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Dive school has no papers‌ or safety permits!

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THE owner of a Las Americas dive school is being investigated by Guardia Civil officers, attached to the Santa Cruz headquarters, and assigned to (GEAS), the force’s underwater-activities group.

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Horrific crash leads to death of woman driver

A WOMAN driver was killed, instantly, on Wednesday morning, when a heavy goods vehicle crashed into the TF-1’s central reservation, causing it to overturn and land on her car, travelling in the opposite direction.

The HGV’s 53-year-old driver, from La Orotava, was on route to Santa Cruz when, for reasons unknown, he lost control of the vehicle between Fañabe and Miraverde. But he proved negative when tested by police for alcohol.

His huge vehicle also crashed into a Peugeot 307 car and a Ducati Monster motorbike, whose rider was also injured.

The tragic woman, aged 45 and identified as MEA, from Los Cristianos, was accompanied by her 12-year-old daughter, who suffered a serious leg injury.

Once the fire-fighter team released the youngster from the car, she was taken to Hospiten Sur for observation, then, later, on to Candelaria Hospital to be treated for a broken femur.

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They have been inspecting the head of the suspicious dive school, which appears to be running illegally.

He is alleged to be responsible for a client being injured, as well as conducting other crimes, committed against the rights of the people who employ him.

The investigation was sparked by an incident involving a young Danish woman, who experienced a life-threatening accident while on a diving excursion in the Arico resort of Abades. She had to be transferred, immediately, to the University Hospital in Santa Cruz, to receive specialised treatment in a decompression chamber.

The woman had organised the excursion with the LasAmericas-based dive school, and, during the Guardia’s GEAS investigation, it became clear to officers that a more thorough inspection

had to be carried out there.

During their search, the Guardia team were made aware that the school lacked the relevant permits, required by various councils across Tenerife.

These give the green light to this type of recreational activity, in certain areas of the island.

But the officers not only discovered that there were no official permits, but also found that the dive centre’s working staff did not have the relevant certificates, enabling them to teach, as well as practise, this risky sport.

The staff were also working without contracts, and the dive school, along with the person in charge, are all being investigated by the GEAS, who are continuing their thorough probe.

Pesca, the Canarian Government’s official body, oversees nautical activities in the islands, and has a list

of officially-recognised dive centres in the Islands.

There are 27 in Tenerife, which comply with their full legislation. They also have contracts with the decompression chamber authorities, and hold full, public-liability insurance, which is why they are recommended by Pesca, particularly for “try dives”.

These are the dives taken by novices, and recommended in a swimming pool, or, more likely, in the sea.

They have the highest possibility of risk or problems, because the new divers have no experience, and a qualified instructor is essential.

Although it may cost slightly more with one of the official dive schools, because they have all paperwork in order, the peace of mind, and experience of an instructor, is invaluable when you take the plunge for the first time.

The medical team, because of the trauma, will insist that she receives psychological treatment.

The 30-year-old Peugeot motorist also suffered a serious leg injury, but the HGV driver was, miraculously, unharmed.

The Guardia Civil are investigating the circumstances surrounding the tragic accident.

Meanwhile, fire-fighter Cesar Alvarez posted a poignant, yet angry, message on Facebook, after the horrific incident. It read:

Firstly, my sincere condolences to the family of the woman, who died in the tragic accident. I attended the scene along with my fellow fire-fighters, volunteers from Adeje Fire-fighters, Adeje Local Police, and, of course, the Guardia Civil.

Secondly, I want to wish the young girl a lot of strength, because this is, without doubt, one of the most traumatic events that will happen in her life.

Also, I’m sure that the young man on the motorbike will look at life from a different angle, especially as he has been given a second chance.

But I have to note that I’m am so disappointed with the society we live in. Today, I witnessed people from all walks of life… old, young, women, men and even children, pointing their mobile phones at the scene of a tragic accident.

I don’t believe it is appropriate to record horrible incidents, in which people are seriously injured, or are even deceased.

Recording these images is definitely not in good taste (imagine how the family members of the victims feel).

But here you have it: people using their phones, slowing down traffic, and hiding their devices because they know it’s wrong to use them, as well as being aware that using them while at the wheel is a criminal offence An officer was nearly knocked over by a vehicle on Wednesday during the tragedy, because of this mobile-phone nonsense.

PLEASE BE MORE HUMANE! Place yourselves in the situation of others. And be responsible, as well as empathetic. Let’s make the world a better place, and stop living the lives of others through the mobile phone.

Live the life you have before you, with the people you have around you.

Please think about what I’ve said, and thank you.

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TOURISTS and locals have been issued a stark warning to stay away from the sea after hundreds of deadly jellyfish washed up on a Lanzarote beach.

Tourists were forced to abandon one of the resort’s most popular beaches, after hundreds of mysterious jellyfish, armed with poisonous tentacles, were found on the sand.

The terrifying creatures appeared on Famara beach, on the island’s north-western coastline, and the invasion has been described as a “total atrocity”, as tourists flock to the island for the start of the peak summer season.

The species have not yet been confirmed, but they are said to be venomous.

They first appeared at the beach last Monday, but their numbers quickly increased, and, by the Wednesday, hundreds were seen on the sand.

Enrique Espinosa, Director of the local Safety and Emergencies Consortium, says it is a total atrocity and he said that the red flag is waving on the beach to warn people it is not safe to bathe.

The venom from the animal’s tentacles is believed to cause stinging, and local authorities recommend that victims see a lifeguard quickly, to have the tentacles removed, and receive prescription painkillers to reduce the swelling.

It is believed that the jellyfish were brought to the beach by currents, and reports say

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Beware jellyfish as hundreds wash up

the creatures are relatively common in small numbers in the area during the summer season. But not in their hundreds!

According to the Regional Statistics Institute in the Canary Islands, more than 465,000 tourists from the UK and 86,000 from Ireland visited Lanzarote between January and April this year, with hundreds of thousands more set to descend on the island this summer.

This incident came as Benidorm beaches were forced to close because seven people were stung by

deadly Portuguese Man O’ War jellyfish..

And tourists were forced to leave three beaches on the

Costa Blanca coast, where people needed hospital treatment after being stung.

Their tentacles are loaded

with coiled, barbed tubes, which deliver venom capable of paralysing and killing small fish and crustaceans.

Battered Briton is treated in hospital

A BRITISH man, aged 24, was injured after being on the receiving end of an aggressive attack in Arona, during the early hours of Monday.

The emergency services received a call at around 4.10am, requesting an ambulance because a beaten

man needed medical assistance. One was sent to Avenida Arquitecto Gómez Cuesta, where medics assessed the man, who had suffered various facial wounds.

He was promptly taken to Hospiten Sur to have his facial wounds treated.

The National Police were in the area to assist in the emergency, and search for the assailants.

Driver goes underground, in her search for car park A WOMAN drove her car down the entrance to Barcelona’s “busiest” Metro entrance, after confusing it with a car park.

The vehicle became jammed on the first flight of stairs in

the Plaza de España station, where two of the city’s mostused lines run.

Firefighters and a tow-truck were called out to rescue the woman and her car, which were both stuck at 10.30am last Monday.

Barcelona’s Local Police Accident Unit has opened

an investigation to try to discover how the incident occurred.

One feeling is that the driver confused the mouth of the Metro, which caters for underground trains, with access to the parking lot, connected to Las Arenas shopping centre.

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It’s a huge nightmare for Lanzarote holiday family

A SCOTTISH family’s holiday in Lanzarote rapidly switched to becoming a nightmare, after a terrifying £8k raid left them broke and stranded.

Brodie Watson said her children were left petrified after their holiday villa was ransacked by thieves, who helped themselves to jewellery, bank cards and even their passports, last Wednesday

Brodie’s holiday, along with her husband, James, and their children, turned sour when thieves ransacked their holiday home.

Brodie’s engagement and wedding rings, bank cards, watches and other jewellery were believed to be among the items, worth a total of £8,000, stolen from the villa’s safe.

Brodie told Glasgow Live: “It’s been a total nightmare.

The kids are terrified and just want to be home. I have children aged six and nine, and my husband’s daughter

is only 13. “Last night, we all had to sleep in the living room because the kids were petrified.”

The couple called the police late the same night, but the language barrier made conversation a struggle.

By the time the villa company came out to complete a report, alongside the police the next day, their possessions were long gone.

Emergency documents that would allow the family to fly home are currently at Gran Canaria and will not reach them for a number of days.

Thief’s cheesy antics not to officers’ taste!

OFFICERS from Las Palmas National Police in Gran Canaria have arrested and charged a 47-year-old man with, allegedly, stealing various cheeses from a popular shopping centre.

A call was made directly to the police by the centre’s security guards, who were on duty there, reporting that they had detained a man.

They told officers that they had held the man after catching him, trying to leave the centre without paying

for various cheeses he had hidden, between and inside the pockets of his clothes.

They also said that while they were in the process of detaining the man, he assaulted one of them, which led the security officer to use force to restrain the individual, Once the police arrived, they confirmed the events related to them, arresting the man and charged him with robbery with violence.

He already had a string of offences to his name for similar crimes, and, together with the police report, he was presented before the judicial authorities.

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Five bitten, by the food truck FIVE people were injured last Sunday, following an accident involving a food truck, which was falling to pieces.

The truck was situated at Calle Perdomo, in Puerto de la Cruz, and, for reasons still not known, its canopy fell off.

The incident happened at 7.30pm, taking the five by complete surprise when the roof/canopy detached itself. All five were injured,

but, fortunately, their injuries were all slight. A five-yearold girl, among the injured, suffered the worst with several cuts and bruises.

Local Police and the Red Cross were in the vicinity when the incident happened, and were first at the scene. The emergency services were alerted, and ambulances were sent to the area, rapidly.

All five were assessed, before being taken to Bellevue Hospital for further treatment and observation.

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NEWS IN BRIEF Holiday youngster is Church’s firework tragedy hit with brain problem TEENAGER Jack Deane, of Uplands, in Stroud, Gloucestershire, flew to Lanzarote for a 10-day family holiday in the Costa Teguise resort last month.

A WOMAN, aged 56, died, horrifically, after a rocket from a firework display shot into her mouth and exploded during a religious procession last Saturday.

She was watching the event, in the Viso del Marqués town of Ciudad Real, when the incident occurred, at 8.29pm.

There had been a procession in honour of San Cristobal when the concluding firework display, in front of the local church, went wrong.

The 51-year-old man, who fired the rocket, was released after being questioned about the possibility of committing reckless homicide.

Patron Saint celebration delay

A LEISURE boat was stranded at El Puertito de Guimar beach on Wednesday afternoon, victim of the rough coastal waters, caused by strong winds and waves around the coastline.

The incident happened the day before the Virgen del Carmen celebrations should have been held to honour the patron saint of fishermen.

These special fiestas are held every year in El Puertito de Guimar and El Tablado. But, unfortunately, they had to be suspended until further notice because of the weather forecast.

Alerts by the General Director for Safety and Emergency have been put in place for strong winds and waves.

Brits in stabbing drama

A 46-YEAR-OLD man was arrested by Guardia Civil officers after stabbing a 20-year-old in a bar in Alfaz del Pi, on the Costa Blanca.

The men, both British, were inside the Cami Vell d’Altea bar, when a fight broke out at 11am.

The victim, who was taken to hospital, may require “surgical intervention”, according to Valencia’s Emergency Information and Co-ordination Centre (CICU).

But, days before his 16th birthday, he had to be flown to Gran Canaria for lifesaving brain surgery. To the great relief of his family, he was released from intensive care and his condition is slowly improving.

Jack’s sister, Hattie Deane, 21, said: “The family flew out to Lanzarote on a Thursday, and, by the following Monday, Jack and my mum both had swollen foreheads.”

Jack’s mum, Deborah Deane, who has a condition known as “sun poisoning” had experienced the same problem in the past.

“We thought Jack had the same thing,” said Hattie.

“We took him to the doctor, who prescribed Naproxen for him.”

By the Thursday, though, Jack’s left leg had become numb. He tried to get it moving and then fell asleep.

But when he awoke, he couldn’t walk.

His family took him to

hospital, where he was given a CT scan. “By this time, he couldn’t move his leg and arm on his left side and he was put into intensive care,” recalled Hattie.

“The hospital told us Jack would have to see a brain surgeon, so he was flown the Doctor Negrin University Hospital in Las Palmas, at which point his condition was judged to be “critical”.

“My parents flew out there to join him because we were all so worried,” said Hattie. “He could have died, there and then.”

The Gran Canaria doctors swiftly operated on Jack, removing excess fluid from behind an eye and his nose.

They then drilled into his skull to remove fluid from his brain.

He came out of intensive care last Thursday evening, and is now off the critical list.

“He’s on a normal ward, so we’re all much happier,” said Hattie.

“But if the swelling has not gone down by the end of week, the doctors will have to operate again and remove more fluid.”

“He still can’t move his leg and foot, but he can raise the arm. We don’t know yet if all feeling will come back.”

Hattie has set up a fundraising page to help pay for expenses, and she has been overwhelmed by the response.

Fake €500 notes even fooled Bank’s experts TWO men were arrested in Alicante for using fake €500 banknotes, so good that they were said to be undetectable by machines.

The sting came after the men, aged 26 and 27, blew 15 of them in a casino in Alicante city.

The casino served a denuncia to the National Police out of concern that the €7,500 they had spent comprised counterfeit money.

Yet expert reports, made by technicians from the Bank of Spain’s National Counterfeiting Analysis Centre, confirmed the bank notes were of “an extremely high quality”.

The notes were so good, in fact, that they bypassed the casino’s own machines for detecting counterfeit money.

After locating the alleged perpetrators, on 9th July,

Alicante’s National Police officers arrested both men, accusing them of counterfeiting and fraud.

The detainees, both Spanish, were put at the disposal of the Court of Instruction no.5 of Alicante.

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Russian frigate’s warfare exercise, near to Canaries

Disability-card fraudster caught out by the police

A WOMAN has been served a denuncia

by Santa Cruz Local Police for using a Blue Badge disability card fraudulently.

THE crew of the Russian Northern Fleet’s missile frigate, Admiral Gorshkov, held an anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Atlantic as part of its voyage in distant waters, reported the Fleet’s press office last Friday.

It added: “The exercise was held in the areas of the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Canary Islands.”

During the drills, the frigate’s crew practised a set of measures to

search for an envisaged enemy’s submarines, using onboard sonars and also employing its deck-based aviation, namely, a Ka27 anti-submarine warfare helicopter.

During the flight, the Ka27 crew carried out search measures, using a dipping sonar system. At some stages, the combat teams of the frigate’s torpedo compartment held drills to force an imagined, adverse submarine to surface and also, still imagining, employed the entire range of the anti-submarine warfare armament.

The Northern Fleet’s naval task force, comprising several

warships and vessels, set off for its long-distance mission from the Severomorsk naval base on 26th February.

This voyage was the first in the frigate Admiral Gorshkov’s history, with the Northern Fleet’s warships covering more than 32,500 nautical miles.

They also made business calls at the ports of Djibouti, Sri Lanka, China, Ecuador, Cuba, Trinidad and Tobago and Cape Verde.

In addition, they sailed through the Suez and Panama Canals and crossed the equator in the eastern Pacific and the central Atlantic.

German woman is a tunnel-crash victim A GERMAN woman was injured after being involved in a collision inside Guimar Tunnel last Saturday, just before 5.30pm.

Witnesses said the accident happened because she swerved to avoid a dog, which was wandering around the tunnel.

The vehicle behind her on the other lane ran into her car, resulting in the German suffering moderate injuries.

The Guardia Civil, who were there before the

emergency services were contacted, informed them, and an ambulance arrived, almost immediately.

Medical staff assessed the individual before taking her to Candelaria Hospital for further treatment.

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She had used the card to park her own vehicle in a designated disability space, and it was noticed by officers because it was in really poor condition.

When they took a closer look, they saw it was badly defaced, with the important details illegible.

The police were in the process of presenting the driver with a fine for parking

her car incorrectly, when she began telling the officers that the card belonged to her partner, who was visiting a local doctor.

But the officers soon became aware that her story was wrong, because the card had been reported missing, only recently.

While they proceeded to question the card’s authenticity, her answers became inconsistent, and she then decided not to answer any more questions.

An official report was presented to the woman, who will now face a court for falsification of documents, as well as fraud.

Police arrest couple of crooks, at their leisure

TWO men were arrested by the National Police at a leisure arcade, here in the South, after issuing verbal death threats to the staff.

The men are aged 33 and 37, one an Italian and the other Croatian, and both have a police record.

The action kicked off when they entered the arcade and began using all the free services available, until, suddenly, an argument broke out.

The waiters refused both men’s orders to hand over whatever money was around. But, because of their refusals, the threats began.

One of the men ordered his companion to collect a gun, so they could “kill a waiter”

and collect money at the same time.

While one of them left the premises to get the weapon, the other one’s carelessness enabled an employee to make the 019 call, contacting the National Police directly.

But even as the call was being made, the villains realised the police were on their way and decided to flee!

When the officers arrived, they took a physical description of the men from the staff, and what clothes they were wearing.

The police then searched the area, and, thanks to the in-depth descriptions, they were able to find the pair.

They were arrested and charged with intentional, violent robbery, and, together with the police reports, were presented before the judicial authorities.

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Judge rules €5 cream to be ahead of a blue-chip brand SPAIN’S giant supermarket company Mercadona, which sells an own-brand ‘top’ moisturiser, for €5, has won a legal battle with an élite cosmetics company over “plagiarism”.

Mercadona’s Sisbela range of day and night facecreams, which is exactly the same product as an €85 version, retailing under a different name in independent shops, includes a variety called the Diamond Revitalizante (“Diamond Revitalising”).

