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Issue 907 19th June - 25th June 2015

Tenerife’s cruising success

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IT is rare for an established holiday resort to find a new, untapped market, but there are strong signs that Tenerife is bucking the trend. This week there was a plethora of good-news stories about the booming cruise-liner market.

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Tenerife’s cruising success Continued from front.

The hard work put into the project by the Tourism Board, Cabildo, Canary Government and local town halls is finally bearing fruit. And

it looks set for a long, sustained harvest.

There have been plenty of critics of the longterm view held by tourist chiefs to aim for a higher-end customer.

Santa Cruz Port expansion A THIRD cruise terminal is planned for the Santa Cruz Port by September 2016, in time to host the Seatrade Cruise Med event.

It will feature a huge luggage area, plus a check-in section with 50 desks, several waiting places, a security area, an aerial gangway plus a taxi lane and bus-parking site.

The new building, adjoining the two existing cruise terminals, will offer easy access to the city centre.

This will enable Tenerife to continue handling ships from Thomson Cruises, MSC Cruises, Fred.

Olsen Cruise Line, Hapag Lloyd Cruises and Windstar Cruises.

Although cruise traffic dropped slightly

in 2013, Tenerife welcomed 298 calls and 544,839 passengers.

This year, the city has enjoyed calls from some of the newest large cruise ships including P&O Cruises’ Britannia and Royal Caribbean International’s Anthem of the Seas.

TUI Cruises’ newbuild Mein Schiff 4 will call in November and Norwegian Cruise Line’s Norwegian Epic will visit in December.

Cruise numbers are expected to be boosted this September, when guests will be able to take direct flights from Newark, in New York, to Tenerife.

Tenerife Tourism Board Office hopes the new flight route will enable cruise companies to expand the number of itineraries they offer in the Canary Islands and surrounding areas.

They deserve to be applauded for having the strength to see the project through.

Planned upgrades for many tourist areas, along with new com-

mercial centres, shopping and leisure opportunities, and a readying of the ports, has seen the planted acorns growing into fully-grown trees.

As you will read on this page, and in our special feature on the “Anthem of the Seas”, on Pages 10 and 11, the cruise industry is welcoming Tenerife with open arms.

The Island has a real chance to make its mark over the next few years.

And, being an all-yearround tourist resort, the sky is very much the limit.

Cruisers hunting the bargain buys THE Canary Islands welcomed a total of 1.9 million cruise passengers throughout 2014, representing a 17.38% increase from the previous year.

Ricardo Fernandez de la Puente, the Canary Government’s Deputy Tourism Minister, was delighted with the figures.

“The average expenditure per cruise tourist is 43.8 euros a day - a fig-

ure that has been growing in recent years,” he said.

“This sum exceeds the average of the overall tourists visiting the Canaries, which stands at 37.63 euros.

The study, held every two years, detailed that of the total expenditure, 53% of tourists spend on shopping, 23% on food and drink, 13% on transport and 11% on excursions.

Fernandez de la Puente said the cruise business in the online world was expansive and that the Canary Islands still “re-

mains to be developed” to take full advantage.

He pointed out that usually, the largest ships bring tourists who spend less, so “we must not be swayed by the size”.

The Deputy Tourism Minister also explained that often, the tourist first chooses the ship and then selects the destination.

“Of course, consolidation is a key of the port of Las Palmas as a base because it helps to consolidate cruise tourists and makes them want to repeat the trip, which

means it is on the right track.”

In any case, he said, the expenditure on each island depends largely on the “Offers”, so he asked those entrepreneurs lacking these facilities to adapt their businesses accordingly to attract this type of tourist, and also provide customer care in several languages.

He also said that the Canary Islands ports and the Deputy Minister had already “defined” strategic cruise plans, which play a specific role in promotions.

Cruise forum for experts THE Gran Hotel Bahia del Duque yesterday (Thursday) hosted the Tenerife Cruise Forum - a gathering between travel professionals and cruise-industry leaders.

It highlighted the Island’s cruise opportunities to representatives

from all over Spain.

Speakers included Alfredo Serrano, director of the employer cruise CLIA-Spain; Marcus Puttich, director of port operations of TUI Cruises; Emiliano Gonzalez CEO of MSC Cruises, and Rafael Fernandez, director of marketing for Costa Cruises, among others. The forum was opened by Pedro Rodríguez Zaragoza, chairman of the San-

ta Cruz Port Authority, Cabildo President Carlos Alonso and Virginia Lopez, General Director of Cruises News Media Group. During the day the state of the global cruise industry was addressed, plus Tenerife as a tourist destination and cruise leader in the mid-Atlantic; the figure of the port agent and excursions; choosing cruise itineraries and promoting associated

European cruise ports, among others.

This forum was aimed at professionals in the port sector, the auxiliary industry, travel agencies, institutions related to the promotion of tourism and hotel services managers, guides, restaurants, museums, taxis, shops and general services which can benefit from Tenerife’s cruise passenger arrivals.

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YET another royal controversy has erupted over Cristina de Borbón, younger sister of King Felipe, who is facing a tax-fraud trial regarding the socalled Nóos case.

The monarch is said to have stripped his sister of her Duchess of Palma title, which she held since 1997 when she married former Olympic handball player Iñaki Urdangarin.

But the Princess’s lawyer, Miquel Roca I Junyent, claimed just a few hours later that it was Cristina who renounced the nobility title in a letter written earlier this month.

A Royal Palace source cast doubt on this version of events, saying: “The renunciation letter arrived by fax yesterday, after the King informed Cristina of his decision.”

Her husband, once admired within the royal family, has since become a major suspect in an embezzlement case involving no-bid contracts, awarded to his Nóos Institute by the regional governments of Valencia and the Balearic Islands.

Cristina, known as the ‘Infanta’, fwas embroiled in the case through her joint ownership of a company which, allegedly, served to receive the ill-gotten funds.

She is also alleged to have used company credit cards to make personal purchases, then claimed tax deductions.

But Cristina, for more than three years since she became a target of the court investigation, has refused to give up her succession

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King strips sister of title

rights to the throne.

Her father, former King Juan Carlos, then her

The order is part of a fleet upgrading, and these new models will join another batch of six ATR 72-600, acquired by the Canarian company in Feb-

asked the Princess around 400 questions during her appearance of more than six hours in his courtroom.

She answered “I don’t know” 182 times!

The case against her has itself been steeped in controversy, which has led to a public falling out between Judge Castro and his anticorruption attorney, Pedro Horrach.

The latter believes there is no hard evidence to put Cristina on trial, and suggests that she is being persecuted for who she is, rather than for what she has done.

On the other hand, the judge claims that putting the Princess on the stand proves that everybody is equal before the law, regardless of their royal background.

Canarian economy is leading the way

Binter’s six of the best BINTER Canarias airline has asked European aircraft manufacturer ATR for another six new 72-seater model 600 planes.

brother Felipe, who accessed the throne a year ago, have pleaded with her to take this symbolic step to help improve the royal family’s image.

Juan Carlos himself stepped down at a time of unprecedented low popularity for the institution, marked by street protests by supporters of turning Spain into a republic.

Sources from the royal household claim: “The decision to renounce the rights of dynastic succession continue to be in the hands of the Infanta.”

On 8th February last year, Cristina became the first member of Spain’s royal family to testify in court as a target of a criminal investigation.

Palma de Mallorca Judge José Castro

ruary last year. Binter stressed in a statement that its new ATR aircraft will gradually replace the older Binter turbo-props, allowing the airline to reduce maintenance costs and provide higher levels of comfort.

The airline, which now operates 16 ATR 72-500 planes, will begin to receive the new models in the autumn.

Binter executive Alfredo Morales high-

lighted in the statement that, for nearly two decades, ATR aircraft have proven to be “a good choice” for flights between the islands.

And ATR director Patrick de Castelbajac thanked Binter for putting its trust in his company for the planes’ daily operations. “They provide a winning trust of efficiency, reliability and comfort,” he assures.

THE Canarian economy continues to grow. During the first quarter of 2015, the islands’ gross domestic product (GDP) grew by 3.1% over the same period last year.

That’s according to the Canarian Institute of Statistics (ISTAC), which says the Archi-

pelago is “advancing quicker that the whole of Spain”.

The rise of regional GDP stands four-tenths above the state mark of 2.7% and exceeds “significantly” the growth prediction from the European Union. They expected Canarian growth to be around 1.4%.

Javier González Ortiz, acting Minister of Economy, Finance and Security, said: “These figures highlight the continuous progress of the Is-

lands’ economy and the positivity we now have.

“This strengthens the recovery at a higher rate than the rest of the state, and I hope this new rise will result in the creation of more jobs.”

In terms of sectors, all industries are experiencing positive annual growth rates. The increase was led by the construction industry, which increased by 3.5%, followed by services with 3.2%.

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Forest fire giving cause for concern

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Water chief’s bubbly THE dry winter and spring has sparked fears of a summer of forest fires in Tenerife. There have already been one of two minor incidents, and last week saw the first significant blaze.

A large fire broke out in Vilaflor, wiping out about 16 hectares of pine forest and scrub on a track near Fuente Fria and the recreational area of Las Lajas.

The blaze occured next to the insular road leading to the Teide National Park access. The Cabildo said the flames burned a covered ground within a radius of 2km.

The TF-21 was closed

for safety reasons on the stretch between Vilaflor and Boca Tauce during the early hours on Thursday.

Over 250 people from different resources and organisations got the fire under control.

The Forestry Brigades (Brifor) of the Cabildo mobilized two pumpers, two anti-fire vehicles and two high mobility tactical vehicles.

Three helicopters

Drinker’s dishwater death A MAN has died after drinking dishwater detergent, allegedly, instead of white wine, at a Spanish bar.

It happened in Benicarló city, on Spain’s east coast, and Spanish media reports that a bar worker may have put the detergent in an empty wine bottle, which then, inadvertently, was sent to the cold room.

Police sources said the 51-year-old Spaniard may have been served

the substance accidentally after ordering a drink at the bar.

He was taken to a nearby hospital, suffering from burns to his windpipe, throat and stomach, and later died there.

The Civil Guard is investigating whether anyone could be held criminally responsible for manslaughter.

The bar owner was arrested before being released, pending further enquiries.

Hard-done-by Canarians CANARIAN workers earn around 5.1% more than in 2010, with an average salary of 1,633 euros a month at the end of 2014.

That compared with the 1,553-euro mark in 2010, according to the National Statistics Institute (INE). However, Canarians are still the worst-paid workers in Spain, and the situation

is unlikely to improve because the salary increase over the last four years is lower than the national average, which grew 6.2%. Thus, Canarian workers earn 18% less than the national average, which adds up to an income gap of 358 euros a month, or 4,300 a year.

The community whose average gross salary is closest to the Canary

Islands is Extremadura, where this stands at 1,648 euros per month.

The highest average salary is, in turn, earned by the Basques, who receive 2,393 euros per month on average.

Canarians in 2014 on average received 80 euros a month more than in 2010, which is reflected in an annual revenue increase of 960 euros.

worked in stages over the affected area and the Cabildo was delighted with the team work between the different departments and emergency services.

The Forestry Brigades of the Cabildo will continue, with the support of other troops from different organizations and institutions, to monitor the wooded area of the island during the summer.

FOLLOWING the severe drought of 2012, the Island reservoirs are currently at 72% of capacity, which does not bother José Joaquin Bethencourt, the Councillor in charge

“Despite a relatively dry winter, we are in the best place when you look at the numbers over the last four years,” he said.

Bethencourt has a point. In 2012, Tener-

ife was facing a severe drought - and the dry year brought many problems to the agriculture sector. At the worst point, Tenerife’s reservoirs were holding just 18% of their capacity.

But today, in the South, San Isidro, El Saltadero in Granadilla and Arona’s San Lorenzo are all topped-up well.

In the North, some reservoirs are above 90% full, especially at Montaña de Taco in Buenavista which is 92%, and the Santa Cruz Los Realejos one is touching 95%.

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North airport still foggy ... after nearly 86 years Canarian toddlers are not so well-educated

A MAJOR new education survey highlights that Canarian kids are falling behind those educated on the mainland.

IN the summer of 1929, Lufthansa planned the first flight into Tenerife’s North airport - and it seems that little has changed since that proposed Berlin trip.

At the time, Tenerife Cabildo was racing against the clock to get an airstrip on the Island and, under intense pressure, they looked at the Los Rodeos area.

Leasing 17 hectares of ground, they rushed out an airfield late in

the summer of 1929, only for Lufthansa to cancel its flight at the last minute because of a problem with the plane.

This gave the Cabildo a little more time to finish, or part-finish the airport. Finally, on 5th December, the Arado VI Lufthansa plane landed “with great difficulty” - exactly where the present day Tenerife North Airport stands.

Although nearly 86 years have passed since then, Los Rodeos still has the same location and, crucially, the same weather problems as then. The La

Laguna field where the Lufthansa plane arrived was far from perfect, but it was available. Nobody in 1929 thought about the local weather or, in particular, the well-known fog problem!

In the early years, especially during the months of April, May and June, many passengers suffered diversions and cancellations, caused by the combination of trade winds and fog.

Much like today!

AENA, the authority which controls Spanish airports, said this week that it had done

everything possible to minimise the weather problem there, adding: “The North airport often has bad weather something about which we are trying to find a solution as a priority.”

Even last week there were more than a dozen delays and diversions to the South airport, and AENA confirmed that last year, 337 flights were diverted or cancelled from a total of 48,380, which accounted for 0.69%.

In 2015 so far, 89 of 19,635 transactions (0.45%) have been affected, so it seems that progress is being made.

The survey states: “An early start to education has long-term benefits.

The earlier a child gets some learning, significantly and positively affects the form of academic performance of students.”

This is one of the main conclusions of the study, “The Impact of Early Childhood Education in Primary results”, compiled by the Universidad Complutense de Madrid.

It is a serious warning to the autonomous communities, such as the Canary Islands, which have made little progress in schooling.

The findings show that only a very small percentage of Canarian kids have education before the age of two.

In fact, it amounts

to just 7%, and this figure is far short of the national average, which is about 30%.

In the Basque Country, 52% of under-twos get some education, while the figure is 43% in Madrid. Once kids hit two in the Canaries,12.3% get some lessons, compared with almost 50% in the whole of Spain.

The study was sponsored by the European Society and Education Foundation, and its authors were Daniel Santin and Gabriela Sicilia.

They suggest: “Primary Education has effective training, and evidence shows that children schooled since the age of two get better results in mathematics and reading by 6%, compared with those not integrated into the education system until a year later.”

After presenting the results, the researchers proposed opening a debate to “improve the Spanish educational system through the Early Childhood Education”.

Operating theatres on hold PLANS for opening six new operating theatres at the Candelaria hospital have been dealt another setback.

It has been confirmed that the theatres will not be functioning until the end of August or the start of September.

Last December, Canary Islands Health Service director Juana Maria Reyes said they would be ready “between April or May”.

But new delays mean it will not actually be ready until the end of summer - four years after they should have been open.

Reyes said: “There has been another slight delay for work on the operating theatres’ aircoolers, mainly because it is a complex job due to their location.

“The work is carried out in an area affecting other units, where there are professionals and other users. It means we have to juggle around with the dynamics of hospital activity for the minimum disruption.”

He added: “Another aspect t h a t

prevents the new operating theatre being ready is because the post-operation care has to be complete as well.

“The construction for the ward is just about done, but there are still a few issues around the arranging of after-surgery beds.

“This work is estimated to be c o m -

pleted in the third quarter of this year.

And remember, the six operating theatres are not being added to the existing ones but are replacing them.

“This is because the current ones are outdated, having been built in the Seventies.

And although they currently function perfectly and are well-equipped, they are suffering from serious structural problems because of their age.”

And Reyes pointed out the problem of location.

“The theatres are scatt e r e d a n d pa-

tients have to travel (usually on a stretcher) through several halls and numerous elevators to get to them,” he said.

“However, the new ones are grouped together in the new surgical block. They have the best accessibility possible and will be equipped with the latest surgical technology.”

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The flip-flop flap

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WE get a lot of emails at n332.es on a range of subjects, and barely a day goes by without someone asking about flipflops, and whether it is illegal to drive in them.

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It don’t mean Jack

DOING this job, I often get to meet or interview a raft of celebrities.

Some of them are lovely, some are just wallys.

For me it’s a case of speak as you find.

Last summer, right at the start of the World Cup, a gang of young footballers were out for a week’s jolly. I bumped into a couple of them and they came up to Linekers for the opening England match.

At the time Harry Maguire was the Sheffield United captain and an Under-21 international. A fair few football fans noticed him and, even though he was kicking back with his girlfriend, he was happy to pose for every picture and sign every autograph.

Ditto a quieter lad who was part of the posse.

He had just finished a decent season at Notts County and was looking forward to being part of the first-team squad in August at Aston Villa.

After a fine breakthrough 10 months, all

football fans now know who Jack Grealish is.

He has made such a mark that both England and Ireland want him to pull on their jersey.

It’s a tough choice for Jack, and there is even talk of a move to a bigger club.

He played in the FA Cup final a few weeks ago and after, a relaxing week’s break with the girlfriend (whom he has been with since 14), he came here for a lads’ five-day holiday. He enjoyed Tenerife so much he returned.

And, as a teenager, he spent a few nights “refreshed” at some of our night venues. What’s wrong with that? He didn’t break any laws, do anything illegal or cheat on his missus. He just did what any teenager would do on holiday.

The media circus surrounding THAT picture will do him and us no favours, but come on.

I’m not one for quoting the bible, but John nails it. 8:7 says: “He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone.”

Cut the lad some slack.

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When you drive with

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Ship’s cannon recovered after hundreds of years

WORKERS involved in improving and upgrading the El Roquete pier made an amazing discovery this week.

They found an old cannon that was built and used several centuries ago, at the Punta del Hidalgo site in La Laguna.

The artillery piece, 1.4 metres long, appears to

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We have known many cases of people driving with flip-flops or with high heels, who have had an accident caused by this footwear.

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be from the 16th or 17th century.

It has been transferred to the Tenerife History Museum for analysis to try to discover more about the ancient gun, which was covered in earth and stones.

But apart from obvious ageing, it is said to be in fine shape. It was inspected on Tuesday by an archaeologist, who said: “When you think that it has been

underground for a long time, it is in relatively good condition.”

The historical piece was uncovered when a backhoe drained sand from the channel to enable the fishing shelter to be renovated.

Adan Romero, boss of the Cofradía de la Consolación de La Punta, said that about 60 years ago, several young fishermen found and removed another cannon

with similar features from the same place.

It was a little bigger than the current discovery, but it seems that both cannons came from a battle ship.

Cristobal de la Rosa, Insular Director of Tenerife Historical Heritage, said that once its history had been established, the cannon would be examined, dated and put on public display.

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Space balloon set for lift off...

CATALAN company zero2infinity has revealed that it is planning to bring “space” balloon trips to the Archipelago.

The firm, leading a new wave of space companies, is preparing to set the flight at about 36km high, departing from Córdoba and the Canary Islands.

Jose Mariano Lopez Urdiales, zero2infinity founder, said the balloons fly three times higher than a commercial airliner, over 99% of the atmosphere.

“It’s an amazing way to see our planet and, from where we fly, you will see the curvature of the earth along with the black sky - with a blanket of stars either day or night, said Lopez. “Seeing the earth from space is the dream of many people.”

The project is believed to be costing 60 million euros, and the price for being a balloon space tourist will be around 110,000 euros.

The company says it already has reservations and contracts with firms which want to make these trips.

Zero2infinity is still

conducting tests without crew on board, but it hase all the required permits and expects to start putting humans inside the capsules in the next year.

The pressurised cabin has a large window, which can be enjoyed wearing normal clothes. And the balloons are like commercial airplanes, minus the noise because they travel very slowly.

Lopez stressed that it was a “transformative” experience that almost no one had experienced so far, and that travelling through the nearby space three times higher than a conventional flight distance - was something “out of this world.”

The zero2infinity boss added: “Tourism is always looking for experiences that take you out of the usual routine and, since there are few places to see, this is one of the lines of future tourism.”

He says the flights will be made from Córdoba and the Canary Islands for meteorological and geographical reasons, and also because many people with high purchasing power, and scientists, will want to go to these places.

House prices rising - but not over here THE prices of private housing in the Canaries remained stable in the first quarter of 2015. But the picture was a little different nationally where prices rose 5% in that period, compared with the first quarter last year.

After six years of falls, according to the Housing Price Index (IPV) of the National Statistics Institute (INE), there is finally an increase.

The cost of housing in the first quarter slowed 30% compared with that recorded in

the last quarter of 2014, when the increase was 1.8% against the previous year.

Housing prices began to fall in the second quarter of 2008 (-0.3%) and remained so until the second quarter of 2014, when it showed its first rally after 24 negative quarters.

By housing type, the price of existing homes rose 1.1% in the first quarter yearly, against an increase of 1.7% in the previous quarter, while newhome costs rose 4% - 2 points higher than the fourth quarter of 2014 and the highest since the second quarter of 2008, when new properties recorded an annual rise of 5.3%.

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Blaze death an accident AN inquest has found that a woman from West Yorkshire who died while on holiday in Tenerife in February accidentally set herself on fire.

Retired accounts clerk Eileen Charles, 63, who was born in Birmingham, was discovered by her partner, Anthony Tatam after being found engulfed in flames in a Santa Cruz apartment complex.

But despite the efforts of medics at Candelaria Hospital and later in Madrid, Mrs Charles, who lived in

Shipley, died of multiple organ failure two days after the mystery fire.

