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Issue 902 15th May - 21st May 2015

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Rajoy stokes election fever

ELECTIONEERING is well underway ahead of the local and regional elections on 24th May, and the big names have been in town. In this first week of the campaign, prominent national politicians pitched up in the Canary Islands in an attempt to attract votes.

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PM hits the Island as Election hots up Continued from front Pedro Sanchez, General Secretary of the socialist party PSOE, and Cayo Lara, Federal Coordinator of IU, were the first on Canarian soil, campaigning within 48 hours of the official start.

They were joined in the Canaries by MEP Javier Nart, while former Spain PM Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero went to Lanzarote.

The military air crash in Seville prevented Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy from visiting Gran Canaria, but he did arrive in Tenerife on Sunday. He was in the North of the Island, visiting the major cities.

The Premier started off in La Laguna, which, for some reason, has been a hive of activity, with all the big names popping in.

The PM enjoyed his time in the historic town and was given a warm welcome by the locals, even though he was heckled a few times with calls for him to find “A solution to the housing problem”.

One of Rajoy’s Ministers, Jose Manuel Soria, was by his side throughout. Soria will spend a fair bit of time in the Canary Islands, as the locally-born Minister is seen as a big vote-winner for the PP. And new polls show that Rajoy is starting to win the country back.

This week a major survey showed that if the General Elections were held in Spain right now, his ruling Popular Party (PP) would win again with 25.6% of the vote.

It’s the first time in 2015 that the PP has come out on top. The Socialists (PSOE) would be close on the conservatives’ heels, with a gap of just 1.3% between them.

An April “voting intention” survey, conducted by the Centre for Sociological Studies (CIS), shows a much-different political scenario from the one which prevailed at the last elections, 3½ years ago.

Then, the PP secured an absolute majority,

while the PSOE was dealt a major blow over its handling of the economic crisis.

The poll also shows two newcomers to the political scene moving in opposite directions.

Podemos, the new antiausterity party which topped recent voting-intention polls on a strong message of change, is losing steam and would finish third with 16.5% of the vote. Instead, voters are increasingly attracted by Ciudadanos (C’s), a nine-year-old party which began life in Catalonia and recently jumped to the national scene with the promise of sweeping reform.

That said, the local and regional elections are a different kettle of fish. Here, the Coalition Canarias (CC) is still on course to retain the regional government and the key Cabildos.

In Santa Cruz, current Mayor José Manuel Bermúdez, (CC), has set out his manifesto. “We want Santa Cruz to be the cultural capital of the Atlantic,” he announced.

He believes that culture will remain one of the foundations on which he can take the capital forward.

“Our city will be a part-

ner to be reckoned with,” he said. “We must ensure the viability of cultural projects we want to develop in our city.

“Over the past four years, we have been successful.

Professionals, entrepreneurs or third parties will have our support in launching any project that culturally enriches our city.”

The message is simple: culture brings prosperity. “Events have a direct impact on businesses and shops in the city, thanks to the full effect of visitors and citizens attending these activities,” said the Mayor.

And with a promise to increase the budget for culture until 2019, he added: “In the next term, with a bigger budget and a better global economic context, we will show that Santa Cruz is the cultural capital of the Atlantic.”

In the South, the PSOE has been busy with its manifesto launches. In Adeje, thousands at-

tended a rally at the MAGMA centre, where current Mayor Jose Miguel Rodriguez Fraga wowed the crowd. He is a popular figure and a shoo-in to win again, it seems, and he unveiled a five point plan for the future: 1. We will value the intellectual capacity and creativity of the people who live here, because they are the most valuable resource we have if we are to advance.

2. Adeje will be a borough for open dialogue and participation, with efficient services and infrastructures that are designed to meet the needs of a society based upon equality of opportunity.

3. We are committed to our surrounds, our environment, clean energies and recycling, all of which serve to improve the quality of life for everyone.

4. We will continue with decisive advancements in the on-going process

of modernisation towards the creation of a Smart City, one that is innovative and at the disposal of all residents.

5. We want our borough to continue to generate wealth through profitable tourism under the Costa Adeje label, and use that wealth for the betterment of all.

The Adeje Mayor said: “These are commitments to a 21st Century future, one that respects the diversity of the population, and recognises the need to move ahead if Adeje is to continue to be the successful global village it has become.

“At a national level, too, the town is recognised as one of the few that has chosen the right path through the economic crisis, and has been listed by a independent review body as the borough in Tenerife to have best overcome the crisis - an emphasis on quality tourism and local job creation has played a large part in that.”

In Arona, his PSOE counterpart Jose Julian Mena is passing on a similar message.

Arona has had a horror time recently, with good businesses being closed down, poor infrastructure and this week’s embarrassment of there being no Blue Flag beaches.

Mena is proposing changes aimed at economic recuperation, job creation, competitiveness and a development respectful to the environment.

He said “I want a model for Arona that listens to all, is respectful of debate and gives priority to important values such as equality, freedom and social cohesion in the most diverse and multicultural municipality of Tenerife.”

The Arona candidate for Mayor is calling for changes to the municipality´s territorial urban planning. And he has promised investment and a stronger long-term plan that will see development and growth over the next 25 years.

“We need to rescue public services, prioritising the maintenance of roads and get the streets clean. We need a new fiscal model that will make the payment of local taxes fairer, and more reasonable for business and families by introducing flat rates. I want to develop a real participative democracy that will be transparent, responsible, accountable, lawabiding, fair, sensible, efficient and effective for the future of Arona.”

He is also promising technical and economic support to the business associations, and he will create the municipal board of PYMES (small and medium businesses) and the opening of a special window in the Town Hall for local businesses.

There is no doubt that Arona needs shaking up, and Mena is making a lot of promises and saying the right things, especially about cleaning up the region and muchneeded help for local businesses.

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Law-makers find it tough THE Canary Islands Government will be reformed in a few weeks, after the 24th May elections.

Currently, political parties CC and PSOE, along with the PP, comprise the decision-making committee, and it seems they are struggling to agree on anything.

Eighteen laws and formal actions are still unresolved and, in many cases, negotiations are still open, while in five cases, the formal debates were closed without agreement.

Officially, the negotiation process is still open to try to resolve the differences, specifically, on compensation to the Canary Islands for the annulment of the General Tax on the Traffic of Business (IGTE), the Tax on Bank Deposits and the transfer to the

Canaries of the general interest of the management of airports to the partial privatisation of AENA. There is also disagreement on State claims in connection with duties and services of the Social Security in educational matters, employment and vocational training.

Also, there is no conclusion to the regional laws on bills, such as the regulating of the Canarian Insertion provision, of the Rights and Guarantees of Personal Dignity Rights (euthanasia) and the decree regulating the installation and operation of wind farms in the Islands.

Part of this conflict will end up in court. One such case is the modification of the Canarian Housing Act, better known as the Anti Evictions Act, which was provisionally suspended by the National Government.

Stolen Swedish art is recovered in Tenerife THE National Police have made a stunning discovery in a Tenerife home. A major inter- continent police operation has led to the arrest of a man, and the recovery of 50 pieces of art stolen from churches in Sweden.

Along with the valuable paintings, offic-

ers also recovered an 18th Century bible, and four wooden carvings of great historical value from the 15th Century.

The operation was conducted by the National Police, in collaboration with their Swedish, German and Danish counterparts.

Apparently the man, of Spanish nationality and said to be 63, was a wellknown art thief. He had already served five years in Sweden for various robberies.

The person, as yet unnamed, is well known as

a “plunderer of Swedish churches”, as local police have described him, and he will also be questioned over the theft of dozens of pieces of art from Tenerife churches.

It ’s believed that when police searched the home of the suspect, a total of 43 objects of Swedish art were recovered, including candlesticks, and wooden ornaments.

Among the items seized were four wood carvings from the 15 Century, a wooden chest and an undated,

but very old, canvas.

This operation made it possible as well to recovery four wooden carvings in Madrid, which were also stolen from Sweden and sold through an auction house in the capital.

In addition, a storeroom owned by the suspect was found in Denmark and several objects were recovered.

And in another lockup, more stolen carvings and religious objects from Swedish churches and chapels were recovered.

This beer tastes watery!

Let there be light!

ONE of the main criticisms about the southern section of the TF1 is about to end. Tenerife Cabildo has revealed a three-million-euro budget to cover the cost of lighting the motorway’s main areas to improve safety in the night hours.

The lighting will go from Santa Cruz to Adeje, and Transport Minister José Luis Delgado said the project would begin in mid-June in the main trunk stretching from the capital to Torviscas.

Now, only the route between Santa Cruz and Arafo is lit up.

However, this section has suffered a few problems recently because of various copper-cable thefts.

Delgado said: “I hope this project is executed until the end, even if there is regime change after the local elections, as it will take a year to complete. But the financial funds are already in place.”

Upgrading the lighting between Santa Cruz and Arafo will cost nearly 470,000 euros, while another 2.479.000 euros will go on illuminating the 18 junctions between Torviscas and Punta Prieta.

TENERIFE’S Guardia Civil has smashed a group trying to defraud Chinese exporters by selling them large quantities of water instead of the expected beer.

Five containers have been seized

in Santa Cruz port and three in Algeciras.

There are another 50 in transit, and some are scheduled to arrive shortly.

The police operation resulted in two arrests - a man aged 33, and his 53-year-old mother.

Both are accused of fraud, forgery, moneylaundering and belonging to a criminal group.

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sparked by a complaint from a Chinese businessman, who exports a certain brand of beer to China.

He is believed to have been ripped off to the tune of 20 containers, which should have been loaded up with beer.

Suspicion that the goods were not genuine led investigators to the arrested man, who used a network of compa-

nies run by him and his family, dealing from an El Rosario warehouse in a Cash & Carry business.

The Tenerife native issued false invoices and all the necessary documentation for the containers to be shipped to China, where the goods were declared as a famous brand of beer, instead of the actual mineral-water content.

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Tragedy plane: Tests suspended

THE Spanish Government has withdrawn permission for test flights of Airbus A400M military transport planes following the deadly weekend crash.

The aircraft are still in production, but officials say they are grounded until an investigation determines the cause.

When Defence Minister Pedro Morenes annlounced the news on Tuesday, it sparked fresh uncertainty about planned deliveries of the cargo plane to national militaries who have ordered it by the dozen.

In a statement, Airbus said it was too early to say how Spain’s decision would affect the delivery schedule, and that it was working with military authorities and customers “to manage the situation”.

Two pilots and two flight test engineers died in Saturday’s crash in the southern city of Seville, where A400Ms are being assembled.

“It’s not a good idea for those planes in the production phase, and about to do tests, to fly without knowing what really happened with the crashed plane,” said

Morenes in a radio interview.

Spain’s air-traffic controllers said on Twitter that the pilots had communicated just before the crash about an unspecified problem which was affecting the flight.

Some media outlets also quoted Airbus Seville labour union representative Francisco Figueroa as saying the pilot evaded a much worse disaster by landing the plane in a field, avoiding a possible crash into a nearby shopping mall or factories.

“It appears that the pilot made a manoeuvre to try to avoid worse things happening in the accident,” said Morenes.

The four who died were honoured at a funeral mass in Seville’s cathedral on Tuesday.

Morenes said the permits were being temporarily rescinded by Spain’s National Institute for Aerospace Technique, which means that A400Ms in final stages of assembly cannot go on test flights.

But he declined to provide initial findings of the crash investigation, stressing that the probe would be complicated.

Also, a judge in Seville in charge of the crash probe ordered that it must be conducted in secret.

Possible human and

technological crash factors will be investigated, said Morenes, adding the possibility that the pilot’s manoeuvring of the plane in its final moments in the air might provide clues.

Airbus sought to promote the plane’s safety by conducting a test flight of another A400M on Tuesday, the aircraft flying safely from Toulouse, France, to Seville.

That flight was not affected by Spain’s suspension of test flights because the plane owned by Airbus is a test plane not scheduled for delivery, said a company official.

Fernando Alonso, who heads Airbus Defence and Space, took part as a flight engineer in a symbolic show of confidence.

Alonso got his job in January after Airbus dismissed his predecessor following complaints by governments about continued delays in finishing the cargo plane, whose roll-out went billions over budget and years beyond deadline!

Four of the five countries which already have A400Ms - Britain, Germany, Malaysia and Turkey - grounded the plane after the crash.

France, which has six, will use the aircraft only in urgent operations.

The 20-billion-euro A400M programme saw

its first deliveries in 2013. Some 194 aircraft have been ordered by eight countries, including Spain, to replace their ageing military transport fleets.

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Millions flock to Canaries THERE was a slight increase in the number of passengers using the eight Canarian airports in the first four months of the year.

Officially 11,944,013 passengers - an increase of 0.4% over the same period last year - passed through the airports, according to Spanish airport authority AENA. Of that total, 3,458,076 used domestic flights, and international travellers added up to 8,328,338. Over seven million were from European Union countries.

With 769,237 from nations outside Europe.

The busiest Canary Islands airports were Gran Canaria and Tenerife South, with 3,774,703 and 3,213,090 respectively, ranking fourth and sixth by AENA nationally.

They were followed by Lanzarote (1,914,365), Fu e r t e v e n t u r a

(1,551,230), Tenerife North (1,121,889), La Palma (313,383), El Hierro (45,744) and La Gomera, with 9,609 passengers.

As for the number of flights between January and April, Canary Islands’ airports recorded a 0.7% drop of 108,878 passengers, of which 52,865 were international (-2.9%) and 50,450 domestic (up 8%).

Last month, the total number of passengers passing through Canarian airports was 2,921,963, which was 2.7% fewer than in the same period last year.

And of these, 969,193 were domestic flights (up 4.2%) and 1,922,795 international (-5.5%).

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Canaries finally settle Alonso’s on the pharmacies’ debt drink-drive campaign

THE Canary Islands has finally paid its 2014 medical bill, which means the debt owed to various pharmacies has been settled.

The Spanish National Health System (NHS) has seen an increase of 2.1% in its bill, compared with 2013.

Spokesperson Juan Ignacio Güenechea said: “Pharmaceutical expenditure is contained, with respect to the previous year, in real terms.”

The Spanish health market saw 9.4bn euros spent on medicines and drugs, against the 9.2bn in 2013 - an increase of 1.95%.

Despite the slight growth, it is well below

FORMER Formula 1 world champion Fernando Alonso has put his name to an alcohol awareness campaign, saying: “If you drive, do not drink”.

the 2010 figures, when 12.2bn was spent.

The Canarian bill was dwarfed by the pharmaceutical expenditure of Andalucia, Cataluña, Valencia and Madrid, who have spent a total of over 5.1bn euros.

It is more than half the entire pharmaceutical

expenditure, and they issued more than 493 million prescriptions 57% of the total.

Regarding non-payments, Cataluña is at the top of the debtors’ list to pharmacies.

The Catalan Government has accumulated a 233m-euro deficit with

pharmacies, while Valencia has a 95m debt - the second region to accumulate huge pharmacy debts.

An average pharmacy carries out about 45,000 sales operations annually, in which it disperses an average of 88,400 products.

Hard-up police force Arona’s beach blues European which is a record. Spain has more Blue still pulling its weight THE Foundation for also Flags than any other CARMEN Delia Gonzalez, head of the local police in Santa Cruz, has revealed that financial shortages have hit her force hard.

“We have less officers than just a few years ago and, as a result, a few members have lost their enthusiasm for this profession,” she said.

But she stressed: “Despite this, the local police of Santa Cruz is still dedicated to its work, and we give maximum effort.”

2015 sees the celebration of 175 years of the police force since it was created in 1840.

Yesterday (Thursday), Santa Cruz local police held a parade for the first time since the early Seventies, with over 70 officers from different units and 20 vehicles taking part.

The troops were accompanied by numerous local authorities, including Santa Cruz Mayor José Manuel Bermúdez, and they

attended Mass in the church of La Concepción.

Finally, the Mayor, the Security Council and the Superintendent presided over the official ceremony of awarding medals, congratulations and distinctions of the “Chicharrero” (Tenerifian) local police, which took place in the Guimerá Theatre.

There was also a touching tribute that brought a standing ovation to the oldest people belonging to the local police, aged between 87 and 94 years old.

During the ceremony, a total of 13 local police agents received silver medals for distinguished services - 11 for a successful drugs operation and two officers, whose fast-thinking saved the life of a citizen.

Also, a shield of recognition from the Veterans Association of Local Police of Santa Cruz was given to 10 retired officers. They were honoured for their services, which ranged between 35 and 41 years.

Environmental Education issues its prized Blue Flags for the continent`s very best beaches every year - and there will be some long faces in Arona.

This year, 46 blue flags have been awarded to Canarian beaches, which is two fewer than in 2014. Tenerife has 13 flags, which is also two fewer - and Arona has lost out again!

Nationally, 577 Spanish beaches have been awarded the Blue Flag,

nation.

Tenerife’s winners were Real Club Nautico in Santa Cruz, San Telmo and Playa Jardín in Puerto de la Cruz, Playa San Juan in Guía de Isora, El Médano, Playa La Arena, Los Gigantes sports harbour in Santiago del Teide, La Laguna’s Bajamar pools, El Socorro in Los Realejos, Playa del Troya beaches 1 & 2, Torviscas, Fanabe, and El Duque beach.

Special mention must go to Playa La Arena’s flag, which will be unfurled for a 28th consecutive year.

The Spanish driver collaborated in an anti drink-driving campaign once before, during the 2007 season when he drove for McLaren.

On Tuesday, Alonso presented the latest campaign in Barcelona, urging everybody to join the pact under the title “Únete al Pacto”.

The aim is to raise awareness globally on the incompatibility of alcohol and driving, which is sponsored and supported by the British multi-national alcohol manufacturer, Diageo. It is the company behind famous alcohol

brands Johnnie Walker, Bailey´s and Guinness, among many others.

Alonso´s team-mates with McLaren-Honda, Mika Häkkinen and Jenson Button, are also behind the campaign, offering their support to encourage zero consumption for drivers.

A website has been set up where you too can “join the pact”, and share some of the emotion of driving that these champions support, which is at www. unete-alpacto.es The hashtag #únetealpacto has also been set up for use on social networks sites and, to date, Diageo has obtained nearly 1.5 million worldwide supporters for this initiative, which began in 2006.

In Spain, the company has implemented specific actions aimed at young drivers explaining the incompatibility of alcohol and driving.

Caring needs more nurses NURSES’ union Satse Canarias has warned that health cutbacks in the credit-crunch years threaten the quality of care by focusing, mainly on reducing the nursing numbers.

Satse Canarias said in a statement that the best healthcare systems worldwide maintain a doctor-nurse ratio of three nurses per doctor, while Spain’s proportion is an average 1.77.

The union says there

must be an increase in nurses’ resources in both the health system and aftercare, which would provide adequate care to the people’s demands and needs.

It also suggests that the proper training of nurses enables them to assume greater responsibilities in new working environments, and the union is calling on the Spanish Government to raise the health budget to allow for this.

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Brussels anyone?

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A FEW old friends of mine are currently enjoying a week’s rest after a couple of months of hard labour. And for one or two of them, literally hard Labour!

They’ve been covering the UK election and have been worked to the bone. Can you imagine spending every day with a trough of politicians? If it’s a gaggle of geese and a pride of lions, why not a trough of politicians?

To keep themselves amused and also to maintain their sanity, they have been playing a variety of games.

The standard “stick in an act’s famous songs” in a report is always a popular one, as is the “David Beckham” contest.

They give it a different name but the idea is the same. You simply have to guess how many times the interviewee says the same

saying. With David it was always “you know”.

I interviewed him once after a game and I lost count at 20.

The new fun game is Catchphrase Bingo.

You simply write down five sayings before you hear a politician speak and the first one to mark off all of them wins. It’s a lot of fun and passes the time during another boring speech.

I thought of this during the week. The first proper calima and heatwave brought out the same moans and groans from the same people who are always too cold during a Tenerife winter.

Where do these people want to live? Seriously, it’s like living with a host of Goldilocks’.

So when the next dust storm hits, give Catchphrase Bingo a whirl. I’ll go for “My throat is killing me”.

“Where has Gomera gone?”. “It’s too hot to work”. “I can’t sleep at night” and my favourite: “I’ve never known it so hot over here.”

ANOTHER new route has been added to the everexpanding list of airports connecting with Tenerife.

Brussels Airlines has confirmed that a weekly service from Brussels Airport to Tenerife South will start in October.

World route development consultants ASM has been working in partnership with Turismo de Tenerife and Brussels Airlines over the past year to contribute to the decisionmaking process of the

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assisted in our own analysis and decisionmaking.”

Stephanie Wear Pintado, External Advisor, Economic Promotion at Turismo de Tenerife, said: “We are delighted to welcome this new service with Brussels Airlines.

“It not only acknowledges the demand for Tenerife but also the demand for a premium cabin-offering on this route, serving not only the local business and leisure markets but also the connecting traffic from the Brussels Airlines network.

“Being able to dem-

onstrate this market helped build our case with Brussels Airlines, and it gave more focus to our discussions for this new flight.”

Aidan Mooney, Vice President Consulting at ASM, added: “We have worked closely with Turismo de Tenerife to assist them in building their portfolio of airlines serving the Island and offering the differential on-board product the market demands.

“We are delighted to have been involved in another success for the Island as they continue to build their air-service offering.”

Lions roaring again INDIA’S Asiatic lion population is on the rise, from 411 in 2010 to 523 so far this year, according to the latest census.

Gir forest, in the western state of Gujarat, is the only home to this breed and, once widespread in Gujarat, their numbers dropped to a mere dozen in the early 20th Century, mainly through hunting and drought.

But their population

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airline to add this nonstop service.

Flights will be operated with the A320 aircraft, offering travellers a choice of four travel classes: Check&Go, L i g h t & R e l a x , Flex&Fast and Bizz&Class, to meet the differing needs of the Island’s visitors.

Marnix Wouters, Manager Network Planning at Brussels Airlines, said: “Turismo de Tenerife were extremely proactive in demonstrating the market potential and demand for this new service, supported by detailed analysis from ASM, which

has soared in the last century, thanks to a lion-hunting ban and several preservation measures.

The latest census, conducted earlier this month by 2,500 officials and volunteers, found 109 adult males, 201 adult females and 213 cubs over a 21,000sqkm area of Gujarat’s Saurashtra region - which includes Junagadh and 10 other districts.

Forest official CN Pandey told BBC Hindi’s Ankur Jain that

the lions were photographed and tagged by GPS during the census.

