaurant A unique new restaurant bringing a muchneeded, fine-dining experience to Amarilla Golf.

Gourmet food at prices you can afford. An international restaurant with romantic charm, Fusion restaurant is one of the most entertaining restaurants in the south of Tenerife. Not only host to plush tapas-inspired plates, classic international dishes and organic matured meats from Giuseppe, a well established butcher in Los Abrigos, Fusion hosts a regular roster of live music.

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Open: Daily 9am - 11.45pm

Call: 922 70 80 69

El Mirador, Los Cristianos

Open: 10.45am - 11pm

Call: 922 788 038

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Community News

16th February - 22nd February 2018

Accion del Sol News WE would like to remind you that, as well as registering your dog at your local Ayuntamiento, regardless of breed or size, the following dogs do require an additional “Dangerous-dog licence”.

Pit Bull Terrier Staffordshire Bull Terrier American Staffordshire Terrier Rottweiler Dogo Argentino Fila Brasileiro Tosa Inu Akita Getting your dangerous dog legalised in Tenerife involves a lot of red tape, and some rather unusual processes.

But it is, quite simply, the law.

Please don't let complexities put you off, because, if you truly love your dog, you will want to protect it and safeguard its future, as well as doing everything within your power to avoid any sort of tragedy.

The information was kindly supplied by Marion of the Accion del Sol dogs' refuge at Granadilla, and she would be happy to explain anything

Dangerous-dog licences you don't understand, if you would like to phone, visit or e-mail. You will see from our list which breeds are classified as being potentially dangerous, and need a special licence. They are subject to strict controls, such as needing to be muzzled when being walked (and only one at a time), and only owned by someone over 18, and without a police record.

You might think you would never be stopped, but the police everywhere are being more vigilant about this problem, and do conduct spot checks.

Your first step is to go to the SAC office at your local town hall, and request a form known as Solicitud de Inscripcion en el Censo de Animales Domesticos Y/O Potencialmente Peligrosos.

You will need various papers such as your NIE and passport, and your dog's microchipping evidence etc.

The document is in Spanish.

Next, surprisingly, you have to go to your local centro medico for a medical, which will determine whether you are fit to keep a potentiallydangerous dog (eyesight, blood pressure, reactions etc.), and why you want one.

You will also be asked to take a questionnaire with 60 questions. This is the main cost involved, at 53 euros. A visit to the Mapfre building in Santa Cruz is also necessary, to obtain a certificate which will eventually be returned to you, confirming you have no criminal record. If you do, you will not be allowed to get a licence.

You also need to take out dog insurance with a minimum cover of 120,000 euros (on your house insurance or a separate policy), and will need to sign and complete another form from the SAC (Peticion de Antecedentes Penales de Registro Central de Penados y Rebeldes).

Eventually, you take all

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the papers, micro-chipping document, inoculation verifications etc. back to the SAC, and you will receive a preliminary certificate.

Subject to all the paperwork being correct, your licence will be issued, a month or so later.

This whole process is lengthy and complicated, but it is the right way to get your potentially-dangerous dog legalised. You should also be aware that if someone else is walking your dog, and it attacks a person or another animal, it is still your responsibility, not the minder's.

Your premises should also display a dangerous-dog sign, and you should always carry your licence and the dog's paperwork, when walking the dog. You must also take these steps if you want to adopt a dangerous-dog breed from a refuge, and should not be allowed to take it away until you have the paperwork.

It is an eye-opener to

discover the procedures involved, which take around two months. But the law is the law, and the only way not to fall foul of it is to bite the bullet, and get on with it!

Assistance required Please contact us if you can assist in any way on 922 778630.

We always need tinned dogfood for our older animals, plus blankets, towels, sheets, dog toys, collars and leads.

You can call into the Accion refuge on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, from 2-5pm, and Saturdays between 1-4pm.

Find us here Accion del Sol is situated directly under the Ecological Park (exit 52) on the northbound TF-1. Head for the giant windmills, and you’ll find us in the buildings on the right-hand side. E-mail the refuge at teneriffa@ aktiontier.org or, for further details, visit our Facebook page: action tier Accion del Sol.

Cats Welfare News

We have puppies!

AREN'T they gorgeous? And they won't be big, as far as we can see! We are offering them for adoption, with all vaccinations completed and sterilisation included at six months of age.

They will also be microchipped. The price of all this is just 140 euros for the girls, and 110 for the boys. Send a WhatsApp to Eugenio on 633 717480 for more information. Adopt don't buy!!