This week an inquest at Birmingham Coroner’s Court recorded a verdict of accidental death following a short hearing.

Reading statements from Spanish investigators and medics, Emma Brown, assistant coroner for Birmingham and Solihull, said Mr Tatam found the mum-of-two on fire on 7th February at the Tenerife complex.

The inquest heard that Mr Tatam had earlier left Mrs Charles alone in their apartment for a short time.

Spanish investigators

said they found burnt fabric and skin inside the apartment on beds and on a balcony terrace. They also found a drink and packet of cigarettes on the terrace.

When questioned, Mr Tatam said he believed Mrs Charles had set herself on fire by accident while drinking and smoking.

Following treatment at Candelaria Hospital, Mrs Charles was transferred to a burns unit in Madrid on 9th February, where she died at 1.10pm that day.

Assistant coroner Ms Brown said: “The conclusion by Spanish police following an investigation was that her

death was the result of an accident.”

Ms Brown told Mrs Charles’ daughter, Natalie Cotton: “You will have more questions as to what happened in your mum’s apartment that day. It would be nice if we could provide that information.

“It is not unusual, when police in any country conclude a death was the result of an accident, that we get little more information about what might have gone on.”

Ms Brown recorded the cause of death as multiple organ failure, caused as a result of shock brought on through suffering severe burns.

Game of Thrones is hitting Spain again CABLE network HBO, which was behind the hit fantasy TV show Game of Thrones, has confirmed that it is coming back to Spain.

Part of the sixth season will be filmed in a number of locations in the Spanish cities of Girona (Catalonia) and Peñíscola (Valencia), among others.

The shoots, planned for later this year, will take place with the collaboration of Girona and Peñiscola Councils, their respective Mayors, Carles Puigdemont and Andrés Martínez Castellá, and the film offices of both cities.

The Spanish production units will be supervised by Fresco Film Services, as they were when the series came to Seville and Osuna for shoots late last year. More details about the Spain shoot will be announced at a later date.

A few weeks ago, Jordi Bosch, President of Endemol Spain, revealed

in a radio interview that HBO was considering Girona as one of the new locations.

That rumour has now been confirmed, and, after filming parts of season five in the Al-

cázar, the bullring in Seville and in Osuna, the production team will be returning to Spain.

Game of Thrones, based on the best-selling series of books by

George R. R. Martin, is currently in its fifth season, which is being broadcast in Spain on Canal+.

Shooting of season six will begin in Belfast at the end of July.

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Anthem in tune

By John Zammit

YOU can’t really envisage the enormity of the Anthem of the Seas until you stand alongside it and look upwards. It could be a skyscraper, but for the water keeping it afloat.

And no wonder as it’s the second-largest cruise liner ever built. It’s huge!

Enormous!

Mind-boggling!

I know because last week, thanks to travel agents Tenerife Sunshine, I had the pleasure of visiting this eye-popping vessel,

which docked in Santa Cruz for the second time since its maiden voyage in April. A further three visits to Tenerife’s capital are planned before October, when it crosses the Atlantic for winter cruising in the Caribbean.

After getting through the strict security procedures to board the Anthem - very quick and organised - we were greeted by our guide for the day, Artur, commercial manager of Royal Caribbean for the Canaries, who answered all our questions bar one: How many TV screens are there on board?

This is the second quantum-class ship in the Royal Caribbean series, and it i s

billed to leave you completely and utterly gobsmacked. That is no exaggeration. Wow, it certainly did!

We started our tour by going upwards, in one of the 16 lifts, to deck 13, where we found the Solarium. And from that height, I was particularly relieved that we started near the top and worked down.

It is two decks high and an adult-only retreat, partially covered by a glass roof. It has an outdoor pool and an indoor pool with two whirlp o o l s , a n d is located at the front of the ship, overlooking the heli-deck.

We

then went up a level to the H20 zone, where we came across the water park and kids’ play area.

It has a main pool, plus a second pool, each with a large whirlpool. There is also a SeaTech, where you can get your diving and various water sports equipment and also take part in scuba classes.

Two things struck me in this area, other than the cleaners climbing all over the glass roofs and polishing them above us. The first was the huge film screen, showing Big Hero 6, with seating areas in the pool.

And secondly, the North Star - a capsule that rises 90 metres above sea level and offers jaw-dropping 360-degree views.

Needless to say, it’s the first of i t s

kind at sea. We carried on with our tour and, as we headed to the sports hall, we walked past the main ship’s lifts. As this is glass-fronted you could get a definitive impression of just how high the ship is.

This, by the way, was also one of our scariest moments because the floor of the revolving stair is glass, allowing you to see down as you walked on upwards.

We arrived at the sports hall. Actually, it’s not a sports hall but a full-blown facility. There are things here that have never before been installed on a cruise ship. For instance, it accomodates two full-size basketball courts that double up as a skating rink. Then there are the bumper cars , wow!

On the upper level, specific rooms are set aside for game-play such as Xbox - and, to finish it off, you have a hot-dog house.

We left this area and headed for the back of the ship, passing a full-scale climbing w a l l with a huge giraffe, r a n domly, on

the deck. On arrival at the stern, we were treated to the most stunning view of Santa Cruz. This was one area of the ship I really wanted to see.

Here was the Flowrider wave machine for both surfing and body-boarding.

And just above, the Ripcord by iFLY a virtual wind tunnel - a simulation sky-dive machine again a cruise ship first. I really wanted to play but, unfortunately, this facaility was not open.

We carried on and, as we walked through one of the indoor walkways, we all stopped to be shown the heartbeat light, which flashes

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with tomorrow! in time to your heartbeat rate when you put your hands on the podium.

It has to be said that the ship is based on future technology ... but it’s already here!

Carrying on, we walked past an English pub and then encountered another eye-boggling sight: a human-free bar.

Yes, the bar is run by robots!

You sit at your table, type your order into the tablet, receive a time when your drink will be available, and the robots then happily mix it and have it ready for you to collect. And at night, they will even dance for you, mindblowing.

After viewing the robotic bar, we then passed several restaurants, all different themes, and arrived at the main theatre.

It seats around 1,400 people, is on two levels and would give any West End or Broadway theatre a run for its money.

Tonight’s show (two tonight) featured a hypnotist, but the shows changes every day. To find out what’s on, as with any other information you need, just use one of the touch-screen TV’s which are all over the ship.

From here, we walked

back past the English pub and I noticed a pool/ billiards table. Someone had to, so I asked the obvious questions: “How can you play when at sea? Don’t the balls move.”

I did feel a bit stupid as I asked because the ship hadn’t moved over the last few hours. But the answer made me feel better. The tables are all fitted with self-levelling devices so that even in rough water, you can have a proper game.

Unfortunately we did not get to see any of the cabins because the ship was fully occupied, but they are billed as excellent state rooms, offering several differences from those of other ships.

Not only are they more spacious, but they also boast modular spaces for families which are inter-connected, as well as the 375 interior staterooms having sea views from the virtual balcony’s window-sized LED screens, showing realtime footage from exterior cameras.

Our tour then took us to the music hall, and we walked through the shopping mall, where you will find some spectacular shops. We even passed a giant metal trumpet, Jamie Oliver’s restaurant - again a first for a cruise

liner - and the surprise here was the furniture; I suppose it is all about the food!

We then strolled through the art gallery to the show bar, one of the many entertainment venues on board the colossal Anthem of the Seas at the back of the ship.

This show bar has six dancing robotic TVs, and the windows around the whole area can be turned into a giant video screen.

Making our way to lunch, we passed a lightswitch wall, where you can flick the switches to spell things out. When we got there, the message on the wall was “Believe Live Dream Aspire”.

We then carried on past some of the finest restaurants ever seen and when inside one, I noticed that there was a life raft in the sea. These are tested whenever in port, and are also used to ferry passengers to shore when the ship is too big for a port.

Throughout the tour, you could view either TVs for information and/or tablets for booking dinner, making payments, etc. These I believe, are operated by the rubber wristbands fitted with electronic chips given to guests.

The penultimate area of our tour was the ca-

sino and as I walked in, I noticed the smell of cigars, I was told that smoking is allowed in this area alone, apart from designated areas outside. The casino had lots of slot machines, poker tables ... everything you would expect in a casino.

Our final stopping-off place, before lunch was one of the “kids-only areas” and there are big signs outside telling you just that.

In the lounge, there was a spacious seating area plus a tablefootball machine, sofas, bean bags, TVs and even a semi-bed area where you could lie down and watch telly.

The Anthem of the Seas, had everything and more that you and a family could want on a holiday: dodgem cars, skydiving, a robotic bar-

tender, and a surf and wave machine.

I get the impression that the ship is aimed at the younger cruiser, with addition activities like a circus school, roller-discos, “kids-only” lounges, the North Star that swoops over the ship and, of course, the outdoor film screen.

However there is plenty to do for all ages aboard this Royal Caribbean superstar, which, by the way, has plans for a further two ships of this class.

If you would like more information about cruising on the Anthem of the Seas, or cruising in general, contact Tenerife Sunshine Team on 922 751 867, email info@ tenerifesunshine.com or visit their Facebook page, which is quite simply TENERIFE SUNSHINE.

SHIP’S FACT SHEET

Built: Meyer Werth, Papenburg, Gemany Maiden Voyage: April 2015 Gross register tonnage: 168,666 Length: 348 metres Width: 41.5m Cruising speed: 22 knots Total guest capacity: 4,905 International Crew: 1,500 Decks: 16 (guests), 18 in all Passenger lifts: 16 Bow thrusters: 4, each with 4,694 horse power Staterooms: 2,090: 1,571 with balcony; 148 outside; 375 Virtual balcony; 16 Family connected; 12 Studio with balcony; 34 Wheelchair accessible.

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Police desperately short of numbers FOR the second time in six weeks, a senior police officer has made public concerns over policing numbers.

“We are overwhelmed by lack of personnel,” said Juan Fernandez, secretary-general of the Unified Association of Guardia Civil (AUGC) in Tenerife, at a press conference this week.

He also said that the lack of human resources in South Tenerife police forces was caus-

ing major problems.

One of the most graphic examples of that situation was highlighted when a patrolman in Guia de Isora, in the seaside village of Playa San Juan, had to cover not only that territory but also the neighbouring municipality of Adeje in one evening. There was literally one bobby on the beat for a nightshift.

The lack of sufficient coppers is just as bad in Playa de Las Americas, which serves the needs in the municipality of Arona, and that of Gra-

nadilla, whose district spans from Granadilla and San Miguel.

According to the AUGC leader: “In Las Americas, our public safety agents are overwhelmed.”

The AUGC revealed that in the summer months, agents were brought in from the mainland to reinforce the numbers to meet the growing service demand.

But Fernandez said that despite such temporary additions, “the number of staff will continue to be insufficient”.

Tourist’s eye horror costs hotel ‘millions’ A TENERIFE tourist, speared through the eye by a flying parasol at a hotel, could get millions in compensation following an Appeal Court ruling.

Godfrey Keefe and his family, from Gateshead, were staying at Costa Adeje’s Bahia Principe Hotel in October 2006 when a gust of wind blew an unsecured parasol into his face, causing horrendous damage to his eye.

Lady Justice Gloster said in London’s Appeal Court: “The spike of the parasol penetrated his right eye socket and into his brain, causing him very serious injuries”.

The judge added that Mr Keefe’s legal team

has valued his damages’ claim at more than £5 million.

The 52-year-old was a director of a civil engineering firm and a keen cricketer and footballer, but the incident had left him permanently unfit for work and unable to play sport.

He needed emergency surgery to remove the parasol spike, is registered partially-sighted and has had repeated operations since.

His personality has also been changed forever, and he will need an intensive-care regime throughout his life.

But despite his case becoming swamped in legal problems when the hotel’s Spanish owners insisted he was not entitled to sue them in England, Mr Keefe fought and won an eight-year battle for it to be heard

in an English court.

Hoteles Pinero Canarias SL insisted he would have to seek justice in Spain, where his damages award would be limited to less than £600,000.

But Lady Justice Gloster, sitting with Lady Justice Black and Lord Justice MooreBick, delivered a crucial victory to Mr Keefe.

They ruled that, under European law, he is entitled to sue both the hotel owners and their Spanish insurers in an English court.

There were “powerful policy reasons” why Mr Keefe should be allowed to fight his case before an English judge, they ruled.

The court heard that judgment in his favour has already been entered against the hotel’s insurers. The sum of his damages will be assessed at a later date.

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Horror as Irish students perish in balcony crash T R A GE D Y struck in Berkeley, California, late on Tuesday night when five Irish students died, along with a US woman, after a fourth-floor apàrtment balcony collapsed during a 21st birthday party.

The three men and three women were: Olivia Burke, 21, Eoghan Culligan, 21, Niccolai Schuster, 21, Lorcan Miller, 21, Eimear Walsh, 21 and Ashley Donohoe, 22, who is believed to have lived in California.

Some were students at the University College, Dublin, in Berkeley to start a dream trip on popular summer-working holiday visas.

Philip Grant, Consul General with the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs in the region, said the aappalling news had touched everyone in Ireland.

“To have this happen at the start of this season has left us all frozen

in shock and disbelief,” he said. “We are a very close, tight-knit group.

Ireland is a small country and when you have the numbers that we had here today, very few of us have been left untouched by this tragedy.”

The Irish national flag was lowered to halfmast on all public buildings, including Parliament.

Seven other people

were injured, some critically, when the balcony collapsed, causing those on it to crash to the ground from about 40ft (12.2m).

One person is believed to have scrambled back inside as the balcony gave way.

Pictures from the scene showed that the balcony, about 5ft x 10ft, appeared to have broken off from the building and landed partly on

the balcony below, and in the street.

The area was cordoned off, and on the closed street below, a shrine was growing. Flowers, a pack of cigarettes, a Cal Berkeley university banner and condolence notes were left at the site.

All balconies in the apartment building have been sealed off while safety checks are carried out.

A 21-year-old Irish student was asleep in the building when he heard the collapse, shortly after midnight. “I just heard a bang and a lot of shouting,” said Dan Sullivan.

Another, Mark Neville, said: “I walked out and saw rubble on the street and a bunch of Irish students crying.”

Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny, who said there were 13 people

on the balcony when it collapsed, added: “My heart breaks for the parents who have lost children.”

Police received a noise complaint concerning a loud party in the apartment at 12.41am, about an hour before the tragedy, but had not yet responded, said Officer Byron White, a Berkeley Police Department spokesman.

They were then alerted that the balcony had collapsed, and Officer White said: “What the first responders said was quite disturbing.”

The building, built in 2006, has apartments on the upper floor and shops on the ground floor.

The neighbourhood, just blocks from Berkely’s University of California, is dotted with museums, a city library, restaurants, coffee shops and chain stores.

Irish Consul Philip Grant said hundreds of Irish college students obtain temporary US visas every year to spend the summer working in the San Francisco Bay area.

Shameful Brit strippers in Magaluf will be fined IN a bid to restore the town’s reputation, the Magaluf resort in Mallorca is introducing fines of up to £500 for tourists who strip off in public.

Many of those invading Magaluf each year are Britons who have become notorious for bawdy and violent behaviour, often as a result of heavy drinking.

Now, though, anyone committing one of a range of acts - including

balcony-hopping, skinny-dipping or urinating in public places - will be fined.

Locals in the resort are appalled by the antics of Brit tourists, such as the video circulating last year in which a teenage British girl per-

formed sex acts on 24 men to win what she believed was a holiday.

In fact, it was merely a cocktail!

A number of deaths in the resort have been attributed to the evergrowing craze of “balconing”, in which tourists hop from one balcony to another, or drop from a great height into a swimming pool.

In 2012, over a twomonth period, three holiday-makers died.

Now, anyone caught balconing will also be prosecuted and could be fined up to 1,500 euros (£1,000).

Simon Manley, Britain’s Spanish ambassador, told the Daily Mirror: “We want British visitors to Magaluf to enjoy themselves, as they do elsewhere in Spain. But we also want them to stay safe and to respect the laws and

customs.

“We work closely with the local authorities in Mallorca, and we welcome any measures they take to support those aims.”

Under the new laws, anyone going on a pub crawl must also wear a special uniform, and numbers will be limited to 20 per pub-crawl, along with two minders trained in first aid.

Isabel Borrego, Spain’s Secretary of State for Tourism said: “The Spanish government strongly supports the new regulations passed

by Calvia Council. They

will foster a new framework in which all international tourists can fully enjoy their holidays in Spain in a manner that is responsible both for themselves and the destination.”

However, not all locals are convinced the new laws will be enforceable.

Majorca Daily Bulletin editor Jason Moore told The Independent: “A crackdown is promised every year, but nothing is done. And 36 coppers working a street which, at any one time, has 2,000 people, aren’t going to have much effect.”

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Lottery’s drastic changes MAJOR changes to the National Lottery, will have the effect of reducing the chances of winning a jackpot drastically.

You will soon have to match six numbers from a pool of 59 balls, instead of the current 49.

Experts say the odds on scooping the top prize will drop from about 1 in 14 million to about 1 in 45 million.

And the chances of matching three or more balls, which fetch a cash prize, will also drop to about one in 93.

However, the overall chance of winning anything increases from about 1 in 54 to about 1 in 9.3, with players who match two numbers receiving a Lucky Dip ticket for a future draw under the changes.

National Lottery operator Camelot claimed the “enhancements”, to be introduced in October, will give you better odds of becoming a millionaire.

A new Millionaire Raffle will guarantee at least one millionaire per draw, while the average winning jackpot is expected to be three times the current level.

Camelot said the hopes

of winning at least £1m will be better than the chances of winning the jackpot on the current game, with odds at just below one in 10 million, compared with one in just under 14 million.

But lottery expert Professor Ian Walker, of Lancaster Universithy Management School, said: “The chances of winning the jackpot lengthens considerably.

“It will increase the number of rollovers, which will introduce more spikes in sales, but too many rollovers can be bad - and people may think there is no point playing a game in which nobody wins.

“Adding 20 numbers to the spinning wheel might just make it too difficult to win.”

When tackled about the impact of the changes, Camelot said in a statement: “Although more numbers to choose from means the odds on the existing prize tiers will lengthen, players will win more often, have more chances than ever to become a millionaire and will have the chance of winning huge rolling jackpots, which we know they love.”

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Dinosaurs chew ‘em up JURASSIC World, the fourth film in the series that began with Jurassic Park, has literally devoured the worldwide box office competition.

It scored the biggestever opening weekend by raking in $511m globally as it opened in cinemas, eclipsing Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 ($483m in 2011).

The unprecedented haul for this latest dinosaur blockbuster, which received good reviews mainly, was boosted by the $100m earned in China alone - and it topped box offices in 66 countries.

The film made $204.6m in North America, just short of the record for an opening weekend in the region, held by Marvel’s The Avengers ($207m in 2012).

Jurassic World was co-produced by Steven Spielberg, who directed the first two of the four films.

It returns to the island theme park where,

20 years ago, scientists first revived T-Rex and other dinosaurs for paying customers.

Paul Dergarabedian, a media analyst, said the film benefited from something of “a perfect box-office storm”.

He added: “Nostalgia, legacy, pedigree: three things that can make a newly-updated franchise a monster.

“There are many reasons Jurassic World is eating box office records like a hungry Indominus Rex: the original Jurassic Park was the second coming of Jaws and was, for many, the film that defined in the psyche their personal definition of the sum-

mer movie experience.

“At the time 1993’s Jurassic Park was released, it was the first film ever to open with over $50m and, as such, was seen and loved by a massive audience which were at once repelled and thrilled by its science-run-amok premise, its homage to the dinosaurs that everyone grew up learning about and were intrigued by.

“And not least of all, the collective movie theatre popcorn experience the iconic superstar director Steven Spielberg delivered.”

Top 10 opening weekends 1. Jurassic World: $511m (£329m) - 2015

2. Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2: $483m (£311m) - 2011 3. Furious 7: $397m (£256m) - 2015 4. Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince: $394m (£253m) - 2009 5. Marvel’s The Avengers: $392m (£252m) 2012 6. Avengers: Age Of Ultron: $392m (£252m) 2015 7. Transformers: Dark Of The Moon $382m (£246m) - 2011 8. Spider-Man 3: $381m (£245m) - 2007 9. Iron Man 3: $372m (£239m) - 2013 10. Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides $350m (£225m) 2011.

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Struggling airline banks on the ‘The Terminator’ MALAYSIA Airlines is “technically bankrupt”, following the twin air disasters which forced its nationalisation last year.

New chief executive Christoph Mueller, appointed last month, has announced a restructuring programme, and plans to cut about 6,000 jobs.

“We are technically bankrupt,” he told a news conference. “The decline of performance started long before the tragic events of 2014.”

The airline, which says it has “offered jobs” to 14,000 of its 20,000 workforce. is operating as normal and no flights are currently affected.

In March last year, Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared with 239 passengers and crew aboard. The plane is still missing.

Four months later, flight MH17 was shot down by a suspected groundto-air missile while in Ukrainian airspace, with the loss of 298 passengers and crew.

The two disasters proved to be the final straw for the alreadystruggling business, which had reported loss-

es for several years as a result of strong regional competition.

Mr Mueller was making his first public appearance as chief executive since being hired by the carrier’s owner, Malaysian state-funded Khazanah, to lead the restruc-

turing. He has previously led the recoveries of Ireland’s Aer Lingus, Belgium’s Sabena and Germany’s Lufthansa airlines.

Mr Mueller, notorious for slashing jobs at the airlines, has been dubbed “The Terminator”.