The national patent office

refused to allow the cream to be retailed under this name, in case of confusion with Catalunya-based Natura Bissé’s Diamond Extreme.

Natura Bissé, a blue-chip cosmetics firm on a par with many international leaders, described its moisturiser on Twitter, saying: “What makes

No-deal Brexit could lead to new recession

BRITAIN is heading for another recession next year if it crashes out of the EU with a no-deal Brexit, shrinking the economy by 2%, predicts the UK’s official economic forecaster.

Since the 2016 referendum, there have been warnings that leaving the bloc in this manner would be a disaster for the economy.

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has now offered its official assessment, and the forecast appears dire! The organisation has warned that a no-deal scenario will have a devastating effect on wages, employment and house prices.

Its five-year forecast predicts that the economy will decline in 2020 and enter recession, and the UK’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is likely to be at least 2% lower.

In its executive summary, the OBR said: “Heightened uncertainty and declining confidence deter investment, while higher trade barriers with the EU weigh on exports.

‘Together, these push the economy into recession, with asset prices and the pound falling sharply. Real GDP falls by 2% by the end of 2020, and is 4% below our March forecast by that point.

Both Conservative leadership candidates, Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt, have said they are prepared to leave the EU without a deal.

Parliament could even be suspended to force through a no-deal, because MPs voted earlier this year that they wanted to leave with some form of divorce deal with the bloc.

If the UK does crash out, it will have to revert to World Trade Organisation rules on trade, automatically, leading to much higher tariffs for companies.

The OBR’s prediction is based on models from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which has assumed no border disruption, but a 4% increase of tariffs.

Last November, the Bank of England warned that the economy could shrink by 8% by 2035, and that interest rates would have to rise by 5.5% to offset the impact.

Diamond Extreme an icon?

This revolutionary, intelligent formula gives your skin what it needs, when it needs it, even in extreme conditions.

A pioneer in the skincare industry for being the first 360º anti-ageing treatment based on cellular energy.”

Sisbela, by contrast, has not

had to be advertised since it was found to be identical to Alain, a vastly-moreexpensive brand, except the scent, when it caused a similar furore to Lidl’s €2.99 Cien Q10 formula.

That was found by a consumer association to be more effective than leading brands, sold for up to €225 a pot.

In both cases, as soon as the reports were released, the respective supermarkets ran out of stock within the day, and customers began queueing in the street to get their hands on the last remaining jars. Star Healthcare, the manufacturer behind Mercadona’s highly-rated, low-priced, own-brand cosmetics, appealed against

the decision of the patent office to stop them using the “Diamond” name.

A judge, at Madrid’s regional High Court of Justice, has ruled that there should be no confusion between the Sisbela Diamond and the Natura Bissé Diamond creams.

“From a denomination point of view, we consider that between the two brands, there is no high level of similarity,” reads the court verdict.

“The structure is different, and there is only one word in common, ‘Diamond’, which is, as the case has proven, a term frequently used in products in the cosmetics industry.”

well as appearing nervous, he had a disproportionatelylarge hairpiece under his hat.

Officers found a package, stuck to his head, containing cocaine, worth about €30,000, and, read the police statement: “There is no limit to the inventiveness of drugtraffickers trying to mock controls.”

The statement enclosed a

photo of a middle-aged man, still wearing the toupee, though with his eyes blocked in the image. But it offered no more details of his identity.

Over 100 kilos of cocaine were seized by Spanish police at the Barcelona-El Prat airport in 2018, while Colombia’s global cocaine trade is valued at an estimated €11bn per year.

Colombian tried to smuggle cocaine underneath toupee!

A COLOMBIAN man was arrested at Barcelona’s international airport, after half-akilo of cocaine was found hidden, under his over-sized toupee!

The traveller, who arrived on a flight from Bogota, attracted police attention because, as

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Wrong-way kamikaze driver dies after speeds of 200km/h A KAMIKAZE driver, who hit speeds of up to 200kph on the wrong side of the road, died after crashing into another car and leaving five people injured.

Woman badly hurt as blaze hits home

A WOMAN was seriously injured in a fire, which broke out at her Avenida el Pacific home, in the El Rosario area, on Tuesday afternoon.

When the emergency fire services arrived, they immediately began to extinguish the blaze, dealing also with the adjacent buildings, which were affected.

An ambulance was also

sent to the scene, and it was clear to medics that the woman had multiple injuries. She was taken to Candelaria Hospital, promptly, where she was admitted for observation.

Guardia Civil, Local Police as well as the Civil Protection. were also at the scene to assist in the emergency. But the cause of the fire is still not known.

Two children, aged four and five, were among those hurt, but the emergency services said their injuries were “slight”.

The horrific incident occurred last Monday at 11-39pm, on Gijon’s A-8 motorway. But Guardia Civil patrol officers, who spotted the driver’s extremely high speeds, were unable to intercept the vehicle in time to divert other traffic away, before the crash.

Another car then ploughed into the wreckage, and the

52-year-old had to be cut from his car by Gijon fire-fighters. But the mostseriously-injured was a man, 69, who was treated by medics, then taken to the San Agustín Hospital, after being trapped in his car and released by the same fire-fighters.

The condition of a woman, also taken to hospital, was unknown, while a 48-year-old man and the two children, who were slightly hurt, had check-ups there.

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Heart-attack swim tragedy

A MAN died on Wednesday, just after midday, after experiencing a heart attack while swimming off Lanzarote’s Arrecife beach.

The emergency service operator was told that a person, who had been dragged out of the water, was receiving CPR because he wasn’t breathing.

When the ambulance medical team arrived, they continued with CPR, but could only confirm the man’s death.

Early-hours rider hurt

A MAN aged 48 suffered a bad head injury after falling off his scooter at 2.50, in the early hours of Wednesday.

The incident happened in Gran Canaria, on the busy Santa Lucia de Tirajana road, and, once contacted, the emergency sent an ambulance team to give him medical assistance.

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Brexit blamed for school drop in language studies THE number of pupils studying foreign languages has fallen by 19% in the last five years, according to the British Council.

The latest Language Trends report, by the UK’s international organisation for cultural relations and educational opportunities, blamed “Brexit” as a key factor in the drop.

“Brexit threatens to broaden the socio-economic and academic divide,” reads the report, adding that teachers in both state and private education were aware that Brexit had a negative impact on motivation to learn a European language.

Mark Levy, head of English programmes at the British Council in Madrid, also said that languages were not being given priority at UK schools.

He said in a statement: “Increasingly-fewer teachers are trained in foreignlanguage teaching. There are fewer international

exchanges, and external language exams are considered more difficult than other subjects.”

But Spanish is set to pip French as the UK schools’ mostpopular second language, by next year.

The Iberian tongue overtook German in 2008 to become the UK’s second-most-

popular foreign language at GCSE level.

Yet Spanish still lagged behind French in 2017, when 7,600 pupils took the GCSE subject, compared with the 8,300 who took French.

Even so, Spanish is becoming more and more popular in UK schools, despite a decreasing uptake of foreign languages.

According to London’s Cervantes director Ignacio Peyró, foreign-language acquisition plays a key role in bridging international divides.

“People studying Spanish in our academies have business or work ties with the US and Spanish-speaking countries,” he said. “The bond grows!”

He added: “There is also a feeling that Spanish is easier, and, of course, the language is used on account of the

large number of tourists coming to Spain.”

The report concluded that the above factors mostly harmed those students academically challenged, or attending state schools.

Just 25% of state-run institutes had exchange-programmes, compared with nearly half of private schools.

“These shortfalls are not good for our society, or for the future of our country,” said Teresa Tinsley, who wrote the report.

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A freak holiday accident leaves man paralysed

Glacier is wrapped up, to slow down melting!

A SWISS glacier is melting so rapidly that it has been covered with a tarpaulin, to try to slow down the rate.

Moment the accident was videoed by friends

A BRITISH holidaymaker’s life changed forever after a freak accident at Benidorm’s Aqualandia left him paralysed.

David Briffaut, 23, was pulled, semi-conscious, from the water after riding the ‘Splash’ waterslide with girlfriend Penny Bristow last week.

Video footage, shot by friends, shows the pair laughing, side-by-side, before David’s head snaps forward as he hits the water.

David, who works as a greenkeeper at a golf course near his Essex home in Benfleet, regained consciousness after blacking out, but said: “I can’t feel my legs.”

He is now on a life-support machine in an Alicante hospital, and his family have been warned that he could be paralysed from the chest down, after breaking two vertebrae in his neck, and suffering a spinal-cord injury.

Parents Lorraine and Stephane are by their son’s bedside, where he remains sedated in the intensive care unit.

Lorraine told MailOnline: “We are living every parents’ nightmare. Our son went on holiday with his girlfriend, and we have been told he might never walk again. All we can do now is pray that he will recover.”

Lorraine, who visits her son

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Parts of the Gurschengletscher glacier are blanketed with tarpaulins, near the peak of Mount Gemsstock, which stands 2,961 metres high.

The glacier in Andermatt, Switzerland, is the latest to be given this treatment, in an attempt to stop it retreating, while the Rhône Glacier has been covered during the summer, every year since 2010.

David Volken, a Rhône glaciologist, told USA Today: “It reduces the melting by 50% to 70%.”

The blankets are stuffed with

a heavy-duty fleece material, which insulates the ice and reflects back sunlight, and they are left on the glacier from spring until autumn, when it is most vulnerable.

Matthias Huss, head of the Swiss Glacier Monitoring Network, said: “The blankets protect the underlying snow and ice from the sunlight.

Another benefit is the thermal insulation they provide, but they don’t stop the melting, totally. Yet these blankets are very useful in slowing down ice loss, locally.”

But he admitted that only a small volume of the glacier could be covered at a time, adding: “This method will never be able to save our glaciers, or counteract the negative consequences of climate change.”

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twice a day, has been told that doctors plan to insert two screws in his neck.

He will also undergo a tracheotomy, to enable him to breathe without the use of a ventilator.

The Aqualandia water park, which opens all-year-round, is one of Benidorm’s most popular tourist attractions.

The rides are rated in three different categories: infant, moderate, and radical. The Splash ride, featuring six slides side by side, is rated “moderate” on its website.

An appeal for funds, reads: “The catastrophic injuries mean that David will need life-long care. His life has changed, and so have the lives of those closest to him.

“His parents’ home will need to be remodelled for disability access and specialised treatment; new treatments will need to be explored, and, of course, many other unforeseen expenses covered.”

An Aqualandia spokesman told MailOnline that it was “simply false” to suggest the ride was unsafe, adding that David “did not follow the guidelines” for the Splash ride, which remained open after the incident.

He added: “Aqualandia has a long, 34-year history, and safety is our top priority. Our rules and recommendations are clearly displayed all over the park, and must be adhered to by our visitors.”

A video went viral after Angel helped his wife die

OVER one million people have signed petitions in support of euthanasia in Spain, and the Government, still struggling to sign power-sharing deals, will today (Friday), be presented with the requests for change.

Signatories of petitions are requesting that the law be changed to decriminalise “assisted dying”, as it is sometimes known.

Doctor Marcos Hourmann set up a Change.org petition after a video went viral of a man, who helped his wife

with multiple sclerosis die.

Angel Hernandez filmed himself giving his wife, Maria Jose Carrasco, a lethal substance, which she consented to drink while on camera.

This huge demonstration of support comes after surveys have shown that 84% of Spain supports changing the legislation on euthanasia.

“Support remains stable through time and across ideologies, with barely a bump when it touches on religious beliefs,” said Rafael Serrano del Rosal, a researcher at the Institute of Advanced Social Studies, at the Superior Scientific Council.

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Country star Willie loves his horses, as much as his music!

20-year sentence for teacher, who had sex with under-age pupil

WILLIE Nelson is more than just one of the greatest countrymusic stars of all, because, to many horses, he’s also a hero! The 87-year-old, along with his wife, Annie, once rescued a herd of American paint horses, destined for a slaughterhouse.

Now, with over 70 horses living on his ranch, the initial idea of finding them new homes seems to be long forgotten.

The 70-plus horses roam free on Nelson’s 700-acre ranch, in Texas Hill Country, aptly named Luck Ranch.

Nelson says: “When you’re here, you’re in Luck, and when you’re not, you’re out of Luck,” and this is very appropriate for the rescued equines.

The horses, which have been rescued over several years, live together on the ranch, just 30 miles from Austin. There’s plenty of open space for them to run around freely and they

live a life of luxury.

Willie, who spends most of his free time at the Texan ranch when he’s not on the road, said: “My horses are probably the luckiest horses in the world. They get handfed twice a day, and being just ready to go to slaughter is probably the last thing they remembered, so they’re happy horses.”

In 2015, Willie won an award for the video accompanying his song, “The Love of Horses”.

The video shows Nelson meeting members of “Habitat for Horses”, who were trying to end the slaughter of horses for their meat by working to get new legislation passed.

“Horses are what brought this country together,” said Willie.

“It’s what we all rode in on!”

Not only is he extremely passionate about horses and their rights, but he’s also got his entire family on board.

His sons and daughters all work with him to rescue as many horses as possible, and to fight for animal rights.

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Willie has worked with a number of animal rights groups over the years. He even organised a concert for the Animal Welfare Institute on his 80th birthday, with proceeds going to help end horse slaughter.

Of the other group he works with, Willie added: “Habitat for Horses are a great organisation. They’ve helped a lot, and I’ve worked with them a lot.”

Habitat for Horses is who he and his family rely on to help rehome the rehabilitated animals from his range, yet he is never in a rush to get them rehomed.

“I’ve got 73 now, that I’ve collected over the years,” he recalled. “About 10-15 are my own horses, that I ride. But the rest of them are rescue horses.’

On retirement, Nelson said, with a grin: “I retire after every show. I say, ‘That’s it, I’m not goin’ no more’. But then we hang out awhile, and my band feel like playing so we go play again.”

Even with 70 horses under his care, retirement isn’t on the cards for a long while.

A PAEDOPHILE teacher, who had sex with a 13-year-old boy, was branded “foul, sick and disgusting” by the child’s mother, as she was jailed for 20 years.

Brittany Zamora, 28, was sentenced, during an emotional hearing at court in Phoenix, Arizona, last Friday.

In a scathing, victimimpact statement before the sentencing, the boy’s mother, who was not named to protect his identity, said: “I hate you for what you did to my son and family. We should not suffer for someone else’s sick pleasure, but we all are.”

Prosecutors and the boy’s parents condemned Zamora for grooming the youngster for sex, then leaving him traumatised after sexuallyassaulting him on at least four occasions.

His mother said: “She tried to groom my child into believing this behaviour is okay. She’s a true definition of a child predator.”

She added: “Your mind is foul, your heart is sick and you disgust me! You deserve

to leave prison when you’re too old to bear children.”

She then screamed: “You’re forever labelled a child molester, and everyone hates a child molester!”

Zamora remained silent during the diatribe, and, after the judge sentenced her, giving credit for the 500 days she had already spent in prison, the victim’s parents stormed out of the courtroom in disgust.

Previously, Zamora had pleaded guilty to charges related to the sexual abuse of her student. But she attempted to apologise to her victim and his family during the hearing, in a packed courtroom.

“I am a good and genuine person, who made a mistake, and regret it deeply,” said the former teacher, who was arrested in March 2018 after it was discovered that she’d had sex with the boy numerous times: once in a classroom, while another boy was her look-out.

The youngster later told police: “They were just doing it. It was very uncomfortable.

It’s weird how a 27-year-old can, like, love a 13-year-old and do stuff. It’s just crazy.

She’s not a good person.”

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Spanish schoolteacher’s disgusting racist attack

The woman could be seen and heard shouting abusive slurs

A SPANISH school teacher has launched an obscene, racist attack on two, black, British men, calling them “monkeys”.

Shocking footage taken by the young pals shows the unidentified, middleaged, white woman also calling them “sh***y Moors’, “immigrants” and ‘f****** Africans”.

The video, filmed on 1st July on a train in Bilbao, was released by non-profit group SOS Racismo Madrid, whose members fight, actively, against racism and

xenophobia on its Es Racismo website.

“We were on the train and my friend and I put our feet up on some seats that were free,” Es Racismo was told by one of men targeted.

“Ten minutes later, a woman walked in and started to tell us that this was a world of women, and that there was no longer any room for sexist men.”

The woman, according to Es Racismo, teaches children and adolescents at a school in Deusto, in the Biscay province of Bilbao.

She berated the two friends, repeatedly, before telling the Brits that she didn’t

understand them, even when they spoke Spanish to her.

One man, in jest, replied to the angry woman, saying: “We’re just f****** passengers, innit,” before she labels them “monkeys”, and makes racist gestures.

The man filming tells his friend to relax, before saying to the woman: “You’re a fool… you’re a big fool, n*****.”

The men also spoke to the woman in her native language, but the Spanish teacher said she didn’t understand anything!

It is unclear where the men were from, but both spoke with South of England accents.

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Pensioner, 88, was driving at mind-blowing 156km/h!

AN 88-year-old man was stopped by Guardia Civil for speeding at an astonishing 156km/h on a motorway in Spain’s Ourense province.

The pensioner, driving a Seat Ibiza, has a restriction on his licence, limiting him to just 90km/h. In addition, he is allowed to drive during daylight hours only, and within a radius of 20km from home.

These rules were enforced after he had taken a medical to renew his licence. But, because he has breached two of those conditions, the speed and being more than 20km from home, he will now be forced to pass an “extraordinary” medical examination.

The Ourense Guardia Civil trafico department are now reminding those with a restriction on their licence that they “must observe strict

compliance with them”.

