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Over 20 jobs a day lost in past year More than 7,500 have joined ranks of the unemployed since November 2011

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OING ON 8,000 jobs were lost in Cyprus in the past 12 months, bringing the total number of unemployed people to 39.522 at the end of November, figures released yesterday revealed.

The figure represents a 24.2 per cent increase in job losses since November 2011, roughly translating to 21 redundancies on average every day over the past year.

Over 1,600 more people were made redundant in the trade sector, over 1,300 in the construction sector, more than 1,000 in the hospitality sector, almost 800 in the manufacturing sector, over 600 in public administration and over 500 newcomers to the jobs market, in addition to hundreds of others across smaller sectors.

In total, job losses over the past year ran to 7.696.

More worryingly, while the jobless rate stood at 12.9 per cent overall, at the end of October, the European Commission yesterday classed the unemployment rate among Cypriots under 25, at 30 per cent or above, one of the highest in the bloc.

“Youth unemployment rate has reached more than 25 per cent in 13 Member States, with Greece and Spain experiencing rates of over 55 per cent and Italy, Portugal, Ireland, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia, Hungary and Slovakia with rates around or above 30 per cent,” the Commission said. More than 30 per cent of unemployed people un-

der 25 across the EU have been unemployed for more than 12 months – 1.6 million in 2011, compared to 0.9 million in 2008.

The Commission said overall employment rates for young people had fallen by almost five percentage points over the last four years — three times as much as for adults.

The chances for a young unemployed person of finding a job are low: only 29.7 per cent of those aged 15-24 and unemployed in 2010 found a job in 2011, a fall of almost 10 per cent in three years.

Some 5.5 million young people on the labour market (more than 1 in 5) cannot find a job, and 7.5 million young people aged 15-24 are ‘NEETs’ (Not in Employment, Education or Training).

Young people are those most at risk in the European labour market, and increasingly run the risk of being marginalised, the Commission said. “This fact has immediate consequences, but also medium and long-term implications.

The deepening labour market crisis can scar a large part of an entire young generation, damaging employment, productivity and social cohesion now and in the future,” it added.

To tackle the growing problem, measures to help member states tackle the unacceptable levels of youth unemployment and social exclusion have been

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WORLD’S OLDEST PERSON DIES IN U.S. AGED 116 Farmers cry

over spilt milk in Internet youth craze

A 116-year-old woman listed by Guinness World Records as the oldest living person anywhere around the globe has died in a nursing home in the US state of Georgia.

Besse Cooper died peacefully at the Park Place nursing home in Monroe, according

to her 77-year-old son Sidney.

He said his mother had four children. All of them survived her and are still in good health, he said.

“She lived in three centuries. Don’t many people do that,” said Cooper.

DUMPING a bottle of milk over your head and filming it for a video post on the Internet has become a popular youth craze, but Austrian farmers say the spillage is a crying shame.

“Milking”, as the trend is known, is among a variety of tongue-in-cheek stunts in which young people shoot pictures or videos of themselves posing as owls, planks of wood, or famous people and then share them on YouTube and other social media.

Austria’s AMA farm lobby yesterday launched its own “true milking” campaign to decry the wanton waste of dairy resources and to encourage consumers to drink it instead.

“At a time when too much food already lands in the garbage, it is worth questioning dumping milk. This is a valuable product of nature that our farmers provide daily with lots of love and labour,” AMA milk marketing manager Peter Hamedinger said.

Milking has become an Internet hit, with one video from Newcastle in England getting more than half a million clicks on YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=qtJPAv1UiAE AMA’s marketing arm said the milking craze seemed to reflect a strange youthful protest against authority. It sought to one-up the video trend with its own clip, featuring a young man who holds a carton of milk high above his head and drinks the contents without spilling a drop.

“This message is not communicated in a commercial way and absolutely not with finger pointing, but rather with a wink of the eye for the Internet generation,” the farm products board stated.

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THE COUNCIL of Europe’s (CoE) anti-torture committee today releases a report criticising the continued ill-treatment of those held by police in Cyprus and prison overcrowding.

Persons held in police establishments in Cyprus continue to run a “serious risk” of illtreatment, according to a justreleased report by the Council of Europe’s Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT).

The report, based on visits to detention centres in Cyprus by a CPT delegation in 2008, notes insufficient progress since its previous visit in 2004.

It calls on Cypriot authorities to ensure “practical professional training” for police and that “judicial authorities” be “sensitised to their obligations to take appropriate action in cases of ill-treatment”.

The report also criticises overcrowding at Nicosia Central Prisons and the lack of sufficient health-care for inmates at the establishment.

In its report on the visit in 2004, the CPT had pointed out “rampant overcrowding” at Nicosia Central Prisons. But since then, the “situation has further deteriorated”, said the latest report compiled four years ago.

The CPT will release the 2008 report and the Cypriot government’s response, providing details on measures being taken to address the issues raised in the report, today.

The CoE report also criticises the lack of sufficient health-care for inmates The Council of Europe is an intergovernmental institution meaning it works with member states to get “broad access” to prisons and detention centres, some would argue more than any other supervisory authority. A trade-off in getting such close access is the inability of the CPT to make public its report until the member state investigated gives its approval. This usually takes between 12 and 18 months after a CPT delegation visit.

In the case of Cyprus, it took four years to secure approval, making the contents of the report somewhat outdated.

In any case, the CPT plans to carry out its next visit to Cyprus next year.

In the 2008 report, the delegation noted that material conditions of detention centres had improved since 2004 though serious concerns remain in terms of overcrowd-

ing, inadequate access to natural light and ventilation, as well as food quality and quantity. At the time of the visit, the official capacity of Nicosia prison was 340, while the correctional facility was housing 520 inmates.

In the first quarter of this year, this figure had soared to 700 inmates. Last March, cabinet approved a proposal by the Justice Ministry to build a new central prison to address overcrowding in a public-private partnership (PPP).

The project has now been put on the shelf after the draft memorandum agreed with the troika for an international bailout excluded Cyprus taking on any PPP project without first setting out the legal and institutional PPP framework.

The 2008 report also recorded serious concerns about continued ill treatment by po-

lice, with the CPT delegation receiving “many allegations of ill-treatment of persons deprived of their liberty by the police”.

“In the light of all the information at the CPT’s disposal, the Committee can only conclude that persons held in police establishments in Cyprus continue to run a serious risk of ill-treatment,” it said.

Despite efforts to safeguard against rights’ violations, “the Cypriot authorities must be resolute in eradicating illtreatment by the police”. The report called on the Justice Minister to repeatedly impress upon all police officers that illtreatment will not be tolerated and that perpetrators will be severely sanctioned. The report also highlights the inadequate provision of legal aid for people who cannot pay for such counsel and a lack of access to lawyers for minors.

Three months in jail without a trial

By Stefanos Evripidou A SUSPECTED victim of labour and sexual exploitation is being forced to spend at least three months in jail awaiting trial on theft charges made by her Limassol employer straight after the domestic worker filed a complaint of abuse to the Labour Office. A Limassol judge yesterday refused to release from custody the 25-year-old domestic worker from Nigeria who has now spent two months in prison until her trial starts on January 2, 2013, guaranteeing that the potential trafficking victim, who has been behind bars since October 12, will remain incarcerated until the New Year.

The 25-year-old Nigerian filed a series of complaints to the Limassol Labour Relations Office on October 4 relating to alleged abuses at her workplace as well as claims that her employer had taken her to a Paphos hotel to have sex with other men at least twice.

According to the complaint, which the Cyprus Mail has seen, the 25-yearold was allegedly made to work over 16 hours a day, seven days a week without pay. The 25-year-old escaped to Nicosia, where she was put in touch with Renos Pelayias, a retired policeman, who for a small fee gave her shelter and helped her file a complaint.

Within days of filing, her Limassol employer made a counter-claim that the domestic worker had stolen €3,500 worth of jewellery. The 25-year-old categorically denies the charges, claiming she left her workplace with only the clothes on her back. On October 12, both employer and employee were called to the Limassol labour relations office to give statements.

As soon as the meeting ended, police arrested the 25-year-old in connection with charges of theft.

When Limassol lawyer Andry Ioannou first requested her release last month, the judge rejected the application, saying the woman had nowhere to stay since her

registered address was her employer’s residence. During yesterday’s hearing, Ioannou presented retired policeman Pelayias in court to say that he would be responsible for housing the 25-year-old on her release. However, the prosecution objected, leaving the judge to decide.

The judge dismissed the fact that the 25-year-old now had a registered address and rejected the release request. The judge argued the woman had “no ties to the Republic”, making her a flight risk, despite the fact the authorities have her passport.

Ioannou requested a quicker trial date so the potential victim of sexual exploitation does not have to spend any more time in jail than necessary, the judge said her schedule was already overloaded, and set the date for January 2.

If the woman is eventually acquitted of theft charges, the defence is considering suing the state for keeping a potential trafficking victim incarcerated for so many months without a conviction.

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Austerity bills headed for urgent approval

By George Psyllides THE government is expected today to submit a batch of bills for urgent approval by parliament, as it scrambles to meet the terms of a bailout agreement and score points ahead of a Eurogroup meeting next week that will discuss the Cypriot programme.

The 23 bills concern public service salary cuts, new taxes and provisions that will strengthen current laws on money laundering.

Reports said the bills providing for a rise in the tax on tobacco, alcohol and fuel could be brought before plenum for approval today. The

same goes for the one regarding pay cuts, which the government pledged would come into effect this year. Finance Minister Vassos Shiarly said last week that the government would submit the bills this week with the aim of having them approved before December 13, when the Eurogroup is scheduled to discuss the island’s bailout.

The government hopes that approval of the bills will help Cyprus’ bid. But it does not appear it will be smooth sailing, judging by the comments made by German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble on Tuesday.

“We expect complete financial transparency from

Cyprus relating money laundering issues, which fulfil EU standards and international requirements. We also expect quick implementation of all requirements that international organisations make.

On top of that we need extensive cooperation on tax questions,” the German official said.

While having to defend the island at an EU level, the government must also defend its economic policy on the home front.Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou yesterday repeated President Demetris Christofias’ call for unity as he sought to deflect criticism over Wednesday’s televised presidential address.

“The government negotiated very hard, knowing the difficulties from the moment we were forced to resort to the (support) mechanism,” Stefanou said.

“And certainly we negotiated to make various provisions in the memorandum tolerable.

And we have achieved many things on various levels.”

In his address, Christofias again blamed the banks and former Central Bank governor Athanasios Orphanides for seeking a bailout.

Main opposition DISY said Christofias’ address was a “monument of avoidance of any responsibility” for the tragic condition of the Cypriot economy.

They say that the change means 1,000 teachers on contract would not be re-hired next year

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Teachers protest against bailout measures CONTRACT teachers yesterday protested against austerity measures that would see around 1,000 of them without jobs next year.

Flanked by retired educators, student associations and teachers’ unions, the contract teachers protested against plans to increase the number of teaching periods at all levels. They say that the change means 1,000 teachers on contract – 600 of whom are in secondary schools – would not be re-hired next year.

The teachers said many had given up other jobs and others came from abroad to take the position otherwise they would have been struck off the waiting list.

It is understood that the contract is for one year but is constantly renewed The teacher waiting list is essentially a first come, first served procedure by which people with university degrees register on a waiting list and are appointed once their turn comes.

The chairman of OELMEK, the secondary teachers union, said the measures would lead hundreds of their colleagues into unemployment.

“We are against teacher layoffs and we demand that our colleagues continue to work in September. We are asking for nothing more… but the right to work,” Demetris Taliadoros said.

His primary education counterpart said educators cannot just sit and watch while education was dealt a blow and contract teachers were left unemployed. Meanwhile, left-wing union PEO will be holding a protest tomorrow at noon outside the EU House.

PEO said the event was an expression of opposition to the neo-liberal policies that led to the global economic crisis, the austerity policies that led to poverty and unemployment and the deregulation of labour relations. PEO called on all workers to participate in the protest so that a strong message was sent to the decisionmaking centres.

Over 20 jobs a day lost in the past year The unemployment rate among the under-25s is at 30 per cent or over (continued from front page) put forward, which would give young people offers of jobs, education and training.

“High youth unemployment has dramatic consequences for our economies, our societies and above all for young people. This is why we have to invest in Europe’s young people now” said European Commissioner for Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion László Andor.

“This package would help member states to ensure young people’s successful transition into work. The costs of not doing so would be catastrophic”.

The Commission’s Youth Employment Package includes a proposed recommendation to member states on introducing the Youth Guarantee to ensure that all young people up to age 25 receive a quality offer of a job, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within four months of leaving formal education or becoming unemployed.

The proposed recommendation urges member states to establish strong partnerships with stakeholders, ensure early intervention by employment services and other partners supporting young people, take supportive measures to enable labour integration, make full use

of the European Social Fund and other structural funds to that end, assess and continuously improve the Youth Guarantee schemes and implement the schemes rapidly.

To facilitate schoolto-work-transitions, the package also launches a consultation of European social partners on a Quality Framework for Traineeships so as to enable young people to acquire highquality work experience under safe conditions.

Furthermore, it announces a European Alliance for Apprenticeships to improve the quality and supply of apprenticeships available by spreading successful apprenticeship schemes across the member states and outlines ways to reduce obstacles to mobility for young people.

The economic cost of not integrating young people into the labour market has been estimated by Eurofound at over €150 billion per year, or 1.2 per cent of EU GDP. Some countries, such as Bulgaria, Cyprus, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia and Poland, are paying 2.0 per cent or more of their GDP. “Avoiding these economic costs now and in the future outweighs by far the fiscal costs of the proposed Youth Guarantee,” said the Commission.

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According to the police, despite being resuscitated at the scene, after arriving at Paphos General Hospital, she passed away during the night.

The head of the Stroumbi police station and a police constable had gone to the house on Tuesday where they found the domestic helper had stopped breathing and the 86-year-old unconscious.

The two officers administered first aid on the women in an effort to keep them alive until the ambulance could arrive, successfully getting the domestic helper to start breathing again.

The pensioner, suffering from dehydration is still in hospital. Doctors describe her condition as critical.

Government says its housing programme still better than others

By George Psyllides

A 21-year-old man from Ormidia was found dead yesterday morning after driving his car off a cliff on the stretch of road from Ormidia to Xylofagou police said. The car was found by two women who had gone for a walk in the

THE government’s housing programmes are still better than the ones in place before this administration came to power, even with the cuts imposed in line with a bailout agreement, a spokesman said yesterday.

On Tuesday, opposition MPs seized the opportunity to criticise the government which decided to cut some €55 million in housing spending – €42 million comes from programmes that concern refugees.

DISY MP Kyriacos Hadjiyiannis likened it to a “massacre of the refugees” while his DIKO colleague suggested that refugees were left exposed.

EDEK deputy Giorgos Varnavas claimed that the government’s refugee policy has been effectively abolished.

Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou rejected the criticism, saying that the programmes were still better than before this administration took over in 2008.

“It is this administration that increased housing programmes substantially, both for refugees and nonrefugees,” Stefanou said.

“If we compare how much they were increased and where they are now we will see that they are still better.”

The government will still spend some €71 million on housing policies in 2013.

From the moment Cyprus sought financial assistance, there were things that the government was obliged to do, the spokesman said.

The cuts represent the tough austerity measures included in the 2013 budget, which includes no new big development projects.

The cull has also affected police officers’ allowances.

Good conduct, rent, and civilian attire allowances will be scrapped while other benefits will be cut by 15 per cent for some €10 million in savings.

And instead of overtime pay, officers would be receiving days off.

area at around 9am. Police are still investigating whether the man had fallen asleep at the wheel and whether he was wearing a seat belt or not. The wrecked vehicle was towed away by police later in the day

AG’s office hits back at money laundering claims

By Stefanos Evripidou THE LEGAL Service yesterday rejected reports in the British press that the Cypriot authorities refused to investigate claims of Russian money laundering through the island’s banks.

The Office of the Attorney-general further questioned the motive behind the attempt to link allegations of money laundering with Cyprus’ request for an EU/IMF bailout.

On Monday, British daily The Telegraph reported that politicians across Europe were urging their governments to demand a crackdown on alleged Russian money-laundering in Cyprus as a condition of a potential €17 billion bailout.

The paper said MPs in the UK, Finland and the Neth-

Letter to The Telegraph expressed Cyprus’ ‘surprise and strong opposition’ to claims’ erlands have questions for the banks before a deal is signed, claiming that German politicians are also looking into the issue.

The European MPs concerns follow “revelations” that the Cypriot authorities refused to investigate claims that criminals linked to a $230m alleged Russian tax fraud laundered $30m through the island’s banks, said The Telegraph.

According to the paper, the case has been linked to a number of suspicious deaths, including that of Alexander Perepelichny, 44, a whistleblower living in the UK who died while out jogging last month.

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The alleged criminal conspiracy involving police and tax officials was uncovered by Sergei Magnitsky, a lawyer working for UK-based hedge fund Hermitage Capital Management, who died in 2009 after a year in pre-trial detention on unproven charges of tax evasion. The US has since banned entry to 60 Russians linked to the fraud and death.

The Telegraph said Hermitage wrote to Cypriot Attorney-general Petros Clerides last July with evidence allegedly showing that Cyprus-based banks had received stolen money. The British broadsheet claimed Clerides replied that he could not investigate without a request from the Russian authorities.

The Attorney-general’s Office yesterday sent a letter to The Telegraph expressing its “surprise and

strong opposition” to the alleged response of the AG to the Hermitage letter that “he could not investigate without a request from the Russian authorities”.

“Such a statement was never made and never included in the letter,” said the AG’s Office, noting that the newspaper had a copy of Clerides’ response to Hermitage “in which there was no such reference”.

It adds: “On the contrary at the end of the letter the Attorney-general encouraged the lawyer to send any additional information showing that the case was open”.

The Legal Service also questioned the alleged link between money laundering allegations and Cyprus’ bailout request.

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nected with Cyprus’ application for financial support from the EU!” Speaking to the Cyprus Mail, a government source noted that the authorities were already looking into the allegations made above to try to ascertain whether there is any need for an investigation.

The source questioned the timing of a number of recent reports in the international press regarding alleged money laundering in Cyprus.

Specifically, there have been several articles in the German press citing reports from the German intelligence service that Russian oligarchs and ‘mafiosi’ stand to gain the most from a Cyprus bailout.

On Tuesday after a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels, German finance minister Wolfgang Schaeuble responded to a question on a Cyprus bailout saying that Germany expected complete transparency from Cyprus on money laundering issues, as well as “extensive cooperation on tax questions”.

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Water supply under pressure EU report says consumption by farms needs looking at

By Poly Pantelides THE EUROPEAN Commission has identified a range of weaknesses in Cyprus’ water management, top among them the extent of pressure placed on the system by irrigation needs.

As much as 70 per cent of all water consumption on the island goes to agriculture.

Farmers also receive a special rate, meaning in effect that consumers end up paying millions more for supply through desalination.

Cyprus hosted the EU Water Blueprint conference last week to discuss the water framework directive, including member states’ progress on certain aspects of the directive. The reports were published on November 14.

“The farming sector represents a significant pressure on the water resources in Cyprus,” the report on the island said.

It also said substantial information on the agricultural measures was lacking in the island’s RBMP (River Basin Management Plans).

“This puts into question the level of ambition on this issue,” said the report. “The overall water demands of the sector seem not to be tackled as a whole, although measures exist.”

It added however that farmers seemed to have had a significant involvement in the selection of the measures for the agricultural sector.

But although reuse of treated waste water and recycled water in existing irrigation systems could increase water efficiency, the commission said that there was “information lacking” on how any future measures “will be practically controlled and how the implementation in the agriculture sector will be followed up”.

And some of the costs may be hidden because Cyprus does not include subsidies and cross-subsidies in cost recovery policies.

But the former head of the Water Development Department’s planning office, commenting on the report said yesterday that because Cyprus had not done a cost-

benefit analysis for water, the government had opted for the “easy solution” of desalination units.

“Lack of cost-benefit analysis costs the state between €40 million and €50 million a year in unnecessary desalination and bad management of recycled water,” Spyros Stephanou said.

After 29 years of service in the WDD and five years serving as the head of its planning department Stephanou opted for early retirement about three years ago.

Desalination plants have been touted as the way to make the island independent of rainwater and avoid drought situations, but that solution ignores more efficient use of recycled water, Stephanou said.

But agriculture minister Sophoclis Aletraris who used to head the water development board said that Cyprus would continue supporting its workers and was allowed on “social and environmental” reasons to only partially recover the costs of irrigation water. Cyprus has not yet provided a justification of the social and environmental reasons it can appeal to as part of the directive, “but that is easily done,” he said.

Although Aletraris conceded that there could be better use of recycled water, he said that Cyprus was already doing a good job. “We are the best in water management in the whole of Europe,” he said.

“Yes, it costs millions even to have the desalination plants on stand-by but some have short memories,” Aletraris said. “In 2008, after years of drought even our forests started drying up,” he added. “And if we stop helping farmers, our fields will be abandoned. The soil will dry up.”

Under the desalination plants’ Built-Own-OperateTransfer contracts, the government pays a fee even when the units are not producing water.

For example, Stephanou said that that the Limassol plant, which should be completed soon, will cost €15,000 per year when not running. It will cost €0.8725 per cubic metre produced at a 40,000 cubic

The report says farmers seemed to have had a significant involvement in the selection of the measures metres/day capacity, according to information available online via the WDD department.

In August when the government decided to cover potable water needs through the nearly full reserves to save money, the government said that it would use about 23.3 million cubic metres from desalination and about 46 million cubic metres from dams.