Malaysia Airlines has lurched from one restructuring to the next for more than 10 years, but it was difficult for many Malaysian taxpayers to understand the extent of the problem.

In-flight service remained one of the best in the region and, until the twin tragedies of MH370 and MH17, the carrier had a good safety record.

The new chief executive, who will be cracking the whip in pursuit of efficiency, said Malaysia Airlines management staff were spread out across more than 12 buildings, which meant departments were spending a lot of time to communicate with each other.

Mohshin Aziz, an aviation analyst at Maybank, told the BBC that no management official “had the b**** to admit that” in the past.

He said the cutting of one-third of the work force was a promising sign of real change.

But Mr Mueller doesn’t have much time to revive Malaysia’s national icon. British Airways, for example, recently restarted flights from London to Kuala Lumpur, which is Malaysia Airline’s flagship route.

And Malaysia Airlines faces stiff competition from legacy carriers, as well as low-cost carriers, such as AirAsia X. Mr Mueller said the airline could not expect all the job offers made to existing staff would be accepted because the company expected some to have received offers from rival carriers.

“We will embark on a second round in two weeks, and that will allow others to accept our offers,” he added. “And that may change the numbers.”

The airline plans to announce a rebranding on 1st September, but Mr Mueller would not be drawn on whether this would mean a change of name. All he said was: “All constellations are open.”

He admitted that in certain markets, Malaysia Airlines was a tarnished brand, but he would not say whether the rebrand would involve a change in name, logo or other alterations.

Also, he would not say whether the airline would withdraw from some costly long-haul flights to Europe.

In more general terms, he said it was possible the airline might reduce the frequency of flights on certain routes, or reduce the size of aircraft on those routes.

The carrier would look at joint ventures before closing routes, Mr Mueller said, and would be having conversations with potential partners in the coming weeks.

The airline considered long-haul flights to and from London to be among its flagship routes, he said, so it would not be altering them.

In a statement, the airline said its immediate priority was to “stop the bleeding” in 2015, then to stabilise next year and start growing again by 2017.

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‘Toxic air’ planes are taken to task A TOTAL of 17 former and serving cabin crew, who believe they have been poisoned by contaminated cabin air, are planning legal action against British airlines.

It follows the deaths of airline employees Richard Westgate and Matthew Bass, whose familes are convinced their deaths were caused by the cabin’s toxic fumes.

The cases are being funded by the Unite union, which represents 20,000 flight staff.

Workers believe they have fallen sick after breathing in fumes mixed with engine oil and other toxic chemicals.

The Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) says incidents of smoke or fumes on planes are rare, and that there is no evidence of long-term health effects.

The Unite union, which is calling for a public inquiry into contaminated cabin air, has recently opened a dedicated legal unit to record and process claims from its membership.

Its lawyers are now working on 17 “definite”,

individual, personalinjury claims against British airlines in the civil courts, although these are still at an early stage.

Uncensored safety reports submitted to the CAA, and obtained by the Victoria Derbyshire programme, show that between April 2014 and May 2015, there were 251 separate incidents of fumes or smoke inside a large passenger jet operated by a British airline.

The BBC has, where possible, chosen not to include cases which could be blamed on an internal fault like a broken toilet or air-conditioning system.

Elephant killer from the circus AN escaped circus elephant attacked and killed a 65-year-old pensioner on his daily stroll through woods near the town of Buchen, in south-west Germany.

The female African elephant, named Baby, was later captured and returned to the circus.

Police are now investigating how it got out of its enclosure and why it acted so aggressively.

“There’s evidence of third-party involvement,” said Heidelberg police spokeswoman Yvonne Schmierer. “Ei-

ther someone forgot to shut the enclosure, or the elephant was released intentionally.”

Local news agency Stimme reported that the elephant had previously injured at least two people, including a man who was thrown in the air, and a 12-year-old boy, who suffered a broken jaw when he was hit by its trunk.

Stimme reported that the German branch of animal rights group Peta was urging the authorities to remove the elephant from the circus.

The statistics do not include international airlines, such as Lufthansa and Ryanair, even when travelling in British airspace.

An illness was reported in 104 of the 251 cases, and on at least 28 of those flights, oxygen was administered.

Around half the air on board most modern commercial jets is drawn through the engines.

Campaigners say that when a fault occurs in the engine seals, a cocktail of potentially poisonous gases can reach the cabin. This includes TCP, an organophosphate known to be dangerous to human health in high enough quantities.

Repeated exposure to such fume events - combined with long-term, low-level exposure to chemicals – has led to some cabin crew believing it has damaged their long-term health.

The problems are said to affect the central nervous system and brain. But the CAA says there is no evidence that chemicals appear at high enough concentrations to cause harm.

Lawyers and campaigners are closely watching a series of inquests, which could influence the outcome of a much larger number of civil cases.

Pilot Richard Westgate died in December 2012,

aged 43, after complaining of long-term health problems.

Last February, the coroner in the inquest into his death wrote to British Airways and the CAA saying that examinations of Mr Westgate’s body “disclosed symptoms consistent with exposure to organophosphate compounds in aircraft cabin air”.

He asked them to take “urgent action to prevent future deaths”.

Both organisations have since replied to the coroner, implying he overstepped the mark and had relied on “selective and contentious evidence”.

A second inquest is set to open into the case of 34-year-old Matthew Bass, who died suddenly in January 2014 after suffering unexplained health problems. His family says a specialist post-mortem examination found high levels of toxins in his nervous system, linked to organophosphates.

British Airways said in a statement: “We would not operate an aircraft if we believed it posed a health or safety risk to our customers or crew.

“There has been substantial research into questions around cabinair quality over the last few years. In summary, the research has found no evidence that exposure to potential chemicals in the cabin causes

long-term ill health”.

In 2013, an independent group of scientists, the Committee on Toxicity, looked at the evidence of longterm health effects for the government. And it could not establish a

link between contaminated cabin air and ill health.

“The levels of harmful chemicals in planes were as low, or even lower, than those in the home or the workplace,” said Prof Alan Boobis, Chairman of the Committee.

“We can’t be sure what the levels are in fume events, which are very rare, but we do have some information which would indicate that even in those circumstances, levels are probably below those which would affect health in humans.”

The committee believes one explanation could be the so-called “nocebo” effect, a psychological condition where exposure to a harmless substance can lead to nausea, fatigue and other medical symptoms.

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ON 26th May the Law 9/2015, published in the Official Bulletin, included an additional clause which is important for those people involved in a property foreclosing proceeding.

That’s because the Court has rejected opposition to its execution.

Basically, the Law allows an extra twomonth period to appeal the resolution by which the Court rejected the allegations against enforcement (opposition).

In other words, when there is a foreclosing proceeding through lack of a mortgage payment, the Court must notify the debtor, who has 10 working days to oppose it.

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foreclosure The judge has to study the opposition and later decide whether this is acceptable.

And the new law allows an appeal, based on abusive clauses, for cases in which the bank has not yet taken possession of the property.

The concept of abusive clauses was studied by the law and the Courts considered abusive the “high interest” or “not proportional interest”, the so-called “floor clause” (in variable interest loans), anticipated deadline and many others.

I have referred to these abusive clauses in past columns, and I will return to this issue in the future.

The European Court ruled in July last year that it was against European Law that the Spanish proceeding lets the executor

appeal the resolution that accepts the opposition, but does not let the debtor appeal the resolution which rejects such opposition.

The EC considers that this system leaves the debtor and his family defenceless at risk of losing his property through repossession or judicial sale. And in this case, the judge in charge of execution should have studied the situation and the validity of abusive clauses.

This could be a good opportunity for mortgage debtors involved in a foreclosing proceeding, whose opposition was originally rejected. * Mariano Zunino Siri is a lawyer registered at the Tenerife Bar Association since 1991. marianozuninosiri@ gmail.com

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THE British Government’s 5th April announcement regarding the possibility of being able to access your Private Pension Entitlement (at the age of 55), led to thousands of enquiries to each and every UK Pension Scheme Provider, from ex-pats and UK residents alike.

No wonder the stock response when telephoning, is: “We are currently experiencing a high volume of calls. Your call will be answered in approximately ?? minutes. You may wish to call back at another time,” etc. Infuriating? Absolutely!

And here´s something else all you ex-pats need to know. As you are no longer a UK resident and are, therefore, not a UK tax-payer, you will no longer be allocated a Personal Tax Code automatically. And therein lies a potential issue.

Yes, you can still take the 25% tax-free lump sum, but the remainder of your pension pot will initially be taxed at either the Emergency Tax Code Rate of 1060L (W1, M1- allowing you to earn £1,060 before paying tax in any tax year) OR be allocated a BR (Basic Rate) Code of 20%, until HMRC decides which Tax Code you are eligible for as a non-resident.

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here in Tenerife. This would, of necessity, require the services of a Gestoria to assist in the completion of the notuncomplicated paperwork involved in such a claim, and also the additional paperwork of an annual tax return (should you not already be required to complete).

In addition, if you have not previously completed the Modelo 720, a requirement for anyone with worldwide assets in excess of approximately £40,000 residing in Spain, which, of course, includes any Pension Provision (discussed in last month´s column) it may well be that to claim any overpayment via the Hacienda, you will need to declare such assets.

What, initially, seemed to be a great offer from the UK Government in being able to cash in your pension pot is now, for expats anyway, a difficult and possibility unwise decision to take when considering the overall picture.

And it may be more tax efficient, certainly, to consider transferring the whole of the pension elsewhere.

In addition, there are a number of pension providers in the UK, including Friends Life, who are not actually offering policyholders a FlexiAccess Drawdown currently.

If you are in any doubt about how the changes will affect you personally, or are unsure about whether the decision to access a lump sum is

right for you now, please seek professional advice.

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Spanish bank on cash SPANIARDS would much rather spend hard cash than use credit cards, partly because of the country’s huge, hidden economy.

Ovidio Egido, managing director of Spain’s leading credit-card company, Mastercard, says: “Around 80% of private purchases are made in cash, with only 20% going through electronic payment systems such as cards and bank transfers,” Central bank data shows that some 111 billion euros were withdrawn from cash machines in Spain last year with 105bn spent on cash purchases.

The figures are in stark contrast with countries such as Sweden Denmark and Finland, where the figure is reversed, or Germany and the UK, where 60% of payments are electronic.

Mastercard is looking into the controversy raised by CaixaBank’s decision to charge noncustomers a two-euro commission for using its cash machines.

The company insists that the guidelines followed by banks include ensuring that the extra charge is justified, and that they are not charg-

ing twice for the same service.

“This no longer happens because they have adapted their information technology systems,” says Egido.

The Mastercard chief supports the government’s recent measures to prevent cash payments of more than 3,000 euros, as well as requiring an explanation of payments and transfers of more than 10,000 euros into bank accounts.

“In the rest of the European Union, 3,000 euros in cash is considered a large amount,” he says, pointing out that up to 25% of Spanish GDP is made up by ‘the hidden economy’.”

Unsurprisingly, Mastercard and other payment companies support greater use of cards, arguing that this is wherethe world’s advanced economies are heading.

“Denmark plans to end the use of cash completely,” says Egido. “In Spain, it is now possible to pay at parking meters with credit cards, as well as in taxis. Even a couple of years ago, this was unthinkable. It is clear that this is one way to limit the hidden economy, and this benefits everybody

in society. What’s more, cash costs shops an extra 3.5%.

“They might not factor it into their running costs, but it adds up in terms of security, time spent organising change, lost cash, etc.”

Egido feels that Spaniards are, perhaps, still fearful of creating a society where financial transactions take place through credit cards or transfers, seeing it in terms of Big Brother.

“But if you look at countries like the UK, credit cards are even used to pay out social benefits,” he points out.”These cards cannot be used to buy alcohol or luxury goods. So in this case, the card is a clear help.”

At the same time, though, he states that 92% of people in Spain have bank accounts - “although we tend to think everybody has a current account!

Many people are unaware that their cards are supported by an international payment network. These systems, particularly Visa and Mastercard, allow users to pay abroad with cards, as well as on the internet.

As they have no relationship with the end

customer, but with the intermediary (the bank), they have looked to raise their profile through sponsorship, particularly of sporting events.

Following the FIFA bribes scandal, Mastercard has pointed out that it has not sponsored FIFA since 2007, and instead sponsors European organisation UEFA. Mastercard is now introducing payment via smartphone and contactless cards.

“These are methods used by few people so far, but the two means are growing rapidly because they are both comfortable and safe,” says Egido, adding that 0.02% of payments are fraudulent. “But that is irrelevant.”

Egido praises the digitalisation of Spanish banking, and says that Apple, Google and Paypal represent a danger, and “could become the main suppliers of services, with banks relegated to second place.

“It would not be easy, but it is possible,” says the boss of a company which carried out 11 billion transactions between January and March this year, making a profit of more than 2bn euros in that period.

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Thursday 25th June, ITV1, 21:00 Brand new documentary series set in the Royal Derby Hospital, where a million patients are treated each year, lives begin and lives are saved every day. The series focuses on the staff - from surgeons to security guards, and doctors to domestics - who all play their part in helping patients and keep the hospital running. Episode one features Dan, an energetic consultant, who is under pressure to find out what is wrong with a 20-year-old who is having violent fits. He then resuscitates Eric, a 65-year-old who has a sudden cardiac arrest. Jayne, a senior sister in the liver ward, is helping patients James and Zehir through alcohol detox. Caroline, a nurse in the chemotherapy ward, meets Zoie, a patient whose attitude to her illness she finds inspiring. Alongside the medics, we meet ancillaries who help to keep this enormous hospital running. Paul in catering is trying to create the perfect sandwich, while security guards Scott and Malcolm’s tough exteriors conceal kind hearts.

Surprise Surprise Sunday 21st June, ITV1, 20.00 Surprise Surprise returns for a fourth series hosted by Holly Willoughby, who will be rewarding some of the country’s most deserving people with spectacular surprises.

In the first episode of the series, global pop superstar Lionel Richie gives an inspirational mother the surprise of a lifetime.

Katherine Cooper, 24 from Durham, is nominating her mother Suzanne Cooper, 53, for her unstoppable drive to help others at home, in the community and further afield in Kenya.

Suzanne and her husband, Les, 57 have been married for 32 years. Unfortunately in 1992 a strain was put on the family, as Les feel incredibly ill. Les became dependent on Suzanne to take care of him and their two children. Luckily he is now on the road to recovery but the family have been through a lot.

After Les was able to immerse himself back into family life, him and his son became members of the local football club. Les became the volunteer manager and Suzanne and Katherine ran the tuck shop to raise money for the club. Unfortunately in 2003 one of the mothers of the boys at the football club passed away leaving six children behind. Suzanne took in the 6 children and cared for them as if they were her own.

Her kindness didn’t stop there. Suzanne fundraises for her local hospice and takes part in the yearly ‘Memory Walk’ to raise money for the Alzheimer’s Society. She has also traveled to Kenya to help families there.

Also on tonight’s show two rugby fans who devote their time to raising money for local children’s charities in Bristol get a wonderful surprise as they meet England rugby hero Ben Cohen and get the chance to meet the England Rugby team.

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F r iday 06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

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

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

07:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed

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

11:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed

07:30 ............Family Finders

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

08:15 ...... Gardeners’ World

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

11:30 ............Family Finders

08:45.............. Cowboys and Angels

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

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

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

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 ................ Crimewatch

12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ...... BBC News at One 13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 ....................Perfection 15:00 ...............Escape to the Continent 16:00......................... The Box 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00.... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30.. Would I Lie to You? 20:00 ............ EastEnders 20:30..............Celebrity MasterChef

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22:00 ... BBC News at Ten 22:35 ........... The Graham Norton Show

11:00 .....................BBC News 11:30 ........BBC World News 12:00 .......The Daily Politics 13:00 ............................Tennis 18:00.............. Eggheads

11:00 .............. This Morning 13:30.............. ITV News and Weather 14:00 ............... Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room 15:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal

18:30........Beat the Brain

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

19:00 ........... Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

17:00.................... The Chase 18:00.. ITV News London

20:00 .......... Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites

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

20:30...Gardeners’ World

19:30....Coronation Street

21:00 .........Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

23:25 ................. Suntrap

22:00................ The Clare Balding Show

23:55 ..... It’s a Wonderful Afterlife

22:30 .............Newsnight 23:00............... Artsnight

01:30 ..... Weather for the Week Ahead

23:30................ The Lady 01:40....... Question Time

19:00 ........... Emmerdale 20:00 ..........Gino’s Italian Escape 20:30....Coronation Street 21:00............ Doc Martin 22:00..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40 ...................Vicious 23:10 ................The Eiger Sanction

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06:20 ........... How I Met Your Mother 06:45 ............Will and Grace 07:10 ............Will and Grace 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ................. Royal Ascot 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:30 ........................... Frasier 10:00 .......................Car S.O.S 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 13:10 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:40 ................. Royal Ascot 18:00........ The Simpsons 18:30............... Hollyoaks 19:00..... Channel 4 News 20:00....... Shipping Wars 21:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

22:00.........Sarah Millican Home Bird Live 23:05 .............Man Down 23:40... Virtually Famous 00:25 ................ Brooklyn Nine-Nine 00:55............. Royal Ascot Highlights 01:25......... Supernatural

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

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

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ...........................The Mr. Men Show 07:35................. Thomas and Friends 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 09:00 ...................Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10........................... 5 News Lunchtime 12:15 .................. Big Brother 13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 15:15 ..................Jesse Stone: Thin Ice 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00.......................Home and Away 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ....... World War II in Colour 20:00......Conspiracy: The Royal Family 21:00............ Big Brother: Live Eviction 22:30........... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 23:30............ Big Brother 00:00..........Super Casino

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

08:35................ Dinner Date 09:35............................. Psych 10:25 .........................The Real Housewives of Atlanta 11:20..........................The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 13:15............ Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 13:45................ Dinner Date 14:40.............. Judge Rinder 15:50....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00........... Knocked Up 23:35....... Celebrity Juice

06:15 ................Hart of Dixie 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ...............Escape to the Country 13:00 .......................One Born Every Minute 14:00................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 .................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00......... Escape to the Country 19:00 .... Neighbourhood Blues 20:00 ........... Traffic Cops 21:00 .... Motorway Cops 22:00................. Sherlock 00:00... Haunted Highway

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

06:00 ......................... The Flash

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

07:00 ................RSPCA Animal Rescue

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

07:30 ................RSPCA Animal Rescue

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

06:00 ............. Football Gold 06:30 .......WWE Main Event 07:30 ....................... Ringside 08:30......... Barclays Premier League World 09:00................. Soccer A.M. 10:00 ..................The Premier League Years 12:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 13:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 13:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 14:00 ..................The Premier League Years 16:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 17:00 ...............The F1 Show 18:00 .......... One2eleven 18:30 ........... The Fantasy Football Club 19:00...... Premier League 100 Club 19:30........Rugby League 22:15.......................Super League Gold 22:30...... Premier League 100 Club

08:00 ................... Monkey Life 09:00 .................Hawaii Five-0 11:00........ NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00..................Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ................RSPCA Animal Rescue 16:00 .....................Moone Boy 16:30...... Last Man Standing 17:00 ............... The Simpsons

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

10:00 ........ Storage Hunters 10:30 ........ Storage Hunters 11:00 .... Lizard Lick Towing 12:00....................... Top Gear 13:00....................... Top Gear 14:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 15:00 ........ Storage Hunters

17:30 .....................Moone Boy

16:00 ................World’s Most Stupid Criminals

18:00.. Last Man Standing

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

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

19:00.... Storage Hunters

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

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

22:00...... An Idiot Abroad

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

23:00 ................Entourage 23:30 ...........Hawaii Five-0

22:00 .... Hoff the Record 00:00.... Russell Howard’s Good News

10:00 .............. Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 11:05 .............Jamie’s Money Saving Meals 11:35........ Carry on Behind 13:25 ...................Time Team 15:35 .................... Time Team Special 16:40 ...............A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 18:50 ........ Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 19:55...... Grand Designs 21:00....... The Saboteurs 22:00 ........................ Nazi Megastructures 23:05 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 00:10.................. 8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00 ...... Grand Designs

Celebrity MasterChef BBC1, 20:30

Celebrities compete in a contest of culinary skill.

The first week of heats continues as the four remaining celebrities face three more culinary challenges, battling for a place in the semi-finals.

The first challenge is a relay invention test. Split into two teams, each team must create a maincourse and a pudding between them. Each team member has 30 minutes to make their contribution to the dishes, but they can’t communicate with one another.

Next, the teams are sent out on their first mass catering challenge. They have to make lunch for over 100 members of staff at Legoland in Windsor.

The two teams must devise, prepare and serve the lunch, catering for various tastes while creating meat-based, vegetarian and dessert dishes in volume. As the battle for a semi-final place reaches its climax, the four celebrities must now cook a faultless two-course meal.

