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Issue 935 8th January - 14th January 2016

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GOOD old-fashioned bank jobs are so last-Millennium. In the modern world, thieves are a little more cunning. The old “stick ‘em up” trick has been replaced by a bit of thought.

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Hole-in-the-wall gang’s eye-opener Continued from front.

As London’s Old Bailey is currently hearing the trial of those accused of the daring Hatton Garden Jewellery heist, the South of Tenerife had its own mini-version of Ocean’s Eleven last weekend.

While George Clooney and Brad Pitt will surely have a watertight alibi, police are looking into the usual suspects here after a daring, night-time raid on a Cash-and-Carry, tucked away on a Las Chafiras industrial estate.

The owners of Cash Diplo must feel they are cursed because their premises were targeted for a second time in six months. Last year, crooks tried and failed to get into or remove the office safe.

But in the early hours of Sunday a gang arrived, armed with a bit more planning … and a lot more hardware!

On Sunday morning, staff arrived for their shift on what was expected to be another busy day ahead of the 6th January Kings Day celebrations. Saturday had been a bumper day and it’s not hard to imagine that the thieves knew this.

As staff arrived down the one-way street in the eastern section of the industrial estate, they couldn’t miss what had happened.

Debris was strewn all over the street, and there was a massive hole in the front of the building.

Measuring around 18ft high, it was instantly clear what had happened.

As workers made their way into the building, they were greeted with a scene of devastation.

And then the reason for the destruction became clear: the office had been obliterated and the safe was missing.

As the police arrived, it quickly became clear that no major stock was taken - the target was cash, locked inside the safe.

During the summer, five hooded people broke into the premises and tried to remove the safe. But it was one of those old, traditional safes that was going nowhere. Their attempts to crack the safe failed and, after an hour, they gave up.

But when these crooks arrived on Sunday, they executed beautifully a plan that took some thought and some guts.

It’s clear the gang had expert knowledge of the area. Normally, the HiperDino supermarket on the south side would have been busy with shelf-

stackers, forecourt staff and security guards.

But this area was deserted following the recent relocation of the supermarket to another Las Chafiras area.

Cash Diplo is next to a warehouse which supplies chairs, and on its near side there is a gym.

At the end of a dimly-lit road, there were no concerns for the other businesses.

This meant, as the gang knew, very little security, or the chance of a passing person, which bought them the extra time unavailable during the summer break-in.

The raid began elsewhere, in a quarry near the Reina Sofia airport.

The gang broke through a fence and tried to steal a digger. After breaking into a small office hut, they located the keys to a vehicle. But when they turned the key, they discovered that the machine was set up for daywork only. No lights!

So they swiftly moved to the next digger, which was a little more modern. Unfortunately they couldn’t find a key. Never mind. One hot-wire job

later and they were on their way. They negotiated the back roads of Atogo, which sees little, if any, traffic in the early hours, moved under the motorway bridge and made their way to the industrial estate.

They passed the empty HiperDino before turning 180-degrees to come down the one-way street.

When the gang were outside Cash Diplo, they raised the digger and floored it into the front of the building. Once inside, they targeted the office and, eventually, scooped up the safe. They then broke out, with the arm raised, and travelled to some waste land, a few yards away. The safe was tipped out of the bucket from a height and the contents greedily removed. The digger was then driven 200 yards away and abandoned.

Even thought the raid would have taken considerable time and created a real noise, there were no witnesses … at least, no one has come forward so far.

The quarry owners say the cost to repair the diggers is over 3,000 euros, while shocked Cash Diplo owners have said there was a total of 25,000 euros in the safe.

It is understood that no stock was taken but there is also, as you can imagine, considerable damage. And this is before you factor in the loss of earnings from the store being closed.

As we go to print, the staff are still cleaning up, and building contractors have been working around the clock to fill in the hole.

They will then start work rebuilding the office and repairing the structural damage inside the warehouse.

This sort of crime is extremely rare in Tenerife but it will, if you excuse the pun, set off some alarm bells for those on large industrial estates.

Security does seem unbelievably thin, and there will surely be calls for this to be tightened up, and also for a bigger police presence.

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Mind-boggling cocaine haul is seized in Spain A RECORD seizure of cocaine, said to be worth a staggering £500 million and bound for the UK, has led to the arrest of seven Malagabased Brits.

Three tonnes of the class A drug were confiscated from an industrial warehouse and a van in the north-west province of Pontevedra, in Galicia, following a tip-off from Britain’s National Crime Agency.

Police say the Brits, detained in Malaga, had arranged to buy the cocaine from Dutch traffickers, who had smuggled it into Spain from South America.

They were arrested after Spanish police, acting on a tip-off from their British counterparts, stopped a car containing cocaine weighing some 1,500lb. Another three tonnes were found in a warehouse (pictured) A switch blade and a trace of cocaine, which police say was destined for Britain, lay open at the warehouse. And a bundle of cash was also found during the police raids.

Police say the drugs were set to be broken into smaller shipments before being transported.

As well as the cocaine, police confiscated hundreds of thousands of euros and guns.

Spanish detectives have described the men as members of “an im-

portant group of drugs traffickers, based on the Costa del Sol”.

Five of the group, aged between 31 and 59, are from Liverpool, including a 59-year-old man, alleged to be leader of the drugs gang.

A 41-year-old from Kingston-upon-Thames in Surrey, and a 50-yearold from Thornbury, Gloucestershire, were also held.

It is understood that all three tonnes of cocaine, the biggest land seizure of cocaine by Spain’s National Police in Galicia since 1999, were be taken to Britain.

The drugs found in the van had been hidden inside a specially-adapted false roof, and the traffickers had put an engine in the back of the vehicle to pretend they were carrying a legal load.

As well as the drugs, police also seized around one million euros in cash, plus a loaded 9mm pistol, four cars and a motorbike.

A source close to the inquiry said: “The entire three tonnes of cocaine were going to be transported to Britain in parts.

“The buyers were British, who had already made a down-payment of 500,000 euros (£365,000) for the first 700kl of cocaine, found in the van’s roof.”

A total of 12 people were held as part of the operation - including the seven Brits, three Dutch sellers and two Spaniards, hired to transport the drugs from northwest Spain to Malaga.

1-1-2 Centre kept busy THE Emergency and Security Coordinator (CECOES) Centre 1-1-2 was busy, as always on New Year’s Eve.

It fielded 2,870 calls from people who required some form of help according to the Canarian Government’s Emergency Ministry.

Of the 996 incidents,

the most numerous were those related to security, which exceeded 66% of the total, followed by the sanitary type, representing nearly 25%; accidents (7.3%) and fire (1.3%).

In the past on New Year’s Eve, it handled more than 2,000 calls.

The most serious accident occurred in Tenerife at 4am, when a vehicle on the TF-1 motorway collided with another car, injuring three people.

The arrests took place last month, but details were revealed only at a press conference in Madrid on Tuesday.

Police described how elite GEO police, trained in dealing with terrorist attacks and hostagetaking, intercepted the van being used to take the first consignment of drugs from Pontevedra to Malaga.

A spokesman said: “A lead car driven by one of the two Spaniards who acted as look-out for the van driver, tried to ram a police vehicle in a failed attempt to avoid arrest.

“Several bricks of cocaine, weighing around 700kl, were hidden in a false roof behind the driver’s seat. The remaining 3,000 kilos were found in a warehouse in an industrial estate in Barro, Pontevedra.”

He added: “At the same

time, officers arrested the Dutch traffickers in the nearby city of Santiago de Compostela and eight people in Malaga, including the seven Brit members of the gang, who had bought the cocaine for its subsequent distribution.”

A police spokesman said the two suspected Dutch traffickers - arrested at the five-star Santiago de Compostela hotel Hostal Dos Reis Catolicos, on the city’s famous Obradoiro Square - had drawn attention to themselves by “throwing 500-euro notes around as if they were water”.

Galicia is an important entry point for cocaine from South America, and the alleged leader of the British drugs gang is thought to have met with the Dutchmen in the hotel.

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Director Ignacio Cosido told a Madrid press conference on Tuesday: “This is the biggest land seizure of cocaine in Galicia since 1999.”

Police said in a subsequent press release: “National Police have smashed an important international organisation dedicated to the maritime transport of cocaine from South America to Europe.”

Galician drug barons first opened routes into Spain, via the region, with the Colombian Cali and Medellin cartels in the Eighties.

Spain’s proximity to

North Africa, and its close ties with South America, have helped make it the gateway into Europe for cannabis and cocaine.

The drugs seized in this new operation are thought to have come from Colombia.

The detained Brits are believed to have become major players in the multi-billion-pound drug-trafficking industry through Spain after early forays into cannabissmuggling by the first waves of gangsters in the late seventies and early Eighties.

Last month, six Liverpool men were arrested after police in the port of Valencia, Eastern Spain, discovered 1.5 tonnes of cocaine, disguised as wooden pallets.

In November, a Brit described by Spanish police as Europe’s No.1 drug-trafficker, was arrested at his luxury Costa del Sol villa.

Robert Dawes, 44, from Nottingham, was held on a European arrest warrant, issued by a French court, relating to the discovery of 1.3 tonnes of cocaine at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris in September 2013. The seizure was the largest ever made in France.

Mr Dawes is now being held in a French jail, having been extradited following a Madrid hearing.

Canaries way ahead in adoption of youngsters THE Canaries are known as the friendly islands, and that accolade stretches beyond the tourist market.

The archipelago has led the way in Spain in adoption and foster-care numbers, and its reputation continues to grow.

Since a new project was launched here in 2012, more than 500 children have become homed by families, and at least 50 of the youngsters were aged between 0 and three years.

The Law on Protection of Children and Adolescents, which came into force last July, states that a child should not remain more than three months in a government centre.

The Ministry of Social Policy’s new new draft on foster care, which has started with the aim of relocating 40 children between three and six, sees the law set at a maximum period of stay in the government shelters.

This is to encourage au-

thorities to cut through red tape and speed up the process of getting children into more permanent foster or adoptive care.

For this reason, the Department is making an effort to disseminate its programme and attract families willing to welcome these children.

Patricia Hernandez, Deputy Prime Minister and Regional Minister of Social Policy, said: “The idea is that at this young age, it is better to be in a

stable, core environment that can ensure welfare, affection and happiness of children.”

She was at Tuesday’s fun day in Candelaria, organised by the Directorate General for the Protection of Children and Family, on the feast of Los Reyes Magos.

Ms Hernandez recalled that more than 1,500 minors are still vulnerable in the Canaries, of which 726 are in supervised centres. Of these, 72 are foreigners over the age of 12.

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Adeje’s 3 Rs: Reduce, Recycle - and Re-use!

ESTHER Rivero Vargas, Adeje’s Environmental Councillor, was last week overseeing the installation of some of the borough’s 45 new containers for the recycling of clothes and shoes.

The bins and their management are courtesy of the Martínez Cano Canarias SA, group, a Canarian company involved in dealing with waste for over 40 years.

The Councillor said: “With these installations, we are continuing to de-

Roundabouts:

Problems solved!

WORK on the new Armeñime and Los Menores roundabouts should start shortly, following a meeting between Adeje Mayor José Miguel Rodríguez Fraga and Roads Councillor Ofelia Manjón.

Both roundabouts have been designed to ease traffic congestion and increase public safety and access.

Armeñime roundabout, along the TF-47, will serve local residents and the 21,000 drivers who use this road daily.

The new Los Menores installation along the TF-82 - will run alongside work to widen the Calle La Tablada and improve accessibility and cir-

culation of traffic, as well as improving links between various towns.

Both projects have already been approved by Adeje Council and the Cabildo, but plans were delayed through land problems.

Now, say the authorities, these have been resolved and tenders for the road works will be granted shortly.

The work is scheduled for completion this year.

velop local awareness of the importance of recycling. Adeje has a high level of acceptance of the need to reduce, reuse and recycle.”

The galvanised-iron, fireproof containers have a capacity of three cubic metres and are placed around the borough in strategic areas. Alberto Medina, Director of the Martínez company, said his firm was also carrying out a number of recycling workshops in Adeje for local school-children.

These are free and will take place in all the borough’s public schools.

Each time you use these containers, you are contributing to the reduction of energy consumption - necessary to make the fabrics - and, therefore, lowering the environmental impact.

Collection will take place three times a week or more, depending on the volume of items.

Both shoes and clothes should be clean and in closed bags.

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Erotic cameraman in Christmas Day death MARC Lagrange, a photographer who developed his career by taking nude and semi-nude erotic pictures of women, was killed in a Christmas Day golf-buggy accident in Tenerife.

He died when the vehicle he was in tipped over in the grounds of the Hotel Abama, in Guia de Isora.

Four others, including a 14-year-old, were injured in the crash, which killed the 57-year-old Belgian fine-art snapper. Three were hurt seriously.

Mr Lagrange, from Antwerp, built an international reputation after leaving a career in engineering.

His camera-work paid homage to female beau-

ty, many photos showing a naked woman in a special setting, in black and white. But he rarely used men for subjects.

One model he snapped, Inge Van Bruystegem, said: “All the women who worked with Marc were turned into a kind of powerful goddesses.”

His works were exhibited for the first time in the UK in October 2014 at an exhibition at Notting Hill’s HEIST art gallery, in London.

The cameraman, who had just arrived in Tenerife for a Christmas break, made his major breakthrough with a 2013 book called Diamonds and Pearls, which was published in 80 countries.

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Tenerife shines in the New Year

CUP’s vote puts Mas on the spot THE Catalonia region of Spain is facing another election because the CUP, a small anti-capitalist party, has refused to support pro-independence leader Artur Mas.

Catalan’s President is leading the movement for independence from Spain. But the CUP (Popular Unity Candidacy) vote has prevented him from forming a new coalition.

In September’s elections, his Junts pel Si (Together for Yes) alliance won 62 of the 135 seats in the Catalan assembly.

The CUP, with 10 parliamentary seats,is also pro-independence, and its rejection of Mas means the Catalan Parliament will be dissolved on Sunday and new elections called for

March. The CUP wants Catalonia to have a socialist economy with power devolved to local assemblies.

The deadlock comes as Spain also faces weeks of political uncertainty nationally, following the inconclusive General Election result on 20th December.

In November, the Catalan Parliament voted to start the secession process - a move declared unconstitutional

by Spain’s conservative Popular Party (PP), which ran the country until last month.

Catalonia is a highlyindustrialised, populous region in Spain’s north-east, accounting for some 20% of the country’s economic output.

Both the PP and the Socialists (PSOE), who came first and second respectively in Spain’s General Election, oppose Catalan secession.

SUPERB news for the Island’s tourism sector: Tenerife was the world’s most popular overseas destination for Britons celebrating the New Year.

Las Vegas and the spectacular fireworks at Sydney Harbour bridge were forced to step aside this year as our sizzling winter sun and value-for-money offers proved more of an eyeopener.

From 14.5million searches on TravelSupermarket in the threemonth period between 1st September and 30th November, 8.3% of all searches were for holidays to Tenerife. And the Island was also

named as a New Year’s Eve favourite.

Put together trips to Tenerife, Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Fuerteventura between 27-30 December, returning on or after 1st January, and the Canaries attracted 18.6% of all searches.

Bob Atkinson, TravelSupermarket’s expert, said: “It is usually the iconic locations of Sydney Harbour Bridge and New York’s Times Square that capture the headlines when it comes to New Year’s Eve celebrations.

“However, our data shows that the Canary Island of Tenerife was the favourite with Brits for taking a holiday at New Year. And it easy to understand why.

“Winter sun pretty much guaranteed, great

value for money because it’s tax-free and the chance to party in the way that you want, meant no one was disappointed.

“In fact, the Canaries accounted for nearly one in five of all holiday searches for New Year getaways in the run-up to 2016.”

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Adeje app has all the borough info ADEJE Council has launched its own app, available free for IOS and Android smartphones (in Spanish).

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Someone always pays WE start the second half of the second decade of the new Millennium with a bang.

The daring raid on a Cash & Carry in Las Chafiras was quite something.

As we pieced the story together this week, there was a strong feeling that this was a long time in the planning.

It’s always the little things that go wrong, as any detective will tell.

You see, there are things you forget: human emotions and, always, an unforeseen X Factor.

These elements have been coming out in the fascinating Hatton Garden trial, which is proving to be quite entertaining. Someone is surely writing what will be a fun book and, I dare say, a film script is already being polished.

The gang plotted for three years before pulling off the heist. They impersonated gas repairmen, abseiled down a lift-shaft and then drilled through a thick wall.

This took two days

as the drill they used sounds like the sort of thing you bought from Del Boy and Rodney down the Nags Head.

But patience was the key as they factored in any time delays. And they cleaned up better than any operatingroom Mrs Mopp. So far, no forensic evidence has been offered at the trial.

These crimes always capture the public’s imagination, as we have all dreamed of pulling off a bank job or executing the perfect heist.

That’s why we loved The Italian Job, The Pink Panther movies and the Ocean’s franchise. Even the Great Train Robbery maintains some romance.

However, there is no victimless crime. Those with long memories will remember the driver, Jack Mills, who was viciously attacked. He died a few years later and his family say he never recovered from the ordeal. So spare a thought for the owners and staff of Cash Diplo, who have suffered financially from last weekend’s crime.

Imagine it were your business, money or livelihood…

The app, which can be found by using ‘Adeje’ as the search word, will offer information about the Council and the borough, local job offers, traffic information and diversions, late-night and weekend chemists, etc.

The Councillors responsible for the app, Epifanio Díaz Hernández and Carmen Rosa González Cabrera, say: “We have been working to get this app ready because we consider it an important communication tool for the people of the borough.

“Here in Adeje, we have a range of excellent information channels open to the public 365 days a year, through Facebook, Twitter, Google +, our webpage, Instagram etc. All these are working well, and now we have added one more.

“This app will bring together relevant information and not just from the Council, but

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Jobless immigrant hits lottery fortune A JOBLESS Senegalese man scooped a 400,000euro share of El Gordo - Spain’s annual Christmas lottery - which dished more than 2bn euros in December.

The man, known only by his first name of Ngame, was rescued by Spanish coastguards and taken to Tenerife after making the risky journey from Morocco eight

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also will incorporate information from other bodies, such as chemist and health centres.”

Councillor Díaz Hernández said a team of technical staff had been working on the app for a number of months.

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July, 30 people have been using a prototype of the app in Adeje. They have tested it and given us feedback to help us improve the service prior to the launch.”

Those who want to download the app will be asked to register, and they can then choose what information they wish to receive.

“We don’t want to bombard people with information, so we are allowing people a choice, although there will be some general alerts - traffic diversions, weather alerts or power cuts, for instance - which will be sent to all users,” said Cllr Hernández, the Central Services Councillor.

The app is also twoway: Adeje’s residents can communicate with the council via the app, alerting them to incidents or problems by message or photo.

“We promise to deal, as best we can, with what is sent to us,” said Cllr Hernández. “This will be a particularly useful tool because Council personnel cannot be everywhere at any given time and this way, the public can assist in improving the borough.”

years ago on a packed wooden boat, which ran into trouble.

But it must have appeared light years away to him when he discovered that he held one of the 1,600 winning tickets - No.79140 - in the huge draw. The tickets were sold in the southern beach city of Roquetas de Mar in the province of Almeria, where the 35-year-old lives with his wife, who joined him on the crossing.

“I just can’t believe

this,” he said. “I can tell you that on some days, we do not have five euros between the two of us.”

Ngame recalled: “There were 65 people on that boat, and I want to give thanks to Spaniards and the Spanish Government for rescuing me when I was in the sea.”

Since arriving in Spain, the couple have tried to survive on temporary farm work, or as vegetable pickers in the sea of greenhouses in Almeria.

But his luck really was in last month because he had been recently laid off from his job in one of the greenhouses.

El Gordo has become a popular Christmas tradition in Spain, with friends, colleagues and cafe-bar regulars banding together to buy tickets.

The standard ticket costs 20 euros and queues form outside lottery stores weeks ahead of the draw. Well worth the wait for Ngame!

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Arona bigwigs are facing nightmare IT is going to be a tough few months for many people associated with the infamous Arona I case, and we are just days away from the first arguments.

The lead anti-corruption prosecutor has submitted a list of about 100 people who will testify in the case. The hearing will run from Tuesday (12th Jan) through to May. Among those cited are active politicians and municipal technicians, prominent businessmen, complainants, Town Hall workers and owners of concessionaires who, allegedly, benefited from irregular allocations of land and dodgy planning permission.

The Provincial Court will hear a case against the Local Government’s 2003-2007 administration which, it is alleged, made 300 illegal agreements from early 2004 to late 2006, granting more than 200 zoning permits.

The summary includes allegations of illegal con-

struction permits, the “encouraging’ of companies to receive grants and concessions directly, giving Government jobs to relatives, friends and acquaintances, and the removal of legal sanctions on relatives and friends.

The prosecution has named many prominent local figures, including José Ramón Ansorena and Kragl Roberto, who are currently living in Portugal.

A large number of former municipal workers are named, along with local police officers and prominent former politicians.

The prosecutor will also try to prove that the defendants embezzled public funds and committed numerous counts of bribery.

At the head of the accused is former Mayor Jose Alberto Gonzalez Reveron, for whom the prosecutor has requested three years in prison.

Wheels on fire!

CYCLING is the most popular sport or pastime in Spain, and little wonder because the country has produced legendary Tour de France winners such as five-time champion Miguel Indurain.

Even so, a trip on wheels, just edging out swimming, was the surprise finding of a study published by Spain’s Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport.

It shows that 63% of Spaniards have a bicycle in their homes, with 55.9% of adults owning a bike (the rest are children), against 59.3% of people who have a ball of some kind.

And of those with a ball, 51% own a football, while 27% play basketball.

Around 54.1% are would-be Rafael Nadals and own a racquet of some kind, be it tennis, padel, squash or badminton, which is gaining in popularity thanks to the efforts of reigning

world champion and world No.1 Carolina Marin.

Some 38.7% of Spaniards said they had been cycling over the past year, while 38.5% went swimming. Walking or trekking in hills had been enjoyed by 31.9% of those asked, 30.4% had done some running, and 29% had been in a gym.

Surprisingly, football in its many forms (5-a side, 7-a side or 11-aside) was played by just 22.4%, although advancing years are probably a prohibitive factor in more people not participating.

And despite the country’s large number of courses, golf continues to be much of a minority sport in Spain, practised by just over 3% of the population.

The study also shows that the majority take up their favourite sport when young, with only 3.7% adopting a new sport after they’ve hit 45.

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Rowdy female tourist forces plane to divert

AN aggressive woman could be facing criminal charges ,and a lifetime ban by leisure airline Jet2, after forcing a flight packed with British holiday-makers to divert to Ireland.

The decision was taken following the 42-yearold’s “increasingly aggressive behaviour” towards cabin crew on the journey to Newcastle.

The plane was flying from Tenerife when the woman, said to be drunk, became so disruptive that the flight crew agreed to make an

unscheduled landing at Shannon Airport to allow police to remove her.

It led to a frustrating, four-hour delay for the 160 passengers travelling home on the Boeing 737-800 to Newcastle Airport on New Year’s Day. The crew made the decision as Flight LS518 was flying over the Atlantic Ocean, northwest of Spain and about two hours into its journey back to Britain.

Ireland’s Garda and airport police met the plane when it landed shortly after 10pm and escorted the woman off.

After being questioned she was released without charge, but the Director of Public Prose-

cutions will receive a police file. A Jet2 spokesperson said: “Flight LS518 from Tenerife to Newcastle diverted to Shannon Airport, Ireland, on Friday night to offload a passenger who was, reportedly, showing increasingly aggressive behaviour towards our cabin crew.

“The female was handed over to the local police, and we will be working closely with the relevant authorities to pursue any necessary action.

“As part of our Onboard Together initiative, we have empowered our crew to take whatever action necessary to protect both passengers and themselves from offensive

and anti-social behaviour.

