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Beach bar contract awarded... to the same company The Councillor for Beaches of the City of Orihuela, Luisa Boné, has given an update on the status of awarding the contract for seasonal services on the beaches of the municipality. At a recent

meeting held by the Municipal Contracting Committee, which gave good report final assessment of municipal technicians regarding the offers submitted for the management of these services. The final report concludes that of the six bidding companies, the one that obtained the highest score was Chiringuitos del Sol SL – the company that has previously provided the beach services for several years - with a total of 99.88 points. The second contender had a score of 98.90, and the third 91.91 points.

Luisa Bone said: “It has been a very close process, where the business projects presented have been up to date and the economic offers have been fairly proportionate to each other."

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continued from page 2 Councillor Boné also explained that "Chiringuitos del Sol S.L. had been notified the requirement to provide a series of documentation that the Contracting Committee subsequently has to verify (guarantee deposit, economic solvency, etc.) and if the Board believes that everything is in order, it will issue the appropriate proposal of award to the Local Government Board”. The contract will then be formalised to start providing services on the beaches of Orihuela.

The awarding of the contract to the same company that was stopped from providing the services after Easter will undoubtedly cause consternation in the local community. However Luisa Boné was keen to point out that there was never any issue or concern over the standard of service offered by Chiringuitos del Sol S.L., the government team had always been satisfied with the provision. The company also has a huge amount of experience running the beaches of Orihuela. This year they have presented a good project that has been valued with the maximum

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score ever awarded by the municipal technicians.

Councillor Boné said: “In a sense, the original provider will proceed with an extension of the previous award. However, my decision in November 2017 of not proceeding with the extension is fully justified. The decision was made not because of the level of service itself, but because of the doubts that existed over the previous tender and adjudication, which was under legal and judicial investigation. What was in question was the way the contract for the 2014 services was awarded by the previous local government.”

Four years ago Chiringuitos del Sol S.L bid €363,000.00 - the current tender is much more economically favourable to the municipality with the offer of €891,178.85. The Councillor ended by asking "who from PSOE and Los Verdes [the political parties in charge at the time] will explain what has happened to the loss of more than half a million euros per year since 2014 which was the fee for providing this service. This equates to more than two million euros over four years. Let each party draw its conclusions and explain it, if they can.”

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It’s the third time this year that a car has ended up joining bathers on one of Torrevieja’s beaches. This time the car had been parked on calle Bigastro and, with the handbrake off, gradually rolled down the hill to join bathers on a packed beach.

Luckily no one was injured.

The accident happened at around 1pm on 28th July as the car surprised bathers on the beach of Los Náufragos. It had been parked in the area of San Roque, south of the town centre of Torrevieja. The owner had left the vehicle without putting on the handbrake and the car rolled down the street for a distance of around five metres, eventually coming to a standstill between the rocks and the water.

During its run it luckily only knocked down a parasol with those in its path able to get out of the way in time. The police were called and took details of the car and its owner. This is the third accident of this kind this summer where a vehicle has run into the sea. Eventually the car was removed at about three in the afternoon by a tow truck.

You can drink the water That’s what Torrevieja town hall and Agamed are telling us. The tourist department of Torrevieja, in collaboration with Agamed the water company, have organised a water tasting event to draw attention to the cleanliness of the water here. They say that it is as safe to drink as bottled water and the councillor, Fanny Continued on page 5

The trial of five police officers from Torrevieja has continued in Elche with further revelations. Now, recordings from phone calls made at the time, present new evidence to support the allegations of torture.

The alleged mistreatment of the two detainees happened in 2006. One of those arrested had two broken ribs when taken to the hospital to deal with injuries that the police claimed were sustained during a fall

According to one of the phone calls officers are heard saying: ‘I have a problem.

There is a detained person here who robbed a police officer’s flat this morning and has been beaten and now when we take him to the doctor and to the court he will talk.’ The phone call continues; ‘Although he is a criminal, he has serious injuries.’

Those at the trial heard fragments of further telephone conversations that

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downstairs. The two detainees were a Spanish woman and a Colombian man who were caught after entering and robbing the property of a police officer.

The officers are accused of torture, making threats and harassment and the subsequent cover up of events afterwards.

The length of time between the incident and it coming to court has created difficulties for the prosecution including that of locating the two criminals concerned.

appeared to substantiate the accusations against the officers. The court had already heard how official video recordings of the two detained criminals had been erased.

Further snippets of telephone conversations further suggest that these recordings had been deleted deliberately.

The trial continues and it is expected that sentence will be passed in the middle of September.

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From hot to scorching A heatwave hitting the southern half of mainland Spain could see temperatures soar to over 40ºC in the shade from Tuesday onwards, warns the State meteorological agency, AEMET. Night temperatures will not drop below 20ªC anywhere in the country.

The Ebro valley and central plains in the northern half could still see the

mercury rise to 36ºC or 38ºC. Unusually, though, anyone seeking to escape the extreme heat should head even further south – to the Canary Islands, where the climate is expected to be cooler and more breezy.

Residents and tourists are advised to drink plenty of water and avoid exertion, especially in direct sunlight.

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Super yacht drops anchor in Torrevieja Torrevieja hosts its fair share of nice boats, but nothing quite rivals the luxury, size and value of one that paused by its shores on 26th July. The ‘Al Lusail’ is the yacht belonging to the super rich Amir of Qatar, Sheikh

this size. When a cruise ship visited previously, passengers had to be brought to shore by other vessels. It doesn’t appear that the sheikh bothered to take advantage of Torrevieja’s town shopping drive.

Tamimbin Hamad Al Thani. The 123 metre long yacht is out of most people’s buying capacity estimated at costing in excess of one hundred million euros.

The usual base for the boat in Spain is Malaga. However, on Thursday 26th July it took a little detour and was snapped by many off the coast of Torrevieja.

Those taking their daily stroll along the Levante pier had a particularly good view of the yacht and many took opportunity to take pictures and do some dreaming.

‘Al Lusail’ could not come any further into Torrevieja. Even though the town has three marinas, none of them would be able to accommodate a boat of

As far as big boats for private individuals are concerned, this is a whopper. It has four decks, 18 cabins and has a crew of more than 55 people. It was designed in a German shipyard and is made from aluminium with a

teak interior.

It can accommodate 36 guests and reach a maximum speed of 20 knots.

‘Al Lusail’ is also the name that’s been given to the city that is being constructed from nowhere to host the 2022 World Cup. It is expected to have a population of 250,000 people when it is completed and have its own marinas, luxury shopping and leisure facilities.

The Lusail Iconic Stadium will host the opening and final matches of the 2022 FIFA World Cup. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani is the fourth son of the previous Amir of Qatar and replaced his father on the throne in 2013 after he abdicated. Born in 1980, Tamim met UK Prime Minister David Cameron and the Queen in 2014. However, there have been some allegations that Qatar has also been responsible for funding Islamic extremists.

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BITE SIZE NEWS: More recycling bins promised Continued from page 3

Serrano, has added to this by stating that it is ‘both drinkable and of high quality’.

The tasting sessions will take place in the weekly market of La Mata and on Friday in the Avenida de Los Marineros, next to the tourist information point, in a tent from 10am until 1pm. Questions about whether the water can be drunk or not are frequently asked at the tourist office. The answer is that, yes, it can and it is cheaper than and better than drinking bottled water which also comes in plastic containers.

The argument has been that even if the water is safe, it does not necessarily taste too good. Some have complained that it tastes of chlorine. However, steps have been taken to address this too. It is recommended that water is taken from the tap in a glass bottle, shaken and left for a while without a top and stored in the fridge. Any chlorine in it should evaporate quickly and prevent the taste from lingering.

Nest of bees found in sofa When a family from Madrid returned to their holiday home in Torrevieja it was to find a nest of bees waiting for them. The family arrived at around 8pm in the evening and were startled to discover that the bees had chosen to make a space between two stacked sofas on the porch, their home.

The family from Madrid, one of who reacts severely to bee stings, quickly

called the emergency services and the fire brigade came out to deal with the colony. The hive of bees was firmly established and included 25 kilos of honeycombs. The house had been left unoccupied since the previous summer and the insects had had plenty of time in which to build their living quarters.

The fire brigade are used to this kind of situation and were able to attend the scene with the correct protective clothing. They were able to remove the combs and place them in a special box. It is likely that the insects had begun to make this their home the previous spring.

The bees were not harmed and were taken to a bee keeper so that they could be relocated. Bees are protected and the hives cannot be destroyed. In a similar situation, it is important to seek help.

Financial help to sports clubs A total of €356,226 in grants has been given to different sports clubs in Torrevieja. The greatest subsidy was given to Torrevieja Football Club who are to receive a total of €70,000. The Mare Nostrum Handball Club will receive €46,000 and the Real Club Náutico de Torrevieja will receive around the same amount.

Other clubs that will benefit include Torrevieja’s basketball club that will receive €12,000, the Torrevieja rowing club with €22,300 and provisionally the Jennifer Colino Rythmic Gymnastics Club which has been given a subsidy of €17,815.

Youth orchestras in Torrevieja From 1st August until 8th August, a variety of youth orchestras will be playing in the three centres of Alicante, Teulada Continued on page 6

Torrevieja has been promised 400 new bins for the collection and recycling of plastic containers and tins.

The project will be focused on light container recycling and will begin when the new rubbish collection service starts. The new bins are forecast for 2020 when it is

expected that 400 of the yellow recycling containers will land on the streets of Torrevieja.

The announcement was made by the organisation Ecoembes which is responsible for recycling across the whole of the country. Currently the town

only has 159 of these containers which is a very low number for a population of 85,000 and one similar to that of small towns such as San Fulgencio.

The new bins cannot be received until Torrevieja’s new cleaning contract starts. This is because the waste collection

Torrevieja’s electric cars don’t claim Only three out of the 264 electric cars currently circulating in Torrevieja currently claim the rebates that they are entitled to. They are able to claim a 65% reduction in car tax but only a very small proportion of them actually do.

According to the political party, Ciudadanos, this is due to lack of awareness of the discount.

The majority of the electrical vehicles here are hybrid versions.

They combine having a conventional engine with an option of using rechargeable batteries. Alongside these hybrid version, which can be recharged at electrical points,are those that only have a battery and can only function between limited points around the town. The reduction in car tax was asked for by the PP government during the last administration and was pressed for

by Los Verdes (The Greens). The ruling applies to all electrical vehicles without distinguishing between them something which has perhaps also made it more difficult to apply for. It

could also be that those who are in a position to buy these vehicles are less interested in the hassle that applying for a discount might bring.

Altogether around 30,000 vehicles are registered in Torrevieja and so the 264 that qualify for this discount can seem to be only symbolic. However, it is an important development when it comes to vehicles and is particularly important in the case of taxis now using this source of energy.

The spokesperson for Ciudadanos, Pilar Gómez, has asked the government team to publicise the existence of this tax reduction. The reduction cannot be applied for retrospectively and an application to benefit must be made previous to paying the tax to SUMA. She has also asked that there is clarification that the reduction applies to all the different forms of electrically powered vehicles including those that have a mixed economy.

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processes will change and it is important that any new bins are coordinated with this. The new lorries that will come with the new contract are expected to be side loading rather than from the rear.

However, there is still uncertainty about when exactly the new contract will

begin and hence a hold up for the recycling containers too.

The new bins will not come at any cost to the town itself.

The value of the new bins and the cost of collection is covered by the amount of money obtained through recycling the contents.

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BITE SIZE Help horses thrive NEWS: Continued from page 5 Moraira and Torrevieja. Torrevieja will host the orchestras at the International Auditorium. The shows begin at 8pm and are free.

On 1st August in Torrevieja Thailand’s national orchestra will play and on 2nd august it will be the turn of the Polonia Amber orchestra. An orchestra from Alicante will play on 3rd August and from Madrid on 4th August.

La Mata market still planned to move Further delays in the move of the weekly street market in La Mata are likely.

Objections have been raised that there is no evacuation plan in place for the new site. Such a plan is needed for any site that accommodates more than 1,000 people or has a surface area of more than 5,000 square metres. The decision to move the market from its current site was because of concern that there is a risk of subsidence in an area used by cars. The intention is still to move the market but it seems there are still many issues to be resolved first.

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One hundred and twenty equines need your help. These animals have suffered abuse and neglect for many years, until Sue and Rod Weeding, cofounders of Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre, took them in and gave them a home.

Every horse, pony and donkey that lives at the sanctuary is a survivor. Can you imagine living in a cage surrounded by your faeces, harassed by flies and with little access to food and water? Can you imagine being beaten almost to death and then being abandoned?

This was the reality for these equines. Bronson was beaten with a hammer and the blow almost killed him. Nine donkeys and 14 starving horses found at Callosa de Segura lived chained to a wall and were scared of humans. Luceiro's left eye was rotting and the infection spreading.

But now, these rescued animals are now thriving at the Rojales rescue centre and their stories are of resilience and courage, of hope.

Sue and Rod’s efforts have also helped to improve animal welfare and rights in Spain, inspiring others to volunteer, donate or simply inform themselves about animal rights – and donations are what the horses, ponies and donkey’s need right now to keep the centre running. It costs a whopping €5,000 just to run the centre each week. But, over the last few months, Sue and Rod have had multiple extra and unexpected expenses. They now owe thousands and are calling for help to keep their

centre open – donations can be made online at www.easyhorsecare.net/donate.

The expenses include €15,000 to the alfalfa hay supplier, who, despite a lack of payments, continues to bring forage for the rescued animals every week.

The centre’s 4x4 vehicle also broke down – it’s the only form of transport for collecting new rescues, taking sick animals to hospital and picking up supplies. Repairing it cost €900. A major water leak also had to be fixed and doing so cost €5,000. To make matters worse, the patriarch of the little Camelot herd, Merlin, passed away recently. His hospital bill of €2,000 needs to be covered. His sudden dead left everyone broken hearted.

The San Vicente Veterinary Hospital was particularly kind with Red, a beloved mini who passed away last week after being hospitalised for a week and being rushed to surgery in a last attempt to save him.

“Everything was done to save his life, even the surgeon did the operation for free,” explained Sue. “All the hospital is charging for is the medical equipment.”

Red’s first bill amounted to €2,000 and a second bill for his surgery was €1,350.

“It seems that everything is just against us, a chain of expensive and unforeseen circumstances,” said Sue.

Challenging Summer is a particularly challenging time for the centre's six charity shops.

Bronson, once battered now beautiful “This is the time of the year that the shops go really quiet because it gets extremely hot. The shops are empty and we are not making as much money as we usually do.”

The centre owes more than €26,000 altogether. However, that won't stop them. If an equine needs to be rescued today, Sue and Rod will find a way to save it.

But they can only continue their work with the generous support of the community. Please, donate today by visit www.easyhorsecare.net/donate –

even €5 is enough to feed a rescued horse for a day.

The Easy Horse Care Rescue Centre, located just outside Rojales at Partido Lo Garriga, 59, opens to the public on the first Sunday of every month between 1pm and 4pm. A free horse tour with centre co-founder Rod Weeding begins at 2pm and refreshments are available in the café.

For more details and directions, visit www.easyhorsecare.net. For regular updates, follow us on Facebook at @EasyHorseCare.

August exodus Friday saw the start of the August exodus with at least 3.2 million cars on the road between then and the end of the weekend, according to the General Directorate of Traffic (DGT).

The August 'escape' is normally the secondbusiest of the year, beaten only by that of August 31 and September 1 when Spaniards who have the month off for their holidays return to start work again.

Tailbacks were expected from around 3pm and mostly affected motorways and major trunk roads heading in coastal and country directions. Madrid and Castilla-La Mancha saw the longest queues as would-be holidaymakers headed out of major cities towards beach destinations – Andalucía, the Valencia region and Murcia, were also be busy for the same reasons. The first weekend before August is also the

busiest for cars heading for the Strait of Gibraltar and ports in the south and south-east, since the country's nearly two million Moroccans will often use this time to catch ferries back to their native nation to visit family over the summer.