They clarify that these conditions have been imposed to allow them to meet their travel needs, taking into account any possible physical problems.

In 2017, there were almost four million drivers over the age of 65 in Spain, and, generally, they are safe behind the wheel.

A study by the Línea Directa Foundation reveals that this age group has four times fewer accidents than the under-25s, and under 50% of drivers aged between 3544.

Of the 12,000-plus accidents recorded by the Directorate General of Traffic (DGT) in 2016, only 12% involved people over 65.

But the agency stresses that their physical fragility makes the mortality rate in these cases 2½ times greater than other drivers.

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‘Death-trap’ building collapses in Mumbai

DOZENS of people were trapped, and at least 12 died, after a four-storey building collapsed in a crowded Mumbai neighbourhood, earlier this week.

Rescuers were digging people out with their bare hands after the 100-yearold “death trap” building crumbled, following torrential rains across India.

One local resident said: “The building crashed with a heavy sound, and we thought there was an earthquake”.

Similar incidents are common from June to September,

when the monsoon strikes and weakens the foundations of poorly-constructed buildings.

Three people have so far been pulled out alive, including a child, who has already been released from hospital.

Narrow lanes near the collapsed building were hampering the rescue efforts because earth-moving machines could not get in.

Fire official Ashok Talpade, who said they were using sniffer dogs, added: “We don’t know exactly how many are trapped, but with the input provided by neighbours, we estimate more than 30.”

The top official in the state

of Maharashtra, Devendra Fadanavis, said the building was 100 years old, with 15 families living there.

He added that the families had been asked to vacate the dilapidated building some time ago, but they refused.

Waris Pathan, an opposition lawmaker, said the building was a “death trap”, but authorities said they had no money to rebuild the structure.

Mumbai was lashed by heavy rains earlier this month, and, on Sunday, a three-story building collapsed in a hilly area of the northern town of Solan, following monsoon rains, killing 14 people.

Prisoner deaths elevated to 63 more than in 2017

NO fewer than 210 prisoners died in Spanish custody last year, totalling 63 more than in 2017.

Of those, 154 died inside prisons, while the remainder passed away in hospitals.

The data was provided, following a question from Bildu MP Jon Iñarritu, who requested figures for the past two years and the causes of death.

Nearly 30% of these deaths (61), were down to drug abuse, and this figure has

risen the most, compared with 2017, when the number of drug deaths totalled 28.

Half of all last year’s deaths were through natural causes, including another four from HIV. There were 33 suicides, 30 occurring in prisons. Badajoz prison, with four suicides, had the highest number of deaths from this cause.

Of the deaths, the Andalusian prisons of Puerto 1, Puerto 3 and Sevilla-Morón, lost 35 inmates, which totalled the most.

Last year, there was one death from violence, as there was the previous year, and five deaths from accidents.

Not-so-polished thief simply hopping mad

A BUNGLING burglar was left hunting for one-legged people after stealing 66 shoes, all for the same foot!

A court was told that the man smashed a window of a shoe shop and, in haste, grabbed as much merchandise as he could carry before making his escape.

He must have been hopping mad when he got home to discover that the market for his loot would be severely restricted.

But he had plenty of other worries because it wasn’t long before he was tracked down by police and brought

to heel. He will now be doing some soul-searching as well, because the prosecutor is asking the Provincial Court of A Coruña (Galicia) to imprison him for four years and nine months.

Compensation is also being asked for. The value of the stolen shoes was €3,023, to the shop, at least, but they were worthless to the thief.

But that’s the compensation sum required by the prosecutor for the shoe shop, together with €238 for damage caused by the thief.

It was not stated in court whether the shoes stolen were for the left or right foot.

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A YOUNG British woman has flown back to the UK on her own after fleeing a forced marriage, it has been revealed.

She returned to Heathrow after escaping from her husband, while on honeymoon.

When he landed there, he was intercepted, but it is not known whether a criminal probe is taking place.

Amanda Read, the Border Force Modern Slavery spokeswoman said: “It’s an ongoing case, and it was the first time I had seen that.

I can’t remember when or where she had been on honeymoon, but she made a declaration on her return.”

Airlines’ check-in staff and cabin crew are being trained to spot victims of forced marriage, FGM (female genital mutilation) and modern slavery.

But police have stressed that airport interventions are a last resort, the focus being on changing attitudes and prevention.

The runaway bride’s story emerged as Scotland Yard launched an operation at Britain’s busiest airport, to raise awareness of forced marriage.

Police officers, along with Border Force, are aiming to identify victims and perpetrators of the practice, as well as those at risk of female genital mutilation,

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honour-based abuse and breast flattening, as they return to the UK. The operation is part of a national, week-long crackdown on forced marriage, dubbed Operation Limelight, which focuses on flights to and from those countries where the practice is most common.

Police say interventions at airports are a last resort, and Inspector Allen Davis, from

Scotland Yard’s rape and harmful practices partnership team, added: “Forced marriage is a crime that has devastating consequences.

“Unfortunately, it remains a hidden, harmful practice, and we need to change that, as well as normalise conversations about it.”

Detective Sergeant Trudy Gittins, from West Midlands Police, said forcedmarriage protection or-

ders were one tool available to the authorities.

Courts can actually stop family members, including parents, from living in the same household, applying for passports or arranging ceremonies. Breaches, potentially, are a criminal offence.

DS Gittins said some 1,849 of the civil orders were granted between 2008, when they came in to force, and December 2018.

A forced marriage is when one or both spouses do not, or cannot, agree to. It was made a specific crime in 2014, with a maximum jail term of seven years.

Last year, the Home Office supported victims in 1,764 suspected cases of forced marriage, 574 of which involved under-18s.

These cases were linked to 74 countries, the most common involving travel to Pakistan (769 cases), Bangladesh (157) and India (110). But officials say real numbers are likely to be much higher because the crime is often unreported.

Polly Harrar, founder of the Sharan Project charity, revealed that forcedmarriage victims had been identified between the ages of two and 80!

An NSPCC spokesman said: “Coercing or forcing children into marriage is illegal and can involve physical, sexual or emotional abuse. Sometimes, children are, understandably, too frightened to speak up, because they believe they have no control over the situation.

“They also worry that they will get their family into trouble, or be disowned by their parents. But it’s vital that they do speak up.

“We want them to know that they can always talk to Childline, no matter what the hour, and there is always a counsellor ready to listen and to help.”

Footage shows Washington Redskins’ 31-year-old Josh Norman hurdling not one, but two frightened animals.

“It was really worth it,” said Norman, after his acrobatics at the San Fermin festival, in which

eight people were gored. But not everyone was as pleased as Norman, however, because this year’s week-long, Pamplona tradition was actually criticised for not being “dangerous enough”.

Veteran bull-runners claim that the festival has been “totally adulterated” after seeing the course shortened to almost two minutes, which is 50% of what it was in the 1990s.

Their issue is that bulls on the 875-metre course are no longer able to break free from the castrated steers, which are too fast, and have been trained.

Joe Distler, a semi-retired American, who has completed 50 bull-runs, said: “For the runners, this is the end as they know it.”

He was among several runners, who staged a sitdown protest on the course before last Thursday’s run.

It came despite injuries this year, including a head trauma, and a man’s arm

being “split open like a fillet”.

Spanish journalist Chapu Apaolaza, a San Fermin regular, said: “Society has

said for 20 years that the run is too risky. Now they complain that there is no tragedy. It’s a bit absurd.”

Star’s leap of faith, but bull-runs lack danger!

AN American football star has been caught on camera, performing a series of death-defying leaps over bulls.

Three more gored in Pamplona’s bull run THE final bull run at this year’s Pamplona’s San Fermin festival led to three people being gored last Sunday.

In all, eight people were gored during the festival’s eight runs. The individual challenges each comprise six bulls, running with a pack of steers (castrated bulls) to the bullring. They are destined to be killed in bullfights.

In this last run, five bulls

stayed together, but one broke free and created havoc among the people running, who try to keep ahead of the animals.

The lone bull first tossed one man on to the street’s stone cobbles, then smashed two more against a wall.

All three were hospitalised, with one gored in the leg, another in the arm and the third in the armpit.

The Red Cross reported several other injuries from knocks received from the bulls and steers, or from tripping and falling.

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Central Bank speculation drives volatility in the currency markets

By Carol schleisman at currencies direct

THE past couple of weeks have seen Central Bank speculation become a key catalyst of movement in currency markets, resulting in some notable volatility.

The pound still seemed to come off worst, however, with GBP/EUR sliding from 1.12 to 1.11, with EUR/GBP coming dangerously close to breaching 0.90. Meanwhile, GBP/USD has tumbled from 1.26 to 1.25, whilst EUR/USD slipped from 1.13 to 1.12.

What’s been happening?

Political uncertainty in the UK continued to weigh on sterling sentiment, over the past couple of weeks, with the rising risk of a

no-deal Brexit, unnerving many GBP investors.

Meanwhile, Federal Reserve rate-cut expectations have been a major influence on the US dollar in July, so far, with an upbeat payroll report briefly tempering ratecut expectations, before dovish comments by Fed

Corbyn calls for referendum

LABOUR leader Jeremy Corbyn has called on the next Tory leader to hold another referendum before 31st October, adding that his party would back Remainers.

In a BBC interview, the Labour leader said he would make a case to parliament in September to get another public vote.

Meanwhile, he said his party would do everything it could to take no-deal off the table, or allow a Tory deal.

Corbyn has been under pressure to shift to an antiBrexit stance in recent weeks, including pleas from shadow Chancellor John McDonnell

and Deputy Leader Tom Watson. He has not yet declared Labour’s policy, in the event of a General Election. But in an email to party members last week, he said that if a referendum were to be called on the Brexit deal, negotiated by the incoming Conservative prime minister, his party would support Remain.

Corbyn wrote: “Whoever becomes the new prime minister should have the confidence to put their deal, or no deal, back to the people in a public vote.

“In those circumstances, I want to make it clear that Labour would campaign for Remain, against either nodeal or a Tory deal, that does not protect the economy and jobs.”

Chair Jerome Powell all but confirmed that rates will be lowered, in July.

Finally, trade in the euro has been mixed, over the last couple of weeks, with growing signals from the European Central Bank (ECB) that it will inject fresh stimulus in to the Eurozone this year, limiting the

appeal of the single currency.

What do you need to look out for?

Expect to see the pound remain highly sensitive to political developments, through the second half of July, with fears of a no-deal Brexit likely to rise even further, if Boris Johnson becomes

the next UK PM, as is widely expected. For EUR investors, the focus will remain on the ECB, with the euro potentially dropping, if the bank drops any more stimulus hints, at its policy meeting on 25th July.

At the same time, while a rate cut from the Fed this month looks to be mostly priced in, the US dollar could still weaken, if the bank signals plans to cut rates again, by the end of the year.

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Uncertain Sanchez risks another general election

PEDRO Sanchez, Spain’s PSEO caretaker Prime Minister, has called an end to power-sharing talks, building up the risk of a fresh election in the autumn.

Sanchez,

who

accused

Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias of acting in bad faith, has cancelled talks with him, three months after his party’s April election success.

A repeat election would plunge Spain’s young democracy into an unprecedented crisis, because it would be the fourth in as many years.

Sanchez said the policy differences between the two parties were too large to accommodate a coalition.

But Podemos official Pablo Echenique said: “We were surprised to hear that the Prime Minister said negotiations had collapsed.

For our part, this is not the case.”

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Keeping Faith TV Choice

Long Lost Family

Monday 22nd July, ITV1, 21.00

In the last year over 4000 people from across the UK have contacted the Long Lost Family team asking for help to find missing family members. In this brand new seven-part series, Davina McCall and Nicky Campbell return and, with the help of trained intermediaries, DNA experts and investigators from all over the world, they find people that previously couldn’t be traced and answer questions that have haunted entire lives.

The series will feature more extraordinary stories with unexpected twists and turns, including Long Lost Family’s oldest ever searcher at the age of 83, who is desperate to find her daughter before it’s too late. New searches will take the team to locations including Chicago, Brisbane, Belfast and Canada. And for the first time the series will feature a missing person story without a resolution, by making an emotional appeal.

Tuesday 23rd July, BBC1, 21.00 The hit drama returns to BBC One for a second series. Set in the fictitious town of Abercorran - with the beautiful Carmarthenshire countryside providing the backdrop - the Howells family are set to pick up 18 months after their lives were turned upside down by the unexplained disappearance of husband and dad, Evan.

It’s now 18 months since Evan returned and interrupted Faith and Steve’s kiss. And while battling to keep her family together and business afloat, Faith is drawn into a new mystery - taking on the case of Madlen Vaughan, a local farmer accused of murdering her husband in cold blood. She is determined to help, but out of her depth.

Gael Riordan continues to have a tight grip on the Howells family - and with Evan behind bars, Faith is pressured into running risky errands on her behalf.

And newly single Tom is back at the family firm and has his eye on Faith’s wine-loving best friend Lisa.

Eve Myles returns as Faith Howells, a lawyer, wife, mother and above all a fighter, looking to protect her family against the odds. Evan, her on-screen husband, is played by her husband in real life, Bradley Freegard.

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Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule Saturday 20th July, ITV1, 18.45

Helping Harry Hill fill the fun capsule and prevent an alien invasion this week are The Last Leg comedian Josh Widdicombe, Coronation Street legend Amanda Barrie, EastEnders star Samantha Womack and journalist Michael Buerk.

All-Star Netball for Sport Relief Saturday 20th July, BBC2, 19.00

Two teams of celebrity players and sporting legends, led by Jennifer Saunders and Oti Mabuse, battle it out in the first-ever All-Star Netball for Sport Relief.

Clare Balding presents a tense celebrity and legends netball match during the weekend of the Netball World Cup final.

The netball newbies are ditching their usual daytime attire and pulling on netball bibs to help raise money and change lives in the UK and internationally. The intrepid squad’s journey will all be revealed, from the very first training session through to the nail-biting final, in a one-hour special at 7pm Saturday 20 July on BBC Two. Hoping to carry out a childhood dream of lifting a sporting trophy, huge netball fan and comedy legend Jennifer Saunders will captain one of the all-star teams.

She will face tough competition from a team led by Strictly Come Dancing’s Oti Mabuse. Oti, who grew up playing netball in South Africa, will be hoping her years of dance training pay off, as she hot foots it around the court at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool.

Eager to perform the perfect pivot and make their captains proud are team players Montana Brown, Denise Lewis, Sarah Hadland, Sally Phillips, Vick Hope, Sue Smith, Ellie Taylor, Luisa Omielan, Adele Roberts, Dame Katherine Grainger, Lindsey Russell, Jade Jones and Katherine Merry.

The programme will showcase the once-in-a-lifetime match, follow the ups and downs of team training and show how the money raised by Sport Relief is used to make a real difference to ordinary people living incredibly tough lives.

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Diving: World Championship Highlights Sunday 21st July, BBC2, 12.45

Enjoy a balletic masterclass of somersaults and twists by the world’s elite divers, with defending champion Tom Daley spearheading the British challenge in Gwangju, South Korea.

Daley was imperious two years ago in winning his second individual 10m platform world title, and he also went into this latest championship with medal chances in two synchronised events.

Olympic champion Jack Laugher was another standout British prospect in the 3m springboard competitions, with qualification places for next year’s Tokyo Olympics also at stake.

Nadiya’s Time To Eat Monday 22nd July, BBC2, 20.00

With unsociable working hours, busy lifestyles and complicated family routines, it’s not always easy to make time to cook delicious meals.

Nadiya Hussain comes to the rescue with time-saving kitchen tips to make sure that everyone has more time to spend doing the things they love, with the people they love.

Thought you haven’t got time to bake - think again! Tonight, Nadiya’s easiest ever bakes can be rustled up in no time. A time-smart banana tarte-tatin, with the quickest homemade ice-cream ever, is the perfect decadent dessert for busy days. A massive meatloaf Wellington is as easy as pie and will provide multiple moreish meals to see you through a manic week. An effortless fruity soda bread slashes traditional baking time in half, freeing up precious time for yourself.

On the road, Nadiya gains access to the secretive Marmite factory in Burton upon Trent to find out how one of her favourite short-cut ingredients is produced. And in Keynsham, near Bristol, she goes to the rescue of a new mum with an ingenious pasta bake that’s full of time-saving cheats.

Planespotting Live

Tuesday 23rd July to Thursday 25th July, BBC4, 20.00

There have never been more planes in our skies - earlier this year 9,000 of them flew over UK airspace in just one day, an all-time record. Now, BBC Four is opening up the skies to give viewers an unprecedented insight into what is flying over their heads at any one time by joining forces with an enthusiastic band of home-grown experts: plane spotters.

Live across three nights, Peter Snow (pictured), Zoe Laughlin, Andi Peters and Arthur Williams, are starting the country’s biggest mass plane spot. Their mission: To spot as many of the hundreds of different types of plane in UK airspace as possible, from private to cargo to military. And they’re asking the British public to help, by sending in their spots.

We’ll also uncover the rich and detailed world of aviation enthusiasts across the country, from the teams lovingly restoring Britain’s forgotten planes, to exploring the materials that are at the frontier of more environmentally friendly flying.

This is not just a show for unashamed aviation geeks, this is for anyone with a passion for travel, history and our heritage. With a mixture of archive, personal stories, and remarkable tales of single-minded dedication this series is finally giving voice to, and celebrating, those whose passions are planes.

Inside The Bruderhof

Broke

In one picturesque village in Sussex, life is very different. There’s no crime, debt or homelessness. Everyone has a job but no one earns a salary and none of the children watch television, use social media, play video games or even have a mobile phone.