Desalinated water should cost about €33.7 million this year, given cost information previously provided by the WDD. But though parliament set a flat rate of €0.77 per cubic metre across Cyprus, EU rules mean that prices will continue rising to meet production costs.

To begin with, consumers are looking at paying anything from €1.20 to €3.40 per cubic metre.

The report also says there are shortcomings in the classification of ecological status and potential, in the designation of heavily modified water bodies, and in the assessment of groundwater status.

Busking is not illegal, AG will rule FOLLOWING the Nicosia police chief’s apology to a group of busking musicians who were charged with “illegal fundraising” during a musical festival, the Attorney-general is due to confirm that street artists are not breaking any laws, it emerged this week.

Police officers charged a festival’s organiser last week with “illegal fundraising” during an event organised by non-governmental organisation, Multi-Arts Crossings (MAX) that had been cleared ahead of time with Nicosia municipality.

The event was part of a walking tour set around busking musicians performing in the streets. On both sides of the divide there were buskers with guitar cases open for passers-by with spare change.

But two police officers approached one of the groups, Monsieur Doumani, asking them if they had permission to play. Although the group said they did, the officers insisted on

seeing identification. When festival organiser Argyro Toumazou arrived on the scene to clarify the situation, she was fined instead. Toumazou was given a fine for €85 on a pink slip used for traffic offences for “illegal fundraising”.

The incident was picked up by the media and came to the attention of Nicosia police chief Kypros Michaelides who arranged to meet with MAX and Monsieur Doumani and apologised, Toumazou said.

Michaelides got in touch with police headquarters in other cities to ask them to differentiate between street artists and fundraisers and also asked the Attorney-general to clarify the situation and give him the go-ahead to write off the fine.

“We are now waiting for written confirmation and we will release an announcement in due time,” said Toumazou. “The fact that we have clarified this officially benefits everyone,” she said.

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Quantum marathon takes place Sunday

By Peter Stevenson THE THIRD annual Quantum Nicosia Marathon will take place this Sunday, starting and ending at Famagusta Gate in old Nicosia.

As is tradition, the marathon flame will arrive today since Nicosia Marathon is now considered an official part of the Association of International Marathons and Distance Races (AIMS).

There will be five different courses for different age groups and abilities. These include the regular and half marathon which will be available for anyone over 18, the 10km and 5km runs for 12-year-olds and over and the UNICEF sponsored 1000 metre run for all ages with 9-year-olds requiring parental supervision. The marathon and half-marathon will start at 8am, the 10km and 5km runs will start at 10:30am and the 1000m will start at 11:30am.

“We want the roads of Nicosia to be flooded with athletes and supporters,” head of the Athanasios Ktorides Foundation, Nassos Ktorides told the press. The Foundation is the main organiser of the marathon, and Ktorides himself is an avid marathon-runner who is one of a handful of people that have run a marathon on both poles.

There will be stations along the route, situated every five kilometres that will provide refreshments and medical aid if any runner requires. Quantum Energy, the main sponsor of the event has recruited 450 volunteers to help man these stations.

“The city will become a stadium,” head of Quantum Energy’s organising committee, Giorgos Killas said. “This is an expensive event as it doesn’t happen in a stadium but within the city itself and it is for that reason we need the help of so many volunteers,” he added.

Simultaneously there will be a “Winner’s Fair” between 10am and 4pm on Sunday next at Famagusta Gate with many different games, activities, music, dancing and food. Entrance to the fair will be free with proceeds going to the Pancyprian Anti-Cancer Society.

“The marathon is the biggest sporting event our city has ever held,” Mayor of Nicosia Constantinos Yiorkadjis said. “I would like to invite everyone to take part whether it is running, walking or supporting,” he added.

For those interested in taking part you can complete a form online at www.nicosiamarathon.com or send a form via fax to 22776386 or 22776830. Interested parties can also visit Nicosia Town Hall or the Athanasios Ktorides Foundation in Ayios Dometios to complete an entry form or drop by Famagusta gate between 8am and 9pm on Friday or Saturday. Participants will be given a T-shirt, bag and cap as a souvenir.

Residents of Tala say new sewage fee stinks They say no guarantee the money will be used for them

By Bejay Browne RESIDENTS of Tala village in Paphos will meet today to decide whether they want to start paying for a sewage system which their community leader says may not even begin for a decade.

SABBA, the Paphos sewage board, is proposing that rates be imposed on Tala residents from 2013 for a system which even they admit does not yet have a start date.

The community leader, Areti Pieridou, told the Cyprus Mail that residents were already struggling financially and says she believes the money would be used to complete other SABBA projects first, a claim the sewerage board flatly denies.

Eftichious Malakides, the director of SABBA said: “This information is completely wrong... just stories… a smokescreen so that rates don’t have to be imposed in Tala yet.”

He said it had been explained to the residents both verbally and in writing on numerous occasions that the money would be held in a separate SABBA account and used for the sewage system. If the system is not implemented the money would be returned to the residents, he said.

No specific time frame was given for the start of the sewage works however.

“The complication is that, as directed by the EU, by 2015 the Cyprus sewage system has to be completed. The banks are not loaning money to Cyprus at the moment so we cannot give

a start date, but we will start as soon as the money is available,” said Malakides.

Pieridou said the residents fear that without a start date, they money would be channeled to sewage works elsewhere in Paphos.

“I’m also very concerned that due to the recession and the financial situation that the government won’t pay the 80 per cent of the costs of the project, which they have to. Maybe it will be as long as ten years before the community is connected,” she said.

But the director of SABBA said it was always a good idea to pay in advance, before work gets underway.

“This was the case in Yeroskipou and Chlorokas.

They paid one third of the rates for seven years prior to the construction of the system,” he said.

“Before the loans come in, there is work that needs to be done such as studies and designs. The money paid up front is used for this purpose.”

Malakides said the community had been given until March or April next year to decide if they want to be part of the sewage project or not.

Pieridou said if Tala could not be excluded from the works, they should at least stave off the charges for another five years.

The meeting for residents will take place today at Kamares Club, Paphos at 3pm.

There will be a separate meeting for Greek speakers on Saturday December 15 due to the language barrier.

‘Grandmother scammer’ in police custody is a relative of pensioner POLICE have caught up with the woman they believe was the one who conned €30,000 from a pensioner after pretending to be her granddaughter.

The 31-year-old suspect, a distant relative of the 72year-old, was remanded in custody for six days by the Limassol court, a police spokesman said. The woman has denied any guilt and the police have yet to find the money but sources in the police believe they are sure they have the right person.

The pensioner from Episkopi was contacted by a young woman last week pretending to be her granddaughter who lives in Larnaca. The woman told the pensioner that she has a serious health problem and needs €20,000 to travel abroad urgently for surgery.

Falling for the scam, the 72year-old put the money in an envelope and gave it to a taxi driver to take to Larnaca Airport where the supposed granddaughter was due to depart from.

The following day, the grandmother received another phone call from the woman saying there were complications with the surgery and could she send another €10,000 by taxi, which the pensioner did.

On Friday, the 72-year-old’s real granddaughter called her to wish her a happy name day, at which point the grandmother came to the realisation that she had been conned.

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David Simpson: running an ultra-marathon (145km) for charity on Saturday

There are marathons and then there are marathons

By Peter Stevenson WHILE the majority of long-distance runners will be taking part in the Nicosia Marathon on Sunday, 45-year-old British osteopath David Simpson will be running an ultra-marathon for charity the day before.

Simpson will be running 145 kilometres for charity, setting off from Limassol’s coast at 2am and hopefully finishing just before midnight at Limassol Castle. His route will take him up to Troodos and back down to Limassol.

Since arriving in Cyprus, Simpson has taken part in an extreme run around the time of his birthday on December 11, collecting money for different charities along the way. This year his charity of choice is the Ayia Skepi community which deals with detoxification of people addicted to dangerous substances.

In previous years, Simpson had collected money from friends, family and colleagues but this year his wife, Nicole, decided that she wanted to give his ‘ultra’ efforts more exposure.

“He does all the running and I do all the running around!” she said. Simpson himself is low-key and does not like the exposure but to get people to contribute to his endeavours there needed to be a certain amount of publicity which his wife has undertaken.

He is an osteopath by trade, but his real passion is running and he has been taking part in triathlons for the last 20 years, travelling to France and Austria to take part in different competitions. He has also won many triathlon competitions in Cyprus although he has now shifted his interest to trail runs.

“Part of the reason that David got into triathlons and trail-running is that he is aware of the body and its capabilities, being an osteopath,” his wife said. So far since coming to Cyprus, Simpson has done the Ironman Triathlon in 2007, he ran four marathons in four days in 2009 and last year he ran 87 kilometres from Limassol’s coastline to the top of mount Olympos all for charity.

Asked whether she felt he would slow down now that he is getting older, Nicole emphatically told the Cyprus Mail, “The older he gets, the more extreme he becomes.”

DAIRY company Charalambides Kristis announced yesterday that they would be donating milk to needy primary school children from 2013.

The amount of needy pupils currently in primary schools is estimated to be more than 4,500. Company chairman, Alexis Charalambides decided the company should try to help those in need who can’t even afford the basics, as part of Charalambides Kristis’ social responsibility programme.

Minister of Education and Culture, Giorgos Demosthenous expressed his gratitude for the move going on to say, “The company is showing the necessary discretion and sensitivity towards children that require help.” “This gesture shows the charitable nature of chairman Alexis Charalambides as well as the other members of the board towards the needy groups of pupils of primary schools in Cyprus,” a statement from the Primary Children’s Parents association said.

This decision by Charalambides Kristis comes after a report on Monday from the House Education Committee that over 8,000 school children in primary and secondary eduction are in need of financial assistance.

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Britain BRITAIN TODAY Two face life for ‘agonising’ murder TWO people faced life in prison yesterday for beating a father so badly that police were unable to tell if his face was that of a man or a woman.

Roy Sly, 53, was tortured and killed by Vincent Harty and Marie Turner who had been his friends but turned on him, the Old Bailey heard.

Harty, 39, of Wakering Avenue, Shoeburyness, Essex, was found guilty of murder.

Turner, 33, of no fixed address, pleaded guilty at an earlier hearing.

They will be sentenced on December 20.

Peter Smith, 38, of Furnace Row, Troedyrhiw, Merthyr Tydfil, was cleared of murder and discharged.

Sly, who lived apart from his former wife and three children because of his heavy drinking, had bought steak and wine for his guests, but at midnight, one of them cleared his bank account of £105 at an ATM. Sly was later subjected to torture and beating which caused his death at his home in Station Road, Westcliff-on-Sea, Essex, in January.

Bike laser light A YOUNG inventor has devised a potentially lifesaving bike light which beams a laser image of a bicycle on to the road ahead to alert motorists of their presence.

University of Brighton graduate Emily Brooke, 27, from Bath, Somerset, hopes her invention, called Blaze, will help cut the number of cycling deaths on Britain’s roads.

Her small device is battery-operated and projects a bright green image of a bicycle from a bike’s handlebars by about five metres to help eliminate blind spots.

The product, which has been launched to the public following two years of development and currently costs £60, was developed with Brighton and Hove City Council, Brighton and Hove Bus Company, road safety experts and driving psychologists.

Osborne admits pinch to continue Era of austerity to be extended until 2018 GEORGE Osborne yesterday announced a benefits squeeze and a raid on the pensions of the wealthy as the economy continues to falter.

In a bleak Autumn Statement, the Chancellor said weakening economic growth meant the era of austerity would be extended for another year to 2018, well into the next parliament.

He sought to sweeten the pill, scrapping a planned 3p-alitre rise in fuel duty which had been due to come in January.

However, he was also forced to admit the independent Office for Budget Responsibility now believed he would miss his target for debt to start falling as a proportion of GDP from 2015/16 - the year of the next general election.

Labour seized on the forecast, claiming it revealed the “true scale of this government’s economic failure”.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls claimed the UK was “falling behind in the global race” as a result of Osborne’s management of the economy.

Osborne told MPs: “It’s taking time, but the British economy is healing.”

He acknowledged that previous growth predictions were wrong, but he pledged to continue efforts to drive down the deficit.

Quoting the latest Office for Budget Responsibility growth forecast, Osborne said the economy was now expected to shrink by 0.1 per cent this year compared with a previous prediction of 0.8 per cent growth.

SPENDING PLANS Setting out spending plans for 2015-16 and a framework into 2017-18, he said deficit reduction measures would be achieved fairly with further savings from bureaucracy, from benefit bills and the better-off.

He hailed a reduction in borrowing, saying it was forecast to fall from £108 billion this year to £99 billion next year, £88 billion the year after, then £73 billion in 2015-16 and £49 billion and £31 billion in the

Transport meltdown after dusting of snow A SPRINKLING of snow sent UK transport into meltdown yesterday, with a major holiday airport shut for more than two hours and road and rail journeys delayed.

Forecasters said the snow had amounted to no more than “one or two centimetres in places” but air and train passengers still endured a difficult morning.

Stansted airport in Essex was shut from about 6am to 8.30am, as passengers complained of being given incorrect information.

Luton and Aberdeen were among the airports affected by the wintry conditions that also caused considerable problems on the railways.

Train travellers have had to contend with floods and a series of non-weather-related problems of late.

Yesterday many routes in southern England were hit by poor rail conditions.

No trains were able to run between Watford Junction in Hertfordshire and Harrow and Wealdstone in north west London, while snow caused

Passengers queue at Stansted airport yesterday delays of up to 90 minutes between London and Reading in Berkshire.

Trains were unable to run between Barnes and Hounslow via Brentford in west London, while there were delays between London and Ashford International in Kent and also between Sevenoaks in Kent and Hither Green in south east London.

In London there were delays on the London Overground, and the Metropolitan, Central and Bakerloo Tube lines, while a faulty train led to delays on the Victoria line.

Hospital duped in Kate radio hoax THE London hospital treating Prince William’s pregnant wife Kate for severe morning sickness admitted yesterday it had fallen for a prank call from an Australian radio station, relaying personal details about her condition.

Kate, the Duchess of Cambridge, was admitted to the King Edward VII Hospital in central London on Monday suffering from Hyperemesis Gravidarum, very acute morning sickness which causes severe nausea and vomiting.

News of her pregnancy and her hospitalisation has generated a worldwide media frenzy with journalists excitedly reporting any update on her condition along with the facial expressions of William when he arrives and departs.

However, two presenters from the Australian 2Day radio station managed to go one step further after calling the hospital pretending to be William’s grandmother Queen Elizabeth and his father, the heir-to-the throne Prince Charles.

Despite putting on unconvincing impressions of the royal duo, they were put through to the ward where Kate is being treated and given intimate details about how she was faring.

“This was a foolish prank call that we all deplore,” John Lofthouse, the hospital’s chief executive said in a statement. “We take patient confidentiality extremely seriously and we are now reviewing our telephone protocols.”

two years after that.

He admitted he was going to miss his target that debt should start falling as a proportion of GDP by 2015/16 the year of the next General Election. Instead he said it would take another year.

He said the OBR’s central forecast is that net debt will be 74.7 per cent this year, then 76.8 per cent next year, 79 per cent in 2014-15 and 79.9 per cent in 2015-16. It will then fall to 79.2 per cent in 2016-17 and 77.3 per cent in 2017-18.

He told MPs: “Yes, the deficit is still far too high for comfort.

We cannot relax our efforts to make our economy safe.

“But Britain is heading in the right direction. The road is hard but we’re making progress.”

He again ruled out a mansion tax but confirmed plans to cut tax allowances for big pension pots.

He said from 2014-15, the lifetime allowance would be cut from £1.5 million to £1.25 million and the annual allowance from £50,000 to £40,000, saving

The Chancellor sought to sweeten the pill, scrapping a 3p-a-litre rise in fuel duty to have started in January £1 billion a year by 2016-17.

He told MPs: “When you’re looking for savings, I think it’s fair to look at the tax relief we give to the top 2 per cent.”

The Chancellor said most working age benefit increases would be pegged at 1 per cent for the next three years

- a real terms cut.

The higher rate income tax threshold would also be increased by just 1 per cent in 2014-15 and 2015-16, so the income at which people start paying the 40 per cent rate will go up from £41,450 to £41,865 and then to £42,285.

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Romania leftists seen winning vote

EUROPE TODAY Chateau demolished by mistake DEMOLITION workers have accidentally bulldozed a French village’s prized 18th-century chateau.

They were supposed to knock down a small outbuilding of the Chateau de Bellevue, set among the famous vines of Bordeaux.

The mayor’s office in the village of Yvrac said that workers were hired to renovate the grand 140,000-square-foot estate in November.

Former owner Juliette Marmie said “the Chateau de Bellevue was Yvrac’s pride and joy.”

She added “the whole village is in shock. How can this construction firm make such as mistake?”

The chateau’s current owner Russian businessman Dmitry Stroskin was away and returned home to discover his beloved chateau - with a grand hall that could seat 200 people - was nothing but rubble.

Greece ‘most corrupt in EU’ A NEW survey shows the countries worst hit by the European financial crisis are also seen as among the most corrupt in the European Union, an international watchdog group said yesterday.

Transparency International’s annual Corruption Perceptions Index showed Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece with the lowest scores in western Europe.

Where 0 is “highly corrupt” and 100 is “very clean”, Greece scored 36, Italy 42, Portugal 63 and Spain 65.

By comparison, Denmark and Finland tied with New Zealand at the top of the list with scores of 90, while Germany scored 79, the UK 74 and the US 73.

Overall, the countries seen as most corrupt were Somalia, North Korea and Afghanistan - all of which scored eight. Twothirds of the 176 countries ranked scored below 50.

Romania PM Ponta (above) is still locked in a feud with President Basescu

ROMANIA’S leftist coalition government is on course for a comfortable election victory on Sunday, an outcome likely to prolong a political standoff that has delayed policy-making, alarmed the European Union, and worried investors.

The vote is being closely watched because Romania hopes to negotiate a new loan deal from the International Monetary Fund once its current 5-billion-euro funding package expires early next year and investors are keen to see it succeed.

But any political uncertainty could undermine its chances of brokering such a deal at a time when the economy of the EU’s second-poorest country is barely growing and with no sign of progress on serious structural reform.

“If there’s a delay over a new government, I think that markets will freak out,” said Barclays Capital economist

Daniel Hewitt.

A poll yesterday suggested Prime Minister Victor Ponta’s Social Liberal Union (USL) coalition will win 60.5 per cent of the vote, securing a big majority on Sunday.

The coalition has promised to ease austerity, but a bitter feud between Ponta and President Traian Basescu looks set to rumble on regardless of the vote and could complicate the formation of a new government.

The outspoken Basescu nominates prime ministers and may not choose Ponta, a scenario that could delay talks on negotiating a new loan deal with the IMF. With a population of 19 million, Romania has made solid progress in some areas since the 1989 revolution that overthrew communist dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, but lags regional peers

Poland, Hungary and the Czech Republic and has lost more than a 10th of its population in a decade.

A failed attempt by Ponta’s USL to impeach Basescu in the summer - a process the EU and the United States criticised for failing to respect the rule of law - also continues to cast a long shadow.

It raised doubts about political stability and further delayed reforms in a country still struggling to overhaul outdated infrastructure and to recover from a burst housing bubble that left half-finished projects dotting the landscape.

Basescu said this summer he would never appoint Ponta as prime minister again, the cause of much of the uncertainty. His tone has since softened, but his plans remain unclear and have contributed to a 5 per cent slide in the leu currency this year.

Serbian NATO ambassador jumps to his death at airport Serb envoy’s motive for suicide unclear SERBIA’S ambassador to NATO threw himself to his death from a car park moments after chatting and joking with colleagues.

Branislav Milinkovic was at Brussels Airport when he suddenly strolled to a barrier, climbed over and jumped, one diplomat said.

His motives are a mystery.

Three diplomats who knew him said he did not appear distraught in the hours leading up to his death on Tuesday night.

He seemed to be going about his regular business, picking up an arriving delegation of six Serbian officials who were due to hold talks with NATO, the alliance that went to war with his country just 13 years ago.

A former author and activist opposed to the authoritarian regime of Serbia’s former strongman Slobodan Milosevic, he was a respected diplomat and leading intellectual.

The diplomats said they knew of no circumstances private or professional - that would have prompted him to take his own life.

One described the death,

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In this December 16, 2006 file photo made available by NATO, Serbia’s Ambassador to NATO Branislav Milinkovic (left), is seen with Serbian President Boris Tadic during a meeting at NATO headquarters in Brussels saying she had spoken to a member of the delegation who had witnessed the leap from about 30 feet up.

Serbia’s Prime Minister Ivica Dacic said that “Belgian police are investigating, but it’s obviously a suicide.

It’s hard to figure out the motives or causes.”

The death cast a pall on the second day of a meet-

ing of NATO foreign ministers. Officials said they were shocked by the news of the death of a popular and wellliked ambassador.

During the 1990s, Milinkovic was active in the opposition to Milosevic. After Milosevic was ousted in 2000, he was appointed Serbia’s ambassador to the Organisation for Security and Co-

Operation in Europe, or OSCE, in Vienna.

He was transferred to NATO as Serbia’s special representative in 2004. Serbia is not a member of the military alliance, but Milinkovic was named ambassador after Belgrade joined NATO’s Partnership for Peace programme, which groups neutral states.

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The move had angered Serbian nationalists who are now in power. They have pledged the nation will never join because of NATO’s 1999 bombing campaign, during which it forced Milosevic’s forces to withdraw from Serbia’s southern province of Kosovo.

Milinkovic is survived by his wife and 17-year-old son.

