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Issue 899 24th April - 30th April 2015

OIL SLICK FEAR FOR CANARIES

Inside this week...

GREENPEACE and scientists are calling for urgent Government action to control an oil slick which is set to hit the Canary Islands in the next couple of days.

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Greenpeace issue environment alert Continued from front.

Last week, Russian ship the Oleg Naydenov, spewed 1,400 tonnes of fuel into the Atlantic after sinking 15 miles off the coast of Maspalomas.

The vessel had caught fire the previous weekend and was towed into port, only for the fire to intensify. She was then moved 15 miles out to sea and deliberately scuttled because experts believed that any oil would travel south and away from the shore.

However, despite most of the spillage moving as anticipated, some of the oil separated from the main spill and was moved back towards Gran Canaria on strong tides.

A small slick has moved closer to the south and west coast over the last few days and it is understood that it could reach beaches as early as today (Friday).

The Steering Committee of the Contingency Plan for Marine Pollution Canarias (PECMAR) has been in place for the last week.

At the time of the sinking, the level was 0, which is the lowest, but yesterday (Thursday) the emergency level was raised to 2, which is when the spill could affect the coastline. This is the medium vulnerability ranking.

Greenpeace has been quick to react, and its boat has been tracking the spill and the environmental damage all week.

Along with marine pollution experts from the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (ULPGC) they are in the area where the Oleg Naydenov sank.

In a statement, Greenpeace said: “We are here to witness the state of the spill and clean up operations, which are being carried out. “We are collaborating with the ULPGC in sampling the characteristics of the fuel and contamination level.

The sooner the char-

acterisation of fuel is known, the sooner we will know the toxicity on wildlife and ecosystems. We urge the government to do all they can as quickly as possible.”

Greenpeace revealed yesterday (Thursday) that the environment near the beach at Veneguera was under threat.

The area, one of the few spaces left undeveloped on Gran Canaria, is included in the Natura 2000 network, protected by the European Union because of the presence of turtles and the endangered bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus).

Greenpeace flew over the area yesterday and reported that the spill currently has three fronts: the area of the sinking of the Oleg Naydenov; the larger or main oil , which is nearly 200km south-west of Gran Canaria, and the third area, which is just off the coastal area of Mogan.

Meanwhile, Jesus Cisneros, professor of marine pollution at the

physics department at the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, called for immediate action.

“Those who best know the environment of this area and specialise in these waters, know that the processes of contamination has begun.”

Greenpeace spokes-

man Luis Ferreirim said: “To our eyes, and those who are concerned with the disaster, what we are seeing is just the tip of the iceberg. We demand strong measures to minimise the impacts of the spill - and as soon as possible.”

The Minister in charge, Ana Pastor, has been in

Gran Canaria since the Oleg Naydenov sunk last week, and she has been co-ordinating the cleaning.

She confirmed that the fuel slick was just a few kilometres from the coast of Veneguera, in Mogan, and that it has an area of around four miles.

Addressing the media at a press conference, she told them: “Although there is no evidence yet of whether the slick has come from the Russian trawler which sunk 15 miles South of Gran Canaria, it is something we are working on. I am told that there are small patches of fuel, trash heaps and such.”

She added that experts were examining the slick to ascertain how much damage it could cause.

The slick’s presence was discovered by a Canarian Government helicopter, sent to explore the problem and search for wildlife which could be affected.

Upon discovery of the slick, the Punta Salinas and the Guardamar Talia ships were dispatched to the area.

They specialise in the containment of such oil spillages, and they linked up with the Luz de Mar. This vessel was the first to arrive and, as we go to print, it has already extracted 287 cubic metres of fuel.

A fourth ship, the Miguel de Cervantes, is expected to join in the clean-up today (Frida)y.

While there is a rush to prevent any fuel from hitting the beaches and dry land and, of course, minimise any damage to the marine population, the blame game has begun.

It is still not clear why the Oleg Naydenov was ordered to be sunk when some reports suggest the fire on the vessel was containable and the boat was “safe” in port.

Local officials are demanding answers to “some key issues which have not been clarified” and are baffled that the ship was allowed to leave Puerto de la Luz. Then there is the question of why the ship, which caught fire off the west coast of Fuerteventura, was, ultimately, allowed to sink off the south coast of Gran Canaria.

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strikes again

Two suspected drug traffickers who featured in the Operation Captura fugitive campaign have been arrested in the space of 24 hours.

Paul Monk, aged 54, from Romford, Essex, was captured at his luxury four bedroom villa in Javea, Alicante, following an operation involving the Guardia Civil and the National Crime Agency.

When armed officers swooped, Monk was directing workmen who were laying a marble patio around his swimming pool. An imitation firearm with silencer and 125,000 euros were recovered.

On Wednesday morning Jayson McDonald, aged 37, from Acton, was apprehended as part of a separate joint investigation with the Dutch authorities. Officers found McDonald hiding under a bed at an apartment in Amsterdam.

McDonald had been hiding in Spain but it is believed he based himself in the Netherlands after officers raided a property where he was living in the Coín area of Malaga.

Both men are wanted by the Metropolitan Police on suspicion of drugs offences and are currently in custody awaiting extradition proceedings.

Dave Allen, Head of the UK International Crime Bureau at the NCA, said: “Our ability to capture two of our most wanted fugitives in different countries within 24 hours demonstrates the NCA’s international reach.

“Nowhere is a safe haven for British fugitives and we will continue to

work closely with our law enforcement partners across the world to track them down and return them to the UK to face justice.”

Monk was allegedly involved in the handover of one kilo of cocaine in Cockfosters, London, in May 2013, and is also linked to the seizure of

24 kilos of cannabis in Colchester in October 2013.

McDonald is believed to be a member of a Europe-wide organised crime network responsible for the importation of class A drugs into the UK. The arrests are less than a month after the

men were publicised through Operation Captura – the multiagency initiative between Crimestoppers, the NCA and the Spanish authorites. A total of 68 out of 86 fugitives on the list have now been caught.

Shane Walford, aged 38, from Coventry, who

went on the run while on licence for manslaughter, was publicised at the same time as Monk and McDonald. He was arrested in Fuerteventura as he attempted to board a flight to Ireland.

Lord Ashcroft KCMG PC, the Founder and Chair of Crimestoppers,

said: “It is a fantastic result to have three arrests within the first month of the latest appeal. It really is a testament to the hard work carried out by the NCA, Spanish authorities and Crimestoppers to ensure these fugitives are brought to justice.

“This should be a warning to the remaining 18 individuals on the Captura list that they cannot hide forever. If the public continue to contact Crimestoppers and give information anonymously, I am confident we will see more arrests in the future.”

Information given to Crimestoppers can help locate the fugitives on the Captura list. For those people calling from Spain there is a special freephone Spanish 900 555 111 telephone number which will be answered in the UK by Crimestoppers’ call agents. A translation service is available upon request. People can also pass on information anonymously via the Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111 or online at www.crime stoppers-uk.org

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Rato lets cato out of the bag!

MARIANO Rajoy, already facing an uphill struggle to retain his position as Spanish Prime Minister later this year, finds himself in yet another embarrassing position.

His ruling party, the PP, is engaged in a damage-limitation exercise after one of Europe’s most high-profile politicians was arrested on charges of tax evasion and money-laundering.

Rajoy is aware that the case against Rodrigo Rato, a former Finance Minister and head of the IMF, is damaging his People’s Party prospects of remaining in control.

Unfortunately, it is the latest in a series of corruption scandals involving senior PP members.

Rato was arrested last

Thursday, briefly, and his home and offices were searched on Friday in connection with mismanagement at Bankia, the Spanish bank he headed after standing down from the IMF leadership in 2007.

In a judicial order calling for all Rato’s bank accounts to be frozen, Judge Enrique de la Hoz attached a list of the 78 accounts Rato has spread across 13 banks.

Tax inspectors have also listed 27 companies attributed to his name, or that of a family member, including his ex-wife, three children, his brother and sister and two nephews. Five of the firms are listed at Rato’s home address.

One of them, the activities of which are registered as “scientific and technical”, has no employees and, in 2013, had a turnover of 38,373 euros and 1.8m euros in assets.

Rato himself is listed

as the sole administrator of another firm which, allegedly, had a 2013 profit of 177,000 euros while based at his home address.

Tax inspectors claim that Rato used internal billing within these companies to avoid paying income tax and VAT, estimated at 5.3m euros.

Rato, Finance Minister from 1996-2004 and, as such, titular head of the tax-collecting agency, was one of 31,000 tax evaders offered amnesty in 2012.

Under the controversial amnesty, condemned as illegal by the tax inspectors’ union, evaders were given the chance to “regularise” their undeclared assets with a one-off payment of 10% o f

their value, even though it is a criminal offence to hold more than 120,000 euros in undeclared assets.

This was later amended to 10% of the profits, so, instead of paying 100,000 euros on a onemillion-euro asset, if it produced profits of, say, 30,000 euros a year, the evader had to pay just 10% of that profit, or 3,000 euros.

Last year, Spain’s taxmen said they were in vestigating 705 of

the 31,000 amnestied evaders on suspicion of money-laundering, one of whom was Rato.

Soon after the amnesty, a law was passed obliging all Spanish residents to declare assets held abroad. It was the discrepancy between this declaration and the assets he had declared under the amnesty that alerted tax officials to Rato’s alleged fraud.

After he left the IMF in 2007 “for personal reasons”, Rato went on to run the Caja Madrid savings bank. As the financial crisis hit, he merged it with other banks to form Bankia, which he ran until it went bankrupt in 2012 - a year after posting profits of 309m euros.

That figure was adjusted to a 3bn-euro loss a few months later, and respected financial magazine Bloomberg Businessweek voted Rato the worst

CEO of 2012. Last year, Rato was again in the news when the scandal of the “black credit cards” broke. These were company credit cards issued to 86 executives of Caja Madrid and later Bankia, and were called “black” because their owners were never billed; nor did they declare the credit as income.

Between them, the executives ran up 15.5m euros in purchases.

Rato himself ran up close to 100,000 euros on his card in a single year, including 3,000 euros on alcohol and 1,000 euros on shoes.

Significantly, 27 of the 86 card-holders were members of the PP. Last October, a judge declared that, as CEO, Rato had civil responsibility for the credit-card abuse.

But Rato denies any wrong-doing and adds that he has “faith in the judicial system”.

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Tragic death of Tenerife tourist A WIGAN man, who suffered a condition which meant he could not feel pain, died after sitting in a scalding-hot bath while on holiday in Tenerife.

An inquest this week heard how Geoffrey McGrath, who had learning difficulties, suffered a series of complications following the incident a year ago.

Coroner Alan Walsh said the 60-year-old’s death came “as a consequence of injuries sustained from an accident on the background of a naturallyoccurring disease”.

The court heard how Mr McGrath was on holiday with his carers when he got into a scalding bath without them knowing. But the coroner said there was no neglect, praising them for the care he received.

Mr McGrath, who had learning difficulties

from a young age, had lived in hospitals that distressed his family when they visited him.

Around 20 years ago, he started to live in Wigan’s Beech Hill and was cared for by the charity Imagine Act and Succeed.

His only surviving relative, Ken Darlington, told the court how his life had changed. “He was reborn and the carers treated him brilliantly,” he said.

“He was taken to the rugby, to shows and places like Blackpool like a normal person.

It was absolutely brilliant.”

Our desperate drop-out kids

SPAIN has recorded the highest EU school drop-out rates for the fourth year in a row, with 21.9% of those in the 18-24 bracket ditching education early.

Men are far more likely to quit than women, with 25.6% of males terminating school early, against just 18.1% of females, according to the latest Eurostat figures.

While Spain’s overall rate is just under double the EU’s average rate of 11.1%, it is still a great improvement on previous years.

In 2006, a huge 30.3% of students failed to get through schooling.

It has dropped since then consistently, until 2014 when the rate

was also 21.9%. The good news is that Spain boasts 42.3% of those aged 30-34 with a university education, which is marginally higher than the EU average.

The Spanish Government’s aim is to persuade Spain’s young people to stay in school to reduce drop-outs to 15% by 2020.

After Spain, EU countries with the highest rates of students failing to complete their education are Malta (20.4%), Romania (18.1%) and Portugal (17.4%). Croatua had the lowest drop-out rate of 5.4%.

The UK sits in the middle, with 11.8% failing to see their through.

The Bolton inquest heard how Mr McGrath was taken on holiday to Tenerife’s Parque Cristobal resort in 2012 and, such was his enjoyment that, as part of his 60th birthday celebrations, it was planned for him to be taken again last year.

He travelled with carers Jacqueline Meredith and Debra Carson, who arrived at the resort on 15th April last year but, unlike in 2012, the hotel had placed them on an upper floor, so the two women

asked to be relocated to the ground floor, which was arranged.

In 2012, Miss Meredith had double-checked that the bath was fitted with a temperature control and, as a result, the same check wasn’t made during the second trip.

On the morning of 16th April, the women awoke at around 7.15 and didn’t wake Mr McGrath. The court heard how he used to have a bath at 8am, which would be run by one of the carers.

On this occasion, Mrs Carson told how she ran the bath and put the cold water in first before moving the tap to the centre, where it was warmer. While the bath was still running, she went into the other room to fetch Mr McGrath’s toiletries.

She said she checked on Mr McGrath as she was walking through, and he appeared to be asleep.

But, while she was

in the front room, she heard a splash and immediately went back to the bathroom, to find Mr McGrath had awoken and got in to the bath.

The pair saw that his skin was red, but soon returned to a normal colour, and they assumed that everything was okay.

“We thought it was a near-miss,” added Mrs Carson. “We thought it could have been serious, but when we got him out he went back to normal.”

The three then enjoyed a day out before returning to the accommodation, where Mr McGrath slept between 2.30pm and 6pm.

However, as the carers were getting him ready to go out for the evening meal, they noticed he had “three-inch” blisters on his legs.

They immediately sought medical attention and he was taken to hospital by ambulance.

The court heard how they left Mr McGrath in hospital after his legs had been bandaged, and that he had been moved to a highdependency unit.

The following day, they received a telephone call asking them to return to the hospital. When they got there, they discovered that Mr McGrath had passed away.

Pathologist Dr Naomi Carter told the inquest how Mr McGrath’s burns, which in Spain were recorded as being 36% but which she believes could have been as much as 50%, triggered hyperglycaemia which led to him suffering a cardiac arrest.

He also suffered from aspiration pneumonia as a result of vomit in his lungs and an acute kidney illness.

Mr Walsh added: “Geoff was a wonderful man who enjoyed his life, in spite of his severe disability.”

Who’s a naughty ex-King?

FORMER Spanish King Juan Carlos is said to have had an affair with a German aristocrat for the last 10 years of his reign.

A new book about the monarch’s “double life” makes the allegation, and it is likely to become a best-seller!

The King, who gave up the throne in June 2014 in favour of his son Felipe, was in a romantic relationship with Corinna zu Sayn-Wittgenstein and “for a long time” thought of divorcing his wife, Sofia, said author Ana Romero at the book’s presentation in Madrid on Wednesday.

“They were a couple, pure and simple,” she said, before adding that members of the former King’s entourage had

discouraged him from getting a divorce.

“What do you see in the book? Well, the double life which Juan Carlos led during a long time - a double life which obviously has not gone well.”

Ms Romero, former royal correspondent for the El Mundo newspaper, said the pair met in 2004. She told journalists at the book launch that reports suggest their illicit relationship ended shortly after his abdication.

Her 424-page book, called Final de Partida

or End Game, focuses on the last four years of Juan Carlos’s reign, when his popularity slumped. It is based on interviews with around 100 anonymous sources.

The first print run of 25,000 copies nearly sold out, under 24 hours since the book hit stores, and its publishers have already ordered a second print run.

“It is a chronicle of the end of an era, when Spaniards turned their backs on Juan Carlos,” said Romero.

The 77-year-old former monarch’s friendship with Sayn-Wittgenstein, who is divorced from the German prince whose name she bears, emerged in 2012 when Juan Carlos was flown home from Botswana on a private jet after suffering an injury while on an expensive elephanthunting holiday.

The German woman, 28 years younger than Juan Carlos, was among those accompanying the monarch on the trip, which sparked outrage at a time when Spain was grappling with record unemployment and risked needing an international bail-out.

Juan Carlos, who won respect for his role in guiding Spain’s transition to democracy after the death of long-time dictator General Franco in 1975, made an unprecedented apology for his behaviour, but his popularity took a serious hit.

Ms Romero said the uproar over the hunting trip, combined with a string of health problems and a corruption scandal implicating his youngest daughter, Cristina, created the “perfect storm”, which pushed Juan Carlos to abdicate.

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A long hard road THERE is good news and bad news for our road system this week.

It’s good to see that the penultimate stretch of the TF-1 ring road is finally open. It covers the tricky north-west section of the project and, in one fell swoop, slices off a good 20 minutes’ journey time.

Travelling around that region of Tenerife has always been a painfully experience.

It’s absolutely gorgeous on the eye and if you have all the time in the world, then the view can be stunning, if you are not driving, of course, but you only had to be stuck behind a bus or a lorry and your day is over.

The improvement opens the Island up a bit and will lead to a population boom in the region. Once everything is completed, this gorgeous, cooler, greener and considerably cheaper part of the Island will become rather attractive. The

views to La Gomera are something else.

On the flipside, the roadworks opposite the Safari Centre are starting to hit home.

I understand they are necessary and there is no ideal time to fit in a nine-month project. When they are completed, I am sure they will be worth the hassle.

But just like the improvements in San Eugenio, they are causing real problems for a lot of businesses. Daytime trade in the Safari region has fallen off a cliff. There is no relaxation in sipping a glass of wine in the sunshine when a digger is going full speed just 10 yards away.

Some businesses will go, and there is no doubt that a percentage of holiday-makers will not return to the “building site”. I’m all for improvements and upgrading, but surely this should be the last disruption for a generation.

It seems to me they rebuild the San Eugenio road system every four or five years.

And people wonder why the area is not as busy it was 20 years ago.

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Dear Editor, I was very interested to see the report in last week’s paper on average wages in Spain. I would suggest that somebody comes to the Canary Islands to see how much we earn on an average hourly rate.

I have been working here for 15 years and the “abused” workers in Tenerife are earning nowhere near the figures of the Spanish average mentioned by the European study.

Okay, agreed that certain products here are cheaper and, of course, we have a lower tax system, but most workers here in the tourism sector are being done by greedy employers paying, no doubt, less than the minimum wage - whatever that is here!

I work part-time, including weekends and bank holidays, for less than seven euros an hour! I am forced into passing the 24-hour weekly agreement for no extra pay!

I know many people in tourism who work full-time and still don’t arrive at 800 euros a month.

Wages in the tourism industry may be varied, depending on the company and position one holds, but a lot of good workers are being treated like rubbish because, if we don’t go with the employers’ demands, we have no other choice. Either agree or not!

The problem maybe the workers themselves, but at the moment we are lucky to have something - and don’t the employers know that. And take full advantage.

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Dear Editor, I would like to set matters right concerning Les Weddell’s brief resume of my life in a recent Canarian Weekly edition.

I moved to Tenerife on 31st January last year from Gran Canaria where, for several years, I was resident pianist at two hotels.

I have never set foot in Marbella, and nor have I ever said I was there.

The Royal Northern College of Music is, in fact, an amalgamation of what used to be the Northern School of Music and the Royal Manchester College of Music, where I had a scholarship at 16 years of age.

Hundreds of thousands of Canarian Weekly readers know that I am a recovered alcoholic (thanks for that Les, just what I need). I might add that my last drink was 28th March, 1989, giving me just over 26 years of continued sobriety - and not 17 years, as Mr Weddell wrote. And nor am I a born-again Christian. I have never told a living soul of that since it’s absolutely untrue that I “handed over my life and will to the care of God as I understood him”, which has nothing whatever to do with any form of dogma and creed.

It is purely spiritual, and that belief, plus the AA programme, has kept me sober to this present day.

Finally, a word about Les, a former session “bone” man, good jazzer who could read anything at sight.

I thank him sincerely for the compliments he has made public about me (the cheque is in the post, Les).

Colin

Nazi mass-murderer pleads to be forgiven FORMER SS officer Oskar Groening, now a frail old man of 93, has asked for “forgiveness” over his role in mass murder at the Nazi death camp.

At the start of his trial this week, he told judges: “For me, there’s no question that I share moral guilt,” admitting that he knew about the gassing of Jews and other prisoners.

“I ask for forgiveness,” he said at the hearing

in the northern city of Lueneburg, near Hamburg, attended by nearly 70 Holocaust survivors and victims’ relatives.

“You have to decide on my legal culpability.”