“Enumerators recorded unique identification marks like scars on the face, the shape of ears, tuft of hair on tail, colour, and belly folds.” he said. “Using all this information with location details, we removed overlapping and reached the final count.”

But the increase in lion numbers has posed fresh challenges to their safety. Environmentalists say some

40% of the lions now live outside the forest area and 260 lions have died in the past five years.

It is believed that open wells and live wires on farms, plus poachers and passing trains and trucks have turned the Saurashtra region into a “death field for the Asiatic lion”.

Also, man-animal conflict has grown, with the lions killing 14 people and wounding 114 others in the past two years

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TUI will retire Thomson brand ANOTHER famous name is about to disappear from the High Street after more than 50 years.

British travel agent Thomson Holidays will soon vanish as part of a radical rebrand by its German-based parent company.

The company, renowned for its package holidays, will be exiled following the TUI Group’s announcement that it will be phased out over the next two years.

TUI, the world’s largest travel firm, now has 30 million customers worldwide and operates in 180 countries, from Jamaica to Cyprus, with more than 1,800 travel agencies.

Thomson Holidays will be replaced by the TUI name across travel agents, planes and websites after the giant company said a single, recognisable global brand would help it compete with online rivals, other worldwide brands and smaller, independent, holiday companies.

The rebranding will also include the disappearance of fellow British tour operator First Choice, marking the end of two of the nation’s best-known holiday brands.

Thomson and First Choice catered for 5.2million holiday-makers last year, with the Canary Islands, Balearic Islands

and Greece among the most popular destinations.

The Thomson name change will also apply to France and Germany, but its smiley-face logo, introduced more than 10 years ago, will live on.

Thomson Holidays has been providing Britons with inexpensive holidays since 1962, when Canadian media mogul Roy Thomson launched the company’s first-ever package break to Spain.

The first trip took just 82 passengers from Manchester to Palma, Mallorca. But Thomson owned its own charter airline, Britannia, and began to buy up independent travel agents.

It capitalised on the fortunes of Britons emerging from post-war austerity, who were keen to switch from UK holidays to foreign travel.

As the cost of air fares fell, package holidays were suddenly an option for millions of Britons seeking a guaranteed sunshine holiday.

By the Eighties, Thomson Holidays was the market leader, selling more than three million package holidays every year in the UK. In 1998, Thomson Travel Group was floated on the Stock Exchange and, in 2000, it was acquired

by German group Preussag, which was renamed Tui in July 2002.

Last year Thomson’s owner, the London-listed TUI Travel, merged with German owner TUI AG,

thus forming the TUI Group.

It is now merging, streamlining operations and simplifying its brands to save £70m in costs.

The TUI Group, the world’s largest leisure and tourism company and valued at nearly £7bn, also intends to sell British hotel booking website LateRooms.

Fritz Joussen, TUI joint chief executive, said: “It’s not a secret that I’m not a fan of having lots of brands.”

He believes it could take two years before the Thomson name disappears forever because of the need for a careful approach with such a wellknown brand.

More than half of UK holiday-makers booked their most recent trip themselves, rather than using a travel agent.

And TUI hopes by trading as a single name will attract more online customers.

The group maintains it will be “one global brand, with local roots” and promises to ensure it doesn’t “lose the benefits of our local brand equity”.

But TUI must know the Thomson name is so well recognised by the British public that the decision to scrap it is risky.

According to Marketing Week and YouGov’s BrandIndex, it ranks 10th among travel companies, above fierce rival Thomas Cook.

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INGANE YAMI GOLF

TOURNAMENT

This year marks the sixth annual Ingane Yami Golf Tournament here in Tenerife and the third consecutive year it has been hosted it at Costa Adeje Golf Course.

Organised by the staff at Pearly Grey Ocean Club with the help of resident golfer Stephen Moore, our aim is to provide a memorable and enjoyable day for the golfers and raise awareness and funds for Ingane Yami Children’s Village. The event is now firmly established on the Tenerife golfing

circuit and once again we will be welcoming players from here in Tenerife, the UK and South Africa. Sponsorship packages are available and if you would like any information on these then please email golf@pearlygrey.com or telephone 922 743 903.

The Charity Ingane Yami is a non profit organisation whose purpose is to provide a stable family environment for orphaned children in KwaZulu Natal province, South Africa.

Pearly Grey Ocean Club have been active partners with the charity since 2009 and in that time we have raised in excess of 80,000 euros.

Village Update • Community Centre completed and operational.

• Five homes built with three house mothers caring for 10 children.

• Five additional homes already in the planning.

• Resource Centre built and functioning as a school and admin offices.

• Sustainability initiative to see a self sufficient water supply introduced.

About the Golf Entry fee: 70 euros per player (includes green fees, buggy & lunch) The format: Shotgun start, 4 ball alliance (Specific rules may be added or amended on the day)

Date: Saturday 4th July 2015 Venue: Costa Adeje Golf Course, Adeje, Tenerife.

Times: Tee off time 09.30am (you need to be at the course 30-45 minutes before) The prize giving buffet dinner will take place at the golf course outside terrace bar once the tournament has finished.

Local radio station OasisFM will be providing a live broadcast including interviews with the organisers and players.

For more information on player registration or sponsorship options in the tournament please email golf@pearlygrey. com or telephone 922 743 903.

Airbag failure sparks millions of car recalls THE airbag nightmare of Japanese car-makers Toyota and Nissan, has returned with a vengeance, and includes Honda as well.

Toyota is recalling 250,000 cars in the UK, amid a worldwide 6.5 million to check airbags linked to six deaths.

Toyota is bringing in an additional five million vehicles for checks in the wake of a scandal surrounding airbag-supplier Takata, while Nissan accounted for the rest of the total figure.

The six deaths have been linked to the defective Takata airbags, all on cars made by Honda, which announced disappointing profit forecasts last month, citing high quality-related costs.

Wednesday’s announcements by Japan’s three leading manufacturers raise to around 31 million the number of vehicles recalled worldwide since 2008 over Takata airbag inflators, which can erupt with too much force.

A Toyota spokesman told Sky News that the number of cars affected by the latest recall in Europe was in the region of 1.2 million throughout 35 models - and the company believed around 160,000 were affected in the UK. Nissan said 100,263 vehicles, built between 2004-2007, were being recalled in the UK. The models include the Navara Pickup, Tino, Patrol Pick Up, Almera, Terrano II, and X-Trail, while Nissan’s statement added: “We plan to begin notifying customers in June.

“Nissan dealers will test the inflators and replace them as necessary. This recall will be carried out at no cost to customers for parts or labour.”

Takata’s airbags have been subjected to reg-

ulatory scrutiny and previous recalls of at least 17 million other vehicles, made by 10 car-makers. The airbags have also been linked to dozens of injuries.

High humidity has been identified as being a primary cause of the company’s airbag propellant becoming volatile.

Takata was threatened with legal action by the US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration last year when it failed to support an American-wide recall of vehicles fitted with its airbags.

The company later produced an open letter to the people of America in which it insisted public safety was its top priority.

Its chairman and chief executive pledged that Takata was working hard to test and replace airbags deemed to be a potential risk.

The letter added: “Our airbags have deployed safely in more than two million auto accidents around the world since we began producing them in 1987, saving many thousands of lives.

“In 2014 alone, thousands of serious injuries and deaths have been prevented worldwide by Takata airbags.”

Gordon Trowbridge, US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration spokesman, said Toyota and Nissan, as well as Japanese government officials, had been in contact with the safety agency over the last few days, and NHTSA will soon announce “significant new steps” related to accelerating Takata recalls.

Trowbridge added: “While precise root cause remains undetermined, the clear association with high humidity has suggested that moisture and time are factors in this defect.”

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Smuggler caught with youngster in her suitcase

A TEENAGE woman has been caught attempting to smuggle an eight-year-old Ivorian child in a suitcase across the border into Spanish territory in North Africa.

The child was in a case wheeled by a 19-yearold through a pedestrian crossing from Morocco into the small Spanish-governed territory of Ceuta.

When civil guards asked the Moroccan woman to open the suitcase, the boy said immediately in French: “My name is Abou.”

The teenager had aroused suspicion at the Tarajal crossing into the Spanish north African enclave as she seemed uncertain on her approach to the pedestrian checkpoint.

The guards ordered her to place the suitcase on the scanner, and the screen operator saw the unmistakable outline of a human form inside.

The young woman was arrested for the attempted smuggling of the boy, who was checked by medics and handed over to the Juvenile Prosecutor’s office.

Considering the child may have spent considerable time zipped up inside the case, a civil guard said: “It could have ended in tragedy.”

The boy was checked by a medical team and is now in the hands of

child-protection authorities in Ceuta, who will attempt to identify him and ascertain his family connections.

Later that same day, a 42-year-old man from the Ivory Coast was detained at the same post. And although he had Spanish residency papers issued in the Canary Islands, the guards asked about his family and showed him a photograph taken of Abou in the suitcase.

Before long, the man confessed to trying to have his son smuggled into Spain. “I just wanted to take him to the Canaries with me,” said the man, identified only as A.O. He was arrested and will testify before a judge on suspicion of human trafficking.

The Moroccan woman, identified as F.E.Y., was also arrested.

Every day, thousands of women cross the border from Morocco into Ceuta and Spain’s other enclave, Melilla, to collect goods from Spanish businesses and carry them back home.

Spanish border patrols caught 12,549 illegal immigrants last year - most of them in Melilla and Ceuta.

For West African countries’ migrants heading for Spain, there are two dangerous and long routes to reach Morocco. One is an inland route, crossing Mali and Algeria before entering northern Morocco and heading for the forests near one of the Spanish enclaves.

From there, many attempt to scale the six-metre wire fences, smuggle themselves into Spain or pay to cross the Strait of Gibraltar in a small boat.

The other method is to travel up the coast of Senegal and Mauritania.

Between 2005 and 2006, some 30,000 subSaharan immigrants reached the Canary Islands in long, narrow fishing vessels. The civil guard said it was possible that A.O. reached the Canaries in that manner, now having become a resident of Gran Canaria.

The United Nations’ ACNUR refugee organisation estimated that between 1998 and 2011, some 20,000 migrants drowned in the waters between North Africa and Spain.

Spain has been criticised by organisations such as Amnesty International and the Council of Europe for handing migrants who jump the fence over to Moroccan authorities without any due process, or offering them the opportunity to request asylum.

In Ceuta, a judicial inquiry is ongoing into the role of civil guard officers in the drowning of 15 migrants on 6th February last year.

A group of Africans attempted to swim around a breakwater, marking the border between Morocco and Spain, as Spanish guards fired smoke canisters and rubber bullets in their direction.

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Summer University registration is open NOW is the time to register for summer courses with Adeje’s Summer University, which can be used for extra credits.

You can register in person in the ULL in Calle Viana 50, La Laguna, in Adeje’s Cultural Centre, from 9am to 2pm, Monday to Friday, or online, www.uvadeje.es.

The courses on offer this year, organised by the local Council and the ULL, are in 20-hour blocks. They focus on alimentation, gender issues, physical/sporting activities, medicine and hyperbaric nursing, marketing tourism products, family and school, etc. The university runs from 20-24th July.

Those on the Adeje padrón, registered stu-

dents in official educational centres, unemployed people and retirees will be offered discounts.

And there will again be a public transport service, put in place to bring students from the North, with stops in La Laguna, Santa Cruz, Barranco Hondo, Candelaria, Güímar, Porís de Abona, and San Isidro. The courses are

listed here in Spanish as they will be taught in Spanish, and they could be of interest to you, your friends or family currently studying. *Género, clase y culturas en intersección (Gender, class and cultures intersecting) *La ciudadanía transnacional y sus desafíos’, under Esther Torrado and Rodrigo Fidel Rodríguez.

*Actividades físicodeportivas de ocio y recreación (physicalsporting leisure activities), directed by Adelto Hernández *Alimentación y dieta saludable (alimentation and a healthy diet), led

by Gonzalo Brito. *Medicina y enfermería subacuática e hiperbárica (medicine and aquatic nursing and hiperbaric care) Atención al politraumatizado y plan de emergencias’, course director: Antonio Alarcó. *Retos y tendencias en el diseño y comercialización de productos turísticos (challenges and trends in design and commercialisation of tourism products), with Eduardo Parra. *Integrando la diversidad: familia y escuela (integrating diversity: family and school),

course director: Desirée González. *Por un deporte sin

violencia (sport without violence), with Patricia Pintor.

‘Foreign’ Canaries love to be taught

A NEW survey this week demonstrates the diversity and success enjoyed by the Islands’ higher education system.

The two Canarian universities, despite being in one of the smaller communities, are among the highest in the education institutions of Spain in having a larger number of foreigners registered.

According to the Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports, the total of 2.460 foreign students makes the Canaries the fifth region, behind Madrid, Cataluña, Valencia and Andalusia.

During the current academic year, the University of La Laguna (ULL) have students from 63 different nationalities in its classrooms.

Of these, 92 were from Italy, Venezuela: 67 enrolled; Germany: 66 young people enrolled and Argentina has 45 students.

Figures from the Analysis and Planning Office (GAP), show Tenerife’s academic institution has a diverse selection of students from the likes of Palestine, Nigeria, Iceland, Pakistan, Russia, Latvia and Lithuania, among other territories.

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Asylum-seekers: UK is seeking a fair deal BRITAIN, which could be forced to take in at least twice the current 30,000 who seek asylum there each year, will fight plans to force EU states to take their “fair” share of migrants.

Brussels is planning to employ emergency ways of dealing with large numbers of people entering the bloc, according to The Times.

The proposal has been drawn up by the European Commission in response to the deadly people-trafficking from Libya, which has seen hundreds drown off the coast of Italy.

Many of those crossing into Europe from Africa or Turkey seek asylum as refugees, saying they come from countries affected by war or other crises.

The Times said all 28 member states would be obliged to make a “fair and balanced contribution by taking in persons in clear need of international protection”.

If so, it will involve Europe putting in place a “mandatory and automatically-triggered relocation system”.

But the Home Office insists that any attempt to impose a nonvoluntary quota will be resisted, which would almost certainly put Britain on a collision course with EU leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

Needless to say Germany, where more than 200,000 applied for asylum last year, supports the plan.

A Home Office spokesman said: “The UK has a proud history of offering asylum to those who need it most. But we do not believe a mandatory system of resettlement is the answer.

“We will oppose any EU Commission proposals to introduce a non-voluntary quota.

Our focus must be on targeting and stopping the callous criminals

who lie behind this vile trade in human beings.

“Therefore, we will continue to focus our efforts on enhancing work between the lawenforcement agencies, working within the countries of origin and transit, and establishing a more effective process of returning illegal migrants.”

A clash with Mrs Merkel would come at a time when Prime Minister David Cameron is beginning efforts to renegotiate Britain’s relationship with Brussels ahead a promised 2017 in/out referendum.

A draft United Resolution drawn up by the UK, authorising the use of military action against peoplesmuggling networks operating from Libyan waters, will soon be examined by the UN. Federica Mogherini, EU foreign and security policy co-ordinator, will present the proposals, calling for the “use of all means to destroy the business model of the traffickers”.

Royal Navy flagship HMS Bulwark, sent to the Mediterranean

by Mr Cameron to assist with operations at the height of last month’s crisis, could be involved, as well as helicopter gunships putting traffickers’ vessels out of action.

A number of EU member states, including Britain, France and Spain, are believed to be ready to contribute to the mission, which will be led by Italy. The operation is opposed by the Libyan authorities.

The Times says the number each EU country could be required to accommodate will be based on their GDP, population, unemployment and previous intake rates.

Ebola crisis ends in Liberia at last

Clean bill of health!

LIBERIA, the most-affected country, has been declared free of the Ebola virus by The World Health Organisation (WHO) after having no new cases in 42 days.

The BBC was informed by President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf that Liberia had “crossed the Rubicon” and would be celebrating a concerted effort to stem the disease.

More than 4,700 deaths from Ebola have been recorded in Liberia, and neighbouring Guinea and Sierra Leone continue to fight the outbreak. Tragically, Ebola has claimed over 11,000 lives across the region since last year.

The WHO regards a country Ebola-free after a 42-day period without a new case - twice the maximum incubation period.

The last confirmed death in Liberia was on 27th March, and on Saturday, the World Health Organisation said in a

statement: “The outbreak of Ebola virus disease in Liberia is over.”

President Sirleaf told the BBC: “We will celebrate our communities which have taken responsibility and participated in fighting this unknown enemy and, finally, we’ve crossed the Rubicon. Liberia indeed is a happy nation.”

Officials say Ebola was eventually conquered in Liberia through a collective effort. Care centres and hand-washing stations were set up to try to halt the disease, which spreads through contact with sick people.

Billboards went up with slogans such as “Ebola is real”, “Wash your hands and don’t touch” and “Don’t

be the next victim”.

Monrovia resident Emmanuel Tokao wrote on a BBC Facebook page: “I’m firstly grateful to God, who I believe brought us back to normality.”

At the height of the outbreak, he said, “ambulances would either come for a dead body or sick person. It reminded me of the war days”.

Liberia lost around 250,000 lives in a civil war, which ended in 2005.

In Monrovia, the BBC’s Jonathan PayeLayleh, says the President gave a sense of how traumatised the outbreak remains after the outbreak. In an address to the nation on Saturday, she said: “Even today, if you hear

an ambulance siren, you shake a little bit.”

Although Liberia has now been declared Ebola-free, correspondents say the outbreak will have a long-term impact on the country’s fragile economy.

The current outbreak is the deadliest in history. Initially, it centred on Guinea’s remote south-eastern region of Nzerekore in early 2014, and later spread to Liberia and Sierra Leone.

Despite the Liberian euphoria, the WHO warns against complacency. Its statement warns; “There is a high risk that infected people may cross into Liberia over the region’s exceptionally-porous borders.”

Whistl-stop shock THE Whistl postal service, in trouble financially after losing a potential investor, has suspended its door-todoor delivery service in London, Liverpool and Manchester.

The former TNT Post company is consulting 2,000 workers about redundancy following last month’s decision

by LDC, a division of Lloyds Banking Group, not to fund its expansion plans.

Whistl will continue to provide a service, but will revert to using the Royal Mail for the “final mile”.

Shares in Royal Mail rose 3.3% after the news was announced. Last month, LDC, decided against investing in Whistl because of “ongoing changes in UK postal market dynamics, and the complexity of the regulatory landscape”.

Whistl said then it would hold back from expansion, yet planned

to continue its existing service.

The company said: “Following the announcement from LDC that it would not proceed with the proposed investment ... to fund further roll-out of E2E [end-to-end], we have now commenced an extensive review of the viability and potential for the roll-out of an e2e postal delivery service in the UK.” Whistl will begin consultations with employees affected by the suspension of the endto-end service, and with their union representatives.

The Manchester Evening News carries what it believes is a copy of the letter to employees, which says most of the staff were on zero-hours contracts and will not be paid during the consultation process.

Community, the recognised trade union at Whistl, says members

are “extremely worried for their futures”.

Les Bayliss, National Officer at Community, said the union would work with the company to try to save jobs: “We will be doing all we can to identify a viable way forward for the business that safeguards our members’ jobs,” he added.

“We should be clear that this is a suspension of the business, not a termination of it, so we will be looking for the company to work with us to identify sustainable options to continue operations as soon as practically possible.”

One Manchesterbased employee contacted by the BBC said the news had come “completely out of blue ... grown men were crying this morning. It was heart-breaking”.

He added: “It was a brilliant job - we loved our job. We will all have

to go back on the dole now.” In the past, the Royal Mail complained that competitors such as Whistl operated at an unfair advantage because they did not have to provide delivery to the whole country for a single price.

A spokesman said: “As the universal service provider, Royal Mail is ready to accept the additional volumes into our network, and we will ensure delivery meets our usual high standard of service.

“We are liaising with Whistl to make certain customers aren’t impacted in any way.”

Whistl changed its name from TNT Post last year as part of a 2011 separation agreement with its former owners.

It began delivering in West London in April 2012, later rolling out its end-to-end service in Manchester and Liverpool.

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By Mariano Zunino Siri

MANY letters I receive refer to the issues of “holiday rental” or “touristic rental” (alquiler turístico).

I have written in previous articles about these type of contracts (letting agreements subject to Tourism Law).

I will return to this topic in future columns, but for now, I consider it interesting to discuss the difference between “seasonal renting” (arrendamiento por temporada) and “touristic rental or holiday rental (arrendamiento turístico).

The Letting Contract Law (LAU) mentions in article 3 the “seasonal rental” (alquiler o arrendamiento por “temporada”) which, I under-

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stand, is different from the “touristic rental”.

Somehow, the touristic rental is a seasonal rental, but a seasonal one is not necessary a touristic one.

In other words, Law 4/2013 (that modifies the Letting Agreement Law) pretends to exclude the Letting Agreement Law (LAU) - those letting contracts which, despite being seasonal agreements, are similar to touristic contracts.

To be considered “touristic” and excluded from the LAU, four requirements are needed: 1. To include a total furnished property, ready to be used immediately 2. To be commercialised through tourism channels 3. To have profitable means 4. To be subject to the specific rules of the sector Touristic accommodation not regulated by the LAU are those which include complementary services (i.e. hotel services) such as periodical cleaning, laundry, reception, and all included in the price.

This means that the main difference between “seasonal rental” and “touristic rental” would be the services included in the latter.

In the “seasonal”, the lessor cedes the temporary use of a house for a certain price without any “service”.

On the other hand, the characteristic of “tourist” contract is the inclusion of the services received by the lessee.

But there could be differing opinions in this

respect. Among them, those which consider that “touristic” and “seasonal” are the same

type of contract. This would be very important at the time of applying Tourist Law of

LAU in every case (with all the consequences in favour or against the interests of lessor and lessee).

This is my opinion, subject to a better one.

Mariano Zunino Siri is a lawyer, registered at the Tenerife Bar Association since 1991. He has practised mainly in Civil and Commercial Law and Administrative and Tax Law. If you have a personal query, contact him at marianozunino siri@gmail.com.

Major Chinese fraud assisted by Spaniard A SPANISH expert in Customs formalities was advising members of a Chinese fraud plot, which has been smashed.

Raids in Madrid, Barcelona and Valencia saw 79 people arrested on conspiracy to defraud the Treasury.

The fraud was worth a staggering 14 million euros in VAT and duties in 2013 alone.

Sources have revealed that the crime was directed from China by the heads of an organisation, led in Spain by a trusted married couple from that country.

They are understood to have recruited a tax advisor or administrative manager, who was

able to hoodwink Customs.

