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Doubts over new bailout deadline Troika members do the rounds, but much ground still to be made up By Elias Hazou

S NEGOTIATIONS with international lenders look set to drag on, the nearbankrupt government could now miss a new deadline for having a bailout package approved by eurozone finance ministers by the end of the year. Meanwhile, and just as the bailout talks were heating up, President Christofias voiced his dissatisfaction with the troika, accusing it of setting ‘difficult terms’ on Cyprus. With the Cypriot request for a bailout not making yesterday’s meeting of the Eurogroup, attention has now shifted to the next scheduled gathering of euro area finance ministers on December 3. But reports yesterday indicated that clinching a deal even by then with the troika - IMF, European Commission and European Central Bank - was a long shot too. Citing government sources close to the bailout talks, media outlets said the troika insists any rescue package must be signed only after an assessment of Cypriot banks is complete. But the assessment by investment company Pimco is not expected anytime before early December, and state coffers could empty out by that time. Pimco has been asked by Cypriot authorities - at the request of the troika - to conduct an asset quality review of Cypriot banks and co-operative financial institutions after losses that

forced the island to seek an EU bailout. The troika’s follow-up mission to Cyprus got underway last Friday. Yesterday a group of troika experts met at the finance ministry with officials for an in-depth briefing on the government’s plans for natural gas. Later in the day, another troika team discussed the banking sector at a meeting held at the Central Bank (CB), while another group met with officials of the Inland Revenue Service and with officials of the Planning Bureau to discuss planned public projects and estimated revenues. Reports said the CB is now pushing for a deal that would delay Cypriot banks’ compliance with core Tier 1 requirements - a measurement of banks’ capital adequacy - to 2014, in the hope that by then the proposed Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) for eurozone banks would be in place. The Cypriot proposal, reports said, was geared at securing separate financing for the state, leaving the recapitalisation of the banks to a later date. And following its meeting with the troika, later yesterday the CB announced it will be appointing an independent commission to “assess the challenges facing the banking sector”. Dubbed the Independent Commission on the Future of the Cyprus Banking Sector, the panel’s objective would be to “review the size and structure of the Cypriot

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Shops, homes and historic palaces ﬁlled with water in Venice, with the heavy rain due to continue today

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Tourists swim in Venice as torrential rain pounds Italy NEARLY three quarters of Venice was flooded yesterday and tourists swam in St Mark’s Square as a wave of bad weather swept through northern and central Italy, forcing the evacuation of 200 people from their homes in Tuscany. Shops, homes and historic palaces filled with water in Venice and authorities said 70 per cent of the lagoon city was flooded. High water in Venice reached 149 cm (5ft), the sixth highest level since records began in 1872, forcing residents to wade through waist-deep water. Tourists in swimming costumes sat at cafe tables under the water.

There was no immediate estimate of damage to the beautiful northeastern city. In Tuscany, 23 centimetres (9 inches) of rain fell in four hours, causing the Ricortola and Parmignola rivers to ﬂood, according to the regional government. “It has been devastating,” said Roberto Pucci, the mayor of Massa Carrara in Tuscany, one of the worst hit areas. “I saw at least six bridges destroyed in the hills, ﬂoods, landslides, vineyards and olive groves swept away. If there hasn’t been a death it’s a miracle,” he told Corriere della Sera newspaper.

Local media said dozens of people took refuge on their roofs after rivers burst their banks in central Italy. Environment Minister Corrado Clini called for more funding to shore up Italy’s weather defences. Bad weather with torrential rain was due to continue through today, forecasters said. It was the fourth time since 2000 that Venice had been hit by record high water, and the city’s environment officer said the latest flooding was the result of global climate change. A barrier to protect the city from repeated winter flooding, which has been planned for decades, is due to be finished by 2015.

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CYPRUS’ residents used their cards more for paying the bills and less for shopping between September and October, the island’s main clearing agency JCC transactions said yesterday. Users swiped €173.5 million during October, JCC said but there was a decrease in card use at department or household stores, and for clothes, shoes and accessories. Card use at restaurants, bars and catering sectors was also reduced, JCC said. The majority of card use - 30.46 per cent - was in supermarkets, followed by petrol stations where 11.8 per cent of card transactions took place during October. Despite the decrease, card swiping at clothing, shoes, and accessories stores was the third most common card transaction, accounting for 9.5 per cent of all transactions, followed by card swipes at restaurants, bars and the catering sectors which accounted for 6.57 per cent of the October transactions. Meanwhile, there was an 11 per cent increase in card transactions abroad for sales and cash withdrawals with the total worth of card swipes coming to €125.2 million, JCC said. Cypriots’ average value per transaction while abroad was at €139 this year, an increase of one euro from the year before. At home, the average transaction value was €72, a decrease of one euro compared with 2011. Visitors to Cyprus swiped about €61 million in a month, an increase of 19 per cent. Average transaction value was worth €111, two euro less than last

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(Continued from front page) banking sector as well as the risks that it poses to financial stability, the real economy and public finances”. According to the CB’s press release, the commission would focus on: reducing systemic risk and moral hazard in the banking sector; reducing both the likelihood and impact of bank failures, including in terms of the cost to taxpayers; and ensuring competition and consumer choice so that the needs of banks’ customers (both individuals and businesses) are efficiently served. The commission would is-

sue an interim review by mid2013, and its ﬁnal report by November 2013, the CB said. It was not immediately apparent what, if any, connection this might have with the timeline of bailout talks. Meanwhile, adding to the impression that an overall rescue package might not be feasible by next month, other media reports said the troika is keen to ‘close’ all issues now and to discuss the banks’ recapitalisation in January. The troika is said to consider that Cyprus’ public debt is not viable, and is proposing reforms to the social security

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system that would include greater contributions by civil servants as well as cuts to pensions. On the payment of inﬂationlinked wage indexation, the troika is reportedly proposing that the current freeze be eventually lifted but that it be slashed by 50 per cent once payment of it resumes. But the administration has stressed that the Cost of Living Allowance (CoLA) is a ‘red line’ for it. According to reports, during a meeting on Saturday morning at the presidential palace, President Christoﬁas told aides he would not consent to some of

the troika’s demands, referring to the CoLA issue specifically. That meeting was held before Christofias flew out to Greece. Speaking from Thessaloniki later in the day, the president seemed to have an axe to grind with the troika, which he suggested was putting the squeeze on the government. “The troika is setting terms that are difficult to accept,” he said. “We are doing all we can to make others understand that unbridled neo-liberalism, ... cannot be the vision of 21st century Europe.”

Ten years for killing neighbour THE LIMASSOL Assizes court yesterday sentenced a 74-year-old man to ten years’ imprisonment for shooting dead his neighbour following an argument, killing the victim in front of his wife and teenage son. The court found the man guilty of manslaughter. The neighbours - both living in a Limassol apartment block - argued on July 6 after the victim’s son told his father the neighbour had reprimanded him for stomping over his air conditioning compressor. The victim, a 45-year-old Iranian asylum seeker, then argued with his neighbour, a Greek Cypriot, over the pensioner telling off his son. The 74-year-old was out on his balcony when the two started arguing. At some point, the Iranian started going to the 74year-old’s apartment and was met by the pensioner who shot him in the head with a shotgun he was carrying. The victim’s wife and son witnessed the shooting, Cyprus News Agency said.

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Troika delve into gas plans International lenders want to know how much and when gas will be on tap By Elias Hazou CYPRUS’ potential lenders turned their eye yesterday to what could be a future cash cow for the island - the natural gas reserves still lying untapped off the coast. A troika team held successive meetings, ﬁrst with Energy Service director Solon Kassinis, and then with ofﬁcials from the Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA), the Electricity Authority (EAC) and the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA). Kassinis told reporters later the foreign experts posed a series of probing questions on the island’s broader energy plans. In particular, he said, they homed in on government plans to export natural gas to European and/or Asian markets, on the prospects for

collaboration with neighbouring nations, the capacity of the LNG storage terminal to be built on the island, and on the short-term beneﬁt to the economy from the signature bonuses for the four offshore licences awarded recently. “They asked me for speciﬁc numbers,” said Kassinis. “I told them that from the signature bonuses we expect to receive around €200 million.” The matter of whether this cash would go toward growth or to service the public debt was not discussed, he said in response to a question. The troika wanted to know also how soon Cyprus would be able to make use of natural gas for domestic electricity generation, the EAC’s general manager Stelios Stylianou told reporters. The experts asked about the cur-

rent status of the Vasilikos power plant that was severely damaged by a blast last year. At no point did the troika raise the issue of privatising the EAC, Stylianou said. “They told us that they are staying here until all matters are resolved,” he added, alluding to the troika’s mission to Cyprus in general. And DEFA chairman Costas Ioannou said the troika experts were interested in the ways in which natural gas would be distributed once it came ashore, as well as what pricing policies for electricity authorities have in mind. “They are interested in everything, not just the hard numbers, but also the details, the procedures, the [commercial] models, pricing...” said Ioannou. Late last month the government

announced it had awarded four licences for gas exploration in offshore blocks as part of the second licensing round launched back in February. The blocks for which the licences have been awarded are: 2, 3, 9 and 11. They are all contiguous blocks, lying north and north-east of Block 12, where US firm Noble Energy has a concession to drill and has reported significant gas finds. For blocks 2 and 3, licences were awarded to a consortium consisting of ENI from Italy and KOGAS from South Korea; the licence for Block 9 went to a consortium consisting of Total E&P Activities Petrolieres (operator), NOVATEC Overseas Exploration & Production GMbH and GPB Global Resources BV (a Gazprombank subsidiary); and the Block 11 licence went to Total E&P Activities Petrolieres.

While the troika was busy probing the government’s energy plans, the commerce ministry yesterday began negotiations with the companies and consortia that were selected for the four offshore licences. According to reports, the negotiations - which as far as the government is concerned, are aimed at improving the companies’ ﬁnancial offers - began with the ENI-KOGAS consortium for offshore blocks 2 and 3. Today talks will be held with the Total-NOVATEC consortium over the Block 9 licence, and with Total for the Block 11 licence. The awarding of the Block 9 licence has come under a great deal of scrutiny after reports that the administration picked the French-Russian consortium despite the fact that its bid was rated lower than others.

Men charged in alleged plot to kill law chief

Students protest cut in work experience

SEVEN CHARGES including conspiracy to commit murder were filed yesterday at the Nicosia District Court against three men suspected of plotting to assassinate Attorneygeneral Petros Clerides. The three men are convict Andreas Onoufriou, former contract soldier Michalis Michael and lottery ticket seller Yiannakis Georgiou. The three were arrested on October 28 on suspicion of plotting to assassinate Clerides using a disposable light anti-tank weapon or LAW. The state yesterday filed seven charges against them, including: conspiracy to commit murder, conspiracy to commit a crime, and possession of weapons and explosive material without a licence. The district court ordered the three to remain in custody until the trial date, set for January 9, 2013. Last Tuesday, police said they located a 2011 proclamation attacking state officials, including the attorney-general, thought to have been penned by Onoufriou, who police accuse of being the mastermind behind the alleged assassination plot.

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Students protesting against the cut in work experience days they’re offered (Christos Theodorides)

AROUND 100 secondary school students skipped school yesterday to protest against the ministry of education’s plans to reduce their annual work experience week from five days to three. The unauthorised protest was arranged by students through the internet to protest against the ministry’s changes and did not have the support of the student umbrella association, PSEM. Work experience week takes place every February and gives students the opportunity to spend one week at a business or another place of work to help them decide possible future career choices. A ministry official said yesterday they had received reports that many students were not attending the sessions and were simply taking the whole week off school. As a result, the ministry has proposed reducing the work experience sessions to three days, said the official who did not wish to be named. Yesterday’s protest, held ahead of a meeting tomorrow between the ministry, PSEM, the secondary school teachers’ union OELMEK, parent teachers’ associations and the headteachers’ association to discuss the changes, was given short shrift by the ministry. In a circular handed out regarding the proposed protest, the inspector of secondary schools at the ministry called on teachers to ‘detect’ which students had taken the day off to attend the unauthorised protest. “They will suffer the consequences of their lack of discipline,” Zena Poulli warned.

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EU frustration grows over sluggish talks Cyprus ‘more trouble than its size would indicate’ By Nathan Morley in Brussels THE WOES OF CYPRUS were brieﬂy discussed last night during the Eurogroup meeting, but not in a substantive way as the Greek crisis dominated talks. An EU spokesman would only reveal that: “An update was provided on a possible adjustment programme for Cyprus, that’s it.” However, some interesting issues did emerge at closedpress gatherings prior to the meeting, including that the EU-IMF-ECB troika had become increasingly frustrated with Nicosia over their perceived ‘sluggish approach’ to the bailout talks. Asked about the state of the talks, Simon O’Connor, the spokesman for Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, Olli Rehn told the Cyprus Mail that discussions were ongoing, but could not elaborate on how much progress had been made. “It’s not a question of when we want them to be concluded, it’s a question of how quickly they can proceed. We will work intensively with the Cypriot authorities, but I can’t give you a precise timeline at this stage,” O’Connor said. But a reliable source close to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Commissioner, said talks had taken longer than expected with Nicosia, adding: “We’ve played our part. Now it’s up to the Cypriots. It is in their interest to get an agreement.” The same source conﬁrmed, that despite rumours in Brus-

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sels, the troika had not suggested that Cyprus slash defence spending and slim-line the National Guard. “Defence is a no-go area with the Cypriots, I’m not aware that any analysis of military spending has been mentioned,” the source said. In terms of defence spending, a 2011 Centre for Strategic Studies report said that Cyprus was the fourth-highest spending country in the European Union in terms of the percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) spent on defence at 2 per cent. “I think Cyprus is seen as creating more trouble than its size would actually indicate,” Fabian Zuleeg, chief economist at the European Policy

Centre told the Cyprus Mail. “Cyprus is asking for help - it needed help, so what its European partners are expecting is for Cyprus to be a bit more accommodating and play the game. European help comes with certain conditions.” Meanwhile, the German finance minister continued to ruffle Cypriot feathers after he said that Russia and other “questions” regarding the financial sector in Cyprus are likely to delay a bailout decision until 2013.

CLARIFICATIONS He told Welt Am Sonntag newspaper: “So far discussions between the troika and Cyprus have advanced very slowly. That is why we will probably be able to look deeper at the bailout request only in 2013,” Wolfgang Schaeuble said. Schaeuble singled out the “relationship to foreign lenders, including Russia” as one of the issues that need to be “clariﬁed”. The charismatic German minister, refused to comment on a report that German intelligence services had unearthed evidence that Cyprus was a centre of Russian money-laundering. “All questions need to be clariﬁed,” he said. A source close to the Presi-

dent of the Council of Europe told the Cyprus Mail that he had “heard rumours” that closed-door negotiations aren’t going well. “There is frustration with Cyprus, yes. They made a request in June; they have not been willing to address major issues, so there are people in many quarters of the union that remain dissatisfied with what is happening.” The source stopped short of suggesting that there were obstructionists working against the troika, but did offer a warning that sticking points should be cleared up immediately. “And you might do well to remember this may backfire on Cyprus,” the source added. “There are some looking at the systemic implications of financial assistance, especially in Berlin. Stop the political manoeuvring would be my message.” Cyprus is seeking a bailout of up to €15 billion after its banks were hit hard by the Greek crisis. Meanwhile, President Demetris Christofias arrived here last night, to discuss the seven-year budgetary framework, which sets out the EU’s overall spending limits, with the next multiannual financial framework (MFF) due to begin at the start of 2014.

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Hefty bonuses for out-going cabinet PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias and his cabinet will receive one-off bonuses at the end of their five-year term totalling close to €1.2 million, a popular daily reported yesterday. As troika representatives go over state finances with a fine-tooth comb, Phileleftheros did a spot of its own investigating, reporting the size of the bonuses and pensions allocated to top state and elected officials, as set out in the relevant legislation. According to the paper, when the president’s five-year term ends in March 2013, Christofias will receive a bonus of around €360,000, and a pension of €83,000, among other payments owed by the state. The old guard of cabinet ministers Neoclis Sylikiotis, Sotiroulla Charalambous and Loucas Louca, as well as government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou and Undersecretary to the President Titos Christofides will receive a bonus of €95,000 each at the end of their time in government plus annual pensions of €22,000 for those who’ve reached the age of 60. For ministers who served over 35 months, Demetris Eliades and Erato Kozakou Marcoullis, their golden handshake will come to around €70,000 each plus an annual pension of €15,000. Mid-term ministers Sophoclis Aletraris, Efthymios Flourentzos and Giorgos Demosthenous will reportedly receive a bonus of around €36,000 and an annual pension of €8,000 each. Relative newcomers Eleni Mavrou and Vassos Shiarly, who will have served 12 months by next March, will be entitled to around €12,000 in a one-off bonus but no pension. Newly-appointed health minister Androulla Agrotou who recently replaced AKEL-backed presidential candidate Stavros Malas will not be entitled to any benefits, said the paper.

Greek Cypriots may be among HSBC’s suspected tax evaders By Stefanos Evripidou BRITISH TAX authorities are combing through a list of over 8,000 names, allegedly including 134 Greek Cypriots, of offshore account holders at HSBC bank in Jersey searching for potential tax evasion or money laundering. British paper the Daily Telegraph reported last week that a whistleblower leaked HSBC’s Jersey client list to the British tax authorities, containing the names and addresses of 8,474 people. More than half are based in Britain, more speciﬁcally, 4,388 people holding £699 million (€872m) in offshore current accounts. Some of those on the list of British-based clients are wanted by British police or have serious criminal convictions, including a drug dealer now living in Venezuela, three bankers facing major fraud allegations and a man convicted of possessing more than 300 weapons at his house in Devon, reported the paper. The Daily Telegraph said the whistleblower also has further lists of offshore HSBC clients with addresses outside Britain, including 602 in Israel, 527

in France, 333 in Spain and 117 in the US. However, reports from Cyprus and Greece yesterday claimed the list also includes 97 Greek nationals and 134 Greek Cypriots with offshore accounts. These figures were not backed up by the Telegraph or any official source. While making use of tax havens is not illegal in itself, it is subject to a very strict set of rules and regulations. The latest disclosures once again shine a spotlight on how HSBC does business, with the bank already due to pay fines of around $1.5 billion in America for breaking money laundering rules. According to the Telegraph, last July, a US Senate investigation found that the bank had failed to implement air-tight moneylaundering controls in its operations in Mexico, while the bank also faced serious criticism for allegedly hiding Iranian transactions. In 2008, an HSBC insider sold details of the bank’s clients in Geneva to tax authorities, leading to the creation of the ‘Lagarde list’, after the then French finance minister and current IMF head Christine Lagarde.

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chemical substances were used during drilling which may prove harmful to public health. Last April, Turkey started exploratory drilling for oil and gas in Singrasi in a move widely seen as a response to the licensing of companies to carry out offshore exploration in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Cyprus Republic. By mid-September, drilling had reached a depth of 4km without result. The same month, Turkey’s Energy Minister Taner Yildiz said a second “complementary” drilling on land would be carried out in the north, followed by the launch of hydrocarbon explorations at sea. Cyprus has an estimated offshore gas prospect of 7.0 trillion cubic feet (tcf) in block 12 of its EEZ, a concession held by US-based oil company Noble Energy. Turkey demands that Cyprus cease hydrocarbon explorations pending reuniﬁcation talks and has previously said it would take measures to protect its interests.

