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Police deal a losing hand to poker buffs ‘Playing a game is not illegal and we shouldn’t be treated like criminals’

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VER 30 members of the Cyprus Poker Association, including its deputy head, are facing gambling charges after being arrested during trials for a tournament abroad, even though no money was involved, and they had given police advance written warning about practice runs for the national team.

After 13 members were arrested on July 22 at trials in Larnaca, the latest incident happened on Saturday in Limassol when 18 people were arrested. They are facing up to 15 charges.

According to Antonis Theophanides, the vice president of the association,the players have not broken any laws and yet have been arrested twice, and had equipment and cash, - collected for membership fees - confiscated.

“Our association has been brought into disrepute and yet we have done nothing illegal. We are aware that gambling is illegal in Cyprus and that’s why there is no money involved in our

Troika came here because of ‘Holy Trinity’

By Stefanos Evripidou THE ARRIVAL of the feared troika in Cyprus was a result of shenanigans by the ‘Holy Trinity’ two members of the opposition and former central bank governor Athanasios Orphanides, said President Demetris Christofias from London where he attended the Olympics opening ceremony.

In an interview with London Greek Radio (LGR) on Sunday, Christofias saw red when asked about Cyprus’ application to the EU bailout mechanism.

“I didn’t imagine we would need the help of the troika,” he said, proceeding to suggest that the reason Cyprus was in the process of borrowing billions of euros was the opposition.

“An opposition in democracy is absolutely essential but being alarmist and spewing hatred at your political opponents characterises people and countries with a political culture under development,” said the president.

Christofias further ruffled feathers back home when he tried to explain to the Cypriot Diaspora in the UK that the opposition “pushed us to enter the (European stability) mechanism in collaboration with the then central bank governor”.

games. We are simply trying to put together a good team to represent Cyprus at tournaments abroad,” he said. “We were arrested for illegal gambling although no prize money was being offered.”

The first poker trial which took place in Nicosia on July 21 went ahead without a hitch. But this was not the case for the following two trials in Larnaca and Limassol which both resulted in police raids despite the fact that the police had initially given the go ahead.

The trials were organised to select the ten best players to form the first Cyprus Poker Association national squad who will go on to compete in the Nations Cup qualifying tournament in London in September where Cyprus will compete against 43 other countries.

“We notified the police in writing and also by phone that these events were taking place and notified them of dates, times and venues,” said Theophanides of the three trials.

The notifications were sent three weeks prior to the games. In addition to

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OPPOSITION DISY leader and presidential candidate Nicos Anastasiades began wooing his first potential ‘partner’ – DIKO- ahead of next February’s presidential elections yesterday.

Anastasiades met with DIKO leader Marios Garoyian at the DIKO offices for two hours to explore the possibilities of forming a “government of national salvation” for the next five years after President Demetris Christofias steps down next year.

DIKO’s central committee decided last Saturday to pursue an alliance with DISY and other parties of the “inbetween space”, namely EVROKO and the Greens, noting that if the venture fails by mid-September, then DIKO will go it alone in the 2013 elections.

The leaders of DISY and DIKO yesterday decided to continue the dialogue launched to create the conditions for a common election manifesto, agreeing to meet again on August 17.

Garoyian said after the meeting that consultations will continue to investigate the possibility of forming a government of national salvation.

He described the meeting as “productive”, taking place in a “good climate” where DIKO was given the chance to express its concerns.

“This is not the time for games or fake dilemmas but the time for decisions be-

cause the country is going through difficult times and without a doubt we respect the positions of all,” he said, in a possible reference to criticism about the burgeoning alliance.

Anastasiades was the only significant political figure to come out clearly in favour of the Annan plan in 2004, at a time when former DIKO leader and then president Tassos Papadopoulos led the charge against the UN solution plan. Presidential contender Giorgos Lillikas – who earned the backing of EDEK on Saturday- has already tried to make this point to DIKO members.

Anastasiades thanked DIKO for launching a dialogue with the aim of creating the conditions for a common programme of convergences.

“I am not only determined but ready to enter into a dialogue which will help the common effort and desire of, I believe, the overwhelming majority of the Cypriot people to build a government of national salvation which can provide answers and solutions to the problems of the Cypriot citizen, the ordinary man, the businessman, everyone, and above all how to deal with the critical moments of the Cyprus problem,” he said.

He pledged to “honour to the letter all that will comprise the common basis for a programme of government which will bring together most of the political forces, those at least with converging positions.”

DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades with DIKO leader Marios Garoyian yesterday (Christos Theodorides)

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Police deal a losing hand to poker buffs ‘What we were doing was completely legal’ (continued from front page) the police, they were sent to the attorney-general, the interior minister and the president of the Cyprus sports federation.

Following the first raid in Larnaca on July 22, the association sent an email with an official complaint to the attorney-general’s office.

“It is a breach of our human rights, as playing a game or a sport is not illegal and we shouldn’t be treated like criminals for participating in what is the second largest sport in the world with over 300,000,000 players,” said Theophanides..”

He said the Cyprus Poker Association was registered on December 23, 2010 under the ‘Clubs and Associations Laws Instituted in 1972 and 1997’, and ‘The Clubs and Associations Regulations Enacted between 1973 and 1998’.

Theophanides said the response to his notifications to the authorities had been positive. “What we were doing was completely legal,” he said.

“This was confirmed when I spoke to Nicosia CID on Friday July 20. The officer asked for details of the tournament and a number of questions.

“As we were not playing for any prizes or gambling he explained to me that what we were doing was within the law and that we could continue with the tournament, which we did.”

Theophanides said he thinks that Larnaca police were subsequently informed anonymously that there was illegal gambling going on, which led to the raid.

However, he said, police did not find any evidence of gambling except the items used for playing poker, cards, tables, chips etc.

“There was also €610.00

collected on the day as entry fees and memberships to cover costs of hiring the room, sandwiches, and drinks,” he added.

“I understand that the police have a job to do and that illegal gambling is a significant problem, but if they had asked us to explain and taken the time to look at all our documentation then they would have clearly understood that no gambling was taking place.”

HONOURABLE Referring to the game as “an honourable game of skill” he added: “Poker is considered as a mind sport, described by many as chess with cards. This is not a game of gambling for gamblers.

There are obviously gamblers who play poker but most of the players are keen sports people looking to enjoy their sport without

risk.”

He said Cyprus has a number of prominent poker players; amongst others, Bambos Xanthos was the World Heads Up Champion in 2009.

Theophanides himself was placed 72nd in the World Championship of Poker last year.

Yesterday, police headquarters in Nicosia, referring to Saturday’s raid, would only confirm that a warrant had been obtained to carry out a search at a Limassol hotel.

“The crime prevention squad took part in the operation in which 18 people were engaged in gambling.

Evidence seized included cards, dice and cash... around €700.Yermasoyia police continuing to investigate the case,” said a spokesman.

A fourth trial, due to take place in on August 4, in Paphos may not now go ahead.

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Ryanair about to pull the plug on Larnaca?

Authorities will not confirm or deny that trouble afoot

By Jacqueline Agathocleous MORE trouble could be brewing for the island’s ailing tourism industry, as reports yesterday claimed lowcost Ryanair was thinking of suspending flights to Cyprus’ airports.

The reports were yesterday neither denied nor confirmed.

“There is no comment at this current stage, but when there is something worth announcing you will be informed accordingly,” Hermes Airports’ spokesman Adamos Aspris told the Cyprus Mail yesterday.

He was commenting on reports that Ryanair was reassessing its agreement with the Cyprus Tourism Organisation (CTO) for four flights

to and from Larnaca airport, as well as another agreement between the airline, the state and Hermes Airports for Paphos Airport. Both agreements are expected to expire in October.

According to reports, Ryanair is seeking double the amount offered under the CTO incentives to carry on its Larnaca flights; a demand that, given the economic circumstances, can’t be satisfied.

Similarly, Ryanair is reportedly asking the state to scrap landing fees at Paphos; also not a possibility.

CTO chairman Alekos Oroundiotis yesterday said he could neither confirm, nor deny the airline was thinking of leaving Cyprus.

“What I can say is that it is

a fact that we are at the stage of discussing whether to continue our co-operation with Ryanair,” said Oroundiotis.

“Ryanair’s schedule will continue until October and after that, it is a fact that Ryanair has expressed some concerns over its Larnaca flights, due to increased fuel costs. So they are concerned whether they should continue or not.”

Ryanair operates four flights from Larnaca; Barcelona Girona, Bologna in Italy, Brussels Charleroi, and Dusseldorf Weeze, all regional rather than main airports, which is the airline’s modus operandi. It also operates 15 destinations from Paphos, where it set up a hub in April this year.

Even though he initially denied the CTO was offering Ry-

anair financial support, when asked if what the reports said regarding double the amount in incentives was true, Oroundiotis said: “I’m not saying it is correct or wrong; I’m not commenting.”

He said the CTO had the same agreement with Ryanair as with any other airline or tour operator, and this had to do with promoting Cyprus abroad, and advertising.

The communications ministry’s permanent secretary, Alecos Michaelides, yesterday said he wasn’t aware of any such issue.

“We have not been informed on this matter,” said Michaelides. “The minister has been away for the past few days, but we will ask to be informed and see.”

Teenager’s burglary spree ends

By Natalie Hami LARNACA court has remanded a 15-year-old for eight days in connection with a string of break-ins spanning two weeks.

They also remanded another 15-year-old for two days as an accomplice for the break-in on Sunday.

“On Sunday at around 9.15am there was a complaint from a member of the public living in Larnaca that an unknown young person broke into his residence and stole several items… jewellery and a mobile phone,” said Larnaca police spokesman Christos Andreou. Police located the suspect using the description given to them by the owner of the property.

According to Andreou, they found the 15-year-old as he was getting into the back seat of a car, driven by a 37-yearold man. The , second teen suspect was in the passenger

CYPRUS TODAY Missing British woman found dead MISSING British woman Nancy Johnson was found dead in the Tsada area of Paphos on Sunday morning, almost six weeks after she left home in the village for the last time.

Johnson, 73, who suffered from Alzheimer’s, went missing on June 19 while her husband was taking a nap.

Despite days of intensive searches by the police using sniffer dogs, followed by weeks of looking by her family, friends and neighbours, there was no sign of her. Her concerned family had even set up a website dedicated to finding her, in case someone needed to contact them with information. But there had been no firm sightings of her confirmed since the day of her disappearance.

Nancy was finally found by a member of the public in a ravine in a secluded area of the village at around 6.20am on Sunday.

A post mortem today should reveal the cause and time of death.

Three-lane culprits booked POLICE caught and fined 54 drivers yesterday between morning and lunchtime for not using the three-lane Nicosia-Limassol highway properly, according to Traffic Police head Demetris Demetriou.

Demetriou has said repeatedly that despite the fact that the highway was delivered late last year drivers still did not know how to use the lanes.

“Up until yesterday afternoon (Sunday) we were simply monitoring drivers however from today (Monday) we said that those who don’t conform would be reported and along with their on-the-spot fine (€65) they will get an information leaflet on the correct use of the three-lanes,” said Demetriou.

Demetriou reiterated that drivers must not drive in the middle and right lane when the left one is empty, confirming that those fined were doing just that.

The middle and right lane should be used to overtake, he said.

Meanwhile, police caught over 223 drivers drink driving over the weekend islandwide, with the worst offenders being in Ayia Napa, where 72 were caught.

Slight drop in electricity charges

The stash of goods police said they found on the teenage burglar seat. Police signalled for them to stop but instead the car sped up but was intercepted.

As soon as the first teenage suspect realised that he had been caught he jumped out of the car and made a run for it but was caught.

From his bag they seized one gramme of cannabis, £260 sterling (€333), some watch-

es, mobile phones, jewellery, weighing scales, keys to a number of properties, vehicles and motorbikes. A body search revealed a toxic spray, €965 and a bag containing what is believed to be ecstasy.

“What concerns us is the fact that this young person (who is) only 15, is looking at not only one serious offence

but a great number of them,” said Andreou. The 37-year-old driver of the car – a friend of the teens – said he knew nothing about what they were up to. According to police spokesman Andreas Angelides he was not arrested but if something comes up during the course of the investigation he will be charged.

THE Electricity Authority of Cyprus (EAC) yesterday announced a reduction in the surcharge imposed after the Mari naval base blast last year, which killed 13 people and blew up the island’s main power station in Vassilikos.

As of yesterday, the surcharge dropped from 6.96 to 5.75 per cent for monthly EAC customers, while it will start counting from August 1 for twice-monthly consumers. This is the first reduction since it was imposed.

The head of the Energy Regulatory Authority, Giorgos Shiammas, said consumers shouldn’t expected any further reductions, though the hike will be fully scrapped in May 2013 – when all of Vassilikos’ units are expected to be up and running again. However, Shiammas added that consumers shouldn’t expect substantial electricity reductions until the international price of oil has dropped.

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Home Police investigate claim pregnant teen was raped by her stepfather A 16-YEAR-OLD girl has fallen pregnant after allegedly being raped by her stepfather. The police press office yesterday confirmed that a complaint had been filed, but added: “No further information will be given. We never comment on such cases.”

According to a report by Sigma TV, the teenager lives with her father and only visited her mother on the weekends. It was during one of these visits that she alleges she was first attacked by her stepfather.

She said she was sleeping with her younger sister when

her mother’s new husband walked in, took her sister to her mother’s room and then attempted to lie in the bed with her.

But the teenager said she screamed, alerting her mother, who came into the room and told him to leave her daughter’s room.

According to Sigma, the same thing happened on two further occasions during a subsequent attack, the 16-year-old said her stepfather put duct tape over her mouth and raped her.

She now claims to be pregnant with her stepfather’s child.

Sigma said that even though the girl’s mother threw her husband out after the incident, she took him back a few days later.

The girl confided in her father, who in turn took her to a police station to make a statement.

Both mother and stepfather were being questioned by the police, said the report, though this couldn’t be confirmed yesterday.

‘Investors set to lose either way’

Committee appointed to look into fuel hikes

Finance ministry lays out two options for those who were blindsided by banks

THE COMMERCE ministry yesterday appointed a committee to investigate fuel prices after two hikes in eight days.

“A team of technocrats was put together to start a survey tomorrow beginning with the petrol companies importing fuel,” said the head of the Commerce Ministry’s Competition and Consumer Protection Service, Froso Hadjilouca.

The team will be looking at the four companies active in Cyprus - EKO Hellenic Petroleum, Petrolina, Lukoil and Exxon Mobil – to obtain data contradicting or confirming claims available to the commerce ministry.

In 2009, the four companies were slapped with a collective fine of almost €43 million by the Protection of Competition Commission for price fixing and cartel-like behaviour between October 2004 and late 2006.

The companies appealed to the Supreme Court which nullified the fine because the head of the commission was not properly qualified.

The commerce ministry’s committee – which includes customs’ officials - is due to hand over the results of a survey “within August,” Hadjicosta said.

Commerce Minister Neoclis Sylikiotis has said he may exercise his power to set a price cap.

Compared to early July, fuel is up to 9.0 cents per litre more expensive, according to data available online at the commerce ministry.

By Poly Pantelides THE FINANCE ministry yesterday laid out two options for investors claiming to have been misled by banks, who may need to accept they will only get a portion of their money back.

The island’s two biggest lenders who are also in need of a bailout have collectively accumulated €1.4 billion in securities but stopped paying interest after making significant losses following a Greek sovereign debt write-down.

The banks closed access to capital, affecting around 8,000 people.

Depositors claim they were deceived by the banks into investing in securities without being told the risks by an authorised professional.

The biggest lender, Popular Bank, needs €1.8 billion – about 10 per cent of Cyprus’ GDP - and the second biggest, the Bank of Cyprus (BoC) needs €500 million to recapitalise as per regulatory requirements.

The government, unable to support the banks because of its growing budget deficit, requested an EU bailout on June 25.

The troika - a team of technocrats from the IMF, European central bank and the European Commission – has visited the island twice to assess the financial situation for the banks and the state and draw up a bailout plan.

Finance ministry director Andreas Trokkos told the parliamenty institutions’ committee that the troika recommended that either the banks buy the securities back at a discount or else the securities be converted to shares.

If the banks buy back the securities, then investors will be accepting a writedown.

If investors get shares instead, then they will be offered shares at a nominal value of €1.0 although currently they are selling at a fraction of that - about €0.22 for the BoC and €0.06 for Popular Bank according to afternoon data from financial portal Stockwatch.

Trokkos said they should conduct an in-depth survey into the matter “and call in experts from abroad” but that decisions would be political and not technocratic. Representing the investors – some of whom were protesting

Angry investors protested outside parliament yesterday outside parliament yesterday – Stavros Yiallourides and Fivos Mavrovouniotis said they wanted the banks to convert their securities into bonds with a 5.0 per cent interest rate, an expiry date of five years, and the option to retrieve 20 per cent of the capital

each year.

“People can’t pay their debt,” they told deputies adding they will not accept being pushed around.

The head of the institutions’ committee, EVROKO’s Demetris Syllouris said that they would continue working towards

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“This doesn’t have to do with figures but with the public being cheated,” Syllouris said adding that lawmakers would not vote through any law “covering scams”.

The committee is expected to invite attorneygeneral Petros Clerides to their next meeting, so that he can give them legal advice.

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Troika came because of the ‘Holy Trinity’ DISY deputy Neophytou responds: which one am I? God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit (continued from front page) According to the president, during meetings to discuss the economy at the presidential palace, some would propose measures to undermine workers “in a way as if they wanted vengeance against the ordinary man”.

Clarifying who exactly was out for vengeance, Christofias, said those who already “have millions” were asking for sacrifices from the “ordinary man”.

He then focused his crosshairs on former CB governor Orphanides.

“The person who should have warned the president, government, parties and banks about the risks of exposure to the Greek bonds, the one solely responsible is the (former) central bank governor. Not only did he not do that, he encouraged banks to buy (Greek bonds), and told people not to put their trust in Cypriot bonds,” he said, describing his behaviour as a “disgrace”. Feeding hatred through one’s statements was also “unacceptable in poli-

tics”, he said. Christofias accused Orphanides of failing to warn former finance minister Kikis Kazamis “with whom he had a good relationship” about the Greek debt writedown “And when did Mr Orphanides warn me how exposed Cypriot banks were to Greek bonds? Never. Instead, he was always co-operating with (DIKO deputy) Mr Nicolas Papadopoulos and (DISY deputy) Mr Averof Neophytou and they made this holy trinity attacking the government daily.”

The president said he was prepared to take on any responsibility that falls on the government but will accept “no responsibility for the Greek debt and the banks’ exposure to Greek bonds”.

Just last week, Orphanides told parliament that during his term as governor he tried his best to communicate with Christofias and warn him about the dangers of a Greek haircut but found zero desire to meet and discuss either from the former finance minister Charilaos Stavrakis

or Christofias. According to state broadcaster CyBC, Neophytou saw the ‘Holy Trinity’ jibe in a humorous light, calling on the president to clarify whether he (Neophytou) was God, Jesus or the Holy Spirit.

DIKO leader Marios Garoyian said Christofias’ statements on the role of the opposition were out of touch with reality.

“I don’t know what alarmism he is talking about. We saw and explained the real risks correctly, but the president and his economic team told us not to worry. Even at the meeting of party leaders, he told us the IMF does not have to come here, and three days later it came. So if they [the government] made any mistakes in their estimations and forecasts – which they did- it’s not the fault of others,” said Garoyian.

Main opposition DISY leader Nicos Anastasiades said Christofias confirms the point made that those who are educated through the ‘party’ have an expiry date.

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Olympic Committee in the red THE CYPRUS Olympic Committee (COC) owes around €1.2 million, mainly due to going over budget for the Games of the Small States of Europe (GSSE) in 2009.

Even though current COC Chairman Ouranios Ioannides made savings on contracts signed by his predecessor, in the range of €275,000, the committee still managed to go €765,613 over budget for the GSSE. Furthermore, following an ongoing dispute with the Olympic building’s architect – who was seeking €1.1 million from the state – the two sides eventually agreed on an out-of-court settlement for €400,000.

The figures were confirmed by Ioannides yesterday, who however is in London for the Olympic Games and couldn’t comment further.

According to Politis, despite Ioannides’ savings – he reduced the cost of the GSSE’s starting and closing ceremonies by €130,000 (from €560,000 to €430,000), as well as the cost of TV

coverage from €260,000 to €180,000, while he managed to cover the €25,000 cable transmission costs solely by donations – the committee went over its initially estimated €3 million budget. This was blamed on commitments made by the previous COC board of directors, as well as unexpected expenses for the games’ smooth operation and a larger number of attending officials than those originally estimated.

In regards to the architectural dispute, the paper claimed the Olympic building had not been maintained since 2006, as the architect is refusing to hand over the designs until he has been paid his dues. Politis also said the finance ministry had ordered an investigation into the amounts owed, with no discrepancies or public money squandering showing up.

The education ministry was yesterday unavailable for comment.

Christofias (right) with Cyprus Olympic chairman Ouranios Ioannides in London Greens all released statements slamming Christofias for choosing to seek conflict instead of consensus ahead of the troika negotiations for a bailout.

Meanwhile, powerful civil servants union PASYDY boss Glafcos Hadjipetrou yesterday hit out at employers’ or-

ganisation OEV head Michalis Pilikos for supposedly jumping on the chance to abolish the Cost of Living Allowance, accusing him of operating like a “governor of Cyprus”.

Pilikos responded saying it was clear that some people have yet to realise the situation Cyprus is currently in and

that things cannot go on the way they were.

During his trip to London for the opening of the Olympics, Christofias brushed shoulders with Queen Elizabeth II, British Prime Minister David Cameron and Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev among others.

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Home CYPRUS TODAY Police look for pesticides from north POLICE yesterday launched a sting in the Nicosia villages Kokkinotrimmithia, Peristerona and Astromeritis, after being informed that pesticides were being smuggled in from the north.

In co-operation with members of the National Guard, United Nations and the Agriculture Department, police checked 19 homes and farms, where they found 18 packages of registered pesticides, 16 used pesticide sprayers and another 21 packages of unknown pesticides.

“Investigations continue,” police said yesterday.

Jewellery stolen in Peyia burglary A 33-YEAR-OLD woman, living in Peyia in Paphos, reported having €15,900 stolen from her home yesterday.

The woman said that thieves stole an electronic device and jewellery. Peyia has a neighbourhood watch scheme covering Kathikas, Peyia and Ayios Giorgios and Coral Bay. According to the press officer of the scheme, Colm Connolly, Peyia gets one or two burglaries a week.

Reported Turkish warships off Paphos

Foreign Minister Erato Kozakou-Marcoullis and her Swiss counterpart, federal councillor Didier Burkhalter, yesterday talked about strengthening and broadening bilateral relations. Burkhalter said they could continue

promoting collaboration in areas of common interest, including double taxation as well as culture. Marcoullis welcomed Burkhalter at the foreign ministry where they discussed Syria, and the Cyprus problem (PIO)

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WARSHIPS carrying guns and military vehicles on behalf of the ‘TRNC’ were seen very close to Paphos in the morning, reports said yesterday.

The warships, which could be seen from the coast, are related to planned events in the north, according to a national guard source who was speaking to the Cyprus News Agency.

Authorities are monitoring the situation, the agency reports said.