The raid was part of a joint Central Operational Unit (UCO) search, carried out by the Guardia Civil and the Tax Office.

It was code-named “Snake” and has dealt a major blow to the organisation, with the arrest of so many people.

In addition to the wide deployment of

UCO agents, 83 officers were utilised by the Tax Agency, 40 of them from the Customs Surveillance Service of Madrid, Valencia, Barcelona and central services.

According to sources, the Tax Agency has already discovered 50 companies used for criminal purposes.

These include moneylaundering, counterfeiting and market manipulation.

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By Carol Schleisman of Currencies Direct

LAST week’s election result had people all over the UK wondering just how the pollsters managed to get it so spectacularly wrong.

The Conservatives won an outright majority of 12 seats, confounding all expectations that another coalition government - or even a second polling day - was on the cards.

The result had a profound effect on Sterling.

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In this Market Analysis, we look at what to expect from the unexpected this week.

Britain recovers from election fever Sterling behaved a little erratically last week because of the General Election.

Ahead of the 7th May poll, the British Pound was a little above neutral as bookies, pundits and pollsters alike agreed that the election outcome was too close to call.

However, Thursday evening’s shock exit poll, showing a decisive Tory win, gave Sterling a firm bounce. GBP/ USD soared to a threemonth high and EUR/ GBP fell to a 10-day low.

Having had the weekend to collect

itself, the market seems to have settled a bit now. But in the longer term, expect David Cameron’s commitment to a referendum on Britain’s membership of the EU to set the market quivering with fear as it contemplates the consequences of a Brexit.

The formation of the new Cabinet aside, the UK is in for a busy week as the Bank of England’s latest interest rate announcement happened on 11th May, and the Bank’s second inflation report of 2015 was scheduled for Wednesday.

No one is expecting changes from the Bank, but the inflation report will be scanned by investors looking for revisions to growth forecasts and updates

Santa Cruz has growth at last

THERE are now more businesses in Santa Cruz than at any time since the Credit Crunch seven years ago.

The Tenerife capital lost more than 20% of the companies it accommodated in 2007 and since then, the number of businesses registered with the Social Security has been declining gradually.

However, the green shoots of recovery have been evident recently and the trend is reversing.

Statistics from the

Canarian Institute of Statistics (Istac), shows there were 6,230 businesses in March - a rise of nearly 200 when compared with the same month in 2014.

Although the difference is still small, experts believe the number of companies will increase during 2015.

Interestingly, almost 90% of the companies listed in Santa Cruz are registered under the “offering services” sector.

The construction sector was hardest hit by

the Credit Crunch and that sector has lost over half of the registered businesses since 2007.

But again, there has been a rise over the last 12 months. In March this year there were 381 companies registered against the 365 registered in March 2014.

Of the companies registered in the Social Security, 5,321 have between one to nine employees, which means 85% of the businesses are sole proprietors or small companies.

on inflation. The Office for National Statistics releases industrial production and labour figures this week.

The hope is that the labour figures will show the average wage growth has improved - both for its own sake and as an indicator that interest rates could be raised later in the year.

The first letters of the Greek alphabet are not “IOU”… but they could be “IMF” The euro continues to be stressed by the failure of Greece and its European creditors to reach any agreement in their negotiations.

The next Eurogroup meeting was scheduled on Monday (11th May) - a day before the deadline for Greece’s next repayment to the International Monetary Fund.

Even so, early last week the plucky euro made slight gains against a soft US dollar and Pound, only to run out of puff when the UK stuck to the Conservatives’ economic plan and the US unleashed a positive jobs’ report.

The euro ended the week a little lower against currencies like the Japanese yen and Russian rouble.

The European Commission’s datagatherer, Eurostat, issued its preliminary estimate of first quarter GDP numbers on Wednesday.

Survey data suggests that economic activity picked up a bit in the first three months of

the year, and consensus estimates placed quarterly growth at 0.5%.

Aussie battler tests Greenback The US dollar suffered for most of last week and added to a long stretch of corrections which started in April.

However, the Greenback’s allure may have been refreshed last Friday after a positive non-farm payrolls’ report cast it in a flattering light.

The dollar recovered some of its losses against the Pound and the euro in the wake of the report. But against the Australian dollar, its performance was a little more mixed, with both crosses ending the week in negative territory.

Across the Atlantic, investors will be looking at the releases of retail sales (Wednesday) and industrial production today (Friday) for updates to the state of the US economy.

Last week, US job growth rebounded and the unemployment rate fell to 5.4%, almost a seven-year low, which indicates the labour market is bouncing back from a disappointing

first quarter.

Next week’s data reports should provide hints as to whether the signs of weakness in the US economy were only temporary.

Franc speaking from SNB’s Jordan The Swiss franc hit the headlines last Friday after Thomas Jordan, the Swiss National Bank’s chairman, told a conference that it was “overvalued” and that the central bank was ready to take action if necessary.

“In case there is a necessity to intervene in the foreign exchange market to influence monetary conditions, we will take it,” Mr Jordan told attendees - a message that was echoed by other SNB policy-makers.

Whether you’re moving to Spain or transferring money overseas, keep on top of the currency market.

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An incredible year in which the nation finally found out who killed Lucy Beale, a dramatic train crash tragically claimed lives in Hollyoaks, Rob and Karen were reunited in Doctors, Emmerdale beauty Katie Sugden fell to her death and many beloved Weatherfield residents were involved in a shocking minibus crash.

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The five biggest soaps - Coronation Street, Doctors, EastEnders, Emmerdale and Hollyoaks - will be battling it out to win recognition for their work over the past year. Stars from all five soaps will be hitting the red carpet for the most star-studded event in the soap calendar.

Hosted by Phillip Schofield (his tenth year anniversary), the awards will be presented by an array of wellknown faces from across the TV and showbiz world.

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Martin’s travels take him onto Ko Yao Noi in South East Asia. It is a popular tourist spot, but it also has a traditional agricultural economy work where people have to work hard to survive.

He meets Sarawut, a hard working pigtail macaque monkey, one of the biggest and most agile members of the monkey family. Because they live in thick dense forests they are spectacular climbers, which makes Sarawut the ideal candidate for the job of scaling the 100 foot trees to pick coconuts.

Pigtail Macaques are so intelligent scientists have been able to train them to gather rare botanical samples from inaccessible corners of the world. Sarawut has been trained to pick only the ripe coconuts and once he has one in his little hands he twists it around until it snaps off.

After training, Sarawut cost his owner Bangchit around US$500, but because he can make his owner up to $30 a day the monkey paid for himself in less than a month.

Unfortunately the number of pigtail macaques is decreasing because their meat is considered a delicacy. The thing that is saving them is their value as coconut pickers.

Martin goes night fishing in the Nagara River in Japan where cormorant fishermen have worked for more than 1300 years. He meets Tetsuji Yamashita, one of only six imperial fishermen in the world.

They go fishing at night because this is when the fish are half asleep.

The light from the braziers draws the drowsy fish up to the surface, ready for the cormorant to strike. The cormorant can dive to a depth of 150 feet and manoeuvre at terrific speeds. Martin dines on their catch of sweet fish at the end of the night’s work.

On Martin’s farm in Dorset he raises lamb and beef, which is sold by Frampton’s the local butcher’s shop in Bridport. An animal lover, and meat eater, Martin says his animals have been raised in a controlled environment like generations of domesticated animals before them and when the time comes they are killed as humanely as possible.

“We’ve got a tiny herd of Dexter Cattle – they’re the smallest breed in Europe. They’re beef cattle and in due course the boys will be sent for slaughter. But that doesn’t mean that I show them any less love,” Martin says.

Killing animals bred for the table is one thing, but killing wild animals for the pot stirs up very different emotions for Martin as he meets one of the surviving members of the ancient Matagi tribe of northern Japan. The Matagi hunted and killed the Asian black bear partly for their own safety, but also as a source of food.

Takashi Yoshikawa has hunted more than 150 bears in his life - 70 of which he killed single-handed. He still hunts bears, and shows Martin the scars from his encounters. Martin is disturbed to see two bears Takashi keeps in a cage in his backyard.

Takashi tells Martin these bears are here because he shot their mother in an act of self-defence, not realising at the time that she had two small cubs. There are more than 15,000 Asian black bears wandering wild in Japan, and their numbers are growing. Bear attacks on humans are not uncommon, even in towns and cities.

Takashi invites Martin to join him for a meal of bear casserole. But Martin has to politely refuse. After seeing the two bears in a cage in Takashi’s back yard, he can’t bring himself to eat one of their relatives.

Martin travels onto the Himilayas looking for elephants, and to learn more about the mahout profession, which is four thousand years old and still passed on from father to son.

In the village of Sauraha where the elephant is a common sight, Martin meets Bharat who has been a mahout for 19 years, nine of which he’s spent with his current elephant, 12 year old Rum Cali.

As her mahout, Bharat sees more of Rum Cali than his own family.

Luckily Ram Cali and her friends in Sauraha are no longer called on to work in the harsh environment of the logging industry. Instead they carry tourists. On the day Martin visits Rum Cali has got the day off, so he and Bharat and I take her for a bit of a treat - a cooling wallow in the river.

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15................ The Housing Enforcers 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 11:45 ...............Oxford Street Revealed 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...... BBC News at One 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 .....................Land Girls 15:00 ...............Escape to the Country 15:45 ..................... Decimate 16:30........................... Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00 .... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30 .........A Question of Sport 20:00............. EastEnders 20:30 .The Vicar of Dibley 21:00 .............. Have I Got News for You 21:30..Mrs. Brown’s Boys 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:35............ The Graham Norton Show 23:20 ............. Peter Kay’s Car Share 23:50......I Love You, Man

06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 07:45 ...............Oxford Street Revealed 08:15 ...... Gardeners’ World 08:45 .............. Cowboys and Angels 09:15... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00.................... BBC News 12:00....... The Daily Politics 13:00 ............................. Coast 13:10 .... Cagney and Lacey 14:00 ....... Glorious Gardens From Above 14:45 ..... The Great Chelsea Garden Challenge 15:45 ..............Are You Being Served?

16:15..................... ‘Allo, ‘Allo!

16:45......Just Good Friends 17:15... Antiques Roadshow 18:00.............. Eggheads 18:30........Beat the Brain 19:00 .......Antiques Road Trip 20:00........Mary Berry’s CW Absolute Favourites choice 20:30...Gardeners’ World 21:00....Britain’s Greatest Generation 22:00 ................The Clare Balding Show 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:05.............Later... with Jools Holland

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 18:30......... ITV News and Weather 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30..Coronation Street 20:00...Weekend Escapes with Warwick Davis 20:30..Coronation Street 21:00....Man and Beast with Martin Clunes

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22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40............... Cape Fear 01:00............ Jackpot247

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

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

07:05 ............Will and Grace

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

07:30 .................... Everybody Loves Raymond

06:20........... Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:55 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

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

08:25 ........................... Frasier

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

08:55 ........................... Frasier

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

09:25.................. Undercover Boss

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

10:25................... Come Dine with Me

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

10:55 ................... Come Dine with Me

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:35 .................Thomas and Friends 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland

11:25 ................... Come Dine with Me

08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

11:55 ......... Channel 4 News Summary

08:15 .....................Peppa Pig

12:00................... Come Dine with Me 12:30................... Come Dine with Me 13:00 ...................... A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:00 .........................Channel 4 Racing 16:00................................ Posh Pawnbrokers 17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30............... Hollyoaks 19:00 ..................Channel 4 News 19:35 ............Unreported World 20:00 .....Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 21:00 .................. 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 22:00 ............... Alan Carr: Chatty Man 23:05.................. Virtually Famous 23:55 ................ Brooklyn Nine-Nine 00:25............... (500) Days of Summer

08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35......... Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas

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

08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35....................... Scorpion 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 ........ Judge Rinder 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ..............The Matrix Reloaded 23:45.......... Take Me Out

06:15 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 .........................DIY SOS 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ................... Masterchef South Africa 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 .........................DIY SOS 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00.............. Tipping Point 18:00 ... The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain 19:00............. Masterchef South Africa 20:00 ......... Resurrection 21:00 ........... Traffic Cops 22:00 .The Mask of Zorro 00:50 .............Masterchef South Africa

08:55 ........................... A Place in the Sun 09:30...... Escape to Athena 11:50 ...................Time Team 12:55 ...................Time Team 14:00................Four in a Bed 14:35 ...............Four in a Bed 15:05 ...............Four in a Bed 15:35 ...............Four in a Bed 16:10............... Four in a Bed 16:40 ........................... A Place in the Sun 17:45 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:50....... Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55...... Grand Designs 21:00 ............ Anzac Girls 22:20 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 23:20 ............ The Golden Rules of Porn 01:00 ...... Grand Designs

06:00 .................. Airline USA

07:00 ........ Storage Hunters

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

06:30.................. Airline USA

07:25....................... Top Gear

06:15 ............. Football Gold

07:00............................... Glee

09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

06:30 ............. Football Gold

10:00 ...... American Pickers 11:00 ........ Storage Hunters

07:00 ............................... WWE Main Event

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

08:00........................ Ringside

14:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

09:00........... Premier League Darts

15:00 ...... American Pickers

12:00 .........Barclays Premier League World

09:00 ...................Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:45 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:40 ........................... 5 News Lunchtime 12:45 .................. Big Brother 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS: Los Angeles

08:00................ The Fanatics 09:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

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

15:10 ..................Rosamunde Pilcher’s Shades of Love

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

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

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

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

16:30 ..................... Futurama

18:00.......... Car Crash TV

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

18:30.................... 5 News Tonight

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

19:00............ The Gadget Show

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

18:00.............. Scrapheap Challenge

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

19:00 ...................... QI XL

20:00... Relatively Clever

20:00...Gavin and Stacey

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

22:00 ..... Mock the Week 22:40...................... QI XL

22:00.....An Idiot Abroad

15:00 ............ Indian Premier League

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

19:30................. Football

23:30......Big Brother Live From the House

23:00......... Hawaii Five-0

00:20 ..... Mock the Week

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

23:30................ Ringside

01:00 ... Storage Hunters

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

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

01:30 ... Storage Hunters

00:30........ FL72: Play-Off Semi-Final Hlts

20:00................ Lusitania 21:00............ Big Brother 22:30 .... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

13:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 15:00... The Holidaymakers

16:00 ........ Storage Hunters 17:00 .......................Top Gear

12:30 .......... Premier League Legends 13:00 .............. FL72: Play-Off Semi-Final Hlts 14:00............... FL72: Play-Off Semi-Final Hlts

Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites BBC2, 20:00 Cookery series.

Mary draws on inspiration from some of her earliest and fondest memories from her childhood holidays and regular trips to the British seaside. To start, Mary prepares some delicious goats cheese and shallot tarts with a different, but delectable, walnut pastry - perfect for a picnic hamper or day out at the sea. To follow, a family favourite - her right royal crab and cod fishcakes with tomato salsa, followed by a special dinner party classic of sea bass with brown shrimp and caper sauce. As well as cooking her seaside favourites, Mary visits the Botany Bay on the Kent coast where she indulges in one her favourite seaside passions, prawning, before cooking up a new dish of seafood linguini.

Finally, Mary visits an ice cream parlour in Broadstairs that has hardly changed since she was a child. This inspires her to create her favourite ice cream treat a knickerbocker glory.

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S a turd a 06:00 ...................... Breakfast

06:20 .................Animal Park

06:00 ................. Fort Boyard

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

06:50 .......... In Search of the Castaways

06:25 ................Pat and Stan

11:30........ Paul Hollywood’s Bread

08:30 ......The Charge of the Light Brigade

12:00 .....................BBC News

10:20 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

12:10 ............Football Focus

06:35 ..........Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 06:45 ..........Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:00 ...................... Canimals

11:20 ...............Escape to the Country

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

14:00 .............Rugby League Challenge Cup

12:05 ........ Living Famously

07:45 ..................... Nerds and Monsters

16:30....................Final Score

14:25......... Talking Pictures

17:20 ........................Celebrity Mastermind

15:05 ........................North by Northwest

17:50 .....................BBC News

17:20 ...........................Flog It!

08:30 ......................Weekend

18:10.................Pointless

18:20...Gardeners’ World

19:00 ..................Atlantis

18:50.... The Great British Garden Watch

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

12:50.. Saturday Sportsday 13:00....................Athletics

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20:30.......... The National Lottery: In It to Win It

13:05 ............................. Rope!

21:20................. Casualty

19:50....Britain’s Greatest Generation

22:10 .............. BBC News

20:50.............Dad’s Army

22:30... Match of the Day

21:20.............Alpha Papa

23:55.....Live at the Apollo 00:25 .......The 51st State

22:45.......Rory Bremner’s Election Report

01:50 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead

23:15........................W1A 23:45 ............In the Loop

01:55............... BBC News

01:30 ..... This is BBC Two

07:30......................... Super 4

08:00................Thunderbirds are Go 08:25...................... ITV News

10:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30.............. ITV News and Weather 12:35 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 13:40 .................. Doc Martin 14:40 .........Who’s Doing the Dishes?

15:40.............. Freaky Friday 17:35 ..... ITV News London

Athletics: Diamond League Doha Highlights

17:45 .............. ITV News and Weather

BBC1, 13.00

20:00 .................. Britain’s Got Talent

Gabby Logan introduces highlights from the opening competition of the 2015 Diamond League in Doha.

Packed with some of the biggest names in athletics, this year’s series consists of 14 meetings across the globe. A stellar field is headlined by Great Britain’s double Olympic and world champion Mo Farah, who competes in the 3,000m.

Other star names to watch out for include: Sally Pearson & Renaud Lavillenie.

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18:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

19:00 .......................Ninja Warrior UK

21:20..................... Play to the Whistle 22:05 .........ITV News and Weather 22:20 ........The Break-Up 00:15 ........... Jackpot247

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06:15 ........... How I Met Your Mother 06:40 ........... How I Met Your Mother

06:00 .....................Peppa Pig 06:05 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 06:20 .... Angelina Ballerina

07:05 .............Tarawera Ultra Marathon

06:30 ......................Pip Ahoy!

07:30 .............FIM Superbike World Championship

06:55 .............Chloe’s Closet

08:00 ................The Morning Line 09:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00.........Everybody Loves Raymond 10:30........................... Frasier 11:00 ........................... Frasier 11:30 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 12:00........................... The Big Bang Theory 12:25 .......... Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. 13:25 .........................Channel 4 Racing 16:15 ................... Come Dine with Me 16:45 ................... Come Dine with Me

06:45 ....The Mr. Men Show 07:05 ................Roobarb and Custard Too 07:15 ...............Make Way for Noddy 07:25 ....................Paw Patrol 07:40 ............. Little Princess 07:50.... Milkshake Monkey 07:55................... Wanda and the Alien 08:10 .........Zack and Quack 08:25 ...............Olly the Little White Van 08:30 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:45 ...................Jelly Jamm 09:00 .....................LazyTown

10:35 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 11:30 ............Britain’s Horror Homes

17:45 ................... Come Dine with Me

13:25 ...................... The Hotel Inspector

18:15............. Come Dine

14:25....................... Columbo: The Most Dangerous Match

19:00............Cornwall: CW Walking choice Through History 20:00...........World’s Most Extreme...

06:15 ...................Perception

08:55................... Time Team

06:15 ...................Emmerdale Omnibus

07:00................... Perception

10:00 ...................Time Team

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

11:05 .... The Lady Vanishes

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

13:00 ...............Four in a Bed

10:00 .......................... The Bill

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

11:00.......................... The Bill

14:05 ...............Four in a Bed

12:00........................... The Bill

15:40 .........................Building the Dream

08:50...... Coronation Street Omnibus 11:15.......................... Britain’s Got Talent 12:35 ...... Britain’s Got More Talent

13:00.......................... The Bill

13:35 ............... Catchphrase

15:00 ......................... Atlantis

14:20 .....Kindergarten Cop

16:00 ......................... Atlantis

16:30 ....................... Mr. Bean

17:00 ......................... Atlantis

17:05 ....................... Mr. Bean

18:00...................Atlantis

17:40 ....................King Kong

18:55................ Location, Location, Location

19:00.................. Atlantis

21:20........... Britain’s Got More Talent

19:55 ............. Father Ted

20:00 ........... Traffic Cops

21:00 ..... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

14:00......................... Atlantis

16:45 ....Location, Location, Location 17:50 ....Location, Location, Location

22:20 ...... Celebrity Juice

21:00 ................The Mask of Zorro

23:05 ........... Britain’s Got Talent

23:50................. Haunted Highway

00:20 ........... Britain’s Got More Talent

00:50 ................. Haunted Highway

01:20......... Hell’s Kitchen

01:45 ......................Crisis

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

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 .............Pitch Perfect 2 Special 14:00 ....... Disney’s Greatest Songs 15:00...............................David Attenborough’s Galapagos 16:00 ...........Modern Family 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 19:00..... Avengers Special 19:30 ...NCIS: Los Angeles 20:30 ........ Hawaii Five-0 21:30... Mad Max Special 22:00 ....... Lucky Number Slevin

07:10 ...................Bush Pilots

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

08:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

06:15 ............. Football Gold

22:00 ............Jimmy Carr: Being Funny 23:05 .... 8 Out of 10 Cats 23:55 ............. Father Ted

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

17:15 ................... Come Dine with Me

18:40...................Channel 4 News

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

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

12:30............ The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

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15:55............. Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud 16:55 ........... Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

17:50 ...... 5 News Weekend 17:55 ... Police Interceptors

21:00............ The Hunger Games

18:45........ Spider-Man 3

23:50 .......... Underworld: Awakening

22:20 ....CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

01:30................ Alan Carr: Chatty Man

23:15 .......................NCIS

21:20 ........... Big Brother

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

09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 10:00...... American Pickers 11:00. Storage Hunters UK 12:00.... Lizard Lick Towing 13:00..... Beverly Hills Pawn 14:00 ................. Traffic Cops 15:00 .........Motorway Cops 16:00 .........Motorway Cops 17:00 .........Motorway Cops 18:00 ... Storage Hunters 18:30.... Storage Hunters 21:00 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00... Russell Howard’s Good News

06:30............... FL72: Play-Off Semi-Final Hlts 07:30 ......................... Barclays Premier League Review 09:00 ..............................Game Changers 10:00................. Soccer A.M. 12:00 ........................ Football 14:30 .............................Pro 12 Rugby Union 17:00 ..............Ford Saturday Night Football 20:00 ......... SNF: Game of the Day 22:00 .............SNF: Match Choice

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

23:30 .............SNF: Match Choice

01:00 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

01:00......... FL72: Play-Off Semi-Final Hlts

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Cornwall: Walking Through History Channel 4, 19:00

In the late 18th century there was a sure-fire way to earn a living along the Cornish coast: smuggling.