CURRENT RESIDENTS of occupied Singrasi village in Famagusta have voiced concern about black puddles of water collecting in the area where Turkey’s state-run energy company TPAO has started drilling for oil. According to Turkish Cypriot daily Kibris, the black puddles are concentrated around well Türkyurdu 1 and have raised concerns about the risks to public health as a result of drilling. The environment secretary of the Turkish Cypriot medical association and the head of the chamber of environmental engineers visited the area on Sunday to take samples from the muddy water which they will send to a laboratory in Turkey for testing. A village representative told Kibris that the closing of the well without any prior environmental study was a cause of concern for residents. He noted that a network of water pipes exists in the area were TPAO was operating, and questioned whether any

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THE 30,000 Cypriots who served during World War II were honoured yesterday at the Pancyprian Association of World War II Veterans in Nicosia, in commemoration of Remembrance Day. Cyprus’ contribution to the war effort during the Second World War marks a signiﬁcant chapter in the island’s history, as it was the country with the highest rate of volunteers in relation to population. The 30,000 Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot volunteers who fought in the Second World War made up 10 per cent of the then population. The heavy losses that Cyprus suffered in both World Wars - with more than 2,500 captured, hundreds injured and over 600 killed during the Second World War - were honoured with a twominute silence at 11 am. President Demetris Christoﬁas’ speech, that was delivered on his behalf at the Veterans Society by presidential commissioner

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Polish Olympian sold medal to help sick girl Honoured by CTO for her help with sports tourism By Alexandra Anastassiades THE bronze winner for windsurfing in this year’s London Olympics, Zofia Klepacka, set personal interests aside and sold her first Olympic medal to help a four-yearold girl suffering from cystic fibrosis. The Polish Olympian, who visits Cyprus at least three times a year for training, has been invited to Cyprus along with the four-year-old girl, Zuzia Bobinska, and the girl’s mother, by the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) who honoured her hard work in promoting the island abroad. In an interview with the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) yesterday, Klepacka recalled numerous occasions during her training when she lacked motivation and had considered quitting, but

the thought of being able to save Zuzia’s life with this medal gave her the strength to continue. Her medal was auctioned for around €25,000 and is enough to provide medicine and special dietary requirements for Zuzia for a number of years. “I am content to remain with the memories of my win,” Klepacka said. “Cyprus is an ideal place to train in, particularly for windsurﬁng, I’m surprised more people don’t take advantage of this,” Klepacka told CNA. Limassol and Ayia Napa are especially suited for sports training, she said, and the weather on the island allows for year-round training. The CTO’s tourism ofﬁcer Monika Liatiri said the CTO had made considerable efforts to encourage athletes and sportsmen and women

All in a good cause: bronze medalist Zoﬁa Klepacka with her son and Zuzia (right) to come to Cyprus and train. In addition to marketing strategies, three incentive

schemes have been created to promote sports tourism. The ﬁrst is a programme which subdisises accommodation costs for foreign athletic teams coming to train in Cyprus, another subsidises athletic events and a third programme funds the building and improvement of athletic establishments. According to Liatiri there has been an increase in

athletic tourism in the past three years, according to surveys which focused on track, football, cycling and swimming. “As windsurﬁng is not a mass sport, like in football and swimming where athletes arrive in teams, the number of athletes coming to train for windsurﬁng is bound to be less,” Liatiri said.

Big increase in home tourism DOMESTIC tourism has risen by 31 per cent, the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) said yesterday. The CTO said the increase was largely down to its programme ‘Cyprus, Small Escapes, Big Experiences’ which aims at increasing the number of locals vacationing on the island and increasing the number of seasonal holidaymakers. The last ‘Small Escapes’ programme which ended in June showed a 31 per cent rise in participants compared to last year, CTO officials told a press conference yesterday. During 2011/2012 there were 3,348 visitors, of which 2,479 had taken advantage of the CTO’s excursion offer while in 2010/2011 there was a total of 2,557 visitors of which 1,592 had taken advantage of the offer. The new programme has been improved by the addition of new trips while an effort was made to keep prices the same as last year. The prices of weekend packages have remained the same at €50 per person for a three star hotel, €60 per person for a four star hotel and €75 per person for a five star hotel. The same prices apply to hotel apartments of the same rating. Dinner and breakfast is offered as part of the deal at hotels with lunch included on Sunday.

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Greek mythology will loom large on new five euro bank notes By Stefanos Evripidou THE EUROPEAN Central Bank (ECB) is printing new money as part of the battle against counterfeiting euro notes. ECB chief Mario Draghi told a news conference last week that the current euro notes, launched on January 1, 2002, will be gradually withdrawn from circulation and replaced with new notes with even better security features. “The European Central Bank and the national central banks of the euro system are to introduce a second series of euro banknotes. Called the ‘Europa’ series, it will include a portrait of Europa - a ﬁgure from Greek mythology and the origin of the name of our continent - in the watermark and the hologram,” AFP

quoted Draghi saying. “The new banknotes will be introduced gradually over several years, starting with the ﬁve-euro banknote in May 2013,” he added. Europa, a Phoenician princess in Greek mythology, was abducted or seduced (depending on your outlook) by Greek god of gods Zeus, and whisked away to live her days in Crete. The new banknotes will have the same colours and denominations as the current ones - €5, €10, €20, €50, €100, €200 and €500. Europa will ﬁrst appear on the €5 note in May, with other notes following in ascending order in the coming years. Old notes will eventually cease to be legal tender, though they will still be exchangeable at any national central bank in the eurozone.

A 53-YEAR-OLD man was robbed at knifepoint on Sunday night around 8.10pm by unknown assailants as he was closing up his mini-supermarket and internet café in Pallouriotissa, Nicosia. The man had just ﬁnished work and was about to lock the door to leave when two men pushed him inside the shop and demanded he give them money, police said. He refused and they attacked him, slashing his face and his right thigh. The robbers got away with €150 and the man’s mobile phone. The 53-year-old was taken to hospital where he received ﬁrst aid and was kept for observation.

Car torched A CAR was completely destroyed by a fire in Latsia early yesterday morning. The fire started at 1.40am and was later extinguished by the fire service, police said. The value of the car is estimated at €10,000. Police suspect arson.

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Future of BBC under threat News chief steps aside as crisis deepens By Kate Holton and Guy Faulconbridge THE HEAD of news at the British Broadcasting Corporation stepped aside yesterday after a programme falsely accusing a former senior politician of child abuse sparked one of the worst crises in the publicly funded broadcaster’s 90-year history. The BBC has been rocked by two news programmes, one that falsely accused the politician which was broadcast this month, and another which alleged child sex abuse by a former star presenter, the late Jimmy Savile, but which was not aired. The affair, which raised questions about ethics, competence and management at the BBC, has claimed the scalp of Director General George Entwistle and prompted its chairman to warn that the world’s biggest broadcaster was doomed unless it reformed. The saga has also called into question the role played by Mark Thompson, the former BBC director general who became the chief executive of the New York Times Co yesterday. Helen Boaden, director of

Reform or die, BBC is told BBC News, and her deputy Stephen Mitchell, stepped aside pending a review of why editors spiked the report last year on Savile, who has been accused of abusing children on BBC premises. Some BBC staff cast the

22,000-strong Corporation as a bureaucratic behemoth where journalistic talent is throttled by incompetent managers, and opponents and even some allies - questioned whether it could survive in its current form. “Everything is in play and I think this is becoming an existential threat to the BBC, not just in terms of the future of the corporation in its current form but in terms of the concept of public service broadcasting as a whole,” said a source close to the inner workings of the BBC. Entwistle resigned as director general on Saturday, just two months into the job, to take responsibility for the report which wrongly said an unidentified Conservative figure from the era of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher had raped boys in social care. But the man, later identified on the Internet as Lord Alistair McAlpine, vehemently denied the allegation and his lawyer threatened legal action against Newsnight which broadcast the allegations. The BBC apologised for the report, which it said was shoddy journalism and wrong after the abuse victim who was the source of the allegation said it was a case of mistaken identity.

New IRA grouping says it killed prison officer A GROUP of militant Irish nationalists said it shot dead a Northern Irish prison ofﬁcer as he drove to work earlier this month, and linked the attack to a dispute over prison conditions. Belfast-based newspaper The Irish News yesterday said it had received a statement claiming responsibility for the shooting from the IRA, a coalition of dissident groups formed earlier this year. The group says it is the successor of the much larger Provisional IRA, which fought British forces in the 1970s and 1980s but disbanded after the 1998 Good Friday peace deal. The provisional IRA sprang from the IRA, which took part in Ireland’s war of independence from Britain. The Good Friday pact largely ended three decades of sectarian conﬂict between Protestants loyal to British rule and mostly Roman Catholic nationalists who want to unite with the southern Irish republic, but dissident mil-

itants continue to target the security forces. The murder of David Black, who worked at the top security Maghaberry Jail, was the first killing of a prison officer in Northern Ireland in almost 20 years and the fifth fatal attack on a member of the security establishment since 1998. “An active service unit of the IRA executed prison guard David Black,” the IRA statement said. “While the IRA never takes this type of action lightly, the IRA has a responsibility to protect and defend Republican POWs.” The statement said the killing was a direct response to what it said was the “degradation” of Republican prisoners at Maghaberry, where militant nationalists have been protesting against their living conditions and strip-searches. Four men have been arrested by police in connection with the murder, but all have been released without charge.

Cleric wins deportation reprieve A RADICAL Muslim cleric won a reprieve from deportation from Britain to face terrorism charges in Jordan after a London court said yesterday it was not satisﬁed he would receive a fair trial in the Middle East state. The decision to uphold a last-minute appeal from Abu Qatada, a Jordanian cleric of Palestinian origin, is a blow to Britain, which has being trying for a decade to remove him. The court ruled there was a “real risk” that evidence obtained by torture from two other men by could be used

against him in a Jordanian court. The ruling, delivered at a special court that deals with security cases, said British interior minister Theresa May had been wrong not to revoke an earlier deportation ruling against Qatada, and allowed his appeal. Qatada, once described by a Spanish judge as “Osama bin Laden’s right-hand man in Europe”, has been in and out of jail in Britain since his arrest in 2002, spending seven years in detention without charge. May’s department said in

Reprieve for Abu Qatada a statement it strongly disagreed with the ruling and would seek leave to appeal.

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Georgian PM under fire over arrest of rivals

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Ivanishvili upbraided while on Brussels trip By Adrian Croft and Jana Mlcochova NATO and European Union leaders upbraided Georgian Prime Minister Bidzina Ivanishvili yesterday over the arrest of political opponents as he visited Brussels to try to bolster ties with the West. Ivanishvili, a billionaire whose coalition won a parliamentary election last month, has been accused by opponents of being too close to Russia, but signalled by making Brussels his ﬁrst foreign destination that relations with the West were his priority. Fears of political scoresettling have been raised by the detention of a former interior minister and two army commanders on suspi-

cion of insulting servicemen a year ago. They have not been charged, but could be jailed for up to eight years if found guilty of abuse of power. The commanders have been freed on bail but the ex-minister is still being held. “I’m extremely concerned about the development we have seen since (the elections), not least related to recent arrests of political opponents in Georgia,” NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said during a visit to Prague. “It’s for the legal system, the judicial system, in Georgia to sort out these cases. But of course it’s important that such trials are not undermined by political interference.” The 56-year-old Ivanishvili,

who made his fortune mainly in Russia, has vowed to take action against former ofﬁcials suspected of wrongdoing. He has also said he will be better at building bridges with Moscow than with the West. “We will do our best to speed up and accelerate our aspiration of achieving our ultimate goal, which is integration into the European family,” he told reporters after talks with European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso and European Council President Herman van Rompuy. Barroso said democracy was about more than elections. “Situations of selective justice should be avoided as they could harm the country’s image abroad and weaken the rule of law,” he said. “I’ve addressed this issue to

Georgia PM Ivanishvili (L) has vowed to take action against former ofﬁcials suspected of wrongdoing (AFP) the prime minister and he responded to me in a very concrete way.” Ivanishvili did not respond to the criticism directly before the media but said he had told Barroso that his government would do its

best to protect human rights and advance democracy. A European Commission source said Ivanishvili and his ministers were “trying to portray themselves as very pro-European and proreform”.

Spain promises to spare needy families from being evicted SPANISH Economy Minister Luis de Guindos promised yesterday no needy family will go homeless over mortgage arrears, responding to public fury at a homeowner’s suicide as she was being evicted. Facing accusations that politicians and banks are complicit in de facto “murder”, Spain’s banking association said its members would suspend eviction orders for two years for those borrowers worst hit by economic crisis and record unemployment. Banks have repossessed nearly 400,000 homes in Spain since a property bubble burst in 2008 and the nation subsequently sank into recession, throwing millions out of work and unable to keep up mortgage payments to the banks. Last Friday’s suicide of 53year-old Amaia Egana has inflamed a public already angered by what they see as a lack of compassion among Spanish banks, many of which have benefited from taxpayer-funded bailouts organised by the political elite. Egana, a former Socialist councillor in northern Spain, jumped to her death from her fourth-floor flat as bailiffs were trying to evict her under foreclosure laws. Speaking in Brussels, de Guindos said action was vital to avoid evictions at a time when huge numbers of homes, built during a frenetic property boom before 2008, lie unoccupied. “In Spain right now, we

Spanish Economy Minister Luis de Guindos (AFP) have nearly a million empty housing units. In this situation, the government and the economy ministry ... has to take steps so that no family in good faith goes without a home. This is our commitment,” he said. Public pressure prompted Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to call for ofﬁcials from his conservative People’s Party and the opposition Socialists to speed up negotiations on reforming the eviction laws during talks yesterday. Heads of the economy departments of both main parties were expected to look at the possibility of granting moratoriums on mortgage payments for families in dire straits and to change the legal proceedings that lead up to an eviction. However, the Spanish Banking Association said its members had already agreed with the government last week to suspend eviction cases for two years for those most in need.

AUSTRALIA’S prime minister has ordered an inquiry into claims of child sex abuse in state and religious institutions and community groups. It follows a string of sexual abuse accusations against priests and a police investigator’s claims of a Catholic Church cover-up. Prime minister Julia Gillard has faced pressure to launch an investigation after a senior police ofﬁcial last week said the Catholic Church had tried to cover up sexual abuse of children in the Hunter Valley region north of Sydney. The inquiry will target religious and state institutions, schools and community groups such as sporting clubs. It will also look into police responses to abuse allegations. Sydney Archbishop Cardinal George Pell, Australia’s highest-ranking Catholic ofﬁcial, said the church will co-operate with the inquiry.

$2m South African art heist THREE men posing as an art teacher and two students stole paintings worth about $2 million by some of South Africa’s most celebrated artists off the walls of the Pretoria Art Museum in a brazen day-time robbery. The three paid an entrance fee of just over $1 each on Sunday and asked museum staff to direct them to the six works of art, which happened to be among the most valuable paintings on display. Workers at the museum in South Africa’s capital said it seemed as if they had a shopping list. They then produced weapons, tied up a museum worker and took the art works out of the building, a city spokesman said yesterday.

Dutch teens sentenced TWO Dutch teenagers were sentenced to two years in juvenile detention and three years of compulsory therapy yesterday for ordering the death of a girl after an argument on Facebook. The case, known in the Netherlands as the “Facebook murder”, has caused widespread debate about the role of social media in violent crime. The victim, identiﬁed only as 15-year old Winsie, was fatally stabbed in January at the request of the boy and girl, who were aged 17 and 16 respectively at the time.

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World Reformist Damascus cleric Mouaz Alkhatib (L) ﬂew to Cairo to seek the Arab League’s blessing for a new assembly (AFP)

Syria’s new opposition alliance seeks recognition By Rania El Gamal and Yasmine Saleh SYRIA’S newly named opposition leader, a soft-spoken cleric backed by Washington and the Gulf Arab states, launched his quest yesterday for international recognition of a government-in-waiting to topple President Bashar al-Assad. Mouaz Alkhatib, a former imam of a Damascus mosque, ﬂew to Cairo to seek the Arab League’s blessing for a new assembly, the day after he was unanimously elected to lead it. He made a concerted effort to address the sectarian and ethnic acrimony underlying 20 months of civil war that has killed 38,000 people.

Reformist Muslim cleric new coalition leader “We demand freedom for every Sunni, Alawi, Ismaili, Christian, Druze, Assyrian ... and rights for all parts of the harmonious Syrian people,” he said, calling on Syrian soldiers to desert and all sects to unite. His new Syrian National Coalition for Opposition and Revolutionary Forces received the endorsement of the six Sunni Muslim-ruled kingdoms of the Gulf Co-operation Council as the “legitimate representative of the Syrian people”. Washington also promised to back the new body “as it charts a course toward the end of Assad’s bloody rule and

the start of the peaceful, just, democratic future”. In signs of the serious danger of the 20-month conﬂict spreading across the region, Monday saw a surge of violence at two frontiers. Israel ﬁred shells from across the line separating Syria from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, while Syrian warplanes bombed a rebel-held town on the Turkish border. Rebels and opposition politicians formed Alkhatib’s new opposition coalition after days of wrangling in Qatar under intense US and Qatari pressure. Backers hope the new body will give rebels inside Syria

more clout and reassure religious and ethnic minorities, after a Syrian National Council (SNC) made up mainly of exiled Islamists proved ineffective as the main opposition voice. Western and Arab opponents of Assad want the coalition to attract support from minority sects who had been alienated from the opposition by the prominence of well-organised Sunnis from the Muslim Brotherhood. They also hope to rein in Islamist ﬁghters, some of whom they believe are linked to al Qaeda. “Alkhatib is a dynamic, progressive Islamist, popular

in Damascus and the rest of Syria,” said Mazen Adi, a prominent Syrian human rights defender who worked with Alkhatib before the revolt. “He is not a triggerhappy Jihadist, and he can play a role in containing the extremist groups.” Alkhatib met Arab League chief Nabil Elaraby before the gathering of Arab foreign ministers in Cairo. European foreign ministers are due to join them today. “The most important thing that could come out from (Monday’s) meeting is a form of recognition for the new Syrian council alliance that was established in Doha,” said one Arab diplomat, speaking before the talks on condition of anonymity.

Iran launches ‘biggest ever’ air drills IRAN launched military drills across half the country yesterday, warning it would act against aggressors less than a week after Washington accused Iranian warplanes of firing on a US drone. The manoeuvres take place this week across 850,000 square kilometres (330,000 square miles) of Iran’s northeast, east, and southeast regions, Iranian media reported. About 8,000 elite and regular army troops will participate, backed by bombers and fighter planes, while missile, artillery and surveillance systems will be tested, they said. Played out against a backdrop of high tension between the United States and Iran over Tehran’s nuclear program, the “Velayat-4” manoeuvres will involve the biggest air drills the country has ever held, Iran’s Englishlanguage Press TV said. Western experts have challenged some of Iran’s military assertions, saying it often exaggerates its capabilities. “These drills convey a message of peace and security to regional countries,” Shahrokh Shahram, spokesman for the exercises, told Press TV yesterday. “At the same time they send out a strong warning to those threatening Iran.” Last week, the US Pentagon said Iranian planes opened fire on an unarmed US drone over international waters on November 1. Iran said it had repelled “an enemy’s unmanned aircraft” violating its airspace.

Erdogan wants death penalty return discussed More Gaza rockets hit Israel despite truce efforts PRIME Minister Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey should consider bringing back the death penalty, a decade after Ankara abolished capital punishment as part of reforms aimed at European Union membership. Political commentators accused Erdogan of populism ahead of the 2014 presidential election in which he is widely expected to run. His comments, in a speech on Sunday, follow an upsurge in Kurdish militant violence which has raised pressure on the government to act over a conﬂict that has killed more than 40,000 people since it began 28 years ago.