Groening told reporters as he arrived at court that he expected an acquittal. And in his statement to judges, he did not detail direct participation in any atrocities. Between 16th May and 11th July, 1944, Groening was on duty

when 450,000 Hungarian Jews were transported there, with 300,000 being gassed just after arrival.

The former Nazi told the court he was “morally guilty” but not directly responsible for any deaths.

Groening, just 21 and, by his own admission, an enthusiastic Nazi when he was sent to Auschwitz in 1942, may turn out to be one of the last big Holocaust

trials because so few of them suspected of committing crimes during World War Two are still alive.

He sat defiantly as the trial started; his arms folded in front of almost Holocaust survivors and victims’ relatives.

Groening, who entered the court using a Zimmer frame, is being tried on 300,000 counts of “accessory to murder”.

He faces up to 15 years in jail.

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Crucial ring-road section finally open

ON Wednesday evening, the “southern section” of the ambitious Tenerife ring-road project was open to traffic.

The 15km stretch has been dogged by teething problems over the last few weeks, but a little after 8pm, it was finally given the green light.

The new stretch of road instantly takes 20 minutes off a journey from Vera Erques, Guia de Isora to Santiago del Teide, and means that drivers can say goodbye to the much-hated long and winding main road.

José Luis Delgado, the Cabildo’s Minister of Roads was delighted to

finally see the stretch open. He said: “It has taken a bit of time and it has been frustrating.

We hoped to have this open last month, and then it was all systems go for last Monday.

“But our first priority is safety, and we were never going to open until we were satisfied that everything was 100%.”

He added that there was still a big chunk of work to be done before the main project would be finished.

The last stretch, from Vera Erques to the connection with the TF-1 in Armeñime, Adeje is now scheduled to open in late June.

Delgado has been a driving force behind

this project and he deserves credit for twisting the arm of Cabildo President Carlos Alonso to get the extra four million euros needed from the Canary Islands Government to complete the work.

Even on Wednesday, there were still a few signs that needed to be erected, and some sections of the hard shoulder needed painting.

Then there was the long-standing safety problem with the hydrants in the Bicho tunnel, glitches in the computer system, infrastructure concerns in the final kilometre and problems with signs!

-But all of this is now in the past as firefighters,

safety officials and the police gave the road the thumbs-up.

Councillor Delgado officially signed the opening document, which was co-signed by Juan Ventura Medina, the CEO of the road’s Infrastructure, then proceeded to open traffic to the new three-lane highway from Vera Erques.

Delgado said: “This is one small step for a councillor and a big step for Tenerife. This will work, and it is a way forward for our people because it will improve the quality of life by bringing them closer to work and home, without wasting time on the road.”

Employment rises as economy strengthens SPANISH Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy may be having a rough ride in the opinion polls, but with the local elections just a month away, he has been given a couple of major boosts.

The country’s economic recovery continues to move in the right direction, with some of the most important companies in the business sector posting impressive figures. And there are signs that the employment problem is being cured.

Figures out this week show that over halfa-million people went back to work over the past year.

According to data released yesterday (Thursday), Spain’s labour market contin-

ues to show signs of improvement. Employment in the first quarter rose 3% compared with the year before, while the number of jobless fell more than 8%.

The unemployment rate also came down, compared with the previous year. It means that 23.8% are still out of work, which adds up to more than 5.4m people Spain is now in its second year of post-crisis economic expansion, with most forecasters expecting national output to grow at least 2.5% this year.

“The first quarter is typically a pretty bad one for employment,” said Marcel Jansen, a professor of economy at Madrid’s

Autónoma university.

“But if you look at the underlying trend, it is clear that the recovery continues. What we have now is pretty strong growth in employment. “,Over the next couple of months and quarters, we will benefit from low energy prices, the depreciation of the euro and low interest rates.

Hopefully, that will give a further boost to both GDP and employment.”

In election year, it is worth remembering that Rajoy promised to create at least one million new jobs over the final two years of his tenure. So there is little doubt he is backing up his talk with actions.

Meanwhile, Caixabank’s net profit nearly

doubled in the latest quarter. A recent takeover, higher lending income and gains on a portfolio of stakes in other firms saw Spain’s third-largest bank post first-quarter net profits that are up 99% from a year ago.

They now sit at 375m euros, with a net profit of around 317m.

The bank’s loan business leapt 15% compared with 2014, while the 800m-euro purchase of the Spanish arm of Barclays Bank has helped lower costs and increase its loan book by nearly 8%.

And the good news doesn’t end there. The lender Bankinter has revealed its first-quarter net profit rose 45% to 87.2 million euros.

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Let Cervantes rest in peace NOVELIST Juan Goytisolo is adamant the remains of Miguel de Cervantes should be left in the place they were found.

The writer made that clear yesterday (Thursday) during his acceptance speech for winning the Cervantes Prize - considered the most prestigious in the Spanish language.

Goytisolo, an outspoken critic of Spanish governments, who has spent his life in self-imposed exile in France, the US and Morocco, opposes the decision to build a museum to house the remains of the Don Quixote author.

“They should leave him alone,” he said last month. “This is just about bloating the coffers of Spain’s official bureaucracy.”

His advice followed uncertainty over what to do with the tomb of Cervantes, which was found under the Convent of the Barefoot Trinitarians in

Madrid last month.

Researchers admitted they had not been able to identify the exact bones, but were “convinced they had found something of Cervantes”.

Madrid Mayor Ana Botella last month described plans for a centre “comparable with that of Shakespeare in Stratford-upon-Avon”.

But Almudena GarcíaRubio, an archaeologist working in the crypt, said the Archbishopric of Madrid allowed the excavation “on the condition that the remains stayed inside the convent”.

José Ignacio Wert, the Spanish Culture and Education Minister, whose department selected Goytisolo for the Cervantes Prize, said the author, who died in 1616, wanted to rest in the Trinitarians.

The Trinitarian religious order helped pay a ransom to secure the release of Cervantes from Barbary pirates in Algiers after he had fought in the Battle of Lepanto.

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It’s Groundhog Day. Again!

MATTHEW Warchus is the Old Vic’s new artistic director, in the wake of the legendary Kevin Spacey’s departure.

A new stage musical of Groundhog Day will have its world premiere at the London theatre next year.

Based on the 1993 comedy film with Bill Murray, the show will be directed by Old Vic’s new boss Warchus.

Other plays in his inaugural season include Ibsen’s The Master Builder, starring Ralph Fiennes, and Pinter’s The Caretaker, with Timothy Spall.

Warchus is taking over from Kevin Spacey, the Old Vic’s artistic director for 11 years.

He said his first season - which also includes a stage adaptation of Dr Seuss’s The Lorax and a dance production of Jekyll and Hyde - reflected a “something for everyone” approach.

He aims to up the number productions per year through shorter runs, and hopes three or four will transfer to the West End or go direct to Broadway via a new partnership with big-name producers Scott Rudin and Sonia Friedman.

Groundhog Day reunites Warchus with three of the creative team behind the hit musical Matilda - composer and lyricist Tim Minchin, choreographer Peter Darling,

and designer Rob Howell - who will work with the film’s co -writer D a n n y Rubin.

It tells the story of grumpy TV weatherman Phil Con-

nors who is sent to the small town of Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, and gets stuck in a time loop, having to live the same day over and over again.

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view with the BBC, Warchus described the show as “an intelligent mainstream Broadway classic” that was ideal for the Old Vic. “It needs a large audience and a large stage, and I wanted to start it in this country, so it’s the perfect match.”

He added that the film had made him laugh and cry. “It is really about how little time you have to become the best version of yourself. It’s sophisticated meaty stuff in a romantic comedy package.”

It will premiere in June 2016 before going to Broadway.

The opening production of the new season in September is Future Conditional, by Tamsin Oglesby, a new play set in a school starring Rob Brydon as a teacher with a cast of 23 “young performers” as his class. Warchus will direct.

That will be followed in October by Eugene O’Neill’s American drama The Hairy Ape, directed by Richard

Jones. Warchus will also direct The Master Builder, with Ralph Fiennes as architect Halvard Solness in a new adaptation by David Hare, and also Timothy Spall in Harold Pinter’s 1960 classic The Caretaker.

Plans for future seasons include the first revival of Art by Yasmina Reza, a 50th anniversary production of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

by Tom Stoppard, and a new musical based on the 2014 film Pride, about a group of gay and lesbian activists who supported striking miners in the 1980s, which Warchus directed.

Warchus is also introducing a new ticketing scheme, which will make half of all seats at the first five previews of each production available for £10.

“It’s not just about young people,” Warchus said. “We’ll be trying to guide or nudge those tickets to people who are new theatre goers.”

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Ex-Egypt President gets 20yrs OUSTED Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi has been given a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters during his reign.

It is the first verdict he has received since his July 2013 overthrow and one of several trials facing him. But Morsi’s legal team intend to appeal against the sentence.

Morsi was deposed by the military following mass street protests against his rule. Since then, the authorities have banned his Muslim Brotherhood movement and arrested thousands of his supporters.

Morsi and 14 other Brotherhood figures escaped a more serious charge of inciting the killing of protesters, which could have carried the death sentence. Most of the other defendants were also given 20-year prison sentences.

He still has a raft of other charges against him, including his alleged collusion with foreign militants in a plot to free Islamists in mass prison breaks during the 2011 uprising against Hosni Mubarak.

Morsi is also accused of inciting supporters to kill a journalist and opposition protesters in clashes outside the

presidential palace in late 2012.

As crowds grew outside the palace, Morsi ordered the police to disperse them. They refused, so the Muslim Brotherhood brought in their own supporters. Eleven people died in the ensuing clashes, mostly from the Brotherhood.

After the verdict, Morsi and the other defendants gave a four-fingered salute - a symbol of the deadly clearance of Brotherhood supporters at the Rabaah al-Adawiya mosque in 2013.

Amr Darrag, a senior Brotherhood figure, called the ruling a “travesty of justice”, adding: “They want to pass a life sentence for democracy in Egypt.”

Morsi has rejected the authority of the courts,

shouting during his first trial that he was the victim of a military coup.

On Monday, a court sentenced 22 Muslim Brotherhood supporters to death for an attack on a police station in Cairo - part of an ongoing crackdown against the Islamist movement.

Morsi was Egypt’s first freely-elected president, but protests began less than a year into his rule when he issued a decree granting himself far-reaching powers.

A kiss says it all!

A LESBIAN couple were last month in one of their regular haunts, in Barcelona’s Gràcia area.

But they upset a staff member, who told them to stop kissing because they were bothering the other customers.

The pair, who complained to the region’s Observatory against homophobia, said the employee also told them their behaviour was “inappropriate”.

When the women, both 48, filed a complaint, the incident was also relayed to gay-rights’ associations.

Catalan groups Lesbocat and FAGC staged a demonstration, which saw several homosexual

couples stage a “kiss-in” at the café.

The women also reported the incident to the Gràcia district councillor, and filed a complaint with the regional government.

However, the owner’s explanation differed somewhat. She claims the couple were kissing on a sofa and that they were touching each other’s genitals, which upset other customers.

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Med’s drowning tragedy HUNDREDS of people drowned on Monday after a boat carrying up to 700 migrants capsized in the Mediterranean Sea.

The vessel, thought to be just 70ft long, overturned in Libyan waters, south of the Italian island of Lampedusa.

Just 28 people were rescued, and only a couple of dozen bodies have been recovered.

Italy Prime Minister Matteo Renzi said it was a European tragedy and called for an extraordinary EU summit on the migrants issue.

He could not verify the number of deaths, but said it would be a “dramatic amount”.

United Nations’ refugee agency UNHCR said this latest sinking could total the largest loss of life during a migrant crossing to Europe.

Over 1,000 migrants are said to have died crossing the Mediterranean this year.

Renzi added that the

trafficking of migrants was a “new slave trade”.

Italian naval and coastguard ships, the Maltese Navy and cargo vessels, along with three helicopters were involved in the rescue operation, 130 miles off the coast of Lampedusa and 17 miles from the Libyan coast.

The migrants, reportedly, fell overboard when they rushed to draw the attention of passing Portuguese merchant ship King Jacob, causing their ship to capsize.

Lampedusa is finding it difficult to come to terms with the latest horror in the seas off its coastline.

Much of the harbour has emptied, while coastguard, customs and fishing boats disappeared to help with the rescue operation.

Marta Bernardini, who works for the Mediterranean Hope charity, based on the island, said “We are very sad. It’s so difficult for us who live and work in Lampedusa every day, to know that a lot of people die in the Mediterranean Sea.”

Lampedusa is the most southerly point of Italy nearer Africa than the Italian mainland. Locals say that since January - when the EU took control of patrolling Europe’s maritime borders - between 9,000 and 10,000 migrants have arrived on the island.

Maltese PM Joseph

Muscat said rescuers were “literally trying to find people alive among the dead floating in the water. What is happening now is of epic proportions. If Europe, if the global community, continues to turn a blind eye, we will all be judged in the same way that history has judged

Europe when it turned a blind eye to the genocide of this century and last century.”

Mr Renzi also told the EU summit: “It is unthinkable that in the face of such a tragedy, there isn’t the feeling of solidarity which Europe has shown in other instances.

“We ask not to be left alone, not so much when it comes to emergencies at sea, but to stop the trafficking of human beings.”

He said the trafficking was “a plague in our continent - the slavery of the 21st Century”.

Pope Francis expressed his “deepest sorrow” over the sinking, saying: “These are men and women like us, who seek a better life.

Hungry, persecuted, injured, exploited, victims of wars. They were looking for happiness.”

Federica Mogherini, the EU foreign policy chief, said the recent wave of migrant boat disasters was “unacceptable”.

She added: “We have said ‘never again’ too many times. Now is time for the European Union to tackle these tragedies without delay.”

Last year, a record 170,000 people, fleeing poverty and conflict in Africa and the Middle East, made the perilous crossing to Italy. Tragically, thousands died making the journey.

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Darts Presentation Last Friday night Showtime hosted the annual presentation night for the Express Bar Deliveries Darts League.

Nearly 200 players, friends and family members were treated to a first class evening of darts, entertainment, food and dozens of trophies!

The evening saw the debut of the new Sound of Musicals menu which received a universal thumbs up. Oasis Fm’s Roscoe hosted while Chris Elkington had the job of announcing the scores. Which is never an easy task!

The entertainment was provided by Tenerife Entertainment Award winner Rock DJ aka Brad Chermside and he literally brought the house down. His boy band section will enter the Darts League hall of fame, as will Yuri’s performance. It was one of those sights you just had to see.

A record number of trophies were presented before the raffle which raised an astonishing 1,220e for the Helping Hands charity.

There were four finals on the night and to find out who triumphed go to page 53.

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ADEJE Councillors have organised the 13th Book and Flower trade fair, which will also feature a number of book signings and theatrical presentations.

The fair, which began yesterday (Thursday) and ends on Monday, is taking place in the Municipal School of Music and Dance (EMMA) car park and the Cultural Centre.

The organisers are keen to encourage people to read more. They also hope the fair will boost local book shops and florists - and help writers promote their work.

The event began yesterday morning at the Cultural Centre with story-telling and a puppet show. And last night, El Fausto, a new book by Luis J Velasco Quintana, was launched, followed by the exhibition Cuéntame un cuento: Arte Sano San Juan.

Today (Friday), the fair opens at 10am in the EMMA car park with a visit from local school-

children.

During the day, there will be more story-telling, plus theatre, puppet shop and a book launch at 7pm with the presentation of Era cierta la vida después del divorcio, by Eusebio Marrero.

The day ends with a performance by soloists from the EMMA at 8.30pm.

Tomorrow (Saturday), activities begin at 10.30am and continue throughout the day, with a public signing of a Manifesto Mas Cultura at 12.30pm and the presentation of two books, Apostol, by Manuel Pérez Cedrés, and Dos Días Al Año, by Laura Delgado González.

The evening ends with the IV Shared Verse event at 8.30pm. And in the Cultural Centre 30 minutes later, local singer Maria Herrera will also launch her debut album, Memories, featuring a selection of original songs in English.

During the event, a number of Adeje companies are running promotional campaigns, offering discounts to encourage local trading and shopping.

A new European law is about to come into force which allows foreign drivers who commit traffic offences in other countries to be sanctioned for the offences, or face legal proceedings in any member state country.

The European Council has adopted a policy for cross-border exchange of information on traffic offences, which must be implemented in most countries across the continent no later than the 6th of May, with the exception of the UK, Ireland and Denmark who have been given a two year extension on implementation.

Under the new policy,

Members of the n332 team visited the Orihuela Costa branch of the Royal British Legion last week, to give an explanation of both the project and a presentation answering some of the most common questions relating to traffic laws and driving in Spain.

The members of the group seemed excited about the presentation and were attentive throughout, as Mark Nolan first explained the history of the N332 project, the Facebook page and accompanying website, before Francisco Morales, a serving officer from the Guardia Civil traffic police, took over and pre-

the exchange of data covers eight traffic offences: speeding, not wearing seat a seatbelt, failure to stop at a red light, driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under the influence of drugs, not wearing a helmet, driving in a forbidden lane, and illegally using a mobile phone or any other communication devices while driving.

Currently there is no mechanism in place to force foreigners to pay fines in none resident countries by means of restraint or seizure, but the change will ensure that there is no escaping the law, or the fines.

In Spain, the DGT has been working on implementing a new policy to satisfy the obligation. Together with the administrative proceedings that can be launched against drivers, criminal liability

will also be ensured.

Travelling at a speed excessively higher than that which is permitted on the road can become a criminal matter, punishable with imprisonment, withdrawal of license, community service and a fine. A driver who has committed an offence of this type can no longer ignore the criminal liability of legal proceedings.

The new directive on cross-border data exchange is a replica of the policy adopted in 2011 by the EU ensuring police cooperation as a legal basis, but the directive was annulled by the courts in 2014, giving a year for a new legal framework to be implemented. The objective of the new policy remains the same as before, to improve road safety and to ensure equal treatment of all drivers.

Under the new rules,

member states can access national vehicle registration data from other countries in order to find those responsible for certain offenses that put road safety at risk. The alleged offender may be contacted with a sample letter included in the policy, but that depends on the member state where the offence took place, as each country has autonomy in deciding to decide how to process the sanctions.

Currently, the legislation does not allow states to enforce payment of fines in the event of a driver being resident abroad, but the new directive means that the fine can be collected and judicial proceedings can be opened wherever they live and in whichever country to offence was committed.

You have been warned.

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sented a series of images and explanations.

Francisco started by explaining a little about his own background as a serving Guardia Civil officer, and how he and the corps are active around the globe, serving as Military Police in areas where Spanish troops are engaged in peacekeeping and conflict zones.

Francisco then moved on to answer many of those common questions, from documents you are required to carry in the car, changing a wheel on the roadside, buying and selling a used vehicle, and even the speed limit of mobility scooters, amongst other topics, including an explanation about how only uniformed

traffic officers are allowed to take cash payments for fines, and the finer details of how to spot an unmarked traffic patrol car. This was not to give drivers to opportunity to avoid being caught by the unmarked cars, in fact it wasn´t a local car that was described, but allows drivers to identify the real police after numerous fraudsters have tried to mimic the police to stop innocent and unknowing drivers and some of those drivers have subsequently become victims of crime.

At the end of the talk, Francisco was presented with a certificate from the Royal British Legion, thanking everybody involved for both their work and their commitment to groups like the RBL, who offer help and advice to countless people during their work here in Spain.

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THE latest pension reform, introduced earlier this month by the UK Government, has created significant anxiety and expectation, along with its many twists and turns.

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The Hacienda could tax your pension income at a maximum rate of 47% (dependent on your marginal tax rate in Spain).

For illustration purposes, let´s assume you have a Pension Asset to the value of £100,000 - bear in mind that the creation of this asset was to ensure you could live quite comfortably through your retirement years.

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This year’s event doubles up as the IPC World Championships, and the men’s and women’s wheelchair races will get the action underway with David Weir aiming for a record seventh title. That will be followed by the women’s elite race as Edna Kiplagat returns to try and successfully defend her title.

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ITV1, 21.00 In episode three, Griff attempts to zigzag his way 1200 miles through Kenya and Tanzania. The journey proves a challenge, with large parts of the railways being relics, leftover from colonial days. Neither tracks nor trains work as well as they used to. Boarding Nyaturu, a vintage steam locomotive made in Glasgow, Griff begins his journey on the high plateau in southwest Kenya.

Griff says: “These are areas where equatorial Africa presents itself in an extraordinary variety of ways. We have snow-capped mountains, we have forests, we have desert and we have wild animals.”

