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Ice-cool Rajoy set for victory Issue 965 5th August - 11th August 2016

MARIANO Rajoy, Spain’s acting Prime Minister, is definitely a card sharp, because that poker face in crucial meetings must really annoy his enemies.

His steely resolve in front of the media hides a working brain that might, just might, have the right plan to unlock the mess that is the Spanish political system.

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Rajoy’s playing his cards right Continued from Front And make no mistake, it is a real mess. As we went to press yesterday evening (Thursday) there were initial signs that a coalition government could be formed - just a couple of days after a third General Election was on the cards!

Let’s take you back to last Thursday, when Rajoy met King Felipe.

It was the first time the two men had met since the second general election, and, after leading the Popular Party to victory, Rajoy was formally asked by the King to try to form a government.

This was accepted, and Rajoy was confident he could secure a coalition, even though, wisely, he told the King he couldn’t promise that he would actually get the seats for reinstatement.

“The King has asked me to submit to an investiture vote, and I explained to him that, for now, I don’t have enough support, but that I accept his request,” said Rajoy after the one-hour meeting.

According to Spain’s Constitution, once a candidate submits to a congressional vote to become the next Prime Minister, a countdown begins. If no nominee is successful, parliament is dissolved and new elections called.

This is precisely what happened after the 20th December election, when Rajoy refused to stand for reinstatement on the basis that

he lacked support from other parties, and that his bid was doomed to fail.

Rajoy was deliberately vague regarding his plans for the near future after his one-on-one meeting with Felipe VI. “It is not wise, in any aspect of life, to get ahead of oneself,” he said.

The PP leader admitted that the only support he had was from his own 137 deputies in Congress.

But Rajoy, who needs 176 seats for a clear majority, is willing to seek them only among what he describes as the “constitutionalist parties”.

This means only the Socialists and reform party Ciudadanos, both of which reject the kind of independence referendums championed

by Catalan and Basque separatists, and accepted by the anti-austerity Podemos.

Rajoy said he would keep trying to negotiate a governing programme with these parties to have some guarantee of success at the investiture vote.

“I will seek support to form a moderate government and a calendar for it,” he said.

Rajoy is in a hurry to get a government in motion because he wants to honour EU fiscal policy deadlines, which require the spending ceiling and the 2017 budget to be passed.

Ciudadanos said they would be willingly to sit down with the PP if Rajoy stepped aside in

favour of another candidate, while the PSOE flatly rejected any contact with the PP.

By Tuesday, the situation looked dire. With the King adamant he wanted a working Government in place ASAP, and despite politicians saying they would work to form a government, come what may before the Election, there was total gridlock.

Rajoy warned other leaders that the time for electioneering was over.

“The time has come to build, to overcome our differences and to provide the solution that Spaniards are waiting for,” he said. “The time has come to talk, to pool our efforts and to work together.”

Rajoy, who met briefly with PSOE leader Pedro Sanchez, said: “I asked him to unlock the situation and I think it is possible to do this. It is necessary and it is possible. I will do everything to avoid the scenario of another election. A third election would be utter madness.”

But it fell on deaf ears, Sanchez saying: “The Socialist Party is the alternative to the Popular Party and, therefore, the Socialist Party will not take part in any grand coalition. We will not support what we want to change.”

Rajoy feels that he has won the Election twice and doesn’t need to do so a third time to prove

he is the man to lead Spain.

He has a point. By maintaining this stance, he is trying to draw someone out. The acting PM must feel that a third election would see the public turning on the smaller parties for scuppering their electoral will. Maybe others have also realised because on Wednesday, there was a break when Rajoy spoke with Ciudadanos leader Albert Rivera. meeting face to face for the first time since the election.

Bearing in mind Rivera’s call for Rajoy to step down, it was remarkable that they both left the meeting in a positive frame of mind.

In essence, they agreed

to discuss a 2017 budget formally. And both men said they hoped to have this agreed and before parliament by mid-October.

The fact that they will formally meet again next week is massive.

“This is a first step and, as you know, even the longest journey always starts with a first step,” Rajoy told a news conference.

Ciudadanos, which came fourth in both elections, has too few seats to form a parliamentary majority with the PP alone, but it would put them very close.

And Rivera leapt on this saying: “Pedro Sanchez, and his party should accept a PP-led minority government.

If he keeps up his inflexible ‘No, No, No’ stance, Spain will be condemned to a perpetual blockage, and an unprecedented institutional crisis.”

Yesterday (Thursday), Rajoy announced that his PP had drafted a list of 10 policy proposals as the basis of coalition talks, and that he and Rivera had agreed to discuss the most pressing, the 2017 national budget, first.

Other policies on the list include an education reform, tweaks to labour laws and an overhaul of the regional financing and welfare systems.

Nothing is ever certain in Spanish politics, but the end of a very long road could now be in sight.

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Clavijo hooked on fishing agreement THERE have been some strong words recently about the on-going problems facing Canary Islands fishermen.

And this week, Canarian President Fernando Clavijo expressed his concern.

He claimed the need for exceptions in fisheries agreements with certain countries, especially those from the African continent, because he believes they could harm the Archipelago’s fishing industry.

Clavijo and Narvay Quintero, the national Fisheries Minister, met Karmenu Vella, European Commissioner for Fisheries, in Brussels.

Among the issues discussed were fishing quotas for the Islands, and Clavijo insisted that the Spanish Government and the EU must establish differentiated amounts for the Canaries.

He said that in Article 17 of the Regulation on the Common Fisheries Policy, there was “a clear statement” that there are opt-outs allowed on

quotas, and that the EU should grant one of them to the Canary Islands.

“We have a respectful fleet of fishermen,” he added. “We are mindful of the environment and the marine balance.

“And when certain species pass through the Archipelago, such as those fish that have spawned, which are adult or very young, our fishing does not interfere with the conservation of the environment and those protected species.”

The Canarian President added that once those fish had left the Archipelago waters, they were captured by other fleets, representing economic damage to the sector.

It was a direct ploy by Clavijo to highlight the fishing cultures of countries outside the EU. “The fleet of the Canaries is much more fragile than the mainland because it is small,” he said.

“Hence, any reduction in fishing opportunities influences very significantly in the sector.”

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ADEJE Town Hall, hard on the heels of Arona Council, has this week approved a new law, banning the use of electric vehicles on footpaths, pedestrian zones and public spaces in the borough.

It follows a backlash from pedestrians - tourists and locals who have been plagued by them in both seafront areas.

The scooter menace, highlighted on our front page last week, was the source of various complaints from the people, and from the Policía Local, to the local councils, who now have the power to fine and rid our seafront walkways of these illegal joy-riders.

A statement from Adeje Town Hall said: “The current legal controls are insufficient to meet, adequately, the needs of the public, and allow for a peaceful coexistence between the users of these vehicles and pedestrians.”

The decree has been

approved and published in the BOC - the official Canarian law bulletin - and has now been activated.

It means the local police and relevant bodies, as well as the Department of Traffic, are adopting parallel measures of vigilance and control to meet the new regulations.

The police can now get tough and impose sanctions on individuals AND the scooter rental companies, if they refuse to comply with the new law, which states: “Pedestrian pathways and public spaces have been invaded by a multitude of mechanical and electrical apparatus and elements.”

This proliferation has seen in excess of 300 vehicles, rented out by 10 licensed businesses, whose licences were granted under decree 497/2014, October 8th.

To be precise, the newly-approved decree overturns that ruling and reverts to the original law, established to regulate Mobility and the Use of the Public Domain, under Article 45.

That spells out the prohibition of these

electric-driven vehicles on pavements and pedestrian zones.

Adeje Town Hall’s decision was taken following a number of reports prepared by the Council’s Department of Tourism, Innovation and Accessibility, as well as the local police.

The spark was lit on 25th July when Arona Council led the way by spelling out the situation at a meeting with a dozen owners of companies in Arona and Adeje, who rent out the electric scooters.

At a fiery encounter, the Council reminded them that, according to national law, these types of vehicles could be used in pedestrian areas by people with disabilities only.

Arona Deputy Mayor Jose Antonio Reveron, who chaired the meeting, reminded everyone that his Town Hall would swiftly ensure compliance with the law to guarantee the safety of pedestrians.

This included restrictions of vehicles, and a ban on bicycles on pavements.

Reveron said the tightening of controls on these vehicles had to be enforced, be-

cause both state and local regulations made it crystal clear that only certain “vehicles” could use the pedestrian zone.

He also stressed that the use of said vehicles was restricted to persons with reduced mobility, either by a temporary or permanent disability.

Reveron made it clear that Arona had, for years, a specific regulation on these vehicles.

And since April 2015, he said, the local police had impounded over 500 “electrical scooters” - a practice that will be stepped up!

Arona Tourism Councillor David Perez told the meeting that to avoid conflicts with other municipalities especially Adeje - there had been a unilateral agreement which ensured that people with reduced mobility only could use scooters on the pavements.

It was also announced that councils would draw up specific regulations on what restrictions they could put in place for those qualified to use the vehicles.

Numerous complaints from residents and tourists, especially in

Collapsed road faces even more upheaval CABILDO President Carlos Alonso believes it is “very likely” that the access to Punta de Teno, in Buenavista del Norte, where the road collapsed last month, will be severely disrupted over the next few weeks.

And vehicle access will be entrusted solely to public-transport company Titsa. The road damage appears to be worse than initially thought and it will take a bigger repair job, and more time, to resolve.

Alonso said it was possible that the road’s collapse, which occurred on 12th July, was extremely complicated to solve.

“Once we can get a safe passage through for the short-term, it will be free to residents in the area only, and to workers in the tomato business and fishermen.

“Casual visitors will have to leave vehicles in Buenavista del Norte and use public transport.”

The Cabildo has approved the hiring of more workers for emergency work on the road, which will include consolidating the existing wall. Its budget is nearly 250,000 euros.

The Cabildo’s aim is

that vehicular traffic will be controlled at the end of September, and it could be some time before it is unlimited and free-flowing again.

Alonso’s ministers are mulling over a plan for Titsa to launch a new bus service from Buenavista del Norte.

“The most sensible thing would be for a local company to carry out that task,” he said.

“I hope we’ll have a Titsa pilot route to begin with in October or November.”

He admitted: “The cause of the collapse is still unknown, and there is no obvious reason that we can see.

There has been deterioration of the wall, but other factors also seem to be at play.”

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Adeje and Arona, all stressed that these vehicles - not driven legitimately by people with disabilities, obviously - were causing conflict and were dangerous.

“They were driven with not even some basic consideration for pedestrians or other users, resulting in injury and material damage,” wrote one Adeje protester.

The new Adeje law, which will halt these activities, also refers to reports of “racing and group activity at high speed along pavements, creating not only discomfort and danger for pedestrians, but also causing accidents among themselves”.

An Adeje Town Hall statement said: “It means we have now arrived at an untenable situation regarding coexistence between pedestrians and the users

of these machines.”

This week’s result must be seen as a genuine people’s triumph

in Tenerife - people who rebelled against this needless intrusion and refused to be bul-

Power boost for poorest families SOME 120,000 householders in the Canary Islands, considered to be in the fuel-poverty sector, could receive a 25% discount on their electric bills.

Those who qualify must be earning below an agreed figure, such as people who are 60 and above, who receive the minimum state pension and have large families.

Nestor Hernandez, Commissioner of Social Inclusion and Poverty Reduction, presented the Canarian Government with a strategy for families to escape fuel poverty.

One snag is a current regulation, which states that the discount can be applied only to housing with power installed

for more than 20 years.

But that will almost certainly be overcome because Hernandez has called for the rule to be reviewed, to enable all potential beneficiaries in the Canaries to be eligible.

Some recent studies have claimed that between 8% and 15% of families are suffering energy poverty.

The Hernandez strategy proposes measures to be implemented by the Canarian Government and the state, as well as co-operation with local operators within municipalities.

They also include the implementation of a training and employ-

ment programme, as well as energy-efficiency guidelines.

Among other things, the plan aims to eliminate the costs involved in switching electricitysupply contracts.

Hernandez also presented the main conclusions of the report on inequality, poverty and social cohesion in the Canaries.

It appears that poverty in the islands is not a temporary problem because of the economic crisis but is, in fact, a structural situation, resulting from low income, high expenses and decreased productivity.

Among its findings, the report also highlights that work is no guarantee of escaping poverty.

Poor households with members employed, it says, have increased, which accounts for the phenomenon of working poverty.

lied by these unlawful, electric-scooter riders.

The plug has been pulled on them at last,

and the law will be hailed by locals and tourists in Adeje and Arona especially.

They can now enjoy their stroll along the sea-front … without fear!

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Tourism record smashed again!

THE Canaries expect to exceed 14 million tourists by the end of the year, according to estimates by the Department of Studies and Research Promotur Turismo de Canarias, a public company attached to the Ministry of Tourism, Culture and Sports.

Canarian Tourism Minister Maria Teresa Lorenzo says the latest data, provided by the Canarian Institute of Statistics (Istac), reveals that we are in for a record year.

Calculations for the final figures of 2015 were literally spot-on at this stage last year, so it’s adding up to an even brighter 2016.

Last year’s review pre-

dicted 12,950,853 visitors, and the final influx of tourists to the Islands was 13.3m, said the Minister. This year’s brilliant results so far show that foreign-tourist arrivals, from January to June, are up by 741,540 compared with the first half of 2015.

And we already know there is a higher demand in the Canary Islands this summer, both in the international sector and those visiting from the peninsular.

The increase is around 13%. And the number of flight bookings to the Archipelago for the 2016/2017 winter season is “around 17% higher than last winter - and last winter was itself a

record”, said Lorenzo.

“The facts speak for themselves. We are going to have another Canarian record regarding the number of visitors.”

The Canaries closed 2015 with 13,301,252 tourists, of which 11,810,542 were foreign visitors and 1,490,710 from the Spanish mainland.

In addition, from January to June 2016 - for the first time in history - the barrier of six million foreign tourists for the first half of the year was broken. Officially, there were 6,405,898 international visitors, which was an increase of 13.09% over 2015.

“If we consider that we

closed 2015 with 13.3m tourists, the cumulative increase until June amounts to 741,540 visitors,” said the Canarian Tourism Minister.

“So we can talk about a 2016 closure of more than 14 million tourists - and that is impressive!”

According to the Regular Air Connectivity in the Canary Islands report, which produces Promotur Turismo de Canarias, the supply of seats for the current summer season - from April to October - is 9,512,019, which is 16% more than planned on the same summer 2015 dates.

And that’s 1,310,143 more tourists accounted for!

South’s desalination plant all set to make big splash THE Canarian Government is on course to deliver a promise to the Island Water Council that the first of two desalination plants in the South of Tenerife will be operational in September.

The Granadilla de Abona plant, which has undergone beta-testing - establishing the water quality - since last June, will initially have a production capacity of 21,000 cubic metres per day, extending in the future to 42,000cu/m, should be open in a few weeks.

Juan Ramon Felipe, General Director of Aguas del Gobierno de Canarias, told the press this week that the definitive tests, required to connect the plant to the electricity grid, were the only fly in the ointment.

“This is down to Endesa, and that process requires that the entire procedure is in order,” he said.

“The requirements

demanded for this are tricky as we dealing with large facilities; hence the Canarian Government proceeds with caution.”

It is a wise move because Canarian officials want everything fully in place before handing over control to the Island Water Board and the privately-owned company, which will be responsible for maintenance.

Felipe added: “The ultimate test is as if you’ve said you already have the house to live in. You turn up,, turn on the lights to check that everything is correct -

and breathe a sigh of relief when it all is. That is us. We want deliver it in perfect fashion.”

The Granadilla desalination plant, built on a plot of 18,000asq/m in the industrial area, will cover El Poris, Arico, San Isidro, El Medano, Los Abrigos, Granadilla, Amarilla Golf, San Blas, San Miguel and Arona.

The budget totalled 30 million euros, which included grants from the water departments of the European Union, the Canarian and Spanish Governments.

While the Granadilla plant will, fingers-

crossed, be opened next month officially, the Fonsalía plant in Guia de Isora will have to wait some time.

The Canarian Government’s Water Department confirmed that it would be at least before the end of the year, before it can step up testing.

The geographical area to be covered by that plant will run throughout the South, from Adeje to Santiago del Teide. It includes Armeñime, Playa Paraiso, Abama, Playa de San Juan, Alcala, Varadero, Playa de La Arena and Los Gigantes.

Canarian transplants pass hundred mark TRANSPLANTS are becoming more common in the Canary Islands, and the need to fly to the mainland may soon be a thing of the past.

Over 100 Canarian people have now had a pancreas transplant, and this week, the man who had the first one met those who operated on him.

Juan Jesus Perez, first in the queue of 102 people in the Canary Islands to receive a pancreas transplant, said: “Fourteen years after the operation, I have a normal life.”

He no longer needs regular hospital visits, daily jabs of insulin or glucose-control measures.

Perez spoke at a press conference to mark the 100-plus pancreas transplants performed at the University Hospital of the Canary Islands (HUC) - one of only six centres in Spain which carries out this procedure.

Juan Jesus Perez said that as a result of Type 1 diabetes, which he suffered from childhood, he began having kidney problems.

He was placed on the waiting list for a transplant - at a time when no pancreas transplants were performed here.

But his life changed when, one morning, he received the call to be the first patient of such

treatment in the Canaries.

On 22nd May 2002, Perez, then 33, had a transplanted liver and pancreas operation under the guidance of Antonio Alarco.

Among those attending the press conference were Health Minister Jesús Morera; the surgeon, Alarco; HUC manager duties, Gilberto Penate; Chief Urologist Thomas Concepcion; HUC Transplant Co-ordinator José Luis Iribarren, and Regional Transplant Co-ordinator Vicente Peña.

Everyone thanked the “gift” donors and their families, and nephrologist Lourdes Perez, head of the pancreastransplant programme, said that the chronic disease affected about 10% of Spain’s adult population.

The kidney and pancreas is the only way that Type 1 diabetics with chronic terminal disease can control glucose.

Lourdes Perez, also said the life expectancy of people with the transplants increases by about 18 years and the quality of life improves in “a radical way”.

Surgeon Antonio Alarco said: “The first transplanted kidney and pancreas of the Islands took a lot of work to do.

It is a similar process today.”

Vicente Peña said there were seven people in the Canary Islands on the waiting list today, of which four were for the “double” pancreas and liver transplant.

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The ring sting THE Olympic Games get underway tonight (Friday) and I’m sure most of you will enjoy them. But it’s not for me.

A bunch of nobodies taking part in sports that people don’t care about it...

It’s just my view.

Don’t get me wrong, I applaud those who have worked tirelessly for years in pursuit of their Olympic dream. The sacrifice is what separates the good from the great.

Or rather, it’s meant to!

As a kid I loved the Olympics.

But then the Seoul Olympiad in 1988 happened. The whole world was genuinely looking forward to the 100m race. You were either behind Carl Lewis or Ben Johnson.

Those few seconds beforehand, you just knew something special was going to happen. Lewis was a little nervous, while Johnson looked pumped up. Literally, of course. Those eyes … burning, bulging.

Johnson flew out of the traps like the proverbial, scolded cat. Lewis strained every sinew to get close, glancing at the man in front of him.

It was in vain as Johnson powered home in a then mind-blowing 9.79 seconds.

It was the sort of performance that inspired.

In our street that night, there must have been 10 of us sprinting from one end to the other, all wanting to be the Canadian superstar.

Just 24 hours later, I was done with Athletics and the Olympics.

They called it the “Dirtiest race in history”. Calvin Smith, famously, was the only runner in the top five never to fail a drugs test.

I never saw the point after that and, as an adult, my views haven’t changed. How many failed tests will there be over the next three weeks, and how many will be revealed in the coming years?

The only way to stop it is to make everything legal. Let the athletes compete on their conscience. Maybe the runners who are clean can run with a little asterisk on their shirts.

Again, it’s just my opinion. I’m sure most of you will love what is ahead. I truly hope that a mega-star sprinter doesn’t fail a drugs test after inspiring a kid.

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THE summer holiday season has again breathed fresh life into Spain’s faltering labour market. Over the last quarter, the latest figures show that unemployment has fallen by a percentage point to 20%, which is its lowest level in six years.

Yet unemployment remains stubbornly high in Spain, and is the EU’s second highest after Greece.

The number of people officially registered as jobless in Spain is now 4,574,700 - a drop of 216,700 people compared with the same 2015 period.

Over the last quarter, around 271,400 jobs have been created, which means that 18,301,000 people are officially in employment.

The services sector has registered the big-

gest increase, gaining 227,300 jobs, with construction providing a further 45,600 and industry 15,700, although 17,200 positions were lost in agriculture.

In the last 18 months, there has been a 10% increase in the number of temporary workers, from 3.4 million up to 3.7m.

By region, the biggest increase has been in the Balearics with 56,000 new jobs; Catalonia 53,700 and Murcia with 28,400. Some 11,900 jobs were lost in the Canary Islands, and 4,200 in Navarre.

Unemployment has hit Spain harder than most of the EU over the last eight years, and the country has proved unable to generate news jobs in large numbers.

It has endured a jobless rate of over 20% for almost six years.