“In the face of deaths, murders, if necessary the death penalty should be brought back to the table (for discussion),” Erdogan said. Turkey abolished the death penalty in peacetime in 2002 under reforms aimed at EU membership. It was abolished totally in 2004, two years after Erdogan’s AK Party came to power. Abolition of the death penalty is a pre-condition for EU entry. But Turkey’s progress towards membership has ground to a virtual halt in recent years amid opposition from France and Germany and Erdogan has become increasingly dismissive of the bloc.

SPORADIC missile ﬁre from the Gaza Strip hit southern Israel yesterday for a fourth straight day, with Egypt trying to secure a truce and Israel warning it was poised to toughen its response. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu convened foreign ambassadors in what appeared to be an attempt to pre-empt international censure should Israel, whose 2008-2009 Gaza offensive exacted a costly civilian toll, again go in hard. Netanyahu briefed the envoys in Ashkelon, a port city within range of some Palestinian

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rockets. “None of their governments would accept a situation like this,” he said. Environment Minister Gilad Erdan, an inﬂuential member of Netanyahu’s Likud party, said the brieﬁng was meant to prepare world opinion for “what is about to happen”, adding there might be a major Israeli escalation within a few hours. “Hamas bears responsibility. The heads of Hamas should pay the price and not sleep at night. I expect to see not just a return to targeted killings, but also to very wide activity by (the army),” he told Israel Radio.

The U.S. Embassy in Nicosia has a full-time opening (40 hours a week) for a Supply Clerk position in the General Services Section. Applicants must have the required work and residency permits to be eligible for consideration.

Main responsibility: Assists with the annual warehouse inventory and inventories of household furniture when employees arrive and depart post. Accurately enters data into the ILMS program, extracts information as required and prints housing inventory reports. Assists occupants with inventory problems. Maintains supply inventory, fills supply requisitions, and assists with recommending which supplies to order to replenish stocks. Please visit the following website for detailed qualifications for the position and for application procedures: http://cyprus.usembassy.gov/theembassy/employment.html Applicants should send the DS-174 application for employment to: U.S. Embassy, HR Office, Supply Clerk position, P.O. Box 24536, 1385 Nicosia or via E-mail to: VacanciesNicosia@state.gov to arrive no later than 5:00 p.m. November 21, 2012. No telephone calls will be accepted. An Equal Opportunity Employer.

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Business Airline emissions law frozen by EU

Troika: two more years for Greece to cost €33b

THE European Union will freeze for a year its rule that all airlines must pay for their carbon emissions for flights into and out of EU airports, the EU executive said, following threats of international retaliation. Flights by all airlines within the European Union will still have to pay for their carbon emissions under existing rules. The year-long exemption will apply to flights linking EU airports to countries outside of the bloc. The United States, China and India have put intense pressure on the European Union. Debate in the US Congress is set to resume this week on legislation to counter the EU rules. Climate Commissioner Connie Hedegaard said she had agreed “to stop the clock” to create a positive atmosphere for international talks on an alternative global plan to tackle airline emissions. “But let me be very clear: if this exercise does not deliver - and I hope it does - then needless to say we are back to where we are today with the EU Emissions Trading System. Automatically.” EU member states still have to formally endorse the Commission’s proposed freeze. Hedegaard said she had informed representatives of all 27 member states of the Commission’s plan but could not specify how long the EU approval process might take. Airline associations welcomed yesterday’s announcement, although they said that for the duration of the moratorium EU carriers operating flights within the European Union could be at a competitive disadvantage. Environment campaigners said the European Union was giving up too much too soon.

Final aid decision not possible through consensus By Jan Strupczewski and Annika Breidthardt EUROZONE governments said they would not agree to disburse more money to debtravaged Greece yesterday, although ofﬁcials said there was a growing consensus about how big the country’s debt pile will be without corrective action. Finance ministers gathered in Brussels were expected, however, to give Athens two more years to make the budget deﬁcit cuts demanded of it, a concession that will require funding of around 33 billion euros, according to a draft document prepared for the meeting. Despite Greece approving a tough 2013 budget last week, its international lenders still need to agree on how to make its debts sustainable into the next decade. Loans have been held up since Athens, which has received two bailout packages from the eurozone and IMF, went off-track with promised reforms and budget cuts, partly as a result of holding two elections in the space of three months earlier this year. The Greek parliament passed an austerity budget for 2013 late on Sunday and a structural reform package last Wednesday, meeting the conditions for the release of the next tranche of 31.5 billion

Greek Prime minister Antonis Samaras (right) and his ministers applaud after Greek lawmakers approved the 2013 budget at the Greek parliament late on Sunday (AFP) euros of emergency loans from the eurozone. But ofﬁcials said money would not be released until the ministers had received and studied a “debt sustainability analysis” from the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank, together known as the troika.

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ANGELA Merkel faced scattered protests yesterday in Lisbon, where she delivered German endorsement of a government austerity drive designed to honour a bailout loan but which critics fear may only deepen the slump. “The situation is difﬁcult but what Portugal is doing, it is for the future,” the chancellor told a joint news conference with Prime Minister Pedro Passos Coelho, who has seen popular patience and political consensus begin to fray in recent weeks. Speaking for both himself and his

fellow conservatives, the Portuguese premier dismissed criticism such as that in a leading business newspaper which accused the chancellor of pursuing “Frankenstein experiments” with Portugal’s economy; Passos Coelho insisted: “We think this is the only way forward.” Though at least one of the few hundred demonstrators in Lisbon carried a placard showing Merkel with a Hitler moustache and the slogan “Not again!”, there was little violence and much less anti-German fury than when she visited Athens a month ago.

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low growth prospects and high external borrowing requirements. “There won’t be any definitive decisions today, but I think the general feeling is that we would like the next disbursement to done in the most efficient way possible,” said Jean-Claude Juncker, the chairman of eurozone finance ministers. As a result, the ministers may have to talk again later this week, either face-to-face or by teleconference. German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said he wanted to hear what troika inspectors had come up with during their visits to Greece before deciding what steps to take next. “I’d like to see if Greece has fulfilled all its obligations and then I’d like to hear the (EU/ IMF) troika report because it depends on the Greek government having found a solution with the troika, and I haven’t read anything on that,” he said. A compliance report by the troika calculated that if ministers agree to give Greece two more years to meet its targets, extra funding of around 15 billion euros would be needed up to 2014 and another 17.6 billion for 2015/16 - amounting to a 32.6 billion euros funding hole to be filled. Discussion on how to close that gap was high on the ministers’ agenda yesterday. “We’ll have to see later what proposals are being put forward by the troika in respect of the funding gap,” said Irish Finance Minister Michael Noonan as he entered the meeting. Christine Lagarde, the managing director of the IMF, was positive as she arrived in Brussels, saying Greece had done the work it needed to do and its creditors now needed to act.

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Passos Coelho is anxious to mark out Portugal’s difference from troubled debtor Greece and is clearly pleased Merkel and German business leaders have hailed Portugal as model for the kind of deﬁcit cuts and economic reforms they see as necessary to restore investment, revive growth and repay creditors. While encouraging Lisbon to stick with its programme in the face of opposition, Merkel may also hope her visit can reassure Germans, who will vote next year, that the billions they lent are being well used.

Merkel delivered German endorsement of Lisbon’s austerity drive

SAS to shed 6,000 staff in ‘final call’ to keep flying LOSS-making Scandinavian airline SAS will sell some of its assets and shed 6,000 staff to secure government-backed loans and stay in business after years of struggling with high costs. Analysts doubted the measures would be enough to keep the airline independent, as its structure, designed more to secure jobs and Nordic solidarity than generate proﬁt, has hamstrung its ability to cope with soaring jet fuel costs and compete with discount carriers such as Ryanair and trimmer regional rival Norwegian Air Shuttle. “This truly is our ‘ﬁnal call’ if there is to

be a SAS in the future,” said Chief Executive Rickard Gustafson after launching a new rescue plan for the airline, founded in 1951, which has not made a full-year proﬁt since 2007. The latest plan aims to buy SAS two years’ breathing space, after which banks and its major shareholders - the governments of Sweden, Norway and Denmark - will pull the plug. Sweden said the governments had tried but failed to sell SAS. SAS said unions had until Sunday to agree to wage cuts, which will be up to 17 per cent for some staff.

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Opinion

The loss of centrality Schools need more discipline and structure ABOUT a hundred secondary school children took a day off yesterday in order to go to the education ministry to protest against the shortening of the work placement week from five to three days. The mobilisation of the students was done through Facebook and other social media, but the turn-out, thankfully, was very poor. Perhaps the warning by the head of secondary schools at the ministry, Zena Poulli, who said students who did not attend school would be punished, persuaded children to ignore the calls of the handful of so-called activists. The demonstration was not supported by the union of school kids, PSEM (Pancyprian Coordinating Committee of Students) which is all too often given a say in issues it should have no say in. PSEM has been invited to attend a meeting to discuss the shortening of the work placement week at the education ministry tomorrow. Apart from education officials, parents associations, teaching union and head teachers will be represented at the meeting. The ministry decided to shorten the duration of work placement because it found that too many students were using this to take a holiday from school. But why consult with PSEM about it? This is a group of underage school-kids, who should not even be extended the courtesy of being briefed by the ministry about its plans. These kids are not old enough to vote, sign a contract or drive a car but our society is giving them a say on how the education system should be run. Treating children like adults is not democracy or social consensus, it is sheer lunacy. All that is achieved is to cultivate a union mentality, which has proved catastrophic for the country, from a young age. We are giving kids the message that mob rule is the way to get things done – just get a few hundred individual together and make your demand, threatening to take disruptive action if it is not satisfied. This mentality was also on show last week when students held a wildcat demo to demand they be allowed to wear tracksuits during the winter months, because they would be cold in jeans. Students claimed that it was their right to wear what they liked, arguing “the school can’t tell us what to do”. By the same logic, in the summer they should be allowed to wear string vests and flip-flops. Incredibly, the education ministry sent a circular to all secondary school heads that it was up to them to decide whether to satisfy their students’ demand to change their uniform. It beggars belief that nobody can see the damage that is being done by this pseudo-liberal approach to education. Will we ever realise that schools need discipline and structure, and immature kids should be treated as such instead of giving them a say on how schools should be run.

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N THIS interval of blessed tranquillity between the titanic struggle to choose the next president of the ‘world’s greatest nation’ (same guy as last time), and the world-shaking choice of the next leader of the ‘Middle Kingdom’ (Xi Jinping, but it’s still ofﬁcially secret for a few more days), a delicious moment of sheer silliness. The British Broadcasting Corporation banned a science programme because it might trigger an interstellar invasion. They would not normally ban a programme made by Brian Cox. He is a jewel in the BBC’s crown: a particle physicist with rock-star appeal – he played in two semiprofessional bands, and in the right light he looks like a younger Steven Tyler – who can also communicate with ordinary human beings. They just forbade him to make the episode of Stargazing Live in which he planned to send a message to the aliens. Cox wanted to point the Jodrell Bank radio telescope at a recently discovered planet circling another star, in the hope of making contact with an alien civilisation. The BBC executives refused to let him do it, on the grounds that since no one knew what might happen, it could be in breach of “health and safety” guidelines. Cox, a serious scientist, knew exactly what would happen: nothing. Even if there are hostile aliens out there, space is so vast that light from the nearest star, travelling at 300,000 kilometres per second, takes four years to reach us. He was just doing his bit in the centurieslong scientiﬁc campaign to convince people that they are not at the centre of eve-

Comment Gwynne Dyer for it. Sorry, Brian. Drop the radio telescope and step away from it slowly. The suits richly deserve the derision that has come their way, but if there really is life elsewhere, and even perhaps intelligent life, then we aren’t at the centre of anything any more. We are, as Douglas Adams once put it in The HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, “far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy.” We used to believe that the whole universe literally revolved around us. Then came Copernicus. But we went on believing that we are very special. We look like other animals, but we are so special that we don’t cease to exist when we die. We give the universe meaning just by being alive. A bit at a time, however, science has been destroying all of our traditional ideas about our own centrality. And here comes another blow. In a universe with trillions of stars, it was always less presumptuous to assume that we are not unique than to insist that we are. But just twenty years ago there was no evidence to show that other stars actually do have planets, let alone that some of those planets harbour life. We now know of the existence of some 800 “exoplanets”, and the number is doubling every year or so. Most of these planets are gas giants like Jupiter or Saturn, not at

If only one in a hundred planets harbours life, which is likely to be an underestimate, then there are two billion living planets. We are not unique and special rything. The BBC “suits”, who think they are at the centre of everything, weren’t having any of that. If there are aliens out there, and they ﬁnd out we are here, their ﬁrst reaction will probably be to come here and eat our children. And then the BBC will get blamed

all like Earth, simply because the giants are easier to detect. But what we have really been looking for is planets like our own. We KNOW that life thrives here. The astronomers at the European Southern Observatory in Chile have now found such a planet. It is called HD

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Is there anyone out there? The BBC stopped Brian Cox from trying to ﬁnd out 40307g, and it orbits a small orange-coloured sun 42 lightyears from here. The planet is rocky, like Earth, and it orbits its star at a distance where the temperature allows water to exist as a liquid. It is certainly a candidate for life. In the past decade we have learned that most stars have planets, and that they typically have lots of them. HD 40307 has six planets orbiting at different distances, at least one of which (HD40307g) is in the “Goldilocks” zone. There are between 200 billion and 400 billion stars in our home galaxy, the Milky Way, and probably at least as

many planets. If only one in a hundred of those planets harbours life, which is likely to be an underestimate, then there are two billion living planets. We are not unique and special. We are as common as dirt. Douglas Adams also wrote: “If life is going to exist in a Universe of this size, then the one thing it cannot afford to have is a sense of proportion.” But we are gradually acquiring exactly that, and it doesn’t really hurt. It is possible to be aware of your own cosmic insigniﬁcance and still love your children. Even though they are without signiﬁcance too.

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

1969

25 years ago Friday November 13, 1987

Britain’s ﬁrst live quintuplets born this century make satisfactory progress at Queen Charlotte’s maternity hospital in London.

A European football championship victory by the Netherlands has been reversed and the match awarded to Cyprus following crowd trouble at the game in Rotterdam last month. The punishment was imposed yesterday by the European Union Football after their control and disciplinary committee meeting.

1970 Colossal tidal waves and storm surges strike the shores of the Ganges Delta, wreaking lethal damage on the people of East Pakistan (Bangladesh).

1971 Pioneering space probe Mariner 9 reaches Mars and goes into orbit, but scientists have to wait for clear pictures because of a Martian dust storm.

35 years ago Sunday November 13, 1977 British air force helicopters today winched 125 passengers and crew to safety from the pitching deck of a Turkish ferry in distress off the coast of Cyprus. Buffeted by a force eight gale, the Cyprus-based British helicopters hovered over the 150-ton Erturk I as it tossed at anchor little more than 200 yards from the ancient walls of Kyrenia Castle.

1979

45 years ago Monday November 13, 1967

In Britain, The Times newspaper is published for the ﬁrst time in nearly a year after a dispute between the management of the paper and a printing union is resolved.

In an unexpected move the government yesterday released Turkish Cypriot political leader Rauf Denktash and sent him back to Turkey. Denktash was arrested after landing from Turkey near the village of Ayios Theodoros in the Karpass peninsula. Last Thursday the Nicosia District Court issued a further eight-day remand order against Denktash in connection with alleged offences against the state.

1985 About 20,000 people are feared dead after a volcanic eruption in northern Colombia.

Tuesday, November 13, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Showbiz Gangnam style: PSY at the awards

One Direction would ‘kill’ anyone if they hurt Niall Horan THE BOY band - made up of Niall, Harry Styles, Liam Payne, Louis Tomlinson and Zayn Malik - always look out for each other, but especially Niall because he’s the “cute” one of the band, and they would all take a hit for him. Louis said: “There is no doubt Niall is the cute one. In the nicest possible way I would much rather see any of us punched than Niall.” Liam added: “I feel really protective towards Niall.” Harry admits he would go “psycho” if anyone ever harmed the blonde Irishman because he’s such a sweet person. He said: “If you saw someone punch Niall you would just go psycho.” Liam added: “I’d kill him.” Zayn admits that even though 19-year-old Niall isn’t the youngest in the band they all have a maternal instinct towards him. He said: “I don’t know what it is, but even though he isn’t the youngest, he’s the one we feel almost maternal towards.”

United spice GERI Halliwell says the Spice Girls helped unite the world. The singer, along with her bandmates Victoria Beckham, Mel B, Emma Bunton and Mel C, took the world by storm when they burst into the music scene in 1996 and she believes the reason they were so successful is because everybody could relate to them. Speaking about the forthcoming West End play, Viva Forever!, which is based on their songs, Geri said: “The show is about bringing the Spice legacy to a new generation. Spice Girls is about unifying the world - every age, every gender, everyone. It’s woman power, it’s an essence, a tribe.” Mel B added that the show “reminds you that your best girlfriend - you want to be there for her more than anybody else”. Despite fallings out between band members in the past, Geri insists the girls are likes sisters, as they love each other but also argue.

Oprah cash OPRAH Winfrey paid for her father’s divorce. Vernon Winfrey, 79, decided to break up with Barbara, his wife of 12 years, after becoming sick of her spendthrift ways, which he says almost cost him his barbershop business, and after conﬁding his fears to his daughter’s long-term partner Stedman Graham, Oprah stepped in to help. Vernon said: “One day when Stedman was in town for a speaking engagement, I told him over dinner what was going on and that I didn’t know how I was going to handle it but I wanted out of my marriage. “He asked if I needed help and I said ‘Yes I believe so’. He immediately told Oprah and she told me to hire attorneys and she would take care of it.”

Swift, Bieber big winners at MTV European awards Six-time nominee Rihanna leaves empty-handed anded d By Victoria Bryan and Maria Sheahan TAYLOR Swift and Justin Bieber shared the spoils in Frankfurt on Sunday night at the MTV Europe Music Awards, each scooping three prizes at one of the biggest nights in the pop calendar outside the United States. American country singer Swift, who left the Country Music Association awards empty-handed less than two weeks earlier, picked up honours for Best Female, Best Live and Best Look. “Drei? Drei? I can’t believe you gave me three awards,” Swift, who was nominated in ﬁve categories, told the boisterous crowd of 7,000, trying out her best German. One of the night’s most popular performers was dance sensation Psy with his record-breaking hit Gangnam Style, which won Best Video. Skipping through the venue and on to the main stage in a sparkly blue jacket with his horse riding-inspired dance, he became the ﬁrst South Korean artist to perform at the annual awards.

He said his next album would have more English songs on it. Gangnam Style has been viewed more than 670 million times on YouTube and received a record-breaking 4.9 million “likes” on Facebook since being released in July. Host Heidi Klum also teamed up with Psy for a tongue-in-cheek performance of the dance. Rihanna, who led the nominations with six, failed to pick up a single award. Canadian teen heartthrob Bieber matched Swift’s tally, claiming Best Male for the second year in a row as well as Best Pop and Best World Stage. Compatriot Carly Rae Jepsen went home with two awards for Best Song (Call Me Maybe) and Best Push recognising up-and-coming talent. MTV chose a circus theme for this year’s awards at the 100-year-old Festhalle venue, and Rita Ora opened the show by belting out her No. 1 British hit R.I.P. from a giant bird cage. Swift embraced the concept for the show’s ﬁnale, popping out of a magician’s

box and passing her top hat to a clown riding a miniature bicycle. Despite being billed as the Europe Music Awards, the majority of nominees are traditionally North American, and 2012 was no exception. Alongside Psy, acts who took the stage at the show included Swift, 14-time Grammy winner Alicia Keys, the Killers, newly reformed No Doubt and Jepsen.