With unique access to this historically private community, Inside The Bruderhof enters the village of Darvell, where for almost 50 years, an extraordinary radical Christian community, The Bruderhof, has lived outside of mainstream society.

This observational documentary holds a mirror up to modern Britain with its consumerist concerns, high crime and deprivation rates, and looks at this community’s simple way of life, whilst exploring the personal cost and sacrifice required to live there.

Living as disciples of Jesus, the community relinquish all possessions, money and status when they take their vow of commitment. Once a member, everything is provided for you, from groceries and consumables, to clothing. It’s an almost entirely self-sufficient community: they run their own farm, orchard, kitchen, laundry, schools and even more remarkably, a multi-million-pound business, which makes children’s toys and furniture.

With their way of life based on early biblical text, there are strict rules and restrictions around same sex relationships, divorce and what members wear. In particular, the women avoid fashions of any sort, adopting a uniform look reminiscent of traditional peasant dress, with headscarves, loose shirts, plaid dresses and skirts. Many decisions about the residents’ lives are made for them, including what job they do and where they live. In fact many are frequently moved between the other 23 global Bruderhof settlements as required, meaning that many families are spread across several different countries around the world.

Within this extraordinary story, we meet Hannah, Bernard and Hardy, part of the 300-strong village of brothers and sisters living as disciples of Jesus.

Discussing our personal finances are one of the last great taboos, but while employment is at a record high in Britain, more and more working households are privately struggling to make ends meet. In this series, families from across the UK reveal what it really means to be in work, but still only ‘just about managing’.

With the cost of living rising and one third of British workers surveyed in 2018 having less than £500 in savings, Broke follows nine families during a critical year as their financial future hangs in the balance.

Steve and his son Billy are casual workers from Hastings. After they lost their full-time jobs, they also lost their home. They now live in tents on the beach and winter is coming. Steve relies on zero hours agency work, and Billy works when he can as a tree surgeon, but neither know how many hours they will be asked to work each week. Together they hope to be able to afford a roof over their heads before the weather closes in.

Ross from Port Talbot has worked full-time at the local steel works for 20 years. His pay has failed to keep up with the rising cost of living and he now earns less after tax than when he started.

With three children, a mortgage and credit card debt, he picks up extra shifts to help the family’s tight budget. Ross’ passion is amateur wrestling, and with a big match coming up he’s desperate to make his kids proud. But when you have to work every hour you’re given, there’s not much practice time in the ring.

Mark lives in London and once worked as a successful celebrity photographer. He is now part of the gig economy, working as an Uber driver. After a life of freelancing, he doesn’t have savings or a pension, and retirement is a distant dream.

Thursday 25th July, BBC1, 22.35

Thursday 25th July, BBC2, 21.00

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06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Wanted Down Under Revisited 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Rip Off Britain: Holidays 11:45 ................ Claimed and Shamed 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:45 ...................... Red Rock 14:30............... Escape to the Country 15:30 .....Make Me a Dealer 16:15 ...........................Flog It! 17:15....................... Pointless 18:00..... BBC News at Six 19:00 ....Wallace & Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death 19:30....Garden Rescue CWce ch oi 20:00..............A Question of Sport 20:30............. EastEnders 21:00............Still Game CWce ch oi 21:30....Mrs. Brown’s Boys 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:25.......Regional News 22:35.............. Killing Eve 23:20....Room 101 - Extra Storage 00:00...................Man Up 01:20............... BBC News

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Friday 19th july

06:30 .................. Thursday in Parliament

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

07:00 ............................. Coast

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

08:00..................... Gardeners’ World

09:25 .............. Judge Rinder

09:00 ............ BBC News at 9

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

10:00 .......................... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 .BBC Newsroom Live 12:15 ................. Politics Live 13:00 .......................The Boss 13:45................. Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey 14:45............... Netball World Cup 2019 16:45................... The TV That Made Me 17:15............ Flipping Profit 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 .............Best House in Town 19:00............Politics Live 19:30.... BBC Proms 2019 20:30.........................Golf 22:30..............Newsnight 23:00..................Weather 23:05......Stargazing Live 00:35...............Panorama 01:05.................. Horizon

10:30 .............. This Morning 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 13:55..... ITV News London 14:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 15:00 .........................Tenable 15:59 ...................ITV London Weather 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

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:15 .......................Jeremy Vine 11:15 .................. Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun 12:10 ..........5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..........Police Interceptors 13:10 ..................................Access 13:15 .............. Home and Away 13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:15 ...........Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Garage Sale Mystery 5 16:00 ................................ Friends 17:00 ........................ 5 News at 5 17:30 ....................... Neighbours 18:00 .........Home and Away 18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ................ Cricket on 5 20:00 ....... British Made with John Prescott 21:00.............. Celebrity 5 Go Barging 22:00........The Death of Amy Winehouse: 13 Reasons Why 23:30..... Utterly Outrageous X-Rated Comedy

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

08:55............ A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

06:00 .......................Monkey Life

06:00 ....................Teleshopping

09:45... Escape to the Chateau

07:00........................ Animal 999

07:10........................The Hurting

08:00 ... RSPCA Animal Rescue

08:00 .............American Pickers

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

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

10:00 .................Highway Patrol

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

11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00.................... Hawaii Five-0

13:00 .......................World’s Most Dangerous Roads

14:00.................... Hawaii Five-0

14:00 .................Sin City Motors

15:00 ...........................MacGyver

15:00 ..............Lazy Boy Garage

16:00................. Modern Family

16:00.............. James May’s Cars of the People

06:20 .....................Judge Rinder 07:10 .......................Dinner Date 08:00 ........................ Emmerdale 09:00 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:25 ......................... Superstore 11:15 .............. Dress to Impress 12:15........................ Emmerdale 13:15...... You’ve Been Framed!

13:50 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:45....................... Dinner Date 15:50 .............. Dress to Impress 16:50 ...................... Take Me Out 18:00 ... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ..... Two and a Half Men 21:00................. Love Island 22:05........... Celebrity Juice 22:50.................. Family Guy 23:50............ American Dad! 00:45....Two and a Half Men

22:20..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:50................. ITV News London 23:10.......Lethal Weapon 01:00........The Voice Kids

In the second instalment of this Still Game double-bill, a trip to the cinema creates a mystery for Jack and Victor, Boabby looks for love through internet dating and the Craiglang gang try to make sense of bizarre goings-on.

Jack and Victor head to the cinema to take their minds off their woes: the gang isn’t what it used to be and they need some cheering up. However, Jack gets more than he bargained for after he makes a strange sighting.

At the Clansman, Boabby’s dressed to impress as he waits on his date. Much to the amusement of his regulars, Boabby’s embraced internet dating and encourages Winston to give it a go. Boabby shares his unique dating technique which involves being economical with the truth.

Meanwhile, Navid has a near-miss with a mysterious pedestrian on his way back from the cash and carry. With his nerves jangling, Navid heads to The Clansman, sharing his experience with the confused punters.

With strange shenanigans in Craiglang, Jack, Victor and Isa try and make sense of things, while Winston gives romance a whirl. Rather than adopting Boabby’s dubious dating techniques, Winston hopes truth will bring him a love match.

Jack is played by Ford Kiernan, Victor by Greg Hemphill, Boabby by Gavin Mitchell, Winston by Paul Riley, Navid by Sanjeev Kohli and Isa by Jane McCarry. Also starring Mark Cox as Tam, Kate Donnelly as Frances, Bruce Morton as Sheathing, Scott Reid as Methadone Mick, Claire Gray Wilson as Sinead, John Buick as Joe, Joanna Tope as Winnie, Hazel Anne Crawford as Leanne, Matthew Mooney as the thief, Mary McCusker as Noreen and Benny Young as Terry.

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06:25 ................................. Cheers 07:20 ................ King of Queens 08:10 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond 09:10 ..................................Frasier 10:10 ..............Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 11:05 ....Undercover Boss USA 12:00 ...............Channel 4 News 12:05 .... A New Life in the Sun 13:05 .......... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10 ....................... Countdown 15:00 ........... A Place in the Sun 16:00 ............... The £100k Drop 17:00 .............. Kirstie’s Celebrity Craft Masters 18:00 .............The Simpsons 18:30 ................... Hollyoaks 19:00 ......... Channel 4 News 19:55 ....Moon Landing Live 20:00 ....... The Crystal Maze 21:00..Celebrity Gogglebox 22:00 ....... The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan 23:05..... Shipmates O’ Mine 00:10... Paranormal Activity: The Marked Ones

20:30 ............ Endeavour

Still Game BBC1, 21.00

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10:45................ The Great British Bake Off 12:00 .........Find it, Fix it, Flog it 13:05 .....................Four in a Bed 13:40 .....................Four in a Bed 14:10 .....................Four in a Bed 14:40 .....................Four in a Bed 15:15 .....................Four in a Bed 15:50 ................Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it

17:00 ................... The Simpsons 17:30 ............................Futurama

16:50 .................Love it or List it

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

17:55 ................... The Secret Life of the Zoo

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

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

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

19:55 ................. Great Canal Journeys

21:00 .............Agatha Raisin

21:00... Code 37: Sex Crimes 22:05..........24 Hours in A&E 23:10..........24 Hours in A&E 00:15.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:15.............. The Supervet

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20:00........... Modern Family

22:00 .............Agatha Raisin 23:00 .................. The Russell Howard Hour 00:00.....................The Force: Manchester 01:00..... Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

17:00 ............................. Top Gear 18:00..................... Top Gear 19:00 ........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 20:00 ........................... QI XL 21:00 ...... Live at the Apollo 22:00 .................. Red Dwarf 22:40 .................. Red Dwarf 23:20 ............................ Josh 00:00 .......... Mock the Week 00:40 ........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 01:40........... Mock the Week

Garden Rescue BBC1, 19:30

Charlie Dimmock and Rich brothers Harry and David head to Corby, Northamptonshire to meet Keri and Mark. The pair don’t get to share too much time together, so though they love the pub, instead of going out they want to create a pub garden at home. Charlie and the siblings assess the pair’s boring and featureless plot and come up with ideas as to how it can be turned into a relaxing and tranquil social space for Keri, Mark and their friends. With a whole garden to make over and a proper bar to incorporate, the challenge promises to be a tough task to pull off.

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Saturday 20th july

www.canarianweekly.com 19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 10:00 ........................Saturday Kitchen Live 11:30 ................... Time to Eat with Nadiya 12:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 13:00.................... BBC News 13:10 ........................Weather 13:15 ....................... Athletics

06:35...........................All Over the Place 07:05..........................The Dog Ate My Homework 07:35 .........The Dengineers 08:05 ...............Mustangs FC 08:30 ....................... Cbeebies Stargazing 08:50 .......................... Strange Magic

16:30 .................... The Repair Shop

10:20 ......................... Monkey Planet

17:00 ................. Zootropolis 18:40.............. BBC News

11:20 ..................Mr Peabody & Sherman

18:50............ BBC London News

12:45 ........................... My Life on a Plate

18:53 .................Weather

13:30 ...................Wonders of the Moon

18:55......................... Who Dares Wins 19:40 ................Pointless 20:30................ Casualty 21:20 ............. Killing Eve 22:00 .............. BBC News 22:15 .................Weather 22:20 .............Philomena 23:55 ...............The Other Man

06:00................Childrens’ TV 07:55 .................................Milo Murphy’s Law 08:25....................... ITV News 08:30 .........................The Sara Cox Show 09:25.......Saturday Morning with James Martin 11:35............. John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 12:35................. Save Money: Lose Weight 13:00........ Best Walks with a View with Julia Bradbury 13:30........................ ITV News and Weather 13:39...................ITV London 13:40...................... Midsomer Murders

14:30............... Netball World Cup 2019

15:35..........................Tenable

17:00..............Natural World

17:35.....................The Chase

18:00.............. RHS Tatton Flower Show 2019 19:00....................... Sport Relief 2019 20:00.........................Golf 22:00................... Atlanta

16:35...............Tipping Point 18:25................ ITV News

20:00....The Voice Kids

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21:45................ ITV News

22:25................... Atlanta 22:50.................... The Big Short

00:20........Tour de France Highlights

01:20............... BBC News

00:55................. Red Tails

01:10...........5 Gold Rings

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06:00 ................ King of Queens 06:55 ..................................Frasier 07:40 ......The Big Bang Theory 08:55 ................ Young Sheldon 09:50 ................... The Simpsons 11:10 ................... Couples Come Dine with Me 12:10 .....................Four in a Bed 13:15 .....................Four in a Bed 14:15 .....................Four in a Bed 14:45 .. W Series Motor Racing 16:00 ........... A Place in the Sun 16:35 ...........Location, Location, Location 17:35 ..................... Portrait Artist of the Year 18:30.......... Channel 4 News 18:55.....Moon Landing Live 19:00............ London’s Great Bridges: Lighting the Thames 20:00.....Moon Landing Live 21:30........ T2: Trainspotting 23:50.................. Ride Along 01:40........ The Lateish Show with Mo Gilligan

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

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

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

07:10 .......................The Hurting

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

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

07:35 .......................The Hurting 08:00 ........Storage Hunters UK

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

08:00................. Modern Family 09:00........ Whyte Meets Bruno

08:30 ........Storage Hunters UK

09:30................. Premier League Best Goals

09:00 .............American Pickers

09:30 ..........................Sunny Day

06:00.................. Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

10:00 ..........Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

06:10 ........................ Emmerdale

10:30 ..................................Access

12:20 ......................Catchphrase

10:35................... The Wonderful World of Chocolate

13:20 ...................... Take Me Out

11:30.......... Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords

15:15 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

13:30.......... Bad Tenants, Rogue Landlords 14:30...........All at Sea: Celebrity Deadly Catch 18:05...........Deep-Sea Super Predator

09:20 ............Coronation Street

14:25 .............. Ninja Warrior UK 16:15...... You’ve Been Framed!

16:45......... Dr. Seuss’ the Lorax 18:25........... The Lost World: Jurassic Park 19:55...................... FYI Daily

19:00................. Cricket on 5

20:00............The Lost World: Jurassic Park

19:55.........5 News Weekend

21:00..................Love Island

20:00.................The Thames: Britain’s Great River with Tony Robinson

22:05............. Shopping with Keith Lemon

21:55.............. Shane Richie’s Gobsmacking Ads

23:05.................. Family Guy

23:25.............. Meghan & the Markles: A Family at War

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

00:25....... Naughty!: The Life and Loves of Boris Johnson

22:35.................. Family Guy 23:35.................. Family Guy 00:55.................Celebability 01:45..................Hey Tracey!

19:15...........Catchphrase

01:15.................. Weather for the Week Ahead

The Voice Kids ITV1, 20.00

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18:45.....Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule

22:05............ The World is Not Enough

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It’s semi-final Saturday as Jessie J, Danny Jones, Pixie Lott and Will.i.am have only three kids left in their teams and only one place in next week’s live final.

Both solo singers and double acts between the ages of 7 and 14 will take to the stage, hoping to take one step closer to potentially winning a £30,000 bursary towards their musical education and a family holiday to Universal Orlando Resort.

11:25 ........... A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun 12:35 ...........Location, Location, Location

10:30..................Premier League Best Goals

12:00 ......Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Challenge 13:00 ............................. Top Gear

11:30..... David Attenborough’s Micro Monsters

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

15:50..................... Four in a Bed

13:30..... David Attenborough’s Micro Monsters

15:30 ............. Last Stop Garage

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

15:30.................... The Simpsons

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

16:00.................... The Simpsons

13:35......... Building the Dream 14:45......................Four in a Bed

18:25.... Come Dine with Me 19:25.... Come Dine with Me 20:00...Scotstar: Teasairginn Eiginneach 21:00..........24 Hours in A&E 22:00..........24 Hours in A&E 23:05.......... It Was Alright In 00:05.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:05.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

16:30.................... The Simpsons 17:00.................... The Simpsons 17:30.................... The Simpsons 18:00..............The Simpsons 18:30............... Superman III 21:00.......... An Idiot Abroad 22:00..............Agatha Raisin 23:00..............Agatha Raisin

15:00 ............. Last Stop Garage 16:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 17:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad 18:00 .... Would I Lie to You? 18:40................... Red Dwarf 19:20................... Red Dwarf 20:00 .................Taskmaster 21:00 ........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00........................... Sliced

00:00........................ Warrior

00:00..............Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish

01:00................... Road Wars

01:00..................Taskmaster

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06:00...................... Breakfast 09:00 .....................BBC News 10:00.................. The Andrew Marr Show 11:00........... Sunday Politics London 11:30............................Sunday Morning Live 12:30 .....................BBC News 12:40 .......... Weather for the Week Ahead 12:45 .......... Songs of Praise 13:20 ....................... Athletics 16:00 ...............Escape to the Country 17:00........ The Repair Shop 17:45....................... Pointless 18:35.............. BBC News 18:50........... BBC London News 19:00 ............Countryfile 20:00 ................ Antiques Roadshow 21:00................Poldark

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22:00............... BBC News 22:30.................. Imagine

23:35..............A Question of Sport

06:15..........................Glorious Gardens From Above 07:05..................... Gardeners’ World 08:05................... Countryfile 09:00.........................Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 10:30............. Tom Kerridge’s Best Ever Dishes 11:00............................ A Cook Abroad 12:00...................... Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman 12:45................Diving: World Championships 14:15............... Netball World Cup 2019 19:00............ Remarkable Places to Eat 20:00.........................Golf 22:00......................Live at the Apollo 22:45................ Spotlight

00:05................ Our Lives

00:45.................. Horizon

00:35............... BBC News

01:45.............. Holby City

Sunday 21st July

06:00................Childrens’ TV 08:25...................... ITV News 08:30 ...The Sara Cox Show 09:25 ............ John and Lisa’s Weekend Kitchen 11:20................ Gino’s Italian Escape: Hidden Italy 11:50 ................ Save Money: Lose Weight 12:20 ............... Countrywise 12:50...................... ITV News 13:05 ......... Harry Hill’s Alien Fun Capsule 13:35...Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back 16:05.... Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 2 18:25................ ITV News 19:00............... The Chase Celebrity Special 20:00.....Tipping Point: CoiWce Lucky Stars ch 21:00.....Beecham House 22:05................ ITV News 22:20................ Inside the Ritz Hotel 22:45...Yorkshire Airport 23:10.. Love Your Garden 23:45... Long Lost Family 00:35.................. Wild Bill 01:30........Tour de France Highlights

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www.canarianweekly.com 19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019

06:00 ................ King of Queens

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

06:00...... You’ve Been Framed!

