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NEW YEAR RESOLUTIONS: STOP ROUSFETI AND SQUANDERING CASH INSIDE Cyprus Explosives found near president’s home 3

Cyprus What we watched, read and listened to in 2012 8-9

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World ‘Only political process can save Syria from hell’ 27

Sport United preserve their point advantage back

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Bank lashes out at deputy critics Papadopoulos warns of a recession which could last decades after CB failings

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HAIRMAN OF the House Finance Committee Nicolas Papadopoulos yesterday accused the Central Bank of Cyprus (CBC) of “amateur” handling of the negotiations with the troika, saying that its methodologies will lead to state bankruptcy and hurl Cyprus into a recession that will last “decades”.

The DIKO vice-president made the hard-hitting comments in a letter written in response to a CBC announcement on Friday night which accused the supervisory authority’s critics of running scared after two investigations were launched into the near demise of the island’s banking system.

The CBC launched a scathing attack against “defenders” of the “bankers of the past”, who, it claimed, were trying to paint a picture that everything in the banking system was rosy until May 2012, when a smear campaign was allegedly started against the banks.

The government and CBC have recently come under fire by their detractors for allegedly failing to prevent the upward revision of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the banking sector by accepting without a fight the troika’s demand to define loans with 90-day delays on repayments as NPLs. This effectively means that Cypriot banks will need a significant amount of money to recapitalise, which they will get from an EU/IMF bailout.

In turn, the size of the final bailout determines whether Cyprus will have sustainable public debt or not.

Central Bank sources say the supervisory authority had no say in the matter as the troika made the new method of calculating NPLs a precondition in July 2012.

The IMF has adopted the same 90-day standard on NPLs since 2009, as have all other eurozone countries, argued the sources.

The notion that the CBC had other choices is not realistic, they said, adding that the option they do have before them is to challenge the figure set for the recapitalisation needs of the banks, as estimated by investment company Pimco. And for this, the CBC is seeking external help in verifying the due diligence work done by Pimco.

According to Pimco’s preliminary results as reported in the press, the banks will need €10.3 billion. Sources told the Sunday Mail that the CBC is preparing to challenge this estimate with the help of a foreign consultancy firm and revise the figure downward, aiming closer to €9 billion or lower.

This should go some way to helping make the final figure on Cyprus’ debt more sustainable, said the source.

In response to Friday’s CBC announcement, Papadopoulos yesterday called on the CB governor Panicos Demetriades to name those he is talking about.

The DIKO deputy accused

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On the campaign trail: DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades drumming up support for his candidacy in February’s presidential elections on Ledra Street in Nicosia yesterday. He later visited the Mall of Cyprus on the outskirts of the city

Rape victim death stirs anger, pledges of action A WOMAN whose gang rape provoked protests and rare national debate about violence against women in India died from her injuries yesterday, prompting promises of action from a government that has struggled to respond to public outrage.

The unidentified 23-year-old medical student suffered a brain injury and massive

internal damage in the December 16 attack and died in hospital in Singapore where she had been taken for treatment.

Protesters rallied peacefully in the capital New Delhi and other cities across the country to keep the pressure on Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s government to get tougher on crimes against

women. That was in contrast to the pitched battles protesters fought with police last weekend.

The six suspects held in connection with the attack on the student on a New Delhi bus were charged with murder following her death, police said.

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A HOLIDAY village complex in Latchi hopes to attract top-notch customers who are looking for a bit of yoga, meditation and relaxation in a luxurious natural setting.

Elia Latchi Holiday Village, located in the Polis Chrysochou area, has been recently leased out to an Indian investor who has promptly proceeded to gut the complex and pour in between €4 and €5 million to refurbish the place, the Elia Latchi management said.

By June, the hotel should be set up equipped with a spa and fitness centre, and yoga and meditation facilities.

The hotel - situated close to the sea - aims to be open throughout the year, taking advantage of the sunshine and mild winter climate, the management said.

Elia Latchi Holiday Village - that can accommodate 300 people - hopes to attract British, northern European and Middle Eastern customers.

Polis Chrysochous is due to see more development in the coming year with local authorities hoping this will help rejuvenate the area.

The Shacolas group, the largest private commercial group in Cyprus, owns a plot of about three million square metres in Limni, the site of the now defunct cop-

per mines where they plan to build two 18-hole golf courses, a 160 room five star hotel and luxury residences.

And long-delayed plans to upgrade the popular campsite might take place at the end of the year, Polis Chrysochous mayor Angelos Georgiou said.

The Indian investor who is revamping Elia Latchi Holiday Village has taken a wider interest in the area, a source said, adding however that connections need to be improved so that visitors can get to where they want to go on public transport.

Elia Latchi Holiday Village said they will have a new website up and running in the New Year for those interested in visiting.

A SPATE of burglaries were reported to police between Friday and the early hours of yesterday morning in the Famagusta district.

According to Larnaca Press Agency, one man reported to police that his flat in Dherynia had been burgled and a laptop worth €350 stolen. Based on witness testimony, a 28year-old man was arrested and a laptop found in his flat. Ayia Napa police are investigating the case.

In the Ayia Thekla region of Sotira, a holiday home was reported burgled with a television worth €1,000 stolen, along with a €200 media receiver.

Police are questioning two men, aged 25 and 31, in connection with the burglary.

Two more holiday homes in Protaras were also broken in to, with robbers making off with a €1,000 television from one of the homes, while nothing was reported stolen from the second.

Kiosks robbed HOODED MEN wielding knives and batons attempted to rob two kiosks in two separate incidents in the early hours of yesterday morning. The first armed robbery took place at 2.30am at a kiosk in Ifigenias Street when three hooded men armed with a knife and baton stole €3,000 from the till after beating the employee, who was taken to Nicosia general hospital for treatment.

At 4am, two hooded men tried to rob a kiosk on Kennedy Avenue, again using a knife. However, the owner resisted and the robbers ran off emptyhanded.

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POLICE ARRESTED over 40 people on Friday night in two gambling raids in Aradippou and Larnaca, seizing around €10,000, cards and tables used for gambling.

Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou said members of the crime prevention unit and rapid reaction force (MMAD) carried out a coordinated antigambling operation between 7pm and midnight on Friday.

During a search of one establishment in Aradippou police found nine people illegally gambling plus the owner of the premises present. The authorities confiscated €5,870, of which €1,000 was found hidden in the electricity meter, as well as playing cards and four tables.

All ten people were taken to Aradippou police station where they were charged and released pending a court hearing.

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lice unit, armed with a search warrant, raided a suspected gambling establishment on Athinon Avenue in Larnaca where they found 32 people engaged in illegal gambling plus the owner of the premises. Eight tables, playing cards and a total of €3,487 were seized as evidence by the police.

All 33 people were taken to Larnaca police station where they were charged and released, pending a court hearing.

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Central Bank lashes out at deputy critics Papadopoulos warns of recession lasting decades (Continued from front page) the governor of politicising the Central Bank: “From the moment he took office, he has behaved as the mouthpiece of party propaganda, trying to convince everyone that the ‘banks are to blame for everything and the government is not to blame for anything’.”

He further warned Demetriades that his actions will be subject to a parliamentary investigation with regard to the estimations and forecasts that have led to a non-sustainable figure for the recapitalisation needs of the banks and cooperatives.

“The amateur way in which the CB is handling these crucial issues is made clear by the fact that everyday they’re looking for new experts to calculate the figure needed to support the banking system.

But the damage has already been done. The problem is that the forecasts, estimates and assumptions that the CB and government have already agreed with the troika are part of the memorandum, leading us mathematically to a sum that will make Cyprus’ debt unsustainable,” said Papadopoulos.

He called on Demetriades to take the initiative to change the methods used to calculate Cyprus’ recapitalisation needs “if we want to avoid a haircut of Cyprus’ debt and the dissolution of its financial centre, privatisations, and a recession that will last decades”.

CBC spokeswoman Aliki Stylianou said yesterday that the supervisory authority was

Shiarly: bailout might not be signed by present government waiting on legal advice before making a final decision on the firm which will assess the due diligence review carried out

by Pimco.

A total of six firms have applied for the assessment work.

“We are committed to implementing certain procedures, which because of the Christmas holidays have delayed the selection process,” she said, adding that the firm will be announced next week.

The firm chosen will verify the methodology used by Pim-

co, and if the CBC gets its way, help the latter build counterarguments to Pimco’s estimation of the recapitalisation needs of the Cypriot banking system.

The memorandum with the troika which the government has reached preliminary agreement on stipulates that if the public debt is not sustainable “the Cyprus authorities will consider a privatisation programme for state-owned and semi-public companies”.

Pimco’s final report will be announced on January 15, just

Private health care crisis in Paphos PRIVATE health care is on the brink of collapse in the Paphos district, the head of the region’s medical association has said.

Speaking to the Cyprus News Agency, the head of the Paphos medical association Efstathios Efstathiou highlighted that the occupancy of private clinics in the district was currently at only five to ten per cent, meaning some were no longer sustainable and faced the threat of closure.

There are five private clinics in the Paphos region.

Efstathiou blamed the health ministry pushing both those entitled to free health

care and those who are not towards the state hospitals due to the economic crisis.

Private clinics were also coming under huge pressure in other districts of the island, he added.

Asked to comment on criticism that the costs of the private sector’s medical services were too high, Efstathiou said this was a myth, going so far as to claim that prices at private clinics were lower than the actual cost.

He argued that the Cyprus Medical Association has obliged private doctors to reduce their fees in an effort to survive.

six days before the Eurogroup finance ministers meet to discuss the Cyprus bailout.

Press reports have suggested that the main contender for the external consultancy job that will analyse Pimco’s methodology is US-company BlackRock. The chosen firm will have to deliver its report

by January 15.

BlackRock is a global investment manager and reportedly the world’s largest asset manager, with US$3.67 trillion in assets under management.

Meanwhile, speaking to state broadcaster CyBC yesterday, Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly did not rule out the possibilty that the bailout memorandum would not be signed by the present government.

“From our side, we are doing everything necessary to sign soon, but this will depend on the Eurogroup meeting,” he said, leaving the door open for the next government to put pen to paper.

Explosives and detonator found near president’s Kellaki holiday home POLICE ARE investigating a possible attempt on the life of President Demetris Christofias after 1.2kg of powerful explosives were found just 500m away from his holiday home in Kellaki yesterday.

According to police spokesman Andreas Angelides, at around 9.30am yesterday morning, police were informed that a car on the Pareklisias-Kellaki road, without registration plates, was seen near the president’s holiday residence.

The co-driver of the unmarked car was seen getting out of the vehicle and putting something under a tree.

On further investigation, police found 1.2kg of powerful explosives believed to be TNT in a bag and a detonator just 15 metres from the road, at about 500m from the president’s Kellaki residence, where he has often entertained high-profile visitors and heads of state during his presidency.

Limassol CID, explosives experts and police sniffer dogs were called to the area, while evidence was collected from the scene and taken

Christofias cancelled visit for forensic testing.

The detonator was not connected to the explosives, though according to reports, the latter could have been activated by remote control or mobile phone.

Angelides said the explosives were not hidden but in plain view. “Based on the results of preliminary investigations, they seem to be in excellent condition,” he said.

On the advice of the security services, the president who was due there in the afternoon cancelled his weekend trip to his country residence.

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2012 in Review

VITAL DECISIONS REMAIN TO BE MADE ON UTILISING GAS RESOURCES ● ‘ROOT AND BRANCH’ CLEAN-

Cyprus Mail staff look back at 2012, a year when suddenly we all had to understand terms like bank recapitalisation, troika and - even more ominously - a debt haircut

A looming gas power struggle

By Elias Hazou HIS TIME last year we wished that seriousness would prevail vis a vis the handling of the natural resources - the gas - with which the island is endowed. Alas, ‘twas not to be. If anything, things took a turn for the worse in 2012. A little troika here, a little electioneering there, and common sense took a hike - more than usual.

Irrespective of the financial crisis, the hoped-for bailout and the inflammatory rhetoric of looming elections, there are nagging signs that we are nowhere near ready to handle the plentiful bounty lying at the bottom of the sea. Certainly we talk the talk, but can we walk the walk?

For starters, the fundamental log pp p gistics do not appear to be in place.

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in charge of what. No one knows for sure when Noble Energy plans to do follow-up drilling at the Aphrodite well - this is slated in the first quarter of next year, according to the latest information - and the earliest date for export of domestic offshore gas has been pushed back to 2018.

Meantime, there’s a lot of chatter about the island becoming a regional energy hub, joint projects with the Israelis and the like. And the gas terminal and associated infrastructures, we are told, will create thousands of jobs. But given the specialised nature of the industry, which is more likely - that Cypriots with little to no experience will land the jobs, or that the companies will bring in skilled foreign workers?

Earlier this year, and in a bid to deprive the Christofias administration of controlling lucrative gas distribution contracts, parliament - with the exception of ruling AKEL - decided to split the job between the Natural Gas Public Company (DEFA) and the Energy Regulatory Authority (CERA). DEFA would import, distribute and supply natural gas locally, while CERA would be in charge of exporting natural gas, in addition to its regulatory role.

And what of the state hydrocarbons company, with the charming Greek acronym KRETYK? On its establishment back in October, the government said KRETYK would handle all aspects of natural gas, including its liquefaction, transport, export and import. There appears to be some overlap.

The earliest date for export of offshore gas has been pushed back to 2018 Earlier this month, an opposition-dominated parliament drove through a law stipulating that KRETYK would, inter alia, engage in the production-sharing contract with Noble Energy with regard to the extraction and exploitation of natural gas from Block 12 and engage in consultations with prospective investors concerning the construction of a terminal in Cyprus to liquefy natural gas.

The state will own the majority capital in KRETYK, which will be a private and not a public company, as per the government’s wishes; as such, the company’s budget would be submitted to the House but

would not require its approval.

Another compromise was struck whereby the company would be subjected to the oversight of the auditor-general; moreover parliament would need to approve the criteria for the appointment of the company’s executive board members - but have no say in the appointment of the persons themselves.

To some extent, these ups and downs could be attributed to the tradeoffs of the political/democratic process. To a neutral and cynical observer, it all smacks of a power struggle to determine which faction gets to ‘control’ the gas.

But beyond that there are trou-

bling signs. Given that KRETYK shall - God willing - be called upon to manage projects worth billions, some analysts are privately voicing reservations about the calibre of the people earmarked to run the company.

Then there was the whole racket about ‘pre-selling’ a part of Block 12, an idea championed by presidential candidate Giorgos Lillikas. The proposal - intended to raise cash fast and thus do away with the need for a state bailout - was summarily trashed by Lillikas’ adversaries.

After the dust had settled somewhat, energy chief Solon Kassinis explained two simple concepts: one, that in order to assign a monetary value to the prospect, its actual gas reserves must first be proved (currently they are only estimates); and two, even after said valuation, issuing an initial public offering would mean selling the block on the cheap.

Undeveloped and ‘raw’, the prospect might go for €10 billion; but with the infrastructure it could be worth double that, Kassinis said.

Last but not least, the heinous ‘troikans’ were said to be eyeing our gas. Were they? Yes and no. It does seem that the international lenders had proposed any proceeds go toward servicing the debt; but after negotiations the two sides reached an understanding, with the troika apparently convinced by the government’s argument that it needed to look at the longer-term picture.

Thus, the memorandum agreed with the troika strikes a balance, calling for the establishment of a resource fund to “receive and manage the public revenues of offshore gas exploitation”. In addition, it advocates that “clear rules governing inflows and outflows should be established as part of Cyprus’ budgetary framework, giving due respect to the need to develop the hydrocarbon industry, including the necessary infrastructure, the importance of bringing Cyprus’ public debt on a steady downward path and the need to invest for future generations.”

All in, the outlook is uncertain.

At times it feels as if it’s two steps back for every step forward. No doubt work is being done behind the scenes - and the second licensing round did garner a great deal of interest from oil powerhouses. But it’s hard to discern which direction we’re heading in.

Years of abuse have come to haunt us

By George Psyllides

2012: the year the troika came to town

THE ECONOMY is undoubtedly the biggest story of the year and will probably remain so for years to come.

There is no point delving into the causes of our economic collapse. They have been reported ad nauseam and are quite clear to the objective observer who opted not to pay attention to the bitter blame-game, the recriminations and the political cacophony the public has had to endure this past year.

Beyond the state profligacy, the woeful (mis) management of the economy, and bankers’ greed, there is one underlying cause for the mess.

It is best summed up by a couple of excerpts in a letter written by a Greek national to the Economist.

It was published in February and it was in response to the journal’s coverage of Greece’s economic woes.

With a couple of exceptions, one would only have to replace the word Greece with Cyprus to see why this country is going down the drain.

“The country has a corrupt political class, people who featherbed benefits for themselves and their preferred trade unions, (and) operate state-owned enterprises as vehicles for employing cronies rather than as businesses … “ Of course, one should also add the relationship between politics and economic interests in Cyprus.

The letter ends with the acknowledgement that “only foreign pressure for a root-and-branch clean-up of politics can allow Greece to start healing”.

Many people in Cyprus

have also come to the same conclusion, but not many say so in public.

The only thing people hear are politicians bemoaning the loss of national sovereignty because of the austerity and structural measures imposed by international lenders.

These are the same people who did absolutely nothing to correct wrongs over the years. Experts say that such changes must be undertaken when the economy is healthy and not during a downturn. And that’s next to impossible in Cyprus as no political party would dare do that.

And now they can blame everything on the troika not their fear of putting in place any meaningful measures lest they anger their voters.

Unfortunately, the majority of Cypriots have not yet realised that what the

island needs are leaders who are prepared to break the bad news to them and take painful decisions for the long-term good of the country.

Instead, this country is governed by crybabies who hide behind the people at the first sign of trouble.

This however is what happens when the whole political system is based on clientelism. Each time a person asks for a favour, a service, they only help perpetuate the sick system that got the country where it is today - economically and politically.

So maybe it is true: people do get the government they deserve.

In the past 12 months Cypriots have had to come to terms with the fact that the island’s booming economy is crumbling and they now have to adjust to a new reality: they will have to learn

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2012 in Review

UP NECESSARY TO FIX ECONOMIC WOES ● NORTH LINKED EVER TIGHTER TO THE ‘MOTHERLAND’

Cyprob takes a back seat Remember those innocent days when we used to care about the Cyprus problem? How long ago it all seems

By Stefanos Evripidou F YOU’RE reading this, it’s highly likely the world did not end on December 21 as the doomsayers predicted, which should be good news to most.

However, if the Mayans were right, and we all just fell off the cosmic cliff, congratulations!

Not only have you entered the seventh dimension, you also managed to take a copy of the Sunday Mail with you. Either that or you nabbed it free in the online ether world.

In any case, some bad news: the world is actually still turning and despite the relative improvements in personal hygiene over the centuries, it remains a pretty messed up place.

There was a time of bubbled bliss when residents of this island felt that the goings-on in the rest of the world had no impact on the place. When sun and olives ruled the day, when the intractable, unsolvable, never-ending Cyprus problem was all we ever cared about as we poured over politicians’ statements in the daily newspapers (remember those?), digesting their special recipes for solving and ending the Cyprus problem.

This no more friends.

We are soul migrants, drifting in a rickety boat in new waters, destination unknown.

This time last year, I questioned whether the Mari disaster would end up being the catalyst for true change, introducing responsible governance, transparency, accountability and greater civic participation.

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So, that didn’t happen.

The only civic movement we’ve seen much of is angry public sector workers demonstrating outside parliament against wage and benefit cuts while teachers bunk school to warn us of education’s sacrifice at the altar of fiscal austerity; all blissfully, or perhaps wilfully, unaware of the massive pressures private sector workers have been put under.

‘History will not be kind to Demetris Christofias.

No one ever doubted his desire to reach a solution, just his capacity to do so’ No, I have to say the year has not been a good one. The same responsibility-shifting infrastructures and unaccountable decision-making processes that Mari exposed for being riddled with dangerous holes have stayed true to

Common sight: demonstrating outside the House to live within their means.

To many, this will not come as a shock. The majority of those who endured the hardship that followed 1974

know the drill. Others may find it harder to digest, but going on strike or camping outside parliament will not change anything.

form, allowing the country to sink deeper into the pit, while the vultures of the financial crisis circle overhead.

And through all this, amnesiacs abound. The public continues to tolerate the same partisan, cheap, populist level of political debate that dominates the waves.

Hmm, and I was asked to write something light and funny...

So, for old time’s sake, let’s take a very brief look at how one issue developed in 2012.

The year started with the death of one of the most important players in the Cyprus problem world, Rauf Dentkash, whose last few breaths were reportedly spent speaking Greek.

According to his daughter, from his deathbed in the north, Denktash sent a message to Christofias in Greek telling him that “this is an independent republic”.

Ironically, Denktash’s protégé, Dervis Eroglu, has done much to ensure that the breakaway regime will never be independent, nor reunited

Demetris Christofias and Dervis Eroglu share a meal back in Janaury

in a common homeland. Instead, under the ‘fatherly’ or ‘motherly’ direction of Tayyip Erdogan, the daughterland or whatever you want to call it, has become increasingly and intricately meshed in an Islamic lattice more poignant for its inability to unravel than its beauty.

With the negotiations dead in the water, Eroglu has focused his time in power appealing to Muslim nations for recognition, shamelessly likening the Turkish Cypriots to Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.

Meanwhile, history will not be kind to Demetris Christofias. No one ever doubted his

desire to reach a solution, just his capacity to do so.

As for the next president, situation normal... Alexander Downer will soon conclude the game is over and tell the UN Security Council so, only to be told the game remains the same, it’s just the players that have to change.

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2012 in Review

DELVING INTO LIVES CAN THROW UP UNEXPECTED SURPRISES AMONG THE PREDICTABLE RESPONSES

Ordinary people usually make the best stories

Memorable profiles with only a few duds

By Theo Panayides USICIANS make good profiles. Politicians make terrible profiles. Undertakers, it turns out, make superb profiles. Artistic types in general - theatre actors, avant-garde filmmakers, visiting choreographers - are a safe bet, but almost too articulate for their own good; you always feel they’ve said it all before, in previous interviews. Chinese people tend to fall back on bland generali-

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ties while in profile mode, based on my limited experience of Chinese subjects. Rwandans will chuckle good-naturedly even when recounting the most awful stories, based on my equally limited experience of Rwandans.

I profiled 42 people for the Sunday Mail in 2012. They included my firstever Chinese profilee, Shanghai-born acupuncturist Cai Weizhou, and my first Rwandan: Dr Naasson Munyandamutsa, director of the Institute of Research and Dialogue for Peace in Rwanda, who lost almost his entire

Brother undertakers Paul (left) and George Melas

family in the genocide of 1994. This year I also spoke to my first Nobel Prize winner - Sir Tim Hunt, cowinner of the medicine prize in 2001 - and my first Oscar winner, actress Olympia Dukakis who greeted me with a gravelly “So, whaddaya wanna talk about?”.

We also had - inter alia - a former minister (Michalis Sarris), an Olympic marathon runner (Ron Hill), a Michael Jackson impersonator (Navi), a Greek TV heart-throb (Alexis Georgoulis), a celebrity chef (Pericles Roussounides), an American punk band (the Black Lips), a Greek plastic surgeon (Ioannis Lyras), a renowned magician (Aladin), a woman who’s running for president (Makaria Andri Stylianou), and a Russian forex trader (Andrey Dashin, of Alpari in Limassol) whose company’s monthly trading volume is in excess of $210 billion!

Did I truly delve into their lives?

Hard to say. The ethics of profilewriting are different from the ethics of news stories. An investigative reporter is locked in a fundamentally adversarial relationship with their subject; there’s a thing called the Truth which is independent of both parties, and one seeks it out while the other (often) tries to hide it.

In a profile, on the other hand, the Truth is located in the actual person. The deal you implicitly make is that they’ll be themselves, so you can give an accurate account of their personality - and you, in return, won’t trample on their honesty by passing judgement or causing embarrassment.

Maybe that’s why ordinary people make the best profiles. Not every

Among 2012’s profiles were vet Andreas Artemiou (above) actress Olympia Dukakis and former finance minister Michalis Sarris

time, of course. I had a couple of duds this year, lives that were just too ordinary to transmute into drama. But I still recall sitting in a garden in Old Nicosia with Savvas ‘Chachos’ Kyriakou six months after doctors told him he had only five days to live (!), or sitting in another garden in Maroni as former accountant Brian Lait meticulously laid out his criticisms of the electricity authority, or sitting in the office of vet Andreas Artemiou and being constantly interrupted by a stream of distraught pet-owners, or sitting in the tiny studio of Osho meditation teacher Dinos Tellalis as

he claimed to have “a deviant sexuality” and told tales of hitch-hiking to India in his hippie days.

Then there was my afternoon with the aforementioned undertakers, brothers George and Paul Melas, when they laughed and philosophised amiably - then I stood discreetly at a distance for a couple of minutes as the brothers prepared a dead body for embalming (I can still see the expression on the dead woman’s face) with the practised air of another day at the office. Now that was a memorable profile.

QUOTES OF 2012 “Everyone must understand that they will face difficulties in the next two, three years, but I don’t believe any pub c servant se a public will starve if a part of their wages is cut. We need to get a grip on

reality and not have our heads in the clouds if this country is to move forward” Archbishop Chrysostomos “Disability benefit, which is a pitiful €337 [per month] is being reduced to €330, so of course this will affect us because we can’t work to make a living and we depend on benefits” Protester Andreas Potamitis

“I am the last person who will attempt to idealise this memorandum and attempt to whitewash things ... there are many measures which are truly painful, and measures which, under other circumstances I would not even discuss” President Demetris Christofias “Those speaking against the bailout will be engaging in poor populism and I am sure people will

punish them come the (presidential) elections” Former President George Vassiliou (left) “We’re not too big to fail, and we need to start grasping that” Dr Theodore Panayotou director of the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM) “The communication tactic based on Lenin’s saying that a lie told often enough becomes the truth is well known” Former central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides (right) hits out at AKEL smear campaign

Tassos Papadopoulos, ADISOK, AKEL, Lillikas the independent, EDEK’s Lillikas or all together?”

DISY spokesman Haris Georgiades

advisory board linked to Merkel’s centre-right Christian Democrats on Cyprus taking over the presidency while asking for a bailout

“I feel incredible, wonderful.

I am so proud of all the Cypriot people and my family” Cypriot Olympic medallist Pavlos Kontides

“And so we empty Praxoulla’s bag. It’s my personal opinion and experience that unfortunately the state is unable to accept women in policy-making positions.

We still have some way ahead of us” Former commerce minister Praxoulla Antoniadou

“What we have seen … is that your fiscal system is worse than what we expected” European Commission representative Maarten Verwey to lawmakers

“There are marriages that come from romances and there are marriages that come from matchmaking and dowries” Presidential candidate Stavros Malas on a possible DISY-DIKO alliance

“I call on the president to clarify whether I am God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit’ DISY number two Averof Neophytou in response to President Demetris Christofias’ reference to him as one of the Holy Trinity who brought the troika to Cyprus

“How many versions of the same Lillikas can fit in the one bus, the Lillikas who associated with former president Giorgos Vassiliou, former president

“This is the paradox of the European Union, that the dog should be put in charge of the supply of sausages!” Kurt Lauk, president of the economic

“In jail I quickly realised and understood the evil I had done to the victims of my actions and their families and friends. I bitterly regret what I did” Andreas Aristodimou, the first lifer to be released on parole “Sometimes the media and journalists have the ability to get into our heads and take things out that we haven’t thought of yet” EVROKO leader Demetris Syllouris “If you abandon the banking system it means

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POLICE GAMBLING CLAMPDOWN NETTED GRANNIES, POKER TOURNANMENT PLAYERS AND BUSKERS

Defiant gambling grannies Attempted police prosecution of elderly gamblers was reported with disbelief worldwide

By Poly Pantelides HILE politicians and bankers have been busy gambling with our economy, police launched a clampdown this year on those playing for far lower stakes: card-playing grannies and buskers.