Built by the British, this railway created a colony and Griff visits a cattle farm established by an aristocrat a century ago. Donning a pair of overalls, he joins the Kenyan workers as they bathe over 2000 cattle to ward off parasites and biting flies.

The climate of the Kenyan highlands is pleasant enough for Griff to go for a run, and he meets two young athletes who are aiming to compete in major international competitions. Ruth and Nancy are used to running in thin air at altitude and soon leave Griff behind as they forge ahead.

Griff says: “Ruth and Nancy were born at high altitude. When they go to compete in races in the Netherlands, suddenly, they’ll feel light as a feather. They can run faster than everybody else because they’re used to running in the rarefied air.”

Passenger trains no longer run to Griff’s next destination, so he leaves the ghostly railway station and takes to the road to reach Giraffe Manor, an unusual colonial legacy. Formerly the home of a Scottish toffee magnate, the manor is now a hotel and home to a herd of resident Rothschild giraffe, who join Griff for breakfast by poking their long necks through the windows.

Griff then catches the only commuter train to link the western outskirts to Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi. There he finds the very train carriage, which featured in the country’s most gruesome legend, the man-eating lions of Tsavo. A overnight train then takes him on to Makindu, where he visits a remarkable Sikh temple, established by the Indian workers the British used to build the railway a hundred years ago.

In the vast Tsavo National Park, Griff has the special and unique experience of bottle-feeding orphaned baby elephants, whose mothers have been hunted for their precious ivory tusks. He is stunned to discover that elephants are excellent time keepers and begin making their way to where the park rangers are waiting with their milk, at precisely 11am every morning.

The railway into Tanzania has fallen into disuse so Griff then crosses the border by road and looks up to see the looming shadow of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.

Visiting a Maasai village, he takes part in a meat feast, where a social faux pas threatens his manhood. Guide Kuya, informs him that because he has eaten the main piece of meat, he should now be circumcised.

Making a swift exit, he heads for his next train but the extreme rains of the wet season have washed away some of the railway lines. Griff must fly to Dar es Salaam, where he hopes to get another train across Tanzania towards the Zambian border.

Finally arriving at Tazara station, Griff walks in on a workers’ union meeting. His train has been cancelled due to a strike. Rail travel in East Africa is complicated!

Griff says: “My safari through East Africa has hit the buffers and I can go no further. I suppose it is at least in keeping with the lack of trains elsewhere on my travels. The railways in this part of Africa are not the priority for Africans that they were for the Europeans who conceived them. While this journey hasn’t always been easy, forgetting it will be very difficult.”

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06:00.............. The Wotwots!

06:45 ............Will and Grace

06:10 .................Igam Ogam

07:10 ............Will and Grace

06:20.............. Fireman Sam

07:35........ Everybody Loves Raymond

06:30 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

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

06:45..................... Peppa Pig

08:30 ........................... Frasier

06:55...................... Pip Ahoy!

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

07:10............. Little Princess

09:25............... Four in a Bed

07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show

10:30................... Come Dine with Me 11:00................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:00......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05.................... Come Dine with Me 12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:05 ..................... Channel 4 Racing 15:15........................... Deal or No Deal 16:00................... Come Dine with Me

06:50..................... Peppa Pig

07:35 .................Thomas and Friends 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:30 ... Milkshake Monkey 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 09:00................... Tickety Toc

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

17:30 ....................Coach Trip

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

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

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

18:30.............. Hollyoaks

14:15 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles

19:00 ..................Channel 4 News

15:15 ........... The Obsession

19:30 ............Unreported World

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

20:00 ..................Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.

18:30..... 5 News Tonight

23:05.................. Virtually Famous 23:55................ Brooklyn Nine-Nine 00:20.................. Withnail and I

07:05 ..................Emmerdale 08:10 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35 ................ Up All Night 10:25 ............................. Psych 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 13:15 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:40....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ............ The Bourne Supremacy 23:10 ..........Take Me Out

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06:00........ Football Gold

10:00 ............ Hugh’s 3 Good Things 10:10 ................ The Greatest Show on Earth 13:10 ...................Time Team 15:20 .....A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:25 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 17:55.................... Come Dine with Me 19:00... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00......The Happening 22:50 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 23:55... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 00:55.............. Come Dine with Me

11:10 ...................... The Hotel Inspector

12:15 .................... Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

22:00 ............... Alan Carr: Chatty Man

06:20 ............................. Psych

06:10 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00.......................... The Bill 11:00................... New Tricks 12:00...............Tipping Point 13:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00.......................... The Bill 16:00.................... New Tricks 17:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00. Emergency Bikers 20:00.......... Resurrection 21:00.......... World’s Most Talented 22:00...In the Line of Fire 00:30............. Road Patrol Australia

09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff

17:00 ...............Four in a Bed

21:00 ............ Gogglebox

06:00 ..............Life’s Funniest Moments

17:00.................. 5 News at 5 18:00 ... Home and Away 19:00. The Gadget Show 20:00..... Secrets of Great British Castles

06:00 .............. The Real A&E 06:30 .............. The Real A&E 07:00.......... Dog the Bounty Hunter 08:00.................The Fanatics 09:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00.............. Hawaii Five-0 13:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 15:00 ................The Fanatics 16:00 ..................... Futurama 16:30 ..................... Futurama 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30..................... Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons

21:00 .............. NCIS: New Orleans

20:00... Relatively Clever

22:00 .......................NCIS

21:30.................. Trollied

22:55 ......Law and Order: Special Victims Unit

22:00........ The Simpsons

23:50.....True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 00:15..........Super Casino

21:00.................. Trollied

23:00....................NCIS: Los Angeles 00:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0 01:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0

06:30 ........Football Gold 07:00 .. WWE Main Event 08:00 ................... Cricket 08:30 .........Rugby Union 10:30 .........Rugby Union 12:45 ................... Cricket 13:15 ........Football Gold 13:30....Sporting Rivalries 14:00 ........ Gary Newbon Interviews Sir Everton Weekes 15:00........Indian Premier League 19:30........Rugby League 23:15.... Barclays Premier League Review 23:45 ........Football Gold 00:00.... Barclays Premier League Preview 00:30......... Super League Highlights

Later... with Jools Holland BBC2, 23:35

Music programme featuring live sessions from contemporary and classic artists. Joining Jools is US musician and producer George Clinton Parliament Funkadelic, who revolutionized R&B during the 1970s, twisting soul music into funk by adding influences from the likes of Hendrix, Zappa and Sly Stone. The Parliament/Funkadelic machine had huge success over the 70s including their million-selling iconic track One Nation Under A Groove.

Two hugely successful British acts also perform on the show. London folk-rock outfit Mumford and Sons return to debut tracks from their upcoming third studio album Wilder Mind, which sees the band take a turn down a more electric sounding road. And Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds also return to the show to perform tracks from second album Chasing Yesterday, which topped the chart back in February.

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S at u rday 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:00........ Saturday Kitchen Live 10:10 ............World War One Remembered: Gallipoli 12:05 .....................BBC News 12:15 ............Football Focus 13:00............ Paula Radcliffe: The Marathon and Me 13:40...............................World Championship Snooker 16:30....................Final Score 17:10 ........ The Princess and the Frog 18:40 .............. BBC News 18:50 .BBC London News 18:55 ................Pointless 19:45 ..................Atlantis 20:30 .......... The National Lottery: In It to Win It 21:20 ................ Casualty 22:10.............. BBC News 22:30... Match of the Day 00:00 .......... The Football League Show 01:20...........A Bronx Tale

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06:10 ....The Crimson Wing: Mystery of the Flamingos 07:20 ........................Sword of Sherwood Forest 08:40................Fred Dibnah’s Magnificent Monuments 09:10.....................The Nature of Britain 10:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 12:00 ......... Talking Pictures 12:35....... The Long and the Short and the Tall 14:15 ...........................Flog It! 15:00 ...................Final Score 16:30.............................. World Championship Snooker 17:30 ............World War One Remembered: Gallipoli - Highlights 18:30...Gardeners’ World 19:00.......................World Championship Snooker 20:00.............Dad’s Army 20:30....Gallipoli: When W C Murdoch Went to War choice 21:30....................... QI XL 22:15...........Up in the Air 00:00.......................World Championship Snooker Highlights

Gallipoli: When Murdoch Went To War

06:00......... Bottom Knocker Street 06:10......... Bottom Knocker Street 06:20 ......... Bottom Knocker Street 06:35.......... Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 06:45...........Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:00...................... Canimals 07:15 .............................Sooty 07:30 .............. Share a Story 07:35 ................Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H. 08:00................Thunderbirds are Go 08:25...................... ITV News 08:30...................... Weekend 09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:20 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:20....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25.............. ITV News and Weather 12:35 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 13:35.................. Doc Martin 14:35 ..................Housesitter 16:35 ..............Tipping Point 17:35....................... ITV News London 17:45............... ITV News and Weather

To commemorate one of the First World 18:00 ........... You’ve Been War’s most important and dramatic anniFramed! versaries - the Gallipoli campaign of 1915 19:00........................Ninja - this hour-long special tells the true story Warrior UK behind the ‘Gallipoli Letter’, written in Sep20:00................... Britain’s tember 1915 by a young Australian journalGot Talent ist, Keith Murdoch.

According to journalistic legend, Keith 21:15..................... Play to Murdoch’s letter toppled a general, shook a the Whistle government and ended the bloodbath that 22:00 .........ITV News and was Gallipoli, one of the most infamous caWeather lamities of the First World War. The truth, 22:15............ Inside Man however, is both more fascinating and more complex.

00:35........... Jackpot247 With interviews and testimony from Rupert Murdoch, Sir Max Hastings, Sir Hew Strachan and other experts, plus dramatic reconstructions based on Keith Murdoch’s own writings, this documentary tells the story of a young, ambitious journalist who visits the killing fields of Gallipoli and becomes embroiled in a scheme to evade the military censor. When top-brass generals, cabinet ministers and press barons become involved, the scene is set for a political struggle in which reputations are destroyed, careers are made and the foundations for a new journalistic empire are laid.

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06:15 ........... How I Met Your Mother 06:40 ........... How I Met Your Mother 07:05 .............FIM Superbike World Championships

06:00 .....................Peppa Pig 06:05 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 06:15 .................... Milkshake!

Bop Box 06:20 ........................Angelina Ballerina

07:30 ........Mobil 1 The Grid

06:35 ......................Pip Ahoy!

08:00..... The Morning Line

06:45 ....The Mr. Men Show

09:00........ Everybody Loves Raymond

07:00 .............Chloe’s Closet

09:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

07:10 ......................Milkshake Monkey 07:15 ................Roobarb and Custard Too

10:30........................... Frasier

07:20...................... Make Way for Noddy

11:00 ........................... Frasier

07:35 ....................Paw Patrol

11:30........................... The Big Bang Theory

07:45 ............. Little Princess

12:00 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 12:30 .......... Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 13:25 ......Channel 4 Racing 16:15 ................... Come Dine with Me 17:10............. The Simpsons 17:45..............The Simpsons 18:10........ The Simpsons

08:00 ........... Wanda and the Alien 08:15 .........Zack and Quack 08:30 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:45 ...................Jelly Jamm

10:00......... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:35 ........................... Access

12:35 ......Ice Road Truckers 13:35...... Ice Road Truckers 14:30 ... Police Interceptors 15:30 ............... Columbo: An Exercise in Fatality 17:30 ............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 18:25.......Britain’s Horror Homes

20:00....The World’s Most Extreme Roads

CoiWce 21:00......................Paul ch 23:05 .......... Role Models 01:05.......... The Last Leg

06:15 ...................Perception 07:00 ...................Perception

08:55 ...........Kirstie’s Vintage Gems

08:00 ............... Resurrection

09:25................... Time Team

09:00 .......................... The Bill

10:25 ...................Time Team

14:00........ Dynamo Top Ten Greatest Moments

11:30 ...........The Thirty-Nine Steps

15:00.... Dynamo Revealed

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

16:00 .................................. The Restoration Man

16:10 ..Building the Dream

17:00 .................................. The Restoration Man

17:50 .Come Dine with Me

06:00 ......... Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 07:00 ................................Glee 08:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 09:00 .........Game Changers 10:00................. Soccer A.M. 12:00 ...............The F1 Show 13:00 ....... Driving School of Mum and Dad 13:30 ......... Fast and Furious 7 Special 14:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue 15:00 ...........Modern Family 17:00 ................. Wild Things 18:00 ..... Modern Family 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 19:00 ..... Modern Family 20:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0 21:00 ............... Poseidon 22:55........ Hawaii Five-0 23:55..NCIS: Los Angeles 00:55 ............. Road Wars

07:10..............Extreme Fishing with Robson Green

06:00............. Football Gold

08:00.............Extreme Fishing with Robson Green

06:45............. Football Gold

18:00.......................... The Restoration Man 19:00... Seven Envelopes 19:30... Seven Envelopes 20:00 .................. Britain’s Bravest Cops

17:15 .Come Dine with Me 18:20 ............. Come Dine with Me 19:55 ............. Father Ted 20:30 ............. Father Ted 21:00..... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

21:00...In the Line of Fire

22:00................ Bill Bailey Qualmpeddler

23:40 ......... Resurrection

23:05..... 8 Out of 10 Cats

00:35 ......... Walking with Beasts

23:55.............. Father Ted

01:10.....Planet Dinosaur

01:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

09:30...... Dora and Friends

11:40...... Ice Road Truckers

19:00........... For the Love of Cars

06:00.............. The Hot Desk 06:10 ...................Emmerdale Omnibus 08:40...... Coronation Street Omnibus 11:05 ....Britain’s Got Talent 12:20 ..................Britain’s Got More Talent 13:25 ...... Darcy Oake: Edge of Reality 14:25 ............... Catchphrase 15:05.............. People Do the Funniest Things 16:05....................... Mr. Bean 17:15........................ The Vow 19:25........ Stormbreaker 21:15 ........... Britain’s Got More Talent 22:20 ...... Celebrity Juice 23:05 ........... Britain’s Got Talent 00:20.. Britain’s Got More Talent 01:20......... Hell’s Kitchen

09:00 .....................LazyTown

10:45...... Ice Road Truckers

18:35.... Channel 4 News

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19:15.......Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

20:15... 5 News Weekend 20:20........................NCIS 21:10........................NCIS 22:10.....CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 23:05.......Law and Order: Special Victims Unit 00:00..........Super Casino

09:00......... American Pickers 10:00 .........American Pickers 11:00........... Storage Hunters 12:00...... Lizard Lick Towing 12:30...... Lizard Lick Towing 13:00 .........American Pickers 17:00 .......... Storage Hunters

06:30............. Football Gold 07:00 ............. Football Gold 07:15 .........Barclays Premier League Review 07:45 ............. Football Gold 09:00 .........Game Changers 10:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 12:00 ........................ Football

17:30 .......... Storage Hunters

14:30 .............. Super League Highlights

20:00 ...........Would I Lie to You? Unseen Bits

15:30................... Viral Videos of the Month

20:40..Would I Lie to You? 22:00.....Russell Howard’s Good News 23:00.....Russell Howard’s Good News Extra 00:00...........Would I Lie to You? Unseen Bits 00:40 ................Would I Lie to You?

15:45 ....................... Ringside 16:45 ..............Ford Saturday Night Football Live 20:00.............. SNF: Game of the Day 22:00...SNF: Match Choice 23:30...SNF: Match Choice 01:00...SNF: Match Choice

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Simon Pegg and Nick Frost cowrote and co-star in this sci-fi comedy adventure - directed by Superbad’s Greg Mottola - about two geeky British UFOwatchers who meet an alien. Following a trip to the Comic Con fan gathering, Graeme and Clive are driving an RV to places in the US where UFOs have supposedly been sighted. One night, they witness a car crash, but when they go to inspect the wreckage, they’re stunned to meet an actual extraterrestrial called Paul. He tells them that he’s been held captive at Area Fifty One, and that he needs transport so he can make contact with a spacecraft that will rescue him. Once the men are over their shock, they agree that Paul can come along - after all, how much closer an encounter can you get? But Secret Service Agent called Zoil is hot in pursuit of Paul.

Although Paul isn’t part of Pegg and Frost’s ‘Three Flavours Cornetto Trilogy’, it has much in common with them; particularly the cheery spoofing of/paying tribute to genre tropes.

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Perspectives ITV1, 22.15

Episode 2 - Len Goodman For The Love Of Fred Astaire Len Goodman is a man who has dedicated his life to dance, and in this film he is travelling across America to explore the extraordinary life, and the imaginative mind of his greatest hero, Fred Astaire. From his daughter to his dance partner, Len leaves no stone untouched as he discovers more about how and why this man became one of the greatest dancers of all time.

Says Len: “Growing up in a grey post-war London, my great escape was the pictures and to sit there watching Fred Astaire in white tie and tails, gliding across the floor with effortless ease, well it just captured me. I was spellbound. His technical precision, the sharpness of his movements, the jaw-dropping choreography, all set to the memorable music of Irving Berlin. It’s never left me.”

Len heads to New York where a young Fred Astaire learnt to dance at the tender age of six. Forced by his mother to partner his older sister Adele, Fred reportedly hated dance classes but revelled in the rhythmic beat of the teacher keeping time.

Fred’s obsession with rhythm was in part inspired by the dance phenomenon that had taken turn of the century New York by storm and here Len meets, and picks up tips from, Jason Samuels Smith, an expert on the history of the new dance that hooked Fred: tap. Jason talks about the black artists who influenced Fred and who Fred in turn acknowledged and tried to give credit to through his performance Biographer Peter Evans talks to Len about the years Fred spent touring a vaudeville act throughout the United States in the shadow of his talented sister which taught him to strive for perfection “...that sense of straining for achievement, that sense of uncertainty about the standards that you’re reaching is going to remain with you for the rest of your career.”

And musician Michael Feinstein explains how a chance encounter with George Gershwin brought Fred and Adele to Broadway and London’s West End. But just as they hit the big time suddenly in 1932 Adele retired from performing to marry and start a family - a terrible blow to Fred who had never danced with anyone else...

At the age of 34 Fred decided to try something completely new - Hollywood. Len takes us to RKO studios and looks back at the pictures that made Fred Astaire a movie star and discusses Fred and Ginger’s on screen chemistry with Bill Deamer, choreographer of Top Hat on stage.

In LA Len also meets Barrie Chase, who danced with Fred Astaire in 1958 for ten years, what she calls a ‘heavenly’ experience; choreographer Randy Skinner who explains how Fred brought ballet and tap together for the first time on screen; and film historian Patricia Tobias who has been looking into how Fred Astaire re-invented dance on film and how he insisted on complete control over those dance numbers.

He takes a spin around the room with Top Hat actress Charlotte Gooch and chats to her co-star Alan Burkett. And finally for insight into the real Fred Astaire, a man loved by millions but still wracked with insecurities, Len visits his daughter Ava Astaire McKenzie. Fred was left a single parent after his beloved wife Phyllis died from lung cancer when he was 46, ending 21 blissful years of marriage. Ava confirms her father was indeed a perfectionist and his own worst critic.

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S u nday 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 07:25...... Match of the Day 09:00 ................. The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 .......................... London Marathon 14:30.......... Sunday Politics 15:45 .............Points of View

06:10................. The Football League Show

06:00 ...........................Bottom Knocker Street

07:30 ...... Gardeners’ World

06:35 ..........Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures

08:00.......... The Beechgrove Garden

07:15..............................Sooty

10:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker

07:30.................. Fort Boyard

16:00....................The Truth CW About Your choice 12:15 .............. MOTD2 Extra 13:00....................... Triathlon Medicine Cabinet 14:00.............................. World Championship 17:00 .......... Songs of Praise Snooker 17:45 .......................Pointless 18:35 .............. BBC News 18:50 ........... BBC London News 19:00 ............Countryfile 20:00................. Antiques Roadshow 21:00.................. Poldark 22:00 .............. BBC News 22:20 ........... BBC London News 22:30..................Match of the Day 2 23:35 ............ Snake Eyes 01:10.......... It’s a Boy Girl Thing

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

08:30 ....................... Athletics

18:00................... London Marathon Highlights 19:00 ......................World Championship Snooker

08:25 ...................... ITV News 08:30 ......................Weekend 09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30.............. ITV News and Weather 12:35.............. Tipping Point 13:35 ..............All Star Family Fortunes 14:40 .......................... Britain’s Got Talent

20:10 ..... Coast Australia

15:55 .................. Doc Martin

21:00 ....... Hunters of the South Seas

17:55 ........Ninja Warrior UK

22:00.... The Inside Story

19:15.... Celebrity Squares

22:30....................... W1A 23:30 ......................World Championship Snooker Highlights 00:20...................... World Championship Snooker - Extra

18:50.... ITV News London

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23:15.....Rugby Highlights 00:15 ...............The Store

Vera ITV1, 20.00 Dock worker Owen Thorne (Keith Newby) plunges from the roof of a multi-storey car park whilst picking up daughter Lila from her school prom. For DCI Vera Stanhope (Brenda Blethyn) everything points to foul play but his wife Ellie (Nadine Marshall) insists he was a good man and loving father to their son Cameron (Daniel Ezra) and Lila (Carla Melaco), who they are in the process of adopting.

