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Dramatic start to Paralympics Starring roles for the Queen and Professor Stephen Hawking

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HE London 2012 Paralympic Games opened last night in a dramatic and moving ceremony that had starring roles for the Queen and Professor Stephen Hawking.

A packed Olympic Stadium and millions more across the world watched as the “spectacular and deeply human” opening ceremony unfolded before double amputee Afghan war veteran Joe Townsend flew in on a zip wire to light the flame.

Six Paralympians and former competitors - including Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson - were flown into the stadium in gold wheelchairs.

The ceremony heralded the start of 11 days of elite sporting action featuring athletes from across the world and before sell-out crowds who have made this the most successful Paralympic Games in history.

Professor Hawking and actor Sir Ian McKellen played prominent roles in the opening ceremony, which also featured a host of deaf and disabled artists, local children and performers newly-trained in circus skills.

They were being officially opened by the Queen, who said in a statement released in advance: “It is with tremendous pride that the people of London and the

United Kingdom welcome the world to the London 2012 Paralympic Games.

“The Games are returning to the country where they first began, more than 60 years ago.

“We look forward to celebrating the uplifting spirit which distinguishes the Paralympic Games from other events, drawing on Britain’s unique sporting heritage.”

Professor Hawking said: “The Paralympic Games is about transforming our perception of the world.

“We are all different. There is no such thing as a standard or run-of-the-mill human being but we share the same human spirit.

“What is important is that we have the ability to create.

“This creativity can take many forms, from physical achievement to theoretical physics.

“However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.”

Disabled ex-serviceman David Rawlins flew a twin-engined Tecnam P2006 light aircraft over the 62,000-strong crowd to kick off the proceedings.

Paralympic athletes will compete for 503 gold medals across 20 sports during the London Games, with competition starting today.

The Paralympic Games got underway with a spectacular opening ceremony in London last night

Spy chiefs slammed over James Bond party THE Swedish secret service has come under fire for lavishing more than £400,000 on a James Bond-themed staff party.

The prime minister has urged the heads of government agencies to control their spending after SAPO owned up to the bash.

It held the party for its 1,000 employees in June 2011, featuring roulette tables, a tuxedo-clad orchestra playing Bond film music, and song, dance and comedy

performances by Swedish artists.

The report, following a string of articles about spending binges at government agencies, exposed SAPO to both ridicule and criticism.

Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt said agency chiefs “are well paid, they should know better.”

SAPO said the party capped a day of educational activities meant to provide “knowledge, inspiration and solidarity” after a year of organisational changes

and a heavy workload.

“In this case, the agency set aside a large amount of money so that our roughly 1,000 employees stationed across Sweden could gather, something that is necessary for us to carry out our mission,” SAPO chief Anders Thornberg said.

Critics said the event was particularly ill-timed since SAPO has been undergoing a reorganisation involving budget cuts.

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By Stefanos Evripidou GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN Stefanos Stefanou yesterday defended the government’s decision to hire a Turkish Cypriot at Cyprus’ permanent representation in Brussels, citing “political reasons”.

The spokesman was put in the rather unusual position of having to explain why a Turkish Cypriot holding a degree from a university in the north was hired for the purposes of Cyprus’ EU Presidency following an article in yesterday’s Phileleftheros.

The popular Greek Cypriot daily ran an article on its front page, saying “serious questions were raised by the conditions under which a Turkish

Cypriot was hired for the Cyprus Presidency”, highlighting that the person in question graduated from a university in the breakaway regime.

The report, which resembled more an opinion piece, claimed the man was hired using “express” procedures, without elaborating further.

It noted that he also holds a masters degree from a British university, and questioned how a British university could accept a student with a degree from a university in the north.

The article questioned whether the Cypriot official’s degree in hotel management was at all relevant to the EU Presidency, concluding: “The Turkish Cypriot’s employment with a degree from the pseudostate undermines the policy followed all these years

by the Cyprus Republic regarding the illegal universities in the occupied areas”.

Asked to comment on the report, Stefanou felt compelled to respond to the points raised in Phileleftheros, noting that the Republic does not recognise the universities in the north. “One cannot ignore the fact that he holds a masters from a British university,” he added.

He argued all normal procedures were followed correctly.

“There is the technocratic aspect of the issue, but also the political aspect on which we must all conclude. Because lately there is much talk about electricity, the Green Line Regulation and other issues. We should all first reach a conclusion on what it is we all want politically,” he said.

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tion is very clear: we need to show in a variety of ways both abroad, especially the EU, and to the Turkish Cypriots that the Cyprus Republic takes care of everyone and has a place for everyone.”

He added: “If some, through various positions, want to close the checkpoints, build a wall between the free areas and the occupied areas and deliver once and for all the Turkish Cypriots to Turkey, especially those who are against the occupation, like in this specific case, then let’s decide this.”

Stefanou noted that the Cypriot government’s outreach policy towards the Turkish Cypriots since 2003 aims at “scoring political points in the EU, abroad in general and among Turkish Cypriots”.

New Supreme Court judge is sworn in PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday held a ceremony at the Presidential Palace affirming the latest addition to the Supreme Court, Persephone Panayi.

Panayi takes the place of the retired Yiannakis Constantinides.

During the ceremony, Christofias said Panayi’s appointment was exclusively based on her “legal and scientific competences, integrity of character and strong sense of justice”.

He noted that the Supreme Court judge assumed the prestigious office at “a very difficult time for our country”.

“You have a responsibility to not ever forget that part of our country is under occupation and under these conditions, it is very important for the Cyprus Republic to appear and be recognised as a wellgoverned state, a state of law, with all citizens equal before the law and with the Constitution as the supreme law of the state,” said Christofias.

Persephone Panayi takes the place of retired Yiannakis Constantinides

‘We’ve done little to bend Turkish intransigence’

By Jacqueline Agathocleous TURKISH intransigence in the Cyprus problem cannot be used as an excuse for the current deadlock, opposition DISY leader and presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades said yesterday.

Addressing the annual conference of the Central Councils of the World Federation for Oversees Cypriots (POMAK) and the International Coordinating Committee Justice for Cyprus (PSEKA), Anastasiades repeated his plea for a national strategy.

“Turkish intransigence cannot be used by any government or any political power as an excuse. It is a given that the lack

of a solution is definitely due to Turkish intransigence, but what have we done to bend it?” asked Anastasiades.

He noted the lack of progress in the peace talks, which have reached a dead end.

As time goes on, he added, the effects of the invasion and the way things are developing are posing a serious threat to the welfare and security of all Cypriots.

“It is not scaremongering, nor an excuse to accept just any solution, but on the contrary it is sounding the alarm so we realise that time not only dictates but demands from all of us to rise to the occasion and create – following a process of reflection and proposals – a basis for unity, which should not revolve around

persons but common positions,” said Anastasiades.

The DISY leader said all 38 years of “Cypriot-owned negotiations” had achieved was a series of dead ends and consolidation of the fait accompli – whether this meant non-departure of the Turkish occupying forces, the increase in Turkish settlers or the illegal exploitation of Greek Cypriot properties.

“Will we continue for the next 38 years to say the dialogue is of Cypriot ownership so that no solutions are imposed from the outside? And who forces us to accept any solutions from the outside? Is it not up to us and should any proposed solution not go through a referendum first?” he said.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Foreign ministry call to end Syria violence FOREIGN Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis has called on the two sides in Syria to immediately and fully cooperate with the UN and the Arab League Joint Special Representative, Lakhdar Brahimi, and put an end to the killings of civilians.

In a written statement, Marcoullis said that she was extremely disturbed by reports of the recent brutal massacre in Darayya, involving civilians including women and young children.

“If the reports are confirmed, then I would characterise these killings as a heinous act, tantamount to crimes against humanity, which should be investigated immediately in an independent and impartial manner,” she said.

Six months jail for theft of scrap metal LARNACA district court yesterday sentenced two people from Nicosia to six months in prison for stealing scrap metal.

On February 6, 2012, the two, aged 31 and 28, conspired to steal scrap metal from a fenced-off privately-owned area in Mosfiloti village in order to sell it on.

In sentencing, the judge Elias Georgiou noted the alarming increase in such crimes lately and the need to impose sentences that will act as a deterrent.

Suspending the sentence would only send the wrong message, he said.

There has been an upsurge in such thefts since the recession began.

Christofias laments ‘state of the domestic front’ to Diaspora

By George Psyllides PRESIDENT Demetris Christofias yesterday lamented the sorry state of the domestic political front and what he called the “lack of understanding” in the country, saying it is one of the reasons he had decided not to run for president again.

In an emotional few moments as he spoke with delegations of overseas Cypriots, Christofias said: “I do not know if I am leaving with a heavy heart or whether a great weight will be lifted from me, considering there is no mutual understanding in this place,” Christofias told the delegations of overseas Cypriots. “I am sorry for the situation on the domestic front.” With-

out naming him, the president accused main opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades of lying when he said “the president of the Republic had never called him”.

He was referring to talks with the island’s lenders, the troika. “What should I say now? That he is lying? We come to the point where we have dragged the level of our political life very low,” Christofias said.

He added: “It is one of the reasons why I have taken the decision to stand down.” The president said cooperation with overseas Cypriots was excellent and wished that the same spirit was shown on the domestic front.

Referring back to the troika, Christofias said no political pres-

sure had been exercised on Cyprus to apply for financial assistance.

“And I think they will not dare exercise political pressure because we are absolutely clear concerning our positions on the Cyprus problem and the Republic of Cyprus’ sovereignty on hydrocarbon matters,” he said.

He pledged not to give in to any pressure, if exercised, as long as he is president. He also rejected suggestions that allowances given to Turkish Cypriots worsened the deficits. “These are fairytales and unfortunately these are also used” (against him).

Christofias once more blamed the economy’s predicament on the banks and accused the former Central Bank governor of not

properly regulating them. He said the discovery of offshore natural gas reserves was a blessing but it did not mean not taking measures to consolidate the economy.

Christofias defended his policy on the Cyprus problem, saying he was just trying to flesh out what Makarios defined – “a great leader they did not dare dispute.”

“A lot of presidents have gone by, it looks like they are bothered by the current one because he did not try to mock the international community nor avoid the solution of the Cyprus problem,” Christofias said. “It is everyone’s right to criticise but it is no one’s right to twist reality and political positions. This bothers me a lot. And this happens in our daily life.”

Police say there’s nothing illegal in filming protests Police chief has asked other EU countries their policies

By George Psyllides POLICE only video-record trouble that may take place during gatherings, the chief of police said yesterday, as he defended the force against criticism that it was keeping tabs on people.

The force has come under fire after it was reported that they had been filming a farmers’ protest, which turned violent, outside the presidential palace last week.

The personal data commissioner said filming or taking photographs in anticipation of trouble is not legally allowed. Police chief Michalis Papageorgiou said unsubstantiated criticism, without taking all views, into consideration can only do damage to the police and society in general.

He suggested that the data commissioner had taken a stance solely based on media reports and not on what had actually happened that day.

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tion, ”I have the strong view that the police have the authority to be present at such events, to maintain order and prevent crimes and if a crime is perpetrated, to investigate and resolve it,” Papageorgiou said.

He said officers go to events deemed high risk and start taking pictures or film “only when there is trouble.

There is no reason to do so before that.”

Papageorgiou added that because the personal data legislation is almost the same in all EU countries, the force has asked its partners to inform it on what they do in such cases.

“When we get all the replies we will discuss the matter with the personal data commissioner and ask the attorney-general for a final decision,” Papageorgiou said.

The chief wondered why other EU countries had security cameras in public places while Cyprus did not.

He pointed out that members of the force had been disciplined for beating two students based on footage

Police have been under fire for filming at the farmers’ protest last week filmed by a private citizen.

“Can’t the police take pictures and video in order to resolve any potential offences? This is the reasonable question that every citizen must answer,” Papageorgiou said. The chief said photos

and video were not stored as there was no reason. The material is only used to locate and arrest those implicated in criminal offences and for court purposes.

“Nothing else,” he said.

Police said so far 12 EU

countries have responded, saying that with or without legislation, they take photos and video of public assemblies, protests or football games and keep archives with the footage.

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Mixed village working together for museum Residents of Potamia aim for peaceful co-existence

By Natalie Hami THE PEACEFUL co-existence between Greek and Turkish Cypriots in one of the last mixed villages – Potamia - is the ‘basic message’ behind a new project underway to build a museum and a library there.

“The basic message is the co-existence of Greek and Turkish Cypriots and for people to learn from this,” said the village’s Greek Cypriot community leader Panicos Yiatrou.

According to Yiatrou, the museum and library – still very much in the early stages – will bring together a plethora of objects such as photos, books, and ‘any old items’ that the residents can provide.

“We’re also hoping that the Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) will provide us with any films on the village,” he added.

Potamia, located just outside Nicosia, has around 38 Turkish Cypriots and 450 Greek Cypriots and along with Pyla, near Larnaca, is one of the last mixed villages.

The project will be housed in a traditional Cypriot mud-brick house, dating back to the 1940s, which was originally Turkish Cypriot owned but up until recently some Greek Cypriot refugees were living in it.

Yiatrou clarified that the idea for the project came about a couple of years ago but they had to wait for the District Officer to grant them the property as it is Turkish Cypriot, and now they are waiting for certain permits to come through. “We believe that we’ll have all the necessary permits by spring and

CYPRUS TODAY Police officer ‘stole water tanks’ A POLICE officer who was remanded yesterday on suspicion of stealing three water tanks was suspended later in the day.

Limassol District Court remanded a 38-year-old police officer for three days in connection with stealing three water tanks from a company in Limassol. According to police, the complaint was made at the beginning of July but the officer was not arrested until Tuesday after a witness statement.

According to police chief Michalis Papageorgiou the witness statement implicates the officer in the theft and/or in the receiving of part of the stolen goods.

Papageorgiou said that the police proceeded with the arrest on Tuesday night “without a second thought” after one of the three tanks turned up.

A company employee saw one of the tanks being loaded onto to a truck, he said. He also said that the instructions given in handling such cases were “firm and clear”, saying there would also be a disciplinary investigation.

The police chief reiterated that there was zero tolerance in such cases.

Student given hefty fine for smoking A 19-YEAR-OLD university student was fined €1,250 yesterday by the Larnaca district court after being found guilty of charges of using a fake name, and smoking in a public place. According to Larnaca Press Agency, the 19-year-old, now studying at a university in Manchester, was celebrating his graduation, drinking and smoking in a nightclub in July 2010.

A police officer at the scene, issued him with an on the spot fine. However, on returning to the police station, the officer noticed that the teenager had given him a fake name.

The student was later located and charged with forgery and smoking in a public space.

In sentencing, judge Elias Georgiou noted the alarming rise in forgery and smoking in public places in recent years. He called on nightclub owners to learn to respect the laws and regulations. Wanting to make an example of the 19-year-old, now in his second year of study, the judge fined the teenager €850 for using a fake name and €400 for smoking in a public place.

The village of Potamia is creating a joint museum and library then we’ll start with the offers for construction,” said Yiatrou, who said part of the process involved having the building registered as listed. He also said that the idea came about as “a way to try and keep the village alive”.

The costs will be over €600,000, said Yiatrou, who added that they were hoping to get some of the funds from town planning (up to €90,000), but were looking around for donors to make up the rest.

UNDP-ACT, which is supporting the project through ‘Future Together,’ will also be providing a website along with video content.

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last Sunday inviting all residents to join in and including those who had lived there before the 1974 invasion.

“It was wonderful seeing Greek and Turkish Cypriots of different generations interacting,” said Louise, adding that some Turkish Cypriots who used to live in the village came all the way from Morphou to take part.

One young Turkish Cypriot whose grandparents hail from Potamia said during the meeting: “We see Potamia as a model for the whole of Cyprus, two communities living together in peace and making decisions that affect their lives together.”

Louise clarified that the UNDP-ACT project, Future Together, will be helping

the community by hiring some consultants to work with the community leaders as well as facilitating a series of community-led discussions. “We want to help because it’s one of the few places in Cyprus that has mixed characteristics… we’ve come to understand that this type of participatory approach is a good tool in supporting reconciliation,” said Louise.

It’s a practical way of breaking down barriers, he added.

Potamia also has a bicommunal radio station broadcasting since 2003 – Radio Potamia –in both Greek and Turkish, in the north and in the Republic as a way of promoting mutual understanding and respect between the two communities.

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Iranian couple guilty of forgery AN IRANIAN couple were sentenced to nine months in prison yesterday by Larnaca district court after being found guilty of charges of using a fake name and false documents.

The 42-year-old husband will serve the sentence immediately while the 40-year-old wife got a three-year suspended sentence.

The couple have an eight-year-old boy currently going to a local primary school. In his ruling, judge Elias Georgiou said the courts had seen an increase lately in crimes of impersonation and using fake documents, given the town’s proximity to the international Larnaca airport.

According to Larnaca Press, the 40-year-old mother turned up at the airport on August 20, 2012, to depart for Germany presenting a fake Spanish passport and three fake Spanish identity cards. The Iranian woman admitted they were fake, saying her husband had given them to her after buying them from abroad. The couple has been in Cyprus since 2003.

Bungling robber couldn’t open the safe AN ATTEMPTED robbery at the Engomi co-operative bank for civil servants, ended in failure yesterday morning when the thief was unable to open the safe.

The incident happened at around 8.30am when a man wearing a wig and fake moustache walked into the bank and silently gestured at the employee to hand over the money.

She began shouting at him after which he made a grab for the keys and tried to open the safe but was unable to do so, and left empty handed.According to police, there was another man waiting for him outside, eyewitnesses said. The man was described as 1.85m tall, around 35, and of normal build.

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‘No question of default on debts’ Government hits back at opposition as row rages over the state of the economy

By George Psyllides

There has been a lot of negative press about the banks in the past week

Bank of Cyprus chairman resigns ‘for health reasons’

By George Psyllides BANK of Cyprus (BoC) chairman Theodoros Aristodemou has resigned for health reasons, it was announced yesterday.

Aristodemou, a property developer, said in a letter to the board that “serious health issues” had forced a two-month absence abroad, and it was unclear when he could fully resume his duties.

“I judge that continuing to hold the position of president does not facilitate the smooth and unhindered operation of the group at an especially difficult time,” Aristodemou said.

Aristodemou, the lender’s biggest Cypriot shareholder, assumed the chairmanship in May 2008. He had been a member of the board since 1991. In his letter, Aristode-

mou refrained from entering the ongoing banking fray, saying it would not contribute positively.

BoC sought €500 million in state assistance after its regulatory capital was depleted by a debt restructuring for Greece earlier this year.

Cyprus itself sought a bailout from European Union partners in June to cover both its fiscal requirements and the capital needs of BoC and Popular Bank, the second largest lender, which needed €1.8 billion.

Both were heavily exposed to Greek debt. Aristodemou’s resignation follows the departure of CEO Andreas Eliades early in July.

Eliades resigned citing a lack of coordination in dealing with Europe’s banking crisis as his reason. In recent days there have been numerous negative reports in the media regard-

ing the practices that put the banks in hot water.

BoC in particular has been the subject of many a news story in the past week, prompting its management to say it would not comment further on such reports.

The lender said the contents of the reports are being investigated by BoC itself and regulators and commenting would not offer anything more.

“The bank’s new administration has assumed a difficult task and it is very unproductive to deal with announcements and commenting on such reports on a daily basis,” a written statement said.

A number of the reports are based on leaked documents, a matter currently under investigation by the bank.

It warned that any actions that violate the law and its own rules would be “dealt with with determination.”

Investigators will report any criminal liability A PROFESSIONAL services firm hired to investigate why the country’s two largest banks had to seek state support will also seek evidence of potential criminal offences, the Cyprus News Agency reported yesterday, citing Central Bank sources.

“If the firm, before it issues the final report, comes across some evidence, which signals civil or criminal liability” it will inform the Central Bank and give the information to the Attorney-general to examine the matter, CNA said, citing un-named sources inside the Central Bank.

The Central Bank said last week it had appointed Alvarez & Marsal to investigate what led the country’s two largest banks, Bank of Cyprus and Popular, to seek state support.

The probe was expected to “provide clarity and comprehension regarding the current financial stress” and guide remediation to strengthen the stability of the banking sector,

the Central Bank said in a news release last Friday. Cypriot bank capital shortfalls from over exposure to Greek debt and their reliance on the government for aid forced Cyprus into seeking a financial bailout from its EU partners in June. A&M will investigate the conditions under which the bonds were acquired, the banks’ expansion abroad and the responsibility of the regulator.

The result of the investigation will help the Central Bank Governor make the necessary changes if it transpired that certain things must be put on a better basis, the source said.

Popular required state aid to fill a €1.8 billion shortfall in regulatory capital, and the Bank of Cyprus sought €500 million in support when its own recapitalisation efforts fell through.

Both banks posted considerable losses on Greece’s debt restructure earlier this year, agreed by European Union leaders to make that country’s debt more sustainable

CYPRUS will not default on its debts, the government said yesterday, amid a raging war of words with the opposition.

“We will not default on our payments; I am stating it again so that we don’t start the same discussion,” government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou told reporters.

He had been asked if the country would receive the monetary assistance it had asked for by November to avoid a default.

Cyprus applied for assistance from its EU partners and the International Monetary Fund – the troika – in June.

Troika officials have visited the island twice since in a bid to assess the scale of the assistance that is expected to be accompanied with painful austerity.

Stefanou rejected suggestions there was a delay in them returning, noting that no date had been set when they were here in July.