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Egypt clashes erupt in spite of crisis proposal

By Yasmine Saleh and Marwa Awad

Muslim Brotherhood members and pro-Mursi supporters arrive outside the Egyptian presidential palace yesterday

ISLAMISTS fought protesters outside the Egyptian president’s palace yesterday, while inside the building his deputy proposed a way to end a crisis over a draft constitution that has split the most populous Arab nation.

Stones and petrol bombs flew between opposition protesters and supporters of President Mohamed Mursi, and the Interior Ministry said 32 people had been arrested and three police vehicles destroyed.

Two Islamists were hit in the legs by what their friends said were bullets fired during clashes in streets around the compound in northern Cairo. One of them was bleeding heavily. And a leftist group said Islamists had cut off the ear of one of its members.

Medical sources said 33 people had been wounded, but despite reports of fatalities, the Health Ministry said there had been no deaths.

Riot police were deployed between the two sides in

‘Assad could turn to chemical arms’ THE United States is worried an increasingly desperate Syrian President Bashar alAssad could resort to the use of chemical weapons against rebels, or lose control of them, US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said yesterday.

After a meeting of NATO foreign ministers at which the Western military alliance agreed to send Patriot antimissile batteries to Syria’s neighbour, Turkey, Clinton said that Washington had made clear to Syria that use of chemical arms would be a “red line” for the United States.

“Our concerns are that an increasingly desperate Assad regime might turn to chemical weapons, or might lose control of them to one of the many groups that are now operating within Syria,” Clinton told a news conference.

“And so as part of the absolute unity that we all have on this issue we have sent an unmistakable message that this would cross a red line and those responsible would be

Clinton said the US would do what it could to support Assad’s adversaries held to account.”

Saying a political transition in Syria needed to start as soon as possible, Clinton said the United States would do what it could to support Assad’s adversaries, now that a new opposition coalition has been formed.

The United States and other countries will discuss at a meeting of the Friends of Syria group in Marrakesh, Morocco next week what more they could do to try to bring the Syrian conflict to an end, she said.

“But that will require the Assad regime making the decision to participate in a political transition (and) ending the violence against its own people ... We hope that they do so because we believe ... that their fall is inevitable. It is just a question of how many people will die until that date occurs.”

The National Coalition for Syrian Opposition and Revolutionary Forces was set up earlier this month in an attempt to unify Assad’s fractured opponents and win greater international support, and possibly arms.

While the coalition has won formal recognition from Turkey, France, Britain and Gulf Arab states, the United States has so far stopped short of this step.

Israel pushes on with its settlement plan ISRAEL moved ahead with plans to build 3,000 settler homes in one of the most sensitive areas of the West Bank, as the European Union summoned Israel’s envoy to add its voice to a storm of international protest.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said yesterday the global condemnation, some of it from the Jewish state’s closest traditional allies, would not deter it from defending its “vital interests”.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas yesterday declared the housing project, which could divide the West Bank and make the creation of a contiguous future Palestinian state almost impossible, to be an uncrossable “red line”.

An Israeli Defence Ministry official said architects and contractors appeared before a subcommittee of the military-run Civil

Administration in the West Bank and registered their plans for construction in the E1 corridor near Jerusalem, a preliminary step before building permits are issued.

Angered by the UN General Assembly’s de facto recognition of Palestinian statehood last Thursday, Israel announced the next day it would build the new dwellings for settlers, on land near Jerusalem that Palestinians seek for a future state.

The decision by Netanyahu’s pro-settler government to build houses on the E1 corridor’s barren hills could bisect the West Bank, cut off Palestinians from Jerusalem and further dim their hopes for an independent state on contiguous territory.

“E1 is a red line that cannot be crossed,” Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said in the West Bank city of Ramallah.

Mursi supporters smash tents of opposition erected at sit-in Cairo to try to stop confrontations that flared after dark despite an attempt by Vice President Mahmoud Mekky to ease the crisis.

Mekky said amendments to disputed articles in the draft constitution could be agreed with the opposition. A written agreement could then be submitted to the next parliament, to be elected after a referendum on the constitution on December 15.

“There must be consensus,” he told a news conference, saying opposition demands had to be respected to reach a solution.

Prime Minister Hisham Kandil called for calm to “give the opportunity” for efforts underway to start a national dialogue.

Facing the gravest crisis of his six-month-old tenure, Mursi has shown no sign of buckling to the protests, confident that Islamists can win the referendum and a

parliamentary election to follow.

Many Egyptians yearn for an end to political upheaval that began with the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak in February 2011 and which has hurt the economy as investors and tourists have fled.

Protests spread to other cities, and offices of the Brotherhood’s political party in Ismailia and Suez were torched.

Egypt’s opposition coalition blamed Mursi for the violence and said it was ready for dialogue if the Islamist leader scrapped a decree he issued on November 22 that gave him wide powers and shielded his decisions from judicial review.

“We hold President Mursi and his government completely responsible for the violence happening in Egypt today,” opposition coordinator Mohamed ElBaradei told a news conference.

“We are ready for dialogue if the constitutional decree is cancelled ... and the referendum on this constitution is postponed,” he said of the document written by an Islamist-led assembly that the opposition says ignores its concerns.

But liberals, leftists, Christians, ex-Mubarak followers and others opposed to Mursi have yet to generate a mass movement or a grassroots base to challenge the Brotherhood, which has come out on top in two elections since Mubarak’s overthrow.

“Today what is happening in the Egyptian street, polarisation and division, is something that could and is actually drawing us to violence and could draw us to something worse,” said ElBaradei, the former head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog.

Opposition leaders have previously urged Mursi to retract the November 22 decree, defer the referendum and agree to revise the constitution, but have not echoed calls from street protesters for his overthrow and the “downfall of the regime”.

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Hundreds killed in Philippine typhoon Rescuers also searching for hundreds of people missing

By Eric de Castro BLOCKED roads and severed communications in the southern Philippines frustrated rescuers yesterday as teams searched for hundreds of people missing after the strongest typhoon this year killed at least 283 people.

Typhoon Bopha, with central winds of 120 kph (75 mph) and gusts of up to 150 kph (93 mph), battered beach resorts and dive spots on Palawan island yesterday but it was weakening as it moved west.

Hardest hit was the southern island of Mindanao, where Bopha made landfall on Tuesday. It triggered landslides and floods along the coast and in farming and mining towns inland.

Interior Minister Manuel Roxas said 300 people were missing.

“Entire families were washed away,” Roxas, who inspected the disaster zone, told reporters.

Most affected areas were cut off by destroyed roads and collapsed bridges and army search-and-rescue teams were being flown in by helicopter.

Power was cut and communications were down.

According to tallies provided by the military and disaster agency officials, 283 people were killed.

Thousands of people were in shelters and officials appealed for food, water and clothing. Dozens of domestic flights were suspended yesterday.

The governor of the worst-

hit province, Compostela Valley, in Mindanao said waves of water and mud came crashing down mountains and swept through schools, town halls and clinics where huddled residents had sought shelter.

The death toll in the province stood at 160. In nearby Davao Oriental province, where Bopha made landfall, 110 people were killed.

“The waters came so suddenly and unexpectedly, and the winds were so fierce,” the Compostela Valley governor, Arthur Uy, told Reuters by telephone.

He said irrigation reservoirs on top of mountains had given way sending large volumes of water down to the valleys. Torrential rain often triggers landslides down slopes stripped of their forest cover.

Damage to agriculture and infrastructure in the province was extensive, Uy said.

Corn farmer Jerry Pampusa, 42, and his pregnant wife were marooned in their hut but survived.

“We were very scared,” Pampus said. “We felt we were on an island because there was water everywhere.”

Another survivor, Francisco Alduiso, said dozens of women and children who had taken shelter in a village centre, had been swept away.

“We found some of the bodies about 10 km (6 miles) away,” Alduisa told Reuters.

The only building left standing in his village was the school.

Another survivor, Julius Julian Rebucas, said his mother and brother disappeared in a flash flood.

A worker surveys destroyed banana trees at a plantation in Monte Vista town, Compostela Valley province yesterday, a day after Typhoon Bopha hit Mindanao (AFP)

Indian govt wins vote on supermarket reform INDIA’S fragile ruling coalition won a vote on allowing foreign supermarkets to operate in Asia’s third-largest economy yesterday, in a key test of support for Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and his flagship economic reform.

It was a much-needed boost for Singh at a time when he is trying to drive a second wave of reforms through a fractious parliament. The debate over retail reform has proved a costly distraction for the minority government, eating up two weeks of the month-long parliamentary session.

The victory clears the way for voting on bills aimed at attracting foreign investment to the ailing pension and insurance industries, two measures seen by financial markets as important steps in further liberalising an economy in the midst of a slowdown.

Expectations the government would win had earlier driven India’s stock market to a 19-month high.

“FDI in retail was a barometer to test the government’s strength and the government has proved that they have the support in the parliament to push through such reforms,” said Samiran Chakraborty, regional head of research

The vote was a key test of support for Indian PM Manmohan Singh and his flagship economic reform at Standard Chartered Bank India.

The vote in parliament’s lower house - which the government won thanks to abstentions by two powerful regional parties - was non-binding. However, a loss would have made it harder for

Singh to defend the policy to bring global chains such as Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to India’s $450-billion retail sector.

Under threat of losing India’s investment-grade credit rating, and facing the prospect of fighting a general election during the worst growth slump in a decade, Singh launched the policy amid a flurry of long-delayed reforms in September.

Money has flowed into India’s capital markets since, and Goldman Sachs last week upgraded India’s outlook, but formidable hurdles remain to get the economy back on track.

The vote was the first big floor test for the government since a partner pulled out of the coalition in protest at the retail policy, which critics say will crush small shopkeepers.

“It is not over, we will fight on the streets,” said Shahnawaz Hussain, a lawmaker for the main opposition Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which had called for the vote to challenge retail liberalisation.

The government says the reform will help modernise India’s dysfunctional food distribution system and slash inflation.

China demands $100b climate aid timetable US Republicans scupper disability pact CHINA led developing nations yesterday in demanding rich states give details of a promised surge in aid to $100 billion a year by 2020 to help the poor cope with global warming.

But most rich nations, facing economic slowdown at home that cut overall development aid in 2011, said they were unable to stake out a timetable for rising aid at deadlocked global climate talks.

“The core issue is finance,” Xie Zhenhua, head of China’s delegation, told a news conference of a main track of the November 26-December 7 talks among 200 nations in Doha, Qatar, that is a big block to a modest deal to keep UN climate efforts on track.

He said a deal on finance would “create very good conditions for the settlement of other issues” in Doha, which is also seeking a symbolic extension of the UN’s Kyoto Protocol for curbing greenhouse gas emissions by rich nations beyond 2012.

“Without figures on the table we are not go-

ing to have a package,” Pa Ousman Jarju of Gambia, who chairs the group of least developed nations, said of calls for new finance.

Rich nations say they have kept a pledge made at a Copenhagen summit in 2009 to provide $10 billion a year in aid to the poor to help them curb their fast-rising emissions and cope with floods, droughts and rising seas from 2010-12.

But the poor want a timetable towards another promise made at the summit, of aid of $100 billion a year from 2020. World leaders did not say what would happen between 2013 and 2019.

“There is every intention of continuing to support climate finance,” deputy US climate envoy Jonathan Pershing said.

“These are difficult financial times in Europe,” said Pete Betts, a senior British negotiator representing the European Union. “I think we are not going to be in a position at this meeting to agree any kind of target for 2015.”

THE US Senate, led by Republican opposition, has rejected a United Nations treaty on the rights of the disabled that is modelled on the landmark Americans with Disabilities Act. With 38 Republicans casting No votes, the 61-38 vote fell five short of the two-thirds majority needed to ratify a treaty.

The vote took place in an unusually solemn atmosphere, with senators sitting at their desks rather than milling around the podium.

Bob Dole, the former Republican presidential candidate and Senate majority leader, was in the chamber to support the treaty, though he was looking frail and in a wheelchair.

The treaty, already signed by 155 nations and ratified by 126 countries, including Britain, France, Germany, China and Russia, states nations should strive to assure that the disabled enjoy the same rights and fundamental freedoms as their fellow citizens.

It was negotiated by the George Bush admin-

istration, completed in 2006 and signed by President Barack Obama in 2009.

The blueprint for the UN treaty, formally the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, was the Americans with Disabilities Act, which put the United States in the forefront of efforts to secure equal rights for the disabled when President George Bush senior signed it in 1990.

Republicans objected to taking up a treaty during the waning weeks of the current Congress and warned the treaty could pose a threat to US national sovereignty.

“I do not support the cumbersome regulations and potentially overzealous international organisations with anti-American biases that infringe upon American society,” said Republican senator Jim Inhofe.

Eight Republicans voted to approve the treaty. The treaty was also widely backed by the disabilities community and veterans groups.

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Business

EU hands out a €1.47b cartel fine to six firms Philips fined €313.4m, LG Electronics €295.6m

By Foo Yun Chee THE European Commission imposed the biggest antitrust penalty in its history yesterday, fining six firms including Philips, LG Electronics and Samsung SDI a total of €1.47 billion ($1.92 billion) for running two cartels for nearly a decade.

The Commission said executives from the European and Asian companies met until six years ago to fix prices and divide up markets for TV and computer monitor cathode-ray tubes, technology now mostly made obsolete by flat screens.

Between 1996 and 2006 they met in Paris, Rome, Amsterdam and in Asia for “green meetings”, so-called because they often ended in a round of golf.

The EU antitrust regulator imposed the biggest penalty, of €313.4 million, on Dutchbased Philips for its role in fixing prices and carving up markets. LG Electronics of South Korea must pay the second biggest fine, set at €295.6 million.

“These cartels for cathode-ray tubes are ‘textbook cartels’: they feature all the worst kinds of anti-competitive behaviour that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe,” EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said in a statement.

EU Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia said the cartels for cathode-ray tubes featured all the worst kinds of anti-competitive behaviour ‘that are strictly forbidden to companies doing business in Europe’ Taiwanese firm Chunghwa Picture Tubes blew the whistle on the cartels in TV and computer monitors and escaped a fine.

The Commission also fined Panasonic Corp €157.5 million, Samsung SDI €150.8 million, Toshiba Corp. €28 million, and French company Technicolor €38.6 million.

A joint venture between Philips and LG Electronics was penalised €391.9 million while two Panasonic joint ventures were also sanctioned.

Almunia said the violations

were especially harmful for consumers, as cathode-ray tubes accounted for 50 to 70 per cent of the price of a screen.

Cathode-ray tubes have largely been replaced by more advanced display technologies such as liquid-crystal display (LCD), plasma display and organic light-emitting diodes.

Philips said it would make a provision of €509 million in the fourth quarter for the fine, but Chief Executive Frans van Houten also said the group would challenge what he called the disproportion-

ate and unjustified penalty.

Philips sold off the business which committed the infringement in 2001.

ING analyst Fabian Smeets told ANP-Reuters that the sanction was significant, but expected. Philips’ shares were down 0.2 per cent to €20 in mid-session, erasing earlier gains after news of the fines.

Technicolor said the fine, which will be booked as an exceptional item in its second-half accounts, would not affect its 2012 earnings and free cash flow targets.

Until now, the Commission’s biggest antitrust penalty had been a €1.38 billion fine imposed on participants in a car glass cartel in 2008.

The Commission’s sanctions followed a total fine of €128.74 million levied last year against four producers of the glass used in cathoderay tubes.

Chunghwa Picture Tubes, Samsung Electronics, LG Display and three other LCD companies were penalised a total €648 million two years ago for taking part in a cartel.

Tesco’s America venture in doubt TESCO Plc is set to end its five-year attempt to crack the cut-throat US market and will focus on turning around its struggling home business and on faster-growing emerging markets.

The world’s third-biggest retailer said it was reviewing its loss-making US unit Fresh & Easy that could lead to the sale or closure of the 200-store chain that employs 5,000.

“It just became clear to us that the journey to sustainable returns was going to take too long,” Phil Clarke, chief executive of the British company, told reporters.

“It’s likely but not certain that our presence in America will come to an end,” said Clarke, speaking from Los Angeles.

Clarke, CEO since March 2011 and a Tesco lifer who as a youth stacked shelves in his local store, said finding a solution to Fresh & Easy would allow the group to divert resources in more profitable markets.

Some analysts believe the move could represent a fundamental shift in Tesco’s thinking.

“The decision on the US is but a first step. We expect Tesco to significantly reduce capital expenditure and focus on cash generation and increasing return on capital employed,” said analyst Philip Dorgan at brokerage Panmure Gordon.

Tesco shares, down 20 per cent over the last year, were up 3 per cent at 337 pence by 1249 GMT. Announcing the review alongside a third-quarter trading update that showed continued pressure in Tesco’s core UK market, the group said it would report the review’s findings when it publishes full-year results in April.

Shareholders clinch pact to overhaul EADS ownership Rates

The accord came weeks after talks broke down to merge the group with BAE Systems

SHAREHOLDERS in EADS announced yesterday they had reached agreement on the biggest shake-up of control in the aerospace company since it was founded over a decade ago, putting the bulk of its shares beyond government influence.

The accord to wind down a complex Franco-German power-sharing pact came weeks after talks broke down to merge the group with UK defence contractor BAE Systems and borrows many of the mechanisms drawn up for the failed deal.

France and Germany have agreed to

control 12 per cent each of the voting rights, handing Berlin a direct stake in the Airbus parent company for the first time. Spain will also have a stake of around 4 per cent.

Until now parity in EADS - originally formed from a merger of French, German and Spanish interests - had been ensured through a complex pact between the French state, French media firm Lagardere and German car firm Daimler.

France will give up veto powers over the company’s industrial policy and none of the governments will have spe-

cial veto powers but sensitive defence interests will be ring-fenced.

However, an adviser to French President Francois Hollande said he had agreed in a meeting with EADS CEO Tom Enders yesterday that Enders would update his government on developments in the company every eight months or so.

The deal to revamp control of the maker of Airbus passenger planes, Ariane rockets and Eurofighter combat jets followed days of intensive talks in Paris between European governments, banks and industrial shareholders.

Citigroup Inc is set to eliminate 11,000 jobs worldwide OFFSHORE C O M PA N I E S CITIGROUP Inc, which has lagged behind its peers in recovering from the financial crisis, said it is cutting 11,000 jobs worldwide, about 4 per cent of its staff, to save as much as $1.1 billion a year in expenses.

The move will initially result in pre-tax charges of $1 billion against fourthquarter earnings, the bank

said yesterday.

The cuts are Chief Executive Michael Corbat’s first major steps to reorganise the company since he took the reins in October after directors pushed out his predecessor, Vikram Pandit.

“We have identified areas and products where our scale does not provide for meaningful returns,”

Corbat said in a statement issued by the company.

“We will further increase our operating efficiency by reducing excess capacity and expenses.”

The job cuts are part of a reorganisation that will reduce annual revenues by “less than $300 million,” the statement said.

Citigroup shares rose nearly 4 per cent to $35.62 in

New York Stock Exchange trading shortly after the announcement.

Analysts have expected action of this sort since Corbat was introduced as CEO by Chairman Michael O’Neill. O’Neill is known in the banking industry for shrinking companies to eliminate businesses that are not earning satisfactory returns.

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Thompson’s wise words Bus strike has exposed the weaknesses of public transport business model THE RECESSION and the acute shortage of state funds have finally forced the government to re-examine the suspect business model of the public bus system it introduced two years ago. In a way, this has been a good thing because if the government was not facing funding problems it would not have questioned the business model and would have carried on wasting the taxpayer’s money on a transport system that was unviable from day one.

As is often the case in Cyprus, a deal was made that primarily benefited the suppliers (bus companies), while ignoring the interests of the taxpayer. Users, benefited by being charged a flat one euro fare wherever they were going, even though it was obvious from day one that this was too low. It is no secret that on many routes, the total fares collected did not even cover the petrol costs, but the companies did not care as they made more money from leasing big petrol-guzzling buses to the state.

In fact the use of big buses was the first sign that the planners had messed up.

How sensible was it to use buses that were wider than the average width of road lanes? In Nicosia, with the bus terminal being in the old town, it seemed insane to have such big buses, but it seemed nobody considered the obvious impracticalities of using monster vehicles in narrow streets.

And nobody appeared to have thought of the fuel waste. Smaller buses would not only have negotiated the narrow city street better but would also be less costly to run.

This week the bus drivers have been on strike because they had not received their November wages (in Larnaca the strike was called off but in Nicosia, Limassol and the Famagusta area it is set to continue).

Even if these were paid, the companies claimed the same problem would arise later this month as they would not be able to the pay drivers the 13th and December wages. The problem cannot be attributed exclusively to the state’s lack of funds.

There are also serious misgivings at the communications ministry about the deal that was signed between the state and the bus owners two years ago.

Meanwhile, EDEK deputy Nicos Nicolaides, who was the minister when the deal was signed, has proposed the establishment of a committee that would meet whenever there was a need to resolve differences between the two sides. His proposal, which could be discussed in the legislature today, is not the answer. The whole agreement needs to be re-negotiated, now that all the weaknesses of the business model have been exposed. A committee resolving disputes will maintain a bad model that needs to be scrapped, in the interest of the taxpayer.

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AST MONTH, Mark Thompson, the new chief executive of the New York Times. and former director-general of the BBC, gave a short series of lectures in Oxford. In between jobs, he warned that words were losing their democratic heft. The lectures were little noticed because they largely did not touch on the Jimmy Savile sexual abuse scandal, which had just been revealed.

Thompson denied all knowledge of the scandal, so no articles - as far as I have seen were written.