Thank you, Clouseau's We had a really great afternoon at Clouseau's, Palm Mar, last Sunday, raising 431 euros for our doggies. Host Derrick Lynes introduced some excellent entertainment by Kerry Railton, Diane Bevan, Vivo, Sean King, Suzy Moore, Hayley Butler, Abba Fever

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and Gary Jay. Thanks to all of you for giving your time. Some great raffle prizes were donated

by Shazza's Cup Cakes, Cindy Howells Hairdressing, Poochies Pet Hotel, Smiths Bistro, Clouseau's and the Horse Riding Club.

It was so good of you all - thank you. Vicki Lynes

organised the tombola, as always. Thank you Vicki, and thanks to the owners and staff of this great bar, and all the brilliant people who came and donated.

Until next time.

As always, we are looking for even more spectacular prizes for the raffle, so, if you can help us, please get in touch via our Facebook page, Live Arico PAWS - Arona Tenerife. Items/ vouchers can, of course, be left in any of our charity shops.

Come and walk the doggies!

Join the Live Arico dogwalking club on Saturday mornings from 11am. Our dogs absolutely love it, and you will, too. Send a Whatsapp to Eugenio on 633 717480 and he will meet you there. Happy trails!

Sponsor a cat!

YOU can sponsor one of our cats for as little as three euros a month! We support a number of adult rescue cats who, through no fault of their own, live in longterm foster care, alongside those awaiting adoption.

We know that not everyone can adopt an animal, but anyone can help by sponsoring one. Choose a cat to support, and we'll e-mail you a personalised “pawtificate” of sponsorship, followed by updates about him or her.

You can pay by regular standing order, a one-off payment into our bank or by Paypal. For further information, go to http:// www.cats-welfare-tenerife. com/sponsor-faq/ or contact us by e-mail at sponsor@ cats-welfare-tenerife.com La Caixa Oficina 0222

Bahia Del Duque Tenerife Within Tenerife: Account Number: 2100 7072 91 2200076671 From the UK and other countries: IBAN Number: ES26 2100 7072 9122 0007 6671 SWIFT Code: CAIXESBBXXX Paypal: info@cats-welfareTenerife.com

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Air Conditioning A1 Aircon......................................................................................................................................................................... 606 876 212 Elecrep Tenerife....................................................................El Cho............................................................................. 639 361 181

Lawyers De Cotta Law.........................................................................San Eugenio................................................................ 922 719 520 Goya Abogados...................................................................Adeje.............................................................................. 922 797 500

Amusement Parks Loro Parque...........................................................................Puerto del La Cruz..................................www.loroparque.com Siam Park................................................................................Las Americas..................................................www.siampark.net

Money Transfers Currencies Direct.................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 971 781

Bars Bar Union ...............................................................................Adeje Town Georges Bar...........................................................................El Madroñal GG’s Bar...................................................................................El Mirador, Los Cristianos Happy Days............................................................................El Mirador, Los Cristianos Isla Bonitas.............................................................................Los Cristianos James’ Bar...............................................................................La Caleta Paddy O’Kellys......................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 600 259 491 Sax Bar.....................................................................................Las Americas Surfers Bar..............................................................................Compostella Beach Taylors Bar..............................................................................El Mirador, Los Cristianos Cafes Café Dulces Sueños............................................................Adeje Town.................................................................. 615 469 234

Motoring Ashro Auto.............................................................................Motor Vehicle Technician....................................... 922 764 530 Motorworld ..........................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 783 828 Pit Team...................................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 735 267 The Jaun Car Shop..............................................................Parque Del La Reina................................................. 922 765 568 Venli Terra Clean..................................................................Adeje.............................................................................. 683 377 320 Patio Doors and Windows Artenglass..............................................................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 922 764 187 CBAS.........................................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 736 738 Muniglass Systems..............................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 687 972 076 Ventanas tenesur ................................................................Adeje.............................................................................. 922 766 494 Window Doctor............................................................................................................................................................. 922 742 174 Pest Control Safeclean......................................................................................................................................................................... 666 192 119

Blinds The Prestige Group.............................................................Armeñime.................................................................... 922 740 888

Plumbing Hotwater.......................................................................................................................................................................... 922 750 912

BOWLING Mega Bowl.............................................................................Fañabe....................................................................................................