06:25................ King of Queens

09:00 .............Pirata & Capitano

06:25...... You’ve Been Framed!

06:50 ................ King of Queens

09:15 .............................. Floogals

06:50 ........................ Emmerdale

07:15 .............. Everybody Loves Raymond

09:30 ..........................Sunny Day

10:00 ............Coronation Street

09:55 ..........Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

13:00 ......................Catchphrase

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

10:05...........Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

14:30 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

12:30 ................... The Simpsons

10:20 ..................................Access

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

10:25 ................................ Friends

13:30................... The Simpsons

15:25 .................................... Police Interceptors

08:30 ................... The Simpsons 09:00 ................... The Simpsons

14:00...... Herbie: Fully Loaded 16:30 ............. Coast vs Country

16:20......... Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

17:35 ......................The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes

17:15 ....................... Dirty Britain 18:10...... Rich Kids Go Skint

18:30.......... Channel 4 News

19:00................ Cricket on 5

19:00.......... Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it

19:55........ 5 News Weekend

16:00........... A Place in the Sun

20:00......................Escape to the Chateau

20:00................ My Houseful of Animals

18:10..................... FYI Daily 18:15 .................. Two Weeks Notice 19:15 .......... Jurassic Park III 20:15 ..................... FYI Daily 20:20 .......... Jurassic Park III 21:00..................Love Island 22:00..................Love Island: Aftersun 23:05.................. Family Guy

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

23:00.............. The Swingers

22:00................When... Goes Horribly Wrong

23:50....................... Child 44

00:55.......................... Access

01:00....................Don’t Hate the Playaz

08:55...Grand Designs Abroad

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

06:00 ....................Teleshopping

10:00.................. George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces

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

07:10 .......................The Hurting

11:00 ...........Location, Location, Location

08:00................. Modern Family

07:35....................... The Hurting

09:00........................ The Premier League Years

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

11:00 ..... WWE Raw Highlights

10:30.......................... Drug Wars

22:00................... First Dates

12:00........ Come Dine with Me 13:05........ Come Dine with Me 14:10........ Come Dine with Me 14:40......................Four in a Bed 15:45......................Four in a Bed

17:50........ Come Dine with Me 18:25.... Come Dine with Me 18:55.... Come Dine with Me 19:25.... Come Dine with Me 20:00.. Nazi Megastructures 21:00..........24 Hours in A&E 22:00...................... Shocking Emergency Calls 23:05......Inside Birmingham Children’s Hospital

Demelza (Eleanor Tomlinson) and the children join Ross (Aidan Turner) in London, but his dogged determination to vindicate Ned sees them caught up in a dangerous web.

An ennobled George (Jack Farthing) pursues the fruits of his new alliance, but his lingering grief has unexpected consequences. As Ned (Vincent Regan) confronts the man responsible for his downfall, Demelza fears they are entangled with forces they cannot overcome.

Meanwhile Dwight’s (Luke Norris) finds his areas of expertise have placed him and his friends on dangerous ground.

Drake (Harry Richardson) and Morwenna (Ellise Chappell) make tentative progress in their affections, as Valentine’s spirit grows wilful in neglect, and Geoffrey Charles (Freddie Wise) learns he must tread carefully if he’s to gain Cecily’s father’s favour.

As Sam (Tom York) becomes a target of Tess’s machinations, a figure from Ned’s Honduran past may hold the key to clearing his name. Ross’s party face unexpected complications in championing Ned’s cause however, and Ross find himself in a compromising situation - one that will shadow him wherever he goes.

17:10 ...........Two Weeks Notice

23:35.................. Family Guy

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

BBC1, 21.00

14:55 .................................Twister

21:00............. The Wonderful World of Chocolate

21:00... The Handmaid’s Tale

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

Poldark

14:05 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

12:00 ................................S.W.A.T.

11:00 .............................. Cops UK: Bodycam Squad

14:00 ...........................MacGyver

12:00 ...............Storage Hunters

15:00 ...........................MacGyver

13:00 .............American Pickers

16:00 ................... The Simpsons

15:00 .............American Pickers

16:30 ................... The Simpsons

16:00 ......... Would I Lie to You?

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

17:20 ......... Would I Lie to You?

17:30 ................... The Simpsons

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

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

19:00......Cop Car Workshop

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

20:00........... Expedition with Steve Backshall

19:00............. The Simpsons 19:30............. The Simpsons 20:00................ Magnum P.I. 21:00....................... S.W.A.T. 22:00............. Hawaii Five-0 23:00...... NCIS: Los Angeles

01:05................... Father Ted

01:00....The Force: North East

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10:00 .......................... Drug Wars

13:00 ...........................MacGyver

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

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

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

21:00............ Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00........... Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier 23:00..................Taskmaster 00:00....... Live at the Apollo 01:00..............Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish

Tipping Point: Lucky Stars ITV1, 20.00

Ben Shephard hosts a new series of Tipping Point: Lucky Stars, the quiz in which three celebrities take on a magnificent machine in the hope of winning £20,000 for charity.

This week football legend David Ginola, Loose Woman Janet Street-Porter and reality star Chris Hughes each put their wits to the test to discover if any of them have what it takes to master the machine.

www.canarianweekly.com 19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019

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06:00...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Wanted Down Under 10:00....... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00.................... The Empty Housing Scandal 11:45 ........ Armchair Britain 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:45 ...................... Red Rock 14:30 ...................... Escape to the Country 15:30 .....Make Me a Dealer 16:15 ...........................Flog It! 17:15....................... Pointless 18:00.... BBC News at Six 19:00........The One Show 19:30................ Our Lives 20:00............. EastEnders 20:30...............Panorama 21:00............ Who Do You Think You Are? 22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:25........Regional News and Weather 22:35.......... This Country 23:00............ Have I Got a Bit More News for You 23:40.....Live at the Apollo 00:25...... Weather for the Week Ahead 00:30............... BBC News

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06:15.............................. Coast 06:45............... Bargain Hunt 07:30..........Britain in Bloom 08:00..................Great British Railway Journeys 08:30..................This Week in Parliament 09:00............. BBC News at 9 10:00......Victoria Derbyshire 11:00....BBC Newsroom Live 12:15.................. Politics Live 13:00............... Super League Triathlon 15:00...............Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman 15:45..Swimming: World CW Championships choice 17:15....Antiques Road Trip 18:00................. Celebrity Eggheads 18:30..........Best House in Town 19:00.... Rick Stein’s Road to Mexico 20:00..............Time to Eat with Nadiya 20:30............... University Challenge 21:00.................. Horizon 22:00...................... I Love 22:30..............Newsnight 23:15............. The Mighty Redcar 00:45............... Serengeti 01:45.............Countryfile

06:00............. Good Morning Britain 08:30 ........................ Lorraine 09:25.............. Judge Rinder 10:30.............. This Morning 12:30............ Loose Women 13:30............. ITV Lunchtime News 13:55 ..... ITV News London 14:00................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 15:00 .........................Tenable 15:59 ...................ITV London Weather 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.... Love Your Garden 20:30....Coronation Street 21:00... Long Lost Family

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:15 .......................Jeremy Vine

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

11:15 .................. Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun

06:20 .....................Judge Rinder

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

08:00 ........................ Emmerdale

07:10 .......................Dinner Date

12:15 ..........Police Interceptors

08:30 ............Coronation Street

13:10 ..................................Access 13:15 .............. Home and Away

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

13:45 ....................... Neighbours

10:25 ......................... Superstore

14:15 ...... Woman on the Edge

10:50 ......................... Superstore

16:00 ................................ Friends

11:15.............. Dress to Impress

16:30 ................................ Friends

12:15........................ Emmerdale

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

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

17:30 ....................... Neighbours

13:50.............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show

18:00......... Home and Away 18:30........... 5 News Tonight 19:00................... Sewermen 20:00..... Police Interceptors 21:00.....Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

14:45 .......................Dinner Date 15:50 .............. Dress to Impress 16:50 ...................... Take Me Out 18:00..You’ve Been Framed!

20:00....Two and a Half Men

22:00........ Inside the World’s Toughest Prisons

21:00................. Love Island

23:05.................Tower Block

22:50 ................. Family Guy

00:05.......................... Access

23:50 ........... American Dad!

00:10.................Tower Block

00:40 ................Celebability

22:00 .................Hey Tracey!

22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:30................. ITV News London

08:55............ A Place in the Sun: Summer Sun

06:00 ................... Animal House

07:10 .......................The Hurting

06:30 ................... Animal House

07:35 .......................The Hurting

00:05.................. Tenable

09:45.............................. Escape to the Chateau

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

08:00............. American Pickers

00:55........Tour de France Highlights

10:45................ The Great British Bake Off

07:30 .......................Monkey Life

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

08:00 ................. Dog Whisperer

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

01:45........James Martin’s French Adventure

12:00 .........Find it, Fix it, Flog it

09:00 .............................Supergirl

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

10:00 ............................ The Flash

14:00 .................Sin City Motors

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

15:00 ................Yianni: Supercar Customiser

22:45....Britain’s Greatest National Treasures

Swimming: World Championships 2019 BBC2, 15.45

06:25.................................. Cheers 07:20................. King of Queens 08:10............... Everybody Loves Raymond 09:10...................................Frasier 10:10.......The Big Bang Theory 11:05.................... The Simpsons 12:00................Channel 4 News 12:05..... A New Life in the Sun 13:05........... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10........................ Countdown 15:00............ A Place in the Sun 16:00................ The £100k Drop 17:00........ Come Dine with Me 17:30.................... The Simpsons 18:30.................... Hollyoaks 19:00.......... Channel 4 News 20:00.................. Dispatches 20:30.............The £1 Houses: Britain’s Cheapest Street 21:00...... Extreme Tribe: The Last Pygmies 22:00........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:00....Boris Johnson: Fit to Be Prime Minister?

00:05......... Generation Porn

The best action and reaction from the first two days of competition in the pool, with peerless Brit Adam Peaty seeking a third successive 100m breaststroke world title.

Peaty is Britain’s most successful swimmer at World Championships with five gold medals, and he was unbeaten in the 100m breaststroke for five years heading into this competition.

Siobhan-Marie O’Connor is another early British contender in South Korea - the Olympic silver medallist was hoping for another podium finish in her favoured 200m medley.

Jeanette Kwakye introduces the action, with Rebecca Adlington and Mark Foster providing expert analysis.

13:05 .....................Four in a Bed 14:10 .....................Four in a Bed 15:15 .....................Four in a Bed

13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0 14:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ...........................MacGyver

16:00.............. James May’s Cars of the People

16:50 .................Love it or List it

16:00 ................. Modern Family

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

17:55 ................... The Secret Life of the Zoo

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

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

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

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

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

19:00 ........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You

19:55.Great Canal Journeys

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

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

21:00.............Life After WWI: In Colour

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

21:00 ...... Live at the Apollo

20:00........ A League of Their Own Us Road Trip

22:00............. Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish

15:50 ................Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it

22:00.. Living in the Shadow of World War Two 23:05..........24 Hours in A&E 00:05...................... Shocking Emergency Calls 01:10.............. The Supervet

21:00.........................Con Air 23:15......................Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

23:00........... Mock the Week

00:15................... Road Wars

00:20........... Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier

01:10........................ Warrior

01:20........... Mock the Week

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tuesday 23rd July

www.canarianweekly.com 19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019

06:00....................... Breakfast 09:15..............Wanted Down Under 10:00....... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00..................... The Empty Housing Scandal 11:45......... Armchair Britain 12:15............... Bargain Hunt 13:00....... BBC News at One 13:45....................... Red Rock 14:30................Escape to the Country 15:30........................ Make Me a Dealer 16:15............................Flog It! 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........ Keeping Faith 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:25........Regional News and Weather 22:35..................... Clique 23:20........ Hayley Goes...

23:50.... Ellie Undercover 00:20............... BBC News

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06:30 .................... Monday in Parliament 07:00............................. Coast 07:15.............. Bargain Hunt 08:00 ...... Dom on the Spot 08:30...................... Our Lives 09:00............ BBC News at 9 10:00... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00..BBC Newsroom Live 12:00.................. Politics Live 13:00...................... The Super League Show 13:45.............Victorian Farm 14:45.............Victorian Farm 15:45....... Swimming: World Championships 17:15....Antiques Road Trip 18:00................. Celebrity Eggheads 18:30..............Best House in Town 19:00.... The Repair Shop 20:00. Inside the Factory 21:00...How The Middle W C Classes Ruined Britain choice 22:00.. Live at the Apollo 22:30..............Newsnight 23:10..................Weather 23:15.. The Mighty Redcar 00:45...... Inside the Bank of England

06:00............. Good Morning Britain 08:30 ........................ Lorraine 09:25 .............. Judge Rinder 10:30 .............. This Morning 12:30 ............ Loose Women 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 14:00.................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 15:00..........................Tenable 15:59...................ITV London 16:00...............Tipping Point 17:00.....................The Chase 18:00.... ITV News London 18:30....ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30........... Save Money: Lose Weight 20:00............ Emmerdale 20:30...Yorkshire Airport 21:00.Caught on Camera 22:00........ITV News at Ten 22:40.... ITV News London 22:55.....Serial Killer with Piers Morgan 23:55.................. Tenable 00:45........Tour de France Highlights 01:40........James Martin’s French Adventure

How The Middle Class Ruined Britain c h o i c e BBC2, 21.00

06:25 ................................. Cheers

06:00....................... childrens’ TV

06:55 ................................. Cheers

09:15 .......................Jeremy Vine

07:20 ................ King of Queens

11:15 .................. Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun

06:20 .....................Judge Rinder

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

08:00 ........................ Emmerdale

09:10 ..................................Frasier

12:15.......... Police Interceptors

08:30............ Coronation Street

09:40 ..................................Frasier

13:10.................................. Access

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

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

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

11:00 ................... The Simpsons

13:45 ....................... Neighbours

10:25 ......................... Superstore

12:00............... Channel 4 News

14:15 .... You Killed My Mother

11:15 .............. Dress to Impress

12:05 .... A New Life in the Sun

16:00 ................................ Friends

12:15 ........................ Emmerdale

13:05 .......... Posh Pawnbrokers

16:30................................ Friends

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

14:10 ....................... Countdown

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

15:00 ........... A Place in the Sun

17:30 ....................... Neighbours

13:50 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show

18:00..........Home and Away

14:45 .......................Dinner Date

18:30.......... 5 News Tonight

15:50 .............. Dress to Impress

19:00.................. Sewermen

16:50 ...................... Take Me Out

20:00 ....... The Great Garden Challenge

18:00.... You’ve Been Framed!

08:10........................... Everybody Loves Raymond

16:00............... The £100k Drop 17:00 ....... Come Dine with Me 17:30 ................... The Simpsons 18:30 ................... Hollyoaks 19:00......... Channel 4 News 20:00............. Ackley Bridge 21:00 .........24 Hours in A&E 22:00 .............................I Am

21:15............... Secrets of the National Trust with Alan Titchmarsh 22:15................Restless Legs Syndrome: The New Cure

06:00 ...... The Planet’s Funniest Animals 07:10 .......................Dinner Date

20:00....Two and a Half Men 21:00 .................Love Island 22:05................. Family Guy 23:30........... American Dad!

00:00.... Let’s Talk about Sex

23:15....... Critical Condition

00:25............ Shopping with Keith Lemon

08:55............ A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

06:00 ................... Animal House

07:10 .......................The Hurting 07:35 .......................The Hurting

09:45... Escape to the Chateau

07:00 .......................Monkey Life 08:00................. Dog Whisperer

08:00 .............American Pickers

09:00 .............................Supergirl

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

10:00 ............................ The Flash

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

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

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

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

14:00 .................Sin City Motors

14:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0

15:00 ................Yianni: Supercar Customiser

23:00 .................... Drag SOS

10:45................ The Great British Bake Off 12:00..........Find it, Fix it, Flog it 13:05......................Four in a Bed 13:35......................Four in a Bed 14:10......................Four in a Bed 14:40......................Four in a Bed 15:15......................Four in a Bed

15:00 ...........................MacGyver 16:00 ................. Modern Family 17:00................... The Simpsons

15:30 ................Yianni: Supercar Customiser

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

16:00 ..............James May’s Cars of the People

16:50..................Love it or List it

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

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

17:55.................... The Secret Life of the Zoo

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

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

20:00................. A League of Their Own

19:00........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You

21:00........................... Rob & Romesh Vs

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

21:00....Building the Dream

21:00 ...... Live at the Apollo

22:00..................... £4 Million Restoration: Historic House Rescue

22:00........................ Warrior

22:00................. Taskmaster

23:00 ........ Micky Flanagan’s Detour de France

23:00 ........................... QI XL

23:05..........24 Hours in A&E

00:00.........A League of Their Own Us Road Trip

00:40 ........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You

01:00................The Blacklist

01:40....... Live at the Apollo

15:50.................Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it

18:55.............. The Supervet 19:55....Great Canal Journeys

00:05.......... 999: What’s Your Emergency?