Yet Thompson’s remarks are crucial to our understanding of modern politics everywhere, and the journalism that reports on it. They were wholly concerned with the use of language, the bedrock of all media. They expressed a deep worry - at times, a real pessimism - about the health of the democratic debate because of the abuse of words.

Part of Thompson’s theme was that much of the news put out by the media is, to many who watch or listen or read, unintelligible and “might as well be in Sanskrit.” That is especially the case of news that attempts to describe what is happening in the economy, a subject replete with acronyms, concepts and mysterious institutions.

Deeper than that, though, is another concern: that the rhetoric employed by politicians, commentators and other public figures is destructive of trust and of real engagement. “The public language that most people actually hear and are influenced by,” Thompson said, “is changing in ways that make it more effective as an instrument of political persuasion but less effective as a medium of explanation and deliberation” (his emphasis).

The main example he gave was the phrase “death panel,” used by the former governor of Alaska and Republican vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, to describe the, wholly voluntary, medical interview that, under Obamacare, would have been offered to senior citizens about their present and likely future health. Her Facebook post, a model of its kind, read in part: “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents, or my baby with Down’s syndrome, will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ so the bureaucrats can decide whether they are worthy of health care.”

The claim was immensely powerful, and was probably, for most people, the most memorable thing about the complex legis-

Comment John Lloyd lation. In that case, Thompson said, “explanatory power has been wholly sacrificed in the interests of rhetorical impact.”

Because this kind of language works so well, it eats away at the more cautious, often ambiguous and provisional language that surrounds the crafting of compromise. Public language, says the man who commanded the broadcaster that carried most of it in the UK, “is entering a decadent phase - less able to explain, less able to engage except in the purely political, more prone to exaggeration and paranoia.”

Thompson’s lectures constitute an important pointer to the nature of the modern public sphere in the West, where intelligible and truthful speech is supposed to stimulate understanding. At the close of his eight-year tutelage of the broadcaster, Thompson chose to issue a veiled, but harshly pessimistic, warning that the changing nature and intent of public language is alienating men and women from politics and the public sphere.

In doing so, he cast doubt on the ability of the media - even of the BBC, which is charged to act in the public interest - to stop a crucial civic rot. The creeping decadence of public language is threatening the mutual comprehension and ability to compromise in pursuit of agreement.

There was another backdrop to Thompson’s lectures, beyond the Savile scandal. That was the imminent publication of the report by Justice Sir Brian Lev-

‘Part of Thompson’s theme was that much of the news put out by the media is, to many who watch or listen or read, unintelligible’

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Mark Thompson, the new chief executive of the New York Times, and former director-general of the BBC eson on the behavior of the British tabloids, following the discovery of phone hacking at the News of the World. Leveson has since issued his report and has called for a statutory-backed regulatory system aimed at raising standards.

The government has welcomed tougher regulation but does not want it to be legislated, citing worries about press freedom.

The Labour opposition has no such fears, and cites the victims of hacking as justification for a statutory body, backed by state sanctions if regulation fails. The general secretary of Liberty, a leading civil liberties organization, says that Leveson’s recommended system may be illegal.

Article 19, a free-speech advocate, calls for its implementation. The debate will be long and fierce (and confusing).

My Reuters colleague Jack Shafer, in his column last week, argued that the fault lies above all with the British readers.

“That the excesses of filth and fury thrive in Britain but falter in the United States tells you a lot about how publishers differ, but it tells you more about the difference in readers.

Perhaps the biggest problem in the UK is not unethical publishers and unethical reporters

but contemptible readers who sanction criminality and privacy invasion every other time they buy a disreputable copy at the newsstand maybe they don’t deserve a free press.”

In spite of the sweeping dismissal of the taste and morals of my fellow Britons, I think Shafer has a point, one I took all the more after I had digested Thompson’s lectures.

If we do not think through the consequences of the purchase of illegally acquired stories; if we do not exert ourselves to seek to understand the nature of our society and politics; if we cap that by dismissing politics and politicians whom we have not taken the trouble to understand as “all the same out for themselves,” we may soon not deserve a free society, let alone a free press.

Thomson’s parting gift to Britain is a bitter one.

John Lloyd co-founded the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the University of Oxford, where he is Director of Journalism. Lloyd has written several books, including “What the Media Are Doing to Our Politics” (2004).

He is also a contributing editor at FT and the founder of FT Magazine

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

1917

25 years ago Sunday December 6, 1987

Finland proclaims its independence from Russia after 108 years of Russian rule.

Candidates seeking to unseat the man who has ruled Cyprus since 1977 ended a self-imposed campaign truce this week after President Spyros Kyprianou said he was staying in the race despite a heart attack. Kyprianou, 55, admitted to hospital last week, is recovering satisfactorily a medical report said.

1921 The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed, creating the conditions under which Ireland would be partitioned into the Irish Free State and Northern Ireland.

1978 Spain votes in its first democratic elections for 40 years following the death of dictator, General Franco.

1989 In Quebec, Canada, 14 women are killed at the École Polytechnique de Montréal when Marc Lépine enters the college and randomly starts shooting before killing himself.

1992 A 200,000-strong crowd of Hindu militants tears apart a mosque in the north Indian town of Ayodhya in a frenzy of inter-communal violence.

35 years ago Tuesday December 6, 1977 President Kyprianou has defended the long struggle as a necessity imposed on the people by the failure of the Turkish side to make any hopeful move. “So far there has been nothing from the Turkish side to justify that we are on the road to an early settlement,” he said.

45 years ago Wednesday December 6, 1967 Arrangements for Security Council action to safeguard peace in Cyprus were well in hand today amid reports that Greece and Turkey were already moving to withdraw illegal troops from the island. Secretary-General U Thant has started talks with delegates of countries who have troops serving under the UN flag in Cyprus.

He wants the 4,500-man force strengthened as part of his formula for preventing any recurrence of the crisis.

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Noticeboard ExxonMobil/ ESSO offers safety award

Belgium distinction for Marios E Lanitis

Cypriot crowned Slimmer of the Year ARGYRIS Hadjiandreou eventually emerged the big winner at the World Contest 'International Slimmer of the Year 2012' as, with the help of diet programme Cambridge Weight Plan and his own perseverance and willpower, he overcame his rivals by shedding 107 pounds.

The competition was held in Birmingham on November 24 in the presence of bidders from around the world, while Cyprus was crowned for the third consecutive year the big winner of the contest. This is a world record. While ranking among the most successful countries in the world where people trust and lose weight with diet programme Cambridge Weight Plan.

The tremendous effort by Argyris, supported by the Cambridge programme from the very beginning, saw once again one of their clients win back his life by losing excess weight and becoming happy and healthy again.

Argyris, despite his young age, had in the past, because of very poor nutrition, developed problems such as leg pains and signs of type 2 diabetes.

His struggle with such problems had resulted in him also shutting himself away after several failed attempts to lose weight.

However, with the help of the Cambridge programme and, more specifically his Cambridge advisor, Despo Cossack, he emerged victorious and can now smile again, handsome and full of health.

For this achievement, Cambridge would also like to express its heartfelt thanks to all the people who voted for and supported Argyris on the way to triumphing at the contest.

The Nutrition Programme Cambridge Weight Plan is the most recognised and effective weight loss scheme in the world, combining a flexible diet plan that includes drinks, soups, porridge and chocolate bars, containing all the necessary vitamins and minerals that the body needs daily, leading to healthy and safe weight loss

THE Ambassador of Belgium in Cyprus, Mr Guy Sevrin, in the name of His Majesty King Albert II of Belgium, recently bestowed the title of 'Knight in the Order of Leopold' on the Honorary Consul of Belgium in Cyprus, Mr Marios E. Lanitis.

The Order of Leopold dates back to 1832 and is the oldest and highest of Belgium’s three national orders.

This distinction was given to Mr Lanitis in recognition of his services as an Honorary Consul, since 1986, to the Belgian community in Cyprus, for the preservation of the interests of the country he represents, as well as the development of Cyprus-Belgium cooperation in various fields of the Society.

In his address, the Belgian Ambassador in Cyprus, Mr Guy Sevrin, stated that the

core values of the Lanitis Group, such as reliability, integrity and social contribution, were also reflected in Mr Marios Lanitis’ personality which, with his dynamism and professionalism, make him an excellent Honorary Consul.

Furthermore, this important honour indicates the gratification of the Belgian government for Mr Lanitis’ work, Mr Sevrin added.

In his reply to the Ambassador’s speech, Mr Lanitis noted that the Honorary Consulate in Cyprus has been in the Lanitis family since 1934.

He stated he felt proud of the distinction bestowed on him, assuring that he would continue to offer his services, and always with the same commitment, looking after the interests of Belgium and its citizens.

The Order of Leopold dates back to 1832 and is the oldest and highest of Belgium's three national orders

EXXONMOBIL / ESSO Cyprus has awarded the Saint Barnabas Special School Famagusta €2,040 for safety efforts.

The gift comes as part of the Safety Awards established by the company over the last 10 years.

The Saint Barnabas Special School is located in Liopetri and hosts children with disabilities aged three to 18 years old.

In a warm and educationally stimulating environment, the school offers a unique and personalised approach to learning for the children, depending on the needs of each pupil.

This approach allows each student to develop his or her abilities to the maximum extent possible.

Festive gift ideas from Ampersand’s new wares One-day sale to kick off Xmas buys this Saturday THE sun is still shining and it’s hard to think about Christmas approaching, but it will be upon us before we know it and we will be dashing around trying to tick off our lists.

Luckily, Ampersand have some wonderful Christmas gift ideas with new arrivals on Yankee candles and a large delivery of lanterns and indoor and outdoor wall art, all due in the first week of December.

To help get you in the seasonal spirit, Ampersand will be holding a oneday sale on Saturday December 8, and as usual we will be serving drinks and nibbles - this time around with a Christmas theme.

For those of our customers who have attended our one-day events in the past, you will know that they always have a great feel to them and there will be

Ampersand is determined to get its customers in the Christmas spirit with a range of new arrivals opportunities to purchase gifts at very good discounted prices, whilst enjoying a glass or two of wine.

If you are travelling back to family overseas we have smaller-sized Yankee candles which will not be too

heavy to take with you.

The Ampersand team looks forward to welcoming everyone on December 8!

For more information, contact Ampersand on 26 930690

Cyprus International 4-Day Challenge a success THE eighth edition of the Cyprus International 4-Day Challenge is now an unforgettable memory for both the runners and the organisers, and it is with great pleasure that we saw the participation number averaging at the same level as in previous years, with runners of various ages and abilities from countries such as the UK, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Russia, France, Italy, Austria, Norway, Switzerland and Cyprus.

Highlights of the event were the 11km Hill Run on day 2 of the race and the Half Marathon Multiterrain Run on day 3, both

of which took place in the AKAMAS nature reserve.

Both AKAMAS routes on day 2 and 3 as well as the time trial on the first day and the 10k Paphos City Run on the last day, were dominated by Urs Jenzer of Switzerland, who completed the event with 03:01:18 in the overall male category, and by Stephanie Twell of Great Britain who completed the event with 03:22:28, in the overall female category.

For more information on next year's event as well as early booking offers, please feel free to visit www.cypruschallenge.com

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What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA Lawless (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.15pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11.20am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Killing Them Softly (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Frankenweenie (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm; KCineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 11am, 1.20pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Taken 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Adikos Kosmos (in Greek) Cine Studio, tonight at 9pm, presented by the Friends of the Cinema Society. Tel: 96420491, www.ofk.org.cy Short Films by Joris Ivens Eirini Hall (Peace Room) at 7.30pm. Tel: 99-434923 Closely Watched Trains (in Czech, call for details of subtitles)

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

Eirini Hall (Peace Room) at 9pm. Tel: 99-434923

LIMASSOL Lawless (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D), weekdays at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends at 3, 4.50, 6.35, 8.20 and 10.10pm; Rio 1 (in English, in 2D), weekdays only at 6pm; Rio 2 (in Greek, in 3D), weekdays at 6 and 7.50pm, weekends at 3, 4.50, 6.35 and 8.20pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Frankenweenie (12) Rio 3, weekdays at 6.10pm, weekends at 3, 4.35 and 6.15pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Killing Them Softly (18) Rio 3 at 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) Rio 1, weekdays at 7.55 and 10.10pm, weekends at 3, 5.15, 7.45 and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Killing Them Softly (18) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.50 and 10.15pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Taken 2 (12) Rio 5 7.45pm (weekends 8.15pm) and 10pm. Tel: 25-871410

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.35, 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Skyfall (12) Rio 3 at 7.45pm; Rio 2 at 10pm (weekends at 10.10pm). Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 5 (in Greek), weekends only at 3, 4.45 and 6.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA Lawless (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 7.50 and 10.20pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Rise of the Guardians (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in Greek, in 3D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30, 7.50 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Frankenweenie (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 5.35pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Taken 2 (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 8 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Skyfall (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 7.40 and 10.20pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Madagascar 3: Europe’s Most Wanted (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) (in English, in 2D) at 5.30pm, weekends also at 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Three Cypriot Short Films House of Arts and Literature (Makariou Avenue), tonight only at 8.30pm. Tel: 99658831, www.lfcinema.org

(weekends only), 6, 8 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Lawless (15) Rio 2 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Killing Them Softly (18) Rio 5 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26207000 Frankenweenie (12) Rio 6, weekdays at 6pm, weekends at 4 and 5.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn, Part 2 (12) Rio 7 at 5.30, 7.45 and 10pm.

Tel: 26-207000 Taken 2 (12) Rio 3 at 5pm (weekends only), 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000 Skyfall (12) Rio 6, weekdays at 7.45 and 10.15pm, weekends at 7.30 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Tinkerbell: Secret of the Wings (K) Rio 7 (in Greek), weekends only at 3.40pm. Tel: 26-207000

PAPHOS Rise of the Guardians (K) Rio 4 (in English, in 2D) and Rio 1 (in Greek, in 3D) at 4pm

listings Today Exhibition Beyond Boundaries A photographic journey through Cyprus by Rachael Atherton-Charvat.

Opens December 6, until December 14. Kaimakli Cultural Centre ‘The Mills’ 4 Constantinoupleos Street, Nicosia. 10am-1pm and 4pm-7pm Merry Christmas Cyprus 34th Annual Cyprus College of Art Christmas Art Show includes paintings and sculptures by students, staff and visiting artists of the Cyprus College of Art. Opens December 6, 7pm until December 15. 23 Mehmet Ali Street, Larnaca. Open daily: 10am-5pm. Tel: 24-254042 Daniella Georgiou Leather accessories exhibition with one of a kind bags and accessories. December 6 and 7. Cava Nostra, 5A Sophouli Str Nicosia. Tel: 99-407237/22374840 info@daniellageorgiou.com

Music Tribute to Pavlos Sidiropoulos Live music by George Gregoriou in tribute to Greek star. December 6. Neverland Rock Bar, 1 Nikiforou Foka Street, Nicosia. 10pm. Free. Tel: 99-021362 Without a Conductor Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with strings and winds presenting a programme with works by Grieg, Wirén and Gounod. December 6. Markideion Theatre, Paphos.

8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 26-932571

Theatre The Sound of Music Med High presents annual performance of a popular musical. December 6-8. Med High Theatre, 10 Kilkis Street, Larnaca. 7pm. €5. Tel: 70-001220

9.30pm. €15 in support of the Nicosia Family Planning Association. Tel 22430121/22-751093/1455

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Dance

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From Classroom to Stage Annual climax of the Dancecyprus Junior Company’s education programme, with dancers aged from 12 to 17, demonstrating how they make the transition from dance training to stage performance. December 6.

Pallas Municipal Theatre, Nicosia.

7pm. Tel: 99-920264/25-432404

Textures and Colours Ceramics and photo art exhibition by Dora Georgiadou. Opens December 7, 7pm until December 9. Temporary Space, corner Liasidou and Aeschylou Str, old Nicosia. 11am-10pm

Other Events The Michael Jackson Show Navi, the World’s No.1 Michael Jackson impersonator live in Cyprus.

December 6. Pavilion Hall, Nicosia.

7pm. €10/20/30. Tel: 22-322222 www.soldout-tickets.com.cy Sexperience 2 With a variety of events taking place in the capital focusing on sexual rights and ideas surrounding sexuality. Your ideas regarding sexuality and what is considered ‘sexy’ can be emailed to sexperience.eu @ gmail.com or posted on the facebook page at: www. facebook.com/sexperience.eu. Alternatively: twitter.com/Sexperience_eu.

Sexy in the City: December 1-10.

What is sexy? An original installation shaped by your own opinion. P.X. Ippokratous 44, old Nicosia.

Sounds Sexy 2 Me: December 6.

Concert with Greek artists. Enallax, 16-17 Athinas Avenue, Nicosia.

Not Quite a Memory Solo painting exhibition by Zenon Jepras. Opens December 7, 7pm until December 18. Alpha Gallery, Makarios Avenue & 3 Papanikoli Street, Nicosia. Tel: 22-751325. e-mail: info@art.com.cy Inside the Megalo Tama An installation by artist Miriam Mc Connon Papageorgiou. Opens December 7, 7pm until December 9. At The House of Art and Letters, Paphos. Open daily: 10am-1pm. Tel: 99-554829

Music Without a Conductor Cyprus Symphony Orchestra with strings and winds presenting a programme with works by Grieg, Wirén and Gounod. December 7. Strovolos Municipal Theatre, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €12/7. Tel: 22-313010 Virtuosity and Melody of Italian Music Concert by I Solisti Veneti one of the most famous Italian chamber

orchestras who play with modern instruments. December 7. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free.

Tel: 22-358258 Peggy Zina Live performance with popular Greek singer accompanied by Loukas Giorkas. December 7. Monte Caputo. 9pm. €70/45. Tel: 99-247373/25-636333

Theatre Cinderella Annual production of pantomime staged by ACT. Russian Cultural Centre, Nicosia. December 7: 7.30pm.

December 8: 3pm & 7.30pm and December 9: 3pm. €12 /6. Tickets available at the Russian Cultural Centre Monday-Friday between 4-6pm.

Tel : 99-924363

Other Events The Michael Jackson Show Navi, the World’s No.1 Michael Jackson impersonator live in Cyprus.

December 7. Club Basement, 91 Georgiou A’ Street, Potamos Germasogias, Limassol. Family show at 7pm & Adult Show at 12am. €10/20. Tel: 25325752. www.soldout-tickets.com.cy The Arab Spring: The Egyptian Experience & Evolution of a Revolution Presentations by guest speakers, exhibition, screening and public debate on the Arab Spring. December 7 & 8.

ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, 64, Ay. Omoloyites Avenue, Nicosia. 6pm. In English. Exhibition open until December 11. Opening hours: Saturday: 10am-1pm. MondayTuesday: 10am-5pm. Tel: 22-445455.

info@artosfoundation.org Prix Jeunesse’s Best in Kids’ TV Seminar and screenings coordinated

by Prix Jeunesse representative Kirsten Schneid. December 7 and 8. GoetheInstitut Cyprus Hall, Nicosia’s buffer zone. 4pm. The films screened in Nicosia will be the winners of the 2012 Prix Jeunesse International film festival held last June in Munich. Screenings for children and parents on December 8 starting from 4pm (for age group 7-11 years) and from 6pm (for age group 12-15 years). Admission is free.

All films are with English subtitles. Tel: 22-674606 or email Elena.Petrou@ nikosia.goethe.org ANTI-DORA Pegasus Art Foundation organises a big Charity fair and silent auction where small pieces of Art will be exhibited on the occasion of the festive season.

Opens December 7 until December 13.

Pegasus Art Foundation – 55 Art Studio.

23, Andreas Drousiotis Street , Plateia Heroon, Limassol. Part of the money will go towards, funding a new school in Ethiopia. Tel: 25-340739 or E-mail: cymakart@cytanet.com.cy What we should have said…

A live poetry and music event featuring Bafta nominated artist Stuart Silver. December 7. The Shoe Factory, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €5 (tickets sold only at the door). Tel: 22-663871 Roman Law and its Byzantine Renaissances Law and Society lecture series brings world-leading scholars to Cyprus. December 11, RSVP by December 7. UCLan Cyprus Campus, Pyla, Larnaca. 6pm. Tel: 24-812121 or info@uclancyprus.as.cy

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

Ongoing Other Events Drought Project Centre of performing Arts MITOS is celebrating five years of creative activity and presents it’s as part of the cultural events of the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of Europe. Theatre performance, art exhibition, book edition, based on the myth of Ariadne. December 5-9.

Palio Xydadiko, Limassol. 8.30pm. Tel: 99- 864970 Small Volunteers Campaign collection of new Christmas gifts for needy families. Until December 16. Nicosia Presse Café Cross Ledra and St. Anthony, as well as in stores Costas Theodorou and Original Marines (102 Pericles Street, Strovolos, 28th Oct Street, 12 Makedonitissa), Limassol (Zavos Shopping Center, 25 Street Kolonaki, 25 Street), Larnaca (80 Zenon Kitios) and Paphos (92 Makarios Avenue). Tel: 22-818884

Theatre The Harley Jacket THOC’s New Stage presents play by Vasilis Katsikonouris directed by Giorgos Mouaimis. Until December 7. THOC New Theatre Building, 9 Gregori Afxentiou, Nicosia. Wednesday through Friday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-864300 Calendar Girls Play by Tim Firth presented by Stage One Theatre Group. December 3-8.