The tiny secretive harbours, beaches and secluded coves were ideal for the infamous illicit imports: brandy for the parson, tobacco for the clerk... It’s also great walking country, as Tony discovers in his four-day trek along the stunning coastline between Plymouth and Falmouth.

And the facts are e x t r a o r d i n a r y.

Half the brandy drunk in the country in the 1780s had been smuggled in through Cornwall.

The smuggling business was so huge that it threatened the national economy.

Tony discovers why so many people were involved in the trade, and why everyone else turned a blind eye. Along his route, visiting such beauty spots as Lantic Bay and Polperro, he encounters all sorts of reminders of the trade.

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Twenties and thirties New York produced the best songs ever written according to presenter and journalist Nicky Campbell. In this film he journeys to Manhattan to explore his lifelong musical passion for the golden age of song-writing when the music of packed Broadway theatres fused with the sounds of Harlem’s raunchy jazz clubs.

Nicky sings, plays the piano and strums his ukulele as he unpacks six timeless love songs that he believes ‘map every contour of the human heart in just three minutes.’

And in celebrating the dazzling lyrics, unforgettable tunes and thrilling rhythms, he also discovers the troubled geniuses who wrote them: from George Gershwin, the gifted prodigy son of Jewish immigrants, to Fats Waller, Harlem’s larger-than-life lothario, and Cole Porter, sparkling socialite with a secret double life.

Along the way Nicky meets a colourful cast of characters: singer/ songwriter Annie Lennox who shares Nicky’s passion for this music; hip hop artist Baba Brinkman who raps Lorenz Hart’s 1926 lyrics to Manhattan; multi-platinum selling singer Michael Feinstein, close personal friend of Ira Gershwin; jazz singer, Harlem resident and Fats Waller enthusiast Michael Mwenso; David Lahm, son of the first successful female lyricist Dorothy Fields; and 81 year-old cabaret singer Marti Stevens, close friend of the late great Cole Porter.

Nicky’s six chosen songs are: ‘Manhattan’ - Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart’s witty and playful 1925 tribute to a young couple falling in love; ‘The Man I Love’ – George and Ira Gershwin’s haunting and bluesy early torch song; ‘Ain’t Misbehavin’ – Fats Waller’s playful and ambiguous 1929 theme tune of naughty Harlem; ‘Night and Day’ –1932 classic of passion beneath-the-surface which Nicky plays on Cole Porter’s own piano; ’The Way You Look Tonight’ – written for Fred Astaire to serenade Ginger Rogers in the 1936 hit comedy ‘Swing Time’; and ‘The Night we Called It a Day’ –the ultimate break-up song, written for Frank Sinatra in 1942.

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Sund a y 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 07:30 ...... Match of the Day 09:00 .......The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 .... The Big Questions 11:00 .......... Sunday Politics 12:15 .............. MOTD2 Extra 13:00 .....................BBC News 13:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:55 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 14:55............... Escape to the Country 15:25............................. Shark 16:25 .......................... Lifeline 16:35 .............Points of View 16:50........................ Songs of Praise - School Choir of the Year 17:35................. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 18:35 .............. BBC News 19:00 ............Countryfile 20:00..............Antiques CW Roadshow choice 21:00.Jonathan Strange CW and Mr Norrell choice 22:00 .............. BBC News 22:30.. Match of the Day 2 23:35................. Athletics 00:35..................Weather

06:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 06:30........................... The Big Allotment Challenge 07:30 .................. Countryfile 08:30 ...... Gardeners’ World 09:00 ......... The Beechgrove Garden 09:30........ Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:00 ................. Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites 11:30 ........Paul Hollywood’s Bread 12:00 .................. Scott of the Antarctic 13:45 ....Live Rugby League Challenge Cup 16:30 .......................Triathlon 18:00............ Hotel India 19:00..........A Very British Airline 20:00............ Demolition 21:00...... The Detectives 22:00 .................. Made in Dagenham 23:45 ...... Hideous Kinky 01:20 ............Countryfile

06:00 ................. Fort Boyard 06:25............... Pat and Stan 06:35.......... Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 07:00 ...................... Canimals 07:15............................. Sooty 07:30 ................. Fort Boyard 08:25 ...................... ITV News 08:30 ......................Weekend 09:25 .............. Judge Rinder 12:25 ...................... ITV News 12:30 ..............Tipping Point 13:30.... Britain’s Got Talent 14:45............. All Star Family Fortunes 15:50... Midsomer Murders 17:50........ Ninja Warrior UK 18:45.. ITV News London 19:00 .........ITV News and Weather 19:15.... Celebrity Squares 20:00 .... Sunday Night at the Palladium 21:00 ............Home Fires 22:05......... ITV News and Weather 22:15........Perspectives CW choice 23:15.....Rugby Highlights 00:10 ...............The Store

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell BBC1, 21.00 1806. Magic once existed in England, but it has long faded that is until the reclusive Mr Norrell is discovered in Yorkshire.

He comes to London to offer the government his services as a magician - but rising politician Sir Walter Pole refuses to align himself with such a disrespectable art as magic. Disconsolate at his lack of success, Mr Norrell is set to return home, until news comes of the death of Sir Walter’s sickly, and wealthy, fiancée. Mr Norrell makes a dangerous pact with a mysterious Gentleman to restore her to life, proving magic respectable and establishing himself as the greatest magician in the land.

Meanwhile, the charming and dissolute Jonathan Strange, more interested in drinking wine and winning the hand of the beautiful Arabella than reading dusty magical books, discovers that he too has magical powers.

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06:20 ........... How I Met Your Mother

06:00................Children’s TV

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

06:10 .................... Sanctuary

06:40 ........... How I Met Your Mother

07:40 ............. Little Princess

06:25 ....................... Mr. Bean

07:00.................... Sanctuary

07:50 ... Milkshake Monkey

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

08:00.................... Sanctuary

09:40...... Coronation Street Omnibus

10:00 ....Haunted Collector

07:05 ..................Volkswagen Racing Cup 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30............................ Frasier 09:30 .......... Sunday Brunch 12:30........... George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 13:30.The Big Bang Theory 14:00............. The Simpsons 15:00 ..........The Parent Trap 17:35 .....A Place in the Sun 18:30 .... Channel 4 News 19:00 .............Speed with Guy Martin 20:00 ...........For the Love of Cars 21:00 ..... Grayson Perry’s Dream House 22:00 ..... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

07:55 ........... Wanda and the Alien 08:05 .. Milkshake! Bop Box 08:10 .........Zack and Quack

12:05................ Take Me Out

08:25 ...............Olly the Little White Van

13:05 ............... Catchphrase

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

15:30........................... Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde

08:40 .......................Mio Mao 08:45................... Jelly Jamm 09:00..................... LazyTown 09:30 ...... Dora and Friends 10:00......... Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:35........................... Access 10:40 .....The Dog Rescuers 11:05 ... Police Interceptors 14:00 ............The Money Pit 15:45 ...................See No Evil, Hear No Evil

09:00.................... Sanctuary 11:00 ....Haunted Collector 12:00 ....Haunted Collector 13:00 ....Haunted Collector

08:55 ....Location, Location, Location 10:00......................... Building the Dream 11:00 ...............A Taste of the Yorkshire Dales 12:05 ......Food Unwrapped 12:35 ......Food Unwrapped

14:00 ................ Doctor Who

13:40 ...... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

15:00 ................ Doctor Who

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

16:00 ................ Doctor Who

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

17:35.......................... Britain’s Got Talent

17:00................ Doctor Who

17:20 ...Come Dine with Me

18:55........... Britain’s Got More Talent

18:00 ...........Doctor Who 19:00........... Doctor Who

20:00... Ainsley Harriott’s Street Food

13:50..... Along Came Polly

20:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

21:00 ................. 21 Jump Street

20:00 ..... One Born Every Minute 21:00 ........... Traffic Cops 22:00 .........................Silk

23:15 ..............The Matrix Reloaded

23:20................... Grimm

01:45........ Fake Reaction

01:15 ...........Doctor Who

06:00 ... The Hour of Power

07:10 ............... Driving Wars 08:00 .......................Top Gear 09:00 .......................Top Gear 10:00.................. Traffic Cops 11:00 .........Motorway Cops 12:00 .........Motorway Cops 13:00........ Storage Hunters 13:30........ Storage Hunters 14:00 ........ Storage Hunters 14:30 ........ Storage Hunters 16:00 .......................Top Gear 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00............ Traffic Cops 20:00 ................Top Gear 21:00 ...................... QI XL 22:00 ..... Mock the Week 23:20....... Not Going Out 00:00 ...... Not Going Out 00:40 ...... Not Going Out 01:15..... Mock the Week 01:55 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

00:20 ...........Doctor Who

21:00.................Car S.O.S 22:00................Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 23:05 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 00:10..... 8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00................Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

17:40 ...... The Great Escape

23:05............ Jimmy Carr

20:50... 5 News Weekend

00:10 ......... Hyde Park on Hudson

21:00............ Big Brother

01:45 ............Undercover Boss Canada

00:40 .................Bangkok Dangerous

22:00 ................The Rock

07:00 ......... Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 08:00 ......Sun, Sea and A&E 09:00 .... Football’s Funniest Moments 10:00 ................................Glee 11:00 .................... WWE Raw 12:00...................... The Flash 13:00 .............. The Real A&E 14:00 ............. Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew 15:00 ...........Modern Family 15:30 ...........Modern Family 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30 .............The Simpsons 21:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0 22:00 .NCIS: Los Angeles 23:00 ............A League of Their Own 00:00 ............. Road Wars 01:00 ............ Night Cops

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 20:00....................... Goals on Sunday 21:00...............Sky Sports Originals 22:00.......... Ford Football Special 23:30 ............The Sunday Supplement 01:00....................... Goals on Sunday

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Antiques Roadshow BBC1, 20:00

The Antiques Roadshow team visit Barrington Court in Somerset, a Tudor manor house which has the distinction of being the first grand property bought by the National Trust. Hilary Kay is enchanted by a toy model of Noah’s ark from the 1920s, complete with pairs of animals, while pictures specialist Dendy Easton spots a valuable Flemish Old Master painted on copper. A boot-sale bargain turns out to be an Elizabethan wine jug decorated with the face of a bearded man, while a £12 charity shop bracelet dates back to the Victorian era. This episode’s showstopper, though, is a 16th-century silver cup constructed around a carved coconut, complete with handles for greasy fingers.

Glass specialist Andy McConnell puzzles over a vial of smelling salts with a mystery compartment, and Fiona Bruce commiserates with the owner of a collection of ceramic figures advertising a brewery company that met a sorry end after they first appeared on the Roadshow in 1993.

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Scammers ITV1, 21.00 Britain is under siege from scammers who are using technology to rob us blind. They might not use a crowbar or wear a balaclava to break into our homes or steal our lives, but scamming is the “new” burglary and it is

out of control.

Increasingly crime in the UK involves some form of cyber criminal and the Government is secretly putting millions of pounds into new specialist cyber cop units to identify, and catch, these 21st century crooks.

Scamming now costs the UK economy at least £27 billion a year – and that’s just the reported crimes.

This film investigates the problem and reveals some of the heart-rending stories of victims who’ve fallen foul of the scammers. Including a woman who fell for a romance scam which cost her £180,000 and a teenager who committed suicide after being scammed by a crook pretending to be the police.

15th May - 21st May 2015

M ond a y 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ................ The Housing Enforcers 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00.......... Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 11:45 .....................Saints and Scroungers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:40 ....BBC London News 13:45..........................Doctors 14:15 ...............Escape to the Country 15:15 .................RHS Chelsea Flower Show 15:45 ..................... Decimate 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00 .... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30............RHS Chelsea Flower Show 20:00............ EastEnders 20:30............... Antibiotic Apocalypse 21:00 .............New Tricks

Wild Ireland ITV1, 20.00

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

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

07:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom

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

07:45 ...............Oxford Street Revealed 08:15 .. Wanted in Paradise 09:15... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00.................... BBC News

09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 .............. This Morning 10:55 ...................... ITV News 11:00 .............. This Morning

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

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

12:00 ...........Italy Unpacked 13:00.... Cagney and Lacey

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

13:45 ........Cash in the Attic

14:00 .............. Judge Rinder

14:15 ....................... Athletics

15:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal

15:15........ Elephant Diaries 15:45 ..............Are You Being Served?

16:15 .....................‘Allo, ‘Allo!

16:45 .....Just Good Friends 17:15 .Antiques Roadshow 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 .......Beat the Brain 19:00 .......Antiques Road Trip 20:00............RHS Chelsea Flower Show 21:00 ......The Detectives

22:00 ... BBC News at Ten

22:00................ Episodes

22:25.BBC London News

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

22:45 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

23:20 ........The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

23:25........... The Graham Norton Show

00:45....Britain’s Greatest Generation

16:00...............Tipping Point 17:00 .........................The Paul O’Grady Show 18:00 ................ ITV News London 18:30......... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30 .............Coronation Street 20:00.........Wild Ireland

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20:30 .............Coronation Street 21:00............Scammers

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

22:40............. Class of 92 Christine Bleakley drives, climbs, walks and swims her way along the 01:45.......Gallipoli: When 00:15 ..... Weather for the longest continuous coastal route in the world, Ireland’s 1500 mile long 00:35 ........... Jackpot247 Murdoch Went to War Week Ahead Wild Atlantic Way. In the final episode of the series Christine travels across open ocean in Ireland’s only cable car.

On to Mizen Head, Christine explores the treacherous waters around Ireland’s most south westerly point and joins the coastguard for the day.

Finally, as her 1500 mile journey along the longest continuous coastal route in the world comes to an end, Christine casts her line for one more Irish passion - fishing.

Wild Ireland is a brand new ITV primetime six-part series which sees presenter Christine Bleakley going home to Ireland to travel the length of its 1500 mile west coast - the longest continuous coastal route - known as the Wild Atlantic Way. During the series, Christine will meet a host of fascinating characters, discover a landscape of natural wonders and reveal the coastline’s hidden treasures as she explores the entire route from Malin Head in the north, to Clonakilty in the south.

Starting at the most northerly point of the island, where Christine learns the story of how Ireland first got its name, she then drives, bikes, hikes, swims and kayaks her way along the coastline. On her travels, Christine visits numerous historical sites, takes on some extreme sports, learns about harvesting and preparing local food delicacies and introduces the viewer to some of the most spectacularly landscapes and fascinating history in the world.

From climbing Knocknarea Mountain and visiting a large Cairn older than the Pyramids, to learning how to prepare wild salmon; from trying to master the wild Atlantic waves which attracts surfers from around the world, to joining star-gazers at Dark Sky Reserve - one of only three locations in the world that is free of light pollution, Christine offers a captivating commentary on the Wild Atlantic Way.

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15th May - 21st May 2015

1 8 th 05:55 ........... How I Met Your Mother

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

06:20 ........... How I Met Your Mother

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

08:55........................... Frasier 09:25....... Undercover Boss 10:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me

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

07:35 .................Thomas and Friends 07:45 ......................Milkshake Monkey 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland

11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

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

08:15 .....................Peppa Pig

12:05................... Come Dine with Me

08:35......... Toby’s Travelling Circus

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

08:45.................... Bananas in Pajamas

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

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

08:20 .....................Peppa Pig

11:45 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

15:00 ........................... Deal or No Deal

12:40 ........................... 5 News Lunchtime

16:00 ................................Posh Pawnbrokers

12:45 .................. Big Brother

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

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

18:30 .............. Hollyoaks 19:00..... Channel 4 News 20:00.................. Damned Designs 21:00....Benefits Street

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22:00 ....... The Night Bus

23:00 ......The Island with Bear Grylls 00:00 ......... The Shooting Gallery 00:30............. 24 Hours in A and E 01:25......... Embarrassing Bodies

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....Harold and Kumar Get the Munchies

06:15 ........... Beauty and the Beast 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 .........................DIY SOS 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ...... Masterchef South Africa 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 .........................DIY SOS 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00 ... The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain 19:00 .............Masterchef South Africa 20:00 ........... Traffic Cops 21:00 ......... Jackpots and Jinxes: Lottery Stories 22:00............. Daredevils 23:00 .....................Magic 00:00 .............Masterchef South Africa

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

06:00 .................. Airline USA 06:30 .................. Airline USA 07:00 ................................Glee 08:00.................The Fanatics 09:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 10:00.............. Hawaii Five-0 11:00...... NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 15:00.. The Holidaymakers 16:00 ..................... Futurama 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30 ..................... Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ..... Modern Family 20:30... Driving School of Mum and Dad 21:00 ....An Idiot Abroad 22:00 .............. Futurama 22:30............... Futurama 23:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0 00:00 .....................Arrow 01:00 ...................Critical

07:00 ........ Storage Hunters

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00..................... WWE Raw 08:00.................. The Premier League Years 10:00 ............... Ford Football Special 11:30 ............. Football Gold 12:00 ....FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights 13:00 ..................The Premier League Years 15:00 ............. Football Gold 15:30 .........Fantasy Football Club Highlights 16:00 ..................The Premier League Years 18:00.... Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 19:00.......... Ford Monday Night Football 23:00...............Sky Sports Originals 00:00.....Fantasy Football Club Highlights

10:00............Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 10:05............. The War of the Worlds 11:50 ...................Time Team 12:55 ...................Time Team 14:00 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40...................... A Place in the Sun 17:45......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:50........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00..A Place in the Sun 22:00............. 24 Hours in A and E 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10..... 8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00.... A Place in the Sun

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

14:10 .................Countdown

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

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13:45................. Neighbours 15:15 ................. Wild Hearts 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00 ..........Car Crash TV 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00............. The Gadget Show 20:00 .....Worlds Angriest Caught on Camera 21:00.................. Gotham 22:00............ Big Brother 23:00........... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 00:30.................. Jackass 00:55 .........Super Casino

07:20 .......................Top Gear 09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 10:00 ...... American Pickers 11:00 ........ Storage Hunters 12:00....................... Top Gear 13:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 15:00 ...... American Pickers 16:00 ........ Storage Hunters 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00.............. Scrapheap Challenge 19:00 ...................... QI XL 20:00 ...... Not Going Out 22:00..... Mock the Week 22:40 ...................... QI XL 23:40 ........ Only Connect 00:20...... Mock the Week 01:00.... Storage Hunters

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Benefits Street Channel 4, 21:00

The second episode of the controversial documentary series reveals more about the younger residents of Kingston Road in Stockton-onTees. It’s an area hit hard by recession and, for those reliant on benefits, new government regulations are making life even harder, especially for the youngsters who have no work and nothing to do but hang around the street. Motherof-six Julie is busy caring for her severely brain damaged son Reagan, who’s 15, while also struggling to keep her 12-year-old son on the straight and narrow at school.

Just two days into term, he’s moved to a new school after throwing a lighter at a teacher.

Local ‘King of the Kids’ Maxwell has fallen out with his girlfriend, who has kicked in his front door and punched him on the nose because he’s refused to watch The X Factor with her.

Meanwhile, youngsters clash with an elderly resident who says he has lived on the street for more than 40 years and claims: ‘Kingston Road is the equivalent to Beirut, like hell.’.

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15th May - 21st May 2015

T ue s d a 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ................ The Housing Enforcers 10:00....... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 11:45 .....................Saints and Scroungers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 ...............Escape to the Country 15:15 .................RHS Chelsea Flower Show 15:45 ..................... Decimate 16:30............................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00 .... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30............ EastEnders 20:00 ............. Holby City 21:00 .................24 Hours in the Past 22:00 ... BBC News at Ten 22:25 .. BBC London News 22:45 ... The Dog Factory 23:45 .........The Resident 01:10 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead 01:15............... BBC News

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06:00...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 07:45 .................RHS Chelsea Flower Show 08:15............. Collectaholics 09:15... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 .....................BBC News 12:00 ...........Italy Unpacked 13:00 .... Cagney and Lacey 13:45 ........Cash in the Attic 14:15....................... Athletics 15:15........ Elephant Diaries 15:45 ..............Are You Being Served?

16:15 .....................‘Allo, ‘Allo!

16:45 .....Just Good Friends 17:15... Antiques Roadshow 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30....... Beat the Brain 19:00 ................ Antiques Road Trip 20:00............RHS Chelsea Flower Show 21:00 ......The Detectives 22:00..Later Live... with CW Jools Holland choice 22:30............. Newsnight 23:20......... Starter for 10 00:50 ................ Antiques Roadshow 01:50........Rip Off Britain

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 18:30......... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30 ..................Tonight 20:00 ...............Midsomer Murders 22:00................ ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40 .............. Benidorm 23:10................... The Big Fish Off 00:10........... Jackpot247

Later Live... with Jools Holland BBC2, 22:00

Music programme featuring live sessions from contemporary and classic artists. Joining Jools on the show are south London’s Rudimental, who will be returning to the studio to perform tracks from their upcoming second album, the follow-up to their best-selling Mercury- and Brit-nominated debut, Home. Currently on what is billed as her last tour of the UK, legendary singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading will also play a song or two. From Fort Worth, Texas, comes Leon Bridges, who is steeped in the look of the 1950s drive-in with a voice in the style of Sam Cooke and will be performing a couple of tracks from his upcoming Coming Home LP. Also in the studio, from Illinois, is Ezra Furman, who recently signed to London’s Bella Union label.