“The safety and welfare of our customers and staff is always our No.1 priority.”

Last year, Jet2 handed lifetime bans to around 50 people, who were abusive or disruptive towards staff and fellow passengers, and stopped nearly 500 people from travelling.

The zero-tolerance campaign was launched after the airline suffered a number of diversions or delays through unruly passengers.

Under tougher rules, Jet2 has threatened to send a £3,500 bill and pursue legal action against passengers whose behaviour results in a diversion.

Alarming rise in road deaths

DESPITE public warnings, speed cameras and a greater police presence, the number of deaths on our motorways continue to climb.

According to the Traffic Department, Santa Cruz recorded 39 deaths, which exceeded the 2014 total by 10.

These figures are shocking when you consider that in the

eastern Canary Islands, their death total fell from 24 to 12.

As if the news in the Western Isles alone were not bad enough, it seems that the total is closer to 50 after the deaths on urban roads in the province are included.

In December, three people were killed on these roads: a motorist at the roundabout

of Torrita (La Orotava), another in Ayyo Avenue (Adeje) and a third man was also killed in an accident which took place in the extension of Calle Budapest, in Playa de Las Americas.

Carlos San Antonio, Road Safety Specialist of Canariasvial - the Canarian association of victims of traffic accidents - said: “These

figures show that we are still missing prevention work, which is the most useful tool to combat this terrible problem.”

He added: “It is necessary to educate the driver by teaching him or her of the responsibility that comes with getting behind the wheel, and the risks involved for both the driver and others.”

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RESTORING THE LIFE OF AN INCREDIBLE ROMAN TOWN ARCHAEOLOGISTS in the present-day town of Jimena de la Frontera are uncovering the remains of what they believe to be one of the most important Roman settlements in Spain.

As well as showing the extent of their latest excavations, detailed plans reveal that the hilltop town has some of the most significant and virtually untouched Roman remains in the region.

They highlight the town as having been a major settlement, and shed light on the power structure of the occupying force of the time.

The Castillo de Jimena de la Frontera is the original settlement of the current population of Jimena, containing traces of an ancient and multi-cultural history.

Yet its existence lay hidden for many centuries until a retired archaeologist, who used to walk up to the castle on a daily basis, spotted signs of early Roman occupation.

According to Juan Miguel Pajuelo, the archaeologist co-ordinating the investigation’s phases, the extraordinary Roman city could have still remained undiscovered without the initial, unpaid work carried out by Hamo Sassoon, who retired to Jimena.

“If it weren’t for his acute observational powers - and powers of persuasion - it is doubtful that we would have this opportunity to understand Oba, as Jimena was known between the first century BC and the third century AD,” said Pajuelo.

Bilingual coins found on the site are proof of the existence of a Libyan-Phoenican settlement named OBA. After the conquest by Rome, the name OBA was Latinised and converted into Res Publica Obensis, endowing it with the status of a town ruled

by Latin law, under the government of Emperor Vespasian.

This effectively converted it into a city, ruled by a local senate with the appearance of magistrates such as the Duumviri and the ae-

diles who, in effect, were a four-man board of officials.

“At first sight, the impression is of visiting an Arab castle, slightly altered in the 19th Century,” said Miguel Angel Tabales, in charge of the excavations since 2002 and a professor of archaeology at the University of Seville.

“But the moment you take a critical look and analyse what you are actually seeing, you quickly realise that this is nothing other than the remains of a very important Roman city.”

The initial Roman compound colonises a hill, strategically located on the natural thoroughfare between the

Serrania de Ronda and the Bay of Algeciras, which has been occupied without interruption since the 8th Century BC. The remains of the Roman era are of particular interest since they include main doors, towers, hydraulic infrastructure adapted to the sloping nature of the site and a temple, in addition to well-preserved walls.

Professor Tabales said most of the perimeter wall of the urban fortification - partly Roman, partly Islamic - was conserved.

“By super-imposing this enclave on to the usual structure of a Roman city, we can see

that the public zone, the initial forum and the main street start in the lower part of the city,” he added.

“This means the Romans adapted their original model to the topography of the site.

The site was chosen because it gives commanding views of the surrounding countryside - an imperative for a military garrison.

“The monumental character of the architecture witnesses a time of great power and confidence, adding to Roman imperial propaganda.”

As well as the advantage of its geographic position, controlling inland routes from the

Mediterranean coast from Gibraltar via Algeciras until reaching today’s Ronda, Fancisco Reina FernandezTrujillo, director of the restoration work, believes there was another significant reason for its location.

“The enormous agricultural and livestock richness of the lush valleys of the two rivers the Guardiario and Hozgargante - make this a natural place to set up a sizeable garrison town,” he told the BBC. Major archaeological work on the complex site has enabled the initial phase of restoration of the compound’s eastern sector over which the urban profile of modern Jimena is silhouetted.

The moving of the town from the western facade of the hill in the medieval era is what has allowed earlier remains to have survived virtually intact.

As well as a complex sequence of walls, excavations have brought to light the original Roman entrance to the enclosure. A path leads visitors up from the river the most common mode of bringing supplies and troops from the coast, via a narrow road - to be confronted by a large temple looming overhead, emphasising the monumental nature of the place.

Although the same sense of grandiosity occurs during the Islamic period, it is under much more modest parameters.

“The military character of Xemina, the Arabic name, was simply built upon the ruins of the Roman city,” said Prof Tabales. “It was superimposed and is much more pragmatic.

“At a construction level, what we’ve found is little more than removing sediment and recycling Roman materials.”

From 1059 onward, Xemina was governed by the Taifa kingdom of Seville, with cisterns, wells and accommodation, witnessing the magnificence of the city under the Almohads, the Merenids and Nasrid powers.

But by 1431, Jimena had fallen into Christian hands, only to be recap-

tured by the Muslims and then, finally to be conquered by the Castilians in 1456 - a power struggle with shifting frontiers that added “de la Frontera” to modern Jimena as making the boundary between the two opposing forces.

So far, restoration works are still in their early days. The enhancement strategy complementing the restoration has been limited to making the restored compound accessible.

But as the University of Seville team await the next phase of excavation to start, there are growing concerns.

The porous and slowlyshifting substratum of the site poses problems.

This instability made itself felt in earlier times, and parts of the compound were reconstructed in response.

“This has preserved some walls on the interior in some of the lower sections but, overall, the movement of the land hasn’t been favourable,” said FernandezTrujillo. “The walls have adapted to those shifts, moving toward the interior and preserving the most ancient arrangements.”

But Prof Tabales warned that the problem of the site shifting on its hilltop position can only get worse.

“Without intervention, parts of the site will deteriorate further and, without doubt, this will eventually lead to the disappearance of parts of the Roman construction,” he said.

These worries are compounded by the site being unguarded, and bounty-hunters having free, unobserved access to the Castillo.

But Pascual Collado Saraiva, Mayor of Jimena de la Frontera, has promised to bring in measures that will ensure the safety of the site.

“The castle is the identity of Jimena and we simply can’t let it be plundered,” he pledged. “The route from the coast inland used by the Roman and Muslims invaders are part of our developing tourism strategy and will bring Jimena great benefit.”

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Our new cash Affair SPAIN’S boxoffice enjoyed a healthy 8.6% increase with its 2015 film takings of 571.5m euros, thanks to a series of local hits, which attracted large audiences.

These Spanish successes, led by the year’s top performer, A Spanish Affair 2, were all Hollywood hits.

Telecinco Cinema’s follow-up to 2014’s record-breaking Spanish Affair, distributed in Spain by Universal, has earned $33m and heads the year-end box-office rankings.

Ticket sales continued to grow in 2015 to 94

million, a 7.1% increase over the previous year and the second successive rise in year-overyear results, following 2013’s 18% fall.

The Spanish film industry has recovered well since the dark days of 2012 and 2013, which saw plunging cinema attendances, booming film piracy and austerity measures, which cut subsidies and hiked the sales tax on film admissions.

Yet last year’s figures are a far cry from 2004’s record-setting 691.6 million euros, or 2009’s 666m, in the heyday of blossoming multi-plexes.

Rentrak Spain’s provisional figures show the blockbuster film Minions placed second in

the 2015 rankings with $25.8m, followed by Star Wars: The Force Awakens with $24.1m, Jurassic World ($23.8m) and Inside Out ($22.6m).

Notably, one in five tickets sold was for a Spanish film - the second-best mark in decades and just behind 2014’s one-in-four ratio.

According to Rentrak Spain, a handful of local films soared past the 1m-euro threshold. In addition to A Spanish Affair 2, the animated Capture the Flag took 11m euros; Pediendo el Norte (10m); Alejandro Amenabar’s Regression, starring Emma Watson and Ethan Hawke, raised 9m euros, and wedding comedy Ahora o Nunca grossed 8m.

CLEAN-EATING, the latest new fad in food, promotes unprocessed and natural meals, covering everything from gluten-free to rawfood diets, and is praised by a legion of fans.

But Carrie Armstrong, bed-bound following an illness and warned by doctors that her recovery would be slow, turned to online health blogs and found what she thought was the healthy food holy grail.

Sadly, she became so obsessed with eating healthily that she actually became unhealthy!

“I went from eating everything to not just eating raw food, not just eating fruit, but eating just organic melon,” she said.

But the melon diet, naturally, took its toll.

Carrie’s hair started to fall out and her weight plummeted to 6st (38kg).

“I was worse off than when I started,” she said. “I was mentally

shattered and terrified by food. My life had become consumed by the food I consumed.”

Experts are calling her experience “orthorexia” - an unclassified eating disorder identified by an extreme fixation on avoiding “unhealthy” foods.

They warn that the popularity of clean-eating could lead to more cases, as extreme dieters become obsessed with controlling their food intake.

Even TV cook Nigella Lawson has spoken out about the trend - saying that clean-eating could mask serious disorders.

But it is difficult to get away from the promotion of clean-eating on health sites, blogs and social media.

On Instagram alone, you’ll find more than 17 million posts when you search, using the hashtag #cleaneating.

Fitness blogger Zanna Van Dijk, who has over 70,000 followers on the app. makes a living out of her healthy lifestyle.

But she worries about the example she could set for those who want to “eat clean”.

Zanna said: “Some people could use it to fuel negative behaviour, but I like to think that what I’m doing will support more positive behaviour.

“I do post my nonclean-eating meals ... and that’s a conscious effort to show people it’s okay not to be perfect.”

But many people following bloggers and fitness enthusiasts look at their recipes as if they’re nutritional advice.

Nutritionist Ian Marber warns that cleaneating can often “cherry-pick science”, and that people can end up “following fads and trends that have no background or basis to them whatsoever”.

Yet clean-eaters remain undeterred, and a community has grown around their “healthy” outlook.

For the majority, cleaneating promotes a happy, healthy relationship with food. But there is a minority which take it too far.

But generally, it’s all about balance - as much in people’s minds as on their plates.

Loro Parque is the chosen one LORO Parque was last week visited by the Sofia Association, which works for the prevention and relief of eating disorders.

During the visit, workers and family members enjoyed the park’s facilities, including the penguin, gorilla and red panda displays, the latter recently opened to the public.

The Association has been working since May to develop activities for prevention, awareness and sensitisation of the population on food disorders.

Members have also devoting much of their work to helping people who suffer from any of these disorders.

They chose to spend one of the last days of 2015 at Loro Parque, where they enjoyed the various shows, the dolphin show being one of the most special for them.

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Riu Garoe wins Oscar TENERIFE’S Riu Garoe Hotel, in Puerto de la Cruz, has been named as one of the 100 best hotels in the world

by TUI. It is the 13th time the four-star establishment has been honoured with the TUI Holly “Oscar hospitality” award, since opening its doors in 2002.

Hotel Director Luis Hernandez said: “Our satisfaction is doubled because we found that our customer satisfac-

tion is increasing every year. We have achieved our 13th TUI Holly prize, and we have also passed last year’s score which rates our hotel.”

The Riu Garoe is owned by the Farrais family and managed under the brand standard Riu Classic Hotels.

It has won numerous other awards, including two Thomson Gold Awards, in addition to being feted by TripAdvisor and Holidaycheck with other gongs.

Flu rates down

The Three Kings descended on all the Municipalities of Tenerife on Tuesday evening! Children and adults alike enjoyed the various arrivals from Melchior, Caspar and Balthazar. The biggest gathering was in Santa Cruz where heavy rain failed to dampen the spirits as the Kings arrived at the Heliodoro Stadium.

WARM weather over the last few months has been a financial boost for many - and it appears that there are health benefits as well.

In the Canary Islands, the official flu rate is well below the annual average, according to the latest data published by the Ministry of Health.

Specifically, at week 52 (between 21st-27th December), the incidence rate in the archipelago stood at 20.64 cases per 100,000, which was well below the average and nowhere near the epidemic threshold, which stands at 125 cases.

According to this data,

and compared with previous influenza seasons in the Canary Islands, we have the lowest incidence rate since the 2004-2005 season at this point in January.

Nationally, there is also low influenza activity in Spain, with an average rate of 12.20 cases per 100,000 inhabitants.

Although not yet officially released, the vaccination coverage in the islands is going well. Health Minister Jesus Morera said the number of people vaccinated “has significantly increased and is above the 15,000 vaccinated last year”.

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Conflict in nearby countries, a depreciation of the euro against the dollar and British pound, and the sunshine lure led to a 5% increase in tourism.

According to data published by the National Statistics Institute (INE), the three most important tourist-producing countries were the UK, France and Germany, making up 55% of the total.

The strength of the British pound last year saw a rise in the num-

ber of Brit tourists, who consolidated their first position with 15 million visitors - 23% of the total.

In second place was France, with 11m tourists travelling to its neighbouring country, and 17% of the total, followed by Germany, with 9.8m visitors and 15% of the figures recorded.

Over the last year, the number of tourists from France went up by 300,000, but those from Germany dropped by double that figure.

From all the other markets, US visitors increased in number by almost a 25%, and the figure is now on par with countries such as Portugal, Belgium, Switzerland or Ireland.

But visitors from Russia plummeted by 34%.

Regarding autonomous regions, Cataluña continues to be the most popular with international tourists, receiving a total of 16.5 million visitors up to November, which was 3.7% more than last year.

Second and third positions were occupied by the Canary and Balearic Islands.

The former received the most tourists during the winter months, while the latter was affected by the fall in German visitors, who usually prefer the Balearics.

However, the regions which saw the biggest increases in the number of tourists this year were Madrid, with 13% more than in 2014, and Andalucía, with a 9% rise.

A WOMAN was shot dead the day after being sworn in as mayor of a gang-troubled Mexican city, leading to the arrest of three people, including a child.

Gisela Mota, a 33-yearold federal congresswoman, took office as Temixco Mayor on New Year’s Day. But, tragically, she was assassinated in an attack by four armed gunmen at her home the following morning.

Governor Graco Ramirez blamed organised crime gangs for the killing, adding that he had ordered security measures for all the state’s mayors.

Ramon Castro, a Roman Catholic bishop who celebrated Mass at Ms Mota’s home on Sunday, said: “One theory for her murder could be that it was a warning to other mayors - if you don’t co-operate with organised crime, look

what will happen to you.”

Temixco - population 100,000 people - once drew tourists to its pretty colonial centre, gardens and jacarandadecked streets.

But it is also on the main drugcarrying route between Mexico City (55 miles away) and the country’s mur-

By mid-December, Spain had received some 12,500 applications for asylum, with that figure expected to surpass 13,000 by the end of the year - more than twice the 2014 number of 5,895.

The majority of the new arrivals, around 7,000, were Syrians arriving in Spain’s North African enclave of Melilla, according to UNHCR, the UN’s refugee agency.

Germany officially hit the one-million mark in early December while Sweden, a country with a much smaller population than Spain, was expecting 190,000 new arrivals in 2015.

After initially refus-

ing to accept the EU’s mandatory quota, the Spanish Government said in early September that it would accept 14,931 refugees, bowing to public pressure within the country that the nation should shoulder its share of the burden.

Public campaigns were launched across Spain, calling on the Government to accept more refugees, and hundreds of councils had measures in place to welcome refugees risking their lives to reach Europe.

The first group - just a dozen people relocating from Italy - arrived in Madrid in November.

In related news, the number of people arriving via boat on the shores of Andalusia was steady, with 3,149 people sailing there in 2014 against 3,170 last year.

In the Canary Islands, however, the number of migrants arriving by sea soared from 288 in 2014 to 844 last year.

Over one million migrants and refugees crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe in 2015, nearly half of them Syrians, said the UNHCR).

The milestone marks an almost five-fold increase over 2014 figures, when the UNHCR recorded 219,000 arrivals via the perilous sea crossing.

The figures underscore the enormous impact Syria’s near fiveyear civil war has had on changing migration patterns.

The conflict has forced more than four million people to flee the country but, until last year, an overwhelming majority of them were spread among Syria’s neighbours.

While Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey continue to host huge numbers of Syrians displaced by war, the UN figures show that beginning last Spring, increasingly large numbers of Syrians resolved to reach Europe.

der capital of Acapulco. The city has been plagued by extortion gangs and drug cartels, and Ms Mota had vowed to clean the place up.

Her centre-left Democratic Revolution Party described her as “a strong and brave woman who, on becoming Mayor, declared that her fight against crime would be frontal and direct”.

After her murder, two

suspects were killed during a gun-fight with police. Three others - a 32-year-old woman, an 18-year-old male youth and a minor - were arrested.

Just over a year ago, in December 2014, a state politician and mayoral candidate was kidnapped in Temixco.

But he was later rescued.

Seven people, including the 24-year-old son of poet Javier Sicilia,

were found dead in Temixco in March 2011 after reportedly getting into an argument with men who turned out to be members of a drug cartel.

The Association of Local Authorities of Mexico, representing the country’s mayors, said nearly 100 of them had been killed across the country during the past decade, “principally at the hands of organised crime”.

‘UK should safeguard Syrian child refugees’ AN influential international group believes that thousands more Syrian refugee children should be allowed to settle in the UK to protect them from exploitation.

Record asylum-seekers’ tally barely scratches EU surface THE 13,000 asylum-seekers arriving in Spain last year are said to be a record total. But the number is still under 1% of the European Union total.

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Spain’s olive groves flattened by looters SOARING olive oil prices, prompting widescale looting raids on Spanish groves, have led to police impounding looters’ cars, jam-packed with hundreds of kilos of stolen olives.

It has got so bad that growers now patrol their crops at night, following the huge increase in nocturnal raids in Extremadura, central Spain, where entire groves have been stripped by thieves.

Extra virgin olive oil prices hit an 18-year

high in August when they reached over 5,000 euros per metric ton.

Distraught farmers, who blame Romanian and Bulgarian thieves, say a “mafia” has sprung up, selling the stolen fruit on the black market.

Last November, 26,000 kilos were stripped from the trees in a single night - a haul of unprocessed olives worth around 16,000 euros.

Farmer Antonio Masa Cañada admitted there had always been smallscale thieving, but added: “I’ve never seen any like this. Looting has become the order of the day.”

Growers now maintain they will harvest early rather than wait until

February for the fruit to ripen.

Mr Cañada, 43, said a local patrol had caught seven looters last week after a 100mph car chase. But the thieves were released within hours by police and told to appear in court at a later date.

But he called the response “pathetic” because the looters were unlikely to turn up.

He said: “We are not racists - we’re just sick of this thieving. We have had Spanish people stealing, too, but this is a powder-keg and it’s about to go off.

“Imagine what could happen if the wrong person finds someone stealing in a very remote spot.”

Despite praising Britain’s response to the refugee crisis so far, the International Development Committee says it must do more, calling on Prime Minister David Cameron to urge fellow G7 leaders to match the UK’s efforts.

The death of a young refugee boy, who washed up drowned on a Turkish beach, focused the world’s attention on the extent of the Syria migrant crisis.

When Aylan Kurdi and his brother drowned as they and their family sought sanctuary in Europe, the media tracked the journeys of hundreds of thousands of migrants for weeks.

Many of them were Syrians, making their way to and through the continent, often paying substantial sums to traffickers to make the potentially-deadly sea crossings to southern Europe from Turkey.

Britain has pledged to take 20,000 Syrian refu-

gees from the camps in neighbouring countries like Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan. But it has ignored the millionplus people who have made their own way to Europe.

And that is why the IDC is pushing the Government to do more to help - and particularly, the unaccompanied children.

Labour’s Stephen Twigg, the Committee chairman, said: “We should be prepared to take 3,000 children who have made the dangerous journey across to Europe on their own, unaccompanied.

“These are children at great risk of getting drawn into child labour, into prostitution and human-trafficking.

But we want all 3,000 to have the opportunity to rebuild their lives in this country.”

The Committee also wants the Government to lean on other G7 countries - such as France, Japan and Italy - who have not met their own pledges to help refugees, to do so quickly.

Save the Children says there are thousands of young people who, having fled from Syria to Europe, believe they are safe. But they are not.

Justin Forsyth, the charity’s Chief Executive, said: “I’m getting reports from my staff

right across Europe, that there are children at railway stations, even walking through fields in Croatia, who are being picked up by criminal gangs.

“I met some young women who had telephone numbers when they came off the boats, and they were meant to ring them. But they were being trafficked into prostitution.”

Daniel Gorevan, Oxfam’s Policy Advisor on the Syrian crisis, who works in the Jordan refugee camps, said it was not only unaccompanied children facing hardship because even those with their families find their childhoods cut short.

“The parents send their children out to work, they’ll marry them off early and they’ll work illegally and risk deportation back to Syria,” he said.

In response to the report, a Department for International Development spokesperson said: “We are looking again at the issue of bringing Syrian children to the UK, both from the region and from within the EU. “In any consideration, we must ensure that our proposals are in the best interests of those children affected and do not, inadvertently, put children at additional risk.”

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HONDA’S MotoGP rider Dani Pedrosa is on Spain’s top tax debtor list, said to be owing an astonishing 7.8 million euros.

The “roll of dishonour” includes 4,855 names of people each owing more than one million euros to the country’s tax authority.

The tax agency wrote to individuals and companies owing over one million euros last year to warn them their names would be made public on the list released.

Pedrosa, 30, finished fourth in this year’s championship in his 10th season in the series, winning in Japan and Malaysia.

Former FC Barcelona player Gabriel Milito

and ex-Real Madrid President Lorenzo Sanz are other sport-related figures listed.

Pedrosa, the Spanish Honda rider, is not the first MotoGP figure to run into alleged tax trouble in the recent years. A number of high-profile Italian racers were previously accused of tax evasion.

Among them were Valentino Rossi, who had to stump up a 35m-euro settlement; Loris Capirossi, whose 2010 appeal failed, had to pay a 2m-euro fine; Marco Melandri, who had to settle up and also received a 19-month suspended jail term; and Max Biaggi, whose case is ongoing.

All these disputes involved riders allegedly claiming a fictitious residence in foreign countries.

Olympic stadium is left in the dark UNPAID bills at the Brazilian stadium scheduled to host athletics during this year’s Olympic Games has left it without electricity or water.

Rio de Janeiro 45,000-seater Joao Havelange arena is said to owe some £153,000 for utilities.

It is the home ground of Rio’s Botafogo football club, which was previously responsible for the running costs there.

But the club handed back the management to Brazil’s Government

this month during its preparations for the Olympics.

Botafogo’s owners say the utility bills should be paid by the government because the club did not receive payments due to them when the ground closed for two years in 2013 for repairs.

Government officials and the club’s managers have met to try to resolve the issue, but there has been no comment from either side.

Although the Joao Havelange arena will host the athletics events, the opening and closing ceremonies will take place at Rio’s Maracana stadium.

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Podemos cuts salary bill for its own MPs THE Podemos party’s newlyelected MPs have put their money where their mouth is, rejecting a full salary, together with many allowances and perks.