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Sat u r day 10:00 ........................Saturday Kitchen Live

07:55 ............... The Happiest Days of Your Life

06:00 .................. Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge

11:30 .........................The Box

09:15 .................Animal Park

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

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

09:45 ........Elephant Diaries

12:15.............. Bargain Hunt

10:15 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

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

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

13:00.............................Tennis 16:45 .......................Pointless 17:30 ..............F1: Grand Prix Qualifying 18:45 .............. BBC News 18:55 ........... BBC London News 19:00 ..........Prized Apart 20:05 .......... The National Lottery: Who Dares Wins 20:55 ................ Casualty 21:45................. The John Bishop Show

11:15 ...............Escape to the Country 12:00 .................. Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 13:00....................... Athletics 17:30 ........... Ocean Queens: The Story of Cunard 18:00.............. Gardeners’ World 18:30.... Edwardian Farm 19:30 ........ Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Island 20:30.............Dad’s Army 21:00..........La Traviata: CW Love, Death choice and Divas 22:00...... Mock the Week

22:30.............. BBC News 22:50....... Not Going Out 23:20 ..............Room 101 00:00 ............ The Rookie

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22:35.................Hamlet 2 00:00................ The Many Faces of Robbie Coltrane

07:00 ...................... Canimals 07:15............................. Sooty 07:30......................... Super 4 07:45..................... Nerds and Monsters 08:00 ...............Thunderbirds are Go 08:25....................... ITV News 08:30...................... Weekend 09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:20 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 11:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:25.............. ITV News and Weather 12:35................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 13:40.............. Tipping Point 14:40 ................................1000 Heartbeats 15:35 ...........The Lost World

La Traviata: Love, Death And Divas BBC2, 21.00

La Traviata is the world’s most popular op18:00 ................ ITV News era, its arias instantly recognisable and staLondon ples for opera houses across the globe. Yet 18:15 .........ITV News and at its London premiere in 1856, La Traviata Weather was denounced for bringing ‘the poetry of the brothel’ to the stage and unleashing 18:30 ........... You’ve Been uncomfortable truths upon Victorian sociFramed! ety.

19:00............Harry Potter In BBC Two’s La Traviata: Love, Death and the And Divas, historian Professor Amanda Goblet of Fire Vickery and BBC Radio 3 presenter Tom 22:00......... ITV News and Service reveal the extraordinary story beWeather hind the opera’s first night in London and its scandalous heroine, the courtesan Vio22:10............... Raw Deal letta Valéry, whose dramatic life and tragic 00:10........... Jackpot247 death were based on real-life characters and events.

Tom and Amanda’s journey takes us from the luxury of the Parisian demi-monde to the teeming streets of Victorian London, where prostitution was seen as a threat to society itself. Amanda explores the story of Marie Duplessis, a highly prized courtesan whose life inspired the play and on which the opera was based, whilst Tom discovers how Verdi, on a visit to Paris with his mistress soprano Giuseppina Strepponi, seized this risqué story for the subject of his new masterpiece.

Together Amanda and Tom follow the opera’s journey to London and examine how its incendiary premiere marked an historic moment in which art confronted reality, redefining the role of the opera diva forever. Scenes from Verdi’s masterpiece have been specially recreated for the film in collaboration with Opera North alongside stunning location photography in Venice, Milan, Paris and London.

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06:10 ........... How I Met Your Mother 06:30 ............... Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire

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

07:00 ........Mobil 1 The Grid

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

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

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

08:00 ................. Royal Ascot 09:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 09:30........ Everybody Loves Raymond 10:00 ........................... Frasier 10:30 ........................... Frasier 11:00........................... The Big Bang Theory 11:30 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 12:00 .............The Simpsons 12:30............. The Simpsons 13:00 ...........Rude(Ish) Tube 13:30 ................. Royal Ascot 18:00........ Couples Come Dine with Me

06:55 .. Milkshake! Bop Box 07:00 .............Chloe’s Closet 07:10 ... Milkshake Monkey 07:15................ Roobarb and Custard Too 07:20...................... Make Way for Noddy 07:35.................... Paw Patrol 07:50 ............. Little Princess 08:00 ........... Wanda and the Alien 08:15 .........Zack and Quack 08:30 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:50 ...................Jelly Jamm 09:05 .....................LazyTown 09:30 ...... Dora and Friends

18:40 .... Channel 4 News

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

19:00.............Walking through history

10:35 ........................... Access

Tony Robinson embarks on spectacular walks through some of Britain’s most historic landscapes in search of the richest stories from Britain’s past. In each programme, Tony follows a bespoke route that allows him to explore on foot both the history of a particularly colourful historical period or event, and the spectacular landscape in which those events unfolded.

Tony kicks off the series with a 40-mile walk through the glorious Peak District, along the Derwent Valley, where the world’s industrial revolution was born. This is a journey that reveals how Britain transformed itself from a nation of farmers into the industrial powerhouse of the world.

20:00..Penelope Keith’s W C Hidden Villages choice

10:40 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 11:40 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:40 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 13:45 ...................... Columbo: Publish or Perish 15:10..... The Dog Rescuers 16:10 ..................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 17:10.............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 18:05 ......Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

19:00........... Cricket on 5 19:55... 5 News Weekend 20:00..... Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

21:00........................Rush

21:00..... Benefits Britain: Life on the Dole

23:25......... Basic Instinct

22:00............ Big Brother

01:50............. Royal Ascot Highlights

23:00..................Autopsy 00:00..........Super Casino

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06:00................... Emmerdale Omnibus

06:05 ..........................My FlatPack Home

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

08:35 ...... Coronation Street Omnibus

06:35....................MasterChef Australia

11:05 ............... The 39 Steps

11:05.................... Babe 2: Pig in the City

08:00 .........Motorway Cops

12:55................... The Perfect Man

14:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

15:00.............. The Hot Desk

15:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

15:15 .............. Ant and Dec’s Saturday Night Takeaway 16:40 ..................Happy Feet 18:50 ....................... She’s the Man 21:00 ............Love Island 22:00 .................The Back -Up Plan 00:10.................The Keith Lemon Sketch Show

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

16:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 18:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

10:00.... Time Team Special 13:00 ...............Four in a Bed 13:30 ...............Four in a Bed 14:05............... Four in a Bed 14:35............... Four in a Bed 15:05................Four in a Bed 15:40............ Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 16:45 ........Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year 17:50.........Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year

19:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

18:55.... Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year

20:00 ..................Atlantis

21:35..... Fatal Flight 447: Chaos in the Cockpit

21:00................ Sherlock 23:00......................... Silk

00:40.............Love Island

00:20... Haunted Highway

01:35........Crazy Beaches

01:15......... A Gifted Man

06:00...................... The Flash 07:00............................... Glee 08:00..... The Bachelor King 09:30 .........Making of David Attenborough’s Bachelor King 10:30 ..............................David Attenborough’s Micro Monsters 11:00.............. Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew 12:00 ...............The F1 Show 13:00.. The Holiday Makers 14:00 ...........Modern Family 14:30 ...........Modern Family 15:00 ...........Modern Family 15:30 ...........Modern Family 16:00 ...........Modern Family 20:00................ Football’s Funniest Moments 21:00 ............ The Patriot 00:10..NCIS: Los Angeles 01:00 ............. Road Wars

07:10....................... Top Gear 08:00 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 09:00.................... Scrapheap Challenge 10:00...... American Pickers 11:00........ Storage Hunters 11:30........ Storage Hunters 12:00.. Storage Hunters UK 12:30..... Lizard Lick Towing 13:00..... Lizard Lick Towing 13:30..... Beverly Hills Pawn 14:30......... Storage Hunters 21:00....................... QI XL 22:00........ Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 23:0.......... Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 00:00.......Have I Got a Bit More News for You 00:40.......Have I Got a Bit More News for You 01:20....................... QI XL

19:55 ....The Plane Crash

22:45........... Mayday: The Passenger Who Landed a Plane 23:45.....The Plane Crash

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00 .............. Super League Highlights 08:00................ One2eleven 09:00 .........Game Changers 10:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 10:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 11:00 ..................The Premier League Years 13:00............. Football Gold 13:30 ................ One2eleven 14:00 ....................... Ringside 15:00 ..................The Premier League Years 16:55 ............Rugby League 19:00 ................ Ringside 20:00 ........... Ravi Bopara Interviewing Sol Campbell 21:00 ........Football Gold 21:05......... Major League Soccer 23:10 .......... One2eleven 23:30 ..... Premier League 100 Club

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Cream teas, bunting, thatched cottages swathed in roses and quaint church spires - for generations this rural idyll has conjured the very best of Britain. In this three-part series, Penelope Keith takes to the road to explore our relationship with that most quintessential of British institutions, the village. Penelope visits the open spaces of East Anglia, the rugged hills and valleys of the North, and the bucolic splendour of the South West; discovering traditions under threat and communities undergoing huge changes, as she explores what the future holds for our villages. In this first episode, Penelope is in East Anglia, attending a traditional village regatta on the Norfolk Broads and taking to the air over the village of Little Snoring. She learns to speak like a Norfolk native and ends her journey at a village fete, where she is witness to a unique village performance.

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Sunday 21 June 2015 is the world’s first International Day of Yoga, as declared by the United Nations. It’s a 24-hour worldwide festival of yoga. But why are we marking a multimillion pound industry, embraced by celebrities and footballers alike?

BBC Breakfast presenter Naga Munchetty ­ - a self-confessed yoga sceptic - delves into the roots of this ancient Indian tradition and discovers that for many Hindus, yoga is a deeply spiritual practice that goes way beyond the sun salutation or downward dog.

From a breathtaking early morning class held at the top of London’s Shard, to a training session with Rugby League hulks of The Salford Red Devils; from a manor house donated by a Beatle (where linking to God is a daily pursuit) to yogic breathing on the hilltops of a remote Scottish island, Naga explores the claims of so many yoga advocates that the practice is the ultimate source of health, wholeness and wellbeing.

Even Naga’s fellow Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull comes straight off set to show Naga the yoga moves he practices to make sure he gets a good night’s slee

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:00 .......The Andrew Marr Show 10:00 ...........................Sunday Morning Live 11:00.......... Sunday Politics 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 .....................BBC News 13:15 ................Prized Apart 14:20 ..........Yoga: Bend it CW Like Britain choice 14:50....... Homes Under the Hammer 15:20 ...............Escape to the Country 16:00 .......... Songs of Praise 16:35 ....Nigel Slater: Eating Together 17:05 .............F1: Grand Prix 18:35 .............. BBC News 18:50 .BBC London News 19:00............ Countryfile 20:00................. Antiques Roadshow 21:00...Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell 22:00............... BBC News 22:30.. Live at the Apollo 23:15.....My Big Beautiful Wedding Dress 00:15...... Weather for the Week Ahead

BBC At War presented by Jonathan Dimbleby BBC2, 21.00 In the second episode, Dimbleby reveals how fears of a crisis in morale at home made popular light entertainment the centrepiece of BBC’s schedules, and how stubborn determination and technical improvisation enabled broadcasting from the heart of the war zone.

As the BBC adopted different languages it came to be a powerful force for resistance in Europe: honest reporting of the war over pure propaganda was another battle that had to be won, but it also became a key means of coded communication with resistance groups. Dimbleby tells how the BBC championed the ‘V for Victory’ campaign which spread rapidly across occupied Europe, as the broadcaster began to win the war of words oversees.

By D Day, BBC correspondents armed with mini recorders were embedded in army units amidst the action. Richard Dimbleby reported from Hitler’s Berlin hours after its capture and was with the liberators of Belsen, but internal battles continued over what to broadcast, and it was only his threat to resign that caused his unflinching report from the concentration camp to be allowed on air.

In the closing months of the war the BBC had achieved such credibility that even the German High Command was relying on it as the only reliable source of information. The modern era of news had begun and just as the world would never be the same – nor would the BBC.

06:00 ......The Big Allotment Challenge 07:00 .................. Countryfile 08:00 ...... Gardeners’ World 08:30 ......Greatest Gardens 09:00 ......... The Beechgrove Garden 09:30 ........Saturday Kitchen Best Bites 11:00 .........................The Box 11:30 ................. Mary Berry’s Absolute Favourites 12:00 ................ The Olympic Journey 12:30 ....................... Athletics 14:05............................ Tennis 17:35........................... Flog It! 18:20........ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice 20:00..........Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure 21:00...........BBC at War W C with Jonathan choice Dimbleby 22:00......................Blood 23:30.................The Clare Balding Show 00:00..................Women’s World Cup

06:00 .................. Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge 06:25 ................Pat and Stan 06:35 ..........Dino Dan: Trek’s Adventures 06:45 ......................Dino Dan 07:00 ...................... Canimals 07:15 .............................Sooty 07:30 .................. Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge 08:25...................... ITV News 08:30...................... Weekend 09:25................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 12:30...................... ITV News 12:35.....Murder, She Wrote 13:35....... Long Lost Family 14:35....... Off Their Rockers 15:05 ...........Jurassic Park III 16:50... Midsomer Murders 18:45 . ITV News London 19:00 .........ITV News and Weather 19:15...........Catchphrase 20:00...Surprise Surprise 21:00..........Black Work

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22:00................ ITV News

22:15............. Bear Grylls: Mission Survive

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2 1 s t 05:20 ......... Deal or No Deal 06:05 ..........................Cycling 07:00 ..................Volkswagen Racing Cup 07:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 07:55.........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 .............The Simpsons 09:00............. The Simpsons 09:30 .......... Sunday Brunch 12:30............. The Simpsons 13:00............. The Simpsons 13:30..............The Simpsons 14:00 .............The Simpsons 14:30 .............The Simpsons 16:30 ..... Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief 18:40 .... Channel 4 News 19:00..Kevin Mccloud’s W C Escape to choice the Wild 20:00.... Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year 21:00..................Humans 22:00...................I, Robot 00:15.............. Rude Tube 01:10.......Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo

06:00................Children’s TV 08:00 ...................Wanda and the Alien 08:10......... Zack and Quack 08:20......... Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:35........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:45 ...................Jelly Jamm 09:05 .....................LazyTown 09:30 ...... Dora and Friends 10:00 .........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:35 .............. Chinese Food in Minutes 10:55... Police Interceptors 14:45 ..... Are We Done Yet? 16:30 .......... The Hunchback of Notre Dame 18:10..... Monster-in-Law 19:55.....................5 News Weekend 20:00............... Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 21:00............ Big Brother 22:00 .....The Other Guys 00:10 ......... Manchester’s Gang Wars: Exposed 01:10..........Super Casino

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

06:15.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

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

06:20 ..............The Hot Desk

07:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

10:00............. Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

12:00...Pride and Prejudice

11:00 ........Ainsley Harriott’s Street Food

06:30....................Emmerdale Omnibus 09:10 ...... Coronation Street Omnibus

13:00...Pride and Prejudice

11:40 ................Take Me Out

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

12:55....... Take Me Out: The Gossip 13:45 ...... Alesha Dixon: The Hot Desk 13:55 ........Music and Lyrics 16:00 .....A Cinderella Story 17:55.................. Love Island 18:55....Legally Blonde 2: Red White and Blonde 21:00 ............Love Island 22:00......... Bachelorette

14:00................. Doctor Who 16:00................. Doctor Who 17:00................. Doctor Who 18:00............Doctor Who 19:00............Doctor Who 20:00 ................One Born Every Minute 21:00 ............... Pride and Prejudice 22:00................ Pride and Prejudice 23:00 ................... Grimm

12:05 ................Gadget Man 12:35 ................Gadget Man 13:40...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 14:10...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 14:40............... Four in a Bed 17:15.. Come Dine with Me 20:00... Ainsley Harriott’s Street Food 21:00.................Car S.O.S 22:00................. 9/11: The Lost Tapes

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

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

01:00........... Doctor Who

00:10.... 8 Out of 10 Cats

01:50........... Doctor Who

01:00 ................Car S.O.S

06:00.... The Hour of Power

07:10 .........Motorway Cops

07:00.......................The Flash

08:00 .........Motorway Cops

08:00 ....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

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

Black Work

09:00 ......Sun, Sea and A&E

10:00 ........ Storage Hunters

10:00 ................................Glee

ITV1, 21:00

10:30 ........ Storage Hunters

11:00 .................... WWE Raw

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

First of a three-part thriller. When her detective husband Ryan is murdered, PC Jo Gillespie is expected to leave it to her colleagues in the force to find his killer. But as Jo starts to lose trust in her police family, she feels compelled to carry out her own investigation - a search for the truth that will put herself and her children in danger.

12:00................ Monkey Life

11:30 ........ Storage Hunters

12:30................ Monkey Life

15:30 .Storage Hunters UK

13:00................ Monkey Life

16:00 .........Motorway Cops

13:30 ................ Monkey Life

17:00 .........Motorway Cops

14:00 ................ Monkey Life

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

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

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

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

20:00 ......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

06:00............. Football Gold 07:30 .......... Premier League Legends 08:00 ........................Saturday Fight Night 11:30 ................. Austrian GP: Track Parade 12:30 .. Austrian Grand Prix 15:30................. Austrian GP: Paddock Live 16:15............. Saturday Fight Night 19:45............ Ravi Bopara Interviewing Sol Campbell 20:45.........Football Gold 21:00...... Premier League Legends 21:30...... Premier League 100 Club 22:00......... Major League Soccer 00:10.........Football Gold 01:00...... Premier League Legends

23:50 .................. Tricked 00:50............ Love Island 01:50...... Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

20:00.. Kings and Queens of Speech 21:00................. A League of Their Own

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

21:00.......Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00..... Hoff the Record

22:00...... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

22:40.............. Red Dwarf

23:00.............. Road Wars

01:20.......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

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

23:20.............. Red Dwarf

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Kevin Mccloud’s Escape to the Wild Channel 4, 19:00

Kevin McCloud travels to Chile, and the foothills of the Andes, to meet a family from south London who’ve quit the daily grind to build a new home in the shadow of an active volcano. Dad Jago was an IT project manager; mum Lucy, a lawyer - but they gave it all up to relocate with their three young children to one of the more remote and inaccessible places in South America. Kevin arrives at the site on horseback to discover that the family are still in the process of constructing their new home.

With no formal training, they’re building an earth house with their bare hands, using bags filled with soil and trees from the local forest, which they transport by oxen. Kevin is impressed by the structure but troubled by one key question: why would you choose to live next door to a highly volatile volcano?

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The Met: Policing London

19th June - 25th June 2015

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BBC1, 21.00

Filmed over the course of year, The Met: Policing London follows officers of Britain’s biggest and busiest police service as they deal with life, death, crime and its victims, all across the capital.

Gangs are a major problem for police in at least 20 of London’s 32 boroughs. Detectives Stuart McNaughton and Bob Dolce work for Trident, the Met’s specialist gang unit. As some younger boys and girls are increasingly being lured into the gang lifestyle, Bob and Stuart are focused on one of London’s most dangerous gangs, working undercover to take down its leaders and stop the lucrative drug trade thriving on the streets of South London.

In North London, wealthy residents of Camden have been plagued by a wave of violent snatch-and-grab thefts by robbers using mopeds to evade police. Suspects are often only in their teens and cops are cautious about chasing the criminals. With public confidence in the police running low because of this, it’s up to Borough Commander Richard Tucker to win back local trust and wipe out the problem.

Police Constables Tim Dawes and Steph Mills have been patrolling the streets of Brixton for over 5 years and deal with knife crime on a regular basis. But nothing can prepare them for the shock of a vicious knife attack in broad daylight when it’s up to them to try to save the life of an innocent teenage boy.

09:15 ................ Crimewatch

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

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

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

07:00................ Claimed and Shamed

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

11:00................ Claimed and Shamed

07:30 ............Family Finders

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

08:15 ..................Demolition

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

11:30 ............Family Finders

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

12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt

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

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

11:00 .....................BBC News

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

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

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

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

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

14:00 ............... Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room

13:00.........Cash in the Attic

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

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

14:15 ....................Perfection 15:00 ...............Escape to the Country 16:00 .........................The Box 16:30........................... Flog It! 17:15....................... Pointless 18:00.... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30........Nigel Slater: Eating Together

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20:00 ............ EastEnders 20:30 .............Disaster on Everest

13:45......................... Rowing

11:00 .............. This Morning

15:15.................A Man for All Seasons

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

17:15........................ Antiques Roadshow

18:00................ ITV News London

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

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

18:30 ............... Kangaroo Dundee

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

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

19:00....... Natural World

19:30....Coronation Street

20:00............... The £100k House: The Final Fix

20:00....................Johnny CW Kingdom’s Wild Exmoor choice

22:35........ Have I Got Old News for You

21:00 ........ Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Island

21:00 ...................Vicious

23:05............... Have I Got News for You

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

23:35............ The Graham Norton Show

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

23:20............... Napoleon

21:00...............The Met: CW Policing London choice 22:00.... BBC News at Ten

00:25...... Weather for the Week Ahead 00:30............... BBC News

22:30..............Newsnight 00:20........ Portillo’s State Secrets 00:50..................Women’s World Cup

20:30 .Coronation Street 21:30 .............It’s a Funny Old Week

22:40............. David Weir: Sports Life Stories 23:40..... The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 00:30............ Jackpot247

Johnny Kingdom’s Wild Exmoor ITV1, 20.00 Winter has arrived, the time of year when the salmon return home from the Atlantic Ocean to lay their eggs in the rivers where they were born. Johnny has been scouring Exmoor looking for them and finally in the tiny village of Brayford, Johnny gets his shots of a large male salmon.

It’s also the time of year for the South Molton Fatstock Market, which attracts sheep farmers from all over southwest England keen to demonstrate the quality of their animals. But Johnny’s favourites are the Shire horses and he helps out as one of these huge beasts is fitted with new shoes.

During the winter months migrant and domestic birds seek shelter in some of the estuaries on the north Devon coast and Johnny loves the challenge of trying to film them. At the Taw Estuary he finds a Little Egret, Shelduck and a beautiful Curlew, once plentiful on Exmoor but now rarely seen. Before he heads home he visits the coastal town of Porlock to join in the traditional festival of ‘wassailing’. The townsfolk parade through the streets toasting the apple trees with cider and making as much noise as possible to ward off evil spirits.