He also rejected suggestions that discussions between the two sides have frozen.

“Contacts and consultations with the troika, mainly on a technocratic level, continued in August,” Stefanou said.

Regarding reports that the government disagreed with the troika over the form of the austerity measures, Stefanou said they were in the process of discussions.

“When they come we will continue the negotiations and we will judge where each side is based on the result,” he said.

He added that the government believed any measures should include policies to support growth and social cohesion.

Parties meanwhile continued to trade barbs yesterday over who was responsible for the economy’s sorry state.

DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades accused the administration and ruling AKEL of irresponsibility at a critical time for the economy.

“More worrying of course, is their obstinate refusal, even now, to take decisions and measures to prevent a complete economic collapse,” Georgiades said.

AKEL spokesman Giorgos Loukaides reiterated that the reason for the bailout is the deep banking crisis and DISY cannot twist the truth.

He accused the opposition party of rejecting bills for the contribution of wealth, depriving the state of millions because “simply they wanted to saddle workers of the private and public sectors with the burden.”

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Minister agrees that the ‘farmers are hard done by’ State trying to find other ways to help them as subsidies lapse

By Jacqueline Agathocleous SHEEP AND goat farmers were yesterday promised a series of measures to help their profession survive, though Agriculture Minister Sophoclis Aletraris made it clear that a decision to halve state funding would not be revoked for the time being.

A meeting was held at the agriculture ministry to find ways to help the sector, after farmers last week took to the streets to protest a recent cabinet decision taking their state subsidy from €12 million to under €6 million. The protests even turned violent, with farmers saying their profession was buckling under the constant increase in international animal feed prices.

Among Aletraris’ suggestions yesterday was to include a member of his ministry in the Cyprus Grain Commission, which farmers have been accusing of benefiting from the price hikes, instead of protecting farmers.

Another pressing matter for the minister was for farmers to become more organised in seeking their rights.

Describing the meeting as “useful”, Aletraris stressed that the government’s decision on farmers’ funding was non-negotiable for the time being though a number of other measures were discussed to help support the sector.

“It is true that animal feed prices are at an all-time high at the moment,” said Aletraris, who relayed farmers’ claims that the Cyprus Grain Commission was failing to protect them.

“Some feel the commission doesn’t help farmers and instead operates more like a trader,” said Aletraris.

He said that while he didn’t share this view, he planned to table a suggestion for his min-

Agriculture Minister Sophoclis Aletraris (centre) with representatives of two farmers’ organisations yesterday istry to be represented in the commission, “so we can give clearer and more convincing answers on the matter of animal feed”.

The grain commission became autonomous following Cyprus’ accession to the EU in 2004 and while its nine members are appointed by the cabinet, it receives no funding from the state.

The minister also repeated his plans to discuss the high animal feed prices with the EU Council of Agriculture Ministers next month, with the aim of seeking some sort of assistance from the European Commission.

Water and electricity prices were also discussed, as were plans to provide state institutions – such as the National Guard and hospitals – with lamb.

Furthermore, the ministry promised to help sheep and goat farmers’ associations draw up standard contracts for supplying dairy manufacturing industries.

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farms, which were suggested by the Agricultural Research Institute, with the aim of reducing production costs,” said Aletraris, adding that a special ministerial delegation would be appointed to visit farmers and inform them on various cost-cutting measures, as well as ways to improve productivity.

Farmers also have the September 1 enforcement of a ministerial order determining the minimum share of sheep and goat’s milk in halloumi manufacturing to look forward to. Aletraris said the aim of the order, which was not welcomed by cheese manufacturers, who have so far used higher quantities of the more readily available cow’s milk, was to ensure that all sheep and goat milk is utilised.

The minister and farmers discussed the lack of organisation in the latter’s sector, with Aletraris urging them to create a joint association to reinforce their positions.

“There are quite a few organisations at the moment

that need to unite and create groups or form a confederation, so their voice can become stronger and their negotiating power can increase,” said the minister.

He repeated the government’s will to help sheep and goat farmers, “because in my view, this sector is truly the most beleaguered and harddone-by sector in our farming world”.

Reaffirming the lack of an organised approach, farming organisations departing the meeting offered a mixed approach to the minister’s proposed measures.

Some called on farmers to just take the funding offered by the state and decide how to seek the other 50 per cent later. Others said they simply would not accept the halving of the state subsidy.

The head of Paphos sheep and goat farmers association, Evagoras Chrysanthou, said his organisation would continue to refuse its subsidies being halved. “We’re already finished,” said Chrysanthou.

The head of union Agrotiki,

Giorgos Mouttas, agreed. “We refused the 50 per cent cut because this would be yet another obstacle in the downward spiral the sector is taking,” said Mouttas.

The general secretary of Panagrotikos, Nectarios Karyos, said that even if the full €12 million was given to the sector, the massive problems would not be resolved unless some serious structural changes in the agricultural policy were made.

However, the general secretary of the Euro-Agricultural organisation, Lambros Achilleos, urged farmers to accept the 50 per cent cut, “as there is a possibility that the funds will not be secured for the remaining 50 per cent and they should salvage what they can”.

The head of union PEK, Christos Papapetrou, said the €6 million would be a breather for farmers, who he said should take what the government was offering, without however “abrogating the demand for the remaining 50 per cent”.

‘Supermarkets are killing us’ say butchers

By Jacqueline Agathocleous BUTCHERS ARE threatening to import pork, in response to the anomaly in Cyprus of having high pig prices and low pork prices as a result of “unfair competition” from the supermarkets.

The head of the Cyprus Butchers’ Association, Costas Livadiotis, yesterday said that even though there was a 23 per cent increase in the price of pigs in the past three months alone, the price of pork was being pushed down due to competitive prices offered by supermarkets. This, he said, was leading butchers to seek alternative solutions, including thoughts of importing meat from abroad.

Based on the European Union’s official data, he said, Cyprus has the highest price for live pigs in Europe compared to the price at which pork is being sold.

He said supermarkets were competing with each other to offer the lowest prices, forcing butchers to do the same, which has left them running at a loss.

“The unfair commercial practices and policies of the supermarkets, using meat as a way to draw people in by selling it at below cost prices, have caused irreversible damage…,” said Livadiotis.

He said farmers’ financial enslavement to supermarkets had “bled the pig farming sector dry” and butchers were now having to pay for the damage.

“Small and medium-sized butchers can no longer tolerate this situation…,” said Livadiotis.

He added that the butchers’ association would not remain inactive. The association “has alternative choices, including the collective import of meat to protect the sector and the consumer”.

Phileleftheros newspaper yesterday published an investigation into the price of meat, which showed that Cyprus’ pork, cows’ milk and poultry products were much dearer than the EU average.

Despite the dire state of the island’s farming sector, it showed that only lamb was around 30 per cent cheaper than the EU average. Pork was 20 per cent dearer, cows’ milk 60 per cent more expensive, poultry 30 per cent and eggs 20 per cent higher, said the report.

Potato growers charged by police, who acted as protest escort POLICE have charged the leaders of potato farmers organisations with violating traffic regulations during a protest last week.

Famagusta police spokesman George Economou told the Cyprus News Agency (CNA) that they had charged two men: the head of the Cyprus potato producers’ association, Andreas Karyos, and the head of the Cyprus potato growers’ coordinating committee, Nicos Vasilas. He said charges including violating the highway code.

Vasilas said that he was called to Xylofagou police station on Tuesday afternoon when he was told he was facing charges in relation to the protest.

He and Karyos were among 250 potato growers and producers who last week on Wednesday blocked the Ayia Napa-Larnaca

highway with their tractors and double-cabin pickups between 11am and 1pm. Vasilas told CNA yesterday that on Wednesday last week, it was the police who had escorted the tractors during the demonstration. “Potato growers followed with their tractors. Then the police got in the road, cleared the traffic, blocked the road and signalled us to go,” he said.

The police knew in advance about the protest and diverted traffic for its duration, he said. The Famagusta police spokesman could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Potato growers are unhappy with the movement of produce from the north and have asked foreign minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis to enforce tighter restrictions, including the introduction of labels to explicitly state when produce hails from the north.

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‘Don’t drive away wealthy,’ says Osbourne Chancellor responds to deputy prime minister calling for temporary tax on rich GEORGE Osborne has warned against driving away the wealthy after Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg called for a temporary tax on the rich.

The Chancellor said he had already taken steps to ensure the UK’s highest earners pay more, but insisted it was vital to hang on to entrepreneurs who would fuel the economic recovery.

Clegg has called for those of “very considerable” wealth to contribute more to turning around Britain’s financial fortunes.

But during a visit to Sunderland, the Chancellor said: “I am clear that the wealthy should pay more, which is why in the recent budget I increased the tax on very expensive property transactions.

“But we also have to be careful as a country we don’t drive away the wealth creators and the businesses that are going to lead our economic recovery.”

Clegg floated plans for a short-term wealth tax in a move that will be widely

viewed as an attempt to reach out to Liberal Democrat grassroots ahead of next month’s annual conference as well as sharpening distinctions between the party and its coalition colleagues.

The Lib Dem leader will also be acutely aware of the potential political fallout for the party of continuing cuts to welfare that hit the poorest.

CLEGG DECISION But critics pointed to the Deputy PM’s decision to back a cut from 50p to 45p on the top rate of tax in the March budget, which benefited the UK’s highest earners.

Clegg, however, insisted the temporary tax proposal would hit those with the highest assets rather than incomes.

“If we are going to ask people for more sacrifices over a longer period of time, a longer period of belt tightening as a country, then we just have to make sure that people see it is being done as fairly

and as progressively as possible,” he said.

“While I am proud of some of the things we have done as a government, I actually think we need to really hard-wire fairness into what we do in the next phases of fiscal restraint. If we don’t do that I don’t think the process will be either socially or politically sustainable or acceptable.”

Senior Tory backbencher Bernard Jenkin dismissed the move as the “politics of envy” and warned against strangling the “goose that lays the golden egg”.

Shadow treasury minister Chris Leslie said: “Nick Clegg is once again taking the British people for fools.

“He talks about a tax on the wealthiest, but he voted for the tax cut for millionaires in George Osborne’s budget.

“And he has supported a failing economic plan which has pushed Britain into a double-dip recession and is leading to borrowing going up by a quarter so far this year.”

‘UK should honour more ordinary people’ PUBLIC trust in Britain’s system of awarding titles such as Knight and Dame could be damaged because honours are handed to society’s elite such as celebrities and sports stars rather than ordinary citizens, lawmakers said yesterday.

Honours, which also include Officer of the Order of the British Empire and Commander of the British Empire, are bestowed by the Queen for public service or outstanding achievement, according to a list submitted by the prime minister.

High-profile recipients include musician Elton John and cyclist Chris Hoy, who has won six Olympic gold medals. Both have been knighted and can use the title “Sir”.

Lawmakers on parliament’s civil service watchdog said that while British people valued the honours system, few understood how or why titles were bestowed and believed they were awarded to the “usual suspects they already know”.

“Far too few (honours) are being awarded to ordinary citizens for the extraordinary contributions they make to their communities -

which is what the honours system should be for,” said chairman Bernard Jenkin.

“There should be no ‘automatic’ honours for people who hold a certain post, or for celebrities and sports stars at a certain level, but too often it seems this is still the case.”

The names of people to be honoured are published twice a year at new year and in mid-June on the Queen’s official birthday.

Anyone can recommend someone to be honoured, but nominations are ultimately handled by a government department.

A spokesman for the government’s cabinet office, which handles honours nominations, said it would “carefully consider” the recommendations of the civil service watchdog, the House of Commons Public Administration Select Committee.

“Honours are awarded on merit to those who make outstanding contributions and not for simply doing the day job. Far from being the preserve of politicians, civil servants and celebrities, the vast majority go to the unsung heroes who do remarkable work in their communities,” the spokesman said.

1,300-foot-long sculpture to open for public viewing A 1,300ft-LONG reclining woman which is the world’s largest human form sculpted into the landscape is to open to the public next month.

People will be able to walk over the goddess-like Northumberlandia, which can be seen by pilots coming in to land at nearby Newcastle airport.

Passengers on the East Coast main line and drivers on the A1 have watched as her curves took shape over

the past two years.

The £3-million sculpture has been shaped from the rock, earth and waste from Shotton surface mine, outside Cramlington, Northumberland, on land owned by Viscount Ridley and worked by the Banks Group.

Northumberlandia was formed, amid controversy, as a legacy in recompense for the disruption caused by coal extraction on such a grand scale, as the mine is the larg-

est of its kind in England.

It will soon be open to the public after a private ceremony with the Princess Royal on Monday, and it is hoped people will warm to her curves.

The Angel of the North, 12 miles south, took a while to become loved, and Katie Perkin of the Banks Group believes Northumberlandia could rival her popularity.

“People have already taken Northumberlandia to their hearts,” she said.

Osborne, seen here after opening an extension of the North East Enterprise Zone in Sunderland, said it was important not to alienate the country’s ‘wealth creators’

A FORMER editor of the News of the World Scotland has been arrested and charged with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of ex-MSP Tommy Sheridan’s defamation action against the newspaper.

Bob Bird was detained in Glasgow yesterday morning by officers from Strathclyde Police.

He has since been released from custody and a report will now be prepared for prosecutors.

A force spokewoman said: “Officers from Operation Rubicon of Strathclyde Police arrested and charged a 56-year-old man with attempting to pervert the course of justice at the time of the defamation action of Thomas Sheridan versus News Groups Newspapers.

“A report will be submitted to the procurator fiscal in Glasgow.

“Proceedings are now active and it would be inappropriate for us to comment any further.”

Bird was held and questioned at Govan police station before being charged. It is thought he was detained at about 7.30am and arrested about four hours later.

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World WORLD TODAY Court upholds death sentence INDIA’S Supreme Court yesterday upheld the death sentence for Mohammad Ajmal Kasab, the lone survivor of a group of militants who attacked the country’s financial capital, Mumbai, in 2008 killing 166 people.

“The Supreme Court has today dismissed the appeal of Mohammad Kasab,” Gopal Subramaniam, a lawyer for the prosecution, told reporters after the verdict.

Kasab, a Pakistani national who said he belonged to the militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, was found guilty on more than 80 charges in May 2010, including murder and waging war on India, and was sentenced to death by hanging.

Pentagon review THE Pentagon yesterday said it has obtained a copy of a soon-to-be-published book by a former Navy commando who participated in the raid that killed Osama bin Laden and is reviewing it.

The book was not cleared

by US defence officials in advance, raising the possibility the author could face an investigation and possible criminal prosecution.

“We have obtained a copy and are reviewing it,” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said.

No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission that Killed Osama Bin Laden was written under the pseudonym Mark Owen with coauthor Kevin Maurer and was to be released next month on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Hurricane Isaac soaks Gulf coast, tests New Orleans Louisiana city’s mayor says that all levees ‘are holding and very strong’

By Scott Malone and Kathy Finn HURRICANE Isaac drove water over the top of a levee on the outskirts of New Orleans yesterday, but the multibillion-dollar barriers built to protect the city itself after the 2005 Katrina disaster were not breached, officials said.

The slow-moving but powerful Category 1 hurricane was felt along the Gulf Coast, threatening to flood towns in Mississippi and Louisiana with storm surges of up to 12 feet (3.7 metres) and top sustained winds up to 75 miles per hour (120 kilometers per hour).

“The federal levee system ... is fine,” New Orleans Mayor Mitchell Landrieu told local radio.

“There are no risks. It is holding exactly as we expected it to and is performing exactly as it should. There are no people on rooftops from flooding that even approximates what happened during Katrina,” he said.

Police and National Guard units, many wielding automatic assault rifles, patrolled the virtually empty downtown quarter of the port city, which normally bustles with tourists drawn to its jazz bars, Creole cuisine and French colonial architecture.

Tree limbs and street signs littered the streets and power was cut intermittently throughout the city, but authorities reported no secu-

A man checks the menu outside one of the few restaurants remaining open along Bourbon Street in New Orleans, Louisiana on Tuesday (AFP) rity problems.

“Thus far it’s been pretty easy,” said Captain Jeremy Falanga of the Louisiana National Guard, who was stationed with troopers in front of the city’s convention centre. “Not many people are outside, it’s pretty buttoned up.”

about 2,000 residents of the area had been ordered to evacuate but only about half were confirmed to have gotten out before Isaac made landfall late on Tuesday.

Isaac was wobbling northwestward near six mph (10 kph), a slow pace that increases the threat of rain-in-

Tymoshenko loses appeal

Tanker located A GREEK-operated oil tanker seized off Togo was tracked down yesterday off the coast of Nigeria under the control of pirates, the ship’s operator and Togolese authorities said.

The seizure early on Tuesday of the ship, which is operated by Golden Energy Management, underscored the growing risks to ships in the Gulf of Guinea, where piracy is rising but still not as common as off the coast of Somalia.

In low-lying Plaquemines Parish, which stretches southeast from New Orleans, emergency officials reported the overtopping of an 8-foot (2.4-metre) high levee between the Braithwaite and White Ditch districts.

Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser said

duced flooding.

“On the east bank right now, we have reports of people on their roofs and attics and 12 to 14 foot (3.7-4.2 metres) of water,” Nungesser told CNN. “This storm has delivered more of a punch than people thought,” he added.

Plaquemines Parish is cut in two lengthwise by the Mississippi River as it flows to the Gulf of Mexico. Much of it lies outside the greater New Orleans levee system, and construction projects to bolster protection are not complete.

It was not immediately clear how many people may have been stranded in the area, as driving rain and hurricaneforce winds prevented a fullscale search.

“The sheriff’s deputies are over there but all the roads are unpassable ... We don’t know if some people are left behind and now we can’t get there and there is no way we can operate a boat or an air boat in these winds,” Nungesser said.

Plaquemines Parish public information officer Caitlin Campbell said there were no reports of injuries or deaths.

“The back levee along that area has been overflowing with water since earlier today. Up to 12 feet of water has filled that community from the back levee to the Mississippi River,” Campbell said in an email statement.

“Rescue efforts are now in progress. Local residents are rescuing other residents at this time,” she said.

Former Ukraine PM Yulia Tymoshenko was not in court because of persistent back trouble (AFP)

A UKRAINIAN high court rejected an appeal yesterday by former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko against her conviction for abuse of office, leaving her in jail and Ukraine’s relations with the West severely strained.

Tymoshenko’s defence lawyer said the ruling by a three-judge panel had been steered

by President Viktor Yanukovich for political reasons.

“These findings have no relation to justice,” Serhiy Vlasenko told journalists after judge Olexander Yelfimov ruled that lower courts had delivered “correct decisions on the crimes of Tymoshenko.”

“This is a decision of Yanukovich to keep Tymoshenko in prison,” Vlasenko said.

Western leaders condemned the seven-year prison term meted out to the 51-year-old opposition leader in October as political persecution, and blocked strategic agreements on political association and a free-trade zone with the European Union.

But despite months of chiding by the European Union and the United States, Yanukovich has refused to act to secure Tymoshenko’s release. No one had expected her to

be released yesterday.

Yanukovich did not immediately react to Vlasenko’s comments, though in tough remarks last Friday he said he would not negotiate integration with the European Union at the price of allowing it to interfere in her case.

In Brussels, the European Union urged Ukraine to reform its judicial system “to redress the effects of selective justice” like that seen in Tymoshenko’s case.

“We stress the importance for the Ukrainian authorities to take concrete steps to address the systemic problems of the judiciary,” Michael Mann, a spokesman for EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton, said.

Tymoshenko, recognisable for her peasantstyle hair braid and known for fiery rhetoric, was not in court because of persistent back trouble which has kept her confined to a staterun hospital in eastern Ukraine.

About 300 of her supporters gathered outside the courtroom, chanting slogans such as “Yulia - Freedom!” and “Keep convicts inside and get Yulia out!” They lowered a mock coffin into the ground outside the courtroom to symbolise the death of justice.

Loss of radio contact prompts Amsterdam airplane hijacking scare THE Netherlands intercepted a Spanish airliner with two fighter planes and then sent security forces to surround it on the tarmac at Amsterdam’s airport in a hijack scare caused by a loss of radio contact.

The plane, flown by Spanish carrier Vueling from Malaga in Spain to Amsterdam with about 180 passen-

gers on board, had lost radio contact with air traffic control, a spokesman for the military police told Reuters.

“There was no communication with the crew at all,” Martijn Peelen, military police spokesman, said.

“My colleagues are still talking to the (plane’s) captain to find out what caused the communication failure.”

Peelen said that as soon as the plane landed at Schiphol airport, it was surrounded by security forces and a negotiator was sent to talk to the crew.

“After the negotiator spoke to the captain we were certain there were no hijackers on the plane,” Peelen said.

The plane had been intercepted and escorted by two F-16 fighters sent by the Dutch Defence Ministry.

“The scrambling of fighter jets was part of a standard emergency procedure after the plane failed to communicate,” said an official of the NATO Western military alliance.

NATO’s Combined Air Operations Centre had notified the Dutch military after being alerted by air traffic controllers to the loss of contact.

Passengers had to remain on board the plane for hours while it was searched by police, but were later allowed to disembark and board buses.

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Egypt to detain Shafik if he returns

Shafik (above), ousted President Mubarak’s last PM, has been placed on a watch list at border points (EPA)

EGYPTIAN authorities will detain former presidential candidate Ahmed Shafik for questioning over an alleged corruption case if he returns from abroad, a judge said yesterday.

Shafik, ousted President Hosni Mubarak’s last prime minister, has been placed on a watch list at border points, Judge Osama el-Saeidy said in a statement.