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‘I have never been involved in illegal activities’ Andreas Gregoriou tells court

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A MAN charged with ‘fixing’ the murder of media boss Andis Hadjicostis said yesterday that he never arranged to get anyone killed and said he knew some of those implicated in the murder only through his job as a butcher.

“I have never been involved in illegal activities or been convicted for anything illegal,” said Andreas Gregoriou who is among the four accused of premeditated murder.

Gregoriou said that the testimonies of protected witnesses Fanos Hadjigeorgiou and Giorgos Christodoulou Zavrantonas were lies.

He said he met Hadjigeorgiou – who was a “familiar face” while on holiday in Paphos with his wife when he went over to Larnaca hospital to see a common friend who had been shot.

Hadjigeorgiou spent “all his time with Koullis Koshiaris [who was shot] so when they transported him to Nicosia hospital I kept calling [Hadjigeorgiou] to find out how Koullis was doing,” Gregoriou said.

He also said that he helped sort a disagreement between the two over a mobile phone that Hadjigeorgiou stole from the other man’s friends.

Gregoriou said that he became close to Hadjigeorgiou who would visit him at his work, and they would “drink coffee and he would help with putting orders together for the Tamasiana restaurant, one of my main clients”. One of the owners of that restaurant was alleged mastermind, Tasos Krasopoulis. Gregoriou said he was friendly with the family of the wife of Zavrantonas. According to Gregoriou, after Zavrantonas served his prison sentence his one vice was poaching. Zavrantonas was interested in Gregoriou’s hunting dogs, Gregoriou said.

Zavrantonas and Hadjigeorgiou both attended Gregoriou’s wedding in July 2009 and became friends through common interests, Gregoriou said.

Hadjigeorgiou previously told the court that he and Gregoriou planned to shoot Hadjicostis while he was on the move at a set of traffic lights near his home in Engomi. But Gregoriou was injured in late 2009 when a

bomb went off in his car. He was being treated in hospital where according to Hadjigeorgiou, he allegedly provided the alleged shooter with a sawn-off shotgun.

Gregoriou told the court yesterday that he only had shotguns obtained legally for hunting.

Hadjigeorgiou told the court last year that they would take shifts guarding Gregoriou with a pistol in hospital. Hadjigeorgiou, who confessed to driving the getaway motorbike in exchange for immunity, told the court that Gregoriou had promised him he would “take care” of the murder weapon, which had not been properly disposed of.

The murder weapon has not yet been found.

Gregoriou yesterday said he was “bitter” because the police were given false information linking him to illegal activities.

Facing premeditated murder charges are television presenter Elena Skordelli and her brother Krasopoulis who are the alleged masterminds; alleged shooter Gregoris Xenofontos; and Gregoriou, the alleged fixer.

Sigma boss Hadjicostis was shot twice outside his home in Nicosia on January 11, 2010.

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Britain Ex-officer jailed for cancer lie

An early ‘gold’ for London in quiet commutes Transport system copes with quiet early rush hour on first full working day of Games

By William James and Alessandra Prentice BRITAIN’S much maligned public transport system coped with an unusually quiet early rush hour on the first full working day of the Olympics on Monday, winning an early gold for carrying one million spectators smoothly through Europe’s busiest commute.

Travellers said buses and trains were working surprisingly smoothly with few hiccups, confounding dire forecasts of a transport meltdown in a city once notorious for slow trains, late buses and incoherent delay announcements.

London’s transport bosses expect an extra 3 million journeys per day during the Games on top of the usual 12 million, an Olympian test for an underground train network that first opened in 1863 during the reign of Queen Victoria.

“I’ve noticed how easy it has been to travel. With the influx of one million people for the Games, it’s made me wonder, where are they?”

Paul Richardson, a 37-yearold photographer, told Reuters at London Bridge, which the authorities had warned

commuters to avoid.

Saying their breezy, delayfree journeys seemed too good to be true, some travellers said they would reserve judgment on whether the transport system should get a medal until it coped with several days of Olympic rush hours, including the evening crunch.

The capital’s higgledypiggledy public transport system has been a target of scorn among Londoners and employers who complain that the jumble of grimy buses and delayed trains damages London’s reputation as one of the world’s premier cities.

SERENE JOURNEYS But in interviews with Reuters correspondents across London, commuters said the early morning rush hour had gone unusually well: empty trains and serene bus journeys replaced the usually cramped and sweaty crush that is the daily fare of London life.

“The trains were all excellent today, we had no troubles,” Hugo Brown from Ely in Cambridge, who travelled to the Olympics to support Britain’s Paul Drinkhall in the table tennis competition, said.

“It’s probably better than I expected. We had given ourselves extra time to get here and we’ve actually gotten here in less time than expected,” he added.

Commuters said trains and buses appeared exceptionally quiet, indicating that some travellers may be altering their journeys because of fears of delays or simply dusting down their bicycles or walking boots. Some Londoners took vacations, worked from home or just took the day off.

London Transport and the city’s mayor have conducted a campaign for weeks urging commuters to vary their journeys, take alternative routes or use a bicycle.

Some Londoners, indeed, appeared to have opted to cycle to the office: In otherwise quiet streets, swarms of cyclists in luminous yellow jackets formed at every traffic light while bike sheds in the City of London were fuller than usual.

“It’s nothing like they warned it would be, they said we’d have to queue 30 minutes just to get on the Tube but I ended up getting to work an hour early,” said Letizia, an Italian living in London, at London Bridge station.

Man detained in connection with missing yachtsman A MAN has been arrested in connection with the disappearance of a British yachtsman who vanished in the middle of the Indian Ocean.

Sean Terry, 48, went missing while piloting his boat from the paradise islands of the Maldives to Madagascar during a round-theworld sailing trip.

The quantity surveyor, who took early retirement to sail solo around the world, was last heard from on June 18, according to his family.

A week later his 40ft yacht Finnegan was piloted into the island of Coetivy off the coast of the Seychelles by Stefan Pokorny, an Austrian scuba diving instructor who had joined Terry on board, they said.

Pokorny has been arrested in connection with the disappearance and is due to appear in court in the Seychelles later this week.

Judith Middleton, a spokeswoman for Mr Terry’s family in South Africa, said Pokorny had told police his sole crewmate had

jumped off the boat in a fit of anger.

But she told The Independent there were details in his story that did not “add up”.

“Pokorny came on board the yacht as an experienced and strong diver and the family wants to know why he did not do more to rescue Sean,” she said.

“He told police that Sean got angry and jumped off the boat, but that does not add up. He told police it happened at night and in bad weather, but other ships in the area said the weather was fine.

“The man-over-board button was not pressed and the satellite communication equipment was not used to radio for help.

The family are desperate for answers.”

Middleton said Terry was looking forward to spending Christmas with his family and would not have contemplated suicide.

The yachtsman’s two laptops, which he used to contact family and friends, and the ship’s logbook were missing when it arrived in the Seychelles, she added.

Journalist arrested amid stolen data investigation A JOURNALIST has been arrested by officers investigating the use of data from stolen mobile phones.

The 51-year-old man was detained by Metropolitan Police detectives after attending a central London police station by appointment at 10am today on suspicion of handling

stolen goods.

He is the eighth person to be arrested as part of Operation Tuleta, the probe into alleged computer hacking and wider privacy offences.

This is linked to the Met’s investigation into newspaper phone hacking, Operation Weeting.

A Scotland Yard spokesman said: “The arrest relates to a suspected conspiracy involving the gathering of data from stolen mobile phones and is not about seeking journalists to reveal confidential sources in relation to information that has been obtained legitimately.”

Travellers yesterday said buses and trains were working surprisingly smoothly with a few hiccups, confounding dire forecasts of a transport meltdown

A FORMER police officer who lied about her daughter having cancer so she could take her to show jumping events was jailed yesterday.

Rachel Hewitt, 39, of South Elmsall in West Yorkshire, claimed her teenage daughter was having chemotherapy for a tumour and had been critically ill in intensive care.

North Yorkshire Police gave her compassionate leave, special shifts and colleagues even organised whip-rounds to buy the family gifts.

But her daughter was actually taking part in equestrian contests, which Hewitt took her to after telling a “pack of lies”, Hull Crown Court heard.

Jailing Hewitt for 18 months, the judge said she had shown an “extreme breach of trust” by spinning lie after lie for around two years before she was arrested last October.

The mother-of-two was also granted time off from her role, for which she got a salary of up to £29,400, after claiming she had swine flu and other serious illness, Simon Batiste, prosecuting, told the court.

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World WORLD TODAY Arrests over tiger carcasses POLICE in central Vietnam found the carcasses of two endangered wild tigers in the boot of a car that was stopped for speeding.

Officers in Quang Binh province said they detained the two men in the vehicle for questioning after finding the tiger carcasses.

The pair told police they had been hired by an unknown man to transport the carcasses to nearby Quang Tri province.

Tiger bones are used in Vietnam to make a medicine which is used as a traditional pain killer. It sells for about 1,000 US dollars (£635) for 100 grams (3.5oz).

Last week, conservation group WWF ranked Vietnam as the worst country in the world for wildlife crime.

New panda cub sets record A 20-YEAR-OLD giant panda has given birth at San Diego Zoo, and set a record. Officials at the zoo said it is the sixth cub born to Bai Yun, the most at a breeding facility outside of China.

Zookeepers and researchers watched the birth via a closed circuit camera mounted inside the birthing den.

In a blog post, zoo officials said Bai Yun immediately scooped the cub into her arms and comforted the newborn.

Because of Bai Yun’s advanced age, the pregnancy was considered high risk, but zookeepers said mother and baby are doing fine.

Whale death A SPERM whale helped back to sea by rescuers in Indonesia has been found dead 15 miles (25km) west of where it was beached for four days.

The 39ft (12m) whale washed ashore near West Java’s Karawang beach on Wednesday, attracting hundreds of onlookers in fishing boats who blocked rescuers from leading it to deeper water.

Pramudya Harzani, from the Jakarta Animal Aid Network, said today that rescuers found its carcass in Muara Gembong after dozens of navy divers and volunteers led the two-ton whale to deep waters late on Saturday.

Romania PM demands president resign ROMANIAN Prime Minister Victor Ponta demanded the president resign yesterday, saying he had lost all credibility, but Traian Basescu refused, indicating Sunday’s referendum had not ended a feud which has delayed vital economic reforms.

The election bureau said turnout in the referendum, called by Ponta to seek support for Basescu’s impeachment, was 46 per cent - below the 50 per cent needed to make it valid - though 88 per cent of those who did vote, backed Basescu’s removal.

The result - still to be confirmed by the Constitutional Court - lifted the leu currency, but meant the unresolved feud could dominate parliamentary elections in November and slow reforms linked to an aid deal backed by the International Monetary Fund.

“He (Basescu) will probably stay in Cotroceni (presidential palace), will have cars, villas and some profiteers around him who will continue to advise and praise him,” Ponta said. “But for the Romanian people he stopped being a leader last night.”

Basescu, a conservative whose perceived cronyism and support for economic austerity has made him unpopular, said he would not quit because the vote had shown that more than half of Romanians did not want to remove him.

He had called for a boycott of the referendum.

POLITICAL CLASS ‘SLAPPED’ The 88 per cent vote for his impeachment, even on a low turnout, undermined Basescu’s authority, but the result also reflected badly on Ponta’s leftist Social Liberal Union (USL), the ruling party, analysts said.

“The political class was slapped by Romanians yesterday and it’s time ... it understood that it can’t go on without a minimum shred of consensus,” said Sergiu Miscoiu of the political think tank CESPRI. “Ponta’s comments suggest he will continue with his belligerent attitude, which he may have learnt from Basescu,” said Miscoiu. “There is a need for reconciliation if we want to clean up Romania’s

image and have somewhat functional institutions.”

Basescu’s role - he can block legislation once before being over-ruled by parliament, controls foreign policy and appoints the chief prosecutor and some judges - means he can delay but not stop reforms such as privatisations and health reforms.

The IMF will start a review of Romania’s ¤5-billion aid deal this week, having delayed it until after the referendum, and may raise concerns over delays in cutting the budget deficit and carrying out longer-term reforms.

The European Commission had no immediate comment on the referendum result.

Brussels had accused Ponta of undermining the rule of law and intimidating judges in his drive to remove Basescu, and had insisted he respect the Constitutional Court’s ruling that the referendum’s validity depended on a 50 per cent turnout.

The election bureau said it would send its final count to the Constitutional Court on Wednesday.

Basescu is unpopular for backing austerity and for perceived cronyism (AFP)

Russia’s Pussy Riot on trial for cathedral protest Case seen as test of Putin’s treatment of dissenters

By Alissa de Carbonnel THREE women who protested against Vladimir Putin in a “punk prayer” on the altar of Russia’s main cathedral went on trial yesterday in a case seen as a test of the longtime leader’s treatment of dissent during a new presidential term.

The women from the band “Pussy Riot” face up to seven years in prison for an unsanctioned performance in February in which they entered Moscow’s Christ the Saviour Cathedral, ascended the altar and called on the Virgin Mary to “throw Putin out!”

Maria Alyokhina, 24, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, 22, and Yekaterina Samutsevich, 29, were brought to Moscow’s Khamovniki court for Russia’s highest-profile trial since former oil tycoon Mikhail Khodorkovsky was convicted for a second time in 2010, in the same courtroom.

Supporters chanted “Girls, we’re with you!” and “Victory!” as the women, each handcuffed by the wrist to a female officer, were escorted from a police van into the courthouse.

Members of the all-girl punk band “Pussy Riot” Nadezhda Tolokonnikova (left), Maria Alyokhina (right) and Yekaterina Samutsevich (centre), sit behind bars during a court hearing in Moscow yesterday (AFP) “We did not want to offend anybody,” Tolokonnikova said from the same metal and clear-plastic courtroom cage where Khodorkovsky sat with his business partner during their trial. “Our motives were exclusively political.”

The stunt was designed to highlight the close relation-

ship between the dominant Russian Orthodox Church and former KGB officer Putin, then prime minister, whose campaign to return to the presidency in a March election was backed clearly, if informally, by the leader of the church, Patriarch Kirill.

The protest offended many

believers and left the church leadership incensed.

The church, which has enjoyed a big revival since the demise of the Communist Soviet Union in 1991 and is seeking more influence on secular life, cast the performance as part of a sinister campaign by “anti-Russian forces”.

The women, who have been charged with hooliganism motivated by religious hatred or hostility, have said many times they meant no offence.

In opening statements read by a defence lawyer, who sometimes struggled with the handwritten texts, they said they were protesting against Kirill’s political support for Putin and had no animosity toward the church or the faithful.

“I have never had such feelings towards anyone in the world,” Tolokonnikova said in her statement, describing the charge of religious hatred as “wildly harsh”.

“We are not enemies of Christianity. The opinion of Orthodox believers is important to us and we want all of them to be on our side - on the side of anti-authoritarian civil activists,” she said.

“Our performance contained no aggression toward the public - only a desperate desire to change the situation in Russia for the better.”

Pussy Riot burst onto the scene this winter with angry lyrics and surprise performances, including one on Red Square outside the Kremlin, that went viral on the Internet.

The band members see themselves as the avant-garde of a disenchanted generation looking for creative ways to show its dissatisfaction with Putin’s 12-year dominance of the political landscape.

“I thought the church loved all its children, but it seems the church loves only those children who love Putin,” Alyokhina’s statement said.

Law making Russian offical language will split Ukraine, opposition warn OPPOSITION politicians walked out of Ukraine’s parliament in protest yesterday after warning that a law making Russian the official language in parts of the former Soviet republic would set citizens at each other’s throats.

President Viktor Yanukovich’s Party of the Regions rushed the bill through parliament earlier this month in what opponents saw as a bid to rally public support in Russian-speaking regions ahead of an October parliamentary election.

The move led to street protests in the capital Kiev and brawls in parliament. The chamber went into recess until September, leaving the bill in limbo, but last week parliament said it would reconvene for an extra session on Monday.

Arseny Yatseniuk, leader of the opposition Front of Change party, described the bill as a “crime against Ukraine and the Ukrainian state” during the special session yesterday.

“We regard this as an anti-consti-

tutional manoeuvre - it does not exist for us as a law,” he said.

Ivan Zayats, a deputy of Our Ukraine, another opposition party, said: “This law will set Ukrainians of the left bank against the right, north against south.”

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in India Syrian rebels come Blackout leaves 300 million under fire in Aleppo without electricity Assad forces keep up assault on Syria’s largest city

By Erika Solomon THE Syrian military stepped up its campaign to drive rebel fighters out of Aleppo yesterday, firing artillery and mortars while a fighter jet flew over a district the army said it had retaken the day before.

However, opposition activists denied government forces had entered the Salaheddine district, which lies in the southwest of the country’s biggest city and straddles the most obvious route for Syrian troop reinforcements coming from the south.

Hospitals and makeshift clinics in rebel-held eastern neighbourhoods were filling up with casualties from a week of fighting in Aleppo, a commercial hub that had previously stayed out of a 16-monthold revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.

“Some days we get around 30, 40 people, not including the bodies,” said a young medic in one clinic. “A few days ago we got 30 injured and maybe 20 corpses, but half of those bodies were ripped to pieces. We can’t figure out who they are.”

The opposition Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said 40 people, including 30 civilians, were killed in Syria on Monday. Two rebel fighters died in Salaheddine.

Outgunned rebel fighters, patrolling in flat-bed trucks flying green-white-and-black “independence” flags, said they were holding out in Salaheddine despite a battering by the army’s heavy weapons and helicopter gunships.

“We always knew the regime’s grave would be Aleppo,” said Mohammed, a young fighter, fingering the bullets in his tattered brown ammunition vest. “Damascus is the capital, but here we have a fourth of the country’s population and the entire

Syrian rebel fighters celebrate after capturing a checkpoint in the village of Anadan, about five kilometres northwest of Aleppo, yesterday, after a 10-hour battle (AFP) force of its economy. Bashar’s forces will be buried here.”

An unidentified Syrian army officer said on state television late on Sunday that troops had pushed “those mercenary gunmen” completely out of Salaheddine, adding: “In a few days safety and security will return to the city of Aleppo.”

The army’s assault on Salaheddine echoed its tactics in Damascus earlier this month when it used its overwhelming firepower to mop up rebel fighters district by district.

Assad’s forces are determined not to let go of Aleppo, where defeat would be a serious strategic and psychological blow.

Military experts believe the rebels are too lightly armed and poorly commanded to overcome the army, whose artillery pounds the city at will and whose gunships control the skies.

Reuters journalists in Aleppo have been unable to approach Salaheddine to verify who controls it.

“Yesterday they were shelling the area at a rate of two shells a minute. We couldn’t move at all,” said a man calling himself a spokesman for the “Aleppo Revolution” group. “It’s not true at all that the regime’s forces are in Salaheddine.”

Warfare has stilled the usual commercial bustle in this city

of 2.5 million. Vegetable markets are open but few people are buying. Instead, crowds of sweating men and women wait nearly three hours to buy limited amounts of heavily subsidised bread.

In a city where loyalties have been divided, with sections of the population in favour of the Assad government, some seemed wary of speaking out in the presence of the fighters, many of whom have been drafted in from surrounding areas. Asked about his allegiances, one man waiting at a police station that had been badly damaged by shellfire said: “We are not with anyone.

We are on the side of truth.”

GRID failure left more than 300 million people without power in New Delhi and much of northern India for hours on Monday in the worst blackout for more than a decade, highlighting chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia’s third-largest economy.

The lights in Delhi and seven states went out in the early hours, leaving the capital’s workers sweltering overnight and then stranded at metro stations in the morning rush hour as trains were cancelled.

Electricity supplies were restored to Delhi and much of Uttar Pradesh, a state with more people than Brazil, by midday (0630 GMT). But the states of Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir were still without full power in the early evening.

Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde said all power would be restored within hours.

Power shortages and a creaky road and rail network have weighed heavily on the country’s efforts to industrialise. Grappling with the slowest economic growth in nine years, Delhi recently scaled back a target to pump $1 trillion into infrastructure over the next five years.

Major industries have dedicated power plants or large

diesel generators and are shielded from outages - but the inconsistent supply affects investment and disrupts small businesses. Office blocks, hotels and large apartment buildings all use backup diesel generators.

Chaos reigned on Delhi’s always-hectic roads on Monday as stop lights failed and thousands of commuters abandoned the metro. Water pumping stations ran dry.

“First, no power since 2 in the morning, then no water to take a shower and now the metro is delayed by 13 minutes after being stuck in traffic for half an hour,” said 32-year-old Keshav Shah, who works 30 km outside the capital. “As if I wasn’t dreading Monday enough, this had to happen.”

The government’s top economic planning adviser, Montek Singh Ahluwalia, said the blackout may have been caused by a mix of coal shortages and other problems on the grid.

“I’ve no doubt that this is the area that we need to show improved performance in, and we also need show a clear sense of what we are doing to prevent it,” Ahluwalia told Reuters at his office, where power had been restored some hours earlier.

The blackout highlighted chronic infrastructure woes holding back Asia’s third-largest economy

Palestinians accuse US presidential challenger Mitt Romney for calling Jerusalem ‘capital of Israel’ PALESTINIANS accused US Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney yesterday of undermining peace prospects by calling Jerusalem “the capital of Israel”, ignoring their own claims to the city and most world opinion.

Romney used the term on Sunday to sustained applause from his Israeli audience

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in the Holy City, during a trip to present himself as Israel’s closest ally ahead of the November 6 election contest with President Barack Obama.

“We condemn his statements. Those who speak about the two-state solution should know that there can be no Palestinian state without East Jerusalem,” chief Pales-

tinian negotiator Saeb Erekat told Reuters on Monday.

“What this man is doing here is just promoting extremism, violence and hatred, and this is absolutely unacceptable,” he said. “His statements are just rewarding the occupation and aggression.”

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war. A UN Security Council resolution condemns a 1980 Israeli law that declared Jerusalem the “complete and undivided” capital of the country as a violation of international law.

Most countries, including the United States, have not recognised Israel’s declaration and have kept their embassies in the coastal city of Tel Aviv.

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Business UK seeks urgent Libor reform

Shamed HSBC takes $2b hit for US and UK flaws

BRITAIN is seeking urgent reform of the key interest rate rigged by a number of banks, including Barclays, in a transatlantic scandal that is threatening to seriously damage London's reputation as a financial centre.

The government on Monday set the terms for a swift review of Libor, to be carried out by regulator Martin Wheatley in time for recommendations to be included in a draft law making its way through parliament.

The Libor scandal has sparked a blame game among market watchdogs in the United States and Britain who are now calling for direct regulation of the benchmark that is currently compiled and overseen by the banking industry.

Wheatley, a top official at the Financial Services Authority, will look at how Libor, which reflects the price at which banks are willing to lend to each other, is constructed and the feasibility of using actual trades rather than offered rates.

The review will also look at governance, the potential for alternative rate-setting processes and how to move to a new regime, which some experts say could take time as many long-term contracts are pegged to Libor, the London interbank offered rate.

Sanctions for abuse of Libor and whether the rate, currently supervised by its sponsor, the British Bankers' Association (BBA), should be formally and directly regulated under UK law, will also be examined.

"The benchmark rate is used globally for trillions of dollars worth of financial contracts. Therefore, it is clear that urgent reform of the Libor compilation process is required," Wheatley said in a statement published by the Treasury.

$700m provision for US antimoney laundering failures

By Steve Slater and Matt Scuffham HSBC's boss said yesterday revelations of lax anti-money laundering controls had been "shameful and embarrassing" for Europe's biggest bank, and may force it to pay out well over $2 billion for those flaws and in compensation for UK mis-selling.

