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RAPHIC scenes of grief and death in a Syrian village bore witness yesterday to a massacre President Bashar al-Assad’s opponents say was the work of his troops and militia allies, drawing words of outrage from the outside world. But with much unclear about what happened at Tremseh - where opposition activists put the death toll at anywhere between over 100 and more than twice that number - and world powers divided as ever, there was little response beyond the rhetorical. UN special envoy Kofi Annan condemned “atrocities”, as unverifiable video evidence of casualties from Thursday’s attack on the village in rebellious Hama province emerged on the Web. The White House said such “atrocities” had cost Assad the legitimacy to remain as leader. Annan said he was “horrified, shocked and appalled” at “intense fighting, significant casualties, and the confirmed use of heavy weaponry such as artillery, tanks and helicopters” in the village. Calling it a “grim re-

minder” that UN resolutions calling for peace were being flouted, he wrote to the United Nations Security Council urging it to penalise Syria for failing to comply. But in the Council, Western powers still face objections from Russia and China to their efforts to push Assad from power. A local activist named Ahmed told Reuters there were 60 bodies at the mosque, of whom 20 were identified: “There are more bodies in the fields, bodies in the rivers and in houses.” There was no independent account of the battle, which the government described as a massacre by “terrorist groups”. Some opposition activists said over 220 people died when Tremseh was bombarded by helicopter gunships and tanks, then stormed by men from neighbouring villages in what they portrayed as a sectarian attack on Sunnis by Assad’s fellow Alawites. Others said the death toll in Thursday’s attack may have been less but was certainly over 100, which would make Tremseh one of the worst atrocities of the 17-month revolt against Assad and the 42-yearold family dynasty established by his father. TURN TO PAGE 9

Armenian soldiers of the self-proclaimed republic of Nagorno Karabakh work out close to the frontline on the border with Azerbaijan. EU president Herman Van Rompuy has urged enemies Armenia and Azerbai-

jan to end clashes that have raised fears of renewed war over the disputed region of Nagorno Karabakh. Armenia-backed separatists seized Karabakh from Azerbaijan in a war in the 1990s that left 30,000 dead

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TURKISH PRESIDENT Abdullah Gul has approved the ‘continental shelf delineation agreement’ signed with the breakaway regime, opening the path for its publication in Turkey’s ofﬁcial gazette. The pact, prepared last year, was signed in a purported effort to protect the rights of Turkish Cypriots to the island’s natural resources, while also serving to support Turkey’s argument against islands having any right to an exclusive economic zone (EEZ). According to Turkish Cypriot reports yesterday, Gul has approved the agreement, delineating the ‘continental shelf’ of the breakaway regime, and sent it to the Turkish prime ministry for publication in the ofﬁcial gazette. The agreement, signed on September 21, 2011, on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly by Turkish PM Recep Tayyip Erdogan and Turkish Cypriot

leader Dervis Eroglu, provides for Turkish vessels to start exploring for natural gas and hydrocarbons in the eastern Mediterranean. The following day, Turkish Cypriot authorities gave an exploration licence to the Turkish National Oil and Gas Company (TPAO) to explore for oil and natural gas around the island. Last April, Eroglu and Turkish Energy Minister Taner Yildiz hailed the start of onshore exploratory drilling for oil and gas in the occupied village of Singrasi in Famagusta. At the time, Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis dismissed the move as “diversionary” to satisfy public opinion in Turkey and the north. She argued Turkey does not have the capacity to drill in Cyprus’ EEZ nor can it ﬁnd partners to conduct illegal drilling activities there. Despite that, maps published in Turkey’s ofﬁcial gazette show that oil drilling permits issued to TPAO stretch as far as the Greek island of Rhodes as well

as blocks 1, 4, 5, 6 and 7 as delineated in the Cyprus Republic’s EEZ, south and south-west of the island. If one views the breakaway regime as a legal, sovereign state, which Turkey does, then based on the internationallyaccepted UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, the continental shelf agreement approved by Gul seriously cuts into the EEZ of the island’s northern part, giving Turkey the lion’s share. In the meantime, the government slated Turkey on Thursday for carrying out unauthorised war games south of the island. According to government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou, Turkey has been carrying out an air and naval exercise this week in international waters south of Cyprus, but in areas falling within its EEZ, speciﬁcally, in blocks 2, 3, 8, 9, 13 and 12 - the latter where US ﬁrm Noble Energy is currently exploring for natural gas. The drills on Thursday involved two torpedo gunboats and a corvette of the Turkish navy, Stefanou said.

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President Christoﬁas takes the US and Britain to task during his talk to US teenagers of Cypriot descent

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‘Stepmother’ Britain does not favour us, Christofias tells teens By Stefanos Evripidou PRESIDENT DEMETRIS Christofias yesterday slammed Britain and America for choosing Turkey over Cyprus and international law when it comes to efforts to solve the long-running division of the island. Speaking to children from the Cypriot community in the USA during their visit to the Presidential Palace, Christofias singled out the two permanent members of the UN Security Council for criticism. After briefing the children on the history of the Cyprus problem, the 1974 military coup and Turkish invasion, he said: “We are fighting to free

the occupied part of Cyprus, reunite our homeland, live in peace with the Turkish Cypriots in a united federal state and cooperate within the framework of our common homeland.” He added in reference to the three guarantor powers of Cyprus: “We do not need motherlands, guardians, Turkey, Greece or ‘stepmother’ Britain.” When colonial rule ended, the British left Cyprus but “they left to stay”, he said. “They imposed the bases on us. They call the bases ‘sovereign territory of the UK’. It is a state within a state. Cypriots do not accept this fait accompli on their territory. For now, our priority is not the bases,

but the liberation of our country from Turkish troops,” said Christofias. Christofias said the government works closely with expatriate Cypriots to convince foreign governments of the just cause to end the occupation. He acknowledged, however, that this effort was not always successful in America, and less so in Britain. Just a few hours before his meeting with US Assistant Secretary for European and Eurasian Affairs Philip Gordon at the palace, Christofias told his young American Cypriot audience: “Sometimes, we are not satisfied with the US position (on Cyprus), because they are a close ally of

Turkey and do not favour us. The British, unfortunately, continue not to favour us at all. “In the UN, and other international organisations, they do not help us like they should, following the principles of international law and the UN Charter. We ﬁght them, along with friendly countries, to secure UN resolutions that are a weapon for us to exert pressure on Turkey,” he said. The president added that “the continuing inﬂux of illegal settlers in Cyprus, the usurpation of Greek Cypriot properties and new faits accomplis to establish a separate illegal state are the greatest dangers facing the country at present”.

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Brits linked to ‘legal’ high ‘factory’ By Stefanos Evripidou

Family remanded after police raid village home

A FAMILY of three were remanded in custody for seven days yesterday by Famagusta district court in connection with the alleged production of synthetic ‘herbal highs’. According to police, on Thursday afternoon, the Drug Law Enforcement Unit (YKAN) raided the home of a British couple, aged 53 and 52, living permanently with their 22-year-old son in Ayia Thekla near Sotira village. Police had information that the

family were manufacturing for export, herbal incense mixtures banned last year. During the raid, police found 35 kilos of a dry substance believed to be a herb used in the production of synthetic narcotic substances. They also found 1,600 grams of white powder - believed to be used in combination with the conﬁscated herb to create quantities of ‘herbal highs’- and 1,324 small packets of another herb-like sub-

stance that gets you high. Various plastic containers, three precision scales, and other equipment believed to be used for packaging the mixed substance were also taken to be used as evidence. The substances allegedly found at the home have already been sent to the state lab for testing. The couple and their 22-year-old son were arrested for possession with intent to sell a controlled substance before being remanded

by the Famagusta court for seven days yesterday. Last year, 17 synthetic narcotic substances were banned by an executive decision of the cabinet. Known at the time as “legal highs”, they were sold in kiosks around the island. There were various types, including Dream, Spice and Ivory Wave, intended as a substitute to cocaine or cannabis. A number of websites can be found on the internet selling ‘legal

high’ products. According to a drugs squad source, the substances found at the Ayia Thekla home might not yet be on the list of banned substances, but part of a new list the police is preparing to send to cabinet shortly to add to the original list. The results from the state lab will clarify whether they are banned substances or not. If the substances are part of the new list, the law cannot act retroactively, meaning the most the authorities can do is not return the items conﬁscated from the raid.

Mari surcharge will be scrapped from next May By Poly Pantelides THE Mari surcharge on electricity bills, imposed in September 2011 in the aftermath of the naval explosion, will be scrapped next May, Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis told MPs yesterday. He was discussing electricity prices at the House commerce committee whose members have repeatedly asked for price reductions on bills. A surcharge of 6.96 per cent on all electricity bills was added last September to help the Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) handle the added costs incurred when their main power station was damaged in the Mari explosion. The surcharge was recently dropped to 5.75 per cent, effective from beginning of August for most consumers. Sylikiotis said yesterday he had asked the Cyprus Energy Regulatory Authority, CERA, to re-examine a way of calculating bills for businesses and industries. Some businesses are charged according to their maximum demand for electricity, which may be higher than their average consumption.

This is based on the principle that as big users of electricity, they also cost the EAC more because it needs to have generators and infrastructure in place for when demand exceeds normal levels (e.g. during a heat wave). CERA head Giorgos Shammas said that if the maximum demand price scheme was dropped, then the state might need to subsidise the difference since consumers could not pay electricity for less than what it costs the EAC to provide it. EAC chairman Harris Thrassou said that dropping the pricing scheme would cost some €60 million. Shammas said that the EAC should study different pricing schemes. The EAC is expected to hand over a study in about two weeks. “If there is good will and good intentions from everyone, a solution can be found,” Sylikiotis said. Lawmakers also reasserted their wish that VAT on bills be dropped to 8.0 per cent from 17 per cent. The ﬁnance ministry has previously said this is not viable because the state could not afford to lose the income.

Cooling off: a young girl enjoys respite from the heat as the heatwave continued yesterday. Temperatures are expected to reach 41C inland today. People used more electricity yesterday than in any other day of the year as people turned on their air-conditioning

units and hid indoors. At its peak, demand was 890MW though there was some 1150MW available for consumption, said the director of the Transmission System Operator Christos Christodoulides. (Christos Theodorides)

Incensed investors ponder future action after banks stop paying A GROUP of people who put their money into high-return investment products now worth a fraction of their original price were due to meet in Limassol last night. “We will have our ﬁrst meeting on a local level to investigate what further measures we will take,” said Stavros Yiallourides who is one of the people claiming they were misled into buying securities which would yield a steady income in the form of interest. However, the Bank of Cyprus (BoC)

and the Popular Bank, the island’s biggest banks, have suspended interest payments. Yiallourides said the group he coordinates was invited to go to parliament on Monday to tell deputies their story “and see what can be done”. “They must realise the real extent of the problem,” he said. “They [the banks] convinced the public, the depositor, the retired man, anyone who had an income, to put it in towards getting a monthly

income,” Yiallourides said adding that many people factored in that income in their long term plans. The securities and exchange commission (CySEC) said that an investigation into the two banks following the complaints showed the letter of the law was followed as the prospectuses listed the risks and conditions. However, CySEC’s chairwoman said that the central bank could look into whether people were advised by the approved investment consultants rather than ordinary bank clerks.

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House demands will ‘lead to airline closure’ Cyprus Airways cannot survive MPs’ tight grip on rescue funds, government warns By Jacqueline Agathocleous PARLIAMENT’S decision on Thursday to apply some tight conditions on increasing Cyprus Airways’ (CY) share capital has been criticised by the government and workers’ unions, who claimed it would force the state carrier to close. Government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou yesterday said the decision was politically very sensitive and economically destructive. “We were expecting the parties to come together and cooperate in this effort to rescue CY,” said Stefanou. “Instead, with (Thursday’s) decision by the majority of the House of Representatives, we fear the company will certainly be led

to closure.” But he added that the government would continue to support CY and work hard for its recovery. Stefanou said CY’s problems had amassed over many years and included the purchase of loss-making aeroplanes, over-stufﬁng the airline with employees with connections and founding a company - Eurocypria - that cost the public millions of euros and in the end went bankrupt. Three months ago, he said, the government decided a support mechanism for the airline should take three main factors into account: carrying out a restructuring plan, searching for a strategic investor and increasing its share capital. The latter factor, said Ste-

fanou, depended on the restructuring plan, which all unions agreed to apart from one – the pilots’ union PASYPI. However, during the plenary discussion on the bill to increase CY’s share capital by €31.33 million on Thursday, all parties except ruling AKEL voted in favour of a couple of amendments that left the government seething. Apart from approving just €15 million and setting the preparation of a new rescue plan within three months by internationally acclaimed experts as a precondition for the rest of the funds to be released, opposition parliamentarians also called for the majority of the CY board of directors to stand down. Speciﬁcally, eight of the board’s 11 members – the ones that were

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The purchase of loss-making airplanes over the years has added to CY’s woes “And this closure will have many negative consequences on the economy, as well as tourism, employment, and not only in Cyprus,” he said. But despite recent developments, Stefanou said the government would continue to work towards rescuing the airline and making it viable. “Cyprus needs Cyprus Airways,” he said. CY unions SYNYKA (OIO)SEK, SIDIKEK-PEO, SYPKA and ASYSEKA agreed. The unions said the MPs’ decision to impose preconditions and amendments on the CY bill “could lead CY to closure and/or absorption from another company”. “CY workers have proved that through dialogue, they are ready to take painful measures, so why is there an intention to alienate the

appointed by the government as CY’s main shareholder – will have to be replaced. And instead of being appointed by the government, members will be chosen by the finance minister, with the agreement of the House finance committee. From a financial point of view, parliament’s decision would strangle CY, he said. Stefanou referred to Turkey’s embargo on CY planes flying over its airspace – for which parliament recently approved €5 million to cover losses incurred due to the ban – saying this put it at a serious disadvantage to other airlines, which are also active in Cyprus. He said parliament’s decision would exacerbate the problem further, leading to the airline’s closure.

US official focuses on shared benefits of hydrocarbons By Poly Pantelides

ments delineating their EEZs and has said it will be doing its own offshore hydrocarbon exploration in the eastern Mediterranean, which overlaps Cyprus’ EEZ. Cyprus has said it will share hydrocarbons’ revenue with Turkish Cypriots but failing a solution to the Cyprus problem, it is unlikely that most Turkish Cypriots will beneﬁt. “Sharing revenue… could really facilitate [a Cyprus problem] settlement,” Gordon said adding however that “it could equally be divisive” if a dispute arose.

SOLVING the Cyprus problem will enable “all parties involved” to enjoy the beneﬁts of hydrocarbon reserves in the Middle East, US assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs Philip Gordon, said yesterday. Both Cyprus and Israel have natural gas reserves in their exclusive economic zones (EEZ) in the Mediterranean sea. Turkey does not recognise any Cyprus-Israel agree-

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workers from any processes?” the unions wondered, pointing out that the existing plan provided €17 million in savings and immediate reduction of staff by 247 employees. According to the unions, parliamentarians accepted the request of Greek charter airline AEGEAN – which they said was strangely invited to the bill’s discussion at the House finance committee – to liberalise flights to third countries, “immediately affecting CY’s best interests and distorting competition when the same doesn’t apply to flights from other countries’ airports – for example Greece”. The CY unions said they would assess the new developments collectively and “find ways to react in order to protect the company as well as the workers”.

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He said that relevant parties should “work even harder to make the necessary political agreements”. Because any sort of political agreement would involve “political compromises who (builds a pipeline, who does what, etc) you quickly get into other issues involving the Cyprus problem,” Gordon said. Asked if the US was in favour of imposing deadlines, as a way to create momentum for the sluggish problem, Gordon said that although they’d “like to see a solution as soon as possible, [that’s] different to saying there should be artificial deadline.” During his visit, Gordon signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on protecting Cyprus’ cultural artefacts. It aims to protect the island’s archaeological heritage by limiting imports of pre-classical and classical objects and Byzantine and postByzantine religious objects. The MoU was first signed in 2002 and was renewed for five years yesterday.

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Get children reading, illiteracy group urges Illiteracy in 21st century more than an inability to read and write

Parents should sit down and decide what books their children will read over the summer

By Natalie Hami BOOKS have become lost to children and teenagers, who would rather entertain themselves with video games, according to a member of a new organisation promoting literacy. “Because of video games, and I’m not saying that there’s anything wrong with them, books have been lost,” said education expert Giorgos Tsiakalos, one of the members of a new nongovernmental organisation (NGO) to promote literacy in Cyprus. EU Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou has initiated the establishment of the NGO in Cyprus so the country beneﬁts from both similar actions in other EU member states and from the European funds

to be made available across the EU for this purpose (€3 million for the two-year period 2013-2014). Tsiakalos, who is also professor of pedagogy at Aristotle University in Thessaloniki and helped in the public school system’s educational reforms, suggests that now that it’s holiday time parents

ought to sit down with their children and decide which books to read over the summer. “It’s not enough to just know the alphabet and words we learnt,” said Tsiakalos, adding that it appears a lot of people consider knowledge a waste of time. According to Tsiakalos,

Minister denies Troika angered by loan push By George Psyllides FINANCE Minister Vassos Shiarly yesterday rejected suggestions that European and IMF inspectors had postponed their return to Cyprus by a week because they were annoyed by the government’s efforts to secure a bilateral loan. Ofﬁcials from the European Commission, the IMF and the European Central Bank, known collectively as the “Troika” were in Cyprus last week collecting data and had been expected to return in mid-July. On Thursday the government said the Troika wanted to study the information collected in further detail and will return, probably by July 23. The opposition suggested this was because they were annoyed with Cyprus seeking a bilateral loan from Russia. The ﬁnance minister wondered why people spread unfounded information. “It is not strange at all. They said look, we may not be able to come on the 16th and we may delay it for a week,” Shiarly told state radio. He said the ministry was in continuous contact with the

Shiarly: claims exaggerated Troika team on a daily basis, feeding them with information. “It is amazing how we exaggerate such a small issue and make it so huge,” the minister said. “Honestly, I’m surprised that we end up looking at the date of the Troika arrival instead of the substance.” Cyprus sought emergency ﬁnancial aid from its EU partners on June 25 to buffer a banking sector battered by exposure to Greece, becoming the ﬁfth eurozone country to need a bailout. Technocrats are looking at a comprehensive bailout for the Cypriot economy, and not just for the banking sector. It is unclear how much funding Cyprus will need,

but markets are speculating on up to €10 billion. Cyprus is also discussing a €5.0 billion loan request with Russia, a close political and business ally. Asked about the matter, an IMF spokesman said that his organisation had never published any dates about its next mission to Cyprus. “It is natural, in the framework of the procedure,” Jerry Rice told reporters in Washington, USA. “As I said two weeks ago, the fact-ﬁnding mission will go to Cyprus, return to Washington to assess the information and return … in the coming weeks to continue.” Pointing to this statement, government spokesman Stefanos Stefanou said what remains is the opposition’s obsession to blame the government for everything. “This of course makes this opposition unreliable, but the damage for our country and the economy unfortunately remains.” Asked if there was a specific date by which the government would get an answer on the Russian loan request, Stefanou replied: “No, we don’t have such a date. What is clear is that we want these issues to be wrapped up soon, either positively or negatively.”

the NGO, which is the ﬁrst of its type in Cyprus, is still in its early stages with Vas-

siliou still proposing candidates. Tsiakalos explained that Cyprus’ problems with illiteracy are the same as any other country’s. “From the research that’s been done, a lot of 15-year-olds have little skills in multimodal texts,” said Tsiakalos, citing the example of a newspaper article that contains text, diagrams and statistics. One form of illiteracy is an inability to absorb these different types of information and understand them. This can have a huge effect on society and the economy, as the economy needs people that can read multimodal texts, he added. Illiteracy in the 21st century is often quite different to traditional perceptions of a simple inability to read and write. “Before, someone who was illiterate would get someone else to write a letter for them,” he said. Now they need someone to help them get their beneﬁts and use other services which are increasingly only available online.

CYPRUS TODAY Australian visit SPEAKER of the Australian House of Representatives Peter Slippers is in Cyprus on a three day ofﬁcial visit, at the invitation of his counter part in Cyprus, Yiannakis Omirou. He met with House speaker Omirou yesterday and the chairman of the Cyprus-Australia Friendship Group Averof Neofytou. He will also meet with Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis and other ofﬁcials.

Armenian elections DISY MEP Eleni Theocharous is expected to leave today for Armenia to observe the presidential elections in NagornoKarabakh, in the South Caucasus. Nagorno-Karabakh comes under Azerbaijani administration but its population is mainly ethnic Armenian. Theocharous has taken part in humanitarian aid to the area in the past during the war between Azerbaijan and NagornoKarabakh in 1991.

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Police pledge gambling swoop Illegal and legal gamblers warned to expect to feel full force of the new law By Stefanos Evripidou POLICE YESTERDAY warned betting companies and gamblers that the new gambling bill recently passed by parliament is now in effect and will be implemented without delay. In a released statement, police highlighted that many provisions in the new legislation provide for penalties of up to ﬁve years in jail and/or a €300,000 ﬁne. The new law makes possession and/or operation of devices for the purposes of running an online casino illegal, while also prohibiting the advertising of illegal gambling. Criminal responsibility now lies not only with those owning or run-

ning gambling joints but also the gamblers, said the police. “We urge all those involved in illegal gambling to comply immediately with the provisions of the existing legislation. Otherwise, they will suffer the consequences of the law,” said the police statement. “The police force is determined to speedily enforce the law against those who fail to comply.” Earlier in the week, police chief Michalis Papageorgiou said the force “expected much more” from the new legislation banning online gambling despite the fact it gave the police “plenty of ﬁrepower”. The controversial legislation, recently voted through parliament, has effectively banned all online gambling in Cyprus while also heav-

ily taxing existing betting shops. Gambling shop owners have strongly protested against the bill, arguing the law will put them out of business, while providing an unfair advantage to the Greek stateowned betting agency OPAP, which is exempt from all these laws due to a bilateral agreement between Greece and Cyprus. Many believe the string of recent attacks against OPAP betting shops come as a result of this legislation. According to international media reports, the UK gambling group Betfair has threatened Cyprus with legal action stating that the legislation passed by the Cypriot parliament contained “serious ﬂaws and, in some areas, is inconsistent with European Union law”.

Parliament unanimously passed the bill regulating gaming on July 6 after months of debate. Apart from banning online casinos, the law also regulates legal betting, providing for a ten per cent tax on the net betting revenue - after winnings are subtracted. In addition betting shops will pay an additional contribution of 3.0 per cent on net revenue, which will be paid to a gaming board to be set up. The board will then transfer the contribution to the Cyprus Sports Federation, which will allocate 1.5 per cent to the Cyprus Football Association, 0.5 per cent to other sports associations, and 1.0 per cent to special programmes dedicated to ﬁght gambling addiction.

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Easier swimming for the disabled in Yeroskipou By Bejay Browne YEROSKIPOU municipality in Paphos has improved facilities for the disabled at the municipal beach allowing them to go for a swim with relative ease. Christia Tistenti, a civil engineer at Yeroskipou municipality said yesterday that a series of measures had been implemented including a special type of wheelchair, a path of plastic netting for the chair to move along and improved toilet facilities. Tistenti said the chair enables users to get to the sea and into the water with help, but is in fact a tempo-

rary measure until a fully automatic chair on a moveable track, similar to the one at Polis Chrysochous’ municipal beach is installed. “The chair in Yeroskipou will be of great beneﬁt but it’s not automatic as the one in Polis; people will need to have some assistance,” she said. Yeroskipou municipality is participating in an EU programme which will see the installation of a mobility chair similar to the one at Polis, which will be completed in October 2012. But even the temporary solution doesn’t come cheap. According to the Paraplegic Association, the specialised carpet which has been installed at Yeroskipou cost around 4,000 euros and the chair 2,300 euros. The Paraplegic Association paid for the system’s installation while the Cyprus Tourism Organisation paid for the chair. The automatic chair will cost about 30,000 euros. Tistenti said the disabled toilet facilities and the designated parking area means a wheelchair user is now able to park in the designated area and enter the sea with relative ease.

The wheelchair ‘carpet’ at Yeroskipou (above). The fully automated wheelchair and track in place at Polis (left) The temporary facilities will most probably be moved at the end of the summer season with the permanent chair installed around September or October. The on duty lifeguard is responsible for the temporary chair, which is available on the beach between the

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hours of 11am- 6pm. “It is kept locked up and under the watchful eye of the lifeguard,” said Tistenti. The lifeguard is also on hand to assist beachgoers into the chair and then into the sea. A lifeguard is on duty at the beach from 11am-6pm, seven days a week. The new scheme is already a success said Tistenti. “Whilst I was at the beach today I saw two separate people using the special chair and other wheelchair users were making their way down the carpet,” she said. “The designated parking area is also being used by the mobility impaired.” The disabled access point, WC and car park is found just past Riccos Beach café towards La Playa beach, close to the lifeguard post. Six other beaches in Cyprus currently have wheelchair access points: the Olympic Cost beaches in Limassol, the Dasoudi beach in Yermasoyia, Fig Tree Bay in Protaras, and Vathia Gonia and Landa Beach in Ayia Napa.