It started in early March when dozens of gambling grannies - most of them in their seventies - were summoned to appear in court for a crime committed back in 2009.

Gambling is illegal in Cyprus and the law is the law, or as police spokesman Andreas Angelides said, the “police did their duty” when they raided a home in the coastal town of Limassol in November 2009 and arrested 44 women whose ages ranged from sixty-something to 95.

They were indeed gambling.

The group met regularly to play rummy for a few euros and police were called in after the neighbours had complained about the noise, Angelides said.

“We followed the law. We examined the case, conducted our investigations and the case is now out of our

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you are abandoning your economy” Finance minister Vassos Shiarly “Why is it that [the number of] CyBC’s staff exceeds the people employed in all the private channels combined?” DIKO MP Nicolas Papadopoulos “No matter what we say, we cannot accurately portray society’s anger, abhorrence and revulsion” Larnaca Criminal Court sentencing gynaecologist, Stelios Stylianou to 26 years in jail for raping his patients

hands,” Angelides said on the day the news broke that these elderly ladies were to be dragged to court.

The incredible story was picked up by the wire agencies and travelled the world.

The Huffington Post focused on the oldest gambler, who turned 98 this year while the Toronto Sun placed the story under its ‘weird’ news category.

During the raid, some women ran to hide but were caught by the sharp-eyed police. Others were not so fussed.

“One lady told a police officer: ‘Wait a minute son. Let us finish our hand’,” said Yioula Diakantoni whose mother was the eldest and was among the 42 summoned to appear to court.

The remaining two women had died before the court appearance.

CASH CONFISCATED The women were all charged in writing and 546 chips, 530 playing cards and about €100 in cash in total were confiscated.

Diakantoni’s mother, Eftychia Yiassemidou was just shy of 98, when she received the court order and the tenacious lady was playing

“[Skordelli] had a photo in 2008 [of Hadjicostis], that she gave to a psychic, through which positive energy was sent so that she could have sexual relations with him” Prosecution witness, Nicosia police Inspector Marios Papaevridiadis

cards when the Cyprus Mail called her for a comment on her case. She would carry on playing cards “and whoever likes it likes it”, she said.

Though the police clearly did not like it, the attorneygeneral who found out about the case from the media, sensibly used his constitutional power to suspend prosecution.

“I would never have allowed this case to go forward… especially since the ‘crime’ took place in November 2009,” Attorney-general Petros Clerides said.

Though it was a lucky escape for the gambling grannies, the police had not finished their crusade and by July the police were busy again, this time when the ‘criminals’ got in touch.

The Cyprus Poker Federation thought that they were within the bounds of the law when they set up and registered the group with the government, careful to offer no prize money during games, so they would stay on the law’s good side. They informed authorities three weeks in advance that they would be holding trials to select a team for an international poker tournament in London, informing them that the only money to pass hands would be the contestants’ membership fee.

Nevertheless, the police raided the Limassol and Larnaca trials and confiscated chips, playing cards and all money present.

“From the moment there is money present, the game is considered a crime, and those present are gamblers,” Angelides said.

The poker federation does compete in championships and was recently ranked 9th out of 18 countries in the European championship, although they have to keep off the radar in Cyprus. A question still looms over charges with the Limassol police promising to forward the

Meeting for cards and a chat remains illegal if money changes hands

case to the attorney-general although a barrage of emails and questions on their status remain unanswered. Larnaca police have been nonresponsive and it is not clear whether or not they intend to forward the case to court.

And then, as the year edged toward its end, the police pounced on buskers.

In November, two overzealous police officers spotted a

group of busking musicians during a festival in Nicosia that had been given the goahead by the municipality.

The festival’s organiser got an €85 fine on a pink slip used for traffic offences for “illegal fundraising”. Once the incident was picked up by the media and came to the attention of Nicosia police chief Kypros Michaelides, he apologised and set a proce-

dure in motion to annul the fine.

A word of warning however, the media will not always be there to save you, and the police warned last week they would be keeping a very close eye on coffee shops and public spaces over Christmas and the New Year for those tempted to gamble.

The bankers, meanwhile, have been left alone.

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Members of our staff review the past year in terms of the stand-out books PRESTON WILDER

Amusing: Men In Black 3

Film critic FILMS/TV: I watch films for work, so 2012 wasn’t lacking in highlights, but here’s a contrast to consider. I watched Men in Black 3 on holiday in Hong Kong (it was raining), on a gih no expectagantic IMAX screen, with tion except to be mindlessly amused – but still enjoyed it less than an arty little film called Museum Hours which I watched in a he Thessalocrowded video room at the g in front of a niki Film Festival, sitting tiny TV with my elbows propped up to screen my peripheral vision from the journalists sitting on either side of me.

Proof that it’s all about the content, not the bells and whistles. 3D isn’t going to save you, Hollywood!

But the best – and most sadly relevant – quote came from Memories of Underdevelopment, a 1968 Cuban masterpiece I re-watched last month after 20 years: “My life is like a monstrous vegetable, with enormous leaves and no fruit”. Excuse me, I think I’m going to cry now…

MUSIC: I was listening to Alt-J before they won the Mercury Prize (courtesy of my friend Haris, who still reads the NME after all these years), and ‘Breezeblocks’ may be my most-played song of 2012 – though I also sang along with the mad Swedish girlies of Icona Pop: “I crashed my car into the bridge, and I DON’T CARE!”. Special mention to a band called Of Monsters and Men, whose catchy ‘Little Talks’ was all over the radio – even though they hail from a small town in Iceland with a total population of 1,400 people. Why can’t Cypriot villagers conquer the charts like that?

BOOKS: I spent much of the year wrestling with DH Lawrence’s Women in Love (I actually put it down, read another book, then picked it up again), a thorny tangle of philosophy and transcendental sex which was often indigestible yet also shows how dumbed-down our literary culture is today; even acclaimed Booker-nominated novels like (say) Cloud Atlas are nowhere near as uncompromising.

That said, I’ve already bought Hilary Mantel’s bestselling Wolf Hall for 2013.

ALEXANDER MCCOWAN Restaurant critic BOOKS: A very good year for reading material. A remarkable find was the two-volume autobiography of Lord Berners, one of the great English eccentric aesthetes, who records his contacts with Stravinsky, Diaghilev, Picasso, Cocteau, the Mitfords and Evelyn Waugh; the writing is only matched by Paddy Leigh Fermor. The book shop at St Paul’s Cathedral is a gold mine for the discerning reader, in March I purchased John Betjeman’s Ghastly Good Taste, a National Trust publication journeying through the Tudor revivals, Garden Cities, Art Nouveau and the many monstrosities of public architecture. A stun-

All about the content, ning good read was Naval Yarns, an account of Royal Naval battles between 1616 and 1831 written by the participants, who would find modern warfare rather prissy. Finally, courtesy of Keith Davies, a former security man, was The Storm Birds, an account of the Soviet post-war defectors. It reveals how the allies were thunderstruck to discover that their ally ‘Uncle Joe’ was spying on them long before WW2 and in some cases actually refused to believe it.

MUSIC: On the music front I am always obliged to Bojana and Nened who keep me abreast of all that is best in modern music. I was overwhelmed by the latest Arvo Part performed by the Hilliard ensemble, and the exquisite production of Byrd, Morley and Purcell by counter tenor Michael Chance and the viola da gamba ensemble.

FILM/TV: This year was a classic for foreign detective series, all featuring female leads: Fringe, The Killing and, courtesy of Brian Kelly, Engrenage.

All very well written, acted and exciting. However, one is concerned that if the main protagonist is a woman she has to be portrayed as paranoid, manically depressed, manipulative or completely immoral. It never happened in Kojak.

Easy listening: Alt-J

AL DAVIDIAN

How I Met Your Mother

Sub editor Another year of attempted self-improvement comes to an end…

BOOKS: Among the books that took up residence on (mostly) my Kindle, (fairly often) computer screen and (frequently) - to alleviate waiting in line - inside my backpack, The $100 Start-Up by Chris Guillebeau, The Start-Up of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha and The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman were stand outs.

Guillebeau offers entertaining case studies of small and larger-scale businesses that took off when need and creativity intersected with opportunity; Hoffman and Casnocha illustrate personal branding strategies and the leverage offered by, among other networks, LinkedIn; Kaufman elaborates on the needful phases, avoidable pitfalls and expedited workflow involved in commerce. No surprises in terms of content, but a definite thumbs-up for its arrangement and communication.

There was also the excellent and inspiring Brain Power by Michael J. Gelb and Kelly Howell and the 4-Hour Body by Timothy Ferriss, both of which, in their own inimitable way, take on and debunk myths about ageing, decline and physical potential, heralding the opportunities for going beyond perceived limitation.

But what stayed most with me was The Memory Chalet by the late historian Tony Judt. Devoured in one greedy bite while flying out to New York, this is a posthumously published memoir by a brilliant and fearless mind contemplating its untimely end, musing on a life spent in the courageous, at times iconoclastic, pursuit of ‘truth’.

MUSIC: As for music, Rachmaninov has been a welcome companion in the car, interspersed with Billy Joel, David Bisbal and a smattering of Toru Takemitsu.

FILMS/TV: Films? Not nearly enough of them seen, but Scorsese’s Goodfellas, Kubrick’s Lolita and Welles’ Magnificent Ambersons were a punch to the gut and a creative call to arms - craft, style, pathos, sly humour and a searing buffet of all-you-can-eat self-undoing.

PETER STEVENSON Reporter FILMS/TV: The year that passed was the year of watching endless TV series for me, despite also trying to complete a PGCE, coaching young kids at the Arsenal Academy here in Nicosia, and coaching Ararat in the futsal championship. I’d watched a few series in previous years, but nothing as religiously as over the last 12 months. Looks like the onset of married life (my wife and I tied the knot in 2011) is turning me into a full-blown couch potato.

I set the bar pretty high when I decided to watch the series considered by many to be the greatest ever made, The Wire. What is there left to say about The Wire, it definitely set a sky-high standard for every-

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they have read, films they have watched and music they have listened to Couch potato fodder: Game of Thrones and (left) Once Upon A Time

not the bells and whistles them a week later. I was introduced to The Weeknd, who is very different to anything else out there right now but I also listened to the music I have on my phone. That includes John Mayer (his older stuff, as he’s ), Lifegone far too mainstream now), e Script and the house, Coldplay, The n. brilliant Ed Sheeran.

DAPHNE VRACHIMI CHIMI

As far as films go, I’ve been desperately trying to catch up with 2012 film releases, but all I’ve managed so far is to watch Blue Valentine, 50/50 and the hilarious Bridesmaids for the umpteenth time.

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thing else I watched afterwards. As far as American drama series are concerned, the ones I particularly enjoyed were Californication, Game of Thrones, Lost, Homeland and most recently The Walking Dead. The BBC’s two detective series Luther and Sherlock also go down as being some of the most enjoyable series I watched during 2012. Sitcom-wise, I continued my quest to see who is finally going to be Ted’s wife in How I Met Your Mother but also came across some really funny new series.

My favourite one has to be New Girl, starring Zooey Deschanel, with 2 Broke Girls coming in a close second.

If you were to guess that the cushions on my sofa are shaped anatomically because I spend most of my free time watching TV series, you wouldn’t be wrong.

BOOKS: Having spent most of my free hours watching TV series, there wasn’t time left to do much else. I did get round to reading Apathy by Paul Neilan as my brother recommended it to me due to its similarity to one of my favourite films, Office Space.

MUSIC: I can’t say I’ve listened to much music during the year, or should I say memorable music. There are plenty of pop songs that are (yes) popular and stick in your head for a while, but you can’t even remember

MUSIC: It’s only been en a mildly sic-wise for me. interesting year music-wise My playlist has very much stayed the he year, with the same throughout the wing obsession exception of my growing for The Civil Wars, Ed Sheeran and atrical Paloma the sensational, theatrical s’ ‘Falling’ and Faith. The Civil Wars’ re definitely on ‘Barton Hollow’ were t, along with top of my repeat list, Faith’s ‘Picking up the Pieces’ and air’. My song for ‘30 Minute Love Affair’. y an easy choice: the year is definitely d Sheeran. If you ‘Give me Love’ by Ed usic video, I sughaven’t seen the music gest you do. It’s so beautifully sad. pletion of my disFILM/TV: The completion sertation last Easterr definitely got me hooked on the harder when I became ive Once Upon unbelievably addictive ve predicted my A Time. I should have possible obsession with the show, m the creators knowing it came from aracters living in of Lost. Fairytale characters k under a curse the real world, stuck ng who they and not remembering are – the idea is so original I was hing. bound to start watching.

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It never fails to deliver.

I have to say, I neverr thought I’d want to m copy something from a TV Show, but the actual existence of a “Douchebag Jar” on the show has Brilliant: Ed Sheeran changed my mind.

Creative call to arms: Magnificent Ambersons coming. I want to know II’ll always have another book at th the ready once I finish one.

What I’ve read and love loved this year is an unlikely mixture of Douglas Coupland’s Life After Go God, Stephen Fry’s Paperweight, which has kept me good company as a lazy l Sunday read and Marian Keye Keyes’ beautifully strange Brightest S Star in the Sky. I am curre currently reading the unexpec unexpected and very we warmly welcomed new Rowl JK Rowling book, Cas The Casual Vacancy.

There’ something There’s about Rowling’s writin that writing make you want makes d to desperately rea the last reach pa and at page th same time the w wish you were o the first on p page again.

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The world didn’t end and there is some hope for democracy after all

By Gwynne Dyer

September saw Arctic sea ice cover fall to its lowest ever level

T

O BEGIN on a happy note, the world didn’t end this year. December 21 came and went without a sign of the Four Horsemen, leaving the Mayans (or rather their ancestors) with egg all over their faces. It just goes to show the perils of prediction - but why would we let that deter us? Nobody is keeping score.

So, instead of the usual trek through the events of the past year, why don’t we use this year-ender to examine the entrails of recent events for portents of the future? Like, for example, the vicissitudes of the Arab revolutions in the past twelve months.

On one hand, there were the first truly free elections in modern Egyptian history.

On the other hand, judges inherited from the old regime dismissed the lower house of parliament on a flimsy pretext, and then the Islamist president retaliated by ramming through a new constitution that entrenched conservative “Islamic” values against the will of more than a third of the population. Is this glass half full or half empty?

On one hand, Libyans managed to hold a free election even though the country is still overrun by various militias, and Yemen finally bid farewell to its dictator of thirtyodd years. On the other hand, Syria has fallen into a full-scale civil war, with government planes bombing city centres and 40,000 dead. Did the “Arab spring” succeed, or did it fail?

Well, both, of course. How could it have been otherwise, in a world of fallible human beings? But the mould has been broken, and already half of the world’s Arabs live in countries that are basically democratic.

The political game is being played pretty roughly in some Arab countries, but that’s quite normal in new democracies - and in some older ones, too. In the years to come the transformation will deepen, amidst much further turbulence, and most Arab countries will emerge from it as normal, highly imperfect democracies. Just like most of the world’s other countries.

The European Union staggered through a year during which the common currency of the majority of its members, the euro, tottered permanently on the brink of collapse.

The financial markets have been talking all year about “Grexit”, the expected, almost inevitable withdrawal of Greece from the eurozone, and speculating on which country would leave next.

They thought it would be Spain for most of the year, but Silvio Berlusconi’s decision to run for office again - “The Return of the Undead”, one European paper called it switched the spotlight to Italy in November. The possibility that the common currency might simply fall apart, and take the political unity of the European Union with it, could no longer be dismissed.

Meanwhile, secessionist movements flourished in major EU states. In Spain, both Catalonia and the Basque region elected provincial governments committed to holding referendums on independence.

The United Kingdom and the recently devolved Scottish government agreed on the terms of a referendum to be held on Scottish independence in 2014. And in Belgium, Flemish threats to secede seemed more plausible than usual.

It’s a mess, in other words, and Europe certainly faces years of very low economic growth. But the EU was always mainly a political project, intended to end centuries of devastating wars in Europe, and the euro was invented to reinforce that political union.

That project still has the firm support of the political elites in almost all EU countries, and they will pay whatever price is necessary to save it. Even in the regions considering secession from their current countries, there is no appetite for leaving the EU. Indeed, the strongest argument of the anti-secessionists is to say that those regions would have to re-apply for EU membership if they got their independence, rather than just inheriting it automatically.

So the European Union will survive, and will even recover its financial stability eventually. It will also remain a major economic player in the world, athough the centre of gravity of the global economy will continue to shift towards Asia. There is even reason to think that Asia’s triumph will arrive somewhat later, and in a rather more muted fashion, than the enthusiasts have been predicting in recent years.

In the last months of 2012 China went

It was business as usual ‘The political game is being played pretty roughly in some Arab countries, but that’s quite normal in new democracies - and in some older ones, too’ through the ten-yearly ritual in which power is handed on to a new generation of leaders, and both Japan and South Korea elected new right-wing governments. North Korea, the nuclear-armed rogue state that lies between them, put its first satellite into orbit, thus demonstrating its ability to build long-range ballistic missiles. And China was almost continuously embroiled in border disputes with its neighbours (Vietnam, the Philippines, Malaysia) in the South China Sea. The cloud on the horizon is still “no bigger than a man’s hand”, but it is definitely there. We can hope that the world works differently nowadays, and in some ways it really does, but the fears, the nationalist passions, and even the strategic relationships in Asia are coming to resemble those in Europe a century ago, on the eve of the First World War. Even if an equivalent war never actually happens in Asia, a growing share of the region’s resources may be wasted on military spending. And if there ever were a real war, the destruction would be so great, given current weapons technologies, that the region could lose several decades’ worth of growth. But it will be some years yet before we know if the region is really drifting in that direction.

The world’s drift towards global catastrophe due to climate change is becoming impossible to deny. This northern summer saw prolonged droughts and heat waves ravage crops from the US Midwest to the

Clockwise from left: Barack Obama’s reelection in November, a young Syrian refugee in Jordan, and Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi signs a decree to put into effect the new constitution in Cairo

plains of Russia, and soaring food prices as the markets responded to shortages in food supply.

This September saw Arctic sea ice cover fall to its lowest ever level: only half of the total area covered by ice in September ten years ago. And October saw Hurricane Sandy devastate much of the US east coast, causing a hundred deaths and over $30 billion in damage. It was the second-costliest tropical storm in American history (after Katrina, in New Orleans, seven years ago).

Yet the global response is as feeble as ever.

The annual round of global negotiations on cutting greenhouse gas emissions, held

this December in Qatar, merely agreed that they would try to get some sort of deal by 2015. Even if they do, however, it won’t go into effect until 2020.

So for the next eight years the only legal constraint on warming will be the modest cuts in emissions agreed at Kyoto fifteen years ago. Moreover, those limits only apply to the old industrial powers. There are no limits whatever on the rise of emissions by the fast-growing economies of the emerging industrial powers in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Even lemmings usually act more wisely than this.

November brought a week of massive Israeli air and missile strikes against the Gaza Strip, allegedly in retaliation for Palestinian missile attacks against Israel, but the tit-for-tat has been going on for so long that it’s pointless to discuss who started it.

And nothing Israel does can stop the growing support for a Palestinian state: in late November the United Nations General Assembly granted Palestine non-voting observer state status by a vote of 138-9.

More worrisome was the threat of Israeli air strikes on Iran, supposedly to stop it from getting nuclear weapons. That would be a very big war if it started: the United

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Syrian rebels take on President Assad’s forces in Aleppo earlier this week

People carrying bags with donated food, clothing and toys for the needy in Athens

States would almost inevitably get dragged in, the flow of oil from the Gulf states would stop, and the world economy would do a nosedive.

But there is no proof that Iran is currently working on nuclear weapons (the US and Israeli intelligence services both say no), and mere air strikes would not cripple Iran’s nuclear industry for long. So the whole issue is probably an Israeli bluff.

A bluff to what end? To get the rest of the world to impose severe economic sanctions against Iran, in the hope that they will cause enough pain to get Iranians to overthrow the present regime. The damage is certainly being done - the value of the Iranian rial collapsed this year - but the power

the next week or so), and strong growth will give Obama enough political capital to undertake at least one big reform project.

The highest priority is obviously global warming, but there is a danger that he will fritter his resources away on hot-button issues like gun control.

So much for the big themes of the year.

There was also the usual scatter of promising changes like Burma’s gradual return to democracy, the start of peace talks that may bring an end to the 60-year-old war between government and guerillas in Colombia, and the return to the rule of law in

of the ayatollahs is unshaken. They will not be overthrown, and there will not be a war.

I think.

And then there’s the United States, where Barack Obama, having accomplished little except health care reform in his first presidential term, was re-elected anyway.

The Republican candidate concentrated his campaign on Obama’s slow progress in overcoming the deepest recession in seventy years (which had been caused by the previous Republican administration), but just in time the numbers started to turn upward for Obama.

The economic recovery will probably strengthen in the coming year (unless the United States falls off the “fiscal cliff ” in

growing areas of anarchic Somalia.

Business as usual, in other words. 2012 wasn’t a particularly bad year; if you think it was, you’ve been reading too many newspapers and watching too much CNN. Their stock-in-trade is crisis and tragedy, so you can always count on them to give you the worst news possible. It wasn’t all that great a year either, but never mind. There’ll be another one along shortly.

Gwynne Dyer is an independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

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Opinion

Our world has collapsed and we must refashion it The year 2012 will be remembered as the year in which the Cyprus economic miracle we smugly boasted about finally collapsed. The old certainties that made life so easy, such as full employment, job security, rising living standards, easy credit have all vanished into thin air replaced by constantly rising, long-term unemployment, soup kitchens, the monthly provision of food supplies to poor families, that increase by the day, and drastic wage cuts.

The island’s biggest and most robust business, the Bank of Cyprus, needs a few billion for re-capitalisation while Laiki Bank requires far, far more; the biggest supermarket chain Orphanides is insolvent and its fate is in the hand of its creditors, some of whom stand to lose several millions if it is left to sink. There were record bankruptcies this year and never before have there been so many empty shops, with ‘To let’ signs, on our high streets.

We would love to say that we

have hit rock bottom this year and things can only improve in 2013, but that would be ultraoptimistic.

There is still the issue of the sustainability of the public debt to be tackled - which will make the privatisation of semigovernmental organisations an imperative - before the memorandum is sent for approval to the Euro group and then to national parliaments. We may be forced to make additional cuts, but, more worryingly, there could also be pressure to raise our corporate tax, on the pretext of combating money-laundering - German politicians could set such a condition for approving the memorandum.

The issue might not arise, or if it does, our government could successfully make a case against it, but we should still consider the worst-case scenario on making future plans. After all, there is no guarantee that Cyprus will remain a financial services centre indefinitely. This is a

SundayMail very competitive sector and we could lose business to other countries in the not so distant future so it would not hurt to be prepared. Even if it never happens, developing other sectors of the economy would benefit the country.

The current economic model which has served Cyprus very well over the years, bringing unprecedented affluence and constantly rising high living standards, is no longer viable. We can no longer sustain growth through bank credit and big deficits that ensured employees of the broader public sector had abundant disposable income for consumption. Nor can we rely on the property market as that bubble has burst and we have already entered a major readjustment period.

It is an imperative that we use the collapse of the economy and the disappear-

ance of the old certainties to build a new economic model for growth and development.

We should stop putting all our resources in the services sector and start producing more, focus on long-term rather than going for quick profit solutions that rarely last. Commentators and presidential candidates alike have spoken about the need for innovation, for more research funding, new technology and so forth.

This is, undoubtedly, the way forward but it will not be achieved by the wave of a wand or by paying lip service to it. We need to have a plan. We must prepare the ground, change attitudes and values, reduce red tape and offer incentives. But we will not succeed unless we reform education. Our schools must cease producing risk-averse graduates whose only ambition is to secure a safe public sector job that would ensure them an easy and comfortable professional life. They need to start producing risk-takers,

encouraging individualism and adventurousness and rewarding original thinking. We can have the biggest proportion of university graduates per population size in the world, but their contribution to the economy will be minimal if they are afraid to be creative and innovative.

There are people saying that before long the money from natural gas will start coming in and things will return to normal. It would be a big mistake to take this approach, as it would encourage keeping our old ways and attitudes under the illusion that the old certainties will somehow be restored. There is no guarantee that natural gas revenues will start flowing any time soon, which is why we should seize the opportunity offered by the collapse of our economic model to build a new economy that is powered by risk-taking and innovation. And work on that new project must start in 2013 as soon as the new government is sworn in.

It’s time for two painful, yet vital New Year’s resolutions A

S THE New Year dawns upon this beautiful island of ours, we should make a firm New Year’s resolution to change a certain mindset and behaviour that has its roots in five hundred years of history and is a cause of our current economic predicament. We should stop trading influence and peddling favours, a practice best described by the Turkish word rousfeti, whereby asynchronous favours are exchanged to secure votes, jobs, promotions, favourable treatment, positions of power and other advantages which are not obtainable strictly on merit.

A second New Year’s resolution we should make is to stop living beyond our means and splurging on borrowed money we cannot afford or we do not intend to repay. Securing cushy and well-paid jobs through favours and large loans by mortgaging the future creates artificial prosperity and complacency in the short run and a disaster in the long-run.

COLONIAL LEGACY A culture of “bribing one’s way to a comfortable life” took hold in Cyprus during 400 years of Ottoman rule when you could buy favours from the rulers through bribes and kickbacks. You could buy a measure of freedom, the good life and even power over others if you got to know and co-opt the right people (the rulers and their cronies) through subservience and exchange of favours.

This practice survived through 80 years of British colonial rule to become the unofficial trademark and modus operandi of Cypriot society. Independence and more than 50 years of self-rule have changed many things but not this culture of trading influence and favours. In fact, it has been reinforced and turned into a form of unofficial social and eco-

I will stop peddling favours. I will stop splurging on borrowed money I will never be able to repay nomic “currency” that survived the change of four official currencies: the Turkish lira, the British pound, the Cyprus pound, and more recently the euro; it is a currency that needs no Central Bank and no monetary policy to support it. Not even our accession to EU and our entry into the eurozone have changed this culture very much.

Officially, and on the surface, there are processes and procedures. There are qualifications and criteria. There are scales and schemes of service which are being followed religiously.

But, like religion, many are those that claim to abide by the faith and keep its forms and rituals, but few are those who uphold its teaching and behave accordingly.

Underneath the surface little has changed; it is mostly business as usual. You acquire the qualifications (degrees, years of service etc) to meet the formal requirements and then you use your connections and influence to win appointments and to climb the ladder, regardless of merit.

If positions are not available, they can always be created to accommodate all those who have invested sufficiently in connections and influence to have a “legitimate” claim on rousfeti by the beneficiaries of personal gain or party affiliation. And all this is not restricted to the wider public sector; it has been extended to the banking sector and to much of the private sector.

Of course, very few would ever admit to using connections and trading influence to ask for or receive favours such as well-paying jobs and promotions or to win public tenders, or special privileges. In a recent survey more

Comment Theodore Panayotou than 90 per cent of the respondents denied that they have ever asked, received or given rousfeti, when everyone readily declares that over 90 per cent of the people do it.

This result has only two explanations. Either the sample was unrepresentative of the general population or rousfeti has become so ingrained in our culture and our DNA that it is not considered rousfeti anymore but the way we do business the Cyprus way. It permeates everything. We reached the point of wanting a bonus (a sort of a present or extra reward) for doing even the job we have been hired and paid a salary to do. In some jobs, we reach the point of claiming and receiving a bonus for good behaviour!