HSBC set aside $700 million to cover fines and other costs for an anti-money laundering scandal, after a US Senate report criticised it this month for letting clients shift funds from dangerous and secretive countries, notably Mexico.

The ultimate cost could be "significantly higher", the bank's Chief Executive Stuart Gulliver said.

"What happened in Mexico and the US is shameful, it's embarrassing, it's very painful for all of us in the firm," Gulliver told reporters on a conference call.

"We need to execute on the compliance changes and then prove ourselves worthy and rebuild this over a number of years. There are no quick and easy fixes," he said.

The Senate report criticised a "pervasively polluted" culture at the bank and said HSBC's Mexican operations had moved $7 billion into its

A woman leaves an ATM of an HSBC branch in Hong Kong yesterday US operations between 2007 and 2008.

The provision ate into firsthalf underlying profits, which fell 3 per cent from a year earlier to $10.6 billion, excluding gains from assets sales and losses on the value of its own debt.

HSBC also set aside another $1.3 billion to compensate British customers for mis-selling loan insurance to individuals and interest rate hedging products to small businesses.

It is also one of more than a dozen banks under scrutiny in a global interest rate-rigging scandal that has rocked the sector and further dam-

aged the reputation of bankers following criticism of their culture and standards.

"It's very unfortunate and deeply concerning that even the banks considered more secure such as HSBC are so seriously at risk," said a top 30 investor in HSBC. "And the news is still coming out - we have yet to see the impact, if any, of the Libor investigation and HSBC's role in that. It's hard to see how much more bad news the markets can take," said the investor, who asked not to be named.

Shares in HSBC were up 0.9 per cent to 535.8 pence at 1230 GMT, lagging a 2 per cent rise

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in Europe's bank index.

US and British authorities fined fellow UK-based bank Barclays $453 million for manipulating Libor, a benchmark interest rate based on how much banks charge to lend to each other. More banks are expected to be drawn into the investigation into banks submitting false rates from which Libor is calculated daily.

Thomson Reuters Corp is the British Bankers' Association's official agent for the daily calculation and publishing of Libor.

Gulliver said that as a contributor to Libor and its eurozone equivalent Euribor, HSBC was co-operating with

regulators with their investigation. However, it was far too early to say what the outcome would be or to estimate the potential cost for the bank.

HSBC said it was in talks to settle the investigation into its US anti-money laundering compliance with the US Department of Justice and other regulators. "It may take several more months to come to fruition," Gulliver said.

He is mid-way through a deep overhaul to cut costs, sell or shrink unprofitable businesses, and to direct investment to faster growing Asian markets. That has seen the bank cut 27,000 jobs since the start of 2011.

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No respite in sight for battered eurozone economy

These Bank of Cyprus rates for telegraphic transfer transactions (spot deals) apply to yesterday, but provide a good guide to today’s value against the euro.

ECONOMIC sentiment in the eurozone fell to near a three-year low in July as the bloc's economy deepened its slump and businesses became more pessimistic.

The two-and-a-half-year debt crisis that spread from Athens - now struggling to stay in the eurozone - has continued to spread across Europe.

Spain's recession deepened in the second quarter and economic sentiment in both Germany and France took a hit data showed yesterday.

Only non-eurozone member Sweden has upbeat news, reporting accelerating output in the quarter.

Eating away at fragile confidence that was badly damaged by the 2008/2009 financial crisis, Spain's economy shrank 0.4 per cent from the previous quarter as it fought to overcome a burst housing bubble and to cut its budget deficit dramatically.

Investor concerns about Spain have pushed its funding costs to euro-era highs and the world's no.12 economy risks being pushed towards a full bailout unless it can regain market confidence, in turn hurting business confidence.

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Brokers are seen at the Frankfurt am Main stock exchange on July 24, 2012 for the eurozone?" said Julian Callow, an economist at Barclays Capital. "All the while, we are searching ourselves and asking what is going to turn this around here. And there are not many answers."

The mood in businesses across the eurozone fell to a 34-month low in July, near levels last seen after the col-

lapse of US investment bank Lehman Brothers, the European Commission's sentiment index showed, with morale falling across all sectors.

The index fell to 87.9 points in July from 89.9 in June, worse than economists' expectations of 88.7 points.

Business sentiment fell for the fifth straight month.

European Central Bank President Mario Draghi vowed in London last week to do "whatever it takes to preserve the euro" and this Thursday's policy meeting will be closely watched.

Draghi's comments have raised hopes high, leading some economists say confidence could take a further hit if the ECB fails to convince markets it is taking effective action.

"The deterioration in economic sentiment adds to evidence that the eurozone is heading deeper into recession," said Jennifer McKeown at Capital Economics, who sees the 17nation bloc's economy contracting 1.5 per cent this year.

The International Monetary Fund is more optimistic, seeing only a 0.3per cent shrinkage in all of 2012 and a mild recovery next year. Credit rating agency Standard and Poor's said yesterday it sees a 0.6-per cent contraction this year.

In a sign that the impact of the debt crisis is being felt across the bloc and not just in the indebted south, morale posted its sharpest decline in a year in Germany, the bloc's biggest economy and largest contributor to the region's financial bailout funds.

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Opinion

Old-style hero worship has no relevance today TWO PRESIDENTIAL candidates attended Sunday’s memorial service for Archbishop Makarios at Kykkos.

The AKEL candidate, health minister Stavros Malas was also given the job of speaking at the service on behalf of the government, which presumably wanted to give him a platform to pander to the ‘Makarios vote,’ if such a thing exists.

In theory it should not exist as Makarios passed away 35 years ago, the very idea that there could be a ‘Makarios vote’ being too ridiculous for words. He is a president from a bygone era whose words and thoughts have no relevance to the Cyprus of today and if there are still people who consider themselves ‘pro-Makarios’, they should seek help.

Worship of ‘the great leader,’ decades after his passing, is a phenomenon normally encountered in totalitarian regimes like North Korea. Yet Malas could not resist the temptation to indulge in some hero worship and hyperbole in his speech, describing Makarios as “indisputably the greatest leader ever produced by Cyprus.” He added that his “reputation, political prominence and moral stature went beyond the narrow confines of troubled Cyprus.”

Greens deputy Giorgos Perdikis quite rightly pointed out that the day on which Makarios was remembered should not be subject to “political exploitation,” but this was neither the first time nor would it be the last. More demoralising is the fact that a ‘new generation’ politician and presidential candidate with supposedly, modern ideas, feels obliged to engage in the old style hero-worship.

Malas was merely following the AKEL policy of defending its commitment to a federal settlement, by citing the fact that Makarios had agreed to it in the top level agreements of 1977. “The courageous signature by Makarios of the top level agreement for a federal settlement constitutes the most crucial, timeless and simultaneously most contemporary historical legacy.”

Does it really? Surely, Malas should be able to come up with a better argument in favour of a federal settlement than the fact that Makarios supported it 35 years ago. This argument is based on the assumption that Makarios was infallible and had impeccable political judgment, neither of which, objectively speaking, was true. Malas should try to offer more convincing arguments for a federal settlement, if he believes it is the only option.

What Makarios thought and did 35 years ago is of no relevance or value today. We should honour our first president’s memory once a year, but using him in the current political debate does not seem a very clever idea.

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A good time to learn from past mistakes W

ITH THE economic crisis entering its second year many people are suffering real hardship, and far too many are unemployed. Negotiations with the “troika” of the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund over the terms of financial support to Cyprus are about to begin in earnest and there is inevitably an atmosphere of gloom, uncertainty and fear about the future. Rumours about the dire measures that the troika may impose are rife, adding to the general feeling of despondency.

In these difficult times we would do well to keep in mind the words of Socrates, who advised us to remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs and that we should avoid undue depression in adversity.

We should take the present circumstances as an opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past.

We should remember first of all that our partners in Europe have nothing to gain from weakening us, and engage with the troika in a positive and constructive way, with the aim of putting in place a stable and sustainable foundation for future growth and prosperity.

It is easy to blame others for our difficulties, but if we are honest with ourselves we must accept a large part of the responsibility. In many ways Cyprus and Cypriots had become lazy and complacent over the past twenty years. Rather than working we sold off property to foreigners. In the financial and business services sector, we failed to develop new products and were overtaken by our competitors. The demand for Cyprus holding companies and second homes in Cyprus was sufficiently strong that lawyers and accountants could survive, and indeed thrive, despite providing third-class service. We carried on thinking that the golden age would last forever, more intent on cutting one another’s throats than facing the emerging competition from Singapore, Malta and other jurisdictions that not only provided their clients with the products they wanted, but also treated them with respect and gave them proper service.

Apart from the tonnage tax

Comment Andreas Neocleous law and the long-overdue reform of the International Trusts Law Cyprus has offered nothing new to potential investors for twenty years or more. Rather than offering investors dependability, innovation, quality service and integrity, the sine qua non of a successful international financial services centre, all we have offered is cheapness, in the form of a low corporate tax rate. We have failed to regulate ourselves properly: a draft law to regulate trustee and corporate services providers has been under discussion for almost six years, but has been obstructed by a variety of interests, including my own profession. Meanwhile the unscrupulous flock to Cyprus to take advantage of the lack of adequate regulation, and investors who are looking for a stable, well-regulated financial centre vote with their feet and transfer their interests elsewhere.

My hope is that we will regard our current difficulties as a salutary warning, like an individual who has had a health scare and who resolves to change his diet and take more exercise. We must take responsibility for our future and our children’s and grandchildren’s future. Instead of expecting investors to come to us we must attract them, by offering the financial products and services they need, and the quality service they expect. This will need a complete change of attitude in many quarters.

International investors, particularly those investing millions, and sometimes billions, have a choice over where they invest. If we make it more expensive for them to do business in Cyprus, by continually increasing taxes and other burdens on the private sector, they will go elsewhere. If we provide them with third-rate service, and if government servants they deal with continue to treat them with indifference and surliness, they will go elsewhere.

We should not be too proud to learn from others. Despite having no natural resources other than its people Singapore has developed into one of the world’s most prosperous and stable nations. It has achieved

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Troika members on Friday: work is about to begin in earnest this by a combining an impeccable reputation with innovation and a customer service ethic. It welcomes investors and makes it as easy as possible for them to do business.

All the information potential investors need is available in a language they can understand and they can interact with government departments and register for tax and any services they need, again in a language they can understand, using the Internet. Compare this with the situation in Cyprus, where most government departments’ websites are available only in Greek.

I am as proud as any of my cultural heritage but if we wish to attract investors to Cyprus we must make it as easy as possible for them. We must not put obstacles in their way by making the official documents and information available only in a language that they do not understand. We must ensure that we all, in the public sector and the private sector, provide an ef-

ficient and courteous service to overseas investors. Proud as we may be of our country, we need to put aside the attitude that we are doing them a favour by having them here. It is they who are doing us a favour by investing in Cyprus, paying their taxes and providing employment to Cypriots.

My hope is that we will emerge from the current economic difficulties leaner and betterequipped to meet the challenges of today’s world. Leaner, in the sense of having eliminated wasteful public expenditure and being more ready to work for what we want, rather than expecting it as of right. Betterequipped, in our attitude to the investors on whom we rely for our livelihood, whether we are in the private sector or the government sector. Particularly at the moment, we need them far more than they need us.

Andreas Neocleous is a Limassol-based advocate and Chairman of the board a his law firm

WHAT THE MAIL SAID

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25 years ago Friday July 31, 1987

The World War I Battle of Passendale starts, a British offensive resulting in heavy losses on both sides.

US State Department co-ordinator for Cyprus James Wilkinson started his talks in Cyprus with a meeting lasting more than an hour with President Kyprianou and later had a meeting with the Foreign Minister George Iacovou and described it as very informative and useful.

1919 Germany adopts the Weimar Constitution, which provides the basis for government in the country until Adolf Hitler seizes power in 1933.

1941 German field marshal Hermann Göring sends a directive to Nazi security director Reynhard Heydrich, ordering him to prepare a “final solution to the Jewish question”: the extermination of the Jews.

1962 In England, the right-wing leader Oswald Mosley is assaulted and prevented from speaking at a rally in London’s East End as protests flood the area.

1991 US President George Bush and Russian President Mikail Gorbachev agree to reduce their stockpiles of nuclear warheads by a third, signing the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) in Moscow.

35 years ago Sunday July 31, 1977 Preparations are gathering momentum in all parts of the island for the big gathering at Derynia on Monday to express protest against the Turkish intention to colonise Famagusta. The massive trade union movements PEO and SEK, the farmers’ union PEK and EKA, the Bank employees union, refugee organisations and others have appealed for mass attendance.

45 years ago Monday July 31, 1967 The mixed village of Ayios Theodoros was reported quiet yesterday alter Saturday night’s serious exchange of fire between its Greek and Turkish Cypriot inhabitants. A ceasefire arranged by UNFICYP was observed since 9am. Meanwhile two Greek Cypriots were in hospital yesterday after being shot while driving through the nearby Turkish village of Kophinou.

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Showbiz

Jackson’s mother slams ‘lies’ after losing custody

Dark Knight Rises wins at sluggish US box office

Family of late pop icon ‘ being torn apart’

By Lisa Richwine and Andrea Burzynski

MICHAEL Jackson’s mother has broken her silence in the custody row over the star’s three children, hitting out at the “bunch of lies” which is tearing her family apart.

Katherine Jackson said she was devastated to have temporarily lost custody of the trio and has gone home to Los Angeles to sort the mess out.

The 82-year-old, who had been reported as missing, dismissed suggestions she had been kidnapped by her own family and said that she had just been on holiday without her phone as she wanted a break.

Mrs Jackson spoke out after a judge ruled her grandson TJ should take over guardianship of Jackson’s children Prince, 15, Paris, 14, and Blanket, 10.

Questions about her whereabouts began after a family member reported her missing.

She claimed she had been ‘resting’ at a luxury spa in Arizona and lost contact with them for nine days, prompting Paris to send out anxious messages on Twitter asking where she was.

According to US reports, the row escalated when family members used the situation as an excuse to try to take control of Jackson’s £320 million fortune, which is supposed to go solely to his children and not his siblings.

Michael Jackson’s children (L-R) Blanket, Prince and Paris stand on stage during the Michael Forever tribute concert On Sunday night Paris posted a note on Twitter saying her grandmother had finally come home. Mrs Jackson’s son Marlon also wrote on the site, saying his mother had returned, and looked and sounded ‘great’.

In the interview with ABC News while in Arizona, Mrs Jackson claimed she was being prevented from acting as a guardian by a third party, but did not explain who.

She said: “There are rumours

going around about me that I have been kidnapped and held against my will.

“I am fine and I am here in Arizona with my children, and my children would never do a thing to me like that, holding me against my will. It’s very stupid for people to think that.

“I am devastated that while I’ve been away, my children, my grandchildren have been taken away from me, and I’m coming home to see about

that, also.

“There’s a lot of lies that have been put out there and I am going home to straighten them out.’

The row blew up when CCTV footage emerged last week apparently showing Janet Jackson slapping Paris and calling her a ‘spoilt little bitch’ before trying to grab her mobile phone during a row outside their Los Angeles mansion.

The teenager and brother

Prince Michael were also arguing with uncles Jermaine and Randy.

Paris supposedly screamed at her relatives: “This is our house, not the Jackson family house. Get the f*** out.”

At an emergency custody hearing on Wednesday, a California judge gave temporary guardianship to TJ Jackson, the 34-year-old son of Michael Jackson’s older brother Tito, and suspended Mrs Jackson as guardian of the children.

Olympics soundtrack Snoop banned from Norway races into British charts LONDON’S 2012 Olympics opening ceremony raced into the British charts on Sunday with a collection of music from the kaleidoscopic extravaganza becoming the week’s fifth-best selling compilation album after just 24 hours on sale.

Friday’s 27 million pound Isles of Wonder spectacle, devised by filmmaker Danny Boyle and watched around the globe, was performed to a roller coaster of British music that ran from Mike Oldfield’s blockbuster Tubular Bells to Dizzee Rascal’s 2009 hit Bonkers.

Elgar’s Nimrod Enigma Variation shared the Olympic Stadium’s stage with Sheffield rockers Arctic Monkeys and British electronic duo Underworld, who were music directors of the event.

All feature on the anthology, which had sold 10,000 copies by the sales cut-off time on Saturday, enough to make it fifth in the compilation album charts, which are separate from the main album rankings, the Official Charts Company said.

The week’s best-selling album, Ill Manors from London singer Plan B, brought another Olympic connection to the charts as it topped the rankings on its debut.

The album is the soundtrack for a low budget crime film of the same title written and directed by Plan B - under the name Ben Drew - set in the run-down London area of Newham which includes the Olympic Stadium in its boundary.

Other new entrants in the album stakes were Handwritten at number two from US rockers Gaslight Anthem, Jennifer Lopez’s greatest hits collection Dance Again in fourth place and English singer Joss Stone’s The Soul Sessions Volume 2 at number six.

English rock band Florence and the Machine held on to the top spot in the singles charts with Spectrum.

The rapper’s fondness for marijuana is well known

US rapper Snoop Dogg has been banned from entering Norway for two years after trying to enter the country with a small amount of cannabis last month.

According to the BBC, the star was held at Kjevik Airport while on his way to a music festival, when customs officials found he was carrying eight grams of the drug.

The 40-year-old’s lawyer said the rapper had no immediate plans to appeal against the ban.

His client could “live with the decision”, he added.

Snoop, whose real name is Calvin Broadus, was also found at the time to be carrying more cash than is legally allowed in Norway and was fined 52,000 kroner (£5,500) after admitting the two offences.

He went on to perform at Norway’s Hove Festival.

In January, Snoop was arrested in Texas after border agents found cannabis on his tour bus. He was later released with a caution.

The rapper is currently on tour.

Batman movie The Dark Knight Rises earned $64.1 million at US and Canadian theatres during its second weekend, topping box office charts in a sluggish overall market facing Olympic television coverage and the impact of the Colorado shooting.

The finale in director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy starring Christian Bale added $122.1 million from international markets and has pulled in $248.2 million overseas since its July 20 debut, distributor Warner Bros. said.

Add in cumulative ticket sales of $289 million in domestic markets - the United States and Canada - and the global haul now stands at $537 million for the film that cost its backers some $250 million to make and tens of millions more to market.

Sales in US and Canadian theatres dropped 60 per cent from its debut weekend, a bigger decline than predecessor The Dark Knight or other recent superhero films.

In 2008, Dark Knight fell 53 per cent during its second weekend to earn $75 million domestically, according to Hollywood.com Box Office.

This year, summer smash The Avengers slipped 50 per cent in the weekend following its opening in May, and June release The Amazing SpiderMan declined 44 per cent.

While Dark Knight Rises ranks as one of the year’s highest-grossing movies, sales are weaker than prerelease forecasts after the opening was overshadowed by the killing of 12 moviegoers at a midnight screening in Aurora, Colorado.

Through Sunday, total Dark Knight Rises sales in North America ran behind Dark Knight, which hauled in $313.8 million domestically through its first two weekends.

Warner Bros. officials declined to discuss box office and its relation to the shooting for the second week, but industry watchers said the turnout for the Batman film and other movies likely suffered from some moviegoer reluctance after the massacre, as well as Friday’s start to the London Olympics.

Overall domestic ticket sales for the weekend came in 25 per cent lower than the same weekend one year ago, according to Hollywood.com Box Office.

The No. 2 spot belonged to animated children’s movie Ice Age: Continental Drift, with $13.3 million. It beat out comedy The Watch and dance movie Step Up Revolution, both of which made their theatre debuts this weekend.

The Watch came in third, earning $13 million at domestic theatres. The film stars Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughn and Jonah Hill as men who start a neighbourhood watch group to battle aliens.

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Environment

WWF warning over hydropower plans

The proposed project could endanger wildlife and agricultural production in the delta of the Neretva river, (above) which flows from Bosnia into the Adriatic sea

CONSERVATION group WWF warned Croatia and Bosnia they risked harming wildlife and farm output by building planned hydropower schemes in their southern regions without proper research and said it would notify EU officials and potential investors.

Croatia and representatives of the Bosnian autonomous Serb Republic agreed this month to jointly build a 300-megawatt hydroelectric plant on Bosnia’s Trebisnjica river near the Croatian Adriatic coast city of Dubrovnik.

The plant is part of a wider project that includes several plants and underground tunnels on Bosnian territory in the Dubrovnik hinterland.

“There is no comprehensive environmental study which we think is indispensable for those energy infrastructure plans to continue,” Irma Popovic Dujmovic, from the WWF’s

Croatian branch, said last Tuesday.

She said that such a project could endanger wildlife and agricultural production in the delta of the Neretva river, which flows from Bosnia into the Adriatic sea.

POTENTIAL HARM The WWF will contact European Union officials and potential investors to warn them about the harm the project may cause.

The Neretva delta gets water from sensitive karst terrain and the WWF says that any diversion of water flows in the area, which is part of the plans, would increase its salinity.

This would threaten wildlife in the surrounding marshland as well as the livelihoods of some 20,000 people who grow mandarin oranges, the organisation says.

“Croatia and Bosnia do not have enough funds to implement those plans by themselves and that’s why we are counting on investors to heed the problem,” Popovic Dujmovic said.

Croatia, which is due to join the EU in July 2013, is preparing for a major energy infrastructure investment cycle worth up to two billion euros ($2.42 billion) per year in the next seven years, to cut dependence on energy imports.

Deputy Prime Minister Radimir Cacic, the main champion of the plans, says Croatia will respect the environment.

The plans around Dubrovnik include two new hydropower plants and the WWF objections refer to both. The government intends to publish tenders for their financing and construction later this year.

Vienna beekeepers’ bid to cultivate urban colonies

Key CO2 secrets unlocked in study

Steps meant to combat sharp decline in bee numbers

FROM giant whirlpools to currents 1,000 km wide, scientists said yesterday they have uncovered how vast amounts of carbon are locked away in the depths of the Southern Ocean, boosting researchers ability to detect the impact of climate change.

Oceans curb the pace of climate change by absorbing carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. The Southern Ocean is the largest of these ocean carbon sinks, soaking up about 40 per cent of mankind’s CO2 absorbed by the seas.

But until now, researchers were unsure what mechanisms were involved because of the remoteness and sheer size of the Southern Ocean.

“By identifying the mechanisms responsible for taking carbon out of the surface layer in the ocean, we’re in a much better situation to talk about how climate change might impact that process,” said oceanographer Richard Matear, one of the authors of the Southern Ocean study published in the journal Nature Geoscience.

The team of British and Australian scientists found that currents that take carbon from the surface to the depths occur at specific locations, not uniformly across the ocean as previously thought.

They found that a combination of winds, currents and whirlpools create conditions for carbon to be drawn down into the deep ocean to be locked away for decades to centuries. Some of the plunging currents were up to 1,000 km (600 miles) wide.

In other areas, currents return carbon to the atmosphere as part of a natural cycle.

But overall, the Southern Ocean is large net carbon sink, the authors say, calculating the area between 35 and 65 degrees south takes up the equivalent of 1.5 billion tonnes of CO2 a year, or more than the annual greenhouse gas emissions of Japan.

By Georgina Prodhan FELIX Munk gets stung up to 20 times a day but that doesn’t stop him from regularly clambering up to the roof of the Vienna Opera and other city landmarks to check on the bees living above the heads of unsuspecting music lovers and government ministers.