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Britain

Fundraisers were among British avalanche victims

Banks inquiry branded ‘total joke’

Fathers of young children had been raising money for local hospice

THE parliamentary inquiry into the banking industry and Libor scandal was branded a “total joke” yesterday after two of the Commons’ toughest inquisitors on ﬁnancial issues were excluded from it. Neither Labour MP John Mann nor Conservative MP Andrea Leadsom have been selected to sit on the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards, despite their forthright questioning of bankers as members of the Treasury Select Committee. The Commission will be chaired by Tory MP and Treasury Committee chairman Andrew Tyrie. Its other MP members will be Tory Mark Garnier, Labour MPs Andy Love and Pat McFadden and Liberal Democrat John Thurso who all sit on the Treasury Committee too. Mann took to Twitter yesterday morning to describe the new committee as “a total joke”. He said the inquiry would be a “whitewash” and that he was going to set up his own.

TWO Britons killed in an avalanche in the French Alps were fathers of young children and had been raising funds for a local hospice. Steve Barber, 47, and John Taylor, 48, lived in the same street in Upper Poppleton, a village to the north-west of York. They both had children at Poppleton Ousebank School. The third British man who lost his life after being hit by a massive wall of snow on Thursday was Roger Payne, one of the UK’s most respected climbers and former general secretary of the British Mountaineering Council (BMC). A total of nine climbers were killed as they traversed Mont Maudit - translated as Cursed Mountain - in the Mont Blanc range near Chamonix. Among the other victims were three Germans, two Spaniards and one Swiss climber. They were part of a 28strong group which left a climbing hut to attempt the route, described by local guides as the second most popular to the top of Mont Blanc, in the early hours of Thursday morning. A church service is to be held in Chamonix this afternoon in memory of the dead climbers, French Interior Minister Manuel Valls said. Parents at Poppleton Ouse-

Undated family handout photos of Steve Barber (left) and John Taylor (centre). Roger Payne (right) was one of the UK’s most respected climbers bank School were told in a letter from headteacher Estelle O’Hara: “It is with great sadness that I write to inform you that two of the climbers killed in yesterday’s avalanche in the French Alps were parents from Poppleton Ousebank Steve Barber, father of Frankie in Year 5 and John Taylor, father of Emma in Year 5 and Louise in Year 3. “Our thoughts and prayers go out to both Donna Rogers and Karine Taylor who have both lost their life-long partners. “Children have been informed and school staff have been supporting them throughout the day, provid-

ing a caring shoulder and answering any questions that children may have. “We would ask that people respect the families’ privacy at this sad time. We understand that the climb was to raise money for St Leonard’s Hospice and so we will be collecting on their behalf.” Leader of the City of York Council’s Conservative group, councillor Ian Gillies, who represents Upper Poppleton, said: “Devastated doesn’t cover it, really. “I’m sure the people in the village and the wider community will provide the support the families need, not only now but for weeks to come.”

Councillor James Alexander, Labour leader of City of York Council, added: “I am deeply saddened by the news that two Poppleton residents lost their lives in Thursday’s avalanche in Chamonix, France. “I would like to offer their families and friends my condolences and offer any support and assistance we can

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Shots fired at police during Belfast ‘anarchy’ GUNSHOTS were fired at police in scenes of “anarchy” in Belfast early yesterday morning after Catholic youths rioted in response to a small Protestant parade passing their estate on Thursday, but no officers were hit. The overnight violence was the culmination of a series of parades that pro-British Protestants stage annually in the British-ruled province, a tradition seen as provocative by Irish nationalists who want to be part of a united Ireland. Dozens of youths threw bricks, snooker balls and petrol bombs at hundreds of riot police at the point where Catholic and Protestant areas of the city meet. Police responded with water cannon and plastic bullets. At least 10 gunshots were fired at police lines, but no police officers were injured, a police spokeswoman said. “Anarchy took place last night which provided cover for the more sinister elements to come out and engage in attempted murder,” Matt Baggott, Chief Constable of the Police Service of Northern Ireland told a news conference. “Those responsible for rioting, wherever they came from, will be subject to a prolonged police investigation and be brought before the courts. There is no excuse for rioting and violence.”

Over 20 officers were injured during the overall rioting which saw a burning car pushed towards a line of riot police. Six men were charged with public order offences and children as young as 15 were arrested. Since a peace agreement was signed in 1998, violence between the province’s Catholics and Protestants - which has raged on and off for three decades - has largely ended. However, much of Belfast remains divided along religious lines. The latest flare-up began shortly after a parade of 15 members of the Protestant Orange Order walked in silence past a row of shops in the nationalist Ardoyne area, flanked by riot police. The parade was smaller than usual because the authorities insisted marchers pass the shops before 4pm, too early for most of those attending a mass rally at the edge of the city. Most of the 500 or so Orange Order parades across the province, involving hundreds of thousands of marchers, bandsmen and watching crowds, passed off peacefully. However, Catholic youths also rioted and threw petrol bombs at police in Londonderry after local Orange Order parades there. A double-decker bus was hijacked and set on fire in Craigavon, police said.

Data errors led to wrongful arrests, watchdog reveals TWO members of the public were arrested by police and wrongly accused of crimes because ofﬁcials wrote down the wrong numbers, a watchdog revealed yesterday. Sir Paul Kennedy, the Interception of Communications Commissioner, said two forces were given the wrong information by a communications service provider (CSP) which led to two people

being wrongly detained and accused of crimes last year. The ﬁrm was also slow to report the errors and initially gave unsatisfactory explanations as to how they occurred or what was being done to prevent it happening again, Sir Paul said. “In two separate cases where a CSP disclosed the incorrect data, the mistakes were not realised and action was

taken by the police forces on the data received,” he wrote in his annual report for 2011. “Regrettably, these errors had very signiﬁcant consequences for two members of the public who were wrongly detained / accused of crimes as a result of the errors. “I cannot say more about these two instances at this time as investigations are ongoing.”

provide at this difficult time.” All those believed to have been missing have been accounted for, but police are continuing to search the area. Two other Britons - including climber Dave Compton, 41, from Ellesmere Port - reported missing following the avalanche were confirmed safe and well after presenting themselves to police in Chamonix yesterday evening. Valls said: “The avalanche was caused by heavy snow, which was triggered by a strong wind. This was a major danger on a mountain which has been covered by snow. The risk is known. “We know that the climbers tried to navigate to traverse the mountain initially and it is difficult to foresee such kind of avalanche. We were unable to realise that such a thing would have happened.” British Ambassador to France Sir Peter Ricketts said: “Our thoughts are with the families of the victims of this accident.”

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World Without mentioning China, Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario said one “member state’s” intrusions into Philippine territory were part of a “creeping imposition” of its claim over the entire South China Sea and were raising the risk of a conﬂict (AFP)

WORLD TODAY South Africa train tragedy A COAL train ploughed into a farm truck at a level crossing in South Africa on Friday, cutting it in half and killing 24 workers on their way to pick fruit the latest tragedy to hit the country’s ageing rail network. Regional police spokesman Joseph Mabusa said it appeared the truck driver had miscalculated when crossing the track, leaving his vehicle directly in the path of a freight train carrying coal to neighbouring Mozambique. “It is a very gruesome scene. Some bodies are without heads and some without limbs. Forensic teams are still working on the scene,” he said. The impact, at a rural rail crossing 400 km (250 miles) east of Johannesburg, dragged the truck 200 metres (660 feet) down the track, dismembering its occupants and making it hard for forensic experts to say exactly how many people had been killed. The truck driver survived the accident and was taken to hospital along with at least 20 other victims, some of whom were in a critical condition. He was expected to be charged with culpable homicide, or even murder, local media reported.

Ethiopia jailings TWENTY Ethiopians, including a prominent blogger, journalists and opposition figures were jailed for between eight years to life on Friday on charges of conspiring with rebels to topple the government. Rights groups condemned the sentences and the Committee to Protect Journalists said it showed Ethiopia was using an “iron fist” to crush critical reporting. The Horn of Africa nation, a major recipient of Western aid, is fighting separatist rebel movements and armed groups it says are backed by arch-foe Eritrea. But rights groups say Ethiopia, sandwiched between volatile Somalia and Sudan, regularly uses security concerns as an excuse to crack down on dissent and media freedoms.

Suspect wires THE discovery of suspicious wires in plastic straws aboard a Madridbound Delta Air Lines jetliner on Thursday night forced the plane to return to New York, but authorities said they searched the aircraft and found no bomb. Delta Flight 126, a Boeing 767-300 with 206 passengers aboard, landed safely at JFK airport shortly after 9.30pm EDT (0130 GMT Friday), about 90 minutes after takeoff, according to the airline.

ASEAN summit ends in strife over sea dispute By Prak Chan Thul and Stuart Grudgings A SOUTHEAST Asian regional summit ended in acrimony yesterday over China’s assertive role in the strategic South China Sea, failing to agree on a concluding joint statement for the first time in its 45-year history. Divisions between the 10 countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) follow a rise in incidents of naval brinkmanship involving Chinese vessels in the oil-rich waters that has sparked fears of a military clash. The Philippines said it “deplores” ASEAN’s failure to address the worsening row, and criticised Cambodia - a close ally of China - for its handling of the issue during the foreign ministers’ meeting. Without mentioning China, Philippine Foreign Minister Albert del Rosario told a news conference in Manila that one “member state’s” intrusions into Philippine territory were part of a “creeping imposition” of its claim over the entire South China Sea and were raising the risk of a conflict. The South China Sea has become Asia’s biggest potential military flashpoint as Beijing’s sovereignty claim over a huge, looping area has set it against

Chinese naval brinkmanship in South China Sea decried Vietnam and the Philippines as the three countries race to tap possibly huge oil reserves. The stakes have risen as the US military shifts its attention and resources back to Asia, emboldening its long-time ally the Philippines and former foe Vietnam to take a bolder stance against Beijing. ASEAN’s divisions are an ominous sign for a bloc that wants to create a regional economic community by 2015 that would bring down barriers in trade, labour and ﬁnancial markets - partly to compete with China for investment. China is a member of the East Asian Summit and ASEAN Regional Forum which also held meetings in Cambodia. “The increasing assertion by this member state over the disputed and non-disputed areas poses a threat to the peace and stability in the Asia-Pacific region,” del Rosario said. “If left unchecked, the increasing tension that is being generated in the process could further escalate into physical hostilities which no one wants.” China has been accused of using its heavy inﬂuence over summit chair Cambodia and

several other ASEAN members to block regional-level discussions on the issue and attempts to agree a binding maritime Code of Conduct to manage the dispute. The Philippines said it took “strong exception” to Cambodia’s statement that the nonissuance of a communique was due to “bilateral conflict between some ASEAN member states and a neighbouring country”. It said it had only requested that the communique mention the recent standoff between Chinese and Philippine ships at the Scarborough Shoal in waters that both countries claim. Indonesia, the biggest economy in Southeast Asia, played down the rift. “No doubt the South China Sea at the moment is a difficult issue but I’m sure ASEAN will find ways and means to be able to address that problem,” Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa said. But the rising tensions were underlined yesterday when the Chinese navy said one of its frigates had run aground on Half Moon Shoal, about 90

nautical miles off the western Philippine island of Palawan. China said it was conducting a rescue mission and the Philippines said it was sending “assets” to the area to investigate and provide assistance if needed. “That’s a very strategic location to strengthen their claim over the Reed Bank, they are getting closer to our territory, putting one foot inside our fence,” one military ofﬁcial told Reuters. The Philippines scrambled aircraft and ships to the Reed Bank area last year after Chinese navy ships threatened to ram a Philippine survey ship. China said last month it had begun “combat-ready” patrols in waters it said were under its control in the South China Sea, after saying it “vehemently opposed” a Vietnamese law asserting sovereignty over the Paracel and Spratly islands. Philippine President Benigno Aquino said last week that he may ask the US to deploy spy planes to monitor the disputed waters. China, whose trade and investment ties with Cambodia have surged in recent years, has warned “external forces” should not get involved in the dispute, which it says should only be discussed bilaterally. Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei and Taiwan also lay claim to parts of the South China Sea.

Thai govt safe after court throws out petition THAILAND’S ruling party said yesterday it would push ahead with plans to change the constitution after a court ruled that proposed amendments did not threaten the revered monarchy, a charge that might have led to the party’s dissolution. The decision means the government is not in danger of falling and should ease political tensions that have spiralled in Thailand over the past few days. The Constitutional Court ruled that the government would need the go-ahead from a referendum before an elected assembly could rewrite the constitution, but it left the way open for parts to be changed without that and the ruling party said it might take that route. “We are sad that the Thai people won’t have a chance to change the charter through elected representatives, but we are likely to proceed with changing the constitution article by article,” Puea Thai party spokesman Prompong Nopparit said. The government’s “red shirt” supporters, who had threatened protests if the ruling went against them, were jubilant. “This is a historic moment for Thailand and we will continue to support the government,” said Thida Thawornseth, leader of the red shirts’ United Front for Democracy against Dictatorship. The ruling was watched closely as it could have opened another front in Thailand’s seven-year political rift between the royalist establishment and the mostly lower class red shirts. Powerful royalists oppose any change to a constitution enacted under a military-backed government in 2007.

An anti-government protester seen prior to the ruling

Leftist runner-up seeks to void Mexican election outcome, again THE runner-up in Mexico’s presidential race on Thursday filed suit before the country’s electoral court in a bid to void the results on charges the winner broke campaign finance laws and bought millions of votes. Left-wing candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador came in 3.3 million votes behind Enrique Pena Nieto from the centrist Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI), according to the official count from the July 1 vote. But the former mayor of Mexico City, who lost the 2006 presidential race by a narrower margin, says the campaign was rigged, with major media

outlets skewing coverage to promote the telegenic Pena Nieto at the expense of the other parties. Lopez Obrador said he had proof Pena Nieto enlisted help from local governors to buy around 5 million votes by doling out pre-paid gift cards, cash, foodstuffs, building materials and fertilizer to lure poor voters to the ballot boxes. “The massive vote buying operation was carried out before and on the day of the election,” Lopez Obrador told a news conference, adding he would next week unveil a “national plan for the defense of democracy and the dignity of Mexico.” In 2006, Lopez Obrador also refused to accept

his loss to President Felipe Calderon by less than 1 percentage point. Financial markets were rattled when his supporters staged weeks of disruptive protests, occupying the capital’s main boulevard. This time markets have largely shrugged off the possibility of a drawn-out conﬂict and Pena Nieto is already naming advisers to work on his government’s transition. Lopez Obrador stopped short of calling for protests and said his camp will argue before the electoral tribunal, known as the TRIFE, that the PRI broke the rules for free elections.

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World

Hamas sees Mursi defying Israel, ending blockade

Haniyeh said change was coming to Gaza (EPA)

THE head of the Islamist group Hamas in the Gaza Strip said yesterday he was conﬁdent Egypt’s new president would shield the Palestinian enclave from Israeli attack and fully open its borders to end a trade blockade. Mohamed Mursi, who won power in last month’s presidential election in Egypt, is a member of the Muslim Brotherhood and ideologically close to Hamas. The Gazan Islamists long complained that his predecessor Hosni Mubarak, ousted from power last year in a popular revolt, sided not just with Israel, but also with their political rival – Palestinian Presi-

dent Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah movement. So far, Hamas has seen little sign of a policy shift since Mursi took office and diplomats said the Egyptian leader had so many domestic problems that he could ill-afford to dedicate much time to re-tooling Cairo’s relations with the Palestinians. However, Ismail Haniyeh, the head of Hamas’ Gaza government, told worshippers in a mosque that change was coming. “We are confident that Egypt, the revolution led by Mursi, will never provide cover for any new aggression or war on Gaza,” he said. “We are confident that Egypt, the revolu-

tion led by Mursi, will not take any part in blocking Gaza,” he added. Israel launched a military offensive against Gaza in late 2008 in an effort to end repeated rocket attacks from Hamas, which refuses to recognise Israel’s right to exist. Some 1,400 Palestinians and 13 Israelis died in the three-week war. Low level violence continues and Israel still imposes a rigid trade blockade on Gaza, arguing that it is needed to prevent weapons armsmaking materials into the enclave. Politicians in Israel have expressed alarm in private over the election of Mursi and fear that their country’s historical peace treaty with Egypt

could be eroded over time. Mubarak helped police the Gaza blockade and did not let any goods officially cross the border, saying this was part of longstanding accords with Washington and Israel. However, Cairo always turned a blind eye to a thriving blackmarket business with Gaza conducted through a warren of underground tunnels. A few hundred people cross in and out of Gaza every day via Egypt and the number of passengers has increased since Mursi took office. However, officials on both sides pin this on the start of the holiday season rather than on any policy shift.

UN horror over Syria massacre

Russia speeds law on rights groups in snub to US

Words of outrage from outside world

THE Russian government rushed a law through parliament on Friday which will tighten controls on civil rights groups and has strained relations with the United States, which fears a crackdown on opponents of President Vladimir Putin. In defiance of criticism this week from the US State Department, curtly dismissed by Russia’s Foreign Ministry as “gross interference”, the lower house overwhelmingly backed the bill in second and third readings under accelerated procedures. The rapid passage underlined the importance Putin attaches to a law which will force foreign-funded nongovernmental organisations (NGOs) that engage in “political activity” to register with the Justice Ministry as “foreign agents” and to file a report on their operations to officials twice a year. Critics say the term “foreign agents” echoes back to the Cold War, and that the law aims to starve such groups of funds and to intimidate them into silence. “Put simply, this law has just one goal and that is to provide a formal reason for labelling your opponents enemies of the state,” said Yelena Zhemkova, a director at Russian human rights group Memorial.

(continued from front page) Syrian state television said there was fighting in Tremseh and accused “armed terrorist groups” of committing a massacre there, but gave no death toll. The rebel forces also said there was a battle and the UN military representative confirmed it. UN monitors in Syria tried to reach the scene yesterday but said in a report to their Geneva headquarters that they were prevented by a continuing operation by the Syrian air force in the area, targeting urban population centres. Opposition video segments posted on YouTube, however, provided evidence that dozens had met a violent death. One piece of film to appear on the Internet showed the corpses of 15 young men with faces or shirts drenched in blood. Most wore T-shirts and jeans. There were no women or children. Other videos showed rows of bodies wrapped in blankets, sheets and makeshift shrouds, some leaking blood. One man pulled aside a blanket to display a car-

bonised corpse. Men placed wrapped bodies in a breezeblock trench for burial. In a mosque packed with grieving women and distraught men, bodies were collected, identified and prepared. Children stepped gingerly among the corpses covering the floor. The White House said further “atrocities” by Assad’s forces should remove doubt that a coordinated international response was necessary at the United Nations. A spokesman said that through “repeated acts of violence against the Syrian people” Assad had lost the legitimacy to lead. British Foreign Secretary William Hague said: “Everything we have seen of the Syrian regime’s behaviour over the last 17 months suggests that these reports are credible. They demand a united response from the international community.” UN monitors must get into Tremseh urgently to find out what happened, Hague said, and the United Nations Security Council must agree to a Chapter VII resolution with teeth that can impose sanctions if Assad

fails to fulfil commitments made under the Annan plan, to withdraw his forces from residential areas. Chapter VII allows the world body to take action ranging from sanctions to military intervention. But Russia and China have used veto powers so far to block such a resolution. “Tragically, we now have another grim reminder that the Council’s resolutions continue to be flouted,” Annan wrote to the Council. Recalling his request for Syria to suffer consequences for non-compliance, he said: “This is imperative and could not be more urgent in light of unfolding events.” Russia, which will host Annan for talks next week, called for an inquiry into events at Tremseh: “This wrongdoing serves the interests of those powers that are not seeking peace but persistently seek to sow the seeds of inter-confessional and civilian conflict on Syrian soil,” the foreign ministry said. Hama’s revolutionary movement said what happened to Tremseh was a case of ethnic cleansing.

UN special envoy Koﬁ Annan said he condemned the Hama atrocities ‘in the strongest possible terms’ (EPA)

The Sunni Muslim village lies in ﬂat farmland. Access had been cut off for six months by army roadblocks. Tremseh is ringed by six hilltop villages of the Alawite minority which has dominated Syria for four decades under the Assads. They provided the militia who carried out the lethal purge, the movement said. In a report, it said 200 buses, army trucks, tanks and other armoured vehicles besieged the town in the

morning and ﬁve helicopters were counted when the bombardment began. Rebels from nearby rushed to defend the village and the ensuing battle went on for seven hours. After the dust settled, at least 150 bodies were collected from under the rubble and from surrounding farmland and from the Orontes river. Forty were summarily executed, 30 burnt beyond recognition, it said. Three families were hacked to death.

Chancellor Merkel’s spokesman promises Germany’s Jews and Muslims they will be able to continue circumcision CHANCELLOR Angela Merkel’s spokesman promised Germany’s Jewish and Muslim communities yesterday they would be free to carry out circumcision on young boys despite a court ban which

has provoked concerns about religious freedom. In a country that is especially sensitive to allegations of intolerance because of the Nazis’ slaughter of six million Jews in the Holocaust,

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the government said it would ﬁnd a way around the Cologne court ban in June as a matter of urgency. “For everyone in the government it is absolutely clear that we want to have Jewish and Muslim religious

life in Germany,” said Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert. “Circumcision carried out in a responsible manner must be possible in this country without punishment.”

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Business US outlook on jobs, finances gloomy

Italy passes market test after Moody’s downgrade

U.S. CONSUMER sentiment cooled again in early July to its lowest level in seven months as Americans took a dim view of their finances and job prospects, a survey released yesterday showed. Separately, producer prices rose only slightly last month as energy costs dropped, suggesting inflation pressures remain muted and leaving the door open for more efforts to stimulate the economy by the Federal Reserve. Consumer sentiment eroded for the second month in a row after a streak of gains that started in September and Americans’ attitudes about their financial situations for the coming year reached an all-time low. Analysts said that while the drop in the main index was disappointing, attitudes were still not as dire as last summer when fears of an imminent recession were high. At the same time, however, “The lack of a rebound, despite some help from lower gasoline prices and a modest bounce in equities in the past month, raises the specter of growth remaining stuck at a low level for a while,” said Jim O’Sullivan, chief U.S. economist at High Frequency Economics. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment fell to 72.0 from 73.2 in June, frustrating economists’ expectations for a slight gain to 73.4. It was the lowest level since December 2011. Worries about the strength of the global economy have grown of late, along with concerns the eurozone debt crisis is taking its toll. After growing at a 1.9 per cent annual rate in the first quarter, the US economy is not expected to have done much better in the second quarter.

Moody's cuts Italy by two notches to Baa2 ITALIAN banks came to the rescue yesterday after the country suffered a ratings downgrade, but while Rome cut its three-year borrowing costs at auction, a rise in 10year bond yields highlighted concern it may fall victim to Europe’s debt crisis. Moody’s cut Italy’s sovereign debt rating to Baa2 yesterday, citing doubts over Italy’s long-term resolve to push through much-needed reforms and saying persistent worries about Spain and Greece were increasing its liquidity risks. Solid domestic demand helped the Italian Treasury sell the top planned amount of 5.25 billion euros in bonds, paying less than a month ago on three-year paper. “This was a challenging enough auction without the downgrade which makes the result look all the more impressive,” said Spiro Sovereign Strategy Managing Director Nicholas Spiro. “Once again, the Treasury was able to get its debt out the door, which right now is the overriding priority.” A new 2015 bond was sold at an average 4.65 per cent rate, compared with the 5.30 per cent Italy paid in June just before a cliffhanger Greek vote that had stoked fears of a euro exit and soon after

Moody’s lauded Italy Prime Minister Mario Monti’s commitment to fiscal reforms and structural consolidation, but warned it could again cut the country’s marks if the next Italian government failed to continue along this path (AFP) an unconvincing first deal to help Spanish banks. Italian banks’ commitment to support Rome’s refinancing of its 2 trillion euro debt and a broad domestic investor base have provided a safety net for Italy throughout the crisis. Foreign investors’ reluctance to hold Italian debt, however, keeps the yields under pressure. Benchmark 10-year-bond yields were up nine basis points around 6

per cent while Italy’s debt insurance costs also rose. “Does it mean this puts a cap on the rise in Italian yield? Well, not really,” said strategist Marc Ostwald at Monument Securities in London. The US rating agency lauded Prime Minister Mario Monti’s commitment to ﬁscal reforms and structural consolidation. But warned it could again cut the country’s marks if the next Italian government failed to continue

along this path. “The negative outlook reﬂects our view that risks to implementing these reforms remain substantial. Adding to them is the deteriorating macroeconomic environment, which increases austerity and reform fatigue among the population,” it said. “The political climate, particularly as the spring 2013 elections draw near, is also a source of implementation risk."