A second, more recently ingrained trait of our mindset and culture is to live on borrowed money way beyond our means.

In the last couple of decades, we have added to the time-honoured tradition of “eating as if there is no tomorrow” the “building of houses as if we will live for ever”!

And, not one house but two, a second for our summer retreat and for a good measure of our nouveau riche status, even if it is based on borrowed money.

In this way, we built up private debt to the tune of the tens of billions of euros in loans, much of which we stopped servicing without consequence, having managed to pass laws that protect

RESOLVE AND FORTITUDE

that our thoughtless extravagance has brought upon the country and its people. Giving and sharing, which has always been one of the good traits of our culture, must be redoubled in these tough times, not curtailed on account of the loss of a few of our luxuries.

Borrowing or “bribing” our way to an opulent life with minimal work effort may be viewed as “being smart and strategic” by a society that has lost much of its moral fibre to consumerism and a show off culture. But the bills become due one day and that day is now. Maybe we cannot do much to avoid paying the cost of past imprudence but we can put an end to its rise from now on. We owe it to ourselves; we owe it to our children; we owe it to future generations and our beautiful island.

Let us then all make a resolution, even better take an oath, that going forward we will refrain from asking or giving favours (rousfeti) to anybody for anything and work to establish a sound economy and a truly fair society based on hard work and merit; on what we know and can do, not whom we know and suck up to. At the same time we should swear off living beyond our means and spending extravagantly with borrowed money we cannot repay.

As we are preparing to welcome the New Year we must find inside us the resolve and the fortitude to rid ourselves of our insatiable greed to accumulate and pile up inactive wealth, our impatience to over consume and waste, and our burning desire to “keep up with the Jones” and show off our opulence. We should rediscover our compassion and solidarity for those less fortunate than us and those who will truly suffer from the austerity measures and the deepening of the recession

Dr Theodore Panayotou is professor and director of the Cyprus International Institute of Management (CIIM). He served as Professor of Economics and the Environment at Harvard University and consultant to the UN and to governments in the U.S., China, Russia, Brazil, Mexico and Cyprus. He has published and was recognised for his contribution to the Intergovernmental Committee on Climate Change which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007

our homes from confiscation by our creditors. The moral hazard of this arrangement was totally lost to the government, the parliament and the banks: people knowing in advance that they cannot lose their homes would borrow more than they can repay and build larger homes than they can actually afford. The net result is an outstanding private debt of over €20 billion, which is technically in default.

It is therefore, high time and a good opportunity, to make a New Year resolution that from now on we will resist the temptation to continue living beyond our means and splurging on borrowed money. We should resolve to rediscover the lost prudence of our forefathers who eschewed mortgaging everything they owned to finance extravagant living for themselves and leave the bill for us to pay.

They prudently chose to leave us assets rather than liabilities. What are we going to leave to our children? A private and public debt amounting to nearly €100,000 for each child, before he or she is even born?

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Opinion

Reform needed in wake of supermarket chain collapse Comment Photos Photiades

The negotiating power of big supermarkets has allowed them to impose harsh, often devastating terms on their suppliers. This has to change

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N RECENT days our society has been going through distressing times with the financial demise of one of the island’s biggest supermarket chains. The collapse has uncovered both a gross imbalance and an unprecedented threat to the very foundations of the retail market and to a greater extent the whole economy. Many suppliers will be driven to bankruptcy and a large number of people, both from the supermarket chain and from its suppliers, will lose their jobs and will join the ever-increasing number of unemployed with catastrophic results to our society.

The root of this very serious and dangerous problem is, I believe, the practice that has been allowed to develop regarding the credit period granted by the suppliers to the supermarkets. It is a time bomb ready to explode at any moment, with unprecedented repercussions for the economy and society as it will push, in these already testing times, many suppliers over the edge.

For those who are unaware, this is how this disastrous payment system - that has to be stopped at all costs - works.

The supplier delivers the goods to the supermarket that in turn sells the goods and fills up its tills.

The supermarket though does not pay the supplier for those goods but instead demands, and gets, further deliveries that also remain unpaid. In the credit period, which can last three to 18 months, the supermarket can receive takings of several million euros. The length of the credit period depends on the ‘strength’ of the brand and how reliant the supermarket is on a specific brand. The supermarket receives all these products without having to place any kind of security/guarantee and furthermore it is the supplier who will pay the interest arising out of the payment delay. This usually erodes the profit.

The negotiating power of these big supermarkets has increased tremendously over the years as they attract the large majority of the consumers, thus enabling them to impose their own terms on their

The big supermarket chains can take between three and 18 months to pay their suppliers suppliers however harsh they may be. They secure prices that leave little or no margin, rent out their shelf space at exorbitant prices and make their suppliers responsible not only for the replenishment of the shelves but also for their cleanliness and general upkeep. However, their biggest ‘achievement’ is this credit period that ranges from three to 18 months and which is both interest- and security-free.

When just one supermarket chain can owe its suppliers amounts in excess of €85 million (without interest), one realises that this con-

stitutes a distortion of the rules of the financial system. As a result supermarket chains tend to have no concept of the value of money. They begin an expansion policy without the necessary feasibility studies and without being sure of success.

They overestimate the capabilities of their businesses because they think that the huge amounts they have amassed are theirs and they have fairly acquired them. When they start incurring losses as a result of their ill-conceived expansion policies, these do not trigger vital warning signs as they have

the huge funds of their suppliers/ creditors at their disposal, at zero cost.

If any business, however financially robust it may be, asks for a €500,000 loan from a bank, the bank will first demand a feasibility study.

This will show whether the project is viable and can thus ensure the loan repayment at an agreed interest rate. The bank will also require a security that is 30 to 50 per cent more than the actual amount requested and on top of that it will require the personal guarantees of the directors. The supermarkets

though receive millions of euros without having to provide any of these. As a result the owners lose touch with reality.

No supermarket chain would have come to such a dire situation if it did not have the interest-free and easy money as a result of this absurd payment system. It would never have resorted to such expansion if it had to secure funds through its own means, going through normal channels such as the banks. For the benefit of the supermarkets as well, this criminal payment policy that exists today should be abolished immediately.

The suppliers also have a big responsibility for their current problems. As a result of intense competition, the target for continuous growth and fear of low sales they succumb to the unreasonable demands of the supermarkets. They carry on supplying them even though they know that their products have been sold but not been paid for. Only the interest incurred by the suppliers is enough to wipe out any profit.

In some advanced countries of the world there is a law whereby if a given delivery has been sold it compels the buyer to pay its supplier the full amount of that particular consignment. I believe that something similar should be adopted in Cyprus as well. In this way supermarkets will be limiting their actions according to their actual capabilities and would avoid putting at risk their suppliers.

There are those who will say that it’s the supplier’s problem and they should not give such extended credits. Unfortunately, however, the power that has been accumulated in the hands of the supermarkets is so great that it cannot be dealt with by the suppliers alone, especially the smaller ones whose negotiating power is limited. It is evident from recent events concerning one chain that the disastrous repercussions will be felt by many, and it is the government that will be called upon to take action. The raising of capital, in any form, is part of the financial system of a country and as such should be closely monitored by the relevant government bodies.

Photos Photiades, PhD, is a leading businessman and founder of the Photos Photiades Group which includes Carlsberg Brewery in Cyprus

Lies win few supporters for a discredited president Comment Loucas Charalambous IT HAS been said that it is unfair to criticise President Christofias for all he does and says as it has become widely accepted that he has no awareness of his deeds and words. There is logic to this. But there is also logic to the opposite view as well - that as president of the Republic, such ‘mitigating circumstances’ are no justification for exempting him from criticism.

The fact of the matter is that his words and deeds are those of the president and not of just anybody. There is therefore no justification for him enjoying immunity because he has lost touch with reality.

That he chose Christmas Day

to launch a new, impudent attack on his political opponents is something which, apart from everything else, also betrays his unappealing personality.

And the most worrying thing is that he no longer restricts his comments to the usual nonsense, but also resorts to big lies. He no longer seems to care about making a fool of himself in the eyes of thinking people. His only concern is to present himself as a victim to disappointed leftists and persuade them that he has been wronged - that things are not as the average citizen sees them and that his inadequacy, irresponsibility and incompetence were not an accurate reflection of reality.

Christofias is under the im-

pression that through lies and self-pity he will win the sympathy of thinking leftists and convince them that his monumental failure is a myth and the result of the malicious criticism and distortion of the facts by his opponents.

What he told Haravghi in the interview published in the paper’s Christmas edition manifested his mean-spiritedness and sick political culture. He said: “So intense was the class, ideological, political and social hatred against the president, some reached the point of saying the president was a murderer. And they are the same people who were talking disparagingly about the ‘son of the laundress’ who became president. As if the presiden-

cy of the country is exclusively for old money, the rich and the establishment.”

You are left speechless hearing these crass comments and lies from the president. The slogan “murderer Christofias”, was indeed chanted by some youths, outside the presidential palace after the Mari explosion. I heard this. But I have never heard, or seen written anywhere the phrase ‘son of a laundress’.

The only phrase I have heard in reference to Christofias was “the son of Annou from Dikomo”. But I heard this for the first time, from the mouth of Christofias himself. I later saw it written in newspaper articles all of which were citing the president’s words.

What is the conclusion? We

are dealing with a ruthless man, a president who does not hesitate to resort to a scurrilous lie, claiming that his political opponents called him the “son of a laundress”, not just a few hot-headed youngsters.

This man is neither a president nor serious person.

He is petty-minded, a cheap populist, a clapped out demagogue of the worst type who thinks he can fool poor and honest people - which is what AKEL voters are - by playing the unfortunate and persecuted victim.

That we had this man as our head of state for five years is something we should all be ashamed of - those who voted for him and those who did not.

Annou must also be ashamed, not of her job but of her son.

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2012 in pictures January

Authorities detain a man during a march in Santiago de Chile (EPA) Two polar bears seen through shatterproof glass as they as they frolic in their pen at Prague Zoo (EPA)

the final of the women’s Snowboard Cross World Cup race in Veysonnaz, Switzerland (EPA)

James Ftizpatrick (left) and Ryan Halprin of the Hasty Pudding Theatricals kiss actress Claire Danes during the Hasty Pudding Theatricals 2011 Woman of the Year parade (EPA) A group including French Socialist Party candidate for the presidential elections, Francois Hollande (centre) wipe their heads after removing helmets during a tour of steelwork plant (EPA)

February

French actor Jean Dujardin and US actress Meryl Streep with their Oscars

Anders Behring Breivik arrives at a court hearing in Oslo. He bombed government buildings in Oslo and carried out a mass shooting at a camp in Utoya (EPA) An African refugee stands next to a mural in Tel Aviv, some 50,000 Africans have entered Israel in recent years (EPA)

Motorists cross a road destroyed by a powerful earthquake in Guihulngan town, the Philippines (AFP)

March

A sightseeing boat on the roof of a guesthouse in Otsuchi, northern Japan, and (top) a view of the same guesthouse on 15 February 2012 (EPA)

A visitor walks past the photograph ‘They’re coming’ at the Helmut Newton exhibition in Paris (EPA)

A Russian flag featuring Prime Minister Vladimir Putin flies above his supporters as they celebrate Putin’s victory (AFP)

A Tibetan exile runs after setting fire to himself during a protest against Chinese President’s visit to New Delhi (EPA) A former Taliban fighter looks on after joining Afghan government forces during a ceremony in Herat province (AFP)

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2012 in pictures April

The space shuttle Enterprise, mounted atop a NASA 747 Shuttle Carrier Aircraft flies over New York (AFP)

A May Day protestor climbs a tree in Parliament Square during May Day demonstrations in London calling for jobs, action against greedy bankers and corrupt politicians (EPA)

Yo Young Slovaks dressed in traditional costum throw a bucket of water at a girl costumes as part o of Easter celebrations in the village of Trencianska Tepla (AFP)

US President Barack Obama winks as he tells a joke about his place of birth during the White House Correspondents Association Dinner (AFP)

May An illustration made with figurines set up in front of Facebook’s homepage shortly before it went public (AFP)

Supporters of New Democracy’s Antonis Samaras wave flags during a preelection speech in Athens (AFP)

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin enters St.Andrew’s Hall at the Great Kremlin Palace during his inauguration ceremony (AFP)

June A student arrested during a protest in Montreal against tuition fee increases (AFP)

Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, (centre) Prince William (right) and Prince Harry wave as they pass the Houses of Parliament aboard the Royal barge during the Thames Diamond Jubilee Pageant (AFP)

A woman looks at an installation made of recycled plastic bottles representing fish in Rio de Janeiro on the sidelines of the UN Conference on p , Sustainable Development, Rio+20 (AFP)

Ousted Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak sits inside a cage in a courtroom during his verdict hearing (AFP)

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2012 in pictures July Fireworks explode above Tower Bridge in London to celebrate the opening of the London 2012 Olympic Games (AFP)

Visitors watch giant gushes of water released from the Xiaolangdi dam to clear up the sediment-laden Yellow river and to prevent localised flooding, in Jiyuan, central China’s Henan province (AFP)

A man with a Guy Fawkes mask takes part in a protest against the Spanish government’s austerity measures in Madrid (AFP)

A boy swims among debris as he tries to salvage belongings from destroyed homes hit after two barges smashed into an informal settler area in Manila (AFP) Police trying to help remove a car surrounded by water brought in by Typhoon Bolaven in China (AFP)

August Firefighters battle a fire near Alicante (AFP)

French President François Hollande (left) and his partner Valerie Trierweiler at the beach (AFP)

A Syrian boy injured when a shell, released by regime forces, hit his house waits to be treated at a hospital in Aleppo (AFP)

September A man walks under the wreckage of a fair ride after a tornado ripped through a funfair near Valencia (AFP)

A policeman secures the area before proceeding to pick up a child crack addict sleeping on the sidewalk in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (AFP)

Britain’s Prince William and his wife Catherine, the Duchess of Cambridge, wave to Solomon Islanders as they leave the airport aboard a truck decorated as canoe during a nine-day tour marking Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee (AFP)

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2012 in pictures October South Korean pop sensation Psy performs ‘Gangnam Style’ which became the most watched video on YouTube (AFP)

Two women kiss in front of people taking part in a demonstration against gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples in France (AFP) New taxi cabs seen as flood waters recede in Hoboken, New Jersey after Hurricane Sandy (AFP)

November

US President Barack Obama accompanied by First Lady Michelle and daughters Sasha and Malia on stage on election night (AFP)

A demonstrator clashes with riot police during a 24-hour strike in Athens (AFP)

A fire ball rises as the Israeli air force carries out a raid FP) over Gaza City for the fourth consecutive day (AFP)

A model presents a creation by MGPN during China Fashion Week in Beijing (EPA)

December

Three men dressed up as nuns kiss each other during a demonstration for the legalisation of LGBT marriage and parenting, in Paris (AFP) Alli Beach, dressed as one of Santa’s elves, stands next to two Marines as volunteers load toys at Washington Reagan Airport to be delivered to New Jersey for distribution to children in communities recovering from Hurricane Sandy

Scavengers pick through waste at a garbage dump in Hefei, central China (AFP)

Soldiers celebrating the successful launch of a Unha-3 rocket by North Korea (AFP)

Students make lines at a bus terminal covered by snow to wait for transportation in Japan (AFP)

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World

French Council rejects 75 per cent super tax

WORLD TODAY Crash deaths A RUSSIAN airliner split into pieces after it slid off the runway and crashed onto a highway outside Moscow yesterday, killing four of the 12 crew on board and leaving smoking chunks of fuselage on the icy road.

The crash during peak holiday travel ahead of Russia’s New Year’s vacation, which runs from today through January 9, cast a spotlight on Russia’s poor air-safety record, despite President Vladimir Putin’s calls to improve controls.

Television footage showed the Tupolev Tu-204 jet, broken into pieces, with smoke billowing from the tail end and the cockpit broken clean off the front.

One witnesses told state channel Rossiya-24 they saw a man thrown from the plane as it rammed into the barrier of the highway outside Vnukovo airport, just southwest of the capital, and another described pulling other people from the wreckage.

“The plane split into three pieces,” Yelena Krylova, chief spokeswoman for the airport, said in televised comments.

Rees-Mogg dead WILLIAM Rees-Mogg, a former editor of Britain’s Times newspaper who famously backed Mick Jagger when the Rolling Stones singer was jailed for a drug offence, has died at the age of 84.

On its website, the Times said Rees-Mogg, a former chairman of the Arts Council and vicechairman of the BBC, had been suffering from oesophageal cancer.

Sweater funds BURMA’S cash-strapped opposition party is tapping into the prestige of its leader: two sweaters handknit by Aung San Suu Kyi have been auctioned for $123,000 (£76,000).

A green-and-white sweater with a floral design sold at an auction to an anonymous bidder for 63 million kyat (£46,000).

On Thursday, a Burmabased radio station won a bidding war for a multicoloured V-neck that fetched $49,000 (£31,000).

It remains to be seen if Monti’s reformist alliance will garner enough support to let him call the shots after the polls

Italy’s Monti forms electoral coalition ITALIAN premier Mario Monti has announced he is heading a new campaign coalition made of up centrists, business leaders and proVatican forces who back his “ethical” vision of politics, aiming for a second mandate in office if his fledging reform movement wins big in parliamentary elections.

After a four-hour huddle with his supporters, Monti, 69, ended weeks of speculation at home and abroad about whether the internationally-respected economist, who was appointed to head a non-elected government a year ago, would seek a new term, this time given to him by the voters.

He told a hastily convened news conference the February 24-25 ballot list would carry the banner Monti Agenda for Italy or a similar slogan, even if the ballot would not list him per se as a candidate.

“A new political formation

Ends weeks of speculation over his seeking new term is born,” declared Monti, who, as a senator-for-life does not have to run for a parliamentary seat.

“Italy must have an evolution in its politics,” he said.

Instead of the “traditional axis that consists of right and left,” Monti contended that the real axis Italy needs is one “directed at Europe and at reforms to transform our country”.

Monti was appointed premier 13 months ago after his scandal-plagued predecessor Silvio Berlusconi failed to stop Italy from sliding deeper into the eurozone debt crisis.

He quit earlier this month after Berlusconi pulled his party’s support from Monti’s government, but is now continuing in a caretaker

role until the next elections.

For weeks now there has been speculation about whether Monti would run for the job in February, but he has been unwilling to officially campaign as a candidate. But he could take on the premiership if asked to by whatever party or coalition wins - including the grouping he announced.

“I will watch over the creation of (parliamentary) candidate lists, and for now, I agree to carry out the role of coalition head, and I am working for the success of this operation,” he said.

Monti, along with his government of technocrats, have taken credit for shoring up Italy’s shaky finances by pushing through a tough austerity agenda of pen-

sion reform, new taxes and spending cuts.

And Monti said he wants to “prolong and intensify the pace and extend the objectives of” his government.

Critics, however, say his reforms have stymied job creation and left Italy mired in recession.

His range of supporters include the president of Ferrari’s Formula One racing team as well as figures in the highest Vatican echelons.

Pope Benedict XVI on Christmas Day issued a call for noble values in politics that was read as a virtual endorsement for another Monti term.

But it remains to be seen if Monti’s high-minded reformist alliance will garner enough backing to allow him to call the shots after the elections. Recent polls have shown that such a grouping, with Monti at the helm, would garner at most about 15 per cent of the vote.

FRANCE’S Constitutional Council rejected yesterday a 75 per cent upper income tax rate to be introduced in 2013, in a setback to Socialist President Francois Hollande’s push to make the rich contribute more to cutting the public deficit.

The Council ruled that the planned 75 per cent tax on annual income above 1 million euros ($1.32 million) - a flagship measure of Hollande’s election campaign - was unfair in the way it would be applied to different households.

Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said the government would redraft the upper tax rate proposal to answer the Council’s concerns and resubmit it in a new budget law, meaning yesterday’s decision could only amount to a temporary political blow.

Ayrault said the Council’s rejection of the 75 per cent tax, and other minor measures, would not affect France’s deficit-cutting efforts as it battles to comply with a European Union deficit ceiling of 3 per cent of economic output next year.

While the tax plan was largely symbolic and would only have affected a few thousand people, it has infuriated high earners in France, prompting some such as actor Gerard Depardieu to flee abroad. The message it sent also shocked entrepreneurs and foreign investors, who accuse Hollande of being anti-business.

The Council is concerned the tax would hit a married couple where one partner earned above a million euros but it would not affect a couple where each earned just under a million euros.

UMP member Gilles Carrez, chairman of the National Assembly’s finance commission, told BFM television, however, that the Council also felt the 75 per cent tax was excessive and too much based on ideology.

Hollande shocked many by announcing his 75 per cent tax proposal out of the blue several weeks into a campaign that some felt was flagging. Set to be a temporary measure that would end once France is out of economic crisis, the government has estimated the tax could raise some 300 million euros a year.

UK among top in the West for family breakdowns THE UK has one of the highest rates of family breakdown in the Western world with just two thirds of children living with both parents, according to research by a global development organisation.

The UK comes only above Belgium, Latvia and Estonia in the list of countries where both a child’s father and mother live in the same household.

The analysis by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) showed that just 68.9 per cent of children live with both parents in the UK, well below the average of 84 per cent. The figures have been described as symptomatic of an “appalling epidemic of family breakdown” by social justice campaigners.

The lowest percentage of all was in Latvia at 64.9 per cent, while the highest was in Finland where it stood at 95.2 per cent.

The UK is in contrast to other Western European countries such as Germany which stands at 82 per cent, Italy at 92.1 per cent, Spain at 91.5 per cent and France at 79.5 per cent. The United States also had a much higher number of children living with both parents, at 70.7 per cent. The figures, which looked at the living arrangements of children aged between 0 and 14 in 30 OECD member countries, relate to 2007.

They also show that the proportion of children living with their mother and not their father in the UK is 27.6 per

cent, while for those living with only their father it is just 2.4 per cent.

Only Latvia has a higher percentage of children living with only their mother, at 30.2 per cent.

Christian Guy, managing director at the Centre for Social Justice, said: “Timid politicians are becoming numb to Britain’s sky-high family breakdown rates ...

Yet, as these OECD figures show, broken families are not some inevitable feature of modern society or ‘social progress’.

“It is time for people who oppose things that would stem the tide of breakdown, such as backing marriage as the most stable path for children, to stop playing politics. Our forgotten families need all the help we can offer.”

The proportion of children living with their mother and not their father in the United Kingdom is 27.6 per cent

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World ‘Political route only alternative to Syria hell’

But Brahimi’s talks in Russia, capping a week of intense diplomacy, brought no sign of a breakthrough

THE international mediator seeking peace in Syria warned of “hell” if no deal is struck to end 21 months of bloodshed, but his talks in Russia capping a week of intense diplomacy brought no sign of a breakthrough.

UN-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov both said there was still a chance for a negotiated solution to the conflict, which has killed more than 44,000 people and set world powers against one another.

But Lavrov firmly repeated Russia’s stance that President Bashar al-Assad’s exit cannot be a precondition for a political solution, saying such demands were “wrong” and that the opposition’s refusal to talk to the government was a “dead end”.

“If the only alternative is really hell or a political process, then all of us must work ceaselessly for a political process,” Brahimi said. “It is difficult, it is very complicated, but there is no other choice.”

Lavrov issued a similar exhortation in

a joint appearance at an ornate mansion where he meets foreign dignitaries, saying: “The chance for a political settlement remains and it is our obligation to make maximal use of that chance.”

But Lavrov, whose country has vetoed three UN Security Council resolutions meant to put pressure on Assad, gave no indication it would back down from that stance.

“When the opposition says only Assad’s exit will allow it to begin a dialogue about the future of its own country, we think this is wrong, we think this is rather counterproductive,” he said. “The costs of this precondition are more and more lives of Syrian citizens.”

Russia has tried to distance itself from Assad for months and seems to have stepped up its calls for a peaceful resolution as the rebels have gained ground against government forces in the conflict, which began with peaceful protests in March 2011 but which has descended into a civil war.

However, Lavrov noted Assad has said

publicly and privately that he would not go, adding Russia “does not have the ability to change this”.

Brahimi is trying to build on a plan agreed in Geneva in June by the United States, Russia and other powers calling for a transitional government but that left Assad’s role unclear.

“The core of that political process ... is and must be the Geneva agreement,” said Brahimi, who took over as the UNArab League envoy after Kofi Annan quit in frustration at divisions among world powers, chiefly the US and Russia, and the failure of the Geneva accord to bring a resolution closer.

“There may be one or two little adjustments to make here and there, but it is a reasonable basis for a political process that will help the Syrian people,” he said, without elaborating.

Brahimi, who met Assad and others on a five-day trip to Syria this week, is to meet senior US and Russian diplomats together in the coming weeks, after two such meetings this month that produced no signs of a breakthrough.

India rape death spurs protests, vows of action

Egypt lets building materials into Gaza

Rape suspects are charged with murder (continued from front page) The maximum penalty for murder is death. Authorities thereafter deployed thousands of policemen, closed 10 metro stations and banned vehicles from some main roads in the heart of New Delhi, where demonstrators have converged since the attack to demand improved women’s rights.

Despite efforts to cordon off the city centre, over 1,000 people gathered at two locations.

Some protesters shouted for justice, others for the death penalty for the rapists.

Most sex crimes in India go unreported, many offenders go unpunished, and the wheels of justice turn slowly, according to social activists who say successive governments have done little to ensure the safety of women.

Political leaders vowed steps to correct “shameful social attitudes” towards women in the world’s biggest democracy.

“The need of the hour is a dispassionate debate and inquiry into the critical changes that are required in societal attitudes,” Prime Minister Manmohan Singh stated.

“I hope that the entire political class and civil society will set aside narrow sectional interests and agenda to help us all reach the end that we all desire - making India a demonstrably better and safer place for women to live in.”

The woman, beaten, raped and thrown out of a moving bus, had been flown to Singapore in a critical condition by the Indian government on Thursday.

‘TRAUMA’ “She was courageous in fighting for her life for so long against the odds but the trauma to her body was too severe for her to overcome,” Kelvin Loh, chief executive officer of the Mount Elizabeth Hospital in Singapore said in a statement announcing her death from multiple organ failure.

The Indian government has chartered an aircraft to fly the student’s body back to India, along with members of her family. The body was taken from the hospital to a Hindu undertaker in Singapore and, hours later, lying in a gold an yellow coffin selected by In-

dian diplomats, it was driven in a hearse to the airport.

Hundreds of protesters took to the streets in the northern Indian city of Lucknow. In Hyderabad, in southern India, a group of women marched to demand severe punishment for the rapists. Protests were also held in the cities of Chennai, Kolkata and Mumbai.

“For some reason ... she got through to us,” well-known columnist Nilanjana Roy wrote in a blog yesterday.

“Our words shrivelled in the face of what she’d been subjected to by the six men travelling on that bus, who spent an hour torturing and raping her, savagely beating up her male friend.”

Sonia Gandhi, the powerful leader of the ruling Congress party, directly addressed the protesters in a rare broadcast on state television, saying that as a mother and a woman she understood their grievances.

“Your voice has been heard,” Gandhi said. “It deepens our determination to battle the pervasive and the shameful social attitudes that allow men to rape and molest women with such impunity.”

Indian protestors hold placards as they shout slogans demanding better security for women in New Delhi in the wake of the rape victim’s death yesterday (AFP)

ISLAMIST-led Egypt allowed building materials into Gaza via the Rafah crossing yesterday for the first time since Hamas seized control of the Palestinian enclave in 2007, an Egyptian border official said.

It was part of a shipment of building materials donated by the Gulf Arab state of Qatar, which has pledged $400 million to finance reconstruction in Gaza. The Islamist group Hamas has run Gaza since driving out its rivals in the Palestinian Authority.