00:00 .......................... Sliced

Comedian Geoff Norcott goes back to his working-class roots for a new BBC Two documentary, exploring a very peculiar kind of class war.

In the aftermath of the Brexit vote, Geoff observes how the working class have become visible for the first time in generations, and to some extent feared by what he perceives as the significant, largely law-abiding, yet most derided “avocado eating, Waitrose shopping” sector of society.

The self-proclaimed right-wing comedian, who grew up in a single-parent family on a council estate in south London, reveals the ways in which he thinks the middle class have had their way for too long. His exploration of the inner workings of Britain’s class divide starts with his exposure of the hypocrisy of middle class parents using ethically dubious means to get their “little darlings” into the best state schools.

His journey into the secret world of middle class privilege takes him from the booming gentrification of inner-city Manchester to the upmarket areas of London, where he uncovers the growing phenomena of ‘assortative mating’ - marrying someone of similar background and bank balance. There he meets the meets the founder of a new dating app, designed exclusively for the crème of the privately educated middle class, demonstrating just another way people like him are being kept, in his words, “at arm’s length”.

wednesday 24th July

www.canarianweekly.com 19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019

06:00...................... Breakfast 09:15 .......................... Wanted Down Under 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .................... The Empty Housing Scandal 11:45 ........ Armchair Britain 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...... BBC News at One 13:45...................... Red Rock 14:30............... Escape to the Country 15:30 .....Make Me a Dealer 16:15........................... Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00.... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30..........................Fraud Squad NHS 20:00...................Shop Well for Less 21:00 ............ Our Cops in the North 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:35..........Our Borough: Love & Hustle 23:15..........Our Borough: Love & Hustle 00:00............... Serengeti 01:00............... BBC News

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06:30 .................... Tuesday in Parliament 07:00............................. Coast 08:00......... Britain in Bloom 08:30................. Great British Railway Journeys 09:00 ............ BBC News at 9 10:00 .. Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 .BBC Newsroom Live 11:15................. Politics Live 13:00 ..... Curious Creatures 13:30 .......................The Hairy Bakers Shorts 13:45............ Victorian Farm 14:45 ............Victorian Farm 15:45....... Swimming: World Championships 17:15....Antiques Road Trip 18:00................. Celebrity Eggheads 18:30..............Best House in Town 19:00.... The Repair Shop 20:00............ Remarkable Places to Eat 21:00....Animal Babies: CW First Year on Earth choice 22:00......... Better Things 22:25.... Rick Stein’s Long Weekends 22:30..............Newsnight 23:10..................Weather 23:15.................. Horizon 00:15.............Ambulance

06:00............. Good Morning Britain 08:30 ........................ Lorraine 09:25 .............. Judge Rinder 10:30 .............. This Morning 12:30 ............ Loose Women 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 14:00.................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 15:00......................... Tenable 15:59.................. ITV London 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............Inside the Ritz Hotel

20:30..Coronation Street

06:00...................... Childrens’ TV 09:10................. Sunny Bunnies 09:15 .......................Jeremy Vine 11:15 .................. Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun 12:10 ..........5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..........Police Interceptors 13:10 ..................................Access 13:15 .............. Home and Away 13:45 ....................... Neighbours 14:20 .....Framed by My Fiance 16:00................................. Friends 17:00........................ 5 News at 5 17:30........................ Neighbours 18:00..........Home and Away 18:30........... 5 News Tonight 19:00................. Cricket on 5 20:00..................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 21:00.............. Casualty 24/7 22:00................The Accused 23:30................ The Death of Amy Winehouse: 13 Reasons Why 01:00........The 21.Co.UK Live Casino Show

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06:00 ........................ The Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 .....................Judge Rinder 07:10....................... Dinner Date 08:00 ........................ Emmerdale 09:00 ..... You’ve Been Framed!

09:25 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 10:25 ......................... Superstore 11:15 .............. Dress to Impress 12:15........................ Emmerdale 13:15...... You’ve Been Framed!

13:50 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:45....................... Dinner Date 15:50.............. Dress to Impress 16:55...................... Take Me Out 18:30.... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00....Two and a Half Men 21:00..................Love Island 22:00.................Celebability 22:50.................. Family Guy 23:50............ American Dad! 00:45....Two and a Half Men

21:00..........The Widower 22:00..... ITV News at Ten 22:40.. ITV News London 22:55.................... Peston 23:55.................. Tenable 00:45........Tour de France Highlights

Animal Babies: First Year On Earth BBC2, 21.00

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06:25 ................................. Cheers 07:20 ................ King of Queens 08:10.............. Everybody Loves Raymond 09:10.................................. Frasier 10:10...... The Big Bang Theory 11:00 ................... The Simpsons 12:00 ...............Channel 4 News 12:05 .... A New Life in the Sun 13:05 .......... Posh Pawnbrokers 14:10....................... Countdown 15:00........... A Place in the Sun 16:00 ............... The £100k Drop 17:00 ....... Come Dine with Me 17:30 ................... The Simpsons 18:00............. The Simpsons 18:30................... Hollyoaks 19:00......... Channel 4 News 20:00 .................. Orangutan Jungle School 21:00......Caught on Camera 22:00....................GameFace 22:35......... Generation Porn 23:35................... First Dates 00:35.........Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

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For animals all around the world, their first year is one of the most difficult, and most dangerous.

To survive, they must overcome daily threats and challenges from rivals, the elements and predators. In this series, three wildlife camera operators will follow our planet’s most iconic animals as they grow and develop, day by day. This is the story of what it takes to survive in the wild. This is their first year on earth.

The first three critical months are when our animal babies have to rapidly get to grips with their new family and the challenges of environment that surrounds them. In Kenya, a new-born elephant calf Safina must keep up with her fast moving herd, while in Uganda, an eight-week-old mountain gorilla has to cling on tight to survive the ups and downs of forest life. All six babies must learn the most basic of skills to thrive - and for some animals, to even survive.

08:55............ A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 09:45... Escape to the Chateau 10:45................ The Great British Bake Off 12:00..........Find it, Fix it, Flog it 13:05......................Four in a Bed 13:35......................Four in a Bed 14:10......................Four in a Bed 14:40......................Four in a Bed 15:15......................Four in a Bed 15:50.................Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it 16:50..................Love it or List it 17:55.................... The Secret Life of the Zoo 18:55.............. The Supervet 19:55.Great Canal Journeys 21:00....................Outlander 22:15........How to Dress Like a Princess: Royal Fashion Secrets 23:15..........24 Hours in A&E 00:25........... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

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06:00 ................... Animal House 06:30 ................... Animal House 07:00 .......................Monkey Life 07:30 .......................Monkey Life 08:00 ................. Dog Whisperer 09:00 .............................Supergirl 10:00............................ The Flash 11:00 ............NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0 14:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ...........................MacGyver 16:00 ................. Modern Family 17:00 ................... The Simpsons 17:30 ............................Futurama 18:00.................... Futurama 18:30............. The Simpsons 20:00....................... S.W.A.T. 21:00............... The Blacklist 22:00 ....................The Force: Manchester 23:00.......... An Idiot Abroad 00:00.................. A League of Their Own 01:00......................Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

07:10 .......................The Hurting 08:00 .............American Pickers 09:00 ........Storage Hunters UK 10:00 .............American Pickers 13:00............................. Top Gear 14:00..................Sin City Motors 15:00.................Yianni: Supercar Customiser 15:30.................Yianni: Supercar Customiser 16:00...............James May’s Cars of the People 17:00 ............................. Top Gear 18:00 .....................Top Gear 19:00........... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 20:00........... Expedition with Steve Backshall 21:00....... Live at the Apollo 22:00........... Jon Richardson: Ultimate Worrier 23:00............................ QI XL 00:00........................... Sliced 00:40............ Have I Got a Bit More News for You

Inside The Ritz Hotel ITV1, 20.00

The Ritz reveals what it takes to turn the hotel around for Christmas overnight and how they stage the huge 25ft Christmas tree. As we peek inside this famous hotel we see how they cook up 500 turkey roasts a week at Michelin-star standard and the Ritz’s VIP guests surprise at the magical Christmas reveal.

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06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Wanted Down Under 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .................... The Empty Housing Scandal 11:45 ........ Armchair Britain 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:45 ...................... Red Rock 14:30 ...................... Escape to the Country 15:30 .....Make Me a Dealer 16:15 ...........................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 19:00....... The One Show 19:30............ EastEnders 20:00............... Serengeti 21:00.................... Fake or Fortune?

22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:25....... Regional News and Weather 22:35................ Inside the Bruderhof 23:15............ Who Do You Think You Are?

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06:30 ............. Wednesday in Parliament 07:00............................. Coast 08:00 .........Britain in Bloom 08:30................. Great British Railway Journeys 09:00 ............ BBC News at 9 10:00... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00.. BBC Newsroom Live 12:15..................... Politics Live 13:00 ..... Curious Creatures 13:30 ...................Getting the Builders in 14:15............. The Wonder of Animals 14:45.............Victorian Farm 15:45....... Swimming: World Championships 17:15....Antiques Road Trip 18:00................. Celebrity Eggheads 18:30..............Best House in Town 19:00.... The Repair Shop 20:00...This Farming Life 21:00...................... Broke 22:00........ Vic & Bob’s Big Night Out 22:30..............Newsnight 23:10..................Weather 23:15..... How The Middle Classes Ruined Britain

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

06:25 ................................. Cheers

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

06:55 ................................. Cheers

09:10 ................. Sunny Bunnies

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

07:20 ................ King of Queens

09:15....................... Jeremy Vine

06:20..................... Judge Rinder

09:25 .............. Judge Rinder

08:10 ...........................Everybody Loves Raymond

11:15 .................. Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun

07:10 .......................Dinner Date 08:00 ........................ Emmerdale

09:10 ..................................Frasier

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

08:30 ............Coronation Street

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

12:15.......... Police Interceptors

11:00 ................... The Simpsons

13:10.................................. Access

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

12:00 ...............Channel 4 News

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

12:05 .... A New Life in the Sun

13:45 ....................... Neighbours

11:15 .............. Dress to Impress

14:00................... Dickinson’s Real Deal

13:05 .......... Posh Pawnbrokers

14:15 ............... Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery

12:15 ........................ Emmerdale

14:10 ....................... Countdown

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

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

15:00 ........... A Place in the Sun

16:00 ................................ Friends

15:59 ...................ITV London Weather

16:00 ............... The £100k Drop

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

13:50 .............................. The Ellen DeGeneres Show

17:00 ....... Come Dine with Me

17:30 ....................... Neighbours

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

17:30 ................... The Simpsons

18:00......... Home and Away

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

18:30................... Hollyoaks

18:30 .......... 5 News Tonight

18:00 ... ITV News London

19:00......... Channel 4 News

19:00 ................ Cricket on 5

20:00............George Clarke’s Old House, New Home

20:00 ............... Dirty Britain

20:00....Two and a Half Men

21:00....Portillo: The Trouble with the Tories

20:30....Two and a Half Men 21:00..................Love Island

22:15............ Benidorm Brits Behaving Badly

22:00............. Shopping with Keith Lemon

23:15..............Old School for Lazy Kids

22:35.................. Family Guy

08:55............ A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

06:00 ................... Animal House

07:10 .......................The Hurting

06:30 ................... Animal House

07:35 .......................The Hurting

09:45 ............................. Escape to the Chateau

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

08:00 .............American Pickers

10:45 ............... The Great British Bake Off

07:30 .......................Monkey Life

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

08:00 ................. Dog Whisperer

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

09:00 .............................Supergirl

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

10:00 ............................ The Flash

11:00 .............American Pickers

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

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

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The series starts on Thursday 25th July with Ross Kemp Living With Homelessness. In this episode, Ross sleeps out on the coldest night of the year with some of Cardiff’s rough sleepers, he meets people from families torn apart by homelessness and uncovers shocking truths about the government’s understanding of the size of the rough sleeper population. Ross says: “No one knows exactly how many rough sleepers there are, but both the government and charities agree that rough sleeping has at least doubled in the past few years.”

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14:00 .................... Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ...........................MacGyver 16:00 ................. Modern Family 16:30 ................. Modern Family 17:00 ................... The Simpsons 17:30............................ Futurama

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Three-year-old saved from pool’s filter pipe

FIRE-FIGHTERS, Local Police, Guardia Civil and medics, were all called to a hotel in the Platja de Muro area of Mallorca, to rescue a three-year-old child.

He had stuck an arm in the swimming pool’s filter pipe, and fire-fighters had to dig through concrete to free him.

The youngster remained in his

mother’s arms for three hours until he was finally released, to a standing ovation from onlookers.

The drama took place last Saturday at the Alcúdia Pins hotel, and though the rescue was described as “complicated”, the boy’s life was never in danger.

Medics gave him a clean bill of health, so there was no need for them to take him to hospital. But one rescuer said: “He held out like a champion.”

Despicable Brit pair stole €270,000 from pensioners

Amazon after 200 workers to get people reading more

ONLINE retail giant Amazon is seeking 200 new employees for its Kindle technologicaldevelopment team in Madrid.

Spain is now only the third country ever with a centre for developing reading technology for Amazon, along with the US and India.

The teams will be creating technology to allow customers to test-drive, buy and read their favourite books, articles and other text types.

Amazon now has just over

270 employees at its Madrid and Barcelona technological centres, and, since the company’s 2011 launch in Spain, it has created 5,000 new permanent jobs and invested over €1.1bn.

The software development centre in Madrid offers support to digital sales platforms across Europe and to Amazon Business, while the Barcelona centre focuses on research into, and development of, machine learning, and other, similar activities.

Mariangela Marseglia, Amazon’s managing director for Spain and Italy, said:

“The company is very much looking forward to seeing how ideas, developed by people in Spain, affect the manner in which customers in the rest of the world read and access content.”

The 200 new employees will be aiming to ensure that every book, in every language, is accessible to global readers anywhere in the world, and, also, to help get more out of reading.

Interviewing will start shortly, and applications are already being taken via the company’s website, Amazon.es.

Hugger-muggers steal €400 from a youngster A BRITISH couple, caring for an elderly pair, were sentenced to four years in jail, after an Alicante court found they had gained €270,000, fraudulently.

The judge said the pensioners, both passed away now, had become totally dependent on their carers, adding that the Brits, 51 and 67, took advantage of this trust to transfer €385,902 to their personal bank accounts.

Yet he said a sum of €116,680 should remain with the convicted as their salaries.

The court then sentenced the thieving couple to four years in prison, with a demand to repay just €166,332 to the deceased’s family.

But the remaining €102,890 of stolen cash could not be verified because the transfers were made, via credit card,

in small sums, of between 100 and 600 euros.

The trial, heard at the Audience of Alicante, began in March, after the crimes had been committed between the end of 2011 and July 2013.

In 2013, the elderly wife passed away, while her husband suffered with Parkinson’s and cerebral arteriosclerosis, which, at times, left him incapacitated and with lapses in memory, said the public prosecutor.

But the Britons, named only as BSS and JMS, showed no remorse, arguing that the deceased’s family had agreed to hand over the whopping sum.

The elderly pair’s son, whose family name is Van Dogen, testified in court, saying: “I cannot corroborate this version of events.”

In addition, the judge concluded that the convicted had used the money for their own benefit.

A YOUNG Brit was robbed of €400 by a gang of women in Benidorm on day one of his first lads’ holiday.

Alex Ayland, 20, from Lydney, Gloucestershire, landed on the tourist hotspot with a group of pals last week.

But his excitement turned sour quickly when his holiday cash was lifted from him by so-called “hugger muggers”.

His plight was revealed by his mum, Mand, who shared the story on a Benidorm Facebook group, asking members to “give him a smile” if they saw him.

She wrote: “Me and hubby come to Benidorm every year because we love the place.

“Our 20-year-old son arrived yesterday with some friends, and was robbed of €400 from two girls touching him up.

“It was his first holiday without us. He rang us in tears … it was all he had, and he wanted to get the first flight home.

“My point is that if you see him, could you give him a

smile and hello? He wanted to get the first flight home.”

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Little-known Bond actor was plied with fatal date-rape drug

Rapist’s 12-year sentence, having served 20 already!

A CONVICTED criminal has been sent back to prison for 12 years, after raping an asylum-seeker and claiming she couldn’t denounce him because she was illegal.

Eric Michels (right) died after an overdose of GHB, supplied by Gerald Matovu

A DEALER has been found guilty of killing a little-known James Bond actor with the same chemsex drug he sold to serial killer Stephen Port.

Gerald Matovu, 26, hooked up with Eric Michels, 54, in August last year, via Grindr, an online dating application for gay, bi and trans people, in August last year.

Matovu plied him with a fatal dose of the date-rape drug GHB at his Surrey home in Bolton Road, Chessington, then made off with his bank card details and other belongings.

Mr Michels, who had an uncredited role in Skyfall, was one of 12 men targeted by Matovu and his lover Brandon Dunbar, 24, over a 19-month period, jurors heard.

Matovu was found guilty of businessman Mr Michels’ murder and a string of other offences, at an Old Bailey trial.

Jurors were not told about Matovu’s past connection with former chef Port, 44, from Barking, who had also targeted victims through Grindr and killed them with

GHB overdoses. Port was handed a whole-life term for raping and murdering four young men, and dumping their bodies near his east London home, between 2014 and 2015.

Following Port’s 2016 trial, Matovu pleaded guilty to supplying mephedrone and GHB and offering to supply GHB, but he denied knowing what Port planned to do with it.

In April 2017, Matovu was sentenced to community service of 12 months, 150 hours of unpaid work and 40 days of drug rehabilitation.