But it wouldn’t be winter on Exmoor without the snow and as the weather turns bad, Johnny heads for the moor and encounters first some hardy Highland cattle, followed by a herd of ponies scraping at the ground for some food under the snow.

Exmoor was the first place in Europe to become a Dark Sky Reserve - the absence of artificial light creates some beautiful starry skies and also helps Johnny capture on a night vision camera the first shots he’s ever had of wild boar wallowing in mud. He’s thrilled!

And now with winter nearly over, to round off Johnny’s year he joins sheep farmer Jason Toft and helps deliver a lamb. Of course this means that spring is almost here once more, ushering in another new year on Exmoor.

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19th June - 25th June 2015

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06:20 ........... How I Met Your Mother 06:45 ............Will and Grace 07:10 ............Will and Grace 07:30........ Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier 09:00........................... Frasier 09:30 ..........................Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure 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 12:40................... Come Dine with Me 13:10 ................Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ...................... A Place in the Sun 17:00 .............Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30 .............. Hollyoaks 19:00 .... Channel 4 News 20:00 ............ Dispatches 20:30 .......... Gadget Man 21:00......Kevin Mccloud’s Escape to the Wild 22:00..............Man Down 22:35................My Tattoo Addiction 23:35............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:35........ The House the 50s Built 01:35.......... Churchill and the Fascist Plot

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

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

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ...........................The Mr. Men Show 07:35................. Thomas and Friends 07:45 ... Milkshake Monkey 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:30 .. Milkshake! Bop Box 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45.. Bananas in Pajamas 09:00................... Tickety Toc 09:15........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15 .............Pets Make You Laugh Out Loud 2 13:15.........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS 15:10 ............Buried Secrets 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00 ... Home and Away 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ......................Police Interceptors 20:00 C . aught on Camera 21:00...................... Inside Manchester’s Midland Hotel 22:00 ........... Big Brother 23:00 .... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 00:15 ..........Holiday Love Rats Exposed 01:10..........Super Casino

06:00 ..............Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20 ............................. Psych 07:05 ..................Emmerdale 07:35 .....Coronation Street 08:35................. Dinner Date 09:35 ............................. Psych 10:25......................... The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:40 .....Coronation Street 13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:40 .............. Judge Rinder 15:50 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ............Love Island 22:00 ...Ibiza Weekender 23:00 ...... Celebrity Juice 23:50 ...............Two and a Half Men

06:15 ................Hart of Dixie 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ...............Escape to the Country 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 .................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00 ......... Escape to the Country 19:00 .... Neighbourhood Blues 20:00. Emergency Bikers 21:00......... The Catherine Tate Show 21:40...........Him and Her 23:00 .... Neighbourhood Blues

08:55.....Location, Location, Location 10:00............... Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 11:05 .........Dakota Incident 13:00 ...................Time Team 14:05................... Time Team 15:10 ...................Time Team 16:10 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 ...............Four in a Bed 17:15 ...............Four in a Bed 18:50........ Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00......... A Place in the Sun: Home or Away 22:00...... One Born Every Minute 23:05......... Embarrassing Fat Bodies 00:10........................8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00................ A Place in the Sun: Home or Away

06:00.......................The Flash

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

07:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

07:25 ................. Traffic Cops

08:00................ Monkey Life

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

06:00............. Football Gold 07:00 .................... WWE Raw 08:00......... Game Changers 09:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 10:00 ..................The Premier League Years 12:00................. Soccer A.M. 13:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 13:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 14:00...................The Premier League Years 16:0.................0 Soccer A.M. 17:00.......... Premier League 17:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 18:00...... Premier League 100 Club 18:30.............. Speedway: Life of Tai 19:30............ Elite League Speedway 21:30......... Super League Fulltime 22:00............ Soccer A.M. 23:00............ Elite League Speedway

09:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00...............Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ................ Monkey Life 16:00.................. Moone Boy 16:30.... Last Man Standing 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30 ... Last Man Standing 18:00.. Last Man Standing 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ..... Modern Family 21:00... Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures 22:00........................ Glee 23:00.............A League of Their Own

08:10 .......................Top Gear 10:00 ........ Storage Hunters 10:30........ Storage Hunters 11:00 .... Lizard Lick Towing 11:30.... Lizard Lick Towing 12:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 ...... American Pickers 15:00 ........ Storage Hunters 16:00 ................. Traffic Cops 17:00....................... Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers 20:00.... Storage Hunters 21:00 ...... Not Going Out 22:20 ........... Undercover 23:00............................ QI 00:20 ..... Mock the Week

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

01:00.... Storage Hunters

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

01:30.... Storage Hunters

Nigel Slater: Eating Together BBC1, 19:30

Food writer and cook Nigel Slater takes a tour of the diversity in modern British home cooking.

Nigel’s journey takes him from the old classic Lancashire hotpot to three meltin-the-mouth one-pot dishes with origins from around the world.

He meets Yasmin, whose special Iranian fesenjoon takers her back to her childhood in Iran, he gets a lesson in Brazil’s national dish feijoada from brothers Andre and Anderson, and he discovers the delicate flavours of a traditional Bangladeshi korma as he joins Enam and his family to celebrate Eid. Inspired by their dishes, Nigel creates a luxurious bean hotpot bejewelled with beetroot and carrot.

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19th June - 25th June 2015

T u e s day 06:00............... Breakfast 09:15........... Crimewatch 10:00 .........Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .......... Claimed and Shamed 11:30...... Family Finders 12:15 ........ Bargain Hunt 13:00... BBC News at One 13:30 ........... BBC London News 13:45...................Doctors 14:15 ............. Perfection 15:00 ......... Escape to the Country 16:30 ................... Flog It! 17:15................ Pointless 18:00............... BBC News at Six 18:30 ........... BBC London News 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30............ EastEnders 20:00 ............. Holby City 21:00 ....... The Syndicate 22:00 ... BBC News at Ten 22:25 .BBC London News 22:35 .............. Imagine...

23:50 ..................Sparkle 01:30...... Weather for the Week Ahead 01:35............... BBC News

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

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

07:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed

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

07:30 ............Family Finders

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

08:15............... Japan: Earth’s Enchanted Island

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

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

11:00 .............. This Morning

11:00 .....................BBC News 11:30 ........BBC World News 12:00 .......The Daily Politics

10:55 ...................... ITV News 12:30 ............ Loose Women 13:30 .............. ITV News and Weather

13:00 ............................Tennis

14:00............... Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room

17:15 ........................Antiques Roadshow

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

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

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

18:30 ............... Kangaroo Dundee

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

19:00 ........... Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 20:00..... Mountain Lions: Big Cats in High Places 21:00.........The Bank: A CW Matter of choice Life and Debt 22:00 .........................Rev 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:20...... BBC at War with Jonathan Dimbleby

18:00 ................ ITV News London 18:30......... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30 ........ A Great Welsh Adventure with Griff Rhys Jones 20:00.. Love Your Garden 21:00.........Don’t Blame the Council

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

00:20............... The Super League Show

22:40 .....On Assignment

01:05................. Antiques Roadshow

00:10 ........... Jackpot247

23:10 ..............The Chase

The Bank: A Matter Of Life And Debt BBC2, 21.00

High street banks sit at the very heart of our thorny relationship with money, deciding on our savings, debts, mortgages and business loans - and our hopes and fears. A branch of NatWest in the north of England has opened its doors, giving unprecedented access to the behind-the-scenes workings of one of our most important everyday institutions.

Produced in partnership with the Open University, the first episode in this three-part series looks at how this branch is trying to win back the customer trust which was lost after the 2008 financial crisis. Deputy bank manager Claire has 12 weeks to improve the all-important customer service score of her branch. She and her team - complaints handler Anna, mortgage advisor Gary, and Sarah, who sells life insurance at the branch - are desperate to succeed. But with faith in banks at an all-time low, the team know that they have their work cut out.

Every customer that visits the Huddersfield branch can be called by the bank for feedback, so every member of Claire’s team is under pressure to make their customers happy; from those like Alan, angry about the service they’ve received, to those such as Tracey, seeking advice on managing their debt.

Can Claire and her team persuade the people of Huddersfield that her team is putting the customer first? And is it fair for customers to point the finger at the bank every time?

Following the real-life stories of customers and staff at this branch, this episode is a fascinating look at our complicated relationship with money and the bank.

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19th June - 25th June 2015

2 3 r d 06:00 .................Countdown 06:45 ............Will and Grace 07:10 ............Will and Grace 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:30 .....Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure 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 12:40 ................... Come Dine with Me 13:10 ................Phil Spencer: Secret Agent 14:10 .................Countdown 15:00 ......... Deal or No Deal 16:00 ...................... A Place in the Sun 17:00 .............Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30.............. Hollyoaks 19:00.... Channel 4 News 20:00................. Running the Shop 21:00 ............ No Offence 22:00 ............ 999: What’s Your Emergency?

23:00 .................. 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:00.............. Rude Tube 01:00 ..........KOTV Boxing Weekly 01:25 ................... Gillette World Sport 01:55................. Ironman 70.3 Staffordshire

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

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

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show 07:35 ..........................Thomas and Friends 07:45... Milkshake Monkey 07:50 ......Noddy in Toyland 08:00 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:30 .................... Milkshake!

Bop Box 08:35 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 08:45.....................Bananas in Pajamas 09:00 ...................Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ..................GPs: Behind Closed Doors 13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15............................... NCIS 15:15.................... Lost Letter Mysteries 17:00 ..................5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00.... Home and Away 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ......................Police Interceptors 20:00...The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies 21:00......... 24 Hour Party Pensioners: OAPs Behaving Badly 22:00 ........... Big Brother 23:00 .... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 00:00........... Cricket on 5

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06:00...............Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20 ............................. Psych 07:05 ..................Emmerdale 07:35......Coronation Street 08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35............................. Psych 10:25......................... The Real Housewives of Atlanta 11:20 .........................The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:10.................. Emmerdale 12:40..... Coronation Street 13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:45.............. Judge Rinder 15:50................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 16:55 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00 ............Love Island 22:00 .... Bad Bridesmaid 23:00 ...... Celebrity Juice 23:50 ...............Two and a Half Men

06:15................ Hart of Dixie 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00................... New Tricks 12:00............... Escape to the Country 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00.......................... The Bill 16:00.................... New Tricks 17:00 .................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00......... Escape to the Country 19:00..... Neighbourhood Blues 20:00........... Airport 24/7 21:00 ........... Who Do You Think You Are? USA 22:00 ................... Grimm 23:00 .... Neighbourhood Blues

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

06:00 ......................The Flash

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

07:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

07:25.................. Traffic Cops

07:30 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

10:00 ........ Storage Hunters

06:00............. Football Gold 07:00 ...WWE SmackDown!

08:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 08:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 09:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 10:00 .............. Major League Soccer 12:00.................. Soccer A.M. 13:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 13:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 14:00 ..................The Premier League Years 16:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 17:00 ......... Premier League 18:00...... Premier League 100 Club 18:30..... Premier League 19:00...Live Horse Racing Leicester/Newton Abbott/Ballinrobe 21:00........Boxing Classic 22:00............ The Premier League Years

08:00 ................ Monkey Life 08:30 ................ Monkey Life 09:00.............. Hawaii Five-0 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ...............Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

08:10....................... Top Gear 11:00.... Lizard Lick Towing 12:00....................... Top Gear 14:00 ...... American Pickers 15:00 ........ Storage Hunters 16:00.................. Traffic Cops 17:00........................Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers

16:00 ... Last Man Standing

20:00................... Storage Hunters UK

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

20:30.... Storage Hunters

17:30 ... Last Man Standing

21:00............ Undercover

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

21:40 ........................... QI

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

22:20..... Mock the Week

20:00...... Modern Family

23:00........................... QI

21:00 ............ The Patriot

00:20 ..... Mock the Week

00:10 ............ Strike Back

01:00.... Storage Hunters

01:10........ Hawaii Five-0

01:30.... Storage Hunters

10:00 .............. Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 11:10 ......... Arizona Raiders 13:00 ...................Time Team 14:05....................Time Team 15:10................... Time Team 16:10 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 ...............Four in a Bed 18:50......... Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 19:55 ...... Grand Designs 21:00 .......Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 22:00...... Britain’s Winter: Storm Heroes 23:05 .................24 Hours in A and E 00:10 .......................8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00....... Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

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Don’t Blame The Council ITV1, 21.00

What happens when a council tries to reinvent itself as a profitmaking enterprise to make itself less reliant upon central government grants?

Does management have what it takes to change the culture of its council workers to cut waste and become more efficient?

And can they win the hearts and minds of residents, in the face of big changes to the services they receive from the council?

Wigan Council has been one of the hardest hit by cuts, losing over £100m in funding.

It’s now struggling to maintain frontline services, but rather than going down without a fight, senior management have taken radical action.

Director of environmental services Terry Dunn believes he has a workforce that can take on the corporate world and win new work.

He’s transforming the environmental team into a money-making business and hoping to generate extra revenue to save their front line services.

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The Interceptor BBC1, 21.00

The UNIT is beginning to make inroads into the criminal organisation and Ash (O-T Fagbenle) is finally doing the kind of work he’s dreamed of - but it’s having an impact on his family life.

Phone taps have revealed that a big sum of money is being sent out from Xavier’s dry cleaners on behalf of ‘someone bigger’ and it’s a great lead: the money could take them to its source and therefore one step closer to identifying their Mr Big. Tracking it reveals the existence of a money launderer known as The Accountant (Neil Stuke, pictured), whose latest scheme is to use a traditional and paperless worldwide money transfer system called Hawala.

The team home in on The Rays, a family of long-standing honest ‘Hawaladars’ who have lived by a code of honour, until now. Youngest son, Zubin (Hamza Jeetooa), has agreed to launder the money unbeknownst to his father or brother Astin (Sacha Dhawan), a respectable building society manager. But when it’s stolen whilst in Zubin’s care, the Rays are in serious debt to the vicious Accountant and, if he doesn’t get repaid quickly, the punishment will be severe.

Zubin’s mistake has led the UNIT deeper into the criminal organisation and Cartwright (Ewan Stewart) is happy to exploit this. But Ash isn’t about to stand by and watch the Rays be sacrificed in the process. Can Ash and the team find a way to save the Rays from themselves, while keeping the money in play and getting a step closer to their ultimate target?

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W e d n e s day 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15................ Crimewatch 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed 11:30 ............Family Finders 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...................... BBC News at One 13:30 .................BBC London News 13:45......................... Doctors 14:15.................... Perfection 15:00............... Escape to the Continent 16:00......................... The Box 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 ......... Don’t Tell the Bride 21:00..The Interceptor

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22:00 ... BBC News at Ten

22:25 ........... BBC London News 22:35................Suntrap

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23:05... The Met: Policing London

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06:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 07:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed 07:30 ............Family Finders 08:15 ........................Antiques Roadshow 08:45.............. Cowboys and Angels 09:15 .......................... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00 .....................BBC News 11:30....................... The Daily Politics 13:00............................ Tennis 17:15 ........................Antiques Roadshow 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 ............... Kangaroo Dundee 19:00............ Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial 20:00 .........Dara and Ed’s Great Big Adventure 21:00............Napoleon

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22:00 ......Haslar - Secrets of a War Hospital 22:30 .............Newsnight 23:20 ............The Bank: A Matter of Life and Debt

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 ............... Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room 15:00.................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase 18:00................ ITV News London 18:30......... ITV News and Weather 19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30..............Coronation Street 20:00.............The Cube

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21:00................ Long Lost Family 22:00..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40 ............... The Mafia with Trevor McDonald

00:05...... Weather for the Week Ahead

00:20 .........Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

23:40...............More Tales From Northumberland with Robson Green

00:10............... BBC News

01:20........Modern Times

00:05............ Jackpot247

BBC1, 22.35 Woody, Brutus, Zorro and Melody wake up to find themselves in a prison cell - in fancy dress - with enormous hangovers and only a hazy recollection of the previous night.

It transpires that Brutus, Melody and Zorro have been detained on suspicion of the murder of Spanish tribute singer Elton Juan, after attending a party in his honour at the mansion of pop impresario Señor Big. Woody didn’t attend the party and has only been held on a minor charge of impersonating a lifeguard and he is soon released. With his friends still locked up it’s down to Woody to clear their names. Using his full armoury of characters and disguises, Woody talks his way into Big’s mansion to find out what really happened. During the course of his investigations he meets Frederico Mercury - the Island’s top Freddie Mercury impersonator. Mercury has everything to gain from the death of a rival tribute singer. But, as Woody discovers, Elton Juan had many enemies.

The Cube ITV1, 20.00 Phillip Schofield is back with the ninth series of the BAFTA award-winning The Cube in a brand new day and time slot – giving fans a mid-week fix of the game show that tests contestants’ skill, nerve and determination to win. With the return of our favourite games alongside a host of new ones, the question remains – who can beat The Cube, and will anyone walk away with a quarter of a million pounds?

In episode 4, Hair Coach Natasha stays cool, calm, and confident under pressure, taking some big risks in an attempt to beat The Cube. While fireman Ben thinks he’s got what it takes to get his hands on the allimportant quarter of a million pounds. But will they hold their nerve? Can they beat The Cube?

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19th June - 25th June 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

07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier

06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:40................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat 06:50 .....................Peppa Pig

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

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

09:30.......................... Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure

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

10:30.................... Come Dine with Me 11:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

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

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

08:30.................... Milkshake!

Bop Box

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

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

12:40.................... Come Dine with Me

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

13:10.................Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

09:00................... Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff

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

11:10 .......Cowboy Builders

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

12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime

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

12:15 .....The Dog Rescuers

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

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

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

15:15............. The 19th Wife

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

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

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

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

20:00 ........... The Auction House

18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

21:00 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 22:00........Peter Kay: Live and Back on Nights!

23:00................. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

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13:15 ........Home and Away 14:15............................... NCIS

18:00.... Home and Away 19:00............ GPs: Behind Closed Doors 20:00.......Psycho Pussies 21:00.............. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 22:00............ Big Brother 23:00........... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

23:55.................. Wild Life Festival

00:00......... 24 Hour Party Pensioners: OAPs Behaving Badly

00:25..................Zaytoun

01:00..........Super Casino

06:00 ..............Life’s Funniest Moments 06:20 ............................. Psych 07:05 ..................Emmerdale 07:35 ......................The Cube 08:35 ................ Dinner Date 09:35 ............................. Psych 10:25 .........................The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:40 ......................The Cube 13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:40.............. Judge Rinder 15:50 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00............... Two and a Half Men 21:00.............Love Island 22:00....... Celebrity Juice 22:50........... The Vampire Diaries 23:45................Two and a Half Men

06:15.................Hart of Dixie 08:00............One Born Every Minute 09:00.................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ...............Escape to the Country 13:00............One Born Every Minute 14:00.................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00.......................... The Bill 16:00................... New Tricks 17:00 .................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00.......... Escape to the Country 19:00..... Neighbourhood Blues 20:00.................... Grimm 22:00................. Dynamo: Magician Impossible 23:00..... Neighbourhood Blues

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

06:00......................... The Flash 07:00 ................RSPCA Animal Rescue 07:30 ................RSPCA Animal Rescue 08:00 ................... Monkey Life 09:00 .................Hawaii Five-0 11:00 ........NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00 .................Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ...... Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 16:00...... Last Man Standing 17:00 ............... The Simpsons 17:30 ......Last Man Standing 18:00.. Last Man Standing 18:30 ..........The Simpsons 20:00..... Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures 21:00................Strike Back 22:00............Hawaii Five-0 00:00....NCIS: Los Angeles 01:00................... Brit Cops: Frontline Crime

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

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00 .......WWE Experience 08:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 08:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 09:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 10:00 ..................The Premier League Years 12:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 13:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 13:30........... Premier League 100 Club 16:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 17:00 ......... Premier League 17:30 .......... Premier League 100 Club 18:00............ Boots ‘n’ All 19:00 ..........................Sky Sports Originals- Jimmy Floyd Hasselbaink 19:30............ Elite League Speedway 21:30..... Speedway Gold

07:20.................. Traffic Cops 08:10 .......................Top Gear 10:00........ Storage Hunters 11:00.... Lizard Lick Towing 12:00....................... Top Gear 14:00...... American Pickers 15:00 .......................... Storage Hunters UK 16:00 ................. Traffic Cops 17:00....................... Top Gear 19:00................... Storage Hunters UK 19:30.... Storage Hunters 20:00.................Top Gear 21:40...... Mock the Week 23:00............................ QI 00:20...... Mock the Week 01:00................... Storage Hunters UK 01:30.... Storage Hunters 01:55...Lizard Lick Towing

10:00 .............. Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 11:0..............Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 11:20................Death Drums along the River 13:00................... Time Team 14:05................... Time Team 15:10 ...................Time Team 16:10 ...............Four in a Bed 16:40 ...............Four in a Bed 18:50........ Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00............. Great Canal Journeys 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:05..... 8 Out of 10 Cats 01:00....... Grand Designs

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Napoleon BBC2, 21.00

This final episode traces the fall of Napoleon, a key defining moment in global history.

Andrew Roberts uncovers the successive mistakes that would eventually led to his downfall. First was Napoleon’s trust in the Tsar of Russia, which proved to be a mistake: the Tsar would betray Napoleon and renege on their agreement. Then, when Napoleon sought revenge by invading Russia in 1812, the military campaign would prove to be a disaster. As Roberts will investigate, Napoleon went on to make some grave, ultimately suicidal, military misjudgements as he strove to defend France against her enemies. Ever since the Revolution had taken place in France in 1789, the monarchist nations of the world were out to destroy Napoleon.

At the Battle of Waterloo in 1815 they were granted their ultimate opportunity.