Shafik, who lost a presidential run-off vote against the Muslim Brotherhood’s Mohamed Mursi in June, left Egypt for Abu Dhabi two days after his opponent was declared president.

His aides have repeatedly denied Shafik is on the run, saying he would return soon to launch a new liberal political party, but the threat of arrest could deter him, analysts say.

“The investigative judge decided to put General Ahmed Shafik’s name on the watch and travel ban lists based on investigations over his illegal allocation of 40,000 square metres of land... to Alaa and Gamal Mubarak,” Saeidy said.

Mubarak’s two sons Alaa and Gamal are now in prison facing corruption charges.

Their 84-year-old father was sentenced in June to life in prison over the killing of protesters during last year’s popular uprising that ended his 30-year rule.

Dozens of legal cases have been filed against Mubarak associates since the president fell on February 11, 2011.

The one against Shafik was lodged in May by Essam Sultan, a leader of the Islamist Wasat Party, who accused the ex-airforce chief of exploiting his former

‘Protect Syria refugees within country itself’ Turkey says refugee crisis now an international problem

By Jonathon Burch and Dominic Evans TURKEY urged the United Nations yesterday to protect displaced Syrians inside their country, but President Bashar al-Assad, battling rebels determined to overthrow him, dismissed talk of a buffer zone on Syrian territory.

Ankara fears a mass influx such as the flight of half a million Iraqi Kurds into Turkey after the 1991 Gulf War, and has floated the idea of a “safe zone” under foreign protection within Syria for civilians fleeing intensifying violence.

“We expect the United Nations to engage on the topic of protecting refugees inside Syria and if possible sheltering them in camps there,” Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said.

France has supported Turkey’s call for a safe zone in Syria, and pressure for action increased after the UN refugee agency said on Tuesday that Syria’s refugee exodus was accelerating. Up to 200,000 people could settle

Embattled Syria President Assad (R) says talk of a buffer zone is not ‘practical’ in Turkey alone if the conflict worsens, the UNHCR said.

“When we talk about figures in the hundreds of thousands, this problem no longer remains a problem of an internal conflict in any one country but becomes an international dangerous problem,” said Davutoglu.

But the United States and other Western allies have shown little enthusiasm to provide the military and aerial support to police a no-fly zone which would most likely be needed to implement Turkey’s proposal.

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Assad, in his first television interview since a bomb attack killed four of his top security officials on July 18, brushed off the idea of international intervention.

“I believe that talk about a buffer zone is not practical, even for those countries which are playing a hostile role (against Syria),” Assad said, according to excerpts of an interview with Syria’s Addounia TV broadcast yesterday.

He also took a swipe at Turkey’s government, which once cultivated good rela-

(AFP)

tions with Assad but turned against him over his violent response to the uprising in which at least 18,000 people have been killed, according to the United Nations.

“Will we go backwards because of the ignorance of some Turkish officials?” Assad said.

Turkey already hosts more than 80,000 refugees and the UNHCR said up to 5,000 people a day had crossed the Turkish border in the last two weeks. The flow of refugees arriving in Jordan has also doubled, it said.

Arabs may not press for Israel resolution at IAEA meeting ARAB states may decide against targeting Israel over its assumed nuclear arsenal at the UN atomic agency’s annual conference so as not to imperil wider efforts for a nuclear weapons-free Middle East, diplomats say.

A senior diplomat said Arab countries would criticise Israel but were divided over whether to submit a resolution on the issue to next month’s General Conference of the United Nations’ 154nation International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

“The majority feels that we shouldn’t submit it this year,” an Arab source said, in comments likely to be welcomed

by Western envoys who have been urging their Arab counterparts not to single out the Jewish state.

In a surprise move at last year’s IAEA gathering, the Arab group refrained from zeroing in on Israel in this way in what was called a “goodwill gesture” ahead of planned talks in 2012 on creating a zone without nuclear arms in the Middle East.

Israel welcomed this as a “positive” move, in a rare conciliatory exchange in an otherwise heated debate that underlined deep Arab-Israeli divisions on nuclear issues.

Diplomats said Arab states had not yet decided whether to propose a non-binding, but symbolically important draft text criticising “Israeli Nuclear Capabilities” at this year’s week-long meeting that starts on September 17.

They expressed concern that an Arab move against Israel would discourage the Jewish state from attending

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position as head of the Young Air Force Officers Association to sell land owned by the association to Mubarak’s sons at reduced prices.

Shafik denied the charge and accused Sultan of being a former state security informant who had been used to spy on Islamists during Mubarak’s era.

Sultan told Reuters after Shafik was put on the watch list that he hoped his adversary would return “to face a fair trial and present evidence on the accusations he made against me”.

One of Shafik’s supporters, Ahmed Abdel Ghani, said the Muslim Brotherhood was behind the moves against Shafik.

“I warn them to not touch General Shafik when he comes back or else civil war will break out,” he said.

IAEA conference organiser Jaakko Laajava the talks due to be held later this year on a nuclear armsfree Middle East.

An Egyptian plan for an international meeting to lay the groundwork for the possible creation of a Middle East free of weapons of mass destruction was agreed at a review conference on the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) in 2010.

But the Western official organising the conference, Finnish diplomat Jaakko Laajava, said in May he had yet to secure the needed attendance of all countries in the region.

“It is a very fragile process that needs to be launched,” one European diplomat said.

“Singling out Israel would not at all be helpful, would be counterproductive.”

Israel is widely believed to possess the Middle East’s only nuclear arsenal, drawing frequent Arab and Iranian condemnation.

The Jewish state is the only Middle Eastern country outside the nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT).

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Business ‘ECB action needed for stability’

Spain’s Bankia seen losing €4b in first half

THE European Central Bank must employ "exceptional measures" at times to fulfil its mandate of delivering stable prices, ECB President Mario Draghi wrote in an opinion piece yesterday aimed at calming German angst about the bank's policy course.

The ECB is drawing up a new bond-buying plan to lower the borrowing costs facing Spain and Italy, which Draghi is expected to detail after a September 6 policy meeting.

Germany's Bundesbank opposes the plan.

Draghi wrote his opinion piece in German weekly Die Zeit after Bundesbank chief Jens Weidmann told magazine Der Spiegel the ECB bondbuying plan verged on the taboo for the bank of outright financing of governments.

Juergen Stark, a former ECB chief economist, piled on the German resistance in another newspaper interview on Tuesday, saying the ECB's policy course meant it was being politicised and would ultimately no longer be able to deliver stable prices.

Draghi sought to dispel those concerns.

"The ECB will do what is necessary to ensure price stability. It will remain independent.

And it will always act within the limits of its mandate," the Italian wrote. "The ECB is not a political institution."

The independence of the ECB and the Bundesbank is highly prized in Germany, where the politicisation of monetary policy led to hyperinflation in the 1920s.

"Yet it should be understood that fulfilling our mandate sometimes requires us to go beyond standard monetary policy tools," said Draghi, adding that the ECB's monetary policy is not transmitted evenly when financial markets "are fragmented or influenced by irrational fears".

Expected to announce results tomorrow

By Carlos Ruano and Jesús Aguado NATIONALISED lender Bankia is expected to post first-half losses of more than €4 billion tomorrow, highlighting the need for capital from a European rescue of Spanish banks that is unlikely to arrive before the end of September.

Bankia was taken over by the government in May when it asked for €19 billion of state aid after anticipating the steep losses from real estate investments which soured after the property market crashed four years ago.

Spain has asked Europe for money to keep its banks afloat after a surge in bad debts as the economy sank into recession and is considering asking for a broader economic bailout. It will also set up a bad bank to take on troubled assets from the rescued banks to clean up the sector.

Three analysts and a banking source with knowledge of the matter said they expected Bankia to report more than €4 billion in losses for the first half, worse than the total for the whole of 2011.

"The losses will be around €4 billion taking into account the new provisioning criteria already announced by the lender (when it was nationalised last May)", the banking

The sign of Spain's Bankia bank is seen outside its headquarters in Madrid in this May 18, 2012 file photo source said.

Bankia, Spain's fourth largest lender after seven different savings banks were merged into one in 2010, is expected to report results for the first half of the year tomorrow, the last day it is allowed to do so.

After it took over Bankia in May, the government asked for a 100-billion-euro lifeline from the eurozone to shore up its ailing banks, burdened with an estimated €184 billion in bad loans to property developers.

Banks are also facing rising loan defaults from other areas of the economy due to

sistance for Spanish banks, Spain must provide details on how the aid would be used before it is disbursed.

The debt crisis has made it hard for banks in Spain and other euro zone countries to borrow from other banks so they are relying heavily on the European Central Bank for liquidity. The ECB reported record borrowing from Spanish banks in July.

Bankia's first half troubles are mainly due to provisions from adjustments in its loan portfolio.

"If they stick to the same criteria they used when they presented their recapitalisa-

tion plan losses will be huge due to high provisionings to clean up its credit portfolio," said Nuria Alvarez, banking analyst at Madrid-based brokerage Renta 4.

Bankia originally reported a 300-million-euro profit for 2011, but after the government bailout was announced, it began writing down bad loans, repossessed property and restated the results to show a 2.979-billion-euro loss.

"Losses could be even higher in the first half of 2012 than for the whole of 2011 when they had to restate their figures," Alvarez said.

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STOCKS were little changed yesterday, the third consecutive day of subdued market action as economic data did little to spark investor interest ahead of Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's speech tomorrow.

Daily volume so far this week has been low even for a seasonally slow period, with trading levels about 30 per cent below the year-to-date average, an indication of how market participants are reluctant to make any major investment moves ahead of the Fed chairman's speech.

Bernanke addresses a conference of central bankers in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and could announce new measures to boost growth. He is expected to stoke expecta-

tions for a third round of quantitative easing, though he may not detail the timing of such a measure.

Further dampening trading activity was the upcoming ECB conference and a host of economic data scheduled for next week, including the payrolls report.

The S&P dipped over the past two sessions, but the decline was less than 0.1 per cent on both days. It hasn't closed with a 1 per cent move in either direction since August 3.

"I would not be surprised by very low volumes and a lot of action but no traction; it's something to be expected right now." said Gail Dudack, Chief Investment Strategist at Dudack Research Group in New York.

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A number of banks are expected to need aid but Bankia is expected to be the biggest taker because it is the most exposed to the real estate sector.

Europe made available emergency liquidity for Spain's banks in August, but Bankia and the economy ministry say it can wait until the publication of a new bank-by-bank stress test due by the end of September.

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The Financial Services Authority is investigating the bank and four current and former senior employees, including finance director Chris Lucas, on whether sufficient disclosures were made about the fees it paid in a 2008 capital raising.

The Serious Fraud Office (SFO) may tell the bank this week that it is also opening a probe, Bloomberg reported, citing people familiar with the case.

Barclays, the SFO and the FSA all declined to comment.

Barclays disclosed the FSA investigation when it released half-year results on July 27. It relates to fees paid to the Qatar Investment Authority on deals in June and November 2008, when Barclays raised €11.5 billion ($18 billion).

The bank is reeling after being fined £290 million by British and US regulators in June for rigging Libor interest rates, sparking criticism about its culture and risk-taking and forcing its chairman and chief executive to quit.

Barclays said yesterday management consultancy firm Boston Consulting Group was to support a review into its business practices that is being led by Antony Salz. The independent report is due by April.

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Opinion

Some perspective needed when it comes to personal data protection A HUGE fuss has been created over police officers filming farmers during last week’s violent demonstration outside the presidential palace.

Among the detractors was the commissioner for the protection of personal data Yiannos Danielides, who said the police action was a form of personal data processing and should cease. “Any processing has to be legal, have a specific purpose and not be excessive,” he said.

Police chief Michalis Papageorgiou responded angrily yesterday saying it was perfectly within the force’s right to take video footage at violent protests. He said no filming was done up to the point the violence broke out. Also he asked several other member states what their policies were.

What is very strange here is that since personal data protection is regulated under an EU directive, how is it possible that neither the police chief nor the commissioner were able to state their facts for certain.

A cursory search for the directive reveals that it “does not apply to the processing of data in the course of an activity which falls outside the scope of Community law, such as operations concerning public security, defence or State security”.

This clearly puts the police well within their rights to film at the protest.

We live in an age of technology where surveillance is the norm. There are CCTV cameras in banks, kiosks, shops and airports; often they help to solve crime.

There is a huge difference between a ‘surveillance society’ where authorities randomly or secretly film people going about their daily business, and police taking precautionary measures during a demonstration.

Like it or not there is a bigger chance of trouble happening at a protest, or a football match and if someone was hurt or killed, everyone would be critical if police failed to catch the culprits.

In fact people who participate in protests or football matches should expect to be filmed as a matter of routine.

But police should do it more openly instead of posing as civilians as was reported after the farmers’ demo. Police officers running around clandestinely do not inspire trust.

The real danger with data collection is not the act of collecting information but for what it might be used by the collector, which is where the commissioner’s role comes in but he may need to be a little less zealous.

There needs to be some perspective when personal data regulations clash with other laws. During the term of the previous commissioner, the former mayor of Strovolos thought he was doing a good thing by taking photos of cars parked on pavements and using them to fine the culprits, until he was stopped under the personal data law – a decision upheld by the Supreme Court.

Was any thought was given to the fact that these selfish drivers were not only breaking traffic laws, but were also violating the rights of pedestrians and the disabled?

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FTER the wondrous joy of the Olympics, London is hosting the Paralympics. Another opening ceremony, another 11 days of spectacular sport, another chance to show the world Britain at its best. Let’s get the party started — again.

Before the starting pistol is fired, pause a moment. By all means, take pleasure in the performance of amazing athletes and enjoy another boost to the national mood. These are great moments for the country, especially in such challenging times.

But please don’t be deluded.

For these will be 11 unusual days during which people with disabilities take centre stage in our nation’s life. Then, unless there is a massive change in attitudes engendered by the crowds watching goal-ball and the broadcasting of wheelchair basketball, they will be forced back to the fringes of society when the eyes of the world turn away.

You will hear much hype and hypocrisy. First out of the blocks was Jeremy Hunt, the Culture Secretary, asserting that the UK “had blazed a trail when it comes to the rights of disabled people”, and that organisers had bent over backwards to ensure disabled spectators felt part of the Games.

If only these grandiose claims were true. Instead, it emerged people in wheelchairs must pay for premium-rate phone lines when booking tickets, a discriminatory move undermining any sense of equality. And as my family discovered to its horror, they can only be accompanied by one person, so even if we get tickets we cannot sit together.

There will be well-meaning talk of triumph over tragedy. After all, the media can cope with only a handful of images for disabled people: they tend to boil down to either objects of pity or plucky fighters, both ultimately stereotypes. Rarely are they portrayed as ordinary people living ordinary lives.

More recently another image has emerged, a sinister one that flies in the face of facts but has been fostered by some journalists, broadcasters and politicians from all parties, including some of Mr Hunt’s ministerial colleagues. It is the despised benefit scrounger.

As even the diplomatic Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson says, it would appear there are only two types of disabled people right now — those going for gold over the next few days and those workshy shirkers fleecing the

Comment Ian Birrell state. A misguided campaign to win support for welfare reform by highlighting miscreants has corroded respect for disabled people. People think seven in 10 claims are false. In fact, rates of fraud for disability benefits are among the lowest benefit theft levels — and, ironically, lower than amounts wrongly paid out by bungling bureaucrats.

This malevolent misinformation has fuelled intolerance.

A survey last month by Scope found nearly half of disabled people reporting hardening attitudes. Worse, levels of reported hate crime are rising fast with disabled people tipped out of their wheelchairs, abused in the street and scared to leave their homes.

Remember this when politicians claim credit for Paralympic success. Remember too that for all the talk of blazing British trails, for all the platitudes and praise, disabled people are living in virtual apartheid. Facilities are woeful and worsening, jobs few and far between, transport often inaccessible.

Take jobs. Even before the downturn, the statistics were dismal. Fewer than half had employment, compared with three quarters of other Britons — and those in work were paid less than colleagues doing similar jobs and were far more likely to be bullied. The outlook is even bleaker for people with learning difficulties: fewer than one in 12 is in paid work.

Employers who hire people with disabilities say they are rewarded with higher productivity and more loyalty. But potential employees are stuck on benefits and accused of being scroungers; little wonder more than half live below the poverty threshold — or that four in five Britons have never worked with a disabled person.

One company making commendable strides is Channel 4, which has spent £600,000 hiring staff with disabilities for its coverage of the Games. It plans to broadcast 150 hours of live sport, which is impressive — as has been its ground-breaking coverage of the nightmare that is public transport for people with disabilities.

Yet this is the same channel that employs Frankie Boyle, an

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Iron will: South African double amputee sprinter Oscar Pistorius ‘The Blade Runner’ alleged comedian who thinks it funny to make jokes mocking profoundly disabled children.

When celebrities make cruel jibes, when pop stars popularise hateful words such as “retard”, it demeans and dehumanises people with disabilities, aiding their alienation from society and encouraging abuse.

The best Paralympic legacy: an end to this disabled apartheid While their athletes receive our esteem, most of the handicapped are forced to live on the fringes of society The legacy is a minority exiled from mainstream society. One disability charity found nine in 10 Britons have never even had someone with a disability in their house for a social occasion.

Most disabled people are not striving for gold, just the humdrum normality of life as lived by the rest of us.

By taking disability into millions more British homes, my fervent hope is the Paralympics help the nation finally come to terms with its most maligned minority, especially with numbers rising fast thanks to medical advances.

Unlike five in six people with disabilities, my daughter was

born with her disabilities. Since then I have endlessly seen the pitying stares, heard the patronising comments, felt the stumbling embarrassment, lost the fairweather friends — and discovered the disgusting paucity of services.

Earlier this month the great Alf Morris died. He was an inspirational and pioneering politician who dedicated his life to fighting for disabled people after seeing the struggles of his father, crippled in the First World War trenches.

The day before the second reading of his landmark disability rights legislation, Morris said if he could bequeath one gift to posterity it would be a society in which there was genuine compassion for disabled people and they could participate fully in daily life.

That was more than four decades ago. For all the genuine pride and pleasure Britain will derive from the Paralympics, we still have a very long way to go to honour his bequest.

It would appear there are only two types of disabled people right now — those going for gold over the next few days and those workshy shirkers fleecing the state

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

1918

25 years ago Sunday August 30, 1987

Fanny Kaplan shoots and seriously injures Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin. This, along with the assassination of Bolshevik senior official Moisei Uritsky days earlier, prompts the decree for Red Terror.

Two teenagers, a boy and a girl, were the victims of an attack by a masked man in a remote part of the Makedonitissa area of Nicosia, near the site where two other youths were attacked a week ago. The assailant in both cases used a heavy iron instrument to break the car’s window but this time inflammable liquid was used, probably petrol, to burn the youths who suffered serious injuries and are in hospital.

1963 The Hotline between the leaders of the USA and the Soviet Union goes into operation.

1976 More than 100 police officers are taken to hospital after clashes at the Notting Hill Carnival in west London.

1980 Striking Polish workers win a sweeping victory in a battle with their Communist rulers for the right to independent trade unions and the right to strike.

1981 Bombs detonated by the People’s Mujahedin of Iran assassinate both President Mohammad-Ali Rajai and Prime Minister Mohammad-Javad Bahonar.

35 years ago Tuesday August 30, 1977 Bishop Chrysostomos of Paphos has declared that he has no political ambitions but he thought that the new Archbishop to emerge from the elections should have a seat in the National Council which acts as an advisory body to the President.

45 years ago Wednesday August 30, 1967 There was another exchange of fire between Turkish Cypriots and police near Limni Mines, western Cyprus, early yesterday. Reports from Paphos said a police land rover was fired on by Turks from the nearby village of Pelathousa at 2.30am while on a routine patrol near a store containing explosives for the mine. Four bullets pierced the vehicle but nobody was hurt.

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Religion, 9/11 grab spotlight Eddie Murphy to Beverly as Venice film festival opens make Hills Cop Reluctant Fundamentalist kicks off 11 days of screenings, parties TV show

By Mike Collett-White POLITICS, religion and personal crisis combine in The Reluctant Fundamentalist, the opening movie at this year’s Venice film festival, which examines what the 9/11 attacks mean for a young Asian man destined for a bright future on Wall Street.

Based on the novel by Pakistan-born writer Mohsin Hamid, it is directed by Indian Mira Nair, one of a large number of female filmmakers in Venice this year and a winner of the festival’s coveted Golden Lion for best film with 2001’s Monsoon Wedding.

The Reluctant Fundamentalist, which had its red carpet world premiere yesterday to launch the 2012 festival, is not eligible for awards because it screens outside the competition.

But organisers are hoping its themes of faith, alienation and radicalism will provide a provocative start to 11 days of films, interviews, press conferences, photo shoots and late-night parties on the Lido island, which is part of Venice.

“The Reluctant Fundamentalist gave me the platform to create a dialogue between the subcontinent and the West, over a schism that becomes more and more pronounced each day,” Nair said of her new film.

She called it “a story about conflicting ideologies, instead of competing fists, where perception and suspicion have the power to determine life or death.”

Venice, the world’s oldest film festival, celebrates its

The Reluctant Fundamentalist examines what the 9/11 attacks mean for a young Asian man destined for a bright future on Wall Street 80th anniversary this year and welcomes back artistic director Alberto Barbera for another stint at the helm.

He takes over from the respected outgoing director Marco Mueller, and will have his work cut out to ensure that Venice remains one of the top three film festivals in the world amid growing competition from Toronto and beyond.