At Matovu’s murder trial, prosecutor Jonathan Rees QC told how the defendants took advantage of Grindr hook-ups to steal property and bank details.

On the evening of 16th August last year, divorced father-of-three Mr Michels made contact with Matovu on Grindr after a night out in Soho gay bars. Mr Michels invited him to his place in south-west London for sex, the court heard.

While there, the defendant drugged Mr Michels and took photographs of his bank cards and driver’s licence.

Matovu made off with a

MacBook, mobile phone, an initialled black case, US driving licence and various cards, as well as a suitcase, filled with bottles of alcohol.

Mr Michels’ body was discovered the following day by his concerned family, in bed, under a duvet.

An empty 3ml syringe without a needle attached was found on the floor beside the bed. The court heard that DNA from the victim and defendant was identified on it, as well as traces of GHB. Matovu denied murder, but accepted that he’d gone home with him to have consensual sex. He denied administering GHB to Mr Michels, claiming he took it of his own free will.

The jury deliberated for 26 hours to reach guilty verdicts on all the charges against both defendants. Members of the victim’s family in court shouted “Yes, the rest of your life in prison”, as an impassive Matovu looked on.

Matovu and Dunbar were convicted of a string of charges, including administering a noxious substance, assault by penetration and theft. They will be sentenced at a later date.

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The man, 52, raped the 26-year-old Venezuelan woman after she had responded to an online advertisement, seeking a cleaner to work at his café, in Alicante’s Calle San Pablo.

The woman was asked to take some boxes up to the cafe’s loft space in April last year, when the man grabbed her by the neck and threw her to the floor.

He made as if to strangle her, saying: “Don’t shout; no one will hear you. And anyway, I

have a knife and I will kill you.”

After raping her, the man claimed she would not be able to denounce him to the police because she was an illegal immigrant.

He also said that if she married him, he would grant her legal papers. But the woman was able to fire off a frantic WhatsApp message to friends, who took her to the police station to serve him with an immediate denuncia for sexual aggression.

In fact, the man had already spent 20 years in prison for robbery, sexual abuse and illegal capture, and was back to jail just a year after being released.

The convicted rapist was also ordered to pay €20,360 for physical, psychological and moral damages, after the woman had to be treated for chronic, post-traumatic stress.

‘Police killed my brother, and also tortured his wife’

SIX police officers were suspended following a man’s claims that his brother was murdered, and his sister-in-law tortured, while being held, illegally, at a police station in India.

The man said the woman, 35, was gang-raped by several officers, and had her nails ripped out after witnessing her husband being killed by police.

Six officers were suspended from duties at Sardarshahar police station, in the northern state of Rajasthan.

The man said his 22-yearold brother, Nemichand, was taken into custody and held, illegally, before being murdered six days later, in front of his wife.

However, police dispute this, saying he was arrested on 6th July and died the same day, after being admitted to hospital. Nemichand and his wife were said to have been taken into custody on theft charges.

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‘Dangerous’ sun creams are so risky, say experts

Fake cabbies fined fortune by officers

BRITISH and Irish expats have been fined thousands of euros for using pirate taxis to take tourists to and from Malaga airport for cash.

SPAIN’S Ministry of Health has ruled that sun creams labelled as dangerous by a consumer group are “not a risk”.

That was the Government department’s response to the damning assessment of the Isdin and Babaria brands, by the Organisation of Consumers and Users’ (OCU).

Despite being labelled SPF 50+, the children’s creams were found to be just SPF 15 and 30, respectively.

However, scientific studies presented by both companies have now been

deemed valid, as well as those of the OCU. “A certain variability has been observed in the methodology used among the laboratories,” said a spokesperson from the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Health Products (AEMPS).

Now, the OCU and AEMPS have called for testing to be “standardised”, so that discrepancies are less likely to occur.

The decision follows the OCU’s comparative study of 17 SPF 50+ children’s sun creams in May. Isdin and Babaria’s products were the only two to have “failed” the test.

The moves came as the Local Police launched a new summer operation to combat the so-called pirates last month.

The unit is made up of at least four agents, two dressed in uniform and two plainclothed, who will monitor vehicles throughout the season, particularly during peak times.

In the crackdown’s first week in June, the operation arrested a British man of Irish origin who tried to flee the scene when cops caught him picking someone up to take to Gibraltar.

Another British driver and three Spaniards were also caught but were only fined.

Four more were stopped a few days later, including a British man who, according to police, tried to pretend that the three tourists he was taking to Puerto Banus were

his friends. The clients denied this and said they had paid €70 for the trip thinking he was a legal taxi.

Two Hungarians and another Spaniard were also stopped.

In all cases, the passengers were handed their money back and the drivers are now facing fraud charges.

The cars were also

impounded by Local Police with a sanction of €1,380, if it is paid back within a month.

The crackdown has come following a barrage of complaints from licensed taxi drivers, who say drivers offering lifts for cash are taking away their business, as well as under-cutting their prices.

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A LOCAL Spaniard has been arrested for the alleged rape of an 18-year-old British teenager, in La Rosaleda park, in the Valladolid region of Castile-Leon.

A judge told a court in the city that the girl had been drinking heavily, and it was unlikely that she would have consented to sex.

The couple are reported to have met during a night out, before the 27-year-old man led the girl into a private area of the park.

But it is unclear whether she is an expat or on holiday.

The suspect has made a statement to the judge.

The first ‘stolen baby’ acknowledged in court

THE first woman to be recognised by the Spanish courts as a “stolen baby” has discovered her biological family, through a DNA bank.

Thanks to US company 23andMe, Inés Madrigal was put in touch with a second cousin, following a saliva swab designed for testing ancestry and health-related concerns.

Inés, 50, was then reunited with her three biological brothers … after 32 years of searching!

Madrid-born Inés was involved in Spain’s first-ever “stolen baby” trial, for which 83-year-old doctor Eduardo Vela was convicted in 2018 of child abduction, faking a birth and falsifying Madrigal’s childbirth records, some 50 years previously.

The case has wider implications for an estimated 300,000 babies, who were snatched in a scandal that began under the Franco dictatorship, and continued until the 1990s.

Doctors and nuns would tell single or impoverished mothers their children had died, while giving them away to other, often wealthy, couples, who were unable to conceive.

Many times, the victimised families were identified as Republicans by the ruling authorities, according to the BBC. In 2012, after receiving a

A ROCK climber aged 55, known as FCB, drowned in front of his daughter near the Costa del Sol, following a 30-metre cliff fall into the sea at the village of Maro, in Nerja, Malaga, where he was climbing.

The tragic incident happened near a waterfall, thought to

be Cascada la Doncella.

His daughter, and the man’s friend, who were climbing with FCB, are believed to have called out to him, but there was no response.

After the incident, at 1.30pm last Sunday, a jet ski from the Andalucia Health Service took his body to Maro Beach, where it was removed, at around 4.30pm.

The trio of climbers, all from Granada, were exploring the area, just off the N340 road.

Stingray hung around beach for 90 minutes

class action lawsuit from more than 250 families, the Spanish Attorney General’s Office summed up the supposed modus operandi of the network, saying: “It consisted, essentially, of informing the mother and the family members of the newborn that the child had died.

“The hospital would offer to take care of the remains.

That minor was then handed over to other people.”

At a press conference in Madrid last Thursday, Madrigal described finding her ‘true family’ as a ‘triumph’.

The good news was tinged

with sadness, however, because she discovered that her biological mother died in 2013, at the age of 73.

And the new family connection has further, legal implications.

In 2018, Doctor Vela was acquitted of his crimes over Madrigal’s forced adoption, because she had taken too long to complain, the court ruled.

However, Madrigal told reporters that this new information on her long-lost family spurred prosecutors to overturn the prior ruling on Vela’s crimes.

An appeal to the Supreme Court is expected to ensue.

THIS deadly stingray was spotted just metres from swimmers in the waters of La Malagueta beach, who attempted to coax it back out to sea.

Footage of a video was recorded on the Costa del Sol beach by journalist Santiago Souviron, who shared the clip on Twitter.

The ray, according to local expert Francisco Pinto, is around six to seven years old, and of medium size. Its sting and poison can be fatal, although, usually only in exceptional circumstances.

Steve Irwin was, famously,

killed by a stingray, when he was stung in the chest in 2006. The barb penetrated his heart, and, immediately, sent poison pumping around his body.

This particular stingray spent 90 minutes swimming around the same area, and witnesses said it appeared to be disorientated by the large volume of people in the water.

Some touched the stingray in a bid to make it leave, which could have ended in a fatal stinging. But the fish, a close relative of the shark, eventually left the area.

Jesus Bellido, a biologist from the Aula del Mar told the Diario Sur newspaper that if a stingray is spotted, it should be left alone.

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MORE than 30 years since Spain first allowed women to join its Armed Forces, a female soldier has been promoted to General for the first time ever!

Patricia Ortega, 56, from Madrid, had her promotion confirmed last Friday, when defence leader Margarita Robles proposed it in the scheduled Council of Ministers.

The Madrid Polytechnic agricultural engineering graduate completed her training and exams in March to become a General, but this never guarantees the position, since only about one in three who pass go on to achieve the promotion.

Patricia started at Zaragoza General Military Academy in 1988, a year after finishing university and the first year when women were allowed to enlist.

She continued her training at the Armed Forces High Polytechnic School, specialising in electrical and construction engineering, after passing out from Zaragoza.

The new General is currently based at the National Technical Aerospace Institute, having risen through the ranks as Lieutenant Colonel and then Colonel.

Spain has it’s first female General

General Ortega, daughter, grand-daughter and sister of soldiers, who is married with three children, says she always wanted to follow in her family’s footsteps and pursue a “public-service vocation”.

But she has never found her career path any more difficult because of being a woman.

“I’m a soldier, independently of my sex and, therefore, I have left behind, sacrificed

and given up the same as all my other colleagues, male and female,” she said.

Ortega, then a Colonel, last took part in a public engagement with the military on 8th March, 2018, International Women’s Day, to mark the 30th anniversary of ladies being allowed to join the Forces.

As a Colonel, she was the highest-ranking woman within the national Force. But

what the Army has achieved in those 30 years is thanks to the efforts of both men and women, and Patricia stressed: “We women are treated like any other soldier… but we’re more than just any other soldier.”

She urged military institutions to make a real effort to achieve excellence in gender equality in the Forces.

Right now, female soldiers in Spain total just 12.7%, a figure

19th July 2019 - 25th July 2019 that has remained more or less constant since 2006, although rising slightly since 2012.

But it is still some way below that of other countries. In France, 19% of soldiers are women, and in the US, 14.5% are female, but these figures are considerably higher than in some western nations, such as Germany and the UK, where only 9.3% and 9%, respectively, are women.

Yet Spain’s female soldiers have occupied a lot less time in the Forces than in many of its neighbouring countries, making their 12.7% total a creditable achievement.

Most women in Spain’s Armed Forces form part of the troop or the Naval services, and, typically, in about 12,500 cases, hold the lowest ranks, while around 1,400 are officials and subofficials.

The Spanish Army has 221 Generals, all men, rising this week to 222 with one woman.

It also has 1,043 Colonels, of whom just three are female, according to the Ministry of Defence.

Margarita Robles is Spain’s third female Defence Minister, after Socialist President José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero named the late Carme Chacón for the role. His successor, the PP’s Mariano Rajoy, gave the job to his former deputy, María Dolores de Cospedal.

Accion del Sol News

The dogs are transformed!

OUR dogs arrive at the refuge, mostly in terrible condition, because of human abuse. We spend a lot of time on them, and they receive veterinary care, as needed, and good food to ensure they regain full health.

Each dog is microchipped, fully vaccinated and inoculated, and is heartworm and flea-free. Most importantly, they are sterilised.

We also ensure the dogs are resocialised, and have relearnt to trust humans, before they are ready for adoption. We do not charge for adoptions, but donations are very welcome towards the vast running costs of the refuge.

Assistance required We are always looking for people to walk the dogs in the refuge during opening hours.

Please do call the refuge on 664 321 219 or 602 463 242, between 8am5pm, if you can help in any way. We always need tinned dog-food 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 north-bound 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.

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Cats Welfare News THIS little girl is about 10 weeks old. She has been wormed, deflead and had her first injections. All her siblings have been adopted, so she’s really desperate for a loving home. She would love to meet you!

Adoption We have several other gorgeous kittens for adoption, and one way of getting to see some of them is to pop along to Koala Sur, next to the Farmers’ Market in Las Chafiras. A fabulous area has been set aside for them to frolic to their hearts’ content, with fantastic play equipment, and even two very comfortable armchairs!

It is a perfect environment for the public to interact with them, to help them decide as to whether they feel adoption to be a good idea. Give them a ring on 922 712 425, to see what little kitties are in residence!

Please send us a private Facebook message, or ring/ WhatsApp Sandra (English, Spanish and German) on 671 282 773 after 6pm, Sharon (English) on 662 524 006, or Linda (English) on 711 004 155, if you would like to enquire

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about any of the cats and kittens which are available for adoption. We ask for a minimum donation of €20 per kitten, to cover costs. *All kittens go for a week’s trial, in your home * Please vaccinate!

We would like to encourage everyone to vaccinate their

cats and dogs. Kittens and puppies are particularly vulnerable to disease, and there are many viruses doing the rounds, at this time of year.

They can be vaccinated from only two months old.

Clothes required We are appealing, please, for ladies’ dresses and tops.

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Please have a look around at home, and drop them into the shop on San Blas.

We need you!

Fostering kittens is very rewarding, watching them growing and playing, feeding them and realising how dependent they are on you.

It’s perfect for people who

don’t want a full-time cat of their own.

We are looking for foster carers, to look after bottlefeeders and weaners, as well as big kittens. You would need to be able to drive, and have somewhere safe for them. All food and litter, bedding, litter trays etc. will be supplied, and any vet bills will be paid by us.

Please help us to help the kittens in need. Cats Welfare arrange the adoptions, once the kittens are ready. Please send us a Facebook private message, if you are interested.

Our shop We always need cat food, litter, sheets, towels, bedding etc. for the cats and kittens in our care, and also good quality/condition items for sale in the shop on San Blas, Golf del Sur (behind Hiperdino). It is open seven days a week, 10am-6pm.

We stock good-quality clothes of all sizes, at sensible, low prices. Pop along and take a look. Our customers come from all over the island, and we see many holidaymakers return, time and again, eager to snap up a bargain.

If you don’t have transport, or have large, bulky items such as furniture and household effects to donate, please ring Mark on 636 590 557, and he will arrange collection from you.

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Give this lad a chance! Puppies, puppies, IT is never easy when couples break up and go their separate ways. Hearts are broken, and there is a lot of stress and uneasiness.

Unfortunately, if there are pets in the house, they also usually suffer, through no fault of their own. The couple do try and make it work for them, but, sometimes, this is not always possible. In February 2018, this beautiful boy was brought to K9, for this reason.

Sani is five years old, and is a Boxer/Presa Canario mix. He is a large dog. He also has heartworm, which is being treated on an on-going basis at K9. Sani has a lot of love to offer, but has not been given the chance to show it.

Why? Sani, like a lot of our dogs at K9, can be fearful of new people, especially men.

When some new volunteers come to our kennels to walk the dogs, they like to walk through and see all those we have, and slowly fall in love with them all.

Sani, who lives in the end kennel, is the last to be seen, and people automatically gravitate towards him. I am not surprised, for he is a truly handsome boy. If Sani does

not know you, he will bark out of fear, but most people mistake this for aggression, which can, understandably, put people off.

Do you want to get to know Sani, to discover how truly wonderful this boy is? Please come up and meet him at K9. Have patience with him, let him get to know you, and you will be so full of love for this boy. Once he does knows you, he is a great dog. He is very obedient, and always comes when you call him. He is a joy to walk, on and off the lead.

When allowed, he gives very good cuddles! When our volunteers take Sani for a walk and put his lead on first in the kennel, he will take it in

his mouth and almost bring you out of the kennels, as if to say: “Come on, let’s go for a walk”.

It is a very funny sight to witness, and this is one of the many qualities we love about Sani.

He needs a second chance.

He needs to be shown that there a good, loving people out there, who want to give him a good home.

He can be OK with some dogs, and not with others. He doesn’t really react to other dogs, unless provoked. If you are interested in getting to know Sani, and welcoming him into your home, please call up to K9, any day, between 9.30am-1.30pm.

We are on Calle Chimbesque, between Las Chafiras and Las Zocas. We look forward to seeing you! Get in touch by telephoning us on 667 638 468, or emailing info@ k9tenerife.com Online shop We now have an online shop: www.k9tenerife.eu/ welcome-to-our-k9-shop.

Deliveries only to the UK, so please spread the word among your family and friends in the UK! Thank you very much!

everywhere!

SADLY, the summer months see a big increase in abandoned pups, because of irresponsible owners.

Currently, we have 14 puppies in the shelter, of all shapes, sizes and colours. If you, or anyone you know, are looking for a forever friend, please contact us using the details in the dog-walking section. Or pop up during the dog-walking club on a Saturday morning, and have a play date with these super cuties.

Dog-walking club Join the Live Arico dogwalking club on Saturday mornings from 9am-1pm. Our dogs absolutely love it, and you can keep fit and find a furry friend at the same time.

Please come and meet the dogs. They have a fabulous time with the walkers, and look forward to going out for

a wander. Please feel free to pop along, even for a chat. If you have any questions, send a WhatsApp to Mark on 652 297 853, for further details.

Live Arico shops Come and bag a bargain at our shops. Donations are always very much appreciated.

San Eugenio - opposite Hotel La Nina, at Las Carabelas, near Amanda’s Bar. Open weekdays 10am-4pm, Saturday 10am-2pm and now Sundays 11am-3pm.