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Analysts say political uncertainty ahead of elections is the main risk for Italy, where frustration with austerity measures and the country’s weak and fragmented party system is stoking anti-European sentiment and has helped the meteoric rise of the populist Five Star Movement, led by comedian Beppe Grillo. Respected technocrat Monti, who was called in last November to pull back Italy from the edge of the cliff and avoid a Greek-style debt crisis, has said he will stand down next year. Three-times Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, who has kept a low profile since being forced out to leave room for Monti, announced this week he will return to frontline politics as the centre-right candidate, further muddling the political outlook. He has taken an increasingly anti-European tone in recent public comments, criticising Monti’s austerity policies and openly questioning the value of remaining in the euro. “Berlusconi seems to have picked up on the increased sense of frustration within the Italian society that the sacrifices being made by the country are not being sufficiently recognised by the markets and that part of the blame lies in the slow EU policy response,” said BNP Paribas analyst Luigi Speranza. Opinion polls suggest that a centre-left bloc would win the elections and it is not yet clear whether Berlusconi’s return to front line politics may alter the picture. The stark warning from Moody’s, which comes as investors are already fretting about Spain’s ability to mend its banking sector, knocked the euro down a quarter of a cent overnight and initially sunk Italian bond futures.

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GLOBAL stocks jumped and oil prices rose yesterday after Chinese economic data eased fears of a potential hard landing by the world’s second-largest economy and a further crimp to worldwide growth. A 7.6 per cent reading of gross domestic product growth in China was a hair above the government’s expectations, bolstering sentiment across the board in commodities and buoying stock prices. The euro advanced against the dollar for the ﬁrst time in four days, rebounding from a fresh two-year low earlier in the day as investors sought to cover bets against the currency and risk sentiment broadly improved. “The data out of China suggested that things are not all that bad, and that’s giving a relief rally,” said Randy Frederick, managing director of trading and derivatives with the Schwab Centre for Financial Research. “But I think the rally today is a lot stronger than it should be, and I don’t expect this to continue for very long. I wouldn’t expect the market to close at current levels today.” US stocks rose more than 1 per cent, with the benchmark S&P 500 index on track to snap a six-day losing streak, even after JPMorgan Chase & Co post-

ed $4.4 billion of losses from its “London whale” trades. JPMorgan also said it may incur $700 million to $1.7 billion in further losses. But the bank’s stock rose 4.2 per cent to $35.45 as the trading losses cut second-quarter profit by only $471 million from a year earlier, to $4.96 billion. Investors shrugged off a survey that showed US consumer sentiment cooled again in early July to its lowest level in seven months as Americans took a dim view of their finances and job prospects. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan’s preliminary reading on the overall index on consumer sentiment fell to 72.0 from 73.2 in June. Separately, producer prices rose only slightly in June as energy costs dropped, suggesting inflation pressures remain muted. The Labour Department said seasonally adjusted producer prices rose 0.1 per cent, a pace that leaves the door open for more efforts from the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 181.34 points, or 1.44 per cent, at 12,754.61. The Standard & Poor’s 500 Index was up 18.09 points, or 1.36 percent, at 1,352.85. The Nasdaq Compos-

ite Index was up 33.10 points, or 1.15 per cent, at 2,899.29. European shares extended gains, with traders citing speculation of a shift in asset allocation as the jump in U.S. stocks helped the euro to rebound from a two-year low against the U.S. dollar. The euro last traded at $1.2234, up 0.3 per cent, rebounding from a mid-2010 low of $1.2160 hit earlier in the session. The FTSEuroﬁrst 300 rose 1.2 percent to close up at a provisional 1,041.36. “There is a major asset allocation switch out of Treasury long-end ETFs into European equities happening right now,” said Justin Haque, a trader at Hobar Capital Markets. The benchmark 10-year U.S. Treasury note was down 7/32 to yield at 1.50 per cent. The euro’s rebound also changed sentiment on Italian government debt. Italian yields had jumped after a surprise ratings cut by Moody’s highlighted the risk that the debt crisis could potentially engulf the eurozone’s thirdbiggest economy. Moody’s warned it could further downgrade Italy’s credit rating, now just two notches above junk status, if the country’s access to debt markets dried up.

A vender counts money at a shoe store in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, China yesterday

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Opinion

Traffic cameras might yet tame inconsiderate speed demons ENGOMI residents will gather at the intersection of Grivas Dighenis and 28 October Avenues on Monday to express their anger at the authorities’ failure to do anything about the noise caused by excessive speeding by cars on these roads. Both avenues feature long straight stretches on which drivers (mostly of a young age) step on the accelerator, usually during the early hours, making a terrible noise that deprives residents of a good night’s sleep. It is perfectly understandable that people are angry, demanding that this grossly inconsiderate and antisocial behaviour is stopped by any means possible. Everyone has the right to enjoy undisturbed sleep and the authorities have an obligation to safeguard this right. Yet all attempts at stopping drivers from revving up their cars and driving at extremely high speeds down these roads have failed. Police had turned up at the place where youngsters arranged car races and issued warnings. But even if this practice has been restricted there are still plenty of drivers and motorcyclists who feel the need to drive down Grivas Dighenis Avenue at 180 kph, making enough noise to wake the dead. Engomi municipality has proposed placing road bumps on Grivas Dighenis and 28 October Avenues, as this is the only way of stopping the speeding, but it has encountered the opposition of the government, which is in charge of these avenues. Apparently municipalities have the authority to deal with secondary roads only. This is why Monday’s protest is directed against the government which disagrees with the construction of road bumps. Obviously, the relevant ministry does not want to place speed bumps on the main dual carriageway that goes through Nicosia because it does not want to inconvenience law-abiding drivers who use the road. It would also cause traffic congestion during the day. Road bumps are a big nuisance for drivers, and would also slow down ambulances, fire trucks and police cars that need to get somewhere fast - for an emergency, using the capital’s main road. And why must all road-users be penalised because of some inconsiderate and reckless drivers, whom the police cannot stop from breaking the law? The Public Works Department has proposed installing cameras on the road, but the municipality fears that they would be vandalised. The only other option, although not very practical, would be to place traffic policemen to keep an eye on the road from midnight to 7am and book those caught speeding. But before this, traffic cameras should be given a try because they were an effective deterrent to speeding in the short period they were used.

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Boon of ‘Arab Spring’ is ongoing democratic progress

he good news about last weekend’s election in Libya, as relayed by the Western media, was that the “Islamists” were defeated and the Good Guys won. The real good news was that democracy in the Arab world is still making progress, regardless of whether the voters choose to support secular parties or Islamic ones. The Libyan election was remarkably peaceful, given the number of heavily-armed militias left over from the war to overthrow the Gaddaﬁ dictatorship that still infest the country. Turnout was about 60 per cent, and Mahmoud Jibril, who headed the National Transitional Council during last year’s struggle against Gaddaﬁ, won a landslide victory. The explicitly Islamic parties, the Justice and Development Party (Muslim Brotherhood) and Al-Watan, did far worse than they expected, getting barely 20 per cent of the vote in Benghazi, the big city in the east. But they should not have been surprised. In Tunisia to Libya’s west and Egypt to the east, the Muslim Brotherhood was the mainstay of resistance to the dictatorships for decades, and it paid a terrible price for its bravery. It

Comment Gwynne Dyer was natural for voters in those countries to reward Islamic parties when the tyrants were finally overthrown. Gaddafi was more ruthless and efficient in crushing all opposition in Libya, and the Muslim Brotherhood had scarcely any local presence. So Libya gets a “secular” government, while Tunisia and Egypt get “Islamic” governments – but the point is that they all get democratically-elected governments, and stand a reasonable chance of becoming countries that respect human rights and the rule of law. Tunisia, indeed, has already made that transition, and Egypt, with one-third of the entire population of the Arab world, is still heading in that direction, too. The relevant question is not whether a party is Islamic; it’s whether it is democratic. The Western prejudice against Islamic parties (and local prejudice as well) comes from a confusion between Islamic and

“Islamist” groups, the latter being the English word for fanatical groups that reject democracy and advocate violent jihad against inﬁdels and “heretical” Muslims. This confusion, sad to say, is often deliberately encouraged by Western and local interests that really know better, but want to discredit those who oppose them. That phenomenon was much in evidence during the recent Egyptian elections, where the other major parties, instead of offering serious policy proposals of their own, concentrated on trying to

‘The relevant question is not whether a party is Islamic; it’s whether it is democratic’

scare the voters about the “Islamic threat”. It didn’t work in Egypt, where the Muslim Brotherhood’s party won both the parliamentary and the presidential elections. This did not please the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces and its allies from the old regime, and they arranged for the Egyptian Supreme Court to dismiss the new parliament on a ﬂimsy constitutional pretext. Egypt’s newly-elected president, Mohamed Mursi, has refused to accept the army’s decrees, and a delicate game is under way in Cairo in which he is trying to discredit the soldiers and gradually drive them back into their barracks without risking an open confrontation that could trigger an actual military coup. He will probably win in the end, because the army knows that the masses would promptly be back in Tahrir Square if it did try a coup. And if Egyptians don’t like what their Islamic government does, they can always vote it out again at the next election. Gwynne Dyer is a Londonbased independent journalist whose articles are published in 45 countries

Undone by performance culture values

ankers are having a hard time these days. Not just because of the obvious rhyme but because they represent the highest proﬁle example of a management culture that has invaded almost every profession, from libraries to call centres, teaching to tourism. Hitting targets, it’s what determines performance-related pay. It’s what makes you employee of the month. It’s what saves some departments from closure and workers from redundancy and it only works if people are honest, which they aren’t. I remember from childhood being told if I tidied my bedroom I would be able to go out and play. On one occasion it was a hot sunny day, everyone else had already headed to the den and I was late. Maximum speed meant gathering in my arms the detritus strewn over the ﬂoor: school uniform,

IDL IDLE LE CCHATTER HATT Lauren O’Hara beeplauren@yahoo.ie

Bayko building sets bits out of their box, pens without tops, Sindy dolls without heads... They were stuffed and shoved inside the wardrobe. Leaning against the door with an innocent smile at my mother’s inspection, I had every intention I would sort it out later. Of course that day, I never did. Anyone who has seen the brilliant play Enron will know that’s exactly how ﬁnanciers were shown to manage their toxic debts, represented by raptors in the basement. They stowed the problem away, intending to deal with it, until it grew so large and so deadly it could no longer be contained

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and, as in my case, the wardrobe door no longer shut. Performance targets encourage people to cheat. From the recent debate about choosing easier exam boards to the hard sell of endowment policies, they pressure employers and employees to provide evidence of ever increasing success. Of course, it’s always been part of the ‘sales’ culture. The conventions where those that sold the most get the applause and the rewards, but now it’s invidious and it’s got to the point where not only does it encourage aggressive coldcalling, invasion of privacy and information bordering on lies to sell new software or solar panels it has become, as in banking, systemic to the culture of the job. From reducing doctors waiting lists to providing evidence of ever better exam results, people are being trained to produce favourable statistics,

to massage and manipulate information, because their pay, their departments, their futures depend on it. Airlines overestimate journey lengths so that they can more easily say they have arrived on time, national charities have people with clipboards on commission in high streets, supermarkets have performance indicators for their shelf stockers. My mother with her carrot rather than stick approach trusted me to do the job properly and eventually, one rainy day, I did. But whilst we continue to reward paper claims rather than veriﬁable facts, we are in the hands of boards and bosses who have vested interest in proving ever better results whether for personal gain or glory. And, sadly, contrary to old sayings, cheats will continue to prosper.

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

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25 years ago July 14, 1987

In the pivotal event of the French Revolution, a Paris mob storms and captures the Bastille, a royal prison fortress that is a symbol of the ancient régime.

Ian Michael Davison, from England, who was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of three Israeli nationals in September 1985, has applied to the Cyprus authorities to serve the rest of his sentence in British jails. The Cyprus government appears to have no objection to this transfer as long as the British Home Ofﬁce consented.

1933 The German government, having given Adolf Hitler dictatorial powers, outlaws all political parties except the National Socialist, or Nazi, party.

1958 A coup in Iraq led by General Abd al-Karim Kassem overthrows the country’s monarchy, kills King Faisal II, and declares Iraq a republic.

2002 French President Jacques Chirac survives an assassination attempt during Bastille Day celebrations in Paris.

35 years ago July 14, 1977 EOKA B ofﬁcers had suggested to General Grivas in 1973 the abduction and killing of all members of the Council of Ministers, the Nicosia Assize Court was told yesterday. The court is hearing charges against the alleged EOKA B deputy leader Lefteris Papadopoulos for seditious conspiracy and preparing warlike operations against the government.

45 years ago July 14, 1967 Israel claimed to have shot down five Egyptian MIG fighters today as fierce land and air battles continued along the Suez Canal on the eve of the arrival of UN observers there. Israel military sources said two Egyptian planes were shot down this afternoon.

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Tyler votes himself off American Idol By Bob Tourtellotte ROCKER Steven Tyler has bowed out of his job as a judge on top-rated television singing contest American Idol for the coming season, saying he wants to dedicate himself to his band, Aerosmith. Tyler’s departure comes as his fellow judge, Jennifer Lopez, also weighs whether to return to the programme that once reigned supreme atop US TV ratings but has seen its audience

shrink in recent years. Third panellist Randy Jackson seems a likely bet to return this fall for the programme’s 12th season as either a judge or in a mentoring role. “I strayed from my ﬁrst love, Aerosmith, and I’m back,” the band’s lead singer said in a statement. “I’ve decided it’s time for me to let go of my mistress American Idol before she boils my rabbit,” Tyler added, in a reference to the thriller movie, Fatal Attraction. “I got two ﬁsts in the air, and I’m kicking the door open

with my band.” Tyler, 64, and Aerosmith had amassed numerous hits like Walk This Way and I Don’t Want To Miss a Thing since gaining fame in the 1970s, but the group had reached a lull a few years back when the singer decided to join American Idol as a judge. The addition of Tyler and Lopez to the judging panel in the season that began in January 2011 sparked great interest in the Fox TV network’s hit show.

‘I strayed from my ﬁrst love, Aerosmith, and I’m back,’ the band’s lead singer said

Rolling Stones mark 50th anniversary of first gig

Twilight stars reflect on bittersweet end to films

Iconic band launch new book and exhibition

By Piya Sinha-Roy

By Josie Cox HALF a century after their ﬁrst live gig on London’s Oxford Street, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and the rest of the Rolling Stones marked the band’s 50th anniversary by launching a new book, a photographic exhibition and hinting about a tour. As part of the festivities guitarist Ronnie Wood told Reuters in an exclusive interview that the Stones are set to reveal their plans for future live gigs. “What we do is live in hope and hopefully we’ll unfold some plans very soon,” Wood said, adding that the band had recently spent a number of days rehearsing in a studio in New York and that getting together was like “being back at school”. Richards said this week that the Stones have met up for “a couple of rehearsals”, but would not go so far as to say when the quartet comprising himself, Jagger, Charlie Watts and Wood would be performing in public again. “We’re playing around with the idea and had a couple of rehearsals - we’ve got together and it feels so good,” Richards told the BBC. The 65-year-old Wood, who joined the Stones in 1975 to replace Mick Taylor, also refused to rule out the possibility of a return appearance by Bill Wyman - bass guitarist for the band from 1962 until 1993. “I saw him last week and he was in top form, rocking,” Wood said. “We also did a rehearsal with him a few weeks ago. It’s like he’d never been away.” The exhibition of photos at London’s Somerset House and the accompanying book track the rise of a group of fresh-faced British boys who played their ﬁrst gig at Oxford Street’s

Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts (L-R) pose in front of The Marquee Club in a picture taken to mark the 50th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ first ever live performance on July 12, 1962 at the iconic venue on London’s Oxford Street Marquee Club in 1962, became the scourge of the establishment in the 1960s, the titans of 70s music and finally the elder statesmen of rock and roll in the 21st century. “There was no sort of master plan,” Richards says on the band’s official website rollingstones.com. “We were flying by the seat of our pants. That is what amazes me, that the whole thing was improvised.” The relationship at the heart of the Stones’ success remains the working friendship of singer Jagger and Richards, whose long musical partnership goes back to the days when they roomed with the late guitarist and former Stones founding member Brian Jones, hustling gigs wherever they could find them. “You have to put yourself back into that time,” Jagger says on rollingstones. com. “Popular music wasn’t talked about on any kind of intellectual level. There

As they were: the rockers in their early days was no such term as ‘popular culture.’ None of those things existed.” But the Jagger/Richards partnership has also had its chillier moments. Earlier this year, Richards apologised to Jagger for derogatory comments he made about the lead singer in his 2010 memoir Life,

which caused a rift within the band. In comments reported by Rolling Stone magazine, the two agreed it was time to settle their differences, leaving fans keen for another world tour breathing a sigh of relief. “I got very involved with the business side of the

Stones, mainly because I felt no one else was interested, but it’s plain now from the book that Keith felt excluded, which is a pity,” Jagger was quoted as saying. “Time I reckon to move on.” Richards added: “Mick’s right. He and I have had conversations over the last year of a kind we have not had for an extremely long time and that has been incredibly important to me.” Some industry sources had put a tour delay down to the argument, but Rolling Stone said it may be more closely linked to concerns over Richards’ health. “The quality of the guitarist’s performances declined after he suffered a head injury on vacation in Fiji in April 2006, midway through the Bigger Bang tour,” the magazine said. A Bigger Bang, the Stones’ last tour, played to 4.5 million people in 32 countries over two years before it ﬁnished in London in 2007.

THE stars of Twilight gathered for the final time at the Comic-Con pop culture convention, laughing and joking with fans as they reflected on a “bittersweet” end to the film franchise that catapulted them to fame. The Twilight films - five in all based on a series of young adult novels by author Stephenie Meyer about a vampire, Edward Cullen, who falls in love with a human girl, Bella Swan - have become a blockbuster franchise earning $2.5 billion at global box offices from the first four films. The final instalment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 is due in theatres in November. “If you told me tomorrow that we had to reshoot some scene, I’d be so happy because I do enjoy living in this world. We got to do it for four years and I put everything I had into it,” Kristen Stewart, who plays Swan, told reporters at Comic-Con. “Even though it’s a bummer to walk away, it’s something I’ll always have.” She was joined by fellow actors Robert Pattinson, Taylor Lautner, author Meyer and newcomer Mackenzie Foy, who plays Edward and Bella’s daughter, Renesmee. Comic-Con attracts more than 125,000 movie, TV, comic book and pop culture fans annually, and Hollywood’s studios turn out with upcoming films and stars to promote. The Twilight makers used the convention as a launching pad for the first film in 2008 and they continue to return to reach hard-core followers. Thousands of fans lined up for hours - and for some people, days - to get into a Comic-Con panel where the stars talked about the film and treated fans to the first seven minutes of Breaking Dawn - Part 2. In the clip, Bella is seen experiencing her first moments as a vampire, reuniting with husband Edward and coming to terms with her newfound bloodlust. The footage ended just as Bella meets Renesmee - leaving the audience desperate for more.

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Tech

China pips Apple on launch of iPhone 5 Online sellers taking orders for unreleased phone By Melanie Lee APPLE Inc’s next-generation iPhone has not even been released yet, but opportunistic sellers on China’s largest ecommerce platform, Taobao, are already accepting pre-orders, complete with mock-up pictures and purported technical speciﬁcations. The hotly-anticipated iPhone 5 is widely expected to be released sometime between August and October this year, although Apple itself has been tight-lipped about it. Sources have said the iPhone 5 would have a bigger screen than previous models, while Taiwanese media reported the phone’s voice recognition software, Siri, would have more powerful functions. Sellers on Taobao, a unit of Alibaba Group, are accepting orders for the iPhone 5, in some cases asking for a deposit of 1,000 yuan ($160) for the new phone. One seller, “Dahai99888”, who started accepting pre-orders this week, is asking for full payment upfront, at a cool 6,999 yuan ($1,100). Taobao sellers said they planned to buy the iPhone 5

The Internet rumour mill has been in overdrive, churning out images of purported iPhone 5 engineering samples in Hong Kong or the United States and then bring it to mainland China. Apple products are often available in Hong Kong before they are released on the mainland. The sellers could not promise a specific delivery time. The pre-order activity comes despite the mystery around the iPhone 5 and highlights the intense demand for new Apple products in China. Apple has not confirmed the specifications, details or price of the latest iPhone, but the Internet rumour mill has been

in overdrive, churning out photo renderings and pictures of purported iPhone 5 engineering samples and speculating endlessly on its technical speciﬁcations and functions. Apple did not respond to requests for comment. “Demand is high. Yesterday someone just bought two phones. Altogether we have about two dozen orders,” said one seller on Taobao who went by the nickname Xiaoyu. On Alibaba.com, the business-to-consumer platform of Alibaba Group, hard-shell

cases and soft silicone cases for the iPhone 5 were peddled by sellers, most located in southern China. The majority of cases indicate an elongated iPhone 5 with some showing an earphone jack located at the bottom. One verified Alibaba.com seller Reuters spoke to “guaranteed” the cases were accurate, saying the company’s boss received the dimensions from “certain channels”. Although it is hard to know whether the cases on Alibaba. com reflect the real deal, the sellers have been right before. In early 2011, cases for the yetto-be-launch iPad 2 appeared on Alibaba.com, showing accurately the placement for a rear-facing camera. Demand for Apple products in China is so high that many consumers buy smuggled goods in order get them before the official China release. Earlier this year scalpers queued overnight outside a Beijing store for the latest version of the iPhone 4, only to pelt the store with eggs after Apple decided against selling the phone there because of security concerns. “It’s not so easy to bring the phones from overseas, there’s a limit to how many you can carry in...If we could bring in a few thousand that will be great!” said Xiaoyu. One enterprising seller posted a list of 17 possible new iPhone 5 features and gave a percentage probability that they would be included in the new device. For example, a biometric capability has a 20 per cent chance of being a feature on the iPhone 5, according to the seller. Apple, which recently settled an iPad trademark lawsuit with a Shenzhen technology firm, said on Tuesday it would release its latest iPad in China on July 20.

Looking for a ride? App brings drivers, passengers together DRIVERS with an empty seat in their car can ﬁnd people in need of a ride through a new app that connects them with potential passengers nearby. SideCar, an on-demand ride-sharing app, lets users request a ride by indicating where they would like to be picked up and dropped off. The app matches them with nearby drivers - prescreened by the company - who are willing to give rides. “We’re trying to set up a situation where people share the burden of transportation with each other,” said Blake Wirht, director of marketing for San Francisco-based SideCar. When someone requests a ride, nearby drivers can decide if they want to respond. The passenger can compensate the driver via the app at a suggested fare that often undercuts the cost of a taxi. “Longer trips tend to be signiﬁcantly less than taxis and shorter trips are more on par, but generally it’s a better deal,” Wirht said. Compensating the driver is completely voluntary, according to Wirht, who said the policy conforms to state ridesharing regulations. “We have instituted a community average which shows

people what others in the community have been paying for similar rides,” he said. He added that donating less than the recommended fare could cause a passenger to get a low rating on the app, and deter drivers from accepting the passenger’s ride requests in the future. Wirht said drivers span a range of ages and professions, from part-time waitresses to managers at technology companies and even retirees. “It’s fascinating the people you meet, and a lot of people are drawn to it for that reason. But there are a lot of people that drive for SideCar to offset their costs of vehicle ownership,” he said. Some critics have questioned whether accepting a ride with a stranger is wise, but Wirht said the company has made the safety of passengers and drivers its core focus. “In order to be approved as a driver you have to go through a vetting process, a background check, proof of your valid insurance, proof of driver’s license and proof of registration,” he said, adding that rides are also tracked via GPS. All passengers need to register with a valid credit card.

SideCar matches users with drivers going their way

THIS WEEK IN HISTORY

Bohlen designed the safer, now-familiar three-point belt

Seat-belt patent In 1962, a U.S. patent was issued to Swedish engineer, Nils Bohlen, for the three-point seat-belt. His lap and and shoulder design is now familiar as the passenger-restraint safety device in cars that has saved countless lives. His design replaced the earlier style of a single safety belts strapped across the body, with the buckle placed over the abdomen, which often caused severe internal injuries in high-speed crashes. Bohlin assigned the patent to Volvo, the car manufacturer for whom he worked

Pinning etiquette for Pinterest fans PINTEREST is currently the newest cool kid on the social media block, and with so many pinners pinning away (aka users sharing images), there’s good reason to review best practices. Pinterest sets the stage for good use by sharing pinning etiquette in its welcome email, and it keeps pinning etiquette easy for users to ﬁnd on its site. Still, whether you’re there for fun or for your company, it’s a good idea to keep to Pinterest’s guidelines, as well as a few other points of emerging etiquette, in mind when pinning. 1. Be respectful. Pinterest is about sharing inspiration and creativity, so keep comments positive. If you don’t like something, simply refrain from repinning or liking it, or stop following the board or pinner who shared it. 2. Give credit where credit is due, be it an author, company, designer, photographer or anyone else involved in an image’s creation. If a site has a “pin it” button it’s a clear sign they welcome you to use their images; even so, add crediting information, especially any that the site pre-feeds into the pin description. If a site has blocked visitors from pinning its images, respect that decision and refrain, even if you see a way to obtain the image another way.