His competition lineup of 18 movies has won early praise from critics, and Venice has launched a small market to make the notoriously expensive trip to Venice more commercially attractive to movie

studio bosses.

“I think all of us at the Biennale (festival) were aware of the fact that you change or die because the competition with other festivals is too strong,” Barbera told Reuters. “They invested a lot in the last decade to renovate the structure of the festival, the scope of the festival and make sure Venice remained the same as it was 20 years ago.”

The lack of A-list stars this year is a concern among some festivalgoers, although Barbera will hope that a new generation of up-and-coming acting talent, including

Zac Efron, Shia LaBeouf and Selena Gomez, provides the kind of buzz on which festivals thrive.

The older generation will be represented by Robert Redford and Julie Christie, while Rachel McAdams, Philip Seymour Hoffman and the unpredictable Joaquin Phoenix also are expected.

One of the most talkedabout movies this year is likely to be The Master, Paul Thomas Anderson’s story about a religious cult bearing similarities to Scientology.

The There Will Be Blood director has said the role of Lancaster Dodd, played by

Hoffman, was partly inspired

by L. Ron Hubbard, founder of the Church of Scientology.

The movie’s distributor, The Weinstein Company, features a news report on its website calling The Master a “Scientology-tinged religious drama”.

Yet both Anderson and company chief Harvey Weinstein have played down parallels with the self-described religion that counts Tom Cruise and John Travolta among its followers but has been cast by opponents as a cult that harasses people who seek to quit and coerces followers to think like they do.

Lindsay Lohan not charged in theft from California home

By Piya Sinha-Roy

No stolen property was found in the possession of the actress or her assistant

LOS Angeles prosecutors this week declined to charge actress Lindsay Lohan or her assistant with theft from a Hollywood Hills home where they recently stayed, citing insufficient evidence.

Lohan, 26, was questioned by police after the home’s owner named her in connection with the alleged theft of about $6,400 worth of property. But after investigators completed their probe, Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney Deborah L. Kranze declined to charge anyone, including Lohan and an assistant who was with her.

“We do not have sufficient evidence to prove this case beyond a reasonable doubt,” Kranze wrote in evaluating the case.

Kranze’s evaluation added that Lohan and the alleged

theft victim had a “longstanding relationship,” and said potential eyewitnesses refused to become involved and no stolen property was found in the possession of Lohan or her assistant.

Celebrity website TMZ. com earlier reported that the troubled actress and her assistant were guests at the home during an allnight party and the owner later reported the theft of jewellery, including watches, amounting to an estimated $100,000.

But District Attorney spokeswoman Sandi Gibbons disputed the amount.

“According to evidence presented to us to review, the property loss was $6,400.

None of it was jewellery,” she said.

Gibbons said the probe showed property losses of “$3,000 in cash, four pairs of sunglasses, an iPod and some keys to two cars and a

house.”

“Lindsay is glad this matter has been cleared up so she can focus on her upcoming projects. It is unfortunate that many media outlets were quick to point fingers and jump to conclusions without having all the facts,” Lohan’s spokesman said in a statement.

Lohan was released from formal probation in March over charges in 2007 of drunk driving and cocaine possession. Recently she has had guest roles on TV sketch comedy show Saturday Night Live, a cameo appearance on Glee and has filmed the TV movie Liz & Dick.

The actress is still on informal probation until 2014 in connection with a jewellery theft case last year. If charges had been brought in the latest incident, officials could have revoked her probation and sent her to jail.

ONE of the comedian and actor’s best loved roles was as wise cracking detective Axel Foley in the three action/ comedy films of the late 80s and he’s working on bringing him back.

He told Rolling Stone magazine: “What I’m trying to do with Beverly Hills Cop now is produce a TV show starring Axel Foley’s son, and Axel is the chief of police now in Detroit.

“I’d do the pilot, show up here and there.”

He also said he thinks the show - which he is working on with Shawn Ryan, creator of The Shield and Sony Pictures - will work better on TV and that he never thought the scripts for the three movies in the series, released between 1984 and 1994, were right.

He added: “None of the movie scripts were right; it was trying to force this premise.

“If you have to force something, you shouldn’t be doing it. It was always a rehash of the old thing. It was always wrong.”

Eddie, 50, also said there will not be a Beverly Hills Cop IV movie, and he has had enough of making sequels.

Speaking of his latest film, Tower Heist, he added: “Even if this heist movie is a smash, why do a sequel? Why go back and try to rehash this story?

I’m some kind of sequel champion, I did more sequels than anybody. I did my share of sequels for now, anyways.”

George Clooney is a ‘good kisser’ THE Hollywood hunk reportedly enjoyed a fling with Real Housewives of New York star Carole Radziwill in the past and while she tried to remain coy on the relationship, she did admit he was a skilled romancer.

After seeing her in a bikini on holiday, Carole’s friend Sonja Morgan said: “Look at the ass on Carole. No wonder Clooney did her for a year.

Carole then tweeted: “I don’t kiss and tell but if I did tell I’d say Clooney was a very good kisser... But I’m not saying... just saying.”

George is currently dating former wrestler Stacy Keibler, who has said in the past he is the perfect boyfriend and never puts demands on her to look glamorous, despite his star status.

The loved up blonde gushed: “George is always happy with everything that I wear. He doesn’t care whether I’m dressed up or down.

“I could never be the girl that has to put my hair and make up on and do my hair before I go out the house.”

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CYTA solutions for telematic issues

Lufthansa earnings rise in Q2 DEUTSCHE Lufthansa AG reported an upward trend in earnings performance in the second quarter of this year.

In the period from April to June, the Group earned operating profit of €361m, nearly making up the loss sustained in the first quarter.

Positive factors included consistent capacity and yield management in passenger and cargo traffic, clear restructuring successes at Austrian Airlines and good earnings contributions from the service companies.

In the first six months of the year, the latter all increased their operating profit in comparison with the same period last year.

High fuel costs, persistent price pressure, the air traffic tax payable in Germany and Austria and fees for emissions trading certificates all diminished the Group's profit, however.

At the end of the first halfyear 2012, the Company recognised an operating result of €20m €134m less than in the same period last year.

The Lufthansa Group increased its revenue by six per cent to €14.5bn. After six months the net loss for the period came to €168m, which represents an improvement of €38m on last year. This includes a result from discontinued operations of €36m, reflecting the closing of the sale of British Midland Ltd. Presenting the half-year figures, Simone Menne, Chief Financial Officer and responsible for Aviation Services of Deutsche Lufthansa AG as of July 2012, said: “By acting systematically, we want to ensure that we can continue to invest for our customers, secure and create jobs for our staff and maintain our profitable growth.

We cannot avoid taking some unpleasant steps, but they will not comprise quality.

"The positive earnings performance and the lower unit costs in the second quarter give us confidence that it is worth the effort.”

As part of its SCORE programme, the Group wants to improve its operating result compared with the year 2011 by at least €1.5bn by the end of 2014.

The airlines in the Passenger Airline Group business segment pursued their strict capacity and yield management in the second quarter and all successfully increased their load factors and traffic revenue.

CYTA continues to offer innovative services, utilising services from telematic technology and information technology.

It does this under the trade name of Fleet Vision, introducing GPS systems and car leasing services to the public, in collaboration with MANTIS (Cyprus) Ltd. The Fleet Vision system offers the following advantages: •Legitimate and up-todate map sources for the road: contains real-time connection, geographical positioning, distances from an affiliated organisation, distances between points of interest, petrol consumption and costs.

•Higher customer service •Higher driver efficiency •Reduced collision rate as a result of greater car safety •Load quality is taken into

account as far as food is concerned, as temperature checks are carried out •Greater customer satisfaction and overall turnover •Less money spent on running the car (fuel, maintenance) The Fleet Vision system is accessible through the internet and given out through monthly subscriptions, with no initial buying, maintenance or updating cost.

It can be applied to any type of mobile or fixed electronics offering telematic services, such as cars, motorcycles, boats, engines, generators, fridges and so forth.

For more information, interested parties can visit the website www.cyta.com.cy/ sol, or call customer services at: 8000-HOST (8000-4678)

The Fleet Vision system offers many advantages, including up-to-date GPS maps for the road

SUBARU has made a dynamic entrance into the compact crossover vehicle category with the brand-new XV. The XV combines the SUV with a comfortable and spacious interior. It offers efficiency and exceptionally smooth handling on the road, with world-class fuel economy consumption thanks to Subaru's third generation of Boxer generators.

The XV was imported into the European market as a strategic vehicle, built to offer drivers an “adventure in town”.

Subaru rationalised the performance parameters for such car use, such as fuel economy and driving enjoyment, all with a stylish and unique design. EuroNCAP has awarded the Subaru XV the highest possible grading of 5 stars.

Eléa Estate hosts rugby’s elite at fundraising dinner Moody, Lloyd and Murphy cap glittering evening ELÉA Golf Club played host to a trio of the rugby elite last month, including former England captain, Lewis Moody MBE, for a special fundraising evening for the Cyprus Rugby Federation.

The multi-award-winning golf estate welcomed 120 guests to the luxury dinner event, which included a gourmet buffet, live music and a charity auction, culminating with a question and answer session with the rugby union stars.

World Cup winner Moody – England’s most capped flanker (72) – has won every major honour in the game, including two Six Nations Championships, as well as an incredible seven Premiership titles for Leicester Tigers, plus winners' medals for two Heineken Cups and one LV= Cup. Joining Moody in captivating the audience with enthralling tales from on and off the pitch were two former Leicester Ti-

Left to right: Leon Lloyd, Geordan Murphy and Lewis Moody answer questions at Eléa Estate gers team-mates of his, Leon Lloyd and Ireland international Geordan Murphy, who between them have scored more than 1,200 points for the Tigers.

Chris Kafizas, Sponsorship Officer of the Cyprus Rugby

Federation, said: “I couldn’t be more proud of the achievements made by the national team.

“Rugby has gone from strength to strength in Cyprus and interest is rapidly growing; particularly as the nation-

al side has been promoted following a perfect season in the FIRA European Nations Cup (ENC).

“This was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for both ex-pats and Cypriots to meet some of their sporting heroes.

I’d like to thank Lewis, Leon and Geordan for attending and for capturing the attention of our guests and our sponsors Ocean Basket, M-150, Shadeports Plus and Eléa Estate our hosts for the fantastic evening."

Fun and games at ELC's three-day sports event

ELC's three-day event taught youngsters Olympic ideals

OUR young Olympians had a great time during the three-day event organised by ELC in celebration of the Summer Olympics in London.

Hurdles, hoops, stilts, bowling sets and many more sports toys took over the playtime areas in all ELC stores and the fun just kept going.

Children jumped, rolled, ran and threw.

They played in teams or competed alone.

They especially enjoyed creating Olympic flags and torches or making their own paper medals.

All in all, it was a fantastic opportunity for the children to interact with each other and learn through play the Olympic values of respect, determination and equality.

All young participants received a personalised certificate for Olympic achievement.

The Sports Days and other events to follow are part of Early Learning Centre’s philosophy of being so much more than a toy shop.

We are here to help parents help their children learn through play and to be the best they can be.

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What’s on

films

(K) All Audiences (12/15/18) No admittance to Under-12s/ 15s/ 18s (N/A) Not Available

NICOSIA The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Raid: Redemption (18) (in Indonesian, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 10.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Raven (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 8pm. Tel: 77778383 Ted (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

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

The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.15 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8.05pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 5.15 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 4) at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Summer Open-Air Marathon (tonight: Tetro) Konstantia Open-Air Cinema, Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm.

Tel: 22-348203

The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.15 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 8.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 2 at 6.20, 8.20 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 4.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in 2D, in Greek) 8.15pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) 5.25pm; KCineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) 5.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek), weekends only 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) 5.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) (in 2D, in Greek) 5.25pm, weekends also 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL

The Raid: Redemption (18) (in Indonesian, with Greek subtitles) Rio 3 at 8 and 10pm, weekends at 8.20 and 10.20pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Raven (15) Rio 6 at 6.20, 8.20 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 4.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ted (15) Rio 4 at 6.20, 8.20 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 4.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.15 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) Rio 5 at 10.10pm. Tel: 25871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 8.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6.20pm, weekends at 4.45 and 6.30pm; Rio 5 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6.30 and 8.20pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LARNACA The Expendables 2 (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Raid: Redemption (18) (in Indonesian, with Greek subtitles) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Raven (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 8pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Ted (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 5.30, 8.05 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383 The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.15 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8.05pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8.15 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) (in 2D, in Greek) at 8.15pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25pm. Tel: 77778383

PAPHOS The Raid: Redemption (18) (in Indonesian, with Greek subtitles) Rio 5 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Expendables 2 (15) Rio 1 at 6, 8.10 and 10.20pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.40pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Raven (15) Rio 2 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ted (15) Rio 4 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30, 8.30 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 7 at 4.45, 7.45 and 10.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 6 at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends at 8.10 and 10.40pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 6pm, weekends at 4.30 and 6.20pm.

Tel: 26-207000

The Raid: Redemption

listings Today Music Towards A Europe of Peace A performance by the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra as part of the Kypria International Festival. August 30 and 31. Strovolos Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. €7/12. Tel: 22208400. www.kypria.org.cy

Other Events Limassol Wine Festival Live music and dancing, traditional Cypriot food and an opportunity to sample different local wines from large and small wineries. August 30- September 9. Limassol Municipal Gardens, 28th October Avenue. €4/6. Tel: 25344402/25-344952/25- 745919

Tomorrow Exhibition Water Solo art exhibition by Chris Akordalitis.

Opens August 31 8pm, until September 3. House of Arts and Literature, 41 - 43 Athinas Street, Paphos. Open: 4pm-9pm. Tel: 26-818560

Music Towards A Europe of Peace A performance by the Cyprus Youth Symphony Orchestra as part of the Kypria International Festival. August 30 and 31. Strovolos Municipal Theatre. 8.30pm. €7/12. Tel: 22208400. www.kypria.org.cy Glykeria Concert with popular Greek singer accompanied by Areti Ketime and Dilek Koc. August 31. Chloraka Community Stadium, Paphos. 8.30pm. €10/15 with food. Tel: 99-306430 Full Moon Dance Festival Full Moon Productions presents dance festival, a 12-hour event of nonstop music. August 31.

Alamanos Beach Paradise Place, Agios Georgios Alamanou, Limassol.

6pm-6am. Presale Tickets: Brent Cross Limassol. €10 with one drink.

Tel: 99-178666/99-742221

Theatre Liar Wanted Theatro Ena presents play by Dimitris Psathas set in a modern day Cyprus.

August 31-September 1. B Municipal Market (Theatro Ena), Limassol.

8.30pm. In Greek. €12/15. Tel: 96-458399

Please Hold An amateur theatrical performance on how technology has affected human relationships. August 31 and September 1. Satiriko Theatre, Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11 - 15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia, Nicosia. 8.30pm. In Greek. €5. The net proceeds will be donated to charity. Tel: 22-421609

Theatre Eighth Theatre Festival Theatrical group Paravasi brings together local amateur theatre groups in order to offer to the public the opportunity to see their work.

Until September 2. Community Park, Lympia. 8.30pm. Free. All plays in Greek. Tel: 99-625907

Other Events

Exhibition

Sakis Rouvas – 20th Milk Festival Live performance by famous Greek pop star accompanied by Tamta and the band Cabin 54. August 31.

Chalkanoras Idaliou Football Field, Dali, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €12/60. Tel: 99-641421/99-934560

Dimitris Mihlis Solo painting exhibition. Until August 30. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm.

Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109

Ongoing Other Events Geroskipou Beer Festival Music and dance from around the world, fire shows, acrobatics, DJ’s and 40 different kinds of beer. August 29-September 2. Summer Club, Geroskipou Beach, Paphos. 6pm. €5. Tel: 99-621772/99-294571

Nicosia International Airport Solo photography exhibition by Andreas Efstathiou. Until August 30. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm.

Tel: 22-343670 Twice a Stranger Multimedia exhibition about forced migration and population exchange.

Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4.30pm. Tel: 22-661475/ 22-671997

I Will follow you to the end of the World - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 Diaspora Exhibition by visual artist Nkos Kourossis. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977 Summer Breeze Group mixed media exhibition. Until September 15. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-30000/150 Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. TuesdayFriday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25-378733

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

Nicosia: Topographies of Memory: From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace – using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in the area. Until September 30.

Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia.

Open Monday-Sunday: 10am-6pm.

Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740 www.home4cooperation.info/www. ahdr.info Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and its relics. Until September 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until December 30. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis, Nicosia. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac. org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy

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NIGHTLIFE Blue-e-e Moo-o-on, you won’t be dancing alone The month of August brings us not one, but two full moons.

The first was at the beginning of the month on August 1, and will be followed by a second on August 31 (tomorrow).

This Friday’s full moon ends the month of August with one of the stranger astronomical terms to come into vogue an event that’s become known as a ‘blue moon’ in popular culture.

A blue moon, is an unusual occurrence; hence the phrase “once in a blue moon” which indicates the rarity of an event.

The second full moon in a month, however, won’t appear physically ‘blue’, but tomorrow night offers the last chance for you to see a blue moon for the next three years. It happens only about once every three years that a single calendar month gets two full moons.

The next time a month will have two full moons will be July 2015, so it is certainly a notable event.

To celebrate the event this year, Full Moon Productions – the TV production company – have organised Cyprus’ firstever full moon dance festival.

The festival entails 12 hours of nonstop electro, house, techno and dubstep music. Headlin-

ing the event will be renowned DJ Aleka Metaxa, followed by performances by DJ Nicky Z, DJ Chris and Terry, DJ Solon and DJ Paul LimSoul.

Full Moon Productions view this rare lunar event as the perfect opportunity to promote dance music in Cyprus and to discover and bring forward local talented DJ’s in the sphere of this genre. Their vision is to see the dance festival repeated annually, eventually leading to a three-day international music festival, which will put Cyprus on the map as a mind-blowing dance music destination for music lovers worldwide. Situated just 10 minutes outside Limassol, the festival will take place at Alamanos Beach Paradise Place, a stunning hillside venue with a coastal view of Limassol and the starlit Mediterranean sea - make sure to look out for all the signs.

Full Moon Dance Festival Full Moon Productions presents dance festival, a 12-hour event of nonstop music. August 31. Alamanos Beach Paradise Place, Agios Georgios Alamanou, Limassol. 6pm-6am. Presale Tickets: Brent Cross Limassol. €10 with one drink. Tel: 99-178666/99-742221

Try top tipple at Geroskipou fest Can’t wait till the Munich Oktoberfest? Getting withdrawal symptoms from thigh-slapping shenanigans? The answer to alleviate these cravings may lie in the Geroskipou Beer Festival, which kicked off yesterday.

Beer has been made for thousands of years, and its popularity is on the rise. Traditionally viewed as the poor cousin to its more stylish vine-based relations, beer is growing more fashionable in Cyprus, with more and more festivals and events geared toward this favourite liquid gold.

While the Limassol Wine Festival is currently under way, real ale aficionados can head to the Summer Club on Geroskipou Beach where you can sample over 40 different ales.

One thing’s for sure – you won’t go thirsty here - with a number of excellent hostelries to choose from.

Come for the beer, stay for the food and entertainment. Either way, you need to be there.

How you’ll fit in tasting 40 different kinds of bee to four ou short s o t days is s a question quest o to be beer into answered by you and your liver.

Most beer festivals are all about standing in line to get your taster and then going and standing in another line for another taster.

Food is almost always an afterthought.

Nonetheless, what’s helpful for your constitution is that the festival offers plenty of hearty food for sale throughout the evening. Forget the crisps and peanuts; grab some tasty nourishment while you soak up the atmosphere and make the most of the live shows.

More than just a beer festival, this event takes into account the arts with a variety of music and dancing acts taking part. Resident DJs from Rock FM will begin each evening, while tunes will continue throughout the course of the event with live bands playing including Cadenas (flamenco music), Frontline (a rock and blues band) and a jamming session by Cyprus Fringe to name a few. There will also be a live fire show taking place every night at around 9pm and make sure to look out for the acrobatic show on Sunday. ou needn’t eed t worry o y about drinking and drivYou ing, transportation will be provided daily from Paphos Harbour on o a half-hourly basis starting at 6pm and running every 20 minutes.

Entrance costs just €5 and includes a free drink.

Geros Geroskipou Beer Festival Mus Music and dance from around the wo world, fire shows, acrobatics, D DJ’s and 40 different kinds of beer. August 29-September 2. Summer Club, Geroskipou Beach, Paphos. 6pm. €5. Tel: 99-621772/99-294571

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Announcement The company M.C.Fully Loaded LTD. organiser of the event: Who came to Party?

With Skyblu of LMFAO! scheduled for August 17, is still postponed.

Efforts are being made for a new date which will be announced soon. Those holding tickets for the concert can request their money back from the presale point from which they purchased the ticket or use it for the new concert date.

Thank you for your understanding and M.C.Fully Loaded LTD apologise for any inconvenience.

Information: 99-888327

Tomorrow Other Events Milking the moment Dali is about to become a centre of activity for all things relating to dairy tomorrow, as locals and visitors come together to celebrate the annual Milk Festival at the Chalkanoras Idaliou Football Field.

The festival pays tribute to the county’s dairy industry, and once again Charalambides Fresh Milk will be actively supporting this year’s 20th Milk Festival. Charalambides has supplied fresh milk for decades and has contributed to the healthy development of generations of Cypriots. Over the years, the company has developed strong bonds with the Dali area and with the local milk producers, from whom it obtains its milk.