With 10 'speeding' helicopters, Guardia Civil traffic police and 13,000 conservation workers out in force, traffic management at central level will also involve around 800 public-sector employees facing extra hours.

Speeding crackdowns were in place at the weekend and will be again from 6th to 12th August, mainly on secondary roads where the majority of fatal accidents happen.

Anyone planning to travel by road next weekend should allow themselves plenty of extra time to reach their destination.

Number of road accidents increase There has been a sharp increase in the number of road traffic accidents over the past couple of weeks. With the influx of holiday makers, the roads have already become congested. And it’s not even August. Two serious accidents have been registered in the past few days, both requiring the fire service to be called out to attend.

The first accident happened on 25th July when it took one hour to free a driver whose vehicle had crashed into three other cars. The driver was found semi-conscious in the Avenida Desiderio Rodriguez at around 4.30pm. In order to carry out the rescue, three fire engines were called as the car had rolled over onto its side. The woman who had been driving, was eventually removed from the vehicle, attended to at the scene by emergency services and then taken to Torrevieja hospital for further treatment. Traffic was stopped throughout the operation.

Another accident occurred between two

vehicles just after 1am on Saturday morning 28th July resulting in one car being left on its side with its occupants trapped. The fire service had to be called out to release the father and his daughter who were unable to get out of the car. The occupants of the other car involved were unharmed.

The accident took place at a junction on San Policarpo street. The road was closed whilst the fire service cut the two free. It took more than an hour to release the two occupants who were eventually transferred to Torrevieja hospital at around 2.20am.

Driving on the streets of Torrevieja can be hazardous at the best of times but with the influx of holiday makers, some of whom are not familiar with the streets and Spanish driving law, there is an increased risk. As we approach August when we can also expect more traffic from Madrid, this spate of accidents is only likely to increase.

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Fiesta time in Quesada The urbanisations of Ciudad Quesada have grown bigger than the mother town of Rojales and their importance is recognised by their own fiestas, which are in honour of San Justo. One of the emperors’ chief persecutors of Christians in the early years of the 4th century was Diocletian, who journeyed through Spain in a frenzy of violence demanding all Christians renounce their faith. Two schoolboys, Justus (age 13) and Pastor (less than 9), were determined to show that their Christian faith was strong and publicly recited their catechism.

Diocletian ordered that they both be savagely flogged, but neither flinched and shouted words of encouragement to each other instead. Furious and shamed by their bravery, Diocletian had them killed secretly. Both were martyred in the early fourth century.

Each year the Patron fiestas begin with a giant paella in the Plaza Blanca.

However, the fiestas will get properly underway on Thursday, 2nd August with a Latin night and disco, a concert and disco on Friday, children’s activities and the Charanga Parade on Saturday and the religious procession, more music and entertainment and, of course, fireworks on Sunday.

Councillor for Fiestas Charo López González said: “I would like to highlight the interest, work, enthusiasm and effort of a large number of people who have given their best to make these festivities a source of joy, fun, respect and especially to highlight the essence of Rojales: a place of integration of a large number of cultures and languages, enabling our society to grow in stature.”

Mayor, Antonio Pérez García added: “August may be very hot but it is also time for the celebration of a large number of festivals, such as the Fiesta we organise in Ciudad Quesada in honour of Saint Justo.

“These are days of fun and joy for the people who live in the urbanisations, who are an essential part of our municipality of Rojales, a municipality which integrates various cultures, gastronomies and languages. Let’s experience and enjoy these Fiestas to the full but with respect.”

THURSDAY 2nd AUGUST 9:30pm – NOCHE LATINA in the Plaza Blanca of Ciudad Quesada with dance performances by the dancing school “Sofía Sánchez”.

To follow, Mobile Disco.

Organised by HOLDING GROUP BARCELO with the collaboration of the Department for Fiestas of Rojales Town Hall.

FRIDAY 3rd AUGUST 10:30pm – Grand Show by “CONECTADOS BAND”.

International repertoire. To follow, Mobile Disco by Sonotec Studio till 5:30am. (All these events will take place on the stage which will be mounted on the Plaza Blanca of Ciudad Quesada).

SATURDAY 4th AUGUST From 10am to 2pm – Grand

Park for Children containing water bouncy castles in the Plaza Blanca of Ciudad Quesada. Don’t forget your swimsuit and towel!

9:00pm – Mobile Disco by Sonotec Studio on the Plaza Blanca of Ciudad Quesada.

10:00pm – Summer Carnival parade (same route as in previous years). Everyone is welcome to participate. Registration at the Tourist Info of Rojales Town Hall.

Cash prizes for the best fancy dress costumes! Followed by Mobile Disco till 5:30am.

SUNDAY 5th AUGUST 10:00am – The Band “Agrupación Musical Los Solfamidas” of Rojales parading round the streets.

10:30am – Holy Mass in honour of San Justo in the “San José” church of Ciudad Quesada.

Following the Mass, a pilgrimage will take place in the area around the Church in honour of San Justo.

10:00pm – Performance by the dancing school “Sofía Sánchez” and the group “La Espartera”.

Enjoy an evening of dance & rumba.

12:00 midnight – Fireworks by Pirotecnia Ferrández of Redován.

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Brexit could leave expat pension payouts illegal No-deal Brexit could make pension payouts to British expats living in Spain ‘illegal’. The Association of British Insurers claims expats living in the EU ‘might find that they couldn’t be paid their pension' if the UK exits the EU without a deal, MPs have been told.

Retired expats living in Spain who receive payments into their bank accounts in their adopted countries would be left without any money in a nodeal Brexit scenario.

Director General of ABI, Huw Evans, said: “That is a perfectly plausible risk in the future of no agreement is reached in some countries of the EU.” It comes as Theresa May is desperately defending her

Chequers plan from attacks by factions of her own party as she tries to sell it to the EU. Meanwhile, senior ministers are attempting to draw up new trade deals in Europe.

Evans also noted that tourists would be forced to pay higher rates for holiday insurance as they would lose EU health cards. He added that a shocking 38 million contracts could be left in ‘legal limbo’ as it would become illegal to pay claims in EU countries.

However, Evans urged that he wanted to “avoid panic” and added that this would not be the case in all EU countries, if the UK were to exit with a no-deal scenario.

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International choirs compete in Torrevieja Voices from all over the world came together in the Eras de la Sal in Torrevieja as the Habaneras competition continued to delight audiences over the past week.

It’s the 64th event of this kind and in its

final week the competitive part of this annual celebration began. As well as singing compositions of their own choice, the choirs had to sing set pieces and were judged on their interpretation.

The first choir to sing was the Tavor Chamber Choir from the Ukraine. They were followed by The Choir of Beijing University of Technology from China.

There were more international choirs to come with KUD Branko Cvetkovic from Belgrade, which is one of the oldest choirs in the country with a special sound of its own. On Wednesday 25th July choirs from Romania, Belarus and Mexico performed and on Thursday 26th July it was the turn of three choirs from Colombia, Murcia and Indonesia.

On Friday 27th July was the last night

of the competition with participating choirs including the Female Chamber Choir from Macdeonia, Grupo Vocal ‘Amitie’ from Asturias and the University of Philippines Singing Ambassadors.

Each of the choirs performed in very different ways and were congratulated for their interpretations of the songs. The Grupo Vocal Amitié was the youngest of the participating choirs with young women between the ages of 18 and 19 years old.

On the final evening, 28th July, prizes were awarded to the winning choirs. The ‘University of Philippines Singing Ambassadors’ came first as the overall winner of the competition and picked up the prize of €12,000 for the Habanera and €10,000 for the Polyphony. The girls’ choir ‘Raniza’ came second from Belarus and The Universidad Autónoma de Bucaramanga Choir from Colombia came third.

Suzanne O’Connell

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR Dear Editor As much as I like Orihuela as my chosen place to live, it is absolutely disgraceful that we residents who live on the coast, are continuously treated with utter contempt. More so we are not respected yet WE PAY OUR TAXES. WHAT DO WE GET IN RETURN ?

NOTHING!!

WE PAY FOR ALL THE PARADES & ACTIVITIES IN ORIHUELA INCLUDING THESE FOR THE YOUTH & CHILDREN OF ORIHUELA CITY and surrounding villages. I'm sure the kids will enjoy them.

BUT !!

In my opinion ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. WE DEMAND EQUAL RIGHTS. 1. WE WANT THE MOORS AND CHRISTIANS PARADES ON THE COAST. 2. WE WANT THE SAME YOUTH ACTIVITIES ON THE COAST. WE HAVE APPROX 5,000 CHILDREN & YOUTHS LIVING ON THE COAST, WHAT FUTURE DO THEY HAVE? 3. WE WANT THE EMERGENCY CENTRE BUILT NOW! 4. WE WANT PROPERLY BUILT BUS SHELTERS WITH A COVERED ROOF AND A BENCH TO SIT FOR ALL AGES WHILST

WAITING FOR THE BUS. We really need the Orihuela Government to recognise us as equals, we pay their wages after all.

I know there are many more needs, the list goes on and on, but for now, I'm sadly running out of patience. I'm angry that we have to keep on fighting for our Rights!

LASTLY. THANK YOU VECINOS ORIHUELA COSTA for allowing me to voice my opinion to the community of Orihuela Costa.

From your friend, a committed campaigner for equal rights for Residents of Orihuela Costa.

Norah Bond President.

Res. Montilla IV. EH-6.

For the attention of the Editor, Costa Blanca People I read with interest, the letter from'Joe' regarding his disquiet with his business with Banco Sabadell. Like Joe, I have a monthly transfer of funds from Barclays in England to my account with Sabadell which actually takes place on the same day of the month (10th) as does his. I have had this arrangemnt for some 9

years and rarely have had to wait more than 24 hours for the transfer to be completed, obviously weekends and bank holidays permitting. 2 weeks ago on the 11th July, like many other BS customers, I received a circulation from the bank, notifying me that due to some IT problem, the online services were out of service. Being the due date for my funds to arrive, I was concerned that my cash may have disappeared into 'the wide blue yonder' and as my online banking facility was also affected, I visited my local branch in person to investigate the situation. The service I received could not have been bettered.

Albeit it that it took about a week to right the problem, I was excellently served by 3 different members of staff and had my money in my account as they had always promised, within a week, which I felt was reasonable given the size of the problem and the numbers of accounts that must have been affected. If Joe has a problem with his branch, have him refer his branch to the service provided by the branch in the Pueblo Principe/La Fuente area.

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Events for August If you are over in Torrevieja for your summer holiday, or even if you are resident here and are just looking for something different, there’s plenty taking place in August.

Events include: • 7th August 10pm: St. Petersburg ballet – International Auditorium of Torrevieja • 9th August 10pm: Flamenco night – Eras de la Sal • 10th – 12th August: Torrejoven 2018 Celebration of International Youth – Paseo Juan Aparacio and in other parts of the town • 10th August 6pm: The first Torrevieja carnival ‘Ciudad de Torrevieja’ – Eras de la Sal • 11th August 10.30pm: La Unión – Eras de la Sal • 12th August 9pm: Sette Voci – Eras de la Sal

• 14th August 10pm: Festival Superlatino – Eras de la Sal • 15th August 9pm: UB40 – Eras de la Sal • 18th August 10pm: Luz Casal – Eras de la Sal • 21st to 25th August 9pm: Festival de Bandas – Eras de la Sal • 30th August: Eras Music Festival – Eras de la Sal • 31st August 10.30pm: Kiko Veneno y los secretos – Eras de la Sal More details about some of these events will be available closer to the time. As you can see, many of the events are due to take place in the Eras de la Sal which is the open concert area between the two marinas; the International Marina and the Club Nautico Marina.

Suzanne O’Connell

Child mental health facilities needed

include health care in Torrevieja, Guardamar, Pilar de la Horadada, Orihuela Costa, San Miguel, Benijófar, San Fulgencio, Forementera, Rojales and Los Montesinos.

The relationship between this private provider and the regional government can be tense at times.

Now, the department of health in Torrevieja would like to see mental health care offered directly at its own hospital rather than patients being diverted elsewhere. Currently children and young people have to travel to Hospital Vega Baja in Orihuela if they have this kind of mental health difficulty.

Indirect health care is available to patients here from Torrevieja hospital itself but really facilities need to be extended to allow more specialist help to be provided locally.At the moment Torrevieja hospital pays for those patients it must send elsewhere in the same way as other hospitals must pay when sending patients for care here.

It is claimed that the situation is not prejudicial to the care of young people with mental health difficulties and that they are adequately taken care of in Orihuela. However, for those regularly travelling longer distances, it is a situation that they would like to see resolved soon.

Suzanne O’Connell

There is growing concern across many European countries about the mental health of children and young people. An increasing number of children are showing symptoms of mental health illnesses, including eating disorders, self-harm, depression and anxiety. The situation is also being recognised in Torrevieja. A call has been made by the regional government for Ribera Salud, who owns and manages Torrevieja hospital, to put a new service into operation at the hospital here. Ribera Salud have been managing primary and hospital care since 2006. This is a private/ public model which

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WEEKLY EURO UPDATE Bank of England deputy governor Ben Broadbent spoke earlier this week about the history and future of QE, but offered no clues as to the outcome of the MPC policy meeting next week. Most investors are expecting an increase to 0.75%, but these issues are never certain.

Brexit Minister Dominic Raab conceded in a parliamentary committee that PM May is leading the negotiations; investors took this as a sign that a softer Brexit would be more likely.

It seems that despite the stories of food stockpiling and other concerns, investors do not subscribe to the no-deal outcome. Their assumption continues to be that Britain will maintain a close economic relationship with Europe after it leaves the EU. The European Central Bank made the widely anticipated decision to maintain the current interest rates and has also stuck its plan of ending bond purchases by the end of the year.

The provisional purchasing managers’ index readings held few surprises; French manufacturing beat forecast at 53.1, services missed at 55.3. Most of the figures across Euroland fell slightly short of forecast with the exception of the German number, which was fractionally ahead. A meeting between US President Trump and Jean-Claude Juncker lead to an agreement that the US and the EU will refrain from imposing new tariffs and Europe will buy some of America's subsidised soya beans. In the longer run, the aim is to work towards a mutual lowering of tariffs on industrial goods - though not on cars. As for whom would best be served by the agreement, investors

leaned towards the EU: the euro strengthened by half a cent.

The US dollar fell nearly half a cent early in the week after Donald Trump expressed dissatisfaction with Federal Reserve monetary policy. He told an interviewer that he was "not thrilled" by rising interest rates. The Fed were concerned that the president was attempting to influence policy-making.

Trump's interference might not be as egregious as that of Turkish president Erdogan, yet it was effective: the dollar lost a net two thirds of a cent on Thursday and Friday just as the president might have wanted. The provisional purchasing managers’ index reading came in slightly short of forecast. The big news this week was the announcement of a $12bn support programme for farmers affected by the repercussions of the Trump trade war. The move suggested that the president was digging in for a protracted battle. However, the outcome of the meeting with the EU suggested perhaps it will not be a war fought on all fronts as there seemed to be some agreement to cease the creation of further tariffs.

Australian inflation came in slightly below forecast at 2.1%, with the Reserve Bank of Australia's bellwether "trimmed mean" on target at 1.9%. New Zealand's trade figures for June showed an unexpected deficit as exports declined and imports held steady. There was little reaction to the NZ deficit but the Aussie dropped half a cent on the inflation news: investors had evidently been hoping for higher numbers.

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Private motor home park to be opened The mayor, José Manuel Dolón, has made the announcement that a decree from the Valencian community does regulate the parking of motorhomes on public land. Until now, this particular law does not appear to have been acted upon.

However, the intention seems to be that it will be in future. The regional law states that vans should not remain

in the same public place for more than 48 hours. In fact, the mayor suggests, it should be less than this where there are no services available to accommodate the vans.

At the moment campervans and other types of motor homes are scattered at different points across the town, often frontline to the sea. They can be seen in the coves between the

beaches of Los Locos and Torre del Moro and next to Cala Piteras. The official line now seems to be that the law must be complied with and that we can expect those staying longer than their welcome to be moved along.

