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Troika package is finally on its way Government ‘now ready’ to put together 2013 budget for House

By George Psyllides

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HE government yesterday completed its proposals to international lenders - the troika who will now be invited to Cyprus for negotiations with a view to coming to an agreement on a bailout package

by November 12.

“In a short while, we will send the troika the complete proposals of the government and invite it to Cyprus to negotiate the support package to the Republic,” government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou told reporters last night.

The announcement was made after President Demetris Christofias met union leaders in the last of a series of meetings the government held with unions, parties, employers and the Central Bank governor.

Stefanou said that the government had worked intensively so that Cyprus can achieve a support package that safeguards workers’ rights, protects vulnerable groups and gives economic prospects, Stefanou said.

The government proposals do not include scrapping the 13th salary or CoLA, the wage indexation system, which will be reformed.

The government proposes staggered cuts in the public payroll ranging from 6.5 per cent to 12.5 per cent and there is no mention of selling profitable semi-state companies.

The proposals are in response to recommendations made by the troika on July 25.

The troika has proposed salary cuts in a public service workforce which is one of the highest paid in the eurozone, pension reform, privatisations and the creation of a “bad bank” which will assume problem debt in the financial system.

“The package will have a cost,” Stefanou warned. “But our effort all this time was to draft a package of measures that would make it bearable, so that we will be able, with everyone’s contribution, to overcome the difficulties we face at this time.”

Cyprus must meet a November 12 deadline or face the possibility of running out of cash.

After November 12, the next meeting of the Eurogroup, it will take the parliaments of individual eurozone nations about six weeks to sanction the Cyprus memorandum.

The spokesman said there was enough time to negotiate and strike a deal before the deadline.

“We want to negotiate with honesty and determination to achieve the best possible result; close a deal with the troika as soon as possible,” Stefanou said.

Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said the government was now ready to put together the 2013 budget and submit it to parliament soon.

The minister said the budget will include the measures prepared by the government and if necessary amend it accordingly depending on the negotiations with the troika.

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‘SICKENED’ UCI STRIPS ARMSTRONG OF TOUR DE FRANCE WINS

By Julien Pretot LANCE Armstrong was stripped of his seven Tour de France titles and banned for life yesterday after the International Cycling Union (UCI) ratified the United States AntiDoping Agency’s (USADA) sanctions against the American.

The long-awaited decision has left cycling facing its “greatest crisis” according to UCI president Pat McQuaid and has destroyed Armstrong’s last hope of clearing his name.

“Lance Armstrong has no place in cycling. Lance Armstrong deserves to be forgotten in cycling,” McQuaid told a news conference as he outlined how cycling, long battered by doping problems for decades, would have to start all over again.

“The UCI wishes to begin that journey on that path forward today by confirming that it will not appeal to the Court of Arbitration for Sport and that it will recognise the sanction that USADA has imposed.

“I was sickened by what I read in the USADA report.”

On October 10, USADA published a report into Armstrong which alleged the now-retired rider had been involved in the “most sophisticated, professionalised and successful doping programme that sport has ever seen”.

Armstrong, 41, had previously elected not to contest USADA charges, prompting USADA to propose his punishment pending confirmation from cycling’s world governing body.

Former Armstrong team mates at his US Postal and Discovery Channel outfits, where he won his seven successive Tour titles from 1999 to 2005,

Not so magnificent seven: Lance Armstrong’s wins have been erased from the Tour de France record books in a case that has shocked millions around the world

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THE NATIONAL Guard could have completed a controlled destruction of the munitions stored in containers at Mari naval base “by the summer of 2011”, a prosecution witness said in the ongoing trial yesterday.

Lt colonel Nikos Georgiades, an officer in the Ordnance Corps, told the court of a meeting held at the Defence Ministry on February 7, 2011, where he warned politicians of the risk of keeping the munitions in containers for an extended period of time.

At the meeting, Georgiades told the others the gunpowder stabiliser would deteriorate over time due to its exposure to high temperatures and humid-

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He said the containers were designated only for transporting the munitions and not as vessels for long-term storage.

Asked by Foreign Minister Marcos Kyprianou at that meeting how long it would take to check the status of the gunpowder stabiliser, Georgiades said two to three months, but expressed the opinion there was ample time then to destroy the munitions.

Although the controlled destruction of the cargo was one of the ideas floated, Georgiades said, no concrete action was ever taken in that regard. He said that he himself contacted two privatelyowned companies in Greece to whom he wanted to send samples of the munitions, but the companies declined to undertake the project.

He next considered transporting samples to Greece aboard a C130 military aircraft.

Georgiades’ testimony raised eyebrows when he said that at the same meeting Defence Minister Costas Papacostas - a defendant in the trial - told Foreign Minister Kyprianou, also a defendant: “Marcos, you saddled us [with the cargo] and now you’re pulling back. I can’t see anything happening.”

The witness claimed also that Kyprianou told the others that “by going to the United Nations twice, we are [were] buying ourselves some time”.

Under cross-examination, however, Georgiades conceded that he never included this latter comment by Kyprianou in his deposition to police in the wake of the blast.

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Lucky escape for registrar officials as ceiling falls over weekend MONDAY MORNINGS can be pretty depressing for a lot of the workforce but for employees at the Registrar of Companies going to work yesterday, the sky literally nearly fell on their heads.

Workers turned up to the registrar in a seven-floor building on Makarios Avenue in Nicosia yesterday morning to discover that the false ceiling in one office on the fifth floor had collapsed (pictured above).

Head of the Registrar of Companies and Official Receiver Spyros Kokkinos told the Cyprus Mail that it was “lucky” the false ceiling fell at the weekend and not on a week day.

No injuries were reported as the four employees normally

working in that office were not there.

Kokkinos ordered all employees out of their offices, sending them to continue their work from the ground floor of the building as a precautionary measure. The building’s owner brought in an architect to look into the cause of the collapse.

The architect noted two contributing factors: the weight of the curtain rails attached to the ceiling, and the condition of the actual wires holding up the false ceiling which is hung below the main structure.

A crew which started work yesterday is due to complete an examination of all such ceilings in the building today.

Objections as Kucuk re-elected leader of UBP IRSEN KUCUK was re-elected leader of the National Unity Party (UBP) in the north over the weekend, according to Turkish Cypriot press yesterday.

Kucuk, who serves as ‘prime minister’ of the breakaway regime won 14 votes more than his main opponent Ahmet Kasif.

According to the press, 1,402 UBP members voted at the party’s congress, recording 704 votes for Kucuk, 690 for Kasif and 8 votes deemed invalid.

Yesterday’s Kibris wrote that Kasif is challenging the outcome, claiming that the UBP charter stipulates the winner must receive 50 per cent of the vote plus one from the 1,427 registered UBP members to be elected chairman.

However, the UBP congress presidency committee declared Kucuk as the new UBP chairman on the basis that

he received the most votes from those who cast their vote.

Kasif also criticised Turkey’s alleged interference in the lead-up to the election at the party congress, accusing Turkey of providing direct support for Kucuk’s candidacy.

Turkish Cypriot daily Yeni Duzen reported on Sunday that Ankara’s interference was clear and open. The paper said members of Turkey’s ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) arrived secretly in the north in order to influence UBP members to vote in favour of Kucuk, including Besir Atalay, the Turkish Deputy Prime Minister responsible for Cyprus Affairs.

Apart from facing allegations of being teacher’s pet, Kucuk has also endured increasingly strained relations with Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu, a former UBP head.

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AKEL insists there’s no link to company debt write-off

By Elias Hazou

Makaria-Andri Stylianou

Election first: candidate comes clean on finances INDEPENDENT presidential candidate MakariaAndri Stylianou yesterday made public her income and financial assets ahead of elections next February.

“Each citizen seeking public office has a moral obligation to go through a public check, before and after taking up any post,” Stylianou’s spokesman, Agis Panaretou, announced yesterday.

He said this was why Stylianou’s financial assets were being announced publicly. “Steadfast in our principles and statements, especially on the declaration of interests, we are doing what no political candidate has ever dared to do,” said Panaretou.

Stylianou has served in the education sector for 25 years and she is currently assistant head at a primary school, with a clear monthly income of €2,964.90. After her mortgage and other loan instalments are paid to the School Teachers’ Co-operative Bank, she is left with €1,224.76, on top of benefits she receives as a single parent to a large family.

She also receives €441 a month in alimony. She owns half the mortgaged flat she is currently living in and drives a Mazda Capella.

It is yet unclear if the other presidential candidates DISY’s Nicos Anastasiades, AKEL’s Stavros Malas and EDEK-backed Giorgos Lillikas - plan to follow Stylianou’s lead.

AKEL officials said yesterday their party has “no relation whatsoever” to Delta Trading Ltd, the company whose debt of €6.5 m was written off by the Bank of Cyprus back in 2006.

The company’s list of shareholders comprises persons who are all either members of AKEL or affiliated to it.

Despite being made aware of this, the ruling party insists it has no connection to the company. AKEL MP Stavros Evagorou declined comment yesterday except to say: “The party as such has no relation whatsoever to the company in question.”

“This has nothing to do with the party,” he added.

But documents seen by the Mail show that the company’s shareholders included: the Printco company, with known affiliations to AKEL; Antonis Papanicolaou (director of Delta Trading before it was dissolved); Doros Christodoulides, a former AKEL MP in the Larnaca district; Costas Manoras (an AKEL employee and a member of President Christofias’ personal bodyguard) and a number of other top-ranking AKEL supporters and officials.

As reported by the Sunday Mail last week, on September 5, 2006, a gentlemen’s agreement was made between

‘How many other companies’ debts have been forgiven?’ then Bank of Cyprus manager (now finance minister) Vassos Shiarly, on behalf of the bank and Antonis Papanicolaou, director of Delta Trading Ltd, and AKEL secretariat member in charge of economic affairs, Venizelos Zanettou, whereby the assets of Delta Trading Ltd were transferred to Delta (Distributors) Ltd. It also provided for the forced sale of a plot of land (owned by Delta Trading) in Limassol, the writing off of €6.5m owed to the bank and the subsequent removal of all personal guarantors from the loan agreement.

The stock was transferred to the new company Delta (Distributors) Ltd of which Papanicolaou was later the sole owner.

The plot of land, that was part of the agreement, was valued at £400,000 and it was agreed that from the sale, part would be used to pay the capital gains tax of this and other sales of land, and the rest would go against the debt of Delta Trading towards the Bank of Cyprus.

Separate documents show the bank loan was written off piecemeal, with a

top executive signing off on the last two phases of the write-off.

Bank of Cyprus sources said yesterday the bank “has no comment at this time, in line with a standing policy of not commenting on leaks to the press”.

It is the second time that reports have surfaced about the Bank of Cyprus writing off debts held by companies controlled or affiliated by AKEL. Back in August daily Politis revealed that the Bank of Cyprus had written off a debt of €2.7m owed by another AKEL-controlled company, Tamasos Enterprises Ltd. AKEL has always argued that as a party it has no connection with companies and businesses in general.

Strictly speaking this is correct, as political parties are not legal entities and as such cannot be shareholders in companies. But the who’s who in Delta Trading logically leads to the conclusion that the party is in fact behind the company.

Another question is why Zanettou, as a member of AKEL’s secretariat in charge of economic affairs, would be

involved in initialing the agreement to dissolve Delta Trading, given that on the face of it Zanettou has no relation whatsoever with the company, in any capacity.

Zanettou, a powerful figure within AKEL, is known as the go-to guy for the business affairs of the party.

Delta Trading was set up in 1965 and was part of a network of AKELcontrolled companies that had business dealings with the former Soviet Union. It began getting into hot water following the demise of the regimes in the Eastern Bloc.

Asked to comment on these reports, former minister Costas Themistocleous said they represent a classic case of “political-economic collusion”.

“Let’s put it this way: do you think the debts would have been written off if these companies had no relation to political parties, in this case AKEL?” And AKEL’s denials of any link to the companies was tantamount to “burying one’s head in the sand,” he added.

“It’s fairly easy to guess what happened. These people were not really shareholders, they were placed there by the party, so when the company went bust, AKEL must have cut a deal to spare them from going to jail.”

The real question, Themistocleous says, is how many other companies’ debts have been “forgiven” by banks.

Radiomarathon, Warning over no. 23 kicks off levels of dust

Children take part in the festivities at CyBC yesterday

(Christos Theodorides)

THE 23rd Radiomarathon for children with special needs, the biggest fundraising charity drive on the island, kicked off early yesterday morning with the motto “Only Love Can”.

Organised by CyBC and the Popular Bank, the Radiomarathon is held annually with events taking place across the island.

A total of 39 kiosks are operating in all major towns collecting cash donations, supplemented by 14 touring ‘piggy-bank’ cars.

A gathering was held at CyBC yesterday afternoon with music and theatrical shows while later yesterday the gardens of the Presidential Palace were open for a children’s party. The charity event concludes midnight tonight.

WITH increased levels of dust in the air yesterday, the labour inspection department issued recommendations for vulnerable members of the public.

According to the department, at 11am yesterday, the average hourly concentration of respirable particulate matter with particles 10 microns or less in diameter (PM10), were increased and ranged between 78 and 660 micrograms per cubic metre.

“Due to the small size of the respirable particulate matter and the possible negative effect it might have on human health, the public - and especially the vulnerable sectors of the public, such as children, the elderly and patients - are being urged to avoid being out in the open until levels have subsided,” said the department.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Grenades thrown at OPAP shops THE OUTLETS of the Greek-owned betting company OPAP became the targets of criminal attacks again in two separate incidents on Sunday.

A member of the public who works next door to an OPAP betting shop in Lakatamia notified police when he saw a hand grenade outside the OPAP shop on Sunday morning.

The grenade was likely thrown during the night, without exploding. Police immediately rushed to the scene to defuse it.

A few hours earlier, a hand grenade was thrown on to an OPAP betting shop in the Archangelos area of Nicosia, which exploded this time, causing damage to the shop’s windows.

Similar attacks against OPAP outlets have been recorded ever since it transpired that the Greek betting company would be exempt from a new law banning online casino games.

Citing a bilateral agreement between Cyprus and Greece in 1969 setting up OPAP’s operation on the island, lawmakers allowed the Greek state gaming company to continue to offer random number games.

Turkey cancels military exercises THE TURKISH military exercise ‘Toros’ held in the occupied areas has been cancelled this year, following a decision last week by the Cyprus Republic to cancel its annual Nikiforos exercise.

The spokesman for Turkish Cypriot leader Dervis Eroglu released a statement on Saturday saying that the joint exercise held by Turkey and Turkish Cypriot forces will not be held this year, in line with a call by the UN Secretary-General to the two sides in Cyprus to build confidence and trust.

Christofias: objective analysis would blame banks for the economic crisis

By George Psyllides PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias has once more denied his administration bore any responsibility for the woes of the economy, laying the blame at the feet of bankers and the capitalist system in general.

Speaking before the Association of Cypriot Pensioners on Sunday, Christofias said there must be a proper and objective analysis of the causes of the crisis plaguing the globe.

“Some people want to keep their eyes closed and even blame Christofias and our government for the global crisis,” he said.

The president said Cyprus was af-

fected as an EU member “and we are paying the price as are Greece, Spain, Portugal, Italy and other huge countries with much richer infrastructure than us; with heavy industry that we do not have. We have services. Consequently, our crisis is basically imported.”

Christofias said his was the only administration to ever tackle the economy’s structural problems and seek to cut the number of public sector workers.

He reiterated that the Cypriot economy’s big problem were the banks.

Christofias blamed former central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides for not doing his job.

“No one else had the authority to

check, to supervise the banks, and when we uttered a word they charged us with interfering with the authority of the independent official, the central bank governor,” Christofias said. “You remember how much conflict there was between the government and the official responsible for supervising the banks – the central bank governor.”

Christofias, who has appointed two bankers as finance ministers during his presidency, said people were being brain-washed into thinking that what the island was going through was because of the government.

“You know very well that the bank debt effectively came about from a profiteering mania and wrong actions,” Christofias said.

He accused the banks of buying the Greek bonds that Germany was selling at the height of the crisis, saying that his government did not know.

“The government had no idea. But the central bank governor knew.”

And he complained that the good things his government did were not reported.

Christofias said it was his administration that secured a better life for pensioners.

“You know it first hand. When we raised low pensions and when we established the Easter allowance, those who supposedly care for the workers today were telling us that we were wasting the previous government’s money,” he said.

Debt sustainable ‘even if 60% of GDP borrowed’ CB governor: banks need direct access to European Stability Mechanism

By George Psyllides CYPRUS’ public debt will remain sustainable even if it borrowed 60 per cent of its GDP as part of an international bailout, Central Bank Governor Panicos Demetriades said yesterday, as he argued that the island’s banks should be directly recapitalised from the EU’s permanent fund.

“Some, including the ratings agencies, have suggested that, as a result of the European Financial Stability Facility (EFSF) loan, Cyprus’ public debt may rise to levels that raise concerns about its sustainability,” Demetriades told the Association of International Banks Cyprus.

“Others have suggested we should not capitalise banks fully in order to allay such concerns. Both views are not well founded.”

Cyprus sought a bailout back in June due to the losses suffered by its two largest banks in the Greek debt write-down.

Bank of Cyprus and Popular, have also seen their Greek loan portfolios deteriorate significantly and would also need extra cash to cover

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the losses arising from their Greek operations.

Ratings agencies have warned the island risks taking on too much debt to bail out its banks.

“Thus, by Cypriot banks receiving capital support directly from the ESM (European Stability Mechanism), not only is the stability of the domestic financial system safeguarded but financial stability in the EU is enhanced as well,” Demetriades said.

Demetriades is the second Cypriot official in less than a week to highlight the need for the island’s banks to have direct access to the ESM. The combined loss from the Greek write-down forced on private-sector lenders and sanctioned by EU leaders was equivalent to 25 per cent of Cyprus’ €17 billion GDP. German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday said banks could not be retroactively recapitalised via the ESM. Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly told reporters on Friday that direct access would be a “firm demand” in upcoming discussions with international lenders.

Demetriades said direct recapitalisation of Cyprus’ banks from the ESM will be possible when this facility becomes available - when the Single Supervisory Mechanism is in place, which may be as late as 1 January 2014.

“That, however, does not prevent replacing part of the EFSF loan with a direct capi-

tal injection into the banks from the ESM,” he said. “Such an act can easily reduce the public debt to a level below 100 per cent of GDP, alleviating if not removing altogether concerns about debt sustainability.”

His reference to a loan amounting to 60 per cent of Cyprus’ GDP, or about €10 billion, is often given as a figure for Cyprus’ bailout requirements.

Demetriades said authorities had no way of knowing the true requirements until an asset-quality review of the banking system was completed.

The island’s top banker also argued against those suggesting not capitalising the banks in full.

“Strengthening the capital position of banks by increasing their capital levels should be seen as the best way to restore confidence in the banking sector and hence create the foundation for future economic growth,” he said.

“In my opinion, the sooner we proceed with bank recapitalisation and raising capital ratios to the levels that apply internationally the better chance we stand to fix banking problems in a timely and effective manner, boost confidence and make a fresh start going forward.”

Lenders want Cypriot banks to raise their Core Tier 1 capital from 8.0 to 10 per cent in 2013, something that will increase the island’s bailout.

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Panicos Demetriades: looking for a fresh start

EU research grant for CING A MAJOR competitive EU research grant worth €11 million has been obtained by the research team of Professor Philippos Patsalis of the Cyprus Institute of Neurology and Genetics, and NIPD Genetics.

According to a statement, the FP7 European research grant is a joint effort to combine the biological science and microsystem engineering to develop a novel machine the size of a printer, which will function as a complete laboratory, technology known as lab-on-a-chip.

The machine, which is called ANGELab, will carry out noninvasive prenatal diagnosis of Down Syndrome and other genetic disorders. In this effort, scientists from Spain, Germany, France, England and Cyprus will work together.

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Government’s response to lenders finally on its way Unions seek further changes, but Christofias warns there’s little room for manoeuvre (Continued from front page) However, DISY’s deputy president, Averof Neophytou, yesterday disagreed.

“For the measures to come to parliament there needs to be an agreement with the troika,” Neophytou told the Cyprus Mail. “In the end we will be left without a budget.”

The trade unions were yesterday offered some assurances in their meeting with Christofias - such as the government’s intention not to scrap CoLA - but were warned there was little margin for changes in the troika’s demand for scaled wage cuts in the public sector.

According to state broadcaster CyBC’s sources last night, some changes were made to the government’s proposals in the meeting, but not to a great degree.

Christofias promised unionists he would create a special committee to handle the pensions matter, together with the unions, over the next two months.

He told the unions that there was little room to manoeuvre over the scaled pay cuts, but said the reductions would be considered as contributions, not cuts, so public servants’ pensions are not affected.

Unions claimed the new measures were unfair for new public sector recruits, as they would not see pay rises

for years. Christofias said he would try to negotiate this with the troika.

Christofias assured public workers that the cost of living allowance (CoLA) would not be scrapped, but reformed.

For their part, the unions asked for tough negotiations with the troika, especially regarding workers’ 13th salaries, CoLA and their pensions.

They also voiced concern that after the memorandum was signed for the bailout, the troika may return seeking another austerity package.

Meanwhile, a proposal by SEK for the government to supply €30 million to support employment, especially among youths, was viewed positively by the president, who said there should be no problem in releasing the funds, once the bailout has been agreed.

Earlier yesterday, opposition leader and presidential candidate Nicos Anastassiades called on the government to get serious and stop dragging its feet.

“If we continue to delay thinking we are the ones playing with time … the results will be tragic for the country,” he said. “We cannot go on thinking we will either impose the conditions or the time.”

Responding to comments made by Christofias on Sunday in which he accused the

President Christofias meeting with union chiefs yesterday as the counter proposals to the troika were finalised banks of bearing the responsibility for the island’s economic problems, EDEK said it was sad for the president to engage in attacks against everyone instead of working on achieving the loan agreement before November 12.

Ruling AKEL chief Andros Kyprianou said Cyprus must act fast to meet the November 12 deadline and possibly be dealt with along with Spain and Greece.

“The finance ministry insists that we can make it within the set timeframe,” Kyprianou said. “We must move fast so that we make sure the Cypriot economy will be judged with the Spanish and Greek economies.”

Police chief and union head get ready to battle it out in court

By Stefanos Evripidou THE ONGOING battle between police chief Michalis Papageorgiou and head of the police association (SAK) Andreas Symeou is about to take a legal route after the unionisthopeful announced plans to sue.

In an interview with daily Alithia yesterday, Symeou said the police association has hired a lawyer who will look into the prospect of filing individual lawsuits against Papageorgiou for his failure to recognise SAK as a union.

The lawyer will begin work next Thursday, though the final decision to file cases rests with SAK’s general assembly, added Symeou.

Speaking to the paper, Symeou bemoaned the fact that the police chief does not recognise Symeou’s authority as the elected head of the union that represents some 6,000 members of the force.

He also called on Papageorgiou to consult with SAK on a number of issues affecting police officers before taking decisions.