Munk is a member of Vienna’s Stadtimker, one of a growing number of urban beekeepers’ associations who are trying to encourage bees to make their homes in cities, as pesticides and crop monocultures make the countryside increasingly hostile.

Bee populations are in sharp decline around the world, under attack from a poorly understood phenomonenon known as colony collapse disorder, whose main causes are believed to include a virus spread by mites that feed on haemolymph - bees’ “blood”.

As well as making honey, bees are important pollinators of flowering plants, including many fruits and vegetables. A 2011 United Nations report estimated that the work of bees and other pollinators was worth 153 billion euros ($186 billion) a year.

“Bees do very well in cities,” says Stephen Martin of the University of Sheffield, an expert on the deadly Varroa mite that has wrought destruction on honey bee colonies around

Felix Munk, head of the beekeeper organisation Stadtimker checks a honeycomb at the rooftop of the Austrian chancellery on July 16, 2012 the world since being exported from its native Asia in the 1960s.

“There are lots of plants and flowers in cities for bees to live on. Keeping them on rooftops is a great idea because it keeps them out of the way of people.”

“I think these initiatives are really good, as long as they maintain them properly,” he said. “Once the mite gets into a colony, which it will do, in a period of two to four years the colony will be killed.”

London, Paris and Melbourne are among the cities trying the same approach.

The Vienna Stadtimker get no central help from government, but have per-

suaded officials at many of the city’s landmark buildings to let them build “bee hotels” on the rooftops that overlook Vienna’s parks and boulevard ring road.

Speaking to Reuters while swapping out honeycombs on the roof of the 18thcentury Chancellery where the government holds its weekly cabinet meetings, Munk said the honey harvest would go to the building’s officials as gifts.

“It was surprisingly easy to persuade them to allow us to do this,” he said.

“Many of them are really concerned about the environment and wanted to do something.”

Munk, 39, works part-time at his software program-

ming job to devote as much time as he can to bees. He learned his craft from his aunt and uncle at the age of seven, but is a rarity in Austria, where most beekeepers are 55 or older.

“It’s an old man’s hobby,” said Robert Brodschneider, a researcher at the Zoology Institute at the University of Graz and Austria’s foremost expert on bees.

“There’s a shortage not only of colonies, but also of beekeepers.”

Brodschneider, who has been collecting data on bee populations in the region for five years, said he had seen a sharp rise in the percentage of bee colonies dying out in the past winter, according to early results

of his latest survey.

In Austria alone, where bees have until now fared relatively well, one in four colonies died last winter, compared with a previous range of 9 to 16 per cent, said Brodschneider.

“I think it’s going to be the highest year for losses all over central Europe,” he told Reuters, adding that it was not yet clear whether it was a blip or a sign of an acceleration in bee colony deaths. “We don’t know what is going on.”

Munk is realistic about how fast his work can make a difference. “I’d say in under a generation we can’t achieve much,” he said. “But everything in life takes time.”

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What’s on

films

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

NICOSIA The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, weekends also at 1.30pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am and 3.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 11.25am, 1.30pm and 3.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Lucky One (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30,

8.15 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) at 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 1) (in 3D, in Greek), weekends only at 11.30am; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm, weekends also at

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

11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm; K-Cineplex, Mall of Cyprus (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm, weekends also at 11.30am, 1.30pm and 3.25pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

LIMASSOL The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 1 at 7.45 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Dictator (15) Rio 3 at 8.20 and 10.10pm. Tel:

The Dictator

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

25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 The Lucky One (K) Rio 5 at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; KCineplex (Screen 5) at 10.30pm.

Tel: 7777-8383 The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 2 at 8 and 10.30pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 2 (in 3D, in English), daily (except weekends) at 6.20pm.

Rio 3 (in 3D, in Greek) at 6.30pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Rio 4 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6.30, 8.20 and 10.10pm, weekends also at 4.45pm. Tel: 25-871410; K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm.

K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm. K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) Rio 6 at 7.45 and 10pm, weekends also at 5.30pm. Tel: 25-871410

LARNACA The Dark Knight Rises (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 1) at 5.30 and 10.15pm, and (Screen 2) at 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Dictator (15) Rio 5 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8 and 10pm.

Tel: 26-207000

The Dictator (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 4) at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383

The Lucky One (K) Rio 4 at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Tel: 26-207000

The Lucky One (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 6) at 5.30, 8.15 and 10.30pm. Tel: 77778383

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) Rio 7 at 5.30, 8 and 10.30pm.

Tel: 26-207000

The Amazing Spider-Man (12) K-Cineplex (Screen 3) at 7.45 and 10.30pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) K-Cineplex (Screen 2) (in 3D, in Greek) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 3) (in 3D, in English) at 5.25pm; K-Cineplex (Screen 5) (in 2D, in Greek) at 5.25 and 8pm. Tel: 7777-8383 Haywire (15) K-Cineplex (Screen 5) at 10.25pm. Tel: 7777-8383

PAPHOS The Dark Knight Rises (12) Rio 1 at 5, 7.45 and 10.30pm.

Tel: 26-207000

Ice Age 4: Continental Drift (K) Rio 3 (in 2D, in Greek) at 6, 8 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20, 8.10 and 10pm. Rio 6 (in 3D, in English) at 6 and 10pm, weekends at 4.30, 6.20 and 10pm. Rio 6 (in 3D, in Greek) at 8pm, weekends at 8.10pm. 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 2 at 10pm, weekends at 10.10pm. Tel: 26-207000

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Pixides Live On the occasion of the recording of their first album Greek rock band play live. July 31. Wanted Saloon Bar, Corner of Stylianou Apostolide & Kalogera, Larnaca. 10pm. Tel: 24-653636

Natasa Theodoridou Popular Greek singer performs live.

August 1. Breeze Bar, 90 Georgiou A Avenue, Yermasogeia, Limassol.

11pm. €30. Tel: 70-005868

Voices and Songs from Cyprus A performance-feast with songs and dances from two of the most important representatives of the new generation in traditional Cypriot music. July 31.

Polihoros 77, Phaneromenis 75-77, Nicosia. 9.30pm. 10. Tel: 22-680804 Haris Alexiou and Dimitra Galani Two of the greatest female voices from Greece present a programme with popular songs by great composers as well as songs written by themselves.

July 31. Pattichion Municipal Theatre, Larnaca. 9pm. €35. Tel: 25-878744

Playmen feat. Demy Dance pop duo perform live DJ set.

August 1. XS Night & Day Club, Mackenzie, Larnaca. 10pm. Tel: 97885151/70-002355

Theatre My Friend, Lefterakis Theatro Skala presents the Greek theatrical comedy by Alekos Sakellarios. August 1. Famagusta Gate, Athina Avenue, Nicosia. 9pm. In Greek. €7/12. Tel: 22-430877

Other Events Theatre Antigone Opera by Tommaso Traetta based on play by Sophocles and performed by the Skull of Yorick Productions, United Kingdom, within the framework of the International Festival of Ancient Greek Drama. July 31. Makarios III Amphitheatre, Nicosia. 9pm. €10/17.

With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 99-542165/77-772717/25-324025 /26-947037. www.tickethour.com

Cyprus Services Rambling Club Come on a beautiful walk: Kato Platres, Circular Walk – No buses.4 Miles, Grade 2 (followed by a meze). August 5, book by mid-day Wednesday August 1.

Bookings to 99-292092 or email csrc. bookings@gmail.com. www.csrc.ws Limassol International Documentary Festival With 28 films, workshops and talks, as well as parallel parties. August

1-8. Second Municipal Market of Limassol (Theatro Ena) with some repetitive screenings also taking place at Sousami. Tel: 77-772552, or e-mail info@filmfestival.com.cy or browse www.filmfestival.com.cy and facebook: Lemesos International Documentary Festival.

Ongoing Dance Sharing Stories A travelling dance performance by Amfidromo Dance Company. Part of the official cultural programme of the EU Presidency. July 30-31.

Starting at Solomou Square, Nicosia.

7pm. Tel: 99698691. Email: info@ amfidromo.com

Exhibition Armenian-Cypriot Painters and Photographers Group exhibition. Until July 31. Casteliotissa Hall, old Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10am-1pm and 5pm-8pm.

Saturday-Sunday: 6pm-9pm. Tel: 22-800970 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 Nicosia International Airport Solo photography exhibition by Andreas Efstathiou. Until August 30. Is Not Gallery, 11 Odysseus, Chrysaliniotissa, Nicosia. MondaySaturday: 10am-1pm and 4pm-8pm.

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

Until September 2. The Leventis Municipal Museum, Temporary Exhibitions Hall, 15-17 Hippocrates Street, Laiki Yitonia, Nicosia. Opening hours: Tuesday-Sunday: 10am-4.30pm. Tel: 22-661475/ 22-671997 I Will follow you to the end of the World - Immigrating for Love Exhibition by visual artist Lia Lapithi influenced by the story of Queen Caterina Cornaro. Until September 2.

The Leventis Municipal Museum, 1517 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 Breeze Group mixed media exhibition. Until September 15. Apocalypse Gallery, 30 Chytron Street, Nicosia. MondayFriday: 10.30am-1pm and 5pm-8pm. Saturday: 10.30am-1pm. Tel: 22-30000/150 Summer 2012 Group exhibition of paintings and sculptures. Until September 30.

Morfi Gallery, 84 Agkyras St, Limassol. Monday-Saturday: 10am-1pm.

Tuesday-Friday: 5pm-8pm.Tel: 25378733. www.morfi.org Nicosia: Topographies of Memory: From Ermou Street to the Buffer Zone Exhibition by Anita Bakshi reconstructing Ermou marketplace – using maps that were created from memories and narratives provided by shopkeepers who once worked or lived in the area. Until September 30.

Home for Cooperation, 28 Markou Drakou, opposite Ledra Palace Hotel in the UN Buffer Zone, Nicosia. Open Monday-Sunday: 10am-6pm. Tel: +90 542 8506681/22-445740 www.home4cooperation.info/www. ahdr.info Our Lady of Nicosia Exhibition about the church of Phaneromeni and it relics. Until Sep-

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

tember 30. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, 96-90 Phaneromenis Street, old Nicosia. Monday-Sunday: 10am-7pm. Tel: 80-000800 Terra Mediterranea – In Crisis Group contemporary art exhibition curated by Yiannis Toumazis scrutinising the current turbulence experienced globally, from both a political and a poetic stance. Until December 30. Nicosia Municipal Arts Centre 19, Palaias Ilektrikis, Nicosia. Tuesday-Saturday: 10am-3pm and 5pm-11pm. Sunday: 10am-4pm. Tel: 22-797400. info@nimac. org.cy. www.nimac.org.cy The project includes a second contemporary art exhibition curated

by Re Aphrodite team. The exhibition deals with the unwritten feminine histories of Cyprus and their private and public structure. Until December 30. Ethological Museum – The House of Hagjigeorgakis Kornesios, 20, Patriarxou Grigoriou, Nicosia.

Tuesday, Thursday, Friday: 8.30am3.30pm. Wednesday: 8.30am-5pm.

Saturday: 9.30am-3.30pm. Tel: 22-305316 AnThrOPOS: Faces of Cyprus through the Ages An exhibition that explores the human form as it is represented in the art of Cyprus from the Neolithic period until today, focusing specifically on depictions of the human face. Until January 18. The Cyprus Museum 1 Special Exhibition Hall, Museum Street, Nicosia. Tel.: 22-865854. www.mcw.gov.cy

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Ongoing Other Events Open-air screenings continue Where would you rather watch a film on a warm summer’s evening? In a stuffy, dingy, overpriced cineplex, or outside on a large screen under the stars?

Thanks in part to the Summer Movie Marathon, which continues into its second month from tomorrow, this year’s programme truly has something for everyone, no matter whether you prize film noir over world cinema or animation.

As the summer slowdown kicks into gear in August, movie lovers staying in Nicosia can always rely on a good bit of cinema magic to get them through the quiet holiday period. The reels start rolling at 9pm and trawling through the festival programme can be divided into many subcategories, but here’s a review of the five black and white films coming up this month, beginning with The Big Sleep.

When one thinks of film noir, minds cast back to those black and white classics of half-lit rooms and hushed voices, dangerous alleyways and criminal encounters, of a detective and an irresistible femme fatale. The Big Sleep tells the story of a private detective Philip Marlowe who is hired by a rich family; before the complex case is over, he’s seen murder, blackmail and what might be love.

The Big Sleep is famous not only for the complexity of its convoluted plot, but also for the high quality of its dialogues (and its rapid fire delivery) as well as the legendary coupling of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. There are actually two versions of The Big Sleep - the ‘original’ (initially unreleased) edition from 1944 and the final theatrical cut from 1946.

The latter is the better version it’s less talky and features a lot more of Bogart and Bacall.

Bogart also appears in The Maltese Falcon next Thursday. As ever, the plot is convoluted with plenty of hidden motives and double-crossing. Bogart stars as Private Detective Sam Spade, caught up in a strange web of murders after his initial meeting with a client, who hired him with a bogus story. He now finds himself surrounded by shady characters.

All their troubles are grounded in the search for an elusive, valuable

artefact the Maltese Falcon.

This Sunday don’t miss Les 400 Coups a landmark in modern cinema, launching the French New Wave. A troubled 12-yearold Parisian boy runs away from home and turns to petty crime in François Truffaut’s classic film.

For his feature-film debut, criticturned-director Truffaut drew inspiration from his own troubled childhood. The visuals are complemented to great effect by Jean Constantin’s musical score with its sometimes jaunty, sometimes wistful air, reflecting the boy’s changing fortunes.

Also featured in this line-up are two contemporary black and white films, the first is The Artist, a silent celebration of early Hollywood. If you’ve paid even passing attention to end of the year lists/ Academy Award nominations, you’ve heard much about The Artist. Michel Hazanavicius’ stylistically daring, dialogue-free comedy-drama The Artist stars Jean Dujardin as George Valentin, a matinee idol in Hollywood before the dawn of talkies. His marriage is far from perfect, and one day he meets ambitious chorus girl Peppy Miller and is smitten. Very quickly thereafter, sound comes to movies, and George sinks all his money into one last epic silent film, while Peppy becomes a star in the new era.

Rather amusingly, Uggie the dog, who appears as Dujardin’s pet in the movie, picked up the animal equivalent of an Oscar at the prestigious Golden Collars.

The final black and white film to be screened in August is Tetro by writer/director Francis Ford Coppola’s. This is his first original screenplay since 1974’s The Conversation and is his most personal film yet, arising from memories and emotions from his early life, though totally fictional. When Bennie (Alden Ehrenreich) finds his long-estranged brother Tetro (Vincent Gallo) living in Buenos Aires, he discovers that his sibling, lliant writer, is now once a brilliant d tormented eand self-destructive.

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Above: The Big Sleep and inset Uggie, the popular canine star from the Oscar-winning silent film The Artist

Occhio Club brings the circus to town

Word on the street is that the circus has come to town.

Where else can you be entertained by stilt walkers, contortionists, freak shows, burlesque dancers, sword swallowers, magicians and fire eaters on a night out?

Ah, but this is no ordinary circus...

Cyprus over the past few years has firmly cemented itself as one of the ultimate partying destinations in Europe, but this week a nightlife clubbing experience like you’ve never experienced before is about to hit the capital, as London’s most infamous, debauched Cirque du Soir brand arrives in Nicosia.

You may be familiar with the name Cirque du Soleil, the Canadian entertainment company that presents a dramatic mix of circus arts and street acts, well now it’s time to get familiar with Cirque du Soir which follows in a similar vein.

Cirque du Soir is a club which opened three years ago in the heart of affluent Mayfair.

It’s the club du jour on the lips of every cool party person in London and was created to fill a niche in the market for original themed nights and events. With a downtown New York City vibe and dimly lit Moulin-Rouge inspired décor, the venue has Art-Deco influence and exudes elegant eccentricity in hues of red, black and gold.

Cirque du Soir prides itself as being so much more than just your average London club night and has quickly become the celeb haunt of choice, and frequently welcomes the likes of Leonardo Di Caprio, Scarlett Johansson, Jessica Alba, Black Eyed Peas, Rihanna, Usher and many more.

Along with an extravagant team of mixologists, Cirque du Soir stands out for its circus atmosphere and live performances on several stages from: stilt walkers, contortionists, tattooed dancers, jugglers, drummers, burlesque dancers, dwarfs, fire breathers, acrobats, snake charmers and magicians. This place is not for the tame or the prudish and showcases a titillating cast of the weird and wonderful that even gives Lady Gaga a run for her money.

The only downside to this club, other than the fact it’s quite pricey, is that it is a strictly members-only club.

You will not get in unless you’re a member or are accompanied by a member.

However, luckily for locals, you needn’t fly to London nor be a member of this exclusive nightspot to enjoy the party, as all the action will be transported to the heart of the capital for a wildly unpredictable and fun-fuelled show.

Cirque du Soir is now a global brand has been do-

ing events in the finest clubs around the globe from Dubai to St-Tropez, and Monaco to Cannes and beyond. For the first time ever, the world’s hottest circus will be landing in Cyprus from London to Nicosia, for the hottest night of the year at Occhio Club this Thursday.

For one night only, the venue will play host to Cirque Du Soir London performers.

Those wishing to attend on Thursday, must make sure to dress appropriately, the code is smart elegant.

The music for the evening will be provided by DJ Joe Maglia, in addition to regular resident DJs Alex Papadopoullos & DJ Ritz, spinning an eclectic mix of electronic, house and minimalist tracks.

The attention of a Cirque du Soir party is not focused on you – the crowd – but on the performers, and having fun is so much easier when you can loosen up and let the professionals take the spotlight.

Cirque du Soir Members of the infamous Cirque du Soir Club in London fly in for a special evening of performances, which includes DJs, fire shows, stilt walkers, burlesque dancers and more. August 2. Occhio Club, 23, Alkeou Street, Engomi, Nicosia. 11.30pm. €15/20 including 1 drink. Tel: 99-386586/99-799366

By Ledha Socratous

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

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Reportage US grapples with the cost of its heroes Americans love their cops and firefighters but that doesn’t stop them grumbling about how much their pensions cost the US taxpayer every year

Andrew Cuomo, now NY governor, found widespread incidence of ‘pension padding’

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By Steven C. Johnson and Chris Francescani PHARMACIST Michael Nastro is full of admiration for how police responded to a deadly robbery in his suburban New York neighbourhood in 2011.

A gunman walked into a pharmacy near his own on Long Island, killed four people and fled with a stash of painkillers. Police in the area, which is part of wealthy Suffolk County, best known for the exclusive Hamptons beach towns, boosted patrols and gave advice on what to do if the robber hit again. They caught him three days after the shooting.

But Nastro, 50, admits he’s torn about police officers’ pay and retirement benefits. “I’d be lying to you if I said I wasn’t conflicted,” he said. “I want good police work, but I’m a taxpayer too. There’s got to be a middle ground.”

The average annual pension for Suffolk County cops who have retired since 2007 was $86,702, according to figures from the Manhattan Institute, a public policy think tank, against $37,270 for other county employees, excluding teachers. The county, facing a three-year deficit of $530 million, declared a fiscal emergency in March.

Traditionally, US voters have backed generous pay and benefits for the cops and firefighters willing to risk their lives to keep citizens safe. That was especially so after the deaths of many emergency workers in the Sept. 11, 2001, attack on the World Trade Center in New York.

But as economic conditions have worsened and many local governments have run into severe fiscal problems, that attitude has started to change. Since the 2007 recession, some cities have tried to roll back pension benefits and pay, among the most rigid and, in some cases, highest expenses in municipal budgets.

From New York to California and points in between, cops and firefighters have been drawn into pitched battles over their pay and benefits.

In San Diego and San Jose, California’s second and third biggest

cities, voters in June overwhelmingly backed sweeping pension reforms. In San Jose, all employees will have to choose between reduced benefits or higher retirement contributions.

In the mid-sized California cities of Stockton and San Bernardino, officials say public safety costs were among the factors that forced both to declare bankruptcy.

In Vallejo, a former US Navy town near San Francisco that emerged from a three-year bankruptcy last year, public safety pay and benefits were consuming three-quarters of the city’s general fund.

Detroit, plagued with one of the highest crime rates in the country, nonetheless cut pay and

‘I want good police work, but I’m a taxpayer too.

There’s got to be a middle ground’

healthcare benefits for city workers, including police, by 10 per cent just over a week ago, a move the mayor says will save the cashstrapped city $102 million a year.

A legal challenge by the Detroit Police Officers Association failed, even as union President Joe Duncan publicly complained of what the cuts would mean for Detroit’s ability to hire police, noting that the city is “already 50th on the list of pay for the biggest 50 cities in the United States.”

St. Louis this month approved an overhaul of the firefighter re-

tirement system that rolls back decades of increases, while Miami officials trying to plug a $60 million budget gap this week declared “financial urgency,” which will let them alter employee contracts. Among the city’s proposals: limit overtime for firefighters and require higher health care contributions.

According to an analysis by New York-area newspaper Newsday published last month, police and sheriff ’s department employees in Nassau and Suffolk counties reached nearly two-thirds of each county’s payroll.

“That is why a lot of municipalities are choosing bankruptcy, because it’s the only way - other than getting a state control board - of getting out of these salary and pension requirements,’’ said the former top official of Suffolk County, Steve Levy.

Striking the right balance between savings and safety is a touchy business, though.

While it’s become almost routine for voters to rail against fat paychecks and generous benefits for teachers, transit workers and other public employees, cops and firefighters have in the past been largely spared such anger.

For example, in Wisconsin, where most public workers were stripped of their collective bargaining rights and made to pay more to fund their pensions, firefighters, cops and other public safety workers were given an exemption.

Still, Jim Carver, president of the Nassau County Police Benevolent Association, says politicians have started to target cops and firefighters. The state seized control of Nassau County’s finances after the county failed to balance its budget and had its credit rating cut last year.

Carver bristles at the notion that police and firefighters don’t deserve what they earn.

“After 9/11, you couldn’t find a politician that wasn’t rushing to put his arms around a cop or a firefighter,” he said. “Ten, 12 years later, we are to blame for everything. Politicians have made us the enemy. We didn’t put a gun to anybody’s head. These were fairly negotiated contracts.”

Fraternal Order of Police President Robert F Cherry at a rally outside City Hall in Baltimore over pay and pensions To be sure, it took decades of bad decisions and poor management by local authorities to put many communities in fiscal dire straits. In countless cases, cities, counties and states overpromised benefits to retirees but neglected to set aside sufficient reserves to cover their liabilities.

When the economy and stock market were booming, cities often sweetened pension benefits, confident the money would be there in the end. After 9/11, the cops and firefighters’ heroic status with the public meant that they were in a particularly strong

bargaining position.

But the 2007-2008 recession and the impact of the housing bust on real estate taxes hammered municipal revenues and badly hurt pension funds’ investment returns.

The Pew Centre on the States said the gap between states’ pension promises and liabilities was $757 billion in 2010.

“Everybody’s complicit in this,’’ said Lawrence Levy, executive dean of the National Centre on Suburban Studies at Hofstra University.

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sing the American flag in the immediate aftermath of 911. That was then but now they’re under fire over pensions tion in Suffolk County, has harsh words for the public officials, saying they should be bearing the blame for fiscal woes.