Pool Tables Cue Ball Leisure............................................................................................................................................................. 639 913 349

Chiropodist Ann Malpass................................................................................................................................................................... 625 799 570 Elaine Watson Jones.................................................................................................................................................... 608 029 790

Property Management Royal Sunset Property Man...................................................................................................................................... 922 797 314 Tenerife Island Rentals.......................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 797 438

Cleaning Elite Cleaning Services............................................................................................................................................... 922 789 795 Safeclean......................................................................................................................................................................... 666 192 119

Restaurants Biancos....................................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 788 697 Bombay Babu.......................................................................La Tejita......................................................................... 922 705 092 Char..........................................................................................La Caleta....................................................................... 922 168 222 Coral Bar..................................................................................Costa Del Silencio..................................................... 611 297 969 Dedos Street Food..............................................................El Galeon, Adeje......................................................... 822 144 165 El Corazon..............................................................................Chayofa County Club............................................... 922 729 093 El Paso......................................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 750 949 Empire.....................................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 789 971 Finca La Caldera del Ray...................................................San Eugenio Alto....................................................... 669 886 445 Fornodoro..............................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 100 467 Fusion Restaurant................................................................Amarilla Golf............................................................... 922 708 069 Imperial Taipan.....................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 795 395 Lagarto....................................................................................La Caleta....................................................................... 922 168 032 Magic Lounge Bar...............................................................Las Americas............................................................... 628 190 897 Meson Era Las Mozas.........................................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 922 765 597 Mr Pedro’s, Ice-Cream Parlour.........................................Golf Del Sur Oyster Catcher......................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 788 038 Restaurant 88........................................................................La Caleta....................................................................... 922 775 829 Roys Pizza & Indian Tandoori ..........................................San Eugenio alto....................................................... 922 714 183 Teds Grill.................................................................................Veronicas Thai Botanico........................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 797 759 The Swan................................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 603 164 862 Trattoria Pizza Restaurant.................................................El Medano.................................................................... 922 177 864

Computer Services Act.............................................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 736 728 Construction Colin Taylor..................................................................................................................................................................... 661 081 843 Combined Construction Services........................................................................................................................... 922 764 348 McReform...............................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 750 912 Dental Clinics Clinica Dental Buzanada...................................................Buzanada..................................................................... 922 767 166 Medical Implants.................................................................Los Abrigos.................................................................. 922 749 742 Electricians Tenerife Electrical......................................................................................................................................................... 634 861 490 Electrical & Air-conditioning...........................................El Cho............................................................................. 922 797 699 Estate Agents Crown Properties.................................................................El Medano.................................................................... 922 176 833 Lupian Properties................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 796 527 Marcus Management.........................................................El Madronal................................................................. 922 751 064 Premier Properties..............................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 750 603 Property Campus.................................................................Adeje.............................................................................. 677 226 689 RD Properties........................................................................Las Galletas.................................................................. 922 732 862 Tenerife Island Rentals.......................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 797 438 Tenerife Property Shop.....................................................Golf Del Sur................................................................. 922 714 700 Excursion shops Premier Money exchange................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 629 152 296 Financial Advisers Sebastian’s & St. James............................................................................................................................................... 667 513 689 Funeral Plans Avalon Europe............................................................................................................................................................... 966 799 070

Shops Worten.....................................................................................Las Chafiras..........................................www.canarias.worten.es Tattooist Ink Bandit...............................................................................Los Abrigos.................................................................. 651 320 247 Travel Agency Tenerife Sunshine................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 751 867 TUI.............................................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 761 202 Zafiro Tours............................................................................San Eugenio................................................................ 922 724 364 Removals Universal Exports.................................................................Buzanada..................................................................... 922 720 711 Worldwide Moving.............................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 703 487

Furniture Shops Cocinas y Maderas K3........................................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 922 722 087 Deco Nuevo.................................................................................................................................................................... 922 789 729 Muebles Chic........................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 736 448 One Stop Home Shop........................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 703 310 Tenerife Furniture................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 736 849

Security The Prestige Group.............................................................Armeñime.................................................................... 922 740 888 Iron Craft.......................................................................................................................................................................... 922 736 973

Garden Furniture The Prestige Group.............................................................Armeñime.................................................................... 922 740 888

SUPERMARKET Supermacarde Gugi............................................................El Medano

Health & Beauty Barbers Shop.........................................................................13B, CC San Eugenio................................................ 822 667 989 Blueberry Bobs.....................................................................Golf Del Sur ................................................................ 922 737 569 Cloud Nine.............................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 753 286 Hair Point................................................................................La Tejita......................................................................... 922 705 231 Hair Today..............................................................................Golf Del Sur................................................................. 922 738 232 Jazz Hair..................................................................................Golf Del Sur................................................................. 922 738 213 O Lafino...................................................................................El Madroñal de Fañabe Adeje................................. 922 724 549 Peluqueria Lidia...................................................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 922 722 415 Peluqueria Rosy...................................................................El Medano.................................................................... 922 700 960 Peluqueria Roxy...................................................................Aldea Blanca Robot.......................................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 789 058 Roxy Hair and Beauty.........................................................Golf Del Sur ................................................................ 643 367 557 Sagitarios................................................................................El Medano.................................................................... 922 178 330 Yoga Vibe Tenerife.....................................................................................................................................yogavibetenerife.com