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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

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

08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:30 .......Undercover Boss 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

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

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

08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus

14:10................. Countdown

08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas

15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ................................Posh Pawnbrokers

09:15........ The Wright Stuff 11:45........ Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

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

12:40 ....5 News Lunchtime

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

12:45 .................. Big Brother

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

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

20:00............Kirstie and CW Phil’s Love it choice or List it

15:15..... The Good Mother

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22:00...... Benefits Street

23:00...... The Island with Bear Grylls 00:00 ..... Pokerstars.Com European Poker Tour 01:00 ..........KOTV Boxing Weekly 01:25 .......Tarawera Ultra Marathon 01:55 ....... FIM Superbike World Championship

06:15.Beauty and the Beast 08:00 ............. One Born Every Minute 09:00............................ DIY SOS 10:00...............................The Bill 11:00 .......................New Tricks 12:00......... Masterchef South Africa 13:00 ............. One Born Every Minute 14:00 ............................DIY SOS 15:00 ..............................The Bill 16:00....................... New Tricks 17:00 ....................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00 ......The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain 19:00 ............... Masterchef South Africa 20:00 ......... Nigel Marven’s Cruise Ship Adventure 21:00 ....... The Restoration Man 22:00.......................Grimm 23:00....Emergency Bikers

08:55..... A Place in the Sun 09:20.......... Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 09:50............ Distant Drums 11:50.... Time Team Special 12:55 ...................Time Team 14:00 ...............Four in a Bed 14:35 ...............Four in a Bed 15:05 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 .....A Place in the Sun 17:45 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 18:50 .......Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55...... Grand Designs 21:00........... Building the Dream 22:00...Sex Party Secrets 23:05 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 00:10..... 8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00............Building the Dream

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

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

21:00..........No Offence

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 23:00 ......... American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile 01:05........Two and a Half Men

14:15 ............................... NCIS 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours

06:00 ............Airline USA

07:00 ........ Storage Hunters

06:30 ............Airline USA

07:20....................... Top Gear

07:00 ....................... Glee 08:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0

09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

09:00........ Hawaii Five-0

10:00 ...... American Pickers

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

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

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

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

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

14:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

11:30.. Storage Hunters UK

18:00 ..........Car Crash TV

15:00 ...... Harrow: A Very British School

18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

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

19:00...................... Police Interceptors

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

16:30 .............. Futurama

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

20:00 ..................The Dog Rescuers

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

18:00.............. Scrapheap Challenge

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

19:00...................... QI XL

20:00............... The Flash

20:00.. Would I Lie to You?

22:00 ........... Big Brother

21:00................... Critical

22:00 ..... Mock the Week

23:00 .... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

22:00.................. Forever

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

23:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0

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

00:00................. Autopsy

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

00:20 ..... Mock the Week

00:55 .........Super Casino

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

01:00.... Storage Hunters

21:00.. Blinging Up Baby: You Won’t Believe it!

15:00...... American Pickers

06:00............. Football Gold 07:00 ...WWE SmackDown!

08:00 ..................The Premier League Years 10:00.......... MNF Highlights 12:30 .........Fantasy Football Club Highlights 13:00 ..................The Premier League Years 15:00 ............. Football Gold 15:30 .........Fantasy Football Club Highlights 16:00.................. The Premier League Years 18:00 ... Barclays Premier League Review 19:00 ....Fantasy Football Club Highlights 19:30 .......... Soccer A.M. The Best Bits 20:30 ........ FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights 21:30.... Barclays Premier League Review 22:30.....Fantasy Football Club Highlights

Kirstie and Phil’s Love it or List it Channel 4, 20:00

Kirstie Allsopp and Phil Spencer meet a family at loggerheads. On one side of the Oberoi family from Harrow is dad Charanjeet, and daughter Prahbleem, who love their family home and want to stay. But mum Ash and 14-year-old son Manraj want to move on. With a fridge freezer in the hallway and the kids sharing a bedroom, it’s easy to see why the house doesn’t work for any of them.

No Offence Channel 4, 21:00

Joanna Scanlan, Elaine Cassidy and Alexandra Roach lead the unorthodox crack team of cops at the heart of Paul Abbott’s No Offence - an outrageous new police procedural series from the writer of Shameless and State of Play. Will Mellor, Paul Ritter and Colin Salmon, join them in the mix of tough but big-hearted bobbies who go above and beyond to bring down the criminal rabble in a crumbling cop shop.

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W edne s d 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15................ The Housing Enforcers 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 11:45 .....................Saints and Scroungers 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:40 ....BBC London News 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15............... Escape to the Country 15:15 .................RHS Chelsea Flower Show 15:45 ..................... Decimate 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 22:45 .............A Question of Sport 23:15 .............. Robot and Frank 00:40 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead 00:45............... BBC News

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06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 07:45................. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 08:15 .......................... Britain’s Supermarket Revolution: What’s in it for Us? 08:45 .............. Cowboys and Angels 09:15... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 .....................BBC News 12:00 .......................... Lifeline 12:10 ...........Italy Unpacked 13:10 .... Cagney and Lacey 13:55................... A to Z of TV Gardening 14:15 .................Monty Don’s Italian Gardens 15:15........ Elephant Diaries 15:45 ..............Are You Being Served?

16:15..................... ‘Allo, ‘Allo!

16:45......Just Good Friends 17:15 ........................Antiques Roadshow 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 .......Beat the Brain 19:00 ................ Antiques Road Trip 20:00............RHS Chelsea Flower Show 21:00 ................. Horizon 22:00 ........................... QI 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:20......Mrs. Henderson Presents 01:00........ Portillo’s State Secrets

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 18:30 .........ITV News and Weather 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30. Coronation Street 20:00............... Give a Pet a Home

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

22:40...... Come on Down!

The Game Show Story 23:45...............More Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green 00:10............ Jackpot247

Newzoids ITV1, 21.00

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 low-tech traditional puppetry and state of the art animation puts a satirical and surreal spin on the stories and celebrities we read about every day.

In the world of Newzoids, anything can happen and no one in the public eye is safe from the Newzoids treatment. Amongst the roster of famous (and infamous) faces on the Newzoids roll call are Ant and Dec, Wayne Rooney, Beyonce, Harry Styles, Prince Harry, David Cameron, Ed Miliband, Nick Clegg, Barack Obama, Russell Brand and Simon Cowell.

The writing team consists of a blend of established and up-and-coming talent including Pete Sinclair, Sarah Morgan, Madeleine Brettingham, Gabby Hutchinson Crouch, Colin Swash, Annabel Port, Dan Gaster, Carey Marx, Tom Neenan, Jason Hazeley and Joel Morris.

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15th May - 21st May 2015

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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

06:00.............. Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20.............................. Psych 07:05 ..................Emmerdale 07:35...................... The Cube 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.......... I Am Legend 23:05 .......... The Vampire Diaries 00:05 ...............Two and a Half Men

06:15 ............... Saving Hope 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 .........................DIY SOS 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ................... Masterchef South Africa 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 .........................DIY SOS 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00..... Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00 ... The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain 19:00 .............Masterchef South Africa 20:00 ......... Resurrection 21:00 ................... Grimm 22:00...Dynamo: Magician Impossible 23:00............ Traffic Cops

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

06:00 .................. Airline USA

07:00 ........ Storage Hunters

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

06:30.................. Airline USA

07:20........................Top Gear

07:00 .......WWE Experience

12:45.................. Big Brother

07:00............................... Glee

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

08:00.............. Hawaii Five-0

09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

08:00 ..................The Premier League Years

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

09:00.............. Hawaii Five-0

10:00...... American Pickers

15:15 .. A Surrogate’s Terror

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

10:00 .........Fantasy Football Club Highlights

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

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

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

15:00 ............Harrow: A Very British School

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30.............. Fireman Sam

07:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

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

07:55 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

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

08:25........................... Frasier 09:25 .................. Undercover Boss 10:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

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

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

08:15 .....................Peppa Pig

12:05 ................... Come Dine with Me

08:35......... Toby’s Travelling Circus

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

08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas

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

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

14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ................................Posh Pawnbrokers 17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30 .............. Hollyoaks 19:00 .... Channel 4 News 20:00............. The World’s Most Expensive Food 21:00...... The Island with Bear Grylls 22:00 ...................The Job Centre 23:00 ....... Bodyshockers 00:00.......... Street Sound and Style 00:30................. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:20......... Embarrassing Bodies

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08:20 .....................Peppa Pig

10:00............ Winchester ‘73 11:50 ...................Time Team 12:55 ...................Time Team 14:00............... Four in a Bed 14:35............... Four in a Bed 15:05 ...............Four in a Bed 15:35 ...............Four in a Bed 16:10 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 ...................... A Place in the Sun 17:45 ...................... A Place in the Sun 18:50 .......Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00.........The Iron Lady 23:00............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:05..... 8 Out of 10 Cats 00:55....... Grand Designs

09:15......... The Wright Stuff 11:45 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:40........................... 5 News Lunchtime

18:00 ..........Car Crash TV 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ........... GPs: Behind Closed Doors

16:00 ..................... Futurama 16:30 ..................... Futurama 17:00............. The Simpsons

20:00 ......Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud

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

21:00..... Benefits Britain: Big Families Special

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

22:00............ Big Brother

21:00 ............... Football’s Funniest Moments

23:00........... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 00:00 ............... The Hotel Inspector 00:55..........Super Casino

18:00............... Futurama 20:00 ....An Idiot Abroad

22:00 ....... Lucky Number Slevin 00:10..NCIS: Los Angeles 01:10......... Hawaii Five-0

11:00 ........ Storage Hunters 12:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 15:00 ...... American Pickers 16:00........ Storage Hunters 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00.............. Scrapheap Challenge 19:00 ...................... QI XL 20:00 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00..... Mock the Week 22:40...................... QI XL 23:40........ Only Connect 00:20...... Mock the Week 01:00.... Storage Hunters

10:30 ........Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 11:30............. Football Gold 12:00 ....FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights 13:00...................The Premier League Years 15:00 ........Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 16:00 ..................The Premier League Years 18:00 ........... Boots ‘n’ All 19:00 ........Football Gold 19:30 .................Football 22:30 ........... Boots ‘n’ All 23:30........ FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights

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The Delivery Man ITV1, 21.30

The drugs cupboard is raided and a forensic team is called in – one of whom is Matthew’s ex - who’s keen to get back together. Ryan returns - and Caitlin has a date with Luke. A midwife gets a marriage proposal.

Newly qualified midwife Matthew Bunting is experiencing a kind of re-birth, having given up his life as a police constable in his mid 30s in the hope of finding something more meaningful.

He is too warm and caring to be a cop. Arriving in his first job as a junior midwife at Easthill Park Maternity Unit, Matthew makes an instant impact on his new team members.

They are led by recently divorced senior midwife Caitlin, witty and likeable junior midwife Lisa, the extremely no-nonsense senior midwife Pat and naïve trouble-maker Tash. Matthew has company from his former police buddy Ian who gets suspended from the force and lands a job in hospital security, while his nemesis comes in the shape of senior consultant obstetrician Luke.

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The Game BBC2, 21.00

When they discover that the KGB is one step ahead, the team must work out who can be trusted and what the KGB has really been planning.

Arkady is their only hope, but he’s got secrets of his own. What is he hiding and who is he really working for?

Running a double agent is a perilous game, and Joe must convince the team to trust his instincts about Arkady. But with a dangerous assassin at large, will Arkady risk his life to help them, or are they on their own?

Compromising gossip about Bobby threatens to destroy everything he has worked for. Can he prove himself to Daddy, or will this spell the end of his career?

15th May - 21st May 2015

T hur s d 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ................ The Housing Enforcers 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 11:45 .....................Saints and Scroungers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00....... BBC News at One 13:40 ....BBC London News 13:45..........................Doctors 14:15............... Escape to the Country 15:15 .................RHS Chelsea Flower Show 15:45 ..................... Decimate 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 ..............Watchdog 21:00...................Shark

Shark BBC1, 21:00

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22:00 ... BBC News at Ten

22:45 ...... Question Time 23:45 ......The Other Man

06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ..........Don’t Get Done, Get Dom 07:45................. RHS Chelsea Flower Show 08:15 .............Natural World 09:15... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00.................... BBC News 12:00............Italy Unpacked 13:00.... Cagney and Lacey 13:45........ Cash in the Attic 14:15 .................Monty Don’s Italian Gardens 15:15........ Elephant Diaries 15:45 ..............Are You Being Served?

16:15 .....................‘Allo, ‘Allo!

16:45..... Just Good Friends 17:15... Antiques Roadshow 18:00.............. Eggheads 18:30 .......Beat the Brain 19:00 ................ Antiques Road Trip 20:00.....The RHS Chelsea Flower Show 21:00............The Game CW choice 22:00................ The Clare Balding Show 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:20........ Death Defying Acts

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 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 20:00...............The British Soap Awards 2015 22:00................. ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40............... Newzoids 23:10........ Piers Morgan’s Life Stories

Beneath the Surface. Wildlife series on the sharks of the world. Sharks are among the most misunderstood predators on the planet. An international team of scientists are trying to change that. Their research is revealing that sharks can be sociable and intelligent, and they could even help solve some of the toughest medical challenges of the 21st century. But their breakthroughs come just as many sharks face extinction. Science may now be the only way to save them.

Born Naughty?

Channel 4, 20:00

One in 20 British children aged between five and 16 have serious behavioural issues, ranging from refusing to eat or do what they are told, to swearing, hitting and breaking things. In Born Naughty? family GP Dr Dawn Harper and consultant paediatrician Dr Ravi Jayaram help children with behavioural problems as well as their long-suffering parents, who often have to wait years for a definitive diagnosis and appropriate help. This time the doctors meet eight-year-old Bobby, who won’t eat anything except chocolate, sweets, cakes, chips, cheese, yoghurt and baked beans. Bobby says that anything else makes him feel sick and his parents, Sally and Craig, have tried everything. They’re worried about his unhealthy diet and tired of being blamed for his eating habits.

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15th May - 21st May 2015

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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

07:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

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!

13:4.................... Dinner Date 14:40 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00......... Judge Rinder 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00.. Along Came Polly 21:50......... The Hot Desk 22:00....... Celebrity Juice

06:15 ............... Saving Hope 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 .........................DIY SOS 10:00.......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ................... Masterchef South Africa 13:00............One Born Every Minute 14:00 .........................DIY SOS 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 ..... Who Do You Think You Are? USA 18:00 ... The Hairy Bikers’ Food Tour of Britain 19:00 .............Masterchef South Africa 20:00 ................... Grimm 21:00 ......... Resurrection 22:00...... One Born Every Minute 23:00..... Neighbourhood Blues

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

06:00 .................. Airline USA

07:00 ........ Storage Hunters

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

06:30 .................. Airline USA

07:20 .......................Top Gear

07:00... WWE SmackDown!

12:40........................... 5 News Lunchtime

07:00 ................................Glee

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

09:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

09:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge

08:00 ..................The Premier League Years

12:45 .................. Big Brother

08:00.................The Fanatics

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

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

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

08:25........................... Frasier

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

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

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

09:25 .......Undercover Boss

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 12:35 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:05 ...............A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00......... Deal or No Deal 16:00.... Posh Pawnbrokers 17:00.........Couples Come W C Dine with Me choice 18:00 ....... The Simpsons

07:35 ..........................Thomas and Friends 07:45 ........ Milkshake! Show Songs 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

11:45.......................... Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

15:15 ...........The Girl He Met Online 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00 ...............Criminals: Caught on Camera

20:00....Born Naughty?

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21:00....... Born Survivor: Bear Grylls

22:00............... High Class Call Girls 23:05........ The Night Bus

11:50 ...................Time Team 12:55 ...................Time Team 14:00 ...............Four in a Bed 14:35............... Four in a Bed 15:05 ...............Four in a Bed 15:35 ...............Four in a Bed 16:10 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 ........................... A Place in the Sun 17:45 ........................... A Place in the Sun 18:50....... Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00 ...... The Good Wife 22:00 .............. My Big Fat Gypsy Fortune 23:05 ............ 24 Hours in A and E

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

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

19:00 .... Channel 4 News

09:35 ..................Oliver Twist

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

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

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

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21:00 ............... The Hotel Inspector 22:00............ Big Brother 23:00........... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

10:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 14:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ............Harrow: A Very British School 16:00 ..................... Futurama 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30 ..................... Futurama 18:00............... Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ...............Kings and Queens of Speech

10:00 ...... American Pickers 11:00 ........ Storage Hunters 11:30 .Storage Hunters UK 12:00....................... Top Gear 13:00....................... Top Gear 14:00.................... Scrapheap Challenge

10:00 ............... Ford Football Special 11:30.....FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights 12:30 ..................The Premier League Years 14:30................ Ford Football Special

15:00 ...... American Pickers

16:00.....FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights

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

17:00................The F1 Show

16:30. Storage Hunters UK

18:00................. Ringside

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

19:00...... Premier League Darts 2015

18:00.............. Scrapheap Challenge

21:00.................. Forever

19:00...................... QI XL

22:00............ A League of Their Own

22:00 ..... Mock the Week 22:40 ...................... QI XL

23:00......... Hawaii Five-0

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

22:00................. Ringside 23:00.... Barclays Premier League World 23:30......... FL72: Play-Off Final Highlights

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Couples Come Dine with Me Channel 4, 17:00

This new episode comes from in and around Rugby.

Laid-back estate agent Michael and his partner Caroline cook a fine dining menu. Eyebrows are raised around the table when super-confident Freddie and Raj announce they love working together and feel they have the perfect relationship. Meanwhile, party queens Soroya and Jodie aren’t impressed with the main. Expectations are high that Freddie and Raj will produce a fantastic menu but Michael and Caroline are looking for cracks in their perfect relationship.

And Soroya and Jodie suspect that the other two couples are competing to see who has the best relationship.

On the final night Soroya and Jodie are determined to show their guests what they’re all about and that their night will be the best. But things don’t go according to plan when Raj is horrified to learn what he’s eating in the unusual pie, and Caroline can’t contain herself when she learns that Freddie has Raj’s name painted on her fingernails.

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What’s On in Tenerife

When: 1st - 31st May Where: Santa Cruz More details: fiestasdesantacruz.com

15th May - 21st May 2015

May Festival Every May Santa Cruz has a month-long celebration to mark its foundation. Flowers flood the city and there is a month of concerts, sports events and children’s activities as well as an extensive programme of cultural events and beauty pageants.

Tenerife Opera 2015.

Ana Bolena Anna Bolena is the first work of Donizetti’s Queens’ Trilogy and is the essence of the dramatic bel canto that the composer would later repeat in Roberto Devereux, María Estuardo and, particularly, Lucia di Lammermoor. Donizetti applied all his talent to the psychological portrayal of his characters in this delightfully melodic piece. The all star cast features Mariella Devia (one of the greatest bel canto sopranos of the last forty years) in the leading role, Tenerife’s most international tenor, Celso Albelo, and mezzo-soprano, Alessandra Volpe, who returns to Ópera de Tenerife after her tremendous success last season in Nabucco.

When: 23rd June Where: Tenerife Auditorium “Adán Martín” in Santa Cruz More details: www.ost.es

‘Caprichos Musicales’ in Isla Baja Isla Baja becomes the musical capital of Tenerife in a new edition of ‘Caprichos Musicales’. Jazz, classical, folk and choral music offered by artists of national and international reputation in a program that guarantees a unique experience to enjoy the best music in the most emblematic buildings of one of the areas with the most beautiful scenery of the island.

When: Until 18th June Where: Buenavista del Norte, Garachico, El Tanque and Los Silos More details: www.consorcioislabaja. com/los-caprichosmusicales

Tegueste Tour Enjoy the scenery and explore the history of the town of Tegueste through over 30 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

Dorada Brewery Tour 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

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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Entertainment

15th May - 21st May 2015

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Work? It’s a piece of cake I HOPE readers don`t take this the wrong way ... but I don’t get out much! Some would say it is tough working every night, but I am lucky enough to be in a business that isn’t exactly a slog.

Showbiz is a funny old game. However, the wise words of an old lady on a cruise ship always ring in my ears.

She told me: “If you find a job you enjoy, you will never work another day in your life.”

Never has a truer word been uttered.

This week, I have taken a couple of days off and have thoroughly enjoyed getting out and seeing some shows.

On Monday I called in at San Eugens to see my old pal Ray Wilde, who quite deservedly won the Best Compere title at the last Tenerife Entertainment Awards.

Ray has been on

the Island for years, always maintaining a fabulous relationship with the audiences who go to see him. Even in the days before Facebook and social media took over everyone’s lives, he would always keep contact with his fan base.

Back in the day, he was famed for writing his own comedy songs.

And he will always be remembered for his “Yogi Bear” tune, which can be found on most of the karaoke databases around the Island’s show bars.

His manner and style as a host is second to none, and that’s why he is resident in one of the most popular bars.

Ray arrives at the venue long before he is scheduled to go on stage, and he spends his time talking to those who have already secured a seat for the evening’s entertainment.

This is so important as a host. It really offers that personal touch and creates a connec-

tion with the audience before he even enters the stage.

Ray presents a minimum of two shows a night with a wide variety of acts, and he has really put his mark on San Eugens. It was a pleasure to see a real professional at work.

A little later, I ventured up the road to the Irish Rover, where Shaun Rooke is resident compere. He has been a well-established compere for years on the Island of Tenerife and he has also created a huge following of return customers in the Rover.

He was also nominated in the Best Male Vocalist category in the TEAs in a year when his category had to sing live on the day, with the audience voting for the winner.

Shaun wasn’t on stage when I arrived, because it was just after 11pm, and his show had already been presented

on stage and was in full swing.

Scott Henderson was the billed act and was just 10 minutes into his one-hour show and clearly had the audience rocking.

He is also a Tenerife award winner, but has worked predominantly as part of a duo.

He made a name for himself at Leonardo’s Bar, in Las Americas, as part of popular duo Loaded, alongside Dylan Tennant. He then became Re-Loaded with Shiel Campbell in 2013.

But recently, Scott decided to take the solo route and is treading the boards as a vocalist. After chatting with him after the show, he told me it was something he always wanted to do.

He loved working alongside his friends, but the challenge of working alone was something he took on with vigour.

Scott has an amazing range, with a talent for learning songs which are popular in the UK charts before most.

Because of his ability to hit very high notes, he can take on songs by the likes of Sam

I HAVE had the great pleasure of standing beside DJ Si Palmer in Tramps this week. The DJ booth is a place where you can see everything that’s going on, and this guy really knows his onions.

He has recently locked on to Indie House, a new trend of music emerging. House music has so many sub-genres but is generally the same tempo: normally, 128 beats per minute.

However, Indie House can range from 115128. It has deep house grooves and takes popular songs like Sweet Dreams by The Eurythmics and takes them to a new level.

DJ Palmer has always been a trend-setter in Tramps and is always one of the first club DJs to exploit new sounds and remixes. He is a genius on the decks and it was an honour to watch him work this week.

Smith, Ne-Yo and even oldies like the Stylistics, which require a flawless falsetto vocal range.

It was great to see Scott enjoying working solo, and at the end of the show he had the same number of people in the bar as at the start. Job done, 100%!

Highlight of my week was seeing one of the Island’s finest. Elaine Alexander is by far the best vocalist on these Islands we call Canary.

Fact!

Her vocal range is endless, and her capability to take on any song is nothing short of outstanding. Elaine has won more awards than anyone and it is clear to see why if you have seen her work. I have never seen an artist open his/ her show with a ballad and bring the house down, as Elaine did last Tuesday.