While pledging to slow the rate of public spending cuts, the leftist, anti-corruption Podemos says its MPs will take only about 1,900 euros a month, against the 3,200 euros to which they are entitled. The MPs, the first to represent the party after it won 69 seats in last month’s General Election, will also forgo a 3,000-euro annual taxi allowance - and any retirement benefits.

Spanish MPs are already among the lowest paid in the European Union, with a backbencher earning less than 40,00 euros a year.

The Podemos decision was announced after a nine-hour meeting of the party’s executive, known as its Citizens’ Council.

It decided that “all deputies in the group

should give up privileges”. It is in stark contrast to the established parties, especially the governing PP, which has been overwhelmed by corruption scandals in recent years.

Even Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy has been forced to deny that he benefited from a slush fund, allegedly orchestrated by former PP treasurer Luis Bárcenas, who denies any wrong-doing.

In addition, several PP officials serving on municipal councils and in local government have been jailed in recent years following corruption probes.

Podemos, not even two years old, was a dramatic winner in its first general election, finishing third and prevent-

ing the PP and the other main party, the Socialists, or PSOE, from winning a majority.

As the leader of the biggest party, Rajoy is desperately trying to form a governing bloc in the 250-seat parliament before it returns on Wednesday.

By then, King Felipe must propose a candidate for Prime Minister, on whom MPs must then vote.

The election result has thrown the issue wide open. The PP, with its 123 seats, does not have a majority, even with the support of the centrist Ciudadanos, which finished fourth.

The Prime Minister, now acting as caretaker PM, has used a radio interview to float the idea of a three-party coali-

tion, with the PSOE and an unnamed third party, presumed to be Ciudadanos.

“These three political forces, which would add up to more than 200 seats, are united by fundamental issues,” said Rajoy.

He added that such a coalition would “send a good message about the stability of the country”.

But it is hardly likely to be so straightforward because there is too much animosity between Rajoy and PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez.

So far, the PSOE has ruled out any deal that sees Rajoy remaining in office, while Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera has refused to join any formal coalition. And a leftist coalition seems equally unlikely.

Podemos has promised a binding referendum on Catalan independence should it enter government, a policy to which the PSOE could not agree. If it is not possible to form a government, fresh elections will be held in March or April.

And the Podemos policy on MPs’ salaries could really prove popular with voters then!

Half-a-million still don’t know they have diabetes THE official number of diabetes sufferers in the UK has topped a record four million, according to new figures released by Diabetes UK.

Data from family doctors, analysed by the charity, shows there are now 4.05 million people living with the condition.

The figure includes 3.5 million adults who have been officially diagnosed, which is a 119,965 increase on the previous year’s total, and has grown 65% in all over the last decade.

Even more worrying is that some 549,000 people, who have not been diagnosed, are

also believed to have Type 2 diabetes, which is linked to unhealthy lifestyles.

If this trend continues, the figures will expand to an estimated five million people within a decade.

Chris Askew, Diabetes UK Chief Executive, said: “With four million people in the UK now living with diabetes, the need to tackle this serious health condition has never been so stark - or so urgent.”

He said the Government should lead a “concerted effort” to address the blunt fact that nearly two in every three UK people are overweight or obese and, therefore, have an increased risk of getting Type 2 diabetes.

Mr Askew added: “Basic measures, such as

making healthy food cheaper and more accessible, introducing clearer food labelling and making it easier for people to build physical activity into their daily lives, would have a profound influence.”

The charity says more than 24,000 people with diabetes die prematurely every year because of failures in accessing the best care.

This includes receiving eight annual check-ups in areas such as foot care and eyesight.

These examinations, currently received by just 60% of diabetessufferers, are designed to prevent complications which can lead to limb amputation, blindness, kidney failure and even death.

Diabetes UK also warned that people are

missing out on education courses designed to help them manage their diabetes, with more than one-third of English regions still not running them.

In addition, the charity claimed that hospital care for people with the condition was consistently poor, putting some lives at risk.

Yet some 80% of the £10bn spent on diabetes every year by the NHS goes on treating preventable complications.

Dr Alison Tedstone, Public Health England’s Chief Nutritionist, said: “Sadly, too many people suffer from Type 2 diabetes, and its serious health consequences.

“We must help prevent those at high risk of developing it from doing so.”

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Natalie Cole Swedish ID checks will dies at 65yrs cut Denmark migrants NATALIE Cole, daughter of the late, legendary Nat ‘King’ Cole, died last Thursday in a Los Angeles hospital at the age of 65.

She had been unwell, cancelling a series of performances, including one on New Year’s Eve. The American singer had battled drug problems and hepatitis in the past, and had a kidney transplant in 2009.

A joint statement from sisters Timolin and Casey Cole, and her son, Robert Yancy, read: “Natalie fought a fierce, courageous battle, dying how she lived ... with dignity, strength and honour.

“Our beloved mother and sister will be greatly missed and remain unforgettable in our hearts forever,.”

The Grammy-winning star’s hits included the engineered duet Unforgettable with her father. But she rose to fame as an R&B artist with tracks such as This Will Be and Inseparable. Then, Natalie’s jazz standards - evoking the sound of her crooner father - brought her a whole new fan base.

Her greatest success came with the 1991 album Unforgettable ...

With Love, which paid tribute to her father with reworked versions of some of his bestknown songs, including That Sunday That Summer, Too Young and Mona Lisa.

On the track Unforgettable, her voice was remixed with that of her

SWEDEN has introduced identity checks for travellers from Denmark to help trim the number of migrant arrivals.

father, 25 years after his death.

The album went on to win six Grammys, including Album of the Year, as well as Song of the Year for the title track.

Her father, a heavy smoker, died from lung cancer when she was just 15, and she struggled to come to terms with his death. But she appeared to find solace in music.

She had early success with her debut album, Inseparable, in 1975.

The album track This Will Be became a top-10 hit and went on to win a Grammy for best female R&B performance.

She gained even more success throughout the remainder of the Seventies, but her drug issues resurfaced in the next decade as she battled addiction.

She re-emerged in 1987 as a pop singer, with notable success, but returned to the classic standards associated with her father in the Nineties, recording Unforgettable.

“When we started the project, it was a way of reconnecting with my dad,” said Natalie.

“Then, when we did the last song, I had to say goodbye again.”

Those wanting to cross the Oresund bridge by train or bus, or use ferry services, will be refused entry if they don’t have the necessary documents.

Rail commuters heading to Sweden will now have to change trains at Copenhagen Airport and go through ID check-points.

Sweden received more than 150,000 asylum applications in 2015.

An estimated 20,000 commuters daily cross the Oresund bridge, which connects the Swedish cities of Malmo and Lund with the Danish capital, Copenhagen.

Direct journeys from Copenhagen’s main railway station to Sweden will no longer be available, and the changes are expected to add

around 30 minutes to the current 40-minute commute.

In response, Denmark has stepped up border controls with Germany, its southern neighbour.

Danish Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen said the new Swedish measures could cause serious disruption to traffic flows from Denmark.

Danish Transport Minister Hans Christian Schmidt said the introduction of checks was sad and “extremely annoying”.

He suggested the Swedish Government should pay for the checks, which Danish rail company DSB has estimated at 134,000 euros (£100,000) daily.

Responding to the developments, Martin Schaefer, Germany’s foreign ministry spokesman, told the AFP news agency: “Freedom of movement is an important principle - one of the biggest achievements in the European Union in recent years.”

Denmark and Swe-

den are joined by the Oresund bridge, the longest road-rail bridge in Europe.

A fence has been erected at Kastrup airport, to stop migrants getting into Sweden illegally. And police have also put up a fence at Hyllie, the first station on the Swedish side Under the new Swedish law, brought in late last year, transport companies will be fined 5,400 euros (£4,000) if travellers to Sweden do not have a valid photo ID. The Swedish Government secured a temporary exemption from the European Union’s open-border Schengen agreement to impose the border controls.

Last month, Sweden’s state-owned train operator SJ announced it would stop services to and from Denmark because it could not carry out identity checks demanded by the new law.

The vast majority of commuters using the Oresund bridge cross from Sweden, so the

changes were expected to hit people hardest as they return from work during the evening rush hour.

To comply with the regulations, fencing has been erected around one of the platforms at the railway station at Copenhagen’s Kastrup Airport.

Police have also set up fencing at Hyllie, the first station on the Swedish side of the bridge, amid reports of plans for further ID checks there.

Sweden’s SJ train company said it would not have time to check people travelling between Copenhagen and Malmo over the Oresund bridge.

And Ronny Fredriksson, of security firm Securitas Sweden, said his company had so far refused requests from travel companies to take on the task because “this is about foreign identification cards that we know nothing about”.

Infrastructure Minister Anna Johansson told Swedish media that the new rules would be changed if there were a dramatic fall in the number of asylum seekers. Along with Germany, Sweden is one of the main destinations for migrants and takes the most per capita of its population.

In 2013, its then government announced it would offer permanent residence to all Syrians, but the high number of arrivals last year prompted a rethink.

In contrast, Denmark expects to receive about 20,000 asylum seekers in 2016.

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Exercise could put the lid on prostate cancer A GROUP of researchers in England are about to launch a trial to discover whether exercise therapy can help ease the plight of men with prostate cancer.

The Sheffield Hallam University team, backed by Cancer Research UK, believe that physical activity can help the body prevent tumours from spreading.

They are asking 50 men with prostate cancer, which has not yet spread, to test their theory for 12 months.

The team hope to show that aerobic exercise is a treatment in its own right and that it should be offered on the NHS. Half of the men will have weekly, supervised, exercise sessions, while the other 25 will just be given information about the benefits of exercise for cancer patients.

The researchers will be monitoring the men closely and will check their blood for levels of a protein called PSA,

which can help show if prostate cancer is growing and spreading.

If the results are promising and the men can persevere with the exercise regime, the research team will continue with a larger, fullscale trial.

Study leader Dr Liam Bourke said: “It’s early days yet. But the data we do have suggests that exercise may actually be beneficial in terms of helping to regulate the way cancer cells grow, and also repair DNA. “It builds on what we already know, and is is the first step towards us finding out whether exercise can be an effective and practical NHS treatment for localised prostate cancer.”

Professor Malcolm Mason, of Cancer Research, UK said: “Taking exercise is good for all of us, whether or not we have cancer.

“But this interesting study could help discover whether it is particularly helpful - and a viable, additional treatment for some prostate cancer patients.”

ALL ABOUT THE DISEASE

*The prostate is a small gland in the pelvis of men *More than 43,000 UK men are diagnosed with prostate cancer annually - more than 100 every day *It is the second-most-common cause of cancer death in UK men, after lung cancer *Tumours often develop slowly, so there may be no symptoms for years *Symptoms can include difficulty urinating, or an urge to go more frequently

Naughty Irish boys in Spain SPAIN tops the list of countries where Irish citizens are most likely to run into trouble with police, according to figures from the past five years detailing arrests and detentions around the world.

The Department of Foreign Affairs assists with hundreds of such incidents every year, involving a wide variety of offences.

Details of cases, though never made public by the department, often surface in the media. Crimes can be as common as public-order offences, sexual assaults and drug possession, or behaviour deemed inappropriate to foreign cultures.

Incidents recorded by the Department are those only where assistance is requested by the individual in question.

Often, that never happens, so the number of times Irish citizens run into trouble with the law is impossible to quantify accurately.

Figures released by the Department of Foreign Affairs, under Freedom of Information legislation, show that over a five-year period from 2010 to 2014, there were 1,315 arrests in over 40 countries.

The busiest year for arrests was 2012, when there were 292 incidents recorded.

Spain was by far the most common country in which Irish citizens were taken into police custody, with 474 arrests over that period.

That was followed by Australia and the US (both 138 cases), the UK (102) and France (50). There were 44 arrests in the United Arab Emirates, including 17 in 2013.

The number of arrests tend to correlate with

the popularity of countries with Irish visitors.

For example, Spain is not only extremely popular with Irish sun-seekers - it is also linked prominently to Irish criminals.

Records also show the Department assisted in, or was contacted in, 229 cases of Irish citizens being jailed over the period.

The Irish Council for Prisoners Overseas (ICPO) says an estimated 1,100 Irish people were in foreign prisons at any given time over the last number of years, but many of those who find themselves locked up abroad decide not to seek State assistance.

The Department recorded a peak of 72 new cases in 2011; the previous year, it had just one case relating to the UK. At 95, the UK had the highest level of foreign incarcerations over the period.

Contrasting starkly with the arrest rate, there were just 11 recorded cases of imprisonment from Spain, suggesting that many might not have been brought to the Department’s attention, or that most offences

were of a minor nature.

There were 13 cases in the US; three in the UAE; four in Germany and seven in France and Belgium.

Other countries that recorded a handful of incarcerations between them included Cambodia, Pakistan, the Philippines and South Korea.

Details of foreign arrests and detentions usually find their way into the public domain, even where individuals have not sought State assistance.

In October, a 23-yearold Irish man was reported to be facing 50 years behind bars in Thailand after, allegedly, attempting to sell a kilogram of cannabis to police officers.

In July, an Irish citizen was arrested at Kochi international airport in India after he was reported to have been hiding 10kg of gold bars worth about 350,000 euros in his waistcoat, jacket and trouser pockets.

Laws in the United Arab Emirates often catch travellers out.

For example, possessing medication containing codeine without a prescription can land people in trouble,

as can public displays of affection.

Penalties for carrying drugs can also be severe in many parts of the world, not least south-east Asia, even when the quantity is very small.

Under Article 36 of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations 1963, foreigners detained abroad must be notified of their right to consular assistance “without delay”. However, detainees sometimes request that the embassy not be informed.

Department staff are instructed to get as much information as possible from people on first contact, but the process can be delayed by numerous factors.

“The length of time before we can speak to a detainee also depends on local procedures and varies from country to country,• said a Department spokesperson.

“It may be difficult in the initial period after arrest, or court appearance, where the citizen may be in transit from a police station to a holding cell, or being processed at a prison.”

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BOBBY Webber, a well-known figure in the South of Tenerife, could be stripped of his home here following a landmark legal ruling in the UK against the convicted benefits fraudster.

There has been an arrest warrant out for the 73-year-old former club singer, originally from Tyneside, for more than four years. He is wanted in the UK after he failed to pay back a penny of the £75,000 he owes after being convicted of benefit fraud.

After he failed to comply with a Proceeds of Crime Act order, a warrant was issued for his arrest in 2011, but Webber is still living free in Tenerife.

His overseas assets were safe, previously, but new EU regulations mean UK authorities now have the power to get other European member states to enforce confiscation orders, which puts him right in the headlights as he makes legal history.

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prosecutors say is the first application of its kind, a judge has granted permission for Spanish authorities to chase up Webber’s ill-gotten gains.

Judge Paul Sloan QC, said at Newcastle Crown Court: “These provisions enable confiscations made by the UK to be enforced by other member states.”

The proceeds from Webber’s villa would be more than enough to pay back his debt. As Judge Sloan said: “The available amount, which included the property in Spain, was sufficient to

meet the benefit figure, and a confiscation order was made in the sum of £75,000.

“It has not been satisfied, and the defendant is at large and has not been traced.”

Prosecutor David Comb said the successful application was the first of its type since European regulations were brought into force in the UK in 2014.

Properties held in other European countries can be confiscated by the UK authorities, with the help of other member states, if they are the proceeds of an

offence, or were used in an offence.

Webber was made the subject of a confiscation order in November 2009 after staging a massive benefit fraud from his Spanish home.

But more than six years after he was jailed for 51 weeks, he has failed to hand over a single penny of the confiscation order, and a warrant for his arrest, issued in August 2011, remains outstanding.

In an interview with the Newcastle Chronicle in 2014 from his Tenerife home, Webber claimed he had been forced to accept benefit-fraud allegations to protect his family, saying: “If I come back to England, I’ll be locked-up.”

This historic judgement serves as a warning to those who owe money and feel they can flee to another country to escape justice. The European Union is no hiding place as the political world gets smaller and there could now be a plethora of court rulings against others who are ‘on the run’.

Police trace girl from stolen car NEW Mexico police have released footage of them finding a threeyear-old girl, reported missing after the car she sat in was stolen from a supermarket car park.

Officers in Albuquerque launched an immediate hunt for Caraline Leon-Alcocar after a thief jumped into her mother’s car and drove away with the child still inside. The incident happened at around 8.30pm on Saturday, and police must have feared the worst when the empty car was later found abandoned. Happily, Caraline was discovered at

around 1am in an empty car park, “very cold and very scared”.

Officer Daren DeAguero added: “She was out there by herself in freezing temperatures, with just a little jacket on.”

Fellow-officer Chris Poccia’s body-cam video shows him getting out of his car and picking up Caraline. She can be heard telling him a number of times that she was cold.

The toddler was unharmed, and police are now hunting the thief, releasing a picture of the suspect in the hope that it will lead to more information.

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By Laura Mann

of Blacktower Financial Management (International) Limited.

WHAT a year we had in 2015, especially with regards to the Pension arena, and we hope our regular Blacktower articles have been informative.

Hopefully, you now have a clearer understanding of how the changes will affect YOU if you still have pension funds within the UK. But get ready for even more changes to come in the QROPS market during 2016.

Malta The Retirement Pensions Act 2011 (“the Act”) took effect from 1st January and will replace the Special Funds Act. Retirement Scheme Administrators and Trustees will need to be regulated under the Act. Under the terms of the Act, there will be an ability to defer to HMRC rules, which will include the ability to access benefits flexibly.

This will, however, only

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apply to EU Schemes.

The HMRC review of Non EU Schemes continues.

What this means to you is that Malta looks set to follow the UK by allowing you to access a 25% tax-free lumpsum from your Pension Pot at the age of 55.

Great news, but our advice is don´t access it unless you really need to. But if you feel you´d like to, then speak to us first about investment opportunities paying well in excess of those currently available within the UK. United Kingdom The current £1.25m threshold on Lifetime Allowance (LA) is set to be reduced to £1m from April. What this means is that if your Pension Pot remains in the UK, you will potentially pay 55% in taxes once you access over and above the limit!

There has never been a better time for you to have a financial review to ensure you really are making the most of your tax position here in the Canary Islands.

Points to note: if you have a Defined Benefit Scheme, which could exceed the lifetime allowance, transfers out can take months, rather than weeks, to conclude.

So, subject to advice, we would suggest that you initiate a review

immediately for them to be concluded in a timely manner.

Money Purchase Scheme transfers generally conclude more quickly.

But again, we would suggest you prepare these transfers well in advance where the LTA is considered to be a potential issue.

Gibraltar & Isle of Man

HMRC is continuing to review Non-EU Schemes, including Gibraltar. Our estimate is that this review will conclude in April at the earliest. The 70/30 rule still applies, so 70% should remain in the pot to provide income and, theoretically, 30% could be accessed at age 55.

Laura Mann is Regional

Manager Canary Islands at Blacktower Financial Management (International) Ltd. Tel 603 217 561. Email info@blacktowerfm. com www. blacktowerfm.com The above does not constitute advice; you must seek clarification from your tax adviser regarding your personal tax situation.

Blacktower Financial Management (International) Limited is registered with the DGS in Spain and licensed by the Gibraltar Financial Services Commission. Licence 00805B. Blacktower Financial Management Limited is authorised and regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority.

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Jobless figures move in the right direction SPAIN has had a decent 12 months and, despite the political uncertainty, the country is going in the right direction.

This has been backed up by the end-of-year employment figures.

Last year finished with 350,203 fewer unemployed than in 2014.

And, for the third year running, the Government has been able to announce lower end-ofyear figures.

There were 4,093,508 registered unemployed in 2015, according to data released by the

Ministry of Employment and Social Security. And the drop from 2014 was the largest annual decrease in the entire historical series, which began in 1996.

According to Employment Ministry statistics, unemployment rose every year from 2007, until it started to decline in 2013 (147,385 fewer unemployed) followed by 2014 (-253,627).

In seasonally-adjusted terms, the jobless toll fell in December by 1,258 people.

In 2015, registered unemployment fell in all regions, and in the city of Melilla, while it increased only in Ceuta, by 32.

The largest declines occurred in Cataluña (60,280 fewer unemployed), Valencia (-49,174), Andalucía (-46,709) and Madrid (-46,297).

Over the past year, unemployment in sectors has fallen by the following totals: Services (156,091 people); Construction (89,823); Industry (59,817) and Agriculture (18,497), while among the group without previous employment, the jobless tally fell by 29,975.

Among men, unemployment decreased by 237,273, while the women’s total fell by 116,930, and the total number of unemployed comprised 1,875,235 males and

2,218,273 females. Unemployment among the under-25s fell by 45,773, to 342,177.

As for overseas workers, unemployment dropped by 43,774 to 487,217, of which 173,248 came from a member country of the European Union, with 313 969 non-Europeans.

In terms of labour contracts in 2015, a total of 18,576.280 were signed, which was 1,849,191 more than last year.

Specifically, 1,509,165 indefinite contracts were converted into permanent ones (158,834 more than last year) and temping recorded 17,067,115, which added up to an additional 1,690,357.

The hit series returns with more singing action behind the famous turning chairs. In its fifth year, The Voice promises more talent, more tension and more drama than ever before.

Superstar coaches will.i.am and Ricky Wilson return the series to welcome legendary pop icon Boy George and multi-platinum selling singer Paloma Faith to the famed spinning chair panel. Presenting duo Emma Willis and Marvin Humes return to helm the unmissable Saturday night entertainment show.

The contest kicks off with the blind auditions, where the coaches begin the process of building their 12-strong teams by sitting with their backs to the auditionees and turning their chairs if they are impressed with what they hear. If more than one coach turns, the hopeful has the chance to choose whose team they join - and the fireworks begin as the coaches pitch to get the best talent on to their teams.

In this packed episode auditionees include: a punk fan whose twist of a pop classic melts the hearts of the coaches a blast from the past with entertainer Bernie Clifton of Oswald the Ostrich fame, and plenty of piscine puns from a fishmonger with a unique voice.

The coaches kick off the new series with a roof-raising performance of You’ve Got The Whole Lotta Love before they take to the chairs for the first of seven blind audition shows.

Walking the Himalayas Sunday 10th January, Channel 4, 20:00 Levison Wood continues his four-month challenge to trek 1700 miles along the length of the Himalayas. In this episode he’s reunited with an old friend, Binod Parya, who saved his life when, as a 19-yearold, Levison was caught up in political violence in Nepal. They walk through India’s Himalayan foothills alongside thousands of pilgrims on their way to India’s holiest city on the Ganges River. There, Levison is treated to a haircut and shave, and has his ears deep-cleaned and a spot of gentleman’s make-up applied before meeting a local monk who tells him he has special powers as a result of eating human flesh.

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Fri 8th Jan

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

06:00 .............Rip Off Britain

09:15 .............Rip Off Britain

06:45 ...... Homes Under the Hammer

10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45 ............ Close Calls: On Camera

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

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

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

06:00................. The Hot Desk

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

06:45........................... King of Queens

06:10............. Chloe’s Closet

06:10......................... The Cube

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

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

07:00................... Dinner Date

07:45............ Close Calls: On Camera

06:20... Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30 .............. Fireman Sam

08:05 .....................Emmerdale

08:15.......... MasterChef: The Professionals

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

07:35 ........................... King of Queens

06:40......................... Wissper

09:05. You’ve Been Framed!

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

09:35 .................. Catchphrase

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

10:20................... Dinner Date

07:05.................... Milkshake!

Bop Box

11:20 ..................... Royal Pains

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

13:15 .................The Hot Desk

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

07:20 ..........Bob the Builder

13:30 ............The Lake House

09:30 ........................... Frasier

07:35 .................Thomas and Friends

15:35 ............The Jeremy Kyle Show

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

17:50................... Take Me Out

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

19:00 ..............You’ve Been Framed and Famous!