Pinterest is about sharing images of users’ pleasures and pursuits 3. When pinning, take the time to click through to verify the original link. Regrettably, some pinners will misdirect users for their own purposes. If a pin links to an unrelated site, skip the pin and scroll on.

4. Add a comment or description to your pin so that others will be able to search for it (take a moment to proofread, too!) 5. Don’t pin from search engine results; pins from general image searches don’t allow other pinners to find out the link or page from which the image came. Keep clicking back through the posts to find the original post. 6. While it’s not exactly etiquette, it’s helpful to other pinners to categorize your pins correctly. A picture of a cute kitten isn’t fashion or home decor! 7. For the sake of the entire Pinterest community, go ahead and report inappropriate pins. 8. If you find a pinner you really like, feel free to repin, but only as much as you would be comfortable having repined from you. 9. You don’t have to follow everyone who follows you, but it’s worth at least checking out their boards to see if you might want to follow them in return. It’s not rude to pick and choose among boards from a pinner you want to follow. It’s also okay to stop following a board or pinner at any time. 10. Lastly, don’t forget to come up for air! The beauty of the site is there will always be more to look at, so set a daily limit, then log off.

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films

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

NICOSIA The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 2.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm;

K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.40pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm, weekends also at 11.25am, 1.25pm and 3.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25, 7.55 and 10.30pm; K-

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

Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 2) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Summer Open-Air Marathon (tonight: We Have a Pope) (in Italian, with Greek subtitles) Konstantia Open-Air Cinema, Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm. Tel: 22-348203

Haywire (15) Rio 4 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Dark Shadows (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Five-Year Engagement (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.25, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383

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What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Snow White and the Huntsman (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 7.50 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 2 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.15, 7.55 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Snow White and the Huntsman (12) Rio 5 at 7.45 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 5.20pm. Tel: 25-871410

What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

Summer Open-Air Marathon (tomorrow: Mister Lonely) Konstantia Open-Air Cinema, Wednesday to Sunday at 9pm. Tel: 22-348203

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

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 1 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6.30 and 8.20pm, weekends also at 4.45pm, and (in 3D, in English) at 10.10pm only. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in English) at 5.45, 8 and 10.25pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.45 and 8pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.45pm. Tel: 77778383

Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.35, 8 and 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 1 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 2D, in Greek) and Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) and Rio 7 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Haywire (15) Rio 5 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000 Rock of Ages (12) Rio 2 at 10pm, weekends at 10.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 What to Expect When You’re Expecting (K) Rio 2 at 6 and 8pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.30 and 8.30pm. Tel: 26-207000 Snow White and the Huntsman (12) Rio 4 at 5.45, 8 and 10.15pm, weekends at 5, 7.30 and 9.45pm. Tel: 26-207000

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listings Today Music Mohombi Live International star playing his R&B beats. July 14. Passion Bar, Makarios III Avenue, Ayia Napa. 10pm. €25 including 1 drink (presale). Tel: 99-415604 Timati Live Russian hip-hop artist performs live. July 14. Makronissos Beach Club, Ayia Napa. 9pm. €40/100. Tel: 99-888327

Theatre Electra and Orestes, the Trial A play within a play produced by THOC within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 14. Paphos Ancient Odeon. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 77-772717/25-324015/26-947037. www.tickethour.com

Dance Spartacus A new timeless production staged by the Moscow Classical Ballet. July 14. Municipal Gardens Theatre, Limassol. 9pm. €15/30. Tel: 25-588694 www.tickethour.com.cy

Other Events Dragon Boat Challenge Team building charity event, challenging an opponent dragon boat on a

distance of 250 meters. Aims to raise awareness and funds for the antileukaemia association Zoi. July 14. Famagusta Nautical Club, 28th October Street, Limassol. 1pm. €20 per person. Tel: 25-879767/95-191919

Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday-Sunday: 6pm-9pm. Tel: 22-800970

Youth Power Beach Party There will be refreshments and Youth Power goodies, music and beach games, as well as the opportunity for interested partygoers to learn how the Youth Power Small Grants can help them fund innovative, transcommunal, youth-oriented projects and find out other ways with which they can get involved in the activities of the Youth Power network. July 14. Ammos Beach Bar in the Makenzy Beach, Larnaca. 4pm-8pm. Tel: 99 -785413 www.youthpowercyprus.org

Bacchae Drama by Euripides performed by the Mitos Theatre Group, Cyprus, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 16. Curium Ancient Theatre, Episkopi, Limassol. 9pm. €10/17. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 77-772717/25-324015 /26-947037. www.tickethour.com

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Other Events Video Dance Night Open-air video dance screening by award-winning choreographers (Vertical Road). July 16. Dancehouse Lemesos, Heroes Square. 9pm. Free. Tel: 77-777798

Monday Exhibition Armenian-Cypriot Painters and Photographers Group exhibition. Opens July 16, until July 31. Casteliotissa Hall, old

Exhibition

Pre-Kazantip Republic Three days of music, windsurfing and partying. July 13-15. Drops Club and Avdimou Beach, Limassol. All day event. €45 including three drinks for all three days. Cheaper one day passes also available. www.kazantipembassycyprus.com. Alex@ kazantipembassycyprus.com

Michalis Mozoras Solo sculpture exhibition. Until July 14. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. Monday- Friday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-766655

Theatre Miss Julie XMAS Production presents the classic work by August Strindberg as adapted by Patrick Marber. July 12-14. Latsia Municipal Theatre, 57 Yiannos Kranidiotis Avenue, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €20/45. Presale tickets available at selected So Easy Kiosks in all cities (Kiosks Time Out and Stokkos in Paphos). Tel: 70-003313

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Miss Pepsi Anemona Theatre presents classic comedy by French author Pierrette Bruno. Until July 29. Anemona Theatre, 7 Archagelou Street, Latsia, Nicosia. Every Friday through Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. Tel: 22-573031

Seventh Ethnic Music Festival A festival with an ethnic and Mediterranean flavour organised by the Rialto Theatre. July 4-29. Heroes Square, Limassol. 8.30pm. Free. Tel: 77- 777745. www.rialto.com.cy. The performances will also be held in Nicosia within the framework of Summer Nights

Yialloura Satiriko Theatre presents Cypriot play by Michalis Pashiardis, based on the poem by Dimitris Lipertis. Until July 29. Vladimiros Kafkarides Cultural Centre, 11-15 Vladimiros Kafkarides Street, Aglantzia. Every Saturday and Sunday at 8.30pm. In Greek. €12/7. Tel: 22-312940/22-421609

Music Gareth Emery English trance producer and DJ gets behind the decks. Guaba Beach Bar, Amathous Avenue, Limassol. 1pm-9pm. Free. Tel: 96-682865

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Ongoing

Summer Group Exhibition Until July 14. Opus 39 Gallery, 21 Kimonos Street, Nicosia. Monday: 5pm-8pm. Tuesday-Friday: 10.30am-12.30pm and 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-424983 Golden Roots Solo painting exhibition by Andreas C. Chrysafis. Until July 20. Gallery Technis Dromena, 53 Arch. Kyprianou, Nicosia. Monday-Friday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 5pm-8pm. Tel: 22-496398 Maniera Cypria: Lemesos, Fabula, Historia, Memoria Exhibition dedicated to ancient findings. Until August 12. Evagoras Lanitis Centre, Lanitis Carob Mill, Limassol. 5pm-9pm daily except Mondays. Tel: 25-342123 Dimitris Mihlis Solo painting exhibition. Until August 30. Gallery Kypriaki Gonia, 45 Stadiou Street, Larnaca. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm & 4.30pm-8pm. Sunday:11am-2pm & 4pm-7pm. Tel: 24-621109 Twice a Stranger Multimedia exhibition about forced migration and population exchange. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary

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Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4 .30pm. Tel: 22-661475/ 22-671997 I Will follow you to the end of the World - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 Diaspora Exhibition by visual artist Nikos Kourossis. Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Open: 3.30pm -5.30pm. Tel: 22-661475 The Area is Sacred Solo art exhibition by Panagiotis Mina. Until September 13. 50-1 Gallery, Limassol. Monday-Friday: 11am-1pm and 4pm-8pm. Saturday: 11am-1pm. Tel: 99-522977 Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30. Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm. Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25-378733. www.morfi.org

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On The Scene Other Events See the sea The sea has mesmerised, enticed and challenged humanity throughout history. It has been the site of famous battles, the source of wealth, the scene of tragedy, the route for countless migrants, a recreational playground and a source of artistic inspiration for generations. With this in mind, it perhaps comes as no surprise that the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation, in collaboration with the Ministry of Education and Culture and the Limassol Municipality, have once again organised a festival that celebrates the sea’s vastness, power and mystique. Entitled “Nautilus”, the event focuses its interest and sheds light on the relations of Cyprus with European and other maritime powers of Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the influence of the sea on literature and the arts. For almost five consecutive months, the Evagoras and Kathleen Lanitis Foundation will transport the sea and its mesmerising world to the heart of Limassol. Nautilus is a unique initiative that focuses on events inspired by the marine world. From fine art to photography, music and cinema, a host of activities and events will take place at the Evagoras Lanitis Centre and in various public spaces around the city, promoting the major role of Cyprus as a bridge between history and modern naval reality. Walking the streets of Limassol, both inhabitants and visitors will discover the rhythms of a city adapted to the refreshing environment of the sea. Some of you might have already noticed the outdoor photographic exhibitions: Karnayio, Fish Portrait, Sea goes Ethnic and Savoury of the Sea, which are scattered around key areas of Limassol, such as the castle area, Pantopolio and Heroes’ Square. Internationally-acclaimed photographers, including Scott Nelson, Carol Adam, Andrew Brownbill, Andreas Iacovou and Erato Kantouva, in collaboration with local organisations, such as Fotodos and the FEK Photographic Cyprus Society are all taking part. The acclaimed film Autumn Gold will be screened at the KOY Yermasoyia swimming pool on Monday within the context of the festivities. The film tells the life-affirming story of five athletes in their preparation for the Track and Field World Championships. Their toughest challenge is their age: these potential world champions are between 80 and 100. The athletes candidly admit that their lives are nearing completion, but their competitive spirit refuses to die. Rather than rest or fear what’s ahead, they keep fighting and aim to rack up even more gold medals. International Nautilus Sea Festival A unique initiative that focuses on events inspired by the marine world around the town of Limassol. Until November 15. Free. Tel: 25342123. www.lanitisfoundation.org July 16: Film screening of Autumn Gold at the KOY Yermasoyia swimming pool. 8.30pm

A night with rugby stars

England and Ireland rugby legends in Cyprus. Left: Lewis Moody MBE. Right: Leon Lloyd. Inset: Geordan Murphy

It is whispered among the rugby playing countries of Europe that Cyprus punches far above its weight: in demographic terms a paperweight; in pugilistic terms; a super middleweight. The republic is undefeated in ﬁve years of European divisional rugby. To celebrate their successful season as the only team in the European divisions to win all their matches, plus an outstanding Sevens result for the year, having carried off a major English trophy and coming fourth in the European Sevens in Warsaw, beating Sweden, Serbia and Poland, the president and committee of the Cyprus Rugby Federation have invited the former captains of England and Ireland and one of the outstanding backs of his generation to a fundraising dinner at the Elea Golf Club estate in Paphos next Saturday. Previously, a former president, Loukis Pattihis, brought Jake White, the South African World Cup winning coach to a very successful dinner in Paphos, attracting rugby lovers from all over the island, but now Laurence Vassiliades, the current federation president, has gone one step further by bringing Lewis Moody (captain of England 2010-11) Geordan Murphy (captained Ireland against New Zealand Maoris) and Leon Lloyd (capped for England at schools, colts, under 21s and full international) to meet the Cyprus rugby community.

Lewis Moody MBE, an award granted by the Queen of England for services to rugby, is one of the most charismatic forwards of his era, who made his first class debut for Leicester Tigers at the age of 18 into a back row that already contained those England stalwarts, Neil Back and Martin Corry, a formidable duo for anyone, and then compounded by the arrival of Josh Kronfield, the great AllBlack. However, Moody who only weighs in at 103 kilos and stands 6’3”, persevered and replaced the great Lol Dallaglio in the England side in 2001 and although hounded by injuries made the 2003 quad England World Cup squad hat won and was the forward that g mothe lineout in the dying ments of the final that led to ilkinson the famous Johnny Wilkinson red drop goal, which secured gland. the World Cup for England. o captain Moody who went on to nd was England in 2010-11 and e a tremendous favourite with the supporters forr h his kamikazi approach to the game, making ry the break-down his very d from own territory. He retired a in 2011 the international arena ances in and from club appearances March this year. derella Leon Lloyd is the Cinderella man of English rugby. Serinager ously injured as a teenager e one he went on to become uth playof the outstanding youth ers of his generation. Replacdering the iconic Rory Underritish wood (England and British

Lions) at the age of 17 in the Leicester Tigers side and going to play for the club for eleven years picking up England caps at schools, colts, U-21’s, Sevens and full international. Selected for the 1999 World Cup he was kept out of the international side by injury, but ﬁnished his club career with Gloucester and now is an ambassador for the Princes Trust and is Foundation Director for Oakham School, a leading midland independent school, and involved in a charity that raises money for under privileged children in south east Asia. Geordan Murphy is one of the most exciting full-backs of this age. Another Tiger, but one who cut his teeth on Gaelic football, playing for Kildare, but transferring his

allegiance to the oval ball to win Irish caps at U-18, U-21 and full international at wing and full-back. A Heineken Cup winner in 2001 and 02, selected for the Barbarians and nominated as player of the year by the Irish Press he suffered a broken leg against Scotland which kept him out of the international scene until 2005 when he was chosen to represent the British and Irish Lions on their tour of New Zealand. He captained the Tigers to win the Guinness premiership and then went on to skipper the Irish against the New Zealand Maoris in 2010. He retired in May 2012. All the celebrities are linked by cou club, country, and friendship; it will be a long time before we shall see their like again. Make y join the aﬁcionasure that you Ele Golf Estate next dos at Elea weekend. t Limited tickets are available th event includes and the mass massive prizes, auctions, que questions and answers, ent drinks, a cordon entry ble buffet and, of bleu cou course, a chance to me the guys. meet E An Evening with England I and Ireland Rugby Stars e The event includes luxury buffet, welcome drinks, Q & auc A, auction and raffle. July 21. E Eléa Estate, 1 Eleon Avenue, Gerosk Geroskipou, Paphos. 8.30pm. €75. Tel: T 26-202003/99389535/96-848601 38953 By Alexander McCowan

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Reportage Ensuring the safety of competitors, ticket holders and Londoners during the Olympics has become the biggest, and at £1 billion the most costly, security effort ever mounted in the UK. From anti-aircraft missiles to Royal Marines and 9,500 police, nothing is being left to chance, discovers Stephen Robinson

HERE is something slightly Blitz-like and exhilarating about the notion of London being ringed by anti-aircraft missile batteries, especially the one on the roof of the Lexington Building in Bow, the gated block of flats that is home to affluent young professionals. Londoners have been invited to digest the specifications of the laser-guided Starstreak High Velocity Missile Systems, as though we are buyers at an international arms fair. These lethal pieces of kit are supposed to bring down any incoming aircraft that breaches the total air exclusion zone over East London this summer. This is assuming that some lumbering jumbo has chanced to outrun the RAF Eurofighter Typhoon jets that will permanently patrol the Home Counties for the duration of the Olympics. To emphasise the ‘belt and braces’ spirit of this biggest and most expensive security operation in British history, Rapier missiles will be stationed on Blackheath Common and Oxleas Wood, with a range of just over four miles. It’s fun to imagine David Cameron chillaxing over his fourth glass of Merlot on a Saturday afternoon when the red telephone rings on the Chequers kitchen table. According to the scenario laid down by the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond, the PM will then have to make

the most momentous decision of his life. Will he give the authority to shoot down, say, a potentially hijacked Emirates Airbus A380 that General Sir Nick Parker, head of the military’s arm of the 2012 operation, has reason to believe is under the command of al-Qaeda rogue pilots? Of course it won’t happen that way; almost certainly it won’t happen at all. Defence ofﬁcials say that every Olympics since Atlanta in 1996 has had some form of aerial defence component.

LONDON LOCK get through on the telephone to the Prime Minister, who might be locked in summit negotiations trying to save the euro, or volleying balls on a tennis court. Shortly before the Games begin, the military will be ‘pre-authorised’ to take the momentous decision to shoot down a civilian airliner, because in the real world, as opposed to a Hollywood ﬁlm, the decision has to be taken in a handful of seconds. No one will ever know the true cost of the Olympics se-

Hundreds of Islamist extremists have the will to attack the Olympics; the current priority for MI5 is making assessments of those who have the actual capability to do so In truth, media coverage of the missile installations was deliberately confected to reassure Londoners that everything is being done to protect them, and to remind al-Qaeda not even to contemplate trying a re-run of 9/11 over the Thames. And the other point, sources make clear, is that any aerial defence of London cannot rely on a general being instantaneously able to

curity operation because so much of it is concealed within existing police and military budgets. But we do know that the taxpayer subsidy for security within Olympics venues had to be abruptly doubled earlier this year, to £553 million, due to a drastic under-estimation of the work involved and the number of sites that the London Organising Committee of the Olym-

pic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG) deemed necessary to protect. The true cost will never be admitted but it will not be much below £1 billion, though if the Games pass off without a terrorist incident, in the general relief no one will be asking. Never before in the course of athletic endeavour will 17,000 competitors from more than 200 countries, observed by an estimated 10.8 million ticketbuying spectators, have been so comprehensively and expensively protected - assuming, of course, that they have managed to stagger through immigration at Heathrow. The scale of the operation dwarfs anything previously undertaken in the UK. Protecting the royal participants during the Thames Jubilee Pageant was a challenge, but that lasted six hours. London has to be in a state of highalert lockdown for 45 days for the Olympics and Paralympics. In truth, the rogue commercial aircraft scenario is not one that keeps security ofﬁcials awake at night. Nor is it likely that anyone planning an Olympics terrorist attack is going to be coming through Heathrow a couple of days before the opening ceremony. The much, much bigger problem is the domestic sleeper terrorist cell, or the lone operator seeking attention for whatever cause he espouses. Because of the

July 2005 attacks on the London public transport network - which, one tends to forget, occurred the very day after the announcement that London had won the Games - we think primarily of an Islamist terrorist threat this summer. But there are other groups out there that Special Branch might not know of, and some that they do. The various dissident Irish Republican terrorist rumps, the Real IRA and Continuity IRA, could certainly do with the kudos of mounting a successful operation on mainland Britain. Therefore, the real challenge facing the security organisers is the gathering of crucial intelligence, which is much more likely to thwart an attack than a uniformed copper walking down Whitehall. MI5 is central to this intelligenceled effort. Because of the 9/11 and 7/7 attacks, its numbers were already on course to double in a decade to 3,500, even before the present Olympics challenge, and the agency is currently drawing heavily on input from SIS (formerly MI6) - the external service - and the eavesdropping GCHQ. Al-Qaeda’s capacity to strike in America and Europe has been denuded by targeted assassinations of its key leaders in Pakistan and Afghanistan, which is why jihadists are urged to develop their own tactics and use their initiative locally. These cells may not

be in regular contact via mobile phone or email to minders abroad, so they are much harder to trace. Hundreds of Islamist extremists have the will to attack the Olympics; the current priority for MI5 is making assessments of those who have the actual capability to do so. The Olympics security operation was planned at a time when the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre - which is based at MI5 HQ, but is technically independent of it - rated the terrorism threat as severe. Since then the threat has been lowered to substantial, because at the moment there is no speciﬁc, credible threat beyond the recognition that any self-respecting terrorist would love to make an entrance in the global arena that is the London Olympics. Perhaps perversely, it is the very fact that London has been a prime al-Qaeda target for more than ten years that makes this vast security operation viable. “We have been living with a terrorist threat for many years,” Assistant Commissioner Chris Allison, operational head of the Met’s security operation, says, noting that lessons were learned as far back as the IRA bombing campaigns of the 1970s. “It’s not like we’ve said, ‘Oh my God, we’ve got the Games; now we’ve got a terrorist threat.’ For years, we’ve been building on systems that

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KDOWN we know work, from the recent Jubilee to big sporting events.” Allison emphasises that the Olympics operation is a ‘blue games’, by which he means that British uniformed police are in charge in the public arena, backed up by the largely unseen support of the military. Commuters at most Tube stations will not notice any enhanced security, he says. But at major interchange stations, and those near the main Olympics sites, more British Transport Police will be on show, and some will have sniffer dogs. But there will be no armed soldiers on the streets of London, for there are strict rules against deploying them publicly except when speciﬁcally called upon in an emergency. The wider goal of the security operation is that Londoners who are not especially interested in the Olympics should not notice much change. Unless there is an ‘incident’, armed police and soldiers will not be visible. The goal is to maintain the ‘blue games’, with no para-military trappings - deemed more suitable for mass events in South American dictatorships. Another security ofﬁcial explains that some 23,000 parttime guards working for security company G4S, which has a £284 million contract from the organisers of the Games, will be leading the security operation in Olympics

venues. They will oversee the so-called ‘mag and bag’ operation, which is creating an airport-style security cordon around all the venues. The ‘mag’ bit involves processing ticket holders through magnetic search arches checking for explosives and weapons; the ‘bag’ part is passing every bag through X-ray machines. About 6,000 military personnel will be helping these private security people, most of whom will be paid by the hour on minimum wage. The soldiers will not be paid extra,

But another 7,000 or so military personnel will be centrally involved, though mostly not on display though their out-of-pocket expenses will apparently be reimbursed. These servicemen and women are not in any sense the ‘security muscle’. They will be in uniform, but won’t be armed, and will be behaving rather in the manner of the service personnel who for many years have overseen security at the Wimbledon tennis champion-

ships. But another 7,000 or so military personnel will be centrally involved, though mostly not on display. Some of them, including SAS units, will be permanently based in London in case of a serious, though unlikely, sustained attack based on the coordinated Mumbai bombings last year. The carrier HMS Ocean will be moored in the Thames, with up to 800 Royal Marines and soldiers on board, while HMS Bulwark will patrol off Weymouth, protecting the sailing event. One senior security source confirms that specialised units from the Special Boat Service will be backing up the Dorset end of the operation, which is good PR at a time of defence cuts, though no security analyst seriously thinks al-Qaeda has sufficient - or indeed any - capacity to present a serious offshore threat. During the Games, the dayto-day security operation will be run from the Met’s Lambeth control room, where at peak times 300 staff will be monitoring banks of screens, projecting images and data from ribbons of CCTV cameras sucking in information from Olympics venues and the London transport network. There will be a daily meeting in Whitehall between the heads of the various agencies: police, fire, military, transport and Thames authorities. If all goes well, the daily meeting will be chaired by a civil

servant. rvant. If something has s gone wrong, the e Prime Minister willl take it - the worst possible ssible outcome for the security curity people who want it to remain a matter for security people than politil rather th th liti cians. There remains, of course, one other scenario. What happens if SIS or MI5 passes on details of a ‘specific and credible’ terrorist threat against the Games, and the official alert notice, which the government is committed to release publicly, moves us from ‘substantial’, through ‘severe’, to ‘critical’? “We have worked through these scenarios,” says one senior security official, “and in almost all circumstances, we would continue to operate the Games.”