The team quickly discover a dispute at work over the death of a young lad. At the docks, office manager Gloria (Racquel Cassidy) confirms Tom McKittrick died when a safety rig failed. Everyone believes Owen was to blame, despite an inquest failing to find fault. His father Mick (Rob Jarvis) admits he wanted revenge but his alibi holds.

Elsewhere Kenny (Jon Morrison) finds CCTV footage of John arguing with a local drug dealer Logan Tilley (Niall Greig Fulton) minutes before he died. Ellie is shocked to

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06:15 ........... How I Met Your Mother

06:00................Children’s TV

06:00 ....................... Mr. Bean

06:40 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

07:45 ............. Little Princess

06:30 ....................... Mr. Bean

08:00 ........... Wanda and the Alien

06:55 ...................Emmerdale Omnibus

08:10 .......................Mio Mao 08:15......... Zack and Quack

09:45....... Coronation Street Omnibus

08:30 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

12:10 ................Take Me Out 13:20....................... Scorpion

08:40.................... Milkshake!

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14:15.....Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey

08:45................... Jelly Jamm

15:55.................Scooby-Doo

09:00 .....................LazyTown

17:45 ....Britain’s Got Talent

09:30 ...... Dora and Friends

19:00 ........... Britain’s Got More Talent

07:05.................. Volkswagen Racing Cup 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00........................... Frasier 09:00 .......... Sunday Brunch 12:00 ...........George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 13:00 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 13:25 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 13:50............. The Simpsons 14:20............. The Simpsons 14:50.... Location, Location, Location 15:50 .....A Place in the Sun 16:50 ................Paranorman 18:35..... Channel 4 News 19:00 .......Three in a Bed 20:00 ....................For the Love of Cars 21:00...... The Impossible 23:15............... Whiteout 01:05 .......... Kali Salwaar

08:55 ....Tiny House Nation

01:55 ........Life’s Funniest Moments

06:10 ......................... Walking with Beasts 07:00 ..........The Truth about Killer Dinosaurs 08:00................. Who Do You Think You Are? 09:00 ........ Dynamo Top Ten Greatest Moments 10:00 ....Dynamo Revealed 11:00 .......... The Restoration Man 12:00 .......... The Restoration Man 14:00................ Doctor Who 19:00... Undercover Boss 20:00 ..... One Born Every Minute 21:00 ........... Traffic Cops 22:00 .........................Silk 23:20.................... Grimm 00:20.............. The Funny Side of Politics 01:15 ...... Toughest Place to be a...

23:30 .............Navy Seals

06:00.... The Hour of Power

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

01:45 .........Super Casino

07:00 ......... Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old?

07:35 .................... Meat Men

08:00...... Sun, Sea and A&E

09:00 .......................Top Gear

06:00 ................... SNF: Match Choice 07:30 ................... SNF: Match Choice 09:00.................. The Sunday Supplement 10:30........................ Goals on Sunday 12:30 ....................Ford Super Sunday 15:30 ....................Ford Super Sunday 19:00 ..............Sky Sports Originals 19:30 .................Football 20:00.................. Goals on Sunday 21:00 ................ Ringside 22:00 ......... Ford Football Special 01:00.............. Sky Sports Originals 01:30.................. Goals on Sunday

10:00 .........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:35 .............. Chinese Food in Minutes 10:50.... The Hotel Inspector 13:50 .............James and the Giant Peach 15:20.................. Sabrina, the Teenage Witch 17:10 ...... 5 News Weekend

20:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

21:00.............. Rush Hour 23:00 ............ The Bourne Supremacy 01:10 ...................... Mom 01:35...................... Mom

09:55 ..Building the Dream 11:00 .....Homes by the Sea 12:05...... Food Unwrapped 13:40 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 14:40 ...............Four in a Bed 15:15 ...............Four in a Bed 15:45 ...............Four in a Bed 17:20 .Come Dine with Me 18:25............. Come Dine with Me 20:00........ Gallipoli’s Lost Shipwrecks 21:00 ................Car S.O.S 22:00 ...............Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 23:05 ..........Tsunami: Ten Years on 00:10 ................ Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 01:05......Shameless USA

17:15...................... Labyrinth 19:15........... Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls 21:00 ...... The Last Stand

discover that Logan is in fact Lila’s estranged father, desperate for reconciliation. As Logan is placed elsewhere at the time of death, John’s phone reveals photos and texts to Hannah Ferris (Levi Heaton) a young woman he met through his work with a homeless charity. Vera spots an inconsistency in Ellie’s statement, suggesting she was less sure of her husband’s fidelity than she’s admitting.

A hidden parking ticket reveals John may have been responsible for the death at the docks after all. And when Vera offers Mick McKittrick a glimmer of hope, someone steps forward with evidence of a fight between John and his son Cameron in the lead up to his death. But why did Cameron feel so betrayed by his father?

09:00 ......... Obese: A Year to Save My Life USA 10:00 ................................Glee 11:00 .................... WWE Raw 12:00 ......................The Flash 13:00............. Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew

08:00 .......................Top Gear 10:00 ...... American Pickers 11:00...... American Pickers 12:00 ...... American Pickers 13:00 ........ Storage Hunters 13:30 ........ Storage Hunters 14:00 ........ Storage Hunters

14:00 ............Harrow: A Very British School

16:00 .......................Top Gear

15:00 ...........Modern Family

18:00..... Motorway Cops

15:30 ...........Modern Family

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

17:00 ................ About a Boy

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

17:30 ................ About a Boy

22:00 ..... Mock the Week

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

23:20 ............ Ross Noble

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

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

22:00..NCIS: Los Angeles 00:00......... Hawaii Five-0 01:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0

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

01:20.... Storage Hunters 01:45...............Lizard Lick Towing

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The Truth About Your Medicine Cabinet BBC1, 16:00

Dr Chris Van Tulleken calls on the British public to seek out the truth about the top-selling overthe-counter medicines. We spend an astonishing £2.3 billion on pills, potions and lotions from the chemist’s shop every year to beat common ailments from headaches to colds to indigestion. But how much do we really know about what we are buying?

Chris embarks on a series of stunts and experiments up and down the country to uncover the secrets of Britain’s favourite medicines: how do they act in the body? Should you take a daily dose of vitamins? Is honey and lemon just as good as cough syrup?

What is the best way to relieve pain after exercise? And could home remedies work just as well?

Chris finds out whether these common cures are all they are cracked up to be or whether there are better ways to spend our hardearned cash.

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Safe House ITV1, 21.00

The Blackwell family must pretend to be ordinary holiday makers, staying at the guest house. They are given a ‘script’ on which they are tested by Robert and Katy – it’s vital each of them knows their cover story.

Sam Blackwell’s car is found smashed and abandoned and there’s growing concern for his safety. The police have a possible connection between Sam and known criminal Michael Collersdale (identified as the man targeting the family). Robert explores this current theory, determined to get to the truth.

The family is tested when unexpectedly Katy’s friend visits. Meanwhile Michael Collersdale confronts someone connected to the family and the daughter Louisa confides in Katy, triggering a situation which endangers the family.

At the safe house Robert’s questioning of the family continues as David, the father, is under scrutiny. Can he explain the large amounts of cash arriving and leaving his bank account? He has a secret that he is desperate to keep from Ali, his wife.

Katy is feeling the pressure of keeping the family safe and concealing the real reason for their stay. The youngest member of the family, Joe, gravitates to Robert and wants to know more about the night Robert was shot. Joe’s innocent questioning leads to Robert remembering new details from the night Susan Reynolds died.

Louisa and Joe are taken for a sailing trip on the lake. When the boat disappears from sight Robert is thrown into a panic. Later Robert can’t sleep and heads off into the night. Katy is worried and calls Mark who knows exactly where Robert has gone. Mark finds Robert and questions him over the true nature of his relationship with Susan Reynolds.

Meanwhile, in the city Michael Collersdale roams free.

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M onday 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ........... Channel Patrol 11:45 .............. Cowboys and Angels 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ......................BBC News at One 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 .....................Land Girls 15:00 ..................... Decimate 15:45 ...............Escape to the Country 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30 ............. The Leader Interviews

06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

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

07:00 ........... Channel Patrol

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

07:45.............. Cowboys and Angels

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

08:15 ..................... Wanted in Paradise

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

09:15 .......................... Victoria Derbyshire

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

11:00 .......................Triathlon 12:00 .......The Daily Politics 13:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 14:00 .......The Daily Politics 15:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 ......................World Championship Snooker

20:00............ EastEnders

20:00............ Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

20:30...........Who Will Win the Election?

21:00.......Inside Harley Street

21:00 .............New Tricks

22:00 ...............Jack Dee’s Election Helpdesk

22:00...... BBC News at Ten 22:30...............BBC London News 22:50 .............. Have I Got a Bit More News for You 23:30 ........... The Graham Norton Show 00:20...... Weather for the Week Ahead

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14:00.............. Judge Rinder 15:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00 ....... The Paul O’Grady Show 18:00................ ITV News London 18:25 ........ Party Election Broadcast by the Conservative Party 18:30..........ITV News and Weather 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30 .Coronation Street 20:00 .......... Wild Ireland

22:30 .............Newsnight

20:30 .Coronation Street

23:20 ......................World Championship Snooker Highlights

21:00..........Safe House

00:10 ..........The Women’s Football Show

22:40 ...........The Agenda

00:40.......................World Championship Snooker - Extra

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

23:20 .............. Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys-Jones

This third and final episode of Inside Harley Street introduces practitioners who offer complementary and alternative therapies.

Harley Street may well be known primarily as a centre for medical care, but paradoxically it’s also a destination for those who don’t put their faith in conventional medicine. There is a long history of alternative medicine on Harley Street dating back to the 1820s, when John St John Long - who was in reality an artist - invented a controversial cure for TB inspired by his interpretation of the bible.

Certain patients in this episode travel to Harley Street as a last resort: 36 year-old May Lyang has been trying to have a baby for five years and comes to see Dr Zhai, who offers traditional Chinese medicine for fertility. Other patients use complementary medicine to address issues such as stress and fatigue. Identical twins Luba and Irena Chmil regularly visit kinesiologist Dr Michael Culp to fend off the exhaustion of daily life with young babies. Alex Adler, an American financial consultant, has intravenous vitamin infusions to maintain peak performance.

Also featured in this episode is a company called Viavi, a new type of business on Harley Street, which offers a comprehensive Health Evaluation and Optimization Programme. For an annual fee of £10,000, busy executives can proactively manage their health in the same way that they might manage their careers or their finances.

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24th April - 30th April 2015

2 7 t h 06:00 ......... Deal or No Deal

06:00 ............. The Wotwots!

06:40 ............Will and Grace

06:10 .................Igam Ogam

07:10 ............Will and Grace

06:20 .Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

06:30 .............. Fireman Sam

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

06:40 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat 06:50 .....................Peppa Pig

08:30 ........................... Frasier

06:55 ......................Pip Ahoy!

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

07:10 ............. Little Princess

09:25 ...............Four in a Bed

07:20.... The Mr. Men Show

10:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

07:35 .Thomas and Friends

11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me

07:50...... Noddy in Toyland

11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:00 ......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:05 .....A Place in the Sun 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal

07:45 ... Milkshake Monkey 08:00........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:20..................... Peppa Pig 08:25..................... Peppa Pig 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45.................... Bananas in Pajamas

18:00........ The Simpsons 18:30 .............. Hollyoaks

13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS 15:15 ....................Blind Trust 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours

19:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast

18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

21:00....................Skint

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22:00 ............ Gogglebox

23:00...... The Island with Bear Grylls 00:00.............. The Secret Millionaire 01:00......... Embarrassing Bodies 01:55............. Supersize v Superskinny

08:55.... Location, Location, Location 10:00.....Location, Location, Location 11:00 ............Major Dundee 13:25 ...................Time Team 14:30 ...................Time Team 15:35 .......................Car S.O.S 16:40 .....A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:45..... A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:50 .......Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55 ...... Grand Designs 21:00 ................ Location, Location, Location 22:00 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 00:10................. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 01:05................. Location, Location, Location

11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

19:00 .... Channel 4 News

20:00.....The Secrets of Sports Direct

06:15 ...................Beauty and the Beast 08:00........... One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00.............. Tipping Point 13:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00.......................... The Bill 16:00................... New Tricks 17:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00.................. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00. Emergency Bikers 20:00............ Traffic Cops 21:00.............Paranormal Witness 22:00........ The Catherine Tate Show 23:20............ Traffic Cops

09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff

12:15 ............Britain’s Horror Homes

17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me

06:00...............Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20............................. Psych 07:05.................. Emmerdale 07:35 .....Coronation Street 08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35 .......................Scorpion 10:25............................. Psych 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10...................Emmerdale 12:45..... Coronation Street 13:45................ Dinner Date 14:40.......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00 ........ Judge Rinder 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ...................... Mom 22:00 ...... Celebrity Juice 22:50 ................ Hot Fuzz 01:05 ...............Two and a Half Men

09:00 ...................Tickety Toc

12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime

16:00............ Three in a Bed

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18:00 ... Home and Away 18:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast on Behalf of the Conservative Party 19:00 ............ The Gadget Show 20:00...................... Police Interceptors 21:00 ................. Gotham 22:00..Person of Interest 23:00............ Unforgiven 01:30 .........Super Casino

06:00 .............. The Real A&E 06:30............... The Real A&E 07:00...... Sun, Sea and A&E 08:00........... Modern Family 08:30 ...........Modern Family 09:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 13:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 15:00 ................The Fanatics 16:00 ..................... Futurama 16:30 ..................... Futurama 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30..................... Futurama 18:00............... Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ..... Modern Family 20:30........Driving School of Mum and Dad 21:00.....An Idiot Abroad 22:00......... Hawaii Five-0 01:00................. NCIS: Los Angeles

07:00 ..............Radical Highs 07:15 .......................Top Gear 08:10 .......................Top Gear 09:00 .........Motorway Cops 10:00 ...... American Pickers 11:00........ Storage Hunters 11:30........ Storage Hunters 12:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 .........Motorway Cops 15:00 ...... American Pickers 16:00 ........ Storage Hunters 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00 ................Top Gear 19:00 ... Storage Hunters 20:00............ Ross Noble 21:00..... Mock the Week 22:20.. Would I Lie to You? 23:00............................ QI 23:40......... Only Connect 00:20...... Mock the Week 01:00.... Storage Hunters 01:55.. Would I Lie to You?

06:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 06:45........................... Boxing 07:45 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 09:00 ....... NFL Top 10 Draft 10:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 10:30........................... Boxing 11:30 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 12:30 ....... NFL Top 10 Draft 13:30...... Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 14:00 ...........................Boxing 15:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 16:00 ........Ringside Special 17:00................................. NFL 18:00 ..............Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 18:30 ................... Boxing 19:30 .................Football 22:00 ................... Boxing 23:00 ..............Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013

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The Secrets of Sports Direct Channel 4, 20:00

Dispatches goes undercover to investigate the secrets of Sports Direct’s success.

Reporter Harry Wallop explores the hidden cost of the clothes, shoes and discount gear that have helped the company to buck the trend on the high street, making billions for its elusive owner, Mike Ashley, one of Britain’s richest men.

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Merthyr Tydfil is the former industrial powerhouse in the Welsh valleys. It’s the gateway to the Brecon Beacons National Park, but the town has issues, as its youth know only too well. It’s over 30 years since the coal mines and iron works closed.

Unlike their forefathers, who had jobs for life, the younger generation live in a town with few opportunities and one of the highest unemployment rates in Wales.

When you’re young with no qualifications and limited job prospects, you do what is necessary to survive.

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24th April - 30th April 2015

T u esday 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ........... Channel Patrol 11:45.............. Cowboys and Angels 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:40.... BBC London News 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 .....................Land Girls 15:00 ..................... Decimate 15:45 ...............Escape to the Country 16:30 ...........................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..........24 Hours in CW the Past choice 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:30 .BBC London News 22:50 ..........Del Boys and Dealers 23:50........... Ghost Town 01:25 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead 01:30............... BBC News

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06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

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

07:00 ........... Channel Patrol

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

07:45.............. Cowboys and Angels

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

08:15 .............Collectaholics

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

09:15...................... The Super League Show

10:55 ...................... ITV News

10:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker

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

12:00 .......The Daily Politics 13:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker

11:00 .............. This Morning 13:30.............. ITV News and Weather 14:00.............. Judge Rinder 15:00................... Dickinson’s Real Deal

14:00....... The Daily Politics

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

15:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker

17:00 .........................The Paul O’Grady Show 18:00.. ITV News London

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

18:25........ Party Election Broadcast by the Labour Party

18:30 ......................World Championship Snooker 20:00.........Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

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21:00 ............. Wastemen

19:30 ......... Countrywise

22:00.... Later Live... with Jools Holland

20:00............... Midsomer Murders

22:30............. Newsnight

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

23:20 ....... Newsbeat: The Election Debates 00:20...................... World Championship Snooker Highlights

22:40.... Northern Ireland Election Debate 23:40 .............. Benidorm 00:10 ........... Jackpot247

24 Hours in the Past BBC1, 21:00

Living history show presented by Fi Glover. Celebrities travel back in time to the relentless graft of Victorian Britain. In the first episode, the six celebrities land in the filth and grime of the city dump - the first of four different workplaces they will experience through the series. They sift through mountains of dirt, rotting veg and old bones.

There’s no escape, no compromise, no going home. The recruits include actress Zoe Lucker, former home office minister Anne Widdecombe, impressionist Alistair McGowan, world champion hurdler Colin Jackson, Outnumbered’s Tyger Drew-Honey and presenter Miquita Oliver.

Who will conquer the 19th century and discover their inner Victorian?

Fi Glover and historian Ruth Goodman help drive them through the age that laid the foundation for modern Britain.

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06:00 .................Countdown 06:45............ Will and Grace 07:10 ............Will and Grace 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:25 ...............Four in a Bed 10:30................... Come Dine with Me 11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:00 ......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:05 ...................... A Place in the Sun 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ............ Three in a Bed 17:00 .............Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30.............. Hollyoaks 19:00..... Channel 4 News 19:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast 20:00.....Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it 21:00 .....The Queen’s Big Night Out 22:00 .....Ballot Monkeys 22:30 ..... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:35 ......The Island with Bear Grylls 00:30...... Pokerstars.Com European Poker Tour 01:25...........KOTV Boxing Weekly 01:55........ FIM Superbike World Championships

06:00 ............. The Wotwots!

06:10 .................Igam Ogam 06:20 .Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:40 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat 06:50..................... Peppa Pig 06:55 ......................Pip Ahoy!

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show 07:35.Thomas and Friends 07:45 ... Milkshake Monkey 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland 08:00........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15..................... Peppa Pig 08:20..................... Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:30 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45.. Bananas in Pajamas 09:00 ...................Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10... 5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ... NCIS: New Orleans 15:10 ..................Cedar Cove 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00 ... Home and Away 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 18:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast on Behalf of the Labour Party 19:00.. Police Interceptors 20:00.......Britain’s Horror Homes 21:00....Sick Note Skivers Exposed 22:00...Killer Psychopaths 23:00...Autopsy: The Last Hours of Robin Williams 00:00....... The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

06:00.............. Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20 ............................. Psych 07:05.................. Emmerdale 07:35 .....Coronation Street 08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35....................... Scorpion 10:25............................. Psych 11:20.................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 .....Coronation Street 13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:40....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00......... Judge Rinder 19:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Educating Joey Essex 21:00 ........ Hell’s Kitchen 22:00 .......... Knocked Up 00:40............... Two and a Half Men

06:15 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ..........DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00 ..................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00. Emergency Bikers 20:00... Undercover Boss 21:00 ..........World’s Most Talented 22:00.................... Grimm 23:00............ Traffic Cops

08:55.....Location, Location, Location

06:00 .............. The Real A&E

07:00 ..............Radical Highs

06:30 .............. The Real A&E

07:15 .......................Top Gear

07:00 ......Sun, Sea and A&E

08:10........................Top Gear

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

09:00 .........Motorway Cops

09:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles

10:00 ...... American Pickers

11:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

11:00......... Storage Hunters

12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

12:00 .......................Top Gear

13:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles

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

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

14:00 .........Motorway Cops

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

15:00 ...... American Pickers

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

16:00 ........ Storage Hunters

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

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

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

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

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

19:00 ... Storage Hunters

06:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 06:45 ...........................Boxing 07:45.......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 08:30 ...........................Boxing 09:00 ....... NFL Top 10 Draft 10:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 10:30 ...........................Boxing 12:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 12:30 ....... NFL Top 10 Draft 13:30...... Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 14:00 ...........................Boxing 15:30 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 16:00 ........Ringside Special 17:00............ Finding Giants 18:00 ................... Boxing 20:30 .. Boxing: Pacquiao /De La Hoya / Hatton 08/09

18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ...............The Flash 21:00 ...................Critical 22:00 .................. Forever 23:00....NCIS: Los Angeles 00:00........ Hawaii Five-0 01:00........ Hawaii Five-0

20:00 ...................... QI XL 22:00 ............ Ross Noble 23:00 ........................... QI 23:40........ Only Connect 00:20..... Mock the Week 01:00.... Storage Hunters 01:30.... Storage Hunters

10:00.....Location, Location, Location 11:05...... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 11:40 ........Carry on Abroad 13:25................... Time Team 15:35 .......................Car S.O.S 16:40 .....A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 18:50........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00............Building the Dream 22:00....Homes by the Sea 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10................. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 01:05............Building the Dream

Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial BBC2, 20:00

Alex Polizzi takes on the difficult challenge of finding head chefs. She tackles the Miners Arms, a gastropub in the Forest of Dean. Mario and Karen Constantinides have found it impossible to find a new head chef to help them transform their menu from good pub grub to a destination restaurant. They’ve now turned to Alex for help to find the right person. In this episode, the next three candidates are put through the grueling hands-on interview process.