Television Services CSTI...........................................................................................Guaza............................................................................. 922 169 311 Electro Sat..............................................................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 922 722 227 Direct Telecom......................................................................Adeje.............................................................................. 902 107 111 Menny Fix...............................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 792 116

Hotels Hard Rock Hotel...................................................................Playa Paraiso............................................................... 922 741 700

Vets Molly’s Vet..............................................................................Los Abrigos.................................................................. 922 749 589

Insurance Services Hobson Rowley Insurance...............................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 793 866 Ibex insurance......................................................................Los Cristianos.............................................................. 922 753 831 Jewellers Adeley......................................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 735 735

Sports Club Activate Sports Club...........................................................Del Duque.................................................................... 822 070 037

Tiling Colin Taylor..................................................................................................................................................................... 679 736 409 Translation Services Tenerife Translation services...........................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 666 857 991 T- Shirt Printing Stitches....................................................................................Las Americas............................................................... 922 793 696 T-Shirt Factory......................................................................Las Chafiras.................................................................. 922 735 375

Washing Machine Washing machine repairs.......................................................................................................................................... 635 911 337 Web Design Digital Coast..........................................................................digitalcoast.es............................................................. 603 439 127 Wedding services Weddings in Tenerife Bridal Shop.................................Valle San Lorenzo...................................................... 690 083 226

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Puzzle / Classified

16th February - 22nd February 2018

Sudoku X Just enter the numbers 1 - 9 once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square within the sudoku X puzzle grid. In addition to standard sudoku, the numbers must only occur once in each side of the ‘X’ that is marked on the grid.

8 6 4 1

30-Second Brain Training

4 9 2 7 5

Beginner Starter Number

32

1

2

3

3/4

of this

-15

x8

6

7

9

-13

8

Squared

4

8 7 1 4 9 6

2 5 1 8

1

2

x6 +161

14 6

7

÷6

Answer

÷7

-133

6/7

3

3/5

of this

8

9

91

1

2

3

÷7

-8

6

7

8

of this

-391

5

4

x8

-126 Answer

+198 ÷3

3 2 6

1 2 5 6 9 8 3

6 8 5 7

+191

42

3

of this

+62

40%

of this

6

7

9

-16

8

of this

4/5

+88

1

2

÷2 +125

6

7

-151

Squared

1 2 9 4 3 8

6 3 4 8 1 8 6 7 8 6 5 2 9

Find the answers to these puzzles on our website

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-33

5

x17

Answer

÷4 3

5/6

of this

8

9

5

4

x7

-107 Answer

÷5 +123

Advanced

240

1

2

3

7/8

of this

-201

Squared

6

7

8

9

÷7 +141 x3

÷111

4

x4

5

-275 Answer

property

to advertise here call 822 14 15 17

Classified

to advertise here call 822 14 15 17 cars wanted CARS BOUGHT FOR CASH - Offer made once seen, we will come to you. WANTED small cars to medium cars, 4 X 4’s, small vans, people carriers, runners and non runners, accident damaged, etc. ANYTHING CONSIDERED.

Call us now on 678 451 641

cars for sale

2

4

Intermediate

7 4 1

4 7 9

3/4

of this

2

2 3 7 5

5 1 7 8 9

x5

Answer

9

1

property for sale

5

x76 -291

2/3

Starter Number

9 5 1 7

5/6

Starter Number

62

And 2 normal sudokus for you as well...

of this

5

4

Beginner

Starter Number

8 9

+42

Intermediate

Starter Number

3 2

+41

5

4

Advanced

property for rent

Write your final answer in the last box of the line. Aim to complete each round in about 30 seconds. Good Luck!

Starter Number

2 9

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Service Point

16th February - 22nd February 2018

chiropodist

health & Beauty

Service point

Ann Malpass M.A.F.H.P. M.C.F.H.P. Qualified Chiropodist.

All your foot care needs solved in the comfort of your own home/hotel. Tel 625 799 570

www.yogavibetenerife.com

House, apartment, villa clearance. Tenerife Auction Rooms, Call Freddie on 609 303 634

air-conditioning

Elaine Watson-Jones MSSCh MBChA. Experienced qualified Chiropodist based in Tenerife over 20yrs, offers home/ hotel visits in most areas of the South. Tel: 608 029 790.

Email: canarianfeet@gmail.com

to advertise here call 822 14 15 17

cleaning

House Clearance

house removal *Anglo Tenerife Removals* Local, National & International. For Best Rates Call 922 720 493

Insurance

Elite Cleaning Services is an established cleaning company who can provide a professional cleaning service for Apartments, Villas and Offices. Call us today on 922 789 795 or 696 922 597.

construction Kitchens & bathrooms Colin Taylor – Renovations & Maintenance, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Tiling, Plumbing, Decorating, Plastering etc. Tel: 661 081 843 for quotation.