The union head said that members of SAK planned to protest again outside police headquarters next week if the police chief remains steadfast to his position.

Meanwhile, Papageorgiou told the paper:

“Symeou is illegal based on the Attorneygeneral’s opinion since in the recent elections he did not secure an absolute majority.

The police chief cannot recognise or accept someone who is illegal.”

The police chief said he sent a letter to all members of the force informing them of the AG’s opinion regarding the SAK head.

The two men have had a history of clashes.

Symeou has become SAK’s figurehead in the ongoing struggle with Papageorgiou on a range of issues including the police chief’s decision to introduce the eight-hour shift for traffic police in 2010 and SAK’s move to join the civil servants’ union PASYDY. Papageorgiou opposed the latter move while Symeou strongly supported a unionised police.

Tension escalated after Symeou received a 30-day suspension on April 11, 2011, for alleged inappropriate behaviour towards the chief of police when he insisted on discussing his criminal charges during a Limassol headquarters inspection.

A number of protests in support of Symeou have already been staged. Symeou’s criminal charges are related to the alleged “inhuman and degrading treatment” of individuals during trouble at a football match in October 2010.

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Home Injuries in latest football violence SUNDAY’S MATCH between Anorthosis and Omonia in Larnaca on Sunday saw more football violence, injuries, damage to property and arrests.

According to police, trouble reared its head before the game even started at the Antonis Papadopoulos stadium in the coastal town.

At around 4pm, hooded football fans attacked a police car patrolling Papanicolis Avenue, causing extensive damage to the car’s windows.

Speaking to reporters yesterday, Larnaca police chief Christos Andreou said around an hour after the police car had been attacked, a group of Omonia fans approached one of the stands in the stadium holding lit flares in their hands. The rapid reaction unit (MMAD) intervened, resulting in the arrest of a 19-year-old youth, caught in possession of two flares.

The post-match climate was marred by more violence resulting in the arrest of three more people, aged 22, 19 and 20. The three were arrested in connection with numerous charges, including causing damage to vehicles, assaulting a police officer, resisting arrest, and throwing stones at other fans.

Party on Karpasia beach Massive beach festival planned for Karpasia likely to stoke tension

By Stefanos Evripidou THE LARGEST music festival to ever hit the island is expected to take over the tranquil area of the Karpas peninsular next summer, according to a Turkish Cypriot press report.

The weekly English-language paper Cyprus Today has reported that festival organisers plan to attract between 50,000 and 80,000 people to the ‘Golden Beach’ in the occupied north next September for a three-day music festival.

The area is known for its natural beauty and long lines of sand dunes stretching over 3km leading up to Apostolos Andreas monastery.

Organisers of the planned event, titled the Silk Route Festival, say that veteran music agent and manager Peter Jenner and Norwegian lawyer Stein Fossner will team up to bring thousands of festival goers from Scandinavia, the UK and Eastern Europe to the idyllic spot also popular with turtles looking for somewhere to hatch.

According to the paper, Jenner is the man who dis-

The Golden Beach in Karpasia where the island’s largest ever beach festival is planned covered Pink Floyd and organised the historic Hyde Park free concerts in the late 1960s.

Sophia Kristensson, a Swedish national working for the company Silk Route Entertainments in the north was quoted saying: “We are really excited, and anticipate 60 per cent of the audience will be from Cyprus and the surrounding region. The re-

maining 40 per cent will come from Europe.”

The festival is set to start on September 27, 2013, with ticket prices already available, ranging from £85 to £999 sterling.

The stretch of sand between the Big Sand Beach Restaurant and Burhan’s Golden Beach has been earmarked for the festival.

No infrastructure is to be

set up on the beach itself, but four stages on wooden decking - Main, Urban, Beach and Dance - are planned, along with bars and DJs on the narrow road leading up to the site.

Organisers have yet to announce the festival line-up, though they hope to feature top international musicians “to appeal to several generations” and a mixture of West-

ern and Eastern pop music in the spirit of the Silk Route, a trade route which linked the East and the West.

The issue of internationally renowned musicians performing in the north has often become a source of friction between the two communities.

The Cyprus foreign ministry is known to intervene in such circumstances by informing artists that they are gaining profit from an illegal entity, which will likely exploit their presence for propaganda purposes. They also argue that the artists will most likely be performing on property that was stolen from Greek Cypriot refugees in 1974 which remains occupied to this day.

For their part, Turkish Cypriots complain that the Greek Cypriot-run government of Cyprus is imposing a cultural blockade, arguing that music should know no boundaries.

This latest event might serve to bring certain sections of the two communities closer however. Environmentalists on both side of the divide view the intended location as one of Cyprus’ last sites of natural beauty, along with the Akamas.

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Britain

BBC editor quits over Savile furore

BRITAIN TODAY Call for lower airport taxes THE public want lower airport taxes and companies desire more Government support for aviation, according to a survey out yesterday.

As many as 82 per cent of the public want the Air Passenger Duty (APD) airport departure tax cut or frozen by Chancellor George Osborne.

And more than three in four businesses believe it is more important than ever that the Government supports the aviation industry to help deliver its growth and jobs agenda.

The polls were commissioned by the Airport Operators Association (AOA) as it launched its own integrated policy for UK aviation “to address Government’s failure to do so�.

The AOA’s policy paper sets out 25 key recommendations to Government which would boost aviation and help bring about more jobs, business and economic growth to beneďŹ t the whole of the UK.

Taxi maker calls in administrators THE maker of the distinctive London taxi is to appoint administrators after it failed to secure a funding boost from one of its largest shareholders.

Coventry-based Manganese Bronze was reportedly in talks with Chinese private automaker Geely, which owns a 20-per cent stake in the ďŹ rm, over a ÂŁ15 million loan.

But the group, which recently recalled 500 black cabs due to a steering box fault, said it had been unable to secure funding with various parties and will bring in administrators.

Manganese, which employs nearly 300 staff, recently reported wider half-year losses of ÂŁ3.6 million.

Earlier this month, the group said it had discovered a defect with new steering boxes in its TX4 models, which were introduced in production at its Coventry factory in late February.

Abuse scandal claims Newsnight’s Rippon

By Robert Dex

The BBC is in its worst crisis for 50 years as it faces claims of a cover-up after it dropped an investigation into late DJ and TV presenter Jimmy Savile’s paedophilia

NEWSNIGHT editor Peter Rippon is “stepping aside with immediate effect� while the BBC reviews its response to the Jimmy Savile sex abuse scandal, the corporation said yesterday.

The BBC said his explanation as to why the show dropped its investigation into the late DJ and TV presenter was “inaccurate or incomplete in some respects� and has corrected his statement.

It said: “The BBC regrets these errors and will work with the Pollard Review to assemble all relevant evidence to enable the review to determine the full facts. “In addition, the BBC has announced that Peter Rippon is stepping aside with immediate effect from his post while the review by Nick Pollard, the former head of Sky News, into the management of Newsnight’s investigation, is carried out.�

Rippon’s initial explanation was published on a BBC blog and said there was no

evidence that staff at the Duncroft approved school could have known about allegations that Savile abused children.

The correction now states “In fact some allegations were made (mostly in general terms) that some of the Duncroft staff knew or may have known about the abuse.�

‘NO NEW EVIDENCE’ It adds: “The blog says that all the women spoken to by the programme had contacted the police independently already and that Newsnight had no new evidence against any other person that would have helped the police. It appears that in some cases women had not spoken to the police and that the police were not aware of all the allegations.�

The corrected blog post also said that while no allegations were made that BBC staff “were aware� of Savile’s behaviour, it did hear allegations of “abusive conduct on BBC premises�.

The BBC Trust, the corpo-

ration’s governing body, said it was “deeply concerned that there have been inaccuracies in the BBC’s own description of what happened in relation to the Newsnight investigation�.

It comes after early excerpts from last night’s edition of Panorama highlighted the different explanations given

by BBC bosses about the nature of the documentary and why it was dropped.

In the aftermath, BBC Director-General George Entwistle wrote to all staff saying that the Newsnight investigation was into “Surrey Police’s inquiry into Jimmy Savile towards the end of 2011�.

But producer Meirion Jones immediately emailed Entwistle countering that, writing: “George - one note - the investigation was into whether Jimmy Savile was a paedophile - I know because it was my investigation. “We didn’t know that Surrey Police had investigated Jimmy Savile - no-one did - that was what we found when we investigated and interviewed his victims.�

‘Suicide bombers had planned major attack’ THREE British men planned to detonate rucksacks packed with explosives in a major suicide assault which could have been more devastating than co-ordinated attacks that killed more than 50 people in London in 2005, a court heard yesterday.

Prosecutor Brian Altman told the jury the defendants had planned to set off up to eight rucksack bombs in a suicide attack and possibly set off bombs on timers in crowded areas. “One of them even described a plan to cause another 9/11,� he added, referring to the 2001 attacks in the United States in which some 3,000 people were killed. “The police successfully disrupted a plan to commit an act or acts of terrorism on a scale potentially greater than the London bombings in July 2005 had it been allowed to run its course.�

More than 50 people died in the July 7, 2005 attacks when militants blew themselves up on London’s subway and bus network during the morning rush hour.

Irfan Naseer, 31, Irfan Khalid and Ashik Ali, both 27, were central ďŹ gures in the plot, jurors at Woolwich Crown Court were told. All three have pleaded not guilty.

Naseer is accused of ďŹ ve terrorism offences, Khalid four and Ali three, all alleged to have taken place between Christmas Day 2010 and September 2011.

From their glass-fronted dock, the accused listened in silence to the charges.

Security remains a concern in ethnically diverse Britain which backed the US invasion of Iraq in 2003 and still has troops deployed alongside NATO-forces in Afghanistan.

The trio were among several arrested by counter-terrorism police in the city of Birmingham in central England which is home to a large number of Asian Muslims.

The trial continues.

Man appears in court over van rampage A VAN driver has appeared in court accused of murdering a mother-of-three and attempting to murder 13 other pedestrians, including seven children, in a hit-and-run rampage.

Matthew Tvrdon, 31, was led into Cardiff Magistrates’ Court with his hands cuffed behind his back.

He is accused of deliberately driving into parents and young children during 30 minutes of mayhem spread over three miles in Cardiff ’s Ely and Leckwith districts last Friday afternoon.

Karina Menzies, 31, was killed outside Ely Fire Station by a white Iveco van. She was one of 14 pedestrians, half of them children, hit by the van, which allegedly

mounted kerbs deliberately.

Tvrdon looked relaxed as he was released from his handcuffs and brought into the courtroom. Unshaven and wearing a black jumper, he was asked to conďŹ rm that he was of no ďŹ xed address.

Tvrdon spoke with a soft Cardiff accent as he conďŹ rmed his date of birth as November 13, 1980.

He is charged with murder, 13 counts of attempted murder, four counts of actual bodily harm and one of dangerous driving.

District Judge Bodfan Jenkins remanded Tvrdon in custody.

He will appear at Newport Crown Court at 10am today via video link.

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World

Castro dismisses reports claiming he is near death

Pussy Riot members sent to prison camps

FORMER Cuban leader Fidel Castro dismissed reports that he was dead or near death in an article published yesterday in Cuba’s state-run press.

He accused news agencies and enemies of Cuba of spreading “stupidities” about him, particularly a report from a Spanish newspaper last week that said he had suffered a massive stroke and was in a vegetative state.

“Birds of bad omen! I don’t even remember what a headache is,” he wrote.

The article in Communist Party newspaper Granma was accompanied by photographs showing him walking outside on a sunny day on what appeared to be a farm.

He wore a straw hat and red plaid shirt, used a walking cane and, in one photo, held a copy of Granma from Friday.

The photos, Castro said, were “proof of what liars they are.”

Social media has been alight in recent weeks with rumours about Castro, who is 86 and has been in declining health for several years.

Lawyers had failed in Moscow custody bid

He ruled Cuba for 49 years before resigning in 2008, citing age and infirmity. Younger brother Raul Castro succeeded him as president.

On blogs and Twitter, he has been declared dead or near dead numerous times, spurred by a long, unexplained absence from the public eye.

Elias Jaua, a former Venezuelan vice president, said on Sunday he had met with the Cuban revolutionary leader over the weekend, showing reporters pictures of the meeting and saying Castro was in good health and lucid.

Castro had not written one of his “Reflections” opinion columns for state press since June 19 or been seen publicly since March.

His last few Reflections were also Twitter-like in their brevity and slightly oddball in content, which left Cubans wondering about their former leader’s mental state.

But Castro said he had decided to stop the columns “because surely it is not my role to occupy the pages of our press, dedicated to other work the country requires”.

Pussy Riot members Samutsevich (L), Alyokhina (C) and Tolokonnikova seen before the beginning of the court hearing in Moscow, Russia on October 10 (EPA)

By Nastassia Astrasheuskaya TWO female members of Russian punk group Pussy Riot convicted of protesting against President Vladimir Putin in a cathedral have been sent to prisons far from Moscow, despite requesting to serve out their terms in the capital, a lawyer said yesterday.

Maria Alyokhina, 24, and Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, were convicted of “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred” in August and sentenced to two years in jail, a punishment that many in the West said was too harsh.

Their stunt - bursting into Moscow’s main Russian Or-

thodox Cathedral to urge the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin - infuriated the church and many Russians.

But Kremlin critics said their trial was part of a crackdown on dissent orchestrated by Putin, who began a six-year presidential term in May. The two women lost their appeals on October 10.

The women’s lawyers said they had tried to argue that they should be allowed to remain in jail in Moscow, saying it would have permitted them to be closer to their small children. They had also cited health and safety concerns at far-flung penal colonies.

“They have been sent away,” one of their lawyers, Mark

Feigin, told Reuters, saying he did not know where the women had been dispatched.

By law, relatives must be informed once a convict arrives at a prison, but the trip can take days.

One women’s prison is about 100 km (60 miles) from Moscow, but most are much further away.

Former collaborators in a street-art group said on Twitter Tolokonnikova had been sent to Mordovia, about 500 km east of Moscow, and Alyokhina to the Perm region, near the Ural Mountains about 1,100 km east of the capital.

That was not confirmed.

The duo had been held in a Moscow detention centre

since their arrests in March.

Western governments and musicians like Madonna had said their sentences were disproportionate, but Putin voiced support for the sentences, saying the state must protect the feelings of the faithful.

The dominant Russian Orthodox Church has cast their protest as part of a concerted attack against the church and Russian traditions.

A third convicted member of Pussy Riot, Yekaterina Samutsevich, was released on appeal when a court suspended her sentence after her lawyer argued she had been pulled away from the cathedral’s altar before the protest song began.

Elections a mixed blessing for Spanish PM VOTERS in Spanish prime minister Mariano Rajoy’s northwestern home region of Galicia have given their support to his handling of the economy, but those in the turbulent Basque region handed a major victory to nationalist and separatist parties.

Rajoy’s Popular Party increased its absolute majority in Galicia, where austerity measures were introduced even before he took power as prime minister last year, with 41 seats in a legislature of 75.

In the Basque region, the Basque Nationalist Party - or PNV by its Spanish initials - took 27 seats, while the separatist Bildu party claimed 21, giving pro-independence candidates their second-largest majority in

Rajoy’s Popular Party increased its Galicia majority 34 years of democracy.

The likely president of the Basque region will be PNV leader Inigo Urkullu, who called for calm in his victory speech and highlighted the need to restore his industrious and well-off region’s economy.

“Resolving the financial crisis is a priority and the situation demands that we keep our feet firmly on the ground,” Urkullu said.

A deepening financial crisis and how best to address the nation’s separatist tensions were the main issues in the elections.

Spain is in its second recession in three years and has near 25 per cent unemployment.

Since being voted into office in general elections last November, Rajoy has been forced to hike taxes, cut spending and introduce stinging labour reforms in a bid to persuade investors and international authorities that Spain can manage its finances without the need for a full-blown bailout.

Gay marriage facing opposition, delay in France PLANS by France’s Socialist government to legalise same-sex marriage are proving harder to enact than first thought after faith leaders and conservatives mobilised against it, even as left-wing deputies try to expand it.

With a solid majority it won last spring, the government originally only planned short parliamentary hearings and a debate early next year before voting on one of President Francois Hollande’s most divisive campaign promises and something he has framed as a trademark reform.

But as opposition has grown, it has put off issuing the draft text of the reform and scheduled longer parliamentary hearings. It has also put aside one demand, assisted procreation - or giving gay couples the right to have “test tube babies” - as too hot to handle for now.

“Parliament will take its time,” Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Saturday. “Nobody doubts (the reform) will become law, but all opinions - political, philosophical or religious - will be heard.”

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World WORLD TODAY Jordan soldier killed in clash with Islamists A JORDANIAN soldier was killed in clashes with Islamist fighters trying to cross the country’s northern border into Syria, a cabinet minister said yesterday.

“The soldier died during an infiltration attempt,” Minister of Information Samih Maaytah told Reuters, adding that it was the first death in Jordanian army ranks on the border since the uprising against Syrian President Bashar al-Assad broke out in March last year.

Troops detained 12 Islamist fighters after the clashes, which occurred overnight, an army statement said.

Jordanian authorities have privately expressed concern about the growing threat of Islamist jihadists infiltrating into Syria to join scores of radical groups operating across the country.

Jordan said on Sunday it foiled a plot by an al Qaeda-linked cell to bomb shopping centres and assassinate Western diplomats. Security sources said the 11 suspects detained, all Jordanians, had envisaged carrying out attacks in the capital Amman using smuggled weapons and explosives from Syria.

Foiled knife attack FINNISH Prime Minister Jyrki Katainen was unhurt after a man tried to attack him with a knife yesterday, his aides said.

Katainen was campaigning in Turku, western Finland, when a man came up to him brandishing a knife, according to the daily Helsingin Sanomat’s online edition.

Katainen’s security guards stopped the man, and he was taken away by police in handcuffs, the paper said.

The man’s motive was unknown, and the report only described him as a man with long hair.

Katainen, head of the National Coalition Party, later resumed greeting voters ahead of Sunday’s municipal elections, aides said.

S. Africa bomb AT least two prisoners died and 15 were injured when a bomb tore through a prison transport van in Johannesburg yesterday, a South African police spokesman told local radio.

“The driver heard a loud bang and there was an explosion on the vehicle,” Brigadier Neville Malila told Talk Radio 702.

There were a total of 36 prisoners on the van and 19 were unharmed, he said.

Syria spillover spurs clashes in Beirut, Tripoli Opposition calls for PM Mikati to step down

By Dominic Evans and Angus MacSwan AT least seven people were killed and dozens wounded in gunbattles in the Lebanese capital Beirut and coastal Tripoli yesterday in further unrest linked to the conflict in neighbouring Syria, security and hospital sources said.

The clashes have heightened fears that Syria’s civil war with its sectarian dimensions is now spreading into Lebanon, pitting local allies and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad against each other.

The Lebanese army promised decisive action to quell the violence, which was touched off by the assassination of a senior intelligence officer last week.

That killing has plunged Lebanon into a political crisis and the army command urged party leaders to be cautious in their public statements so as not to inflame passions further. It issued the warning after troops and gunmen

exchanged fire in Beirut’s southern suburbs overnight and yesterday morning while protesters blocked roads with burning tyres.

Many politicians have accused Syria of being behind the killing of Brigadier General Wissam al-Hassan, an intelligence chief opposed to the Syrian leadership, who was blown up by a car bomb in central Beirut last Friday.

Opposition leaders want Prime Minister Najib Mikati to resign, saying he is too close to Assad and his Lebanese militant ally Hezbollah, which is part of Mikati’s government.

The worst of the clashes since late Sunday took place in the northern city of Tripoli, the scene of previous fighting between Sunni Muslims backing the Syrian insurgents and Alawites sympathetic to Assad.

Six people were killed and about 50 wounded in fighting between the Sunni neighbourhood of Tabbaneh and the Alawite Jebel Mohsen, security and hospital sources said. The two sides ex-

Ahmadinejad denied a visit to Evin prison IRAN’S judiciary has blocked a request by President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad to visit Tehran’s Evin prison, where a top presidential aide is being held, the latest sign that his influence is waning in his last year in office.

Ali Akbar Javanfekr, Ahmadinejad’s press adviser and head of the state news agency IRNA, was sent to Evin in September to serve a six-month sentence for publishing an article deemed offensive to public decency.

He was also convicted of insulting Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on his personal website, though it is unclear how or when this happened.

Ahmadinejad’s request to visit Evin, made public this month, was seen by Iranian media and commentators as linked to Javanfekr’s detention, although there has been no official confirmation that this was the case.

The judiciary rejected the request on Sunday, saying it was not in Iran’s best interests as it faces an economic crisis.

Ahmadinejad’s opponents in parliament blame the crisis as much on mismanagement by his administration as on Western sanctions.

“We must pay attention to major issues,” prosecutor general Gholam-Hossein Mohseni-Ejei said on Sunday, according to the Mehr news agency. “If we have in mind the best interests of the na-

The influence of Ahmadinejad (above) has waned since a 2011 clash with Khamenei tion, a (prison) visit in these circumstances is not appropriate.”

Ahmadinejad’s influence within the factionalised political structure has waned since a clash with Khamenei in 2011.

The feud between Iran’s elected and unelected leaders erupted in public after Khamenei, who holds ultimate power, reinstated Intelligence Minister Heydar Moslehi, whom Ahmadinejad had sacked.

Yesterday, Khamenei’s representative to the powerful Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps was quoted as saying he regretted his past support for the president.

changed rocket and gunfire, residents said.

Among the victims was a nine-year-old girl shot by a sniper.

Fighting in Beirut occurred on the edge of Tariq al-Jadida, a Sunni Muslim district that abuts Shi’ite Muslim suburbs in the south of the capital.

Residents had earlier reported heavy overnight gunfire around Tariq al-Jadida between gunmen armed with rifles and rocket-propelled grenades.

Soldiers killed one gunman in Tariq al-Jadida, the army said, a Palestinian from a refugee camp who had shot at them.

The violence escalated on Sunday after thousands of people turned out in Beirut’s Martyrs’ Square for the funeral of Hassan, who was buried with full state honours in an emotionally charged ceremony.

Lebanese soldiers patrol the Corniche al-Mazraa neighbourhood of the capital Beirut, yesterday (AFP)

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Business STM opens office in Cyprus

Rosneft will buy TNKBP in a two-step deal

STM, the London Stock Exchange AIM –l isted cross border financial services provider, is opening an office in Cyprus, in line with its strategy of having offices in key jurisdictions around the world.

There are a number of features which make Cyprus attractive for STM, including: · As a small EU country, it is able to punch above its weight on the global stage; · The legal framework is constantly under review and is modernised to meet commercial needs; · The tax regime is both modern and designed to facilitate international business; · There are many tax treaties, which combine with the European rules on free trade and transfer of capital within Europe to make Cyprus the perfect gateway into Europe.

STM is keen to expand its natural markets eastward.

Cyprus will open up interest from Eastern European countries, Russia and India, in particular to create companies which are efficient at permitting the flow of funds across borders. It sees an increasing number of clients interested in taking advantage of weak asset values in Europe, and a Cyprus company is a perfect structure for inward investment into Europe.