Their first test is about local ingredients, and it’s David versus Goliath as 21-year-old Joshua is pitted against 48-year-old events chef Leslie.

Also in the mix is local boy David, who hopes his understanding of the area will push him through. This round is far from clear cut as a confident Leslie clashes with owner Mario and questions are asked about young Joshua’s experience. Competition is intense, as only one will be selected to go through to the final interview at the end of the week.

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24th April - 30th April 2015

W ednesday 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ........... Channel Patrol 11:45.............. Cowboys and Angels 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ......................BBC News at One 13:40.... BBC London News 13:45......................... Doctors 14:15 .....................Land Girls 15:00 ..................... Decimate 15:45 ...................... Escape to the Country 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15........................Pointless 18:00 .... BBC News at Six 18:30 ........... BBC London News 19:00 .......The One Show 20:00 ................Inspector George Gently 21:30 ............. Peter Kay’s Car Share 22:00 ... BBC News at Ten 22:30............ BBC London News 22:50 ........Election 2015 23:30............. Jindabyne 01:25 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead 01:30............... BBC News

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06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ........... Channel Patrol 07:45 .............. Cowboys and Angels 08:15 .........An Island Parish 08:45 ......Helicopter Heroes Down Under 09:15 ......... Talking Pictures 10:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 12:00 .......The Daily Politics 13:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 14:00 .......The Daily Politics 15:00 ..............................World Championship Snooker 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 ......................World Championship Snooker 20:00 ........... Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 21:00...............Nick and CW Margaret: choice The Trouble with Our Trains 22:00............ Inside No 9 22:30..............Newsnight 23:20...................... World Championship Snooker Highlights 00:10 ......................World Championship Snooker - Extra

06:00 ............ Good Morning Britain 08:30........................ Lorraine 09:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30............... This Morning 10:55...................... ITV News 11:00.............. This Morning 12:30............ Loose Women 13:30 .............. ITV News and Weather 14:00.............. Judge Rinder 15:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00......................... The Paul O’Grady Show 18:00.. ITV News London 18:25......... Party Election Broadcast by the Green Party 18:30 .........ITV News and Weather 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30....Coronation Street 20:00....Give a Pet a Home W 21:00.............Newzoids Coi ch ce 21:30.. The Delivery Man 22:00..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40......... Bargain Fever Britain 23:40....... Corfu: A Tale of Two Islands 00:05............ Jackpot247

Nick And Margaret: The Trouble With Our Trains BBC2, 21.00

On a journey across a rail network under increasing strain, Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford climb on board Britain’s trains to find out whether we’re getting value for money.

Twenty years on from privatisation, commuter fares are far higher than in many other major European countries, punctuality is in decline, and overcrowded commuter services are reaching bursting point.

In their quest for answers, Nick and Margaret use their business nous to get to grips with the big questions asked by every rail passenger.

Where exactly is the £8 billion of fares and £4 billion of public money that go into our trains each year being spent? How much can train operating companies actually do to improve their services? And who is to blame for endless train delays?

Nick and Margaret are in for a bumpy ride as they guide us through railway nightmares to meet irate commuters, train operating company bosses and the head of Network Rail.

They uncover infuriating inefficiencies, get mired in mind-boggling bureaucracy and experience the drudgery of some of Britain’s worst commutes. As the pair set out to understand how our outdated system can cope with passenger numbers higher than at any time in living memory, they wonder whether there are signs that our railway may be getting back on track.

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06:00 .................Countdown

06:00.............. The Wotwots!

06:45 ............Will and Grace

06:10................. Igam Ogam

07:10 ............Will and Grace

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

06:00.............. Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20 ............................. Psych 07:05 ..................Emmerdale 07:35 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35 .......................Scorpion 10:25 ............................. Psych 11:20.................. Royal Pains 12:10.................. Emmerdale 12:40 ..................Britain’s Got More Talent 13:45................ Dinner Date 14:40 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00......... Judge Rinder 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ................ Hot Fuzz 23:25 .......... The Vampire Diaries 00:25 ...............Two and a Half Men

06:15 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00............One Born Every Minute 09:00.................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00................... New Tricks 12:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00 ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ..........................DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00.............. Tipping Point 18:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00....Emergency Bikers 20:00.......... Resurrection 21:00.................... Grimm 22:00 ................ Dynamo: Magician Impossible 23:00............ Traffic Cops

08:55.....Location, Location, Location

06:00 .............. The Real A&E

07:00 ..............Radical Highs

06:30 .............. The Real A&E

07:15 .......................Top Gear

07:00 ..........Dog the Bounty Hunter

08:10....................... Top Gear

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

10:00...... American Pickers

09:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles

11:00........ Storage Hunters

11:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

12:00........................Top Gear

12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

14:00 .........Motorway Cops

13:00...... NCIS: Los Angeles

15:00 ...... American Pickers

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

16:00......... Storage Hunters

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

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

19:00............ GPs: Behind Closed Doors

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

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

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

20:00....... The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

19:00 ... Storage Hunters

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

20:00...American Pickers

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

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

20:00 ....An Idiot Abroad

22:00.. Would I Lie to You?

21:00............... Poseidon

22:40 ...................... QI XL

22:55..NCIS: Los Angeles

23:40 ........ Only Connect

23:55 ........ Hawaii Five-0

00:20 ..... Mock the Week

00:55....NCIS: Los Angeles

01:00 ... Storage Hunters

01:50....NCIS: Los Angeles

01:30 ... Storage Hunters

06:00.......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 06:45...... Boxing: Pacquiao/ De La Hoya/Hatton 08/09 07:45 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 08:30 ...........................Boxing 09:00 ....... NFL Top 10 Draft 10:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 10:30........ Boxing: Pacquiao /De La Hoya/Hatton 08/09 11:30 ...........................Boxing 12:00.......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 12:30........ NFL Top 10 Draft 13:30.......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 14:00....... Boxing: Pacquaio /De La Hoya/Hatton 08/09 15:00............................Boxing 15:30.......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 16:00.........Ringside Special 17:00.............Finding Giants 18:00.................... Boxing 19:30..................Football

06:30 .............. Fireman Sam

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

06:40 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

08:30........................... Frasier

06:50 .....................Peppa Pig

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

06:55 ......................Pip Ahoy!

09:25 ...............Four in a Bed

07:10 ............. Little Princess

10:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show

11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:00.......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05................... Come Dine with Me

07:35 .................Thomas and Friends 07:45... Milkshake Monkey 07:50...... Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15..................... Peppa Pig 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus

12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me

08:45.. Bananas in Pajamas

13:05 ...................... A Place in the Sun

09:15........ The Wright Stuff

14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ........................... Deal or No Deal

09:00....................Tickety Toc

17:00 .............Couples Come Dine with Me

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

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

14:15............................... NCIS

18:30 .............. Hollyoaks

15:15............ Reverse Angle

19:00 ...............Channel 4 News

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

19:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast

18:00 ... Home and Away

22:00 .............First Dates 23:00 ................One Born Every Minute 00:00 .......Snowbombing 2015 00:30......... Embarrassing Bodies 01:25.......... Burger Bar to Gourmet Star

11:20......... To Catch a Thief 13:25 ...................Time Team 15:35 .......................Car S.O.S 16:40 .....A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 18:50........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00.............. Tiny House Nation 22:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:00............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:05................. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 01:00....... Grand Designs

12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15 .The Hotel Inspector

21:00............... The Island with Bear Grylls

11:05............. Hugh’s 3 Good Things

11:10........ Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

16:00............ Three in a Bed

20:00 ..........................The Restoration Man

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

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

17:30................. Neighbours 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 18:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast on Behalf of the Green Party

21:00..................Autopsy 22:00............. CSI: Miami 22:55................... CSI: NY 23:55 ............. CSI: Miami 00:50.....True Crimes: The First 72 Hours 01:15..........Super Casino

09:00 .........Motorway Cops

Newzoids ITV1, 21.00

Imagine a world where David Cameron and Nick Clegg battle it out on Jeremy Kyle, where Ed Miliband joins Ant and Dec on I’m A Catastrophe…Get Me Out Of Here, and where Professor Brian Cox finds an extraordinary new planet in the solar system – Kim Kardashian’s backside.

The six-part series features a combination of high-energy puppetering, snappy writing and pinpoint accurate impressions, sending up the week’s news events using a cast of outrageous and off the wall characters based on some of the world’s most prolific celebrities.

Featuring the voices of impressionists including Jon Culshaw and Debra Stephenson, Newzoids’ groundbreaking mixture of lowtech traditional puppetry and state of the art animation puts a satirical and surreal spin on the stories and celebrities we read about every day.

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Fraud Squad ITV1, 21.00

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The first film shows how organised crime has relocated into the British property market. The gangs buy cheap land situated on flood zones and areas contaminated by industrial waste. They cold-call victims 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 06:00.............. Homes Under 06:00 ............ Good Morning and falsely claim the land will be granted planning Britain the Hammer 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain permission and can be sold to housing developers for a healthy prof08:30 . . ......................

Lorraine 07:00 ........... Channel Patrol it. It’s a highly lucrative trade, yielding the gangs more than £200 10:00 ...... Homes Under the 09:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle million a year.

Hammer 07:45 .............. Cowboys and Show The second and third episodes see detectives from the City of LonAngels 11:00 ........... Channel Patrol don and Metropolitan Police pursue a gang behind the biggest ever 10:30 .............. This Morning 11:45 .............. Cowboys and 08:15 .................Great British bank cheque fraud in Britain, worth over £6.5 million. The gang has 12:30 ............ Loose Women Angels Garden Revival mastered the art of counterfeiting cheques, which enables them to 13:30 .............. ITV News and 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 09:15 .......................... Victoria steal millions from businesses, charities and private account holders Weather across Britain.

Derbyshire 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 14:00. . ............

Judge Rinder The first film shows how organised crime has spotted a new open13:40 ....BBC London News 11:00.................... BBC News ing in the market - the British obsession with property. Hundreds of 15:00 ................... Dickinson’s 13:45 .........................Doctors 11:30......................BBC World victims have been convinced to buy land they were promised could Real Deal News 14:15 . . ...................Land Girls make them a healthy profit when sold to housing developers. The 16:00...............Tipping Point fraudsters use high-pressure sales techniques to falsely claim the 12:00........................ The Daily 15:00..................... Decimate 17:00 .........................The Paul worthless land will get planning permission.

Politics 15:45 ...............Escape to the O’Grady Show Commander Steve Head explains how the criminals convince vicCountry 13:00 ..............................World 18:00.. ITV News London tims to invest. He says: “They will groom people over a period of Championship 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 18:25......... Party Election time to try and build their trust. They will come out with some exSnooker 17:15 .......................Pointless Broadcast by the UK tremely plausible arguments, all designed for one thing, and that is Independence Party 18:00 .............. Eggheads to steal as much money from those individuals as they possibly can.”

18:00 .... BBC News at Six One gang has conned more than 200 victims out of £10 million. The 18:30 ............... ITV News 18:30 ......................World 18:30 ........... BBC London masterminds of the fraud, Clive Griston and Matthew Noad, hide Championship 19:00 ........... Emmerdale News behind a series of false identities and then dissolve their fake comSnooker 19:30 ..................Tonight 19:00 .......The One Show panies to avoid arrest.

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Alex Polizzi: 20:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30 ............ EastEnders Det. Chief Supt Dave Clark says: “The companies are set Chefs on Trial up for a short period of time, enough time to take huge amounts 20:30 .......Double Decker 20:00 ....... Question Time of money from investors. They then go into liquidation leaving Driving School 21:00...............The Game Election investors with no place to turn. They reinvent themselves, the Leaders Special 21:00........Fraud Squad CWce 22:00 .......................W1A ch oi same people, under a different brokerage name, with a different par21:30 ............. Peter Kay’s 22:00 .... ITV News at Ten 22:30..............Newsnight cel of land, committing the same scam. This is a revolving door of Car Share 22:40........... The Agenda fraud.”

23:20.......................World 22:00 ...

BBC News at Ten 23:20 .............. Newzoids Fraud Squad trails detectives as they search the fraudsters’ multiChampionship 22:50 ........Election 2015 million pound mansions, launch multiple raids on their offices and 23:50 ..... Carry on Again, Snooker gather testimony from traumatised victims.

Doctor 23:20 ..............This Week Highlights For the first time, the series also features video footage showing the inner workings of the gang’s fraud, with brokers revelling in a culture of ‘greed is good’.

One victim, 72-year-old Judith Wilkins, was repeatedly called at a particularly vulnerable time, when her husband and brother had passed away in a matter of months. She says: “I don’t think it could have come at a worse time. They were shouting at me and I said please don’t shout at me, I’ve just lost a brother and I don’t need this. They’ve got no feelings at all. They walked all over you and got louder and louder and insisted that I sent them a cheque.”

After they threatened Judith with legal action claiming she had entered into a verbal contract, she reluctantly handed over £10,000, most of her life savings.

Detective Clancy Tassell explains the impact the fraud has on many victims. She says: “Their quality of life goes downhill. They can lose their homes over it. Some people have taken out loans to put money in this investment. And there’s going to be no return on it and it’s heart-breaking.”

The victims’ testimony is crucial in proving that Griston and Noad are selling a lie. The company bank accounts show Griston and Noad are living a champagne lifestyle, buying multi-million pound mansions, driving Bentley and BMW cars and taking five-star holidays on the money stolen from the victims.

Griston uses his girlfriend, Kerry Golesworthy, to launder his millions. Kerry has extravagant tastes, spending more than £80,000 of the victims’ money on a new bathroom and tens of thousands more on designer jewellery and a Range Rover with personalised number plates.

Fraud Squad follows detectives as they arrest Kerry Golesworthy at a luxury penthouse apartment in a gated community. The couple seem to have an addiction to designer goods. They hid the source of the wealth from neighbours claiming they had won the National Lottery.

Detectives also arrest the parents of Matthew Noad. Father Roger, who spent 30 years at Coutts, the Queen’s banker, used his experience to launder £600,000 of his son’s criminal proceeds. This money gave Roger and his wife Linda a lavish lifestyle, a £1 million home and luxury foreign holidays.

Awaiting trial, with their passports seized and bank accounts frozen, Griston and Noad have set up a new multi-million pound fraud while on police bail - selling worthless carbon credits to the same elderly, vulnerable investors.

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06:00 .................Countdown 06:45 ............Will and Grace 07:10 ............Will and Grace 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00........ Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30........................... Frasier 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:25 ...............Four in a Bed 10:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:00 ......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05 ................... Come Dine with Me 12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me

13:05 ........................... A Place in the Sun 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ............ Three in a Bed 17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30 .............. Hollyoaks 19:00 .... Channel 4 News 19:55......... Party Election Broadcast 20:00......... The Supervet 21:00..The Island with Bear Grylls 22:00........The Last Leg

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23:05 .............First Dates

06:00 ............. The Wotwots!

06:10................. Igam Ogam 06:20 ....Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30.............. Fireman Sam 06:40 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat 06:50 .....................Peppa Pig 06:55...................... Pip Ahoy!

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show 07:35... Thomas and Friends 07:45.... Milkshake Monkey 07:50...... Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15..................... Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45.. Bananas in Pajamas 09:00................... Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15 .......... Secrets of Great British Castles 13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45................. Neighbours 14:15............................... NCIS 15:15............. Murder on the 13th Floor 17:00.................. 5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00.... Home and Away 18:30...... 5 News Tonight 18:55 ........ Party Election Broadcast on Behalf of the Uk Independence Party 19:00 ............. The Classic Car Show 20:00 ..... The Body in the Freezer: Countdown to Murder 21:00 ............... The Hotel Inspector 22:00........ The Mentalist 23:50.....True Crimes: The First 72 Hours

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06:00 ..............Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20............................. Psych 07:05.................. Emmerdale 07:35 .....Coronation Street 08:10.................. You’ve Been Framed!

08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35 .......................Scorpion 10:25 ............................. Psych 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45......Coronation Street 13:15.................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45.................. Dinner Date 14:40 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00 ........ Judge Rinder 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00.................Scorpion 22:00 ...... Celebrity Juice

06:10 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00........... One Born Every Minute 09:00.................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00................... New Tricks 12:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00.................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00.......................... The Bill 16:00................... New Tricks 17:00.............. Tipping Point 18:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00. Emergency Bikers 20:00.................... Grimm 21:00.......... Resurrection 22:00...... One Born Every Minute 23:00............ Traffic Cops

08:55 ....Location, Location, Location 11:05 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 11:40 ............ Hugh’s 3 Good Things 11:50 .......................Bullwhip 13:25 ...................Time Team 15:35........................Car S.O.S 16:40 .....A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 17:45 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:50........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00....... The Good Wife 22:00 ...........The Hoarder Next Door 23:00 ............ 24 Hours in A and E

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The Island with Bear Grylls Channel 4, 21:00

The Women’s Island: The extreme conditions on the island are taking their toll on the 11 remaining women and they are now on the brink of starvation. They are living on an extreme low-calorie diet, surviving on snails and limpets and scraps of scavenged yucca and coconut.

Georgina is becoming increasingly weak from hunger and may be eating as few as 20 calories a day.

The Last Leg Channel 4, 22:00 06:00............... The Real A&E

07:00 ..............Radical Highs

06:30 .............. The Real A&E

07:15 .......................Top Gear

07:00 ..........Dog the Bounty Hunter

08:10....................... Top Gear

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

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

08:30 ...........Modern Family 09:00...... NCIS: Los Angeles 10:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 11:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 13:00...... NCIS: Los Angeles 15:00..................... Futurama 15:30..................... Futurama 16:00 ...........Modern Family 17:00............. The Simpsons 17:30..................... Futurama 18:30........ The Simpsons 20:00 .....................Arrow 21:00 .................. Forever 22:00 ........... Wild Things 23:00 ................ NCIS: Los Angeles

09:00......... Motorway Cops 11:00........ Storage Hunters 11:30......... Storage Hunters 12:00....................... Top Gear 13:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 .........Motorway Cops 15:00 ...... American Pickers 16:00 ........ Storage Hunters 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00................ Top Gear 19:00.... Storage Hunters 19:30.... Storage Hunters 21:00.... Russell Howard’s Good News Extra 22:00 .......................Suits 23:00 ........................... QI 23:40 ........ Only Connect

06:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 06:45 ...........................Boxing 07:45 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 08:30............................Boxing 09:00 ........Ringside Special 10:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 10:30 ...........................Boxing 12:00 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 12:30 ........Ringside Special 13:30 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 14:00 ...........................Boxing 15:30 ......Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 16:00 ........Ringside Special 17:00 ...........................Boxing 18:00 .Sky Sports Boxing Gold 2013 18:30................... Boxing 19:00 ..... Premier League Darts 2015 22:30.................... Boxing

The award-winning gang show returns live to Channel 4 for a hat trick of topical shenanigans, culminating in an election night extravaganza. Adam Hills, Josh Widdicombe and Alex Brooker are back to take on the main talking points of the week including all the latest election news. After Alex Brooker fired the starting gun in the race to rid political campaigning of ‘bullshit’ during his hilarious interview with Nick Clegg, the team reunite at this crucial time with their upbeat, unjaundiced brand of satirical comedy.