Lawyers

Mechanics

blinds

garden furniture

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Mechanics (cont.)

Pest control

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Tiling

Plumbing

translation TENERIFE TRANSLATION SERVICES: Legally registered with over 25 years’ experience. Official, Medical, Notary, Wills, Utilities, Probate, Pensions, car paperwork and much more. Professionalism and confidentiality guaranteed.

Transport available. Call Tracey on 666 857 991 or email on info@tenerifetranslationservices.com

patio doors & windows

Pool tables

T-shirt printing

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

Removals worldwide tv & satellite ElectroSat TV S.L. C/Encarnacion No 1. Valle San Lorenzo, Tenerife. Tel: 922 72 22 27 Mobile 670 277 772, email: info@electrosat.com

Repairs

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 & doors

security

Personal services Los Cristianos, Mariana, Venezuelan, French, postures, kisses, vibrators, sadism, massage, private apartment, outcalls. Tel: 650 422 665 Transexual – Girl, versatile, well endowed,active, 60-100 euros, Cristianos. Tel: 0034-602 62 68 48

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Sport

16th February - 22nd February 2018

Coach’s fantasy formula CD Tenerife 5 Cordoba 1

By Colin Kirby

CD Tenerife review

CARTOON animals, super-heroes, and fancy-dress creations that defied logic, hardly raised an eyebrow.

But rampant Tenerife’s victory had Santa Cruz dancing.

New coach Joseba Etzeberria, in his first game in charge, sparked a fantasy on the pitch that complemented the fantasy theme of this year’s Carnival.

It could have been a dour dogfight, because Cordoba, third from bottom, were pinning their hopes

Giovanni one for the future

LOCAL talent is still CD Tenerife’s big hope, and B-team, strikerprospect Giovanni signed an extended contract with the club last week, until June 2021.

The 19-year-old, from Candelaria, joined Tenerife as an 11-year-old, and has worked his way through the ranks. He has scored

12 goals for the table-topping B-team this season.

Giovanni Goran Rodriguez Rivero, to give him his full name, is one of several Bteam youngsters who will be knocking on the firstteam door next season.

Ayoze Perez has shown at Newcastle that Tenerifeborn players can make a name for themselves on the world stage.

But, ideally, the next crop of youngsters can carry their home team into Spain’s Primera.

on 10, new, transfer-window signings.

Tenerife’s latest faces, Luis Milla and debutant Alex Mula, rejuvenated the home side. But the most pleasing feature was the rebirth of the tired, predictable, established players.

Malbasic and Casadesus, named in the starting lineup, had, previously, struck terror into my heart. But they each had superb, influential games.

Etzeberria had promised a more attacking, vibrant game-plan, and it was evident from the Carnival Queen’s ceremonial kickoff.

After five minutes, Milla broke down the right, but was bundled off the ball near the goal. But it broke to Juan Villar, whose farpost finish was clinical, despite the close attention of two defenders.

Cordoba didn’t appear content to be the supporting act, Guardiola testing the home defence.

And, when Dani Hernandez could only half-clear another shot after 20 minutes, Guardiola pounced

for an equaliser, as the Tenerife defence appealed for an offside call that never came.

The visitors were enjoying their best spell, with former Tenerife player Javi Lara revelling in his captain’s role, as his side forced three corners.

Dani made a great, punched clearance from the third to relieve the pressure. But there was an enforced change for Tenerife just before half-time, when injured left-back Camille was replaced by Luis Perez.

Tenerife were bright and alert, with an eye for an opening, and Malbasic was a revelation. His neat turn inside nearly caught out the opposition keeper, but he reacted even quicker, a minute later, to feed off a Villar cross, sending Tenerife ahead.

Milla again looked a classy creator, and, with Alberto playing a holding role alongside him, he was encouraged to chase halfchances.

Mula, the 22-year-old loanee from Malaga, at last gave Tenerife a free-roam-

ing, speedy presence on the left, and he caused the Cordoba defence multiple nightmares.

There are still some glaring problems for the new coach to deal with. Tenerife were awarded a 57thminute penalty for a foul, and Villar completed the team’s fifth, consecutive, spot-kick failure, by shooting straight at the keeper.

Thankfully, though, the ball rebounded out to Casadesus, who mopped it up nicely.

There was still life in the Cordoba team, especially when former Arsenal forward Jose Reyes came off the bench. But another couple of sharp stops by Dani gave Tenerife the platform to move in for a big finish.