STM says it expects family trust structures will be used increasingly in relation to inward investment. These facilitate the transmission of wealth to future generations without the need to have wills in multiple countries.

STM brings the expertise and systems already applied in its Gibraltar, Jersey, Malta and Spain offices to offer specialist structuring and fiduciary services in Cyprus, which will facilitate the needs of existing and new clients and complement, rather than compete with, other advisers.

Deal gives BP nearly 20% share in Rosneft

These Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer transactions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.

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US Dollar

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Australian $

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Canadian Dol.

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Swiss Fr

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Denmark Kr

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Norwegian Kr

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Polish Zloty

4.1589

4.0563

Romanian Leu 4.6728 4.4896 Russian Ruble 40.8038 39.7963 Swedish Kr

STATE-controlled Russian oil company Rosneft has struck a two-part deal worth about $55 billion to buy privately-owned TNK-BP and make British oil company BP a near-20 per cent Rosneft shareholder with two seats on the board.

The first part of the Kremlin-backed agreement announced by Rosneft yesterday folds BP’s half of TNK-BP, Russia’s third-largest oil company, into Rosneft, in exchange for cash and Rosneft stock in an agreement worth about $27 billion, including $12.3 billion of cash and the rest in stock.

In stage two, BP’s 50:50 partner in the TNK-BP venture, AAR, would get $28 billion in cash, but the two deals are independent of each other and the AAR deal is still subject to negotiations, Rosneft said.

With the whole of TNK-BP on board, Rosneft, which is already Russia’s top oil producer, will control nearly half of Russia’s oil output and pump more oil and gas than Exxon Mobil, the world’s top international oil company.

The deal gives Rosneft extra output and cash flow to finance exploration of Russia’s vast reserves to replace ageing and depleting fields.

It keeps BP’s expertise in

President Vladimir Putin (left) speaks with Igor Sechin, the CEO of state-controlled Russian oil giant Rosneft, during their meeting in Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow yesterday (AFP) Russia and provides the “quality” private shareholder President Vladimir Putin wants in order to show his critics he is pursuing a real privatisation agenda.

“This is a very good signal for the Russian market. It is a good, large deal. I would like to thank you for this work,” Russian President Vladimir Putin told Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin.

It allows BP to end a stormy relationship with AAR, and to pursue closer ties with a Kremlin that exerts a much tighter hold on the oil industry than it did in the 1990s

when BP first invested in Russia.

TNK-BP is highly profitable and provides a quarter of BP’s total production, but its fields are mature, and the Soviet-born tycoons who own the other half through AAR have blocked BP’s search for growth in Russia through closer ties with Rosneft.

“It’s certainly a historic deal and a historic day for BP and Rosneft and TNKBP,” said Santander analyst Jason Kenney.

“I do think Rosneft is the winner in this. They get a lot of credibility by having

a western investor on the board and involved in its Russian resource and operations, and it’s a good partner to have. For BP, they get an early monetisation of its current Russian asset base, they shake off the political troubles that it had by having that stake, but a lot of the upside for BP is probably long-dated and it’s difficult to see how it’s going to be valued into BP’s share price on a near-term basis.”

Executives at TNK-BP have in the past had run-ins with Russian law enforcement at times of friction between the

shareholders, with two managers arrested in 2008 amid a dispute over strategy that forced then-CEO Bob Dudley, who now heads BP, to flee Russia.

Should the deal survive a months-long approval process, BP’s exposure to Russia would be lower, but with seats on the board it has closer ties than any of its rivals to Sechin, who has a significant say in energy policy.

The four tycoons of AAR, are reluctant to remain in a joint venture with the politically powerful Russian state oil company.

New UK watchdog warns banks ‘light touch’ era over

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BRITAIN’S banks will have to provide detailed forecasts to a new supervisor which can then order them to change their business models or raise more capital, ending the “light touch” regulation in force before the 2007-9 financial crisis.

Britain’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), based at the Bank of England, will be launched on April 1 to oversee banks as part of a shake-up of regulation aimed at preventing a repeat of the taxpayer bailout of banks during the crisis.

The current Financial Services Authority (FSA) will be scrapped and its remaining enforcement and market supervision activities transferred to a new standalone Financial Conduct Authority.

“We need to spend more time looking closely at business models, asking questions such as where does the firm make money and is this sustainable,” said Andrew Bailey, head of banking supervision at the FSA and a leading candidate to head the new PRA. Bailey was telling a public meeting how the PRA will work differently from the FSA, taking a forward looking, judgement-led approach to draw a line under the “light touch” and “box ticking” style of previous supervision.

The PRA may not always get it right first time.

Bailey said regulators were still grappling with finding the right trade off between how much capital banks should hold to stay resilient, while not hindering their ability to lend to the struggling economy.

“Fitting those two together is not easy, but is crucial,” Bailey said.

Andrew Bailey, head of banking supervision at the FSA, said the PRA would draw a line under the ‘box ticking’ style of previous supervision David Rule, who will be a director at the PRA, said the new watchdog will ask large banks for projections of their future revenue, costs and impairments to see how they make money, and whether their growth objectives are sustainable

and based on a diversified strategy.

Regulators want to end years of mis-selling where lenders relied on a few very profitable products that were unsuitable for many people.

“We won’t be providing free consultancy here.

Our focus will be limited to forward looking views of safety and soundness. Do we think this business model is sustainable? Do we think there are things that could blow up the firm?” Rule said.

“Where we believe that risks cannot be adequately managed or mitigated, we may require changes to the business model, for example steps to reduce excessive concentration of risk,” Rule said.

The boards of banks will be directly responsible for ensuring there is enough capital and liquidity reserves and the PRA will not depend on a bank’s own internal models for calculating how much capital should be held.

“We will look at those models somewhat sceptically. We will expect models to be appropriately conservative,” Rule said, adding the PRA would ask for changes to the in-house models if they were not realistic enough.

The PRA will also actively use its discretion to require “floors” for some capital requirements, meaning a default sum of capital whatever the risk model comes up with.

Banks could also be required top up capital on exposures to interest rates or pensions if they are not adequately covered by a bank’s basic capital reserves. The PRA will also consider using a cap on balance sheets, known as a leverage ratio, he added.

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Opinion

A Europe for the world Transparency law ever more crucial after BoC’s €10m debt write-off FOR A communist party, opposed to big capital, AKEL had very good relations with the Bank of Cyprus. How else can one explain the bank’s decision to write off AKEL-controlled companies’ debts amounting to close to €10 million? We have not heard of many other cases of Cyprus’ biggest bank writing off such big loans and not taking any legal measures against the people who personally guaranteed them.

The standard practice for a bank, when a company stops making loan repayments, is to pursue the personal guarantors, but in the case of the AKELcontrolled companies, they were let off.

All were senior party members who had guaranteed the loans on instructions from the party leadership, and it would have been unfair to make them pay for something they had nothing to do with.

Then again, banks do not show such understanding for other loan guarantors, taking them to court and recovering the full amount from them.

Why has the Bank of Cyprus been so good to hard-up AKEL-controlled companies? We are not talking here of loans of 20,000 or 30,000 euro, but loans worth millions. We can only conclude the bank’s board, which sanctioned the debts’ write-off, was hoping it would be able to call in these favours when the need arose. Why else would a bank, a profit-making business and not a charity, agree to write off such big loans? At some point it could ask for something in exchange for its generosity.

Is there a better argument for passing legislation ensuring transparency with regard to party funding? The parties have been dragging their feet on the matter for years, in spite of the existence of directives on the matter from the Council of Europe. But in a properly functioning democracy, the voters have the right to know which individuals or businesses are funding the parties. The same transparency should exist for the election campaign funds of presidential candidates.

The only half-plausible argument the parties have against transparency and publishing of audited accounts, is that disclosure would discourage funding as many businesses would not want the public to know that they have links with any one party. A company would look even more ridiculous if it was seen to fund all the parties, a normal practice for the wealthiest firms. Transparency might restrict fund-raising, but it would be a small step towards cleaning up politics.

Do our parties not want cleaner politics?

AKEL might not want its supporters to know of the party’s close relations with the class enemy, big business, but the rest of the parties should be in favour of funding transparency.

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espite the welter of economic problems surrounding Europe, the European Union remains the world’s largest economy. With a GDP of more than €15.5 trillion, it is larger than that of the United States and, with 20 per cent of world trade, the EU is also the world’s second-largest exporter and importer, after China and the US, respectively. The EU is, quite simply, the world’s leading commercial power.

But this data cannot hide the fact that the institutional model that made today’s integrated Europe possible is inadequate to the problems created by the financial crisis. So we Europeans need to deepen European integration with much greater determination and speed. If we do not, there is a real risk that social discontent will undermine the EU’s foundations before we can complete the process of integration that will resolve the problems now blighting the lives of millions of people.

Moreover, these problems cannot be separated from the way in which the Union presents itself to the world. Europe will need to bet on greater integration in order to escape this predicament.

And, unavoidably, integration will lead to a united, coherent, and effective European foreign policy, adapted to a world that is changing at dizzying speed.

Comment Javier Solana Today’s world is already multipolar. But multi-polarity provides no guarantee the international system will be capable of being governed by common rules, without which global affairs will become much more dangerous and conflict-ridden.

It is precisely here that Europe has something to offer the world.

It is still the leader in institutional innovation and is the best and most successful historical example of it, as its Nobel Peace Prize for 2012 acknowledged.

Other parts of the world are experiencing unprecedented economic growth, but that raises another great challenge: the need to build on the foundations of this growth a fairer political system and open, inclusive societies that respect human rights and the environment. Europe is a step ahead on all of these issues.

Fortunately, European countries are not the only ones sharing sovereignty nowadays. A good example is the work being done by the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which is taking bold steps in a part of

the world where integration has never been the norm and clear regional security structures are lacking. Europe must act to buttress these integrative steps.

It is precisely this region, the Asia/Pacific, that is bound to be the focus of international relations in both the medium and the long term. The US has already announced its strategic reorientation to Asia. Moreover, the region is home to numerous longstanding quarrels, territorial and border disputes, rampant nationalism, and considerable mistrust.

China does not want to see a 21st century dominated by a G-2 in which it finds itself alone with the US. It would prefer a G-3, at least, that includes the EU. So, in addition to the good relations that the EU maintains with both powers, the Union’s experience in multilateral problem solving could be invaluable.

Turning to Europe’s own neighbourhood, the EU’s unipolar moment of the 1990s has come to an end. Russia has not moved any closer to European standards, Turkey has already developed its own foreign policy and aspires to become a regional power and the countries on the Mediterranean’s southern shore have said “Enough!” to the status quo through revolutions that no one saw coming. Yet soft power and the model of multilateral dialogue are still the way

to achieve political, economic and energy co-operation, thereby ensuring a prosperous neighbourhood that includes these countries and those to the east.

Relations with the Americas are different in nature. Here, proximity is not physical, but rather based on shared values and vision. In a constantly changing and complex world, co-ordinated action with the US must continue and progress.

Moreover, impartial observers recognise that Latin America will be one of the great beneficiaries of the 21st century, and that closer relations between the two continents should be a key goal for both.

As the EU aspires to become an international power, we Europeans must either act in unity to confront the challenges presented by the tumultuous world changes now under way, or doom ourselves to be spectators in a world in which we have little or no say.

Javier Solana, former Secretary-General of NATO and EU High Representative for the Common Foreign and Security Policy, is Distinguished Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy at the Brookings Institution and President of the ESADE Centre for Global Economy and Geopolitics. © Project Syndicate 1995–2012

LETTER to the Editor Any European budget must provide for science

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o the Heads of State or Government of EU Countries, Presidents of EU Institutions, Back in 2000, you and your predecessors aimed to become the “world’s most dynamic knowledge-based economy by 2010”. The intention was ambitious and noble, but the goal has yet to be achieved.

Europe is at the forefront of science in many areas. Transforming this knowledge into innovative new products, services and industries is the only way to provide Europe with a competitive edge in today’s rapidly changing global landscape and to ensure Europe’s long-term future prosperity.

Knowledge knows no boundaries. The global market for outstanding talent is highly competitive. Europe can ill afford to lose its best researchers and

teachers, and would gain greatly by attracting foreign talent.

Reducing the funding available for excellent research means a smaller number of trained researchers, and severe cuts in the EU research and innovation budget risks losing a generation of talented scientists just when Europe needs them most.

In this regard, the European Research Council has achieved global recognition in a remarkably short time, funding the best researchers anywhere in Europe regardless of nationality. It valuably complements national funding of fundamental research.

Funding research at EU level is a catalyst to make better use of the resources we have and make national budgets more efficient and effective. These EU resources are extremely precious. They have proven to be capable of achieving essential

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benefits for European science as well as increasing returns to society and increasing international competitiveness.

Thus, it is essential we support, and even more importantly, inspire in a pan-European way, the wealth of research and innovation potential that exists all over Europe. We are convinced the younger generation of researchers will also make their voice heard and should be listened to.

Our question to you, European leaders meeting in Brussels over November 22-23 to discuss the EU budget for 2014-2020, is a simple one: what will be the role of science when the deal for this budget is announced?

Signed by Nobel Prize and Fields Medal winners: Sidney Altman, Werner Arber, Robert J. Aumann, Francoise Barré-

Sinoussi, Günter Blobel, Mario Capecchi, Aaron Ciechanover, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Johann Deisenhofer, Richard R. Ernst, Gerhart Ertl, Sir Martin Evans, Albert Fert, Andre Geim, Serge Haroche, Avram Hershko, Jules A. Hoffmann, Roald Hoffmann, Robert Huber, Sir Tim Hunt, Eric R. Kandel, Klaus Von Klitzing, Sir Harold Kroto, Finn Kydland, Jean-Marie Lehn, Eric S. Maskin, Dale T. Mortensen, Erwin Neher, Konstantin Novoselov, Sir Paul Nurse, Christiane Nusslein-Volhard, Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, Sir Richard J. Roberts, Heinrich Rohrer, Bert Sakmann, Bengt I. Samuelsson, John E. Sulston, Jack W. Szostak, Sir John E. Walker, Ada E. Yonath, Rolf Zinkernagel, Harald Zur Hausen, Pierre Deligne, Timothy Gowers, Maxim Kontsevich, Stanislav Smirnov, Cedric Villani

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1941

25 years ago Friday October 23, 1987

Chief of the Soviet general staff, Georgi Zhukov, assumes command of Red Army operations in order to try and prevent Germany’s rapid advance into the heart of Russia.

The pro-Iranian Islamic jihad organisation threatened yesterday to strike at the US and Europe, saying thousands of gulf Muslims were poised for suicide attacks. The statement was accompanied by black and white photographs two of its hostages, American journalist Terry Anderson and Frenchman Jean Paul Kauffmann.

1956 The Hungarian Revolution begins as students and workers demonstrate in Budapest against Soviet domination and Communist rule.

1983 In Beirut, Lebanon, 241 US marines and 56 French troops are killed in two separate bombing attacks on their respective headquarters.

2001 The Northern Ireland peace process reaches an historic breakthrough as the IRA announce they are decommissioning their weapons.

2002 About 50 Chechen rebels storm a Moscow theatre, taking up to 700 people hostage during a sold-out performance of a popular musical.

35 years ago Sunday October 23, 1977 Greek Cypriot official sources yesterday expressed disappointment at the interim decision of the Committee of Ministers Deputies of the Council of Europe which failed to act on a Cyprus recourse charging Turkey with serious violations of human rights in Cyprus. Greek Cypriot newspapers branded the committee’s decision as an attempt to cover up crimes and atrocities committed by Turkish troops.

45 years ago Monday October 23, 1967 Israel bristled with anger today after the sinking of one of its destroyers, Eilath, by Soviet-made missiles off the Sinai coast. The Israeli cabinet went into urgent session under public pressure to answer the Egyptian challenge and later Prime Minister Levi Eshkol said that his country would not tolerate such acts.

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Britney’s dad feared singer would die during meltdown Civil trial pits pop star and parents against her former ‘manager’

By Brandon Lowrey THE father of pop star Britney Spears was terrified by his daughter’s deepening drug addiction as her life spiralled out of control five years ago, his attorney told jurors.

“Jamie Spears was living in constant fear that he was going to look at the TV one day and see Britney was dead,” said Leon Gladstone, Jamie Spears’ attorney.

Gladstone’s remarks came on the second day of a civil trial that has pitted the singer and her parents against Sam Lutfi, who was one of her closest friends in 2007 and early 2008 and who described himself as her manager at that time.

Lutfi, now 38, was considered to be Spears’ live-in ‘gate keeper’ who determined who was allowed to see her during her personal and career meltdown in 2007.

He is suing the singer for a chunk of her earnings at that time.

Lutfi also is suing Spears’ parents, Jamie and Lynne Spears. He claims Jamie Spears punched him in the chest at Britney Spears’ Los Angeles area home in January 2008, and that Lynne Spears libelled him in her book, Through the Storm, published later that year.

The trial has lifted the lid on a tumultuous period when Spears famously shaved her head, was twice placed on psychiatric holds, lost custody of her children and was placed under her father’s conservatorship, giving him control of her health and finances.

Gladstone said that Jamie

The trial has lifted the lid on a tumultuous period when Spears famously shaved her head, was twice placed on psychiatric holds and lost custody of her children. Now 30, she has since made a comeback (right) Spears had been trying to get his daughter to go to rehab after her 2006 divorce from Kevin Federline and at one point he convinced Federline to obtain sole legal custody of their two young children, Gladstone said.

While the singer’s problems began to reach their a peak after her divorce from Federline, her spiral into depression began years earlier, Gladstone said.

The once-happy and humble pop star became angry and impulsive in 2003 after

breaking up with fellow superstar Justin Timberlake, Gladstone said. That was the year she went to Las Vegas and ended up getting married to a childhood friend - a marriage that lasted 55 hours.

Gladstone described how Jamie Spears went to see Britney at a Los Angeles hospital in 2007, and found her strapped to a gurney and yelling.

“He is scared to death,” Gladstone said, “and he’s thinking to himself, ‘My

daughter has lost everything.

Here she is, in a psychiatric ward, out of her head.’”

Lutfi is seeking 15 per cent of Spears’ income over several months in 2007 and 2008, when he said he managed her. She earned $800,000 to $1 million per month over that period, attorneys said.

Before that, Lutfi had worked at a gas station and the only proof he was her manager was a mostly blank form contract Lutfi had downloaded from the Internet and an oral contract with

the singer, said attorney Joel Boxer, who is representing Spears’ estate.

“Sam Lutfi never conducted himself as if he was Britney’s manager,” Boxer told jurors. “Mr. Lutfi did not earn a dollar for Britney.”

Spears, now 30, has since made a comeback with world tours hit albums and a new job as a judge on TV talent show The X-Factor.

She was not in court and is not expected to attend the trial although her parents are expected to testify.

‘Trekkies’ break world DJ Calvin Harris tops pop charts record at UK convention STAR Trek fans made history over the weekend by breaking the record for the largest gathering of people dressed as characters from the TV series at the ‘Destination Star Trek London’ convention.

An estimated 1,083 costume-clad ‘trekkies’ assembled at the event at London’s ExCel centre, narrowly beating the previous record of 1,040 characters, which was set at the bigger, annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas in August.

The majority of record-breakers dressed in the colourblocked uniforms of Starfleet, with Vulcans, Klingons and Romulans peppering the crowd.

Trekkie Mark Whitfield went to extreme lengths to participate, wearing a full-body suit to emulate a mugato, a beast from Star Trek: the Original Series.

“It looks silly, it’s just a gorilla suit painted white with horns on it. It’s very, very hot. In fact, I was on the verge of collapse when a very kind person gave me a bottle of water because I dehydrated quite badly,” he said.

‘Destination Star Trek London’ is the first live Star Trek event in Britain for over a decade. Around 17,000 fans came to London to celebrate the 46-year-old TV and film franchise, which has spawned six television series and 11 feature films.

Outlandish costumes were ubiquitous at the event, which saw Britain’s first Klingon wedding on Friday. Swedish couple Jossie Sockertopp and Sonnie Gustavsson tied the knot in full Klingon attire and exchanged vows in the fictional and guttural-sounding language of the Star Trek characters.

The three-day convention also saw all five captains from the TV series appear on stage together for the first time.

The Scottish DJ performs his No.1 hit Sweet Nothing

SCOTTISH DJ and producer Calvin Harris topped the British music charts on Sunday with the dance track Sweet Nothing, a collaboration with the singer Florence Welch.

Last week’s number one, Don’t You Worry Child,

by Swedish House Mafia, a dance music trio from Stockholm, slipped to second place.

South Korean singer Psy held steady at number three with Gangnam Style, an Internet hit that has notched up more than half a billion views on YouTube.

Barbadian pop singer Rihanna’s Diamonds kept the fourth spot, while London-born Adele fell three places to fifth with Skyfall, the theme for the new James Bond film.

On the album chart, English singer Jake Bugg was the new number one with his eponymous new release, according to the Official Charts Company, which compiles the weekly rundown.

Paranormal Activity 4 haunts top of movie charts

By Lisa Richwine THE fourth Paranormal Activity fright flick crept into the No.1 spot at the weekend box office with $30.2 million in US and Canadian ticket sales.

Iran hostage thriller Argo earned $16.6 million and took second place, studio estimates released on Sunday showed. Two-time box office leader Taken 2 fell to the No.4 spot with $13.4 million from Friday through Sunday.

Low-budget Paranormal Activity 4 opened short of distributor Paramount’s projection for at least $35 million in domestic receipts during the movie’s lead off weekend. The film also trailed its predecessor in the haunted house series. The third Paranormal rung up $53 million in its debut last October.

But with $26.5 million more from international markets, the fourth installment already had grossed far more than its tiny production budget of $5 million.

“We’re thrilled,” said Don Harris, Paramount’s president of domestic distribution. “It was in a slightly more crowded market than a year ago.”

STRONG SHOWING The strong showing for the film bodes well for more to follow. “It is highly likely that we will do another,” he said.

The new Paranormal chronicles the strange events that haunt a neighborhood after a woman and her young son move in. As in the earlier films, the movie uses a ‘found footage’ style by capturing mysterious encounters with invisible forces on surveillance cameras.

The franchise produced by Jason Blum has brought in big bucks since the original hit theatres in 2009. The first three Paranormal films grabbed $577 million in global ticket sales. Each movie was produced for $5 million or less.

Receipts for Argo dropped 15 per cent from a week earlier.

The movie has earned glowing reviews from critics and a rare A+ grade from audiences polled by CinemaScore.

Argo is based on the real-life rescue of US government employees from Iran in 1979 under the guise of a fake movie production. Ben Affleck directs and stars in the film.

In fourth place, Taken 2 stars Liam Neeson as a former spy who is kidnapped in Istanbul. The action film has grossed $105.9 million through three weekends.

In the No.3 slot, family movie Hotel Transylvania pulled in $13.5 million at North American theatres. Global sales for the animated film reached $119 million through Sunday.

Alex Cross starring Tyler Perry debuted in fifth place with $11.7 million domestically, was on the mark with the predictions by distributor Summit Entertainment.