Between the time when employment began to flag in 2007 until the moment it hit rockbottom in early 2014, one of every five jobs in Spain was axed, representing nearly four mil-

lion positions.

By early 2013, the jobless rate had soared to around 27%. And from January to March of that year, more than 6.2m people had no work.

Spain’s unemployment is so high, partly because of particular local forces which have existed for decades.

Unemployment above 20% is not uncommon in Spain. In fact, it has been at that level in three periods, since Spain’s transition to democracy in the Seventies.

And, ominously, from the previous unemployment-rate peak in the Nineties, it took 14 years for it to decline to the wider European level.

But many of the jobs being created are simply temporary. In the last 18 months, there has been a 10% increase in the number of temporary workers, from 3.4m up to 3.7m.

The temporary employment rate is now 25%, which is nearly 1.5% higher than in the

same 2015 period.

Seasonal work has always provided an annual boost for Spain’s employment figures, and this time is no exception. But the fact that it remains so strong two years later shows that employers are still not confident enough about the future to offer permanent positions.

Other indicators give an idea of the impact of the crisis on Spanish households: there are now more than 700,000 of them without any kind of income, and more than 1.5 million where no family member is in work.

And there’s also the matter of the country’s youth unemployment (those under-25s actively-seeking jobs): an almost incomprehensible 45.5%!

By the end of the 2016 third quarter, unemployment is expected to have continued falling, although in May, the acting Spanish Government said it did not expect the jobless rate to fall below 15% until 2019.

Booze bandits batter the Spanish market SPAIN, which has the unenviable record of being the EU country most affected by the sale of fake alcohol, is said to be losing 263m euros annually because the market is being swamped with counterfeit booze.

The EU Intellectual Property Office estimates its local producers lose that enormous sum, with legitimate producers dropping some 173m euros a year on alcoholic drinks, together with 90m on wine alone.

The trend also affects jobs and tax revenues, according to the Intel-

lectual Property Office’s eighth report on the economic costs of fake products, released late last month.

Spain heads the list of

countries with the biggest job losses in absolute terms, dropping around 1,000 in a year.

The report also notes that states lose millions

as a result of unpaid VAT or Social Security contributions, which in Spain totals 90m euros.

While counterfeit production is difficult to detect and its implications difficult to analyse, it is estimated the EU as a whole has lost an annual average of three billion euros between 2008 and 2013.

After Spain, the countries most affected are Italy, Germany and France. Spain has been damaged the most because it has some 3,700 companies specialising in alcohol and wine – the highest of all EU nations.

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SPAIN is stepping up security throughout its Mediterranean coastline, with armed patrols and drones being rolled out to protect the millions of holiday-makers who will flock to its beaches over the next month.

And it’s no wonder, with the country on a “level four” terrorism alert following the despicable attacks in France and Germany.

The French blitzes, as well as the Turkey situation, along with last year’s Tunisian outrage, have prompted many holiday-makers to change their sum-

mer travel plans in favour of the Canary Islands and Spain, particularly Catalonia.

The regional government there is aware of the danger and the impact any kind of attack would have on Spain’s tourism industry.

In response, they have assigned large numbers of regional Mossos d’Esquadra police officers, armed with sub-machine guns and assault rifles, to resorts such as Lloret de Mar, where they patrol sea-fronts and control access to beach areas.

Jordi Jané, Catalonia’s interior minister, said that his own security services had warned of an attack in France.

In June, the US State Department issued a travel alert, warning its citizens about “the

risk of potential terrorist attacks throughout Europe, targeting major events, tourist sites, restaurants, commercial centres and transportation.”

“The large number of tourists visiting Europe in the summer months will present greater targets for terrorists planning attacks in public locations, especially at large events,” said the alert.

Following the Nice carnage on 14th July, Catalonia’s regional premier, Carles Puigdemont, met with antiterrorism officers.

Jordi Jané, the region’s interior chief, said that his own security services had warned of an attack in France.

At that point, armed units were deployed to resort areas, as well as

train and bus stations, airports and government buildings.

Further down the coast, in the Alicante area of Benidorm - one of Spain’s most popular resorts - it is being patrolled by a drone.

“We were pioneers, but other towns are now using drones,” says Carlos López, of Benidorm’s Local Police, who is one of four officers responsible for the surveillance craft.

The drones are mostly used for detecting swimmers in trouble, vessels which have gone adrift and smoke that could be a sign of a forest fire, which is a common occurrence in the summer months.

But the officers say they are also useful in the detection of many other kinds of risk situations.

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Job-seekers keen on being cleaners THE list of unemployed jobseekers in the Archipelago is decreasing, but most of the work available remains in rational core sectors.

In the Canary Islands the hospitality, trade and construction industry dominate.

The Canarian Employment Observatory (Obecan) each month collects the 50 occupations in most demand by the unemployed in the Autonomous Community. And, invariably it is headed by cleaning staff and shop assistants.

In fact, nearly 7% of the 50 most-soughtafter jobs in June corresponded to “personal cleaners, or cleaners in general”. Officially there are 75,250 people looking for these positions.

Cleaners are followed by shop assistants, which attracted 71,521, which was 6.3% of the

total registered in that month.

Thirdly, horticulture and gardening had 62,011 requests (5.6%).

At a considerable distance was manufacturing, which received 38,811 applications, and administrative work, which garnered 37,342 requests.

The Obecan statistics demonstrate the differences in men and women in search of employment. Male applications, unsurprisingly, related predominantly to construction trades. In fact, building construction and labourers is most in-demand work for men, with 33,158 inquiries (6.6% of all requests) followed by horticulture and gardening, 30,674 (6.1%).

Trade generates more requests among women.

In fact, 80% of requests were for shop-assistant work.

The cleaning staff and personal cleaners are the second-most-demanded occupation for women, with 57,451 applicants.

Gored to death A MAN aged 60 was gored to death at a bullfighting festival in a the small town of Valrio, in western Spain.

He tried to escape by attempting to climb a fence, only to fall into the path of the bull, who had charged through its enclosure.

The victim was taken to the nearby hospital in Caceres, but died from a collapsed lung and head injuries suf-

fered in the brutal goring. He was taking part in the Fiestas de Valrío de Caceres, and his death was reported to be the first in the local event’s history.

Juan Carlos Blazquez, the region’s Mayor, announced three days of mourning to be held as a tribute.

He said: “From the municipality of Guijo de Galisteo, we offer condolences to the family and friends of MCS, who died during the celebration of the last bullfighting festival of the town.”

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Worry sends tourists racing to our shores SPAIN welcomed nearly 33 million visitors to the country in the first six months of 2016, which topped last year’s numbers by 11.7%. And the increase was firmly down to holidaymakers, worried about extremist attacks, who felt much safer there.

Britain supplied the largest number of foreign visitors, according to Spain’s national statistics agency INE, with close on eight million seeking sunshine and warmth from January to June.

It amounted to a 16.5% increase against the same period last year.

Germans came a close second, followed by the neighbouring French.

The most popular

Spanish region was Catalonia in the north-east, home to Barcelona and its beaches, which saw 7.66 million visitors.

The Canary Islands was also highly prized, as were the Balearic Islands, featuring Ibiza and Majorca.

Spain - including the Canaries - anticipate a record number of tourists this year, having already welcomed just over 68 million foreign travellers in 2015, making it the third-mostvisited country in the world.

It has long been a magnet for holiday-makers, and even more so in recent months as fears of extremist attacks drive wary travellers away from rival sunshine destinations in North Africa and Turkey.

Portugal is also a much-favoured choice.

In 2015, it welcomed a record 10.2 million foreign tourists, and that number is expected to grow.

Ring road drags on

TENERIFE’S Ring Road project, though finished in the Northern section between El Tanque and Icod, and virtually the entire South route, is still not completed between El Tanque and Santiago del Teide.

Spain’s danger with Gibraltar UK government ministers have warned the Secretary General of Nato that Spain’s behaviour towards Gibraltar is a threat to British security, and could lead to a “serious” incident at sea.

Italians searching for more sunshine ITALIAN airline Alitalia is spreading its international wings from 30th October, enhancing its Spanish presence with a twice-weekly service between Rome and Tenerife.

The new route will operate twice a week, with schedules designed to allow Alitalia passengers departing from various Italian and international cities to connect at Rome Fiumicino airport - the airline’s hub - on their way to Tenerife Flights from the Rome airport to Ten-

erife South will depart every Saturday and Sunday at 9.30am, arriving at 1.15pm local time.

The return flight will take off at 2.05 pm local time, arriving in Rome at 7.30pm.

The company will use Airbus A320 aircraft with two classes of service - business and economy.

Alitalia currently flies to eight Spanish destinations: Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Malaga, Bilbao and, during the summer period, Mallorca, Ibiza and Minorca.

A group of MPs have expressed concern over 210 “unlawful incursions” of Spanish state vessels into British Gibraltarian waters.

They add that Spain’s behaviour as a Nato ally is becoming “increasingly unreliable”.

The small peninsula, off the south coast of Spain, which has been a British Overseas Territory since 1713 and is known to its 30,000 residents as “the Rock”, remains a major source of diplomatic tensions.

The Foreign Office have described Spain’s actions as “provocative”, and the British Government has called the Spanish Ambassador five times since 2011 to express concerns over border delays and incursions.

The MPs write that Spain’s refusal to allow US Naval ships to bun-

ker in Gibraltar and then dock at Spanish ports, “is to the detriment of Western security”.

In their letter they said: “We are personally fearful that these incursions will eventually result in a serious incident at sea with collisions and a danger of serious injury.

“The fact that Spain impedes the free movement of Nato forces between Gibraltar and Spain is to the detriment of Western Security; for example, not allowing US Naval ships to bunker in Gibraltar and then dock at Spanish ports.”

They also argue that the Spanish Government’s decision not to give permission for Royal Air Force aircraft to overfly Spanish airspace on their way to and from Gibraltar adds an estimated cost to each flight of £5,00010,000.

“It seems to us that Spain’s behaviour as a Nato Ally is becoming increasingly unreliable,” they write.

“The Spanish Government allows the refuelling of Russian warships in the Spanish enclave of Ceutra at a time when Russia has invaded the Ukraine and is aggressively test-

ing Nato’s reactions.

“Yet the Spanish Foreign Minister makes ongoing verbal threats against Gibraltar.”

The letter comes just a month after Spain proposed sharing sovereignty with Gibraltar after Britain voted to leave the European Union, saying this could be a prelude to bringing the British overseas territory back under its control.

The majority of those living in Gibraltar are British citizens with British passports, although thousands of Spaniards cross from mainland Spain to work on the peninsula every day.

Jack Lopresti MP, Chair for the All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) for Gibraltar and a member of the Parliamentary Nato Assembly, said: “I am sure that Spain’s ongoing war of attrition against Gibraltar, including the foolish and dangerous games that its security forces play by entering British Gibraltarian territorial waters and airspace without permission, is deliberately provocative.

“And I fear that one day, it could result in a terrible and tragic accident.”

It has had problems galore, and costs are spiralling. As it stands, a total of more than 300 million euros has been spent, and the recent cut in road-project funds from the Spanish Government has paralysed it!

And that’s why there is no start date for the final piece of the jigsaw.

Although the ring road is part of an agreement signed between the region and the state, there is no movement.

Tenerife Cabildo has offered, on several occasions, to pre-finance the work. But so far, the Ministry of Public Works and the Canary Islands Government have focused on reaching agreements in other areas.

These include the implementation of car-pool lanes on the North motorway, and improving their links.

More importantly, the ring road is on the back-burner.

However, the Cabildo is rolling up its sleeves and has urged the regional government to make a decision because, as President Carlos Alonso says: “We fear a much longer delay even in the starting of the work, and we must, must get this going.”

Alonso’s anger is plainly visible. He told a press conference this week: “If Madrid makes us choose between bus lanes in the North and the insular ring, we are willing to finance the ring first.

“Of course, this project should have its own resources. But if there is sufficient basis, we will pre-finance.”

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Cousin implicated in Normandy murder THE 30-year-old cousin of one of the men who killed a priest in Normandy has been charged with knowing an attack was imminent.

The man, named as Farid K, appeared before a judge in Paris as Muslims across France displayed their solidarity with the Catholic community in light of the gruesome murder.

Farid K, from Nancy, is the cousin of Abdelmalik Petitjean, who was shot dead by police after he and another man, Adel Kermiche, slit the throat of Father Jacques Hamel, 86, in

his Saint-Etienne-duRouvray church.

He is accused of knowing that his cousin would commit a violent attack imminently - though not the place, nor the date.

Petitjean’s stepfather has said that the pair had spent time together

and, at times, shared the same home.

Another man, a Syrian refugee, was released by police, while a minor, detained in connection with the attack initially, will not be prosecuted over the incident. But he could face separate charges over materials

found on his computer.

At Rouen Cathedral, near the church where the victim was killed on Tuesday last week, more than 100 Muslims joined in prayer with Catholics.

During the service, which focused on the memory of Father Jacques, Rouen Archbishop Dominique Lebrun expressed his gratitude for their gesture, saying: “I thank you in the name of all Christians. In this way, you are affirming that you reject death and violence in the name of God.” He told Sky News he was grateful for their “courageous act”, knowing that some of the Muslim community believe it is not acceptable to enter a church.

The head of the French

Muslim council had proclaimed: “We are all Catholics in France,” in the wake of the attack, and called on the community to show their “solidarity and compassion”.

Other inter-faith gatherings took place around the country. In Lyon, a “brotherhood march” followed the religious ceremonies, where hundreds, who marched in silence, carried banners that read: “This is not a religious war” and “We are all brothers and sisters”.

Prime Minister Manuel Valls has called for a new “pact” with France’s Muslim community, following renewed fears of possible religious tensions.

He said: “Islam has found its place in

France … contrary to the repeated attacks of populists on the right and far-right.

“This intolerable rejection of Islam and Muslims must be combated - and it is - with the greatest strength.”

Meanwhile,the French Government has come under pressure over perceived security lapses, following the Bastille Day attack in Nice, when a jihadist drove a truck through crowds, killing 84 people.

Mr Valls was booed when he attended a tribute to the victims, and he facec further questions after it emerged that the two Normandy attackers had been on the intelligence services’ radar, and had tried to enter Syria previously.

Northern home prices lead to buyers’ slump NORTHERN cities in England, hit hardest by rising prices, have contributed greatly to home ownership dropping to its lowest level for 30 years.

New analysis by the Resolution Foundation revealed that London was certainly not on its own in suffering from the affordability crisis.

The think-tank pointed to a double-digit fall in buyers across Leeds, Sheffield and in Greater Manchester, where the number of home owners have sunk the most, falling 14.5% from their peak of 72.4% in April 2003 to 57.9% this February.

The report put Outer London with the second-biggest decline - 13.5% - to just under 58%.

The Foundation said the figures showed the proportion of people owning their own home had plummeted across every part of the UK since their early 2000s’ peak.

It can be explained

mainly by house prices soaring during times of weaker wage growth, together with lower developments of new housing.

According to official figures, the average UK house price stood at a record £211,230 in May, and £227,000 in England.

The London figure was £472,163, said the Office for National Statistics (ONS), with annual

growth running at a rate of almost 14%.

In contrast, annual salary growth had been running at 2% or below since the financial crisis.

The Foundation released its report a week after the English Housing Survey found that two-thirds of private and social renters cited affordability as a barrier to home ownership.

Stephen Clarke, policy

analyst at the Resolution Foundation, said: “London has a wellknown, fully-blown, housing crisis, but the struggle to buy a home is just as big a problem in cities across the North of England.”

He urged Prime Minister Theresa May to follow through with her pledge of action on prices, in an effort to tackle these lower-ownership levels.

“These drops are more than a simple source of frustration for the millions of people who aspire to own their home,” added Mr Clarke.

“The shift to renting privately can reduce current living standards and future wealth, with implications for individuals and the state.

“We cannot allow other cities to edge towards the kind of hous-

ing crisis that London has been saddled with.”

Anne Baxter, head of Policy and Public Affairs at housing charity Shelter, said it wasn’t surprising that home ownership was in decline, “because house prices are completely out of step with average wages”.

She added: “Sky-high rents are leaving many families struggling to make ends meet each month, let alone save up enough for the deposit on a home.

“Far from being the stepping stone it once was, many young people and families are now facing a lifetime stuck in expensive and unstable private renting.”

More than 300,000 people have been helped into home ownership through Governmentbacked schemes since 2010, but a spokesman for the Department for Communities and Local Government, says there is still a lot more to do.

“We’ve set out the most ambitious vision for housing in a generation, including delivering hundreds of thousands of homes exclusively for first-time buyers,” he said.

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A lucky escape

SPAIN’S maritime rescue service saved 74 migrants, crammed into three small boats, from attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea on Sunday.

The special service said it collected 25 migrants before dawn from one boat, followed hours later by the rescue of 19 others from a second craft. A third operation then reached a boat overloaded with 30 more migrants. No casualties were reported.

Captains of passing ships had reported the migrant-carrying vessels as they approached Spain’s south-east coast.

The International Organisation for Migration says Spain received about 3,850 migrants via sea crossings and rescues in 2015.

Others migrants seek asylum in Spain via its North African enclaves, Melilla and Ceuta.

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Indian government feeds 10,000 starving workers INDIA’S government has come to the rescue of more than 10,000 of their citizens, who are starving in Saudi Arabia.

Some 16,000kg of food was distributed on Saturday night by the Consulate to penniless workers, who have lost their jobs and have not been paid.

The issue came to light when a man tweeted India’s Foreign Minister, Sushma Swaraj, saying around 800 Indians had not eaten for three days in Jeddah, and asked her to intervene.

Investigations discovered that there were thousands of workers across Saudi Arabia and Kuwait who were starving.

Ms Swaraj instructed the Consulate to make sure no unemployed worker would go without food. She is also said to have monitored the

situation on an hourly basis.

She tweeted: “Large number of Indians have lost their jobs in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait.

The employers have not paid wages, closed down their factories.

“The number of Indian workers facing food crisis in Saudi Arabia is over ten thousand.”

Many workers in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait have been living in inhumane conditions after losing their jobs. Hundreds have been laid off with-

out being paid their wages.

Indian newspapers reported that one firm, the Saudi Oger company, did not pay wages for seven months. And of its 50,000 employees, 4,000 were Indians.

Mohammad Noor Rehman Sheikh, India’s Consul General, told a news agency: “For the last seven months, these Indian workers of Saudi Oger were not getting their salaries, and the company had also stopped pro-

viding food to these workers.”

The Saudi Government says it will investigate complaints against companies not paying wages - and will fine them if proven.

The Indian Government is now putting in place a plan to evacuate a large number of Indians from the oil-rich countries.

India’s junior foreign minister, VK Singh, has been tasked to travel to Saudi Arabia to put in place an evacuation

process, which will begin soon.

He had successfully led the evacuation of a large number of Indians from war-torn Yemen and, most recently, from South Sudan.

Ms Swaraj told the country’s parliament that the government was trying to arrange exit documents for those workers who wanted to return to India.

She added that India’s embassy had set up five camps to feed the workers - and that all 10,000 had received food supplies.

There are more than three million Indians living and working in Saudi Arabia and more than 800,000 in Kuwait.

But falling oil prices have hit the economy of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf countries.

This has had a domino effect on the construction sector especially, because it relies heavily on state contracts and patronage.

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Where have all the coppers gone?

SCOTLAND’S police numbers have fallen to their lowest level since the end of 2010. Yet new figures show the numbers are still up by 1,008 since 2007, when the SNP pledged to increase the total by 1,000.

The target was an Scottish National Party commitment from that period until April this year, when it was dropped.

Between April and June this year, there were the equivalent of 17,242 full-time police officers in Scotland. That represented the lowest number of cops there since the last quarter of 2010, when there were 17,217.

The Scottish Police Authority, which oversees Police Scotland, had said previously that the

policy of setting officernumber targets represented a “very inflexible approach”.

Community Safety Minister Annabelle Ewing said crime was at a 41-year low and that Scotland was as safe as it had been for over a generation.

She added: “This reduction in crime levels is supported by continued high numbers of police in Scotland’s communities, and I am pleased to note that numbers remain well in excess of those in 2007.

“Scotland’s police officers and staff work incredibly hard to serve our communities, tackling violence and crime.

“We will continue to work with Police Scot-

land to support them by considering the implications of changing demands on Scottish policing, and ensuring the right mix of officers and specialist staff, to provide protection for Scotland’s communities.”

The SNP’s commitment to increase police numbers by 1,000 was made in the election manifesto of 2007. And, by the next election, in 2011, it had achieved its target of 17,234.

In subsequent years, police strength has fluctuated, although it has remained above the number inherited from the Labour-Liberal Democrat coalition.

Yet numbers have been sharply reducing in England and Wales

and, since 2010, around 18,000 officers have left the service south of the border.

But financial pressures on the police service have been mounting - and the Scottish Government was forced to offer £100m over five years to meet budgetary shortfalls.

Since around 85% of police spending is on wages, cutting staff numbers would have seemed an obvious way to save money - except for the SNP’s manifesto pledge.

However, a way out of the conundrum may have come in the consultation on strategic policing priorities, announced by the government in June.