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What’s On in Tenerife

24th April - 30th April 2015

‘Romería’ of San Marcos When: Sunday April 26 Where: Tegueste More details: www.tegueste.org

Come to try the local wine and enjoy the April sun accompanied by the traditional music of folk groups, decorated carts and herds of harnessed animals. The festival of San Marcos in Tegueste is one of the most traditional in the island and thousands of people congregate there to celebrate together.

Good family atmosphere with the good local food and wine.

Los Cristianos food fair The 11th Food Fair of Arona will be held on 25th and 26th April 2015, outside the Cultural Center, Los Cristianos.

When: Saturday April 25, 2015 - Sunday April 26 from 10am Where: Plaza del Sinner Foreign Cultural Center, Los Cristianos More details: 922 725 203

Dorada Brewery Tour

Mueca Street Art Festival

The local beer company opens its doors to unveil the manufacturing process of Dorada beer, from the collection of raw materials to bottling. It’s a guided tour through the facilities explaining each stage of the brewing process. And at the end of the visit you will be invited to a Dorada or two in the Tasting Room. Booking is highly recommended.

When: Every Tuesday Where: Avenida de Ángel Romero in Santa Cruz More info: doradatour.es

One of the highlights in the spring is the art festival which takes place in Puerto de la Cruz from 7-10th May. This year the star attraction will be a Cirque du Soleil type show called Ilotopie at the Martiánez sea bathing lake on 7 and 8 May (Thursday and Friday). Tickets cost just 8 euros.

When: 7th-10th May Where: Puerto del la Cruz More details: www.entrees.es

Tegueste Tour Enjoy the scenery and explore the history of the town of Tegueste through over thirty thematic routes that take place throughout the year. Specialised guides will show you the most beautiful scenery of the town, its historical, artistic and archaeological heritage and, of course, vineyards and everything related to its great wine tradition. There are hiking trails, dramatised routes that will transport you to the past or night routes for a unique experience under the moon.

When: Every Day More Info www.tegueste.org

Tenerife Symphony Orchestra VIOLIN concertos and the symphonic works of Mahler are among the highlights of the 2015 season of the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra, under the leadership of Polish maestro Nesterowicz Michal.

When: Until 26th June Where: Auditorio de Tenerife in Santa Cruz More details: www.ost.es

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A Blast From The Past

There are hundreds of performing artistes on the island of Tenerife who come from many different backgrounds.

Some arrive here just to work in a holiday resort and in many cases, they did not intend to enter in to a career on the stage.

Others have a much more colourful past in showbiz. Lots of comperes have started their working lives with a starkly contrasting job to the one they have now. A prime example of this would be the compere at Bojangles Bar in Los Cristianos.

Leeway is now one of the most experienced comperes in Tenerife.

A man without an ego and nothing to prove takes to the stage every night in this very popular show bar on the El Mirador strip and has been entertaining holiday makers here for 15 years.

He is extremely well respected amongst the cabaret artistes on the island and those he works alongside. Self indulgence is far from his mind on stage and he is totally dedicated to making lasting memories for his audience. But, many will be unaware that Leeway started his working life as a soldier in the British Army. Maybe this is what has made him such a gentleman on and off the stage. Old habits do die hard even though his time on the stage far exceeds that in HM Forces.

William L Wright who is known on the circuit under his stage name, Topazz, has been entertaining here in Tenerife with his Barry White show for almost two decades. He hails from Nashville, Tennessee in the USA and

is well known in Germany and Belgium as well as here in Tenerife.

He has been in music his entire life and lives by the mantra, “Life is music, music is life.” He was the 8th of 9 brothers and sisters and it all started for him when he and four friends, that he grew up with, formed a group called The Junior Temptations. They were influenced by the voices of Melvin Franklin, Larry Graham, Isaac Hayes and Lou Rawls all of which are apparent today in his performances on the stages of Tenerife.

However, during his college years, sports began to play a huge

part in his life and due to his height, (6’7”) he quite obviously excelled on the basketball court. After graduating he played basketball with his team from UTC Tennessee, who later became national champions. Topazz was also inducted into the basketball hall of fame for Best Rebounder in the Southern States.

He continued to play in South America and Europe, visiting Austria, Germany, Sweden, France, Switzerland, Holland and Belgium where he finally retired from sport to concentrate on his music career.

His first signing was with Byte Records

with a song called “Yes We Are Tall.” This was alongside a DJ turned producer called John Paul Decoster and during its promotional phase they opened for none other than Chaka Khan.

It was after this that he then became Bizz Nizz and recorded a song called “Watch Out For Bizz Nizz.” A year after that came the huge Europe wide hit, “Don’t Miss The Party Line.” The song was everywhere and he toured the UK nightclubs with the cult TV show ‘The Hitman & Her’, featuring presenters, Pete Waterman and Michaela Strachen.

The show featured ar-

tistes from the Stock Aitken Waterman hit factory that produced so many mega selling records during this time.

The biggie for Topazz was his appearance on Top Of The Pops as Bizz Nizz when the songs tag line, “Hey DJ, where’s the bass?” became hugely popular and is still recognised today.

In fact if you google, Bizz Nizz and Don’t Miss The Party Line, I’m certain it will bring back memories for everyone who grew up in the early Nineties.

His next project saw him tour with the famous Fred Wesley from James Browns Band,

with a band called Plug who released an album called New York New York.

Later on he formed a group called Positive Rush and released an album called “Oh.” It was during this time that Topazz landed a role in a French movie called ‘Pa Lizard’ and two of the albums tracks were used in the film too.

Topazz has been writing and producing his own music for years with many releases on major labels. His passion is within the genre of funky house and his new album is to be released on June 1st this year and will be titled Body Heat. This will be available through iTunes and through his website www.topazzmusic.com along with his back catalogue of original material. As well as promoting his own material, he is still taking to the stages here in Tenerife and wowing audiences with his completely unique voice.

There are so many more artistes that have amazing stories to tell about their careers before Tenerife and most don’t really talk about it much because, to them it is and always has been their job and it is just what they do.

If you ever see Topazz at any of the venues that he works here in Tenerife, do go and talk to him, he is very approachable and always has time for people after his shows.

He is one of the most interesting people here in Tenerife when it comes to showbiz and his life and this article just sums up in a nutshell, what he has achieved in what is a lifetime career in music and a short but successful sidestep in to professional Basketball.

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Wine and Dine

24th April - 30th April 2015

The Bistro Bistro Restaurant are now open for lunch serving the most famous pies, sausage rolls, quiches, sandwiches and different specials every day. All homemade and freshly baked, plus drinks offers every lunchtime including local wine at 1 euro per glass, 1.50 euros for Torres wines, 1 euro a pint and 2 euros for local spirits.

Los Cristianos Open: Mon - Sat, midday - 4pm, 6pm - late. Sun, midday - late.

Call: 922 795 823

Lupita Parque de la Reina has a secret - Lupita restaurant is fast becoming the place to eat, and it has a well-deserved reputation.

All the usual Mexican specialities are on offer, but from midday until 4pm, check out their 3.95 euro menu. You can have a bowl of soup or garlic bread, main meal (selection of 20) and espresso coffee, which is excellent value for money. Also, 4.95-euro and 5.95-euro menus available all day and all night. Now Open Mondays!

The Swan Try our new homemade menu from our new chef Tim, with all your favourites including: fish and chips, roast dinners, lasagne, steak pie, plus daily specials. If there’s anything you fancy t hat’s not on the menu, j ust give us 24hr notice and we will do it for you!

Or just pop in for a drink, with live entertainment every night, 9pm - midnight, and your favourite quiz on Sunday evenings.

Cañada Blanca 2, Parque de la Reina

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: daily, 12noon - 11.30pm

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 677 381 869/645 581 621

Call: 698 396 367

Hard Rock Cafe

A Hard act to follow!

DEEP in the heart of Las Americas, you will find the Hard Rock Cafe, opposite the Safari centre, and fellowmembers of the famous chain of restaurants.

The first one opened in London in 1971 and the group has grown into a household name over the years. We were invited for lunch recently, and to meet the people at the helm of this busy set-up.

We were met by Marketing Director Isabel, who introduced us to General Manager Ramon and Oscar, our personal waiter during our lunch.

The Terrace was extremely busy, so we opted to sit inside, away from the mid-day sun. Isabel showed us to a lovely table and, after a chat, various menus were brought for us to browse. Diffi-

cult one as there is so much choice.

The restaurant/bar is really well set out, with memorabilia everywhere you look.

Oscar arrived to take our drinks and my nondriving colleague chose the red berry press, which consisted of berries, lemon and vodka.

I’m sure, with the light and fruity flavour, she convinced herself she was not drinking alcohol. But there was also a large selection of nonalcoholic cocktails.

The menu is interesting and there are some novel things to choose from, such as the Air Mexico, made up of

three mini-margaritas, with a tortilla, chips and Salsa. There is even an “allergy menu” for those with special dietary requirements.

We changed our mind a few times because there really was so much to choose from.

In the end we, opted for a starter: a spinachand-artichoke dip with parmesan flatbreads, and a beautiful cheesy dip.

The dip was exact-

ly what you would expect - cheesy and gooey, with plenty of crisp flatbreads to dunk.

This was followed by mushrooms and a Swiss burger with added bacon.

Actually you can add or take off any ingredients. The burger was cooked to perfection, and you can select rare, medium or welldone, which always suggest to me that a restaurant is happy with the freshness of its meat. It’s also a nice touch. In America it’s standard practice to ask how you would like your burger, just like a steak, but it’s rare, if you excuse the pun, in most countries.

We also selected a pulled chicken sandwich, which was served in a huge bun, accompanied by chips, coleslaw and my favourite iceberg lettuce! Again, it’s the little things that make a big difference.

By this time we were so full it was hurting.

But we couldn’t leave without trying a dessert, so we went for the fresh carrot cake - not too gooey but it was half the size of a full cake, with fresh carrot inside! Unfortunately, we could find no room to finish it as it was so huge, but us true troupers did our best!

After the lunch we explored the legendary memorabilia shop and picked up a couple of reminders of a lovely lunch.

All in all, we had a super visit, and we’ll definitely be back.

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Otelo Otelo restaurants serve traditional Spanish cuisine specialising in delicious crispy garlic chicken and Canarian potatoes, plus all the tasty sauces. Try out our Canarian night, with our staff all dressed in national costumes and live Canarian music - at Otelo 1, with its gorgeous mountain views, on Monday night. Or Thursday night at Otelo 2, our beach-front restaurants.

Otelo I: Baranco Inferño. Otelo II: Fañabe Beach front

Open: Otelo I: 12noon - 11pm Otelo II: 11am - 11pm

Call: 922 780 374 / 922 716 342

Belgabar

The Palms Pool Bar & Restaurant

Belgabar has very quickly become a favourite for diners. Our selective menu includes the finest prime steak, fresh seafood and vegetable dishes and a tropical dining experience not to be missed. There is an extensive wine menu, which includes local produce, and a range of international beers.

Belgabar menu is popular, so reservations are recommended.

You must try the house special!

Home of ‘Craig’s Creations’ - enjoy delicious gourmet food served at realistic prices in our beautiful restaurant or on our sunny terraces! Specials changing daily.

Exciting new menu!

Food served from 10am – 10pm daily and ‘Tipsy Time’ 4pm – 7pm. Star cabaret nights, call for details. Follow us on Facebook at The Palms Pool Bar.

Beachfront, The Patch, Las Americas, next to Burger King

Palms Pool bar and Restaurant, Golf Del Sur

Open: 12pm til late

Call: 679 721 005 / 667 098 126 / 922 738 809

James’ Place The only British bar/restaurant and the jewel in the crown in La Caleta.

Something for all the family with stylish dining area, sun-drenched terrace, games room and a fantastic menu.

Sunday roasts available, freshly beerbattered fish and coming soon... our summer BBQ! James’ Place - Where we just haven’t met you yet!

La Caleta

Open: 10am - 10pm

Call: 922 168 139

Call: 677 397 204

Leo’s Italian & Grill Come and taste the fine Italian cuisine served at Leo’s restaurant in Oasis Paserella.

Authentic Italian cuisine with a modern twist with a set 3-course daily menu for just 9.95 euros (served until 5.30pm) plus a fantastic selection from the a la carte. You can’t fail to find something that will delight your taste buds.

Try the amazing pastas, pizzas, fresh meat or fish and maybe indulge yourself in one of the homemade desserts.

C.C. Pasarella, Los Cristianos

Open: daily, 11am - 12am

Call: 922 788 872

Mama Mia A classy restaurant, which offers among its specialties, pasta and pizza in Italian style.

In a fine environment, you can enjoy Italian dishes that will surely leave you fully satisfied. It is characterised by homemade pasta, offering a wide variety that can be combined with different sauces. It features a selection of Italian quality wines, in a traditional family, based on the quality and hospitality professionals.

CC Americas Plaza, Las Americas

Call: 922 797 082

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Wine and Dine

24th April - 30th April 2015

Another del Duero classic

This week we look at a wine which is nothing short of outstanding.

As many wine drinkers will know the Ribera del Duero is located on the extensive, elevated northern plateau of the Iberian Peninsula. It occupies the southern plains of the province of Burgos, extends west into Valladolid and includes parts of Segovia and Soria provinces to the south and east. The vast majority of production is dedicated to Tinto Fino (the local name for Tempranillo), the dominant red varietal in the northern half of the Spanish peninsula.

Geologically, tertiary sediments, consisting of layers of silty or clayey sand, alternate with layers of limestone, marl and chalky concretions.

The Duero valley, formed during the Miocene period, has a flat, rocky, gently undulating terrain, ranging from 911 meters down to 750m above

sea level. The Ribera del Duero has moderate to low rainfall (450 mm per year) and is exposed to quite extreme climatic conditions; long, dry summers with temperatures of up to a sweltering 40°C are followed by hard winters during which temperatures may fall as low as -18 °C. There are also marked variations in temperature within each season.

The climate is continental and Mediterranean, with more than 2,400 hours of annual sunlight.

And it is these conditions which helps the Ribera del Duero produce some extremely well-aging wines.

The Al-Nabiz is one of them. The creator Ramiro Carbajo del Río, conjured up a little wonder with its 2011 edition . The name Al-Nabiz is Arabic and means a kind of wine made from dates. But actually it is made 100% from the grape variety tempranillo.

With a production of less than 12,000 bottles it is a real jewel in the crown. The rarity does make

it a few pennies more expensive, but it is worth it.

With a rich colour in the glass it is a clean and bright.

The Al-Nabiz will give you a range of flavours such as redcurrant and raspberry and has the n e c tar the aromas of van i l l a ,cedar and a hint of cinnamon.

T h e A l Nabiz 2011 is a wine w i t h strong chara c t e r.

It is fresh, l i v e l y, active, with a little astring e n c y, which r e volves a n d

evolves in shades without losing the audacity of fresh fruit wine. Agile and young at the start and then tickling pleasantly in the mouth this certainly conquers the palate. It is an undisputed star at the table with snacks and appetizers, f a t t y cheese spreads and is perfect w i t h meat.

Y o u need to open the bottle at least 2 hours before s e r v ing and up to 6 h o u r s to enjoy the true beauty of AlNabiz. It is a wine that will delight y o u r

guests with a good table, whose memories will remain forever.

The Al-Nabiz 2011 (DO Ribera del Duero) has been awarded the gold medal at Berliner Wein Trophy 2014 (Berlin, Germany) and Silver medal at the 11th International Wine Awards 2013. Also the wine won a silver medal at the International Competition 2014 in Brussells. It achieved 88 points

in the Penin Guide , 92 points in the Intervinos Guide, 90.23 points in Wine Club and 90 points in the “Living wine” guide.

So come to Prestigio y Tradición and give your own rating to this wine. You will find our facilities in Las Chafiras Prestigio y Tradición Calle Arujo, 2, Las Chafiras Monday to Friday 09:30 till 18:00 and Saturday 10: till 14:00.Or CALL US ON 922703419.

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By Vanessa Vee It’s that time of year when we see a lot of the impending brides and grooms visit the island, accompanied by their entourage of stags and hens.

My best friend flew in on Thursday and informed me that the plane was full to the rafters of party people.

To assist with the parties, alongside the youth and student market, as well as the Tenerife workers fraternity, the Insomnia at Sea VIP Boat party was formed 8 years ago, but only became a regular occurrence three years ago.

The excursion is billed as “One Party – 3 Events”, and the first extravaganza is at The Sound of Cream, a large club on the Veronicas strip in Playa de las Americas. This evening event is hosted

by Dj´s and MC´s from the actual Insomnia brand which is owned by two of the most definitive figures in house music and promotion, Tom Zanetti and Kane Towny.

With DJing, producing, song writing, a record label, clothing line, festivals and even a TV show all under the “Sleepin is Cheatin” mother-ship, there isn’t much the duo haven’t conquered.

Music is where their hearts lie though and they have a string of releases to prove it with some major track signings, support from artists around the globe, and a crazy calendar of gigs all over the UK and Europe. Their sound is unique with a heavy bass influence, catchy vocals and 4x4 beats.

Insomnia live DJ and PA sets are guaranteed to make any party, whether that be a club, pool, beach or boat these guys know how to set it off. But that doesn’t mean skills are overshadowed as this team have bags of talent.

No sleeps until...

Insomnia

A great fun night at the club was had by all, which set the atmosphere in preparation for the famous boat party the following day. The meeting point was The Sky Bar in Puerto Colon for 4 in the afternoon.

With top tunes playing, the mood was building as everyone congregated. We swapped our ticket for a boarding pass, then we walked in a group around to the boat.

Once onboard the gorgeous catamaran, its picture time, as the photographer mingles amongst us all, capturing every opportunity.

After the safety briefing we set sail, for three hours, with a completely free bar! We had a choice of any drink we wanted, from soft drinks, to beer, or spirit and mixes, vodka red bull, Juicee, and then their famous house cocktail, “InsomniJuice Plus – It changes your life!”

Now this is not a whales and dolphin spotting chilled out trip – far from it. This event is all about the music, and the Dj and MC are constantly stoking the crowd up.

Everyone dancing, getting merry, but most importantly, enjoying themselves.

After a time we stopped off in the bay for a swim, and the music is taken down a level, by this I mean tempo, certainly not volume.

This is a party boat, and we partied solid for the duration. My two friends who both came

with me never stopped grinning from ear to ear throughout, and they are both in their late forties. In fact when I spoke to the Insomniteam, apparently last year they had a 73 year old come along for the party!

On the journey back, the champagne spray was fired to great music, as well as lots of cheers, screams and laughter.

Back into port, and it’s pointed out that all photographs from the day are available for free on the Insomnia Facebook page.

One thing that is noticeable and makes this boat party stand out from all the others, is that there is absolutely no party games, and this was stressed to me

by Tom and Kane, as that is not their interest, it really is all about the music.

But it’s still not over, as straight after disembarkation all the revellers went back to the Sky Bar for the after party.

More drinks and a free barbeque!

This is suitable for groups and couples but you must be at least 18 and be advised that extreme partying is on the menu.

Tickets for Insomnia are 55 euros and can be purchased in all Hotel receptions, Excursion offices or online at a discounted price on www. insomniatenerife.com For more information, reservations or residents discounts, call 0034 690 126 477

By Carl from Robot

I OFTEN stop to look at the bewildering array of colours available to you, the buying public ... not only in the chemists but in supermarkets and even in the local garage.

Yet I was taught that colouring hair was an ART, and it took me years to learn how to blend and apply colour.

From your basic root touch-up to a full colour, foiling and precision-colouring, all was learned during and after my college and salon years. And I am still picking up new techniques and colouring ideas.

So how difficult must it be to know what to put on your hair to achieve that desired look your after? How can grabbing a colour from the shelf be a guarantee that you will get the colour stated on the box?

Trust me, colouring hair isn’t a matter of slapping it on. It isn’t a wall you’ll emulsioning

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but your hair, and you’ll be walking around with it on your head for all to see - be it good or bad.

When you purchase a colour from the supermarket, you don’t have a professional with you to help choose.

No, it’s pure guesswork. Those colours, no matter what shade, have a “general” peroxide content, means the product does NOT know what your hair type is like - its base shade, its texture, its percentage of white, etc.

The product will give you a general colour, which might not be the colour you desire.

So you could be left with brassy yellow rather than that ash blonde on the box (who, by the way, has been photoshopped to within an inch of her life).

Or worse, darker than you wanted l,eaving no way to lighten it yourself.

Colouring hair is an art. We blend colours together to give you the tone you want, taking into account all aspects of your hair.