At the same time it has been announced that an individual has got the go ahead to process their

application to construct a private motor home park in the urbanisation La Veleta. Plans are already underway to convert the area, which should begin in October. The town council is expecting that there will be some opposition to the scheme as announced in the paper Informacion.

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Fruit prices rocket as consumption falls Fruit has gone up at more than three times the rate of general living costs, by two-thirds in 12 years and by 14 percent in the past year, according to the National Institute of Statistics (INE). Only cigarettes, up by 102 percent and university tuition fees, which have increased by 68 percent, fruit has gone up in price more than any other consumer goods or services since before the start of the financial crisis.

Weekly fruit shopping cost €20 just over a decade ago, but now comes in at €33 – yet farmers are not benefiting from this increase and conclude that retailers must be giving themselves a higher profit margin.

A national farming union, the UPA, says the fruit industry is 'rife with speculation' and agricultural workers are having to produce far more nowadays just to break even, and many are dropping out of the sector altogether.

Stallholders believe the price hike must be due to climate change and shrinking harvests.

In fact, some fruit farmers – particularly watermelon-growers in the provinces of Almería and Murcia – are considering giving up because they are afraid of running out of irrigation water due to the ongoing drought.

Retailers say fruit now costs more because a higher amount is exported, as producers know they can earn more from selling their crops abroad – in fact, exports have risen by 67 percent in the

last decade, much of which goes to the UK and Germany.

According to a national association of supermarket chains, the costs of sustainable waste management have gone up and the quality of the fruit in general has improved, which has had an impact on the end consumer price.

Vicious circle Fruit becoming more expensive means residents in Spain are buying less of it to save money – around 12 percent less, in fact, than five years ago, or down from nearly 4,800 tonnes to just 4,200, or from 103 to 92 kilos per person per year.

Despite the fall in consumption, the amount spent per capita on fruit

remains the same as five years ago at €134 annually.

Figures show that some fruit rises in price by as much as 500 percent between field and supermarket shelf – this is the case with Golden Delicious apples, which sells at €2.22 per kilo in shops compared with 37 cents per kilo at source.

Other types of fruit where the margin between source and consumer is huge include clementines, which retail at €1.53 per kilo but for which farmers are paid 32 cents per kilo, a difference of 378 percent; oranges, which go up by 207 percent, from 63 cents to €1.94 per kilo; pears, from 56 cents to €2.01 per kilo or 258 percent, and bananas, with a difference of 397 percent, increasing from 43 cents to €2.14 per kilo.

The UPA is calling for greater control, saying customers are paying excessively high prices whilst farmers are barely covering their costs, and all those in between along the supply chain are 'lining their pockets'.

Supermarket association ASEDAS does not agree, saying they consider it 'perfectly reasonable' that a third of the value of the fruit should each go to the grower, the retailer, and the company involved in selection, cleaning and transporting, which they say 'explains the 300 percent increase'.

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Cycads are believed to have existed over 200 million years ago. They are cone-bearing plants and were here before flowering plants had evolved. They can cope with the hot and dry conditions that we have in the Costa Blanca and don’t need a lot of water to survive.

They are very beautiful to look at and have become a popular feature in private gardens as well as those of hotels and large estates around the world. Their fronds stretch out similar to those of a palm and unusually are dioecious meaning that there are male and female plants that produce separate cones and therefore need to be pollinated to reproduce, as with the majority of other plants. Some of them can remain small and compact whilst others can grow into huge palm like plants and look wonderful in all kinds of environments.

The most common Cycad that is used in ornamental growth is the Cycads revoluta (sago palm) which originates from Japan and the Orient, producing either a single trunk or multi stems with dark green foliage. In Japan they have a plant that is over one thousand years old! The male plant is long and slender whilst the female plant is broader and wider and it is possible to see the seeds developing inside it.

They can often be mistaken for either palms or tree ferns due to their appearance; therefore they can be a good substitute as they have a good crown without the height of the trunk.

All cycads are hardy and can adapt to a range of different soil, but it is essential to

have good drainage as being to wet in their roots will destroy them. Whilst they are in their growing season it is important to water them every day-morning and eveningespecially if they are potted. Be careful though, as some species can have a dormant period, so will require less water, so the colder it is the less water they need.

Cycads can suffer from chewing insects and scale, so make sure that the soil is well drained, as mentioned before and that they get regular long watering in their first 3-4 years. They also need to have a good, organic fertiliser. The use of white oil which consists of a cup of cooking oil, half a cup of water plus a small amount of ordinary washing up liquiddiluting it with water so that it is 40 parts water to one part of the mixture then stir it up and spray it!

You can propagate Cycads by either seeds or offsets. The best method is by their seeds as many species to not have offsets that occur regularly. If you do have offsets, however, you need to remove them from the main plant with a clean sharp knife or tool of the like leaving as little a wound as possible. Then you should treat the wound with a fungicide that has sulphur in it.

As there are so many cycads to choose from they are ideal to include in new sustainable landscapes. As you can predict their size and appearance the garden can be planned accordingly. They can take their time to grow, but if you want to hasten the process the best means is by adding fertilizer and water on a regular basis.

Cycads can also be transplanted easily, so for example if they are in pots and you are moving to a new home, they should survive the whole process without too much stress on them.

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Welcome to Cannes with Vivalia Travel Cannes is famous for its fine sandy beaches, with gorgeous views and calm Mediterranean waters ideal for bathing and the Festival

Cannes is a city located on the French Riviera. It is a commune located in the Alpes-Maritimes department, and host city of the annual Cannes Film Festival, Midem, and Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The city is known for its association with the rich and famous, its luxury hotels and restaurants, and for several conferences.

Basking in the sun of the French Riviera, Cannes sparkles with glamour and exclusivity.

This legendary seaside resort has all the glitz and allure of the Côte d'Azur: private beaches, marinas filled with luxury yachts, stylish boulevards, elegant Belle Epoque hotels, and fashionable restaurants. In an enchanting setting on Golfe de la Napoule bay, Cannes is blessed with a balmy Mediterranean climate. The weather is mild year-round and perfect for sunbathing by the beach from May through October. Leafy palm trees grace the streets of Cannes, and subtropical flowers flourish throughout the city, giving visitors the impression of being in paradise. The prestigious Film Festival of Cannes has been an important event since it began in 1946. Drawing famous movie stars from around the world, this annual red-carpet gala has earned an international reputation for promoting the art of filmmaking.

One of the most fashionable streets on the French Riviera, this palm-lined boulevard is the center of tourist activity in Cannes. The Boulevard de la Croisette is lined by Belle Epoque hotels, such as the historic InterContinental Carlton Cannes, a marvelous example of grand French Art Nouveau architecture, designed by Charles Dalmas. Visitors can also admire the opulent villas and upscale boutiques. The boulevard extends from the new Palais des Festivals to the lovely "La Roseraie" park at

the Square du 8 Mai 1945, with splendid private beaches on the sandy shoreline.

Along this stretch, the beachfront promenade is a great place for strolling and people-watching. The promenade is appreciated for its magnificent views of the gulf and the Lérins Islands in the distance of the Mediterranean Sea. Beyond La Roseraie park is the idyllic Port Pierre Canto, with its rows of luxury yachts docked at the harbor. Also within walking distance is another harbor, the Port de la Pointe Croisette, the departure point for regattas organized by the Yacht Club of Cannes. The yacht club also has a sailing school. Another spot for water sports enthusiasts and sunbathers is the nearby Port Palm Beach, a quiet public beach on the western side of Pointe Croisette with a snack bar and restroom facilities.

Perched on the slopes of Mont Chevalier above the bay, the Le Suquet district represents the original fishing village. In a picturesque hillside setting, this area offers exceptional views as well as Old World charm. Le Suquet has retained some of the ambience of centuries ago. Tourists are delighted by the traffic-free quarter with its narrow old staircases, pleasant courtyards, and interesting historic remnants, such as the city's ancient walls. At the heart of Le Suquet, the old church, Eglise du Suquet, and the 11th-century Tour du Mont Chevalier watchtower dominate the skyline. From the top of the watchtower, there is a wonderful panoramic outlook onto the beach and the bay all the way out to the Lérins Islands. Another joy of visiting Le Suquet is wandering the quaint old streets. One of the old town's main shopping streets is the Rue Meynadier.

This bustling pedestrian street is renowned for its specialty gourmet

boutiques. Another important commercial street a few blocks away at the edge of Le Suquet is the Rue d'Antibes. A shopping destination for French Riviera fashions, the street is lined with designer prêt-à-porter clothing boutiques.

Of all the things to do on the French Riviera, the Festival de Cannes is the most exciting. With all the glitter of celebrity, this red-carpet event is a top tourist attraction and is definitely one of the biggest moments of the year in Cannes. The festival draws movie stars and filmmakers from all over the world, as well as crowds of fans and journalists. Originally this film festival was established to rival the Venice Film Festival. The Festival de Cannes has earned an international reputation for discovering, supporting, and promoting excellent films.

Cannes is famous for its fine sandy beaches, with gorgeous views and calm Mediterranean waters ideal for bathing.

Including the nearby îles de Lérin and Estérel coastline, there are seven kilometers of beach property in Cannes.

With so many options, there is something for every visitor. While many of the beaches in Cannes are private property owned by hotels, there are several beaches open to the public. These include the Macé Beach and the Zamenhof Beach, located off the Boulevard de la Croisette.

These beaches charge a small fee for use of the lounge chairs and parasols. Also available for public use (and free of charge) are the Plage de la Casino along the Boulevard de la Croisette; La Bocca Beach, a quiet beach with gorgeous views and golden sand; the Plages du Midi, a long sandy beach near the center of Cannes; and Mouré Rouge Beach near the fishing ports. The lesser-known Les Rochers beach is the best choice for snorkeling.

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Still part of the family

Can’t get over it

When I met my partner I knew he’d been divorced for a few years. However, he and his former wife still work in the family business, and also his teenage children are involved in the business too. They are still very much a family even though he has long since had a physical relationship with his ex. Since I moved in with him I realise how intense his life with his family is. But I also can’t understand why he would want so much involvement with someone he is divorced from.

Apparently he and his ex-wife get along well. I find myself feeling left out, and jealous.

Our daughter had a serious illness at age 31. The illness left her paralysed down one side of her body. We thought we were going to lose her, but to our relief, she recovered. Her disability severely affects her life, and she is partially disabled as a result. She can walk with crutches, and is getting better although she is very low.

We hoped that after two years she would be coming to terms with things, but she is not. She has a young family, and they are suffering as a result of her depression.

It sounds like he considers himself still part of that unit, especially if they still work together. He’s got the children to consider and perhaps this works well for the family?

Has his former wife got a man in her life? I don’t think objecting would help. Have you thought about embracing the situation and getting to know his wife? This may be a solution.

Some people deal with what life throws at them; some cannot, even with therapy. She may never fully come to terms with her condition. It’s a terrible thing that has happened to her, but she can learn to live with her feelings. If individual therapy doesn’t work, it might help if she met other sufferers, or joined a support group. It helps to share experiences and in time she might find it

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Counterfeit wine gang arrested Guardia Civil have arrested a gang accused of selling ‘counterfeit’ wine. The gang bought cheap wine with similar properties to popular brand names and relabelled the wine, with new cap

As part of the operation, six raids were carried out simultaneously by Guardia Civil across three provinces. Three of the raids took place at the homes of those responsible and another

seals only to sell them on as more exclusive branded wines.

The counterfeit bottles were sold through a website dedicated to the sale of wines, in a restaurant and on an international auction page From the investigations carried out, investigating officers have been able to prove the sale of more than 1,500 bottles of wine under different counterfeit brand names.

The investigation led to the arrest of four people who are now accused of crimes against intellectual property and public health, as well as the crime of belonging to a criminal organisation, fraud and money laundering.

three in a commercial centre, a restaurant and a warehouse.

During the raids, officers found numerous effects and documents related to the investigation, among which were more than 1,600 counterfeit labels of different brands, 28 counterfeit wine bottles, stamps, caps, multi-tools, die-cutters, moulds and metal plates, wooden packing boxes in the name of one of the brands imitated, as well as various computer equipment and printers.

Commercial documentation was also recovered which allowed officers to verify the sale of more than 1,500 bottles of wine of varying brands since

2014, estimating that the group has been able to obtain a profit of more than one and a half million euro.

The investigation began last October following a complaint filed in the town of Navalcarnero (Madrid), by the head of a prestigious wine company who expressed his suspicions about the sale of bottles of his brand through a page web that he believed to be false.

For counterfeiting and sale, the organization acquired wine with similar properties and the same D.O. brand (denomination of origin) but at a much cheaper price. Later, they packed it in bottles with similar characteristics, even down to recreating the wax seals.

They also acquired corks similar to those of the high end brands and bought counterfeit labels as well as manufacturing their own in a workshop equipped with scanners, printers and advanced computer systems.

Once the forgery process was finished, they proceeded to sell and distribute the wine. The most common was through a web portal specializing in expensive wines - some of these bottles sold for more 1,900 euros. A restaurant and international wine auction site were also used.

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Hot weather fuels domestic violence Whilst experts believe that the roots of violence against women have clear ties to gender inequality and the patriarchal system, additional factors such as soaring temperatures appear to play a role, according to a team of Spanish researchers.

The conclusions of a study conducted by experts in genderbased violence, epidemiology and psychologists at the National Police and Civil Guard have been drawn from research carried out between the months of May and September in the years 2008-2016 in the Madrid region.

Over this period, 23 women were killed by their current or former partners; 38,000 police complaints were filed for gender violence, and 61,000 calls were made to the 016 helpline for victims of domestic abuse.

Published in ‘Science of the Total Environment’, the study, called “Heat wave and the risk of intimate partner violence,” shows that for every degree that a given day’s highest temperature goes over the 34ºC threshold.

According to sociologist Carmen Vives, co-author of the report and president of the Spanish Epidemiology Society, “we have established a link between high temperatures and the killing of women that is sufficiently significant to be taken into account when devising alerts and protection

protocols for heat waves.”

Heat exacerbates stress and irritability in relationships that are already charged with conflict, explains Vives while insisting that sexism and patriarchy are ultimately to blame.

The research is part of a growing scientific movement that aims to identify the factors that increase the risk of domestic violence. In a study carried out in 2016 on the social demographics of domestic violence in Spain, Vives’ team highlighted the fact that the risk of gender-based violence is strongly linked to immigrant status, belonging to an ethnic minority, having a partner or former partner who is unemployed, and the consumption of alcohol and drugs by either one or both parties.

The research found that 40 percent of women murdered in Spain by their partners or former partners were immigrants, predominantly from Ecuador, Morocco and Bolivia.

Immigrant women who are exposed to violence within their relationship are five times more likely to be killed than a Spanish woman, according to Vives. The research has also shown that women subjected to gender violence in rural settings are three times more likely to be killed than those living in an urban environment.

The new study suggests that once temperatures rise above 34ºC, the

consequences can be fatally accumulative. One day after the threshold has been crossed, police reports rise in proportion to ever extra degree by 1.7 percent. Three days later, the risk of fatal assault has increased by 40 percent. And five days later, the victim’s helpline receives 1.43 percent more calls for every extra degree.

First studies The first studies linking heat to gender-based violence were published in the United States in 1986.

“It’s feasible that being exposed to abnormally high temperatures would be a catalyst leading to this type of dynamic within the couple – stress, anger, arguments – reaching the boiling point, murder, three days after it began, as the findings show,” says the study, whose authors include Civil Guard Lieutenant Colonel José Luis González and National Police psychologist Juan José López Ossorio, both of whom are coordinating a team that analyses homicides within the context of gender violence in Spain, and which answers to the Interior Ministry.

The team’s findings will provide the basis for preventive campaigns aimed at geographical areas and demographic groups that have been shown to be high risk. “As in the rest of

the world, homicides in Spain carried out by a partner or a former partner are the main cause of violent death for women,” say González and López Ossorio in the 2018 Annual Criminal Psychology report. “Although the prevalence in Spain is low, it has a big social impact,” he adds.

González and López Ossorio have just published another study on the classification of domestic homicides.