Israel tightened a blockade on the Gaza Strip after Hamas, which refuses to recognise the Jewish state, took power there.

Hamas has been hoping the rise to power in Egypt of a fellow-Islamist government sympathetic to its cause will lead to a full opening of Rafah to commercial goods.

Egypt’s President Mohamed Mursi sent his prime minister to Gaza last month to show solidarity during a brief war between Hamas and Israel.

The Rafah border with Egypt is the only Gaza crossing not controlled by Israel, which withdrew its settlers and soldiers from Gaza in 2005. Cairo has restricted the use of Rafah crossing to travellers and medical relief, giving rise to extensive smuggling into Gaza through tunnels under the border.

Last ditch efforts to avert ‘fiscal cliff’ tax hikes Same-sex couples tie the knot in US state PRESIDENT Barack Obama and U.S. congressional leaders have agreed to make a final effort to prevent the United States from going over the “fiscal cliff,” setting off intense bargaining over Americans’ tax rates as a New Year’s Eve deadline looms.

With only days left to avoid steep tax hikes and spending cuts that could cause a recession, two Senate veterans were to try to forge a deal that has eluded the White House and Congress for months.

Obama said he was “modestly optimistic” an agreement could be found. But neither side appeared to give much ground at a White House meeting of congressional leaders on Friday.

What they did agree on was to task Harry Reid, the Democratic Senate majority leader, and Mitch McConnell, who heads the chamber’s Republican minority, with reaching a

budget agreement by today at the latest.

“The hour for immediate action is here. It is now. We’re now at the point where in just four days, every American’s tax rates are scheduled to go up by law. Every American’s paycheck will get considerably smaller. And that would be the wrong thing to do,” Obama said.

A total of $600 billion in tax hikes and automatic cuts to government spending will start kicking in on Tuesday - New Year’s Day - if politicians cannot reach a deal. Economists fear the measures will push the US economy into a recession.

Under the plan hashed out on Friday, any agreement between McConnell and Reid would be backed by the Senate and then approved in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives before the end of the year.

But the House could well be the graveyard of any accord.

THE first gay and lesbian couples to wed under Maine’s new same-sex marriage law exchanged vows early yesterday, in a series of spares but joyous civil ceremonies held shortly after midnight in the only state to welcome such nuptials solely by popular vote.

“We finally feel equal and happy to be living in Maine,” an exuberant Steven Bridges, 42, said shortly after he and his newly-wedded husband, Michael Snell, 53, became the first couple at City Hall in Maine’s largest town to tie the knot.

After the pair had filled out the necessary paperwork, the city records clerk, Christine Horne, performed the brief, no-frills ceremony, pronouncing the two men married as they exchanged rings and kissed. Snell’s two adult daughters, both from a previous heterosexual marriage, looked on smiling.

Other couples waiting in the hallway outside the clerk’s office cheered the pair as they emerged, and a much-larger crowd of about 250 supporters huddled in front of the building let out a jubilant roar as Bridges, a retail manager, and Snell, a massage therapist, stepped out into the cold night air.

A group in the crowd sang the Beatles song “All You Need Is Love,” accompanied by several musicians playing brass horns, and many carried signs with such slogans as “America’s new day begins in Maine” and “Love one another”.

Similar scenes were repeated as five more couples exchanged vows during the next two hours, and more weddings were expected before the office was scheduled to close again at 3am. About 15 couples simply obtained their marriage licences, with plans to wed later.

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Business & Jobs London hotels hike rates for New Year’s Eve 2013 REVELERS who are planning to celebrate New Year’s Eve in London but don’t have a hotel room booked yet may be in for a bit of a shock.

According to a new survey from CheapLondonHotels. co.uk, a few accommodations are still posting vacancies at this late hour, but as might be expected some of them are charging exorbitantly higher rates. A few affordable rooms, however, are also still available if last-minute planners know where to look.

Currently, only about 10% of hotels in London are still offering available rooms for New Year’s Eve, according to the survey. On average, these limited establishments have elevated their prices by 121% compared to their regular rates. Some are hiking their rates a lot more, though.

The Best Western Premier Shaftesbury, which is located close to Leicester Square, is a good example. Rooms that regularly go for GBP 122 there will cost GBP 999 on New Year’s Eve. That equates to a 719% price elevation. But the award for the biggest rate hiker goes to another hotel.

The Paddington Hotel, close to the Paddington tube station, earns that distinction with an increase from GBP 79 to GBP 899 on New Year’s Eve, the equivalent of more than 1000%!

Some hotels, however, still have moderately priced rooms up for grabs. Indeed, eleventhhour bookers can find a 3-star double room for around GBP 200 in London city proper. In such areas as Camden or Bayswater, they can still uncover a room to stay for even less.

So why are some hotels raising their rates so much?

According to Mike Adams from CheapLondonHotels. co.uk, “Hotel owners know that as in previous years, hotels will be virtually sold out on December 31.

A New Year’s resolution to improve financial planning

Bill Blevins

Many people intend to review their estate planning but they never quite get round to it THE BEGINNING of a new year is a time when many people reflect on the previous 12 months and look ahead to what they can improve over the coming year and beyond.

Do you already have a considered, strategic wealth management plan in place? If not, this is a good time to stop and review your investments, pensions and tax planning to evaluate if they are ready for what 2013 may have to bring and, importantly, if they are designed with a long-term view to preserving your wealth and meeting your objectives.

For the most effective results, and peace of mind that you have considered everything and have the most up to date information to hand, you should discuss your current financial planning, objectives and circumstances with a professional wealth manager like Blevins Franks which specialises in providing wealth management and tax planning advice to expatriates.

Tax planning: One of the key trends over recent years is tax rises. Taxpayers across Europe are paying more and more tax.

Are you sure that your assets are structured in the most tax efficient manner? You may need to review your current arrangements to establish if you can lower your tax

liabilities on your savings and investments. At the same time, if you are a UK expatriate you should consider what you can do to reduce the UK inheritance tax liabilities for your heirs if necessary.

Probate can be a lengthy and complicated process, especially when you have assets in a few different countries. You may be able to make life easier and cheaper for your heirs by using financial arrangements whereby the assets can be passed directly to your chosen beneficiaries. Your wealth manager should advise you on this.

Many people intend to review their estate planning but never quite get round to it. Make 2013 the year when you get it sorted.

In tandem with tax rises, governments across Europe have been clamping down on tax evasion over recent years, and we will see much more of this over the coming years. It is essential to only use arrangements that are fully compliant in your country of residence.

Savings and investments: Successful investment is about managing risk versus return and having a well thought out portfolio strategy specifically based on your personal circumstances, needs and objectives.

Consider the following:

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Bill Blevins is Financial Correspondent at Blevins Franks International

Re-balancing helps to control risk Did you buy your current investments according to a strategic overall plan, or have you bought shares and funds here and there over the years? If the latter, it is time for an overall review. Your portfolio may be riskier than you realise,

and riskier than it need be to meet your objectives.

Are you confident that you have adequate diversification and the right balance between assets to reduce risk?

Is your portfolio specifically targeted to your

needs? For example, if you require income, do you own assets which produce a natural income so that you do not have to withdraw capital?

Have any of your circumstances changed over the last year or so? If so your portfolio may need adjusting accordingly.

Has your portfolio been reviewed over the last 12 months to see if it needs re-balancing to remain in line with your risk profile?

Re-balancing helps to control risk and tends to have a positive effect on portfolio performance.

Ideally tax planning and investment planning should be tackled together. The two are inextricably linked and you want to find a wealth manager who can provide both investment expertise and tax expertise.

Blevins Franks, for example, have specialised in providing integrated tax and wealth management to British expatriates for decades, and would review all your current financial planning, along with your needs and objectives, and recommend the best way forward for you for 2013 and beyond.

To keep in touch with the latest developments in the offshore world, check out the latest news on our website www.blevinsfranks.com

Ethical economy: a tale of two half-centuries THE FUTURE rarely turns out as expected. Imagine, for example, two sets of economic predictions for the half-century that began in 1962. The first, the Blind Guide, is written with only the knowledge available then.

The second, the Retrospective Guide, is based on what actually happened.

The biggest economic issue a half-century ago was the battle of economic systems: communism versus capitalism. The Blind Guide would have predicted a lively rivalry in 2012. True, communist countries were already falling behind economically in Europe, but political oppression would keep the system well entrenched. Besides, 50 years ago many Western experts still believed that communism’s social levelling and central planning offered poor countries the best hope of rapid economic growth.

In the retrospective volume, the future abject failure of communism has a prominent place.

The decline would be slow, but the people would inevitably become increasingly disenchanted with the system’s incompetence, hypocrisy and cruelty. The will of the people ultimately prevailed.

Comment Edward Hadas Next comes the plight of the wretched of the earth, to use the English title of Frantz Fanon’s 1961 book on post-colonial society. Although the nascent Green Revolution in agriculture was encouraging, the blind prediction would be for another halfcentury of wretchedness. While the policies and practices which could eliminate abject poverty were fairly well understood, many generations would be needed to overcome the effects of colonial oppression and to spread industrial culture. In the interim, there would be social disorder, numerous wars and firmly entrenched repressive regimes.

It has not turned out that way.

While the retrospective forecast calls for much shocking poverty in 2012 and some dreadful wars – Vietnam, Iran-Iraq, Congo – along the way, it also predicts tremendous improvements in living standards in most poor countries. For example, the share of global oil consumption

accounted for by poor countries moved from a quarter to a half, while the proportion of young people in secondary education has more than doubled. Dictatorships have become scarcer and less secure.

The Blind Guide would also have given prominent place to the disasters expected from what Paul Ehrlich was soon going to call the “Population Bomb”. According to the Retrospective Guide, however, there was no problem. The world was about to enjoy an unprecedented combination of increased prosperity and decreasing family size. By 2012, the major demographic concern was not too many people but rapidly ageing populations – and absolute declines in such economic leaders as Japan and Germany.

Finally, in 1962 the blind view was clear: Europe was a problem.

The United States and Soviet Union might avoid all-out conflict there, but the likely French rejection of the British application to join the European Economic Community (that happened in 1963) was a sign of bad things to come. Retrospectively, however, Europe was looking for-

ward to what were definitely the most prosperous and probably the most tranquil five decades in its history. The conventional economic wisdom of 1962 was mostly wrong. Fortunately, the errors were largely of excessive pessimism. What about the next half-century?

It would be nice to predict that more mostly good news, but such optimism might tempt fate.

I would hate to predict prosperity and find calamity. Still, journalists and economists should not be afraid of looking foolish, especially posthumously, so I will hazard one bold prediction: by 2062, finance as we know it will have disappeared almost entirely.

It may take a few decades and a few more crises, but I believe that politicians and economists will eventually realise that to welcome greed throughout the financial system is akin to welcoming foxes into chicken coops.

Financial greed – seen in the desire for unwarranted high returns from investments in stocks, bonds or real estate – will be seen for what it really is: an impediment to economic progress.

That thought is at least as revo-

lutionary as the idea that Europe should be peaceful. It will lead decision-makers to decide the current system is unfit for purpose. A critical look at every aspect of finance, from debts with maturities and fixed interest rates to supposedly independent central banks, will show that many instruments promise more certainty than is possible in an uncertain world. Others are too generous to financial intermediaries or are simply not suited for modern economies.

Once the old system appears to be obviously outdated, new ways will be found. Perhaps debt and its alluring promises will simply disappear, and be replaced by financial instruments which are like shares, basically permanent and always subject to losses in value. Maybe governments will stop borrowing from financial markets; they could simply print money directly to pay for deficit spending. And economic authorities in search of stability might find more potent tools than policy interest rates and crude bank regulation.

Improbable? Yes, but no more so than what actually happened in the last 50 years.

29 SUNDAY MAIL • December 30, 2012

Business & Jobs Who will emerge as the Rockefellers of the BRIC nations?

By Charles Landow and Courtney Lobel

produced a new class of multimillionaires and multibillionaires. Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) are home to 276 billionaires, according to Forbes, almost a quarter of the world’s total. Many have begun to focus on what Carnegie called “the business of benevolence.” This nascent trend is poised to grow. But it requires support if philanthropy is to meet its potential to tackle the developing world’s socioeconomic challenges.

Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have taken their Giving Pledge, which invites individuals to pledge at least half their wealth to charity, to

JOHN D. Rockefeller’s immense wealth made “rich as a Rockefeller” part of the lexicon. But his legacy rests not on what he earned. As the founder of Standard Oil and the richest person in history, Rockefeller donated so much money during his life that he needed a team of philanthropy specialists to distribute it.

Much as the Gilded Age in the US created titans like Carnegie, Vanderbilt and Rockefeller, the economic success of emerging powers has

China and India. Though they have yet to recruit any signatories, their visits highlight the growing capacity in the region.

All this is a good start. But young philanthropic sectors throughout the Global South need more extensive support. First, there is a pressing need for programmes to help then collaborate with each other and with established philanthropists in the West. Substantive events and effective workshops and tools to connect online are all in short supply. Second, Western foundations should increase efforts to help philanthropists in the Global South donate

their money more effectively. Third, to make informed decisions, philanthropists need information. Much about philanthropy in the developing world is unknown. Research, accessible in multiple languages, is needed to identify trends and share basic information about the quality and quantity of giving.

Unprecedented wealth now exists in many emerging countries, giving these nations new resources to tackle their development challenges and protect and promote their cultural heritage. But their 21st century Rockefellers need a boost if they are to emerge.

‘Ireland can help to lead recovery in Europe’ ‘The past few years have been particularly difficult’

The financial crisis has required Ireland to make difficult choices, and asked much of the Irish people

S IRELAND takes on the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union this week, our road to economic recovery is clearly mapped out, These are challenging times for Europe – and for our Union – as the aftershocks of the economic crisis continue to make themselves felt. The EU is still working through the difficult questions thrown up for the single currency, and the European economy is struggling to provide jobs and good living standards for our peoples. Too many young Europeans in particular do not have a job – a challenge to which the European Union simply must rise.

For Ireland, the experience of the past few years has been particularly difficult.

Yet it is precisely because of that experience that we are well-placed to take on the work of the Presidency as we

expected cost. Whereas two years ago Ireland was locked out of international bond markets, we issued almost €7 billion of treasury bills and bonds in 2012 and yields are falling at each auction.

This year, we intend to be the first EU/IMF programme country in the eurozone to make a sustained return to the sovereign bond markets, and we are working with our partners to make sure this difficult task is achieved.

This has been our path back to stability and recovery, and it is Europe’s path too. By making decisions and implementing them, restoring our competitiveness, strengthening governance and investing in growth and job-creation we can revive Europe’s economy.

Needless to say, this hasn’t been an easy process for Ireland. It has required us to make difficult choices, and asked much of the Irish peo-

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Comment Eamon Gilmore begin 2013. The over-riding theme of our Presidency is clear – stability, jobs and growth.

While Ireland has made enormous strides in restoring economic and financial stability, we have also managed to restore economic growth.

Having a strategy for growth and job creation is central to our own progress, and we firmly believe that the same logic applies for Europe.

Ireland’s economy has returned to growth driven by rising exports and enhanced competitiveness.

We are steadily reducing our public deficit, and are on track to meet our target deficit (of less than 3 per cent) by 2015.

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Ireland is, of course, just one of 27 EU member states, and our role throughout this Presidency does not involve directing our European partners.

But it does afford us an opportunity to help bring member states together around common goals in order to establish the right conditions for a sustained recovery.

Fortunately, we are not starting from scratch – the Irish Presidency will build on what has already been achieved. In confronting the financial crisis, Europe has taken extraordinary action in assisting Greece, Portugal and Ireland, in establishing the European Stability Mechanism, in the actions of the European Central Bank and most recently – crucially – in advancing Banking Union. Europe’s leaders

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have demonstrated a united determination to act, and Ireland will seek to build on these decisions.

This determination was best illustrated last June when the leaders of the euro area stated clearly that the “vicious circle between banks and sovereigns” must be broken.

Europe cannot be held hostage to the weakest bank in any one of its member states. Equally, the taxpayers of individual member states cannot be left to bear the weight of the European financial system alone. Where a financial institution poses a risk to Europe as a whole, Europe as a whole must contribute to dealing with the fall-out that threatens everyone.

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The example of Ireland shows that there is a path back from crisis. Again, it is not an easy path – or one that is yet finished – but it is a credible one. The experience of Ireland tells us that recovery depends on decisive action at national and European level; on implementation as well as announcements.

We have been proud members of the European Union for 40 years. We look forward to beginning the next 40 as we mean to go on: working together to ensure a peaceful, stable and prosperous future both for the people of Ireland and the people of Europe.

Eamon Gilmore is Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs & Trade of Ireland, Tánaiste

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English! The London Teacher Training College is offering TEFL Certificate courses in Cyprus. For more information call now on 99839307. *****************************

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TAG 87, a very handsome young male wirehaired pointer cross around 1,5 years old. Friendly, attentive and athletic. 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 on 99520511 monfrid 10-2pm. *****************************

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LOUISE, she is around 1 year old Segugio Italiano cross and she is not suitable for hunting. She will make a perfect pet as she loves cuddles, hugs and kisses. Very playful gentle girl, friendly with other dogs and loves kids! 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 on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

OZZY is an adorable male which came into the shelter almost a year ago! The person who found him wanted to help increase his re-homing chances so he sponsored his neutering...! But Ozzy has since been sitting in the shelter wishing for a new family...!

But he has a great character and is only around 2 years old! 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 on 99520511 mon-frid 10-2pm. *****************************

SERVICES ***************************** BDL SHIPPING Worldwide animal transportation, Home removals including small loads Vehicle import & export, General collection and delivery (including IKEA), Rubbish removal plus general transportation & shipment. Competitive rates. Phone: 99239311 Web: www.bdlcyprus.com ***************************** PROFESSIONAL UPHOLSTERY CLEANING, also carpets, rugs and mattresses.

Special offers now available.

For a quote call Rickys Cleaning Services on 99131044 (all areas) rickyscleaningservices@gmail.com ***************************** DO YOU NEED A WEB-SITE BUT ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE COST? Web design & hosting at exceptionally low prices, experienced designer & programmer , your dream web-site is only a phone call away. Don’t delay!!! Call Andros for a free quote or consultation on 99335078, info@akalou.com, - islandwide ***************************** CHIMNEY SWEEP, when did you last have your chimney swept or log burner cleaned?

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Build-up of soot can cause respiratory problems and fires. All areas, call Dave, a professional sweep, now on 99819137. Also available for weddings. www.paphosluckychimneysweep.com ***************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces.

Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines. For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs. For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com ***************************** WE UNDERTAKE REFURBISHING of houses or holiday homes, construction of pergolas, undertaking of plumbing, house painting, garden work.

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

Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway.

Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc.

Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554 ***************************** FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554. *****************************

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***************************** FAR INFRARED SAUNAROOM I sell my Sauna room for €1200. Imported new but not used. Costed €1800. Call 99 643397 *****************************

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ***************************** TIMI, PLOTS, a few selected available, seaview, near the 2 golf courses, Venus rock and airport. 60% Building factor, eu 99,000. Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. 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 109,000. Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99 621914 ***************************** PRIME LAND IS AVAILABLE FOR LONG LEASE IN LIMASSOL. 40, 000 sq.m., zoning Ka7 (80% -45% - 3 stories). Regular amphitheatrical shape overlooking Ladies Mile. Close to New Limassol

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***************************** BEAUTIFUL listed house for rent in the village of Agrokipia, 2 bedroom, large living room with fireplace, large garden.

Rent €550 per month negotiable. For info please call 99358863, 97643896. ***************************** HOUSE FOR RENT, at Deftera, 12 minutes from Nicosia, 6 years-old, excellent condition, 3 bdrm, 3 w/c, fully a/c, kitchen with electrical appliances, store-room, satellite disk, 80sq.mtr garden with lawn.

Please call 99573688. ***************************** FLATS TO LET - Nicosia: A wide selection of furnished & unfurnished in all areas of Nicosia. NIKARIA ESTATE LTD Theo Loizides 22761616 / 99660050 nikaria@cablenet. com.cy ***************************** 2 BDRM flat (almost new, 4 years old) at Lycavitos with good area near University of Cyprus with fully equipment kitchen, a/c in all rooms. For info call 96530532. ***************************** FOR RENT spacious modern 5 Bedr house, next to Metro Supermarket, Strovolos, Nicosia. Furnished, 3 Restrooms, air-conditioning throughout,

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6. 3 bedr+big attic room with shower and wc luxury new house, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 4wc, blinds on all windows, cooker and oven in the kitchen, small garden, covered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - STROVOLOS €1100 (H4ST10007-R), (photos in the website).

7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with separate maid’s room, with very big garden with grass(200sq.m) and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, full a/c, 180sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or NOT, 2 covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood opposite Acropolis park - Acropolis - €1000 - H3ACS0004-R (photos in website).

8. H4LAK0002-R, 3 bedr + office space luxury detached house, built on a big plot, 350sq. m, big swimming pool with cover, garden with grass, big sitting and dining room, separate family room, central heating, a/c, curtains on all the windows, cooker, dishwasher and dryer, parquet floor throughout the house,3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking in a quiet area on the borders of Strovolos with Lakatamia Lakatamia- €1600 (photos in website).

9. 3 bedr upstairs and 2 separate bedroom in the basement luxury detached house(all the bedrooms with en suite bathrooms/shower), also separate kitchen and sitting room in

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

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €700 (H4ST10043-R), (photos in the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury semi detached house with good size garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area, central heating, a/c units, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, 2 covered parking, FULLY FURNISHED AND EQUIPPED, in a quiet area in a dead end close to all amenities and schools. - ANTHOUPOLIS €1300 (H4ANT0002-R), (photos in the website).

12. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m,central heating, full ac, big garden with fruit trees, grass and swimming pool 6 X 12,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, 4 years old

in a very quiet area 25 min from the centre – DEYTERA €2000 – H4DEF0001-R (photos in website).

13. 3 bedr ground floor house with big separate 80sq,m room with shower and wc for multi use, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, 2 shower,1 bathroom, fully furnished, small garden, bbq area, parking, on a small building in a very quiet area near Agios Vasilios church. Strovolos - €900 - H4ST10028-R (photos in website).

14. 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, 2 shower, 3wc, 2 covered parking, double glazed windows and shutters in bedrooms, big verandas surrounded by trees and bushes off 28th October street in the central part of Makedonitissa - Makedonitissa - €1100 – H3MAK0004-R (photos in website).

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room with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. H3AR0004-R, 3 bedr luxury detached house with central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor throughout the house, big sitting and dining area, big kitchen with family room opening onto the swimming pool which has big covered area with wooden deck, bbq area, covered parking, in a very quiet area behind Apoel football training ground - Archagelos - €1700 (photos in website).

3. 2 bedr fully renovated semi detached house 120 sq. m, a/c for hot and cold, small yard, FULLY FURNSIHED or not, double glazed windows with aluminum shutters, in a quiet area off Nikis behind Burger King - ACROPOLIS €600 (H2ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

4. 3 bedr luxury semi-detached house with character, 200sq.m, central heating, full ac, sitting and dining room with fire place, big kitchen with cooker and oven, dishwasher and refrigerator, nice mature garden with flowers, trees and small garden with grass, covered parking, 3wc, 2 bathrooms in a quiet neighborhood. Available middle of January. Agios Andreas €1200 - H3AAD0001-R (photos in website).

5. 4 BEDR spacious luxury detached house with central heating, full a/c, 3wc, big sitting and dining area, big separate kitchen with electrical appliances and family room, big bedrooms, blinds, bbq area, garden, 2 parking(one covered), in a very quiet area near Apoel training field – ARCHANGELOS - €1200 – H4AR0016-R (photos in

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areas with family room with fire place, solid parquet floor all throught, central heating independent, full a/c, all the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, 4wc, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all windows, big covered veranda, covered parking, big storage room, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Andreas- € 1300 – A3AAD0005-R (photos in website).

2. AINIC0006- R, 1 bedr., fully furnished and equipped apartment, 50sq.m, 2AC for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, nice view, off Makarios avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Nicosia centre, € 450 (photos in website).

3. 3 bedr new luxury big apartment 150sq.m+big 25sq.m veranda with very nice view, big sitting and dining areas, big separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, storage heaters, full a/c,

shutters and blinds on the windows, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood off Prodromou close Ministry od Defence – Engomi- €600 – A3ENG0026-R (photos in website).

4. A1DAS0010-R, 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting and dining room, big bathroom, big bedroom with shutters, covered veranda, storage heaters, 2a/c, cooker and oven in the kitchen, covered parking in a quiet area in a small modern building near Acropolis Park. Dasoupolis €400 (photos in website).

5. 2 bedr new luxury modern furnished apartment , central heating ind, 2 a/c, big covered veranda and covered parking in a quiet area behind the Municipal building – Agios Dometios - € 660 - A2ADO0004-R (photos in website).

6. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment on a small modern building with central heating independent(with petrol), full a/c, solid parquet floor, big

bedrooms, big sitting room with open plan kitchen, big covered veranda, FULLY MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking off Makarios avenue in a quiet area near the centre – Nicosia Centre- € 800 – A2NIC0030-R (photos in website).

7. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full hidden wall unit a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, bbq on the veranda in the kitchen, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, alarm system, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis - € 1100 - A4DAS0002-R (photos in website).

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

9. 3 bedr new luxury finished PENTHOUSE apartment 150sq.m internal areas+120sq. verandas, solid parquet floor all the flat, big bedrooms, big sitting and dining room, big semi separate kitchen with electrical appliances, home cine ma with big screen, LCD tv, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood near CYTA, Laiki + Hellenic bank headquarters and French

school. CAN BE RENTED ALSO expensive MODERN furnished – Dasoupolis - € 1200 - A3DAS0019-R (photos in website).

10. 2 bedr luxury apartment with 3 a/c for hot and cold, big covered veranda, covered parking and storage room, NICELY FURNISHED, near Acropoli park behind Tseriotis showroom – ACROPOLIS €450 – A2ACS0033-R (photos in website).

11. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €650 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. 2 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, big covered veranda,

in a small 2 storey building in a quiet area behind Tymvos – MAKEDONITISSA - € 500 – A2MAK0008-R (photos in website).

13. 3 bedr luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, parquet floor, big sitting and dining area, big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, blinds, shutters in the bedrooms, big kitchen with all expensive electrical appliances, off Makarios avenue near the centre – Nicosia Centre- € 800 – A3NIC0025-R (photos in website).

14. 4 bedr new spacious luxury finished floor apartment with floor heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, very big 50sq.m covered veranda, fire place, covered parking and big overfloor heated covered swimming pool on the ground floor, on a small 3 storey building in a quiet neighbourhood near a playground and near Ippokration private hospital Engomi - €2000 A4ENG0003-R (photos in website).

15. 2 bedrs new luxury apartment, sitting room open plan

with kitchen which includes cooker, oven, refrigerator and washing machine, 2 wc, central heating, full AC, blinds on the windows, very big covered verandas, covered parking and storage room in a dead end off Athalassas avenue near Laiki popular bank and Hellenic bank headquarters. - DASOUPOLI €500 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

16. 2 bedr luxury apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, covered parking, off Stavrou Avenue behind Coffee Beanery.

PRICE INCLUDES COMMON EXPENSES – STROVOLOS € 550 – A2ST10051-R (photos in 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. *****************************

LIMASSOL ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year.

Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms.

Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 *****************************

LARNACA ***************************** 2 BEDROOM NICOLADES SEA VIEW CITY BLOCK, a/c’s in all rooms, private parking, sea view, walking distance to everything, can be used for office or residential. €750, minimum 12 months contract. 99320077 Larnaca ***************************** 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 ***************************** FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** Card designed by Martin Sebok, Year 3 (Age 7)

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THE MANAGEMENT, STAFF & PUPILS OF THE INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF PAPHOS WISH YOU ALL A HAPPY CHRISTMAS!