This year’s festival has an added significance as it coincides with the announcement of the company’s new name, Charalambides

Christis, and its return to Cypriot ownership, which hopes to priot economy and advance the Cypriot ospects. Charensure better prospects. alambides and Christis are two ous with the mind names synonymous and soul of the Cypriot consumer, ucts present in with dairy products usehold on the almost every household island.

To the delight off its residents and dairy lovers everywhere the Festival features many activities hildren alike from for adults and children g and, of course, music to dancing plenty of food. Iff there’s one Greek superstar who knows how to work a crowd into a serious erious pop-star frenzy with his serious swagger, not to mention his abiladies swoon at ity to make the ladies the mere sight off him, it’s Sakis Rouvas. rstar will be part The Greek superstar of the festivities tomorrow with e performance. his explosive live ompanied by the Sakis will be accompanied Greek-Georgian singer Tamta abin 54. and the band Cabin usical Embrace the musical hile performances while he free trying some of the ncluding treats on offer, including

Charalambides chocolate milk for children, halloumi, fresh trahanas and many other traditional milk-based products.

Sakis Rouvas – 20th Milk Festival Festival dedicated to dairy-based products.

Includes a live performance by famous Greek pop star accompanied by Tamta and the band Cabin 54. August 31. Chalkanoras Idaliou Football Field, Dali, Nicosia.

8.30pm. €12/60.

Tel: 99641421/99934560

For a full listing of the day’s events, see facing page

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DNA tests tel wood, curb Andrew Lowe, one of the world's top plant geneticists, is at the frontline in the global fight against illegal logging

Global illegal timber trade worth up to $30b according to Interpol reports David Fogarty

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ALL it CSI: Singapore. Unlike the Crime Scene Investigators from the popular TV series, these detectives are hired to look for evidence of rogue wood from stores increasingly worried about being duped by a global trade in illegal timber now worth billions.

They take wood samples into their lab and put them through DNA tests that can pinpoint the species and origin of a piece of timber. They also track timber and timber products from forest to shop to ensure clients’ shipments are legal.

“This is like CSI meets save the planet,” says Jonathan Geach, executive director of Double Helix Tracking Technologies, the Singapore company that has developed and commercialised DNA testing for wood, the only firm in the world to do so.

Every two seconds, an area of forest the size of a football y illegal g logg field is clear-cut by gers, the World Bank said in

The DNA tests aim to curb illegal logging

a recent study. Annually, such illegally cleared land is equivalent to the size of Ireland.

The money earned from a trade that Interpol estimates at up to $30 billion annually is y oruntaxed and often run by ganised gangs to fund crime

Kingfisher's B&Q home improvement stores carry 16,000 timber related products

and conflict. The logging increases global warming with heightened carbon emissions, and landslides through loss of watersheds. It causes loss of livelihoods in forest communities and dents global timber prices. b Until now, the battle against trade in illegal timbe has been ber w waged with regulations a and preventi tive measures, an and has not me with much met suc success.

Now it is increasingly focu focused on using the criminal justice system and law enforcement tech techniques.

New laws threatening jail time and fines are inducing compa companies around w the world to take har a harder look at where they get their timber - or pay the price of neglect.

Gibso Gibson Guitar w Corp, which makes some off the world’s

most prized guitars, agreed on August 6 to pay a $300,000 penalty after it admitted to possible illegal purchases of ebony from Madagascar.

Mislabelling, lying about origin or substituting one type of wood for another have become common practices in the timber trade. Industry officials say rapid advances and plunging costs for DNA testing of timber now make it commercially viable for companies trying to meet new regulations in the United States and Europe against such practices.

Retailers such as Kingfisher, Marks & Spencer and Australian timber wholesaler Simmonds Lumber are either already using the technology or looking to add it to their existing timber sourcing practices.

“We see this as the way forward,” said Jamie Lawrence, sustainable forest and timber adviser for Kingfisher, Europe’s largest home improvement retailer. Kingfisher has been using the services of DoubleHelix, as it is known, on an ad-hoc basis to unmask cases of possible timber fraud

in their supply chains, he said.

With the miniaturisation of genetic testing equipment, desktop-sized prototypes are already on trial. Laboratories around the globe could be carrying out cheap DNA timber tests for companies, customs agents and the police within two years.

A laboratory run by Andrew Lowe, the chief scientific officer at DoubleHelix and one of the world’s top plant geneticists, is the frontline in the global fight against illegal logging.

It was at his laboratory at the University of Adelaide in South Australia that the method of extracting DNA taken from a log, a table or even flooring was refined - the breakthrough needed to commercialise testing for timber importers, home improvement stores and law enforcement agencies.

Trees, like people, have unique DNA, said Lowe.

“The DNA is in every cell in a wood product and you can’t falsify that DNA,” he said.

By early 2011, Lowe was able to extract degraded DNA

from decades-old wood and get accurate results. That led to an increase in business and DoubleHelix has 14 clients directly using their services, with most testing done in Adelaide.

In 2004, Lowe and colleagues extracted DNA from the oak timbers of King Henry VIII’s

Laboratories around carrying out cheap for companies, cu the police wit flagship the Mary Rose, which sank in 1545 and was salvaged in 1982.

When DoubleHelix opened shop in 2008, the DNA story was a hard sell. But as new US laws started to bite over the past two years, and with tougher laws set for Europe in 2013, the number of clients is growing, says Kevin Hill, DoubleHelix’s founder.

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As new laws start to bite more interest is being shown in the DNA testing says Kevin Hill

Merbau is a much saught after timber from Indonesia

Within two years, the aim is to license Lowe’s DNA extraction technique to accredited laboratories globally, as the $150 billion timber industry comes under increasing pressure to stamp out illegal wood.

While DNA testing per se is extremely accurate due to

the globe could be p DNA timber tests ustoms agents and thin two years the unique DNA signature each species has, it has a major limitation to overcome an incomplete global map of tree genetics.

Constructing such a map is crucial because DNA for each species changes subtly from one area to another, acting like a postcode that can be used to determine a sample’s origin.

Going into a forest to take DNA samples across a species’ entire range is costly and time consuming. Building a database for teak, for instance, would cost about $1 million.

At present, databases exist for 20 tree species, mostly valuable tropical timbers, and is growing annually.

On the other hand, Kingfisher’s B&Q home improvement stores carry 16,000 timber related products. For consumers, it is a bewildering choice of goods. For the illegal timber gangs, it is an opportunity for wood laundering.

Kingfisher has progressively put in place tougher checks of its timber sources to ensure all wood comes from sustainably managed forests. They use chain of custody certification schemes to follow the timber from forest to shop, but these are not fool-proof and illegal timber occasionally slips in.

“We’re getting better at figuring out what’s in our products and where it’s coming from. So it’s more difficult for rogue traders to pull the wool over our eyes,” said Lawrence of Kingfisher, which has near-

The weakest link in timber supplies is between the forest and the sawmill, where stolen timber can be added to legitimate wood According to the World Bank, each year land equivalent to the size of Ireland is illegally logged ly 1,000 stores in eight countries.

The weakest link in timber supplies is between the forest and the sawmill, where stolen timber can be added to legitimate wood. In sawmill yards, too, logs from illegally cleared forests can be mixed with legal timber. DNA testing can overcome this, say DoubleHelix and their oldest customer, Simmonds Lumber, one of Australia’s largest timber importers.

Simmonds imports merbau, a much-sought-after hardwood, from Indonesia, where illegal logging accounts for nearly half the timber cut in Indonesia, according to the World Bank study.

Using DoubleHelix’s system, each shipment of merbau logs is tracked from forest to sawmill by taking DNA samples to ensure no other timber has been added. These DNA samples are then matched up with pallets of finished timber decking from the sawmill to Simmonds’ warehouse in Australia.

Simmonds, however, has been unable to charge a premium for its DNA-tested products because of intense competition in the timber trade.

“DNA is about marketing and gaining share rather than gaining extra margin,” current chief executive John Simon said.

As a forklift loads pallets of decking into a container at a sawmill near Surabaya, Indonesia, Paul Elsmore, Simmonds’ former chief executive and now a consultant to the Australian firm, explains that each container-load is worth around $45,000.

The cost of DNA testing and verification services was $250 for a container, equal to about 0.5 per cent of the wood’s value.

DoubleHelix says the ultimate goal is to make DNA testing so cheap all companies will do it.

Doing so would help tackle one of the perversities of the illegal timber trade: an abundance of stolen timber depresses prices, slashes margins and can deter investing in better due diligence of their wood supplies.

Arguably the biggest push

for DNA testing are new laws in the United States, Europe and possibly Australia, which will make it easier to prosecute timber criminals.

“One of the real values of this genetic marking is its ability to gather better quality evidence and therefore aid prosecutions,” said Davyth Stewart, criminal intelligence officer at Interpol.

DNA testing was already having an impact in prosecutions, said Shelley Gardner, illegal logging programme coordinator for the United States Department of Agriculture Forest Service.

“Any time we’ve gone to the point where we got to court, they plea-bargained because the DNA was already such a deterrent. And these are just small cases, so when you start talking about real trade, I think that could have a big impact,” she said.

Right now, nobody really knows the amount of illegal timber products in the market. So the detectives are going undercover.

Working with an international non-governmental organisation, they plan to conduct spot tests in stores in Australia within a few weeks and then Europe and the United States, said Geach at DoubleHelix. The NGO did not want to be identified.

Lawrence at Kingfisher said better wood forensics just makes sense.

“Any retailer worth their salt should not just be thinking about risk, brand protection or even legality. They should be thinking this is a damn good idea.”

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HEALTH & FITNESS PROFESSIONAL AROMATHERAPY & fully body relaxing massage, at your home or hotel for men & women – Paphos area Call Ulrica on tel : 96853681 to book an appointment FULL BODY MASSAGE + relaxing massage for men and women in classy surroundings in Kato Paphos – privacy & discretion. We offer you professional mausseurs, appointments necessary 1 Hour for 35 euro, call 96637039 - honest people EIGHTSMILEYS OFFERS SUP (STAND UP PADDLE) LESSONS, RENTALS & SALES. A great way to release tension and stress at the same time exercise your body, made for all ages and genders. Find out more information on www. sup.com.cy facebook: Eightsmileys Kitesurfsup or call on 99355191 CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia.

Individual assessment and supervision of exercises.

“Clinical pilates” is a modified form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988. *****************************

PETS FOR SALE A BLACK GIRL AND A RED BOY ENGLISH COCKER SPANIEL PUPPIES, 3 months old, with an excellent pedigree, fully vaccinated, microchip with registration number, lovely natured, DNA tested parents. Living with a family with kids, other dogs and a cat. For information look at www.costopa.net or call 99884578/22383983 Anna ( Nicosia) *****************************

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

A MEDIUM SIZED MALE POODLE CROSS, brown white colour, 3 months old is looking for a forever home! He is very loving and friendly! at the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes!

To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt contact Elena on 99520511 Mon-Fri 10-2pm. *****************************

CUTE MALE DOG CALLED MAX, brown white colour, 2 years old Cocker Spaniel is looking for a forever home!

Sweet natured and polite!

Will be a medium sized dog.

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-Fri 10-2pm. *****************************

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

3 years old pinscher is looking for a forever home! Sweet natured and polite! Will be a small sized dog. 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. *****************************

CUTE MALE PUPPY, GOLD COLOUR, 5 months old Pekingese cross is looking for a forever home! He is very friendly and adorable! Will be a small sized dog. 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. *****************************

PERSONAL AUSTRIAN ENGINEER, 50 years, searching for a nice women. Mobile: 00491726293462

CUTE FEMALE DOG CALLED MAYA, BROWN COLOUR,

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CUTE FEMALE, gold colour, 1 year old mix Terrier is looking for a forever home! He is very friendly and adorable! Will be a medium sized dog. 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 99520C511 Mon-Fri 10-2pm *****************************

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

ENGLISH TEACHER from UK, with university teaching degree, offers private lessons.

Dedicated, supportive tutor, established 17 years. I inspire pupils to achieve their best to excel in exams. All levels, including Cambridge FCE, Advanced, Proficiency and IGCSE. Telephone 99945724 / 26220753 – Paphos Area PRIVATE RUSSIAN LESSONS – Paphos area, Greek or English speakers, from beginning to advanced any level, call: 99007970 - Nicky ***************************** PRIVATE ENGLISH TUITION – UK university graduate (postgraduate 1975), native English speaker, Limassol-based, offers part-time tuition at all secondary school levels, up to and including IGCSE/O-levels. For further details phone 99312567 ***************************** ART DESIGN & CONSTRUC-

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bedroom central heating air conditioning swimming pool fully furnished apartment per month per week south west north west street road power steering central locking short wheel base radio cassette electric windows

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

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Intensive course Drawing and Painting Tuesday nights. Art &Architecture History Thursday nights. All levels. Portfolio development. UCAS application support. AutoCAD courses. BTEC Level 3 Construction Diploma courses. Registering now! 99409829 info@idclimassol.org ***************************** DO YOU WANT TO LEARN CHINESE? Experienced private teacher available for Chinese lessons in Cyprus. €30 per lesson. Call for more details.

96864438 ***************************** PRIVATE TUITION - Experienced, UK-qualified teacher and tutor offers full / part time private home tuition in Maths, English, Science, Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. Telephone 26642781 or 99318796.

***************************** JURIDICAL SERVICES Contracts, sales agreements, conveyancing, wills, administration of estates, general litigation, power of attorney, land registry matters, companies, translations, immigration etc... And all legal matters. Call: Natalia Michealidou – jurist, Paphos Tel: 26 933159 – 99523231 (office hours)

SERVICES HOME/ OFFICE professional security systems at affordable prices catered for your needs, call now on 99841265 to arrange a free quotation in the Paphos area ***************************** 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 ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol. ***************************** KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER THIS SUMMER by having Windowfilm professionally fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering your home!

Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con. Also keeps your home warmer in winter. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** 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

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS *****************************

PROFESSIONAL VIDEO KIT: Panasonic HMC150 video camera, 2 Sennheiser microphones, cables, RØDE boom pole, Rycote Softie, Manfrotto tripod legs, Lastolite reflector and Portabrace back pack.

Sold as package. €2500 or highest bidder. For more information contact Mark on 99661851 ***************************** FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress €50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 ***************************** 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

CHILDCARE From a Cypriot - with 20 years experience in a kindergarten - looking after infants and children at her house in Nicosia

For information call 99781943

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WANTED TO RENT

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND

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ONE ACRE (3 donums) land for sale Arakapas area Limassol district, with title deeds. Sloping ground with stream and 8 foot waterfall at lower boundary. Naturally growing trees. €40.000 sandymathie@hotmail.com or 99416918 TIMI, plots, a few selected available, sea view, near the 2 golf courses, Venus rock and airport. 60% Building eu 115,000.

Half registration fees till the 2.6.12. Tel. 99 621914 LARNACA, ALETHRIKO, PLOTS FOR SALE, 525 sqm, 90% building factor, near highway Limassol-Larnaca, 5 min from airport, quiet residential area, eu 125,000. Half registration fees till the 2.6.12. Tel. 99 621914 FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large flat screen TV’s + projector, fits 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

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

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES BEAUTIFUL BIKE FOR SALE. Better to see to discuss the price. Please call after 18h, Jean at 99087779

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA ***************************** VILLA LATSIA 900 sq.m. build in 6 donum inside pool lrg garden, Strovolos villa pool 330 sq.m. underfloor heating patio €2500 Latsia 5 bedr.pool f/f €2500, Acropolis modern flat 180 sq.m. €1100, 3 bedr., Mak/ssa modern flat wooden floors €1200 Upper house Archangelos f/f modern €1000 Costas Markides 22- 378898 / 99 464764, Reg. No. 487, E16 ***************************** 3-4 BEDROOM ground floor garden apartment. 800 euro pm.

Good area with good neighbours. All amenities close by.

Large dining room and separate living room. Well kept front and back garden. References required. Available from September. For more information, please call 99409028 or email m_sotri@yahoo.com

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:

English-Painter & Decorator

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Fully Qualified 30 years’ Experience

Office furniture and equipment.

Excellent quality, new condition. Modern Hi-Tech design. Including 2 work stations, conference room, Manager Desk, cupboards, Switchboard and more..

Must See!!!

Tel: 25817684

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

Tel. Tony on 99176557

SELEC Fencing & Decking Specialist For all your Garden and Security Fencing ♦ Quality approved workmanship ♦ 15 years experience + guaranteed work ♦ English workers ♦ also garden gates ♦ sheds ♦ chain link fencing ♦ free estimates ♦ all types of fencing & decking

Tel. SELEC fencing 99176557

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FLATS/HOUSES RENT studio Strovolos 280, Ag. Andreas 295, 1 bdrm Ag. Andreas 450, Makarios Av. 490, Ag. Antonios 380 2 bdrm Lykavito furnished 600 Acropolis new 650, Ag. Omologites 500, Engomi near universities 540 Strovolos furnished 650 3 bdrm central 700, Kennedy 650, US Embassy independent house gardens 850. POSPORIDES ESTATES REG. 338 99474839 99646822 FOR RENT 3-bedroom luxury apartment over 200 sq.m. Very spacious living area extending to a large veranda overlooking the green of the river area.

Bathrooms all marble (one ensuite), modern kitchen. Fully air-conditioned, with underfloor heating, garage for 2 cars and large store. Situated in the exclusive gated development of J&P Glastonos, one of the oldest classy residential areas of Nicosia. Call 99630320 HOUSE FOR RENT: 5 bedroom detached house, french ambassador and American heart institute area, easy access to city centre, schools, hospitals, all amenities and motorway, in quiet cul-de-sac, on high ground with views of Nicosia and Pentadaktylos. 3 Baths, garage for 2 cars with automatic doors, bbq, fireplace, oil central heating, airconditioning, fully furnished. €2000 Pm, tel 99 621914 ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The Eu-

ropean University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m.

Please call 99695382 TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ***************************** 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. Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighbourhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 4 bedr + separate office space + maid’s room luxury detached house, split level, big open space sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, swimming pool, big verandas, 2

WIN A TRIP FOR 2 TO SOUTH AFRICA IN AID OF PAPHOS HOSPICE Organised by SACY NEWS The SACY NEWS was launched early 2012, and has within a short period, become a popular and well-liked publication among the South African community, and other expatriates living on the island of Cyprus. With the support of the South African Consulate, the SACY NEWS has become a prime media source for all South African Cypriots living in Cyprus.

“We wanted to create a ‘voice’ for all South Africans in Cyprus. The South African community has increased in number, and it was only a matter of time before we had our own community paper,” says Paul Charalambous, editor of the SACY NEWS. The high-quality publication is produced on a bi-monthly basis and is distributed all over the island, free of charge.

The SACY NEWS’ presence as a media sponsor for almost all South African events has spread extensively throughout the island. In recognition of the strong and supportive South African community, the SACY NEWS will be organising the South African New Year’s Eve Ball at the ‘Fifth Floor Restaurant’ in Paphos. This event will become an annual affair on the SACY NEWS calendar. “Everyone is welcome,” says Paul. “We want to revive the traditional South African Greek events we were accustomed to in South Africa.”

The SACY NEWS will be organising competitions on a regular basis to support the many charities on the island. After months of planning, and the support from many sponsors in Cyprus and South Africa, the SACY NEWS recently launched the ‘Win a trip for 2 to South Africa Competition’ in aid of the Paphos Hospice.

This unique prize package, which includes two return tickets to Johannesburg with Etihad Airways and Century Travel, will be complimented by seven nights at the 5-Star Peermont D’oreale Grande at Emperors Palace Hotel, Casino and Convention Resort. The prize includes an additional two nights at Sandton’s premier Michelangelo Hotel, and a further two nights at the Thabana Safari Lodge for an exceptional full board safari experience.

SAFARIS 4 U – A leading group tour operator based in Johannesburg, will provide unique tours to top attractions in Johannesburg, during the course of your stay.

Tickets are on sale from all Paphos Hospice Charity Shops, participating outlets (island wide) and private individuals for the price of € 3 per ticket. The winner will be announced at the South African New Year’s Eve Ball on the 31st December 2012.

For more information on this unique eleven nights prize package to South Africa, contact the SACY NEWS on 96 343 687. You can also visit their page on Facebook.

THE DEVONSHIRE RESTAURANT IN PAPHOS WILL RE-OPEN ON THE 1ST OF SEPTEMBER, WILL RESUME IT’S REGULAR MENU, OPEN FOR SUNDAY ROAST LUNCH AND DINNER, FOR BOOKINGS CALL 96870774

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covered parking, in a very quiet area near Lidl – Latsia €2500 (H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxry detached house with 1 bedr flat in the basement, floor heating with gass a/c units, big kitchen with electrical appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms, big garden with small pebbles, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R), (photos in the website).

5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with separate maid’s room, central heating, a/c, separate office room, sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room opening to the big garden with grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General flooring shop – Makedonitissa €3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website).

6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on

the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website).

8. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big storage room, solid parquet floor in the bedrooms, 2 covered parking, swimming pool, garden with trees, veranda with bbq area, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting and dining areas, very near to English School, off Athalassas Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R), (photos on the website).

9. 3 bedr ground floor semi detached house in very good condition with storage heaters, 5a/c,2wc, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room, big front veranda, 2 covered parking in a very quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega - Parissinos €550 (H3PA2001-R), (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered

patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, - Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land.

Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with separate entrance.