US singersongwriter Taylor Swift speaks after receiving one of her three awards

2012 MTV EMA WINNERS BEST FEMALE Taylor Swift BEST SONG Carly Rae Jepsen Call Me Maybe BEST MALE Justin Bieber BEST LIVE Taylor Swift BEST LOOK Taylor Swift n GLOBAL ICON Whitney Houston tyle BEST VIDEO PSY - Gangnam Style BEST WORLDWIDE ACT Han Geng (Asia Paciﬁc) BIGGEST FANS One Direction eber BEST WORLD STAGE Justin Bieber BEST PUSH Carly Rae Jepsen BEST ALTERNATIVE Lana Del Rey etta BEST ELECTRONIC David Guetta BEST HIP HOP Nicki Minaj BEST NEW One Direction BEST POP Justin Bieber BEST ROCK Linkin Park

Kim Kardashian no interest in a duet with Kanye West

Selena, Bieber try to salvage relationship

THE Keeping Up With The Kardashians star - who attended the MTV Europe Music Awards in Frankfurt, Germany on Sunday night with her rapper beau wearing a plunging black dress by French designer Stephane Rolland - said not even he could convince her to go back into the recording studio after her debut single Turn It Up failed to set the charts on ﬁre early last year. The 32-year-old beauty said: “No, I’d never (make another single), that was just for fun, and for charity.” Asked whether the Mercy rapper might get her to collaborate with him on a hip-hop track in the future, Kim said: “No, as good as I think he is, it’s just not my thing.” Kim - who has been dating Kanye since April - previously revealed he was the one who encouraged her to record her ﬁrst song. She said: “OK, I’m not a singer, this isn’t what I do. I have too much other stuff going on. (I thought) ‘Is this really something safe for me to do?’ Kanye was actually one of the people who really talked me into doing it and telling me, like, ‘Hey, look, what do you guys do for fun? You guys go shopping, you go to the movies. Kind of step into our world for a second and have fun, and we go to the studio.’ I’m just doing it for fun.” She also denied any rumours that she had ambitions to record an album, saying: “There’s no album in the works or anything - just one song we did for the show, and a video Hype Williams directed. Half of the proceeds we’re giving away to a cancer foundation. It’s just all having fun - with a good cause.”

SELENA Gomez has ﬂown to New York City for crisis talks with Justin Bieber. The 20-year-old Love You Like A Love Song singer who dumped the Canadian popstar last week because she felt she couldn’t trust him - has reportedly agreed to meet him in Brooklyn ahead of his concert last night to discuss whether they have a future together. A source said: “It’s not just over for Justin and Selena, whatever happens they have a lot to talk about. Their schedules have been packed but Selena has made tentative plans to see Justin in New York before his Brooklyn concert, she hasn’t decided if she’ll attend yet, but she’s keen to talk... and so is he. “They’re both being a bit cagey and stubborn but

Music not on the agenda: Kim Kardashian

they’re desperate to see one another. This isn’t new for them, they often have a tumultuous relationship. We all expect them to work it out.” The 18-year-old As Long As You Love Me singer - who is said to be planning to do everything he can to win Selena back - conﬁrmed he is not certain about the current status of his relationship. He told US radio show Open House Party on Saturday: “I don’t know what to say. I don’t know what’s going on in my life. To even assess that it doesn’t make sense ‘cause I have not made any comment.” But a source close to Justin revealed that he isn’t upset because he thinks their break-up is simply a minor blip as they have split up numerous times in the past and gotten back together.

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Environment

Climate change threatens smell of a morning coffee

Climate change ‘new normal’ says UN chief

Wild Arabica vital for genetic diversity, sustainability

EXTREME weather sparked by climate change is “the new normal” and Superstorm Sandy that ravaged the US Northeast is a lesson the world must pursue more environmentally friendly policies, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has said. The United Nations headquarters closed for three days when former hurricane Sandy slammed the Northeast on October 29 as a rare hybrid superstorm, killing at least 121 people, swamping seaside towns and leaving millions without power. “We all know the difﬁculties in attributing any single storm to climate change. But we also know this: extreme weather due to climate change is the new normal,” Ban told the 193-member UN General Assembly. “This may be an uncomfortable truth, but it is one we ignore at our peril. The world’s best scientists have been sounding the alarm for many years,” he said. “There can be no looking away, no persisting with business as usual... This should be one of the main lessons of Hurricane Sandy.” The head of UN security, Gregory Starr, said last week that UN headquarters sustained severe damage when Sandy produced heavy ﬂooding in basement levels of the world body’s Manhattan complex along the East River.

By Kate Kelland RISING temperatures due to climate change could mean wild arabica coffee is extinct in 70 years, posing a risk to the genetic sustainability of one of the world’s basic commodities, scientists said. Although commercial coffee growers would still be able to cultivate crops in plantations designed with the right conditions, experts say the loss of wild arabica, which has greater genetic diversity, would make it harder for plantations to survive long-term and beat threats like pests and disease. A study by researchers at Britain’s Royal Botanic Gardens at Kew in collaboration with scientists in Ethiopia found that 38 to 99.7 per cent of the areas suitable for wild arabica will disappear by 2080 if predictions of rising temperatures pan out. Because coffee is a highly climate-dependent crop, the increase of a few degrees of average temperature in growing regions can put at risk the future of Arabica coffee and the livelihood of millions of people who grow and produce it. “The extinction of arabica coffee is a startling and worrying prospect,” said Aaron Davis, head of coffee research at the Royal Botanic Gardens, who led the study. He said the ﬁndings made it even more important for organisations such as

Climate change poses a threat to wild arabica coffee and the people who farm it the World Coffee Research collaboration to continue work to improve the genetic strength of cultivated arabica by preserving wild types. Researchers used computer modelling to analyse the inﬂuence of rising temperatures on the geographical distribution of wild arabica coffee. The results, published in the Public Library of Science journal PLOS ONE, showed a “profoundly negative inﬂuence” on the number and extent of wild arabica populations, the researchers said. The researchers conducted two types of analysis. In the locality analysis, they found that the best outcome was for a 65 per cent

Cultivated arabica coffee accounts for slightly more than 60 per cent of global coffee production, with about 4.86 million tonnes produced this year

fall in the number of pre-existing bioclimatically suitable localities and the worst was for a 99.7 per cent drop by 2080. In the area analysis, the best outcome was a 38 per cent reduction in suitable growing regions and the worst case was a 90 per cent reduction by 2080. Davis said the predictions were conservative, since the modelling did not factor in large-scale deforestation now taking place in Ethiopia and South Sudan, another Arabica coffee region. “The models assume intact natural vegetation, whereas the highland forests of Ethiopia and South Sudan are highly fragmented due to deforestation,”

the researchers wrote. “Other factors, such as pests and diseases, changes in ﬂowering times, and perhaps a reduction in the number of birds (which disperse the coffee seeds), are not included, and these are likely to have a compounding negative inﬂuence.” Cultivated arabica coffee accounts for slightly more than 60 per cent of global coffee production, with about 4.86 million tonnes produced this year and valued at around $16 billion in wholesale trade. Exports of coffee also are crucial to the economies of countries including Brazil, Sudan and Ethiopia, where arabica coffee is thought to have originated.

China, less impact by CO2 may explain slowing in warming By Alister Doyle SUN-dimming industrial pollution in China or signs that greenhouse gases trap less heat in the atmosphere than expected may help explain an apparent slowdown in global warming since 2000, experts say. About 200 nations have set a goal of limiting warming to below 2C over pre-industrial times and determining the pace of climate change is vital to plan billion-dollar investments to shift from fossil fuels to greener energy. Most climate scientists acknowledge an “apparent slowdown” since 2000, after fast warming in the 1990s, but say the long-term trend is up. So far, 2012 is the eighth warmest year in records back to the mid-19th century, according to US data. “The simplest explanation is that China’s sulphate emissions did not go down as they suggested they would,” said Myles Allen, a professor

of geosystem science at Oxford University, who also pointed to rising pollution in many emerging nations. Coal-ﬁred power plants emit sulphate pollution that dims sunlight and so offsets warming. Allen said a decade was too short to measure long-term trends for climate change. According to the UN’s World Meteorological Organisation, the decade 2001-10 was the warmest on record. The years 2010 and 2005 were warmest, just above the third warmest, 1998. A yet-to-be-published study says that the atmosphere may be less affected by rising concentrations of carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas from burning fossil fuels, than expected. “If we’re correct it will make it easier (to slow global warming) but it will still require dramatic reductions in emissions,” said Terje Berntsen, a professor at the University of Oslo

and an author of the report. A doubling of the concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere over pre-industrial times would push up temperatures by between 1.3 and 2.9C, it said. That is below a range of 2.0 to 4.5C estimated as the likely response to a doubling of carbon dioxide in a 2007 report by the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Temperatures are now about 0.8C above pre-industrial times. Two degrees is viewed as a threshold to dangerous change including more powerful storms like Sandy that struck the United States, more heatwaves, droughts and rising sea levels. A minority of scientists who doubt that mankind’s emissions have much impact say that natural swings are the main cause of rising temperatures in recent decades. If true, that would make it less urgent to invest in measures to cut emissions.

“Natural internal variability due to heat exchanges between the ocean and the surface” account for the apparent slowdown since 2000, said Richard Lindzen, a professor emeritus at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He said the IPCC exaggerated the risks. Another study last year, based on a reconstruction of temperatures back 21,000 years, also showed that the climate’s sensitivity to a doubling of carbon dioxide concentrations was a median 2.3C, less than the IPCC estimate. “If true it would be good news” for efforts to rein in climate change, lead author Andreas Schmittner at Oregon State University, said of his ﬁndings. “Clouds are still a big wild card. Other uncertainties are possible release of carbon dioxide and methane from melting of permafrost in the Arctic,” he said.

Maya collapse gets linked to climate change FOR A CLUE to the possible impact of climate change on modern society, a study suggests a look back at the end of classic Maya civilisation, which disintegrated into famine, war and collapse as a long-term wet weather pattern shifted to drought. An international team of researchers compiled a detailed climate record that tracks 2,000 years of wet and dry weather in present-day Belize, where Maya cities developed from the year 300 to 1000. Using data locked in stalagmites - mineral deposits left by dripping water in caves - and the archaeological evidence created by the Maya, the team reported its ﬁndings in the journal Science. Unlike the current global warming trend, which is spurred by human activities including the emission of atmosphere-heating greenhouse gases, the change in the Central American climate during the collapse of the Maya civilisation was due to a massive, undulating, natural weather pattern. This alternately brought extreme moisture, which fostered the growth of the Maya civilisation, and periods of dry weather and drought on a centuries-long scale, said the study’s lead author, Douglas Kennett, an anthropologist at Penn State University.

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What’s on

films

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Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30pm, 8.05pm and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30pm, 8.05pm and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.25pm and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in Greek), weekends only at 11.30am, 1.35pm and 3.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (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 Portuguese Cinema Week The Immortals (in Portuguese, with Greek subtitles) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96-420491, www.ofk.org.cy

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LIMASSOL Taken 2 (N/A) Rio 1 weekdays at 6.10pm, 8pm and 10pm, weekends at 3pm, 4.45pm, 6.30pm, 8.20pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 8.10pm and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 J.A.C.E (N/A) Rio 3 at 10pm, weekends at 10.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.40pm and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Skyfall (12) Rio 2 at 7.45pm and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5pm, 7.40pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 To Rome With Love (12) Rio 6 at 7.45pm and 10pm, weekends also at 3.20pm and 5.40pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.40pm, 7.50pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 3 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 3pm, 4.45pm and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Looper (15) Rio 5 at 7.45pm, weekends at 8.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 7.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Savages (18) Rio 5 at 10pm, weekends at 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 4 at 7.45pm and 10pm, weekends at 8.10pm and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) Rio 3 at 7.45pm, weekends at 8.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 2 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 3.15pm. Tel: 25-871410 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; KCineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) 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 Taken 2 (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 8.10pm and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 J.A.C.E (N/A) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.40pm and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5pm, 7.40pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

To Rome With Love (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.40pm, 7.50pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 6 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Tinker Bell: Secret of the Wings (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in Greek) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Looper (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 7.45pm and 10.10pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Looper (15) Rio 4 at 7.45pm and 10pm, weekends at 7.30pm and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

Paranormal Activity 4 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30pm, 8.05pm and 10.15pm. Tel: 77778383 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 5.35pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS Taken 2 (N/A) Rio 1 at 6pm, 7.45pm and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 J.A.C.E (N/A) Rio 5 at 7.45pm, and 10.15pm, weekends at 7.30pm and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Skyfall (12) Rio 7 at 5.30pm, 8pm and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 To Rome With Love (12) Rio 2 at 6pm, 8pm and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

Paranormal Activity 4 (15) Rio 3 at 7.45pm and 9.30pm, weekends at 7.30pm and 9.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia (K) Rio 6 at 7.45pm and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Barbie: The Princess & the Popstar (K) Rio 5 (in Greek) at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in Greek), at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Brave (K) Rio 1 (in Greek, in 3D), weekends only at 4pm. Tel: 26-207000 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D) at 6pm, weekends at 4pm and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Films change on Friday. Check the Cyprus Mail for details of new films for Friday and Saturday.

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listings Today Exhibition ID Euro-Signs and Icons Project focuses on semiology and semiotics of contemporary art. Opens November 13, 8pm until December 13. Artspace Art Studio 55, (Next to Rialto Theatre), Limassol. Daily: 5.30pm-8.30pm. Tel: 99-603316

Music The Ultimate Tribute Show & Dance with Elvis, Elton and Sarah Brightman Three top tribute acts and a funny guy in one performance With special guest Tina Chester as Sarah Brightman and introduced by stand up comic Lukas. November 13. Pentaras Hall, Coral Bay Road, Paphos. Doors open 7.30pm, showtime 8.30pm prompt, ends at 10.45pm. 10. Reservations essential - Tel: 99-832538. Meals available

Theatre The Cherry Orchard Open Arts presents Anton Chekhov’s last play. November 13-30. Tivoli Luna Park, Ilia Papakyriakou, Engomi, Nicosia. Monday through Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 96-765575

Other Events Financial Lecture Within the framework of seminars, workshops and events organised by Zoticus present topical lecture with Dr. Michael Mau.November 13. Classic Hotel, 94 Rigainis Street, Nicosia. 6pm. Free. The seminar will be held in English and translated in Greek. Tel: 22 664006/96-596853, Email: zoticus@zoticus.com

Tomorrow Exhibition Birthday City Solo painting exhibition by Savvas Georgiadis. Opens November 14, 7pm until November 31. Open daily: 9am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 9am-2pm. Zacharias Gallery, 147 Irinis Street, Limassol. Tel: 25-358311

Music Ashley Wass Pharos Arts Foundation hosts recital with acclaimed British pianist. November 14. The Shoe Factory, 304 Ermou Street, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €25/20. Tel: 22-663871/70-009304.

Paphos 13th Music and Dance Festival A festival embracing a variety of musical genres taking place in venues around Paphos. November 14-24. €7 and €5 (students and pensioners). Tel: 26-937670/99-632346 Abba Dabba Do All the hits from Mama Mia to Dancing Queen with the best four piece tribute and on the planet – probably. November 14. Yialos Restaurant, Pissouri Bay. Dinner 7.30pm, showtime 8.30pm. €20 including dinner. Reservations essential - Tel: 99-832538 Natassa Bofiliou The Cyprus Association of Cancer Patients and Friends presents Greek singer for two live performances. November 14-15. Avlea, 2 Emanuel Roidi, Strovolos, Nicosia. 9pm. Tel: 97-895979/22-388322

Theatre The Harley Jacket THOC’s New Stage presents play by Vasilis Katsikonouris directed by Giorgos Mouaimis. November 14. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300

Other Events Whisky Live Taste up to nine different whiskies and meet producers and distillers. November 14-16. Hilton Hotel, Nicosia. 5pm-10pm daily. €29 Entrance Ticket (per person)/ €100 Group Entrance Ticket (for 4 people)/ €125 Group Entrance Ticket (for 5 people)/ €150 Group Entrance Ticket (for 6 people). Masterclasses: Entrance Ticket Required in addition to the Masterclass Ticket. Participation in Masterclasses is limited. visit www. whiskylivecyprus.com Timon of Athens A National Theatre Live screening. November 14. Rialto Theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. With Greek and English subtitles. Tel: 77-777745 European Political Thought A series of seminars to be presented by Dr Eleni Papamichael, followed by a discussion. Participants to more than six seminars will be awarded Diplomas of Attendance. November 14 until January 23. M106 (Millennium building 1st floor) at the University of Nicosia 8.45pm. Every Wednesday. 50 euro. Monitoring individual lectures 10. Tel: 22-841600/ 99-536311 and/or cceia@unic.ac.cy

Ongoing Other Events European Space Expo: Discover what Space brings to your Life The expo will highlight the critical role of the EU in space and space-based technologies. November 12-18. Europe Square, Larnaca. Monday-Friday: 10am-2pm and 4pm-8pm. SaturdaySunday: 10am-8pm. Free. Additional space conference, November 15 and 16 with online registration required. www.ec.europa.eu/enterprise/policies/ space/expo/index_en.htm

Theatre Oscar Presented by New Stage of THOC. Until December 8. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Every two weeks Wednesday through Saturday. 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-492900 Samia Revival of ancient Greek comedy by Menander. Until December 9. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Saturday at 8.30pm and Sunday at 6pm. €12/6. In Greek. December 1 and 2 in Greek and English surtitles. Tel: 22-864300

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4 one-act plays Plays seamlessly tied together with live music, in a natural scenic space in a beautiful restored mansion at Lympia. Until December 19. Shilas Mansion, 4 Dimokratias Street, Lympia, Nicosia. Every Wednesday at 8pm. €5 with free drinks. Tel: 99-787090 Shakespeare in an Hour Pirasmos Productions presents the theatrical comedy. Until December 23. Pantheon Art Cinema, 29 Diagorou Street, Nicosia. Thursday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 70-001910

Exhibitions Iliad’s Conversations Solo painting exhibition by George Koumouros. Until November 15. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. Open daily: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-9pm Dhekelia Art Group Annual Exhibition Group art exhibition. Until November 15. Sun Hall Hotel Apartments, Finikoudes, Larnaca. Open daily. Tel: 24-645591 Mare Liberum Exhibition centred on navigation in the Mediterranean Sea between the 16th and 19th century. Until November 15. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Limassol. Opening hours: daily except Mondays 10am-1pm & 4pm-8pm. Tel: 25-342123

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On The Scene Other Events Making German language fun for the kids SPRECHEN Sie Deutsch? Do you speak German? Would you like to learn? If the answer is ja then you may be interested in couple of events coming up this week at the Goethe-Institut Cyprus. German is the official language in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Luxembourg. And it is the second most popular language to learn in the EU, ranking among the top 10 most frequently spoken languages in the world. In today’s globalised world, multilingualism is common, relevant, and to many, a necessary part of daily life. This November, the GoetheInstitut Cyprus is organising a series of events aimed at children as part of the cultural programme dedicated to the Month of the German language in Cyprus. It begins on Thursday with an entertaining show for young learners of German in and around Nicosia entitled Mars tanzt Erde Deutsch Show. The top-rated show by German entertainer and educator Lyonn Redd from Cologne, who has performed this show with great success in many countries in the world for young learners with elementary knowledge of German. The show includes 45 minutes of music, entertainment, games and fun aimed at an enthusiastic audience aged between 12 and 16 years of age. All young learners of German in and around Nicosia are welcome to attend, and admission is free. After attending this show everybody will agree that learning German can be fun. The Goethe-Institut Cyprus is also presenting three recent films based on famous children’s novels by German author Erich Kästner. The children’s book author, lyricist and satirist was regarded as one of the great moralists and humorists of German literature. The films are best suited for children aged 8–14 years. All children of this age group (with or without their parents) are cordially welcome. All films are in the original German version with Greek subtitles. There are two films left to see on Saturday, the first is Annaluise and Anton. The story follows two friends who try to make money to take one’s sickly mother on a therapeutic trip to the ocean. Annaluise and Anton will be followed by The Flying Classroom, a film about Children at a boarding school who try to stage a Christmas play. Mars tanzt Erde Deutsch Show German entertainer and educator Lyonn Redd from Cologne hosts a show with music, entertainment and games for people aged between 12 and 16 years of age. With singing, dancing and entertaining games. November 15. Goethe-Institut Cyprus hall (next to Ledra Palace Hotel in the buffer zone. 4.30pm. Tel: 22-674608 German Language Children Films Recent films for 8 to 14 year olds and all those young at heart based on famous children novels by German author Erich Kästner. November 17. Goethe-Institut, Nicosia (next to Ledra Palace). In German with Greek subtitles. 4pm & 6pm. Free. Tel: 96-760534/22-674608