The study points out that Spain has, in fact, one of the lowest rates of femicides in the world, with 2.4 murders for every million women compared to 3.2 in Switzerland, 4.1 in Germany, 5.4 in Finland, and 9.4 in Lithuania.

The researchers cite recent work carried out in Australia by the criminologist Holly Johnson, who concludes that in general the perpetrators of domestic violence have a low level of education and are

often involved in drugs or alcohol abuse. Other factors include having suffered physical or sexual abuse as children, to financial hardship, undiagnosed mental health issues, an undesired split with their partner, witnessing abuse against their mother as children, and a record of harassment and violent crime.

Besides potential environmental aggravations such as the temperature, other factors such as time are also being studied. For example, it has been noted that the victim helpline tends to be busier on Mondays, when many women find themselves temporarily free from their aggressor.

Complaints to the police, on the other hand, are at their most intense on Sundays and during the Christmas break, according to a report in the Annals of Epidemiology. Being aware of these risk factors facilitates a more efficient response to victims.

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Work inspectors announce More increased inspections over summer cash for Work inspectors will be on patrol day and night this summer, making impromptu visits in its battle against employee exploitation.

Nights, weekends and bank holidays will no longer be safe for any employers who systematically flout their staff's rights, says the Social Security office.

High tourism season means exploitation is more likely to occur as workers are given temporary contracts in bars, shops, hotels and restaurants, among other businesses which have only a skeleton trade out of season.

Work inspectors will be checking nobody is on the job more than the European Union's permitted maximum of 48 hours per week and that they have regular breaks, and that all staff have proper job contracts covering their full hours worked – and not just the ones the employer wants to claim.

An illegal practice to avoid labour costs is to only mention part of staff's hours on their contracts, paying them the balance cash in hand, in order to save Social Security and employer tax contributions which, combined, comes to around 50 percent on top of an employee's take-home pay.

This means the employee does not benefit from his or her full pension contribution and any dole money payable will be reduced to reflect the hours stated on the contract.

Some unscrupulous employers even take on workers on a cash-only basis, meaning they have no pension or dole

contributions being paid on their behalf and are not insured to be on the premises.

Inspectors will be also looking out for abuse of temporary job contracts – the practice of a constant turnover of staff every few months, or employees being given a string of short-term contracts even though their role is considered permanent, another way some employers use to reduce the amount they have to pay in the event of redundancy and to curtail workers' legal rights.

Given the Spanish economy's high dependence on tourism, seasonal layoff contracts are common, so legislation exists to protect those who return to the same employers after periods of down time.

Anyone who has worked for a firm for 18 months within a three-year period, or two years continuously, is considered a permanent employee in terms of labour rights and redundancy pay, even if their continuous two years has been on temporary contracts.

Since the financial crisis, a very high number of firms pay no more than the minimum wage – currently €855 per month, or €735.90 where workers receive a double salary at Christmas and in August – and work inspectors will be checking nobody is earning less than this, which would be illegal.

President Pedro Sánchez wants to increase this to €14,000 a year – although he has not clarified whether

this will be net or gross – as soon as possible, but at least before the year 2020.

In line with the European Union's Social Charter, all member States' minimum wages should be no less than 60 percent of the average wage

least 75% with the same firm, who provide a regular, consistent service for a set monthly figure are classed as 'false self-employed workers', and have been rapidly rising in number since the financial crisis.

New minister for work and

New minister for work and pensions, Magdalena Valerio which, in Spain, is a gross figure of €1,878.10 a month, meaning the minimum salary should be at least €1,126 a month.

Inspectors will, additionally, be looking to clamp down on the practice of companies' taking on staff but insisting they become self-employed, in order to save the firms labour costs and not to have to pay sick leave or holidays.

Those whose entire professional work is for just one company or at

pensions, Magdalena Valerio, has announced a crackdown on the practice, which leaves staff with no employment rights in order to save costs for their companies.

Along with her plan to align selfemployed workers' Social Security stamp with their actual income rather than its being a fixed monthly fee of €278.08 irrespective of earnings, she has announced steps to be taken to combat the 'false self-employed' system.

councils to tackle domestic violence Spain’s government has pledged more money for town councils to enable them to deal with domestic violence, both for prevention, awareness and victim support.

The previous PP-led national government had agreed to give €20 million to all local authorities, but new president Pedro Sánchez's cabinet says this is 'very little'.

Domestic violence victims, who are statistically more likely to be women, 'need to feel they have somewhere to go and to be given answers and help', the government says.

It is likely that the amount set aside could be up to four times what the PP agreed.

Deputy president Carmen Calvo says councils will get around €80m.

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10.00am

Judge Judy

10.30am

Judge Judy

11.00am

George and Mildred

11.30am

Hidden Treasure

1.35pm

The Royal

2.40pm

Heartbeat

3.40pm

Classic Coronation Street

4.15pm

Classic Coronation Street

4.50pm

Goodbye, Mr. Chips

6.55pm

Heartbeat

8.00pm

Murder, She Wrote

9.00pm

Midsomer Murders

11.00pm

Scott and Bailey

12.00am

Scott and Bailey

1.00am

A Touch of Frost

3.00am

ITV3 Nightscreen

3.30am

Teleshopping

Sky Sports 1 6.00am 7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 9.00am 10.00am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 6.30pm 6.45pm 7.00pm 10.45pm 11.15pm 11.45pm 2.00am 4.00am 5.00am 6.00am

Sky Sports News Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Good Morning Sports Fans Transfer Centre Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sportswomen Sky Sports News Transfer Centre Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Live Women's T20 Super League Katherine Brunt: No Boundaries Cricket Cricket Mind Games Fantasy Football Show Live ATP 500: Washington Live WWE Late Night Smackdown Sky Sports News Sky Sports News Sky Sports News

7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am

Hollyoaks Hollyoaks Couples Come Dine with Me Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Gotham Supernatural The Big Bang Theory

Sky Movies Premiere 6.30am

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Sky 1

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Channel 4 6.05am 7.00am 7.45am 8.10am 8.35am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.05am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.05pm 1.50pm 3.10pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am 1.05am 1.35am 2.25am 3.15am 4.10am 5.05am 6.00am 6.05am

My Kitchen Rules Countdown King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA The Simpsons The Simpsons Channel 4 News Couples Come Dine with Me The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer Countdown A Place in the Sun Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Come Dine with Me The Simpsons The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Ackley Bridge 999: What's Your Emergency?

Gogglebox Prison Random Acts Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA 60 Days in Jail The Secret Life of the Zoo Live Well for Longer Selling Houses with Amanda Lamb Kirstie's Fill Your House for Free My Kitchen Rules

8.00pm

World News Today

8.30pm

Handmade in Mexico

9.00pm

Andrew Marr's History of the World

BBC 4 10.00pm

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

11.00pm

An Education

12.35am

The Real Bonnie and Clyde

1.30am

The Inca: Masters of the Clouds

2.30am

Italy's Invisible Cities

3.35am

Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema

4.35am

This is BBC Four

9.55am 10.30am 11.30am 12.35pm 1.05pm 1.35pm 2.05pm 2.40pm 3.10pm 3.40pm 4.15pm 4.50pm 5.20pm 5.50pm 6.55pm 7.55pm 8.55pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am 1.10am 2.10am 3.10am 4.10am

Food Unwrapped A Place in the Sun A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me A Place in the Sun The Secret Life of the Zoo The Supervet Grand Designs The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes Dunkirk 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown The Super Orgasm The Yorkshire Dales and the Lakes The Good Wife 8 Out of 10 Cats

ITV3

Channel 5 6.10am 6.35am 7.00am 7.05am 7.10am 7.20am 7.30am 7.40am 7.50am 8.00am 8.05am 8.20am 8.35am 8.45am 8.55am 9.05am 9.25am 9.40am 9.55am 10.05am 10.15am 12.15pm 1.10pm 1.15pm 2.15pm 2.45pm 3.15pm 4.15pm

1.05am 2.00am 4.10am 5.00am 5.45am 6.10am 6.35am

Divine Designs Wildlife SOS Peppa Pig Olly the Little White Van Luo Bao Bei Simon Noddy: Toyland Detective Fireman Sam Thomas and Friends Pets Shimmer and Shine Shane the Chef Peppa Pig Peppa Pig Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom Paw Patrol Floogals Digby Dragon Nella the Princess Knight Mofy The Wright Stuff Can't Pay? We'll Take it Away!

5 News Lunchtime GPs: Behind Closed Doors Home and Away Neighbours Cagney and Lacey Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery 5 News at 5 Neighbours Home and Away 5 News Tonight World Rally Championship 2018 Highlights The Dog Rescuers with Alan Davies The Bermuda Triangle Revealed First Time Call Girl Desperately Seeking Perfection: Body Freaks My Extreme Ocd Life Super Casino GPs: Behind Closed Doors Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink House Doctor Divine Designs Wildlife SOS

7.00am 7.50am 8.10am 8.35am 9.30am 10.35am 11.40am 12.45pm 1.45pm 2.50pm 3.55pm 5.00pm 6.05pm 7.05pm 7.35pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.05pm 12.05am 1.05am 1.10am 2.25am 3.20am 3.45am 4.00am

The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas Pawn Stars Pawn Stars River Monsters Jaws 3 FYI Daily Jaws 3 Full Metal Jacket FYI Daily Full Metal Jacket Ax Men Tommy Cooper ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am

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BBC1 7.00am 10.15am 11.00am 12.00pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.30pm 4.30pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.15am 12.45am 1.45am 1.50am

Breakfast Wanted Down Under Homes Under the Hammer Fake Britain The Farmers' Country Showdown Bargain Hunt BBC News at One Regional News and Weather Red Rock Escape to the Country Celebrity Money for Nothing Flog It! Impossible BBC News at Six Regional News and Weather The One Show A Matter of Life and Debt Animals Behaving Badly The Real Marigold Hotel BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather A Question of Sport Live From the BBC Who Do You Think You Are? Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

BBC2 7.00am 7.30am 8.15am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.30pm 3.30pm 4.15pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.15am 1.15am 1.45am 2.30am 3.30am

ITV2 7.00am 7.20am 7.45am 8.10am 9.00am 10.00am 10.25am 11.20am 1.15pm 2.15pm 2.45pm 3.35pm 4.40pm 5.45pm 6.50pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 10.30pm 11.00pm 11.45pm 12.15am 12.40am 1.10am 1.35am 2.05am 2.35am 3.00am

The Planet's Funniest Animals Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Who's Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale You've Been Framed! Gold The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Bachelor Emmerdale You've Been Framed! Gold The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder Take Me Out You've Been Framed! Gold You've Been Framed! Gold Two and a Half Men Superstore Family Guy Family Guy Celebability Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Two and a Half Men Superstore Dads Dads

The Delinquent Season

9.00am

The Odyssey

11.15am

Road Hard

1.15pm

The Lego Ninjago Movie

3.15pm

The Mountain Between Us

5.15pm

Rememory

7.15pm

Ingrid Goes West

9.00pm

The Lego Ninjago Movie

11.00pm

The Odyssey

1.10am

The Mountain Between Us

3.10am

The Delinquent Season

5.00am

Final Score: Behind the Scenes

5.15am

Ingrid Goes West

The TV That Made Me Holiday of My Lifetime with Len Goodman Impossible See Hear Caught Red Handed Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live The Seven Little Foys Coast For What It's Worth Nature's Weirdest Events Britain's Secret Seas Money for Nothing Eggheads Great British Railway Journeys Puerto Rico: Island of Enchantment Hairy Bikers' Mediterranean Adventure Picnic at Hanging Rock Rhod Gilbert's Work Experience Newsnight Louis Theroux See Hear Matron, Medicine and Me The Five Billion Pound Super Sewer This is BBC Two

ITV1 7.00am 9.30am 10.25am 11.30am 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.20pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.15am 1.10am 1.35am 4.00am 4.50am 6.05am

Sky Sports 1 7.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize

7.30am

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize

8.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

9.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

10.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

11.00am

Cricket

7.45pm

Cricket

11.15pm

Fantasy Football Show

11.45pm

Live ATP 500: Washington

1.45am

Football

3.50am 5.00am

Live ATP 500: Washington Sky Sports News

6.00am

Sky Sports News

7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.05am

Hollyoaks Hollyoaks Couples Come Dine with Me Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory The 100 Tattoo Fixers on Holiday The Big Bang Theory

Sky Movies Premiere 7.00am

Wed 1st August

CostaBlancaPeople 31st July - 6th August

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London ITV Racing Live Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Coronation Street Tonight Coronation Street The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Car Crash Britain Caught on Camera Tonight Jackpot247 Paranoid ITV Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

Sky 1 7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 12.45am 1.45am 2.45am 3.00am 4.00am 5.00am 5.30am 6.00am

Modern Family Modern Family Monkey Life Monkey Life Meerkat Manor Meerkat Manor Animal 999 Animal 999 Modern Family Modern Family MacGyver Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS: Los Angeles Stargate SG-1 The Simpsons Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons A League of Their Own Transformers Stan Lee's Lucky Man A League of Their Own Premier League Greatest Games Most Shocking...

Duck Quacks Don't Echo Animal 999 Animal 999 Futurama

7.00am 7.25am 7.55am 9.00am 10.00am 10.30am 10.55am 11.30am 1.35pm 2.35pm 3.40pm 4.15pm 4.50pm 6.55pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 12.00am 1.20am 2.35am 3.00am 3.20am 3.30am

Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Heartbeat The Royal Judge Judy Judge Judy George and Mildred Goodbye, Mr. Chips The Royal Heartbeat Classic Coronation Street Classic Coronation Street Goodnight Mister Tom Heartbeat Murder, She Wrote Rosemary and Thyme Lewis The Street The Street Judge Judy Judge Judy ITV3 Nightscreen Teleshopping

E4

Channel 4 7.00am 7.45am 8.10am 8.35am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.05am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.05pm 1.50pm 3.10pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.35am 1.30am 2.25am 4.25am 5.15am 6.10am

Countdown King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA The Simpsons The Simpsons Channel 4 News Couples Come Dine with Me The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer Countdown A Place in the Sun Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Come Dine with Me The Simpsons The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News Live Well for Longer 24 Hours in a and E Stath Lets Flats The Un Sex Abuse Scandal 999: What's Your Emergency?