“Rather than being responsible leaders of government and saying, ‘We have these pension obligations that we’re going to have to pay,’ and saving towards those obligations, they are being politicians,” DiGerolamo said. “And when the bill comes due, blaming employees who have worked towards and earned these pensions for 20 or 25 years.”

Of course, scores of municipalities are managing to balance their budgets even as costs rise.

Only a few of the 90,000 issuers in the municipal debt market are in true distress.

Even many with escalating pension costs can meet their current obligations. It’s keeping up with promises to aging citizens who are living longer that keeps officials up at night.

In some cases, contracts that may once have seemed fair are helping to bankrupt cities and leading to severe cuts in services, including fire station closures and reductions in police forces.

Eight municipalities have sought protection from their creditors so far this year, following 13 that filed in 2011, and many others are having to slash their budgets.

San Bernardino, a city of 210,000 some 65 miles east of Los Angeles that has been hit hard by the collapse of the housing market, says public safety spending eats up 73 per cent of its general fund budget, with overtime for firefighters especially onerous. Pension costs are expected to reach $25 million this year, double the 2006 level.

The city imposed a temporary 10 per cent pay cut, but the firefighters’ union successfully challenged it in court and is entitled to back pay. The city council voted last week to suspend debt payments and quit paying into a retiree health fund.

Some 350 miles to the north, Stockton, the biggest US city ever to file for bankruptcy, allows police officers to retire at 50 with pensions based on 3 per cent of final pay for each year in service.

When he signed the bankruptcy filing in June, Stockton city

manager Bob Deis said a 1996 decision to provide firefighters with free health care in retirement, later expanded to all city employees, was a “Ponzi scheme” that saddled the city with a $417 million liability.

Because their jobs are dangerous and physically taxing, cops and firefighters typically retire after 20 or 30 years on the job, and that’s as it should be, said Michael Coleman, a policy ad-

‘Because their jobs are dangerous and physically taxing, cops and firefighters typically retire after 20 or 30 years on the job’

viser for the League of California Cities, an association of municipal officials from the state.

But that’s why it’s important to keep pensions reasonable.

“I don’t think anyone disagrees that these are dangerous jobs.

But how much is enough? Unfortunately, I think it’s gone too far,” Coleman said.

The contrast between benefits in the public and private sectors is stark.

Only 26 per cent of US companies offer retiree healthcare benefits, compared with 66 per cent that did so in 1988, according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Most private sector employ-

ees bear the brunt of providing for their retirement by saving money in funds known as 401(k) plans, with companies typically also making contributions. After the 2007 recession, some firms stopped making contributions altogether.

It can all add to tensions as some taxpayers question why their services are being cut or property taxes raised so a city or county can find the money for generous retirement benefits.

In New York, a 2010 investigation by then-attorney general Andrew Cuomo, now governor, found widespread incidence of “pension padding” - public employees working extra overtime in their last year on the job to boost pay and retirement income.

That’s especially costly when it comes to well-paid public safety workers. The Manhattan Institute estimates nearly 10 per cent of New York State cops and firefighters who retired in 2011 will receive six-figure pensions, from 2 per cent in 2001.

Quick fixes, however, are unlikely.

Efforts to revamp public pension plans face stiff legal challenges. Each state has its own constitution, courts and case law that affect how it can go about changing retirement systems.

Firefighters in San Bernardino have filed seven legal actions against attempts to scale back pay and benefits since 2007.

In many municipalities, public salaries and pensions are pegged to those offered in comparably sized regional cities. In New York, pensions, once set by the state, cannot be negotiated through collective bargaining.

At the same time, alternative ways to tackle deficits, such as raising taxes, are politically unpopular.

In the small Southern California city of Stanton, voters recently rejected a proposed utility tax hike that would have raised $1.1 million. The city instead cut back on active police and fire staff, which account for 77 per cent of its spending.

“Will there be some impact on response time? There could be,” said city manager Carol Jacobs.

Firefighters in San Bernardino have filed legal action against attempts to scale back pay and benefits since 2007 “But this city is not going to go bankrupt.”

In some cases, unions have preferred layoffs to reduced retirement benefits. Two troubled cities in New Jersey are cases in point. Camden, one of the state’s poorest and most crime-plagued cities, recently cut its police force by about half, and Newark cut its force by a third after unions declined concessions demanded by their city governments.

In New York, former Nassau

County Executive Thomas Suozzi, a Long Island Democrat who has clashed with police unions, gave a stark assessment. “We’re facing a problem that will be faced by every town in America.

“You can’t raise property taxes anymore - people won’t go for it.

There’s no more money. So, do you cut services, which will result in the death of the suburbs, I think, or do you make these salaries and pensions more rational than they’ve been?”

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For free no obligation quotation ring Tyrone on 99177037 covering Paphos, Polis and Pissouri areas. ***************************** EXPERIENCED PAINTER at very reasonable prices! Decorative coatings, house painting, sprits and graphiato, varnishing, damp proofing and protection from humidity for walls and ceilings. Free estimates! Call Harry on 97768020 ***************************** 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, dull and stained, Marble, Terrazzo, Stone & Ceramic tiled floors and surfaces. Professional cleaning, repair & sealing of internal/external ceramic tiles & grout lines.

For a free professional consultation & demonstration contact Mark at Premier on 70006766 or 96333961 All areas ***************************** K.D.FLYSCREENS LTD We manufacture top quality sliding screens, opening doors and roller systems. We also do repairs.

For a FREE QUOTE please contact Phone: 99119582 Website: www.kdflyscreens.com 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

Paphos - tel: 26 911383 fax: 26221049

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 ***************************** 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 MISCELLANEOUS ***************************** SAT NAV for sale GARMIN 1200 cost €159 PRICE €70, FINAL SALE of sofa, easy chair TV unit coffee and side tables total €75 lamps, rugs, childrens furniture, glass top dining table 4 chairs, paintings €10 each ENGOMI 96832275 GAS BBQ €60 ***************************** 2 BEDROOM ATLAS MOBILE HOME for sale . Granite kitchen surfaces, tiled floors in W.C., Shower room and kitchen REDUCED TO E7,900. Tel. 99416918 or <sandymathie@ hotmail.com> ***************************** SOFA easy chair glass top dining table and 4 chairs coffee side tables euro 475 rugs lamps paintings euro 10 each child bike euro 15 car seat euro 20 gas bbq euro 60 kitchen items and childrens furniture must go this weekend giveaway prices call 96832275 ***************************** FURNITURE HOUSEHOLD ITEMS: Childs cot / mattress €50 play table and stools €50 Bunk Bed set with ladder/ mattress €100 child’s bike €40 Child’s easy chairs €30 Easel €20 gas BBQ 80 vacuum cleaner Miele €80 Abstract canvasses from €10 ENGOMI 22355790 ***************************** CLOTHES STOCKS AND SHOP FITTINGS FOR SALE. Excellent women’s brands for sale including Italian, Spanish and French clothes and shoes. Also women’s dummies and modern wall fittings (clothes rails.)

Selling at very low prices for clearance. Tel: 99-168943

Larnaca - tel: 24 652243 fax: 24 659982

classified contents Employment Opportunities pg 18 Employment Miscellaneous 18 Pets 18 Lessons 18 Health & Fitness 18 Personal 18 Services 18 For Sale Miscellaneous 18 For Sale Land/ Property Business 19 For Sale Motor vehicles 19 Wanted 19 To Let Nicosia 19 To Let Limassol 22 To Let Larnaca 23 To Let Paphos 23 To Let Protaras, Ayia Napa, Paralimni 24 To Let Athens -Land For Sale Bulgaria -For Sale Limassol 24 For Sale Nicosia 24 For Sale Larnaca 24 For Sale Paphos 24 For Sale Ayia Napa -For Sale Famagusta Protaras -For Sale Athens -Property& Home Services display ads 25

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

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

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Advertiser FOR SALE B.P./LAND

FOR SALE B.P./LAND

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of the whole of Paphos, 640 square metres, attached to a green area, premium piece of land, €210.000, Tel 99403261 (owners) ***************************** FOR SALE OR RENT - Kato Paphos – full moon bar, fully furnished and equipped, large flat screen TV’s + projector, fits 120 people comfortably, incredible opportunity for ready business! Please call: 99493579 ***************************** FOR SALE factory with showroom, 1050m2, in private land, in Kokkinotrimithia industrial zone. Tel. 99849195. *****************************

FOR SALE BUSINESS/ PROPERTY/LAND ***************************** RESIDENTIAL PIECE OF LAND of 985sqm in the village of Pareklisia. Partial sea views, near to electricity and water supplies. € 135.000 D.C. (Cyprus) Real Estate Tel: 99 330 908 ***************************** FOR SALE PLOT in the centre of Lefkara Village 670sqm, high build factor, near all shops, and amenities € 210.000 negotiable Tel: 99 330 908 ***************************** PLOT LOCATED in Mesa Geitonia, Limassol 617sqm. 100% build. Ideal for the construction of apartment building or 1 or 2 large houses. Price reduced to € 360.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0170 ***************************** PLOT IN GEROSKIPOU, just 5 minutes from the Paphos centre, with magnificent sea views

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES

VACANCIES ο Masseurs specialising in AYURVEDIC, CHINESE, SHIATSU, THAI massage ο Masseurs specialising in MEDICAL MASSAGE ο WAITERS Interested Candidates please apply to Paphos Employment office Tel. 26821645 (Α.Μ.Ε 349245/6/5510)

TO LET NICOSIA

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located in a central area of Nicosia (behind Starbucks) with central heating and airconditioning units. Very reasonable rent. For information 99476737 and 99382422. ***************************** 3 BEDROOM FLAT completely renovated in Strovolos. 135sqm, quite family owned building recently painted. c/h, a/c, storage room. Stainless steel appliances, washing machine. Sky satellite tv. € 650/month Call 99 330 908. ***************************** LYCAVITOS 300sq.m., 3 bdrm office lux. €1500, Dasoupolis 2 bdrm., wooden floors modern design €750, Acropolis 3 bdrm 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

MINI 1, 2005, red, manual, all specs, radio/cd/ac, MOT / tax, 20,000 miles from new, price : €7000 call 99096902 – Polis **************************** FOR SALE BMW 320i CONVERTIBLE, 2008, colour platinum bronze, 18’’ alloys, being leather, cruise control, front and rear parking sesonrs, lightsrain sensors, wind deflector, 45000 km, excellent condition, €30,900. For information call 99405122. *****************************

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.

FOR SALE MOTOR VEHICLES

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

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

For information call 99781943

PROPERTY TO LET NICOSIA FULLY FURNISHED recently renovated apartment for rent,

English-Painter & Decorator Fully Qualified 30 years’ Experience SUMMER OFFER 30% OFF ALL AREAS • External & Internal painting • Damp Damage Repairs • Spritze Repairs • Free Estimates + very clean work • All areas. All types of woodwork stained and preserved • All work guaranteed

Tel. Tony on 99176557

TO LET NICOSIA 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

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

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

Tel. SELEC fencing 99176557

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA land, big garden with grass, big swimming pool with extra fence for children and big covered patio with bbq area, big reception areas with marble floor, fire place and bar, big kitchen with all electrical appliances and sitting room with fire place, maid’s room, floor heating, full a/c, blinds on the windows, master bedroom with en suite bathroom and shower, big bathroom for the other 3 bedrooms and extra shower in the 5th bedroom.

Available end of July - Strovolos €2500 (H5ST10001-R), (photos in the website).

2. 3 bedrs luxury ground floor renovated semi detached house,210sq.m, with central heating, air conditions, solid parquet floor, fire place, big kitchen with all the electric appliances, 2 wc curtains, big veranda, big patio on the back with bbq area, 2 covered parkings in a quiet neighborhood close to the Embassies –Engomi €900 (H3ENG0002-R), (photos in the website) 3. 4 bedr + separate office space + maid’s room luxury detached house, split level, big open space sitting areas,400sq.m,a/c for hot and cold in all the rooms, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, swimming pool, big verandas, 2 covered parking, in a very quiet area near Lidl – Latsia €2500 (H4LAT0008-R), (photos in the website).

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

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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).

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).

6. 3 bedr + big attic room which can be used as a bedroom/office, detached house, central heating, full a/c,3wc, 2 bathrooms, big sitting and dining room, separate kitchen with all the electrical appliances, small garden and patio with bbq area, covered parking, near Apollonion hospital. – Makedonitissa €1200 (H4MAK0016-R), (photos in the website) 7. 4 bedrs new luxury detached house, 330sq.m, central heating, full ac, 2 covered parking’s, big kitchen with sitting room and all expensive electrical appliances, blinds on the windows, lighting fixtures, 2 bedrs with en suite shower and wc, main bathroom with jacuzzi,3rd bedroom with only shower ,swimming pool with wooden deck around, covered patio with nice covered bbq area, opposite a green area in a very quiet area – Strovolos €2600 (H4ST10040-R), (photos in the website).

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

10. 4 bedr new luxury finished top quality detached house, 290sq.m, central heating, full a/c, master bedroom with ensuite shower/jacuzzi, guest bedroom with shower, main bathroom with jacuzzi, 4wc, fully expensive furnished with 3 LCD televisions, kitchen with very expensive electrical appliances and family room, garden with grass, big covered patio with bbq area,2 covered parking’s, alarm system, pressure system, Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0039-R), (Photos on the website).

11. 4 bedr luxury detached house built in 3 plots of land. Separate maid’s room outside the house, big basement with playroom, office and guest room with separate entrance. The house has big sitting and dining room, separate family room, separate kitchen, big bedrooms, internal elevator, central heating, full a/c, big yard with tiles, covered kiosk and trees, 2 covered parking, in a quiet area in a dead end opposite Cineplex – Strovolos €3000 (H4STI0042-R), (photos in the website).

12. 5 bedr new luxury finished detached house with separate maid’s room, one of the bedrooms with shower and wc and can be used as guest room,4 wc, solid parquet floor all the house, separate family room with fire place, big sitting room, separate dining room, big kitchen with breakfast area, big outside patio with tiles and bbq area,2 covered parking, electrical appliances in the kitchen, in a very quiet 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

TO LET NICOSIA 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 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

TO LET NICOSIA 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 the website) 18. New luxury 4 bedr + very big 40sq.m attic room with shower and wc semi detached house, 300 sq.m, central heating, full air condition, big sitting and dining areas, 4 wc, 2 showers,1 bathroom, solar heater, pressure system, covered parking, big back yard with tiles, blinds, cooker, oven and, refrigerator in the kitchen, in a very quiet neighborhood and area – Agios Dometios €1500 (H4ADO0004-R). (photos in the website).

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

20. 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 €1200 (H4ACS0001-R), (photos in the website).

21. 4 bedr + 2 separate rooms with showers and wc (120sq.m) detached house with big sitting and dining areas, big kitchen with dining area and family room with fire place, very big swimming pool with bbq area, covered patio, garden with grass, central heating in 4 zones, full a/c, 6wc, 5 covered parking’s, pressure system,

TO LET NICOSIA opposite Apoel training field.

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

22. 4 bedrs luxury detached villa built in 5 plots of land, 600sq., central Heating, full a/c, very big garden with grass, big swimming pool 5 x 13, bar with bbq area, office space, TV room with fire place, marble floor, all the bedrooms en suite shower/ bathroom, separate self contained apartment for the maid, 2 covered parking in a nice area with easy access to the Limassol road. Can be rented also partially furnished – Latsia €5000(H4LAT0007-R), (photos in the website).

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

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

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**************************** LUXURY FLATS: 1. 2 bedr luxury fully renovated apartment, storage heaters, 3 a/c, separate big kitchen, big sitting dining room, fully modern furnished and equipped with solid parquet floor off Prodromou street – Engomi €600 (A2ENG0010-R), (photos in the website).

2. 2 bedr new luxury modern, 2 storey apartment with solid parquet floor, floor heating independent, full a/c, 2 bathrooms, 2 wc, expensive fitted electrical

TO LET NICOSIA

appliances, blinds, covered veranda with very nice view, in a quiet neighbourhood on a modern design building. AVAILABLE 1st of August – Aglantzia €750 (A2AGZ0021-R), (photos on the website).

3. 1 bedr luxury spacious apartment with big sitting room, separate kitchen with electrical appliances, central heating independent with diesel,2 a/c, aluminum shutters in the bedrooms, covered veranda, covered parking, storage room, on a small quiet building in a quiet

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, covered parking, in a small building near Hilton park and Ippokration hospital – Engomi €1000 (A3ENG0023-R), (photos in the website).

6. 3 bedr luxury apartment with

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TO LET NICOSIA 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).

7. 2 bedr brand new luxury finished apartment on a small modern design building with 2 bathrooms, a/c for hot and cold (Mitsubishi), storage heaters can be installed if needed, electrical shutters in the bedrooms, pressure system, water serculation system, solar, electrical appliances in the kitchen,

TO LET NICOSIA blinds, covered veranda, 2 COVERED PARKING, storage room, near the centre and near traffic lights of Honda showroom. – Agioi Omologites €700 (A2AOM0007-R) 8. 3 bedr new luxury spacious apartment, 150sq.m+big covered veranda, big sitting and 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

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

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Advertiser TO LET NICOSIA 10. 2 bedr new luxury finished apartment with a/c for hot and cold, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, big covered veranda,2 bathrooms,2wc,covered parking, storage room, secured entrance building in a very quiet 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 €550 (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

TO LET NICOSIA

TO LET NICOSIA

room, covered parking and storage room off Kennedy Avenue behind KPMG offices – Acropolis €900(A3ACS0038-R), (photos on the website).

sas Avenue near Alpha Mega supermarket and Areteion hospital – Dasoupolis €1100 (A4DAS002-R), (photos on the website)

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

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

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

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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 Athala-

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

21. 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,

TO LET NICOSIA near Hilton Park hotel – Engomi €750 (A3ENG0022-R), (photos in the website).

22. 4 bedr new luxury finished apartment, 160sq.m+35sq.m covered veranda, big sitting and dining room, NICELY MODERN FURNISHED, Daikin air-conditions for hot and cold in all the rooms, 2 bedrs with en suite shower/wc, 4wc, 2 covered parking, in a small modern building off Makarios Avenue in a quiet neighbourhood. Available in August – Nicosia Center €1100 (A4NIC0001-R), (photos in the website).

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

TO LET NICOSIA 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 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 ***************************** 3 BDRM flat in Pallouriotissa (next to McDonalds). For information call 99606984. ***************************** 2 BDRM flat in the centre of Nicosia. Rent €450. For information call 99453663, 99663927. *****************************

TO LET LIMASSOL LIMASSOL **************************** 4 BEDROOM recently renovated whole floor apartment of 200sqm.. Fully Furnished.

Opposite sea, swimming pool, tennis court, and security gate.

3 new bathrooms, new kitchen with stainless steel appliances. 2 Covered parkings. Price € 1500/ month. Call 99 330 908 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/listingLIM-0103 ***************************** GROUND FLOOR HOUSE 3 bedrooms in Omonia furnished / unfurnished, fire place in sitting room, main sitting room, kitchen, bathroom, utility, shower with W/C. A/C in bedrooms.

Covered parking. Price €650. Tel 95 116808 VERY SPACIOUS LUXURY BUNGALOW HOUSE situated in the village of Palodeia, ideal for its proximity to the Heritage school and only 5 miles to Limassol town centre with shops and banks close by. Accommodation comprises of an open plan sitting room/dining area, fully fitted and equipped kitchen, 1 master bedroom with en-suite, 3 large bedrooms, a separate wc/bathroom and an office room. A/c & c/h throughout. In front of the house is a car port for 2 cars but has additional space for another 3 or 4 cars. Price €1250.00pm.

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Advertiser TO LET LIMASSOL please contact Yiannakis Georgiou 99451011. **************************** 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.

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/listingLIM-0103

LARNACA **************************** LARNACA FLAT FOR RENT: Fully-furnished spacious 2-bedroom first floor flat in central location near Metro supermarket, A/C, private parking, intercom system, en-suite bathroom, small block. Phone: 99354789 FULLY FURNISHED one bedroom flat near Larco hotel Larnaca. Price €370. Tel: 99202543 **************************** 1. K.S.L LETTINGS – APARTMENT FOR RENT Fully Furnished ground floor 2 bedroom apartment, overlooking pool.

TO LET LARNACA Beautifully furnished 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 LUXURY PRIVATE NEW VILLA, with 7 bedrooms, with own

TO LET PAPHOS bathrooms, s/pool, satellite TV, hot tub spa, panoramic view, pool billiard table, soccer table, table tennis. Beautiful garden, located at Coral Bay area in Pegia, Paphos, is available for rent. Please call 96351179. **************************** FOR RENT A selection of 1 to 5 bedroom houses & apartments F/F & U/F Universal, Peyia, Tomb of the Kings, Tsada, Timi & Kato Paphos Landlord & Owners please call 99329357 Or please view at are website www.cyprussands.com Fully Registered Company in Cyprus ***************************** CHLORAKA, 2 bedroom apartment, only 5 years old, fully furnished with a/c, lovely, large patio area in rear €300 per month, + communal charges please call Malcolm on: 99127031 - no agents **************************** FOR RENT new ground floor terrace studios for rent in Kouka village(20 minutes from Limassol) in a quiet and peaceful area fully furnished €180 per month minimum contract 1 year. Inf. Mob 99548855 **************************** For your consideration 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

TO LET PAPHOS 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 **************************** 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 ****************************

TO LET PAPHOS

TO LET PAPHOS

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 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 99310481. **************************** ONE BEDROOM fully furnished apartment for rent in Kisson-

erga. Near Cynthiana Beach hotel and close proximity to Coral Bay. Overlooking the sea and 100 metres from beach. AC in bedroom. Tel: 99-492521/ 99673276 **************************** PEYIA – 3 bedroom villa with modern quality furniture and finishes. Central heating, sky, alarm, infinity pool and stunnning sea and mountain views €700 per month, call : 99389426 ***************************** BRAND NEW APT, opposite Poseidonio Gym, near Carrefour, F/F, a/c, great quality, 1 bdrm, from €340p.m.Tel 99403261 **************************** MR RENT PAPHOS, THE LEADING PROPERTY RENTAL AGENCY IN PAPHOS OFFICE: 26271858 (00357) IF YOU HAVE A PROPERTY TO RENT WE ARE THE RENTAL AGENCY TO CONTACT OFFERING FULL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT & RENT COLLECTION SERVICE 1. TREMITHOUSA €425 never rented before so a real home.

Stunning spacious 2 bedroom townhouse, immaculate condition & furnished with good quality furniture with fly screens & ceiling fans & many extras. Downstairs guest wc.

Good sized enclosed pretty garden offering sea views. Situated on a quiet complex with communal pool area.

2. UNIVERSAL AREA €550 spacious 3 bedroom semi detached house all with ensuite bathrooms plus downstairs guest wc. Large storage room & roof terrace. Enclosed garden with private pool. Drive

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Advertiser TO LET PAPHOS for off street parking. Available unfurnished with sky satellite.

Situated in a great central location.

3. TALA €625 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 parking. A beautiful home.

4. KAMARES €675 we are delighted to offer this 2 bedroom 2 bathroom bungalow offering magnificent sea views. Lovely enclosed garden & private pool. Available unfurnished or fully furnished and includes central heating throughout plus modern gas fire for those winter months. Outdoor storage facitilites, shaded patio area, fly screens & shutters.

5. 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.

6. 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

TO LET PAPHOS verandah, private drive for off street parking. Situated in a quiet residential area.