Los Cristianos - Calle Revron, near Thistle and Dragon Bar and play-park. Open Monday-Friday (10am-4pm), Saturday 10am-2pm. During the summer months, we will not be opening on Sundays.

Join us on Facebook - Live Arico P.A.W.S Tenerife twitter.com/live_arico www.livearico.com

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Endless treats at

by Paul Waller NESTLED on the top floor of Chinatown, Las Chafiras, is this fabulous restaurant. With two dining areas, inside or outside, undercover, there is lots of space for a family gathering, or an intimate meal for two.

There are plenty of staff to attend to you, speaking English and Spanish, which suited all members of our group. This restaurant was not what we expected, after having eaten in most other “eat-as-much-as-you-want” Chinese restaurants, here on the island.

This one is different, because there is no buffet to choose from. Instead, there is a menu with over 100, traditional dishes available,

including a great selection of sushi. You order what you fancy, and it is freshly

cooked. Brought to your table, in portions enough for one or two people, you can

keep ordering until you pop!

So, with what did we start?

It just had to be a selection of sushi, steamed meat dumplings, vegetable spring rolls and crispy duck with pancakes, which were so good that we ordered, instantly, another two portions. You can never

The Oyster Catcher

Adeje Chicken in Buzanada

Adeje Chicken in Buzanada is owned by Chemmy, who runs the kitchen with all her delicious home-made dishes, and her son, Bryan, who runs the bar-restaurant. Chemmy cooks all your chicken dishes: fried, spicy, garlic, honey, roast chicken or Kentucky fried, all accompanied by her homemade sauces. She has now added much more to the menu from escaldon de gofio (a tradtional Canarain dish), sweet and sour ribs, escalope, tradtional vegetable soup (potaje), roast pork and her fantastic mixed grill.

Buzanada Roundabout, Buzanada.

Open: Tues-Sun 10.30am-10.30pm, kitchen closes 4pm-6pm. Closed Mondays.

Call: 922 728 290

have enough crispy duck and pancakes! There were so many starters to choose from, it was easy to find something we liked.

Once we had demolished the starters, we picked up the menu again, and turned our eyes to the main dishes.

We selected Crispy Spicy

The Oyster Catcher restaurant is now OPEN in Los Abrigos.

Offering delicious, fresh food, including their speciality flambees, fish, paella, roast beef and lamb, pasta and much more. With the same great service, Angel and his friendly team look forward to welcoming you back. Don’t miss out, reserve your table today!

Calle el Pulpo, 2, 38618, Los Abrigos

Call: 822 90 32 74

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Paella for 2 people and a litre of Lupita de la Reina has a secret - Lupita restausangria or strawberry margarita Parque rant is fast becoming the place to eat, and it has

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Cañada Blanca 2, Parque de la Reina Open: 12noon - 11pm.

Cocktails only 3.50€

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Wok Chinatown Chicken, Chicken Curry, Beef with Ginger and Leeks, and Tokyo Ribs, accompanied

by Chicken Noodles and Special Fried Rice. All of this was plenty for the four of us.

The nice thing about the portions is that they are not overwhelming, so you get to try different dishes, and look

forward to returning really soon, to taste the rest.

And, if you want more, you just pick up the menu and ask! But there is one rule... you must eat what you order, or, at least, try some of it. If you order too much, you may be charged for it, which I think is a great policy. Being a chef,

Chill Out bar and restaurant Chill Out bar and restaurant offers a wide range of dishes, including Chateaubriand and Dorada al Sol. Why not come and dine, whilst watching the sun setting over Las Vistas beach, truly a beautiful setting to enjoy a lovely meal.

I don’t like seeing food being wasted.

Before we looked at the desserts, we decided we had to order another portion of crispy duck and pancakes.

Well, it would have been rude not to!

Then came the desserts.

The cold selection was on a serve-yourself counter, and included several varieties of

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.

MOndayS’ Feature nights: 5 course special on the roof terrace.

Call for more information and reservations.

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!

Las Vistas beach front, just past the harbour bridge, Los Cristianos

Open: 10am - 11pm

Call: 922 792 776

delicious ice creams. These went well with the choice of apple, banana or pineapple fritters with honey, again cooked to order, arriving at the table hot and fresh, in a light, crunchy batter.

And all this for only 12.95 euros per person! Under 8s eat for 6.95 euros, and there is no charge for under 5s. The price is fantastic value for money, and, judging by the number of people around us, it was very popular.

We retired to the outside sofa area, finishing the night with after-dinner drinks, before ordering our taxi.

The restaurant is open from 12.30pm - 10.30pm, seven days a week. Wok Chinatown, we will be back.

Thank you!

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 922 795 865

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Lifestyle

By Val Sainsbury OUR bodies have hundreds of small, often subtle, ways of sending us messages about our health.

Things like the colour of our skin, how much our hair falls out, how quickly wounds heal, and acne, can all signal nutrient status, the state of our microbiome, potential food intolerances, and even serious diseases such as diabetes or cancer.

One area of our bodies that most of us have probably never given a second thought to, however, can actually provide us with plenty of valuable information about our health: the white halfmoon on our fingernails, the lunula.

The lunula, while it looks like it is part of our nail, actually sits on top of the skin, just underneath the nail. It is a protective covering of the otherwise-vulnerable blood vessels found there. Everyone has a lunula, though it is not always visible on all fingers.

Many people can only really see it on their thumbs. The lunula plays a large role in the shape of our fingernails

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Half-moon’s shining message for health! and how they grow, and any damage to it can forever change how our nail grows, if it does at all.

The lunula has three ways of warning us about potential health problems: through its size, shape and colour.

A normal, healthy lunula is half-moon shaped, ivory, and takes up about a 5th of our nail. If you notice any of the following changes to your lunula, you may want to make an appointment with your doctor.

As mentioned already, your lunula should be roughly a fifth of your nail. Any bigger or smaller and it could mean trouble.

Macrolunula: This is when the lunula is bigger or enlarged. For some ethnicities, particularly those of Indian decent, this is normal. Otherwise, it can signify endocrine disorders, such as hyperthyroidism.

Microlunula and anolunula: this is when the lunula is either small, or absent altogether.

While a microlunula is usually normal for people of African descent, and can simply be age-related, it can also signify other problems, such as: *Cardiovascular atherosclerosis (hardening of the arteries)

*Chromosomal diseases *Nail diseases *Endocrine disorders, including both hypo and hyperthyroidism *Iron-deficiency anaemia and malnutrition *HIV *Nerve injury *Renal failure *Rheumatoid Arthritis Lunula shape The lunula affects the way your nail grows, so if its shape is off, chances are you will grow nails that are also misshapen. When something is wrong, the lunula can change from its regular halfmoon shape, to more square or even triangular. There can be many reasons your lunula changes shape: *Osteo-onychodysplasia:

also known as Nail-Patella Syndrome, which can result in several deformities, pain and discomfort. It is usually hereditary *Trisomy: chromosomal disorders, including Down’s Syndrome, Edward Syndrome and Patau Syndrome *Nail trauma Lunula Colour Also known as lunar dyschromia, the lunula should be more ivory in colour, though it is common for those with dark skin tone to have a blueish tinge to theirs. If your lunula is any of the following colours, make sure to go check with your doctor to make sure you don’t have, or are at greater risk for, any of their associated illnesses. *Red spots: a red-spotted

lunula could mean alopecia, areata, vitiligo or psoriasis.

It could also signify nail dystrophy and deformity diseases *Blue: this is often caused by systematic drug ingestion, including Exlax, chemotherapy drugs, and other cancer and HIV drugs.

A blue lunula has also been connected with Wilson’s disease and Haemoglobin M disease *Yellow: yellow lunulas are most often caused by exposure to insecticides and pesticides *White: while your lunula should appear whiter than the rest of your nail, extremely-white lunulas can mean trouble. Also known as leukonychia, this is often seen in those with chronic renal failure, nephrotic syndrome, cirrhosis, congestive heart failure and diabetes.

Your nails provide valuable information about your health. If you notice that your lunula has any of the above characteristics, check to see if you have any other symptoms of any of the mentioned diseases, and make an appointment with your doctor to talk about your concerns.

Brit firms are accused of unhealthy medical scam

FIFTEEN British companies have been accused of charging Spain-bound tourists for medical insurance, which has already been covered by the EHIC (European Health Insurance Card).

The “fraudulent” practice is believed to relieve Spain’s private healthcare system of more than €3,000,000 daily.

The insurance cover can cost “up to €133” per person for an already-free service, according to Spanish private healthcare alliance ASPE. The group has complained that some 800 British tourists are turning up in private hospitals across Spain each day, without official insurance.

“These companies are charging for assistance they are not providing,” said David Medina, an ASPE board member.

“They offer cheap policies to patients with preexisting conditions, as a ‘trick’ to win their cash.

But the situation, which gambles with the health of British tourists, is also harming the ASPE. “If patients have a serious urgency, we have to take care of them until we stabilise them, at the very least,” said ASPE General Secretary Carlos Rus. “But we then have to shoulder those expenses, and it’s difficult to reclaim that money.”

He added: “We also end up paying the costs of transferring a patient to a public hospital many times.”

The association estimates that each patient, on a “fraudulent” scheme, costs a private hospital €4,000, unknowingly.

ASPE served a denuncia on the guilty Brit companies

in 2016, urging them to “put in writing” exactly to which services tourists are entitled.

And the association has now released a list of the 15 companies accused of continuing the fraud, which include: Travelinsurance4medical.co.uk; Insurefor.com; Ok To Travel; Insure Pink; Staysure; Suretravel Citybond; Covered 2 Go; Good to Go; Alpha Travel; ERV Medi-Care; Leisurecare Multi-traveller X5; World First Traveller and Get going Travel Insurance.

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Daddy keeps his Cool!

THE top guns were all ablaze last Friday, starting at Pas O Nadas, where the A team retained their No.1 spot, with Richard (Daddy Cool) hitting two 180s, followed by Luc’s one, and John responding with one of his own for Mad Hatters.

The home team also had a bull finish from JB, and birthdayboy Wattie checked out 25, 25, double 16, as they won 7-1, despite Rob’s opening-game success for the Mad Hatters.

Gaffers # Team Hollywood travelled to Scooters A, and both Tomo and Matt scored maximums in their 7-1 victory. But the best player on the night was Alexa.

Pas O Nadas International had a close clash with the Waterfall, taking the trebles to win 5-3, while Suters hit back in the final game at The Pub to claim a 4-4 draw, after the home team’s Sam scored a maxium.

Our Place Playboys welcomed Loch Inn Bullseyes and recorded a fine 7-1 win, with Pablo checking out 107, and the visitors’ Daryn hitting his favourite bull finish.

Emerald B’s game against Sandys Bookie Boys looked to be straightforward, as the 6-2 scoreline suggests. But lots of games went to five legs, and, with more clinical finishing, the result could have been different.

Club Activo travelled to Clouseaus, with Sergio on top form, hitting two maximums in their 6-2 win.

Sundowners hosted four players from Naughty Nautas, who, to their credit, kept their nerve in the trebles to claim a 4-4

division 1 ResultS Emerald ‘B’ Ourplace Playboys Pas O Nadas ‘A’ Sandys Bandits Scooters & Chevys ‘A’ Pas O Nadas Int. The PuB

division 1 Table Table

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5

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7 Ourplace Playboys 4

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8 Waterfall

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3 12

20

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9 Mad Hatters

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2 10

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7

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12 Emerald ‘B’

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13 Scooters & Chevys ‘A’ 4 0 1 3 6 26 -20 6 14 Legends

draw.

Marilyns entertained Pas O Nadas, and the visitors’ experience shone through in a fine 7-1 win.

Tom, from Pink Elephant, had his best game of the season, scoring a 180 in an impressive 11-darter, as his rampant team enjoyed a 7-1 win over Palms Sports Bar. Our Place Breakaways welcomed

Emerald Lounge, and the visitors found their best form in a 7-1 win, despite Dylan busting a 140 finish … which isn’t easy!

Scooters B, who travelled to Picassos, had to wait until the 701 game to record a 5-3 win.

Last, but not least, Our Place Playgirls had a long trip to Club House, but could only take two games in a 6-2 defeat.

Villa bag defender Konsa, who fits bill ASTON Villa have completed the £12m signing of Brentford’s England Under-21 defender Ezri Konsa.

The 21-year-old will travel to the United States with his new teammates after passing a medical.

Konsa made 42 appearances for Brentford last season, including the 1-0 win over Villa in February, and is reunited with former manager Dean Smith, the Premier League’s

2-6 Sandys Bookie Boys 7-1 The Loch-In Bullseyes 7-1 Mad HatterS P-P LegendS 1-7 Gaffers # Team HollywooD 5-3 WaterfalL 4-4 Suters 20:30 CreW

newcomers having triggered his £12m release clause.

“Ezri fits the profile of the type of player we were searching for,”

said Smith. “It helps that Richard O’Kelly and I have worked with him before.

“He’s a high-potential player, who, I believe, can step up to the Premier League, and I’m really looking forward to working with him again.”

Villa have already bolstered their defensive options bringing in Kourtney Hause, Matt Targett and Tyrone Mings as well as sealing deals for Jota, Anwar El Ghazi and Club Brugge forward Wesley.

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2-6 Club Activo 1-7 Pas O Nadas 6-2 Ourplace Playgirls

Pink Elephant SundownerS Ourplace BreakawayS

7-1 Palms Sports BaR 4-4 Naughty NautaS 1-7 Emerald LoungE

PicassoS

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27

6 Ourplace Breakaways 5 3 0 2 24 16 8

24

7 Scooters & Chevys ‘B’ 5 3 0 2 23 17 6

23

8 Pas O Nadas

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3

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2 22

18

22

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4 13

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4 11

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11

13 Marilyns

5 0 0 5 6 34 -28 6

14 Clouseau’s

4 0 0 4 3 29 -26 3

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Super heroes, on a super weekend

IT was the sporting weekend to beat all weekends, with records galore being set in tennis, cricket and Formula 1… and all three being staged at their rightful homes!

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championship points to beat people’s favourite Roger Federer 7-6, 1-6, 7-6, 4-6, 13-12 for his fifth Wimbledon singles title.

It was the third time he had beaten Federer in finals there and, at three minutes under five hours, it was the longest Centre Court men’s singles final ever, the last set taking more than two hours to complete.

It was also a historic final for Djokovic and Wimbledon. The last time a men’s champion saved match points in the final there was 71 years ago, in 1948, when American Robert Falkenburg beat Australian John Bromwich after being three matchpoints down.

A somewhat depressed Federer said, after his third Wimbledon final defeat by his Serbian opponent: “I’ll try to forget this final, but it was a great match.

“It had everything and I had my chances. But so did he!”

On to Lord’s, the home of cricket, and its World Cup final, between England and New Zealand, which produced another mind-blowing occasion, finishing on the newly-introduced Super Over.

Both teams had scored 241 in their allocated 50 overs, and not even the Super Over could separate

At Wimbledon last Saturday, Simona Halep walloped the mighty Serena Williams 6-2, 6-2 to win the Women’s Singles crown for the first time, against all the odds.

Serena, a red-hot favourite to collect her seventh Singles crown there, had waltzed through to the final with ease, and even partnered British favourite Andy Murray in the Mixed Doubles for three rounds before their demise. But she had no answer to the petite, 27-year-old Romanian.

Her speed and accuracy around the court had the full-house Centre Court gasping, and no wonder, because few modern women had been so dominant.

Simona finished the match in 56 minutes, which was the first Wimbledon record to be broken at the weekend, at the home of tennis.

The following day, Novak Djokovic saved two

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them. But England, captained by Irishman Eoin Morgan, ended 44 years of hurt on a countback of the most boundaries scored, 26-17, in the final reckoning.

But England still needed the largest slice of luck, ever! With nine runs still needed from the final three balls, Ben Stokes slogged one six, and went for another big hit.

After one run, the ball sped to Martin Guptill. But Stokes, desperate to keep the strike, turned and raced back, diving to make his ground. As he did so, the ball, thrown from the deep, struck his bat and deflected to the boundary for a four, making a total of six for the delivery.

The umpires consulted, and the runs stood. Then, despite two run-outs, England scraped home. But, despite a legitimate claim that the umpires had erred because the batsmen hadn’t crossed a second time in the over, England were home and dry, apart from the champagne!

It all seemed difficult to understand, but one newspaper reader wrote in saying that it needn’t have been so complicated. “England scored 241-10, while New Zealand scored 241-8,” he said. “Simple! New Zealand win with fewer wickets lost!”

Meanwhile, as the England cricketers toiled, Lewis Hamilton, the five-time F1 world champion, was racing towards his place in the all-time greats with an unprecedented sixth British Grand Prix triumph at Silverstone.

That put him ahead of icons Jim Clark and Alain Prost, and Hamilton again demonstrated his immense talent at the home of Formula One to win a thrilling encounter, avoiding trouble while his rivals wiped themselves out!

On Lap 21, when the safety car was deployed, Hamilton’s Mercedes’ team-mate Valtteri Bottas, who started on pole, had already made a pit stop.

The 34-year-old world champion pounced on the chance to do so, as the field trundled behind the safety car.

He returned to the action, ahead of Bottas, and cruised to his seventh win in eight outings, in front of his talented team-mate, to send the Silverstone crowd wild with delight.

Hamilton wants to be the great driver of all, and who’s to say he won’t fulfil that ambition?

“To be among the greats, who have shone at this circuit, and here in the UK… I’m incredible proud to be part of it,” he said. “I still remember my first win here, my first pole here. Every year, it’s such a challenge!”

Wow, what an astonishing weekend!

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