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

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

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

13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News

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

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

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

13:45 ..............Father Brown

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

15:00....... 1000 Heartbeats

13:00 ..............................Darts

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

14:30 ........................For What It’s Worth 15:15 ...............Escape to the Country 15:45.............. James Martin: Home Comforts 16:30 ........................Antiques Road Trip 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00 ............... BBC News at Six 19:00 .......The One Show 19:30 .......... Match of the Day Live 22:00 .... BBC News at Ten

16:15 ............................. Coast 17:15 ...........................Flog It! 18:00.............. Eggheads 18:30........... Great British Railway Journeys 19:00................. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

19:00 ........... Emmerdale 19:30..............Coronation Street

11:30............... Four in a Bed 12:00.......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05................Four in a Bed

20:30 ........... What to Buy and Why

20:30..............Coronation Street

13:40................Four in a Bed

21:00..........Royal Wives CW at War choice

21:00........Mr Selfridge

23:05 ......................Darts

22:30 .............Newsnight 23:55 ...............Albatross 01:20............. Hugh’s War on Waste

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

13:10................Four in a Bed

08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35.................... Paw Patrol 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 09:00................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat

14:10............................ Deal or No Deal

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

15:10..................Countdown

12:10.....5 News Lunchtime

22:40....................Birds of a Feather

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

23:10............Dirty Rotten Scoundrels

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

01:10............ Jackpot247

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

12:15................ Celebrity Big Brother 13:15....................... Fail Army

13:05....................Time Team

11:00 .......................Pointless

14:10.. Come Dine with Me

12:00.............. Tipping Point

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

13:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

16:00........................... The Bill

21:00........................ Spin 22:00........................ Spin

19:00.... MasterChef USA

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

20:00....................CSI: NY 21:00..................Payback

00:15... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

23:00....................CSI: NY 23:55......... Bondi Rescue

01:15....... Grand Designs

06:00 .. The Dog Whisperer 07:00 ................ Monkey Life

07:00 ................... Rocket City Rednecks

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

12:00 .Storage Hunters UK

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

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

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

14:00.......Ice Road Truckers

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

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

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

16:00.. Storage Hunters UK

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

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

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

18:00.. Ice Road Truckers

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

19:00...American Pickers

20:00... Extreme Phobias, Extreme Cures

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

21:00........ The Simpsons

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

23:05.......... Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

22:00..NCIS: Los Angeles

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

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

01:00................... Forever

22:30...........Celebrity Big Brother

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

18:00......... Singing in the Rainforest

11:00 ...... American Pickers

22:00.Lip Sync Battle UK

18:50....... Grand Designs

17:00...............Tipping Point

10:00 ......Ice Road Truckers

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

17:45....................... A Place in the Sun

15:00........................Pointless

12:00.......................... Forever

20:00.. Puppies Make You Laugh Out Loud

16:50........ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

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

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

19:00....... Pussies Galore: Love Me, Love My Cats

01:35....... Vampires Suck

01:30.................. Safeword

10:50......Sands of Iwo Jima

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

10:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

18:00...... Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

23:35.............. Rude Tube

00:30.................. Two and a Half Men

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

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

BBC2, 21.00

21:00........................ Amy

23:25 ............ Take Me Out

10:35............. Hugh’s 3 Good Things

09:00...................Big Cats: An Amazing Animal Family

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

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

20:00................Jamie and Jimmy’s Friday Night Feast

21:00 ...................Hot Fuzz

10:00...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

08:00......... MasterChef USA

07:20..................... Scrapheap Challenge

Royal Wives At War

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

20:00.Two and a Half Men

08:55 ........... Grand Designs

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

08:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

13:45..................Neighbours 15:15... Jesse Stone: Benefit of the Doubt

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

12:10 .....................Emmerdale

06:10...............Singing in the Rainforest

11:10 .......Cowboy Builders

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

It is nearly 80 years since the Abdication Crisis, and this drama documentary, inspired by real events and based on letters, memoirs, biographies and interviews, examines the friction that characterised the relationship between two women: Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother and American socialite Wallis Simpson.

After Edward VIII’s abdication in 1936, public confidence in the monarchy had been severely eroded. A popular and charismatic king was suddenly gone, having chosen his twice-divorced mistress over his Crown and country, and instead, the responsibilities of monarchy now rested on the nervous shoulders of his younger brother, King George VI, a man very different from his confident and gregarious brother. This would have been challenging at any time, but with Hitler driving Europe to the brink of war, the pressure would test the new King to the very limits of physical endurance.

Royal Wives At War returns to the some of the original words and opinions of the two women at the heart of that battle and unravels the story of a frosty relationship between the Queen Mother and Wallis that lasted for decades.

choice

10:30................... Undercover Boss USA

20:00 .......... Mastermind

23:25 ...................Would I Lie to You?

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18:30............ ITV Evening News

10:00 ........................... Frasier

12:40................Four in a Bed

22:00............................ QI

01:35...................... Darts

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

08:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond

20:00....The Martin Lewis Money Show

22:35 ........... The Graham Norton Show

23:55 ..............You Again

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

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

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

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

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00 .......WWE Main Event 08:00 ...... Cricket’s Greatest 08:30 ........Big Bash League 12:00...... Cricket’s Greatest 12:30.... La Liga Show 2015 13:00 ..................The Premier League Years 15:00........... Premier League Legends 15:30.... La Liga Show 2015 16:00.... Sporting Triumphs 16:15.... Sporting Triumphs 16:30..........Barclays Premier League World 17:00..........Game Changers 17:30.... Sporting Triumphs 18:00............ The Fantasy Football Club 19:00. Sporting Rivalries 22:30.... Barclays Premier League Review 23:00.........Football Gold 23:30.... Barclays Premier League Review

Mr Selfridge ITV1, 21.00

We open in 1928, nine years after season three, we find Harry Selfridge at the pinnacle of his power and public celebrity – a retail giant at the heart of the roaring twenties. A man-about-town in London and often gambling glamorously abroad, rumours of Harry’s latest fling light up the social circuit at Victor Colleano’s new nightspot, which is bigger and more decadent than ever.

This is a time of rapid change and progress.

A time where nothing and nobody wants to stand still and contemplate.

Fashions and musical tastes are evolving.

It is a new and modern world with the crackle of radio and exciting new technologies.

The mood of London is distinctly ‘modern’.

At home, Rosalie now has a daughter, Tatiana, the apple of Harry’s eye.

Harry’s mother Lois is as stoic and supportive as ever.

The lively Violette now lives in Paris.

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06:10............... Race to Super Bowl 50

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

07:00...............................Jubal

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

11:30...............James Martin: Home Comforts

08:40...........The Importance of Being Earnest

06:25............... Pat and Stan 06:35 ......................Dino Dan

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

10:10..................Animal Park

07:00 .............. Share a Story

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

11:10..... The Natural World

07:05............................. Sooty

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

12:00...............James Martin: Home Comforts

13:00........................ Athletics

12:45...............James Martin: Home Comforts

14:30...............................Darts 16:30....................Final Score

13:30....... Homes Under the Hammer

17:20............Now You See It 17:50......................BBC News

14:15...................... Money for Nothing

18:00............ BBC London News

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

18:10................. Celebrity Mastermind

15:45....For What It’s Worth

18:40.................Pointless

16:30...............................Darts

19:30.......... The Voice UK

18:00.................... Flog It!

21:05..............Casualty

18:30...World’s Sneakiest Animals

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21:55........... The National Lottery Live

19:30.... Victorian Bakers

07:15......................... Super 4 07:30 ..................Scrambled!

07:35....................... Mr. Bean 07:55 ...............Horrid Henry

06:15 ........................... King of Queens 06:40........................... King of Queens 07:05........................... King of Queens 07:30......................... Ironman France 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30........ Everybody Loves Raymond

06:00 .....................Peppa Pig 06:05 ....................Bananas in Pajamas 06:20 ..........Bob the Builder 06:30 ...................Tickety Toc 06:40......... Zack and Quack 06:50... Milkshake Monkey 06:55 ...............Make Way for Noddy 07:10 ....................Paw Patrol 07:25............. Little Princess 07:35 ......................Pip Ahoy!

08:10...................... Nerds and Monsters

09:00 ................The Morning Line

08:30................Thunderbirds are Go

10:00 .................... Von Ryan’s Express

09:05.................The Tom and Jerry Show 09:25...................... ITV News

12:20 ...................The World’s Most Famous Train

09:30.......................... Murder, She Wrote

13:25 ..................... Channel 4 Racing

08:45..........Toby’s Travelling Circus

10:25.......... The Jeremy Kyle Show USA

16:00 ................... Come Dine with Me

08:55..........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

16:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

09:30................ The Saturday Show

07:50 ...............Blaze and the Monster Machines 08:15 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:30 ........... Wanda and the Alien

22:05............... BBC News

20:30.............Dad’s Army

11:20....................The Jeremy Kyle Show

22:25..................Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights

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

12:20............... ITV News and Weather

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

11:30............ Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

21:45.. Insert Name Here

00:00...........................The Peacemaker

22:15....................... QI XL

12:25....................The Jeremy Kyle Show

17:35 ................... Come Dine with Me

12:25............ Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

01:55..............Halloween: Resurrection

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23:00......... Dragons’ Den 00:00.......................Darts 00:50........ Genghis Khan

Ninja Warrior UK ITV1, 19.00

The information contained herein is embargoed from press use, commercial and noncommercial reproduction and sharing into the public domain until 5 January Ben Shephard, Rochelle Humes and Chris Kamara return for a new series of Ninja Warrior UK. It’s Heat Three and competitors from all over the UK take on TV’s toughest obstacle course and this year it’s even tougher. Who will rise tothe challenge, conquer Mount Midoriyama and be crowned the UK’s first Ninja Warrior?

13:25.............Columbo: How to Dial a Murder

13:30............... Judge Rinder 14:30.....................The Chase

15:00........... Columbo: Make Me a Perfect Murder

15:30................... Doc Martin 16:30.........The Martin Lewis Money Show

17:00..............Cats Make You Laugh Out Loud

17:00.........Ninja Warrior UK 18:00................ ITV News London 18:15..........ITV News and Weather 18:30............ You’ve Been Framed!

19:00....................Ninja W C Warrior UK choice 20:00...........Take Me Out 21:15..........The Jonathan Ross Show 22:20..........ITV News and Weather 22:35................... Sex and the City 2 01:15............ Jackpot247

18:00... 5 News Weekend

06:00.................. Emmerdale Omnibus 08:40...................Coronation Street Omnibus 11:05............................... Ninja Warrior UK 12:10............................... Ninja Warrior UK 13:15................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:40........................The Lake House 15:45.............................Nanny McPhee 17:45............... Jurassic Park 20:10.................Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands 21:15..........Take Me Out: The Gossip 22:20...........The Fast and the Furious 00:25....................... FHM 01:25............... Safeword

06:10 .................Who Do You Think You Are?

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

07:00..................Who Do You Think You Are?

09:20....... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

08:00..................Who Do You Think You Are?

09:45................The Towering Inferno

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

15:45 ........... Grand Designs

14:00 ................. Traffic Cops

16:50 ........... Grand Designs

14:40..........Motorway Cops

17:55 ........... Grand Designs

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

18:55...... Grand Designs

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

20:00...... Grand Designs

20:40 ...........Doctor Who

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

21:40 ................Jonathan Creek 23:40 ..........World’s Most Talented

00:50...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

01:35...............Sanctuary

01:50........................ Spin

06:00............. Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew

07:10........American Pickers

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

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

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

08:00.........Game Changers 08:30....Football Freestyler

09:00........ Red Bull Soapbox Race 2015

07:00 .......... Premier League 100 Club

09:00........Fantasy Football

10:00...Storage Hunters UK

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

10:30...Storage Hunters UK

07:30........... Premier League 100 Club

12:00...........Modern Family

12:30......Lizard Lick Towing

18:05........ World War II in Colour

15:00..................Big Cats: An Amazng Animal Family

14:00......Beverly Hills Pawn

18:35 ................ Location, Location, Location

19:05............ World War II Battlefield Recovery

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

15:30...Storage Hunters UK

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

16:00...Storage Hunters UK

19:30................... Britain’s Wildest Weather 2015

20:00................... Chasing Monsters

18:00......Modern Family

18:00........... Traffic Cops

18:30......Modern Family

19:00........... Traffic Cops

19:00.NCIS: Los Angeles

19:30........... Traffic Cops

20:00........ Hawaii Five-0

21:00.............The Hunger Games: Catching Fire 23:50................... The Day the Earth Stood Still 01:45................Hollyoaks Omnibus

00:15.............. Father Ted

00:40...............Sanctuary

18:05 ..................Channel 4 News

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

23:10.............. Father Ted

15:00......Beverly Hills Pawn

08:00..........Game Changers 08:30.... Sporting Triumphs 08:45.... Sporting Triumphs 09:00...................The Fantasy Football Club 10:00.................. Soccer A.M. 12:00............. The Mavericks 12:30........ European Rugby 15:15.... Sporting Triumphs

22:00........Jason Manford Live At The Manchester Apollo

21:00...Sherlock Holmes

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

23:30............A League of Their Own

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

15:45.... Sporting Triumphs

23:15...................Lip Sync Battle UK

00:30..... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

23:00......Have I Got a Bit More News for You

16:30........ European Rugby

01:30......... Duck Quack’s Don’t Echo

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

21:30......................... NFL

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

01:00......................... NFL

23:45.... Tattoo Disasters 00:10..........Super Casino

15:30.... Sporting Triumphs 16:00.... Sporting Triumphs 19:00.. Sporting Triumphs

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A row is sparked on Olivia’s birthday and Jess comes into the Emergency Department with an injury, accompanied by Nikki and Olivia. The scales fall from Jess’ eyes and she sees Nikki for who she really is.

Nikki isn’t ready to let her family go and Dixie has to selflessly jump in to save them from her wrath, but is left feeling bittersweet.

Ethan can’t believe he missed Olivia’s signs of abuse and struggles to forgive himself.

Charlie brings up the subject of genetic testing, but Cal is still in denial. He realises he needs to tell Ethan what he’s discovered, but when he witnesses Ethan’s own mental crisis he thinks he would only be making things worse.

Campaigning for a promotion, Lofty fails to impress Rita and feels he’s let himself down.

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Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands

8th January - 14th January 2016

Sund a y 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 07:25 ...... Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 09:00.................. The Andrew Marr Show 10:00..... The Big Questions 11:00........... Sunday Politics 12:15............... Bargain Hunt

08:00..................Monty Don’s Italian Gardens

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

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09:00 .................. Countryfile

06:35 ......................Dino Dan

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

10:00 ........................Saturday Kitchen Best Bites

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

07:00 .............. Share a Story

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

08:10 ................Blaze and the Monster Machines

06:45.......................Dino Dan 07:05 .............................Sooty

07:55................Horrid Henry

13:00 .......................... Masters Snooker

08:30.....................Bear Grylls’ Survival School

17:00 ...................Ski Sunday

09:05 ................The Tom and Jerry Show

18:30.............Countryfile 19:30...........Still Open All Hours 20:00................. Antiques Roadshow 21:00....War and Peace

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22:00............... BBC News 22:20... BBC London News

22:30... Match of the Day: FA Cup Highlights 23:25.......................Signs 01:05................... Masters Snooker Extra

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07:15 ...................... Make Way for Noddy 07:25.................... Paw Patrol

12:15 ..............James Martin: Home Comforts

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

06:00.................Children’s TV

07:05 ..........King of Queens

14:35................. Great Barrier Reef with David Attenborough choice

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

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

13:50... For What It’s Worth

13:15.......... Songs of Praise

18:20... BBC London News

Episode two begins in Rome, where we find Adrian among the faithful in St Peter’s Square listening to the Pope’s Sunday address.

By now full of questions and doubts about the validity of his own faith, he meets up with his favourite parish priest, who risks life and limb as the pair tour Rome on a moped. This near-death experience is followed by a meeting with a senior cardinal, who tries to keep calm while hearing Adrian’s first confession for nearly a decade. Also in Rome, of all places, Adrian shares a Friday night dinner with a Jewish family, before moving on to Marseille where he makes friends with a Carmelite Missionary Sister who tells him she sometimes regrets her vow of chastity, when she sees a handsome boy.

And he meets the Headteacher at a Roman Catholic school where 80 percent of the children are Muslims whose parents simply want their children to have a good education in sight of God, and learn to embrace people of other faiths. She is, Adrian tells us, one of the most inspirational people he’s ever met.

06:30 ................ City Beneath the Sea

07:15 ......................... Super 4

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

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11:30 ..............James Martin: Home Comforts

13:00.................... BBC News

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

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8th January - 14th January 2016

ITV1, 19.00

Herot is bustling as the town makes preparations for the Gathering at which the next ruler of the Shieldlands will be elected. With the other tribal leaders due to arrive in Herot at any moment however, the pressure mounts to catch Herot’s killer before another victim is claimed.

In a bid to buy themselves more time and avoid panic amongst the tribe leaders, Rheda (Joanne Whalley), Slean (Ed Speleers) and Abrecan (Elliott Cowan) ride out to stall them whilst Beowulf begins his search. Keen not to let Beowulf investigate alone, Koll (Alex Price), the deputy Reeve, joins him in the hunt and their enquiries lead them from the working heart of Herot, the smelting pits, to the upper echelons of the Golden Hall. The discoveries they unravel shock Beowulf and those around him to the core.

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17:45 ..............................Darts 20:00 ........ Dragons’ Den 21:00............................My CW Mediterranean choice with Adrian Chiles 22:00...................Stephen Fry: A Life on Screen 23:00................... Masters Snooker Highlights

07:30 ..................Scrambled!

07:35....................... Mr. Bean 08:10 ..................... Nerds and Monsters

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

08:55.Wanda and the Alien

12:30........... George Clarke’s Amazing Spaces 13:30....................... Location, Location, Location 14:35 .............The Simpsons 15:05............. The Simpsons

09:25...................... ITV News 09:30.......................... Murder, She Wrote

18:00..... Channel 4 News

16:00....................... 17 Again

10:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show

18:20................... Ice Age: Continental Drift

11:30.......... The Jeremy Kyle Show

20:00 ........... Walking the Himalayas

12:35.............. ITV News and Weather

21:00..... Deutschland 83

12:50.......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 13:50.........Ninja Warrior UK

01:40.............Countryfile

14:55 ................ Thunderball

Gary Lineker introduces live coverage of one of the standout ties of the FA Cup third round as Tottenham Hotspur take on Leicester City live from White Hart Lane.

Spurs will be looking to avenge a 2-1 defeat by the Foxes in last season’s fourth-round fixture, and stay on course to win the oldest and greatest domestic cup competition in the world of football.

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

08:40 ............Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

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

23:50.............Disconnect

Match Of The Day – FA Cup Third Round Live: Tottenham Hotspur vs Leicester City BBC1, 15.35

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

17:30 ..... ITV News London 17:45 .............. ITV News and Weather 18:00.......... Unbelievable Moments Caught on Camera 19:00..............Beowulf: CW Return choice to the Shieldlands 20:00...........Endeavour

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22:00..........ITV News and Weather 22:15.................... Joanna Lumley’s TransSiberian Adventure 23:15......................Rugby Highlights 00:15............ Jackpot247

07:55 ...................... Pip Ahoy!

22:00............ The 80s: Ten Years That Changed Britain 23:30............... Footloose 01:25..... Superscrimpers: Waste Not, Want Not

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09:10 ....................Jelly Jamm 09:20 ..........Toby’s Travelling Circus 09:30 ......................LazyTown 09:55 ..........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 10:30....................... Fail Army 10:55 ............ Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

12:50..Over Her Dead Body 14:35...The First Wives Club 16:35..Herbie: Fully Loaded

08:55......... Kirstie’s Vintage Gems

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

06:05 ..............Bondi Rescue

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

07:30 ....................... Don’t Tell the Bride

10:20.... Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

09:05...... Coronation Street Omnibus

08:30 ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

11:25..................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

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

10:25.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

11:55...Come Dine with Me

12:15.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

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

14:00............... Catchphrase 14:45...............................Bean

14:15................. Doctor Who

17:20...Come Dine with Me

16:30...........The Lost World: Jurassic Park

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

17:55...Come Dine with Me

17:05.......... Jonathan Creek

19:00.......Nanny McPhee and the Big Bang

19:00....................CSI: NY

20:00............. Tiny House Nation

12:55 ...............Take Me Out: The Gossip

21:00....... Casino Royale 23:55....................... FHM 00:50.......... Reality Bites 01:35......Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

06:30 ....................... Don’t Tell the Bride

20:00....................CSI: NY 21:00....................CSI: NY 22:00....................CSI: NY 23:00....................CSI: NY 23:55......... Bondi Rescue 00:25...............Sanctuary 01:20...............Sanctuary

09:20... Building the Dream

12:30...Come Dine with Me 15:10.............. Four in a Bed

21:00......... The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 23:05............ 24 Hours in A and E 00:10.... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:05........ Embarrassing Bodies

18:35.... 5 News Weekend 18:40..................Star Trek: Generations 21:00............Celebrity Big Brother 22:00............... The BAFTA Britannia Awards 2015 23:55........ The River Wild 01:55.......... Super Casino

War & Peace BBC1, 21.00

Andrei and Nikolai have survived their first encounter with the French, but a new and more terrible battle looms on the horizon.

At home in Russi, Pierre struggles to settle into married life with Helene, while Natasha and Sonya are excited to hear news from the front line. At Prince Bolkonsky’s remote country estate, a visit from Prince Vassily and Anatole results in an interesting proposal for Marya.

06:00 ... The Hour of Power 07:00......... Are You Smarter Than a 10 Year Old? 08:00 ................ Monkey Life 08:30 ................ Monkey Life 11:00 .................... WWE Raw 12:00 .......Cricket’s Funniest Moments 13:00..................... Futurama 16:00 ...........Modern Family 16:30........... Modern Family 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ............Big Cats: An Amazng Animal Family 21:00......... Hawaii Five-0 22:00..NCIS: Los Angeles 23:00..Stop Search Seize 00:00.......Air Ambulance 01:00...................Britcam: Emergency on Our Streets

07:10........ Extreme Fishing with Robson Green 08:00.....Ice Road Truckers 09:00......................Top Gear 10:00................ Traffic Cops 11:00................ Traffic Cops 13:00.....Ice Road Truckers 14:00................Trawlermen 14:30................Trawlermen 15:30.........................Storage Hunters UK 16:00.........................Storage Hunters UK 16:30.........................Storage Hunters UK 18:00 .............. Top Gear 21:00..... Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00..................... QI XL 23:00...........Crackanory 23:40............. Room 101 00:20............. Room 101 01:00..................... QI XL

06:00 ............. Football Gold 06:15 ............. Football Gold 06:30.............. Football Gold 06:45............. Football Gold 07:00 .......... Premier League Legends 07:30........... Premier League Legends 08:00 ............ The Mavericks 08:30 .................. The Sunday Supplement 10:00........ Goals on Sunday 11:00................... The Sunday Supplement 12:30......................... Football 15:00................. Scottish Cup Football 17:30..................................NFL 21:00......................... NFL 00:30.........Football Gold 01:00.............The Sunday Supplement

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April 1967. As spring blooms, the death of artist Simon Hallward in a horrendous house-fire leaves Oxford City Police baffled as to the cause of the blaze.

When a young housewife dies, seemingly of the same mysterious ‘tummy bug’ that has seen half of Chief Superintendent Bright’s troops go on Sick Leave, DC Endeavour Morse’s investigation leads him to an inner-city supermarket, Richardson’s, owned by a wealthy family of the same name, descended from a line of Quakers.

Riven with historical rivalries between ownership and management, it becomes clear that there’s more to the establishment than initially meets the eye. Guided under the dubious stewardship of owner Leo Richardson, his personal life is as troubled as his professional one - with daughter Verity and wife Annette each nursing hidden dissatisfactions of their own.