The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website).

12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website).

13. 3 bedr detached house with extra room for office,250sq.m, central heating independent, 4a/c, big renovated, kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting and dining room with parquet floor

and fire place,1bathroom,1 shower,2wc, 2 covered parking, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street - Makedonitissa €1300 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website).

15. 3 bedr luxury semi detached house with central heating independent, a/c, 3wc, parquet floor, fire place, electrical appliances in the kitchen, curtains, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the area near Falcon school – Strovolos €1500 (H3STI012-R), (photos in the website).

16. 3 bedr + office space +separate maid’s room detached luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area with parquet floor, TV room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area and fitted cooker and oven, 4 wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and yard, covered parking, in a very quiet neighbourhood in the centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. - €1400 (H4MAK0003-R), (photos in the website).

17. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/ shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC,450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven,6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R), (photos in the website).

18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard

with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). (photos in the website).

19. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, small yard, bbq area, FULLY FURNISHED, off Costantinoupoleos street near French Ambassador residence – Strovolos €900 (H4STI0043-R), (photos in the website).

20. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system, opposite Apoel training field.

Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE END OF AUGUST – Archangellos €4000 (H4AR0007-R), (photos in the website).

21. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website).

22. 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 - €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

23. 4 bedr luxury detached house with expensive finishes, office space, separate maid’s room, 3 of the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, floor heating, full air condition, white marble floor all the house, fire place, lighting fixtures, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small

garden,2 covered parking’s in a nice neighbourhood with expensive houses near KEMA building – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in 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. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website).

2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building.

AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website).

3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighbourhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, office space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in the website).

6. 1 bedr luxury fully furnished apartment, 60sq.m, with 2 a/c for hot and cold, spacious, covered parking, on a small building near Alpha Mega supermarket – Dasoupolis €450 (A1DAS0001-R), (photos in the website).

7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small

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.

For information call: 99496541 NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company.

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

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

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

Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

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modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near traffic lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 1 bedr, fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, ice view off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop – Nicosia Centre €460 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website).

9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website).

10. 2 bedr new luxury finished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet neighbourhood – Aglantzia €650 (A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the website) 11. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, storage heaters, 2 a/c, cooker, oven, dishwasher,

washing machine/dryer, refrigerator in the kitchen,2 wc, 1 bathroom, blinds, big covered veranda, storage room, parking, big common SWIMMING pool. Price includes common expenses – Latsia €500 (A1LAT0004-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedrs big luxury flat, 110sq. m+big covered veranda, CH ind, 3 a/c, cooker, oven in the kitchen, roller blinds, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, parquet and granite floor, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, covered parking, intercom, on a small building with 6 flats only near Coca Cola factory 2 km from McDonalds in Egomi – Agios Dometios €550 (A2ADO0013-R), (photos in the website).

13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighbourhood park – Dasoupolis €550 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website).

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3 bedr apartment, 140sq.m,central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, covered parking off Kennedy and Markora street walking distance to the centre – Nicosia Centre €550 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the

website).

15. 3 bedr +separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) & luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre €1100 (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website).

16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely furnished and equipped, big covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton, off Makarios Avenue close to the centre – Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the website) 17. Brand new quality finished 2 storey Penthouse apartment with cozy nicely modern fully furnished apartment, 150sq.m unique design, a/c for hot and cold in all the flat, 2wc, big verandas around the flat, private elevator with lock for the flat , in the centre of Makedonitissa of 28th October street – €1200 (A2MAK0004-R), (photos in the website).

18. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near Alpha Mega

supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the website) 19. 3 bedr luxury spacious floor apartment on the 4th floor of award winning building,200sq. m+big covered veranda, central heating independent, full built in air conditions, lighting fixtures, curtains and blinds on all windows, big spacious living room with fire place, big kitchen with double cooker, oven and microwave and breakfast area, double glazed windows, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bath, big satellite dish with sky decoder,2 covered parking and storage room, close to American embassy and other amenities – Engomi €1600 (A3ENG0025-R), (photos in the website).

20. 3 bedr new luxury finished penthouse floor apartment, 240sq.m, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), big separate kitchen with cooker, oven, microwave, laundry room and breakfast area, big bedrooms, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, storage heaters, full a/c, blinds on all windows, pressure system, covered parking, big covered veranda, off Iphigenia’s street near Ministry of Education on a small building with 7 flats only. Available in September – Acropolis €1300 (A3ACS0019-R), (photos in the website).

21. 2 bedr new luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds

on all windows, covered veranda, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, storage room, on a small building in a quiet neighbourhood next to a playground, near Central offices of Cyta and Laiki Head quarters – Dasoupolis €600 (A2DAS0018-R), (photos in the website).

22. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood. Available in August – Nicosia Centre €1400 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website).

23. New luxury spacious 3 bedr quality apartment, 165sq.m+ big covered verandah, separate floor heating, full a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), solid parquet floor all the flat, big sitting and dining area (can fit 2 sitting rooms and dining table), electrical appliances in the kitchen which has a breakfast area,2 covered parking, storage room in a very quiet green neighbourhood near the centre and Ag. Andreas - AVAILABLE in AUGUST– Nicosia Centre €1450 (A3NIC0004-R), (photos in the website).

24. New luxury 2 bedr apartment, open plan kitchen, 3 a/c for hot and cold, blinds on all the windows, nicely expensive full furnished with real leather

sofas, double bed, big dining table, LCD 32”, satellite dish with receiver, internet, very big bedrooms with big and many wardrobes, covered parking and storage room, in a quiet area near BMH – Aglantzia €620 (A2AGZ0001-R), (photos in the website).

25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st of AUGUST – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website).

26. 3 bed brand new luxury finished apartment in a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms (one en suite), expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, double glazed windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure system, solar heater, central satellite antenna, 2 covered parking, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda traffic lights walking distance to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R), (photos in the website).

27. 3 big bedrs +office space luxury penthouse floor apartment, renovated, central heating independent, full a/c, 230sq.m, double glazed windows,3wc, 2 bathrooms

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(one en suite), solar heater, pressure system, SKY satellite dish, big sitting and dining areas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big kitchen with cooker and oven and breakfast area, very nice view of the old city,40sq.m private roof garden area ,covered parking on a small building in the centre of Nicosia near the Museum and the old Hospital. Available middle 15th of SEPTEMBER –Nicosia Centre €1200 (A4NIC0005-R), (photos in the website) For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates. com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22-422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

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private complex, next to archeological site overlooking the light house, very reasonable rent, tel : 99411933 6 BEDROOM, luxury detached villa in Chlorakas, for rent.

Breathtaking, unobscured sea and mountain views. Close to all amenities, located in a cul de sac in Melanos area with a private road. 6 bed, 2 bathrooms (+2en suite), utility room, outdoor storage, Jacuzzi, private pool, fully A/C, fitted kitchen, large verandas and landscaped gardens. Long term let or sale by owner, call 99414920 UNIVERSAL AREA, 1 bedroom, furnished apartment, off street parking, quiet area, euro 250 per month, plus electricity, no other charges. Tel : 96523557 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 ***************************** FOR RENT new ground floor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. Inf. Mob 99548855 ***************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACTOFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE

1. UNIVERSAL AREA €550 spacious 3 bedroom semi detached house all with en-suite bathrooms plus downstairs guest wc. Large storage room & roof terrace. Enclosed garden with private pool. Drive for off street parking. Available unfurnished with sky satellite.

Situated in a great central location.

2. TALA €625 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with en-suite.

Large storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street parking.

A beautiful home.

3. KAMARES €675 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished though can be furnished if desired. Includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months.

Outdoor storage facilities, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters.

4. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached 3 bedroom villa, master with en-suite. Guest wc. Beautifully furnished with quality modern furniture. Separate modern fitted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea views. Fully enclosed garden with storage shed, covered barbeque area and private pool offering lovely views.

5. PEYIA €700 rental price includes pool cleaning. Unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow, master with en-suite. Spacious kitchen & living area. Enclosed garden with well & private pool offering sea views. Covered verandas, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a quiet residential area.

6. PEYIA €750 price includes pool cleaning. If you are looking for a villa with breathtaking views & privacy than this property is for you. This modern detached 3 bedroom, 3 bathroom villas 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.

7. KOILI €800 brand new modern detached 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa. High quality fixtures & fittings. Spacious living area with real fireplace, plus underfloor heating throughout. Enclosed garden with private pool. Total plot size 600 sq meters, covered

area 220 sq metres. Available unfurnished. Pets allowed.

8. MESOGI €1250 stunning detached 4 bedroom 5 bathroom villa. One bedroom & en-suite on ground floor. Spacious kitchen with separate utility room. Available unfurnished though includes gas central heating plus real fireplace in living area. Enclosed garden & private pool. Gated entrance with undercover parking. Situated on a private road.

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

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

2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite shower room. Family bathroom. Large patio areas with enclosed gardens and lovely sea views. Covered parking and security gates.. Comm swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. €475.00 a month 2. GEROSKIPOU 2 bed 1.5 bath furnished duplex apartment in quiet location with outstanding sea views. Open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 2 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Balcony & covered parking. Comm pool. Rent includes free internet. €430.00 a month.

3. SEA CAVES – 5/6 bed fully furnished luxury villa with no immediate neighbours.. Open plan formal living area with dining area for 12. Separate family room. Outstanding fitted kitchen with breakfast area.

Separate utility /2nd kitchen.

Ground floor office/bedroom Shower-room with sauna. 4 double bedrooms, master with en-suite and large dressing room with safes.. Family bathroom. Garage, parking & gardens. Separate 1 bed suite plus maids quarters. Swimming pool with massive outside BBQ/kitchen. A/C, C/H and fireplace in family room.

An outstanding luxury home

LIMASSOL TO LET one bedroom furnished flat in Katraki building, 100 metres from the sea and Debenhams Olympia. Price €430 (included common expenses). Tel: 99406415 Andreas.

TWO STOREY TRADITIONAL STONE HOUSE in Vasa Kellakiou village furnished with 4 small studios [w.c/shower] and 2 bdrs [bathroom] with large kitchen, living room, wooden balconies, large garden with trees, surrounded by the stonewall courtyard for rent short/long term, only 15 kms from Le Merritien hotel. Tel: 99 649830 ***************************** HOUSE in Mesa Geitonia for rent.

1st floor, 2 bedroom, full A/C, semi furnished, 4 years old. Balcony.

For more info call 99375101. ***************************** STUDIO FOR RENT 100 metres from the sea, available immediately. furnished, parking available. Rental €325 monthly including levies. 99867267 ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3 bedrooms in Omonia furnished / unfurnished, fire place in sitting room, main sitting room, kitchen, bathroom, utility, shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms. Covered parking. Price €650. Tel 95

LARNACA LARNACA FLATS TO LET Fully furnished, spacious 2 bedrooms in central Larnaca. Near Saint Lazaros Church, 4 minutes walk to Phinicoudes sea front. Small block 2 years old (6 apts) From €400 - to €500.

Tel. 99388901 FOR RENT 2 bed, 2 bath, new built apartment, in a quiet scenic location In Alethriko, Larnaca 5 min. to Larnaka, 5 min. to the beach Fully furnished, A/C, communal pool, under covered parking, Long term rent, €350.00 per month For more info pls call 99639378 PROTEA APTS LARNACA Residential and holiday apts for rent monthly or weekly Larnaca – Dhekelia road, close to Golden Bay Hotel 1 & 2 bedroom apts, furnished and with low rent with swimming pool, 2 minutes walking 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 first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool. Beautifully furnished throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District.

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HOSPITALS ........ 1400

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

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

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

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826

PAPHOS GEROSKIPOU beautiful: brand new: unfurnished: 2 bedroom apartment €330 pm; 3 bedroom apartment €390 pm; fully a/c vertical blinds, cooker fan extractor, situated in quiet area, very modern, near Kato Paphos Near Neapolis Univercity, close to supermarkets.

Call 99370845 TO LET UNIVERSAL – 1 bed apartment - f/f, a/c, wall heaters, communal pool – available for 6 or 12 month rentals. €270. For more information call - 9977 4314 ***************************** KISSONERGA, 3 bedroom flat, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sqm closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excellent view of the sea and mountains.

Short or long term rent. Tell 99 621914. ***************************** PROPERTY RENTALS From 250 Euros per month. Villas and apartments available.

Also wanted for waiting clients. www.johnalice-properties.com johnalicecy@gmail. com Tel: 00357 99984681 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT in the heart of Kato Paphos, the property is situated in a quiet,

TO LET ON THE BEACH STUDIO FLAT WITH SUPERB SEA VIEW Newly renovated, fully air-conditioned one bedroom flat, comprising open-plan living room, fully equipped kitchen, bathroom and veranda with direct sea view on the beach next to the Larnaca fishing harbour. Covered parking in gated garage. Long-term rental, furnished €650 or unfurnished €575/month.

Call 99441499, 99431873

Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims)

Friends for Life Limassol Hospice Care Appeal requires new Friends and Volunteers to help operate their Charity Shops in both Limassol and Larnaca.

Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401

This is to help our large volunteer group to expand in the near future.

Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267

Our aim is to open a Third Shop in the Limassol area due to popular demand.

Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information)

Please do not forget when clearing your wardrobes and cupboards to remember us.

Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

Contact Anne 25632446 99269016

Shop hours Mon-Sat. 9.30 -12.30

OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 735m² of office space and 1200m² warehousing available for long term rent on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to Carlsberg Brewery.

Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway (only 200 metres).

Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station.

For more information please call 99218866

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with many internal features.

Very quiet area. €4000.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen.

Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish.

Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. €750.00 per month.

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available on Universal starting at €250 per month.

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Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom.

Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.€1500.00 per month or offers.

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Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace and dining space Huge fitted kitchen and breakfast area.

Guest WC with storage area.4 double bedrooms. Master with en-suite bathroom. Family bathroom. Pretty landscaped gardens, shared pool and off street parking. Quiet rural property.. €550.00 per month.

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eu 119,000. Tel 99 621914 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.

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roof terrace, store room and large balcony overlooking the pool, the sale also includes celing fans, white goods and furniture , bargain at : euro 69.500, Tel : 99131044 ***************************** FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bedroom flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sqm closed area, ch, ac, covered parking, excellent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees till 31.12.12. Reduced to eu 135,000,or rent eu 450 pm. Tel 99 621914 ***************************** 2 PROPERTIES BETWEEN POLIS AND LATSI. 2 bed townhouse, village centre €69,000 and quiet 3/4 bed house overlooking bay. 2 bath, c.h. wood burner, a.c. bedrooms, salt water 9x6 pool set in approx 2.500 sq.mts. €444,000 Tel: 99995531

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CHURCHES ALL SAINTS GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH (ENGLISH) Sunday Divine Liturgy 8-10am. Followed by Fellowship hour (coffee) Services are now being held at the underground Chapel of All Saints of Cyprus at St. Panteleimonos Church Makedonitissa Archangelos (Engomi) For more info please contact Fr. Joseph Coleman Tel. 99938924 THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF AGIOS ARSENIOS, LIMASSOL (near Tsirion Stadium) The Orthodox Liturgy in English Saturday, 4 February at 8:30 am For information please contact: Father M. Spanou at 99 – 401365 (msspanou@googlemail.com)

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

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.

PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WITH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008 THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FORTHCOMING EVENTS FOR PAPHIAKOS CHARITY NO. 1529 September 15th Paphiakos Stall at Episkopi Fete.

September 15th Sights & Sounds of the 60s & 70s Live Music & Dancing Trimithousa Community Hall at 8pm €5 tickets from Ollies Bar Trimithousa Pre Show Suppers at Ollies ring 96354182 September 27th Legends of Rock Pissouri Ampitheatre €10 tickets from Pissouri Pools, Markos Internet Café & all Paphiakos Charity Shops Tel 99905624/99955431 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

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr

Open Door Baptist Church

Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932.

VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL

CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS.

Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581

Family oriented evangelical church Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month)

Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives.

Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm.

International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m.

Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist 4th Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist rd 3 Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala 1st & 3rd Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 office@sainthelenas.com

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

CYPRUS MAIL Thursday, August 30, 2012

CRYPTIC 2172

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3 Piece of bunting attached to weight on footpath (9) 7 Motorist didn’t start in the stream (5) 8 Worker finds me by the labyrinth in astonishment (9) 9 Space traveller embracing redhead is a fool (5) 10 Two ways that are unpretentious (6) 13 What’s the difference between exports and imports?

(5,3) 15 Washing line (8) 17 Start to make progress at an early stage (6) 20 Cover some of the paint erratically (5) 21 It neutralises poison when colonist and I have canned beef (9) 22 May get on as a rule (5) 23 Chemist’s shop for addicts?

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HOW TO PL AY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic.

With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

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21 22 23 11 I entangle rambling plant (9) 12 Potter in Greek capital repairing ineffectually (9) 14 Wooden keeper of a secret

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(8) 16 Show out of Venice (6) 18 About now the Queen is the legal possessor (5) 19 Making dingo perform (5)

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QUICK: Across – 1 Melancholy; 8 Can; 9 Blockhead; 10 Hobble; 11 Lille; 13 Renege; 15 Stymie; 17 Bohea; 18 Nimbus; 21 Terrorist; 22 Hag; 23 Drawbridge Down – 1 Much; 2 Lincolnshire; 3 Nabob; 4 Hooked; 5 Lakelet; 6 Mealymouthed; 7 Adhered; 12 Probate; 14 Glamour; 16 On view; 19 Motor; 20 Ague.

Rating HARD

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Garden hose; 8 Old; 9 Timepiece; 10 Astral; 11 Leant; 13 Parish; 15 Fringe; 17 Tibet; 18 Losing; 21 Lithuania; 22 Fro; 23 Hammerhead. Down – 1 & 20 Goodwood ; 2 Redistribute; 3 Ester; 4 Humble; 5 Suppler; 6 Retaining fee; 7 Heather; 12 Spatula; 14 Satsuma; 16 Plenum; 19 Stair; 20 See 1 down.

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1 Playful writer? (9) 2 Thought too highly about being taxed too much locally in the past (9) 3 Fellow hurried to church in the country (6) 4 Stared at fashionable member inside who had raised property’s price (8) 5 Shy boy I had followed (5) 6 One flanked by poles had a day in ancient Rome (5)

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3 Australian missile (9) 7 Bingo (5) 8 Cover the eyes (9) 9 Locust-tree (5) 10 Ventilating (6) 13 One who provides food (8) 15 Invalidated (8) 17 Rumble (anag.) (6) 20 Agave fibre (5) 21 Illumination at night (9) 22 Call up (5) 23 Besiege (9)

1 Lancashire resort (9) 2 Warehouse (9) 3 Woolly ball (6) 4 Small orange (8) 5 Allude (5) 6 Stocking material (5) 11 A bursting inwards (9) 12 Venetian boatman (9) 14 Young animal (8) 16 Northern Ireland (6) 18 Undo (5) 19 Canal-boat (5)

HOROSCOPE

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Not every single Aries may have felt like they have been banging their head against a brick wall in terms of jobs, careers and success, but if it has felt like this to you, take solace that everything is constantly moving and evolving above us, but sometimes we are resistant to the help. But if you want a change, this is a good time to plump for it.

Being one of the most generous members of the zodiac, you are often quick to put your hand in your pocket to support your most loved causes, or to fuss over your friends and family. But do you sometimes wonder if you could be more prudent in managing your budget? If so you can look for ways of how to achieve this. And if cash is tight, be creative to change this.

Are you someone completely at ease with the pursuit of success and material improvement? If so, this can be a time when you can garner all your energies and focus them in a precise way on a major target or aspiration. Indeed it may be that something you’ve worked towards for a long time will come to pass. Even non material goals can peak.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

Are you REALLY tapping into your potential as much as you could? If the answer is yes, please carry on tapping, and I hope you’ll join me again tomorrow. If not, rather than ideas ruminating in the back of your mind, the time really has come for action. It may feel scary, but if you just dive in it could prove exhilarating - and ultimately very rewarding.

This can be a marvellous time to show a more individualistic side of your personality. Virgo is the sign of virtue, but that often involves helping others, and sometimes putting them first. Now, I am not suggesting you should become Ego Central, but a tad more self focus could be just what the astral doctor orders. Try to be more uninhibited.

Many of us find change a hard thing to embrace, after all, it often means giving up the security of something we know.

Yet there is an air of excitement around your situation, mainly because you instinctively know what you are ready to let go of, and even if things don’t evolve exactly as you plan, the inner tingle comes from just trying.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You continue to be challenged to come out of the more logical side of your personality and embrace the deeper corners within your psyche, that perhaps in the past, you have preferred and chosen to ignore. If help is suggested, or is available, don’t decline it on the basis that analysis is for wimps. It’s not. In fact, it takes greater courage to delve.

The penultimate day of the month sees the Sun and Pluto in perfect formation. This suggests that something is changing in your world. It may not be at a physical level as much as at an emotional one and some profound alterations are possible in your outlook, and in terms of your relationship with yourself. This can be a very powerful experience.

The last three years hasn’t necessarily been an easy time as Pluto has ploughed a trough through one of the deepest but also most psychological parts of your solar horoscope. Yet remember, you’re the zodiac’s armchair psychologist and your searing insights can now get ever more penetrating and revelatory. Or will you apply this to someone’s attitudes?

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Over the last three years your attitude to relationships has been evolving, if not in a revolutionary fashion, certainly in an evolutionary one. Or have you noticed that others have seemed much different towards you? Either way, your impact on others, and their impact upon you, reaches a new heightened point now, but where will this lead?