7. TALA €1450 magnificent modern 4 bedroom, 3 bathroom villa, furnished with designer modern furniture, though can be available unfurnished if desired. 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 en-suites.

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: 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. KAMARES - TALA – 2 bed 2 bath fully furnished luxury bun-

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

U SEFUL PHONE NUMBERS POLICE DIVISION HQ

HOSPITALS ........ 1400

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

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

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

Narcotics Helpline ......... 1410 (Outside hours.............. 22-304160)

TO LET PAPHOS galow set on an elevated plot on this prestigious development. Open plan living area with feature fireplace, dining area. Separate kitchen with D/W etc. Separate utility room with access to side garden.

2 double , bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom.

Large verandah overlooking the pool. Sep storage room, covered parking and additional store.

Swimming pool, and landscaped gardens. €600.00 a month or sensible offers only 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. €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 en-suite.

Family bathroom.

Parking, Swimming pool and landscaped garden areas. Very quiet area. €600.00 a month 4. MESA CHORIO– 2 Bed, 2. bath fully furnished apartment in good location close to ISOP Open plan living area with dining space. Fitted kitchen, 2 double bedrooms, master with en-suite. Family bathroom. Off street parking & comm. Pool.

Minutes into Paphos. €425. Or close offers 5. GOUDI (near Polis) Outstanding 3 bed, 3.5 bath unfurnished villa. Set in a rural setting the property enjoys privacy with no immediate neighbours. Open plan living area, spacious fitted kitchen. Guest WC. Ground floor bedroom with en-suite. Stairs to 2 further double bedroom with en-suite. Breakfast area with hob & fridge and seating space.

Doors out to large covered verandah with panoramic views.

Full A/C, C/H, garage, over-flow tiled pool, SKY dish. Villa has substantial insulation to walls and floors. Large gardens. €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. €400.00 a montn 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 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.€1500.00 per month or offers.

8. PISSOURI DISTRICT – 3 bed 2 bath spacious unfurnished detached villa on large landscaped plot in the beautiful village of Anoygra. Spacious open plan living area with feature fireplace. Fitted kitchen and break-

TO LET PAPHOS fast area. Ground floor bedroom with adjacent bathroom.

Stairs to 2 additonal bedrooms and family bathroom. This floor also has a mezzanine suitable for office/playroom. Doors out to balcony. Pretty landscaped gardens and off street parking. Pool facilities are available close by. €500.00 per month.

Fixed price

FOR SALE NICOSIA

FOR SALE LIMASSOL

place, large verandas. For more information please call: 99467596. ****************************

€115,000.

Tel 99178141 www.homesinternational.info (Les Bois) ****************************

LIMASSOL

LARNACA

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FOR FULL LISTINGS OF APARTMENTS/TOWNHOUSES 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.

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AYIA NAPA LUXURY VILLA with pool & BBQ Close to Nissi Beach, 5 minutes walk, Sleeps 8. Available 20/8 up to 20/9, SPECIAL PRICE For more info see owner’s direct UK, prop. No CY2141 or call 99775861

PARTLY BUILT HOUSE for sale in Dierona (near Arakapas, Limassol district) with 4 bdrms, 3 bathrooms, laundry room, lounge, large kitchen, quiet location, plot 372sq.mtrs. Sale due to bereavement. Price €80,000 o.n.o.

Phone 99924362. **************************** 2 BEDROOM FLAT located in Germasoyia with partial sea views, 85sqm less than 10 years old with title deeds Price € 135.000 tel. 99 330 908 www. cyprusre.com/listing-lim-0361

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PROPERTY FOR SALE NICOSIA ***************************** FOR SALE IS A BUILDING WITH 4 FLATS, each 3 bedroom. 2 on the ground floor with yards, and 2 on the first floor. 2 on first floor completely renovated.

Located in quite area. Building recently plastered and painted. €850,000 euro. negotiable Call: 99 330 908 **************************** 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 PENTHOUSE between Armenias Str and Hilton Hotel. 3 bedroom, main bedroom with shower, c/h, fire-

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.

AMAZING SEASIDE WATERFRONT BEACH APARTMENT - Immaculate and spacious open-plan living, 2 double bdrms, fantastic sea views, big veranda and parking in exclusive location only 6 minutes to Larnaca airport. This excellent investment property is available immediately with title deeds. For viewing telephone 99890128. **************************** 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 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 35799432074,357-99552585 TALA, 5 bdrm villa for sale . Title deeds.sea and mountain view.

5 en-suite double bedrooms.

Central heating, a/c, fireplace.

Private L shape s/pool and garden area, patio, with bbq, bar and pergola. Car parking. Plot: 620 sq.m. Covered: 285sqm, €458.000. tel. 99587757. *****************************

FOR SALE

AIDS Advisory Bureau ................................ 22-302826

Semi-detached house in Archangelos

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

area split level on a hill, no houses

Drug Info & Poison Control ............... 1401 Cyprus Samaritans ... 77777267 Police Duty Officer ......... 1499 (Confidential Information) Airports Larnaca ..........................77778833 Paphos ...........................77778833

in front, 3 big bedrooms, 2 big

use” 4bed,s “Orchard Ho 9 month Title ready in

bathrooms and TV room big lounge & 1-5 bed villas & cottages

dining area, fireplace, fitted kitchen, 40 sq.m. store room, C/H, A/C, solar.

For information call: 99496541

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

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

Paphiakos & C.C.P. Animal Welfare Education/Information Centre, No. 12 Dedalos Building, 8049 Kato Paphos PO Box 61272 8132 Kato Paphos Web. www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com www.facebook/paphiakos Email info@cyprusanimalwelfare.com Larnaca Emergency Service - The contact point for animal emergencies in Larnaca is Maria at the Paphiakos Animal Welfare Charity Shop, telephone 24623494 or 99325897 STOP, SHOP AND GIVE TO THE ANIMALS! ALL DONATIONS ARE WELCOME AT OUR CHARITY SHOPS!!!!!

PAPHIAKOS 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.

NOW OPEN !!!

BOOKSHOP/INFORMATION CENTRE/T-SHOP IN POLIS CONTACT JUDY 99223572 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION AND DETAILS. 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!

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

THE DONKEYS AT PAPHIAKOS WOULD BE DELIGHTED TO HELP YOU GET RID OF YOUR UNWANTED CAROBS. PLEASE DELIVER TO THE CLINIC AND GIVE THE DONKEYS A SPECIAL TREAT! FEELING THE HEAT? THINK ABOUT THE ANIMALS NEEDING WATER AND SHADE. MAKE SURE DOGS ARE NOT LEFT IN CARS THEY BECOME OVENS IN SUMMER!!

For further advice or assistance contact the clinic 26953496 or visit the website www.cyprusanimalwelfare.com

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

DEUTSCHE GOTTESDIENSTE IN ZYPERN

LARNAKA COMMUNITY CHURCH APHRODITE STREET, LARNAKA 10.00 AM MORNING SERVICE and SUNDAY SCHOOL For more details ring Fred 24365152

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

Open Door Baptist Church

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

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

VISITORS ESPECIALLY WELCOME!!!

THE REFORMED CHURCH OF LIMASSOL

CONTACT DETAILS FOR PAPHIAKOS.

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

Website: www.immanuelchurchnicosia.org

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

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

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

Clear exposition of the Bible in the presence of God, and relevant to our lives.

Our Sunday services start at 10:30 am sharp, and the Wednesday Bible discussion at 7 pm.

International Evangelical Church (Reformed) is located at 352 St. Andrew’s Street. 1½ blocks from Starbucks / Fat Boy, and 1 block from the Municipal Gardens, Zoo. For further information call Steve at 99384742, or email: iee.limassol@gmail.com All are welcome!

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

GRACE CHURCH, LARNACA 8 Ayiou Neofytou St Sundays 10 a.m.

Also Midweek Meetings Details: Colin 24530700

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

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

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

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Television CYBC 1

CYBC 2

ANTENNA

07.50 Concert 09.30 Chef Ston Aera (rpt) Cooking show offering viewers quick, simple and economical recipes.

10.10 Reload Summer 12.00 Istories Tou Horkou (rpt) 13.00 Apo Mera Se Mera 15.30 Syn Plyn Local talk-show with studio discussion and viewers calling in.

17.00 Global Ideas (rpt) 17.30 Entehnos 18.00 News 18.15 O Simeos Theatrical production based on the life and work of a local archaeologist. Part 2 of 2.

19.15 Lemesos Me To Vlemma Strammeno Stin Thalassa (rpt) 20.00 News / Weather/ Financial Report 21.10 Vimata Stin Ammo Repeat of local period drama, based on true events.

21.45 I Limni (rpt) 22.15 Oi Mahes Ton Ellinon Documentary series on 20thcentury Greek history focusing on the battles (both military and ideological) that shaped modern day Greece.

23.10 Oi Erasters Ton Kimaton (rpt) 23.40 News 00.15 Basketball Men’s Basketball Group A Game #23. Tunisia vs.

USA. 02.00 Repeats

01.15 Euronews 07.00 NRG Music Channel 11.30 Volleyball Men’s Group B Match #7. Serbia vs. Tunisia and Men’s Group A Match #9. Poland vs. Bulgaria.

13.30 Tennis And Sailing Tennis Order of play available evening before.

Men’s Finn - Race 5, Men’s 49er Race 3, Men’s RS-X - Race 1, Women’s Laser Radial - Race 3 and more.

16.00 Shooting Men’s Skeet - Final.

17.00 Diving Women’s Synch.

10m Platform Final.

17.45 Water Polo Men’s Group A Match #12. Greece vs. Italy.

19.10 Gymnastics Women’s Team Final.

20.30 Beach Volley Women’s Group A Match #14.

21.30 Swimming Men’s 100m Freestyle Semifinals, Women’s 200m Freestyle - Final, Men’s 200m Butterfly - Final, Women’s 200m Butterfly Semifinals, Men’s 200m Breaststroke - Semifinals, Women’s 200m IM - Finals and Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Finals.

23.20 Beach Volley Men’s Group C Match #18.

23.50 News In English 23.55 News In Turkish 01.30 Olympic New Channel

05.00 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 05.45 Me Mou Les Antio (rpt) 06.30 Proini Enimerosi 07.00 Tis Ellados Ta Paidia (rpt) 07.30 Oi Men Kai Oi Den (rpt) 08.00 Fast Money (rpt) 08.45 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 09.30 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 10.20 To Evdomo Kleidi (rpt) 10.50 Deixe Mou To Filo Sou (rpt) 11.30 Santa Yiolanta (rpt) 12.15 Tin Patisa (rpt) 13.00 News 13.15 Galileo (rpt) 14.00 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 14.10 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 15.20 To Kafe Tis Haras (rpt) 16.20 Krifa Monopatia (rpt) 17.10 Mi Mou Les Antio (rpt) 18.00 News 18.10 Lyke, Lyke Eisai Edo (rpt) 18.50 Tin Patisa (rpt) 19.30 Eva Luna 20.20 News 21.20 Aiyia Fuxia (rpt) 22.45 Enopion Tou Laou 23.40 News 23.45 Konstantinou Kai Elenis (rpt) 00.35 Kai Oi Pantremenoi Ehoun Psihi 01.20 Ellas To Megaleio Sou (rpt) 02.10 Tmima Ithon (rpt) 03.00 News 03.50 Skertsakia (rpt) 04.10 Fili Zois (rpt)

MEGA 06.30 Paralliloi Dromoi (rpt) 07.00 Yia Sena (rpt) 08.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes (rpt) 09.20 Dennis O Tromeros 10.00 Proino Mou 12.00 Yia Banaki 15.00 I Dada (rpt) Greek comedy series, based on the popular US sitcom.

16.10 I Ora I Kali (rpt) 17.40 Mia Stigmi Dio Zoes Greek drama series, based on the Latin American telenovela about mistaken identities.

18.20 News 18.30 Mousiko Kouti Greek game show, testing contestants on their music knowledge.

19.20 Peninta Peninta (rpt) Greek comedy series.

20.10 News 21.20 Eftyhismenoi Mazi (rpt) Greek comedy series.

22.20 I Zoi Pou Den Ezisa (rpt) 23.20 Singles (rpt) Greek comedy series.

00.00 News 00.10 The Shield Police drama series chronicling the turbulent day-today life of the Strike Team, a group of corrupt Los Angeles cops.

01.10 Yia Banaki (rpt) 04.15 Proino Mou (rpt)

SIGMA

PLUS TV

06.10 The Del Monte Heirs (rpt) 07.00 Erotas Me Epidotisi 07.45 An M’ Agapas 08.40 Oi Takkoi 10.00 Vourate Geitonoi (rpt) 11.00 I Kouzina Tis Mamas (rpt) 11.15 Eho Ena Mistiko (rpt) 12.00 Vasiliki (rpt) 12.50 Spiti Ki Egine (rpt) 13.40 Efialtis Stin Kouzina (rpt) 14.30 Oikogeneiakes Istories (rpt) 16.40 Baywatch (rpt) 17.30 Pame Paketo (rpt) With News at 18.00.

18.30 Tropico 19.10 The Del Monte Heirs 20.20 News 21.20 Irthe Ki Edese 22.10 To Kokkino Domatio 23.20 The 4400 First season. ‘Pilot - Part Two. The returnees come to realise the world has moved on without them and that living a normal life is now an impossible dream.

Agents Baldwin and Skouris discover some of them have begun to exhibit mysterious abilities.

23.50 News 23.50 Sex And The City (rpt) 01.20 Istories Tou Astinomou Beka (rpt) 01.45 Allou Ximeromenoi (rpt) 02.20 Althinoi Erotes (rpt) 03.05 Eleni (rpt) 05.20 Tropico (rpt)

07.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of 09.15 Kids’ TV 11.50 Ta Kopelia 12.30 Thema Gevsis 13.30 Star News 14.15 Kids’ TV 16.15 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 16.45 Mesimeriani Meleti Best Of (rpt) 17.50 Mila Best Of (rpt) Discussions about various issues based on woman’s life.

18.50 Nistikoi Praktores (rpt) Cooking show.

19.40 Fotis Maria Live Best Of (rpt) 21.10 Exelixeis Stin Showbiz 22.00 The Forgotten Crime drama. ‘Mr John’. A man falls to his death from the top of a skyscraper after returning from overseas. When two people claim to be related to the deceased, the detectives examine the physical discipline of urban free running to determine which of them is telling the truth.

22.45 Supernatural (rpt) Fifth season of fantasy drama.

‘Good God, Y’all’.

Bobby, Sam, and Dean are asked to deal with a demon infestation in a town, but soon discover a more horrifying truth. Meanwhile, Castiel seeks the only entity that can defeat Lucifer.

23.30 LTV Sports News 00.30 Star News 01.00 Repeats

CAPITAL 08.00 10.30 11.30 13.15

15.10 15.00

17.20 18.15

19.15 19.50 20.05 21.00

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Kids’ TV Call Of The Wild Deste Tous Greek FILM: Kouverantan Yia Olous Mila Mou Prasina FILM: Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius Story of golfer Bobby Jones, who wowed the sporting world with his prowess in the 1920s, but struggled to cope with the pressures of success. Biopic, starring Jim Caviezel. 2004.

O Anthropos Tis Thalassas Melrose Place Glossy drama following the lives of eight LA women who inhabit a plush apartment complex. With News at 18.30.

News Sports Time Rubi FILM: Excess Baggage A spoilt rich girl fakes her own kidnapping to get her father’s attention - only to get abducted for real. Comedy, with Alicia Silverstone.

1997.

FILM: Spartan Thriller, starring Val Kilmer. 2004. See Pick Of The Day. FILM: Blue Sky Army wife in the 1950s embarks on an affair with her husband’s commanding officer, prompting her to question her life and marriage Drama, starring Jessica Lange.

1994.

Radio BBC World Service (1323 MW) 00:01 BBC News 00:06 HARDtalk 00:30 BBC News Summary 00:32 Discovery 00:50 From Our Own Correspondent 01:01 BBC News 01:06 World Briefing 01:30 BBC News Summary 01:32 World Business Report 01:50 Sports News 02:01 BBC News 02:06 World Briefing 02:30 BBC News Summary 02:32 Business Daily 02:50 Sports News 03:01 BBC News 03:06 World Briefing 03:30 BBC News Summary 03:32 World Business Report 03:50 Witness 04:01 BBC News 04:06 The Documentary: An Unspeakable Act 04:30 BBC News Summary 04:32 Outlook 05:01 BBC News 05:06 Newsday 05:30 BBC News Summary 05:32 Newsday 06:01 BBC News 06:06 Newsday 06:30 BBC News Summary 06:32 Discovery 06:50 From Our Own Correspondent 07:01 BBC News 07:06 Newsday 07:30 BBC News Summary 07:32 The Strand 07:50 Witness 08:01 BBC News 08:06 Newsday 08:30 BBC News Summary 08:32 Newsday 09:01 BBC News 09:06 Newsday 09:30 BBC News Summary 09:32 Newsday 10:01 BBC News 10:06 Outlook 10:30 BBC News Summary 10:32 Business Daily 10:50 From Our Own Correspondent 11:01 BBC News 11:06 The Documentary: An Unspeakable Act 11:30 BBC News Summary 11:32 Discovery 11:50 Sports News 12:01 BBC News 12:06 World Update 12:30 BBC News Summary 12:32 World Update 13:01 BBC News 13:06 World Briefing 13:30 BBC News Summary

13:32 The Strand 13:50 Witness 14:01 BBC News 14:06 World Have Your Say 14:30 BBC News Summary 14:32 Business Daily 14:50 Sports News 15:01 BBC News 15:06 Newshour 15:30 BBC News Summary 15:32 Newshour 16:01 BBC News 16:06 The Documentary: An Unspeakable Act 16:30 BBC News Summary 16:32 Outlook 17:01 BBC News 17:06 World Briefing 17:30 BBC News Summary 17:32 Discovery 17:50 From Our Own Correspondent 18:01 BBC News 18:06 World Briefing 18:30 BBC News Summary 18:32 Sport Today 18:50 Witness 19:01 BBC News 19:06 World Briefing 19:30 BBC News Summary 19:32 World Business Report 20:01 BBC News 20:06 World Have Your Say 20:30 BBC News Summary 20:32 World Have Your Say 21:01 BBC News 21:06 World Briefing 21:30 BBC News Summary 21:32 Business Daily 21:50 From Our Own Correspondent 22:01 BBC News 22:06 Outlook 22:30 BBC News Summary 22:32 The Strand 22:50 Witness 23:01 BBC News 23:06 Newshour 23:30 BBC News Summary 23:32 Newshour

BFBS 1 (N’sia 91.7, WSBA 92.1, ESBA 99.6 FM) 02.00 The Vibe 04.00 BFBS Shuffle 05.00 Ops Breakfast 06.00 Cyprus Breakfast with Neil Skinner 09.00 Chris Pearson 11.00 Charlie Fife 13.00 Total Ops Connection 15.00 Wez Thompson 18.00 Charlene Guy 21.00 Jessie Aru 00.00 The Vault

BFBS 2 (Ni’sia 89.7, WSBA 89.9, ESBA 95.3 FM) 03.00 BFBS Radio News 03.03 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 04.00 Up All Night 07.00 Morning Reports 07.30 Wake Up To Money 08.00 Today 11.00 BFBS Radio News 11.00 Simon Marlow 14.00 BFBS Gold With Dave Windsor 15.00 World At One 15.45 Simon Guettier 19.00 PM 20.00 6 O’Clock News 20.30 Five Live Olympics 00.30 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 Kalimerhaba 12.00 Gunortasa 12.45 Greek Cyprus Press 13.00 Turkish Music 13.15 News in Turkish 13.30 News in English 13.45 PM Classics 16.00 Greek Radio 16.15 Our country doesn’t divide 16.50 News in Turkish 17.00-18.00 Programmes in Armenian; News at 17.15 18.00-20.00 Round & About 20.00 News in English 20.10 Welcome to Cyprus in French and German 20.40 Ship of Fools with Robert Camassa 22.00 News in English 22.00 International Music 00.00-06.00 Rebroadcast of the evening’s programme

Radio Napa (106.3 FM) 06.00 Morning Music 08.30 BBC World Today 09.00 News, Weather and Exchange 09.05 Nathan Morley 12.00 BBC News 12.06 Lunchtime Clas-

sics 15.00 BBC News 15.06 Chris Yearley 18.00 News 18.06 Michael Godin 19.00 The Juke Box

98.5 Rock FM The Breakfast Show - Tony Newell - 07:00-10:00 2 Hours With Bejay Browne 10:00-12:00 Rock Fm’s Lunch Box - Jason Collins - 12:0014:00 Non Stop Music 14:00-15:00 Valentina 15:00-18:00 Monday - Tuesday - Thursday - Friday Liquid Radio Show - Pavlos - 15:0018:00 Wednesday Drive Time - Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Monday - Tuesday Johny G. 18:00-20:00 Wednesday (Mix @ 6) The Cocktail Show - Antonis - 18:00-20:00 Thursday - Friday Panic In The Year Zero - 20:00-22:00 Monday - Tuesday - Wednesday Radioactive Metal 20:00-22:00 - Thursday Live Dj Set- Dj Allen D 20:00-22:00 - Friday 22:00-24:00 The Gathering - With Your Hosts Dj Mr Smith And Mc Svennyb – Live Wednesday & Friday Night Train 24:00-07:00 Monday To Friday Oldies Digital

(Hotbird SAT / (www.oldies-digital.com)

MONDAY-FRIDAY 05:00 That Was The Year 06:00 Easy Going Gold 10:00 The Juke Box 17:00 That Was The Year 18:00 Oldies Overnights - Hear the greatest hits of all time playing non stop during the darkest hours.

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Television PICK OF THE DAY Spartan (Capital TV, 22.45) How much Val Kilmer can you handle? He’s ‘Gay Perry’ in Kiss Kiss Bang Bang [see Film Picks], snarling impatiently at Robert Downey Jr, and he’s even more short-tempered in this splendidly macho political thriller. “My name’s Curtis,” says a guy named Curtis, but Val Kilmer is having none of it: “Do I need to know that? If I want camaraderie, I’ll join the f***in’ Masons!”. He’s got a point, of course - but the real MVP is the man who wrote (and directed) that truculent dialogue: David Mamet, former playwright and master of truculent dialogue. Ask a Mamet character where they’re from and they’re likely to reply: “Where am I from?

I’m from the United States of Kiss My Ass!” (from House of Games). Not to mention the Alec Baldwin pep-talk in Glengarry Glen Ross that’s like a masterclass in perfect belligerence: “You see this watch? That watch costs more than your car. I made $970,000 last year, how much you make? You see pal, that’s who I am, and you’re nothing. Nice guy? I don’t give a shit. Good father? F*** you! Go home and play with your kids...”

And so on. I could listen to Mamet’s dialogue all day - but there is a problem, in that it can so eas-

ily shade into simple machismo. His films have always been sly and knowing about their testosterone-laden heroes - but Spartan is a lot more straightforward, a simple action flick done with only residual irony. The President’s daughter has been kidnapped and sold to a sex-slavery ring and secret agent Val springs into action, trying to find the scumbags responsible and battling behind-the-scenes politics along the way.