She totally blew the audience away with her rendition of I´ll Be There by The Jacksons,

a song covered by none other than Mariah Carey.

I have to say, if I had a choice of who I would listen to singing that song, it would be Ms A all day long.

Jessie J’s song Bang Bang has been around for a while, yet Elaine is the only singer I have heard perform it.

She put it in her show around halfway through - and at the vocal height of the song, the audience burst into applause.

You´re doing something very right when a spontaneous rapture like that occurs midsong. Elaine has vast experience and she is the singer all vocalists on the Island cannot fail to respect.

She creates awe wherever she sings, yet remains so modest, gets on with her job and listens to her audience.

She is the consummate professional, and an outstanding performer!

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Wine and Dine

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The Bistro Bistro Restaurant is 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

Oriental Garden A unique restaurant where you can take a long gastronomic journey through the fascinating Asia. Thailand with its spicy aromas, Japan with the freshest sushi, China with its colour and flavour, and India with their culinary seasonings.

Our “Teppan-yaki Room” offers live show cooking a whole thanks to the two steel plates hot to cook food, and business address of our Japanese chef. Quite a spectacle for the eyes and palate.

CC Americas Plaza, Las Americas

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.

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 922 796 544

Call: 698 396 367

Nutters Full English breakfasts, home-cooked food, home-cooked chips, freshly prepared sandwiches and baguettes.

A variety of cakes served with tea or coffee for 4.95 euros, after 3pm everyday.

Drinkers welcome!

Food served all day, takeaway available.

9€

Litre Sangriapm after 3

Middle square, San Blas, near taxi rank

Open: Mon-Fri, 8.30am-6pm.

Sat & Sun, 8.30am-5pm

Belgabar

Rumours

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!

Rumours has recently re-opened after refurbishment. It’s a friendly bar serving fabulous homemade English food.

With breakfast, light lunches and evening meals plus Sunday lunches from 1pm. The menu combines the traditional with the more adventurous or just enjoy a drink on our sunny terrace. With entertainment nightly from 10 pm including Karaoke plus don’t miss Buddy Grahams award winning comedy show every Saturday. There really is something for everyone at Rumours, great food great beer, great entertainment!

Beachfront, The Patch, Las Americas, next to Burger King

Open: 12pm til late

Call: 674 578 413

Paloma Beach, Los Cristianos

Open: 9am til late

Call: 922 792 608

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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

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

Fusion Restaurant A much welcome fine dining experience in Amarilla Golf. Beautiful restaurant with stunning views of Fairways pool area. Everything freshly home made on the premises including delicious desserts!

The owners also have the Premier Bar and A.C. Woodenspoons are now offering a different aspect of fine dining at its best.

Gourmet food at affordable prices.

Amarilla Golf Open: Every day 9.30am - 5pm & 7pm - 10.30pm

Call: 922 708 069

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Health

By Val Sainsbury USING string to find out if you are in proportion might be a better way to see if you are overweight than working out your Body Mass Index (BMI).

A new study has revealed that measuring your height with a length of string, folding it in half and then seeing if you can get it round your waist easily could be a more defined way to find out if you are an unhealthy size.

Today, medical professionals use the BMI

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String’s the thing to sort out weight to decide whether a patient is at risk from disease because of his/her weight.

However, the test has long been known to over-estimate the danger posed to those with heavy bone structures or large muscle mass, and under-estimate the risk to people who carry large amounts of fat around their middle.

International studies have shown in the past that people are at a lower risk from heart disease if their waist measurement is less than half their height.

This latest study, by Oxford Brookes University, surveyed the health of 2,917 16-yearolds.

The Daily Telegraph

reported that it found one-third of those checked would have

been overweight if tested by the string method, yet were classified

as normal by the BMI test.

Dr Margaret Ashwell, from Oxford Brookes University, said the study not only supported previous findings on the superiority of waist to height over BMI, but also showed the dangers BMI alone could pose when used in screening for heartrisk factors.

“Checking that waistto-height ratio is less than 0.5 could not be simpler,” she said. “All that’s needed is a piece of string - not even a tape measure,” she said.

Body Mass Index is checked by dividing a person’s weight in kilos by how tall they are in metres squared.

But because it does not consider what oth-

er weight people might be carrying,well-muscled people are often classed as obese because muscle is considerably heavier than fat.

The method places top-class athletes, sprinters and rugby players in the same weight and height grouping as people who do not exercise at all.

Beyond saving lives, using the test could also save time and money for European health services, says the study.

But there is resistance to changing the status quo because BMI has been the convention for so long.

The research was presented at the European Congress on Obesity in Prague.

For goodness sake, let’s keep the heart pounding ANY activity that gets your heart pounding can delay the increase in fatty deposits by up to 15 years.

Bad cholesterol usually peaks in middle-age before dropping off. But those with higher fitness levels are better protected.

Cholesterol is a fatty

substance found in the bloodstream. And too much can increase the risk of heart disease and other killer, cardiovascular conditions.

Some 2.5million people in Britain take cholesterol-busting statins to stave off heart disease and stroke. But physical activ-

ity has been shown to cut excessively high levels of lipids in the blood.

Confirmation that a healthy lifestyle leads to a healthy heart comes after a 35-year study of 11,500 American men.

It assessed levels of total cholesterol, lowdensity lipo-

protein or “bad” cholesterol, high-density lipoprotein or “good” cholesterol and triglycerides, another type of fatty substance in the blood.

Their cardio-respiratory fitness levels - the ability of the heart and lungs to supply oxygen to muscles during workouts - were measured at the Cooper Clinic in Dallas.

Men with lower fitness levels had a

higher risk of developing high cholesterol in their early thirties, while men with high fitness did not see this development until their mid-forties.

And men with low cardio-respiratory fitness reached abnormal HDL and non-HDL cholesterol levels around their early twenties and midthirties respectively, while those with higher fitness saw normal amounts for life.

Lead researcher Dr Yong-Moon Mark Park, from the Arnold School of Public Health at the University of South Carolina, said: “These findings suggest improving cardio-respiratory fitness levels may delay the onset of dyslipidemia.

Promoting this healthy lifestyle factor may also help reduce the risk of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.”

Dr Paolo Boffetta, Professor of Medicine at New York’s Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, said: “Greater empha-

sis needs to be made on educating the public on the importance of exercise, and clinicians should help counsel patients on fitness regimes.”

Experts agree diets that are low in processed foods, salt and red meat, but high in fruit and vegetables, boost heart health.

Maureen Talbot, senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation, said: “We already know regular physical activity can help to increase your ‘good’ HDL cholesterol level and has a valuable role to play in cholesterol control.

“This study, of healthy men only, shows a good level of cardio-respiratory fitness can delay an increase in their cholesterol levels for a number of years.

“High cholesterol is only one of a number of risk factors for heart attack and stroke, so it is important also not to smoke, eat healthily and keep your weight down as well as getting active.”

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SMOOTH

Broadly speaking, it’s like cruising

By Vanessa Vee IT has become a bit of a joke about how many cruises I go on, but I actually got bitten by the ´cruise´ bug many years ago, namely on the Norfolk Broads, in East Anglia.

When I was a young ‘un, not many people ventured on holiday abroad, but the idea was slowly creeping in - and just look at the tourism industry nowadays!

It has reached heights that were unimaginable in the Seventies.

My parents are proud to boast that they first started going on the Broads 50 years ago, and have done virtually every year, with a few exceptions. And they STILL use the same company to hire their boats.

I have many happy childhood memories of these holidays, and as I have now had my own family, and my parents aren’t getting any younger, we decided to join them on their last adventure.

The hardest part of the journey, with a baby and a toddler, was to actually make our way to Norfolk. With Norwich flights not coinciding with the boat rental days, and also the high expense compared with other airports, we opted to go planes and trains.

Children brought up in Tenerife don´t see “real” trains, so this was a highlight.

We took a hotel for the night before embarkation, and the next morning was all action

stations.

Everywhere you turn in the village of Wroxham, establishments are named Roy’s.

There’s Roy’s Supermarket, Roy’s Bakery, Roy’s Fish and Chips … you name it, Roy’s in the business in some shape or form.

Sticking to family tradition as always, we ventured to the supermarket to stock up on a week’s worth of provisions for seven of us - my family, my parents and my teenage niece.

Once checked in at the boat company, we boarded our home for the week, the “Royal Diamond”.

Some people confuse the Broads with canals, but the North Broads don´t tend to have locks, and, although you do see a small number of barges and yachts, motor-cruisers are by far the most popular means of floating transport.

We had a seven-birth cruiser, with a double en-suite, two doubles with a shared bathroom, and a pull-out single in the lounge area. Mum and Dad, of course, were entitled to the largest, the double en-suite, and wouldn’t you know it, our room had no room to squeeze in the cot for my youngest, so off to the grandparents he went. Ha-ha - he doesn´t sleep at night, so this was a result for me!

Hubby and I were sorted in one double, with daughter and niece in the other. We also had the use of a fully-equipped galley kitchen, complete with gas hob, oven, fridge and microwave, together with a roomy lounge area with put-up dining table, TV and DVD player.

Relaxing is not part of my vocabulary, but this holiday just about

forces one to take a step back from the rat race.

The speed limit on water is 7mph, and life just slows down a gear.

As sad as it sounds, you find yourself birdwatching, feeding ducks and swans and gazing at the amazing properties backing on to the waterways.

There is even a floating shop, if you come across it, which has daily produce, and an ice-cream boat to serve you alongside. And then there’s the Southern Comfort steam boat, to name but a few irregular sights.

I am usually delegated breakfast cook, and there are sandwiches and salads for lunch.

And selecting where to moor up for the night is usually where the evening meal takes place, usually by way of a restaurant, pub meal or a walk to the local takeaway.

Snuggly bedding is provided to give you a perfect night’s sleep, and the cruiser is fitted with showers, though many mooring places have public shower blocks for hire.

For me, the big thrill is strolling to the local bakers and butchers in the morning to stock up, bathing baby in the sink and, generally, just opting out of the normal routine, albeit for a short time only.

The Broads bring back many childhood memories for me, and it’s a pleasure to be able to give these opportunities to my children.

So much so that I´ve booked again. When a child asks you constantly if you can “remember when the ducks used to jump on the boat and tap at the window, Mummy”, it proves that it’s the little things in life that can make you smile.

Tenerife Sunshine Travel have a Norfolk Broads holiday from the Island, based on two people sharing, including return flights, trains, hotel stays and four nights cruising from only 809 euros per person in July.

Other dates, boat sizes and durations are also available on request.

For more information and reservations, email travel@tenerifesunshine.com or call 922 751 867 (ext 1).

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OPERATORS

By Carl from Robot

IF you’re looking for what’s new for guys this season, there is one rule for hair which must be followed and that’s “style”.

Whether it’s short and cropped, or slightly longer in length, there’s absolutely no “spikes” or “messy” looks around this year … just sleek and groomed is the way you should be having your hair cut.

Keeping up to it means regular 3-4 weekly appointments to make sure it stays in shape, because letting it go over will just ruin the look.

Make sure, too, that you are using the right products and do NOT use some cheap gel that’s hanging around.

Your product should have slight hold but with a matte or greasy texture.

Depending on the cut and the image you are going for, this should tell you which products

to use. A light matte wax will give you definition and that slight hold, whereas a greasytype product will create sleek and groomed hair.

Most styling on guys now is taken away from the face - height at the front while smoother at the back. And don’t be afraid to take the sides really short. This will create a dramatic shape and enhance the longer section on top.

But if you want a style that’s more versatile, be sure to keep the top

sections as long as possible. You can style the fringe to one side, or take the whole top section back - it’s up to you - but do make sure it’s not hanging in your face!

These cuts are inspired by the fashions of the Forties and Fifties, when men styled their hair but didn’t rely on too many products because it was all in the cut.

So the next time you are sitting in the salon chair, why not ask for something a little different?

Choosing a new style makes a huge difference to any guy’s image, no matter what age. If you’re going to use a greasy product, this is best on dry hair.

Just push your fingers through it as it dries, or blast quickly with a hair-dryer.

Then apply the product of your choice, and don’t be afraid to use plenty. Remember, the look is “slick” and not ruffled.

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By Monica Dyson HOW many people remember those evocative advert images towards the end of the Fifties of a lonely-looking Frank Sinatra lookalike on a dark, wet evening in London, puffing reflectively on a cigarette?

The theme music, The Lonely Man by Cliff Adams, was hauntingly beautiful and did well in the music charts, reaching No.39.

Not a lot could be said for the cigarettes, associated with loneliness and losers (not cancer in those days!), and they were withdrawn after a few years. The actor involved,Terence Brook - a non-smoker was one of the stars in

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No more telly cigarette puffs

The Colditz Story film.

Doing better were the adverts for Camel during the Eighties. These were endorsed by celebrities like John Wayne, who smoked six packs a day. The slogan which informed us that it was a “psychological fact that pleasure helps your disposition” didn’t do much for the stars in question, many of whom died from lung cancer, including Big John and Robert Mitchum.

After a while they were dropped from the adverts in favour of Camel Man, a fictitious character who “did more than survive, he lives!” Adding that “Camel time is pleasure time!”

Prior to those cigarette advertisements was one which was to become the most instantly-recognisable advertising icons in the world: Mar-

lborough Man. Created in 1954 and around for over 50 years, he was the most masculine of men, and Marlborough were the preferred smoke of cowboys. Yet their advertising in the early days was aimed at women, with men realising it was good to have a more macho image - and sales really took off!

Cinema-going was big at the time, and our favourite stars made smoking look so glamorous and sexy that we wanted to emulate them. It was considered very sexy when the man lit two cigarettes at once and leant over to put one in the lips of his female companion!

People tried to convince themselves that they looked so cool when they were smoking!

Even popular songs of the day endorsed cigarettes. “A cigarette that bears lipstick traces, an airline ticket to romantic places” came from one of the most beautiful songs of all time: These Foolish Things. What an apt title if used to describe cigarettes!

Smoking was everywhere. In the cinema there would be a cloud of smoke rising in front of the screen. Likewise in the theatre and on aircraft, until there was a smoking section at the back of the plane for those who couldn’t go a few hours without a drag!

Who remembers the first all-inclusive holidays, when cigarettes were in a bowl on the dining tables?

Thank goodness now for smoke-free cinemas, aircraft, buses, pubs and restaurants. And the good news is that it will soon be illegal for people to smoke in cars carrying children.

You have only to watch old films to realise the enormity of smoking in those days. By the time health warnings had started to appear, many people had become completely addicted to them, finding it ex-

tremely difficult to stop.

I remember starting work in the late Fifties.

One of my colleagues expressed surprise that I didn’t smoke. “Oh, it’s great,” she said, and proceeded to take me to the ladies’ cloakroom to let me have a go, so I wouldn’t appear a complete novice if I were offered one in the office.

From then on I became an occasional smoker, difficult when it was the fashion for people to chain-smoke when on a night out. But I managed to give up completely when pregnant with my first child. “It won’t last,” I was told.

“As soon as you’ve had the baby, you’ll ask for a cup of tea and a cigarette!’

Happily I accepted the tea, but not another cigarette!

And so, like many former smokers, I became extremely self-righteous and paranoid about anyone smoking near me, or in my house. Holidays abroad were sometimes like a game of musical chairs when diners were allowed to smoke

in restaurants at a table near me. Today, luckily, things have changed.

There really does seem to be fewer smokers about, or is that just my imagination?

Perhaps people have realised that at nearly £10 a packet, it really is an insane way to get through hard-earned money, even if they don’t seem bothered about dying prematurely.

Or at best, having themselves, their house and their clothes smelling unpleasantly.

“No Smoking Day” was 11th March, when it was hoped that people would finally decide what a stupid, dirty, anti-social and expensive hobby smoking actually is.

Much has been documented about the effects of smoking on the human body, including lung disease, cancers, artery diseases, heartattacks and strokes.

And recently, scientists at the University School of Medicine in Washington have also identified links to kidney disease, intestinal disorders caused by inadequate

blood flow and heart and lung illnesses not previously attributed to tobacco.

They researched one million people over a 10-year period and concluded that they have seriously underestimated the risks of smoking. People who smoke have death rates three times higher than those who have never smoked.

But I’m just wondering what effect these electronic cigarettes are actually having on the cessation of smoking?

It seems that there is a shop selling them practically on every corner here in the UK. Do people not get addicted to the e-cigarette? They have certainly caught on with vaping, the word for ecigarette-smoking even making it into the next edition of the Oxford English Dictionary.

And there again, with recent publicity about their actual safety, should they be allowed in public places?

There’s a lot to be said for chewing gum, isn’t there!!

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Tony Bowes appeal LOS Abrigos resident Tony Bowe passed away recently, and his friends are raising money for his cremation.

Tony was real character, always the first to help out at charity events. If you can help in any way, please call Rob on 631 089 720.

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Live Arico news

Get well soon, Katie WE know that many of you follow the story of Katie, our 14-yearold rescue horse who suffers from a painful condition of the hooves called laminitis.

Sadly, she relapsed some months ago and is fighting her way back to good health, which, we are assured, will be the case.

Her pain-killers alone are costing almost 100 euros month, so we have decided to stage a fund-raiser for her care on Sunday, 31st May, from 2pm at Horse Riding Adventures in Aldea

Blanca, where she lives.

Come and enjoy the bbq, drinks, pony rides plus horse-and-cart trips, with all proceeds going to Katie’s welfare. We have held these events in the past and they have been extremely popular and well attended.

So please come and show Katie how much we all love her.

Tim, a special case We are making a special appeal this week on behalf of Tim, our Dog of the Week, who is a seven-year-old German Shepherd cross.

He came to us via San

Miguel police with terrible injuries to his paws, which we cannot explain,. although he was quite possibly mistreat Because of these injuries he cannot go to the refuge, so he needs a foster home urgently.

He is presently living in a cage at Hospivet Sur and is, understandably, becoming depressed.

Please can you help?

All he needs is his paws bathing each day, and he really is a good boy.

Please call Sue on 629 388 102 for more information about Tim and how you can help him.

Let’s hope next week that we are writing that he has been sorted. Can you make it happen?

Accion del Sol news

All the love in the world Your Emails

Dear Editor, May I use your letters’ column to reach out to Rotarians, residents, swallows and visitors, who miss out on the pleasure of Rotary Fellowship while they are in Tenerife?

While the local Tenerife Rotary Clubs show great hospitality to visiting Rotarians, their business is conducted in Spanish, which restricts the enjoyment gained from attending these clubs.

I am sure there are many Rotarians who would enjoy the opportunity of sharing fellowship if they could join regular meetings, conducted in their own language.

This would be attractive to resident Rotarians, those who visit the Island for the winter and those who are here on holiday.

I am, therefore, wondering if there is any interest in setting up a Rotary Fellowship Club in Tenerife, initially in the South.

I would be pleased to hear from any Rotarians interested in taking advantage of such a club, and who may also be ready to take part in setting it up.

If you are interested, please contact me in the first instance: David Chapman, david. pc@ntlworld.com.

David Chapman 88 Wiston Avenue Worthing BN14 7PS B21 Paraiso Del Palm Mar Palm Mar 38632 Arona

THIS is one of many lucky dogs at the refuge who had so much fun on Saturday afternoon, experiencing the love of a human from one of our younger, valued supporters.

It was an amazing afternoon, and we were totally overwhelmed by the number of people who supported our fund-rais-

er. And there was lots to see and do! We had a fun dog-obedience test, Mr and Mrs Dog 2015 competition, horse-riding, a small animal-petting farm with goats, rabbits, ducks, lots of very happy and excitable puppies, as well as music, a dance display, all the traditional fun at the fair, face-painting, cakes and

a bbq, stalls laden with bargains … and much more. And, of course, we had the photo competition with so many gorgeous pictures. We would like to thank everyone who helped on the day, and for the generous donations, which made this our best-event ever.

We are so happy to have

your backing at the refuge, which enables to enable us to continue our valuable work with the dogs here in Tenerife.

How 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.

Arts and Crafts, well wood you believe it...

THIS weekend’s annual Adeje Arts and Crafts Fair will focus on woodcraft work, with demonstrations in other specialities also scheduled in the town’s Plaza España.

The event, organised as usual by the Council’s Department of Culture, starts at 10am tomorrow (Saturday) and Sunday

and is open until 9pm, during which time there will be a series of activities open to the public.

Young children will be treated to craft workshops, held by trained monitors from the Convivencia project, in the mornings.

And music will also feature during the two-day

event, with performances from Grupo Boleros, from Armeñime, tomorrow at 12.30pm, and students and musicians from the Adeje Folklore school from 7pm.

On Sunday, the Parranda from Grupo Boca del Paso will entertain the public in the morning and that evening, José Manuel Ramos will perform “Desde adentro” at 8 pm.

Adeje’s Arts and Crafts Fair has been an annual event since 2000, with over 100 stalls selling Canarian crafts and handmade goods to the pub-

lic, made by local artists and artisans, as well as others from all over Tenerife and the other Canarian Islands.

Many of the stalls celebrate the use of traditional craft methods, using materials such as wicker, wood, glass, resin and fabric, producing a range of items for sale, including traditional clothing, jewellery, carpets, hangings and musical instruments.

There are also tasty food items such as honey and cheeses, plus a firm favourite - traditional biscuits and cakes

Lions’ great bid to help rebuild Nepal

LIONS’ clubs from the South and West Tenerife have jointly donated 4,000 euros to the appeal launched by Lions Clubs International, to assist in the rebuilding projects in earthquakedevastated Nepal.

Terry Hill, of Santiago del Teide Lions Club, said: “If you would also like to help - and be assured that every last cent donated goes to where it is needed - please contact any Lions member, or visit your local Lions Charity Shop.

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Fit for purpose?

By Sue McDonald WHATEVER the situation regarding your home, the furniture should always be fit for purpose.

Therefore, if your house is a permanent home, it will not be furnished as though you live there for just 3-6 months of the year.

Equally, if you rent your property out, it is important that you consider all the relevant factors to ensure that it is suitable for rental, and that you do not overspend in maintenance or cleaning.

For example, if the property is for your own use only, you can indulge yourself with pale sofas, plump cush-

ions and fragile ornaments. You know your own standards, and you know you will take care of your possessions.

You will also need more storage than is necessary for people on holiday, and you might consider a nice sideboard or a cabinet for your treasures.

However, if you rent your property out, you must be careful to restrict any personal items to those you

would not be upset to lose or break.