Let us welcome the New Year with health, hope & love.

This year, instead of sending Christmas cards, the school has made a donation of 950 to the children’s ward of the General Hospital.

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bedroom & bathroom. Beautifully furnished with good quality modern furniture includes sky satellite, fly screens & feature fireplace with modern gas fire. Private pool offering views of the sea. Off street parking.

Situated within walking distance of bus routes & shops.

Website reference number: RTL_611 6. KATO PAPHOS €800 large 4 bedroom detached villa situated in the sought after residential area of Limnaria. Walking distance to the beach and the many amenities of Kato Paphos. Spacious living accommodation offering an enclosed garden with c/pool. Fully furnished with modern furniture & solar panels. Website reference number: RTL_442 7. ANAVARGOS €895 we are delighted to offer this unique 5 bedroom 3 bathroom rustic country home offering spacious living accommodation with large gardens, private pool & stone built bbq & entertainment area. Fully furnished with log burner for those winter months. A real character home worth viewing. Pets allowed. Website reference number: RTL_635 offers considered.

8. TALA €900 a charming detached 4 bedroom villa with character, situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area with breathtaking sea views. Spacious living rooms with central heating & real fireplace. Separate kitchen & dining room. Good sized garden offering private pool and

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Undercover parking. Available fully furnished. Website reference number: RTL_638 TEL: 97790883 OFFICE: 26271858 VISIT OUR WEBSITE FOR MANY MORE PROPERTIES www.mrrentpaphos.net Email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net

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offering views of the sea, storage & sunbathing deck.

2. SEA CAVES €500 we are delighted to offer this detached 2 bedroom villa situated on a corner plot in a quiet residential area offering sea views.

Gated drive for off street parking. Fully enclosed good sized low maintenance garden with private pool offering privacy and shaded areas. Available unfurnished or part furnished.

Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_482 3. KISSONERGA €550 modern detached 3 bedroom villa situated in a quiet residential area.

Master bedroom with ensuite, separate kitchen, downstairs guest wc. Enclosed garden offering private pool & off street parking. Available unfurnished though can include kitchen appliances. Pets allowed at owners discretion. Website reference number: RTL_501 4. PEYIA €700 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 villa is furnished with modern furniture, including satellite TV. One bedroom & bathroom on ground floor.

A spacious enclosed garden with private pool offering stunning views. Off street parking.

Website reference number: RTL_401 5. CHLORAKA €750 modern detached 4 bedroom 3 bathroom villa with ground floor

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RENT LONG TERM RENTAL, PROPERTIES WANTED: FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT WITH KEY HOLDING AND RENT COLLECTIONS OFFERED ANAVARGOS: 1 to 3 Bedroom apartments available near to the general hospital, furnished or unfurnished. All properties, have white goods and are modern. The building has a lift and off street parking. Prices from 300-400 Euros per month. Ref 7777 Price 300-400 ANARITA: 3 bed nicely furnished villa in the centre of Anarita village with private pool, off street parking. Property has a modern kitchen with granite work tops, sitting and dining area, guest wc.

Upstairs 3 bedrooms Master with en suite shower, separate family bathroom. Outside shaded pergolas. Ref 855 Price 600 SECRET VALLEY: 3 bed villa fully furnished 3 bedroom villa with private pool. Nice furniture, master bedroom with on suite shower, family bathroom, 2 bedrooms with twin beds. Dining area, kitchen, guest WC, off street parking, private pool. Modern Villa.

Ref: 1035 Price 700 SERCRET VALLEY: 4 bed beautiful furnished bungalow to the highest of standards, with large bedrooms - en

suites, Modern large kitchen fully equipped, sitting and dining area with fire place.

Outside heated pool, off street parking, landscaped gardens and great views. Ref: 1151 Price 1800 TIMI: 3 bed nicely furnished villa with large sitting and dining areas, fire place, full AC. Upstairs large family bathroom, 3 bedrooms, master bedroom having en suite shower and walk in wardrobes. Off street parking, private pool Ref: 722 Price: 600 PEGEIA: 4 bed villa with stunning situated in a lovely quiet location in Pegeia offered unfurnished. The property has 2 down stairs bedrooms, a large sitting room with fire place, central heating, kitchen with Stylish design, dining area.

Upstairs 2 bedrooms, large outside veranda. Outside stunning views Private pool.

Ref: 765 Price: 900 MESGOI: large unfurnished villa situated in a residential area. Property is very modern with fire place, downstairs bedroom with en suite, kitchen and separate utility room, 3 additional bedroom upstairs with master en suite, family bathroom. Outside private pool, fully fenced and private, nice views, pets welcome, suit family with children going to local international school.

Ref: 783 Price: 750

TALA: A family home offered part furnished in a quiet residential area, property has off street parking, private pool, central heating and AC, modern kitchen, sitting/dining area, guest wc, upstairs 3 bedrooms with master en suite, family bathroom, sea views. Ref: 988 Price: 750 OFFICE: 120 MAKARIOS AVENUE, PAPHOS. OFFICE: 26600450 MOBILE: 97614070 many properties available on WEB: www. flowron.com Email info@ flowron.com

ping areas. Large open plan living area and dining area..

Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. €500.00 a month.

Suit non-drivers!

3. TOMB OF THE KINGS – 3 bed fully furnished apartment in established block. Own entrance via stairway. Open plan living area. Dining kitchen. 3 bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, sat TV. Internet available. Large balcony area.

Parking. €350.00 per month 4. TALA - 3 bed 3 bath quality furnished villa. Set in enclosed gardens the villa consists of open plan living area with dining space. Fully fitted kitchen with all appliances, door to rear garden. Storage room. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent shower. Stairs to two double bedrooms both en-suite, one with Jacuzzi tub.

Small seating area with adjacent balcony. Pool and off street parking. Landscaped gardens €750.00 per month or close offers only 5. SEA CAVES – 2 bed, 2 bath fully furnished large townhouse set in quiet location.

Open plan living area. Fully fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom.

Garden area and parking.

Realistically priced. Suit retired people or those wanting a quiet area. €400.00 per month 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, Enclosed garden area. Comm pool and parking. Euros 375.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal starting at €250 per month.

7. LOWER PEYIA - 3 bed, 2.5 bath part furnished villa situated in quiet cul du sac. Open plan living and dining area with doors out to pool and garden. Very large breakfast fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bed-

room very large with en-suite shower. Family bathroom. Private pool, gardens, shutters. €550.00 per month or close offers only.

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

Enclosed gardens, pool and off street parking. Realistically priced €550.00 per month.

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***************************** 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 ***************************** 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 in 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. €425.00 a month. 2 bed apartment same complex €400.00 a month.

2 MESOGI 3 bed 3 bath furnished apartment in handy location close to the shop-

***************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt fireplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610. *****************************

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** NICOSIA, FLAT FOR SALE: 2 bedroom flat with title deeds, 110 sqm, fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the european university,excellent view, eu 99,000. Tel 99 621914

FOR SALE PAPHOS room 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 ***************************** KATO PAPHOS UNIVERSAL, large 2 bedroom apartment, ground floor, 1 bathroom, kitchen, large veranda, private parking, A/C, satellite TV. Near bus route, shops, banks, quiet apartment. Full furniture.

Communal pool. 92 sq.m covered area. Full TITLE DEEDS. REDUCED €92,000 ***************************** PAPHOS 1 bedroom apartment, fantastic central location, lounge/kitchen, bathroom, veranda, covered parking, communal pool, Furnished. Near all amenities. TITLE DEEDS NOW REDUCED €45,000. ***************************** 1 BEDROOM APARTMENT, TOMBS OF KINGS AREA, close to the sea, large private roof terrace with electric and water, covered parking, veranda, furnished, swimming pool. Full TITLE DEEDS, was €95,000 reduced to €65,000. ***************************** Chlorakas, 2 bedroom townhouse. Exceptional sea views.

New kitchen, bedrooms and bathroom. Private parking, On mains sewage system. Communal pool. A/C, quality fixtures. Fully furnished. Security barrier. FULL TITLE DEEDS Now €92,000 Call 99716390. ***************************** FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941. *****************************

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Nicosia ........................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

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22304160) AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826 Domestic Violence Centre .......................................... 1440 (Emergency Centre for Victims) Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information)

Forest Fires ..................... 1407 Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

CHEMISTS NICOSIA SUNDAY 30/12/2012 K. Koukoullis, 8 Sofoulis Str. Tel: 22676077, 22672621 (H) R. Mavrogeni, 23A A. Avramides St, Dasoupolis. Tel: 22314088, 22430469 (H) V. Miou, 139B Strovolos Ave, Strovolos. Tel: 22428666, 22320026 (H) S. Hadjiapostolou, 16 Prigkipa Karolou Ayios Dhometios, Tel: 22459270, 22779662 Kramvis S. Kleanthis, 12C-D, Tel: 22761699, 22516577 LIMASSOL A. Petrides, 5H Paphos St. Tel: 25564219, 25752256 (H) Ch. Kekkos, 202A Ay. Fylaxeos Lydia Court, Tel: 25339810, 25752352 (H) A. Kinni, 44 Agias Paraskevis, Tel: 25324030, 25333194 LARNACA P. Apostolides, 20 K. Lysiotis St. Tel: 24627213, 24423271 (H) N. Aspri, Artemidos Ave. Tel: 24624928, 24622102 (H) PAPHOS M. Eracleous, 31A Acamantidos St. Tel: 26947629, 26954204 (H) PARALIMNI P. Kyzas, 82 Makarios Ave. Tel: 23823270, 23823308 (H)

NICOSIA MONDAY 31/12/2012 M. Antoniou, 21A Prodromou Ave. Tel: 22664442, 22436752 (H) K. Christodoulou, 25A Kapenisiou St. Tel: 22376960, 22378494 (H) M. Paranis, 28D Lycavitou St, Makedonitissa. Tel: 22355715, 22354282 (H) D. K. Kokkinou, 124 Limassol Ave. Tel: 22422470, 22428499 (H) E. A. Antoniades, corner Athalassa & 2A Hadjijoseph Ave, Acropolis.

Tel: 22314634, 22491526 (H) LIMASSOL C. Petridou, 12 Omonias Ave. Tel: 25571632, 25752256 (H) M. Theocharidou 66B Gr. Digheni Tel: 25581456, 25584464 (H) Ch. Charalambides 18 P. Tsirou Tel: 25383878, 25332103 (H) LARNACA K. Evlavis, 69A Arc. Makariou Tel: 24656469, 24662689 (H) D. Andreou, 7. 8 Artemidos Ave. Tel: 24656884, 24361084 (H) PAPHOS A.I. Pistenty, 24 Tombs of the Kings Rd, Kato Paphos. Tel: 26950073, 26950778 (H) PARALIMNI S. Stylianou, 7A Sotiras Street, Sotira. Tel: 23812040, 70000440 (H)

SATURDAY SERVICES NICOSIA St Paul’s Church Hall, Byron Ave LIMASSOL ‘Meeting Point’, 193A Christodoulou H’pavlou, opp Molos Park on beach rd BIBLE STUDY FOR ADULTS & CHILDREN 10.00 am Nicosia • 10.30 am Limassol FAMILY WORSHIP SERVICE 11.30 am Nicosia • 11.45 am Limassol Pastor: Branislav Mirilov 96702349 Info: Nsia 96207014 • Lsol 99322614 www.adventist.org | www.hopetv.org

DOCTORS ON DUTY NICOSIA Pathologist: Doros Polidorou, Tel: 99727817 Urologist: Achilleas Corellis, Tel: 70007773, 99562642 Gynaecologist: Marios Eleftheriou, Tel: 22469000, 99433384 Paediatric Surgeon: Giorgos Demetriades, Tel: 22442327, 99425445 Dentist: Stavros Sophocleous, Tel: 22519779, 99473361 LIMASSOL Pathologist: Polikarpos Evripidou, Tel.: 99514910, 25251919 Surgeon: Marios Philippou, Tel: 25382115.

Neuro-Surgeon: Michalakis Spirou, Tel: 99624939 Paediatric: Eliaktida Clinic, Tel: 25720200 Paediatric Surgeon: Georgios Christophi, Tel.: 25762586, 99474260 Doctor: Michalakis Charalambous, Tel: 99616436

AYIA NAPA and DHERYNIA (Anglican Church in S.E Cyprus) Sunday Worship 9.30am Morning Prayer every Sunday morning at St Constantinos & Eleni Chapel, Dherynia (near Hospital in Dherynia) 11am at Scandinavian Church, off Nissi Avenue (opp Tassia Maris Hotel), Ayia Napa nd 6pm at St Constantinos & Eleni (2 week) Chaplain : Revd Simon Holloway M.A. Tel: 97 839349 www.angsecyp.org Visitors especially welcome

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Sport Wiggins handed ‘ultimate accolade’ SIR Bradley Wiggins was left pinching himself after being awarded the “ultimate accolade” of a knighthood in the New Year Honours.

Wiggins joins six-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Chris Hoy as a cycling knight after an incredible year that saw him become the first British winner of the Tour de France and then add a fourth Olympic gold in the time trial in London.

Wiggins said: “It’s quite something really. I never ever imagined that I would ever become a knight so it’s an incredible honour but there’s a slight element of disbelief, and it will take a while to sink in.”

He went on: “It’s not something I’ll use on a daily basis, but it’s nice to have in the trophy cabinet as the ultimate accolade as a sportsman, being knighted by your country for not only the success this year but 12 years now of consistent work and performing four Olympic Games, seven medals.

“It’s more the recognition of that, so it’s fantastic.

And to be an active knight as well along with Sir Chris is incredible for a sport like cycling.”

Wiggins’ knighthood follows hot on the heels of his runaway success as the BBC’s Sports Personality of the Year earlier this month.

The irreverent personality he showed that night and which has captured the public’s imagination perhaps sits oddly with a knighthood, but Wiggins believes it sends a good message in the age of celebrity culture.

He said: “There was never any doubt whether I’d accept it or not, it was more a case that I never saw myself as a Sir, and I probably never will. I don’t like profiting from status so it’s more for my family.

It’s nice for my parents and grandparents to be able to say I’m a knight, and for my kids in the future.”

Arise Sir Wiggins: the honour caps an amazing year for the British cyclist

IN BRIEF Baghdatis ready for Brisbane

Unicaja’s Croatian centre Luka Zoric (2L) vies with Brose Baskets’ Slovak forward Bostjan Nachbar (R) at the J.M. Martin Carpena arena, as the Spaniards came from behind to defeat the Germans 85-82

Four out of four wins for perfect Spaniards

By Zoran Milosavljevic FOUR wins out of four by Spanish clubs in the opening round of the Euroleague’s marathon second group stage came as icing on the Christmas cake for the country’s basketball fans.

CSKA Moscow, six-time winners of Europe’s premier club competition, impressed with a 90-71 home rout of Anadolu Efes Istanbul on Friday and their less heralded neighbours Khimki, sprung an 80-75 upset at Besiktas Istanbul.

Panathinaikos Athens edged Lithuanians Zalgiris Kaunas 67-66 in a battle of former champions while Italians Montepaschi Siena produced an effervescent performance in a 79-69 home win over Maccabi Tel Aviv, the winners of four Euroleague titles.

Caja Laboral Vitoria were staring at an early exit after losing six of their opening seven games in the preliminary group stage of the fiercely competitive 24-team competition earlier in the season, two of them to holders Olympiakos Piraeus.

But in their opening match of the top-16 stage, featuring two pools of eight teams playing each other home and away on a round-robin basis,

Spanish teams unbeatable in marathon Euroleague second group stage fixtures the Spaniards got sweet revenge with an 82-74 victory against the defending champions after overcoming an 11point first-half deficit.

Polish centre Maciej Lampe engineered Caja’s fourth win on the trot with a careerhigh 25 points and American shooting guard Brad Oleson added 15 as the Basque outfit powered ahead after winning the third quarter 27-11 in the cauldron of their Fernando Buesa Arena.

“Caja is a completely different team from the one in the regular season as they now have the confidence and the chemistry while our defence was not what it was supposed to be,” Olympiakos coach Georgios Bartzokas told the competition’s official website (www.euroleague.net).

His counterpart Zan Tabak said: “It has been very difficult to make the players believe they can win after they lost twice to Olympiakos already but we prepared mentally very well for this game.”

Eight-time winners Real Madrid strolled to a 77-63 success at Alba Berlin on the back of 13 points apiece by Rudy Fernandez, Nikola Mirotic and Jaycee Carroll, while 2010 champions Barcelona outclassed Fenerbahce Istanbul 100-78 in their Blaugrana Arena.

Unicaja Malaga were perilously close to spoiling the Spanish party after falling behind 15-0 in their home tie against rank outsiders Brose Baskets Bamberg, who squeezed into the top 16 with a 3-7 record thanks to a lastgasp win over Partizan Belgrade.

But the Germans were undone by a patient fightback from Malaga, who turned the match with a strong final quarter and won 85-82 as shooting guard Marcus Williams buried a pair of crucial three-pointers to finish with a game-high 19 points.

CSKA nailed their opening six three-pointers and Efes matched them all the way

in an enthralling first half but last season’s runners-up romped away after the break, when former Toronto Raptors forward Sonny Weems scored 18 of his 22 points in a what was almost a one-man show.

Serbia centre Nenad Krstic also had 22 points while three other CSKA players chipped in with 11 each as Efes, whose playmaker Jordan Farmar was a lone beacon of light for his team with a game-high 24 points, ran out of steam after heading into the locker room on level terms at halftime.

A fast and flowing Barcelona blew away Fenerbahce after collecting 16 rebounds and 11 assists more than the Turkish side. They also had six players in double scoring digits led

by Brazil guard Marcelinho Huertas and Juan Carlos Navarro with 14 points each.

Tomas Ress inspired Siena against Maccabi with 18 points, hitting six of his eight shots from the field and all three from the foul line, while former Miami Heat and Los Angeles Lakers forward Jason Kapono led Panathinaikos with 16 on his debut in Europe.

The top four teams from each pool will qualify for the best-of-five quarter-final playoff series, whose winners will advance to the May 10-12 Final Four in London.

MARCOS Baghdatis starts the new tennis season against local wild card entrant Benjamin Mitchell in the first round of the ATP World Tour 250 Brisbane International, aiming to prove his place is among the Top 20 world players.

The 27-year old Cypriot, who will be ranked 36th at the beginning of the new year, has never played against the young Australian who turned pro in 2008, and whose highest ranking was 209th two years ago.

If Baghdatis overcomes Mitchell, he will then face the winner of the match between sixth-seeded German Florian Mayer and Santiago Giraldo of Colombia, with the potential quarterfinal opponent being third-seeded Frenchman Gilles Simon.

Baghdatis reached the quarters of the event in both 2012 and 2011, but was fairly easily defeated at that stage by Andy Murray and now retired Andy Roddick in straight sets respectively.

The Cypriot number one will also take part in the doubles competition where, alongside Finn Jarkko Nieminen, he will take on third-seeded Colombian duo Juan Sebastian Cabal and Robert Farah in the first round.

Baghdatis played 25 tournaments in 2012 and holds 1,070 points, out of which he will have to defend the first 45 in Brisbane.

Ex England skipper dead FORMER England captain and respected commentator Tony Greig, one of the architects of cricket’s World Series revolution in the 1970s, has died at the age of 66 after suffering a heart attack at his Sydney home yesterday.

Greig, diagnosed with lung cancer in October, was taken to a Sydney hospital but died at about 1.45 pm (0245 GMT).

A larger-than-life figure standing 6ft 6in (1.98m), South Africa-born Greig played 58 tests for England from 1972-77 as a successful all-rounder, scoring 3,599 runs for a batting average of 40.43 and claiming 141 wickets.

His biggest impact on the game, however, came after he joined forces with late Australian businessman Kerry Packer to set up the breakaway World Series Cricket (WSC) competition.

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Sport ‘Reds will overcome Stoke setback’ LIVERPOOL manager Brendan Rodgers is conďŹ dent his players will produce the right response at QPR today.

The Reds boss criticised his players for the “softâ€? nature of their 3-1 defeat at Stoke on Boxing Day, but he stressed that would be forgotten about when they went out on to the Loftus Road pitch at the weekend. “The glass is half-full - I’m always optimistic,â€? he said. “Our game the other night was very disappointing in terms of the result. “It’s really frustrating but I remain always optimistic because of the honesty of the group and the players. “It (QPR) is a game in which I’m conďŹ dent the players will react. “It’s something they’ve done very well this year. After a disappointing result, they’ve always reacted and normally very, very well. “There is no doubt we need to be more consistent. “We’ve shown that on our day we are a match for any team in the league and some of our performances this year have been exceptional, but we have to do that over longer periods and that’s something we’ll strive for going forward.â€?

Rodgers hopes January reinforcements will help iron out some of their in-

Rodgers is conďŹ dent Liverpool will produce the right result at QPR today consistencies.

A deal for Chelsea forward Daniel Sturridge has virtually been done, while the club are still pursuing Blackpool winger Tom Ince.

However, sources have distanced themselves from comments by Birmingham chairman Peter Pannu suggesting Blues were in talks with Liverpool over goalkeeper Jack Butland.

Speculation has linked Butland with a move to AnďŹ eld for weeks, but earlier this month Rodgers stressed he was not looking for another goalkeeper in January.

Only a fortnight ago second-choice goalkeeper Brad Jones signed a new contract and, while rumours persist about Jose Reina’s future, it seems inconceivable Rodgers would let him go in January, if at all. “We certainly won’t be able to do everything in January that would help us, but we’ll be able to make some additions that will help the group,â€? said the Reds boss. “We can look forward to that and then review it again in the summer. “There are very few names we have actually enquired about, but we’re hoping we’ll be able to do something in January pretty early on. “We need that wee bit more experience, especially at the top end of the ďŹ eld. “We’re hopeful we can do that and then we’ll see what else January can bring for us. “We won’t be spending a great deal of money. It’ll be between January and the summer time that we can look at progressing the group and then hopefully go again.â€?

Everton can leapfrog Chelsea with a victory over Benitez’s men today

Moyes is relishing new Benitez rivalry Pair clashed 14 times between 2004-10

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RAFAEL Benitez might face a hostile reception at Goodison Park this weekend, but Everton boss David Moyes at least expects him to win over the Chelsea fans in time.

The Spaniard was a hugely unpopular choice with Chelsea supporters when he was named as Roberto Di Matteo’s successor as manager last month, due to his past dealings with the club while Liverpool boss.

It is for a similar reason he is despised by Everton followers, most pertinently because he once branded the Toffees as one of the Barclays Premier League’s “smaller teams�.

Yet in terms of performance, Benitez has started to turn around the form which prompted Di Matteo’s sacking with Chelsea having won six of their last seven games in all competitions.

Moyes said: “Results

always change people’s minds - this is the business we are in. If you win, people can talk about you much better than they do if you lose. “I think when you come into this business you know that’s how it works.�

While Benitez may not be welcomed by the majority inside Goodison today, Moyes is looking forward to renewing their rivalry.

ANFIELD STINT The pair clashed 14 times during Benitez’s six-year spell at AnďŹ eld from 200410, with Moyes prevailing on only three occasions all at home.

The Scot said: “It was always tough because Liverpool had a great team. It was always hard to get the better of them. “They had a tremendous team, and still have. It was hard to try to win games against them, it really was. “I think he always wanted to be in the Premier League. I think he enjoyed

his stint here. “I think, like a lot of people who come to the country, he enjoyed the honesty and the way the Premier League is played. “I think he has bided his time to get another job.

Good on him. He is at a very good club.�

Everton have ďŹ nally shaken off their tag as slow starters after a strong ďŹ rst half of the campaign and can leapfrog Chelsea with a victory over Benitez’s men.

If they can continue in the same vein for the rest of the term, they should be well in contention for a Champions League place.

Moyes said: “I think we have done okay. I think we have played well at times. “I’m a bit disappointed we didn’t get a few more victories when we maybe could. “But we have been on a pretty good run and are pretty consistent in what we do. I can’t ask for an awful lot more. The players have done really well.�

Allardyce wants more competition among refs WEST Ham boss Sam Allardyce wants more professional referees in the Barclays Premier League to provide more competition for matches.

Allardyce was upset with the consistency shown by Anthony Taylor during his side’s 2-1 defeat at home to Everton last weekend, where he saw both striker Carlton Cole and Toffees’ midďŹ elder Darron Gibson dismissed.

Both red cards have since been rescinded, but Allardyce, who also said he thinks tiredness can affect refereeing decisions at this time of year, said the introduction of more trained ofďŹ cials can improve the standard in England. “There’s not enough referees,â€? he said. “If there’s more referees, there’s more competition. If there’s more competition there’s

more competition for your game.�

Despite having two of his key decisions overturned at Upton Park, Taylor will be the man in the middle for Liverpool’s trip to QPR today and Allardyce believes a referee sitting out for a week following a bad performance would also help their development.

He said: “The biggest punishment for a referee is not to be refereeing on a Saturday like a player not to be playing. “They’re professional now and they’re fulltime. But if we have more high quality numbers and more professional referees, and you look at fatigue ... I think there’s a problem now. “I don’t think a referee can be rested or left out at the moment, and that’s one of the problems.�

39 SUNDAY MAIL • December 30, 2012

Sport

Dzeko, Aguero ensure 10 man champions edge thriller Nasri sent off as City overcome Norwich

Despite five minutes of stoppage time, there was to be no more drama, as City closed out what could prove to be a crucial victory

Norwich 3 Man City 4

By Jim van Wijk, MANCHESTER City overcame the controversial sending-off of midfielder Samir Nasri to beat Norwich 4-3 in a thrilling Barclays Premier League clash at Carrow Road.

The champions, beaten at Sunderland on Boxing Day, were off to a flying start when they went 2-0 up inside four minutes after Edin Dzeko’s quick brace.

Norwich reduced the deficit through Anthony Pilkington’s deflected free-kick, before Nasri was shown a red card by referee Mike Jones on 44 minutes for putting his head into the face of Sebastien Bassong.

Sergio Aguero’s neat flick made it 3-1 at the start of the second half, before Russell Martin’s header reduced the deficit again.

Dzeko put City back in command at 4-2 after his shot cannoned off the post and in off goalkeeper Mark Bunn, only for Martin’s scrambled effort to set up a grandstand finish.

However, Norwich - who had beaten Arsenal and Manchester United at Carrow Road in a 10-match unbeaten run could not conjure an equaliser as they suffered a third successive league defeat.

City were ahead inside two minutes. A long ball down the

left was worked back inside

by Aguero and David Silva for an unmarked Dzeko to sweep home from six yards The champions swiftly doubled their lead.

Aguero was away again, darting into the right side of the Norwich penalty area before drawing the goalkeeper and then cutting the ball back to present Dzeko with another tap-in.

The Canaries had been thrashed 6-1 here by City last

season, and another such defeat looked on the cards.

There was some brief respite on 13 minutes when Vincent Kompany tripped Robert Snodgrass just outside the Manchester City penalty area.

The Scotland international shaped to take the free-kick himself, but instead ran over the ball, as Pilkington drove in a low shot which deflected off Gael Clichy and past Joe Hart.

Bunn then needed to be

alert to tip over a spooned clearance from former City full-back Javier Garrido, which was dropping into the Norwich net following another lighting break from the visitors.

City remained a threat, as Yaya Toure flashed a 20-yard drive just wide following more patient build-up from the champions.