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Environment Pesticides put bumblebee colonies at risk of failure

By Alister Doyle

Campaigners say proposals are half-baked

EU commissioner for Climate Action Connie Hedegaard at the EU headquarters in Brussels

EU biofuel rules are progress, not perfect

By Charlie Dunmore and Barbara Lewis NEW EU rules to limit how much food can be made into biofuels are “not perfect” and make it harder to achieve overall goals on switching to low carbon energy, European Commissioners have said.

But they insisted the proposals sent out the right signal to the biofuel industry, which would have to move on to newgeneration fuels that do not compete with demand for food.

The Commission announced a major policy shift in September, saying it planned to limit crop-based biofuels to five per cent of consumption, as part of a goal to draw 10 per cent of transport fuel from renewable sources, mainly biodiesel and bioethanol.

It formally published the proposal last week, which biofuel producers have said could devastate their business and green campaigners say fails to address the problem.

“Our analysis in the Commission is that it’s still possible to achieve the 10 per cent target, but if you were to ask me whether this proposal will make it easier, I would answer ‘no’,” Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said.

TwentyTWENTY-five species of humans’ closest living relatives - apes, monkeys and lemurs - need urgent protection from extinction, a report by international conservation groups said.

Many of the primates, from the Ecuadorean brown-headed spider monkey to the eastern black-crested gibbon in China

Under threat: the eastern black-crested gibbon found in China and Vietnam

Hedegaard and Energy Commissioner Guenther Oettinger told a news conference that the proposal was “not perfect”.

Science had moved on from when the Commission agreed the 10 per cent biofuel target in 2008 and as knowledge increased, further changes could be necessary, the Commissioners said.

The reason some first-generation biofuels are considered problematic is they can displace food production into new areas, forcing forest clearance and draining of peatland. The displacement is referred to as ILUC (indirect land-use change).

“Everybody accepted that the day would come when we would have more knowledge about these ILUC factors and then they should also be factored in somehow,” Hedegaard said.

“I believe that we taking a very, very important step and sending a very, very important signal.”

The proposal includes ILUC factors to measure the indirect emissions of biofuels made from cereals, sugars and oilseeds, but they carry no legal weight in a watering-down of an earlier draft proposal.

Both Hedegaard and Oettinger said they were not closing down biofuel plants overnight but giving the industry fair warning that only second generation fuels

made from waste or algae, for instance, could merit subsidies in future.

The biodiesel industry was relieved the proposals had lost some of their force.

“The ILUC factor, the way it had been envisaged initially was sounding the immediate death knell for the sector,” JeanPhilippe Puig, CEO of Sofiproteol, which owns the EU’s largest biodiesel producer Diester Industrie, said.

“I think we came back to a compromise that is not acceptable but that does not directly and immediately threaten all jobs.”

Environmental campaign groups were extremely disappointed years of debate on ILUC had produced what BirdLife Europe said was a “half-baked” result and blamed lobbying from industry.

“The only thing farmers and the bioindustry achieved today was to protect their past with no regard for tomorrow,” BirdLife Europe policy officer Trees Robijns said in a statement.

Campaign group Transport & Environment said the Commission had missed the opportunity to get biofuel policy right.

Now the proposals have been published, they must be agreed by EU governments and lawmakers in a process that can take up to two years.

five primates on brink of extinction Vietna and Vietnam, are under threat from human destruction o of forests, from hunting an and from illegal wildlife trad trade.

The study said five of the 25 most e endangered primates wer were from Africa, six from th the Indian Ocean island of M Madagascar, nine from Asia, and five from South Am America, including the Ka Ka’apor capuchin monkey in Brazil.

“Mankin “Mankind’s closest living rela relatives... are on the brin brink of extinction and in need of urgent conser conservation measures, ures,” said the report by gr groups including the International Uni Union for Conservat vation of Nature (IU (IUCN).

Le Lemurs in Mada-

gascar were among the most threatened after years of political unrest on the island, said Christoph Schwitzer, head of research at the Bristol Conservation and Science Foundation, one of the authors.

“The rarest lemur, the northern sportive lemur, is now down to 19 known individuals in the wild,” said the report, presented to coincide with a meeting of the UN Convention on Biological Diversity in Hyderabad, India.

The pygmy tarsier in Sulawesi, Indonesia, was known only from three museum specimens until 2008, since when four others have been found in the wild.

The scientists said that conserving primates, of which there are 633 known

species, was important for the wider fabric of nature.

Primates “often serve as seed dispersers and help to maintain forest diversity”, said Russell Mittermeier, a chair of the primate specialist group at the IUCN and president of Conservation International.

“It is increasingly being recognised that forests make a major contribution in terms of ecosystem services for people, providing drinking water, food and medicines,” he wrote.

The experts said there was some good news: no primate species has been lost to extinction in the 20th or 21st centuries. And numbers were rising for some, such as India’s lion-tailed macaque and Madagascar’s greater bamboo lemur.

PESTICIDES used in farming are also killing worker bumblebees and damaging their ability to gather food, meaning colonies that are vital for plant pollination are more likely to fail when they are used, a new study shows.

The United Nations has estimated that a third of all plant-based foods eaten by people depend on bee pollination and scientists have been baffled by plummeting numbers of bees, mainly in North America and Europe, in recent years.

British scientists said they exposed colonies of 40 bumblebees, which are bigger than the more common honeybee, to the pesticides neonicotinoid and pyrethroid over four weeks at levels similar to those in fields.

Neonicotinoids are nicotinelike chemicals used to protect various crops from locusts, aphids and other pests.

“Chronic exposure... impairs natural foraging behaviour and increases worker mortality, leading to significant reductions in brood development and colony success,”

the scientists wrote in the report in the journal Nature.

Exposure to a combination of the two pesticides “increases the propensity of colonies to fail”, according to the researchers at Royal Holloway, University of London.

A 2011 UN report estimated that bees and other pollinators such as butterflies, beetles or birds do work worth €153 billion a year to the human economy and are in decline in many nations.

The findings underscored the importance of wider testing of pesticides to ensure they do not also target bees, it said.

France banned a neonicotinoid pesticide made by Swiss agrochemicals group Syngenta in June, citing evidence of a threat to the country’s bees. A report last month, however, said that the original research was flawed.

“My guess is that the decline of bees is like a jigsaw - there are probably a lot of pieces to put into place. This is probably a very important piece of that jigsaw,” lead author Richard Gill said of the findings about pesticides.

Seabird atlas shows 3,000 ocean sites key to conservation A NEW ATLAS of the world’s oceans shows more than 3,000 sites important to seabirds from albatrosses to penguins as part of a drive to improve conservation.

The free online atlas (www. birdlife.org/datazone/marine) could help governments plan, for instance, where to set up wildlife protection areas at sea or where to permit offshore wind turbines or oil and gas exploration, they said.

The atlas, showing areas vital to birds including pelicans, sandpipers, cormorants and skuas, was compiled by BirdLife International, drawing on work by 1,000 bird experts, government ministries and secretariats of UN Conventions.

“Seabirds are now the most threatened group of birds.

They present unique conservation problems, since many species travel thousands of kilometres across international waters,” BirdLife International said.

It identifies more than 3,000 important bird areas (IBAs) worldwide, such as breeding grounds and migration routes, covering in total 6.2 per cent of the world’s oceans.

“Our initial target is to encourage governments to use this tool and use this data in their national planning,” Ben Lascelles, BirdLife’s Global Marine IBA Co-ordinator, said.

He said that Japan, for instance, had recently consulted BirdLife about where to site offshore wind farms to avoid damage to migratory birds.

Earth ‘too hot’ after extinction FOR five million years after the worst mass extinction in Earth history, much of the planet was simply too hot for anything to survive, scientists have learned.

Experts have long been puzzled by the “broken world” scenario that followed the Permian-Triassic mass extinction 250 million years ago.

Up to 96 per cent of all marine species and 70 per cent of land-dwelling vertebrates were wiped out by the event, thought to have been caused by a combination of climate change and volcanic activity.

Typically it takes tens of thousands of years for new species to appear after a mass extinction. But in the case of the Permian-Triassic event, this “dead zone” lasted an extraordinary five million years.

A new study has now indi-

cated why. Temperatures in the tropics rose to lethal levels, soaring to 60C on land and 40C in the sea, and prevented life re-emerging.

“Global warming has long been linked to the endPermian mass extinction, but this study is the first to show extreme temperatures kept life from restarting in equatorial latitudes for millions of years,” said lead researcher Yadong Sun, from the University of Leeds.

During the long heatwave no forests grew in the tropics, only shrubs and ferns, and shellfish were the only marine creatures in the oceans.

Virtually no land animals existed because their metabolisms would not have withstood such high temperatures. Only the polar regions offered a habitable refuge from the baking heat.

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Times are subject to change, so check first with cinemas before you head out

NICOSIA Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8.05pm and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) daily at 8.05pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (N/A) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2, in 3D) at 5.35pm, 7.50pm and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2, in 3D) at 5.35pm, 7.50pm and 10.10pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.25pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.35pm and 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.35pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35pm, 8pm and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35pm, 8pm and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 God Loves Caviar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 10.10pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 ParaNorman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3, in 3D) at 8.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 8.05pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.35pm and 3.35pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 A Few Best Men (15)) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30pm and 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Brave (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.35pm and 3.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 7th Cyprus International Film Festival Cine Studio, in collaboration with the Friends of the Cinema Society.

Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

LIMASSOL Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (N/A) (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 2 (in 3D) daily and weekends at 6.15pm, 8.20pm and 10.25pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2, in 3D) at 5.35pm, 7.50pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Cold Light of Day (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

CINEMA WEBSITES: K-Cineplex: http://kcineplex.com, Friends of the Cinema Society: http://www.ofk.org.cy

Killer Joe (18) Rio 3 daily and weekends at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 8.05pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18)) Rio 4 at 7.45pm and 10.10pm, weekends at 8.10pm and 10.20pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) daily at 7.35pm and 10.10pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) Rio 1 at 7.45pm and 10pm, weekends at 4pm, 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) daily at 5.35pm, 8pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 God Loves Caviar (K) Rio 3 daily at 8.10pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3, in Greek) at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 ParaNorman (12) Rio 2 (in 3D) only at weekends at 3pm and 4.54pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3, in 3D) daily at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Cold Light of Day (12) Rio 5 at 7.45pm and 10pm, weekends at 8.15pm and 10pm.

Tel: 25-871410 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K)) Rio 3 (in Greek) at 6.30pm, weekends at 3pm and 4.45pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) daily at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Brave (K) Rio 3 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only 6.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek, in 2D) daily 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Magic Mike (18) Rio 6 daily at 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410

ParaNorman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3, in 3D) daily at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383

God Loves Caviar (K) Rio 5 daily at 7.45pm and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Bourne Legacy (12) Rio 6 daily at 7.45pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25-871410

The Cold Light of Day (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) daily at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

ParaNorman (12) Rio 6, in 3D, at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26207000

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D), weekends only at 3pm, 4.45pm and 6.30pm.

Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) daily at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3pm, 4.45pm and 6.30pm.

Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA Killer Joe (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) daily at 8.05pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (N/A) (in French, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 2, in 3D) at 5.35pm, 7.50pm and 10.10pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) daily at 7.35pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Watch (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) daily at 5.35pm, 8pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 God Loves Caviar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) daily at 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Barbie: Princess & the Popstar (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) daily at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 A Few Best Men (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) (in Greek) daily at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Brave (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) daily at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) daily at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS

The Cold Light of Day (12) Rio 2 daily at 6pm and 7.45pm.

Tel: 26-207000 Magic Mike (18) Rio 2 daily at 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 5 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Resident Evil: Retribution (15) Rio 6 (in 3D) at 9.45pm, weekends at 9.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Killer Joe (18) Rio 1 daily at 7.45pm and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Brave (K) Rio 1 (in Greek, in 3D) daily at 5.45pm, weekends also at 4pm.

Tel: 26-207000

Savages (18) Rio 4 daily at 5.30pm, 7.45pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Step Up 4 (K) Rio 6 (in 3D) at 7.45pm, weekends at 7.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (N/A) (in French, with Greek subtitles) Rio 7 (in 3D) at 5.50pm, 8pm and 10.10pm, weekends at 3.50pm, 6pm, 8.10pm and 10.20pm. Tel: 26-207000

Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in 2D, in English) weekends only at 3.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Watch (15) Rio 3 daily at 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Ice Age: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in English), weekends only at 4pm. Tel: 26-207000

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Music

Exhibition

The Ultimate Tribute Show & Dance with Elvis, Elton and Sarah Brightman Three top tribute acts combine in one amazing performance. October 23.

Pentaras Hall, Coral Bay Road, Paphos. Doors open 7.30pm, showtime 8.30pm prompt, ends at 10.45pm. €10. Reservations essential - Tel: 99-832538/26-271130

Re-generation Solo art exhibition by Solomon Moustakas. Opens October 24, 8pm until November 10. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia.

Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-343670

Other Events The Last of the Haussmans A screening of a recorded production by the National Theatre Live. October 23. Rialto Theatre, Heroes Square, Limassol. 8.30pm. In English with Greek subtitles. €8/5/free. Tel: 77777745/25-343903 Roda da Vida: Circle of Life, Circle of Peace Capoeira group Cordão de Ouro host free workshop to raise awareness about multi-communal co-existence through the practice of Capoeira.

October 23. H4C in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone. 7pm. Free. Tel: 22-662269/99-287555. www.youthpowercyprus.org and facebook.com/ rodadavidaproject

Vegas Popular Greek pop hip hop band play in a charity gig. October 24. Lush Beach Bar, Makenzy strip, Larnaca.

8.30pm. €10. Tel: 70-008089.

Email: lushbeachbar@hotmail.com

Other Events Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come and join a walk: Kallepia to Episkopi, Paphos Area, 6 Miles, Grade 2. October 28, book by noon on Wednesday October 24.

Bus times: Akrotiri Main Gate 8am; Episkopi Esso Station 8.15am; Erimi Bridge 8.30am; Pissouri Ranzo’s 8.50am. Walk starts at Kallepia at 9.45am. Bookings to csrc.bookings@gmail.com or answerphone 99-292092 Full details on: www. csrc.ws

Theatre

Theatre

Oscar The New Stage of THOC presents the play based on the work by FrenchBelgian dramatist Eric Emmanuel Schmitt. October 24 until December 8. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every two weeks Wednesday through Saturday.

8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-492900

After the Rehearsal Theatro Ena opens new season with play by Ingmar Bergman. Until November 4. Theatro Ena, 4 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia. Every Friday to Sunday at 8.30pm. €12/15. In Greek. Tel: 22348203

Ongoing Other Events Relationships – DEFA Films from the Archive and Beyond Film screenings by the East German state owned film production company DEFA. October 18-23. Goethe-Institut Cyprus (in the buffer zone next to Ledra Palace Hotel) and the University of Nicosia (UNESCO Amphitheatre).

Times vary. Admission is free. All films in German with English subtitles.

Tel: 96-648718/22-674606. Email: holger.briel@gmail.com Polish Food Festival Experience culinary Polish culture and the sounds of Polish jazz music. Fontana Restaurant, Hilton Hotel, Nicosia.

October 19-27. 8pm. €28 including a shot of Polish vodka. Tel: 22-377777

Staircase ETHAL presents a British comedy with Kostas Vichas and Achilleas Grammatikopoulos. Until November 11 (on specific days). Technohoros ETHAL, 76 Franklin Roosevelt Avenue, Limassol. 8.30pm and 6.30pm on Sundays. €15/10. In Greek Same Time, Next Year Dionysos Theatre opens the new theatre season with play by Bernard Slade, directed by Nikos Charalambous. Until November 25. Dionysos Theatre, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia.

Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6.30pm. In Greek. €20/15. Tel: 22818999/99-621845 The Grönholm Method The New Stage of THOC presents play by Catalan playwright Jordi Galcerán Ferrer. Until December 1.

THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm. In Greek.

Tel: 22-492900

11:16 Anemona Theatre presents a mystery by C. G. Wilson. Until December 23. Anemona Theatre, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday and Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 8pm. In Greek. €10. Tel: 22-573031 The Magic Flute The Children’s Stage of Satiriko Theatre presents play adapted and directed by Thanasis Theologis. Until December 23. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia.

Every Sunday at 10.30am. €10. In Greek. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Exhibitions United States of Europe A travelling exhibition about European identity and today’s Europe. In the exhibition, art works (videos, photos, installations) are confronted with interviews from a sociological study.

Until October 24. Loukia and Michael Zampelas Art Museum 27 Arch.

Makarios III Avenue, Kaimakli. Tue–Fri: 10am-6pm. Sat -Sun: 11am-4pm. www.go-use.eu Venues and Opening Hours Nicosia Municipality Multifunctional Foundation ‘Old Market Pallouriotissa’ 7 Agiou Andreou Street, Pallouriotissa.

Mon–Fri: 10am - 1pm & 5pm- 8pm Temporary Space, 33 Aischylou Street.

Mon–Fri: 10am–1pm & 6pm–9pm

For a full guide to the week’s events and regular meetings, make sure you get a copy of the Sunday Mail

Classic Hotel – The Gallery, 94 Rigenis Street. Mon- Sun: 9am–11pm Goethe-Institut, 21 Markos Drakos Avenue. Mon–Fri: 9am–7pm. Tel: 22-663871 The Expression of My Soul Mixed media show by Kristina Poliakova and Karima Ben Otman. Until October 27. Dinos Art Café, 62-66 Irinis Street, Limassol. MondaySaturday: 10.30am to midnight and Sunday: 4pm to midnight. Tel: 25-762030 For A Helen Solo art exhibition by Kynthia Livaniou. Until October 27. Peninda Plin Ena Gallery, 49 Ellados Street, Limassol. Opening hours: Tuesday- Friday: 11am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-2pm. Tel: 99-522977/25-340727 Points of View Painting exhibition by Eleni and Peter Barron. Until October 27. Argo Gallery, 64E D. Akrita Avenue, Nicosia.

Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-754009. www. argogallery.org Mare Nostrum Group exhibition about the sea. Until October 29. Famagusta Gate, old Nicosia. Open daily: 10am-1pm & 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 4pm-8pm. Tel: 22-797660/22-466426

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Dance makes waves in Limassol

A total of six works will be presented over two days during Aerowaves Nights. From left: Aleksandra Borys Lost It Details - Poland and Alessandro Sciarroni Joseph – Italy

CONTEMPORARY dance, like all contemporary art, is an elusive term which escapes a concrete definition. Historically, contemporary dance sought to break down given hierarchies of dance, initially ballet and then itself with the invention of the postmodern dance movement in the 60s which sought to find alternative, experimental compositional methods.

Nowadays it’s an umbrella term which includes a plethora of styles and focuses on the process of creation and critical approach to dance making, particularly in Europe. For a while, it appeared to lose its connection to the actual dance/movement and merged with performance art to the point that dance became indistinguishable. The essence of the art of choreography lies in the primary concern to create meaning, story, or feeling with a body arranged in space and in relation to rhythmical patterns, occurring from numerous sources – music, speech, silence regardless of the aesthetic or concept. This weekend should be a testament to that with a choice of performances.

One of the leading organisations for promotion of dance in Europe is The Place, which houses a theatre exclusively dedicated to dance performances, the London Contemporary Dance School and a residence for a number of companies. Their scope is wider though,

Tonight Other Events Free fun workshop THE CONTAGIOUS culture of Brazil took over the streets of old Nicosia this weekend as spectators were treated to the exciting athleticism and acrobatic skills of a Capoeira street performance.

The event is part of a multi-communal interaction project called nched by the Roda da Vida, launched rdão de Ouro.

Capoeira group Cordão It consists of four street performrkshops. The ances and four workshops. mance took first street performance place on Saturday and will ee be followed by a free workshop tonight at the H4C in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone.

Born out of slaves nmasking their trainh ing for fighting with dancing, Capoeira has become one of the

they provide services to dance professionals and run Resolution! which is a festival designed to promote young talent. As part of this festival, a smaller festival occurs every January and February: Aerowaves which invites a number of young choreographers from Europe to present their works in the UK for the first time.

It is believed to help launch careers of young artists as it exposes their work to festival organisers throughout Europe.

Each year a handful of artists are chosen from hundreds of applicants. This year Dance House Lemesos will host the meeting of ‘dance experts and cultural delegates’ that consist of previous Aerowaves participants as well as dance curators. Using this opportunity Dance House Lemesos has chosen to present two evenings of dance works on Friday and Saturday, at Rialto Theatre, which will include works by three international artists chosen by the Aerowaves network and three local works which were presented at this year’s Annual Contemporary Dance Platform in Limassol.

On Friday, Lia Haraki (who was chosen by Aerowaves in 2005) will perform her solo Tune In, which is based on the idea of repetition and physical transformation through movement. Harry Koushos’ work Could Be Anyone explores identity in relation to politics and so-

most popular martial arts in the world. Capoeira is a unique blend of martial arts and street dance, with a touch of acrobatic skill thrown in. It is known for its quick and complex moves, using mainly power, speed, and leverage for leg sweeps.

Cordão de Ouro Cyprus Group was founded in 2010 by Mestre Casquinha, after working in London for 10 years. Street performances and workshops will follow throughout the next couple of months for beginners who haven’t got a clue what a ‘roda’ is (a circle of capoeiristas clapping and singing while two compete) to the more a advanced.

T project’s The mai goal is to main rais awareness raise abou multiabout comm communal co-existence and to encourage new, strong bi-commu bi-communal bonds through the practice R of Capoeira. Roda da Vida is a Youth Power P Small Grants project project, aiming to offer the exp experience of multi-com multi-communal co-

existence by bringing young people from all over Cyprus into a creative, positive, energetic and inspiring circle of action. The participants are motivated to express themselves through interactive body movements, rhythm and music.

Project Manager, George Chatzimilioudis states “We want participants from all over the island of Cyprus to experience the environment that Capoeira creates. It is as if you enter into a new world where everybody is labelled... it is a world full of energy, freedom of expression and joy.”

Capoeira helps improve cardiovascular fitness, muscle tone, upper body and core strength, and improves flexibility. If you’re interested in getting fit, meeting new people, learning about a new culture and having fun, have a go at capoeira.

Roda da Vida: Circle of Life, Circle of Peace Capoeira group Cordão de Ouro host free workshop to raise awareness about multi-communal co-existence through the practice of Capoeira.

October 23. H4C in the Ledra Palace Buffer Zone. 7pm. Free. Tel: 22-662269/99-287555. www.youthpowercyprus.org and facebook. com/rodadavidaproject

ciety. Alexander Anrdriyashkin’s solo involved the audience in the creation of his witty solo I Will Try by asking for their input through conversation on how to make a better piece. Saturday evening will open with a work

by Alessandro Sciarroni Joseph, followed by the Polish artist Aleksandra Borys’ work Lost in Details, and ending with Evi Demetriou’s work Unusual Suspects which relies on audience participation.

These works are believed to present the latest experimental approach to dance, choreography and conceptual art. Often audiences feel intimidated by these terms however these works offer a creative opportunity for the audience as they are afforded a chance to imaginatively interpret the works. Some are more abstract than others, however, they all provide narrative through the body and the meanings it projects so go along and enjoy the freedom.