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Immortal Egypt With Joann Fletcher

8th January - 14th January 2016

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In this four-part series for BBC Two, Professor Joann Fletcher explains how Ancient Egypt’s extraordinary story fits together, from nomads to pyramid builders and tomb robbers to the last of the pharaohs. The result is the world’s most fascinating and enduring civilization.

In the second episode Joann explores how the pyramid age ended in catastrophe. In one of Saqqara’s last pyramid complexes, Joann uncovers evidence of famine as the young Egyptian state suffers a worsening climate.

With depleted coffers, Egypt is plunged into the dark ages and civil war. With the land fractured into many small states, Joann tells the story of small-town leaders rising through the ranks. In a little-known tomb in Thebes, Joann uncovers stories of warriors who fought in the bloody battle which eventually will mark the reunification of Egypt.

This burial represents the world’s first recorded war cemetery and the raise of Thebes.

The country was reborn, resuming pyramid building for Egypt’s kings and bejewelled queens. Joann reveals how the Canaan settlers known as the ‘Hyksos’, tried to infiltrate the government and take the throne.

But their rule was short-lived as they were ousted by Theban rulers who laid the groundwork for Egypt’s largest Empire. The country’s golden age was to be based in Thebes and its Valley of the Kings.

TV Guide

8th January - 14th January 2016

06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain 10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45............ Close Calls: On Camera 12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...... BBC News at One 13:30 ....BBC London News 13:45.............. Father Brown 14:30....For What It’s Worth 15:15................Escape to the Country 15:45...............James Martin: Home Comforts 16:30....Antiques Road Trip 17:15........................Pointless 18:00..... BBC News at Six 19:00........The One Show 19:30............Inside Out CW choice 20:00............. EastEnders 20:30.....Can You Stop My Multiple Sclerosis?

21:00........ Silent Witness 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:30.BBC London News 22:45...... Tracey Ullman’s Show 23:15........ Have I Got Old News for You 23:45............ The Graham Norton Show 00:30................... Masters Snooker Extra

06:15 .............Rip Off Britain 07:00 .............Wanted Down Under 07:45 ............ Close Calls: On Camera 08:15....... World’s Sneakiest Animals 09:15 .......................... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00.................... BBC News 12:00....................... The Daily Politics 13:00.......................... Masters Snooker 18:00 .............. Eggheads 18:30 .......... Great British Railway Journeys 19:00................. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip

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

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

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

06:45 ..........King of Queens

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

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

07:10 ..........King of Queens 07:35...........King of Queens

06:20........... Lily’s Driftwood Bay

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

06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:40 .........................Wissper

08:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond

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

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

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

09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 .............. This Morning 12:30 ..............................Loose Women 13:30..............ITV Lunchtime News

09:30........................... Frasier

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

10:30.................. Undercover Boss USA

15:00................................ 1000 Heartbeats 16:00 ..............Tipping Point

10:00 ........................... Frasier

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

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

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

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

12:05............... Four in a Bed 14:10.......... Deal or No Deal

18:30 ........... ITV Evening News

15:10 .................Countdown

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

07:20.......... Bob the Builder 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 ....................Paw Patrol 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas

06:00 ..............The Hot Desk 06:10 ......................The Cube 07:00 ................ Dinner Date 08:05.................. Emmerdale 08:35 .....Coronation Street 09:35 ............... Catchphrase 10:20 ................ Dinner Date 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 .....Coronation Street 13:45 ................. Baby Mama 15:45 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50.................Take Me Out 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00...... 21 Jump Street 23:10.... The Keith Lemon Sketch Show 23:45................Two and a Half Men 00:40................Safeword

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

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

19:30............. Coronation Street

17:00.. Come Dine with Me

09:00 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

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

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

20:00.........Griff’s Great CW Britain choice

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

11:10....... Cowboy Builders

19:00 .... Channel 4 News

12:10... 5 News Lunchtime

22:00............ Insert Name Here

20:30..............Coronation Street

20:00 ........... How to Lose Weight Well

12:15................ Celebrity Big Brother

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

21:00............Benidorm

21:00 .. The Undateables

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

23:15.... Masters Snooker Highlights

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

22:00 ................Crashing

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

22:35 ......... Tattoo Fixers

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

23:35 ....... Bodyshockers

08:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

15:15 ....................Left to Die

22:40......................Saved

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

23:40...............The Chase

00:35 ...............Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners

10:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 12:00 ..........................Forever

00:35............ Jackpot247

01:30....... Grand Designs

18:00.... Home and Away

20:00 .............. University Challenge 20:30 ........ Only Connect 21:00..............Immortal CW Egypt with choice Joann Fletcher

00:05... My Mediterranean with Adrian Chiles 01:05........... Stephen Fry: A Life on Screen

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Inside Out BBC1, 19.30 Inside Out returns to BBC One across England for a new nine-part series, featuring fascinating features and agenda-setting news stories from across each region. Inside Out features some of the BBC’s very best original local journalism, with news and current affairs alongside investigations and exclusive interviews. Presenters and reporters, including Angela Rippon, Quentin Wilson and the former Blue Peter presenter Andy Akinwolere, tell the untold stories of each region’s communities, economies, heritage, history and wildlife.

Stories across the country featuring in this series include: · Radicalisation - a look at how children are being radicalised to join IS online and how they’re keeping their extreme views a secret from their parents · Elderly drivers - has a surge in the number of older drivers really made our roads more dangerous? · Sixteen years since the First Gulf War – why are veterans still fighting for recognition of the soldiers that died and were injured in the conflict? · Bomber command – meet the German Jewish refugee who stole his British schoolfriend’s identity to join the RAF and bomb his former homeland · Inside Out is broadcast each Monday for the next nine weeks across England and has 11 variations, one for each English Region.

06:00 .. The Dog Whisperer 07:00................ Monkey Life

06:10 ................Humble Pie 07:05...Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 08:00 .......MasterChef USA 09:00 ....... Motorway Cops 10:00 .........................The Bill 11:00 ..................... Pointless 12:00 ............ Tipping Point 13:00 ....Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ....... Motorway Cops 15:00 ..................... Pointless 16:00 .........................The Bill 17:00 ............ Tipping Point 18:00 .......... Humble Pie 19:00... MasterChef USA 20:00 ..................CSI: NY 21:00 .......... Primal Fear 23:35 ..................CSI: NY 00:30 .......Bondi Rescue 01:00 ............ Sanctuary 01:55 ........ Walking with Dinosaurs

08:55 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 09:35............. Hugh’s 3 Good Things 09:50 ........... Grand Designs 10:50..... Sands of Iwo Jima 13:05 ...................Time Team 14:10....Come Dine with Me 14:40....Come Dine with Me 15:15....Come Dine with Me 15:45....Come Dine with Me 16:50........ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 17:45......A Place in the Sun 18:50..A Place in the Sun 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00..A Place in the Sun 22:00............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:10................ A Place in the Sun

07:00 ................... Rocket City Rednecks

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

07:20.................... Scrapheap Challenge

08:00 .................. The Sunday Supplement

08:10 .......... Sin City Motors 09:00....................... Top Gear

07:00..................... WWE Raw

09:30 ....... Goals on Sunday

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

10:00 ......Ice Road Truckers

10:30........ European Rugby Special

15:00.....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

11:00 ...... American Pickers

11:30............. Football Gold

12:00.. Storage Hunters UK

19:00 ......................Police Interceptors

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

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

12:30 ........ European Rugby Special

20:00 ................. Ice Road Truckers

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

14:00 ...... American Pickers

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

16:00 .Storage Hunters UK

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

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

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

18:00.. Ice Road Truckers

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

19:00...American Pickers

20:00 ..... Modern Family

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

17:30................. Neighbours 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother 22:00.................. Gotham 23:00...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

21:00 ..... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

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

00:00...........Celebrity Big Brother: Heroes and Villains

22:00.............A League of Their Own

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

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

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

01:00..........Super Casino

01:00................... Forever

01:00....................... QI XL

13:30 .................. The Sunday Supplement 15:00 ....... Goals on Sunday 16:00 .........Fantasy Football Club Highlights 16:30........ Soccer A.M. - The Best Bits 19:00 .................Football 21:45 ........Football Gold 22:00.... European Rugby Special 23:00.....Fantasy Football Club Highlights

Benidorm ITV1, 21.00

We’re back in Benidorm for more fun, sun and sangria! Tiger brings a friend along and a new family called the Dawsons are on holiday at the Solana.

Joyce TempleSavage is desperate for new staff, who will come to her rescue?

Griff’s Great Britain ITV1, 20.00

Griff explores the picturesque estuaries of Suffolk and Essex in the second part of his journey through the landscape. Amongst his challenges are attempting to eat a Colchester Native and helping to build a replica of the Mayflower - and along the way enjoying the beauty of ‘Haywain’ country.

Future episodes see Griff visiting the Scottish Highlands, Dartmoor, North Yorkshire coast & Lake District.

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T ue s d a y 06:00 ...................... Breakfast 09:15..............Rip Off Britain 10:00....... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00..............Wanted Down Under 11:45............. Close Calls: On Camera 12:15............... Bargain Hunt 13:00....... BBC News at One 13:30.....BBC London News 13:45...............Father Brown 14:30....For What It’s Worth 15:15................Escape to the Country 15:45...............James Martin: Home Comforts 16:30....Antiques Road Trip 17:15........................Pointless 18:00..... BBC News at Six 18:30.BBC London News 19:00........The One Show 19:30............. EastEnders 20:00.............. Holby City 21:00........ Silent Witness 22:00.... BBC News at Ten 22:30.BBC London News 22:45...........Reggie Yates’ Extreme UK 23:40.........A Simple Plan 01:40.... Masters Snooker Extra

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06:15..............Rip Off Britain 07:00..............Wanted Down Under 07:45............. Close Calls: On Camera 08:15.............. Thief Trackers 08:45................... Caught Red Handed 09:15........................... Victoria Derbyshire 11:00......................BBC News 12:00........The Daily Politics 13:00........ Masters Snooker 18:00............... Eggheads 18:30........... Great British Railway Journeys 19:00................. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 20:00..............Victorian CW Bakers choice 21:00...........Stargazing W C 2016 choice 22:00.... Stargazing: Back to Earth 22:30..............Newsnight 23:15......... Race to Super Bowl 50 00:05.... Masters Snooker Highlights 00:55.....The Naked Choir with Gareth Malone 01:55................. Doctor in the House

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

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

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

06:45 ........................... King of Queens

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

08:30......................... Lorraine 09:25 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show

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

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

06:40..........................Wissper

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

07:35 ........................... King of Queens

13:30..............ITV Lunchtime News

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

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

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

08:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

15:00.................................1000 Heartbeats 16:00 ..............Tipping Point 17:00 ....................The Chase 18:00 ................ ITV News London 18:30 ........... ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30......The Kyle Files

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09:00 ........................... Frasier 09:30 ........................... Frasier 10:00............................ Frasier 10:30................... Undercover Boss USA 11:30 ...............Four in a Bed 12:00 ......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05 ...............Four in a Bed

06:10.................. Humble Pie 07:05.....Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 08:00..........MasterChef USA 09:00...........Motorway Cops 10:00 ........................... The Bill 11:00.........................Pointless 12:00 ...............Tipping Point 13:00.....Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00...........Motorway Cops 15:00.........................Pointless 16:00............................ The Bill 17:00................Tipping Point 18:00..............Humble Pie 19:00..... MasterChef USA 20:00..................... CSI: NY 21:00..............Traffic Cops 22:00....... One Born: What Happened Next?

23:00..................... CSI: NY 00:00.......... Bondi Rescue 00:30............ Do No Harm

08:55............Kirstie Allsopp’s Home Style

06:00... The Dog Whisperer

07:00.Rocket City Rednecks

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

07:20.Scrapheap Challenge

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

08:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

08:10..............Sin City Motors

15:15...............Stranger in an Amish Town

09:00.....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

10:00..........Ice Road Truckers

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

10:00...............Hawaii Five-0

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

12:00...........................Forever

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

08:00 ...........European Rugby Special 09:00.............Fantasy Football Club Highlights 09:30.................... Soccer A.M. The Best Bits 10:30..............Premier League Legends 11:30.............Fantasy Football Club Highlights 12:00................. Football Gold 13:00.............Fantasy Football Club Highlights 13:30......................The Premier League Years 15:30..............Premier League Legends 16:00.................... Soccer A.M. The Best Bits 17:00......................The Premier League Years 19:00.. Sporting Triumphs 19:15.. Sporting Triumphs 20:00.......................Boxing 22:00............Ford Football

06:20............Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30............... Fireman Sam 06:50......................Peppa Pig 07:10.............. Little Princess 07:20...........Bob the Builder 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.....................Paw Patrol 08:45.....................Bananas in Pajamas

20:00............ Trawlermen Tales

12:40 ...............Four in a Bed 13:10 ...............Four in a Bed

09:00.................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

21:00......................Saved

13:40 ...............Four in a Bed

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

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

14:10........................... Deal or No Deal

11:10........Cowboy Builders

22:40..... Britain’s Biggest Adventures with Bear Grylls

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

23:40........Double Decker Driving School

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

00:05............ Jackpot247

Victorian Bakers BBC2, 20.00

Four 21st century bakers bake their way through the era that gave us modern baking as we know it - the reign of Queen Victoria. Experts Alex Langlands and Annie Gray join them to tell the incredible story of our daily bread.

It’s now the 1870s and the bakers are moving into an urban bakery in the midst of the Industrial Revolution.

Their new bakery is totally authentic and it boasts two coal-fired ovens. At this time it was coal that fuelled Britain’s epic industrial expansion, and bread that fed its ever-expanding urban workforce. A growing middle class start demanding ‘fancy breads’ for breakfast and so the bakers must now bake through the night.

Machinery may be powering the nation but manual labour is cheap and so the bakers are still kneading by hand, whilst being expected to double their output. It’s back-breaking work, so much so that one baker decides to do as some Victorian bakers did and use his feet. The bakers experience first-hand the exhaustion and squalid working conditions their forebears endured and it’s no surprise to hear that Victorian bakers’ lives were tragically short. Morale is low, but it plummets when they are tasked with using the adulterants their forebears added to Britain’s bread - and some question whether it’s safe to continue.

Britain may have been an industrial superpower but it’s the arrival of imported finely milled flour and cheap sugar that finally sweetens life for the bakers, as it did for the masses. Cake maker Hapreet Baura (pictured) tries her hand at producing hugely popular London Buns, the cupcake of their day.

15:10................. Countdown

17:00.................... Come Dine with Me 18:30 .............. Hollyoaks 19:00...................Channel 4 News 20:00............ Tricks of the Restaurant Trade

12:15................. Celebrity Big Brother 13:15..........Home and Away 13:45..................Neighbours

18:00.... Home and Away 18:30...... 5 News Tonight 19:00.........Puppies Make You Laugh Out Loud

21:00........ Derren Brown

20:00....... Bargain Loving Brits in the Sun

23:35............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:30............ How to Lose Weight Well 01:25...........KOTV Boxing Weekly 01:55.................... Gillette World Sport

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21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother 22:00...........Secret Life of the Family 23:00...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

10:00............ Grand Designs 11:00......................Please Sir! 13:05....................Time Team 14:10.................... Come Dine with Me 14:40.................... Come Dine with Me 16:50........ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 17:45......A Place in the Sun 18:50..A Place in the Sun 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 22:00....... Grand Designs 23:10......... Embarrassing Bodies 00:15... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:15........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

12:10.....5 News Lunchtime

20:30........ Travel Man: 48 Hours in Paris 22:35............. Very British Problems

06:00 ..............The Hot Desk 06:10 ......................The Cube 07:00 ................ Dinner Date 08:05.................. Emmerdale 08:35 .....Coronation Street 09:35 ............... Catchphrase 10:20 ................ Dinner Date 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 .....Coronation Street 13:45........ The Perfect Man 15:45....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:55.................Take Me Out 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00................Two and a Half Men 21:00....................... Mom 22:00.......American Pie 2 00:10...................Two and a Half Men 01:05................Safeword

13:00...............Hawaii Five-0 15:00................Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie 16:00...................... Futurama 17:00..............The Simpsons 17:30...................... Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00...........Duck Quacks Don’t Echo 21:00...................... Stella 22:00..Stop Search Seize

00:00...........Celebrity Big Brother

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

00:55..........Super Casino

01:00................... Forever

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

The Kyle Files ITV1, 19.30

Jeremy Kyle returns for a new series investigating high-profile issues that impact on people’s lives, from drugs to the Internet, and from guns to benefits.

Each week, Jeremy and the Kyle Files team get to the heart of the matter as they work with the emergency services, film covertly, interview victims and confront wrong-doers to demand answers.

Brits abroad: After Jeremy was CS gassed on his last visit to Magaluf, he returns to the town to see whether a new clean up drive has worked. Jeremy goes back out on the strip to talk to holiday makers and witnesses them breaking the rules, talks to people affected by tragedies caused by drinking, and confronts the bouncer who gassed him.

09:00...........................Top Gear 11:00..........American Pickers 12:00.... Storage Hunters UK 12:30.... Storage Hunters UK 13:00...........................Top Gear 14:00..........American Pickers 15:00..........American Pickers 16:00.... Storage Hunters UK 17:00...........................Top Gear 18:00.....Ice Road Truckers 19:00.....American Pickers 20:00...................... Storage Hunters UK 21:00.......................... QI XL 22:00 ..........Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 23:00........ Mock the Week 01:00.......................... QI XL

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Brian Cox and Dara O Briain return for another celebration of space and astronomy. This series they’ll be talking to British Astronaut Tim Peake, as he orbits 250 miles above the earth.

In a live video link, Tim will reveal how he’s settling in to life on the International Space Station just one month after his launch into space. Brian and Dara also attempt to make a garden shed fly, as they explore what keeps the ISS in space.

Roving reporter Liz Bonnin will report live from the European Astronaut Centre in Cologne, where she’ll be finding out whether comedian John Bishop has the ‘right stuff’.

A lifelong astronomy fan, John will be following astronaut Tim Peake’s training programme over three nights, starting with a live, simulated spacewalk - underwater.

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Great Barrier Reef With David Attenborough

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When David Attenborough first visited the Great Barrier Reef in 1957, it seemed to be a living structure that would last forever, but since then, the coral has been disappearing at an unprecedented rate.

In this concluding episode, the research vessel, the Alucia, undertakes it’s most important mission yet as it travels along the reef to help David understand what the next few decades may hold for this remarkable community of animals, and what is being done to try and save it.

With its future now under threat, David learns how the reef has always been one of nature’s great survivors and how the coral reef, its inhabitants and its visitors have adapted to change in the most extraordinary ways. He discovers scans of the reef that are revealing new secrets about its ancient history and how it has lived through great change before. He visits the stunning reef top at Heron Island, meeting its peculiar inhabitants that face daily challenges from the elements, including a shark that can survive out of water, and we join a dive on the incredible shipwreck that hosts a unique community of animals that has endured countless cyclones. But David discovers the impact of humans over the last few decades has had a dramatic impact on the health of the reef.

After consulting the reef’s top scientists and visiting its island research stations, he embarks on an ambitious mission of his own, the deepest dive ever attempted on the Great Barrier Reef, to witness the resilient coral that live down in the depths to see if they hold any answers which may help to overcome some of the challenges that lie ahead. But, despite the discoveries being made by scientists and in the reef’s furthest reaches, David is still concerned about the future of this incredibly complex and beautiful ecosystem so vital for the world’s oceans.

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8th January - 14th January 2016

06:00 ............................Rip Off Britain

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

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

06:45 ..............Homes Under the Hammer

11:00 .............Wanted Down Under

07:45 ................... Close Calls: On Camera

11:45 ............ Close Calls: On Camera

08:15 .................. Caught Red Handed

12:15.............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...................... BBC News at One

08:45........................Terry and Mason’s Great Food Trip

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

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

13:45.............. Father Brown

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

14:30.........................For What It’s Worth

11:30........................ The Daily Politics

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

13:00........................... Masters Snooker

15:45...............James Martin: Home Comforts

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

06:00...................... Breakfast 09:15 .............Rip Off Britain

16:30.........................Antiques Road Trip 17:15........................Pointless 18:00................ BBC News at Six 18:30............ BBC London News 19:00...................The One Show 20:00...........Dickensian

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18:30........... Great British Railway Journeys 19:00................. Celebrity Antiques Road Trip 20:00................. Trust Me, I’m a Doctor

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

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

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

06:45 ........................... King of Queens

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

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

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

10:30.............. This Morning 12:30............ Loose Women

07:35 ........................... King of Queens

06:40......................... Wissper

13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News

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

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

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

08:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond

15:00 ................................1000 Heartbeats

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

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

09:30 ........................... Frasier

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

10:00 ........................... Frasier

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

10:30 .................. Undercover Boss USA

18:25......... Party Political Broadcast by the Conservative Party

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

18:30............ ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30..............Coronation Street

12:00 ......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05 ...............Four in a Bed 12:40 ...............Four in a Bed

20:30....................Would I Lie to You?

00:15................... Masters Snooker Extra

07:20.......... Bob the Builder 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 ....................Paw Patrol 08:45 ....................Bananas in Pajamas

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

14:10 ........................... Deal or No Deal

11:10 .......Cowboy Builders

06:10 .................. Humble Pie 07:05.....Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 08:00..........MasterChef USA 09:00...........Motorway Cops 10:00............................ The Bill 11:00.........................Pointless 12:00................Tipping Point 13:00.....Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00...........Motorway Cops 15:00.........................Pointless 16:00 ........................... The Bill 17:00............... Tipping Point 18:00............. Humble Pie 19:00 .... MasterChef USA 20:00 .................... CSI: NY 21:00 ...... One Born: What Happened Next?

22:00 ............. Code Black 23:00 .................... CSI: NY 00:00 ......... Bondi Rescue 00:30............ Do No Harm

08:55............Kirstie Allsopp’s Home Style 10:00............ Grand Designs 11:05.......Mysterious Island 13:05....................Time Team 14:10.................... Come Dine with Me 14:40.................... Come Dine with Me 16:50........ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 17:45......A Place in the Sun 18:50..A Place in the Sun 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00............Building the Dream 22:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:10............Building the Dream

12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ................ Celebrity Big Brother

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

01:05............ Alex Polizzi: Hire Our Heroes

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

13:40 ...............Four in a Bed

22:00.....................Russell Howard’s Good News

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

09:00................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat

15:10 .................Countdown

22:45..................Match of the Day

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

13:10 ...............Four in a Bed

21:00.............. Stargazing 2016

21:00........Great Barrier CW Reef with David choice 22:30..............Newsnight Attenborough 23:15................... Masters 22:00................ BBC News Snooker at Ten Highlights 22:30............ BBC London 00:05.................Immortal News Egypt with

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay

06:00.............. The Hot Desk 06:10 ......................The Cube 07:00 ................ Dinner Date 08:05 ..................Emmerdale 08:35.................. You’ve Been Framed and Famous!

09:35 ............... Catchphrase 10:20 ................ Dinner Date 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:15...... Sweet November 15:35................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50................ Take Me Out 19:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

19:30............ You’ve Been Framed!