You should also take into account that other people may not have the same standards as you, or may not take much care with sun-cream or spillages when they are on holiday.

Intricate blinds or curtains are not appropriate for a rental situation. You should also consider safety, taking into account such items as trailing cords or glass

tables (which should always be made of tempered glass).

If you live here for some of the year, and rent out the rest of the time, you need to find a balance between the two types of furnishings.

A good solution is to have a lockable cupboard, in which you can store your personal bits and pieces to make your own stay more comfortable, while leaving it a little more bare, but

more practical for the rest of the time.

As far as rentals are concerned, the person or company who clean your property between rentals will appreciate the fact that you have given some thought to the durability and ease of cleaning your property.

For instance, a sofa upholstered in pale cloth would be a nightmare for them, whereas one in synthetic leather, or in fabric but a darker colour, will be easier for them to clean.

This also reduces the downtime of your property for maintenance purposes. This type of sofa will also not be damaged or marked by mopping around the base.

Equally, your cleaner will not appreciate delicate ornaments that may get broken or need a lot of dusting, or intricate items of furniture which can attract dust and dirt.

Carpets are hard to keep clean, whereas tiles are easy to sweep

and mop. The rental market is extremely competitive at the moment, so it is important that your property looks clean and attractive, and has all the inventory required to make a stay there comfortable and pleasant.

A tired sofa, uncomfortable beds or dirty curtains will not encourage tenants to rebook with you next year, and could be the reason that your neighbour gets more rentals than you!

For a relatively small expenditure, you can refresh a tired property to look more appealing and, in the long run, reduce your downtime - and your cleaning and maintenance bills.

So make sure your property is looking its best, and is practical and comfortable, and fit for purpose, whatever your situation.

All items mentioned are available from Deco Nuevo; call for an appointment and a no-obligation free estimate.

BASIC ANIMAL INSTINCT

By Carl Pattison

STYLES come and go, and shapes go in and out of fashion. Yet there’s one theme that NEVER dates and always makes a statement, and that’s Animal Print.

It has been around for years, dating back to the Twenties when it

was highly used. But it was real fur then!

Since using genuine fur of any kind is shunned nowadays, and rightly so, for moral reasons.

Fake fur is now so popular that it never seems to disappear from our fashion rails.

From zebra to leopard, tiger to giraffe, animal print is here to stay. and it is used by High-Street brands to designer ranges.

But there is a way to

wear it without it looking cheap or over the top. You must pick a statement piece.

If you are wearing a top or jacket with print on, then stick to just this and don’t clutter it up by wearing a skirt (or trousers) as well. Keep it classy looking, and even if the item you are wearing isn’t expensive, it will look as though it is, as long as you are using just the one item.

Okay, if you want to tie

the image up with an accessory, wear jewellery in the same pattern.

If you want to pick a bag that matches, make sure it matches perfectly. Don’t let it clash because of a different tone or pattern.

Clashing animal print can look good, say, if you mix it up, such as choosing leopard with zebra, so don’t be afraid to experiment.

Try picking items that will stand the test of

time because animal print is here to stay.

Go for classy, timeless, simple clothes that will blend in well with your wardrobe.

And if you don’t want to go the whole way, look for shoes to bring out that animal vibe.

The good thing about animal print is that it’s neutral and will go with any item. Just don’t mix it with another pattern.

Be careful when buying this look, though, because sometimes, the print is put on to cow hide to seem even more realistic.

Cow hair is animal fur, so wear animal print to show you care - and don’t go down the road of wearing the real thing.

As beautiful as it appears on those animals in real life, you can look just as good without using the real thing.

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By Emma at Motorworld

I AM often asked what the rules and regulations are about driving while carrying goods such as shopping, flat-pack furniture etc, over here.

Obviously, no one would want to transport an unsecure item which could, potentially, cause an injury during an accident.

How many times have you seen cars filled to the brim with flat-pack boxes, or things sticking out of the window because they are too long to go in the car, etc?

The law that regulates this, and the police who enforce it are not being pedantic. In a lot of situations, these can be a health or accident hazard in the event of a crash, say.

Quite often, people are being stopped and fined by the police for carrying unsafe loads. There are strict rules on companies who transport goods in their vehicles as

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Danger of carrying goods part of their job.

And these are more and more often being checked by the police to ensure that they have the necessary paperwork for carrying the goods - and that the loads are safely secured to avoid injury.

Spanish Traffic laws are quite complex but, possibly, this particular law is one of the most straightforward and logical, if you think about it.

Firstly, nothing should be placed in your car that makes it unstable or unsafe to drive. This means spreading any load evenly so the vehicle is stable at all time.

Anything being carried on the back seat should be secured by the seatbelt, or other suitable restraints such as a strap, or a restraint made for this purpose, to ensure it cannot move and injure or distract the driver.

It is always important to concentrate on vehicles and obstacles around you when driving to avoid having an accident and worrying that the new cupboard you’ve just bought and

placed on the back seat could be a distraction if it moved. Or that it could injure the driver or passenger if one is being carried incorrectly.

You should also remember that when transport- ing children and goods, t h e y c a n , a n d a r e , most i n quisit i v e and may s t a r t playing around with obj e c t s within

their reach.So it is better to store as much as possible in the boot, hatchback or, where appropriate, on a roof-rack or in a small trailer, if you h a v e one.

The alternative is to pay a company to transport and deliver the goods for you.

It is forbidden by law to carry anything that protrudes from the vehicles, especially from the windows, which could hurt

another vehicle, pedestrian or cyclist.

This is something that so often happens, and the police are currently clamping down on these issues. You may be lucky and just get a warning at that time or, if unlucky, a fine - and no way of transporting the offending object to your destination!

It is also forbidden by law to carry heavy loads, as I have mentioned, without a restraining net. Some newer cars come with such nets, and they can also be purchased and fitted.

Over the next few weeks, I will cover some of the most common things that people ask about because they are unsure.

So if there is any particular subject you would like me to cover, please contact emma@ motorworld tenerife.com

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WIN! Tickets for bowling at Megabowl 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.

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Sudoku X...

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30-Second Brain Training

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

8 4

3 5 1 4 7 2 5 3 4

6 9 2 7 8 5 3 2 9

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49 6

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Cable Curve A cable, 16 meters in length, hangs between two pillars that are both 15 meters high. The ends of the cable are attached to the tops of the pillars. At its lowest point, the cable hangs 7 meters above the ground.

The Question: How far are the two pillars apart?

Last Issue's Answers:

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1 9 7 6

1 2 3

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6 2 8

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4 9 5 3 8

8 6 5 3 2

9 1 3

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Solution to: The King’s Gold

And 2 normal sudokus for you aswell...

7 8 3 4 6

DOWN 1 Inexpensively (7) 2 Subtract (5) 3 Page of a book (4) 4 Waits in line (6) 5 Surgical cut (8) 6 Not outside (7) 7 Sat at in schools (5) 12 Emphasized (8) 14 Card game (7) 16 Wrap up, swathe (7) 17 Mailed message (6) 18 Nodules, mounds (5) 20 Wastes time (5) 21 Require (4)

this week’s Riddles

Answer

9

Advanced Starter Number

ACROSS 1 Food fish (3) 3 Made into a puree (9) 8 Hug, cuddle (7) 9 Ciphers (5) 10 Foot-way, track (4) 11 Old-age payments (8) 13 Sailing vessels (6) 15 Flowerless plants (6) 18 Tarried (8) 19 Travel document (4) 22 Face covers (5) 23 Increased threefold (7) 24 Defamed (9) 25 Her (3)

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A fair division of the coins is indeed possible. Let the number of rooms be N. This means that per room there are N chests with N coins each. In total there are N×N×N = N3 coins. One chest with N coins goes to the barber. For the six brothers, N3 - N coins remain. We can write this as: N(N2 - l), or N(N - 1)(N + l). This last expression is divisible by 6 in all cases, since a number is divisible by 6 when it is both divisible by 3 and even.

This is indeed the case here: whatever N may be, the expression N(N - 1)(N + l) always contains three successive numbers. One of those is always divisible by 3, and at least one of the others is even. This even holds when N=1; in that case all the brothers get nothing, which is also a fair division!

CW Crossword

Brain Training:

ACROSS. 1 BASK, 3 OBSERVER, 9 DOUBLET, 10 BARNS, 11 GREEN, 12 NEWBORN, 13 AROUSE, 15 EFFECT, 18 SHELTER, 20 YAWNS, 22 ALESI, 23 CONFESS, 25 DISPERSE, 26 EYES. DOWN. 1 BED, 2 SAUCE, 4 BOTANY, 5 ELBOW, 6 VERBOSE, 7 RESONATES, 8 FLINGS, 11 GRASSLAND, 14 OPENERS, 16 FLYING, 17 FROCKS, 19 TEIDE, 21 WEEDY, 24 SOS.

Godoku:

Beginner: 23 Intermediate: 28 Advanced: 39

Sudoku X:

6 5 2 7 1 3 4 9 8

9 1 8 5 6 4 2 3 7

4 3 7 9 2 8 1 5 6

1 9 5 2 8 6 7 4 3

2 4 3 1 5 7 8 6 9

8 7 6 4 3 9 5 1 2

5 6 9 8 4 2 3 7 1

3 2 4 6 7 1 9 8 5

7 8 1 3 9 5 6 2 4

Sudoku:

7 8 5 9 3 6 4 1 2

4 8 9 7 2 1 5 3 6

1 6 2 7 4 5 9 3 8

6 1 7 5 3 9 4 2 8

3 9 4 2 1 8 6 7 5

2 3 5 4 6 8 9 7 1

4 2 8 5 7 3 1 6 9

3 5 2 8 9 7 1 6 4

6 1 9 4 8 2 3 5 7

8 9 1 3 4 6 7 5 2

5 3 7 1 6 9 2 8 4

7 6 4 2 1 5 8 9 3

9 7 1 3 5 4 8 2 6

1 2 3 9 5 4 6 8 7

2 5 6 8 9 1 7 4 3

9 4 8 6 7 2 3 1 5

8 4 3 6 2 7 5 9 1

5 7 6 1 8 3 2 4 9

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British Consulate Address: Plaza Weyler, 8, 1º, 38003 Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Public opening hours: Tuesdays & Fridays: 08.30hrs – 13.30hrs Notarial services: Please consult our webpage or call 902 109 356 or alternatively +34 913 342 194 for further information on how to make an appointment. Please note, we are no longer able to provide notarial services without prior appointment.

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Local Police Tel: 922 75 70 06

Red Cross Emergencies and Ambulances Tel: 922 28 18 00 Information and Blood Bank Tel: 922 28 29 24 International MEDSERVICE Tel: 922 79 05 63 Medical Benefits Agency Tel: (00 44) 191 218 7547 For if you find yourself in medical difficulties whilst on holiday and without the proper holiday insurance.

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Shopping Most shops open from Mon - Sat 09:00 - 13:00 then 16:00 - 20:00 Some shops may open for just Saturday Morning, and many shops are closed on Sundays and Tourist Offices, Bank Holidays, with the exception of souvenir shops which tend to open 7 days a week.

Pharmacy Information and Locator (24 hours) Tel: 922 28 24 24 Citizen Information Tel: 010 Postal Services Tel: 902 19 71 97 International Operator Tel: 11825 Local Operator Tel: 11818 Tourist Information Tel: 922 60 55 90 Hospitals & Medical Centres (Answering Machine) Tel: 094 Hospital Las Americas, Playa de las Americas Tel: 922 75 00 22 Playa de Las Americas Centro Medicos Del Sur Tel: 922 79 10 00 Candelaria Hospital Tel: 922 60 20 00

Tourist Offices Tenerife Sur Tourist Office (Main Tourist Office) Tel: 902 00 31 21 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tel: 922 28 93 94 Santiago de Teide Tel: 922 86 03 48 Costa Adeje Tel: 922 75 06 33 Puerto de la Cruz Tel: 922 38 60 00 El Medano Tel: 922 17 60 02 La Laguna Tel: 922 63 11 94 La Orotava Tel: 922 32 30 41 Las Galletas Tel: 922 73 01 33 Los Cristianos Tel: 922 75 71 37 Los Llanos de Aridane Tel: 922 40 18 99 Playa de las Américas Tel: 922 79 76 68 Playa de las Vistas Tel: 922 78 70 11

Beach Safety Obey the beach warning flags and always supervise children when near water.

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Telephone numbers: Flight Information 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) Airport Information Tel: 922 75 90 00 Tourist Information Tel: 922 392 037 TFN - Tenerife Norte airport (Los Rodeos) For all domestic flights and some scheduled international and mainland services.

Telephone numbers: Flight Information Tel: 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) General Information Tel: 922 635 800 Buses TITSA is Tenerife´s public bus company.

Tel: 922 53 13 00 The ´Bono-Bus´ discount card can be purchased from all TITSA stations and terminals of TITSA and reduces the cost of transport by up to 30%.

Radio Taxis Tel: 922 64 11 12 N.B. Taxi cabs display a special SP (Servico Público) licence plate.

Arona Taxis Tel: 922 74 75 11 National Ferry Services Fred Olsen Tel: 922 62 82 52

Microwave & grill 35 euros. TDT with remote, 15 euros. Ceiling fan with lamp, 25 euros.

Camping gas, 20 euros. DVD player video recorder combo remote ,45 euros DVD player 25 euros. VCR player 20 euros. Butane gas bottle, 40 euros each,3 for 110 euros. Two orange juicers, 10 euros each. Deep fat fryer, 20 euros. Cordless home phone, 10 euros.

Table lamp with shade, 10 euros. Computer monitor, 25 euros. Child ‘s car seat, 0 a 18 kilos, 20 euros. 200 PC games, 3 euros each. Tel: 686 336 904 Printer Canon, 20 euros. TV Oki 32 inch, 85 euros. Mirror with green rotan frame 20 euros. TV table blue and gold color with 3 glass shelves, 40 euros. Costa del Silencio Tel: 627 243 583 Solid wood freestanding butchers block table/island, 80cm high 75cm wide 50cm deep, with drawer, integrated knife block, wine rack and wine glass rack, 150 euros. 3 thread over-locker, good working order, 150 euros. Silencio area, buyer to collect. Tel: 662 354 391.

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Yellow - Strong winds and turbulent sea conditions. Take care.

Green - Safe to swim

Over 65 paperback books (including a lot of cookery books) 35 euros. Approx 180 CDs by various artists, 70 euros. Single metal bed frame 30 euros. Double metal bed frame, 50 euros or both for 60 euros. Buyer collects. Tel: 922 764 238 or 617 073 223

3 wheeler travel system, includes 1st size car seat, cozy toes, rain cover, nappy bag, great condition, 80 euros. Tel: 637 206 026 42 in LG flat screen TV with English TV box. (10 months viewing left). Facing Guaza.

400 euros. Large gold leaf mirror, 56 in, 30 euros. Cash register till, 30 euros. 4 door Freezer 60 euros. Fridge, 30 euros. Small TV with remote control, good working order.

15 euros. 32in TV in good working order, 25 euros. Tel: 600 076 975

4 Sport alloy wheels with tyres (ultra sport NS-II) made in the UK, size 175/60R13 7H, 180 euros. Kettle good as new, works perfectly, 10 euros. Toaster in perfect working order, 10 euros. Steering wheel cover, good condition, 10 euros. Stunning 14k gold bangle with 3 emeralds and 4 diamonds, 495 euros. Costa del Silencio Tel: 608 653 260 Dog transport kennel, medium, 30 euros. Golf caddy, electric battery and charger, 40 euros. Two golf trolleys, 10 euros each. Plate exercise machine, 40 euros. Gas barbecue, complete with gas bottle, 40 euros. Tel: 922 748 073.

Please ask us for prices for larger size adverts.

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All property, classified and service point have to be paid for in cash at our officces in Las Chafiras.

Silver grey ladies mountain bike, 90 euros, very good condition, Silencio area, Tel: 603 288 253

Ladies authentic Calvin Klein watch, gold, face white with 3 tiny diamonds, 150 euros ono. New DKNY watch, unisex gold & white ceramic with diamante front, 150 euros ono. Genuine Lady Chloe sunglasses, dark green 40 euros. Binoculars: 1 x 7 x 50 navy Artillery, 250 euros ono. Zenith 7 x 50 like new, coated optics field 71, 200 euros ono.

Pair shoes, dark blue leather and material, size 43-44, Prada new, 50 euros. Bag of new indoor golf training gear, 35 euros. Bag of video games, (about 50), 50 euros. Original Formula 1 shirt, XL Black, Torro Rosso Red Bull infinite team with all decals, new, 90 euros. Black leather jacket, new (Springfield), 60 euros ono. Los Cristianos. Tel: 657 450 885

Mountain Bicycle, unisex red with full independent suspension including saddle. 7+3 Shimano gears but need adjusting. Good Brakes, tyres etc. 90 Euros or offers. Silencio area. Tel: 663 422 184.

Alcatel hands free phone with extension - 2 phones, with intercom, both hands free all the mod cons. 2 months old, 45 euros. Lovely cream rectangle dining/kitchen table with glass top, 55 euros. Tel: 634 048 502

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Deadline: Tuesday 4pm

Pine furniture: 3 drawer, 3 cupboard sideboard, a round solid extending table with 2 chairs. Coffee table, dressing table and 1 bedside cabinet. All good condition in sturdy quality pine. 85 euros. Tel: 922 752 734 or 693 863 444

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Cars/BIKES

Property for renT

Established resort in Tenerife south requires a Polish speaking person to work in their marketing department, dealing with all marketing activities. Some travel involved. Contract offered.

Please e-mail your CV and contact telephone number to: jobs@ destinationtenerife.com or call 922 714 632 Showtime are looking for female sassy dancers and a female singer for a brand new exciting show starting mid June.

Please contact Lona on 639 154 726 for more information and an audition.

Regency Resorts are looking for an experienced IPC/concierge.

Applicants should be self motivated with a sunny disposition and looking for a challenge. Good package with fixed wage and commissions for the right candidate. Must be car owner.

To set up an interview please send CV to info@regencyresorts. com

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Very attractive 1 bed 1 bath apt has been totally refurbished & rewired.

145.000 Euros

C1673. TINERFE GARDEN, SAN EUGENIO. End terrace town house with private garden, 2 bedrooms.

Communal pool.

275.000 Euros

Roy Pizza & Indian Tandoori is looking for a driver with a full driving licence. Must have been living on the island for over 2 years, with a good knowledge of the south of Tenerife.

Must also speak Spanish and English. Please email your CV at Admin@royspizza.com or call Fran 922 715 242

B1542. CLUB ATLANTIS, SAN EUGENIO.

1 bed 1 bath apt with built-in dining area, lounge, kitchen, & a terrace with sea views. Aircon. Sold furnished.

B Funky fashion shows are looking for International girls to model swimwear in the South of Tenerife for an immediate start. Must be presentable and speak good English, other languages an advantage. Sales or PR experience essential.

Daily work, salary, commissions paid and contracts given. Call José between 11am & 5pm on 606 181 946

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Jobs A well established and busy Scottish Bar/Restaurant requires a self motivated manager to lead our existing team and promote all aspects of managing and driving a successful business. All candidates should have NIE number and several years managerial experience and be able to provide suitable references from previous employers. The job will be hands on and entail both day and evening work as required. The successful candidate will have a friendly disposition and an ability to communicate with both customers and staff. A full time contract and competitive salary will be provided. All applicants should respond in the first instance by email with their full C.V. to jw@chattelle.com.

Fantastic opportunity for the right applicant. Kaluna beach

Air conditioning and refrigeration. Tel: 639 361 181 or 688 620 707 or see electrical.

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Construction

Home removal

ALADDINS CAVE. Antiques & Vintage Goods bought & sold Tel: 922 720 493

Auction Fortnightly General Auctions at Tenerife Auction Rooms, Las Chafiras. Buy and sell almost anything! Collection & delivery available. Call 609 303 634

Kitchens & bathrooms

Blinds

Colin Taylor – Renovations & Maintenance, Bathrooms, Kitchens, Tiling, Plumbing, Decorating, Plastering etc. Tel: 661 081 843 for quotation.

Lawyers

Cars

Chiropodist Ann Malpass M.A.F.H.P. M.C.F.H.P. Qualified Chiropodist. All your foot care needs solved in the comfort of your own home/hotel.

Tel 625 799 570

Driving School Magic

Elaine Watson Jones MSSCh MBChA. Based in Los Cristianos.

I offer perosnal visits to the South of Tenerife. Tel: 608 029 790.

Email: canarianfeet@gmail.com

Cleaning

Electrician

Marble flooring

Elite Cleaning Services is an established cleaning company who can provide a professional cleaning service for Apartments, Villas and Offices. Call us today on 922 789 795 or 696 922 597.

Furniture New Bed Bases & Mattresses for sale at Tenerife Auction Rooms, Las Chafiras. Excellent Quality, Low Prices, Next Day Delivery. Call 609 303 634

Garden Furniture

Computers

Telephone: 922 736 728 E-mail: Computer Service Provider BT Authorised Dealer Dell Registered Partner

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Health & Beauty www.fitnesswithdebbie.com Tel: 664 576 779 www.yogavibetenerife.com

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Patio Doors & Windows

Plumbing

Boiler King: All plumbing works undertaken including boiler replacements, drain clearance, swimming pool pump repair & maintenance. Tel: 680 278 579

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Tiling

Pool tables

Translation Property services

TENERIFE TRANSLATION SERVICES: Legally registered with over 25 years experience. Official, Medical, Notary, Wills, Utilities, Probate, Pensions, car paperwork and much more.

Professionalism and confidentiality guaranteed.

Transport available. Call Tracey on 666 857 991 or email on info@tenerifetranslationservices.com

TV and Satellite Menny Fix, Satellite TV Tel 922 792 116 Avnd; Antonio Dominguez 18, Edif: MarOLa Local 2, Los Cristianos. EST 1994, Repairs, Maintenance and Sales.

Removals UNIVERSAL EXPORTS S.L. PROFESSIONAL REMOVALS TO AND FROM THE U.K. Email: info@removals-tenerife.com Transport Licence: No. 11572932 C.I.F. No. B38820395 Tel: 922 720 711

Second-hand Shops

House, Apartment & Villa Clearances Everything bought for Cash Immediate Decisions

Upholstery cleaning

Call Freddie on 609 303 634 Long & Short Term Storage also available.