One’s World Within the framework of the Aerowaves annual meeting, Dance House Lemesos presents three works from the choices of Aerowaves and three works by local artists. October 26-27. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €10/7. Tel:77-777745/77-777798

Coming Up Other Events The perfect circle THE Department of Arts of the European University Cyprus is hosting its first lecture from the Art Lecture Series this Thursday entitled: Thoughts On Experimental Drawing: Giotto’s Red Circle and the Idea of an Apparatus.

The idea of greatness and genius is a popular one in art history. A favourite is Giotto’s red circle.

As the story goes, at the start of the 14th century, word of Giotto’s mastery reached Pope Benedict XI in Lombardy. The Pope sent a servant for a sample of the artist’s work. When the servant explained what the Pope wanted, Giotto pulled out a brush and a jar of red paint and, in one stroke, produced a perfect circle. He handed this to the confused servant. When the Pope saw Giotto’s work, he exclaimed that only a true genius could have done such a thing. And

By Dara Milovanovic thus Giotto’s name rose to fame.

Giotto’s story is legendary not only because he won one of art history’s great commissions by drawing a circle (simple, and quite difficult), but also because of the unexpected novelty and bravado that his act entailed.

In that spirit, Elizabeth HoakDoering will explore the idea of experimental drawing, presenting images that range from Renaissance masterpieces to Chinese scroll painting, modern and contemporary works, and works by ‘nonartists’. An arrangement of some of her favourite drawings will serve as an informal way for the artist to open up on topics of observed and conceptual drawing, and artists’ tools and methods, citing David Hockney, Georgio Agamben, and others.

Thoughts On Experimental Drawing: Giotto’s Red Circle and the Idea of an Apparatus First Art Lecture from the Art Lecture Series that Artist and academic Elizabeth Hoak-Doering will be conversing on experimental drawing.

October 25. New Graphic Design Premises, 1 Diogenes str., Block A, 1st Floor, Engomi, European University Cyprus. 6.30pm. Tel: 22713190. S.Hadjipapa@euc.ac.

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FRIENDS WITH ITH BENEFI When Ashley Walters and Alesha Dixon started out on London’s garage scene a decade ago, few would have predicted their rise to TV stardom, or that they would have remained solid friends. They talk to Craig McLean about their troubled pasts and what it takes to stay in the spotlight So Solid Crew with Ashley second left

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UMMER 2001: garage anthem ‘21 Seconds’ was booming from car stereos and So Solid Crew, the South London rappers responsible for the surprise number one, Brit Award-winning hit, were enjoying life in the spotlight, away from the dingy backrooms of pirate radio. But one member of the crew had a dark secret. Peckham-born Asher D, known to his local government worker mother as Ashley Walters, had been at the Sylvia Young Theatre School from the age of six.

Rapping about his roles in Grange Hill and The Young Indiana Jones would have done little for his street cred, so he spat lyrics about ‘smoking mac g’s like a Jamaican’ and lapped up the glamorous life, along with his crewmates Megaman and Romeo.

UK garage was having its moment. Earlier that year girlband Mis-Teeq, a smash on the underground garage scene, reached number eight in the charts with their debut single ‘Why?’, which launched a 23-year-old singer-slashMC called Alesha Dixon.

Walters with Ruth Wilson in Small Island

“They were quite intimidating when you first met them,” says Dixon, dripping in diamonds in a Kensington hotel suite, as she recalls hanging out with the So Solid Crew at the height of both bands’ fame. “We’d bump into each other at different club nights. There were so many of them, and you’re like, ‘Oh my God!’” she laughs before adding: “But after the first time we chatted, I thought, ‘Ashley’s cool’. Perhaps even then, they recognised in each other a determination that set them apart from their bandmates and meant that despite the fallouts, dramas, prison sentences and abandoning of music the next decade would bring, these two stars were destined to succeed... and meet again, 12 years later, wearing dinner jackets and jewels, having put their careers as TV stars on hold for long enough to record a duet.

The sweet and rhythmic ‘Your Love’ is the first tune taken from Walters’ upcoming solo album, which he’s promoting in the fleeting downtime between finishing work on Doctor Who (he plays one of a trio of brothers, an intergalactic salvage crew) and starting filming on

Your Love: Dixon and Walters are collaborating on a new single the Hackney set of Channel 4’s Top Boy 2. Dixon, meanwhile, has a few weeks spare before flying to America to work on her next solo album, and beginning production of her second season on Britain’s Got Talent. I jokingly ask Walters which singers said no before he approached his old friend to collaborate on the track. “In the past, I have had to… settle,” admits the man who has previously recorded with Mutya Buena, Chipmunk and Lisa Moorish. “But Alesha was my first choice - though at that point I hadn’t seen her in ages.” Such has been Dixon’s small-screen success, he

wasn’t sure if she was still interested in a music career - her 2006 solo album, Fired Up, only came out in Japan, and her last solo outing, The Alesha Show, was released four years ago. Since then, she’s become better known as a TV presenter, jewellery promoter and charity ambassador.

Dixon was born in Welwyn Garden City 34 years ago, into what she’s described as a “dysfunctional family” (she spoke about witnessing her mother suffer domestic violence from an ex-partner in a 2010 BBC documentary).

Her parents split when she was four, and between her

‘We both came scene,’ says Walte at it, out of Mis-Tee Alesha’s done a English mother Beverly and Jamaican father Melvin she has five half- brothers and a half-sister. “I remember the day I said to my dad that I wanted to be in a girl group.

Bless his soul, he said: ‘What makes you think you’re going to succeed? Black people

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from this country don’t succeed,’” she says with no hint of bitterness. “And I remember saying to my dad at 15, 16: ‘I’m not going to make my decisions in life based on other people’s successes or failures. I have to make my own path.’ So in a way that drove

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me even more. And when Mis-Teeq broke through, you could argue there weren’t that many black artists in the UK. That’s why it felt special. It felt like something that was ours. We created a sound, an identity. That was important.”

When Dixon agreed to the duet, Walters was delighted.

It was a testament to their friendship, which had survived Dixon’s divorce of Walters’ So Solid bandmate MC Harvey in 2006, having discovered he’d had an affair with singer Javine Hylton (and fathered her child). “We both came from the garage scene,” says Walters, “and if you look at it, out of

Mis-Teeq it’s obvious that Alesha’s done amazingly well - and managed to maintain a career over a long period of time. And I feel like I’ve done the same thing. So it makes sense us doing this tune together.”

The past decade has been equally eventful for Walters, who has three children with his partner Natalie and one from another relationship.

While So Solid leader Megaman was tried three times on a murder charge (and acquitted in 2006), in 2002 Walters was sentenced to 18 months for firearms possession. “Prison was the definitive moment for me because before I went to prison I

wasn’t really too concerned with anything other than just doing what I loved doing. I’d had two children before I went in, and I was the worst father in the world. I spent no time with them. I preferred being out on the road, being around the scene, around the music. What prison did to me was make me realise, acting is not just a hobby any more - it’s my career and it’s something I’m going to be able to utilise in order to provide for my children. So I pretty much knuckled down and focused. But also, after I came out I distanced myself from the bad elements that were around me. That was one

of the hardest things to do, because a lot of these people I considered brothers.

But I had to walk away from the situation for the greater good, for my family. And for myself as well.”

Since then, Walters has earned acclaim for his performances in Bullet Boy, in which he played the just-outof-prison Ricky and won best newcomer at the British Independent Film Awards, and Top Boy, Channel 4’s London take on The Wire, in which he played criminal king-pin Dushane. He and his friend, actor-director Noel Clarke, are now talking to Sky Atlantic about an idea for a new

drama series.

The pitch: a UK version of the Will Smith/Martin Lawrence action movie Bad Boys. So, undercover cops, bulletproof vests, explosions, guns, car chases… “All sorts of things! Basically we’re trying to glamorise the police force,” he says.

You’d think film companies would bite their hands off: two talented, good-looking black British men, starring in a London-set, youth-oriented police thriller. In the wake of last year’s riots, how timely, provocative and agenda-setting. Walters shakes his head. Their original idea was for a film and before Sky expressed interest: “We had a lot of production companies shut the door on us, because being a policeman over here is just not the same as in the US. A lot of black people are in the police over there, whereas over here it’s minimal.”

But he and Clarke are undaunted. “It’s just about trying to take the genre of film to another level. We can keep making Kidulthood and Adulthood and Bullet Boy for years. But what is that doing for black cinema and TV?” It might involve a lot more sequins and big smiles, but Dixon is doing her bit for black Britons on TV, too.

First winning the traditionally white, middle-class Strictly Come Dancing in 2007, then replacing the Daily Mail’s poster girl Arlene Phillips as a judge in 2009.

Now, in a £300,000 deal with ITV, she’s making and breaking dreams on the panel of Britain’s Got Talent. “When I was in Mis-Teeq, I never planned on being a TV judge, I was really happy within music. But Ashley actually started out acting - for him it was the reverse. No matter what you do outside music, if you love it, that never leaves you. For me, no matter what I do in TV, music will always be where my heart is. It’s the thing that actually gets me most excited out of everything that I do.”

Walters, now scrubbed up in a dinner jacket and shiny shoes for the shoot, is wearing a dress scarf and a cat-thatgot-the-cream smile while Dixon slides into a bathtub.

“Oh man, I’m in there!” he laughs. Dixon’s distinctive foghorn cackle reverberates through the suite.

The message is coming through loud and clear: the Ashley ’n’ Alesha show is a natural partnership: dynamic, daft and fun. Give these two their own TV programme, now.

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and people. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

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HEALTH & FITNESS ***************************** PREMIER MASSAGE with English lady for stress, body pains & relaxation, Tel: 99736426 ***************************** CHINESE ACUPUNCTURE, cupping, skin honing, massage. For alleviation of aches, pains, stress and improvement of body tone. Pafos area - call 9922 1851 for appointment ***************************** CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modified form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988. *****************************

LESSONS ***************************** TIME FOR A CAREER CHANGE? Learn how to teach English! The London Teacher Training College is offering TEFL Certificate courses in Cyprus. For more information call now on 99839307. ***************************** ENGLISH LESSONS with qualified teacher, €17 per lesson in student’s home. Nicosia. Contact Katerina 99710226 *****************************

VERY HANDSOME MALE GSD MIX, medium sized, around 3 years old. Good temperament.

A kind dog. He is miserable at the shelter. Give him a chance!

At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

GENTLEMAN , 50’S, tall dark with medium build, not bad looking, home and car owner, would like to meet a nice lady, any nationality, not as important as personality, medium or slim build, be nice if able to drive, please text or call: 99099003 – Paphos area ***************************** WHITE BRITISH MALE 50 would like to meet similar female for friendship, romance, casual relationship. No strings attached.

Call Toney on 95705649 or text any time. ***************************** AUSTRIAN INGENEUR, 50 years, searching for a nice women. Mobile:004917365562 or 00491726293462 *****************************

SERVICES ***************************** RENOVATION NEEDED All aspects of renovation on, plumbing, painting, ceramica, art decors and gypsum. All High European Standards Nicosia Area. Information Tel 99816698 or 99832814

MIKA is a 4 month old spaniel mix puppy. Black and white colour. She will be a small sized dog. Very playful and friendly. ! At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes ! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

REX is a German Shepherd/boxer cross medium to large size male dog around 1 year old.

Friendly with other dogs , cats

UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN CLEANING Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ Fabric Suites from 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€. Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed. Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas ***************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY

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CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses. Special offers now available. For a quote call Ricky’s Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com ***************************** LOGS FOR SALE olive, carrob and eucalyptus. Delivered to your door free 12 euro per 20 kilo bag tel 99682243 or 99588114 By the Tom the log man. ***************************** KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER IN SUMMER AND WARMER IN THE WINTER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering/leaving your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con/heating. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** COMPUTER ASSISTANCE. PC repairs &servicing. Fully qualified engineer over 35 years experience. Island wide coverage.

Call Bill 99114617. email:bill@ computass.comadmail ***************************** EXPERIENCED PAINTER at very reasonable prices! Decorative coatings, house painting, sprits and graphiato, varnishing, damp proofing and protection from humidity for walls and ceilings. Free estimates! Call Harry on 97768020 ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work.

For information call JIMMYS: 96587137, MELIS: 96547879 *****************************

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classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 18 Employment Miscellaneous 18 Pets 18 Lessons 18 Health & Fitness 18 Personal 18 Services 18 For Sale Miscellaneous 18 For Sale Land/ Property Business 19 For Sale Motor vehicles -Wanted 19 To Let Nicosia 19 To Let Limassol 21 To Let Larnaca 22 To Let Paphos 22 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -To Let Athens 24 Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Nicosia 24 For Sale Limassol 24 For Sale Larnaca 24 For Sale Paphos 24 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras 24 For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 25

abbreviations bdrm c/h a/c s/pool f/f apt pm pw sw nw st rd p/s c/l swb r/cass e/w

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Advertiser FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS women’s dummies and modern wall fittings (clothes rails.)

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FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ***************************** TIMI, PLOTS, a few selected available, seaview, near the 2 golf courses, Venus Rock and airport 60% building factor, €99.000. Half registration fees til the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914 ***************************** LARNACA, ALETHRIKO, plots for sale, 525 sqm, 90% building factor, near highway Limassol-Larnaca, 5 min from airport, quiet residential area €109.000. Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914

PLOT LOCATED IN MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL 617sqm.

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FOR SALE B.P./LAND €210.000 negotiable Tel: 99 330 908 FOR SALE PLOT of 528sqm located in Paphos Municipality in the Agios Paulos area. It offers a large 100% build factor, and is suitable for the construction of a large house or apartment building. Price € 260.000 tel.

99 330 908 www.cyprusre. com/listing-paf-0007 SALE OF FIVE ADJACENT PLOTS in Paphos.Considered a significant investment opportunity because the plots are located in a central area of Paphos(very close to the central public market).Sale of either all together or independently. Prices: €220000 – 250000 each. Call 99494753

FOR SALE B.P./LAND FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554. ***************************** LAND FOR SALE: Drousia: 251m2, BD90%, €50.000; Drymou: 1143m2, BD10% €70.000; Innia: 335m2, BD90% €80.000 (stone house); Lasa: 3679m2 BD90% €300.000; Lasa: 2342m2 BD10% €80.000; Letympou: 669m2 BD10% €85.000; Armou: 4000m2, BD10%, €350.000 (with building permit); Marathounta: 7693m2, BD10%, €150.000; Pegeia: 1942m2, BD10%, €300.000; Stroumpi: 846m2, BD90%, €150.000.

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TREMITHOUSA, plots for sale in a very quiet area, unobstructed sea and mountain views, 600 – 700 sqm, prices from €170.000 Tel: 99510420

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PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40,000 sq.m. , zoning Ka7 (80% -45% - 3 stories).

Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc.

Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554

FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/terrace or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy, 22455072, 99089083.

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES HARLEY DAVIDSON 1200XL Custom, as new condition, only 8,500 K, has many extras including pillion seat, luggage

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES rack, saddle bags, electronic fuel gauge, and many more.

All taxes paid. priced to sell €5,500.00. Tel 99 009104 *****************************

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FOR RENT 3 bedroom flat completely renovated in Strovolos.

135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. €650/ month Call 99 330 908. ***************************** ROOM FOR RENT suitable for student or single person / either male or female the address is: 71 Arsinois Str, Strovolos, flat 301. Near Kennedy Ave, Terra

TO LET NICOSIA Santa School, Phillips Collage.

The place is quiet and clean.

We prefer European students or European citizen. Contact 99961282 FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank.

3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition.

Information: Tel. 99621554 ***************************** TO LET 2-bedroom, fully de-

TO LET NICOSIA tached house, with sitting & dining room, living room, office/ study room, 2 bathrooms, 2 verandas, a/c, central heating, solar, covered garage in a quiet neighbourhood in Ayios Andreas, Nicosia – €600/month.

Call: Thanos - 99543533 ***************************** FOR RENT studio Nikis Ave. 430, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Platy 480 furnished, Kennedy Ave. furnished 440, 2 bdrm Lykavito

CARE GIVER WANTED To look after an old lady on a wheelchair.

Contact: 22 428 465

English-Painter & Decorator

SELEC Fencing & Decking Specialist

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For all your Garden and Security Fencing

SUMMER OFFER 30% OFF ALL AREAS • External & Internal painting • Damp Damage Repairs • Spritze Repairs • Free Estimates + very clean work • All areas. All types of woodwork stained and preserved • All work guaranteed

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♦ Quality approved workmanship ♦ 15 years experience + guaranteed work ♦ English workers ♦ also garden gates ♦ sheds ♦ chain link fencing ♦ free estimates ♦ all types of fencing & decking

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furnished 575, Nikis Ave. furnished 500, Acropolis brand new furnished 550, Ag. Dometios ground floor with garden 600, 3 bdrm Ag. Omologites house ideal for cultural centre/ spa 850, Strovolos 600, 4 bdrm Acropolis ground floor 800, Dasoupolis new independent house 1200. 21 PROPERTY FINDER LTD. A.M. 627, A.A. 108/E 99474839, 99646822 ***************************** WHOLE FLOOR OFFICE FOR RENT in Ayios Andreas, Nicosia, 240 m2, 8 offices plus conference room, reception area, kitchen and WC, structured cabling, hot and cold aircon, 1800 euros pcm, tel. 99 895649 ***************************** TO LET Lykavitos, off Kallipoleos, 2-Bedr. 3rd floor corner flat. bright, 2 balconies, large, open plan lounge, kitchen with fitted oven-Hobs, AC hot/cold, solar heater, storeroom, parking.Tel: 97-694336, 99-692316. *****************************

FOR RENT – three-bedroom flat in Lykavitos, Nicosia. Open plan fully-equipped kitchen and living area, two bathrooms, air conditioning and central heating. Big veranda. Near the town centre and University of Cyprus. Contact 99-721911 / 99-454141 ***************************** 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. ***************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appli-

TO LET NICOSIA ances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. 3 bedr + office space luxury ground floor house with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen fully equipped with family room, big covered veranda, garden with grass, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, covered parking in a quiet area opposite Apoel training field. Available also if needed 1 bedr apartment in the basement with higher rent - ARCHANGELOS €1200 (H4AR0015-R), (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €650 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr ground floor semi detached house, 170sq.m, central heating, 3 a/c, 2wc, big kitchen with cooker, oven, big front veranda, small yard, in a very quiet neighbourhood near Areteion hospital and Alpha Mega supermaket. Available

TO LET NICOSIA end of September - Dasoupoli €650 (H3DAS0007-R), (photos in the website).

5. 4 bedr new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr+big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house,210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1200 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website).

7. 3 bedr upstairs and one downstairs luxury detached house built in 2 plots of land with big garden and big over floor swimming pool 4 X 10, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, double glazed windows(PVC), electric shutters on all windows, in a very quiet neighbourhood, in the centre of Latsia near Carrefour LATSIA €2700 (H4LAT0010-R), (photos in the website).

8. 4 bedr luxury detached house + big separate maid’s room, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area, big

TO LET NICOSIA separate family room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area, 4wc, parquet floor all the house, mature garden on the front and back of the house, 3 covered parking, in a quiet area - PARISSINOS €2300 (H4PA20006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in the basement which has also separate entrance from the house, central heating, full a/c, solid parquet floor all the house, big sitting and dining room with fire place, big fully equipped kitchen with breakfast area and family room, big overfloor, swimming pool with covered patio area with fully equipped bar(bbq, fridge, freezer, cooker),mature garden around the house,2 parking places, alarm system near the Cyprus Conference CentrePLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €900 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached

TO LET NICOSIA house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools.

ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedr + attic room luxury house with central heating, full expensive air conditions Daikin, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, in a quiet area near Sampson farm - STROVOLOS €700 (H3ST10013-R), (photos in the website).

13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

14. 4 bedr luxury detached house + separate maid’s room and playroom in the basement, 2 closed covered parking, central heating, full a/c, big swimming pool and patio around the pool, garden, big sitting and dining room, separate TV room next to the kitchen, office space, big kitchen with

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA cooker, oven and dishwasher in a quiet area near the football stadium - MAKEDONITISSA €2000 (H4MAK0031-R), (photos in the website).

15. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website).

16. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

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TO LET NICOSIA 422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 3 bedr furnished apartment, 140sq.m, near Cyprus Hilton, kitchen, bathroom and extra guests toilet, large sitting room, opposite a small park, recently renovated independent oil central heating, air conditions, solar heater, covered parking – Acropolis €630 (A3ACS0040-R), (photos in the website).

2. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 3 a/c for hot and cold, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking on a small building 200 METRES from Akropolis Park. Price includes common expenses – Dasoupolis €620 (A2DAS0027-R), (photos in the website).

3. 2 bedrs luxury big apartment in a small building with 4 apartments only, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, 125sq.m, central heating independent, 3ac,Fully nicely furnished separate kitchen, big sitting and dining area,2wc,covered parking behind Hilton hotel off Kennedy and Makarios close to the centre.– NICOSIA CENTRE €600 (A2NIC0026-R), (photos in the website).

4. 2 bedr spacious luxury finished apartment in a small modern building with electrical floor heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, FULLY NICELY MODERN FUR-

TO LET NICOSIA NISHED, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, off Kennedy avenue in a quiet area – ACROPOLIS €800 (A2ACS0030-R), (photos in the website).

5. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website).

6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighborhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €400 (A1ST10009-R), (photos in the website).

7. New 2 bedr luxury apartment, 90sq.m, storage heaters, 3 a/c, cooker and oven, covered verandah, 2 wc, NICELY FURNISHED, covered parking and storage room of Kyriakou Matsi street near the centre – Agioi Omologites €650 (A2AOM0008-R), (photos in the website).

8. 1 BEDR fully renovated apartment, FULLY NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, a/c for hot and cold, in a quiet area near Agios antonios market. - LYKAVITOS

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€450 (A1LYK0020-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – ENGOMI €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

10. 3 bedr ground floor apartment, 200 sq. m, 2wc, big sitting room with fire place, solid parquet floor, a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered parking, near Eleon swimming pool - ENGOMI - €800 (A3ENG0020-R), (photos in the website).

11. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood in

a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €800 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood – Nicosia Centre €1400 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website).

13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €570 (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos in the website).

14. 3 bedr luxury spacious fully renovated apartment with separate central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 3 wc, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining areas with fire place, big covered veranda, covered parking, blinds, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking, on a small 2 storey building, walking distance to

the centre – Lykavitos €1000 (A3LYK0009-R), (photos in the website).