20:00............... Two and a Half Men 21:00............ Quantum of Solace 23:10.... The Keith Lemon Sketch Show

22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:40................The World According to Kenny Everett 23:40......... The Kyle Files 00:10............ Jackpot247

16:00 ...............A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:00 ................... Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30.............. Hollyoaks 19:00 ..................Channel 4 News 20:00.......... Mary Portas: Secret Shopper 21:00 ............ 24 Hours in A and E 22:00 ....... Bodyshockers 23:05.......................... The Undateables 00:05 ............. C4’s Future Sounds: Music on 4

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

06:00... The Dog Whisperer

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

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

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

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

15:15............ Too Late to Say Goodbye

08:00.............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

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

09:00.....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

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

10:00...............Hawaii Five-0

11:00....... American Pickers

12:00...........................Forever

12:00.. Storage Hunters UK

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

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

15:00................Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

14:00....... American Pickers

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

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

17:30................. Neighbours 18:00.... Home and Away 18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ............. Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords 20:00............ GPs: Behind Closed Doors

08:10........... Sin City Motors 10:00.......Ice Road Truckers

16:00.. Storage Hunters UK

07:00 ................................ WWE Experience 08:00 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest 08:30 ..........................Big Bash League 12:00 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest 12:30 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest 13:00 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest 13:30 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest

19:00...American Pickers

14:00 .........Big Bash League

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

17:30 .......................... Cricket’s Greatest

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

18:00........ The Mavericks 18:30 ..... Big Bash League

21:00... Sherlock Holmes

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

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

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

23:30 ......... Ford Football

01:30................... Forever

01:00....................... QI XL

01:00 ......... Ford Football

22:00..... I’m an Alcoholic: My Name is...

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

23:00...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

20:00.............A League of Their Own

00:55..........Super Casino

07:20..................... Scrapheap Challenge

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

18:00.. Ice Road Truckers

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

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

00:00... Britain’s Flashiest Families

07:00.................... Rocket City Rednecks

17:00..............The Simpsons 18:30........ The Simpsons

22:00.......... Ford Football

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After seeing how far Compeyson will go to win over Amelia, Arthur is left a gibbering wreck. Fearing the man he has partnered with and desperate to get away, can Arthur find a way out?

Later at lunch Compeyson realises that Matthew is in love with Amelia and manipulatively tells him that he must continue his travels in America in order to win her love.

Matthew believes this lie and reluctantly tells Amelia he will be unable to stay.

Bucket continues his investigation by looking into Mr Barbary, who was seen with Marley on Christmas Eve. However, this is not Edward’s only concern and his financial woes increase. How will this news impact his daughters and their welfare?

Elsewhere, Bill tries to take Nancy away from her work as a prostitute, but fails to meet Fagin’s lofty price demands.

Mrs Gamp is also looking to shake things up by telling Silas a hairraising story to persuade him not to live alone.

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Jericho ITV1, 21.00

Set in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the drama from production company, ITV Studios, focuses upon the shanty town of Jericho, home to a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they’ve been brought together to build.

Rough, rustic and remote with a carnival atmosphere, Jericho is a community of pioneers, settlers and outcasts, people with secrets to hide and those looking to start again.

Jericho has been created and written by Steve Thompson (Sherlock, Doctor Who) who is an executive producer with ITV Studios Director of Drama Kate Bartlett (Vera, Marchlands). BAFTA nominated director Paul Whittington (Cilla, Mrs Biggs, The Widower) has directed the first two episodes of the series. Lisa Osborne (Little Dorrit, South Riding, Quirke) is the producer.

Just as Annie (Jessica Raine) and her family are starting to put recent events behind them, Bamford (Mark Addy), the railway detective hired

by Charles (Daniel Rigby) to find out who sabotaged his viaduct, returns to Jericho looking for Red Killeen. Bamford is now certain that Red was behind the explosion and wants him tracked down and punished. With Bamford sniffing around, Annie, Johnny (Hans Matheson) and George (Sam Bottomley) are terrified that their deadly secret will be exposed.

In her desperation to protect George, Annie unwittingly opens the door for Bamford to get a step closer to her family and to the truth. When George goes missing it looks like Annie’s best-laid plans have backfired.

Annie has to find George before his disappearance draws unwanted attention their way.

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T h ur s d a y 06:00...................... Breakfast

06:15................ Rip Off Britain

09:15 .............Rip Off Britain

07:00 ................Wanted Down Under

10:00 ...... Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45............ Close Calls: On Camera 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:45.............. Father Brown

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09:00.....Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

08:10........... Sin City Motors 09:00........................Top Gear

10:00.............. Hawaii Five-0

10:00.......Ice Road Truckers

12:00 ..........................Forever

11:00....... American Pickers

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

12:00.... Storage Hunters UK

15:00.... Greggs: More Than Meats the Pie

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

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

16:00.... Storage Hunters UK

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

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

20:00...... Britain’s Bloody Crown

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

18:00.....Ice Road Truckers

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

19:00...American Pickers

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

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

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

06:40 .........................Wissper

08:45 ..................... Caught Red Handed

13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News

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

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

21:00 ................Stargazing 2016

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

14:00.............. Judge Rinder 15:00................................ 1000 Heartbeats

10:30 .................. Undercover Boss USA 11:30............... Four in a Bed

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay 06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:50 .....................Peppa Pig 07:10............. Little Princess 07:20 ..........Bob the Builder 07:35 .................Thomas and Friends

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

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

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

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

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

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

14:10 ........................... Deal or No Deal

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

18:30............ ITV Evening News

15:10 .................Countdown

08:15..................... Peppa Pig 08:25..................... Peppa Pig

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

08:35.................... Paw Patrol

19:30.................. Tonight

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

20:00............ Emmerdale

09:00................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat

20:30.................Birds of CW a Feather choice 21:00.................Jericho

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

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

22:40......... The BRITS are Coming 23:40............ Trawlermen Tales

Busting the Drugs Millions: Inside the National Crime Agency

Channel 4, 22:00 This documentary tells the inside story of one of the National Crime Agency’s largest money laundering investigations. With unique access to NCA documents and surveillance footage, the programme traces an extraordinary nine-month operation, which started with undercover surveillance on one man, and ended up with over 100 officers bringing down one of the largest criminal networks in the country, worth over £180 million. Every year, more than £100 billion changes hands in Britain illegally. Much of the money is controlled by international criminal networks that are involved in drug smuggling, human trafficking and even terrorism. Many British drug dealers outsource the cleaning of their dirty cash to specialist money laundering groups, who collect the money by hand and ensure it’s paid out to the right person in the right place, anywhere in the world. These groups operate with a strict hierarchy and a sprawling network of agents, each with different roles.

10:00............ Grand Designs 11:05............Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 11:15......The Mark of Zorro 13:05 ...................Time Team 14:10....Come Dine with Me 14:40....Come Dine with Me 15:15....Come Dine with Me 15:45....Come Dine with Me 16:20....Come Dine with Me 16:50........ Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 17:45......A Place in the Sun 18:50..A Place in the Sun 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00......... The Supervet 22:00............. 24 Hours in A and E 23:05......... Embarrassing Bodies

09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:10 .......Cowboy Builders

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22:00 ...................The Clare Balding Show 23:15 ..................... Masters Snooker Highlights

23:45.............. This Week

08:00 ...... Cricket’s Greatest

08:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond

20:00....................World’s CW Sneakiest choice Animals

22:45....... Question Time

08:00 ............. RSPCA Animal Rescue

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

19:00 ..................... Masters Snooker

22:30.BBC London News

07:20..................... Scrapheap Challenge

08:15.................... Great British Menu

18:30.............. Great British Railway Journeys

22:00.... BBC News at Ten

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

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

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

21:00.. Death in Paradise

07:00................. The World of Stupid Criminals

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

15:45...............James Martin: Home Comforts

20:30 ..............Room 101

06:00 .. The Dog Whisperer

07:45................ Close Calls: On Camera

13:00 ..............................Masters Snooker

20:00 ............ Dickensian

08:55............Kirstie Allsopp’s Home Style

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

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

18:00.... BBC News at Six

06:10 ................. Humble Pie 07:05 ... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 08:00 ...................MasterChef USA 09:00 ......... Neighbourhood Blues 10:00 .......................... The Bill 11:00 .......................Pointless 12:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00 .........................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 14:00 ......... Neighbourhood Blues 15:00....................... Pointless 16:00........................... The Bill 17:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00............ Humble Pie 19:00.... MasterChef USA 20:00................... CSI: NY 21:00............ Code Black 22:00................. Payback

06:45........................... King of Queens

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

17:15....................... Pointless

06:00 ..............The Hot Desk 06:10 ......................The Cube 07:00 ................ Dinner Date 08:05 ..................Emmerdale 08:35..... Coronation Street 09:05 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

09:35 ............... Catchphrase 10:20 ................ Dinner Date 11:20 .................. Royal Pains 12:10 ..................Emmerdale 12:45......Coronation Street 13:15....... Alesha Dixon: The Hot Desk 13:30...... What a Girl Wants 15:35....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50 ................Take Me Out 19:00............ You’ve Been Framed!

20:00................Two and a Half Men 21:00................. Hot Fuzz

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

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

16:30... Antiques Road Trip

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

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

14:30................. For What It’s Worth

19:30 ............ EastEnders

Birds of a Feather returns for its third series on ITV starring Pauline Quirke, Linda Robson and Lesley Joseph as the original Essex girls Sharon Theodopolopodous, Tracey Stubbs and Dorien Green.

Tracey’s house has been burgled during Darryl’s funeral. The family decide it’s up to them to track down their possessions and set out on a trail involving a snooker club, a pawnbroker and the infamous Theydon Boys drag club.

1 4 t h 06:00................. Countdown

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

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

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

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12:10 ........................... 5 News Lunchtime 12:15 ................ Celebrity Big Brother 16:00 ...................... A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS

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

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

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

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

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

18:00...................... Home and Away

19:00 ..................Channel 4 News 20:00 ................ Location, Location, Location 21:00 .....The Restoration Man 22:00..........Busting the CW Drugs Millions: choice Inside the National Crime Agency 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E

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

18:30..... 5 News Tonight 19:00 ......Ben Fogle: New Lives in the Wild

22:00................. Celebrity Botched Up Bodies 23:00...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

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

20:00...... Flintoff: Lord of the Fries 21:00 ............A League of Their Own 22:00..NCIS: Los Angeles 23:00......... Hawaii Five-0

14:00....... American Pickers

21:00....................... QI XL 22:00........ Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 23:00...... Mock the Week 23:40...... Mock the Week

07:00 ...WWE SmackDown!

08:30........ Big Bash League 12:00.......... Premier League Legends 13:00 ............. Football Gold 14:00 ........Big Bash League 17:30 .......... Premier League Legends 18:00.....Fantasy Football Club Highlights 18:30.... Barclays Premier League World 19:00........The Mavericks 19:30.............Johnstone’s Paint Trophy 22:00.La Liga Show 2015 22:30.... Barclays Premier League World 23:00.........Football Gold 23:30.....................La Liga Show 2015

World’s Sneakiest Animals BBC2, 20:00

Sex, Lies and Dirty Tricks. Chris Packham meets a host of animals using devious tactics to win a mate and raise a family.

New science reveals bower birds and fiddler crabs using optical illusions to impress a female, whilst a male topi antelope fakes danger to give him an edge.

Meet cross-dressing cuttlefish and marsh harriers as they sneak past dominant males to mate incognito.

Animal family life is no more honest, with chicks blackmailing their own parents and the honeyguide bird duping another species into raising its chick. It is sex, lies and families faking it in the world of sneaky animals - they really will stop at nothing to succeed.

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What’s On

8th January - 14th January 2016

32nd International Music Festival of the Canary Islands

‘Romería’ of San Sebastian

During the fest of San Sebastian in Adeje you can find all the elements of a good local and traditional festival! There will be ‘parrandas’ or folk groups, good local cuisine, outdoor eateries and processions. But this festival also When: has a spectacular moment that makes it unique.

20th January The image of the saint is accompanied down to the Where: sea by horsemen leading their horses into the waAdeje ter! It has to be seen to be believed.

The only European festival of its kind to be held in winter, the International Music Festival of the Canary Islands, offers you the opportunity to listen to the great figures of classical music, with a program that spans from Italian baroque to German and Russian post-romanticism. The tenor Juan Diego Florez, the London Philharmonic and the Vienna Boys’ Choir, are just some of the internationally renowned artists programmed for this winter.

When: Until 11th February Where: Auditorio de Adán Martín in Santa Cruz More details: www.auditoriode tenerife.com

3rd Annual Flamenco Festival The Prado Museum This special exhibition visits Tenerife over the next few months. Named ‘Los objetos hablan’ (objects speak), it’s an exhibition that brings together 60 works from the sixteenth to the nineteenth centuries of the Spanish, Flemish, Italian and French schools. It includes work by such imWhen: portant authors as Rubens, Sorolla, Until January 16 Zurbarán, Murillo, Goya and Ribera.

A unique opportunity to see these Where: works, in a space that allows a closer Espacio Cultural than usual inspection of the great CajaCanarias, Santa Cruz masters.

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

This Flamenco Festival is the greatest Flamenco event in the Canary Islands and is seen as an essential meeting point for fans of this genre.

You can see live performances by When: January 16th an impressive list of artists with different profiles, from the purest Where: Flamenco till Jazz Fusion. Jorge Guimera Theatre in Santa Cruz Pardo is in charge of the show, More info: which will pay tribute to Paco de www.teatroguimera.es Lucia and the Roma influences.

Monje wine tour Visit the Monje Winery and test the wine Where: and gastronomy of Tenerife. The landEl Sauzal scape all around the winery is a delight When: to behold: vineyards, mountains, the sea Every day from 10am and the sun. It is a perfect spot to live and nurture our wines. Built in 1956, the More details: winery was modernised in 1983 but still www.bodegasmonje.com holds the original oak barrels, nearly 200 years old, where the traditional red wine is left to ferment and mature. Age-old practices go hand in hand with modern-day technology.

The winery accommodates all the grape harvesting requirements with its capacity to hold 160,000 litres.

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Entertainment

8th January - 14th January 2016

By Jamie Droo A GOOD start to this week’s article is to wish everyone a Happy New Year … I hope all venues, their patrons and entertainers had an amazing time.

Judging by Facebook posts, everything went well and without a hitch. True, the annual flu bug did the rounds, but the few entertainers affected were still able to work.

This brings me to the subject of this week’s article, and what is missed when some people perceive that the job of an entertainer is easy.

Experienced, professional entertainers, no matter what in field their talent lies, will always make what they do on stage look easy.

The audience have only the time an act spends on stage to pass judgement on their talent.

And it is their right to decide as individuals whether what is being performed is to their liking.

However, artistes, in the general scheme of things, do not have the option to decide whether they like particular elements of the audience.

For example, a comedian cannot provoke laughter from a crowd if there is one disruptive onlooker, deflecting attention away from the stage. A good comic can always handle a heckler - in fact, hecklers generally end up looking stupid and tend to increase the comedian’s funny presence.

But a persistent heckler, who becomes a pest, can ruin a comedy show easily unless he/she is dealt with.

This is also true for elements of an audience who like to talk loudly through a comedian’s set, not really bothering whether the rest of the audience can appreciate what is going on.

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simply to cut and run instead of battling against it. In most cases, the venue will pick up on this and staff will kindly ask the member or members to be quiet or leave.

If the latter applies, the audience will notice the commotion and, nine times out of 10, will respond with a round of applause at the disruptive one’s departure.

It has often been said that comedy is one of the hardest arts to perform, and this is true in many ways. Singers generally receive applause at the end of a song and, I believe, this happens naturally in most cases.

Even if the performer is not an outstanding vocalist and merely a karaoke singer who has just murdered his rendition of their favourite tune, the audience will still applaud. It just seems to be an automatic reaction.

But the same cannot be said for laughter at the end of a joke when the punch-line is delivered because people won’t laugh if they don’t find the joke funny.

However, if an individual is sitting among others who do get the

joke and are laughing, he will laugh anyway.

Laughter is contagious, and nobody wants to be the one to say: “I didn’t get it.”

I suppose my point is that in comedy, you have to be funny to get the laughs … and you have to get laughs to be able to call yourself a comedian.

As a vocalist, you don’t need to be the greatest to get applause, but you do need work to be able to call yourself a singer!

That work will be sparse if the voice standard is low. But having said that, I believe the most important thing for any entertainer is the ability to engage the audience.

If singers cannot sing to a high standard, yet have the ability to talk to the audience between songs, using charisma and charm, their flaws as a singer will be easily overseen by most audiences.

Some of this talent is natural although, in most cases, what is seen on stage has to be practised and polished, tweaked and tuned and always updated and maintained.

The job of an entertainer does not start

and stop when the curtain goes up or when it falls. There is so much more involved.

I recently read something which hit the nail on the head. It was written by a UK singer called Michael Aaron Chambers. I feel he has it in a nutshell and I would like to share it with you.

He wrote: “As a singer myself, I am always amazed when I hear some of you protest when solo artistes start at about £150 and local bands of four or more people expect between £400-500 for a couple of hours’ work!

“Well, here is how I see it: people don’t just wake up one day and decide to give up everything to become professional entertainers.

“They gamble on giving up their jobs, their friendships and lifestyles (think of all the holidays and time they miss with families so you can enjoy some music, especially around Christmas).

“Sure, they might have been blessed with a God-given singing talent, but it takes years of practice and dedication, spending months working on confidence and style,

to ensure they can perform professionally.

“Then there are those who choose to play an instrument. How many of you spend hours every day for years, practising something until you are good enough to walk out on a stage, in front of complete strangers?

“They may talk throughout your whole performance because they aren’t interested, don’t like what you are doing, or choose to ridicule your hard work.

“I personally think these artistes should be given a round of applause for simply getting on the stage, never mind at the end of their show.

“And then there are the costs. Do you know how much your car insurance increases when you declare you are a musician?

“Oh, and don’t forget all your costly equipment - speakers, microphones and instruments - which need to repaired, replaced and insured, just in case some joker decides to get up on stage and damage them.

“Then there’s the time spent rehearsing for each and every gig, time away from family and friends, time

rehearsing and learning new songs, plus the time travelling to and from the gig.

“All you probably see of them is on stage between 9pm and midnight! What about the hour’s drive to get to the venue, setting up, sound-testing, packing-up and then driving home?

“How many of us can say we put a piece of our soul on display every time we walk into a room? The clubs, pubs and halls which book these artistes are doing it for your benefit. Yes, they want to attract custom, but they also do it to give you, the customer, something special.

“If you want to hear the original artiste in the original way, listen to your CDs. But if you want to hear your favourite songs live and with a different slant to them, then support local, live music.

“Nothing is as good as dancing to live music; nothing makes your heart beat and pulse race as much as a singer/band giving their all so you can feel alive on the dance floor.

“So … £400 between four people who do all this Still think it’s money for nothing?”

I would like to end this week with an apology. In the last issue, while writing about the success of Ollie ‘Showbiz’ Cusack and his recent appointment as an Oasis Fm presenter, I mentioned that he had also won the Best Newcomer Award at the 2015 TEAs. This was not the case and I would like to rectify that mistake. Ollie had, in fact, won The Best Group category with The Midnight Riders duo. He actually picked up the 2013 Best Newcomer Award.

In fact, this year’s Best Newcomer Award went to Laura ‘Doris’ Day, who started out as a bar-worker but was always destined to be a compere. And she received great support after her first year on stage.

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Travel/Motoring

By Vanessa Vee I received a surprise text message a couple of weeks ago from my parents, who were on a Christmas cruise, having already arranged that we would meet for a day on their visit into Santa Cruz.

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The enchanted island!

One thing you have to love about Spain is the documentation. Not! Rather than raise my parents’ hope, I didn’t announce our plans. Instead, I thought I’d wait first to see if we could actually board the ferry.

Los Cristianos terminal … just down the road … so easy … a few minutes sorting out the paperwork (something to do with my maiden name) and we were off!

I texted the parents to see what they were up to and said we would be with them shortly.

In all my years living in Tenerife, I have

previously visited our neighbouring island just twice: once on a jeep safari, and the other for a hotel break, when my youngest was literally weeks old.

So to take the car over and to be able to explore was rather exciting. I love driving aimlessly, with no particular place to go, and this was the perfect opportunity.

We initially headed up towards the National Park, and my description was simple: This island is just like one big Masca Valley - seriously-breathtaking views,

as well as jaw-opening drops at the roadside!

There’s something special about being able to explore a small island - a circular coastline marks our boundary, allowing us to wander freely, safe in the knowledge that we won’t get too lost.

If you don’t want wild, vibrant nightlife or beautiful sandy beaches, nor dine on fish ‘n’ chips or a full English, here you will find an island unspoilt by mass tourism, with spectacular scenery and steep gorges, plus white stone cottages that salt the

However, the text stated that they were coming into La Gomera the following morning, and they would give us a wave as they passed Adeje.

I’m not usually quickest off the mark, but I took advantage of a rare break from work the previous night and sought out the ferry times, gathered all the required paperwork and called the office to book the Fred. Olsen sea cat.

It was the story of my life, though. Paperwork! I couldn’t find one child’s passport but had her residencia; then there was the certificado de viajes - arghh!

slopes.

We stopped off for coffee in Valle Gran Rey, which was a total delight. There just seemed to be an ambience about the place that persuaded me I really need to return to discover fully this beautiful island.

The thought of ever staying in a four-star hotel and devouring hotel food while here will never cross my mind again.

With so many quirky little restaurants, who would want to?

From restaurants in caves to seriously-rural eateries, one thing’s foe certain: there is not a MacDonalds in sight!

And on offer are freshly-grilled tuna steaks and other catches of the day, along with meaty stews, steaks and other cuts, as well as the speciality sauces found on all the Canary Islands.

I am sure that getting around La Gomera on foot would be far less-terrifying than negotiating the winding, hilly hairpin bends in a car. But the precipitous footpaths, which seemed so narrow in places, look as though they have been made for mountain goats.

One thing I did note was the many trail options on offer, all wellsignposted, too, so

definitely a walker’s paradise. The only way I can describe the forest is like something out of an Enid Blyton fairytale book - The Enchanted Forest or The Magic Faraway Tree.

It really was surreal and life seemed to stand still.

Until the road system was built, La Gomera people used to communicate across the valleys using a whistling language called el silbo.

It is actually quite fascinating.

So my next task is where to stay for my next visit? Well, a “hotel” is most definitely not on my list. There are so many guest houses, apartments, and bed-and-breakfasts to choose from.

But we have also found some great rural cabins, so that’s another plan. I promise you, La Gomera, I won’t leave it as long again. Until next time.

Tenerife Sunshine Travel can plan your La Gomera visits at the best prices for residents and non-residents, from guided day-trips to ferries, to package accommodation. Simply contact the Tenerife Sunshine Travel Team on travel@tenerifesunshine.com - or call 922 751 867. Open 7 days a week.

Traffic-law changes

By Emma at Motorworld

FROM 1st January, many traffic laws were changed or adapted to fall in line with European laws and regulations.

The aim was to make a safer driving environment throughout the European Union. But some amendments are questionable.

One such change is related to mopeds and those riders holding an AM category on their licence, allowing them to ride a moped. From now on, they can carry pillion riders regardless of

their age, so long as the vehicle has been adapted correctly.

The previous age in Spain for carrying moped passengers was 18 because, for all intents and purposes, 17-yearolds and under were considered children.

Now, though, the BTP category has been removed from Spanish licences to fall in line with other European member states.

The BTP category, previously used in Spain only, covers certain people who drive specific vehicles: taxi-drivers, emergency service vehicles, or priority vehicles, or those for school transport, such as buses.

These drivers can still do so under their category, so long as all the other criteria has been met.

Another change is

that the so called “mega trucks”, up to 60 tonnes and 25.25m long, are now permitted on Spain’s roads.

It means that lorries with more than six axles can travel through the European road network, although special permission will have

to be obtained in some cases so that the safety of other motorists can be safeguarded and checked.

The main idea is that this will save costs which, hopefully, will be passed on to the consumers.

People who suffer from

sleep apnoea - pauses in breathing, or shallow breaths while sleeping - will no longer be automatically banned from driving, provided their medical condition is certifiably under control by a medical professional.

Another major change

is that in the event of a death via a road-traffic accident, the costs associated with the medical examinations and autopsies will be covered by the Government.

There are many other changes too numerous to mention, but these are some of the more vital ones for everyday road-users in Tenerife.

One important thing to remember is that if you have an accident or breakdown at the side of the road, always keep yourself and passengers safely away from oncoming traffic.

That’s because drivers are often rubbernecking, talking, or otherwise distracted - and sometimes even texting!