Emba Theatre, Paphos. €12/6. Box Office Open: Monday-Friday: 10am & 1pm, Tel: 99-967737 or email: boxoffice@stageonetheatre.com

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Last Chance Other Events It’s poetry, but not as we know it Expect to be moved, amused and enlightened tomorrow evening as Stuart Silver makes a welcome return to the Shoe Factory for his popular show What We Should Have Said...

What We Should Have Said... is brought to you by the BAFTA nominated and Perrier Award winning artist who will lead a dynamic, emotive and playfully original performance of words and music given by Ian Gregson, Richard Douglas Pennant and Stavros Karayanni. The stellar line-up of word artists is joined by young oud player Yiannis Koutis.

Silver has been widely acknowledged to be at the forefront of spoken word activity in the UK both as a writer and performer. He has achieved considerable critical success on the comedy circuit with his writing and performance partner Kim Noble. The duo first came to national prominence upon winning the Best Newcomer Perrier Award in 2000.

Silver has appeared in television shows including The Mighty Boosh and Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace. In addition, he has

Tomorrow Music Italian masters on stage From Vivaldi to Albinoni, through Paganini and Rossini, Italian music will reign supreme tomorrow evening, as the renowned Italian orchestra I Solisti Veneti headed by the artistic director and conductor Claudio Scimon pays tribute to the musical masters on stage of the Pallas Theatre.

I Solisti Veneti is one of the world’s most celebrated chamber music orchestras. Founded by its long-time music director Scimone in Padua, in 1959; I Solisti Veneti specialises in the music of the Baroque and early Classical eras. Its unrelenting work schedule and enthusiasm is seen not only from the number of concerts and records, which exceeds 350, but also by a line of prestigious awards.

The pinnacle of awards include a Grammy Award for Rossini’s ‘L’Italiana in Algeri’ with Marylin Horne, Samuel Ramey and Kathleen Battle; the Gold Medal of the

appeared at many of the major UK literary festivals and spoken word venues, and has written extensively for TV and film. Last year, Silver created a solo piece, You Look Like Ants, performing at The London Word Festival and Soho Theatre alongside great American songwriter Nina Nastasia.

Silver was last in Cyprus to present his second solo show in the summer, but for those who didn’t get the chance to see it, they now have a second chance, with tomorrow’s performance.

The playfully original performance is an in-depth exploration of characters and instrumentation, which recently received rave reviews at the Cork Jazz Festival, The Troubadour Poetry Club and the Pizza Express Jazz Club.

He has a signature conversational monologue style, so expect to hear verses from great 20th century poets such as WB Yeats, Seamus Heany, Ted Hughes, Robert Frost, Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath and many others, juxtaposed with his special brand of stand-up philosophy. Silver attempts to get a hold on what life is all about and figure out how to leave our mark on society. Please note that tickets are only sold at the door, so don’t be late.

What We Should Have Said...

A live poetry and music event featuring Bafta nominated artist Stuart Silver.

December 7. The Shoe Factory, Nicosia.

8.30pm. €5 (tickets sold only at the door).

Tel: 22-663871

President of the Italian Republic and the Diapason d’Or. The conductor is also a Una Vita Nella Musica Award holder, which is considered the Nobel Prize in music.

For several years now I Solisti Veneti has worked with Venice, Padua and Verona Councils in organising the ‘Veneto Festival’, which specialises in the promotion of the artistic and cultural values of Veneto music. The orchestra has also contributed music for several film soundtracks, and produced many musical programs for Italian television and elsewhere.

The evening’s amusements at the Pallas are sponsored by the Italian Embassy, and the programme will be comprised of two parts offering a selection of works by Italian composers across centuries. Classical music fans will certainly appreciate for example Variations on the ‘Carnival of Venice’ op. 10 for violin and string on themes from ‘Moses in Egypt’ and the ‘Lake Virgin’ by Gioacchino Rossini.

Virtuosity and Melody of Italian Music Concert by I Solisti Veneti one of the most famous Italian chamber orchestras who play with modern instruments. December 7. Pallas Theatre, old Nicosia. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 22-358258

Kontea heritage ON SATURDAY at Kontea village in the southeastern plains of Mesaoria, people will eat, drink and dance around a restored courtyard, part of a site where aspects of Cyprus history are laid bare.

“The ENGAGE team would like to invite the public to travel with us and witness this unique restoration project that is of utmost importance to Cyprus historical heritage, and share their views on peace and reconciliation issues,” an announcement from the group said.

There will be live music, a short film projection on Kontea’s cultural heritage and a festival with traditional dances from the Dance for Peace ensemble. Little ones are welcome, with activities planned to keep children entertained and food and drink also offered.

Anyone interested in joining the festivities from Nicosia, Larnaca or Limassol can get free transportation in the morning, courtesy of the nongovernmental organisation ENGAGE – Do your part for Peace programme.

The restoration of the courtyard is part of a project to rescue and preserve a historical site on the outskirts of the village. The site is the location of the Christian Orthodox church of Ayios Charalambos, a Catholic chapel and cemetery, a Frankish Manor from the time of the Crusaders and an Ottoman irrigation system of stone cisterns and aqueducts.

The courtyard’s opening ceremony will begin at 3pm and feature its inauguration by US ambassador to Cyprus, John M. Koenig.

At the site hangs a marble plaque from the Frankish manor house, left by the Lusignans some

200 years ago, reading: “Kontea is the name and rightfully deserves the fame”.

A carob peace park at the site, built by the Greek Cypriot former residents of the village and maintained by the Turkish Cypriot current residents, speaks of the efforts of the villagers to preserve Kontea’s culture over the past few years.

ENGAGE on the Move aims to keep the public updated with regards peace and reconciliation issues between the Greek Cypriot and Turkish Cypriot communities. By participating in the event, ENGAGE will increase its push to inform the two communities about peace building, specifically targeting members of society from areas and villages located far from the island’s major cities.

The ENGAGE team will also distribute giveaways to the public and offer entertainment for kids.

Their programme will aim to inspire the audience to actively contribute to the peace process by asking them to voice their opinions as part of the Active Dialogue Network campaign.

Engage on the Move A ceremony organised to announce the opening of the restored courtyard area. The event will include live music, a short film screening, traditional dances, authentic Cyprus foods and refreshments as well as various activities for the children. December 8. Kontea Village. 1pm-4pm. Nicosia: 10am from Apostolos Varnavas Church, Athalassa Ave – Tel: 99-654027. Limassol: 09.45am from E&S Supermarket Parking space – Tel: 99-469975. Larnaca: 11am from Central Fire Station – Tel: 99-607303/ 99-534550

By Poly Pantelides

NIGHTLIFE Club Nuovo goes Oppa Cyprus Hoping to capitalise on the popularity of the Gangnam Style music video, Mix FM presents a Gangnam Night at Club Nuovo this Saturday, honouring the South Korean pop star, his wacky tune and his one-of-a-kind moves.

Move over, Justin Bieber, there’s a new king of YouTube in town.

The insanely popular song from recording artist Psy last month become the most watched video in YouTube history, beating out previous record-holder, the Biebs’ Baby.

Clocking in at 887 million views (and counting), the video was also recognised by the Guinness World Records as the most ‘liked’ video in YouTube history, with over 5 million thumbs up.

Gangnam Style has experienced a meteoric rise since its July debut, gaining an average of 11 million views per day. Despite its mas-

sive following, the video shows no en signs of slowing down, and it even has a shot at becoming the first on video to get more than one billion an views. In surpassing the Canadian ur, teen star for the YouTube honour, ne Psy cemented his position as one y, of the biggest, and most unlikely, international stars of 2012. y The song’s sustained popularity ic has continued to confound music ary critics, as everyone from legendary apop star Madonna to United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-er moon and British Prime Minister d David Cameron have performed ng the song’s ridiculous horse-riding dance. Cyprus has been no exception to Gangnam Style’s worldwide popularity. Here the craze has manifested in Gangnam party themes, amateur video clips and comedy skits.

But just how Gangnam are you?

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prove y your worth at clu club Nuovo.

Eve Everyone is invited tto dance t the to rrhythm of G Gangnam Sty with Style D the Dance Style Crew, while DJ Peter tears up the decks playin playing all the biggest hits. Th The Gangnam Style party d definitely embodies the song’s ethos: Dress classy but dance cheesy.

Gangnam Night Dance to the rhythm of Gangnam Style with the Dance Style Crew. DJ Peter on the decks with the biggest hits. December 8. Club Nuovo, 11 Stasinou Street, Engomi, Nicosia.

11.30pm. €20 Open Bar. Tel: 96-336649

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Lifestyle Kate will fight to give ‘normal’ childhood Robert Jobson looks at how Britain’s royal couple will raise their child, the first to become the country’s monarch regardless of its sex The Queen could not have received better news to cap her Diamond Jubilee year

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ILLIAM and Kate’s baby will be the first truly modern monarch descended from coalminers as well as kings. One day this royal child will lead a very different monarchy, more streamlined, more inclusive and more cost effective. The Queen and Prince Charles are obviously delighted - they could not have received better news to cap this brilliant Diamond Jubilee year.

But what does it mean for the monarchy going forward and what sort of life can this child expect? In this truly global media world the baby’s life will be scrutinised like no other; something its parents are acutely mindful of. For the first time in Britain’s history this baby will become sovereign regardless of gender.

The child will also be the first for 300 years - since the reigns of Anne and Mary II to have a commoner as mother rather than an aristocrat or royal.

Prince William and Kate’s first child will be born into a world of vast wealth, ancient ancestry, palaces and royal titles. Their baby will be the most famous in the world.

They will do their best to stifle the inevitable media frenzy, insisting the baby is just like any other. But the truth is this child will be special, very special.

The scrapping of the ancient primogeniture laws agreed by the Queen in Perth before the Commonwealth

Diana with William as a baby heads of government meeting last year - signals a new dawn for Britain’s royals. It is important because it shows the Queen is ready to ditch anachronistic traditions to ensure modern monarchy is in step with a modern society.

Since William and Kate’s spectacular wedding last

year, watched by millions globally, monarchy has been given a huge boost in popular support.

All eyes have been on Kate’s “bump.” Every time she touched her stomach, it made news. Now the waiting is over and her pregnancy has been confirmed there has been a frenzy of excitement.

Inside royal sources have told us William and Kate are “absolutely determined” to raise their child their way. Neither will allow their baby to be weighed down by royal tradition or expectation despite the pressure of his birthright.

Sources say Kate is reluctant to allow an army of old school nannies to take charge.

s expected that However, it is she will have at least two pport her. She nannies to support will also want her mother Carole, to whom she often turns osely involved. for advice, closely “Carole is a great mother. et firmly on the She has her feet ground and Kate will value rticularly with her input, particularly her first born baby,” a source mily said. close to the family iam nor Kate Neither William ir baby - who will want their will inherit a £700 million wall trust fund Duchy of Cornwall otton wool and - wrapped in cotton mollycoddled. Instead they d will be free to hope the child express his or her individuality. other insisted William’s mother d be b raised i d her h her baby would way, and a source close to Kate told us: “Kate is just as determined as Diana was.”

Diana battled like a tigress to avoid the constraints of royal life being thrust upon William and Harry too early because she feared it would stifle their development.

Her stance - at first opposed by traditionalist Prince Charles – helped shape William into the balanced young man he is today. Diana had a clear idea of how she wanted her sons raised, axing their first nanny Barbara Barnes for protesting that “the princes need to be treated differently”. Diana wanted her boys to be as balanced as possible almost in spite of their birthright.

Her second nanny, Olga Craig, deferred to Diana on everything - there could be

Family values: Kate is keen to provide a safe family home for her baby

All eyes have b ‘bump.’ Every ti her stomach, only one boss in the nursery.

That said, the princess did allow the nanny or the bodyguard to discipline the royal children if they stepped out of line. Ken Wharfe, William’s former Scotland Yard personal protection officer, recalled: “I remember on a number of occasions both William and Harry getting a smack if they were naughty.

“Another of their nannies, nanny Jessie, knew exactly how to keep Harry under

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been on Kate’s me she touched it made news. control. A large woman, she used to pin Harry to the wall with her stomach until he calmed down. They were given a sound grounding from royal staff and both boys soon learned that despite their royal rank, there was a pecking order and they had to do what they were told.

I am sure William and Kate will pass this on.”

William, perhaps as a direct response to his mother’s almost obsessive craving for

lo normality, has longed to be W known as “just William”.

Now William is about to become a father himself with an ordinary girl raised in a tradimiddle-cl tional, middle-class English family.

He and Kate, whose ancestors descend from coal miners, will face the same dilemma: how to raise their th signs are children? All the wan to follow that William wants mother his late mother’s lead. He modern hands-on will be a modern, spend father too, spending time in the nursery and being there possib whenever possible for bedtime.

But no matter how hard they try to raise their firstborn to be as ordinary as ibl th possible they will be fighting a losing battle. So what sort of childhood can this “special one” expect? Wharfe knows better than most, as the avuncular ex-cop handpicked to head the princes’ protection, he often stepped into the “parental” role. He was fun and exciting - just what the boys needed.

He told us: “This baby will have an amazing childhood, of that I am sure. But it will be different of course. For one thing he or she will have to get used to having an armed Scotland Yard personal protection officer watching over them night and day.

“Prince William’s own childhood will then, I feel, be the blueprint he and Kate will base their own family life on.

William and Harry were such fun-loving children. They loved to play-fight and when

they hit each other they meant it.

“Sometimes when their protection officers tried to break up the fights they were on the receiving end of their punches. They would fight dirty, too, thinking nothing of punching you where it really hurt. But Diana encouraged it. She thought it was good for them to just be boys.”

William was always treat-

ed differently, even by family members, something this child may also have to deal with - but it didn’t bother his younger brother. Harry, dubbed GKH - for Good King Harry - by Diana would often joke that if William did not want to be king he would happily step into his shoes.

William, as a boy, was reluctant to think about the enormity of his future role. He

William’s first day at Eton. His child is likely to have a similar education

would often say to his mother that when he grew up he would become a policeman so he could protect her. Harry would often butt in, saying: “Don’t be stupid, William, when you grow up you’re going to be the King, that is all there is to it.”

But they had a ball. Diana took them to burger bars, and go-kart racing, tearing up Prince Charles’ beloved garden at Highgrove House when they turned it into a racetrack. Diana was adamant in rejecting interference. She felt a child’s stability came from the affection received from their parents and that there was no substitute.

William and Harry came to her first - and that is bound to have influenced William. Kate and William have similar values. But the baby is likely to have a traditional education path.

Until Charles’s generation - he went to Cheam, Gordonstoun, Geelong Grammar in Australia and Trinity College, Cambridge - heirs to the throne such as the Queen were taught by a governess.

William and Kate’s baby is set for a top public school before going on, like them, to university.

When William and Harry went away to boarding school - Ludgrove and Eton - Diana pined for them and couldn’t wait to receive letters. She wrote to them twice a week.

A source close to Kate said: “Catherine is an extremely strong woman. Family, a close family, is extremely important

The Middletons with a baby Kate to her. It has been her bedrock and I feel sure she will want the same environment for her children.”

Kate enjoyed an idyllic time with her siblings Pippa, 20 months Kate’s junior, and James, born in 1987. She loved dressing up, going to Brownies and starring in school plays. She was sporty, accomplished at tennis and hockey, and lived in a comfortable house in the Berkshire countryside.

When asked about having a family during her engagement interview, she made it clear she wants a large family.

“It is very important to me,” she said. But one area where William and Kate are likely to have to bow to some pressure “from the top” will be on the choice of name.

It is bound to be a traditional name, but given the royals’ penchant for a number of names I would be astounded - if they have a little girl - if “Diana” is not one of them.

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MISCELLANEOUS NELLIA AGUILAR from Philippines, legally working and living in Nicosia has lost her Cyprus Alien Registration Certificate #. 5684553, Cyprus Work Permit #.

5684553 and most importantly, her Philippines Passport #. XX3537747 in Nicosia recently. Anybody who finds her documents can please inform your nearest police station or call me on 96261201 or email me on nellia.aguilar@yahoo.com.

GURMIT KAUR from India and Holder of passport with K 0609492. wishes to change her name on her passport from now on she wants to be called Gurmit Kaur Rai. My new name will be on my new passport. ************************** LOOKING TO PURCHASE a second hand saxophone and trumpet which are in good condition.

Please contact us on Mob.: 99405636 *****************************

ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS - CYPRUS Is drink costing you more than just money? AA could be the answer.

Meeting at the following locations/days. Call to speak to an AA member.

Ayia Napa Monday 97798043 Larnaca Tuesday (Polish spk) 96616589 Thursday 24645523 / 99259264 Limassol Tuesday / Wednesday / Friday / Saturday 25368265 / 99559322 Nicosia Wednesday/Sunday 99013596 Paphos Tuesday / Thursday / Saturday 99916331 / 99399240 Details of meetings are available on www.aa-europe.net

Ring Chrisanthy 97749109 Counsellor/Clinical Hypnotherapist from Australia (Greek & English speaking) HARMONY AND BALANCE! Anti cellulite treatment, reflexology, aromatherapy, massage-against stress, back pains, headache. Nicosia for appointment call on 97696795.

Nicosia - tel: 22 818583 fax: 22 676385 one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt, contact on 99520511 mon-frid. *****************************

TIME FOR A CAREER CHANGE? Learn how to teach English! The London Teacher Training College is offering TEFL Certificate courses in Cyprus. For more information call now on 99839307.

ACUPUNCTURE, cupping, skin honing, massage. For the alleviation of aches, pains, stress and rehabilitation from illness or injury.

Qualified Chinese practitioner. Pafos [Konia] 9922 1851.

CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates

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

LILLY, a beautiful and sweet pekingese mix female looking for a loving home. Likes children very much and will do ok with other dogs. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this one are looking for forever homes! To provide a temporary foster home or to adopt, contact on 99520511 mon-frid. *****************************

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

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TASHA a female terrier mix, around 1,5 years old. She is extremely friendly dog and she is very very sweet and clever. She is looking for a forever home! 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.

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HEALTH & FITNESS

LESSONS

MAJESTIC BODIES *Stop smoking *Stress *Control your weight *Panic attacks. Try Hypnotherapy

TAG 175, a female dog around 1.5 years old.

She is very lovable and she will definitely be your best friend. At the Nicosia Dog Shelter, many more dogs and puppies like this

NEED AN EXPERIENCED ELECTRICIAN/PLUMBER/HANDYMAN? Free call out, no job too small.

Very reliable. l am experienced in all types of building work. Plasterboarding / Suspended Ceilings etc.

Please Call Sid 96840581 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

PERSONAL

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

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Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

GREEK LESSONS taught in small and friendly groups or individually. Tel 99274971 *****************************

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? 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

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

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

FOR SALE MISCELLANEOUS WIND TURBINE 600W1000W with professional grid tie inverter with builtin brake. Will also throw in cable to wire it all up. Only used for four months selling due to upgrade €425 phone 99983543 IPHONE 3GS white 16gb.

Brand new, only been turned on to make sure it is ok. €210-00 phone 99983543 CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes.

Also women’s dummies and modern wall fittings (clothes rails.) Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND TIMI, PLOTS, a few selected available, seaview, near the 2 golf courses, Venus Rock and airport 60% building factor, €99.000. Half registration fees til the 31.12.12.

Tel. 99621914

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 18 Employment Miscellaneous 18 Pets 18 Lessons 18 Health & Fitness 18 Personal 18 Services 18 For Sale Miscellaneous 19 For Sale Land/ Property Business 18 For Sale Motor vehicles 19 Wanted 19 To Let Nicosia 20 To Let Limassol 22 To Let Larnaca 22 To Let Paphos 22 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni -To Let Athens -Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Nicosia 24 For Sale Limassol 24 For Sale Larnaca -For Sale Paphos 24 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras -For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 25

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

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

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

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LARNACA, ALETHRIKO, plots for sale, 525 sqm, 90% building factor, near highway Limassol-Larnaca, 5 min from airport, quiet residential area €109.000.

Half registration fees till the 31.12.12. Tel. 99621914

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

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

Close to New Limassol Hospital with direct access to Limassol – Paphos Highway. Water supply, electricity and telephones are readily available. Suitable for immediate development. Ideal for various health facilities and resorts, holiday centres, commercial and shopping centres, entertainment enterprises etc. Information: Tel. 22 674338, 99621554 FOR SALE LAND in Anthoupoli (half plot) 288 sq.metres. for information 99621554.

WANTED TO RENT FLAT OR HOUSE TO RENT, 2-3 bedrooms, veranda/

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES *****************************

MERCEDES BENZ, Model 2003 C180, Compressor Manual (5+1), White colour, Electric window, A/C, good condition, 5300€ Contact No: 97888026 *****************************

MINI COOPER (2005) 1600cc, 52.000 miles, British racing green/Blk roof, full mini spec., bluetooth, fitted, MOT 15/07/14, €6.500 ono. Contact 35799531267 Pyla. *****************************

FORD FOCUS GHIA (2006) diesel, 1600cc, 98000km, blue, automatic - tiptronic. dual zone climate control, power steering, electric windows, 6 airbags, central locking, cruise control, computer board, alloy wheels, and many extras. €7500 ono. Contact: 99022779 - Nicosia *****************************

TO LET NICOSIA

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA

TO LET NICOSIA four bedrooms, two bathrooms, big dining and sitting rooms, kitchen and a huge veranda. Approximate covered area 250 sqm. Monthly rent €1400.00 o.n.o. Tel: 99622370. www. parcon.com.cy

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LUXURY FLAT 1-bedroom, fully furnished, 58 sq.m/entrance camera with Jacuzzi, italian equipment, Central autonomous heating, ALL electrical appliances for the kitchen (ceramic boards etc). Autonomous double covered parking with entrance camera, 3.6 sq.m storage room. close to the University of Nicosia/Makedonitissa-Egkomi, Nicosia.