Chief Constable Phil

Gormley has talked about the changing nature of policing, pointing to new forms of criminality such as cyber and economic crimes.

His mantra is to create a “sustainable operational model”, although he has declined to address the issue of the officer numbers he wants to populate that model.

The Police Federation, which represents rankand-file officers, believes it to be a “racing certainty” that numbers will be allowed to dip back below the 2007 manifesto commitment.

And with ministers fond of pointing out that crime in Scotland is at a 42-year low, and detection rates at an all-time high, perhaps the SNP

will soon abandon one of its headline sacred cows.

Brian Docherty, Scottish Police Federation chairman, which represents many of Scotland’s police officers, said the drop in numbers was “disappointing” and “alarming”.

He added: “At a time when police demand continues to rise and public satisfaction is falling, this is the greatest example yet that finance is being put ahead of public safety.”

Scottish Labour’s justice spokeswoman Claire Baker MSP said many people would worry that the latest drop in police numbers was “an indication of what is to come”.

She added: “This cannot be allowed to happen. The public must have confidence in the government and Police Scotland to keep our streets and communities safe.”

Britain’s boat patrols ‘worryingly low’ BRITAIN’S government ministers, who have warned that the UK Border Force has a “worryingly low” number of boats for patrolling Britain’s coastline, has called for help from the Royal Navy.

They are also asking for security to be stepped up at smaller ports amid fears that they are being targeted by people-smugglers.

Controversy abounded earlier this year when it emerged that just three Border Force cuttervessels were being used to patrol the UK’s 7,000 miles of coastal borders.

The issue was high-

lighted when 18 Albanians were rescued from a sinking inflatable off the Kent coast.

In May, the ministers announced measures to bolster maritime security, including eight patrol boats for Border Force to boost the existing five-vessel fleet.

The Commons Home Affairs committee said in a report that the Border Force agency had been given a “key role in implementing strengthened coastal security measures.

“But it is experiencing problems in gaining access to a sufficient number of patrol boats.”

The report added: “Only four of the new vessels are currently deployed, and the remaining four will not be available for more than a year.”

The committee also warned that the Government could fail to resettle 20,000 Syrian refugees by 2020, saying there was “scant evidence” to suggest the target will be met by local authorities.

Committee chairman Keith Vaz said: “Europe’s efforts to address this colossal refugee crisis has been lamentable.

“The atrocious conditions in migrant camps

within and on the borders of the richest countries on earth is a source of shame.”

But David Simmonds, chairman of the Local Government Association’s Asylum, Refugee and Migration Task Group, hit back, saying: “This report is out of date.

“We are confident there will be sufficient places that will support the Government’s pledge to resettle 20,000 people by 2020.

“The focus must now be on ensuring families are matched to the right placements and that they arrive safely and

are well supported.”

A Home Office spokeswoman said: “Our priority is to offer humanitarian support to those most in need, while maintaining the security of our borders.

“We continue to work tirelessly to do this, intercepting attempts to enter the UK illegally, and targeting the callous gangs that profit from people-smuggling.”

On the question of safety, the Ministry of Defence has confirmed that every one of the Royal Navy’s most advanced warships are in port and not on op-

erations, A photograph showing the vessels docked in Portsmouth was published by the website UK Defence Journal.

A source told Sky News that the ships had either “just got back from operations, are about to go on operations, or are having planned maintenance done”.

But another senior figure said it was “almost unprecedented” that all the ships should be in port.

“It either showed a gross lack of planning, or was indicative of something more serious,” he added.

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Miami’s Zika warning for pregnant mothers A WARNING for pregnant women to avoid visiting the Miami area affected by the Zika virus has been issued, with at least 10 new cases being confirmed.

Officials have confirmed a total of 14 cases in the state - two women and 12 men - all believed to have been spread by local mosquitoes.

The area to avoid is inside a one-mile section north of downtown Miami, in a district known as Wynwood.

The Centres for Disease Control and Prevention also said adults who had visited the area recently should wait at least eight weeks before trying to conceive a child - if they had that in mind.

Because Zika infection has been found to linger in sperm for months, men with Zika symptoms should wait at least six months before trying to have a baby with their partner.

Pregnant women living in, or have visited Miami-Dade after 15th June, should also be tested for Zika, said CDC director Dr Tom Frieden.

Zika has been associated with the birthdefect microcephaly, which can cause children to be born with abnormally small heads and brain damage.

Doctor Devi Sridhar, chair of Global Public Health at Edinburgh University, told Sky News: “Zika in general is not a serious disease if adults catch it. It’s flu-like, and the hope is that in two to seven days without treatment, it will clear. But the main damage seems to be in babies.”

She added: “If you’re pregnant now, the advice is serious consideration for any nonessential travel to any Zika-affected countries, including Florida as well.”

People have been told to use mosquito repellent, wear long sleeves, repair faulty window screens and drain any standing water to prevent the spread of the mosquitoes.

The Miami area covered by the warning is about one square-mile, and Dr Frieden said: “In Miami, aggressive mosquito control measures don’t seem to be working as well as we would have liked.”

He said the mosquitoes could be resistant to the insecticides being used, or may have hidden breeding areas.

Travellers returning from Zika-hit areas have also been told to use mosquito-repellent for three weeks to prevent further spread of the disease.

Meanwhile, Florida Governor Rick Scott called for a federal emergency response team to help state authorities contain the virus.

The White House confirmed the team would be deployed “in short order”. But some critics have said Florida was too slow in calling for assistance, which is why it had not been taking every possible step to contain the virus from spreading.

More than 200 people have been tested in Miami-Dade and Broward Counties since the first reports of the virus, early last month.

Florida is a popular destination for holidaying Britons - and Wynwood, the area covered in the warning, is a popular arts and restaurant district.

Northern Ireland golfers Rory McIlroy and Graeme McDowell, who live in Florida, pulled out of the Rio Olympics

through fears over the virus.

McIlroy became engaged to Erica Stoll last year and has said they plan to start a family, while McDowell’s wife, Kristian, is heavily pregnant.

Governor Scott said: “We will continue to keep our residents and visitors safe, utilising constant surveillance and aggressive strategies, such as increased mosquito spraying, which have allowed our state to fight similar viruses.”

Health experts in the US do not expect an outbreak on the scale seen in Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean, mainly because of Florida’s better sanitation, mosquito control and use of windowscreens and air-conditioning.

In February, US President Barack Obama requested $1.9bn in funding to fight Zika, but rival Republicans refused. They wanted the money taken from funds previously earmarked for Ebola.

Amid the deadlock, Congress went on its summer recess last month without approving any legislation for Zika funds.

Dr Sridhar said people in Florida were “frustrated by the politics”, adding: “How is it possible that there’s no money being agreed upon?

We don’t have great diagnostics, we don’t have a treatment, we don’t have a vaccine.”

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Trump’s vote rigging fear DONALD Trump, America’s Republican presidential nominee suggests that the November election could be “rigged” after telling a rally in Columbus, Ohio, that he’d heard “more and more” that the contest would be unfair.

The volatile Trump offered no immediate evidence, but at another event, he called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton “the Devil”.

And that’s not all. In his long list of campaign “crimes”, Trump has come under fire from across the political divide for remarks he made about the parents of a US Muslim soldier killed in action.

On the forthcoming vote, he told supporters: “I’m afraid the election is going to be rigged - I have to be honest” He repeated the claim later on Fox News, adding: “I hope the Republicans are watching closely, or it’s going to be taken away from us.”

The colourful billionaire has made similar comments before in relation to the Democratic race, suggesting the party fixed its system to favour nominee Hillary Clinton over her challenger, Bernie Sanders.

Earlier this year, he

A HUGE asteroid hurtling through space at 63,000mph could one day hit Earth, causing “immense suffering and death”, say astronomers.

The space rock was discovered in 1999 and is likely to blast in between the Earth and the moon in 2135 … a little too close for comfort, yet not for today’s mankind!

But on a return trip later in the century, it is estimated the asteroid known as 101955 Bennu could actually strike our planet.

Dante Lauretta, the NASA expert in charge of a new mission to analyse the asteroid, said: “That 2135 fly-by is go-

Ice Age mammals dying for a drink

THE lack of drinking water is believed to have wiped out one of the last-known groups of woolly mammoths from the Ice Age, say scientists.

also complained that the Republican primary system was also “rigged”, amid party efforts to stop his march to the candidacy.

Correspondents say Trump could be trying to capitalise on voters’ distrust of establishment institutions, or lay the groundwork should he lose the election.

At another rally, in Pennsylvania, he took the unprecedented step of directly calling Mrs Clinton “the Devil”.

He attacked Sanders for capitulating in the Democratic race, saying he “made a deal with the Devil. She’s the devil!”

It’s not often that Democrats and Republicans

agree, but both parties have condemned Trump for his remarks about the parents of US Army Capt Humayun Khan, who was killed by a car bomb in 2004 in Iraq, at the age of 27.

Former Republican presidential candidate John McCain became the latest senior figure in the party to criticise Trump for his attacks.

Senator McCain, a Vietnam War veteran, said in a strongly-worded statement that Trump did not have “unfettered licence to defame the best among us”.

The soldier’s parents, Khizr Khan and wife Ghazala, told the BBC it was time to stand up to Trump, only for him

to accuse them of “viciously” attacking him.

Trump had caused controversy by suggesting that Ghazala had been prevented from speaking alongside her husband at the Democratic convention last week.

In another development, American billionaire businessman Warren Buffett challenged Trump to release his tax returns.

Trump has said that they cannot be made public until the financial authorities have completed an audit.

But Buffett said there were no rules against showing tax returns, and allowing people to ask questions about them.

Asteroid threatens Earth - but not until year 2175! ing to tweak Bennu’s orbit, potentially putting it on course for the Earth later that century.

“We estimate the chance of impact at about one in 2,700 between 2175 and 2196, but it may be destined to cause immense suffering and death.”

But he said there was a good chance that science would be so advanced by then that it could be knocked off course, saving humanity.

“Don’t run out and buy asteroid insurance,”

warned Lauretta, saying that “nukes” or a “gravity tractor” could be among the options for knocking it off course.

“I wish I could be around in 2135 to see what happens,” he added.

The asteroid measures 500m across, and a space rock of that size is - on average - expected to hit the Earth every 130,000 years.

The force of Bennu striking the Earth would be the equivalent of three billion tons of high explosive

being detonated.

A spacecraft is being launched by NASA to scan the surface of the asteroid, and harvest samples from its surface.

As most asteroids predate the formation of planets, scientists hope the information gleaned will help them better understand the building blocks of life.

But, by better understanding the make-up of the asteroid, they will also, hopefully, be a step closer to working out how to avoid a potential collision.

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The beasts were living on a remote island off the coast of Alaska, and scientists have dated their demise to about 5,600 years ago.

They believe that a warming climate caused lakes to become shallower, leaving the animals unable to quench their thirst.

Most of the world’s woolly mammoths had died out some 10,500 years ago, scientists believing that human hunting and environmental changes played a role in their extinction.

But the group living on St Paul Island, in the Bering Sea, managed to cling on for another 5,000 years.

This study, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, suggests that these animals faced a different threat from their mainland cousins.

As the Earth warmed up after the Ice Age, sea levels rose, causing the mammoths’ island home to shrink in size.

It meant that some lakes were lost to the ocean, and, as salt water flowed into the remaining reservoirs, freshwater diminished further.

The fur-covered giants were forced to share the ever-scarcer watering holes, but their overuse also caused a major problem.

Lead author Prof Russell Graham, from Pennsylvania State University, said: “As the other lakes dried up, the

animals congregated around the water holes.

“They were milling around, which would destroy the vegetation - and we see this with modern elephants.

“This allows for the erosion of sediments to go into the lake, which is creating less and less fresh water. In fact, the mammoths were contributing to their own demise.”

This study highlights that small populations are extremely sensitive to changes in the environment. And Prof Graham said that if there were not enough rain or melting snow to top up the lakes, the animals may have died very quickly.

“We do know modern elephants require 70200 litres of water daily,” he added. “We assume mammoths did the same thing. It wouldn’t have taken long if the water hole had dried up. If it had dried up for a month only, it could have been fatal.”

The researchers say climate change happening today could have a similar impact on small islands, with the threat to fresh water putting both animals and humans at risk.

Love Dalen, professor in evolutionary genetics at the Swedish Museum of Natural History, said of the study: “It represents the most well-described and best-understood prehistoric extinction events.

“In a broader perspective, this study highlights that small populations are very sensitive to changes in the environment.”

The last existing mammoths, which lived on Wrangel Island in the Arctic Ocean, were thought to have died out 4,000 years ago.

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Is Catalan speaker heading for court?

SPAIN’S acting government is checking to see whether it can bring criminal charges against the Catalan Parliament speaker for allowing the assembly to vote for independence.

Politicians in Barcelona, the capital of Catalonia, voted last Wednesday to continue with a plan to detach the north-eastern region from Spain.

On Friday, Soraya Saenz de Santamaria, Deputy Prime Minister of the caretaker administration in Madrid, said the government had asked the Constitutional Court to annul its resolution, and see

whether Catalan assembly speaker Carme Forcadell had broken the law by trying to press ahead with the independence plans.

The text passed by the Catalan parliament outlines the steps Catalonia - a region of 7.5 million people, which represents nearly onefifth of Spain’s economic output - needs to take to defend its right to self-determination.

It argues that the “only way possible” for Catalans to exercise their right to decide on their future is if the region “disconnects” from the Spanish state and disobeys Spanish institutions.

But government spokeswoman Santamaria told reporters in Madrid after a cabinet

meeting: “It’s a violation of our constitution.”

She also warned that separatist politicians, and especially speaker Forcadell, risked fines of up to 30,000 euros, suspension from their posts - and even legal action if they continued to disobey Madrid.

Forcadell, on a Catalan TV channel, hit back at Madrid’s reaction, accusing the government of using legal tools to try to fix something “they do not know how to resolve politically.”

She added: “This does not help resolve the problem, it makes it

Let’s see what the BBC talent earns BBC salaries of all stars earning more than £143,000, which is what the Prime Minister is paid, should be published, says a report by the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee.

It believes the Government’s BBC White Paper could have gone further on the issue of pay, adding that there was “no good reason” for performers, presenters and executives to “hide” their earnings if they get more than the PM. Acting committee chairman Damian Collins said it was “disingenuous” for the BBC to claim it needed confidentiality to prevent talent poaching by rival channels.

He also said there was no reason why the Gov-

ernment’s plans for a new royal charter set the talent threshold at £450,000 - higher than that for executives.

“The point is that all these salaries are paid by the licence feepayer, whether they are for broadcasters or BBC executives,” he added.

“Why should there be different rules for each?

It’s disingenuous to say confidentiality is needed to prevent poaching when, in general, everyone in the industry knows what everyone else is getting paid.

“The threshold should be the same for both executives and talent. The salary of anyone getting paid more than the Prime Minister should be published.”

The BBC’s most recent report reveals that its overall wage bill for talent was £200m.

Some 109 of its TV and radio stars were paid more than £150,000, while seven earned in excess of £450,000.

Opponents of the committee’s proposals believe that going public with the high-earners’ salaries could spark an exodus of talent from the corporation.

However, Matthew Stadlen, a former BBC broadcaster and journalist, thought it could prove beneficial.

“It’s a big jump from the £450,000 recommended in the White Paper to £143,000, but I’m all for it,” he said.

“I think it will increase belief and trust in the BBC.” The committee has also raised serious concerns about the appointment of the new BBC unitary board, and, in particular, the decision to keep Rona Fairhead as chair without a recruitment process.

Ms Fairhead heads the BBC Trust, and she will have more operational responsibility in the new role as the effective head of the corporation, the

Committee pointed out.

But the BBC Trust defended the process behind Ms Fairhead’s appointment in a statement, saying: “The chairman underwent a rigorous and openappointment process before being appointed in 2014, which was confirmed by the Commissioner for Public Appointments as a fair and open competition.”

Another recommendation is that the BBC sets up a “Scottish Six” news programme, anchored and broadcast from the country, with a running order of Scottish, UK and international stories.

A spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said: “The Committee’s report is a welcome contribution to the debate. We will study it in detail, ahead of the publication of the draft Charter and Framework agreement.”

worse.” With the backing of acting Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy’s conservative government, Spain’s Constitutional Court has already taken measures against Catalonia’s independence drive.

It suspended an independence referendum called by the Catalan government in 2014, as well as a resolution passed by Catalonia’s parliament in November, declaring the start of a secession process.

Secessionist parties hold a majority in the 135-seat Catalan parliament, and the text was approved - with 72 votes in favour.

A poll published last week showed support for Catalan inde-

pendence growing at a time when political deadlock at the national level, following two inconclusive general elections, has prevented the formation of a new government in Madrid.

The survey, by the regional government’s official pollster, found that 47.7% of Catalans supported independence, with 42.4% against.

Many Catalans who favour breaking away from Spain say their region pays too much in taxes and receives less than its fair share of government investment.

Independence sentiment also grew during Spain’s near-economic meltdown during the financial crisis.

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YOUNG Canary Island teenagers are waiting a little longer before trying sex, compared with those on the mainland.

But once they start, they quickly open their minds.

That is the findings of a survey called “Young Spaniards and sex”, which was released this week.

The average age of those in the Canary Islands losing their virginity is 16.9 years.

Only the Basque Region (17.1 years) and Valencia (17.2 years) wait longer.

And 64.7% of Canarians state that they had their first sexualintercourse relationship before the age of 18.

The report states that the sexual life of young Canarians is adventurous, to say the least!

Nearly nine out of 10 say they want to try new things and experiences, and 85.2% want to try new positions, while 43.5% have had

some form of sex outside. And 36% use sex toys” And it doesn’t stop there because 13.9% have recorded themselves having full sex, while 14.8% say they have had sex with at least three other people at the same time!

In modern times, it shouldn’t be a surprise that 9.6% have had sex with someone of the same gender.

In the digital world, with many new technologies, most kids know their way around the internet, so it’s hardly a shock that 38% of young Canarians claim to have had sex or cyber-sex, while 37% have sex with people they have met through an app, a dating site or a social network.

In a deep study, it seems the youngsters also like a little help.

Over 50% say they regularly use massage gels, lubricants, vibrators and rings.

When asked why they used such products, 60.3% said “curiosity” was the primary cause, while 17.6% said it “improves relationships and facilitates more orgasms”.

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Friday 5th August, BBC1, 23:40 Clare Balding introduces live coverage of the opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, as the games head to South America for the first time. The ceremony is a chance for participants from all 207 competing nations to parade with their flag in the iconic Maracana Stadium.

Olympics 2016: Countdown to Rio Friday 5th August, BBC1, 20.30 Clare Balding looks ahead to the Rio 2016 Olympics in the company of some of the most famous Olympians of all time. The programme hears from Great Britain’s biggest names, including Jessica Ennis-Hill, Mo Farah and Sir Bradley Wiggins, as well as previous Olympians Sir Chris Hoy, Sir Steve Redgrave and Michael Johnson.

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Fri 5th Aug 06:00 ...................... Breakfast

06:00.................... Countryfile Summer Diaries

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

06:45............Garden Rescue

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

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

07:30.......... Neighbourhood Blues

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

11:00..............Wanted Down Under

08:00..........Eat Well for Less

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

09:00........................... Victoria Derbyshire

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

09:15 ................... Countryfile Summer Diaries

11:45.......... Neighbourhood Blues 12:15............... Bargain Hunt 13:00....... BBC News at One 13:45....................... Red Rock 14:25................Escape to the Country 15:25............Garden Rescue

11:00..BBC Newsroom Live

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

12:00..............Natural World

13:55 ..... ITV News London

13:00................ Pressure Pad

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

13:45.............................. Coast

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

14:10........Nature’s Weirdest Events

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

16:10............................Flog It!

15:10..................... Brazil with Michael Palin

17:10 .......................Pointless

17:10.Antiques Roadshow

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

18:00.... BBC News at Six

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

18:30..ITV Evening News

19:00........The One Show

18:30.............. Blitz Cities

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

19:30...............Room 101 20:00............. EastEnders

19:00...Great American Railroad Journeys

19:30..............Coronation Street

20:30.......Olympics 2016: Countdown to Rio

20:00........... Mastermind 20:30...Gardeners’ World

22:00.... BBC News at Ten

21:00............. Highlands Scotland’s Wild Heart

22:25.BBC London News

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22:35......................Would I Lie to You?

22:00.......... Clare Balding Meets... Louis Smith

23:05......... A Question of Sport... Goes Out of Bounds

23:00................Artsnight

23:40.......Olympics 2016: Opening Ceremony

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22:30..............Newsnight 23:35.......The Marvellous World of Roald Dahl 00:35...............Good Hair

17:00 ............. Cash Trapped

20:00...........Gino’s Italian Escape: Islands in the Sun 20:30..............Coronation Street 21:00..........Doc Martin

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Great American Railroad Journeys BBC2, 19:00

Manassas to Jamestown.

Michael Portillo rides the railroads of America.