Your ideas and views about life can change, radically.

Something which has been of absolutely no interest at all in the past, can now take on a fated fascination. You may also find yourself having a very intense conversation.

Then again, ideas you have can be greeted warmly by others. Your passion and enthusiasm will be impossible to ignore.

You are thinking more deeply about your life path. Associations and alliances that were once so key may or may not remain a bedrock of your situation, as change beckons.

Even if not consciously the heavens are encouraging you to think about what you REALLY want from your future.

And there may be one person who can be pivotal in this process, but who is it?

Thursday, August 30, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

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Television CYBC 1

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06.45 News (rpt) 08.00 Concert 09.50 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) 10.30 Reload Summer Show aimed at teens.

12.10 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running weekly show on Cyprus television.

13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn (rpt) Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

17.00 The Quest for Knowledge (rpt) Documentary series. Part 1.

17.30 Entehnos Local cultural show.

18.00 News 18.15 Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

18.30 Kati Psinetai (rpt) Amateur chefs each stage a dinner party to find who will be crowned the winning host.

19.20 Paizoume Kypriaka (rpt) Local game show about the Cypriot dialect.

20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.10 Vimata Stin Ammo (rpt) 21.45 Ego Ki Esi (rpt) 22.15 Mythical Beaches Of The 60s (rpt) 23.00 Oi Erastes Ton Kimaton (rpt) Local period drama.

23.30 News 23.45 Repeats

07.00 NRG Music Channel 08.00 Kids’ TV Fireman Sam, Flipper and Lopaka, Bob the Builder, etc.

Shown once, then repeated at 13.30.

16.30 Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

17.00 Reload Summer (rpt) 18.00 Decoding Disaster (rpt) Documentary series investigating the causes of catastrophic natural disasters.

Today looking at the causes of fires breaking out on highways, often leading to much loss of life.

18.50 News In English 19.00 News In Turkish 19.10 Futuris 19.30 Paralympics 2012 Swimming Finals.

21.00 FILM: El Dorado Classic Western, starring John Wayne and Robert Mitchum. 1966. See Film Picks.

23.05 The Good Wife First season of legal drama. ‘Bad’.

Alicia defends Colin Sweeney, a rich client who became involved in a civil case after being cleared of killing his wife, and is still largely considered to be a murderer.

23.50 Repeats

07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 Eleftheros ki Oraios (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.40 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna

07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) Local talk-show.

08.40 Batso Agapi Mou (rpt) 09.20 Denis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou (rpt) 12.00 Yia Banaki 14.00 I Dada Repeat of Greek comedy series, based on US sitcom ‘The Nanny’.

16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stgmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti (rpt) Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) Greek comedy series.

22.20 Piso Sto Spiti (rpt) 23.30 Daddy Cool (rpt) Greek comedy series.

00.10 News 00.20 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.00 Yia Banaki (rpt) 03.30 Yia Sena (rpt) 05.30 Proino Mou (rpt)

07.20 Stin Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 08.00 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 09.00 Se Fonto Kokkino (rpt) 09.40 Vasiliki (rpt) 10.20 Para Pente (rpt) 11.30 Ta Hrisopsara (rpt) 12.30 Oi Takkoi 13.10 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 14.00 Baywatch (rpt) 15.00 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.50 Tha Se Do Sto Ploio (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 Tropico 19.20 The Del Monte Heirs 20.10 News 21.20 Tha Se Do Sto Ploio (rpt) 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.10 The 4400 Third season.

‘Being Tom Baldwin’. When Tom is accused of the murder of TJ Kim - an event of which he has no recollection - and witnesses place him at the scene, he goes on the run to clear his name with Diana in pursuit. Meanwhile, Shawn and Isabelle begin to grow closer.

00.30 News 00.35 Sex And The City (rpt)

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Kostakis Ki Yioi (rpt) 12.30 I Kouzina Me Tin Dina (rpt) 13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) 18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) 19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.00 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 Fringe (rpt) First season.

‘The No-Brainer’.

Olivia, Walter and Peter investigate the deaths of a teenager and a car salesman whose brains were liquefied after watching a video sent to their computers, and discover the victims were connected to a computer programmer who has lost his job.

22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Dark Side of the Moon’.

Sam and Dean are killed by hunters, and are sent to heaven. They discover they must find Joshua, an angel who speaks directly with God, before Zachariah can track them down.

23.30 Ta Kopelia 00.10 LTV Sports News 01.10 Star News 02.00 Repeats

20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.50 House (rpt) First season of medical series.

‘The Honeymoon’.

Apparently being shown in two parts, tonight’s being Part 2. Last in the season.

23.40 Ekeines Ki Ego (rpt) 00.30 News 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi (rpt) 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Epithimies (rpt)

01.30 G4 (rpt) 02.30 Se Eida (rpt) 03.00 Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.30 Eleni (rpt) 04.30 Tropico (rpt)

CAPITAL 08.00 10.30 11.00 11.30 13.15

14.45 15.35

17.20 18.15

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Magikos Cosmos I’ll Take Manhattan Deste Tous Greek FILM: To Koritsi Tis Ftohogeitonias The Harts Of The West FILM: Honeymoon In Vegas A private detective races against the clock to win back his fiancee after losing her as a betting stake in a card game.

Romantic comedy, with Nicolas Cage.

1992.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place Glossy drama following the lives of eight LA women who inhabit a plush apartment complex. With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Avenging Angelo Romantic comedy, starring Sylvester Stallone. 2002. See Film Picks.

FILM: The Abduction A woman endures the nightmare of being trapped in a snowstorm with her deranged ex-husband who refuses to accept their relationship is over. Thriller, starring Victoria Principal. 1996.

FILM: Swindle Thriller, starring Tom Sizemore.

2002.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Healthcheck 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 Assignment 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 Healthcheck 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 Assignment 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Healthcheck 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 Sum-

mary 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 Assignment 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Healthcheck 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 BFBS Hosts 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast With Wez Thompson 09.00 Steve Knight 12.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Charlie Fife 18.00 Jessie Aru 20.30 Sitrep 21.00 Gareth John 00.00 Heaven’s Gate

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 Gareth John 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Marlow 18.30 Sitrep 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’clock News 20.30 Five Live Drive 21.00 Five Live Olympics 00.30 Late Night Olympics

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 Kalimerhamba 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 - 12:00-14:00 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. 18:0020:00 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

(Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com)

MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours

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Television PICK OF THE DAY

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Lola Montes (Nova Classics, 21.00) August is nearly over, which means Nova Classics is nearly over. It was fun while it lasted, and I like to think someone out there - maybe some young person who didn’t even know there was life before Star Wars - may have watched some random oldie by accident (because it was there) and had some small epiphany. That said, the channel was a bit undiscriminating in what it showed. Last night’s 9 o’clock film, for instance, was How to Murder Your Wife, a fun but rather dated 60s farce that’s unlikely to convert too many 21st-century youngsters; tonight’s schedule, on the other hand, is a dazzling double-bill of two great 1950s colour films, colour so rich it thrills the senses - Johnny Guitar, possibly the most baroque and eccentric Western of all time, preceded by Lola Montes, a ‘lost’ film only recently restored to its true glory.

This is a famous flop, an expensive disaster that hastened the death of director Max Ophuls, hated by audiences, butchered by producers who re-cut it in an effort to recoup their money. It’s amazing and unsatisfying, a flawed arty masterpiece that demands to be seen.

You know you’re watching a classic - or potential classic - from the opening scene, with Peter Ustinov as a circus impresario in a 19th-century Big Top. All around him are acrobats, animals,

two lines of girls juggling ninepins as he works the crowd in his carnival barker’s voice. He comes to the star attraction: Lola Montes, a famous beauty, mistress to many great men, now presented for the audience’s delectation (remember, adds Ustinov, our circus holds the exclusive rights to her life story!). Lola sits there, blank and bejewelled, oblivious to the crowd’s vulgar questions as we watch her life unfold in flashbacks.

Some of these are better than others - and the first hour, alas, is better than the second. Lola’s affair with the ageing King of Bavaria is overlong and also exposes the film’s biggest flaw: Martine Carol, bland and unconvincing in the title role.

Yet the dalliance with the King works like Jesus’ fantasy of domestic life in The Last Temptation of Christ, a final attempt at normality before our protagonist goes to their fate - Jesus to the Cross, Lola to the baying circus crowd - and what comes before is often wonderful, especially her supremely civilised break-up with Franz Liszt. Mostly, though, it’s a beautiful film to look at, with shots through nets and curtains and gloriously lush reds and purples. “A film for poets and artists,” wrote François Vinneuil - but ordinary people can enjoy it too. In French; made in 1955.

Preston Wilder

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Avenging Angelo (Capital TV, 21.00) You won’t see nothin’ like the mighty Quinn, to quote Manfred Mann - Anthony Quinn in this case, who had the last of his 10 children at the age of 81 (isn’t Viagra wonderful?) and co-starred with Sylvester Stallone in this Mafi a comedy just before keeling over. Quinn is the titular Angelo, a Mafi a boss killed by a hitman - but it seems he had a long-lost daughter (Madeleine Stowe, also seeking to avenge her dad in the current TV hit Revenge) and his faithful bodyguard (Stallone) breaks the news to her that she’s not who she thought she was.

“Now he’s sworn to protect [her] from hitmen, con-men and men too good to be true,” says Mr. Trailer Man - but Maddy doesn’t need protection, she needs professional help (no, not that kind) in taking revenge for Daddy’s murder, and meanwhile she and Sly are falling in love.

A silly trifle, but mildly enjoyable; RIP Anthony Quinn, you were pretty good for an old guy. Made in 2002.

El Dorado (CyBC2, 21.00) More long-gone macho men - in this case John Wayne and Robert Mitchum in a lovely Western, an unofficial follow-up to Rio Bravo (by the same director). Wayne was a sheriff paired with drunkard Dean Martin in the earlier fi lm but here it’s the sheriff (Mr. Mitchum) who’s the drunk, joining forces with ageing cowboy Wayne and a motley crew of sidekicks to fight a nasty cattle baron.

The plot is mostly an excuse for a certain stylised atmosphere (lots of evocative night-time exteriors) and a certain view of the West - a place where everyone knows each other but even the best of friends hide their affection, a moving hymn to deep-rooted bonds; as the opening song puts it, “There’s much more to life than things we can see”. Charming, delightful, and richly emotional beneath the easy-going surface. Made in 1966.

Amnesty (Novacinema1, 22.00) What do you do with an Albanian drama no-one’s ever heard of? Recommend it, of course, because it might turn out to be great - and the plot does sound vaguely promising, focusing on two people (a husband and a wife) who visit their respective spouses in prison every month for a spot of government-sanctioned sex (it’s a new European law, apparently). She (Luli Bitri) is a harried single mum, he (Karafi l Shena) is middle-aged and lonely; inevitably, they meet while on their conjugal visits and swiftly re-channel all that sexual energy towards each other - at which point the fi lm “spends itself almost immediately,” sighed Variety with perhaps unconscious innuendo. Slow pace, not much dialogue, unusual setting; could be worse. In Albanian. Made in 2011.

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Sport Former champion Roddick still believes

Single-minded Serena says she is number one

By Simon Cambers

Wozniacki crashes out in opening round

By Will Swanton

IN BRIEF

SERENA Williams marched into the second round of the US Open and despite being seeded only fourth at Flushing Meadows, the American is in no doubt she is the world’s best player.

“Of course I believe that,” said Williams after powering to a 6-1 6-1 win over Coco Vandeweghe after less than an hour on court. “I think there’s a number of players on this tour, a few players who believe that.

“I don’t care about the ranking; I’ve been number one. It’s cool. But my thing is just to be the best player.

If that means I’m winning and I’m not number one, that’s fine.”

Her one-sided victory came after sister Venus defeated Bethanie MattekSands in straight sets and young American Sloane Stephens upset Italy’s No. 22 seed Francesca Schiavone.

Williams said she was thriving on her mentoring role with the 19-year-old Stephens.

“She’s a great person and an amazing player,” Williams said.

“She’s playing so smooth.

She looks like she gives no effort when she plays. She’s such a beautiful, beautiful player and yes, I embrace that.

“I hope I can teach her some things. We can feed off each other. She can teach me a few things - maybe how to be calm on the court.”

Williams laughed about Stephens pressuring her to get involved in a relationship.

“She’s always encouraging me not to be single. She’s

Former No.1 Caroline Wozniacki has had a poor year always telling me I’m going to find somebody one day,” she said.

“I always tell her no I’m not, and complain about it. She’s positive about it.

She’s my mentor more than anything. She’s always upbeat.”

Williams started the year saying in Brisbane that she disliked tennis but she had a more optimistic outlook after beating Vandeweghe.

“I love it so much,” she said. “I know I can’t live without it but one day I’m going to have to let it go. I tell someone, you be careful, I’m going to start loving tennis.”

Williams said it was difficult to gauge her form because the strong wind inside Arthur Ashe Stadium made it difficult to find her rhythm.

“I usually gauge the wind by my hair,” she said. “If it’s really going forward I’m thinking, it’s really windy.

“I mean, the match was so weird, the conditions were so tough, I couldn’t really

play my game. It’s not the best opportunity to grade yourself.”

Williams will meet Spain’s Maria Jose Martinez Sanchez in the second round.

Also in the women’s draw, former world number one Caroline Wozniacki was a first round casualty while second seed Agnieszka Radwanska and number six Angelique Kerber advanced easily.

Hampered by a knee problem, eighth-seeded Wozniacki never broke the serve of world number 96 IrinaCamelia Begu of Romania and lost 6-2 6-2.

“You always want to go in and do your best no matter what’s happening out there,” Wozniacki said softly. “I tried. I didn’t play particularly well, made too many errors.

“It’s unfortunate because it’s a huge tournament, a tournament you want to play well in.”

Venus meanwhile clocked the fastest women’s serve of the tournament to date at 124 mph (199 kph).

Now ranked number 46, Venus said she yearned to get back into the world top 10 but conceded “it never happens the way you want it to.”

“That’s one thing I found out throughout my whole career,” said Venus, who was forced to withdraw from the tournament shortly before her second-round match last year after discovering she had an auto-immune disease.

“When you don’t make it to one goal, just make some more. But, of course, I’m looking forward to the top 10, all that great stuff. I feel like I have it in me.”

In form: Olympic champion Serena Williams will take some stopping at Flushing Meadows

French steeplechaser Darvish masterclass helps Gezzar banned for ten years Texas Rangers edge Rays FRENCH steeplechaser Nour-Eddine Gezzar has been banned for 10 years after a second positive drugs test, the French athletics federation said in a statement this week.

Gezzar, who came fourth in the 3,000 metres steeplechase at the European championships, missed the London Olympics after being provisionally suspended following a failed test for erythropoietin (EPO) at the French championships in June.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport dismissed his appeal that there had been errors in the testing process.

He had already been suspended for two years in 2006 for testing positive for nandrolone and finasteride.

YU Darvish enjoyed one of his best performances of the season to help the high-flying Texas Rangers edge out the Tampa Bay Rays 1-0 as the home team recorded a sixth win in seven games.

The Japanese rookie right-hander blew away Tampa Bay with 10 strikeouts in seven scoreless innings to put his mid-season troubles behind him and condemn the Rays (70-59) to a fourth straight defeat.

Darvish (13-9) had missed his previous start with a leg injury and lost five of his last seven decisions entering the contest but against the Rays, he managed to deliver his first shutout since April 24.

IT may be nine years since Andy Roddick won his first and to date only grand slam title but the American is still refusing to settle for second best.

The 29-year-old gave young American Rhyne Williams a harsh introduction to top level tennis as he breezed to a 6-3 6-4 6-4 victory in their US Open first-round clash.

Roddick banged down 20 aces on a sweltering day at Flushing Meadows and even though his last grand slam final appearance came at Wimbledon in 2009, he continues to believe that anything is possible.

“There is no acceptable result,” said the 20th seed, when asked if reaching the second week would be a good performance. “You play your second round, try to win your second round.

You go as far as you can.

“I don’t think we think of it in the context of what’s acceptable and what’s not.

You play a match to try and win a match.”

Williams, a qualifier ranked 289th in the world, gave a good account of himself on the vast Arthur Ashe Stadium court but Roddick had too much experience and class for him.

Roddick now plays the winner of the match between Australia’s Bernard Tomic and Carlos Berlocq of Argentina.

The former world number one said he would relish a meeting with Tomic, considered one of the biggest young talents on the tour.

“We haven’t played in a tournament before,” Roddick said. “Obviously he’s been talked about for a while now and he has a kind of very good feel for the game.

“It will be tough. He’s very talented. He’s played well. I think now he’s dealing with playing well on a consistent basis. I think that’s the next step for him. Hopefully we can delay the process a week.”

Try machine Gollings spearheads Sri Lanka RUGBY Sevens’ record points-scorer Ben Gollings has been signed up to coach Sri Lanka for the next two months as the south Asian country bids to reach next year’s World Cup. The former England skipper, who amassed 2,652 points from 70 tournaments, is tasked with leading the Sri Lankans through four competitions, culminating in a World Cup qualifier in Singapore where 16 teams will vie for three Asian positions at the 2013 showpiece in Moscow.

Sevens rugby is receiving much more attention given that it will feature at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games.

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Sport

McIlroy to miss elite Grand Slam of Golf

By Mark Lamport-Stokes

PGA Championship winner Rory McIlroy is already committed to the European Tour’s BMW Masters in China

PGA Championship winner Rory McIlroy will be a conspicuous absentee from the elite end-of-season PGA Grand Slam of Golf in Bermuda in October due to a scheduling conflict, organisers said this week.

Northern Irishman McIlroy, who clinched his second major title by a staggering eight shots at Kiawah Island earlier this month, had already committed to the European Tour’s BMW Masters in China, the PGA of America said in a statement.

The BMW Masters, which was added to the European Tour schedule in April, will be played at Lake Malaren Golf Club in Shanghai from October 25-28.

The PGA Grand Slam of Golf, a 36hole strokeplay event which brings together the winners of the year’s four majors, will be held from October 23-24

at Bermuda’s Port Royal Golf Course.

American Keegan Bradley will replace world number one McIlroy on the picturesque Atlantic Ocean island of Bermuda where he will defend the title he claimed by one shot last year when he qualified as the 2011 PGA Championship winner.

Fellow Americans Bubba Watson, who won this year’s Masters, and Webb Simpson (US Open), plus South African Ernie Els (British Open), complete the elite four-man field.

The Grand Slam of Golf, billed as ‘the most exclusive tournament in golf’, was held in Hawaii from 1991 to 2006 before moving to Bermuda in 2007.

In other news, South Africa will host the most events on the 2013 European Tour after the Sunshine Tour announced two new co-sanctioned tournaments.

The Nelson Mandela Championship, to be staged in association with the

former South African president’s Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund, will be held from December 6-9 and the Tshwane Open will take place from February 28 to March 3.

The two new events bring to six the number of tournaments to be played in South Africa in next year’s Race to Dubai.

The Tshwane Open at the Els Club Copperleaf will have prizemoney of 1.5 million euro, meaning the winner will gain a two-year exemption on the European Tour.

The purse for the Nelson Mandela Championship has yet to be finalised but Sunshine Tour executive director Selwyn Nathan said it would be “a minimum of one million euro”.

“I’m particularly excited that we have another two European Tour co-sanctioned events as it shows the confidence one of the two major tours in the world has in us,” Nathan said.

England Test captain Strauss announces cricket retirement

By Greg Stutchbury

‘I’ve achieved far more than I ever thought I was going to’

By Alison Wildey ENGLAND captain Andrew Strauss, who oversaw backto-back Ashes wins over Australia and took the team to the top of the Test rankings, announced his retirement from professional cricket yesterday.

Strauss, appointed in 2009, will be replaced by one-day skipper Alastair Cook.

“It’s a very tough decision to make. For me, the drive to it all was my form with the bat and in truth I haven’t batted well for a long period of time now,” the 35-year-old opener told a news conference at Lord’s.

“For a captain to perform his role properly, it’s important that you’re not a passenger in the side but also that people aren’t speculating whether you should be in the side or not.

“It hasn’t been something that’s occurred overnight it’s a gradual feeling that has grown over the last six or 12 months and certainly in the last few weeks has become more apparent that this is the right time.

“I’d very much like to go out on my own terms with my head held high,” added Strauss.

His decision was the climax of a difficult few weeks during which England batsman Kevin Pietersen was dropped for the third and final Test against South Africa after sending what the player conceded were ‘provocative’ text messages about his team mates and management to opposition players.

All Blacks star Carter tackles Twitterverse

Andrew Strauss (2nd left) oversaw back-to-back Ashes wins, but this month saw England surrender their No.1 Test ranking after defeat to South Africa Strauss was adamant the controversy had not had an impact on his decision to quit.

“I’ve been thinking about it for a while. I first spoke to (England coach) Andy Flower about it before the Kevin Pietersen incident reared its head. It hasn’t been a consideration at all,” said Strauss, who captained England for 50 Tests, winning 24.

“I was pretty sure I was going to make this decision before the Kevin Pietersen situation arose. What happened, I didn’t feel undermined me in the eyes of the team in anyway. It was a difficult situation to deal with but not in terms of making me less

more or less keen to lead the side forward.”

England lost the series 2-0 and with it their number one ranking to the South Africans. The final Test was Strauss’s 100th but the lefthander, who made 21 Test centuries during his career, did not enjoy a successful series, averaging only 17.83 runs against the Proteas, with a highest score of 37.