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Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

19th June - 25th June 2015

T h u r s day

BBC2, 19:00

Alex Polizzi takes on the difficult challenge of finding head chefs. She continues her mission with Potli, an Indian market restaurant in London’s Hammersmith, whose owners are desperate to find a head chef to help realise their ambition of expanding a restaurant chain. The last three candidates are put through the gruelling hands-on interview process. The tandoor skill test puts chefs immediately under pressure to produce an authentic tandoori chicken.

Can Bindi’s infectious enthusiasm and years of home cooking fit into a professional kitchen or will her lack or restaurant know-how be her undoing? Mark is the most experienced candidate but has no professional experience of cooking Indian food - however, maybe his maverick fusion approach could be just what they need. And when it comes to costs, who will be bang on the money? There’s only one place left in the final and the pressure is on.

06:00....................... Breakfast 09:15 ................ Crimewatch

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

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

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

07:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed

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

11:00 ................ Claimed and Shamed

07:30 ............Family Finders

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

08:15 .........................Horizon

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

11:30............ Family Finders

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

12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt

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

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

11:00 .....................BBC News

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

13:30 ....BBC London News

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

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

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

14:00................ Jeremy Kyle’s Emergency Room

13:45 .........................Doctors 14:15 ....................Perfection 15:00............... Escape to the Continent 16:00 .........................The Box 16:30........................... Flog It!

17:15 ........................Antiques Roadshow

17:15 .......................Pointless

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

18:00 .... BBC News at Six

18:30 ............... Kangaroo Dundee

18:30............ BBC London News 19:00....... The One Show 19:30 ............ EastEnders

There are more than nine million dogs living in the UK, but some can’t adapt to our 21st-century lifestyles. Mark Evans and his team take on the cases of dogs struggling with the modern world, tackling outrageous, challenging and shocking examples of dog behaviour. Specially shot surveillance footage shows Labrador Jaydee recycling her own and other dogs’ - waste, and Loki the destructively delinquent pointer trashing her home. Mark and the team continue to provide expert advice and practical tips to help these and other dogs and their owners enjoy happier, healthier lives. Mark also investigates how a dog’s sense of smell - up to a million times more acute than our own - allows a trained sniffer dog to find a drop of his own blood in a field. And K9 Academy trainer Tamsin Durston demonstrates ways of getting to know your dog better, and how to deal with dogs that don’t want to share.

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20:00 ..............Watchdog 21:00 ................ Celebrity MasterChef

21:00........Protecting Our Foster Kids

22:00.... BBC News at Ten

22:00...... Mock the Week

22:25............ BBC London News

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

23:35...............This Week

Channel 4, 20:00

19:00.........Alex Polizzi: Chefs on Trial

20:00............. Rick Stein’s German Bite

22:35....... Question Time

Dogs: Their Secret Lives

13:00 ............................Tennis

23:20..........Kate Humble: Living with Nomads

11:00 .............. This Morning

15:00 ................... Dickinson’s Real Deal 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase 18:00 ................ ITV News London 18:30 .........ITV News and Weather 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30.................. Tonight 20:00............ Emmerdale 20:30.....Big Box Little Box 21:00....... Superhospital 22:00..... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40....Dangerous Dogs 23:40.......... Perspectives

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19th June - 25th June 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 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30 ........................... Frasier 09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:30 ..........................Jimmy’s Australian Food Adventure 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

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

07:10 ............. Little Princess 07:20 ....The Mr. Men Show 07:35 ..........................Thomas and Friends 07:45 ......................Milkshake Monkey 07:50 ....................... Noddy in Toyland 08:00............ Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:15..................... Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35......... Toby’s Travelling Circus

13:10 ................Phil Spencer: Secret Agent

12:10... 5 News Lunchtime

16:00 ...................... A Place in the Sun 17:00 .............Couples Come Dine with Me

11:10 .......Cowboy Builders 12:15 ......................Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

13:15........ Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS 15:15 ..................Garage Sale Mystery 17:00.................. 5 News at 5

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

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

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

18:00 ... Home and Away

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

18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

20:00..........Dogs: Their W C Secret Lives choice

20:00 ............... Celebs on Benefits: Fame to Claim

21:00.............The Tribe

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22:00 ...............Peter Kay: Live and Back on Nights!

23:05........Dogging Tales

08:55.....Location, Location, Location 10:00............... Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 11:05............Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 11:25......... A Lawless Street 13:00.....Time Team Special 14:05....................Time Team 15:10....................Time Team 16:10................Four in a Bed 16:40................Four in a Bed 17:15................Four in a Bed 17:45................Four in a Bed 18:15..........Four in a Bed 18:50......... Sarah Beeny’s Selling Houses 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00....... The Good Wife 22:00..........Big Fat Gypsy Weddings 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E

06:00...................... The Flash

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

07:00............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

07:20 ................. Traffic Cops

07:30.............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

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

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00 ...WWE SmackDown!

08:00 .........Game Changers 09:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 10:00 ..................The Premier League Years 12:00 ................. Soccer A.M. 13:00 ..................The Fantasy Football Club 13:30........... Premier League 100 Club 14:00...................The Premier League Years 16:00................. Soccer A.M. 17:00 ......... Premier League 18:00................ Ringside 19:00.............. Sky Sports Originals Anthony Joshua: Heavyweight Hopes 19:55........ Challenge Cup Rugby League 22:00..Super League Gold 22:15.........Football Gold

09:00 ...................Tickety Toc 09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff

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

06:15 ................Hart of Dixie 07:00 ...................Perception 08:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 09:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 ................... New Tricks 12:00 ...............Escape to the Country 13:00 ...........One Born Every Minute 14:00 ................. DIY SOS The Big Build 15:00 .......................... The Bill 16:00 ................... New Tricks 17:00 .................Who Do You Think You Are? 18:00.......... Escape to the Country 19:00.......... Real Rescues 20:00.................... Grimm 21:00................. Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00.................One Born Every Minute 23:00.......... Real Rescues

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

12:40 ................... Come Dine with Me

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

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.............................. Psych 10:25 .........................The Real Housewives of Atlanta 12:10...................Emmerdale 12:40 .....Coronation Street 13:15 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 ................ Dinner Date 14:40.............. Judge Rinder 15:50................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 18:00............. The Jeremy Kyle Show 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed and Famous!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00.............Love Island

19:00 ....Trauma Doctors

21:00 ........... Big Brother 22:00 ................Person of Interest 23:00 .......... Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

08:00 ................ Monkey Life 09:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 13:00...............Hawaii Five-0 15:00 ....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 16:00 ... Last Man Standing 17:00............. The Simpsons 17:30 ........................Last Man Standing

08:10 .......................Top Gear 10:00 ........ Storage Hunters 10:30 ........ Storage Hunters 11:00 .... Lizard Lick Towing 12:00 .......................Top Gear 14:00 ...... American Pickers 15:00 ........ Storage Hunters 16:00 ................. Traffic Cops 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00 ................Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers

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

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

20:00...... Modern Family

21:00..... Hoff the Record

21:00....................... Glee

21:40............ Undercover

22:00............ A League of Their Own

22:20....................Would I Lie to You?

23:00...... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

23:00......................Would I Lie to You? 23:40..... Hoff the Record

The Tribe Channel 4, 21:00

The Ayke Muko family are getting ready for a very special celebration. Youngest son Magi is about to be initiated into manhood and will have to prove his strength and agility by leaping naked across a line of cattle.

If he completes this sacred rite of passage, Magi will earn the respect of his community and be eligible to get engaged, but as the big day approaches the pressure weighs heavily on his mind.

Meanwhile, outspoken young widow Rebo is finding it difficult to accept the constraints on Hamar women.

Since the death of her husband three years ago, Rebo has been fighting to be recognised as the head of her own household. When matters come to a head at Magi’s cattle jumping ceremony and Rebo becomes involved in an explosive row with her brother-inlaw, the fallout threatens to divide the entire family.

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What’s On in Tenerife

19th June - 25th June 2015

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 40 years) in the leading role, Tenerife’s international tenor, Celso Albelo, and mezzo-soprano and Alessandra Volpe, who returns to Ópera de Tenerife after her tremendous success last season in Nabucco.

IFAMT The International Festival of Arts Movement Tenerife covers the different artistic disciplines related to movement.

When: The meeting, which goes beyond the Until 28th June dance, audience discovers Tenerife new and innovative proposals on the bodWhere: ies and movements arising from them.

Santa Cruz, Guia de The festival was founded with the intenIsora, Puerto de la Cruz, tion to consolidate in time and expand its La Laguna and Arona future programming to other fields like More details: the circus, physical theatre and object auditoriodetenerife.eu theatre.

When: 23rd June Where: Tenerife Auditorium “Adán Martín” in Santa Cruz More details: www.ost.es

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.

10th Arico Honey Route This popular event is back for its 10th anniversary, An expert beekeeper will guide you through the landscapes of Arico to see closely the work of the bees and the first phase of the creation of honey. A beautiful excursion with flowering plants, which ends with a demonstration of extraction of honey from the combs, and a tasting!

When: 20th June Where: Arico More details: www.arico.es

Tegueste Tour Enjoy the scenery and explore the history of the town of Tegueste via 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

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

19th June - 25th June 2015

By Jamie Droo OVER the last 30 years, the rise in popularity of the phenomenon of karaoke has made it possible for more people to be able to take to the stage and show off their ability to sing.

For some, it is just a pastime and a way to have fun; for others it’s a yearning to be on stage. But neither of these reasons is a measure of an individual’s talent.

Before karaoke, you could only see singers performing in live music venues. They would carry a case full of sheet music containing their set.

There were generally a minimum of two resident musicians per venue: a drummer and a keyboard player. The vocalist would be expected to have an understanding of the music the musicians were expected to read and play, which also made the singers musicians, their instrument being the voice.

So, 30 years ago, there would not be so much of a variety of voices on stage at live music venues - only those who had chosen to be a professional singer.

But what is it that makes a good singer?

Well, it’s certainly not just down to the individual who has chosen this occupation because, back in the day,

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there were some awful acts as well as exceptional ones.

Confidence and selfbelief are so important in any performing art, but delusion is also rife in showbiz types. Some believe they are better than they actually are, and woe betides anyone who would attempt to criticise them.

Usually the most talented are equally the most humble - and the least self-indulgent.

This week, I am writing about a vocalist who is described in the previous sentence.

Last Saturday, I had the great pleasure of watching Nik Page at the Brahms & Liste showbar on the strip known as Parque de la

Paz. The bar is owned by the Feddon family, who have been presenting the Island’s finest acts for years. Brothers Ben, who asked me to refer to him as “Hunky Ben,” and Noel, are in charge of the day-to-day running of the venue, while Ian Sladen, better known as Dion, is resident host.

The first time I saw him was about 12 years ago in a bar called The Wigan Pier, later renamed The Wigan Arms. I became an instant fan.

Nik has the complete voice, in my opinion.

His vocal range is huge, his pitching impeccable and his tone addictive. He has the most animated way of per-

forming every song.

This could be because he has worked in West End theatre productions, including one of the longest-running shows in West End history, Les Miserables, where a song is not only sung but acted and performed with passion.

He applies this really well throughout his solo show, singing a diverse range of songs which display his vocal ability. He was singing Michael Buble’s massive hit, I Just Haven’t Met You Yet, as I got there.

It has been done to death on the karaoke nights around Tenerife, but Nik somehow sings it in such a way that it sounds better than you’ve ever heard it.

He then went on to sing Michael Jackson’s She’s Out Of My Life and again, it was like the first time I had heard it.

The tracks he uses for his show have been custom-made and studio-processed, so the quality of his backing matches the quality of his voice.

Nik maintains this standard throughout, and drops in a unique and incredible medley of songs from Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons. And that’s when you really hear his endless range.

Valli is known for his powerful falsetto range, and I have never heard any singer gracing these shores get anywhere near this standard - apart from Nik!

After impressing the audience with this rare ability, I asked myself: “What’s he gonna do next?” A complete change of direction was on the cards, and a huge, powerful, Gene Pitney ballad called I’m Gonna Be Strong preceded the performance of the night for me.

Nik’s rendition of Bring Him Home from Les Mis was truly jawdropping. The control he possesses is amazing. He sustains the softer notes while maintaining his tone with a perfect vibrato to close the phrases.

In a bar like this, there are always people talking during the act, but not on Saturday. As Nik delivered the last line of the song, all eyes were on the stage, and not a soul was doing anything other than sitting or standing in total appreciation of this so-talented singer.

If you like a quality voice and one which can be applied to a wide range of songs, then Nik Page is an absolute must. He defines the word outstanding.

There are not many singers of this calibre on the Island and the few that are here are well worth a visit.

Dominic James, lead male vocalist in The Sound of Musicals at Showtime, also performs a solo show called Pop to Opera. He is also an exceptional singer and should be sought by those who love a good voice.

Jeff Leyton, who also performs at The Brahms & Liste,

is another name I should mention while writing about this kind of standard.

Jeff, like Nik, has also performed in the West End, and he has a wealth of experience in so many big-production shows, including Les Mis, Phantom of the Opera, Miss Saigon and Cats.

I reviewed Elaine Alexander just a few weeks ago, but as the singers I have already mentioned are all male, I must mention Elaine to maintain a little equilibrium.

She performs her solo shows in bars and hotels, yet they are in stark contrast to one another.

Her hotel show involves more of what I have been writing about with the male singers, and contains songs from musicals and shows off this lady’s ability to perform songs that are rarely attempted but totally appreciated by her audience.

As I am writing, I keep thinking of other singers who really should be mentioned, too, but I am running out of space and I can only pledge to review their talent in the forthcoming weeks.

Tenerife has such diverse talent and so many artistes of varying standards, but all of them do a fabulous job every night.

If the talent here were to be measured in grains of sand, we would need an entire desert to show off what we have.

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Wine and Dine

19th June - 25th June 2015

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.

Ed. Florin, Calle Valle Menendez, behind the Cultural Centre, Los Cristianos Open: Mon - Sat, midday - 4pm, 6pm - late. Sun, midday - late.

Call: 922 795 823

Lupita Parque de la Reina has a secret - Lupita restaurant is fast becoming the place to eat, and it has a well-deserved reputation.

All the usual Mexican specialities are on offer, but from midday until 4pm, check out its 3.95euro menu. You can have a bowl of soup or garlic bread, main meal (selection of 20) and ice cream or coffee to finish, which is excellent value for money. Also, evening and weekend menus are available from 4.95-euro. Now Open Mondays!

The Swan Try our new homemade m enu 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 that’s not on the menu, just give us 24hr notice and we will do it for you!

Or just pop in for a drink, with live entertainment every night, 9pm - midnight, and your favourite quiz on Sunday evenings.

Cañada Blanca 2, Parque de la Reina

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: daily, 12noon - 11.30pm

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 677 381 869/645 581 621

Call: 698 396 367

The Waterfall Live Entertainment every Thursday and Sunday. Come and see our poster boards to find out who’s on.

Full-size snooker table, pool tables and dart boards.

Restaurant open 11am, all day to 9pm.

Pint of beer and large wine from 2 euros.

A lovely place to be!

Las Adelfas 2 complex, Golf del Sur

Open: All day everyday

Call: 922 737 779

Belgabar 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!

Open 7 days a week Every day (9am - 5pm) For breakfasts, lunches, snacks & cakes.

Beer, wine, spirits, coffee & a proper pot of tea.

BBQ Wednesday Nights (6pm to last orders 9pm) Don’t like BBQs? - Full menu available. (booking strongly advised)

Every Sunday (12noon - 6pm) Traditional Sunday Roast - Beef - Chicken - Pork

Every Friday Best ‘Cod & Chips’ with our own beer batter

Beachfront, The Patch, Las Americas, next to Burger King

Open: 12pm til late

Call: 674 578 413

*Try our Homemade liqueur ice-creams

Pueblo Canario, Las Americas

Call: 603 153 580

* Try our Sangria - one of the best on the island * Try our home-made cakes & desserts - baked on the premises

barraquito A traditional after dinner drink that is particular only to Tenerife. Cut out this advert & try a FREE barraquito for yourself.

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Wine and Dine

19th June - 25th June 2015

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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 1: closed 22nd June - 7th July. Otelo II: open as usual with the same specialities during this time.

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, who 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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Wine and Dine

19th June - 25th June 2015

Spain’s fine-dining success GIRONA’S El Celler eatery won top prize at the prestigious 2015 World’s 50 Best Restaurant awards, held at London’s Guildhall.

It headed the list of seven Spanish restaurants featuring in the roll of honour - more than any country. El Celler pipped Italy’s Osteria Francescana, in Modena, for the No.1 spot, with last year’s winner, Copenhagen’s Noma, pushed down to third.

It’s head chef Joan Roca i Fontane, receiving the award to a standing ovation, dedicated the prize to those around him, “This success is also for our family,” he said.

“Thanks family for your patience, for our wives, our kids, also our team - the best team in the world.”

Other Spanish fine-diners in the top 50 were: Murgaritz, in San Sebastian, which held on to sixth; Asador Etxebarri (Biscay), this year’s highest climber at 13th; Arzak, also in San Sebastian, 17th; Azurmendi, near Bilbao, 19th and in 39th spot was Quique Dacosta, in Denia, and at 42nd was Tickets, in Barcelona.

Helene Darroze, chef at the Connaught in London, was crowned world’s best female chef,

while the Japanese-inspired Sepia Restaurant in Sydney was named “one to watch”.

And the Lifetime Achievement award went to Daniel Boulud.

The awards, organised by UK-based Restaurant Magazine and sponsored by Italian drinks manufacturers San Pellegrino and Acqua Panna, are seen as highly influential in the fine-dining industry.

Noma’s first win in 2010 is credited with catapulting the restau-

rant to international stardom, resulting in enough booking requests to fill its tables for years.

But the incredible power wielded by the list has also made it the target of criticism, most recently via a petition launched

by Occupy50Best, a “trio of angry food-spotters in France”.

It calls on the event’s corporate sponsors to join a boycott to press organisers into making it more professional.

The petition insists it

has created a system that allows for self-promotion by chef-judges and, in the main, ignores women.

Among the 360-plus signatories gathered before to the award ceremony were the names of dozens of chefs, including Joel Robuchon, the Frenchman who commands a string of restaurants - some of which have appeared on the list.

But William Drew, the organisation’s head, said in a statement: “We

respect their right to express their opinions, even though we obviously don’t agree with them.”

He also stressed that the results were compiled from an “independent” voting panel of 1,000 judges, who were subject to adjudication.

Next year’s 50 Best ceremony will, for the first time, take place in New York, which, said organisers, would make the event “truly global”.

10 OF THE BEST 1. El Celler de Can Roca (Girona, Spain) 2. Osteria Francescana (Modena, Italy) 3. Noma (Copenhagen) 4. Central (Lima) 5. Eleven Madison Park (New York City) 6. Mugartiz (San Sebastian, Spain 7. Dinner by Heston Blumenthal (London) 8. Narisawa (Tokyo, Japan) 9. D.O.M. (Sao Paulo, Brazil) 10. Gaggan (Bangkok)

The Palms Pool Bar & Restaurant Home of ‘Craig’s Creations’ - Delicious gourmet food served at realistic prices!

Specials changing daily. Exciting new menu!

Food served from 10am – 10pm daily and ‘Tipsy Time’ 4pm – 7pm. Star cabaret nights, call for details. Follow us on Facebook at The Palms Pool Bar. Palms Pool bar and Restaurant, Golf Del Sur

Call: 679 721 005 / 667 098 126 / 922 738 809

Hacienda Miranda Hacienda Miranda offer the richness and variety of Mexican food. A cuisine full of flavour and colour, made with the finest ingredients authentic to Mexico. Nachos, fajitas, tacos, quesadillas, burritos and a myriad of top quality dishes.

With huge terrace and two interior rooms with a typical Mexican hacienda decor, it will become a culinary experience accompanied by the best margaritas.

CC Americas Plaza, Las Americas

Call: 922 794 699

Rumours 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 10pm including Karaoke. Plus don’t miss Buddy Graham’s award-winning comedy show every Saturday. There really is something for everyone at Rumours. Great food great beer, great entertainment!

Paloma Beach, Los Cristianos

Open: 9am til late

Call: 922 792 608

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Lifestyle

19th June - 25th June 2015

By Vanessa Vee This week I was invited to Music Hall Tavern at their new home in Vivo, Playa de Las Americas.

The MHT group have been performing in Lanzarote for 20 years and, after branching out to Fuerteventura in 2008, they then took Gran Canaria and Tenerife by storm in 2011.

Two years later, they were signed to appear at Blackpool Grand Theatre for a “One Night Only” spectacular.

It sold so well that they were booked to appear on a National UK Theatre tour, which saw the cast perform 18 shows around the UK. This proved so successful that in 2014, they embarked on a second British tour, performing at 29 venues in virtually every county.

In previous years, MHT in Tenerife always appeared at the Castillo San Miguel Annex, which catered for around 400 people. At Vivo, 120 is the maximum, giving it much more of an intimate feel.

We were greeted at the door by some of the artistes and had our photos taken with them.

We were then shown to our table by our friendly Maitre d’, who took our orders for drinks once we were comfortable.

At MHT, you can upgrade to all-inclusive,

In the swing with this colourful Music Hall

where 20 euros per head will keep your thirst at bay all night long! However, the drinks are reasonably priced if you decide not to take this option.

Shortly afterwards, the glamorous Mrs T - star of the show - appeared on stage to tell us our food would be served shortly.