15. 2 bedrs new luxury apartment, sitting room open plan with kitchen which includes cooker, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, 2 wc, central heating ,full AC, blinds on the windows, very big covered verandas, covered parking and storage room in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI €580 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

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99 330 908 FOR RENT 2 bedroom flat located in Germasoyia with partial sea views, 85sqm less than 10 years old with title deeds Price €135.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0361 ***************************** 2 BEDROOM MAISONETTE, LIMASSOL (Le Meridien area), semi-detached, F/F, hot/cold A/C, wi-fi internet, fly screens, shutters, private garden, parking, communal pool, tennis, quiet area, 4min to beach, #30 bus stop. € 800 p/m. For photos www.acasalimassol.iowners.net, or call 99 385314. ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

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LARNACA ***************************** VERY LONG TERM RENT 160 sq m on ground floor. Very clean spacious open plan living. Perfect for expat or retired couple looking for a quiet life in peaceful area. Only one minute walk to Orphanides, Marks and Spencer and St Raphael Clinic. Own courtyard.

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EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE FOR TENANTS AND LANDLORDS. PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR RENT LONG & SHORT TERM RENTAL. FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WITH KEY HOLDING AND RENT COLLECTIONS OFFERED Yeroskipou: 2 bed furnished apartment, cosy furniture, communal pool, walking distance to all local amenities, Ref: 1034 Price 375 Konia: 3 bedroom unfurnished spacious town house with communal pool in nice residential area, walking distance to all local amenities, suit a family with children Ref:1027 Price €500 Anavargos: 3 bed part furnished extremely large apartment, walking distance to the general hospital, lift, quiet building: Ref:1162 Price €400 Mesogi: 4 bed very large unfurnished modern villa with private pool, nice residential area, gardens, near amenities, pets welcomed, not far to the International School of Paphos. Ref: 783 Price €800 Secret Valley: 3 bed villa fully furnished in modern style, landscaped gardens, quiet location, Private pool, not far from Aphrodite Hills and golf area of Secret Valley. Ref:1033 Price €650 Mandria: 4 bedroom villa offered unfurnished in very nice location, walking distance to all amenities, garden ,with Private pool, pets welcome Ref:1174 Price €750 Lower Peyia: Very large 5 bedroom luxury villa offered fully furnished, Large astro turf garden ,with Private pool, Jacuzzi, central heating, excellent sea views. Ref:1167 Price €3000 Stoumbi: Modern newly built property with private pool, stone features, outside gardens, nice location and views: Ref: 737 Price €800 Tsada: Very large villa with spacious living areas, kitchen with lots of cupboards, fire place, central heating, peaceful location with valley view’s Ref: 955 Price €1300 PROPERTIES WANTED FOR SALE/LONGTERM/HOLIDAY LETTING. PLEASE CALL US FOR A LISTING OF YOUR PROPERTY OR SEND US INFORMATION AND PICTURES TO OUR EMAIL BELOW: OFFICE: 120 MARKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties available on WEB: www. flowron.com Email info@ flowron.com WEB: www. holidayrentalsinpaphos.com Your Vision - Our Mission ****************************** LONG TERM RENTALS

1. CHLORAKAS 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €350 pcm including all bills Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing.

KATO PAPHOS- 1 bedroom Town-House, Newly fitted kitchen, Enclosed Rear Garden, Cloakroom, €200 EMBA-Traditional Detached 3 bed room, F/F, very spacious property, large garden with a variety of fruit trees, fabulous kitchen, €450 TREMITHOUSA- 2 Bedroom, Traditional Village Bungalow, Very Large Courtyard, Parking. €280 FULLY FURNISHED PROPERTIES WANTED MORE PROPETIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 ***************************** 1. 1 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, pets allowed Price: €270 o.n.o 2. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex in a very quiet area, 1 bathroom, air condition throughout, spectacular sea and mountain views and communal pool, close to all amenities, pets allowed Price: €320 o.n.o 3. 2 bedroom, fully furnished apartment in Peyia in a small complex, quiet area, 1 W/C downstairs, 1 bathroom , air condition throughout ,communal pool, balcony, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed, Price: €370 o.n.o 4. 4 bedroom fully furnished detached Villa in Peyia in small complex, private swimming pool , BBQ area and small garden, 1 en-suite bathroom in master bedroom, downstairs bedroom and bathroom, air condition throughout, 2 balconies, very spacious rooms, with additional storage space, lovely sea and mountain views, close to all amenities, satellite dish, pets allowed. Price : €750 o.n.o ALL THE ABOVE PROPERTIES ARE PRIVATELY OWNED PLEASE CALL: 99351008/99563020 ***************************** FLOWRON PROPERTY SERVICES LTD: PROVIDING AN

Friends for Life Limassol Care Appeal will be holding their Annual Christmas Fair on the 8th and 9th of December At the Atlantica Miramare Beach Hotel Limassol 11am to 7 pm daily The organizers wish to inform those who have Craft items to exhibit there are still a few tables 180x80 available to rent at 30 Euros each per day.

For booking and further information please call Anne

99269016

“Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal” Wish to inform their valued customers On Tuesday 13th November they will hold their not to be missed Déjà vu afternoon from 2.30 until 4.30 at the Leontious Street Charity Shop Limassol between St Barnabas Church and Mitsubishi traffic lights.

Come and purchase your Christmas and New Year Party Clothing plus Festive Decorations

2. KISSONERGA 2 bed town house, small garden, off street parking, close to bus and shops. NO POOL €350 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing 3. SEA FRONT 2 bed apartment with massive balcony, fully furnished, parking. a/c, comm. pool, on site facilities, walking distance to amenities. €435 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing 4. PAPHOS 2 bed 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly screens, storage, satellite TV, private parking, swimming pool, From €390 pcm Call 96 545 174 for more info and to arrange a viewing.

THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON ENQUIRIES@ CYPRUSPROPERTYSOLUTIONS.COM LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. ****************************** PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available.

Also wanted for waiting clients. www.johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail. com Tel: 00357 99984681 FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 **************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 **************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. KONIA €500 beautifully designed 3 bedroom spacious townhouse, master with ensuite plus guest wc.

Finished to a high standard with modern fitted kitchen & bathrooms. Available unfurnished though includes security alarm system, flyscreens, storage area & blinds. Stunning pool area shared only with 3 other homes. website reference number: RTL_585 2. SEA CAVES €550 we are delighted to offer this de-

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS tached 2 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area offering sea views. Gated drive for off street parking. Fully enclosed good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy and shaded areas. Available unfurnished or part furnished. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_482 3. UNIVERSAL AREA €550situated in a central location close to many amenities this large semi detached house offering 3 bedrooms plus 3.5 bathrooms. Enclosed garden with private pool. Separate utility room/storage room. Large verandas. Solar panels & sky satellite. Available furnished or unfurnished. website reference number: Rtl_425 4. TALA €625 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes under floor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street parking.

A beautiful home. website reference number: RTL_530 5. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool.

Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout

TO LET PAPHOS blinds, curtains, ceiling fans & log burner for those winter months. Immaculate condition. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_633 offers considered.

6. CHLORAKA €750 spacious modern detached villa situated in lower Chloraka opposite orange groves, offering stunning sea views. 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Guest wc. Tastefully decorated and furnished with modern furniture. Real fireplace for those winter months. Private gated drive. Surrounding the property is a large landscaped garden with private pool. website reference number: RTL_326 7. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of Limnaria. Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living accommodation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. website reference number: RTL_442 8. TSADA €2000 fantastic 4 bedroom 4 bathroom villa offering breathtaking sea & mountain views from every aspect. Spacious living areas with central heating and real fireplace.

Covered veranda leading to private pool with Jacuzzi and large stone built bbq area.

Separate storage rooms, utility room & garage. Available fully

TO LET PAPHOS furnished or unfurnished. Offers considered. website reference number: RTL_639 Tel: 97790883 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrent-paphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net ***************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97648440 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!!

1. MESA CHORIO – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished ground floor apartment set on an elevated position on this prestigious development. Open plan living area. Good sized kitchen.

2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room.

Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates..

Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. Euros 425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex Euros 400.00 a month.

2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shopping areas. Large open plan living

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3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom.

Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month. Suit nondrivers!

3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own entrance via stairway. Open plan living

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A/C, sat TV. Internet available.

Large balcony area. Parking.

Euros 350.00 per month 4. KISSONEGA - 3 bed 2 bath unfurnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area. Full itted kitchen. Small utility area. Conservatory room. Ground floor bed room with en-suite. Stairs

TO LET PAPHOS to two double bedrooms and family bathroom. Pool and off street parking. Euros 600.00 per month 5. STROUMBI – 2 bed fully furnished stone bungalow set in quiet location. Open plan living area with working fireplace.

Spacious dining kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom with corner bath.

Landscaped gardens, swim-

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS ming pool and covered parking. Realistically priced Euros 500.00 per month or close offers only 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment.

Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area,comm. Pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at 250 euros per month.

7. CORAL BAY - 3 bed, 3.5 bath furnished/unfurnished villa situated very near to the centre and within easy walking of beaches and restaurants.

Open plan living area with fully fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Ground floor bedroom with ensuite.

Separate guest WC. Stairs to 2 double bedroom both with en-suite and balcony areas.

Private pool, gardens, BBQ area and covered verandahs.

Central location.Euros 650.00 per month or close offers.

8. STROUMBI– 3 bed 2.5 bath large unfurnished villa in quiet village area. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Good sized fitted kitchen and breakfast area. Guest WC with storage area.3 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom.

Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.com ***************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional

TO LET PAPHOS wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

ATHENS ***************************** TO LET Ambelokipi, off Kifisias Ave. Penthouse, one bedr. flat, renovated, large fitted kitchen, balcony 10 sq.m. Very close to Panormou metro, buses, trolleys to centre, all shops nearby. Rent: €350. Tel: 97-694336, 22-428200. *****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL ***************************** BARGAIN PRICE DETACHED HOME FOR QUICK SALE with title deeds. Located on a quite cul de sac in Germasoyia within a short 2 minute drive to the beach and tourist area. 3 bedroom. 325sqm plot, 160sqm house. Price € 385.000 tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-lim-0337 *****************************

NICOSIA ***************************** NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated.

Located in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000. Negotiable Call: 99

FOR SALE NICOSIA 330 908 ***************************** HOUSE FOR SALE/RENT new independent 4 bedrooms house located in Kaithea (Latsia) area in Nicosia. The house is build on a plot of 299 sq m, with covered area 147 sq m.

Master bedroom with en-suite bathroom. Provision for central heating and a/c. Price for sale: €265.000 incl VAT. Price for rent: €900 monthly. For further information or to arrange a viewing please contact 99844789 ***************************** FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596. *****************************

LARNACA ***************************** ARADIPPOU, Larnaca Magnificient Villa fully furnished reduced by thousands to €280,000. 3 - 4 bedrooms, lounge (marble floors), dining/ sitting, utility, kitchen, ensuite, bathroom. Many extras. Walk in condition e-mail: weetotie@cytanet.com.cy or phone 97851329 *****************************

FOR SALE LARNACA PAPHOS ***************************** LOFOS – TALA, 3 bedroom bungalow for sale, living room, kitchen, bathroom, shower room, central heating, air con, private pool, landscaped gardens, lovely views. Call: 99342913 – no agents ***************************** 1. PAPHOS, FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bdrm flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914. ***************************** FOR SALE- PAPHOS

1. REGINA GDNS- 2 Bedroom Townhouse set on a luxury complex with 3 communal pools, private parking, private driveway, rear patio, solar panels, TITLE DEEDS. Covered area 92sq. mtrs. Priced to sell at €115,000.

2. FAROS BEACH- 2 Bedroom fully furnished apartment, situated 120m from a popular beach off Tombs of The Kings.

Sea views, solar panels, private parking, spacious balcony, large family bathroom, TITLE

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DEEDS AVAILABLE. Priced to sell at €138,000.

downstairs bathroom, private 8mx4m pool, to be sold including quality furniture. Covered area 132sq. mtrs on a plot 378sq. mtrs. TITLE DEEDS. Priced to sell at €295,000.

3. ATHENA GARDENS- Beautiful 2 Bedroom fully furnished ground floor apartment in Geroskipou with communal pools, gardens, large patio with roll down canvas sidings (low electricity bills). This property comes with many many extras and it is priced at 25% below value at €140,000. Covered area 96sq. mtrs.

4. UNIVERSAL- 2 Bedroom end of terrace Townhouse, situated close to the new school and bus route, with front garden, rear patio area, and communal pool, this property comes fully furnished and is priced for a quick sale at €98,000. TITLE DEEDS IMMINENT. 5.

LIMNARIA GARDENS- 1 Bedroom fully furnished spacious top floor apartment with lounge leading to patio overlooking communal pools on a luxury complex. Shutters all round, heated pool with Jacuzzi, 200m from beach. Priced to sell at €135,000.

6. SECRET VALLEY- Splendid 3 Bedroom detached villa with master bedroom en-suite, enclosed gardens, private pool next to Secret Valley Golf Course and set in a quiet cul-de-sac. This beautiful villa comes furnished with high quality furnishings and a covered area of 154sq. mtrs.

Set on a plot of 408sq. mtrs.

Very reasonably priced at €370,000.

7. LOWER PEGIA- 3 Bedroom 2 Bathroom detached villa with totally enclosed gardens, workshop and storage units.

Master bedroom en-suite,

8. MARATHOUNDA- Superb 4 Bedroom detached villa with a covered area 310sq. mtrs on a beautiful plot of 928sq. mtrs.

Set in an unspoilt area offering marvellous views. All bedrooms en-suite, large lounge with stone carved fire surround and wood burning fire, black granite work surfaces, traditional stone arches, private 8mx4m pool, outbuildings, garage. Many many extras.

Price includes all furniture and white goods. TITLE DEEDS. Priced well below the market value at €475,000.

For further details please contact 99874804 or E-mail: rocpropertiescyp@gmail.com ***************************** KISSONERGA – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom semi-detached house for sale in quiet edge of village, near all facilities shops etc, 2 bath, a/c, fly screens, fans, 6 mins from the beach, title deeds, €115.000 o.n.o tel: 26 950923/ 99987694 FOR SALE special offer, €79,000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941.

AYIA NAPA 1. AYIA NAPA, Studio for sale, 38 sqm, furnished and fully renovated, with title deed, in licensed complex, 5030m from Nissi Beach €49.000. Tel. 99621914. LARNACA

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized.

5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012.

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NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On September 10th, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation Act Hinchinbrook Shipping Company (“Company”) with registration number C-113093 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date.

2. The deadline for submitting claims is 11th April 2013 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized.

5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: September 10th, 2012 Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board.

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Nicosia ........................22 802 020 Limassol ......................25 805 050 Larnaca .......................24 804 040 Paphos ........................26 806 060 Famagusta ..................23 803 030

Nicosia General .............22-801400 Nicosia Makarios ...........22-405000 Limassol Old ................25-305333 Limassol New ................25-801100 Larnaca Old...................24-630312 Larnaca New .................24-630300 Paphos ..........................26-821800 Famagusta ....................23-821211

Drug Law Enforcement Unit ......................................... 1498 (Confidential Information) Rescue Co-ordination Centre ............................. 1441 (Immediate Response Service for Aeronautical or Maritime Accident & Incidents) Game Fund Service: (Wildlife and hunting) Central offices (Nicosia): 22867786, 22-867897 Nicosia: 22-664606, 99-445697 Limassol: 25-343800, 99-445728, Larnaca/Famagusta: 24-805128, 99-634325 Paphos: 26-306211, 99-445679 Forest Fires ..................... 1407

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

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Advertiser FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581 CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS. Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS! PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE Registered Charity No 1529 Contact our shops and we can take your clutter The Charity Shops are located at: Shop No.1 Agapinoros Street, Kato Paphos Tel 26910325 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Tel 26942894 Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca 24623494 Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol 25561695 Peyia Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 26622828 Polis Information Centre & Shop & T Rooms 99223572 Book Exchange Shop Trimithousa 99771763 Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods!

NOW YOU CAN HELP BY COLLECTING YOUR ALUMINIUM CANS AND HANDING THEM IN AT ANY PAPHIAKOS CHARITY SHOP OR THE CLINIC. SAVE AN ANIMAL AND SAVE THE ENVIRONMENT!!

PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600.

FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 WORLD ANIMAL DAY. On Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be micro chipping pets for only €20 including all the paperwork. For further information telephone 26953496.

To celebrate World Animal Day on Thursday October 4th Paphiakos will be offering free spaying/neutering for all feral and unwanted animals as they do throughout the year. Contact 26953496 for further details.

PAPHIAKOS SHELTER OPEN DAY The Open Day will be held on Sunday October 7th between 10am and 3pm. It will be a Family Fun Day out with a lot of different activities. There is car parking, toilets and refreshments on site so enjoy and join in the celebration of animals and what they bring to our lives. Entrance is €2 CHARITY HAIR CUT. On Thursday 4th October 09.30-17.30 without an appointment Andri at Atlantic Bay Hotel (2nd Floor) will be charging €5 for a haircut with all proceeds going to Paphiakos. Telephone Suzanne on 99151996 or Andri on 99604783.

PAPHIAKOS CHRISTMAS BAZAAR. Saturday November 24th 9am – 3pm at the Crazy Spoon Restaurant. For further details contact 99151996. Stalls, Santa’s Grotto, Donkey Rides, Pirate Pat and many more.

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Television CYBC 1 06.45 Proti Enimerosi Weekly news show, looking at the latest headlines and sports news.

08.15 Kali Sas Mera Local variety show, with entertainment options, cookery tips and more.

11.00 Kaftes Piperies (rpt) 11.30 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV. 12.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Mazi Sto CyBC 17.30 Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) 18.00 News 18.15 Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show.

18.45 Paizoume Kypriaka New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20 Moiraia Fengaria New local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’.

Renos is facing serious economic problems and Rafaella offers to help him with the support of her father.

20.00 News 21.15 Radiomarathon 2012 Charity event started in 1990, which helps people with special needs, their families, and other foundations set up to help them.

23.30 News 00.15 Repeats

CYBC 2

ANTENNA

07.00 NRG Zone 08.00 Kids’ TV 16.30 Euromaxx DW-TV’s magazine show, bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

17.00 History Of UEFA EURO (rpt) 1980.

18.00 Biz/Emeis (rpt) 18.50 News In English 18.55 News In Turkish 19.10 Kati Psinetai (rpt) 20.00 NRG Zone 21.00 FILM: Home Invasion A woman kills a burglar breaking into her home in self defence, only for his vengeful girlfriend to plot to destroy her life.

Thriller, with Haylie Duff and Lisa Sheridan. 2011.

22.30 Brothers & Sisters Fourth season.

‘Leap of Faith’.

Luc’s return delights the Walkers, but Sarah is shocked by his plans to ensure he can stay in the country. Kitty makes a bid to fire her campaign manager, while Justin tries to persuade Rebecca to open up about her miscarriage.

23.15 Ghost Whisperer Fifth season.

‘Excessive Forces’.

The ghost of a high school boy thought to have died in a tragic accident contacts Melinda, and accuses a Grandview cop of murdering him.

00.00 Repeats

05.20 Erotas (rpt) 06.10 Proini Enimerosi 06.40 Kai Oi Pantremeni Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 08.20 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 09.10 Oi Men kai Oi Den (rpt) 09.40 Ellas to Megaleio Sou (rpt) 10.30 Ekeines Kai Ego (rpt) 11.20 Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) 12.10 Niose Me (rpt) 13.00 News 13.20 Mera Mesimeri 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 15.50 Tyhi Vouni (rpt) 16.40 Eva Luna 17.30 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) With News at 18.00.

19.20 Niose Me 20.20 News 21.20 Ekeino To Kalokairi 22.00 Vals Me 12 Theous 22.50 Two And A Half Men Comedy about a bachelor whose brother and nephew move in with him, putting a crimp in his carefree lifestyle.

23.20 Private Practice (rpt) Grey’s Anatomy spin-off.

00.10 News 00.15 Sports News 00.30 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News (rpt) 04.00 To Kafeneio (rpt) 04.30 Epithimies (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 06.20 Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) 07.30 Ach, Eleni (rpt) 08.00 Nea Mera 11.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson 16.00 Yia Sena 18.00 News 18.10 Mousiko Kouti Greek music show, testing contestants on their musical knowledge.

19.40 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 20.20 News 21.20 Porta Kleidomeni Local drama series, apparently a tale of guilty secrets and forbidden loves.

22.20 Enoha Mystika 23.20 Gossip Girl Third season. ‘The Lady Vanished’.

Blair and Serena have differing opinions over what Chuck should do next, while Dan and Vanessa try to resurrect their old friendship by attending a dorm party. After Lily jumps to conclusions when she finds Damian in her room, Jenny makes a drastic decision.

00.15 News 00.20 Brothers Two episodes of the American sitcom.

01.15 Yia Sena (rpt) 03.00 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.30 Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA

PLUS TV

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Eleni 10.00 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) 11.00 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.20 Tropico 15.10 Magazino 17.40 Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama 18.15 News 18.30 The Del Monte Heirs 19.20 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites Trashy-sounding local drama series.

20.20 News 21.20 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 22.20 Al Tsantiri News 00.20 News 00.25 CSI: NY Fourth season. ‘All in the Family’. A family-court judge is beaten to death in his apartment, but there’s no sign of forced entry, and a college student is shot dead in the street - with the same weapon that inflicted the first victim’s injuries.

Flack fears Danny Messer is looking for revenge against Ollie Brook, the man responsible for the robbery in which the detective’s neighbour died.

01.50 Epistrofi (rpt) 02.20 Mono Mia Fora (rpt) 03.00 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 03.30 Eleni (rpt) 04.30 Tropico (rpt)

06.45 News 07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti - Best Of 09.15 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of 10.30 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition. Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

11.50 Mila - Best Of 12.30 Star News 13.00 Mesimeriani Meleti 15.30 Kids’ TV 17.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.50 Fotis - Maria Live 19.30 Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

21.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 22.00 Miami Medical Medical drama series. ‘Golden Hour’. Dr. Proctor must give a speech illustrating how vital his team is in the minutes after a major accident.

22.45 FILM: Awake A young man who is undergoing surgery experiences anaesthesia awareness, which leaves him alert but paralysed and unable to warn his doctors. Thriller, starring Hayden Christensen and Jessica Alba. 2007.

00.30 LTV Sports News 01.10 Star News 02.00 Repeats

CAPITAL 06.45 08.50 09.30 10.00

Kids’ TV S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Capital Sports 12.30 Milagros Latin American telenovela.

13.30 15.15 16.10 16.55

17.45 18.15

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

22.40

Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Latin American telenovela.

Akti Oneiron Melrose Place Second season of glossy drama. With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Ygeia kai Zoi FILM: Trapped A devious couple plot to carry out the perfect kidnapping, keeping the parents under guard to ensure they pay the ransom to get their daughter back - but their plans go awry when their victims refuse to co-operate. Thriller, starring Charlize Theron. 2002.

FILM: In Love & War Story about the romance between Ernest Hemingway and the nurse who tended him as an injured soldier during World War One. Fact-based romantic drama, starring Chris O’Donnell and Sandra Bullock.