Free your mind and your body and soul will follow

THE COUNTDOWN is on for the Mind, Body and Spirit Exhibition, where you can feast your eyes and ears on products and services aimed to get you glowing and feeling great about yourself. From Reiki to acupuncture, a growing number of people are exploring complementary and holistic therapies and feeling better for it. Now in its tenth year, the bi-annual exhibition has become a regular ﬁxture in the cultural events calendar, and is eagerly anticipated in Limassol in the spring and Nicosia in November. Whether you are a veteran or just starting out on a new life-enhancing adventure, then the exhibition taking place at the Hilton Park Hotel this weekend is sure to have something to energise and invigorate your journey. Among the 70 exhibition stands there will be plenty of virtual and physical space to explore, reﬂect on and share your experiences with other like-minded people. As usual, the programme will cover natan spirit, eco-living ural health, the human and complementary medicine. If you ms as airy fairy, regard these mediums irit expo the Mind Body & Spirit xperichallenges you to experipects ence the tangible aspects it has to offer. Need some he jewnew accessories? The owcases ellery on display showcases healing crystals and stones, ry beautihowever it is also very nd crafted ful with modern, hand designs. Those in need of a good stretch le toning out and some muscle s. For a can join a yoga class. health kick, why not start a new amme with healthy eating programme ount the 20 per cent discount coupon generously provided by Holland & Barrett. For a bit of fun why not get a Polaroid image of o belief your aura taken? No

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HEN Vladimir Putin celebrated his 60th birthday, a group of patriotic mountaineers unfurled a portrait of the Russian leader on a 4,150-metre mountain peak. Hailing him as a guarantor of happiness and stability, the climbers’ leader explained: “We have stuck Putin’s portrait on a rock wall we see as unbreakable and eternal as Putin”. But as Putin nears the end of his 13th year ruling this vast country, Russians feel increasingly unhappy and worries over long-term political and economic stability are growing. Russia is exporting three things in great quantity, says a leading Moscow banker: natural resources, capital and people. Only the ﬁrst could be regarded as healthy and sustainable; the other two imply that oligarchs and ordinary citizens alike are turning their back on Putin’s Russia. Almost a third of city-dwellers would like to emigrate from Russia, according to a poll in September. Among young people the proportion rose to nearly half. The most favoured destinations were Europe, the United States, Australia and New Zealand. The reasons for this exodus

Much of the population is increasingly unhappy with Putin’s leadership

Putin’s Russia: more of talent and money? A growing sense among educated Russians that their country is heading in the wrong direction, and that no change is likely. It all began very differently. Putin replaced Boris Yeltsin in the Kremlin on December 31, 1999. His early years generated hope as the chaos of the Yeltsin era was replaced by order, the economy grew strongly - Russia’s GDP has grown nearly 10-fold under Putin - and a consumer boom created a new middle class. A group of reform-minded ministers led by Alexei Kudrin at Finance and German Gref at Economy raised hopes of real change to increase private investment, modernise industry and infrastructure and reduce dependence on raw material exports. Fast forward to 2012. Putin began a fresh six-year presidential term this March, with his supporters calling for him to stay in power until a constitutional term limit of 2024 - by which time the former KGB spy would have ruled longer than any Kremlin leader since Stalin. Outwardly Putin’s reform agenda continues. The president and his government repeat the mantra of modernisation - a concept beloved of tsars for centuries. Putin told Russia’s main economic forum this summer that his government would implement a programme of major transformation to build a new economy, create or modernise 25 million jobs and become an exporter of innovative goods and services. But the facts on the ground

point in a different direction. A brief and shallow political thaw under Dmitry Medvedev’s 2008-12 presidency (in which Putin continued to wield ultimate power from the prime minister’s office) is being reversed. Opposition leaders have been arrested on charges which human rights organisations say are trumpedup, new controls have been clamped on the internet and a Medvedev repeal of slander laws has been reversed. Gref and Kudrin are both long gone from the government and unconfirmed rumours swirl in Moscow that Medvedev himself will be fired by Putin before the end of the year. Growth presses on but at the same time Moscow has the world’s biggest population of billionaires, corruption is rampant and the country’s huge wealth is very unevenly spread. Kudrin helped to fund a startling study from the Centre of Strategic Research thinktank, published last week. It concluded from interviews with focus groups in Moscow and regional cities that Russians saw little chance of changing their “predatory” ruling elite through the ballot box. Most thought a revolution was possible and even desirable. Medvedev cuts an increasingly lonely figure in Moscow, his credibility with voters gone after stepping aside without a murmur to make way for Putin’s return to the Kremlin this year. His supporters privately despair of

Health scare? the president’s men have denied there is one

any chance for real change in an economy that looks increasingly Kremlin-controlled. One recent mega-deal shows the trend. Last month, state-controlled oil giant Rosneft said it would take over the number three oil producer, TNK-BP. Rosneft will buy out the current owners - four Soviet-born oligarchs and Britain’s BP - to create the world’s biggest publicly listed oil company. At a time when Russian oil production is falling and large-scale investment is badly needed to open up new ﬁelds, the Kremlin is instead

Exodus of talent and Medvedev reve

spending $55 billion in cash and shares to acquire control of a major oil company from the private sector. As the government splurges, Russia’s oligarchs are shifting more money abroad because of the poor investment climate. Deputy Economy Minister Andrei Klepach estimates that $50-60 billion of private capital will ﬂow out of Russia this year. Moscow bank Uralsib predicts the ﬁgure could hit $80 billion. Putin told a group of visiting academics and journalists last week over dinner at his residence that he had “mixed feelings” about the Rosneft

takeover of TNK-BP because it increased state participation in the economy. Russia-watchers, however, had little doubt that the takeover was scripted inside the Kremlin. Rosneft is run by Igor Sechin, a long-time close Putin ally and Kremlin hard-liner who has always favoured extending state control over key assets. The two-hour, seven-course dinner with the Valdai Group of Russia experts was held at Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence in an exclusive wooded suburb outside Moscow. The occasion was billed as a chance to gain insight into the latest Kremlin thinking and learn Putin’s ideas for his new term. But at dinner, the Kremlin chief surprised some attendees with an uncharacteristically ﬂat performance, devoid of the quips and bravado for which he is renowned and lacking in new ideas. Corruption is one of the biggest problems in Russia for ordinary citizens, businessmen and foreign investors. The country has slid to 143rd place out of 182 on Transparency International’s Corruption Perceptions Index, tied with Nigeria. Yet Putin shrugged off a question about corruption with a tired sigh, asking his audience what they expect-

ed him to say that was new about such a perennial topic. Intimations of Putin’s mortality have surfaced. The president’s press secretary last week denied a Reuters report that the Kremlin leader needed surgery to correct a back injury, then days later squelched fresh rumours about Putin’s health, saying he was working from home to avoid trafﬁc congestion. Such issues are no minor matter in a country where so much power is concentrated in the hands of one man, a

Growth presses on world’s biggest p rampant and the cou man with no visible successor. President Barack Obama memorably described Putin before their ﬁrst meeting in 2009 as a leader with one foot stuck in the Soviet past, and signs of a drift backwards are visible in Moscow. The Kremlin administration is now headed by 59-yearold former KGB spy Sergei Ivanov, who likes to describe

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Lack of ﬁght: Medvedev lost credibility with voters after stepping aside without a murmur to make way for Putin’s return to the Kremlin

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d money as political thaw under ersed reports Michael Stott himself as “rather conservative on national security but quite liberal on economics”. Ivanov previously headed the Defence Ministry and the military-industrial complex. On the lips of many educated Muscovites today is the word “zastoy” (stagnation) - an epithet which came to deﬁne the lacklustre latter years of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev in the 1970s and early 1980s, but is now increasingly used of Putin. Despite years of government promises, Russia has yet to build a modern pensions sav-

ping the country’s military, while cutting spending on infrastructure and education. These priorities have upset business leaders, who are desperate for improvements to the creaking road network. And despite repeated Putin pledges to cut the economy’s dependence on oil and gas exports, the oil price required by the Kremlin to make its budget sums add up has more than doubled over the pasts ﬁve years to $110. In foreign policy, Medvedev’s much-vaunted plan to reset relations with the United

n but at the same time Moscow has the population of billionaires, corruption is ntry’s huge wealth is very unevenly spread ing system, improve regulation to create a viable ﬁnancial market trading centre to compete with Dubai or invest in its crumbling infrastructure. Already weighed down by the cost of hefty public sector pay rises ahead of this year’s presidential election, the Russian government’s latest budget envisages spending $620 billion by 2020 re-equip-

States on a more constructive track has stalled. Instead Moscow has confronted the West over Syria and given priority to pursuing a free trade area with former Soviet neighbours Belarus and Kazakhstan. Alexei Pushkov, chairman of the Duma’s Foreign Affairs Committee, says Russia wants to be an “independent centre of attraction” for na-

tions in its neighbourhood and adds: “The West made a major mistake wanting Russia to be like the West - Russia wants to be Russia”. One of the clearest signs of divergence between Russia and the West is the treatment of Pussy Riot - a punk feminist band who staged a protest song in Moscow’s main cathedral this year imploring the Virgin Mary to rid Russia of Putin. Three of its members were jailed for two years - one later released on a suspended sentence - for “hooliganism motivated by religious hatred”. Putin said the women had “got what they deserved” because their performance amounted to a vulgar act of group sex and threatened the moral foundations of Russia. Western governments and human rights groups were outraged at what they saw as a grossly disproportionate punishment. Yet the harsh treatment meted out to Pussy Riot may signify something deeper than moral indignation. Many analysts see the jail terms as a sign of something deeper - Kremlin insecurity amid rising popular discontent. While the street protests which swept Moscow last winter have now abated, political analysts say the urban, edu-

Pussy Riot - band members were jailed earlier this year pushing a wedge beteen Russia and the West

Flying solo: Putin in a motorised hand glider

cated population is increasingly unhappy with Putin’s leadership. Far from the grandeur of Putin’s Novo-Ogaryovo residence, its wrought-iron gates topped with the double-head-

ed Russian eagle, to the north of Moscow lies the featureless dormitory town of Krasnogorsk. Inside a small, noisy McDonald’s restaurant there, a diminutive 30-year-old woman

energetically explained her prediction for Russia’s future under Putin, as a snowstorm swirled outside. “The system itself is crumbling,” said Yekaterina Samutsevich, the released Pussy Riot member. “It’s becoming more repressive... those in power have very strong fears and their behaviour is more and more wild. We could end with a total collapse like the Soviet Union.” Whether the vision of the strong, stable, great power projected by Putin or the apocalyptic prediction of the young punk rocker come to pass remains to be seen. But in the meantime Russia’s people and its business elite are voting with their feet and their wallets. And Putin is not winning.

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***************************** PRIVATE TUITION Experienced, UK-qualiﬁed teacher offers full/part-time private home tuition in Maths, English, the Sciences, Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. 9 years experience in Cyprus; references available. Telephone 99318796 ***************************** 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. *****************************

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

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 ***************************** LOGS FOR SALE olive, carob and eucalyptus. Delivered to your door free 12 euro per 20 kilo bag tel 99682243 or 99588114 By the Tom the log man. ***************************** 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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MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** I’M FILIPINA with EU passport, trustworthy …if you are interested. Please call me at 96393391 or 96575315 & can take your properties cleaning, ironing, cooking and gardening…only in Limassol or outside not very far *************************** STAGE ONE THEATRE, Emba, Paphos, presents Tim Firth’s famous play CALENDAR GIRLS at 7.30 on 3-8 December. Directed by Peter Sandwith. Tickets €12.00, €6.00 for children 12 and under. Booking on 99967737 weekdays 10am – 1pm, email boxofﬁce@stageonetheatre.com. Proceeds will be donated to charity. *************************** WHOEVER HAS UNWANTED CD/DVD, books, decorative items and homeware in good condition can donate it to the Hiv Cyprus Foundation so we can re-sell them at the Gynaikopazaro in Nicosia every ﬁrst Saturday

abbreviations AUSTRIAN INGENEUR, 50 years, searching for a nice women. Mobile:004917365562 or 00491726293462

LILLY beautiful and sweet pekingese mix female looking for a loving home. She likes children very much and she will do ok with other dogs. 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. *****************************

A MALE wirehaired terrier type pup, around 5 months old, looking for a loving home. Good temperament. A kind dog and very friendly. 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. *****************************

EMMA, a mix breed large type of dog. She is a large dog be-

SERVICES WINTER’S COMING *WOOD BURNING FIREPLACES* Supplied and installed from as little as €695, Paphos and Limassol areas. Tel 96714074 for a free quotation. While stocks last!!! 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

PORTABLE SEWING MACHINE. The Swiss Bernina 900 Nova is a simple-to-operate portable electronic machine with a removable hard case. Sturdy, reliable, will go on for years. Instruction books in English and French. All original accessories except the stitch-ripper. Recently serviced. Supply of metal bobbins included. €180 or best offer. Call 99512965 (Nicosia) ***************************** DUE TO RENOVATION we sell the following furniture: 1) Beds and mattress 2) Tables and chairs for kitchen 3) Sofa beds 4) Various other furniture. Tel 99655551 ***************************** VIRGIN OLIVE OIL FOR SALE. Fresh and last year virgin olive oil for sale, bottles of 1L, 4L, and 20L. Price €5 per Litre. Please contact 00357

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Please note tel nos. that begin with: 22 = Nicosia 23 = Paralimni/Protaras 24 = Larnaca 25 = Limassol 26 = Paphos

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99681606 or apply to Rantzo cafe Pissouri village. **************************** HOUSE CLEARANCE - garage sale from dishes and clothes,furniture,electrical house appliances,Piano etc. Sunday Nov 11th from 10.00 A.M. - 18.00 P.M. Address: 13,Kyriakou Kolokassi. Engomi ( Close to the American Embassy) 96491788 99222649 *************************** z CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall ﬁttings (clothes rails.) Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943 ****************************

from airport, quiet residential area €109.000. Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914 **************************** PLOT LOCATED IN MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL 617sqm. 100% build. Ideal for the construction of apartment building or 1 or 2 large houses. Price reduced to € 360.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0170 **************************** RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND of 985sqm in the village of Pareklisia. Partial sea views, near to electricity and water supplies. €135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330 908 **************************** FOR SALE PLOT IN THE CENTER OF LEFKARA Village 670sqm, high build factor, near all shops, and amenities €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-paf0007 **************************** 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 **************************** TREMITHOUSA, plots for sale in a very quiet area, unobstructed sea and mountain views, 600 – 700 sqm, prices from €170.000 Tel: 99510420 ***************************** 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 ***************************** FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554. *****************************

or garden, prefer furnished, SW of Nicosia (in approx area Lakadamia to Kapedes and Kalo Chorio) alan.tye@birdlifecyprus.org.cy, 22455072, 99089083. *****************************

21 PROPERTY FINDER A.M. 627 A.A.108 / E 99474839, 99646822 ***************************** FOR RENT OR SELL: 2 bedroom flat in Nikis Avn in Nicosia, 80 m. Completely renovated, with electric supplies. Excellent for office or flat. 3 bed-room flat with electric supplies and some furnitures in Nicosia near Central Bank, 140 m. Completely renovated like new. Mob: 99 460 860 ***************************** MODERN 2 BDRM, first floor flat in attractive building in Anthoupolis, very quiet area between the Grammar School and the European University, also very convenient for Pascal and Highgate Schools and the University of Nicosia. Large front veranda, all appliances, modern fittings, light and bright. Furnished or unfurnished €550p.m. Call 99900177.

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

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PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FLATS / HOUSES FOR RENT: studio Aglantzia €350, 1bdrm Ag. Andreas furnished €425, Hilton €400, Strovolos €350, Acropolis €380, Kennedy furnished €400, 2bdrm Ag. Dometios €400, Lykavitos €550, Kennedy €400, Acropolis rear house €300, 3bdrm m/ssa with garden €500, Str/ los €400, Acropolis €550, 4 bdrm new house Dasoupolis €1,200, Acropolis g/f €800.

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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. Call Thanos 99543533. 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. FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank. 3 W.C., fully airconditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554 FOR RENT – three-bedroom flat in Lykavitos, Nicosia. Open plan fully-equipped kitchen and living area, two bathrooms, air conditioning and

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA central heating. Big veranda. Near the town centre and University of Cyprus. Contact 99721911 / 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 appliances 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. H3AR0004-R, 3 bedr luxury detached house with central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor throughout the house, big sitting and dining area, big kitchen with family room opening onto the swimming pool which has

TO LET NICOSIA big covered area with wooden deck, bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area behind Apoel football training ground - Archagelos - €1700 (photos in 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. H3ST10012-R, 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet ﬂoor, ﬁre place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, SHARED SWIMMING POOL, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school. Strovolos € 1200, (photos in 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

TO LET NICOSIA 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. H4LAK0002-R, 3 bedr + office space luxury detached house, built on a big plot, 350sq. m, big swimming pool with cover, garden with grass, big sitting and dining room, separate family room, central heating, a/c, curtains on all the windows, cooker, dishwasher and dryer, parquet floor throughout the house,3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking in a quiet area on the borders of Strovolos with Lakatamia Lakatamia- €1900 (photos in website). 9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bath-

TO LET NICOSIA rooms/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 Centre- PLATY 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 €850 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website). 11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached 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. H4AGZ0010-R, 3 bedr REN-

TO LET NICOSIA OVATED GROUND FLOOR HOUSE with big separate 1 bedroom flat with multi room, big sitting and dining room , separate tv room, big kitchen with family room and fitted cooker and oven, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, very big 5 X 6 bedrooms with solid parquet floor, central heating with petrol independent, a/c units, double glazed windows with shutters, big verandas around the house, in a very quiet neighbourhood 200metres from FRENCH school and near Athalassas park - Aglantzia €1300 (photos in 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 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

TO LET NICOSIA 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). 15. 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). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225/96422225/96422226, 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).

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in 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. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website). 5. A3ST10036- R, 3 bedr new luxury apartment on the last ﬂoor of a 3 storey building with nice view, electrical appliances in the kitchen,2bathrooms, 2wc, blinds, big covered veranda, air condition for hot and cold in all the rooms, covered parking and storage room in a quiet area – Strovolos - € 550

TO LET NICOSIA (photos in 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 neighbourhood 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. A1ACS0007- R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with 2 a/c for hot and cold, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big bedroom, covered veranda, blinds, covered parking, in a quiet area near Acropolis park. NICELY FURNISHED. Acropolis €450 (photos in 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

TO LET NICOSIA 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. A2AOM0009-R 2 bedr luxury ﬁnished apartment in a small building with 4 ﬂats only, central heating with petrol independent, full a/c, 2 bedrooms with en-suite bathroom/shower, separate guest wc, NICE MODERN EXPENSIVE FURNITURE, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood very close to Junior school and the park - Agioi Omologites - € 800 (photos in website).