According to Fortune magazine, spending on security has topped $1.6 billion (just over £1 billion). By comparison, Sydney’s pre-9/11 Olympic security in 2000 cost just $179.6 million At peak times during the Games, 9,500 police officers will be on duty in London London will be ringed by six anti-aircraft missile batteries The surface-to-air Starstreak and Rapier missiles being readied travel at three times the speed of sound and have a range of just over four miles A 30-mile-radius airspace over London will be monitored by the RAF, patrolled by a team of military snipers in helicopters and RAF Eurofighter Typhoons Boats on the Thames that steer too close to restricted areas will be caught in ‘entanglement mechanisms’ involve 17,000 competitors from more The Games will involv and an estimated 10.8 million specthan 200 countries, an tickets. On the busiest day there will tators will have ticket spectators at the Olympics venues be up to 800,000 spect will be involved in patrolling Olym11 police forces wil pics venues The RAF will staff at least 14 observation posts Olympic Park with thermal imaging in the Olym technology to detect bombs technol 1,000 armed US diplomatic and FBI agents and 55 dog teams will patrol ag tthe Olympics zone, which will be sectioned off from the rest of London by an 11-mile, £80 million, 5,000-volt electric fence 5 More Mo than 23,000 security officers will be at the Olympics, including 13,500 military - more than are currently iin Afghanistan

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HEALTH & FITNESS ***************************** FULL BODY MASSAGE + AROMATHERAPY in classy surroundings in Kato Paphos – privacy & discretion. We offer you professional mausseurs, appointments necessary 1 Hour for 35 euro, call 96637039 - honest people ***************************** EIGHTSMILEYS OFFERS SUP (STAND UP PADDLE) LESSONS, RENTALS & SALES. A great way to release tension and stress at the same time exercise your body, made for all ages and genders. Find out more information on www. sup.com.cy facebook: Eightsmileys Kitesurfsup or call on 99355191 ***************************** CLINICAL PILATES. Personalised Clinical Pilates by Physiotherapists in Nicosia. Individual assessment and supervision of exercises. “Clinical pilates” is a modiﬁed form of therapeutic exercise used by physiotherapists to assist in the rehabilitation and prevention of musculoskeletal injury especially lower back pain, sacro-iliac pain and neck pain. More info on 22446988. *****************************

PETS ***************************** MAX VERY LOVING and gentle 7 year old lively pedigree miniature German Schnauzer needs loving family to ADOPT

LESSONS GREEK LESSONS for children and adults: reading; writing; speaking. Information: 99905862 (Larnaca) ***************************** PRIVATE TUITION - Experienced, UK-qualiﬁed teacher and tutor offers full / part time private home tuition in Maths, English, Science, Geography, History, Business Studies and Economics, from KS3 to iGCSE, AS and A2 levels. Telephone 26642781 or 99318796.

SERVICES BRITISH TIME SERVED CARPENTER covering all aspects of woodwork, home improvements, restoration, maintenance, no job too small. Work done to a high standard. For a quality job professionally done at sensible prices. Phone: 96618169 for a free quote – Paphos area 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 ***************************** UPHOLSTERY, RUG, BLINDS + CURTAIN CLEANING Rugs from 20€ - Carpets from 38€ Fabric Suites form 85€ - Leather Suites from 95€ - Mattresses from 25€. Curtains, Roman blinds, Vertical Blinds need to be surveyed. Collection Service available. For a free quotation call Mark on 70006766 All areas ***************************** DO YOU WANT A SHINY LOOKING FLOOR? Full repair & restoration of chipped, scratched,

Limassol - tel: 25 761117 fax: 25 761141

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 ***************************** SWIFT SERVICE AND REPAIRS air-cons, commercial and domestic fridges and freezers, ice machines, cool rooms, supply and fit air-cons VRV S. Call Nik on 99579602 Limassol ***************************** 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 ***************************** KEEP YOUR HOME COOLER THIS SUMMER by having Windowfilm professionaly fitted. Stops up to 86% of heat from entering your home! Windowfilm increases privacy, blocks harmful uv-rays which cause fading, reduces glare and saves energy costs on air-con. Also keeps your home warmer in winter. Call Ian on 99979671 ***************************** 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

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

€50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 ***************************** OWNER RETURNING TO UK. Washing machine still under guarantee €250. Floor standing water cooler nearly new €85, under counter fridge nearly new €100, solid oak light dining table and 6 rattan chairs €250. Contact 99176231 FOR SALE 2.4 metre Satellite Dish for sale. Good condition. reasonable offer accepted. Buyer Collects. Tel 24632691 or 96512257. 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 RESTAURANT FOR SALE Licensed restaurant in Yermasoyia tourist area in Limassol, due to the owner’s departure. Bargain price. Call: 99306674 ***************************** PLOT IN GEROSKIPOU, just 5 minutes from the Paphos centre, with magniﬁcent sea views of the whole of Paphos, 640 square metres, attached to a green area, premium piece of land, €210.000, Tel 99403261 (owners)

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

FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large ﬂat screen TV’s + projector, ﬁts 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579

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FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES

***************************** GLASS TOP dining table extendable 4 leather chairs €225 Beige 6 ft sofa matching easy chair €200 Black stereo/TV cabinet coffee table side tables €80 ﬂat screen TV’s lamps rugs Photos emma8511@gmail. com ENGOMI Tel 22355790

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FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress

FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195.

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

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

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

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MAZDA RX8 2004 Black,(high power 247) electric locks, a/c ,fog lights, MD player, CD changer, TV/DVD, navigator, factory adjustable suspension soft/hard-up/down. 6+1 speed, body kit, MOT. The condition of the car is excellent. CALL 96871551 ****************************

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APARTMENT STUDIO 3rd ﬂoor very big veranda, a/c, covered parking, store room, solar heater, all the electrical appliances in Aglanzia Nicosia near University and near Lidl €460 PANICOS STAVRINOU estate agent r.n 497 Licences number 166/E tel 99666703 email yemo@cytanet.com.cy

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f/f., modern furniture, luxury €1000, Hilton 2 bdrm., wooden floors, modern building €850, Mak/ssa whole floor flat with/ without furniture €1200, villas Mak/ssa-Strovolos with pool and garden. Costas Markides Tel: 22378898/99464764, Reg. No. 487, E16. ***************************** FLATS/HOUSES FOR RENT studio Strovolos €250, Lykavitos €380 1bdrm Ag. Andreas €490, Makarios Av. €500 2 bdrm Acropolis new €700, Lykavitos furnish €600, Acropolis €530 3bdrm Parissinos house semidetached €550 Acropolis back house €300, Ag. Dometios independent house+garden €800, Acropolis €650, 4bdrm Ag. Andreas penthouse €800. POSPORIDES ESTATES 99474839 99646822 Reg.338

TO LET 3 bdrm flat Kaimakli area near Frederic. Tel. 99606665. ****************************** LUXURY HOUSES: 1. 5 bedrs detached house, 550sq.m, built in 2 big plots of land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom. Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

***************************** LYCAVITOS 300sq.m., 3 bdrm ofﬁce lux. €1500, Dasoupolis 2 bdrm., wooden ﬂoors modern design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm

LUXURY 3 bedroom ﬂat for rent, situated in a quiet but very central area of Ayios Andreas and Russian Embassies. For information and viewing please call 99585695, 99557393

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

PROPERTY TO LET FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys, being leather, cruise control, front and rear parking sesonrs, lights-rain sensors, wind deﬂector, 45000 km, excellent condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122.

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ONE BEDROOM APARTMENT, in small quiet building, new, very spacious, fully furnished and air conditioned. Very good location between Strovolos and Engomi, close to The European University (Cyprus College) and all amenities. Covered parking. Rent €495/m. Please call 99695382

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English-Painter & Decorator

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

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

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

Tel. ATPEX fencing 99176557

***************************** TWO BEDROOM APARTMENT FOR RENT IN ENGOMI near Cyprus college and Intercollege. Separate kitchen, one and a half bathrooms and airconditions. Equip with stove, fridge and washing machine. Available immediately. For more information please contact Anthi at 99-537463

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2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back

TO LET NICOSIA with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €1000 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 3 bedrs luxury terracedhouse, 210sq.m, central heating, full a/c, marble floor in the sitting areas and solid parquet floor the stairs and bedrooms,4wc,3 bathrooms the 2 en suite ,big verandas, electrical appliances in the kitchen,3 covered parking, roof garden access, in a quiet neighborhood on Mon Parnas Hill. Engomi €1000 (H3ENG0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxry detached house with 1 bedr flat in the basement, floor heating with gass a/c units, big kitchen with electrical appliances, 4 wc, 3 bathrooms, big garden with small pebbles, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end. Can be rented furnished or not. AVAILABLE in August – Makedonitissa €1700 (H4MAK0027-R), (photos in the website). 5. 4 bedr+ attic room with shower and wc luxury detached house with separate maid’s room, central heating, a/c, separate office room, sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining room and big family room opening to the big garden with grass and bbq area, 2 covered parking, behind General flooring shop – Makedonitissa €3000 (H4MAK0025-R), (Photos on the website). 6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. Available end of July – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs and sitting room upstairs luxury detached house, 380sq.m,room for the maid, central heating, full a/c, marble and parquet floor, big sitting and dining areas, office space, big verandas around the house, covered parking,3 bathrooms,4wc in a quiet area off Eleonon street, near Pizza Hut. AVAILABLE middle of July – Strovolos €1700 (H4ST10041-R), (photos in the website). 8. 4 bedr luxury detached house, 350sq.m, central heating, full a/c, office space, separate maid’s room, big storage room, solid parquet floor in the bedrooms, 2 covered parking, swimming pool, garden with trees, veranda with bbq area, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, big sitting and dining areas, very near to English School, off Athalassas Avenue €2300 (H4ST10036-R), (photos

TO LET NICOSIA on the website). 9. 4 bedr detached house with central heating, a/c units, separate big kitchen with el. appliances, small garden at the back, covered parking, 3wc,2 bathrooms, near the French ambassador residence – Strovolos €1000 (H4ST10038-R), (Photos on the website). 10. 4 bedr new luxury ﬁnished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, - Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website). 11. 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, cov-

TO LET NICOSIA ered parking near Alpha Mega supermarket - Strovolos €1400 (H4ST1007-R), (photos in the website). 12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood close to CYBC station. Can be rented furnished or not. – Platy Aglantzias €3000 (H5PAG0001-R), (Photos on the website). 13. 4 bedr+ separate maid’s room luxury finished semi detached house with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, full expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen(Miele), 4wc, blinds on windows, big back yard with tiled and bbq area, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood with easy access to the French school – Aglantzia €1400 (H4AGZ0008-R), (photos in the website). 14. 3 bedr luxury house, nicely modern furnished with big sitting and dining areas with bar, central heating, full a/c, big fitted kitchen with TV room, office space, patio area with bbq, covered parking, 3wc, solid parquet floor in bedrooms and granite in the sitting areas, near

TO LET NICOSIA the MEGA TV station – Archangelos €1300 (H3AR0002-R), (photos in the website). 15. 4 bedr house built in 2 plots,3 bedrs upstairs and one down, big garden with grass, bbq area with kiosk, Central Heating ,full AC,240sq.m,parquet floor,2 showers,3wc,electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighbourhood. Available in aprox. one month from signing contracts. CAN BE RENTED ALSO FURNISHED OR PARTIALLY FURNISHED – Agios Andreas €2000 (H4AAD0006-R), (photos in the website). 16. 3 bedr + office space +separate maid’s room detached luxury house, 450sq.m, recently renovated, with central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining area with parquet floor, TV room with fire place, big kitchen with breakfast area and fitted cooker and oven, 4 wc, roller blinds on all windows, very big verandas and yard, covered parking, in a very quiet neighborhood in the centre of Makedonitissa opposite a playground. AVAILABLE MID JULY - €1400 (H4MAK0003-R), (photos in the website). 17. 3 bedr+ attic room which can be used for bedroom or office, luxury semi detached house, with central heating, full a/c, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, blinds, big patio with tiles and trees on the back and covered veranda on thr front, parking, in a quiet area off 28th October street in the centre of Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0026-R), (photos in

TO LET NICOSIA the website) 18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). 19. 3 bedr new modern luxury detached house,180sq.m,central heating, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds on all windows, off Tseriou Avenue. THE house is unfurnished. Lakatamia €775 (H3LAK0001-R), (photos in the website). 20. 3 bedr+ separate maid’s room semi detached house, 250sq.m, central heating, full a/c, big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with family room, 4wc, 2 bathrooms, 1 shower, 2 covered parking, big verandas and big covered patio with bbq, big covered veranda for the winter on the back, fully furnished and equipped, in a quiet neighborhood very close to all amenities and Apha Mega supermarket - Acropolis €1100 (H4ACS0001-R), (photos in the website). 21. 3 bedr detached house partially renovated 240sq.m with central heating, full a/c, separate tv room with ﬁre place, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with small family room, 3wc, big verandas and patio with deck and bbq area, covered parking in a quiet neighborhood behind Areteion hospital close to Falcon school - Dasoupoli €1950 (H3DAS0006-R), (photos in the website). 22. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting

TO LET NICOSIA room and all the electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, 2 bedrs with en suite shower, bathroom with jacuzzi, swimming pool with patio and nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area - Available end of JUNE – Strovolos €3000 (photos in the website). 23. 4 bedr luxury detached house, separate maid’s room, 600 sq.m, central heating, full a/c, 6 wc, 4 bathrooms, big sitting and dining areas opening on to the garden, big kitchen with electrical appliances, built in 2 big plots of land with huge garden with grass, swimming pool, 2 covered parking, in a quiet neighbourhood close to Alpha Mega supermarket Engomi - €3700 (H4PA20005-R), (photos on the website). 24. 4 bedr luxury detached house with expensive finishes, office space, separate maid’s room, 3 of the bedrooms with en suite shower/bathroom, floor heating, full air condition, white marble floor all the house, fire place, lighting fixtures, big kitchen with all the electrical appliances, swimming pool with bbq area, small garden,2 covered parking’s in a nice neighbourhood with expensive houses near KEMA building – Platy Aglantzias €3500 (H4PAG0004-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225/96-422225/96422226, www.landtouristestates.com ***************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the

NOTICE OF DISSOLUTION On May 21st, 2012 in accordance with Section 14.81.1 C of the Liberian Business Corporation ActDogonLtd (“Company”) with registration number C-37274 doing business at 9 Marikas Kotopouli Street, 3030 Limassol the shareholders have agreed to dissolve the Company. 1. All claims against the assets of the Company must be made in writing and include the claim amount, basis and origination date. 2. The deadline for submitting claims is 23rd November 2012 3. Any claims that are not received by the company prior to the date set forth above will not be recognized. 5. All claims and payments must be sent to P. O Box 53766, 3317 Limassol, Cyprus Dated: March 22nd, 2012. Camilla Strømstad Liquidation board

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA website). 2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website). 3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electri-

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cal appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet neighborhood – Agios Dometios €450 (A1ADO0004-R), (photos in the website). 4. 3 bedr luxury PENTHOUSE apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, ofﬁce space, very big veranda 100sq.m with nice view and bbq area with bar, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, 2 bathrooms, 2 storage rooms,

6. 3 bedr luxury apartment with storage heaters, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered veranda, covered parking, near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €700 (A3ENG0024-R), (photos in the website).

2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen, blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near trafﬁc lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R)

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TO LET NICOSIA dining room, nicely furnished big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, 3 wc, 2 bathrooms, big bedrooms, a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, electrical heating if needed, covered parking and big room on the ground floor with window which can be used for a maid or office, in a very quite neighbourhood in a small building – Agios Dometios €750 (A3ADO0006-R), (photos in the website) 9. 3 bedr new luxury penthouse apartment on the last floor of a

TO LET NICOSIA 3 storey building, CH ind, full a/c, pressure system, cooker and oven in the kitchen, blinds in the living room, 2 bathrooms, 130sq.m, big veranda with view, covered parking, 200m opposite Akropolis park. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Acropolis €850(A3ACS0039-R), (photos on the website). 10. 2 bedr new luxury ﬁnished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured en-

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA trance building in a very quiet neighborhood – Aglantzia €650 (A2AGZ0022-R), (photos in the website) 11. 1 bedr apartment, 55sq.m, separate kitchen, fully furnished and equipped with television in good condition,2 AC for hot and cold on Makarios Avenue near Debenhams. Available for short and long term – Nicosia Centre €450 (A1NIC0002-R), (photos in the website). 12. 1 bedr apartment with storage heaters, 2 a/c, big bathroom, NICELY FUNRISHED, covered parking, covered veranda with nice view, in a quiet area near Ippokration hospital – Engomi €500 (A1ENG0009-R), (photos in the website). 13. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with nice view, 100sq.m, big sitting & dining area, big separate kitchen with cooker and oven, big covered verandah, 2 wc, storage heaters, 2 a/c, electric shutters in the bedrooms, covered parking and storage room on the 11th floor of a small building with 6 flats only 200 meters for Akropolis park and opposite a small neighborhood park – Dasoupolis €570 (A2DAS0001-R), (photos in the website). 14. New luxury modern 3 bedr apartment,145sq.m big covered veranda with nice view, a/c in all the rooms, electrical heating, cooker and oven in the kitchen, big sitting and dining room,2 bathrooms, laundry room, covered parking and storage room off Kennedy Avenue behind KPMG offices – Acropolis €900(A3ACS0038-R),

TO LET NICOSIA (photos on the website). 15. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment in a modern luxury building with independent central heating, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, cooker, oven, fridge and washing machine in the kitchen, big veranda, electric parking entrance, covered parking and colour intercom. Price includes cable net service with 10mb and TV satellite channels – Acropolis €700 (A2ACS0004-R), (photos in the website). 16. New luxury 2 bedr apartment with central heating independent, full ac, fully modern nicely furnished and equipped, big covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking opposite Hilton, off Makarios Avenue close to the centre – Lykavitos €650 (A2LYK0003-R), (photos in the website) 17. Fully renovated luxury 1 bed apartment,60 sq.m, fully furnished and equipped with internet, LCD 32 ‘ TV, in the centre of Nicosia near Debenhams, with 2 a/c for hot and cold. – Nicosia Centre €550 (A1NIC0003-R), (photos in the website). 18. 4 bedr luxury floor apartment,250sq.m, office, maid’s room, central heating ind, full a/c,2 showers, 1 bathroom, 3wc, parquet floor, big kitchen with cooker and oven, big sitting area, roller blinds on all the windows, big veranda on a small building off Athalasas Avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the

TO LET NICOSIA website) 19. 2 bedr luxury apartment, 95sq.m, 4 AC for hot and cold, fully newly furnished and equipped, covered verandah, 2 wc, covered parking off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and Debenhams – Nicosia Centre €700. Can be rented also for 6 months for €1100 per month (A2NIC0024-R), (photos in the website) 20. 2 bedrs ground floor big apartment.130 sq.m, CH independent, 3 A/C, very big bedrooms with parquet floor, big sitting and dining area, big separate kitchen, fully nicely furnished, on a small 2 storey building off Makarios Avenue behind Hilton hotel walking distance to the centre - Nicosia Centre €550 (A2NIC0002-R), (Photos on the website). 21. 3 bedr spacious apartment, 150sq.m, central heating independent, 3a/c, big sitting room,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered veranda, in a small building with 2 flats only, covered parking, near Hilton Park hotel – Engomi €750 (A3ENG0022-R), (photos in the website). 22. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey & apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms,2wc, expensive fitted electrical appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighborhood in a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos in the website). 23. 1 bedr, fully furnished and

TO LET NICOSIA equipped apartment, 50 sq.m, 2 a/c, for hot and cold, covered verandah, covered parking, off Makarios Avenue between Hilton and DEBENHAMS shop. Available middle July – Nicosia Centre €550 (A1NIC0006-R), (photos in the website). 24. 3 bedr+ separate maid”s room (with shower and wc) luxury apartment with central heating independent, full a/c, 3wc, 2 bathrooms, big separate kitchen with breakfast area and electrical appliances, big sitting and dining area with solid parquet floor, big covered veranda, blinds, alarm system, 2 parking, in a quiet area off Makarios Avenue near Hilton – Nicosia Centre (A3NIC0023-R), (photos in the website). 25. 2 bedr new luxury finished and FURNISHED ground floor apartment, 80sq.m +120sq.m veranda and garden, separate floor heating, full a/c, 2wc, aluminum shutters outside the windows, pressure system, fully expensively fitted with electrical appliances in the kitchen, big covered parking and big storage room, off Athallassa Avenue near English School in a small modern building. AVAILABLE 1st of AUGUST – Strovolos €800 (A2ST10023-R), (photos in the website). 26. 3 bed brand new luxury finished apartment in a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms(one en suite), expensive electrical appliances in the kitchen, double glazed windows with electrical shutter, covered veranda, pressure system, solar heater, central satellite antenna, 2 covered

TO LET NICOSIA parkings, storage room, security entrance, close to Honda trafﬁc lights walking distance to the centre – Agioi Omologites €850 (A3AOM0009-R), (photos in the website). For many more properties with photos visit our website at www.landtouristestates.com which is updated daily. LANDTOURIST ESTATES LTD 22422225 / 96-422225 / 96422226 www.landtouristestates.com ******************************

LIMASSOL GROUND FLOOR HOUSE, furnished renovated this year. Laminated parke floor, and big wardrobes in the 3 bedrooms. Rent €590.00 Tel 99497576 99886775 ***************************** UN-DETACHED HOUSE FOR RENT in Apshiou village, 2 bedroom, kitchen, sitting room, bathroom with solar water heater. A/C, satellite, 15mins to roundabout. Parking space available. €400. Tel 25369219, work 10.30-17.30 25542968 home 99773151 LIMASSOL, RENT: Office of around 110 m2, with partitions, split units, kitchenette and parking in a peaceful, green yet central area at Helladion House(off. 201), 5 Andrea Kalvou Str. For viewing, please knock on off. 202(2nd flloor). For further details, please call 25-521873 or 25-731163 after 8:00pm. LIMASSOL. Spacious modern

TO LET LIMASSOL 2 bedroom ﬂat, tranquil block, central residential area, sea and mountains views. Full a/c. Solar water heater, power shower. Covered parking. Real wood ﬂooring. Italian kitchen. New Sony TV DVD. Fully equipped. 99409829 info@idclimassol.org FOR RENT IN CENTRE OF LANIA village a 3 bedroom/2 bathroom modernised old village house. Unfurnished, 425 euro pcm Tel 99305491. OFFICE FOR RENT OPPOSITE SEA WITH amazing sea views. 120sqm, 2 bathrooms, kitchen. Security system, cabling and server room ready. Price € 1400/month negotiable tel. 99 330 908 www.cyprusre.com/ listing-LIM-0103 *****************************

LARNACA APARTMENT 2 bedroom ground floor ,Semi Furnished,all the electrical appliances in Larnaca Dekelia road, near Intercollege Larnaca. Solar heater, a/c €460 PANICOS STAVRINOU estate agent r.n 497 Licences number 166/E tel 99666703 email yemo@cytanet.com.cy FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 ***************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool. Beautifully furnished

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Advertiser TO LET LARNACA throughout. 350 Euros per calendar month. Larnaca District. Quote TLL884. Tel. (00357) 24815104 2. K.S.L LETTINGS – Properties Required for waiting Long Term Tenants. We desperately require 2/3 & 4 bedroom villa’s with private swimming pools for waiting tenants in the Larnaca District. Please call us for a free valuation. Tel. (00357) 24815104 3. K.S.L LETTINGS – largest range of properties. Over 200 rental properties in the Larnaca district at the most competitive rates! Flexible contracts available. Tel. (00357) 24815104 4. WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM – VILLA FOR RENT Fully furnished 3 bedroom Villa with a good-sized rear garden & Communal pool, located in the village of Oroklini. Call for further information quoting Ref. TLL1189. Tel. (00357) 24815104 CALL 24 815 104 TO ENQUIRE OR ARRANGE A VIEWING – NO OBLIGATION OR FEES. VIEW OUR FULL RANGE OF OVER 200 PROPERTIES BY VISITING WWW.KSLLETTINGS.COM UPDATED DAILY. LANDLORDS ADVERTISE YOUR PROPERTY FOR FREE AND GET WORLD WIDE ADVERTISING – NO TENANT NO FEE ! ****************************

PAPHOS FOR RENT 3 BDRM house in

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Paphos excellent position (near CYTA) D Mavrogenous no 9. Tel 99376507. **************************** For your consideration

house, beautiful green areas with a lot of mature trees, only four houses in the project, swimming pool available. Walking distance to shops, €350 per month. Call 99439891 **************************** LUXURY PRIVATE NEW VILLA, seven bedrooms, swimming pool, satellite, TV, outdoor hot tub-spa, panoramic view, playground area, pool billiardsoccer table, table tennis, beautiful garden, coral bay area Pegia village/Paphos town, call 96351179

phos. Separate Living area/ kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only Euro 215/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. **************************** AYIOS DEMETRIANOS 3 bedroom villa with swimming pool, large established garden, sea views, unfurnished, very quiet area. Euro 550 per month - ono. Call: 99127195 **************************** BEAUTIFUL, 2 BEDROOM APARTMENT, furnished and fully air-conditioned, situated close to Carrefour €330. And a 1 bed new apt, attractive and spacious, furnished with S.pool, in Chlorakas, 500 meters from the St. George hotel €290. OWNERS, TEL 99403261, 26934650 ***************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT - Large modern studio ﬂat in small residential block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Paphos. Separate Living area/kitchen and bedroom. Fully furnished (washing machine etc.) Covered veranda, and undercover designated parking. Only €215/month inc. communal charges. Phone 99-310481. ***************************** 6 BEDROOM, luxury detached villa in Chlorakas, for rent. Breathtaking, unobscured sea and mountain views. Close to all amenities, located in a culde-sac in Melanos area with

a private road. 6 bed, 2 bathrooms (+2en suite), utility room, outdoor storage, Jacuzzi, private pool, fully A/C, fitted kitchen, large verandas and landscaped gardens. Long term let or sale by owner, call 99414920 **************************** 1. YEROSKIPOU AREA, euro 380, beautiful 2 bed, first floor apartment, fully furnished, large bathroom, large balcony.