1996.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Discovery 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 The Documentary: Just Add Cash but could inflation actually be good for you? Max Flint investigates.” 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Discovery 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 The Documentary: Just Add Cash but could inflation actually be good for you? Max Flint investigates.” 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Discovery 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World

Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 The Documentary: Just Add Cash but could inflation actually be good for you? Max Flint investigates.” 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Discovery 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1

(N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 The Vibe 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast 09.00 Wez Thompson 10.30 Cyprus Morning 12.00 Total Ops Gini Carlin 15.00 Cyprus Afternoon 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vault

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 BFBS Radio News 11.03 Gareth John 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Marlow 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00 Five Live Sport 00.30 Late Night Live

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhaba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics

15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:0014:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:0018:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday

Oldies Digital

(Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com)

MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours.

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Television PICK OF THE DAY War Horse (Novacinema2, 22.00) Steven Spielberg likes war. So, incidentally, do Nova. Not that Mr. Spielberg (or, I guess, Nova) likes war in itself, merely as a subject for his films: WW2 featured in 1941, Empire of the Sun plus his two Oscar winners, Schindler’s List and Saving Private Ryan - and now he’s moving on to WW1 with War Horse, based on an acclaimed book and stage show. Nova, too, are quite big on war at the moment, doing war-themed titles all this week on Nova2, ranging from the American Civil War to Vietnam, from famous films (The English Patient) to films that are best forgotten (In Love and War, anyone?) - and War Horse clearly fits the bill though it was seen as a slight disappointment last year, a solid hit but not quite a classic.

Maybe it’s because the plot is episodic; maybe it’s because the main character is (yes) a horse. Or maybe it’s that war becomes slightly cheapened in a Spielberg film, turned into a theme-park attraction: the ‘War is Hell’ ride.

War is undoubtedly Hell here, WW1 being ‘the war to end all wars’ - the war that swept away notions of gentlemanly conduct and ushered in a merciless modernity. One scene shows riders and

horses cut down by German machine-guns, symbols of that new modernity - and the camera looks down on the scene then cranes up and up, revealing more and more of the bloody aftermath (a selfconscious riff on a famous shot from Gone With the Wind). It’s a big, spectacular moment - though perhaps, by going bigger, the film also blunts its own impact. As Stalin (who knew a thing or two about war) put it: “The death of one man is a tragedy. The death of millions is a statistic”.

War Horse is ‘big’ - as in grandiose, portentous, spectacular. Joey (the horse) sees the full gamut of war, at one point getting trapped in no-man’sland and prompting a temporary truce as enemy soldiers work together to free him. His young master Albert makes a solemn vow (“I will find you, and I will bring you home!”) adding another layer - will boy and horse be reunited? - to the already packed plot. Two and a half hours of War being Hell and tears being shamelessly jerked is a bit much for me - though I still like it more than Black Hawk Down, tomorrow’s entry in the Nova warmovie stakes. Horses for courses. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE

Barney’s Version (Novacinema1, 18.05) Barney (Paul Giamatti) is 60-something, accidentprone, paunchy and bedraggled, a man so grumpy he even does his drinking at a bar called Grumpy’s Bar. He’s accosted by another drinker, a burly ex-cop who accuses him of being a murderer - yet his life, pieced together in fl ashbacks, shows a hapless schmuck with a talent for always being slightly out of place. Wife No. 1 is a disaster, then he falls madly in love with another girl (Rosamund Pike) who becomes Wife No. 3 - the only problem being that he falls in love with her at his own wedding, to Wife No. 2 (Minnie Driver). The result is a soulful, subtle comedy, a tale of a boorish man who fi nds True Love and doesn’t know what to do with it; it’s not all good (the fi nal act threatens to turn into disease-ofthe-week movie), but its wry humanity is bracing in this age of high-tech fantasies. Wife No. 3 puts it best: “Life is real. It’s made up of little things”. Made in 2010.

Inception (LTV, 21.00) And speaking of high-tech fantasies ... Life isn’t real in this fi ne blockbuster, and it’s certainly not made up of little things - but it’s still a must-see movie, currently No. 14 on the all-time Top 250 as voted by 600,000 people at the Internet Movie Database. Some of its champions compare it to 2001: A Space Odyssey but it’s more like one of the great floating spaceships in 2001, something big and heavy and conspicuously engineered. Basically a heist movie with a twist, the twist being that the heist takes place in the victim’s dreams, the thieves being a gang - led by Leonardo DiCaprio - who are able to insinuate themselves in people’s dream-worlds and scavenge their subconscious. Their mission calls for “inception” (i.e. planting an idea) as opposed to “extraction”, which is what they usually do - but in fact the mission turns out to be fairly simple, the actual inception dwarfed by questions of ‘what is real?’ and Leo’s problems with ex-wife Marion Cotillard, who once blurred the line between dreams and reality. Intriguing. Made in 2010.

00:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 02:45 EastEnders 03:15 Doctors 03:45 Desperate Romantics 04:35 Doctor Who Confidential 04:45 Last Of The Summer Wine 05:15 The Green Green Grass 05:45 As Time Goes By 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 The Large Family 07:10 Gigglebiz 07:25 The Green Balloon Club 07:50 Balamory 08:10 The Large Family 08:20 Gigglebiz 08:35 The Green Balloon Club 09:00 Balamory 09:20 Little Prairie Dogs 09:30 Poetry Pie 09:35 As Time Goes By 10:05 The Green Green Grass 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors 12:20 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 13:10 Lark Rise To Candleford 14:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 14:30 The Green Green Grass 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 17:35 Lark Rise To Candleford 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Great Expectations 21:00 After You’ve Gone 21:30 Jam And Jerusalem 22:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:50 2 Point 4 Children 23:20 Rev. 23:50 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 00:20 Mistresses

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 How Do They Do It? 12:15 How It’s Made 12:40 Extreme Engineering 13:35 Overhaulin’ 14:30 Wheeler Dealers 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Mythbusters 22:00 Man Made Marvels China 23:00 World’s Top 5 00:00 Crisis Control 01:00 Hillbilly Handfishin’ 01:55 Mythbusters 02:50 Man Made Marvels China 03:50 World’s Top 5 04:50 Crisis Control 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

Letters From Iwo Jima (LTV3, 22.00) More war [see Pick of the Day], directed by Clint Eastwood just like last week’s Flags of Our Fathers - and it’s no coincidence because the two fi lms work as a diptych, viewing the same event (the Battle of Iwo Jima in WW2) from each side’s point of view. Flags was the Yanks, Letters is the Japanese - and it’s also the better fi lm, with some hauntingly memorable scenes. The Japs are tragic figures, with the ruined desperation of men on a suicide mission - and the fi lm is victors’ justice in a way (implying that America won because of its values), but too elegiac to be triumphant. In Japanese; made in 2006.

Barney’s Version (Novacinema1, 18.05)

09:30 All Sports: Watts 09:45 Football: Eurogoals 10:30 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 10:45 Cycling: Tour Of Hangzhou/China 11:45 Tennis: WTA Tournament Moscow 12:30 Snooker: European Tour Belgium 13:45 Football: Eurogoals 14:30 Tennis: WTA Tournament Tokyo 15:15 Tennis: WTA Tournament Beijing 16:00 Tennis: WTA Tournament Moscow 17:00 Tennis: WTA Tournament Istanbul 23:00 Boxing 00:00 Motorsports: GTA Road To Dubai 00:15 FIA World Touring Car Championship 00:45 Car Racing: World Series By Renault Spain 01:15 Car Racing: Porsche Supercup 01:45 Motorsports: Motorsports Weekend Magazine 02:00 Tennis: WTA Tournament Istanbul

05:30 How I Met Your Mother 06:15 Lie To Me 07:00 Criminal Minds 07:45 The Simpsons 08:10 The Cleveland Show 08:35 Rules Of Engagement 09:25 How I Met Your Mother 10:15 Lie To Me 11:00 Criminal Minds 11:45 The Simpsons 12:10 The Cleveland Show 12:35 Rules Of Engagement 13:25 How I Met Your Mother 14:15 Awake 15:00 Criminal Minds 15:45 The Simpsons 16:10 The Cleveland Show 16:35 Rules Of Engagement 17:25 How I Met Your Mother 18:15 Lie To Me 19:00 Criminal Minds 19:50 The Simpsons 20:15 The Cleveland Show 20:40 Rules Of Engagement 21:30 Awake

Another Year (Novacinema1, 12.45)

Barney’s Version 20:25 Hollywood 1on 1 21:00 C.S.I. Xii 00:15 Cowboys & Aliens 02:20 Cine News 04:20 Scream 4

06:45 Cine News 09:20 Cine News 10:00 Bridesmaids 12:05 Cine News 12:40 The Deep End Of The Ocean 14:30 Cine News 15:00 Pay It Forward 17:10 Stars In Style 17:45 A Better Life 22:00 War Horse 00:35 Point Blank 02:00 Traffic 04:25 The Mechanic

19:15 I Am Legend 21:00 The Green Hornet 23:05 How I Met Your Mother Vii - Ducky Tie 00:40 Cine News 01:30 Double Exposure

22:20 The Killing 23:10 Lie To Me 23:55 Criminal Minds 00:45 Awake 01:30 How I Met Your Mother 02:20 Lie To Me 03:05 Criminal Minds 03:50 The Simpsons 04:15 The Cleveland Show 04:40 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 The Universe 09:00 Lock N’ Load 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 WWII: Europe’s Secret Army 12:00 Pawn Stars 12:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 13:00 American Restoration 2 14:00 Lock N’ Load 15:00 The Universe 16:00 Pawn Stars 16:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 17:00 American Restoration 2 18:00 Lock N’ Load 19:00 The Universe 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 21:00 WWII: Europe’s Secret Army 22:00 Storage Wars 2 23:00 American Pickers 3 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 WWII: Europe’s Secret Army 02:00 Storage Wars 2 03:00 American Pickers 3 04:00 The Universe 05:00 Lock N’ Load 06:00 WWII: Europe’s Secret Army

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Wild Target 09:45 Hereafter 12:00 Videofashion 12:30 Fighting 14:20 The Secret Pact 16:15 Tequila Sunrise 18:15 Eruption 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Inception 23:30 Youth In Revolt 01:05 Hustler TV 02:40 Videofashion 03:15 Kardia 04:45 Wildcats 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Tom & Jerry Kids 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Pinky And The Brain 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Scooby-Doo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 The Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 The X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 The Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & ScoobyDoo Get A Clue! 15:45 Histeria! 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Planet Speed 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 20:00 Atp World Tour Uncovered 20:30 Irc 2012: Sanremo 21:00

La Liga Review 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Barclays Premier League World 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Volvo Ocean Race 04:30 2010 World’s Strongest Man 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Chuck 08:00 Friends 08:30 Supernatural 10:00 According To Jim 10:25 United States Of Tara 11:00 Shameless 12:00 Five Days 2 13:05 90210 13:50 Chuck 14:35 Supernatural 16:05 Two And A Half Men 16:30 Aliens In America 17:15 Luck 18:15 Harry’s Law 19:00 90210 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 Big Bang Theory 21:00 Southland 21:45 C.S.I. New York 22:30 Boardwalk Empire 23:30 The Mentalist 00:15 Bridge To Nowhere 02:00 The Dead Girl 03:35 Two And A Half Men 04:00 Aliens In America 04:20 Aliens In America 04:45 Luck 05:45 Harry’s Law 06:30 90210

07:30 500 Days Of Summer 09:30 Poor Boy’s Game 11:30 Agora 13:45 Sucker Punch 15:45 Switch 17:30 Greystoke: The Legend Of Tarzan, Lord Of The Apes 20:00 St Trinian’s Ii: The Legend Of Fritton’s Gold 22:00 Letters From Iwo Jima 00:20 Daring! TV 03:45 Cool Hand Luke 06:00 I Love You, Beth Cooper

07:00 The Living Edens 08:00 Breaking Up The Biggest 09:00 Air Crash Investigation 11:00 Doomsday Preppers 12:00 Seconds From Disaster 13:00 Earth Investigated 14:00 Fish Warrior 15:00 Scam City 16:00 The Link 17:00 Seconds From Disaster 18:00 Banged Up Abroad 19:00 Monster Fish 20:00 Seconds From Disaster 21:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 23:00 Classified 00:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 02:00 Monster Fish 03:00 Seconds From Disaster 04:00 Big, Bigger, Biggest 06:00 Classified

06:20 The Illusioninist 08:10 Cine News 09:10 West Is West 10:55 Films And Stars 11:25 Open Season 3 12:45 Another Year 15:00 «Love Stories» Cold Mountain 17:40 Cine News 18:05

19:10 Ramona And Beezus 21:00 Little Fockers 22:40 O Kyrios Me Ta Gkri 00:30 Love And Other Drugs

02:00 Asian Tour CJ Invitational hosted by KJ Choi 02:30 MLB: NLCS Game 7 If Necessary TBA at TBA Date and Time Tentative 05:30 Sea Master 06:00 PGA Tour Highlights The McGladrey Classic 07:00 Programming TBA 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 European Tour: Perth International Final Rd. 13:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Vintage Flat Track 13:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Super Modified Jet Boats 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 Web.com Tour Winn-Dixie Jacksonville Open Final Rd. 17:00 LPGA Tour: HanaBank Championship Final Rd 18:00 PRE GAME 18:45 CHAMPIONSHIP 2012-13: APOLLON VS ETHNIKOS AXNAS 20:45 POST GAME 21:30 HIGHLIGHTS (CYPRUS FOOTBALL) 22:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Vintage Flat Track 22:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Super Modified Jet Boats 23:00 Sports Unlimited 00:00 PGA Tour Highlights The McGladrey Classic 01:00 Golf Central International

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Intrepid Journeys 09:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 10:00 Out Of Country 10:30 Angry Planet 11:00 Flavours Of Peru 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Around Iceland On Inspiration 14:00 The Big Guide 15:00 Travel Today 15:30 Essential 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Flavours Of Peru 18:00 Out Of Country 18:30 Angry Planet 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Inside Luxury Travel 21:00 Essential 21:30 Bert The Conqueror 22:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 23:00 Globe Trekker 01:00 Inside Luxury Travel 02:00 Essential 02:30 Bert The Conqueror 03:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Out Of Country 05:30 Angry Planet 06:00 Flavours Of Peru

06:00 Philadelphia Story, The 07:50 Lassie Come Home 09:20 Harvey Girls, The 11:00 Show Boat 12:45 Conspirator 14:10 Where Were You When The Lights Went Out? 15:40 Sunshine Boys, The 17:30 Ben-Hur 21:00 Brainstorm 22:45 Color Purple, The 01:15 Light In The Piazza 02:55 Key Largo 04:35 Main Attraction, The

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HOW TO PL AY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

24 12 In Memphis, USA, name the girl (5) 15 Ill child’s overcoat (7) 16 Bright red jalopy I own (7) 18 Muslim lady be stuck with

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it perhaps (5) 20 S African girl having a bath (5) 22 Note the coal-scuttle was brought up (3)

Answers to crossword 2216 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Paper-chase; 7 Variety; 8 Colin; 10 Roller; 12 Wilton; 13 Toxic; 14 Rape; 16 Edit; 17 React; 19 Cooler; 20 Hackle; 23 Deuce; 24 Hotfoot; 25 Went to town. Down – 1 Peril; 2 Preset; 3 Rhyl; 4 Hectic; 5 Saluted; 6 Overpriced; 9 Nineteenth; 11 Roger; 12 Witch; 15 Produce; 17 Repent; 18 Tattoo; 21 Known; 22 Shoo.

QUICK: Across – 1 Booby-prize; 7 Senator; 8 Chard; 10 Obsess; 12 Porous; 13 Eager; 14 Ibid; 16 Isle; 17 U-boat; 19 Havana; 20 Layman; 23 De-ice; 24 Lighten; 25 Changeless. Down – 1 Bonus; 2 Obtuse; 3 York; 4 Rector; 5 Zealous; 6 Astonished; 9 Discerning; 11 Samba; 12 Petal; 15 Inveigh; 17 Unseen; 18 Tangle; 21 Meths; 22 Glue.

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2 Bird, about ten past, produced a six-sided figure (7) 3 Scope for cowboys (5) 4 Conservative William in a Welsh valley (3) 5 Mother left bill with accountant for a walkingstick (7) 6 In Siena, Sally was nosey!

(5) 7 Smock to put on any article of clothing (11) 8 Job date (11)

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1 Deficiency, not long before Advent (11) 9 Spiteful woman at home in the earth (5) 10 Effeminate chap produced silk mop (7) 11 Backward movement by way out monarch first (7) 13 It’s a big fiddle (5) 14 Some ill-mannered girl (3) 15 Father has arranged a title (5) 16 About to put on a trick (3) 17 Wrongly blame the lady (5) 19 Rum’s not suitable as a quack remedy! (7) 21 Denied need to carry gun (7) 23 League match (5) 24 Frivolous, having nothing on top? (5-6)

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Feelings of wanderlust may be predominant. The desire to get away may become quite insistent. You may even want to arrange a short break. If you do happen to be travelling, try not to spend without concern for tomorrow. As the Sun moves into Scorpio, you need to think of the future more from a resourceful and practical frame of reference.

At home, life may prove to be more intense. You may be looking to avoid experiencing too much drama and the possibility of control battles. As the Sun moves into Scorpio, you may get a sense that a fresh perspective on current challenges could be helpful. Conversely, you may feel if you can do something lighter, and more entertaining, you will.

You may need to give friends and others in your life plenty of latitude. Why? Well this may be the only way you can cope with any indecisiveness or constant changing of plans. You’ll need to be flexible and take things as they come. Feelings can be intensified, bordering on the excessive. It might help to stand back and be as objective as possible.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Whatever happens now may feel like fate is stepping in and putting its stamp on you. And it may feel that you’re not really the one in control of the situation. But the way things are looking, you’d very much like to be. Spending time alone or with a loved one may bring feelings of contentment, but perhaps not the best of days for more gregarious stuff.

Someone may have a great idea to share - and it’s one that you could benefit from too. Indeed, your support could be greatly appreciated. With fabulous Jupiter in a key position, there is every chance that a job advancement may come along, especially if you have worked hard to make this happen. Tonight may bring surprises and fun at home.

An unintended comment may shake up a relationship with a friend or even a lover. If this occurs in the context of an ongoing problem, it may be time to revise your coping strategies. Any boredom or restlessness you feel may be cured by trying out a new social scene or veering off the beaten track in some way. Let your imagination guide you.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

There may be work related difficulties and a travel plan may need adjusting. Be extra careful when signing papers, especially if you want to make a commitment. As the Sun aspects Neptune, confusion may derail some of your best laid plans. However, if you move out of your comfort zone socially, an element of chance could work well on your behalf.

With Scorpio being the power behind your money zone, you may be more secretive about your spending habits, but you might also need to be more frugal too. You are about to discover that saving can be fun and rewarding. A new purchase may not be appreciated for long. Connecting with another in a faraway place may also bring some cheer to the day.

Today brings renewed vitality and purpose. Your only problem may be in deciding how to channel all your energy as you seem to have so many choices. Your career certainly seems to be on an upswing, even though you may be feeling the pressure. The Sun in Scorpio from today will help you get a fresh perspective on any current ambitions.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

There may be aspects of today that could prove to be challenging, especially as people around you may be demanding and perhaps a touch dramatic too. They may need a lot of attention. Don’t get talked into anything if you have doubts. However, at work if you have exciting ideas and plans, you will want other people to take these seriously.

The Sun moves into your sign with a chance to bring your ideas and best plans into focus. In general opportunity abounds, though it may be subtle, such as an interesting idea, a novel suggestion, or a helping hand that comes at just the right time. Generally, this is a time to trust in solid hard work rather than good intentions. Be realistic.

This can be a nice day, which you might want to spend with happy and resourceful friends. There may be lots of news to share and exciting plans to be made which opens some fresh possibilities. You may be best to delay making romantic plans until later, when it might be much easier to make that special connection. Then a lingering chat is possible.

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CYPRUS MAIL Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Sport Hansen hopes the All Blacks learn lessons STEVE Hansen’s bluff good humour did not desert him in Brisbane but there was no disguising his displeasure after New Zealand faltered for the first time since he took charge as coach at the end of last year.

An error-strewn performance from the world champions allowed an injury-depleted Australia to claim an 18-18 draw in the third and final Bledisloe Cup Test on Saturday night,

bringing to an end the All Blacks’ winning streak at 16 matches.

The 53-year-old had not had the best of weeks with the death of his father casting a pall over preparations for a match in which hooker Keven Mealamu won his 100th Test cap.

Hansen paid grudging tribute to the pressure the Wallabies exerted on his team but immediately turned his attention

to re-establishing their dominance on the tour of Europe in matches against Scotland, Italy, Wales and England.

“We’ll go away and take the hurt with us and have a good look at what we did individually and collectively as a group and prepare for the next match,” he said.

“We could find a lot of excuses, but I don’t think they’re the reasons. That’s certainly not the way we want to play.”

Despite the All Blacks’ failure to match the record winning streak in top tier rugby, Hansen could hardly be too unhappy with how the team has been performing in the 11 months since he stepped up from assistant coach under Graham Henry.

“It’s not the end of the world, but certainly there’s enough pain and hurt in the dressing room to learn the lesson from it.”

New Zealand failed to match rugby’s record winning streak

Perfect ending for Frankel

Wozniacki beats Stosur, ‘In the history of horse racing there has never been a better racehorse’ Venus wins title again

By Paul Majendie

By Gennady Fyodorov

IN BRIEF

FOR Frankel, the world’s highest-rated racehorse, the script was always pure Hollywood.

The unbeaten colt, retired to stud on Saturday after 14 glorious victories, is named after American trainer Bobby Frankel who died of cancer three years ago.

Frankel’s gaunt but ever elegant trainer is Henry Cecil, who is battling cancer and whose voice has been reduced to a whisper by his latest bout of chemotherapy.

Cecil’s eloquence did not desert him in the Ascot unsaddling enclosure, however, after Frankel provided the perfect grand finale with victory in Saturday’s Champion Stakes on soft going he clearly did not relish.

Cecil, who has spoken movingly of how Frankel has helped sustain him in his fight against cancer, said: “I cannot believe in the history of horse racing that there has ever been a better racehorse.”

That is some statement from a man who has trained 25 British classic winners and triumphed 75 times at Royal Ascot.

When Eclipse took to the track in the 18th century, up went the cry: “Eclipse first and the rest nowhere”. He never got beaten in 18 races.

Three hundred years later, and worthy of the same adoration, Frankel is off to stud, hopefully to create future champions. Valued at an estimated 100 million pounds,

Jockey Tom Quealy, who rode Frankel to every one of his 14 victories, hugs his beloved horse after winning The Champion Stakes on Saturday he is now worth 14 times his weight in gold.

There will be no such luck at stud for French veteran Cirrus des Aigles who battled in vain on Saturday to lower Frankel’s colours at Ascot. He is a gelding.

Saudi Prince Khalid Abduallah was lucky enough to own sensational Arc winner Dancing Brave, one of the greatest thoroughbreds of the 20th century. With Frankel, he found out that lightning really

can strike twice in the same place.

Jockey Tom Queally, who started out in Ireland as a pony racing champion, rode Frankel to every one of his 14 victories over three years.

After Saturday’s final, emotional triumph, he was in his usual state of euphoria. “He is unbelievable,” Queally said of the horse that changed his life.