This is why, when I see

patchy colour or strawlike texture, it makes me a little mad that these chemicals (because that’s what they are) are freely available to anyone who wants to use them.

We deal with four levels of peroxide, which we mix with our tints, and that means the one we choose is the right one for your hair, with that chosen shade - not some guess-work in your local supermarket.

Your stylist will examine your hair before anything is applied, and he/she will talk to you if you are a new client about what could be “underneath” your present colour.

This affects greatly what we put over your hair as the old colour, even if you can’t see it will have an effect the final result. There is no eraser for hair colour, and you can’t just rub it out and start again.

So take this into consideration as you throw in that copper-brown box of colour into your trolley.

You might end up like the carrots in there with it!

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By Monica Dyson NO woman is ever too old for romance! And if you can’t always get the real thing, it seems that losing yourself in the pages of a book is next best.

A poll by readers at my local library here in Sheffield to mark Valentine’s Day revealed some quite predictable results.

It is usually Mr Darcy, from Pride and Prejudice, who tops every poll I’ve ever seen. But on this occasion Edward Rochester, from Jane Eyre, joined him as a joint and worthy winner.

And not a Christian Grey in sight!

In a separate and nationwide poll, Mr Darcy again came top, but with surprising contenders in the list.

In second place came Gilbert Blythe, from Anne of Green Gables, and my teenage self would not have argued with that!

Mr Rochester did make the list, but also Almanzo Wilder from Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Count of Monte Cristo,

by Alexander Dumas, George Emerson, from Room With a View, by EM Forster and Enjolras from Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables.

Once you’ve read the book, the next best thing has to be a convincing portrayal of your hero on stage or screen, and I must mention Aidan Turner, the new Poldark. Wow! You are never too old for lust, ladies!

Are you getting it in the Canary Islands? Poldark, I mean, not lust!

One of my special favourites has to be Heathcliff, from Emily

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Touch of romance Bronte’s Wuthering Heights, and I’ve rarely been disappointed by any portrayal of him.

Oh, I tell a lie, I really must try to forget the time Cliff Richard played him!

However, the Heathcliff stage show in 1996 was well-received by legions of devoted Cliff fans and broke all boxoffice records, even though one critic did describe it as Living Dull! (get it? Living Doll!), so what do I know!

The most magnificent, darkly-brooding portrayal of Heathcliff has to be the 1939 version by Laurence Olivier. Filmed obviously in black and white, it lent itself to the dramatic landscapes of West Yorkshire and, like many old films, has stood the test of time and never disappoints.

Olivier also played a magnificent Fitzwilliam Darcy in the 1940 version of Jane Austin’s Pride and Prejudice, although the sight of Colin Firth emerging from the lake in the 2001 film seems to be the No.1 film moment of all time with many female fans.

There are no statistics to say how many men also enjoyed it!

There have been so many versions of Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte: Edward Rochester has been played by Stanley Baker, Timothy Dalton, William Hurt, Michael Fassbender and Ciaran Hinds. But again, old guys rule and the most memorable one has to be Orson Welles, who starred with Joan Fontaine in 1943.

Last Night I Dreamt I went to Manderley Again .... one of the most famous opening pas-

sages from any book has to be that from Daphne du Maurier’ss Rebecca, and in it she gave us the tortured Max de Winter, again played by Olivier in Alfred Hitchcock’s 1940 version of the film, alongside Joan Fontaine. No other portrayal has ever matched his performance. How we longed to soothe his fevered brow!

Rarely has a book received such worldwide acclaim, and it has never gone out of print.

In fact, an edition was used by the Germans in World War 11 as a codebreaker, and a copy was found in the headquarters of Rommel.

So what is it with women and escapism?

Ever since I can remember, Mills and Boon have transported women

into another world, of romance and swashbuckling heroes. Their publicity blurb stated that they were “bringing romance to life!”

In the UK during the Fifties, you could indulge to your heart’s delight by joining places like Red Circle Libraries.

These establishments bore no resemblance to the ones we use today (long may they flourish), but it was where you could buy escapism for a few pence. The sign in the window stated: “Reading, your cheapest pleasure!”

They specialised in romantic reads, together with others which included westerns and thrillers.

They had been in existence since 1908 and

reached their peak during the depression years of the Thirties and Forties, when women were desperate to get away from their humdrum existence.

By the Fifties, when local libraries were in decline, as much as anything through the advent of television, Mills and Boon started to sell in newsagents, becoming the largest selection within the paperback market.

Although the story lines of today do contain some modern themes, with other contenders like the Black Lace range of books, which are erotica and erotic fiction (so I’m told) and written by women for women and becoming increasingly popular, psychologists say that

a huge number of issues seen in their clinics are influenced by romantic fiction, That’s because, kit is said, when women become dissatisfied with their real relationships and are often unable to distinguish between fact and fiction.

Even if the hero were a complete cad, an air of chivalry prevailed in which women, despite having fought long and hard for equality, secretly desired.

But I prefer to describe chivalry as just basic, good manners.

And at our age, if a man holds a door open for us or offers us a seat on a bus, then it shows that his mother has taught him well.

And we accept, graciously.

Accion del Sol

Make your dogs safe WE have again seen a large increase in the number of puppies arriving at the refuge in poor condition… if only people would sterilise or castrate their dogs!

These terrible situations would be erased easily, and Tenerife would be a much better place for our fourlegged friends.

Our policy at the refuge is that every dog is castrated before being allowed to be adopted, as well as having a full clean bill of health, inoculated, passported and micro-chipped.

We are always in need of towels, blankets, sheets, collars, leads, puppy milk and dog toys, if you would like to help us, and it would be much appreciated at the refuge.

Our latest fund-raising event is at the refuge on 9th May at from 2pm. We are asking our friends and Accion supporters to take a picture of their favourite pet with flowers, and

submit them to our email address teneriffa@aktiontier.org They will be printed and displayed at the refuge, ready for the judges to select three winning pictures, which will be awarded a prize.

Our fund-raiser will be a fun-filled day, with a “fun dog”! obedience competition, in which you can show off your dogs’ talents.

Mr and Mrs Dog 2015 will also be chosen on the day, as well as lots of fun and games for the children, a petting farm

with lots of animals, horse-riding, bouncy castle, cakes, hot food, music and a chance to tour the amazing facilities and to meet many of the refuge dogs. Definitely a date for your diary.

If you would like to pre-enter your pet for the dog show, for just three euros, please call 922 778 630.

Donations welcome Please note that Accion del Sol does not charge for adoptions, and every animal is fully passported , micro-

chipped, inoculated, sterilised and has a full bill of health before leaving the refuge.

But donations towards the day-to-day running of the refuge are much appreciated Can you help?

Please call 922 778 630 for more information, or if you would like to help out in any way.

Maybe you have some spare time and would like to walk some of the many dogs at the refuge. They would really appreciate it!

Where to find us The refuge is situated at Granadilla’s Industrial Estate, Exit 51 on the TF1, directly next to ITER, the ecological park which houses the windmills.

Opening hours We are open to the public on Mondays, Tuesdays,Thursdays and Fridays between 2-5pm, and on Saturdays from 1pm to 4pm.

The refuge is closed Wednesdays, Sundays and on Public Holidays.

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The Yomp is back!

Tomorrow (Saturday) the Yomp is back in time for the St George’s Day weekend celebrations.

This event has been running for five years now and has raised nearly 3,000 euros for charity and with good support from all sections of the community, we aim to raise as much as we can again.

The sponsored ‘Yompers’ will set off from Pal Mar at 11am and the posse should arrive at arrive at VIVO in central Las Americas at around 1pm.

So for anyone attending the event, it would be nice to be there to welcome them ‘home’.

The entertainment, led by Marc Craig will include: Vanessa Vee, Aidy Evans (Roy Orbison/Gene Pitney), new boy Luke Primmer, Kicks and Tricks, Steve Delsey (Neil Sedaka), Cara (Blondie), Keith George (Boy George) and the Midnight Riders.

There will be a Prize Draw and Tombola and anyone wishing to bring their own ‘Picnic’is more than welcome!

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Leila, our old lady FOR our older babies we have a permanent foster programme.

What is this?

Well, the dog remains our responsibility, so all you need to provide is food and love. We take care of the rest. Leila is eight, and we rescued

her from an empty swimming pool into which she had she had fallen, dehydrated and weary.

She is stronger now., but cannot walk far as she has heartworm, which we are treating.

She just needs some love and a safe place to enjoy her final years.

Could this be you? If so,

call Sue on 629 388102 for more information.

Back on The MustCat Yes, it’s that time again, where we charter the MustCat and head off into the waves to see the whales and dolphins where they really belong, and not doing tricks in swimming pools.

Our last trip out was a sell-out so here we go again. Be quick this time because they have already started to sell, via social media. The price is just 20 euros for the three-hour trip, sailing at 1,15pm Our busy shops All is going well at our new charity shop on Golf del Sur, and remember that our vet, Cesar Bertoldi, is with us every Wednesday, from 10am-noon. He offers advice on all aspects of your pet’s healthcare, so come and have a chat with him.

We are situated at Golf Park, on the loop road before the lottery kiosk.

We are open from 10am until 4pm, Monday to Saturday.

We also have shops in

Los Cristianos, Calle Revron near Churchills Bar, and San Eugenio, opposite Hotel La Nina

by Amandas bar at the

las Carabelas complex.

Both shops open from 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday, and until 3pm Saturdays and Sundays.

El Cabo If you’re looking for something different to do, why not pop along to a concert in the Infanta Leonor Auditorium in Los Cristianos at 20.30 on Friday 1st May.

The ladies choir from the Arona School of Music and Dance will be joining forces with the renowned male choir Rondalla Unión Artística El Cabo from Santa Cruz.

Accompanied by the timple and other stringed instruments group Pulso y Púa they will be performing the stirring story of the mad Guanche King –

La Cantata del Mencey Loco – with the 2nd half of the concert featuring several works of Spanish operetta (zarzuela).

This will be the first time that the two choirs have performed together and it should prove an interesting and entertaining evening so please come along and support them.

There will be an entrance fee of 5 euros.

Tickets will be available closer to the date from the main desk of the Cultural Centre in Los Cristianos Mon to Fri from 09:00 to 14:00 or alternatively from two hours before the concert at the ticket office of the auditorium.

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Watch those vitamins!

The New Age of Exercise

By Nico Gil

of Activate Sports Club

Change is everywhere.

Fashion, technology, architecture, food, travel – the famous saying of ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus “Change is the only constant in life” applies to every facet of daily life, which, of course, includes physical exercise.

Over the past few years, there has been a noticeable shift in the fitness world. This “New Age of Exercise” (which is a term I use, not an officially recognised movement within the industry!) may sound all hippy and idealistic, but it’s actually the best thing that’s happened in a very long time when it comes to finally realising the obvious: there is no use conditioning the body if the mind is not also involved in the process.

The most important changes I think are these: 1. It’s no longer all about what you look like: Looking into a

mirror, making funny, pain-induced faces while you lift way too many kilos in a manner that will almost certainly injure your back, all in the attempt to have bulging muscles is no longer the fashion. Thank God. Now it is about working to obtain optimal physical and mental health, and to condition your whole body over time.

2. Class sizes are getting smaller: It sounds rather obvious but it’s virtually impossible for an instructor to correct, guide and encourage a class of 25 people. In Yoga or Pilates, for example, it is especially important that each person in the class gets the necessary correction – doing these exercises incorrectly can do much more damage to the neck and back than sitting on the sofa doing no exercise at all.

3. Meditation is no longer seen as a hobby for Buddhist hippies.

A combination of scientific studies, simple observation and common sense has led people to realise the many, many benefits of regular meditation. In an ever-stressful world, which moves at an increasingly fast pace, meditation has been proven, among other things, to: reduce feelings of stress and anxiety; improve concentration; produce a greater sense of happiness; decrease pain/

inflammation; boost the immune system and increase empathy and compassion. More than enough reasons to switch 20 minutes of social media or TV a day for this fabulous practice.

4. Rest days are as important as your workout: It’s not all about pushing yourself to the limit every day at the gym with punishing workouts any more.

Giving your body the time it needs to rest and recover post-workout is now just as important as the workout itself.

Aside from preventing muscle fatigue, giving your muscles time to recover and adapt is essential in preventing injuries.

5. Exercising in nature is big business: No-one wants dark, small, sweaty gyms any more. Bright, clean, fresh, open spaces are where people want to be exercising. The closer to nature the better.

And where better than the Canary Islands for that?

Our fabulous climate means we never really have any problems or obstacles to getting active outside. Yoga classes on the beach, a bike ride through the mountains, or even a walk along the coastline are all more beneficial than being stuck inside four walls, when you view physical exercise as one part of a holistic healthy lifestyle.

Address: Calle Roques del Salmor, 38679 Costa Adeje, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Tel: 822 070 037

By Val Sainsbury MOST people take vitamin tablets to improve their health and protect them against disease.

But popping too many supplements can actually increase the risk of heart disease and cancer.

Over-the-counter supplements are promoted for their health benefits, yet they exceed the recommended daily amount and could have a counter-effect.

Dr Tim Byers, from the University of Colorado Cancer Centre, said: “We are not sure why this is happening at the molecular level. But evidence shows that people who take more dietary supplements than needed tend to have a higher risk of developing cancer.”

Two decades ago, research found people who ate more fruits and vegetables tended to have less cancer.

So Dr Bryers began to investigate whether taking extra vitamins and minerals would further reduce the risk of developing the disease.

One trial exploring the effects of beta-carotene supplements showed that taking more than the recommended dosage increased the risk for developing

both lung cancer and heart disease by 20% .

Folic acid, thought to help reduce the number of polyps in a colon, actually increased the number in another trial.

Dr Bryers said: “This is not to say that people need to be afraid of taking vitamins and minerals. If taken at the correct dosage, multivitamins can be good for you. But there is no substitute for good, nutritional food.”

He added that most people get the daily recommended doses of vitamins and minerals in their diets by eating healthy meals.

“At the end of the day, we have discovered that taking extra vitamins and minerals do more harm than good.”

The findings were presented at the American Association for Cancer Research Annual Meeting.

However, critics say that many people are de-

ficient in vitamins, and supplements can help them get the nutrients they need.

A spokesperson for the Council for Responsible Nutrition, the US trade association for the dietary supplement and functional food industry, said: “Cancer is a multi-factorial disease for which there is no proven prevention.

“However, good nutrition is highly-recommended by many experts as one way to keep you healthy.”

Government research demonstrates that Americans do not obtain all the nutrients they need from food alone, and in those cases, dietary supplements can help fill nutrient gaps.

“We do not recommend high doses of vitamins, unless under the direction of your doctor.”

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The bag ladies

By Carl Pattison

WHAT is it with you ladies and your must-have handbags? Why the collection in your wardrobe that could stock a shop?

One thing I’ve noticed is that bags come in all shapes and sizes, including a never-ending array of colours and designs.

But what is it that draws you to them, and why so many?

One thing is for sure: a bag will be around for more than one season and, if

you choose well, they tend to complement most outfits. So how do you go about choosing a new one, especially it won’t be when you need one but when one catches your eye.

Firstly, look at what you will be using it for: Work? Going out? A special event?

Then look at what you might be carrying around with you.

There’s no point going for a little Chanel number if you’ll be lugging around paperwork or the kids’ toys.

It has to fit your needs and be versatile, so don’t grab at something gorgeous if nothing is going to fit in.

Then there’s the style.

Do you go for basic and functional, or something that looks a million dollars with your new outfit?

This all depends on you and your taste. Try to stay away from this season’s must-have bags as they will look dated in six months.

Instead, go for classic. This doesn’t mean boring but something that doesn’t scream in your

face. It will look great for a few weeks until you get bored with it.

Choose a colour that matches your wardrobe and lifestyle. Don’t buy a bag impulsively, only to find you have to restock your clothing rail to match it.

Best buys are black, silver, gold, white and neutral., which will blend in with your look and not clash with your shoe collection.

Okay, if it’s for something spe-

cial, you will then pick a colour which goes with your shoes. But remember, these bags rarely get used on a daily basis and may spend months in your wardrobe.

If you are trying to match bag with shoes, it’s so hard to match up these items unless you buy them at the same time. That’s why a metallic bag looks great with any shoe colour.

Just don’t overdo the bling.

If you are out and about and one catches your eye, think: “What will this go with, and do I really need it?”

Of course, you ladies don’t always need a bag - it’s just there

and you want it. Fine.

But do make sure it will do something for you and your clothes.

Remember, a really small bag on a larger lady will make her look bigger, as does a larger bag on a smaller-framed woman. It will drown her! You need to “try it on”, as you would clothing. It has to do something for you or there’s no point having it.

And one final thing: you don’t have to break the bank for it to look a million dollars. Choose wisely and look for timeless shapes and fine detail.

Just because it has cost the price of a small car doesn’t make it gorgeous.

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PRIZE Godoku!

WIN! Tickets for bowling at Megabowl

WIN! 2 tickets to see The Sound of Musicals

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The rules of Godoku are simple just enter the letters stated below once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square within the puzzle grid.

When you have completed it, a word will appear.

Email the answer to info@canarianweekly.com before 5pm on Wednesday 29th April 2015 and you’ll be in with a chance of winning.

Last Week’s winner (Issue 898): Irene Boyd Please come up to the OasisFm / Canarian Weekly offices to pick up your prize. You have until 29th May 2015 to pick up and use your vouchers.

This week’s letters: A G H I K L N T W This week’s mystery clue: This is the title of the 12th Henry Gamadge mystery by Elizabeth Daly (9 letters).

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30-Second Brain Training Sudoku X...

Just enter the numbers 1 - 9 once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square within the sudoku X puzzle grid. In addition to standard sudoku, the numbers must only occur once in each side of the ‘X’ that is marked on the grid.

5 7 9 8

What better way to train your brain. Starting at the left with the number provided, work across each of these lines applying the mathematical instructions to your running total. Don´t reach for the calculator - that´s cheating! Write your final answer in the last box of the line. Aim to complete each round in about 30 seconds.

Good Luck!

Beginner Starter Number

3 5

8 2 5 7 8 1 6 6 1 6 4 9

15

x4

6

7

-16

2 6 5 9 1

2

3

-51

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8

9

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Intermediate Starter Number

1

2

3

90

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20%

+162

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6

7

8

9

-131

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2 6 7 5

1

2/9

5

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÷8 +159

1

2

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140

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6

7

8

9

+154

3/8

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-55

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5

4

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2/3

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Answer

You walk upwards on an escalator, with a speed of 1 step per second. After 50 steps, you are at the end.

You turn around and run downwards with a speed of 5 steps per second. After 125 steps, you are back at the beginning of the escalator.

The Question: How many steps do you need if the escalator stands still?

In the morning, the 200 kilograms of cucumbers are 99% water. Therefore, the non-water part of the cucumbers has a mass of 2 kilograms. At the end of the day, the cucumbers are 98% water. The remaining 2% is still the 2 kilograms of non-water material (which does not change when the water evaporates). If 2% equals 2 kilograms, then 100% equals 100 kilograms. Consequently, the greengrocer has 100 kilograms of cucumbers left at the end of the day.

CW Crossword ACROSS. 3 SIP, 5 REVUE, 8 HENRI, 9 SLIMMER, 10 PREVENT, 11 RESIDE, 13 POISON, 14 VARIED, 16 STARTS, 19 UNLUCKY, 22 OWN GOAL, 23 AS PER, 24 SIREN, 25 SIR. DOWN. 1 SHIP, 2 UNLESS, 3 SIDE, 4 POSTS, 5 RAINCOAT 6 VOMITS, 7 EARNINGS, 11 RAVENOUS, 12 DIED DOWN, 15 RUNNER, 17 RECAPS, 18 PULLS, 20 LIAR, 21 YARN

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Solution to: The cucumber case

And 2 normal sudokus for you aswell...

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DOWN 1. Confused (6) 2. Arctic animal (5,4) 3. Thin fog (4) 4. Mover to music (6) 5. University don (8) 6. Listening organ (3) 7. Blind by light (6) 12. Expend, use up (9) 14. Octopus limb (8) 16. Happen to (6) 17. Unfastens a jerkin (6) 19. Farewell (2,4) 21. Useful data (abbr.)

(4) 23. Not many (3)

this week’s Riddles

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ACROSS 4. No through road (4,3) 8. Hindu loincloth (5) 9. Tenerife’s capital (5,4) 10. Listed, tilted (5) 11. Give out, allot (4) 13. First appearance (5) 15. Indian corn (5) 16. Human mind (5) 18. Expenses (5) 20. Military vehicle (4) 21. Force, urge (5) 22. Love, endearment (9) 24. Japanese bed (5) 25. Unruly, illicit (7)

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Brain Training: Beginner: 36 Intermediate: 51 Advanced: 105

Sudoku X:

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9 8 3 2 4 6 5 1 7

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Luckless Tenerife knock on wood CD Tenerife 0 Llagostera 0

THE secondbiggest crowd of the season saw a fine contest and a match with perfectly encapsulated Tenerife’s season.