1. KATHIKAS AREA €450 a modern 2 bedroom, stone walled villa with sea views, large swimming pool and 650 sq metres garden. In a quiet cul-de-sac, available unfurnished or furnished. Solar panels and pressurised water system. A great villa in a fabulous village. Will accept pets. 2. TREMITHOUSA €275 situated in a quiet cul-de-sac, this furnished modern 3 bedroom detached house with small garden is available, a/c throughout and satellite broadband. Offering fantastic views of the sea. 3. TREMITHOUSA €250 luxury 2 bedroom maisonette. Fully furnished with modern furniture and satellite broadband. Modern furniture with new appliances. & A/c throughout. Good sea views. Located in a fabulous village. A must see! 4. CENTRAL PAPHOS €250 modern 1 bedroom top ﬂoor apartment, opposite bowling, master with walk-in wardrobe. Fully furnished with all appliances. Lift to all ﬂoors. This complex offers a lovely communal pool area and security barrier entrance. Close to amenities, a great central location. Call Val on 99166563 Or Liz on 96703403 **************************** FOR RENT 2 bedroom town-

UNIVERSAL AREA, 2 bedroom modern furnished town house, communal pool Euro 450 per month Tel 99387842 ***************************** ANAVARGOS, 3 bedroom detached house, low maintenance garden, communal pool, very close to international school, Unfurnished or furnished, euro 550 per month Tel: 99239262 ***************************** EPISKOPI – PAPHOS, 3 bedroom bungalow, unfurnished, a/con, ﬁre-place, spectacular mountain views, large established garden with irrigation, swimming pool, very quiet location, euro 650 ono – long term Please call Micheal: 99655636 - no agents **************************** GREAT VALUE STUDIO FLAT FOR RENT, - Large modern studio ﬂat in small residential block, in central Paphos, 5 minutes from town centre, 2 minutes from motorway, and 10 minutes from Kato Pa-

YEROSKIPOU AREA, 3 bedroom villa with pool, unfurnished, large garden and ample parking. Main bedroom en-suite, ground ﬂoor w/c with cloakroom, separate kitchen area. Euro 500 per month

3. UNIVERSAL, 1 bedroom apartment on ground ﬂoor with garden, patio to front, well maintained complex with pool, fully furnished, euro 300 per month ono 4. MESA CHORIO, 2 bedroom apartment , modern furniture, fully equipped, one bedroom

TO LET PAPHOS en-suite + one bathroom, panoramic views, well maintained complex with pool, euro 400 per month ono MANY MORE PROPERTIES AVAILABLE - CALL : 96753677 **************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kissonerga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99- 673276 **************************** PROPERTY TO RENT Chloraka: 3 bedroom u/f detached house, enclosed garden, A/C, oven hob extractor, €550 per month REF: JAP3V159 Tombs Of The Kings: 1st ﬂoor F/F apartment, 1 bedroom, st TV, A/C, sea views, communal pool €350 per month REF: JAP1A024 Peyia: 2 bedroom F/F apartment

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS A/C, communal pool, Sauna, Gym. €425 per month neg REF: JAP2A191 Emba: 3 bedroom u/f house, A/C, white goods, communal pool, €500 per month REF: JAP3V053 Peyia: 2 bedroom f/f townhouse, sat TV, A/C, fly-screens, Cyta line, communal pool, €400 per month neg REF: JAP2T140 Kato paphos: 2 bedroom furn apartment, shutters, A/C, close to bar street. €400 per month REF: JAP2A186 Peyia: 3 bedroom furnished villa, com pool, enclosed gardens, car port, Internet access, nile sat. A/C. €500 per month neg REF: JAP3V193 Trimathousa. 2 bed f/f townhouse, pets allowed, enclosed garden, quiet road, village setting.REF: JAP2T190 Holiday property management/ cleans changeover service available. We urgently require properties in all areas for waiting clients. JOHN ALICE PROPERTIES TEL: 00357 99984681 WEB: WWW.JOHNALICE-PROPERTIES.COM **************************** FOR RENT a selection of 1,2&3 bedroom houses & apartments f/f & u/f. Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada & Chloraka. Please view at our website www.cyprussands.com or call 99329357. Fully registered company in Cyprus. PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour,

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F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 ***************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE

5. LOWER PEYIA €700 unfurnished 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Spacious kitchen & living area. Enclosed garden with well & private pool offering sea views. Rental price includes pool cleaning. Covered veranda, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a quiet residential area.

1. PEYIA €375 luxury modern 2 bedroom apartment. Beautifully furnished with modern furniture includes Miele kitchen appliances, fly screens, plasma TV with set up showing UK channels. Close to Peyia village on a great complex with gardens, large c/pool, hot tub, indoor pool, sauna & gym. Undercover parking & storage. 2. UNIVERSAL AREA €450 spacious 2 bedroom townhouse situated in great central location, not on a complex, with enclosed garden & jacuzzi hot tub. Fully furnished with good furniture. Private drive for off street parking. 3. KAMARES €600 detached 3 bedroom bungalow, master with ensuite. Situated in the sought after residential area of Tala. Offering a peaceful setting with covered veranda and views of the sea & mountains. Fully furnished with gas central heating and real working fireplace for those winter months. A lovely home with character. 4. TALA €675 unfurnished modern 3 bedroom detached villa offering total privacy & breathtaking sea views. Includes underfloor heating plus real fire. Master with ensuite. Large storage room. Shutters & flyscreens. Covered veranda, garden with mature plants, private pool offering sea views. Off street

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

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

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

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6. KONIA €700 new to the market this spacious detached 3 bedroom villa, master with ensuite. Guest wc. Beautifully furnished with quality modern furniture. Separate modern fitted kitchen plus separate utility room. Shutters to all windows. Roof terrace with sea views. Fully enclosed garden with storage shed, covered barbeque area and private pool offering lovely views. 7. TALA €1300 magnificent modern 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa, furnished with designer modern furniture, though can be available unfurnished if desired. Large modern fitted kitchen with top brand appliances. Includes gas central heating & working fireplace. Beautifully designed & spacious with undercover parking, private pool & sea views. A must to see! 8. ANARITA €1800 amazing 4 bedroom detached villa, this stunning property offers top of the range modern kitchen. Spacious living rooms, all bedrooms with modern ensuites. Landscaped gardens with private pool offering total privacy & covered barbeque area, great for entertaining. Available fully furnished or unfurnished & includes gas central heating & so much more. Tel: 97790883 Tel: 99133422 office: 26271858 visit our website for many more properties www.mrrentpaphos.net email: info@ mrrent-paphos.net **************************** RENTAL POINT - PAPHOS * PROPERTIES AVAILABLE TO RENT IN THE PAPHOS DISTRICT. JUST A SMALL SAMPLE OF AVAILABLE PROPERTIES. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL. CALL 97641764 FOR MORE INFORMATION. LANDLORDS CALL IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY FOR RENT.!!! 1. LOWER PEYIA – 5 bed 2 bath fully furnished villa set in good area. Open plan living

TO LET PAPHOS area. Separate kitchen with D/W.W/M etc. 2 ground floor bedrooms with bathroom. Stairs to 3 additional bedrooms and bathroom. Doors out to large roof terrace with views. Outside parking for 3 cars, large swimming pool, BBQ and water feature. Landscaped gardens. A/C. Euros 800.00 a month 2. TRIMITHOUSA 3 bed 2. bath unfurnished apartment/ house set in quiet location with views. Open plan living area and dining area. Fully fitted kitchen with appliances . Guest WC. 3 double bedrooms. Family bathroom. Large balcony, off-street parking. Euros 400.00 a month. 3. KATHIKAS – 3 bed,2 bath unfurnished stone bungalow with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area with fireplace with log burner. Fitted kitchen, utility room. 3 bedrooms, master with ensuite. Family bathroom. Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very quiet area. Euros 600.00 a month 4. CHLORAKAS – 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartments (2 available) in good location close to amenities. Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms. Bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool. Euros 395.00 a month inclusive of municipal taxes. 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space. Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views. Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. Euros 800.00 per month. 6. UNIVERSAL AREA. 2 bed fully furnished apartment. Living area, fitted kitchen. 2 double bedrooms and family bathroom. A/C, balcony, shutters, comm. Pool and parking. Euros 400.00 a month or offers. 1 & 2 bed apartments available on Universal. 7. TALA - 5 bed, 3.5 bath large fully furnished villa. Very large property with open plan living area. Fitted kitchen, storage cupboard, guest WC. 2 bedrooms, bathroom on this

TO LET PAPHOS level with small seating area. Ideal for dual living. Stairs up to 3 double bedroom, en-suite & family bathroom. Heated swimming pool, A/C, C/H. Electric gates and garden areas. Parking for several cars.Euros 1500.00 per month or offers. 8. LOWER PEYIA. 3 bed, 3 bath villa. Set in pretty location. Open plan living area, ﬁtted kitchen. Guest WC. 3 bedrooms one with en-suite. Family bathroom. Pool, landscaped gardens and parking. Available furnished or unfurnished. Euros 550.00 per month. FOR FULL LISTINGS OF A PA R T M E N T S / T O W N HOUSES AND VILLA PLEASE CALL FOR DETAILS. ALL TYPES OF PROPERTY URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR LONG TERM RENTAL LANDLORDS/ OWNERS PLEASE CALL PLEASE CALL 97648440 or email:- inforentals@aol. com **************************** REFURBISHED stone-built village house located in Kili Paphos. Consists of 3 large rooms 1 small. Traditional wood burnt ﬁreplace, fully tiled secluded yard and garage. Tel: 99210610.

PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA 3 BEDROOM Luxury Apartment in a lovely neighbourhood of Nicosia (Ayios Andreas) Bldg 12 years old 123 Sqm Covered area, Central Heating, Air Cond e.t.c Price 210 K Euro. For Details please call 99-379904 **************************** FLAT FOR SALE/RENT: ‘ITHAKI’ is a small 3 Storey brand new building, only 5 units located in quiet neighbourhood in Strovolos, near Falcon school. ITHAKI has only 2 completed 3 bedroom apartments per floor. And on 3rd floor an independent 3 bedroom penthouse with a roof garden. Italian Kitchen, big verandas, big storeroom and convenient parking. PANICOS STAVRINOU ESTATE AGENT R.N.497 99666703 email yemo@cytanet.com.cy **************************** FOR SALE is a building with 4 flats, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated. Located in quiet area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 negotiable Call: 99 330 908

FOR SALE NICOSIA 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.

LIMASSOL A SEA SIDE BUNGALOW one bedroom and open plan living room with kitchen and bathroom, two verandas and a swimming pool in front. In excellent condition with A/C. Situated inThera complex near The Meridien hotel and the Marina of Limassol. Sale for €450.000. Rent €950 per month. Call 99624499 ****************************

SALE LIMASSOL 2 bed flat on beach road; light, airy with balcony. New flooring, a/c units, lift 2nd floor, windows 3 sides, own car space. TITLE DEEDS. €115,000. Tel 99178141 www.homesinternational.info (Les Bois) ****************************

LARNACA NEAR MARONI Coastline Larnaca 2 bdrm bungalow on large plot Wrap around veranda with sea & mountain views, Large lounge/dining room, Large Kitchen, Full C/H Provision for a/c All furniture & car included €295,000 99147929

PAPHOS HOUSE FOR SALE, TALA, KAMARES VILLAGE IN PAPHOS 245 Sq.M, 12 years old, renovated, ﬁve bedrooms, master bedroom is ensuite, two bathrooms, underground studio, central heating, air-conditioning, ﬁre place, swimming pool, beautiful garden with amazing sea view, electric garage for two cars:- price €485,000.- Call Helen:- 99497620 LUXURY VILLA 550 sq.m in 1250 lot.,5 bed.6 bath. maids en suite, walk in basement, beautiful landscape, double garage, large pool, playground, well, quiet neighborhoot. Price 1.550.000 M. Phone 357-99432074,35799552585

OFFICE/WAREHOUSE FOR RENT 735m² of ofﬁce space and 1200m² warehousing available for long term rent on Yianni Kranidioti Avenue very close to Carlsberg Brewery. Easy access to Nicosia-Limassol highway (only 200 metres). Loading bays for warehouses and parking space for more than 40 cars. Hidden fuel tank plus car mechanics station. For more information please call 99218866

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

THE ORTHODOX CHURCH OF ST ANDREW AND ST JOHN THE BAPTIST MESA GEITONIA, LIMASSOL The Orthodox Liturgy in English served fortnightly on Saturdays at 9.00 am. We also hold a Discussion Group every Thursday evening at 7.30 pm For information please call Fr. Christopher Klitou Mobile: 99957144 Fax: 25710318 You can email us at: klitoux@logos.cy.net or visit our website: www.christopherklitou.com

Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 PAPHIAKOS NEW CHARITYSHOP/T.ROOMS NOW OPEN IN PEYIA. T ROOMS NOW OPEN (next to Peyia Police Station) Volunteers and donations needed please contact Suzanne 99151996 for further information. STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!! NOW OPEN !!! BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS. SEE THE WEBSITE FOR UP TO DATE INFORMATION OR TELEPHONE 26953496 PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. BOOK EXCHANGE SHOP TREMITHOUSA Paphiakos Book Exchange Shop, Tremithousa. Special Tuesday sales held on the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Tuesdays of each month. For more information Tel 99771763/99283467 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 Shop No.2 Ap Pavlou Avenue, Kato Paphos Shop No.3 Gr. Afxentiou Avensia Court 3 Larnaca Shop No.4 9 Ayiou Ioanni Street 3061 Limassol Our shops are always happy to receive your unwanted goods! SORROW IS WHAT PAPHIAKOS IS ALL ABOUT!!! UPDATE PLEASE SEE OUR WEBSITE OR FACEBOOK FOR THE STORY OF SORROW. EVERY MEMBER OF OUR CLINIC WEPT FOR THIS POOR DOG. PAPHIAKOS ARE DETERMINED THE FUTURE WILL BE BRIGHTER AFTER THE CRUELTY AND TRAUMA. Sorrow is progressing well but will need further surgery. If you can help with donations to assist us to bring Sorrow to full health please contact the clinic on 00357 26946461. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com PAPHIAKOS CAR BOOT SALE EVERY SATURDAY at the Ambassador Restaurant and outside in the grounds at Paphiakos. Free parking. Sellers from 7am, buyers from 8am. For information & bookings please call MIKE on 96702600. PAPHIAKOS & C.C.P. ANIMAL WELFARE URGENTLY NEEDS PASTA TO HELP FEED THE DOGS AND SOFT FOOD FOR ALL THE CATS. DONATIONS CAN BE MADE AT THE CLINIC. PLEASE SPONSOR AN ANIMAL OR BECOME A MEMBER TO ENSURE PAPHIAKOS CAN CONTINUE WIH THEIR NECESSARY WORK. Telephone Jan 26946461 ex 114 or 97614008

Sunday School (Juniors and Teens) Outreach and Evangelism Bible Studies

Tel. 99 293489, 99 279960 Email: immanuel.church.nicosia@gmail.com

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24-365152

Nikosia: Am 1. und 3. Samstag im Monat in der St. Paul’s Cathedral um 18 Uhr Limassol: Am 2. Sonntag im Monat im Gemeindehaus in Germasogeia um 11 Uhr Am 4. Sonntag im Monat in der St. Barnabaskirche um 18 Uhr Paphos: Am 2. Samstag in der Kirche an der Paulussaeule um 16 Uhr Agia Napa: Am 4. Sonntag im Monat im Hof des Klosters um 9.30 Uhr

Open Door Baptist Church

Näheres Informationen durch Pfarrer Dr. Herold, Tel 25-317092 oder im Internet www.ev-kirche-zypern.de

GRACE NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH Invites you to COME AND EXPERIEBNCE THE LOVE OF GOD WITH US Int. Christian Business Fellowship Meeting Centre Sundays: 10.00am Sunday School 11.00 am Main Service (Dine with us centre services) Wednesdays: Prayer meeting 6pm Address: To Arsinois Str., 1010 Nicosia (Next to Western Union Office to KISA) Contact: 99988900 or 97667932. VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL

CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS.

Contemporary Christian Worship Sunday 10am (Holy Communion - 1st Sunday of the month)

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN

9 Larnakos Street Katholiki Area Limassol Sundays: 9:45, 11:00 AM, 1:30 PM Wednesdays: 7:30 PM 25 751193 or 99 758729 www.cbm-odbc.org

FOR PAPHIAKOS ANIMAL WELFARE SOS HELPLINE, 24 HOUR MEDICAL EMERGENCY SERVICE - CALL 99655581

Family oriented evangelical church

Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives. Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm. International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

NICOSIA CHRISTIAN CENTRE 10 PINDOU STR, ENGOMI, NICOSIA, TEL. 22464375 SERVICES: SUNDAY 10AM, WEDNESDAY 8PM St Barnabas’ Anglican Church 153 Leontiou A Street Limassol www.stbarnabas-cyprus.com Telephone: 25362713 - All welcome HOLY CROSS CATHOLIC CHURCH, PAPHOS GATE, NICOSIA Sunday Masses: Saturdays 6.30 pm, Sundays 8.00am, 9.30am & 6.30pm Weekday Masses: 6.30 pm Monday to Friday Tel: 22662132 Email: holcross@logos.cy.net

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m. Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

The Anglican Church of Paphos Ayia Kyriaki (St. Paul by the Pillar) Sunday 8.15am Holy Eucharist 6.00pm Sung Eucharist 4th Sunday 6.00pm Choral Evensong Wednesday 9.00am Holy Eucharist 3rd Wednesday (BCP) St. Stephen’s, Tala 1st & 3rd Sunday 11.00 am Holy Eucharist 2nd & 4th Sunday 11.00am Morning Worship St. Luke’s, Prodromi 1st & 5th Sunday 9.30am Morning Worship 2nd , 3rd & 4th Sunday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st & 3rd Wednesday 9.30am Holy Eucharist 1st Sunday 6.00 p.m. Peace & Wholeness with Holy Eucharist 4th Sunday every quarter 9.30 am Holy Eucharist from BPC Church Office: 26-953044 Fax: 26-952486 Email: anglicancofp@cytanet.com.cy for directions to each church

St Helena’s Anglican Church, Larnaca St Helena’s Court, Grigoris Afx Sunday Service: Holy Communion 9.30 am ALL WELCOME Tel:24651327 ofﬁce@sainthelenas.com

International EVANGELICAL CHURCH (Reformed) Limassol 352 St. Andrew’s Street (1½ blocks from Starbucks/Fat Boy) Sunday worship 10:30am Wednesday Bible Discussion 7pm For info: 99384742 ALL ARE WELCOME

Saturday, July 14, 2012 CYPRUS MAIL

Television CYBC 1

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08.00 I Plateia (rpt) 09.00 Concert 10.30 FILM: War And Peace Napoleon’s tumultuous relations with Russia including his disastrous 1812 invasion serve as the backdrop for the tangled personal lives of two aristocratic families. Romantic drama, starring Audrey Hepburn and Henry Fonda 1956. 14.00 News 14.40 Edoxe Ti Vouli Kai To Dimo Weekly show, catching up with the work of Parliament. 15.30 My Cypriot Kitchen (rpt) 16.00 Stin Akri Tou Paradeisou (rpt) Local period drama. 16.30 Reload Show featuring music videos, stories, polls, games and entertainment options. 17.30 Eimaste Edo Local talk-show aimed at younger crowds. 18.00 News 18.15 Candid Camera 18.30 Skliros Angelos (rpt) 20.00 News / Weather / Financial Report 21.00 Savvata Ki Apovrado Local music show. 23.30 News 23.45 EPI 2 Me Ton Angelo Iakovidi Interview programme. 00.00 Repeats

08.00 Kids’ TV 14.15 60 Minute Makeover (rpt) 15.00 FILM: The Touch Of Mink A millionaire playboy woos a strait-laced secretary, but while he only wants a casual affair, she is saving herself for marriage. Romantic comedy, starring Cary Grant. 1962. 16.50 Motor Sports 17.15 Girismata (rpt) 18.00 Journey To The Centre Of The Earth Inspired by Jules Verne’s novel of the same name, this made-for-cable documentary follows a group of scientists embarking upon a perilous journey toward the Earth’s core. 18.50 News In English 19.00 News In Turkish 19.10 Life Unexpected Second season. ‘Camp Grounded’. Cate, Baze, Ryan and Math all volunteer to be chaperones on Lux’s school camping trip. 20.00 NRG Music Channel 21.00 Doctor Who (rpt) Fifth season. ‘The Beast Below’. Amy takes her ﬁrst adventure in the Tardis, visiting the Starship UK on its journey through space. As she explores the vessel she encounters the terrifying Smilers and learns the deadly truth about what goes on in the Voting Booth. 21.45 Repeats

06.00 Kai Sera... Sera (rpt) 06.50 Proini Enimerosi (rpt) 07.20 Kids’ TV 08.00 Ano Kato (rpt) 08.40 Super Babas (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.00 Tychi Vouno (rpt) 11.50 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.30 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.20 Galileo Greek game-show investigating rumours, urban legends and popular myths. 14.00 Dis Madiam (rpt) 14.40 Paris kai Eleni (rpt) 15.40 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Eleftheros Ki Oraios (rpt) 17.40 Me to Deksi (rpt) With News at 18.00. 18.40 Santa Yialanta (rpt) 19.30 Ypo To Fos Tou Fengariou 20.20 News 21.20 Tin Patisa (rpt) 22.00 Ellada Eheis Talento (rpt) 23.20 News 23.30 FILM: Blue Crush As a hardcore surfer girl prepares for a big competition, she ﬁnds herself falling for a football player. Drama, starring Kate Bosworth. 2003. 01.00 Top Chef (rpt) 02.30 Trito Stefani (rpt) 03.20 News 04.10 To Monopati tis Agapis (rpt) 05.00 S’Agapo yia Panta (rpt)

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Haravgi (rpt) Eheis Meson (rpt) Yia Banaki (rpt) An Thimitheis To Oneiro Mou (rpt) Glykes Alhimies (rpt) Cooking show focusing on desserts, hosted by famed Greek pastry chef Stelios Parliaros. Mpoukia kai Sychorio (rpt) A virtual tour through Greece, the Mediterranean and Europe that focuses on local cuisine and culture. Oi Kipouroi Tou Mega Baba Min Treheis (rpt) Savvatogennimenes (rpt) An Ipirhes Tha Se Horiza (rpt) Parea Stin Kouzino I Ora I Kali (rpt) Epta Thanasimes Petheres (rpt) Greek comedy series. With News at 18.00. Peninta Peninta (rpt) News Pername Kala I Oikogeneia Vlaptei (rpt) News Dio Meres Mono (rpt) Hawthorne

02.00 Meli Gala (rpt) 04.00 Mana Einai Mono Mia (rpt) 04.30 Ola Ta Kaka Tis Moiras Mou (rpt) 05.00 O Ios Tou Patera (rpt) 05.40 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt)

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Zoi Podilato (rpt) Kids’ TV Mes Stin Kali Hara Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) Oi Atromitoi (rpt) Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) Entimotatoi Keratades (rpt) News Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) Baywatch Glossy surfside drama. News Pame Paketo (rpt) 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. FILM: The Face A withdrawn, disﬁgured woman vows to exact revenge on the former lover who framed her for a crime he committed. Drama, Yasmine Bleeth 1996. News CSI: NY (rpt) Third season. Second spin-off from the Crime Scene Investigation series, starring Gary Sinise as a hard-boiled investigator and tackling crime around the seamy side of New York City. Mes Tin Kali Hara (rpt) Eleni (rpt)

PLUS TV 07.50 Kids’ TV 11.05 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz (rpt) 11.30 Diet Please Local comedy series. 12.05 LTV Sports News (rpt) 13.00 Star News 13.30 Kostakis Ki Yioi 14.15 Mila (rpt) 15.30 Fotis - Maria Live (rpt) Entertainment magazine featuring segments on cooking, health, fashion, lifestyle issues and more. 17.00 Exelixeis Sti Showbiz 17.30 Mesimeriani Meleti (rpt) 18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show, with helpful tips on eating well and nutrition. Hosted by Dina Nikolaou. 19.45 Star News 21.00 Greek FILM: O Anthropos Pou Girize Apo Ti Zesti Comedy. 1972. 22.45 One Tree Hill Second season. ‘The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows’. Mouth helps Brooke become student council president and Nathan goes back to his old ways after going through an emotional crisis. Karen continues to doubt Lucas’ motives for moving in with Dan and Deb, while Jake and Peyton share their ﬁrst kiss. 23.30 LTV Sports News 00.15 Star News 01.00 Repeats