Malbasic showed off his new confidence with some fancy footwork, setting up Villar for his second goal, after the keeper got a touch to the ball.

In the final minutes, Malbasic was at it again, this time to the benefit of Casadesus, who added a personal second, and a welldeserved fifth for the team.

This was a pleasing, allround performance, and Tenerife didn’t even have to bring on Longo, their fit-again top-scorer, from the subs’ bench.

It was like old times, as the 10,207 crowd belted out the Carnival anthem, Chicharrero de Corazon, and a Mexican Wave rippled around the terraces.

Experience has taught Tenerife fans to beware of false dawns, and a 5pm kick-off at Alcorcon tomorrow (Saturday) will be a tougher test. But, for a few nights at least, Santa Cruz Carnival had that extra swagger.

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Sport

16th February - 22nd February 2018

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Girl’s Football

Baffled boys beaten by the young girl upstarts THE worst thing for a young lad playing football is for his side to be beaten by a team of girls. But that’s exactly what’s happening in one Spanish area.

Every weekend, Valencia’s FC junior women’s team are beating their male rivals in official competition, so much so that they are top of an all-boys league.

The team stand out for their ball skills and fierce competitiveness, as their opponents, and the boys’ parents, are discovering.

These 11-year-olds are continuing to prove wrong the clichés about women in sport, especially football, and even those who train the young boys have to admit it.

“They’re very good, co-ordinated, prepared, and physically strong,” says Sergio Sánchez, who coaches rivals FC Cambridge Black Cats. “They beat us 1-0 and played really well, with intensity. And they’re tough when they have to be!

“In the football world, teams from schools run by major clubs usually win, because they have the means to recruit better players.

“And that’s exactly what Valencia Academy FC have been able to do, only they recruit top young girls!”

Even so, it is remarkable

that the girls team have won all their games, scoring 90 goals and conceding just four.

But why are a team of girls competing in a boys’ league? Sergio Fernández, Valencia FC’s women’s team co-ordinator, said: “We need our players to keep improving, so that when they get to ‘Soccer 11’ and go up against other girls who might be better than them, they’ll already have a leg-up.

“Competing against boys

gives them a physical advantage.

At this age, there aren’t many differences between a boy’s body and that of a girl’s.

Later on there will be, but, right now, they can play together.”

“When they can no longer compete against boys, physically, they’ll move on to a women’s league.

The idea is that when they play against other women, they’ll be better prepared, having played against boys from when they were aged

10 to 15.”

But their exploits have even rocked Fernández.

“The surprise is that they are coming first,” he said.

“Nobody thought that a girl’s team would be leading an all-boys league.”

The girls have been the competition’s stars since they beat their first opponents 11-0. But their coach, Miguel Ángel Ortiz, said: “We haven’t won anything, yet, and I don’t understand all the

commotion. We’ve finished the first round in first place, and nothing more.”

He added: “The first thing parents of players from opposing teams see is that girls are going to play against their boys, and they don’t believe they are up to it.

“Then we start, and, within the first five minutes, they realise we play well and can compete, so they treat them as equals on the pitch and are respectful.”

Our mighty challenge!

By Andy Maughan THE 2018 Scottish challenge begins on Tuesday, and, as usual, there have been last minute-changes, and players suddenly

unavailable. Nothing new there!

I’d like to thank George Fagan, my Scotland counterpart, because this event wouldn’t even have started in the first place.

But, for the past 10 years, he has brought over the most amazing group of lads and lassies from his bonny land.

Team captain, as always, is Mark McGregor, who’s not only a top pool player, but also a top bloke. He skippers the likes of Alex Coffey, Scott Eadie and Teemas McWhirter, to name but a few, and they are perfect examples of the calibre of players our Pool Superleague will be up against.

All competitors in the League were invited to compete in this year’s challenge, and players from eight teams have signed up for the event.

They comprise two teams from Camp Nauta, two from Scruffy Macs, T.P.T, and three teams from Legends. And, for the first

time, a non-league team, Gaffers Bar, will also join us.

Please come and join the fun.

Venues Legends Bar, Tuesday 20th Feb (7pm) Palms Bar, Thursday 22nd Feb (7pm) Legends Bar, Sunday 25th Feb (3pm)

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Sport

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Boothen stoke it up HATS off to The Tavern A, who visited high-flying Boothen and started superbly, taking the first three singles. But the dream collapsed when the Stoke boys woke up.

With the help of a 180 from Steve, and a 130 check-out by Joe, Boothen cleaned up to take the match 5-3.

Waterfall welcomed Division 1 leaders Scruffy Macs, and lots of games were close. But, despite their darts being belowpar, Scruffys triumphed 7-1.