They can cause another accident involving the already-broken-down or accident-damaged cars.

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Canarian tomatoes are a hit in Sweden TOMATO chiefs in the Canaries are conducting a promotional campaign in the Swedish market to coincide with increased shipments there.

San Borondon The finest of modern cuisine with a touch of Peru all cooked by their excellent chef Rosalía Diaz. Beautiful tasteful dishes, from authentic Spanish to the most exotic Peruvian specialities. San Borondon on the sea front in Playa San Juan offers a selection of wines from around the world including local Canarian, Spanish Rioja, Australian Syrah and of course the exquisite French Chateau Neuf-du-Pape. Enjoy their shaded terrace & the excellent view of the ocean at lunchtime or the cosy atmosphere for dinner. Their excellent food has already placed them within the travelers favorite places to eat in the beautiful area of the West Coast.

Playa San Juan Open: 12noon - 11pm. Closed Thursday

Call: 922 134 178

The Swan James’ Place The only British bar and the jewel in the crown in La Caleta. Something for all the family with stylish dining area, sun drenched terrace, games room, all your Live Sport and a fantastic menu.

Freshly beer battered fish and home to ‘The Best’ Sunday Roast!

1pm-6pm James’s Place - Where we just haven’t met you yet!

La Caleta

Fresh food served 7 days a week, all with good quality produce. We also cater for any special requirements.

Daily Specials. Friday: Cod and chips night.

Sunday Lunch: 12noon - 8pm.

24hr notice for paella, lamb shank, fillet steak or ask us for anything you fancy.

Or just pop in for a drink, with live entertainment every night, 9pm - midnight, and your favourite quiz on Sunday evenings. Great entertainment, even greater value!

Open: Food served Mon-Sat: 10am - 10pm.

Sun: 10am - 6pm. Open til late.

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Call: 922 168 139

Call: 698 396 367

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

The 2015-2016 campaign is approaching its peak, with an extra volume of 5,000 tonnes against the same period of the 2014-2015 campaign, when harsh winter conditions delayed the start.

The success achieved by last season’s promotional campaign has motivated Canary tomato-growers to win the loyalty of Swedish consumers who, increasingly, are appreciating the product.

This time, the promotion is being conducted through the Internet and social media because of the high penetration of these outlets in Sweden.

Messages about the qualities and differences of Canarian tomatoes compared with their

competitors are the campaign key.

The Scandinavian market, and Sweden in particular, is one of the main destinations for Canary Island, tomatoes, which have been growing increasingly well in recent years.

The campaign, which

kicked off on 15th December and will finish on 25th January, is taking place within the framework of the Canary Islands’ 130th Anniversary of their tomato export activities under the slogan “130 years cultivating the best tomatoes in Southern Europe”.

The messages received by consumers include: *Ripened in the sun of the Canary Islands *Now it’s time to harvest tomatoes in the Canary Islands *Here, tomatoes ripen naturally in the sun. *The sun is preserved inside to warm your winter The promotion also stresses that, every week, “great-quality, fresh tomatoes ripened under the sun are distributed to your local food store.

Adeje Chicken in Buzanada Bryan is back but now he is the owner with his mum in the kitchen for the famous home-made food & all her excuisite & authentic recipes of mojo & Ali-oli. Still serving their chicken dishes including grilled chicken breast, spicy chicken & honey chicken garlic chicken, with a pint of beer for only 1 euro!! Open for breakfast & sandwiches all day until 10pm. A new addition to the menu, which starts at 12noon until 4pm, includes 2 courses & a drink for only 6.80 euros & will change daily (not only chicken dishes).

Buzanada Roundabout, Buzanada.

Open: Tues-Sun, 8am-10pm. Closed Mondays

Call: 922 728 290 / 629 331 124

“Sun-ripened tomatoes ensure a great taste experience and also involve great consideration and respect for the environment and working conditions.”

As a reward for the loyalty and creativity, there will be a raffle at

the end of the campaign among the participants, who can win a trip for two to Fuerteventura, where, besides enjoying its beaches, they will be able to visit the facilities and plantations of Cooperativa Gran Tarajal.

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-euros. Now open Mondays!

FREE 1/2ltr Margarita when 2 people dine from the A La Carte menu!

Cañada Blanca 2, Parque de la Reina

Open: daily, 12noon - 11.30pm

Call: 922 739 250

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By Val Sainsbury OKAY folks.

Time’s up! You’ve eaten and drunk enough over Christmas and New Year to keep you going for a lifetime. So now, it’s time to get back to reality, and shift those extra pounds you gained over the festive period.

And cutting carbs is the key to success.

American doctor Joseph Mercola, wrote: “If everyone adopted a lowcarb way of eating, six pharmaceutical companies would go out of business overnight.”

So many diseases are linked with eating the wrong foods that far fewer drugs would be needed.

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Low-carb eating has been around since long before we were born, but it’s poor old Dr Robert Atkins, creator of The Atkins Diet, who has been vilified, unfairly, by so many.

He slipped on an icy pavement and suffered a fatal head injury. Yet, to hear people talking, you’d think he’d had a heart attack as a result of his diet not working for him.

True, he was carrying some extra weight, but that doesn’t negate his eating plan. We don’t always practise what we preach 100% of the time!

Before the advent of pharmaceutical drugs for the treatment of diabetes and epilepsy, adopting an extremelylow-carb diet often had these conditions under control. In many cases, they were even reversed.

Drugs became the regular way of treating these disorders, but, when they often didn’t work, the low-carb method was used instead.

We can do so much to prevent many diseases from blighting - or even

ending - our lives. Bread, pasta, rice, biscuits, cakes … the list of highcarb foods is endless.

None of these foods is essential, and we would all be a lot healthier without them. Actually, carbs are not needed at all, although it would be difficult, and not necessary, to avoid them completely.

Fruit can be responsible for rapid weight-gain.

Compared with guzzling chocolates, biscuits, cakes, etc, you’d think that fruit would be a safe, acceptable alternative.

Unfortunately, fructose - the natural sugar in fruit - can be as damaging as the sugar out of a 2lb bag!

Our blood-sugar levels escalate, especially if we drink just the juice of the fruit. Without the fibre in the skins, it is akin to drinking liquid sugar.

All unprocessed meats are fine, and fish also fits the bill. Eggs are one of the most-complete protein foods available, and make a very good breakfast choice. However, if a slice of bread is added to the menu, any

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their lives! Why? What’s so important about eating it every day? Is it because most of us were brought up on it, that we find it so difficult to imagine a day without it?

Reducing, or eliminating, bread can induce withdrawal symptoms.

Sugar is the same.

Stop eating it after a lifetime of using it, and you will feel awful for a while.

Any foods which, when removed from the diet, cause unpleasant symptoms, were no good for us in the first place.

And yet, if we cut out eggs or chicken, for example, there will be no withdrawal problems at all. This proves that only

unhealthy foods make us dependant on them.

We don’t crave healthy foods in the same way as we do the unhealthy ones.

Generally, our lives are in our own hands, and we must be willing to learn from those doctors who have proof that the information they are giving us can make us healthier and fitter.

Only when we feel well and fit can we make the comparison with when we don’t. And feeling under-par shouldn’t be the norm. It’s not how we’re supposed to be, and a little bit of research can transform our lives.

HAPPY New Year to you all … now’s the time of year we fill our wardrobes with clothes we have bought in the sales, throwing out tired and dated items we can pass on.

Maybe, as you do this, you can apply the same concept to your hairstyle? What am I going on about, I hear you say?

Well, as fashions and styles change in the clothing industry, so does the hair industry as well. Think of it as our end-of-year sale, with something new and exciting on offer.

It doesn’t have to be a whole image overhaul: it could be a new colour, or adding in a fringe to change your look completely.

I never tire of my profession, but here in Tenerife, sometimes, things can get a little stale as there are no “trends” in fashion or hair.

That means there is no one to follow or to envy, thinking: “I want their look.”

So maybe this year, it’s time to challenge how you appear in the mirror, and decide you could look amazing with a new slant on your hair-styling.

There’s nothing more dating to any age of

face than a style that isn’t flattering, or is dragging you backwards, time-wise, because it’s so “five years ago”.

When was the last time you changed your style or colour, or both?

The world of hairdressing can be so creative, and we need just one thing to release it: your permission!

Think about it next time you are in the salon and trust your stylist to give you a new image, without having to resort to something bizarre or outlandish.

Look at the celebs - they change their hair quicker than they change their clothes, always re-inventing themselves while, perhaps, you have had the same look for some years.

Remember, it’s not only for them that stylists can turn around someone’s image, but also for you, the client!

Consult us at Robot Hair Salon for your free, no-obligation consultation, and start this year with a better version of YOU.

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By Nico Gil

desired weight-loss may be stalled, and the scales may even show an increase!

Florida-based neurologist Dr David Perlmutter informs us that wheat and other grains are very damaging. They increase the chances of dementia and Alzheimer’s, as well as many other diseases. Google him, and see what he has to say.

How many of us feel really sleepy, with a foggy brain, after eating bread? Low mood, anxiety, bloating and tiredness are all symptoms of an intolerance to wheat.

But people feel they just can’t cut bread out of

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CURB THOSE CARBS

TURN ANOTHER HAIR PAGE…

By Carl Pattison

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THERE’S no better time than the start of a New Year to shake up your life and take positive steps to a happier, healthier future.

Here are 11 things you might want to consider promising yourself, starting now.

Say it with me: “I will…”: 1. Stop using work, family or friends, etc, as excuses to skip training sessions: Stick to your plans and keep a routine. This will help your body and mind, which will have a positive impact on every aspect of your life 2.

Try to avoid waiting until I’m injured or ill before I see a health specialist: We all know the

saying, “Prevention is better than the cure”.

There’s a good reason for it - it’s very true.

So before a minor muscle ache becomes a big problem, see a physiotherapist; before getting sick, go for regular check-ups, etc.

3. Plan my meals and snacks properly: Use fresh, organic ingredients to make healthy alternatives that will stop you from giving in to temptation and reaching for unhealthy options. This is the best way to keep your body healthy and your energy levels high throughout the day.

4. Spend more time and money on actionpacked adventures and less on technology and unnecessary luxuries: Studies have shown that travelling and enjoying nature, especially when combined with physical activity, increases happiness levels over a much longer period of time than the quick fix of joy, buying a new pair of shoes or com-

puter game, will ever do 5. Give myself a lot more little moments of joy: Sit and watch a beautiful sunset; play with your children; laugh with your partner; enjoy a coffee with a friend; help someone in need.

These small moments are what really give meaning to life, and what happy memories are made of

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Take much better care of the environment: Now, more than ever, everyone needs to step up and do his/ her bit for the planet.

Recycle. Don’t waste water or electricity.

Walk or cycle whenever possible. Eat locallygrown food, organic if you can. Generate less waste, etc.

Several seeminglysmall actions taken

by many people lead to significant results.

Everything helps 7. Do something nice for others: It’s good to remind ourselves just how lucky we are every now and then, to feel gratitude instead of complaining. Helping others is a fantastic way to spend some of your time. Volunteer for some charity work, sponsor a child ... the list of possible action is endless. Improving someone else’s life if you are able to is one of the best things you can ever do, and it’s echoed in how good it makes you feel 8. Get enough sleep: Decent, regular sleep is a must, not a maybe. There is a long list of negative side-effects that come from inadequate sleep, and being in a foul mood is only one of them.

Reduced concentration, weight gain and even serious health problems such as heart disease have all been linked to not getting enough rest 9. Let myself say No every now and then:

Saying Yes when you want or need to say No is not healthy 10. Make myself a priority: This isn’t selfish, despite what you may think, or be led to feel. Putting our own needs before those of others is absolutely essential if we are to be the best version of ourselves we can be. This will also make you the best partner, parent, friend, etc, you can be. Here’s some food for thought from a quote we like: “If I asked you to name all the things you love, how long would it take for you to name yourself?”

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Let go: Of everything that no longer serves you or which is holding you back. This could be emotional; sentiments such as anger, resentment, regret or jealousy. It could also be more tangible - relationships, jobs, friendships, etc. You’ll be amazed at how much lighter and more empowered you feel once you take back control of your own life

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SALE OR SCANDAL?

By Carl Pattison THE Sales in Spain (including Tenerife) are called “rebajas”, and this is the time of year when, after the crazy spending on Black Friday and then Christmas, we are expected to dig even deeper into our pockets to fork out more cash during Sale time.

But before you go queueing at those tills, clutching your haul of

goodies that normally means clothing, ask yourself one question: “Do you actually need those items, and would you have bought them at full price”?

If the answer is No, think twice before charging home. In one clothing store here on Sunday, the clothes being brought out had never before been sold there.

They were being

rammed on to the rails at such a rate, but at full-price to cash in on Spain’s Christmas Reyes … only to be put in the SALES yesterday (Thursday)!

I’m in this store every week, and I’ve never seen these items on sale.

Is this misleading the public? I will leave it you to decide as you are bustling around the shops.

To me, a Sale is only a

Sale if it’s genuine. You wanted that particular item anyway, and now there is a big discount on it - not 10% off, which is simply a discount.

So look carefully at what you’re spending on and, maybe, take a closer look at the price-tags to see if it really is a genuine bargain.

Or are you just being fooled into opening your wallets again?

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Accion del Sol news

Abandoned dogs’ heartache WHILE you have enjoyed the festive activities, our work has continued behind the scenes with a large intake of abandoned dogs, many arriving at the refuge in an appalling condition.

It is extremely hard to even imagine what some of the poor dogs have endured in their lives before being delivered to us, via Protection Civil.

Our Open Weekend We are holding an Open Weekend on 1617th January, between 1-4pm, and are looking for volunteers to

Sing-song girls cheer shoppers OVER the Christmas period, the 1st Los Cristianos Rainbows, Brownies and Guides gave up their Saturday lunchtime to help bag-packing for all the festive shoppers in Iceland, Las Chafiras.

The girls got into the festive spirit, singing songs as they worked, and helped raise over 250 euros to go in the group’s pot.

And one lucky-dip shopper won a box of Celebrations after

correctly picking out the name of “Brownie bear”.

A big thank-you to Iceland, Las Chafiras, to everyone who helped out, and to all those shoppers who contributed so generously.

The Rainbows, Brownies and Guides’ group starts back next Friday (15th Jan), and if anybody would like information about joining, please call Rachel on 669 444 391.

spend some time with the many refuge animals.

Maybe you would like to brush them or walk a dog or two, and even play with some, sharing some much-needed love around.

The kennel areas will be open to the public, so you can wander around our facilities.

And if you are looking to adopt a dog, this offers you an ideal chance to search for a loving pet.

We do not charge adoption fees, and every animal is fully microchipped, passported, inoculated, castrated or sterilised, with each one socialised and heartworm-free to give them the best possible start for their new life.

Donations are very much appreciated towards these costs, but not compulsory.

Doggie items wanted We are also in need of tinned dog food for our older animals, as well as blankets, towels, sheets, doggie toys, and collars and leads.

If you can spare any of these items, they would be very much appreciated at the refuge.

Please call us on 922 778 630 if you can help in any way, or visit Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, from 2-5pm and Saturdays 1-4pm.

Find us here We are situated directly under the Eolica Parque exit 52 on the north-bound TF1. Head for the giant windmills and you’ll

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Cats Welfare news

neuter? It’s not all nuts!

OVER the next few weeks, we will be talking about neutering cats and why it is so important.

In fact, neutering is the kindest thing a caring owner can do to protect his or her cat.

find us in the buildings on the right-hand side.

Email the refuge at teneriffa@aktiontier. org or visit our Facebook page: action tier

Accion del SOL for further details.

Here’s to you all Finally, a Happy New Year to all our friends and supporters. We

thank you for your backing, wish you all health and happiness for 2016, and look forward to working with you this year.

Just like his big-cat cousins, your male kitten will have a natural urge to spray and mark his territory. And a female kitten “in season” will probably be noisy and restless, squirming and rolling around on the floor.

Neutering will help prevent this behaviour and, even better, it also has long-term health benefits.

A female kitten can get pregnant while still a kitten herself, and should be spayed at four months (16 weeks) to protect her from an unplanned pregnancy.

The old idea of neutering at six months is now considered outdated, and four months is becoming the norm’ Research has shown that there are no adverse risks to spaying at this age, and that recovery times from the operation can actually be quicker.

Adult cats who were not neutered as kittens can be neutered at any

age. In addition, many cat-owners believe that female cats should be allowed to have a litter of kittens before they are spayed, but this is just an old wives’ tale.

Neutering your male kitten will help keep him safe - ensuring that he doesn’t get into constant fights over females, and also that he doesn’t feel the urge to wander off in search of a mate.

It’s all too common for un-neutered males to get lost or killed on the roads, because they haven’t been neutered.

Neutering also helps the general cat population; the less un-

Poor Pinky refuses to die THE saddest, most heartbreaking doggie story you’re ever likely to hear is spelled out here by the poor pooch himself, who suffered unimaginable agony, but survived (just) to tell his tale.

“I am Martin (Pinky),

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an 11-year-old Labrador, and my story might upset you. But please don’t be angry or turn away because I need your help to raise funds to keep me alive.

“I was kept in a confined space for a long time and lost the use of my legs. I was unable to stand or walk and the people supposedly looking after me tried to kill me.

“They starved me, but I did not die. Then they tried to strangle

me, but still I did not die. To hide what they did to me, they cut open my neck to try to find my microchip, but they failed.

“So they buried me, alive, in a shallow grave in a remote place, where they thought no one would find me. They just left me there, but still I did not die. I was found, barely alive, five days later and taken to a very caring place where I am today. And

everyone is fighting very hard to save me.

“The photograph of me here was taken less than two weeks after I was discovered. Lots of people love me now and I do not want to die. I want to get better because I have a lovely new home waiting for me.

“I was given a 10% chance of survival when I was found, but now I am up to 70% and fighting like mad because I am a strong

boy. “So can you please help me raise money for my expensive treatment and months of rehabilitation? I have been told I am worth it because, they say, I am very special!

Suzanne Hinchcliffe and her vet, who are doing their utmost, along with others, to keep Pinky alive, said: “Martin (Pinky) is a beautiful Labrador and though he is doing very well on the road to recovery, he has still

a long way to go and needs all our help.

“So please come along on Sunday (10th Jan) at 2pm to the Market Tavern at Paloma Beach, Los Cristianos, where some of the top artists on the Island will entertain you, right into the evening.”

Suzanne added: “His Paypal account is sos. pinky2015@gmail.com if you are interested but can’t make it and want to donate something.”

planned litters there are, the more homes are available for the many cats and kittens that are needing homes. A simple “snip” really does show you care!

Neutering is very straightforward, so you can usually take your kittens home on the same day. They may be slightly groggy after the operation, so let them recover in a quiet area.

Give them plenty of love and reassurance and they should be back to normal within 24-48 hours.

Our advice is simple have your cat neutered at four months because

it’s the kindest thing if you care for your pet.

Unwanted presents?

Did you receive any unwanted presents for Christmas?

Donate them to us and you’ll be sure they are going to a good cause.

Donations can be dropped of at our shop on San Blas, in Golf del Sur (Behind Hiperdino). It is open seven days a week (10am6pm) except Saturdays, when it opens from 11am to 4pm.

If you can’t get to the shop, call Mark on 636 590 557 and he will arrange collection from you.

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Your Emails AS we enter this New Year, we are feeling positive and excited about the future plans for children’s charity Helping Hands in Tenerife.

This year, we will continue to be active with fund-raising events, along with sponsored sports events, for those who love a challenge!

We will be focusing on new projects and looking to spread our wings, helping even more underprivileged children.

The charity, through various fund-raisers, raised a total of 31,248.34 euros last year for the following: *New sports project for the Guardyl Children Centre in Granadilla *Essential school books and materials for the same children *Summer activities for Guardyl and the CEE School for disabled in Guargacho *Funding academy and language courses *Christmas gifts for the children *Essential equipment for the CEE Disabled, supporting individual cases for which we have purchased essential equipment for underprivileged families All this work was achieved with the continued support from local businesses and fund-raising events.

We are immensely proud that the charity is growing, and that we are making a difference, and helping those in need.

Thank you all for your continued support, and we look forward to seeing you again at one of our fund-raising events soon.

If you want to support our local charity, we would love to hear from you.

Thank you, and best wishes for 2016.

Kind regards, Liz Montague & team

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Pharmacy Information and Locator (24 hours) Tel: 922 28 24 24 Citizen Information Tel: 010 Postal Services Tel: 902 19 71 97 International Operator Tel: 11825 Local Operator Tel: 11818 Tourist Information Tel: 922 60 55 90 Hospitals & Medical Centres (Answering Machine) Tel: 094 Hospital Las Americas, Playa de las Americas Tel: 922 75 00 22 Playa de Las Americas Centro Medicos Del Sur Tel: 922 79 10 00 Candelaria Hospital Tel: 922 60 20 00

Tourist Offices Tenerife Sur Tourist Office (Main Tourist Office) Tel: 902 00 31 21 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Tel: 922 28 93 94 Santiago de Teide Tel: 922 86 03 48 Costa Adeje Tel: 922 75 06 33 Puerto de la Cruz Tel: 922 38 60 00 El Medano Tel: 922 17 60 02 La Laguna Tel: 922 63 11 94 La Orotava Tel: 922 32 30 41 Las Galletas Tel: 922 73 01 33 Los Cristianos Tel: 922 75 71 37 Los Llanos de Aridane Tel: 922 40 18 99 Playa de las Américas Tel: 922 79 76 68 Playa de las Vistas Tel: 922 78 70 11

Beach Safety Obey the beach warning flags and always supervise children when near water.

Red - Strong currents do not swim

Tour Operators TUI/ Thomson Tel: 922 761 201 Thomas Cook Tel: 922 757 409 Cosmos Tel: 922 793 802

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Green - Safe to swim

Pro-Vitro Turbo roller-boots, plus safety pads & carry bag, size 36-37 as new 30 euros. Decathlon boy’s bike, suitable up to 10 yrs, 30 euros.

Pine bunk beds can be separated into singles 100 euros ono. Tel 607 641 246 Baby/infant wooden cot with as-new mattress and mobile, 35 euros.

Byberite baby car-seat, as new, 25 euros. Byberite baby pram, as new (carry cot part only - no wheel base),15 euros. Fisher-Price baby/infant rocker, 15 euros. Baby bath, 3 euros. Men’s calf-length, tan or dark-brown, leather cowboy boots, barely worn, size 46 (11),10 euros each pair. Can deliver. Tel 603 196 400 2 blue-cloth sofas - comfy 3-seater (width 190cm, depth 80cm); 2-seater (W, 150cm, D, 80cm) collection only, Costa Adeje. 225 euros the pair Tel: 922 392 216.

Bosch angle-grinder, 15 euros. Goodmans DVD recorder with manual and remote, 25 euros. “Michel Thomas speak Spanish” 8 CDs, 7 euros. White ceramic plant pot, 30cm diameter, 10 euros. Cylindrical floor-standing fan, blows hot and cold, remote and timer control, hardly used, 25 euros.

Large electric pan with lid, 5 euros. Tile-cutter, 12 euros. Tel: 631 289 730 Matching Laura Ashley curtains with tie-backs and 2 single quilted bed covers with cushions, blue/cream, like new, 55 euros. Tel: 667 064 791

Transport TFS - Tenerife Sur Airport (Reina Sofia) For flights from the Spanish mainland and nearly all scheduled international flights.

Telephone numbers: Flight Information 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) Airport Information Tel: 922 75 90 00 Tourist Information Tel: 922 392 037 TFN - Tenerife Norte airport (Los Rodeos) For all domestic flights and some scheduled international and mainland services.