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en suite), big sitting room, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, covered parking near Agios Antonios market CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY. Lykavitos €510 (photos in website). 13. A2ST10028- R, 2 bedr new luxury apartment on the 1st ﬂoor of a 2 storey building, with a/c for hot and cold, fully nicely modern furnished, big covered veranda, parking, in

a quiet neighbourhood. (no common expenses). Strovolos €600 (photos in website). 14. A2NIC0001- R New luxury finished 2 bedr apartment with separate electric floor heating for each room, a/c units, parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area, electrical appliances in the kitchen, fully modern furnished and equipped, big bedrooms, covered veranda, central satellite dish, cable net

service, blinds on the windows. In the centre opposite the walls, Nicosia centre, €670 (photos in 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

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 neighbourhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €720 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website). 12. A2LYK0006-R, 2 bedr penthouse apartment with big veranda 60sq.m, storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms (one

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI â&#x201A;Ź550 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at w w w. l a n d t o u r i s t e s t a t e s . com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM ďŹ&#x201A;at in the centre of Nicosia. Rent â&#x201A;Ź450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

LIMASSOL GROUND FLOOR HOUSE in good area Kapsalos , 3 bedrooms, large ďŹ tted kitchen, sitting room, 2 large verandas, 5 A/C, bathroom, 2 W/C. Rent â&#x201A;Ź580pm. Tel 99324941 or 25388805 2 BEDROOM COTTAGE FOR RENT IN LANIA VILLAGE in a quiet and peaceful area, fully furnished, storage heaters, a/c, rent â&#x201A;Ź300 per month. Minimum contract 1 year. Info mob 99548855 FOR RENT new ground ďŹ&#x201A;oor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village (20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished â&#x201A;Ź180 per month minimum contract 1 year. For info mob 99548855

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distance from the beach, with a new pedestrian crossing in front of the building. Contact us on 99672466, 99404522, and 99078590 ***************************** LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom ďŹ rst ďŹ&#x201A;oor ďŹ&#x201A;at in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, ensuite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 ***************************** FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom ďŹ&#x201A;at near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price â&#x201A;Ź370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS â&#x20AC;&#x201C; APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished 1st ďŹ&#x201A;oor 2 bedroom apartment. High quality furnishings throughout. 400 Euros per calendar month. Pyla. Quote TLL1088. Tel. (00357) 24815104

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS 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 EXCEPTIONAL SERVICE FOR TENANTS

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TO LET PAPHOS bedroom, 3 upstairs, en suite, family bathroom, closed garage, private pool, on its own very private no near by villas: Ref 0003 Price 900 7 Tala: 3 bedroom villa offered part furnished with private pool, stunning sea views, property is a family home, central heating, residential Ref: 988 Price 700 8 Coral Bay/Peyia: large luxury villa with central heating, large gardens, AC, off street parking, stunning views, quality fittings and furniture’s: Ref: 1176 Price 3500 OFFICE: 120 MARKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties available on WEB: www. flowron.com Email info@ flowron.com ***************************** Long Term Rentals 1. Chlorakas 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €335 pcm including all bills 2. Kissonerga 2 bed town house, small garden, off street parking, close to bus and shops. NO POOL €350 pcm 3. Chlorakas Large 4 bed detached villa, secluded position, large private pool, a/c, and parking. Unfurnished. Very nice well worth seeing. €900 pcm open to offers.

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THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELECTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@unique-consultancy. eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. ***************************** 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,

1. SEA CAVES €500 we are delighted to offer this detached 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 2. KISSONERGA €550 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated in a quiet residential area. Master bedroom with en-suite, separate kitchen, downstairs guest wc. Enclosed garden offering private pool & off street parking. Available unfurnished though can include kitchen appliances. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: rtl_501 3. TALA €590 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes un-

TO LET PAPHOS derfloor heating plus real fire. Master with en-suite. 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 4. PEYIA €700 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy then this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite tv. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor. A spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking. Website reference number: rtl_401 5. MANDRIA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom villa, master with en-suite. Fully enclosed low maintenance garden offering private pool. Available unfurnished to include white goods, blackout 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 €770 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor bedroom & bathroom. Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street parking. Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops. Website reference number: rtl_611 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 accomodation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. Website reference number: rtl_442 8. TALA €900 a charming detached 4 bedroom villa with character, situated on a corner plot in a quiet residental area with breathtaking sea views. Spacious living rooms with central heating & real fireplace. Separate kitchen & dining room. Good sized garden offering private pool and stone built barbeque area. Undercover parking. Website reference number rtl_638 TEL: 97790883 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrentpaphos.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 ensuite shower room. Family

TO LET PAPHOS 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 area and dining area.. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. Euros 500.00 a month. Suit non-drivers! 3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own entrance via stairway. Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom. 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 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, swimming 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

TO LET PAPHOS 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 ensuite bathroom. Family bathroom. Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced Euros 550.00 per month. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES 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 wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610. ****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE LIMASSOL **************************** FOR SALE AGIOS TYCHONAS detached 2 bedroom house with deeds. Sea/mountain views. Retiled, replastered, rewired, replumbed. Fans. A/C. Handmade solid wood kitchen. Large lounge/dining area. 2 mins from highway. Email janmurr1@yahoo. co.uk for photos and info. Price €235, 000. **************************** BARGAIN PRICE DETACHED

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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 ****************************

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

NICOSIA **************************** HOUSE FOR SALE AT ARCHANGELOS AREA (Nicosia) WITH SEMI-DETACHED STUDIO FOR HOUSEKEEPER AND GARDEN 300 sq.m - with Title. 3 bedrooms (one big with dressing room and bathroom). Open big space Kitchen with Dining and Living Room. Two Bathrooms and one WC for Guests. Fully Air-conditioned, Central Heating €390.000 TEL 99668822/99680700 **************************** 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: 99 330 908 **************************** 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. ****************************

PAPHOS **************************** FOR SALE 3 bed house with pool in Souni full of character, open plan accommodation. 3 bedrooms, 2 with ensuite & further shower room. a/c and central heating. Parking. Title Deed available. Price €318,000. No Agents. Tel 99122366 **************************** 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 ****************************

FOR SALE Semi-detached house in Archangelos area split level on a hill, no houses in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big bathrooms and TV room big lounge & dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.

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 DEEDS AVAILABLE. Priced to sell at €138, 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 ensuite, 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. 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 **************************** 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. ****************************

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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

For information call: 99496541

FOR SALE PAPHOS

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

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06.45 Proti Enimerosi 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

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 UEFA Masters Of European Football (rpt) Documentary that profiles the careers of some of the greatest football players to ply their trade on the European stage. 18.00 Biz/Emeis (rpt) 18.50 News In English 18.55 News In Turkish 19.10 Kati Psinetai (rpt) Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host. 20.00 NRG Zone 21.00 FILM: Coach Carter Sporting drama, starring Samuel L Jackson and Rick Gonzalez. 2005. See Film Picks. 23.15 Criminal Minds Fifth season. Drama following the work of FBI agents who use psychological profiling to find their suspects. ‘Haunted’. The team is called to Louisville to help local authorities determine what caused a disturbed man to have a psychotic episode and murder several customers at a pharmacy before fleeing the scene. 00.00 Repeats

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Mazi Sto CyBC Entehnos News Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show. Paizoume Kypriaka New season of local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect. Moiraia Fengaria New local drama series inspired by Maro Kranidioti’s book ‘Otan i Moira Apofasizei’. News Vimata Stin Ammo Third season of local period drama, based on true events, in which “a man without pity will break all the rules for the sake of revenge”. Ego Ki Esi Local comedy series. Eponymos News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) Entehnos (rpt) Vimmata Stin Ammo (rpt) More Repeats

ANTENNA 05.30 06.20 06.50 07.00 08.25 09.30 09.40 10.20 11.15 12.10 13.00 13.20 14.00 14.50 16.00 16.50 17.45 19.20 20.15 21.15 22.15 23.15

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Kai Oi Pantremeni Ehoun Psihi (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Oi Men kai Oi Den (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) Tin Patisa (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Eva Luna Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) With News at 18.00. Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Private Practice (rpt) Grey’s Anatomy spin-off centering on the life of neonatal surgeon Addison Montgomery. News Sports News Radio Arvila Greek live parody show, with jokes, videos sent by viewers and live music. Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi Tmima Ithon (rpt) News (rpt) To Kafeneio (rpt) Epithimies (rpt)

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06.00 I Dipsa (rpt) 06.30 Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) 07.00 Koinonia Ora Mega A revamped version of its predecessor (Koinonia Ora 8). Current affairs show that examines the issues affecting everyday people in Greece and abroad. 08.00 Nea Mera 10.00 Proino Mou Lifestyle programme features entertainment, music and more. 12.00 Enimerosi Tora 14.00 Sto Para Pente (rpt) 15.00 Eheis Meson Local investigative show looking at alleged abuses of power, often reported by viewers. 16.00 Yia Sena

06.30 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Protoselido 08.20 Eleni 10.20 Vasiliki (rpt) 11.10 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) 12.00 Mesimeri Kai Kati 14.20 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 15.20 Magazino 18.00 News 18.05 Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama 18.30 The Del Monte Heirs Latin American telenovela. 19.30 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites Local drama series. 20.20 News 21.20 Aspra Balonia (rpt) 22.20 Al Tsantiri News A highly successful live satirical comedy show that features Lakis Lazopoulos giving ‘his version’ of the news. 00.20 News 00.25 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 01.40 24 Ground-breaking real-time drama series, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a government agent out to stop terrorists wreaking havoc across America. 02.40 Epistroﬁ (rpt) 03.00 Mono Mia Fora (rpt) 04.40 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 05.30 Tropico (rpt)

06.45 News 07.20 Fotis - Maria Live Best Of 07.50 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 09.30 Mila Best Of 10.55 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition. Hosted by Dina Nikolaou. 11.50 Kids’ TV 12.30 Star News 13.00 Mesimeriani Meleti Greek gossip and showbiz news. Hosted by Eleonora Meleti. 15.30 Kids’ TV 17.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.50 Fotis - Maria Live 19.40 Mila Talk-show with Tatiana Stephanidou, specialising in “confessions” and revealing interviews. 21.15 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 22.00 Proedrikes Ekloges 2012 22.45 FILM: Nobody Knows Anything An aspiring ﬁlmmaker tries to make it in Hollywood with help from her washed-up uncle. Comedy, starring Linda Black and Alan Blumenfeld. 2003. 00.30 LTV Sports News 01.10 Star News 02.00 Repeats

18.00 News 18.20 Eisai To Tairi Mou (rpt) 19.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) 20.15 News 21.15 Klemmena Oneira New season of Greek drama series. 22.10 Enoha Mystika 23.10 Singles (rpt) 00.00 News 00.10 Charlie’s Angels Three women with questionable pasts solve cases for an elusive boss. 01.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 03.00 Enimerosi Tora (rpt) 04.30 Proino Mou (rpt)

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Kids’ TV S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras 11.00 Kouzina Me Apopsi 11.30 Capital Sports 12.30 Milagros 13.25 15.05 16.00 16.40 17.30 18.15

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Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Documentary Dedicated to Israeli TV With News at 18.30. News Sports Time Capital Sports Johnson County War Two-part Western drama about a family of brothers who make a stand against a group of cattle barons. Tom Berenger stars alongside Luke Perry, Burt Reynolds. FILM: Hush A doctor moves back to his home town with his wife and child in tow, but an old ﬂame will go to any lengths to get him back. Thriller, starring Tori Spelling. 2005. FILM: Human Bomb An unhappy male takes a classroom of children and their teacher hostage with a set of explosives strapped to his body. Action, starring Patsy Kensit. 1998.

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 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast 09.00 Wez Thompson 09.30 Cyprus Morning 12.00 Total Ops Chris Pearson 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 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00 Five Live Sport 00.30 Five Live US Election 2012 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 - 15:00-18:00 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 - 20:0022:00 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

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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 Strictly Sexual (LTV3, 20.05) What’s a big hit? Transformers, maybe? Can’t argue with that; the third Transformers grossed over $1 billion worldwide. Yes, but it also cost $200 million to make and about the same to market - and there’s also something else, that it didn’t really stir people. It was summer, it was an Event, it had been hyped for months - so filmgoers paid their money, ate their popcorn, crossed it off their list and moved on to the next blockbuster. Something like Strictly Sexual is actually more of a success story, even though this obscure rom-com didn’t actually open anywhere. It played no festivals. It wasn’t released to cinemas. It went straight to DVD, like thousands of marginal films existing in the shadow of the blockbusters yet it ended up finding an audience on video and the internet, specifically Hulu. Hulu is a streaming website where you can watch films and shows. It’s only available in the US, yet it’s incredibly popular: it had more than 1 billion videos viewed in December 2009 - around the time when Strictly Sexual somehow became its most-watched film ever. Much of that was obviously a case of people looking for porn (and being disappointed, since the film contains no nudity) - but there were also

enough satisfied customers to make the film a minor cult. “I now spend about half an hour a day responding to fan e-mails,” says writer Stevie Long, who also plays Stanny. Stanny and Joe are a pair of ordinary guys, two construction workers looking for better jobs though the heroines of Strictly Sexual are Donna (Amber Benson) and Christi Ann (Kristen Kerr), who are fed up with dating and decide to go to a hotel downtown that’s well-known as a pick-up joint for male ‘escorts’. They pick up the boys, believing them to be hustlers, and enjoy a night of passion - then, when they find out the truth, propose an unorthodox arrangement. “We don’t want boyfriends,” says the more assertive Donna. “We don’t want relationships. We want two guys to service us. This is strictly sexual”. Can the deal work out, with the guys sleeping in a tent by the pool and offering their services as sex buddies - or will Love get in the way? No masterpiece, but pleasant enough - and it even spawned a short-lived TV series, following the further adventures of Joe and Stanny. Kind of like Transformers in reverse, really. Made in 2008.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE Ceremony 13:25 African Cats 15:00 Love Stories 16:50 What’s Your Number? 18:40 Hollywood 1on1 19:10 The Company Men 21:00 C.S.I. 22:00 The Hit List 23:40 War Horse 02:10 Cine News 02:40 Breaking Wind 04:05 The Emperor’s Club

Alﬁe (Novacinema4, 19.00) “What’s it all abaht?” asks Michael Caine as the titular Lothario - and his cocky cockney whine has been parodied to death but in fact he’s very effective (and was Oscar-nominated) in this clever semi-comedy, convincingly callous yet somehow sympathetic. “My understanding of women only goes as far as the pleasure,” he admits while ﬂ itting between his various ‘birds’. “When it comes to the pain I’m like any other bloke: I don’t want to know” - and it’s that kind of self-deprecation that makes him likeable, even with all the cockiness (and sexist banter, though of course it wasn’t quite as sexist 46 years ago). Also with Denholm Elliott as a seedy back-street abortionist, another thing that’s changed for the better in 46 years. The recent remake with Jude Law was both foolish and unnecessary. Made in 1966.

Shelter (LTV, 21.00) “From the producers of The Ring,” declares the trailer, which doesn’t mean very much (producers don’t have much creative input on fi lms) but gives an idea of the sinister tone; “and the writer of Identity,” it adds - which makes sense, since the twist in that fi lm was almost identical to the plot of this one. Julianne Moore is our heroine, a shrink whose most challenging patient (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) has an unusual problem: not only does he have multiple personalities but each personality (or its real-life equivalent) is a murder victim - i.e. the people he pretends to be all died horribly - though it doesn’t seem at fi rst glance like Jon himself had anything to do with those murders. Or did he? Lots of spurious Godtalk, slow-burning build-up and gratuitously nasty detail, all disguising the usual fl ashy plot riddled with holes. Probably the silliest supernatural thriller since ... well, the last supernatural thriller. Made in 2010.

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 02:50 EastEnders 03:20 Doctors Tomorrow Never Comes 03:45 A Thing Called Love 04:45 Last Of The Summer Wine Who’s That Merry Man With Billy Then? 05:15 As Time Goes By Dealing with Sally 05:45 The Weakest Link 06:30 The Green Green Grass Animal Instincts 07:00 The Large Family Super Elly 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies Funghi The Dolphin 07:50 Me Too! Roadworks 08:10 The Large Family Super Elly 08:20 Boogie Beebies 08:35 Teletubbies Funghi The Dolphin 09:00 Me Too! Roadworks 09:20 Bobinogs Do Eggs Grow On Trees? 09:30 The Adventures Of Spot Spot Goes To The Park 09:35 As Time Goes By Dealing with Sally 10:05 The Green Green Grass Animal Instincts 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors Tomorrow Never Comes 12:20 The World’s Toughest Driving Tests 13:10 Lark Rise To Candleford 14:00 Last Of The Summer Wine Who’s That Merry Man With Billy Then? 14:30 The Green Green Grass Animal Instincts 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors Tomorrow Never Comes 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 The Men Who Came to Dinner 20:10 Born And Bred The Best Man 21:00 After You’ve Gone Out Of Africa 21:30 Jam And Jerusalem 22:00 Lark Rise To Candleford 22:50 2 Point 4 Children Family Plot 23:20 Dad’s Army Battle School 23:50 Twenty Twelve 00:20 Mistresses

Coach Carter (CyBC2, 21.00) Inspirational-teacher dramas come in two guises: the one where a teacher wins his/her charges over with love and understanding - and the one where (s)he does it with discipline, which is very much the style of basketball coach Samuel L. Jackson in this based-on-atrue-story offering. “I’ll lay you out!” threatens a young punk when Sam ﬁ rst arrives; “I don’t think so,” replies our hero implacably, and soon has the boy begging for mercy - but in fact Sam has a higher agenda, insisting that his players perform in the classroom (the setting is an inner-city high school) as well as on the basketball court. Worth a look for Jackson’s belligerent charisma though in fact there’s now another reason to watch, viz. the appearance of 24-year-old Channing Tatum in his ﬁ lm debut, as one of the players. Swoon! Made in 2005.