Our starter was a vegetable soup served with a bread roll. This was followed by a traditional roast dinner: turkey, mashed potato, roast potato, vegetables and gravy - there was even some cranberry sauce on the table!

For vegetarians, there is a choice of pasta or sautéed vegetables.

Children can choose between chicken nuggets with chips, or have the same meal as the adults.

People with allergies can also be catered for as long as they give notification when booking. And if you have any room left, there is icecream for dessert.

The opening song was Happy, and it was clear this was going to be an enjoyable, fun evening.

We were introduced to the rest of the cast and, from then on, the audience were heavily involved in all parts of the show.

The younger guests are also entertained, with some excerpts from Frozen (a very

convincing Elsa!) and Happy Feet. Some people would say a drag show is not suitable for children, but I disagree.

I looked around and saw some of the children’s faces. They they were thoroughly enjoying the evening, singing and clapping along to the songs they knew.

After a short break, when we were invited to buy raffle tickets, the cast were back on stage with lots of different characters, including the girls from Morrisons Supermarket (this was slightly lost on my Lithuanian pal!).

There was also a sketch in which Mrs T sang a little ditty with rhyming that might have given a slight cause for concern, especially with the youngsters there. But it was cleverly written.

Once the raffle was drawn, the night came to a close with a tribute to the Spice Girls and a fantastic, vibrant performance of Uptown Funk, which really got people off their seats and dancing in the aisles.

All in all it was a fantastic night, and I can’t wait to see it again. Music Hall Tavern is currently performing four nights a week - Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. The cost, including the show and three-course dinner, is 35 euros per adult and 25 euros per child.

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Bounce into

Fashion

By Carl from Robot

WHEN it comes down to curls, there’s only one way to go with them and that’s BIG! Forget your spirals or anything too tight because curls are back - in a more natural way.

If you’re recreating the look at home, there’s a simple way to get that smooth, bouncy, salon look without stressing about it.

First of all, start off with hair that’s not too clean (not freshly washed), damp down with a water spray then smooth through some Argan oil. But not too much as this will make the curls drop.

Apply over this a firm mousse or blo-dry cream. Dry your hair in medium sections with a very large ceramic brush to smooth out any frizzes.

Heat up a large ceramic tong - the barrel should be at least two inches in diameter. This should also be ceramic as it holds the heat better and is kinder to your hair.

Spritz your hair with a heat-defence spray then, taking wide sections starting underneath your hair, tong it all the way up to the roots. It doesn’t matter if you just want the curl halfway down because the curls will drop later as you style it.

As you finish the last

section, spray your hair with a gel spray and wait a few moments for the hair to cool down.

Once cooled, tip your head upside down! You now have two choices.

If you want very loose waves, brush the hair through with a flatbrush from roots to tip.

For big curls, drag your fingers through to loosen the curls.

After both procedures, spray again with gel spray. To place your hair into position, run

through a little more Argan oil and set into place with another small spray.

Your curls should then last you all night, as long as it’s not too humid. Try not to keep touching your hair because this will destroy the curls/waves.

It’s worth taking your time with this because when it is done correctly, the curls should still look good the next day - even if you’re just going to fasten it up.

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Community News

Sunday’s storming success

A HUGE thank you to everyone who contributed to the Sunday entertainment staged by the Arona Lions Club of Las Galletas and Costa del Silencio.

It was a great success and a lovely day was had by all at the Rendezvous Bistro and Bar at the Winter Gardens, on Golf del Sur. Entertainers Storm Duo, Nicky Paul, Kerry Railton, Simon King, Steve Tyler, Soul Commitments, Suzie Moore, Chrissy Dean

and Uproar,all giving up their free time, went down really well.

The club would also like to thank the following people for their Raffle and Auction donations: Euromeats, Freebird, Suncare, Showtime, Chilli Farm, Mr and Mrs Scott, who donated a set of golf clubs, plus a few anonymous vouchers.

Finally, a massive thanks to the staff at the venue who, as always, looked after us brilliantly.

Paint your wagon!

THE Treehouse Bar & Grill at Chayofa has just made its latest acquisition, adding to the amazing array of memorabilia amassed over recent years.

This latest find is a beautifully-restored, 19th Century, horsedrawn wagon, which takes pride of placeby the bar’s entrance.

Like many of the decorative items added by owner Simon McLachlan, this latest item was supplied by local antique centre Aladdin’s Cave.

Earlier this year, Simon purchased an Eastonia Player Grand

Piano, dating from the turn of the last century, and has incorporated it as a back-of-the-bar feature.

This was also sourced at Aladdin’s Cave, as were many of the interior design elements on display - even down to the English-style Treehouse pub sign.

Simon’s next project is to create a chill-out decked area for the terrace, which will be up and running in the next month.

So whether you are a Treehouse regular or a new face, it will certainly be the place to be, and be seen, this summer.

19th June - 25th June 2015

By Monica Dyson I was quite excited this week when I walked into the Asda supermarket near my home here in the UK to be greeted by GNorman, GNorma, GNoah and GNora, members of an extremely large, garden ornament, gnome family.

It’s good to know that the garden gnome is very much alive and well, but who on earth buys them, I asked myself? Well, it seems that the British fascination for these little people has never gone away.

And even at prices exceeding £20, they all may be re-located to good homes! Gnone, as it were!

Garden gnomes have always been popular ornaments, and there are various theories about the origin of the “gnome” name. Some think it is from the Latin Gnomus or Greek Gnosis, meaning knowledge, or Genomos, meaning earthdweller.

Webster’s dictionary certainly believes the name is derived from Gignoskein, which is ‘to know’.

Legend has it that gnomes, tired of their frequent wars with goblins, went off to look for a better life, often living under stones in the gardens of dumb people, or lived in burrows like hobbits.

They were first manufactured in Germany by Griebel and Heissner in the early 1800s, and were made of terracotta.

They became soughtafter in Britain around the Forties, although had they some competition in later years from cheap imitations from the Czech Republic and Poland.

The first gnomes really caught the imagination of the British people who wanted to inject a bit of fun into gardening after years of ravaging by air-raid shelters and dig-

Matter of Elf & Safety!

for-victory campaigns.

Although during the Sixties and Seventies they were manufactured in lightweight plastic materials, they never lost their traditional designs which were, for the most part, of gnomes engaged in masculine pursuits like fishing and snoozing or dressed in football strips, a style which was popular during the Seventies.

There seems to be three categories of gnomes: the worker gnome, who often carries a shovel; the leisure gnome, who smokes a pipe when relaxing, and the culture gnome, who plays a musical instrument. All, for the most part, are predominately male!

They are traditionally a symbol of good luck and are said to provide protection of buried treasure, although there is no evidence that there’s much of that around.

And possibly, more importantly, to watch over crops and livestock.

It is widely believed by gnome enthusiasts that they possess supernatural powers, come out at night, play in the garden and can see into the future. It is unsure whether anyone has ever actually seen or spoken to a gnome.

There is even a dictionary entry for ‘Gnoming’ which is the act of stealing garden gnomes recklessly.

The most serious on record was in Coronation Street when a garden gnome named Arthur became a pawn in a game of jealousy and bitterness between Derek, Mavis and Norris in 1995.

Arthur who lived happily in the garden of the Wiltons with his p a r t n e r,

Guinevere, mysteriously disappeared but sent postcards home - until Norris was unveiled as the culprit!

In France, there is a ‘Front des nains de jardins’ movement which, in one year alone, stole over 150 garden gnomes to ‘liberate’ them. Some people have too much time on their hands!

They were protesting about gnomes being captured and forced into slave labour in domestic gardens.

The question of whether to ‘gnome’ or not to ‘gnome’ divides the gardening world. People either love them or hate them. There is, however, many gnome enthusiasts and even an International Gnome Club, which issues newsletters for its readers. I’m not sure if any of its members are gnomes!

However, gnomes are subject to a great deal of snobbery. For the past 100 years, gnomes were banned from the recently-held Royal Horticultural Society’s Chelsea Flower Show, on the grounds that they are of working-class origin, are tacky, and are suitable for suburban gardens only. Who do these people think they are?

But for the 2013 show, the ban was lifted for a charity event, with celebrities like Dame Judi Dench and Sir Elton John painting one of the small people for a charity auction.

H o p e f u l l y, gnomes are back, al-

though it is rumoured that for years, people have been smuggling them into the show and leaving them underneath bushes!

Such is the affection of many people towards gnomes that there are tourist attractions devoted totally to all things gnome.

The ‘Gnome Reserve’ in Devon, which promises 100% wonder and magic, issues visitors with gnome hats and fishing rods, while ‘Gnomes for You’ is a popular website where you can purchase gnomes in every shape and size possible.

There is even a number of Facebook pages where people who are passionate about gnomes can share their enthusiasm.

And a year or so ago in Wales, a grieving family lined the route of the cortege carrying their mother, with her precious collection of garden gnomes.

However, they were made to remove them by the local coun- cil on the grounds o f “elf and safety!”

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19th June - 25th June 2015

K9 news and views

We’ve got a Max factor!

SOME of our supporters will remember Dutch student Max Kater, who spent two months at the kennels last autumn.

Max, training to be a vet, was here on a work placement, gaining valuable, hands-on experience in a kennel environment.

He spent some days out with a local veterinary practice, but most of his time involved the hard slog of cleaning the kennels.

On his return to college in Holland to continue his studies, he mentioned that it was such a positive learning curve at the kennels.

Earlier this year another student, a girl called Eef, spent three months with us, seeking valuable experience of kennel management in the capable hands of K9 kennel manager Hazel Eames.

And, just like Max, she carried out all the dirty jobs without batting an eyelid!

Such is the success of this venture, and the great rapport built between the veterinary college in Holland and K9, that a further four students are coming over in September for a couple of months.

Like their predecessors, they will cycle to the kennels from their base at Parque de la Reina, thankful that they can enjoy a downhill ride at the end of the shift!

New homes for strays It is the time of year when sadly, more and more dogs are being dumped. Some dogowners let the dogs out to fend for themselves when they go away on holiday.

The majority are not micro-chipped, so there is little likelihood of them being reunited with their owners.

Many of them struggle to cope in a kennel environment after being part of a family. There are several cuties and many macho dogs, so there is bound to some dog suitable for you if

you are looking for an addition to your family.

The kennels are open every day from 11am-2pm, so please come along and have a look.

Driver wanted urgently The K9 shop in Alcala continues to be the refuge’s life support, but we have a problem. We are in desperate need of someone physically fit to drive our transit van, which is based in Alcala. We collect donated goods from all areas between The Golfs and Los Gigantes.

A full, clean, driving licence is essential.

Hours to be negotiated but, possibly, a couple of half-days each week. Further info from k9mikey@gmail.com or 670 841 925 Our Xmas dinner The annual K9 preChristmas Dinner has been booked for Saturday, 12th December, at La Ceuva, in Aldea Blanco - the same venue as last year.

It attracted 150 guests, and this year’s 20-euro tickets, including drinks with the meal, go on sale from 1st September, when the evening’s entertainment will have been finalised.

Help our volunteers We are looking for a venue in the Los Cristianos area to hold the annual “Thank You” afternoon for our volunteers and supporters.

For many years this popular outing was at The Heritage Bar but, sadly, it has now closed. Once we have a venue, we hope to stage the event in late September or early October.

Grateful thanks Many thanks to everyone who supports the K9 refuge in particular, and not forgetting those who also assist Live Arico Paws, Cats Welfare and the other rescue centres.

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Classic night for everyone A BIG thank-you to the British School of Music’s classical pianists, and singers Alberto and Victoria - the duo Opera Prima - who entertained us last Friday at Los Cristianos Cultural Centre.

It was an inspirational, enjoyable evening, with all the young participants donating their time and talent to help raise funds for our refuge dogs.

The musical talent on show was amazing and the opera singers were a joy to hear and see. A superb night was had by all. Accion also had a busy Saturday when we joined forces with Arona to celebrate “Arona En Colores” in Las Galletas.

This was a fun day, aimed at spreading the word about animal welfare. It also gave the children a chance to be involved in many activities, and to meet some of the refuge’s gorgeous dogs and puppies.

Reward their patience Some of our dogs have spent many years in the refuge, and maybe you have a little spare time and would like to exercise one - or even adopt one.

There are so many animals here who would love a walk and some human companionship - apart from the staff, of course - for an hour or two. Call 922 778 630 for more information.

Opening hours We are open to the public on Mondays, Tu e s d a y s , T h u r s d a y s and Fridays between 2-5pm, and on Saturdays from 1-4pm. The refuge is closed Wednesdays, Sundays and on Public Holidays.

Donations welcome Please note that Accion del Sol does not charge for adoptions, and every animal is fully passported , microchipped, inoculated, sterilised and has a full bill of health before leaving the refuge. But

donations towards the day-to-day running of the refuge are much appreciated Where to find us The refuge is situated at Granadilla’s Industrial Estate, Exit 51 on the TF1, directly next to ITER, the ecological park which houses the windmills.

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19th June - 25th June 2015

En Pie’s ‘crazy’ fund-raiser

THE Canarian Mental Health Foundation En Pié - which means to take a stand - is a local initiative formed to improve the quality of life of those affected by mental illnesses.

The charity was originally started by family members to provide a forum for support for others going through the same thing.

Apart from employing people affected by severe mental problems, carrying out quality of life projects, giving talks in schools and colleges and campaigning against stigma, the Foundation is dedicat-

ed to organising fund and awareness-raising events on the Island.

These provide funding for En Pie’s activities, highlighting the Foundation’s plight in the hope of involving the general public.

The Helping Hands in Tenerife charity, set up to help less-fortunate children in Tenerife, is now collaborating with En Pie.

Live Arico News

Another night of madness OUR three-monthly visit to Golf del Sur’s Top Square is almost upon us again. Join us next Friday (26th June), from 8pm, for another night of madness and mayhem.

Enjoy acoustic guitar with Reis Hinchey, a dazzling visual show from Harley Fox, direct from the UK, firm favourite Colin Stevens plus Slam, with Robbie Dominic.

Be early, or reserve a table at your favourite bar or restaurant. See you there.

Dog of the week Boo came to us several months ago, suffering from mange so severe that he had lost 80% of his body hair, and his skin was cracked and bleeding.

The poor animal, in need of a clean, dust-

free place to live and daily treatment, was fortunate to find foster mum Alma and her family … and just look at him now!

Boo’s hair is growing back and you would not recognise him. The young Doberman is now ready to go to his forever home. He is loving and adores kids.

But he has lots of energy, so be ready for long, long walks unless you have a massive finca.

For further information call Sue on 629 388 102. We have a selection of rescue dogs needing homes because this time of year is terrible.

If you would consider adopting one, you will have a friend for life.

Live Arico shops All is going well at our new charity shop

on the Golf, and remember that our vet, Cesar Bertoldi, is with us on Wednesday mornings from 10amnoon, offering advice on all aspects of your pet’s healthcare. Come and have a chat with him.

We are situated at Golf Park, on the loop road before the lottery kiosk and we’re open 10am-4pm, Monday to Saturday.

We also have shops in Los Cristianos, Calle Revron near Churchills Bar, and San Eugenio opposite Hotel La Nina

by Amandas bar at las Carabelas complex.

Both shops open from 10am-4pm, Monday to Friday, and until 3pm on Saturday and Sunday. Have a browse, bag a bargain and help the animals.

Helping Hands also funds equipment and activities at Granadilla’s Guardyl Children Centre and the CEE disabled school at Guargacho.

Much fun was had on the “Crazy about Walking” charity hike on 6th June. Over 80 participants came together to walk down from Santiago del Teide to Los Gigantes in aid of En Pié and Helping Hands.

The picturesque stroll was punctuated by various welcome stops offering breakfast, a wide spread of Canarian nibbles and a cheeky drop of vino.

It ended with a celebration at Los Gigantes harbour, accompanied by live music from, resident artists, hot Canarian food and a superb raffle, as well as much merry-making into the night.

The En Pié foundation aims to integrate people with mental health problems into society,

and many of their service users enjoyed the event and mixing in.

A whopping total of 4,600 euros was raised, which will go towards the employment of some of their team, as well as funding their summer group activities.

En Pié officials express their gratitude for all the welcome support received, which enables them to continue their endeavours.

The Foundation’s next big En Pie event is its

third annual Masca hike-and-sea kayak event on Saturday, 10th October, to celebrate World Mental Health Day. To take part in this wonderful experience and challenge yourself to complete the hike down to Masca beach, with an option to row your way back to Los Gigantes in kayaks for the infamous closing party, contact Lisa on 636 271 853 or eventos@ enpie.org or check their website www.enpie.org

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By Val Sainsbury IT is widely assumed that cervical cancer is a young woman’s disease, yet 50% of deaths occur in the over-65s, who appear to ignore vital screening.

A British Medical Journal report argues that the age limit for cervical screening should be raised to 70, and older women should be targeted in health campaigns.

Between 2010 and 2012, there was an average of 449 deaths from the cancer in over-65s and just seven in under-25s. And the BMJ report. And the report says the number of older women affected is set to increase.

From 60-64, just 72% of women in England in 2013 had been screened in the previous five years. This compares with 82% of 50 to the 50-54 age bracket, and 76% of those aged 5559.

Cervical screening is estimated to save 4,500 lives in England each

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Older women dicing with cervical cancer

year. Yet though the cancer is most common in those under 35, it continues to affect women of all ages.

Lead report author Dr Sue Sherman, senior lecturer in psychology at Keele University, said the figures suggested that older women were not getting themselves screened to prevent the cancer.

And Prof Julietta Patnick, Director of NHS cancer screening, added: “This has become a significant contributor to the number contracting the disease.”

She said that attention on younger women - including the 2009 death of TV celebrity Jade Goody at the age of 27 - had made women think of cervical cancer as a younger woman’s disease.

There has also been a campaign to lower the age of screening from 25 in England after the death of a number of young women from the disease. Yet 20% of new diagnoses are carried out in the over-65s.

“We need to change the perception of cervical cancer so it is thought of just like breast and bowel can-

cer - that it can affect women well into old age,” said Prof Patnick.

The report found that women who had been tested regularly between the ages of 50 and 64 had “a relatively low risk” of getting the disease in the next 20 years.

But women who had not been screened during this time increased their risk considerably.

Dr Sherman said: “Regular screenings have the potential to catch the disease early and reduce the number of victims dramatically.”

The NHS cervical screening programme in England, Wales and Northern Ireland stops sending invitations for cervical screening when women reach 65, although they can re -

quest to be screened after that.

In Scotland, women be-

tween the ages of 20 and 60 are screened, but the age limit will come into line with England’s programme next

April. Prof Patnick said: “The natural history of cervical cancer means it is unlikely that women of 65 and over, who have been screened regularly and discharged from the programme, will go on to develop the disease.

“If a woman over 65 has any concerns about her cervical health, she should contact her GP at the earliest opportunity.”

Robert Music, chief executive of Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, said there was an urgent need to increase survival rates for women in this age group.

He said some women believed that because they had been celibate for several years, they did not consider themselves to be at risk.

“We remind all women that HPV is very common and can lie dormant for long periods, and that the best way of reducing one’s risk of cervical cancer is to attend screening promptly while eligible,” he added.

OUR FASHION LEGENDS

By Carl Pattison

THERE are many items in our wardrobes which simply wouldn’t exist without the skill and creativity of fashion designers.

You may look at a runway show and think,”Who’s going to wear that”? Or, “What’s this got to do with me”?

Well, as you see these sometimes weird and wonderful items being strutted down the runway, just think how boring it would be to see average-looking garments being shown, day in and day out?

This is why we have designers - to create not what you might wear this year but in years to come as well.

In my list of Iconic

Pieces, there are items used daily all over the world, yet we forget they are part of our staple, fashion wardrobe.

The bikini was invented by a Frenchman called Louis Reard back in 1946. He started a major scandal over his daring, two-piece swimsuit, yet today it’s considered quite normal for a woman to be seen in one.

High-heels or stilettos, originally worn by men, became popular in the Fifties, but they come from the 16th century as horse-riding boots. Today, most women own a small collection and wouldn’t be seen on a night out without them.

The classic leather jacket was invented for pilots, but it quickly became a cult item to own if you wanted to look “cool”. Marlon Brando, John Travolta and the legendary Michael Jackson all brought to us their versions of this timeless jacket.

The little black dress was another groundbreaking fashion statement, originally intended for funeral wear. But it has now earned its place in the fashion hall of fame, thanks to Coco Chanel.

As have sunglasses, designed by Rayban to protect the eyes of fighter pilots. Now, though, they have become a billion-dollar industry, marketed by all the major designers.

So the next time you

see a fashion show or flip the pages of a glossy magazine, give thanks the design and ingenuity of the people who put in the work to create such pieces … without which our world would be a duller place.

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Get kids moving!

By Nico Gil

of Activate Sports Club

FOR all the awards or claims to fame of which the Canaries can be proud - Europe’s sunniest region, most popular tourist destination, etc.

- we should all be ashamed of one particular title.

We have the highest level of childhood obesity in Europe!

Ironic as it seems for a place people often look to as an example of a healthy way of life, Spain in general holds the unappealing title of being home to Europe’s most overweight children.

Worse still, the Canaries has become the autonomous region with the highest rates in the country: a terrifying 49,6% of kids in the Canaries are overweight or obese.

Firstly, let’s get one thing straight. Parents are not only failing their children, because they are also putting their lives in danger by not caring enough for their diet, exercise levels and overall health.

Schools are also to blame with their vending machines and insufficient education when it comes to eating well. And let’s not forget that in many cases, especially during times of economic crisis, calorie-laden junk food costs far less than fresh fruit and vegetables, which is also criminal.