Things got ugly again just before the break when Bassong upended Nasri on the

Premier League standings

Another Bale booking takes shine off win Sunderland 1 Tottenham 2 TOTTENHAM Hotspur winger Gareth Bale is regarded as one of the most exciting players in the world, but rightly or wrongly he now has a darker reputation as one of the game’s biggest divers after another booking yesterday.

In-form Spurs won 2-1 at Sunderland to move third in the Premier League, after hammering Aston Villa 4-0 away on Wednesday when the speedy yet skilful Bale netted a majestic hat-trick.

The talk after yesterday’s deserved victory though was all about diving, after he received a third booking in a month for going to ground too easily.

It was his fifth domestic yellow card of the season, prompting a ban against

It was Bale’s fifth domestic yellow card of the season Reading on New Year’s Day. “It’s the same thing every time. I’ve been booked for no reason again,” Bale protested to Sky Sports. According to statisticians Opta, Bale has

been given five cautions for simulation in the Premier League since the start of 201112, while no other player has more than two in that period.

He was booked in Tottenham’s 3-0 win at Fulham on December 1 when he tumbled after slight contact by Steve Sidwell, having also seen yellow for a dive at home to Liverpool the previous week.

Yesterday’s booking followed Bale falling in the area after a touch from Craig Gardner, who had his arm across the Welshman and may have clipped his knee. Bale immediately turned to the referee as he lay on the floor but Martin Atkinson had no qualms about reaching for his pocket to the winger’s dismay.

He feels he is being victimised by officials who do not take into account the speed he runs and denies he is being too theatrical when falling.

far touchline.

The duo squared up faceto-face, which on consultation with the assistant referee resulted in a red card for the France midfielder, and a caution for Bassong.

Norwich made a substitution just before the interval, with striker Steve Morison hobbling off and on-loan Harry Kane replacing him.

Following the restart City restored their two-goal cushion on 50 minutes.

Toure delivered a perfectlyweighted angled ball which Bassong could not cut out and dropped into the path of Aguero. The Argentina forward produced an exquisite chip to beat the advancing keeper and put City back in control.

The home side continued to look to get back into the match, as a low shot from substitute Jonny Howson was touched wide by Hart.

From the resulting shortcorner, it was 3-2 when Bassong’s header back across the six-yard box from Snodgrass’ clever centre was guided into the top right corner by Martin on 63 minutes.

Thereafter Dzeko sprung the offside trap to burst into the Norwich penalty area to beat Bunn at the near post, the ball bouncing off the woodwork, then the keeper’s back and into the net.

With 15 minutes left another Norwich corner caused panic in the City six-yard box as Hart could only half punch clear before Martin swept the ball in again from point-blank range.

Roberto Mancini looked to shore things up when he replaced Dzeko with defender Joleon Lescott.

Bunn redeemed himself with a brilliant one-handed save from Aguero at point-blank range.

Despite five minutes of stoppage time, there was to be no more drama as City closed out what could prove to be a crucial victory.

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Latics wipe out hapless Villans yet again Aston Villa 0 Wigan 3 CRISIS club Aston Villa alarmingly dropped deeper into a Premier League relegation battle with another abject performance against Wigan yesterday.

The visitors, meanwhile, were able to move out of the bottom three with a conclusive victory to record their first win in seven matches, which highlighted Villa’s dramatic shortcomings.

Villa, watched by club owner Randy Lerner, never recovered from a disastrous start when Ivan Ramis was able to give the Latics a moraleboosting lead after only three minutes.

Two goals in the space of four minutes early in the second half from Emmerson Boyce and Arouna Kone sealed Villa’s fate as their confidence visibly evaporated.

LIMITED OPTIONS In the continued absence of such players as Darren Bent, Richard Dunne, Gabriel Agbonlahor, Charles N’Zogbia and Nathan Baker, the options open to underpressure manager Paul Lambert are very limited as illustrated in this latest defeat.

Unsurprisingly, hordes of frustrated Villa supporters headed for the exits immediately after Kone completed the win that lifts the Latics above Villa into 16th place.

Ultimately, it was another difficult afternoon for Lambert’s men, who have had to endure a nightmare Christmas period, suffering heavy defeats against surging Chelsea and Tottenham.

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GB’s Wiggins handed ‘ultimate accolade’ 37

Dzeko, Aguero ensure 10-man champions edge thriller 39

Djokovic primed for Australian Open defence

Djokovic defeated Almagro 6-7 (4-7), 6-3, 6-4 yesterday in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship

NOVAK Djokovic has sent an ominous warning to his rivals ahead of his bid to become the first man to win three straight Australian Open titles, by defeating Nicolas Almagro 6-7 (4/7), 6-3, 6-4 yesterday in the final of the Mubadala World Tennis Championship exhibition tournament.

Djokovic had looked in impressive early season form in Friday’s semifinals, destroying world number 5 David Ferrer in straight sets, while Almagro, a last-minute replacement for the injured Rafael Nadal, was taken all the way by Janko Tipsarevic.

But it was the Spaniard who edged a close first set 7/4 on a tiebreaker, with Djokovic, the winner at the tournament last year, looking listless at times.

Nonetheless, the world number one put the setback quickly behind him as he broke Almagro to start the second set, but he failed to turn that into a 2-0 lead as Almagro broke back to level in the next game.

A double-fault from the Spaniard though saw the Serb take back the advantage, and this time he held firm to level the set scores.

The decider went with serve until the 10th game when Almagro served up three straight unforced errors to hand Djokovic the win.

The match for third place played earlier yesterday was won by Spain’s Ferrer as he defeated Tipsarevic of Serbia 7-6, 6-2.

‘AMAZING’ FORM All four players will head out for Australia to complete their preparations for the Australian Open which gets under way in Melbourne on January 14, where Djokovic will be the defending champion.

On Friday, after defeating Ferrer, Djokovic had offered a confident view on his upcoming prospects in Melbourne.

“Last year I played an amazing few matches and this year I am playing amazing as well,” Djokovic said.

“It felt great, after a few weeks of preparation and hard work, more focusing on fitness and just gradually increasing the hours on the tennis court.

“It was a perfect performance against one of the best players in the world, especially in 2012 where he had his best year.

“It was a great performance and a great confidence boost for me.”

Having outlasted Rafael Nadal to take his third Australian Open crown and second consecutive in one of the most epic five-set finals of all time, Djokovic welcomed the weight of expectation.

“No, I’m not superstitious. I will be very motivated to hear that nobody has done this (three Australian Open titles in a row), so I will try to make history there,” he said.

“I will be very flattered to be the first person to do that.

“The Australian Open is my most successful grand slam and hopefully I can get a shot at the title next year.”

United keep point advantage Van Persie adds gloss in win over West Brom Man United 2 West Brom 0

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obin van Persie’s 17th goal of the season ensured Manchester United claimed yet another scalp on their march towards what they hope will be a 20th league title at Old Trafford.

Yet the performance of skipper Nemanja Vidic was equally notable, as he guided United to only their fourth Premier League clean sheet of the season after Gareth McAuley’s early own goal had put the hosts in front against West Brom.

Plagued by injury for the past 16 months, and restored to the United line-up for only the second time since his most recent knee operation, Serbian Vidic used all of his experience to ensure the hosts were not made to pay for a lacklustre second-half display.

And when van Persie curled home a brilliant effort in the final minute, the Red Devils’ handsome seven-point lead at the top of the table was preserved.

After all the furore around Sir Alex Ferguson’s confrontation with Mike Dean on Boxing Day, mascot Fred the Red probably approached

Leaders of the pack: defeating West Brom in a hard-earned win yesterday, United claimed another scalp on their march towards what they hope will be a 20th league title at Old Trafford the United boss with a degree of trepidation as the pair met on the touchline prior to kick off.

The exchange was cordial, though, as was the jocular encounter between Ferguson and fourth official Phil Dowd shortly afterwards.

And once the match started, referee Jon Moss did little to get the United manager vexed, beyond an inexplicable free-kick against Tom Cleverley when the midfielder had been looking at a dropping ball on the edge of his own box when Billy Jones crashed

into him.

By that point, United had got their noses in front courtesy of McAuley, who could only divert a bullet cross from Ashley Young into his own net.

It should have been more.

Vidic was wide with a couple of headers and Gabriel Tamas turned away Michael Carrick’s goalbound shot.

The nearest United went to doubling their lead was when Young strode onto a deflected Antonio Valencia cross.

He hit it sweetly on the half volley, only for former Red

Devils keeper Ben Foster to respond with a brilliant save, which earned his slice of good fortune when he shoved the ball onto the crossbar and over.

Danny Welbeck - afforded a rare start in a central striking berth - and Shinji Kagawa back for the first time since suffering a knee injury in October - both sparkled for the hosts, who were so obviously on top.

With a defence that has leaked so many goals this season, Ferguson would not have felt safe.

Yet the presence of Vidic offered some degree of comfort.

The Serbian has been absent so often over the past 15 months it has almost been forgotten what a calming influence he is.

His bravery is unquestioned too. And when Chris Brunt drilled a free-kick goalwards in the final throes of the opening period, it was no surprise Vidic should be the one to emerge from a crowd of bodies having headed it away.

However, with the clock ticking by and heavy rain

continuing to pour down on a sodden surface that required a precautionary inspection a couple of hours before kickoff, United started to get stuck.

Young completely miskicked when Valencia’s cross presented a golden opportunity on the hour, which offered a Baggies outfit already growing in self-belief more reason for optimism.

Had Brunt’s piledriver been either side of David de Gea it surely would have brought the visitors level.

As it was, the shot went straight to the Spain keeper.

Little wonder van Persie’s arrival midway through the second period was greeted with such enthusiasm, underlining the Dutchman’s influence since his summer move from Arsenal.

West Brom were in the mood, though.

And with United’s passing becoming increasingly sloppy, they continued to push on with force.

Vidic needed to be in the right place to clear a Romelu Lukaku cross that threatened panic inside the United six-yard box and the sight of his fellow defenders throwing themselves at anything that moved, it had turned into an unedifying backs-to-the-wall effort so unlike the thrill-aminute action this stadium has become used to.

Van Persie was denied by Foster with nine minutes remaining but the former England keeper could do nothing about the Dutchman’s late shot, which curled expertly into the top corner from Paul Scholes’ pass.

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CYBC 1 07.30 10.30

Church Service Paizoume Kypriaka (rpt)

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00

Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

12.30

I Ypaithros (rpt) Local farming programme.

13.00 13.30 14.00 14.30 16.30

Kypros Ena Taxidi Eimaste Edo News Me Kali Parea Life In Style Presenter Christina Demetriou, leads us into the world of styling and good life, with a wide variety of topics.

17.30

Aminesthai Peri Patris Local military and defence show.

18.00 18.15

News Patates Antinahtes (rpt) Popular local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

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Musical drama, starring Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Eddie Murphy and Jennifer Hudson. 2006.

See Pick Of The Day.

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Thomas the Tank Engine, The First Snow of Winter, Jungle Junction, Little Einsteins, Tabaluga and Leo: A Christmas Adventure, etc. Shown till 12.30, then repeated till mid-afternoon.

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FILM: Amy

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Oikogeneia Karambela (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Tango Yia Treis (rpt) Cheek To Cheek (rpt) Oi Men kai oi Den Vodka Portokali (rpt) Santa Kimata (rpt) Santa Yiolanta (rpt) Litsa.com (rpt) Greek comedy series, about a beautician that blogs.

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Yia Tin Agapi Sou (rpt) Tha Vreis To Daskalo Sou (rpt) Triti Efiveia (rpt) Niose Me (rpt)

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Celebrities and pro dancers train and compete in a ballroom dancing competition.

Cirque Du Soleil: Delirium

Repeast

Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) News Dancing With The Stars

00.55 01.00 02.40 04.00 04.40

News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoulo Doureios Ippos (rpt) News Fab 5 (rpt) A team of gay men dispense advice on fashion and culture to straight counterparts who have trouble impressing the ladies.

News Repeats

Church Service Kids’ TV Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Boukia Kai Sihorio (rpt) Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Chuck

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SIGMA 06.00 07.50 09.00 10.00 14.00

Oi Takkoi (rpt) Zoi Podilato (rpt) Mr Bean Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Barbie A Perfect Christmas (rpt) Animation, most likely dubbed in Greek.

A computer geek finds himself in charge of the government’s most sensitive data.

15.00 16.20

Aspra Balonia (rprt) 7 Ouranoi Kai Sinnefa Alites (rpt)

FILM: Surf’s Up

17.45

Mr Bean

A young aquatic bird longs to follow in the footsteps of his hero, and leave his Antarctic home to compete in a prestigious tournament on a tropical island.

Animated comedy, with the voice of Jeff Bridges. 2007.

With News at 18.00.

A multimedia stage show by Cirque du Soleil featuring live music, video projections, and performances by acrobats and other circus performers.

23.45

07.50 08.20 09.10 10.20 12.00

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I Kypro Konta Sas News In English News In Turkish NRG Weekend Tete A Tete (rpt) Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebraties from the world of showbiz.

Ego Ki Esi Local Sketch TBA News FILM: Dreamgirls

NRG Zone Kid’s TV

A woman grieving the death of her deaf son leaves her husband to teach at a school for children with impaired sight and hearing.

Period drama, with Jenny Agutter and Barry Newman. 1981.

Local comedy series.

19.20 20.00 21.15

ANTENNA

Anonymous (rpt) Master Chef (rpt) News Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt) News Anonymous Mousiko Kouti - Live Music Programme Big Bang Eheis Meson (rpt) Mia Stigmi, Dio Zoes (rpt) Patir, Yios Kai Pnevma (rpt) Greek Series TBA (rpt) O Ios Tou Petera (rpt) I Dipsa (rpt)

Local drama series.

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News The 4400 (rpt) Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Magazino (rpt)

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FILM: Noble Things Jimmy Wayne Collins returns to Texas to face the demons he left behind. Drama, starring Brett Moses. 2008.

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LTV Sports News News Repeats

Remington Steele 80s detective drama.

With News at 18.30.

19.05 19.55 20.05 21.00

Acapulco HEAT News Rubi FILM: The Fighting Temptations A man learns he has been left a considerable inheritance - but he must first ensure a choir wins a forthcoming competition.

Musical comedy, with Cuba Gooding Jr and Beyoncé Knowles.

2003.

FILM: The Rookie An ageing detective teams up with a young recruit to bring to justice the man who murdered his partner.

Action thriller, directed by and starring Clint Eastwood. 1990.

Kids’ TV Telemarketing Greek FILM: O Lagopodaros Kipotehnia Kouzina Me Apopsi Star Storys FILM: Mr. St Nick Father Christmas decides to hand his red suit over to his son - who is less than enthusiastic about the responsibility. Festive comedy, starring Kelsey Grammer. 2002.

With News at 17.30.

FILM: Ella Enchanted A woman forced into obedience by a spell sets off on a quest to find her fairy godmother and free herself from the curse. Fantasy adventure, starring Anne Hathaway. 2004.

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation (rpt) An elite team of police forensic evidence investigation experts work their cases in Las Vegas.

00.10 00.20 01.00

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News FILM: Single Santa Seeks Mrs Claus The son of Father Christmas must marry before he can take over the family business and finds his perfect match in a single mother. Comedy, with Crystal Bernard. 2004.

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Mila (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life (men, sex, kids etc.).

Pame Paketo (rpt) Greek popular talkshow that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people.

07.00 11.00 13.15

Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

With News at 18.00.

18.40

Kids’ TV LTV Sports News (rpt) Star News Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Stin Kouzina Me Tin Dina

CAPITAL

23.20 01.30

FILM: TBA FILM: Supreme Sanction An assassin learns her latest target has an infant daughter who would be left orphaned by his death, and realises she can’t bring herself to kill him.

Action thriller, starring Kristy Swanson. 1998.

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07:00 How It’s Made ; 07:25 How Do They Do It? 08:15 Ultimate Survival 10:55 Extreme Engineering 11:50 American Loggers 12:40 Dirty Jobs 13:35 Auction Kings 14:30 Auction Hunters 15:25 Dealers 16:20 Flying Wild Alaska 17:15 James May’s Man Lab 18:10 Ultimate Survival 19:05 Dual Survival 20:00 How It’s Made ; 21:00 Around The World In 80 Ways 22:00 Curiosity 23:00 Ultimate Cops 00:00 River Monsters 01:00 I Shouldn’t Be Alive 01:55 Around The World In 80 Ways 02:50 Curiosity 03:50 Ultimate Cops 04:50 How It’s Made ; 05:15 Ultimate Survival 06:05 Dual Survival

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Off The Map 06:30 New Girl 07:45 Modern Family 08:10 Scandal 08:55 Castle 09:40 Grey’s Anatomy 10:25 Private Practice 11:10 Jane By Design 12:00 Revenge 12:50 Raising Hope 13:15 Melissa & Joey 13:40 Glee 14:30 Castle 18:30 Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas 20:10 Happy Endings 20:35 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 21:00 Scandal 21:50 Castle 22:40 Grey’s Anatomy 23:30 Private Practice 00:15 Modern Family 01:55 Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas 03:35 New Girl

Minutes In Heaven 06:30 LTV Sports News 07:00 American Pickers 08:00 American Restoration 08:30 Storage Wars 09:00 American Pickers 10:00 American Restoration 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 American Pickers 12:00 American Restoration 12:30 Storage Wars 13:00 American Pickers 14:00 American Restoration 14:30 Storage Wars 15:00 American Pickers 16:00 American Restoration 16:30 Storage Wars 18:00 Pawn Stars 19:00 Ancient Aliens 21:00 Pawn Stars 22:00 The Real Face Of Jesus? 00:00 Pawn Stars 01:00 The Real Face Of Jesus? 03:00 Pawn Stars 04:00 Ancient Aliens 06:00 Pawn Stars

07:30 Grumpy Old Men 09:30 Hotel For Dogs 11:15 Hollywood Buzz 11:45 Divine Secrets Of The Ya-Ya Sisterhood 14:00 Imagine That 16:00 Welcome To The Rileys 18:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 23:15 Machete 01:05 Hustler TV 02:50 General’s Daughter 05:00 Seven

07:00 The Looney Tunes Show 07:25 Loonatics Unleashed 07:50 Wonder Pets 08:20 Dora The Explorer 08:50 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 09:20 Spongebob Squarepants 09:45 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:10 Fanboy & Chum Chum 10:35 The X’s 11:00 The Mighty B! 11:30 My Life As A Teenage Robot 12:00 Hey Arnold!

12:30 Icarly 13:30 Max Adventures 14:00 Best Premier League Games 14:30 Barclays Premier League 201213 16:30 Winter X-Games 13 17:30 2011 Figure Skating Championships 19:30 Planet Speed 20:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 22:00 NBA Action 22:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:30 2011 Figure Skating Championships 02:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 03:00 ESPN Films 04:30 Winter X-Games 15

07:15 According To Jim 07:40 2 Broke Girls 08:35 Eastbound & Down 09:05 According To Jim 10:00 Chuck 10:45 Bones 11:30 C.S.I. New York 12:30

Necessary Roughness 13:15 Harry’s Law 14:15 Ncis: Los Angeles 15:00 Bones 15:45 C.S.I. New York 16:30 Friends 00:05 The Bachelor 01:50 Love Don’t Cost A Thing 03:30 What’s Up, Doc? 05:05 True Blood

07:30 Wedding Singer, The 09:15 Kisses 10:35 Going The Distance 12:30 Little Princess, A 14:15 Eruption 16:05 Red (2010) 18:00 Barbarian Princess 20:15 Due Date 22:00 Babel 00:30 Daring! Tv 04:05 Before Sunrise 06:00 Finn On The Fly

05:05 Dirty Girl 06:35 Cine News 07:05 Air Force One 09:10 Largo Winch 2: The Burma Conspiracy 11:10 Cine News 11:40 Source Code 13:20 The Romantics 15:00 How I Met Your Mother Vii 15:35 C.S.I. Xii Tressed To Kill 16:25 Person Of Interest I Root Cause 17:15 Tower Heist 19:05 $5 A Day 21:00 Person Of Interest 22:00 Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol 00:20 To Tango Ton Christougennon 02:05 Cine News 02:35 The Double 04:20 Sliver

06:00 Cine News 08:40 The Tempest 10:35 Desperately Seeking Santa 12:10 Cine News 12:45 Micki & Maude 14:45 12 Dates Of Christmas 16:20 Extraordinary Measures 18:10 Last Night 19:50 Mrs. Doubtfire 22:00 Penelope 23:55 Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer 02:25 Extreme Measures 04:25 Kill Bill: Vol.1

06:40 Affair In Trinidad 08:20 Housebroken 09:55 Your Highness 11:40 Below The Beltway 13:20 Midnight Run 15:30 Gulliver’s Travels 17:00 The Eagle 19:00 True Grit - 2010 21:00 Bad Teacher 22:40 Anger Management 00:35 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 03:20 Perfect Stranger

06:35 Jumping The Broom 08:30 Cine News 09:00 The Conquest 10:55 War Of The Buttons 12:45 Christmas Magic 15:45 The Art Of Getting By 17:15 First Daughter 19:05 8 Mile 21:00 Patch Adams 23:00 Bridesmaids 01:10 Duplex 02:40 Something Borrowed 04:35 Winter’s Bone

By Preston Wilder

Dreamgirls (CyBC1, 21.15) In honour of this year’s Les Miserables (a major Oscar contender), take a look at another big stage musical lavishly brought to the screen - but Les Mis is apparently quite good whereas this is mostly limp and halfbaked, telling the tale of a trio of black female soul singers (think The Supremes) crossing over to the pop charts in the 1960s. Jennifer Hudson won an Oscar as the most tragic Dreamgirl, demoted by ruthless impresario Jamie Foxx and replaced by the sleeker Beyoncé Knowles (think Diana Ross) - and the melodrama works, more or less, but the songs seem to lack actual melodies and the female-Empowerment theme is cloaked in the glitziest kind of synthetic

Dreamgirls

Broadway dancing, synchronised chorus lines with fingers pointing skywards and so forth. Everyone sings in that big-voiced X-Factor way - but the characters are barely established, and it’s hard to care very much about any of it. ‘I dreamed a Dreamgirl in time gone byyyyyy / But it all went awry’ ... Made in 2006.

Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol (Novacinema1, 22.00) In honour of this year’s Jack Reacher (not a major Oscar contender), take a look at the previous Tom Cruise movie - the fourth instalment in the Mission Impossible franchise, though also a personal project for Mr. Cruise (who produced as well as starring) which may

be why it fits so snugly with his public persona. Cruise has never seemed quite real, using his movie-star glamour in much the same way as Ethan Hunt (our hero) has always used technology - as a crutch, and a shield - which is why it’s intriguing that technology fails in Ghost Protocol. The latex masks don’t work, the sticky gloves turn to red (“blue is glue, red is dead!”) leaving Tom dangling 130 storeys up as he scales the Burj Khalifa, the tallest building in the world; he’s forced to save the world without high-tech help, human frailty also playing a part in the rather affecting coda. The plot is simple - Michael Nyqvist as a maniac bent on world domination - but don’t be fooled: this is the best Tom Cruise movie in years. Made in 2011.

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CYBC 1 06.45 08.15 11.00

Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Kaftes Piperies (rpt)

CYBC 2 07.00 08.00

Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00

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FILM: The Greatest Show On Earth A circus owner hires a trapeze artist who develops a love-hate relationship with the show’s star act. Drama, starring Charlton Heston, Cornel Wilde, Betty Hutton and James Stewart. 1952.

18.00 18.15 18.45

News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with the Cypriot dialect.

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Moiraia Fengaria Local drama series.

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Musical starring John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. 1978.

With News at 23.45.

See Pick Of The Day.

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News Protohronia Mazi Music Programme Gazarte News Deal (rpt)

I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Koinonia Ora Mega A revamped version of its predecessor (Koinonia Ora 8).

Current affairs show that examines the issues affecting everyday people in Greece and abroad.

08.00 10.00

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12.45 14.00

Nea Mera Proino Mou

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Enimerosi Tora Klemmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson Zoi Laheio (rpt)

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News Master Chef (rpt) Reality competition show where amatuer chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

19.20 20.15 21.15

Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) News Protohronia Mou

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Mr Bean

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FILM: Home Alone 4

With News at 18.00.

Kevin finds himself stranded in the computerised “safe house” owned by Natalie, the predatory new girlfriend of Kevin’s recently divorced dad.

Comedy, starring Mike Weinberg. 2002.

With News at 00.00.

20.20 21.10 00.30

Contestants get a chance to win money, from a penny to millions.

FILM: Christmas Mail A postman is asked to spy on a woman employed to answer children’s letters to Santa, but falls in love with her. Festive romantic comedy, starring Ashley Scott and AJ Buckley. 2010.

New local comedy series.

18.00 18.20

Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) Oi Takkoi (rpt) Mr Bean Ogdoi Mera FILM: Cancel Christmas Telling Santa that children have become too selfish and greedy, the board of directors gives him a month to teach two boys the meaning of giving, or else the holiday will be cancelled. 2010.

Festive drama starring Judd Nelson. 2010.

Greek morning talkshow.

FILM: Princess A reclusive princess and a directionless young man embark on a quest to save the world’s mythical creatures from becoming extinct. Romantic fantasy, starring Kip Pardue. 2008.

NRG Zone FILM: Holiday Engagement

FILM: Grease

Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Pansellinos (rpt) Galileo (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Athlitismos To 2012 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Ergazomeni Gynaika (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)

MEGA

With News at 18.00.

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Candid Camera

A single woman hires an actor to pose as her fiance when she visits her demanding mother for Thanksgiving.

Comedy, with Bonnie Somerville. 2011.

Protohronia Parea Concert

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Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

New Year’s Eve party countdown.

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Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Jamies Family Christmas Jamie Oliver shares his secrets for achieving a stress-free family Christmas, providing viewers with fool-proof recipes.

News Patates Antinahtes Special Popular local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

FILM: A Dog Named Christmas A mentally handicapped man tries to persuade his family to adopt an abandoned dog for the Christmas holidays. Drama, starring Noel Fisher. 2009.

Apo Mera Se Mera Current affairs programme.

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Cookery show.

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News Protohronia Chartshow Your Countdown Eleni (rpt)

Repeats

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Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Nistikoi Praktores Kids’ TV Star News Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz FILM: Space Chimps As grandson of the first chimpanzee in space, Ham III a free-spirited circus performer is recruited by NASA when a craft dissapears into an intergalactic wormhole. Animated sci-fi comedy, starring Andy Samberg. 2008.

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FILM: Spy Kids 3-D: Game Over Teenage agent Carmen gets trapped in an evil genius’s virtual world, leaving younger brother Juni racing to save her.

Adventure sequel, starring Daryl Sabara.

2003.

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FILM: Speed Racer A young man dreams of becoming a champion racing driver, but must battle corporate corruption to succeed.

Action adventure, starring Emile Hirsch and Christina Ricci. 2008.

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Ta Kamakia Protohronia Sto Plus Ta Kopelia (rpt) Prime Live LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 08.40 09.25 10.00

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S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue

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News Sports Time Rubi FILM: In Her Shoes

11.00 11.30 12.30 13.25 15.00 15.55 16.40

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A pair of sisters with little in common are brought together when they learn of a dark family secret. Comedy drama, starring Cameron Diaz. 2005.

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FILM: A Hobo’s Christmas A dishevelled downand-out returns home to visit the family he deserted many years before. Drama, starring Gerald McRaney. 1987.

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FILM: Family Doctor A grateful mobster pays for an aspiring doctor to get the education he needs. But the medic soon learns that everything comes at a price. Drama, starring Paul Sorvino.

2003.