Michael arrives in Manassas, scene of two crucial battles during the American Civil War. In Fredericksburg, Virginia, he tries his hand at bottling bourbon corn whiskey and learns how it became the nation’s spirit. In Richmond, Michael tours the Virginia state Capitol building, where he learns about the terrible dilemma faced by one of its most famous sons. Charmed by the English heritage of this former colony, Michael puts on his dancing shoes and heads for a cotillion ball, where it seems manners are the name of the game. The choir of the First Baptist Church in Petersburg, Virginia, is in fine voice as Michael discovers how coded messages were once delivered in church to slaves who hoped to escape via the so-called underground railroad. Michael reaches the end of this American journey in Jamestown, the first permanent English settlement in North America, where he finds out about the early settlers’ grim struggle for survival.

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W C choice 06:15 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

06:40 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

06:20........... Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:05 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

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

06:45.......... Bob the Builder

08:00.........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30............................ Frasier 09:00............................ Frasier 09:30............................The Big Bang Theory 10:00............................The Big Bang Theory 10:30 .............The Simpsons 11:00 .............The Simpsons 11:30................... Come Dine with Me 12:00.......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05.................... Come Dine with Me 12:35.................... Come Dine with Me

06:10............. Chloe’s Closet

06:40 .....................Peppa Pig 07:00 ............. Little Princess 07:10 ......................Pip Ahoy!

07:25................. Thomas and Friends 07:40 .......... Noddy: Toyland Detective 07:50 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:05 .........................Wissper 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:25..................... Peppa Pig 08:35.................... Paw Patrol 08:50................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat 09:00.....................Bananas in Pajamas

13:40.................... Come Dine with Me

12:15 ................ Celebrity Big Brother

14:10 ............Fifteen to One

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

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

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

16:00 .... The Question Jury

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

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

15:15 ....... Client Seduction

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

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

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

18:00.... Home and Away

19:00.... Channel 4 News

18:30 ..... 5 News Tonight

20:00.... Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year

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

22:35............. Gogglebox 23:35..............Man Down 00:05...............A Granny’s Guide to the Modern World 00:35...Terminal Velocity

08:55...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

06:00 ...................... Supergirl 07:00...................... The Flash 08:00 ......................The Flash 09:00 ..................... Futurama 10:00.............. Ninja Warrior 10:30.............. Ninja Warrior 11:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 13:00 ...................... Supergirl 14:00 ......................The Flash 16:00 ...........Modern Family 17:00 .............The Simpsons 17:30 ..................... Futurama 18:00 .............. Futurama 18:30 ....... The Simpsons 20:00 ..... Modern Family 21:00.............A League of Their Own 22:00......... The Last Ship 23:00 ........................ Zoo 00:00..NCIS: Los Angeles 01:00 ........ Hawaii Five-0

07:00 .. The Indestructibles

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00 .......WWE Main Event 08:00.......... Premier League 100 Club 08:30......................... Football 09:00 ......... Football League Playoff Classics 12:00.................. Efl: 2015/16 Season Review 13:00 ......... Football League Playoff Classics 17:30................... Efl: 2015/16 Season Review 18:30................. Football 22:15.More Than a Game 22:45....... Great Sporting Moments 23:00.............Fight Night 01:00...... Premier League 100 Club 01:30......... Super League Highlights 01:45......... Super League Gold

09:35......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 10:30............................ A Place in the Sun 11:35..... The Black Dakotas 12:55................... Time Team 15:05......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 16:10......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:15................Four in a Bed 18:20..........Four in a Bed 18:55..........Four in a Bed 19:25..........Four in a Bed 19:55....... Grand Designs 21:00.........The Out-Laws 22:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:20... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:20.............. Love Child

11:15 .......Cowboy Builders 12:10 ........................... 5 News Lunchtime

22:00............Friday Night Dinner

06:00......... Dynamo Top 10 06:10................... MasterChef Australia 08:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 09:00........My Dream Home 10:00........................... The Bill 11:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00 ................. Judge Faith 14:00 ................. Traffic Cops 14:40.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 15:35........My Dream Home 17:35 ..............Tipping Point 18:35.................. Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:40................. Celebrity MasterChef 21:00................. Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00............. EastEnders 22:40............ Baby Mama 00:40............. EastEnders

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

13:05.................... Come Dine with Me

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

06:00........ Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 ................ Dinner Date 07:10 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00 ..................Emmerdale 09:00 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

09:30 ............................. Psych 10:20 .................. Royal Pains 11:15................ Dinner Date 12:15.................. Emmerdale 13:15.................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45........................ The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50................ Take Me Out 19:00......... Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed! Gold 20:00................Two and a Half Men 21:00.... The Dark Knight 00:00............. Family Guy

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

20:00.......Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother 22:00..............It’s Not Me, It’s You 22:30...........Celebrity Big Brother 23:05...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side 00:05..........Super Casino

07:20 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 08:10 .......................Top Gear 09:00 .... Lizard Lick Towing 09:30 .... Lizard Lick Towing 10:00...... American Pickers 11:00 ........ Storage Hunters 12:00 .......................Top Gear 13:00 ...........................Cricket 17:00 .......................Top Gear 18:00 ................Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers 20:00...................... QI XL 21:00...................... QI XL 22:00....................... QI XL 23:00...... Mock the Week 23:40....................Would I Lie to You? 00:20....................Would I Lie to You? 01:00....................... QI XL

Doc Martin ITV1, 21:00

Drama series about a curmudgeonly country doctor and his patients in Cornwall. Martin reaches breaking point after being followed around by stray dog Buddy, so Louisa and Morwenna persuade him to find a new home for the dog with local vet Angela Sim. Martin is not impressed by Angela’s alternative approaches to medicine, even if it is veterinary medicine. Meanwhile, Ruth finds out that Bert has been trying to make his own whisky, but he eventually persuades her to keep his secret.

Louisa and Martin’s therapy homework results in a picnic, much to Martin’s dismay, but even this does not go to plan when they are interrupted

by Angela and Buddy on the beach.

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Sat 6th Aug 06:00 .................. Fort Boyard Ultimate Challenge

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

06:00 ............... The Women’s Football Show

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

06:30 ...................... The Silver Darlings

11:30.............Home Cooking Made Easy

06:35 ......................Dino Dan

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

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

12:10..Olympics 2016

09:15 ...........Olympics 2016

07:00 .............................Sooty

12:00 .......................The Hairy Bikers’ Northern Exposure

07:15 ......................... Super 4

13:00 .......................... Bargain Hunt

08:00........... Ninjago: Rise of the Snakes

Hazel Irvine presents live coverage of day one of the 2016 Olympics from Brazil.

Chris Froome will be hoping to make it a golden start for Team GB as he goes for gold in the cycling road race. The hilly Brazilian course is expected to play to Froome’s strengths as he looks to add to the time trial bronze medal he won four years ago in London.

13:45 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 14:45 ...............Escape to the Country 15:30 ...........................Flog It! 16:20......................Full Steam Ahead 17:20 ...................Highlands Scotland’s Wild Heart 18:20.............. Gardeners’ World 18:50............ Proms Extra 2016 19:30............... Full Steam Ahead 20:30.............Dad’s Army

18:00............... BBC News 18:10............ BBC London News 18:20................. Olympics 2016 22:10............... BBC News 22:30................. Olympics 2016 01:00................. Olympics 2016

21:00........The Mystery CW of Van choice Gogh’s Ear 22:00........... The National Lottery Live 22:10................. Olympics 2016

06:25 ................Pat and Stan 06:45 ......................Dino Dan 06:55 .............. Share a Story

07:35 ...............Thunderbirds are Go

08:25...................... ITV News 08:30 ......................Weekend 09:25 .......................... Murder, She Wrote 10:20 .......................... Murder, She Wrote 11:20.......................Columbo 13:20 .............. ITV News and Weather 13:35 ................. Wild Animal Reunions 14:35 .................. Doc Martin 15:40...............All Star Family Fortunes Vernon Kay presents the game show in which celebrities and their families compete to win cash for their chosen charities. This time, model Katie Price and her family play against Coronation Street’s Charlie Lawson and his clan. Who can second guess the British public best and go on to play for up to 30,000 pounds in the Big Money final?

22:30....................... QI XL 23:15................Versailles 00:15.............. About Elly

16:40................ The Scorpion King 18:15................ ITV News London 18:30..........ITV News and Weather 18:45............ You’ve Been Framed!

19:15...........Catchphrase 20:00.................... Skyfall

22:45......... ITV News and Weather 23:00.........Carry on Girls 00:45............ Jackpot247

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06:15 ....................... Shipping Wars 06:40............... Gillette World Sport 07:10 ............................ Cardiff Triathlon 07:35 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond 09:00 ................The Morning Line

06:00 ..........Bob the Builder 06:10 ........... Wanda and the Alien 06:20................................ Pets 06:25...... Noddy in Toyland 06:40.................... Paw Patrol 06:50.............. Little Princess 07:05...................... Pip Ahoy!

07:20............... Blaze and the Monster Machines 07:45............ Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

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

06:10.......... DIY SOS The Big Build

08:55....River Cottage Bites

09:05....... Coronation Street Omnibus

07:00....... DIY SOS: Children in Need Special

10:15....Come Dine with Me

11:30............................... Ninja Warrior UK

08:00 .........................DIY SOS 09:00 .......................... The Bill

11:55.....Location, Location, Location

12:30 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

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

13:00.......Channel 4 Racing

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

13:05..................... Must Love Dogs

14:00................Four in a Bed

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

16:15................Four in a Bed

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

16:45................... Great Canal Journeys

15:00.............. Stormbreaker 16:55 ......................Yogi Bear

08:00................Shimmer and Shine

18:35................. Twilight

08:25 .........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

23:25............ Family Guy

11:05............. The Simpsons

09:00 ............... The Saturday Show Live

00:25 ............ Family Guy

11:35............. The Simpsons

11:00 ...................... Fail Army

12:05............. City of Ember

11:30 ............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door

10:05 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 10:35............................The Big Bang Theory

14:00..................... Channel 4 Racing 16:30................... Come Dine with Me 17:00................... Come Dine with Me 17:30 ................... Come Dine with Me 18:00.............. Come Dine with Me

12:25 ............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 13:20 ............The Nightmare Neighbour Next Door 14:20...............................Police Interceptors 15:20...............................Police Interceptors 16:20...............................Police Interceptors 17:15............ Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

18:10.......Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

19:00............Cricket on 5 20:00........................NCIS

18:30 ..................Channel 4 News 19:00.......... Men in Black

20:55.....................5 News Weekend 21:00..........Football on 5

21:00................Super 8 CW choice

22:00..........Football on 5

01:10................. Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

23:35..............Impractical Jokers UK

23:15 ....................Trance

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

00:05..........Super Casino

21:00................ Hot Fuzz 23:55 ............ Family Guy 00:55 ............... American Dad!

14:10 ....................EastEnders Omnibus 16:50.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 18:40...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:35........Outnumbered 20:20........Outnumbered 21:00..... Jonathan Creek

09:10....Come Dine with Me 11:20....Come Dine with Me

17:50................... Great Canal Journeys 18:55............. Great Canal Journeys 20:00....... Grand Designs 21:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 23:05.............. Father Ted 00:10...Channel 4 Comedy Gala 2015 - Best Bits

01:25............. Impossible

22:10................. Sherlock

01:50 ........The Cleveland Show

00:10..... Motorway Cops 01:10...Being Human USA

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

06:00... The Dog Whisperer 07:00 ............. Ashley Banjo’s Secret Street Crew 09:00..................... Futurama 09:30................... What’s Up? 10:00................. Soccer A.M. 11:30 ..................The Premier League Years 13:30 ..............Ghostbusters: Special 14:00 ................... Guitar Star 15:00..................... Futurama 16:00 ..................... Futurama 17:00........... Modern Family 18:00...... Modern Family 19:00...... Modern Family 20:00......... Duck Quack’s Dont Echo 21:00................ The Rock 23:40............ A League of Their Own 01:10...... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10:30. Storage Hunters UK

07:00.............. Super Heroes

11:00 .......................Top Gear

07:30...... Live Super Rugby

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

10:00................. Soccer A.M.

13:00........................... Cricket

11:30.... Football’s Greatest

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

12:00 ........................ Football

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

15:00..............Gillette Soccer Saturday

The Mystery of Van Gogh’s Ear BBC2, 21:00

Jeremy Paxman joins art sleuth Bernadette Murphy on her amazing quest to discover the truth about the December night in 1888 when Vincent van Gogh took a blade to his own ear. What exactly did the artist do, why did he do it and who was the unknown girl he is said to have handed his severed ear to, her real identity kept secret by her family for over a century? It is an event that defines van Gogh, who created his greatest masterpieces including the sunflowers at the same moment as suffering mental torture, but what are the real facts? This revealing detective story travels from Vincent’s home in the south of France to the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, and uncovers key evidence hidden in a Californian library that has created an art-world sensation, as we finally solve the mystery of Van Gogh’s ear.

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19:00................. Dynamo: Magician Impossible

17:00......................... Football

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

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

21:00...Gavin and Stacey

21:30..................Football

21:40...Gavin and Stacey

22:00................ Football’s Greatest

22:20...Gavin and Stacey 23:00........ Dave Gorman: Modern Life is Goodish 00:00............Alan Davies: As Yet Untitled 01:00................. Dynamo: Magician Impossible

22:30................ Football’s Greatest 23:00..................Football 00:00...... Premier League Legends 00:30................. Football

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Writer- directorproducer JJ Abrams followed his Star Trek reboot with this blend of sci-fi thriller and emotionally engaging first-romance story, starring Joel Courtney and Elle Fanning. It’s 1979 and 12-year-old Joe and his 8mmmovie-cameraowning friend Charles are secretly making a zombie flick for their local film festival.

They’ve roped 14-year-old Alice into their project and she proves to be both an excellent actor and a romantic focus for the two boys.

However, one night when the trio have snuck out to film a key scene, they witness - and record a spectacular train crash. But there’s more to the incident than meets the eye, as is demonstrated by the sudden appearance of the military on the scene, and the number of strange events that take place in the event’s aftermath. And, as they investigate, the children begin to piece together the terrifying truth about what has happened...

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The Zoo ITV1, 19:00

Documentary going behind the scenes at London Zoo in Regent’s Park and its sister zoo at Whipsnade in Bedfordshire. This episode follows the journey of three Sumatran tiger cubs, which are filmed from birth up until the last time they can be handled before they become too dangerous. The zoo’s breeding programme for the endangered Humboldt penguin goes into overdrive. Three years after the penguin colony was moved to its new home, head of birds Adrian Walls and the team finally manage to breed their first ever penguin chick, who is soon joined by six more babies. Vets continue with a pygmy hippo’s life-saving cancer treatment and try to save a 500g Goeldi’s monkey which has lost its appetite.

On the other side of the zoo, keeper Dan Simmonds reveals what it is like to work with gorillas as he revamps the indoor gym, and trains alpha male Kumbuku to keep calm while his heart is checked with a stethoscope.

5th August - 11th August 2016

Sun 7th aug 06:00 .........................Olympic Breakfast

06:15.................... Countryfile Summer Special

09:00......................BBC News

07:15 ......... The Beechgrove Garden

10:00 ...........................Sunday Morning Live 11:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 12:00.............. Bargain Hunt 12:45 .....................BBC News 13:00 .......................Olympics 2016 18:00.............. BBC News 18:20............ BBC London News 18:30 ............Countryfile 19:30 ................ Olympics 2016 22:00............... BBC News

This time, former marine Arthur Williams flies to the islands of the South Pacific. Flying into the luxury island retreat of Wadigi, part of the Fiji chain, Arthur meets Tracey Johnson, who has turned the island into a bolthole for celebrities and the super-rich. But she only leases the island from its traditional owners - Tia Ratubuli and his family. Tia takes Arthur hand-fishing, teaching him the art of catching leatherjacket fish by hand from the coral reef. Fiji was hit by a devastating cyclone just three weeks before Arthur arrived. He gets special permission to become the first civilian to fly into the island hardest hit by the storm: Koro. He meets Marianna, a local woman who was cooking lunch at home when the devastating waves and high winds lashed her village. Now she must rebuild her life on higher ground.

Arthur flies on to the islands of Vanuatu, where he meets a flying doctor, Mark Turnball.

06:35 ......................Dino Dan 06:55.............. Share a Story 07:00............................. Sooty

13:00 ............The Third Man

07:15......................... Super 4

14:40 ...............Escape to the Continent

07:35 ...............Thunderbirds are Go

15:40 ...........................Flog It!

08:00 ................Ninjago: Rise of the Snakes

16:25 .......... Songs of Praise 17:00 .............. New Zealand: Earths Mythical Islands 18:00 ......Olympics 2016 19:30.........Wallace and W C Gromit: A choice Close Shave

08:25...................... ITV News 08:30.......................Weekend 09:25 .......................... Murder, She Wrote 10:25 .......................... Murder, She Wrote

22:30..................Match of the Day

21:00........ Dragons’ Den

11:25...................... Columbo

22:00...... Olympics 2016

23:15................. Olympics 2016

23:15...... Youth in Revolt

13:20.............. ITV News and Weather

00:40 .............Countryfile Summer Special

13:25....................... Long Lost Family

01:35.............. Holby City

14:30 ...................... Love Your Garden

01:00................. Olympics 2016

Channel 4, 20:00

09:15.............Olympics 2016 Replay

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

20:00 ............Robot Wars

22:20............ BBC London News

Flying to the Ends of the Earth

07:45 ........Saturday Kitchen Best Bites

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

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Wallace and Gromit: A Close Shave BBC2, 19:30

Oscar-winning animated comedy thriller from Nick Park, featuring the popular inventor and his dog. Wallace’s whirlwind romance with the proprietor of the local wool shop puts his head in a spin, and Gromit is framed for sheep-rustling in a fiendish criminal plot, meeting a sheep named Shaun along the way. Will Wallace snap out of his daze in time to rescue his canine companion?

15:30 ...................The Queen 17:30 ................. Masterpiece with Alan Titchmarsh 18:30................. ITV News London 18:45......... ITV News and Weather 19:00................The Zoo

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

22:00..........ITV News and Weather 22:15............... Slow Train Through Africa with Griff Rhys-Jones 23:15............ Premiership Rugby 7s Highlights 00:15............ Jackpot247

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06:15 ....................... Shipping Wars

06:00 .....................Peppa Pig

14:55 .............The Simpsons

08:50.. Shimmer and Shine

23:00............. Family Guy

15:25 .............The Simpsons

09:15................... Jelly Jamm

23:30.......American Dad!

15:55 .............The Simpsons

09:30......................LazyTown

00:25........... Bordertown

16:25 .............The Simpsons

09:55 .........Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

00:55.........The Cleveland Show

06:05 ...........Passport Patrol 07:00............Passport Patrol 08:00.....................EastEnders Omnibus 10:25......................My Dream Home 12:25......................My Dream Home 14:30................. Doctor Who 15:40 ................ Doctor Who 16:40................. Doctor Who 17:40................. Doctor Who 18:40........Outnumbered 19:20........Outnumbered 20:00............. Beauty and the Beast 21:00................. Sherlock 23:00............ Who Do You Think You Are? 00:00............ Traffic Cops 01:00..........Being Human USA 01:50...................Atlantis

06:00 ... The Hour of Power

07:10 .................Trawlermen

14:00........... Benefits, Babies and Jail

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

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

15:00.............. Benefits: Can’t Work, Won’t Work

08:30 ..................... Futurama

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

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

10:00 .......................Top Gear

12:00............... Ghostbusters Special

11:00 ......................... Red Bull Soapbox Race

12:30 ........ Star Trek Beyond Special

12:00 ..................... Motorway Cops

13:00....Don’t Tell the Bride

13:00.................. Traffic Cops

14:00........... Four Weddings

14:20...... American Pickers

15:00....Battle of the Brides

15:20...... American Pickers

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

16:20...... American Pickers

17:00............Modern Family

17:20 .......................Top Gear

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

18:20 ................Top Gear

06:40 ...........................Mobil 1 The Grid 07:05 ..................Motorsport 07:30 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 07:55........ Everybody Loves Raymond 08:25 ........................... Frasier 08:55............................ Frasier

06:05 .........Toby’s Travelling Circus 06:15.... Angelina Ballerina 06:30.......... Bob the Builder 06:40 ........... Wanda and the Alien 06:50......... Zack and Quack 07:05 ................................ Pets 07:10 ......Noddy in Toyland 07:20.................... Paw Patrol

06:00.........Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20............ Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records 06:50....................Emmerdale Omnibus 09:55....... Coronation Street Omnibus 12:20.................Take Me Out 13:20................Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed! Gold

07:35............. Little Princess

14:20.................. You’ve Been Framed!

12:30...................... The Great Mouse Detective

07:50 ......................Pip Ahoy!