The same score was recorded at Gaffers as Joe hit a maximum, and check-outs of 126 and 142 for Steve and Alex, respectively, put Playboys to the sword.

Emerald Lounge hosted Spear Chuckers, whose Graham was in fine form, recording a maximum and a 123 finish, as the team helped themselves to a 6-2 win. Sundowners were at home

to Phoenix Bar, who brought their A game with them, and went away winning 6-2.

Pas O Nadas A mustered just four players for their trip to The Pub, and lost 5-3 in another tight match, which also saw Pete boost the home side with a maximum. Picasso’s visited Palms Bar and played their best darts of the season, to record a fine 7-1 success.

Sandys got their season back on track, when they travelled to Ourplace Playgirls and won 6-2. Pas O Nadas B were triumphant in the 701 game, and, as a result, won 5-3 over unlucky Nauta Nomads.

But stablemates Nutty Nautas claimed a Division 2 walkover, as Bar Leones failed to make the fixture.

Lady Mac’s young guns, who just keep going, took the trebles to record a fine draw against Clouseau’s.

Legends, who have their eyes on the trophy, were made

division 1 ResultS

division 2 ResultS

Sundowners Emerald Lounge Waterfall The PuB GafferS Boothen Palms Pool Bar

2-6 Phoenix Bar 2-6 Spear Chuckers 1-7 Scruffy MacS 5-3 Pas O Nadas A 7-1 Ourplace PlayboyS 5-3 The Tavern A 2-6 PicassoS

division 1 Table

Ourplace Playgirls

Pas O Nadas B Lady Macs Nutty NautaS Marilyns A The Loch-In B Naughty NautaS

2-6 Sandys 5-3 Nauta Nomads 4-4 ClouseauS 8-0 Bar LeoneS 1-7 The Red DevilS 4-4 LegendS 3-5 Marilyns B

division 2 Table

Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

1 Boothen

23 18

3

2 138 46

92

138

1 Legends

26 20

4

2 146 62

84

146

2 Scruffy Macs

22 18

4

0 135 41

94

135

2 Sandys

26 18

5

3 144 64

80

144

3 Gaffers

25 16

5

4 134 66

68

134

3 Marilyns ‘A’

27 19

2

6 135 81

54

135

4 The Pub

24 15

5

4 131 61

70

131

4 The Red Devils

26 15

4

7 124 84

40

124

5 Phoenix Bar

24 17

1

6 121 71

50

121

5 Pas O Nadas ‘B’

25 12

7

6 117 83

34

117

6 Pas O Nadas ‘A’

23 14

4

5 119 65

54

119

6 Buzzin B’s

25 13

6

6 115 85

30

115

7 Spear Chuckers

22 13

1

8 109 67

42

109

7 Naughty Nautas

25 12

5

8 108 92

16

108

8 The Loch-In ‘A’

23 11

2

10 91

-2

91

8 Ourplace Breakaways 26 12 4 10 101 107 -6 101

93

9 Ourplace Playboys 23 7 5 11 76 108 -32

76

9 The Loch-In ‘B’

24 10

7

10 The Tavern ‘A’

24

6

4 14 72 120 -48

72

10 Nauta Nomads

25

8

8

9 92 108 -16

92

11 Palms Pool Bar

23

4

3 16 64 120 -56

64

11 Marilyns ‘B’

25

6

3

16 89 111 -22

89

12 Picasso’s

24

7

2 15 63 129 -66

63

12 Lady Macs

25

6

4 15 83 117 -34

83

13 Emerald Lounge 24

3

3 18 55 137 -82

55

13 Clouseaus

25

2

9 14 70 130 -60

70

14 Waterfall

25

0

5 20 53 147 -94

53

14 Nutty Nautas

26

2

3 21 69 139 -70

69

15 Sundowners

23

2

3 18 47 137 -90

47

15 Bar Leones

25

3

6 16 68 132 -64

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to work hard after finding themselves 4-1 down at The Loch-In B. But they battled well, and took the rest of the games to draw 4-4.

Belgian boy Luc grabbed another 180, as the Devils put seven past outof-form Marilyns A. And Naughty Nautas finally got back

7

98

94

4

98

16 Ourplace Playgirls 23 4 3 16 57 127 -70 57

to winning ways, Joyce throwing her best singles game of the season, to help her side to a 5-3 win over Marilyns B.

All fixtures, results, tables plus more can be found athttp://oasi.leaguerepublic.com/l/ fg/1_404633399.html

Basketball

Cup glitter so blinding SPREAD just a little too thin? Iberostar Tenerife are at a crucial stage of their season, but they lacked the breadand-butter of league form at Real Madrid on Sunday, as they floundered 89-76.