One Born Every Minute Byzantium Vet on the Hill Lost and Found My Kitchen Rules

BBC 4 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.30pm

3.30am 4.30am

World News Today Handmade in Mexico 1066: A Year to Conquer England Murder in Soho Sword, Musket and Machine Gun: Britain's Armed History Time Shift The Inca: Masters of the Clouds Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman 1066: A Year to Conquer England This is BBC Four

9.55am 10.30am 11.30am 12.35pm 1.05pm 1.35pm 2.05pm 2.40pm 3.10pm 3.40pm 4.15pm 4.50pm 5.20pm 5.50pm 6.55pm 7.55pm 8.55pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am 1.05am 2.00am 3.00am 3.55am

Food Unwrapped A Place in the Sun A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me Come Dine with Me A Place in the Sun The Secret Life of the Zoo The Supervet Grand Designs This is Us The World's Most Luxurious Airline 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown Ramsay's Hotel Hell This is Us The Good Wife 8 Out of 10 Cats

12.30am 1.30am 2.30am

ITV3

29

Channel 5 7.00am

Peppa Pig

7.05am

Olly the Little White Van

7.10am

Luo Bao Bei

7.20am

Simon

7.30am

Noddy: Toyland Detective

7.40am

Fireman Sam

7.50am

Thomas and Friends

8.00am

Pets

8.10am

Shimmer and Shine

8.20am

Shane the Chef

8.35am

Peppa Pig

8.45am

Peppa Pig

8.55am

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

9.05am

Paw Patrol

9.25am

Floogals

9.40am

Digby Dragon

9.55am

Nella the Princess Knight

10.05am

Mofy

10.15am

The Wright Stuff

12.15pm

Nightmare Tenants, Slum Landlords

1.10pm

5 News Lunchtime

1.15pm

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

2.15pm

Home and Away

2.45pm

Neighbours

3.15pm

Cagney and Lacey

4.15pm

Fiance Killer

6.00pm

5 News at 5

6.30pm

Neighbours

7.00pm

Home and Away

7.30pm

5 News Tonight

8.00pm

Cricket on 5

9.00pm

Britain's Parking Hell

10.00pm

The Bermuda Triangle Revealed

11.00pm

21st Century Sex Slaves

12.05am

My Young Benefits Life

1.05am

First Time Call Girl

2.00am

Super Casino

4.10am

GPs: Behind Closed Doors

5.00am

Get Your Tatts Out: Kavos Ink

5.45am

House Doctor

6.10am

Divine Designs

6.35am

Wildlife SOS

7.00am 7.50am 8.10am 8.35am 9.30am 10.35am 11.40am 12.50pm 1.50pm 2.55pm 3.55pm 5.00pm 6.05pm 7.05pm 7.35pm 8.05pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.05pm 12.10am 1.10am 1.15am 2.15am 3.15am 3.40am 4.00am

The Chase Pawn Stars Pawn Stars Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Kojak Quincy, M.E. Minder The Sweeney The Professionals Storage Wars Texas Storage Wars Texas Pawn Stars Pawn Stars The Chase: Celebrity Special Payback FYI Daily Payback Senna FYI Daily Senna Lethal Weapon The Protectors ITV4 Nightscreen Teleshopping

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Thur 2nd August BBC1

7.00am 10.15am 11.00am 12.00pm 12.45pm 1.15pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 2.45pm 3.30pm 4.30pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.45am 1.45am 1.50am

Breakfast Wanted Down Under Homes Under the Hammer Fake Britain The Farmers' Country Showdown Bargain Hunt BBC News at One Regional News and Weather Red Rock Escape to the Country Celebrity Money for Nothing Flog It! Impossible BBC News at Six Regional News and Weather The One Show EastEnders Eat Well for Less Keeping Faith BBC News at Ten Regional News and Weather New Tricks How to Stay Young Weather for the Week Ahead BBC News

BBC2 7.00am 7.30am 8.15am 9.00am 10.00am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.40pm 3.30pm 4.15pm 5.15pm 6.15pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.15am 1.15am 2.30am 3.30am 4.30am 5.00am

ITV2 7.00am 7.20am 7.45am 8.10am 9.00am 9.30am 9.55am 10.25am 11.20am 1.15pm 1.45pm 2.15pm 2.45pm 3.35pm 4.45pm 5.55pm 7.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.50pm 12.20am 12.45am 1.15am 1.40am 2.15am 2.40am

The Planet's Funniest Animals Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records Who's Doing the Dishes?

Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Bachelor Emmerdale Coronation Street Coronation Street The Ellen DeGeneres Show The Jeremy Kyle Show The Jeremy Kyle Show Judge Rinder Take Me Out You've Been Framed! Gold Two and a Half Men Superstore Evil Monkeys Keith Lemon: Coming in America Family Guy Family Guy American Dad! American Dad! Two and a Half Men Superstore Totally Bonkers Guinness World Records

Rememory

9.00am

Top Ten Show, the 2018

9.15am

The Delinquent Season

11.15am

The Lego Ninjago Movie

1.15pm

The Ghost of Charnel House

3.00pm

The Mountain Between Us

5.00pm

The Delinquent Season

7.00pm

The Lego Ninjago Movie

9.00pm

The Mountain Between Us

11.00pm

The Ghost of Charnel House

12.45am

Ingrid Goes West

2.35am

Rememory

4.35am

Road Hard

6.30am

Mamma Mia - Here We Go Again: Special

The TV That Made Me Bargain Hunt Impossible Eat Well for Less Victoria Derbyshire BBC Newsroom Live I Was Monty's Double Coast For What It's Worth Nature's Weirdest Events Britain's Secret Seas Money for Nothing Eggheads Great British Railway Journeys Nature's Miniature Miracles Inventing the Impossible: The Big Life Fix The Prosecutors Quacks Newsnight Golf Reginald D Hunter's Songs of the Border Who Do You Think You Are? The Misadventures of Romesh Ranganathan Mortimer and Whitehouse: Gone Fishing This is BBC Two

ITV1 7.00am 9.30am 10.25am 11.30am 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.20pm 2.30pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 11.45pm 12.15am 1.10am 1.35am 4.00am 6.05am

Good Morning Britain Lorraine The Jeremy Kyle Show This Morning Loose Women ITV Lunchtime News ITV News London ITV Racing Live Tipping Point The Chase ITV News London ITV Evening News Emmerdale Eat, Shop, Save Emmerdale Birds of a Feather Our Shirley Valentine Summer ITV News at Ten and Weather ITV News London Britain's Busiest Airport - Heathrow Unforgotten Give it a Year Jackpot247 ITV Nightscreen The Jeremy Kyle Show

Sky Sports 1 7.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize

7.30am

Good Morning Sports Fans Bitesize

8.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

9.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

10.00am

Good Morning Sports Fans

11.00am

Transfer Centre

11.30am

Cricket

7.45pm

Cricket

11.15pm 12.30am 1.00am

Live Wgc Bridgestone Invitational Fantasy Football Show Live ATP 500: Washington

5.00am

Sky Sports News

6.00am

Sky Sports News

7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.30pm 2.00pm 2.30pm 3.00pm 3.30pm 4.00pm 4.30pm 5.00pm 5.30pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 9.30pm 10.00pm 10.30pm 11.00pm

Hollyoaks Hollyoaks Couples Come Dine with Me Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry How I Met Your Mother How I Met Your Mother The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Melissa and Joey Melissa and Joey Baby Daddy Baby Daddy Young and Hungry Young and Hungry The Goldbergs The Goldbergs The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Hollyoaks The Goldbergs Young Sheldon Young Sheldon The Big Bang Theory The Big Bang Theory Brooklyn Nine-Nine

Sky Movies Premiere 7.00am

CostaBlancaPeople 31st July - 6th August

Sky 1 7.00am 7.30am 8.00am 8.30am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.30am 11.00am 11.30am 12.00pm 1.00pm 2.00pm 3.00pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 11.30pm 12.00am 1.00am 2.00am 3.00am 4.00am 5.00am

Modern Family Modern Family Monkey Life Monkey Life Meerkat Manor Meerkat Manor Animal 999 Animal 999 Modern Family Modern Family MacGyver Hawaii Five-0 Hawaii Five-0 NCIS: Los Angeles NCIS: Los Angeles Stargate SG-1 The Simpsons Futurama Futurama The Simpsons The Simpsons The Simpsons Duck Quacks Don't Echo SEAL Team Sick Note Sick Note The Russell Howard Hour A League of Their Own Brit Cops: Frontline Crime Most Shocking...

Duck Quacks Don't Echo Animal 999

7.00am

Classic Coronation Street

7.25am

Classic Coronation Street

7.55am

Heartbeat

8.55am

The Royal

10.00am

Judge Judy

10.25am

Judge Judy

10.55am

George and Mildred

11.25am

Goodnight Mister Tom

1.35pm

The Royal

2.35pm

Heartbeat

3.40pm

Classic Coronation Street

4.15pm

Classic Coronation Street

4.40pm

Inspector Morse

7.00pm

Heartbeat

E4

Channel 4 7.00am 7.45am 8.10am 8.35am 9.00am 9.30am 10.00am 10.35am 11.05am 12.00pm 12.30pm 1.00pm 1.05pm 1.50pm 3.10pm 4.00pm 5.00pm 6.00pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.30pm 8.00pm 9.00pm 10.00pm 11.00pm 12.00am 12.40am 1.35am 2.30am 3.25am 3.50am 4.20am 5.15am 6.10am

Murder, She Wrote

9.00pm

Vera

11.00pm

Law and Order: UK

12.00am

Law and Order: UK

1.05am

A Touch of Frost

3.00am

ITV3 Nightscreen

3.30am

Teleshopping

Countdown King of Queens King of Queens Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Everybody Loves Raymond Frasier Frasier Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares USA The Simpsons The Simpsons Channel 4 News Couples Come Dine with Me The Great Celebrity Bake Off for Stand Up to Cancer Countdown A Place in the Sun Sun, Sea and Selling Houses Come Dine with Me The Simpsons The Simpsons Hollyoaks Channel 4 News George Clarke's Old House, New Home Meet the Drug Lords: Inside the Real Narcos Ramsay's 24 Hours to Hell and Back Who is America?

Our Guy in Russia: The Road to Chernobyl The Supervet The Football Club: Artist in Residence How to Get Rich Quick Dispatches Vet on the Hill Lost and Found My Kitchen Rules

BBC 4 8.00pm 8.30pm 9.00pm 10.00pm

2.30am 3.30am 5.00am

World News Today Top of the Pops Australia with Simon Reeve Super Senses: The Secret Power of Animals In Search of Science The Great British Year Top of the Pops James Clerk Maxwell: The Man Who Changed the Modern World Australia with Simon Reeve Murder in Soho This is BBC Four

9.55am 10.30am 11.30am 12.35pm 1.05pm 1.35pm 2.05pm 2.40pm 3.10pm 3.40pm 4.15pm 4.50pm 5.20pm 5.50pm 6.55pm 7.55pm 8.55pm 10.00pm 11.15pm 12.15am 1.20am 2.15am 3.30am

Food Unwrapped A Place in the Sun A Place in the Sun Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Four in a Bed Celebrity Come Dine with Me Celebrity Come Dine with Me Celebrity Come Dine with Me Celebrity Come Dine with Me Celebrity Come Dine with Me A Place in the Sun The Secret Life of the Zoo The Supervet Grand Designs Outlander 24 Hours in a and E 24 Hours in a and E Ramsay's Hotel Hell Outlander The Good Wife

11.00pm 12.00am 1.00am 1.30am

ITV3

8.00pm

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Channel 5 7.00am

Peppa Pig

7.05am

Olly the Little White Van

7.10am

Luo Bao Bei

7.20am

Simon

7.30am

Noddy: Toyland Detective

7.40am

Fireman Sam

7.50am

Thomas and Friends

8.00am

Pets

8.10am

Shimmer and Shine

8.20am

Shane the Chef

8.35am

Peppa Pig

8.45am

Peppa Pig

8.55am

Ben and Holly's Little Kingdom

9.05am

Paw Patrol

9.25am

Floogals

9.40am

Digby Dragon

9.55am

Nella the Princess Knight

10.05am

Mofy

10.15am

The Wright Stuff

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Airport robbery gang arrested

As part of a series of investigations being carried out by the National Police to minimize crimes and robberies during the summer months, four arrests have been made when a gang – believed to be responsible for a series of opportunistic thefts at Alicante-Elche airport – was caught.

The detainees specifically targeted the Alicante province, especially areas with a large number of tourists. Once the stolen goods were acquired, the gang would then sell them on through a series of second hand shops and apps making them almost impossible to trace.

Part of the investigation focused on second hand shops in the Alicante province with a specific view to the prevention of moving stolen goods.

Gang members targeted victims in hotels, restaurants and at Aliante-Elche the airport. The modus operandi consisted of taking advantage of the moment when the victim let their guard down, either at the moment of checking into our out of hotels or while relaxed in restaurants and even at the airport, when travellers checked in their luggage.

Following surveillance, the four were arrested this week when they tried to sell stolen goods in Alicante. Officers also located and raided a property used by the gang to store the stolen items - a large number of which were seized so that officers can begin to trace the owners.

The detainees were placed at the disposal of the Juzgado de Instrucción, being released with charges.

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LOGIC PUZZLE Logic puzzles require the solver to deduce the relationships between different people, places and things based on a limited number of clues given in the puzzle.

quick ACROSS 7. In dispute (13) 8. Guard (8) 9. Brink (4) 10. Reduce (6) 12. Unimpaired (6) 14. Charge (6) 16. Husky (6) 18. Halt (4)

20. Inside (8) 22. Illustrious (13) DOWN 1. Anticipated (8) 2. Standing (6) 3. Robe (4) 4. Almost (8) 5. Climb (6)

6. Explosion (4) 11. Nourishing (8) 13. Client (8) 15. Ascribe (6) 17. Apprehend (6) 19. Excursion (4) 21. Faithful (4)

cryptic Remember: every item on the board belongs to one and only one person, no item will ever be shared. Using only the clues provided and simple deductive logic and reasoning, fill in the grid with Xs and Os to determine the solution.

ACROSS 7. Don's touching sympathy (6-7) 8. Came - with servants? (8) 9. Runners carry it along (4) 10. She's concealed by a fag at Harrow (6) 12. Figures I spoil the games (6) 14. Really can fit when adjusted properly (2,4) 16. Join forces (6) 18. His victims lose heart (4) 20. Idleness in battle (8)

22. Obviously this is the result that is wanted (7,6) DOWN 1. Figure of importance to American defence (8) 2. Victoria's husband on watch (6) 3. Nothing you and I had failed to settle (4) 4. Telephone fault may mean a reporter missing it (8)

5. It's in our blood (6) 6. It needs fifty to put one on the ground (4) 11. Reached round and ate it (8) 13. Establish oneself in bandsmen's concerts (8) 15. Attack a fool and suffer afterwards (6) 17. The French gent may be fired (3,3) 19. Some film dance (4) 21. In the morning he gives a slight cough (4)

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Solution for Logic Puzzle 412

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208

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322

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17 25 20 14 22

Lithuanian Japanese Dutch Polish Hebrew

Sudoku Solution

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The class in room 412 isn't the Polish class..

The class in room 412 doesn't start at 7:00 am..

The Polish class starts 2 hours before the Dutch class..

The 9:00 am class has 14 students..

Of the Polish class and the course in room 129, one starts at 3:00 pm and the other has 14 students..

6. Of the Hebrew class and the class in room 129, one has 17 students and the other starts at 7:00 am..

7. The class in room 322 doesn't start at 7:00 am..

8. The course in room 208 is the Dutch class..

9. The 3:00 pm class isn't the Japanese class..

10. The course with 25 students, the 7:00 am class and the class with 20 students are all different classes..

11. The Dutch class has 20 students..

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European Central Bank (ECB) measures that lower the cost of debt. The report fails to mention, however, that the ECB has plans to gradually scale back its extraordinary liquidity measures.

Another positive trend is the improvement to Spain’s current account (CA) balance. The study notes that after a peak CA deficit in 2007 of 9.6 percent of GDP, “exports and imports have since grown strongly along with the economic recovery, leading to CA surpluses in 20132017.” Analysts noted that this is Spain’s fifth consecutive annual CA surplus, “unprecedented in recent Spanish history.”

“Internationalisation efforts by Spanish firms contributed to the strong export growth, and an increase in Spain’s share of world goods exports,” the report adds.

Analysts expect that these current account surpluses will continue in the medium term “notwithstanding the recent appreciation of the euro and the projected moderately higher oil prices.”

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The IMF mentioned structural and labour market reforms, as well as fiscal deficit reductions, as determining factors in Spain’s reduction in imbalances. But it also recommended “reducing the still sizable structural fiscal deficit to lower the remaining imbalances.” The body also recommended the country makes additional labour market reforms.

Globally, the report said that “overall current account surpluses and deficits remained broadly unchanged, at about 3.25 percent of world GDP in 2017, with growing concentration in advanced economies.”

“Higher-than-desirable balances prevailed in the euro area (driven by Germany and the Netherlands), other advanced economies (Korea, Singapore, Sweden), and China. Lower-thandesirable balances remained concentrated in the United States, the United Kingdom, some euro area debtor countries, and a few vulnerable emerging market economies (Argentina, Turkey).”

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IMF warns about Spanish economy’s vulnerability Spain’s net international investment position (NIIP), or the difference between its external financial assets and liabilities, has improved from -94 percent of GDP in 2009 to -81 percent in 2017. Despite this improvement, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is warning about the potential risks it poses to the Spanish economy.

In its 2018 External Sector Report, the global body notes that “the large negative NIIP comes with external vulnerabilities, including from large gross financing needs from external debt and potentially adverse valuation effects.”

The overall assessment for Spain is that “its external position in 2017 was moderately weaker than consistent with medium-term fundamentals and desirable policy settings.”