14:50...... Mr Bean’s Holiday

08:10 ...............Blaze and the Monster Machines

16:40................... The Smurfs

14:00 .............The Simpsons

08:35............ Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

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

14:25............. The Simpsons

18:45....... The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey 22:00............. Family Guy

10:30 .............. Football on 5

08:55... River Cottage Bites 09:25 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals 09:50 ...............................Craft 10:55... Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb 11:55 .Come Dine with Me 14:40................Four in a Bed 17:20.. Come Dine with Me 18:25.............. Come Dine with Me 19:30.............. Come Dine with Me 20:00.... Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year 21:00.............. Father Ted 22:05..... Micky Flanagan: Back in the Game 23:10...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown 00:15............. 24 Hours in A and E 01:20.... Amazing Spaces: Shed of the Year

06:00.......................... Football Gold 06:15 ......................... Football Gold 06:30................................. MLS Highlights 08:30.................. The Sunday Supplement 10:00........................ Goals on Sunday 11:30 ........................ Football 14:00........................ Football 16:15......................... Football 19:00.................. Goals on Sunday 20:30..................Football 21:05..................Football 23:15...................Football Gold 23:30...................Football Gold 23:45...................Football Gold 00:05..................Football

11:30 .............. Football on 5 12:00 .... Now That’s Funny!

13:00..... Benefit House: Me and My 26 Kids

16:00......................Benefits 17:00.......Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud 3

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18:00.Now That’s Funny!

18:55... 5 News Weekend 19:00............Cricket on 5 16:55 .............The Simpsons 17:25 .............The Simpsons 17:50 ........ Channel 4 News 18:15....... Monsters, Inc. 20:00..................Flying CW to the choice Ends of the Earth 21:00.................47 Ronin 23:20......................Ghost 01:40............Friday Night Dinner

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20:00........Toddlers Make You Laugh Out Loud 20:55 .. 5 News Weekend 21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother

20:00......... The Last Ship

22:00......... Bankrupt and Broke: When Celebs Go Bust

21:00......................... Zoo

23:30.... Body Freaks: Old Face, New Face

23:00... Stop, Search Seize

22:00 ............ Ross Kemp: Extreme World

00:30.......Lip Sync Battle

00:00............... The Force: Manchester

00:55..........Super Casino

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

21:00 .............. Have I Got a Bit More News for You 22:00........................Suits 23:00................ Parks and Recreation 23:30............ Live Cricket: Hero Caribbean Prem Lge

Benefits Channel 5, 16:00

In this episode we meet some mothers who are struggling to bring up their children while claiming benefits.

Kailey from Cardiff has not worked in 10 years and believes that single mothers receive too much undeserved criticism. Claire, has difficulty supporting her seven children despite bringing home nearly £30,000 in benefits and Lisa spends most of her time juggling the needs of her children with those of her husband, Paul, who has health problems.

Dogs Make You Laugh Out Loud 3 Channel 5, 17:00

Compilation clip show featuring the hilarious and outrageous dogthemed videos.

Highlights include Rocko, a two-yearold great dane and a contender for the Guinness record for the world’s tallest living dog, Crusoe the dachshund - a small dog with a big ego, Quincy the bichon frise known for his Vine loops, and Otto the skateboarding dog.

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Brief Encounters ITV1, 21.00

Steph is excitingly talking through a plan to her friends for an exotic lingerie event filled with local women – the girls will recruit them and book parties. Pauline is sceptical…

Dawn, Hellie, and Steph are leafleting in the middle of town when Dawn drags Steph into the police station. At the desk, Dawn tries to convince the world-weary Sarg that his wife and her friends should come to the event as Johnny walks into the station – he and Steph haven’t seen each other since the wedding. PC Martin has some shocking news.

At Pauline’s house, Brian is in the midst of the usual morning chaos when Dawn tells him she has asked Russell to model at the big event.

Brian is shocked at the thought of Russell on stage in front of all those women including Spake’s customers. This cannot happen - they’ll be a laughing stock.

The next day, Johnny goes round to see Steph and asks for a favour to do with Pauline. Steph realises Pauline has lied to Johnny and starts to explain, but Terry walks in full of misunderstanding.

At the Spakes’ Brian walks in on Russell, apparently naked and dancing. Brian is at the end of his tether and calls a house meeting – he’s got some news for Dawn and Russell.

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M on d a y 06:00..........................Olympic Breakfast 09:15 ................. Countryside 999 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45................ The Housing Enforcers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ......................BBC News at One 13:30 .................BBC London News 13:45 .......................Olympics 2016 18:00 ............... BBC News at Six 18:30............ BBC London News 19:00................ Olympics 2016 20:00............ EastEnders 20:30 ......Olympics 2016 22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:30............ BBC London News 22:45................ Olympics 2016 00:00................ Olympics 2016

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Brexit: The Battle for Britain BBC2, 21.00

On 23 June, Britain was hit by a political earthquake. Within hours of the EU referendum result, the Prime Minister had resigned, the pound fell and Westminster was reeling. So how and why did this political revolution happen - and how does it stand to reshape Britain’s politics?

In this film, the BBC’s Political Editor Laura Kuenssberg tells the inside story of how David Cameron’s huge political gamble went wrong. Talking to the politicians and the people who ran the campaigns, she’ll find out how a perfect storm brewed, which would end Cameron’s premiership and throw the Labour Party into chaos, as well as reshaping Britain’s place in the world for a generation.

In Sunderland - an area where the result sent Britain’s political classes into shock - voters, politicians and activists will describe how the groundswell of protest grew. And Laura will explore how a gulf opened up between Westminster and large parts of modern Britain.

Just weeks on from the referendum, British politics is already transformed: we have a new Prime Minister, Nigel Farage has bowed out, and Jeremy Corbyn’s opponents within Labour have moved against him. But that is just the beginning: the effects of this result will be felt for decades.

06:15 ................... Countryfile Summer Diaries 07:00 ...........Garden Rescue 07:45 ......... Neighbourhood Blues 08:15 ...... The £100k House: The Final Fix 09:15 ............Olympics 2016 Replay 13:00 ...........Olympics 2016 13:45...................... Red Rock 14:30 ......................The Edge 15:15 ...............Escape to the Country 16:00 ... The Great Antiques Map of Britain 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15....................... Pointless 18:00...... Olympics 2016 19:00.............. Eggheads 19:30............... University Challenge 20:00 ......Olympics 2016 20:30........ Only Connect 21:00...........Brexit: The W C Battle for Britain choice 22:00 ......Olympics 2016 22:45 .............Newsnight 23:20 ............Robot Wars 00:20............... The Super League Show 01:00 ................ Celebrity MasterChef

06:00 ............ Good Morning Britain 08:30.......................... Lorraine 09:25....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 .............. This Morning 12:30 ............ Loose Women 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 13:55..... ITV News London 14:00 .............. Judge Rinder 15:00............ Secret Dealers 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00.............. Cash Trapped 18:00................. ITV News London 18:30..ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30..............Coronation Street 20:00............. Wild France with Ray Mears 20:30..............Coronation Street 21:00...Brief Encounters CW choice 22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:35.. ITV News London 22:45............... Benidorm 23:45.................Britain as Seen on ITV 00:10............ Jackpot247

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06:15 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

06:40 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

06:20 .Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:05 ........Everybody Loves Raymond 07:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet 06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:40 .....................Peppa Pig 06:45 ..........Bob the Builder 07:00.............. Little Princess

08:00............................ Frasier

07:10...................... Pip Ahoy!

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

07:25 .................Thomas and Friends

09:05 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 09:30 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 09:55............. The Simpsons 10:25 .............The Simpsons 11:00..............The Simpsons 11:30 ................... Come Dine with Me

07:40.......... Noddy: Toyland Detective 07:50 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:05 .........................Wissper 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:25 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35 ....................Paw Patrol

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

08:50 ................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

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

09:00 .Bananas in Pajamas

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

11:15 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

13:05.................... Come Dine with Me

12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime

13:40.................... Come Dine with Me 14:10.............Fifteen to One 15:10..................Countdown 16:00 ............ Three in a Bed 17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00 ....... The Simpsons 18:30............... Hollyoaks

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

12:15 ................ Celebrity Big Brother 13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours 14:15 ............................... NCIS 15:10 ..................Rosamunde Pilcher’s Coming Home 17:00.................. 5 News at 5 17:30 .................Neighbours 18:00.... Home and Away

06:00 ........Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 ................ Dinner Date 07:10 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00.................. Emmerdale 08:30 .....Coronation Street 09:30 ............................. Psych 10:20 .................. Royal Pains 11:15 ................ Dinner Date 12:15 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 .....Coronation Street 13:45 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50 ................Take Me Out 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00............. Family Guy 21:30 .......... Bordertown 22:00............ Family Guy 22:30 ......American Dad! 23:30.........The Cleveland Show

06:10 ...................MasterChef Australia 08:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 09:00........My Dream Home 10:00.......................... The Bill 11:00 ..............Tipping Point 13:00.................. Judge Faith 14:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 15:00........My Dream Home 17:00.............. Tipping Point 18:00...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:00................. Celebrity MasterChef 21:00..........John Bishop’s Australia 22:00............. EastEnders 22:40.................Don’t Tell the Bride 23:40.... Russell Howard’s Good News 00:40............. EastEnders

08:55 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

06:00 ...................... Supergirl

07:00... The Indestructibles

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

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

06:00 ............. Football Gold 07:00..................... WWE Raw 08:00 .......... Premier League 100 Club 08:30.................. The Premier League Years 10:30............. Great Sporting Moments 11:00........ Goals on Sunday 12:30.............. Football Gold 14:00 ..................The Premier League Years 16:00........... Premier League 100 Club 16:30.... Sporting Triumphs 17:30.............. Football Gold 18:00............ Soccer A.M. 19:30.... Live Elite League Speedway 21:30.............Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 22:00.. More Than a Game 22:30....... Great Sporting Moments 22:45....... Great Sporting Moments

09:00 ..................... Futurama 10:00.............. Ninja Warrior 11:00..... NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00.............. Hawaii Five-0 13:00 ...................... Supergirl 14:00 ......................The Flash

08:10........Red Bull Soapbox Race 09:00..... Lizard Lick Towing 10:00....... American Pickers 11:00......... Storage Hunters 12:00........................Top Gear

18:30..... 5 News Tonight

15:00 ......................The Flash

19:00 . Aircrash: Collision in the Skies

16:00 ...........Modern Family 16:30 ...........Modern Family

20:00.......................Police Interceptors: Unleashed

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

22:00......................Naked Attraction

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

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

23:05...........Tattoo Fixers on Holiday

22:00.........Mascara Boys: Sex Me Up

00:05........ Bodyshockers

20:00.......................David Attenborough Conquest of the Skies

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

21:00...............Gone in 60 Seconds

00:05.......Can’t Pay? We’ll Take it Away!

23:15 ........... The Premier League Years

00:20...... Mock the Week

01:00..........Super Casino

01:15....NCIS: Los Angeles

01:40............................ QI

19:00 .... Channel 4 News 20:00............ Dispatches 20:30..... Superfoods: The Real Story 21:00....................Eden

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01:00.........The Three Day Nanny 01:55...... One Born: What Happened Next?

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

13:00............................Cricket 17:00.......................... Red Bull Soapbox Race 18:00.................Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers 20:00....................... QI XL 21:00.. Would I Lie to You? 21:40...... Mock the Week 22:20............................... QI 23:40.. Would I Lie to You? 01:00............................ QI

09:35......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 10:40 ...........Kirstie’s Vintage Gems 11:00 ....River of No Return 12:55................... Time Team 15:05..... A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:15 ...............Four in a Bed 18:20......... Four in a Bed 19:55...... Grand Designs 21:00 .......The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds 22:00............ 16 Kids and Counting 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:10........The Secret Life of 4 Year Olds

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Over the course of the coming year, a group of 23 men and women attempt to start a new society from scratch. Fed up with 21st century life, they’re setting out to build their very own Eden in the wilds of the Highlands, to see what happens when we start again. This final episode in the current run sees the arrival of spring in Eden - lambs are being born and the group take advantage of the sunshine as they come together to build a winter dwelling. One of the male members of the camp sets his sights on one of the girls in group, trying to discover if his feelings are reciprocated.

Someone also attempts to engineer a split in Eden, believing that creating an ‘A Team’ and forcing the weakest to leave is the route to long-term success. But will their plan succeed?

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Inside The Factory: Baked Beans

5th August - 11th August 2016

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BBC2, 20.00

Today in the UK we get through more than two million cans of baked beans every day, with the average UK household consuming 10 tins of canned food a week. Gregg Wallace helps to unload 27 tonnes of dried haricot beans from North America and follows them on a one and a half mile journey through the Heinz factory in Wigan - the largest baked bean factory in the world - making more than three million cans of beans every 24 hours.

He’ll discover how a laser scrutinizes every single bean; how the spice recipe for the sauce is a classified secret known only by two people; and, most surprisingly, how the beans are not baked at all!

Meanwhile Cherry Healey follows the journey of her discarded baked bean can through a recycling centre and onto the largest steelworks in the UK, where she watches a dramatic, fiery process that produces 320 tonnes of molten steel - enough to make eight million cans.

She also takes a can that is 14 months after its ‘Best Before’ date to a lab at the University of Coventry and is amazed when tests reveal it has the same Vitamin C levels compared to fresh tomatoes. The lab also proves that a 45 year-old tin of Skippers is still fit to eat.

And historian Ruth Goodman looks at how tinned food was invented to improve the nutrition of sailors to prevent them developing scurvy on their long voyages at sea. She’ll also relate how Henry Heinz first marketed baked beans in the UK in the early 1900s - making them a family favourite.

06:00 .........................Olympic Breakfast 09:15.........Countryside 999 10:00...............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00..............Wanted Down Under 11:45................. The Housing Enforcers 12:15............... Bargain Hunt 13:00.......................BBC News at One 13:30..................BBC London News

06:00................. Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution

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

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

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

07:45................. The Housing Enforcers

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

08:15 ..........................The Gift of Hearing 08:45 .......................The Hairy Builder

10:30.............. This Morning 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 13:55....................... ITV News London 14:00.............. Judge Rinder

09:15.............Olympics 2016 Replay

15:00............ Secret Dealers

18:00................ BBC News at Six

13:00 .......................Olympics 2016

17:00 ............. Cash Trapped

18:30............ BBC London News

13:45...................... Red Rock 14:30 ......................The Edge

19:00................. Olympics 2016

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

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

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

13:45............Olympics 2016

19:30............. EastEnders 20:00..........Olympics 2016 Clare Balding introduces live coverage of day four of the 2016 Olympics featuring the women’s team gymnastics competition. Great Britain won bronze at the 2015 World Championship in this event and will hope to be among the medals again in Rio.

16:00...................... The Great Antiques Map of Britain 16:30 ...........................Flog It! 17:15 .......................Pointless 18:00................. Olympics 2016 19:00............... Eggheads 19:30 ................ Olympics 2016 20:00.............Inside the CW Factory: How choice Our Favourite Foods are Made

16:00 ..............Tipping Point 18:00................ ITV News London

20:00........Endeavour Crime drama series about the young Detective Constable Endeavour Morse. As Oxford falls under a thick blanket of fog, a multiple murderer haunts the city, strangling married women with a silk stocking and removing their wedding rings. No married woman is safe, and as the list of suspects narrows, Endeavour and DI Fred Thursday find their emotional lives are turned upside down while the strangler stalks his next victim.

21:00...............An Hour CW to Save choice Your Life

An Hour to Save Your Life

22:00................. Olympics 2016

BBC2, 21:00 Medical science series exploring the life-or-death decisions facing doctors in the first critical hour of emergency care. Moped rider Martin is fighting for his life after a collision with a lorry in London. Doctors are concerned he may have severe head and spinal injuries after the wheel of the lorry pressed against his neck. Also in London, police officer David is diagnosed with a heart attack after suffering a sudden cardiac arrest at the gym. He is taken to Barts Heart Attack Centre for an angiogram and an emergency heart bypass operation, which successfully treats a blockage in his coronary artery. In Northumberland, cyclist Julian comes off his bike with a nasty facial injury. Once in hospital, he begins to deteriorate and suffers a major stroke before undergoing an emergency operation to remove part of his skull and relieve the swelling in his brain. Julian faces a long process of rehabilitation after his injuries.

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

22:00................ BBC News at Ten

22:45..............Newsnight

22:30............ BBC London News

00:20................. Celebrity MasterChef

22:45................. Olympics 2016

01:50.............The Somme 1916 - From Both Sides of the Wire

00:00................. Olympics 2016

23:20......... Dragons’ Den

22:00 ................ ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:30................ ITV News London 22:40............. UEFA Super Cup 2011 23:40................... Murder, She Wrote 00:30............ Jackpot247

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9 t h 06:15 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

06:40...............3rd Rock from the Sun

06:20 Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:05.........Everybody Loves Raymond 07:30.........Everybody Loves Raymond 08:00 ........................... Frasier 08:35........................... Frasier 09:05 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 09:35 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 10:00............. The Simpsons 10:30............. The Simpsons 11:00............. The Simpsons 11:30.................... Come Dine with Me 12:00.......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05.................... Come Dine with Me 12:35.................... Come Dine with Me

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet 06:30 .............. Fireman Sam 06:40......................Peppa Pig 06:45 ..........Bob the Builder 07:00............. Little Princess 07:10...................... Pip Ahoy!

07:25..................Thomas and Friends 07:40........... Noddy: Toyland Detective 07:50............ Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom 08:05 .........................Wissper 08:15 .....................Peppa Pig 08:35 ....................Paw Patrol 08:50.................Toot the Tiny Tugboat 09:00.. Bananas in Pajamas 09:15......... The Wright Stuff 11:15 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:15................. Celebrity Big Brother

13:35.................... Come Dine with Me

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

14:10.............Fifteen to One

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

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

15:10...................Rosamunde Pilcher’s Coming Home

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

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

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

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

18:00.... Home and Away

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

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

19:00..... Channel 4 News

19:00......Conspiracy: The Nazi King

20:00................. Location, Location, Location 21:00................The Job Interview

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06:00.........Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20................. Dinner Date 07:10........................ The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00...................Emmerdale 08:30..... Coronation Street 09:30 ............................. Psych 10:20................... Royal Pains 11:15................. Dinner Date 12:15...................Emmerdale 12:45......Coronation Street 13:45........................ The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35....................The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50 ................Take Me Out 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

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

06:00 ............Dynamo Top 10 06:10.. MasterChef Australia 07:10...... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 09:00..........My Dream Home 10:00...............................The Bill 11:00................. Tipping Point 13:00......................Judge Faith 14:00 ..... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 15:50 .........My Dream Home 16:50 .................Tipping Point 17:50 ..... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition 19:40 ................... Celebrity MasterChef 21:00.........One Born Every Minute 22:00................EastEnders 22:40.. Don’t Tell the Bride 23:40...... Russell Howard’s Good News 00:40............... EastEnders

08:55...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

06:00...................... Supergirl

07:00... The Indestructibles 07:20.................... Scrapheap Challenge 08:10.......................... Red Bull Soapbox Race 09:00.... Lizard Lick Towing 10:00...... American Pickers 11:00........ Storage Hunters 12:00 .......................Top Gear 13:00...... American Pickers 15:00 ................World’s Most Dangerous Roads 16:00 .... Lizard Lick Towing 17:00....... Red Bull Soapbox Race 18:00................ Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers 20:00........................... QI 21:20.. Would I Lie to You? 22:00 ........... Taskmaster 23:00 ..... Mock the Week 23:40............................ QI 01:00.. Would I Lie to You?

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

08:00.. Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 08:30......................The Premier League Years 10:30................Great Sporting Moments 11:00..............Premier League Legends 11:30.. Spfl Rnd Up 2016/17 12:00......................Elite League Speedway 14:00 .....................The Premier League Years 16:00......................Elite League Speedway 18:00..................MLS Goals Round Up 18:30........SPFL Round-Up 19:00........... Football Gold 19:30...........Gillette Soccer Special 22:00.. More Than a Game 22:30..........Great Sporting Moments 23:00........... Football Gold 23:30..... MLS Goals Round Up Show

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

07:00 ......................The Flash 09:00 ..................... Futurama 10:00 .............. Ninja Warrior 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0 13:00 ...................... Supergirl 14:00 ......................The Flash 16:00 ...........Modern Family 17:00 .............The Simpsons

20:00...The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies

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

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

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

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

22:00..............Borderline

20:00...........Stop, Search, Seize

23:05................. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell

22:30..............Impractical Jokers UK

21:00................ Football’s Funniest Moments

00:00....................... Eden

23:00...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

22:00.................Don’t Tell the Bride

00:05...........Celebrity Big Brother

23:00 ........... The Premier League Years

00:30..........Super Casino

01:00....NCIS: Los Angeles

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

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01:00...........KOTV Boxing Weekly 01:25.... Cardiff Triathlon 01:55............ Motorsport

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09:35 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 10:45.......... Kirstie’s Fill Your House for Free 11:05................. The Siege at Red River 12:55 ...................Time Team 15:05 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:15 ...............Four in a Bed 19:55 ...... Grand Designs 21:00......... Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes 22:00................Obsessive Compulsive Cleaners 23:05............. 24 Hours in A and E 00:10... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA 01:10......... Phil Spencer’s Stately Homes

12:10.....5 News Lunchtime

13:05.................... Come Dine with Me

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

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The Job Interview Channel 4, 21:00

Real candidates battle it out against each other in pursuit of real jobs, filmed in microscopic detail to capture every nuance. In the final episode of the series, car hire company Planet Leasing from Leigh-on-sea in Essex are expanding and looking for a new salesperson. Bosses Gary Rose and Darren Nash want to employ someone who is ‘confident, presentable and a fantastic communicator’. Keen to impress and win the job of their dreams are 52-year-old Mark, who has already applied for over 800 jobs, and 40-year-old part-time cleaner Tina, who wants to fulfil her potential. Others up for consideration are 51-year-old Jayne, who’s been made redundant and finds the job market a minefield, 25-year-old fashion graduate Romilly, who is ready for a new career challenge, and 50-year-old door-to-door salesman Kevin, who says he has the integrity and honesty for the job.