Racing rarely makes the headlines in football-obsessed

Britain but Frankel’s final race was televised in 86 countries and camera crews flocked in from around the globe.

Bookmakers were laying odds that Frankel would put in a Christmas television studio appearance at the BBC sports personality of the year show. The last and only horse to do that was Red Rum, the triple Grand National winner of the world’s most famous steeplechase.

Saturday’s race ended on a

note of symmetry that brought the Frankel story full circle.

In his first race as a two-yearold in 2010, Frankel won by half a length from Nathaniel in a Newmarket maiden.

On Saturday, Nathaniel ran his last race too and finished third to Frankel.

Admiring the sheer majesty of Frankel, Nathaniel’s trainer John Gosden summed it up neatly for a sport which may never see his like again: “What a great horse.”

DENMARK’S Caroline Wozniacki claimed her 20th career title by beating top seed Samantha Stosur 6-2 4-6 7-5 in a thrilling Kremlin Cup tennis final on Sunday.

The third-seeded Dane trailed Stosur 1-3 in the third set but recovered her poise to draw level, then broke the Australian in the 12th game to clinch her second title of the season after winning the Korea Open last month.

Stosur looked on course to end her 13-month title drought after she broke Wozniacki to love at the start of the final set.

But the Australian, who was looking for her first title since winning last year’s US Open, lost her serve in the sixth game and was broken decisively in the 12th.

She saved the first match point with an ace but missed a running forehand on the second to concede defeat after two hours and 13 minutes.

In other news, Venus Williams proved she was still a force to be reckoned with after a twoyear battle with injuries and illness as she downed Romania’s Monica Niculescu 6-2 6-3 to win the Luxembourg Open title on Sunday.

The result ended a torrid year and a 31-month barren run for the 32-year-old American, who failed to get past the second round of any of the three majors she competed in in 2012.

Pedrosa weathers storm to Fired up Tiger eyes lake-side Baghdatis becomes win Malaysian MotoGP ambush of Mcilroy father of baby girl DANI Pedrosa put on a wet-weather master class to capture a rain-shortened Malaysian Grand Prix on Sunday and keep the pressure on MotoGP championship leader Jorge Lorenzo after notching a fifth victory in six races.

The Spanish Honda rider was clear of the field after 13 of the scheduled 20 laps at a rain-swept Sepang International Circuit when the race was red-flagged because of dangerous conditions.

Pole-sitter Lorenzo held on to second place on his Yamaha as the weather deteriorated with world champion Casey Stoner crossing the line in third place on another Honda.

STILL smarting from losing the Ryder Cup in extraordinary circumstances, Tiger Woods has his sights on more quick payback against world number one Rory McIlroy in China next Monday.

The world’s top two players will go head to head in an 18hole medal match at Jinsha Lake in Zhengzhou, with Woods clearly fired up by his rivalry with the Northern Irishman.

“We’ve all seen how talented Rory is,” said 14-time major winner Woods, who routed McIlroy by six strokes in the World Golf Final in Turkey the week after the Ryder Cup. “It’ll be fun to battle him for the next decade or so and hopefully we’ll have many battles to come.”

MARCOS Baghdatis may have suffered a disappointing semi-final defeat to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga at the Stockholm Open on Saturday, but the Cypriot was then greeted with the happy news from Croatia that his wife Karolina Sprem had given birth to a baby girl ten minutes before his match ended.

Contesting his second semi-final in three weeks, Baghdatis gave Tsonga a stern test, pushing the Frenchman to a third set before retiring with a groin injury.

The full extent of the injury will be known after an MRI in Croatia, where Baghdatis flew immediately after the match in order to be with his wife and new baby.

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Tuesday, October 23, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Sport Bayern set new record with eighth straight win

More fun and games as Roma’s wild ride goes on

By Karolos Grohmann

Juve win top-of-the-table clash with Napoli

By Brian Homewood AS Roma, boasting one of the best attacking records in Serie A and also suffering one of the worst defences, continued their wildly unpredictable season by storming back from two goals down to win 4-2 at Genoa on Sunday.

Antonio Cassano, overlooked by Italy since Euro 2012, scored his fifth goal of the season to help Inter Milan beat Catania 2-0 in a match featuring 13 Argentines among the 22 starters.

Udinese’s Brazilian Maicosuel, playing only his second game since his infamous penalty shootout miss against Braga cost his team a lucrative Champions League place, scored as they beat Pescara 1-0 despite playing for an hour with 10 men.

Two goals from Amauri gave Parma a 2-1 win over Sampdoria, who had Argentina goalkeeper Sergio Romero sent off for giving away the penalty which led to the opener nine minutes before halftime.

Atalanta came from behind to beat fellow strugglers Siena 2-1, Chievo drew 1-1 at home to Fiorentina and Cagliari beat Bologna 1-0 in the other games.

Inter’s sixth win in eight Serie A games this season kept them fourth with 18 points, four behind leaders Juventus who beat second-

placed Napoli 2-0 on Saturday. Roma climbed to fifth with 14 points.

Roma’s gung-ho attacking approach, a characteristic of seasoned Czech-born coach Zdenek Zeman, has turned them into a side where anything can happen.

Their attacking record of 18 goals scored in Serie A is bettered only by Juventus, and their tally of 13 against is worse than everyone except lowly Pescara and Chievo, who have shipped 15 each.

This season has already seen them give a masterclass in winning 3-1 at Inter Milan, produce an abject display in a 4-1 loss at Juventus and throw away a two-goal lead in a 3-2 home defeat by Bologna.

Sunday’s game began disastrously for them as Juraj Kucka and Bosko Jankovic swept Genoa to a 2-0 lead in only 15 minutes.

Thirty-six-year-old Francesco Totti, in his 21st season at his only professional club, pulled one back from inside the penalty area in the 28th minute and Pablo Osvaldo hooked in the equaliser one minute before the break.

That set up a second half of Roma dominance which saw Osvaldo head them in front in the 55th minute and Argentine midfielder Erik Lamela curl his shot into the bottom corner with seven minutes to play.

At the San Siro, Inter started with five Argen-

tine players in their line-up while their Sardinian opponents had eight.

Two of Inter’s Argentines set up the opening goal when Diego Milito pulled the ball back for Esteban Cambiassio, he crossed to the back post where Cassano scored with a header in the 28th minute.

Inter, who also brought on an Argentine, Colombian and Uruguayan in the second half, survived some second-half Catania pressure, wasted chances on the counter and made the game safe when Palacio volleyed past Mariano Andujar.

Udinese moved on to nine points with their win against promoted Pescara, Maicosuel scoring from close range in the 53rd minute after the visitors failed to cut out Pablo Armero’s cross.

Maicosuel became persona non grata among Udinese fans after an astonishing miss against Braga in theChampions League playoff tie in August.

The Brazilian attempted to nonchalantly chip the ball into the middle of the goal, but mis-hit his shot and allowed Braga’s goalkeeper to save. The Portuguese team won the shootout 5-4.

Udinese had defender Danilo sent off for a second yellow card after half an hour for tripping Colombian teenager Juan Quintero, who curled the resulting free kick against the crossbar.

Thirty-six-year-old Francesco Totti, in his 21st season at his only professional club, began Roma’s comeback

Falcao keeps Atletico on level terms with Barcelona

By Iain Rogers

Atletico Madrid kept pace with Barca at the top of the table thanks to star striker Radamel Falcao

ATLETICO Madrid stretched their winning run to seven matches and kept pace with Barcelona at the top of La Liga when Radamel Falcao’s brilliant late free-kick snatched a 1-0 win at Real Sociedad on Sunday.

With the rain lashing down in San Sebastian, Colombia striker Falcao had an unusually quiet night until he curled the ball over the wall and into the net for a 90thminute winner, his ninth goal of the campaign.

Atletico, resurgent under Argentine coach Diego Simeone, have not won seven La Liga games in a row since the 1991/92 season.

The victory put them level on 22 points with Barca after eight matches but behind on goal difference.

A jubilant Simeone, a fan

favourite at the Calderon when he helped Atletico win the league and cup double as a player in 1996, described Falcao’s goal as “delicious”.

“Falcao is training a lot to improve his free kicks and today you saw the result of that effort,” he told a news conference.

Barca, like Atletico unbeaten this season, survived the dismissal of centre back Javier Mascherano and held on for a 5-4 success at Deportivo Coruna on Saturday with Lionel Messi netting his 15th La Liga hat-trick.

Malaga stayed third on 17 points thanks to a 2-1 win at home to Real Valladolid on Saturday, when Real Madrid continued to claw their way up the standings after a poor start to the defence of their title.

Jose Mourinho’s side climbed to fourth on 14 points after Gonzalo Hi-

guain and Cristiano Ronaldo scored in a drab 2-0 win at home to Celta Vigo on Saturday.

In Sunday’s other games, Real Betis played out an uninspiring 0-0 draw at bottom side Osasuna and dropped below Real to fifth on 13 points.

Michel’s spectacular longdistance effort three minutes from time secured a 1-0 success for Levante at Getafe which lifted the Valencia-based side to sixth.

Espanyol secured their first win of the campaign and climbed off the bottom when Christian Stuani’s towering header in the third minute of added time secured a 3-2 win at home to Rayo Vallecano.

Real Zaragoza moved up to 14th when they won 2-1 at Granada, who had midfielder Iriney sent off for a wild challenge in the 72nd minute.

LEADERS Bayern Munich set a Bundesliga record for the best start to a season with their eighth successive win over the weekend, crushing promoted Fortuna Duesseldorf 5-0 away.

A Mario Mandzukic goal, Luiz Gustavo’s close-range effort, a second-half Thomas Mueller double and one from Rafinha gave Bayern victory as champions Borussia Dortmund slumped to a 2-1 home defeat by rivals Schalke, in a match marred by fan trouble.

“This was our best game of the season. Obviously I am satisfied,” Bayern coach Jupp Heynckes told reporters.

“We played outstanding football from the first to the last minute, every player helping the other. We did it extremely well.”

Schalke are third on 17 points while fellow Champions League competitors Dortmund, quickly dropping out of contention, are fourth on 12 level with Bayer Leverkusen.

Their derby was marred by clashes between the supporters outside the stadium as police, who used pepper spray and a water cannon to disperse them, were attacked.

Promoted Eintracht Frankfurt kept up their spectacular opening to the campaign with a 3-1 home victory over Hanover 96 to stay five points behind Bayern in second place.

Leverkusen rescued a 2-2 home draw against Mainz courtesy of an 87th minute Gonzalo Castro goal while Wolfsburg dropped to last place, beaten 2-0 by visitors Freiburg to increase pressure on coach Felix Magath.

Bayern, who also set a record for the best goal difference at this stage of the Bundesliga with 26 goals for and only two conceded, got off to a quick start against the league newcomers who had only lost once beforehand.

The visitors put the ball in the net in the 17th minute with Mueller thundering in a left-footed drive after a dazzling quick passing move but the effort was ruled offside.

The Bavarians were undeterred and got their deserved lead through Croatian Mandzukic’s seventh goal of the season which put him top of the league scorers’ table.

Mandzukic then set up Luiz Gustavo for Bayern’s second goal, heading towards goal for the Brazilian to tap in from less than a metre out.

The hosts were by that time in disarray and Mueller got his goal, firing in after a nice Franck Ribery pass.

Two more late goals from Mueller - his sixth of the season - and Brazilian Rafinha completed the rout in style as they bred confidence ahead of tonight’s Champions League game at Lille.

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Sport QPR STILL WITHOUT A LEAGUE WIN FOLLOWING DRAW WITH EVERTON

Omonia left fuming after controversial Anorthosis defeat

By Nemanja Bjedov

Queens Park Rangers, who splashed out on several new players in the summer, are rooted to the bottom of the table

No respite for QPR, honours even in Tyne-Wear derby

By Mike Collett QUEENS Park Rangers forward Junior Hoilett scored a superb goal after an 80metre run in only the second minute but his team still stayed bottom of the Premier League without a win after a 1-1 draw with Everton at Loftus Road on Sunday.

The Tyne-Wear derby between Sunderland and Newcastle United at the Stadium of Light also finished in a 1-1 draw with both matches featuring an own goal and a sending off for the away side.

QPR raced into the lead against Everton when Hoilett, picking the ball up deep in his own half after an Everton corner, powered his way through the centre of the field, holding off a challenge from Phil Neville

A late Demba Ba own goal saved Martin O’Neill’s Sunderland side before shooting.

The ball hit the heel of Leighton Baines and looped over the wrongfooted Everton goalkeeper Tim Howard, but Everton were level 30 minutes later

when Sylvain Distin’s header hit a post and the back of goalkeeper Julio Cesar and trickled over the line, with the goalkeeper being credited with an own goal.

Everton were reduced to ten men when Steven Pienaar was sent off for a second yellow after 61 minutes that will keep him out of the upcoming Merseyside derby against Liverpool.

QPR remain bottom behind Reading on goal difference with three points, the only other team without a win.

“I think its an important point but ideally we would have preferred to have taken the maximum because our performance warranted that,” QPR manager Mark Hughes told Sky Sports.

“Some of our play, especially in the first half was excellent.”

Sunderland and Newcas-

tle finished an entertaining Tyne-Wear derby all square with Newcastle scoring at the right end through Yohan Cabaye after three minutes and at the wrong end when Demba Ba put through his own net five minutes from time.

Newcastle were reduced to ten men after 25 minutes when Cheick Tiote was sent off for a rash kick at Sunderland’s Steven Fletcher.

The results had little impact on the league standings with Everton staying fourth on 15 points from their eight matches, three behind Manchester United and Manchester City and seven behind leaders Chelsea.

Newcastle moved from 12th to 11th place on ten points while Sunderland stayed 14th on eight points having played seven matches.

Celtic battling Messi and woeful record in Spain (continued from back page) Zenit will finally hope to get off the mark against Belgian champions Anderlecht, who have one point, in Group C tomorrow, where Malaga (6) and Milan (4), who meet in Spain, are already looking the likely qualifiers despite the Serie A side’s domestic troubles.

Spartak, who lost their first two games 3-2, are also at home, facing twice former European champions Benfica in Group G tonight.

Elsewhere, Manchester City and Juventus badly need to get their campaigns off the ground.

Serie A champions Juventus, unbeaten in ten matches in all competitions this season, drew their opening two games in Group E but should win tonight’s match away to Nordsjaelland.

The Danish champions were out of the their depth as they lost 4-0 at home to titleholders Chelsea, who visit Ukrainian champions Shakhtar Donetsk with both teams level at the top of the group on four points.

A ONCE GREAT SIDE Manchester City, who have one point in Group D, visit Dutch champions Ajax Amsterdam, a once great side who were crushed 4-1 at home by Real Madrid and appear unable to compete with the financial clout of Europe’s biggest clubs.

Real visit Dortmund, who have reversed last season’s pattern of struggling in Europe and doing well in the Bundesliga.

Bayern, who suffered a shock 3-1

defeat at BATE Borisov, visit Lille in Group F while the Belarus champions host Valencia.

Manchester United’s determination to avoid last season’s mistakes, a winning start this term and their unbeaten home record against Portuguese teams are good signs ahead of Braga’s visit tonight.

Although Braga are unbeaten in their last five games against English sides, United look to have too much in attack.

United go into the match top of Group H with six points after wins over Galatasaray and Cluj, in stark contrast to the sluggish start they made to last season’s competition when they drew their opening two games and eventually failed to make it out of the group stage.

LEADERS Anorthosis beat Omonia 2-0 in a controversial match at the Antonis Papadopoulos Stadium in Larnaca on Sunday evening, leaving the Nicosia giants ten points off the pace at the top of the table Anorthosis got off to a flying start through Juliano Spadacio’s fifth minute penalty and eventually sealed the win 13 minutes into injury time thanks to Jan Rezek.

“We watched Omonia’s last match and they played really well, so obviously we expected a tough contest.

We had a very good start, but once Paulo Jorge got injured, Omonia took the initiative and started to create opportunities,” said Anorthosis coach Ronny Levy after the game.

Despite dominating possession in the first half and playing the last 20 minutes of the match with a numerical advantage, following the sending off of Anorthosis’ Slovenian defender Branko Ilic, the Nicosia side failed to convert any of their numerous chances.

“What we tried to do is to hit them on the counter-attack and we did well as whenever we got the ball we were dangerous going forward.

“We have quality, some great players, but we need to become stronger as a unit. My players gave everything they had and this is what really matters,” Levy concluded.

The controversy began early

on as Anorthosis’ penalty was arguably outside the box and the game was interrupted for over ten minutes with 15 minutes to go when the visiting fans started throwing various objects towards the home stand.

“When you lose a match words are irrelevant, Omonia coach Toni Savevski said. “We played well only in the first half. After the interval Anorthosis showed us how a team should play and I hope that my players learn something from what happened,” Savevski added.

Omonia president Stelios Milonas was upset with the match officials. “Everyone saw that the final score was created by numerous mistakes of the referee. We will watch the video and take the necessary action and possibly demand his exclusion from other games.”

Elsewhere, AEL recovered from a goal down to beat Nea Salamina 2-1 with Vouho scoring both goals for the defending champions, while high-flying AEK trounced Ayia Napa 3-0 at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca.

AEP Paphos and Ethnikos Achnas played out a goalless draw, while Apollon beat Enosis Neon Paralimni 3-0 away from home.

Alki topped Doxa Katokopia 1-0 through Nisso Kapiloto’s penalty six minutes from time.

In the final game of the weekend last night, APOEL thrashed Olympiakos 4-0 at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia to go top of the table.

Anorthosis sealed the win in the 13th minute of injury time

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1. APOEL 2. Anorthosis 3. A.E.K. 4. AEL 5. Apollonas 6. Omonia 7. E.N. Paralimni 8. Olympiakos 9. Nea Salamina 10. Alki 11. Ayia Napa 12. Doxa 13. Ethnikos Achnas 14. AEP

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‘Sickened’ UCI strips shamed Armstrong of Tour victories American ‘has no place in cycling’ (continued from front page) testified against him and themselves and were given reduced bans by the American authorities.

“It wasn’t until the intervention of federal agents... they called these riders in and they put down a gun and badge on the table in front of them and said ‘you’re now facing a grand jury you must tell the truth’ that those riders broke down,” McQuaid added.

Armstrong, widely accepted as one of the greatest cyclists of all time given he fought back from cancer to dominate the sport, has always denied doping and says he has never failed a doping test.

He said he had stopped contesting the charges after years of probes and rumours because “there comes a point in every man’s life when he has to say, ‘Enough is enough’”.

McQuaid, who faced criticism from several quarters for his and the UCI’s handling of the affair, said he would not be resigning.

Lance Armstrong addresses participants at The LIVESTRONG Challenge Ride in Texas on Sunday. Asked to respond to the allegations, the American, who claims to be the victim of a witch hunt, said: ‘Well, I’ve been better, but I’ve also been worse’ “Cycling has a future. This is not the first time cycling has reached a crossroads or that it has had to begin anew,” he said in front of a packed room full of journalists and television cameras.

“When I took over (as president) in 2005 I made the fight against doping my priority. I acknowledged cycling had a culture of doping. Cycling has come a long way. I have no intention of resigning as

president of the UCI. “I am sorry we couldn’t catch every damn one of them red handed and throw them out of the sport.”

Other issues such as the potential re-awarding of

Armstrong’s Tour titles and the matter of prize money will be discussed by the UCI Management Committee on Friday.

Tour director Christian Prudhomme has said he

believes no rider should inherit the titles given doping was so widespread among the peloton at the time but McQuaid made it clear that that decision rested with his organisation, not the Tour organisers.

USADA charged five people over the doping ring.

Doctors Luis Garcia del Moral and Michele Ferrari and trainer Pepe Marti have been banned for life while Armstrong’s mentor Johan Bruyneel has chosen to go to arbitration along with doctor Pedro Celaya.

Armstrong’s last hope that the UCI might not ratify USADA’s ruling sprang from a long-running dispute between the two bodies over who should handle the case.

In statements issued at the news conference, the UCI continued the feud with USADA despite ratifying its decision. “Even apart from any discussion on jurisdiction, it would have been better that the evidence collected by USADA had been assessed by a neutral body,” it said.

“This would have avoided both the criticism of a witch hunt against Mr Armstrong and the criticism that the UCI had a conflict of interest.”

The UCI also said it had dope tested Armstrong 218 times and the fact he never tested positive and “beat the system” means that other organisations such as the World Anti-Doping Agency should share the responsibility of accepting the results.

Celtic battling Messi and woeful record

By Iain Rogers

Goal machine: Lionel Messi scored a hat-trick for Barca on Saturday, taking his tally for the year to 71, only four short of the record of 75 set by Pele in 1959

CELTIC will have to reverse a horrible record in Spain and cope with a Barcelona side fired by the scintillating form of Lionel Messi if they are to reap an unlikely reward from tonight’s Champions League Group G clash at the Camp Nou. The Scottish champions, second in the group behind the 2009 and 2011 winners after two matches, have never managed a win on 12 trips to the Iberian nation, slumping to nine defeats and three draws.

Favourites Barca are unbeaten in 17 European home outings, winning 14, going back to a 2-1 defeat against Rubin Kazan in October 2009.

Their Argentine World Player of the Year Messi, top scorer in Europe’s elite club competition the past four seasons, netted his 21st

hat-trick for the club on Sunday in a 5-4 La Liga win at Deportivo La Coruna.

The unstoppable 25-yearold took his tally in 2012 for club and country to 71, leaving him only four short of the record of 75 set by Brazil great Pele in 1959.

Celtic coach Neil Lennon, who played twice for the club at the Camp Nou and came away with two draws, knows the size of the task but said he believes his side is capable of preventing Barca from making it three group wins out of three.

“I’m not saying we’re going to go there and get hammered,” he was quoted as saying in the Scotsman newspaper.

“We’re going to try to get something out of the game, but we know how monumentally difficult that will be,” he added.

“They can pin you back for long periods but I still want us to have some kind

of outlet where we can get a foothold in our attacking half and create chances.

“It’s do-able, it’s feasible.

I’ve seen Spanish clubs do it and I’ve seen European teams do it. We’ll study a lot of footage and take it from there.”

Elsewhere, ambitious Russian clubs Zenit St Petersburg and Spartak Moscow go in search of their first Champions League points as they attempt to improve their country’s unimpressive record in the competition.

Far from setting Europe alight, Zenit and Spartak find themselves in the company of Galatasaray, Lille, Nordsjaelland, Ajax, Olympiakos and Dinamo Zagreb who have also failed to get off the mark in their opening two group stage games.

The situation is particularly embarrassing for Russian champions Zenit, who

splurged around 100 million euros to lure Brazilian forward Hulk and Belgium’s Alex Witsel to the club.

This week’s third round of matches, where Real Madrid’s visit to Borussia Dortmund is the highlight, is also potentially decisive for the hopes of Manchester City, Juventus and Benfica, who have yet to win a game between them.

Real are among six teams to have won their opening games alongside Barcelona, Porto, Arsenal and Manchester United plus, more surprisingly, BATE Borisov and newcomers Malaga.

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