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 Cut In Half 23:00 World’s Top 5 00:00 Crisis Control 01:00 Hillbilly Handﬁshin’ 01:55 Mythbusters 02:50 Cut In Half 03:50 World’s Top 5 04:50 Crisis Control 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Football: Eurogoals 10:15 All Sports: Watts 11:15 Futsal: World Cup Thailand 14:15 Football: Eurogoals 15:00 Figure Skating: Isu Grand Prix-Cup Of Russia 17:15 Football: Eurogoals 18:00 Futsal: World Cup Thailand 21:00 All Sports: Watts 22:00 Boxing: International Contest Usa 00:00 Motorsports: Gta Road To Dubai 00:15 Car Racing: Trofeo Maserati China 00:45 Futsal: World Cup Thailand

Shelter (LTV, 21.00)

05:40 Private Practice 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Happy Endings 08:00 Once Upon A Time 08:50 Donna Hay: Fast, Fresh, Simple 09:40 Private Practice 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Happy Endings 12:00 Raising Hope 12:25 Me-

06:20 The Eagle 08:15 Cowboys & Aliens 10:20 The Family Stone 12:05 Nicostratos: Le Pelican 13:45 Cine News 14:15 Just Friends 16:00 Absence Of Malice 18:00 Stars In Style 20:20 The Cove 02:25 Reindeer Games 04:15 Black Swan

19:20 Le Dernier Vol De Lancaster 21:00 Battle: Los Angeles 23:00 How I Met Your Mother 00:45 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (LTV, 14.20) lissa & Joey 12:50 Glee 13:40 Once Upon A Time 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Private Practice 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Happy Endings 17:40 Once Upon A Time 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Private Practice 20:10 Castle 21:00 Raising Hope 21:25 Melissa & Joey 21:50 Glee 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Happy Endings 23:30 Raising Hope 23:55 Melissa & Joey 00:20 Glee 01:10 Castle 02:00 Private Practice 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Happy Endings 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Once Upon A Time 04:50 Masterchef

07:00 Pawn Stars 5 07:30 Storage Wars 2 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Battle 360 10:00 Pawn Stars 5 10:30 Storage Wars 2 11:00 Ancient Aliens 3 12:00 Pawn Stars 6 12:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 13:00 American Restoration 2 14:00 Battle 360 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 Pawn Stars 6 16:30 Cajun Pawn Stars 17:00 American Restoration 2 18:00 Battle 360 19:00 UFO Files 20:00 Pawn Stars 5 20:30 Storage Wars 2 21:00 Ancient Aliens 3 22:00 Storage Wars 2 23:00 American Pickers 3 00:00 Pawn Stars 5 00:30 Storage Wars 2 01:00 Ancient Aliens 3 02:00 Storage Wars 2 03:00 American Pickers 3 04:00 UFO Files 05:00 Battle 360 06:00 Ancient Aliens 3

07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Imagine That 09:50 La Vie En Rose 12:10 An Ofﬁcer And A Gentleman 14:20 Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 16:45 Before Sunrise 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Shelter 23:00 Nowhere Boy 00:45 Hustler TV 02:30 The Mist 04:45 The Rich Man’s Wife 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Chowder 07:25 The Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 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 & Scooby-Doo

Get A Clue! 15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 NBA Action 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 Nascar Sprint Cup Series 21:00 La Liga Review 2012-13 22:00 IRC 2012: Cyprus 22:30 PBA All-Star Shootout 23:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Chuck 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Supernatural 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 How To Make It In America 11:25 Pan Am 13:05 Hawaii Five-0 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 Hawaii Five-0 19:45 According To Jim 20:05 According To Jim 20:30 The Big Bang Theory 21:00 The Mentalist 21:45 C.S.I. New York 22:30 The Cult 23:20 Sons Of Anarchy 00:30 Easier With Practice 02:10 The Dead Pool 03:40 Two And A Half Men 04:05 Aliens In America 04:50 Luck 05:45 Harry’s Law 06:30 Hawaii Five-0

08:00 The Art Of Travel 10:00 Groupie 11:45 Twilight Saga: Eclipse 14:00 Centurion 15:45 The White Countess 18:00 Twilight (2008) 20:05 Strictly Sexual 22:00 Brideshead Revisited 00:15 Daring! TV 04:00 A Fork In The Road 06:00 Ladyhawke

07:00 Dog Whisperer 08:00 Earth Investigated 09:00 Wild Russia 10:00 Mystery Manhunt 11:00 Ancient X Files 12:00 Seconds From Disaster 13:00 Doomsday Preppers 14:00 Banged Up Abroad 15:00 Apocalypse: WWII 16:00 9/11 - The Fireman’s Story 17:00 Tribal Odyssey 18:00 Breakout 19:00 Banged Up Abroad 20:00 Apocalypse: WWII 21:00 American Gypsies 22:00 Man Hunt 23:00 Breakout 00:00 American Gypsies 01:00 Man Hunt 02:00 Breakout 03:00 Apocalypse: WWII 04:00 American Gypsies 05:00 Man Hunt 06:00 Banged Up Abroad

06:20 Sacriﬁce 08:00 Birth 09:40 Films And Stars 10:15 The New Protocol 11:50

19:00 Alﬁe 1966 21:00 It’s Kind Of A Funny Story 22:50 Made In Dagenham 00:50 Pina

01:00 Golf Central International 01:30 PGA Tour Highlights Children’s Miracle Network Classic 02:30 NHL Teams TBA 05:00 Sports Unlimited 06:00 Asp Surﬁng World Championships Hurley Pro Trestles: California, Usa 06:30 The Mena Golf Tour 07:00 Academy - Greg Norman: Bunker Play 07:30 Morning Drive 08:30 Academy - Annika Sorenstam: Full Swing 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Academy - Greg Norman: Short Game 10:00 The Mena Golf Tour 10:30 NHL Teams TBA 13:00 Props 7 Beyond Kooked 13:30 Props 7 Barcelona 14:00 Wrecked Keep On Trucking 14:30 101 Cars You Must Drive Party Over Where? Party Right Here! 15:00 Nascar Camping World Truck Series Phoenix International Raceway 18:00 Pre Game(E) 18:45 Championship 2012-13: Apollon Vs Aep (E) 20:45 Post Game (E) 21:30 22:00 Nﬂ Replay 23:30 Props 7 Barcelona 00:00 Wrecked Keep On Trucking

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Nomad’s Land 09:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 10:00 The Skinny Dip 10:30 Angry Planet 11:00 Glutton For Punishment 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Around Iceland On Inspiration 14:00 Planet Food 15:00 Megalopolis 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Glutton For Punishment 18:00 The Skinny Dip 18:30 Angry Planet 19:00 Globe Trekker 21:00 Essential 21:30 Bert The Conqueror 22:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Food Tripper 01:00 Globe Trekker 02:00 Essential 02:30 Bert The Conqueror 03:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 The Skinny Dip 05:30 Angry Planet 06:00 Glutton For Punishment

07:00 Fury 08:35 Northwest Passage 10:45 The Rack 12:30 Son Of Lassie 14:10 The Time Machine 15:55 Tea And Sympathy 18:00 Till The Clouds Roll By 20:15 High Society 22:00 Lolita 00:30 Kim 02:20 The Opposite of Sex 04:00 Grand Prix

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CRYPTIC 2235

HOW TO PLAY: 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 to fly round north (5) 15 Due to be profitable on the island on reflection (7) 16 Like one with a twitch, a continental (7)

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18 Common food is a mockery (5) 20 Refuse to tease (5) 22 In the index, expect to ﬁnd this river (3)

Answers to crossword 2234 CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Regardless; 7 Liberia; 8 Sport; 10 Callow; 12 Writhe; 13 Nacre; 14 Take; 16 Idle; 17 Deism; 19 Halter; 20 Tip-off; 23 Rotor; 24 Pelisse; 25 On the cards. Down – 1 Rebel; 2 Garçon; 3 Road; 4 Lustre; 5 & 6 Spotted ﬂycatcher; 9 Thereafter; 11 Wader; 12 Wrest; 15 Kiloton; 17 Dearth; 18 Miller; 21 Oasis; 22 Spec.. QUICK: Across – 1 Receptacle; 7 Tunisia; 8 Cower; 10 Trying; 12 Upkeep; 13 Gaunt; 14 Elba; 16 Tsar; 17 Asset; 19 Idiocy; 20 Dynamo; 23 Groom; 24 Spinner; 25 Standing in. Down – 1 Runny; 2 Casing; 3 Peat; 4 Accept; 5 Lawless; 6 Stuttering; 9 Repertoire; 11 Gassy; 12 Unwed; 15 Bail out; 17 Acumen; 18 Typing; 21 Annan; 22 Asti.

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2 Worked hard and did some transplanting (7) 3 It sticks up in Cambridgeshire (5) 4 Step-fathers (3) 5 Surpass with open work (7) 6 A doctor surrounded by eleven feet (5) 7 Two fools turn anti establishment initially and kill (11) 8 Digging for coal under the snow? (5-6) 12 Navigational system used

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1 Fear of being found out? (11) 9 Don’t move the pedestal (5) 10 Cook’s craft? (7) 11 Play-girl? (7) 13 Another one might be set to catch him (5) 14 Leading seaman, given short notice, was unhappy (3) 15 Pretty girl with her back to the wall? (3-2) 16 Some harmful weapon (3) 17 A way in New York that’s very unpleasant (5) 19 Disturbance in court? (7) 21 But role changed causing bother (7) 23 University villa (5) 24 It won’t be felt straight away (5-6)

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1 Reduction of weapons (11) 9 Different one (5) 10 Crème ------- (7) 11 Jostled (7) 13 Seraglio (5) 14 Small child (3) 15 Triﬂed (5) 16 Cow’s low (3) 17 Shelter (5) 19 Red pepper (7) 21 Female feline (7) 23 Loft (5) 24 Compulsion (11)

2 Keep back (7) 3 Weapon (5) 4 Raincoat (3) 5 Walked in step (7) 6 Belgian town (5) 7 Tame (11) 8 Showiness (11) 12 Stop talking (3,2) 15 Underwater missile (7) 16 Dampen (7) 18 Non-meat-eater (5) 20 Lamps (anag.) (5) 22 Pouch (3)

HOROSCOPE

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You may wonder whether it is worth taking a risk on a project that is important to you. Try to think carefully about the business side and whether the numbers add up. If they do, then ﬂesh out your options. If you still need more information, don’t take a short cut on any market research that’s needed. Someone could also have some sage advice for you.

Your negotiating skills could be important today. If you can put these to good use, then do - especially when dealing with a boss, fellow professional or authority ﬁgures. A few choice words could mean the difference between being mediocre or successful. A situation at home may also need careful handling. Try not to make any snap decisions.

Think about learning to meditate. It may bring you inner peace. A focus on the sign of Scorpio suggests that you may be focusing on all that is bad about life rather than the upside - uncharacteristic for you it is true. You may even feel trapped and frustrated. However, if you turn to your own powers of imagination and visualise them, you can make better progress.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

A Solar Eclipse in Scorpio today reveals the focus is on relationships. You may feel a bit worried about the intentions of someone you see on a regular basis. However, on this occasion it may help to put yourself in their shoes. Things may not be as they seem. If you can get them to open up, it may help to heal any underlining tensions there have been.

Resources are important, particularly those that are jointly held. You may be keen to revolutionise the way you manage your money and debts, but may ﬁnd it difﬁcult to play along with those in authority. Be careful, as your attitude could get you into trouble, especially if you keep “forgetting” a regular payment. Try to stay on good terms.

There may be something going on between you and a friend. A powerful inﬂuence suggests that you may get quite heated about an issue that doesn’t seem to be resolving itself. You may be the pushy one, feeling sure you are in the right. But even if you are “right” at least factually, consider if this issue really is worth getting into conﬂict over.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

In order to stay ﬁt and healthy, you need to let go. Holding onto powerful emotions, situations that are long gone and even clutter, may have a negative effect on your system. The focus on Scorpio energy urges you to clear out your closets and cupboards, and at the same time to release unwanted feelings. Doing so may help improve your energy.

Personal ﬁnances and values are highlighted. You may be surprised by an event that pushes you to take charge of your money and encourages a few wise choices. This course of action may be even more necessary if you have been avoiding sorting out debts or other ﬁnancial issues. Yet the overall trend is positive if you take responsibility.

Health issues may be brought on by powerful subconscious forces which could be trying to get your attention. A Solar Eclipse may have a message for you. It could be hinting that it’s time to change your ways and listen more carefully to your instincts. Just a small transformation in your daily working habits and lifestyle could have profound beneﬁts.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You have the courage and the determination to do whatever you want to do. However, you also have a very vulnerable side, and unless you push yourself or are pushed, you may tend to avoid any situation that might cause pain or conﬂict. Ask yourself, is it time to climb out of your comfort zone and be willing to take on a few challenges?

A Solar Eclipse in your sign means that it’s time to make some demands on the Universe. Ask for whatever you want, and you might even get it. You can continue to receive surprise support, and today you might even get an offer you can’t refuse. Someone can want the best for you, and may be prepared to agree to your requirements.

Love happens when we least expect it, and today one new tie may start out as a platonic relationship. A focus on your adventure zone reveals that someone you meet while travelling or while learning a new skill may affect you powerfully. You may not realize what is happening, but before too long you could begin to feel obsessed. Easy does it!

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Sport England back to full strength with Swann return

Clarke believes victory possible

GRAEME Swann rejoined his England team-mates early yesterday morning, after his 8,000-mile return trip home while his baby daughter was unwell. England therefore have their full complement of players back on tour, and are confident Swann will suffer no illeffects of his globe-trotting when the first Test starts against India on Thursday. They are cautiously optimistic too, about the fitness of Steven Finn and Stuart Broad, after the two fast bowlers bowled in the nets on Sunday as they continue their recovery from respective thigh and heel injuries. Swann arrived in Ahmedabad at around 6am, having spent a handful of days at home after his flight to the UK in the middle of last week. England believe the off-spinner, key to their prospects in the four-Test series, will have sufficient time to get over his long-distance travel and ready himself for the challenge ahead. “It’s great his little one’s okay,” said assistant coach Richard Halsall. “I wouldn’t have thought he’d have been thinking about staying in the Indian time zone back home. He’s a fantastic Test cricketer. He’s got three days now to get himself ready - and with someone of Graeme’s experience, he’ll be fine for 930 on Thursday.”

Anchors Australia turnaround against Proteas By Nick Mulvenney

Australia skipper Michael Clarke said positive batting had been the key to his unbroken double century yesterday

CAPTAIN Michael Clarke said positive batting had been the key to his unbeaten double century and Australia’s remarkable turnaround of fortunes in the ﬁrst test against South Africa yesterday. Clarke came to the wicket with his side under the cosh at 40 for three in reply to South Africa’s 450 on Sunday afternoon and more than eight hours of batting later, was targeting what would be a stunning victory with his team on 487-4. The 31-year-old carried his bat to the pavilion with 218 runs on the board having shared a record partnership of 259 with Ed Cowan, who scored his maiden test century in an innings of 136, and another stand of 188 with Mike Hussey (86 not out). Much of the talk before the series had been about the South African pace attack of Dale Steyn, Vernon Philander and Morne Morkel and it was from an Australian bowling great of the past, Shane Warne, that Clarke drew his inspiration to neuter them. “One of things Warney’s taught me over the years is the better the bowling, the more positive you’ve got to

be and that was certainly my intent from the ﬁrst ball I faced yesterday,” Clarke told reporters. “I wanted to be nice and positive and play my way, and put it back on the South African bowlers because I know they’re a very good attack. “I think Ed and I just tried to play our natural games. We had a bit of luck along the way and Michael Hussey showed great intent, scored very freely and continued to show his class. When you’re under pressure, that’s when I generally play my best cricket.”

BRILLIANT FORM Clarke’s form since he took over as captain from Ricky Ponting last year has been little short of brilliant with a batting average of over 60 in that period and six test centuries under his belt. Yesterday’s effort was his third double century of the year - taking in his sublime unbeaten 329 against India at Sydney in January - and he has now scored 1,000 test runs in 2012. “I’m trying to get better every day,” Clarke added. “It’s been nice to lead the way with the bat. I’ve said for a while now, it’s not what you say, it’s what you do.

“Ricky certainly did that as captain of Australia for a long period of time. He was scoring lots of runs and the boys followed. Hopefully I’ve got a few left in me.” Clarke’s reputation has undergone a transformation in the last 20 months almost as remarkable as his team’s chances in the Gabba test. Dismissed as a slick dilettante by some of his compatriots, Clarke was booed onto the pitch at a couple of grounds after the Ashes humiliation that preceded his elevation to captain. The criticism has largely been washed away in a torrent of runs and Clarke would surely claim a few more converts if he could somehow fashion a win over the number one ranked side in test cricket today. “I deﬁnitely think we can have a crack at winning,” he said. “The key is tomorrow morning, to be nice and positive and see how we go leading up to lunch, and then give ourselves a couple of sessions to be able to bowl South Africa out. “Hopefully the sun is out and the wicket deteriorates a little bit more as well. It’s worth a go, in my opinion. We want to try and win, we’re in a pretty good position now.”

McIlroy emulates Donald with dual money list victory

IN BRIEF

Swann has rejoined his England team-mates

ANYBODY believing Rory McIlroy might ease off now he has won the European and US Tour money lists this season had better think again. The 23-year-old world number one this week moves on to Hong Kong from the Singapore Open, where a closing 30-foot eagle putt for third place on Sunday made him the youngest Order of Merit winner since Sandy Lyle in 1980. “I’ve still got two events remaining this year and the goal is still to try and win at least once more before the end of the year,” said McIlroy, who emulated Luke Donald’s double last season when Louis Oosthuizen lost a play-off to Italian teenager Matteo Manassero. “I’ve got a healthy lead in the world rank-

ings, but with so many very good players on both sides of the Atlantic it will not be a time to be resting on my laurels. “Monty (Colin Montgomerie) won eight Order of Merits in his prime and I have won one, so there is plenty of ground to make up. “Also Jack Nicklaus won 18 majors and I now have my name on two, so targeting the majors will still be my main focus next season.” The “Race to Dubai” would not have been settled if Oosthuizen had won this past weekend, but after missing from under ﬁve feet at the second extra hole, he stood and watched 19-year-old Manassero achieve a third Tour victory with a 12foot eagle putt on the next.

McIlroy, the defending champion this week, added: “It really is hugely satisfying to finally become the European number one, especially after finishing second two of the last three years. “It has always been one of my goals ever since securing my Tour card five years ago, but then to also end the year as both European and PGA Tour number one is just amazing. I feel so proud and humbled to join so many fabulous names in Europe who have won the Order of Merit. “To be able to accomplish this goal with still two events remaining means that I can head to my UBS Hong Kong Open defence and the DP World Championship Dubai without that added pressure and just really enjoy my golf.”

McIlroy plays the Hong Kong Open this week

Mtawarira out of British Clippers down Hawks with tour due to heart condition late flourish in final quarter

Texans tame Bears in clash of defending elite

SOUTH Africa called up uncapped prop Frans Malherbe yesterday to replace Tendai Mtawarira, who is returning home after suffering heart palpitations, for the rest of the Springboks’ tour of Britain. Mtawarira, known as ‘Beast’, was ruled out after he had a recurrence of his condition ahead of last Saturday’s Test against Ireland. He was admitted to a Dublin hospital and discharged within hours after routine tests. Mtawarira was set to return to South Africa later yesterday. The decision to bring in Malherbe, a 21-year-old from Western Province, was taken as Jannie du Plessis has a mild ankle sprain, sustained in the 16-12 win over the Irish.

THE Houston Texans overcame bitterly cold conditions and driving rain to beat the Chicago Bears 13-6 on Sunday in a gritty clash between two of the top defences in the NFL. Playing through the cold conditions at Chicago’s Soldier Field, the Texans (8-1) traded hard-hitting blows with the Bears and prevailed to remain top of the AFC while conﬁrming their title credentials. Arian Foster fought for 102 yards rushing and caught a two-yard touchdown pass in the second quarter for a 10-3 Texans lead that stood out in a game that featured little offence.

WITH their reserve players sparking play in the final quarter, the Los Angeles Clippers pulled away from the pesky Atlanta Hawks to end a tightly contested game with a flourish and an 89-76 win on Sunday. Back-up guard Eric Bledsoe contributed 12 points, Jamal Crawford 11 and Matt Barnes 10 as the Clippers outscored the Hawks 24-16 in the fourth period to claim their third consecutive victory. Blake Griffin scored a game-high 16 points and Chris Paul weighed in with 15 points and eight assists for Los Angeles, but they were indebted to their bench unit after the team shot only 45.7 per cent from the field in the first half.

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Sport

Zanetti remains upbeat despite Inter defeat INTER Milan captain Javier Zanetti refused to be too downbeat as he reﬂected on Sunday’s 3-2 loss to Atalanta - a result which halted his side’s seven-game winning streak. Giacomo Bonaventura gave Atalanta an early lead at the Atleti Azzurri d’Italia before Fredy Guarin equalised in the second period. German Denis restored Atalanta’s lead instantly before adding a third from the penalty spot in the 67th minute. Rodrigo Palacio brought Inter back into the game in the 84th minute and Atalanta were reduced to 10 men when Facundo Parra was dismissed in stoppage time, but the Bergamese side held on. The result leaves Inter four points adrift of Serie A leaders Juventus,

but Zanetti insists one bad result will not give way to any soul-searching at the San Siro. “It was a game with lots of chances for both sides. You have to accept the result, Atalanta played well,” Zanetti told Inter Channel.