Horrible Bosses (LTV, 23.15)

01:20 The Weakest Link 02:05 My Family: The Heart of Christmas 03:05 Royally Mad 04:45 Doctor Who Confidential 04:55 A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales 05:45 Doctors 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Charlie And Lola 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Buzz & Tell 08:15 Charlie And Lola 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Teletubbies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 Comedy Countdown - 4 10:00 Comedy Countdown - 3 10:30 Doctors 11:00 Sport Relief 2012 - When Parkinson Met Mandela 11:30 Sport Relief 2012 - Little Britain’s Big Swim 12:30 Sport Relief 2012: David Walliams’ Big Swim 13:30 John Bishop’s Sport Relief Hell 14:30 Sport Relief 2012 - Sport Relief Does The Apprentice 16:00 Sport Relief 2012 - Sport Relief Spoofs 16:30 This Is Sport Relief 17:00 Sport Relief 2012 - When Parkinson Met Mandela 17:25 Sport Relief 2012 - Little Britain’s Big Swim 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 King Edward VII: King of Pleasure 21:00 Comedy Countdown - The Runner-Up 21:30 Comedy Countdown - The Runner-Up 22:00 The Royal Variety Performance 2010 24:00 The Queen’s Diamond Jubilee: Concert

07:00 How It’s Made ; 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 Deception With Keith Barry 14:30 One Car Too Far 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made ; 21:00 Secret Service Secrets 00:00 Superhuman Showdown 04:50 River Monsters 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Cross Country Skiing: World Cup Tour De Ski Germany 10:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup Four Hills Tournament Germany 11:30 Figure Skating 12:30 Cross Country Skiing: World Cup Tour De Ski Germany 14:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup Four Hills Tournament Germany 22:15 All Sports: Watts 22:30 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10 23:00 All Sports: Watts 02:00 All Sports: Eurosport Top 10

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 New Girl 08:00 Body Of Proof 08:50 Anthony Bourdain:

No Reservations 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 New Girl 12:00 Jane By Design 12:50 Revenge 13:40 Body Of Proof 14:30 Jamie’s Best Ever Christmas 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 New Girl 17:40 Body Of Proof 18:30 Masterchef 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Castle 21:00 Jane

By Design 21:50 Revenge 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 New Girl 23:30 Raising Hope 23:55 Modern Family 00:20 Last Man Standing 00:45 New Girl 01:10 Happy Endings 01:35 Raising Hope 02:00 Modern Family 02:25 Glee 03:10 New Girl 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Body Of Proof 04:50 Masterchef

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Pawn Stars 09:30 American Restoration 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Ancient Aliens 12:00 The Real Face Of Jesus? 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:30 American Restoration 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 The Real Face Of Jesus? 18:00 Pawn Stars 18:30 American Restoration 19:00 UFO Files 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 21:00 Ancient Aliens 22:00 Pawn Stars 23:00 American Restoration

00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Ancient Aliens 02:00 Pawn Stars 03:00 American Restoration 04:00 UFO Files 05:00 Pawn Stars 05:30 American Restoration 06:00 Ancient Aliens

07:30 Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants 2 09:30 Barbarian Princess 12:00 Call Of The Wild 13:30 A Simple Twist Of Fate 15:30 Midnight In Paris 17:15 All The King’s Men 19:30 Action Zone 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 What Women Want 23:15 Horrible Bosses 01:00 Indecent Proposal 03:00 Country Strong 05:00 Grace Is Gone 06:30 LTV Sports News

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

leashed 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series 09:30 The Looney Tunes Show 10:00 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:30 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:00 The X’s 11:30 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The 12:30 Spongebob Explorer Squarepants 13:30 The Mighty B! 14:00 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:30 Justice League Unlimited 16:00 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:30 Young Justice 17:00 Silk Way Rally 2012 18:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 18:30 Planet Speed 19:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 21:00 Barclays Premier League Review 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 2011 Figure Skating Championships 01:45 Dog Show 03:00 Barclays Premier League Review 04:00 Dog Show 05:15 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Entourage 07:50 Ncis: Los Angeles 09:30 The Big Bang Theory 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 The Mentalist 11:30 C.S.I. New York 12:15 Gossip Girl 13:00 Underbelly 13:50 Ncis: Los Angeles 15:20 Friends 16:10 2 Broke Girls 16:35 According To Jim 17:05 Necessary Roughness 18:55 Underbelly 19:45 Chuck 20:30 2 Broke Girls 21:00 Bones 22:30 Southland 23:20 Shameless 00:15 Hung 02:45 Beyond

The Make-Up 03:15 2 Broke Girls 03:45 According To Jim 04:35 Necessary Roughness 06:25 Underbelly

07:45 Robin And The 7 Hoods 10:00 Creation 11:50 Avatar 14:30 Sammy’s Adventures: The Secret Passage 16:00 Atl 18:00 That Darn Cat 20:00 Up In The Air 22:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 00:15 Hangover Part Ii, The 02:00 Welcome To The Rileys 04:00 Before Sunset 05:25 Bodyguard, The

06:05 Cine News 06:55 Never Been Kissed 08:45 From Time To Time 10:20 Mad On Novacinema 10:55 Chalet Girl 12:40 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 14:25 Films And Stars 15:00 «Love Stories» Sundays At Tiffany’s 16:35 The Double 18:20 Transformers 3 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 21:00 Magic City 22:10 The Artist 00:00 The Films And Stars Of 2012/2013 New Year’ S Special 01:00 12 Dates Of Christmas 02:30 Manolete 04:05 Rounders

06:15 Limitless 08:00 Cine News 09:00 One Day 13:20 Cine News

13:50 Mr. Popper’s Penguins 15:30 The Talented Mr. Ripley 19:55 Kate And Leopold 23:45 Morning Glory 01:40 Colombiana 03:35 Cine News 04:35 The Way Back

19:20 The Hit Lis 21:00 Super 8 23:00 Ncis 23:50 Animal Kingdom 01:45 Cine News 02:00 Adult Zone 03:50 Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides

19:15 The Romantics 21:00 The Sweetest Thing 22:35 Larry Crowne 00:20 No Strings Attached 02:10 The Dilemma 04:05 The Tree Of Life

07:00 Sisters, The 08:35 Lassie Come Home 10:05 Men Of Boys Town 11:55 Where the Spies Are 13:45 Spinout 15:15 Flipper’s New Adventure 16:50 Penelope 18:25 On the Town 20:00 Lust For Life 22:00 Patch Of Blue, A 23:45 Haunting, The 01:35 Elvis: That’s the Way It Is 03:20 Tea And Sympathy 05:25 Never Let Me Go

By Preston Wilder two famous Hollywood stories, Singin’ in the Rain and A Star is Born. Anyone who’s seen actual silent movies will tell you that The Artist is nothing like them: the camera is much more mobile, the angles keep changing, the whole rhythm is different. Anyone who hasn’t will be mildly charmed, though it’s only at the very end - when George speaks, and specifically his accent when he speaks - that the point of the film becomes retroactively obvious. Made in 2011.

The Artist (Novacinema1, 22.10) New Year’s Eve is a day for looking back - so let’s go all the way back, to the days of silent movies. This may be the most surprising Best Picture Oscar winner of all time, being (a) in black-and-white, (b) made by French people and (c) silent, though only in the sense that it has intertitles in place of dialogue: there’s wallto-wall music, sound effects and indeed a nightmare sequence where nothing is silent (dogs bark, glasses clink) except our hero George, played by Jean Dujardin. He’s a movie star in the late 1920s, the time when Hollywood switched from Silents to Talkies and George’s career plummets while that of Peppy (Berenice Bejo) soars, the film being a cross-breed of

Grease (CyBC2, 22.30) The Artist

More nostalgia? Yes indeed - and not just nostalgia but double nostalgia, not just for the 1950s (when the film is set), the time of rock’n roll, greased-back hair

and cars with huge tail-fins, but also for the 1970s, when Grease became a phenomenon. Danny (John Travolta) meets Sandy (Olivia Newton-John) over the summer, and they fall in love (“Summer lovin’, had me a blast / Summer lovin’, happened so fast...”) - but then school starts and they find themselves on opposite sides of the coolness divide, Danny being a tough guy whereas Sandy is a simpering girly-girl, “lousy with virginity”. Viewers of a certain age - me! me! me! - know these songs by heart, but even the film’s biggest fans must admit it’s just a trashy teen musical with crude detail and some rousing dance numbers.

Still better than High School Musical, if only for ‘Summer Nights’ and the title song. Made in 1978.

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CYBC 1 08.00 11.00

Protohronia Parea (rpt) Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Local cookery show.

11.30

Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

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Ai Vasili Vasilia News Agapi Ishiri

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Father Christmas’s festive preparations are disrupted by the mischievous Jack Frost, who intends to sabotage the toy factory. Fantasy comedy sequel, with Tim Allen.

2006.

News Tis Paragas Greek FILM: I Aliki Sto Naftiko News Repeats

22.30 00.00 00.15

12.10 13.00 16.00

Ekeines Kai Ego Protohronia Mazi (rpt) FILM: Just A Walk In The Park A dog-walker meets the woman of his dreams while caring for a pampered pooch.

Romantic comedy, starring George Eads.

2002.

News In English News In Turkish Simply Red - For the Last Time

NRG Zone FILM: Santa clause 3: The Escape Clause

FILM: Pop Rocks A former heavy-metal star tries to keep his past a secret from his family and friends while he rehearses for a reunion concert.

Drama, starring Gary Cole. 2004.

FILM: High School Musical

Christine Bleakley hosts as the band, fronted by Mick Hucknall, perform a selection of their hits as they prepare to bring the curtain down on a career spanning three decades.

Comedy, starring Aliki Vougiouklaki. 1961.

23.30 00.15

10.30

Two teenagers from completely different backgrounds discover a shared love of performing, and try to land roles in the school play. Musical, starring Zac Efron and Vanessa Hudgens. 2006.

Local comedy sketch.

Popular local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Candid Camera Unsuspecting people react to bizarre events.

Vienna New Year Concert FILM: The Santa Clause A moody businessman accidentally sends Santa Claus to the great grotto in the sky and has to don the red suit himself. Christmas comedy, starring Tim Allen and Judge Reinhold. 1994.

ANTENNA

17.30

FILM: This Time Around A PR executive is thrilled to discover her newest client is the former jock who humiliated her at school.

Romantic comedy, starring Carly Pope. 2003.

With News at 18.00.

19.20 20.15 21.20

FILM: My Fake Fiance Two strangers with financial problems pretend to get engaged just for the gifts.

Romantic comedy, starring Melissa Joan Hart. 2009.

Vienna New Year Concert (rpt) Kati Psinetai (rpt) News In English & News In Turkish (rpt) 01.00

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10.00 13.20 15.00 18.00 18.20

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I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) FILM: Hook

07.00 08.00

A grown-up Peter Pan returns to Neverland to rescue his children from Captain Hook.

Steven Spielberg’s fantasy adventure, starring Robin Williams.

1991.

08.50

Proino Mou Anonymous (rpt) Yia Sena News Master Chef

09.40 13.00 16.00

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Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) News Klemmena Oneira Enoha Mystika FILM: First Sunday Two bungling crooks try to rob a church, but when the heist goes wrong they end up holding the entire congregation hostage.

Crime comedy, starring Ice Cube. 2008.

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News I Apli Methodos Ton Trion (rpt) Yia Sena (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

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Chaotic cartoon capers following the further adventures of the popular halfwit immortalised in the live-action TV series and Hollywood film.

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FILM: Harry Potter And The Order Of The Phoenix Harry and Dumbledore are targeted by the Wizard authorities as an authoritarian bureaucrat slowly seizes power at Hogwarts.

Fantasy adventure, starring Daniel Radcliffe. 2007.

FILM: Home Alone 3

Efta Ourani Kai Sinnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia FILM: Will You Marry Me?

Kids’ TV Star News Protohronia Sto Plus (rpt) Ta Kopelia (rpt) O Theios Mou O Ninja No 2 FILM: The Golden Compass In a parallel world, a girl sets out on an epic quest to save her best friend and other kidnapped children from the magisterium’s evil experiments. Fantasy adventure, starring Nicole Kidman . 2007.

Protohronia Sto Sigma (rpt) Eleni FILM: Fluke

Crooks get more than they bargained for when trying to retrieve a microchip that’s fallen into the hands of a resourceful eightyear-old. Comedy sequel, starring Alex D Linz. 1997.

19.30

PLUS TV

Oi Takkoi (rpt) Tha Se Tho Sto Ploio (rpt) Mr Bean

A dog discovers he was a man in a past life and sets out to be reunited with his wife and son. Family adventure, with Matthew Modine.

1995.

New season of Greek reality series. Amateur cooks compete to win the coveted MasterChef title.

I Evreti Tou Touli (rpt) News FILM: Dumb And Dumber Comedy, with Jim Carrey. 1994. See Pick Of The Day.

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MEGA

21.00 22.30

Greek FILM: Aliki Sto Naftiko FILM: Batman Forever The crimefighter battles a plot by villains Two-Face and the Riddler to control the brains of the entire world. Superhero sequel, with Val Kilmer.

1998.

Three young men enjoy their bachelor status, until one of them decides to marry the love of his life.

Romantic comedy, starring Shreyas Talpade. 2012.

00.30

Countdown Your Countdown (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

02.00 02.50 03.50

CAPITAL 07.00 11.00 11.30 13.10 14.10

A youngster befriends a puppy, but is sent to live in an isolated town where the mayor has banned dogs. Festive family drama, starring John Billingsley. 2002.

16.10 17.30

Greek FILM: Na Petherps, Na Malama FILM: Laws Of Attraction Two warring divorce lawyers contest a case in Ireland - but after a drink-fuelled knees-up, wake to find they are married. Romantic comedy, with Pierce Brosnan. With News at 18.30.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Stepmom A photographer falls for a man with two children, but struggles to accept her role as a stepmother. Drama, starring Julia Roberts.

1998.

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FILM: Six Days & Seven Nights A journalist and pilot are stranded on a desert island, and face a series of dangers to survive. Romantic adventure, with Harrison Ford. 2004.

FILM: Fearless Hyena Martial arts film, starring Jackie Chan. 1979.

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Kids’ TV Kouzina Me Apopsi Greek FILM: To Ftohopaido Kid’s TV FILM: The 12 Dogs Of Christmas

01.20

Late Programmes

The Adjustment Bureau (Novacinema3, 21.00)

06:30 Last Of The Summer Wine 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Buzz & Tell 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Teletubbies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 Comedy Countdown - The Runner-Up 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Gavin & Stacey: Christmas Special 2008 13:15 King Edward VII: King of Pleasure 14:05 EastEnders 14:30 Doctors 15:00 Comedy Countdown 19:00 EastEnders 19:30 Doctors 20:00 Comedy Countdown - The Runner-Up 21:00 Comedy Countdown - The Winner 22:00 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010 23:00 A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales 00:00 BBC Electric Proms 2008: Oasis 01:00 The Weakest Link 01:45 Comedy Countdown 04:15 Comedy Countdown The Runner-Up 04:45 Comedy Countdown - The Winner 05:15 EastEnders 05:45 Doctors

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55

Ultimate Survival 11:50 Dirty Great Machines 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Mythbusters 22:00 Outback Truckers 23:00 Aircrash Confidential 00:00 How We Invented The World 01:00 Curiosity 02:50 Outback Truckers 03:50 Aircrash Confidential 04:50 How We Invented The World 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Ski Jumping: World CupFour Hills Tournament Germany 10:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 12:45 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 13:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Germany 17:00 CrossCountry Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Switzerland 18:30 Winter Sports: Ski Pass 18:45 Alpine Skiing: World Cup Germany 20:15 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 22:30 Boxing: Bigger’s Better-Heavy Weight Contest Latvia 00:00 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 00:15 Rally: Rally Raid Dakar 00:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Germany 01:45 CrossCountry Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Switzerland

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07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Pawn Stars 09:30 American Restoration 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Ancient Aliens 12:00 Pawn Stars 13:00 American Restoration 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:30 American Restoration 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 Pawn Stars 16:30

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07:30 Christmas With The Kranks 09:30 That Darn Cat 11:15 Horse Whisperer, The 14:15 Good Guy, The 16:00 Batman Begins 18:20 Friends With Money 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 King’s Speech, The 23:15 Invisible Sign, An 01:00 Witches Of Eastwick, The 03:00 Bad Boys 05:00 True Stories 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Chowder I 07:25 Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack, The 07:50 Tom & Jerry Show,

The 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed Ii 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:55 Looney Tunes Show, The 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s, The 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 12:50 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B!, The 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 15:45 Justice League Unlimited I 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes Ii 16:30 Young Justice 17:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 19:00 Nba Action 19:30 Barclays Premier League World 20:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 22:00 Best Premier League Games 22:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:30 Planet Speed 01:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Liga Bbva 05:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 Chuck 08:00 2 Broke Girls 08:30 Bones 10:00 According To Jim 10:45 2 Broke Girls 11:10 Necessary Roughness 13:00 Underbelly 13:50 Chuck

14:35 Bones 16:05 Eastbound & Down 16:35 Two And A Half Men 17:25 Closer, The 18:10 Harry’s Law 18:55 Underbelly 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 Big Bang Theory, The 21:00 Mentalist, The 21:45 C.S.I. New York 22:30 Southland 23:20 Shameless 00:15 Hung 02:45 C.S.I. New York 03:35 Eastbound & Down 04:10 Two And A Half Men 04:55 Closer, The 05:40 Harry’s Law 06:25 Underbelly

07:35 Willy Wonka And The Chocolate Factory 09:20 Superman Returns 12:00 All The King’s Men 14:15 Wild Target 16:00 Arthur 18:00 Elf 20:00 Police Academy 22:00 Unknown 00:00 Country Strong 02:15 I Love You, Man 04:15 Marriage On The Rocks 06:15 U.S. Marshals

06:05 Air Force One 08:10 No Reservations 09:55 Kung Fu Panda 2 11:25 Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure 12:55 Captain America: The First Avenger 15:00 Larry Crowne 16:50 Hollywood 1on1 17:25 The Stone Angel 19:25 Gulliver’s Travels 21:00 C.S.I. 22:00 Hugo 00:15 In Time 02:05 Cine News 02:35 I Am Legend 04:15 Trespass

06:50 Proof Of Life 09:05 Cine News 09:30 Puss In Boots 11:00 Inspector Gadget 12:25 The Films And Stars Of 2012-2013 13:25 Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 15:45 Nisos 2: To Kinigi Tou Xamenou Thisavrou 17:35 Hollywood Buzz 20:10 The Vow 22:00 Friends With Benefits 01:50 One Day 03:40 Cine News 04:40 Conviction

06:10 The Two Jakes 08:30 Xxx 10:35 Cine News 11:25 Largo Winch 2: The Burma Conspiracy 13:25 The Negotiator 15:45 Cine News 16:15 The Lincoln Lawyer 18:20 Transformers: Dark Of The Moon 21:00 The Adjustment Bureau 23:00 How I Met Your Mother 00:20 Salvation Boulevard 02:00 Adult Zone 03:50 Sacrifice

06:25 Diary Of A Wimpy Kid: Rodrick Rules 08:05 Micki & Maude 10:05 Rio 11:45 Habemus Papam 13:35 Prom 15:25 Mrs. Doubtfire 17:30 Morning Glory 19:25 Manolete 21:00 Ever After: A Cinderella Story 23:10 A Little Bit Of Heaven 01:00 Melinda And Melinda 04:15 Amador

By Preston Wilder

Dumb and Dumber (Antenna, 21.20) Start the New Year as you mean to go on - or watch this brain-cell-destroying comedy instead, confirming 2013 as the Year of the Dumb. Jim Carrey is dumb, Jeff Daniels is dumber (though it could be the other way around). They drive across America to return a briefcase containing $1 million in ransom money, though plot comes second to Carrey’s manic antics (his salary was nearly half of the $15 million budget) and random dumbness like the woman with an Austrian accent (“Austria!” cries Jim happily. “G’day mate! Let’s put another shrimp on the barbie!”). Audiences rolled in the aisles when Jim spiked Jeff’s drink with laxa-

tives, and pundits worried about the dumbing-down of the culture; 19 years later, with a hooker taking a dump on the floor in Ted and Jason Bateman getting a mouthful of poo in The Change-Up, the film’s amiable coarseness seems positively quaint. For better or worse, one of the most influential comedies of the past two decades. Quite funny, too. Made in 1994.

Hugo (Novacinema1, 22.00) Hugo (Asa Butterfield, a child with the stillness and big attentive eyes of a young Elijah Wood) lives in a Paris train station, hiding behind the main clock and getting about through a secret maze of vents and corridors, pilfering what he needs to live. Hugo’s

Hugo

enemy is the station inspector (Sacha Baron Cohen) who prowls the place with his Doberman, catching orphans - like Hugo - and handing them over to the authorities. Hugo’s only ally is Isabelle (Chloe Grace Moretz), the ward of a grumpy toy-seller named Georges (Ben Kingsley) - but the time is the 1930s and Georges is actually Georges Méliès, a former filmmaker fallen on hard times. Méliès was a real person, one of the great magicians of the silent era - and the film is an ode to the Magic of the Movies as well as an ode to miraculous machines, from a smart automaton (a gift from the boy’s late dad) to the 3D in which Hugo was originally filmed. Whimsical, lavish to look at, altogether lovely. Directed by Martin Scorsese in 2011.

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Mazi Sto Rik Local talk-show.

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News Kaftes Piperies

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Local cookery show.

Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

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NRG Zone FILM: The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement Princess Mia of Genova is told she has to find a husband before she is due to take the throne on her 21st birthday. Family comedy sequel, starring Anne Hathaway.

2004.

Third season of local period drama, based on true events.

22.00

NRG Zone Kids’ TV Euromaxx Album Show Kato Apo Ton Idio Ourano News In English News In Turkish Upstairs Downstairs (rpt) First season of period drama remake. ‘The Fledgling’. Sir Hallam Holland and his wife Lady Agnes inherit 165 Eaton Place, and set about restoring the house. Former housemaid Rose Buck finds herself back in the house where she was happiest, and the arrival of an unwelcome guest puts a strain on relations, both upstairs and down.

Local cultural affairs programme.

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A revamped version of its predecessor (Koinonia Ora 8).

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2006.

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Las Vegas First season. ‘Pilot’.

Series set in the glitzy gambling capital of the world, in which Big Ed Deline heads a top surveillance team for one of the Strip’s most successful casinos, dealing with cheats, high-stakes players and the tricks of rival business houses.

His protege, Danny McCoy, takes a gamble of his own by trying to get Ed’s daughter into bed.

New season of Greek reality series. Amateur cooks compete to win the coveted Master Chef title.

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I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Koinonia Ora Mega

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News Dekati Entoli (rpt) Alithinoi Erotes (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Otan Megaloso (rpt) Se Fonta Kokkino (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 06.45 07.20 07.50 09.00 09.30 10.55

Classic Cartoons Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

Hosted by Dina Nikolaou.

11.50 12.30 13.00 15.30 17.00 17.50 19.40 21.15 22.00

Classic Cartoons Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV To Kleidi Fotis - Maria Live Mila Exelixeis Sti Showbiz The Closer (rpt) Fifth season. ‘Identity Theft’. New evidence associated with the murder of a homeopathist comes to light, prompting Brenda to revisit the case.

Meanwhile, the detective’s family pays a surprise visit.

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06.45 08.40 09.25 10.00 11.00 11.30 12.30 13.20 14.50 15.40 16.40 17.35 18.15

LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

Kids’ TV S’ Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron (rpt) Ston Asterismo Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Reminton Steele (rpt) Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’ Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: The Honeymooners A bus driver tries to put things right after his disastrous getrich-quick schemes leave him penniless.

Comedy, with Cedric the Entertainer. 2005.

22.45

FILM: Half Light A novelist moves to a remote Scottish village to recover from the death of her son, but is haunted by terrifying visions. Supernatural thriller, with Demi Moore. 2006.

FILM: Crimes Of The Past A former CIA agent tries to reconnect with the daughter that he abandoned 25 years earlier. Thriller, starring David Rasche. 2009.

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CAPITAL

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2003.

Hanna (Novacinema2, 11.40)

06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Buzz & Tell 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Teletubbies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 Comedy Countdown - The Winner 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Edinburgh Military Tattoo 2010 13:15 A Jubilee Tribute to the Queen by the Prince of Wales 14:10 Comedy Countdown - The Winner 14:40 The Weakest Link 15:25 EastEnders 15:55 Doctors 16:25 The Royal Variety Performance 2010 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Casualty 21:00 My Family 21:30 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 22:00 BBC Proms 2010: Rodgers & Hammerstein 23:50 One Foot In The Grave 00:20 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 01:05 Waking The Dead 01:55 The Weakest Link 02:40 Casualty 03:30 EastEnders 04:00 Doctors 04:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 05:15 My Family 05:45 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate

Survival 11:50 Alone In The Wild 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Dual Survival 22:00 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud 23:00 Bear Grylls’ Wild Weekend 00:00 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 01:00 The Real Hustle 01:55 Dual Survival 02:50 Beyond Survival With Les Stroud 03:50 Bear Grylls’ Wild Weekend 04:50 Stan Lee’s Superhumans 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 09:45 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 10:00 Rally: Rally Raid Dakar 10:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 11:30 Cross-Country Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Switzerland 12:15 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Germany 13:15 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 22:30 All Sports: Campus 22:55 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 23:00 Equestrian: Fei World Cup United Kingdom 00:00 Equestrian: La Coruna, Spain 01:00 All Sports: Alexia S Selection 01:05 Equestrian Sports: Riders Club 01:10 Golf: Golf Club 01:15 Sailing: Yacht Club 01:20 All Sports: Wednesday Selection 01:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 New Girl 08:00 Body Of Proof 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 New Girl 12:00 Grey’s Anatomy 12:50 Private Practice 13:40 Body Of Proof 14:30 Masterchef 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 New Girl 17:40 Body Of Proof 18:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Castle 21:00 Grey’s Anatomy 21:50 Private Practice 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 New Girl 23:30 Grey’s Anatomy 00:20 Private Practice 01:10 Castle 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 New Girl 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Body Of Proof 04:50 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Pawn Stars 09:30 American Restoration 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Ancient Aliens 12:00 Storage Wars 12:30 Storage Wars 13:00 American Pickers 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:30 American Restoration 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 Storage Wars 16:30 Storage Wars

07:30 Lionheart 09:30 Elf 11:10 Miss Congeniality 13:00 12 Men Of Christmas 14:30 Men In Black (1997) 16:15 Remember Me 18:10 Tourist, The 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Inception 23:30 Fork In The Road, A 01:20 Hustler Tv 03:00 Assassination Games 04:45 Art Of Travel, The 06:30 Ltv Sports News

leashed Ii 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:55 Looney Tunes Show, The 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s, The 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 12:50 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B!, The 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 15:45 Justice League Unlimited I 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes Ii 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Geisco Pba Team Shootout 17:30 Geisco Pba Team Shootout 18:00 Atp World Tour Uncovered 18:30 Best Premier League Games 19:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 20:45 Best Premier League Games 21:15 Planet Speed 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 La Liga World 00:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 02:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Liga Bbva

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

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 Big Bang Theory, The 08:30 Mentalist, The 09:15 C.S.I. New York 10:00 Eastbound & Down 10:30 Two And A Half Men 11:20 Closer,

17:00 American Pickers 18:00 Pawn Stars 18:30 American Restoration 19:00 UFO Files 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 21:00 Ancient Aliens 22:00 Swamp People 23:00 Storage Wars 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Ancient Aliens 02:00 Swamp People 03:00 Storage Wars 04:00 UFO Files 05:00 Pawn Stars 05:30 American Restoration 06:00 Ancient Aliens

The 12:10 Harry’s Law 12:55 Underbelly 13:45 According To Jim 14:30 Mentalist, The 15:15 C.S.I. New York 16:00 Entourage 16:30 Gossip Girl 17:15 Ncis: Los Angeles 19:00 Pan Am 19:45 According To Jim 20:30 2 Broke Girls 21:00 Necessary Roughness 22:30 Southland 23:20 Shameless 00:15 Invisible Sign, An 02:00 Eronica Guerin 03:40 Entourage 04:15 Gossip Girl 05:00 Ncis: Los Angeles 06:30 Pan Am

08:30 City Of Angels 10:30 Fast Freddie Widow & Me 12:15 Happy Feet Two 14:00 Christmas With The Kranks 16:00 Lethal Weapon 18:00 Fred Claus 20:00 King’s Speech 22:05 Friends With Money 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring!