As the old saying goes, if Tenerife didn’t have bad luck, then they would have no luck.

It was a remarkable match, played like an old-fashioned cup-tie and a contest that saw Tenerife hit the woodwork four times before twice nearly losing the match in the last minute of time added on.

I wrote last week that the visitors were a cracking little team.

Just like Eibar, they are a tiny side who would have no real right to play in the Conference if they were in the English pyramid.

They were scratching around in the eighth tier of Spanish football just a decade ago. That’s a league below the standard the Dog and Duck play in on a Sunday morning.

Today they are a remarkable 8th, just four points off the play-offs, and they showed last weekend that they are no flash in the pan.

Let’s get one thing straight, this was a match Tenerife should have won comfortably.

But the visitors never stopped trying, Their journeyman keeper Rene Roman had his game of the season, and, but for a bit of luck, they should have nicked it at the death. That would have been harsh on a Tenerife side who really went for it.

It was a must-win game in terms of trying to get into any sort of play-off picture and while the draw ended that dream, it still kept Tenerife a healthy six points clear of the dropzone.

With Diego Ifran not 100%, there was a full debut for Abdon Prats.

The Mallorca loanee was preferred to Aridane, who must now know his days are num-

bered. Prats did all right and linked up well enough with man of the moment Maxi Perez.

With fellow January loanee Juan Carlos also starting, there was a fresh look to the side and the two surprise inclusions clearly threw Llagostera. In the first half they struggled to work out Tenerife’s shape and movement.

Prats, Maxi and Carlos Ruiz all squandered decent first-half chances before Tenerife exploded in the second half.

At the start of the half, Maxi hit the woodwork, and a few moments later Suso did the same when it seemed easier to score.

Suso was causing mayhem down the Tenerife right, but chance after chance went begging.

On the hour mark, Cristo Martin replaced Juan Carlos for his 100th match for Tenerife.

This galvanised Tenerife and, 20 minutes from time, Rene stood strong as Maxi had a one-on-one.

Seconds later, former Las Palmas defender Ruyman was stretchered off and his replacement Jordi was chasing pigeons as Tenerife binned another couple of chances.

Realising it was not Maxi’s day, manager Raul Agne replaced

the Uruguayan with his fellow countryman, Diego Ifran. But little changed. Three minutes from time, Suso’s cross picked out Cristo, who coolly squared the ball for Ifran, unmarked six yards out. But his firsttime effort smacked against the crossbar - and in injury-time, Ruiz’s looping header hit the top of the bar.

Tenerife could still be playing now and the ball wouldn’t go in.

There were five minutes of injury time but, as is the norm in Spanish football, the ball was in play for just 90 seconds. But during that time the visitors nearly left with all the points.

From a Tenerife corner Llagostera broke. Jose Rios tore down the left and Diego Rivas was screaming for the ball in the middle of the park.

The veteran received the pass, sprinted the length of the Tenerife half and was one-onone with Dani Rodriguez. The big Venezuelan stayed big, invited the shot and palmed the ball to safety.

Seconds later, they were on the front foot again and a poor header from Ruiz saw the ball fall invitingly for Tito.

His 25-yard shot got a slight deflection with Dani stranded.

Then, in time added on, Llagostera had a free-kick 30 yards out.

Impressive full-back Rios curled in a leftfooted ball which was beautifully met by the head of Pedro Alcala.

Somehow, Dani put out an instinctive boot to stop the ball, but the rebound fell to Diego Rivas, who appeared to catch his studs in the grass with the open goal right in front of him.

Position

It was a remarkable piece of fortune for Tenerife as the ref blew for full-time straight away.

Maybe Tenerife did get a bit of good luck after all last weekend!

Tomorrow (Saturday), Tenerife travel to face a Mallorca side who have had a horrible year.

They are just above the drop zone but have not won for six weeks.

Like Tenerife, they are Points

PLD

Won

a confidence side. They are normally decent at home, but for some reason it’s not happened for them.

The squad is decent, but maybe the mountain of boardroom problems has hit the dressing room.

Pau Cendros, Michel Pereira, Assulin, Arana and former Newcastle striker Xisco are more than good enough at this level.

Draw Lost

F A

1

Real Betis

68

34

20

8

6

55

28

2

Sporting Gibon

62

34

15

17

2

44

25

3

Girona

62

34

18

8

8

46

31

4

UD Las Palmas

59

34

16

11

7

55

38

5 Real Valladolid

58

34

17

7

10 50 30

6

Ponferradina

52

34

14

10

10

49

43

7

Real Zaragoza

50

49

49

34

12

13

9

8 Llagostera

48

34

13

9

12 32 32

9 Alavés

47

34

12

11

11 41 36

10 CD Leganés

46

34

13

7

14

37

32

11 CD Numancia

46

34

11

13

10

47

45

12 CD Lugo

44

34

11

11

12

42

44

13 AD Alcorcón

43

34

10

13

11

38

43

14 CD Mirandés

43

34

11

10

13

31

38

15 Albacete

41

34

11

8

15 41 50

16 CD Tenerife

39

34

9

12

13

17 Mallorca

39

34

10

9

15 43 52

30

37

18 Real Racing Santander

35

34

9

8

17

33

40

19 CE Sabadell

33

34

7

12

15

33

50

20 Osasuna

33

34

8

9

17

30

50

21 Recreativo

32

34

7

11

16

30

45

22 Barcelona B

30

34

7

9

18

41

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A Rocking Good Night!

You’ve probably already seen the pictures on pages 14 and 15!

Previous darts league presentation nights have been raucous, fun filled, noisy and wonderfully enjoyable events.

And this years was no different! 200 darting revellers turned up at the Showtime venue last Friday night to take in the great atmosphere, enjoy the fine wine and grub, cheer on the memorial trophy finalists and to applaud the seasons cup winners.

The Memorial Trophy is an end of season singles knock out darts competition that raises funds for a local charity, and the first of the 4 finals played on stage saw the ladies doing battle.

Karen from Bar 180 beat Julie of Naughty Nautas.

Next up, local rival pair, Kelvin from the Waterfall faced Dennis from The Palms for the Division 2 pot.

Maybe the lepre-

chaun outfit worn by Dennis had an effect on Kelvin, but it certainly got the crowd going, and the reaction from Dennis when he fired in the

winning double was a real treat!

So, 2 down, 2 to go, but it was then time for some top notch food, and award winning entertainment. We were given the full treatment by the Robbie Williams tribute, Rock DJ. And boy did we rock!

Especially a few of the, shall we say, more senior darts league lads, who formed up on stage as a Rock DJ boy band and were coaxed into removing their shirts.

It goes without say-

ing that plenty of embarrassing videos found their way onto Facebook!

After we had put our clothes back on, more darts action followed and new boy from Eastern Europe, Serhii put in a fine performance to beat Jamie of Ourplace Playboys.

Safe to say that his very vocal supporters thoroughly enjoyed his Division 1 trophy win!

The Premier League final was an all Phoenix Bar affair that pitched previous winner Mitch against team mate, and 17 year old star of the future, Jonnhy.

Mitch quickly gained a 2 leg advantage, but Jonnhy had other ideas and roared back with some great darts to

level the match. Jonnhy can be very proud of his efforts this season, and no shame in losing out to Mitch on the night.

It was a fine match and the crowd loved it.

The night then continued as we acknowledged all of the silverware winners, and cheered them on to the stage to receive their trophies. Some of them might have been a bit wobbly by now, but we can report that no one fell off the stage.

The raffle draw, and plenty more lemonades rounded off another fantastic even-

ing.

And the whole league can be very proud of the 1220 euros raised for local charity, Helping Hands. Very proud indeed. Pictured here is chairman Harry with Oasis Fm’s Chris Elkington handing the money over to Liz from Helping Hands.

Of course the darts league will continue for the 2015/16 campaign, and if any new teams or venues are looking to join up, please contact us by e-mail at oasisfmdarts@Hotmail. com The AGM is on Sunday 3rd May at

Decisions decisions!

WE are running out of games, and nothing is cut and dried. The battle for the title is now a four-horse race, and it looks like going right to the wire.

We didn’t have the full fixture programme last weekend because of the FA Cup semi-finals, and that is reflected in the point-scoring team of the week.

Leicester, battling to avoid relegation, had a good week with their third win in a row, and

this meant they had two players featured, as did Chelsea, Man City and West Brom. The rest came from Burnley, Everton and Stoke.

As mentioned earlier, it is now between four teams as to who will be crowned champions.

Coffee Shop Karma, led by Gordon Wilson, retained top spot. But his two rivals made points up, with Nick Abbott’s Boomtown Rabz moving to within eight points and Ray

Malone’s Inter Malone just 19 points behind, so both still very much in with a chance.

Gordon got away with it this week. Two players - Hazard and Eriksen - scored nearly half of his points. There is some deadwood in his current squad and it will need a few tweaks before this week’s round of matches.

He would be second but for some bad luck for Nicky Abbott. Some late injuries meant he

played with just 10 men.

Sometimes, the bench can make all the difference. The team of the week was Henley’s Like, managed by Gath Gray who amassed 66 points.

Hazard and Chadli were the big point contributors.

This week will truly test the fantasy manager as some teams play twice. Will there be a raft of point reductions to ensure some extra games? Players cannot earn points if they

are at home watching the goals go in on Sky Sports News. I won-

der who will be brave enough to pick Diego Costa...

Fantasy Football League 1. Coffee shop karma

Gordon Wilson

45 1811

2. Boomtown Rabz

Nick Abbott

51 1803

3. Inter Malone

Ray Malone

55 1792

4. Toffees

Frank Devaney

57

1785

5. Kingsmead Krunchers Stephen Snook

56 1769

6. Fc Twenty

Anthony Cracknell

43 1763

7. SpArTaNs

Jamie Palmer

50 1763

8. Crossfire Hurricanes

Warren Wilson

52 1752

9. Harri’s thunderstars

Harri Lobban

55 1747

10. Dan United

Dan Lawton

33 1737

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Gaffers edge a step closer A N O T H E R round of games have now been played in the Direct Telecom Pool League, and it will go to the wire in both divisions.

Tuesday sees current champions Tenerife Hammers A take on leaders Gaffers A in a clash which could well decide where the title is going.

Both teams were in action this week, with Gaffers A facing Terrace Bar A, who are in a relegation battle.

First blood went to the visitors, but once Gaffers A had levelled the score, they never really looked back, racing into a lead they wouldn’t relinquish as their unbeaten run continued.

But the Terrace boys gave a good account of themselves, with many games being close. The scoreline didn’t reflect the game, eh Neil?

Hammers A went to Los Abrigos to take on The Phoenix, the home team knowing a win could move them up to third spot.

However it was not to be as the visitors proved to be too strong. It was a good contest, but Hammers A are in form, especially Paul, who has now

won 26 games in a row.

It sets up the match between the big two beautifully.

Tenerife Hammers A simply must beat Gaffers A or their dream of retaining the League title will be in tatters. It will be interesting to see how the captains play it.

Traditionally, Gaffers always start with Ash and Neil, while Hammers go with Jambo and Paul. Will the skippers try to secondguess their opponent and play around with the line-up?

Tenerife Hammers C couldn’t improve their league placing as they looked to move off the bottom of the league after facing the Phoenix Potters in a game dubbed as the “Werther’s Cup”.

It was a cagey affair with the lead swapping hands a number of times. The Potters put their six-man squad to good use. They all played in the first six frames and would have been happy at 3-3. They then powered into a 5-3 lead and were never going to be caught, despite Heineken winning all three matches for the first time since his move from Palms A. Exiles B were on the fringe of the relegation battle as they played Palms Bar B. Exiles is not an easy place to get a result, and so it proved with the visi-

division 1 ResultS

division 2 ResultS

Exiles B Gaffers A Tenerife Hammers C Terrace Bar B The Phoenix Waterfall Rebels

8-4 9-3 4-8 12 - 0 3-9 7-5

Palms Bar B Terrace Bar A Phoenix Potters The Peacocks Tenerife Hammers A Dreamers A

division 1 Table

Dreamers B James Place Next Door Picasso’s A The Crown

1 - 11 Waterfall Jokers 7-5 Hoppys Bar 6-6 Gaffers B 7-5 Tenerife Pool Tables 7 - 5 Sporting Jester A

division 2 Table

Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

Table

P

W D L

F A

+- PTS

1 Tenerife Hammers A

25 20

4

1 204 96 108 64

1 Sporting Jester A

22 18

2

2 190

2 Gaffers A

23 20

3

0 196 80 116 63

2 Bluebell A

23 16

2

5 161 115 46 50

3 Inn The Pink A

23 12

3

8 147 129 18

39

3 Waterfall Jokers

21 14

3

4 153

99

54 45

4 Treehouse A

24 11

4

9 150 138 12

37

4 Inn The Pink B

20 11

8

1 144

96

48 41

5 The Phoenix

23 11

4

8 143 133 10

37

5 Gaffers B

21 12

4

5 150 102 48 40

6 Waterfall Rebels

24 10

5

9 138 150 -12 35

6 James Place

22 12

3

7 154 110 44 39

7 Phoenix Potters

23 11

1

11 142 134

74 116 56

8

34

7 Picasso’s A

22

9

4

9 131 133

-2 31 -2 26

8 Dreamers A

24

9

5

10 147 141

6

32

8 Hoppys Bar

23

8

2

13 137 139

9 Palms Bar A

23

9

5

9 140 136

4

32

9 Next Door

22

7

2

13 126 138 -12 23

10 Palms Bar B

23

8

4

11 126 150 -24 28

10 Tenerife Pool Tables

22

7

2

13 115 149 -34 23

11 Terrace Bar B

24

8

4

12 129 159 -30 28

11 Sporting Jester B

21

7

0

14 103 149 -46 21

12 Exiles B

24

7

5

12 129 159 -30 26

12 Dreamers B

21

4

2

15 97

155 -58 14 201 -150 14

13 Terrace Bar A

26

5

3

18 126 186 -60 18

13 The Crown

21

4

2

15 51

14 The Peacocks

24

3

7

14 119 169 -50 16

14 Treehouse B

21

2

4

15 100 152 -52 10

15 Tenerife Hammers C 23

4

3

16 100 176 -76 15

tors struggling to take frames.

The home team were in confident mood and never looked like losing.

And boy, did they welcome the three points which has secured their safety for next season.

They have had a fine season and can be proud of their league placing, but for Palms B it was a disaster in their quest to finish above their A team.

Waterfall Rebels made a really slow start to the season but have come good in recent weeks.

They faced Dreamers A with both teams starting the night level on points. They were side by side in the league, and the same could be said about the game.

Dreamers were up 2-0 early on, only for Bubbles and Dan, aka Laurel and Hardy, to level the match. In fact, they played a massive part in the final outcome.

After nine frames, Waterfall were 5-4 up and the lads got the frames to sneak them home 7-5. It was rough on Gav, who won all three of his frames for the visitors. The Rebels are now up to a season-high sixth spot.

In Division Two, it looked as though Sporting Jester A had pretty much wrapped up the title and promotion.

But in a shock, The Crown inflicted their second defeat of the season, which means the title race might be back.

Over the first eight games there was nothing to separate the two sides so, with the score balanced at 4-4, they

entered the last round of games.

In the next game, it was Bill for the Crown against Dave C for the Jesters. Bill had won both his earlier games, and he was in a confident mood. The momentum was certainly with him and he went on to record his third success to grab a very good win for his team.

Waterfall Jokers took a big step towards cementing third spot and, with games in hand over Bluebell A, could still finish runners-up.

They were down in Los Cristianos for a game against Dreamers B, who were hoping to continue their winning ways after a good victory last week.

U n f o r t u n a t e l y, though, they didn’t show up and the Jokers ran out easy winners, even though they couldn’t quite pull off the whitewash.

Gaffers B were looking to improve their league position as they travelled to Next Door, with both teams coming into this fixture on the back of wins.

It was a close game, with both teams playing well and taking frames. But nobody could get an advantage, and it was no surprise to see the game finish all-square.

Picasso’s entertained Tenerife Pool Tables and it was an excellent match. It was another one of those close calls, all the way through, and could have gone either way, with both teams comfortable at the table.

Both teams would have been happy with a draw, but Picasso’s just had that little bit extra and managed the win.

In the final game, James Place played host to Hoppy’s Bar and, without wanting to sound like a stuck record, it was again a close match.

The first eight frames were shared, but James Place are a strong side, though, and came close to promotion last season. They dug deep and rattled off the first three frames of the final session to take another three points.

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24th April - 30th April 2015

By Adi Benson

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Last chance for Arsenal

We are down to the final five or six games and for some teams the season is over. But the race for Europe continues while the battle to stay up is going down to the wire.

Southampton V Spurs

West Brom V Liverpool

It was a massive win for West Brom against bang in form Crystal Palace last week and Tony Pulis will now feel the Baggies are safe. Liverpool will be licking their wounds after a poor performance against Aston Villa in the cup and if they are to have a glimmer of a chance of getting a top four spot then this is a must win match. If they don’t then its season over.

My Prediction: Away Win

Stoke V Sunderland

Stoke put in a very gritty performance against Southampton and showed great character in coming from a goal behind to take the win. At home they are top drawer and it has been a fine season for Mark Hughes men. They will surely have too much for Sunderland who are in all sorts of trouble. If they lose here and other results go against them, they could find themselves dropping into the bottom three.

My Prediction: Home Win Southampton seem to be tiring towards the end of the season after suffering another loss last week against Stoke but this is an important game as they are battling Spurs for a Europa League place. At present they are a point behind the visitors but a win will put them in the driving seat. Tottenham returned to winning ways against a poor Newcastle side ahead of Mauricio Pochettino’s return to St Mary’s. There is no love lost between him and his old charges.

My Prediction: Draw

Q.P.R. V West Ham

Q.P.R. have had a long break after not being in action last weekend and they will be hoping that fresh legs will help them. They have perked up a bit recently and they couldn’t have wished for a better fixture. West Ham have been woeful in 2015 and if the season had started on Boxing Day they would be in the relegation zone. Big Sam needs to show he can motivate his side to finish the campaign strongly.

My Prediction: Home Win

Crystal Palace V Hull

Palace are safe and they will be back at the top table next season but there is still the possibility of a top ten finish, so they will be keen to put last week’s game behind them. Hull are in real danger, as they find themselves just out of the bottom three but only on goal difference. And they have a horror run in.

They simply must get something at Selhurst Park.

My Prediction: Home Win

Newcastle V Swansea

I couldn’t be a Newcastle fan at the minute, turning up each week to watch them going through the motions. They are not directly involved in the relegation battle but they are only 7 points off the bottom three. They still need another win from somewhere. Swansea have had such a good season and a win will keep them in eighth spot, which would be their best finish in the Premier League.

My Prediction: Away Win

Burnley V Leicester

If ever a game could be described as a six pointer then this is it! Burnley dropped to the bottom after defeat at Everton and if they are going to pull off the great escape nothing less than a win will do. They have showed battling qualities but they cannot find the back of the need. That is not a problem for Leicester who have finally woken up. They wiill be very confident of victory after winning three games in a row, the first time they have done that in the Premier League since 2000.

My Prediction: Draw

Everton V Man Utd

Everton always seem to play well against Man United even if they don’t get the result. There is no doubt that they are hitting a good run of form at the right time. They have really pulled up their socks in recent weeks and could still get a top ten finish. Man Utd were unlucky to not to get a result against Chelsea after having 71% possession but goals win games. There is lots to like about the Red Machine at the moment and despite the Chelsea setback their tails are up. They are looking strong and this is a fascinating match.

My Prediction: Draw

Arsenal V Chelsea

Arsenal still have title aspirations but they are ten points behind Chelsea having played the same number of games. A win will certainly make things more interesting but if they are to stand a chance they are going to have to play a lot better than they did against Reading. Chelsea are not playing to their usual high standard but they have been managing to get the results, and that is the sign of a championship winning side. A win in this game and they will have one hand and four fingers on the trophy.

My Prediction: Home Win

Man City V Aston Villa City have Aguero back amongst the goals and they will see this as a banker three points as they look to get back up to second place. Villa have beaten Spurs in the league and Liverpool in the FA Cup to book a place in the cup final but they are still in a relegation dog fight. Many a side has lifted the cup and gone down.

The match revolves around Benteke and whether the City defence can handle him.

My Prediction: Home Win

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