The July report mentions two mitigating factors: a favourable maturity structure of its outstanding sovereign debt, averaging seven years, and

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Builder by day, thief by night Guardia Civil have arrested a man accused of breaking into at least 11 houses by using power tools to break the bars on the windows. The arrest was made in San Pedro del Piñatar when a 43 year old Spanish man was accused of robberies in around 11 homes in Torre de la Horadada urbanisation. Officers believe that the man could have been involved in a further 16 break ins in the area.

The investigation began after a series of robberies caught the attention of the Guardia Civil in Pilar de la Horaada. All of the robberies had one thing in common – that the security grilles had been forced open in order that the intruder gain access through windows or doors.

The investigation ran over two and a half months while officers tracked the man’s movements. Twice he visited the urbanisation in question and he had a history of breaking and entering. What convinced investigators even more that he was the culprit was that the man worked in the construction sector and used the tools at his disposal to gain access to the houses, easily able to break and bend security grilles.

It was also discovered during the investigation that he had been previously arrested in San Javier (Murcia) for crimes of the same nature and that he had shifted his focus to Pilar de la Horadada.

During the arrest, officers searched the man’s home and found several stolen

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Health minister wages war on homeopathic remedies Spain’s Health Minister Carmen Montón will call for the European Commission to cease to classify homeopathic remedies as 'medicine', because 'they do not cure anything'.

Her department will put in place all measures possible within the law, including legal action and fines, to ensure that only authorised products which give full and correct information are allowed on the market to prevent patients ditching medical treatment backed by 'scientific evidence' for homeopathy.

At present, a European regulation covering homeopathic remedies which is under discussion may lead to their being classed as 'medication' and even allowing them to continue to be sold in pharmacies.

This regulation could become a directive, meaning Spain and the other EU-27 would be obliged to incorporate it into national law on pain of a €150,000 daily fine.

These remedies would also have to pay the taxes established by the Spanish Agency for Medicines and Healthcare Products (AEMPS).

Most of Spain's autonomously-

governed regions had already called for the previous government's health minister Dolors Montserrat to argue the case against this rule in Europe.

Last month, the General Council of Official Colleges of Medicine (CGCOM) and the Central Deontology Commission, covering ethics versus rules, publicly condemned all practices which have been scientifically proven to have no beneficial effect as 'unacceptable and contrary' to moral practices.

They say that to date, no scientific evidence has been able to show homeopathy has any effect, other than as a placebo.

Homeopathic remedies are based upon 'treating like with like', or the idea that substances which cause the symptoms of an illness in a healthy person are therapeutic for the sick when they show similar symptoms. It was developed by German physician Dr Samuel Hahnemann in the 1790s and has not been evolved since.

Highly-diluted substances, normally in alcohol or distilled water and taken in pill format, are believed by homeopathic practitioners to stimulate the immune

system into fighting these much smaller quantities of disease-causing elements.

They are made using substances from animal, vegetable, mineral and synthetic sources, including arsenic oxide, table salt, snake venom, opium, thyroid hormone and even bodily fluids and tissues from sufferers of the disease in question.

Some go as far as writing down the ingredients on pieces of paper which the patient pins to his or her clothing, stands under glasses of water they then drink, or carry in their pockets, and some manage to convince patients that the substance used for diluting – alcohol, petroleum jelly or even water – eventually 'remember' the homeopathic elements and that these no longer need to be added.

Major medical research bodies in the UK, USA, Switzerland, and EU-wide teams have concluded homeopathy is not effective and should not receive public funds.

Different treatments Homeopathic remedies do not include other 'natural' treatments in common use, such as herbs, acupuncture and

aromatherapy massage. Some medical practitioners believe these help, but as complementary therapy and always in conjunction with traditional treatment, usually for prevention or symptom relief.

But no medic would ever advise ceasing or avoiding 'conventional' medicine in favour of 'natural' remedies, since this can prove fatal.

An oncologist in Spain has recently reported a case of a woman who died

from breast cancer, which was caught in time to have been completely cured, by rejecting scientifically-proven treatment and opting for 'alternative' therapy instead.

Cases like these often arise through the widely-held myth that the medical profession is 'in cahoots' with so-called 'Big Pharma', or pharmaceutical giants, in order to line pockets, which is not the case.

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Spain’s new PP leader promises a shift to the right Pablo Casado, 37, became the new president of Spain’s Popular Party (PP) at party primaries held recently in Madrid.

Casado defeated his rival, Soraya Sáenz de Santamaría, by a difference of 451 votes out of a total of 2,973 ballots, attracting the support of 57.2 percent of voters.

His victory heralds a shift further to the right by Spain’s main conservative party.

Casado campaigned in favour of reintroducing more restrictive abortion legislation, toughening up the criminal code’s response to secessionist attempts, and reforming election laws “to stop depending on nationalists and minority parties.”

“People are expecting a liberal, conservative reform agenda from us,” said Casado on Esradio. “I am committed to this, and we will carry it through. The PP is back.”

The new PP leader wants to hold a special convention to review the party’s values and reaffirm its ideology. In an interview Casado recently said that “we have to be everything to the right of the Socialist Party (PSOE).”

Casado is taking over from Mariano Rajoy, the former prime minister who was recently ousted in a no-confidence vote

in Congress. The motion was headed by PSOE leader Pedro Sánchez, who became the new head of government on 1st June and said that he intends to serve out the remainder of the term until 2020.

But the PSOE will not be the only rival to beat at the next election. Voter intention polls have been showing eroding support for the PP, many of whose traditional supporters now say they prefer the younger liberal party Ciudadanos.

In his first speech as PP president, Casado talked about “a new contract with Spain,” and “unashamedly” defended conservative policies on “life and family.”

He defended going back to 1985 abortion legislation that made pregnancy termination illegal with very few exceptions. In 2010, a Socialist government introduced a new law allowing terminations on demand up to the 14th week of pregnancy, in line with many EU countries.

Casado also suggested adding stability to Spanish politics by incorporating elements of Greece’s electoral system, which gives bonus seats to the winner of an election. This, said Casado, would prevent situations where minority

governments have to rely on regional nationalists to push legislation through.

In a radio interview on Cope station, he said that he wants to send out an “unequivocal” message that the PP will battle the independence movement in Catalonia. One of Casado’s campaign proposals was to outlaw proindependence parties altogether to avoid future breakaway bids.

No extra points for women Casado also rejected the idea that being a female candidate should deserve special credit. Supporters of Santamaría, who served as deputy PM under Rajoy, had underscored this point during the campaign. “To deny that seeing a woman preside the party, and the government, would be an extraordinary achievement for our country, is to deny reality,” had said Borja Semper, the PP spokesman in the Basque parliament.

The rift displayed during the leadership battle highlighted the fact that the PP is no longer the monolithic bloc it once was.

Santamaría had party heavyweights among her backers, including Javier Arenas, a former minister and party leader in Andalusia. While Casado’s long-term goal is to catch up with Socialist PM Pedro

Sánchez in time for the 2020 elections, his immediate task will be to patch up internal divisions within the party.

The new party leader had served as chief of staff under former PM José María Aznar between 2009 and 2012, and as deputy communications secretary for Mariano Rajoy. He joined politics as president of the party’s youth group,

Nuevas Generaciones (New Generations).

In April of this year, Casado was involved in a scandal over educational achievements that brought down the regional premier of Madrid, Cristina Cifuentes. He is still being investigated in connection with a law degree he obtained from King Juan Carlos University.

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Spain has Europe’s most lax limits on alcohol consumption The difference between Spain’s recommended alcohol threshold and that of other European countries is raising eyebrows among health experts.

Spain’s Health Ministry recommends that men drink no more than four standard alcoholic drinks a day and women no more than two – twice what is recommended in France (two standard drinks for men and women) and four times the limit in the Netherlands (one drink each).

The limit for low-risk alcohol consumption is outlined in the ministry’s 2016 Health Promotion Strategy, which defines a standard drink as 10 grams of alcohol – around one beer or a glass of wine.

Interestingly, the difference between Spanish and European standards was revealed by British multinational alcoholic beverages company Diageo, which collected official data from countries across the world and brought it to a seminar it sponsored with the National Association of Health Informers (ANIS).

Antonio Luis Villarino, director of the Institute of Drug Addiction at the Complutense University of Madrid, highlighted the lack of consensus and how this could impact the public’s perception of what constitutes low-risk alcohol consumption.

“Of course we’re not going to recommend anyone to drink, but we want to be able to tell people who do drink what is the level that will do them the least harm,” he said.

The table includes data from 56 countries. No country tops Spain’s recommended limits for men, although some countries (such as Japan and South Korea) set the same amount.

Spain also has some of the laxest limits for women, beaten only by Malta and Belgium. While some countries (Spain, the United States, the United Kingdom, among others) set different limits for men and women, others like France, the Netherlands and Belgium, have the same cap. An interesting decision, says Villarino, given women “have different tolerance to alcohol, because they

typically weigh less, are shorter and have different distribution of fat and lower proportion of alcohol dehydrogenase enzymes,” that help the body to metabolise alcohol.

Establishing a common norm for what constitutes a standard drink is important to making any health recommendation. In Spain, for example, a standard drink is 10 grams of alcohol but this amount is much higher in the Philippines, Mexico and Macedonia.

This issue raises the question of how alcohol affects a person’s health and whether any amount of alcohol is healthy. A growing trend argues that the recommended consumption of alcohol should be zero. While there is consensus that pregnant women, minors, drivers and people with certain illness (such as people with psychiatric or heart problems) should not drink any alcohol, not everyone agrees this limit should be applied to the general population.

Life expectancy The main problem is that it is impossible to conduct a direct clinical trial, where one half of a group is encouraged to drink two glasses a day.

But there are multiple population studies that have linked life expectancy to drinking and smoking habits. British dietician and scientist Carrie Ruxton for instance looked at Seventh Adventist in the United States – a group often studied because of their refusal to smoke or drink – and found that the relationship between alcohol and mortality is “practically neutral in the beginning or even in favour of those who drink a little when compared with those who strictly abstain.” The curve

however jumps upwards “in a j-shape,” showing that alcohol is a clear cause of death.

An investigation by Angela Wood from the University of Cambridge also found that alcohol was linked to a higher mortality rate. The study, published in The Lancet, looked at 83 studies of nearly 600,000 people who consumed alcohol and found that “in current drinkers of alcohol in highincome countries, the threshold for lowest risk of all-cause mortality was about 100 grams per week.” In the case of people with cardiovascular disease however, “there were no clear risk thresholds below which lower alcohol consumption stopped being associated with lower disease risk.”

“These data support limits for alcohol consumption that are lower than those recommended in most current guidelines,” the study concluded.

While Wood’s study recommends a threshold below 100 grams a week, Spain’s limit is 280 grams for men and 170 for women. In Denmark, the limit is

168 grams for men and 84 for women, in Estonia, 160 grams and 80 grams respectively, and in New Zealand, 150 grams and 100 grams. Many countries do not have a weekly estimate but instead multiply the daily limit by seven, leading to numbers that far exceed the recommended threshold.

The debate over what is a healthy amount of alcohol is likely to continue with the World Health Organiz¡sation arguing there is no healthy threshold for alcohol consumption.

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When the meat touches the stone, it seals instantly trapping all the juices and flavours of the meat inside. The meat will not burn and the stone will remain hot throughout your meal, ensuring that your first bite will be just as succulent and mouthwatering as your last. For the most health conscious of you, this method of cooking is one of the healthiest around. No oils or fats are used, making it a guiltfree meal and allowing you to indulge in one of their delicious puddings to finish! Fresh local seafood, vegetarian dishes,

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Spanish scientists find new fault line in Alborán Sea A new fault line has been found in the Alborán Sea by members of Spain's High Council of Scientific Research (CSIC). As part of their ongoing marine geophysics studies on board the craft Hespérides in May 2016, the CSIC's data have finally been analysed and revealed a potential earthquake zone in the southeastern sea between the province of Almería and the Spanishowned enclave of Melilla on the northern Moroccan coast, close to the Algerian border.

The fault line lies along the point where the Eurasian and African tectonic plates meet in the westernmost point of the Mediterranean and is thought to continue as far as the shores of Morocco, following the arc of Gibraltar between the Iberian peninsula and Africa towards the west, and also northwards, affecting the Campo de Dalias region of the province of Almería.

Until now, the main fault line the CSIC was aware of was the AlIdrisi. However, after gathering information during the Hespérides explorations, the CSIC used geophysical instruments to test for the presence of a tectonic fault. They say very little visible deformity was noticeable on the sea bed, but that the fault had been responsible for earthquakes of 'relatively high magnitudes'.

These include the tremor on 25th January, 2016 just north of

Melilla which reached 6.3 on the Richter scale and was felt across Andalucía, as well as causing chunks to fall off buildings in the north African enclave.

It has also been found to have caused two other highmagnitude earthquakes a decade apart – the first, in 1994, reached 6.1 on the Richter scale and the second, at 6.3, hit the Al-Hoceima area of Morocco some 100 kilometres west of Melilla in 2004, causing over 600 deaths.

Quakes before and since, even where they were of a high magnitude, have mainly been out to sea and a long way down, reducing their severity and not resulting in deaths or mass devastation.

The research – the results of which have been published in the geology magazine Tectonics – involved significant input from the universities of Granada, Jaén, the Sorbonne in Paris, and three in Morocco, being the Mohammed V-Agdal in Rabat, the Abdelmalek Essaadi in Tetouan and the Mohammed Premier in Oudja, barely 10 kilometres from the Algerian border, together with the Spanish Institutes of Hydrography, Oceanography, Geology, and the Naval Observatory in San Fernando (Madrid).

Data from the National Geographical Institute (IGN) were used to trace the fault line based upon earthquake statistics.

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Common cancer myths debunked - Part 2

Myth 5: Cancer is a fungus – and sodium bicarbonate is the cure This ‘theory’ comes from the notvery-observant observation that “cancer is always white”.

One obvious problem with this idea – apart from the fact that cancer cells are clearly not fungal in origin – is that cancer isn’t always white. Some tumours are. But some aren’t. Ask any pathologist or cancer surgeon, or have a look on Google Image search (but maybe not after lunch…).

Proponents of this theory say that cancer is caused by infection by the fungus candida, and that tumours are actually the body’s attempt at protecting itself from this infection.

But there’s no evidence to show that this is true (and plenty of evidence – going back at least as far as 1902 – that it starts from faults in our own cells).

Furthermore, plenty of perfectly healthy people can be infected with candida – it’s part of the very normal array of microbes that live in (and on) all of us. Usually our immune system keeps candida in check, but infections can get more serious in people with compromised immune systems, such as those who are HIV-positive.

The ‘simple solution’ is apparently to inject tumours with baking soda (sodium bicarbonate). This isn’t even the treatment used to treat proven fungal infections, let alone cancer. On the contrary, there’s good evidence that high doses of sodium bicarbonate can lead to serious – even fatal – consequences.

Some studies suggest that sodium bicarbonate can affect cancers transplanted into mice or cells grown in the lab, by neutralising the acidity in the microenvironment immediately around a tumour. And researchers in the US are running a small clinical trial investigating whether sodium bicarbonate capsules can help to reduce cancer pain and to find the maximum dose that can be tolerated, rather than testing whether it has any effect on tumours. As far as experts are aware, there have been no published clinical trials of sodium bicarbonate as a treatment for cancer.

It’s also worth pointing out that it’s not clear whether it’s possible to give doses of sodium bicarbonate that can achieve any kind of meaningful effect

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Because the body strongly resists attempts to change its pH, usually by getting rid of bicarbonate through the kidneys, there’s a risk that doses large enough to significantly affect the pH around a tumour might cause a serious condition known as alkalosis.

One estimate suggests that a dose of around 12 grams of baking soda per day (based on a 65 kg adult) would only be able to counteract the acid produced by a tumour roughly one cubic millimetre in size. But doses of more than about 30 grams per day are likely to cause severe health problems – you do the maths.

Myth 6: There’s a miracle cancer cure…

From cannabis to coffee enemas, the internet is awash with videos and personal anecdotes about ‘natural’ ‘miracle’ cures for cancer.

But extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence – YouTube videos and Facebook posts are emphatically not scientific evidence and aren’t the same as good-quality, peerreviewed evidence.

In many cases it’s impossible to tell whether patients featured in such anecdotal sources have been ‘cured’ by any particular alternative treatment or not. We know nothing about their medical diagnosis, stage of disease or outlook, or even if they actually had cancer in the first place. For instance, we don’t know what other cancer treatments they had.

And we only hear about the success stories – what about the people who have tried it and have not survived? The dead can’t speak, and often people who make bold claims for ‘miracle’ cures only pick their best cases, without presenting the full picture.

Wikipedia has an excellent list of ineffective cancer treatments that are often touted as miracle cures, which is worth a browse.

If you want to know about the scientific evidence about cannabis, cannabinoids and cancer – a topic cancer experts often asked about – please take a look at the extensive blog

post on the subject on Cancer Research UK, including information about the clinical trials it’s helping to fund.

And if you’ve seen links to article about scientists in Canada “curing cancer but nobody notices”, these refer to an interesting but currently unproven drug called DCA. Myth 7: … and the big pharmaceuticals are suppressing it Hand in hand with the idea that there is a cornucopia of ‘miracle cures’ is the idea that governments, the pharmaceutical industry and even charities are colluding to hide the cure for cancer because they make so much money out of existing treatments.

Whatever the particular ‘cure’ being touted, the logic is usually the same: it’s readily available, cheap and can’t be patented, so the medical establishment is suppressing it in order to line its own pockets. But, as we’ve written before, there’s no conspiracy – sometimes it just doesn’t work.

There’s no doubt that the pharmaceutical industry has a number of issues with transparency and clinical trials that it needs to address (the book Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre is a handy primer). Regulators and pharmaceutical companies are pushed hard to make sure that effective drugs are made available at a fair price to the NHS – although it’s important to remember that developing and trialling new drugs costs a lot of money, which companies need to recoup.

Problems with conventional medicine don’t automatically prove that alternative ‘cures’ work. To use a metaphor, just because cars sometimes crash doesn’t mean that flying carpets are a viable transport option.

It simply doesn’t make sense that pharmaceutical companies would want to suppress a potential cure. Finding a highly effective therapy would guarantee huge worldwide sales.

And the argument that treatments can’t be patented doesn’t hold up.

Pharma companies are not stupid, and they are quick to jump on promising avenues for effective therapies. There are always ways to repackage and patent molecules, which would give them a return on the investment required to develop and test them in clinical trials (a cost that can run into many millions) if the treatment turns out to work.

It’s also worth pointing out that charities such as Cancer Research UK and government-funded scientists are free to investigate promising treatments without a profit motive. And it’s hard to understand why NHS doctors – who often prescribe generic, off-patent drugs – wouldn’t use cheap treatments if they’d been shown to be effective in clinical trials.

Finally, it’s worth remembering that we are all human – even politicians and Big Pharma executives – and cancer can affect anyone. People in pharmaceutical companies, governments, charities and the wider ‘medical establishment’ all can and do die of cancer too.

At Cancer Research UK for example, staff and volunteers have seen loved ones and colleagues go through cancer.

Many of them have survived. Many have not. To suggest that they are – collectively and individually – hiding ‘the cure’ is not only absurd, it’s offensive to the global community of dedicated scientists, to the staff and supporters of cancer research organisations such as Cancer Research UK and, most importantly, to cancer patients and their families.

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Police warn against charging mobiles in public USB ports The National Police have issued a warning about the dangers of using public USB ports to charge mobile 'phones.

The warning, published via the PolicĂ­a Nacional's official Twitter feed, alerts the public to the danger of having their information hacked when using a public charging point.

In the same way that connecting a mobile 'phone to a PC allows you to

access its memory, plugging a mobile 'phone into a public USB port allows others to access the information stored in it or pass on malware, for example.

In order to avoid problems of this type, the police recommend carrying an external battery pack with you as this can be re-charged at a public USB without any risk to your 'phone data.

Another option is to turn off the 'phone

completely before charging it at a public USB port, making it much harder for potential hackers to access your private information.

The third option is to carry a USB cable that only allows the device to be charged and does not allow any data transfer, as is the case with almost all USB cables sold with mobile 'phones these days.

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Infants must have measles vaccine to travel within EU All babies aged under one year of age must be vaccinated against measles if they are to travel within the European Union following an outbreak in infants that has been particularly widespread in the UK, France, Italy, Germany, Greece and Romania.

Normally in Spain, babies are given the so-called 'triple virus' vaccination – against measles, mumps and rubella – when they are exactly 12 months old, but Dr Francisco José Álvarez, secretary of the Vaccination Advisory Committee, part of the Spanish Paediatric Association (AEP), says parents planning to travel should do so earlier.

“Right now in Europe, we have a terrible measles epidemic which is affecting countries that tend to be popular destination countries for Spaniards going on family holidays,” Dr Álvarez explains.

The areas in question are also likely to be among common countries of origin of European expatriates living in Spain, who may wish to travel to see their families with their babies.

“If it is strictly necessary to travel to these countries with infants of under a year old but at least six months old, we recommend bringing the 'triple virus' vaccination forward,” Dr Álvarez says.

“But remember that it cannot be given until the infants are six months old.”

Many children get through the typical 'childhood diseases' with few problems, but in infants and toddlers, as well as in adults – especially the elderly and pregnant women – they can be very serious and even fatal, or at least leave behind permanent issues.

Measles is one of the most serious of all, and usually starts with a temperature,

rash and cough. It can go on to affect the respiratory system, causing laryngitis, bronchitis, bronchopneumonia and, in an estimated 6 percent of cases, pneumonia, all of which increase the risk of death or permanent damage.

In addition to the 'triple virus' vaccination, Dr Álvarez recommends parents travelling with children under three should arrange for other inoculations, especially if their destination is outside of Europe or the USA. Paediatricians will normally advise where to go – every region and most provinces have an International Vaccination Centre, although this may involve travelling some distance.

Appointments should be booked at least a month or two before going abroad.

Among vaccinations which are not included as routine for children or adults are Hepatitis A, and which is normally necessary for travel outside of Europe, the USA, Australia and east Asian countries like Japan and South Korea – at least in certain high-risk areas where food or water may be contaminated – and can be given to children from the age of one year old onwards.

For some countries, a typhoid vaccination is necessary or recommended, but this cannot be given to children under two.

Yellow fever vaccinations are strongly recommended for certain African countries, as well as Brazil when travelling outside of major cities,

and can be given from the age of nine months – in fact, some countries, mainly in Africa, require proof of vaccination at the border.

Reduce the risk Malaria tablets are normally strongly recommended for travel in rural parts of Africa and Latin America – travellers start to take them a few days before setting off and continue to take them a few days after returning, but children under two should not normally have them and a paediatrician's advice should be sought first for those aged two and over.

Parts of Japan and south-east Asia are high-risk areas for the so-called 'Japanese encephalitis', an inflammatory condition which affects the brain, and which can also be vaccinated against.

Dr Álvarez recommends parents do not take children under two to countries in the tropics in Latin America, Africa or Asia unless this is unavoidable, since several tropical diseases cannot be vaccinated against – one of these is dengue, transmitted by certain mosquitoes, for which the only prevention is DEET fly repellent, a substance not normally suitable for use on young children.

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Val via email asks: Hi Aunty. On my tower PC in the UK I used to login with a 4 digit PIN number instead of a password that was so much easier than remembering my long and complicated password that I have to use on my new laptop. Is this something simple enough for an old time to setup or will I need to take it in somewhere? I have an Acer laptop with Windows 10 Home.

Aunty Says: Hello Val. This is a really useful feature in Windows 10 and very easy to setup.

Click on the Start icon and type SETTINGS and press enter. From the windows that pops up click on the “Accounts” section and choose “Sign-in options” and the rest is fairly obvious (if any of you don’t already have a normal password setup then you will first need to add one) Joan via email asks: Hi Aunty. I have a Samsung tablet and I’m continually getting an error message “there is insufficient storage to install this app” but as far as I know I haven’t asked to install anything. I only have a few photos and I don’t use the tablet for much other than Facebook, a bit of chatting with Skype and browsing the web.

Aunty says: This app could be anything Joan and quite likely an update for one of your existing apps or an Android system update. A bit of housekeeping to remove any unused apps plus clearing out some cache will fix this but it can be very fiddly.

There are a couple of free apps that you can download that will save you hours of time but as you have no space you will need to free up a small amount of storage

to allow the cleanup app download. Go to “settings” and “App Manager” and look down the list for any apps that you no longer use and click on “Clear Data” and “Clear Cache”. Do this for a couple of apps and hopefully you will clear enough space to install the free Clean Master app from the Play Store. If you don’t already have an SD memory card then invest €15 in a 32GB card and use the Clean Master app to help move photos and apps from your tablet’s internal memory onto the SD card.

Mel via email asks: Hi Aunty, I have been happily using Skype for 3 years mainly for family in the UK without any problems but the last time I attempted to use Skype it would not connect. I have a Toshiba laptop with Windows 10. I have tried uninstalling and then reinstalling the Skype app but with same result. I tried it on my Galaxy tablet but still no joy. It

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Aunty Says: Hi Mel. If both your laptop and you tablet are having the same problems then I suspect the issue is either with your Internet provider or your Skype account.

Have you tried restarting your router and maybe test Skype on your laptop via an internet cafe connection? Another thing to try is the built-in Skype call test. If you don’t see it on your Skype screen then type the word Echo into the search box and you should get the option to call the free sound/test service. Certainly make sure you have the latest version of Skype and let me know how you get on.

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Alcohol Limits and Penalties It is often not realised that the maximum permitted alcohol limit in Spain is considerably lower than many other European countries, including the UK. It is also worth noting that these limits are precisely that, a maximum limit that is permitted. Alcohol affects people differently and the only real safe limit is zero.

That said, in Spain the maximum legally permitted alcohol limit is in general 0.25 mg/l (or 0.15 mg/l if you are a learner driver / professional drivers). If the amount of alcohol exceeds this limit, the driver will be heavily fined and lose several points from their licence.

In the event such amount of the breathalyzer exceeds 0.60 mg/l, the driver becomes subject to a criminal proceeding and will be arrested.

The Fines Professional / novice drivers 0,15-0,30mg/l - 500€ +4 points, from 0,30mg/l - 1000€+6 points Other drivers 0,25-0,50mg/l - 500€ + 4 points, from 0,50mg/l - 1000€+6 points

A blood test is only available when you have finished the alcohol test and you disagree with the result.

Refusal to co-operate is considered a criminal offence.

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Top 10 Tips for Driving in Spain It´s summer time once again and that means that the roads are busier with more people driving in areas a little unusual to them, and, in some cases, completely alien, and so, we thought we’d once again share our top 10 tips for driving in Spain, as advice to new visitors, and reminders to the more seasoned traveller.

1. In Spain we drive on the right. It might seem like an obvious thing to say but many people do forget. In fact, the law says we should drive as far to the right as possible, so don’t go hogging lanes. Also, remember, we go anticlockwise on roundabouts.

2. Speed limits are a maximum, not a target, and remember, they are kilometres per hour. Most signs are the same as in the UK but a blue square is a recommended maximum.

3. All vehicle occupants must wear a seatbelt. If there are only 2 seatbelts in the back, only 2 people can sit there.

Seatbelts must be worn properly too, not under the arm.

4. Children are not allowed to sit in

the front seat. In fact, it is children under 1.35 metres, irrespective of their age, who must sit in the back. They must also be in an approved restraint suitable for them. The only exception is when there aren’t any rear seats, like a sports car, or when the seats are already occupied by smaller children.

5. Spain has a much lower limit than many other countries. However, the best advice if you’re driving is don’t drink at all. The same applies to drugs, but if you’re on prescription medication be careful as these can sometimes affect your driving.

6. Never use your mobile when driving. That goes for any device actually. You are allowed to use your phone as a GPS sat nav, but you mustn’t touch it when you’re driving. Program it before you set off and stop in a safe, convenient and legal place if you have to change it.

7. Some traffic lights have filter arrows. If the light is red but the filter arrow pointing right is orange, you are allowed to turn right, just remember to

give way to traffic already on the main road.

8. When exiting a roundabout, always exit from the right-hand lane, irrespective of how many lanes there are. Unless signs or signals say otherwise.

9. Traffic police vehicles have blue lights illuminated all the time. If you see these blue lights it doesn’t mean pull over or stop. They use flashing red lights to stop you, or flashing white lights from the front.

10. If you get into difficulties or an emergency, dial 112 from any phone.

The operators speak many languages, including English, and are there to help.

One thing though, try to identify exactly where you are before you phone, as this will make it easier for help to find you.

Overall, enjoy your holiday is Spain, stay safe, drive carefully and remember these rules. For more detailed explanations, and many more, visit the website, n332.es

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Focus on Speed Ahead August is the summer month in which there are more road trips than any other, with a forecast of more than 45.7 million trips.

With the aim of ensuring the safety of travel, the DGT will carry out two special surveillance campaigns. The first of them against inappropriate speed: During the week of August 6 to 12, there will be an increase in checks on the compliance of speed limits. It will mainly focus on conventional roads, which is where the established limits are most violated and where more fatal incidents are registered.

The controls will be done from both the air and on the road, with fixed and mobile radars The second campaign will be monitoring the consumption of alcohol and drugs at the wheel. During the 13th, 14th and 15th of August, preventive controls will be increased, since they are days in which many towns celebrate their patron saint festivities.

Safer roads are the responsibility of everyone. Attitude, courtesy and respect are called on from all road users,

irrespective of the vehicle being driven, as attitude is the number one defence against road traffic incidents.

When on the road, respect the rules of maximum permitted speed, taking into account the road, vehicles and conditions, avoid distractions completely, such as mobile phone use and even music, driving requires 100% concentration.

Although there are established limits for alcohol, it is best to avoid it all together if you are going to drive, drugs should also be avoided, and you should check with your pharmacist or doctor if you are on prescribed drugs.

Vehicle maintenance is also a crucial element of road safety. Make sure your vehicle´s lights are clear and working, same with the windscreen, and that you have plenty of screen wash in the tank.

Check your tyres regularly for signs of wear and for any signs of damage.

If you are on a long journey, take a break every two hours or so, more often if you do feel tired and stop until you are refreshed enough to continue, irrespective of any delay you may incur.

All vehicle occupants must wear a seatbelt and children under 1.35m must be seated in the back, and in a seat suitable to them.

As well as respecting speed limits, also remember to respect the minimum distance between you and the vehicle in front. Invading this safety distance is aggressive, unacceptable and considered most serious, as it causes so many incidents.

Beware of sheltering animals During the hot summer days, animals, especially cats, may find shelter under parked cars.

Occasionally, they may find their way into the engine compartment or wheel arches. Always check your vehicle before

starting the engine and before driving off.

Making a noise can sometimes wake them, but be careful you don´t startle them so much they run into the road.

If you find an animal and are unable to move it, call for assistance.

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San Miguel Golf Society On a stifling hot day that would have caused Beau Geste to pull a sickie, 33 members and 3 guests trooped their way to Villamartin. It is actually pronounced “Beeyamarteen” but this is of no importance to those ex-pats who believe saying “cheeso” and “toasto” is displaying a fine command of the local language.

As per usual, greens and fairways were in excellent condition hence no excuses for a poor score. Well, okay, some of the tees resembled dried out bogs but other than that it was no surprise that scoring was on the high side. Bronze category winner, Norman Padmore, recorded a mammoth 41 points to win round 5 of the President’s Trophy. Silver winner, Alan McDonald, who makes Foghorn Leghorn seem a melancholic introvert, scored a magnificent 38 points. The Scot, euphemistically described as overnourished, has shed kilos in recent weeks and hopefully the sight of a lopsided buggy trundling the fairways – or more usually, the rough – may be a thing of the past.The day’s results, by category and in reverse order, were the following: Bronze: 3rd Kyrre Skarsmoen (36), 2nd Ian Parkinson (37), 3rd Norman Padmore (41)

Silver Category: 3rd Mike Greatorex (35), Bjorn Petterson (36), Alan McDonald (38) Gold Category: 3rd Robin Eastman (40 on CB), Tony Smale (40 on CB), 1st Eva Petterson (40) Nearest the pins went to Darren Hancock, Norman Cahill, Eva Petterson and Micky Roscoe.