Telephone numbers: Flight Information Tel: 902 404 704 (lines open 24 hours) General Information Tel: 922 635 800

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A bar and restaurant are looking for enthusiast and hard working people to join their team. This is a great opportunity to be part of a new and exciting business that will be opening in Playa de las Americas on the famous Veronica strip. Positions being recruited are: chef'/ cooks, waiters/ waitresses and promotions. Please send C.V's to ujtenerife@gmail.com or call 625 251 985

Cars/BIKES

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El Madronal - 800€

Los Castanos, (From April 2016), 2 bed apartment with large terrace south facing with sea views, both bedrooms of double size with fitted wardrobes, pool on complex and has secure parking space.

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San Eugenio – 630€

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Buses TITSA is Tenerife´s public bus company.

Tel: 922 53 13 00 The ´Bono-Bus´ discount card can be purchased from all TITSA stations and terminals of TITSA and reduces the cost of transport by up to 30%.

San Eugenio Alto - 900€

Monteray, (From April 2016), 2 bed villa with large wrap around terrace areas with stunning views, lot´s of outside space, fully fitted kitchen and enclosed garage parking.

Chayofa – 995€

Los Lomas, (From March 2016), 2 bed 2 bath townhouse with private plunge pool, south facing terrace with sea views, independent fully fitted kitchen and has enclosed garage parking.

Local 1, Edif Sur Y Sol, Av Londres, Los Cristianos

Radio Taxis Tel: 922 64 11 12 N.B. Taxi cabs display a special SP (Servico Público) licence plate.

Arona Taxis Tel: 922 74 75 11

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National Ferry Services Fred Olsen Tel: 922 62 82 52

Acer keyboard black, as new, 10 euros. Lexmark printer-scanner & instruction book, ink refill, new kit inc, 25 euros. Logitech black keyboard, as new, 10 euros. Lady’s 3-piece luggage set: 2 halfmoon-shaped cases, large & med, 1 vanity case for make-up/ toiletries, all hardly used, tapestry design with roses, 25 euros.

New-born baby front-carrier, navy-blue, 5 euros. Child backcarrier red, with storage pockets, 15 euros. Brass cornet, 130 euros ono. Cane floor-standing unit with glass doors at top, shelf below, 3 drawers at bottom, painted white, 40 euros ono, Los Cristianos Centre. Tel: 922 794 790 or 699 199 392 & whats app for photos

A359. SANTA MARIA, Torviscas.

Studio: Excellent apartment on apart-hotel with plenty of services on-site.

95.000 Euros

B1559. PARQUE SANTIAGO, PLAYA DE LAS AMERICAS.

Duplex apt on the top floor consisting of lounge, fully fitted kitchen, bathroom, double bedroom, with an attractive terrace.

Communal pool.

179.000 Euros

Auction Fortnightly General Auctions at Tenerife Auction Rooms, Las Chafiras. Buy and sell almost anything! Collection & delivery available. Call 609 303 634

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Transport available. Call Tracey on 666 857 991 or email on info@tenerifetranslationservices.com

Travel agents

Long term car rental (1 x week) from 200 euro per month. We pick up full insurance and breakdown. Please telephone 642 756 473 for fast polite service

Doctor

Removals

Chiropodist Ann Malpass M.A.F.H.P. M.C.F.H.P. Qualified Chiropodist.

All your foot care needs solved in the comfort of your own home/hotel. Tel 625 799 570 Elaine Watson Jones MSSCh MBChA. Home/Hotel visits from Los Gigantes to El Medano. Tel: 608 029 790.

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UNIVERSAL EXPORTS S.L. PROFESSIONAL REMOVALS TO AND FROM THE U.K. Email: info@removals-tenerife.com Transport Licence: No. 11572932 C.I.F. No. B38820395 Tel: 922 720 711

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Storage Short and Long Term Storage available at Tenerife Auction Rooms, anything from a suitcase to complete removals. Collection available. Call 609 303 634

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Heavyweights in demand CD Tenerife 1 Alcorcon 2

By Roscoe

It’s Gaffers to lose WE’RE back in action after a short Christmas break and, it seems, an over-indulgence of turkey and alcohol hasn’t affected the leading Direct Telecom League teams.

Current league leaders Gaffers A faced a tricky trip to Chayofa to face Treehouse A, who have their own title ambitions. As expected, it was a close match with neither team giving anything away.

Into the final stretch, it was neck-and-neck, but Gaffers are always strong in the final frames. The match was nicely poised at 6-5 to the visitors and so much rested on that last frame. Neil has been top stick for a couple of years and he showed no nerves as he took the 12th frame, the three points and, barring a massive choke, the title!

Last year’s runnersup, Tenerife Hammers A, have been quietly going about their business in recent weeks moving into second place after sneaking a few make-up matches.

Over Christmas, they just got the better of Tenerife Hammers C with a 7-5 win, and then sneaked home against Palms A by the same score.

A week later, they faced Palms A again, and this time they had learned their lesson. Hammers finished every chance they had and probably produced their best performance of the season. One shot from Paul late on was genuinely world-class, and the 10-2 scoreline was about right.

Palms B took advantage of Treehouse A’s loss to move into fourth spot. They had a home tie against Tenerife Hammers C and slipped back into a winning groove with ease. A few of the early games were close, but the home side were always in control even Paul managed to

win a few frames!

So it’s Happy Days for Palms B, but worrying times for Tony and his Hammers who are now rock-bottom. Will this finally be the season that sees them go down?

Realistically, it looks between the bottom four, but one team will be starting to sweat.

Terrace Bantams were flying high back in November and even managed to get a Tenerife Pool Tables cup bye as they were in sixth place.

Today, though, they are 10th with just one win since the start of October. On Tuesday they lost again at The Phoenix. Bantams took the first two frames but then the wheels fell off as they lost the next seven, and the match.

Bantams have Dreamers A, Gaffers A, Rewind and Tenerife Hammers A for their next four matches - all top-six sides!

Things are getting a little congested in mid-table as teams are jostling for position, Phoenix Potters have moved up nicely and this week saw them in Las Americas playing Gaffers B. It was young against old and, across the early frames, both sides were picking up frames. But the Los Abrigos pensioners have been around long enough to know what it takes to get their noses in front.

And once they had a lead they retained it, taking a good three points home with them. They are picking up at the right time of the season.

Terrace Roosters made an excellent start to 2016 with a home win against Bluebell A. They flew out of the traps, taking the first four frames. And despite the away team taking a couple of frames in the next section, Roosters were well in control.

division 1 ResultS Gaffers B Palms Bar B Tenerife Hammers A Terrace Roosters The Phoenix Treehouse A

5-7 8-4 10 - 2 8-4 8-4 5 - 7

Phoenix Potters Tenerife Hammers C Palms Bar A Bluebell A Terrace Bantams Gaffers A

division 1 Table Table

P W D L F

A +- PTS

1 Gaffers A

19 16

2

1 155 73

82

50

2 Tenerife Hammers A

20 13

4

3 142 98

44

43

3 Dreamers A

18 12

3

3 127 89

38

39

4 Palms Bar B

19 12

3

4 131 97

34

39

5 Treehouse A

19 11

5

3 135 93

42

38

6 Rewind A

18

9

1

8 115 101 14

28

7 Phoenix Potters

19

7

5

7 109 119 -10 26

8 Exiles A

19

8

1

10 104 124 -20 25

9 Gaffers B

19

6

6

7 112 116 -4

10 Terrace Bantams

20

7

2

11 114 126 -12 23

11 The Phoenix

18

5

3

10 103 113 -10 18

12 Bluebell A

20

5

1

14 100 140 -40 16

13 Palms Bar A

20

4

3

13 94 146 -52 15

14 Terrace Roosters

20

5

0

15 86 154 -68 15

15 Tenerife Hammers C 20

3

3

14 101 139 -38 12

The win, and results elsewhere, lifted them off the bottom and gave them hope for the second half of the season.

Like the Bantams, they have a tough finish, but this victory gives them a fighting chance.

In Division Two, the promotion battle is really starting to warm up.

Current leaders Crown B got the New Year off to a winning start with a home game against Dreamers B. They started strongly and soon put frames on the board.

Dreamers battled away but just couldn’t match their opponents, and Crown B are now six points clear at the top with a game in hand. The title is theirs to lose!

Splash Bar have moved nicely through the table and find themselves in second place.

This week, they hosted basement team Sabores in what could have been a tricky tie. There was some good pool played by both sides and the visitors recorded one of their highest frame tally.

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However, Splash were too strong and took the points, yet I reckon Sabores are not far from that first win.

Treehouse B had been going well at the top, but in recent weeks their form has dropped away. They travelled to play Rewind Rewired - and came away shellshocked! The home side were in fine form, as were Treehouse, and all the frames were close. But Rewind took the blacks when it mattered, and the three points.

Picasso’s A, also in the promotion hunt, took another step closer to their rivals with a fine victory at Hoppy’s B. Fran is proving a very astute captain and, with early frames being swapped and neither team taking control, her order-of-play later on proved to be the key.

Picasso’s took a slight advantage and then, when it mattered, saw the game out for another solid win.

Tenerife Pool Tables, looking for a top-half finish, are in good form. An

division 2 ResultS Bluebell B Hoppys B Rewind Rewired Splash Bar The Crown B Picasso’s A Rewind Rewired Tenerife Pool Tables

4-8 5-7 11 - 1 8-4 9-3 6-6 9-3 4-8

Tenerife Pool Tables Picasso’s A Treehouse B Sabores Dreamers B Treehouse B Hoppys B The Crown B

division 2 Table Table

P

W D

1 The Crown B

18 14

2

2 Splash Bar

19 11

3 Treehouse B

L

F

A

+- PTS

2 143

73

70 44

5

3 137

91

46 38

19 11

5

3 128 100

28 38

4 Picasso’s A

18 11

3

4 131

85

46 36

5 Bluebell B

17 10

1

6 117

87

30 31

6 Tenerife Pool Tables

18

8

3

7 117

99

18 27

7 Rewind Rewired

16

8

2

6 109

83

26 26

8 Hoppys B

14

5

1

8

68

100 -32 16

9 Hoppys A

18

4

3

11 91

125 -34 15

10 Dreamers B

19

3

0

16 79

149 -70 9

11 Sabores

20

0

1

19 56

184 -128 1

away tie against Bluebell B is always difficult, but TPT are full of confidence and when they took some early frames, it spurred them on.

Bluebell B, who just couldn’t get into their stride, managed a few good frames, but the visitors were the better team and deserved the win.

This week, we break from league action for the Tenerife Pool Tables Cup and Plate. There are some fine ties and, maybe, the odd shock in the offing.

Divison 2 leaders

Crown B will be confident of doing Palms B in Valle San Lorenzo, while-in form Picasso’s host Treehouse A, who have had a sticky few weeks.

There is also a Phoenix derby, but the tie of the round sees Hammers A hosting new boys Rewind Rewired, who are tearing up the second tier.

In the Plate, Splash Bar should give Gaffers B a match - and will this be the week Sabores finally get a win? Tenerife Hammers C look there for the taking!

Tenerife Pool Tables Cup 2nd Round

Palms A v Terrace Bantams Rewind A v Dreamers A Bluebell A v Gaffers A Terrace Roosters v Exiles A Crown B v Palms B Picasso’s v Treehouse A Tenerife Hammers A v Rewind Rewired Phoenix Potters v The Phoenix

Tenerife Pool Tables Plate 1st round Hoppys A v Treehouse B Dreamers B v Bluebell B Gaffers B v Splash Bar Sabores v Tenerife Hammers C TPT v Hoppys B

WE know that Greavsie’s famous quote is right, but it needs a tweak. How about, “Tenerife are a funny old football team”!

Just when they seem to be making progress they take four steps backwards.

It wasn’t the defeat because in this crazy league, anyone can beat anyone. There just seems to be something

missing. Even when Tenerife have been rubbish, they have always had some home form.

They have only won three matches in Santa Cruz this season and that is not good enough.

In fact, it is now just one win in six, and Tenerife have developed the deadly tick of starting slowly.

Like the Valladolid match, they were caught napping in the first half. Faustino Tienza’s deflected opener was bad luck, but the second Alcorcon goal was criminal.

Maybe Dani was still smarting from picking the ball out of the net when he gave away a penalty that should

have seen him given a red card as well.

David Rodriguez was never going to miss from 12 yards. He’s a funny player. Kicked out by Brighton in the summer of 2014, he was our firstchoice striker during that transfer window.

But he didn’t fancy the move to our Island and went to Alcorcon, where he hasn’t stopped scoring. He is the league’s top scorer and this pen was his 31st in 18 months.

Tenerife did the traditional late rally, and Choco’s goal did give hope. However, Alcorcon knew their job as they achieved the win they deserved.

They are a good side

and will surely be thereabouts at the end of the season. They are a big, physical outfit and, at times, dwarfed Tenerife.

It’s always our Achilles heel. Boy do we like our Super Smurfs!

And in some way, this is actually the problem. Vitolo, Aitor and Suso are the heart of our team, but they are all showing their age.

Position

We urgently need some new blood in the midfield, and it needs to be competitive.

Tenerife desperately need some physicality.

A six-footer with a tackle in the locker. Since Alberto lost his place after playing like a headless chicken, Tenerife have lost that bite.

With Omar and Cristo, both fine prospects, we

are simply too lightweight. In the same standard in England, all the Championship sides have that muscle. That grizzled stick-yourboot-in, dogs-of-war mentality. The top sides in Spain have it as well.

Oviedo, Cordoba and especially Nastic. It’s the difference between the play-off’s and looking over your shoulder.

Points

PLD

Won

Draw

Lost

F

A

1

Deportivo Alavés

36

19

11

3

5

26

17

2

Córdoba CF

33

19

10

3

6

25

22

3

Real Oviedo

32

19

9

5

5

28

23

4

AD Alcorcón

31

19

9

4

6

25

20

5

Club Atlético Osasuna

31

19

9

4

6

24

20

6

Gimnàstic de Tarragona

30

19

8

6

5

22

19

7

CD Mirandés

28

19

7

7

5

29

23

8

CD Leganés

28

19

6

10

3

22

16

9

Real Zaragoza

28

19

7

7

5

22

18

10

CD Lugo

27

19

6

9

4

20

20

11

Elche CF

27

19

7

6

6

19

23

12

SD Ponferradina

26

19

7

5

7

24

20

13

CD Numancia de Soria

24

19

5

9

5

28

28

14

Real Valladolid CF

24

19

6

6

7

22

22

15

Girona FC

22

19

5

7

7

18

18

16

CD Tenerife

22

19

5

7

7

24

29

17

SD Huesca

21

19

4

9

6

19

23

18

RCD Mallorca

20

19

4

8

7

14

18

19

Albacete Balompié

20

19

5

5

9

21

26

20

UD Almería

17

19

3

8

8

20

28

21

UE Llagostera

17

19

5

2

12

19

29

22

Athletic Club B

15

19

3

6

10

10

19

Golf hero Christy dies on the Island C H R I S T Y O’Connor Jnr, the colourful Irishman who played a key role as Europe retained the 1989 Ryder Cup, died in his sleep in Tenerife on Wednesday, aged 67.

The Galway star is remembered for a stunning 2-iron into the 18th green at the Belfry 27 years ago during his singles match with Fred Couples.

That remarkable shot finished a few feet from

the hole, putting pressure on Couples, who faltered with his approach and failed to get up and down from the fringe.

There were emotional scenes following O’Connor’s win, which led to Europe retaining the trophy following a 14-14 tie overall.

O’Connor, who struggled at the 1975 Ryder Cup, won four European Tour events during his career.

He led the 1985 Open after the first round at Royal St George’s following a 64 and, ultimately, finished jointthird behind the triumphant Sandy Lyle.

The Irishman, who went on to win two Senior British Open titles, was also renowned for designing courses.

His compatriot, Shane Lowry, tweeted: “Very sad news today about Christy O’Connor Jnr. An absolute legend of Irish golf.

Thoughts and prayers go out to his family and loved ones.”

South African legend Gary Player wrote: “Saddened to hear of the passing of Irishman Christy O’Connor Jnr. He was a super golfer & a good friend who was taken too soon”.

Paul McGinley, Europe’s most recent Ryder Cup captain, wrote: “We’ve lost a true Irishman, character and golfer.”

The larger-than-life golfer, nephew of another golfing legend, his uncle of the same name, was a controversial omission from the 1985 Ryder Cup team.

But four years later, captain Tony Jacklin selected him as a wildcard pick.

“We were delighted to have him on the team in 1989 and we couldn’t have retained it without him. He had a great effect on the team,” said Jacklin.

O’Connor’s death was met with shock and disbelief in every walk of life. Ireland Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Enda Kenny said: “I knew Christy personally and he loved and lived life to the full.

“He was a trail-blazer on the European Tour and an example to many aspiring golfers.”

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Stage set for giant-killers

AS is traditional, the FA Cup gets under way in early January. It is one of the most-watched cup competitions in world football as everyone gets behind the smaller teams and hopes for a giantkilling. Here, I take a look at some of the more interesting games. could even make 11 changes from their last league match.

Prediction: Away win

By Adi Benson Exeter City (FL2) v Liverpool (PL)

Despite never meeting in the League, the clubs have faced each other once before in the FA Cup - a 194950 Fourth-Round tie, which the Reds won 3-1 on their way to the final. Liverpool have not lost in the Third Round for five years, while the Grecians haven’t even got this far for 11 years.

In fact, the last time they went any further was in 1981, when they reached the QuarterFinals for a club-best FA Cup performance.

The question is will Liverpool have any fit centre backs? Exeter took Man United to a replay a few seasons ago as well.

Prediction: Away win

West Ham Utd (PL) v Wolverhampton Wanderers (FLC)

This is one of several Third-Round ties which pit former winners against each other.

These clubs have also met just twice in FA Cup, the Hammers winning both times convincingly 5-1 in 1910 and 3-1 in 2004. Wolves have lost their last five FA Cup-ties but are on a nice little run. They have won their last three matches without conceding a goal and Slaven Bilic has hinted that he will rest a few of West Ham’s star players.

Will Wolves get a result

Eastleigh (NL) v Bolton Wanderers (FLC)

and make this the last ever FA Cup match at Upton Park?

Prediction: Away win

Newport County (FL2) v Blackburn Rovers (FLC)

The Exiles are into the Third Round for the first time since reforming in 1989, and it’s a further three years since the previous club made it this far. This will be the first FA Cup meeting between the clubs in either guise.

Rovers’ last four knockouts have been QF, 3rd Round, QF, 3rd Round.

Neither side is in any great form and this could be a coin toss.

My Prediction: Away win

Ipswich Town (FLC) v Portsmouth (FL2)

The clubs have been drawn together just twice before, both times in the Third Round, both times this Century, both times at Portman Road - and both times Pompey came away with a 1-0

victory. Ipswich have lost their last five Third-Round matches, while Portsmouth are in the Third Round for first time in four years.

Ipswich have had a good few weeks and Pompey have a bigger target this season.

Prediction: Home win

Manchester Utd (PL) v Sheffield United (FL1)

While Manchester United have won three of the four FA Cup meetings between the two clubs, the Blades have actually won more than twice as many FA Cup ties over the past four years than their Premier League opponents (15 against 7). The Blades are also the last third-tier side to make it to the Semi-Finals, just two years ago. They have a fine Cup pedigree and United look there for the taking.

Prediction: Away win

Doncaster Rovers (FL1) v Stoke City (PL)

Just one previous FA Cup meeting between the two clubs was

won 1-0 by Rovers in a 1930 Third-Round tie.

Stoke haven’t failed to go beyond the Third Round for seven years.

But Rovers haven’t made the Fourth Round for six years. That said they are a free flowing side and Stoke may just be showing signs of tiredness.

They have done great in the league and have a League Cup semi final second leg on the horizon.

Something may have to give.

Prediction: Home win

Hull City (FLC) v Brighton and Hove Albion (FLC)

Three previous FA Cup meetings sees the Seagulls with a twoto-one win advantage, although the Tigers won their last meeting, in the 5th Round, two years ago on their way to the final. Brighton have gone beyond the Third Round in each of the last six seasons.

This could be a funny match with both managers admitting that promotion is the aim this season. Hull

Unsurprisingly, this is the first FA Cup meeting between the two clubs, given that The Spitfires are into the Third Round for the first time ever in what is their 39th FA Cup campaign.

Bolton haven’t failed to go beyond the Third Round for seven years.

Eastleigh are having a great season and backed by big money they could be playing in the Football League next season. They will have a real go at a Bolton side that are in disarray on and off the field.

Prediction: Home win

Tottenham Hotspur (PL) v Leicester City (PL)

The most common match-up of the Third Round and the only tie of the round repeating a Cup Final, the 1961 affair, which Spurs won 2-0. Of their 10 FA Cup meetings, Spurs have had the upper hand in seven of them, although the first meeting in 1913-14 season ended in a 5-5 draw. There will be no Jamie Vardy for the highflying Foxes and they could field a host of squad players.

Spurs will

fancy a cup run as well.

Prediction: Home win

Watford (PL) v Newcastle United (PL)

These teams have met three times in the FA Cup, with Newcastle up 2 -1 in wins, although the game which The Hornets won in 1988/89 was at the fourth time of asking. Newcastle have lost their last three Third-Round ties, while the last four seasons saw Watford knocked out in the 4th, 3rd, 4th and 3rd Rounds. This tie will be easy on the eye.

Watford should be strong as they have no relegation worries while for Newcastle it’s a chance to get a win and try and kick start the season.

Prediction: Home win

Arsenal (PL) v Sunderland (PL)

The Gunners are looking for a record-equalling third consecutive FA Cup triumph - a feat achieved only twice before, in the 19th Century, by The Wanderers and Blackburn Rovers. Arsenal start their campaign against a club who have won four of their previous seven meetings, including the last time the two teams met in the competition, in the 5th Round in 2012. Big Sam has as good as revealed he will play the ‘stiffs’ at the Emirates and it could be a case of how many will the Gunners get.

Prediction: Home win

Chelsea on the ball, at last!

WE just about got through the festive and New Year period as the games came thick and fast - and it was certainly a time to be on your toes as an Oasis Fm Fantasy League manager.

Juggling suspensions and injuries made it more of a challenge, and the final point-scoring weekend of the festive period saw a lot of subdued performances and low point-scoring.

The team of the week reflected Chelsea’s first

half-decent performance as they featured three players. West Brom had two and the rest came from Bournemouth, Arsenal, West Ham, Norwich, Sunderland and Man Utd. Chelsea’s Oscar was player of the week with 14 points.

Although we all had plenty of great pointscoring opportunities, the top of the league hasn’t really changed.

It’s still the same old names, but in a slightly different order.

Neil’s Gooners, managed by Neil Lobban, lead the way on 1,166 points, Frank Devaney’s Baines On Toast moved into second spot with 1,161 points, while Trevor Passingham’s Passo Utd, who led going into Christmas, have dropped to third on 1,151 points.

My ones to watch during the run-in are Jamie Palmer’s Spartans, who are nicely-placed in fourth with 1,144 points.

Team of the week were Harpers Eleven, man-

aged by Wez Harper, with a score of 63 points. His star players were Cech, Koscielny and Martial, who all scored double figures, contributing 37 points to his total. What, no West Ham players?

It is FA Cup weekend this weekend, but the League returns to action on Tuesday, so check your team to make sure you don’t get caught out with players missing through injury, especially if they are attached to Liverpool!

Fantasy Football League

1. Neils Gooners

Neil Lobban

40 1166

2. Baines on Toast

Frank Devaney

43 1161

3. Passo united

Trevor Passingham

31 1151

4. SpArTaNs

Jamie Palmer

38 1144

5. Frankenstein united Lee Walsh

38 1127

6. Untouchables

David Retberg

38 1118

7. Barrstards

Ian Barr

43 1101

8. Roscoe’s Wanderers Ross Browning

59 1101

9. Kanye Best

Jay Merrick

38 1096

10. Debbie’s Boys

Debra Lamon

37 1096

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