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After the treat that was the celebrity series, Cupid has been busy sharpening his arrows and is now taking aim at a new raft of singletons about to walk through the restaurant doors on the latest series of Bafta-winning First Dates. On the menu in this episode are five pairs of delightfully hopeless hopefuls.

Billericay Podiatrist Felicity puts her best foot forward and meets handsome city boy Jethro, who describes himself as ‘Marmite’. Both have strange dance moves this could just be a match made in weird heaven.

Twenty-fouryear-old Irishman Damian has Tourette’s, and believes this is the reason he has yet to find the man of his dreams. It falls to part-time model Kai to see past Damian’s disability - he’s a sucker for an Irish accent. At the ripe old age of 79, history student Joe wants to prove that love is not a thing of the past.

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Horizon Special BBC2, 20:00

Inside Cern.

With exclusive behind-the-scenes access, Horizon follows the highs and lows of an extraordinary story in particle physics. In June 2015, teams at CERN started running the large hadron collider at the highest energy ever.

Rumours quickly emerged that they were on the brink of a huge discovery. A mysterious bump in some data suggested a first glimpse of a brand new particle that could change our understanding of how the universe works. A new particle could hint at extra dimensions and help us understand the very beginning of the universe - but first the team has to find it. Horizon follows the scientists as they hunt for the elusive signals that would prove if there is a new particle or if it is just noise from their machine.

5th August - 11th August 2016

Wed 10th Aug 06:00 .........................Olympic Breakfast

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choice 09:15 ................. Countryside 999

10:00 ............................Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45 ................ The Housing Enforcers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00...................... BBC News at One 13:30 .................BBC London News 13:45 .......................Olympics 2016 18:00 ............... BBC News at Six 18:30............ BBC London News 19:00................. Olympics 2016 22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:30............ BBC London News 22:45................. Olympics 2016 00:00................. Olympics 2016

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The Three Day Nanny Channel 4, 20:00

As a single mum to four unruly children under the age of three, Rosie Parsons’s situation is an extreme test for The Three Day Nanny. Two and a half year old triplets Summer, Sienna and Jacob were an IVF miracle and when 13 month old Zach came along Rosie thought she had the perfect family. But then her marriage broke down and she was left to cope alone with four extremely demanding children who fight for their Mum’s attention. At home they hit and bite and often trash the house as they battle for attention, but it’s the quiet triplet that usually wins - with her extreme clinginess and constant demands to be carried she leaves Mum with no hands free to tackle the naughty behaviour of the others.

06:00.................... Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution 06:45......... Homes Under the Hammer 07:45 ................... The Housing Enforcers 08:15 .........Gardeners’ World 08:45 .........The Hairy Builder 09:15 ...............Olympics 2016 Replay 12:15 ..............Olympics 2016 13:45 ......................... Red Rock 14:30 ......................... The Edge 15:15 ..................Escape to the Country 16:00.......The Great Antiques Map of Britain 16:30 ...............................Flog It! 17:15 .......................... Pointless 18:00........ Olympics 2016 19:00 .................Eggheads 19:30 ......... Grand Tours of Scotland 20:00.....Horizon Special CW choice 21:00 ................. Versailles 22:00 ........ Olympics 2016 22:45 ............... Newsnight 23:20 ......... People Just Do Nothing 23:50....Inside the Factory: How Our Favourite Foods are Made 00:50.................Hugh’s War on Waste

06:00............ Good Morning Britain 08:30........................ Lorraine 09:25.......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30.............. This Morning 12:30 ............ Loose Women 13:3............ 0 ITV Lunchtime News 13:55..... ITV News London 14:00 .............. Judge Rinder 15:00............ Secret Dealers 16:00.............. Tipping Point 17:00 ............. Cash Trapped 18:00 ................ ITV News London 18:30............ ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30............. Coronation Street 20:00............ Wild Animal Reunions 21:00... Long Lost Family 22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:35.. ITV News London 22:45...............The Chase 23:45.British Touring Car Championship Highlights

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06:15 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

06:40 ..............3rd Rock from the Sun

06:20 ...........Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:05........ Everybody Loves Raymond

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

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

06:45 ..........Bob the Builder

08:00 ........................... Frasier 08:30........................... Frasier 09:05 ...........................The Big Bang Theory 09:35........................... The Big Bang Theory

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

06:40..................... Peppa Pig 07:00 ............. Little Princess 07:10 ......................Pip Ahoy!

07:25 .................Thomas and Friends 07:40 .......... Noddy: Toyland Detective

10:00 .............The Simpsons

07:50 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

10:30............. The Simpsons

08:05......................... Wissper

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

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

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

08:25 .....................Peppa Pig

12:00......... Channel 4 News Summary 12:05.................... Come Dine with Me 12:35.................... Come Dine with Me 13:05.................... Come Dine with Me 13:35.................... Come Dine with Me 14:10 ............Fifteen to One 15:10 .................Countdown 16:00 ............ Three in a Bed 17:00............. Couples Come Dine with Me 18:00........ The Simpsons 18:30............... Hollyoaks 19:00..... Channel 4 News 20:00............The Three Day Nanny

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21:00...... Britain’s Benefit Tenants 22:00..............Man Down 22:30..A Granny’s Guide CW to the Modern World choice 23:05..... 999: What’s Your Emergency?

00:05.... Live From Abbey Road Classics 00:35....... Don’t be Afraid of the Dark

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08:35 ....................Paw Patrol 08:50................ Toot the Tiny Tugboat 09:00.....................Bananas in Pajamas

06:00........ Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 ................ Dinner Date 07:10 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00.................. Emmerdale 09:00 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

09:30............................. Psych 10:20.................. Royal Pains 11:15 ................ Dinner Date 12:15 ..................Emmerdale 13:15.................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35................... The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50 ................Take Me Out 19:00 ........... You’ve Been Framed!

20:00............... Two and a Half Men 21:00......... Hell’s Kitchen 22:00........... The Vampire Diaries 22:55............. Family Guy

06:10 ...................MasterChef Australia

08:55 ......................Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

08:00.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

09:35......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

09:00........My Dream Home 10:00........................... The Bill

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

11:00...............Tipping Point

10:45 ................... Crash Dive

13:00................. Judge Faith

12:55 ...................Time Team

14:00.................. Traffic Cops

15:05 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

06:00 ...................... Supergirl

14:40.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

17:15............... Four in a Bed

15:40........My Dream Home

17:50............... Four in a Bed

17:40 ..............Tipping Point

18:55 .........Four in a Bed

18:40...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

19:55 ...... Grand Designs

19:40................. Celebrity MasterChef

21:00 .......Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

21:00..............In the Club

22:00...... 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown

22:05............ Baby Mama

23:05........ Bodyshockers

00:00........ Derren Brown: Trick or Treat

00:10... Ramsay’s Kitchen Nightmares USA

00:35...................Atlantis 01:35...................Atlantis

01:10........Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb

07:00 .. The Indestructibles 07:20 .................... Scrapheap Challenge 08:10.......................... Red Bull Soapbox Race 09:00..... Lizard Lick Towing 10:00....... American Pickers 11:00......... Storage Hunters 12:00........................Top Gear 13:00....... American Pickers 15:00.................World’s Most Dangerous Roads 16:00..... Lizard Lick Towing 17:00........Red Bull Soapbox Race 18:00.................Top Gear 19:00...American Pickers 20:00....................... QI XL 21:00.. Would I Lie to You? 21:40........ Mock the Week 22:20............................... QI 23:40.. Would I Lie to You? 00:20...... Mock the Week

06:00............. Football Gold 07:00 .......WWE Experience 08:00 .......... Premier League 100 Club 08:30.................. The Premier League Years 10:30............ Great Sporting Moments 11:00 .......... Premier League Legends 12:00.......... Premier League 100 Club 13:00 ............. Football Gold 14:00 ..................The Premier League Years 16:00........... Premier League Legends 17:00.... Sporting Triumphs 18:00.........Football Gold 19:30..................Football 22:00.. More Than a Game 22:30 ...... Great Sporting Moments 22:45....... Great Sporting Moments

09:15 ........ The Wright Stuff 11:15.........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs 12:10 ....5 News Lunchtime 12:15.........................Celebrity Big Brother

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

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

09:00..................... Futurama

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

10:00.............. Ninja Warrior

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

10:30.............. Ninja Warrior

15:15............The Reckoning

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

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

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

17:30..................Neighbours 18:00.... Home and Away

13:00 ...................... Supergirl 14:00...................... The Flash

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

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

19:00......Secrets of Great British Castles

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

20:00............ GPs: Behind Closed Doors

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

21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother 22:00.................Suspects 23:05...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

20:00.................Don’t Tell the Bride 21:00...... Karl Pilkington: The Moaning of Life 22:00.... Bradley Wiggins: The Road to Rio

00:05 .........Football on 5

23:00............ The Premier League Years

01:30..........Super Casino

01:00....NCIS: Los Angeles

A Granny’s Guide to the Modern World Channel 4, 22:30

What’s grime music?

What’s a superfood and does it always have to taste awful? Why is it that if you say something’s ‘b****cks’ then that’s bad, but if you say it’s ‘the b****cks’ then that’s good?

What’s the difference between Grindr and Tinder? And should you be doing either of them? Instead of shying away from these significant, hardto-answer questions, Barry Humphries and a team of senior investigative reporters face them head-on, providing an outsider’s perspective on life in 2016 through a series of reports, hidden camera experiments and comedy sketches.

Ninety-four-yearold Bobby immerses himself in Soho’s gay community and learns the difference between a bear and an otter. Best friends Trish, Daphne and Margot learn how to play shoot ‘em up video games, and 91-year-old Helen attempts to bag a toy boy.

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Full Steam Ahead BBC2, 20:00

Historians Ruth Goodman, Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn explore how the Victorian railways created modern Britain. At the National Railway Museum, Alex and Peter help get the most famous locomotive in the world, the Flying Scotsman, into steam. The team take a ride of a lifetime as the loco travels along its original route, connecting London and Edinburgh, and Alex finds out what it is like for catering staff with 250 hungry mouths to feed. Peter heads to the Great Central Railway to find out how the railways revolutionised the delivery of mail right across Britain and is put to task on the travelling post office. Ruth finds out what the role of the wheel-tapper entailed and helps to tyre a wheel with a steel band at the South Devon Railway workshop. In Bristol, Alex discovers how the railways were responsible for bringing the nation into sync, as he visits a clock with two minute hands. Meanwhile, Peter learns how the railways brought Britain current news for the first time.

5th August - 11th August 2016

Thurs d a y 06:00......................... Olympic Breakfast 09:15 ................. Countryside 999 10:00 ..............Homes Under the Hammer 11:00 .............Wanted Down Under 11:45 ................ The Housing Enforcers 12:15 .............. Bargain Hunt 13:00 ......................BBC News at One 13:30 .................BBC London News 13:45 .......................Olympics 2016 18:00................ BBC News at Six 18:30............ BBC London News 19:00................. Olympics 2016 19:30............. EastEnders 20:00................. Olympics 2016 22:00................ BBC News at Ten 22:30............ BBC London News 22:45................. Olympics 2016

Paul O’Grady’s Animal Orphans ITV1, 21:00 Paul O’Grady returns for a second series in which he visits South Africa, Zambia and Namibia on the trail of young orphaned animals. Paul’s first stop is Moholoholo Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre. Here they are raising an eight-month-old orphaned rhinoceros called Olive, whose mother was killed by poachers - 1,000 rhinos are killed for their horns every year. At Na’ankuse, a wildlife sanctuary in Namibia, Paul meets the owner Marlice, who introduces him to some of the resident animals - including a ten-month-old aardvark called Parkie, the strangest creature Paul has ever seen. He also meets Shrinky, a baby baboon who staff member Colette is caring for around the clock. Shrinky arrived in a terrible state, wounded and scarred, and Colette fears she might be brain damaged and have a serious problem with her sight. Finally, Paul has to serve ice lollies made of antelope blood to a lion cub called Nala.

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06:00................. Paul Martin’s Handmade Revolution 06:45....... Homes Under the Hammer 07:45................. The Housing Enforcers 08:15............... New Zealand: Earths Mythical Islands 09:15.............Olympics 2016 Replay 13:00............Olympics 2016 13:45....................... Red Rock 14:30.......................The Edge 15:15................Escape to the Country 16:00.... The Great Antiques Map of Britain 16:30............................Flog It! 17:15........................Pointless 18:00.......Olympics 2016 19:00............... Eggheads 19:30.......Olympics 2016 20:00............Full Steam CW Ahead choice 21:00........The 80s with W C Dominic choice Sandbrook 22:00.......Olympics 2016 22:45..............Newsnight 23:20.............. An Hour to Save Your Life

06:00............ Good Morning Britain 08:30 ........................ Lorraine 09:25 ......... The Jeremy Kyle Show 10:30 .............. This Morning 12:30............ Loose Women 13:30 .............ITV Lunchtime News 13:55..... ITV News London 14:00.............. Judge Rinder 15:00............ Secret Dealers 16:00 ..............Tipping Point 17:00 ............. Cash Trapped 18:00................. ITV News London 18:30............ ITV Evening News 19:00............ Emmerdale 19:30.... Real Stories with Ranvir Singh 20:00............ Emmerdale 20:30.............. The Cruise 21:00.....Paul O’Grady’s W C Animal Orphans choice 22:00...... ITV News at Ten and Weather 22:30.. ITV News London 22:40.......................Drive 23:40................... Murder, She Wrote

The 80s With Dominic Sandbrook BBC2, 21.00

The second episode sees mid-1980s Britain wrestling with two contradictory impulses: the rise of a strong nationalist sentiment, and the emergence of an increasingly globalised world.

By the middle of the decade, Britain felt like an embattled nation, facing threats from enemies within as well as without; a nation struggling to establish an identity on the global stage, and also to re-establish what it means to be British.

This was the period that forever marked the 80s as a decade of conflict and division. But not all those conflicts were obvious - some were fought with bullets, others with money; some were fought in our homes, others in our heads.

This episode examines everything from the invasion of the Falkland Islands to the invasion of the home computer and the moral panic surrounding ‘video nasties’; from the Americanisation of our popular culture to the picket line skirmishes playing out nightly on our televisions; from the spectre of AIDS and the threat of the IRA, to immigration and identity politics.

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1 1 t h 06:15...............3rd Rock from the Sun

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

06:40...............3rd Rock from the Sun

06:20........... Lily’s Driftwood Bay

07:05.........Everybody Loves Raymond

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

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

06:45.......... Bob the Builder

06:10 .............Chloe’s Closet

06:40 .....................Peppa Pig 07:00............. Little Princess

07:55............................ Frasier

07:10...................... Pip Ahoy!

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

07:25 .................Thomas and Friends

09:00............................The Big Bang Theory

07:40.......... Noddy: Toyland Detective

09:30............................The Big Bang Theory 10:00 .............The Simpsons

07:50 ........... Ben and Holly’s Little Kingdom

10:30 .............The Simpsons

08:05 .........................Wissper

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

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

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

08:25 .....................Peppa Pig

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

08:50.................Toot the Tiny Tugboat

08:35.................... Paw Patrol

A u g us t 06:00 ........Planet’s Funniest Animals 06:20 ................ Dinner Date 07:10 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 08:00 ..................Emmerdale 08:30 .....Coronation Street 09:00.................. You’ve Been Framed!

09:30............................. Psych 10:20 .................. Royal Pains 11:15 ................ Dinner Date 12:15 ..................Emmerdale 12:45 .....Coronation Street 13:15 ................. You’ve Been Framed!

13:45 ....................... The Ellen DeGeneres Show 14:35 ...................The Jeremy Kyle Show 17:50 ................Take Me Out 19:20......... Funniest Ever You’ve Been Framed! Gold 20:00 ...............Two and a Half Men 21:00................. Hot Fuzz 23:25............. Family Guy

06:05 ...................MasterChef Australia

08:55...................... Jamie’s 15 Minute Meals

06:50.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

09:35......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun

08:40........My Dream Home

10:30.......Food Unwrapped

09:40........................... The Bill 10:40...............Tipping Point

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

12:40.................. Judge Faith

11:25.....Comanche Station

13:40.... Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

12:55....................Time Team

23:40.... Russell Howard’s Good News

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

15:35........My Dream Home 17:35...............Tipping Point 18:35...................Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

15:05......A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 16:10 .....A Place in the Sun: Winter Sun 17:15 ...............Four in a Bed

20:20................. Celebrity MasterChef

17:50 ...............Four in a Bed

21:00...... David Beckham into the Unknown

19:55 ...... Grand Designs

22:00............. EastEnders 22:40.................Don’t Tell the Bride

18:20 .........Four in a Bed 21:00............Love Child

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22:00............. 24 Hours in A and E

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

09:00.................... Bananas in Pajamas

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

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

13:05.................... Come Dine with Me

11:15 ........Cowboy Builders and Bodge Jobs

13:35.................... Come Dine with Me

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

06:00 ...................... Supergirl

07:00... The Indestructibles

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

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

07:00 ...WWE SmackDown!

14:10.............................Fifteen to One

12:15................ Celebrity Big Brother

09:00 ..................... Futurama

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

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

13:15 ........Home and Away 13:45 .................Neighbours

10:30 .............. Ninja Warrior

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

14:20 ............................... NCIS

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

10:00.............. Ninja Warrior 11:00 ..... NCIS: Los Angeles 12:00 ..............Hawaii Five-0

08:10.......................... Red Bull Soapbox Race 09:00..... Lizard Lick Towing 10:00....... American Pickers 11:00......... Storage Hunters

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

15:15 ....Guilty Until Proven Innocent: Garage Sale Mystery

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

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

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

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

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

16:30 ...........Modern Family

18:00.... Home and Away

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

20:00......The Supervet

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

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

17:00........Red Bull Soapbox Race

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

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

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

20:00............ On Benefits

20:00 ..........Duck Quacks Don’t Echo

19:00...American Pickers

21:00.................Don’t Tell the Bride

21:00.. Would I Lie to You?

CW choice

21:00......................999: CW What’s Your choice Emergency?

22:00................. Ramsay’s Hotel Hell 23:00................... Britain’s Benefit Tenants

W C choice

21:00...........Celebrity Big Brother 22:00............. Supersized 23:05...........Celebrity Big Brother’s Bit on the Side

13:00...................... Supergirl 14:00 ......................The Flash 15:00.......................The Flash

22:00...... Modern Family 23:00............ The Premier League Years

12:00........................Top Gear 13:00....... American Pickers 15:00 ................World’s Most Dangerous Roads 16:00..... Lizard Lick Towing

20:00....................... QI XL 21:40 ....... Mock the Week 22:20............................... QI 23:40.. Would I Lie to You?

08:00 .......... Premier League Legends 08:30.................. The Premier League Years 10:30............. Great Sporting Moments 11:30........... Premier League Legends 12:00......Efl Cup Highlights 13:00.............. Football Gold 14:00...................The Premier League Years 16:00.... Sporting Triumphs 17:00......Efl Cup Highlights 19:00..................Football 22:00...............More Than a Game 22:30....... Great Sporting Moments 23:30......... Super League Gold

The Supervet

999: What’s Your Emergency?

Channel 4, 20:00

Channel 4, 21:00

Professor Noel Fitzpatrick returns for a new series which delves deeper into the science behind his cutting-edge procedures and reveals how he pushes the boundaries of veterinary medicine. In this episode, he harnesses two extraordinary technologies; 3D Printing and 3D milling.

Nine-year-old Cavalier King Charles spaniel Molly is brought in by Tania with a large bump on her head.

When scans reveal a potentially fatal tumour in her skull that is growing rapidly, Noel tries something he has never attempted before; using state-of-the-art technology to design a custom-made 3D milled implant to replace the part of her skull affected by the bone cancer.

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Love Child More 4, 21:00

Australian drama series set in 1969 in the Kings Cross district of Sydney: the time and place Australia came of age and a new generation broke all the rules. Shirley’s dreams of beginning a new life with Johnny are shattered when he gets into a fight with the police at an anti-war rally and is subsequently arrested, sending her into premature labour. Martha is delighted when Matron arranges a job for her in the hospital’s administration department, enabling her to search for clues about her own lost family. Joan becomes determined to complete her medical degree and is surprised to get support from Dr McNaughton, who calls in a favour from a friend on the hospital board. But she finds her work cut out when she faces the board in an interview. Annie starts to pick up the pieces of her life and gets a job as a dresser to Dawn, star of the Blue Moon club.

But when Dawn’s addictions lead to a disaster backstage, Annie is presented with the opportunity of a lifetime.