Preparation was disturbed by the absence of flu victim Fran Vazquez, while a rare off-day for free-scoring Mateusz Ponitka left him with just four points, his lowest return all season.

Early signs were good, though, and Tenerife won first quarter 21-18. But the game started to ebb away after that. A second quarter 25-13 put Madrid

in charge, and they never looked back, adding a 2519, before Tenerife took the final quarter 23-21.

Defeat drops the La Laguna team to ninth place, and, though they have games in hand, they need to address the decline.

This weekend is the prestigious Copa del Rey (Kings Cup) final in Gran Canaria capital Las Palmas, with Valencia v Tenerife in the semi-final last night (Thursday), and the grand finale on Sunday.

It was touch-and-go whether the showpiece finals would go ahead, because the players’ association (ABP) were threatening to strike.

Thankfully, a deal was struck on Tuesday, and, despite some late wrangling over details, the truce should hold.

The argument was mainly over the Social Fund paid by the Spanish League to cover player hardship during injuries, or disputes

with their clubs.

Players have also negotiated a 10% basic-salary increase.

The timing and extremelypublic argument has caused

some heated discussions on both sides, keeping fans up in the air over their big, weekend, basketball feast.

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Away point is a grind Albacete 2 Egatesa Granadilla Tenerife 2

S P E C TA C U L A R wins are appreciated, by players and fans alike, but teams sometimes have to take pride in a hardearned point, earned on away travels.

That was very much the case for Egatesa Granadilla at Albacete last Sunday, after the home side had taken the lead through Matil after 10 minutes.

But Granadilla settled to their task, and, with a mixture of patience and good football, they were level on the half-hour, thanks to a strike from

Maria Martin-Prieto. The second half was just as competitive with the two teams matching each others efforts, but Pisco raised hopes of an away win with a goal in the 71st minute.

Hanging on was never going to be easy against a determined home team, though, and Matil was on target again after 78 minutes to equalise with the final goal.

Granadilla, still wellplaced in fifth spot in Spain’s Premier League, have a chance to improve their standing on Sunday, at home against Real Sociedad, kick-off 11am in San Isidro.

CD Marino

Early birds shipwrecked San Fernando 2 CD Marino 1

ANOTHER early-morning flight on Sunday saw sprightly Marino catch their Gran Canarian hosts on the hop, with a first-minute opener from Zeben.

It was to be a war of attrition as the Maspalomas-based team steadied the ship.

Marino’s sharp lead was kept intact until the 19th minute, when Abraham fired

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an equaliser. But Marino had high hopes of an away point, at least, until Pedro popped up after 69 minutes to deliver the home side’s winner.

That left Marino in 14th place in their Tercera Division group, so Sunday’s home match against San Mateo, with a noon kick-off, is vital for them to get back on track.

Arona win epic battle

AFTER a run of three-set victories, it was probably a good thing for Arona Tenerife Sur to be stretched, for a 3-2 home win over Cajasol Juvasa Volley.

It didn’t stop the upward march of the Los-

Cristianos-based team, who now sit fourth in Spain’s Superliga. The opening set was a tough, even affair, with Arona taking it 26-24.

That was followed by a 25-16 advantage, a 25-23 reversal, and a 25-21 leveller, to set up the deciding set. It was a tense finish, with Arona shading it 15-13.

Some league teams rely on a couple of big guns to lead

the way, but Arona coach Romina Lamas has a solid squad. Nira Perez is ninth in the scoring stats, with team-mate Orina Diaz just three places behind.

Tomorrow (Saturday), Arona travel to the mainland to play Rioja Volley, and, as always, they are confident of adding more momentum to their impressive season.

Half-marathon will fit all sizes THE 22nd annual Las Galletas half-marathon takes place on Sunday 8th April, and bookings are now open for the full 21km race, the 10.8km challenge, and the new 5km event.

They are all split into agegroups, with trophies for the top three finishers.

There will also be cash prizes, peaking at 750 euros, for the top 10 male or female finishers in the main race.

For most runners, it’s more about testing themselves on a Sunday morning (from 9am) around the streets of Las Galletas, just along the coast from Los Cristianos.

The highest entry fee is 20 euros, for the half marathon, if booked by the 4th April closing date. But prices are around half that sum if you take advantage of booking before 25th March.

Those fees include an electronic chip, to record your time when crossing the finishing line, and a commemorative running vest.

There’s a limit of 1,500

runners, so it is best to book yourself in, online, at www. mediomaratonlasgalletas. com or in person at Los Cristianos sports centre, by the outdoor swimming pool on the main road, linking

with Las Americas. There is always an international field of entries, including many Brits (holiday-makers as well), but it’s also an excellent chance to befriend other funrunners.

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