The plot isn’t airtight - you have to wonder, for instance, why a girl in trouble would draw a secret sign known only to her friends on the wall of her prison (as opposed to, say, “Help me” or something) - but that’s not the problem. The problem is that the arch, witty talk (“Indicate that you heard me!”) sets you up for a more sophisticated film than Spartan turns out to be - though it’s still very watchable, a brisk, clever canter through genre thrills (Mamet later did something similar on the TV show The Unit). In the end, it’s distinguished by three things: the staccato dialogue, the equally abrupt, tense rhythm imposed by Mamet as director - and Val Kilmer, of course. Made in 2004.

Preston Wilder

FILM PICKS

SATELLITE 12:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 13:00 Pawn Stars 13:30 American Restoration 14:00 Britain At War 15:00 Ancient Aliens 16:00 Irt: Deadliest Roads 17:00 Pawn Stars 17:30 American Restoration 18:00 Britain At War 19:00 Ancient Aliens 20:00 Pawn Stars 21:00 Ax Men 22:00 American Pickers 23:00 American Restoration 23:30 Pawn Stars 01:00 Ax Men 02:00 American Pickers 03:00 American Restoration 03:30 Pawn Stars 04:00 Ancient Aliens 05:00 Britain At War 06:00 Ax Men

Flirting With Flamenco (LTV3, 20.00) “Flamenco, Sylvia. All that sensual passion and fi re.

Not really you, is it?” says a bitchy friend - but she’s clearly got it wrong because sensible Sylvia (Holly Davidson) not only thrives in the world of Latin dancing but even gets the hot Spanish teacher asking her to be his partner in the regional flamenco contest (“But I’ve only been doing it for a couple of weeks,” bleats Sylvia, sensibly). Haven’t seen this British comedy-drama but it sounds like another case of Buttoned-Up Person Liberated by the Power of Dance, like Strictly Ballroom and Shall We Dance. “There’s nothing actually wrong with any of it,” sighs a Brit at the Internet Movie Database. “But somehow the whole is less than the sum of the parts ... In a way it missed its mark by going to cinema as I think it would have found a welcome home in the TV schedules.” Sounds about right - and at least it’s on the TV schedules now, so enjoy all that sensual passion and fi re. In a sensible way, of course. Made in 2006.

07:00 Ned Bruha: Skunk Whisperer 07:25 Weird Creatures With Nick Baker 08:15 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 08:40 Breed All About It 09:10 Baby Planet 10:05 Monster Bug Wars 11:00 Wildlife Sos 11:25 Gorilla School 11:55 Animal Cops Houston 12:50 Wild Animal Orphans 13:45 Animal Precinct 14:40 Monster Bug Wars 15:30 Baboons With Bill Bailey 16:00 Dick ‘N’ Dom Go Wild 16:30 Growing Up... 17:25 Cats 101 18:20 Dogs 101 19:15 Wildlife Sos 19:40 Gorilla School 20:10 Living With The Wolfman 20:35 Animal Battlegrounds 21:05 Monster Bug Wars 22:00 Rescue Vet 22:55 World Wild Vet 23:50 Animal Cops Houston 00:45 I’m Alive 01:40 Untamed & Uncut 02:35 Rescue Vet 03:30 World Wild Vet 04:25 Monster Bug Wars 05:20 Living With The Wolfman 05:45 Animal Battlegrounds 06:10 Wild Animal Orphans

07:30 Night At The Museum: Battle Of The Smithsonian 09:30 Kung Fu Panda 11:15 Scarlet Letter 13:30 Hollywood Buzz 14:00 Alice In Wonderland (2010) 16:00 Friends 17:00 Lethal Weapon 19:00 Action Zone 19:30 Videofashion 20:00 LTV Sports News 21:00 Kiss Kiss Bang Bang 23:00 Chloe 00:45 Hustler TV 02:30 Dead Presidents 04:30 The Sisterhood Of The Travelling Pants 06:30 LTV Sports News

Hollywood 1on1 20:10 Habemus Papam 22:00 Magic City 00:45 The Company Men 02:35 13 Assassins 04:40 Point Blank

06:45 Cine News 07:15 Starsky & Hutch 09:00 Summer Kids Zone 10:30 Cine News 11:00 Unstoppable 12:40 Cine News 13:10 California Suite 14:55 A Perfect World 17:20 Stars In Style 17:55 Le Divorce 22:00 Manuale D’am3re 00:15 Casino Jack 02:05 Jude 04:10 Cine News 04:35 Heart Condition

19:10 Burn Notice 20:00 The Longest Yard 22:00 Ncis 22:50 4.3.2.1 00:50 Cine News 01:30 Adult Zone

18:45 Another Year 21:00 Last Night 22:40 Sling Blade 00:55 The King Of Comedy

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (LTV, 21.00) Kisses and bangs, to be sure - but also jokes, movie references and manic energy, sparked by a suitably wild Robert Downey Jr performance. He’s a petty thief posing as an actor in LA (what better place to pose as an actor?), teaming up with gay private eye Val Kilmer and his old high-school sweetheart - the petty thief’s, not the gay private eye’s - to solve a murder. Film buffs will enjoy it most, those who recognise the title from a book

by Pauline Kael and the plot as a sly riff on Chinatown, another fi lm about LA, family secrets and a smart-aleck innocent wising up. On the other hand, it’d take a very joyless person not to enjoy it at least a little bit: Downey narrates, cheerfully breaking the fourth wall, and trades banter with Kilmer as exasperated ‘Gay Perry’. “Look up ‘idiot’ in the dictionary, you know what you’ll fi nd?”

“Um ... A picture of me?” “No, the defi nition of the word ‘idiot’. Which you are!”. You tell him, Val. Made in 2005.

The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (Nova Classics, 22.55) Bit of a late slot, especially for a three-hour fi lm - but it doesn’t really matter, since we’ve all seen The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (right?) so we can just re-watch bits and pieces and marvel at its brilliance. Just the opening credits are worth staying up for, backed by Ennio Morricone’s famous score - and of course you get Clint Eastwood, Lee Van Cleef and Eli Wallach (respectively) as the titular trio, going in search of a hidden treasure buried in a remote cemetery. A true Western epic, culminating in a suitably operatic climax; though you’ll probably be in bed by then. Made in 1966.

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (LTV, 21.00)

01:10 The Weakest Link 01:55 Coast 02:55 Eastenders 60 03:25 Doctors 03:55 Spooks 04:45 The Weakest Link 05:30 As Time Goes By 06:00 Fimbles 06:20 Tellytales 06:30 The Large Family 06:45 Forget Me Not Farm 07:00 Teletubbies 07:25 The Roly Mo Show 07:40 Charlie & Lola 07:50 Fimbles 08:10 Tellytales 08:20 The Large Family 08:30 Forget Me Not Farm 08:45 Teletubbies 09:10 The Roly Mo Show 09:25 Charlie & Lola 09:35 As Time Goes By 10:05 One Foot In The Grave 10:40 Dinnerladies 11:10 Eastenders 60 11:40 Doctors 12:10 Coast 13:10 Inspector Lynley Mysteries 14:00 One Foot In The Grave 14:35 The Weakest Link 15:20 Eastenders 60 15:50 Doctors 16:20 Coast 17:25 Inspector Lynley Mysteries 18:15 The Weakest Link 19:00 Eastenders 60 19:30 Doctors 20:00 Bleak House 21:00 After You’ve Gone 21:30 Gavin & Stacey 22:00 London Hospital 22:50 2 Point 4 Children 23:20 Lead Balloon 23:50 Life On Mars 00:40 Fawlty Towers - Basil the Rat

07:00 Fifth Gear 07:25 Dirty Jobs 08:15 Deadliest Catch 09:10 Extreme Fishing 10:05 Mythbusters 11:00 How Do They Do It? ; 11:30 Destroyed In Seconds 11:55 Ultimate Survival 12:50 Wheeler Dealers 13:45 Overhaulin’ 14:40 American Chopper 15:35 Dirty Jobs 16:30 Mythbusters 17:25 Deadliest Catch 18:20 Extreme Fishing 19:15 River Monsters 20:10 How It’s Made 20:40 How Do They Do It? ; 21:05 James May’s Man Lab 22:00 Mythbusters 22:55 Moments Of Terror 23:50 How To Command A Nuclear Submarine 00:45 Ultimate Survival 01:40 James May’s Man Lab 02:40 Moments Of Terror 03:40 How To Command A Nuclear Submarine 04:40 Ultimate Survival 05:35 How It’s Made 06:00 Overhaulin’

04:00 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 05:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 06:00 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 07:00 Olympic Games: Together To London 07:30 Olympic Games: English Breakfast 09:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 10:30 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 12:00 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 14:15 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 16:00 Equestrian: Summer Olympic Games London 16:45 Canoeing: Summer Olympic

Alice in Wonderland (LTV, 14.00) Games London 17:30 Diving: Summer Olympic Games London 18:00 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 19:15 Gymnastics: Summer Olympic Games London 20:15 Multisports: Summer Olympic Games London 21:30 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London 22:31 Olympic Games: Together To London 23:01 Basketball: Summer Olympic Games London 01:45 Weightlifting: Summer Olympic Games London 02:45 Swimming: Summer Olympic Games London

05:30 The Amazing Race 06:15 Family Guy 07:05 Lost 07:50 How I Met Your Mother 08:40 Terriers 09:25 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 10:10 The Amazing Race 10:55 Family Guy 11:45 Lost 12:30 How I Met Your Mother 13:20 Terriers 14:05 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 14:50 The Glades 15:35 The Chicago Code 16:20 The Amazing Race 17:05 Family Guy 17:55 Lost 18:40 How I Met Your Mother 19:30 Terriers 20:15 Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior 21:00 The Glades 21:45 The Killing 22:30 Terriers 23:20 The Glades 00:05 The Killing 00:50 The Amazing Race 01:40 Family Guy 02:30 Lost 03:15 The Life & Times Of Tim 03:45 How I Met Your Mother 04:35 Terriers

07:00 Pawn Stars 08:00 Ancient Aliens 09:00 Britain At War 10:00 Pawn Stars 11:00 Ax Men

07:00 Baby Looney Tunes 07:25 Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs 08:15 Steven Spielberg Presents Tiny Toon Adventures 08:40 Loonatics Unleashed 09:05 ScoobyDoo Where Are You! 09:30 Superman: The Animated Series 09:55 Big Cartoonie Show Nickelodeon 10:20 Tak & The Power Of Juju 10:45 Fanboy & Chum Chum 11:10 X’s 11:35 Ni Hao, Kai-Lan 12:00 Dora The Explorer 12:25 Spongebob Squarepants 13:15 Mighty B! 13:40 My Life As A Teenage Robot 14:05 Hey Arnold! 14:30 Icarly 15:20 Road Runner Show 17:00 Auto Auction Shows 17:30 Barclays Premier League World 18:00 2010 Women’s Tournament Of Champions 19:00 2012 Us Figure Skating Championships 21:00 Planet Speed 21:30 Three For The Show 22:30 Irc 2012: Romania 23:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Barclay’s Premier League 01:00 Ironman 02:00 Rugby World Cup Winners 03:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Primera Division 05:00 Best Soccer Games Of The Season: Bundesliga

07:15 V I 08:00 Friends 08:30 The Mentalist 10:00 The Office 10:25 House M.D. 11:10 Boardwalk Empire 13:05 Supernatural 13:50 V I 14:35 The Mentalist 16:05 Two And A Half Men 16:30 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 17:15 Chuck 18:45 Supernatural 19:30 Desperate Housewives 20:15 According To Jim 21:00 The Big Bang Theory 21:30 Sons Of Anarchy 23:05 Desperate Housewives 00:05 Bitch Slap 03:45 Two And A Half Men 04:15 Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles 05:00 Chuck 06:30 Desperate Housewives

08:00 Secret Life Of An American Wife 09:45 World’s Greatest Dad 11:30 Living Out Loud 13:15 Kings Of Mykonos 15:00 Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard 16:45 Titanic 20:00 Flirting With Flamenco 22:00 Beatdown 23:35 Action Zone 00:05 Daring! TV 04:00 And Soon The Darkness 04:00 Secret Pact 05:40 Action Zone 06:15 Being Human

05:40 Cedar Rapids 07:10 La Fille De Monaco 08:45 Cine News 09:15 The King’s Speech 11:15 Films & Stars 13:10 Cine News 15:35 Cine News 16:05 Spy Kids 4: All The Time In The Word 17:45 Oranges And Sunshine 19:35

21:00 Bye Bye Birdie 22:55 The Good, The Bad And The Ugly

02:00 Speedway World Cup King’s Lynn, Great Britain 03:00 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers 06:00 PGA Tour Highlights BC Canadian Open 07:00 Morning Dive 08:00 The Haney Project Ray Romano: Back to the Beginnings 08:30 The Haney Project Ray Romano: Final Round 09:00 Golf Central International 10:00 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers 13:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Jet Boats & Flat Track 13:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Swamp Buggies 14:00 Sports Unlimited 15:00 Nationwide Tour Nationwide Children’s Hospital Invitational Final 17:00 PGA Tour Highlights BC Canadian Open 18:00 PRE GAME 18:45 CHAMPIONSHIP LAIKI POPULAR BANK 2011–12: ARHS vs E.N.P. 20:45 POST GAME 21:30 MLB: Los Angeles Angels at Texas Rangers 23:00 Lucas Oil on the Edge Jet Boats & Flat Track 23:30 Lucas Oil on the Edge Swamp Buggies 00:00 Sports Unlimited

07:00 Globe Trekker 08:00 Departures 09:00 Think Green 10:00 Glutton For Punishment 11:00 The Thirsty Traveler 11:30 Chef Abroad 12:00 Globe Trekker 13:00 Planet Sports 14:00 Megalopolis 15:00 Globe Trekker 17:00 The Thirsty Traveler 17:30 Chef Abroad 18:00 Glutton For Punishment 19:00 Globe Trekker 20:00 Planet Food 21:00 Flavours Of Chile 22:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 23:00 Globe Trekker 00:00 Planet Sports 02:00 Flavours Of Chile 03:00 The World’s Greatest Motorcycle Rides 04:00 Globe Trekker 05:00 Glutton For Punishment 06:00 The Thirsty Traveler 06:30 Chef Abroad

06:00 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse 08:30 The Shoes of the Fisherman 11:05 The Wings of Eagles 12:50 Interrupted Melody 14:40 2001: A Space Odyssey 17:15 Where the Spies Are 19:05 Memphis Belle 21:00 Rhapsody 22:55 Diner 00:45 The Bad and the Beautiful 02:40 Elvis on Tour 04:15 Penelope

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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.

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21 22 23 railway (9) 12 Providing a coat of plaster (9) 14 I had existence and personality (8)

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16 Getting on but fall behind an ex-convict (3,3) 18 I love another girl (5)…

19 …a girl redesigned the platter (5)

Answers to crossword 2147

Rating EASY Rating HARD

QUICK: Across – 1 Scrupulous; 8 Wad; 9 Stretcher; 10 Sprawl; 11 Undid; 13 Proust; 15 Rhodes; 17 Namur; 18 Coping; 21 Continent; 22 Rex; 23 Restrained. Down – 1 Sewn; 2 Redeployment; 3 Pasta; 4 Lordly; 5 Untruth; 6 Rhododendron; 7 Prudish; 12 Spinach; 14 Servile; 16 Accent; 19 Pitta; 20 Axed.

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CRYPTIC: Across – 1 Visibility; 8 Con; 9 Satellite; 10 Cloche; 11 Adept; 13 Misuse; 15 Beacon; 17 Stand; 18 Actual; 21 Exercised; 22 Tax; 23 Drawbridge. Down – 1 Vice; 2 Single-seater; 3 Basic; 4 Litter; 5 Tillage; 6 Disenchanted; 7 Beating; 12 Smasher; 14 Sidecar; 16 Warsaw; 19 Tudor; 20 Axle.

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3 House’s façade? (4,5) 7 Small creature found in the dish about eleven (5) 8 Corner grovelling creature used as bait (9) 9 Hard water in northern region initially is more pleasant (5) 10 Guide dog (6) 13 Abandoning some farmwork (8) 15 Go round and round in dire need having registered (8) 17 No s-spirit in the dram!

(6) 20 He gives Spaniard an alternative (5) 21 Taxmen in another capital practising robbery at sea! (9) 22 It offers protection to a pair performing (5) 23 Engineers amusing themselves taking part in a return match? (9) Down 1 Undulating throughout (2-3-4) 2 Carrying out capital punishment? (9) 3 Fireside right in the wasteland (6) 4 One expanding on photographic equipment (8) 5 In the hedgerow, another tree (5) 6 She might tend to make others feel better (5) 11 Bravery of lover on the

QUICK Across 3 The first of its kind

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(9) 7 Infectious disease (5) 8 Going up (9) 9 Revive (5) 10 Chopsy (anag.) (6) 13 Spanish miss (8) 15 American gambling city (3,5) 17 Seaport in NFrance (6) 20 Musical instrument (5) 21 Flu (9) 22 Saltpetre (5) 23 Cluster of balls from a cannon (9)

Down 1 Mentioned previously (9)

2 Rockfall (9) 3 Petition (6) 4 Sin (8) 5 Alcoholic drink (5) 6 Thump (5) 11 Curdle (9) 12 Frank (9) 14 Laziness (8) 16 Empty (6) 18 Target ring (5) 19 Marine animal (5)

ARIES March 21 - April 20

LEO July 23 - August 22

SAGITTARIUS November 23 - December 21

You may notice your limits, and be especially aware that a lot of your issues may be a response to outer pressures.

However, as Venus aspects Saturn, you might also find that these limits provide some helpful structure. At the same time a part of you might also want to escape for a while and do something that brings excitement and adventure.

The brakes are on and sparks seem to be flying too. Maybe it’s one of those days when you take two steps forward and one step back. You seem keen to move out of your comfort zone and perhaps take a trip, go for a break or do something thrilling. However, you might have obligations that prevent you from doing this and may need to compromise.

You can either enjoy yourself or do what you know you should do. It seems you have two choices today, and being the kind of person you are you may want to escape from the rat race and let it be. However, you may have an appointment or meeting of some kind that you really should keep. You may find yourself battling with your conscience about cancelling it.

TAURUS April 21 - May 21

VIRGO August 23 - September 23

CAPRICORN December 22 - January 20

The Moon is in the solid citizen of Capricorn. This may coincide with a need to make plans for the future. You may not want to move out of your comfort zone, yet you do want to get ahead. However, as the Sun forges a fortuitous Trine with Uranus, you might also feel an inner restlessness that could encourage you to go further or push yourself harder.

You may get a financial offer, or perhaps a contract that could be a reliable source of income. If someone wants to make a safe deal then think about it - as it may be a positive move. On another note, you might have the urge to splash out and go wild with your credit card, even though you were being careful with your money. As ever, balance is the key.

The Moon in your sign works on your behalf - especially if you need to push your advantage. This, along with a very handy planetary angle between Venus and Saturn, means that the atmosphere is ripe for doing business, so if you have something to conclude this is a good time to go for it. You may also want to splash out on a new gadget for your home.

GEMINI May 22 - June 21

LIBRA September 24 - October 23

AQUARIUS January 21 - February 19

You seem to be in a businesslike mood, so if you are going out on a romantic date you might find yourself thinking about what could be in this potential relationship for you.

If there isn’t much, you may end the association. At the same time you might also be inspired by a friend or associate to take a punt on an idea you have pondered for a while.

You are charged up and ready to go and yet something may seem to be holding you back. Could it be a vestige of fear or perhaps a love of where you are right now? You may have plans, but then the thought of that first step could be holding you back. Thankfully you have friends or perhaps your partner to spur you on and push you to get started.

A meeting may spark off some instant chemistry and encourage you to want to see a certain person again. This effervescent feeling might coincide with a desire for a closer association, so why not see how it goes. There is another influence which can help a creative project one stage further. Though the power of planning and scheduling can be crucial.

CANCER June 22 - July 22

SCORPIO October 24 - November 22

PISCES February 20 - March 20

Opportunities could come as if from nowhere, but some of these, especially financially or professionally, may require a very speedy answer. If you are someone who is used to taking your time before making decisions, it may feel like you are being pressurised. Too much of this and you could back off. But try not to be too defensive about possibilities.

The Moon in Capricorn may put you in a thoughtful and deeply pensive mood. You might have many reasons to see your cup as being half empty rather than half full. But the good news is that if you change your riskometer to “have a go”, you can achieve a lot. A rather upbeat aspect between the Sun and Uranus means it’s time to make waves.

The desire to splash out on items that could improve your lifestyle may be hot. On the list of wants could be exercise equipment, kitchen gizmos and any other gadget that might help you feel fabulous or give you time to enjoy yourself. If you feel a desire to reverse unhealthy habits, this is your chance to adopt any that are more life enhancing.

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Sport Schumacher’s wretched race descends into comedy of errors

Hamilton savours Hungary success McLaren ace reignites championship hopes

By Brian Homewood LEWIS Hamilton reflected on one of the toughest races of his life after winning the Hungarian Grand Prix on Sunday, and then declared: “I’ll savour it all the more for that.”

The 27-year-old McLaren driver held off late pressure from Kimi Raikkonen’s Lotus at the Hungaroring to secure a 19th career win his third in Hungary - and he admitted afterwards that it had been a major test.

“It was a really enjoyable race - but it wasn’t at all easy,” he said.

“It was one of the toughest races I’ve ever driven.

I’ll savour it all the more for that.”

Hamilton had pole position while Raikkonen started fifth and, suffering from a temperamental KERS issue, lost a place to Formula One championship leader Fernando Alonso.

But, as the pit stops shook out, the Finn rose to fourth on a long 26-lap stint on soft tyres before making a second stop for mediums on lap 46 - five after Hamilton - and preparing for a final hard charge.

Raikkonen exited the pits just as team-mate Romain

Grosjean, who had started second, came screaming down the main straight, causing their engineers to sweat as they went through turn one side by side and Raikkonen forced Grosjean wide in order to steal the racing line and hunt Hamilton.

He was soon within a second of the Briton, but the McLaren driver was able to eke out faster third sectors, protecting himself down the main straight. There were no other opportunities for the Lotus to pass.

“I was under a lot of pressure throughout all 69 laps,” said Hamilton, who has only won one other round this season.

“First, Romain and then Kimi were right behind me, all the way through, and I had to look after my tyres without letting my pace drop, which was pretty tricky at times.

“It isn’t a static situation when a race goes like that.

The feel of the car is changing all the time. You get different messages from the tyres with every lap. But they lasted - I managed to make them last.

“It was a case of managing

the gap behind me, over the whole lap, every lap. In particular, I had to make sure that, every lap, I always had a big enough gap at the last corner, so that I wouldn’t be overtaken in the DRS zone on the pit straight. And I managed to do that every time.”

Grosjean held on to third ahead of world champion Sebastian Vettel, who made a third pit stop without losing a place and charged back to attack the Lotus on fresh soft tyres but to no avail.

Alonso calmly protected his points lead on a tough day for Ferrari, finishing fifth.

Hamilton, whose championship hopes were reignited after he retired at Hockenheim last time out, added: “This weekend shows it’s all to play for still. After some bad races it’s good to be back.”

He moved one point ahead of Raikkonen to fourth in the championship standings with 117 points. Alonso stretched his lead over Mark Webber with 164 points to the Australian’s 124. Vettel remained third with 122, closing the gap to his Red Bull team-mate.

It’s good to be back: Lewis Hamilton held on to win from pole position in a tough race

Players relish new-look raucous Wimbledon

By Kylie MacLellan

Serena Williams, returning to Centre Court less than a month after winning her fifth Wimbledon title, described Olympic tennis as ‘exciting’

PLAYERS do not have to wear white kit, the traditional dark green colour scheme on court has been replaced by bright pink and purple, music blares from speakers around the grounds and the crowds are raucous.