TV 03:40 Action Zone 04:10 And Soon The Darkness 06:00 Five Million Years To Earth

05:45 Retreat 07:15 Runaway Jury 09:25 Jack And Jill 11:00 Cine News 11:15 Bridesmaids 13:25 Desperately Seeking Santa 15:00 Happythankyoumoreplease 16:45 Action Zone 17:15 Page Eight 19:05 The Films And Stars Of 2012-2013 20:05 Seeking Justice 22:00 Water For Elephants 00:10 Cedar Rapids 01:40 Cine News 02:10 04:00 Dirty Girl

06:30 Blue Valentine 08:25 Cine News 11:05 The Pelican Brief 13:30 Cine News 14:25 Cat Ballou 16:05 I Don’t Know How She Does It 17:40 Films & Stars 18:15 Source Code 19:55 The Chamber 22:00 The Son Of No One 23:40 Hanna 01:35 Haevnen 03:35 Cine News 04:35 Jennifer Eight

19:25 Certain Prey 21:00 League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen 23:00 Person Of Interest 23:50 Love Crime 01:35 Adult Zone

18:55 Bright Star 21:00 Who Is Clark Rockefeller? 22:35 From Prada To Nada 00:25 La Chance De Ma Vie

07:00 Show Boat 08:50 Meet Me In St: Louis 10:40 Sunday in New York 12:25 Come Fly With Me 14:10 Little Women 16:10 Ice Station Zebra 18:30 Boys Town 20:05 Tender Trap 22:00 Star Is Born 00:15 Easter Parade 01:55 Sweet Bird Of Youth 03:50 Grand Prix 06:35 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Quentin Tarantino

By Preston Wilder Bradshaw in The Guardian, “defiantly, unfashionably about the vocation of romantic love” - which sounds lovely but the style isn’t overtly lyrical (like, for instance, in The Tree of Life), just “coolly unobtrusive” per Mr. Bradshaw, so it all seems a bit flat. Also with Paul Schneider as Keats’ fellow poet - a supporting performance some acclaimed as the best of its year, but I just find grating. Maybe it’s just me. Made in 2009.

Bright Star (Novacinema4, 18.55) One of those much-loved films I feel like a philistine for not really connecting with (I’ve seen it twice, just to be sure) - but maybe it’s because it’s so original, telling a tale of young love in 19th-century England without the usual wild passion and ripped bodices.

The youthful duo are John Keats (Ben Whishaw), the finest poet in England, and Fanny Brawne (Abbie Cornish), the girl next door - his neighbour in what was then Hampstead Village on the outskirts of London, living with her mum and younger siblings and pursuing a romance with the sickly poet, albeit mostly chaste and entwined with questions of Art and Beauty. “A fine and even ennobling film,” declared Peter

Inception (LTV, 21.00)

Bright Star

Staying with the much-loved films on tonight’s Pick of the Day - and this one is No. 14 on the all-time Top 250 at the Internet Movie Database, so it certainly has its fans. Some of them compare it to 2001: A Space Od-

yssey but it’s more like one of the great floating spaceships in 2001, something big and heavy and conspicuously engineered - basically a heist movie with a twist, the twist being that the heist takes place in the victim’s dreams. The thieves are a gang (led by Leonardo DiCaprio) who insinuate themselves in people’s dream-worlds and scavenge their subconscious - and their mission calls for “inception” (i.e. planting an idea) as opposed to “extraction” which is what they usually do, but in fact the actual mission turns out to be fairly simple; it’s more about the mind-games, including a veiled hint that Leo himself might be the victim of the inception, everything we see being an elaborate ruse.

Ingenious, if a bit mechanical. Made in 2010.

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15.30

Entehnos Local cultrual show.

16.00

07.00 08.00

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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

12.00

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Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies Paizoume Kypriaka Local game show, asking questions having to do with Cypriot dialect.

19.20

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

20.00 21.15

News Patates 8 (rpt)

20.10 21.00

Proektaseis Local topical show.

23.00 23.30 00.45

Fireman Sam, Pippi Longstocking, etc.

Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

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Euromaxx

Album Show Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Upstairs Downstairs (rpt)

23.45

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Me Agapi Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Panselinos (rpt) Galileo (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt)

MEGA 06.00 06.15 07.00 08.00 10.00 12.45 14.00 15.00

Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi FILM: Shark Attack Celebrating students head for the sunny climes of Florida to enjoy a well-earned break - little expecting to fall foul of killer sharks. Thriller, starring Kathy Baker. 2005.

With News at 00.00.

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I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Koinonia Ora Mega Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Kelmmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson Local investigative show.

16.00

Yia Sena Local talk-show.

18.00 18.20

News Master Chef Greek reality competition show where amatuer chefs compete against each other in weekly challenges.

With News at 18.00.

18.30 19.30 20.15 21.15 22.15 23.15

NRG Zone FILM: Ghost Romantic fantasy, starring Demi Moore, Patrick Swayze and an Oscar-winning Whoopi Goldberg. 1990. See Pick Of The Day.

Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

22.00

06.50 07.00

First season of period drama remake. ‘The Ladybird’. Sir Hallam finds his diplomatic skills put to the test at home as well as at work. The servants are intrigued by a mysterious new addition to the household, while a restless Lady Persie embarks on a dangerous flirtation, and is drawn to the thrill of fascist politics.

Live cookery show.

18.45

NRG Zone Kids’ TV

DW-TV’s magazine show bringing you the latest on lifestyle and entertainment in Europe.

Local talk-show.

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A computer expert has all details of her identity erased and is framed for stealing from the Russian Mafia. Thriller sequel, starring Nikki Deloach and Demet Akbag.

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Las Vegas First season. ‘The Count of Montecito’.

Danny and Sam try to figure out the tactics of a ring of card counters; Fred Puterbaugh professes his love for Nessa, much to her dismay; while Ed and Danny deal with an archaeologist’s find near the hotel pool.

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Classic Cartoons Fotis - Maria Live Best Of Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of Exelixeis Sti Showbiz Mila (rpt) Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

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Kids’ TV Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV To Kleidi Local comedy series.

Talk-show that deals with human interest stories such as reuniting people, fulfilling dreams and connecting individuals who want to correct past mistakes in their lives.

Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) News Klemmena Oneira Porta Kleidomeni FILM: Net 2.0

The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama The Del Monte Heirs Latin American telenovela.

Greek drama series.

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Fotis Maria Live Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: The Salton Sea Following his wife’s brutal murder, a bereaved husband finds himself drawn into a shady world of thugs, drug addicts and undercover cops.

Crime thriller, starring Val Kilmer. 2002.

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S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue

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With News at 18.30.

A publishing assistant endures a series of romantic misadventures to find the perfect date to escort her to a family wedding. Comedy, with Charisma Carpenter. 2003.

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FILM: Dark Water Swarming sharks cause problems when they show unusually aggressive behaviour, prompting the authorities to turn to an expert for help. Horror, starring Lorenzo Lamas.

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FILM: Frailty A treasury agent sets out to track down an investigator’s killer, but finds the culprit more formidable than expected. Action thriller, starring Wesley Snipes. 1993.

Agora (LTV3, 19.45)

06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Buzz & Tell 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Teletubbies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 My Family 10:00 One Foot In The Grave 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 Casualty 13:05 BBC Proms 2010: Rodgers & Hammerstein 14:55 The Weakest Link 15:40 EastEnders 16:05 Doctors 16:35 Casualty 17:25 Bleak House 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic 21:00 The Royle Family 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Waking The Dead 22:50 Taking the Flak 23:50 Sport Relief 2012 - Sport Relief Does The Apprentice 01:20 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 01:50 The Weakest Link 02:35 EastEnders 03:05 Doctors 03:35 My Family 04:05 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 04:35 Doctor Who Confidential 04:55 Sport Relief 2012 - Sport Relief Does The Apprentice

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper

23:30 Scandal 00:20 Castle 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 New Girl 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Body Of Proof 04:50 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover

09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 Man, Woman, Wild 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 Extreme Fishing 22:00 River Monsters 23:00 Hillbilly Handfishin 00:00 Trouble In Paradise 01:00 Surviving The Cut 01:55 Extreme Fishing 02:50 River Monsters 03:50 Hillbilly Handfishin 04:50 Trouble In Paradise 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

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Four Hills Tournament Germany 10:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 11:30 Cross-Country Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Switzerland 12:15

Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Germany 13:00 CrossCountry Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Italy 14:45 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Austria

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Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 22:30 Fight Sport: Fight Club 00:00 Poker: European Poker Tour 01:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Austria 01:30 Biathlon: World Cup Germany

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06:40 Margin Call 08:30 The Emperor’s Club 10:20 12 Dates Of Christmas 11:50 Cine News 12:15 Jane Eyre 14:20 Management 16:00 Rango 17:50 Hollywood 1 On 1 18:25 Ghost Rider 20:20 The Beaver 22:00 Payback 23:50 It’s Kind Of A Funny Story 01:35 Born On The Fourth Of July 04:00 Cine News 04:50 Starsky & Hutch

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05:30 Gone Baby Gone 07:25 Never Been Kissed 09:15 Blue Crush 2 11:10 John Carter 13:25 Alvin And The Chipmunks: Chipwrecked 15:00 Just Married 16:40 Cine News 17:20 The Debt 19:20 Mad On Novacinema 20:00 The Three Musketeers 22:00 Coriolanus 00:10 Trust 02:00 Cine News 02:30 The

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07:00 3 Godfathers 08:45 Singin’ In The Rain 10:30 Philadelphia Story 12:20 Glass Bottom Boat 14:10 Honeymoon Machine 15:35 Kelly’s Heroes 17:55 Never So Few 19:55 Unsinkable Molly Brown 22:00 Ben-Hur 01:25 Welcome To Hard Times 03:05 2001: A Space Odyssey 05:20 Blackboard Jungle

By Preston Wilder

Ghost (CyBC2, 21.00) It was bad enough having Love survive from beyond the grave, and the ghost looking out for his beloved, and the Righteous Brothers crooning ‘Unchained Melody’ on the soundtrack; this was a three-hanky weepie even before Patrick Swayze passed away - but his death makes it almost unbearably sad. (I actually saw it at the cinema 20 years ago with a girl who cried all the way through, though it might’ve been because she was with me.) Patrick and Demi Moore are in love, and he cradles her from behind while she kneads the clay on her pottery wheel - but then he dies, suddenly and senselessly in an apparently random mugging, and she’s bereft. Enter Whoopi Goldberg as a fake

medium who discovers - much to her surprise - that she really is psychic when Patrick uses her to pass on messages to Demi from the hereafter (actually limbo, or wherever ghosts hang out before they pass ‘into the light’) and the result is one of the biggest films of the early 90s, a mega-hit that also won Oscars and remains unusually sharp and well-plotted. Do stock up on the Kleenex first, though. Made in 1990.

Coriolanus (Novacinema1, 22.00) “If she says your behaviour is heinous / Kick her right in the Cori-o-lanus!” I know that isn’t Shakespeare, it’s not even close - though it’s actually Cole Porter, from the wonderful ‘Brush Up Your Shakespeare’ number

Coriolanus

in Kiss Me Kate - but it’s all I’ve got, since I haven’t yet managed to watch this acclaimed modern-dress version of the Bard’s potent tragedy. Ralph Fiennes (who also directed) is our hero, a great Roman general with a fierce patrician snobbery when it comes to ‘the people’; his political opponents use his non-democratic views to undermine him - and he’s exiled from Rome, but plans revenge on the city that betrayed him. The film “leaves an acrid, unfinished taste,” wrote Ty Burr in the Boston Globe, meaning it as a compliment, adding that Fiennes “takes advantage of the bluntness of the text; even Shakespeare newcomers will be able to follow along”. The Bard would approve, if he were still alive. So would Cole Porter, probably. Made in 2011.

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Proti Enimerosi Kali Sas Mera Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Local comedy series, which happens to be the longest-running show on TV.

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Local cultural show.

Mazi Sto CyBC News Kaftes Piperies

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Paizoume Kypriaka

Live cookery show.

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

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

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News Patates 8

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Tete A Tete Tasos Tryfonos interviews Greek celebrities from the world of showbiz.

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NRG Zone Official Film Olympic Games Top Gear

Local Sketch (rpt) News Moiraia Fengaria (rpt) More Repeats 23.30

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Erotas (rpt) Proini Enimerosi Me Agapi Deliyianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) Panselinos (rpt) Galileo (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) Local smash-hit comedy series, with village setting. Interrupted by News at 18.00.

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Fifteenth season.

Episode 2: The three hosts are each given a budget of £5,000 to find a car that can hold its own on a racetrack and handle everyday tasks, before testing their purchases in Germany. James May puts two Porsches through their paces and former Downing Street communications director Alastair Campbell tries out the Reasonably Priced Car.

Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Olypmpic Magazine Album Show Biz/Emeis News In English News In Turkish Upstairs Downstairs (rpt) First season of period drama remake. ‘The Cuckoo’. Sir Hallam finds himself at the centre of a national crisis when his friend, the Duke of Kent, asks for help. Meanwhile, storm clouds are gathering within 165 Eaton Place, with Lady Agnes growing fear over the imminent arrival of her baby, and the servants’ concern for Lotte, who refuses to speak. Last in series.

Current affairs show.

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ANTENNA

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News Sports News Vradi Me Ton Petro Kostopoula

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Synora Agapis (rpt) I Agapi Irthe Apo Makria (rpt) News Deal (rpt)

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Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) News Klemmena Oneira Porta Kleidomeni FILM: Superbad Two co-dependent high school seniors are forced to deal with separation anxiety after their plan to stage a booze-soaked party goes awry. Teen comedy, starring Jonah Hill. 2007

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The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama Oikogeniakes Istories Efta Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia Oikogeniakes Istories Las Vegas First season, ‘Donny, We Hardly Knew Ye’.

Ed tries to feel pleased when his cousin Donny meets the girl of his dreams, and instantly arranges a quickfire Vegas wedding.

Meanwhile, a guest at the hotel buys $50,000 in chips and doesn’t gamble one of them.

James Caan stars in the glitzy drama.

News FILM: Becoming Jane Story about a young Jane Austen’s fictional romance between the future novelist and a dashing but penniless lawyer. Period drama, starring Anne Hathaway. 2007

Late night talk-show.

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News Master Chef Greek reality competition show.

Niose Me News Dancing With The Stars Celebrities and pro dancers train and compete in a ballroom dancing competition.

Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Koinonia Ora Mega Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Kelmmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson Yia Sena

SIGMA

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Cookery show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition.

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Kids’ TV Star News Mesimeriani Meleti Kids’ TV To Kleidi Local comedy series.

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Mila Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life (men, relationships, sex, kids etc.) with showbiz guests.

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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz La Bomba Sportshow Satirical show focusing on the sports and news.

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Kids’ TV S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Remington Steele Milagros Kids’ TV Top Models S’Agapo Sabrina, To Koritsi Tis Agapis Akti Oneiron Pacific Blue With News at 18.30.

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News Sports Time Rubi FILM: I Could Never Be Your Woman A mother falls for a younger man while her daughter falls in love for the first time.

Romantic comedy, starring Michelle Pfeiffer. 2007.

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FILM: Hostage A former hostage negotiator draws on his old skills to save children held captive in their own home by a gang of crazed delinquents. Thriller, with Bruce Willis. 2005.

FILM: Bart Got A Room A teenager desperately struggles to get a date for his senior prom.

Teen comedy, starring Steven Kaplan and William H Macy. 2008.

News Repeats

Yia Sena (rpt) Enimerosi Tora (rpt) Proino Mou (rpt)

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FILM: Jagged Edge A defence attorney is hired to clear a publishing magnate of the murder of his wife, only to end up falling for him. Thriller, starring Glenn Close. 1985.

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Bridesmaids (Novacinema4, 22.50)

06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 3rd & Bird 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Buzz & Tell 08:15 3rd & Bird 08:25 Boogie Beebies 08:40 Teletubbies 09:05 Balamory 09:25 Buzz & Tell 09:30 The Royle Family 10:00 Mastermind 10:30 The Weakest Link 11:15 EastEnders 11:45 Doctors 12:15 The Iceberg That Sank The Titanic 13:05 Sport Relief 2012 Sport Relief Does The Apprentice 14:25 Mastermind 14:55 The Weakest Link 15:40 EastEnders 16:10 Doctors 16:40 BBC Proms 2010: Last Night of the Proms 18:05 The Weakest Link 18:50 Apes in Danger 19:20 Doctors 19:50 Doctor Who: Voyage Of The Damned 21:00 The Old Guys 21:30 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps 22:00 BBC Proms 2010: Last Night of the Proms 23:25 Sport Relief 2012 - When Parkinson Met Mandela 23:55 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 00:40 Michael McIntyre’s Comedy Roadshow 01:25 The Weakest Link 02:10 Apes in Danger 02:35 Doctors 03:05 The Old Guys 03:35 BBC Proms 2010: Last Night of the Proms 05:05 Apes in Danger 05:30 Alan Carr: Chatty Man

07:00 How It’s Made 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper

09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55 Ultimate Survival 11:50 Extreme Fishing 15:25 American Chopper 16:20 Mythbusters 17:15 Dirty Jobs 18:10 Deadliest Catch 19:05 Ultimate Survival 20:00 How It’s Made 21:00 World’s Toughest Jobs 22:00 Alone In The Wild 23:00 Aussie Feds 00:00 True Csi 01:55 World’s Toughest Jobs 02:50 Alone In The Wild 03:50 Aussie Feds 04:50 True Csi 05:45 How Do They Do It? 06:10 Overhaulin’

09:30 Biathlon: World Cup Germany 10:30 Snooker: European Tour Germany 12:15 Cross-Country Skiing: World Cup-Tour De Ski Italy 14:30 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Austria 16:45 Alpine Skiing: World Cup Croatia 17:45 Biathlon: World Cup Germany 20:00 Alpine Skiing: World Cup Croatia 20:15 Snooker: European Tour Germany 22:30 Tennis: Atp Tournament Doha 00:00 Ski Jumping: World Cup-Four Hills Tournament Austria 01:00 Rally: European Rally Championship Austria 01:30 Motorsports: Gta Race To Dubai 02:00 Rally: Rally Raid Dakar

05:40 Desperate Housewives 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 New Girl 08:00 Body Of Proof

08:50 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 09:40 Desperate Housewives 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 New Girl 12:00 Happy Endings 12:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 12:50 Glee 13:40 Body Of Proof 14:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 15:20 Desperate Housewives 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 New Girl 17:40 Body Of Proof 18:30 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover 19:20 Desperate Housewives 20:10 Castle 21:00 Happy Endings 21:25 Don’t Trust The B...In Apartment 21:50 Glee 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 New Girl 23:30 Happy Endings 23:55 Don’t Trust The B...

In Apartment 00:20 Glee 01:10 Castle 02:00 Desperate Housewives 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 New Girl 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 Body Of Proof 04:50 Tabatha’s Salon Takeover

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 UFO Files 09:00 Pawn Stars 09:30 American Restoration 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Ancient Aliens 12:00 American Restoration 13:00 Ax Men 14:00 Pawn Stars 14:30 American Restoration 15:00 UFO Files 16:00 American Restoration 17:00 Ax Men 18:00 Pawn Stars 18:30 American Restoration 19:00 UFO Files 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 Storage Wars 21:00 Ancient Aliens 22:00 Rise &

The 16:30 According To Jim 17:15 Mentalist, The 18:00 C.S.I. New York 19:00 Pan Am 19:45 Gossip Girl 20:30 Friends 21:00 Ncis: Los Angeles 22:30 Southland 23:20 Shameless 00:15 Everybody Wants To Be Italian 02:05 Youth In Revolt 03:45 Big Bang Theory, The 04:10 According To Jim 04:55 Mentalist, The 05:40 C.S.I. New York 06:30 Pan Am

Fall Of The Third Reich 00:00 Pawn Stars 00:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Ancient Aliens 02:00 Rise & Fall Of The Third Reich 04:00 UFO Files 05:00 Pawn Stars 05:30 American Restoration 06:00 Ancient Aliens

07:30 Black Beauty 09:00 Hollywood Buzz 09:30 Cinderella Story, A 11:30 Family Man, The 13:45 500 Days Of Summer 15:30 Overnight Delivery 17:00 Action Zone 17:30 Practical Magic 19:30 Hollywood Buzz 20:00 Ltv Sports News 21:00 Winning Season, The 23:00 Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows: Part 2 01:15 Hustler Tv 03:00 Easier With Practice 05:00 Live Wire 06:30 Ltv Sports News

07:00 Chowder I 07:25 Marvelous Misadventures Of Flapjack, The 07:50 Tom & Jerry Show, The 08:15 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed Ii 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series Ii 09:55 Looney Tunes Show, The 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s, The 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 12:50 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B!, The 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey

Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 14:55 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue! I 15:45 Justice League Unlimited I 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes Ii 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 Geisco Pba Team Shootout 17:30 Planet Speed 18:00 Barclays Premier League World 18:30 Nba Action 19:00 La Liga World 19:30 Barclays Premier League Review 20:30 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 22:30 2012 Pga Tour Highlights 23:30 Volvo Ocean Race 00:00 La Liga Show 2012-13 00:30 2011 World’s Strongest Man 01:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Liga Bbva 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 05:00 Planet Speed 05:30 Nba 2012-13

07:15 Two And A Half Men 08:00 Eastbound & Down 08:35 Closer, The 09:20 Harry’s Law 10:05 Chuck 10:50 2 Broke Girls 11:15 Bones 12:50 Pan Am 13:35 Two And A Half Men 14:25 Closer, The 15:15 Harry’s Law 16:05 Big Bang Theory,

06:30 Drive 08:10 Moneyball 10:25 Cine News 11:10 Zorba The Greek 15:25 Shirley Valentine 17:15 Action Zone 17:50 The Eagle 19:50 Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life 22:00 Tenderness 01:55 8 Mile 03:45 Cine News 04:30 The Skin I Live In

21:00 Gattaca 23:00 Bloody Fridays 00:35 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone 04:50 Straw Dogs 07:30 Action Zone 08:00 Last Days Of Disco 10:00 Nowhere Boy 12:00 Red Riding Hood 13:50 Monsters Vs. Aliens 15:30 Action Zone 16:00 Lethal Weapon 3 18:00 Yogi Bear 19:30 Action Zone 20:00 Oscar 22:00 Eat Pray Love 00:20 Daring!

TV 04:05 Life As We Know It 06:15 Mumford

05:40 Unfaithful 07:45 Alfie 09:30 X-Men: First Class 11:40 Beginners 13:25 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word 15:00 Chalet Girl 16:45 Cine News 17:00 Win Win 18:50 Hollywood Buzz 19:25 Christmas Magic 21:00 Ncis 22:00 Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides 00:25 Underworld: Awakening 01:55 Cine News 02:25 The Bone Collector 04:25 Frida

19:00 Jumping The Broom 21:00 Penelope 22:50 Bridesmaids 01:00 The Deep End 02:45 Ap’ Ta Kokala Vgalmena 04:15 Another Earth

07:00 Sunshine Boys 08:55 Naked Spur 10:25 Cimarron 12:50 Unsinkable Molly Brown 15:00 Key Largo 16:40 Ben-Hur 20:05 Logan’s Run 22:00 2001: A Space Odyssey 00:15 Outfit 02:00 Edge of the City 03:25 Doctor Zhivago 06:30 TCM Presents Under the Influence: Richard Gere

By Preston Wilder

The Winning Season (LTV, 21.00) True story: I was in the same hotel gym as Sam Rockwell once (I might’ve asked for his autograph, if he weren’t on a treadmill and dripping with sweat).

The rather squirrelly actor doesn’t look like much of a movie star - but in fact he’s become a well-known presence in the past few years, even in little-known movies like this amiable sports comedy. Sam’s a burned-out coach whose high-school-principal friend (belligerent baldy Rob Corddry) offers him a job coaching girls’ basketball. “I can’t coach girls,” he protests; “Women hate me!” - and his brusque insensitive style doesn’t exactly endear him to his teenage charges (including Emma Roberts, niece of Julia), but

of course they end up bonding as always happens in sports comedies about teams of misfits learning how to win (“It’s not whether you win or lose, it’s who’s afraid to play you next time,” says Sam, setting out his take-no-prisoners philosophy). Predictable fun with some cute moments, though rather a waste of Sam Rockwell’s talents - and I plan to tell him that, the next time we meet in a hotel gym. Made in 2009.

The Darkest Hour (Novacinema3, 23.00) You know what’s wrong with films these days? They’re too professional. Everyone takes them so seriously, it’s rare to find a really mind-boggling, so-bad-it’s-

good, what-were-they-thinking monstrosity like this risible sci-fi, easily the silliest of the many recent alieninvasion flicks. The aliens are invisible, for one thing, appearing as little floating lights, making them the second-least-scary monsters in movie history (least scary of all is still The Happening, where the monsters were ordinary plants) - and a small group of heroes (led by Emile Hirsch) try to avoid them, wandering through Moscow as they try to escape by nuclear submarine. The fact that Moscow is thousands of miles from the nearest sea, making a nuclear submarine an unlikely means of escape, doesn’t seem to have occurred to anyone - though that’s actually the least of its many idiocies. Hilariously bad. Made in 2011.

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By Preston Wilder

A Man for All Seasons (Plus TV, 18.40) Charlton Heston. Big hunk of beef, innit. Ben Hur and so forth. All-American gun nut, right? Actually, no: the late Mr. Heston was a serious actor with a taste for the classics - he made a couple of Shakespeare films in the early 70s - and also played Sir Thomas More (the role that won Paul Scofield an Oscar) in this made-for-TV adaptation of Robert Bolt’s play. More is Chancellor in the turbulent court of King Henry VIII, and refuses to go against his conscience by endorsing the King’s wish to divorce Wife No. 1 so as to marry Wife No. 2 even if it costs him his head. Heston is powerful and speaks the lines well (he’d played the role onstage) -

and he also managed to attract the likes of Vanessa Redgrave (as More’s wife) and John Gielgud (Cardinal Wolsey), making for a prestigious bit of filmed theatre.

Though he was a gun nut as well. Made in 1988.

One For the Money (Novacinema1, 22.00) One for the money, two for the show. Three to get ready and go, Katherine Heigl, go! Ms. Heigl is apparently over, her ‘frosty’ image and general reputation for being hard to work with having scuppered her Hollywood career, downgrading her to B-movies like this lame action comedy. The setting is working-class New Jersey where bubbly Kath gets a job as a bounty

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hunter (!), going after old flame Jason O’Mara who’s wanted for murder. The idea is to make Heigl ‘edgier’, moving beyond her rom-com persona - which is why she gets involved with a violent boxer, an Asian stoner and a couple of trash-talking hookers on a street corner (“We got this good cop / bad cop thing going. Except we’re hookers”) - but it’s all a bit incompetent, not to mention tasteless, the kind of film that goes from a decomposing body in a barrel (unseen, fortunately) straight to a slapstick climax with ditzy Kath looking for her gun in her handbag. Not a great start to 2013, what with this and The Darkest Hour yesterday, but it’s bound to get better. Just as long as it doesn’t involve Katherine Heigl. Made in 2012.