A future generation made up of obese children is a worrying thought. Excuses aside - too busy to cook or full-time job, say - par-

ents have a duty to ensure their children are as fit and healthy as possible.

I’d like to think this is also what they want for their kids, but I’ve often seen cases that make me wonder.

There is a long list of potential physical, emotional and social

effects - all negative linked to being severely overweight or obese.

From not being able to run around and play games with classmates, to low self-esteem and, it goes without saying, a much greater risk of childhood diabetes, heart problems and respiratory problems

such as asthma. The ideal scenario is to ensure your children/ grandchildren don’t end up severely overweight or obese in the first place. This really isn’t complicated to achieve.

We live in one of the best places in the world to encourage children to lead active lifestyles.

Get them outside, running around, playing at the park or swimming.

The options are endless. All these activities burn calories and will help keep them within a healthy weight range.

Sitting with an iPad, watching TV or playing on the computer will not.

Increase the amount of fresh fruit and vegetables in their diet (maybe make it more interesting by peeling and chopping it into shapes).

And, in general, make sure you prepare meals from scratch rather than relying on industrial, chemical-filled

packet foods which have no nutritional value.

As well as the kids, you will also feel much better eating these items. If you have overweight children, don’t be too drastic with their dietary changes.

You need to be particularly careful that they don’t feel they are being punished.

Subtle changes, such as making healthy eating fun and effortless and, above all, physical activity, is the way forward.

Kids, naturally love to play. They won’t even see it as exercise.

Choose fun activities such as volleyball, football, cycling or even newer ideas like Zumba kids or capoeira (a Brazilian martial art combining elements of dance, acrobatics and music).

Above all, educate your children about their most precious gift: their body and their health.

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PRIZE Godoku!

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Sudoku X...

Just enter the numbers 1 - 9 once in each row, column and 3 x 3 square within the sudoku X puzzle grid. In addition to standard sudoku, the numbers must only occur once in each side of the ‘X’ that is marked on the grid.

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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

4 1 2 5 7 1

6 4 7 5 8 6 1 3 6 8

5 7 1 4 2 5 1 2

1

2

3

160

÷4

-33

x3

6

7

8

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-18

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2

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5

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25%

of this

DOWN 1 Cancel, postpone (4,3) 2 Lack of vigour (6) 3 Saintly ring (4) 4 Tactical gambits (5) 5 WWW network (8) 6 Rinse the throat (6) 7 Tall erection (5) 12 Jewel (8) 14 Cyclonic storm (7) 16 Be curious about (6) 18 Idiosyncrasy (6) 19 Hold (5) 20 Old hat, outmoded (5) 22 Tennis or rugby (4)

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Arithmagons The number in each square is equal to the sum of the numbers in the circles on either side.

Fill in the missing numbers

Answer

Intermediate Starter Number

1

51

x3

-92

x3

6

7

8

9

-41

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Last Issue's Answers: CW Crossword

Advanced Starter Number

126 6

+25

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2

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11/13 of this

8

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5/11 of this

4

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8 2 7 6 3

6 8 2

7 4 1

5 7 3 1

1 6 5 2

4 1 8

6

9 6 3

4 9 8 5 2

5 2 3

9

5 4 9

4 2 8 7

1 2 6

9 8 4

6 3 9 1

5 7 9 2 6

ACROSS 3 Jump on one foot (3) 5 Gold block (5) 8 Fragrance (5) 9 Get too big for (7) 10 Skin disease (7) 11 Collect wild food (6) 13 Beneath (5) 15 Flooded marsh (5) 17 Lacking fresh air (6) 21 Torment, anxiety (7) 23 Laborious (7) 24 Swedish seaport (5) 25 Money wallet (5) 26 Female sheep (3)

9 3 2

ACROSS. 1 MINICAB, 5 BJORN, 8 DALES, 9 GO WRONG, 11 EPIC, 12 BELLOWED, 15 SPIRIT, 16 TENDON, 19 BASEBALL, 21 GANG, 23 SATISFY, 25 APART, 26 POPPY, 27 DENSELY. DOWN. 1 MADDENS, 2 NULLIFIES, 3 CASH, 4 BEGGED, 6 JAR, 7 RINSE, 10 WALKER, 13 WIDEAWAKE, 14 NIMBUS, 17 NIGHTLY, 18 FLAYED, 20 ALAMO, 22 YAWN, 24 IMP. Godoku:

Brain Training: Beginner: 7 Intermediate: 184 Advanced: 78

Sudoku X:

2 6 3 5 9 8 1 7 4

1 8 4 6 2 7 3 5 9

5 9 7 1 4 3 8 6 2

8 1 6 4 3 2 5 9 7

9 4 5 7 6 1 2 8 3

7 3 2 9 8 5 4 1 6

6 5 1 3 7 4 9 2 8

4 7 8 2 1 9 6 3 5

3 2 9 8 5 6 7 4 1

Sudoku:

8 2 7 5 6 9 1 4 3

7 1 8 9 6 5 2 4 3

4 6 3 8 7 1 2 9 5

6 4 3 2 1 7 9 5 8

1 9 5 4 3 2 7 6 8

5 9 2 8 3 4 7 6 1

6 5 9 7 1 8 4 3 2

3 2 6 4 7 8 5 1 9

2 3 1 6 9 4 5 8 7

9 7 5 1 2 6 8 3 4

7 8 4 2 5 3 9 1 6

1 8 4 5 9 3 6 2 7

5 4 2 1 8 6 3 7 9

4 5 1 7 8 2 3 9 6

3 1 8 9 2 7 6 5 4

8 6 9 3 5 1 4 7 2

9 7 6 3 4 5 8 2 1

2 3 7 6 4 9 1 8 5

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By Roscoe THE man who bleeds CD Tenerife sensationally quit the club yesterday (Thursday) in a move that asks serious questions about the future of the President and the Director of Football.

On Tuesday, Atromitos launched a shock move for Vitolo, 12 months after failing to keep him in Greece.

They offered him a two-year deal said to be worth double his current 200,000-euro-a-year salary, an option of an extra year and the lure of Europa League football.

Some 24 hours later, Vitolo met with Tenerife DOF Alfonso Serrano and in under 60 minutes, it was confirmed that he would be moving back to Greece.

Vitolo has made it public that the move has nothing to do with money. At 31 he returned to Santa Cruz, turning down big-money offers out of his love for the club.

He has two CDT tattoos on his body and his family are settled. So what happened at that meeting?

Vitolo claims he did not want to break his contract, which had a year to run, and Serrano says he didn’t want to stand in the players way.

It doesn’t add up.

Also, why is he leaving on a free transfer?

Even at 31, Vitolo is worth something and, since his contract was worth 200,000 euros, that should have been a starting point.

In a nutshell, Tenerife have given away their captain, one of their best players and a local idol. Why? The news came along with the club revealing that five youngsters, who were playing out on loan last year, will all be part of the senior squad this year. They are Nano (Hospitalet), Jairo (Real Murcia),

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Abel Suárez (La Roda), Alberto Jimenez (Valencia Mestalla) and Angel Galván (Racing de Ferrol).

Alberto is the interesting one as Valencia had an option to buy him for two million euros, which they have decided to not take up.

Maybe the club thought they could use Vitolo’s wages a better way? Whatever the reason, the fans are furious.

Meanwhile, all the loan signings from last season have left. Iker Guarrotxena and Unai Albizua have returned to Athletic Bilbao, but the latter may return.

He has already been released by his parent club and Tenerife have spoken with his agent.

It is understood that CDT have tabled the best offer, but Unai is keen to remain in the north of Spain.

Juan Carlos has gone back to Deportivo but again, he could return.

The 24-year-old did okay and is out of contract at La Coruna.

Abdon Prats has returned to Mallorca, while Uruguyan forwards Maxi Perez and Diego Ifran have also departed. They both did reasonably well in

spells. Maxi will return to South America and has had a few decent offers. Ifran has a couple of options, and the smart money is on a move to Mexico.

Ricardo has re-signed for another season, but on less money, while Aridane will be allowed to leave. And the club have finally fixed a deal for goalie Dani Hernandez.

Terms have been agreed on a three-year contract, which will be inked once he returns

from the Copa America.

Cristo Martin, as we reported last week, has been released - and he is not very happy about it! He said this week: “It hurts because it is the club of my land, but I leave with my head held high.

“I have given everything and above for the best fans, who have treated me great. From now on, I will be a fan of Tenerife rather than a player.

“I had one meeting

with the club and they just told me they did not want me any more.

I did not talk much, but I repeat that I’m going with my head high.

Football does not end here, and now I seek the best choice for me and my family.”

He added: “The President was always good to me and I thank him and a few other people in the club, but I will not say anything about anyone in particular.

And there has not been any problem. I enjoyed three spectacular years and leave with friends and no enemies.”

As for where he goes, Cristo was keeping his cards close to his chest. “I still have a lot of football to play and I divert all future matters to my agent,” he said. “I will go where I am valued.”

Also leaving is Victor Garcia. He was brought in on a junior contract from Prats but has hardly featured. He did notch one goal against Valladolid in February and he is dropping down a league.

He joins La Palma’s Mensajero, where he may have a few familiar faces alongside him in the red jersey next season. A couple of the

B team players are expected to be loaned across the water.

As you would expect, Tenerife have been linked with a few players, most notably Chuli.

He hit 11 goals since joining Leganes on loan in January after turning Tenerife down saying he didn’t fancy a relegation battle. Now, though, it seems he is happy to come here.

His parent club Real Betis are happy to sell him for half-a-million euros, which is surely out of CDT’s budget.

They haven’t actually bought a player since Nino joined from Levante for 600,000 euros in 2008.

A few weeks ago, the UK press were linking him with a move to Swansea in the Premier League. Chuli could be sent out on loan again, which would make sense for Tenerife, and they do have good relations with Real Betis.

Another player who could join is Victor Mongli. The 22-yearold centre-back had a decent season at Alcoyano, where they just missed out on the playoffs in 2B. He is out of contract and keen to move to Santa Cruz.

Zaragoza’s Real miracle If a week is a long time in politics. it is a lifetime in football - especially in the second tier of Spanish football.

As regular readers know, Girona were just a few seconds away from a first-ever La Liga promotion a week ago, yet now they are planning for another season in the league below.

In the play-offs, they went to 6th-place Real Zaragoza and won 3-0.

It could have been more. It was the perfect response to the automatic-promotion disappointment. The second leg a few days

later was just a formality. Or so we all thought.

Brazilian youngster Willian netted an early penalty for Zaragoza to get the nerves jangling, and when he added a second on 35 minutes, the tie was alive.

Just before half-time, Girona fell asleep at the back and Leandro Cabrera headed in from a corner to level the tie.

The Argentine defender went nuts and was booked for the celebration.

For the second time in a week, Girona fans were stunned into silence. The second half saw Zaragoza in full

flow and it was no surprise when Fernandez made it 4-0 on the night.

Girona now needed two goals, and they pulled one back through former Tenerife player Aday with 15 minutes to go.

Both sides squandered late chances as Girona suffered another devastating blow.

Zaragoza moved into the final with Las Palmas on Wednesday night and were soon on the back foot. Jonathan Viera has been in fine form recently and he gave the visitors the lead on 20 minutes.

But Zaragoza, roared on by their biggest crowd of the season, got back into the match. Diego Rico levelled just before the break and Pedro gave them the lead just afterwards. They poured forward and got a crucial third goal, again through that kid Willian.

It sets up the second leg in Gran Canaria beautifully.

Exactly a year to the day after Las Palmas were denied promotion in the last minute by Cordoba, will lightning strike twice with Zaragoza on Sunday?

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Doubles knockout results

A host of keen darters turned out last Friday to contest our first knock out competition of the season. The 3 finals will be contested later in the year at our finals night on 25th September.

Division 1 Mitch and London (Phoenix) V Bubbles and Johnny (Phoenix)

Division 2 Bill and Per (Picassos) V Pod and John (Phoenix Flights) Ladies Jackie and Jackie (Palms Pool Bar) V Amanda and Lynn (Waterfall)

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division 2 ResultS

Bar 180 A 8-0 Palms Sports Bar Boothen Army 8-0 Bar 180 B Emerald Lounge 3-5 Boothen Titans Exiles Bar 3-5 Ourplace Playboys Gaffers 4-4 Emerald Shamrocks Palms Pool Bar 5-3 Waterfall Warriors The Phoenix 8-0 pas o nadas a

Clouseaus 5-3 Sandys Chippers Marilyns 1-7 Naughty Nautas Pas O Nadas B P-P Summerlands Picassos 5-3 Gaffers Jucee Girls Spear Chuckers 3-5 Phoenix Flights Sundowners 5-3 Bar Leones Waterfall B 3-5 barracuda hunters division 2 Table

division 1 Table Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

1 Boothen Army

4

4

0

0 30

2

28

Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

30

1 Barracuda Hunters 4 3 1 0 21 11 10 21 3

3

0

0 18

6

12

18

2 Bar 180 A

4

27

2 Phoenix Flights

3 The Phoenix

3 3 0 0 23 1 22 23

3 Spear Chuckers

4

1

2

1 18

14

4

18

4 The Pub

3 2 1 0 19 5 14 19

4 Marylins

3

1

0 27

5

22

4

2

1

1 17

15

2

17

1

2

1 16

16

0

16

5 Emerald Shamrocks 4

3

1 0 19 13

6

19

5 Gaffers Jucee Girls 4

6 Gaffers

4

2

2

0 19

13

6

19

6 Sundowners

4

2

0

2 15

17

-2

15

7 Ourplace Playboys 4

2

0

2 18

14

4

18

7 Picassos

4

1

2

1 14

18

-4

14

3

1

2

0 13

11

2

13

8 Emerald Lounge

4

1

1

2 16

16

0

16

8 Clouseaus

9 Boothen Titans

4

2

0

2 15

17

-2

15

9 Ourplace Playgirls 3

2

0

1 13

11

2

13

10 Exiles Bar

4

0

1

3 10

22 -12

10

10 Bar Leones

4

1

0

3 13

19

-6

13

1

1

1 12

12

0

12

3 0 0 3 9 15 -6 11 Waterfall Warriors

9

11 Shandys Chippers 3

12 Palms Pool Bar

6

12 Naughty Nautas 3

1

0

2 11

13

-2

11

3

0

2

1 11

13

-2

11

0

1

2

15

-6

9

3

1

0

2

6

18 -12

13 Palms Sports Bar 4

1

0

3

6

26 -20

6

13 Summerlands

14 Bar 180 B

4

0

1

3

5

27 -22

5

14 Pas O Nadas B

3

15 Pas O Nadas A

4

0

0

4

2

30 -28

2

15 Waterfall B

3 0 0 3 7 17 -10 7

9

The end of season singles tournament gets underway this Tuesday night. Over 60 players will battle it out at 6 venues. Two players from each venue will make it through to the finals night at Palms Bar on July 7th. They will be joined by division 1 champion Ashley from Gaffers A and second tier winner Carl from Sporting Jester A. Summer knockout winner Jambo and defending champion Neil from Gaffers A complete the final 16.

Players must be at their venue by 7.20 for a 7.30pm start. Good luck to all players! The draw and venue is...

GAFFERS Scott / Jester A Mark P / Terrace A Harry / Phoenix Paul / Treehouse A Mark / Palms A Lee / Pink B Dan / Waterfall Ralph / Bluebell Penguin / Palms A Ian / Bluebell

TREEHOUSE Troy / Gaffers B Gareth / Jester A Baker / Hammers C Dave Calv / Jester A Mark / Dreamers Mal / Terrace Ben / Gaffers B Nathan / Gaffers B Paul / Hammers A Mal / Jester B

CROWN Barry / Hammers C Lee / TPT James / James Place John / Pink A Roscoe / Palms A Wilf / Pink A Thomas / Jester B Colin / TPT Graeme / Palms B Heineken / Hammers C

PHOENIX Fritzel / Hammers A Adi / Waterfall Darren / Palms A Steve / Dreamers Lee / Gaffers A Richard / Gaffers B Ken / Hammers C Jay / Treehouse Wilson / Gaffers B Dave / Waterfall

JESTER Mark / Treehouse Geoff / Phoenix Bubbles / Waterfall Gav / Dreamers Sergio / Phoenix Dave C / Jester A Conrad / Terrace Shammy / Palms B Pete / Palms A Mike / Bluebell

BLUEBELL Tony / Hammers C Alan / Bluebell Nick / TPT Harley / TPT Graham / Pink A Top 6 Dave / Gaffers A Wez / Hammers A Ash / Jester B Kev / Gaffers A Tommy / Dreamers Paul / Palms B

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Tenerife-based boxer is reaching for the stars

Let’s dig it for Yigit!

EL GYM, the Las Chafiras-based gymnasium, is nurturing a young professional boxer who could go all the way, according to experts.

Anthony Yigit (far right), defends his WBC Baltic light-welterweight title in Copenhagen tomorrow (Saturday) against Britain’s Tony Owen, with one eye on a shot for the European Union crown - a stepping-stone to the big time.

And his training partner, Spanish light-heavyweight champion Adasat Rodriguez, is preparing for a crack at the European Union title in France on 3rd July.

Sweden’s 23-year-old Yigit, now based permanently in Tenerife, has high hopes of boosting his 13-0-1 unbeaten record (his first professional fight was drawn), but he is aware that he has a long way to go.

Yigit and Rodriguez are both coached by Vassili Boguslavsky,

once an accomplished Polish boxer and current coach to the Sweden’s Olympic team.

Boguslavsky, who has a special bond with Yigit says: “Anthony has been with me since he was 12, and I have always kept his feet firmly on the ground.

“I took him to the London Olympics with the Swedish team three years ago and he lost a really tight contest for a place in the quarterfinals.

“He knows he is travelling on a long road but, if keeps progressing, I expect him to be fighting for a world title in three to four years.”

The trainer added: “He needs those years to mature fully, and there is no reason why he shouldn’t. He’s smart, learns quickly and has really quick hands.”

In the past few weeks, both fighters have taken part in intensive training sessions, with boxers flying into Tenerife from Sweden and the other Canary Islands to sharpen them up at El Gym. Under the watchful

eye of Boguslavsky, Yigit has made the transition from Olympian to his present status.

He is promoted by German-based Sauerland, but the Englishspeaking Swede has made his home on the

Island to continue his association with Vassili, who lives here in the South.

Yigit has been nicknamed “Can You Dig It”, which is quite a mouthful (Yigit, Digit, geddit?) but with his talent,

looks and personality, the easy-going youngster is definitely a star in the making.

“I’ve only ever done boxing and I love it,” he says. “I love the training, sparring and fighting, and also the Ten-

erife weather. It’s the perfect place to keep in shape.

“My ambition is to obviously to be a world champion, but I know that nothing is certain in this sport. I can only do my best.”

Say it ain’t so, Mo! A DARK cloud hangs over Mo Farah, Britain’s golden boy of athletics, who missed two drugs tests the year before his double triumph at London’s 2012 Olympics.

His controversial American coach, Alberto Salazar, and training partner Galen Rupp, are already facing a series of drug-taking allegations, made in a BBC Panorama documentary. They have both denied them.

Problems with the doping authorities for Farah - also a 10,000m and 5,000m world champion - reached a peak a few months after he began training under Salazar in February

2011. The two missed tests, as reported by the Daily Mail, risked his place in the London Olympics, in which he won two gold medals.

The UK anti-doping rules state that an athlete who misses three tests in any 12-month period (down from 18 months since 2013) faces up to a four-year ban.

Britain’s Christine Ohuruogu was suspended for a year in 2006 after missing three tests and contravening the World Anti-Doping Agency’s “whereabouts” system. That forces athletes to pick an exact location for one hour every day in case they are needed for testing.

It seems that Farah missed the first test in early 2010, six months before he broke David Moorcroft’s 28-yearold British 5,000m record.

The second test was scheduled, once Farah started working with Salazar, at his home in Teddington, Middlesex. But the athlete lodged an appeal with the UK Anti-Doping Agency, claiming he did not hear his doorbell.

Farah’s agent, Ricky Simms, submitted a video taken in Farah’s house in which he tried to show that it was difficult to hear the doorbell from his client’s bedroom. UK Anti-Doping lawyers dismissed it as evidence.

Simms also voiced his dismay at UK AntiDoping, claiming they were “unreasonable”

and didn’t want to help Farah.

But a UKAD lawyer told Farah’s legal team by email on 9th June 2011: “I can understand why your client remains frustrated, but that really is born out of the fact that he feels he is being punished for something he did not intend to do.

“Intent and negligence are not the same thing, though, as I am sure you have advised him. The simple fact with this Missed Test is that your client says he did not intend to miss the test, but it is clearly his own fault that he did.”

The UKAD added in the email: “We cannot ‘suspend the Second Missed Test’”, and, finally, it warned: “We remain of the view our collective efforts are best directed to ensuring that no further

whereabouts issues arise between now and the 2012 Games.”

Since joining Salazar’s set-up, Farah has since lived in the US, training at the Nike Oregon Project.

Farah was concerned that he could be hit with a sanction, judging by the correspondence between lawyers, Farah and Salazar in May and June 2011, seen by the Mail.

As Salazar warned Farah on 5th May that year: “If you miss another test, they will hang you.”

Farah’s legal representatives told UKAD in an email on 8th June 2011: ‘As Mr Farah’s recent successes have raised his hopes for the upcoming Olympic Games, I hope you can understand his frustration regarding the Second Whereabouts Failure’.”

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