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Kids’ TV Deste Tous Kipotehnia Greek FILM: Afti Pou Den Ligise The Adventures Of Shirley Holmes Soraya Italian-made biopic of Soraya EsfandiaryBakhtiari, the second wife of the last Shah of Iran, who was overthrown in the 1979’s Islamic Revolution. Starring Anna Valle. 2003. With News at 18.30. News Remington Steele 80s detective drama, starring Pierce Brosnan. FILM: The Guilty A lawyer hires a criminal to kill a woman he raped - not realising the hit-man is his long-lost son and a close friend of the target. Gripping thriller, starring Bill Pullman. 1999. FILM: She’s The One Romantic comedy, starring Edward Burns, Cameron Diaz and Jennifer Aniston. 1996. See Film Picks. FILM: Hell’s Kitchen Newly released from jail, an exgang member asks a former contender to teach him to box. Drama, starring Angelina Jolie and Rosanna Arquette. 1998. FILM: Lesser Evil Thriller, starring Alison Eastwood and Nels Lennarson. 2006.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:00 BBC News 00:06 World Briefing 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 World Business Report 00:50 Sports News 01:00 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 The Bottom Line 02:00 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:20 Sports News 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 In The Balance 03:00 BBC News 03:06 The Secret Policemen 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 Global Business 04:00 BBC News 04:06 Top Of The Pops 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Top Of The Pops 05:00 BBC News 05:06 The World Today 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Healthcheck 05:50 More Or Less 06:00 BBC News 06:06 The World Today 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 The 5th Floor 07:00 BBC News 07:06 The World Today 07:20 Sports News 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 In The Balance 08:00 BBC News 08:06 The World Today 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 One Planet 08:50 Witness 09:00 BBC News 09:06 The World Today 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 The World Today 10:00 BBC News 10:06 The Secret Policemen 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Global Business 11:00 BBC News 11:06 The Forum 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 The Forum 11:50 Witness 12:00 BBC News 12:06 World Briefing 12:20 Sports News

12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 Click 12:50 More Or Less 13:00 BBC News 13:06 From Our Own Correspondent 13:30 BBC News Summary 13:32 Living Along Africa’s Faultlines 14:00 BBC News 14:06 Newshour 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Newshour 15:00 BBC News 15:06 The Strand 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 The Strand 16:00 BBC News 16:06 Sportsworld 17:00 BBC News 17:06 Sportsworld 18:00 BBC News 18:06 Sportsworld 19:00 BBC News 19:06 Sportsworld 19:32 Sportsworld Have Your Say 20:00 BBC News 20:06 World Brieﬁng 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 The 5th Floor 21:00 BBC News 21:06 HARDtalk 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Healthcheck 21:50 Sporting Witness 22:00 BBC News 22:06 Newshour 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 Newshour 23:00 BBC News 23:06 The Forum 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 The Forum 23:50 Witness

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 The Chill Out Room 04.00 BFBS Shufﬂe 05.00 Ops Breakfast 08.00 Cyprus Saturday Breakfast 10.00 UK Saturday Breakfast 12.00 Gareth John 16.00 Vicki And Adam’s Saturday Show 20.00 Club Culture Live 23.00 Groove Collective

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS News 03.03 Nigel Rennie Country 04.00 BFBS News 04.03 The BFBS Radio 2 Saturday Show 06.00 BFBS News 06.03 Soul On 2 07.00 Morning Reports 08.00 Weekend Breakfast 09.00 Today 11.00 BFBS News 11.03 The BFBS Radio 2 Saturday Show 13.00 BFBS Radio 4 News 13.02 BFBS Radio 4 13.30 BFBS Radio 4 14.00 Five Live Sport 22.00 Saturday Edition 01.00 Late Night Live

LiveCyBC2 (91.1, 92.4 FM) 06.00-7.30 Programmes in Turkish with News at 7.30 07.40 Good morning Cyprus 10.00-12.00 Kalimerhamba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Classics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box 98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Paﬁan Paul 08:00-10:00 The Weekend Link 10:00-12:00 Frock Fm - Philippos - 12:00-14:00 Double Dutch - Joep - 14:00-16:00 My Big Fat Arts Show - Kathleen Ruddy - 16:00-18:00 Non Stop Music - 18:00-20:00 Ready To Blow Up The Seen - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svenny B – Live 20:00-22:00 22:00-24:00 Saturday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D Night Train 24:00-07:00

Oldies Digital (Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com) SATURDAYS 08:00 Sinatra Hour 09:00 Solid Gold Music Show with John Watson 11:00 Easy Going Gold 19:00 Oldies Digital plays some great classic party hits - perfect for a Saturday night. 22:00 Night Gold

CYPRUS MAIL Saturday, July 14, 2012

Television PICK OF THE DAY Cedar Rapids (Novacinema1, 22.00) “The main thing about Cedar Rapids is that it makes you laugh - often and out loud.” “Sweetness makes the raunch in this honestly funny movie even funnier.” “This is smart, quirky, frequently laugh-out-loud comedy.” “One of those sunny-natured indie comedies that comes out of nowhere to put a smile on your face.” None of that reflects my own opinion of Cedar Rapids, but those quotes do reflect the opinions of some major critics on both sides of the Atlantic (mostly in America, though the last quote is from British movie mag Empire). I hesitate to say what I think, since I’m obviously in the minority, then again all those quotes seem to focus on one particular aspect of the film: how funny it is. It’ll make you laugh out loud, say the critics; it’ll put a smile on your face. But what if it doesn’t? What if you find the jokes increasingly stupid and one-dimensional, culminating in John C. Reilly actually lighting a fart on fire during the closing credits? Well, then ... I don’t know. Tough luck. You won’t like the movie, probably. I don’t like the movie - but then I seem to have a problem with most recent comedies, especially the Hollywood kind (I did like The Trip with Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon, but that’s (a) British and (b) based on a TV show). It all seems so witless, so gratuitously crude - but maybe I’m just out of

sync with everyone else’s sense of humour, and I’m sure it makes a difference that I watch very few US sitcoms and sketch-comedy shows. Besides, Cedar Rapids has a lot in common with The Hangover and doesn’t everyone love The Hangover? Ed Helms from The Hangover is our manchild hero, a small-town insurance salesman who goes to a salesman convention in Cedar Rapids. There he meets seductive fellow salesman (sorry, salesperson) Anne Heche as well as charismatic loudmouth Reilly, who takes him under his wing - and there’s also a middle-aged black sidekick played by Isiah Whitlock Jr, a soft-spoken gentleman who says rather square, nerdy things like telling people he hears them “l.a.c.” (loud and clear), but likes to relax with “the HBO programme The Wire” (part of the joke being that Whitlock himself was among the cast of The Wire). Imagine the Animal House template of badly-behaved rebels vs. uptight Establishment types. Sprinkle with smut, make everyone an insurance salesman for extra yucks, add Sigourney Weaver as an older woman having an affair with our hero - then make the jokes increasingly puerile, culminating in John C. Reilly lighting a fart on fire during the closing credits. You’ll laugh out loud! Or not, as the case may be. Made in 2011.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE

Be Kind Rewind (LTV3, 20.00) Remember VHS? That question is about two technocycles behind the times (soon we’ll be saying ‘Remember DVD?’, then ‘Remember Blu-Ray?’), but Mos Def works in an old-fashioned video shop that still stocks everything on VHS in this shaggy, likeable semi-comedy. Then his friend Jack Black somehow gets magnetised at the local power plant and erases all the tapes with his weird radiation - so Mos and Jack decide to recreate the lost ﬁ lms, making their own home-made versions of Ghostbusters, The Lion King, Driving Miss Daisy et al. The so-called “sweded” versions are rubbish, of course - but Mos and Jack’s customers don’t mind because they feel attached to these DIY horrors, the point being that ﬁ lms thrive best when they become ‘of the people’, when a roomful of strangers are brought together by shared memories of The Lion King (preferably in a local video shop that encapsulates precisely that sense of community). Silly, but fun; made in 2007.

Jennifer Eight (Novacinema2, 22.00) That rare thing, an actual career-killer: director Bruce Robinson is a well-known name, having made Withnail and I - but he didn’t make another ﬁ lm for 19 years (!) after this disastrous ﬂop. It’s not even so terrible, just unmemorable - a rather ordinary thriller with Andy Garcia as a big-city cop who moves to a small town, gets involved with a blind girl (Uma Thurman) who resembles his ex-wife, and becomes increasingly obsessed with an unsolved case which (he believes) is the work of a serial killer. Watchable enough, just not very good - and Robinson hated the experience so much he vowed never to direct again. Heavy! Made in 1992.

She’s the One (Capital TV, 23.00) ...though, alas, not the only one. New York cabbie Edward Burns is still pining for unfaithful girlfriend Cameron Diaz, even as he meets - and impulsively marries - brilliant art student Maxine Bahns who’s totally liberated, gorgeously beautiful and has a scholarship to the Sorbonne. Then there’s his brother (Mike McGlone), a Wall Street broker who’s married to Jennifer Aniston but having an affair with the aforementioned Diaz - and, since the brothers are working-class IrishAmericans (a.k.a. “the Fighting Fitzpatricks”), it’s a good bet that ﬁ sticuffs will ensue when the truth comes out. The result is a heartfelt comedy-drama with some funny lines, though it starts to pall after an hour or so (there’s only so many times you can hear characters say “You’re my brother” and “I’m your brother”); likeably scrappy, like its scrappy Irish sibs. Made in 1996.

Be Kind Rewind (LTV3, 20.00)

05:00 Jackass 3 06:35 Executive Decision 08:50 Cine News 09:25 Housebroken 11:00 Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World 12:55 Cine News 13:25 After The Sunset 15:05 Knight And Day 17:00 How I Met Your Mother 22:00 The Lincoln Lawyer 00:05 Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer 02:35 Adult Zone

07:00 Karina: Wild On Safari 07:25 Meerkat Manor 07:50 Bondi Vet 08:15 Corwin’s Quest 09:10 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 09:35 Breed All About It 10:05 Crocodile Hunter 11:00 Dogs/Cats/Pets 101 11:55 Michaela’s Animal Road Trip 12:50 Wildlife Sos 13:45 Animal Planet’s Most Outrageous 14:40 Bad Dog 18:20 Wild France 20:10 Great Ocean Adventures 21:05 Wildest Africa 22:00 Cats 101 22:55 Great Animal Escapes 23:50 Untamed & Uncut 00:45 Shark Attack File 2 01:40 Animal Cops South Africa 02:35 Cats 101 03:30 Great Animal Escapes 04:25 Wildest Africa 05:20 Great Ocean Adventures 06:10 Dogs/Cats/ Pets 101

05:35 Old School 07:05 Cine News 07:55 Sleepless In Seattle 09:40 Rabbit Hole 11:15 Soul Surfer 14:50 Mr. Nobody 17:10 Last Night 18:50 Cine News 19:20 La Chance De Ma Vie 21:00 Parakalo, Ginekes Min Klete 22:35 London 00:10 Prom 01:55 Sling Blade 04:10 Sin Ella

Tropic Thunder (LTV, 12.15) 01:05 The Weakest Link 01:50 Twenty Twelve 02:20 Walk On the Wild Side 02:50 Doctors 03:20 Live at the Apollo 04:05 The Royle Family 04:35 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 05:05 Twenty Twelve 05:35 Allo Allo 06:05 Balamory 06:25 Tellytales 06:35 Little Prairie Dogs 06:45 Nina & The Neurons 07:00 Show Me Show Me 07:25 Boogie Beebies 07:40 Charlie & Lola 07:50 Fimbles 08:10 Tellytales 08:20 Little Prairie Dogs 08:30 Nina & The Neurons 08:45 Show Me Show Me 09:10 Boogie Beebies 09:25 Doctor Who 10:10 One Foot In The Grave 10:40 Dinnerladies 11:10 As Time Goes By 11:40 The Weakest Link 12:25 Coast 13:25 Robin Hood 14:10 After You’ve Gone 14:40 2 Point 4 Children 15:10 Casualty 16:00 Eastenders 18:00 Monarch Of The Glen 18:50 Doctor Who 19:35 Doctor Who Conﬁdential 19:45 Robin Hood 20:30 Allo Allo 21:00 Rev (aka Handle With Prayer) 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 Live at the Apollo 22:45 Fawlty Towers 23:20 Great Ormond Street 00:10 The Impressions Show With Culshaw & Stephenson 00:40 Twenty Twelve

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Rides 08:15 Fifth Gear 09:10 Mega Builders 10:05 Mighty Ships 11:00 Alone In The Wild 14:40 Extreme Engineering 15:35 Deconstruction 16:30 Huge Moves 17:25 How It’s Made 17:55 How Stuff’s Made 18:20 Crisis Control 19:15 Battle Machine Bros 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How It’s Made 21:05 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 22:00 An Idiot Abroad 22:55 Ultimate Survival 23:50 Dual Survival 00:45 Moments Of Terror 01:40 Dynamo: Magician Impossible 02:40 An Idiot Abroad 03:40 Ultimate Survival 04:40 How It’s Made 05:05 Dual Survival 06:00 Battle Machine Bros

09:30 Fitness: The Box 09:45 Cycling: Tour De France 10:45 Snooker: Australian Goldﬁelds Open Brazil 12:15 Car Racing: World Series By Renault Russia 13:30 Cycling: Tour De France 18:30 Cycling: Tour Of Poland 20:00 Athletics: World Junior Championships Spain

23:00 Equestrian: Global Champions Tour Portugal 00:30 Equestrian: Horse Racing Time 00:45 Football: Uefa European Women’s Under-19 Championship Turkey 02:00 Cycling: Tour De France

05:30 Family Guy 08:00 Around The World For Free 08:45 Life On Mars 10:15 Family Guy 10:40 Neighbors From Hell 11:05 Bob’s Burgers 11:30 How I Met Your Mother 15:40 White Collar 19:30 24: Day 21:00 Lights Out 22:30 Sons Of Anarchy 23:20 American Horror Story 00:10 The Walking Dead 01:00 Criminal Minds 03:20 How I Met Your Mother

07:00 Life After People 10:00 How The Earth Was Made 13:00 Life After People 16:00 Ancient Wonders 17:00 Tony Robinson Down Under 18:00 The Universe 19:00 American Restoration 20:00 Pawn Stars 20:30 American Restoration 21:00 No County For Old Men 22:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 23:00 Ice Road Truckers 01:00 American Restoration 02:00 Pawn Stars 02:30 American Restoration 03:00 No County For Old Men 04:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 05:00 Ice Road Truckers

07:30 Scarlet Letter 09:50 Free Willy: Escape From Pirate’s Cove 11:40 Action Zone 12:15 Tropic Thunder 14:20 Ant Bully 15:50 Pay It Forward 18:00 Letters To Juliet 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Lethal Weapon 2 23:00 Tell Me You Love Me 01:00 Hustler TV 03:05 Blume In Love 05:00 Lesbian Vampire Killers 06:30 LTV Sports News

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Legion Of Super Heroes 07:50 Loonatics Unleashed Nickelodeon 08:15 Wonder Pets 08:40 Dora The Explorer 09:05 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 09:30 Spongebob Squarepants 09:55 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:20 Fanboy & Chum Chum 10:45 X’s 11:10 Mighty B! 11:35 My Life As A Teenage Robot 12:00 Hey Arnold!

12:25 Icarly 13:15 Looney Tunes Show 13:40 Young Justice 14:05 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Laiki Bank Championship 16:00 Ironman Western Australia 17:00 Rugby World Cup Winners 18:00 Three For The Show 19:00 Best Basket League Opap Games Of The Season 21:00 2012 Indy Car Series 23:30 Espn Original Documentaries 00:00 Three For The Show 01:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: CocaCola Cup 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League

07:05 Friends 07:30 House M.D. 08:30 Brothers & Sisters 09:20 The Big Bang Theory 09:55 According To Jim 10:45 Criminal Minds 11:30 Shameless 12:20 Boardwalk Empire 13:20 Chuck 14:05 Hawaii Five 15:00 Friendsi 17:15 The Vampire Diaries 21:45 Sons Of Anarchy 00:30 Bound By Honor 03:30 Fringe

08:10 Candidate 10:00 American Flyers 12:00 Neighbor 13:45 Dave 15:40 Being Human 17:45 Ed Wood 20:00 Be Kind Rewind 22:00 Kings Of Mykonos 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 Bitch Slap 06:00 Chloe

05:35 Super 07:10 It’s A Wonderful Afterlife 08:50 Cine News 09:10 Love And Other Impossible Pursuits 10:55 Cine News 11:25 Illegal 13:05 Blue Crush 2 15:00 Cine News 15.30 How I met your Mother 16:00 Burn Notice 17:25 Mpilompa 19:10 Your Highness 21:00 Burn Notice 22:00 Cedar Rapids 23:40 Magic City - Ep.5 Suicide Blonde 00:40 X-Men: First Class 03:00 Point Blank 04:30 Straw Dogs

05:20 City Hall 07:10 8 Mile 09:00 Summer Kids Zone 10:35 Robinson Crusoe 12:30 Secretariat 14:35 Midnight Run 16:45 Mad On Novacinema 17:25 Final Analysis 19:35 The Pelican Brief 22:00 Jennifer Eight 00:10 A Time To Kill 02:45 Kiss Of Death 04:25 Casino Jack

21:00 Appointment With Death 22:45 A Place In The Sun

01:30 Nationwide Tour Utah Championship 03:30 Speed TBA 05:00 Prime/Time ring 07:00 Academy – Lanny Wadkins: Full Swing 07:30 Academy – Lanny Wadkins: Dive 08:00 Golf Now – South Carolina 08:30 Playing Lessons – Pat Perez & Kelly Slater 09:00 Golf Central International 09:30 Golf Now – Orlando 10:00 PGA Tour: John Deere Classic 13:00 Super Bowl Highlights: XIV: Pittsburgh v Los Angeles arms 13:30 Super Bowl Highlights: XV: Oakland v Philadelphia 14:00 America’s Game: 1989 San Francisco 49ers 15:00 European Tour: Aberdeen Asset Management Open 19:15 Inside the PGA Tou 19:30 MLB Player Poll 20:00 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at New York Yankees 23:00 PGA Tou: John Deere Classic 01:00 MLB Player Poll

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Intrepid Journeys 09:00 Flavours Of Peru 10:00 Journey Into Wine 11:00 Planet Food 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Intrepid Journeys 14:00 Travel Today 14:30 Essential 15:00 48 Hours In… 15:30 Cruise Today 16:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 Julian And Camilla’s World Odyssey 18:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Flavours Of Spain 21:00 Planet Food 22:00 Departures 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Third Class Traveller 01:00 4real 01:30 Essential 02:00 Planet Food 03:00 Flavours Of Spain 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Flavours Of Greece 05:30 Flavours Of Spain 06:00 Culinary Travels With Varun Sharma

06:00 Fury 07:35 Northwest Passage 09:40 Rack, The 11:20 Son Of Lassie 13:00 The Unﬁnished Dance 14:40 Tea And Sympathy 16:45 Till The Clouds Roll By 19:15 High Society 21:00 Lolita 23:30 Kim 01:20 Manhattan Melodrama 03:00 Grand Prix

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CRYPTIC 2134

6 PREVIOUS DAY’S SOLUTIONS

Across

21 22 12 Prevent start of concert during introductory piece (8) 14 Like Shakespeare perhaps worthy of being repeated (8)

HOW TO PLAY: Fill in the grid so that every row, every column and every 3x3 box contains the digits 1-9. There’s no maths involved, you solve the puzzle with reasoning and logic. With the ‘X’ sudoku, the shaded X must also contain the numbers 1-9.

EASY

HARD

MEDIUM

HARD

18 Double sulphate from a Scottish chimney (4) 19 Kick the shins of poor horse (4) 20 Spots aircraftsman, one without the ball (4)

Answers to crossword 2133

QUICK: Across – 1 Beef; 8 Lord’s table; 9 Shoo; 10 Fearsome; 12 Ubend; 13 Ebb; 16 Streak; 17 Append; 18 Eft; 21 Broad; 22 Snowdrop; 24 Tine; 25 Legal right; 26 Aida. Down – 2 Exhibition; 3 Flounder; 4 Adverb; 5 Stark; 6 Ebro; 7 Fete; 11 Maintained; 13 Eke; 14 Bat; 15 Operetta; 19 Frolic; 20 Idyll; 22 Silo; 23 Orgy.

Rating EASY

CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Half; 8 Abbreviate; 9 Eton; 10 Starﬁsh; 12 Brain; 13 Emu; 16 Itchen; 17 Skopje; 18 Dee; 21 Pouch; 22 Salesman; 24 Ship; 25 Scarlatina; 26 Lied. Down – 2 Antarctica; 3 Fanlight; 4 Pro tem; 5 Overt; 6 Mali; 7 Mesh; 11 Subjective; 13 End; 14 Use; 15 Colossal; 19 Ecarte; 20 Psalm; 22 Sash; 23 Leaf.

Rating HARD

1 Cheap cut? (4) 2 Besides I leave the lady (4) 3 Can shallow dish contain thin coated sheets? (8) 4 Forged link in furnace (4) 5 Signor Antonio’s partly oblivious (8) 6 Staying silent whilst looking after mother (7,3) 9 Make merry although old girl endlessly scoffed (10)

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Rating MEDIUM

5 Very black in an American state (4) 7 Habit causing tension (4-6) 8 Nothing removed from notepaper about one who never grew up (5,3) 10 Bends down but loses the way – oh dear! (4) 11 Slave-driver in parliament? (4) 13 Get to know Bill Strange (8) 15 Change, say, round for very close friend (5,3) 16 The enemy on watch? (4) 17 A rally beginning at sea (4) 18 Name a hat designed to be object of abhorrence (8) 21 Not a single feature one might have to face (6-4) 22 Old historian’s s l e e p i n g - p l a c e , English (4)

QUICK Across

Down

5 WAfrican country (4) 7 Anglo-Saxon lan-

1 Divan (4) 2 Yield (4) 3 Porcelain (8) 4 Type (4) 5 XIII (8) 6 Fairways and greens

guage (3,7)

8 Paciﬁed (8) 10 Floating structure (4)

11 Nudge (4) 13 Choice (6 … 2) 15 Odd (8) 16 Morn (anag.) (4) 17 Branch (4) 18 Line of ancestors (8)

21 Movable platform

(4-6)

9 Part of speech (10) 12 Drudge (8) 14 Rejection (4-4) 18 Light shoe (4) 19 Dour (4) 20 Ireland (4)

for food (4-6)

HOROSCOPE

22 Trust (4)

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

Your patience threshold may wear thin today. This is because certain people are tricky to pin down, or say one thing and then end up doing another. Allow for a wide margin of unreliability. This period won’t last forever and it’ll take until week three for messages and understandings to become clear. Meanwhile, tread tactfully with sensitive issues.

Think long and hard before rushing into big relationship moves - not that they’re unlikely to last, or be few and far between. It’s simply because your emotions are likely to be stronger than ever Leo, and you need to ﬁnd the right partner to share these tenderly with. In general, you can feel much more conﬁdent about life and social plans.

Many advantages can gradually open up, so make today a reminder to concentrate on your working and personal issues. Life’s boring truisms could apply even more strongly, yet the chances are you will instinctively know the right course of action. Don’t throw too many irons in the fire at once, and you should be able to stay flexible to ebbs and flows.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

You could ﬁnd yourself doing too much for others and not enough for yourself. Melodious planetary vibes harmonise your dealings with people generally, but also magnify any recently formed ties or links. Your strong sense of duty will help you overcome any of today’s obstacles. It can be especially auspicious if you encounter some new faces.

If you’re doing any social rounds, following up recent introductions or finding out some facts or figures, the first thing you must try to accept is that you are not a completely free agent. You just can’t break away from current burdens or ties for the sake of experimenting alone. Happily, you can expect a change for the better, very soon indeed.

This is the time to make practical plans, deciding on what you wish to achieve and looking ahead. Yet whatever plans you make you can’t control everything. So, you may also be required to back up your plans to a partner, or to cut your cloth accordingly. Patience is one of your strong qualities, so today’s gradual progress can be par for the course.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

Affairs of the heart can go well if you are solo, and your fortune can extend to money matters too - provided you spend with care. You can also be star blessed if you choose to explore any educational direction. Utilise any free time to check that certain ideas are viable, and go over them with a ﬁne tooth comb. Better to be truly sure Gemini.

You may not be able to play things exactly as you would wish. The mood may be one of restraint or contrastingly and tantalizingly, of wild abandon. Yet you may feel that some of your old barriers are returning - but hopefully these will be only ﬂeeting. Refuse to give in to those things which often bedevilled you in the past. Stay upfront!

Try to cultivate your detachment if you ﬁnd yourself in the middle of controversy or a heated exchange. The fruition of past efforts and the beginning of a new chapter will shortly be sparked off by something truly unexpected. Current astro vibes present a time for gathering past experience in order to consolidate a foundation for the future.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

You probably hope to enjoy life more fully on every level. Socially, this will be a much more stimulating phase, with any number of people entering or re-entering your circle. Some threads may be slow to grow, whereas others will connect you with some out of the ordinary situations and unpredictable fun. All this can be very encouraging for you.