Storage Short and Long Term Storage available at Tenerife Auction Rooms, anything from a suitcase to complete removals. Collection available. Call 609 303 634

repairs Windows Personal ServiceS Sissy, Los Cristianos. Slim, sexy, domination, good looking, Private Apartment, Call: 634 273 126 Las Galletas Novelty, 2 Slim Friends, with big breasts, fulfill your fantasies. Erotic massage and services. Tel 669 738 298 Meliza, blond, good looking Venezuelan in the Calle Noruega in Los Cristianos, big breasts, no limits, hotel-home visits. Tel 602 383 409

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Sport

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Racing to disaster Racing Santander 1 CD Tenerife 0

By Roscoe TEN thousand people turned up at El Sardinero to watch the most predictable match of the season so far. You didn’t need to be Nostradamus to foretell what would happen.

A fast start from the home side, a soft goal, some dodgy decisions and a gung ho attack too late in the match from the visitors.

Mama Sylla’s first-half penalty was enough to give Racing a vital three points, while Tenerife got what they deserved.

Nothing!

Something has changed with this team. We all know that Tenerife are rubbish on the road, so it’s not that. There was a real lift when Raul Agne took over at the start of February, and there seemed to be progress as the team went eight matches unbeaten.

But that now seems a long time ago. To these eyes, the team are too good to go down - but with just five games to go, they still need a result or two.

In fact, there is a whiff of the Newcastles and Hulls about Tenerife.

The Geordies have gone nine without a win and sit just above the drop zone, while Hull have a horrific final couple of games.

Sound familiar?

Tenerife have managed seven without a win and face runaway leaders Real Betis and third-place Sporting Gijon in the last days of the season.

How has it come to this?

For me, there are three problems.

Firstly, discipline.

Suspensions have hurt Tenerife in the last few weeks.

Key players keep missing matches, and most of the time it’s down to pure stupidity, which seems to be baked into the club’s culture.

At times, it feels as

though players want to get booked as some crazy sort of badge of honour. If you are going to get carded, make sure it’s for something that counts. Let’s be honest, our players are not the brightest.

Secondly, when Raul Agne took over, he promised flair and attacking football. That worked at first, but the players have gone back into their shell recently.

With two wide players, we should scare defenders and force midfielders to drop off. But in the last few games, we have dropped off. Suso seems shackled, while Vitolo and Sanz appear outnumbered.

Agne needs to give the players their freedom back. If he is asking them to sit back in the style of former boss Alvaro Cervera, then he must play that way correctly. That means a third central midfielder in either Ricardo or a fit-again Quique Rivero.

And finally, Tenerife need to fit their confidence and composure in front of goal. Have you ever seen a team waste so many chances? Maxi Lopez is having a decent run, but he is no Ayoze.

Diego Ifran, who picked up another in-

jury in training, looks shot. His early-season zest has vanished and at times, his body language suggests he would rather be somewhere else.

A few weeks ago, President Miguel Conception was talking about a new contract for Agne, but that is off until survival is guaranteed.

Even then, there has to be a question mark. Are the players playing for Agne right now?

Remember the fallout he had at Cadiz a little while ago? And he openly admits he is not the easiest to work with. I’m not saying there has been a fallout, but something is going on.

Yesterday (Thursday), a court ruled that the Royal Spanish Football Federation’s (RFEF) suspension and players’ strike was not legally binding and ruled the league must carry on as normal.

So the final weeks of the season will be played as scheduled and Tenerife’s mustwin home match with Alcorcon goes ahead on Sunday, with a 7pm kick-off.

This is the most important game of the season. I believe Tenerife need six points to be safe, and they must go

out all guns blazing to try to get half of those this weekend.

Osasuna, Racing and Sabadell all have tough away matches, but Alcorcon are no pushovers. They will still feel they have a small chance of making the play-offs, and their record against Tenerife is excellent.

The last home game saw over 10,000 turn up, and the club are trying Position

to replicate that with Venezuela squad. some great ticket pricThe tournament starts es. For Sunday, tickets on 11th June, but Venare priced at Tribune - ezuela’s first match 18 euros, San Sebastian against Colombia is not - 14 euros, Herradura - until 14th June. It’s un10 euros and the Popu- clear when he will be lar - 7 euros. summoned for internaMeanwhile, Tenerife tional duty, but it seems goalkeeper Dani Her- likely he will miss Tennandez has been called erife’s last two matches, up for the Copa Amer- against Real Betis and ica. He has been out- Numancia. standing since joining in Venezuela are in a January and he was al- tough group which inways going to be in the cludes Peru and Brazil!

Points PLD Won Draw Lost F A

1

Real Betis

75

37

22

9

6

61

32

2

Girona

71

37

21

8

8

56

33

3

Sporting Gijon

69

37

17

18

2

47

26

4

Real Valladolid

65

37

19

8

10

56

31

5

Las Palmas

63

37

17

12

8

59

41

6

Real Zaragoza

56

37

14

14

9

55

51

7

Ponferradina

52

48

53

37

14

11

12

8 Llagostera

51

37

13

12

12 34 34

9 Alavés

50

37

13

11

13 44 40

10 CD Leganés

50

37

14

8

15

39

35

11 CD Numancia

50

37

12

14

11

48

46

12 AD Alcorcón

50

37

12

14

11

41

43

13 Mirandés

47

37

12

11

14 33 41

14 CD Lugo

46

37

11

13

13

15 Albacete

44 37 12 8 17 45 56

44

47

16 Mallorca

42 37 11 9 17 46 56

17 CD Tenerife

40

37

9

13

15 32 41

18 Osasuna

39

37

10

9

18 34 54

19 Racing Santander

38

37

10

8

19

36

45

20 Sabadell

36

37

8

12

17

36

55

21 Barcelona B

33

37

8

9

20

46

67

22 Recreativo

32

37

7

11

19

31

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15th May - 21st May 2015

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Sharpen those arrows!

By Geoff Huxtable IT soon comes around again, doesn’t it! Yes, the Oasis Fm darts league roars back in to action tonight (Friday), even though the hango-

vers from last season’s Presentation Night still linger in the memory.

A slight reshuffle sees us return to a two-division set-up with 15 teams in each league, and we welcome a few new faces to our midst.

Joining us this term will be Shandys Chippers, from Los Cristianos, Bar Leones,

playing out of Parque de la Reina, a second Waterfall outfit, and an aptly-named Gaffers Jucee Girls team. The mind boggles!

Moving swiftly on, we trust that all teams, new and old, will enjoy the next 10 months of competition, with a host of banter and a few shandies thrown in.

Talking of competition, all the usual tournaments are still in place, including singles, doubles and trebles knockouts, plus the end-ofseason charity event, the memorial trophy, and the ever-popular John Lowe team handicap cup competition.

We also welcome three young, eager mem-

bers on to the committee: Dave Mac, from the Phoenix, Pas O Nadas`Sheena and Chas, from Picassos.

Rob continues, taking on the Treasurer’s role, and this old geezer gets to be chairman!

After the difficulties of the last campaign, we sincerely hope that the new system and

committee will make your darting experience much better. We will do our best, be sure of that.

Of course, we have to say a big Thank-You to Oasis Fm and Canarian Weekly for their continued sponsorship and support for this fine darts league. All that remains to say is: LET’S PLAY DARTS!

Nandu secure second spot IT has been a thrilling first season for Nandu Rugby Club, who have finished an excellent second in the league!

It was a great weekend of rugby and the boys rounded off their final trip to the mainland this season with two excellent wins.

And Gregorio was leading scorer for the front row, adding another four tries to his impressive tally.

Nandu 29 Quimic 12 AFTER four weeks without a competitive match, it took Nandu 20 minutes to find their rhythm and start dictating the game.

Quimic started confidently and the first encounters went their way as their fly-half marshalled their backline. However, they failed to convert pressure into points and the ferocious Nandu defence held strong.

And through the leadership of Gregorio

and his pack, Nandu turned possession into points and never looked back.

Alessandro, who has been playing rugby for just three months, epitomised the effort with continuous tackling - and catching the majority of high balls that came his way.

Once in control, Nandu scored try after try, dominating the contact area, and Quimic buckled under sustained pressure.

A pleasing aspect of the game was the scrum which Nandu dominated, even winning many against the head.

Another excellent show by Nandu, with tries from Gregorio, Reece, Facundo, Gabriel C and Mel. Nandu 31 Gotics 12 THE final game arrived and the boys, buoyant after the previous success, set to work to beat the opposition.

They knew victory would secure their runners-up place in the league, but Gotics were never going to be a walkover.

They are renowned for having a powerful pack, which provide quick ball to the opposition. But Nandu’s forwards fronted

up and more than matched their opposite numbers. They were physical at the breakdown and were clearly winning the battles.

Intelligent defence, with units working together, prevented Gotics crossing the line and making any linebreak gains.

Reece, in his final game for the team, led from the front, carrying ball after ball and pushing Nandu over the advantage line and on to the front foot.

With the support of Fran and Facundo, the boys provided quick ball, enabling the backs to take advantage.

One of the highlights was Chema’s chip and chase, which carved open the defence and put pressure on the opposition full-back.

Fantastic vision and kick execution saw him chase his own ball, collect and score under the posts.

Tries: Chema, Gegorio, Reece and Facundo.

All-change as Inter take over ANOTHER game has come and gone, and there are just two weekends left before the end of the Premier League.

The title and two relegation places have been decided, but it is still all to play for in the Oasis Fm Fantasy League as it was all-change at the top again.

Man City were the big contributors to the

point-scoring team of the week, after their dismantling of a woeful QPR side. Three of their players made the grade, while the rest of the team was a real mix, with players from Swansea, Aston Villa, Chelsea, Leicester, Man Utd, Stoke, Liverpool and Sunderland.

At the summit, Nick Abbott’s Boomtown Rabz were knocked off top spot by Ray Malone, whose Inter Malone lead the way with 1,997 points - just 12 ahead of

Nick, on 1,985. Frank Devaney’s Toffee’s are still in third on 1,984 points, together with Jamie Palmer’s Spartans, who have also amassed the same tally.

So it really is game-on now! Ray took top spot after being team of the week with a great total of 98 points. This was largely down to having Sergio Aguero as his captain, who, with his hat-trick and double haul, scored a big 46 points. He also had Da-

vid Silva and John Terry scoring well for him.

So with just a couple of games left, thoughts can almost turn to next season. Will Harry Kane be able to reproduce the form he has shown this season?

What gambles will be taken in the transfer market?

It is a difficult job being a Fantasy League manager, trying to predict players’ form and who will score goals, and making transfer decisions.

Agreed, it’s not quite as stressful as being an actual manager, but all

good fun none the less.

So bring on next season.

Fantasy Football League 1. Inter Malone

Ray Malone

98 1997

2. Boomtown Rabz

Nick Abbott

85 1985

3. Toffees

Frank Devaney

94

4. SpArTaNs

Jamie Palmer

94 1984

1984

5. Kingsmead Krunchers Stephen Snook

80 1953

6. Harri’s thunderstars

Harri Lobban

75 1937

7. Coffee shop karma

Gordon Wilson

50 1931

8. Crossfire Hurricanes

Warren Wilson

66 1924

9. Overrated Twots FC

Hugh o’Sullivan

83 1917

10. Fc Twenty

Anthony Cracknell

57 1912

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Gaffers pot the title

THE Direct Telecom Pool League have new champions as Gaffers A wrapped up the title on Tuesday to join the distinguished role of honour.

With Tenerife Hammers A playing their final game, Gaffers knew that with two games in hand, all they needed was a draw and the title was theirs.

They travelled to Los Abrigos to take on Phoenix Potters, a team more than capable of pulling off an upset. But with the title in their sights, Gaffers were always favourites.

The Potters, looking for a top-five finish, gave it their best shot.

But the visitors were just too strong and the result was never in doubt. Gaffers took the win and the title … and the celebrations started.

Hammers A faced Treehouse A in their final game, knowing they needed a massive upset for them to have any hope of retaining their title. It never came, but they didn’t let their heads drop, though, and got

on with the job of collecting three points.

Treehouse have faded in the last few weeks and it was another bad night at the table for them. Hammers,who took the win and finished the season strongly, will look to regroup over the summer break and come back next season stronger than ever to try to prise the title back.

The Phoenix, battling it out with Inn the Pink A for third spot, took advantage of their rivals not playing to move above them.

They had a tough game against The Peacocks, who are fighting a relegation battle, but The Phoenix took control early and, once they got their noses in front, they never looked back.

Peacocks put up a fight but it wasn’t to be, and they now face two must-win games to stay up.

Just a few weeks ago, Palms A were involved in the battle for a topfive finish. But their form has dipped in recent weeks and this week was no exception.

It’s as though they are already on their summer holidays Dreamers A were this week’s opposition and

division 1 ResultS

division 2 ResultS

Dreamers A Exiles B Phoenix Potters Tenerife Hammers A The Peacocks

8 - 4 8-4 3-9 9-3 3-9

Palms Bar A Terrace Bar B Gaffers A Treehouse A The Phoenix

division 1 Table

Gaffers B Sporting Jester A Sporting Jester B Treehouse B Waterfall Jokers

9-3 8-4 3-9 4-8 4-8

Picasso’s A Dreamers B Next Door James Place The Crown

division 2 Table

Table

P W D L F

Table

P

1 Gaffers A

26 23

3

0 220 92 128 72

1 Sporting Jester A

24 20

2

2 205

2 Tenerife Hammers A

28 22

4

2 227 109 118 70

2 Bluebell A

25 18

2

5 177 123 54 56

3 The Phoenix

26 13

5

8 165 147 18

44

3 Waterfall Jokers

25 16

4

5 178 122

4 Inn The Pink A

24 13

3

8 156 132 24

42

4 Gaffers B

24 14

5

5 175 113 62 47

5 Phoenix Potters

26 12

2

12 158 154

4

38

5 James Place

24 13

4

7 168 120 48 43

6 Treehouse A

26 11

4

11 158 154

4

37

6 Inn The Pink B

23 11

8

4 159 117 42 41

7 Dreamers A

27 10

5

12 164 160

4

35

7 Hoppys Bar

25 10

2

13 154 146

8 Waterfall Rebels

25 10

5

10 143 157 -14 35

8 Picasso’s A

25

9

4

12 141 159 -18 31

9 Palms Bar B

25 10

4

11 143 157 -14 34

9 Next Door

24

9

2

13 143 145

10 Palms Bar A

26

6

11 153 159 -6

10 Tenerife Pool Tables

23

7

2

14 119 157 -38 23

9

A +- PTS

33

W D

L

F

A

+- PTS

83 122 62 56 52

8 32 -2 29

11 Exiles B

25

8

5

12 137 163 -26 29

11 Sporting Jester B

24

7

2

15 118 170 -52 23

12 Terrace Bar B

27

8

4

15 139 185 -46 28

12 The Crown

24

6

2

16 70

13 Terrace Bar A

28

6

4

18 139 197 -58 22

13 Dreamers B

24

4

2

18 107 181 -74 14

14 Treehouse B

24

2

5

17 114 174 -60 11

14 Tenerife Hammers C 25

5

3

17 111 189 -78 18

15 The Peacocks

3

7

16 127 185 -58 16

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they started the night a point behind their rivals. But they were determined to ensure they finished the night above them. Matches between these two sides are always close, but Dreamers did a better job this time of finishing off their frames - 3-1 became 5-1 before the Palms A fightback.

At 5-4 it was game-on only for Mark and then Tommy to finish the job

for the hosts. Terrace B are another team who have gone backwards in the second half of the season. They are fortunate to have picked up enough points in the first half to avoid a relegation battle.

A trip to Silencio and a game against Exiles B gave them the opportunity to get back to winning ways, but it wasn’t to be.

Exiles are another of those teams who know how to use home advantage, as they did again this time.

With a couple of the Terrace players being off-form, Exiles made the most of it and enjoyed another three points to move above Terrace B. In Division Two, Sporting Jester A were crowned champions last week without even picking up a cue. And this week sees Bluebell A confirmed as runnersup, again without even playing.

Waterfall Jokers still had an outside chance of finishing top, and a more than good chance

of taking second spot.

But last week’s draw, and defeat this week, left them four points behind Bluebell with just one game to play.

They were beaten by The Crown, who will be a team to watch next season. They came into the league late on to replace another team and, after a shaky start, they have started picking up wins, mostly notably against the champions. And this week they were too good for the Jokers, forging out another great result.

Gaffers B had a good go at gaining promotion this season, only to run out of steam in recent weeks. On Tuesday they took on Picasso’s A and, on paper, were the better side.

But this league is always capable of throwing up surprises and Picasso’s were in good form. Maybe Gaffers B have one eye on their forthcoming Plate final, but credit where credit is due. Picasso’s were simply too good for them.

James Place could still finish in the top

218 -148 20

four after a slow start to the season after enjoying another win, this time against Treehouse B. It has been a difficult season for Treehouse and they look like taking the wooden spoon.

True, they put up a fight but it just wasn’t enough. The visitors were too strong and never looked troubled on their way to victory.

The final games involved both teams from Sporting Jester. The A team, already champions and promoted, had a tie against Dreamers B. It was a relatively straightforward game for them and they were too good for the visitors.

Sporting Jester B haven’t fared as well as their bar mates, and they failed to carve out a win against Next Door. Craig and his team can play good pool and, on occasions have been unfortunate this season. But they were solid against the Jesters and, with three points added to their tally, they could still finish in the top half of the table.

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By Adi Benson

HUll of a big match

Southampton v Aston Villa Saints have been going backwards for some weeks, suffering another loss last weekend. They were looking good for a top-seven finish and, Europa League football perhaps, but Swansea are now just a point behind them. They need a win and will go for it in their last home game.

Villa are still in with the possibility of relegation, but they are in a better position than their rivals. Three three points here and they will be safe. They will be confident after seeing Leicester beat Southampton and, with Benteke back in great form, they have a proven goalscorer.

Prediction: Home win

Burnley v Stoke Burnley have nothing left to play for after being relegated last week, despite winning. However, they are an honest team and I am sure they will want to put on a good show for their fans. They will be playing with no pressure so I believe they are in with a real chance of picking up another win because they don’t want to finish bottom.

Stoke were pushing for an even higher finish, but Swansea’s defeat of Arsenal means they can go no higher, unless the Swans concede a glut of goals in their final games. It has been a good season for Stoke, though, and Mark Hughes should be applauded for getting them to play attractive football.

Prediction: Home win

West Ham v Everton Hammers need a win if they are to finish in the top half of the table. It has been a very disappointing second half of the season after they started so well, and it is looking more and more likely that there will be a new manager in place next season.

Everton are the team chasing them in the league and a win will move them above their rivals. For a while, it looked as though Everton would be involved in the relegation battle. But they have rolled up their sleeves up in recent weeks and picked up the points needed to avoid getting dragged backwards.

Prediction: Away win

Sunderland v Leicester Sunderland are in a better position than their relegation rivals as they have a game in hand - against Arsenal! But when you are fighting for your league status, anything is possible. A win here is a must because their final game is at Chelsea. They they showed a fighting spirit against Everton and will need to play at the same level.

Leicester are on an unbelievable run of form and will be very confident they can continue it. They looked as if they were down and out a couple of months back, but they have dragged themselves out of the relegation places and given themselves a real chance of survival. A win will make them pretty much safe, and what an achievement that will be.

Prediction: Draw

QPR v Newcastle The home side are down and out and heading for the Championship. For me, they have got exactly what they deserved because, their squad was full of players at the end of their careers, picking up one last big pay-check and not really caring about the team. One or two players aside, the whole squad has been poor and shown no stomach for the fight.

Newcastle are teetering on the edge of a cliff but will be confident they can secure a victory which will nudge them closer to safety. A massive summer overhaul is needed, but it remains to be seen whether Mike Ashley will provide the cash needed.

Prediction: Away win

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WITH just a couple of games left to play, we already have two teams relegated. But the fight to avoid the final relegation place is well and truly on.

There are five teams in danger, potentially, so results are extremely important this weekend.

Liverpool v Crystal Palace I am steering away from the sentimentality of Steven Gerrard’s last game at Anfield because we all move on at some point. After last weekend’s draw against Chelsea, fourth place is now out of the question, so Liverpool don’t really have anything left to play for. But they will be keen to beat Palace, who have become somewhat of a bogey team, costing the Reds the league last season.

Palace will again want to be party-poopers, and after decent recent showings against Chelsea and Man Utd, they will feel they have the players capable of winning.

Prediction: Home win

Swansea v Man City The Swans having been getting stick this week for the way they played against Arsenal, but they got the points and that is all that matters in the league.

They looked like finishing eighth, but that surprise win has seen them move to within a point of Southampton. If they can overhaul them, it will be a fantastic season for Garry Monk in his first managerial job.

Man City are fighting with Arsenal for second spot and I’m sure they will thank Swansea for helping out. But they need to win their final games, and I’m sure they won’t be charitable on the pitch. In-form Aguero, who will be hunting more goals, offers more of a threat than Giroud, so Swansea’s defenders will have to be on their toes.

Prediction: Away win

Man Utd v Arsenal This is one of those footballing conundrums for United fans: beat Arsenal and they can move above them into third spot. But that will most likely see Man City finish runners-up! They returned to winning ways last week but were far from convincing, and this will be a difficult game for them. But with a top-four finish guaranteed, the pressure is off a little.

Arsenal have gone back to their tactics of walking the ball into the net as they constantly dithered in front of goal against Swansea, rather than someone having a shot. In the end, it cost them dearly. They need to show a huge improvement if they hope to catch City, but this game is always played at a high tempo, and that will suit the Gunners.

Prediction: Draw

West Brom v Chelsea West Brom are now safe but they will not want to be overtaken by big rivals Aston Villa. They know Chelsea are already champions and will hope they take their foot off the gas. Saido Berahino has a big chance to shine and put himself in the shop window, ready for the transfer market opening as he dreams of a bigger club.

Chelsea looked lethargic in the draw against Liverpool, but they have had a long season and, with the title already secure, you could not blame them for playing at a slower pace. Some players are already in holiday mode and it showed on the pitch, so West Brom have a real chance.

Prediction: Home win

Tottenham v Hull I’m not entirely sure what is going on at Spurs. In recent weeks they have become stagnant and, if anything, have moved backwards. It’s no coincidence that the goals have dried up for Harry Kane, and that is a real worry because Spurs have no other strikers in form. They need to invest in the summer and bring in players who can complement Kane and lighten his burden a little. Hull know they must win - and hope results elsewhere go their way. It is a good time to be playing under-par Spurs, and that should give hope to Hull. They need two massive performances in their final two games ... otherwise it’s Championship football for them!

Prediction: Draw

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