Series focusing on the work of police and paramedics in Cheshire. At a time when immigration to the UK is at an all-time high and the issue is at the centre of political debate, this episode explores the lives of legal and illegal immigrants living here. It’s increasingly falling to the emergency services to bridge cultural divides and keep a lid on bubbling racial tensions that threaten to erupt. In Crewe, PC Greg Greaves finds himself at a heated arrest after reports of shoplifting from a supermarket. He has to call for backup as the two suspects shout claims of abuse and racism at him. In Warrington, paramedic Becki arrives at the home of Marika, a Latvian woman who has been mugged in the street and left with a black eye.

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Ratha Yatra festival

Monje wine tour Visit the Monje WinWhere: ery and test El Sauzal the wine and When: gastronomy Every day from 10am of Tenerife.

More details: The landwww.bodegasmonje.com scape all around the winery is a delight to behold: vineyards, mountains, the sea and the sun. It is a perfect spot to live and nurture our wines. Built in 1956, the winery was modernised in 1983 but still 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.

This weekend there is something a little different in Arona. The seventh annual Ratha Yathra festival takes place on Saturday and Sunday in front of the Hotel Conquistador in the centre of Playa de las Americas.

This festival is celebrated around the world and is known as the Festival of the Chariots. There will be Indian dancing, workshops, theatrical presentations, traditional food stalls plus a chariot procession!

When: Saturday and Sunday Where: Central Las Americas More details: arona.org

Summer Art Exhibition ‘Summer Exhibition’ brings together pieces of more than 90 young artists, a selection of works of contemporary art that have in common the summer as a theme and will bring colour and freshness to ‘Círculo de Bellas Artes’.

Dorada Brewery Tour

The local beer company opens its doors to unveil the manufacturing process of Dorada beer, from the collection of raw materials to bottling. It’s a guided tour through the facilities, explaining each stage of the brewing process. And at the end of the visit you will be invited to a Dorada or two in the Tasting Room.

Booking is highly recommended.

When: from July 4 to September 7 Where: Círculo de Bellas Artes in Santa Cruz Info: Tel.: +34 922 246 496

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 Tuesday Where: Avenida de Ángel Romero in Santa Cruz More info: doradatour.es

When: Every Day More Info www.tegueste.org

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Entertainment

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Parents sue, following Star Trek actor’s death THE parents of Star Trek actor Anton Yelchin are suing the makers of a Jeep that crushed and killed him.

Victor and Irina Yelchin this week filed a “wrongful-death and product-liability” case against Fiat Chrysler.

The papers, filed in a Los Angeles Superior Court, say that the gear selector in the actor’s Jeep was defective. It also states that it was poorly-designed and manufactured.

The lawsuits alleges that “Anton Yelchin was crushed and lingered alive for some time, trapped and suffocating until his death”.

Mr Yelchin, announcing the legal action at a press conference, said: “Despite our unbelievable grief, we decided to come here to prevent other families from suffering the same tragedy.

“Anton was our only son. He was a remarkable human being, very

modest, very simple, very honest, generous, loving.

“It is wrong, it is against nature, when the parents bury their own child. That’s why we hope this lawsuit will never make a family go through the same hell we’re going through right now.”

The actor’s Grand Cherokee Jeep rolled backwards down the driveway of his Los Angeles home on 19th June, pinning him between a letterbox and a

fence.

The SUV was among 1.1 million vehicles recalled in April because its gear sticks have confused drivers.

The confusion has resulted in vehicles rolling away unexpectedly, and has led to dozens of injuries.

A tearful Mrs Yelchin added: “Every morning we’re getting text messages or emails from his friends all around the world. The world is really missing him, and it’s not right that he is

not here.”

The lawsuit says the 27-year-old actor’s SUV did not engage or maintain its “park” gear, which led to the vehicle crushing him.

Anton, best-known for his role as Pavel Chekov in the new Star Trek franchise, was the Yelchins’ only son.

Fiat Chrysler extended its sympathies to his parents in a statement released before the suit was filed. But it added that the company could not comment.

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Simpsons giving Clinton the nod IN a new, standalone video clip, released by 20th Century Fox, Marge and Homer Simpson agree to vote for Hillary Clinton in the US election later this year.

The clip, entitled 3am, has been posted on YouTube and Republican candidate Donald Trump is seen with a copy of a book called Great Speeches

by A. Hitler in the video.

When Homer signals that he might vote for Trump, Marge says: “If that’s your vote, I question whether I can ever be with you again.”

Homer replies: “And that’s how I became a Democrat.”

Clinton and Trump are set to face each other in the US presidential election, which takes place on 8th November.

The Simpsons’ discussion comes about when Marge says she “can’t make love until I’ve decided who to vote for”.

The narrator then poses the question: “It’s 3am and the phone is ringing in the White House - who do you want to answer that call?”

The question is a reference to Hillary Clinton’s political campaign of 2008, which ran an ad featuring a ringing phone at 3am, asking Americans who they wanted leading their country during a time of crisis.

Both Clinton and Trump are then seen responding to such a phone call. Trump responds by saying: “Not now, I’m on Twitter.”

He then orders an aide to “put my name on the Lincoln memorial, disband Nato … and make me some scrambled eggs on gold plates.”

Initially, Bill Clinton is seen answering the phone with: “The situation room? I’ll be right there.”

His face then falls as he hands the phone to Hillary, saying: “Oh, it’s for you.”

His wife replies: “Yes, from now on, it’s always for me.”

Floyd in the Pink?

Salute to Prince - by pop royalty PRINCE, the late superstar singer, will be paid an official tribute at a concert in his home-town Minneapolis, in Minnesota, on 13th October.

Performers will be announced soon, and tickets are expected to go on sale next month, according to his family.

Prince was found dead on 21st April from

an accidental overdose and, since then, many artists have paid musical tributes to his life and work.

Beyonce and the Dixie Chicks covered his songs during their recent concerts, and Madonna sang Nothing Compares 2 U and Purple Rain with Stevie Wonder at May’s Billboard Music Awards.

Prince’s family said they had been “moved by the tremendous love and support of Prince’s friends and

fans around the world”.

In a statement, his brothers and sisters said: “We are excited for the opportunity to bring everyone together for the official family celebration of Prince’s life, music and legacy, and there is no better place to do it than his home town of Minneapolis.

“We are honoured by the artists who will pay tribute, and grateful to those who have worked so hard to make this celebration possible.”

WOULD you believe it? Pink Floyd are releasing a 27-CD box set featuring previously unreleased songs … and fans have had the cheek to complain about the $700 price tag!

The collection, The Early Years - 19651972, will feature rare and bootlegged performances, tens of hours

of audio and audiovisual footage, and accompanying books and vinyls.

It will go on sale in November, focusing on the period of Pink Floyd’s foundations, rather than the heights of the band’s “experimental” rock success.

The box set will include the Vegetable Man single, written by founding member Syd Barrett, which the band had previously resisted from releasing.

The full set is available to pre-order at £378.38 or $699.98

which, unsurprisingly, has led to complaints on social media.

Fans will also be able to purchase a two-disc alternative, featuring 27 tracks for £13.74, as well as a digital version.

Pink Floyd achieved legendary status in the music industry, their 1973 The Dark Side of the Moon album selling around 45 million copies worldwide.

In 2014, the band released what they said would be their last album, The Endless River.

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Travel / Motor

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By Vanessa Vee

Adventure park hits the heights

THIS week we are taking you to the fun-filled, PortAventura resort in the south of Barcelona on the Costa Dorada.

It attracts around four million visitors a year, making it the most visited theme park in Spain and the sixth most-visited in Europe!

The resort also includes a quartet of 4-star hotels: PortAventura, Caribe, El Paso and Gold River.

The park features five theme areas, based on historic civilisations, plus a dedicated area for children, and I will detail each area.

Mediterrània is the main entrance area of the park, featuring three rides and several restaurants and shops,

reproducing a typical Catalonia coastal town.

In this section of the park you have the roller-coaster Furius Baco. which has a top speed of 135km/hr.

Other points of interest here are the FiestaAventura when, during the summer months, the lake becomes the site of an amazing fireworks display. It also has a display of floats, representing all the various park areas.

Themed as an old

western town, the Far West area features many buildings and sculptures. The area boasts nine attractions which makes it the biggest part of the park. It is perfect for those who love the thrill-seeking rides.

Here you will find The Stampida, which is a wooden roller-coaster and the park’s thirdlargest. We also have the Grand Canyon Rapids, where you can enjoy a white-water raft adven-

ture along the Grand Canyon.

This can also be fun for the people watching because there are plenty of water cannons along the way which can be aimed at those in the boats - prepare to get drenched!

The Mexico area is themed exclusively on the country’s pre-Columbian times. It features temples, statues and a Great Pyramid which is the entrance to the Gran Teatro Maya, -

the park’s biggest show zone.

In this area you will also discover the Hurakan Condor ride, which, at an impressive 330ft tall, is one of the highest in the world.

It is operated by a cable lift, which provides a fantastic view of the park before you are sent free falling to the bottom of the ride. A must for adrenaline-seekers!

Next we come to China, one of the biggest theme lands there. This area includes a wonderful buffet restaurant with a good range of Chinese dishes available. The main path through the area is themed in the same style as the Great Wall of China, giving you a truly authentic feel of the Orient.

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rope’s fastest and highest roller-coaster, can be found in this area.

The Polynesian area, much smaller and more laid-back, includes a pirate ship, a 4D cinema and water rides for young and old alike.

Finally we come to the area dedicated to the younger clientele - Sesame Street. It contains 11 attractions, including a roller-coaster, water ride and monorail. I’m sure that some of the big kids around us will enjoy these rides, too!

With daily direct flights to Barcelona and something to suit all ages, PortAventura really is the perfect place to take the family for a fun-filled break. Tenerife Sunshine have packages available, starting from 1,855 euros for a family of four, including flights, transfers, hotel in the park for four nights and unlimited access to the park.

For more information, call the Tenerife Sunshine Travel Team on 922 751 867 ext 1-1 or email travel@tenerifesunshine.com

Spain’s roads are in a shocking state, thanks to Government cuts

Shake, rattle & woe!

MANY drivers have a growing feeling that Spanish roads are getting bumpier … and with good reason, because investment in maintaining them has dipped to some 0.4% of GDP.

It’s a level unheard of since 1986, when comparable data was last available. But the writing was on the wall in 2013, when spending on the Spanish road system by the Government had decreased to 0.45% of national output - and the following two years were even worse!

Compared with 2008 levels, the government’s outlay on new roads decreased by 85% in 2015, while investment in road repairs fell by 59%.

Tenders are an early indicator of how much the Government will spend on roads down the line. According to figures released by Seopan, the association of Spain’s largest builders,

tenders rose 6.7% in the first half of 2015.

But this figure was misleading because it included a series of tenders which were cancelled by a court that year. If this sum is subtracted, the resulting amount shows a decline in tenders.

This investment included all public outlays at the national, regional and local levels.

To cap it off, in April of this year, the Public Works Ministry announced that it would be cutting a further 600m euros in expenses, further reducing the sum earmarked for roads.

This means that investment levels will be at their lowest in three decades with regard to GDP, and the lowest in two decades in absolute terms, according to the Government and sources in road-builder associations.

The 2016 budget allocated around 1.77bn euros for the Public Works Ministry to invest in roads - 883m for maintenance and a

further 883m for new roads.

The State Society for Land Transportation Infrastructure (SEITT) added a further 439m euros to that total.

But in April this year, financial authorities announced that ministries’ budgets would be

scaled back by 2bn, including 600m euros in Public Works cuts.

Most of this money will be taken away from roads: firstly, to protect Government investment in the railroad network and the European funds that come with it; and, secondly, because the train sys-

tem entails political commitments the Government does not want to break.

And adjusting the road budget is viewed as an easier task than adjusting the railroad budget.

Matilde Mas, an economic analysis professor and researcher at

IVIE, the Valencian Economic Research Institute, said: “It is powerfully striking how they’ve tried to protect the railroad system from the cuts.”

It is obvious that the economic boom in Spain led to a glut of new roads, partly through the promise of EU funds that favoured new infrastructure.

But the new network requires a minimum amount of maintenance, which the OECD places at 2% of the cost of the infrastructure.

This means that over a 50-year period, authorities should spend just as much as they did on the original building work. Experts say that this kind of maintenance work would prevent the need for new roads, leading to greater long-term savings.

But with Brussels now demanding further spending cuts in exchange for not fining Spain over the budget deficit, expenditures on roads are likely to drop some more.

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Wine and Dine

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The Swan 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!

Adeje Chicken in Buzanada Adeje chicken in Buzanada has re-opened its doors with the new owners Bryan and his mum Cherry in the kitchen. You can still enjoy her home chicken recipes of fried, spicy, garlic, home made honey or even plain chicken breast together with her BBQ and special Canarian sauces. Now they also have meat and fish dishes available and much more. They have a menu of the day for only 6.80 euros plus a drink. A pint of beer for 1 euro and now offering sorbets of lemon, coco, cherry and mango.

Buzanada Roundabout, Buzanada.

In front of Margarita Apartments, Los Cristianos

Open: Tues-Sun 9.30am-10.30pm, kitchen closes 4pm-5pm. Closed Mondays.

Open: 10am - Late. Food until 8pm

Call: 922 728 290 / 629 331 124

Call: 602 601 634

Jammin Caribbean Cuisine Tenerife All your favourites from the Caribbean plus many more to choose from. Why not come along and enjoy Jerk chicken, curried goat or our Jammin fried fish, whilst taking in the fabulous views over La Gomera. Takeaway available!

C.C. Salytien, Las Americas Open: Tues - Sat, 2pm - late.

Tues - Thurs, kitchen closes at 10pm.

Closed Sunday and Monday.

Call: 602 45 35 79 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 3.95-euro 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!

Special offer: Mixed Grill for 2 people with a bottle of wine only 20 euros.

Cañada Blanca 2, Parque de la Reina Open: 12noon - 11pm. Closed Tuesdays

Call: 922 739 250 Thai Botanico Experience contemporary Oriental dining at it’s finest. Ingredients are delicately and skilfully prepared and presented in gourmet dishes that embody the colours and tastes of Thailand. The colourful menu is more than complimented by the cool surroundings.

The stunning botanical dining terrace is filled with a rich mixture of beautiful plants and decorated with authentic imported artefacts from the Eastern regions giving you the feeling of being in a restaurant perched on a hillside in Thailand.

Roy’s Pizza Indian and Tandoori Looking for the best pizza restaurant in Las Americas? Roys is the best option for takeaway and deliveries.

Now celebrating 24 years in the business, Roy’s Pizza offers the largest selection of food delivery options in Tenerife South, and has many unique dishes to offer for your pleasure.

Whether its delicious currys or fabulous American pizzas, our food always hits the spot.

Just give us a call and we can deliver to your home or hotel.

Las Americas

San Eugenio Alto, Costa Adeje

Open: Mon - Sat, 1.30pm - 11.30pm. Sun, 6pm - 11pm

Open: Everyday, 12pm - 2am

Call: 922 797 759

Tel: 922 71 41 83

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Los Abrigos Beer and Tapas festival It’s one of the highlights in the summer calendar and it’s back this weekend. The super successful Los Abrigos Beer and Tapas festival returns for a seventh year. The Paseo Marítimo will be jumping on Saturday in this popular all day event. It gets underway at 11am and goes on, officially, until 11pm. All the Beer is just one euro and there are lots of tapas options as well. There is a host of live music with bands and acts to entertain you!

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Lifestyle

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Keep it clean, ladies

By Carl Pattison

By Val Sainsbury

WE live in an age in which the products we use, pollution and the weather affect the way blonde hair can lose its brightness.

From the dirt floating in the air - which can dull a blonde colour - to the daily shampoo we use, a bright blonde can turn into a dirty one.

So what can you do to combat this? You can’t stay indoors, of course, but what you can do is help revive and maintain your blonde as best you can, in between salon visits.

Try to use clear - or white - shampoos that don’t contain colour.

Some can appear to be orange or yellow, and

SCIENTISTS have discovered more than a dozen genes linked to depression which, they believe, is a key move forward in the study of the disorder, and its biology, which has always been a mystery.

It comes after an almost-unprecedented, comprehensive scan of human DNA to investigate genomes - an organism’s complete set of DNA, with all of its genes - that could share properties with the illness.

To the scientists’ surprise and delight, the scan turned up the apparent hiding places of more than a dozen genes linked to the disorder.

Ashley Winslow, an author of a paper on the work, said: “This is a jumping-off point for further work to reveal the biological underpinnings of depression, which, in turn, can guide development of new drugs.”

Experts said the result was important, not only for its specific findings, but also for demonstrating that the study’s approach can help uncover serious clues to the biological mystery of depression.

Such DNA scans are popular for finding genes which affect the risk of diseases, but depression has proven largely resistant to this approach.

In a rare and modest success reported last year, researchers turned up two places in the human DNA that appear

these will taint your hair because blonde hair is so absorbent.

The same goes for your conditioner and masque. Any added product colour can be detrimental to your precious, blonde hair.

But as long as you are conditioning well, frequent washing will be fine.

Wash your hair in warm, not hot, water.

Rinse - and rinse again in cooler water. This will ensure that you have

removed all residues, and blonde will appear brighter.

Using a silver shampoo once a week - or as necessary - will banish any dull or brassy tones.

It’s up to you to keep your blonde hair looking its best until your next salon visit.

If you’re stuck about what to use, and how to use it, consult your stylist for top tips on how you can be your cleanest-looking blonde.

Ever!

PLEASE DO - OR DON’T

By Carl Pattison IF you, as a guy, get lost in what to wear - and how to wear it - take a quick look at my list of the dos and don’ts of just being a regular male.

They’re not fashion laws, but basic guidelines on how to look good without even trying.

Do wear fitted clothing - oversized never looks smart.

Don’t double denim, unless the denims are darker and lighter than each other.

Do match your belt to your shoes, please.

Don’t wear two types of pattern; stick to just one.

Do experiment with colour, mixing it in with your formal shades.

Don’t wear more than one ring on each hand it never looks good.

Do iron your clothing, even if it’s your gym gear. Nothing looks worse, and it says: “I can’t be bothered.”

Don’t wear more than three colours at a time, and make sure they complement each other.

Do have more than one eyebrow (enough said).

Don’t wear large brand-names on your clothing - it’s sooo Nineties.

Do keep up with regu-

lar haircuts - and the latest styles.

Don’t use excess hair products, or overdo your look.

Do look for one-off items, and avoid stores that over-produce each item.

Don’t put on yesterday’s clothes; they belong in the wash-basket.

Finally, be yourself.

Dress as you like to be seen - and how you feel comfortable. Never save your best clothes for best … that day may never come.

‘Depression’ scientists are hitting the heights

to harbour genes affecting risk in a Han Chinese population.

But no evidence for that result appeared in those of European descent, which is the group studied in the more bountiful results just released.

“What they’re showing is that we’re on the way to finding many more genetic links,” said Dr. Douglas Levinson, of Stanford University, who didn’t participate in the work. “They’ve shown that depression is tractable.”

He believes the new results contain the most convincing evidence so far that such gene scans can pay off for depression.

The work by Winslow and others identified 15 areas of the human DNA - the “genome” - that show signs of harbouring genetic variations which affect the risk of becoming depressed.

That indicates where scientists can focus on identifying and studying the affected genes, which, in turn, could reveal what processes go awry to raise the risk of the disease.

Winslow, now at the University of Pennsylvania, was with pharmaceutical giant Pfizer Inc when she did the work with researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital and genetics-testing company 23andMe, Inc. Results were released by the journal Nature Genetics.

An estimated 350 million people worldwide have depression, according to the World Health Organisation (WHO), so this could be seen as a genuine breakthrough.

Doctor Patrick Sullivan, an expert in depression genetics at the University of North Carolina, said the findings “look pretty solid”.

They provide an important step towards finding all the genes that affect depression - a list which probably numbers “in the high hundreds”, he added. “It’s a markedly better step than I believe anybody has taken before.”

But he feels these new results cannot be used to test people for their risk of developing depression.

Typically, genes that affect the risk of common diseases like depression have only a small individual effect.

So, to find signs of their location, scientists have to combine results from the genomes of many people.

The new work drew partly on data from more than 121,000 customers of 23andMe, who indicated that they’d been diagnosed with depression or treated for it, plus more than 338,000 other customers.

Those results were combined with data from about 9,000 people diagnosed with the disease, and 9,500 others, taken from a previous study to find risk genes.

The 15 locations that appear to harbour disease-risk genes were uncovered by a statistical analysis, which compares people with depression to those without. And it hunted for slight but suggestive differences at specific spots in their genomes.

Such differences in the DNA code do not necessarily cause a heightened depression risk themselves. But they do indicate that the effect is coming from somewhere nearby.

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Community News

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Eye-opener for true stargazers

A KEEN interest in the night sky has persuaded friends Steve Phelps and Simon Rowland to launch the Tenerife Astronomy Society (TAS).

It is based at Vilaflor’s Casa Zaguan B&B, run

by Steve and his partner, Angela, who have a number of telescopes, and room for around 30 people to watch the stars.

It can also cater for up to 20 guests who want to make a night of it, or don’t fancy the drive back down the mountain in the dark.

Regular trips up the mountain to experience the full darkness of Teide’s National Park are available, and Steve will be offering astronomy and astrophotography holiday packages soon.