Is it just another one of those days? Perhaps not! Fate can have a strange way of showing its hand. By the end of today, you should be able to highlight one enlightening conversation, one in which you will still ﬁnd some kind of a challenge. Wait, and as they say, all will eventually be revealed, but take solace in your elemental love of combat.

The planets shift into a changeable pattern around creative and hobby interests. You will feel that you could make better use of your potentials. Boost your chances by taking the initiative Pisces. Don’t worry if things seem hazy at times. Leisure interests are also in focus, along with anything that enables you to express yourself more fully.

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Sport ‘Idiot’ Chisora needs to be taught a lesson, says Haye

By Greg Stutchbury

Sworn enemies ready to rumble By Duncan Bech, DAVID Haye insists the hatred of Dereck Chisora that has fueled his training camp will be replaced by coldhearted professionalism tonight. Five months of controversy, hearings, legal challenges and insults will come to an end when the sworn enemies collide in a fight that excites and repels in equal measure. The shameful brawl in Munich that disgraced British boxing initiated a feud that will finally be settled at Upton Park, despite strong moral objections. The hostility between the two is genuine and for Haye, who will enter the 10-round contest as the odds-on favourite, the challenge is keeping his temper in check. “It’s fair to say I really don’t like Chisora - I fought him for free in February - but there will be no emotion in the fight,” he said. “The fact I hate the guy so much has driven me on in training, but when it comes to fight night he must be seen as a slab of meat who will get pounded on, just like any other. “Chisora’s got one hell of a beating coming. I was looking at him this week and I can’t want to put my fists in his face. “He’s not a nice guy and is someone who needs to be taught a lesson. I’ll teach him

Aussie Lee retires from international cricket

Bad blood: David Haye (left) cannot hide his contempt for Dereck Chisora at the weigh-in for their grudge fight because he’s an idiot.” Haye will be conceding two and a half stones to Chisora, but mocks the conditioning of the 28-year-old, who looked fleshy at the weighin. “Chisora’s horrible to look at. You want to see an athlete in his physical prime, but he’s never looked in his physical prime,” he said. “He always looks like he’s skipped too many sessions or eaten too many Burger Kings. “He will be weighed down by the excess fat hanging from his neck, arms, midriff and legs.” Opposition to the fight has been substantial and many find it unsettling that profit should be made from a pub-

lic brawl that was investigated by German police. Where the British Boxing Board of Control will be left also remains to be seen with their refusal to sanction the encounter easily circumvented by having the anonymous Luxembourg Boxing Federation license the ﬁghters. Yet for all the car-crash appeal that has seen 30,000 tickets sold - nearly 5,000 more than attended Frank Bruno v Lennox Lewis in 1993 - it is a genuinely intriguing contest that has gathered greater credibility as it approaches. Defeat for Haye would be catastrophic following his feeble performance against Wladimir Klitschko, doing irreparable damage to his legacy with public opinion hav-

ing already swung against him for blaming his loss to Klitschko 12 months ago on a broken little toe. Only a year ago the possibility of facing Chisora was unthinkable and it clearly rankles the former WBA world heavyweight champion that he must share a ring with someone he considers vastly inferior. “For sure an impressive victory is the only way for me. I’m not just looking at a victory, I’m looking to be really spectacular in this ﬁght,” said the 31-year-old. “Chisora riled me this week by actually thinking he belongs in the same ring as me, but people want to see us do battle for real.” While Haye is dismissive of

Chisora, his trainer Adam Booth realises the potential for an upset. Chisora’s three successive defeats heading into the fight - all on points across 12 rounds - are misleading, particularly against Vitali Klitschko who he troubled throughout. Lacking Haye’s one-punch knockout power but durable with good stamina, his come-forward pressure style could ask the more elusive Haye plenty of questions. “Against Vitali, Chisora showed a total disrespect and disregard for what was coming at him,” Booth said. “By the end of the fight it was Vitali who wanted the fight over. We won’t be underestimating Chisora.”

Composed Millar claims fourth career Le Tour stage win By Gilles Le Roc’h

David Millar won his previous Tour stage nine years ago

DAVID Millar highlighted the strength of British cycling by winning the longest stage in the 2012 Tour de France yesterday. Friday 13th was a lucky day for the veteran Scot, who will anchor a strong British team at the Olympics in London later this month and gave his home country their fourth stage victory in this edition of the Tour. “We’ve become one of the top nations. We have the yellow jersey, we have the world champion and me, the old dog, winning the

stage here. We’re at the top. Our Olympic team is pretty damn scary,” said Millar, a former doping offender turned anti-doping campaigner. Another key member of the team will be Bradley Wiggins, who retained his overall lead and spent the whole day in the front of the bunch, showing he had become the rightful boss of the peloton. Millar’s win, at 35, means all the more with the Games so close as four of the ﬁve members of the British Olympic team for London have now won a stage in this Tour.

“It’s also especially important for me as it comes exactly 45 years after Tommy Simpson’s death. I’m an exdoper and I’m showing everyone you can come back clean and win a stage,” added the Garmin-Sharp rider, whose last of three previous stage wins on the Tour dated back to 2003. “I want people to have trust in our sport. Cycling has changed a great deal. I want people to understand that,” he said. Former world champion Simpson died when he collapsed on Mount Ventoux in 1967 after taking amphetamines.

AUSTRALIAN fast bowler Brett Lee retired from international cricket yesterday, just days after he was forced to return home from England after sustaining another injury and a few months before he had pencilled in a possible exit from the game. The 35-year-old, who first announced his decision on his Twitter page, sustained a right calf strain in the fourth one day match of Australia’s limited overs tour of England and was forced to return home for further examination and treatment. “The last two or three nights I have thought about it a lot and I woke up this morning and thought this was the right day to do it,” Lee told a media conference at Sydney Cricket Ground. “It’s almost like there has been a huge weight lifted off my shoulders. I have been a bit anxious the last two days. It has been a hard few days.” Lee had been expected to be available for the World Twenty20 tournament in Sri Lanka later this year, and he said he had held discussions with the selectors about retiring after that, but the most recent injury had changed those plans. “Retirement was going to be post-World Cup but I woke up this morning and felt ... that the time was right,” he added. Lee last played a Test match in 2008, but continued to play international limited overs matches for Australia and in India’s lucrative Twenty20 competition. He retired from Tests in 2010. He told Australia’s Channel Nine television he would continue to play Twenty20 cricket in Australia and India. In his prime Lee was one of the fastest and most aggressive bowlers in the world but has suffered from a long list of injuries that blighted his career, including stress fractures, ankle injuries, side strains and more recently a broken foot. He took 310 Test wickets at 30.81 and 380 one-day international wickets at 23.36, one short of Glenn McGrath’s Australian record. “The statistics only tell part of the story,” chairman of selectors John Inverarity said in a media statement. “Brett has been an absolute ornament to the game; a fine player, a fierce and brave competitor, a generous opponent and one who always upheld the highest standards of sportsmanship. “He has been a cricketer in every sense of the word.”

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Sport

It’s Brazil’s time to shine at the Olympics, says Ronaldo

New York Cosmos returning to action

Five-time World Cup winners have never struck gold at the Games

By Simon Evans THE New York Cosmos, a club that once featured Pele and Franz Beckenbauer, are returning to competitive action next year after a 28-year absence as part of the second division North American Soccer League (NASL). The original Cosmos folded in 1985 after a short but high-proﬁle existence in the original NASL but were brought back to life in 2010. Since then the franchise has focused on merchandising and youth football projects and has undergone a change of ownership while rumours have circulated about a return to the professional game through the top-ﬂight Major League Soccer (MLS).

By Mike Collett

IN BRIEF

DESPITE a glorious past that includes five World Cup triumphs, Brazil have never struck gold in the Olympics and former striker Ronaldo thinks it is now their time to shine. The Olympic football tournament will feature some of the world’s top names with Brazil, world champions Spain, the old Olympic kings from Uruguay and a rare appearance from host nation Britain, all in with a chance of glory. Among the leading individuals involved in the men’s competition are Brazilians Neymar, Hulk, Thiago Silva and Alexandre Pato, Uruguay’s Luis Suarez and Spain’s Juan Mata and Jordi Alba, who both scored in their victory over Italy in the final of Euro 2012. Brazil, naturally, are among the contenders and will attempt to overcome their Olympic nemesis by winning the gold medal for the first time at their 13th attempt since they first competed in 1952. Former Brazilian striker Ronaldo, a World Cup winner in 2002 and an Olympic bronze medalist in 1996, told Reuters it was Brazil’s time to win gold. “There is no real reason why we fail at the Olympics, which we take very seriously,” he said. “In some way these are already a successful Games for us because Argentina (winners in 2004 and 2008) were eliminated in the qualifiers and cannot defend their title so now would be perfect if we became champions in their place.” Brazil face Egypt, Belarus and New Zealand in their opening group. As in the men’s competition, Brazil’s women are going for a first Olympic gold and Marta, world player of the year five times, will lead their assault at London 2012. Brazil’s women face Cameroon, New Zealand and Britain in their group games. The two competitions, comprising 16 men’s teams

FRANCHISE

Bright future: Neymar is one of many young stars included in the Brazil squad

and 12 women’s, are among the most complex on the programme with the women starting with six matches on July 25, two days before the Games’ official opening. The men start with eight matches the following day. The first event of the entire London Games is the women’s match between Britain and New Zealand on July 25 at Cardiff’s Millennium Stadium. That is one of six venues being used in England, Scotland and Wales along with Old Trafford, Hampden Park, St James’ Park, City of Coventry, and Wembley which stages both finals. While the women’s competition will briefly hold the limelight on July 25, most of the attention will be on the men, whose competition is restricted to players aged under 23, plus three over-age players. Britain also have hopes of gold - which would be its first

since 1912. David Beckham, who hails from East London and was instrumental in helping London win the Olympics, was left out of the Britain squad, but his old Manchester United team mate, Welshman Ryan Giggs, has been included. The 38-year-old has won more honours in England than any other player. The relationship between British football and the Olympic Games is so convoluted and politically charged - this is their ﬁrst ﬁnals since 1960 - that even though they are hosts, there was a doubt they would compete. The problem revolves around independent status issues with FIFA that concern Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland so whether this Olympic return is a oneoff or not remains to be seen. Their group matches are against Senegal, United Arab Emirates and Uruguay.

Uruguay are also returning after a long absence. Their victories in Paris 1924 and Amsterdam 1928, the last time they competed, galvanised FIFA into organising the ﬁrst World Cup in Uruguay in 1930. Today’s team knocked out rgentina champions Argentina rs and, in the qualiﬁers k led in attack by Suarez of Liverpool and Edinson Cavani of Napoli, the ‘Celeste’ g will be looking to add the Ol-he ympic title to the Copa America they won last year. ic champiSpain, Olympic ons on home soil in 1992 and fresh from their Euro

Ronaldo, the all-time leading scorer in the World Cup, says Brazil can overcome their Olympic nemesis

mo ed Swedish side cancel friendly Coach wants Eto’o removed due to Ibrahimovic doubts as Cameroon captain SWEDISH club AIK have cancelled plans for an August friendly against AC Milan in Stockholm because the Italians cannot guarantee that Zlatan Ibrahimovic will still be playing for them, AIK said in a statement. The Sweden captain is rumoured to be on his way to Paris Saint Germain after Milan owner Silvio Berlusconi said that he had sold Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva to the French club. The two players are said to be negotiating personal terms. AIK said they had planned the friendly at the Rasunda stadium on August 12.

CAMEROON coach Denis Lavagne wants Samuel Eto’o removed as captain when he returns from suspension later this year. Eto’o was given an eight-month ban for leading a strike last November when Cameroon refused to play a friendly in Algeria because they had not been paid promised bonuses. In a letter to the Cameroon Football Federation, Frenchman Lavagne called for them to make a decision on the captaincy before games against Cape Verde Islands in September and October in the ﬁnal round of 2013 African Nations Cup preliminaries.

triumph, are contenders again, while teams that could make an impact from Africa, following Cameroon’s success in 2000, include Senegal, despite the absence of Newcastle United strikers Demba Ba and Papis Demba Cisse. The favourites in the women s competition competiti en’s are the United States. wome Since women’s football in was introduced in 1996 the US have 1996, wo three of the won fou golds and four be beaten Brazil in the last two na ﬁnals. Jap Japan, fourth in 2008 are also in 2008, con contention while Nor North Korea, ba banned from t next womthe e en’s World C Cup because o doping ofof fen fences, will be hop hoping to make an impact too.

But while MLS has said it intends to create a franchise in New York City and is searching out possible venues, the Cosmos ownership group turned to the second tier league. The New York Red Bulls of MLS play in New Jersey. “As we continue to expand the league and help grow professional soccer in the United States, Canada and the Caribbean, the Cosmos brand and their strong ownership group are a perfect ﬁt with us,” NASL Commissioner David Downs said yesterday. The Cosmos, who won ﬁve championships in the old NASL, will play against some familiar names from the past with the Tampa Bay Rowdies and Fort Lauderdale Strikers both featuring in the league which was created in 2009 taking the name of the old competition which ran from 1968 to 1984. The Cosmos said they expect to announce in the near future where they will play their home games and who will coach and play for the club.

C Capello in Moscow visit to discuss Russia job FORMER England manager Fabio Capello met Russian ofﬁcials in Moscow on Thursday to discuss the possibility of him coaching the country’s national team. The Russian Football Union published a list of 13 high-proﬁle candidates, including the 66-year-old Italian who quit as England boss in February, for the Russia job this week. “I think during this week or by next Tuesday at the latest, we’ll talk with all those coaches on the (RFU) list who would be willing to discuss the offer,” former RFU president Vitaly Mutko said.

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Sport Rangers voted into Scottish third division

European politicians say FIFA President Sepp Blatter has questions to answer over a bribery scandal that has further damaged the image of world football’s governing body

By Ronnie Esplin and Mark Bryans

Blatter urged to explain scandal By Brian Homewood and Keith Weir FIFA President Sepp Blatter has questions to answer over a bribery scandal that has further damaged the image of world football’s governing body, a group of European politicians said yesterday. A Swiss prosecutor said in a legal document released this week that former FIFA President Joao Havelange and former executive committee member Ricardo Teixeira took multi-million bribes on World Cup deals in the 1990s. Blatter, who has been with FIFA since 1975, and succeeded Havelange as president in 1998, said on Thursday he knew that payments were being made. He referred to them as “commission” and said they were not illegal at the time.

FIFA president condemned over his silence Politicians from the parliamentary arm of the 47-nation Council of Europe condemned FIFA for trying to hush up the affair. “If FIFA managers - including its current president were aware of these bribes, they should have been doing everything in their power to prosecute, rather than protect, the ofﬁcials concerned,” French politician Francois Rochebloine said. He urged Blatter to come clean on his role in a scandal that occurred when he was FIFA General Secretary. “When exactly did he become aware of these payments? Why did FIFA hide wrongdoing and fail to take action against its perpetra-

tors? Above all, what steps will he now take to stop this happening again?,” he added. Asked in a question-and-answer session with FIFA’s own website on Thursday if he had known of payments, Blatter replied: “Known what? That commission was paid? Back then, such payments could even be deducted from tax as a business expense. “Today, that would be punishable under law. You can’t judge the past on the basis of today’s standards.” Brazilian Havelange, who recently celebrated his 96th birthday, was head of FIFA from 1974 to 1998. He received a payment of 1.5 million Swiss francs ($1.53 million) in

March 1997 from now-defunct sports marketing body ISL, the Swiss prosecutor said. Teixeira, 65, who led the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF) from 1989 until stepping down earlier this year, took 12.7 million francs between 1992 and 1997, the prosecutor said. ISL sold the commercial rights to broadcast World Cup competitions on behalf of FIFA. It collapsed with debts of around $300 million in 2001. Blatter, who has been president for 14 years since succeeding Havelange, said FIFA had reacted by “strengthening our control mechanisms.” “The ethics committee, which was created in 2006 on

my initiative, is a direct result of the ISL case,” he said. “The reform process is moving exactly in this direction. “To strengthen FIFA’s judicial system, some important steps have already been taken with the introduction of a two-chamber system - an adjudicatory body and an investigatory body. The executive committee will appoint the chairmen of these two chambers next week.” Havelange is still FIFA’s honorary president while Teixeira quit his post earlier this year, shortly after resigning as president of the Brazilian Football Confederation (CBF). “I don’t have the power to call him to account,” said Blatter of Havelange. “The Congressnamed him as Honorary President. Only the Congress can decide his future.”

Owen reveals on Twitter he is still searching for a new club

Michael Owen, released by Manchester United, says he can still bang in the goals at the highest level

MICHAEL Owen says he is still waiting for a “good opportunity” ahead of the new season, but has again said he will not drop down to the Championship. Ex-England striker Owen, 32, insisted in May he would not retire despite being released by Manchester United after three seasons at Old Trafford. “If a good opportunity doesn’t come my way then so be it,” tweeted Owen. “I know I can still bang them in at the top level. I proved that nearly every time I played for Manchester United.” Owen moved to Old Traf-

ford on a free transfer in 2009, and he scored nine goals in his ﬁrst season -including the winner in his side’s 4-3 victory in the Manchester derby. His appearances became less frequent in his second year at the club, when he scored ﬁve goals in all competitions, before he netted three times in four outings last term. He made just one Premier League appearance, however, and his last outing was in the Champions League at the beginning of November. But Owen believes he still has something to offer

in the top-ﬂight - and he said he would not consider dropping down a division to join a Championship club. “At 32, I’ve still got a few years in me,” he said. “At this stage of my career it has to be something that I’m going to enjoy doing. “Not being disrespectful when I say I wouldn’t play in the Championship. Always said I wouldn’t drop down the leagues like some have done. “After playing for Liverpool, Real Madrid, Newcastle, Man Utd and England, I don’t think I would enjoy that football.”

RANGERS will start the new season in the Irn-Bru Third Division following a vote by Scottish Football League chairmen at Hampden yesterday. The 30 SFL teams were voting on whether Charles Green’s newco Rangers should enter the league and which division they should be placed in. The Scottish Premier League and Scottish Football Association were hopeful Rangers would be parachuted into the First Division, with SFA chief executive Stewart Regan claiming that putting the Ibrox club into the Third Division would bring ﬁnancial catastrophe and a “slow, lingering death” of the game. Twenty-nine of the 30 SFL clubs accepted Rangers as an associate member of the Scottish Football League while 25 clubs voted in favour of placing the newco team into the bottom tier. SFL chief executive David Longmuir said: “The member clubs of the Scottish Football League have today voted to willingly accept The Rangers Football Club as an associate member of the Scottish Football League. “Furthermore, the Scottish Football League’s only acceptable position will be to place Rangers FC into the Third Division of the Irn-Bru Scottish Football League from the start of this season.” Longmuir also stated that he was ‘comfortable’ with the outcome of the vote and that the decision from the SFL clubs was taken with the sport’s best interests at heart. He said: “I’m comfortable today that the Scottish Football League made a very, very decisive decision that was based on sporting fairness and I think the Scottish Football League were in the right place to make that decision. “This decision followed a tried-and-tested process and was taken in cognisance with the other options which were available for consideration. “Today’s decision has been one of the most difﬁcult for all concerned but it has been taken in the best interest of sporting fairness which is the fundamental principle of the Scottish Football League. “The Scottish Football League has been entirely consistent with our willingness to work with other bodies to ensure that we focus on rebuilding our game, restoring pride in our game and exploring revenue streams and our willingness to achieve these aims does not alter.”

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It’s Brazil’s time to shine at the Olympics, says Ronaldo 30

Sport Terry cleared of abuse Magistrate rules that Chelsea captain did not racially insult Anton Ferdinand By Mike Collett

ORMER England captain John Terry was cleared yesterday of racially abusing opposing player Anton Ferdinand during a football match, in a case which could have wrecked his glittering career. The 31-year-old, captain of European Champions Chelsea, who earns a reported 150,000 pounds a week, was in Westminster Magistrates’ Court to hear chief magistrate Howard Riddle read his verdict after a ﬁve-day trial. An exchange of foul language between the players during a Premier League game last October triggered the resignation in February of England’s Italian manager Fabio Capello after the Football Association (FA) decided to strip Terry of the captain’s armband for Euro 2012. Terry denied committing a racially aggravated public order offence when he had an expletive-littered exchange with Ferdinand on the ﬁeld of play when Chelsea visited Queens Park Rangers’ Loftus Road ground. In evidence, he admitted using the highly offensive words, but maintained he was sarcastically repeating what Ferdinand mistakenly thought he had said. Explaining his verdict, Riddle said the prosecution presented a strong case and said there was no doubt about the offensive words Terry used towards Ferdinand. But, in summing up, he said: “Even with all the help the court has received from television footage, expert lip readers, witnesses and in-

A relieved man: John Terry walks out of court after being cleared of the charges after a ﬁve-day trial

deed counsel, it is impossible to be sure exactly what were the words spoken by Mr Terry at the relevant time. “It is impossible to be sure exactly what was said to him at the relevant time by Mr Ferdinand. It is not only that all of this happened in a matter of seconds. “They are professional footballers in the ﬁnal minutes of a game where the result mattered to them both. They would naturally concentrate

on the game more than on exactly what had been said to them or by them. “There was the noise of the crowd. There is the fact that towards the end of a game players are not only physically tired, they are also mentally tired. I don’t need evidence to tell me that. “It is a crucial fact that nobody has given evidence that they heard what Mr Terry said or more importantly how he said it.

“He has given effectively the same account throughout. Insofar as there are discrepancies in his account, they are understandable and natural.” “In those circumstances, there being a doubt, the only verdict the court can record is one of not guilty.” During cross-examination, Ferdinand agreed he had sworn at players in the past and been on the receiving end himself.

He said he was angry at Terry seeking a penalty call and there had been some barging on the pitch. He had also alluded to an alleged affair between the Chelsea player and the exgirlfriend of former England team mate Wayne Bridge. Terry had been stripped of the England captaincy before the 2010 World Cup following those allegations. Alison Saunders, the Chief Crown Prosecutor for Lon-

don said in a statement: “The very serious allegation at the heart of this case was one of racial abuse. “It was our view that this was not ‘banter’ on the football pitch and that the allegation should be judged by a court. “The Chief Magistrate agreed that Mr Terry had a case to answer, but having heard all of the evidence he acquitted Mr Terry of a racially aggravated offence. That is justice being done and we respect the Chief Magistrate’s decision.” Terry left the court by taxi without speaking as soon as the case concluded, but Bruce Buck, the chairman of Chelsea, made a brief statement to the waiting media. “Chelsea Football Club notes and of course we respect the decision of the magistrate today. We are pleased that John can now put his mind to football and go back to training and do what he has done for many years,” he said. Outside the court, a large crowd had gathered to hear the verdict, while passing cars beeped their horns in support. Three supporters held a large banner emblazoned with the words “JT, Captain, Leader, Legend” in the blue and white colours of Chelsea. The maximum ﬁne if Terry had been found guilty would have been 2,500 pounds. The damage to his reputation would have been far worse. He would have been likely to face a ban from England, for whom he has played 77 times in the last nine years, and would have faced another inquiry by the FA which almost certainly would have resulted in a long ban next season.

Beckham: I’m not the man to light Olympic flame By Steve Keating

David Beckham, pictured here holding the Olympic torch after arriving back from Athens with the ﬂame, says the honour of opening the Games should go to an Olympian

DAVID Beckham has suggested he is not the right man to light the Olympic ﬂame to ofﬁcially open the London Games, saying the honour should go to an Olympian who has won gold medals. Admitting his disappointment at failing to make Britain’s Olympic football squad, Beckham took himself out of the running for one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed on a sportsman or woman but offered no hint as to who should have the job of lighting the cauldron on July 27. “I’ve always said, lighting the torch in the stadium is some-

thing that should be done by an Olympian... who has done incredible things for our country and won gold medals,” Beckham told reporters. After the decision to leave Beckham out of the Team GB soccer squad was announced, the odds on the Los Angeles Galaxy player lighting the Olympic cauldron were slashed. While Beckham has politely tried to remove himself from consideration as the athlete to open the Games, the former England captain had made no secret of his hopes of landing one of the three over-age spots in Stuart Pearce’s Under-23 squad. The world famous trendsetter, who is England’s most capped outﬁeld player with

115 appearances, has not featured for the national team since 2009 and instead of playing at the Games he will continue to perform his role as an Olympic ambassador. “Obviously, all the talk of me possibly performing in the Olympics, it would have been a very proud moment for me,” said Beckham, who was part of the bid team that helped win the Games. “Everyone knows how proud I am of representing my country and to do it in my home town on such a big stage would have been incredible so, of course, I’m disappointed, but life goes on. “It’s going to be a proud moment to be there and know that I was part of bringing the Olympics to the East End

of London.” Beckham said support from family, friends and fans around the world had helped him get over the disappointment of missing out on the chance to march into the stadium as an athlete. “The support has been incredible”, said Beckham. “But like I said, life moves on and I hope the GB team go to the Olympics and win as many gold medals as possible.”