‘EQUALISER NEVER CAME’ “Admittedly they had us under the cosh at times, but we responded superbly. They scored their second and third goals when we were on top, but that’s part of the game and it won’t alter the path we’re on. “Once it was 3-1 they were more in control of things, then at 3-2 we went looking for the equaliser but it never came.

“We did well fitness-wise, it was a hard-fought game, played at a high intensity and with plenty of chances. “We knew it would be difficult at this stadium and against this team. I accept the defeat even though it could have finished differently and either side could have won.” Inter coach Andrea Stramaccioni was equally sanguine in defeat and felt his players were unlucky not to emerge with anything to show for their efforts. “We were a little careless at the back at times but Inter always looked dangerous and we played at a high tempo,” he said. “This defeat won’t douse our enthusiasm, we’ll push on with our heads held high.”

Inter’s seven-game winning streak was ﬁnally halted by Atalanta on Sunday

PSG blame Sakho exit for tie with Montpellier

Adaptable Real victory over Levante satisfies Mourinho

PARIS St Germain coach Carlo Ancelotti and sporting director Leonardo blamed the early dismissal of Mamadou Sakho for their failure to beat Montpellier on Sunday. The France defender was sent off just 10 minutes in for a last-man foul on Gaetan Charbonnier, a decision the team leaders both felt was unjust. PSG nevertheless took the lead through Maxwell but had to settle for a 1-1 draw after Remy Cabella equalised for reigning Ligue 1 champions Montpellier, who also finished with 10 men after Younes Belhanda collected a second yellow card. Ancelotti told psg.fr: “It was a difficult match. I think it was difficult to digest the fact of playing with 10 against 11. “Sakho’s red card was not merited, but after that we played well with lots of intensity, energy and good organisation. “We played like a team and at the end we would have deserved to win. It was a draw but the team spirit was good.” Leonardo added: “It was not a good result. Of course, with 10 against 11 for an hour it was difficult. “The forward made the first foul in the incident with Sakho, then both players came together. You cannot give a red card for that. After 10 minutes, it ruined the match. “I am not against the referees, but that determined the match too much. We do not demand anything special, just to have the same treatment as everyone else.”

Ronaldo sustains eye injury during encounter

Ronaldo scored the 21st-minute opener despite sustaining a nasty gash above his left eye early in the game

By Iain Rogers REAL Madrid coach Jose Mourinho praised his players’ adaptability after they coped with atrocious conditions and an injury to Cristiano Ronaldo to emerge with a 2-1 win at a waterlogged and hostile Levante on Sunday. Splashing through puddles that made playing a passing game next to impossible, Real ground out the victory that maintained their eight-point gap behind leaders Barcelona, thanks to a late winner off the bench from 20-year-old forward Alvaro Morata, his ﬁrst goal for the club. “Result from the Spanish waterpolo League: Levante Real 1:2,” playmaker Mesut Ozil wrote ironically on his Twitter feed. Ronaldo suffered a nasty gash above his left eye after he was caught by David Navarro’s elbow early in the game but after being patched up he played on and scored Real’s 21st-minute opener before being replaced by Raul Albiol at the break. Mourinho said the blow, which left one side of Ronaldo’s face covered with blood, had affected his Portuguese compatriot’s vision and he

would undergo tests on his return to the Spanish capital. Later yesterday, the Portuguese Federation said Ronaldo would miss the national side’s trip to play a friendly against Gabon tomorrow. Mourinho was happy to come away from Valencia relatively unscathed and it was the ﬁrst time his Real side have beaten Levante there since he arrived from Inter Milan in 2010. The champions, whose title

defence got off to an erratic start, are third on 23 points, ﬁve behind Atletico Madrid in second and eight behind unbeaten Barca. “It was a difﬁcult match for everyone,” Mourinho told a news conference. “We adapted to the conditions and it was an honest battle between serious people who gave everything in search of a result,” he added. “The team had to draw on all its character and strength

and we were deserved winners. I had never won here and they are three extremely important points.” Mourinho even suggested some may have enjoyed the spectacle of the players trying to cope with the ball holding up on the sodden surface. “For all of us who have played football, whether well or badly, it was a party when you played in the rain as a kid and I think that in their way, people like it,” he said.

“The more technical side and the referee have more problems, the fans too because it’s cold and raining. That’s part of football too and you have to adapt.” Spanish media reported that Levante captain Sergio Ballesteros had clashed with Real defender Pepe near the dressing rooms after the game and police ofﬁcers had to intervene to calm down ofﬁcials and players from both teams.

Fred strikes two minutes from time to hand Fluminense Brazilian title

Sakho was dismissed 10 minutes into the game

TOP scorer Fred struck two minutes from time to hand Fluminense the Brazilian championship title with three matches to spare after a 3-2 away win over relegation candidates Palmeiras on Sunday. “Flu” opened an unassailable 10-point lead over Gremio, who climbed to second with a 2-1 home win over Sao Paulo in Porto Ale-

gre while Ronaldinho’s Atletico Mineiro were held 1-1 at Vasco da Gama in Rio and dropped to third 11 points off the pace. Captain Fred led his team to their second title in three years amassing a record points haul of 76 in 35 matches with the potential to add up to nine more. “It’s a mixture of happiness with emotion. The squad is marvellous,

these fans follow us always,” Fred told reporters after being lifted on the shoulders of team mates. “I thank God, the (club) board, the players, the (coaching) staff, the fans... Only a player’s family knows the effort we all put in.” Palmeiras held the match at Presidente Prudente in Sao Paulo state far from their city base for fear of trouble from angry fans,

who had already staged violent demonstrations as their team totters on the brink of relegation. It was Fluminense’s fourth national title, third in the Brazilian championship ﬁrst played in 1971, since they also won a tournament in 1970 that has since been recognised by the sport’s governing body CBF as being national in its scope.

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Sport

City manager Mancini says staying calm key

APOEL, Anorthosis march on, AEK win streak ended by AEL

‘In football, things can change quickly,’ says Italian

By Nemanja Bjedov

By Simon Stone

AFTER their match was initially postponed due to a waterlogged pitch on Saturday, APOEL coach Ivan Jovanovic was pleased with his team’s psychological readiness in recording a narrow 1-0 victory over Ethnikos Achnas at the Dasaki Stadium on Sunday. “Ethnikos showed today that they should have collected more points until now. It was a very tough match, packed with strong tackles and free kicks,” said Jovanovic whose team claimed all three points after Spanish defender Artiz Borda netted the winner midway through the ﬁrst half. “For us it is very important that we have managed to win. I wish all the best to Ethnikos in the future; I believe they will do well as they are a very dangerous team to play against.” APOEL lead the league with 25 points, while Anorthosis are second with an identical number of points but an inferior goal difference after they beat Ayia Napa 1-0 away from home over the weekend. Experienced striker Giannis Okkas sealed victory for Ronny Levy’s team six minutes from time and the Israeli coach admitted his team did not have one of their best days, but stressed his satisfaction with the victory. “It was a difﬁcult match. In matches such as this one you need to score early,

MANCHESTER City boss Roberto Mancini has urged his players to keep their nerve and not be deflected by the flak that has been heading in their direction recently. City emerged from yet another tumultuous week with a precious three points from their Barclays Premier League encounter with Tottenham. It allowed the champions to nudge themselves up to second spot in the table, still unbeaten, and just two points adrift of Manchester United. Not a bad situation for a club supposedly on the ropes after failing to overcome Ajax at home five days earlier, a result which has left their Champions League hopes hanging by the thinnest of threads. Mancini’s behaviour around the Ajax tie was odd to say the least. By the weekend, he returned to his normal affable character. And he needs his players to stay the same. “There are some moments during any season when you don’t play well, you might concede goals you didn’t concede last year or maybe you are missing three or four important players,” said Mancini. “At these moments it is important to stay calm and work hard. In football things can change quickly.” The good news for Mancini is that his words are being echoed from inside the dressing room. Indeed, if the example of Manchester United is anything to go by, all the negativity surrounding them can end up being a pretty significant positive. “We have come a long way in the last four years and the expectations have changed,” said Pablo Zabaleta.

Edin Dzeko, who scored the late winner against Spurs on Sunday, has now netted seven times for City this season “It’s normal that when you win the title, people will knock you at the ﬁrst opportunity. “You are up there to be shot at and we take it all on the chin. “It happens at other clubs. It’s just the way things are.” Of course, the signiﬁcant

difference between United and City is the sheer control exerted on their respective clubs by Sir Alex Ferguson and Mancini. Whilst dissent at United is rare, at City trouble of some description always seems to be brewing. On Sunday, for instance, Ferguson could have got

away with leaving out a star player by putting it down to rotation. At City, Mario Balotelli’s appearance in the stand just triggered more rumours of a fall-out with Mancini, amid further speculation about a transfer window move back to Italy. “Mario was a technical choice,” said Mancini. “There was no fall-out, just rest and recovery.” Proof Mancini is more in control than circumstances make it appear came with conﬁrmation a tactical rejig, to the threeman defensive system that was condemned by Micah Richards in Amsterdam last month, was directly responsible for Sunday’s comeback. “We went three at the back. Unfortunately we won,” said Mancini, with more than a hint of irony. That Edin Dzeko should score the late winner, following Sergio Aguero’s equaliser, merely opened up another avenue of attack given the Bosnian has already expressed his displeasure at spending so much time on the bench. Dzeko has now scored seven goals this season, two more than Carlos Tevez and three ahead of Sergio Aguero, who bagged the leveller to Steven Caulker’s early header. Yet six of these have come from the bench, and four in the ﬁnal 10 minutes to secure hugely important victories. Still though, there can be no guarantee of a place in Mancini’s starting lineup for City’s home game against Aston Villa on Saturday. “I hope Edin can also score when he plays from the start,” said Mancini. “If he scores when he plays from the start he would get two or three goals because in 20 minutes he always gets a goal or two.”

Borda (C) netted for APOEL midway through the ﬁrst half

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Reds boss Rodgers realistic about Liverpool’s current hopes BRENDAN Rodgers warned that Liverpool “can’t keep looking in the rear view mirror” after admitting they were nowhere near challenging at the top of the Barclays Premier League. The Reds made it six league games without defeat on Sunday when they came from behind to draw 1-1 at Chelsea. But it was not enough to lift them out of 13th place and they ended the weekend 15 points behind Manchester United after just 11 games. Twelve points is a paltry return for supporters raised on a diet of European Cups, many of whom spent Sunday’s game taunting current holders Chelsea with the chant: “We’ve won it ﬁve times.” They have nevertheless shown patience with Rodgers’ revolution and the new Anﬁeld boss said: “They’re very educated, Liverpool supporters. It can’t be easy for them. “Most of us in this room know Liver-

pool and its great history, but we can’t keep looking in the rear view mirror and looking back. “If you’re not going to have a massive investment to make it happen quickly, you have to develop it. That’s where we’re at. He added: “The reality is we’re a long way off in the league. “You don’t need to be a rocket scientist to see the squad ... These guys are giving me everything. “We ﬁnished eighth last year. If we can improve on that, it’ll be fantastic for us. “That’s the reality of where Liverpool are I’m afraid. But our young players will get better and better. “We need one or two more players. That’s our sixth draw, and a lot of those games we’ve come back into after going behind. But we need materials. If we can get one or two in January, we’ll turn draws into wins. “Those players don’t come cheap, and

there are not too many available in January either. “But the owners have given me great support since I’ve been here. “I knew it would be a difficult year given the expectancy in Liverpool.” One man having no problem living up to expectations is Luis Suarez, who equalised on Sunday with his 11th goal of the season and almost snatched a dramatic winner. “It’s a difficult place to come, the European champions, so I’m delighted for our young players,” said Rodgers, who also handed Jamie Carragher the first league start of his reign. “Our seniors are doing incredibly for me.” “Liverpool have had a massive group of seniors over the years, but Steven Gerrard, Jamie Carragher, Daniel Agger and Glen Johnson are having to dig a bit deeper now.”

otherwise it can become very difficult to win,” said Levy. “We ran a lot but we have to learn to make our lives a bit easier from time to time. We did not play our best football, but we got the result we wanted. That is what matters. I would like to express my gratitude to our travelling fans who helped us a lot.” After not conceding a single goal in eight rounds, AEK suffered a 2-1 defeat against AEL at the GSZ Stadium in Larnaca. They now trail the leading duo by three points at 22, while AEL improved their account to 19 in fourth position. “It was a very difficult game. My players followed the game plan and I have to congratulate them on this result,” assessed AEL’s coach Jorge Costa. “We had a very difficult match in Europa League on Thursday and it was a problem for us to play only three days later, but my players responded remarkably well. Elsewhere on Saturday, Enosis Neon Paralimni beat Nea Salamina 2-0 in Larnaca, while Apollon thrashed AEP Paphos 4-0 at the Tsirion Stadium. At the same time Doxa Katokopia recorded an unlikely victory away to Olympiakos Nicosia 2-1. On Sunday afternoon Omonia returned to the winning ways with a slender 1-0 victory over Alki Larnaca through Leandro’s effort 18 minutes from time.

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Osman hails ‘leader of men’ Gerrard No significant injury for Terry LEON Osman believes Steven Gerrard thoroughly deserves to join England’s exclusive 100 club. Gerrard will become the sixth Englishman to reach a century of caps in tomorrow’s friendly against Sweden after a scan yesterday revealed he suffered no knee ligament damage in Sunday’s 1-1 draw at Chelsea. It will allow the 32-year-old to join Peter Shilton, David Beckham, Bobby Moore, Bobby Charlton and Billy Wright in the pantheon of great players. Such recognition seems far removed from junior football days, where Osman ﬁrst came across Gerrard almost two decades ago. But even then, Gerrard was a bit special and Osman feels this latest honour is richly deserved. “It is fantastic to get to 100 caps,” the Everton midﬁelder said. “There is only a select band that has managed to do it and Steven deserves

Cleared to play: Gerrard to be in that crew. “He is a fantastic player and a leader of men. “We ﬁrst played against each other on Merseyside when we were 12 or 13. To see him now get to his 100th cap is fantastic but not surprising.” Until they met up in Manchester earlier yesterday, Osman’s assessment of Gerrard’s qualities has come exclusively from being on

the opposing team. Daniel Sturridge has benefited from being in the same camps as Gerrard and has profited personally from his vast experience. “Steven has been fantastic with me when he has been involved in the squads,” said the Chelsea forward. “If you ask any midfielder he has played against, they will say he is a great player. Some of the best players who have ever been have said it. “Hopefully he will be running out on the field and picking up his 100th on Wednesday.” In contrast, Osman is looking to make the most of his call-up at the age of 31. “I hoped my time hadn’t passed me by,” he said. “As an English lad I had a desire to play for my country and I was hopeful it might happen. “I had stopped looking for my name in the squad every time. But I didn’t give up hope.”

JOHN Terry yesterday escaped a lengthy injury layoff after Chelsea confirmed he had suffered “no significant damage” to his knee ligaments in their Barclays Premier League draw with Liverpool. The European champions announced captain Terry would be sidelined for “weeks rather than months” following an MRI scan on the injury that forced him off during yesterday’s game at Stamford Bridge. Chelsea posted on their official Twitter feed: “MRI Scans reveal no significant damage to John Terry’s cruciate ligaments. He will be out weeks rather than months.” The club added in a statement on, www.chelseafc.com: “Today’s MRI scans on John Terry’s right knee thankfully show no significant damage to the cruciate ligaments. “Chelsea Football Club’s medical team will conduct further tests over the next two or three days once the

Chelsea’s Terry escaped a lengthy injury lay-off

swelling has subsided to determine how long John will be out, but it will be a matter of weeks not months.” Any absence is nevertheless a huge blow for the Blues, with Terry having suffered the injury in his first game back after his domestic fourmatch racism ban. The club had struggled badly in defence in his absence, slipping from first to third in the table. He will almost certainly miss their potentially decisive Champions League Group E game at Juventus, as well as crucial league matches against West Brom and Manchester City. He could even be a doubt for their Club World Cup trip to Japan early next month. Petr Cech, who has been Chelsea’s de facto captain in the absence of Terry and Frank Lampard, was confident losing the defender for another extended spell would not derail their season.

Murray’s life-changing year Scot reflects on gains after end of his season By Eleanor Crooks

ositivity was the watchword for Andy Murray as he reflected on a year that has changed his life forever. Whatever the 25-year-old goes on to achieve in his career, the big question that has dogged him since his teens of whether he would win a grand slam title has been answered in the affirmative thanks to his US Open triumph. And there was also the not inconsiderable bonus of an Olympic gold medal won in emphatic style on Wimbledon’s Centre Court against Roger Federer. There will be no final flourish to the season for Murray after he was beaten 7-6 (7/5) 6-2 by Federer in the semi-finals of the Barclays ATP World Tour Finals in London on Sunday night, but the match left the Scot happy with the progress he has made in his game. He said: “I was going for my shots. In the second set, I didn’t hit the ball great, but I was still trying to make things happen, still trying to go for my shots rather than letting him dictate every single point, which sometimes in the past I had done. “I think that’s what I have

There will be no final flourish to the season for Murray who was beaten 7-6 (7/5) 6-2 by Federer in the semi-finals of the ATP World Tour Finals on Sunday, but the match left him happy with the progress he has made in his game to be most pleased with because when I had opportunities in big matches this year, I did try and take them. I went for it. “I still need to learn sometimes when that’s off and I’m not hitting it as well to rein it in a little bit. That’s something that will come with time. “But that would be the thing I’m most pleased with, that I’ve been trying to go out there and win matches rather than waiting for my opponent to lose them.”

Since that momentous Monday in New York it has been a case of nearly but not quite for Murray, who has not won a regular ATP Tour title since the first week of the season in Brisbane. The closest he came to adding to that was at the Shanghai Masters last month, when he held five match points in the final against Novak Djokovic but could not take them. He also had match points in his Tokyo semi-final against Milos Raonic and at the Paris

Masters against Jerzy Janowicz only to lose both matches, while Sunday he started very well but tailed off in the second set. Murray said: “It could have been a little bit different if a few points had gone the other way. I lost with match points in Tokyo. Then the match with Novak was an incredibly close match. I had a few match points there. “Then also in Paris and here, against Novak (in the group stages), again it was a very tight match, just a cou-

ple of points. “So I don’t think the results have been that bad or that I played poorly or not responded well to winning the US Open. I feel like I played some decent tennis. I’ve just not quite ﬁnished a couple of matches when I had chances. “I obviously would have liked to have won those and had one or two other wins over Novak. But if you told me last year I’d be sitting in this position with the results I had last year, I would have

agreed and signed up for that straight away. “I’m happy with the year and I’ll work really hard in December to get better.” With the season finishing two weeks earlier than in previous years, Murray has the chance for a proper holiday before beginning preseason training in Miami in December. He usually spends Christmas in Florida, but will come home this year before beginning his 2013 season at an exhibition tournament in Abu Dhabi, which is also scheduled to stage the return of Rafael Nadal after six months out injured. In the United States, Murray will meet up again with coach Ivan Lendl, who has been such a central figure in his progress this year, and the Scot has no doubt hiring the eight-time grand slam champion is one of the best decisions he has made in his career. Murray said: “There have been a lot of decisions made, off-the-court decisions that are very important to your career, also decisions when you’re out there playing matches as well. “Moving over to Spain when I was younger was a very hard decision to make, and that would be up there with this one. “But, since I’ve been on the tour, I think it was a step that I needed to take and was very important to me and helped me get over that final hurdle.”