Simon is semi-retired and lives in the UK. But he spends many weeks in Tenerife, indulging his passion for astronomy.

He has an interest in all things science and nature, particularly astron-

omy and astrophotography and a number of his astronomy images have been published.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society (FRAS) and is an experienced astronomy presenter, running relevant nights throughout the winter months for the Forestry Commission in Hamsterley Forest, Durham.

He is also an Accredited Star Maker for the Northumberland International Dark Sky Park, delivering astronomy nights to promote darksky tourism.

Simon’s dream is to settle in Tenerife and run guided astronomy and astrophotography

courses.

The two men are passionate about promoting the genuine opportunity Tenerife offers to locals and visitors alike to experience stargazing, meteor showers, deep-sky and planetary observation, as well as astrophotography.

That’s a term for photographing astronomical objects, such as planets, stars, nebulae, galaxies, etc, and the TAS has been established for that propose.

The society, which will also provide opportunities for people to access the night sky more easily, is run on a non-profit basis. It is informal and friendly and open to eve-

ryone to contribute to and join in.

The group’s first stargazing event, which is free, takes place on Sunday (7th August) from 9pm. Numbers are limited, so reservations should be made through the TAS Facebook page.

Tenerife is recognised officially as one of the best places in the world to see the night sky in all its glory - something disappearing rapidly elsewhere because increasing light pollution.

“Here, though, we have a haven of beauty,” said Steve. “It’s a wonderful landscape, mild temperatures and dark nights, with hardly a cloud to interrupt a view of the heavens.”

The TAS Facebook site is for people with an interest in the heavens to find or share knowledge; to meet, share experiences and help each other benefit from one of Tenerife’s most amazing, natural resources.

Police halt speedster

THERE was a scary motoring incident on Wednesday afternoon, when local police had to have their wits about them.

They were faced with a car, being driven at speed in the wrong direction in Costa Adeje, travelling parallel to the TF-1.

Attempts were made to stop the vehicle, but the driver continued apace. A police vehicle was then positioned in the path of the speeding car, resulting in a head-on collision.

The brave police driver was unhurt, while the car driver was injured and taken to hospital.

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Community News

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Fun and fund-raising for all at Leonardo’s

LEONARDO’S Bar, in central Las Americas, are holding a charity fun day on Sunday (7th August) in the aid of the cystic fibrosis unit.

All money raised will be donated to Papworth Hospital, in Cambridge, where the popular Abbie Howard

spent her last seven years.

Leonardo’s will have fun for all the family.

There will be live entertainment from some of the Island’s top acts and a big auction with some amazing prizes.

There’s also a massive raffle, tombola and face-painting for the kids, along with a BBQ. And Leonardo’s are kindly donating 10% of the bar-takings as well.

Accion del Sol news

Dogs home in on Germany MANY Accion del Sol’s dogs are sent to Germany for re-homing, especially the bigger varieties because they have a better chance of finding a new life there.

Marion, who runs the sanctuary, is always looking for people travelling to Germany with Condor, Air Berlin or Tui Fly, who would like to help the dogs.

It costs nothing but a little bit of your time at the airport while Accion staff check the dogs in the reservation will be made and paid by the charity.

Upon landing, you will be met by staff from our German charity

sponsors Aktion Tier, who will take the dogs to their new homes.

If you are travelling to Germany and would like to help, please call the refuge on 922 778 630.

Keep them cool Please remember to keep your pets safe in these high summer temperatures by ensuring they have plenty of shade, cold water - a frozen ice block used in cool boxes in bucket of water is a great help or add a handful of icecubes.

Also, do not walk your dogs on the hot pavements, and, most definitely, avoid leaving them in a hot car. Even with the windows open, the car and your dog can quickly overheat.

Who’s for walkies?

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Cats Welfare news

Initial way to trap cats

TNR, or Trap-NeuterReturn, is the humane approach to controlling wild-cat over-populations. Here in Tenerife, we are not unique in having a large feral cat population, and many are not neutered.

Cats Welfare neutered more than 700 cats in 2015, and this year we are starting to see a real difference in the number of kittens being born. But there is still a long way to go before we resolve the stray/feral cat problem here.

We trap, health-check and return healthy stray cats to the exact location where they were trapped, to enable them to live out the rest of their natural lives, ideally with a volunteer also providing food and water for them.

And Cats Welfare buys and delivers the food to the volunteers who feed their colonies.

The old approach to controlling freeroaming cats was repeated extermination attempts, and we often come across people wanting to “poison them all”.

Capturing feral cats and killing or poisoning them may reduce their numbers temporarily, but this doesn’t solve

the problem for long.

Cats are living there in the environment because of two main reasons: *There’s a constant food source (intended or not) *There is some sort of shelter, even if its just undergrowth When cats are removed from a location it creates a “vacuum effect”, meaning the surrounding cats can sense it, and they breed rapidly to fill in the gap.

In addition, new cats move in to take advantage of the natural food and shelters - this vacuum effect is well-documented.

Trapping and removing cats often results in having even more nonsterilised cats in the location than when you started. Catch and kill is very costly, doesn’t work, and is, ultimately, inhumane.

On the other hand, Tr a p - N e u t e r- R e t u r n programmes have proved a successful method of decreasing feral cat populations.

Cats Welfare devotes most of its resources, financial, personnel and material, towards decreasing the homelesscat numbers throughout South Tenerife.

for dog-walkers, and, if you have a little spare time, please pop along to the refuge and make a dog or two very happy.

Your help needed Please call the refuge on 922 778 630 if you can lend a hand in any way. We always need blankets, towels, sheets, dog toys, collars and leads.

You can pop in on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday afternoons, from

2-5pm, and Saturdays between 1-4pm.

Find us here Accion del Sol is situated directly under the Ecological Park (exit 52) on the northbound TF-1. Head for the giant windmills, and you’ll find us in the buildings on the righthand side.

Email the refuge at teneriffa@aktiontier. org or, for further details, visit our Facebook page: action tier Accion del SOL.

We have 14 traps in constant use, and often have a waiting list of areas needing our attention.

Providing food, water and shelter for outdoor cats is important, but it is also equally important to make sure all the cats in the group or colony are spayed and castrated. If not, today’s small colony will soon be tomorrow’s extremely large colony!

Cat colonies can quickly quadruple in size because cats can have two to three litters per year - of up to five or six kittens each!

Those kittens can become pregnant at about six months, and so the pattern continues.

Spaying and castrating the cats will not only stop the breeding cycle, but it will also eliminate problematic behaviours such as howling, fighting and spraying.

So what are you waiting for? Would you like to help? We have the traps, the knowledge and the vets ready and waiting to neuter the cats. We even pay the vet bills.

Volunteers wanted But we do need volunteers. You don’t need experience - just a willingness to help, trans-

port and have a few spare hours.

To express a no-obligation interest, or to ask questions, ring or whatsapp Maria on 646 629 129 (9am-6pm, 7 days a week).

Sadly we do not have a refuge, so all the cats and kittens in our care are in foster homes.

Adoptions If you are considering adoption, all adult cats currently available are on our website www. cats-welfare -tenerife/ pets - where you will find lots of information and pictures.

If you’re after a kitten, or even two - again, many are in foster care.

But in the South we also have kittens for viewing at Don Perro pet shop, in Las Chafiras.

Opening times and a map are on our website www.cats-welfaretenerife/our-vets.

In the North, kittens can be seen in the Kiwoko pet shop in the El Trompo commercial centre, just outside Puerto de la Cruz.

If you are looking for something specific, message or whatsapp Maria on the number above. If we don’t currently have that colour/ sex, we can put you on a waiting list.

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Dreamers’ nightmare goes on IT has been a tough start for Dreamers in Direct Telecom pool league’s new season. They are winless after three matches and are in the sort of rut that can kill a campaign before it has begun.

On Tuesday they faced a Tenerife Hammers A team desperate to get back to winning ways after dropping points to Palms A seven days ago.

The early frames were tight, with Hammers sneaking a 3-1 lead only for Gav to win his second of the night to get the finger wagging and pull the score back to 3-2.

However, Hammers found another gear.

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of their first win of the season at home to Terrace Bantams on Tuesday. The Hammers win lifted them to second place behind 100% Gaffers A, who made it three from three with a routine win at Rewind A. That said, they were behind early on. Pete beat Neil and John accounted for Kev to give the hosts a 2-1 advantage. But that was it for Rewind, who felt the power of the champions Hurricane. Gaffers reeled off nine straight frames, despite Top Six Dave being more like Totally Smirnoffed Dave!

Palms B - sorry, Palms Elite - have made a solid start. They got the better of Gaffers B in a topsy-turvey match. They were 2-0 up but then 3-2 down. Shammy and Pete restored their lead at 4-3, only for Troy and Rich to steal it back at 5-4. Then came the joker … in more ways than one. Jimbo, sorry, Jambo, got the tap on the shoulder and beat Ben to level the contest.

Graeme and Pete then finished the job. It was

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The Crown Palms Rebels Picasso’s A Yates Bar Splash Bar

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25

11

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9

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11

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16

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5 Treehouse B

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6 Rewind Rewired

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6 Splash Bar

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1

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1

12

12

7 Palms Bar A

2

1

1

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13

11

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4

7 Exiles B

3

1

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2

11

25

8 Terrace Bantams

2

1

0

1

13

11

2

3

8 Yates Bar

3 0 2 1 15 21 -6 2

9 Exiles A

3

1

0

2

18

18

0

3

9 The Crown

1 0 0 1 5 7 -2 0

10 Bluebell A

2

0

1

1

8

16

-8

1

10 Hoppys A

1 0 0 1 3 9 -6 0

11 Dreamers A

3

0

1

2

10

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1

12 Gaffers B

3

0

0

3

11

25 -14

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13 Rewind A

2

0

0

2

5

19 -14

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14 Terrace Roosters

3

0

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3

10

26

0

a little rough on Gaffers, who probably deserved a point.

It was a night for hardluck stories because the other two matches in Division One also went 7-5. In Los Abrigos, Phoenix Potters are finally in the win column.

It’s well-documented

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that Exiles A don’t travel well, and this was the case again. Jamie and Geoff got the hosts off to a flier, before Mark and Tel levelled, and then Mark put the visitors in front.

Jamie and Geoff again got Potters in front, only for Blair Bear to level the score at 4-4. The Potters boys did the double, and completed their hat-tricks, and when Elvis Dave did Stash, the points were won.

Rewind Rewired have their first top-flight victory. They brought all three points back from Amarilla Golf after a late flourish gave them a win at Terrace Roosters. The hosts were weakened before the start when Dan failed a fitness test. He was missing after an effort good enough to earn him a Muppet of the Week award.

The previous night he was a little “refreshed” and decided to beat up the punch-bag machine in the bar. As the picture shows, he lost!

On the baize, his team were also second-best.

Rewired took the early

frames and, in their desperation, they risked Dan against Victor. In hindsight, they would have been better off giving the cue to the punch-bag machine because Dan was swatted away comfortably.

Fin, Mario and Chris did attempt a fightback, but the visitors found a different gear, and Valeri secured the three points by beating Chris. Picassos are at the top of Division Two! They got past Hoppys bar, but were made to work for the win. There was little between the two sides early on as Kev and Roly won frames to make it 2-2.

Maybe it was the experience of an extra couple of weeks of matches, as Picasso’s then found a groove.

Only Ken would lose another frame for the visitors as they roared home. James Hammers C are chasing after a comfortable win over Yates Bar. Again, this was a close match at the start, Biggie and Lee getting frames for Taes while Tony Macaroni and Ken H did the same for the home side.

But like the match at Hoppys, once the hosts got in front, they stormed clear. Only Lee lost frames for James

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Hammers C. Yes, even Bobby Baker won a frame as they recorded their biggest win of the season. Palms Rebels returned from Exiles B with their first-ever win.

Palms were always in control. winning six of the first seven frames.

Exiles sneaked a couple back, only for Dave to win the frame that got them home.

Ha-ttip of the week goes to Bluebell B, who stunned last year’s champions The Crown.

They were 5-1 up before the beer kicked in for The Crown, who roared back to make a match of it.

However, the hosts held their nerve and Mal sunk the winning black to get them past The Crown crew 7-5.

There was another squeaker at the Treehouse. Splash Bar visited off the back of a fine win at Palms Rebels, and they were confident of a double bubble. But they were never given the chance.

Ben, PJ, Bernard and Sean, with two wins, quickly had the Treehouse B 5-1 up. Splash Bar rallied with Guv’nor Martin taking two frames, only for Ben to beat Andy to secure a 7-5 victory and keep the points at the Treehouse,

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Scruffy’s scrub up nicely!

PAS O Nadas A beat league leaders Gaffers last week to take top spot and retain their unbeaten record.

So you might have thought that a visit from draw specialists Scruffy Macs wouldn’t be a problem.

Wrong!

With Tom and Kev striking maximums, our Scruffy friends ripped up the form book - and that unbeaten record - as they took Nadas to the cleaners with a

6-2 victory. The result again proving just what a competitive darts league we have is. I dare anyone to predict a winner!

With the leaders having their wings clipped, could the chasing pack do any damage? Well, The Pub certainly could!

Their 6-2 win at Sandys Reborn included a 180 from Calvo and hoisted them into second spot and above Gaffers, who could only manage a draw with Spear Chuckers, despite a first 180 from DJ Terry.

Also in that match, Gaffers’ Matt whacked in a stonking 154 finish - highest in the league so far.

division 1 ResultS

division 2 ResultS

Exiles Gaffers Ourplace Playboys Pas O Nadas A Sandys Reborn The Pub

2-6 Boothen 4-4 Spear Chuckers P-P Phoenix Bar 2-6 Scruffy Macs 2-6 Palms Sports Bar 6-2 Sandys International

division 1 Table Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

1 Pas O Nadas A

10 5

4

1 50 30 20

50

2 The Pub

10

7

1

2 49 31

18

49

3 Gaffers

10 6

1

3 48 32 16

48

4 Scruffy Macs

10 4

5

1 47 33 14

47

5 Spearchuckers

10

6

2

2 46 34 12

46

6 Boothen

10 5

1

4 43 37

6

43

7 Phoenix Bar

9

4

2

3 40 32

8

40

8 Palms Sports Bar 9

4

2

3 37 35

2

37

9 Exiles

10 3

2

5 34 46 -12

34

10 Sandys Reborn

9

0

1

8 17 55 -38

17

11 Ourplace Playboys 6

0

1

5 16 32 -16

16

12 Sandys International 7

0

0

7 12 44 -32

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Boothen’s John was also on the maximum trail during his side’s excellent 6-2 success at Exiles.

Another week, and another team take on the mantle of Division 2 leaders. Step forward Sundowners, who, though level on points with The Tavern, have won more trebles legs at this time.

And good stuff from

The Tavern gang, too. The league newcomers secured a 5-3 win at previous leaders Emerald Lounge to put themselves firmly in with a shout of league honours come the end of the season.

A fine performance and a trebles leg win gave Nauta Nomads a draw at Picassos, while Clouseaus slipped up, losing at

Bar 180 Bar Leones Clouseaus Emerald Lounge Legends Marilyns B Naughty Nautas Picassos

6-2 Waterfall B 4-4 Rood 3-5 Marilyns A 3-5 The Tavern B-B BYE 2-6 Sundowners Bar P-P Ourplace Playgirls 4-4 Nauta Nomads

division 2 Table Table

P W D L F A +- PTS

1 Sundowners Bar 10

4

4

2 45 35 10

45

2 The Tavern

9

7

1

1 45 27 18

45

3 Emerald Lounge

8

6

1

1 43 21 22

43

4 Picassos

9

5

1

3 43 29

14

43

5 Marilyns B

10 4

3

3 41 39

2

41

6 Rood

10 2

5

3

41 39

2

41

7 Clouseaus

10 4

1

5

39 41 -2

39

8 Bar 180

8

5

2

1 38 26 12

38

9 Bar Leones

10 2

4

4 36 44

-8

36

10 Waterfall B

9

2

4

3 35 37

-2

35

11 Pas O Nadas B

8

3

1

4 29 35 -6

29

12 Nauta Nomads

9

0

4

5 29 43 -14

29

13 Legends

7

1

3

3 26 30 -4

26

14 Marilyns A

8

3

0

5 23

41 -18

23

15 Naughty Nautas 6

1

2

3 22 26 -4

22

16 Palms Pool Bar

4

2

2

0 18 14

18

17 Ourplace Playgirls 7

0

1

6 15 41 -26

home against Marilyns A. Another tied match involving this section’s draw specialists came at Bar Leones as Rood held the last rubber to finish

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level for the fifth time.

Elsewhere, Bar 180 put six past local rivals Waterfall to hoist themselves up to eighth place with two games in hand.

Unlikely Leicester lads stir up another dream A FILM about Leicester City’s unlikely lads winning the Premier League in May was mooted even before they had secured the necessary points to lift the trophy.

And now, the football thriller is a goer, with the screen-writers behind Oscar-nominated The Fighter commissioned to come up with another winner for themselves and for Leicester fans the world over. Yes, their stirring deeds have

attracted global fans.

The film, as yet untitled, will be scripted

by Academy nominees Paul Tamasy and Eric Johnson, alongside Adrian Butchart, who created Goal!

It will focus on striker Jamie Vardy’s astonishing role in Leicester’s odds-defying title triumph, having been a factory worker just four years before joining the Foxes.

He played for Halifax and Fleetwood, firing the latter from Conference to Football League before costing Leicester a £1m fee in May 2012.

Vardy, who scored 24

League goals last season, has recently agreed a new four-year deal to stay at the King Power stadium, having turned down a move to Arsenal.

Leicester’s success has been hailed as one of the greatest sporting achievements in history, and Tamasy told news website Deadline: “The story represents everything we love in a movie.”

Johnson added: “It’s a once-in-a-lifetime story about the fulfilment of impossible dreams, and the strength of human spirit … I’m extremely excited and proud to be a part of it.”

The film will be produced by Knightbridge Films, along with Bedlam Productions, makers of The King’s

Speech. Bedlam founder Simon Egan said he was “thrilled” to make the announcement, describing them as “bril-

liant writers, who bring another layer of top-tier talent” to the project.

Filming is expected to begin later this year.

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Spain’s magnificent seven THE Olympic a real challenge from countryman Fernando Games are now Alarza. But Mola is underway, despite coming to the boil at the official open- the right time and will be gutted if he doesn’t ing ceremony to- get at least a bronze. night (Friday) in Mireia Belmonte: Rio. Swimming

There are 206 countries taking part in 306 events, with a global TV audience of over two billion.

No prizes for guessing that America, China and Great Britain will be the top three countries in the medal table, but how will Spain get on?

These stars are its best hopes for gold.

Alejandro Valverde: Cycling

Valverde is a seasoned, top-drawer cyclist and this road circuit will suit his strengths. He will also be the first Spaniard to compete in these Olympics when he goes off at 1.30pm tomorrow (Saturday). No pressure then!

Carolina Marin: Badminton

Spain’s sweetheart is the current World and European champion.

She is also No.1 in the world, but faces a stern challenge from the Asian ladies.

Mario Mola: Triathlon

Spain are strong in this event and Mola faces

A double medallist in the London Games, Mireia goes in six events. 200m butterfly remains her strongest event, but she begins in the 400m freestyle at lunchtime on Sunday.

Gemma Mengual/Ona Carbonell: Sync hronise d swimming Carbonell, who has a fine medal pedigree, came away with podium finishes in the last two Olympiads. With new partner Mengual, they are the bookies’ favourites for gold.

Joel Gonzalez: Taekwondo

Joel, a gold medallist in London and second in last year’s World Championships, has continued that form this year.

Orlando Ortega: 110m hurdles

Has been a revelation this year with two wins in the Diamond League, and a national record in a time of 13.04secs a few weeks ago. Could be a big star.

Clockwise: Gemma Mengual/Ona Carbonell, Orlando Ortega, Joel Gonzalez, Mario Mola, Mireia Belmonte, Alejandro Valverde. Centre: Carolina Marin.

Windsurfing kings’ Siam Park sizzler!

SIAM Park hosts the third edition of Siam Park’s Duckerberg Challenge on Sunday a dazzling display of windsurf showjumping between 7.30-10.30pm.

The discipline’s top athletes defy physics with genuine acrobatics, on the planet’s largest, artificial wave!

The world’s best water park in the world, according to TripAdvisor, celebrates the closure of the international Tenerife PWA World Tour by offering pure entertainment and spectacle from the kings of windsurfing.

Windsurfer Björn Dunkerbeck, who holds

an astonishing 42 world champion titles, will attend a demonstration in which the Tour’s 11 top-ranked competitors will delight the public in the wave pool.

The windsurfing professionals will be propelled by a jet ski, which will replace the

force of wind and help them catch the wave in perfect conditions to fly and perform acrobatics.

Tickets for this remarkable event, which are limited, will be offered at five euros for Canary Island residents in the Canary Islands

and eight euros for nonresidents.

Sunday sees Siam Park become a meeting point for all windsurfing lovers with an eye-catching sport, featuring manoeuvres and tricks, with spectacular jumps and aerial rotations.

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