Tel +35796440161

FLATS / HOUSES FOR RENT: studio Aglantzia €350, 1bdrm Ag. Andreas furnished €425, Hilton €400, Strovolos €350, Acropolis €380, Kennedy furnished €400, 2bdrm Ag. Dometios €400, Lykavitos €550, Kennedy €400, Acropolis rear house €300, 3bdrm m/ ssa with garden €500, Str/ los €400, Acropolis €550, 4 bdrm new house Dasoupolis €1,200, Acropolis g/f €800. 21 PROPERTY FINDER A.M. 627 A.A.108 / E 99474839, 99646822

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FOR RENT OR SELL: 2 bedroom flat in Nikis Avn in Nicosia, 80 m. Completely renovated, with electric supplies. Excellent for office or flat. 3 bed-room flat and some furnitures in Nicosia near Central Bank, 140 m.

Completely renovated like new. Mob : 99 460 860 *****************************

LUXURIOUS APARTMENT FOR RENT A luxurious one floor apartment situated in central Nicosia in an area of exceptional Beauty at 3 Museum Street, is available to let. It has been recently renovated and consists of

TO LET NICOSIA flat in attractive building in Anthoupolis, very quiet area between the Grammar School and the European University, also very convenient for Pascal and Highgate Schools and the University of Nicosia. Large front veranda, all appliances, modern fittings, light and bright. Furnished or unfurnished €550p.m. Call 99900177. *****************************

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ROOMS €125 each, near McDonald’s Engomi only Philippine girls. Call 99663927.

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FOR RENT 3 B/R apartment fully furnished close to Central Bank. 3 W.C., fully air-conditioned extra storeroom, owned covered parking. Excellent condition. Information: Tel. 99621554

MODERN 2 BDRM, first floor

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TO LET NICOSIA 3 BEDROOMS flat on second floor in a block of six flats, in a nice position at Strovolos area, fully a/c, c/h, covered parking place for one car, recently painted. Rent €650pm. (furnished if required). Tel: 97773358. *****************************

LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom

English-Painter & Decorator

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Fully Qualified 30 years’ Experience

For all your Garden and Security Fencing

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

Tel. Tony on 99176557

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

Tel. SELEC fencing 99176557

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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 €650 (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 new luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, central heating, full Ac, 260sq.m, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, blinds on all the windows, 4wc, 2 showers, 1 bathroom, 2 covered parking, big garden with grass in a quiet neighbourhood in a dead end near French Ambassador house - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST10045-R), (photos in the website).

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

7. 3 bedr detached ground floor house with big garden with grass and covered patio with bbq and bar, central heating, a/c, 230sq.m, FULLY FURNISHED or partially, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighborhood opposite Acropolis park. Acropolis - €1500

- 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 CentrePLATY AGLANTZIAS €3500 (H5PAG0002-R), (photos in the website).

10. 4 bedr semi detached house with central heating, 4 a/c, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, 180sq.m, electrical appliances, small yard, bbq area, off Kostantinoupoleos street near French ambassador residence.- STROVOLOS €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. H4AGZ0010-R, 3 bedr RENOVATED GROUND FLOOR HOUSE with big separate 1 bedroom flat with multi room, big sitting and dining room , separate tv room, big kitchen with family room and fitted cooker and oven, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, very big 5 X 6 bedrooms with solid parquet floor, central heating with petrol inde-

pendent, a/c units, double glazed windows with shutters, big verandas around the house, in a very quiet neighbourhood 200metres from FRENCH school and near Athalassas park - Aglantzia - €1300 (photos in website).

13. 3 bedr 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. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, all the bedrooms very big and all with big bathroom/shower, sitting room upstairs, attic room with shower and wc, office space/maid’ s room with shower and wc, central heating, full AC, 450sq.m, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with sitting area and fitted cooker and oven, 6 wc, 2 covered parking’s, big yard with tiles and garden with grass, bbq area in a very quiet neighbourhood near the CYBC ( RIK) station and near a neighbourhood park – Aglantzia €2000(H4AGZ0005-R),

(photos in the website).

15. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3000 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website).

For many more properties with photos visit our website at www. landtouristestates.com which is updated daily.

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LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury spacious apartment, with central heating independent, 3a/c, big sitting and dining room, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds, 2 bathrooms(on en suite), big covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, near Ippokration private hospital. Available end of November – Engomi - €

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550 - A2ENG0012-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. 1 bedr spacious apartment with separate kitchen, 2a/c for hot and cold, big bedroom, covered veranda, NICELY FURNISHED, in the centre behind Cleopatra hotel – Nicosia Centre - € 550 - A1NIC0020-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 (pho-

tos in website).

6. 1 bedr new modern luxury apartment, 50sq.m, 2 a/c for hot and cold, nicely modern furnished, 3rd floor, covered parking, 6 year old in a quiet neighbourhood off Kantaras street. - STROVOLOS €370 (A1ST10009-R), (photos in the 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 apart-

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

11. 3 bedr luxury spacious ground floor apartment with separate entrance, big verandas and garden, big sitting and dining room, central heating independent, full a/c, 2wc, very big master bedroom, electrical appliances in the

kitchen, aluminum shutters on windows, parquet laminate floor all the flat, covered parking, storage room, in a very quiet neighbourhood in a dead end street, off Athalasas Avenue behind Stephanis near English School €720 (A3ST10030-R), (photos in the website).

12. A2LYK0006-R, 2 bedr penthouse apartment with

big veranda 60sq.m, storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms (one en suite), big sitting room, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, covered parking near Agios Antonios market CLOSE TO THE UNIVERSITY. Lykavitos €510 (photos in website).

13. A2ST10028- R, 2 bedr new luxury apartment on the 1st floor of a 2 storey

building, with a/c for hot and cold, fully nicely modern furnished, big covered veranda, parking, in a quiet neighbourhood. (no common expenses). Strovolos €600 (photos in website).

14. 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

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 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 neighborhood 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 €550 (A2DAS0006-R), (photos in the website).

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2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927.

TO LET LIMASSOL parking, three wcs. Price 800 euros (negotiable) 25337400 ****************************

3 BEDROOM HOUSE IN YPSONAS 3-year-old two storey detached house situated in a private area of Ypsonas with separate kitchen, lounge dinning room,garden, parking ensuite master bedroom a/c all over house. 25 337400 Price 700 euros ****************************

2 BEDROOM COTTAGE FOR RENT IN LANIA VILLAGE in a quiet and peaceful area, fully furnished, storage heaters, a/c, rent €300 per month.

Minimum contract 1 year.

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FOR RENT new ground floor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village (20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. For info mob 99548855 ****************************

GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ****************************

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4 BEDROOM HOUSE IN EPISKOPI Split level 4-year- old house detached with central heating, a/c all over the house, lounge dinning room, separate kitchen, utility room, en-suite master bedroom,

FOR RENT spacious 3 bedroom apartment with balcony situated in centre of town, semi furnished.

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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

TO LET LARNACA 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 ****************************

PAPHOS TO LET 3 bdrm detached villa & pool. Fully furnished.

2 bdrms en suite, garage with r/m control, garden, lovely view. Near Tsada Golf Course. Price €750 per month. Tel. 99603330. *****************************

€290 /mnth Acropolis Heights (a) ,Chlorakas (b) € 380 /mnth Universal area and Both are 2-bed houses, beautiful locations, in Cul-de-sacs, 10 years old, 90 sq. mts, Furnished, Open-Plan Lounge/Kitchen, Front Car-port, Garden, (a) is Ground floor, 1 W.C/bath. (b) is 2-Floors, 2 W.CS/Bath and part air-conditioned. Call 99-632388.’ *****************************

Long Term Rentals 1. Chlorakas 1 bed ground floor furnished apartment with central heating, communal pool and parking, sky TV. €335 pcm including all bills 2. Tala 2 bed quality furnished apartment. Stunning sea views, large balcony, well kept gardens, communal pool, quiet area. €375 pcm 3. Chlorakas Large 4 bed detached villa, secluded position, large private pool, a/c, and parking. Unfurnished.

Very nice well worth seeing. €800 pcm reduced 4. Peyia Unfurnished 2 bed

TO LET PAPHOS 2 bathroom house, a/c, ceiling fans, fly screens, storage, satellite TV, private parking, swimming pool, From €350 pcm REDUCED THIS IS JUST A SMALL SELCTION OF PROPERTIES THAT ARE AVAILABLE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THESE AND MANY MORE PLEASE CALL EITHER 96 545 174 OR E-MAIL ON info@ unique-consultancy.eu LANDLORDS; WE NEED YOUR PROPERTIES NOW. PLEASE CONTACT US IMMEDIATELY IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT. *****************************

1. UNIVERSAL – superb 2 bed furnished apartment for rent. Lovely quiet complex with pool, private parking, entry phone system & storage room. €350 per month.

2. UNIVERSAL – one bed furnished apartment on 2nd floor, small quiet well maintained complex with sea views. €300 per month.

3. UNIVERSAL – 2 two bed, 2 bath apartments on superb quiet complex, with 3 pools, gym, sauna, jaccuzi & bowling green. 1 apt furnished, 1 unfurnished from €400 per month.

4. TALA – 2 two bed, 2 bath villa style apts on stunning quiet complex with 4 pools, with off road and underground parking. 1 apt furnished 1 U/F from €360 per month.

PLEASE CALL 96203009 *****************************

FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi, Chlorakas & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or

TO LET PAPHOS please view at are website www.cyprussands. com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus *****************************

1. MANDRIA, 2 bedroom apartment, fully furnished with modern furniture, separate kitchen, communal swimming pool, air conditioning throught, 2 balconies euro 375 p/m o.N.O 2. SEA CAVES, 3 bedroom bungalow, specially fitted for people with disabilities , stunning sea views, free wifi, fully furnished with modern furniture, swimming pool, all bedrooms with en-sute, utility room, air conditioning throughout, shutters, very green and secluded area euro 1100 p/m o.N.O 3. EMBA, 2 bedroom apartment, 2 bathroom, modern furnished, air conditioned throughout, communal swimming pool, covered parking, close to all amenities, euro 330 p/m 4. CHLORAKA, 3 bedroom furnished villa with pool, amazing views, master ensuite, in cul-de-sac, fully airconditioned with fireplace, euro 700 p/m PLEASE CALL : 99 387842 *****************************

CHLORAKAS, 2 bedroom apartment, fully furnished, large veranda, very quiet location, communal pool, Euro 280 – o.n.o Please call: 99699019 /26910140 *****************************

A DELIGHTFUL AND SPACIOUS 1 bedroom apartment, F/F, top floor, new, located at a peaceful location just 500 from St. George hotel in Chloraka.

A+ quality apt. Within walking distance to amenities, part of a beautiful building with swimming pool, list and other amenities. Only €250p/m Other apts also available near Carrefour in the Centre of Paphos. Call 99403261, 26934650 *****************************

PAPHOS RENTALS SECTION TREMITHOUSA Very sought after location, Modern 2 Bedroom, F/F, Town House, Lovely Communal Pool, Sea views, Early viewing highly recommended, 400 Euros PAPHOS - Very large 3 Bed-

TO LET PAPHOS room Apt , Fully Furnished to a very high standard ,Would suit 3 Professionals sharing, Within close proximity to Hospital and Court, Central Heating, 2 Bathrooms, Laundry, 350 Euros.

TALA - Luxurious 4 Bedroom, F/F to a very high standard, 2 bathrooms, 2 en-suite, Swimming Pool, Landscaped Garden and Spectacular Views, 700 Euros.

EMPA - Immaculate, Spacious 2 Bedroom, U/F, House, Large kitchen, Patio, Quiet location, Must be seen, 300 Euros WANTED - 2 bedroom furnished properties MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 99862922 *****************************

FLOWRON PROPERTY RENTALS, YOUR NUMBER ONE CHOICE FOR RENTAL PROPERTIES. LOOKING FOR A RELIABLE AND EFFICIENT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT COMPANY, CALL THE EXPERTS TODAY!!

TIMI 3 bed modern villa with wood burner, Ac, offered fully furnished. Spacious living areas with 2 sitting areas, big kitchen,3 upstairs bedrooms, master on suite shower, family bathroom, Small private pool, off street parking.

Quite location not far from the village amenities. Paphos Town. Ref: 722 price €600 KISSONERGRA A bed luxury villa on its own private grounds, with fantastic views of the sea, private pool, Modem Furnishings, quality appliances, downstairs bedroom, large kitchen, upstairs bedroom with en suite, family bathroom. Ref 0000 Price €950 ANARITA A 3 bed villa offered furnished , with private pool, in nice quiet cul-de-sac, off street parking, AC. quality kitchen, 3 bedrooms upstairs. Ref 855 price €600 PEGEIA A superb character 4 bedroom villa, with beams, fire place, central heating. Italian kitchen,

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sitting and dining areas, 3 good size bedroom, with downstairs bedroom with en suite. Outside mature gardens, private pool, fantastic views, peaceful location. Ref: 765 Price €900 Mandria A modern unfurnished 4 bed Villa with private pool. Downstairs bedroom with shower, sitting room with log burner, 3 bedrooms upstairs, master bed with en suite shower room. Property has private fence and pets are welcome. Ref 1174 price €700 YEROSKIPOU 2 bed furnished apartment with communal pool, gym, under cover parking on modern new complex Apartment is furnished, with bathroom, modern kitchen and blinds + AC Ref: 1164 price €350 ARMOU A 3 bedroom fully furnished bungalow with private pool. Nice clean modern property with log burner, 3 good size bedrooms, master en suite, large family bathroom, garage, fantastic views of the sea. Ref 854 Price €750 MANDRIA Modern 2 bedroom apartment, offered furnished. Property is modern and has a large out-

side veranda, great views, large communal pool. Not far from all local amenities.

Ref: 882 Price €400 Please call for a free viewing on Office 26600450 Mobile: 97614070 many more properties on our website at www.flowron. com - www.paphospropertycyprus.com LANDLORDS IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT, PLEASE CALL US!!!!!!

Your Vision is our Mission

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 shopping areas. Large open plan living area and dining area.. Fully fitted dining/kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. Utilty room. 3 double bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Balcony & and parking. €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. Din-

ing 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

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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

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS & 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

TO LET PAPHOS large breakfast fitted kitchen. Doors out to garden and pool. Separate guest WC. Stairs to 3 double bedrooms. Master bedroom very large with en-suite shower. Family bathroom.

Private pool, gardens, shutters. €550.00 per month or close offers only.

U SEFUL PHONE NUMBERS POLICE DIVISION HQ

HOSPITALS ........ 1400

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

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

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

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

TO LET PAPHOS 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. OVNO FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/OWNERS PLEASE CALL. PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol.

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FOR SALE NICOSIA ******************************

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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 bdrm flat with title deeds, 110 sq.m., fully renovated, best central area, 800m from the European University, excellent view, €99.000.

Tel. 99621914.

FOR SALE Well-kept detached bungalow on the edge of Pano Kivides. Quiet location with open view. Kitchen/diner 5.55m x 3.75 Separate lounge of similar size. Two bedrooms, with A/C, fitted wardrobes.

Good size bathroom. Mains drainage. Entrance hall, used as an office. Gas CH. All new double glazed windows. Conservatory 7.26m x 2.46m. Outside, plot in excess of 700 sq. m.. Large covered area including brick built workshop 5.3m x 4.8m . Hot tub. Car port, TITLE DEEDS. Euros 198000. Private sale. No agents. No VAT. Why pay for a building site with no services when you could move into a comfortable home, with no hassle, but lots of potential, for less?

Tel. 99995906 or 99995992.

FOR SALE PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fireplace, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596. ******************************

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PROPERTY SALE BLOCK BUY INVESTMENT - House (detached) 3-Bed, 2 Bath, on ½ plot, Koloni, Paphos in cul-de-sac. Near amenities, highway and airport. 5 min from sea.

- Two Traditional stone village houses, large common courtyard in picturesque village of Lysos, Paphos. 10min from Latchi.

- 5017m2 Land with 10% building rights, in Lysos village on main road to Stavro Tis Psokas.

- 8362m2 Land with 10% building rights in Lysos village on boarder of housing zone which is to be extended.

QUICK SALE FOR SERIOUS OFFERS EURO 800,000 Tel : 99452241/99848757 ******************************

UNIVERSAL AREA, 3 bedroom detached villa, cov-

FOR SALE PAPHOS ered area 122 sqm, master bedroom en-suite, air conditioned throughout, all white goods, solar panels, garden irrigation, plot size 273 sqm, communal pool, euro 165.000 o.v.n.o.

– title deeds available Call : 99682644- no agents 1. PAPHOS, FLATS FOR SALE OR RENT: Kissonerga, 3 bdrm flat with title deeds, in a block of 4 flats only, fully renovated, 2 baths, 146 sq.m closed area, c/h, a/c, covered parking, excelent view of sea and mountains, half registration fees titll 31.12.12 reduced to €135.000 or rent €450 per month. Tel. 99621914.

FOR SALE special offer, €79, 000 first floor apartment in Protaras, fully furnished with 2 bedrooms and a swimming pool. Walking distance to the beach of Ayia Triada and all amenities. Tel: 97 608941.

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

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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.

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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Television CYBC 1 06.45 08.15

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

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Kaftes Piperies (rpt) Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) Apo Mera Se Mera

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Entehnos Mazi Sto CyBC Local talk-show.

18.00 18.15

News Kaftes Piperies Live cookery show.

18.45

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

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Me Agapi Deligianneio Parthenagogeio (rpt) Englimata (rpt) Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) FTHIS Panselinos (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi (rpt) Niose Me (rpt) News Mera Mesimeri Vals Me 12 Theous (rpt) Oneiropagida (rpt) Tha Vreis To Daskalo Sou (rpt) Tihi Vouno (rpt) Ekeino To Kalokairi Aiyia Fuxia (rpt)

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Europa League Motor Sports Criminal Minds

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Niose Me News Vals Me 12 Theous Ekeino To Kalokairi Eilikrina News Sports News Ola Bahalo Fetos Synora Agapis Tmima Ithon (rpt) News To Kafeneio (rpt) Deal (rpt)

I Dipsa (rpt) Emeis Ki Emeis (rpt) Diktitheite Kai Exelihtheite Koinonia Ora Mega Nea Mera Proino Mou Enimerosi Tora Kelmmena Oneira (rpt) Eheis Meson Local investigative show.

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Yia Sena

SIGMA 06.10 07.00 08.20 10.00 11.10 12.00 14.20 15.20 18.00 18.05 18.30 19.30

Local talk-show.

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News Eisai To Tairi Mou (rpt) Greek comedy series.

19.20

With News at 18.00.

Fifth season. ‘A Rite of Passage’. The BAU team heads to Texas to track a serial killer targeting illegal immigrants who are trying to cross the border into America. The detectives struggle to find a connection between the deaths and the local drug trade, until JJ sends them in the right direction.

Local Sketch (rpt) Proektasis

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Post-game analysis.

Topical local programme.

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Biz/Emeis News In English New In Turkish Candid Camera Europa League Live coverage of AEL vs Olympique de Marseille.

Local satirical show, using comedy sketches and embarrassing TV clips to skewer local politicians.

22.00 22.30

Great Goals of the UEFA EURO (rpt) Kati Psinetai (rpt)

Pre-game analysis.

20.00

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

06.50 07.00

Greek version of the show where contestants try to outdo each other by throwing the perfect dinner party, which is then judged on its merits by their rivals.

Local cultrual programme.

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NRG Zone Kids’ TV Shown till 12.30, then repeated till midafternoon.

Current affairs programme.

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ANTENNA

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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 New season of Greek drama series.

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Porta Kleidomeni Local drama series.

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FILM: TBA News I Apli Methodos Ton Trion

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Yia Sena (rpt) Charlie’s Angels Proino Mou (rpt) 02.00 03.00 04.40

Europa League Highlights from matches played tonight.

News CSI: Crime Scene Investigation 24

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Epistrofi (rpt) Mila Mou (rpt) Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

Star News 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 Showbiz news and gossip show.

15.30 17.15 17.50 19.40

Kids’ TV Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 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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Ground-breaking realtime drama series, starring Kiefer Sutherland as a government agent out to stop terrorists wreaking havoc across America.

Greek drama series.

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The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) Protoselido Eleni Vasiliki (rpt) 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites (rpt) Mesimeri Kai Kati Aspra Balonia (rpt) Magazino News Ti Tha Fame Simera Mama The Del Monte Heirs 7 Ouranoi kai Synnefa Alites News Aspra Balonia (rpt) Pame Paketo

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Exelixeis Stin Showbiz FILM: Addicted To Love Two bitter, jilted lovers join forces to exact a suitable revenge on their former partners who are now playing the happy couple.

Romantic comedy, with Meg Ryan and Matthew Broderick.

1997.

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LTV Sports News Star News Repeats

CAPITAL 06.45 08.10 08.45 09.25 10.00

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Kids’ TV Magikos Kosmos S’Agapo (rpt) Akti Oneiron Ston Asterismos Tis Imeras Kouzina Me Apopsi Epi Topou (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: Storm Catcher

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A fighter pilot’s daughter is kidnapped and he is forced to help conspirators plotting to bomb Washington with an experimental aircraft. Action thriller, starring Dolph Lundgren. 1999.

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FILM: Last Dance An idealistic lawyer sets about trying to save a reformed murderess from death row by presenting new evidence to the state governor. Drama, starring Sharon Stone.

1996.