Welcome to new-look Wimbledon, the British institution steeped in traditions the world’s top players were very familiar with - until the Olympics rolled into town.

“Wimbledon is so quiet. You don’t hear much talking. But here you do hear talking. It’s a really big crowd. It’s exciting,” said Serena Williams, returning to Centre Court less than a month after winning her fifth Wimbledon title on it.

Since the tournament ended, the All England club grounds have undergone a complete transformation.

As well as the bright colours, Olympic rings now adorn the courts, even hanging from the nets.

“It’s just like being in Wimbledon but not being in Wimbledon,” mused Slovakia’s Daniela Hantuchova.

With spectators sporting

their country flags, chatting, cheering and clapping at every pause of play, the atmosphere on court is very different from the usually sedate Wimbledon crowd and more like the US Open in New York.

Not everyone is finding it easy to get used to, with crying babies being asked for “quiet please” by the umpire and spectators shushing the raised voices of international media commentating animatedly from the back of the stands.

“The Wimbledon crowd is normally very mellow and traditional but you go out today and everyone’s representing their country, shouting and screaming with flags all over the place,” said former Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova who won on her Olympic debut on Sunday after missing the 2008 Games through injury.

“It’s a completely different atmosphere but it’s really magical.”

With tickets for Wimbledon - allocated through tennis clubs, a public ballot and a daily queue at the gate for the most hardcore fans - heavily oversubscribed every year, many spectators are visiting

the club for the first time.

“It’s a slightly different crowd to Wimbledon,” said Britain’s Andy Murray who received a great reception at his first-round match against Switzerland’s Stanislas Wawrinka.

“It’s just weird - there are so many colours, there is a lot of noise with the music and stuff when you come out that you don’t get at Wimbledon, which is slightly different.

The support was great.”

While not all have warmed to the changes, with Israel’s Shahar Peer lamenting the missing sense of tradition after going out in the first round to Sharapova, most have enjoyed the experience.

“They have the Mexican wave going basically after one set, which is unusual.

That took me an entire tournament and four sets against Murray in the finals to get the first Mexican wave,” said world number one Roger Federer, whose victory over Murray won him a recordequalling seventh Wimbledon title this month.

“Things are clearly a big change from a few weeks ago. I’m happy I’ve had a taste of it.”

MICHAEL Schumacher’s 18th Hungarian Grand Prix descended into a comedy of errors on Sunday with the seven-time world champion’s problems beginning on the grid and ending with an early retirement.

Schumacher, who took part in the race for the first time 20 years ago, has won four times at the Hungaroring but a fifth victory was out of the question from the moment he parked his Mercedes out of position.

The start had to be aborted and the field re-positioned while Schumacher’s car was wheeled into the pit lane.

The 43-year-old then incurred a drive-through penalty for pit lane speeding and had to stop again due to a puncture. Although he fought his way up through the field with typical tenacity, his day ended in retirement from 18th place.

“It was obviously one of those races that you will not look back at for very long,” said the crestfallen German, who also crashed in practice on Friday.

SWITCHED OFF The winner of 91 Formula One races explained that his car’s engine temperatures had been very high before the start and he had switched off when the yellow lights came on.

“After I had started from the pit lane, I picked up a penalty and then a puncture. So all in all, the beginning of the race was not very pleasant for us.

Everything you do not need came together,” said the German.

“We did not have full telemetry before the start and during the period of overheating, and this is why we finally decided to retire so as not risk any damage which might make us suffer in the next race.

“This weekend is not one to remember, but then there are weekends like this which you can only accept. I am sure we will be looking much better in the next races to come.”

Schumacher has managed one podium finish since coming out of retirement in 2010, a third place at the European Grand Prix in Valencia in June.

His first two Hungarian Grands Prix also ended in retirement in 1992 and 1993, before he notched his first win on the circuit the following year.

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Olympic Games

Giggs asks Welsh fans not to boo British national anthem

Spanish wake up to confront ‘total failure’

Team GB face crunch clash with Uruguay

By Iain Rogers

By Mike Collett BRITAIN’S Welsh captain Ryan Giggs hopes fans do not boo the British national anthem when the team play their decisive group match against Uruguay in Wales tomorrow.

The anthem could get an icy response in Cardiff because of the Football Association of Wales’ opposition to the idea of a British team, which it shares with the Scots and Northern Irish who fear the concept may erode their independence within FIFA, world soccer’s governing body.

Many Welsh, Irish and Scottish fans feel the same way. The four parts of the United Kingdom, including England, compete as individual teams in non-Olympic international football.

Any snub of the song before the match in Wales would embarrass Britain’s Olympic organisers who put Queen Elizabeth at the heart of Friday’s opening ceremony with a virtuoso role as a ‘Bond girl’ alongside James Bond actor Daniel Craig.

Some Welsh players, including Giggs, did not sing ‘God Save The Queen’ before Sunday’s game or against Senegal in their opening match on Thursday.

Cardiff-born Giggs, who scored the opening goal in Britain’s 3-1 win over the

Golden Oldie: Ryan Giggs became the oldest player to score in Olympic football as the broke an 88-year-old record United Arab Emirates on Sunday, hopes Welsh fans don’t boo the song even though, in a somewhat convoluted explanation, he said he did not sing it for personal reasons.

“It’s a personal thing. The British anthem is the same for a Welshman, Scotsman or an Englishman,” he said.

“It’s difficult but it’s not an issue for us. It might be for other people but, once the game starts, we’re all pulling in the same direction and I think that’s the main thing.

“I hope it won’t get booed and I hope the fans will get behind us as they have in our first two games.”

Giggs, who on Sunday became the oldest player to score in Olympic football, was one of five Welsh players in the starting line up as Britain took a significant step towards the quarter finals.

They will secure their place in the last eight as long as they avoid defeat against Uruguay, who surprisingly lost 2-0 to Senegal in the first match of Sunday’s double-header at Wembley.

“It will mean a lot to all of the Welsh lads to play in our own stadium, our own back yard, so it will be a great occasion,” Giggs said.

The Welshman broke an 88-year-old record by scor-

ing at the age of 38 years and 243 days on Sunday. He also became the oldest man to play in the tournament.

After his goal, the United Arab Emirates equalised before substitute Scott Sinclair scored with his first touch and fellow sub Daniel Sturridge made it 3-1 to Britain with a superb chip.

Giggs continued: “It was a very important win, especially after the Senegal result and the pressure was on.

“I’m still disappointed not to play in a World Cup, the Euros or a major tournament and now this is something I’m relishing.’

Manager Stuart Pearce

added: “I’ve been absolutely delighted with the support we’ve had, certainly in numbers, at Manchester and at Wembley. I think that will continue again in Cardiff.

“I was told this is somewhere in the region of the biggest attendance of an Olympic football match there’s ever been. That sends a message out straight away.

“We have to put a performance on that makes the crowds want to come time and time again if we can.”

A crowd of 72,000 saw Britain’s opener against Senegal while 85,000 were at Wembley on Sunday. A turnout of 74,000 is expected in Cardiff for the do-or-die game.

Bryant relishes Olympic experience

By John Mehaffey

LA Lakers superstar Kobe Bryant and his Team USA teammates were watched by US First Lady Michelle Obama

US First Lady Michelle Obama joined a raucous crowd applauding the great entertainers of the Olympic Games as her country’s men’s basketball team started their campaign with a spectacular display against France.

Kobe Bryant, the highest earner in the NBA, was prominent in a team of millionaires who delighted a diverse audience at the Olympic Park in one of London’s more deprived areas during their 98-71 victory.

Bryant leads 15 basketball players in Forbes magazine’s wealthiest athletes list, earning an estimated $24.8 million salary with the Los Angeles Lakers.

Isolated cries of “Allez France” and a couple of Beatles songs played re-

peatedly over the public address system reminded the Americans they were in a foreign country. So, too, did some of the refereeing which puzzled the team.

Bryant, running the gauntlet of television, radio and newspaper reporters seeking his views on the differences between playing for club and country, said he was thoroughly enjoying the Olympic experience.

“It’s a huge honour playing for your country, playing for the Lakers is obviously pretty cool, but when you play for the USA and you have people like the first lady showing up to your games, that’s pretty awesome,” he said.

“It’s been cool, I got a chance to go to a swim meet last night and check out the medley and that was pretty awesome so I’m looking forward to doing it some

more.”

LeBron James pointed to the goaltending rule which allows players to block shots around the basket more easily, as well as the shorter duration of the game and the sheer volume of fouls being called by officials.

“We just have to play through it,” he told reporters after the game.

“We learned a lot of things out there today,” US guard Chris Paul added. “A lot of us have played international - not as much contact is allowed.”

James Harden said the team were enjoying each other’s company.

“That’s the beauty of it all we’re all coming together in such a short time and we’re having fun playing,” he said.

“The guys don’t worry points, rebounds, assists we just want to play to win,” he said.

SPANISH football fans were forced to confront a rare case of failure yesterday after their Olympic side crashed out of the London Games without scoring a goal.

Shock group D defeats to Japan and Honduras, both by a 1-0 scoreline, sent the Spanish packing, El Mundo, perhaps slightly prematurely, declaring “a return to the dark ages” yesterday.

Sports daily Marca more circumspectly lamented “a sad end for a team that arrived at the Games full of hope and aspirations”.

The Spanish players were furious with Venezuelan referee Juan Soto after he turned down two penalty claims in the second half on Sunday in Newcastle.

After Spain’s senior side majestically swept aside all before them at the World Cup and European championships, their under-23 side presented an ugly image to the world by angrily surrounding the referee at the final whistle.

“Spain said goodbye to the Games with a dismal cocktail,” Marca wrote, complaining of “bad luck, bad refereeing and a terrible image at the final whistle as a result of the buildup of tension during the match.”

Spain’s exit deprived them of a chance to add an Olympic title to their world and European crowns, which had helped lift a country struggling with rising unemployment, sweeping austerity measures and a banking crisis.

El Pais daily said the Olympic team’s performance in London, and the players’ behaviour towards the match officials, had damaged the image of Spanish football.

“Football has never gone well with the Olympics, but with the football brand that currently sets the country apart it was the right time to return the sport to the summit it scaled in 1992,” the paper wrote, a reference to the gold medal triumph at the Barcelona Games.

“But it not only fell off a cliff, it did so verging on the ridiculous against opponents of little pedigree like Japan and Honduras. A total failure.”

Writing in As sports daily, columnist Alfredo Relano compared Spain’s flop to times past.

“It was a step backwards, a trip down the time tunnel that reminds us that everything wasn’t always so great,” he wrote.

“That we have experienced exceptional times and we have to be prepared for when they come to an end.”

El Mundo described the shock of seeing Spain humiliated on the field after a period of unprecedented success as “a fearsome blow to the stomach, one which leaves you winded”.

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Ticket backlash overshadows start of Games

By Paul Casciato and Karolos Grohmann

Embarrassing: TV images have shown a lot of empty seats

OLYMPIC organisers have scrambled to quell a backlash over depressing TV images of half-empty stands at the London Olympics as a government minister said an urgent inquiry had been launched to identify just who had failed to show up and why.

Sports fans from all over Britain who had been charmed by the Olympic publicity offensive but let

down by a complex ballot system for the 8.8 million tickets, have been outraged by footage of empty seats at key venues including Wimbledon, one of the hottest tickets in world tennis.

Chairman Sebastian Coe, who threatened to name and shame sponsors that did not fill their seats, said missing spectators were mostly officials from international sports federations, other Olympic officials, their families and friends.

“It doesn’t obviously appear to be a sponsorship

issue at the moment,” Coe said, after Culture Minister Jeremy Hunt said he thought the vacant seats had belonged to sponsors.

Coe, a former Olympic gold medallist on the track, said that only eight per cent of allocated tickets went to big corporate sponsors such as Visa and Coca-Cola and that 75 per cent of tickets were in the hands of the public.

Sponsors P&G, Visa, McDonald’s, BMW and CocaCola have all issued statements reassuring officials,

fans and athletes that their allocated tickets have been and will be used by winners of promotional contests, partners, customers and employees.

The cycling road race and rowing events were filled on Saturday, Coe said, but added that other events such as basketball, gymnastics, swimming and tennis had seats going empty because they had been held open for officials like himself making short visits to venues or wrestling with busy schedules.

Van der Burgh ends Visitors unable to see one of the Games’ most photographed attractions South African gold drought

Cauldron controversy brewing

By Karolos Grohmann

By Clara Ferreira-Marques

IN BRIEF

A CONTROVERSY over the Olympics began to brew over the weekend after organisers decided to put one of the most popular features of the Games out of sight for visitors to the Olympic Park.

The cauldron, a complex structure of 204 moving steel rods and copper petallike elements representing the nations taking part in the Games, was ignited on Friday at the centre of the newly-built Olympic stadium during a dazzling opening bash.

Organisers, however, said it has now been moved to a raised platform to the side of the stadium - within view of the 60,000 spectators to allow for track and field competitions.

Its new location is a nod to the 1948 Olympics, when London last staged the Games, and the place where the cauldron stood in the old Wembley stadium, cauldron designer Thomas Heatherwick said.

“We were aware that cauldrons have been getting, bigger, higher, fatter,” he told reporters. “We felt that we should not try to be even bigger than the last ones. It did not feel enough to just design a different shape of bowl on a stick.”

But the decision not to place the approximately nine-metre tall structure above the stadium, means tens of thousands of Olympic Park visitors will be unable to see one of the Games’ most photographed attrac-

The Olympic cauldron is lit during Friday’s opening ceremony. It was yesterday moved from the centre of the stadium to a raised platform at one end of the venue (inset) where visitors to the Olympic Park are unable to see it tions.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) said it was up to the Games organisers to choose the location, as reporters asked why only ticket-paying spectators would get to see it.

“We allow people to have the cauldron where they want to,” IOC spokesman Mark Adams.

“London Games organisers did not want to compete with other cauldrons.”

“We are fully supportive of that,” he said, adding giant screens would give the

park’s visitors a glimpse of it.

Games chief Sebastian Coe hit back at critics, saying the flame and cauldron is not a tourist attraction, as he defended the decision to keep it out of sight to visitors.

“It was not created to be a tourist attraction,” said Coe when asked why visitors to the park were not given the chance to see it.

Cauldrons at past Olympics have usually been placed above the stadium and burned throughout the 16 days of competition in

view of visitors and the host city’s residents.

London 2012 organisers staged a torch relay across Britain, with more than 95 per cent of the population within an hour of the route, in an effort to make it as inclusive as possible.

The cauldron will be dismantled after the end of the Games with each nation receiving one of the copper pieces to take home with them in keeping with the Olympic theme of unity.

A fierce row erupted at the Vancouver 2010 winter

Olympics when organisers fenced off the cauldron and positioned security guards, blocking it from large numbers of visitors who had flocked to the seaside city for a glimpse or a picture of the Olympic symbol.

Officials were forced to remove some of the protection to allow for more visitorfriendly access to the cauldron.

The Olympic flame dates back to the ancient games staged in Olympia when a fire was kept burning during competition.

SOUTH African Cameron Van der Burgh, struggling to contain his emotions, shook his finger in disbelief at the screen above the pool as it flashed his 100 metres breaststroke world record and his country’s first gold of the 2012 Olympic Games.

The 24-year-old Van der Burgh became the first South African man to win Olympic gold in an individual swimming event, after he powered through a race that left champion Kosuke Kitajima and previous record holder Brenton Rickard trailing in his wake.

He set a world record of 58.46 seconds, beating the 58.58 set by Brenton Rickard in 2009. It also eclipsed the Olympic record of 58.83 he set in his semi-final on Saturday.

“As I came in, I said to myself, ‘a man can change his stars, you can write your own destiny’. I had my chance and I took it,” he said, after a victory that saw him lie back in the pool in sheer exhilaration at the finish.

Van der Burgh later said he was looking up at the sky - remembering Norwegian rival and world champion Alexander Dale Oen, who died earlier this year of a heart attack.

Van der Burgh’s victory ends a medal drought for South African swimming, after the team failed to win a single medal at the Beijing Games in 2008.

Difficult task for Cypriots Achilleos and Andreou

Poland volleyball win leaves Italy with ears ringing

Magnussen can still shine says team mate Targett

GEORGIOS Achilleos and Antonakis Andreou are currently 19th and 26th out of 36 competitors after the first day of qualification in Men’s Skeet shooting at the Royal Artillery Barracks yesterday.

Achilleos, who finished fourth at the Games in Beijing four years ago, has a score of 69 with a 0.920 average, while Andreou has a point less and an average of 0.907 after three rounds of shooting.

They will continue this morning at 11am Cyprus time with the final two rounds remaining.

The final of the competition is also scheduled for today, at 4pm.

Poland lived up to their billing as men’s Olympic volleyball title contenders with a thrilling opening win over triple world champions Italy, backed by a deafening crowd of red and white clad fans at Earls Court.

The Poles defeated Olympic champions the United States three weeks ago to take the World League title and the thirst for a first Olympic gold since 1976 resulted in an atmosphere louder and more intimidating than when hosts Britain made their bow at the Games earlier in the day.

Italy, with every serve met by ferocious boos, did their best to silence the opposition fans but their resistance did not last as Poland, ranked third in the world, swept home.

LOOKING drawn and haggard after a sleepless night, Matt Targett was still struggling to explain Australia’s disappointing showing in the 4x100 metres freestyle relay yesterday.

The much-vaunted Australian team, led off by 100 metres freestyle gold medal favourite James Magnussen, were expected to challenge with the Americans for the title on Sunday but ended up fourth as France shocked everyone.

Asked whether Magnussen could still shine in London, Targett was unequivocal.

“He can yeah, he’s the best in the world,” he said.

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Baghdatis safely through in Olympic tennis

By Nemanja Bjedov MARCOS Baghdatis finally overcame Japan’s Go Soeda 6-7, 7-6, 6-2 in the opening round of the Olympic tennis tournament yesterday in a match that began on Sunday but was interrupted due to rain with the Cypriot having lost the opening set.

The match remained tight upon its resumption yesterday afternoon, with the second set also going to a tie-break which Baghdatis edged 7-5.

Baghdatis, who proudly led

the Cypriot athletes into the Olympic Stadium at the opening ceremony on Friday by carrying his nation’s flag, is playing at the Games for the second time, eight years on from a secondround showing in Athens in 2004.

The Cypriot number one fired nine aces past Soeda, but he also committed nine double faults and had 33 unforced errors in just under two hours and 30 minutes of play, over the two days.

The Limassol native, who was cheered on from the stands by his pregnant wife Karolina Sprem and the

president of the Cyprus Olympic Committee Ouranios Ioannides, built on his momentum in the third set when he broke Soeda’s serve in the first game of the decider.

He then held his serve to take a 2-0 lead but his Japanese opponent refused to gave up and, after reducing his deficit to 2-1, he had four break back opportunities to tie the match.

However, the experienced Baghdatis held on to restore his two-game cushion at 3-1.

Soeda again kept his serve intact to make it 3-2, but

that was as good as it got for him as the Cypriot reeled off the following three games to advance to the second round.

Baghdatis will now take on the 16th seeded Frenchman Richard Gasquet, who beat Dutch representative Robin Haase 6-3, 6-3 in his first round encounter.

Baghdatis and Gasquet have met only once on the tour, the Cypriot winning their 2010 Sydney Open final 6-4, 7-6.

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France rule in the pool Awesome Agnel takes second gold, fairytale win for 15 year-old Lithuanian

By Mike Collett-White

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RENCH swimmer Yannick Agnel floored the field yesterday in the big race of the day at the Olympics, the men’s 200 metre freestyle, comfortably eclipsing a stellar lineup including American Ryan Lochte and Sun Yang of China.

The surprisingly comfortable victory took to three the overall number of French golds in the pool, on a day when Swiss football player Michel Morganella was expelled for an abusive message on Twitter.

In a fairytale that only the Olympics can throw up meanwhile, Lithuanian teenager Ruta Meilutyte survived the ultimate test of nerves to win the women’s 100 metres breaststroke gold.

The 15-year-old not only became the first swimmer from her country to win an Olympic medal she did it under extraordinary circumstances.

The start, a time when swimmers are already battling their nerves, was delayed by a technical malfunction that saw the starter’s gun go off before he had called “on your marks”.

American Breeja Larson dived into the pool on the gun but was able to race because of the malfunction.

The eight finalists sat down while the problem was fixed

New sensation: the French have been raving about Yannick Agnel and he has shown why as he blasted his rivals away

and an unfazed Meilutyte still got off the blocks fastest and led at the turn but then had to survive a fierce challenge from American Rebecca Soni, the reigning world champion in the event.

The more experienced Soni drew level in the final few strokes but Meilutyte kept her cool and got her hands on the wall first in one minute, 05.47 seconds.

Soni was second in 1:05.55 while Japan’s Satomi Suzuki finished third in 1:06.46.

China extended its lead at the top of the medals table with golds in diving, weightlifting and the men’s team gymnastics, taking its tally to nine and overall medal haul to 17. The United States, in second place, has five golds.

Medals Table Country China United States France North Korea Italy South Korea

Gold 9 5 3 3 2 2

Host nation Britain was still waiting for its first gold, but a bronze in the men’s team gymnastics felt almost as good as it ended a 100 year wait for any kind of medal in the event.

The huge cheers at the North Greenwich Arena,

Silver 5 7 1 0 4 2

Bronze 3 5 3 1 2 2

Total 17 17 7 4 8 6

where Princes William and Harry looked on, were muted only slightly when an initial silver medal was downgraded following an appeal by the Japanese team.

Lochte, Sun and Agnel had all been chasing a second London gold in one of the

most eagerly anticipated races of the Games.

Lochte won gold in the 400 individual medley, trouncing his compatriot Michael Phelps, Sun triumphed in the 400 freestyle and Agnel beat Lochte to clinch a shock gold for France with a devastating surge on the last length of Sunday’s 4x100 relay.

Yesterday’s race also included world record holder Paul Biedermann of Germany, a line-up that could decide bragging rights over who is the best male swimmer at the Games.

Phelps’s silver in the relay was his first in these Games, which along with his 14 previous golds and two bronzes left him one shy of the alltime record of 18 medals

held by Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina.

Switzerland’s Morganella was thrown out for sending an offensive message on Twitter after his team’s defeat by South Korea.

It follows the withdrawal last week of Greek triple jumper Paraskevi Papachristou for another tweet deemed racist.

Chinese swimmer Ye Shiwen became the first female swimmer to break a world record since the ban of hightech suits on Saturday when she crushed her opponents in the women’s 400 individual medley.

Arne Ljungqvist, International Olympic Committee medical chief, fielded questions from reporters as to whether her eye-popping swim had raised suspicions of doping. “I say no,” he simply said.

A row over empty seats at venues across London rumbled on, with Olympic organisers under pressure again to fill arenas and placate a public furious at seeing TV pictures of unused places, having been told months ago that venues had sold out.

British Prime Minister David Cameron said volunteers, soldiers and the public would be able to take some of the available places, but added: “You’ll never have complete eradication of empty seats.”

Ticketing confusion also led to the opposite problem - overcrowding - in at least one instance yesterday.

Dozens of angry ticketholders trying to get into the men’s 10m air rifle competition at Royal Artillery Barracks were turned away because the venue was too full.