Cook, who is leading England against the South Africans in a one-day series, will take charge of the Test side for the tour of India which begins in November.

“I’m incredibly proud to be sitting here as captain of England. It’s a huge honour

for me,” said Cook, sitting alongside his former skipper.

“Obviously I’ve got huge boots to fill. Strauss has done an incredible job. It was a sad dressing room when we found out.”

During his time in charge, Strauss led England to Ashes wins in 2009 and 2010/11 as well as the top of the Test rankings following last year’s 4-0 series whitewash at home to India.

But since then England have lost six Tests, including three in a row to Pakistan in the United Arab Emirates this year, won three and drawn two.

South-African born Strauss, who also played county

cricket for Middlesex, made his England debut against New Zealand in 2004, scoring 112 but said the Ashes win in Australia had been the highlight of his career “For me personally, lifting the urn in Australia was the highlight and it was always going to take a huge amount to beat that. I’m very proud to lead England to number one in the rankings. From a personal batting perspective, there was the 100 on debut, Ashes 100s, World Cup 100s.

“There’ve been lots of great moments and some tough ones as well but I go out with absolutely no regrets. I’ve achieved far more than I ever thought I was going to.”

NEW Zealand flyhalf Daniel Carter has not given much thought to the next rugby World Cup but is “getting too old” to try to cap his career with an Olympic gold medal a year later at the Rio Games in 2016, he told Twitter followers yesterday.

Carter, who helped the All Blacks retain the Bledisloe Cup with a 22-0 victory over Australia at Eden Park on Saturday, only joined the microblogging website on Tuesday.

By Wednesday, the Test rugby world record points scorer had more than 22,000 followers, which prompted him to hold an hour-long Q&A session.

“Looks like we might have a world first @twitter press conference haha. I’m free 2.30pm-3.30pm today, tag your questions with #DCPC,” Carter wrote on his feed earlier yesterday.

Thousands of tweets flooded in during the session, most asking him rugbyrelated questions though others used the opportunity to inquire about his favourite food (sushi) and country to visit (Italy).

Carter, however, also stuck to the New Zealand Rugby Union (NZRU) party line during the session, telling followers he preferred sandwich spread Marmite to its major competitor and that he liked the strip of any team sponsored by Adidas.

The yeast spread is made by food manufacturer Sanitarium, a sponsor of the All Blacks, while Adidas have had a long-term jersey and apparel contract with the NZRU. Carter also listed current New Zealand captain Richie McCaw as his favourite team player because “he always puts his body on the line”, while former England international Jonny Wilkinson was his toughest opponent “when he was in his prime”.

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Sport

APOEL aim for Europa League group stage

By Nemanja Bjedov

Udinese’s Brazilian substitute Maicosuel (2nd left) tried to emulate Andrea Pirlo’s effort for Italy against England at Euro 2012 by nonchalantly chipping the ball into the middle of the goal but mis-hit his shot and allowed Braga’s goalkeeper Beto to save

Udinese miss out on Champions League after penalty blunder

By Brian Homewood UDINESE missed out on the Champions League for the second season running on Tuesday night, losing on penalties to Braga in the playoffs after a comical shootout miss to leave Italy with only two clubs in Europe’s top competition.

Brazilian substitute Maicosuel tried to emulate Andrea Pirlo’s effort for Italy against England at Euro 2012 by nonchalantly chipping the ball into the middle of the goal but mis-hit his shot and allowed Braga’s goalkeeper Beto to save.

Spain’s Malaga, facing uncertainty behind the scenes amid speculation that their Qatari owner is looking to sell up, overcame their in-

Malaga, BATE, Dinamo Zagreb also through ternal worries to reach the group stage for the first time after drawing 0-0 at Panathinaikos.

Anderlecht qualified for the first time since 2006/07 with a 2-0 win over AEL Limassol, denying the Cypriot champions a chance to emulate APOEL who reached the quarter-finals last time.

The Belgians were joined in the group stage and this evening’s draw in Monaco

by BATE Borisov of Belarus and Croatia’s Dinamo Zagreb, who both qualified for the second year running.

Portuguese side Braga’s collection of Brazilian journeymen won 5-4 on penalties

against shattered Udinese after the two sides drew 1-1 for a 2-2 aggregate draw.

Udinese also paid the price for selling three of their top players from the previous season, goalkeeper Samir Handanovic going to Inter Milan while Mauricio Isla and Kwadwo Asamoah joined Juventus.

Beaten by Arsenal at the same stage last season, Udinese made a jittery start against opponents wearing the same colour strip as the English side but went ahead after 25 minutes.

Dusan Basta hooked a cross into the area and Pablo Armero dived in to head

the ball beyond goalkeeper Beto.

The Colombian also had a golden chance to add a second early in the second half when he had a free shot on goal but, in a moment of pure slapstick, slipped over as he took aim.

Braga, whose side includes seven Brazilians who are mostly well-travelled and have plied their trade at unglamorous clubs, were in control by then and levelled when substitute Ruben Micael headed in Mossoro’s cross in the 72nd minute.

Udinese’s defeat means Italy will have only Serie A champions Juventus and

seven-time European Cup winners AC Milan in the group stage.

Malaga have seen Spain midfielder Santi Cazorla and Venezuela striker Salomon Rondon depart for Arsenal and Rubin Kazan respectively in what the Andalusian club has described as a process of “internal restructuring”.

However, they held on comfortably in Athens in a game of few scoring chances against opponents who have taken part in the group stage nine times.

An early goal by Portuguese midfielder Tonel gave Dinamo Zagreb, Croatian champions for the last six seasons, a 1-0 win at Maribor in neighbouring Slovenia and sent them through 3-1 on aggregate.

Blatter opposed to age limits and standing areas

The FIFA president is on collision course with the Bundesliga

FIFA president Sepp Blatter is against age restrictions for officials in football’s governing body although he would be prepared to accept a limit on the length of time they can hold office, he said yesterday.

The 76-year-old Swiss said he was also opposed to standing areas in football stadiums, placing him on a collision course with both the Bundesliga and the national league in his homeland.

“I’m in favour of limiting the length of time officials can serve but against an age limit,” he told Germany’s Sport Bild magazine.

“Capabilites have nothing to do with age. There are 70-year-olds who are young in the head. But a mandate limit could have a chance.”

A draft revision of FIFA’s statutes includes a proposal to impose an age limit of 72 on officials at the time they are elected. It would also limit the FIFA president to two four-year mandates and the executive committee members to three four-year mandates.

The proposal is due to be discussed at FIFA’s annual Congress in Mauritius next year.

Paraguay’s Nicolas Leoz is the oldest member of FIFA’s executive committee at 83, while senior vice-president Julio Grondona, 80, has been on the committee since 1988.

Blatter is in his fourth term as FIFA president, though he has repeated that he does not intend to stand again at the next election in 2015.

Blatter said he remained unconvinced by the popularity of standing areas in Germany’s Bundesliga.

“We preach to the whole world to do away with standing places,” he said. “In Colombia, the stadiums were rebuilt because of the world under-20 championship, now families can go to matches, it is going really well.

“Everyone sits down and that is good, it’s good for safety.”

“The Bundesliga is the only big league in Europe which still has standing places.”

The Swiss Super League also permits standing-room and earlier this year, FIFA backed down from partially funding a new stadium in its home city of Zurich because plans included a small area of terracing.

BIDDING to emulate their opponents’ meteoric rise to European prominence, Neftchi remain in deadlock with last season’s Champions League quarter-finalists APOEL after a 1-1 draw in the first leg of their Europa League playoff round last Thursday at the Dalga Arena in Baku.

The seven-time Azerbaijani champions broke free from their shackles eight minutes from time thanks to Mahir Shukurov’s penalty, but any hopes of a first-leg lead were dashed moments later when substitute French midfielder Selim Benachour leveled for the Cypriots.

“This game is a great chance for us to qualify for the group stage of the competition,” said APOEL manager Ivan Jovanovic.

“So far we have played some good games and also some games in which our performance was not at the satisfactory level. However, what is important is that we have stayed on the right path and that we now have an opportunity to achieve our goal which is qualification for the group stage of this competition.

“I am very optimistic. We want to present ourselves in the best possible manner every time we step out onto the pitch, especially in front of our fans in our stadium.

“Neftchi definitely played better than us in the first leg and we do not need to look for any additional motivation when we face them again,” added the 50-year-old Serbian.

Gustavo Manduca has returned to full training and he will be included in Jovanovic’s squad to face Neftchi but the Brazilian midfielder is likely to start the game on the bench.

Defender Marios Antoniades has also returned to full fitness, but Ailton Almeida, Esteban Solari and Helder Sousa will all miss tonight’s game alongside long-term injured captain Marinos Satsias and Marcelo Oliveira.

“We played a very bad game in Baku and I do not think that performance shows our true potential as a team. It is simply an example to be avoided.

“We have worked hard over the last week to minimise and try to eliminate some of the errors from our game and I have no doubt that we will be much improved this time out,” Jovanovic concluded.

The match at the GSP Stadium in Nicosia is scheduled to kick-off at 8pm.

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Big quartet could face off Clubs eager to avoid ‘Group of Death’ in Monaco draw

By Martyn Ziegler THE champions of England, Spain, Italy and Germany could all be in the same group when the draw for the Champions League takes place in Monaco today.

UEFA’s seeding system, based on the club’s co-efficients, has thrown up the possibility of the champions of the four strongest nations all having to play each other in the group phase.

City will be the only English club not among the top seeds for this evening’s draw - despite being domestic champions, Roberto Mancini’s side still have a relatively low UEFA co-efficient, meaning they will be among the pot of eight second seeds while European champions Chelsea, Arsenal and Manchester United are in the pot of eight top seeds.

That means City could be drawn in the same group as European powerhouses such as Barcelona, Real Madrid and Bayern Munich, which would make the task of qualifying for the knockout stages that much harder.

There are potentially dangerous opponents lurking among the third and fourth seeds too.

The worst-case scenario would see the Premier League champions having to face Spanish champions Real, Italian champions Juventus and German Bundesliga winners Borussia Dortmund.

City suffered from being ranked as third seeds last season when they ended up third in a group containing Bayern, Napoli and Villarreal.

Porto are the lowestranked club among the top seeds, and City would hope to be in their group and avoid the bigger guns among the third and fourth seeds.

But whatever the outcome of the draw, Manchester United’s experiences of last season stand as a warning about anyone expecting an easy ride.

United’s group last season appeared the easiest on paper, yet Sir Alex Ferguson’s men failed to qualify for the knock-out stages.

The financial rewards from progressing into the latter stages are significant - Chelsea’s share of TV and prize money was 60million euros (£47.5m) from going on to win the competition, while City’s was 26 million euros (£20m).

The draw will see the 32 clubs drawn into four groups - each group will have one top seed, one second seed, one third seed and one fourth seed.

The four clubs in each group will play each other home and away with the top two progressing to the knockout stage of the tournament, while the thirdplaced side goes into the knockout stage of the Europa League.

None of the Premier League sides can be drawn in a group with another English club.

By Stephen Wood

Manchester City will be the only English club not among the top seeds for this evening’s draw - despite being domestic champions

Gerrard’s future ‘is at Liverpool’

By Andy Hampson

Steven Gerrard (right) has won most major club honours with Liverpool - apart from the Premier League title

Stoke dumped out of League Cup in 4-3 defeat

LIVERPOOL boss Brendan Rodgers has scoffed at suggestions by former England manager Sven-Goran Eriksson that Steven Gerrard should leave Anfield to win a league title.

Gerrard, the influential Reds and England skipper, has claimed winners’ medals in most of the major competitions open to Liverpool but the Premier League is a glaring exception.

With the Merseysiders finishing eighth last term and the team being rebuilt by Rodgers, Eriksson has suggested that, at 32, Gerrard is running out of time to fulfil his league dream.

But Rodgers said: “I think Steven, over the years, has had a number of chances to leave here.

“He has always felt this is the club where he could still win it and he has still got a number of years left in his career.

“We understand how difficult it is going to be but I think he will still feel the

dream is here. I don’t think he needs to move anywhere.

“Of course we will go through difficult moments but his dream is to win the Premier League with Liverpool.

“I, along with everyone else and the supporters, will fight for our lives to try to make that possible.

“He is an iconic figure for this football club. His status and everything he has gained in the game has been through Liverpool Football Club.

“He has won every major honour you could possibly win at this club, but obviously there is one missing and he will want to fight for the rest of his career to win it here.

“Thankfully with Steven, he is realistic as well. He knows the reality. He is not misguided with anything.

“Sven obviously has his reasons for saying that but I have been delighted with Steven’s contributions since I have been here.

“I have seen him from the outside but from the inside working with him as a man, as a player, he is a wonderful role model for everyone here.

“Let us see if we can fight to win it ourselves and hopefully he can stay here and be a real ambassador for the club.”

Rodgers is considering making changes to his squad before Friday’s transfer deadline.

The club have been linked with a number of players in recent days, with Arsenal and England winger Theo Walcott the latest high-profile example.

Rodgers, speaking at a press conference to preview his side’s Europa League qualifying round play-off second leg against Hearts, was unwilling to comment on speculation.

He said: “There is nothing on any player. I will speak about a player after Friday if he is in the door.

“In these next 48 hours speculation and gossip will be rife, I could be here all day answering speculation. I have no need.

“We have got the end of the window coming up. I want to work with a tight-knit group between now and the end of January and then we can assess it from there.”

STOKE City became the highest-profile casualty in the English League Cup second round when thirdtier Swindon Town pulled off a dramatic 4-3 win late in extra time on Tuesday.

Fulham were the other Premier League side to fall as they lost 1-0 to Championship (second division) Sheffield Wednesday.

Other Premier League clubs including Aston Villa, West Bromwich Albion and Reading emerged against lowerleague opposition to make the third round.

West Brom had to come from behind, relying on two late goals to scrape past third-tier Yeovil Town 4-2.

James Collins scored a hattrick - including the winner in extra time - as Swindon, managed by former West Ham United striker Paolo Di Canio, upset Stoke at the Britannia Stadium.

Stoke came back from 2-0 down to force extra time and equalised for a third time through Peter Crouch after 111 minutes.

But Tony Pulis’ side had no answer after Collins slid in to make it 4-3 in the 119th minute, prompting wild celebrations by Di Canio on the touchline.

At Hillsborough, Sheffield Wednesday, League Cup winners in 1991, accounted for Fulham with a Gary Madine penalty in the 50th minute after Chris Maguire was fouled by Stephen Kelly.

Goals from Belgian Yassine El Ghanassy and Shane Long in the final 17 minutes saved West Brom from embarrassment at Yeovil after the third tier side had taken the lead and then levelled at 2-2 through Reuben Reid.

At Villa Park, Paul Lambert enjoyed his first victory as Villa manager with a 3-0 defeat of third-tier Tranmere Rovers, in a game that marked England striker Darren Bent’s first goal since February.

Nathaniel Knight-Percival’s own goal gave Premier League Reading a 3-2 victory over second-tier club Peterborough after four goals in the first 19 minutes at the Madejski Stadium had left the sides level at 2-2.

Premier League clubs Wigan Athletic, Sunderland and West Ham had relatively straightforward wins.

Wigan brushed aside second-tier Nottingham Forest 4-1 at the City Ground, Sunderland beat fourth-tier Morecambe 2-0 and West Ham eased past Crewe of the third division 2-0 at home.

Norwich City beat Scunthorpe United 2-1, Queens Park Rangers overcame Walsall 3-0, Southampton won 4-1 at Stevenage and Swansea City enjoyed a 3-1 victory over Barnsley.

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Sport AEL: late defeat is a bitter pill to swallow

By Nemanja Bjedov AEL manager Pambos Christodoulou said the Limassol side’s 3-2 aggregate loss to Belgian champions Anderlecht was a bitter pill to swallow in their Champions League playoff tie.

The Cyprus champions were nine minutes away from qualifying for the group stage of the competition before two goals in the last nine minutes saw Anderlecht overturn their 2-1 first leg deficit.

“This defeat is a bitter pill to swallow as we all believed we could handle the pressure. I am still proud of my players because it was a valiant effort,” Christodoulou said.

Christodoulou was without two of his most influential midfielders as both Luciano Bebe and Paulo Sergio failed to recover from injuries sustained in the first leg.

When the manager was forced to take off Jorge Monteiro just before half time with a hamstring injury, the home side completely took the initiative in the middle of the park.

“The substitution was forced and that disturbed our game plan. We simply could not play the game in the way we wanted to.

“However, with just a bit more luck we could have reached the group stage but the future of this team is bright and we will do everything we can to achieve our goals,” Christodoulou added.

“We tried so hard,” said disappointed AEL captain Marios Nicolaou. “We knew Anderlecht are a very good side, especially at home and they put us under pressure.

“We were doing really well to keep them out but that is football and now we continue in the Europa League and we have our national

championship in front of us. I wish Anderlecht good luck and we will keep looking forward.

“Defence is our strongest weapon. We knew Anderlecht would press us and we had a lot of space for counter-rattacks. We had our chance through Rui Miguel in the first half. I think if we had scored there, the game would have been totally different.

“We won the championship last year for the first time in 44 years, we came so close to the group stage of the Champions League and we are already in the Europa League. I think we deserve to be proud,” concluded Nicolaou.

Democratic Republic of Congo forward Dieudonne Mbokani drove in Massimo Bruno’s cross in the 81st minute to end some tenacious resistance by AEL’s cosmopolitan side and Ukraine forward Oleksandr Yakovenko scored inside the far post as he finally netted after being repeatedly denied earlier in the game.

“I did what I had to do for my team and I dedicate my goal to my son who is already able to kick a ball around,” said Mbokani whose team qualified for the first time since 2006/07, denying the Cypriots a chance to emulate APOEL, who reached the quarter finals last season.

Anderlecht’s qualification allowed them to take what many felt to be their rightful place in the group stage for which they had originally qualified. The Belgians were demoted to the third qualifying round after Chelsea’s Champions League triumph last season following a sixth-place Premier League finish forced UEFA to reshuffle the places. The changes also led to Tottenham Hotspur losing their berth and being moved into the Europa League.

Down and out: the Cyprus champions came within nine minutes of qualifying for the Champions League group stage

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CYPRIOT REACHES US OPEN 2ND ROUND FOR FIRST TIME SINCE 2006

Room for improvement: the Cypriot needed nearly four hours to put away German qualifier Bachinger in five sets

Battling Baghdatis ends NY drought

By Nemanja Bjedov and Will Swanton

M

ARCOS Baghdatis launched his US Open campaign with a battling 6-2 4-6 6-4 6-7 7-6 victory over German qualifier Matthias Bachinger to reach the second round at Flushing Meadows for the first time since 2006.

The Cypriot number one, who is currently ranked 39th in the world, arrived in New York with a pretty poor 2620 win-loss record for the season, while world number 115 Bachinger secured his place in the main draw after dropping just one set in three matches in the qualifying tournament.

Fully recovered from the back injury that hampered him in Winston-Salem last week, Baghdatis broke the German’s serve twice on his way to winning the opening set.

However, one break of serve in the second set was enough for Bachinger to level the match.

But the 25-year-old from Munich then failed to capitalise on three break point opportunities in the third

set, while Baghdatis took advantage of the only chance given to him to retake the lead in what started to look like a five-set thriller.

Bachinger responded well to the lost set and he managed to level the scores yet again, this time after a tiebreak which ended 10-8 for the German.

There was one break of serve apiece in the decider, but it was the Cypriot who eventually came out victorious 7-5 in the tie-break after three hours and 53 minutes of play.

Baghdatis will now take on 14th seeded Ukrainian Alexandr Dolgopolov who also recorded a five-set victory in his first round encounter against Canadian Jesse Levine.

Dolgopolov leads the overall head-to-head series against the 27-year-old Cypriot 3-1, with his latest victory coming in the third round of the Indian Wells Masters this March.

In the featured night match meanwhile, Novak Djokovic delivered a typically ruthless 6-1 6-0 6-1 win over Paolo Lorenzi in his first round encounter.

The defending champion wasted little time against

the outgunned Italian, taking just 73 minutes to wrap up the win, and said that while it was important to approach each match with the same professional attitude he also wanted to enjoy his time at Flushing Meadows.

The Serbian second seed, who also lost just two games to Lorenzi in the opening round of the Australian Open this year, said he reveled in the electric atmosphere of night matches in New York.

The Serb has danced on court in the past, worn a cap from the New York Fire Department and generally tried his hardest to get the raucous crowd on side.

Djokovic described Arthur Ashe Stadium as the most exciting tennis arena in the world and said he felt obligated to entertain as well as win.

“Yes we need to be professional, committed, focused on what we do,” he said.

“Our profession brings us a lot of success. A lot of pressure, important moments, a lot of challenges, but also a lot of joy.

“I always try to take everything from a bright, positive side. It’s very important to embrace whatever life

brings you. I’m fortunate because I have a great team of people around me. That’s where there’s a great source of positive energy for me.

We try to joke around all the time. That’s us.”

Djokovic’s reputation as a joker has not always found favour among his fellow professionals, particularly his imitations of their on-court quirks.

Rafa Nadal was less than pleased with Djokovic’s depiction of his habit of picking at his shorts in 2007 but Djokovic said his intentions had been misunderstood.

“Deep in my heart I never had any intention of hurting or insulting anybody in my life, ever. That’s the most important thing. The only purpose of my imitations and joking, if you want to call it that, is to have fun and bring a smile to people’s faces.”

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