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FILM: Das Boot WW I drama, starring Jürgen Prochnow.

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02:05 Casualty 02:55 The Weakest Link 03:40 EastEnders 04:10 Doctors 05:40 Alan Carr: Chatty Man 05:25 Single Father 06:15 The Weakest Link 07:00 Tellytales 07:10 Boogie Beebies 07:25 Teletubbies 07:50 Balamory 08:10 Tellytales 08:20 Boogie Beebies 08:35 Teletubbies 09:00 Balamory 09:20 Garth And Bev 09:30 Buzz & Tell 09:35 My Family 10:05 One Foot In The Grave 10:35 The Weakest Link 11:20 EastEnders 11:50 Doctors 12:20 Casualty 13:10 Born And Bred 14:00 The Royle Family 14:30 My Family 15:00 The Weakest Link 15:45 EastEnders 16:15 Doctors 16:45 Casualty 17:35 Born And Bred 18:25 The Weakest Link 19:10 EastEnders 19:40 Doctors 20:10 Hustle 21:00 Keeping Up Appearances 21:30 The Royle Family 22:00 The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister 23:30 Blackadder The Third 24:00 Gavin & Stacey 24:30 Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps

07:00 How It’s Made ; 07:25 Wheeler Dealers 08:15 American Chopper 09:10 Dirty Jobs 10:05 Deadliest Catch 10:55

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09:30 Snooker: Uk Championship Canada 10:30 All Sports: Watts 11:30 Tennis: Mats Point 12:00 Snooker: Uk Championship Canada 12:45 All Sports: Watts 13:30 Snooker: Uk Championship Canada 14:30 Snooker: Uk Championship Canada 18:30 Tennis: Mats Point 19:00 All Sports: Watts 20:00 Snooker: Uk Championship Canada 00:00 Poker: European Poker Tour – 01:05 Snooker: Uk Championship

05:40 Private Practice 06:25 Castle 07:10 Modern Family 07:35 Happy Endings 08:00 The Gates 08:50 Masterchef 09:40 Off The Map 10:25 Castle 11:10 Modern Family 11:35 Happy Endings 12:00 Scandal 12:50 The Listener 13:40 The Gates 14:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 15:20 Off The Map 16:05 Castle 16:50 Modern Family 17:15 Happy Endings 17:40 The Gates 18:30 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations 19:20 Off The Map 20:10 Castle 21:00 Scandal 21:50 The Listener 22:40 Modern Family 23:05 Happy Endings 23:30 Scandal 00:20 The Listener 01:10 Castle 02:00 Off The Map 02:45 Modern Family 03:10 Happy Endings 03:35 Rita Rocks 04:00 The Gates 04:50 Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations

07:00 Pawn Stars 07:30 Storage Wars 08:00 American Pickers 09:00 American Restoration 09:30 Storage Wars 10:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 Storage Wars 11:00 Ancient Aliens 12:00 Swamp

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07:30 Videofashion 08:00 Jennifer’s Body 09:45 Art Of Travel 11:30 Special 13:00 City Heat 14:40 Centurion 16:20 Election 18:05 Red 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Practical Magic 23:00 Feast Of Love 00:45 Hustler TV 03:15 Frequently Asked Questions About Time Travel 04:45 Chain Reaction 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Chowder 07:25 The Marvelous Misadventures Of

Flapjack 07:50 The Tom & Jerry Show 08:15 Shaggy & ScoobyDoo Get A Clue! 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 The Looney Tunes Show 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 The X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 The Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get A Clue!

15:45 Justice League Unlimited 16:10 Legion Of Super Heroes 16:35 Young Justice 17:00 A’ Division Cyprus Soccer Championship 2012-13 19:00 Barclays Premier League Review 20:00 2011 World’s Strongest Man 20:30 La Liga World 21:00 Barclays Premier League World 21:30 La Liga Show 2012-13 22:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13 00:00 Planet Speed 00:30 ATP World Tour Uncovered 01:00 Liga Bbva 2012-13 03:00 Barclays Premier League 2012-13

07:15 According To Jim 08:00 How To Make T N America 08:30 Pan Am 10:15 Gossip Girl 11:05 Ncis: Los Angeles 12:50 Strike Back 13:40 According

To Jim 14:30 Pan Am 16:05 2 Broke Girls 16:30 Chuck 17:15 Supernatural 18:55 Strike Back 19:45 Aliens N America 20:05 Two And A Half Men X 20:30 Eastbound & Down 21:00 The Closer 22:00 Harry’s Law 22:45 True Blood 23:45 Tell Me You Love Me 00:45 Diamonds 03:45 2 Broke Girls 04:10 Chuck 04:55 Supernatural 06:25 Strike Back

07:00 Year Without A Santa Claus, The 08:30 Sin Nombre 10:15 Klute 12:15 Invisible Sign, An 14:00 Funny Bones 16:30 L’ Etoile Du Soldat 18:15 Dennis The Menace 20:00 Road, The 22:00 Bitch Slap 00:05 Daring!

Tv 03:30 Jackie Chan’s First Strike 05:00 Wedding Singer, The 06:45 Nick Of Time

06:05 Monsters 07:40 The Ides Of March 09:20 The Smurfs 11:05 Cine News 11:45 Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost 13:20 The Romantics 15:00 «Love Stories» Last Night 16:40 My Future Boyfriend 18:05 Le Divorce 20:05 In Time 22:00 Dirty Girl 23:40 O Annivas Pro Ton Pylon 01:30 Cine News 02:00 Underworld: Awakening 03:30 Shark Night

06:35 Alfie 1966 08:30 Cine News 09:15 One Day 11:05 Twins 12:55 Cine News 13:30 The Muppets 15:15 Mrs. Doubtfire 17:25 Hollywood 1 On 1 18:00 Margin Call 19:55 Extreme Measures 00:05 The Talented Mr. Ripley 04:25 Shanghai

19:30 Phone Booth 21:00 Stolen Lives 22:40 Cine News 23:00 The Newsroom 00:10 C.S.I. 01:00 Adult Zone

18:45 I Ipografi 22:40 Lily Sometimes 00:35 Patch Adams

07:00Woman Of The Year 08:50 Gone With the Wind 12:25 Where the Spies Are 14:15 Gaby 15:50 The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex 17:35 The Shoes of the Fisherman 20:05 V:I:P:S, The 22:00 The Outrage 23:35 Shaft in Africa 01:15 Coma 03:10 Logan’s Run 05:05 San Francisco

By Preston Wilder

The Road (LTV3, 20.00) How to describe this doom-laden apocalyptic drama, based on a much-acclaimed novel? Call it a zombie movie without any zombies, because it’s got the same desolate tone and the feeling of danger around every corner - but the dangers are human rather than undead, lawless (and cannibalistic) bands of desperate men stalking the ravaged landscape, preying on survivors. Among the (few) survivors are Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee, a man and his young son heading to the mythical South with a shopping cart full of scavenged food - and both actors give superb performances, though using the child as the film’s conscience (“Are we still the good

The Road

guys?”) is a bit banal. The ending is also disappointing - maybe it worked better in the book - but the film remains quite powerful, full of haunting images and a sense of beleaguered Humanity slowly losing its humanity: “Other families are doing it...” Made in 2009.

Dirty Girl (Novacinema1, 22.00) Juno Temple (sassy, 21, British-born) specialises in sultry teenage nymphets; she was great in Kaboom and even better in Killer Joe - but she’s still a dirty girl and “nobody likes a dirty girl”, at least that’s the opinion of a high-school principal in Norman, Oklahoma. That’s the small God-fearing town where Danielle (Juno) is scandalising everyone with her slutty nymphet ways

(the time is the late 1980s) - at least till she hooks up with Clarke (Jeremy Dozier), an overweight loser who’s secretly gay but also (more importantly) agrees to steal his daddy’s car and run away with her to California where she hopes to track down her biological father. “All I can say is that this movie is for those with a high IQ!” reckons a fan at the Internet Movie Database - but it sounds more like a movie for those with a high tolerance for sub-sitcom cuteness, whether it’s the trendy pro-misfit Message, cartoonish picture of Bible Belt conservatives (“The only safe sex is no sex!”), road-trip bonding, kitschy 80s ambience or steady stream of 80s tunes on the soundtrack. Because dirty girls like cheesy pop music too. Made in 2010.

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Hefner to marry his ‘runaway bride’

By Jill Serjeant PLAYBOY founder Hugh Hefner is headed to the altar again - with the blonde Playmate who ditched him five days before their planned wedding in 2011.

Hefner, 86, and his former ‘runaway bride’ Crystal Harris, 26, obtained a marriage licence in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, Los Angeles County Recorder spokeswoman Elizabeth Knox said.

Celebrity website TMZ.com said the

couple, who reunited earlier this year, are planning a New Year’s Eve wedding.

Harris was Playboy magazine’s Miss December 2009 and appeared on the July 2011 cover of the adult magazine with a ‘runaway bride’ sticker covering her bottom half.

In what was described at the time only as a “change of heart,” Harris dumped the magazine mogul and left his Playboy Mansion five days before a lavish June 2011 wedding before 300 guests.

This time around, the couple are playing it low-key, staying mum on their busy Twitter accounts with Hefner’s spokeswoman declining to confirm or deny their plans.

Hefner, founder of the Playboy adult entertainment empire, has been married twice before. He and his second wife Kimberley Conrad, also a former Playmate, divorced in 2010 after a lengthy separation. His first marriage to Mildred Williams ended in divorce in 1959. He has two children from each marriage

Crystal Harris dumped Hugh Hefner five days before a lavish June 2011 wedding

Bond’s Skyfall breaks UK box office record

By Mike Collett-White

An Unexpected Journey is the first of three cinematic instalments from Oscar-winning director Peter Jackson of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit

SKYFALL, the 23rd official James Bond movie, has become the most successful film in British box office history, earning £94.3 million ($152 million), its producers said yesterday.

The tally, earned over 40 days, surpasses the previous record of £94.0 million set by 2009 3D adventure film Avatar over its 11 month run in UK cinemas, although the figures do not take inflation into account.

Skyfall, which has been well received by critics, stars Daniel Craig in his third outing as 007, and is directed by Sam Mendes.

In it Bond and British spymaster M, played by Judi Dench, are pitted against technological wizard Silva (Javier Bardem) who is bent on revenge.

“We are very proud of this film and thank everybody, especially Daniel Craig and Sam Mendes, who have contributed to its success,” said co-producers Michael G. Wilson and Barbara Broccoli in a statement.

Globally, Skyfall has some way to go to match Avatar. It has earned $870 million in ticket sales around the world, according to movie tracking site Boxofficemojo.com, compared with Avatar’s record $2.8 billion.

According to the same website, Avatar’s adjusted box office total comes in at 14th in cinema history, with the 1939 classic Gone With the Wind in pole position.

The Hobbit disappoints critics in early reviews Three-hour plus film slammed as too long, while audiences complain over ‘hyper-realistic’ 3D

By Piya Sinha-Roy THE long-awaited film The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey got a mixed response in early reviews this week, with some critics deeming it dull and overdetailed, and others disappointed by its new take on 3D technology.

An Unexpected Journey, the first of three cinematic instalments from Oscarwinning director Peter Jackson of J.R.R. Tolkien’s fantasy novel The Hobbit, took more than a decade to bring to fruition.

An Unexpected Journey, which will open around the world next week, is estimated to rake in a bumper $137 million (£85 million) in its opening weekend in North America. Jackson turned his Lord of the Rings trilogy from 2001-2003 into a $3 billion box-office hit worldwide.

But with a running time of three hours and nine minutes, the first Hobbit movie was overly long for some critics’ tastes, according to early reviews.

TheWrap.com’s Leah Rozen said that although fans of the books will “doubtless love this movie,” the film is “ambitiously epic and visually inventive, but it’s neither as engrossing nor exhilarating as the first time around with Rings.”

Variety’s Peter DeBruge criticised Jackson for adding a “mythologically dense, computer-generated-heavy prologue” that was devised outside of Tolkien’s original narrative.

“For the sake of spectacle, this unnecessary pre-title sequence recalls set pieces from the second and third Lord of the Rings movies, as if to assure fans they can expect more of the same,” DeBruge said.

Todd McCarthy of The Hol-

lywood Reporter said the film-makers “have created a purist’s delight” by translating “every comma, period and semicolon in the first six chapters” of the book.

The film follows the epic fantastical journey of hobbit Bilbo Baggins, played by Martin Freeman, as he travels with a band of dwarves to steal treasures from the dragon Smaug.

The film also stars Richard Armitage and Benedict Cumberbatch, while Ian McKellen, Cate Blanchett and Elijah Wood reprised their Rings roles.

Reporter Neala Johnson of Australia’s The Herald Sun said British actor Freeman, best known for his roles in TV shows The Office and Sherlock, is “the perfect Bilbo - equal parts wide-eyed wonder, fearful, bumbling and dry humour.”

ScreenCrush’s Jordan Hoffman said Freeman played Bilbo “charmingly

and effectively.”

Jackson chose to shoot the 3D film using the 48 frames-per-second format as opposed to the normal technique of 24 frames per second.

But the New Zealand Herald reported on Monday that fans attending advance screenings claimed they felt nauseous and dizzy from the higher frame rate.

Rozen said the film’s look was “so hyper-realistic that it is both jarring and, ironically, serves to make scenes look fake.”

DeBruge said 3D effects caused “odd, eye-boggling moments,” and the higher frame rate led to “an overblown, artificial quality in which the phoniness of the sets and costumes becomes obvious.”

The Hobbit, produced by MGM and Time Warner Inc, will be released as three films, with the final instalment arriving in July 2014.

Daniel Craig (left) is in his third outing as spy 007

Pedro Almodovar to receive US Academy film tribute OSCAR-WINNING Spanish director Pedro Almodovar is set to be feted with a retrospective of his work by the US Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in London, the Academy said this week.

The December 13 tribute will feature the director in conversation with British director Stephen Frears, British playwright Peter Morgan and French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier.

Other participants include Almodovar’s brother and producer Agustin Almodovar, Spanish film composer Alberto Iglesias and British director Sally Potter.

Parts of Almodovar’s films will be shown, the Academy said in a statement.

Almodovar, 63, is known as a significant director in Spain’s cultural transition after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975.

Almodovar burst onto the international scene with his 1988 Oscar-nominated film Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. He won a best foreign language Oscar for his 1999 film All About My Mother and best original screenplay for 2002’s Talk to Her. The director is known for his portrayal of human emotions and strong female characters.

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tember, produced a jaunty rhythm (4) 19 Shake, but it remains firm (4) 20 Turns and leaves (4)

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 & 8 Road works ahead; 9 Épée; 10 Smoulder; 12 Reply; 13 Bye; 16 Usance; 17 Letter; 18 Toy; 21 Minim; 22 Belittle; 24 Ulna; 25 Non-aligned; 26 Ever. Down – 2 & 22 down On pleasure bent; 3 Dwelling; 4 Skimpy; 5 Vague; 6 Herd; 7 Oder; 11 Experience; 13 Bet; 14 Ely; 15 Attitude; 19 Oblige; 20 Still; 22 See 2 down; 23 Line.

QUICK: Across – 1 Bass; 8 Commission; 9 Pier; 10 Ordnance; 12 Unity; 13 Sly; 16 Stanza; 17 Exhort; 18 Din; 21 Forgo; 22 Anecdote; 24 Toot; 25 Beneficial; 26 East. Down – 2 Alienation; 3 Scrutiny; 4 Amoral; 5 Using; 6 Kiln; 7 Knee; 11 Courageous; 13 Sad; 14 Yen; 15 Throttle; 19 Intact; 20 Edify; 22 Abbé; 23 Etna.

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5 Swimming bird (4) 7 Bubble up (10) 8 Plan of action (8) 10 Lounge about (4) 11 Among (4) 13 Fondness (8) 15 Hint (8) 16 Unable to hear (4) 17 Practise crystalgazing (4) 18 Bedspread (8) 21 Ghost (10) 22 Sketch (4)

1 Curved glass (4) 2 Stitched (4) 3 Daunted (8) 4 Norwegian capital (4) 5 Dwindled (8) 6 Miserly person (10) 9 Mercantile (10) 12 Milk industry employee (8) 14 Antbear (8) 18 ---- of Good Hope (4) 19 Roster (4) 20 Hue (4)

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ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Matters associated with your career and current job may be set in motion today. While you won’t exactly be having fun, you may make steady progress. There may be whispers in the pipeline of positive changes, but you’ll need to prove your mettle. You may be keen on study or travel.

Anything that takes you out of your comfort zone is good.

There may be a tendency for arguments at home, perhaps based on someone’s desire to rule the roost. In your own case, work at not letting your ego get in the way of harmony and tranquillity. You may need to remind yourself that others have views too. Romantic possibilities look good though - especially if you obey the temptation to go out and play.

Whether shopping for gifts or other items, spending is the name of the game today. You’ll be looking for bargains and plenty of special offers. At the same time, spending on home improvements could be a good investment, especially with the party season here. Later, you may need a chance to chill for a while. A good movie can appeal.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The romantic planets seem excitable, so don’t rock the boat in a special partnership. Be willing to listen to what your sweetheart has to say. Try to settle on a compromise.

Meanwhile, the Moon in Virgo encourages your creative streak. You might be interested in crafts or other skilful ways of passing time, or donate items to charity or sell for extra cash.

A relationship concern may hold your attention, perhaps creating some anxious feelings. Maybe you are approaching this from a logical point of view rather than listening to your heart. It may be hard to make practical decisions, especially if you’re on edge. Try to be flexible, as by doing so, you may add an element of excitement to the day.

If you have a lot of work to do, you’ll be in your element and could be pleased with all you accomplish. Don’t give in to someone who is trying to be awkward though.

A sunny smile can help to soothe any ruffled feathers. A social trend continues, except that you may want to slow things down a little. Be choosy about accepting invitations today.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Accept that work project if offered it, as your creative input could be appreciated. Despite certain people seeming highly emotional, everything may turn out better than expected in the end. Friends may find you witty, upbeat and delightful tonight - so get out and strut your stuff. An interesting meeting encourages an absorbing conversation.

You may look to boost your income. Discuss money issues with your partner. Paying bills, purchasing presents and festive fare may be on your mind right now. You may be busy budgeting in order to cope with extra financial demands. However, one thing is for sure, romance doesn’t have to cost much. If you like someone, be creative in your approach.

Emotions may come bubbling to the surface, especially in association with career goals. It may be hard to contain yourself at times. However, it may be a good idea to curb frustration or impatience for best results. Socially it seems that networking could get you places. Your ever increasing popularity may bring benefits and help you get ahead.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Take time before making a work-related decision, as a piece of news from out of the blue might need assimilating. Last night’s easy flow of communication could be missing today. Try not to believe everything that people tell you, as their motives may be suspect. The evening holds great potential. Being with a special partner may make your day.

The Moon boosts your popularity which makes this a great time to move in new circles, join that club you have been thinking about, or generally mix and mingle with friends.

Putting yourself out there may improve your chances of romance. Meanwhile, a talent that you’ve not used for some time may be resurrected and could come in very handy.

Today may be active, especially from a social point of view. It’s a great opportunity to deepen a connection with friends and colleagues. It might help to spend time in quiet meditation earlier today. You can then more easily access those inner forces, including your own sixth sense. This may see you make a bold decision or move today.

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Sport Anderson leads from the front as England prosper in India Swing bowler claims three wickets in third Test

By David Clough JAMES Anderson was rewarded for his highly-skilled swing bowling with three wickets yesterday, including the prize scalp of Sachin Tendulkar, for the eighth time.

Anderson was the lynchpin of a disciplined and resourceful England attack which thoroughly earned an advantageous position as India closed day one of the third Test on 273 for seven at Eden Gardens.

Tendulkar (76) and Gautam Gambhir (60) ensured the hosts remain competitive, but neither could convert from 50 to 100.

Anderson and Steven Finn got through 41 overs between them, statistical evidence of the fact pace as well as spin is an important weapon in this match.

Specifically, reverse-swing was the method which served Anderson best - although he bowled effectively when the ball was new as well as old.

He acknowledged afterwards that some of the tricks of his trade were learned from India’s Zaheer Khan,

James Anderson (right) celebrates taking the wicket of the iconic Sachin Tendulkar for the eighth time in Kolkata another example of England playing their hosts at their own game here - as they did in Mumbai last week, where their spinners outbowled the opposition.

Anderson (three for 68) also reflected, modestly, on his happy habit of dismissing Tendulkar.

He shares the distinction,

of seeing off the Little Master eight times, with the great Muttiah Muralitharan - but wisely did not go along with a mischievous suggestion that Tendulkar is his ‘bunny’.

“I wouldn’t say that,” he said. “It’s a nice thing to have, and I’ll probably think more about it in years to come when I’ve retired and

tell everyone that has happened.”

More important to Anderson and England, in the thick of a series level at 1-1 with two to play, was that Tendulkar was beginning to look especially dangerous just before he was out.

“It was a crucial wicket for us, and I was delighted to get

him out because it looked like he was set,” said Anderson.

“He looked a bit scratchy early on but I was really pleased to get him out when I did.

“He’s such a class player that, when he gets in like that, he can go on and get a big hundred.”

Dettori vows to rebuild reputation

The three-time British champion jockey has been banned for six months for failing a drugs test

FRANKIE Dettori yesterday pledged to “rebuild his reputation” after he has served a six-month ban for taking a prohibited substance when riding in France.

The three-time British champion jockey, 41, tested positive for what is believed to be cocaine following a routine examination at Longchamp on September 16.