Best guest prize was Russ Bond with a great 36.

John Osborne was the overall winner of the President’s Trophy, amassing 114 over the best 3 rounds of 5. The Trophy and round winners’ t-shirts were

sponsored by Moneycorp who also generously sponsored the nearest the pins and best guest prizes.

Brendan Toner won this week’s Abacus prize for the lowest number of points.

Our thanks to the staff at Villamartin for their contribution to the day. Thanks also to The Ale House in Villamartin Plaza for hosting our apres-golf presentation.

Keep up to date with all SMGS matters by logging on to our website www.smgs.org or simply give Tony Smale a call on 628227687. The next three games will be at La Finca, Roda and Vistabella.

XXI SAN JUAN BEACH RUGBY 7’S

The beach rugby season is with us again and on 4 August in San Juan is their annual beach rugby 7’s tournament with teams from all over the area playing, men’s and women’s teams.

These include the local teams from Alicante and also premiership teams like La Vila.

This is their 21st year of holding the tournament there by the Mediterranean Restaurant on San Juan beach.

So for a full day of rugby fun and lying on the beach watching rugby come down on 4 August.

Looking forward to seeing plenty of people down there and for more information contact Garry on 692 767 242 or for more information about rugby in the area come down to Zoco Market and have a chat on the rugby stand there.

EL RASO GOLF SOCIETY On Friday 27 July we played our last game of the season at Vistabella.

Twenty-seven players enjoyed the excellent conditions of the course, although the restriction of buggies on most of the front nine proved frustratingespecially in the blistering heatof the day. However, saying that, there were some exceptional scores recorded.

The final results were as follows: Best guest Terry O´Connel with a score of 31 pts. Par 3 holes nearest the pins were hole 2Glen Robertshole 7 Bev Fairhursthole 11Pete Gartside and

hole15 John Dodds. Best front and back nines: Malcolm Foskett 20 pts and Carin van der Kruijs 18 pts c/b. Third place went to Bob Shorley with 37 pts. Second place went to Steve Sayers with 39 pts.

First place and competition winner was John Dodds with a super 43 pts. (The Handicap Secretary will be reviewing your handicap, John!). The gnome, on this occasion, was presented to John Fairhurst, After the game we returned to the Olde 9th in Quesada for prize giving and refreshments and our thanks, once again, to Grant and his staff

La Finca Golf Society CD Torrevieja Schedule of pre-season matches Since starting their training programme on 23 July, the team, under the charge of Coach Manu Sánchez, now knows when their pre-season friendlies will take place, and against which teams. What lies ahead now is a month of hard work and intense training in order to get them into the best shape possible, both mentally and physically, for when they compete in the league at their highest level.

Below is the provisional calendar of friendly matches for this pre-season period for the CD Torrevieja team, which actually begins this Saturday 28 July in La Nucia.

• CF La Nucia – CD Torrevieja, Saturday, 28 July at 19:00, Estadio Camilo Cano (La Nucia)

ROCKETS GOLF SOCIETY For our July away day we went into Murcia to the picturesque course called Lo Romero. What a lovely well maintained course which is always a pleasure to play.

The Fairways, Greens and Bunkers were in pristine condition, but the greens were a tad slow with not being able to cut them too low due to the heat and agua. We all said we would return after some good scores were returned.

GOLD CATEGORY 1st with 38 Points D Downey, 2nd with

34 Points A Williams 3rd with 33 Points R Chambers SILVER CATEGORY 1ST with 36 points G Wild 2nd with 28 points Paul Mutter 3rd with 25 points K Hopkins NEAREST THE PINS HOLE 5 S Swift Hole 7 P Daggatt Hole 12 A Williams Hole 15 A Stenning Longest Drive D Baxter Best Guest D Baxter 31 Pts After the game we returned to our

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base The St James’s Gate pub for the presentation of prizes and a lovely meal thanks to Hughie and Laura, superbly cooked by the lovely kitchen staff. A big vote of thanks was applauded by all concerned. Next game is at Vistabella on Tuesday 14th August First tee 08.15am.

Be at the course by 07.45 Please. If anyone would like to join our most friendly Society or just play a game whilst on vacation give Rocket Ron a ring or email me sanmigron@gmail.com.

• Triangular Crevillente Deportivo – EDMF Churra y CD Torrevieja, Wednesday,1 August at 19:00, Estadio Montesico Blanco (San Miguel de Salinas) • CD Torrevieja – Yeclano Deportivo, Wednesday, 8 August at 19:00, Estadio Nelson Mandela (Torrevieja) • CD Torrevieja – UCAM Murcia B, Sunday, 19 August at 19:00, Estadio Nelson Mandela (Torrevieja) • UD Petrelense – CD Torrevieja, Tuesday, 21 August (Time to be confirmed), Estadio El Barxell (Petrel) The times and locations of these friendly matches might be changed by the coaching staff, sports management or others, giving prior notice of any changes that might have to be made.

Quesada Bowls Club No league bowls this week but Quesada travelled to Greenlands on Thursday morning for the 2nd of four matches in the Friendship Cup. Following Greenlands success last week it was Quesadas turn this week. In the scorching heat of the morning Quesada won 4-2 rinks and 116-90 shots. This means that Quesada are now 19 shots ahead after 2 matches.

Just a reminder that, open to visitors, our popular Saturday morning Chicken Drive is continuing during the summer months. Anyone interested in taking part, please report to The Club, Quesada at 9.45am for a 10am start. Bowls and shoes are available free of charge if required.

For more information about our club, please contact our membership secretary Joe Riley on 96 572 5787 or email joedriley@gmail.com. New bowlers are welcome and introductory coaching is available.

Mondays roll up stableford of the yellow blocks was won by Barry Roehrig with 38 points and a cut.

Nearest the pins were Nick Shaw (3), John Gould(6), Mike Stott (13) and Barry Roehrig (16).

On Wednesday we played a stableford competition, results were as follows; 4th, Brian Bevan (33), 3rd, Mick Elliot(34), 2nd Mike Stott (35) and 1st Shaun Locke (37).

Nearest the pins were Stuart Tosh (6) & Shaun Locke (16).

Saturday was one of the hottest days of the year we played La Finca to its full extent a stableford off the white blocks, with the course still in good condition.

Results were as follows; 4th Barry Roehrig (33), 3rd Eric Owens(34), 2nd Alex Duchart (34) and 1st Ole Dibbernwith the best count back score of 34 points.

Nearest the pins were Steve Ansell (3), No one (6) Brian Bevan (13) and ,no one (16).

No 2s today as some of the par 3s being over 200yds making it difficult even to hit the greens.

Best dressed golfer today was Will Hammond.

Back to The Corner Flag Bar afterwards for food and presentation thanks to Steve and his staff.

La Finca Golf Society meets every Monday, Wednesday and Saturdays at La Finca with first tee time around 09.-00 am.

Saturday is main competition day with various competitions which are Spanish Federated, to be eligible to play you need a handicap of 16 or less.

If you are interested or require more information give Barry a ring on 666694467 or 966731033.

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BY CHRIS DARWEN

n CHRIS DARWEN chris@costablancapeople.com

I think there must have been a Liverpool media session yesterday, or something, because boy are they everywhere today.

King Kloppo has had plenty to say in the last 24 hours, breaking his silence on Sergio Ramos, telling the world why he signed Allison (as if we don’t know, eh Loris?) and responding to Jose Mourinho.

Jurgen, either just answering a direct question about the UEFA Champions League Final or clearly still struggling with it, accused Sergio Ramos of tackling Mohamed Salah like a wrestler in Kyiv. He called the incident “ruthless and brutal” before reminding people that Karius did get concussed by a Ramos elbow too. It might be time, for both the press and Jurgen, to move on from Kyiv and just accept that like him or (like most of the world) loathe him, Ramos ended the evening lifting yet another Champions League trophy.

Kloppo went on the state, on the record, that paying a ridiculous

ABBEY ANGLING The 10th and final round of the Summer Series was fished on the River Segura at Murcia on the 24th July. The water is still very coloured, and there seems to be a lot of small fish showing.

Mick Hill fishing his trusty wafters with 17 fish to once again take the top position with 15.780kgs, second place was Ian Brown with 9.380kgs and coming in third was my self with 7.960kgs 1st Mick Hill with 15.780kgs fishing the feeder using chocolate wafters 2nd Ian Brown with 9.380kgs fishing the feeder using bread and corn 3rd Terry Screen with 7.960kgs fishing the feeder using pellet and wafters The overall winners of the Summer Series best 8 from 10 matches FIRST Bill Reade with 62points SECOND Lennie Bolton with 60points THIRD Ian Brown with 58points There are still some vacancies available for membership at the club All details are available on our new website abbeyangling.es or from me on 965328368

amount of money for a goalkeeper with one half-decent Serie A season behind him had nothing to do with how Loris Karius had played in the final. From that telling statement, shall we presume that Jurgen and decided he was cack earlier in the season but when faced with the dilemma of Karius or Mignolet decided the German was the lesser of two evils? Jurgen claimed, “had Allison been available and Karius hadn’t thrown the ball into the back of the net we would have still gone for him!” OK, he didn’t say exactly that but the sentiment was there.

If only, in that fateful night in Kyiv, Jurgen Klopp had been able to call on someone other than Adam Lallana to replace Mohamed Salah after Sergio Ramos had had his wicked way with the Egyptian goal machine. I am not blaming Lallana at all, he is a fine player. He just isn’t a like-for-like swap for the Whippet. Imagine a world where Daniel Sturridge was trusted enough by Klopp to be part of the

RODS & REELS Our 14th and last round of the Spring Series was fished at the El Bosquet Complex Section A on the 25th July.

Due to the lack of rain the water levels on the channels are down about 10 inches, it seems to be a good breeding season as there are hundreds of fry about.

It was an exceptionally good day for Danny Kerkhof catching 71 fish to weigh in top place with 55.310kgs, in second spot was Neil McBirnie with 28kgs and coming in third was Bill Reade with 26kgs 1st Danny Kerkhof with 55.310kgs fishing the pole using paste 2nd Neil McBirnie with 28kgs fishing the pole using pellet 3rd Bill Reade with 26kgs fishing the pole using pellet and paste Fishermen beware it seems that the law states that ground bait and keep nets can only be used in Bona Fida Competitions. As we believe a fisherman at the Embalsa de Argos has been fined 300 euro by the Police/Guardia and banned for a year.

We are awaiting confirmation of these rules from the Murcia Federation, and will advise further in due course.

squad. Imagine a world where Sturridge came on to the pitch knowing his body could get him through the next 70 or so minutes.

Imagine that world.

Well, that world might become reality because King Kloppo is giving serious consideration to taking Daniel Sturridge seriously this season. Still only 28, although playing with the body of a 38-yearold, Sturridge has impressed Jurgs in the US of A, meaning that he might not be ushered out the exit in return for a £20m cheque.

Sturridge has one year left on his Anfield deal so will probably be keen to take this chance but, realistically, he’ll be involved for the first five matches, get a calf strain that keeps him out for three months and end up on loan at Fulham in January.

Finally, and it won’t all be about Liverpool today, Klopp responded to Jose Mourinho‘s ‘surprise’ at Liverpool spending big money after their manager had been so opposed to extravagant transfer fees. Mourinho, needing to find something to talk about, suggested Liverpool have to win a trophy this season to justify the spend – probably completely forgetting how much he has spent since arriving in Manchester. Kloppo just flashed one of those smiles and said how happy he was that Jose was smiling.

James Milner has said that Liverpool players need to score more goals themselves to take the pressure of Mohamed Salah and the retired England midfielder is more than happy to keep taking all the penalties to help spread the load.

Back in Manchester with Jose, he really is not smiling that much.

Spending less than £100m does not a good summer maketh for Mr Grumpy and he is still scowling at Mr Ed in the hope that he might open up the chequebook a few more times.

Jose isn’t even bothered about doing proper scouting, oh no. If two players have had a decent World Cup then sod it, go for them.

Therefore, Ivan Perisic and Ante Rebic continue to be linked to Old Trafford for fees that would probably make your eyes water until you hear that Mourinho would still like to give Leicester City £60m for Harry Maguire – approximately

£1m for each inch of his forehead. If either, or indeed both, of Perisic and Rebic do arrive then Anthony Martial will be allowed to put his hand in the lucky dip bin and pull out his new destination.

Chelsea seem to believe that a year in South West London has somehow increased the value of Alvaro Morata and they have slapped a price tag of £62m on the Spaniard’s forehead, which is apt seeing as that is what he used to score most of his goals. Now, if only there was a club foolish enough to pay that kind of cash and, ideally, not be in the Premier League (sorry Everton, West Ham etc). Ah yes, AC Milan who overspent so much last season that UEFA pretended they would ban them from Europe. AC Milan, however, appear to be being a little bit more sensible and are unlikely to spend that much on a player that world force homegrown Cutrone out of the side. After all, they are not Chelsea.

West Ham United are still continuing their annual ruse of making it look like they have turned over a new leaf in the transfer market, being linked to more halfdecent players. Porto’s Moussa Mariga is the next striker that they would like to buy for a lot of money and then watch fail miserably. He may have scored 22 goals in Liga Nos last season, but that doesn’t mean Jack when you end up at the Athletics Stadium. The Hammers are also interested in Lille’s Kevin Malcuit who will probably end up scoring as many as Mariga despite playing at the other end of the pitch.

Oleksandr Zinchenko doesn’t want to leave Peppy G and Manchester City any time soon even with Premier League new boys Wolves clearly thinking he might be Portuguese or something. Nuno, or should I say Jorge Mendes, would love the Ukranian to move to Molineux but Oleksandr is having none of it.

Unai Emery is ready to put his arm around the shoulder of Mesut Ozil and give him some “normality” at Arsenal following the German’s decision to quit the national team, citing a lack of respect. Does Emery offering Ozil “normality” mean what I think it means? Surely the new Arsenal boss isn’t going to let Mesut just stroll about doing nothing and

contribute some pretty passes that often lead to goal scoring opportunities? Come on, Unai.

Arsene tried that. Play him at leftback or something, that would be fun.

I don’t like peddling complete rubbish in this column (honest I don’t) but I’ve just read something that suggests Newcastle United are about to part with some money in exchange for an actual footballer.

This cannot be correct, no? Fabian Schar of no-longer-in-La-Liga Deportivo La Coruna is available for €3m because, it says here, that is his relegation release clause. Ah, a bargain then.

Good work Newcastle, good work. Schar has 42 caps for Switzerland and hits a mean free-kick according to my specially-commissioned scouting report. (OK, I checked him on Football Manager 2018). That means Newcastle will have secured that ‘keeper they had on loan last season, Kenedy once again from Chelsea (on loan, naturally) and Ki from Swansea who I think, shockingly, might have been a free transfer. Sometimes I do wonder what Rafa’s problem is.

Other transfers were confirmed this week, oh yes. If you were one of the five people to read my rubbish during the week you will recall me listing all the potential ins and outs at Stamford Bridge as Maurizio Sarri gets his feet under the table. One name that was, I know, sack my researcher, not on the list was Rob Green. Yes, Rob ‘don’t mention World Cup 2010’ Green. No, he has not retired though you could be forgiven for thinking so. He has signed for Chelsea. Chelsea! Is Willy Caballero that bad? Yes, yes he is!

Aston Villa have, probably rightly, assumed that there is no way Bobby Martinez could have got Belgium to 3rd place in the FIFA World Cup 2018 himself so the only logical conclusion is that Thierry Henry is a managerial-genius-in-waiting.

Therefore, they are prepared to bin off Steve Bruce, massively experienced at getting teams out of the Championship, and bring in Thierry Henry, massively experienced at not being a manager. It’s nice to see Villa’s new investment being spent wisely on severance.

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