Dettori’s suspension, from French racing authority France Galop, runs from November 20 to May 19 and is likely to be reciprocated by racing jurisdictions worldwide, including by the British Horseracing Authority.

In a statement to the Press Association, his solicitor Christopher Stewart-Moore said: “France Galop have today announced their finding Frankie Dettori has committed a breach of their rules relating to prohibited substances.

“I have spoken to Frankie since the announcement was

made and he has told me he fully accepts France Galop’s decision.

“He also accepts that he has let down the sport he loves and all those associated with it, as well as the wider public.

“But most of all, and this is his greatest regret, he has let down his wife and children.”

The Italian-born rider will back in time to feature in the Derby and the Oaks at Epsom - and at Royal Ascot in June.

Dettori, who will be 42 on December 15, had four rides at the Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe trials meeting, after which the sample was returned.

The case was then put before an independent medical commission in Paris on November 20, where Dettori spoke via conference call, but it was announced a day later that he was temporarily suspended from competing in France on medical grounds.

The file was passed on to a disciplinary panel of the stewards at France-Galop, which was held this Tuesday, and Stewart-Moore said his client had received “a sympathetic hearing”.

Stewart-Moore said: “He is enormously grateful for the opportunities that he has been given by owners and trainers over the years, and for the support of his many fans.

“Racing has been good to Frankie and he knows that his privileged position brings with it responsibility.

“For this reason he is determined to rebuild his reputation when he returns to the saddle.

“Frankie could make excuses. He has, after all, regularly been tested for prohibited substances throughout his career.

“He is clear, however, that the responsibility for his current situation lies squarely with him.”

IN BRIEF Keravnos eliminated in Europe JERALD Fields scored 19 points and Jermaine Flowers added 16 to help Joensuun Kataja beat Keravnos Strovolos 71-66 in the fifth round of the FIBA EuroChallenge Group B on Tuesday night at the Joensuu Arena in Finland.

After winning the first match between the sides by an identical five-point margin 72-67 three weeks ago in Nicosia, Keravnos needed any win or a defeat with four points or less in order to qualify for the next stage of the competition.

Keravnos were agonisingly close when Lawrence Kinnard’s dunk put them ahead 66-62 with just over two minutes remaining.

However, those proved to be their final points of the game as the hosts rallied with a 9-0 run to close down the encounter, but they also fell short as they needed to win by six points or more to qualify themselves.

Bobby Maze led Keravnos and all scorers with 25 points, while Andre Owens chipped in with 13.

Elsewhere in the EuroChallenge, ETHA suffered an embarrassing 87-54 defeat to Turkish outfit Tofas away from home in Group A, while in Group G, Tsmoki-Minsk of Belarus beat Apollon in Limassol 81-72.

F1 set for 20 races in 2013 FORMULA One could have 20 races again next season after the sport’s governing body said yesterday it had pencilled in an unspecified European race to make up for a postponed grand prix in New Jersey.

The International Automobile Federation (FIA) said that the German Grand Prix has been moved from July 14 to July 7 with July 21 now “reserved for another F1 European event” subject to approval of national bodies.

That date would be backto-back with Hungary on July 28 while Germany would follow on immediately from the British Grand Prix at Silverstone on June 30, according to the previous provisional calendar.

Istanbul, where the FIA is currently meeting, would be one likely option with renewed talk in recent days of the Turkish Grand Prix making a return to the calendar after being dropped this year.

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FIFA launch goal-line revolution Technology to be used at the Club World Cup

By Nemanja Bjedov

By Alastair Himmer PROMPTED into action by England midfielder’s Frank Lampard’s disallowed goal against Germany at the 2010 World Cup, FIFA will use goal-line technology for the first time in Japan this week.

The technology will be employed in today’s Club World Cup curtain raiser between Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Auckland City as football’s’s governing body finally answers calls for it to join the 21st century.

Hawk-eye, widely used in cricket and tennis, and GoalRef, which uses a microchip in the ball and low magnetic waves around the goal, will be used at venues in Toyota and Yokohama.

“The important thing is for the technologies to perform as well as possible and there are no mistakes,” HawkEye’s managing director Steve Carter told Reuters.

“Obviously the worst scenario you can have is if the technology isn’t that accurate is the TV broadcast cameras proving that the answer’s wrong.”

With European champions Chelsea, whose players have been at the centre of several goal-line controversies in recent years, competing in Japan, the science is set for even closer scrutiny.

“Hawk-Eye has seven cameras per goalmouth,” said Carter. “You’re talking millimetre level and that’s abso-

Absolute howler: Frank Lampard’s clear goal against Germany at the 2010 World Cup was not seen by the officials lutely essential for football.”

Carter referred to John Terry’s goal-line clearance in England’s 1-0 win over Ukraine at Euro 2012 as an example of the precision required to get decisions right.

“If you look at the John Terry incident, we measured it using the TV footage, the ball was actually 25 millimetres over the line,” he said.

“That is well within the accuracy of our system - two, three, four millimetres of accuracy in that scenario.

Football needs that level.”

FIFA had resisted pressure for technology, successfully used in other sports including cricket, tennis, rugby and American Football, for years.

But Lampard’s goal for England against Germany

in South Africa, not seen by either the referee or linesman, prompted FIFA to finally turn to science.

“What happened at the World Cup in 2010 cannot happen again,” FIFA general secretary Jerome Valcke told reporters.

“The World Cup is the biggest sporting event in the world. The ball was not two centimetres in the goal - it was clearly in.

“Millions of people see that and wonder how the referee didn’t see it. That’s the decision we made after the 2010 World Cup.” Hawk-Eye and GoalRef are front-runners for next year’s Confederations Cup in Brazil, although FIFA have kept the door open for other competing companies.

“It is expensive but over

time technology gets cheaper,” said Valcke, adding that FIFA had invested $2 million to date on development and installation at stadiums in Japan.

“The more market competition there is the cheaper it will get. It has to be available for all but at the same time it has to be accurate.

We can’t afford mistakes.”

After analysing data taken from the Club World Cup, FIFA will choose which system to implement for the six Confederations Cup venues by the end of March.

Those chosen will remain in place for the 2014 World Cup, although the six other venues could potentially end up with a different system.

“Obviously the Confederations Cup is going to be a competitive tender proc-

ess,” said Carter.

Both the Hawk-Eye and GoalRef systems inform referees the ball has crossed the goal-line in a split second via a vibrating wrist-watch flashing the word “GOAL”.

GoalRef were equally confident of persuading FIFA their radio-based system using low-frequency magnetic fields would be the most accurate.

“We wouldn’t be doing this if we weren’t confident we were going to proceed further beyond this tournament,” said programme manager Ingmar Bretz.

Whichever system FIFA chooses, the likes of Chelsea, eliminated from the 2004-05 Champions League

by Luis Garcia’s ‘ghost’ goal, will have one less reason to blame the referee.

Not so incredible Hulk may quit Zenit after Spalletti spat

By Gennady Fyodorov ZENIT St Petersburg’s record signing Hulk has threatened to quit the Russian club following a heated exchange with coach Luciano Spalletti during Tuesday’s Champions League win at AC Milan.

The Brazil striker reacted angrily after the Italian coach substituted him late in the game at the San Siro, which Zenit won 1-0.

Spalletti was seen extending his hand, trying to greet Hulk as he was leaving the pitch but the Brazilian just walked by without looking at the coach before having a heated discussion with the Zenit staff near the sideline.

“If the situation with the coach does not resolve itself I may leave the club in the January transfer window,” Hulk, 26, was quoted as saying by local media.

Spalletti hit back at the

AEL look to end Europa campaign on a high

You wouldn’t like me when I’m angry: the €60 million striker was furious at being subbed striker after initially playing down the incident.

“Hulk can say anything he wants, but if I decide to change him during the game it means I’m not

happy with his play,” Spalletti was quoted as saying by local media yesterday.

“Hulk is mistaken if he thinks he should play for 90 minutes all the time.

He said he wants to leave?

Then, it’s his choice and I can do nothing about it,” added the Italian.

“As for myself, I’m not going anywhere.”

Earlier Spalletti said: “All big players don’t react well when they’re substituted.

The most important thing is that we won the game.”

The Russian champions beat Milan thanks to a first half strike by captain Danny in their final Group C match to finish third and qualify for the Europa League.

Hulk has had a tough time settling in St Petersburg, with several senior Zenit players apparently unhappy after the club splashed out a Russian league record 60 million euros ($78.52 million) just before the transfer deadline to sign the striker.

Zenit demoted Russia skipper Igor Denisov to the reserve team in September after he refused to play, issuing an ultimatum to renegotiate his contract in line with what Hulk was making.

Denisov was later allowed to rejoin the first team after making an apology.

CYPRUS champions AEL Limassol will be aiming to end their Europa League campaign on a high by recording their first victory of the group stage when they take on French powerhouse Marseille tonight at 8pm the GSP Stadium in Nicosia.

“We have so much to gain from the match against Marseille. Obviously neither of the two teams have any chance of progressing, but it is a European match and we will play for the prestige of our club, points and of course the unavoidable financial incentive,” said AEL coach Jorge Costa.

AEL’s hopes of qualifying for the knockout stage of the competition were dashed on matchday five when they suffered a 2-0 defeat against Borussia Mönchengladbach in Germany.

“Once again we have a lot of problems with injuries.

I have a few players within the squad selected for this match who are still not fully fit. However, the starting eleven will be ready to fight and give their best in order for us to win this match,” added Costa who cannot count on Gilberto, Rui Miguel, Michalis Konstantinou, Simos Tsiakkas, Ebo Andoh, Georgios Eleftheriou and Luciano Bebe.

The French side won 5-1 when the two teams met on matchday two in Marseille. Edwin Ouon put AEL ahead, but the home side then beat Matias Degra five times to seal a convincing victory. Ouon’s strike remains AEL’s only goal so far in Group C and they are the lowest scoring team in the entire group stage of the Europa League.

“I agree that we have difficulties scoring, but I believe that this is about to change. We have deserved to score many more goals than what our current tally is. Unfortunately, making mistakes at this level of the competition will always cost you.

“This is our first European experience and it is our last match of the campaign against Marseille, so what we want is to end it on a high note,” the Portuguese coach concluded.

AEL striker Orlando Sa agreed with his coach: “We have a big match against a very good team ahead of us and we will give everything we have to provide our fans with what we all want - a big victory.”

Turkish side Fenerbahce have already qualified as Group C winners, while Borussia Mönchengladbach are also through as runners-up due to their superior head-to-head record against Marseille.

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PSG say Champions form can spark league recovery

Man City reflect on disastrous campaign

PARIS St Germain are showing their true form in the Champions League and can now start to reproduce it in the French league, centre back Thiago Silva said.

PSG, fourth in the Ligue 1 and five points off the pace after losing three of their last five matches, beat Porto 2-1 on Tuesday to top their Champions League group with 15 points from six games, two ahead of the Portuguese.

“To be honest, I was not thinking the match could go as well,” PSG captain Thiago Silva, who opened the scoring at the Parc des Princes, said.

“It is not good from us, but we are more focused when we play big guns like Porto than modest Ligue 1 sides.”

“We were playing with four forwards. It shows that we can do well if we all have give our best and apply the coach’s orders,” the Brazilian added.

The former AC Milan player was one of the major signings in the off-season, when PSG went on a 150 million euros spending spree.

Apart from Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the French league’s leading scorer with 13 goals in 12 appearances, most have failed to deliver so far in Ligue 1.

Argentine’s playmaker Javier Pastore, who signed last year for a then French record fee of 42 million euros, produced one of his best perfomances on Tuesday.

“We have to be more concentrated every day at training and in every game,” Thiago Silva added. “We can not expect Ibra to hand us the victory each and every time.

This is not how it works.”

Coach Carlo Ancelotti said: “The Champions League has been very demanding, both mentally and physically. It was very, very important for us to reach the last 16.

“The players may have been turned their eyes more on the Champions than the league.”

By Andy Hampson MANCHESTER City manager Roberto Mancini bemoaned his side’s inefficiency in front of goal after slumping out of Europe with defeat at Borussia Dortmund.

City could not even secure the consolation of a place in the Europa League as they slipped to a 1-0 defeat at the Westfalenstadion in their final Champions League Group D game.

Mancini felt his team gave their best but paid the price for failing to convert chances, a problem he feels is growing.

Mancini said: “The big problem is that to win games you need to score.

“If not, you lose or the game finishes 0-0. At the moment we are not scoring a lot of goals, as we did last year.

“When we get chances we need to score - we need to resolve this problem if we are going to win.”

City entered the competition with high hopes but have finished bottom of their group with just three points, the worst showing by an English side in the competition.

Mancini claims he is not embarrassed by the poor return or by the failure to win a place in the Europa League.

He said: “It can be embarrassing if, when you play, you

By Gregory Blachier

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don’t play at 100 per cent.

“But when you do play 100 per cent, you can lose.

“We wanted to try to get in the Europa League because that would have been another competition for us to try to win.”

Julian Schieber scored the only goal of a subdued game after 57 minutes.

It brought a suitably sorry end to City’s campaign, which never recovered after they conceded two late goals to lose their opening match at Real Madrid.

They managed three home draws but lost all of their away games.

Mancini feels Dortmund, who suffered a premature exit last season, are a good example for them as they look to improve in future.

He said: “Last year Borussia Dortmund went out in the first group and were fourth in that group.

“This year, for me, they are probably a team that can win the Champions League.

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“When you start playing Champions League, if you make some mistakes, like we did in the first two or three games, you don’t have time to recover.

“We were 2-1 up in Madrid with four minutes to go, and we were winning 1-0 in Amsterdam and then had two or three chances to score another goal.

“If we make these mistakes, afterwards, you have no time.”

City must quickly put the disappointment aside to prepare for Sunday’s top-ofthe-table Barclays Premier League clash with rivals Manchester United.

Mancini said: “I don’t think there will be a problem with morale.

“We didn’t lose the Champion League tonight - it’s clear that tonight we lost the chance to qualify for the Europa League.

“But I think that after that, it is important that we only think about the derby.”

Frustrated: Roberto Mancini says his English champions need to start scoring freely again like they did last season

Gunners must ‘stick together’

By Jim van Wijk

Greek giants Olympiakos fought back from a goal down to beat the under-fire Gunners in Athens

TOMAS Rosicky can understand the frustrations of Arsenal fans at their slump in form, but insists if everyone pulls together the Gunners can turn things around.

Arsenal missed out on the chance to secure seeding for the knockout stages of the Champions League when they went down 2-1 at Olympiakos, where Czech winger Rosicky had fired the much-changed visitors ahead just before halftime.

The defeat extended Arsenal’s winless run to four games, with Saturday’s 2-0 home defeat by Swansea seeing Arsene Wenger’s men plummet down the Barclays Premier League table to 10th place.

There has been plenty of tension on the terraces at the Emirates Stadium, which seems to be filtering through to performances on the pitch as the players fail to produce the required tempo.

Rosicky, though, has every confidence things can soon be put right - starting with the

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visit of West Brom on Saturday.

“I can understand the frustrations, I am an Arsenal fan as well when I was not playing,” said Rosicky, who has just returned to action after being sidelined since aggravating his Achilles problem ahead of the European Championships.

“It is understandable, but also on the other side we have some young guys as well and this is definitely not helping them.

“We have to all stick together, which is what we did last season when everyone was writing us off and we came back stronger.

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“You could feel the great atmosphere we created at the Emirates with performances against Tottenham and AC Milan (in last season’s Champions League).

“I have been in professional football for a very long time and that was without any doubt the best atmosphere I have ever played in.

“Of course we have to win the people again, that is the challenge.

“It will be difficult, there is no doubt about that, we are capable of doing it again.

“If we are all on board, Arsenal is a great place to play football, but we have to stick together and fight.”

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Celtic 2 Spartak Moscow 1 Man United Cluj

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Late penalty drama sends Celtic through Celtic 2 Spartak Moscow 1

By Sonia Oxley

Pure joy: Kris Commons’ (left) 82nd minute spot kick sealed the Glasgow giants’ qualification

KRIS Commons fired Celtic into the Champions League last 16 when his penalty helped them to a 2-1 victory over Spartak Moscow in their final Group G match at Celtic Park last night.

It was a big reward for Celtic, who took a giant step into the knockout round last month when they stunned Barcelona 2-1, and they will

be appearing in the last-16 for the first time since 200708.

Celtic finished second in the group on 10 points, three behind Barca but two ahead of Benfica, who could only manage a 0-0 draw against the Spaniards. Spartak are bottom with three points.

Celtic went ahead in the 21st minute with Gary Hooper’s low drive after a blunder

by Spartak centre back Juan Insaurralde but the Russian side pulled one back six minutes before halftime through Ari’s delightful lob.

The hosts pushed hard for a winner but had to wait until the 82nd minute when Com-

mons struck home from the spot after Giorgios Samaras was pushed over in the area.

Anticipation hung in the air on a cold and noisy night in Glasgow with home fans keeping a close eye on what was happening in the group’s other match where their rivals for the runners-up spot, Benfica, were playing at Barcelona.

Celtic nerves were temporarily calmed after they were gifted an opener when Spartak’s Argentine defender Insaurralde mis-kicked a long ball from Samaras and sent it straight into the path of Hooper who pounced and drilled home.

Champs Chelsea crash out Blues hit six but efforts are in vain

United slump to Cluj defeat Manchester United 0 Cluj 1

Chelsea 6 Nordsjaelland 1

By Ben Rumsby IT was too little, too late for Rafael Benitez last night as he finally notched a win at Chelsea but was powerless to stop them becoming the first Champions League holders to crash out of the competition before Christmas.

The fact Fernando Torres ended his goal drought in what was an expected romp against Nordsjaelland was also scant consolation for Benitez and the European champions, who were consigned to the Europa League after Juventus won at Shakhtar Donetsk to top Group E. Torres even scored twice after David Luiz put Chelsea ahead from the spot at the end of a crazy spell of three penalties for handball in seven minutes that saw both Nicolai Stokholm and Eden Hazard miss.

Joshua John did make it 2-1 but Gary Cahill, Juan Mata and substitute Oscar ensured the holders at least bowed out with their biggest ever Champions League victory and ended their sixmatch winless streak, three of which were overseen by Benitez.

Nordsjaelland’s adventure was dramatically rewarded in the 31st minute when ref-

But Spartak, who had looked the more threatening for much of the first half, put the brakes on the Scottish celebrations in the 39th minute when Emmanuel Emenike played in Ari on the right and the Brazilian chipped the ball over keeper Fraser Forster.

Celtic defender Kelvin Wilson chased to try and keep the ball out but could only pile into the net. The hosts then set about trying to find the goal that would change their fate.

Samaras and Ambrose went close before Commons’ spot kick sent Celtic through.

No smiles: It was too little, too late for the Blues, who are the first Champions League holders to crash out of the competition at the group stage eree Bas Nijhuis adjudged Cahill to have handled Anders Christiansen’s shot on the edge of the area.

Chelsea protested but it did not matter as Petr Cech guessed right to keep out Stokholm’s penalty.

After Torres’ latest weak finish was deflected wide, Cahill got his revenge when his header from the resulting corner hit the arm of Beckmann.

Incredibly, Hazard’s weak penalty was also saved.

Even more incredibly, Nijhuis awarded a third spotkick for handball moments later when Patrick Mtiliga

blocked Mata’s shot.

This time, Luiz took charge, firing the ball high into the net.

The Torres show then resumed with an errant diving header before he finally found the net in stoppage time.

There were echoes of his last - lucky - goal against Shakhtar as his finish from Victor Moses’ ball in behind hit Hansen and rebounded back off the striker, who accidentally trod on the keeper before gobbling up the rebound.

Torres’ strike was cancelled out straight after half-time when John got in behind

Branislav Ivanovic to lift Lorentzen’s ball over the advancing Cech.

But Cahill restored the advantage five minutes later when he hung in the air to loop a superb header into the corner of the net from Mata’s free-kick.

Five minutes after that, Torres finally scored a goal that owed nothing to luck, brilliantly finishing off a sweeping break by poking in Hazard’s cutback.

Any joy was tempered by the news Juve had taken the lead in Donetsk - in defiance of the ‘Come on Shakhtar’ chants from Stamford

Bridge.

Chelsea continued to attack and Torres was denied a penalty before Mata beat Hansen at the second attempt after a one-two with Hazard.

Torres had two penalty appeals turned down either side of Oscar entering the fray to finish smartly after being played through by Mata for his fifth Champions League goal in six games.

Oscar saw another shot saved, Moses shanked a header and Torres failed to chip Hansen for his hat-trick but it was goals elsewhere Chelsea and Benitez needed.

CFR Cluj failed to qualify for the knockout stages of the Champions League despite a famous 1-0 win by the Romanian champions over three-time champions Manchester United at Old Trafford last night.

Brazilian Luis Alberto hit an unstoppable swerving and dipping shot after 56 minutes to sink a second-string United but Galatasaray’s 2-1 win at bottom side Braga put them into the last 16.

Cluj finished Group H level on 10 points with Galatasaray, behind winners United on 12, but the Romanians lost out on a worse head-to-head record and have the Europa League as consolation.

Steaua Bucharest, the 1986 winners, reached the final of Europe’s elite club competition in 1989, but no Romanian club has reached the knockout stages of the Champions League since it was formed in the 1992-93 season.

Cluj, making their third Champions League appearance after group stage outings in 2010-11 and 2008-09, survived pressure from the home team in the first half when goalkeeper Mario Felgueiras denied Tom Cleverley and Wayne Rooney.

However, it was Luis Alberto’s moment of genius in the second half that stole the show for the visitors in a largely dour affair.